/vr/ - Retro Games

bleh

sssssssacha

>>5256985

>>5256985
based

Map-maker anon here! Here's the pic of all the concept maps I've made so far. I'll also make the Rampart and the Inferno one and might even do the Conflux and the Cove at one point, though I have no idea how long it will take me to complete them. All of these concepts could be merged into one single map where the goal is to find and build the grail in the town in the center of the map. However, I don't think I will ever complete the map considering just how slow I've been working on it so far. Still, you may try to create on your own.

I also asked you whether I should make Rampart or Inferno next and two anons voted for Rampart already, so guess I'll start working on it.

Here's a zip containing all six maps (they're made in HotA map editor though):
>https://www32.zippyshare.com/v/owZYuOkn/file.html

>>5256864
damn op, from the catalogue i thought this was the new evil hobbit town

It's The Week of Pixie!
Time to spank some pixies!

>>5257742
Which are your favourite pixies?
h3 is the best, but h1 and mm3-4 are qt

>>5257827
I wish they always had no retaliation special skill, so I wouldn't have to upgrade them.
Also, my favourite part about them:
>Play Conflux
>2-5 Magic Lanterns around starting town

>>5257313
thanks bro will give them a try

So with New Years approaching the HotA team is probably going to announce what they're working on next. What are you hoping, and what are you expecting? Do you think that """leak""" was real or just shitposting?

On a less speculative note, if there was a new town added to HoMM3, what would you want out of it? Any specific gameplay gimmicks or something (Like how Necropolis has Necromancy)?

where did all of these lizardmen come from...

>>5258101
Good advice - do NOT bring subject of HotA in M&M threads.
Unless you want to see some serious shitstorm, that is

>>5258101
>Do you think that """leak""" was real or just shitposting?
It's certainly extremely thinly-veiled considering the unifying themes were "sand" and "neutral" whereas neutral creatures use Dirt as native terrain, not to mention the hodgepodge of random units used being bullshit.

>>5258139
>Unless you want to see some serious shitstorm from me

Which creature should I fap to tonight?

>>5258264
Posted in the old thread, double-dumb :C
>My bad. I'm dumb for calling it sand. It's a new terrain dead ground. It is based on the terrain we can see on original neutrals portraits. It's kind of a mix of sand, dirt and dead grass with dead trees and poison black lakes.This new terrain will be native to this new bandit faction and Necropolis since it fits necropolis theme perfectly.

>>5258413
Isn't dead ground already covered by cursed ground? How do you differentiate between those? And what's the point of doing so, when all of those Neutral creatures normally walk on Dirt?

>>5258439
cursed ground limits your magic to only 1st level. And it's not a terrain. Dead lands is a terrain, like snow or grass, without additional effects

>>5258452
Okay, how do you represent dead ground without making it already look like one of the grey and drab terrains already available?
And will all the RoE/AB/SoD maps be reworked to include the dead ground?
Both sound like a definite "no".
Adding new terrain types seems like a no-no because it's one of those things that already has enough biomes just so that you can tell at a glance what is what. HoMM3 is a game of beautiful simplicity and depth all the same. They won't do that.

>>5258501
>Okay, how do you represent dead ground without making it already look like one of the grey and drab terrains already available?
It looked different enough with all sepia color insertions and stuff. And no bones and skulls like on the cursed ground.

>And will all the RoE/AB/SoD maps be reworked to include the dead ground?
Why are you asking me? I'm not from Hota, hell, I hope no one of those guys visits 4channel or else I won't be able to get info any longer :D

They didn't reworked maps after adding Highlands for conflux, did they? It appears on new maps and in map generator (which is a big part of hota and online community)

>Adding new terrain types seems like a no-no because it's one of those things that already has enough biomes just so that you can tell at a glance what is what. HoMM3 is a game of beautiful simplicity and depth all the same. They won't do that.
Highlands? Hello?

>>5258501
>And will all the RoE/AB/SoD maps be reworked to include the dead ground?
While I think the leak is fake, I don't think this is a good argument. HotA already has a bunch of stuff that could be reworked into the main campaign, yet isn't. Like the previously mentioned Highlands and the Cove faction itself (what it's based off of is in the campaign).

I'd love to see the main campaigns updated with the HotA content but that won't be happening, at least not for a long time.

>>5258524
>I hope no one of those guys visits 4channel
People here would be glad to obkhooyeesohseety them for Resiatance.

>Someone thought that this is his hair

Geez people are retarded

>>5258689
i-it's not?

>>5258717
not

>>5258689
>background
lazy

>>5258689
also this shit

How they fuck somebody could think it's hair?

