Comments on: At Last: King’s Bounty On Steam

By: Gobion Rowlands

Gobion Rowlands — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:14:07 +0000

Just to let you all know – the latest version of the Kings Bounty patch on Steam (as of 22/05/2009) renders all your game saves incompatable. It is an automatic patch that cannot be avoided and at no point mentions that the saves will be incompatable.

The official response of 1C is
“Hello all,

I`m very sorry to hear that.. I talked to responsible guys and it seems that new 1.7 patch is not compatible with saved games which were made in previous KB version.. This is of course very unfortunate

Please try contacting Steam support and ask them how to revert your game back to previous(original) version, so you can continue playing using your saved games. Then I suggest you disable autopatching feature for your Kings Bounty, so it does not get patched automatically again..

Meanwhile, we will see if we can make 1.7 patch which would be compatible with old saves.

We are very sorry for this inconvenience..”

Forum Post here

Kings Bounty is afantastic game, but this really sucks :( If you can disable auto-patch, do! But I don’t even know if that is possible.

Ahhhh but it is so frustrating when this kinda thing happens.

By: Robert Sharp

Robert Sharp — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:54:43 +0000

Its currently at £17.49. Just ordered myself a copy!

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:27:32 +0000

Not a bad price at all.

By: cowthief skank

cowthief skank — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:15:36 +0000

Well, it is on Steam right now with a 10% discount. So £22.49.

Interestingly, when it displays on the front page it has a quote from RPS. I think you have “made it” in some way when you get a quote from your site on the front page of Steam…

I am not sure if editing works, but: at this price, I doubt I will buy it. Not at twice what it costs on Amazon.

By: Schaulustiger

Schaulustiger — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:18:06 +0000

So, there’s the price: 26,99€ and it seems like it is available right now. Flame on.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:37:55 +0000

@Mark
No, there is no castle management and the like. But there is a hero managment so as to distribute limited resourses (runes and crystalls) for the hero’s development. Also on harder levels of difficulty one have to make money management and troops managment since it is quite possible to run off of the favorite kind of monsters. There is great variety of creatures in the game but the offer of many of them is limited.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:33:44 +0000

@MonkeyMonster

As previously stated at least two or three times, I like Impulse, GG, and GOG better than Steam (though I own plenty of Steam games and continue to pick them up when Steam has the best deal). GG’s just the one everyone kept asking about. It sounds like D2D might be alright to, so I’ll check them out as well.

@Mark

There’s no resource management, really. You have to manage your finances (ala an RPG) and you collect crystals (which I’ve never had a shortage of) but it’s all one-time pickups, no revisiting resource spawners or the like. If what you’re looking for is a game like HOMM that’s more RPG than TBS at the top level, you’ve found it.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:29:49 +0000

Um, sorry for the off-topic post but, about King’s Bounty, is there much resource management in this game? One of the things that bothered me about the HOMM series is having to visit and revisit things like peasants’ huts or windmills.

There seems to be only one hero, right? That’s a good thing.

Guess I’m hoping for something closer to a tactical turn-based CRPG than a strategy game…

By: clovus

clovus — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:17:29 +0000

@zipdrive: Steam themselves do not want this. I can’t imagine that the “first sale doctrine” will ever be implemented in a digital distribution system. Allowing users to sell or loan games would quickly turn Steam, or any other service, into a lending library.

At least on the PC we always have…options. I think that either the next generation of consoles, or the one after that, will not come with disk drives; all games will be digitally distributed. The second hand game market will simply disappear overnight. No trading or loaning for the console kiddies.

By: Megazver

Megazver — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:25:28 +0000

Did you try, like, changing the animation speed in the settings menu?

By: Freudian Trip

Freudian Trip — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:58:32 +0000

Hate to take this off the topic of DD but (and I know this is heresy) was I the only one who found Kings Bounty a real chore? When I wasn’t getting utterly owned by all and sundry I was watching the slowest battles in the world. I probably would have liked it twice as much if I didn’t have to watch the animations.

By: Megazver

Megazver — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:04:37 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with the game’s ending. It’s not bad. It’s a straight dungeon with a boss fight at the end. It’s just that there’s a lot and I mean a LOT of content before that and even though it’s awesome by the fiftieth hour you just want to beat it and fall back in the chair, sated. And the ending is just a bit too much.