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Olden Era is good!
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>no Tower
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>>723246731
ah our local discord schizophrenic
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>>723246545
will there also be a campaign?
I only tried the ea a bit to see if I like it but I wont bother playing a beta instead of the finished game
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>>723247150
When you exit a game in the demo it literally tells you the answer to your question.
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>>723247150
yes there will be a campiagn when game releases .
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>>723247205
oh I only close with task manager my bad
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>>723246545
Buy an ad
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>>723247205
Thank you very much community manager
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>>723247249
Wow people want to discuss the game on V. Must be a shill......
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>spamming the thread over and over
how much do you get paid for it?
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>>723247150
Yes, it's about gays being oppressed by the evil Sun Temple when they said they weren't allowed to DM 12 year olds on Discord anymore. In the second campaign, you and your transitioning boyfriend have to arrange a secret assassination of a fundraiser/commander for the evil Sun Temple and successfully escape to the northern maple forest afterwards. In the third campaign you discover the freaks shoving tenacles in all their holes are just misunderstood good guys oppressed by the evil Sun Temple. In the fourth campaign you have a ketamine induced minotaur bug orgy like Matrix: Reloaded before defeating the evil Sun Temple once and for all.
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Does the playtest version have same bugs as the public demo?
The biggest that comes to mind is the necro dog upgades having wrong army icons.
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>Over a dozen gay/trans heroes
>zero Black heroes of any pronoun
What did Denis Federov and Tim Bender mean by this??
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>>723247527
>t. seething russian jew boytoucher angry he can't advertise his boy grooming vaporwave in peace
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>>723247001
Is Ozempic not available in Russia or something?
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>>723248169
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>>723247470
the 2 biggest ones i know of are a portal bug that allows you to capture everything you've revealed without movement points and intelligence bug that maxes out your level for free
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>>723247521
they only want to rape white boys, like Nick Fuentes
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WAAAAHHHH JANNNYY PLEASE SAVE ME THEY ARE CALLING ME OUT FOR SHILLING MY PIECE OF SHIT AI GENERATED MOBILE GAME AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH HOW WILL I MONEYGRABBBB
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>>723248618
>what is a game developer without an audience?
Tell us Denis since you're living it
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>>723247338
>discuss the game
>android trash made by bunch of slavic scammers
>game
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>>723248645
It's actually about removing Polish roaches.
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>>723248807
quiet faggot
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>>723248807
if your game looks worse than 20yo, homm5, you have other issues
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>>723246930
Curious that the schizo is shielded from jannies...
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>>723248897
Keep bumping thx
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>>723248485
Wait is that how the AI took my city from a portal 20 years away? I was so fucking confused what happened.
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The map style kinda looks nice but everything else looks like your average mobile game.
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>>723246545
I tried one of the skirmish maps and one of my town got captured out of the blue. It's as if the enemy used dimension door but I didn't see their turn.
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>>723248972
most likely yes, but the ai is too dumb to abuse it properly
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>>723248982
> The map style kinda looks nice
mario_says_no.gif
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>>723248936
So you're not using Discord to coordinate these incessant ads for pozzed AI mobile slop nobody wants?
LOOK A FAGGOT IS TELLING LIES AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS ALL THEY CAN DO. GAY PROSTITUTION FOR UBISOFT IN 2025 LMFAO
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>>723248982
Modern fantasy design is so bad. It's no longer based in reality. It's like human driven AI slop, design taken and regurgitated so many times that most modern artists couldn't tell you why they drew a certain piece of armor or equipment because it's just based on their favorite LoL design, which was based on the artists favorite WoW design, which was based on the artists favorite Warhammer design, etc. Leads to over-engineered garbage designs without a readable silhouette which is even more important when a lot of the units are going to be on screen at once.
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You fags got over Heroes 5 looking like WoW and now you suck its dick, you'll get over this one in 5-10 years too.
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>>723248982
>even managed to make copy pasted dragon utopia not eerie
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You don't have to make your own game when you can just sodomize someone's existing game
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>>723248618
who is the fat troon on the left?
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I still get shit for liking heroes 6 so I am used to it
3 is still king tho
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>tfw Unfrozen cannot afford more comment suppression because they are radically overextended
feels good man
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>>723246545
So for upgrade units I need to get some resources that I can get only from destroying artifacts or randomly find it on map?
It also used for upgrade spell and artifacts?

