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Nike-it
11-12-2009, 09:30 AM
King`s Bounty: Armored Princess (http://www.kings-bounty.com/eng/) Official English Demo is now available for download.
You can get it here (ftp://ftp.1cpublishing.eu/kbap_demo_en.rar)(467 Mb).
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess will be released on November 20, 2009 and will be available from several major download services including GamersGate.com and Steam as well as from the 1C consumer site.
Mirrors:
GamerGate
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-KBAP/kings-bounty-armored-princess
GamersHell
http://www.gamershell.com/download_53036.shtml
4Players
http://www.4players.de/4players.php/download_info/Downloads/Download/53563/Kings_Bounty_Armored_Princess/Englische_Demo.html
ComputerGames
http://computergames.ro/en/downloads/viewitem/id/15443/name/kings-bounty-armored-princess-english-demo.html
Worthplaying
http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=4016&id=20598
AtomicGamer
http://www.atomicgamer.com/file.php?id=82069
Games.on.net
http://games.on.net/file/30614/Kings_Bounty_Armored_Princess_Demo_-_English
Elwin
11-12-2009, 09:47 AM
finally
Mandea
11-12-2009, 09:57 AM
hell yeah :D
the best news in 1 month :)
Elwin
11-12-2009, 10:16 AM
Actualy i will Dl it only because to know offcial english names, i have finished it on each class in russian and polish version, its boring to me.
Zhuangzi
11-12-2009, 10:22 AM
Why is the d/l so slow? 20-30 Kb/sec? :confused:
Elwin
11-12-2009, 10:35 AM
I had 250. Oh great saves are compatible with polish version, so i do not have to start new game ;P
helmehytte
11-12-2009, 02:08 PM
Why is the d/l so slow? 20-30 Kb/sec? :confused:
If it is still slow, maybe its faster from our site:
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-KBAP/kings-bounty-armored-princess
the upload just finished :)
Nike-it
11-12-2009, 02:12 PM
3 more Mirrors:
GamersHell
http://www.gamershell.com/download_53036.shtml
4Players
http://www.4players.de/4players.php/download_info/Downloads/Download/53563/Kings_Bounty_Armored_Princess/Englische_Demo.html
ComputerGames
http://computergames.ro/en/downloads/viewitem/id/15443/name/kings-bounty-armored-princess-english-demo.html
Zhuangzi
11-12-2009, 02:15 PM
Finished now, but thanks anyway. So the demo shows you Reha? Interesting choice. One thing I noticed was the poison damage was extremely high, which I think was a bug in the 1.0 Russian version. This is corrected in the English full game I hope?
Mandea
11-12-2009, 02:29 PM
well, it's like the russian demo, but in english. nice, anyways. but it seems to be very easy (on normal) although the people said it was more difficult. probably the demo isn't properly balanced. no problem, the full game will be different.
Nike-it
11-12-2009, 03:11 PM
Mirrors at Worthplaying
http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=4016&id=20598
Nike-it
11-12-2009, 03:19 PM
Mirror at AtomicGamer
http://www.atomicgamer.com/file.php?id=82069
Metathron
11-12-2009, 03:34 PM
One thing I noticed was the poison damage was extremely high, which I think was a bug in the 1.0 Russian version. This is corrected in the English full game I hope?
I hope correcting it does not mean returning it to the puny KB: TL values?
@Nike-it: Why don't you put all the links in your opening post? :)
DGDobrev
11-12-2009, 03:47 PM
Well, I think tha KBTL values are as they should be :) In KBAP original, these values were vastly overrated - 1 archer uses fire arrow, hits for 1 point, and inflicts 100 points of fire damage through burning afterwards. Where is the logic in this? Is his fire arrow enchanted by the gods???
In my eyes, that was improper. Dragons could kill entire stacks of lower level units with a single breath. 20 black dragons attack 560 Priests and 280 Inquisitors behind them. About 90 Priests and 30 Inquisitors die. Burning damage follows - 400 more Priests and 150 more inquisitors die. Nice!!! Carnage for the win!!!
EDIT: Well, even now you can see enemies that hit for 1 and do 20+ fire damage, but it's not as wicked as it was.
Besides, if you want better burning/posion damage, work on your Battle Alchemy medal :)
If this problem exists in the demo, let's hope it doesn't exist in the english version of the game. However, I'm positive that it doesn't, since it was already fixed in the russian version, and I'm positive that the developers made the english version using the latest Russian version.
Metathron
11-12-2009, 06:42 PM
Ah, I see, those numbers are of course ridiculous. But those in KB:TL were almost as ridiculous, say 300 snakes hitting a target for 5000 damage, then you get a message along the lines of "the target was poisoned!!1" and you're already rubbing your hands together when in the next turn the poisoning does a whopping 24 damage. :rolleyes:
Those medals sound like they could be a good solution, but not if they provide a % bonus to a base damage as meagre as that above (imagine that - 20% to 24 damage, a sterling success!).
DGDobrev
11-12-2009, 09:17 PM
Well, it's not like this, don't worry. For example, with a mere lvl 1 in Battle alchemy(+10% burning/poisoning damage), in the last fight with Mauron Dark (Morron Dark that is :P ), even though he's tough and had over 25 defense, with 12 Black dragons I was burning Guardsmen for over 20 casualties per tick - that is about 1000 burning damage and Knights for 3-4 casualties per tick (keeping in mind they have 30% fire resistance). That's not much, but it's more than welcome extra damage. Top that up with Seal of Blood skill the Gorguana's have (the female lizard ranged units, doubles the damage the target is receiving, regardless of the source) and you can get a pretty decent carnage.