>>5258689
>>5258783

>>5258689
I kek'd hard on this. On one hand, it's really nice drawning. On the other, that fabulous golden mane of golden waves

succ is officially happening

>>5257742
I fully agree with you. Pixies need spankings.

>>5258803
Bradamanta laughs at you.

>>5257827
H3 Fairies (upgraded Pixies)
Ugliest is H2 Fairy, they wear a weird red hat.
Only play H1-H5.

>>5259182
you're the ugliest, Heroes 2 fairy is top qt

Reminder HotA is just a simple mod, which just happens to add a whole new faction.

And it's a mod of WoG, which too was merely a simple mod.

>>5258689
Wearing fur is not PC.

>>5257827

>>5258139
Fuck off

>>5257827
What baffles me in later Heroes is that concept artists are clearly trying - but the result is shit that looks both weird as fuck and generic "spooky glowing things" fantasy. Sometimes simplier things are just better.

>>5259337
haha

>>5258139
fuck off.

>>5258101
Rather than new town i'd rather see balance changes that make HoMM 3 less of a broken mess of fuck.

>>5259940
It's FINE

>>5259950
mapmakers having to go out of their way to give several factions at least SOME advantages is not fine.

>>5259960
IT'S FINE

>>5258689
>>5258783
This really should be in the thread about people having serious misconceptions

>>5259182
>Ugliest is H2 Fairy, they wear a weird red hat.
Speaking of misconceptions - that's a beehive. A type of haircut

>>5259940
>>5259960
>REEEEEE MUH BALANCE DURRRRRRRRRRR
People like you are the reason why HotA turned from fixing errors and adding utility into this stupid piece of shit trying to "balance" the game.
It's unbalancable and never was even trying to be balanced. To "fix" it you would have to radically change how half of the shit in the game works, not just re-shuffle unit stats.
Want to play balanced game? Go for poker.

>>5260008
>REEEEEE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE BROKEN DURRRRRRRRRRRRR
Just because HotA's approach to balance is pants-on-head retarded doesn't mean HoMM3 can't be made at least slightly less fucking bonkers.

Did you know that diagonal movements cost more points than straight ones?

100pts vs 141pts
141 because √2=1.41 so like in real life if you would try to step diagonally you have to make a bigger stride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt0-R13YUWk

>>5260020
>Change entire way how maps are generated
>Including either substracting vast amount of objects OR create equal number of new ones
>Change handful of abilities entirely
>Rework lineup for every single faction sans Castle, which is the closest thing to balance
>Bunch of utility features on top of it all
So you want to bump up lava, dirt and subterrain with buildings that would first need to be invented and modelled, or you wan to make grass shit by removing map objects?

>>5259918
Nice.

>>5257742
Can somebody give me a quick rundown on this pixie spanking meme?

>>5260094
It's a really embarassing story, so no.

>>5260094
It's a spankshitter from /nepgen/ spilling his retarded fetish on other threads and even boards.

>>5260225
You're the first one to ever mention whatever /nepgen/ is. Why should we trust you?

>>5260264
Who is we?

>5260292
Spotted the ESL.

>being an ameritard who can't quote AND doesn't know a meme

>>5260094
People talked about their first maps in HoMM4. Some guy mentioned his made his first map to fit his fetish, and got really embarrassed when people claimed they wanted to play it.
He later learned Pixies were also in HoMM3.

>>5260295
>ameritard
>his use of the term "ESL"
It's that guy who conveniently can't speak or write in English himself and whose only argument in any discussion is that you're Russian if you disagree, but his own actual mistakes in writing are characteristic of butchered Slavic syntax constructions and he implied that Ukrainians are the only good Slavs, so he's most likely just a moron with a persecution complex, who, given the amount of investment into shitposting in this thread, also seems to believe HotA is being directly funded by Putin and Abramovich.

I miss when this thread's worst shitposter was the guy posting about Air Magic, he didn't samefag nearly as much, either.

>5260304
>everyone i don't like is the same guy
Take your medication already, blyat. According to your gopniks, everyone in this thread is either that nepgen guy or Russian.

>>5260306
>>5260295

>>5260293
>>5260306
>posts endlessly about "ESL", gopniks, Slavs and other bullshit
>on top of a hearty dose of retardation
>but it's everyone else who is obsessed about Russians, I swear
I can't wait for you to find out that the Chinese also play this game a lot.

>>5260321
>implying
Everyone know that Chineses only play Command Conquer Generals.

>>5260325
The makers of some of the most challenging maps out there, like Wayfarer, are Chinese and there's some pretty big fan outlets for HoMM3 in China. Probably for the same reasons as in most Slavic countries, really. They even are quite a force to be reckoned with in online games.

>>5260330
>They even are quite a force to be reckoned with
Blyat, just type "Tian an men" and they immediately surrender.

