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I think I'm starting to like IV better than III.
Help me.
>>2727938
I'm currently playing through Gathering Storms campaigns.
The game has so much wrong decisions in terms of design it's actually funny, but still is kind of entertaining. Not better than III, mind you. I think you will just get tired of it eventually, if not, seek further help.
Sup, Sandro
>>2726589
Get better food eks dee XD
>>2727938
IV has better campaings.
I was a long-time fan of IV and recently played through III's campaings. The III campaings were very thing on story, and while the expansions had better story in the maps, some of the campaings were just badly designed. For example the campaing with the fire witch had insanely large maps for seemingly no reason.
By the time I was done with it I didn't even care about the flimsy story anymore.
I'm kinda burned out on III, but it's the only one I've played. What's the next logical step?
>>2728108
why tho?
>>2728105
Hard question. V i'd say, but it's similiar to III. You might want to try IV, it might just resonate with you. Or try I-II for comletionist/plot.
>>2728110
Along with IV it's the one that was the most different, naturally rousing heaps of autism but if you ask me, some of its ideas are really good (it's not like 3 is perfect either). The campaign is certainly worth playing through.
>>2727938
The only thing I like in IV is the story they put in it. The campaign is just fantastic, and nearly all artifacts has their own unique little story to read when you pick 'em up.
So I beat number 1 and started number 2 a while back. I got stuck towards the end and gave up. Should I start on the newest one or try number 3?
>>2728170
3. I haven't played the new one but I've only heard negative things about it.
>>2728210
Yeah I saw the reviews were super low.
>>2728210
That happens when you ship a beta instead of the game for the third time in a row.
>>2728170
Most people are turned off of the 7th game.
Some people found a gem but most had never gotten past the technical issues or the lacking presentation due to a shoestring budget.
If you want to try new Heroes, 5 with all expansions and patches is definitely the way to go.
The 6th one is pretty enjoyable and good looking, but it really gets repetitive fast and if you want to play it "seriously," you most likely wouldn't like it.
>>2728105
Age of Wonders 3 honestly. Feels like Heroes 4 done right, and how the series should've progressed. Has Civilization economy which you may or may not like.
>>2728372
Age of Wonders and HoMM are really different series.
The clocest he could get is Disciples, I think.
It's not a bad thing, mind you, at least every game is a bit different experience.
I'm rediscovering 6 and I actually like it. The amount of options in the tactical combat is pretty impressive, I mean, this game has three different healing types for example. Also, Sanctuary. Sanctuary is kickass. I regret that its chances in H7 are nil compared to Inferno and the dwarves because practically any addition is bound to trigger NOT MUH HEROES.
I guess the online features are silly, but I can see where they were coming from with some of them.
All right, speaking of H IV, in case anybody hates himself, i recommend playing Life/Death cleric campaign from gathering storm on hardest difficulty. It's a thing to be experienced.
>>2728596
How can we be sure you're not a skeleton?
>>2728598
I don't see why anybody would think that, man
>>2728382
>ure city
Nice meme names.
>>2728105
Play Disciples II.
>>2728093
>For example the campaing with the fire witch had insanely large maps for seemingly no reason.
Oh boy the second map is such a clusterfuck with already half a dozen cities right off the bat...
On IV, has anyone played any custom campaigns from the web?
I gave "My brother's keeper" a try and it seemed interesting, inventive at least if rather railroady and more of a savescum-mandatory strategy puzzle solver than a regular game... (up till the point where a late encounter with black paladins left no possible outcome besides Fear-locked death) but the other couple other maps I've tried were just following the trend of cramming the most possible elements onscreen with stupid mix&matching. I remember how for instance Neverwinter Nights' best play value was in a few excellent mods; are there such great maps in the series?
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>>2728917
fite me
mfw manually fixing GOG's Heroes 1 installation so it would have higher quality music than 8-bit mono
>>2729095
mfw M&M VI version i got many years ago came with no music
>>2728725
this
Sandro is my favorite character and hero. I play Necropolis every day, now i want to become a lich and have a huge dark foggy castle and be the lich king and have one cutie blonde and one cute brunette lich girls.
>>2730401
>having hair on your lich girls
Do you even undeath bro
>>2730434
Liches become skeletons gradually, so in the beginning they will have : £
>>2728170
How did you get stuck on final campaign of HoMM2?It becomes trivial when you know where the Roland/Archibald castle is and rush there immediately if you brought the army from the last mission; then, you can catch him with just week 1 army (he starts with all dwellings in his castle, but only a small populace, like everyone).
