KickStarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Dan Vavra's medieval chad simulator

[rusty_shackleford]

there's already an unlimited saving mod on nexusmods.

 

[Brozef]

Holy fuck. So I've played a few hours more explored and cleaned out Talimberg (which took forever thanks to the combination of terrible save and lock pick systems).
But at one point I couldn't do anything other than go back to bury the parents, even though Sir Roderik told me it is a stupid idea and I wholeheartedly agreed.

So I put on the uniform and get the horse and this is where the whole game fell apart for me. One railroaded train crash after the other.
Henrik decides to leave the horse after traveling only half the way. Why? I have no idea. Presumably he thinks it is less suspicious for a messenger to walk aimlessly through the countryside, than to ride a horse...
Then I get attacked by bandits over and over again. No problem since they are very weak and give you free loot (without having to rob the dead).
Since I cleaned out much of Talimberg before, I immediately become overburdened. Great. How to make a shit mission no one wanted to do even more annoying. So i stumble along the country side for approximatly 1.5 hrs since the movement penalty makes the walk atrociously slow. At that point I start thinking: Wouldn't it be fun if the game forces you to loss everything you pick up in the beginning in some stupid cutscene? No it wouldn't be fun. Not at all.
So of course that is what happens. I have to stumble 90 minutes through the villages just to trigger the next set of cut scenes in which I am railroaded in an unwinnable fight. At that point the game allows you to play for 10 seconds, so that you can lose the fight on your own. Well, thank you very much. I totally feel like it is my fault now.
Afterwards the game continius to touch itself indecently and rambles along with the next cut scenes and the "epic intro", during which all I feel is hatred for everybody involved.
Then you wake up and gave to talk to some wench from your village when all you want to do is hit "i" and see whether those dicks really took everything from you and invalidated the first 10 hrs of playtime.
They did. Thank you very much.
We have many jokes about all Slavs being thieves in Germany but that Prologue really takes the cake.

I'll need a moment before I decide whether I'll continue the game or refund it.

 

[Mortmal]

The team started at , made the prototype, went to kickstarter, then 2K closed Prague office, so Warhorse hired around 30 people, then kept hiring throughout the development to current cca 120 people.
Budget closest estimate is 15 million USD.

Interesting when you consider 120 people is approx 15 million dollars a year at 10k per person per month, and the development has many different costs. Personally I reckon that 15 is too conservative and 30 is probably the total spend, although hey voice acting is obviously budget

On one hand

On the other

In kingdom come a schnapps is costing a peasant lifetime savings. As if it was liquid gold.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Holy fuck. So I've played a few hours more explored and cleaned out Talimberg (which took forever thanks to the combination of terrible save and lock pick systems).
But at one point I couldn't do anything other than go back to bury the parents, even though Sir Roderik told me it is a stupid idea and I wholeheartedly agreed.

So I put on the uniform and get the horse and this is where the whole game fell apart for me. One railroaded train crash after the other.
Henrik decides to leave the horse after traveling only half the way. Why? I have no idea. Presumably he thinks it is less suspicious for a messenger to walk aimlessly through the countryside, than to ride a horse...
Then I get attacked by bandits over and over again. No problem since they are very weak and give you free loot (without having to rob the dead).
Since I cleaned out much of Talimberg before, I immediately become overburdened. Great. How to make a shit mission no one wanted to do even more annoying. So i stumble along the country side for approximatly 1.5 hrs since the movement penalty makes the walk atrociously slow. At that point I start thinking: Wouldn't it be fun if the game forces you to loss everything you pick up in the beginning in some stupid cutscene? No it wouldn't be fun. Not at all.
So of course that is what happens. I have to stumble 90 minutes through the villages just to trigger the next set of cut scenes in which I am railroaded in an unwinnable fight. At that point the game allows you to play for 10 seconds, so that you can lose the fight on your own. Well, thank you very much. I totally feel like it is my fault now.
Afterwards the game continius to touch itself indecently and rambles along with the next cut scenes and the "epic intro", during which all I feel is hatred for everybody involved.
Then you wake up and gave to talk to some wench from your village when all you want to do is hit "i" and see whether those dicks really took everything from you and invalidated the first 10 hrs of playtime.
They did. Thank you very much.
We have many jokes about all Slavs being thieves in Germany but that Prologue really takes the cake.

