Example: Waiting on the battlements until morning. I come up to a guard and start chatting. Suddenly the guard gets cut-off and another guard proceeds to tell me how I can skip time with the T button. I thought the game was supposed to be immersive, not holding your hand etc.
Another example: I get out of the castle and start making my way to Skalitz. NOPE! says the game, you’re not allowed to set foot into the woods. Here you go, I’ve teleported you into a cutscene.
What the actual fuck. Is this some twisted fail safe mechanism to prevent people from getting lost in the game and giving a bad review, because they couldn’t be bothered to use the map or something? Because it failed. Horribly so.
Yet another example: Most game’s have some bugs that aren’t reproducable. KCD has features that aren’t reproducable. Like the starting quest with the shit throwing. First time I said no and then I snuck up behind the shit throwers and waited. They gestured between themselves then one made the woman go away and they proceeded to throw shit at the house. Ze germans came and I got to beat up the shit throwers with ze germans as my buddies.
Then I had to restart the game, because it froze and LO and behold, even when you decide to say No when they ask you to come and throw shit, the game starts the questline and they just stand there forever and ever until you interact. I’ve restarted multiple times just to see if it’d work again, but no luck.
And the game seems to be riddled with safe fails like this, they aren’t even bugs. Maybe bad design, but certainly not bugs.
I’m really sad that the game turned out the way it did on release. That it went the way of marketing over gameplay, idealogy over immersion.
Hopefuly you go back and fix it, because this is laughable. It really is comical. To the point where you’d rather cry than laugh at how something can be so stupidly simple and yet make such a big difference.
Fix your game Warhorse, please. Or it’s absolutely clear that you’ve lied from the start and you’ve no actual balls, it’s just about money for you.