Fuck these guys edition
>>738242868I remember the dildo schizo. He used to taint evwry demo thread. Did he get drafted?
>>738242868Reminder, enable autoresolve.
As a guy who is somewhat intertested in HOMM, what's the game actually like?
>>738243452If you want to play single player wait for full release.Campaign is not finished, there are almost no hand made maps, templates suck but you can edit them somewhat with external toolsIf you want to play multiplayer, single hero tournament mode is fun and matches take around an hour.Pirate it and see if you like it or not. But make sure you got the newest version as of today, v. 0.80.11
How do Might niggas cope?
>>738243405How this is not on by default is beyond me
>>738244114I think magic is just too strong right now, almost every time I pick Might hero I have to think twice as hard. Avatar and Thaumaturgy is one of the better combos right now.
>>738244114>He plays as a sissy ginger
>>738244308To force new players to learn how to play? I don't see any other reason.
>>738244445But you still get the choice to play the battle manually. It's part of the core experience, but after the 20th time starting the same battle against low level mobs and avoiding losses, it gets tiresome,
>>738244490But this is what you will be doing anyway, with some factions auto-resolve isn't as good. Hive, *cough* *cough*
>>738243452Have you seen that murrican webm where one faggot held other faggot and fisted him while turning around so everyone could see and enjoy the view? Well, when compared to Olden Shart it almost looks like normal everyday activity.It's not homm but homo.
>>738244629Shitty auto-resolve is easily the worst part of playing hive.
Speaking of, how do I don't bleed too much units in early neutral encounters as Hive?
>>738242868>battle is an IQ check
>>738244490You did not win your game if you used auto resolve even a single time.
>>738247107play waurms
>>738247107Rush the law that gives you a focus charge at the start of combat. It lets you split the enemies stacks with eggs. I personally find it easier to use locusts instead of parasites as my 1-stacks due to their higher initiative.
What would you say are the strongest units of each tier?
>phone game
Was thinking about picking this one up.How is it now after the devs patched absurd AI difficulty I heard people complain about? And how is the PVP scene in your experience?No contrarian schizos or culture war fags pls, just honest takes from anons that actually played the game
>>738248715The ai wasn't absurd and now feels just dumb. They only nerfed the easy and normal ai's, hard and above are still the same. I haven't tried PvP.
>>738248252t1 faunst2 guile infiltratort3 onyx dancert6 wheelchair fatsToo hard to say about the rest, and even these three are situational.
>>738248995Ranged fauns or melee fauns? Because I fell like the later are actually quite good with their high initiative, speed that let them cover the battlefield in two turns and first strike when counterattacking.
>>738248715AI was only a problem on small maps because it had a huge head start and it goes full aggro no matter what.For PvP I would only play single hero, otherwise matches take way too long.
>>738249223Both i guess? They easily win the t1 category since the other t1 units aren't all that great.
>>738248252>>738248995In term of T4 I found minotaurs to be particular strong although they could have been faster. Then again Grove and Temple have shooters as their T4 but I haven't played much of them.
Artifacts feel really underwhelming.>OH MY HECKING MAGICERINO IS THAT +1 {STAT}????? S O Y P O G
>>738250987Artefacts win games
>>738250987Is this a bait?
>>738250987TBF, you can upgrade them with dust and it balance out magic + artifacts > might + artifacts
Which town/hero has the best creep?
Oh my god i completely forgot about "auto resolve battle" in the settings menus. Lost so much exp and law cause i was too lazy to manually fight all the easy battles.
Am I stupid for not hunting for artifacts sets?
>>738248995>>738249223Ranged faun being a strong shooter with a MELEE first strike is crazy. They always contribute to fights in some way.
Curbstomp might niggers (or miggers as I like to call them).
What factions would you add to the game?>barbarian/orcs>oriental magi>snowy dwarfs>reptilians>pirates/niggers>egyptians>tech/mech/steampunk
>>738251635academy
>>738251635I miss my genies and golems bruh.
>>738251635Bulgaria
>>738251271these mf with avatars
Autoresolve is all right, but it gets really anticlimactic, when you spend all the time preparing for the final battle of the game and just win it in autoresolve.
>>738251635I like picrels
>>738251635Something thats more about might then magic, game seems very magic focused.I actually liked the crazy Might faction in Homm 4 that had zero magic
When can I pirate this?
>>738253038Since day 1
>>738251635I'd love to see the return of town in a style of H3 Fortress so I'd go for reptilians. They live on Jadame anyway.
What's the difference between Exodus and Exodus classic?
>>738248995I vote tentacle for T7, fast as fuck and you can move twice plus aoe hit.
I was always under the impression that the homm setting would be amazing for a mmo
>>738242868
>>738254998But MMOs are dead. So problem solved.
>>738250987>he did find infinitely upgradable artifacts
>>738254998I played one, and it was, well, kind of okay? You had capped troop limit based on your level and gameplay involved farming rare mobs for artifacts.
>>738255456What's this?
>>738255456absolutely vile art direction and character models, it makes H4 look like a masterpiece
mommy's flaming spider pussy
>>738255867HoMM4 is a masterpiece. Some people simply don't like Picasso.
>>738255960Their nuke ability is amazing. Energizing at the start of battle often lets you hit 4 stacks with it.
>>738255867To be fair they look even gayer in Homm3.
>>738254946You might be right>moves twice>aoe>resists all magic damage>casts berserk>permanently spawns more of itself from fallen allies>you get +4 of them per week with faction lawsI vote for tentacle too
>>738251891That's why you auto resolve easy fights and play everything else
>Necroinsectology
slightly off topic but does anyone know by any chance if someone made stls of the units for 3d printing
>>738256437I wish they had the balls to mention NecrophiliaTwo skeletons boning each other would be peak humor.
>>738251635I want them to go crazy and bump the number of towns to 20+ or something. Alignment autism might kick in so make it 24 towns, 8 for each alignment. Just steal from all the VCMI mod towns.
>>738256437Dead insects? That a new one.
>>738255456I'll eat him instead.
>>738256136battlecraft +spellcraft can get you 3 charge round 1 then 2 charge ler round after. Summon eggs next to their ranged, and open them first action. It's amazing
>>738243405Is there a shortkey for it?I dont want it on early when i need to min max my battles because i suck but then i might want it for some other battles etcIt feels weird having to go to settings to activate it
>just use banish summons bro
>>738256690choosing this instead of fields of mana makes your summons significantly less impactful thoughever
>>738256690>>738256737Can you have more Avatars than one in battle?
>>738256676Even with autoresolve on you can choose to fight the battle manually. There's no reason to turn it off imo
>>738256676It will ask you every battle if you want to use it, it's just a 3rd option.You can also toggle it on or off. You get the preview for your loses so you don't risk anything.
>>738256676You can choose to do the battle manually even after getting the auto-combat results.
>>738256582Based, learning that many faction and unit skills would drive PvP fuckers crazy
>>738256907It would only fuel my autism. I love learning rules for each unit.
