MurlocAggroB said:

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That makes sense. I dunno how I feel about adding a fifth tertiary resource, but if it's specifically for artifacts then that probably doesn't change the dynamic too much.

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TrueMefista said:

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1 per, if upgrading artefacts is the only thing it is needed for.

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gnollking said:

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Oh, so you know how much it costs to upgrade artifacts?

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Charrclaw said:

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We got SOuth Park hero

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Arina's Hymn grants an ally bonus Speed, Initiative, Attack and Defence

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kesnarii said:

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So it seems that we will have Speed and Initiative as separate statistics unlike H3...

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Eugene_Xaar said:

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Galaad said:

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kesnarii said:

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So it seems that we will have Speed and Initiative as separate statistics unlike H3...

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But...That is a good thing, no?

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Stevie said:

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Blake00 said:

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oooooh nope.. judging by this animation the town screens are indeed full 3D.. I think I can even see people walking around in the Knight one! The classic old man HoMM1 fan in me that always complains about lifeless town screens in nearly all the sequels is pleased lol.

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They're about as 3D as Unfrozen's other game.
No, those are definitely animated 2D townscreens. And they look pretty sick.

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FirePaladin said:

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The adventure map and combat are made up of cel-shaded 3D models. The town screens are 2D and employ the use of the parallax effect.

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vitirr said:

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Animated 2D? Care to elaborate? In the dungeon town it does a progressive zoom-in travelling in which you start to see stuff that was behind other buildings. I'm no expert and I have no idea how you can animate a 2D image to look like that. It doesn't look like a parallax effect either because it looks quite progressive and I don't see obvious layers.
That doesn't mean we will be able to do that in-game though, might have been just for the trailer and we'll have a static view in-game but to me it looks 3D.

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The zoom part and movement to the left and right is the parallax effect, like FirePaladin explained too, it gives the impression that there's depth to the setting. But everything is drawn in 2D and placed on different layers, so the foreground moves faster while the background lags behind. It's a very ingenious technique and I am actually so happy they went for it, it fits Heroes townscreens concept like a glove.

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vitirr said:

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I'm not going to argue but I still believe this is not parallax. As far as I know one thing you cannot do with parallax is to rotate one of the layers because they are static 2D images, and that's what we see in the town animation of the steam page for temple and inferno towns.
This also looks 3D to me specially considering the animated bits
https://youtu.be/N8idk9bRSlg?t=146

It would just make sense that if the rest of the game is cell shaded 3D towns would be built using the same technique. So I untill explained otherwise by the devs my bet is on 3D created town screens.

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vitirr said:

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Soooo... I just wanted to say that Unfrozen's CEO himself has confirmed in the last couple of days in Discord that Olden Era towns creens are completely built in 3D and that they are considering possible ways to present it at the moment. That is, we could have for instance the fly over presentation of H5.

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