Found a comment from a guy playing this who couldn't get into the Abbott's room in Sasau. Couldn't get in to complete a quest so, the guy drives from where he lives in Prague to Sasau, gets a tour of the monastery and asks about the Abbott's room. Gets told about passage from ramparts to the room which was destroyed in the 16th century, drives home, finds the passage and completes the mission. Good work Warhorse

@youraverageweeb1206

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually really cool

@Jakethesnake2007

Жыл бұрын

This dude drove miles instead of just looking up a tutorial, now thats dedication

@Juxxize

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@JDO6715

Жыл бұрын

So did he provide any proof or do we just have the guy's word for it?

@JJamesMc90

Жыл бұрын

@@JDO6715 Good question. I honestly don't know but, it's far easier to believe that it's true than some of the crap people claim on here

Sir Radzig: Why is Henry in the dungeon? Guard: He was running around private areas screaming about maticulations.

@supersolomob422

5 жыл бұрын

It's machicolations.

@rasgrizrevelations4145

5 жыл бұрын

Shad- Oh my god, look at that the prisons are so detailed...it actually makes you wait so many days and the floor is so detailed....oh they were so detailed in building this!!! Guard- What the....Why is he so happy about the cells?

@dvl973

4 жыл бұрын

MACHICOLATIONS IT'S MACHICOLATIONS

@diamonddog257

4 жыл бұрын

.... '' OFF WITH HIS HEAD ''.........

@rasgrizrevelations4145

4 жыл бұрын

@@diamonddog257 "Oh look its the proper type of axe, not the massive over the top ones most games use! So realistic!"

I’m really late to the party, but Hans Capon mentions being all about that French nobility style, so him decorating his own room with the fleur de lis is understandable

@benedeknagy8497

4 жыл бұрын

During that time period Hungary was ruled by the Anjou relatives of house Árpád (the last Árpádian king died w/o heir, so his nephew, Charles Martel of Anjou was claiming the throne, but only his son, Charles I. of Hungary managed to actually get it) The Hungarian Anjou kings were on really friendly terms with the house of Luxembourg, who ruled Bohemia (Louis the Great had no children, so he made Sigismund of Luxembourg his heir) I think the presence of the Fleur de lis comes from this friendly connections.

@maxamillion3437

2 жыл бұрын

You're not as late as me! 🙂

@UnclePengy

Жыл бұрын

Good catch! Sir Hans is always going on about things being "the latest rage in France".

what i also really like about this game is that the city is surrounded by farms, fields, a mill and all that is needed to feed the people inside the city. its a thing thats often forgotten in other games or movies

@Davidofthelost

3 жыл бұрын

You need a food supply to feed your people, and it would be more than hunting and gathering in the woods or plains. They NEED farm lands bring in harvests of fruits, vegetables, and livestock for the kingdom to survive.

@MorbidBloodshed

3 жыл бұрын

@@Davidofthelost my point entirely, thanks

@devman133

3 жыл бұрын

they even have people carrying water up to the city and carrying buckets of shit down to the river

@boredgunner

2 жыл бұрын

This game even does things like putting tanners downwind due to the smells they produce. And on top of all the historical authenticities, it is one of the best RPGs in decades. Hope the sequel gets made and uses Unreal Engine 5 and VR.

@wombat4191

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like for example in the LotR movies, Minas Tirith and Edoras look so out of place because they are just in the middle of nothing. The first things that come to mind are that why are the cities even there, and how are they supported. The only crop fields in the whole Middle Earth seem to be in Shire. IMO being in a fantasy world doesn't give them a pass, it kinda ruins the immersion.

- My lord, there's a man walking around the caste and commenting on its defensive capabilities, shall we put him in a cell? - Don't bother, he's going to get stuck in a bush and die from starvation anyway

@darken2417

6 жыл бұрын

He almost got shot by one of the archers lol.

@darkrite9000

6 жыл бұрын

The guard was like oh no he found the postern, shot him!

@MrMortull

6 жыл бұрын

Why not employ him? The defences are going to need refurbishment sooner or later. I can imagine Shad/Henry wandering around the low walls with a team of architects pointing up and yelling "MACHICULATIOOOOOOOOONS!" (and bollocks to how you're meant to spell that word).

@johnkareh5618

6 жыл бұрын

just to help: machicolations. no offense.

@MrMortull

6 жыл бұрын

None taken, it's just a word I'm so unlikely to ever use again that I didn't care at the time. :P

Fun fact. The portraits painted on the walls of the various churches in the game are dedicated to the people who backed the kickstarter, you can see their names if you take a closer look.

@devinfernandez4440

6 жыл бұрын

Kennan Dunn Yup. I'm in one of the upper castle rooms (35:08)

@kevinhamutov8778

5 жыл бұрын

Kennan Dunn also the shrines

Shad: goes around critiquing the castles’ weaknesses King: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!

@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure Wenceslas IV would bother to do that considering he is probably too busy partying Unless you mean Sigismund of Hungary? At which point I can understand

@0xlamon

4 жыл бұрын

Considering that Hanush (not a king but still a head figure of Rattay at a time) was illiterate - fat load of good would that do to him.

@stoler7980

4 жыл бұрын

Darth Hue also getting kidnapped by sigismund

@johnw.3270

3 жыл бұрын

@@0xlamon If you have people to write down stuff for you, you might as well have people reading it back to you.

@richardhe5973

3 жыл бұрын

Shad is a lot less critical of this game than his first vids. I stopped watching him because he criticized this game so much before release.

Ingame character: "What's Henry doing? He keeps running around the castle and staring at the walls!" Guard :"Probably too much schnapps."

@doctor-atuti

4 жыл бұрын

@weedsmoke420e Me 487 saves later

@MrMajsterixx

2 жыл бұрын

"I dont know, but 2 hours earlier he said he was going to pick some mushrooms to the forest"

I personally wouldnt mind a small series of Shad walking through every castle in the game and commenting on them like this, was a very enjoyable video.

@porphyrino2897

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, it would be cool if he did something like a whole history of the feuds in the game.

