So, I’ve already played Kingdom Come: Deliverance a little and progressed the main story up till reuniting with Runt, but I decided to restart on Hardcore. As such I know how to progress in the Mysterious Ways quest and I know where Ledetchko is by memory, and if I didn’t I could always check online. However, now that I’ve encountered this quest again, I’ve realized that, even though I got Henry to learn how to read and I, as the player, came to the conclusion that I should go to Ledetchko, I “technically” still don’t know where Ledetchko is. Focusing on the main quest line only reveals a select few locations, such as Rattay, Neuhof, Talmburg, and Uzhitz, but the pathing that one follows based on the quests never has you cut through the center of the map up to this point, only the eastern roads that run between Rattay, Neuhof, and Uzhitz.
All of this means that, even though Henry can read and finds out that his next destination is Ledetchko, the game doesn’t tell the player where Ledetchko is UNLESS Henry asks the Scribe to read it for him. I can’t “Continue according to the clues in the Black Chronicle” because the clues don’t say what direction I’m headed. Am I headed north? South? Along a river? Through a forest? after successfully reading the chronicle Henry mentions in the quest log that one of his(Lubosh’s) cronies lives nearby, but where is “nearby?!” How is a first time player supposed to know where Ledetchko is without markers by “folliwng the clues?” Meanwhile, when Henry has the Scribe read it for him and is told about Ledetchko, Henry talks about how it’s just a “Stone’s throw away” and THEN the map updates with a search area to the northwest in the fog of war. Clearly, Henry as a character knows where Ledetchko is, and therefore the map should update after he reads the chronicle on his own since it tells him that Tonda “did keep company and dwell with Hynek in the woods around Ledetchko.”
The point I’m trying to make is that, without “cheating” and looking it up online, it is infuriatingly annoying and difficult trying to find a location in the fog of war that the player is told to find when they aren’t given a marker nor told which general direction to go and there is no way for them to go up to an NPC and ask for directions. At the very least, the quest log should state which general direction to go since it’s obvious Henry knows where to go even if the player doesn’t, and the player is supposed to BE Henry, therefore the player should know where to go! I, as a player, shouldn’t have to look up online where Ledetchko is on the map because I wasn’t informed what general direction Ledetchko might be in.
There should be some kind of system to find important locations that the player hasn’t discovered yet through in game means other than blind exploration. How is this not already an option? Were people back in this time really this directionally challenged where no one in Talmberg could tell you that Uzhitz is northeast along the river, or that Rovna right next to Skalitz to the southeast? What about road signs? did they really not exist in medieval times? At the very least, the Scribe or one of the major traders should know where other cities are or their general direction. It doesn’t’ take a rocket scientist to understand that knowing the location of cities and the routes between them is absolutely VITAL for traveling merchants at the very least, if not all merchants, as well as lords and their couriers.
Addendum: I have a request. If anyone believes I’m in the wrong, can you please start a new game and focus only on the main story quests from the beginning up to the Black Chronicle and prove that I’m incorrect? Pretend you were a new player and prove to me that, as a “new” player, you would have been able to find out where Ledetchko was without the Scribe’s help, without getting the Uzhitz Priest’s help, and without “randomly” exploring in the general direction of Ledetchko. If you can figure out where I went wrong and where the information was located, then I’ll accept my mistake. I’d even been willing to delete this entire thread if requested, or ask a mod to delete it if I’m incapable.
Also, I apologize for making such a simple problem seem worse than it is, but it’s because it’s so simple and seemingly trivial that it’s so infuriating. This shouldn’t be a problem, and the fact that it is a problem at all is stupid.