If you chose artifact, you'd pretty much have to kill everyone else and grind for castles and get Resurrection and stuff.
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinnedand used super2xsai
>>2730462
It had something to do with the army carrying over to the next scenario. The level after the one where you have to defeat all the black dragons in the castle and there's no other hero to defeat. I chose the bad guy if that makes a difference.
>>2730401
Why is he so perfect?
>>2731762
He is the most powerful character in Enroth lore wise and in game.
Post more Necropolis and skeletons and vampires and liches and dark castles and lich girls.
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>>2732285
Fuck is that candelabra behind her neck
>>2732946
what's wrong with them?
Im sorry i keep on shitposting with stuff about 7. But anyone else think that the race abilities are pretty unbalanced?
I mean with the barbarians you get so much damage and morale on your units, that if you have 2 tiers of offense for no half range on ranged units you can shit on all enemy armies.
And then you have the faggot elves, who are shit in every possible way.
>>2732397
It's part of the bra.
>>2732285
Bright wizard from warhammer ripoff.
tfw no haste memes itt
>>2732293
Lack of ankle dorsiflexion.
0/10 would not fuck.
>>2733529
You're right, balance is shit. But so is everything else in H7.
>>2733529
sounds like barbarians in V. whatever they're called there i forgot.
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>>2733963
just like your mom's pussy is better than a cute tight underage girl's pussy
(it isn't)
>>2734031
Sorry, my brother has autism. He sometimes says statements like that trying to make a joke but doesn't have the social functioning skills to gather his thoughts and properly deliver. Please forgive him.
>>2732947
Nothing, cute is all
>>2734106
Sir it's me your brother can I have your CS:GO keys please
This thread needs moreskeletons
>>2735604
i wish I were a skelen
>>2735621
i wanna fuk a qt skelen
>>2735621
But anon,you already are a skeleton. You're just wearing a flesh suit.
>>2735912
check your privilege, I was born as a blob of human flesh without bones
Campaign is good
>Limbic representative confirms the first major patch for H7 delayed to an unspecified date due to the development difficulties
EL OH EL
>>2736536
Hah.
Speaking of which, what are the sales figures on steam right now?
>>2737447
~50k. It's actually dropped yesterday (refunds?)
>>2737543
LMAO UBICUCKS MAD?
>>2734031
>>2737608
I am German, it is legal to rape little white loli here for us.
>>2737610
>average syrian poster
What's the most played heroes game currently in the fanbase?
Is it 3 or 5? Or even 7?
>>2737657
5 or 7. Only a few hundred people play 3, 3 is overrated, 5 is better in every single way and 7 is the newest one so ofc most people would play it.
>>2737694
>5 is better in every single way
No. 5 is ugly as fug
>>2737705
Just like your whore mother.
>>2737694
Fuck off ubishill
>>2737902
never!! *shills harder*
>>2737694
7 i can understand, but is 5 really more popular than 3?
As in, it has more modding support/maps/players than 3?
>>2738013
No, it's just bait. Although 5 is probably the second biggest game. Too bad they have shut down official multiplayer last week.
>>2737694
Shut up faggot
>>2737694
>3 is overrated
No, it's just that good.
>5 is better in every single way
Fuck off.
>>2738013
5 sold better than 1-3 combined, at least, but I'm not sure if more people still play it now compared to 3.
>>2738193
>5 sold better than 1-3 combined
PC gaming was barely a thing until the early-mid 2000s, so ot's obvious that 5 sold more.
>>2738206
Plus, 5 pandered more to the casuals, with WoW ascetic and all
>>2738114
THEY DID?
FUCK. I STILL PLAYED THAT SHIT WITH A FRIEND OF MINE.
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I'm doing that whole "complete every heroes 3 complete edition map/scenarios at impossible. no necro/conflux" challenge.
In alphabetical order, the first one was challenging but doable, the second one (where you have to gather imps) was piss easy, and i painted the whole map in my colors in both of them.
Now i'm doing Adventures of Jared Haret, and damn, this shit is insane. How do i deal with such a huge wizard army, let alone with the final castle if i even get there?
Any tips?
>>2728365
I found 7 to be fairly decent if you can get past the technical issues, or are lucky enough to not have them.
