Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

[Moliere]

Official Game Reveal

52 hours playing the first one tells me I will be putting some time in here too.

[jztemple2]

I put in a number of hours on the first one as well then ran into a boss fight I just couldn't win . Hopefully they stay away from those but otherwise I'm excited about this.

[TheMix]

I did all right once I got some levels. And realized that I sucked at the sword-play and was never going to pull off any of the combos. Instead, I'd just put up my guard, block until they were winded, and then mow them down. That was pretty satisfying in it's own way.

[Rumpy]

I loved how satisfying the first game was, and I was impressed with how open-ended it was, which could sometimes lead to bugs. It was difficult to get into at first, but once I got into the swing of things (hah), it was definitely an engrossing and immersive experience. One thing I never got used to though was the lockpicking, even on the easy lockpicking mode, as it was much harder than it needed to be.

[Scraper]

I really liked the first game as well. Hopefully this one is more of the same but with more polish.

[jztemple2]

I really liked the first game as well. Hopefully this one is more of the same but with more polish.

I don't know about the polish, the devs are from the czech republic

[jztemple2]

[Max Peck]

[Max Peck]

[Max Peck]

[Max Peck]

The release date is now Feb 4, 2025.

[jztemple2]

PC specs:

[jztemple2]

20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an engine that spits out chaos and regret, but don't worry, I mean that as some of the highest praise I can offer a game. We're talking all sorts of consequences for my horrible, horrible decisions and Stalker-with-swords levels of weird, systems-driven mayhem.

I've rumbled with Cumans because I chose the wrong outfit; had my painstaking plans of attack disrupted by roving NPC caravans; gotten embroiled in fights that turned into grand, violent katamaris as more and more people joined in to help or hinder me; and lamented my lack of save-game potions more times than I can count. It's tremendous fun, with all sorts of bizarre variables feeding into the emergent adventures I get into. With about 20 hours in the game so far, I've barely made a dent in the main quest, so preoccupied have I been with poking at the world and seeing what reactions it spits back.

[jztemple2]

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has three expansions coming in 2025 alone

It’s almost time to hear the clopping of hooves, the clanking of swords against armor, and a barrage of witty quips in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. The long-awaited and ambitious sequel to the popular medieval RPG arrives in just a couple of weeks’ time, and ahead of launch developer Warhorse has unveiled an extremely stacked 2025 roadmap.

With a heavy script of over 1.7 million words and a much bigger open world than its predecessor, the hype for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is, understandably, pretty high right now. While the final stretch towards the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 release date has been peppered with some controversial moments regarding the game’s forums and the devs speaking out against anti-woke “grifters,” there’s no denying that it’s one of the biggest new PC games in what is a very stacked month.

Warhorse has now pledged a very ambitious slate of post-launch content for the rest of 2025, which includes both big free updates that add new gameplay features and paid DLC expansions.

[jztemple2]

From the devs:

Prepare for #KCD2 in advance of launch. Preload times:
Xbox Series X|S: 28 Jan, 8am PST / 5pm CET
PlayStation 5: 2 Feb, 8am PST / 5pm CET
Steam: 3 Feb, 8am PST / 5pm CET
Check the map for exact times when the game goes live in your region on 4 February. A word to the wise: hold off on streaming or sharing gameplay until KCD II officially goes live (check the map). This way everyone can enjoy the full experience, complete with the important launch patch that makes the game everything it's meant to be.

[Unagi]

@JZ

Honest question, don't reaction time and coordination play heavily into the combat mechanics of this game? I read your concern in Sniper Elite and think how my own personal concerns first stem from this game, where Sniper Elite seems more forgiving with this one.

[jztemple2]

@JZ

Honest question, don't reaction time and coordination play heavily into the combat mechanics of this game? I read your concern in Sniper Elite and think how my own personal concerns first stem from this game, where Sniper Elite seems more forgiving with this one.

