Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Update Adds Barber and Modding

The latest update for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is here from Warhorse Studios. Featuring a Barber addition to make your Henry as handsome as you wish, modding tools, and a host of fine tuning and bug fixes, it’s the largest update yet.

The full patch notes can be found here, but here are the core details:

Barber

• A Barber has been added to the game. You can find them in Zhelejov and Kuttenberg!

Achievements

• Adjusted the difficulty of certain skill checks so that the player can unlock the Close One achievement more reliably.

• Fixed the issue where the achievement The Lord Taketh Away would sometimes unlock without meeting its conditions.

Alchemy

• Improved lighting effects.

• Improved resolution of the fire texture.

• Fixed pouring animation causing a flash.

• Fixed an incorrectly localised label in the list of alchemy recipes.

Animals

• Improved dying animations and ragdoll for cows and bulls.

• Fixed some animal spawners not working correctly.

• Fixed reactions of hares to Mutt.

• Fixed random movement of animals and reduced the frequency of their turns.

Archery range

• Arrows are now re-equipped automatically after archery contest.

• Fixed the issue with the competitor NPCs sometimes ceasing to shoot.

Balancing

• Rebalanced how quickly food goes bad over time.

• Rebalanced armour durability values; the durability spread is now wider, so smaller distinctions between armours are now more readable.

• Rebalanced the formula for triggering a black-out from being drunk.

• Rebalanced stealth items.

• Rebalanced the price of meat and other items lootable from animals.

• Rebalanced the difficulty of pickpocketing NPCs.

• Rebalanced the amount of damage each armour layer receives.

• Rebalanced the influence of an item’s quality on its price.

• Rebalanced the prices of horse equipment.

• Rebalanced the prices and stats of jewellery.

• Rebalanced item weights.

• Rebalanced comfort for studying books in inns.

• Changed ranged weapons distribution within shops and other places.

• Changed stats of the Gallant Huntsman’s Kit.

• Slightly improved loot from chests in some bandit camps.

• Lowered skill-teacher prices.

• Lowered the overall value of caravan chest contents.

• Made polearms stronger.

• Made shields cheaper.

• Increased the price for which player can sell herbs.

• Recalculated items’ conspicuousness based on their appearance.

• Fixed the incorrect display of item’s maximum charisma when the item is dirty.

• Made several locks in the Trosky region easier to allow for a smoother levelling curve.

• Made locks on chests containing mostly food easier to lockpick.

• Adjusted lockpicking difficulty for some horse traders’ chests.

• Fixed exploit with a restocking chest containing a Balanced Die.

• Fixed incorrect arrow damage values.

Blacksmithing

• Generally rebalanced the blacksmithing minigame.

• Improved visual indication of workpiece cooling.

• Added horseshoe recipes to various merchants and locations.

• Removed bezoar from alchemy and added it to blacksmithing.

• Fixed the alignment of semi-finished products at the forge and anvil.

• Fixed the Knight’s sword recipe.

• Fixed issue with not being able to interact with blacksmiths who are idling while player is using their smithery for the minigame.

Carts

• Increased the distance at which the interactor for getting on carts is available.

• Fixed player sometimes spawning right inside a cart when interacting with events close to the Vidlak Pond.

• Fixed the issue with carts sometimes leaving behind their invisible collision even after despawning.

• Fixed cartwheels not aligning with ground properly.

• Fixed players sometimes randomly dying after dismounting a cart.

Combat

• Increased damage from hits from the multi-hit combos.

• Added proper facial animations for Henry during the mercy kill execution.

• Adjusted the animation of drawing a bow while moving.

• Being hit will no longer interrupt the player drawing a weapon.

• Adjusted the free attack animation used when holding a torch.

• Adjusted the animation of a dog attacking a target that is holding a ranged weapon.

• Improved animation for transitioning into aiming with the crossbow.

• Introduced a short delay between melee attacking an opponent while not locked on to reduce the effectiveness of attack spamming.

• Adjusted the animation of the player being pulled down from a horse in combat.

• Adjustments for few sound effects such as hits to the shield or firing of the crossbow.

• The player is no longer able to easily back away from attacking enemies, thanks to the slowdown effect during hit reaction.

• Improved the animation of NPCs shooting from a crossbow.

• Properly adjusted damage type for master strikes when deciding between usage of slash or stab damage value.

• Adjusted damage of the upper master strike with shortsword and shield.

• Adjusted limits of the freelook feature in combat.