People complaining about AI ussually forget that the AI was always retarded, or just straight up a cheating bastard.
in this thread
>>2738971
Played 7, and i can safely say that, after 3, 5 and (maybe without all the AI issues and bugs) 2 it's the best one.
However, the Ai is WAY dumber than the other games.
5's AI was dumb if you placed secondary heroes in the map or very fast units to lure the enemies, but otherwise it knew damn well how to cripple your army for the next battle.
3's AI is actually pretty legit and smart. The only issue is when you split 2 heroes in the same castle and the AI will consider the strenght of only one of them + can't use berserk, but otherwise it's a perfectly good and challenging AI (on impossible it is a good foe).
7... 7 is just DUMB. Seriously, it will do ANYTHING to just get that flanking bonus, even attack your single units instead of the big stack, or it will chase the closest unit literally forever.
Seriously, the Ai IS a big issue, and the only one keeping 7 from being the 3rd best game. (the bugs can be fixed or aren't that serious anyway)
>>2739041
Well in 7 once you beat the enemy ai main army he is done. And his main army is pretty meh as he does not cheat apparently and keeps loosing units in battle.
And during battle, its too easy to figure out how to exploit him. He always goes for the lowest hp stacks indiscriminately as he wants the morale boost.
>>2739035
Explain further.
>>2739157
But 5 is objectively better than 3. Stop being a butthurt hipster!! глyпa aмepикaнcкoгo cyкa
>>2739157
Wait in which homm were ghost the biggest dodging fucking niggers ever.
I remember in either 1 or 2 ghosts gave me my first childhood gaming ptsd. Not sure why, all i remember is the terror i felt whenever seeing ghosts.
>>2739161
In Homam 3, obviously!
>>2739161
Both 1 and 2. Ghosts in HoMM and HoMM2 regenerate themselves by attacking but they don't have a cap on it like vampires in HoMM2 or HoMM3.
A single ghost can snowball into hundreds.
>>2739168
Jep, i remembered pretty well then. I should replay it.
How well does 1 and 2 work on new computers?
>>2739161
Ghosts in 1 and 2 added the exact amount of units killed on attack to their own numbers. So like 5 ghosts hitting a stack of peasants could increase their numbers tenfold, while being statwise similar to level 3 creatures. They could really wreck your shit if you ran into a graveyard unprepared and with lots of squishy level 1 creatures.
>>2739169
I'm playing HoMM2 right now through wine. I think HoMM1 works on dosbox. I ave no idea how that works on windows, sorry.
>>2739176
How is it resolution wise? Does it full screen well? Or can you even use it in 1920x1080?
>>2739184
A picture is worth a thousand words.
>>2739207
Glorious.
Why can old games manage what some new games struggle with. Mainly options for resolutions. Fuck i mean back then they couldnt even fathom such a resolution most likely.
>>2739160
*глyпaя aмepикaнcкaя*
>>2739160
Stupid american whore?
>>2739221
Stupid american
>>2739225
Well isnt cyka whore/bitch?
>>2739207
ASPECT RATIO OH MY VIRGIN EYES
>>2738971
>People complaining about AI ussually forget that the AI was always retarded, or just straight up a cheating bastard.
No it was fucking not. There were great software engineers working on the first three games who knew how to make a decent AI for a game of the complexity they had. In 4, they had no budget or time to work with proper experts so 4 has a very basic, barely functional AI. 5 had piss poor AI at first but there was one really good AI engineer working on the game (to displeasure of Ubisoft, actually) who attempted to create a decent AI for 5, and it kinda shows.
In 6 and 7 though Ubisoft just hired a bunch of codemonkeys so some simple scripts and artificial resources/growth was all they could produce.
But the AI in Heroes 3 is greater than in any other installment still.
The poster below me is a Skeleton. Do not trust what she says.
>>2739505
>not saying anything
Well played, you skeleton bitch.
>>2738276
quit sucking
I use the HD mod to play in original resolution with good scaling because I'm weird like that.
>>2739731
Who do you think she would pick? Christian or Orrin? (as breeding partner)
>>2739835
You're weird.
>>2739615
TELL ME HOW.
What's the best (as in: that gives more fun/variety results) template for Random map generation?
>>2739157
1, while giving birth to the series, was actually too barebones to be anything but shit tier compared to literally every single game after it.