I'll need a moment before I decide whether I'll continue the game or refund it.

that's what you get for being a dirty thief

 

[Immortal]

there's already an unlimited saving mod on nexusmods.

Very stupid feature the way it was implemented.

I want to know the retard designer that actually thought it would lead to a more immersive game play experience. Talk about lazy.
I'm sure this game littered with bugs / crashes / performance hitches won't annoy anyone when they lose hours of game play.

 

[Beowulf]

Game is so far, except for the bugs.

I'm giving it a break, as I cannot progress in Keeping the Peace. After the sunset I receive instructions to ring the bell 3 times and get another torch, but after that the game shows seemingly endless loading screen.
Tried restarting, etc. To no avail. Perhaps later I'll restart the quest or do some sidequests first. I hope it's not the latest update "fix".

 

[Smejki]

The team started at , made the prototype, went to kickstarter, then 2K closed Prague office, so Warhorse hired around 30 people, then kept hiring throughout the development to current cca 120 people.
Budget closest estimate is 15 million USD.

Interesting when you consider 120 people is approx 15 million dollars a year at 10k per person per month, and the development has many different costs. Personally I reckon that 15 is too conservative and 30 is probably the total spend, although hey voice acting is obviously budget

On one hand

On the other

In kingdom come a schnapps is costing a peasant lifetime savings. As if it was liquid gold.

Yeah, economy improved a bit since then

 

[Smejki]

there's already an unlimited saving mod on nexusmods.

Very stupid feature the way it was implemented.

I want to know the retard designer that actually thought it would lead to a more immersive game play experience.

 

[~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T]

How are people having so many problems with the hunger system? Just eat from every pot you see

 

[Vicar]

Then you wake up and gave to talk to some wench from your village when all you want to do is hit "i" and see whether those dicks really took everything from you and invalidated the first 10 hrs .

Your items are in the chest behind you. It’s even in the quest log.

 

[Immortal]

there's already an unlimited saving mod on nexusmods.

Very stupid feature the way it was implemented.

I want to know the retard designer that actually thought it would lead to a more immersive game play experience.

 

[Alienman]

Since we're pestering Smejki already, can you guys add the ability to disable markers on the compass? Obviously the ship has already sailed re needing the quest markers at all but I'd much rather have to open the map to see them than to always have them on my screen.

It's been proposed internally. I'd welcome it. We'll see.

There is a way to disable the compass in the console, but it only last until you pick a flower or open the map. Is there a way to make it more permanent?

 

[Parabalus]

Holy fuck. So I've played a few hours more explored and cleaned out Talimberg (which took forever thanks to the combination of terrible save and lock pick systems).
But at one point I couldn't do anything other than go back to bury the parents, even though Sir Roderik told me it is a stupid idea and I wholeheartedly agreed.

So I put on the uniform and get the horse and this is where the whole game fell apart for me. One railroaded train crash after the other.
Henrik decides to leave the horse after traveling only half the way. Why? I have no idea. Presumably he thinks it is less suspicious for a messenger to walk aimlessly through the countryside, than to ride a horse...
Then I get attacked by bandits over and over again. No problem since they are very weak and give you free loot (without having to rob the dead).
Since I cleaned out much of Talimberg before, I immediately become overburdened. Great. How to make a shit mission no one wanted to do even more annoying. So i stumble along the country side for approximatly 1.5 hrs since the movement penalty makes the walk atrociously slow. At that point I start thinking: Wouldn't it be fun if the game forces you to loss everything you pick up in the beginning in some stupid cutscene? No it wouldn't be fun. Not at all.
So of course that is what happens. I have to stumble 90 minutes through the villages just to trigger the next set of cut scenes in which I am railroaded in an unwinnable fight. At that point the game allows you to play for 10 seconds, so that you can lose the fight on your own. Well, thank you very much. I totally feel like it is my fault now.
Afterwards the game continius to touch itself indecently and rambles along with the next cut scenes and the "epic intro", during which all I feel is hatred for everybody involved.
Then you wake up and gave to talk to some wench from your village when all you want to do is hit "i" and see whether those dicks really took everything from you and invalidated the first 10 hrs of playtime.
They did. Thank you very much.
We have many jokes about all Slavs being thieves in Germany but that Prologue really takes the cake.

