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Thread: [Official Thread] HoMM 3: Horn of the Abyss - Ideas and Suggestions This Popular Thread is 196 pages long: 1 20 40 60 80 100 ... 111 112 113 114 115 ... 120 140 160 180 196 · «PREV / NEXT»
Pollo2002
Pollo2002


Famous Hero
posted January 10, 2020 08:04 PM

Revolut1oN said:

???
People play plenty of open templates,.....


What open templates are played?
In fact I've waiting for HOTA to do the remake of magic to make and try to repopularize open templates.
Though I may make it before that since it seems that remake never gonna happen.
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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


Legendary Hero
posted January 10, 2020 08:46 PM
Edited by bloodsucker at 20:48, 10 Jan 2020.

Revolut1oN said:
You know what is scouting, right? You do plan ahead and calculate where enemy can and cant be, also view air is an option... As long as you know what you are doing there is like 0% risk of being caught without an army.

Don't forget about portals and Subterranean Gates... Even I that played about a dozen maps on MP was caught like that once and I can recall several times where top players saw their plans frustrated because of it.
If you don't want to build the Griffins Tower you can always upgrade the ones that came with heroes at an Hill Fort but a Marksman has only speed 6 and a cavalier 7, that delays your progress more then build and upgrade a level three dwelling week two.
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Shivaz
Shivaz


Hired Hero
posted January 11, 2020 12:25 AM

New stuff are always welcomed, and they makes the game more interesting to play (after 20 years of playing the same thing).
Does anyone know when the new Factory Town will be available to play?

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Hourglass
Hourglass


Famous Hero
posted January 11, 2020 01:29 PM
Edited by Hourglass at 13:32, 11 Jan 2020.

Rakso said:
Thanks for the feedback. Done, I made the boots more useful for both. Althrough I'm not sure about this one. I think it might overcomplicate the item.

And about firewall I won't teach you how to use it top effectively in an instant, but you can believe me it has more depth. You're right about the artifact type, but with the current boost I did I believe it highly deserves now to be a Major one.

[+] boots of immunity to Force field, Fire wall, Land mine spells and removing battlefield obstacles physics(These wouldn't exist for our troops, meaning they could: stand on them(obstacles not further than only the edge tiles), walk past them, avoid damage, attack units through them) [MAJOR]

What do you think now?


Actually now I like the idea very much! You cleverly dodged the mine by allowing creatures to only stand on the edge tiles.

I think this would be a fine item, but I wonder how it would graphicially look like, if creatures are standing on obstacles and on the Force Field. But as a new mechanic and artifact, I like it as I said. I think the Major slot is also now justified. I think it would need to be at least relic (if not combination artifact), if it allowed creatures to go through castle walls.

Rakso said:

Good for you, I believe you can guess I'm used to notice the other scenario more, but you might be right, I hope so. Sorry for the little teasing, that wasn't smart to judge you rightaway, I agree.


I understand, and there's no need to apologize

Shivaz said:
New stuff are always welcomed, and they makes the game more interesting to play (after 20 years of playing the same thing).
Does anyone know when the new Factory Town will be available to play?


I think questions like these suit better for Hota main thread, but since you asked here, I might as well answer:

No, currently nobody has the exact date, I think you would have heard about it, if such plans were made public.

Currently, they have promised news during this month, "if everything goes as they're planning."

Docent said somewhere that the release of Factory shouldn't be expected sooner than Ferbruary or March, but it wouldn't be first time if they're too optimistic about these things. Wasteland update was released around 6 months later than it was first planned, and the release of 1.5 patch few years ago was pushed by an entire year. So be patient, these things take time.

I'm currently hoping they would release it before end of May, as they have said many times that the summer isn't the most productive time among the team, as everyone is rightfully on vacation. If the release doesn't happen then, I think they're going to wait until the end of year again.

I know it's boring to wait, but good thing to keep in mind is that work is been done, and there are no signs of they abadoning the project, which is usually the thing when talking about fan-made content.

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Rakso
Rakso


Adventuring Hero
posted January 11, 2020 11:07 PM

Hourglass said:
I think it would need to be at least relic (if not combination artifact), if it allowed creatures to go through castle walls.

I didn't thought about this in the first place. No, walls definately would be too broken, but passing through the gatehouse bridge when it's pulled up would be interesting I think. Althrough without such a feature the item would be good aswell, in the major version I mean.

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planetavril
planetavril


Famous Hero
posted January 12, 2020 10:23 AM
Edited by planetavril at 10:26, 12 Jan 2020.

I don't think it's the right thread but I didn't know where to post, what would you say about this version to be inserted in the terrain


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Shivaz
Shivaz


Hired Hero
posted January 12, 2020 08:02 PM

Shivaz said:
New stuff are always welcomed, and they makes the game more interesting to play (after 20 years of playing the same thing).
Does anyone know when the new Factory Town will be available to play?


I think questions like these suit better for Hota main thread, but since you asked here, I might as well answer:

No, currently nobody has the exact date, I think you would have heard about it, if such plans were made public.

Currently, they have promised news during this month, "if everything goes as they're planning."

Docent said somewhere that the release of Factory shouldn't be expected sooner than Ferbruary or March, but it wouldn't be first time if they're too optimistic about these things. Wasteland update was released around 6 months later than it was first planned, and the release of 1.5 patch few years ago was pushed by an entire year. So be patient, these things take time.

I'm currently hoping they would release it before end of May, as they have said many times that the summer isn't the most productive time among the team, as everyone is rightfully on vacation. If the release doesn't happen then, I think they're going to wait until the end of year again.

I know it's boring to wait, but good thing to keep in mind is that work is been done, and there are no signs of they abadoning the project, which is usually the thing when talking about fan-made content.