@hiddio

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, it would be chill to see every detail of the castles, because I didn’t look at them myself

@tevanistuff578

4 жыл бұрын

Really hope he would do it

@silasfrischknecht2763

3 жыл бұрын

well there is only talmberk left - as you can't enter skalitz

@ericstoverink6579

3 жыл бұрын

@@silasfrischknecht2763 The Sasau Monastery is quite castle-like.

I can see the next patch notes now: - Added murder holes - Added gate to back entrance - Added machicolations

@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874

6 жыл бұрын

MACHICOLATIONS!!!!!!!

@TheBeardMachine

6 жыл бұрын

Need a npc to walk up and yell "Machicolations!"

@majestichotdog1195

6 жыл бұрын

i believe you mean... ... "MACHICOLATIOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNSAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!"

@kmeanxneth

6 жыл бұрын

but what about dragons?

@adolfodef

6 жыл бұрын

Minor Patch: Added dragon gargoyles on the exterior of all chapels.

Well, talking about how bad Lower Rattay defensive is, according to what I gather, Lower Rattay was the Old Rattay, and probably Rattay wasn't such an important city back in the day that Lord Hans Capon's ancestors didn't bother constructing a good defensive structure there. In the game they just finnished the Upper Rattay castle, which is shown as more well built and overall better than the Lower Castle. Lower Castle probably wasn't designed to be a proper fortification but only as a fortified residence, while Upper Castle is designed to held off Sieges from outside or within the City Wall.

@joabthejavelin5119

4 жыл бұрын

The Lower Castle was probably built before the city was, and obviously needed an entrance. When the rest of the city was built they probably didn't want everyone coming through the castle to get to the city so they added another entrance.

@gigachadgaming1551

3 жыл бұрын

You can find books in the game that say that rattay was raided or mostly burned before they built the upper castle

@psychobunny-up6bq

3 жыл бұрын

The lower castle was the new one in history.

@p75369

4 ай бұрын

Bit late, but I'm replaying the game so a renewed interest. Pirknstein, the lower castle, is actually the later addition. There's art depicting that the main wall should actually continue across to make the area with refegees a contained courtyard with another gatehouse between it and Rattay proper. So defending that bit would be less important as there was nothing in it and it was further surrounded with a castle on oneside and the main city walls on the other.

I literally LIVE in the Town of Rattay :D (Rataje nad Sázavou in Czech)

@zacharytomes5202

5 жыл бұрын

Thats goddamn awesome. Is there anything left from this time peroid there?

@lukasprazak7362

5 жыл бұрын

@@zacharytomes5202 As you can see in 6:35, the castle is still there.

@Pidalin

4 жыл бұрын

@@zacharytomes5202 Funny is that there is only one shop today so it was more civilised in medieval than today. Today it's total shithole where you are fucked without car. But nice nature around. :-)

@pitedapollo6175

4 жыл бұрын

Must be great. Is the tourists?

@matejsramek3195

4 жыл бұрын

@@pitedapollo6175 There were a few here and there when the game came out, nothing crazy. There is a geocashing route that takes you around the "map" in real life which is really nice.

Someone get this man a ticket to visit every castle in Europe. I demand a live-action series on castles you visit!

@Tkoutlosh

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah... here in central Europe... there are castles for everyone... look at "Oravský hrad" in Slovakia... location is amazing, castle has looooong history www.google.cz/search?q=oravsk%C3%BD+hrad&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid2sSJn_nZAhXKO5oKHdiOA3YQ_AUICigB&biw=1680&bih=984

@antcommander1367

6 жыл бұрын

Finland has castle's too finland.fi/life-society/medieval-castles/

@megaflokiller1

6 жыл бұрын

I live in Southern Germany (Swabia) and we have a good amount of castles around but sadly most of them are "Märchenschlösser" (fairy tail castles). I live very close to Castle Lichtenstein and Castle Hohenzollern.

@Megadriver

5 жыл бұрын

Give me gas money and I'm willing to shuttle him from castle to castle and listen to his reviews. XD

@Eselfar

5 жыл бұрын

Would be brilliant!

Shad dirty talking: "Thats proper castle design!" "Look at the THICCNESS!"

@premiumbackgroundmusic

6 жыл бұрын

What about "Who doesn't need a lot of wood in their life"?

@tol9090

6 жыл бұрын

The Blancmange That is how you get laid

@timeshark8727

6 жыл бұрын

God I love em thick!

@barnowl012001

5 жыл бұрын

Shads future castle Song "I like Thick Castles and I cannot Lie. You Stuarts Cannot lie, when you walk in the halls of a Machulation with a thick wall in your face you get Sprung....."😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

You absolutely HAVE to review the only castle, that we see being besieged in every detail! We want Talmberg review!

I live in bavaria germany and we have castles here that look exactly like that, even the landscape is so accurate that it looks like I went out of my town for a hike

@useruseruser674

3 жыл бұрын

well yes, czechia is a slavic-germanic country

@Azaghal1988

2 жыл бұрын

@@useruseruser674 culturally i feel it's mostly German with a Slavic language. But I know that may only be my perception as I don't see differences between them and Germany except for the language.

The smaller castle in Rattay is kind of a "guests castle" it is the less defensible of the two yes, but look at it this way: Whoever breaches the lower wall (aka the least defended) will have to siege both castles SIMULTANEOUSLY as soon as you get into the city you are already fighting two garrisons on two fronts. ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL

@CharalamposKoundourakis

6 жыл бұрын

Making the city itself into a bit of a murder hole.

@idiocyincorporated7635

5 жыл бұрын

I liked the castles and town in gears 4. The one where we are introduced to the swarm.

one major downsid of this game: it's so historically accurate... you don't want to go back to normal games, they just won't do.

@Hrvo182

6 жыл бұрын

I'll just freeze myself until Warhorse has the next act ready.

@nestoNESTOnesto

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly :-D :-D

@manhphuc4335

6 жыл бұрын

well technically speaking this game still have a bunch of bugs, so the next game will be 2 or 3 years from now until the team ironed out all the bugs. Would you like to use our company’s new cryo tech?

