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Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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Elfear said:
I'm considering getting the game but it will be played/viewed by multiple age levels. Any insight into how "adult" this game is? More like Skyrim or more like Witcher 3?
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Heh, I had this question too, a week ago, because I had about 2 hours to get something for my Nephew's birthday (12), but the game wasn't released yet (I think this was Saturday), so I opted to just send him some steam cash. lame.

...but he is allowed to play Skyrim for some reason....I guess Skyrim is more or less fine if you are limited by the type of mods you can access...still tons of blood and decaps and dismembers. Thing is, his parents kinda default to what I think is appropriate because they aren't that familiar with the things he wants. I have still been "A big fat NO on the Witcher," ....so your comparison is the exact same one I was trying to figure out. Knowing that I would be blamed for whatever, I went with cash. 😀
 
aigomorla said:
It does so have nudity.
Did you not hit mid way?

ugh spoilers are broken..
But let me just say there is an achievement involved which you get with the nudity scene.

So yes it has nudity.
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I didn't see any nudity. The closest I've seen is the night out with priest but I didn't think there was nudity...just a man butt and woman's legs. Is what you are talking about after that? It was late when I played through that part maybe I'm forgetting?

I haven't seen any frontal nudity yet in this game and that's after 45 hours of game play. Of course that does not mean it is not there. I just haven't experienced it yet. Either way the game is rated Mature.
 
Yes

yeah did you miss the full frontal from the pub wench that night?
 
Thanks for the insights gents. Sounds like I better stick with a more PG/PG-13 option for mixed audiences.
 
So is this a buy, sell or hold? Seemed like all reviews here were negative except 1 glowing review.

How does combat compare to Shadow of Mordor difficulty wise? I liked playing that game but to be honest I got owned a lot. So I don't want to play if it's going to cause me to act 16 again and rage against the screen.
 
The game is still very rough around the edges, so be aware that it will not be bug free.

It requires a fast GPU and will murder any GPU at 2160p.

I suggest it with mods, but the vanilla version is still great if patient.
 
I have not even attempted to play it at 4k. I loaded it up at 2k and I've been very happy. I should test 4k just to see but I don't know if I can be bothered.
 
paperfist said:
So is this a buy, sell or hold? Seemed like all reviews here were negative except 1 glowing review.
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totally depends if you have other stuff on your list you want to play.

If your bored and empty, then possibly a buy.
It will keep you entertained, or at least drag though mercilessly though the story.
It has mods, so it should prevent you from raging too hard.

If you already bought it, then meh, you cant sell it.

Hold... again if you have other stuff to play then definitely hold. The game is not worth full retail, not by a long shot.

My personal opinion... i am gonna play it until FFXV comes out.
My brother has it on the PS4, i enjoyed it, but i rather play it on my PC with Cheat Engine on, so i don't need to grind for stupid stuff like money.
 
aigomorla said:
totally depends if you have other stuff on your list you want to play.

If your bored and empty, then possibly a buy.
It will keep you entertained, or at least drag though mercilessly though the story.
It has mods, so it should prevent you from raging too hard.

If you already bought it, then meh, you cant sell it.

Hold... again if you have other stuff to play then definitely hold. The game is not worth full retail, not by a long shot.

My personal opinion... i am gonna play it until FFXV comes out.
My brother has it on the PS4, i enjoyed it, but i rather play it on my PC with Cheat Engine on, so i don't need to grind for stupid stuff like money.
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Lol thanks !

I am bored and am itching to kill things in a midevil setting. I have a load of builder in alpha games to play so I don't really want to fudge around with another unpolished game.
 
I am about 16 hours in and am getting bored. Fighting is just so painful and there are so few fights to begin with. The few fights I ran into so far include me running away to go get help from someone else and watch them beat the bandits.
So far the game has been mostly fetch/pickpocket quests to raise money so I can train skills, but the skills are just about useless as they often have a negative equal to any positive granted. For example get 20% stamina but run 20% slower. What, somehow getting stronger makes you weaker?
For some reason someone thought that a medieval simulator would be fun. You have to bath, eat, your food goes bad and makes you sick, your armor and weapons weaken almost as fast as Fallout New Vegas and you have to learn to read.
The only positive thing to say is the game is beautiful and the main quest story and acting are good, but this is no Witcher or Skyrim.
 
I'm playing this right now. I'm about 8-9 hours in and find it fairly good. I did immediately mod it so that I could save any time and after a few hours I put on a mod that makes it so food doesn't spoil. I'm still neutral on fighting and haven't place any perks yet.
 
