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imid
Hired Hero
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posted January 17, 2017 05:12 PM |
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Stevie said:
Dreadz is streaming HotA on Twitch right now. For all those who don't know he's a well known Russian streamer with a big follower base. Right now there's over 10k viewers, which is rather impressive. I thought I should mention it, here's the link to the stream:
[url=https://www.twitch.tv/dreadztv]https://www.twitch.tv/dreadztv[/url]
great news! the weekend starts earlier this week 
cheers!
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Stevie
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted January 17, 2017 05:18 PM |
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MattII
Legendary Hero
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posted January 17, 2017 07:22 PM |
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So, do we have a new estimated release date yet?
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Javiduc
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 17, 2017 08:13 PM |
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I think there is not estimated release date. But Docent_picolan said that we would have news today. I hope those news are the new release.
Anyway, HOTA crew is doing an excellent job and if some more time is needed it will be for some good reason.
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P4R4D0X0N
Famous Hero
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posted January 17, 2017 09:33 PM |
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MattII said:
So, do we have a new estimated release date yet?
Yeah before 01.01.2018
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 17, 2017 11:31 PM |
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So it's been 24 hours and we DESERVE some answers and we DEMAND some answers or else I'm gonna ...I'm gonna ...I'm gonna .........wait some more. 
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Docent_Picolan
Promising
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 12:18 AM |
bonus applied by Corribus on 18 Jan 2017. |
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Release date had to be shifted once again. Despite the team’s hard work, there are still tasks that require additional time to finish. In order to prevent any further unfulfilled expectations, this time we will refrain from giving any estimations for the release date. Still, development of 1.5.0 is clearly on its final stages.
Returning to presenting the most prominent features of upcoming update, we will start with the one of aesthetic nature. As one could notice on the screenshots posted earlier, among other features of the update, there will be new models of heroes both on battlefield and the adventure map, that allow them to be distinguished by gender and class at the same time.
It is known that New World Computing had planned to create two models for each class, differing in gender. For example — one can find unused map editor sprites AH01m.msk, AH02F.msk, AH02m.msk in game resources. Male Cleric, female Ranger and male Ranger respectively. Alas, only the last one has made it to the actual game. Additionally, heroes with different gender and same class can be found on original alpha-version screenshots. One could see for example male and female Overlord both on map and in battle.
Therefore, it came once again to HotA to implement the original developers’ plan, for which they lacked time, resources or both. Although, mainly decorative, this task was planned almost since the beginning of the project. On early HotA concept arts one can find images of 4 heroes per town. In addition, in 2008 additional hero models were created for Cove as well.
As it is, the actual creation of all the necessary models started only about a year ago by personal initiative of a newly joined 3D-artist — DrSlash.
While developing the new models the team followed design patterns of default hero models, fixed the original sprites and made some new conceptual decisions. Thus, it was decided to move both of the original Stronghold hero models to the same class (barbarian) due to their likeness, while the battle mages have acquired their own concept that references other installments in the series. Cove hero models have been completely reworked and Conflux might heroes recieved a constant flame animation.
Animated image gallery: http://heroes3towns.com/heroes.html
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My personal goal Animated from scratch in 2D.
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All at once: link
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Ardin
Tavern Dweller
Stoic Watchman
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posted January 18, 2017 12:51 AM |
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Wow! Male alchemists are awesome!
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vylk
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 01:08 AM |
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gatecrasher
Famous Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 02:03 AM |
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That is truly amazing. Are Fortress heroes WIP?
Will the differentiation be female/male or human/non-human?
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Docent_Picolan
Promising
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 02:10 AM |
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gatecrasher said:
That is truly amazing. Are Fortress heroes WIP?
Will the differentiation be female/male or human/non-human?
Female/male. There's no need in additional sprites for Fortress, because only male might heroes and female magic are available in regular game.
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AbsintheRed
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 18, 2017 02:12 AM |
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These are wonderful!
Once again, huge congrats to the HotA team!
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Ardin
Tavern Dweller
Stoic Watchman
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posted January 18, 2017 02:15 AM |
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Docent_Picolan said:
gatecrasher said:
That is truly amazing. Are Fortress heroes WIP?
Will the differentiation be female/male or human/non-human?
Female/male. There's no need in additional sprites for Fortress, because only male might heroes and female magic are available in regular game.
True, but it would be a good thing to have 4 sprites for Fortress for the editor.
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Wind_Falcon
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 03:24 AM |
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Looking great.
Though I prefer the female Overlord in the Alpha screenshots more than the redhead.
Wish we could have both.
Also the vanilla male Stronghold hero with the cape immediately brings forth magic to my mind, so its somewhat of a mismatch, the new HotA male Battle Mage looks a lot more of a Barbarian.
Removing the cape (of the vanilla male model) would make him a lot more Conan like and fit better I feel.
And finally, Lich would make a lot more sense for male Necromancer than Vampire Lord...
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 06:32 AM |
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great work. now i can finally have all female heroes!
...i don't suppose you guys have nude versions? 
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Dairy
Known Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 08:10 AM |
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Edited by Dairy at 08:13, 18 Jan 2017.
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This is awesome !
I love how you are nitpicky/precise with stuff like this. I would never come up with idea like this.
Hats off.
This makes each class with both sexes different on battlefield and map, right ? This doesnt make every single hero different, right ?
EDIT: The Vampire on horse looks awesome, altough having Power Lich to sit on a horse could look cool too.
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ArchDruid
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 08:52 AM |
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Vampire Lord on a Horse? WTF??
I tried to modify necro Mage heroes' looking on adv. map several times adding two red pixels in their eyes, but the file went corrupt and reduced to 16 colors. What have I done wrong?
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dhat90
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 18, 2017 09:12 AM |
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Does this game support sim play for several players yet?
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nik312
Promising
Famous Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 09:27 AM |
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dhat90 said:
Does this game support sim play for several players yet?
Yes. With HD mod.
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hippox89
Famous Hero
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posted January 18, 2017 11:49 AM |
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Edited by hippox89 at 15:12, 18 Jan 2017.
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The heroes figures are a central and key part of the gameplay in the HMM universe and also very symbolic, so I feel that by expanding upon the visual presentation between class and gender, it provides HotA with an even stronger identity of its own while fulfilling the clues of intentions left behind by the original team. It was a very admirable goal to have, and I'm personally very pleased by the execution of the concept. 
About Fortress, I don't think it has to be a big loss or anything that they wont have 4 models. If it's by concept/lore that Beastmasters will always be male and that Witches will always be female then it makes good sense. Also, this gender separation of the classes will be more evident now since you'll be more likely to notice that the Fortress heroes only have 2 different kind of models, which in turn makes them stand out more from the rest. So it actually seem quite appropriate to me.
The only issue I can see is if some of the Fortress' hero portraits doesn't portray gender distinctly enough visually. I admit that I always thought Andra and Styg were males by just looking at them. But maybe the female lizards are noticeable by their exposed ears? Or maybe they even have different shaped ears, at least all the male ones are hidden. And Andra is quite older looking, which can make gender harder to distinguish.
fred79 said:
...i don't suppose you guys have nude versions?
Well, at least of one them is naked, Fred, and she looks pretty hot to me, too! 
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