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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 ... 387 388 389 390 391 ... 420 490 548 · «PREV / NEXT»
mihaid
mihaid


Hired Hero
posted January 07, 2020 01:51 PM

I think perhaps this is a bug, unless I'm missing something.



Fangarms should have unlimited retaliations, but retaliate only once since HotA 1.6.0

Here's also a video of the issue being reproduced: https://youtu.be/jIW7_lhNGMk

Thanks.

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ShadowMaster
ShadowMaster


Adventuring Hero
HOMM3fa(g)n
posted January 07, 2020 02:45 PM

This isn't relating to any bug at hand (since all seems to be working perfectly for me, which is amazing) but I was just curious - can somebody explain to me what exactly happened in the almost 6 years between the projects first announcement and its first version? I mean, it started out as this massive thing with alternate units, three (if not four) new Castles, new artifacts and whatnot and now it has gone down to just one (two) Castles and no alternate units. And going by the few videos and screenshots that still remain, it seemed that at least Cathedral was fully finished and the alternate units were good to go.
I am not angry for never receiving Kronwerk or the Cathedral, I just want to satisfy my curiosity, the same curiosity that plagued a little 11-year-old boy first reading on these forums about HoTA and WOG 3.59.  
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Tevye
Tevye


Hired Hero
posted January 07, 2020 03:46 PM

Winston said:
phoenix4ever said:
Well usually I can change things back, but not this time.

That's the point. HotA is a multiplayer mod and they do not want you to be able to mod things to work how you want. It's all or nothing.


Three campaigns, complete with cutscenes; countless QoL tweaks that work across the board, not only in multiplayer; biggest ever package of new features for mapmakers that dropped just a week ago; thousands of man-hours sunk into creating graphic content that online players couldn't care less about; and, despite all that, you elect to call HotA a multiplayer mod.

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avatar


Promising
Supreme Hero
posted January 07, 2020 04:04 PM

ShadowMaster said:
I was just curious - can somebody explain to me what exactly happened in the almost 6 years between the projects first announcement and its first version?  


Brainstorms. They have tons of ideas, they choosed only high quality features and these features that could be apploed without errors and breaking compatibility with older h3 maps.
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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


Legendary Hero
posted January 07, 2020 04:27 PM
Edited by bloodsucker at 16:34, 07 Jan 2020.

Tevye said:
despite all that, you elect to call HotA a multiplayer mod.

It seems he is not alone and some are defending that PoV...
Revolut1oN said:
Its no use to discuss balance from singleplayer point of view as AI is always easy to exploit and beat, ... HotA is made from multiplayer point of view.

Revolut1oN said:
... imo its completely worth to break a few maps if we need to pay that price to get a growing good quality product. HotA surely focuses on multiplayer, since thats whats keeping the game alive now.


Not that I second any of these even if a lot of my work on a map was screwed by the nerf of Intelligence and much more will be if Fangarms loss of endless retaliations isn't a bug but a developers decision.
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Hourglass
Hourglass


Famous Hero
posted January 07, 2020 04:30 PM

Elvin said:
Big nerfs only make the game less fun. Otherwise we revisit the original H7 logic where most early tier skills are balanced with each other because they all suck.


Well, even through the last patches affect pretty much every hero and town, the biggest nerfs actually happened over 5 years ago, when English Hota 1.3 was released. Conflux and necro were hit so hard, that even today they're still not sure what happened.

How people feel about the changes is very subjective. One would like to see nerfs, one would like to see buffs, someone can't stand any changes, and there are quite likely people who would like to see everything changed.

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Orc
Orc


Famous Hero
posted January 08, 2020 05:32 AM
Edited by Orc at 05:35, 08 Jan 2020.

bloodsucker said:


Not that I second any of these even if a lot of my work on a map was screwed by the nerf of Intelligence and much more will be if Fangarms loss of endless retaliations isn't a bug but a developers decision.


but you can still download and install the previous version right?

http://heroes3wog.net/horn-of-the-abyss-download-2/

not that I installed it from this link. I merely disabled my auto update cuz I didnt want to update before I check changelog

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zmudziak22
zmudziak22


Supreme Hero
Heroes 3 Fan
posted January 08, 2020 11:39 AM

Also EE become weaker with Spell Research in Towns and Scholar gain advantage. For example your Main hero learn useless spells in mage guild, then your scout with scholar research spells in mage guild, and he rolled ressurection, town portal, prayer or meteor shower. with earth magic, he can teleport nearby to main hero and transfer all new spells.

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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


Legendary Hero
posted January 08, 2020 01:26 PM
Edited by bloodsucker at 13:27, 08 Jan 2020.

zmudziak22 said:
your scout with scholar research spells in mage guild, and he rolled ressurection, town portal, prayer or meteor shower. with earth magic, he can teleport nearby to main hero and transfer all new spells.

Or you can simply use Poorman's Town Portal. As I already said somewhere in this site, Poorman's TP is quite easy when what you need to transfer is not army but spells.
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Revolut1oN
Revolut1oN


Famous Hero
posted January 08, 2020 01:35 PM
Edited by Revolut1oN at 13:53, 08 Jan 2020.

