>Ctrl+F>"HOMM">0 results>"heroes of might and magic">0 resultsThis is not funny. Gotta fix that.
Your pic says 3 but the actual sprites are from 2?Regardless 2 was the best one. Wished they remade something similar
>>1869959It's a mod, I don't know how good or complete it is yet though. Basically Heroes 3 with Heroes 2 Graphics if I understand correctly.
HotA is not HoMMHoMMIII:TSW is not HoMM
>>1869976>b-but muh original seriesit's dead.
>>1869976>HotA is not HoMMHuh? I wouldn't recomment to play HOMM today withut HOTA.
why would you play HoMM 2 inside of HoMM 3 thoughI would rather want to play HoMM 6 or 7 in the style of HoMM 2 or HoMM 3>it's dead.mostly the fault of Ubisoft though I would assumemaybe not maybe it's the fault of the developers for making terrible HoMM games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxejyj4My-8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74GRowG4SSc
>The year's turn is nigh. What will it bring?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CmGMbByhgs
>>1872065Hm? Interesting?Maybe some goofy campaign, like the one Christian had.
>>1872035I hope Olden Age is the spark that lights the fire that collapses Ubisoft and gets the IP sold offHoMM4 but way bigger
>>1872065Not HoMM
>olden eraThoughts?
Got homm V. Its my first homm, what should I think of it? After marathoning 60 long minutes ive concluded it has the best visuals in game history (unironically). Exactly what I wanted: vibrant colors, stylized kind of low poly. More colorful even than wc3Graphics still hold up. How did they do it?
>>1872303I really want to like HoMM5, but I can’t stand Ashan, the awful writing, and the slow, clunky 3D engine.
>>1872303As some dude previously said - it feels ultra clunky, choppy and crappy. I don't like this game.
>>1869696>This is not funny. Gotta fix that.You can thank to the retarded idea of /vr/ including games up to 2006, which caused the migration and destruction of that general.>b-but /vst/Literally /vr/ migrants
>>1872303>Got homm V. Its my first hommSo you have no comparison. Solid chance you will like it> what should I think of itPlay it and make up your own mind, zoomoid>How did they do it?The graphics aged like milk, no idea what you are talking about. They were bad when the game came out and are even worse nowadays.And graphics are probably the least important bit on why that game is weird at best, terrible on average.>inb4 crowd of angry kids that started out with it and people huffing copium after 4 that 5 was somehow "back to roots"It's a soul-less cash grab by Ubisoft (like all their HoMM) games done by half-assing Russians. The AI is brain-dead, it takes 3rd party mods to make the game remotely playable due to shit-tier coding and AI taking forever to make its (awful) moves, the changes to gameplay trivalise it, and the one thing that always made HoMM stand out - the setting - was just turned into the most genetic "humans-elves-demons-orks-dwarves" imaginable.Fuck that game. And fuck people who still delude themselves it was good. Just because 6 was even worse doesn't make 5 good, you retards.t. playing this series since KB was new
>DoR Teaser for h3gg + Forge Music by Paul Anthony Romerohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiz6Rsv2Zco
>>1872534NWC larpers to an autistic degreeand still HotA does it better
>>1872608>and still HotA does it betterfuck off
>>1872625why so mad Flaming Crusader
Is it true that the perfect strategy multiplayer strategy in HoMM3 is to stay in your town, and if everyone is skilled at the game the will be in a stalemate forever?
>>1874402lol, no
>>1872608> hota with ram ranch cowboys and gay furry dragonyou're a retarded faggot
>>1872534Liking the Forge. Unfortunate that Naga Tank's tits are covered but at least she has tits.
>>1874402Yes, only Rampart capital treasury rush breaks it, unless your opponent is also doing it, then the ideal strategy is to sit there.
playing 2 right now, do the heroes not carry over?
>>1874873They don't carry over.
>>1870191>t. brain-damaged by HotAEnjoy your shitty self-inserts and horrible rebalances for enforced meta
>we had to make whole new towns because our rule sets and templates already bored us to death
>>1869976This. HoTA niggers need to make their own separate threads for their gay pirate mode.
>>1872035fheroes2 brings all the good quality of life improvements in HoMM2 anyways, it is all needed for the optimal HoMM2 experience.