Yup, I'm concerned about this as well. I'm seriously considering passing up getting a GMG discount and buying it on Steam so I can check it out in their two hour time limit. However, I wonder if I'd see enough of the game to make me be able to make that decision.

On the original game I finally gave up because I reached a boss battle I couldn't win, even after a couple dozen tries. I'm worried that this might happen in KCD2, but I've also seen some preview comments about how this game is easier that the first one.

Anyway, I might just wait for impressions from the OO community, especially to know if there is a casual/easy/story mode, like there was in Star Wars Outlaws. Of course if I do get it on Steam it would be something I can check for right away.

[TheMix]

Late game fights generally became trivial once I realized that 1) I couldn't do their combos for $%&*, 2) that blocking took very little stamina, and 3) that they would quickly tire when I blocked their attacks.

So most fights became me blocking until they got tired, and then clubbing them/poking them in the face.

Was I proud of might fighting prowess? No, no, I was not. Was I happy to win all my fights? Yes, yes, I was.

I should caveat that I think I got blocking specific skills or something. I don't remember the specifics. Just that as the game went along the fights got easier due to the blocking. Early game was hard. And very hard if there was more than one opponent.

[Punisher]

Late game fights generally became trivial once I realized that 1) I couldn't do their combos for $%&*, 2) that blocking took very little stamina, and 3) that they would quickly tire when I blocked their attacks.

So most fights became me blocking until they got tired, and then clubbing them/poking them in the face.

Was I proud of might fighting prowess? No, no, I was not. Was I happy to win all my fights? Yes, yes, I was.

I should caveat that I think I got blocking specific skills or something. I don't remember the specifics. Just that as the game went along the fights got easier due to the blocking. Early game was hard. And very hard if there was more than one opponent.

This is a valid boxing technique, at least According to Hajime no Ippo...
So no worries there.

[GreenGoo]

This is a valid boxing technique, at least According to Hajime no Ippo...
So no worries there.

Dempsey roll baby!

[jztemple2]

I don't think this was posted before, I found it interesting.

[Scraper]

The reviews are hitting and so far they look very positive. A bunch of them are in the 9/10 range.

[jztemple2]

The reviews are hitting and so far they look very positive. A bunch of them are in the 9/10 range.

Thank goodness because I've already preordered . I got it through Steam so I've got two hours to see if I can make it accessible for me.

[Scraper]

I've read a few of the reviews and most of them are saying it's like a marriage of Skyrim and Witcher 3, but with better graphics. I loved the first one so this one is a no brainer for me. Some also mention that the combat is a bit less clunky this time, but still not the best. Which is also fine with me since I got used to it in the first one.

[Max Peck]

I can't remember where I saw it, but one snippet of an interview I read said that the combat is designed to be more accessible for beginners (e.g. it isn't hard to smash someone with a mace) while still having more advanced aspects for those who are into it (e.g. stringing together combos while swordfighting).

[coopasonic]

I acted unlike myself and waited for reviews. Bought and preloading now.

[Hyena]

I acted unlike myself and waited for reviews. Bought and preloading now.

Have you finished it yet? Any spoiler-free reviews?

[Scraper]

I acted unlike myself and waited for reviews. Bought and preloading now.

Have you finished it yet? Any spoiler-free reviews?

It’s a 100 hour game. So give him until Tuesday night to beat it at least.

[jztemple2]

I acted unlike myself and waited for reviews. Bought and preloading now.

Have you finished it yet? Any spoiler-free reviews?

It’s a 100 hour game. So give him until Tuesday night to beat it at least.

I always suspected there is a multi-threaded coopasonic who can play a game in parallel sessions

I know this can be true because my wife assumes I can finished eight hours worth of chores in two hours

[jztemple2]

From PC Gamer:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review: KCD2 is just as bizarre and ambitious as its inspirations. Thank god.