I don't like it. I can stomach this for artifact and spell upgrade but units!?
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>>723250026
blow it out your ass faggot, this is MIRAGE ADVERTISING
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Should they add any sort of quest generation in Map Editor?
Would be cool to press a button, get a random filled out map with quests, and then go in and manually change some stuff to polish it.
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>>723250139
Would be cool if it wasn't a scam and they actually release it and it were a good game not filled with faggot shit
what say you MY FELLOW /v/ POSTERS
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>>723250247
(You)
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UBISOFT IS GUILTY OF A NUMBER OF CRIMES:
1. Unfrozen discord child groomer and Russian draft dodger Denis Fedorov gets his hentai OCs "canonized" before Ubisoft sells this shit to Hooded Horse for a kickback, so Hooded Horse cuck CEO Tim Bender and his CCP bug hotwife can fully pivot to CCP funded gacha data farming the Asian market. I hope you like all your Heroes to be anime school girls. Sorry Slavs your time is done.
2. Hooded Horse is running a shitty gaslight (aka lying) campaign to get discord troons to buy this shit. See: the cat thing with the dildo on its forehead. Kittendildo, soon to be a Funko Pop exclusive Q1 2026!
3. They are begging you to call them faggots so they can blame this controlled demolition of the Might and Magic IP all on TOXIC COMMUNITY, in fact they already have. They are also literally shit eating faggots.
4. Unfrozen is not a studio, it's an agglomeration of disposable temps. Unfrozen CEO Denis Federov should be dying in Ukraine for Russia instead of commissioning tentacle rape porn OCs in troon color schemes.
5. Ubisoft never changes even if their fist is up Hooded Horse's ass for now. If you aren't old enough to understand how awful Ubisoft is, then you were probably molested by their employees on various discord servers. If you find yourself defending Ubisoft without financial compensation, please seek professional help immediately.
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>>723250026
You don't need more than one city that can upgrade units if you're smart about troop logistics and have map spells. I think it's fine. It forces you to consider what troops you want to upgrade early. Also the maps tend to have way too many low level artifacts and spell scrolls for exactly this purpose. And there is a chance for Alchemist Labs (dust per day) or Alchemist Stashes (one batch of dust per week.) to spawn. If you don't have enough you're hanging onto useless artifacts, not using the artifact merchant, not exploring enough, upgrading too many cities or some combination of these.
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Hooded Horse exists so Ubisoft can sell in Russia. LMFAO.
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>make tranny game
>can't sell in Russia due to EVIL RUSSIA WAR
>make a loophole to sell your tranny game in Russia
>suddenly it's morally acceptable
can't wait to see how this plays out
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>>723246545
>It's good
Source? Youtube links preferred.
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>>723250862
please use your MALE BRAIN to reconcile these mathematics
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>>723250862
What makes this a tranny game?
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>>723250963
MandaloreGaming because they paid him and put him in the game
They don't believe in their own product they believe in what could happen after the product launch
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>>723250641
What you describe simply say I need to play as THEY want me to. This simply force playstyle on me which is pretty bad imo.
Look, simple add that fucking dust into market.
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>>723250586
>pic
i hate those little assholes so much
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>>723251153
you can buy it easily if you find an alchemist's lab
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>>723251153
Stop being a puss, get out there and grind all the shitty arties into dust
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Unfrozen is a bizarre game studio to go schizo over
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>>723251153
I gave you multiple different solutions some of which are dictated by the map you're on. No anon, you cannot expect to do whatever you want, in whatever order you want and win in a strategy game where macro-strategy is a big part of it.
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>>723251421
it's not even a game studio.
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>The Sopranos aren't a crime family, they're a glorfied crew
Unfrozen isn't a game studio, it's a glorified slack channel
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pls understand heroes players brains are damaged after trying to clear Darkman and Hero on the Wasteland
may also shadows in the Forest or Xiedu
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>>723246545
Is Sandro in? deciding factor
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OK is it just me or game is weirdly dark? even with "contrast" ssetting in graphical setting it still looks dim for some reason
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Don't mind me just playing on impossible difficulty(200%) by using easy mode hero.
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>>723251153
>start homm 3 random map as dungeon
>want to go dragon first week
>there's not enough sulphur available to me
DOGSHIT GAME
CERTIFIED UNPLAYABLE
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>>723251973
maybe it takes some getting used to but I find it hard to differenciate the creatures colorwise on the battlefield
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>>723251973
>all mana gone after 1 single battle
now what?
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>>723251973
i know its technically superior to the old games, but something feels wrong, it doesnt look as good and i cant explain why
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>>723252124
Same as women, 2d > 3d
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>>723251421
someone a few threads ago said that he got banned from the Russian discussion forums so he's taking it out over here
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>>723252124
Is it still in alpha?
I got that from most alphas I played that they only iron out the visuals for the beta
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>>723252110
It uses just 5 mana.
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>>723252103
You can always change other ressources in market you retard.
You can't do that with alchemist dust.
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>>723250586
>draft dodger
Based, I'm gonna buy 10 copies. Nothing more awesome than someone refusing to die for oligarchs/Israel.
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>>723252423
Right, first week with only one marketplace I'm sure the jewish rates will allow you to do that, tourist.
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>>723252548
He's also jewish lmao
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>>723251864
It's a prequel, and in different continent
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>>723246545
Ranged is too weak in this game...
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>>723249119
>GAY PROSTITUTION FOR UBISOFT IN 2025 LMFAO
a franchise all time low
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>>723252568
I never played much 5, I didn't like how much it deviated from 4.
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>>723253013
thats someones son...
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>>723251864
Sandro would be gay if he were in LGBT Era, you don't want Sandro in.
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>>723252124
Because there is no accounting for taste. Technical fidelity is independent from artistic ability and vision, it's just that in video games artistry depends on technical fidelity to some extent so people assume that's all that matters. Things like color choice or composition have nothing to do with technology.
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>>723252568
I played HoMM 5 with and without mods, I still don't get all the praise. If I'm not gonna be playing 2 or 3 I'd still rather play 4 over 5.
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>>723253182
doubt it
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uh oh community managers you better delete this quick, the stupid breeders are being honest again: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3105440/discussions/0/596288556263315173/
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>>723252347
There's no fixing the primary issue without redesigning most of the unit models. They cluttered tiny models with details. They have a lack of contrast and worse many share similar silhouettes. The Hive and Schism are especially bad with this. When all the units are near each other on the battlefield it just looks like a mess of tentacles or bug carapace-spikes. You can't "iron that out", it's a core problem with the game's visual design.
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>>723253660
Remember when they claimed the unit models were an Ubisoft directive before they delayed it the first time? Wonder what they'd say now.
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>>723253859
No I don't remember that and I don't care. You're a faggot.
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It's really unfortunate that they couldn't find good character and UI artists because the gameplay improvements are all really solid ideas at most needing some tuning.
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>>723253660
i just looked at some screens from h6 and h5 since those also use 3d graphics and it seems the units are way brighter and have more saturated colors even tho some of them are also kinda hard to tell apart, but it still makes it easier while playing
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>>723253960
Sir this is a thread for a game for faggots
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>>723253859
>claimed the unit models were an Ubisoft directive
BUDGET STATUS: BLOWN ON HENTAI AND "MARKETING"
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>>723248485
Either I'm seriously retarded, or selecting a spell sometimes doesn't work. I'm sure I pressed the revive spell, instead it uses some other buff spell I can't remember the name of.
And I've had unit upgrades cost no gold.
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Unfrozen/Ubisoft/Hooded Horse WILL blame this thread for a game that already failed so come join the glorious future!
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>>723254018
it's a shame but i'm not gonna lose sleep over it. unfrozen's previous game is downright hideous but the gameplay is great, and olden era still looks better than homm5
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>>723254135
there is hentai?
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SPAZZ MATICUS ... A YOUNG KING ON A MAD QUEST TO RULE THE WORLD
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>Two redesigns for Hive while already over budget
LOL!
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>make an awful blurry red mess
>make it three times
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>>723254740
Isn't their budget endless because it's a money laundering scheme for Gazprom? Pick a story, bober
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>>723254287
>selecting a spell sometimes doesn't work
i haven't had that happen
>And I've had unit upgrades cost no gold.
were you switching upgrades or actually upgrading your units? because switching is free. also there's a week of upgrades that makes all upgrades free
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>>723254516
The protestant slav kicks and screams in confusion when seeing a tentacle
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>>723254881
>also there's a week of upgrades that makes all upgrades free
Oh, that would explain it
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the gameplay is fun, if they fix the UI and make stuff more distinguishable then it will be an 7/10 game, and if mods/custom maps takes off it will easily be a 9/10
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These threads make me wanna go back and replay 5. Deleb my beloved, and her fireball hurling ballista...
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>>723246545
>in less than 2 years we got massive hota update and a demo for the best homm game since 5
it's a good time to be a homm enjoyer unless you like fortress
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>>723255258
Maybe there'll be lizard boys in the expansion, after all they live on the Dagger Wound Islands in Jadame
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>>723255258
It's Jadame, there has to be Fortress
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>>723255330
>Dagger Wound
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>>723255330
>>723255364
Fortress with rainbow LGBT lizard dildos and scalie hentai uwu
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>>723255434
>>723255483
>bober is a secondary
quelle surprise
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>>723253423
HoMM fans just like to feel superior about everything. It's kind of weird for such an old series with so few titles overall and each one is quite different from the rest..
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>>723255528
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>>723254931
>protestant slav
???
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Has anyone actually played HoMM7 and confirmed it's real?
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>>723249251
>le scary orange building is now yellow they ruined my childhood
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>>723246545
>inferno is bugs now
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>>723254018
>couldn't find good UI artists
They are all like this. Pretty much every UI/UX guy comes from non-artistic background, either dedicated university or a coder They mostly work and take inspiration from web or phone development. Chances you find an actual artist who is also doing UI are quite slim. Many of them don't even know how to draw.
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>>723255856
why are you a virgin with rage
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>>723255434
wtf I just started playing VTMB like 3 hours ago and now I'm seeing this asshole everywhere
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apologize
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>50€ for AI mobile slop remake of H3
inb4 stop being poor and just be a profligate degen fag with your money
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>>723249554
>liking heroes 6
Count me in, the campaign was fun
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>>723251864
Here's your Sandro, now kill yourself.
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How does this shit work? I keep wasting my turns and focus and don't get anything summoned.
Is this supposed to work like pit lord farming?
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>>723256035
Do open it.
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>>723256140
No
> We did not have source code for expansions lol tough luck
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>>723255672
fits the alien scum more
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NEW HIVE TOWN SCREEN LEAKED ON DISCORD
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>>723255672
They were always alien bugs
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Ylwari is the strongest!
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Why don't they put sex appeal for grownups into the game?
M&M6 had dead rogues impaled on spikes and it was fine
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>>723256737
built
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>>723256784
its not a porn game
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>>723254756
Best graphics, best soundtrack, best artstyle. Shame about some gameplay mechanics and choices (hell and death being lumped together, no upgradable units, and being forced to choose T2, T3, and T4 units).
I played so much of HoMM IV back in the day. My friend and i played it together on the same pc. Excellent game. Shame it age a bit. GOG has a good version though, so its alright.
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>no dwarves
0/10 shit setting
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>>723257036
>best artstyle
Uh huh
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>>723257036
My biggest problem with 4, which I've played for hundreds of hours, is that the heroes on battlefield are too OP, I'm wondering why you didn't mention that since it's always the first thing that comes to my mind above all else
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>>723257115
Better than HIV Era
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>>723257096
hota is getting a dwarf town soon, manlets eating good
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>>723254287
>I'm sure I pressed the revive spell, instead it uses some other buff spell I can't remember the name of.

You probably confused Healing Water (cure spell) with Rewind Time (resurrection spell). Happened to me too. Why the fuck did they have to rename fucking everything just so they can have more bling names, part of the charm of HOMM3 was that all the designs and content were simple.