>>738256626her*
But Gunnar, I don't want to eat the egg right now.
>>738257298You should eat the whole bowl of eggs, I insist.
>>738255460The next FFXIV expansion is the most hotely anticipated thing in gaming right now, and that's despite the last expansion being an utter disaster>But GTANot gamers
>>738257486Every new MMO dies within a year.I'm not counting the korean garbage, I don't like pay to win.
>>738254998>>738257486well walk us through it, what's the bigger idea? how do you assemble army, what happens when you lose it, etc.
>>738257665Anon, might and magic was about 4 person parties before it was about massive armies.
>>738257759anon said "homm" thoughbeit
>>738254998If 3DO didn't fold spectacularly or Ubisoft decided to follow the wow killer MMO trend we could have had one.MMO has so many possible point of failures, it's honestly should be passion project and a bag of luck to make it through 5 yo
>>738251635
>>738251635Whatever faction has a high amount of slutty cat girls.
>HoMM but in Mount and Blade format
>>738257436Why are you doing this?..
>>738257912Sorry Anon, we can't have nice things.
>>738257912I recall there was Warband mod that set the game on Homm3 continent.
What do we think about "summon avatar" bros?
>>738258160I didn't like it in the beta but now I take it whenever the game offers it to me
>>738258160I remember back around the demo release people complained how weak the skill was. What changed?
>>738258160Instant pick on magic heroes.
>even every temple hero is a boring shitlol lmao
>>738257906Anthro or kemonomimi?
>>738257665think classic wow in the homm setting
>>738242868How is being able to cast multiple spells per turn supposed to be balanced?
I wonder if they add more nostalgiabait heroes. It was cool seeing Octavia and Halon appear in Grove roster.
>>738258160Is that a JOJO reference???*ZA WARUDO's in your path*
>>738257823Are we brining back H6 Japanese Naga faction?
>>738258498You may stumble on couple familiar faces in the campaign.
too bad the game is woke
>>738258704Cool, i saw few pictures tho, i hope there is more
>>738258729It's not woke if the brown girls are hot
>>738258729Game has sexy women and sexy monster women.
Focus should be a might mechanic exclusively, not magic boosting bullshittery. Focus blast and murmurmancers were a mistake.
>>738258729Like the one non white unit is barely dressed
>>738258160nice "inspiration"
>>738258160It's alright. Well the summon itself is fairly strong, but it does take up an entire skill slot and a turn you could have used on a powerful spell instead, so I've got mixed feelings about it. Certainly useful for the early game to avoid losses, less so late game.Also its usefulness goes up if you take the skill that lets you cast a second spell per turn, but from a different school and at increased mana cost. Well this is a school of its own, and has 0 mana cost, so makes for a perfect second cast.
>>738258729My penis woke up for sure after seeing ghosts and elementals models, that's for sure
>Get the item that gives you all subskills of Avatar>now even more OPTop kekaroo
>>738258729olden era is one of the least woke entries
>>738257912>>738258048Yes, there is a mod like that - Chronicles of Might and Magic.It's pretty bad imo, because it just keeps spawning locations with permanent stat upgrades so you very quickly become insanely overpowered. Especially since you've got all the spells unlocked right from the getgo, and they're all very powerful.Still, I think it's the only mod that has proper gigantic units like dragons and titans, so it's still pretty fun to try out.
>>738258498Beside Homm3 there are some returning heroes from different M&M games> Vatawna and Zam from Homm2 in Grove and Necropolis>Vesper from Homm1 in Temple>Ethric the Mad from M&M6 and Artorius Veritas from M&M8 in Necropolis as well
>>738259431I mostly played battled iirc. Was cool to see some of the units unclose.
>>738258729How?
>>738256647You also get a charge from hive laws and can get one more from daylight subskills.
>>738259554She has a pie
>>738259660hooly fuark
>>738259660Oh boy! What flavor?
I like that they made hero specialities so strong this time around. I would basically never take the unit specialities in HoMM 3, but here they seem quite good right away.
>>738259787Ass.
>>738259554the tranny dragon"queen"
>>738259995drag(on) queens are not trans sweety /v/ister...
>>738259858The thing I don't get is that no matter the tier of unit the unit specialists get the same bonuses to their chosen units. How is that balanced?
>>738259906>Handcuffsl-lewd
>>738258359The cowardly mostly girl cat girls.
>>738259995Huh?
What do you guys think of the exodia skill combo mechanic? I feel the rng in it really sucks, but at least the skills are usually alright
>>738260190>HoMaM (any)>balancedlol, lmao
>>738260190It's probably supposed to be balanced by the sheer numbers of those units.HOMM has never been balanced though.
>>738260591anon is trying to start shitShe is a certified milf.
>>738260616It could not exist and it would not change a thing for me.
>>738260190you start with two unkillable hydras early, the other has normally useless garbage which may or may not be strong in lategame with the attack/health boost. Typhona is great.
>>738260493Disgusting
>>738258729sis it's not 2021 anymore, we like woke now
>real Angels are girlsheh
>>738260616Sometimes the abilities you can get are pretty bonkers, but yeah, I feel like most of the time I try going for one, I just end up with 4 of the skills and lose the rng on the last one, leaving me with subpar choices overall.
>>738260616Thankfully it's still a work in progress. They should make it more like the HOMM4 system.
>>738260616It's pointless right now. Add more subclasses and make the requirement 3 skills, but only one subclass per character.
>>738260198>>738259906>transformation Kinky.
just installed, which do I pick
>>738261772Which one is cooler?
>>738261772Doesn't matter, toss a coin.
>>738261772Why only between those two? Dungeon mogs all.I like Temple more, but their special skill is a bit of a bitch to use, so idk.
>DUDE TEMPLAR(Christianity) IS ACTUALLY EVIL!>DUNGEON IS THE GOOD GUYS!Woke game
>>738262126I think he plays the campaign.
>>738251635.
>>738262284Would be crazy if they actually put Forge in.
>>738262273Oh, I haven't touched that yet. I figured I'd rather just wait until it's out in full, instead of playing and forgetting the first acr.
>>738262269That has been the case since day one. M&M is literally a Star Trek episode.I reeeealy hope Olden Era will do some sci-fi at least at the end of campaign.
Campaign Act 1 is kind of long, bros
>>738262269https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2_ibQSI56UThen you'll have to play H7
>>738262795Plus alternative missions when you have to pick a side so there some merit in replaying it. How many such split missions are there? At least two from what I've seen but I haven't gotten far into the campaign.
>>738251635H3 sylvan, I don't like the current forest creatures
Why is every map throwing towns at you like crazy? All the "PvP" maps have you start with like 2 towns and there's 2-3 just a 2 turns away with barely any units guarding it.I thought the devs of this game wanted to replicate oldschool HoMM? Older games didn't throw towns at you like this.
>>738263904I don't think there's really anything wrong with that, you don't have to build them up when you don't have the resources.