@lorddiethorn

6 жыл бұрын

List them

@lorddiethorn

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks I heard of some don't really care for multiplayer games

I love that Kingdom Come shows that games can be so more more realistic without looking bad. I mean the whole city/castles built on a hill to get terrain advantage for defence is looking amazing.

“It’s colled a BAStian okay? A BAStion!” “THIS is NOT GOOD!” “MACHICOLATIOOOOOONS!!!!” “The DETAIL!!! AHAUGH! PUUURFECT!” He’s like the Castle Crocodile Hunter... Castle-dile Hunter

Historically accurate shit stains. Also, one flaw you missed. Some parts of the outer wall are low enough to throw a pommel over.

@cattraknoff

6 жыл бұрын

They're risking the total destruction of their city with this oversight.

@MetalGuitaristPro

5 жыл бұрын

The only way to end them rightly

"Kingdom Come, Deliverance, CASTLE review" Alternate title "Listen to Shad geek out, and talk about what is important in life for 40-ish minues" 10/10 would watch again.

@raidermaxx2324

6 жыл бұрын

wish he'd talk about Jumbucks a bit more..

Just wanted to fire back at you Shad regarding one thing in this video, though I'm not in complete disagreement with you, I wanted to point one thing out and see if what I'm proposing makes sense. At around 13:30 mins you start to identify the flaws of the city's main road entrance on the south side. I would argue that it's intentionally designed that way because I hypothesize that the city's planners preferred any attacking enemies to assault the side of the city FURTHEST from the main castle. This way the enemy (if successful in breaching this southern main gatehouse) would immediately have to deal with the smaller Pirkstein castle on their right. This would inevitably stall the enemy's advance through the city proper and buy any occupants time to flee to the main castle at the North end of town. It would also have the benefit of forcing the Invaders to have to fight house to house through the entire length of the city on their way up to the main large castle. Since time is one of the most valuable assets any army has in the medieval period, especially for the defenders, intentionally baiting potential Invaders towards a particular entry point is itself a defensive tactic. In other words, the designers of the city figured if the enemy is going to breach the walls somewhere it might as well be here. So let's design the defenses in such a way to buy our citizens the most amount of time to get to safety within the main castle's bailey and buy any potential reinforcements time to get into battle from elsewhere in the kingdom. Forgive me if this doesn't make sense I'm not much of a writer and would be happy to engage with you on this point in greater detail via email or something where I can utilize visual aids to illustrate my points. Anyway, I love your work, and I envy your passion for all things medieval. Keep up the good work Shad!

@salmonahumadoo8783

3 жыл бұрын

true

@NorokVokun

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds logical to me.

@7kyro

3 жыл бұрын

In another video shad explains why the Motte and Bailey strategy fell out of favor for a more traditional castle with concentric rings. And, its the same strategy concept that you are proposing. The problem is that the intruders can use the conquered area to stage an attack on the main keep or, in this case, the other half of the castle as a whole. Especially if allied support arrived to help the defenders and come to find the attackers are now dug in and they are left out in the open to attack them without bringing the tools they need to take on a castle defense. The attackers are in a better position to group up and launch an assault against the rest of the castle. Not to mention it would be easier to starve out the inhabitants this way. Because, the defending inhabitants are having to share supplies and beds, etc. They would probably go through their rations twice as fast and be packed together densely.

@TheGodlessGamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@7kyro I understand where you're coming from, but the situation you're hypothesizing doesn't seem to make sense to me. Let's picture Rattay from an overhead view or better yet, find a photo of the in-game recreation. The one shad uses in this video for example is perfect. Ok, Let's say I'm a military commander and I need to siege Rattay. Bear in mind I can't starve out the city for XYZ reason. I NEED to assault this city without delay or my lord is gonna cut my nuts off. I'm essentially going to test the capabilities of this city's defenses from a full fledged assault. Ok so starving them out is off the table... Where do I impregnate this b****? The north end with the two entrances is already off the table considering It's got a huge moat, the bridges leading in to the city will have probably been burned or disassembled pre-siege requiring me to have to fill in the moat myself(which will take time and attrition). It's the side of the city with the much more formidable Castle that can hold more men, food, supplies, etc. It's got a fantastic line of sight and fire for archers. It would basically be a suicide assault and id lose the battle. Alrighty, that side is a no-go. Now, let's look at the south side entrance. Interesting......, It's got a thinner wall, no proper gatehouse, half the wall next to the gate isn't even manned..... basically all the points Shad makes, which were all fair. Despite the fact, the road up to the gate is a gauntlet of arrows from the wall that lines the left side of it, I can still get my men into the city walls relatively easily this way when compared to the north end. Unfortunately, now I'm in a sticky situation because, I've got castle Pirkstein on my right side flanking me with missiles and I have no cover. The tower it's got is also observing my troop movements, harassing my line of supply, killing my men and (most importantly) dividing my attention between its defenders and the defenders of the city itself. With pirkstein all closed and gated up upon my breach of the gate I'm limited to 3 options. #1 waste time sieging pirkstein (good outcome for defenders) #2 Attack the city and ignore pirkstein completely. (Also good for the defenders by allowing them to harass the flanks and delay the assault) #3 split my forces between attacking the city and pirkstein. (Also good for defenders, because each defensive stronghold i.e the upper and lower castles would would be dealing with less forces). Essentially the point I'm trying to make is that Rattay is actually designed exceptionally well despite the flaws of the south gate. In fact, the flaws hide potential strengths as well. What seems like a design flaw is actually a well set trap, in my opinion. One last point though, something that Shad missed that is important. If you take a good look at the south entrance, the walls of the city form a funnel shape corridor that divides the city proper and the space that all the Skalitz folk have turned into a makeshift camp. This space is a killing zone. If the defenders build a makeshift wall across the bottleneck, they can keep the breach contained within that space. Further delaying my assault. See what I'm saying man? Rattay would be a pain in the butt to assault is my point. As far as your point about the invaders being able to dig in and defend themselves from reinforcements. As far as I'm concerned, I say let them dig in. They can't get resupplied from the outside world anymore due to the reinforcements. They themselves are now under siege. Unless they're julius Caesar they won't survive between 2 armies.

