Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

[bhlloy]

Point #1 is why I fell out of love and never finished the first game, to be honest. Did exactly what you said, got very deep into a difficult quest (think one of the DLCs, didn't save and lost hours of progress. Just put the game down for a bit in frustration after that and never went back with everything else in my library.

With that being said, once I get some time and my gaming setup set back up I'm excited to dive into 2 as it sounds excellent.

[Atocep]

I finished the game in just under 100 hours. I pushed to get it wrapped up so I can move on to Monster Hunter.

Overall an outstanding game. Right up my alley. The last act does get cutscene heavy but we're talking 2-3 minute cutscenes for the most part and not MGS 45 minute cutscenes. It does leave some loose ends that I'm assuming get wrapped up in DLC.

For saving, each inn will have 2-3 savior schnapps for sale at 20-25 groschen. I got into the habit of picking those up every time I was at an inn. That gave me enough to comfortably save when I needed to without being able to save scum. I didn't mind the save system as I felt it made everything more impactful when I couldn't just try the dumb thing to see if it works.

I ran into some bugs and there's a memory leak that seems to be tied to the map and inventory. I had to reboot after I played for a couple hours or more and tried to do something else on my PC. Nothing game breaking though.

This series is a hell of an accomplishment for a 250 member studio. It's not a AAA game but was far more fun for me than most recent AAA games. Hopefully their next game moves on from CryEngine though. It's long in the tooth and really showing its age in some areas.

[RainMaker]

Did you skip a lot of side missions? I'm like 20 hours in amd feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

Did you skip a lot of side missions? I'm like 20 hours in amd feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

I don't think there's any way to do all of them in one playthrough so I did skip some in both zones. Trosky region seems big and has a ton of quests and then you move to Kuttenberg and the zone is even bigger and the there's even more quests.

I expect to play again after all the DLC is released so I did bypass some on both maps. I didn't realize there was a 2nd zone you move to and ended up there far too early and was weak as hell compared to the enemies in the Kuttenberg region. The first game had some great DLC and the biggest one had settlement building and management, you play judge to resolve disputes, and some other quests.

FYI, one annoying bug that I ran into was the map tracking for quests that you already have breaks if you travel back to the Trosky region. Any new quests track properly but some of the ongoing quests get annoying to complete. The annoying bug I ran into was load times got up to 3-4 minutes and that's apparently because pathing for an NPC broke somewhere and the game stalls trying to resolve it before it eventually gives up. This is fixed by either 1.) moving to the other region and back (which as above, breaks quest tracking) or 2.) Completing main story quests and it seems to reset the game state and fix pathing issues.