openbounty in action recorded from the in-game recording tool

I've been working on this on and off for a while, but I finally feel like it's release-1 ready. Announcing openbounty.

openbounty is a from-scratch reimplementation of King's Bounty, the 1990 New World Computing strategy game that Heroes of Might and Magic grew out of. The rules, tables, combat formulas, and the 320x200 VGA look all follow the original. My intent was pixel-perfect recreation.

Play it in your browser, no install: https://danheskett.com/dist/openbounty/

Writeup, downloads, and how it works: https://danheskett.com/projects/openbounty/

Source: https://github.com/dannyheskett/openbounty

The browser build is ready to go. The desktop builds ship without game data, so you point them at your own KB.EXE to extract a pack. It also has a data-driven pack format, so the whole game can be retuned or re-skinned by editing JSON, no rebuild.

Happy to receive feedback. If you hit a bug, open an issue on GitHub. If you want to fix something or add to it, PRs are welcome. And if you have a feature or a mechanic you think it's missing, drop a recommendation, either on GitHub or in the comments here.

I especially would love to get some feedback from people who were originally good at the DOS (or Amiga, I suppose) version of the game. I was pretty young when it came out, and was never very good at it - I never beat it until emulated on DOS for example, many many years later.

The gamepack format is especially friendly for modding, and if there is interest, I have an in-progress gamepack editor I may release.

Enjoy!

Recently, I had an interest in trying to make some custom maps for the game, since I remembered it had an editor.(and being inspired by mods of somewhat old like red sands or saturation)

The problem is, after a bit of looking around(trying to pinpoint the problem or see if I am the only one with it) I learned that the steam version of the editor is just... Not working, for some reason.

More specifically, the textures. I can't seem to get them to work in the editor for landscape brush tool, prompting me to see absolute lack of textures.

After downloading the textures and referencing them, they still don't appear. Moving the folder to either documents or leaving it at C: directory didn't change that much. Downloading the steam tool which from what I see kinda has the files(which STILL don't work) didn't help either. The manuals don't help, duh.

No matter what I do, I just can't seem to get it to work with the steam version. And I can't even really look up guides because the community is really small, so there aren't any notable guides for this particular issue, and I can't reference most of the forums because they're literally dead.

I know I am not that good with working with programs like these, and I may make myself look like an idiot, but is there any way to try and fix it?

I recently picked them all up by a recommendation of a friend and a discount on steam. I wanted to know if there is a list somewhere of where to recruit what units, since it's a major headache for me to try to remember or note it all down, especially when I saw that completing specific quests or even story events can dramatically change availability of some units (from limited to infinite, like archers and swordsmen in the 1st castle) to also expanding the stock like in the animal menagerie or swapping from kingdom units to undead (paladin quest)

It's getting a bit headache inducing to remember it all, the unit limits and availability, so if anyone could assist me with a detailed list, I'd be super obliged, since I can't find anything like that by myself

I love the games so far, and I am so upset I didn't pick them up as a kid when I was in my HOMM phase and kept replaying 3, 4 and 5 over and over again

TLDR: each game introduced different QoL (autobattle) and editor is mostly broken mess and I decided to remake the game (and editor). Decided to share my progress.

We live in a simulation, me thinking "I want to mod the game and have nice things" made the devs revive game after 18 years.

I have been thinking about modding the game for years now, but the editor crashes most of the time, some things are just... File formats that we can't really edit.

But I have been making progress.

Is it perfect recreation? No.
Is it working. Nyoo...

Can I spawn on any map, see terrain, lighting (semi working), particles (mostly working), animations (working), move (that stupid bridge has weird collisions), interact (with everything for some reason)? Yes.

Can I open and convert the models, together with it's animations and textures? I do believe so. Both ways.

Meaning I slowly open the path for myself to add my own models.

Anyway, hope this will make some people stay motivated to chase their dreams.

Basically, the title. Does Harl have any change in attitude, their dialogue lines, their shop etc? Or any other character at all?

Something about the graphics makes it pop even on modern displays. I never would have expected a game from 2008 to look as unique as it does.

Hello Everyone,

I am pleased to announce that after about two years in development as a side, passion project, Warriors of the North: Stone of Souls is finally live. Note you must have The complete edition: Warriors of the North with Valhalla edition and Ice and Fire Expansion to have this mod properly function.

Stone of Souls is a campaign redux of Warriors of the North Ice and Fire, that is generally the same campaign as the original Ice and Fire Expansion, only with possibly thousands of changes. It modifies each class, skill tree, skill progression, level progression (both level up progression and map level progression), adds 10 new units (about the same as the Crossworlds expansion), changes almost every unit in some way, and modifies the impact of Unit Levels. Shops have been changed, enemy battlegroups have been changed (instead of fighting Undead 70% of the time, you now fight about Undead about 30% of the time, and their battlegroups are more diverse), and bosses are now properly tuned (say goodbye to miserable early game Spider Boss, and you no longer three-shot every other boss). It stratifies difficulty settings, trying to make the game very approachable on Normal and Hard, and difficult on Impossible (and the new Torment difficulty, which takes the place of easy). It changes spells and rage, adding a few new spells, increasing rage level cap to around 100 from 60, and rebalancing many original spells and rage abilities. It adds small new explorable areas and changes a few quests, expanding the optional game world, while adding QOL features for some fetch quests to streamline how much backtracking you have to do (Overworld movement speed is increased, by the way). The end game is now more structured, with the Ice and Fire DLC integrated into the now modified storyline, and several late game islands now having full questlines (that have themselves been improved). Of course, there are about 80 to 100 new items, new sets, and the number of item slots has been increased from 8 to 10 total, making for more use out of the vast number of possible items.