I love 2, but take off your fucking nostalgia goggles and consider it for what it is.
The only thing it has going compared to 3 is the graphic style and (maybe) the campaigns, for the rest it's literally a bare-bones, worst heroes 3.
Heroes 3 is the best hands down, wont spend words on it, we all know why.
4 was shit, neat ideas but terrible realization and graphics.
5 is the second best, it's quite faihful to 3, but it adds an amazing skill-wheel, great towns and decent balance. Less strategic, but definetly a fuckton of fun (and if you haven't played it don't you dare to spout "2 is better durrr")
6 is terrible, glitchy and with horrible ideas (removing "luxury" resources, ncie way to rape your own game you dicks)
7 i've already said why it's 3rd best imho, but the Ai is atrocious and the bugs are quite a lot in number.
>>2739207
Man, I really wish I could play HoMM 2 without stuttering issues
Damn, necros in homm 7 are hillarious. Once you get the skelleton ball rolling, you are an unstoppable sex without consent train.
>>2740102
I have no idea of what to do on Windows but you have a number of options:
1) Try wine on Linux
2) Try wine on Windows (it works under windows allegedly)
3) Use a virtual machine and Windows 95/Windows 98. Maybe even Windows XP?
4) Use DosBOX - HoMM2 also had a dos version http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=2032&letter=H
>>2740020
Can you fags speak proper English for once? It's actually sometimes pretty hard to even figure out what you meant so I can tell your ass how fucking wrong you are.
And believe me, you are fucking wrong.
>>2740769
but he's right you know
>>2740772
Samefag.
>>2739850
What's weird about that? All she thinks about is selecting the most high status alpha, just like all the other women.
>>2740020
>The only thing it has going compared to 3 is the graphic style and (maybe) the campaigns, for the rest it's literally a bare-bones, worst heroes 3.
It's Heroes 3 without all the fat. What was so good that 3 added? 2 new factions? They both sucked, Inferno is agreed by pretty much everybody to be an outsider and Fortress, though it has its gimmick, isn't very much liked either. 3 also removed variety in upgrades and castle lineups and now everyone has flyers and shooters. The tech tree also started to become needlessly convoluted, there were now more useless secondary skills, it just goes to show that sometimes more isn't better.
And fucking up artstyle is a really big thing.
5 skill wheel is so amazing you need a science project just to make sense of how to develop your hero. Great town? More like nice screensavers, shitheads. Their grandiose architecture is disfunctional and frankly stupid, and that was also the game where town lineups started to shift towards one-race approach. And how is it less strategic than 3? If anything, it's actually deeper than 3, with all the new abilities and sidegrades and stuff like that.
>rape your own game
You sound like an edgy 12 year old when you type that out. Tertiary resources play a specific role. Changing them to just one resource in itself isn't good or bad in itself (unless you're an artist that goes on forums to scream NOT MUH HEROES). The game's just as unfinished as 4 was but it definitely stood well by its ideas and the number of options in tactical battle is unmatched by any other entry.
tl;dr 3fag detected, status: butt blasted
>>2740801
I gotta say i agree with the 5th skillwheels. Its way to unexplained how to get some abilities if you dont check it online. I prefer the 7th skillwheel over all other homm skill building.
>>2740801
>>2740769
>>2740793
Jesus, how fucking mad are you?
You can't even tell samefagging (check ips, or wait, you don't know how. inb4 "durr i wont bother") and yet there you are spouting buzzwords like "3fag" and "edgy", Stop embarassing youself and speak like a normal person you creep.
Aside from that, are you fucking kidding me about the comparison between 2 and 3?
2 had only 5 slots army and a smaller grid.
3 had 7 slots (so, you know, can use all your creatures instead of just the highest tier ones) and a bigger, hexagonal grid.
GEEZ, I WONDER WHICH ONE IS MORE FUN AND STRATEGIC.
The two additional factions in 3 are great thematically and people like it look-wise, the fact that thety are less competitive than other towns doesn't mean they suck OR aren't liked by the fanbase.
Artsyle i agree, but it's not fucked up. It's just VERY different from the cartoony style, and i prefer the latter as well. Doesn't mean, again, that it sucks.
5's alternate upgrades, while a very welcome addition, are literally a no-brainer choice, given the discrepancy in power.
5's town's development is WAY more organized, balanced and satisfying than 3, and you can't just get tier 7 1st week.
