C4G reviewed Kingdom Come Deliverance:

So I FINALLY Played Kingdom Come Deliverance | Retrospective Review

IGN made a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Real Life vs. In-Game comparison:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: Real Life vs. In-Game Comparison - IGN First

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Couchpotato spotted that Kingdom Come: Deliverance I sold over 8 Million copies.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is five years old - you can play it for FREE from August 29 to September 1 and get it for 90% off before September 5!

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 5 Years Anniversary Trailer

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Couchpotato spotted the complete story of Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Full Cinematic Story

Spoiler Warning: This video contains the full story of KCD1. 

Gematsu reports that Deep Silver and Warhorse Studios will announce Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on April 18.

Yemeth spotted that Kingdom Come: Deliverance sold 6 million copies.

Mortismal Gaming checked out Kingdom Come Deliverance:

Kingdom Come Deliverance - Review After 100%

Mortismal Gaming checked out Kingdom Come Deliverance:

Kingdom Come Deliverance - First Impressions

WolfheartFPS looks back at Kingdom Come Deliverance:

This RPG is a Masterpiece in 2022.. (Kingdom Come Deliverance Review)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance sold 5 million copies - solve a quest for a Henry Diorama Figurine:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Sold 5 million Copies on all platforms combined

Roll out the barrels, prepare your tankards and tell us your best stories… it is time to celebrate!

What started as an ambitious Kickstarter Project in 2014 quickly grew to become a global success story – we even have our own KCD soap bar after all!

But seriously… thank you!!! You are part of millions of fans and family that not only made this entire project happen, but you also embodied Henry over the years - solving various quests, roaming the beautiful landscape of medieval Bohemia and arguing with ol’ Kunesh!

To celebrate the occasion, we are giving away 5 beautiful Henry Diorama Figurines. To get your hands on these beautiful collectors items you have to complete a simple quest. The rules are easy: Tell us about your favorite KCD moment, how you found out about the game, or any other KCD story you want to share in a short comment on Twitter or Facebook, or just down below here on Steam.

The best stories from each platform (Steam, Twitter, and Facebook) will be selected under the father Godwins supervision, and will have a chance to win.
Comment on each platform to triple your chances… (old Charlatan trick ).

Entry deadline will be the 7th of July and shortly after we'll announce the winners!

Thank you for your loyalty and friendship!

Your Warhorse Studios Team

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Apex ENB is a stunning mod for Kingdom Come Deliverance:

Kingdom Come Deliverance - 2022 RAYTRACING extreme Photorealistic graphic - Apex ENB - Apex Guide

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a piece of DLC freely available until February 14th called The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon. Additionally the base game is 70% off.

The heart of our much-loved young Sir Hans Capon is bursting with overwhelming longing for... his latest flame.

The second DLC "The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon" for Kingdom Come: Deliverance revolves around his attempts to woo the fairest maid he has ever set eyes upon, and his success will not depend only on his own mastery of the art of love – it’s also up to his trusty wingman, you - Henry, to ensure that The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon come to a happy end!

That’s the main objective linking three new quests, in which you will not only have to read love poems, arrange a nighttime tryst and keep an enraged butcher at bay, but also infiltrate the camp of a band of bloodthirsty brigands, enter a dice tournament, dig up a corpse, investigate a murder and... er... perhaps commit a few. All for love, of course! 

DSOGaming reports that Kingdom Come: Deliverance has sold three million copies worldwide.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance came out two years. As such, it took Warhorse 24 months in order to hit its 3 million goal. Furthermore, its DLCs have sold more 1.5 million across all platforms.

Additionally, Warhorse Studios is celebrating this important milestone with an exclusive Steam Free Weekend from June 18 -22 to celebrate this milestone. PC gamers will be able to download and play for free this medieval role-playing game during this weekend.

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To celebrate that Kingdom Come Deliverance has been released on the 13th of February 2018, The game is now free on Epic store for one week, is discounted on Steam for 50% untikl the 18th and the Original Sound Track has a 60% discount on Steam.

You can also get your own Codex poster.

If your game is pirated by Codex, it is like the award of the bad guys.

So we made it a poster and hang it on a wall in our office.

 

As this was a highly discussed topic on social media and Reddit, when you discovered about it, we decided to even go a step further, and make it available for everyone! You can get your own Codex Poster on Displate now.

 

And there are more motifs available as well.

Modding tools are now available for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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To learn more about our tools, please take a look at the KCD Modding Wiki on Nexusmods, where you will find a description of the different tools, documentation on how to use them and even video tutorials which will offer you an easy step by step guide through the world of Kingdom Come: Deliverance modding.

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GamePressure reports that Kingdom Come: Deliverance will get official mod support.

Our emissary at gamescom has conducted an interesting and rather off-beat interview with Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, PR Manager at Warhorse Studios. One of the subjects of the conversation were modding tools for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. As it turns out, the developers are working on a set of tools that should give more power to modders, including the ability to create quests.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been banned in Australia due to the Womens Lot DLC.

KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE has been banned in Australia under the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) system. Koch Media have twice had it rated as a multi-platform title with an R18+ (High impact sex scenes & references to sexual violence) classification.

Edit: An update on this clarified that the game is now 18+ and so not banned

The Classification Board's database was showing KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE as banned in Australia under the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) when we tweeted on Tuesday. It has now been downgraded to R18+.

Wccftech checked out the Kingdom Come Deliverance DLC: A Woman's Lot:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance A Woman’s Lot Review – Mixed Bohemian Bag

A woman’s lot in the 15th century Bohemia wasn’t great. Unfortunately, The latest DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance isn’t that much better either. The fourth installment of DLC for Kingdom Come, A Woman’s Lot ties together the few loose threads of the main story and the siege of Skalitz. Obviously, this review might feature some Kingdom Come: Deliverance spoilers, so be warned.

Beginning when you speak to Theresa in Rattay, you are flashbacked to her former life in Skalitz, where according to the game’s description you get to experience a slice of “ordinary life” in the small town. The problem is, ordinary life is incredibly tedious, though if you’ve played Kingdom Come: Deliverance before you already know the deal. When I’m looking to sink my time into an immersive simulation, I’m trying to escape my chores, not do someone else’s. The work is menial, repetitive and frustrating and has absolutely no pacing to it at all.

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While Johanka's story is interesting, albeit with plenty of boring sections scattered throughout, Theresa's 'ordinary life' is so dull it made me want to do my own chores more than play a video game.

Score: 6.9/10

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GamePressure reports on a tease for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios.

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The story will be set in 1506, 103 years after the events of the first installment, when Bohemia, as well as Hungary and Croatia were ruled by Vladislaus II of Hungary. So it is certain that Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 we will put us in the shoes of a new protagonist, perhaps a descendant of Henry. Unfortunately, that's all we know at the moment. We can only speculate that the release of the game will probably take place in 2020, near the release of the next generation of consoles. In 2019 we will receive two more story add-ons to the first instakllment and a number of other novelties, including e.g. mod support.

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The Royal edition of Kingdom Come is now available on all platforms and includes all of the available DLC. Those who already have the base game can also buy all the DLC in one package. Note that A woman's lot is available to all backers for free,

Do you have friends who still didn't play Kingdom Come: Deliverance? With Royal Edition available now this is the right time to jump in! Enjoy the full Kingdom Come: Deliverance experience including:

• Treasures of the Past
• From The Ashes
• The Amorous Adventures of bold Sir Hans Capon
• Band of Bastards
• A Woman’s Lot

A video about Kingdom Come: Royal Edition behind the curtain of development.

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Daniel Vavra is taking you behind the curtain of development again. Watch the video to know more about Theresa and her dog in A Woman's Lot , listen to Jan Valta's new piece of music and check out all the collectibles we have prepared for you! And what was it about Royal Edition again?

@Gamebanshee The Royal Edition for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been delayed until June 11th.

The Royal Edition of Warhorse Studios' historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance was originally supposed to go live on May 28, 2019. However, thanks to a recent press release we now know that while those of you playing the game on PC will still be getting their hands on A Woman's Lot, the game's final premium DLC, on the 28th, the Royal Edition and the console version of the DLC will be launching on June 11 instead. Here's more on that:

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ExclusivelyGames talks about why realism matters in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

In Skyrim, the player’s health, magicka, and stamina regenerate to the max after a brief time. On the other hand, in KC:D, the player’s health will not regenerate on its own. On top of that, the player’s stamina only regenerates to match the remainder of their maximum health.

This means that if you lose half of your health during a fight, you’ll only have half of your total stamina to work with for the rest of the fight. In other words, the more damage you take, the harder it will be to keep fighting.

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GameReactor talked to the actress playing Theresa in Kingdom Come: Deliverance; to get her take on which direction she is taking the character.

"But it was really fun to have her be a bit more independent. She got to stand up to people more, we get to see more of her personality, and these little glimpses of Theresa sort of being like snarky or kind of funny or tough with Henry; we see what made her that way."

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The RPG Codex has reviewed Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

On top of the things mentioned before, KCD is full of interesting systems and simulation aspects. Aside from the deep combat system talked about earlier, there is fairly deep NPC behavior. At night, NPCs go home and sleep in their beds, taking off their day clothes. If they must go out, they will walk with torches or candle lamps. In the morning, they have breakfast in their homes and go outside, typically to their workplace. Farmers work the land, blacksmiths pound on metal, millers carry sacks around, and guards patrol the streets and roads. In the evenings, men often go to taverns and drink or play dice games. Women sweep the houses or streets. There are a lot of little custom touches that really make the world feel alive. There are even dogs and pigs walking around, or lounging under the sun. The AI is also good enough to run away from trouble, raise an alarm if it sees you doing shady things, close and lock doors when needed, and other such things.

There is an in-depth stealth and subterfuge system. You can sneak by staying out of sight and hearing, which is affected not only by your stats in the relevant skills, but also by what you are wearing. Put on soft, dark clothes, and you will make virtually no noise and blend into the night. Try sneaking in a suit of plate mail, on the other hand, and you will make enough noise to bring the entire Cuman army down your way. Correct clothes can also serve as a disguise, allowing you to enter hostile areas, for instance wearing Cuman armor will let you infiltrate an enemy camp in one of the main quests. You can also perform sneak attacks if you catch an enemy unawares, and there is an interesting lockpicking system in play. To navigate it, you move the mouse around until finding the lock's sweet spot, and then rotate the lock with the D key, while at the same time using the mouse to keep the sweet spot moving so that it stays in the same place relative to the rest of the lock. Not exactly rocket science, but it's probably the most interesting lockpicking system I've seen so far in a game.

There is also a very interesting and deep charisma system. It is affected by many factors, such as the quality of your armor and clothing (a shining suit of plate will impress people a lot more than peasant rags), your deeds and stats/perks, whether or not your clothing and armor are repaired and in good condition, or torn apart and covered with dirt and blood, if your weapon is covered in blood (this helps to intimidate people), when was the last time you bathed, and other such factors. The humorously designed perks add to this in various ways. For instance, there is one perk that makes your character more attractive to the opposite sex if he doesn't shower a certain amount of time. On the other hand, the stench is so strong, that your stealth is reduced by 30%.

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A preview of the documentary that explores the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. This segment looks at the real swordfighting that inspired the game.

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A realistic medieval game demands realistic medieval combat! The documentary Fechtbuch not only charts Warhorse Studio’s quest to create a unique experience, but also presents medieval martial arts as a phenomenon and an important element of European history. Choose your weapon & watch the documentary now!

Steam: https://bit.ly/2sXFqW6

GOG: https://bit.ly/2GbRfjW

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ExpansiveDLC reviewed the DLC Band of Bastards for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Unfortunately, combat is such a big part of Band of Bastards. Which makes for a very obvious recommendation or lack thereof. If you hated the combat of KCD, I cannot recommend Band of Bastards, no matter if I found its story more interesting than a lot of the base game.

And I really did find it interesting. To the point where I couldn’t put the DLC down because I wanted to see how it all ended up. I did not expect to enjoy Band of Bastards story as much as I did.

True, it’s a bit short and the rewards aren’t massive or memorable, but there are multiple ways to end the game which offer up some interesting conclusions for all involved, then seeing how they play out on screen.

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A new patch for Kingdom Come: Deliverance which brings some new features. Additionally the Band of Bastards DLC is now available.

Patch 1.8.1 Now Live - Feb 5th

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Hello Everyone,

Patch 1.8.1 is now live. We are truly grateful for our community and the ongoing feedback we have received from you all. We will continue to improve the game and give our fans the best experience that we possibly can.

Thank you for your support and be sure to check back here for regular updates and news.

The Warhorse Studios Team

– New features –

• New better overlays which explain content and technical specification for launching content of each DLC
• Added new item in menu concerning all DLCs and their overlays
• Added lamps and other lights in taverns make it easier to see dice at night in dice minigame
• If player is overloaded and can’t mount a horse, a notice to that effect is displayed
• In some inns, player can find a caste of gamblers, who have special dice and more money to lose
• Notification about reputation (gained or lost) is now displayed in top left corner of screen with regard to influence of quest or dialogue situations
• Added bell toll sound in Pribyslavitz
• Fixed an issue that caused Hans Capon to get stuck after The Prey quest.

– Quest bugs fixed –

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The Band of Bastards DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance will release February 5th.

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Band of Bastards releases on February 5th Ready for a new adventure?

The roads aren’t safe anymore and now a new threat has reared its ugly head. As Sir Radzig’s loyal servant, you, Henry, will have to deal with it. But you are not alone – for better or worse, you will ride with an infamous band of mercenaries charged with bringing order to the domain. But what if the cure is worse than the disease?

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A documentary exploring the making of Kingdom Come: Deliverance is available for purchase on Steam.

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This documentary charts the more than six-year long, tortuous journey from the foundation of Warhorse Studios to the final release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Watch the movie on Steam: https://bit.ly/2SdAmI2

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Here is forgottenlor's review of Kingdom Com: Deliverance. A game which impressed him.

The developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance went to Kickstarter to prove that there was a market for a high budget RPG set in a historical setting. The game developers decided to set their story in medieval Bohemia, and that alone makes it pretty unusual. In terms of its mechanics Kingdom Come: Deliverance plays it safe. It borrows a lot from other successful open world RPGs, like Skyrim and The Witcher 3. In terms of its story and presentation, though, Deliverance really does something different in its tone, its world building, and its setting. Certainly, those things won't be to everyone's tastes. But for those who are open to what the game has to offer will find themselves along for a memorable ride.

Sector interviewed Viktor Bocan about Kingdom Come: Deliverance and ask where it succeeded and where it failed.

Since the release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been running for some time, you've had a lot of repairs and some DLCs. When you look back at the game, what do you think is your greatest success, and what, on the other hand, is the area where you have somehow failed?

I think the best thing is that the game is successful in the sense that we managed to give people a message. We knew we were doing a game that was not entirely for everyone, and we hoped we'd like people to love because we like it. This is a matter we often talk about. We are trying to make games, even if there is only one and in the future we will hopefully be the ones that will be good for us and which we want to play. Which we think are somewhat interesting. It's not about trying to find a hole in the market, trying to get some money, then counting incoming dollars. We did a game where we were not sure that a lot of people would like to be, but we knew they would like us and we were waiting for what people would say. Our success has inspired us to understand that they like it and that they want more.

If I say negatively, of course, I'm not happy with a lot of bugs, but rather the things we could not do. For me personally, it is the biggest disappointment that we failed to make those big battles. I was very happy to bring something up, but it just could not. On the one hand, the engine is not entirely up to date, and a whole new technology has to be developed, and we have failed. So we made the battles the way they can be. I think that if we develop this further, they may be a little better, but the huge and wonderful ones we originally planned with hundreds of soldiers, it is not that technology.

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OnlySP talked to the developers of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC The Amorous Adventures of the Bold Sir Hans Capon about why some of the content didn't appear.

Immediately following its October 16 release, the new add-on met with backlash from consumers, being widely criticised for a shortage of content. That lack resulted from a bug that locked some users from accessing a particular quest line, and senior designer Prokop Jirsa explained how the problem came about.

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@Ostrog A multiplayer mod for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is currently in development but its still early stages.

Fans are working on making Warhorse Studios’ medieval action role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance playable with others. The first multiplayer mod for the game is currently in development, although it's in the extremely early stages. So far, while players are able to sync into the games of others, they can only see each others horses. Player models and everything else are currently invisible, and it looks as if players can't dismount from the horses yet either. So, really it becomes a massively multiplayer horse riding game.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon has been released.

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The heart of our much-loved young Sir Hans Capon is bursting with overwhelming longing for... his latest flame.

The second DLC "The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon" for Kingdom Come: Deliverance revolves around his attempts to woo the fairest maid he has ever set eyes upon, and his success will not depend only on his own mastery of the art of love – it’s also up to his trusty wingman, you - Henry, to ensure that The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon come to a happy end!

That’s the main objective linking three new quests, in which you will not only have to read love poems, arrange a nighttime tryst and keep an enraged butcher at bay, but also infiltrate the camp of a band of bloodthirsty brigands, enter a dice tournament, dig up a corpse, investigate a murder and... er... perhaps commit a few. All for love, of course!

In the latest news letter for Kingdom Come: Deliverance a new teaser trailer and details about the upcoming DLC's, The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon and Tournament.

This is the Amorous Adventures and Tournament DLC trailer.

Are you ready for a new adventure? Hans Capon is in love and he needs your guidance! Help Hans to gain the heart of beautiful Karolina. However, things turn out to be trickier than expected. A lost family jewel, a magic love potion and the most romantic poem of all promise many hours of new fun moments in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Tournament is a free update for all players of Kingdom Come: Deliverance across all platforms. Tournament adds a brand new activity that's accessible during open-world gameplay, focused heavily on the player's combat skill. What's more is that there will be unique pieces of armor and fine weaponry to win, not-to-mention new quests will appear which are connected to the tournament event. Show no mercy friends!

Furthermore there is some news about the soundtrack festival:

Last call to get your ticket to the final concert of the Soundtrack Festival - one of the biggest and most expensive Czech projects of all time, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It's a great way to spend your time after the holidays and it begins on September 2nd!

For those not having the game yet, be aware that there will be a discount shortly on Humble Bundle.

It's that time again for yet another sweet sale for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Humble Bundle is discounting KCD by 30% for the full game and 10% off for our first premium DLC, From the Ashes and it starts today (10am PST/ 7pm CEST). Please spread the good news and let everyone know that Santa has arrived early, and only for two weeks...

And there is this documentary about the music in the game.

Gameumentary is a short documentary that explores the story behind the music of Kingdom Come: Deliverance with composers Jan Valta and Adam Sporka. Relive the special moments with these guys on an epic journey right into Bohemia.

@PCGamesN New DLC will be available soon for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Amorous Adventures follows the unfortunate journey of fan-favourite character, the lovesick Hans, in his attempt to woo the love of his life, Carolina. This being a Kingdom Come DLC, there are plenty of ways to do this, ranging from jewelry theft to love potions. According to Tobias Stoltz, Warhorse PR manager, the DLC will last for somewhere between 10-15 hours, and can be picked up either at the end of the game, or after befriending Hans in the course of a normal playthrough.

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Redbull interviewed Warhorse about the future of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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What’s next for Kingdom Come: Deliverance?

Jirsa: I really have to say that our priority is to have the base game as good as possible. So we’re searching for any bugs that remain in the game and we’re fixing them. Other than that we have the DLC roadmap, so there’s already four premium paid DLC planned and five free DLCs. There’s lots to come – and if you liked the romance with Theresa, and feel it ended abruptly, you’ll be pleased.

Stolz-Zwilling: Our four premium DLCs are going to enhance the story. The first, From The Ashes, will see you taking care of a village. Second will be more story DLC, and the third involves soldiers, bandits and fighting, while the last premium DLC will be called A Woman’s Lot, and here we’ll be adding things to the game that didn’t make it into the original release, but were promised on Kickstarter. For example, a quest with one of the female characters from the game, and the dog companion will be in there, too.

Could a Switch port be on the horizon?

Stolz-Zwilling: Unfortunately not. The Switch port is not an option for Kingdom Come.

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The Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC From the Ashes has been reviewed by invisioncommunity.

This DLC is also very detached from the main game, being placed as far away from the main map as possible combined with it never interacting with the outside world besides your trips to Sir Divish. Your town is never attacked, never has a crisis and never makes a difference, it feels so inconsequential. With the lack of buildings and upgrades, it also feels very short for the £8 you will be spending on it. Forcing you to grind for money without much return for the normal game make the DLC feel very unworthy of its cost.

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@Gameumentary This documentary looks at the formation of Warhorse Studios and the making of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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* SPOILER FREE DOCUMENTARY * Explore the formation of Warhorse Studios, their struggles to finance their ambitious medieval open world RPG and the risky design philosophy behind the entire game in our hour long documentary on Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Editing: Nick Calandra

Cinematography: Will Crosby

OnlySP reports that a documentary about Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be available July 24th.

The documentary—produced by OnlySP’s friends at Gameumentary—takes a look at Warhorse Studios’s medieval RPG, with interviews from director Daniel Vávra and executive producer Martin Klima. The feature-length documentary will be available on July 24, 2018; check out the trailer below.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is available at Good Old Games with a discount, together with Treasures of the Past, OST and artbook.

From The Ashes has been released for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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The first DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance introduces an entirely new type of adventure! You have an opportunity to participate in building a new village from the ground up and experience first-hand what it was like to create a new settlement.

As a newly appointed bailiff, you must decide what buildings to erect and what people to bring in, and you must also settle disputes between the villagers. Each building is unique and comes with its own upgrades, material and labour requirements, so you will face some difficult decisions.

A bailiff's lot is not an easy one, but he can still enjoy some fun after a hard day's work. Get yourself one of the new horses available and take it for a ride, throw a few dice against seasoned players in your new local tavern, match your skills against variously skilled opponents in your combat arena or just rest at home in your own comfortably furnished house.

A new DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance called From The Ashes will arrive sometime in July.

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About This Content

The first DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance introduces an entirely new type of adventure! You have an opportunity to participate in building a new village from the ground up and experience first-hand what it was like to create a new settlement.

As a newly appointed bailiff, you must decide what buildings to erect and what people to bring in, and you must also settle disputes between the villagers. Each building is unique and comes with its own upgrades, material and labour requirements, so you will face some difficult decisions.

A bailiff's lot is not an easy one, but he can still enjoy some fun after a hard day's work. Get yourself one of the new horses available and take it for a ride, throw a few dice against seasoned players in your new local tavern, match your skills against variously skilled opponents in your combat arena or just rest at home in your own comfortably furnished house.