Finally, the mod fixes bugs. There were so, so many bugs. Every bug that could be found, was found and handled one way or another. Tirex don't crash the game when eating sheep anymore. Trolls animation plays correctly now. Brontor don't crash the game when Hilda's arrows kill them anymore. Skalds don't animation glitch, mountain king set does what is says now, Lizardmen amulet bug actually works, elf elemental power works, orc adrenaline bug fixed, all of them have been wiped out. It isn't going to be perfect; I'm sure I missed bugs that will need to be dealt with in later patches. But it plays more smoothly, and I even personally have noticed a lot less crashing for random reasons. Not 0 crashing, mind you; this is still King's Bounty. But less overall, and certainly less from known sources.

Do not pay any money for this mod, it should be free on the Nexus. I do not want any donations, and will not ask for donations, as this is entirely a passion project.

The link to download is here. I don't really know how to best provide a link to a mod; you could just look up Stone of Souls on Nexus, I guess. The virus scan should hopefully be complete by the time you look at this; I think it does it automatically, but if not I'll figure out how to make it scan properly.

https://www.nexusmods.com/kingsbountywarriorsofthenorth/mods/7?tab=description

If there are any issues, bugs or download problems, notify me by DM at once and I will try to resolve them.

For everyone trying to get full sets of armor in Kings Bounty 2, there is the solution.

There are 4 quests that reward gloves, boots, belt and helmet. There is 25% chance to get item from each set (Baldwin, Sanguinius, Immortal, Kings). The reward is random, so use save&load until you get the ones you want.

The quests you are looking for are Tricked Witch, The Missing Treasurers, Merchant Guild Secrets and Julian and Rosaline.

Weapon, armor and shield can be purchased from vendors in Floster and Marcella

This is tested and 100% true.

There are more quests, like Return to Parnack that give random and powerful items, use save&load to get the ones best for your character.

Dumbest part of the game lol, the fact that no music plays in this part and all the orc armies are 1 orc makes me think a dev messed up

Anyone found use for it? How to play with all the speed debuffs?

I’ve been in quite the war path and have genuinely killed everything else I don’t know what unite to use. I’ve tried some teams I thought but I end up just getting killed. Every tutorial I’ve seen is for the fire and ice add on but I’m not playing that one. I feel like giving up which sucks because I know my favorite part of the game is right after this. I have nothing else to kill to level up.

Trying to elect a king to Baraz Gund. Need to go to the newspaper but Gossip doesn’t have the option in chat. Not sure I can complete the game now…Anyway to push a quest through or am I missing something?

Found my favorite combo in Dark Side: Chaos Wind (which increases health) plus Orc Chieftain’s level 3 ability, where damage is based on health and has unlimited range. Can wipe out almost any single unit before enemy has a chance to move. What’s your favorite combo in any of the games?

What have I done?!(that's... All the levels of Armageddon spell, thankfully the mod doesn't require you to upgrade the spell one by one to see what it'll do)

(PS: I was doing a first time walkthrough of the mod(and basically the game itself), so yes, I am playing on casual difficulty, trying to have fun.)

In Kings Bounty Warriors of the North Ice and Fire edition there is a medal called Valhalla's Messenger. Im confused how to achieve this one

Do the KB games (Legend, AP, etc.) play well on a steam deck?

They are immune to magic, have a great resistance to ice and fire attacks and lot of health. I need to use lot of resurrection spells and phantom paladins to limit my loss. Is there a way to beat them more easily ?

I manage to win the fights and I frequently get no loss but these fights are quite painful !

Two achievements added today for The Legend's 18th (!) bday.

One to just open the game. One to beat the 3 bosses in the game on a fresh save. The devs are giving a free game to the first 20 people to do it.

I pulled it off in three hours. I found two of the +50% spider damage items LOL, so I absolutely rampaged through Darion and the Isles using fire, regular and poison spiders. I'd never played this way before, it was fun to mix it up! But I started 7 hours after it was posted, so we will see if I qualified (I doubt it.)

And I just finished my first KB game today as well lol On to Armoured Princess for me.

As the title says, beat him first real attempt. I had loaded in the fight once at a way too low of level to see what was up. Nice way to learn how the crystal works. Came back as a level 24 Mage on Normal and brute forced it. Leadership was just under 15k.

My army of Horsemen, Royal Snakes, Evil Beholders, Black Dragons, and Green Dragons made short work of him. I misclicked and did more damage to myself with my Black Dragons taking out 24 Royal Snakes with their fire attack than he did to me. Lost 8 Horesemen and 2 Beholders otherwise.

Rain of Fire was my MVP spell. Just brute force chunk them down with damage, absorb the hits you have to.

It could have been worse and I'll report back if/when I get there on Hard or Impossible. I'm curious how that will change the fight.

PS. If you want to call this a 2nd attempt since I had seen the Crystal, that's fine with me. I get it. But I don't think it would have changed much since I only knew about the Resurrection ability and dind't know I had to kill the crystal as part of the win condition until everything else was dead.

So to be more precise I started the base game played to like lvl 15 then after reading online I realised I should be playing crossworlds instead as its just the same but better.

So I started over and this time got this spell early and the game was a lot smoother this time around.

I have finally made it to Murock. I am a level 24 Mage and playing on normal.

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What is a good unit selection for this stage of the game? I am mostly using undead, but I am not doing very well since reaching Murock.

Can anyone tell where I can buy arch demons?

I have 1724k in gold.

• I just kicked his ass by using Armageddon once and then blocked them with demon portals *

Behold, the funny softlock from 2018.

I beat March of the Orcs but forgot to finish the wizards tower in the first island. What do you get for completing it?