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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 70 140 210 280 350 420 ... 482 483 484 485 486 ... 490 548 · «PREV / NEXT»
zmudziak22
zmudziak22


Supreme Hero
Heroes 3 Fan
posted June 10, 2021 09:01 PM

Bow of the Sharpshooter allow your archers to shoot even if enemy creatures stand next to your archers. This is not a bug. If you had golden bow it would work normally, as golden bow only remove range and obstacle penalty.
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Tordah
Tordah


Adventuring Hero
posted June 11, 2021 04:56 AM

Yes. Also you must use the G key to cycle between range and melee attack for rangers (certain creatures like harpies allow you to strike and stay instead of strike and come back with the G key).

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Zaio-Baio
Zaio-Baio


Promising
Famous Hero
posted June 14, 2021 10:10 PM

Does hota work on android tablets ? I would really enjoy playing it on a tablet.

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Orrinisthebest
Orrinisthebest


Known Hero
Invest in your future.
posted June 15, 2021 07:10 AM

Zaio-Baio said:
Does hota work on android tablets ? I would really enjoy playing it on a tablet.


As someone who assumed the same thing once, i wouldn't recommend playing this game on anything other than a computer with big screen ( ideally PC).

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Ghost
Ghost


Undefeatable Hero
Therefore I am
posted June 15, 2021 07:22 AM

..or television
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blob2
blob2


Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
posted June 17, 2021 12:49 PM
Edited by blob2 at 12:49, 17 Jun 2021.

Ghost said:
..or television


I once launched H3 on TV from my laptop via hdmi cable and it was an interesting experience

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frostymuaddib
frostymuaddib


Promising
Supreme Hero
育碧是白痴
posted July 02, 2021 12:48 PM

Zaio-Baio said:
Does hota work on android tablets ? I would really enjoy playing it on a tablet.


There was an emulator called Exa-gear strategy, that was available on playstore and it allowed you to play HotA (with HD mod) on android. However, it was removed.

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But, you can still obtain apk file for emulator, just browse some russian sites that offer not so, 'legal' software

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FirePaladin
FirePaladin


Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
posted July 06, 2021 09:36 PM

Given how HotA has "raped" the H3 map editor, it's not easy for me to believe they have many great difficulties with the game's code.
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fred79
fred79


Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
posted July 06, 2021 11:58 PM

i think "dominated" would be a better term. "rape" implies forceful act with negative results on the target; which i don't believe is the case, here.

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Tordah
Tordah


Adventuring Hero
posted July 07, 2021 07:56 AM

I play on a ThinkPad and i think the hardware is very well adapted to Homm3. I am currently using a T540p with the 3K screen (15.6 inches), running HotA through HD_Launcher with resolution 1066*600 with bicubic filter. The assets are large enough, the text is readable, and with that precise resolution the fights/towns do not appear as windows in the game but takes the entire screen with pixel-perfect pillar boxes.

The experience is near perfect. The TrackPoint is a very accurate pointing device and i can play with one hand only. I swapped the 4th gen trackpad with a 5th gen trackpad for physical buttons on the device too.

I also play under wine on Linux, so i am running the game fullscreen in a dedicated workspace. That allows me to switch in and out of the game as if it was designed this way, plus the music automatically fades away if i switch workspace. I can let it run as long as i want, the process remains idle in the background.

One think i would like to try eventually would be using an older X220T tablet-convertible ThinkPad (12.5 inches) because i think in Hot-Seat with the stylus it would be rad for a multiplayer setup on a deck while smoking with some friends. We could sit in together and pass it around while we talk. It all comes down to the novelty of portability, which is probably what Zaio-Baio really wants with an android version. Unfortunately with android there is no keyboard and there is no way of having two clicks while the stylus for the X220T is designed to emulate a mouse (and be windows compatible) it's one of the few ways i have though of to have the full homm3 experience but in a portable format.

One last think about the T540p with 3K screen is that in full resolution you can take massive large screenshots of the map with HD_mod, in a way that a fully revealed map screenshot would make an awesome large print to display on a wall at home. I have been looking at an opportunity to get my hands on a 16k screen just to plug my laptop, just to load up a massive map as tower with grail in town (to reveal all map), take a huge screenshot filled with a plenty of assets and have it printed out on a massive electoral sign or laminate.

It would be rad.

glad i had the opportunity to post this lmao

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted July 08, 2021 02:00 AM
Edited by P4R4D0X0N at 02:02, 08 Jul 2021.

