Anyone Picking this up, tomorrow? I had been wanting to play the first one for a while and finally started my first playthrough last week. I've really been enjoying it, though definitely some frustrating mechanics here and there. Apparently much of that seems to be very smoothed out.

Curious who else played the first and who is excited for the second.

Solid Metacritic scores. Couldn't get into the first one, as much as I really wanted to. Will probably pick this one up and try again.

I'm excited to finally be able to use my PS5 Pro. Apparently substantially better on it vs the PS5. My Laptop is still only rocking an RTX370 and an 11Gen i7 11800H, so it's in need of updating. However, I don't want to spend the money until the RTX 5 series starts going out in laptops.

Artorias said:

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Solid Metacritic scores. Couldn't get into the first one, as much as I really wanted to. Will probably pick this one up and try again.

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I had to mod the game, especially combat, before I could get into it. Getting locked into the AI master striking you all the time, the combos working once in a blue moon…. Rest of the game, like the story and other mechanics were already solid.

Yeah, this is a huge improvement over the first game.

Not very far in yet, but I'm hooked. Be sure to take the time to learn alchemy when it's introduced early in the game so you can make Saviour Schnapps, which is required to save your game outside of sleeping or after important story events.

It's easy to make and ingredients easy to find, but could see folks skipping over alchemy. The potions are expensive to buy.

I finally finished KCD last night around 11:30PM. I was trying to go quickly through the main story and it still took me 51 hours. Really enjoyed the story of this game and very happy I went ahead and played it before moving on to KCDII.

Just played about 15-20 minutes of the opening and a couple of notes already:

• This game looks and plays amazing on PS5 Pro. So glad I ended up buying one.
• The combat already feels better than KCD.

Super excited about getting lost in this game.

I own the first one because I got it for about $4. Sounds awesome but I couldn't get into it.

Definitely a really hard game for people like me who don't relish extreme challenge.

Everything in this game kills me. I have a sword and can't defeat a dog. I don't get it.

Git gud.

Lathspell said:

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Git gud.

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haha he has a point.
once you get the block riposte timing and keep an eye on stamina it's pretty easy.

Tomdoss92 said:

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Lathspell said:

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Git gud.

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haha he has a point.
once you get the block riposte timing and keep an eye on stamina it's pretty easy.

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of course later same day I died four time travelling from random road encounters.

Lathspell said:

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Git gud.

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I'm a dog and wolf slayer now.

In some ways fighting animals is harder than people.

With armor, canines don't hurt me anymore

I definitely had to learn the way to beat wolf packs is to simply perfect block them. They only attack you one at a time, and then that one runs away if you perfect block him. If you have a longsword, you can perfect block, riposte, and then hit him at least once and usually twice for the kill. Easy day. Granted, if it's a dog among 2 other human enemies, you have to really focus on positioning so as not to get overwhelmed.

Going to the swordmaster guy early is definitely helpful. I waited a bit, thinking I knew what I was doing, but found out I didn't know about master strikes. With that knowledge, i'm wrecking fools with my longsword. Granted, if you miss one or miss a perfect block, the enemies at my current level can still do some damage against me.

I've been enjoying my playtime throughout the week. I've been logging about 3 hours a night and am looking forward to getting to really sink some time into it this weekend. I've been taking my time and doing one quest at a time. I'm also taking time to do alchemy and other minor skills to just lean into the medieval role playing.

So far, this game is delivering. I'm kind of mad I even watched a couple of non spoilery reviews of it first because even knowing basic stuff like where you ultimately go would have been much more fun to find out for myself.

This is a pretty awesome breakdown of the history of the area in the game. There are a lot of Texans with ancestry from Czechia/Bohemia/Germany, so it might be of interest.