Official wish list for King's Bounty 2

[markgil]

unless the next katauri game that they are going to announce between now & Nov is KB2, it will probably be a long while if ever that they get around to making a sequel.

[Heroe]

Well, there are som big bugs/stupid things in this game like:
1spider can put web on 100bears and bears cant move.
1dwarf who throws fire or poison to 100bears, and next turn bears get 1k damage.
1 beholder can put to sleep any number of units(1lvl) to sleep.
Etc...

Another big thing is yeah, this game should have more different heroes/companions to choose...
More depth in castles, caves would be nice.Bigger maps too.
Leveling shouldnt be only for getting more units, but for something else.

Hints/tips in loading screens AND in main menu of crossworlds with huge list of "FEATURES" is a very very bad habit devs are making. Just leave the empty screen with beautiful scenery, no need to throw bullc*** in there.Im not harsh, just im letting u know how it makes many players feel.
But im not sure they will care about this threat, since it already contains a ton of improvements and no dev will take so much improvements in game...

[Dwagginz]

Originally Posted by Heroe

Well, there are som big bugs/stupid things in this game like:
1spider can put web on 100bears and bears cant move.
1dwarf who throws fire or poison to 100bears, and next turn bears get 1k damage.
1 beholder can put to sleep any number of units(1lvl) to sleep.
Etc...

That's not a bug, nor a stupid thing. It's how the game works, and it's how many games of the same genre work.

Originally Posted by Heroe

Leveling shouldnt be only for getting more units, but for something else.

It is for more things than a higher Leadership total. You increase your skills, unlock abilities (via runes, of course) and become more powerful. Without Leadership, you can't take units, so that's vital to the levelling and gameplay process.

[Metathron]

Originally Posted by Heroe

1dwarf who throws fire or poison to 100bears, and next turn bears get 1k damage.
1 beholder can put to sleep any number of units(1lvl) to sleep.
Etc...

I agree with you here, these effects should be scaled, at least the poison/fire after effects should be.

Hints/tips in loading screens AND in main menu of crossworlds with huge list of "FEATURES" is a very very bad habit devs are making. Just leave the empty screen with beautiful scenery, no need to throw bullc*** in there.Im not harsh, just im letting u know how it makes many players feel.
But im not sure they will care about this threat, since it already contains a ton of improvements and no dev will take so much improvements in game...

However, here you've lost me. Why is looking at an empty loading screen better than seeing some basic tips that could help beginner players? Who are all the many players whom this causes as much grief as yourself (apparently)? This is the first time I've heard of such a complaint and, frankly, it's beyond ridiculous.

[malcolmm]

Originally Posted by Metathron

I agree with you here, these effects should be scaled, at least the poison/fire after effects should be.



However, here you've lost me. Why is looking at an empty loading screen better than seeing some basic tips that could help beginner players? Who are all the many players whom this causes as much grief as yourself (apparently)? This is the first time I've heard of such a complaint and, frankly, it's beyond ridiculous.

I agree. Now that I'm a veteran of KB, I don't even notice the tips.

As someone else said, the biggest improvement they could make is to make it more challenging in the later stages of the game.

My biggest wish for KB2 is really simple - make KB2. I'm confident that if they decide to make KB2 it will be great.

[onepiece]

@Metathron and @Heroe; fire and poison does a % damage according to the amount of total health the stack has (and takes into consideration resistance and defense I think). So the more enemies there are; the more health the stack is going to have and the more damage it's going to take:

Ej: With 23000 lds you can have 1150 Miners with 22 health each (25300 total health) and 9 Black Dragons with 1000 health each (9000 health in total). If the are both poisoned and the poison does 10% of the total health, the miners are going to take 2530 damage (which kills 115 of them) and the dragons are gong to take 900 (which doesn't kill any)

That's how it works (at least most of it)

[Metathron]

Originally Posted by onepiece

@Metathron and @Heroe; fire and poison does a % damage according to the amount of total health the stack has (and takes into consideration resistance and defense I think). So the more enemies there are; the more health the stack is going to have and the more damage it's going to take:

That is perfectly fine. What is not is that the number of attacking creatures who cause the effect can be ridiculously low, i.e it does not scale. One puny bowman who does 3-4 damage should not be able to inflict 800 burning damage.

But anyhow, we've had this discussion when AP came out. So in battles I do everything I can to prevent the above silliness from taking place.

[Saiko Kila]

Originally Posted by Metathron

That is perfectly fine. What is not is that the number of attacking creatures who cause the effect can be ridiculously low, i.e it does not scale. One puny bowman who does 3-4 damage should not be able to inflict 800 burning damage.

But anyhow, we've had this discussion when AP came out. So in battles I do everything I can to prevent the above silliness from taking place.