@7kyro

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGodlessGamer There’s no way I’m gonna be able to address every single point but I’ll do the best I can (on mobile) from memory because you’re kind of blending things together a little bit from a Birdseye view which I don’t have myself nor do I own this game: It would stand to reason that IF the main goal of this fortification’s set up was to intentionally be a trap for the attackers and for them to fall victim then why don’t we see traps and pitfalls and bottlenecks and a clear disadvantage in the high ground once they are inside? Shad mentioned that the dividing wall doesn’t even have proper defenses I don’t even remember if it had a door or portcullis in the middle. The middle wall separating the two parts of the fortification is so crucial to Your theory but it’s not anything I would write home about. You would think they would at least put a gate house in the middle or ramparts on it to capitalize on the idea of having the attackers in the position did they find themselves in once they break in. I do like the fact that you are entertaining this theory because it’s a concept that is unique but at the same time there would be a load of new unintended consequences that you would have to work out and let history take it’s course. And that’s not exactly the area I would want to experiment with if it meant the livelihood of a whole castle is at stake. Also, you really need to go and watch Shads video about the Motte and Bailey as it addresses all the issues you’re bringing up in that video when there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that people gave up this style of fortification in favor of a more concentric castle set up. I believe The Motte and bailey design wasn’t even the most ideal for them at the time but rather it was a simpler defense that was able to be made in the most common circumstances. For example, when you lacked a terrain advantage the Motte was a man made hill that placed the keep higher than the Bailey. But in this case we are talking about a castle in a video game that already had a MASSIVE terrain advantage already. And to Shads credit he sheds light on the fact that it could’ve been used even more to their advantage. And, To my knowledge, you are not disputing this. The phenomenon of the Motte and Bailey is a real historic phase of history that can be measured and observed. The mistakes that were learned in the process of history were written in blood. And I believe this is a classic example of this.

shad: there isn't much to talk about in terms of aesthetics and functionality apart from the fact that they are flippin accurate shad: proceeds to make the video 38 minutes somehow

@haydenfrost2692

3 жыл бұрын

Details. Lots of details

Shad! I'm so happy you pointed out the drawbridge counterweight! BUT THE ACCURACY GOES FURTHER! Let me explain: The counterweight consisted of several ball weights chained together, so that when the drawbridge is open, all the balls are lifted of the ground and are counter weighting the bridge. But when it's closed, the balls are on the ground and thus not pulling on the chain. But neither is the bridge on the other side because it is raised! As the bridge opens, the force it applies to the rope increases, but at the same time due to this smart design, the number of effective counterweight balls on the other side also increases - keeping the bridge perfectly balanced! I'm so chuffed though, because I commented on your original Honourguard video that most drawbridges on your castle aren't balanced. Then I came up with a solution for how your bridges might be counter weighted using weights on the other end of the chain EXACTLY AS IS SHOWN HERE! Just goes to show that using engineering principles to find the simplest solution to historical problems is a pretty good way of finding what the historical people most likely did. Keep up the great work educating, inspiring and provoking thought in all your viewers Shad. Thank you so much!

I love watching you get slowly more and more injured and hungry as you're doing the presentation.

I can attest to the defensibility of that steep hill. The amount of times I’ve fallen to my death whilst picking herbs is almost depressing, but also motivational to the strength of the castle.

In Germany we have two different words for castles that differentiate the types. First we have the word "Burg" which means the castles that are made for defense. The second word is "Schloss" which meanse cstles that are made for looks and the demonstration of power like for example Neuschwahnstein.

@veronikaczr1105

2 жыл бұрын

Same in czech, "hrad" for defense (until 15th, 16th century) and "zámek" for aesthetics (let's say 17-19th century), "pevnost" was the word for defensive building in later periods

@martinmyggestik292

9 ай бұрын

Same in danish: "Borg" and "slot". 😊

@Tallorian

8 ай бұрын

@@veronikaczr1105 I would assume "hrad" means "something walled off", which doesn't necessarily have to be a castle. It's a common ancient Slavic (or even Indo-European, since the English word "garden" came from the same origin) root; in Russian the word "grad" transformed into the modern word "gorod" (=city) many centuries ago. Same with the Germanic languages as it seems, because "burger"/"burgher" since the Middle-Ages means "city dweller" or "citizen" and not "castle inhabitant".

@Leon-bc8hm

8 ай бұрын

Burcht(burrow in English) and Slot(lock in English) in Dutch. 1:1 the same with the Germans. Although "het Muiderslot" is called a water slot (was a defensive castle) surrounded by a mote filled with water.

21:19 ...A toilet that doubles as a machicolation!?!? It could revolutionize the industry!

@Bus_Driver_Jay

6 жыл бұрын

Debatra two birds one stone!

@oliverthole1823

6 жыл бұрын

That could lead to a shitty siege.

@peasant8246

6 жыл бұрын

@Lord Revilo Take this upvote and leave.

@rubbers3

6 жыл бұрын

A toilet that's also a machicolation AND a murderhole!

@backonlazer791

6 жыл бұрын

It's all good until an enemy scout fires an arrow up the Lord's arsehole xD Not sure if that is outside the walls, but I still had to make that joke.

This game is going to go down in PC/console history as one of the most under-appreciated games of all time. It is an historical-immersion masterpiece. And when one considers that this game had like half the budget of a game like Skyrim, it is an incredible achievement! Plus Warhorse is heavily supporting the release with constant updates to fix glitches and other issues. If you love the medieval time period and want to be immersed and take part in it, there is no other game that comes close.

@SterbenCyrodill

5 жыл бұрын

You must be joking. KC:D budget was roughly half of that of Skyrim, and still less than TW3. WarHorse at this moment is actually bigger than Bethesda Game Studios was when they developed Skyrim...