• Fixed various freezes following from causing massive mayhem in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed the issue with missing audio responses for attacks and hits.

• Fixed issues with disarming NPCs or player when they were supposed to die from a clinch attack.

• Fixed an occasional infinite fader after being knocked to the ground with low health in a fist fight.

• Fixed an issue with player holding ranged weapon getting knocked back long distances by unarmed enemies.

• Fixed the NPC logic of when to use a torch in unarmed combat.

• Fixed animation alignment while player is backing up while blocking with shield.

• Fixed the issue with NPC’s additive animation for torch while fighting with a dog or a wolf.

• Fixed sometimes missing the chat option to surrender.

• Fixed camera issues in unarmed fight with dogs/wolves.

• Fixed the issue with NPCs not dying properly when running away from player and getting hit by the tackling attack.

• Fixed the issue with player striking the air in a sequence of attacks during clinch if the enemy gets killed by the first strike.

• Fixed some battle cries not being played properly during battles.

• Fixed NPCs being indecisive about bandaging themselves, fighting, or running away in combat.

• Fixed dying enemies still looking at their opponent.

• Fixed the issue with NPCs unreasonably pulling out ranged weapons in melee combat.

• Fixed the player being able to interrupt weapon drawing animation of NPCs indefinitely through their attacks.

• Fixed audio for combat clinches.

• Fixed missing sound while parrying an attack from clinch.

• Fixed wolves and dogs not transitioning into ragdoll properly under certain circumstances.

• Fixed the issue with the player being able to turn the camera 360° vertically while using free look and holding block in combat.

Crime

• Made NPCs less precise in where they’re going to look when investigating a sound heard from far away.

• Torch visibility buff now applies even if the torch is not visible while equipped.

• Improved reaction for guards when player steals a corpse that’s currently being guarded.

• Items in player’s stash now keep their stolen item marker.

• Improved the mechanism determining whether an NPC should interrupt player who is currently skipping time in trespass.

• Boosted hearing for NPCs reacting to a violent or criminal situation.

• Adjusted NPC behaviour when feeling threatened by the player.

• Revised reactions to sleeping in beds owned by NPCs.

• NPCs watching a violent situation will now flee if the source of the violence moves too close to them.

• Made enemy corpses now persist in the game longer before despawning.

• Improved an animation of a surrendering NPC.

• Improved reaction for when the player is seen lockpicking a door and opens lockpicked doors in front of the arresting guard.

• Added a tutorial for displaying the list of crimes when in the crime confrontation dialogue for the first time.

• Added more overlay tutorials for the rabbit icons.

• Adjusted cooldowns for various reactions of bandits.

• Changed how civilians react to the player’s dog in stealth areas.

• Fixed a violent assault crime sometimes not being elevated to a murder after the NPC dies.

• Fixed the resisting-arrest crime sometimes incorrectly persisting through an NPC’s unconsciousness.

• Fixed authorities sometimes confronting player in their underwear when raised from their bed at night.

• Fixed NPCs sometimes still looking for the player even though they are fighting right in front of them.

• Fixed NPCs sometimes seeing the player’s actions through obstacles.

• Fixed NPCs sometimes being able to see behind themselves.

• Fixed and rebalanced calculating the angriness of a location triggered by player’s thefts and violence.

• Fixed prolonged loading times caused by stuck NPCs.

• Fixed dialogues about resolving crimes not making sense in the context of Sigismund’s camp.

• Fixed the crime icon stuttering while inside a bush.

• Fixed no fine being calculated for stealing certain horses.

• Fixed issues related to resolving crimes with victims who had been unstreamed in the meantime.

• Fixed NPCs sometimes confronting player about a drawn weapon or other minor issues after being released from the surrender dialog.

• Fixed the recognition rabbit icon sometimes getting stuck.

• Fixed NPCs incorrectly using combat barks meant for group skirmishes when in skirmish with only one person and an animal.

• Fixed player being able to walk through an NPC who is currently arresting them through triggering the ghosting mechanism.

• Fixed the arrest dialogue with guards being broken under rare conditions.

• Fixed being able to start a friendly chat with a NPC in a brief moment after pickpocketing them.

• Fixed the NPC reaction to shooting during a combat encounter.

• Fixed the NPC reaction to arrows/bolts flying by while reporting crime.

• Fixed the NPC reaction to the player lockpicking when the lockpicking should be legal.

