I'm going to try to straddle the line here and agree with multiple people. I think war horse made a really ambitious game with the first one. All the systems and stuff going on with the physics and the world complexities, it's understandable for the next one to be amped up and run at 30 on current generation consoles. Just as long as they can push the visual envelope and not have to worry about compromising their vision, I think 30 frames is fine.
I play 30 frames on my steam deck with medium to high settings right now. It runs great and I can lock it to 30 at native resolution without even using FSR. I found out the hard way because I thought using FSR would better performance but this particular game on the steam thing runs better at native resolution with higher settings than FSR with lower settings in my findings on my steam deck OLED.
Kingdom come is one of the most ambitious games I played in the genre. I'm working my way through the Witcher 3 which unfortunately I put down but it's the best game of this type that I played. The Witcher 3 will probably equal or knock it off its perch for me but if you play the first game and know all the systems, this is a very rich and rewarding game that has its challenges but in a very fun way if you want to immerse yourself into the game.
If you play any game and you don't commit somewhat and you just will pop out 5 hours into a 20 hour campaign, I don't know what you're doing playing video games. If you give the game a chance and understand that it's not going to hold you by the hand and have a rewarding combat system that may present some challenges at first, there is a very rich and deep game with so many things to do in a beautifully designed world that can stand up to any other game in its own right.
Knowing all of this, I'm glad to read that they're going to have the full suite of technologies on PC. We can at least play around with having a combination of dlss or FSR in conjunction with frame generation or reflex. You have to love options and the fact that we can control this experience on pc, that's great.
Sure it may involve a barrier of entry because the nicer the hardware, the more accessibility you'll have to customize the experience with no compromise. But regardless of whatever people say about the engine, it is a very nice looking game and if they improve the LOD and other little systems to enhance the game, this should look significantly better in the detail department where in the first game you could clearly see the distance was compromised to keep performance and memory and check. It did an absolutely awesome job and I haven't modded the game but I'm sure maybe there is a way to increase it.
The point is that this really isn't some bad news or anything at all. It just shows you that they're being really ambitious like the first game and it's going to crank it up even more in all the regards that made the first game exceptional. It's one of the best games I've played in a long time and stays total with any game in this genre.
On another note that I was just reading earlier in the thread, wasn't this game designed for last generation consoles as well? So I would think that if the rising tides would raise all boats, this will be a more richer and detailed experience that you can already see on the screen is quite nice. The first game already looked really nice and cutscenes and general gameplay with the characters and just the way everything fit. This just looks to amp every detail up the way you would want it to be considering it's jumping a generation forward and hardware.
