Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review (RadioFreeZerg)
After 260 hrs and first finishing the game i must say.. what a great experience it was!
Better than any movie and book. But it had many downsides. A real lot!
Story: Top tier. Comparable to couple seasons of series of some sort. The most solid side of the game.
Graphics: very nice views, but very unoptimalized. 1050Ti will get you 2/10 view range "bubble". 2060 gets 5/10. larger locations clonky. cinematics capped at 30 fps. But overall very solid, deep, beautifull views and climate.
Combat: vary hard to learn, very hard to skill and to master on mouse and keyboard. Seems like it was mentioned to be play via controller, sticks or vr headset type of inputs, rather that usual pc (m+k) setup.
Very hard to change target or to run from attacker. Multiple bugs. Enemy Dog attack still bugged result in screen lock and unable to move/look/run. So when encounter a dog you will most likely lost your unsaved progress.
Gemeplay: This game seems like riding a horse sim..
Wanna quick travel? you'll go very slow and risk of getting mugged is much higher. See, so you're maxed top notch steel knight on a horse? Still can be slauthered by 4-5 villagersm especially if they wield pole arms (spears / halberds).
Saves? only if you have Savior Schnapps, sleep, move onto some next phase of quest or when exiting a game. Many times progress of 4-5 hrs is lost because you get slaughtered or fall from hill/mountain.
Travelling on horse? trees, branches, bushes, small rivers and fences are blockable. Force passing thru (especially dense bushes) might end in block inside and you won't be able to travel (or quick travel) from there. Again, lost of unsaved progress.
Tergetting with bow.. worst thing! Thru all the game there is a crosshair which dissapears when eq. bow. They want you to learn fire a thing which boots around 5 sec and aim with no pointer. No thanks - use mods.
Lots of other bugs when main quest npc sleeps 24h/day and can only be awaken by fire an arrow nearby.. graphics glitches (heavy rain with torch + nighthawk potion ; mist graphics bug), game crashes / loading freezes, save file corruptions and a lot of more.
Despite having great story game feel like medevial work when you have to do a lot of manual trasks / skill train or travel on horse on to other end of the map. Some quests are great, some are very manual (sneak/deliver/collect) and some are uninteresing too-much-blablaing nonsense.
Achievements 100% means you have to go game 3 times (1x normal ; 1x hard ; 1x normal no killing, no sxy time)
Nevertheless it was great journey. I will miss Henry and Rattay. and since I know map back and forth I might visit it someday IRL.
Bonuses:
Interactive map: https://kingdomcomemap.github.io/
Guides:
100% achiev: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1952662218
https://kingdom-come-deliverance.fandom.com/wiki/Levelling_skills_in_the_early_game
https://kingdom-come-deliverance.fandom.com/wiki/Skills
Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance
(recommends: 'Perfection Reshade' ; 'Unlimited Saving' ; 'No aiming spread' and 'Bow Dot Reticle', 'MotionSicknessBeGone' ; 'Sorted Inventory' ; 'Instant Herb Picking' ; 'Bushes- Collision Remover' ; 'Ambient Occlusion Fix' ; 'Early Bird npc schedules')