Are you seriously defending 6's mono-luxury resource?
It takes away any town-building resource management, since you just have to conquer as many mines as possile, instead of prioritizing your most needed resource or a particular one for that specific dwelling before week's end.
TL;DR: You nitpick stuff in 3 and 5, but glorify trivial or barebones stuff in 2 and 6 while ignoring that these games also had flaw way deeper than the former games.
Iquite enjoy HoMM7
>>2741239
>getting this mad
>>2741401
That feel when all this mad ITT was stealthily laid by me, the good Ubisoft goy, spinning my web of lies and pretending that there's actually people ITT who like Ubisoft Heroes to make the dunces join in.
>>2741239
>I played 3 the most as a kid so it's the perfect game because I said so
>>2741695
Try speaking English next time.
I like to think of H5 as reddit and H1 - H3 is 4chan.
>>2741684
Source (or even better a h-doujin) on this anime qt please!
>>2741695
>Also my favourite game is 5, but i don't have my head up my ass, so i am able to tell that 3 is better.
How much of a beta cuck do you have to be to claim that the game you have more fun with isn't better than then one you don't?
>>2741739
Seconding Sandro's request.
>>2741741
>How much of a beta cuck do you have to be to claim that the game you have more fun with isn't better than then one you don't?
Umm on scale of 1 - you, I'd have to say Frank Yang.
Recently I've tried to replay all the campaigns, this time on Impossible and holy shit, i can't do anything in Crag's first mission. Is there any trick to campaigns on Impossible or do I just have to know what to do perfectly?
>>2741893
>this time on Impossible and holy shit, i can't do anything in Crag's first mission.
Glad I'm not the only one. I tried Crack addict's campaign three times on Impossible and I always failed on the first mission.
>>2741893
Look up Meridian's videos on youtube, he's done all of 3's campaigns on Impossible.
no nwc, no heroes.
homm5 is not heroes.
>>2741893
>>2741943
I'm currently doing all H IV campaigns on impossible. And someone in NWC thought it would be a brilliant idea to triple numbers in all neutral stacks (besides your bog-standard no resoruces and AI actually using wait option) on this difficulty. So it pretty much devolves into abusing computer player being dumb most of the time.
Okay, so which one do I start with first?
rate
>>2743076
Is this the most perfect build?
>>2743076
9.5/10 because intelligence and not, say, offense
>>2742912
Difficulty wise the order is:
>Descendants
>Price of Loyalty
>Wizard's Isle
>Voyage Home
But you really should play Price of Loyalty first because it's the most important campaign.
Just be prepared to fight insanely huge stacks of Bone Dragons and Vampire Lords on the last stage.
>>2743082
>Offense over Archery with an army that has over 5000 Lichs.
Who has beat H2?
>>2743083
>Just be prepared to fight insanely huge stacks of Bone Dragons and Vampire Lords on the last stage.
spooky
>>2743076
> magic heroes
>>2741723
what's 4 then
>>2743076
>earth before air
Disgusting, 3/10.
>>2743136
my 14 year old self
>>2743184
ratemypoo.com
Glad this general is back, my HoMM3 SoD campaign save was lost at the last map, this might motivate me to try to tackle it again.
Love how the campaign is set up, wiping ass with Sandro is a blast until you realize that you're going to end up fighting the beast you created.
who here /can'tgetWOGtorun/?
>>2743227
Not me. Is the installer still kind of screwed up? I remember you used to have to change your location back in, like, 2009, but not sure if it still applies.
>>2743186
this tbh fam smh
>>2743187
You beat all 5 scenarios when you were 14?
>>2743276
No but I had sex with a 14 year old girl when I was 5.
>>2743343
Waow!
I was replaying Restoration of Erathia and noticed that the music in campaigns was off. It seemed strange so I went to check with the Ubisoft's HD version (which I got for free anyway) and sure enough - campaigns actually had different music in RoE. My autism acted up and I investigated and found out that most campaigns with the exception of Shadow of Death climax and Foolhardy Waywardness had their music replaced with generic GoodTheme, ever since Armageddon's Blade 2.0. This wasn't gonna do so I manually fixed it all in the files, including AB's campaigns.
Wew. Sure sucks to have OCD.
>>2743885
Yours is a good kind of autism at least.
>>2743076
>>2743076
Were those griffins the result of diplomacy?
If so, what kind of settings do you use to meet such huge neutral stacks?
