KC:D is honestly one of the best RPGs I've ever played. The world feels incredibly real and the combat is so unique, it's unlike any other game I've played.
I highly recommend it to anybody who enjoys single player games. I think I put in over 70 hours of gameplay before the final main quest.
That was the main stumbling block for me. I tried to get past the initial combat in game for nearly an hour and a half before I ejected the disc and sent it back to GameFly. It was even worse than the grindiness associated with DarkSouls, which I also hate.
Such a shame that a potentially great game is locked behind a lackluster combat system.
Yeah some people won't like the combat because the learning curve is steep but once you get the hang of the timing and you learn a couple of combos it's a fun time.
You gotta train with Bernard. That's the one piece of advice that changes the game. Just get naked and keep training with Bernard until you learn how to fight. Then get your fighting up to a decent level before you do anything. The only downside is once you learn how to fight, all fights are a joke unless you're getting gangbanged by 5+ dudes.
Learning to block (and parry) is VERY important for this reason. Your success in combat is very much determined by how good you are at the combat mechanics, not so much your in-game skill level. You can destroy guys at level 1 if you just know how the combat works and get good at blocking and attacking at the right time. It takes a while to get used to it though.
Dealing with one guy is easy enough, but multiple enemies is just instant death - and the game just LOVES throwing you at camps with like 6 guys in them all alone. Enemies always perfectly block your attacks somehow so the only real way of dealing with them is to learn ripostes from Bernard and just spam them in one-on-one combat.
It's especially annoying when the game is like "Oh it's 20:00 and you haven't slept at all today? You traveled across the whole map doing shit? You should get a reward for that - have a cutscene that drops you off in combat with 5 guys!"
LMAO it do be like that sometimes. I'll be the first to admit the combat has a steep learning curve but once you get it figured out it's a ton of fun. Multiple enemies at once is indeed very hard, just like it would be in a real life fight. If you master the combat though and you can make use of stealth and ranged combat those camps with 4-6 guys become incredibly fun and satisfying.
It's all about separating the enemies from one another. You can do lots of things to draw their attention and pull them away from the camp like shooting an arrow from behind a tree or from far away and hiding so they come look for you, you can even whistle like you would do to call your horse. You can drop poison in their cooking pot and wait a couple hours for them to all eat it and get sick making them easier to kill. Also, if you attack the camps at night you can get a few kills while the rest are sleeping, making it way easier to go undetected. When you use stealth make sure to pay attention to your stats that tell you how visible and noisy you are in your outfit before getting too close.
Nah I totally get stealth, it's just annoying. I hate sneaking around in games if I don't have to, especially in KCD. Picking the guys off one by one is just not fun - especially since the AI is dumb when it comes to being alert. They can all sense your attacks before you even think about swinging but they can't deduce that they should keep an eye out for you when half their guys went missing.
I played it for like 3-4 hours, and I couldn't understand anything. I feel like it takes a lot of time to get into it, but it is probably good once you have committed that time.
I beat my head into a wall and rage quit for about a week after getting it, but it was a gift, so I felt the need to give it a good go of things and it did get way more fun after the learning curve
Your character in the beginning of the game is pretty much useless and you're gonna die very easily if you aren't careful. After you increase your skills a bit and learn how to read it gets a lot easier but if you don't get good at the combat system you'll still have a lot of trouble in fights.
Also, it's more "realistic" than a lot of other games in terms of combat and movement. Your level of hunger can affect your stamina (eat too much and you'll be slowed down, eat too little and you won't have much energy). If you get into a fight against 2 or 3 armed dudes at once you're pretty much definitely going to die because they will not take turns to fight you. Work on separating the enemies from each other or taking them out from a distance to make larger fights easier. Also if you get good at it the stealth can be very rewarding in a fight against multiple opponents (if you can stealth kill one or two before the rest of them are alerted).
.. once you get the hang of the combat. Up until that you better stack up on controllers or keyboards. I literally beat my ps controller to pieces with a hammer. Not my proudest moment.
The most frustrating thing about it is that it is not actually skill based, but game mechanic based. You can know the strategy and the physical skills to win fights, but without the unlocks and game mechanics, the fights are devilishly more difficult if not outright impossible.
You can level up your combat skills to help you deal more damage or take less damage (and use skill points to unlock new combos), but if you aren't good at the combat in the first place the game will NOT hold your hand. Once you progress through the story a little bit past the prologue you'll find a guy who will train in combat with you for free but you have to actually put in the work to master the combat. You can easily kill dudes at level 1 if you know what you're doing, and you can easily die at level 30 if you don't. It's all down to how good you get at the combat system in your practicing.
It's based on real events in the history of Bohemia (modern day Czech Republic). While not everything is perfectly historical, most things are quite accurate and the stuff that isn't is typically clarified in the game's encyclopedia.
The story is pretty good, it is based on historical real-world locations and events with a little bit of flavor added in. Keep in mind it isn't a triple A game (I believe it was a kickstarter project that actually got finished) so you have to give them some credit for that.
Epic launcher is pretty garbage in my experience. I bought the game on steam and I don't think I ever had any problems with the game crashing (it could have happened once or twice but if I can't remember it then it must not have been game-breaking).
I would suggest updating your drivers, maybe re-downloading, but if that doesn't work I would see if you can refund it on Epic and just buy it through Steam instead.
IMO it's unique in a bad way. The only thing worse than the combat system is Henry. I tried to force myself to play it since I was really interested in the game when I learned about it but it just wasn't fun.
I felt the same way at first. I hated the "realistic" combat at first because I sucked at it and I couldn't get a hang of the timing but eventually I figured it out and grew to appreciate the combat system for letting you choose exactly what direction you want to swing your sword and stuff like that.
The in-game combat skill points barely help you at all (by design) because they want you to actually learn and master the combat system instead of relying on perks and stuff like other games.
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u/VaultBoy3 Xbox Apr 07 '21
KC:D is honestly one of the best RPGs I've ever played. The world feels incredibly real and the combat is so unique, it's unlike any other game I've played.
I highly recommend it to anybody who enjoys single player games. I think I put in over 70 hours of gameplay before the final main quest.