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dredknight
dredknight


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disrupting the moding industry
posted August 02, 2019 08:49 AM

I agree, but the member is claiming that he found a mod where somebody fixed that. I asked him to provide a small mod we can test.
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magnomagus
magnomagus


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posted August 02, 2019 01:29 PM
Edited by magnomagus at 18:37, 12 Aug 2019.

I think i saw that one many years ago and it was a silly vampire walk


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disrupting the moding industry
posted August 02, 2019 02:24 PM
Edited by dredknight at 14:25, 02 Aug 2019.

He just showed me a screenshot. There is no animation at all .

Anyway the good thing is that I got an idea out of that conversation. There is one HC member Esto100nec1, he does new animations for heroes 5. You can see his work here. Subscribe to his youtube channel he releases texture and animation editing videos for heroes V.

I will ask him if he could do a walking animation for Kha-beleth.
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magnomagus
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posted August 02, 2019 05:38 PM

I'm not sure that is wise, the result could still look silly and not become part of H55. If anyone wants to do this, do it for your own satisfaction primarily.
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magnomagus
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posted August 02, 2019 06:08 PM

another thing, I remember in the past someone was working on a chinese translation, but haven't heard about it anymore.

However I found a recent post that looks like it is about a translation, but can't be sure

https://bbs.3dmgame.com/thread-5912324-1-1.html
https://yuba.douyu.com/p/443378861564539780

If anyone understands Chinese i would like to know and also I would be interested in the files behind chinese login wall.
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posted August 08, 2019 05:02 PM

Here are a number of balancing/lore changes that were discussed on discord about hero classes and specs. I narrowed down the list to the reasonable ones.

- Paladins to start with regeneration - sounds nice lorewise, not a big thing regarding balance.

- Maeve specialization (haste bonus = hero_lvl * 0.25%) is inferior to Agrael (initiative bonus = 2.5% + 0.25%*hero_lvl) or Raelag (enemy initiative penalty = 2% + 0.2%*hero_lvl). Have in mind that Maeve bonus is only on cast and can be negated while other heroes bonus is permanent. Take in mind that 50% initiative penalty equals to 100% initiative bonus.

- 'chosen of chaos" spec (+1 luck, disables enemy tactics) is considered weak. Not sure what to say here, but it is possible to make luck +2, which does not fix the issue that the spec is just weird.

- mindreaver(deidre) - hero starts with Confusion and  +1 knowledge is underwhelming. I got suggestions to make it +1 per 7 lvls. I will try to come with some ideas if I find where the unit mana reduction is in the binary.

- Spellwringler spec (blocking enemy spells) - here is a quote from discord
"This ability offers nothing during creeping phase
(comine that with the hero starting skills and you get a very difficult creeping phase,
but i dont want look at his skills and perks here).
In the final fight, it may have some value, but certainly its still not overwhelming.
Chances are the enemy hero doesnt even notice his ability.
50%, 33%, 25%, 20%, 16% are the chances to block a lvl 1-5 spell given equal hero lvl.
Assuming equal hero lvl is already very generous considering the hero offers nothing during creeping phase.
Lets still just assume the hero magically managed to keep up with his enemy and take these numbers.
(1-0.16)^x > 0.5 gives us x<4, meaning after casting a lvl5 spell 4 (!) times we still have a chance of 50%
that this spell still isnt blocked.
This is assmuning we cast the same spell over and over again (which surely wont be the case).
Even if the battle was this long and the spell finally got blocked by chance,
the enemy probably has more than 1 spell.
The new formula would shift the numbers to 100%, 50%, 33%, 25%, 20%.
Considering the hero has no creeping bonus, a 100% chance of banning a lvl1 spell is far from overpowered.
The hero can still cast it once. I think this way the ability has a decent use and the enemy may have to
consider this ability when crafting his hero for the end fight. (get more spells maybe)"



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magnomagus
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posted August 09, 2019 03:04 PM
Edited by magnomagus at 15:06, 09 Aug 2019.