>>738263904They almost all garbage, use the template editor.https://github.com/KhanDevelopsGames/Olden-Era---Template-Generatorhttps://github.com/Aersirma-dev/TemplateEditorHOMMGoldenEra
>>738264079Although i will say that necro gets a big boost since they have an undead transformer.
>>738263841>H3 sylvanIt's called Rampart you zoomer.
At least they are releasing patches daily.
>>738263841>H3 sylvanWho?
>>738265010>>738264541
>>738263841Grove is more like conflux than rampart. plays very similar too with the heavy magic focus. Rampart didn't have that good flavor either, their only elf unit was the archer.
>>738265258I liked their aesthetic. I feel nothing for the new faction.
>>738263554Pic related is how campaign structured, I think. I think I'm at the last mission. Been 2 splits: Grove/Temple and Necro/Temple. Last one leads to two branches, with 2 mission on each, then it combines.It felt like first pure necro mission is very much only for necromancers, but the second necro looked like it could work for both sides. It's a huge ass map.I'd imagine you can reload previous save and redo the other path, without starting completely a new. I'll try it after finishing.
>>738265552So the Grove mission goes nowhere?
Daggerwound Island mentioned. I saw pirates referenced somewhere too.
>>738266874Could work for a good Fortress unit if they even come around to adding it.
Did they say if there would be more base game towns after game leaves EA
>>738242868Fuck Kittenhorns, annoying cunts.
>>738266869Yeah, it's for Faction reputation points and flavor. I assume there would be a way to play through the campaign to min-max rep for specific ending or something.Also some side quests had continuation in later missions, depending on choices. Not much, but felt nice.
>>738267784The undead general guy had a continuation, you find him an undead puppy later on and he settles down, gives you an artifact as thanks.
>>738248995Apotheosis is fucking broken and the best t7 followed only by Archangels being the second best. Their passive effects are utterly ridiculous
>>738267437This is all the base game factions. Although personal I wouldn't be surprised if they'd announce dlc faction around the end of EA.
which token do I have to buy to play this
>>738268096What the hell. Just heal up up to 290 hp basically for free. Sure.
>>738268097based opinion
What
>>738267453Nuke them with spells or place 1 unit stack next to another unit to take the blow.
After playing this game I have the urge to play HoMM4 & 3 again.Curse my slavic bloodline.
>>738270204>Oh no, I'm cursed to play good games!Truly a fate worse than death for /v/ermit.
>>738270149>Nuke them with spellsThat's what I did, but sometimes they decide to attack a huge doomstack.
I playing the second mission with gunnar only on normal and it already feels like the game is broken. Every enemies are units consuming.
>>738267453They make you attack the nearest unit, not the nearest friendly unit. Leave all but one stack in the pocket dimension and you can probably just chain kill all of them
>>738270634Unless you get surrounded they are not that hard to kite.Range units are also a good solution because you can just box in the corner.
>>738270721Skill issue, but yes 2nd mission is the hardest of them all.Just grab all the creature growth buildings first and then rush the enemy though the bottom of the map.Sometimes AI bugs out and stops attacking for some reason.
AI Slop Era the 24/7 shill thread
>>738271542Thank you for your contribution.I wish you well.
>>738248995I agree with t1-3. Onyx Dancer is the base unit though, Jasper Dancer - the one with +100% melee damage is the best one. For T4 I'd take Minotaurs, but the Schizm ones are quite good as well, and the Hive ones seem good, too, though they're a bit too slow for me to actually get to use them all that much.For T5 my favourite are the Hive's Reavers. Good initiative, great damage, a skill that lets them attack with no counter and a free turn upon killing a stack. Absolute killers.T6 I'd got with the Kirin though. Fast, high initiative, can get no counterattack boost, great skills, and despite it all he's still got the second most health after the Hydra.Not sure about T7, seems a tie between the dragons, abyssal envoys and angels.
>>738270149Or attack them with only 1 ranged stack
>>738271910>KirinNitpick, but I hate how their model levitates yet they're not a flying unit. Got me confused a couple time during battle.
the Hit and Run skill of the infiltrators feels so weak, why would I ever want to deal -50% ?
>>738257823
>>738271975I've mentioned it as well >>738271202but it should be more consistent with other mechanics.Berserk spell doesn't work on Constructs or Elenmentals/Embodiments, but for some reason it works for those little faggots.Shit game balance if you ask me.
>>738272293The only time i use it is to apply the guile infiltrator debuff without leaving them open to getting gang raped
Did HOMM3 have a full-team blind ability?
>>738272293Anon, there is a law which turns it into -25%.It's quite good, because they are almost a ranged unit at that point.
>>738272914They still get counterattacked though.
>>738272690Blind in HoMM3 was entirely different spell, more similar to Sleep.
Considering getting this game, is there a furry faction?
>>738272132Yeah, only one upgrade has an active skill that lets him phase through objectiles, but otherwise they just move normally.
>>738272992You should upgrade them into Guile Infiltrators and you will basically get upgraded harpies from HoMM3.
>>738272992Depends on the upgrade. Guile Infiltrators don't get countered, and in fact they disable enemy counter altogether.
>>738273038The minotaur in the campaign looks like he fucks white men
>>738273038Not really.There are no werewolves, gnolles, catgirls etc.Also you should go straight to hell.
Doesn't the Necropolis feel kind of weak? Other than the Liches and the dogs maybe, their units feel rather subpar. Even the Vampires manage to be pretty meh despite their ability.
Shill me your favorite faction and hero
>>738273896Try starting with dread knight hero then rush Tomb of the Warriors and Fortifications II before the end of week.I think they overestimate how good Undead Transformer is.But maybe on larger maps with diplomacy it's overpowered.Necromancy got nerfed into the ground compared to the demo.It's simply shit at this point.
>>738273896step 1: get dreadknights (upgrade to avatar of war for double strike)step 2: get daylight magic or just lvl 2 mage guild and unlock weakening ray to remove counterstrike from any creaturestep 3: get on mr bones wild ride
>>738273953DungeonLiterally not a single bad unit. God tier t2 and t3 ensure easy early game. Alternative attacks for each unit give you a lot of good AoE options. 2 shooters, 3 no counter units (including the one of the shooters and t1 alternative attack).>heroesThey're all pretty good. I think going with unit specialities works well, considering how good they are. There are t2 and t3 specialists if you want to make the already great units even better, or take the hydra specialist to make the early game even easier, since no early game unit can do much against a 130 +20% health monster like that.
How is that stillbirth similar to homm3?
>>738273896They definitely are weaker than other factions, all they have going for them is dread knight spam because their growth is enormous. Vampires need buffs too, vampirism and lack of counterattacks doesn't make up for so little hp and damage. Phoenix gets to cleanse buffs and debuffs on the entire battlefield, be faster, deal more (aoe!!!) damage or regenerate 1/4th of their stack every single round but vampires have to be stuck with 30-30 damage?
>>738274406>weakening rayThis was my most used ability in the demo, the team version in the EA version is also great.
>>738273038Yes, there are furries/anime girls/twinks everywhere! It's truly the gayest King's Bounty game ever made.