I'll need a moment before I decide whether I'll continue the game or refund it.

Do you also lose your levels and skills, or just all items+gold?

 

[Smejki]

Also sometimes it's not clear whether or not you are allowed to be in a certain place. Sometimes you get the "Private area" message and sometimes you don't so you think it's ok but people pester you and chase you out anyway.

there are 4 levels of trespass
- none
- invisible = pestering, paying attention to player's actions, dogs barking etc, NO CRIME by staying there
- blue trespass = crime after a while
- red trespass = crime after a way shorter while (the resulting crime is the same as the blue one)

 

[AwesomeButton]

Since we're pestering Smejki already, can you guys add the ability to disable markers on the compass? Obviously the ship has already sailed re needing the quest markers at all but I'd much rather have to open the map to see them than to always have them on my screen.

It's been proposed internally. I'd welcome it. We'll see.

There is a way to disable the compass in the console, but it only last until you pick a flower or open the map. Is there a way to make it more permanent?

Imagine if people asking this have actually discovered a bug, where every time you open/close the map, the game overwrites the config registry entries with the defaults

 

[thesheeep]

I tried using the (new?) "720p > 1080p" resolution in combination with everything else disabled or very low.
Now I can in some situation reach 30+ stable FPS and even in cities, it only rarely drops under 20
It is now somewhat playable... sometimes. But looks quite terrible.

Again, that is with a GTX 1070, 16GB and i7@3.6Ghz...
I hope the promised patch in two weeks really does something to help.

Dude I'm telling you, your PC is fucked, I have the same specs and with almost everything on ultra besides Shaders,Shadows the fps stays at 70+ in towns and 110+ outside. You better start looking inside your PC cause no patch will fix your problems.

I'm getting slightly annoyed at having to repeat myself, but my PC is not fucked.
I can play EVERY SINGLE GAME (I'm talking the likes of Witcher 3, CoD, Everspace, Tomb Raider, Spellforce 3, Ashes Of Singularity, etc.) on high(est) settings, without problems, as it should be.
That includes games where people are complaining about horrible optimization.
Just this one game has incredibly bad performance for me. And not on high settings, the game looks terrible with my current settings, more like the original Mount & Blade - and yet, barely playable.
But yeah, sure, my PC is fucked

And I'm by far not the only one with this complaint, have a look around at the reviews.

I'm unsure about CryEngine in general, though. KCD is the only game from this list I have played (using CryEngine 4, that is):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CryEngine_games

Maybe something about CryEngine 4 is incompatible with my setup (though I have no idea what would be so special about my setup).

What CPU? There are different i7 out there, i7 920 for example is far too weak, since its 9 years old.

i7-4790

 

[GewuerzKahn]

Do you also lose your levels and skills, or just all items+gold?

You lose nothing except Radzig's sword. Everything else you owned is in a chest.

 

[Turbo normie]

Okay... I haven't read something about the possibility to fuck a smelly farmer girl or romancing an inbreed noble woman.
This is a major

 

[AwesomeButton]

Also sometimes it's not clear whether or not you are allowed to be in a certain place. Sometimes you get the "Private area" message and sometimes you don't so you think it's ok but people pester you and chase you out anyway.

there are 4 levels of trespass
- none
- invisible = pestering, paying attention to player's actions, dogs barking etc, NO CRIME by staying there
- blue trespass = crime after a while
- red trespass = crime after a way shorter while (the resulting crime is the same as the blue one)

I have a question too, from watching streams and gameplay videos - it seems that rather often NPCs are facing the player but behaving as if they suspect someone is sneaking around... What's the reason for this? Can the player do anything in order to avoid breaking the NPC behavior?

