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briankemper
Tavern Dweller
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posted September 07, 2015 07:55 PM |
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Not as easy as you thought.....
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 07, 2015 09:09 PM |
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Hey Brian, nice that you visit us. Wish you were the one designing H7 interface, now you need to click ion 10 places to get the same info we had in H4 or H3 in one view.
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Era II mods and utilities
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chouia
Tavern Dweller
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posted September 11, 2015 03:10 AM |
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Edited by chouia at 03:28, 11 Sep 2015.
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I don't know if you need feed back here... but I just finished the campaign, and I'd just like to say that your work is impressive. 
Horn of the abyss is really nice. The Cove looks and feels professional, in HoMM3's style. (In comparison with Conflux for example, I find that the Cove's art is way better!) Firstly, I was intrigued by "pirates", I didn't think it was a so good idea... but finally, it's coherent, it fits to HoMM's backgroud, it's well used in campaign, units are interesting, their new abilities are nice (hopefully, you didn't do it "over the top"), music and new settings are in the mood: great work!
It was a real pleasure to play the campaign. (Not too long, but enough, this game is time consuming!  Even if... the story is not finished yet, right?) The story seems well written (I'm not english speaking... neither russian), there is not too many text (I just finished "Sandy's Folly" map: story was good... but long). It's maybe easy-going, but to be honest, I think I prefer Hota's story than official stories. (I never played Might and Magic, so I'm not particularly fan of this Universe.) When you have already played hours of HOMMM3 with "impossible" setting, the campaign is not really difficult, but it is good and interesting. Every time, I felt that if I made too much mistakes, I could have serious trouble, and it's enough to be engaging and rewarding.
(Hmmm... however, I had to start again the second scenario of the second campaign two times. Opponents attacked me with massive armies! Then I discovered that when I started again this scenario, heroes' skills changed: weird?! So, I started with Logistics and Estates, and it was easier to rush very early to take all weak castles. I don't know why the strong fortress castle didn't really attacked me, I was lucky. Maybe it's because I killed all other heroes, so they couldn't share the view of the cove? On the other hand, I remember that three last scenarios were really easy... but I took all skill points and spells for every heroes on maps, maybe it helps. These maps were still fun to play, so I have no complaint. )
"Remade units" are nice too, even if I don't know if you needed to do it, or just wanted to do it. (For example: new pikmen, or new orcs are nice, I like it... but is it really "better" than original? Even if I guess that the new ones get better animation.)
When I look at "change log", you did so many improvements, additions, and you had to balance so many numbers!...
I played with HD mod (with GOG complete edition)... and I must admit it's definitely a must-have!
I installed it recently because I could'nt see the minimap in a Giant map. ("World 4 You"... It's maybe not a subtle map, but the actual world is really well made, it's impressive. This map without Town Portal and Fly in impossible is interesting.  And HD mod is required to understand what happens...)
Now, I couldn't play without HD mod. Among many improvements:
1) I can play 1920x1080. I can see.
2) I don't have 5 second freeze time when I start a battle. (It made me so crazy...)
3) I can load in battle. I can restart a battle directly.
In short, it's great that you have HD mod compatibility, so we can really enjoy (in my opinion) Hota, thanks to HD mod.
In another words, I was happy to play HotA.
So, I'm happy that you like HoMM3, that you like to mod it, and that you took time, thinking and passion to make HotA and share it.
Thank you.
PS: I just played Heroes VII beta... There is a lot of good ideas (and not so good ideas too?), they made a lot of obviously reasonable choices (while HoMM3 is sometimes unbalanced), but I couldn't say I was charmed. It's sad, because I'm sure that their team loves the game, and works hard... but I got more fun playing with HotA. I'm still thinking that 3D is not interesting and not clear for the game... even if it's maybe mandatory to sell the game? (Gorgeous serious 2D would be great.) HoMM3 is old, but still not dead! And I'm not fair, because I didn't try the Heroes7 campaign... (but the beta was so slow that I couldn't start the campaign if they don't improve pace and AI...)
