It's getting delayed, isn't it?
I got hundreds of games to play, I'm happy with a delay if it makes the game better. A delayed game is eventually good and all thatFor some reason, people tend to forget the absolutely disastrous state of 1 at launch
>>683688743Delays tend to mean the game is at a base level, catastrophically cross wired; there is no fixing it. It will release as a janky mess no matter how much time in the oven it gets but the longer they mess with things that were designed to work in harmony with other components, it will get worse.
>>683688585who cares, they fucked it up,by simplifying the combat. by appealing to a "wider" audience, they have now lost the o.g. hardcore audience that put them on the map, to begin with. shame on them. shame!
>>683691994combat was always simple. high skill rank = win. all that business about directional blocking is an illusion
>>683691994combat in KCD 1 kinda sucks. when it works it works well but most of the time it just boils down to "press Q to win" because attacking puts you at risk of being master striked. yes you can fix it with mods but that's irrelevant. games shouldn't have to be modded to be good.
No Theresa, no buy!
>>683688585im sad the graphics in 2 don't look nearly as groundbreaking as the graphics were when 1 came out.
>>683691994>high strength grapple>push enemy>downward strike to the headThat's 95% of the combat after 15 hours.
>>683688743>A delayed game is eventually good and all thatMaybe back then, but now in today's industry they're basically telling us that they are fucked and are scrambling to fix as much before the inevitable shitstorm thanks to the execs forceful hand.
>>683691994The game straight up lies to you in making you think the combat is skillbased while it's actually a statbased numbers game based on level and equipment.
>>683695308This
>>683692386Fuck off casualfag no one's talking to you
>>683693797You can fuck off, too!
>>683693797Nobody played KCD for the gameplay
>>683688743>people tend to forget the absolutely disastrous state of 1 at launchWorked on my machine. I hope you don't mean the consolebabbies crying about lockpicking and people getting filtered by schnapps.
>>683698250>>683698381Why are you like this? People present a true counter argument and this causes your brain to go into animal mode?
>>683688585Possibly, we're in the second half of the year and there is no release date available. I'd rather have them take their time to polish the game first rather than hastily release it out there.
>>683693797it needed a lot of polish and reworking enemy aialso doing something about when fighting more than 1 enemy
>>683691994I gave up on learning the combat in 1 and just grugged my way through with high strength and hitting people in the head with a maceit worked wonderfully
>>683688585i bet they are adding darkies and trans
>>683699140watch them make the game more diverse by including Frenchmen and Russians and going "well that was pretty diverse for that day and age"
>>683698634Because either things are dumbed down, or they're not. It's just that simple. And the combat in kcd2 has been dumbed dow, that's a fucking fact! A whole directional-point has been removed! That's dumbing down the combat! Sorfy, but it's just that simple. Kcd2 has been made for the casual fans, not the original fans!
>>683699563>no actual gameplay is out yet>they ruined it!!!!
as long as the protag looks like a retard i wont be playing these gamesthey had a design originally where he didn't look like a huge faggot and i dont know why they changed it
>>683699140Remember when people were defending this troon "SxyBiscuit" and saying he was based?Funny how he came out and demanded that Warhorse add blacks and diversity to KCD2. So much for your "based" tranny.
>>683700461>Remember when people were defending this troon "SxyBiscuit" and saying he was based?I don't
>>683699140>>683699310They won't add anything that makes no sense because Vavra is still the director. They can't even add Jews despite Vavra wanting to because they only lived in a designated quarter in Prague and 1389 there was a pogrom which made most of them fuck off to Poland.
>>683698617I played it years after release and it still had a ton of bugs, even mission-breaking ones, and I imagine that the situation was much worse at launch
>>683699776I ended up loving goofy henry tbqh
>>683700461who?
>>683702920Your queen
>>683702983thats a man tho
>>683699140You really want that don't you? It's like you're begging for it.
>>683688585how sandboxy is the original? and more specifically, how sandboxy/interactive are the NPCs/AI?I read it has the soul of Oblivion but just never got around to playing it myself.
>>683703606There's no character creation so idk about having the soul of oblivionThe combat sucks too, unironically takes 10 hours just to become somewhat threatening to your average overworld mook
>>683703813which of course, is because you start out with no combat training and the overworld "mooks" are trained soldiers you're getting the peasant vs soldier experience at first until you train up
>>683699776They changed it because they changed Henry's age to be like 14(but still in a man's body so they could release the game in yurop). Henry looks weird because he's got a kid's head on a man's body.
>>683700461Who???
>>683704492Your future wife
>>683688585Delayed to fix the lack of black trans knights that historically lived in bohemia at the time
>>683699776No? They changed it to look like the guy that voice acts Henry, you dweeb, he in no way looks 14
>>683705057meant for>>683703993
>>683705057Ok, 15. jeez.