You gotta learn to play dirty, tovarisch.

>>5260304
But you are the one ESL here with no grasp of language. And judging by your butthurt about ukrainians, you've exposed yourself as a slav of russian kind (the worst kind), since no native english speaker can tell slavs apart.
>I miss when this thread's worst shitposter was the guy posting about Air Magic, he didn't samefag nearly as much, either.
>everyone who doesn't agree with me is a samefag
This is fucking golden.
>>5260306
Why do you call a single guy "everyone"?
>>5260321
4channel is banned in China though. The chances of the one posting here are pretty slim.
>>5260330
Chinese also cheat like hell, more so than russians.

>>5260336
>But you are the one ESL here with no grasp of language
Considering that you're the only one spamming the term "ESL" here and it's always tied up to useless, retarded posts wrought with reading comprehension issues and blatant lies?
>you've exposed yourself as a slav of russian kind (the worst kind)
>no native english speaker
No native English speaker types like you do. That you're trying really hard to be "in" with the crowd of Anglos shows how persecuted you feel on a daily basis.
>4channel is banned in China though. The chances of the one posting here are pretty slim.
Who cares? Who claimed a correlation? You're literally the only one person whose post content seems to be entirely about being anally ruptured about the fact that Russians play this game and, apparently, every single poster who disagrees with you hailing from that country.
Still not Russian.

Why do you people whine about Russians? I though the spanking guy was a frog rather than a vodka?

>>5260306
Can you just go and stay go

>>5260336
>4channel is banned in China though. The chances of the one posting here are pretty slim
>t. American who can't even into torrents

>>5260346
>Considering that you're the only one spamming the term "ESL" here and it's always tied up to useless, retarded posts wrought with reading comprehension issues and blatant lies?
I didn't "spam", you collosal subhuman retard, you are the one using it.
>No native English speaker types like you do. That you're trying really hard to be "in" with the crowd of Anglos shows how persecuted you feel on a daily basis.
Americans aren't anglos, so what's your point?
Again you've exposed yourself as a filthy slav just by your slav filter bubble, fucking retard.
>>5260346
>Who cares? Who claimed a correlation?
The person who claimed there is a lot of chinese playing homm3. Do you even read the quoted numbers, you fucking retarded russky?
>Still not Russian.
Living in Canada doesn't make you any less slav. You can take a russian out of Russia, but you can't take Russia out of him.
>>5260508
>a yuro talking shit about americans
You aren't allowed to use torrents either.

>>5260512
I'm Polish, so I do whatever, Jimbo.

And weren't you told to be gone and stay gone?

>>5260527
Polish or Polish (Russian)?

>>5260534
Silesian, to be precise, but I'm tired of "not nationality" jokes already.
And you literally can't be Polish (Russian). That's against law.

>>5260512
>I posted that a lot of Chinese are playing homm3
>you claim that Chinese don't post on 4channel
>these things are synonymous according to you
"Do you even read the quoted numbers" indeed.
Your English is still shit, by the way, you should be ashamed that you can't even speak your own language and that alleged Russians that you see everywhere in this thread and that I am still not can write better.

>>5260536
As if a Polish (Russian) would care about laws.
>>5260537
You claimed that a lot of chinese play homm3 (not a lot actually, compared to average p2w mobages) as a retort to my point, as if it means something. So not only you have a dogshit comprehension, your memory is also goldfish-tier.
>that alleged Russians that you see everywhere in this thread and that I am still not can write better.
So you at least admit you are a ESL.

Is Succession Wars mod ready now?

>>5260548
>(not a lot actually, compared to average p2w mobages)
The Chinese community created some of the best challenge maps that exist and the concept of a "Chinese map" is pretty much iconic among people who actually play this game.
You, on the other hand, can only ever shitpost on chauvinistic grounds about a video game you don't even have time to play because all you do is shitpost.
>as a retort to my point, as if it means something.
I claimed that a lot of Chinese play HoMM3 because you have a chip on your shoulder about Slavs in this thread. You retort that "they don't post on 4channel", basically admitting that the only reason you exist in these threads is to sate your delusion that Putin funded HotA to destabilize the Western civilization. This is the only takeaway I can find from your retarded shitposts because you absolutely can't stop calling everyone else a "russky".
>So you at least admit you are a ESL.
Again, you can't even speak English, so whether I'm an Eskimo or a Zulu has no bearing on this discussion. I've heard parrots with better vocabulary than you. Fuck off. Stay gone.

>>5260564
Now identify each hero in this pic.

