New expansion - Ice and Fire

BB Shockwave · #1 01-17-2014, 06:45 PM

Seriously? They copied a mod made by the fans, using the skins, too?

Btw, the new Snow Elves are terribly uninspired. Not even great new skins, like the Fauns or Paladins were in AP - they are simple palette swaps! Or just a change of the hues, like for the elf archer - seriously, he wears slightly more blue clothing, but even the pattern is the same! They couldn't even give snow elves a different skin tone? I could have made (and did make!) better new skins within less than a day using Photoshop!!!

The russian site has more screens up: http://kingsbounty.ru/gallery/screens

Undead beholders, even? And a blue Phoenix? Not really inspired. Frankly, from WOTN the only new unit I found interesting and well-designed was the Ice Dragon and its cute "babies".

Zhuangzi · #2 01-18-2014, 10:04 AM

Yeah, we're all long time fans of the series here, but I think that if 1C think we're going to pay for more copypasta then they may be in for a surprise.

Csimbi · #3 01-18-2014, 08:07 PM

Warriors of The North seems to be a copy of the KB landscape with a few tweaks, new quests and such to hide those facts from you.
What I hope is that we will see new landscape; having to go through the exact same maps as before is getting very boring (and has no much replay value).
Plus, a working editor would be nice (the current one keeps crashing, half of the things have not been translated or unavailable as a whole compared to the Russian release).

Anti-global · #4 01-19-2014, 12:11 PM

As everybody said, this is just copy-paste disappointment. But I am not gonna lie, I haven't bought a single game in my life. I simply have no money to spend on virtual things.
But, if 1C Company managed to make NEW Kings Bounty that would be as good as The Armoured Princess (completly new world, and so on) and that would be cross-platform (would work on Linux natively), I would definitely buy it.

Elwin · #5 01-20-2014, 10:34 AM

Coming as a pirate and reaveling it on official forum?

Anti-global · #6 01-20-2014, 10:55 AM

At least I'm honest. They can Ban me, if they want...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_%28title%29

Zhuangzi · #7 01-20-2014, 11:18 AM

I bought KB Legend once, Armored Princess twice, Crossworlds once and Warriors of the North once. The only disappointment in there was WoTN and I still played 90 hours of it, so it wasn't the worst thing ever. However, I'm really not sure whether I'll be buying the new DLC if I have to start a new WoTN campaign to play it, which I suspect will be the case. The developers should have learned by now that LONG, GRINDING campaigns (TL, WoTN) are not as much fun as medium sized ones (AP, Orcs of the Marsh, other Crossworlds campaigns). KB had the best turn based strategy I ever played, pretty much, but it could get tedious eventually. 290 or so fights in AP was plenty. So why do I want an extra long WoTN campaign that will probably take 100 hours to grind my way through?