@Wveth

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the outfits and armors are not as accurate as the buildings and architecture. There's still a lot of room for improvement when it comes to displaying historical accuracy, but Kingdom Come is a big step forward.

@vgamedude12

5 жыл бұрын

@DanRage47 I agree. It really is such a unique game completely devoid of modernistic infection, it just tries (and succeeds) to be as authentic and accurate as it can be. So refreshing. I might have to go back and play it again after watching this video.

@AfroGaz71

4 жыл бұрын

@@vgamedude12 Agreed. This vid makes me want to go back and roam the game.

@banishedair4518

4 жыл бұрын

It's not a historical-immersion anything. The architecture is great, but there's a hell of a lot wrong with the game in general, one of the big parts being how there's Germans, Englishmen and Vikings all living in the same place at the same time. There's also bugs upon bugs upon bugs, and stupid mechanics like drinking a rare form of alcohol to save the game. Games like Skyrim have next to no budget compared to most popular games, but judging by the environment and quality of the textures, I would expect a multi-million budget for this game, so that is impressive.

32:14 You're just down there practicing your archery when suddenly there's something rolling down the castle wall nearby. D:

@kelvinho2475

3 жыл бұрын

That's probably part of the training as well. In a siege, the smell of dead bodies must be literally worse than shit, but you gotta keep the focus and shoot arrows at the enemies.

I'm imagining a group of kings listening very intently to Shad as he goes on about castle architecture. "I'm in the market for a siege engineer" "I have a question about murder holes." "Wait your turn! I'm still trying to get answers on crenelation heights."

Shad, never come to Bohemia (Czech rep) or your mind will just explode - so many castles and many of them very well preserved.

@00Trademark00

6 жыл бұрын

That's true of most of central and western Europe though.

@CptBilsn

6 жыл бұрын

Yea I think it helps that if you go out in Czech republic, you can wander in any random direction and you'll trip over some castle or fort sooner rather than later.

@cattraknoff

6 жыл бұрын

It looks like they were building them everywhere given how many ended up in a 4km by 4km piece of land.

@btCharlie_

6 жыл бұрын

In my mind, there are three reasons for that - 1) the geographical position of Bohemia made it a place often traversed by traders and merchants, and you wanna protect your traders and merchants; 2) this period is shortly after basically the golden times for Bohemia, when it had been the seat of the emperor and gained many lands through him, so the coffers were full and you know castles are expensive; 3) thanks to the fact Germany in WWII took Czech Republic basically without any force, there were nowhere near as many bombings and military action happening here, so many of the structures are well preserved to this day, unlike a large part of Europe.

@HS-hx8ti

6 жыл бұрын

True, while on vacation there last summer we started wandering in the hills near Turnov and found three of them!

Even in the starting city (or village...not sure about his definition) the main character's house was situated inside another wall, right under the lord's castle since his father was a blacksmith.

@TheWampam

6 жыл бұрын

It still was somehow the poorest house in the whole village...

@reignarhedgehill6025

6 жыл бұрын

Have you seen Kuneshes house?

@MerlinsJester

6 жыл бұрын

Francesco yes that was the only reason quite

@michaelgoldsmith9359

6 жыл бұрын

Francesco no his father was a wealthy lord

@MerlinsJester

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Goldsmith lies

That bed size is actually accurate. Just so you know. I really enjoyed your video! Great as always

19:35 I visited Malbork a few weeks ago and this is exactly the way the counterweights were built there (at least in one of the gatehouses)

He almost cried about the glas windows XD

I so hope warhorse sees this video. So much praise! Also: Wtf I didn't even know Rattay has a back entrance!

@Pedantic_Brit

6 жыл бұрын

TheSchwarzKater as soon as I next boot the game up, I'm looking for that Postern. There will be many screenshots.

31:37 "Who doesn't want a lot of wood in their life" - Shad, 2018

I just love how he is just talking about the castle's characteristics and then he gets distracted by a random tiny oil lamp 30:30 10/10 vid ♥

4:52 Shad: which means there is a distinct lack of... Me: Turns up volume Shad: MACHICOLATIONS Me: Perfect.

@darkrite9000

6 жыл бұрын

Glorious!

You need master picklocking Shad. We want to see the locked sections too. There may be stairs in them.

@charlesblack9500

6 жыл бұрын

No. Just other rooms. I think storage room, quarters for soldiers and armory (not sure).

@turkay67turkay

6 жыл бұрын

The small room on the right in the Lower Battlements of the Pirkstein Castle (The Smaller castle on thr right side as you enter by the big road connection to the Castle, is just an armory for the soldiers and the other rooms are houseings of the Garrison) the Room on the right asyou enter is Sir Hanush'es personal quarters. I will do a time stamp with what's behinde the doors later on. And yes I leveled lockpicking to lvl 17 xD

@archive4058

6 жыл бұрын

Türkay Thanks for the details.

@TheArklyte

6 жыл бұрын

Seems like whomever was supposed to repair the door to top level had simply planked it off. And guard was put up to hide this embarassment while blacksmith and carpenter make a new one....

@Axelovskji

5 жыл бұрын

The place where he says the door should be, looks like there is a door. The guard just blocks it because the devs don't want you up there (just what I think)

Shad, I know it's been 2 years since you've posted this video, but given how much passion you felt when reviewing these two castles, do you think you could make another video showcasing a few of the other castles present in this game? It is just such a delight to hear you fangasm and detail all the things about these castles! Seriously, you make me FEEL inside that world!

Just goes to show: I did two PTs of this game thinking I had explored every nook and cranny but I never discovered that back door starting @ 26:16. I had even been in that stream area quite a few times looking around trying to find a place to sneak into the castle and never saw the entrance. Probably that is why there was no grate - thinking no-one will ever find it (HA!). There is a postern on the other side of the cliff that Shad doesn't show which is a little easier to find and easily traversed on horseback. There is no grate either, just a door and one guard. Easily the biggest security threat because it is very accessible from two directions.

@acehangman617

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely the same. I never found that entrance into the castle. My mind was blown when he walked down it into that pond.