Patch 1.6 has arrived for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Hardcore Mode & Patch 1.6 NOW Available for Download

26 June - rick5292

The time has now come to fully immerse yourselves in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. We know that many of our fans have been asking for a more realistic and immersive version of the game and we are happy to announce that the new Hardcore Mode is now available for FREE.

Think of it more as a survival type RPG, where you will need to pay even more attention to Henry's health, stamina, energy, and nourishment, including his location/whereabouts. Everything matters in the Hardcore Mode, so now would be a fantastic time to start a new playthrough!

The Facts

• North, South, East, and West will no longer be visible on the compass, so be sure to check the time of day and where the sun is located (rises in the East, sets in the West).
• Waypoints are shown only when you get close to them.
• Fast travel isn't possible in Hardcore Mode.
• There is no autosaving. The game can only be saved by drinking Saviour Schnapps, sleeping in your own bed, paying for a bathhouse full service, or exiting the game (deletes once the game is started up again).
• You can't rely on eating from the cooking pots. The best way to regenerate health is to sleep. Food and healing potions take quite a while to kick in.
  You're only alerted to your current health and stamina levels by means of in-game visual effects.
• Combat is more realistic in Hardcore Mode. Strikes have a more realistic impact, and engaging in combat with an experienced warrior without wearing quality armor is very deadly.
• Traders pay less for goods and rewards are lower overall. Repairing items are even costlier.
  
  
  Negative Perks
  
  You will need to choose at least 2 negative perks which will last throughout the entire game. Think of them as permanent debuffs that will make Henry's adventure in the world of Bohemia that much more difficult! And if you really think you have what it takes, go ahead and select every one of them.
  
• Nightmares: Every time you wake up you are shaken from your nightmare and suffer a short-term debuff. Sleeping becomes more of a "tactical" choice.
  
• Claustrophobic: When you close your helmet visor, your attack lowers. You have to choose between better protection or higher attack.
  
• Hemophilia: You bleed more which makes taking hits in combat riskier.
  
• Numbskull: Lowers your XP gain. A perfect perk for players who thought the vanilla skill progression was too fast and felt overpowered in the late game. It's more work to out level your opponents with this perk.
  
• Shakes: For true sadists. Makes aiming a bow and picking pockets and locks harder.
  
• Consumption: Your stamina regenerates slower. Combat is more challenging and requires thinking ahead of each strike.
  
• Tapeworm: You get hungry faster, and since eating from pots around the world is no longer such a viable option, this makes the survival element even more prominent.
  
• Sonambulant: Fun perk. There is a slight chance you will wake up somewhere else than where you fell asleep. Provides quite a challenge when you wake up in an unknown place and can't see your position on the map. Very rarely you can also sleepwalk your place to some secret areas.
  
• Brittle Bones: You must be careful while running down cliffs and riding a horse. Falls are more dangerous.
  
  Patch 1.6 Notes
  
  New feature
  
• Added "Disable tutorials" setting in the game options.
  
  Fixed Bugs
  
• Henry's trunk in huntsman's lodge no longer has "Rob" prompt.
  
• Knocking out Nicholas in Cherchez la Femme no longer breaks the quest.
  
• Fixed bug in Nasty Habits which sometimes prevented player from delivering wine.
  
• Fixed light optimization that caused freezes while riding a horse for a prolonged time.
  
• Hans Capon no longer sleeps till Judgment Day after completion of The Prey quest.
  
• Killing NPCs in Playing with the Devil quest properly fails it.
  
• Killing executioner Hermann should no longer tank the player's reputation.
  
• Guards react faster to knocking someone out and carrying the body.
  
• Fixed numerous bugs in quest Aquarius.
  
• You can no longer drink-a-port from Talmberg castle in Run! quest.
  
• NPCs react faster to player's surrender.
  
• Standing up before dice minigame with Nightingale no longer breaks Keeping the Peace quest.
  
• Fixed another bug affecting bird cages in A Bird in the Hand quest.
  
• Guards should no longer attack player after he's paid a fine or talked his way out of punishment.

• Crouch does not immediately trigger stealth music.

Well, we certainly hope you that were able to make it all the way down the page! Stay tuned for more KCD updates and DLC info regarding, "From the Ashes," very soon!

@PredCaliber A video of Kingdom Come: Deliverance ultra modded.

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Just a random walk in the wonderful world of Kingdom Come Deliverance!

This game looks so amazing, that I really hope the enviroments from The Elder Scrolls:6 are at least as good looking as this!

Mods: HD Textures
Perfection Reshade
AO Fix
Some other tweaks
Specs: i7 4790k 12GB RAM MSI GTX 1080 GAMING 8GB

A new patch for Kingdom Come: Deliverance introduces some new features and fixes many issues.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Patch 1.5 Now Available For Download

Patch 1.5 is here and it comes with some exciting new features as well! On top of having over 200 bug fixes and newly simulated women clothing, the player can now wash away his sins by buying indulgences in churches. If there was any time to get back into Kingdom Come: Deliverance, this is definitely the time! Please keep the feedback coming on our Steam Forums Page . We will continue to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance the best experience that we possibly can. Thank you all for your patience and support.

Patch 1.5 Notes

New features:

• Henry can now wash away his sins by buying indulgences in
  churches.
• Physically simulated women's clothing added.
• We scattered 16 new lore books around the world.
• Any forgotten or despawned quest items will now be moved to the
  gravedigger's chest and the player will be notified via new quest"Lost
  and Found".

Fixed issues:

• Guards no longer drop halberds. All previously dropped halberds
  deleted. This should fix many performance and camera twitching
  issues.
• Several bugs that caused abnormal CPU usage fixed. This should
  improve performance for many players.
• Optimized lighting in battles should give the player few more FPS.
• Several crashes at the beginning of the first two quests fixed.
• Any remaining issues with going through doors should be fixed.
• Slow loading of detailed textures after long game sessions fixed.
• Archery tournament no longer causes inability to save.
• Infinite fader in archery tournament will no longer appear.
• Three more activities now have initial map markers.
• The game now autosaves on completion of most of the quests.
• The game now consistently autosaves before critical story events.
• Several helmet shadows added. Should fix any odd shadows of
  player
• Many endless faders after dialogues fixed.
• NPCs now can swap weapons from melee to ranged faster.
• NPCs now reacts to player aiming at them with a bow and will try to
  get to him faster, instead of only reacting to being shot at as
  previously.
• NPCs being aimed at or shot at will no longer approach the player in
  a straight line.
• A bug that prevented the player from talking to Father Godwin in
  Mysterious Ways fixed.
• Corrupted autosave at the start of "Homecoming" quest fixed.
• It is no longer possible to stealth-kill NPCs in narrow spaces without
  playing the animation.
• Cages in the quest "A Bird in the Hand..." should no longer disappear.
  Any players with the quest in progress will have the quest reset.
• Master Karel now correctly goes to play dice in the evenings. So the
  player can win all his money in "Rocketeer" quest.

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• And 200 other bugs fixed.

Posting our latest Video Update here too:

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Kingdom Com: Deliverance will see a new patch and will also see several DLCs in the coming year, of which some are free. Next to that there will also be a special Steam deal.

Warhorse Studios releases Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC Roadmap

Steam Daily Deal

Warhorse Studios is happy to release a DLC roadmap and some new content that will be released over the course of the next year for the medieval role-playing game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance - available for PC, PlayStation®4, and Xbox One. Starting this summer 2018 with the release of "From the Ashes", Warhorse Studios will be developing 4 bigger story DLC's accompanied with a Hardcore Mode, a Tournaments Mode, and Modding Support. In celebration of the DLC announcement Steam will launch a special Daily Deal offer just for Kingdom Come Deliverance.

From May 22nd at 10:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST) am to May 24th 10:00 am PST Steam offers a special 20% discount on Kingdom Come: Deliverance along with all it's already released Downloadable Content, such as the Original Soundtrack (OST) and Art Book.

 

DLC Road Map

Jesus Christ be praised - The Kingdom Come: Deliverance journey is not yet over. Revealed by a newly released DLC road map, Warhorse Studios teases what is to come in the next year. Kingdom Come: Deliverance shall challenge you once more! Rebuild what was destroyed, equip your Cupid's arrow and aid an associate in "delicate" matters, stand your ground on the battlefield and see things from a whole new perspective with the assistance of a new best friend, woof!
The beautiful world of Kingdom Come: Deliverance awaits you yet again, young Knight!

Story DLC's:

1. From the Ashes
2. The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon
3. Band of Bastards
4. A Woman's Lot (Free for early crowdfunding supporters)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance additions:

1. Hardcore Mode (Free)
2. The Making of Kingdom Come (Free for early crowdfunding supporters)
3. Tournament! (Free)
4. Combat Academy (Free for early crowdfunding supporters)
5. Modding Support (Free)

The first DLC "From the Ashes" in which you will come into the care of an abandoned village, will be shown to press on E3 2018.

techquila wrote about Kingdom Come: Deliverance describing where it went good and where it went bad.

Kingdom Come Deliverance: The Baaad

Henry is sad. He’s a badass now…but there are no bad guys left

Speaking of a hurried release, the game was plagued by technical issues at launch, but a lot of them have been ironed out. Unfortunately despite Warhorse’s earnest efforts, there are still a lot of bugs and clipping issues. The lip sync is way off, the AI of the characters is Skyrim bad and they get stuck every now and then.

Even the combat at times is marred by bugs. The player will randomly get stuck, or your foes will teleport, or lay motionless on the ground while you hear them taunting you. Reloading an older save often fixes this but it still makes the whole experience bitter.

Lack of content is a major bummer in Kingdom Come Deliverance. It takes a while (and I really mean a long while) to adapt to the harsh mechanics of the game, but by the time you get used to them most of the main story and enjoyable side quests are over. This leaves the player with activities that are essentially fetch quests. These are more or less randomly generated and are a bore.

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Thanks Farflame!

DSOGaming reports that there is a making of documentary available for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

As we’ve already said, we love video-game documentaries. And yesterday, Vortex released almost an hour of documentary on Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s launch. This video details the hopes and dreams of the team (regarding the game’s launch), as well as its reactions on the first reviews.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a new patch and its a whopper due to HD textures.

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Release Notes for version 1.4

30 MARCH - WARHORSE_JIRIRYDL

• New Hair and Beard mechanics.
• Customize your style in bathhouses and gain extra charisma with freshly cut hair.
• Unarmed mercy kill added for a more "subtile" way to solve quests.
• Real Easter eggs added. The hunt for the golden egg can begin!
• Traditional Czech Easter-themed weapon to be found, called "Pomlázka".
• Resurrection day is upon us! Some NPCs that have died due to the physics glitches have risen from their graves.
• Fixed problems with the "Mightier than the Sword" quest related to the scribe.
• Rattay archery competition works on advanced difficulty.
• Fixed save issue for the "House of God" quest.
• Another 200 major bugs fixed

Free DLC - HD Texture and Audio Pack

As a special treat, we're releasing the first free DLC - HD Texture & Audio Pack for PC which together enhance the visual and audio experience of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. HD Textures boost the overall graphics of Kingdom Come: Deliverance to create an ever more lifelike look at 1403 Bohemia. HD Audio is available for all three voiceover languages (English, German and French) and enhances all in game voiceovers and sounds.

Game Watcher reports that a DLC is planned for Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC - Female Character and Dog Companion Planned

Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a bit buggy at launch, causing Warhorse studio to spend most of its time till now in post-launch support. As the bugs are fixed and improvements are made, development slowly shifts more and more into the DLC expansions, and here's everything we know about those.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC
Back in Kickstarter days, a couple of the stretch goals were the addition of a female playable character and a dog companion to Kingdom Come: Deliverance. We know now more details about those, and that both are coming as DLC -- free for backers, and paid for non-backers.

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Thanks Farflame!

TechRaptor has reviewed Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review - Thy Will Be Done

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a “love it or hate it” game. Many have been excited about the prospect of a historically accurate RPG. A title that replaces fantastical elements and epic storytelling with a trip back to the roots of roleplaying, complete with stat blocks and skill-based combat. Others have been hesitant to try out the game. The barrier to entry is high and the numerous reports of bugs and graphical glitches sometimes overshadow the gameplay. Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, Kingdom Come is an ambitious game. While it is deeply flawed as an experience, it has some merit as an RPG.

The early parts of Kingdom Come are the most solid. Billed as a historically based RPG, the player controls Henry, a twenty-something peasant blacksmith who swears vengeance for the death of his family at the hands of a raiding Lord. Henry is a likable character, and your questlines in the early goings are simple affairs befitting a peasant. As time progresses, Henry becomes more embroiled in the political machinations of the nobility, where new discoveries about his past become revealed that change his outlook forever.

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Summary

I really wanted to like Kingdom Come: Deliverance more than I did, but at the end of the day the conflicting mechanics only compound the technical and narrative flaws the further you get into the game.

Pros

• Historical Accuracy...
• Attempting Realism...
• Ambitious...
• Some Clever Narrative Set Ups...

Cons

• ...With Historical Fiction.
• ...Conflicting Game Mechanics.
• ...Too Many Risks Don't Payoff.
• ...Poor Narrative Conclusions.
• Numerous Technical Shortcomings.

Score: 6.5/10

The Overclockers Club has reviewed Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review

Introduction:

Here it is, at long last my review of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a game that places you in 1403 Bohemia, when the kingdom is suffering from civil war. You play as Henry, the son of the blacksmith in Skalitz, but soon after the game starts, your home is attacked and razed to the ground, starting you on your path to protect the province and push back the invaders. While Henry himself is not a real person, the events and some of the NPCs you interact with can be found in history.

Kingdome Come: Deliverance is an open world RPG, and you can expect some of the same mechanics found in other games of the genre, such as the collection of skills you can develop by paying people to teach you, and more importantly practice. Sometimes practice is difficult, as failure can be punishing, but as you level up skills you can unlock some very useful perks, making the time and money invested worth it. There is a lot you can do in this game, and while some can be a little hard to grasp initially, nothing is too hard to get a handle on.

The ESRB has given the game a Mature rating for blood and gore, intense violence, strong language, nudity, strong sexual content, and use of alcohol. Except perhaps blood and gore and intense violence, I think all of the descriptors were met with a single mission, but the game definitely deserves all of these descriptors. If that means such content is not suitable for you, then this review and its media likely is not either.

With those points covered, time to get to the actual review.

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Conclusion:

Does Kingdom Come: Deliverance deliver on expectations? I am not sure because I did not really set any expectations before playing it, but I was still very satisfied. It really is a fun game and an easy one to recommend, if you are up for such a large game. Not everyone is, and that is fine, but if you want an open-world RPG experience that is also story driven, this is a very good game to consider. It offers a lot between its missions, activities, and the time you can invest in all of it, so if that appeals to you, go for it.

The graphics are beautiful in so many ways, I almost wish I could just walk around in the environment without concern for enemies or anything else. The performance is a bit spread out currently, but I think newer drivers and patches will help with this some, though I cannot guess how much. The story is very good and does provide an interesting glimpse into history, but you may find yourself putting more time into other events than those books might record. The gameplay is solid and enjoyable, even if I can find some things I wish were better. Altogether, it is a good game very worthy of consideration.

Twinfinite think that Kingdom Come: Deliverance proves that open world games should scale back.

At some time or another, an unspoken set of rules was agreed upon by the creators of video gaming’s most popular open world RPGs. This decree insisted that a protagonist should be brave, heroic, and have some sort of unique power. They would need a suitably noble cause to fight for, too, and their plight would take them from humble beginnings to dizzying heights, preferably saving the world from its untimely destruction in the process.

This never ever happened, of course. But in all honesty, if I had genuinely just let the cat out of the bag, would you actually be that surprised? Almost every notable open world RPG follows this same absurdly epic narrative beat, insisting on trying to dazzle its audience with enormous scale and apocalyptic stakes. Final Fantasy, The Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and even Zelda – these trendsetting franchises lay a blueprint that has been repeated time and time again. And it’s become super tedious.

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The history codex for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now online.

Welcome to the online Kingdom Come: Deliverance Codex reader. Made using language and image files from the game with love by @nachazo. You can send feedback and issues in GitHub project.

 

Finally! Here is the fan-made online web version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance Codex: https://t.co/Nb713POTBO

Made for all languages with the game xml and (hope) nice and comfortable design.

Reddit: https://t.co/ckbx4kdlSP@WarhorseStudios @DanielVavra @rick5292 pic.twitter.com/uIDkeGdyo1

— Nacho (@nachazo) March 10, 2018

An accolades trailer for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been made available by Deep Silver.

A major bugfix for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been released:

Release Notes for version 1.3

• The game now has Save and Exit feature.
• Saving is much more robust and saves won't get corrupted even if the game crashes while saving.
• Performance improved
• LoD switching tweaked, reducing pop-in and improving texture streaming.
• Stuttering in some areas reduced.
• Slightly smoother framerate on Vsync 30. (Consoles and some PCs)
• Improved lockpicking
• New interface design makes it much easier to hold the sweet spot while turning the lock.
• Easy and Very Easy trunks are now easier to lockpick when playing with controller. (Mouse difficulty unchanged)
• Improved pickpocketing
• You will no longer get caught if you stop at the beginning of the minigame. (Unless someone sees you)
• The risk indicator is now much more precise. When green, you are sure not to get caught.
• Alchemy bench will no longer shoot you into the air.
• The last quest with Lord Capon is now visible on the map when he is ready to assign it to you.
• Guards won't frisk you so often.
• Your horse shouldn't get stuck when jumping fences.
• Horse items are cleaned along with player items in bathhouses.
• You can see when looking at a bed whether it will save your game.
• You can sleep on beds without having to sit down first.
• Levelling up stealth by sneaking past enemies is more consistent.
• Sneaking past sleeping NPCs is now easier.
• Some easily accessible trunks with extremely good loot have been removed.
• Cave mushrooms can now be found in many other damp places.
• You can no longer autocook potions that you haven't brewed by hand at least once before.
• German voiceovers will no longer cut off in mid-sentence in cutscenes.
• Late game player strength tweaked
• Some combat perks that were unintentionally overpowered were tuned down.
• Weapons scale less with high-level stats.
• It should now be much harder to kill high-level enemies with one hit. (Unless they're helmetless. Stupid Runt...)
• Other combat system tweaks
• "Untargeted attack" exploit fixed.
• Enemy combat archery AI improved.
• Guards now react to combat more aggressively.
• And many other minor tweaks.
• (PC only) It is now possible to select different types of anti-aliasing.
• (PC only) It is now possible to set VSync to 30 or 60, or disable it completely.
• (PC only) Steam Cloud saving enabled.
• And over 300 other fixes in various quests.
• Turkish subtitles added.

Thanks henriquejr!

TrueAchievements has reviewed Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review

Pure escapism is what gamers crave in RPGs. Being transported to a distant land and battling colossal beasts is every player’s dream, and that desire for fantasy is regularly satiated in the games we play today. However, Warhorse Studios has aimed to flip that notion on its head. For a good few years, the developer has been working to create an RPG that focuses completely on realism. With a smaller budget, numerous crowdfunding campaigns and a whole lot of faith, the developers have finally been able to release Kingdom Come: Deliverance and it may well be one of 2018’s biggest surprises.
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Summary

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the perfect example of a marmite game. Frustrating mechanics can and probably will deter some people. However, those who persist and train themselves to learn the fundamentals will find a gem underneath the initial muck that is the first couple of hours. Being a budget title, there is a slight lack of polish and a few technical issues will arise, but Warhorse has clearly mustered all its effort in creating an immersive world and engaging story. Henry fits the tone of the game very well and exploring the world can bring with it some truly marvelous moments. It has its share of flaws but if you can work around them and really get involved with what it has to offer, you will discover what is probably 2018's biggest surprise so far.

Score: 4 / 5

Positives

• Surprisingly engaging story and characters
• Highly immersive world
• Patience with many gameplay elements is justly rewarded

Negatives

• A few incredibly irritating mechanics
• Technical issues regularly crop up

TechRaptor checked out Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Impressions – Fitting a Niche

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has caused quite a stir since its release a few weeks ago. The first Kickstarted title by new developer Warhorse Studios, and the latest game by outspoken director Daniel Vavra, Kingdom Come has already done well for itself by netting around a million sales online. For a new IP, that is damn impressive, and the sheer scope of the game has also been lauded as ambitious by many for it’s high attention to detail and historical realism.

Such a game is a long haul, however, and even after sinking 20 or so hours of being a peasant in 15th century Bohemia, the impression it has left on me is one that started strong but waned over time. In a lot of ways, Kingdom Come is a solid game, but it is a game that has a lot of problems beyond the bugs many have complained about. The least of which is the clear move to sell the game to a very specific niche of the role-playing cross section.

The most impressive part of Kingdom Come is one of its weaknesses; the world itself. 15th century Bohemia in a full medieval simulation seeped in impressive historical accuracy. As an actual historian, it is the perfect game for me. This is a true-to-life world where social status and appearance do matter, where quest design is not epic battles against dragons but instead throwing shit on lime-washed house walls. The amount of care to give the world a sense of realism is ambitious, and Warhorse should be credited for doing a good job at holding up the illusion.

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@PCGamer Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a nice map. Now you can view that interactive map in your browser thanks to a modder.

On the Kingdom Come: Deliverance subreddit, a user named rogerhnn has been diligently working to create an interactive map for the medieval RPG. The map is now live and viewable in your browser. It's zoomable, and you can add your own map markers that will be saved in your browser history (if you clear your cache, your custom markers will be removed).

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Two more reviews for Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Twinfinite: Score 3.5/5

MMORPG: Score: 7/10

Some reviews for Kingdom Come Deliverance:

Videogamer: 4/10

IGN: 8/10

Gamespot: 8/10

Trusted Reviews: 3.5/5

Metro: 7/10

Eurogamer

and more listed on Metacritic

Game Watcher reports that a DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is already in the making:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC Plans - Everything We Know

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is already a big hit in terms of sale and concurrent players, which obviously raises the question of what's coming next - Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC, of course!

During a 90 minute interview with a Czech outlet (thankfully translated by a user from the ResetEra forums), Creative Director Daniel Vávra provided some important details regarding the future of the medieval RPG.

According to Vávra, the team is already working on a DLC questline where you play as a woman - most likely Theresa, the lady who saved your bacon at the start of the game.

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Thanks Farflame!

PC Gamer interviewed the developer for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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We talk with the Developer of Kingdom Come: Deliverance about all the wonderful and upcoming things!