Elvin said:
Revolut1oN said:
Its no use to discuss balance from singleplayer point of view as AI is always easy to exploit and beat, ... HotA is made from multiplayer point of view.

With that logic, intelligence change would only make sense if all the tournament maps gave too much mana. Every, single, one.


Well, there are no maps in mp, only templates and on each and every one intelligence was just unreasonably powerful, on the verge of being broken. Its quite a usual thing to have level 20/25 main by the end of 2nd/ 3rd week and then he is a killing machine, two times more mana than normal intelligence hero and 4 times more than warrior. Contrary to what people think, slow and haste are not that powerful in pvp vattle, high damage spells usually rule there and having that much mana and some high level spells was just too good. The only thing you could do when facing high level elleshar was to just roam around and avoid him as much as possible with hope of catching him without mana one day.
If you meet him early on some fast paced template then the problem is even bigger; he will either have 80 mana vs yours ~40 and will obliterate all with lightning bolt or will have 0 mana because he had used it in creature bank and insteaf will greet you with a few angels which will annihilate you anyway.

@bloodsucker, yeah, i agree. Its better to say its made from tournament pov. Still, I think casual players dont mind the balance and changes all that much. For pro player some minor stat changing can be a gamechanger, but casual might not even notice it.

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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


Legendary Hero
posted January 10, 2020 10:02 PM

I really have to say that I love the way the improvement of Estates makes Lord Haart better then Leena. It was a waste of a specialty, cause you would need to level him up to level 14 just to earn the same she could sometimes (rarely) be giving you at level 3.
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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted January 10, 2020 10:09 PM

Now the +350 Gold is just bad since its kinda the same as basic estates... see my post previous page...

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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


Legendary Hero
posted January 10, 2020 10:34 PM

With a +350 hero you can hire him and just leave him in town without prejudice, while you need to level up an hero with Estates to get the most out of it. OTOH, if the +350 hero doesn't have any useless skills and most of them are quite good in that regard, is just another hero with no specialty. I mean what's the difference between using Dace and Damacon if you don't have any Dungeon? But an hero SS slot is precious and it was a waste to use it to earn 500g, specially if you also had to spend time and money to get it to expert.
I think I already said this to Phoenix4ever, somewhere.
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Hourglass
Hourglass


Famous Hero
posted January 10, 2020 10:43 PM

P4R4D0X0N said:
Now the +350 Gold is just bad since its kinda the same as basic estates... see my post previous page...


Not true, that +350 gold is still relevant. I agree that it's better to have a hero that starts with estates than hero with gold speciality. However, only 3/10 towns have hero that starts with Estates, whereas 8/10 towns have hero with +350 gold.

Even if you're having a witch hut with Estates in your starting zone, why would you not want to have Estates on your +350 g hero? Gold specializing heroes are still among the best heroes to appear in tavern, especially when you're hiring heroes that have no army anyway.

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Rakso
Rakso


Adventuring Hero
posted January 10, 2020 11:13 PM

So, the Eliksir of Life does no longer provide full regeneration, but only 50 health points? lol What a joke.
Is that an already old change and I was too inactive to notice, or a new?

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Hourglass
Hourglass


Famous Hero
posted January 10, 2020 11:41 PM

Rakso said:
So, the Eliksir of Life does no longer provide full regeneration, but only 50 health points? lol What a joke.
Is that an already old change and I was too inactive to notice, or a new?


It has always been like that, just recently tested this. So the claim at heroes.thelazy.net is incorrect, even Trolls regenerate only 50 hp max.

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Rakso
Rakso


Adventuring Hero
posted January 10, 2020 11:48 PM

@Hourglass Woah. I never had the opportunity to notice it in my whole life. Clash with reality can be often disappointing.

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Fdgk
Fdgk


Known Hero
posted January 11, 2020 12:33 AM
Edited by Fdgk at 00:57, 11 Jan 2020.

I just found a picture of the mech-unit on the maps4heroes site:
https://www.maps4heroes.com/heroes3/heroes3_horn_of_the_abyss_1_5.php

Since it has a Santa hat on its head I thought at first that it was a joke created by a fan but then I compared it to the one that can be seen in the "Wasteland Stroll" trailer and they seem to fit perfectly.

MathGuyHere said:
Upgraded "tank guy". Bottom left, near prison, at the edge of fog of war. Seconds 60-65 of "Wasteland stroll".



The only thing that seems strange to me is why the picture hasn't been released by the HotA team here or on their facebook page if it was officially created by them.

Cheers,
Fdgk


Edit: I am quite sure now that the rumour about the one-eyed shining mountain who spits out smoke like a volcano is about this unit. Did you notice the exhaust pipe on its back?

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blob2
blob2


Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
posted January 11, 2020 02:16 PM
Edited by blob2 at 14:17, 11 Jan 2020.

Wonder where does it fit.

Is the unit Neutral or is this Factories tier 7 unit (highly likely)?

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Fdgk
Fdgk


Known Hero
posted January 11, 2020 02:46 PM

I don't think that it is a neutral unit because we have already seen an upgraded and a non-upgraded version of it.

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