King`s Bounty: Warriors of the North announced

[Mandea]

Would you rather have a good game in April, or a buggy and incomplete game tomorrow? I would bet on the first option

[Fatt_Shade]

I want good game tomorrow No i want it yesterday
But seriously now AP released 2,5 years ago , CW 1,5 years and it didnt contain anything new in game look/graphic. Only designer change were couple orc units animations for skill they got, even `new` spells were transferred form original tL from rage spirits and placed in spell book. So i cant say they invested lots of time in CW in work time, more energy went to thinking what to change in expansion. Most of CW were dont in .txt/.lua files so i dont think it took big team of programers for actual work on it.
Now for WotN we saw some screenshots and they changed lots in graphical part : new locations (scandinavian type world i`m guessing), new unit models, new runic magic (no more rage spirits/pet dragon). But game mechanic is same (medals, functioning of items/scrolls and such), skills/abilities. In core they didnt change graphic engine, just took old dress from Amelie and placed it on our new friend Olaf. You cant tell me this is NEW game, it looks allot like original theLegend. Comparing to Desciples 2-3 where everything is new, and HoMM 4-5 change is same(i mention this 2 games since they are both in same genre as KB). But in KB we have great game play, nice story, many tactics and still it look same since original TL from 4 years ago. That`s why i say i want this expansion yesterday just to see what did they made for it to take 2,5 years since AP. When they announce whole new official KB2, i`ll be patient to see what will they do, but for KB-WotN (actually just a mod for KB-AP/CW) i say they took too long. Look at Red Sands mod, some ppl decided to try it and in less then 6 months gave use great mod with huge changes in game.
Did it really took 1C/Cataury 2,5 years to figure out that this is their market instead wasting time/gold on Royal Quest ?

[Mandea]

Then do it yourself or be patient. good things don't came easily.
I want to climb up on Everest too but as long as I don't do anything about it, it remains a simple dream. The same can be said about your wish.

[Fatt_Shade]

And as for `do it yourself` i did things i know how to : modded skills/medals/spells/, new item lvls, new items. Changed exp system for units, changed att/def bonus from stats (like int bonus every 7 int +10% dmg, every 15 int longer spell duration just for att/def), added new units(from red sands mod) for academy upgrades, and some other things. So i changed almost as many things as developers for CW expansion, and it didnt took more then month all together. That`s why i only ask what we will get in this WotN : how many quests/locations/skills/units ?, how will runic magic work ?, are valkyres like wives ?, since this was announced 3 months ago, nothing new was said about it, same information stand on official site as 6.10.2011.
As game looks same as first 2 i`m only interested what is taking so long to say something new about it.

[Darkeonz]

Yeah I wouldn't mind some new information about it. King's bounty is pretty much the only game I play. I'm not much of a gamer.

Btw is red sands worth trying? It looked so complicated to me (even the installer) and usually user made mods for games are imbalanced

[Mandea]

Originally Posted by Fatt_Shade

That`s why i only ask what we will get in this WotN : how many quests/locations/skills/units ?, how will runic magic work ?, are valkyres like wives ?, since this was announced 3 months ago, nothing new was said about it, same information stand on official site as 6.10.2011.
As game looks same as first 2 i`m only interested what is taking so long to say something new about it.

We are still 4 months ahead of the game's launch so it's plenty of time for them to get out with this info. Patience, patience and again patience

[Fatt_Shade]

@Mandea
3 basic rule of playing chess
Ok i agree, only 4 months (not too much considering releasing games world), but we didnt get much info to begin with: no trailer, no in game footage, no explanation what we do with rage(since in screenshots there are no pet dragon/rage spirits), no specs of any new units . . .

[Mandea]

yes, but it's quite obvious we didn't get them because there was nothing to get in the first place. They didn't know exactly what they wanted to, they had some ideas and this was it.
and those pictures were not representative for the final game so....