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Mini Update:  Still playing KCD.  I had to start a new file for the "full house sinner" trophy that I missed since doing that trophy on my hardcore playthrough would void both "merciful" and "virgin"  and I've gotten to the point where that quest starts so I should be able to finish it pretty soon.  Otherwise.  I've been playing through Hardcore mode.  I'm really having trouble with the wandering knight around quest 17.  He just keeps kicking my butt, and the only way I've been able to win is to shoot him in the face with a poison arrow which kills him, which isn't allowed :/.  Probably going to have to load an older save and just grind up a bit which kind of sucks because in hardcore it takes forever, but it is what it is.  

In other news, I started boggle last night.  Boggle is a game me and GF_Comic play all the time and love, and we've been meaning to give this one a go for a while now.  We played some last night and to be honest... its not great.   Oh well.  I think I gave $3 for it so not a big loss.  

Midweek Update:

Welp it happened.  KCD has finally bopped me with a bugged trophy... or at least I think its bugged.  In order to get "full house sinner" you have to do all the bad things possible in the game, including whoring, killing, stealing, drinking, going to jail, and adultery.  I definitely did all of these (only for the purposes of the trophy I assure you 👿), but for whatever reason the game isn't registering the last one.  The only point you can do that in the game is the quest "at your service my lady" which I can see completed in my quest log, and I definitely got that ending (I have the literal shirt to prove it), but regardless of how much I try, Johanka just won't see what a sinner that I am .  As of now the plan is to go ahead and finish the questline and then go to the cloud and see if I have an old save file that I can reload before I did the quest and just, rush the game to that point do the quest immediately before talking to her and hoping that this works.  Otherwise I'm probably going to have to work it in to my Hardcore playthrough, which will be a pain because while the questline isn't hard, all of the stuff is really out of the way and I don't really want to mess with it when I can't fast travel 😓.  Remains to be seen if I also messed up Clerics pet, but I'll find out tonight. 

Other than that trophy and finishing up Johanka's quest line, I am done with that playthrough.  In one aspect, the DLC is nice because it gives you lots of extra quests to do for the completionist trophy which means I don't have to do some of the more out of the way or tedious ones like those at monastery.  The rest of the DLCs also haven't been to bad.  Mostly they just consist of 4 or 5 quests with a couple of cutscenes.  I was impressed with "Band of Bastards" more than I thought I would be, and was not impressed at all with "The Amorous Adventures of Sir Hans Capon".  Especially Ledetchco Revenant.  That quest took like 2 hours and most of it was waiting.  Worth noting that the guide was also wrong on how to make the blood potion.  If you're playing this and having problems you have to grind the herbs before mixing them in (the guide explicitly says not to grind them).  I was also enjoying "A Woman's Lot" before the whole not giving me my trophy thing....

Either way, we are entering the home stretch now,  just some clean up for A Woman's Lot (here's hoping the cloud will bail me out) and finishing the merciful/virgin playthrough on hard core.  Entirely possible I could have this basically wrapped up by the weekend.  

In other news, I'm currently trying to grind out trophies for Team Up 2022 and let me just say.  Some of yall are bonkers.  First place has 111000 points.  For reference, I am sitting at 5500.  That's about 1/3 of what the last place member of the first place team has...and I've been playing way way more than I normally would to try and give my team a chance...  but well, someone else on my team is gonna have to carry if we're gonna get anywhere close to that number lol.  That being said, I'm having fun, and I've signed up for quite a bit of events for next year, including Platinum Difficulty 1-10, Ultra Rare Clean Up 2, Bingo Bananza 2022.  

Sorry for the Novel 😅

~TC

With 3 days off and basically nothing to do but game and take my partner lunch at work, I managed to get quite a bit done with Kingdom Come this weekend.  Miscellaneous Side Quests: Done!, Pilgrim Trophy (f*** this particular trophy) Done!  15 Potions: Done! All the gold for the from the ashes DLC: Done!  50 Headshots Done!  I even did some of the Woman's Lot DLC and started the Hardcore run (more on that in a minute)  Its been a productive weekend.  

I did however encounter my first major bug.  In the Woman's Lot DLC I managed to take some fall damage for skipping a ladder.  Took some damage no big deal.  I have a healing potion.... well as it turns out, when Theresa drinks a potion, it doesn't expire for the entire DLC, which means that the healing potions won't give you health.... which means I spent the rest of the DLC being unable to run which definitely made travel super frustrating...  I also had an issue with Pilgrim (though admittedly this stemmed from my lack of "getting good")  where I collected the first 3/4 of the shrines/crosses and promptly got ambushed by Cumans and died and had to do it all over again... which was terrible.  50 headshots turned out no the be that bad and as it turns out you only need about half the gold I thought you did to rebuild the city since once you sink ~50K gold into it, the city will generate the rest for you if you wait awhile.  