>>738273953Grove, it has many good heroes. So you can't get them all banned.If you are playing single player, try Mushroom-man, Sullie, Vim, The Ministrel or Halion.Use Dawn hopplets to generate focus, simply get as many stacks as possible.Second best is Schism, if you take as many fights as possible each turn you will not suffer any losses ever.Urgo starts with Avatar which is very strong at the moment, but because of how strong the faction is you can pick almost any hero and have a good time.
>>738274406>weakening ray to remove counterstrike from any creatureOn my hive game I used the combat skill which lets you use the heroic strike for free and makes it remove a counterattack from the stack you hit. Worked really well. Frees up your spellbook for better uses.
>>738274758Sure but that's RNG, Hive sucks outside the Arena.
>autoresolve looses 1 creature>lets minmax this>loose 10 creatures to perfectly timed morale instead
>>738275395I think auto-resolve doesn't follow the same RNG as normal combat.Morale and Luck checks seem to be predetermined. To I wish toggling auto-resolve spell usage didn't involve going back to the option menu.I think I should tell those faggot devs about it.
I will miss when you could stack your heroe's attributes for every successives misisons, bu it was indeed broken.
>>738275738This is why I think HoMM4 campaigns were the best.Pure power fantasy.
>>738275567>To I wish toggling auto-resolve spell usage didn't involve going back to the option menu.You should always have auto-resolve toggled on.
>>738276046Spell casting for auto-resolve is a separate toggle.
>>738274424A lot of words to say you worship clussy
>>738275738didn't play 4 but in 3 around the last missions you would rush everything on the map at the first week.
holy shit kittenhorns are absolute aid to fight against
>>738274406>>738274176>>738274540>dreadknightsIsn't the hero with master resurrection the goat though?
>>738257823It is literally impossible to NOT include Nagas.And since it's still the OG 3DO setting where it all started, then expect the OG Nagas to come back.>>738262387Forge deserves a time in the limelight.Would've been great to have something like this made a reality after some rabid fans managed to shut it down.
>>738277193You can just use Liches or Rewind Life.
>>738251635The fact are these names you zoomer faggot? The factions have proper names!
>New game>Custom game>Select map or template>Map Size: G>8 players>Victory conditions: ClassicYeah... I think they did it bros
>>738277567For example, fortress in H3 has different theme compared to fortress in H5 you fucking retard, also I'm not a zoomer
>>738277698This is not comfy at all.Default templates are simply garbage.
>>738258160will get nerfed very soon
I like the gameplay but man, music simply sucks. HoMM soundtrack was so good in the past.Now we get generic what-ever-music, I'm thinking about muting it all together.
Played through the campaign and afterwards tried a scenario with Hive. Had a might hero. How the fuck are you supposed to play them? The units have an insane damage range, and not taking losses on neutrals feels extremely hard (especially if I can only cast like a single spell). My units damage ranged from instantly killing stacks to not even doing half and losing shit tons on the retaliate.Do you just sacrifice 1 stacks to bait counterattacks on every neutral until you snowball? If so that's tedious as fuck
>>738278528>tried a scenario with HiveThey are garbage, you need to use twice as many brain cells to use that faction.Try using Zoran if you really want to have decent early game.Ranged units are simply a necessity right now. Until you can level up your hero to have decent alpha strike you will suffer losses all the time.Their auto-resolve AI is also terrible so you have to manually fight every time.
>>738242868>another remake of shit that is still perfectwhy?
>>738279054nobody cares about your fanfiction zigga
>>738278528the AI hates the cancer eggs and always attacks it. Get the upgrade which makes them take two hits, build focus and boom you got a tank on demand. Also by having stacks of both upgrades and non-upgrades works super well for hivemind mechanic, and it is relatively cheap compared to rushing higher tiers.
>>738278528Like other anon said, AI prioritizes the eggs over just about everything else. Use them to bait out attacks you'd have to take otherwise. Get the T2 unit upgraded quick to have first attack on retaliations. With a tactics skill you can get a perk that refreshes your counterattacks if you kill a stack with them. Otherwise the T5 and T6 are both very good when upgraded, so I think it might be a good idea to get the T5 specialized hero, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
>>738278528>spec into law points to get second level laws -> free focus charge>get reavers>either use focus charge to make egg for tanking or use focus charge to make reavers hit for stupid damage with no counterattackit goes without saying that hive plays best with might heroes going offense + leadershipreavers are disgustingly good and with the tactics hero you can just 1 shot an entire stack turn 1, and if you get morale proc just delete everything
Is the Diplomacy screen broken? Units won't join after I click the dollars.And yes, I do have enough room
>>738280037>>738280506Not him but first 2 weeks are the most important, your strategy doesn't work for early game.You would want to use energize to have enough focus to make those eggs in the first place.1 focus points are required to get a single focus charge. Try playing other factions and you will see how weak Hive is.
>>738280703You are running old version Anon.It got fixed with patch #2.
>>738280703Yeah seems bugged. You have to reduce the amount of units until it works.
>>738280876I'm pretty sure I'm playing on the latest version?>>738280901Lame. That's a lot of reloading and saving. Hope they patch it soon.Turns out there were 48 and 33 units instead of 57 and 39.
>>738281090Did they break it again with the newest patch?It worked for me yesterday, shit.
>>738273186>Get counter by first strike
>>7382790544 le hype and implementing your furfaggot fantasies into le homm lore wowzies ! did u bknow cats have dildos on their head in le ai slop era?
>>738281468Parry is rare.But sure you could get surprised by some things.
>>738265552>I'd imagine you can reload previous save and redo the other pathYou have "hub" autosaves after every mission, so you can do this.But it feels like you should replay the whole campaign if you want to see the outcome of different choices. I'm on mission 6, picked to side against temple both times so far. If I wanna see what siding with the temple is like I'd have to reload to after mission 1.
>>738266874The chatty vampires in the 2nd necro campaing mission mention Regnan pirates.
>>738273953Only played 1 non-campaign map.Picked Schism cause I'm a shizo and they look cool.Picked Hel'Ghat cause she looks hot and has reduced damage specialty.
Schism chads give me some starts and build orders
Jebus Outcast is fun as fuck. Discuss.
>>738283126What settings? Standard PvP or solo?
>>738242868Kek fucking horny cats giving you berserk when you kill them is an absolute fuck you. I love them
>>738283215Solo Tournament mode, practicing before I get into PvP.I think I got the hang of creeping splitting squids to shoot and gen focus.
>>738248995 7 stacks of Fat bastards with paradoxical shots and the "oh you are getting in Melee range? fuck you back to the backline with you" it's one of my peak Homm experiences. I pity the fools that didn't experience the bliss of HommV Treants with Preparation and Vampirism corner camping. Being able to choose what unit to deploy is the thing I miss most of HommV
>>738283384So you already know about 1st turn upgrade into ranged T1 units.Then splinting those ranged quids for extra focus.Second turn you often want to upgrade your city hall or whatever it is called.I would take either gold or law upgrade.Then you can either rush ugly-bastards or go eco-route.A lot of strategy depends on the hero you pick, but for this faction I don't feel forced into picking any particular hero.