Also the spell book resets pages every time you open it, but remembers any of the magic school filters you put on. So if you only use lvl 3 or 4 spells you have to keep switching pages every time.
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>>723257121
Because being able to actually use heroes on the battlefield is the best shit ever. Yes, they are OP, IF you play them right, and that is what is most satisfying. It may be YOUR biggest problem, but for me, its the best feature. As for forgetting to mention that - skipped my mind, because its not an issue for me.
>>723257115
Yup.
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>>723257036
>no upgradable units,
Meanwhile no.game in the series has ever come close to solving the map creature dwelling issue when it comes to upgraded units. It always ends up in annoying busywork
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What the fuck do the curses do?
Is it the week start effect?
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>>723256390
>Is this supposed to work like pit lord farming?
Yes.
Schism is literally demon farming the faction.
First you kill a stack of units.
Then you divide the total health in the pile by 2 (to get the 50%)
Then you divide that number by 10/50/250 (your three "demons") and you get the total amount of "demons" you can summon top limit being the amount of units that are doing the summoning.
For example for singular Abyssal (250hp) you need have sac a stack of 50 Ra'soths (10 health)
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I wish H4 had a fully realized budget
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>>723257514
Curses are actually good
Blessings are actually bad
Because this is LGBT demonic inversion world
Think of all the tentacle porn you're going to be forced to read in the Schism campaign. Or just don't buy it because every single venue does not need to be a gay bar.
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So the reason why there's still so many fags playing heroes 3 is they made a remaster?
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>>723257746
some influencer told them it wasn't pozzed and pozzing Warhammer has gotten pretty boring. 2025 been a bad year for them.
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>>723257457
Oh god yeah that's so fucking annoying.
Map dwellings are still useful for boosting your weekly growth though. I got something like +12 vampires every week.

Also OE has it so the recruits stack every week, ie. if you don't visit the dwelling for 5 weeks, it'll have 5x the units to recruit. You still need an extra hero to just run around gathering shit but at least you can't miss out on any units now.
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Imagine living the philosophy "ruin as much as you can before you kill yourself because there is no God"
Then bringing it to a niche strategy franchise
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I guess I'll pirate it to play through the campaigns when it releases. Not giving money no anything ubishit-adjacent
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>>723258060
>Not giving money no anything ubishit-adjacent
ANYBODY NOT SAYING THIS DOES NOT BELONG HERE
may as well condemn vishnu and the talmud while we're at it
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How is 1 hero mode? Does the AI actually amass a large army now since they can't fuck around doing random shit?
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>>723257680
>all the tentacle porn you're going to be forced to read in the Schism campaign
Prompted - with AI - lovingly.
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Wait, so Schism heroes' unique skill is like Necromancy, but it activates BEFORE the battle?
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>>723258582
Yeah, it gives bonus units til the end of battle
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>>723258354
Played it 2 times. First time AI was similar to me a bit more stuff. Second time it barely did anything and had like half my army.
Should be fun in-between bigger maps, very plug and play.
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I really hope they release a PS5 Heroes game

Fucking dicksucking niggers
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>>723246545
>Cant even talk about the game anymore because some schizoid had to have a melty.
Yeah yeah i know UI bad graphics bad. If only it was a painting or internet site maybe it would matter more but its a fucking strategy video game. Shuting down the game based on such criticism is retarded
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>>723258060
See ya cheapskate
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>>723259051
How rude!
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Heroes Olden Era edition coming Q1 2026
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>>723247470
That's a big bug? Wights in H3 have had the same bug for forever and nobody cared.
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>>723257393
No, it was night shade that was cast instead of rewind. Most likely I'm retarded, as that would be a stupid bug. But it happened 2 or 3 times already that I wanted to revive units in a stack and instead buffed it.
And yes, the spell names are really bad. I also find most spells to be very situational. And why is there only one mass slow+mass haste spell and it's tier 5? Makes magic immediately worse.
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>>723249014
It happened to me too. I think it's the portal bug anon mentioned here >>723248485
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>>723259148
The big bugs in the demo are things like fog of war randomly disappearing or your town getting permanently stuck as if you've already built this turn except it never goes away.
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>>723259041
kill yourself faggot shill
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What's this Schizo faction that I keep hearing about?
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>>723259609
tentacle rape themed discord grooming
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>>723259609
Lovecraft elves and tentacle niggas
People are still coping that it's not a replacement for Tower
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>>723260041
>>723259820
Sounds kinda cool if they HAD to come up with a new faction. Lack of Tower does suck, though. Did Inferno make it in?
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>>723260254
Inferno is in the playtest but not the demo. You can fight their units as neutral stacks. They are bugs now.
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>>723260254
inferno is bugs
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>>723259207
>And why is there only one mass slow+mass haste spell and it's tier 5?

You can do mass slow/haste/berserk but it requires you to get the spell to Masterful level. Some heroes who specialise in spells will usually be able to do Masterful tier, you can also get to that level using rare spell scrolls, and there's an artifact that unlocks every masterful spell.
Haste and Web (slow) affect every unit on Masterful. Berserk affects one adjacent hex, so a 7-hex circle area. I forgot what the rest of the spells were on masterful mode.

Yeah, they nerfed magic a fuck ton, the most useful ones I found were Doreans Tide (+1 speed/incentive to all your units, -1 for all enemies), Chain Lightning (kind of weak but useful), Judgement (lvl 5 attack spell), Cave-In (decent attack + blocks enemy movement for a turn, unless they can fly), Shadow Army (boosts unit count by up to 2x), the Hskskgskhhhhhhchk's fury thing (the Frenzy replacement, makes you do double attack and 25% extra damage but take 25% extra damage too), Black Hole (Inferno-sized attack, but with decent damage and it "sucks" in units to the center).
There are a couple of other cool buffs like the one that gives 25% extra HP to all your units, Mirror Copy (a nerfed Clone), Twilight (aka Forgetfulness, ranged units can only melee), and probably some others I forgot (I recall there was something like a +10 for some attribute on all units).

The shorten/enlarge Shadows are also decent buffs/debuffs but a +2/-2 is fuck all in late game.
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>>723260254
inferno is now HIVe, a faction of blurry red not-zerg bugchasers on their second redesign
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>>723260254
No inferno, but there's a Tyranid town instead.
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>>723259430
Show me how its done first tranny. I hate ubisoft for butchering might and magic and wish they would all die but first i want to see if there is a chance for redemption. I also wish i could beat every single fag like you to death with my bare hands
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>>723260608
>I HATE UBISHIT BUT ALSO GIVE THEM A CHANCE GUYS YOU'RE NOT BEING FAIR
faggot doubletalk, kys
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I think the colors should be brighter. The palette should be more colorful.
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>>723260515
>You can do mass slow/haste/berserk but it requires you to get the spell to Masterful level.
Oh, didn't even know that was a thing. I assumed masterful level means level 4 or whatever.

So far, I only really like twilight, radiant armor and heavenly blades, doreans tide and blessing.
Haven't tried many damaging spells, but most seem meh, which makes primal a bit shitty.
There's also so many useless trap spells.
But what I really don't like in terms of balancing, is that lower tier spells only get useful when they're high level, by with point you've already unlocked better spells.
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>>723256737
I always associate these portraits with actors from 80s porn parodies.
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>>723246545
Your game is fucking shite, thankfully Bulwark is coming for HotA and if someone had enough of HotA, Day of Reckoning is around the corner.
Heroes 5.5 is doing pretty well aswell, heck even heroes 7.5 is better option.
>ugh ugh u wouldn't buy de gaym anyway cuz itz nut heroes3
No, no, no I'm just not going to buy olden era and its because devs are group of mentally retarded perverts obsessed with tentacles and anime girls.
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>>723261638
why do we have a mindbroken tranny spamming up the thread anyway
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>>723260724
Ubisoft isnt the one developing this game nor have they creative control over this game you think they have since its not Ashan but keep being buttblasted you negative iq nigger
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>>723261638
>passionate competent driven fans
vs.
>narcissistic homosexuals employed by Ubishit dreaming of licensing deals backed by CCP funny money
the choice...is yours
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>>723261229
Yeah, Blessing is great, but doesn't work on undead. Heavenly Blades is the one that gives you +100 damage + healing, right? That one doesn't work with undead either. Radiant Armor is the -25% damage, that's useful too, but not a game changer.

