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Node posted:Well I'd love to hear from people who have purchased this game to see how it compares to AP, or KB: The Legend, and tell us if its a horrible unrecognizable mess. Or if it still has awesome music, funny and weird dialog, good gameplay, etc. I'm only in the middle of the second island and I have 150k gold with the difficulty set to Hard. Echo'ing the comment that the viking unit base is really strong and it feels like you have all the tools to actually play the intro game. Sounds like they've taken the entire AP soundtrack and also introduced new soundtracks. I've heard a lot of familiar tracks, although oddly placed sometimes. The pirate island theme from AP appears in the weirdest places like fights.
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Yeah, the first thing I did after my first fight was turn on fast animations immediately. It carries over to your rage powers and stuff too but it's pretty mandatory.Srice posted:I like AP/Crossworlds more so far, but this one isn't bad at all. I just wish it took less time to really open up the world.
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Oct 28, 2012 02:13
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Yeah they replenish every fight. Just use them regularly. You can cast a spell to give your soldiers more runes too.
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Oct 28, 2012 02:24
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Has anyone figured out how to offer items to the Valkyries? Do you just destroy items?
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Oct 28, 2012 06:17
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It's not really a randomly generated game. I see one playthrough as usual and that'll be it.
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Oct 28, 2012 08:03
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The attrition started on the 3rd and 4th island for me. I ended up having depleted berserkers, maidens, and polar bears by the time I hit the first boss. The first boss was a pretty good fight though but I ended up using some Sea Dogs and Skalds to do mop up duty while the Jotun and Jarl worked on the boss. I just got the colossus wanderer spell. And the talking raven you pick up on the first island can scribe it. I got 1100 hp frost dragons with my first use. I can see this is going to be hilarious. This area after the boss is no slouch either. I'm depleted on Jarls now too. Rascyc fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Oct 28, 2012 |
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Oct 28, 2012 18:40
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Okay after the first boss the next area's difficulty just sky rockets for a couple of reasons. Also I just dropped about 120k on a new army, heh.
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Oct 28, 2012 19:46
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Mr.48 posted:Wait, are there not enoughn troops available for hire in the castles or something? One of the biggest gripes I have with the KB games is having to constantly travel back to earlier areas to replenish my army. I was hoping they would figure this poo poo out by now and get it fixed. Oh god I just remembered the endless trips back to the Swamps and Islands of Freedom in The Legend to restock on Royal Snakes, Evil Beholders and Orc Shamans. gently caress that noise, you'd think that they could implement some sort of remote buying system like the caravans in Heroes 4 or something. But yeah you do have to take some field trips to restock troops from time to time. The 4th island in particular is pretty stupid in that the only place you can hire just has the low and mid tier rogue units and nothing viking related. The 5th area has like, gobs of stuff to hire and it's everywhere. I don't think you can visit an area of the map without running into someone hiring out Horsemen.
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Oct 28, 2012 21:04
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That is one crazy lord of the north. I like using the leadership valkyrie for obvious reasons, but that's a pretty neat use of the rage valkyrie. Anyone have a clue what telling a valkyrie to manage your runes does? It just seems like a left over dialog option.
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Oct 28, 2012 23:23
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The songs are pretty good too. They scale by themselves. This is the first King's Bounty I am bothering with the resurrection skill, and I am not sure why I did this when the game rains so much money on you. I do have some level 5 things that I'd like to last as long as possible so I guess there's that.
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Oct 29, 2012 01:09
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I always thought all of the KB games take place in parallel.
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Oct 29, 2012 03:30
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Markkei posted:It actually is determined by your unused talent runes - the ones you see in your hero panel. Also as cool as vikings are, the orc units blow them all out of the water. Man they are so loving damaging once the adrenaline builds up.
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Oct 29, 2012 05:24
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It feels just right on Hard difficulty for me, and I know a number of the usual KB tricks. I'm up to level 28 and things have settled back into the relaxing curve after locking my Skald build down. I'm back up to like a million gold from abusing call colossus so much but I've switched over to orcs just to mess with them. I probably only read like 10% of the story in this game. It doesn't help that the font is so tiny on my screen and there is no way to increase it. I like how everytime you talk to the raven, the line to end the discussion is "Finnish the call". I don't know if it's the Finnish typo that cracks me up or the fact that the game thinks you are on a phone.
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Oct 29, 2012 16:31
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Kanos posted:Is anyone noticing a bug with Learning, the +% XP skill in the spirit tree? I picked up a level of it as prereqs and am suddenly getting absolutely no experience from killing strong, very strong, and deadly stacks on greenwort at level 17. I'm horrified that it might be bugged to reduce your xp gain TO 10% instead of increasing it by 10% or something ridiculous.
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Oct 30, 2012 17:19
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Yeah the battle fatigue gimmick is still in there. You will see it from time to time on bosses. It has its own log entry and everything.
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Oct 30, 2012 18:42
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5 crystals per raven scroll too I believe.
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Oct 30, 2012 23:35
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For some reason everytime I win a fight, 2 orcs join me. [e]Oh recruiter. Herp derp. Rascyc fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Oct 31, 2012 |
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Oct 31, 2012 03:50
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Darkrenown posted:Heals undead that walk on it instead. Dunno if it's only friendly ones or you could kill their undead and then walk your own undead onto it for a heal.
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Oct 31, 2012 15:28
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Pumpkinreaper posted:30 mins or so after the first boss, you're going to be dumping a ton of gold which explains why you get so much of it. The more I play, the more I'm happy there's copious amounts of gold. It's kind of nice to be able to dick around with all the unit types for once instead of always worrying about dumping money. Finding items in dwellings feels more like finding a cool chest since dwellings are a bit more rare now.