>>738257906>Catgurl turns into Lionman when upgraded.Shame
I still think this game has too many low tier shooters. it makes all the factions except for hive play the same in the early game.
>>738258729If woke means I get hot chocolate girls I'm fine
My brave mothwife Mila!
>>738283754Shooters should have two range reduction thresholds or they should get nerfed in some other way for low tier units.You are simply allowed to take 0 casualties almost all the time if you have ranged units with high initiative.
>>738265258conflux and rampart are both descended from heroes 2 sorceress. grove is basically sorceress with nu versions of old units. elfs > fauns, sprites > hoplets, unicorns > qilins, druids > weedmancers, and phoenix is phoenix. they lost dwarves and gained the vine niggas which are kind of like treants and naiads which are like water elementals.
Hive good, player bad
Hive sex, player not sex
I must confess Grove is growing on me I kinda like them now however I can't make use of the tier2 hoplets beyond just giving myself a free focus point and the herbomancers
>>738285162Anon, 5 stacks of upgraded hoplets, 1 stack of upgraded fauns and 1 stack herbomancers will carry your ass through early game, this will give you easy camp clear until you will be able to buy high tier stuff. Don't even bother spending money on other units.Once you enter end game they are still great because of swift strike and flying.
Where is that polish shizo when we need to keep the thread bumped?
>>738244363That's basically been the state of the entire series, hasn't it? Might heroes were only busted in IV, when they were distinct units who could get absurd combat bonuses and full magic resistance.
what is so good about avatar?
>>738287387might heroes were way stronger in heroes 2 and 3 on bigger maps outside of memes like dracogeddon.
Wtf I'm producing more units than I can afford.I can't hold all these reinforcements.Help
>>738287723it slaps yo mama
>>738287387that's a porn star
>>738258434>take generic fantasy game>remake it as a generic fantasy gameReally breaking new ground there.
>>738257759Casual. The series was about six-man parties before the sixth game.
>>738288293But anon, Might and Magic was sci-fi.
>>738279451>fanfictionYes I don't give a fuck about this retarded shit called Olden Era, how did you know?
Are devs actively shilling their low quality "nostalgia bait" that has nothing to do with homm3 in this thread? Cause it look like so.
>>738279054reddit pirates get mogged by WoG.
>>738291659Based
mom and her three retarded sons
>>738285473What about the ranged mermaids?
>>738251635No Bone/ghost dragons feels really fucking weird, now that Vampires are tier 7 units......
>>738244308>>738244490probably because when you're a beginner you'd rather use autoresolve and end up never learning how to fight battles ever and become used to always use autoresolvehappened with me in total warhammer
>>738296126Same, total war auto-resolve is such a lying cock sucker too.
>all multiplayer maps with a single hero have you spawning with 2+ towns and 2-3 other neutral towns just a few turns awayI hate this
>>738242868How has Might and Magic not been more popular? The alliteration in the title is perfect, the worlds are cool trad fantasy & weird sci fi, and the music is elder god tier. To say nothing of the games themselves and the Heroes subgenre, the name should be bigger than Elder Scrolls, it's done more than Elder Scrolls.
The biggest problem with olden era is that it doesn't have that high fantasy feel that the rest of the series got.There's too much of their own OC steel shit and not enough of classic fantasy stuff.
>>738296518M&M was inspired by Wizardry, which gets all the attention these daysTES itself was basically M&M + Ultima UnderworldBut TES 1 and 2 came out before M&M 6 which was the popular one
>>738257823I want naga mommy to do mass vore and watch her hips/tail get FATTER
>>738251635Factory from the Horn of the Abyss expansion, those robots were fun to play with
>>738296518By the time m&m 6-7 came out the genre was on it's way out in popularity. And past that the company was imploding. Before that PC gaming was pretty niche in general, the xeen stuff was fairly popular for it's time though.
>>738259787Fish, if you want to be specific.
>>738296518It's a nerdy RPG/Strategy series, that existed and was mainly popular at the time when being a nerd was still uncool. It was a mostly PC series. Studio making them closed too early and had really rough last years, producing unfinished, rocky games like HoMM4 and M&M8. They didn't start switching to 3D early enough to capitalize on the craze, the attempt was shit too. M&M9 came out same year as Morrowind and Warcraft 3. Halo 1 was a year prior. They didn't spread licenses around enough, like Wizardry did, so there weren't enough legacy and cultural staying power floating around.Ubisoft couldn't figure out what to do with the series. They never got into fantasy, how to sell it to their audience. Assassin's Creed spinoff in M&M would go hard.
>>738295706Dragons dominated too many of the tier 7s. Vampires or liches should stand at the top of the undead, not a pile of bones shaped like a dragon.
>>738251689That would get the HoMaM die hard youtubers on board.
>>738297039Also doesn't hurt that the setting people really liked, the HoMM2-3/MM6-7 one got blown the fuck up off screen either. So even if Ubislop wasn't Ubislop they still had to basically start over from scratch(and 5 wasn't really that bad, but it was still a far cry from the earlier games.)
>>738244363>>738244114Magic has always been OP.
I think the undead faction has really neat hero designs
just finished the campaign on the hardest diff and while it was fun it still was kinda undercooked.enemy heroes having 7/8/9/8 stats when you can have 30 atk in the early missions is wildCreature growth also seems way too high with me having 100-200 stacks in week 2 thus making dmg spells kinda uslessalso I dont know if I lile the non linear choice design with different options.otherwise it was great tho and super fun
those double sword angels look insane wow
>>738297397It has some metal art
>>738242868Is it worth buying /v/? Whats the /v/erdict?havent played Heroes game since HOMM1-3.
>>738299139If you don't mind the artstyle or not aggressively nostalgic about previous games, than it's very good.
>>738297397>>738298301I like the look of the Dread Knights' guy. I haven't yet had a proper Necropolis game, but considering how quick you can unlock Dread Knights (turn 3 iirc) he seems even better than most tier 6 specialists.
>>738244490>>738244445The game has a bunch of bugs in ea so it should always be onI just lost a game where i was near the end and suddenly couldnt use magic or focus(ui also prevented me from seeing dmg numbers too)... as a spellcaster hero with near full mana...
>>738298301>>738299994yeah the individual hero art is insanely good imo
>>738301072the chicks are cute even
>>738301196I like the moth
>>738296518like other posters have said the original devs died right before 3d open world rpgs became mainstream with oblivion. the same thing happened to the original developers of wizardry.
>>738299139It's very good mechanically and in terms of QoL. I thought the art looked bad before playing, but I'm used to the look now, and honestly it's fine. It's still in EA though, so there are barely any scenarios and campaigns, so you'll be playing random maps generated from templates.
>>738287806>Those skills to get Progenitor goingWho thought that was a good idea? So broken.
>>738299994That's just Gorum
>>738299994Him and the red clown were my favourite heroes in the demo, I need to play the games modes other than campaign to see the rest.
