Some odd stuff happening... could be exploited though.

[DGDobrev]

I won't do that. Even if I do, the best I can finish is day 9 in that case. It would be a big waste of time. I'm doing the suppressions for fun now just because I haven't decided what I want from King's bounty next.

I'm not sure how this "hero level and completed quests +2%" counts in the formula. Doing the formula Calinda posted:
(game days * difficulty)
100 + [(100 - 9)*4] *3.64 = 1688.96

I can't figure out what this 3.64 is and how the char's level counts in it.

EDIT: Interesting. I was doing some tests between the suppressions. If I do the 2 quests I didn't do and lose 1 day, my top score of 1623 actually becomes 1627. In any case, I'm only about 600 suppressions to go

[DGDobrev]

Well, I finally suppressed that item long and hard enough to get that level 31 on impossible

The suppressions were easy and quick, because I had my powerpuff girl party waiting in greenwort.

So who says going to lvl 31 on impossible is unreasonable?

I'll add screenshots of this feat to the post. It took exactly 1831 or 1832 suppressions to get to that elusive lvl 31. You will see a ton of 1623 scores in that screenshot... Please ignore them. Those were my tests to analyze what impacts the score and how.

Now I can happily remove win XP and go vista. I got my 4GBs of RAM (my XP doesn't support 4 gigs and uses only 2 of them) today as well as Armored princess demo in russian, which is pretty fluent. So far KB: AP looks great.

For those who hadn't had a glimpse of AP, I'll use my own thread to go off-topic and give you some impressions. I can also make a few screenshots if you want. I just don't know if it's appropriate to make a thread in the KBTL forums about KBAP

The plot is that Baal's demons invade greenwort and king mark sends Amelie through a portal to save her. Although everyone shows confidence that the battle will be won, it actually looks hopeless.

Amelie can once again play 3 classes:
Warrior - a kinda dark red haired girl in a girlishly tough red armor
Paladin - a blonde girl with an elegant blue armor with holy crosses
Mage - a sexy skimpy dressed brunette girl

Some of the artifacts are the same as KB: TL. Other just have the same picture with different properties. There are also new ones added. My favorite banner of true faith for example now gives 20% crit to the paladins (a variation of the knights in KBTL, although the knights are still there) as well as some other bonuses, but still gives 10 mind runes after 60 victories.

Attributes now have bigger impact on the game. Intellect for example improves the spell damage by 5% per point of intellect. Every 7 points additionally improve the spell damage by 15% and every 20 improve the spell duration by 1 turn. Rejoice mages

Levelups are faster and provide more runes, since there is a ton of new skills. Also there is only 1 class-specific skill now. Warriors retain rage with anger as usual, mages have higher magic and paladins get the crappy Resurrection skill which brings to life 60-80% of the losses of a random troop in battle. Once again the paladins get the worst skill there is

Spirits of rage are replaced by a dragon that has unique abilities, some close to that of the spirits of rage: like putting up a wall, chargers for mana (it has a different name), it can attack monsters and such. Just like KBTL there is a skill that makes the little dragon get levels much more quickly and uses rage for its skills. The dragon levels up to 60 just like amelie.

There are some new monsters and some of the old ones have new portraits. Not big of a deal here. Traveling between islands, continents and such is governed by a special time system (3 hrs, 6 hrs, etc) and doesn't take a full day nor can be exploited like in KBTL where you could travel in 6:55AM and end up on the same day in 7AM.

In order to open up new lands, you usually have to fight some monster that holds the map or you can kite it away from it and go steal it.

Another new thing is that this game has different badges, medals and such. For example, if you manage to get 10 victories without a single loss, you get +200 Leadership. If you pop up a certain amount of chests on the battlefield, you will get more +3% more XP per battle. All those medals and badges and such can be upgraded and you can get more leadership, more XP per battle and such.

So lets hope the English version of the game will hit the shelves soon. The demo has some bugs which for all I see are fixed. For example, 3 archers attack my thorns with fire arrow and inflict 12 damage and burn them. Suddenly the thorns lose like 40 HP's from the burning. For some reason burning and poisoning were bugged but they are fixed now.

