This is a pretty good first attempt for a studio -- the lore/world is very compelling but the combat is very janky and mediocre. Of course, it's realistic but that doesn't really make it fun for some players. So I would advise people to check out gameplay of the combat and if it seems fun to you, big recommend to try it.
Really good RPG set up, but the combat was so awful and off putting and awful that it's taken all interest for me away from KCD2 as well. Maybe others will like it of course...
It started off pretty fun -- I like the vibe/tone of everything. But the reality is that the combination of insanely long load times and I think over 13 crashes now in the first two hours is just too much to enjoy the game. I have a 6k computer that is pretty much an extreme rig, but it's still having problems. It's hard to complain about a free game and I appreciate the effort of the team, but unfortunately for me it's just impossible to get immersed and in a groove if you crash every 10 minutes, and you fear getting into combat (three crashes), or opening any door to load inside/outside (most of the crashes). The last straw was barely surviving a pretty hectic/long fight with about fifteen guys and then right at the end the game froze/crashed on me and I lost all that progress. I'm not super technical about checking for fixes and solutions online so unfortunately for someone like me, I'll have to move on. I do think it looks very promising even in the first hour narratively.
It's a pretty good game with a lot of CRPG fun to be had -- it's a bit buggy later in the story but they seemed to have fixed a lot of earlier stuff from what I've heard. It's a bit of a lesser game than WOTR to me but that's a pretty high standard.
I've rarely ever wanted to put a bad review, but this one and only time I have to because I can't play it at all. I just keep loading the prison start scene and the game just...stops. The first time my entire computer crashed...ok, I turned the graphics down. Hard reboot...tried again. Second try...jammed on a stuck screen with an inability to even exit game, etc. Reset everything, downgraded graphics, check everything I could, closed everything else on my computer. Third time, I get to the prison scene a third time, and it just...stops again. I'm at a loss. I have a 128 GB, RTX 3090/AMD 5950X and I've just given up. It looks really good though...maybe I'll play it someday...but I think I have no choice but to just return it.
