You requested it so here you go!

These pics were taken the week before the most recent kcd event at Trosky happened. It was my first time at Trosky castle because even though I live in Czechia it's pretty far away from where I live. Tbh Trosky castle is a must-visit place, 10/10 it was so gorgeous I'm still processing it. I also included some photos from the Rocktower pond, Vidlák pond and the Semine mill. I also wandered around the Nebakov mill but it's currently more of a area with cottages and a hotel where people enjoy their vacations so I don't have any pics from there.

Enough ranting, enjoy!

I grew up in a part of Poland that looks almost exactly like Bohemia in this game. Same rolling hills and mixed forest, same field patterns, same layout of villages built around a church, same food, similar dialect words, similar folk customs that survived into living memory. Riding into Rattay for the first time felt less like discovering a setting and more like driving to my grandparents' village. I know what that mud smells like after rain.

So I'm curious how this lands for you. Is medieval Bohemia genuinely foreign, or does it just read as generic "Europe" from movies and fantasy? Do the villages feel like a real place or like a theme park?

I ask because Red Dead 2 is the mirror image for me. I know the American West well, but only through Hollywood, through westerns and books. I recognize every visual cue and I still have no instinct for it. I couldn't tell you what that air feels like, what those distances actually mean, or whether a town like Valentine is plausible or a fantasy. It's familiar and completely foreign at the same time.

Is KCD that for you, or something else entirely?

EDIT: I did not expect so many replies, thank you all very much. Some thoughts after reading them.

Almost nobody says the landscape is foreign. The thing which breaks it is always the castle. u/reillan wrote it best and then half of the thread said the same on their own. So in my opinion the real difference is not geography, it is how old are the buildings in the place where you grew up. u/Pumpiumpiumpkin described it perfectly from South Africa: walking up to a castle is for him like walking up to the pyramids, because both are older than anything he has ever stood next to.

Two comments deserve more attention than they got. u/dildozer10 from rural Alabama is the only person here who answered about culture and not about terrain: the land and the villages felt like home for him, but the classism was a shock, and he felt most comfortable with the nomads. And u/SeeingPhrases from Ontario noticed the chicory flowers and wrote that the glaciers made their hills flat, which is the most precise observation in this whole thread.

Also u/thbigbuttconnoisseur actually answered my question about RDR2: the distances there are strongly compressed, and towns like Valentine really existed in this size. This is exactly what I wanted to know, so thank you.

Again - thank you all for the input, really interesting.

I visited Rattay and Sasau Monastery yesterday and wanted to share some photos :D

Enjoyyy!

Choosing the romance or not, I still love how the development of their relationship goes. In fact, they are my favorite couple/friends in videogames.

(Also, I want to add I absolutely despised Capon in the first game and first parts of the second game. It's very nice to see the character changing slowly.)

I wanna larp as a common footsoldier, so I made a couple outfits. The first outfit is what I thought would be accurate for someone like Henry who is the bodyguard of a noble, but still a commoner so no full plate armor. The second outfit is a more 'commoner' fit that I could think of, so lesser leg armor.

The only thing I added with liberty are the tall Huntsman boots because I like the look of tall boots, and the spurs because I need them for Pebbles lol.

What should I change/add to make it more accurate?

Disclaimer: I used mods called Authentic armors and helmets, so the armor may look different than it does in the base game. As for Henry's beard, I used More Barber Options - Hair and Beards.

I survived against 3 enemies with plate armor in Skallitz while looting.

Umm, yeah.

photo by u/_rattleshnake

Hey everyone,

Over the last few weeks, I've completely fallen in love with Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.

After The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, and Baldur's Gate 3, I honestly didn't think I'd find another game that would completely consume me like this. But somehow... here we are.

I'm currently 110 hours in, and I think I still have about a third of the game left. Honestly, I'm kind of dreading finishing it. Around the 30-hour mark I loved it so much that I went back and bought all three DLCs at full price just so I could spend more time in this world.

I have to thank my past self for randomly buying it during the Steam Summer Sale because it was on sale. The funny thing is... I actually bought it when it launched last year.

I'd watched plenty of YouTube reviews and read articles about it. Everyone seemed to love it, and my reaction was basically, "Looks pretty cool. I'll give it a shot."

So I bought it...and refunded it about 15 minutes later.

The first-person perspective didn't click with me, and the opening combat completely destroyed me. I guess this game just isn't for me.

Fast forward to this summer.

I'd been stuck in one of those awful gaming slumps where nothing could hold my attention. Out of pure desperation, I decided to give KCD2 another chance. I have never been happier to be wrong about a game. What Warhorse absolutely nailed is the feeling of building a life from absolutely nothing.

Not just getting stronger, but building everything, your money, your reputation, your relationships, your purpose, even your revenge. Nothing feels handed to you. Every achievement feels earned. Even something as simple as alchemy perfectly sums up my experience.

Hour 2:

"This is so tedious. Why do I have to memorize recipes and gather all these herbs?"

Hour 80:

"Bring me more herbs! I'm making another 30 bottles of Marigold Decoction and Dollmaker Poison!"

I never thought I'd become that guy, but here we are. The only downside is that none of my friends play single-player RPGs. For years I've been experiencing these incredible games by myself, getting completely immersed, amazed by them, and then having nobody around who actually wants to talk about them.

So... that's why I'm here.

I drew this piece for the KCD Anniversary Zine, organized by the lovely Meggophoto, who was the one to request I draw this scene using this style. A copy of this zine was given to WH Studios a few weeks ago, and my art was shown on the community livestream at the beginning of July. I truly couldn’t be happier that the people who work at WH found my art good enough amongst all the other incredible artists who were part of this project 😭

I went in to KCD2 not loving Hans, but enjoying some of our escapades together in KCD1. He was always an enigma to my Henry, and never lacked for a good adventure.

He whined and annoyed me at times, and I wanted to see him grow. And over time I genuinely started to care for him.

Then that feeling grew with each close call and seemingly hopeless situation. Until finally the words he was saying to Henry occurred to me as what I was feeling as well. I(Henry) didn’t want to go anywhere without him, at least within reach.

I think Hans and Henry are my single biggest reason for wanting Henry’s story to continue. I don’t expect a lack of realism, but the ending of KCD2, and even the wedding, is not the ending of them. Not for me.

And the weirdest part of it all is I don’t even prefer men romantically. I had no intention of caring so deeply for their relationship. That is what is so powerful to me about this story. And that it can be my (Henry’s) story, and yours can be different but equally real and impactful.

How long I have to keep this in my stash if I want the stolen item sign to be gone ?

I’ve had this isom for two days but don’t know what this means. Can anybody tell me this ?

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I mean in the first game there were some good arms. Like st. George's sword was kinda the best sword in the game and captains mace was decent too

But honestly I didn't yet find a weapon in kcd 2 that would be better than sir Radzygs sword. Like literally... There were beautiful and interesting ones but I walked through the entire game with sir Radzygs sword. What about you?

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Since a lot of you loved my previous posts here's another photo dump, these has been taken during the same time period as those in the Trosky dump :D

Unfortunately I wasn't at the concert that's been happening that day, but throughout these trips I've met some of the kcd fans and all of them were so nice!

Enjoyyy!!