I didn't say easy availability of a unit was the only factor I considered, I said it was one thing I considered.

Yes, Crossworlds will be released both in digital and retail. Digital - first.

Do you know if the Digital release is still on track for Q3, by any chance?

You have responded like you know things, and therefore it is our job to extract every bit of information we can from you!

Polish publisher has King's Bounty: Crossworlds still scheduled for September 2010 on their web site. It's a boxed version and will be in Polish obviously. So let's keep our fingers crossed...

Hmm, okay. I'll just buy another computer so I can play Civ V and Crossworlds at the same time.

Well I kinda run the publishing business for 1C, so yes I know this for sure!
I am sorry that I cannot reply often in the forum. Release date is set for 17th.
There will be preorders on major sites, Steam for sure. We need couple more weeks to fix everything. Game will be also shown in Germany at GC.

Excellent! Thanks for the information! You've been pretty good lately about coming in and telling us stuff, and we appreciate it.

I even saw some Armored Princess ads on other websites recently, and was happily surprised to see that actual advertisements for it exist, since I'd only ever heard of it word of mouth, or via steam product lists.

Good luck on fixing everything :).

@ Megakill,

When will a hard copy be available in the US(Amazon, etc)? Or Amazon UK if that has an earlier release date?

So, can you tell when are we gonna have a preorder availiable? I would buy it right now if I could.

US box and UK box dates are being now discussed with local publishers. For example THQ is just bringing KB AP to retail, so I assume that Crossworlds box would be later than digital for sure.

Preorders should start around 2 weeks before Sept 17th - we are finalizing this with Steam, GG and others participating in preorder deals. I assume it will be around 10% off minimum.

Plus we will bring KB platinum at a nice price - KB Legend + AP + Crossworlds + editor

What about a bonus for us loyal fans who have already bought Legend and AP when they first came out? For instance, I have both from Gamersgate and will get Crossworlds the same way. Maybe a 20% discount on Crossworlds? :-P

Well, that maybe allowed me and my beautiful wife to have a daughter that is hopefully going to be even prettier than her mother. So you could be proud for taking some credit in helping to make this world a brighter place :-)

Seriously though, we have proposed various digital places to run their own deals for customers that bought previous games. We cannot control them, but I hope that some good deals would be offered.

Well, then I am proud to have bought them. In addition to the two digital copies I bought from Gamersgate, I also got a disc copy of The Legend and I will do the same for AP and Crossworlds eventually. To be perfectly honest with you I don't always pay for the games I play (it's about 50-50) but I am proud to support Katauri for making 3 games in a row that I really like (or 4 if you call Space Rangers 2 Reboot a different game from Space Rangers 2: Dominators).

I think we got a 10% discount on AP for preordering on Gamersgate so I presume it will be the same again for Crossworlds. Am I right in thinking that September 17 is the date we're looking at here?

Where do you live? Maybe we can send you some special gift like a t-shirt with signatures of the devs or smth like that? Thank you for supporting our games so much!

Yes, Sept 17th is the Day. :-)

I live in Western Australia. Yes, a t-shirt would be cool! To think that I only heard about King's Bounty just before it came out in 2008 because I was looking for info on Disciples III! 2 years on, I've played hundreds of hours of the two KB games and I can't even be bothered buying Disciples III after I played the demo and wasn't impressed (lovely art - horrible AI).

EDIT: just got myself a DVD copy of AP new on ebay for US$22. I wanted to get this eventually anyway in case Gamersgate ever goes bust. :)

I have passed info about you to the team. Hope they will act properly or face my wrath :-)))

Thanks Megakill. Looking forward to being able to preorder on Gamersgate. :)

KB:C new screens http://beta.orange.pl/gry-galerie-zdjec.phtml

Posted this in the AP forum but I'm not sure if anyone's still reading that:

Guys, is there a way of UNINSTALLING the Gift Back without reinstalling AP? I ask this because the new Crossworlds expansion is apparently able to be installed over the top of AP, so I don't want any issues with the Gift Bag being there (I have the problem of hard crashes when I switch between Gift Bag on or off).

Not sure, will try to find out.
However I found out complete info on the editor and posted it in a separate thread :-)

Uninstalling >> http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...8&postcount=90

For your freezing problem try this >> http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...7&postcount=79

Thanks mare911, it's back to normal now. :)

Does this mean we cannot install the gift-bag and crossworld at the same time?

