King's Bounty 2 - Coming 2020

[Xev]

I loved King's Bounty series more than any other game.
I loved it's comic style graphic.
I loved it's top viewed battlefields like chess
I loved it's tons of spells that gives us many ways to succeed in combat.
I loved It's tons of really different units each with unique playing style.
I loved kiting enemies.
I loved randomizing items, units, monsters - endless different game playing.
I loved deep strategic combat - KB was a better chess for me.

Now have a look at the infos we have about King's Bounty 2.
- beloved graphics gone
- hard to get a battlefield overview
- combat is more rpg than strategy
- beloved fantasy is gone, medieval rules now
- hex field filled with several units (KB 1 had a single unit with numbers)
- don't know if we have any randomizing but i'm in fear it's gone too

This new KB 2 is more like Blackguards than a title from King's Bounty series.
This KB 2 is not Kings Bounty.

Additional - with a release of this game as a King's Bounty sequel, 1C destroyed any chance that we will see a real KB sequel in future

I will continue playing all KB 1 until my time on this earth is coming

[Space Knight]

Originally Posted by Xev

I loved King's Bounty series more than any other game.
I loved it's comic style graphic.
I loved it's top viewed battlefields like chess
I loved it's tons of spells that gives us many ways to succeed in combat.
I loved It's tons of really different units each with unique playing style.
I loved kiting enemies.
I loved randomizing items, units, monsters - endless different game playing.
I loved deep strategic combat - KB was a better chess for me.

Now have a look at the infos we have about King's Bounty 2.
- beloved graphics gone
- hard to get a battlefield overview
- combat is more rpg than strategy
- beloved fantasy is gone, medieval rules now
- hex field filled with several units (KB 1 had a single unit with numbers)
- don't know if we have any randomizing but i'm in fear it's gone too

This new KB 2 is more like Blackguards than a title from King's Bounty series.
This KB 2 is not Kings Bounty.

Additional - with a release of this game as a King's Bounty sequel, 1C destroyed any chance that we will see a real KB sequel in future

I will continue playing all KB 1 until my time on this earth is coming

I have to say, King's Bounty 2 WILL have tons of units (I read russian reviews and some of them even contain artworks of dragons and the devs confirmed that they will add many units) and probably lots of spells, but nothing more, everything else being just like you said.

[Axeslammer]

I would have blindly bought a new King's Bounty based on the "old" engine.

This KB II feels like a Fallout 76...

Another game from a series I would have bought blindly, but was warned that it wasn't *anything* like a previous game.

Ah well, "Outer Worlds" is a Fallout without being a Fallout....maybe we'll be getting a King's Bounty that isn't a King's Bounty in the future as well.

One can hope and dream...

[BB Shockwave]

So are the forums dead now? Katauri did not even make a KB2 section?

[Space Knight]

Originally Posted by BB Shockwave

So are the forums dead now? Katauri did not even make a KB2 section?

Looks like so. Besides, not Katauri is making the new KB, but the so called "1C Company" (the new one). The same guys who said the new KB will be only 30% battles instead of 70%.

[Sirlancelot]

When the game will be released? I'm really anxious about the new iteration of the saga, and hope for the best.

[Space Knight]

Originally Posted by Sirlancelot

When the game will be released? I'm really anxious about the new iteration of the saga, and hope for the best.

In the Q3, I think, but the game is gonna be an RPG with armies limited to a max of ~12 soldiers (it was said in the dev dairies, so it's official).