Henriquejr spotted a PC Gamer editorial about Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

It's refreshing to play an unimportant dork in Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Meet Henry, a well-meaning lad with no special powers whatsoever.

In the first hour of The Witcher 3, as world-famous monster hunter Geralt of Rivia I cut down a mighty griffin with nothing but a sword and some bolts. In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, as Henry of nowhere in particular, I teamed up with some local lads to throw poo at a man's house.

This is one of Kingdom Come: Deliverance's most charming qualities. Not the poo, I mean, but rather the game's determination to ground you in an unglamourous period setting where people can't fling fireballs around. You're not scanning the skies for dragons, you're scrabbling around for a few measly coins so you can buy a jerkin that doesn't make people turn their nose up at you in disgust.

Henry is a blacksmith's son, which is admittedly the most cliched role for an RPG hero. The difference here is that, as far as I know, Henry isn't secretly a dragon or something. It's possible he might turn out to be the long-lost son of a King (I'm only a few hours in), but I really hope not, because it's novel for an RPG to put this much effort into simulating life at the bottom.

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@byznys.ihned.cz Kingdom Come: Deliverance has already sold 500,000.

• Czech Medieval RPG Kingdome Come: Deliverance aims to succeed.
• According to the developers, hundreds of thousands of copies were sold two days after the release, and the costly development of the game is likely to be paid.
• It would be a great success for developers if they sold over a million copies.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance of Warhorse Studios exceeded half a million units, Lupa.cz reported. It was estimated by Daniel Vávra, the developer and co-owner of the studio at Czech Television . The game, which the studio has been developing for six years, was launched on Tuesday 13 February.

"I think the game will be paid tomorrow, and anything over a million sold will be nice for us, and we are about to be in two days (from the release) to half," Czech TV Vávra said on Wednesday evening. Development, according to him, stood at hundreds of millions of crowns. It is probably the most costly game in the Czech Republic.
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GameWatcher 8 / 10.0

Hardcore Gamer 3.5 / 5.0

PCGamer - 84%

PCGamesN - Review in Progress

GameSpew 90%

GameRevolution - 4.5/5

Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be released tomorrow - here's the launch trailer:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - In Nomine Patris

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Brothers in Gaming – Forget your former life and embrace your new vocation. The service of RPG's– obedience & endurance of all discomfort. These are cornerstones and succor of our Game.... which on this day... shall become your own. Accept your new adventure.... play it with honor....and welcome..... to Kingdom Come: Deliverance!

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has an interesting promotional video.

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Introducing KC:D-1403 – The first ever scientifically approved, completely 30% risk-free working time machine. Experience the past in your present!

@DSOGaming Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a Game of Thrones mod in development called The Seven Kingdoms.

The Seven Kingdoms development team has announced that it will move its Game of Thrones total conversion mod, Seven Kingdoms (Game of Thrones), from Total War: ATTILA to Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Seven Kingdoms will be a total conversion mod based on and inspired by A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones.

The mod promises to feature over 25 playable armies and 30 photorealistic characters and will strive to accurately recreate and depict all major land forces of the Game of Thrones universe using equipment, uniforms, and general aesthetics from the series.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a new video which gives some background on Henry.

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Thrown by tragic events into the middle of a bloody war, Henry, a simple blacksmith’s son, must become a soldier, avenge the death of his parents and build a new life in a ravaged world.

Farflame spotted two Kingdom Come: Deliverance interviews made at Pax South 2018:

MulehornGaming:

Pax South 2018 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance Interview with CM Rick

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William Strife:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Interview [Pax South 2018]

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a new teaser trailer.

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Join Henry on his adventure in the most anticipated RPG of this year! Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be available worldwide on February 13th 2018!

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a new video about finding and scouting out a bandit camp.

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Welcome to the battlefields of Bohemia 1403. We are on a mission to find and scout out a bandit camp. How will you approach this? Do you sneak your way through to turn the odds in your favor or will you rely on the sharpness of your blade & durability of your armor?

PCGamesN preview the combat system of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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Not-so-simple swordplay

Temporarily giving up my life of accidental crime, I decide to progress through the main quest, which eventually sees me in combat training. The fencing-style swordplay of Kingdom Come is one of the key areas Warhorse are working on, differentiating it from competitors, and it is what got a lot of people excited enough to fund it. 

But let me warn you now. Combat is tricky - very tricky. The training session is lengthy, but I was glad for it - the sword-fighting aspect of Kingdom Come is intricate and exceptionally punishing. The general idea is that you have to focus on enemy movements as much as your own, darting in and out of sword range, noting the positioning of their sword so you can get in a quick hit, or parry their blade. The mouse is used to choose sword position and attack type, and all the while you have to keep on your toes, as well as react with parries and dodges.

There is a huge focus on stamina management, too. If you run out your screen goes blue and the sound dims. It gives you a sense of tunnel vision and is a smart way to force you to back off and recover. No stamina means no attacks, no parries, and a dead you. You also cannot heal during battle, and when you get hit your max stamina drops, meaning you are more likely to get hit again.

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Joxer found some more interesting info about Kingdome Come: Deliverance on VG 247:

Kingdom Come Deliverance: a medieval RPG about realism, drunk quicksaves and the right type of chicken

The mean streets of 1403 are serious business.

Between The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher and Dragon Age it’s been a good decade or so for sword-and-sorcery RPGs. Many other games in this sort of vein have been spawned, but none are quite like Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come: Deliverance – a new medieval RPG that values realism over almost all else with the lofty aim of creating a real-world accurate recreation of life in 1403.
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So involved are the community that one major feature of Kingdom Come: Deliverance was actually directly inspired by them – the quick-save feature. Unable to decide if quick save should be in the game at all or not, some fans suggested that for a game developed in the Czech Republic it’d feel particularly appropriate if saving the game happened in a pub. Suddenly, booze was the answer – because of course it was.

“We came up with a liquor where every time that you quick save you have to drink that liquor. It’s an item in your pocket and if you want to save you need to have this item. If you overdo the quicksaving, you get drunk and you get sick. We don’t want you abusing the quicksave button in front of every chest or whenever you have to pick a lock or something.”

And thus, in a strangely poetic twist, a highly realistic video game has booze as a method of saving progress when for most of us – let’s be honest – it’s more likely to delete it. Regular saves and auto saves are still included, though the quick save option is tied to alcohol – which has a whole sub-system of its own.
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DSOGaming reports that Warhorse Studios has released a new trailer for Kingdom Come: Deliverance that shows different ways to complete a mission.

In this trailer, Lord Hanus has sent players on an important quest to investigate the Neuhof stable raid. In order to complete the mission, players can go all out and use the tip of their blade, or take advantage of the dialogue system, or the game’s stealth mechanics.

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Warhorse Studios have released a video that goes into the combat system for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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Warhorse Studios
Published on Oct 26, 2017
Creative Director Daniel Vavra and Lead Designer Viktor Bocan delve into the combat system of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The system offers a variety of weapons, attacks, counters and moves during the intense fights within the game. When designing the combat, the goal was to create an immersive, sophisticated melee system that is intuitive and accessible at the same time - the result is an outstanding and realistic fighting experience!

Choose your weapon & Pre-Order now!

RockPaperShotgun take a look at Kingdom Come: Deliverance's skill trees.

Put all of that to one side for now though because I want to talk about the character-building rather than the world. There's an entire branch of skills dedicated to drinking. You can see a sample of it below.

Other choices lock you into a wine-tasting life, giving you a higher tolerance to grapes than hops, or give you an uncanny ability to find your way back home even when you drink to the point of senselessness . At a certain point of inebriation you'll pass out but will always wake up in a safe place. It's the 15th century equivalent of a beer scooter.

Then there are literacy skills, which go beyond letting you read and can extend to knowledge of certain types of literature. Learn about sacred art and visiting a church or monastery allows you to contemplate paintings and architectural qualities, giving you a sense of wellbeing that (I think) allows you to recuperate faster when resting. I say I think because clicking through the skill menus was like vanishing down a rabbit hole - there were so many paths in the warren that I can't remember precisely what I saw while I was losing myself in it all.

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PCGamesN previewed Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance brings Skyrim crashing down to medieval reality

By Ben Barrett

I had made a lot of assumptions about Kingdom Come: Deliverance before sitting down to play it. ‘This will mostly be a sandbox,' ‘I'm not expecting a lot of story,' ‘What is there will be too ambitious for its own good' and, overall, ‘This is not for me'. None of this was correct. Far from a bold move for the Mount & Blade crown, Kingdom Come wants to be a realistic medieval Skyrim, taking you on a long adventure of side-quests, dialogue trees, and investigation. On top of that is built a first-person-only combat system in a beautiful world and it all works far better than I would have thought.

That's interesting. That's brave. That is exciting. For a small team out of Eastern Europe it's remarkably ambitious, but in a way that has a clear end goal rather than a nebulous, difficult-to-polish sandbox that meanders for too long. Warhorse Studios have avoided Early Access too, taking the £1.1 million they made on Kickstarter and investing it in a very traditional game development cycle - expanding the team from 20 people to a full 100 and getting ready for launch four years later. So far, it seems to be paying off.

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Farflame spotted an article about the RPG elements of Kingdom Come: Deliverance at Eurogamer:

Don't be put off by Kingdom Come: Deliverance's stiff characters

There's surprising RPG depth underneath.

Historical-not-fantastical medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has long been in the headlines. Ever since we saw its next-gen mud we followed it, through a Kickstarter campaign and beyond, and now nearly four years later it's finally nearly ready, due 13th February 2018 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But being in the public eye for so long has taken its toll, and the sheen has dulled. Other role-playing games have been and gone in that time, such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and the goalposts have moved. What was once so impressive in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now par for the course.

Czech developer Warhorse has also had to face reality and assess what can and cannot be achieved if it wants to finish a game, so flashy features like mounted combat, for instance, are out, although horse-riding remains. What we see now is the reality of what a new studio on Kickstarter money - and plenty of private investment and now a co-publisher in Deep Silver - has managed to create. No more Kickstarter dreaming of something to blow The Elder Scrolls series out of the water. This journey back down to earth came with a nasty bump recently when Warhorse received flak for ropy facial animations and voice acting in a new story trailer, embedded below.

Which is a shame. It's a shame because, in the flesh, Kingdom Come: Deliverance shows a whole side you cannot see in trailers. You can't see the game's open approach to quests, which effectively rings an area for your attention but otherwise stands back and lets you find your way through it, no magical compass pointing you this way or that. You have to listen for clues about where to go next, and if you don't, you won't find out. Kingdom Come isn't afraid of letting you get lost. It also isn't afraid to withhold information from you in conversations. If you want it, earn it - convince the person you're talking to dish up their secrets.
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The final two games I will be writing about from my Gamescom visit will be published today. To start with here is Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

In contrast to any of the other visits I had at Gamescom, there wasn't much of an introduction to Kingdom Come: Deliverance. We were shown the trailer and after that were provided with a hands-on demo of the game.

The PC I was playing with had the option to use a keyboard with mouse or a controller. I used the keyboard and started up a new game, which started with a cut-scene where at the end of it, I was to join some soldiers investigating a raid. So, I headed out of the building to find my horse, that apparently would be there. And it was, waiting with the other soldiers. They mounted and so did I, at least I did after a few tries. Moving in this game is not point and click. The mouse is used for other things than that. You have to use your keyboard to move. After fiddling around for some time, I do get the impression that the game is built for using a controller and that the keyboard and mouse buttons are mapped to functions that you can also use on the controller. The game does not seem to have a different UI either, depending on what you are using. Anyway, I switched to a controller, as to me it felt that playing the game in that way was much more comfortable. But that could be just me.

Farflame spotted some Kingdome Come: Deliverance screenhots at DSOG:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets new beautiful Gamescom 2017 screenshots

Deep Silver and Warhorse Studios have released some new beautiful screenshots for Kingdcom Come: Deliverance. In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, players will follow the events after the death of Henry’s parents as he joins ranks with Sir Radzig to get the training he needs.

It’s also worth noting that Kingdom Come: Deliverance has won the best “PC game” award at this year’s Gamescom.

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IGN published a Kingdom Come Deliverance demo at the Gamescom 2017:

Kingdom Come Deliverance Gameplay Demo - IGN Live: Gamescom 2017

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The developers of Kingdom Come Deliverance stop by IGN's live show at Gamescom 2017 to show off gameplay.

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A new story trailer for Gamescom has been released by Warhorse Studios for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

New Trailer: Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Born from Ashes

After a devastating mercenary attack on Silver Skalitz, Henry finds himself in a desperate situation. His parent's dead and his home destroyed he joins ranks with Sir Radzig to gain the training he needs to get his revenge. Where will his path lead him?

XBox Tavern interview the community manager for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Rick Lagnese.

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XT - The game houses many different pathways for many different situations, all of which tend to come with consequences and specific outcomes that alter the journey in the game for the player. How unique would you say Kingdom Come: Deliverance is on this front, next to the likes of (let's say) The Witcher?

RL - The Witcher is a great game in its own right. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a game where we want every player to really think about the choices that they make as many choices will produce different results, even to the point of triggering different cut scenes. We won't tell you how to solve quests. You will have to figure out what you are going to do and how you are going to approach every situation.

XT - I understand that development of the game is complete, and that you plan to spend the next several months optimising and addressing any issues to ensure a smooth launch. Are you at all able to share how much longevity the game is set to offer?

RL - Gamers can expect to get a good 50 hours in or more, depending on how you play the game. We've seen players play far more than that in the beta, so it's really up to the player. There's also a tad over 4 hours of cutscenes in the game, so expect to get deeply involved in the story.

XT - The events that unfold in Kingdom Come: Deliverance are said to be historically accurate aside from the personal story of protagonist, Henry. Does this level of historical accuracy extend beyond the story? Such as how we see NPC's living every day life, how they're treated by one another, and by the law?

RL - Well sure! We want to immerse everyone into a very realistic setting/experience in the land of Bohemia. We even have a full-time historian that works with us to ensure that nearly everything is time period accurate: the culture, clothing, armor, weapons, artwork, religion, the crime system and more.
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@DSOGaming Kingdom Come: Deliverance is shown off in HD. Screenshots at the link provided.

Danielvonluchau, Luke and Ultimate Immersion have shared some screenshots and a video, showcasing the world of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. And as you will see below, this is a great looking game. This title also shows the power and capabilities of CRYENGINE. Because let’s be honest here: it’s been a while since we saw a really beautiful game in CRYENGINE (and while PREY had an amazing style, it did not push the graphical boundaries at all).
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Kingdom Come:Deliverance has a new cinematic trailer.

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Take up sword and fight to avenge the brutal murder of your parents by a marauding Hungarian army in an historical RPG set in the vanished realm of Bohemia. Coming to PS4 in 2018.

@monstervine interview Rick Lagnese, community manager for Warhorse Studios, about the importance of historical accuracy in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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Traveling on media tours and speaking with developers, media, and fans, what’s the most memorable thing you recall that people said of Kingdom Come?

Rick: It’s hard to compare this game to others since it’s based on historical accuracy, but it was really cool to watch and to see feedback from journalists and fans. There was one video on a Playstation YouTube channel where they released a video showing off Kingdom Come and our presentation. Even though a lot of people didn’t know about it, they said it was the most  passionate presentation they’d ever seen. It’s so cool to hear that, since you can always sell someone on a game, but you really have to believe in my opinion.

When you travel, it’s exhausting. You’re running around to different presentations, you’re thirsty, you need to use the bathroom, stuff like that, but I really got energy from how excited I was to present the game. It’s very exciting, and don’t get me wrong, at the end of the day it’s relieving to be done since you’re tired. But, man, you still want to know what people are thinking, so you’re still looking at YouTube comments and Reddit responses and stuff. It’s amazing.

Always on the clock, haha!

Rick: Always!

What was the inspiration behind making the equipment and settings period-accurate, rather than more fantastical?

Rick: Being that the game is based on history, we wanted to make it historically accurate on every front. We have a full time historian on the team, she, uh keeps us in "Czech", get it? Haha! Feel free to cut that, haha.

I'm definitely keeping that in.

Rick: Oh geez haha! Anyway, we also have painters and sculptors, fencers, mocap workers, everything. It's definitely not just a medieval simulator, but we want to cover everything historically. There's so much attention to detail that even people who aren't huge game fans have shown appreciation for the game, especially in the Czech Republic.

When I was at GDC, someone from the Czech Republic saw the game and said "oh those are our trees! That's our grass!". We used our own engine with the CryENGINE to make it really unique, and it's even 16 km squared. You can find places where historical events happened, and the stories and side-quests tend to lean more towards history.

So what interested you about the medieval setting?

Rick: So some of my favorite movies are Braveheart, The Last Samurai, really anything history-related. When I can find a game that's more realistic than fantasy, it can really draw me in. I love historical European martial arts, which is why that video drew me into the game. History itself is so fascinating to me, because I was never a history buff in school. This stuff got me interested, and I'm a very spiritual guy too, so I really love these kinds of things. So it was really the interesting history and setting that did it.

And Dan Vavra won't compromise on the game. When you have a developer who really sticks to his vision, it really draws you to the game. He wants to make a game according to history, and that's it, and I love it.

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PCGamesN checked out the Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

In Kingdom Come: Deliverance I threw fists, dice, and very nearly poo

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been a long time (kingdom) coming. By the time of its scheduled release date of February 13 next year, it will have been in development for over four years. For most of that time, its original pitch hasn’t changed: a medieval RPG with as much historical accuracy as possible. Dungeons without the dragons. Intriguing though this is, I’ve been wondering how the game will actually play for months now. At E3, I got my answer.

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Contrary to what some films and games might lead you to believe, it’s quite hard to push a sword through plate armour, and knights who wore such armour in battle were close to invulnerable. The only effective tactics were sticking spikes into the joins between limbs, or hitting the armour very hard with very heavy weapons that could deform it and traumatise the body within. Kingdom Come’s combat will reflect this, but there will be other tradeoffs for equipping heavy armour, like reduced movement speed and visibility – it’s not easy to see out of those visors.

Finally, archery. I don’t get time to try it out, but Tobi says “the bow is a pretty powerful weapon, but it has no crosshair in the middle. It will kill pretty much anyone,” but it’ll take a lot of skill to use.

These are historically accurate tradeoffs, but ultimately Warhorse do recognise that they’re making a game. If it comes to it – and it has, in places – they’re prepared to sacrifice historicity for the sake of fun, balanced gameplay. “We’re not doing a simulation,” Tobi says. Compromises must be made.

Tobi and ESO are showing some Kingdom Come: Deliverance gameplay:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - E3 build with Tobi and ESO

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Tobi and ESO are introducing the E3 2017 build of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. See the complex quest structure of the game, a fighting tutorial, a small skirmish and get new insights into the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. They are also answering questions about the game and are discussing interesting current topics. Let's take a look!

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New Game Network checked out Kingdome Come Deliverance at the E3:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Preview - E3 2017

The open world western RPG formula is one that may be on the cusp of growing a bit stale, on account of the heavy amount of titles populating this realm of late. There has been a number of games that seem to be trying to out “Game of Thrones” each other with elaborate magic systems and fantastical, epic environments. But what about a game that completely wipes out the fantasy and stands on the strength and epic nature of authentic medieval history alone?

Warhorse Studios has set out to do just that with its new RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The extremely short version of the game’s summary might be “Skyrim without the magic and dragons,” but the subtle carvings of complexities within seem to stretch well beyond this simplified description. The game takes place in Medieval Bohemia (modern day Czech Republic). You aren’t a flame-wielding superhero in Middle-earth here, or even an important figure in some crazy alternate history timeline. You’re just an average shmo and blacksmith’s son, trying to survive the gritty everyday life of medieval Eastern Europe - and avenge the death of your family at the hand of a foreign king. The game takes place during the conflict between Bohemia and Hungary in the era of the Holy Roman Empire, 1403. History buffs such as myself are sure to take notice at the historical influence, but that’s not to say fantasy RPG traditionalists wouldn’t find plenty to enjoy as well. After all, the truth is often stranger (and often more entertaining) than fiction, is it not?

It was clear during the E3 2017 presentation I attended that the developers have poured a lot of effort into the gameplay. But perhaps more notably, they’ve conveyed a passion for history, and a desire to provide a rich, authentic scene by gathering countless details about late medieval Europe through intricate means. We’re not just talking looking at Google pics and glossing over old history books here - historians have actually been called upon to assist in creating an accurate backstory involving a German-backed Hungarian rule over Bohemia. Medieval engineers have been consulted to provide blueprints and rundowns for the modelers and artists to design castles, homes, and other structures of the time period more accurately. Works of art from the era have been studied and emulated for the art style of the game’s map system. Real historical figures have been included; and wardrobes, dialects, mannerisms, and daily routines of NPCs are all meant to reflect society at the time as well. Essentially, this seems to be shaping up to be a “medieval adventure simulation” more so than a straight RPG.

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As the title says, Kingdom Come: Deliverance will release in February next year. On the 13th of February to be exact.

Warhorse Studios announces the Release Date of Kingdom Come: Deliverance on February 13^th, 2018

New Epic Trailer, Box Cover Design and Steam page

Warhorse Studios happily announces the release date of the medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be released on the 13th of February 2018 in the Americas, Europe, and all PAL regions. In the new trailer, the developers give a sneak peak into the thrilling story of the game. The player incarnates Henry, the son of a blacksmith whose peaceful life is shattered when a mercenary raid burns his village to the ground. By bittersweet fortune, Henry is one of the sole survivors of this massacre. Fate drags him into a bloody conflict and shoves him into a raging civil war, where he helps fighting for the future of Bohemia.

Kingdome Come: Deliverance will launch simultaneously for PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC, on the 13^th of February 2018.

• PC Retail / Digital  49,99 € / 59,99$ / £ 44,99
• PlayStation®4 / Xbox One  59,99 € / 59,99 $ / £ 54,99

Warhorse Studios launched its Steam Kingdom Come: Deliverance - "Coming Soon" page. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now ready to be wishlisted. Other game pages follow in near future.

Collector's editions will be announced later by Deep Silver.

here is the new trailer:

Farflame spotted a new teaser video for Kingdome Come: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Global Announcement Teaser

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Are you ready for the fight? Follow us for our global announcement on Friday, June 9th!

Brian Blessed plays Lord Konrad Kyeser in Kingdom Com: Deliverance:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance presents:
Brian Blessed as Lord Konrad Kyeser

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We're very proud that Brian Blessed took part in Kingdom Come: Deliverance to play the role of Lord Konrad Kyeser, a famous German military engineer who lived in 15th century.