FirePaladin said:
Given how HotA has "raped" the H3 map editor, it's not easy for me to believe they have many great difficulties with the game's code.


Infact there are a lot of "hardcode" barriers in any old software. Data types, Bit encoding, Encryption... e.g. For example: Sal said its hard to implement other colors/players. Since it's 8 factions in total I would asume its a 3-bit value (2^3)... Extending it would need a complete recoding for parts of the game and before that, a timeconsuming disassembling. Guess it's easier to code a new game before changing that. I modded a lot of DOS games and there was especially one game I wanted add more items. The item base was limited to 255 and one "empty" so 256 in total (8bit). No real chance to extend this 2^8 value without recoding the whole game.

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wojtulace
wojtulace


Hired Hero
posted July 09, 2021 04:57 PM
Edited by wojtulace at 11:38, 10 Jul 2021.

Hey Hota, if you not gonna balance anything soon, maybe let us fix the game ourselves by unlocking plugin loader in HDMod? There is only so much you can do by editing original files.

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FirePaladin
FirePaladin


Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
posted July 11, 2021 12:10 AM
Edited by FirePaladin at 00:14, 11 Jul 2021.

@P4R4D0X0N

H3 code is actually pretty clean for an old game, the statement that "old game = hard/tough/crappy code" isn't really a thing in H3's case. Gus Smedstad did a pretty great job here.

Edit: And the player count thing and whatnot is mainly an exception, though afaIk it is very possible, but then you'd need to adjust lots of other things (and it's just plain inconvenient and all that).

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted July 11, 2021 12:52 AM

FirePaladin said:
@P4R4D0X0N

H3 code is actually pretty clean for an old game, the statement that "old game = hard/tough/crappy code" isn't really a thing in H3's case. Gus Smedstad did a pretty great job here.

Edit: And the player count thing and whatnot is mainly an exception, though afaIk it is very possible, but then you'd need to adjust lots of other things (and it's just plain inconvenient and all that).


Well anything is possible... But its most unlikely someone will change it...

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gatecrasher
gatecrasher


Famous Hero
posted July 12, 2021 09:27 PM

FirePaladin said:
@P4R4D0X0N

H3 code is actually pretty clean for an old game, the statement that "old game = hard/tough/crappy code" isn't really a thing in H3's case. Gus Smedstad did a pretty great job here.

Edit: And the player count thing and whatnot is mainly an exception, though afaIk it is very possible, but then you'd need to adjust lots of other things (and it's just plain inconvenient and all that).


Which code are you talking about?
H3 is a proprietary game. Are you trying to say you've got access to the source code?

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nitocris
nitocris


Hired Hero
posted July 17, 2021 06:54 AM

still waiting i see

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StoneyBologna
StoneyBologna

Tavern Dweller
Colossal Time Waster
posted July 29, 2021 01:52 AM

I know it's a longshot, but has anybody heard any sort of news from team members on the Russian forums/elsewhere?... It's getting a bit difficult to retain my patience for the next update

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Tordah
Tordah


Adventuring Hero
posted August 02, 2021 04:00 PM

StoneyBologna said:
I know it's a longshot, but has anybody heard any sort of news from team members on the Russian forums/elsewhere?... It's getting a bit difficult to retain my patience for the next update


I think most of us were expecting a release for Jan 1st 2021 of this year but due to the circumstances regarding the death of Docent + the pandemic it's safe to assume now that the expected release will probably be on Jan 1st 2022.

At this point we're close to 2/3rds of the year done already.

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phoenix4ever
phoenix4ever


Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
posted August 02, 2021 07:32 PM

Let's hope there will at least be something this New Years.
I guess I can live with the wait, but the lack of communication is almost more annoying.

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StoneyBologna
StoneyBologna

Tavern Dweller
Colossal Time Waster
posted August 02, 2021 09:27 PM

Tordah said:
StoneyBologna said:
I know it's a longshot, but has anybody heard any sort of news from team members on the Russian forums/elsewhere?... It's getting a bit difficult to retain my patience for the next update


I think most of us were expecting a release for Jan 1st 2021 of this year but due to the circumstances regarding the death of Docent + the pandemic it's safe to assume now that the expected release will probably be on Jan 1st 2022.

At this point we're close to 2/3rds of the year done already.


You pretty much hit the nail on the head, my friend.  I have the same assumption it will be released new years day, 2022.  Would be nice to hear some news though

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