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Not necessarily bad but you've got to get it on sale, very "Mixed" reviews DLC
It's 4 missions, 3 of which are like 2 minutes of buildup via cutscene or dialogue then 10v10 fight without any stakes. You could easily knock it out in under 2 hours. It all feels VERY rushed, like it started off as a concept for a $20 expansion but some c-suite lost confidence in the idea and ordered it scaled back. The "Band of Bastards" feels like the foundation of an interesting group of characters but none of them get to develop or even have the spotlight for more than literally 20 seconds each. The plot feels like something that should take a while to unravel as you reveal more about the "villain" and their relatively just motivations for their evil actions and eventually track them down, akin to hunting down Runt in Pribyslavitz. What you get is a single establishing quest, two quests where you don't know where the villain is and a quest where you fight the villain. The final battle quest is LITERALLY a fast travel to an open field where 2 NPCs talk at each other for a minute and you get the opportunity to pass a speech check, then a bunch of dudes fight in an open field in the middle of nowhere, then its over. The end. Very anticlimactic.
That's the review, but how useless has gaming "review" journalism become? Lets be real about the quotes attached to the Steam page for this DLC-
"Well written new characters, Kuno's Camp is an interesting new area, plenty of the skill-based combat of Kingdom Come to go around.”
8/10 – Hooked Gamers
Kuno's camp is practically indistinguishable from ANY other camp in the game. It's a few plain tents in the middle of nowhere on the side of a road. There's a few tables and benches. Kuno's tent has a few pieces of furniture. SO INTERESTING. Every fight in this DLC (except the very first one where you have to duel someone to prove yourself, and the optional one if you track down the raiders in the first quest) can be won by standing back and letting Kuno and the lads fight for you. SO SKILL BASED. And if you do get involved in the fights, the chaos of having like 8 allies and 12 enemies at a time reduces the normally heavily skill based combat of this game into a left click bonanza where you're constantly hitting enemies in the back while simultaneously getting hit in the back yourself. The AI has no cohesion, group combat IMMEDIATELY devolves into an uncoordinated brawl where everyone surrounds each other.
“Kuno’s men are, without doubt, the funniest bunch I’ve seen in an RPG.”
8/10 – 4D Gamers
Kuno's men have, without doubt, no more than 8 pages of dialogue between the lot of them. If you made a compilation of everything they said that even vaguely resembled an attempt at humor in the entire DLC, it would be about 45 seconds long.
I just spent more time reviewing these "journalists" for the one guy that reads this than they spent writing their actual reviews