Actually the damage does scale according to count of attackers. But the damage also scales to number of troops in attacked stack, so there is always a sweet spot. Increasing attackers numbers increases the effect but decreases the number of defenders, and thereby the base for percentage based damage. So, fire effect from 30 bowmen will be about the same as from 300 bowmen, when they attack 50 elfs. However, in the first case they will kill some 3 elfs when attacking first, and in the second case they will kill like 25 of them, the fire effect kicks afterward. The sweet spot in that situation would be - I don't remember exact numbers but like 50-100 bowmen. That would cause the most severe burning effect. But of course it is better to decrease enemy numbers as fast as possible, so using 300 bowmen is going to be preferable, even if the fire damage we'll see won't be that impressive.

Anyway, such calculations are not really the way it seem natural and I agree that they should fix it somehow.

[bucazaurus]

Originally Posted by Heroe

My wishlist:

Remove the readme from screen like i saw in crossworlds

There is so need to wait for KB2 to do that .This can be solved - See the picture .

Originally Posted by Heroe

My wishlist:

Remove the tips/hints from loading screens.

This can be solved too - Remove the load_screen_tips lines from eng_windows.lng file in sessions\addon\loc_ses.kfs

[Fatt_Shade]

It been some pause, so it seems ppl either abandoned hope for KB2 , or simply taking break from this game.
As for my wishes for sequel :
1) When going from 1 location to another like traveling to new islands in AP and CW you get some reward if you completed certain quests. Not some super strong bonus just so no more map kiting You play linearly you get some reward (and pet on the head , if you kite islands no reward for you, and much lower final score on end (for longer traveling time).
2) More unit ability sinergies with hero skills. Like Quick draw with all archer, or Summoner with all sumoning unit ability`s. They made Rune mage depend on unused runes, why not expanding this new feature for other units , might runes for dmg , mind for heal/resurect , magic for something like evil beholders hypnotise, or archmages telekinesis. This way in situations when you have lets say 13 mind runes, and need 14 to upgrade Prayer to lvl 3 you`ll get some use from them, untill spending them for skill.
Like that Rune mage is only unit that benefits from unused runes, it`s just seems unfair to other units that have certain talent`s.
3) Some neutral creeps spawning , so it`s not 1 time island/area killing and getting exp. Something like every day game time there are some new wandering enemy creeps but that island/area specific, so after going to other places to get quests/items/units when you return to previous you`ll be stronger/higher lvl so this new enemy stacks wont bring much of exp but would provide some chests during battles, and advancement in medals/or pet dragon(maybe returning of spirits of rage) after it.
4) Changed medal advancement. I think it`s great way to reward players for tactisc, and planing of battles, but it`s not even lvling, only 3 lvl each is low. For example grand strategy it`s obsolete to finish battles with no loss after 50, no need to kills units with trap after 100 etc. On other hand maybe +2/4/6/8/10% crit chance from rage use on 1/3/7/12/21 K rage used in battles, this way you get 3lvl of medal at about 50+ lvl hero, almost end of game when it`s not much bonus since you get much more from skills or items. Or for +mana medal for mage 600 casting for +15 mana ???
5) Same as medals goes for pet dragon, every skill have cap after which cant be rased any more. In KB-TL with rage spirits you could skip some skills all together to boost ones you pick to use (if you had luck after lvling spirits to have right choice).
If i play Warrior class and have 150+ rage why cant i have stronger pet dragon then Mage with 82 which is most cost for lava call.
6) As above more lvl`s for spells. Lets say 5 lvl, but diferent effect/dmg distribution.
So if you have enough magic crystals and mana you chose between casting more suport spells, or 1-2 devastating.
7) Changed class specific skills, and couple of them. Example if you pick Bloodthirst get 2 new skills after, but they exclude each other, maybe 1 more lvl after that. That would make some differences in playing style.
8 ) Difficulty changed, now it efects enemy strenght, gold income, pet dragon. ANd none of those things directly influence final score in game. Gold is important until mid game, after it`s just something you carry around. No matter if you pick Normal/Hard/Impossible diff lvl you get same amount of runes after lvling, and all spells have same efects and dmg output in all diff lvl`s, while pet dragon is crippled on higher difficulties.
9) And something to be done with Final score formula. It doesnt take in calculation pet dragon, unit`s killed/lost ratio (for those that play imposible no loss would get some bonus in scoring higher, now it`s just personal challenge), or number of companions ( if your faithfull to 1 man, or whore yourself to any1 that wants to follow you it doesnt affect score game). Now it`s highest score for 7 day with all quests and 60+lvl, but if we skip some quests like returning antidote potion to Rusty anchor, and geting tools for breaking that stupid meteorite to ELon, we could get it done in 6 days (or even less with 2-3 less quests and maybe 1 lvl cause bonus exp form those quests arent that high late game, and will get 100+ more points in score. So in this formula game developers f...ed up : you play shortest game possible we`ll reward you with more points after.
Instead of playing diferent possibilities/units/tactics you need to use what units you get on 1 island to clear it as much as possible before going to next, and when you return to that island to finish some quest left behind there almost no enemy to fight with units you got on other islands.
10) Some kind of multiplayer would be great. I`m not thinking MMO. but something lie Hot seat/Lan games from older HoMM. Cause now AI just isn`t enough challenge as is always with some live opponent, and if would be more fun