Warhorse’s medieval muck-o-rama Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launches at the moment. It is an engrossing RPG, regardless of developer co-founder Dan Vávra’s tendency to throw his weight behind alt-right harassment campaigns. Additionally, a relatively bug-free one.
In the middle of my 51 hours as reviewer, I’ve encountered solely a smattering of extra vital technical points. Firstly, some heavy slowdown whereas roaming Trosky Fortress, the centerpiece of the opening Bohemian Paradise area, which I resolved by quitting and reloading. Secondly, a mildly terrifying second in a dugout when a wounded soldier I used to be imagined to be treating struck a T-pose, as if troubled by lightning early onset arthritis. And thirdly a repeated crash bug which I really feel warrants its personal article provided that, along with Deliverance 2’s eccentric saving system, it price me a number of hours of progress.
My sport began to crash steadily following a bigger patch earlier than the evaluate embargo, about midway by way of my playthrough. The simulation would lock up within the menus, when utilizing the photograph mode, and generally throughout exploration. After some trial and error, I deduced that this needed to do with my controller cable connection being a bit unfastened. KCD2 doesn’t, in my expertise, prefer it when you look like switching quickly between mouse-and-keyboard and a controller. After switching to a brand new cable, I used to be capable of make headway with out a lot additional bother.
The bug price me hours of progress not as a result of it wiped or corrupted saves, however as a result of it shaped a satan’s partnership with Deliverance 2’s apparently fussy, hydra-headed strategy to saving. As within the first sport, you’ll be able to checkpoint your progress by ingesting an in-game alcoholic beverage, Saviour Schnapps. As Brendy noticed to me throughout edits, it is a enjoyable little bit of Ye Olde Meta Commentary that brazenly positions quicksaving as a vice.
It isn’t fairly as inconvenient because it sounds: I discovered contemporary batches of Saviour Schnapps recurrently throughout quests, and you may all the time brew it your self from nettles, which develop in every single place, and belladonna, which is present in forest clearings. What’s extra, apothecaries just like the one in Trosky village purchase the stuff for first rate cash, so you’ll be able to flip a fast revenue whereas stocking up. A single dose of Saviour Schnapps will render you merry (with related stat buffs) however not completely plimsolled, so it should not intervene together with your exploits offering you are not the sort to hit F5 on the slightest whiff of peril.
The difficulty with Saviour Schnapps is solely that Warhorse attempt to have their cake and eat it. If the concept is to show you to weigh the prospect of failure correctly, by making quicksaving extra of a ritual, that is undercut by the truth that the sport does checkpoint after sure quest milestones. As such, it is simple to neglect the necessity to toss again a schnapps at times. Stir that inconsistency along with a persistent crashing drawback, and you’ve got a spicy cocktail I prefer to name The 11pm Shrieker.
Once more, that is the one genuinely extreme technical drawback I’ve found in KCD2. The problem with unfastened controller connections might have been patched out by the point I learn this. Nonetheless, you may need to test your USB ports, simply in case. For extra recommendation about ingesting moderately, this is Ollie’s guide to saving in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
