Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 - Release sometime later 2024

[Lysrin]

I played some of the first one, really liked it for an immersive experience. Still on the gaming todo list to finish the story in the first one. I'm happy to see they are releasing a new one, and it is coming before long.

 

[FreeKnight]

Just found out about this and came to post the trailer, but saw you started a thread. The actual reveal trailer for anyone interested;

I enjoyed the first one a lot more than expected so I'll likely pick up the sequel if reviews are half decent.

 

[FreeKnight]

System specs just realeased. Covers a pretty broad range including some older hardware which is good to see.

 

[sswilson]

Nothing over 60 FPS? Must be a straight up console port.

 

[Lysrin]

They did comment after releasing that info that those are straight performance numbers, without any DLSS, FSR, or frame gen techs factored in. They said those techs could be used to push frames higher. And that first row is labelled “Average Performance”.

 

[FreeKnight]

Nothing over 60 FPS? Must be a straight up console port.

The first one used CryEngine (this one does too I believe) and you could unlock the frame cap with a console command, so I imagine that you'll be able to exceed 60 FPS.

I think there were pretty decent graphics customization options in the PC version but it's been a while.

 

[Lysrin]

The video reviews, all the ones I've seen come up in my feed (haven't watched them all yet), have been glowingly positive, saying that KCD2 has set a new high bar for RPGs. One decenting voice is EuroGamer apparently. 6/10 from them but I didn't dig into why.

That is excellent and I was certainly hoping it would be really good. I'll be interested to see how Avowed turns out, releasing shortly after KCD2. It'd be great to have good medieval and fantasy 1st person RPGs back-to-back.

Although I want it, I'm not planning to buy this one right away although it is very tempting. I was going to do more in the first one, but I think when I'm ready for it I'll just buy and switch to the new. It seems to be superior in nearly every way, including performance.

Anyone buying it at release?

 

[FreeKnight]

Anyone buying it at release?

No, but largely due to me needing to clear some of my backlog, not because I don't think Warhorse put together a less than stellar sequel.

For a studio's first game KCD was genuinely impressive. Original, creative without being kitschy, and fun to play (although I don't love the save system). It sounds like the sequel improved on just about everything and the dev team was expanded which should help them flesh it out a bit and maybe soften some rough edges (the original did have a few and some performance struggles at release IIRC).

I don't know if warhorse has their next project planned, I'd actually like to see them try a more 'open world high fantasy' a la Elder scrolls, but that's mostly because Bethesda is slow as molasses at putting out new games and Elden Ring isn't my thing.

There's still an attempt to culture war the game online. The original got met with 'why aren't there more POC/LGBT' in 15th century Bohemia (which is a stupid complaint, akin to asking 'where are all the asians, in a game taking place in the later days of the Roman republic'), and the opposite spectrum is freaking out that you can have a 'gay' relationship in the sequel, but thankfully it seems like it's not dominating the review comments like it has for other recent games.

 

[Lysrin]

No, but largely due to me needing to clear some of my backlog, not because I don't think Warhorse put together a less than stellar sequel.

For a studio's first game KCD was genuinely impressive. Original, creative without being kitschy, and fun to play (although I don't love the save system). It sounds like the sequel improved on just about everything and the dev team was expanded which should help them flesh it out a bit and maybe soften some rough edges (the original did have a few and some performance struggles at release IIRC).

I don't know if warhorse has their next project planned, I'd actually like to see them try a more 'open world high fantasy' a la Elder scrolls, but that's mostly because Bethesda is slow as molasses at putting out new games and Elden Ring isn't my thing.

There's still an attempt to culture war the game online. The original got met with 'why aren't there more POC/LGBT' in 15th century Bohemia (which is a stupid complaint, akin to asking 'where are all the asians, in a game taking place in the later days of the Roman republic'), and the opposite spectrum is freaking out that you can have a 'gay' relationship in the sequel, but thankfully it seems like it's not dominating the review comments like it has for other recent games.

Same reason for me not buying yet. Backlog could have me playing what I already have for YEARS! lol

Yes, there's a tonne of nonsense happening with culture and games, and well everything I suppose these days. Warhorse was pretty adamant for KCD2, and the first one too iirc, that they were telling the story they wanted in the setting they picked and accurately for the time period. That is the only reasonable approach to a game in this setting in my opinion. At least for me I expect a game that is set in a real world historical setting to at least try and be historically accurate.

Or it shouldn't pretend to be historical accurate (a la the AC Shadows fumbling of late) and just be historically "inspired". The latter is perfectly fine and would avoid at least some of the shenanigans.

 

[SugarJ]

PC Gamer gave it a 90. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-review/

Usually anything over an 80 is something I end up getting unless it's turn-based.