Now, time to beat up the Red-snout (as Bill Gilbert describes Baal) one more time and see what happened with the Paladin game.
Zhuangzi
11-12-2009, 10:39 PM
Reading the Russian forum with Google translate, I remember hearing that the poison damage was bugged in AP 1.0 I guess what I'm asking is whether the English version will be patched up to Russian version 1.2
EDIT: oh and I really need the camera mod so I can zoom out. Can I use the same file as is in the KB:TL directory?
Metathron
11-12-2009, 11:22 PM
I'm also wondering about mods from KB:TL, especially the interface mod that I found extremely useful. Or do these mods already exist for the Russian version?
DGDobrev
11-13-2009, 01:08 AM
Well, there are mods for the russian version - I'm using 3 of them - interface, pet dragon hint, and fixes. So I'm confident that they will appear for the english version as well.
BTW, on the subject of burning and poisoning, one should be keenly aware that in KBAP burning and poisoning inflict damage based on a percentage of the health of the entire stack. As such, you will get more damage from burning/poisoning from a bigger stack than from a smaller stack.
Metroplex
11-13-2009, 03:39 AM
King`s Bounty: Armored Princess (http://www.kings-bounty.com/eng/) Official English Demo is now available for download.
You can get it here (ftp://ftp.1cpublishing.eu/kbap_demo_en.rar)(467 Mb).
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess will be released on November 20, 2009 and will be available from several major download services including GamersGate.com and Steam as well as from the 1C consumer site.
Will the DVD version come out on this date, or is it just DL now? :confused:
Nike-it
11-13-2009, 06:23 AM
Will the DVD version come out on this date, or is it just DL now? :confused:
DVD version will appear a bit later.
Magisthan
11-13-2009, 08:54 AM
This is really the worst marketing strategy for a game I have ever seen. There are so many guys around who loved KB and the release for the russian version was more than half a year ago...This is not what I would understand under "customer retention".
Anyway I hope you will get out the DVD version before Christmas...
DGDobrev
11-13-2009, 10:06 AM
Well, download is quick, easy and works for everyone as long as the site is trusted and offers a refund if problems arise. Besides, you can always burn it to a disk afterwards. Unless someone keeps a collection and feels he MUST have the boxed dvd version, everything's just fine.
EDIT: There is always the option of learning russian and getting the russian dvd version :P
Elwin
11-13-2009, 10:37 AM
Or polish,slovakian or czech. :D
Metathron
11-13-2009, 12:29 PM
Or polish,slovakian or czech. :D
This makes me wonder, how come those versions were translated that much sooner than the English one?
DGDobrev
11-13-2009, 01:09 PM
The original game is russian. The a slavic language. Polish, slovakian and czech are also slavic-type languages, and as such, are very similar in grammar, expressions, etc. That makes them much easier to translate.
Newton
11-13-2009, 02:20 PM
This is really the worst marketing strategy for a game I have ever seen. There are so many guys around who loved KB and the release for the russian version was more than half a year ago...This is not what I would understand under "customer retention".
I am (as a hobby) a WW2 military historian. I have read hundreds of books on the subject, written in English. Most of the books I have read are from the "Allied" side. Though not official, I have been told that this is because of the cost of "translation" of books written in the Russian and the German languages into English. It is said that the translation would force these books to sale at a price that would prohibit / limit its sales. I believe that its slightly possible that games are the same way, and that 1C Publishing may have a formula to determine whether a particular game would warrant and be economically feasable to translate.
Just a thought.
Hattrickkyle
11-15-2009, 04:53 PM
Hi, I'm new to the forum but am extremely excited about the game. KB The Legend was one of the most enjoyable games I've ever played on my PC, and I'm a longtime fan of the series (as well as HoMM, etc) but I am having technical difficulty with the Armored Princess Demo. Specifically, I am getting the following error:
C:\work\skyfallen\tbm\BMRender\rmode.cpp(1645): DirectX call failed: -1, -1, D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE (This device does not support the queried technique)
I saw that this was an issue in KB The Legend, but I have already installed the latest DirectX for XP, and even tried re-instaling the game. I had no trouble playing The Legend on this same computer, but I did recently re-install windows and the same drivers, etc. Am I missing something? Are the requirements for Armored Princess higher than for The Legend? They look like the same graphic dynamics so I'd be surprised. Thank you greatly for the help... as you can imagine I'm very anxious to try the game out!!
Wereboar
12-03-2009, 01:56 PM
I have read are from the "Allied" side. Though not official, I have been told that this is because of the cost of "translation" of books written in the Russian and the German languages into English. It is said that the translation would force these books to sale at a price that would prohibit / limit its sales.
Someone who told you this must have been either an ignorant or a liar. Cost of a good translation of an average book (especially on Central and Eastern European market which means Russian to English translation) roughly equal to the cost of 100-150 copies of a given book. So, if publisher had sold 1000-1500 copies (a very low amount, even for a niche book), the price would have been only 10% higher. Even if text requires high qualification and we double the translator's wage, it's still a far cry from limiting the sales.
The same applies to games. Of course, translation, full dubbing and testing costs much more, but on the other hand, a single edition of a mainstream (i.e. published by non-indie, renowned company) game for English-speaking countries consists of hundreds of thousands copies. In such circumstances, translation cost is also negligible. It is also correct in the case of Central European markets (Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian) that don't generate such revenues as western markets.
I work in the localisation business for more that 10 years and I have never seen single mainstream game that couldn't have been translated because of localisation cost. Delays are sometimes caused by the timing, that is, some publishers (especially those, who are either less known or cannot afford big advertisement campaign) can wait for a while because there are other blockbusters coming in a given period.
Regards
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