Crossworlds - too few new content? Hell no! :)

[jake21]

Does crossroad make giftbag obsolete or should we reinstall gift bag after crossroad ?

Originally Posted by Sneaksie

Due to recent Steam mistake, some people have already completed two new short campaigns. You may think that they are in the game just for a line in press-release and no big deal at all, but they definitely aren't.

- There are nine different guilds and eleven assistants in Champion of the Arena campaign. Do you really think that one playthrough is enough?
- By the way, main hero death in battle in Champion of the Arena is not the end ...
- Your allies and enemies in the Defender of the Crown campaign are RANDOM, each time you'll encounter challenge of another kind. Start a new game and see for yourself.
- There are new tactical challenges on arenas in the Defender of the Crown: Force Barriers, Barracks, traps. Their effects are too cool to describe here, see them for yourselves
- There are several dozens of new items in the main campaign, including connectable and alterable ones
- New abilities for good old creatures from previous games. For example, Bone Dragons can eat corpses and ...
- Dishonest wickedness of the Mage tower. You should choose which creatures you pick for the next fight really carefully ...
- The editor is capable of truly game-changing corrections and additions. Castles giving you profit in gold each day? Enemy heroes collecting treasure chests? You can do this and much more.
- There is already a thread here about Rune Mages and game-changing possibilities they bring
- LIVING items. Do you want to taste fruits that grew up on a... strange bow you've recently found? Or listen to its advice?


There are tons of another little things developers made for you and carefully hid in the depths of Crossworlds, good luck and have fun

[Jaedar]

Defender of the crown is indeed awesome. There may only be 6 battles, but it feels like so much more because of the variety. I didn't really like champion of the arena, but that's mainly because I didn't really like the bossfights, and I got stuck

[Zhuangzi]

Originally Posted by jake21

Does crossroad make giftbag obsolete or should we reinstall gift bag after crossroad ?

You need to uninstall gift bag and maybe even do a clean install of AP apparently. Not sure if Crossworlds makes the gift bag obsolete, but I expect it does.

[jake21]

Yes I know that; but AFTER we install crossworlds should we reinstall gift bag or does crossworld make it obsolete ?

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

You need to uninstall gift bag and maybe even do a clean install of AP apparently. Not sure if Crossworlds makes the gift bag obsolete, but I expect it does.

[JQueue]

Obsolete don't reinstall. They appear to have gift bag stuff and then some.

Not really sure how I feel about it though... More sets == more possible fragmentation of complete sets.

I have 3/4 pieces of Dragon Toy artifact, 2/3 pieces of Belt of the Victor artifact, etc. If I were to mod anything in the original campaign, it would be to ensure that you get at least 1 large complete set/ assembled artifact in a playthrough.

[Mandea]

In diablo 3 you will have the posibility of creating/buying the last piece of a set should you be in need (like you say 3/4, 2/3). I would love to see the same in KB. maybe the editor will help us.

[Saiko Kila]

Originally Posted by jake21

Does crossroad make giftbag obsolete or should we reinstall gift bag after crossroad ?

Gift Bag appears as another campaign, so you have five in total: original one, gift bag, and three new ones including orcs. Gift bag is really only the original campaign plus items, so you can play it if you don't like new campaign for some reason.

[rancor26]

Originally Posted by Saiko Kila

Gift Bag appears as another campaign, so you have five in total: original one, gift bag, and three new ones including orcs. Gift bag is really only the original campaign plus items, so you can play it if you don't like new campaign for some reason.

No. The items featured in gift bag are in "Orcs on the march" campaign there's no gift bag campaign. There's orcs campaign, defender, champion and original AP. I don't know if the items are in defender of the crown or champion of the arena. As stated many times you'll need clean install of AP to install CW (i cant confirm this though because i installed AP and CW at the same time) but no there isnt any gift bag campaign.

[Saiko Kila]

Originally Posted by rancor26

No. The items featured in gift bag are in "Orcs on the march" campaign there's no gift bag campaign. There's orcs campaign, defender, champion and original AP. I don't know if the items are in defender of the crown or champion of the arena. As stated many times you'll need clean install of AP to install CW (i cant confirm this though because i installed AP and CW at the same time) but no there isnt any gift bag campaign.

But I had CW installed thanks to Stream "mistake" and checked it out thoroughly, so I stand by my comments. Note that I assume:
1. You had both KBAP and Gift Bag installed before updating to CW
2. that will work the same way after "new" release on Sept, 17th

In my case there are five campaigns. I had Gift Bag installed and is still works (and worked when CW was still unlocked, including old saves). More, the new campaigns from CW are still listed in the "downgraded" KBAP, and you can change to them, but only original one and Gift Bag work. The three new ones make the game crash (after selecting New Game), presumably because there are no resources.

The Steam did not clean install the KBAP! The date of install in Windows is the same as before. The settings are the same. The Gift Bag was installed before and remained installed. It only updated it (maybe 50% of files were changed and some added? They were changed back or deleted after "the fix").

Oh, and one thing. In KBCW every campaign has it's own color, and changes the buttons (New Game, Load Game, etc.) to that color. In my case the Gift Bag was purple. Not that any of it actually maters, because I don't believe anyone would install CW only to play Gift Bag or original campaign now, unless for sentiment

[Mandea]

Yes, but you don't need the gift bag anymore because its contents is already contained within orcs on the march. so it is obsolete now. And the other two scenarios don't have those artefacts. but I guess you can change that using the editor.