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Thread: [Official Thread] HoMM 3: Horn of the Abyss - Announcements, Questions, Features This Super Thread is 548 pages long: 1 ... 42 43 44 45 46 ... 70 140 210 280 350 420 490 548 · «PREV / NEXT»
gnollking
gnollking


Supreme Hero
posted February 03, 2014 01:39 AM

That is indeed way better for YouTube, very nice work

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AbsintheRed
AbsintheRed

Tavern Dweller
posted February 03, 2014 10:40 AM

I like the new teaser
Good job on it!

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Maurice
Maurice

Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
posted February 03, 2014 11:59 AM

Teaser looks great!

Only one suggestion that I could make is with regards to the first battle map that shows how Cove units fight. I realise that most people play at a very fast setting because a player fights so many battles while playing a map, but such a fast setting doesn't work well for showcasing purposes. I'd suggest to at least slow the combat speed for the battlemap that shows the various new Cove units in battle, so the viewer has the opportunity to see the animations at a better pace.

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hellburn
hellburn


Famous Hero
The efreet
posted February 03, 2014 12:23 PM
Edited by hellburn at 12:43, 03 Feb 2014.

@hippox89
May I suggest that it would be better with adventure map notifications as pop-ups?

@Suggestions for HotA
Once again I have a request to do something about certain default heroes:
Thunar/Erdamon - mechanicaly the same heroes with different portraits and biographies. Since Thunar's history includes explanation about tactics and estates, I personally would change Erdamon's secondary skills - how about armorer and resistance?

Daremyth, Melodia - I can't understand why they have specialisation in fortune AND starting secondary skill luck. It's just plain stupid, since max luck can be at 3 and IN MOST cases fortune spell will be just skipped. My suggestion - change luck secondary skill to something else.

Grindan/Gelare - Maybe change in one specialisation? I would change Gelare's spec to.. let's say Ice bolt? Weakness? Maybe Bless? Or would it be too powerful?

Elementalists as whole - They have 1 more point in their starting statistics (0,0,3,3) and they have 1 magic school at start. This makes them a whole lot better than other magic classes. I would either remove that 1 additional point OR give 1 additional point to other magic classes.

Iona/Thane - Same specialisation, maybe change one?

Labetha - She give +3 def bonus to her Stoneskin spell REGARDLESS of creature level, unlike other heroes like Darkstorn, Merist, Xsi.
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Rage08
Rage08


Famous Hero
Making it in the real world
posted February 03, 2014 12:52 PM

I absolutely agree with Maurice regarding the battle speed.  I think slowing it down is a great opportunity to show off the new creatures and their animations.  I would hazard a guess that most viewers curious of this new content are going to be particularly interested in seeing the new units in action, keeping in mind that a lot of casual players probably don't even crank their speed up, especially if they're not playing competitively.
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hippox89
hippox89


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posted February 03, 2014 01:52 PM
Edited by hippox89 at 14:30, 03 Feb 2014.

hellburn said:
@hippox89
May I suggest that it would be better with adventure map notifications as pop-ups?


Yes, that's a good suggestion. I was already thinking of finding some way to improve the text screens instead of just using a black background. I was thinking something artistic in the HMM3 style, yet simple. An adventure map notification box is something I'll have to play around with. The text could maybe use a smaller front size, too. The opening splash screen could also improve.

I was also thinking that the dissolve that I used between the cuts is maybe a little too long/not needed for some of the transitions. Dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another.

Maurice said:
Only one suggestion that I could make is with regards to the first battle map that shows how Cove units fight. I realise that most people play at a very fast setting because a player fights so many battles while playing a map, but such a fast setting doesn't work well for showcasing purposes. I'd suggest to at least slow the combat speed for the battlemap that shows the various new Cove units in battle, so the viewer has the opportunity to see the animations at a better pace.


About the battle speed used, I didn't want the clip to be too long, but I could give that segment a little more time and/or use more a few more cuts to keep an action pace. I'll think about it.

Would it be a good idea if I created another thread about community related promotion of HotA? I'm a little afraid of flooding the official thread.

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Storm-Giant
Storm-Giant


Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
On the Other Side!
posted February 03, 2014 02:39 PM

The new teaser is much better, good job Hippox

One suggestion, when in the adventure map you visit something, for a newbie it may be not clear what happened. Maybe you should highlight what happened? (like +10 to wood, guards accumulated, etc...)
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heroes_fanboy
heroes_fanboy


Known Hero
posted February 03, 2014 03:18 PM
Edited by heroes_fanboy at 15:22, 03 Feb 2014.

Well done! Maybe there is just too much text (greetings and this long list of features) at the beginning of the teaser?

I really like how you first name a given feature, and then you show it in action. It's awesome!
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Darkem
Darkem


Known Hero
posted February 03, 2014 03:32 PM

Do you know any good and free program which I can use to record gameplay?

Thanks in advance .
Darkem

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hippox89
hippox89


Famous Hero
posted February 03, 2014 04:42 PM

Storm-Giant said:
One suggestion, when in the adventure map you visit something, for a newbie it may be not clear what happened. Maybe you should highlight what happened? (like +10 to wood, guards accumulated, etc...)


I'll see about adding a highlight of some kind.

heroes_fanboy said:
Maybe there is just too much text (greetings and this long list of features) at the beginning of the teaser?


I 'll see if I can cut down on the overall amount of text and keep it more simple.

