The realism extends to the sorts of trade-offs you have to make for certain gear, which added some interesting strategy elements. My character became a force to be reckoned with because I mastered the systems, not necessarily because my strength stat kept increasing. Sword fights have a nice tempo and reward technical skill, quick thinking, and most of all patience. Luckily, the combat behind it all feels kinetic, precise, and polished.
To maintain a stable framerate in all situations, I had to turn down the graphics settings to the point where low level-of-detail models would remain in the scene for certain people and objects for a couple seconds even when I got up close, which was distracting. The combat behind it all feels kinetic, precise, and polished. Autosaves are unforgivingly infrequent.Ĭrashes were rare, but when they did happen the autosave system sometimes set me back just as far. Worse, a handful of quests in the second and third acts had either broken triggers or missing quest markers, sometimes requiring me to backtrack to a save I made an hour or more ago and choose a different path through a mission to avoid the roadblock. But others are less of a laughing matter because they got in the way of gameplay in significant ways. The fantasy breaks down a bit too frequently under the weight of bugs, though.
Likewise, walking into an inn covered in blood with a sword drawn is a good way to intimidate people into seeing things your way.Īll of this takes place in a large chunk of wooded, medieval Bohemia that shows significant attention to detail and is filled with little historical touches that help it feel like a real place.
NPCs' reactions to your appearance extend beyond BO simulation. The biggest example is how clothes will accumulate wear and trail dust as you traipse through the wilderness, leaving nobles less than impressed with your scruffiness. Without a single spell or magic sword, Kingdom Come gave me the abundantly satisfying feeling of transforming from doe-eyed scrub to stone-cold killer.
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