KCD2 feels a bit miraculous: a ludicrously ambitious and peculiar thing that somehow fulfills its ambition and peculiarity, managing to hit the highs Warhorse aimed for in the first game but perhaps fell just short of.

It feels tailor-made for a certain brand of systems-loving sicko—the kind of person who still gets starry-eyed about Stalker and Morrowind—and manages to actually make good on their (or at least my) nostalgic yearning for those halcyon games of old.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 performance analysis—scalable frame rates, decent graphics, and barely a stutter in sight. And for once, upscaling is completely optional. Wait, this is 2025, yes?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the open-world 'realistic' RPG, stands out from the crowd by virtue of the fact that it's one of the very few games to use Crytek's CryEngine. Developer Warhorse Studios eschewed the likes of Unreal Engine for the original game and has stuck with CryEngine for its sequel. This is reportedly because the team was very familiar with how it all worked, allowing it to fine-tune everything for the sequel.

CryEngine is almost antithetical to Unreal Engine because, where the latter has gone all-in with ray tracing, Crytek's software is rooted firmly in old-school rendering. Not that this means it can't generate fantastical visuals but screen space reflections and screen space direct occlusion, for example, cannot match ray-traced reflections and global illumination for accuracy.

But don't think that old-school means easy-going for your GPU because Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will bring most gaming PCs to their knees when running at 4K with maximum quality settings. The good news is that you really don't need to go that far, as the game's graphics are highly scalable, with five different quality presets to enjoy.

[Max Peck]

A story recap for the first game, for those of us who don't remember, didn't finish or didn't play it:

[jztemple2]

I didn't finish the first one but I don't think that knowing the backstory is that important to me. Should it be?

[Blackhawk]

Twitch drops available.

Reminder that you don't need to actively watch. As long as the stream is an active tab somewhere, you get the items. I often put it in the stream on another PC or on a background window to get drops.

[Scraper]

I didn't finish the first one but I don't think that knowing the backstory is that important to me. Should it be?

I beat the game twice and both times my game crashed at the 8:40 mark in that video, so I never got to see the whole ending. I'm grateful for the video considering the closest save takes you an hour back in the game and I had no will to beat it three times on the off hope that it didn't crash that time.

[Max Peck]

FWIW, there is a Twitch drops campaign for a cosmetic(?) armor set that runs through to Feb 11. The catch is that it requires you to link to your PROS (Prism Ray Online Services) account, which is not something I'm signing up for just to get a handful of Twitch drops. My general rule is that I'm willing to link Twitch to accounts that I already have (Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, whatever) but I'm not signing up for any additional accounts on bullshit platforms that serve no purpose other than data harvesting.

Edit: *BAM*ed by Blackhawk.

[Max Peck]

I didn't finish the first one but I don't think that knowing the backstory is that important to me. Should it be?

As I understand it, the new game is a direct sequel that picks up where the first game ends, so taking 10 minutes out of my busy life for a "Previously, on Kingdom Come: Deliverance" video was worth it for me. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one dev interview where they said that knowledge of the previous game's story isn't essential, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[GreenGoo]

That's what I hear as well. II starts off 2 days after the end of 1, as a continuation of the story. Things that happened in 1 affects how II moves forward. So knowing 1 is helpful.

[jztemple2]

Well, too late know, the game is unpacking as I type Watched the video while the game is unpacking. When I played the original game I couldn't get past a boss fight which turned out to be about half way through the video.

Man, it has twenty of my CPU cores running at once . Still estimates five minutes to go.

[Max Peck]

I preloaded last night and Steam went ahead with the decryption and launch-day patch a few minutes before the official launch time, so I didn't even get to watch that. It's sitting there, ready to go, but I have some other things to attend to before I dive into it.

[GreenGoo]

Man, it has twenty of my CPU cores running at once . Still estimates five minutes to go.

I consider that a good thing. That's why you've got them. What are they going to be doing otherwise? Tea party?