>>738242868Is this game more like AoW2 or AoW4, because AoW4 sucks donkey dick
what is the trick to getting huge armies in this game? I know the ai supposedly cheats, but even against human players it seems like they are always having way bigger armies even when buying out the castle every turn and not losing anything while creeping. are they just getting lucky with pandora's boxes or is it from building up growth in multiple castles?
>>738302713>>battle is an IQ check>Anon only grows units in 1 castlewhat the fuck...You farm the units everywhere you can and then have some dedicated reaper who teleports around every now and then to bring them all together for bigger battles.
>>738302713>>738302887Owning map dwellings also increase unit growth in your towns iirc.
>>738301757I bet she likes you too
>>738302447Gameplay wise I would say AoW2 in a sense that you get strick determined factions and the game doesn't pretend to be some lite version of 4x civ. Same can be said about the whole homm series desu.
How good is firewall? I assume you can't cheese AI with it like you could in Homm3.
>>738302713Well the biggest trick is just not losing units in battles along the way.>I know the ai supposedly cheatsHow so? I mean other than just choosing for the AI to start with more resources. Does it get extra units or something?
>>738299139It's gay, campaign is something a 30y old cat lady would come up with, it resuses assets from homm7 but marketing team calls it successor of homm3 because from time to time developers threw random homm3 name here and there )(even though it makes no sense).Its just another Diablo 4 situation, so go ahead and buy it, it actually helped me with transition and my new boyfriend (furry) loves hero designs.
>>738302713You get all the dwellings, especially with your city units, get second castle week 2, collect them with another hero or spells, you are guchi. It's one the gameplay requirements, player needs to solve resupply problem effectively.Yeah, AI gets freebie armies too quickly sometimes, but it also loves to waste gold building expensive buildings and units too early in every city. On Normal it ends up without money easily, only basic army heroes running around.
>>738303138AI just runs through it so it has damage potential at least
>>738303138Haven't tried it yet, but the hero specialization sounded pretty lame. Firewall lasts 1 turn longer and gets a spellpower bonus? I feel like most master spells are pretty significantly better than the normal versions, like slow turning into mass slow, or rewind life healing more AND letting you create units above your starting number, while this one sounds kinda... eh.
I haven't seen this mentioned before but the trumpet sound that plays when you interact with an object that has a fight in it, like those gorillion different ones that give gold + something else, is straight-up taken from HoMM4
>>738303853Yeah, they reuse some sound effects and some themes are just rearranged old homm themes.I don't mind desu.
>>738277490>Forge deserves a time in the limelight.Forge is coming to HotA.
>>738304261no it isn't
>>738303853Good, very smart of them
HIT MEHIT ME!!
>>738271910>I agree with t1-3. Onyx Dancer is the base unit though, Jasper Dancer - the one with +100% melee damage is the best one.Pretty sure they nerfed their imitative and speed compared to the demo.You could just go in and melee with them. Cast Parry on them and watch them slaughter millions.
>>738251635Cove easily, it's their home turf.
>>738303146even only losing like 0-3 tier 1 shitters per battle the enemy still seems to have way more units. like in the showdown mode he will have like 45 griffins on day 20 when the unit only has 7 growth.
>>738304505>he will have like 45 griffins on day 20 when the unit only has 7 growth.14 + maybe another 6 from week 1 citadel + 7 from a hero + 7 from another hero if applicable + 7 from external dwelling = 41
>>738303853A lot of old games used stock sound effects(and even modern ones to some extent) so that's not really surprising.
>>738304650>7 from external dwelling14 more likely so 48
>>738251918ZOOTIN' and TOOTIN'
>>738304650this was in single hero mode. is it really just from getting lucky with map gen and having dwellings with the creatures you want around?
>>738304440>Pretty sure they nerfed their imitative and speed compared to the demo.They definitely did. Still very strong, but she does need haste to actually get into combat proper.
Merchant Guild Law on Dungeon is fucking amazing.Bunch of dust on the way there, with +1 to all magic lvl at the end. Upgrades to unit active abilities are excellent too.
>>738242868is defence stat more powerful than attack? feels like it
>>738305298wait how do you get red dragons? I thought it was only black and some other ashy nigger one now.
>>738305497Black towers.
>>738305298What is this goofy model?
>>738305506is that a map dwelling? do they count as neutral or dungeon?
>>738305537Look at the background of the red dragon, it's a neutral unit
>>738305537It's not a dwelling, it's a fight.
>>738287723It's quite tanky in the early game, it quickly gets hp in the hundreds with a decent defense stat, it's fast both in speed and initative, and it's almost free (there's an opportunity cost in the skill) and can be resummoned in long battles. If you get it early, it will massively help reduce your early game casualties by either locking down ranged stacks or eating dangerous retaliations, and in the lategame if you get thaumathurgy (which you should on every caster hero, that skill is broken) or the extra cast artifact it's effectively just an extra unit in your army.
>dwelling that lets you sacrifice other dragons to get undead dragonsnecrobros we are so back
>>738305709>struggle against these in the research laboratories, their attack and defense stats are kind of absurd>wait a second... that hp stat...>realize the guillotine spell, which I've always considered fucking useless and not worth the investment, just turbofucks these cunts>ez research laboratory
>>738288371Disgusting causal masquerading as og. Isles of Terra allowed 8-man parties with hirelings.
>>738305801how does it work? the description says it does % damage which makes it sound like gravity from final fantasy where it will never actually kill a unit? but then there's one guy who has it as his specialty.
>>738306029It deals % of enemy hp as pure damage. It can kill units and the % can exceed 100
>>738244363It's heroes of magic and SOMETIMES might.
>>738306084same as it ever was
>Dragon castle>It another episode where they move 1st and watch your tier 1~3 perish
>>738306029>>738306058Which means it's kinda bad against regular units, maybe good on t7 stuff when leveled enough that it does at least 100%, but wasting a whole-ass spellcast on killing a single unit in a stack is bad pretty much everywhere else. But on things like lich dragons it just scales insanely well.
>>738306058is the % based n spell power? I thought it was shit because the tooltip always showed it killing 0 enemies.
Anyone beat the campaign last stand on max diff?
>>738306121Move your more tankier units/something you're willing to lose forward during the tactics phase and enemies with high speed & initiative will attack that creature instead of waiting
>>738306121total dragon supremacy
>>738306121>>738306217Nvm it's that battle where you start in the middle, tough luck
the secret to dragon castles is only going in with high tier high hp units
>>738306319The game should have the option to withdraw units from the battlefield during tactics phase like in homm5
Is it better than AOW 4 ?
>>738299994>Here some 3 tier 6 unit get to goHow is this balance?
>>738306386would be a great addition to tactics skill
>>738306419>How is this balance?their weekly growth is also 3 :)
>>738306553All necro units have higher weekly growth than other races, but in exchange they have garbage stats. Vampires are so much weaker than other t7 units it's not even funny, they'd probably lose to temple t6 in a straight brawl.