Spell levels basically equivalent of what you'd get with the magic school skills in HOMM3. There you'd have the spell, the spell with Basic spell skill (for ex. Basic Earth Magic), then with Advanced, and with Expert. Except there Basic just reduced mana cost. Here every single tier has something different, and the magic school skills are combined with Wisdom, so you NEED the skills to even be able to learn spells. They don't even give you extra spell levels unless you get a sub-skill that does the same. It's better and much worse at the same time.
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>>723261929
hahahaha this faggot can say nigger but not Ubishit lmfao
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>>723261638
Bulwark looks like soulless slop LMAO VIKINGS. They shat over any potential Vori had. Lost their touch since they changed forge into factory. Good thing Day of Reckoning will fix their mistakes. Ill miss cove but what can you do?
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>2 months into my first game
>Have like a dozen cities
>Constantly lose track of where my damn weekly resources are and every time I come back to the game I have to relearn where all the fucking portals go
I wish I could set custom icons or save screen locations to direct me to useful things on the map. The map is really busy and the nature of portals makes glancing around the minimap unintuitive
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>>723260515
mass berserk would be hilarious but the only way to get aoe on it (fireball size) is that one necro hero who specializes in it
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>>723262078
Every single ubishit employee deserves to get raped by shitskins happy? Also i never said ill buy OE i just wish it turns out better than 6 or 7 but keep being a schizo
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>>723258741
It would either be 4( di)X( in your mouth) or Dark Messiah.
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>>723262191
You're wrong. Most of us think it's fine. There are other games for you.
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Why are people so buckbroken over this game?
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>>723262326
20 years of Ubishit
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>>723262326
Probably some modders seething that they didn't get chosen to make an official entry.
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>>723262326
>people
it's 1 schizo spamming every thread both on /v/ and /vst/
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>>723262326
One of the schizos is a polACK seething over russia
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>>723261853
>every negative post about my tranime fantasy game is made by same person!
Roflmao, delusional tranny is calling other people trannies, what a time to be alive, you fucktards who defend this asset flip, are all the same.

Anyway why unfrozen stole so many assets and ideas? Wouldn't it be better to have HoMM game instead of some weird mixture of (insert random tranime game), Warcraft and King's Bounty?
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>>723262326
It's all one guy. If you look at the previous thread you can literally see the point when he went to bed and then woke back up and immediately started spamming again.
>>723191540
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>>723262469
Smutne. Sugeruję samobójstwo
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>>723262585
>mindbroken tranny doesnt even bother changing xer talking points and freaks the fuck out
many such cases
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>>723262585
>Roflmao, delusional tranny is calling other people trannies, what a time to be alive, you fucktards who defend this asset flip, are all the same.

Anyway why unfrozen stole so many assets and ideas? Wouldn't it be better to have HoMM game instead of some weird mixture of (insert random tranime game), Warcraft and King's Bounty?
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>"it's all one guy"
the last defense of the shill faggot on 4chan
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>>723262229
>mass berserk would be hilarious but the only way to get aoe on it (fireball size) is that one necro hero who specializes in it

that's Masterful Berserk, you can get it from spell scrolls, or from one item that unlocks all Masterful spells.
It still sucks unfortunately because it has a small aura and a huge damage debuff for the berserked unit. It's more of an annoyance than a game changer. Only really useful if you cast it on a Hydra.
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>>723262623
>reply literally within 2 minutes
Holy schizo, get a job
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>>723246545
It's not though. Art style is shit, music is meh, animations and visuals are generic. No basic features from previous games, boring towns, boring combat, limitations, steamrolling, retarded magic and law systems.
If you think it's good then you have no taste.
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>>723262269
>experience mild criticism of a game
>'WELL GO PLAY SOMETHING ELSE THEN'
What is wrong with you?
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>>723261992
>Spell levels basically equivalent of what you'd get with the magic school skills in HOMM3.
Yes, but in homm3 you'd just need expert magic to cast mass haste for example. Here, 3 levels in a magic school gives you +1 to spell level if you pick the subskill. So it's slower for magic to become really impactful, because by the time you're at level 3 or 4, you've unlocked tier 4 or 5 spells anyway.
>It's better and much worse at the same time.
pretty much this
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>*cough cough*
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>>723248982
Heroes of wonders 3. They tried to mix aow effects with homm recognizable sprites and it looks gay as fuck
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>>723262737
>prioritizing these bot posts in the /v/ where you hope it'll be seen
>rather than in the two /vst/ ads where it makes more sense but it turns out NO ONE CARES
Fuck Ubishit
Fuck Unfrozen
Fuck Hooded Horse
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>>723262720
>schizo is too scared to quote the post that called him out
Here, let me help you with that: >>723262606
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>>723262869
Mass slow and haste where so broken in 3 that if you didn't get one on your main hero it was gg. Having them be less useful is not a bad thing.
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>>723262887
>80% to 73%
Open more steam accounts and fix this. Remember to set the profile private.
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>>723262662
Chill with estrogen sister, I'm not the one defending game about tranime tentacle porn where one of the heroes is literally doing ahegao face.
>But I made some shit up in my head and it felt so real
Yeah you people are always making shit up.
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fuck you ubishill die in dog feces
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Next you'll say: I'M BEING REVIEW BOMBED
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>>723263180
why are trannies like this
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>>723262887
STOP THE COUNT
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>expecting /v/ to rally around Ubishit over gay pride material
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>>723263303
>defends tranny game
>calls other trannies
Is xer doing it because xer is more legit than bio holes?
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>>723263303
Xe was misgendered by an ubisoft employee once.
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>>723263083
Nah, you could still get around it, even if it made things harder. You could get Armor of Damned eventually, or even expert Prayer.

>if you didn't get one on your main hero it was gg.
Well if you played Heroes 3 competitively then you kind of deserve it. The game is super fucking unbalanced and that's kind of what makes it super fun. There are videos where people use something like 1 Titan to beat 4000 enemy units using, I don't remember, Force Field and maybe expert berserk.
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>>723263462
is it because much like your "gender dysphoria", you seeing smut everywhere is simply you projecting your porn addiction
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>>723263462
"I know you are but what am I" is all their porn+meth fried brains can handle while subconsciously admitting being trans is a bad thing
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>>723263507
Praise JK Rowling or GTFO
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https://youtu.be/YVGt8pyqXXY?si=BNhUdwmvSfxuUDUH
https://youtu.be/RN3YTjcleJA?si=f9om6n85GkHIcZcd
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>>723263709
Oops, wrong franchises, sorry.
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>>723263709
Good shit. Too bad i cant get aow 1 to work on my pc. It literally wont launch and i tried everything. Also death to schizo tranny poster
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>>723263812
>Also death to schizo tranny poster
Hell yeah fuck Ubishit
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>>723248618
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>>723257457
Solved in WoG
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>>723264048
the only thing wog has ever solved is how to fuck your shit up
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>>723263832
Yeah but after the game is made.
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>>723264136
Not really
It has amazing QoL features and any additions you don't like you can simply turn off
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>>723264136
>how to fuck your shit up
Download Ubishit Launcher and register for Ubishit account
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>>723264276
>It has amazing QoL features
what are those
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>>723263812
That's sad. Wanna hear beta version of Battle Macabre from the dead official website?
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>>723255672
>>723256631
That's shit lore and you know it.

Personally my biggest issue is turning Sylvan into just a bunch of animals with a Druid hero. I like Elves and Dwarves, I wanted to play the Elves and Dwarves faction, instead I get this.