To conclude, I can only say that KB: AP will be even better than expected and with better replayability due to the different kinds of builds and different skill setups one can get.

[Elwin]

. You will see a ton of 1623 scores in that screenshot... Please ignore them. Those were my tests to analyze what impacts the score and how.

what for? u havve it written below ranks dont you? :p

[Razorflame]

nice info about AP

[DGDobrev]

Originally Posted by Elwin

what for? u havve it written below ranks dont you? :p

I do. But I had to try out some different things. Like completing just before and after the day ends, with more or less quests completed, with the whole tournament completed, with some other things that I didn't know if they count as quests and such. I had to analyze which quests I have missed since I don't have a complete list here. That's why it was like that.

[DGDobrev]

OK, time for some more news about the Princess

Each skill tree has 14 skills now.

As soon as you do the thing you must do to complete a quest, you get the money, any other prize there is, and the XP. Most of the time you don't need to go back to the quest giver which is a real time saver. I'm sure they'll keep it in the english version of the game as well.

Multiple ressurrections to ensure a no losses win is getting very difficult now. Inquisitors have only 3 charges of holy anger and each nets 3-10 points of rage, not 5-10 as it was before. Magic spring still works, but it's going to be a very slow ressing, provided the enemy party allows a proper use of the spring - like no retaliation or ranged enemies... Probably this is because of the new medal for no-losses win in the battle.

Paladins, the new unit that looks like the Knight from KBTL also has limited ressurrection capabilities like the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor is still the better ressurrecter by far

Gaining a new level does not offer a selection choice what to improve. You get runes and a certain amount of leadership now. As usual, warriors get the most and mages get the least. It ranges from 20 to 40 on the lower levels.

Higher magic, meditation and concentration are moved to the very bottom of the mage tree. Now to get that faster mana regen on the map and in-combat mana regen you need a serious investment in the other skills first.

The skill that makes the warrior retain its rage longer is also moved to the very bottom of the tree. It also requires a lot of rune investment to get it.

Paladins ability "Runic stone" is gone now. They get some kind of "accuracy" skill which allows them to break the unnecessary items and get magic crystals and runes out of them. It's available to anyone who can afford it. The tolerance skill is also gone. They get a Persuasion skill which improves the morale (and I think initiative too) of various units - like humans, elves, orc and such. Also their class specific Holy Anger skill in KBTL is available to everyone now, just mage's alchemy. Iron fist seems to be gone in KBAP.

So the gameplay is going to be substantially different from KBTL as it seems now

[Razorflame]

thnaks man keep up the good work! :>

[DGDobrev]

I forgot one

If the enemies are weaker than you, now they run like you're the seventh ruler of hell You can stull pursue, engage and give them the right pounding they deserve

More stuff:
The dragon can summon allies on the battlefield. It can steal an egg from somewhere that hatches the next round, spawning 100+50% of the hero's leadership things (can be various creatures) - provided the AI doesn't destroy the egg. Even if it does, it's a nice way to take a few hits off your army. Besides, the AI is still a sucker for summoned units.

Some skills require the dragon to rest for a few rounds just like the spirits of rage. However, there is a spell with which you can awaken it and force your pet to use its abilities on the next round as well.

The XP per action of the dragon is fixed for all it seems, not like Reaper's soul draining, for example. On the tooltip of each skill the dragon has is written the amount of base XP it will receive for performing that specific skill. That's a nice addition. I only need to test whether the use of 3-4 different skills will net the combined XP from them. The skill that the hero has for pet training, which forces it to get more xp per use of ability doesn't seem to be taken into account in the tooltip though.

Another one - and HELL IT'S A BIG ONE!
The Paladin Amelie no longer gets a resurrection scroll at start as it was in KBTL's Paladin. She starts with heal and bless inscribed in the book and a peacefulness scroll
The Amelie Mage starts with fire arrow rather than fireball spell inscribed in the book.
The Amelie Warrior starts only with 1 haste scroll.

[Elwin]

Man btw all it was already written in KB:AP part of forum ... And waking dragon alows you to use 2 abilities in same turn ..

[DGDobrev]

Interesting, I can't see a KBAP forum anywhere on this site.