“I can’t review all of them, there’s just too many.” Sure Shad, we all know you’re dying to review each one for 30 to 40 minutes a pop. 🍻

@MartasZLA

6 жыл бұрын

im dying for that too

@TheKotor2309

6 жыл бұрын

Martin Paták same here 😁

@Hedgehobbit

6 жыл бұрын

Are there really too many? I have only seen castle at Skallitz, Talmberg, Rattay, and the fortified monastary.

@TheWampam

6 жыл бұрын

That's pretty much it, excpet if you would want to count the silver-smeltery at Skallitz.

@DeusExMachina130

6 жыл бұрын

And I would watch all those reviews too

Please DO review all castles. Like not instantly but over time. Please do it.

@devinfernandez4440

6 жыл бұрын

Bottlekiller At least Talmberg. You can't really review Skalitz castle since you can't go inside it

@slopedarmor

6 жыл бұрын

yup, I mean I think he did all skyrim castles, he can probably do all kingdom come castles :)

@MrGhostTheBigRoast

6 жыл бұрын

Oh he'll do it alright. I hope he does the monastery as well, which is under historically accurate construction.

@MUJUNKY

6 жыл бұрын

I'd also like to see a short section of some of the fortified homes like Smil's house in Neuhof or the citadel of prisbaslavyits

So Shad a little late but anyway I live in an old European city and I noticed that you mentioned that the bed (which was ornamented) was too small and would be bigger beeing so ornamented. I've actually seen beds just like that in my city's castle so just letting you know they did, in fact, exist like that =). Hope you found this information interesting and I enjoyed the video. Cheers!

"Lord! There is a guy in armor with a sword casing the castle!!!"

Who else can just imagine shad becoming extremely rich and building a castle to defend from the neighbours and shouting METICHULAATIOOOONA at the builders

@boneheaded9154

6 жыл бұрын

Wait, that's not why he joined Patreon?

@conorsinnott8525

6 жыл бұрын

Boneheaded Na he's gonna become rich from his book

When I first went through Rattay I legit nerded out, because of everything this channel has taught me. I also couldn't help but think: Holy crusades, SHAD'S GONNA LOVE THIS Little detail I loved, there are actually 2 blacksmiths in Rattay, one in the lower ring of the city and one in the upper ring, which seems to be to keep the soldiers supplied if the lower city falls. Plus you have the armor and weaponsmith, meaning they could both take refuge in the upper city, 3 gear maintenance specialists for the soldiers, they also sell "maintenance kits, meaning they can do it without a forge. PLUS the huntsman who is also a bowyer/fletcher

@MerlinsJester

6 жыл бұрын

mikelms20 Of course the smiths would be the arrowsmiths, but who would be the stringfellow?

@denisonfagundes8200

6 жыл бұрын

MerlinsJester Is stringfellow a real word, or do you mean string fellow? And I thought bowyers made their own strings.

@MerlinsJester

6 жыл бұрын

Denison Fagundes bowyers were responsible for the making of the “arch” of the bow, and stringfellows took on the job of fabricating a suitable string. The stringfellow occupation was a legitimate one for a time, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many carrying around the name. Arrows, themselves, had their own tight knit team of craftsmen. Either part of the arrow had its own worker on it. The one tending to the arrowheads was the arrowsmith, the man making the flights and shaft was the fletcher.

The bed in 24:28 could indeed be this narrow. They were personal beds for whoever important was living there. You can find beds like these in many real Czech castles :)

Regarding the entries, the first castle, what they call the "high castle" in the game, was built first, with it's gate. Then fortifications were built around the city, with one entry to each side. And lastly, as two lords leaved in the city they built a second castle much later on the other side of town. The second castle is better thought because it came last.

Yea, i am STILL completely blown away with the amount of detail that the art team took the time to implement. On areas of a game like this where you would normally see an abundance of fast pattern and texture placement, KC:D took the time to lay it in patiently. THIS is where other games should be in a graphic sense!

Finally...a game made for Shad. 😂😂😂

@TeastaCS

3 жыл бұрын

I took i look at your subscriptions...i wish we could be friends.

@ravezon

3 жыл бұрын

@@TeastaCS lol sure why not. 😂😂

@TeastaCS

3 жыл бұрын

@@ravezon Wow it can't be that easy:))) im from Romania. How do we do this ? They killed the social aspect of this platform.

@ravezon

3 жыл бұрын

@@TeastaCS well fb is one way. But yea, the social part of youtube is gone.

@TeastaCS

3 жыл бұрын

@@ravezon Im sorry ive been very sick, maybe we can first connect on discord before we exchange fb...just for privacy reasons...here is mine: CristianD777#9586

31:40 "Who doesn't love a lot of wood in their life?" Best out-of-context quote

I'd honestly love to see a two hour long (or more!) video by you where you're just walking around in KCD pointing out all the historically accurate details like you did the firewood and the portcullis being made of wood.

They are actually planning to use this game for education at Charles University.

@Deinareia

6 жыл бұрын

Masaryk's University (based in Brno) already has a course for this autumn semester planned, just about "the hardships representation of medieval period in games as demonstrated in KCD".

I've loved medieval era history and fantasy for as long as I can remember, but this game has really reinvigorated my interest, and since then I've discovered people like you, Skallagrim, and Metatron. I thank you personally for what you bring to KZread. I've genuinely been enjoying all the content of yours, and I especially love the in depth analysis of castles in games. Thanks!