Means only Humans really appeals to me.
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>>723257121
That's the best thing about it, that's why it's fun.
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>>723264461
>That's shit lore
That's M&M for you
HoMM should've been based off any other series besides that bundle of schizophrenia
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>>723263709
We've had homm knockoffs and even aow knockoffs, where's the passion project disciples knockoff?!
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>>723264585
tranny opinion discarded
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>>723264653
I'm sorry you grew up playing that trash fire
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Where can I pirate Might and MAgic VII For Blood and Honor? TPB torrent is dead.
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>>723261853
I don't think anybody knows, for some reason it's just a thing that's happening.
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>>723264390
Like how conveniently you can pick how to resolve each battle (manually, autoresolve, autoresolve without using spell points), as well as retrying the battles if you don't like the outcome
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>>723264856
thats in hota too, hell its probably a feature of the hd mod itself
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>>723264652
Discord Times, Legends of Eisenwald. Guess who made them? Russian? Wrong, Belarusian.
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Did anyone play Styrateg before?
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>>723264945
HotA doesn't feature any fixes like that; it's HD mod, yes. Meanwhile WoG upgraded it further. You couldn't otherwise easily pick between those 3 resolution options for each combat.
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>>723264995
Neither of those look like Disciples, thanks though
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>>723265248
>Meanwhile WoG upgraded it further.
how, by having a different button for autoresolve with magic without having to tick a box in the options menu? i kneel
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>>723248982
I hate this shitty desaturated UE asset store look. Get some fucking proper lighting. I do not know what is it with these modern games that all require reshade just not to look like someone intentionally smeared grey goo over them.
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>>723265464
You control the graphics options you keep on
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>>723265376
That's exactly what QoL is. Also, you can instantly redo the battle after you play it out with a click of a button, instead of having to load the game like you do in HotA.
Bring in a lot of changes like that on top of gameplay fixes and HotA starts feeling bad to play in comparison.
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>>723265541
I'm not going to install and configure third party software to fix your "I outsource everything to India and SEA during development" problems for you.
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>>723265464
Which map is that?
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>>723265720
I think he means that you can set different color profiles in the game settings of OE. One of them looks less shitty.
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>>723265829
It's a custom map made by someone for the purposes of making a wallpaper.
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>>723265357
I'm sure it's neat for an indie solo project but this doesn't look like anything in D1, let alone D2
Those games are style over substance and you need good art direction and atmosphere to carry it
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>>723265905
It's not an issue that can be solved by cranking brightness and contrast sliders.
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>>723265464
When games have colours /v/ calls them "oversaturated vomitslop"
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>>723266006
Good thing I'm not /v/.
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>>723265698
>you can instantly redo the battle after you play it out with a click of a button
hota does that too
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>>723266341
Really? Where do I click?
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>>723266856
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>>723265984
>It's not an issue that can be solved by cranking brightness and contrast sliders.

No, it has a literal option called color preset that allows you to change between default, muted, dark, contrast, or something like that I forgot the exact option names. It's in the game and it does help... a little. It doesn't fix the garbage UI and trash art direction but it makes the map a little easier to navigate.

Also you can hold Alt to highlight everything on the map. That can help navigating the map.
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>>723251973
>Animation speed 1%
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how do I "get" HoMM games? I tried 3 a bit a go and could feel the potential but couldn't get it to click
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>>723267834
You have to enjoy rng
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>>723267180
My screenshot is from HotA so dunno what to tell you
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>>723265464
>Paved road from a castle to some guy's house leading nowhere else
Dumb fucking secondary, roads always lead to another town.
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>>723268532
you should just admit being wrong or not say anything
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>>723248982
I like the graphics. They remind me of 5 but less saturated.
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>>723269587
>contrarians unironically look at this and think it looks good
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>>723269710
Trying too hard kid
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is the demo time limited or not
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>>723267447
contrast setting is still dim as fuck
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>>723270518
kys shill
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>>723270518
Not as far as I'm aware. Although the way some games or Steam handle demos, they might share the id with the game or something, so they disappear when the full game comes out. Or when it's in EA. But that shouldn't happen until some time next year at least.
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>>723268532
Why did that version change the fucking font? That's the one thing I completely don't understand.
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>>723270518
No it's not. You can play the modes and factions in it all you want.
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>>723246545
>game forces you to be trans
Ugh…ok…
>game forces you to marry the black barbarian guy
Why do we have to have this…
>game forces you to kneel to the black barbarians
Yea I’m not playing this woke shit.
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>>723271791
what the fuck are you talking about
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>>723271961
Ignore the schizo slav, he's had too much kvass after getting banned on the russian homm forums.
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>200% difficulty is actually the easiest as the AI loses most of their army against neutrals
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Game feels fun and I like most graphics but whoever did artifact and unit icons should ask himself if he maybe sucks at his job
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>>723272484
does difficulty really affect neutral stack sizes?
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>>723272797
Its the only thing it affects, and your starting resources.
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>>723272797
The best friend of a necro player.
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>>723272965
>>723273006
that's fucking idiotic design
I was wondering why I was getting half of my d1 army clapped by wood/ore mines
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>>723273106
Yeah it only makes it "harder" at start, but the enemy army later will be sooo much smaller that it makes it more easy overall.
I was surprised how easily I won all my 3 200% games I played, when I barely been playing HoMM games at all.
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Somebody said AI doesn't cast twilight.
Well apparently as it turns out they do, although it doesn't seem to be a priority for them.
This is the first time they've cast it interestingly and I've played a bunch of classic games now never seen it.
This is the helltide map btw.
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>>723273271
Nobody asked tranny
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>>723273271
I saw the AI cast twilight but it was on a fight I was losing anyway and it was just stacking debuffs.
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>>723273708
I asked.
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>>723246758
I'm more disappointed that there isn't a proper inferno faction
>>723261397
Kek
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>almost 30 minutes
>zero engagement
>bumped with nonsense post from page 10
Ubishit tranny scam
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>>723275619
???
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>>723246545
3rd playthrough complete, have now tried all factions except for schism. Once I got the hang of the game mechanics things rolled quickly, this 125% difficulty run was piss easy all things considered. Onto Schism @ 150% difficulty next. Some more general thoughts:

>luck-based builds seem VERY strong. Dungeon + Rhea max luck + Bleak Infiltrator => lucky shot every single time. My ranged units were DECIMATING everyone

>UI suggestion: PLEASE add an indicator for whether enemy units are ranged/counterattack before you/counterattack when you move by them. Yes, you will get to memorize all units in time but still it's just a waste of a quicksave/quickreload. In HOMM3 it was quite obvious who is and isn't ranged, in this game not really (which is a con of the game, the units have less "identity" than homm3)

>I don't like how certain maps - especially Jebus Cross - just throws massive amounts of free resources at you without having to fight any guards. Also, having 4 cities in the middle means you MUST break ASAP to have ANY chance of winning

>the building that allows you to trade resources for dust is MASSIVELY OP. Tied with my previous point about resources being thrown at you and I was able to upgrade all my T1-6 dwellings by the end of week 2!

It's frustrating that so many years after homm1/2/3 we STIL have not found a solution for games to not end with the winner of the first PVP fight.

In other news, if you're going to make supply chaining a pain in the ass then you MUST lower the level requirements of spells like town hall etc. Tying #Towns to #Heroes doesn't work - when you have few towns the distance to your main hero is negligeable, and once you go past 5 towns you can chain long distance anyways. Towards the end I had a 10-hero supply chain going but i could still only cross half the map. Then I thoght "oh wait, I can just town hall to the nearest town from the main hero!". Nope, need to be lvl 9 to cast the spell. It doesn't make the game fun.
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>>723276119
oh and also PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST add a "Mass Select items -> Mass disenchant" option. Also, highlight the slot in which your inventory item is supposed to go in better.
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>>723276119
>I don't like how certain maps - especially Jebus Cross - just throws massive amounts of free resources at you without having to fight any guards. Also, having 4 cities in the middle means you MUST break ASAP to have ANY chance of winning
This is in essence like saying about Age of Empires 2 that
>I don't like how the Golden Pit map template has gold in the middle that you need to control to win
Or
>I don't like how I have to build my town center myself when I play Nomad
I get that the demo map pool is limited, but I think you get the idea in the long run
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All maps having like 15 towns sucks
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>>723253013
lolno it's not. Initiative + ranged + magic buffs is still king.
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>>723254328
anon, with all due respect, homm5 is a 16 year old game. "still looking better than it" is hardly something to praise it for.
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>>723257036
redpill me on 4, as someone who's only played 3 and 5. What's different?
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>>723257514
>What the fuck do the curses do?
No idea. I opened a bunch of cursed buildings for the artifact and they never told me what curse was actually applied on me.
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>>723276119
Use the new troop transport buildings. The remote somethings.
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>>723257036
I wish HoMM try and replicate 4 more than 3, but fix all the problems 4 had.
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I wish they had gotten rid of town portal and shackles of war.
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>>723272797
>>723272965
>>723273006
wait, does it not give the AI any handicap too? It just makes neutrals stronger?
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>>723273271
for some reason the AI STILL prioritizes attacking tier1 shitters just because "bigger number = better". Maybe that's why they don't prioritize ranged as much. Although I haven't seen the AI use twilight, I did see him use that spell that gives +1 speed + initiative
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>>723277715
>troop transport buildings
the what?
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>>723276119
Buy an ad
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>>723278116
As far as resources are concerned, who knows.
But it handicaps the AI in that it has great difficulty with stronger starting neutrals specifically since it doesn't seem to cheat.
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>>723278384
Buy an ad
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>>723278260
They are all over jebus cross.
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>>723277715
Thanks you community manager but it's still purely mechanical waste of time, ergo it's trash
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>>723278434
kek i respect your trolling anon. I bet the guy replying to everyone in the thread is indeed a dev. No reason to be hostile to him though, he made a good 72% game after all!
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>>723278871
He made an another inferior version of HoMM III
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The ai in this game is fucking dogshit man. They keep running low level heroes with shitty t1 unit stacks by my main armies.

