The remaining 10% of the time Pebbles will not come up to you. Around 50% of the time you will not see him, and then you’ll turn around and find that he is standing stock-still immediately behind you, akin to creepy Watson. You can be in the middle of a forest and whistle for him and around 40% of the time he’ll come trotting up to you from nowhere.

I left him in front of a scribe’s house for two days while I learnt to read. Pebbles is great because he doesn’t need to be fed and you can leave him standing in the middle of a street and he will stand in exactly the same position forever if you didn’t get him to move. Pebbles is the first horse you get for keeps in the game, and although you can buy way better mounts if you want to, I stuck with Pebbles the whole way a) for maximum loyalty and b) because my Henry was very cheap. The huge day one patches were, if anything, to add more historical accuracy.

‘You claim this game’s accuracy as a reason to include or exclude things you want, and yet there is magic alcohol?’ Well VideoGamer’s galaxy brain is here to tell you that actually, contrary to what you regular brain types think, everything in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is as accurate as a BBC 2 period drama, and this includes things that you might first assume are a bit silly or experience altering bugs. ‘Surely this seems incompatible!’ cried the naysayers. Listen, KC:D developer Warhorse Studios got a bit of a ribbing over saying the game was really historically accurate and that’s why everyone in the game is white, and then having a save system where you drink magic schnapps (the devs are now patching in a save and exit feature so you don’t have to get tanked every time you want to turn off your console).

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