THE TRENT WAR --- a new campaign!

[Sirlancelot]

Originally Posted by raknefne

are you using the latest version 1.1? The crash at Gunnar Priest should be fixed.

I'm afraid yes.

Besides, I'm suffering random crashes to desktop every now and then.

[Sirlancelot]

I started out a new game with a warrior and the crash at Gunnar Priest was gone. The same happened with a paladin.

It seems the bug was caused by the order I advanced through the beggining. I'll try to reproduce it again tomorrow.

[Sirlancelot]

Allright, I think I've got it. The bug triggers when you speak first with the orc taking care of the baby dragons and then accept his mission. After that, you speak with the man who sells or trades his vessels and submarine, and then, go straighly to the temple/church where Gunnar Priest is, ask him about his problems, and after accept his mission, ask him about his wares.

[raknefne]

Originally Posted by Sirlancelot

Allright, I think I've got it. The bug triggers when you speak first with the orc taking care of the baby dragons and then accept his mission. After that, you speak with the man who sells or trades his vessels and submarine, and then, go straighly to the temple/church where Gunnar Priest is, ask him about his problems, and after accept his mission, ask him about his wares.

Ok, I'll check. Thx. Hope you're having fun. It is more challenging than a normal Xworld, but not impossible, a player finished on the Impossible difficulty.

[Sirlancelot]

Originally Posted by raknefne

Ok, I'll check. Thx. Hope you're having fun. It is more challenging than a normal Xworld, but not impossible, a player finished on the Impossible difficulty.

Yep, it seems rather interesting and funny. The level and artistic design are both good, amazing even. At least in the first islands.

Enemies are well placed to avoid excesive kitting and are diverse.

The map exploring is rewarding.

The creatures on sale are also diverse.

It's a shame you prefer not messing with scripts, AI improvements is what I miss the most in King's Bounty. By a large margin. The opponent heroes in vanilla, have absurd/poor spell choices and make decisions alike.

I'm playing on Hard with a paladin.

[Sirlancelot]

I'm suffering frequent CTD after battles. It's quite frustrating.

[Sirlancelot]

More feedback:

This morning suffered no crashes at all. Perhaps I'm near to discover what triggers them. Going from inside the game to the main menu and then load a save, instead of direct, ordinary loading, could be the cause. I got accustomed to do this back in the day when playing Skyrim, as it was the only way to ensure no bugs would happen if loading normally.

Another reason I can think of is pressing Alt+tab, do something outside the game and then returning. Yesterday I had to do this a couple of times, thus maybe is related.

By the way, I'm totally hooked. I really appreciate much of the tweaks you have made to creatures, spells and so on. And the attention to detail is nifty. I can only imagine how many hours you spent thinking about the best way to place objects within the landscape, half hidden. It feels great how rewarding is careful exploration.

A bit of criticism, though: I found some royal griffins available to recruit inside a pirate hideout next to a flooded house, and I'm just level three. If I was very lucky is ok, otherwise I would reduce the chance to find so long lasting creatures at such early stage of the adventure. I mean, they have plenty of hit points (220) and quite high stats in general, among other qualities. So I'm worried about balance.

Now, some other considerations and minor bugs:

I love fire spiders concept, although it doesnt work as described. They're not able to make enemies burn from afar (I attacked with them from a distance thousands of times) Now, perhaps is for the good, as burning and poison effect in Crossworlds are rather potent, and a 30% chance is quite prominent. But a tiny 15 or 20% to actually burn enemies with the ranged attack should be quite reasonable.

To be continued...