I'm nearly on month 3 of my first playthrough and I am bored out of my mind. Is this going to be one of those games where its only worth a damn if you buy it on release to play with all the other FOMO goyim?
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>>723279069
PvP is going to be trash since they decided to keep town portal.
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>>723277353
Heroes are actual units that are present on the battlefield. They can attack, cast spells, use consumables, get hit and get killed. Heroes with high combat skills and good artifacts can perform incredible feats, destroying entire armies single-handedly. Also the combinations of skills you level up the most change your hero class gaining unique passives that range from lame and generic +morale to passively spawning free busted units every day.
Units are now allowed to walk on their own, without a hero - they can't capture shit, but it's convenient for getting reinforcements, scouting and picking up resources. Most of units have passives and some have abilities/spells and cone with their own manapool.
Factions are changed from towns to sort of magic alignments? Life is basically Castle, Order is Tower, Chaos is Dungeon (with hydras), Death is a mix of Inferno and Necropolis, Nature is elves and animals and Might is Stronghold-ish but with more Conan
Unit roster got shaken up by this faction change, and then further by how tier system works. You now always have access to two tier 1 units, but for each of the subsequent three tiers you have to pick one and lose access to the other. So for example Nature gets both wolves and faeries @tier1 but for tier 2 you have to pick between first strike tigers or ranged elves. You can build different paths in different towns, but I usually stick to one unit comp.

This game would have been incredible if 3DO hadn't gone bankrupt, but you should still play it, it has fun campaigns, cool ideas and an enormous soul underneath a rough exterior
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>>723276119
>It's frustrating that so many years after homm1/2/3 we STIL have not found a solution for games to not end with the winner of the first PVP fight.
The only solution to this while keeping most of the game the same is to cap the army size and then you get a very different game still
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>>723276119
There is a counterattack indicator retard. Also do you not know you can right click the enemy to see their stats? Really?
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>>723271961
>just put the dress on bro
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>>723280309
Removing town portal would also go a long way. Going wide is pointless when the opponent can just teleport their main army to defend any town.
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>>723281148
Ehhh. If you split your army and the opponent doesn't and he finds you with his deathball you are now out of half the army and significantly behind on pace.
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>>723281227
>implying my "half army" wasn't just a stack of black dragons on an armageddon hero
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>>723281227
Going wide puts you ahead on resources. Having several armies is an advantage as long as the deathball can't teleport.
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>>723281537
One of the big reasons JC is played so much I suppose. You don't have enough days to get to black dragons before a game is over.
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>>723246545
This game is not 3.
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>>723261397
one of these days I'll compile the other 40+ expressions
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The "Negate 2(when upgraded) instances of damage" spell is so OP. Just play templar and put on one unit and both that and your angels will get it.
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>>723282879
>Casts wean
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>>723276119
>I don't like how certain maps - especially Jebus Cross - just throws massive amounts of free resources at you without having to fight any guards.
One thing I'm really looking forward to next year is having actual maps and not PVPslop
I hope they do a good job with the campaign and scenarios, I always had more fun with these in HOMM3 than the silly gooner maps
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>>723283282
Yeah I feel like they will alienate way too many players if they just focus on pandering the HoMM3 russian compfags.
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>>723283282
Same for me. The mechanics are better suited for asymmetrical games against the ai than symmetrical pvp matches.
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I never played HOMM5. Was it worth a shit for someone who liked 2, 3, and was lukewarm on 4?
A shame we'll never get a proper mainline M&M that isn't shit
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>>723283384
I got some good news for you, Unfrozen devs are in close touch with competitive homm players and speedrunners because these are the people you totally should ask for their opinion.
>>723283282
Got some good news for you too, by the state of heroes/units/items/places descriptions in demo it's safe to assume that campaign will be incarnation of reddit humour filled with wholesome non-binary characters who will make love with each other, oh and anime girls, cause we all love anime girls right?
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>>723284778
Yeah, HoMM5 is kind of like HoMM3 just in 3D, campaigns are simple and satisfying, units design is fine, it feels more centred around RPG part of franchise and you should play it with mod called heroes 5.5 for better experience and AI.
Replaying it right now and its pretty good, better than Olden Era in every aspect.
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>>723286932
>V
>campaigns are simple and satisfying
do not fall for the bait
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>>723287423
U r gay and fake
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>>723286932
The AI improvements are nice, but the .5 mods are a feature creep nightmare.
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>>723284778
For a casual HoMM5 is very similar to 3 (has pretty high production values too) but for an intermediate HoMM3 fan you will notice that something is off about the overworld. Probably it's because it has such a huge 3d objects, the maps Never feel as open as HoMM2,3,4 maps do where you can always spread out with several heroes and explore a lot. In 5 usually you only use 1 hero (and maybe one secondary) as there is always some guy blocking your progress and stopping you from exploring.

Olden Era is the first 3D HoMM to actually fix this issue by having a HoMM3 style overworld
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Finally beat all the challenge. The surrender one only gave me 4 basic garbage non damage spells and it was hard.
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>>723286571
kill yourself ubishit shill
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>>723257746
no the remaster aka HD version is the worst version of the game
the GoG version + HOTA and the HD MOD is the current standard version you see everyone playing simply because its the best heroes game.
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>>723278192
Yea they were doing daylight army wide buffs almost all game and suddenly when they noticed I had ranged superiority(probably) they cast twilight. Priority probably needs to be tweaked for AI when using spells that if they do possess things like twilight which can completely shut down ranged units they should use that ASAP
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so what do i need to know coming from homm3? theres like stances, new magic, focus points and laws or some shit?
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>>723292910
it plays just like any other hero game, the biggest thing you'll notice inmediatly is that you can only have 1 hero per each town you own, everything else you'll learn as you go
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Best map in the demo?
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>Dungeon has a hero that allows you to start with tier6 units
How is this balanced?
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whats hota
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>>723294257
>Dungeon
everyone but temple has one hero like that
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Damn the 200 two player map is way too easy the computer doesnt even get to leave base
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>>723294607
horn of the abyss, a mod for heroes 3 which became pretty much the go to way to play the game nowadays
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>>723256140
I remember how they used sprites from the world map for this comparison to make their HD looks better.
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>>723257538
Best use I've found for that ability is when you conquer towns of different factions.
Just keep sacrificing their units for summoning more Cthulhu shenanigans.
For example I increased a tier 7 unit in this battle by 5.
Of course you can do this with different creeps but ideal is to find a HUGE ranged stack and cast twilight so you're totally in control of how you want to do this. Ideally neutrals with very low speed are preferrable.
Then have these sacrificial stacks sacrifice themselves and keep summoning(have the summoned stacks summon again and so on)
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>>723296472
Just to add, of course its no necromancy since that guarantees you units by defeating units and its a bit trickier to pull of but you git gud at it you can increase your high tier units and necromancy can't do it to this extent.
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It seems like a lot more units are immune to magic compared to old HoMM. I didn't notice it as much when I was playing Haven, but playing you can't help but notice when playing as Schism
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>>723296772
>Haven
I meant Temple
I have HoMM5 brain right now
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>>723282851
lmao, I'd never seen half of these
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>>723250586
Kittendildo plushies when?
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Go with Dungeon and focus on their t2 and t3, they'll do a lot for you.
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Speaking of, how good are heroes and town laws that focus on particular tier units, compared to more general bonuses?
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>>723299916
Wouldn't that depend on the unit?
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>>723262326
Poles aren't people
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>>723299946
You see, that's the thing. If units of one tier in a particular town are so much better, wouldn't that be a fundamental flaw in design? With or without hero specialization. I would it to be more of a flavor choice, based on the player's personal preference. But it also has to compete not just with other tier units, but general specialization skills, like Necromancy specialist hero, etc.
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>>723300130
>You see, that's the thing. If units of one tier in a particular town are so much better, wouldn't that be a fundamental flaw in design?
Not really, towns can be balanced by their tiers being unequal.
Nobody gave a shit about griffins in homm 3 but marksmen more than made up for it.
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>Trying to remember where each portal goes
>Trying to manage two dozen cities
>Trying to track down and stomp the AI's little shitstacks
>Bottlenecked on resources the entire time unless I spend two heroes specifically on running around gathering Crystal
That map fucking sucked.

