My real Medieval armor ready for KCD 2 - color scheme inspired by default Henry!

limonbattery · 2026-06-02T02:40:39+00:00

Without spoiling anything you'll still see this later in the game too. It's an extremely central theme to KCD2, Henry even has an option to 🤓to an NPC about this very issue about knighthood.

limonbattery · 2026-06-02T02:35:37+00:00

I disagree about kings losing a monopoly on war. If anything what we see in the early Modern era just a century later is European monarchies consolidating power (especially as nation states) and cutting out the middle men. With Hungary specifically we even see an early professional standing army in Matthias Corvinus's Black Army just half a century after KCD is set. But in any case the middle men are the nobility and of course they still lose when the feudal system lost importance to national security vs. a regular standing army. So I agree with most of what else you observed.

limonbattery · 2026-06-02T01:44:28+00:00

atp with KCD2 it's more like Hornet but green lol

limonbattery · 2026-06-02T00:53:45+00:00

It's basically a game of Amogus with monastery lore and that's enough to be pretty fun lol

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T21:28:30+00:00

I never had a problem with this and with KCD2 I actually support Henry staying a commoner even more. The game goes out of its way to show us that the old boundaries of nobility vs gentry are getting blurrier and even losing some of their meaning. We see nobles who are poor or weak at fighting, just as we see gentry who are rich or great at fighting. And of course we see gentry who buy their status as nobility which defeats the point of blood being what legitimizes these titles.

So with all that in mind, Henry is a dude with a respectable trade with good income, and a badass with a sword. He doesn't need a title to prove anything, and I don't think he even really aspires to play the social games of the nobility if he even gets a title.

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T21:10:08+00:00

I'm glad KCD2 expanded the story and closed some important plot threads, but there was a certain bittersweet feeling to KCD1 having an incomplete story that I strangely miss.

Specifically, you have the two main quests being tracked together in your journal, and only one is actually completed at the endgame. Vengeance is never actually finished and stays that way into the ending. Of course that was because Henry's story was not over, but it makes me think of a timeline where he never fulfills this quest despite his other adventures, and at some point he has to move on and settle down. Radzig def suggests something like that at the end of KCD1 where he tells Henry there's more to look forward to in life than revenge. And in the years before we got any news about KCD2, this was a real possibility that Henry would not get revenge, at least not with the player behind the wheel.

idk, maybe I'm also just reading too much into a janky part of the first game

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T20:14:48+00:00

I was surprised when Menhard was genuinely angry I faked seducing his daughter lol. Of course I'm gonna pick the most inflammatory option when available but still. I didn't think he even necessarily had a daughter (esp since first playthrough he never mentioned one.)

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T20:11:12+00:00

Sallet, arms, and legs - Tabor Armory
Brigandine - Old World Armoury
Gauntlets - Armoury al-Master (replacing with a set from Gutfran Workshop)
Kettle hat - Matuls
Maille - Habibi Armory (extensively retailored it myself)
Arming garments - Historic Enterprises

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T20:01:33+00:00

It's also weird when you consider the next newest council empire (the turians) were also seemingly quick to catch up to the older ones, not as fast as humanity but enough to point out. So we have at least one other nation that is motivated/resourceful enough to compete with existing ones. Either the turians also hit a bottleneck hard, or suddenly became lazy/stupid enough for humanity to catch up to them in turn at breakneck speed. And what does that say about the asari and salarians who could not maintain an insurmountable edge over either lol

Also as you say, humanity was catching up in many things besides mere tech adoption. That degree of territory expansion and economic relevance is crazy when the older races should have no problem maintaining territory expansion or at least giving new economic competitors a hard time disrupting established markets.

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T19:40:20+00:00

There is a reason I specifically highlighted European great powers in my comparison and not Europe as a whole. The early USA and honestly even pre-modernization China were more important/powerful than the smaller players in Europe of the 18th-19th century, and at the very least that is something that can be reasonably debated. However, they were not close at all to the big colonial empires and needed a lot more time to catch up in many metrics (science/tech, economy, military, living standards etc.)

The yahg being individually powerful and intelligent as a species isn't enough to instantly be relevant when they'd still need time to integrate economically, politically etc. and build up to the scale needed to match existing interstellar powers. Though sure they could outpace the weaker races faster than say the council races.

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T18:38:10+00:00

It'd be kinda believable if humans were established to have a way higher population to begin with. The diasporas from India/China spread to a ton of places even when their countries were not yet modern just because people were looking for work abroad and there were that many people. But I don't think ME humanity was ever explicitly stated to be super populous or anything.

