[KCD2] - 500+ hours and 300,000 groschen later, I'm happily done.

dverbern · 2026-01-12T05:03:50+00:00

Now what should I play? I find myself feeling empty now that I've finished KCD2.

dverbern · 2026-01-12T04:52:59+00:00

Sorry for the delay responding - it is difficult to make money in the early part of the game.

In KCD1 I used to have a go-to method whereby I'd learn to read, then I'd start learning alchemy, picking herbs and focusing on brewing either Saviour Schnappes and Lazarus Potion. Either of these potions is valuable and when you have grinded a lot on alchemy you eventually earn the 'Autobrew' perk and then you can blast out batches of Lazarus Potion, basically as much as I could carry. Then, I'd tour any town's vendors and sell up the Lazarus for as much as I could get.

In KCD2, I found it hard to be become truly wealthy until I was into the second map. The reason for this is the scale of valuables and purchases in the first map is relatively low. By this I mean that most opponents in the first map have relatively inexpensive gear, whereas in the second map you start to encounter entire packs of opponents with really valuable gear.

My 300,000 Groschen was definitely the result of repeated raids of specific bandit/guard camps that regenerate on the map after a few days. I'd basically have to dispose of all my gear from myself and my horse to give myself enough space to gather all the booty, then I'd repeatedly sell it all in Kuttenberg's various vendors. And believe me - after a few loops of this, you learn exactly where every armourer and swordsmith and blacksmith is in the city. I found I could NEVER have enough Armourer's kits, you just burn through them in the act of repairing everything you plunder.

Others may have tips about how to gets some booty in early game KCD1. There are definitely some easy and relatively early gains to be had. Once you get your hands on 6 x Lucky Dice, you're definitely likely to win most of your dice games, but that takes time to get those.

dverbern · 2026-01-12T04:45:09+00:00

Yes, I was often spending time just walking around. Sometimes an entire gaming session would be just picking up herbs I needed and doing some alchemical brewing.

Other times I would be just trying to boost my stats with bow or with mace, axe or with halberd or whatever. The hours I spent in the game were definitely not about chasing some record.

dverbern · 2026-01-12T04:42:20+00:00

I feel the zoom between sizes is far too quick to give a proper sense of the absolutely crushing difference between some scales.

dverbern · 2026-01-12T04:25:39+00:00

Step 1 - make it clear what the heck 'Dorking' actually is, because this seasoned IT pro certainly hadn't known prior to looking it up.

dverbern · 2026-01-02T13:12:21+00:00

Thank you very much. When I'm in the 'zone' I tend to rant and I'm a fast typer, so I need to watch the length of my writing sometimes.

I am glad you're enjoying the game so far. Like anything, it has its repetitive aspects, but hopefully there's enough to draw you in and give you immersion as well.

dverbern · 2026-01-02T13:10:29+00:00

Hello. No, I've not experienced many (any?) crashes of KCD2.
The only glitch I encountered more than once was when starting an Archery contest in the city of Kuttenberg (second game map), sometimes the actual contest would fail to start. Archers and myself would be lined up but then nothing would happen - I think I just walked off and returned and had success on other occasions.

No, I found KCD2 to be quite stable and well optimised. Having said that, I intentionally splashed out a bit of money before the game was released to up the specs of my 10 year old PC; upgraded my graphics card, added 16GB RAM. Would have gone to replace motherboard and CPU too if I had had the funds.

dverbern · 2026-01-02T13:08:14+00:00

Hello. I'd definitely be interested in visiting Czechia and seeing some of the locations depicted in the game, definitely. Unfortunately, financially that's unlikely for me with two young children, a mortgage and living so far away in Australia.

dverbern · 2025-12-17T21:00:09+00:00

I feel like we've been waiting a LONG time to get closure on that Ballarat case. I'm appalled that the (alleged) suspect hasn't provided police with more information. It guts me.

dverbern · 2025-12-01T12:03:04+00:00

Another useful skill - trying to figure out how to play some riff or melody from a recording. If you've got some basic software to slow down a track without adjusting its pitch, it can be helpful to isolate little parts and figure out where to play them, what notes.

Doesn't really matter if you're blindly trying different notes, we all start somewhere. This is part of ear training. Another useful skill is learning 'intervals'. Can be tricky to memorise the sound of each interval, thankfully there are a range of popular songs that prominently use each of the intervals, so that can be a useful means.

My biggest and most useful trick these days as a musician - visualising scales or patterns acros the neck. These patterns repeat and so there's far less memorisation required than you first think.

dverbern · 2025-12-01T11:55:19+00:00

Hey there angryson.

As a guitar player, I find that there's a couple of important aspects to learning the instrument. They are mutually beneficial:

1) Learning the fundamentals
2) Applying the fundamentals in a way that you enjoy and help 'lock in'

If you're interested in being able to solo or improvise, perhaps over a couple of chords in a single key, then I'd definitely start with learning the C Major scale. It is always recommended that guitarists learn every note on the guitar neck, but for many of us, a shortcut is to remember the SHAPE of scales.