>>2743909
looks like something a furry would draw tbh
>>2741239
ohhhh jesus
Heroes 2: 3rd level on Descendants. All those ghosts. How to beat it?
>>2743076
>diplomacy
>air magic
>vial of lifeblood on undead units
>no tent
sandro has a chance in getting both armorer and offense but rarely, he could really have use for them
>no spirit of oppression
>no hourglass of evil hour
If case anyone is interested, Ubi just killed DoC.
>>2741239
not the guy but some counterpoints
>5's town's development is WAY more organized, balanced and satisfying than 3, and you can't just get tier 7 1st week.
that`s not a good thing TBH, a lot of creatures were basically cannon fodder, acted as support or just stood there wasting away turns. The faster you get 7th tier units the less tedious will your progress become.
>5's alternate upgrades, while a very welcome addition, are literally a no-brainer choice, given the discrepancy in power.
upgrading anything but some shooters and 6th/7th tier units is a waste of resources anyways.
>Are you seriously defending 6's mono-luxury resource? It takes away any town-building resource management, since you just have to conquer as many mines as possile, instead of prioritizing your most needed resource or a particular one for that specific dwelling before week's end.
which gets tedious as hell in multiplayer and large maps when you have taken over half a dozen dwellings all at different stages of development. I barely upgrade enemy castles anymore or take the time to flag all the mines when playing random maps because that shit is autistic as fuck and will give you carpet tunnel.
I would really love to see them simplify resource management to just gold, because all the resource restrictions do is delay you away from tactics and strategy.
>>2744445
>that`s not a good thing TBH, a lot of creatures were basically cannon fodder, acted as support or just stood there wasting away turns. The faster you get 7th tier units the less tedious will your progress become.
While you are right, you are thinking in terms of competitiveness.
If you, say, get your tier 7 cyclop first week, the progression will not become less tedious, it will become a unilateral stomp, so it will be boring.
By not having all that power soon, conquering stuff on the map requires both preparation and management of lesser tiers, instead of just using two insane tier 7.
>upgrading anything but some shooters and 6th/7th tier units is a waste of resources anyways.
I don't agree on this. While the choice is a no-choice (you can always notice that one upgrade is way better than the other), almost every upgrade adds something either interesting, strong or simply fun.
And for lesser tiers it's very cheap to upgrade, so it's never really a waste.
>which gets tedious as hell in multiplayer and large maps when you have taken over half a dozen dwellings all at different stages of development. I barely upgrade enemy castles anymore or take the time to flag all the mines
You are free to play any way you like, but what you are basically saying here is "i don't want to bother with micro-management".
Which is fine, mind you, but in strategy games (and HOMaM is very simple strategy-wise) you have to deal with it if you want to put that power and those resources to use.
Limiting it to only 1 makes the game literally a one-road way to random fights, instead of town development planning and target prioritizing.
>I would really love to see them simplify resource management to just gold, because all the resource restrictions do is delay you away from tactics and strategy.
If gold was the only resource it'd make tactics and strategy terribly plain, and it'd actually limit the strategies aviable.
I alqays wanted to know: do the legion pieces work if i have doubles?
For example, if i have two "Legs of the legion" on the same hero in town, will i get 10 more Tier2 creatures or only 5? What if i have two heroes in town, each one with a Legs of the legion?
Also, if i have two heroes with the complete Statue of Legion, will i get 100% more creatures?
>>2744387
Bump
>>2744712
As far as I know, you'll only get 5 more tier 2s, not 10, and so forth. Statue doesn't exactly double creature generation, but in a way it adds a third "upgrade" to your castle, for example with Castle you get +2 tier 7s every week, and with Statue it increases to +3. Kinda like how you get +1 tier 7s with a Fort.
Statue's description says that it increases weekly creature generation by 50%. Plus if you have it on a garrison hero, the bonuses provided by the pieces (Legs, Loins, Torso, Arms, Head) are also added.
>>2744776
Yeah, but what if i control 2 compelte statues of the legion on different heroes.
Will they stack and make it a 100% increase?
Also, if i have, say, the leg of the legion on two different heroes in the same town, as you said, it'll only apply the effect of one, right?
>>2744859
Yeah, it'll only apply the effects of one Statue of Legion and/or a piece of it, even if you have multiples of the same item(s) equipped. They won't stack.