>>738304383>no it isn'thttp://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=39830&pagenumber=582>However, as some players have already guessed, we are working on the Forge
>>738305298look at this ugly overdesign
>>738305995Disgusting causal masquerading as og. Gates to Another World allowed 8-man parties with hirelings.
I lost vs AI necro...
So Mages Guild lvl 5 in one city unlocks everything in other cities, as long as the have at least lvl 1 guild, right?
>>738307748ye
>>738306958I always thought Factory supposed to be Hota take on Forge and a way to introduce sci-fi elements while still keeping fantasy feel.
>>738306958Heroes being tied to the M&M IP has been a disaster
>play a classic game against AI as Dungeon>find a second Dungeon town very close to the first>the map is rich as fuck, can afford everything>get to dragons ASAP>bought Legion's Leg from the artifact merchant, getting a shitload of dragons>got the law to have more dragons each week>found a dragon nest on the map>so many dragons, holy shit>never lose any, steamroll everything>finally get to the last AI opponent>Hive main, had 5 towns in total but only one Hive>still has 20 more Hive Mothers than I have dragonsBullshit cheating AI. It's so blatant it's not even funny.
>>738308651Harder computers have practically unlimited resources when you count the stuff found on the map, read what the different difficulties do and git gud
>>738308586Ubisoft tried to change it with Ashan yet here we are back on Enroth.
>>738242868I don't think I like any of the town themes....but overworld and battle music are great. Remake the town themes you stupid russkies, you allegedly have Romero now.
>>738308716It was on NORMAL.
>>738308757>enrothMore like Azeroth
>>738308819>losing to post-nerf normalGrim
>>738308651What AI difficulty was that?AI is cheating because it's quite bad at playing with a single hero.It has so many resources it's able to build everything it needs.It will also buy multiple heroes on top of knowing where everything is.Templates are too generous with free resources which leads to even bigger AI snowball.
>>738308817overworld and battle musics were probably done in collab with romero because they didn't exist until close to EA launch and unfrozen didn't have access to romero until later in development
>>738308870>losingYou are projecting like a motherfucker with twenty cinemas. I won, easily, but the AI cheating was extremely blatant and annoying. It's not supposed to do it on this scale on normal.
>>738308651>20 times moreDragon vs Hive Mom stack numbers proofs or never happened>normalnigga...
>>738309020Why are you crying if you won easily anyway? What bizarre aspergers
>>738308964Normal, like I mentioned before. It was literally the last town on the map and the AI was turtling. I trampled it because of higher stats, bullshit artifact combos and summoning 170 Star Children + increasing my Hydra stack by 60 on turn one. Nightshade magic is busted as fuck.It was the only Hive on the map and the AI had to get 3 times as many units from it as it should (with almost no loses) to come close to those numbers. They had more level 3 units than I had troglodytes.
>>738309025>20 times more20 MORE, not 20 times, learn to read, Jesus.>>738309047Because in Heroes 3 the AI didn't have to cheat as much and was still harder to beat. It's in early access, the entire point of it is to discuss problems and make the game better, you brainlet.
>>738309279>make the game better>by demanding the AI you just easily beat is even easierActual brainrot lmao
>>738309047>anon gives a good example where the game still requires a lot of work>yOu WoN, wHy Do YoU cArE?Get back to eating your paint chips, Billy.
>>738309194You can load up your saves and switch AI into the player, basically hot seat.This way you can look what AI is doing by loading up each auto save day by day.
>>738309302>Making the AI play better is impossible, it has to cheat!That's some real pajeet tier thinking.
>>738309279>calling homm3 ai hard to beatholy tourist
>>738309383Thank you, this is a good idea. Finally someone with a constructive answer.
>>738309279bro just post the pic, I'm not reading your cry posts
>>738309430Concession accepted retard
>>738309448>harder = hardHoly ESL!
>>738309519normal homm3 ai is absolutely not harder to beat than normal oe ai, take the L tourist
Make more maps with fun quests!
https://github.com/KhanDevelopsGames/Olden-Era---Template-GeneratorAnybody know if there is some better template tool than this?
>>738306425Don't put any more QoL behind skills/laws/spells
>>738309963doubt you will have anything better than this vibecoded shit for at least 2 more weeks
>>738310042Damn, maybe I just suck at using it but these random templates are so lame in comparison to handcrafted skirmishes.
Which homm game has the best waifus (both heroes and units)
>>738310284This one
>>738310284Units is 3, easily.
magic is too complicated for me so I only play might
>>738310284OE reached the new height for waifus in M&M history.
>>738310341V
>>738310341>multiple factions with one unit that is just 50lbs of tits and ass>plus those goddamn brat pixies>3 has nagas and uhhh....
>>738309279Relax it just 20 more which doesn't really make much difference.
>>738310284King's Bounty
>>738310436dungeon in 5 was oddodd dominatrix elves, odd units, odd elemental chain racial speciality
>>738310616They were a copy of WHFB dark elves minus the minotaurs
>>7383102845
>>738251635A faction entirely consisting of dark-skinned elf femboys.
>>738311591Homosexuality is a sin
>>738311616says who
>>738311675/pol/
>>738251635Something that's like Stronghold and Fortress from Homm V
>>738311616Having sex with lithe lil' elves in not homosexuality. Its also in dey culcha anyway.>>738311706no, being gay is a sint./pol/
>gunner, son of gunner
>>738251635Tower.Imagine how cool Titans would look like with modern graphics, also the city itself must be comfy.
Gunnar is such a bro
>now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
>>738312537Noooo! Not my pyroboros!
>>738312449why did they take one of best heroes and made it into le dom furfag daddy fantasy? i hate these devs so much its insane
>>738312718What?
>>738312763dooes this look like >>738312449to you inbred fucking faggot?
>>738312718You have unresolved homosexual issues, my friend.
>>738312917What??Minotaurs are not biologically immortal, check what their name is retard lmao
>>738312940 SAAAR THOU SHALL DEFEND LE AI SLOP ERA NO MATTER WHAT, DILDO ON CATS HEAD SUCH CREATIVITY WOAH TURN SERIES INTO LGBTQFURFAG INFESTATION I LOVE IT
>>738312718>>738312917>>738312989holy mental illness
>>738312989Take a deep breath and try writing that again in English.
that's the fastest he went insane psycho mode so far, damn
>>738312985wait minotaurs look like furfaggots daddy fantasy? HOLY SLOPPEN ERA LE CANNON
>>738313062Genuine schizophrenic
>>738313074>LE SCHIZO LE SCHIZOyour game is trash go back to deleting all neggative comments about it on leddit and steamnig faggot lol
>>738313126>instant triggerNot the first time you've heard that online and offline eh, take your meds lil schizoid
Anybody tried it on the Steam Deck?
>>738313192
>>738313193you can try the demo i don't think it runs any worse than the early access version
>>738312718>sees a bullman >thinks sexYou're a woman, aren't you?
>>738313193UI is purely for mkb, it's difficult to interact with and read shit.
