Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator says he was ‘fired from Warhorse Studios and replaced with AI’

On March 28, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 English language editor Max Hejtmánek shared a post to the series’ subreddit claiming to have been fired from Warhorse Studios, with management allegedly telling him that his job could be accomplished with AI in the future.

We have reached out to Warhorse for comment, and will update this story when we hear back. We have contacted Max Hejtmánek and confirmed that he was the author behind the original Reddit post.

“I primarily worked on KCD2 and its DLCs, including dialogues, quest logs, item names, and various other things,” Hejtmánek wrote. “Simply put, if you’ve ever played KCD2 in English, you’ve quite likely seen my work.

“[On March 27], with no forewarning, I was invited to a meeting and promptly told that, in an effort to ‘make the company more effective’ and ‘save finances,’ as of next month, my position at the company would become ‘obsolete’ in favour of using AI for all translations going forward.”

Hejtmánek wrote that he has been vocally opposed to using AI translation tools at Warhorse, but “never to the extent that it might actually cost me my job in the future.” He wrote that he feels “incredibly betrayed by the management” and while he’s not asking for his job back, “you can be damn sure I won’t keep quiet about my experience.” A follow-up edit thanks all the commenters showing support and cautions fans against review-bombing or harassing other Warhorse staff.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was a big hit last year and took home PC Gamer’s GOTY award, but developer Warhorse has had a strange week when it comes to AI. Game director Daniel Vávra took to X to defend DLSS 5 last Monday, and Hejtmánek’s accusations will only deepen suspicion of the studio.