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In a new update for Kingdom Come Deliverance a new video about the cast and cutscenes is made available.

We are happy to present you our new Video Update #17 about the cast of Kingdom Come: Deliverance detailing the elaborate creation process of our cutscenes. In our inhouse MoCap Studio we have produced more than 240 minutes of full performance captured cutscenes for Kingdom Come: Deliverance to support the exciting story you are about to discover. With 3 directors on stage Daniel Vávra and his team created some funny and memorable moments that you will see in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Henry, the main protagonist of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, will be played by Tom McKay a young British actor that spent over two months in Prague in order to bring Henry to life. Along with Tom McKay over 50 actors from Czech Republic, Great Britain, and the USA were involved. Including a very special guest, Brian Blessed, legend of the British actors’ guild. Brian Blessed plays the role of Lord Konrad Kyeser, a famous German military engineer that dreams of unconventional solutions for conventional matters. You will find the Full Cast of Kingdom Come: Deliverance here at IMDb.

PC Gamer has previewed Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

How Kingdom Come: Deliverance handles choice differently from other RPGs

Choice is one of the most coveted yet elusive aspects of modern game design—no matter how contrived its inclusion. Player agency—or, at the very least, the illusion of player agency—is often reduced to clearly framed, story-defining moments where the player's morals are frequently called into question. Warhorse Studios, developer of first-person historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance, is approaching this design challenge from a different angle. 

It works under the premise that within a 16 km² patch of sparsely populated 15th century Central European villages, countrysides and feudal keeps, your actions will inevitably have greater knock-on effects than they would in two cities on opposite sides of your typical open-world RPG continent. The compact map includes around 80 quests in total. By sacrificing the RPG sprawl focuses on offering a world where no action—whether it’s a casual haggle with a trader, a scrap with a pub patron, or sparing the lives of the men responsible for your father’s death—is without consequence.

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The first quest for Kingdom Come: Deliverance from the internal alpha.

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Tobi and Martin are introducing the 1st Quest in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. See the complex quest structure of the game and get new insights into the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. They are also answering questions about the game and are discussing interesting current topics. Let's take a look!

The developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance show us the internal Alpha.

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We happily present the latest development progresses and status of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. In this new video, we delve into the internal Alpha which provides a good overview about the final game.
Learn about various details and features of the game and take a listen to the epic sound of Kingdom Come: Deliverance
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PC Gamer reports that a sequel for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is already planned :

Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer already has sequel planned

First game without concrete launch date in 2017.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is Warhorse Studios' incoming medieval RPG which favours realism over fantasy. From what we've seen so far it looks impressive—a fact which helped it accrue over £1.1 million on Kickstarter in early 2014, having asked for just £300,000. It's due at some point in 2017, however it appears the developer already has plans beyond the incoming game's release. 

As part of its Kickstarter campaign video, Warhorse co-founder Daniel Vávra suggested Kingdom Come: Deliverance would be split into three acts—incorporating a staggered release schedule, each adding new features (the first, for example, was said to offer a 9km squared map with 30 hours of gameplay). The scope of the game has since changed, most likely down to its crowdfunding success, and will now come as one complete package.

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PCGamesN previews Kingdom Come: Deliverance and wonders if it will deliver a true roleplaying experience.

Our demo starts in the small village of Stříbrná Skalice, mere hours before it's invaded. Unbeknown to our protagonist Henry, King Sigismund of Hungary has declared war on Bohemia, hoping to topple the region's incompetent king. Ignorance is bliss however, and with the prospect of war merely a rumour in Skalice, Henry is commanded by his father to collect a debt from the town drunk, Kunesh.

As Henry runs through the village's impressively rendered fields, what immediately strikes me is the complete lack of objective markers on-screen. Running about the village searching for Kunesh, players only have the vague directions from Henry's father to go on. In this game, no characters are marked out as more important than any other, meaning players have to treat everyone they see as a potential person of interest. With no arrows or glowing NPCs to guide you, the only way to reach your destination is by memorising directions and talking to those around you, creating a more authentic role-playing experience.

"We wanted to make everything realistic, or at least believable," Tobias explains.

After bothering a few villagers, Henry eventually discovers a small house on the outskirts of the fields. A bearded behemoth of a man sits on a chair outside - Kunesh. Upon Henry's approach Kunesh immediately recognises him and refuses to pay his debt. As you'd expect from an RPG, it's up to the player to choose how they deal with the situation. Henry has three choices - he can either attempt to reason with Kunesh and persuade him to pay his debt, bloody his hands and try and beat Kunesh into submission or thirdly, go back to daddy and get help. Built like a ton of bricks and standing a good foot taller than our weedy protagonist, challenging the man to a fist fight probably isn't the most sensible option.

@RockPaperShotgun they talk about abusing the peasants of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Other fun activities in Kingdom Come include getting drunk whenever you quicksave, because the only way to quicksave is to take a swig of a particularly heady local liquor, which means that overly prudent players risk spending half the game with a crippling hangover. Oh, and if you're really at a loss for direction, you might while away a few hours reducing well-adjusted villagers to sickly introverts by poisoning the cheese, starting brawls at all their favourite watering holes and stealing their fishing equipment. From a distance, Warhorse's much-postponed open worlder can seem rather dour, obsessed with historical accuracy and depth of simulation to a degree that makes you wonder whether this is a game or an interactive monument to a period. But somewhere beneath the boiled leather jerkin of this dragonless Skyrim tribute, there's some of the farce and fanciful nature of a first-person Fable reboot struggling for air.

The period in question is the early 15th century, and you are the whey-faced sprog of a humble blacksmith, scraping a living in the shadow of a castle wall. An hour or so into the prologue, your entire family will be put to the sword by the Hungarian army. Cue a heroic struggle to restore the rightful ruler to the throne. At the outset, however, the task at hand is simply to shop for beer and charcoal, pick up a crossguard from a merchant at the castle and track down a belligerent drunk who owes your dad money.

@Gamecritics they look at Kingdom Come: Deliverance and talk about what the game is adding that is mechanically different to most RPGs while admiring the games attention to detail.

As an open-world, first-person RPG, the player will travel over parts of what was then called Bohemia. It looks like the sort of medieval land that a player would want to wander through and explore, but what blew me away was that all the locations were real - the towns, the castles... All of it. Apparently the dev team has hired a full-time historian to research facts, and they've gone to painstaking detail in order to recreate what the area looked like, and what sort of technology would have been around, and even what sort of foliage would have been present.

For example, there's a monastery that plays a prominent role in one of the main missions. On one side of it is a long chute which the monks used as a toilet. Apparently they would to go the top floor, hang their bums off the side, and relieve themselves down the chute with the results landing in a heap at the bottom. On another side of the building was a crane used in medieval construction, powered by a man in a hamster wheel. I raised an eyebrow at this, but yes, again, it was all historically correct. When shown a picture of the same monastery in real life, the faithfulness of the in-game model was amazing.

This same attention to detail extends into the quest design and combat.

At one point, the main character needs to get into this monastery and the team had to consult with the historian to see what would've been possible at that time - Tobias was very specific in saying that the team did not want the player to ‘Press A To Become A Monk', so they had to come up with quest logic that would've made sense in that context.

The combat shows equal care. It was mentioned that in battle, any farmer can kill you. It sounds a little goofy, but since this is a realistic title, the main character will never level up their health or gain toughness or abilities that would be beyond what a normal human being would have. Therefore, staying alive depends on skill with a blade and wearing appropriate armor. No matter how many quests the player might've completed, one well-placed axe strike to their head will still take them down.

Warhorse Studios who are developing Kingdom Come: Deliverance are partnering with Deep Silver to help bring the game to more players.

Dear Warhorsians,

we at Warhorse Studios are happy to announce a collaboration with Deep Silver, the publishing label of Koch Media, to publish Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Co-publishing combines the core strength of both companies. While Koch Media will use its worldwide distribution channels and partnerships to achieve best retail results, we stand behind the vision of Kingdom Come: Deliverance and retain freedom in the development of our game. We will keep our communication as open and honest as we did from day one of our Kickstarter campaign.

In 2011 we set out on our quest to create a medieval RPG with no magic or dragons. Two years later it seemed like we hit a wall. The studio was on the edge of closure before we even started, but there was hope. On January 22nd 2014 we started our Kickstarter Campaign and exactly 35,384 backers made our dream come true. On February 20th 2014 you “kick-started” the project and the realdevelopment of Kingdom Come: Deliverance started. Today over 30,000 new backers have joined and, together with your feedback, we are creating an outstanding game.

With the exclusive co-publishing deal between us and Koch Media we have reached the next important milestone in releasing Kingdom Come: Deliverance. This is a great opportunity to bring Kingdom Come: Deliverance to more players around the world.
With Koch Media as a strong publishing partner, we will now have the chance to reach an even wider audience, while staying in charge of all creative and communication activity. Koch Media will publish the game physically and digitally for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as well as the physical PC versions under its Deep Silver label. Warhorse Studios will remain solely responsible for worldwide PC digital distribution. Both digital and physical versions will share a common release date to be announced in the near future – the release date however remains in 2017.

You, our Kickstarter Backer and the Kingdom Come: Deliverance Community won’t have to face any changes in the game, your backer rewards or assistance. Everything stays as it was and the promised rewards will be delivered in 2017, shortly after the game is released.

Our communication channels will continue to work in the way you are used to and we will be answering all your messages and mails.
We are convinced that sharing our passion and combining Warhorse Studios with Deep Silver’s professionalism will help us make the game even better.

Best regards,

Dan Vavra

If you want to learn how some of the higher tier backers are going to be immortalized in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, watch the below video:

This video is from the latest update were you can also find an interview with Game Designer Ondřej Bittner.

You can see him also, together with PR dude Tobias Stolz-Zwiling in a game play session video:

Another interesting trailer for Kingdom Come: Deliverance showing some weapons against different types of armour:

Weapons vs. Armor Trailer

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Another Kingdom Come: Deliverance video showing Armor and RPG mechanics:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Armor & RPG

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We are presenting new insides of the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance! Find out how our extensive RPG system and our sophisticated armor layer system works. Furthermore we are talking about item quality and survival elements in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Take a look!

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Back in April Daniel Vávra talked about 'Writing an Insanely Complicated RPG' at Reboot Develop 2016. The video has just now been posted.

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Gamebanshee has a roundup of E3 previews for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

PlayStation Universe:

Nonetheless, PSU managed to get some hands-on time with the game, which takes the form of medieval action-RPG set in Bohemia (now known as Czech Republic) in the year 1403. Think Elder Scrolls' first-person combat married with a grounded realism pays as much attention to historical accuracy as it does gameplay, and you have a good idea of what to expect.

Gaming Illustrated:

The demo presented at E3 had me hooked within minutes just because of a simple mini-game. An important part of Kingdom Come: Deliverance is combat — how do players expect to fight if their swords are rusty and dull? Rather than going to the inventory and selecting a repair kit or a whetstone, players will be able to go to a grindstone and sharpen their sword through a small mini-game to keep it at its best stats.

RPGFan:

It's actually easier to intimidate people if you take advantage of KC's unique armor and equipment system. Armor adds to a reputation system that keeps the world feeling alive and reactionary rather than set in stone and stale. Lowly peasants may freak if they see you walking around like The Mountain on Game of Thrones, and they'll really super freak if you're just carrying around a scimitar willy-nilly. Our demo driver was quick to point out how armor layers on your avatar to provide protection against the various pointy things trying to kill you in Bohemia. You can have up to four layers of armor that all link together in a way that makes physical sense. You won't be putting layer after layer of metal plates on, for example. You'll have to lay down some leather armor and then put on the heavy stuff, adding to the realism of the world. Be careful, however, as heavy armor will make you noisier and thus easier to detect.

ElectricSistaHood:

One of the most beautiful aspects of the design of Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the works of art that are featured in the game. However these are not just things that they Google searched and pasted into the world; in fact, they hired an actual painter to digitally draw works of art that would've existed in 1403. Another is the game's soundtrack, which Spoka is assisting on. Currently there are placeholders in for the demo, but in the next couple months the score will be recorded in one of Prague's most famous venues. (My guess is it'll either be at the Rudolfinum or the Klementium.)

And TechRaptor:

The importance of wearing proper armor against what your enemies are using for weapons, as well as your choice in weaponry based on what your enemy is wearing, can’t be understated. There are RPG things like leveling to get up proficiency and weapons and other things, but every character in the game has the exact same amount of health. So, you can’t just cruise your way through something because you have outleveled the area. The strategy of using the correct weapon at the correct time, while constantly adjusting your armor, will be the most important thing in every encounter you have. It even comes into play with your horse, as you’ll apply that layering to their armor as well.

Everyone's most anticipated realistic medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, has been delayed until 2017, according to a Warhorse Studios source.

We’ve recently talked with a Warhorse spokesperson and got confirmation that Kingdom Come: Deliverance won’t be launched this year. An official announcement regarding the definitive release date can be expected between E3 and Gamescom, given that a Community Manager said on April 17 that it won’t be much longer until there’s an official release date.

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One of the Kickstarter rewards for Kingdom Come: Deliverance was an actual sword. In below video we are shown how these swords are forged.

Remember the day when our Kickstarter campaign started? We were full of doubts: How would the campaign end? What would gamers say about the idea to develop realistic medieval RPG? Did we offer interesting rewards? We were excited and scared both in the same time.

Today we already know that you are the best backers in the world! Thanks to you we are able to work on a game we have dreamed of for years. To show you how grateful we are, we were sharing news from the game development, we released early Technical Alpha versions and few months ago we invited you to find Reeky in the Beta access. Now it is time to start the work on delivering the physical rewards :-)

We are proud to announce that the production of the swords for Kickstarter backers started! The hand-made swords are being produced by our friends from Wulflund Pagan Shop and Arma Epona smithy located in the beautiful landscape of Central Bohemia. Let’s visit the forge to see for yourself!

Here is a video interview (over 1 hour long) for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

IGN lists 7 reasons why fans of The Withcer 3 and/or Skyrim should be excited about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Be a Part of History

If you've ever wanted to know what it's really like to live in Medieval Europe, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is your game. Warhorse eschews high fantasy elements like magic and dragons in favor of a more grounded experience that follows the real life kidnapping of Wenceslas IV by his brother Sigismund. “We want to make the game as authentic as possible,” Warhorse’s PR manager Toby Stolz told me during his visit to the IGN office.

To re-create war-torn Bohemia in the 15th century, the team has hired a full-time historian, an art expert, and teachers of Historical European Martial Arts to help them recreate medieval life and combat as accurately as possible. “I wouldn’t say [Deliverance] is educational," Stolz added. "But for sure we try to show how people lived back then, their lifestyle, what it was like to live in a time of civil war... stuff like that.”

It's Huge

Build a Reputation

Every NPC Is Important

Mad Skillz

Fight For Your Right

Castle Storming

If you can spare the time, here is a 1 hour and 18 minutes video showing the beta of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Gamesradar thinks that Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a historically accurate Skyrim:

When you hear the words "Medieval" and "RPG" in the same sentence you probably think of hacking away at mystical dragons and monsters with your sword or axe. In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, there are no fire-breathing lizards, or evil dark knights. The game pushes aside the fantasy for a story based in the true history of Bohemia, giving you a vibrant and authentic world to explore from a first-person perspective and mold by your choices. But what makes Kingdom Come stand out is its focus on delivering a genuine Medieval world experience without the hud indicators, map waypoints, and handholding of the typical RPG.

Developer Warhorse Games really wants players to immerse themselves in the world, but the main character definitely isn't the center of the events happening around him. If you dilly dally, taking your time to complete a mission or get distracted for too long crafting potions, your mission will play out on its own. If you were meant to rescue a fugitive from a group of bandits, you may find that fugitive murdered in a dank cave if you take too long. Or if you decide not to take part in a battle, the event will play out without your influence - leaving you to deal with the results. This creates a fascinating branching narrative that is difficult to predict and feels completely organic.

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Thanks Eye!

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has left alpha and entered beta yesterday.

Beta Access to Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Warhorse studios are pleased to announce the release of Kingdom Come Deliverance Beta access on the 3rd of March on Windows PC. This release includes a part of the game's main storyline, multiple quests, new combat systems, weaponry and the first large-scale battle.

Introduction to an epic story
The game is set in 15th century Central Europe, the Kingdom of Bohemia is on the verge of civil war. You play as Henry, the son of blacksmith. Your hometown was raided and your family was murdered. Driven by a lust for vengeance you go out on an epic journey. The local lord entrusts you with identifying the culprits behind the massacres plaguing the region. You will need to use all your skills of persuasion and intimidation to extract valuable information from bandits but you are not the only one who is after the raiders. A mysterious killer is slaughtering all witnesses in the most vicious way. In order to bring end to the bloodshed you must act fast.

First taste of battle
The Beta version includes the game's first taste of battle. The outcome of the battle depends entirely on your choice of actions. You will have the opportunity to plan the strategy of the attack. You will be able to disguise yourself as one of the enemy in order to infiltrate their camp and discover their weaknesses but using alchemy and preparing poisons are also valid option. Also sneaking around and performing a few stealth takedowns on the sentries might be very helpful when staging a surprise attack.

New available weaponry and combos
You will experience sword fighting in a brand new way which matches the reality of medieval combat. The Beta includes new combat techniques, stances, moves and combos that can be mastered fighting with enemies in skirmishes, large battles or honed in the combat arena. Learn how to slash or stab your opponent, block his attack, master parrying, perform ripostes and counter ripostes. Try new weaponry such as short swords, maces, axes, and shields.

Exploration
Visit new settlements and vast forests with a dynamic weather system. Dive into the exploration of a huge area set in medieval south Bohemia. You can enter villages and interact with the inhabitants. Experience the historically accurate reconstructed landscapes and landmarks of this region. Visit the original forms of medieval castles still standing today.

Beta Access
Kingdom Come: Deliverance Beta Access is available for everyone supporting the game through our official website: www.KingdomComeRPG.com

Couch spotted Kingdom Come: Deliverance Video Update #13 that introuces the combat specialists Petr Nusek and Robert Waschka:

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Fextralife interviewed Warhorse Studios' PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

FL: So you mentioned both the setting and realism as being a risk. What is it about that time period and realism that was such a strong motivating factor in creating this game despite the risks?

WS: Basically it is Daniel Varvra's dream. He is a Czech patriot he wants to tell the story of the Czech republic, he wants to show that Bohemia was the most important country in the Holy Roman Empire and he wants to talk about a story that really happened that is full of bloody war and intrigue and no one ever covered this period before in an RPG, nor the realism part. You have all these samey slightly realistic games where you have a real life setting like Assassin's Creed but there's always this slight addition of fantasy elements where the Assassin can jump from the tower and survive. Varvra wanted to tell a story that is really kickass and interesting. We all believe if Mel Gibson wouldn't have shot the film Braveheart, no one would know Scottish history and we think this story is even more interesting than that. So why not try the Braveheart effect and see what happens. This time period was also full of political struggle. A love/hate relationship between what became Germans and Czechs, and there were already cultural classes. It was very interesting to research and to tell the story. Nearly every event, NPC, building, and natural landscape feature existed back then.

FL: Are there plans for a sequel?

Of course! Even before we release Kingdom Come: Deliverance the team will already be working on the second part of the game which will most likely be called Kingdom Come: Something but it also depends on the success of the first part. The initial idea was to have a huge game, but we decided to split it into parts because it was too huge for Kickstarter, it would be too expensive. So we decided to do 3 acts. The first part is already way bigger than expected so all 3 together will tell the story. This is still on the horizon because we are still working on Deliverance and then will focus on the next thing.

Thanks Couch.

PracticallyGeek has previewed the alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE ALPHA IMPRESSIONS

I stand at the crest of a small hill, tree's and bushes sway as I make my way over and along the dirt path in front of me. To my left I spot a small home with straw roofing and as I swing back to my right a large stone church structure appears from the top of the tree line. Warhorse I have certain spent some time in creating every little detail in this world, even down to the small rocks and vegetation that cover the ground, it's honestly amazing. To be begin this is a alpha version of the game I'm playing so I do experience the odd frame drop and glitch but I quickly forget these as I'm drawn into more pressing matters like the large plume of black smoke coming from the horizon. In the small village of Samopesh a NPC asks me to investigate the smoke I earlier saw and so begins a journey out of the village and down more dirt paths, I marvel at a winding river that runs past the village and out too a large wooded area. For a alpha build of a game it really does shine in the graphic department, I often find myself wondering off to look at a piece of grain in the wood houses or the light shining through the tree's.

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It goes without saying if you like a RPG games then Kingdom Come should be on your list, the alpha proves that and I fully recommend heading to their website for a closer look.

Thanks Eye!

On RPGFan you can listen to a Kingdom Come: Deliverance interview with the devs:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Interview

Warhorse Studios is trying to do something unique; they're trying to make a medieval RPG steeped in historical accuracy and tone. No magic, no dragons, no gathering pieces of some magical relic, just you in the middle of 15th century Bohemia trying your best to survive and make a difference. It all sounds incredibly ambitious, but how exactly are the developers going about making Kingdom Come: Deliverance? Random Encounter's Robert Steinman recently got a chance to speak to some of the fine people working on the game, so saddle up to the fire, brew some ale (or meed, if you're so inclined) and get ready to learn more!

Featuring: Robert Steinman, Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, PR Manager, and Martin Ziegler, Technical Designer

Thanks Couch!

In a Game Developer Session at GDS2015, Warhorse Studios' Adam Sporka talks about the music in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

The music in our game responds to the actions of the player. It goes from peaceful to agitated when the player is attacked by enemy NPC, from neutral to dark when entering a cave, etc. The challenge is to respond swiftly, make the transitions between parts of the soundtrack as seamless as possible (maintain the correct voicing and harmonic progressions), and above all, have diverse yet consistent soundtrack.

ADAM SPORKA
Adam Sporka is an adaptive music designer and engineer at Warhorse Studios, working on Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and a human–computer interaction researcher at the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction, Czech Technical University in Prague, focusing on interactive audio.

Segment Next chimes in with a preview of the alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, like with the below comments about combat (note that the article contains spoilers):

Kingdom Come: Deliverance was yet again staying true to its historical accuracy, and the nomadic Cumans of the latter stages of the medieval era seem to be centric to this catastrophe, and likely an integral part of the main plot of the game.

Inside lay dead bodies and a heavily wounded soldier, whose companion requested aid for his dying friend so that his final hours may be less painful.

In the hope of helping this man, I set to head back to Samopesh, but my attention was diverted by a military camp that trained medieval sword fencing. At the expense of a few coins, I was given a thorough lesson by a trainer on how to duel with a sword.