>>5260561
>The Chinese community created some of the best challenge maps that exist and the concept of a "Chinese map" is pretty much iconic among people who actually play this game.
That doesn't mean it's big or they post here.
>You, on the other hand, can only ever shitpost on chauvinistic grounds about a video game you don't even have time to play because all you do is shitpost.
You do exactly the same, so what's your point?
>I claimed that a lot of Chinese play HoMM3 because you have a chip on your shoulder about Slavs in this thread.
And statistically an average poster in this thread being a slav is far higher than being a chink. But statistics is not your strongest suit, I know.
>basically admitting that the only reason you exist in these threads is to sate your delusion that Putin funded HotA to destabilize the Western civilization.
I didn't say any of that, it's just you strawmaning as hard as always, because you can't argue any other way. All I said is that your style of posting resembles of Putin's electorate, down to retarded strawmans.
>Again, you can't even speak English, so whether I'm an Eskimo or a Zulu has no bearing on this discussion. I've heard parrots with better vocabulary than you. Fuck off. Stay gone.
But it does matter, only a select few people would vehemently defend Resistance rework in HotA on crypto-neonazi forums. And they are neither native english or Zulus.

>>5260578
>That doesn't mean it's big
Then fuck off from this board too, """American""" man, your country only plays Fortnite and CoD anyway.

>>5260094
It happened in a thread I made a few months ago.
Search in warosu, thread ID is 4878118.

>>5260581
>your country
Hell yeah, I do have my country, unlike you living in a resource colony of my country.
>Fortnite
Owned by a chinese megacorp and the main playerbase being chinese. Way to miss a point, retard.

>>5260558
>Almost 2019
>Is SUCC up, my friends?

>>5260597
I read it's released Dec 31 2018 in moddb. It's almost 2019 but I don't know. Maybe they're still partying for the new year and forgot about Succ Wars.

>>5260594
>Owned by a chinese megacorp and the main playerbase being chinese. Way to miss a point, retard
>bringing up main playerbases now instead of the overall population playing the game, contradicting yourself from just three posts ago
The main playerbases for HoMM games consist of Russians, the Polish and the Chinese. No place for Americans according to your worthless logic. Stay gone.

>>5260612
>The main playerbases for HoMM games consist of Russians, the Polish and the Chinese.
Again, I said neither of those, you literally came up with bullshit again. Not to mention you were the first bringing up the number of players as if it has any relevance to the posts on this thread.
>No place for Americans according to your worthless logic. Stay gone.
How I can be ESL and american? If anything you should fuck off back to HotA forums where you can fellate your fellow golem spammers.

>>5260624
>Again, I said neither of those
Yes, but I did. What you first said is that the Chinese population generally plays p2w mobages and not HoMM3, so they are irrelevant. To show you how ridiculous and fallacious your argument is, I came up with this post >>5260581. You said it doesn't matter because Fortnite's main playerbase is in China.
By your own logic Russians don't play HoMM3 because their main playerbase plays DotA 2. You're a humongous retard.
>How I can be ESL and american?
You yourself imply you're an American:
>Hell yeah, I do have my country, unlike you living in a resource colony of my country.
But your earlier shitposts and bizarre focus on the ESL issue (in spite of the fact that your posts are the least coherent), as well as some other weird hints (stating implicitly that the only good Slavs are Ukrainians) make me think that you're a really sad Ukrainian.
Anyway, you are running in circles at this point. Nothing you say makes sense. Stop posting.

>This fucking shitfest
I'm glad I'm leaving for all-nighter HoMM3 hot seat game. camouflage as a New Year's Eve party

>>5260578
>vehemently defend Resistance rework in HotA on crypto-neonazi forums
>debating anything is pointless because we happen to be neighbors with /pol/
nuke this fucking thread already

>>5260661
You didn't debate for shit.

>>5260664
So wait, which is it? Were there Resistance debates or not?
You're the first person to mention the Resistance rework at all in this thread and I doubt anyone wants to go back to that "discussion".

i did the last 3 OPs and this one has really metastasized into something special
HoMM3 may very well have had its first hotseat game in Cote D'Ivoire last week
>it was HotA

>>5260668
>You're the first person to mention the Resistance rework at all in this thread
You brought up everything from the last thread to this one, but then you tactically forgot about the main trigger.
Master debater at its finest.

Hota-insider is in the thread!

So I got another session with hota members on discord: Bandit town won't be announced until 2020. The initial plan was to reveal it sooner, but now they are implementing alternative tiers, meaning that ALL neutrals will be presented in the city, like you can build either Mummies or Fawns resulting in different higher tier creatures. As for the 7th tier, there won't be any new creature but instead 4 megadragons would be available as alternatives with shared growing rate.

>>5260761
>4 megadragons
Yeah your already flimsy credibility is utterly gone now.

