Long-Rumored Kingdom Come: Deliverance Next-Gen Update is Now Official

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Warhorse Studios has launched the highly anticipated next-generation update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Update 1.9.7 brings the game to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Best of all, it’s a free upgrade for anyone who already owns the game on Xbox One or PlayStation 4, letting them play the enhanced version on the latest consoles without spending any extra money.

Warhorse Studios, a Czech developer, first released Kingdom Come: Deliverance in 2018. This RPG was unique for its realistic take on medieval Bohemia, standing out from other role-playing games that typically focused on fantasy. While the first game received generally positive reviews, its challenging gameplay wasn’t for all players, and it had some imperfections as Warhorse’s debut title. The 2025 sequel, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, proved to be a huge hit, earning critical acclaim, commercial success, and even a Game of the Year nomination. Thanks to the sequel’s popularity, many players are now revisiting the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Officially Arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S

Players were surprised today when Kingdom Come: Deliverance received a next-gen update, quietly released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The update dramatically improves the game’s graphics, bringing the visual quality of the PC Ultra settings to current-gen consoles and enhancing assets throughout the game. Resolution has been boosted to 2560×1440, and can upscale to 3840×2160, and the game now runs at a smooth 60 frames per second on both PS5 and Xbox Series X/S thanks to optimizations made to the CryEngine for these consoles.

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Players who already own Kingdom Come: Deliverance on older PlayStation and Xbox consoles have something to celebrate! The next-generation update will be available to them at no cost, and they can even continue their existing game saves on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The update also includes various bug fixes and improvements, plus new Czech and Japanese voice-over options. PC players have also received patch 1.9.7, though it doesn’t include the features specific to the console update.

For some time, players have been hoping for an upgraded version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but the developers at Warhorse Studios hadn’t said anything about it. While leaks had hinted at it, the update’s release is still welcome news. With the recent success of the sequel, now is a great time to try the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance, especially since it’s now available on Xbox Game Pass.

As a huge fan, I thought last year’s DLC was supposed to be the last one for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It’s exciting to think about what Warhorse Studios will do next, especially since the game has done so well. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is honestly one of the best RPGs I’ve played in ages, so I’m already looking forward to whatever they create – whether it’s more KCD content or something completely different! I know there’s a ton of us who will be eagerly waiting to see what they come up with next.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Update 1.9.7 Patch Notes (Next-Gen Update)

Improvements

Improved visuals

  • Improved visual quality using PC Ultra Quality as a baseline
  • Includes both improved quality of existing graphical features and addition of new graphical features, previously only available on PC.
  • Improved quality of assets
  • Textures and models have had their resolution increased to match PC HD assets. Can be toggled on or off in the game settings.
  • AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) v1.2
  • Upscaling the final image to 3840×2160
  • Increased native resolution the game renders at to 2560×1440

Improved performance

  • Improved performance throughout the entire game, with notable outliers being
  • Massively improved performance in demanding scenarios such as in-game cutscenes, battles and dialogues
  • Massively improved performance in demanding locations such as big cities with many NPCs and foliage dense areas
  • Dynamic Resolution implementation for smoother framerate in GPU demanding areas
  • Upgraded rendering backend using modern graphical APIs
  • CryEngine heavily modified with many improvements and optimizations tailored for the PS5 and Xbox Series hardware
  • Improved and optimized multithreading to better utilize all available cores
  • Improved and optimized asset streaming to reduce stutters and pop-ins
  • Reworked culling to reduce amount of unnecessary draw calls
  • These are just the highlights of the biggest changes made in order to reach 60FPS with the target quality of Ultra

Platform features

  • Continue where you left off with the cross generation save game transfer
  • Owners of Kingdom Come: Deliverance on PS4 and Xbox One can transfer their previous save games (playlines) seamlessly to PS5 and Xbox Series respectively.
  • Deep Silver Account integration
  • Signing up to Deep Silver Account will grant players a horse caparison. The item will be added to the player stash once the prologue has been completed.Activity cards for PS5

Localization

  • Added Czech voice over
  • Added Japanese voice over
  • Added & improved Turkish language (interface & subtitles)
  • Added Ukrainian language (interface & subtitles)
  • Added Portuguese (Brazil) language (interface & subtitles)
  • Improved localization of Achievements/Trophies
  • Fixed & updated terminology
  • Fixed several additional localization issues in all languages

Legacy

Stability

  • Fixed infinite loading screen when sleeping on a specific bench during the Run! Quest
  • Fixed infinite loading screen after the Trebuchet cinematic during the Siege quest
  • Developers’ note:
  • The infinite loading during the Siege quest that would permanently brick save games could very rarely occur when doing the “From the Ashes” DLC questline beforehand. During the Trebuchet cinematic, the game would wait for Sir Divish to finish scheduled behaviour from that DLC, but would never finalize because it was no longer a valid behaviour.
  • Fixed very rare deadlock in the physics synchronization
  • Fixed multiple crashes during Baptism of Fire
  • Fixed multiple crashes related to the vegetation system
  • Fixed multiple crashes related to invalid models or areas
  • Fixed multiple race condition crashes
  • Fixed multiple crashes in the texture garbage collector
  • Fixed multiple memory leaks throughout the game
  • Fixed issue where dogs could fail to find valid paths in the world and cause a massive performance decrease

Gameplay

  • Fixed issue where the achievements “Casanova” and “Full house sinner” would not unlock under certain conditions
  • Fixed issue where controls were blocked when playing dice with Stephan

UI

  • Fixed multiple instances where text or icons would overlap in some languages
  • Fixed multiple instances of placeholder/missing text and icons
  • Fixed multiple instances where strings would be truncated
  • Fixed issue where the incorrect subtitles would display in the final cinematic
  • Fixed issue where font could break when switching between Japanese and other languages, causing missing or square symbols to appear
  • Fixed issue where the settings menu would momentarily appear when switching between Japanese and other languages
  • Fixed issue where compass markers would not display after changing language in-game
  • Fixed issue where the map cursor would not scale with in-game resolution

Other

  • Fixed issue where the “Quilted Vest” made Henry’s arms transparent

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