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MattII
Legendary Hero
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posted November 02, 2024 08:37 AM |
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sphinxx
Tavern Dweller
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posted November 14, 2024 08:59 PM |
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walkthrough of the forged in fire campaign
https://youtu.be/pi4d2V4X-Ig
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Syth1984
Adventuring Hero
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posted November 17, 2024 12:46 PM |
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I was hoping for a 25th year anniversary balance patch  .
Some buffs to terrible skills such as "eagle eye, learning" and some terrible spells/town buildings could have been enough.
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weilan
Known Hero
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posted November 18, 2024 07:41 PM |
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Syth1984 said:
I was hoping for a 25th year anniversary balance patch .
Some buffs to terrible skills such as "eagle eye, learning" and some terrible spells/town buildings could have been enough.
I kind of wish there was such a patch, but for the Complete version of the game, without Horn of the Abyss. While I like HoTA and can't even imagine playing HoMM3 without it, I wish there was a "Vanilla Plus" version, like the Vanilla Plus WoW private server Turtle WoW - where they make rebalances, changes and additions, but it's all lore-wise and it feels all natural and enriches the game.
I know HoTA's Cove and Factory are canon in the story, but for some reason, all the additions make the game a bit too different for me.
So I wish there was a patch that nerfed Necropolis, Conflux, all the powerful spells and skills and buffed the weak ones.
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Seravorn
Tavern Dweller
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posted November 30, 2024 09:35 AM |
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Question
This might not be the right location for this question but i dont know how to post it otherwise in here. I have spent about 8 hours building a new fairly large homebrew map and love it. Went to open it the other day and.... id clicked save. not open. Just wiped my whole map with a square of water.
*CRY*
BUT i have a game save part way through a game using that map. I know i cant open that save in the map maker, but can i somehow extract the map from that save (or at least SOME parts of it) so i dont have to recreate it from scratch? i genuinely dont think i could go through that.
Again sorry if this isnt the right place for this question - it wouldnt let me try to open a new topic so i could ask.
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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted November 30, 2024 12:43 PM |
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You can extract pretty much everything, excluding random objects for obvious reasons. I don't remember if such a tool was written for the HotA savegame and map format. Try to send an e-mail to the HotA team.
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tzening
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 03, 2024 02:42 AM |
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Been away for several years after I finished HOTA's campaigns. Came back when I heard about the factory patch. Can someone give me a rundown of all the game changes that I need to know about?
Also, when installing the newest HOTA version, you are to override the old HOTA folder or the SOD folder?
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Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted December 03, 2024 03:38 PM |
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Edited by avatar at 15:41, 03 Dec 2024.
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All you can find at wiki, for example: https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Factory
Changelogs can be found here:
https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Horn_of_the_Abyss_(Changelog)
And it doesn't matter if you install new version over HotA or SoD. every package contains all patches in one.
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tzening
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 04, 2024 01:59 AM |
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Edited by tzening at 02:32, 04 Dec 2024.
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All you can find at wiki, for example: https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Factory
Changelogs can be found here:
https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Horn_of_the_Abyss_(Changelog)
And it doesn't matter if you install new version over HotA or SoD. every package contains all patches in one.
Just installed to 1.7.1 but the message to download the latest version still shows up. I made sure to install over the old folder as you said. Version has been updated to 1.7.1, so why is it still popping up?
BTW, would the adventure spells be able to spawn in the factory campaign with enough research? Just to make sure I don't make any wrong moves.
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Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted December 04, 2024 01:26 PM |
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Probably this pop-up window is for hd-mod update, not HotA itself. HD mos is integrated part of HotA, but has independent updates.
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tzening
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 04, 2024 03:13 PM |
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avatar said:
Probably this pop-up window is for hd-mod update, not HotA itself. HD mod is integrated part of HotA, but has independent updates.
So do I just bear with it every time I open up the game or is there a way to get rid of the download 1.7.1 message? I don't want to download the HD-mod in case it is unnecessary. I already noticed that there are three versions now. One for the original HOMM 3 Complete, HOTA and HOTA-HD each.
