Any new info on Armored Princess?

[MetalCraze]

I'm a bit surprised that they've kept the marriage mechanic, the marriage of a princess and heir to the kingdom should a somewhat more significant event than just to pick up some random stat bonus. I wonder if pregnancy is in? Or maybe that's a henchman rather than a husband?

Looks like a henchman or something - if you will look closely to the "greyed out" icons you will notice that there is not a single icon that somehow can relate to a baby - only to armor.

 

[JarlFrank]

I'm a bit surprised that they've kept the marriage mechanic, the marriage of a princess and heir to the kingdom should a somewhat more significant event than just to pick up some random stat bonus. I wonder if pregnancy is in? Or maybe that's a henchman rather than a husband?

Looks like a henchman or something - if you will look closely to the "greyed out" icons you will notice that there is not a single icon that somehow can relate to a baby - only to armor.

Well, your own character becoming pregnant would be quite impractical I guess.

 

[Lesifoere]

Pish, it's fantasy. Surely you can suspend your disbelief enough to contemplate the possibilities of male pregnancy. Transplant a womb into that guy and let's go.

 

[Gragt]

Or maybe they simply went to the baby market and placed an order to the stork.

 

[Zhuangzi]

You don't marry the henchmen, like the dude in that screenshot. Apparently they are re-introducing the bounty system from the original KB - meaning that you hire people but don't have kids with them.

I think this is a bit of a cop-out, personally. If you could buy and sell wives in the first game, why not buy and sell husbands in the expansion? It's only fair.

All of the information available in English is on the 1C forum. This info mainly comes from Nike-it (works for 1C) and two other guys called Spamm and Feanor. They must be Russkies or something:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/forumdisplay.php?f=131

 

[Zhuangzi]

Also, the expansion will be 20% shorter than the original, because they have reduced the number of overall fights. They are also increasing the number of levels from 30 to 50, which means that the experience garnered from a fight will be proportionately higher.

Even though you are Amelie, the princess, you can still be a Mage, Paladin or Warrior. I was worried that this wouldn't be the case, so I'm pleased about that.

 

[PorkaMorka]

It is with utmost sincerity that I hope that piece of crap gets canceled.

King's Bounty was one of the worst games of 2008, and somehow managed to get some praise at the Codex; no veteran HoMM player would give the game a second glance, and no veteran gamer hasn't played a HoMM game in his life.

Yeah but, having experienced the alternatives, many a veteran turn based strategy gamer would conclude that the HOMM gameplay formula is at it's core pretty awful. 85% or more of the fights are against trash mobs, and in a map that takes 3 hours you might only end up with 1-3 climactic, even fights against an enemy hero, and the rest of the time is just clearing trash.

Makes the game rather unrewarding at both a tactical and strategic level.

 

[felicity]

It is with utmost sincerity that I hope that piece of crap gets canceled.

King's Bounty was one of the worst games of 2008, and somehow managed to get some praise at the Codex; no veteran HoMM player would give the game a second glance, and no veteran gamer hasn't played a HoMM game in his life.

Yeah but, having experienced the alternatives, many a veteran turn based strategy gamer would conclude that the HOMM gameplay formula is at it's core pretty awful. 85% or more of the fights are against trash mobs, and in a map that takes 3 hours you might only end up with 1-3 climactic, even fights against an enemy hero, and the rest of the time is just clearing trash.

Makes the game rather unrewarding at both a tactical and strategic level.

But HoMM is more than just combat. There is city management, hero development and what not. There is a lot of strategic planning outside of combat.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

Nothing against HoMM, its a great game, but i am feeling like defending King's Bounty.

It might get repetetive in combat (espacially as a mage), but its still fun turn-based gameplay and there are plenty of stuff to try out, altrouth fireball (or any damage spell) is pretty much whats needed to be done.

Its fun to explore new maps and quests arent just FedEx or Kill'em, like skyway said. There are plenty of different quests, yet, yea.. simplistic.

Its a fun, addictive game. Easily kept me entertained, while most other games this year failed to do so.

 

[Zhuangzi]

Exactly right, except that fireball is only overpowered as a Mage in the early game because the Mage gets this spell for free. Yes, it is devastating for the first few levels, but it rapidly loses its mojo. Ultimately you are MUCH better off with spells that do a percentage of enemies attack (Pain Mirror), ones that create dummy stacks (Phantom) or ones that do massive area of effect damage (Armageddon, and the best AoE spell in the game, Fire Rain). Fireball is a weak early spell in comparison.

EDIT: WTF??? I am Zhuangzi, not Andhaira. What is going on here? :shock:

 

[Zhuangzi]

TEST: am I still Andhaira?

ANSWER: yes.

lol, I really do ask inane questions.

 

[Gragt]

I'm very partial to ice snake, as it slows enemies as well. Plus there are a lot of cool spells that I loved to use with my paladin (hard difficulty), like trap, mirror image, target, magic shackles, etc.

While there is a lot of combat, the game forced me change strategies from time to time; enough to keep me interested and get me replaying it after a while.

 

[Texas Red]

Is the 10th of April a confirmed date? Anyone got a Russian website with the latest news?

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Exactly right, except that fireball is only overpowered as a Mage in the early game because the Mage gets this spell for free. Yes, it is devastating for the first few levels, but it rapidly loses its mojo. Ultimately you are MUCH better off with spells that do a percentage of enemies attack (Pain Mirror), ones that create dummy stacks (Phantom) or ones that do massive area of effect damage (Armageddon, and the best AoE spell in the game, Fire Rain). Fireball is a weak early spell in comparison.

Well said. 2 more badass spells were this Domination Spell + the Sacrifice Spell. It is pretty funny... first you take control over the enemy army, then you start to sac them to fill up your own troops. That was kinda cool.
Fireball was lame and would not win the challenging fights, like that one challenge in the dwarven kingdom. Especially because later in the game everyone is resistant or even immune to fire anyway.

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Is the 10th of April a confirmed date? Anyone got a Russian website with the latest news?

The official website says it's April 10.

 

[MetalCraze]

The official trailer says that too.
I won't play the game though. Both videos look like Katauri decided that they don't have enough anime in their game.

 

[Spectacle]

link to trailer?

 

[MetalCraze]

There is a link to a second video beneath the player - the site is in russian though and I'm sure that 4/10 is a CiS release date only.

http://www.ag.ru/files/videos/kings_bounty_armored_princess/33473/flash#show

 

[made]

Just saw 2 new (?) trailers on EvAV.

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81981

The baby dragon is SOOOO cute!

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

^_^

 

[made]

^_^

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

so 10th April then? Only russian? When are the other language versions coming then?

 

[Texas Red]

The game has been torrented. I'm not going to to remove anything from the inventory.

 

[Texas Red]

This is a great expansion. Not only are there new creatures, many of the old ones have been given a bunch of abilities. For example, the Knight is now a Paladin who can resurrect/heal himself and others and also reload a creature's action points. Plus he is holy, steel armor etc. The swordsman can evade attacks and has a special attack. The appearance has been changed accordingly with, for example, the Marauder having daggers.

The little dragon is drawn and animated very nicely.

This is all I got because my Russian needs practicing. The beginning has much more dialog, more NPCs and overall content that the The Legend. The story is a lot stronger with several mysteries you have to uncover and some interesting concepts. For example, the Princess leaves Endoria in a state of timelessness with the help of that Temple Guard.

 

[made]

Your opinion doesn't count because you pirated it.