>>738309279>in heroes 3 ai didnt have to cheat as much>load up homm 3 campaign maps>AI has giant free stacks everywhereYeah anon. Sure. It did not need to cheat much. Meanwhile anything outside of maps where the AI got freebies, was a cakewalk.
>>738313719The AI in 3 was a lot more retarded.>Didn't wait for double attacks>Barely used spells
>>738313609i don't have a steam deck but i thought the touchpad was good enough to emulate mouse essentially in anything but (fast-paced) shooters
>>738313192>[Deleted]
>>738242868You would fuck guysFag
>a game 30 years ago had bad AI so it's ok that the AI in this game is worse!
>>738313992Olden Era ai plays a lot better than 3 ai.
I like beating cheaters, makes me feel powerful and cool. So AI cheating is actually a good thing.
One-hero mode is the best shit ever. Is there a way to force HoMM3 to be one-hero only?
>>738314385you can ban taverns and remove overworld ones if any from any map
>>738314456and prisons of course, maybe quest rewards, you get the idea
Autoresolve is pretty weirdSometimes you'll play against ranged units where you have literally no way to avoid losses and autoresolve will barely make you lose any troopsAnd then they'll lose units against the easiest "just stall and cast a few free spells/focus abilities and you can one shot the enemies without losses"What's that even about
Rate the factions in terms of FUN
why would they no add a new level cap past lvl 6 for gunner on mission 3 ? this is beyond lame to not progress anymore in exp.
>>738314527Schizo is 5/5
>Esoteric Arcane patriciankinoHoMM 3 WoG>Normie redditor plebslopHoMM OE, HoMM 3 HotA
>>738313992Fun fact: A"I" hasn't advanced in 50 years, the current LLM craze is just the result of pumping a countries worth of power into a big data center.Making a computer play as effectively as a human while running on a current gen mid tier configuration is extremely hard, much simpler to just let it cheat.
>>738314550Gunnar*
>>738314509Luck and morale procs are either random or more likely they're different in autoresolve than they are in manual combat
>>738314527Dungeon > Grove >>> Hive > Schism > Temple > Necropolisidk why but Necropolis just doesn't really feel good this time around. There's not a single unit that feels particularily powerful, and even necromancy itself seems anemic somehow.
>>738314509It feels like with auto-resolve neutral camps don't get morale procs.But have you tried toggling spell casting for auto-resolve to see how big is the difference?
>>738314509In the demo I felt like the autoresolve just looked at the relative strengths of the armies and made up losses based on that, instead of actually doing a quick simulation.
>>738310284If you like monstergirls 6 and 7, otherwise 5
OMFG PLEASE LET ME RETRY A BATTLE WITHOUT LOADING ALL THE TIME GOD
>>738314668Yeah I have spell-usage toggled on. But I'm talking things like>autoresolve shows you're losing x amount of units (13 of one dude)>play the battle out>it's two ranged unit stacks and you can only cast 1 spell>neutralize one stack with the spell, can't do jack shit about the other one>the other stack attacks and kills way more of the same unit than it died on the autoresolvethat's the most simplified gamestate i can think of to convey what I mean but it's kind of weird, I don't think they're running a simulation at all like the other anon suggests
>>738314627they're different. i've had a situation in which auto resolve was casualties but manual combat was zero losses because the first creature had a morale proc. autoresolve would've been 0 losses too but it didn't get the morale proc on the first creature.but who knows if this is intended or a bug.
>>738313829It was made dumb on purpose, so Van Caneghem could WINhttps://youtu.be/-wRJDA1zUJY?t=844
>>738314821The autoresolve might have cast haste or something similar. Did you use the wait function to minimize ranged damage, because the autoresolve ai seems to do that.
>>738314964>Wait minimizes ranged damageReally? Without the skill?
>>738314550It's a balance decision probably to not fuck up mission progression too much, since you can choose one or the other mission to do first. Also you can start letting neutrals run away and save some playtime, since you don't need exp as much. Or bring another hero to clear and level.The level cap was a annoying 'problem' only once. You will reach high levels very soon, don't worry.
>>738315005Let them shoot before you move towards them so they have a greater range penalty. This of course won't help against sharpshooters.
>>738315050Ah yeah, of course. Yeah that's a given.
It's gaming time
>>738314821Neutral camps sometimes split their stacks, I wonder if the same happens for auto-resolve.But I'm not sure how it works, it's very inconsistent. But there is some sort of simulation going on for sure, it's simplified and deterministic.
>>738315148Do those custom templates form the maps differently at all, or is it just so that you can set whatever player count you want?
>>738315283You can mostly just affect the amount of things on the map like neutral towns, resources, strength of neutral zones etc
>>738315151Unless I'm mistaken, in 3 auto-resolve is the same as running auto-battle from turn 1. Even luck/morale rng will be the same.But I might be wrong, maybe that's HD mod thing or something.I haven't got OE myself yet, but maybe you can check if results from auto-resolve and auto-battle are different.
Which faction and heroes would you recommend for a newbie to learn (I wanna play solo hero pvp)
>>738313992Unrelated but god I want to murder anyone who says "IA" instead of "AI"
All the multiplayer maps sucks for single hero, wtf is this?
>>738314660>grove>stack focus points>no fun ways to use them
>>738315406Sample size 1, AI is very retarded when it comes to using spells.3rd battle was with spell casting enabled. It used highest level magic even if it didn't make any sense.Like casting vengeance on a ranged unit when there was no enemy nearby.
>>738315865Dungeon>Temple>Grove>Schism
>>738314527Dungeon and Schizo are big fun. Hive is fun mid to late game, but early it's micromanaged CBT
>>738314660Dreadknights are nice
Game is good completed act 1 campaign by siding with templars twice, so will prob try to do reverse which I think is siding with necromancers and grove? Will only do this after all acts are out, but really fun that you can choose.Some quick game/scenarios have been well made and felt different also only complaint is that i wish i could see which ones I beat already since i bet they will add even more.Havent tried PvP but arena and single hero seems fun, fuck classic. Here is my take on factionsSchism and Dungeon both good and fun to playTemplars are fucking good, but so boring to play Humans for some reasonForge have grown on me its def good there is one unit that have some sort of Bee attack ability that is fucking insane especially with item that raises unit abilities by 40% Hive is shit, but def imba late game Necro is shit i dont know dont like emI miss Academy and Stronghold pls ade
Why isnt my catapult firing? It's just idling there
>>738316965are you pressing the big button in the bottom middle part of the screen?
>>738317023How was I supposed to know it's a button and should be pressed???
>>738317170you did do the tutorial right?
>>738316965People who insist on skipping the tutorial and then asking about the most obvious things should be banned from video games
>>738317282Yeah, but I've skipped all of the wall of text pop-ups lol Those were important or something? I'm here to game, not to read.
Omfg how do I pick this up?
>>738317719Are you stupid? Just Wait™.
>>738317719thread's dead you will never know ahahahaha
the fuck do i do with focus charges as dungeon
>>738318238cum
Wait a minute
