Wccftech got clarification on the performance numbers shared earlier this week by Kingdom Come Deliverance II director Daniel Vávra.
Wccf tech writes: "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's scope was impacted by the Xbox Series S hardware limitations, as developers could only make a game that was 25% bigger than its predecessor."
This is the issue with things like this
Xbox Series X is apparently to MS the worlds most powerful console
However the Series S is obviously a limitation because it’s underpowered and developers have to go for parity.
So what’s the point of the world’s most powerful console if you are holding third party developers back? They aren’t going to push themselves if they have to think about the weakest console.
The issue wouldn’t be as bad if it was just Xbox but you are also affecting the PS version aswell
I think developers need to start just taking advantage of a console and if one of them can’t do X Y and Z then f*** them…why should the others suffer. What’s MS going to do? The bigger the franchise the least chance MS are going to tell them to f*** off. Baulders Gate 3 seemed to have stood their ground and suddenly their “strict” parity rule didn’t really matter. We suddenly got super optimisation efforts for the Series S that got things sorted.
I agree, and the sad part is use normal folk saw it the second they announced their plans.
Agree 100% this is why I didn’t want the M$ Monopoly, now PS5 version will be held back too.
If PS5 Pro comes out and Series S is still a thing it’ll be interesting what differences and what devs choose to do. Really hoping Rockstar pushes the PS5 pro with GTA6 and we get the best version possible.
I ****ing hate the S. The tragic thing is withour the S MS doesn't even threaten 10m units sold this gen 🤣
Love the S. Devs acting like they know how to fully leverage the systems. Now all devs are on the level of the coalition and ND?
This is a cpu issue along with only 10gb of shared ram not a gpu issue
The cpu is on the series x/s and ps5 so yes those have bigger amount of ram but they still would have the same cpu bottleneck issue for resolution and no doubt npc scale.
They should have upgraded that cpu and like many said in the past trash the series s.
Resolution is gpu. You're talking about VIDEO resolution right?
https://www.techpowerup.com...
all cards tested with same cpu.
https://www.techradar.com/n...
best cards for a specific resolution
@fg
The devs right in the article said the cpu is causing them issues along with only 10gb of ram
the consoles are just glorified tablets same die nothing is deadicated everything is shared.
So resolution is not the same on pc on the consoles heavy cpu games like this make it hard to push 4k 60 hence we need 1440p 60 or a better cpu.
Its like buying a 4090/4k monitor then toss that gpu into a 7th gen quad core ddr 3 setup yeah it "works"
More info from the author of the article, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/ki...
Quote:
"1) I was told this info from the producer of the game Martin Klíma.
2) He specifically said the game will have only one mode.
3) And this mode is 4K 30 on PS5/XSX and 1440p 30 on XSS.
4) He said that the game is already running north of the 30 FPS cap so the performance should be stable on launch, much better than KCD1.
5) The limitation was XSS because of the 10GB memory. He said that's why they wanted to make the game 25% larger.
6) Speculation on my part: the output resolution is probably upscaled and the reason why there won't be a 60 FPS mode is because it'll most likely be very CPU heavy, like Dragon's Dogma 2 for example."
Doesn't seem like they're adding a 40fps mode on PS5/Series X for launch even if they can handle it.
I'd much rather have 1440p/60fps or even 45fps. Having just one, even with the Series S in mind, is disappointing.
Remember when xbots were adamant that the series s won’t hold back the gen?
Microsoft just needs to let go of the mandatory parity. Who cares if your grandma doesn’t understand that a game cannot be played on the S. It’s not like it she can buy you a physical game for it anyway. Before buying the game put up a notice that it only works on series X. If you’re buying for a friend-allow for a refund.
Bam. Everyone is happy. Most series s owners are for casuals that want Game Pass anyway and most likely don’t purchase most games.
If the developers want it to run on S, let them figure it out.
If it were Series X only then they'd only be selling to 25% of the Xbox Series userbase, and that's certainly not worth the time and effort into doing a port. Could just do PS5 & PC instead. No compromises needed.
They can allow people to buy the digital game and then choose which version they want to download/install, Series X or S
“During the event, the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 producer also revealed that on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the game will run at 4K resolution and 30 frames per second“
Another “creative decision” right? 🤦♂️
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Warhorse Studios has officially announced Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, with a planned 2024 release on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series.
Warhorse Studios has revealed Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, a sequel bigger and better in every way - and it's out later this year.
Maybe make the combat fun this time around? You can expand the land all you want, but if the game can barely control why would I want to explore?
It worked when having 1 target but as soon as you had multiple enemies things fell apart quick imo. I hope they made some improvements to it overall becouse alot of its aspects were very gimmicky.
I didn't like the combat but I think it was because I was bad at it.
I wouldn't mind if the sequel eased up on combat difficulty and had more weight to attacks. The series has potential but they have to find the balance between hardcore sim elements and fun gameplay
I think the problem a lot of people had with the combat in the 1st game was that Henry was an untrained serf so in order to be good at the combat you had to really earn it. As Henry is the protagonist again this time round he'll start off the game in a similar position he was at the end of the first one so I expect the combat to be less of a learning curve.
I personally found it very rewarding in the first game when you get better at the combat after practise but I get why it didn't click with everyone
Man I really need to get around to playing the first one. It's been sitting in my steam library for far too long lol.
controls were horrible i tried i really did, but with the worst janky fighting (and dont get me started on lockpicking)...that with the fetch quests, i couldnt do it.....really enjoyed the idea though
Awesome, poured a ton of time into the first game! Hopefully more of the bugs get ironed out before release :)
Hopefully they won't have any trouble delivering 60fps on consoles then.
This is on a Monster PC setup that most people will not be gaming on. I doubt it's hitting 60 fps on consoles, and PC owners are only getting great performance on 4080 or above. Lots of grains of salt with this one.
30 fps confirmed for consoles. I’m glad I have a beefy PC 😁🍻