This was the core melee combat of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It certainly swayed away from conventional mindless hack-and-slash fun we’re accustomed to seeing, and introduced a more tactical form of battle that was fairly sophisticated to learn and even more difficult to master.

The intensity of the combat came not from the blows (I was using a wooden training sword after all), but from the complexity of the task itself.

With intricacies such as timing your blocks and perfectly attacking unguarded parts of your foe either through wide slashes or powerful jabs, the sword fighting was admittedly overwhelming.

In my second playthrough I dedicated myself to become villainous, using every NPC as a practice dummy. I was a little underwhelmed how the normal guards failed to test my novice skills the way the trainer did, dying from a few amateurish jabs I executed without much thought.

I never truly met anyone equipped with a knight’s armor who would push me to the limits, but almost all the combat scenarios felt uncomfortably different from the exhaustive training where I learned the basics of fencing.

The melee combat certainly had overall potential, but the consistency of its application is questionable.

Warhorse Studios' PR campaign continues.  We've been tipped off to their newest interview for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, this time with PC Invasion.

Martin Ziegler: We’re trying to find a balance between an open-world game and a story-driven game. In the open-world part we want players to be able to immerse themselves in the world in ways which aren’t well explored in games; both in terms of the geographical region and it terms of the historical period. We want players to be able to experience that time and place; we want the world to look like it did at the time and we want people to behave like they did at the time.

So we researched how the justice system worked at the time and what people did at the time – Where did they get their food? When did they get up? How did the public administration system work? Things like that. We want to simulate that in terms of AI and in terms of gameplay mechanics. If you commit a crime, we want the NPCs in the game to react closely to how they would at the time. So we want them to run to the nearest town with a guard that is able to force you to pay the fine or imprison you and stuff like that.

Also we want to have the story that will drive you to explore that world, see different locations and see all the stuff we’ve put in place.

TS-Z: A lot of games are set in medieval times, but no game has ever tried to be realistic and as historically accurate as possible. There’s always this touch of fantasy somewhere; we’ve tried to avoid that completely.

Since we try to have realistic and historically accurate game, universities, museums, cultural people and living history people and people who are not connected to video games are very interested in this project to reconstruct Bohemia in the year 1403.

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OnlySP has an exclusive interview with Warhorse Studios, including a detailed, fascinating look at the historical period in which the game takes place, as well as details about combat.

Thanks, Couch.

Despite its richness in political and religious conflict, the Bohemian revolution, as well as the larger medieval period, seem difficult to pull off in games. Few make use of the setting without adding elements of magic or mythology, but Warhorse felt they were up to the challenge.

“There are several reasons [why we chose the setting],” Stolz-Zwilling says. “Daniel Vávra [Mafia II], our creative director, who’s also the co-founder of the studio, is Czech. It’s close to him because the story’s located in today’s Czech Republic – Bohemia is a part of it – so that’s the easiest explanation. The other one is that we wanted to tell a story that’s historically accurate and based on realism.

“They thought, ‘what’s actually happened in Europe, what stories are there?’ There’s the Second World War, the French Revolution; a lot of stories to tell, but most of them aren’t in Czech Republic or are already covered. There’re tons of World War II games, lots about the era of the French Revolution.”

“But no one’s really tried to tell a story about the Holy Roman Empire,” he continues, “even though we believe that it’s a huge period of European history that’s extremely interesting because there were several lords fighting each other, claiming to be united but, in fact, they were more fighting each other.

“We think, we hope, we believe, that the story we want to tell, of the Hussite Wars and the Holy Roman Empire is extremely interesting, full of intrigue, war and blood, but also has its sunny sides. We just believe that this story is kick-ass, and we want to tell it to the world.”

Medieval Realism

One genre where the Middle Ages have found success in gaming is RTS. However, games like Crusader Kings and Total War lack the explicit characterization that Warhorse are aiming for with Kingdom Come.

“The medieval times are well covered by books and movies…kind-of,” says Stolz-Zwilling. “It’s pretty popular right now, even though they’re quite Hollywood-ish, where they try to make it more interesting with fantasy elements. So, it’s not unrepresented in general, but in games, for sure. There are games that somehow cover it, but no RPGs. Like Paradox Games’ Europa Universalis, they’re of course showing the Holy Roman Empire, but there’s no deep story; it’s just a setting.

“If you think about RPGs, in most of them you have a sword and shield as your main weapon. The sword and shield are connected to medieval times, and medieval times are connected to realism – because they actually happened.

“No one’s gone this way to the realism part; they stop with the medieval setting. We’re going that step further by trying to make it as realistic as possible.”

More information.

In this video update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Karak goes into the technical details behind the game's graphics.

Thanks to Couch for tonight's news.

Exploring a bit of the world on the PC in the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Though the game is coming for both next gen systems currently the Alpha, which is mostly a landscape tech demo, is just out on PC. So lets walk the walk and talk about some of the technical aspects of the game. Karak most concentrates on graphics at this point.

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The Kickstarter update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance tells us that they are entering the final stage of beta development, containing:

• First introduction to an epic story
• All core game mechanics
• Enlarging the current game map (triple)
• The first important key battle/siege
• A new weapon Type: Sword and Shield 
• And many more…

With this being the current status of development:

• Finishing the Story: Daniel Vávra and his team of 7 writers are finishing over 2.500 pages of screenplay, hundred pages of design and have now more than 70 quests with over 300.000 words of dialogues.
• Dog Companion: We are working on the next Kickstarter Stretch Goal - a man's best friend. We decided to revive the extinct breed “Alount”. It was a very common breed used for hunting, herding and guarding. 
• 2D and 3D improvements: With hundreds of incredible artworks and many ingame improvements like the Dynamic weather changes and the Total Illumination System Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets even more realistic (watch this video from Vlad4D). In addition to that we improved our 3D face scanning technologies. We're scanning every single head for our game including over 30 different expressions and emotion to create life-like facial animations, even with wrinkles :)
• Cutscene production starts: We are adding the first cutscenes into the game, with full motion capture of real actors and completely new voices. We prepared more than 25 hours of voiceovers and around 4h of symphonic music which will be recorded in Rudolfinum, one of the most important concert halls in Europe.

And all that can also be watched on video.

In a video for Kingdom Come: Deliverance a Crytek Engine developer named Vlad4 is showing what enabling Voxel GI (SVOGI) does for the game.

ReformistTM has recently published a video giving us the current state of Kingdom Come: Deliverance's alpha, including some noteworthy combat fixes.

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In their latest update, Warhorse Studios tells us about the state of the game at the close of the year. They also discuss KC:D's crime system and more.

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Cryengine interviewed Daniel Vavra from Warhorse Studios about Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

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Daniel Vavra from Warhorse Studios talked to the CRYENGINE team about Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a realistic First Person RPG set in the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia.

Warhorse Studios gives us the latest tech alpha update (0.5), in which they talk about Kingdom Come: Deliverance's crime system.

Eye found some interesting Twitch TV Let's Play recordings that show the tech alpha 0.5 version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance -> link.

Warhorse Studios inform us of the availability of the 0.5 Alpha of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which contains the following new features:

New features include:

• Crime system: Stealing or attacking people will have consequences, the population will behave accordingly. If you are seen committing a crime, multiple options are available, from negotiating your way out, going to jail or even resisting the arrest by fighting against the authorities.
• Multiple enemies: Fighting will get even more dangerous and challenging, thanks to new AI improvements. Every opponent has now different skills and equipment. Combat feels even more realistic and deadlier.
• Adaptive soundtrack: Addition of new proprietary sound technology adapting the soundtrack's mood based on player's actions. For instance, the game's symphonic music goes from peaceful to agitated when the player is under attack and is modifying itself depending on player's performance. The system handles all kind of situations based on actions and environments, such as exploration, theft, danger, etc.
• RPG and survival elements: Characters, now needs to eat and sleep in order to stay healthy and survive. New horse inventory will help carry more supplies.
• Technology upgrades and fixes: Implementation of Global illumination - a new CryEngine lighting technology improving lighting and shadows to improve the world's realism, combat and horse controls/animations improved, new dialog animations and cameras, complete GUI (graphical user interface) overhaul

This is also the latest alpha release before the beta phase.
If you like to see Daniel Vávra talk, you can see him in an upcoming Twitch session and ask him questions:

On Tuesday December the 1st, 7PM CET, we will host a live stream of the latest update of Kingdom Come: Deliverance on our Twitch Channel: www.twitch.tv/warhorsestudios. Everyone interested in Q&A with Daniel Vávra, please visit our forum to send your questions.

And there is also a video thanking all the backers of the game.

Player2 has interviewed Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, the PR Manager at Warhorse Studios:

Interview – Kingdom Come Deliverance

I recently had the great pleasure to chat to Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, the PR Manager at Warhorse Studios, developers of the highly anticipated Kingdom Come: Deliverance. In our interview we addressed comparisons to Skyrim, its successful Kickstarter campaign, and what it’s like to develop a game from Prague. Check out the interview below.

So Tobias thank you for giving me your time today, firstly what is Kingdom Come: Deliverance? How did the game come about?

Tobias Stolz-Zwilling: Dobrý den Paul. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the first chapter of an epic journey through medieval Bohemia. Specifically; it’s a single player RPG with a great focus on immersive realism and historical accuracy. Our story takes place in Bohemia 1403 as a true to life retelling of clashes between kings, intrigues and bloody civil war.

Are there any games in particular that serve as motivation for the game, whether that is mechanically, aesthetically or even in terms of narrative?

It’s not only games that inspire us but books and movies as well. We aim on making a historically accurate experience which is the reason why we have a fulltime historian on our team. She has to triple check all design elements, sources, inspiration, proper behavior. Everything is under scrutiny, even small details like vegetation and anything that comes to mind when you look at the year 1403 in central Europe.

Are there any particular themes that are directing the overall plot?

I would say that it’s warfare, corruption and discord. The current king of bohemia is weak and has been kidnapped by his half-brother who is now invading bohemia. You, Henry the son of a blacksmith are one of many victims of his raiding army. Your village is burned, your family and friends are slaughtered and you will be torn into an ugly and bloody civil war. We basically try to frame the causes as to why the Hussite Wars break out a few years later. You won’t change history but you get the chance to tell your story within this true to history story. And you decide what Henry’s contribution will be. [...]

With the release of the alpha version 0.5 of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, new previews will be appearing as well. Eye has spotted these two.

And this one at MicBeMac games.

Kingdom Come :Deliverance returns with it’s latest batch of updates.  Though not as exciting as 0.4’s combat update, update 0.5 layers in more details into the overall game experience.  The added items help build the immersion of the environment and start bringing the world to life.

Most of the additions this time around add to the environment and look of Kingdom Come.  New updates to CryEngine allowed Warhorse Studios to add even more dynamic lighting and shadows throughout.  As the sun moves through the sky, shadows shift and waver.  Jumping will let you see the silhouette of your character mimicked on the ground as he bounds into the air.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance touts itself as being historically accurate. In a video by Grundkurs Gaming of a while ago (but still accurate today) it is shown that the clothing that is used in the game is not completely accurate for that era.

In this Video I talk about how the villagers in the third Alpha are dressed, which changes in fashion took place at the start of the 15th century in Bohemia and why they happened.

Thanks Eye.

The CasualShenanigans have interviewed Warhouse Studios about Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

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-> Interview begins at 14:10

Another video about Archery in the game from Pixelated Apollo:

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In a video Pixelated Apollo shows the sword fighting in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. In it you can see the 5 pointed star, with which you can hit your opponent from 6 drections (including the center) or block in 6 directions. Just in case you haven't seen this before or are unable to play the current alpha build. It also offers some special attacks by doing predefined sequences.

He also has some first looks of the game, without any combat.

Thanks Eye.

RPG France interviewed Viktor Bocan, the lead designer, and Dan Vavra, creative director of Kingdom Come: Deliverance at Gamescom 2015:

[Editor's note: the following text is auto-translated -> here's the original text]

How will we develop our character?

V. Bocan: If you fight a lot, you will become a better fighter. So you do not have the skills to select where you want to progress, but only to use them. And in these skills, you have "perks" special abilities in some ways. There you have to choose the ones you want. For example, if you fight with swords, you'll have to make a choice among the different techniques available.

D. Vavra: This is similar to the old Fallout. Each time you gain a level or two, you'll have to choose one of these skills. It could be a new movement or a new capacity for speech. Next, you'll statistics (strength, vitality, endurance, etc ...) that can be improved, but the skills are the most important [Ed. In alpha, the statistical increase of themselves when we use Affiliated skills, like the Elder Scrolls series] [...]

Have you paid attention to the historical reality?

D. Vavra: Some people think historically accurate games can be annoying. This is not what we think, and we wanted to offer an experience similar to a machine back in time, where players can see how was the fifteenth century. There are many interesting things that we can show, then we are as accurate as possible. I do not think it's inconsistent with anything, it's just a little more work for us. So, we will have the most realistic fighting. We look at martial arts and medieval combat to provide an authentic representation. We also try to dispel myths that run over this period: in many movies, you see people get cut in armor as if they were made of paper and it will not happen in our game.

V. Bocan: Similarly, there is a myth that if you wear a plate armor, you can not move and you'll need the help of four people to ride your horse. This is wrong and we want to try to show it.

D. Vavra: We try to change these myths. On the other hand, we use real places that still exist and that you can visit. Old castles, churches and other stuff that always stand up. [...]

What about the social situation of the character? She will be led to evolve as and events of the game?

V. Bocan: That's an interesting question. You start as a simple son of a blacksmith. You will not become king, as many people require. You will not go to conquer the world and you do not become a pirate, because there is no sea ... What else?

D. Vavra: Basically, there is an interesting development. But you are a normal guy who is involved in events that surpass him, that he can not influence. There is indeed a social progression, but you will not become a knight and nobleman or something else. It's more personal character development, and evolution of its importance and influence on events.

V. Bocan: It's just an ordinary man who sees his life turned upside down and finds himself propelled into something much larger, it must still try to solve to survive. [...]

Have you planned a faction system? Some will they be reachable? Does it have a reputation system?

V. Bocan: We have a reputation system and there are factions everywhere. There are bandits, Cumans hordes, which is allied with factions market for example. You can not join the Cumans, but you have a reputation vis-à-vis them. So if you kill a lot of bandits, just because you want to beat you, your reputation as bandits killer grows. Conversely, if you do bad things, people will look at you askance and refuse to give you quests or shops raise prices. If you steal things and assassinate people, your head will be a price and try to kill you. So reputation is very important. You do not join faction, you just do things that have an impact on your reputation to the extent of what you can achieve. [...]

Eurogamer talked to Daniel Vavra about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Is it still coming to console?

"We definitely are working on it and it's part of the plan," he says. "Let's say [PC/Mac] should be August or something: consoles are going to be, I don't know, September, for example - not like half-a-year after it. As soon as possible.

"It's on CryEngine so we don't have to port the code. Basically we take the PC version, we run it on the console and it should work, but we maybe optimise the memory," he adds. "A couple of months ago it worked properly, the previous build. It wasn't optimised so the frame-rate was lower but it wasn't a major issue. It's working; it needs some optimisations as always, but I don't think it's that major issue.

Pad controls are already built into the tech alpha that's available to backers. "Currently it plays better with joypad actually," he adds, but with tweaks, the two should be equal.

There's also the potential for virtual reality, as CryEngine supports it and Warhorse, the developer, has an Oculus Rift dev kit. But the tricky issue of motion sickness will need solving first. "We are going to support it," Vavra says. "What I don't know yet is how much work it's going to be or if it's even possible to avoid the motion sickness with the type of game we are making. With, for example, horse riding in first-person, it could cause motion sickness now even without the VR!" Vavra says he suffers motion sickness from VR so it's something he's sensitive to.

Thanks Eye.

Watcher Eye spotted this article about Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Warhorse Studios talks Kingdom Come: Deliverance - A first-person medieval RPG

THE 15th century saw many historic events take place, such as the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America and the destruction of the Christian kingdoms of Nubia - but one game developer is using this specific century to tell a different tale in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Warhorse Studios, based in Prague, have created a first-person, role-playing game set in the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia, where players will explore a vast open-world setting and complete quests - restoring order across the land and defeating the king's evil brother.

"A pretty epic one I would say," says Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, PR Manager of Warhorse Studios, "With Kingdom Come: Deliverance the player will get hit by the medieval age at full tilt. It's a realistic and historical game that allows you to tell your story within a real historical story that happened in the heart of Europe.

"The game will take place in Bohemia 1403, a region rich in culture and silver which is currently torn apart by warfare, corruption and discord. You won't change history but you will shape the character and the behaviour of Henry, a young blacksmith you'll incarnate and play your role in this bloody conflict.

"Your home town gets destroyed by the invading force and by (un-)lucky accident you'll get torn into the civil war. You will have many choices to make and things to do, but beware, every action calls a proper reaction so think twice if pulling your sword is always the right decision."

Similar to the likes of Skyrim, the player will take control of a player from a first-person perspective, and Warhorse Studios insist that this is the right choice for their game and for the enjoyment of the player.

"Immersion is extremely important for us," said Tobias, "We want the player to actually believe that he is really standing in a Bohemian forest or that he tastes blood in his mouth every time he gets hit in the face. That's why we have chosen to be first-person and single player only. With our high graphic level we actually try to photo realistically recreate Bohemia from the year 1403." [...]

Watcher Eye spotted good news at PCGamesN:

Good news for modders, bad news for biscuits - Kingdom Come: Deliverance will support mods, but you most likely won't be able to mess around with the FoV.

Gameskinny interviewed Warhorse's PR guy Tobias Stolz-Zwilling about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

How important will role-playing be in Kingdom Come?  We are aware that it takes place during real events, but how big of an impact will your decisions have?

Since this game is an open world RPG, the RPG-System plays a huge role of course. So the more you use a weapon, for example, the better you’ll get with it. But still the is the realism part in our game, so it’s not just about levels, but we also demand a high skill level forces the player to analyze every battle he is going into. Simple button mashing will most likely get you killed. So it’s about tactics, reactions, stamina management and many more. A very common feedback we get from players is: “I never hold a sword in my hand, but I believe it feels like this”!

In general we want every action of the player to have a proper reaction. These reactions can either have a local or even global impacts. But it’s very important to understand that you’ll not be able to change history, but you will tell your personal story inside the historical, real story. So it’s up to you how you behave, how you shape your character. Are you the negotiating type, or do you solve problems with your swords? There are many more choices you’ll need to deal with.

The combat in the alpha 0.4 version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance has seen a few tweaks.

We had a great time at Gamescom presenting the sword combat in Tech Alpha 0.4 both to public and journalists! You, our dear backers, already tried it and we are very grateful for your feedback.

Thanks to this feedback we were able to make small tweaks in the sword combat, which was included in small update together with the German and French subtitles. If you haven't played Tech Alpha 0.4 for a while, you should try again :-)

To explain why the sword combat in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is so cool, we prepared a video update with our lead combat designer Viktor Bocan:

Here is the final article of the Gamescom series of 12 articles. It covers Kingdom Come: Deliverance. A game that was mentioned to be historically correct a few times in the presentation, but is it a RPG already?

Every NPC in the game will have its own routine. They get up in their own house and have breakfast there, go to work and pick the tools he or she needs. The NPC won't be carrying these tools with him or her all the time as is the case in some other games. When the working day has finished the NPC will go home again or go and do something else, like hang around in the bar. A NPC has several options of what they can do in their spare time. The choice they make is based on experience. If the blacksmith is in the pub and something nasty happens there, he will remember that and the next time, he will go and do something else. This would also mean that the NPC in the games of two different players could end up doing completely different things in their spare time.

Interesting interview about Kingdome Come: Deliverance at GC2015:

On his Youtube channel Omega Project Zero has a video of a play through session of version 1.0 of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

The most unbelievable game of our time has now released Alpha Access. The current build is 0.1 so you can't do a whole lot, but I managed to steal some guys flute for a quest and talk to a bunch of NPCs in the town.

This is the most gorgeous game I have ever seen by far and there is so much more to come! Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an Open World Sandbox RPG where you will be able to go anywhere and do anything on a massive map that will involve non-linear quests that you can complete many different ways as you see fit and experience a living world where every NPCs life matters. Stay tuned for more, as they update I will be continuing videos on this amazing game!

Couch spotted the new tech demo 0.4 of Kingdome Come: Deliverance:

The world map has a medieval look - very nice.

Kevin Dunsmore about Kingdom Come: Deliverance:

Ever wanted play a realistic, medieval, open-world RPG that has no magic in it? Warhorse Studios has the game for you. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is that open-world that dares to exclude magic. I got a sneak peek at the upcoming game at E3 2015, and I think any fan of The Elder Scrolls or The Witcher franchises has something to be excited about. (...)

In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, you play as a young blacksmith who has lost everything to war. Fate drags him into a conspiracy involving a kidnapped king, which would inevitably lead to another war. That’s the gist of the main campaign, but players don’t have to rush through it. Much like The Witcher and The Elder Scrolls, players can feel free to wander the world and pick up sidequests. During the demo, the developer opted to wander off from the campaign objective and accept a new quest to investigate a recent murder.

This isn’t going to be a short game by any stretch of the imagination. At launch there will be sixteen square km of land to explore and about thirty hours of gameplay. There will be sprawling cities, castles, forests, and numerous villages to explore, though I was only shown a forest and village in the demo. Warhorse is bringing the world of Deliverance to life by giving every NPC their own role in a community. You’ll see people wondering the streets and doing their jobs during the day, and then see them retreat to their homes at night. This isn’t a new idea, but it’s nice to see such attention to detail.

Deliverance’s combat is very unique in the fact that it strives for authenticity. With melee weapons, players will be able to aim at five different spots on the human body; head, right-side, left-side, lower-right and lower-left. To counter, you’ll need to watch the enemy’s animations and angle your sword in the correct direction. Warhorse is working with martial arts experts to nail 15^th century fighting, and it looks to be paying off. The swordplay I witnessed looked slow and methodical, but severely intense. One wrong hit and you could die instantly. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is not for those who love to rush in and annihilate enemies with a few well-placed combos. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is, however, for those looking for realistic and strategic swordplay. (...)

OSP is checking out Kingdom Come: Deliverance at the E3:

New E3 Trailer:

Thanks Couch for spotting this!