• Fixed the NPC reaction to being attacked, but missed, while they’re surrendering to the player.

• Fixed locks not getting locked after player is arrested for lockpicking.

• Fixed the issue where a civilian would not stop banishing the player’s horse.

• Fixed animation issues with a poisoned NPC attempting to run.

• Fixed NPC pathfinding when looking for an active shooter.

Cutscenes

• Made equipped arrows and bolts show on player even within cutscenes.

• Fixed several reasons for video sometimes stuttering during cutscenes.

• Fixed issues with player’s helmet visors in cutscenes.

• Fixed consistency issues across cutscenes.

• Fixed green frames sometimes briefly appearing at the beginning of cutscenes.

• Fixed general synchronization issues.

Daily life

• Generally improved NPC daily schedules across both maps.

• Improved the animation of NPCs sweeping.

• Revised the logic of locking shop doors.

• Improved animation transitions when leaving the leaning stance, now considering the movement direction.

• Improved female beggar pose and animations.

• Improved female sitting pose and idle animations.

• Adjusted trespass at the saddler’s tent by the horse market in Kuttenberg.

• Food items on shelves at the bakery in Tarmark in Kuttenberg are no longer free.

• Adjusted trespass in some of the backrooms in the city bathhouse in Kuttenberg.

• Added an animal companion restriction for tents inside the Sigismund’s camp.

• Adjusted the placement of smoke particles by multiple windows in Kuttenberg.

• Added water particles for NPCs when they wash themselves / drink from troughs.

• The baker in Tarmark now locks his door when he finishes his shift.

• Added a time period before the next bandit starts patrolling the route after the previous bandit was eliminated.

• Door to the player’s room at the Devil’s Den now remains open.

• Fixed day cycles of people at the northern gate of Kuttenberg.

• Fixed day cycles for villagers in Suchdol at night.

• Fixed some food items being free at the Kuttenberg vegetable market.

• Fixed the tailor’s store being left unguarded and unlocked in the evening in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed innkeepers getting stuck by the barrel in the Hole in the Wall tavern.

• Fixed various house doors in Kuttenberg being left unlocked at night.

• Fixed the issue with Cuman soldiers not talking with each other in Sigismund’s camp.

• Fixed constantly active trespass in the smithy in Hoprink in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed a trespass behind the counter of the baker in the Czech quarter in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed the possibility of Mutt easily falling into the mine shafts west of Kuttenberg.

• Fixed issues with some items not having a proper owner in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed NPCs in Miskowitz sometimes falling under terrain while feeding chickens.

• Fixed various places in Kuttenberg where player started reading a book on a bookstand through an NPC reading the same book.

• Fixed conflicts of NPCs wanting to use an item for their behaviour and having to hide it while using a ledge or a ladder.

• Fixed the issue with one of the Kuttenberg fortification towers having a blue trespass instead of the correct red one.

• Fixed the issue with one of the Kuttenberg fortification towers not being marked as trespass consistently across all of its area.

• Fixed the issue with some guards in Kuttenberg not preferring sleep to heal when they are hurt as they should.

• Fixed the baker in the Czech Quarter in Kuttenberg not selling anything.

• Fixed issues related to NPCs using torches wanting to climb a ladder or lie in bed.

• Food items are no longer free at the baker’s stand in Jewish quarter.

• Fixed a certain part of the Kuttenberg underground allowing companions to appear.

• Fixed robbing dead smugglers in the Kuttenberg underground being considered stealing.

• Fixed an NPC stacking wood inside a wall in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed locking of doors leading to the Kuttenberg underground.

• Fixed an issue where NPC would pick up a filled bowl when picking up an empty one.

• Fixed Adder not having a daily routine active after spying in Maleshov.

Dice

• Added more money to some dice players.

• Fixed Agility XP gain when starting a dice game.

• Fixed dice sometimes clipping with the badge.

Environment

• Generally improved environment across both maps.

• Improved environment close to the level barrier so that it looks nicer even though it is not accessible.

• Improved the look of Trosky castle from far away.

• Adjusted interior visibility from afar in the Emperor Charles tavern.

• Reworked NPC navigation in Kuttenberg, allowing NPCs to take better advantage of wider streets.

• Removed out of place collisions on the river by Sedletz.

• Improved shadows on the St James Church model.

• Improved textures of certain houses in Suchdol.

• Placed better chairs in the Devil’s Den.

• Improved lighting in Kuttenberg.

