After Firek's patch, setting 2 and starting the game will revert it to 1 and works like that (= casualties). I wonder if, for example, Steam version acts the same. Can someone check that?

So you are saying that setting the showflyingdead = 2 works for you?


EDIT: Nevermind

An observation:

If you have used Firek´s patch and lost access to your saved games and have the previous installer which is 1.0.0.3 . You can rollback to the old version and regain access to your saves by uninstalling and answering yes when the installation prompts you if you want to keep your saved games. Then just install the game normally with the old installer.

Works on Win XP.
The saved games are in the $save folder. It´s a good idea to back them up in another folder just in case.

It is much easier to look into zip and backup all files this zip uses :D
I did that myself to test Firek's patch and restored backuped files later to get my saves back again.

Nah, I'm just to precise when I am testing something new and don't want to waste time for reinstall so preferred to have some way back ;)

Is there any way to get the earlier versions of the game (meaning downloadable from GOG at some point in time)? I was forced to reinstall the game and now I can't load my saves.
I had the game almost completed!

Well, unfortunately, GOG is not offering that, but newer version is different by only 4 files: kb.exe, curver.txt, \data\loc_data.kfs, sessions\base\loc_ses.kfs. I think the most important is an exe file as I checked other three files "does not change anything visible".

I've packed for you "old" exe from my hard drive. Rename five files jpg to rar, unpack and let me know if it worked.

So, in the end, I didn't have to. GOG support fixed my save (very quickly I must say; I am very impressed). The support guy also sent me links to the tools they used:

http://kingsbounty.ru/mods/tools/KBScanner.zip
http://kingsbounty.ru/mods/tools/KB_DB_EDIT_0.75_eng.zip

They used these tools to fix your save? o.o lol? How?
I do know these files, KBscanner is just for listing, it does not contains any editing function.
KB DB edit is to edit file indeed, but more to cheat (like increasing gold, spawn more units) than to repair something....

I would gladly hear now how did they use these to fix your save (especially scanner) and what was wrong in it?

I'm glad you said that. We (I and the rest of KB players) would love to hear some answers for "a few" questions. But have you already advanced to some higher level minion to be able to answer them? :D ;)

First is the most important one I think.

1) How has it happened / what has happened that GOG has had some weird version at start? It had bigger build number than any other official one available... why? who is guilty here?

2) When we found these bugs - why has GOG used 3rd party's cracked exe instead of asking publisher directly to fix them? As I said, during my search for other infos, I've found out on Russian official forum that any cracks can cause some in-game quests to be impossible to finish / in other words, there are known cases that cracks have generated bugs. I would expect GOG to ask still existing publisher to fix, not using a crack like a normal pirates do.

3) In GOG official patch some perfectly good files were changed to some other versions - by perfectly good I mean two *.kfs and one *.txt file which exist in other builds v1.7(build 35234) (on Steam and GamersGate) and they had the same size - now this patch made them different - so we still do not have original v1.7(build 35234) just some faked version again?

4) This cracked exe already made me cry because of this weird savegame incompatibility - as I can see, it is enough to delete only one character to make savegame work??? o.o Not even change the number of save?

5) KB is not really old game so there is still possibility for next patch - how I can be sure that these modified saves and whole game will be compatible with next version?

Heh, ok :(

About gamesaves - even if I get them to work, I probably will wait for official info about "why exe was just cracked" and "how I can be sure that this action has not caused any impossible to finish quests to appear". I've played a lot in KB, this is my favorite game here, so I'd hate to have some new bugs again after this very unprofessional form of patching. I'd be very frustrated at this very moment.

Resurrecting this still relevant thread.

Ran into the same issue with my saves. Booo! The links to the tools return a 404, could you GOG guys make them available in our profile downloads?