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Longer list of things I’ve found when playing the game for roughtly 8-12 hours. Excuse some unreal expectations as last game of similar genre I played was “The Neverhood” from 1999 or so 
And from dungeons&something DiabloII, but I didnt like it.
No bugtracking system
- I sort of understand, mantisbt is nice but hard to use properly for “common public”, but
even then some list of known/confirmed bugs and will/wont fix would be nice
NPCs
Dead buried soldier was found at different places around charred farm after loading the game
- lying on “bed” apparently alive, impossible to loot and he disappeared overnight (at least i think)
- standing in mid air two meters above the “bed”, possible to loot
- standing on his grave at night, possible to loot without witnesses
- nowhere (finally)
Bailiff
- never apologized or retrieved keys from the witch, but quest is done. Just his wife cant notice.
Bailiffs wife was found (after loading of game, doors unlocked)
- stuck at various places including through the door above the ground
- nowhere
When found in door area, she can’t be awakened and you can sometimes walk through the door only in one direction and you can get stuck inside the house. She stands up when hit by arrow and falls asleep in second. When you kill her, you can finally pass through the door, but it’s a crime.
Jerry’s quest
- Talking to Jerry’s wife or talking to Bailiff after finding the meat has no effect. It’s not possible to speak to Jerry, Marianna or Fisherman anymore. I think quest is impossible to complete (cant remember if I promised Jerry not to tell anything to Bailiff)
General
- Soldier spotted riding a horse standing on him
- Crime system unpredicable. Obviously using cuman armor/dress right after getting reward for killing two in the middle of military camp is not the best idea … now i have to kill them for the 4th time. It’s not completelly clear which parts can (not) be used. Would be ok with load/save system that works without breaking the game.
- It’s possible to get just black screen when you try to talk to NPC while standing in the door (s)he is just closing (may be hard to reproduce)
- Some door are impossible to open during night period (blacksmith’s house and others)
- I believe I’ve found a bow at military camp near shooting range at night. Can’t reproduce.
Sword fights
- Pretty impossible in the dark or bushes, pretty hard anyways (at least first tries in the arena). Cumans can use bushes to their advantage (invisibility)
- Cumans seems to be easily killed as well as you, so outcome of fights is little bit random, but it’s posible to exploit their “stupidity” when you are prepared
- Killing cumans is actually much easier than winning easy level in arena, i would expect oposite.
- NPC enemies do not take cover to minimize exposure (well, hopefully)
- Corpses are hard to find in bushes
- Friendly fire among soldiers … they can hit each other when they are aligned (judging by “uughh…arggh”)
- Little weird ragdoll physics, sometimes it’s not obvious if enemies are dead, sometimes they seem to be in impossible positions
Henry
- wish: Crafting shelter from logs and buying chest would be nice, especially if there may be need for different dresses or armor. Perhaps it’s intentional to prevent having personal armory
- It’s not clear where to sleep during the night, sometimes you can sleep in tavern being awaken once, sometimes herbs women shelter, sometimes tavern or even tents in the camp work.
- You can have more items than you can carry (over weight limit) and some of them are not in inventory when you want to sell them (have not tried to reproduce, i think it was armor of undead soldier)
- Camera can be under the ground when Henry falls for any reason
- Blue hose are always worn, dressing blue hose means wearing brown trousers and they can increase or decrease charisma (0 to 2 undressed or 4 to 3 dressed)
Loading saved game
- some stuff seems broken randomly or consistently (NPCs stuck, like mariana staring into wall for days etc., half of taken items respawns, completed quests are gone)
Environment (i’m not historian, but)
- Sun set at 18:00 in May/Jun in Bohemia? I guess there should be six hours of dark plus 2x1 hour of twilight and sixteen hours of daylight. Henry usually sleeps for 11 hours unless he needs to do something in tavern or steal stuff and it takes little bit too long.
- wish: Real night sky with conselations and milky way would be nice
- Grass is not eaten by sheep inside fenced areas or along paths? When I’ve seen sheep inside fence, only dirt and islands of some plants were left.
- No grass mowing for hay or feeding animals around villages? I mean there’s tall grass everywhere
- Roads seems like there’s heavy cart traffic everywhere and when i think about it, they need some maintenance unlike footpaths for people or cattle. Is that realistic?
- wish: Only horses, sheep and chicken. No goats, pigs, cows, cats even pigeons (and they have “houses”)
- wish: more immersive sounds (insect), sounds of animals running away at night, sound of trees swaying in the wind just before it gets dark and other disturbing immersive horor sounds (try to spend summer night alone at edge of the forest without tent) … forest seems just full of wolves now … but please don’t overdo it
Surprises like being killed 5 seconds after thinking about saving the game
- i’ll just try cuman’s armor … shit game crashed in inventory
- i’ll just save game before going into deeper forest over that hill … shit, i’m dead, wtf cumans go that far?
- i killed cumans, entered inventory 3 times, no crash … uff, i should have saved it, let’s try their armor … leaving inventory with bloody vision attacked by six soldiers at once next to the Zbysek
I’m stuck at quests:
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Jerry’s poisonning - mentioned above
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Lost sword (not enough lockpicking skills, right person not found, i mentioned something that i should not, speech level 25 insufficient?)
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I think I have not unlocked stealing Lesek quest (might be my fault as well)
##GUI
- When game starts in window smaller than size of the screen, mouse cursor movement is limited in foreground window(s) that overlap it. It’s easy to reproduce as game takes long to load.
- Mouse cursor is not shown on loading screen before you hit enter to go into menu.
- Printscreen support would be nice
- Explanation of some icons around health bar would be nice. Hunger icon is not clear.
- Lags when game requests lot of data from HDD (not SDD)
HW Demands feedback
- i5 4590@3.3GHz / 8GB RAM / Win7 / 4TB 7200RPM HDD + 250GB SSD) / Nvidia GeForce GTX 650Ti Boost 1GB driver 359.06 — 1280x720, middle details cca 25fps
Positive feedback
- nature seems pretty familiar
- awesome graphics
- swearing, rough language
- background music
- sounds although they can be improved (variety of ambient sounds)
- little bit of humor in conversations
perhaps it crashed instantly before even showing Henry
And from dungeons&something DiabloII, but I didnt like it.