Warhouse Studios released a new E3 video teaser with a combat scene out of Kingdome Come: Deliverance:

... and it's partytime:

Warhorse Studios - Community Party

E3 is around the corner and we finally set everything up for our Warhorse Community Party! With great help of Richard Lagnese from Gen Studios we could arrange everything!
When: Thursday the 18th June 2015 Where: Casey’s Irish Pub (613 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90017)
What: Live let’s play and trailer screening of the newest Kingdom Come Alpha, including the brand-new and unique Combat-system! Q&A with Dan, Tobi and other members of the team. (It’s planned at least)
Why: Because we ROCK!!! And you know it! :) Get the E3 experience without E3 prices! So don’t hesitate and meet the creators of Kingdom Come: Deliverance and drink a Beer with them. Get Warhorse insider stories first hand (for a beer or two!) and ask Dan what you always wanted to know, like which beard shampoo he uses. The place is limited to 100 People so make sure to come early. Bring it oooooooooooooon! :)

In a video update, Warhorse Studios informs us of their plans at E3 and introduce us to the landscapes in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Holá holá holá! And there is a new Video Update….. wuhuuuu! Today we introduce what we plan for the upcoming E3 in Los Angeles! Combat will be a big deal same as new Quests, features and your very own horse! Make sure to visit us at E3!!! :) Please contact us via mail at info@warhorsestudios.cz In the Video Update #11 you will also meet Kuba Holik, our lead 3D Art who will introduce to you how he creates the beautiful landscape of Kingdom Come: Deliverance! As detailed as it can get! :)

In this latest Kickstarter update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance information is provided on the tech alpha, which is being presented at E3.

We have been silent for a while, because we are working hard on the next Technology Alpha update, which will be presented at E3 in June. What are the main new features you can look forward to?

• Combat: 1-on-1 combat with Long sword, featuring parrying, ripostes and combos

• New location: introducing a new village and surrounding countryside

• Travel: horse riding is now available

• Quests: new quests featuring alchemy, lock picking or grave digging

• Localization: in addition to English voice-overs you can now choose German or French subtitles

If you backed for Baron tier or higher, please register on our website to get the Steam code to download the Tech Alpha. If you need help, please follow the instructions on our website or email us. New update will be available in the second half of June.

You can take a look at the sword combat in this behind the scenes video from Daniel Vávra, but please remember it is still a work in progress from a basic testing build. The combat in game looks already much better :-)

Also the new location Merhojed village is being presented, the merchandise section on their wesite is ready now and for European backers there is Warhorse beer to be had.

New video from Stalli One-Eleven that summarizes new features for the E3 and offers the chance to win a copy of KingdomComeDeliverance!

A first-person, open world, realistic RPG that will take you to the Medieval Europe in a time of upheaval and strife

A humble, young blacksmith loses everything to war. As he tries to fulfill the dying wish of his father, Fate drags him into the thick of a conspiracy to save a kidnapped king and stop a bloody conflict. You will wander the world, fighting as a knight, lurking in the shadows as a rogue, or using the bard’s charm to persuade people to your cause. You will dive deep into a sweeping, epic, nonlinear story from Daniel Vávra, an award-winning designer from the Mafia series. Our unique, first-person combat system lets you wield sword or bow in both one-on-one skirmishes and large-scale battles. All of this – and more – brought to life beautifully with next-gen visuals delivered via CryEngine 3.

In a new video the Character Customization & Clothing system for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is shown.

The Stoned Gamer has previewed Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which also shows how not to start an article as the author explains the issues he has with his girfriend breaking up while writing this article.

Admittedly, Kingdom Come looks like one of the most gorgeous incarnations of medieval Europe the world has ever seen. From the type of wood to the manner in which swords are constructed, the developers have been insisting they are making an incredibly realistic game, and judging by the newly-released screenshots, Kingdom Come looks pretty damn realistic. According to one developer on the game's Facebook page, you will need:

• 64bit Windows 7 or higher
• DirectX 11 compatible video card
• 8GB RAM
• 6GB HDD space
• 4 core processor or better

The requirements aren't that strenuous, but if your rig doesn't comply, you have until the Summer of 2016 to get your PC in fighting shape to run Kingdom Come.

Some new screenshots from Kingdom Come: Deliverance were made available by Warhorse Studios.

A new preview was released on OnlySP for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

So why the Bohemian (Hussite) wars time period? Mafia and Mafia II designer and Warhorse co-founder Daniel Vávra had been searching through interesting periods of Czech history when he came across the Bohemian (Hussite) Wars. “We all learn about it at school, but you don’t pay too much attention when you are young,” Rydl explained. Rediscovering the political intrigue of the period inspired the team to create a game set around the bloody civil war. Czech films and literature are also attributed as inspirations in developing the game.

Henry’s story reflects the stories of the people during these wars. The destruction of his home and death of his family in 1403 (the beginning of the game in the first act) is the catalyst for Henry’s quest for revenge against those responsible, but it is while he is on this quest that he uncovers a conspiracy to save a kidnapped king. It falls to him to choose whether or not to stop a bloody conflict with his knowledge. Rydl explained that “after playing all three parts you can understand the reasons why people wanted to change the way they lived, the way they pray or you find out who will be the king.” Each part can be played separately and still be enjoyed, and Rydl expects a full playthrough of all three parts to take 60-70 hours to complete.

Colin Campbell of Polygon interviewed Warhorse studios this week to talk with Daniel Vávra about his latest RPG game Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Why is Medieval Fantasy so Dominant?

Games, movies and TV shows are full of worlds that take a medieval backdrop and overlay fantasy elements, like mystical creatures and magical powers. Vávra believes that realism also has its place.

"Advances in special effects mean that fantastical elements ans superheroes are popular, because they look so great. The same thing in video games, in terms of fantasy. Designers wanted to do dragons from the early days and so they did them. Everyone has gotten used to it and they don’t want to remove those parts."

He said that the game is packed full of quests. "I was a little bit afraid at first. I worried that we would not have enough ideas for side quests. Can we really do 50 quests based in medieval villages without monsters? It turns out, we can. We have more ideas for quests than we can use and I think they are interesting, more so than in other RPGs.

Daniel Vavra of Warhorse Studios released a short clip of the games Early Combat.

DSO Gaming has a few interesting quotes from a new interview with Warhorse Studios who is afraid that gamers may misinterpret some features in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

In an interview with our dear friends over at PCGames, Warhorse Studios’ Daniel Vavra revealed some of the concerns surrounding the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. As Daniel said, the team is currently receiving lots of messages from happy fans, asking them to take their time and polish the game before releasing, however the team is afraid that some gamers may misinterpret some of the game’s features that have been already announced.

As Daniel said:

“So far we’ve been receiving positive feedback. Fans often say <<Please take your time and release it later when the game is polished and not in order to hit a deadline>>. The only thing I’m a little worried about is that some players may misinterpret some features and have high expectations for them.”

Daniel then explained this by giving an example. In Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s trailer, Warhorse Studios claimed that the game will feature epic battles. And while the game does pack some epic battles according to Daniel, players may have misinterpreted this and expect dozens of such battles (perhaps even with strategic elements). That’s far from what Warhorse Studios is creating, thus some gamers may get disappointed by the end product.

Daniel added:

“The story that we tell may very well contain only two or three such epic battles. Kingdom Come: Deliverance will not be about the heroic leader – you are just a soldier and like all soldiers, you must survive these battles. The castle battles are meant to be some of the game’s Story highlights, and not a feature that will be repeated each and every half hour.”

Warhorse Studios started a new poll on the games forum to see how backers of the game want them to handle voiceovers. They offer three options to chose from.

Hello there. So we have released first alpha with voice overs and people started to ask for different accents, different actors, more archaic language etc. So it would be interesting to discuss this a little.

First of all some explanations. All voiceovers were done by just one woman and two men during one session, so its really just temporary, it was cheap and without any rehearsing. Knowing this, I would say that its really good. 

In a prototype which you can see in our Kickstarter videos and livestream, we tried to use old Shakespearean English and I personally think, that it was too much. Lot of people complained that its too much, some complained that its not enough. Seems that it would be hard to have agreement on this.

So here is my personal opinion - We write in Czech and we use rather modern language with some archaic words while avoiding some modern words. I would like to achieve something similar in English and any other language. Personally I do have a problem with British accent or old English - mostly because it doesn't male any more sense than any other accent. Old Shakespearean English has nothing to do with our period and Bohemia. There are few movies based on Czech books shot in Czech Republic with English actors and they could hardly sound more weird. British English simply sounds unnatural in Czech environment when you know Czech language. I also hate it, when Germans/Russian speak English with German/Russian accent which should represent them speaking their native language. Its terrible. Its different when they represent someone who is German and speaks different language, then it makes sense of course, but watching movie from Germany in English and everybody has accent is silly.

Warhorse Studios posted the tenth video update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance  today that talks about the new features they released in Tech Alpha 0.3.

Today we are introducing new features in Tech Alpha 0.3 including lock picking mini game, temporary voice overs or basic perception. Dan is also talking about plans for E3, Beta version and new release date. In the end we invite you to Bitva Libušín or Battle of the Nations in Prague.

I found a new Impression article this week for Kingdom Come: Deliverance on a site called Game Splash. The site talks about what the latest alpha version offers.

When I discovered this gem, this beautiful looking masterpiece, I felt that old feeling of excitement blanket over me akin to youngsters eagerly anticipating Christmas Day the night before. I felt giddy and joyous to see something so beautiful not only visually but in it's creation through a community that supported it all the way. Of course I'm talking about Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but you for one may not be so familiar with the title, so let me break it down. Come with me on this magical journey adventurer!

Kotaku published a short preview about Kingdom Come: Deliverance this week.

I'm very much into the premise of Kingdom Come Deliverance, which is a medieval RPG that's all about history. No monsters, no magic, no witches, no giant rats. Just regular folk going about everyday medieval business.

Which, you know, will obviously include famine and war and brigands and disease and all other unsightly things, but for now, in the game's early alpha release build, there's just the sun, the birds and the breeze to worry about.

Warhorse Studios released a new twenty minute video this week to celebrate the one year aniversy of Kingdom Come: Deliverance being funded on kickstarter.

We look back to the first year after successful Kickstarter campaign of Kingdom Come: Deliverance! https://www.kingdomcomerpg.com/

This time we take a look into the history, as Warhorse Studios founders – Daniel Vavra and Martin Klima – discuss the most important moments before launching the Kickstarter project. In the end we invite you for a small visit to our studio to unveil some plans for months that lay ahead.

We are very thankful for all the support from our backers and of course from you!

THANK YOU!

A site called 2xpgaming published a short interview about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Recently, we were given the opportunity to talk with Warhorse Studios, the developer behind the project Kingdom Come: Deliverance. This game is one of the most highly-funded crowdfunded games out there, raising over $2.2 million with over 44,000 backers. Furthermore, the developers are veterans of the game industry and include former 2K, Altar, and Bohemia devs working on the project. The game community is very excited for the upcoming game, as are we. Our Developer Liaison, Bryan, spoke with Jiri Rydl about the project.

OnlySP has published a new article style interview for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a game firmly rooted in the Middle Ages. “We want to make the game as realistic as possible,” Warhorse Studios’ social media manager Jiri Rydl tells us. “Of course we have to make compromises to keep the game fun. For instance the doors are little bit bigger than in reality, just to be sure player will be able to enter the building. If I visit some historical places and buildings I always hit the door with my head!”

A game about 15th century medieval Europe is an intriguing concept. A time of great conflict for the developers’ home country of the Czech Republic, the 14th and 15th centuries saw the aftermath of Charles IV’s death and the civil war resulting from his two sons Wenceslaus and Sigismund’s claims to the throne. Daniel Vávra, responsible for Mafia and Mafia II and now Warhorse co-founder, had been searching through interesting periods of Czech history when he came across the Bohemian (Hussite) Wars. “We all learn about it at school, but you don’t pay too much attention when you are young.” Rydl explained. Rediscovering the political intrigue of the period inspired the team to create a game set around the bloody civil war.

Within their chosen time period Warhorse are aiming to tell the story of Henry, a poor blacksmith seeking vengeance against those who slaughtered his family. The three acts of the game tell Henry’s story, deeply embedded in the backdrop of actual historical events. Henry’s story reflects the struggles of the people during the Hussite Wars. Rydl explained that “after playing all three parts you can understand the reasons why people wanted to change the way they lived, the way they pray or you find out who will be the king.” Each part can be played separately and still be enjoyed, and Rydl expects a full playthrough of all three parts to take 60-70 hours to complete.

Warhorse Studios re-posted a new seven minute video to help Alpha players find thistle, and coal for creating new items in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Still having problems finding thistle or coal in ‪‎Kingdom Come Deliverance‬ alpha? Now there is help from one of our backers!

Warhorse Studios posted a video on Facebook that unboxes the games medieval flag.

Now we have a proper medieval flag for Středověký festival a Bitva Libušín / Medieval festival and Battle Libušín! Unfortunately the lion was not allowed on flags like thisone. We will make some modern version of it next time.

Warhorse Studios annouces they now have 44,444 Backers for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. They releasd a new photo on Facebook with their thanks to everyone.

It grew and grew and grew and now it’s in full bloom! The Backer flower garden is ready to celebrate 44.444 Backers.

One year has passed after the start of our Kickstarter campaign and thanks to each of you, no matter if backer, supporter or just prospective, we are where we are.

Red Bull's Ben Sillis of published a new interview with Warhorse Studios co-founder, and Game Director Dan Vávra about his new RPG game Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Hi Dan, tell us what’s been happening since we last spoke: what’s the current status of the game?

A lot has been happening. The team is three times bigger since our Kickstarter ended. We went to full-scale production, we released playable tech alpha for our backers, we raised another half million dollars on our own website and of course the game has made a huge leap forward. We have implemented tons of new game mechanics, our combat system is finally becoming more than a clumsy prototype, something actually playable and enjoyable. Our AI team has built one of the most robust artificial intelligence systems used in a game, we’ve started to work on quests and the world is getting bigger and bigger.

It’s been more than a year since you launched the Kickstarter. What’s changed in your vision during that time, and why? Have you had to remove anything?

We are setting priorities for each mechanism and asset, so in case we will be behind schedule, we will remove tasks that have the lowest priority or we will just simplify them. That means, that we didn’t remove anything, we just gave some things lower priority. We will see!

What’s new in the game that you didn’t plan to include originally?

We have a ton of work to do, so it’s not a good idea to add something on top of it, but we did. Since our graphics department seems to be doing okay, they decided to make the game world a little bit larger. There’s going to be one extra location spanning a few extra square kilometres. It also seems that the gameplay time might be longer than we promised, if we manage to finish all the side quests we plan to have. I mean it could be as much as 10-20 extra gameplay hours.

A site called Crisrolan has released the first translated English interview with the  Warhorse Studio team, and talk about  the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

How did it born the idea of Kingdom Come: Deliverance?

Jiri Rydl: It was idea of Dan Vavra. He was thinking about a new game from our history, which would be both new and appealing to a lot of players.
When you dig deeper and deeper into the history of Bohemia, you find several interesting periods and the civil war among sons of Charles IV. was one of them.

Which elements do you think that will make your game unique?

J.R.: I would point out especially three of them – realism, unique fighting system and AI. We want to make the game as realistic as possible. We have two specialists in our team to consult the historic details of every aspect – architecture, dress codes, habits or even animals. Sometimes we reach out for help to universities or we invite professional swordsmen to our office to show us how to fight. We wanted to open new possibilities for player and offer more than just hack and slash. Every move is important, even move of your feet, which can have effect on your stability. The fights are much more realistic and thus shorter in comparison with other games. On the other hand they are very intensive and you have to think twice before you draw sword. Your opponents can be dumb like some unexperienced thieves, but you can also meet well trained guard or a professional soldier who are well armed, who know how to fight and who will wait for your mistake patiently.

How much time did it take you to prepare the Kickstarter campaign?

J.R.: It depends – the demo used for instance in our Kickstarter stream was prepared for publishers in the first place and it took almost a year to make it (we were much smaller studio in that time). The campaign itself took about three months – we prepared six video updates, we talked to press, we thought about stretch goals… Lot of work!

The Facebook page for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has some new screenshots.

Probably the best screenshots from ‪the Early Alpha we have seen so far! Thanks to tzzsmk for making them!

Along with the details about sieges this week OnlySP has also posted information about how the different acts in Kingdom Come: Deliverance will work together.

Each act of Czech developer Warhorse Studios’ upcoming Kingdom Come: Deliverance will have a complete storyline as well as an overarching narrative, according to head of communications Jiří Rýdl.

The medieval, open-world RPG is planned to release in three acts, following the journey of a young blacksmith in a land ravaged by war.

Speaking about the interactions between the acts, Rýdl said:

"The acts are a little bit like Harry Potter. There is a story running through each one that resolves itself, but some questions remain unanswered and the story continues. The best way to experience Kingdom Come: Deliverance is to play all three acts from the beginning, but you don’t have to. There will be new locations, new quests and new NPCs in every time, so there is plenty of stuff to do. We’re estimating that it will take players 20-30 hours of gameplay to complete an act."

Kingdom Come promises to be “a true, hardcore RPG”, and has raised over $2.2m from more than 44,000 backers. Moving on to talk about the implications of success for the franchise, Rýdl stated that it’s not all about the money, but giving players what they want, saying:

"The financial aspect is always important, not just because of the income, but because it’s a measurement of interest. If no one is buying or playing Act I, then what would be the reason to work on Act II? But we definitely hope for the best."

A small site by the name of Techtimes published a new preview for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. As the sites name suggest they talk about the tech inside the game.

Warhorse is working to develop a single-player role-playing game that's set in a medieval environment minus fantasy elements. While that vision remains unchanged, progress to make it happen hasn't been without its challenges, Stolz-Zwilling acknowledges.

"The right balance between historical accuracy and fun gameplay became everyday business to the point where we added a full-time historian to our team. Not everything is possible in a video game -- and that's a lesson we had to learn very quick," Stolz-Zwilling told Tech Times.

Overall, the growing community response to Kingdom Come's tech alpha has been good, says Stolz-Zwilling. There has been a fair amount of constructive criticism, which he says the studio both needs and appreciates.

"We are very glad to have such a dedicated and enthusiastic community," he says. "Because we are a crowd-funded company on Kickstarter we have a close alliance with our community."

Nick Calandra has some information about how Kingdom Come: Deliverance will handle Battles, and Castle Sieges. They also promise more information later this week.

One of Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s most exciting features, aside from being a medieval RPG with no fantasy elements, will be the game’s major battles. We recently had a chance to speak with Jiří Rýdl from Warhose Studios about Kingdom Come and asked how the battles would play out in the game. The answer we got was actually kind of surprising.

According to Rýdl, the game’s major battles will feature literally hundreds of NPCs on the field at one time. However, unlike most games where you can simply run into battle and take out half the army yourself, Kingdom Come seems to be taking a different approach. Rýdl told us, “I have to warn you that the battles are more or less taking place “around” you. You are just one guy, not a leader, you do not move armies, just your legs, and the best thing you can do when the battle begins is to hide somewhere. If you need to fight, choose weaker opponents. If you see someone on the horse, just run.”

In addition to major battles out on the fields of the open world, there will also be major castle sieges in the game. As with the rest of the game, Warhorse Studios is looking to be as authentic as possible by making the sieges extremely difficult. Rýdl told us that players can very easily become just “cannon fodder” themselves in these battles. Sieges will involve the use of, “catapults, boiling oil, moats and archers,” according to Rydl. Your best chance of survival, hints Rýdl, is to find, “the best armour and stick to the heavy armoured troopers”.

GamingBolt has anoither interview with Jiří Rýdl of Warhorse Studios this week, and this time they talk about developing Kingdom Come Deliverance for consoles and PC.

Warhorse Studios posted a new thirty minute video on the YouTube channel for Kingdom Come: Deliverance showing off the new Alchemy quest in the games Early Alpha.

Let's play of the Alchemy quest from the Early Alpha Access 0.2 of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, with the lead game designer Dan Vávra.

A YouTube user by the name of Angry Centaur Gaming posted a new thirty minute preview of the Tech Alpha for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Exploring a bit of the world on thePC in the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Though the game is coming for both next gen systems currently the Alpha, which is mostly a landscape tech demo, is just out on PC. So lets walk the walk and talk about some of the technical aspects of the game. Karak most concentrates on graphics at this point.

Warhorse Studios posted a short video wishing everyone a Happy New Year.

Warhorse Studios released a new patch fo the Alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance that fixes a few issue from the latest alchemy update released last week.

We have released an update for the Tech Alpha 0.2 originally released on December 20. This new update addresses the following issues:

• Grass shadows as well as that of other objects are no longer disabled when Advanced Graphics Settings are modified.
• Skip Time background is now black. This removes annoying flicker in fullscreen mode. Skip Time is also a bit faster.
• Sky after load is no longer dark and the Sun appears at the right place.
• Sky after Skip Time is now properly updated

PsychoSyd of XP4T had the chance to interview Warhorse Studios, and ask a few questions of a few different employees. Here is a short sample of the interview.

XP4T: How did you come up with the idea of making an open-world RPG set in medieval times? And why not an adventure game or an RTS?

J.R.: There are two guys behind the idea – Martin Klima and Dan Vavra, game developers with strong RPG background. Have you heard about Original War, Vision (not released) or Mafia? Mafia is definitely well known around the world, and Martin is also co-creator of the best-selling pen&paper RPG in Czech Republic named Dragons Lair. You can see now, that the common project had to be an RPG ;-]

XP4T: What are your feelings about the Kickstarter campaign? Did it give you something more, apart from the financial aspect and some kind of morale boost?

J.R.: First of all we have got loud and clear YES from 35k backers on Kickstarter for a project, which was „not appealing enough“ to many publishers. And thanks to them we are still here working on Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Thank you all once again!

XP4T: You call the game a “realistic open world game”. How would you define that “realism”? Does it only pertain to the combat mechanics, or could we consider the game a source of some interesting knowledge about the Middle Ages?

J.R.: We have a special department for research! They read through all the stuff from libraries and chronicles, look up the documentation and pictures and also visit real places from the game to shoot there. Of course the game can’t be completely realistic or you would spend whole time in the forge making hoes ;-] We also cooperate with the best fencers and bow masters in Czech Republic to gain the knowledge about the 15th century combat techniques. They are very helpful!

P4T: How much fantasy will be there in Deliverance? How solid is the factual basis for Deliverance’s story and setting?

J.R.: No fantasy at all, there are no dragons or spells! The main story is based on the historical events described in chronicles and other resources, but life of a smith Henry is of course made up by Dan and team of designers. You don’t find story of poor peasants in chronicles usually. But it doesn’t mean it is not interesting, you can live through very important times of Holy Roman Empire!