>>1875647>EAGLE EYE IS FINE YOU'RE JUST TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND THE WISDOM OF OUR DECISION MAKINGthis shit from the devs and their cronies made sure I'd never play again when all they have to say in every thread is>HOTA IS BETTER>YOU'RE STUPID AND WRONG TO CRITICIZE IT IN ANYWAY BECAUSE WE THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING THERE EVER WAS TO THINK ABOUT AND WE'RE NOT CHANGING ANYTHINGit was old when Picolan was alive and you can't even try to blame him for it now
>>1872303>Exactly what I wantedit looks like shit though https://youtu.be/sToVMTsR8wU?t=518I think the creators of later HoMM games didn't get that HoMM isn't a tactics gamethe neutral encounters are very basic (could be better)and should be betterthe way they done it with big creatures taking 4 spaces the big creatures would just block everything and archers clean up stacks of weaker units across the map and units that can heal would make sure that the big units don't fall too soon or at all sieging a town or anything else would turn out a nightmare in that scenario and it would kill creature variety since you no longer look for cool creatures but MMO trinity types also imagine catering to slavs who turbo abuse the AI of a 1999 game when I play with or against AI I want them to have a chance and not mop the floor with them it just makes no fucking sense and they have been doing that since 2002 up until Olden Era release 2025they need to decide if they want a casual game or tactics it's not even hard to make a good HoMM game just look at Kings Bounty (Legend)instead of shitting out HoMM clones how about making something more originallike doesn't auto chess exist and have hexes you could easily make a linear story game like KB but auto chess themedcollect chess pieces (creatures) on the overworld or whatever
>>1875948>it looks like shit thoughon the contrary, it's the best looking game. look at all those greens, different treets, bushes. grass. absolutely fascinating. compare with other games from the same year
>>1876400The UI looks terrible though.
just heard about Olden Erawhat are people's thoughts on it?
archibald's final mission in 2 is raping my buttam i supposed to just ignore everything and rush for roland?
>>1876580looks like its main focus is multiplayer and ranked ladder so its not for me.
>>1876584im actually losing my mindis this even possible if you dont go in with a full army from the previous mission? i got 20 black dragons and even that isnt enough
The Gold Dragons bide their time.
I hope that you chose the right lord, anonThat being choosing Roland and then ditching him 3 missions in
>>1876649>>1876584Yeah I always go for the crown and it's still not a problem.tho, I think I may have restarted for elemental storm or armageddon.You can be so efficient with black dragons+armageddons.crown on the final map on the good campaign is a bit tougher.
Almost went nuts searching for this, for whatever reason a bunch of the soundtracks of VI aren't part of the OST and this one in particularly was haunting me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9W3xbBKWEw
>>1869696>Nothing about HoMM.Yeah, no shit. Ubisoft killed the IP and the games. Why even bother jurry-rigging some stone-age computer for a backwater game, when the spiritual successors are objectively better, up-to-date and have thriving communities?
>>1876962> jurry-rigging some stone-age computer
Still bummed they threw away AB and SoD 's source code.
>>1872608>HotA does it betterHotA fucking sucks. They're drifting to much into "muh balance" territory. And Cove is the most retarded faction anyone could've come up with.
>>1876929I cant do it... I did the army gathering instead of crown, I got 15 black dragons. Watched some videos and they get like 5 more dragons from the map but they never spawned for me even though I restarted a few timesI rush to Roland and he always has 12-13 titans that get luck every turn and kills me in a few turns
>>1877510I did it! I ended up clearing the whole map and built a big army and it took a really long time, but I did it
>>1877630give me your shaderglass config
>>1878175it's just one of dosbox's default shaderscrt-easymode.tweaked.glsl
I'm working on an indie game with combat based on Heroes 2. I've made a turn based system based on unit speed and different units can travel different amounts of hexes. Any suggestions for how to improve on or fix problems with Heroes combat?
HOMM4 is the best in series for me. I've been thinking of revisiting HOMM5 but I no longer have the attention span to play these silly obsolete games.Anything past HOMMV is garbage, right?
>>1879170To fix a problem you must first know the problem. And HoMM combat has no problems, only unit design does.
