King's Bounty: Legend Coverage?

[waffen]

Very nice video: http://games-tv.ru/v/2997

You can see a lot from actual game.

[Metathron]

So we can conclude either that there are no competent English translators to be had in Russia, or that Russian developers/publishers are stingy bastards who don't give a rat's ass about the translation.

[King Imp]

I wasn't exactly thrilled when I found out that this game only has the one map, regardless of how big it may be, but I am still looking forward to this a lot.

September (we hope) can't come soon enough. I just hope that while we outside of Russia are waiting, that they are working on the expansion and it isn't far behind when we finally get this released to us.

[PhoenixReborn]

Well...that's standard for rpg's. For example might and magic games only have one set game world...not changing maps like in strategy games.

It does look like the translation is poor. Still the game looks fun.

[innokenti]

Man... I should probably look into the Russian-English translation business... I could make a killing doing quality localization.

[ThunderTitan]

It wasn't russian but that's how i got money for a new PC...

[Vlaad II]

Geny of HC translated some stuff here:

http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.p ... enumber=10

[ThunderTitan]

New videos i saw showed good english in the parts i read... plus, localization is always among the last things to be done, so one demo six month before release ain't all that telling.

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/4723.html

[Darmani]

English still needs a bit of work.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38684.html

Can't read most of the text in that trailer, but at 0:51 I can clearly read "You put your hands on the altar and closed the eyes. Powers, concealed in the cold stone, have woken up and you felt your magic skills are increasing."

That looks good enough to have already been localized, but contains enough errors to constantly annoy me.

[Avonu]

Just to inform you - Polish demo was realeased yesterday (800 MB), so I think that English demo is very close.

[Avonu]

English demo is out too.
Check this topic for links to downloads.

BTW - cheats working in demo (at least in PL version), so press SHIFT + ` and type (holding shift) MAGICBOOK - give all spells in book with you normally don't see in demo, such like summon phoenix, armageddon or book of evil (dead? ).
Check cheats when you finish normal playing.

[Metathron]

Thanks Avonu, but the download is awfully slow.

EDIT: It seems to be getting faster, though, and then slows down again.

But I'm really excited about this. Hope the hype is justified.

EDIT #2: Download from here: http://www.gamershell.com/download_32652.shtml I chose the 1000Mbit/s source and the download will take only about 13 minutes for me.

[darknessfood]

Going to try the demo once i'm home . Thanks for the link !
Oh, abd my download speed was REALLY fast, downed it within 15 minutes, around 3mbps , that's the great thing about school, the downloadspeed !

[Asheera]

I once downloaded something with 700+ Kilobytes per second (not bits!), which is around 5.6+ mbps

[darknessfood]

The full version is comming out next week. Really looking forward to that, cause it's really a great game, from what i have seen from the demo. Release is at september 23th!! :D:D

[ThunderTitan]

Tried the Demo... game seems nice, but as Gamespy pointed out, it needs a damn auto-resolve button... or at least faster leveling up... it's just no fun if you already get bored with fighting while you haven't even reached lvl 4...

Hope the game sells well, because it's a great first try...

[Darmani]

KB leveling is slow? Try Might and Magic 1...

[darknessfood]

Well, if you level up slow, don't be a coward and fight stronger monsters. Or finish quests will fill the bar up nicely, you also have a skill that gives you a nice 10% bonus (and 15% and 20% if you upgrade more). Also, defeating heroes gives the XP bar quite a boost. So i don't find it a problem at all. And if you level up really fast, it's not fun either because you get overpowered really soon.

[ThunderTitan]

Dude, i was left with no monsters to fight and i still didn't get to lvl 4... and the fights lasted too long for the abilities they had and the XP gain... just make it seem too slow...

And i'm more in favour of "balancing for faster lvl-up" myself... just give less runes each time.

Then again maybe

KB leveling is slow? Try Might and Magic 1...

Precisely... the time where if you had 2 worth playing games a year so they had to make sure you had to invest more time in the game... now it's more like 2 a month, and that with 90% of games being crap...

[Avonu]

Some news about addon:

http://www.kingsbounty.ru/princess/

- new storyline, new gameworld
- new woman hero: princess Amelie, max hero level will be 50
- hero can flying on the pegassus at the global map

* 3 clasess: warrior, paladin, mage with only one portrait
* medals for excellent playing which give bonuses in game
Skill trees will be changed significantly, with new skills added. Also, the whole Medal thing will act sorta like the 4th tree.
* new rage spirit - domesticous dragon with 9 unique attacks
it replace old Box of Rage
* new race - lizards
* promptly traveling on the sea
* you can hire the squire
the family system is replaced with hirable henchmen
* contract system for chase trophies
like in old King's Bounty
* improved RPG system with more abilities, tree system 13-13-14
* new Traveling magic for the global map and some new spells
* 5 new unique bosses: Borer, Gremlion, Archidemon Baal etc.
* better optimalization for minor system requirements
* playing time more 10 hours
* quickly hero leveling
* more complicated battles
* demo - maybe
* you can't attack from the air
* abilities have 8-12 levels (in old KB:L only 3)
* spells have again 3 levels
* release date is maybe april 2009 (Russian version)
* not multiplayer
* Starforce again (Russian Version)
* more colors for Dragon spirit (yellow, black, blue...)
* flying is also quick travel between maps

Release date: Q1 2009.