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Thread: [Official Thread] HoMM 3: Horn of the Abyss - Announcements, Questions, Features This Super Thread is 548 pages long: 1 70 ... 94 95 96 97 98 ... 140 210 280 350 420 490 548 · «PREV / NEXT»
Storm-Giant
Storm-Giant


Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
On the Other Side!
posted December 09, 2014 06:59 PM

Nothing from the announcement suggests that HotA would be compatible with it, IMO.
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gatecrasher
gatecrasher


Famous Hero
posted December 09, 2014 07:31 PM

So they've found a way to squeeze more money out of a 15 years old game, eh?
Apart from coding, in order to make HotA compatible the crew would have to redraw all their assets.

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hippox89
hippox89


Famous Hero
posted December 09, 2014 08:11 PM
Edited by hippox89 at 21:41, 09 Dec 2014.

@heroes_fanboy

'enhanced graphics' is highly subjective if you factor aesthetics into the evaluation, imho. Maybe it's not the right word, but it's hard to say that the 'HD' version simply either looks better or worse, objectively speaking, that is. The extra details is nice enough, but overall, I still vastly prefer the original look of the game. The uplifted spites look kinda smoothed out to me, not totally unlike what some types of scalers do to smooth out pixel graphics. It's only a comparison, and I know that the HMM3 RoE HD version actually applies hand drawn uplifting with various filters applied (e.g. the colour settings look different than it did originally).

Also, in many ways I rather have the crew keep their independence and not being under Ubisoft's guidance, honestly. Besides, without the source code of either AB nor SoD then it probably wouldn't even be possible to expand the HD version of HMM3 RoE with HotA. If Ubisoft had had the source code of both AB and SoD then it might have been a completely different story and opportunity.

I don't understand the excitement at this point.

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MattII
MattII


Legendary Hero
posted December 09, 2014 08:22 PM
Edited by MattII at 20:23, 09 Dec 2014.

If that's a finished image I'll stick with HoTA, that one looks half done, I mean there's detail there, but it's not really what the scale could really do, and only about half the terrain appears to have been touched (the difference is most obvious between snow mountains and rough mountains).

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted December 09, 2014 08:52 PM

Looks nice indeed, is it portable to any versions/HD?

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Maurice
Maurice

Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
posted December 09, 2014 11:00 PM

One of the big points that this game will have is that it can be played using iOS and Android. That opens the game to a whole different set of hardware - hardware that is easier to carry around than a desktop PC .

I just hope that they also fix some of the more glaring graphical bugs (like the Ghost / Wraith switch-around in the Necro townscreen).

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Datapack
Datapack


Famous Hero
posted December 09, 2014 11:25 PM

hippox89 said:

I don't understand the excitement at this point.

The only reason I see is the 'supposedly' fixed netcode.

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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted December 11, 2014 02:45 PM

Looks like dwellings flags will use more than 1 colour.
And I fear, that there will be new formats of units and graphics, and exe will be new. SO HOTA will have to rewrite modding tools and modify exe from scratch.

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted December 11, 2014 04:36 PM

I think this wont happen, only if the reworked source got a lot more potential and is much easier to edit... anyways: you need to purchase this product in the first place, also other campains/addons are missing and I personally don't think this Tablet stuff is compatible with PC/Win... emulation of this stuff sucks anyways... but it's nice for disassembling I guess.

Anyways I like the most HD Graphics, especially the map-characters on horse.

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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted December 11, 2014 05:59 PM

P4R4D0X0N said:
I think this wont happen, only if the reworked source got a lot more potential and is much easier to edit... anyways: you need to purchase this product in the first place, also other campains/addons are missing and I personally don't think this Tablet stuff is compatible with PC/Win... emulation of this stuff sucks anyways... but it's nice for disassembling I guess.

Anyways I like the most HD Graphics, especially the map-characters on horse.


As I saw Necropolis and Fortress town screens, they looked cartoonish (colors more like in cheap Flash Animation)

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baka
baka

Tavern Dweller
posted December 12, 2014 01:08 AM

it was a long time ago i played heroes, but yesterday, after i downloaded the Homm 3 HD i decided to give it a new try with HotA. but then i thought, what map should i take and i remembered my "Master of All 2" a wog-map that i did with erm-scripts. of course i needed to do some work to convert it and then after a bit of gaming i remembered one script that i didnt really get to work but that i really wanted in this map (a kind of arena-ish game) with lots of border gates.

so here is my suggestions:

border gates with level requirement to pass.
clicking on the border gate, you should be able to set properties "minimum level", that means what level the hero need to have to be able to pass. but i would also like "maximum level". so you can have one or the other or both active. another property could also be "one or two-direction", if you want to have the gate open from one side but closed from the other. that would be great so that you don't need to use one-way-portals to do the trick.