Why is HOMM very popular in Poland?
>>1879195VI>V although It's barely a strategy game
>>1877254It was actually rediacovered by a dude who did mac version of Heroes 3 Complete. He sent it to Ubisoft and they never reacted to it.
>>1879232PC gaming in Eastern Europe was bigger than console gaming in the 90s and early 00s.
>>1879232It had a Polish translation I believe and modest sys reqs
>>1872035I forked 200$ for that card game and then they shortly killed the server.Damn, I'm smart.
>>1879345Dammm if only the Ubisoft had competent coders and completed their Dreamcast port in 2001This game would be so much more popular in the west. And if it had PS1/PS2 ports too.
are 2's expansions good?
>>1872035i miss mmdoc to this day, it was fairly decent for a card game, but ubi just refused to actually manage it well. tale as old as time>>1876947a lot of 6's ost is reused from other games, both heroes and ubi's spin-offs so i guess that's why they were excluded (yours in particular is from dark messiah)
>>18791956 tried to streamline the strategy part, as >>1879336 said, and go a bit more into rpg direction.They didn't necessarily succeed at that but its different enough that it might just tickle your fancy so i'd say its worth a try at least.7 though is literally soulless by Ubisoft's own admission:https://www.acidcave.net/q%26a_with_erwan_le_breton_for_acid_caves_15th_anniversary.html>>1880023Anon...
>>1879232Poll results from a /vr/ general I think, maybe 4 years ago.Small sample sure, but you can see some trends, eastern europe and northern europe.Like other anon said I think a bigger pc gaming culture is a big part of it.Maybe it's big in some asian countries too, but they're just not on 4chan.I think in eastern asia they'd be in small relative numbers though, overshadowed by other gamers.Large parts of europe are clumbed together, but I think homm is probably big in estonia, lithuania and latvia as well.Might not come across as many gamers from there, due to small populations, but if you'd go hommgamers/capita I think they'd stand out.We had 7 people from poland, and only 6 in scandinavia+finland, but if you consider the population it implies it's even relatively more popular in the north. Again tho, a small sample size on 4chan, so nothing conclusive.Also curious if homm might be relatively more popular compared to other games in Romania and Hungary, compared to western europe and the US.
>>1880259I don't think so.In og homm2, there are no dwellings for a few neutral creatures, like elementals.So if you have expert diplomacy, you can never get them like you can get other creatures to join you.That goes for ghosts too.The homm2 expansion added dwellings for them and a cost, so now you can buy them through diplomacy, and ghost is an awfully designed unit that snowballs too fast.Feel of the campaign doesn't feel good, no attachment to the story, the maps didn't look interesting to me either.
>>1881227king's bounty is popular in russia, i dont know why though. if i search about it on google i can only find mentions of it being popular there but nothing exploring why
for example:>The King's Bounty name has a lot of weight in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and it even has a number of Western fans who remember the 1990 game that was published by New World Computing. King's Bounty: The Legend is the long-awaited follow-up to the original game, and it's already generating a lot of buzz in Russia, having cleaned up at the awards there of late.https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/06/06/kings-bounty-the-legend-progress-reportand this video has a chapter about it being popular in russia @ 1minhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExztAvN2wy4im not a slav myself but this type of thing interests me
wiki:>An unofficial fan sequel, usually called "King's Bounty 2", was developed in 1992. The author of the sequel is a Ukrainian programmer Sergiy Prokofiev. All text in the game is in Russian, and the messages often feature Russia-specific folklore. No English-language version of the game has been availablethat was way earlier than king's bounty legend--->A free unofficial version of original game (with original graphics and expanded storyline) was published in 2015 by Russian programmer Sergei Markoff, also known as the author of free SmarThink chess engine. The game includes a lot of easter eggs, science jokes and various additional objects like Titan of Braavos and so on.
>>1881389you can find the same for westwood's Dune 2 rts, someone in Russia made a Dune 3 based on it, with optional starcraft-like interface and a new set of missions for each campain, russian voice acting, and then an expansion to that with 2 more campaigns1990's and early 200X ruskies were built different
>>1881388>>1881389you might find this video interestinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SR00J6qAo
>>1882427this was fun ty. a lot of passion and creativity by amateur programmers. never heard of warcraft 2000 before although i had looked into heroes of annihilated empires
Maybe offtopic but is there >good games that have Hero's Hour combat but different rest of the game. I really don't feel like playing HOMM2/3 style game in current year but I really liked the combat. Having sick SID tunes playing while giant mushrooms charge your battleline must have been one of the better gaming experiences recently.