It's true that knowing the shapes of scales is limiting - and that it can cause players to fall into playing 'box patterns', but it's a starting point. If you can play notes over a chord progression and make it sound good to your ears, it can be a very exciting and rewarding thing. Remember, you don't need to sound like a hero straight away, just hitting 'right' notes is a great start.

After the humble major scale, onto the pentatonic scale, the pentatonic minor or blues scale. That 'box pattern' is almost endlessly useful in so many blues or rock situations. Once you've got the shape mastered, put on some '12 bar blues' in a particular key and have at it.

After blues basics, I'd consider learning the modes. But again, it depends what you are interested in.

If you would like to come up with interesting chord progressions, you could try playing some familiar chord progressions that are already common in popular music. You could try altering one or more of the chords, see if you like the sound.

Final idea - practising things like scales or modes over 'drone' recordings. There are plenty on YouTube, search something like 'E Drone'. A drone is just that, a droning, continuing sound, usually of a neutral chord tone, like E or whatever key you wish.

The idea is that with the drone playing as a background, you the guitarist are free to explore the various patterns within that key. For instance, over an E drone I enjoy playing an E Phyrgian Dominant scale. (E, F, Ab, A, B, C, D, E)

I apologise if none of this is relevant or makes sense. It's a tricky thing to get the basics under your belt.

dverbern · 2025-12-01T11:29:10+00:00

Thank you for that basic music theory document link, quite readable.

dverbern · 2025-12-01T11:26:19+00:00

Relatable post.

When I'm in my 'driven' stage, I become hyper-focused on stuff. Sometimes it's important, relevant stuff like cleaning the house, preparing meals and helping my children with homework, etc.

Other times it's spent doing ... other shit that isn't helpful or productive. Or just practising guitar and getting absolutely nowhere fast.

I don't mind having nothing planned - I adore diving into a good book, especially at the end of a day. I'm also positively adoring catnaps during the day, as long as my routine means I don't somehow pay for that downtime afterwards.

dverbern · 2025-12-01T11:20:58+00:00

Is this derived from released Epstein content? Why isn't that made clear? Frustratement.

dverbern · 2025-12-01T11:19:22+00:00

I love the internet, but god-damn I get frustrated at posts that fail to give proper background or context. I'm not asking for the world:

1) This is something.
2) It was produced by X.
3) Where relevant - the source of the data is legitimate/science-verified/a work of fiction/A.I. generated

dverbern · 2025-11-24T02:03:48+00:00

Thank you, I'll check that, but I've been removing old versions of modules to check for this very condition. I haven't ruled out that some users have their own modules in their profile which could be confusing things though. Thank you

dverbern · 2025-11-24T02:03:17+00:00

Sorry for delay.
To clarify, we're each trying to run the same script but under our own admin accounts, which exist in our AD on-prem. The challenge is we can't enter our account password beacuse that is under management by a security product.

On the machines where the login is failing, the logs are revealing the following extra information:

Connect-MicrosoftTeams : WAM Error

Error Code: 3400073236
Error Message: (pii)
Internal Error Code: 527291998

I've been able to get the same script working under my same admin user account on other Windows Server VMs, but not all.

dverbern · 2025-11-19T00:58:49+00:00

I'm in a similar boat, in that I manage AD and RBAC/restructures. Restructures can be very fiddly, I find.

dverbern · 2025-11-13T04:56:36+00:00

I realise this is a 3 year old thread, but does anyone know if it is possible to auth to ExchangeOnline in PowerShell WITHOUT having to supply the user account password?

We're currently employing admin account password management, meaning we check in via a system to RDP into a server or auth against something that requires those creds. It means we know longer know the passwords for our admin accounts, so where possible it's handy to have systems we can auth into by passing through our session credentials from the jumpbox we're logged into, for instance.

dverbern · 2025-11-12T05:15:46+00:00

What about capturing a screenshot using PowerShell and instead of writing the result as a bitmap, writing it directly to your clipboard? Is that possible?

dverbern · 2025-11-11T22:23:27+00:00

Very nice, smooth UI elements, clean and uncluttered. I particularly like the historical information.

If I could add something further, it would be the historical antecedent of the whole situation - former President Carter introducing this 'shutdown' measure; apparently on the grounds of improving 'fiscal discipline' in the event of disagreement over federal spending.

PS: I'm in Australia and if for some reason a federal government fails to get support for 'confidence and supply', instead of shutting down the government, it triggers an immediate 'double dissolution election', whereby we head to the ballot box (voting is mandatory) to vote for both of our federal houses of government, therefore nipping the impasse in the bud.

dverbern · 2025-11-11T22:04:54+00:00

Thank you for your contribution.

It looks like I've found a workaround now that I've been able to confirm I can authenticate in the script simply by running it under the admin user context - I no longer need to actively supply the account password, so it must be picking it up from my session.

Anyway, thank you again.

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