Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Legacy of the Forge DLC
Deep Silver
Return to Kuttenburg and restore Henry’s fathers legacy with a brand new journey opening up Henry’s blacksmithing root’s in a story-rich expansion. Explore new areas, unlock over 100 million home combinations, 20 hours of quests and open your own Blacksmith from new blueprints for weapons, unique customer orders and climbing the blacksmith guild ranks.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an incredible Kickstarter success story. Still developed by Warhorse Studios, the sequel was finally released earlier this year, and it just received a major story DLC. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Legacy of the Forge adds even more content to the already massive game. It brings around 20 hours of new gameplay that puts players on a new path to focus on a different side of the game. Legacy of the Forge is included with the Kingdom Come: Deliverance II season pass and is the biggest story DLC added to the game so far.
Legacy of the Forge sends players back to Kuttenberg, where Henry returns to blacksmithing in an attempt to acquire and repair the legendary burnt-down forge his father spent his youth working as an apprentice. It’s a trip down memory lane for our protagonist as he discovers his father’s legacy while he also becomes a forge master and helps the people of Kuttenberg with all kinds of smithing requests. The story isn’t as detailed as the base game, but there are still 15-20 hours of story to explore and discover. This is a much bigger DLC and it brings repeatable post-main-game content to the series with plenty of new quests.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Legacy of the Forge’s biggest new addition is the blacksmithing expansion. Our protagonist has always been a blacksmith, and finally, we get to see him in his natural arena as opposed to the hero role he was forced into. Blacksmithing has always been part of the series, but now, it’s the star of the show.
Pros
New story
Repeatable quests and post-main game content
Expansive home customisation system
Ability to hire workers
Sales chest for easy selling
Cons
Grindy gathering materials
Prestige events can be repetitive
No customisation of sword or armour
Not able to create your own custom sword
Blood and Wine still my favourite DLC
Blacksmithing and quests go hand in hand; there are repeatable blacksmith commissions, tasks and quests that offer hours of new, addictive gameplay. Players need to keep forging and completing requests. Upgrading the forge even allows you to hire people to work for you, which makes completing requests faster and easier. Unfortunately, you can’t hire someone to bring materials to the forge, but there is a new “Sales Chest” where anything placed into it will be automatically sold at the end of each day. Cleaning and repairing items before putting them in the sales chest will increase their value, adding some of that classic Kingdom Come realism and immersion we love.
Needing to gather materials and resources does break up the blacksmithing gameplay, but it does mean you need to run around constantly to collect things before starting the request. There is no option to hire someone to do this for you. It also introduces new repeatable events for prestige, which is needed to upgrade the forge. They do have some variety with different minigames or finding specific locations, but they can get a little repetitive.
The other big addition to the game is the new home customisation system with more than 136 million combinations for players to use to create their dream home, complete with a forge and private quarters. Everything is fully upgradable, and it’s easy to sink hours into this new gameplay aspect.
In conclusion, Legacy of the Forge is an great update and simply adds to the awesomeness of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II however I would of loved to see complete sword and armour customisation. The ability to create my own blueprints to fully customise blades with different dimensions, materials and components. For die hard KCD2 fans the price tag is well worth it but for me, its a little high as there’s not much overall value or memorable moments. I think the main problem is that the base game is just so unbelievably 5/5 stars – its hard to beat that!
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