>>5260771
Megadragons aren't as OP as people are thinking. They have attack power of 2 7tier creatures (and will have only 1 per week growth with castle and 1/3 per week with fort) meaning they were not be in a big quantities. Plus, some parameters rework will take place.

Their shared dwelling is called Dragon Dystopia

i hate hero chains

>>5260761
Haha your going to be embarassed soon

>>5260558
it was supposed to be out now but fucking slavs fucked us over once again

>>5258689
>Somehow she saw feathers

GEEZUS

On VK official group Hota team has posted this

>>5261039
Cucktus

>>5261039
It's the dwelling of some plant-like creatures of the new town.

>>5261039
Wow, the info I've leaked is actually confirmed!
Get dunk on, bitches who didn't believe me!

so what's the point of water/fire magic, they just seem so much worse than earth/air

>>5261124
Water = buff.
Fire = damage.
Earth = whatever.
Air = Buff.
Nature = summons

>AI hero summons a shitload of elementals towards the start of the battle and I lose
oh okay then

>>5261124
Water?
Teleport, Clone, Bless and Prayer. And Water Walk I guess.
Fire?
Bloodlust, Curse and Blind.

And you're right, they're not as good as earth or air. Prayer does make Water the 2nd best school imo, but you're nowhere near guaranteed to get it, and it's a 4th level spell so Fortress and Stronghold can't get it at all. Bless is situational, but very strong if you have to rely on troops with high damage variance.
Fire is just plain weaker than the other schools. Damage spells don't benefit enough from it, nor does Blind, and the mass spells aren't as strong.

>>5261124
Water magic isn't so bad
Can be chosen for secondary heroes especially clerics

>Mass Bless
>Mass Dispell
>Cloning
>Water walking

>>5261130
isn't the best single target damage ability implosian (earth) and the best aoe one chain lightning (air) ?

>The Bandit Town leak was real
FUCK

>>5261124
Water
>Dispel
>Bless
>Prayer
>Forgetfulness
>Mirth
Reminder Prayer is a mass spell that makes Haste (aka main reason why to pick Air Magic) obsolete.

Fire
>Berserk
>Curse
>Fireball
>Blind
>Frenzy
>Bloodlust
Berserk alone makes Fire worth it, but Curse is not a shabby choice, either

>>5261156
what

BTW, is SUCC up

>>5261330
no it's not, fuck slavs, ruined my new years eve

>>5261330
>>5261365
they're lying!

>>5260624
>How I can be ESL and american?
Pedro has a talk with you

>>5261437
they didn't set the timezone, so technically it's still dec 31 2018 in some part of the world.

>>5261448
>be almost 2 Jan
>still having SUCC unreleased because it's 31 Dec on Hawaii

>>5261454
Hawaii is UTC-10. They will probably release it in Baker Island's Dec 31, 2018. It's UTC-12. 12 hours 20+ minutes from now.

>>5261480

>>5261480
>>5261502
Forgot the hour. I mean it's Dec 31, 2018 23:59:59. I second before 2019 in Baker's Island.

Stuff is happening on Putinbook.
/topic-59535623_39932221
/topic-59535623_39932223

>>5261685
link?

>>5261720
vk.com

>>5261685
>>5261724
bugs?

creator is being a big baby

>>5261795
I was about to post that screenshot.

>>5261124
They all have their spells worth using, but what makes Earth/Air so amazing is combination of amazing map mobility spells and cheap+fast+reliable innitiative/movement advantage in battle. They're pretty much same in that aspect and they compliment eachother.

Fire/Water don't really offer much in the means of map mobility, which makes them way worse by default. On battlefield you still have mobility advantage with Water from Prayer, but fire doesn't really offer that. Also Prayer costs quite a bit of mana and could be unreliable to acquire, so it's pretty much way inferior to Haste/Slow in most aspects as you want to use your spells as fast and as often as possible to be capable of beating as powerful neutrals with as fewer losses as possible.

Since you should want to pick Earth/Air for your map mobility every single game, then there is not much of a point in taking more schools. The amount of spells you can cast is very limited and Air/Earth offer enough powerful spells for you to use, so you're better off investing your precious skill points into things like Armor/Offence, even though spells like Expert Berserk can win you fights other spells couldn't.

All should be pretty obvious and kind of no brainer.

What are some fun scenarios to go through? I've only played All for One a few times and Myth and Legend.

It's up.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/h3sw/downloads/h3sw-v080-beta

>>5262269
Nevermind. Back to bed.

based

btw https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1lPvkUEkS-PkUsxB5nc2PC9XHMQK9ErSi&export=download

>>5261795
>A literal year past the promised release day
>The mod is now a running joke about overdue projects
>N-neat release
>S-soon™
Is this guy for real or just trolling in the comment section? Please tell me he's just trolling and not really this fucking stupid.