Now I know for sure there is a chinese translation available for the whole game + RC11, because this movie shows it:

RC11 in Chinese

Chinese Translation Download location

credits?: ak00129

If anyone is able to share the files from behind the Chinese login I'm still interested as well as hearing from the author.



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posted August 09, 2019 03:10 PM

@KeyCode:

1. Only Quantomas knows exactly, I know it doesn't affect combat AI. I prefer to leave it at hard, because the slowdown doesn't translate in a noticeable increase in challenge.

2. Your army received extra troops, from mentioned tier.
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posted August 09, 2019 03:30 PM

nothing affects combat AI, the combat AI is just the TOE combat AI minus the invisibility fix unfortunately.



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xTek
xTek


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posted August 09, 2019 04:25 PM

Suggestion:

Ylthin
Class: Druid
Specialization: Unicorn Maiden
Skills: Basic Light Magic, Basic Enlightenment
Perks: Scholar

Change to:

Ylthin
Class: Warden
Specialization: Unicorn Maiden
Skills: Basic Light Magic, Basic Defense
Perks: Armorer

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magnomagus
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posted August 09, 2019 09:51 PM

@keycode: yes, unless hidden differences i nsource code

@xtek: enlightenment is druid class defining skill
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Quantomas
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posted August 10, 2019 11:29 AM
Edited by Quantomas at 11:30, 10 Aug 2019.

magnomagus said:
@KeyCode:

1. Only Quantomas knows exactly, I know it doesn't affect combat AI. I prefer to leave it at hard, because the slowdown doesn't translate in a noticeable increase in challenge.

Lookahead affects how many turns the AI processes to do its strategic planning.

Regarding the heroes it affects hero lookahead from their current position. E.g. if you have lookahead four turns and an enemy castle is five turns travel distance away, the hero would not see it.

It's significant, I can remember playing Marzhin's excellent LotA book 2 and there were maps in which the castles were more than seven turns travel distance apart and the enemy hero would just sit there, although he was way stronger and it was clear that Marzhin intended him to travel the distance and threaten you.

That is one reason why the new AI will use a different approach to lookahead. More of a strategic preselection of possible strategies that can cover lookaheads of a month and more.

The way lookahead works is significant for strategic planning in general. For example the AI might figure out that it is a good plan to visit a Stronghold first that is three turns travel distance away and then continue to conquer an Academy that is another four turns away, arriving just before the next recruitment turn for maximum effect.

This is the reason why overriding AI behaviour with scripts does not work. It voids the strategic planning the AI does. There is a ton of processing done in the lookahead, including figuring out what the opposition does if you do one thing or another, including threat ranges to keep enemy heroes at bay.


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magnomagus
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posted August 10, 2019 12:46 PM

Quote:
It's significant, I can remember playing Marzhin's excellent LotA book 2 and there were maps in which the castles were more than seven turns travel distance


Campaign maps are often small or midsize, on the largest map sizes players could also be 20 turns apart. I don't know how far it can look but I do know if the slider is up, the turn time gets so long people will probably just stop playing. So personally I prefer to keep it low and walk to my enemy (but I prefer smaller maps anyway).

Quote:
This is the reason why overriding AI behaviour with scripts does not work.


It is not possible to override AI behaviour with scripts, unless you are talking about completely locking them in place or force them to move to a set of coordinates.

In H5.5 I only added the option to have the AI receive extra creatures and this definitely works very well, since I tested it over and over. The problem was never with your AI it was with the combat AI, the AI will lose more creatures then a decent player every time it engages in quick-combat. Consequently the 31j AI could never match the player strength and the larger the map is the larger the difference. I have seen many cases where the 'cheating' TOE AI was more dangerous.
The AI is also heavily impacted by strength of neutrals, if the player sets them stronger it seems to make the game harder, but it weakens the AI, the only available quick fix right now is just more 'cheats'.