@shadiversity

6 жыл бұрын

It's a true pleasure sir, thank you for letting me know ^_^

From my point of view the Rattay Castle has almost zero vulnerabilities. The side where you have 2 bridges is also the side where you can easiest arrive with battering ram. Because there is almost none elevation from that side. But there are drawbridges, so you can't use them that easily. Also the bridges can be burned if necessary (you can exit castle on the other side). As you stated, the other side has quite steep hill, so climbing it with some sort of siege machine is almost impossible. And if you try it, the people pushing it will be vulnerable to arrows fired from that long wall on the left. The wall without ramparts is also interesting. What will happen when the archers in the castle see you with ladders trying to climb the wall without ramparts? As you can't jump 5+ meters on the other side, you have to sit on the top and move the ladder from one side to the other or find other way to get down. During this time you are ideal shooting target (almost no defense at all). And the escape route? Yes, the extra doors would be good, but as you saw, the footpath is extremely steep and narrow, so 1 archer with enough arrows can hold there almost infinite number of enemies. And if he is overpowered by them, he just shut the small reinforced doors and the enemy is stucked somewhere, where he can't progress any further. For some reason people think that "large army" of 14th-15th century was like Elf's army in LoTR (hundreds of thousands people), which is wrong. Because you had limited number of soldiers on both sides, the main tactic was slowly reduce the number of attackers during their attempts and wait for reinforcements that could arrive within a week or so. If attackers were too strong and no outside force wanted to meddle it the conflict, best option was to besiege the castle and starve the people in the castle to death.

I've played this game for two years and I've never known there's a secret entrance to Pirkstein Castle.

7:33 That's still the case today. A "city" in Norway and a "city" in Germany or the UK are *very* different things. The minimum requirement for a "city" in Norway is actually just 5 000 people within the munincipality borders and a resolution of the munincipality council to declear the main "town" of the munincipality as a city. That has been the requirement since 1997. Prior to that we had a system with something equivalent to the charters you mentioned in this video. 19:18 We still do that in quite a bit of Norway. Mind you, most of us use electric heating as our main form of heating. But I don't know about any Norwegian house that don't have at least two different types of heating, simply because if one fails you *need* another one to survive... And in most rural places in Norway that secondary heating is firewood... And that firewood is also often used to supplement the electric heating when it's extra cold. -40 C or -50 C is no joke, and trying to heat that with just electricity is not the best of ideas... We don't design our houses to handle that amount of cold... 24:18 I don't know about Bohemia. But here in Norway they *where* that small, the beds belonging to pesants where actually often even smaller then that. You didn't sleep straight out either, your body being all flat was assossiated with death and when you're curled up you retain heat better too.

@Stettafire

6 жыл бұрын

While to be a city in the UK doesn't mean anything in regards to population. St Asaph got city status and it's tiny! While Wrexham, one of the largest towns in North Wales was denied city status. Get very confused when US people ask what city I'm from. I say 'I'm from a village and then they get confused :P It took a kind young man from New jersey to explain it to me. I get it now, but yeah... Didn't realise how diferent it was in other countries. Excuse the typing, my hand is frozen.

@NoobsDeSroobs

6 жыл бұрын

Luredreier were*

@Mamenber

6 жыл бұрын

Czech Republic here, our smallest city has less than a hundred people

@Luredreier

6 жыл бұрын

+Mamenber Nice =) And interesting. ;-)

@crazynorse4036

6 жыл бұрын

No real complaint just thought i should clarify the temperature in Norway thing. You can find places where it gets that cold (northern Norway mostly), but MOST of Norway actually have a comparative mild climate. Coming from the western part of Norway we for example recently complained of how cold it is.........with only -5 C. In fact thanks to the gulf stream we have some of the mildest climate you can find this far north :)

Listening to how excited you were throughout the video made me laugh. It's nice to see peoples effort appreciated so much.

Funny thing about this is fact that I have been on most of those castles, because in Czech Republic we have a LOT of castles.

Excellent video Sir Shad! Instructional AND very entertaining! This makes visiting castles in KCD soooo much more interesting and makes me appreciate the historical aspects of these structures. I am now walking around castles naming off the historically correct names of the different parts of it. You are like our personal tour guide in KCD! Thank you for making these videos and taking the time to go into so much detail. Well done! Insta-SUB!

A Pro Tip: You can use the map to better see the layout! (Also, I love how Shad just walks through the private areas ignoring all the warnings and at 27:50 even the guards trying to arrest him :D )

38 minutes of quality content...Rare on youtube these days. Thank you.

@CaptainBBS

6 жыл бұрын

Fuzzycat true that bro

Shad turns into Darya Vader when someone forgets about machicolations Shad “I find your lack of MACHICOLATIONS disturbing” Game developers: “I’m sorry?”

I play this game so rarely, because, I never want it to end, the world detail and timestamp of it in general, makes it an honor to play, Had to congratulate warhorse on such an amazing first appearance.

0:01 a wild Shad has appeared!

@darkrite9000

6 жыл бұрын

The catch rate with a standard pokeball is 3%, but if you mention that you've a castle with Machicolations, the catch rate is 100%!

@Emppu_T.

6 жыл бұрын

*Battle music*

Review more of them, mate! I'll watch your castle review videos even if they're many hours long.

I don't know how I got here, but I've been binging a bunch of your castle videos and I'm loving them! I also can't help but imagine you as this dimensional-hopping bloke in full plate armor that just stomps about the castles ranting about their architecture and defendability while clanking loudly with every footstep. I also picture you always wearing a full face-covering helmet, but with a super long mustache that sticks out of the closed face plate. But then if you see something that either excites or upsets you enough to start really ranting you hold the faceplate open with one hand. Seriously, your enthusiasm for the subject is infectious and I find myself getting vicariously excited through you. Glad you decided to share this passion with us :)

It's been 5 years Shad. I still would love to see some sequals to this video. Such an amazing game and video.

It was such a surreal experience to see how Rattay looks today on google maps. It feels like you've already been there although several hundred years back in time. It was a very strange feeling.

@jh5kl

6 жыл бұрын

castles = deus vulting general management; armor haute couture nerdcon; spontaneous sword length measuring contests; trashtalking about overpriced unpractical bespoken helmet visors when at the same time somewhere there s a pigeon carrying your order for one for yourself; parking your ride unproperly infront of the hotspots just to show of your barding just arrived from abroad; horseshoe latest customization, balancing and configuration secrets. thats why there were so many castles

Did shad just have a castlegasm?

I love how Shad goes in depth more than any one else ever possibly could. I think he is possibly the most knowledgeable person on youtube in their field that I know of, and definitely the most passionate.

