Stevie said:

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vitirr said:

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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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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.

Phoenix4ever said:

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Heroes 3 launched with 8 factions, so I would have aimed for 8, then add 1 maybe a year later and another 1 the year after that.
In the mean time they could do some bugfixing and add some other things.

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H3 is the only Heroes ever releasing with that many factions so it is quite unrealistic to expect that precisely now where DLC is such an important part of a game monetizatin and new factions being the main draw for us to buy them.

Nekrozerk said:

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Phoenix4ever said:

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Yes, but you will have to wait and pay for that.

Heroes 3 launched with 8 factions, so I would have aimed for 8, then add 1 maybe a year later and another 1 the year after that.
In the mean time they could do some bugfixing and add some other things.

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Judging by the interview that has been posted above, they'll be free. As they should.

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What are you talking about? They never said new factions would be for free in the interview and that would make no sense at all.

Antikouras23 said:

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 6 factions are few indeed but i think they will add more, they said there will be free expansions during early access.. Stonghold and Academy/Tower are a must!

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I think some people are too optimistic here.

This is what they said https://youtu.be/Vae95-E47zw?t=2241

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First of all we'll have it in early access and then we have a full roadmap of how the game will progress from early access to release and we will add new features and expansions during that pepriod, for free of course.

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The use of expansions here could be a badly choice of word for whatever reason but I don't think this means what some people think it is. Definitely no new factions beyond the 6 that have been announced on release.

Charrclaw said:

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I don't know if people hated 3D graphics, H5 was a great success, H6 would also be if they didn't screwed with it too much.

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I think 2D/3D discussion nowadays is stupid. You can make a 3D game that looks very much 2D but with animations, effects etc that provide a much higher quality to the overall result. I din't like H5 visuals but not because they were 3D, just because for the most part they looked like crap.
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