King Bounty Online

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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.