Gosh, this was brilliant! Felt like someone filmed an actual castle tour!

33:40 Shad that's a root cellar it's pretty much the medieval fridge and they did sometimes store ice during the winter to keep it colder through the year.

@visionist7

4 жыл бұрын

Like the Victorian ice chests. They could only be opened once a day or the ice would melt and flood the room.

Hey Shad, just one quick reminder about the castle - city -entrance- stuff. I do not think that having two different entrances next to each other must be a bad thing. It depends on who owns the city and who owns the castle, which usually once belonged to the same person. But imagine that you own the castle and now your citizens uproar (stuff like that was very common). In yuch a case you do not want to be trapped inside the city

That starting peek from the chair just gave me a heartfelt giggle that made my day much much better.

I have watched a few Shadiversity videos, and I only just started playing KCD, but the moment I saw a castle in game, I thought 'I hope Shad has done a video on these.' congratulations sir you have earned my subscribe!

32:17 [The crapper is right above the archery range and whoever is sitting there has their ass and privates exposed to the world from below] ...This is quite possibly asking for it by giving you the most tempting target in the world to loose at. You know some bored young men are going to be practicing archery and notice someone is on the toilet and... Well... The fact that know what will eventually happens means you know how tempting of a target it would be.

@nanaya7e433

6 жыл бұрын

Well, in order to get a good shot, you're gonna have to stand below it and it comes with its own danger.

@darkrite9000

6 жыл бұрын

To be shot in the ass whilst on the crapper, dear lord that'd be a bad day, also if you're a new recruit and you manage to sit in just the right spot, you'd have a crappy day!

@Zigg33

6 жыл бұрын

probably they wouldn't be just any lowly peasants as, they wouldn't have the access to the city at all... and, believe me the contest or training would be guarded. mybe a noble would be able to TRY t assassinate the king, but they would get caught after anyway. And as an archer i tell you, that is quite far up and not so easy to hit.

@komixan

5 жыл бұрын

It actually happened to the czech (bohemian) Duke Jaromír in 1035. Cosmas (well known historian and chronica writer) wrote: „Kochan poslal svého kata a když onen slepec seděl na záchodě v hodině noční, vyprazdňoval břich, proklál ho ostrým oštěpem zezadu až do útrob břišních.“ Which means that executioner was sent in night to kill Jaromír, sending a spear from down below the crapper to arse of Jaromír all the way through his guts. Its all a cool story, as he was already castrated and made blind by his brother. Cruel history, huh.

@k.v.7681

5 жыл бұрын

@Komixan a French king, Henri III (known as Henryk by the Polish, since he had been previously king of Poland) died on the crapper stabbed by a monk in front of the court.The monk was then slain by all the people present and thrown trough the window x) Seems it's a quite common place to die :p

In the first few silent seconds of the video, I got so suspicious, I preventively took my headphones down!

@sunnyjim1355

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, what a snowflake.

@MerlinsJester

6 жыл бұрын

Sunny Jim too young to recall screamers?

Shad, your skits are always entertaining and often hilarious. But I’ve never cackled as hard as I did to that beginning bit. The silent wait, that face, just perfect

I come back to this video every now and again. KCD is such an amazing game. Wish there were more reviews like this.

That is a genuinely terrifying intro.

Please do review all of the castle.

Just watched this video and your Minas Tirith/Hornburg analysis. Safe to say, you have a new fan and subscriber!

18:40 "now let's have a look at the bailey inside the awesome castle." Yes, every good castle needs one of me, to be quite honest.

That intro was something else

Shad Fact: the wood from Shads Chair was actually a gift from yggdrasil, for single handedly deafening Jörmungandr.

YES SIR. I bought Kingdom Come Deliverance after only a few video reviews, and fell in love the all the detail in landscape, scene, fighting, but it felt so much like a real place, and the realism and attention to so many details, made this so immersive and entertaining, as well as educational. thanks for the review Shad.

I find entertainment in those guards staring at you while you geek out in game talking to yourself about how someone could take over this city and how undefended those specific parts of the walls are. "Uh... sir. We can hear you." I just discovered your channel, and I want you to be my history teacher already.

This intro....Is meme ready

@Stettafire

6 жыл бұрын

Someone make a gif of that

For the Epilog of your video, wondering about the name Rattay. In our language it is Rataje. From old Bohemia "Rataj" which means "ploughman" or "peasant".

@seneca983

5 жыл бұрын

Is "our language" here Czech? Google translate claims that "rataje" means "rats" in (contemporary) Czech.

@1PPPete

5 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 Rat is called "Krysa" in Czech. And it is indeed Czech but the word itself is really archaic and old, probably also lot of people here dont know its meaning. Google translator usually fails in these more "complicated" cases.

@seneca983

5 жыл бұрын

@@1PPPete: OK, thanks. Out of curiosity, do you know how much does the modern Czech differ from that of 6 centuries ago?

@komixan

5 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 Freaking lot. Also the czech language went on lots of modifications through history and in this time, lot of latin was used and the written word is unrecognisable today. Most of words people called things in 15th century doesnt exist anymore, but after all, it would just seem like a very, very bad accent.

@johnfraire6931

5 жыл бұрын

>It means peasant >>No, it means rats What's the difference? Do ho ho.

This is great. Your excitement about this game is contagious. I need to go home and play it.

the long video was much better than multiple vids thanks Shad

It is imperative to have a separate entrance to the castle independent of the city entrance. The city is tactically and functionally different from an outer bailey. Too many people, too lax security. You don't want to rely on a route through that. If the city is compromised in any way - a fire, a blocked road, enemy infiltration or - worst case scenario - a mutiny, you are screwed. The city itself is too well-equipped and effective for a siege against its castle, compared to outside entrance.

The *D E T A I L*

your excitement is what makes this video. i need more of it

I recently started this game again after 5 years and man I love it so much. The detail is incredible. I didn’t know you covered this one but I guess I should have figured. Recently found you as well ha. Awesome video. Love the passion.