It's so far doing much better out of the gate than the first one did, which seems good at first. But back then it was a niche game from an unknown studio, which was crowdfunded and was met with widespread negative publicity. More importantly it's not a indie game anymore, they sold out to a large publisher who has much higher expectations for returns. Dragon Age Veilguard sold millions of copies but was declared a failure because they were expecting twice what they sold.
Not exactly surprising that it does better because the first one had horrible performance and was riddled with bugs, combined with a lot of bad publicity and no marketing to speak of, except Vavras Twitter shitposting. Also the combat system is hard to get used to and even if you do it's still very janky.
I tested KCD1 once during a free weekend many years ago but the performance was so unbelievable shit on my 1060 (on the lowest settings) that I didn't bother playing more than 15 minutes before uninstalling it. I only bought and finished KCD1 last year with a significantly better system and even then the performance was still quite shit. Recently I bought a used 3080ti and in KCD1 it barely feels like an upgrade compared to my 6600XT.
Having a better launch than KCD1 was pretty much guaranteed for KCD2. But it remains to be seen if it manages to be more successful over all. It won't be a disaster like Veilguard but considering how hard they tried to hide the woke shit and how rabid Vavra acts I wouldn't be surprised if it is already falling short of their expectations.
It's so far doing much better out of the gate than the first one did, which seems good at first. But back then it was a niche game from an unknown studio, which was crowdfunded and was met with widespread negative publicity. More importantly it's not a indie game anymore, they sold out to a large publisher who has much higher expectations for returns. Dragon Age Veilguard sold millions of copies but was declared a failure because they were expecting twice what they sold.
Not exactly surprising that it does better because the first one had horrible performance and was riddled with bugs, combined with a lot of bad publicity and no marketing to speak of, except Vavras Twitter shitposting. Also the combat system is hard to get used to and even if you do it's still very janky.
I tested KCD1 once during a free weekend many years ago but the performance was so unbelievable shit on my 1060 (on the lowest settings) that I didn't bother playing more than 15 minutes before uninstalling it. I only bought and finished KCD1 last year with a significantly better system and even then the performance was still quite shit. Recently I bought a used 3080ti and in KCD1 it barely feels like an upgrade compared to my 6600XT.
Having a better launch than KCD1 was pretty much guaranteed for KCD2. But it remains to be seen if it manages to be more successful over all. It won't be a disaster like Veilguard but considering how hard they tried to hide the woke shit and how rabid Vavra acts I wouldn't be surprised if it is already falling short of their expectations.