What are the best settings to play HoMM3 HD? 1080 makes things look too small, and what's the best mode and filter?
>>2744895
I play in 800x600 tbh
Playing Heroes 3 complete with HD mod, and there's this weird description bug with the random generated maps.
It's something really minor, but it triggers my autism. Any way to fix this? Has Sandro hacked my game? Is Jeddite actually Sandro himself?
>>2744868
Even on different heroes? Say 2 statues of legion (complete artifact combo) on two different heroes in two different towns...
Thanks for the answers anyway bro, i appreciate it.
>>2727913
Necrodancers are better
>>2744918
what filter/mode?
That feel when no Etna anime loli demon hero for Inferno.
H2 Descendants: Scenario 5. Wtf they show up with like 500 wolves. Tips?
>>2743885
No no anon, that's not the bad kind of autism. That's the kind of autism that prevents us to degenerate any further.
>>2744437
Duel of champions? Good i guess. They should kill all ongoing things and sit down and talk about the future. Do they want to be known as the company that puts out games in the worst known state, or actually focus on a game and whip the devs in a somewhat workable state, so they actually work on the game and not dick off.
Look at homm 7. Took fucking ages to complete, no fixes ever trough the betas. Then when the heat was on they manage to shit out a patch in weeks. If they would have worked like that from day 1, we would actually have a finished game.
>>2745548
who????
>>2746112
Didn't H VII actually have short developement time? It came out year and one month after it was announced.
>>2732946
I have tried Masters Of Sighisoara campaigns. First one was the best, second one was good as well.
Made by Yurian Stonebow who has made really good maps before. And some guy named HeroofPunk who just seems to write the stories etc.
They seem to have a wiki going and still active.
http://www.celestialheavens.com/search2.php?map_name=Masters+of+Sighisoara&author_name=&size=&nr_players=&playing_type=&version=&sort_by=map_name&order=asc&multiplayer=&month=&year=&minimaps=on&results1=20&page=1&action=search&submit=Search
>>2739170
Same as in King's Bounty and Heroes to PS2!
Did you know that Heroes of Might and Magic to PS2 is actually King's Bounty remade? Ghosts on HoMM; QFTDS are also out of control, but if your leadership is too low, they will go out of control and fuck you up @
>boot up Heroes VI
>AN ANCIENT STORM IS RISING
Into the trash it goes
Will there be ever a good new HoMM or will I be crawling back to HoMMIII over and over again like a battered housewife?Why doesnt ubi hire a legion of russians and pay them minimally with noodles and wodka and get a great game in return? Seriously russians seem to fucking love heroes of might and magic
>>2746862
They already did that, it was called Heroes 5 and it was bretty gud.
>>2746865
well then whats stopping them from doing it again. Idealistically they would get some of that kings bounty goodness in it aswell (some monster designs there are sweet) and they can make good money of a dedicated fanbase. hell, they can go full otaku and make a halfnaked, poorly made succubus figurine and let the autismbux flow in
>>2746862
dude i fucking love adventure caves, too bad they are often leaking with errors
>>2746862
Making good decisions isn't really Ubisoft's thing.
>>2746862
why doesn't just do a project on github or go to kickstarter? A H3 remake (or maybe something sci-fi themed just to avoid legal issues) seems like a nice little project.
>>2746932
>make the core game where everything is functional
>put it on some russian board
>wait as cykas make all the additional races and artefacts and all the other stuff
>>2746862
What the fuck is happening in this screenshot? I never saw those rock textures before in my life.
Is using Invite a Hero in the HD mod considered cheating in any way? This is my first time playing the game in general and I'm just doing the campaigns to start.
>>2727913ASTRONOMERS ANNOUNCE WEEK OF THE GRIFFIN
GRIFFIN POPULATION DOUBLES
FUCK YOUR SCOUT HERO YOU FAGGOT HAHAHAH
>>2747113
please respond
>>2746947
Russians are awful at coordinating design into something that isn't stupid
>>2748080
>>2748240
ctrl+print screen
>>2748569
no i mean what the fuck are those things in the screenshots? those rocks?
How to play Heroes 5 online now that it's been shut down?
i still play this game with a friend of mine, are we fucked or what?
>>2748080
He can escape if he has a tome of air, scroll of town teleport, or scroll of flight.
>>2748884
even if he has, those are banned fyi, any self respecting player would not use
>*haste away*
>>2748649
It's an event from adventure cave in WoG.