What map should I play next to get a less shitty experience?
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>>723300226
>Trying to remember where each portal goes
Why the FUCK are portal entrances and exists different colors?
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>>723300280
Better question why the FUCK aren't they on the minimap so I can tell which portal goes to which quadrant of the map at a glance?
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I don't know how I feel about the alchemical dust-thingy as a resource. It forces me to keep a supply hero running on the map visiting the free dust points just to keep up upgrading my buildings. It feels like a chore.
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So is this like a modern take on HOMM III? Is it even going to have its own campaigns or whatever the fuck? DEI faggotry? Fill me in on the details, anons.
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>>723300358
Just recycle all your worthless scrolls
>noooo, I need that Early Start scroll!
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>>723300358
Every HoMM game became a chore at some point.
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>>723300361
No, I don't think I will.
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>>723300361
So far no DEI shit other than a brown sexbomb existing as a unit at least that I've seen and I've completed my first game as Schism

Also why didn't anyone tell me Arena was fun
>Draft hero, items, skills, and units randomly
>Go fight a nerd
This would be kind of awesome vs another player, it made for some buttclenching matches just vs ai
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>>723300957
>>Draft hero, items, skills, and units randomly
I think that was an early pvp format for HoMM 3. Tiny map with artifacts and shit to just pick up and fight.
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>>723300361
its just like every other heroes game but heavily influenced by 3, still has its own new stuff and you can only have 1 hero per each town you own
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>>723300957
>Also why didn't anyone tell me Arena was fun
Because it's impossible to convince hommfags to try new shit. It's like asking elderly to take their pills.
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>>723301173
>new shit.
>>723301040
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>>723277281
and homm3 looks great to this day despite being made in 1999, whats your point?
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>>723300957
Its fun but I actually prefer the map where you automatically get ported to fight after 1 month in single hero mode.
Although to make it more fair I'd prefer if we could have more leeway maybe 2 months would be enough so necro and Schism can utilize their mechanics fully.
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>>723282851
Now I understand where the original source of ahegao comes from.
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The worst part about alchemist dust is that it makes so you only want to upgrade the creature building in one town, making it so you want to send all the creatures from all other towns to that ONE town.
It's just a big chore and so obnoxious, there's nothing fun or interesting about it.
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I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I would want some kind of "rougelike" mode in which you have a fort that gets invaded after every "X" day and it gets harder and harder.
You'll have a quite big area you can explore that will keep getting refreshed/generated again after every invasion.
The goal is to obviously see how long you can survive.

I'd kill for a mode like this
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>>723303165
You just made me realize there are no caravans.
A feature that was there from 4 to 7.
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>>723249246
True. So true. Something has been lost in modern graphical design and world creation.
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>>723303354
5 has caravans? I don't remember
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>>723300957
>Also why didn't anyone tell me Arena was fun
Because it's not really fun against CPU
When they add online it will be great
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>>723303280
If the map editor is feature rich and mods are easy to make, it can be done most likely. Sounds not that complicated, besides balancing.
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>>723303501
In the addons, to be desu.
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>>723303501
I played HoMM 5 for little years ago and still remember it had caravans
If I remember correctly you could intercept them even
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>>723303484
Artists seem to be afraid of being basic. HoMM3 designs look great, but are also very basic interpretations of classic fantasy creatures. OE designs try too hard to look unique and end up just being messy.
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>>723248982
Looks like how League of Legends used to look
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>>723294014
Shamrock
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Who is your favorite hero? Mine is Ylwari, she is cute and powerful.
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Played the demo so much that I don't want to buy the full game anymore.
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>>723301157
>you can only have 1 hero per each town you own
That's just the shittiest map. Stop spreading misinformation
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>>723246545
i cant even say 1 good thing about it, what the fuck are you people talking about?
it looks like shit, it sounds like shit, the UI doesnt exist, so what the fuck are you praising?
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>>723303354
Olden Era is a prequel. They weren't invented yet.
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>>723305169
gameplay and combat are better
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Hex tiles are lame, wish it was squares instead
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>>723305349
it really isnt.
the dogshit art style, graphics, UI, music and sound are killing this game.
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>>723268752
>>723265913
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>>723305428
You disgust me.
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>>723305169
You can't say 1 good thing about anything in general, gramps.
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>>723305574
u can buy spells instead relaying on gay RNG, get to pick from 3 skills not 2 on level up and combat is more varied and better, besides art its an objective improvement
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>>723276119
>we STIL have not found a solution for games to not end with the winner of the first PVP fight
you want games to go on forever? a 1 month game with multiple heroes already takes pretty long
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>>723277527
I would assume curse is -luck for the next battle or for the week but I don't feel like checking, let someone else do it
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>>723246545
FUCK OFF UBISOFT SHILL, buy an AD
It's absolute garbage. The music is SOULLESS. You can't have a fucking HoMM game with trash music.
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>>723305280
neither was sulfur apparently (was in 1 and 2 though)
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>>723246545
This game looks garbage, did they AI generate all the art and models? Even HoMM5 looks way better
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>>723306081
>shill
>mobile game
>soulless
>AI art
Calm down, Pajeet. And find some new material, it's getting boring now.
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>>723306081
>blushing
Are you secretly tsundere for the game?
Also, you seem very inexperienced in shitposting and derailing. I've seen way more disruptive autists. Yours is like baby's first mold, amateur work 2 b desu.
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>>723305169
>muh graffix muh ui
ok secondary
wait until you find out about homm5 which is loved by many
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>new homm is closer to 3
>new disciples is a continuation of previous kb-like
Grim.
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>>723305428
Square tiles make positioning more straight-forward and shielding a (ranged) unit much easier
Squares are for squares
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>>723305169
Good thing nobody gives a shit what you or your tranny discord friends think.
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>>723292910
It’s an inferior product compared to 3.
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>>723276206
>oh and also PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST add a "Mass Select items -> Mass disenchant" option.

I didn't actually bothered to try yet but can't you shift-select multiple items?
oh wait this games UI was made by retards, so you probably can't. dumb question.
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>>723307012
>8 possible direction of attack is easier to shield than 6(hex)
wat
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>>723308107
>>8 possible direction of attack
Are you just pretending to be retarded and not understand that shielded units reside in the corner
Yes it's easier to prevent any melee unit from attacking your shielded unit when the tiles are squares rather than hexagons
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>>723246545
So this game is pretty shit. Why are we pretending it’s good?
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>>723305428
Even if just to spite hexfags, since they are insufferable
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>>723309281
It's closer to Heroes 3 than all the other sequels. I can overlook the crap art if they fix the UI and add back the adventure element.
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>>723310175
to be fair, it was a mighty magical cart of ore
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>>723308357
NTA but with both hexes and squares it takes 3 units to block one unit in the corner. Potentially only 2 with hexes depending on how they're cut off
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>>723308357
Hexes are better because every attack has to be where the sides of the hex touch. With squares, a corner attack means the squares are not adjacent, ie. the sides are not overlapping, only the corners. In other words if you were to move into another square, it would take 2 moves, while with hex your attack distance is always 1 move away.

