Is the DLC From the Ashes worth getting?

[Star]

The New DLC does not have good reviews, so i am wondering if it everything got fixed and is worth getting now?

[Harkkyn]

I too am in the same boat, overall i'd heard and read that you are highly limited to what you can place in the settlement (no bathhouse) and are forced between either a swordsmith or armourer. It'll be somewhere in the 80k range of total gold needed to complete the settlement.

[Star]

Bump, still looking for opinions.

[Brummbär]

To be honest it feels not really fleshed out for me.
I like to build things and see the hamlet grow the judgements are good and fun but it is missing somethings a bathhouse for example. It could even be build there."relief" for the wood cutters and some of your decisions you judge would take an effort there (The popular s*it question).

You can build a stable or a guardhouse. Both are important imo since you need good horses to transport goods from the hamlet to other towns while you need guards to defend the village incase of a raid. (Which never happens maybe in Band of B*stards but i doubt it).

Speaking of decisions taking the stable gives access to some good horses while the guardhouse offers the best bow in game.
Armorer offers a good shield (stat wise) and the swordsmith a good new longsword.

Divish even talks a lot about expansions in the future but after you build everthing he only pads your back and says it will be done when the time is more peaceful.

[Craig [K.A.O.S.]]

I liked it because at the point in the story where the DLC kicks in is when Henry is getting wealthy from raids and the DLC provides expensive items to buy. I would like it to be much more robust, but it is a good fit for the price.

[Bladeson]

If you can get it on a sale for cheap then I'd say go for it but. Even though I love this game it just feels sorta pointless. I guess it's kinda cool seeing a village go from nothing to decent size but. Not only do you have to invest abit of money into it until you start getting money. At the point in the game where you can start investing in it you should already have really good gear so the income from the village you get later on really does not matter. You don't really get any additional quests from it. You don't really feel like you're in command of the village at all even tho you're baliff. You're just building stuff. The dlc could've been amazing if they added quests to it. But in my opinion it's just a meh dlc that doesn't add much in reality and the satisfaction from completing it isn't much. So if you're short on money or really debating if you wanna buy it I'd say no and wait for another dlc to come out.

[crazyorse]

Originally posted by Harkkyn:

I too am in the same boat, overall i'd heard and read that you are highly limited to what you can place in the settlement (no bathhouse) and are forced between either a swordsmith or armourer. It'll be somewhere in the 80k range of total gold needed to complete the settlement.

Likewise. When I read it had limited choices I did not see the point. Sounds like a half hearted attempt.

[unwaveringresolve]

Pros:
1. It's something you can invest money into in the late game, when you've already bought your warhorse, full plate, and preferred weaponry. This makes the game economy feel a little less broken.
2. Finally, you can have your own alchemy bench near your own storage chest.
3. Little bits of extra story through the judgments and quests to get supplies.
4. The town eventually gives you access to a variety of unique goods - an infinite supply of the best beer in the game, a shop for the best horses and horse equipment, a world class armorsmith or weaponsmith, free honey, high-stakes gambling, etc.
5. You can invite various people to live in the town. This helps to give happy conclusions for some NPCs you might have felt you left behind.
6. The church frescoes will immortalize Henry.

Cons:
1. No baths! Why no baths!?
2. By my estimates, it costs about ~95,000 groschen to build the town. That's not a trivial amount, and if you don't keep enough money in the village coffers to cover expenses then Sir Divish will fire you.
3. Once you *do* get everything fully built, the town will generate so much money that you don't need to loot any more... but chances are you're already well past the point where you needed loot for income anyway.
4. The actual process of building the town is kind of repetitive and tedious, especially if you try to do it all at once.
5. Much like being the Master Huntsman of Talmberg, there's nothing really to do as Bailiff once you've finished the associated quests.

Overall, I'd say $10 is a bit steep, but I'm still glad it was part of my KCD experience. It was interesting to see the ruin turn into a town, and I liked doing judgments. I do wish there had been more story content involved, and more reason to *stay* in Pribyslavitz instead of treating it as someplace to occasionally visit and drop things off.

[BirdDog]

I would pay double if i could play as bandit or cuman.