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DarkAtom
Adventuring Hero
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posted November 27, 2020 08:10 PM |
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Edited by DarkAtom at 20:12, 27 Nov 2020.
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Thanks for the update, @Tevye!
The upgraded Sandworm sounds pretty OP (devouring corpses), but we will have to see with our own eyes, because so far HotA never disappointed us when adding features.
Don't worry about timing. This is a difficult period, also in a very bad year overall. Nobody can complain if HotA 1.7 is not coming out with the New Year. I still have my hopes up though!
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"If you get scared of doing what's right you might as well lay down and die" - Wulfstan, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
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FirePaladin
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted November 27, 2020 08:12 PM |
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Not trying to let you down or smt, but this info was available a long while ago (except for the more in-depth parts and the rip-able gifs; I won't do it, but I know of one such incident with the tier 7). Although it wasn't all compressed into one single post, and not everyone searches all sources of info.
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Enshackling time itself, heralds of the Ancients among their heat-depleted land.... Who could they be, who could rally the beings of the East and the North and control the mortals' fate?
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DarkAtom
Adventuring Hero
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posted November 27, 2020 08:15 PM |
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FirePaladin said: Not trying to let you down or smt, but this info was available a long while ago (except for the more in-depth parts and the rip-able gifs; I won't do it, but I know of one such incident with the tier 7). Although it wasn't all compressed into one single post, and not everyone searches all sources of info.
I think they released this information for 2 main reason. The first is that we had no official information about the sandworm here on this thread. The second is that they probably wanted to give us some news, basically once again reassure us that Factory is still on its way.
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"If you get scared of doing what's right you might as well lay down and die" - Wulfstan, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
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FirePaladin
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted November 27, 2020 08:18 PM |
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True enough. There was a lot of sandworm info here though, but scattered, etc.
And yes, that's also the right thing to do, wo show that development still continues. I just said that for anyone curious, but it might have been for the worse, to a certain extent.
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Enshackling time itself, heralds of the Ancients among their heat-depleted land.... Who could they be, who could rally the beings of the East and the North and control the mortals' fate?
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pellish
Famous Hero
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posted November 27, 2020 08:35 PM |
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Thanks for the update. Their ability sounds very interesting - can't wait to see it in action.
Keep your heads up during these hard times! I know it isn't easy.
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vylk
Adventuring Hero
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posted November 27, 2020 08:38 PM |
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Thanks for the update! Looks great!
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted November 27, 2020 11:16 PM |
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Cool.
Their ability to eat corpses looks pretty sophisticated, so you've probably put a lot of work to make it work.
Btw I would bet my money that you also were inspired by the classical fantasy D&D trope - the Purple Worm.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted November 27, 2020 11:32 PM |
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blob2 said: Their ability to eat corpses
i was wondering what that animation was.
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Kilkakon
Hired Hero
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posted November 28, 2020 08:08 AM |
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Thanks for the update team.
I have a question about the sandworms: to me they appear to be like trogs in that they lack eyes. Would they be immune to blind for the same reason?
It might be too strong, but thought it would be an interesting question regardless
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted November 28, 2020 11:46 AM |
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When it comes to naming the upgraded version Olgoi-Khorkhoi, hmmm it still boggles me.
I mean Tevye did explain their logic behind its naming and it is reasonable, but I still think such a region-specific and tongue-twisty name is a bit too much. Even "Couatls" were modified from "Quetzalcouatls"...
How about Sandworm -> Dread Worm?
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Hourglass
Famous Hero
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posted November 28, 2020 12:22 PM |
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blob2 said:
I mean Tevye did explain their logic behind its naming and it is reasonable, but I still think such a region-specific and tongue-twisty name is a bit too much. Even "Couatls" were modified from "Quetzalcouatls"...
Personally, I like that the name is somewhat special, and belongs to an actual mythologial creature. And regional "exclusive" creatures are already in the game, I personally have not heard about Nixes before, as they apparently only apper in Germanic mythology.
I belive this is something the community will get used to, and even like at the end of the day.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted November 28, 2020 12:24 PM |
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I like the name, Ayssid and Fangarm is not something you hear everyday either. Besides we already have Dread Knights, no need for Dread Worms.
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted November 28, 2020 12:52 PM |
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You guys are probably right.
Btw I would bet my money not many on this here boards would be able to correctly pronaunce the original polish name counterpart of Serpent Fly: Oslizg. At least later they changed it to a more accurate translation I think
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Loles
Tavern Dweller
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posted November 28, 2020 03:35 PM |
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bug
Hello!
I've found a bug in RMG Template Editor (or maybe I am lame and can't work with it properly).
The thing is, you can not play as anyone else (positionally) than a red player (red zone position).
For instance, on map template (in RMG) with red and blue zones, red has a gold mine, while blue hasn't: I want to start the game against AI, so i am on the blue zone position, but only thing I got is that blue color -> I still have that gold mine (from red zone).
I have read this awesome article https://h3hota.com/en/templates, which says "zone colors don’t correspond to players’ colors", so probably I am lame
I have made many unbalanced templates recently, so I am very very sad I can't play them starting on other positions than red's. Do you know some way to make it happen? Or is this a new feature request?
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted November 28, 2020 04:27 PM |
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Slithers are called "worms", lol.
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DarkAtom
Adventuring Hero
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posted November 29, 2020 12:11 AM |
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Loles said: Hello!
I've found a bug in RMG Template Editor (or maybe I am lame and can't work with it properly).
The thing is, you can not play as anyone else (positionally) than a red player (red zone position).
For instance, on map template (in RMG) with red and blue zones, red has a gold mine, while blue hasn't: I want to start the game against AI, so i am on the blue zone position, but only thing I got is that blue color -> I still have that gold mine (from red zone).
I have read this awesome article https://h3hota.com/en/templates, which says "zone colors don’t correspond to players’ colors", so probably I am lame
I have made many unbalanced templates recently, so I am very very sad I can't play them starting on other positions than red's. Do you know some way to make it happen? Or is this a new feature request?
You read right, zone colors don't correspond to players unless all human players are the first players. First human player always starts from the red zone, even if his flag color of choice is not red. Second human player starts from blue, etc.
You must swap the zone colors in the template editor.
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"If you get scared of doing what's right you might as well lay down and die" - Wulfstan, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
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gatecrasher
Famous Hero
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posted November 29, 2020 11:13 AM |
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Hi Tevye, thank you for keeping the tradition of Docent's insightful posts!
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seiran
Tavern Dweller
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posted November 29, 2020 12:22 PM |
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Will eating corpses work on undead and mechanicals?
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Loles
Tavern Dweller
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posted November 29, 2020 01:47 PM |
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DarkAtom said:
You must swap the zone colors in the template editor.
That's terrible!!! And counterintuitive also. Can I request it to be implemented?
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted November 29, 2020 03:19 PM |
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