Warhorse Studios has finally released the delayed Alpha update that adds alchemy to Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Here is the latest kickstarter update with the information.

For all backers with Baron tier or higher there is an alpha update of Kingdom Come: Deliverance just in time for Christmas! In this update you can try the alchemy minigame and a special quest from Daniel Vávra, the lead designer of Warhorse Studios. How was the alchemy minigame prepared, explains Jakub Guman in our last video news.

Warhorse Studio’s Head of Communications Jiří Rýdl was interviewed on Digital Digging to talk about the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

DD – The Kickstarter goal to introduce the miller’s daughter as a playable character has been successful – will she have her own time-line, and if so will it precede that of Henry, or run alongside?

JR – Well, I don’t want to spoil the game too much :-] You will be able to play a few quest as a millers daughter, and if you do it well, you will help Henry in a major way!

DD – Will we be experiencing seasons in Kingdom Come: Deliverance? Will there, for instance, be rainy seasons (similar to a British summer), and Autumn gales? And if so, would they be synced to the player’s location?

JR – The story is not long enough to see snow or falling the leafs from the trees, but the weather changes will be included.

Also the new Alpha update has been delayed according to a new twitter post.

Warhorse Studios released a new two minute video that shows how Alchemy will work in the next Alpha update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.  

We are working hard on first alpha update with alchemy minigame. What it would look like will explains Jakub Guman, our game designer.

In his latest video update (#9), Daniel Vavra of Warhorse Studios talks about the Tech Alpha update, bugs, a new stretch goal, and more.

You are welcome to our new video update about repairing bugs in the Tech Alpha (introducing Anna from QA), about December Alpha update with map, skip time and secret minigame, about 1st person vs 3rd person dilemma and last but not least the secret game... Mortal Vavra!

A game reviewer by the name of Andrew Cull posted some new screenshots.

Very nice screenshots from #KCD alpha. Thanks to Andrew Cull!

A small gallery of shots from my play through of the alpha!

If you want to watch another twelve minute preview of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance then head on over to IGN who has the latest video. They focus on question though.

And that is the following,"Is this upcoming RPG the next Skyrim?"

Eurogamer has a video preview of the Alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Remember Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the next-gen medieval RPG that has no fantasy? It's playable, and it's a sight to behold. More than one person has stopped to look over my shoulder, drawn in by the idyllic countryside scene.

This is a technical alpha, a kind of interactive technical demonstration. There is a quest, but it's designed more to test the quest giving system than to enthral. There's combat only in the shape of archery and an archery range.

Remember, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is still a year out - at least - on PC, and it was only Kickstarted at the beginning of the year, although plenty of work was done before then. Incidentally there are console ambitions, but there's nothing set in stone.

Developer Warhorse Studios has also spent time moving office and laying the foundations for the development process ahead. Given all that, there are bugs, as there should be, and they're amusing to come across - that's why I've made a gallery.

I should also say that the encoding process isn't particularly kind to the game, which is powered by CryEngine in case you're wondering. The frame-rate and textures are much more fluid and crisp in the flesh.

DSO Gaming posted some new screenshots of the Alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. If you missed the video coverage you can find it here.

The Early Alpha build of Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been released to the game’s backers, and Reddit’s member ‘thatguythatdidstuff‘ has shared a number of screenshots, showing its glorious visuals. Kingdom Come: Deliverance targets a 2015 release. And since this game is powered by CRYENGINE, we’ll be sure to conduct a tech interview sometime next year. Enjoy!

Warhorse Studios released a new live stream video for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

I also found a bunch of new videos with footage from the Alpha version.

The next update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has information the games early Alpha is now available to all backers who pledged at the Baron Tier or higher.

We proudly present you the Tech Alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance! This is a very important milestone for us as it gives us the first chance to show you what’s already been created and what we are aiming for. At the same time also providing us with the first chance to get direct feedback from you

Your feedback is very important to us in the following steps of development. Seeing videos and screenshots is nice, but touching and feeling the interactive piece with all your senses is way better. Therefore backers with the Baron Tier and higher will get the chance to meet Henry and experience his life in 1403. 

Usually Alpha version means that you get a finished game with plenty of bugs, rough edges and missing parts. We would like to approach the Alpha early access phenomenon a bit differently. So how our Alpha look like? Our Alpha version is more likely a Technical Alpha.

What does that mean? The Tech Alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a collection of several technical aspects and game mechanisms in a more or less advanced state of development. The playable content will grow in stages (updated versions approximately every two or three months), adding new aspects, settings or game mechanics to the Alpha. You’ll get the chance to become acquainted with Kingdom Come: Deliverance step by step and can delve into more and more of our world as the amount of the content grow. Interested?

If you happen to be in Poland at the end of the month Warhorse Studios announces they will be at the ZTG GameDev Convention showing off Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

How about a small trip to Poland?

Meet us at this year's ZTG – GameDev Convention) in Poznan, PL.

On October 25th and 26th you will meet over 90 speakers from all around the world. With some special highlights like CD PROJEKT RED creators of The Witcher. But the biggest highlight of course… DAN VAVRA and JOANNA NOWAK from Warhorse Studios - we will talk about the historical background and accuracy in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Check it out!

Warhorse Studios released a new video about their first fan package.

Thanks to Mikael Palsio we have got our very first package full of sweets (and some other ugly stuff), which comes very handy in the crunch time of alpha development :-)

I had the chance to ask five questions of Jiří Rýdl at Warhorse Studios. I tried to get a longer interview, but the developer is busy getting the Alpha ready for Oct. 22nd.

Also in case you missed the last two video updates you can find the 8th development log here, and the new Alpha trailer from yesterday, I also have some new screenshots.

Couchpotato: Thank you for agreeing to answer a few questions in your busy schedule. So my first question would have to be how is development coming along for the game? Any setbacks or other problems?

Jiri Rydl: Sure there are problems, like in any software development process :-] For instance we postponed early alpha access from September to October. But we also were able to move into new offices, hire 50 new people and build our own motion capture studio in last six months, so its obvious we fight some minor issues every day. But the coffee machine is working :-]

Couchpotato: The last update announced the Alpha is targeted for October can you briefly talk about what will be included?

J.R.: As we already mentioned on Kickstarter, this is more or less a technology demo with some basic principles to see. You will be able to walk around small village with a few NPC to watch their day/night routine. It is the starting environment for future updates with horse riding or swords fights.


Couchpotato: Congratulations on achieving the $2 million dollar stretch goal for better voice-overs. A few of our members think the money could of been spent elsewhere, What do you guys think?

J.R.: It is just one of our stretch goals, it doesn't mean that we spent two millions for hiring George Clooney :-] It means that we can try to reach some more worldwide known names to help us with the voice overs. Some backers are already sending their recommendations who they would like to hear, thus you can see that it is important question at least for some of them.


Couchpotato: I was curious if you guys have had  any publishers contact you after Daniel Vavra wrote earlier this year that none of them where willing to publish your game?

J.R.: The publishers are still in touch with us, but we dont need each other right now - we have the production costs covered and the game is not ready for publishing :-] But we can talk about possible cooperation in the future again.


Couchpotato: Since your game was one the bigger kickstarters funded this year can you share some your experience with crowd-funding, and maybe give a few pointer for smaller indie developers?

J.R.: Spend a lot of time with the research of both successful and unsuccessful campaigns, invest some money to selected projects to experience the process, prepare all of the updates ahead and be ready to answer a lot of questions during the campaign!

Warhorse Studios released a Early Alpha trailer for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is first-person, open-world realistic RPG set in medieval Europe. Enjoy unique melee combat, castle sieges, battles and quests in this epic RPG.Pre-alpha version for backers available on October 22nd.

Warhorse Studios has posted the eighth video update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Here is the brand new Video Update #8 filled with cool stuff about the upcoming Alpha access, reaching $2.000.000 stretch goal, our great MoCap studio, unbeatable combat AI… and a small surprise! 

For the Alpha access please visit http://pledge.KingdomComeRPG.com and register (ideally) with your Kickstarter email, so we can deliver the Steam code to you.

Warhorse Studios announces the $2 Million Goal for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has been reached on the games website. The game will now have better voice overs.

The clever detectives among you must have realized… We reached our $2,000,000 goal! “Better Voiceovers”! And now we have defined our next stretch goal. Thank you guys for helping us reach this epic milestone!

There is no reason to stop this momentum. At $2,100,000 we will create an illustrated ingame codex. The Codex will contain true facts about the life and times of every pivotal person, including the stories behind each interesting location in the game.

This way we can maximize the immersion into our world. The codex shall be your guideline of the historical background of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Learn more about life in medieval Bohemia, the major players of the story as well as the civil war our hero Henry is cast into.

Warhorse Studios tweeted the dates for when the Alpha/Beta for Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be launched. It's not exact dates but it gives you a set time frame.

Alpha September/October 2014, Beta Q3 2015 and finished Game Q4 2015”

Warhorse shared links for some new videos on a German site called Gameswelt. The good news is some parts are in English, and they show new gameplay.

Gameswelt from Germany presented their 1st of 4 videos of their visit at our Studio in Prague. Check Gameswelt.de for today’s joy.

Gameswelt NEXT: Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Do you want to see our Alchemy system or are you rather into archery? Check video 2 from the visit of Gameswelt at Warhorse Studios

Gameswelt NEXT - Teil 2: Dungeons & No Dragons

And there goes the 3rd video of Gameswelt. Have you ever wondered how our Tech Alpha will look like? Or the Beta? Check it out!

Gameswelt NEXT - Teil 3: Alpha? Beta? Release?

Daniel Vavra is interviewed on TechRaptor to talk about GamersGate, and the gaming industry. I will remind everyone to keep it civil this time, or I will lock the thread.

What is the biggest difference in the gaming industry when comparing now to when you worked on Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (2002)? Better or worse?

The industry is much better now. We can be independent. We can self-publish our games, even on consoles. We can speak directly to our fans through social networks. There are new ways to fund development. All that is awesome and ideal for growth of the scene and more original games. There are also many more communication channels – social media, Youtubers, bloggers. Back in the day, the Internet was very small, paper mags held all the power, and the journalists asked boring questions like “how many weapons/cars/levels are you going to have?” I was trying to write a sophisticated mature story, and most of them wanted to know if it’s going to be possible to drive over people. Now, when I am trying to make mature realistic historic game, some people ask why we don’t have female knights.

Will the GamerGate issue have any real effect on your approach to your upcoming game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance? That could be changing a character, a story, or part of the world.

No. We had a strong playable female character before all this started. We have gay characters in the game, and we have different minorities in the game, because all I want is to have a mature, strong story. A story that I wanted to tell for years, and I am not going to change it because of outside pressure.

Making Games has posted a new article for Kingdom Come: Deliverance with Creative Director Daniel Vavra about the dark side of AAA production.

Building a AAA medieval game as an Indie studio is tough. Experience and passion won’t do the trick alone. Simply put: you need money! A lot of money!

Our original plan for Kingdom Come was to develop a prototype in 15 months and show it to all the publishers. Given our original commencement day this was supposed to fall on September/October 2012. Unfortunately, there were some delays when starting the company, and the deadline shifted to Christmas 2012. We didn’t realize at first that you can’t actually sell anything but trees, turkeys and trinkets at this time of the year. We shifted our deadline to February and that gave us space to improve the thing (and it also cost us some extra money).

In the end we moved the presentation till after Christmas which gave us more time to improve the planned features and add some extras. We created more cutscenes and dialogues than we originally planned, we had a completely functional GUI and map, and we even had details like accurate item pick up: the character will actually correctly grab the item it is picking up. I was really proud about our final build because it contained almost 100 per cent of what planned for it, looked very good and didn’t crash (almost).

Warhorse Studios has posted the seventh video update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Check our new video update #7. Dan talks about the upcoming Tech Alpha, our new composer, our new merchandise and so on. You can still support the game at http://pledge.kingdomcomerpg.com/ See you there, thank you!

Warhorse Studios posted a short tweet with news the Alpha version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be released to backers in September, or October.

Any news on alpha? Really looking forward to this game?

Mark September/October in your calendar. We are nearly there and be sure, we are as excited as you are.

Area Autodesk did a new interview with with Warhorse Studios. The interview layout is a little weird but ignore it for more information on the game.

The Area: We are happy and very excited to have the chance to speak with Warhorse Studios, arguably one of the hottest game studios in the Czech Republic. Back in February, Warhorse Studios completed their Kickstarter campaign, where upon asking for £300,000, were instead greeted with a little over $1.8 million USD. Congratulations on such a successful campaign! That said - once you start factoring in all of the actual costs needed to make the scale of game that you have in mind, this money is maybe just enough to cover things like salaries, hardware, software/game engine license, rent, and other general expenses for running a company. Something that you most certainly already know! So, Dan, how and when did Warhorse Studios and "Kingdom Come: Deliverance" become a reality?

Dan Vávra: Warhorse was established about two years ago by myself, Martin Klíma and several veterans from the Czech gaming industry and the reason was simple – there was no chance to work on games that we would like to make in any existing studios. And since we wanted to work on something new and innovative and there was zero chance that we could do it under a big publisher's wings, we started a new company.

The Area: Certainly the history of "Mafia" and subsequent titles are known amongst gamers, but for those who only know you for the first time through "Kingdom Come: Deliverance", can you give a bit of background on yourself?

Dan Vávra: I am part of the 80's computer generation – people who grew up with the first 8-bit computers, played the first games on the ZX Spectrum and C64 and started to make their own stuff on the Amiga. I started as an artist in Illusion Softworks and after some minor work on its first game “Hidden and Dangerous”, I went on to be the Writer, Designer and Director on “Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven”. I wrote and designed “Mafia II” and worked on some others, sadly unreleased projects.

The Area: As overseer in the production of this game and making sure that all gears are greased, so to speak, what are some of the main tasks you have to take care of?

Dan Vávra: I am the Creative Director, so I have my fingers in most aspects of the game. But my biggest task is of course design and writing.

Our game is so massive, that there is no chance I would be able to write everything myself, so we have seven other writers and lots of scripters ... I work kinda like a show runner on TV – I work with other writers, prepare concepts for the story, review their work, we brainstorm a lot and the I write parts of the story myself.

The latest kickstarter update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance brings news the developer is now hiring for a man/woman to help find, and work with a new publisher.

Do you know this man?

In this update we are going to talk about something else then development itself: the black art of selling the game, and why we need your help again.

The outcome of the Kickstarter campaign was a great vindication of our effort and it made possible an option we only dreamed about before: to go directly to market, without a publisher that funds the development. This is a very attractive proposition but there are several things we need to consider. Firstly, there is no such thing as going ‘directly to market’. At the very minimum we will have to deal with Valve, Microsoft and Sony – all of these companies are very nice to deal with, but they still are an intermediary between us and the players. Secondly, publishers do lot of useful things and could allow us to bring the game to more players, for example by providing more localizations or by increasing awareness of the game among the gamers. 

Since the end of the Kickstarter campaign we have been approached by several distributors or publishers, with different offers, some seem very good. As we were pondering these, we came to realize that this may be a skill we are missing: Dan knows a lot about design and what makes games fun, I, hopefully, know something about production and about keeping the development on time, but neither of us is a real salesman. 

So this is where you come in. We are looking for a person that would join our team as a Chief Commercial Officer. This is a fairly senior position and we are looking for somebody who has experience with games business. It can be somebody from a game publisher who wants to come over to the Light Side, it could be somebody from a game developer who is looking for a new challenge, it could be anybody who has skills and experience in doing business with games.

Formal description of this position can be found on our LinkedIn page.

All our backers are people interested in games, many of you work in the industry and even if you don’t, I bet you know somebody who does. If someone’s name flashed across your mind when you were reading the last paragraph, please do us a favor and point them in our direction. Or, if you are interested yourself, of course do not hesitate to get in touch. This position is a tremendous opportunity to join our team and shape our policy toward publishers and distributors from the ground up. We are still small studio, our management structure is very, very flat and you will not be burdened by cumbersome bureaucracy.

Let us know. 

Martin Klíma, Executive Producer

Cliqist is back with another short interview with Warhorse Studios PR Manager Jiri Rydl, and talk about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Cliqist : Once the $2,000,000 stretch goal is reached, what additions or changes can we expect to see to Kingdom Come: Deliverance?

Jiri Rydl : First of all we have to keep our promise and start to talk about the best voice overs we would like to hear in our game. It is not an easy task – you can’t just walk into Hollywood and talk to actors :-]

Cliqist : What has been the most challenging component for Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s development?

Jiri Rydl : The whole game is a big challenge :-] From development point of view it is probably our unique system for clothing, which helps us to create living world full of people with their own style.

Cliqist : If there will be a beta for backers, is there a release date in mind for it?

Jiri Rydl : Beta should be released in Q3 2015, but you can try alpha in the meantime. Alpha version should be available in September/October this year.

Warhorse Studios has a short post post about their game at the AI Conference 2014. In cace anyone us curious here is the recorded live stream from last week.

GameAiConf our lead AI programmer Tomáš presents Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Warhorse Studios has posted the next update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance with a status update on the new office, and talk about the development of the game.

Home Sweet Home

When we founded Warhorse we could watch from the windows of our new offices the demolition of an old factory, which gradually turned into a huge hole in the ground, from which a new building started to emerge. Every day we could follow the erection of this mega office building, in the bowels of which there was also to be a massive concert hall one day. It was surprising how few laborers there were working on the construction. At the time there were only nine of us. There were certainly more of them and we used to joke "Let's see who gets the job done first - us building our virtual world, or them building a real world edifice!"

Agile Development

And what else is new here apart from the move? It seems we have finally reworked the plan as we decided last month and began applying agile development and combined teams of people from various areas, who are working on one thing at the same time. The first major task was the implementation of an alchemistic "mini game", which isn't mini at all, but a relatively massive game in its own right. One of our new designers, Jakub, is in charge of it. When we were dealing together with the alchemy on paper, we came across a whole range of problems, as well as the fact that he didn't know which of our ideas were feasible and which weren't. 

Now he has at hand two programmers, an animator and several graphic designers and they deal with the whole thing as a team. They were a little surprised at the outset that no one was strictly dictating to them how it was supposed to be and, on the contrary, that they should sort out the issues together and figure out what was possible, but it seems they are starting to get the hang of it. It’s something of a trial by fire. In the course of it, Jakub discovered much more quickly what was possible and what was not, and in a week they should be delivering a functioning alpha version of the mini game. To be honest, I am very curious whether it will be good and this approach proves itself, or whether it will be not so good and we will have to go back to the drawing board.

Alcoholism!

Just as in almost all RPGs, we too will have the option of drinking alcohol in the game, and since it will be there, we want it to lead somewhere. So it will influence the stats of the player’s character in some way. That’s normal too. Only we said to ourselves that we didn't want it just to add a bit of health and then have a fuzzy picture. We want the lightened mood to raise charisma, speech and stats, allowing the player, for example, to persuade an NPC more easily. We want it to raise his self-confidence, while advanced drunkenness would, on the contrary, lower his stats. 

That's all still easy enough, only we also want differences between various types of alcohol - for bad quality booze to make the character more ill than quality booze, which would show in a longer lasting hangover, and maybe that bad beer would make him throw up sooner (there will be puking, of course). 

Well, then, we add to that a quality that most items have anyway. Only what will be the difference between beer, wine and spirits, when they are all of the same quality? Well, a person has to drink a lot more beer than spirits to get drunk and it fills him up a lot more. So, since we have overeating, the beer will behave like food and it will be possible to get overfull before one gets drunk, or get poisoned if it’s bad booze, and then we might easily have a number of different beers of various quality and other parameters. But, since moderate indulgence in alcohol increases the player's positive stats, he could exploit it by maintaining a permanent state of tipsiness and we have to somehow pre-empt that.

Warhorse Studios has a new forum post for Kingdom Come: Deliverance where they take a look at how Vegetation would have looked like in the 15th century.

Spring is coming to an end and summer stands around the corner. As you probably know, KCD will also take place in springtime. After your grate discussion about arrow quivers I am wondering which vegetation was typical in the early 15th century. Which plants, weeds, crops and trees do you know? Let’s say goodbye to the spring with a discussion, pictures and facts about medieval vegetation in Central Europe.

Lightning Gaming News has ac ouple of new screenshots for Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Warhorse Studios have unleashed a trio of HD screenshots from Kingdom Come: Deliverance, showcasing the power of CryEngine in the beautifully rendered images. The screens illustrate horseback riding, an idyllic scene where a villager indulges in some fishing sitting atop a small wooden bridge, and a solider maintaining overwatch at a castle. The action RPG set in Medieval Europe is currently on track for a release in Q4 2015 for the PC, OS X and Linux, with the Xbox One and PS4 versions expected to follow at a later date.

Dan Vávra, Creative Director for Warhors' Kingdom Come: Deliverance writes in this Kickstarter update on the things that don't go that well in the development of the game, which is partly due to them doubling the team size.

Don’t get me wrong. Our design runs to several hundred pages - we don't pull the game out of thin air. Most of the features are described down to the minutest detail. Only then a situation come along where you are desperately trying to write the last few missing, but quite important features for the programmers, the designers meanwhile are working on lacking craft mechanisms and in the middle of it all ten new graphic and concept designers are asking for assignments. But to assign work to the graphic guys, you first have to read and comment the crafting design from the designers, which after two weeks of work by six people “surprisingly” runs to a hundred pages, and that you cannot read in five minutes.

So you make an agreement with the graphic artists that instead of creating assets for minigames they should first design situation plans and white boxes of the villages on the map and then start on the crafting next week after you've done your review. During the course of the revision, however, you discover that some of the designers haven’t quite gotten the idea of how the crafting should look, that two very similar activities from two different designers have completely different controls, and you will have to go over it with them, redo it and add some stuff that you didn't think of when conceiving the crafting, but turn out to be quite fundamental obstacles to its functionality. 

So in the end it turns out that the graphic guys have to wait a week longer and the designing of features and handling the backlog will have to wait, too. The Boulder of Sisyphus has rolled back a bit. And then when you've finished all the crafting and show it to the programmers, they throw their hands up and tell you it can’t be done like that and they’re not going to waste two months of work on some nonsense like cooking and we should go and simplify it. So the graphic designers...

If you want to read another preview for Kingdom Come: Deliverance then head on over to Cliqist. Anyway it's nothing we haven't read before though.

The entire design of the game it meant to be as authentic as possible, including the attire, dialogue, and environment. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is meant to feel as if the player is directly in the year 1403, dealing with armies invading villages and sword fighting enemies.

