At gamescom in August there was a version ofplayable, now the team has this versionin a two-hour streampresented in great detail. So if you want to get a good impression of the big city of Kutnenberg a few months before the release in February,can currently easily catch up on the developer stream.
On top of that, there was also some information about rumors about Kingdom Come 2 during the stream. The question about Denuvo as copy protection kept coming up. PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling took the opportunity to officially announce oneWaiver of the controversial DRM serviceto announce.
We were also able to play KCD2 in much more detail and have summarized our impressions in the video:
No Denuvo, no DRM
Denuvo has been around for a long timeviewed very critically. The DRM software is accused of, among other things, shortening the lifespan of SSD hard drives and overall having too great an influence on how technically clean a game runs.
The announcement from Warhorse is now causing concernfor a lot of anticipation. Stolz-Zwilling literally said in the gameplay stream:
I see stuff flying around in chat, stuff on the internet. And a lot of it is complete fake news. [...] I can enlighten you about the exact situation and the truth is that KCD2 will not contain Denuvo or any DRM system in general.
Warhorse is taking the same path as last time. However, a lack of DRM could of course also lead to similar disadvantages as with Dragon Age. For example, the absence of DRM also means that there is no preload.
What else is new?
For many people, however, at the end of the day it will be less the question of whether they like the game or not, but rather the specific content. Of course, there were some of these to see in the stream, although not a lot that was completely new. As I said, the version still comes from gamescom.
Still here aresome nice information, which you can take a closer look at in the stream:
- There was a list ofpossible punishmentsto be seen by the city guards. Including unpleasant things such as pillorying, caning, burning and even execution.
- If you play in German, you're missing out on a few thingsfunny language barriers. In the English gameplay, Heinrich comes across a German sword master who speaks a wild mixture of both languages, i.e. Denglisch. This is where wild sentences come out like: “You have to break into their fencing hall and steal their guild sword and then hang it at the town hall.”
- Towards the end there is a little taste of one of theTournaments, albeit here only in the form of a simple scramble on foot. Tournaments in KCD2 should be larger than in the predecessor.
- The game map was shown in a few places, which is stylized but gives a good feel for the scale of the open world.
Overall, there's a lot to see, even if it's just how responsive this game world is to you and which conversation options help you play exactly the character you want to be.