Darkem said:
Do you know any good and free program which I can use to record gameplay?

Thanks in advance .
Darkem


I use OBS (Open Broadcaster Software). OBS is free and open source. It's streaming software, but you can save to file.

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user_00
user_00

Tavern Dweller
Shall we begin?
posted February 03, 2014 10:31 PM

Hi to all of you...just wanted to share how did it work for me to get rid of the consistent crashes during the game.

Im using Win8 (64 bit ) ,so after right clicking on the desktop icon and checking the "windows Xp Service pack 2 " box in compability mode to even start the game i started to have random crashes during the game...it was unplayable.

So , in compabilty mode i checked "windows 98/ME " box and since then i have been playing without any problems...really smooth
A great addon , i want to thank everyone who participated in creating this jewel.

Cheers

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hippox89
hippox89


Famous Hero
posted February 04, 2014 05:35 AM
Edited by hippox89 at 11:04, 05 Feb 2014.

All outdated trailer revision links to YouTube by me have been deleted.

Dedicated thread to promoting HotA

I'll post any updates about the making of the trailer and any future revisions to the linked thread in this post.

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Storm-Giant
Storm-Giant


Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
On the Other Side!
posted February 04, 2014 02:55 PM

Looks really great now, kudos

One small correction. When in the end you say "...and no least...a huge blablabla". I think it should be "...and last but not least...a huge blablabla".
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hippox89
hippox89


Famous Hero
posted February 04, 2014 03:09 PM
Edited by hippox89 at 15:10, 04 Feb 2014.

Thanks for the correction; I'll change it to the proper wording.

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blueskirt
blueskirt


Adventuring Hero
posted February 05, 2014 05:57 AM

Those who suggested asking someone like Total Biscuit for a shout-out to promote HOTA will be pleased to see he did cover an open source reimplementation of Tiberium Dawn/Red Alert/Dune 2000 on his channel yesterday so there are good chances he could be interested in covering HOTA should the team (he doesn't take requests from viewers after all) asks him to whenever they feel their add-on is polished and fine tuned enough.

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hippox89
hippox89


Famous Hero
posted February 05, 2014 07:32 AM
Edited by hippox89 at 07:34, 05 Feb 2014.

blueskirt said:
Those who suggested asking someone like Total Biscuit for a shout-out to promote HOTA will be pleased to see he did cover an open source reimplementation of Tiberium Dawn/Red Alert/Dune 2000 on his channel yesterday so there are good chances he could be interested in covering HOTA should the team (he doesn't take requests from viewers after all) asks him to whenever they feel their add-on is polished and fine tuned enough.


Well, I cannot blame TB for not taking requests from viewers as it must make it much easier for him/his staff to cope with the flood of requests, no doubt. Where did you come across this info? Anyhow, it's good info for the crew to know.

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liso1
liso1


Known Hero
posted February 05, 2014 09:23 AM
Edited by liso1 at 09:25, 05 Feb 2014.

Darkem said:
Do you know any good and free program which I can use to record gameplay?

Thanks in advance .
Darkem


I use free CamStudio 2.7, and I create videos like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGnYgILDduQ
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heroes_fanboy
heroes_fanboy


Known Hero
posted February 05, 2014 06:02 PM
Edited by heroes_fanboy at 18:03, 05 Feb 2014.

blueskirt said:
Those who suggested asking someone like Total Biscuit for a shout-out to promote HOTA will be pleased to see he did cover an open source reimplementation of Tiberium Dawn/Red Alert/Dune 2000 on his channel yesterday so there are good chances he could be interested in covering HOTA should the team (he doesn't take requests from viewers after all) asks him to whenever they feel their add-on is polished and fine tuned enough.


I think we could approach him on his http://www.reddit.com/r/cynicalbrit
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blueskirt
blueskirt


Adventuring Hero
posted February 05, 2014 08:59 PM
Edited by blueskirt at 21:09, 05 Feb 2014.

hippox89 said:
Well, I cannot blame TB for not taking requests from viewers as it must make it much easier for him/his staff to cope with the flood of requests, no doubt. Where did you come across this info? Anyhow, it's good info for the crew to know.


The review of OpenRA was posted here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-VwE1byrY

And his explanation on why he doesn't take requests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqSnlzXcGU

He wants to keep the integrity of his channel and to please his fans as a whole and not some viewers individually, which is why I think you may have more chances convincing him if it's a representative of the team that asks him through his publisher inquiries or possibly reddit too, rather a bunch of us that floods his reddit. Maybe he'll accept, maybe he won't, that's up to him, but the fact he mentioned he liked Heroes of Might and Magic III is a good sign.

That said, it is probably a good idea to get used to the kind of features he looks for in a game (such as customization, screen resolution and whatnot), and fix the current glitches and shortcoming of the add-on and maybe give a clear outlook at what to expect in the near and far future because you don't just want people to try this add-on, you want them to follow its progress too and it would be preferable to hook them with a solid preview than a hundred of pages of forums post and outdated information.

What I'm trying to say is a review by Totalbiscuit is probably the best way for this add-on to gain momentum and reach its player base, which is why you got to make it count.

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heroes_fanboy
heroes_fanboy


Known Hero
posted February 05, 2014 10:06 PM

Also the HotA Crew might try to contact Total Biscuit by email.

As Total Biscuit writes himself: "If you're a developer and would like your game featured on our WTF is? series, please contact pr[at]cynicalbrit.com"
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