After switching to Windows 10 (many years ago), King's Bounty Crossworlds no longer worked. I basically forgot this game but few months ago I tried again and this time game worked for some reason. Some caves were buggy but Windows 7 compatibility solved that. I continued my years old save (Ultimate Challenge 6) and so far almost all seems to be good. Some issues and workarounds:
- Tower of Eventus is (at least with my luck) impossible on Room of Fire (fifth floor) and afterwards. Not surprising because I wasn't able to modify it with editor. Solution: at level 37 cheating is allowed for Room of Fire, on level 38 same for Halls of Death and on level 39 same for Halls of Purest Life. Easiest cheating is probably: modify sessions\red_sands\config\spells.txt (take backup first) Armageddon for example, damage 5000000-7000000 and prc=0,0,0 is insta kill everything except your troops. For those thinking reaching level 37 is "too early", I can tell it requires huge effort since experience from battles is very low.
- Item Alukard works too well and I don't want to take any risk about breaking game disabling it hard way. Solution: Alukard works 5 times. After that it must be destroyed (having Neatness skill 1-3 is allowed).
- When King Harl reaches level 20 (gains enough experience for levelup from level 19 to 20), game crashes immediately. Solution: Put attached exp_system_cfg.txt into sessions\red_sands\exp_system and overwrite before King Harl is about to reach level 20. Levels 1-19 seem to work fine without it.
Still cannot be sure if endgame is too hard or not. It's very hard to balance this type of game to be ultra hard but not impossible. To be seen...
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