PART 1 King's Bounty: The Dark Side (Impossible - Mage - No Loss - Full Walkthrough)

[@slickrounder6045]

Nicely fought battle at the 20 min mark. Refreshing to finally see a good player upload Dark Side content.

[@daddycoolgames]

Dont judge by the first episode. :D But thanks. I tried my best. Welcome at the chanel.

[@slickrounder6045]

@@daddycoolgames No i can tell due to over a decade of KB experience at Impossible and with thousands of hours throughout the KB games. I personally never reload fights, and that includes for no loss playthroughs of previous KB games. I see now in the description that you mentioned that some of the initial really hard fights (in reality only the initial mandatory stretch of fights are truly hard due to such limited options) you had to retry, which is unfortunate. I take it there is some RNG on damage ranges which can in particular screw over the delicate balance of Vampire. Maintaining the Skeleton Archers as well for the extra damage output, despite the huge liability that they are if one can't keep the AI off them, probably led to some scenarios where the AI were able to target them. The ghosts can somewhat help with that, ideally leading off some melee forces, albeit one has to be careful with them as well since in reality they can't do much. I see you didn't use KB Scanner to find a save with Phoenix (Iv'e seen people get Kbscanner to work on DS, but despite me using scanner in previous games I can't get it to work in DS) and just manually kept searching for Phoenix (i know Ball of Lightning can technically work as well).

[@andysmith2386]

if you reloaded hundreds of times to get a favourable rng result (looting the summon phoenix scroll from the high-level underground castle chest), you may as well just use cheats because it's pretty much the same thing. I know I sound harsh, but I'm actually curious if mage impossible can be done without this semi-cheat exploit, cause I don't think it can be done. For those that don't know, it actually is next to impossible to do the guardian fights on mage impossible when you first reach the shelter.

[@daddycoolgames]

You are partly right. But to be precise, it is impossible to beat it on impossible level with 0 loss. If you do not want to have 0 loss by the end, you can easily beat that 3 fights even on impossible difficulty. Just use spider eggs, have more units, than leadership, and they will turn agressive, but kill enemy units. That's it. And I suppose this is how designers meant it. But the extra challenge of 0 loss reaquires extra help unfortunately. I played all previous King's Bounties, and other ones did not need such a cheat.

[@andysmith2386]

@@daddycoolgames I wouldn't say 'easily' beat those 3 fights by using an out-of-control stack of spiders. You have to very very carefully engineer the stack, and I mean do some hard HP calculations lol, so that you take enough to kill the enemy mobs, while you dodge around with say your vampires and then in the end you also have to bring the stack back into control by killing it off - so you don't want to use every last spider egg. You are literally engineering the fight down to the last HP at which point is it really playing a game? It's almost as cheesy as reloading 100x to get a favourable rng outcome. I agree however , that both of these make mage-impossible ''technically possible" but have taken things so far out of context in an rng-based RPG game, that like I said, you may as well just run dev mode and shift-k the fights. Decent ideas , kind of cheese, but they will get the job done I suppose.

[@daddycoolgames]

@@andysmith2386 I still feel a small flaw in your comment. You do not have to exactly calculate spider count. You can have somewhat less than optimal spiders. Nothing happens if you take over control of the spiders before the end of the battle, you do not have to finish the battle with maximum leadership count spiders. Or you can also just loose all of them during the fight and finish the weakened enemies with the vampire. So this math part is easier than you thought I think. Anyway, other aspects are agreed.

[@ElusiveClit]

6:55 howdy, why did you put your troops in reserve? thank you.

[@daddycoolgames]

I could say that for the extra challenge :D But in reality they are very weak. Ghosts have high hp and good mobolity, vampires are core healers and defenders here and this way I only need to focus on archers to be protected. If I would have other units, they would easily die without any major additional damage against enemy. This is a no loss run, every bit of tactics help. This case the less units the better. Thanks for watching.

[@ElusiveClit]

@@daddycoolgames thank you for the answer

[@Anya-mala]

Amazing

[@daddycoolgames]

Just a regular day of playing. :D

[@medosbaruto4515]

How often had you started to get the overpowered phoenix spell?

[@medosbaruto4515]

Ah, i see it in answer 20-30 times. Yes, i will do it, good job

[@medosbaruto4515]

75 savegames created, no phoenix. best spell was blizzard with 20 mana, will give it a try. Phoenix would be better

[@daddycoolgames]

Hi. It took me about 3 hours (see comments below). 20-30 tries is a good luck I think. But sooner or later you will have it. Good luck.

[@Михаил-я2ъ2ч]

save please

[@daddycoolgames]

What do you mean?

[@Михаил-я2ъ2ч]

@@daddycoolgames Can you share save file please

[@daddycoolgames]

Sorry. I do not have starting save files anymore. I use 6-8 save files and overwrite old ones. But if you wish to have a "summon phoenix" scroll, I have written down the method to acquire it under the video (bottom). Some get it much earlier, I was unlucky and got it after more tries.

[@Михаил-я2ъ2ч]

@@daddycoolgames how to get this scroll?????

[@daddycoolgames]

@@Михаил-я2ъ2ч Ok. Start a game with your desired difficulty, name, etc. Save the game upon start (each time). Dont fight any enemy, go into the cart which you can see at 21:09. This cart may contain the scroll. If you did not find the phoenix scroll in it, start a new game. REPEAT until you find it. If you found the scroll, you can load your start-save and start your walkthrough. On forums I read that you find it from 20-30 ties normally. Chest/cart contains, vendor artifacts, units, etc are generated with each start and get fixed. So if there is a phoenix scroll in that cart, you can fight any number of enemies before opening it, the scroll will be there.