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Oct 31, 2012 16:12
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Elswyyr posted:Where do I find that guy's lost axe on Fastland? There's a big axe on the ground in one of the ruined villages, but I can't seem to click it.
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Oct 31, 2012 19:22
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Andrast posted:The morale boosting song is also alright, morale is always good to boost. Generally though the songs are really lackluster, I wouldn't put more than one point in that skill. The undead song is obviously really great. It's like free rage/mana and a buff/debuff all in one song, and obviously you fight A LOT of undead. I use the elemental songs periodically but it's pretty hard to tell how good they are doing. The morale song is good too and its proc rate gets pretty high later on. I think I'm up to like 30% or something. Raising the Edda skill does seem useless. It's either not updating the tooltips correctly when you skill it, or it's just bad. I didn't care to experiment to figure out which. All in all, I've been very happy with my Skald. The only thing I miss is High Magic from my mage in AP. The resurrection skill is mostly just a lazy man's skill now so you don't have to recruit often. The resource saving aspect of it is completely moot with the millions of gold you get in the game. Honestly the best perk is just the even rune distribution. Mind runes were always a gigantic pain in the rear end when I was playing mage in AP, and I suspect it's the same if you play a warrior.
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Filthy Monkey posted:Not really so much for warrior. You generally aren't in any rush to plumb the depths of the mind tree. You mostly want to get rage control, anger, bloodlust, and runic power online from the might tree in order to start laying the rage smackdown. From the mind tree you want order, distortion magic, and transmute so you can keep spells like mass bless and mass haste/slow going. The damage reflect skill I am not too keen on. It just amounts to graphical spam now. Thankfully even as a Skald, you can rocket straight up the right side of the warrior tree for all of the rage poo poo. It's not very mind rune intensive.
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moot the hopple posted:I kind of regret rushing to the bottom of the mind tree since Favorite of the Gods returns way too little damage to be appreciative and Warriors of Valhalla doesn't really affect me since I'll either go no losses or just lose one or two units, and ressurection only triggers when you lose more than that. I imagine they get better with more than one rank in them but there's way more better stuff to invest for the runes. The clear winners for me are Diversions, Learning, Sense Weakness, and one or more ranks of Tactics depending on how badly you need to get things in melee range. The lower right hand, Persuasion and Oratory, also looks really promising in late game; can't wait to find a stack of Black Knights to mix up with my regular army I actually skipped sense weakness for now, I need to go back and grab that but mind runes and maxing oratory right now. Persuasion is actually kind of lovely, I think? There's really not that many hostile races going around so you can just raise it as necessary. Tactics always seemed pointless to me with improved haste in the game, and having to deal with tactics every fight just feels like a waste of time. I've yet to run into this diplomacy bug with only 1 rank.
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moot the hopple posted:The game also remembers your formation so you don't have to change up your units after every battle, it's just a matter of hitting a confirmation box. Ahhh, so many mind runes to get. Sloober posted:Anyone run into a crash bug when attacking Ice Dragons? I'm trying to empty out the former Dragon's lair in ruined verlon (i more than able to) but anytime I attack the ice dragon troop with any of my own the game crashes out. http://steamcommunity.com/app/203350/discussions/0/864950398839098278/
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Nov 2, 2012 22:00
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Oh hey patch notes for today's patch while I was lurking the steam forums for the latest update in crashes: http://steamcommunity.com/app/203350/discussions/0/864950398838848231/ quote:
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Did Crossworlds add enough to AP to warrant another playthrough? I skipped Crossworlds before after the horrifying experience that was playing an early game Mage on hard mode, but I am not sure I could go back from Warriors of the North. I can't quite recall what all changed in the talent trees.
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Ancient phoenix is such a ridiculously powerful spell in this game. The thing can crit for 2.5k all on its own, and it's an AoE attack too. It tanks like a champ too. I don't quite recall this thing being that powerful in AP.Darkrenown posted:Yeah, the problem is I can only seem to get him to list what spells he knows, I don't see any option to get him to actually write it out. It's really bugging me since I found Call Colossus on the 2nd island and had him eat it with the intent of rocking out some super troops. Do I need to have any supplies for him to write with or something? If you never chose for him to write a spell, I suppose it may take time for him to consume a new spell too (maybe it autochooses for him to write the spell he consumed, I can't quite recall). Also writing takes 5 crystals but he'll yell at you if you don't have enough.
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Ahaha, that's funny. I junked that poo poo ages ago too.PotatoManJack posted:So I haven't had a huge amount of time to play this new expansion / quest, but so far I'm a little disapointed by the starting island. I've restarted a few times to try the different classes, and it's been the exact same troops available for recruitment. It's kinda boring... I really like to have some variety in the troops I play with.
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Nov 5, 2012 02:01
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I'm too afraid to use the treasure rage ability since it causes the enemy's turn to hang almost all the time. Think it's done that when I took the stupid range upgrade to see what it did (I guess it's the lure range?)
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Nov 7, 2012 15:49
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Well the west island is infinitely way more entertaining than the east. I think I only did like half of the east island before just sailing off into the blue out of boredom.
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Zoness posted:Anybody find it weird that you get a quest that nets you items that buff allied vampires but it seems like there's 0 ways to recruit undead
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As hard as it goes. Olaf's Angels is by far the easiest installment outside of one particular fight. vvv No, there's just one boss fight that's a little hamfisted but if you are good at the series you should walk all over that too Rascyc fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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