I finished the game this weekend with about 100 hours played according to Steam. This is a very different game from your typical RPG, but at the core it's a very, very good game with some very, very rough edges. My overall rating is 8/10. It's worth trying if you can live with some bugs, and hopefully they will continue to patch and improve it. The game reminds a lot of how rough The Witcher was at release. Fingers crossed that Warhorse keeps making better and better games.

My biggest complaint is the combat system. While it apparently is very realistic, IMO it sacrifices gameplay on the alter of realism. Take the archery, for example. Early on it's (probably realistically) terrible, which has led to some memes, but once you get to level 5+ and a better bow it's not that bad... once Henry holds the bow steady you can aim decent by mentally estimating the trajectory of the arrow. That's fine for hunting, but under the pressure in combat it's practically impossible to hit someone more than 10 feet away. Sword combat is similarly flawed. Not sure if the combo system sucks or I suck at it, but I never could learn how to combo reliably. There's no good way to learn the timing because every enemy (and your trainer) who doesn't die in one hit constantly interrupts you with master strikes... Maybe one attempt in 10 would see me get off all the strokes in the combo, but then it was still maybe 50/50 whether the combo actually fired. Even at end game (character level 19, sword skill level 19-20) I would basically end up flailing at enemies until they died /shrug.

There were some really enjoyable quests in the game, and the game did a decent job of making a world that doesn't revolve around the PC, while simultaneously having you solve everyone's problems so there are actually quests to do. It was pretty cool to see NPCs who would go about their business without you if you got instructions to help them them and ignored the quest. I also had a really cool moment in the main story where I went off to another town following an investigation and apparently didn't think about talking to my boss first. While I was there I ended up doing some side quests and was gone probably 3-5 days game time. When I got back he spent a solid minute dressing me down for leaving without telling anyone and being gone so long. Unfortunately a few quests are buggy, and some feel outright unfinished.

The main story wasn't bad but it did fall kind of flat IMO. I would give the story itself maybe 6.5/10.

I thought the story started off pretty strong. It was obvious that there was some kind of relationship or past between Henry's dad and Radzig, so it's not surprising that he would take Henry into his service so the rest of the story could happen. The middle of the story (the investigations) was itself fine, but it totally failed to establish the Hungarian guy who was used as the BBEG for the last third of the story. I recognized him from the intro, but had no clue who he was or why he'd be involved. The reveal of Radzig to be Henry's father really did fall flat and felt almost pointless. Did it have any effect on the story other than a couple lines of dialog? The ending left me scratching my head. The game ends without finishing the main story, then the epilogue doesn't include any resolution, but instead drops a ton of politics on you as preparation for a mission that... isn't in the game. It really feels like the story was meant to be 30-50% longer but they ran out of time and money. Hopefully there's an expansion to give it some resolution.
 
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I finished the game a few weeks back.

The Good-
Realistic medieval setting for once
Pretty descent story
Nice looking

Not so Good-
The save system is terrible
The combat system is really hard. I see people complain on forums that its too easy, but it never worked for me. I ended up doing the mod with an aim dot for the bow and going full robin hood.
A little buggy at times. Combined with the save system... ugg.

Good news is there is an unlimited save mod over at nexus mods. That fixes the worst of the issues.

I feel like overall the devs sort of forces some niche design choices on the player that would have been better as options. I liked it, but mainly played it since it was released in a bit of a drought for RPGs. If you like RPGs and have an interest in history its worth checking out. At least until POE2 releases.
 
renz20003 said:
Can anyone tell me about the games current state? I’m thinking about picking it up from the steam sale
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It's mostly fine now. They did a big patch in June that covered most of the remaining problems. I think it's a good game but the combat seems to be a sticking point for some people.
 
rstrohkirch said:
It's mostly fine now. They did a big patch in June that covered most of the remaining problems. I think it's a good game but the combat seems to be a sticking point for some people.
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I think the worst part of the combat is that its an action system encumbered by RPG stats, but in the wrong way. IE early on they make the things you directly control annoying to use. You're less accurate through no fault of your own. Instead they should have just have made damage scale or something. It makes things frustrating early on.
 
I heard a lot of people comparing the combat to Morrowind in terms of whether or not you'll hit your target based solely on your stats.
 
I liked it. 110 hours into the finish. You get your butt kicked in the beginning 20 hours. Its pretty hardcore with the save system and all.
 
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