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Heroes Community > Heroes 3.5 - WoG and Beyond > Thread: [Official Thread] HoMM 3: Horn of the Abyss - Announcements, Questions, Features
Thread: [Official Thread] HoMM 3: Horn of the Abyss - Announcements, Questions, Features This Super Thread is 548 pages long: 1 70 140 210 280 350 ... 370 371 372 373 374 ... 420 490 548 · «PREV / NEXT»
Oddball13579
Oddball13579


Supreme Hero
Grandmaster of the Hunt
posted September 10, 2019 07:52 PM
Edited by Oddball13579 at 19:54, 10 Sep 2019.

Yeah Stronghold is a desert town. Rough terrain probably looks like this. Still a desert, even with no sand.


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phoenix4ever
phoenix4ever


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posted September 10, 2019 09:18 PM
Edited by phoenix4ever at 21:19, 10 Sep 2019.

Take a look at the Stronghold town screen then. Lots of tall mountains, cliffs, rocks and harsh terrain and not much vegetation. Their terrain is called rough, so I imagine it would be a place full of stones, rocks and mountains, not sure if that can be considered a desert?
If it is, it's still far away from an Egyptian like desert full of sand, dunes, pyramids, mummies and a burning hot sun.

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gatecrasher
gatecrasher


Famous Hero
posted September 10, 2019 09:26 PM

And Egyptian settlements are to be found at the coast, at river banks, at wells and at oases. The thick of the desert traditionally is only inhabited by nomads, as in H3.

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Doomforge
Doomforge


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Retired Hero
posted September 10, 2019 10:00 PM

gatecrasher said:
And absolutely least urgently yet another desert town with yellowish sand this time round.


Why the town ? I only wanted some nostalgic desert terrain.

gatecrasher said:
H1 had only 4 towns and wasn't a bad game.


Speaking about nostalgia Are you sure about that? Because I replayed HoMM1 some time ago and found it a terrible game. HoMM2 was great, HoMM1 was a really terrible experience.

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gatecrasher
gatecrasher


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posted September 10, 2019 10:02 PM

Well, H2 has 6 towns.

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Doomforge
Doomforge


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posted September 10, 2019 10:10 PM

And they were a welcome addition, since HoMM2 kept HoMM1 cities intact, just adding upgrades for underwhleming creatures.

My problems with HoMM1 were simple : You get a Barbarian and play Warlock town and you win. There's no counter to that and there's no real reason other than self-challenge to play anything else. Warlock had an abundance of fliers, super-easy creeping, and a ludicrously OP, magic immune creatures that would be further boosted by ridiculous Barbarians in times where 1 attack point meant +15% damage increase (and built-in pathfinding for the Barbarian that others wouldn't get).

Also, the cramped battlefields made it simplistic to a point of sillyness. Also, the spellcasting system.. UGH.

HoMM1 wasn't a good game in my opinion. There were similarly unpolished, but better games at that time that offered the same formula, like Hammer of the Gods, which was conceived in a better way, just really poorly executed and not beta-tested at all, released with gamebreaking bugs.

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Tordah
Tordah


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posted September 12, 2019 09:08 PM

Wow my comment sparked a conversation about the first date of autumn lmao.

tbh i'm pretty confident we will get news before the end of September. And that means early autumn according to the north american calendar

it's a little early to call it but you know, i'm already sick from the cold (and it's not that cold) so plz bring me an update to my favorite game so i can appreciate my sick leave from the job kthx.

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


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posted September 13, 2019 05:59 PM
Edited by P4R4D0X0N at 18:05, 13 Sep 2019.

Tordah said:
Wow my comment sparked a conversation about the first date of autumn lmao.

tbh i'm pretty confident we will get news before the end of September. And that means early autumn according to the north american calendar

it's a little early to call it but you know, i'm already sick from the cold (and it's not that cold) so plz bring me an update to my favorite game so i can appreciate my sick leave from the job kthx.


Well it was said.... "Later this month" and that month has already ended twice

Docent_Picolan said:
The update with the new terrain will most likely slide from summer to early autumn. However, later this month, an article with new development details will be released, so stay tuned.

http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=39830&PID=1494651#focus

I also don't expect "early autumn".