Thanks for the reply. To be honest, I didn't even knew it was something in the progress, by mistake I came across a YouTube video and saw the new Town, it got me very excited! I find my self playing with the same 3-4 towns over and over again, a new one will be defiantly welcomed, in order to diversify the game a bit.
Can't wait for it to be released, and for any new stuff! So excited


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Zaio-Baio
Zaio-Baio


Promising
Famous Hero
posted January 12, 2020 09:48 PM

I have to say that i really enjoy hota. However, the new churchyard is still abusable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWqjrvx3yEE
On many templates you will have multiple churchyards in your staring zone and the best thing to do is to loot them using cheap tactics. The problem is that it takes too much time and is not fun to do.

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phoenix4ever
phoenix4ever


Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
posted January 14, 2020 02:20 PM

I have probably mentioned it before, but please make an easier way to change hero specialties and specialty icons.
Some specialties are still completely useless, like Melodias Fortune, Ulands and Astras Cure and Zilares Forgetfulness.

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Hourglass
Hourglass


Famous Hero
posted January 14, 2020 04:53 PM
Edited by Hourglass at 16:55, 14 Jan 2020.

Zaio-Baio said:
I have to say that i really enjoy hota. However, the new churchyard is still abusable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWqjrvx3yEE
On many templates you will have multiple churchyards in your staring zone and the best thing to do is to loot them using cheap tactics. The problem is that it takes too much time and is not fun to do.


I never really understood idea behind the Churhyards. It's nice that they created low level creature banks, but since the beginning churchyards have been easily exploitable, even if one didn't pull of the the strategies like shown in the video.

I think the problem is that they're too consistant - players know,that with a spesific setup, they can take the rewards with no loses at all.

Suggestion: remove Churchyards from random maps, make new objective.
Dark Woods (or whatever, really) Player must fight against Dendroid Guards, mby stacks of Dendroid Soldiers could also also be mixed there as well. They would be divided into 6 stacks just like Zombies are now. If the player would try any cheap tactics, they could easily be crushed, since a random moral proc would mean they would like get hit sooner or later, hit would make them stop to their tracks, and suddenly the whole plan would be ruined.

Just because the total catastrophe could be a possibility, players would likely stop trying to exploit them with just fast shooters, since it would not be a consistant strategy.

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Orc
Orc


Famous Hero
posted January 14, 2020 05:33 PM

phoenix4ever said:
I have probably mentioned it before, but please make an easier way to change hero specialties and specialty icons.
Some specialties are still completely useless, like Melodias Fortune, Ulands and Astras Cure and Zilares Forgetfulness.


doesnt erm scripting work on HotA?

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RerryR
RerryR


Promising
Supreme Hero
Researching Magic
posted January 14, 2020 07:30 PM
Edited by RerryR at 19:32, 14 Jan 2020.

Orc said:
phoenix4ever said:
I have probably mentioned it before, but please make an easier way to change hero specialties and specialty icons.
Some specialties are still completely useless, like Melodias Fortune, Ulands and Astras Cure and Zilares Forgetfulness.


doesnt erm scripting work on HotA?


hehe that was a good one

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Rakso
Rakso


Adventuring Hero
posted January 14, 2020 07:34 PM

The game would suck with everything which is only "good" to pick from. In the end the least good of the good would still suck in comparison to the other and be the worst, so what would be the point?

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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


Legendary Hero
posted January 14, 2020 08:02 PM
Edited by bloodsucker at 20:08, 14 Jan 2020.

phoenix4ever said:
I have probably mentioned it before, but please make an easier way to change hero specialties and specialty icons.


I was thinking the same yesterday.
If you want to make a map with several opponents there aren't enough GOOD heroes to spread along the spectrum. For instance, yesterday I gave Orrin to Tower but then what is left for Castle? Prayer and Ballista specialist? So, in the end Tower got a barbarian (Crag) and a knight and Castle a beastmaster and a witch (Tazar and Andra). Others, like Conflux, got even more screwed...

It's hard to say how much I miss the simplicity of BAI Leaders when editing a map.
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gatecrasher
gatecrasher


Famous Hero
posted January 15, 2020 12:49 AM
Edited by gatecrasher at 00:49, 15 Jan 2020.

Lava should get a 25% movement penalty and Wayfaring boots should reduce the penalties by 50% (relative) or something instead of setting to 0.

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bloodsucker
bloodsucker


Legendary Hero
posted January 15, 2020 07:45 AM

That makes no sense, do you know Expert Pathfinding removes the penalty all together?
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gatecrasher
gatecrasher


Famous Hero
posted January 15, 2020 10:21 AM

Yeah. So why wozld that make no sense? The boots make Pathfinding obsolete.

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MattII
MattII


Legendary Hero
posted January 15, 2020 10:43 AM

gatecrasher said:
Yeah. So why wozld that make no sense? The boots make Pathfinding obsolete.
Only on one terrain. And only if you can actually get them.

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phoenix4ever
phoenix4ever


Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
posted January 15, 2020 01:01 PM

No Wayfarer's Boots works exactly like Expert Pathfinding, which is exactly why I dislike them, same as Angel Wings and Wizard's Well.

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Rakso
Rakso


Adventuring Hero
posted January 15, 2020 01:49 PM

Wayfarer's Boots are cool, dunno what are you talking about. lol The feature that the main hero does not need to waste a secondary skill over pathfinding is great, especially on singleplayer. Moreover they cooperate with the Boots of Speed, as these need to be active only at the end of the turn, meanwhile the Wayfarer's are being used throughout it.
What's wrong with the Wizard's well and Angel wings anyways?

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