I personally do not even consider it cheating because many people forget human players also 'cheat' in similar way, when a combat outcome is unsatisfactory they just reload a save and try it again or they come back later which will give them a net gain in creatures. The AI doesn't have this option, when the AI attacks it has to accept the result no matter what. So if the human player constantly 'cheats' the AI needs to 'cheat' back at it or the game will be unequal.
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posted August 10, 2019 02:12 PM
Edited by magnomagus at 14:19, 10 Aug 2019.

Quote:
on the adventure map, is somewhat cowardish against other AI and especially against human players.


But you have to ask yourself the question: if I had his army, would I attack myself? Probably not, a human player wants to win, so needs an overwhelming force, especially against a town.  

human vs human can often result in stalemate, neither player wants to drop dead on the others town walls so they have to agree to fight on some neutral grass tile.

people coming from other homm games, often see the AI more as an actor that needs to regularly throw weak armies at them for their personal entertainment.
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posted August 10, 2019 06:32 PM

If governance is enabled then secondary AI heroes receive experience bonuses as if they are governing, also if cheats are enabled the AI receives 2 free skillslots without xp (as if it visit 2 witch huts) because the AI never visits witch huts.
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posted August 11, 2019 02:19 PM

In original game witch huts don't ask questions like in H55, so the skill would be forced on them even if it would ruin their build. So it wasn't a bad idea to keep the AI away from them. I have seen the AI visit pretty much anything else. It cannot visit artifact merchants
since I blocked them because they cause a fatal error with new artifact framework.
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xTek
xTek


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posted August 12, 2019 08:05 AM

magnomagus said:
@keycode: yes, unless hidden differences i nsource code

@xtek: enlightenment is druid class defining skill


Hence the Warden class change suggestion

xTek said:
Suggestion:

Ylthin
Class: Druid
Specialization: Unicorn Maiden
Skills: Basic Light Magic, Basic Enlightenment
Perks: Scholar

Change to:

Ylthin
Class: Warden
Specialization: Unicorn Maiden
Skills: Basic Light Magic, Basic Defense
Perks: Armorer

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dredknight
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posted August 12, 2019 11:28 AM

Just in - Reaver got to pick between basic destructive magic or basic shatter summoning magic.

Reaver class usually has access to Summoning and Shatter destructive.

I remember what was the reason why it happens (too much work to make separate skill tree for all classes in witch huts) but decided to report it in case you want to fix at least this one.
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magnomagus
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posted August 12, 2019 06:44 PM
Edited by magnomagus at 18:44, 12 Aug 2019.

I just posted an article on moddb about the upcoming update to the Advanced RMG, but it is under authorization, so I will post most of it here:

-The ARMG will be better at creating maps with smaller zones and maps that use a very small map size.
-The experience setting is improved to make both setting 3 and 4 useful on all templates. 1,2 and 5 should still be largely neglected.
-The density is of maps will be slightly higher, actually by mistake this was already the case in RC11 (not the demo maps), but the templates were not properly adjusted to it, so after this update they will be.
-ARMG Manual was largely rewritten and more settings clarified, now the first page conveniently mentioned everything that is really important while everything will be explained in more detail within.
-The very outdated Demo maps will be replaced, with 30 new demo maps that have all been preprocessed. The new demo maps will use 'random artifact blocks' and mostly player slots with faction selection. They also have scripts activated for LAN and hotseat use. The demo maps can be deleted simply from the map folder when the player relies on his own generated maps. Hopefully their new location will prevent the loading issues in LAN.

-New popular templates from heroes 3 for more multi-dimensional gameplay on which players can be attacked from many different directions.



-More famous templates from Heroes 3 will be added.
-Some new templates will have versions for 2 different zone sizes, to allow for more complex layouts on smaller size maps.



-New plain templates will use the RMG in a unique way creating one level a map with underground as a single giant zone.



-Because there are now so many templates there were also some that have been removed. The new epic and ultima templates are supposed to be played with Town Conversion now, since the restrictive prefixed factions on the old versions of these templates were from before that feature existed and they had excessive availability of resources anyway.
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Gandalf196
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posted August 12, 2019 10:12 PM

Nice!
Is Borderless window something that could be implemented (as in HOMM 3 HD)?
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