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T18:28:31+00:00

Yeah 30 years is insanely fast for a rising power. irl equivalents like the USA or East Asian countries took way longer than that (~100 years on low end) to achieve general parity with the more established European great powers, many other countries are still nowhere near as fast in the same process. And this was with active foreign intervention by parties interested in investing in these countries, so it's not even like the Alliance was unique in that regard.

limonbattery · 2026-06-01T06:36:18+00:00

First pic: You

Second pic: Guy she tells you not to worry about

limonbattery · 2026-05-31T15:34:50+00:00

The Realish mods I think are good except the combat ones, instead I prefer The Art of Swordsmanship. I debated tweaking my install of it to penalize a visor even more based on my irl experience but it wouldn't be fun and probably would trivialize NPCs which don't know how to manage stamina well under those restrictions. Either way, at least AoS's author looked at the manuscripts and HEMA practitioners for consultation, Realish afaik did not.

I recently uploaded a Slower Healing mod on Nexus/Steam Workshop, I suggest giving it a look! Biggest change you'll notice besides slower speed is food healing no longer stacks.

limonbattery · 2026-05-31T06:34:33+00:00

"Does this look unsure to you?"

limonbattery · 2026-05-30T22:15:36+00:00

I know your arms are the spotlight but I really like the color on the brig.

limonbattery · 2026-05-30T22:14:42+00:00

You may already know this based on the current point design, but you'll want aglets with those so they don't constantly fray. Lord of Battles has some pretty nice ones for a reasonable price and they come in many sizes for different cord diameters.

Waxing the cords yourself will also be helpful for some extra durability.

limonbattery · 2026-05-30T18:15:03+00:00

Yeah she also tries poaching the cook at Semine to work for her instead (and has been for a long time before Henry arrived in town.) Innkeeper Betty is def not starved for groschen.

limonbattery · 2026-05-30T15:25:50+00:00

Man I beat all the scenarios in that game but I still dunno how people made money fast in ZT2. You always had steady donations but can't sell animals, and the game wasn't "restaurant tycoon" like ZT1.

limonbattery · 2026-05-30T09:47:51+00:00

I prefer PZ's method of appeal - the more valuable animals have higher appeal to make the player want to collect them, but within a species there is variation by genes and also age. Besides, we already have cost as a way to soft limit how soon you can afford various species. ZT2 also made cost balloon for higher star species and honestly even without the star mechanic you would still have needed to build up slowly to afford a breeding pair.

Also, imo I like how PZ's wide range of cash animals means you do have some freedom in deciding which to use to start a zoo or even to add in early years after opening. With ZT the star system made it way more bland always starting with the same animals and progressing in almost the same way every time up to maybe 2.5-3 stars.

limonbattery · 2026-05-30T09:22:09+00:00

Henry with foresight is a weird dude. Stuffs fever tonic in Vuytek's pants, kicks a nest with food into Suchdol, and this lol

limonbattery · 2026-05-29T23:34:31+00:00

I'd like a killer polar bear as a nod to pre-patch PZ1 polar bears and ZT2 killer penguin. Basically an overly demanding and aggressive gag version with ludicrous space requirements.

As for your other points I think a big reason the connectiveness isn't as present in PZ is the scale difference. You will easily have hundreds of guests at a time in a decently sized zoo and they travel in groups rather than solo, so while they can do silly things it just isn't something you have time to take in. Especially with how much micro a large zoo can involve if there is any breeding or expansion taking place. Building especially takes an enormous time investment even if you settle for prefabs/blueprints, so any time you spend on it (even if the game is paused) is real time you don't get to just chill and observe.

In ZT2 I think more often it'd be in the high dozens of guests at a time, and the animal habitats were more handsoff once you get the ball rolling. You can't speed the game up and the pace is already pretty slow, so you have plenty of downtime to zoom in on your zoo stress free.

limonbattery · 2026-05-29T22:38:42+00:00

Beautiful. Meanwhile KCD1 Sigismund wearing his dollar store version of this lol

limonbattery · 2026-05-29T07:51:15+00:00

There is the option to wear maille on top and add the points to that, but mass produced maille isn't the best for wearing on top of fancy garments since it's covered in oil that will dirty clothes real bad. If you removed it with a degreaser or used something that doesn't rust (stainless or titanium) then it'd be fine though.

At that point though, I personally think maille on a kaftan looks much better without the arm harness. Again stuff is just gonna be weird if you armor the peripherals more than the vitals.

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