• Points-of-interests underground are now no longer discovered when walking over them on the surface.

• Improved textures on several houses in Kuttenberg.

• Removed a shadow artifact from the bathtub model.

• Improved normal maps of the shelf model.

• Fixed NPC navigation issues in several Kuttenberg houses.

• Fixed NPC navigation in several places around the Nebakov fortresss.

• Fixed multiple issues with inconsistent lights on Suchdol fortress.

• Fixed water being luminescent in the tunnels below Maleshov.

• Fixed reflections in the northern area of the Trosecko map.

• Fixed the lighting and smoke particles at cauldrons.

• Fixed Z-fighting of various rocks.

• Fixed Z-fighting in Kuttenberg battlements guard towers.

• Fixed Z-fighting on buildings in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed Z-fighting on Suchdol battlements.

• Improved several house visuals in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed stretched texture on a yellow house in Tarmark street.

• Fixed houses missing interior when viewed from a distance.

• Fixed a bad looking house corner in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed an issue where player could go underwater in certain parts of the river by Sedletz.

• Fixed the unclimbable stairs in the All Saints tavern.

• Fixed several issues in houses in the Suchdol village.

• Fixed the missing shrine outside of the village on the Maleshov map.

• Fixed many trees being placed slightly above the terrain.

• Fixed raining inside of a barn in Zhelejov.

• Fixed the player’s head clipping through a wall in a Vrchlitz cellar.

• Fixed inaccessible tailor’s shop in Kuttenberg.

• Fixed issues which could cause the player to get stuck in various places.

Fast/travel

• Added a fast-travel point to Bozhena’s hut.

• Made dialogue prompts triggering fast-travel more consistent across different quests.

• Fixed missing dots during fast-travel.

Horse riding

• Improved the automatic follow feature while on a horse whose stamina is depleted.

• Improved road magnetism.

• Fixed conflict between road magnetism and the automatic follow feature.

• Fixed horse speed restriction in Miskowitz.

Horse trading

• Reworked the transaction in Semine resulting in getting Pebbles as a companion.

• Fixed automatic horse gear equipping after buying a new horse.

Characters

• Improved the visual asset for von tBergow’s face.

• Reduced details of physical simulation of clothes on distant NPCs to improve performance.

• Turned on local lights influence on hair even with the low graphical preset.

• Improved Rosa’s hair.

• Improved textures of women’s bodies.

• Improved textures and overall quality of many character outfits.

• Improved the clothes of several unique characters with added details and polish.

• Fixed physical simulation of clothes not running in inventory.

• Fixed the model of the Crested cuman helmet

Maintenance

• Added the option to repair bows and crossbows to more NPCs, most notably huntsmen.

• Reworked how blood and dirt work on shields and how it is cleaned when the player washes themselves.

• Improved visual effects when damaged firearms explode.

• Fixed non-repairable items sometimes activating the damaged-armour debuff.

• Fixed wielder not getting damaged when a damaged firearm explodes in their hands.

• Fixed broken water trough in Bylany.

• Fixed Bascinets not getting cleaned when using washing spots near rivers.

• Fixed an issue where baths would temporarily disable by constantly entering and leaving dialogue with the bathhouse owner.

• Fixed broken haggle in bathhouses.

Music

• Added more music for villages in the Trosky region.

• Changed mood music for Opatowitz village.

• Added more music into the credits sequence.

Mutt

• Added a marker for Mutt on the map and compass when the player sends Mutt to Zhelejov/Devil’s Den.

• Made it harder for the player to feed Mutt during combat. Work first, treats later!

• Mutt can no longer enter the fighting arena in the Jewish quarter.

• Fixed Mutt sometimes being unable to return to the mill during the night.

• Fixed an issue with Henry not saying anything when Mutt finds an interesting place or object while searching.

• Fixed some of Mutt’s internal timers not resetting correctly through save/load.

Performance

• Generally improved performance and stability.

• Optimized Kuttenberg marketplaces for better performance.

• Improved frame rate stability in battle parts of quests.

• Optimized streaming of NPC visuals, especially in Kuttenberg.

• Improved level switch duration by over 15 seconds on average.

• Limited the number of torches drawn by NPCs in large skirmishes to improve performance.

• Fixed late game stutter in Kuttenberg due to various reputation problems.

Photo mode

• Changed controls for opening Photo Mode on controllers.

• Fixed controller vibrations persisting when opening Photo Mode while using the grindstone.