Having played around 25h (though not having finished the main story yet), here’s some of the things that need to be improved.
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Saving system. I’d like to start by saying that I love difficult games, and a lot of times one of the main difficulties of such games come from the saving system. I’m alright with that. Having to be careful not to die because you’ll go back quite far if you do. But then, the problem with Kingdom Come Deliverance is not that the saves are limited, but how the saving system is explained. You don’t get AT ANY POINT an introduction to the save system (or maybe I missed it), and then, during the game it’s pretty confusing. It’s not clear when the game will autosave, when you can save using Schnapps, etc. It should be more explained. Dark Souls has a clear system, the fires. Here it should be clearer.
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Loading screens. At first I thought it was my PC (it’s good but not the latest technology), but reading the forum I see this is a general problem. You get loading screens (3-10 secs) for almost EVERYTHING you do. You talk to someone? wait 7 seconds, here it comes.
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Salutations in dialogs. It doesn’t matter the relationship you have with a certain NPC, they’ll always salute you cordially. For example (SPOILER AHEAD), when you see Fritz and your other best mate alive after weeks of the Skalitz horror, you talk to them and they answered like “Greetings Sir, I’m honoured”. Then you start the conversation and yes, they react accordingly to the situation.
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Discovering regions with fast travel. I think the first time you get to a place shouldn’t be FAST TRAVELLING. I mean, sometimes you fast travel from the explored point A to the already explored point B, but the path the game chooses crosses a LARGE unexplored zone (with black clouds in the map, I mean), and it automatically gets explored. That’s ridiculous in my opinion.
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Weak points in combat (the tactic in every battle is the same). Maybe I haven’t been able to find them, but I feel like every fight is the same. Enemies have no weak points. You just keep attacking and they keep blocking until they run out of stamina and then you are able to hit them since they can’t block. This, combined with defending yourself when they attack. I am aware there are combos and some techniques (like feinting and such), but the fact that I’m pointing out here is that every enemy is the same except of their strength, stamina, speed and equipment, of course, but you have to fight them the same way. This point I’m not very sure bout it because it might be me that misjudged it and it’s just me that fights every opponent the same.
That’s as far as I remember right now, but I’ll keep adding things while I remember them.