>>5262324
and it's fucking shit anyway
no HD features like combat replay or quick recruit, some meme cheat shit is enabled so every build menu visit gives you resources and you can build more than one building a turn, combat animations are slow as fuck

>>5262331
>you can build more than one building a turn
That's actually a good thing for me. But I play a lot of WoG, with this and ability to stock & upgrade creatures in their spawning sites on-map on, simply because it cuts off a lot of hassle and makes hot seat soooooo much faster.

Either way, what a fucking moron.

>>5261072
>A cactus means your shitty made up fanfic town is confirmed
Fucking seriously

>>5262334
Honestly, utility is the only reason why bother with WoG at all. Fuck all their options and retarded changes, but stuff like simple ability to tell the witch to fuck off with teaching you Eagle Eye or get those Storm Elementals ready for recruitment without 3 days wasted on going back to town are what makes this mod worth playing. And yeah, it all makes the multiplayer go faster and smoother.

>>5262338
Hoho, they've just announced the new faction.
Eat my ass, I was right!

>>5262342
Based.

>>5262342
Yeah and it sure looks like evil hobbits you MASSIVE FAGGOT

>>5262269
>beta
>category: demo
>version: 0.8
and they said it'll be ready in dec 31, 2018

Best shot of the cowboy units. What's up with the dragon?

>>5262361
I don't know but I'm cautiously excited. Hopefully it'll be like a less retarded Forge, but we will see.
Also, to the mr. ""insider"", explain all the retardation you were spewing earlier. I'm glad it turned out not to be true but goddamn that was some fever dream shit.

>>5262364
The one unit looks like it's a flamethrower so it definitely does seem like a repurposed Forge. I wonder if this means they'll consider Forge off the table for the future? On one hand I'm sad, but on the other holy shit Cowboys sound cool as hell.

I do hope this'll be a Good faction though, we already have 4 neutral factions and don't need a 5th.

>>5262372
I think the Forge is supposed to be an evil faction.

>>5262380
Yeah, and this isn't Forge, and it definitely doesn't look evil. I'm expecting it to be Neutral, but I'm hoping it's Good.

>>5262384
What faction is it?

>>5262387
Factory.
Some sort of a Forge spin-off with cowboy/steampunk gnomes

>>5262391
and evil hobbits

>>5262396
And MEGADRAGONS

>>5262361
Going with steampunk forge over sci fi forge is easily the BEST design decision they could've taken. Also, nice terrain, HotA gets SUCC before SUCC is out. We'll never get the SUCC.

>>5262391
Forgot to post teaser for those who are intrested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTXUglrxUQc

>>5262364
>>5262396
>>5262397
Well They just shifted bandits town to be released after this "forge"

I swear on Lord Boragus grave.

>>5262401
SUCC is a lie.

Succ is buggy shit

there is no limit to building and refresh resources each time

Shit

>>5262406
5 years of wait.

>>5262406
D-delet these lies, it's the neatest release in the history of neat releases.

>>5262406
>>5262413

>>5262401
>steampunk forge over sci fi forge
tasteless faggot

>>5262406
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ocyg2jqc4hzi89v/H3SW%20v0.8.0%20Installer.exe?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR090Lz2cG7CujnZ7rdurZQyEvsdXOAIOeg3ZGTAO5Vcq44ndTt_mrAUBoM
has it fixed

>>5262416
>any kind of forge in homm

>>5262447
>Being upset a science fiction game has science fiction elements in it

>>5262450
NWC got death threats from HoMM3 fans when they announced the Forge in AB.

>>5262416
>>5262447
>>5262450
See, personally I'm not against Forge or scifi in HoMM, MM was oldschool fantasy jank from the start.
What I take issue with is how shitty and lazy the OG Forge concept was. It's like they turned the jank up to 11 with the mishmashed buildings and units. I mean come on, modern looking skyscrapers and runways?

>>5262397
Do they have Monster Trucks?

SUCC is shit

doesn't work properly in HD Mod

>>5262416
Fuck off, it's impossible to visually integrate.

Why is this general so fast now? Where are you niggers coming from?

>>5262634
It started when someone got too cranked up on that CNN "Russia is to blame for everything" shit because Orange Man Bad

>>5262634
>Be hobby community
>Xmas season hits
>Thread goes from 1 thread 2-4 weeks
>To 2-4 threads per Xmas

>>5262450
If it was done properly, nobody would complain. Everyone playing M&M games know they are pulp fantasy with fuckload of space tech scattered around.
But NWC simply did a half-assed concept with even worse designs for Forge, hence why everybody got triggered by it

>>5262634
>Kids and students got free time
>Surprised traffic goes up
Let me guess - you are one of those morons who truly believe summer is just a meme... right?