A RPG just wouldn’t be the same without some sort of leveling or upgrading system though; so players have the option to design and create their own weaponry. All around the world are skill-based mini games to help improve one’s skill and equipment. Players can whittle away their days refining and upgrading weaponry or just making some alcohol and indulging in culinary masterpieces; there should be plenty around and about to occupy the player’s interest.

The combat system seems to be the most meticulously put together part of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Warhorse Studios actually brought in professional swordsmen for reference and tried to make the physics as realistic as possible. Battles aren’t frequent events and castle sieges are considered to be a highlight in the story; so when they happen there’s weight and significance. However, there will still be plenty of times when the player will be up against crowds of enemies, so gathering allies would be a great idea.

The webpage for Kingdom Come: Deliverance has news of a new audio interview with Dan Vávra on the Boost Radio Network show 1080 Players.

Today we have something special: skype interview with Dan Vávra thanks to Boost Radio Network. It is in English and you can listen to it in the shower!

Warhorse Studios has a new update with more information on the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and include a new video to show some new features.

New features

Every few weeks we have a company-wide presentation of the new stuff that has been created during the previous weeks. Since, due to having to catch up on the whole backlog, I haven’t had much time for dealing with the actual development, I was quite surprised how many new things had been created.

In the first place, we have the archery practically done, including most of the RPG stats connected with it and I dare say it’s that sophisticated we could put out an archery simulator ;-) The scripters then set up shooting of forest game, so you can set out hunting hare with your new bow and I gotta say anyone who manages to hit one of those bunnies is a sharpshooter. It really is awesome.

Our AI has learned to get characters to create queues in front of a door, give right of way to each other and close doors behind them. The horse riding has improved a bit, so for example when the rider now jumps from his mount on a hill, he drops perpendicular to the ground, and on the other hand he can mount the horse even in relatively complicated conditions. The model of the horse itself is being redesigned. The former one was a little short and when galloping sometimes looked a bit funny, so the horses are getting new models and a new skeleton.

Crowd funding continues

The most important news for us is that we’ve finally launched our own crowdfunding platform. It really took us a long time due to the whole range of various issues that arise when you want to make a complex system that must have no glitches, in view of the fact that it’s about money.

Planning and design

As far as me and design are concerned, this month we still haven’t gotten into the working regime I’d like to see. Fortunately we’ve managed to sort out most of the backlog. We created a long-term roadmap of the tasks for the game. We’ve finally decided, hopefully, where we will be moving to next month, because we no longer fit into the existing space.

Digital Digging has a new video preview/interview with Creative Lead Dan Vávra of Warhorse Studios, and ask him some questions about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

If your not interested in watching the video the site has provided a transcript.

I was lucky enough to secure an interview with the creative lead at Warhorse Studios, Dan Vávra, and have the opportunity to ask him some questions about what’s going on under the bonnet of their spectacular game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Worldsfactory had the chance to interview Warhorse Studios, and ask a few questions about their current game Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

You mentioned that the world will be approximately large 9 km², containing “a sprawling city, vast forests, majestic castles, and dozens of villages and hamlets devastated by war”. However, the number seems fairly small when compared to other popular open world RPGs such as Oblivion or Skyrim, which are roughly four times that large; don’t you fear that locations will be a bit too close to each other?

Very good question, we were surprised by the numbers of other games as well :-) We tried a scientific approach and moved with a character from north to south in Oblivion. The run from the top of the map to the bottom took about 7 minutes. In Kingdom Come: Deliverance it took 7 minutes to run from the city to stable, which is about 1.5 km.  The problem is probably in the scale and faster running. So the result is that you don’t have to be afraid of small space. You can get lost in the woods easily :-)

How advanced is the AI system for noticing crimes? I’m kind of tired to either be able to steal anything without repercussions or to be captured by omniscient guards who had no chance of discovering the player character. Also, is it possible to escape out of jail and if so, will the player character be hunted across the land?

We have very advanced AI implemented in the game. Every guard has its own track to follow, of course they can see only in the line of sight and they sometimes need a break. So you can watch them and wait for the break or make some false alarm on the other side of a village to wile them of your way to loot. If you are seen, you will be probably attacked and then put in jail. Our crime system also counts with situations where nobody knows who is the criminal and the punishment is not only in the fine and jail, there is also some real punishment, but we will disclose this later.

Will there be companions to aid the player character in certain combat situations and if so, are they customizable and/or is it possible to give them orders during fights?

Sometimes you will have to fight with more opponents and there could be someone to help you. But I wouldn’t call them companions. NPC in Kingdom Come: Deliverance have their own lives and they don’t want to join you on your dangerous quest :-) You can be accompanied by a dog on the other hand!

PC Games Hardware interviewed the developers at Warhorse Studios to talk about their funded kickstarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance. As usual here is a sample.

PC Games Hardware: The crowd- and privately funded Kingdome Come: Deliverance is one of the most ambitious games currently in development. Do you think that the greater part of the game-industry is funneled through a too-narrow path by the publishers and thus being held back in its evolution?

Dan Vávra: Yes, but I wouldn't say that it still is - it was. You don't need a publisher to develop and sell a game these days. Look at the Top 10 on Steam. 6 of 10 games are indies. Two years ago it would be one. Publisher model as it worked so far is a thing of the past.

PC Games Hardware: Some gamers are quite hyped by the thought of crowd-funding, some are cautiously reserved in fear of being disappointed or ripped-off and some of us are both. There's a difficult path in between for a developer to tread. How do you plan on doing so?

Dan Vávra: Game development is a risky process and everyone should be aware of this, especially when supporting someone on Kickstarter. Even the best developers make mistakes, games get delayed, features are changed on the go. Game development is research, not just manufacturing. There is lot of unknowns that can turn out to be more complicated than expected. So there is lot of risk, but the results could be awesome when things turn out right in the end. And that's why we do it and that's why its worth it to support new projects. We are trying to be open about what we do and how we do it. If there are troubles, we will tell people about it. People invested money in us, but we also invested a lot, I spent all my savings to get this project going and several years of work, lots of nerves, so I want this to be made the same or more than anyone else. :)

Warhorse Studio have opened the paypal backer site for Kingdom Come: Deliverance . It's the perfect time to help fund the game if you missed the kickstarter.

Here are the details.

Crowd Funding Revolution

In the past, when you wanted to develop a big AAA game, you needed a publisher. You needed to convince guys in suits, who don’t understand games at all, to give you money. Those guys usually don’t like original unproven ideas and so most of the games were uninspired clones of each other. Fortunately these times are over.

Our game is being developed without the aid of traditional publishers, so it relies on your support and funding from private investors. Originally we tried to approach publishers, but they refused to finance project they considered to be too risky and niche.

After two years of development without finding a publisher to finance us, it seemed that we would have to close doors. So we tried our last chance and started a Kickstarter campaign. And it turned out that our game is anything but niche. We raised over £1.1 million (US$1.82 million) within one month and the response from gamers and media was awesome.

The game was saved and overnight it grew to be one of the most expected projects. We can hardly expressed how we felt after months of desperation. Now we are independent of publishers, funded by private investors and our fans. This gives us creative freedom to make the best game we can. If you like what we do, please support our game. In exchange you will get a chance to influence its design and play an early access version.

Help us to bring our vision to life. Help us to create not the 176th free-to-play mobile RPG MMO Elven village-builder with DIAMONDS™, but a unique, engaging experience we think you’d like to play. Every extra dollar will allow us to make the final product that much better because it means more money for development and more support from our investor.

Warhorse Studio have just posted a new Kickstarter update for Kingdom Come in which they talk about the console version, web store, GDC, publishing woes, what they are planning for the next months and the increased size of the project team.

What is worth considering, though, is a distribution deal – one fine day we will need hundreds of thousands (one hopes) of actual boxes for the stores and for that we will need someone who knows what they’re doing, because it’s certainly not our thing. So cutting a deal with someone who will put the game out in their boxes and take a cut of the profits, leaving us with creative freedom, is quite a sensible option.

We’ve already had a whole bunch of meetings with such potential partners. We’ve also heard, of course, from publishers, though mostly just the ones who showed the greatest interest even before our campaign. The offers were a mixed bag and it can be said that the smaller the publisher, the more sensible the offer. It seems the big publishers have yet to grasp the concept that unless they offer serious money and accept a significant share of the risk, nobody actually needs them for anything anymore.

A funny thing happened, where a big publisher described the massive costs they intended investing in marketing, on account of which we would have to give them half our profits. Then a big, prestigious marketing agency told us they would do exactly the same thing for half the cost if we dealt directly with them. What would you do in a situation like that? A deal like that might be OK for someone who doesn't have a dime and really needs someone to pay their marketing costs. But if you do have the cash for that...?

It seems that the smaller publishers are much more sensible. I get the feeling they have a much better idea about the way the world is moving.

I’ve been telling everyone from the very start of the company that it would probably be best for us to put the game out ourselves (if we had the cash for it, of course). Following all the meetings, the rest of our GDC delegation also came to a similar conclusion, including our investor’s representative. We can easily put out the digital version of the game for PC and console and share with smaller distributors, who have been much more forthcoming than the big guys, on the boxed game. In the past you needed a publisher as a go-between for a whole range of services that developers didn't have access to, but today the only thing they have going for them is money, and if they don't want to spread it round or you don't need it, then they're basically good for nothing.

A youtube user by the name of karpathyz has posted a video about Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and gives five reasons why we should give them all our money.

Kingdom Come deliverance gameplay has us excited. Here's our Kingdom Come deliverance preview with all the gameplay straight from Warhorse, after their Kickstarter. It's out on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

PC Gamer has a new preview for Warhorse studios Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

An RPG lives or dies by its quests, however. Thankfully, Deliverance’s look fresh and dynamic. Warhorse talk of leading an army to besiege a bandit fort, playing a medieval investigator searching for a mass murderer, interrogating, bribing and threatening people, and even (tugs at collar) seducing ladies. Each quest has multiple solutions – whether by sword, smarts or swoon-worthy charm.

For Vávra, quests must engage. “Collect seven pieces of the magic sword/staff/amulet/spear and use it against mystical evil which is going to destroy the world?” That’s not quite Vávra’s style. “Some want NPCs to react naturally to your actions, we want the world to work naturally. And when you do that and do it right, then most clichés disappear and even small basic quests like ‘bring this item from place A to place B’ make sense and feel authentic.”

The first 30-hour act of Kingdom Come: Deliverance launches in the next six months. Then, nine months apart, Warhorse will release a further two acts. Take the fantasy away from swords an shields, and you have a subject matter that’s clearly captured the imagination of its backers. But how far will it take its realism? Permadeath via a gammy leg after 20 hours would no doubt win a few people over.

Gamingbolt took the time to interview Creative Director Dan Vávra of Warhorse Studios, and ask a few questions about his RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Rashid Sayed: You guys recently claimed that the map size of Kingdom Come Deliverance will be as big as Red Dead Redemption. Is this the case of all the three acts combined or is this the size of the first act?

Dan Vávra: First Act only. Second Act will add a new map, which will be little smaller and will take place on both maps and third Act will be very big.

Rashid Sayed: How are you tackling level design in such a massive open world, given that there a ton of activities you can do?

Dan Vávra: That’s is one of major challenges – make it all work together =). We are developing set of tools to make it as easy as possible. We have our own software for writing quets which directly exports data into the game. We have set of rules which are applied to every quest design. But it’s still going to be hard =).

Rashid Sayed: The game promises to tell a non-linear story. In that case how are you handling the mission structure? Is the player allowed to complete missions in any order and whenever they want?

Dan Vávra: We needed to find balance between good story and nonlinearity. So we are not going to be as free as lets say New Vegas or Witcher 2. The main story has some branches, but still leads to one historic event that can’t be changed. What can be changed are fates of different characters and their relationship to you. All quests on the other hand could be completed in several different ways.

Rashid Sayed: Most role playing games seem to deviate from providing rich side questions by making the player do silly things. How are you planning to keep side quests relevant to the main story line?

Dan Vávra: We did lot of research at the beginning and the world really lives. So when we will try to utilize all of our knowledge, world mechanics and situations, while sticking to our “authenticity is everything” philosophy, we have tons of interesting believable and natural situations for quests.

Gamestar has a new interview for the funded kickstarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

It was really interesting to read that blog about how the project was funded. I am pretty sure you never underestimated the risks you were taking with Kingdom Come since you're familiar with how the industry works. What motivated the team to start working on such expensive and large, ambitious debut project, obviously an AAA-scale title and not something more humble?

We love the era and setting and we love RPGs. And since there were no games that would mix the setting with our favorite RPG mechanics, we had to develop one:)

Couldn't help but think Mount & Blade — a series so familiar to historical reenactment enthusiasts — when I was reading Kingdom Come description. Are you familiar with the series? How different is your concept and vision of the gameplay mechanics from those of TaleWorlds?

Of course we know MB. I played it, but less than I would like to. We share the setting and the ambition to be authentic, but they are true procedural sanbox, while we are more based on story -open world, but with strong storyline. Our combat will also be a lot different than theirs.

According to some of the Western resources, the game events will be tied to a particular historical period. What is the time span the plot is going to cover? As far as we understand, the game is set during the interregnum era with Hohenstaufen fallen, Habsburg dividing the territories and Kurfürst emerging? Does our hero start his way to the throne here? Or are you going to send players to the unquiet era after the death of Frederick III?

Its set in 1403. Emperor Charles IV. died some time ago and his two sons Sigismund and Wenzel the Idle started to fight over the throne of the empire. So its about Luxembourg dynasty, but you are right as well, Habsburgs and Kurfursts were involved a lot in this.

The energy drink website RedBull once again has another preview this time for the successful funded kickstarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Like Oblivion, the story Kingdom Come will tell will be reliant on the choices you make and the way you play. If you want to creep about as a skulking assassin or ride into battle on horseback brandishing a flail, that's fine with Warhorse. If you'd rather travel from town to town singing as a bard, well, that's fine too. Sort of. The stated goal is to create an epic, non-linear story without resorting to usual staples of dragons and magic. "Dungeons, no Dragons".

"Fantasy might be mainstream in games, but when you turn on the TV, go to cinema or library, its quite the opposite - history is the mainstream," says Vávra. "People like TV shows like Vikings, Rome, The Tudors; movies like Braveheart. And the same people also play games, but there aren't many games being made for them. The only thing they can do is buy the next closest thing: a fantasy RPG. But if you look at the success of Total War series or indie games like Mount and Blade, you realize that the audience is there."

The game's story revolves around the plight of your unlucky protagonist, whose career as a humble blacksmith takes an unexpected turn when his family are slain by an invading army and he becomes embroiled in a plot to seize power by an unlawful king. Unlike your standard fantasy RPG, you've not been blessed with a special birth sign, your coming was not foretold in the stars. You'll need to eat and sleep regularly, as in many games' hardcore modes (and, you know, real life). In fact, you're so pointedly un-magical that food left in your inventory will rot and go bad. Dragonborn you are not.

Warhorse Studios has an update about forum badges again in the next post-funding update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. 

Badge matching process completed

This is the follow up to our last update. Our badge matching process is completed and if you have used the same email address on Kickstarter and when registering on our forums, you should have the right badge now.

We have simplified the process in case you are using two different emails: you can now go to your account Preferences and enter the Kickstarter email there. After a short while your badge will be updated.

If there are any problems, please email kickstarter@warhorsestudios.cz

Welcome to http://forum.kingdomcomerpg.com!

PS: In comments to our previous update, many people mentioned the codes we used to send out during the campaign. Please let me clarify this: these codes were a stop-gap measure before the Kickstarter could provide us with email addresses of our backers. Now that we have those, we are not going to be sending the codes anymore. Your email address you used on Kickstarter is all you need to get the right badge.

Warhorse Studios talks about your forum badge in the next post-funding update for
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Not really exciting but still of importance to some.

Your forum badge

Hello and thank you again for backing our game! One of the rewards common to all backers is access to our forums. These are already up and running and many of our backers have their accounts there. It’s time to make sure everybody has the right badge according to their pledge.

The Kickstarter have kindly provided us with the email addresses of our backers and we shall be now matching them to the ones on forums. One of the following things can happen:

• You used the same email address on Kickstarter and on our forums: you don’t have to do anything, your badge will be updated to reflect your pledge.
• You used a different email for Kickstarter and forums: please send an email to kickstarter@warhorsestudios.cz to the effect “my Kickstarter email is someone@somewhere and when registering at forum.kingdomcomerpg.com I used someoneelse@somewhereelse” and we shall match the emails manually.
• You haven’t registered on the forums yet and you can use the same email you are using on Kickstarter: we can match your pledge automatically and you just have to register on the forums (the matching process may take some time though, don’t be worried if your badge does not show correctly during first fifteen minutes or so after the registration)
• You haven’t registered on the forums yet and for some reason you cannot use the same email address: please register and send an email to kickstarter@warhorsestudios.cz, like the one described above.

We expect the matching process to be finished within next 24 hours, we shall let you know when it’s complete so that you can verify your badge. See you on our forums!

The kickstarter for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is over, and managed to earn £1,106,371 of  it's £300,000 goal. Every stretch goal was meet except the last one for voice actors.

In response Warhorse Studios says thank you in the games first post-funding update.

The day we launched our campaign, I woke up in the morning to find we were the lead article on the front page of GameSpot, with our artwork all over the screen. Wow. And there was so much more to come. The response from gamers was even better. Better than we could ever wish for. It became clear that there are quite a few people out there who have similar tastes in games to our own.

The main “reason” we were rejected by all the publishers turned out to be totally false. Not only do people not need fantasy or magic or dragons to enjoy a game, they desperately want games without them! Along the way, we were fortunate to receive support and promotion for the game from such personas as Chris Roberts, Brian Fargo, Sven Vincke, and others. It’s really been one helluva ride.

We have raised almost 400% of our original goal. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is among the 30 most-funded Kickstarter projects of all time and in the top 15 of videogame projects. We have 35 thousand backers, with an average pledge of US$52. Our YouTube channel has more than a million views. 

Simply said: You are awesome! Thank You!

They also share information on what happens next.

So, what’s next? Now we have to make the game! We feel a lot of responsibility and obligation to deliver on our vision after so many people put so much of their trust into our project. It’s going to be hard to satisfy all those expectations, but we will do all we can not to disappoint you. 

I will finally have time to sit down with the designers and start writing the quests and storyline. Next month, we will be joined by twelve new colleagues (some of them quite experienced senior developers from the recently disbanded 2K Czech studio in Prague). In just a few months, we plan to grow to more than 50 people, so we can make the big game we first dreamed of. 

Of course, we will continue to openly blog about development, as we have in the past. Since we don’t need to hide anything anymore, it should be even more interesting. You can follow our blog here. 

And if you want to stay informed about what is going on, please follow our: Facebook page, Twitter and YouTube channel. 

We will also continue to raise money on our own webpage, where you will be able to get most of the same, terrific rewards and early access to the game, if for whatever reason you didn’t or couldn’t pledge in the past month. Our shop will accept PayPal and Amazon Payments, as many of you asked. We will continue to add new stretch goals as we can.

As promised, we will release an Alpha version in about six months to all those who pledged Baron-level support and higher, and we’ll be carefully looking at your feedback on our forums, which are open to all of our backers. By mid-2015, we should release the Beta, followed by the final version of Act I.

So, on behalf of the whole team, thank you again for your generous support and enthusiasm. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we are going to have a little celebration!

The kickstarter for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is almost over, and what a run it was. The game has managed to reach £1,000,000 so we now have dogs added to the game.

 Here is the last update with more information.

Unto the last 24 hours!

We are now about to enter the final stretch: the last 24 hours of our campaign. It was a great ride and we want to THANK YOU for taking us along! We’ve received more than 17k comments, 3k personal messages, 5k likes, and most importantly tons and tons of positive support. You are the ones who made this game possible! 

It now looks like we are going to burst through the £1m (about US$1.67m) stretch goal and who knows how far we can get before the last whistle. For this last surge we wanted to introduce one last stretch goal. We wanted to add something that makes the game better for all players and something that makes the game special. Our £700k pounds stretch goal was ‘Performance Capture’ and we decided to build on this.

A performance capture is as good as the actors that use it, and in fact many people have already asked which actors might get involved – talent like Sean Bean, Brian Blessed and even John Cleese are often mentioned. We love Sean Bean, especially because of his less known indie medieval movie Black Death, and Brian Blessed was in Dan’s mind when he was writing one of the nobles for the game. Obviously we share these sentiments with our supporters!

We already started talking to different talent agencies and we have a rough idea how much we would need to hire our favorite actors. So, we’re confident that IF we reach our next stretch goal (£1.2m), we will be able to hire at least one high profile actor or actress. In the game, you’d be able to not only hear their voice, but also see their likeness and their acting abilities (thanks to performance capture).

Well it has been a busy week for Warhorse Studios. The kickstarter has 36 hours left, and they already achieved £945,706 of the £300,000 goal.

The first part of the roundup is about a new update with information Warhorse Studios will be sharing tech with Star Citizen. Here are the details.

Welcome Star Citizens!

When I was 15 years old kid, one of my favorite games for my Amiga 500 was Wing Commander. Damn, that game was like playing Star Wars movie! It had fancy 3D graphics way ahead of its time, awesome story with cool animations and its creator Chris Roberts became my idol. I was never hooked up on any other space sim since then.

22 years later I saw a Kickstarter campaign for Star Citizen and I was sold immediately. It just got everything no other space sim got for last twenty years and it was obvious after the first ten seconds of the trailer. This was the ultimate space game I and immediately pledged without even reading their Kickstarter page. I was not the only one and Star Citizen has become most successful crowd funded game of all time.

So it was logical that one year later, when we were preparing our own Kickstarter campaign, Star Citizen was our role model. You learn from the best. So you can imagine how happy we were when Chris Roberts appeared on the list of our backers, and you can’t even imagine how it felt when we received an email from Chris himself. He was telling us that he likes our stuff and since his team is using Cryengine as well, they would like to cooperate with us and share some technology! Who would have thought about this 23 years ago when playing Wing Commander?

So to to make long story short – we will share some of our tools with Star Citizen team and Deliverance will most likely have some tech from Star Citizen as well. Hell yeah!

The second part of the new-bit is about a new AMA on Reddit. It may answer some questions some of you still have about the game.

We are happy to answer: questions about setting, game mechanics, target platforms, technology, look-behind-scenes questions about dealing with publishers and platform holders.

I saved the best for last were they hosted a Live Stream on Youtube.