 

[HoboForEternity]

Played it a bit more.

- sound is really good. Footsteps, clothes and ambient sounds p good.
-which makes it weird that they havent figured how to make it rain indoor. Gothic 1 has this feature. No biggie tho.
-VA is generally good and well acted, while facial animation itself is a bit. . Uncanny? It is becausr the eyeballs looks dead sometimes and ot rarely move. The facial anination in pre rendered cutscenes are p amazing tho. Still, not a big deal.

Love the atmosphere, soundtrack is awesome, graphics looks nice.

Everything is good imo except for the performance and bugs.

I updated NVIDIA driver and it run 15-10% better, buf it still run at like 55 in open fields and 30 ish in towns. If this just would run at 60 fps relatively stable, and i woild even tolerate mid 50s drop,but the performance is really grating it just use 30 FPS because it actually run pretty stable.

I hope the FPS fix improve it. .. in two weeks.


Generally i consider this game quite an accomplishment for whatever limited resources they have. Oh also the map and the illustration at the codex are really beautiful and the codex itself is a joy to read.

 

[Jarpie]

Holy fuck. So I've played a few hours more explored and cleaned out Talimberg (which took forever thanks to the combination of terrible save and lock pick systems).
But at one point I couldn't do anything other than go back to bury the parents, even though Sir Roderik told me it is a stupid idea and I wholeheartedly agreed.

So I put on the uniform and get the horse and this is where the whole game fell apart for me. One railroaded train crash after the other.
Henrik decides to leave the horse after traveling only half the way. Why? I have no idea. Presumably he thinks it is less suspicious for a messenger to walk aimlessly through the countryside, than to ride a horse...
Then I get attacked by bandits over and over again. No problem since they are very weak and give you free loot (without having to rob the dead).
Since I cleaned out much of Talimberg before, I immediately become overburdened. Great. How to make a shit mission no one wanted to do even more annoying. So i stumble along the country side for approximatly 1.5 hrs since the movement penalty makes the walk atrociously slow. At that point I start thinking: Wouldn't it be fun if the game forces you to loss everything you pick up in the beginning in some stupid cutscene? No it wouldn't be fun. Not at all.
So of course that is what happens. I have to stumble 90 minutes through the villages just to trigger the next set of cut scenes in which I am railroaded in an unwinnable fight. At that point the game allows you to play for 10 seconds, so that you can lose the fight on your own. Well, thank you very much. I totally feel like it is my fault now.
Afterwards the game continius to touch itself indecently and rambles along with the next cut scenes and the "epic intro", during which all I feel is hatred for everybody involved.
Then you wake up and gave to talk to some wench from your village when all you want to do is hit "i" and see whether those dicks really took everything from you and invalidated the first 10 hrs of playtime.
They did. Thank you very much.
We have many jokes about all Slavs being thieves in Germany but that Prologue really takes the cake.

I'll need a moment before I decide whether I'll continue the game or refund it.

The stuff is in the chest by the bed. At least was in mine.

 

[Tacgnol]

How are people having so many problems with the hunger system? Just eat from every pot you see

You can just loot any fresh food you find as well.

It tends to last a couple of days, and there is plenty of it about.

 

[Smejki]

Then you wake up and gave to talk to some wench from your village when all you want to do is hit "i" and see whether those dicks really took everything from you and invalidated the first 10 hrs of playtime.

Your stuff is right there in the chest beside your bed. pretty sure a tutorial says so. Not so sure about dialog tho.

 

[Tacgnol]

Then you wake up and gave to talk to some wench from your village when all you want to do is hit "i" and see whether those dicks really took everything from you and invalidated the first 10 hrs of playtime.

Your stuff is right there in the chest beside your bed

Pretty sure the game tells you that in a popup as well.

 

[Smejki]

-which makes it weird that they havent figured how to make it rain indoor. Gothic 1 has this feature. No biggie tho.

what are you saying? that you can't hear thr sound of rain indoor?