{"id":1684354,"date":"2026-09-05T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/XhDworAZE6jW8AM8uX6HL"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:08:04","slug":"kingdom-come-deliverance-director-says-dlss-5-does-right-by-kcd-2-people-are-crazy-for-thinking-its-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/kingdom-come-deliverance-director-says-dlss-5-does-right-by-kcd-2-people-are-crazy-for-thinking-its-ai-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Come: Deliverance director says DLSS 5 does right by KCD 2, &#8216;people are crazy&#8217; for thinking it&#8217;s AI slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>DLSS 5 is a controversial technology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/nvidia-dlss-5-reveal-pc-gamer-reacts-not-wholly-positively\/\">for all sorts of reasons<\/a>\u2014you might have heard about this little thing called AI slop\u2014but perhaps the most infamous is its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-snuck-me-into-a-room-to-show-off-dlss-5-in-person-and-its-somehow-beautiful-ugly-impressive-and-troubling-all-at-the-same-time\/\">uncanny look<\/a>. Real concerns have been raised about the potential for something so aesthetically transformative to preserve a game developer&#8217;s artistic intent, with Nvidia trying to run interference on this very point. <\/p>\n<p>Director of both Kingdom Come: Deliverance games, Daniel V\u00e1vra, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-director-defends-dlss-5-no-way-haters-will-stop-this\/\">re-entered<\/a> this battle on the side of DLSS 5. Last Sunday, he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanielVavra\/status\/2094134321653129450?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">took to X<\/a> to say that some critics of the tech have &#8220;literally gone crazy,&#8221; providing a before-and-after comparison with KCD 2 to say that it indeed helped realize the team&#8217;s vision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2094134321653129450\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some people have literally gone crazy.On the left is a head messed up by the game engine\u2019s very limited lighting system, which can\u2019t properly render shadows, skin texture, and the detail of normal maps. On the right is THE SAME MODEL WITHOUT ANY GEOMETRY CHANGES, which looks\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/8ZxVpYCRgh<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2094134321653129450\">August 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;On the left is a head messed up by the game engine\u2019s very limited lighting system, which can\u2019t properly render shadows, skin texture, and the detail of normal maps,&#8221; he wrote, saying the DLSS 5&#8217;d version had improved details. &#8220;Having no shadows from helmets on faces and fucked up normal map rendering WAS NOT OUR ORIGINAL ARTISTIC VISION.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting concerns about AI revising art aren&#8217;t necessarily about whether it can technically touch up blemishes for a cleaner end product\u2014I&#8217;m sure AI would cut Paul McCartney hitting a wrong chord and mumbling &#8220;fucking hell&#8221; out of Hey Jude if it could, but surely we can agree that little mistake makes the song better. The occasional flub signals the art&#8217;s humanity. Still, some folks on X were quick to argue against V\u00e1vra&#8217;s point that it was an improvement at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t look that terrible here, and I can understand where Dan is coming from,&#8221; said Goosewasinuse <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Goosewasinuse\/status\/2094147335404273821?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">in a quote-repost<\/a>. &#8220;My point is that it oils up characters to the nth degree for muh realism, just looks so bizarre.&#8221; Another from Knight(Fate)1029384756 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Knight10293847\/status\/2094368394594140429?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">reads<\/a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s not my fault you couldn&#8217;t put the effort into making it better. Instead you use the machine that can&#8217;t think to make an artistic choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Warhorse Studios&#8217;s relationship with AI continues to prove contentious. Earlier this year, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 English language editor Max Hejtm\u00e1nek said publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-translator-says-he-was-fired-from-warhorse-studios-and-replaced-with-ai\/\">the studio fired him so he could be &#8220;replaced with AI.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"01c8ae0c-a943-11f1-87ea-473d5a7a437d\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kingdom-come-deliverance-director-says-dlss-5-does-right-by-kcd-2-people-are-crazy-for-thinking-its-ai-slop.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"01c8ae0c-a943-11f1-87ea-473d5a7a437d\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Best of the best<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"T2iYhXYgxp4f5wqXnvUC4S\" name=\"kindom come deliverance fighting\" caption=\"\" alt=\"Henry engages in bloody warfare with his allies in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kingdom-come-deliverance-director-says-dlss-5-does-right-by-kcd-2-people-are-crazy-for-thinking-its-ai-slop.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Warhorse Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: Upcoming games<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: All-time favorites<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/kingdom-come-deliverance-director-says-dlss-5-does-right-by-kcd-2-people-are-crazy-for-thinking-its-ai-slop\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLSS 5 is a controversial technology for all sorts of reasons\u2014you might have heard about this little thing called AI slop\u2014but perhaps the most infamous is its uncanny look. Real concerns have been raised about the potential for something so aesthetically transformative to preserve a game developer&#8217;s artistic intent, with Nvidia trying to run interference on this very point. Director of both Kingdom Come: Deliverance games, Daniel V\u00e1vra, has re-entered this battle on the side of DLSS 5. Last Sunday, he took to X to say that some critics of the tech have &#8220;literally gone crazy,&#8221; providing a before-and-after comparison with KCD 2 to say that it indeed helped realize the team&#8217;s vision. Some people have literally gone crazy.On the left is a head messed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/kingdom-come-deliverance-director-says-dlss-5-does-right-by-kcd-2-people-are-crazy-for-thinking-its-ai-slop\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1684354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kingdom Come: Deliverance director says DLSS 5 does right by KCD 2, &#039;people are crazy&#039; for thinking it&#039;s AI slop | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DLSS 5 is a controversial technology for all sorts of reasons\u2014you might have heard about this little thing called AI slop\u2014but perhaps the most infamous is\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/kingdom-come-deliverance-director-says-dlss-5-does-right-by-kcd-2-people-are-crazy-for-thinking-its-ai-slop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kingdom Come: Deliverance director says DLSS 5 does right by KCD 2, &#039;people are crazy&#039; 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