New expansion - Ice and Fire
 

So I never thought I'd see another King's Bounty game but here's this on facebook today. Strangely enough I am playing Crossworlds for the first time in well over a year at the moment. It's so much better than Warriors of the North, unfortunately!



1C Company announces the release date of King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North. Ice and Fire.

Ice and Fire is the official DLC to the released in 2012 King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North.

King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North. Ice and Fire is scheduled to be released digitally on January 30th 2014.

Ice and Fire features:

Creature skill system – lead your troops through dozens of battles and they will become stronger than ever!
Snow Elves – a new Elven nation that prefers snow and blizzard of the Ice Gardens instead of the green forests of Merlassar.
Necrolizards – a new kind of the undead, Lizardmen that have risen from the dead.
New locations to explore.
Over 20 new creatures.
Revamped creatures of King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North.
New items with unique attributes.
Over 20 hours of additional gameplay.

http://kingsbountygame.com/

My question is: is this DLC a SEPERATE 20 hour campaign or is it added on to the main WoTN campaign? Personally I'd rather a separate campaign so that I don't have to grind my way through the tedious WoTN campaign again...

Let's hope it's a seperate campaign :)

It better be a separate expansion from WotN or I won't buy it. And it better be released in a much better state than WotN was.

I bought WotN when it was first released and also bought a copy for a friend a couple of months after release. By the time my friend and I felt the game was stable enough to play, WotN had been on sale for 50 - 75% many times. I want to support the developers of games I really like, but only for playable games.

It isn't a separate campaign. See the stickied thread at the top. I'm not happy about that either. It took my 90 hours to grind my way through the WotN campaign ONCE now they're adding 20 hours to that campaign? Christ.

I finished this game twice. tedious, bland and so on. you fight against undead for most of the time, and it's not like CW where the troops are mixed and every fight is completely different, no, here the fights are too predictable. If they force me to play this game from the start just so I can access the new content, they can forget about it, I'm not going to buy it.

The problem is aggravated buy the fact the it's been so long between the release of the game and this DLC. it's pretty obvious most of us finished the game long time ago and we may not have saves on the disk (maybe steam keeps my saves, I don't know for sure).

Has there been any new patch for WOTN? I played it until the first patch, which barely did anything apart fixing the major crash-bugs, and actually ruined working skills. I gave up there and then, since it was as if I was beta-testing a game and my bug reports (and even bug fixes) have been ignored by the company as a whole.

I sincerely hope this is like Crossworlds - a fixed, much improved WOTN with new content. That way I can finally play the game without getting angry at bugs and churning through boring and not well-designed maps and quests.

Still, seeing the screenshots, the 20 new units will be mostly re-skins: undead Lizardmen with spears, blue phoenixes, repainted unicorns and druids and fairies. Are new models so hard to make?

Not to mention that those `NEW` undead lizardmen are just copy/paste units from Red sands mod for CW.
NEW locations, as in they opened whole Demonis as in original game the Legend.
NEW unit creature skill system, also taken from red sands mod.
As far as I can see, only new thing here are cold elves (same models as old elves, with different talents of course), and maybe couple items/quests.
All in all done by 3-4 people over new year holidays for easy gold coins inflow from fans of this great franchise.
But if my predictions are true, this could easily be last time they take money from true KB players, and lose all future purchases :-(

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".

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. :-P

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).