King Bounty Online

[BB Shockwave]

Originally Posted by Dwagginz

Which one is the rebranded Asian MMO? Kingdoms or Online?

Online. It is essentially Heroes III with 3D graphics, and slightly rewamped skills and units (somewhat stealing the unit experience system from WOG, and doing the same for spells). There is also Leadership, KB style.
The problems are, as I stated above, stupid unit level raising system - you have to offer "souls" of your own fallen units to raise their levels, and it's like 10.000 dead Centaurs to raise them to level 1, with the upgrade happening only on level 3. (to Centaur Captains, FE). Add to this the insane grinding and that you can only adventure with a select few units, on maps where there is nothing else but random resources and enemy troops (no castle building, you have just one main castle on the main map). PVP would be fun, but due to the leadership system you have no chance to defeat heroes more then 5 levels above you, so it's unbalanced. Worst of all, for a mage hero - spells at best, last for 3 rounds only... And that's with a very high spell power. I played throughout the open beta, until it became known that non-asian players will not be able to play it... but we helped them test this bugfest for free. [/rant]

Kingdoms is the official Ubisoft game. Sadly, it has absolutely basic combat, very primitive. It has nice building functions and conquer systems, but the heart of Heroes was always combat, and they messed that up.

[Metathron]

I am not pleased at the sound of it, unless this is some kind of side project and Katauri will be called back to work on a full blown sequel.

I haven't been a part of any Heroes of Might and Magic (my favourite series) MMORPG, and I'll be damned if I start with some dumbed down KB.

[DrAtomic1]

Originally Posted by BB Shockwave

(I wonder what Jon Von Caneghem is doing these days.)

Works for EA and is responsible for the Command and Conquer series...

[BB Shockwave]

Originally Posted by DrAtomic1

Works for EA and is responsible for the Command and Conquer series...

From Turn Based to Real-Time... odd...

[joasoz]

The MMO scene is tough and unforgiving. I would much rather that they made Kings Bounty 2, with more flexibility in the stories, better editors, better graphics and such. That I would buy in a heartbeat. Kings Bounty Online, color me uninterested

[onepiece]

If done correctly (which surely wouldn't) it could be like the single player campaign but with battles between a lot of players (imagine a full battle royal between 50 people XD).

Just plain crazy but could be very interesting (if done correctly)