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cgsilver
Tavern Dweller
Gorgons FTW
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posted September 11, 2015 05:51 PM |
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WOW. I discovered this expansion pretty late but I am very happy that some folk still maintain this epic game and making it even better!
Thanks for all the hard work you do here!!!
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P4R4D0X0N
Famous Hero
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posted September 11, 2015 10:01 PM |
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chouia said:
2) I don't have 5 second freeze time when I start a battle. (It made me so crazy...)
Shouldn't happen when you don't use any ingame sounds... Even without HD Mod I did this to avoid the waiting.
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Blurryface
Tavern Dweller
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posted September 15, 2015 05:20 PM |
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Hey, sorry if this was asked already I'm not really following this thread
Is it possible to play the original HoMM3 campaigns from AB and SoD etc.?
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 15, 2015 05:44 PM |
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Blurryface said:
Hey, sorry if this was asked already I'm not really following this thread
Is it possible to play the original HoMM3 campaigns from AB and SoD etc.?
you could at least read the op. your answer is there. 
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Blurryface
Tavern Dweller
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posted September 15, 2015 07:58 PM |
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fred79 said:
Blurryface said:
Hey, sorry if this was asked already I'm not really following this thread
Is it possible to play the original HoMM3 campaigns from AB and SoD etc.?
you could at least read the op. your answer is there.
Can't find it and not really sure what you mean, sorry I'm dumb
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 15, 2015 08:08 PM |
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Platform and Installing? the part where it directly answers your question??? 
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Maurice
Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
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posted September 15, 2015 11:38 PM |
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fred79 said:
Platform and Installing? the part where it directly answers your question???
To be honest, Fred, the section you refer to doesn't answer his question. He wonders if he can play the original campaigns through HotA.
The answer is that you can't. Only the HotA campaigns are available in the HotA game. To play the originals, you will have to start the original exe file.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 15, 2015 11:58 PM |
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i forgot about SoD( ), but the answer to the rest of the question is there: The modification surely will not work on AB, RoE or WoG.
it should be assumed, that if HotA doesn't run under these expansions, then the campaigns obviously will not, either.
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nik312
Promising
Famous Hero
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posted September 16, 2015 11:52 AM |
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Maurice has answered the question properly.
Fred, however, is not right in his annoyance. The "platform and istalling" part states that you cannot install HotA on top of RoE, AB or WoG, but that doesn't mean in itself that original campaingns are unavailable (though they are). Original maps are in the end quite available.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 16, 2015 02:58 PM |
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the assumption i made still makes sense to me, but i appreciate maurice and nik312 for clarifying. i apologize to blurryface for my behavior. sorry, man. sometimes the seemingly obvious isn't what it appears to be. lesson learned.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 20, 2015 04:05 AM |
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@ nik: i sent you an hcm.
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P4R4D0X0N
Famous Hero
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posted September 20, 2015 05:38 PM |
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Lets hope it's some of your graphics for another hota update! I would really apreciate it!
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 20, 2015 08:34 PM |
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well, after i replace my Stronghold with Forge, i'll be working on Forge environment stuff again, which will be released in my object patch, which anyone will be able to use.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted September 20, 2015 10:19 PM |
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Thought your object patch was'nt compatible with HotA?
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 20, 2015 10:27 PM |
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He said anyone will be able to use, why it has to be compatible with hota for that?
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted September 20, 2015 11:09 PM |
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Maybe you need to read the last few posts again Salamandre, Paradoxon was asking if we would maybe see some of Fred's graphics in HotA...
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 20, 2015 11:13 PM |
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Edited by fred79 at 23:14, 20 Sep 2015.
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let's not get into an argument here. i stated that whatever i do will come out in my patch, which is only for era. if the HotA team or VCMI team want to put stuff out in their mods that i made, they can; but they'll have to convert it to fit their own platforms. i don't see why this confusion keeps coming up; it's pretty cut and dry, and has been, since my patch's beginning.
sal knows that my work runs under a seperate platform that HotA, which is what he meant in his reply.
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