I’m in a play through of the game right now, and I’ve not even made it half way through and I’ve run into more bugs in this game over a year after launch, than I have playing games in alpha or beta testing. Rust didn’t even have this many bugs in beta testing, and that game was the gold standard for cancerous bugs. I’m not trying to be rude, nor am I trying to be funny. It’s astonishing to me that a game that’s done as well as KCD has managed to make it over a year without resolving some of these issues. The revenue this game has made is no secret. A lot of copies were sold, so I don’t really want to hear excuses about how Warhorse is a small studio. They’ve made more money with this game than large studio’s/publishers have made with triple A titles. Hire a bigger staff with all the money you’ve made selling copies of a broken game to consumers. There’s just not quality patching taking place after the sales. In my opinion some of this stuff is borderline fraud. There are game breaking bugs still present in this game, while it’s still being sold for full price in the steam store.
Here are some of the bugs I’ve run into so far, and I’m not even half way through the game.
- Private Area Warning doesn’t show up sometimes, and will lead to arrests.
- Bird In The Hand quest is bugged. When I put the cages in a chest for storage, it claim’s I’ve deployed the cages for the quest.
- Nest Of Vipers sabotage says you’ve completed the sabotage after only poisoning half (2) of the pots and burning half (2) the arrows, but then later on claims you’ve failed sabotage while confronting Radzig.
- Bernard will quit weapons training for no reason less than a half minute into training and walk away, returns to post bugged pacing back and fourth. <~ This one is game breaking for me. I can’t train for longer than 25 to 30 seconds without being stopped.
- Textures still don’t load often, even if I have LOD distance maxed, and r_TexturesStreamingMipBias -3. (can be fixed by changing texture quality once)
- Archery competitions will take so long to load, the 2 competitors often times have already fired 5 to 6 arrow’s before the loading is complete. Because the competition rewards the first finished archer, I’m at a disadvantage because there’s no way I can finish first.
- The entire Baptism of Fire mission had a texture bug, i posted an example below , several posts down.
How can you ethically and morally sell a game to people, knowing full well there are bugs present in the game that have the potential to make it impossible for a user to complete the game? The folks who play this game need to realize how unethical this is. It’s not like Warhorse doesn’t know about these issues. I send in support tickets all the time. They just never respond.
The two major ones for me so far , are the private area bug, and the training bug. Combined, one is ruining my reputation in every single town I visit, while the other prevents me from actually training and becoming competent with weapons. It will take me hours just to advance a single level with a weapon because Bernard keeps walking away. And everywhere I go in town I’m shunned because I keep getting arrested for no reason.
I just want to add, so that this isn’t strictly negative. Outside of bugs and optimization, this is the best game I’ve ever played. That needs to be said. I think the developers already know how magnificent their game is outside of bugs/optimization, but just in case they don’t, I’ll say it.
