{"id":570883,"date":"2026-03-28T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570883\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:07:08","slug":"translator-on-kingdom-come-2-claims-he-was-replaced-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570883\/","title":{"rendered":"Translator On Kingdom Come 2 Claims He Was Replaced With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Hejtm\u00e1nek, the English editor and voice-over director behind Warhorse Studios\u2019 2025 GOTY-nominated hit Kingdom Come: Deliverance II<\/a>, has claimed that his position at Warhorse Studios was made \u201cobsolete\u201d last night after the Czech developer told him the RPG studio would be \u201cusing AI for all translations going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hejtm\u00e1nek shared this information in a post on the r\/kingdomcome subreddit earlier this morning<\/a>. The subreddit\u2019s moderators subsequently claimed to have verified Hejtm\u00e1nek\u2019s identity, and his LinkedIn<\/a> has since been updated to reveal that, as of March 2026, he no longer works at Warhorse Studios.<\/p>\n

Kotaku has reached out to Warhorse Studios for comment.<\/p>\n

Since 2022, Hejtm\u00e1nek was the \u201cCzech>English translator and editor\u201d for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II\u00a0and, based on his comment that he \u201cdid in fact have work to do\u201d prior to being made redundant, was at least part way through working on additional content or a separate project for Warhorse Studios at the time of his firing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday, March 27th 2026, with no forewarning, I was invited to a meeting and promptly told that, in an effort to \u2018make the company more effective\u2019 and \u2018save finances,\u2019 as of next month, my position at the company would become \u2018obsolete\u2019 in favor of using AI for all translations going forward,\u201d Hejtm\u00e1nek stated in the post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis came as a huge shock to me, as though the discussion about using AI for translating had frequently come up in the past, something I was always strongly and vocally against, but never to the extent that it might actually cost me my job in the future,\u201d Hejtm\u00e1nek continued. \u201cIt had, of course, crossed my mind many times, but I naively thought my work at [Warhorse Studios] was valued enough that I might not be at immediate risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel incredibly betrayed by the management of the company I\u2019ve come to care about greatly these past almost 4 years, and am heartbroken I won\u2019t get to see my friends and colleagues at the office every day\u2026To all management at Warhorse, I won\u2019t be breaking my NDA, of course, nor am I looking for my job back or to start legal issues, but you can be damn sure I won\u2019t keep quiet about my experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hejtm\u00e1nek\u2019s reported firing comes after recent comments from the studio\u2019s senior leadership in favor of generative AI. Daniel V\u00e1vra, Warhorse Studios\u2019 co-founder, appears to be fully on board with the controversial technology and recently took to X to support Nvidia\u2019s DLSS 5 AI-slop filter tech<\/a>. \u201cThis is just a little uncanny beginning,\u201d V\u00e1vra stated in his post. \u201cNo way haters will stop this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hejtm\u00e1nek said there is one other in-house localizer still at the studio, at least for now. \u201cWarhorse if you\u2019re in here you\u2019re gonna set your next game up for failure [with] decisions like this,\u201d one fan wrote on the subreddit. \u201cPeople don\u2019t like this kind of crap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Hejtm\u00e1nek, the English editor and voice-over director behind Warhorse Studios\u2019 2025 GOTY-nominated hit Kingdom Come: Deliverance II,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,280349,105,280350],"class_list":{"0":"post-570883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-kingdom-come-deliverance-2","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-warhorse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}