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phoenix4ever
phoenix4ever


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posted September 13, 2019 06:15 PM
Edited by phoenix4ever at 18:17, 13 Sep 2019.

Have they just decided to skip the autumn update and release a full update at New Years or what?
A little more information sure would be nice.

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Oddball13579
Oddball13579


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Grandmaster of the Hunt
posted September 13, 2019 07:30 PM
Edited by Oddball13579 at 19:31, 13 Sep 2019.

phoenix4ever said:
Take a look at the Stronghold town screen then. Lots of tall mountains, cliffs, rocks and harsh terrain and not much vegetation. Their terrain is called rough, so I imagine it would be a place full of stones, rocks and mountains, not sure if that can be considered a desert?
You really haven't grasped the concept of what classifies a desert have you? Lol

But yes, based on the description you just gave of Stronghold's town screen and of the Rough terrain, yes, Stronghold and the Rough terrain can both be considered a desert.

I'm thinking the news will come early October now.
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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


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posted September 16, 2019 06:28 PM
Edited by P4R4D0X0N at 18:32, 16 Sep 2019.

well there are lots of differences between hyper-arid and arid areas. Anyway I want that update! Wanna build and prepare my G map!

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MattII
MattII


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posted September 16, 2019 08:06 PM
Edited by MattII at 20:08, 16 Sep 2019.

Oddball13579 said:
You really haven't grasped the concept of what classifies a desert have you? Lol
Well speaking technically, the largest desert in the world is Antarctica...

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Oddball13579
Oddball13579


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Grandmaster of the Hunt
posted September 16, 2019 08:52 PM
Edited by Oddball13579 at 20:53, 16 Sep 2019.

MattII said:
Oddball13579 said:
You really haven't grasped the concept of what classifies a desert have you? Lol
Well speaking technically, the largest desert in the world is Antarctica...
Exactly my point. Sand does not equal a desert. Lack of precipitation does.
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Gandalf196
Gandalf196


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posted September 16, 2019 09:10 PM

The love for Heroes III compels random people across the globe to have biogeographical discussions while the update has not cometh. Oh, Lord Docent, please be so merciful as to shed light onto our miserable lives.
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MattII
MattII


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posted September 16, 2019 11:38 PM
Edited by MattII at 00:21, 17 Sep 2019.

Gandalf196 said:
The love for Heroes III compels random people across the globe to have biogeographical discussions while the update has not cometh. Oh, Lord Docent, please be so merciful as to shed light onto our miserable lives.
Better than some of the discussions I've seen over on the alternatehistory.com forum. One of those ended up being about surströmming...

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Pollo2002
Pollo2002


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posted September 17, 2019 02:28 AM

The attack to homm1 arguments can be used for homm3. (There is no reason to play anything but Necro/Conflux and necromancer/Crag hack) etc etc.
Also the magic system was way better than homm3.

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MattII
MattII


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posted September 17, 2019 05:54 AM
Edited by MattII at 06:08, 17 Sep 2019.

Pollo2002 said:
Also the magic system was way better than homm3.
Mm, never played HoMM1 myself, but the idea that you simply 'forget' a spell after you cast it a certain number of times seems a bit nonsensical to me.

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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted September 17, 2019 12:23 PM

MattII said:
Pollo2002 said:
Also the magic system was way better than homm3.
Mm, never played HoMM1 myself, but the idea that you simply 'forget' a spell after you cast it a certain number of times seems a bit nonsensical to me.

Look at it as using vanishing scrolls.

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MattII
MattII


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posted September 17, 2019 12:58 PM

Macron1 said:
Look at it as using vanishing scrolls.
Mm, maybe. Still, for all that they've screwed around with the magic system over the games' run, they've never once tried to go back to it. Some ideas just don't pan out well.

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Tordah
Tordah


Adventuring Hero
posted September 17, 2019 08:09 PM

Good folks, keep your hopes up, the update is coming. I have a gut feeling it'll be released sooner than we think.

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