The Hardcore run is gonna take awhile.  Not because its particularly tough, but because there is no fast travel in the Hardcore mode.  Which is dumb, because that doesn't make the game harder... it just makes the game take longer.  I traveled to Uzhitz from Rattay yesterday to learn to read and the round trip took me literal 40 minutes which is absurd.  I'm sure it'll speed up when I get the horse, but damn... 

I may have also f***ed up the cleric's pet trophy for completing all the "occult" quests. *MINOR SPOILERS* In the 'House of God' quest you have multiple ways of resolving the quest and this trophy requires that you investigate the skull, which I did and found out it was a fake, but I didn't resolve the quest with the skull, so I'm not sure if it counts.... Hopefully it does, otherwise that's a 20 hour mistake.  Maybe I could salvage it a tiny bit by making a save in Hardcore just before Godwin to speed it up a bit, but then I have to do all that traveling in Hardcore mode, which sounds awful.  

Negativity aside it was still a productive weekend and 60ish hours in, I'm still liking the game, though we are rapidly approaching the somewhere between 80-100 hours where I just want to be done with a game.  That being said, and with the Team Up event started I'm gonna push this pretty hard to get it done and score some points.  

~TC

Midweek Update:  So I've gotten some of the more grindy trophies out of the way.  The "Thief" Trophy turned out to not be as bad as I thought it would be because for some reason, when you hunt animals in Kingdom Come and then loot them, the food you get from them counts as stolen.  So hunting a deer would mean getting ~140 units of venison which sells for 14 gold per unit so you get around 2000 Gold towards your counter for every dear that you take out.  Combine that with the fact you have to hunt 50 animals and the Gold Counter goes up pretty quick.  Which is perfect since the chances of getting caught "stealing" out in the woods is basically zero so it doesn't effect progress towards King Charming. 

By far the most time consuming pursuit was to do the 10000 herbs.  It starts literally 1 at a time and takes forever.  Eventually you level up your herbalism skill enough to where Henry will collect all the herbs of a kind in the immediate vicinity with one button press, but gosh it still takes awhile.  

Still have to do the map wandering for the crosses and shrines, as well as the kill 20 enemies with stealth (finally got to stealth level 5 to unlock the perk to be able to start so it shouldn't be too bad) and then its the 50 enemies with headshots.  This is going to be miserable as it's hard to get more than one at a time because: A) the bows in this game sway like a MF its difficult to even hit something standing right in front of you, much less a moving target. and B ) Fighting more than one enemy in this game is so difficult by yourself you constantly get beat up if you're not extremely careful and lose all your progress and have to start over from the last save.  I'm hoping some of the battle story missions will help with this where I can let the NPCs do most of the fighting and I can cowardly shoot enemies in the head from behind them.  

It's also becoming obnoxious not to be able to read.  I feel like half of the quests in this game require you to be able to read to complete.  For example, I tried to do "Money for Old Rope" last night (it's a quest required for one of the spoilsport trophy) and found that I couldn't because I couldn't read.  That's happened with at least 2 other quests at this point and it's starting to get on my nerves.  I guess I might rush through some of the story missions to unlock rebuilding Pribyslavitz so that I can just go ahead and get that over with and learn to read already.  

Regardless, 30ish hours in at this point and really enjoying my time with the game.  It helps that I have time to really take the game in and not feel frustrated that it's wasting my limited gaming time since I have a lot of it at the moment.  This is a slow time of year at work and I have a lot more time to game since my SO is particularly busy at this time of year.  

Now, off to stalk all of your profiles to see what you've been up too!

~TC

So Kingdom Come Deliverance.... I knew this was going to be a long clean up, but damn. It is the first game I ever played on playstation since the PS2 of my childhood so Im glad I'm going back to finish it, but again... Damn.  

 I only need to pick 3500 more herbs, raise 88000 more gold before I can learn how to read... (to give context, I had around 2000 at a time. during my initial playthrough of the game and had everything I ever wanted) so It's a metric ton, 40 more hunting kills, ~180 more regular kills, to steal 22000 more gold worth of stuff. Go find all the collectables and then I still have to finish the game another time on hardcore mode.  

Complaining aside, I'm 20 hours into this side of playing and to be honest, I'm having a good time. I haven't really even played much of the main story,  the base gameplay just does it for me, even with all the grinding.  That being said, I can already see this stacking up to be a ~200 hour 100%, so lets see if I still feel that way at the end of everything 😂