BTW in case you missed out on it, would the adventure spells be able to spawn in the factory campaign with enough research? Just to make sure I don't make any wrong moves.
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fcpolifan
Tavern Dweller
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posted December 09, 2024 11:49 AM |
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avatar said:
Probably this pop-up window is for hd-mod update, not HotA itself. HD mos is integrated part of HotA, but has independent updates.
I did notice the latest HD Mod (R22) update specifies: changes for compatibility with future version of HOTA.
What's that about?
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Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted December 09, 2024 12:02 PM |
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This entry appears from years. Hd-mod author and HotA devs are collaborating together, so they share their own ideas. Baratorh is making ground for hota devs to make start for future changes, whenever they be.
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fcpolifan
Tavern Dweller
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posted December 09, 2024 03:18 PM |
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Ah, thanks, I thought maybe something was on the pipeline.
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Juas
Adventuring Hero
Dragón Rojo
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posted December 13, 2024 12:40 AM |
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I hope there is good news this January 1st.. I'm full on, again with HoMM.
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tzening
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 13, 2024 12:21 PM |
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Currently at the 3rd scenario of the Factory campaign. The level cap of 18 is way too low for such a big map. But I guess that is part of the intended HOTA difficulty combined with no Town Portal.
However, I am planning on having my two main heroes trade spells before completing it and for some weird reason, the Scholar skill cannot be learned. Even the hero Bertram that supposedly has it at the start has Mysticism instead. I even leveled other magic heroes as well for this. No luck. I checked on single scenario mode and the Scholar skill is there for him.
Is the Scholar skill coded to not even be an option? Because I definitely don't remember this being a thing when I last fiddled with the AB map editor years ago. If so, this is kind of ridiculous even for HOTA campaigns.
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Tevye
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 15, 2024 04:07 PM |
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Edited by Tevye at 16:09, 15 Dec 2024.
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tzening said:
Is the Scholar skill coded to not even be an option? Because I definitely don't remember this being a thing when I last fiddled with the AB map editor years ago. If so, this is kind of ridiculous even for HOTA campaigns.
Banning secondary skills has been an option in the scenario editor since SoD.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted December 15, 2024 05:41 PM |
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Uhh Tevye is here, I wonder if he will have some surprising news for us all soon...
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tzening
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 16, 2024 05:25 AM |
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Edited by tzening at 06:42, 17 Dec 2024.
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At the endgame of the Forged in fire 3rd scenario. Just crushed Dargem, visited all stat boosters for my two mains and completed all the quests except for the one with the stupid dwarf for the final set piece of the magi set.
Any idea how to reach him? The boots of levitation didn't work. Why did they designed him to be unreachable via boat? If you are so worried about him being tagged by the pirates, just put him in a Seer's Hut asking for teal!
Please help. I cannot advance until I clear this quest.
EDIT (16/12/2024): Just found out about the island hopping using the boots.
EDIT (17/12/2024): Air Shield is bugged. I fought enemies who cast Expert Air Shield and instead of halving, my damage is reduced to 1 for some stacks. Imagine having over 100+ shooters and the damage dealt is 1. I call BS. Did anyone face this issue?
EDIT (17/12/2024): Currently at 4th scenario. Playing the tomb exploration puzzle. There seems to be a hero at the beach during the part where you collect resources. There are 2 stacks of 5 Dragon Flies can somehow deal over 3000 damage. Lucky I got Resurrection.
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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted December 17, 2024 09:56 AM |
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Quote:
EDIT (17/12/2024): Air Shield is bugged. I fought enemies who cast Expert Air Shield and instead of halving, my damage is reduced to 1 for some stacks. Imagine having over 100+ shooters and the damage dealt is 1. I call BS. Did anyone face this issue?
Expect more very high level heroes (like 500 or even 20000 lvl) with spell, monster and other specialties.
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