So hexes make more logical sense. Also square tiles are for SRPGs.
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>>723300957
>brown sexbomb
Elaborate?
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>>723310665
>if you were to move into another square, it would take 2 moves
???
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>>723308357
in both cases it takes 3 units to shield archer in a corner, no idea what are you blabbering about you turbo retard
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>>723251973
Please increase the animation speed.
Also, 1 battle and you have to return to town. Does not seem that easy mode.
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>>723310712
don't be coy, you are well aware
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>>723251153
What the fuck are they forcing, the dust is only used for upgraded dwellings.
What faction forces you to upgrade all their dwellings? Not a fucking single one. If anything most factions want you to completely skip some dwellings.
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>>723311439
I have no idea what you're talking about, post a screenshot.
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>>723311214
>3
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>>723257071
Ubisoft?
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>>723257746
Nah, its just a classic. And the homm hd mod is shit. The hota hd+ community patch is what kept the scene alive.
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>>723311491
uh oh
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>>723311491
Those corner tiles also don't exist in Olden Era™
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>>723311491
Not that guy, but why are you posting something unrelated to homm?
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>>723311491
Being inaccurate representation of a HoMM battlefield aside.
Why the FUCK is your row/column numbering like that?
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>>723311086
If you can only visit adjacent squares then diagonal movement means moving 2 squares. Movement in practically every SRPG is calculated this way.
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>>723311491
HE'S A BEE, GET HIM
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>>723311491
heres homm3 map you fucking faggot, half of the corners require 3, It's hilarious how the entire argument started because you claimed it's easier to shield units on a square board and now you're showing that the exact opposite is true.
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>>723306695
you're actually a faggot
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>>723310175
I think the adventure element is just missing from the demo, since all we have is random maps and tutorials.
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>>723300361
3/4 of the heroes are tranny faggot dev porn OCs
Good thing the game will never be released
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Oh no, the pooplack is here
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>>723309281
>So this game is pretty shit. Why are we pretending it’s good?
Unfrozen is run by literally fags and send their molested underage victims from Discord to advertise. Denis Fedorov and Tim Bender are SICK
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>>723309281
>its shit
Why would it be shit, isn't it kind of hard to lie like that when there is a free demo literally everyone played by now?
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Iratus bros we, uh, we made it?
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>>723312591
>literally everyone
TRANNY LIE RED ALERT SHIT EATING FAGGOTRY IN PROGRESS
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>>723312592
And pretty stong hero too imo. might stats and stacking necromancy% just make your guys harder to kill and killier when they kill. Once you reach decent army that can easily autoresolve the necro snowballing starts and as Homm5 taught us skeletons with bows are very fun when they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming
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>AKSHUALLY EVERYON-ACK!
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>>723246545
Is the sound at least half as good as homm3?
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>>723313569
Yes, because half of the sounds are copy-pasted from homm3.
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>>723312678
Oh, so you always just shitpost and throw a schizo rant in threads of games you haven't played. Explains a lot really.
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>>723313569
It's shit. On top of it, they could only afford two Paul Romero tracks but pretended he did it all
everything about this game is lazy and incomplete
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>>723313719
Ah, but why are his schizo ramblings protected by jannies? Curious...
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>>723313719
RED ALERT: SHIT EATING FAGGOT SHILL DETECTED, SHIT-LADEN WORDS DISCARDED
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>>723313782
Because being a schizoid is not against the rules?
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>>723313782
>why can't I get criticism of our terrible game deleted on 4chan?
>t. shit eating faggot shill for Ubishit
hahahahaha
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>>723275521
>Inferno
The Kreegan are an alien race who invaded Enroth in 1162 AS, during HoMM3/M&MV - Mandate of Heaven. Olden Era is a prequel set before HoMM 1, and are replaced by the Hive.
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>>723313569
It genuinely feels like Romero wasn't allowed to unleash
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>>723313782
It will only get their attention, if keeps posting same text and pictures for a while or too often. BG3 had dedicated tards for years, yet it barely get taken care of.
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>>723314053
>Olden Era is a prequel set before HoMM 1, and are replaced by the Hive.
nobody cares about your triple redesigned zerg ripoff bugchaser mess, fuck off with this shit, kys
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>>723314150
>WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE POOR GAME DEVS AND PUBLISHERS BECAUSE I'M BEING PAID BY THEM
what does your father think of raising a retarded gay prostitute for a son?
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>>723312131
>>723311925
>you claimed
I didn't claim anything. That wasn't me.
Anon >>723310665 was talking about hexes vs squares in theory and what's more "logical", not how it's exactly implemented and offset in any HoMM game. And in that case, blocking a corner with only 2 units is possible with hexes.
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>>723314094
I wonder if that is because he was busy with 30th anniversary album. This probably started production at least a year ago. Has a score book too. Arranging 31 tracks is a challenge.
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>>723312079
But you don't need to move diagonally to attack. That's the thing with squares, you can just move 1 square (not 2) and attack diagonally.
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>>723314616
Well you can also make a square setup where a corner is blockable by only 1 square. If it does not apply to the game the point is kind of moot isn't it?
At least the hex thing does apply on the defenders side.
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>>723312592
>name is an anagram of Iratus
>we are so clever with our subtle references xD
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>>723314738
they can't afford him and can't afford the HIVe redesign and they can't afford to fix their game but they can ask their discord boyfriends to shill 4chan for a game that might get released as an alpha, if they're lucky.
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>>723312370
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE US WHO MADE THE GAME NOT SOME TRANNY DRAFT DODGER GROOMER RUSSIANS
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>>723314956
have you stopped DMing teenage boys yet Denis Federov?
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>>723313741
>>723314094
Well, that's a shame.
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>>723309281
Shills.
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>>723314776
>Well you can also make a square setup where a corner is blockable by only 1 square.
But that would be a mess and not the most basic layout possible, like the hex map I posted.

If the point is moot then talk to the anon who wants to discuss what's most "logical" instead of practical, or this anon >>723307012 >>723308357 who couldn't be talking about any game because what he said doesn't apply to any homm game.
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>community managers crying on discord about being unable to manage the community
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>>723315632
what makes it more logical? Personally I like hex more in HOMM games but it doesnt have anything with added depth, its purely because of better aesthetic. Square grid system works perfectly fine in games like XCOM where diagonal movement uses 1.5x time units, theres no reason to change it for hex.
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>>723316201
hexes make area-effect spells much simpler to both calculate and to convey to players
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I kinda wish the world map was in hexes too
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ready to have your next corporate LGBT ubishit ad for a vaporware scam turned into more guerilla art?
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artstyle is shit
castles look like from some mobile game ad
heroes are soulless
i'll go back to playing homm3
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>>723316408
To be honest, this is happening to all of my favorite game franchises. One more, one less. What's the difference? I've stopped buying modern games a long time ago, but it doesn't change the essence of what's happening.
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>>723314738
>piano collections
is there a CD/digital release of this for us non-hipsters?
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>>723316998
It's on gamemusicrecords com
Nothing on CD page and description emphasizes 'now or never' part. It's a professional classical music gig, those love their exclusivity. At least russians adore the game, so vinyl rip will be on torrents sooner rather than later.
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>>723255643
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>>723317598
i'd hope so, but then again i don't think i've seen any Heroes Orchestra albums uploaded anywhere despite them being easily available for purchase in FLAC.
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>>723317913
There are flac and mp3 versions on rutracker
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>>723314738
>Arranging 31 tracks is a challenge.
Don't know of the track list but he already had a lot of those tracks arranged. He used to hold piano performances in Hungary and Poland, they are like 40-50 minute long medleys and a fucking wonder to listen to even with the crap phone recordings.

Having the piano arrangements finally get a digital release will be a joy forever.



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