Unfortunately you can't. You will need to install Crossworlds on clean Armored Princess (no gifft-bag or other mods).

3 versions for King's Bounty: Crossworlds

1C company has announced that King's Bounty: Crossworlds will be sold in three different versions. Before I go further still says that for now it does not concern France since it leaves our shores as December 10. The first for a price of $ 19.99 will require the game KB: Armored Princess to settle and it will add all new features and campaigns Crossworlds. The second for a price of $ 29.99 will be a standalone version of Crossworlds and will not request any other game to work. The third will find ourselves in a pack Crossworlds more original King's Bounty for a price of $ 34.99.

http://www.rpgfrance.com/actu-7648-v...ty-crossworlds

The German release date seems to be September 23rd. My gamestore has it listed for 17.98 Euro (the expansion that requires AP). Doesn't concern me, though, since I bought KB:TL and KB:AP at GamersGate, and will get CW there, as well. Comes out a little sooner anyway. :)

will crossroads be available on impulse?

Sure it will. Crossworlds will be available in all popular digital stores.

thanks!

When will Crossworlds be available as a physical copy via Amazon, preferably in the US...or UK if that is scheduled sooner?

I believe it will be couple of months after digital release.

If those are the prices for North America, that's very reasonable. Since I already have AP and Legend, I will only have to pay $20. No point in waiting for a sale, that's an instant sale.

Yep, these are recommended prices for US market.

Quick question: I read here that Crossworlds demands a clean intall of AP. But I have Gift Pack installed and I dont want to uninstall it (I have a half-finished game going on).

Is it possible to install AP again on a different location to keep AP with Gift Pack and Crossworlds at the same time?

As a follow on question does crossroad add the items found in giftbag ?

bumping because I'm curious if crossworld includes gift bag or if we have to uinstall gift bag; then in stall crossworld then (can we reinstall giftbag?)

Nike-it said in another thread that we'd have to do a clean install of AP before installing Crossworlds, i.e. to get rid of the Gift Bag. I would presume that many of the Gift Bag items are now in the Orcs of the Marsh campaign, but not having playing it yet I can't say that for sure.

For installing Crossworlds you will need to uninstall all mods and use clean AP. About items from gift bag in Crossworlds can't say now, should check it with the devs.

KBC new videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmrkvracBUs

Unlike any other game+expansion on Steam, CW installs and overwrites game files for AP. This means, you can't play AP if you have CW and vice-versa. I realize you think that CW is supposed to be played instead of AP, but for a growing number of reasons, including mod compatibility, a complete failure for Verify GCF (a steam client function) to work correctly if you do it to the AP game link instead of the CW game link and...perhaps most painful for new users with completely clean installs - a loss of the larger, more detailed, and more basic game manual.

Why are you setting Crossworlds to overwrite the ..\kings bounty armored princess\ folder contents in Steam?
If you have separate appIDs in Steam, these problems go away entirely, as long as there is a separate install folder, for example:

..\Steam\steamapps\common\kings bounty crossworlds\

Instead, folks are getting a messed up install - and some do not even realize they're playing Crossworlds with bits of old game data from Armored Princess (or vice versa).

@Aesir

Company of Heroes works in the same way and so does Dawn of War II. The expansion Chaos Rising installs in the same folder that the main game is installed to. It is not an uncommon practice to do things like that. In fact, only standalone expansions are usually installed in seperate folders, and Crossworlds isn't like that. It requires AP to run.

Of course the way this probably works is, you are "upgrading" AP into Crossworlds, so yeah, the mods and things like that won't work anymore because you are now running a different version of the game. If you want to start the vanilla version of AP, it doesn't exist anymore once the expansion is installed. This is why if you start either AP or Crossworlds form Steam, they both get you into the new menu where you can chose one of the 4 campaigns.

If you still want to start AP you have to first uninstall Crossworlds (right click -> Delete local content) and then "reinstall" Armored Princess (right click on AP -> Properties -> verify integrity of game cache).

Therefore, it is also logical that you shouldn't verify AP game cache if you have Crossworlds installed, as Crossworlds is the most recent version. You are verifying game data for the previous version of the game which doesn't exist anymore once Crossworlds is installed.