>>5262698
There are 2 kinds of HoMM fans:
Ones who played M&M games before HoMM and ones who never played/heard M&M. The science fiction part shocked them. But I agree that Forge looks fugly. They could do better, but they scrapped it.

>>5262703
Nah, after the outcry about the shit job it was too late. And I don't mind the fact we got Conflux out of the deal. Works much better for me.

>>5262703
I started with HoMM and later played through all of M&M, the science fiction part never bothered me ( I had played wizardry before). Was pissed me was the fuck ugly town and unit design.

>>5262709
It's pretty broken with 4 L7/week.
Phoenix:
Fastest creature
Armageddon
Resurrection

>>5262716
>REEEEE CONFLUX OP DURRR
Whatever

>>5262709
>And I don't mind the fact we got Conflux out of the deal. Works much better for me.
We didn't get Conflux out of Forge getting scrapped. Forge was going to come first, and Conflux second. Forge getting scrapped just means they had to rush Conflux which is why it's a mess with reused assets.

>>5262716
Not to mention FREE magic schools right in the town.

>>5262703
I was like that and finished mm6 a month ago for the first time, you probably seen my posts above.
I still think that homm will be better without scifi stuff.

>>5262703
The main "problem" here is very simple:
HoMM never before used any sci-fi stuff. Just being related to M&M is not enough of an excuse, especially if the HoMM pretty much deliberately sticked to "clear" fantasy for the duration. Sudden appearance of high-tech sci-fi and of a really fucking low quality in the same time caused a JUSTIFIED uproar.
Want to introduce sci-fi into predominately fantasy setting. How about doing it Thorgal's style? Or Conan, for fuck's sake.

>>5262809
>The main "problem" here is very simple:
Yes, homm3 babies didn't bother to play anything other than homm3.

>>5262809
The problem is that you don't argue for it.
You say "Its bad" without really saying what its bad, and then idiots reply to that instead of calling you a moron.
Such is debate culture

>>5262824
>Let me intentionally and deliberately miss the point
>While complaining about "babies"

>>5262859
>Sudden introduction of something completely different
>Low quality of said introduction
>You are not saying why it's bad

Any review about SUCK Wars mod?

>>5263669
buggy, wait until a few updates

holy shit 0.8 SUCC is a buggy mess.
Not like I can't wait another year.

Literally why does anyone care about succ?

>>5264728
Because it's something new to talk about and it's an interesting project that marries two of /vr/'s favourite HoMM games.

MM threads have gone a long way from people still having the same endless theoretical debates on Capitol vs army, XP vs gold and the occasional dude getting stuck in one of the M&M6 dungeons, otherwise I figure they'd die.
Though it used to be somewhat more comfy and less hostile.

>>5259934
>What baffles me in later Heroes is that concept artists are clearly trying - but the result is shit that looks both weird as fuck and generic "spooky glowing things" fantasy. Sometimes simplier things are just better.
The problem with heroes 5 at least certainly lies with the underlying art direction. For some inexplicable reason they ditched the fairy tale/mythological aethetic, and went for a WoW/anime look,

>>5264795
Fact: Troglodytes are the most powerful race in MM

>people are glad the forge was cancelled

THe Conflux is easily the worst faction in the history of the series. It doesn't have any coherent theme, they just threw a bunch of neutral creatures (the elementals) together and the new one they came up with (magic elemental? seriously?) is mindbogglingly stupid. It's blatantly obvious they slapped it together at the last minute after the fan outcry made them scrap the forge.

>>5264795
>never take these units with your main hero
>Troglodytes
>Gnolls
>Imps
>Gremlins???
Excuse me? Shakti? Drakon? Even fucking Ignatius? Tower's entire early game is about hoarding MGs.

>>5264806
>Implying goblins with laser pistols would be better

>>5262939
>Have a wacky post industrial society
>With magical weapons
>And references everywhere to "The heavenly Forge"
>Even gameplay focused around turning your hero from a mere warmonger into a intercontinental WMD
Forge's problem is that its not wacky. Its a terrible lineup instead of something far more wacky and tasteful

>>5264810
Dude never plays multiplayer I bet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Nb6R5UAjg

KINO

>>5264806
And somehow forge is even worse, really makes you think.

>>5264806
>Goblins with laser blasters
>zombies with chainsaws
>ogres with bazookas
>minotaurs with jetpacks
>nagas with caterpillar tracks

>better

>>5264871
I can't imagine a single player map where I'd ignore Gremlins as Tower. Maybe if I was playing Piquedram's Bizarre Adventure. What the fuck, really.

why not make another human town but make them distinctly different to the castle

>>5264914
Eh, in single player you could afford to turtle quite a bit more. It's less critical to get going withing the first week or two.

