Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:00:50 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Kingdom Come Deliverance II Wins Big Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:00:47 -0500 Message-ID: <5ubaqj5qrfd6abm50ulsf6i4c587inru7n@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-70h48hjD2DGG0GfqBLXvJuc0JI/fCyUvvt6zQiqdkNUL1pJxT4MbUtjZp9GFuYrSraeXdTHJkQoU2z9!Y9mBUEz5kyJlv6SN2Lg4gKZhtz8Z89/YaC7v463Fl4X8iAKS/YjcC9+oPrqFdEtIEvJR+CyG X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2249 On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:12:02 -0700, "rms" wrote: >>KDC2's development budget was ~$40 million > > One steam comment mentioned they're basically using the same engine as >before, that would certainly help, and probably lower system requirements as >well. Sounds like both these game require large time commitments, which >puts me off of looking into them more. An amusing comment I read was that both KCD1 and KCD2 use the same engine as "Star Citizen", and the devs have some sort of technology-sharing agreement with Cloud Imperium (Chris Robert's company).* But while "Star Citizen" so far has amassed $800 million in development costs and hasn't yet come out of alpha, Warhorse Studios (the KDC devs) have published both of their games, and it cost them 1/8 the price. [and frankly, from what I've seen of both games, I think KDC looks a lot nicer but then, I'm more partial to trees and castles than barren planets] Makes you wonder what Chris Roberts is doing with all that money... * I don't know if it's actually true, but it makes for an amusing story ;-)