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naj_titanlover
naj_titanlover

Tavern Dweller
posted December 12, 2014 04:40 AM

Hi guys im new here, i was doing some fanart of homm after seeing the announcements for homm 7 and the hd remake.. after which i got an itch to play the game again... i remmeber watching youtube videos of WoG and some other mods and wondered if it was playable without some technowizardry that i lack lol.. well hey presto i press one download button and then one install button and after years im transported back into erathia

Im on map campaign 2 map 2 of Horns of the Abyss and i gotta say.. im flipping gobsmasked by the quality... ok i ahvent played other mods.. but yall created a full on expansion with 99 patch fixes to add.. everything ooks sooo good.. plays soog ood.. looking better than ever before!

The new cove faction is so compelling.. i dove right into the storyline with crazy cannon boy old jeremy albatross xD Dudes awesome!

And then.. i got my first castle.. and booooyyyyy i totally didnt expect it.. i was expecting a cheesy duff mod.. with like interlinked body parts from different mosnters.. but yall went INNNNN on this.. the music.,. daaaamn whos responsible for that??? Dum da da da daaaaa dum, dum da da dadaaa dum.... Sooo good!!

im on the part where ive just gotten the sea witches.. the weakness and disrupting ray effect is sooo cooll! wicked idea.. the assyids are flippin awesome too.. like pterodactyls!

Ive had a brief glimpse of the nix warriors.. cant wait to be able to recruit them myself and see what theyre capable of.. they have an ignore enemy attack value?? seems soo interesting, cant wait to test it! And the giant whirlpool snakes.. havent got to them yet.. but cant wait to see waht the story will say about em.. i think the story referred to some missing area like bermuda triangle.. i think it will go on to explain them soon right?

Honestly though yall ahve outdone yourself on this.. well done guys!

I heard yall need a 2d artist.. if theres anyway i can repay u guys ill try to be of assistance.. not sure if i can post an attachment to my stuff.. but ill post on the helping out page too.


[URL=https://imageshack.com/i/id4LKNulj][/URL]

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted December 12, 2014 04:20 PM

Looks great so far, lets hope the projects continues some faster in the future

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted December 12, 2014 09:33 PM

Erm and btw... sign in here: http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=40439

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Wotan
Wotan

Tavern Dweller
posted December 13, 2014 04:58 PM

First of all, I am sorry if I post this in the wrong place.

I have a problem with HotA. The AI takes 2-4 min to end his turn on big maps approximately after month 4. I read thats an issue with patterns the AI has to calculate, and its fixable by making a random map with the map editor and editing out "Instant travel" spell from the spell list in the map's properties(that was written for another mod in another forum). How do I fix that in Homm3 HotA?

Thank you in advance.
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adamlek
adamlek

Tavern Dweller
posted December 14, 2014 01:04 PM

Hey guys, I want to thank everyone in advance what made HotA, it's totally genius expansion. I would also like to ask someone if they would not send me to mail or put here wallpapers of fractions (all full images) from the main menu HotA, such as this:



... without the menu:-).
I would be very grateful, sorry for my english
Adam
adamlek@seznam.cz

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Datapack
Datapack


Famous Hero
posted December 14, 2014 10:53 PM

Hey HotA devs, would it be possible for you guys to get me a version of the Cove town music without the sound of waves and brids?

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P4R4D0X0N
P4R4D0X0N


Famous Hero
posted December 14, 2014 11:50 PM

I like Chris Many's "Captain Johne's Hornpipe" from Ultima 5 Mod "Lazarus" very much. Maybe Chris could make another track somewhen in the future, he already did it for Lazarus and its also "just" a Mod.

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Maurice
Maurice

Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
posted December 15, 2014 09:37 AM

Macron1 said:
As I saw Necropolis and Fortress town screens, they looked cartoonish (colors more like in cheap Flash Animation)


Funny that you call these graphics cheap and cartoonish, while you're blown away by those in the MYTH mod of Heroes3 .

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nik312
nik312


Promising
Famous Hero
posted December 15, 2014 08:21 PM
Edited by nik312 at 20:33, 15 Dec 2014.

naj_titanlover said:
Hi guys im new here, i was doing some fanart of homm after seeing the announcements for homm 7 and the hd remake.. after which i got an itch to play the game again... i remmeber watching youtube videos of WoG and some other mods and wondered if it was playable without some technowizardry that i lack lol.. well hey presto i press one download button and then one install button and after years im transported back into erathia

....



Check your IM

adamlek said:
Hey guys, I want to thank everyone in advance what made HotA, it's totally genius expansion. I would also like to ask someone if they would not send me to mail or put here wallpapers of fractions (all full images) from the main menu HotA, such as this:



... without the menu:-).
I would be very grateful, sorry for my english
Adam
adamlek@seznam.cz


These images were made specially for that screen, so without menu part it would just have big blank rectangle in it

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