>>1884076>Hero's HourLooks like some kind of a mobile cash grab. And why the hell is it so ugly?
>>1885250The developer used bought assets. The game is great but presentation kinda lacks.
>>1885273So it was a cash grab, got it. Also apparently he has no taste
>having opinions about stuff you know absolutely nothing about
>>1881384You aren't the brightest out there, are you. It's a Russian game, lol.
>>1885550He's talking about the original here, the one by JVC
>>1869696>We have HoMM at home.
>>1885593also good, but plays very differentlyaow1 campaign is better than the homm campaigns.I went through it recently, aow2 too, but as I got to shadow magic I lost interest, those campaigns are a bit meh, but I also overdid it with item crafting.
>>1885593Better HoMM 4 than HoMM 4
>>1885580Then it doesn't make sense, because nobody really plays that, and it isn't particularly known or loved in Russia either.
>>1885861Yeah yeah, you're a zoomer, I got it already
I think hota's factory is an insult to homm3.
>>1885976Yeah Homm's original forge concept beats it out.
>>1885550it only became a russian game because russians bought the IP
>>1886012Imagine the number of wrecked rectums if they actually made forge rather than factory
>got a gorgeus map, nice arties, perfect heroes and loads of creature banks>suicide into a horde of zombies (lol) on day 4Heroes 3 filters me so hard even though I love everything about it. Do I need to memorize all unit hps to properly calculate my damage output constantly? How do I get better at this game so I can play without having to savescum all the time because of costly mistakes and outright suicides?
>>1869696I like the fairytale atmosphere of HoMM 2.It's more nostalgic for me too, but I still prefer playing HoMM 3 usually.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzlgtJPx6Q
>>1881384Some Russian devs bought the IP and used it to make a HOMM clone in their image. My guess is it's big because HOMM3 is huge in the former USSR, so it was like "here's a new HOMM except with 'better' graphics and your language is a first class citizen here when it comes to localization".t. touristfag who never touched HOMM, but I played a little bit of King's Bounty at a Gamestop once many years ago. I didn't know what it was at the time because I didn't catch the name of the game, so for a while I'd think back wondering what was that game I played where you moved a horse around by clicking on the screen like in Starcraft. Then a few years ago I finally found out what that game was, and learned a bit about HOMM3 along the way. It's on my backlog, I'll get to it eventually
New stuff for halloween and no posts for 6 hours, sad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-RNG3B60U
>>1886851I only played the genesis original.
whats the correct, vst approved, way to play homm5? autocombat on? max moving speed? disabling autocombat on boss fights? automatic battles?
>>1886942Honestly, I don't like the warhammer/warcraft look to this game.Hope the game play is good.
>>1888054>warhammer/warcraft lookIt's exactly what they were going for in 5, so I guess new devs are trying to repeat that blunderAlso, isn't Unfrozen actually just Nival in a new hat?
>>1888054>>1888175I seem to recall hearing somewhere that they receive the assets directly from Ubisoft and don’t have much say in how the game looks.
I've been interested in playing these games for a long time but I get frustrated jumping into a game to try and play it without knowing the rules and main strategies first. Anyone have a good link to a video that goes over it?
>>1888387I wanna know too, I assume your supposed to look up each enemy before internalizing their stats but I can't figure out how big my stacks need to be without getting shrecked
>>1888387>>1890353We all started playing as 70 IQ kids, just jump in. The campaigns on normal difficulty are designed for you. It's only the fanmade expansions that remorselessly rape the ass raw no condom cactus style if you don't play exactly how they intended. But if you really need something:http://home.pinknet.cz/~coyot/homm3/as for videos, they mostly assume you already have a base of familiarity. won't do much for you:https://www.youtube.com/@paulgoes5494/videosagain u don't need them. knowing multiplayer strategies and meta you really don't need
What was going on at the office that the had to capitalize 'NEXT' in the description?