>>683688585Delayed to when? It has no specific release date yet
>>683688585nopeyou people don't realize if Vávra says something, he won't take it back, so if he says it releases this year it WILL release this year, besides the game is definitely gonna have an announcement about the release date at Gamescoms since it is in Europe and right beside the devs's country.
God, what an absolute trash thread. I think it's about time we admited that KCD - a franchise firmly standing between AA and AAA gaming, is literally WAY too niche and obscure for what /v/ is today.It's just not mainstream enough. To be discussed. On fucking /v/.That is how low this board has fallen, and that is just fucking depressing.
>>683708780the threads are usually fine but from a certain point in time ( discord ahem ahem ) some threads become a shitfest thanks to certain individuals
>>683708780at least there will be some comfy threads when the game comes out, but yeah this board only loves AAA slop and visual novels
>>683699563its not dumbed down. i said so.
>>683695386of course its not gonna look as good, KCD was in Cryengine, that shit is literally eye candy
>>683708986Every single thread I've seen in the last four months has been trash, or died before reaching 50 posts, or both.I do not fucking believe discussing the game is in any way possible for now. We might have a short resurgence when it's out, but we all know that it's going to be a a shitshow as well, because really, the release will just generate the impression that you can crave out some anger-engagement for the shitposters who don't actually play weird nerdy shit anyway.There really is nothing left of this fucking place, is there?
>>683709262but 2 is also in CryEngine, newer version of it even and objectively it looks better even if not by that much.
>>683709262>KCD was in Cryengine, that shit is literally eye candySo is KCD2. It's the exact same engine. Which is not a good thing, by the way. And of course, it does not look as impressive (relatively speaking) - it's the same engine, but 6 years later. And that engine was frankly, already pretty fucking old back when KCD1 came out.According to Vávra, the game really "only" made major technological improvements (visuals-wise) in three areas:Better lighting, "drastically" better facial animations, and - most importantly, or most worryingly depending on how your hardware is - the sheer density of content. As Vávra put it - "it does not look dramatically different (aside from those facial animations), but the sheer amount of stuff happening on screen is much higher. This being vital for the Kuttenberg specifically, as the density of both clutter and NPC's there is several times higher than in the most demanding scenes in KCD1.Which honestly, worries me. Because I do remember how KCD1's performance tended to massively dip in Rattay, and now we are supposed to have a town about 5x as big and about 4 times as dense... performance is in general what worries me most about KCD2, personally.
>>683705057henry and hans are both around 15, they're both described as almost of ageit just seems stupid because they're just played by guys in their mid 30s
>>683709813Same, I'm worried about another Dragon's Sigma 2 situation. CryEngine is famously badly optimized and even KCD1 is still pretty hard capped by CPU performance
>>683709813performance is already looking good since Vávra has shown the Main Menu of KCD2 with FPS numbers enabled and it had around 400 fps in there alone, in comparion the first game had on average 70 fps in its main menu, you also have to take into account it was their first experience with CryEngine.
>>683710396>Henry is 15 years oldHave you seen the facial hair options in this game? There's no way a 15 year old of Central European descent can have facial hair like that.
>>683711470It was a different time
>>683710396>henry and hans are both around 15, they're both described as almost of ageHans is 20 or 21 in KCD. Hendry's age is never explicitly revealed, but it's safe to assume he is around 18-20. Neither of them are "of age" because there actually was no formally agreed upon definition of "being of age" in that era, but in general, men would be considered adults between 22 and 25, around that age. People both physiologically matured slower, and the idea where mental maturity was achieved was much higher than it is today, contrary to what most people think.Fun fact. Real world Hendry was actually married in 1403, and had his first child born in 1404. Never mind the Czech Wiki by the way, the statement that Hendry was born in 1388 is straight up wrong.>>683710574>Same, I'm worried about another Dragon's Sigma 2 situation.I didn't really follow the DD2 situation, but yeah, Cryengine is garbage. I don't fucking blame the people nearly cancelling the sequel outright just to avoid tackling the engine.>>683710847>performance is already looking good since Vávra has shown the Main Menu of KCD2 with FPS numbers enabled and it had around 400 fps in there aloneI don't think that is really that reassuring. I also know a guy who worked as a QA on the game and performance was a major problem. Now - there is absolutely no reason to panic yet, because optimization is something that is most heavily worked on in the very final stages of development, and the build he played was good 10 months away from shipping - it would be completely bizzarre if it WAS optimized well. But... it does tell me that the one screen Vávra shared isn't telling us what you think it is, and performance does remain my biggest worry.
>>683711538>It was a different timeTrue, but the other way around. Kids looked a lot younger than they do today, puberty was significantly delayed to what it is today. Even more so for girls, but boys also did physically develop slower.
