Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Henry actor recorded voice lines just to prevent you from cheating

I’ve sunk about 200 hours into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 at the time of writing, but today I learned something new about it: Henry isn’t complimenting my sick photo-taking skills just to be nice; he’s doing it to prevent me from being a dirty, rotten cheater.

If you’ve played the game and tinkered around at all with its photo mode, you’ll know Henry loves to loudly comment on your pictures when you exit photo mode, sometimes alerting nearby guards you would’ve rather remained hidden from. Talking to PC Gamer, KCD2 lead designer Prokop Jirsa explains why this happens. KCD2 is a gorgeous game, and it deserves the extensive photo mode it has, but its developers didn’t like how “you could start photo mode and look around corners” to gain an unfair advantage during stealth sections. Fair enough.