New to HoMM, playing 3. Is it better to try to recruit heroes from your own faction or does it not really matter?
>>2748080
Rip in peace
>>2749090
It doesn't matter.
>>2749090
no difference for your troops or something like that.
However if you look at stat-spreads and likeliness of a secondary skill popping up, the class (race+might or magic) does have an effect. For example tower might heroes are still pretty magicy.
Also your heros movement speed is affected by the speed of your slowest monster. So giving a hero just arch angels and nothing else will make him go lightning fast. While giving a rampart hero dwarves will fuck your speed up. Thats why you should put them in your town early on so you have more speed.
>>2749090
Mostly their special skill matters, in that if it applies to a specific troop from another faction it's going to be useless to you
>>2744895
As I recall I used 720p, objects are almost the exact same size as in the original resolution, but you get widescreen benefits.
>>2743915
>If so, what kind of settings do you use to meet such huge neutral stacks?
Diplomacy raises your chances, having a bigger army further raises your chances, and having the same type of monsters in your army further raises the chances for units to join.
>>2749448
>skipping artifact day
>>2749404
So for example would a Necromancer not be a good choice if I'm playing Tower?
>>2749448
What map is this?
Can anyone help me?
I am trying to play some custom missons, yet not all of them show up in the list.
They are all in the maps folder, ingame however, only 2 show up..
What's the deal here?
>>2750252
Missing half the information here.
It's in Heroes 3 using the Complete GoG Edition and the HD Mod.
I can, for example, play the "World" Custom map (the one with Europe, Asia etc.) but not "Eternal Glory" for example...
>>2750269
Are you talking about this one? You can only play it with the expansion Horn of the Abyss and I guess it's the same with the other maps that don't show up in your game.
>>2750318
Oh wow, didn't realize that was Fanmade. Hah, thank you very much!
>>2750318
I wonder what the bully who said my map was ugly thinks about thus ugly square shit map;
How would you like your spell loadout fam?
>>2748884
Why would a regular scout have those?
>>2750524
>no blind
>>2750524
>getting both Haste AND Slow in your level 1 mage guild
This is the reason why my latest turn in my multiplayer match vs Volodimir started back in 2001. I still haven't decided whether I wanna go Expert Air Magic or Earth Magic. Meanwhile, Volodimir was killed by Russian troops when they invaded Crimea, but for his sake I will finish this turn.
>>2751129
no matter how hard you try to push this meme it will never be funny. you're right up there with the mike patton guy from /fit/.
>>2751475
>implying Haste being the strongest spell is a meme
Um...I think this is reason enough for Russia to invade your country.
>>2750834
imo it is pretty valid, picking up random loot or saving a shipwreck survivor. Shame about the 10 mana though
>>2751475
bet you don't like bananas in ylyl threads
>>2751475
>weighted dips
>>2751709
>Not clean bulking/cutting
>>2749606
Since you don't want undead when playing any other faction and they all start with necromancy, a necromancer or death knight is never a good choice outside of necropolis.
>>2751475
Wew lad you sound like your really buttfrustrated about not having Mass Haste.
*casts Mass Haste on ximself*
*hastes away*
>>2752586
>lad
You shitlord
>>2752604
*casts Mass Slow on zeeself*
um...excusez moi?
>>2752639
No it wasn't, it was a very pretty map, completely natural, not square.
>>2752525
I don't know whether you can get a necro hero if you are playing other factions, but seeming everyone is complaining necromancy (and diplomacy) is the most OP secondary, I would wager it would make a funny game getting Isra day 1. Sure, no amplifier/transformer and it not synergizes with your troops but it could work. Free army until you fill in all the slots and you might just reach critical mass.
So it looks like it finally happened.
One of the Homam 3 general posters from Sweden has snapped and attacked poor immigrant children with a sword, dressed as Darth Vader, killing an innocent 20 year old immigrant child.
Proof:
https://archive.is/ehNnj
this is him. Notice the games section, pic related.
>>2752697
Weird, I archived the link without being logged in and it saved it as if some random account was logged in.
>>2752697
Do they count as peasants or rouges? Killing one gave him laughable exp either way.
>>2752697
What pleb taste in television and books, good riddance
Can i "reroll" monthly artifacts from an artifact merchan in town?
If so, how? Just reloading wont do.
>>2752697
Typical swede... most racist nation in Europe.
