Earlier this year, Warhorse Studios announced that Hardcore mode would return to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 in the Spring update, releasing sometime in mid-April. However, it might be here sooner than we expected.
As pointed out by u/Billy_the_Breaker, there are two new achievements on Steam: "Hardcore Henry II" (a play on the movie of the same name and a follow-up to the original game’s achievement) and "Against All Odds". These task you with beating the game in Hardcore mode and even beating it with all of the perks enabled, gruelling challenges for an already gruelling game.
“Against All Odds” was called “‘Tis but a scratch” in the original. And we’re unfortunately missing “Kingdom did not come”, a reward for dying in Hardcore.
And as we know, with players getting their hands on Hardcore mode early, it already exists in the game's backend — you can even enable it right now with console commands if you want. Couple that with the new Steam achievements, and it certainly looks like Warhorse Studios is gearing up for the official update, and with April right around the corner, the timing lines up perfectly.
Hardcore mode isn’t just an arbitrary stat slider...