>>5264925
There has been some work done on Cathedral town which was basically the evil castle, and it supposed to appear in Hota, but unfortunately it seems that it was canned.
http://heroes3towns.com/?town=cathedral&page=arts

>>5264925
what's the point of making same shit?

>>5264795
>don't buy fast as fuck no retaliation units

>>5264981
He said pixies, not fairies.
Pixies are for spanking.

>>5264864

>>5264795
Is this bait?

>>5264928
But it's a shooter. It's a first day shooter. If you don't pick it, you literally don't have army for the first two weeks.

>>5265016
Not at all suggesting it would be a good idea nor something there is really any reason whatsoever to do, just that it would be feasible in SP given that the AI is not very dangerous or fast.

>>5265012
I can respect imageposting at the least.
But arguments need to be made in order to convince people, or at the least share a opinion that isn't just surface level.

brehs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9H_3rX_NG8

>>5265593
>demo video
lots of praise
download, install = errors + bugs

>>5264929
good because it's dumb unless theyre trying to make some argument that it's Karigor or something, which is still dumb
because as we all know
KARIGOR
WAS A BLACK MAN

Might & Magic VII was released Jan 2, 1999.
Happy birthday MM7.

>norwegians are barbarians
>anglos are elves
>spanish and italians are humans
>
>frenchmen are necros

>>5266258
> Russians are Space aliens

>>5266296
>poles are trolodytes

>>5266403
As a Pole, I'm ok with that.

So far only thing I miss in SUCC is ability to view entire inventory at once. It was convenient for knowing how many free slots I had left.

>Why yes I am of polish descent, what gave it away?

>>5267197
>Mjutsuzsbjjcztojtzuch Nazichenazlocwbjostzuskalich
what did he mean?

>>5265054
... what if I tell you I'm not Anglo-Saxon nor Protestant and thus I find no point in arguing, as I'm aware this won't convince you regardless of quality of arguments to anything at all and only entrench you deeper? You already have your own stance and nothing is going to change it, as long as you won't change it yourself.
tl;dr pic related

>>5267197
300 of those assholes slap your dragon's ass what do
shoulda picked imps if you wanted to insult Poles

So I just finished StarCraft and Brood War and I'm thinking about giving HOMM3 a shot.
Which version should I get?

>>5267709
not steam

>>5267709
Grab the GOG version and install the HD mod. Then, if you're still craving more content, there's mods you can slap on the game. Your best bet would be WoG or HotA. I'm more partial to HotA myself because it's more straightforward, like an expansion pack, but WoG adds a whole lot of shit you can turn on and off as you please.

>>5264882
Unironically enjoyed it

>>5267709
SUCK Wars mod

What's your favorite and least favorite faction on a purely aesthetic level?

>>5267807
>favourite
Fortress, it's just quite original, has great music too.
>least favourite
Conflux, it's uninspired and the Town Hall building hurts my eyes.

>>5267807
Does the town has to be "fully build" or some things can be skipped? Because there is a point where Rampart is fucking perfection... and then you add few other buildings and it's overloaded with shit.
>least favourite
Definitely Necropolis. Half of the buildings looks like shit, the background (dried bottom of a fucking lake) is shit and it's all just meh.

>>5267816
>Conflux
>Unappealing
Nigga...

>>5267709
Avoid steam and avoid the HD version from Ubi.
Either get a torrent with some old release of SoD or get it from GOG and install HD mod over it. Or ignore the HD mod.

If you want mods that are MODULAR and just add what you want them to add - WoG. Bunch of utility options that are very useful, rest can be ignored (and really should be). HotA is a mixed bag just like WoG, but that bag is mandatory - you either take it all or none at all.
And to repeat myself - install HD MOD. Do NOT buy HD version of the game, as it's baseline HoMM3 without the expansions.

>>5267816
>Conflux, it's uninspired
It has pixies, who are the only spankable things in HoMM3.
Okay, Pegasus riders come second.

>>5267923
Are elves spankable too?

>>5267948
No. They have pants and tunics, and I'm pretty sure they're actually male.
It's gay to spank a male I think.

>>5267951
HoMM3 elves are males, but HoMM4 elves looks like females. They are busty in the battlefield, and they looks like female in the portrait.

>>5267985
They are also way too slender. I feel like you could break all their bones by slapping them too hard and send them ragdolling.

>>5267951
Naga, Harpy and Medusa are female too. Are they spankable?

>>5267995
>water snake butt
>bird butt
>snek butt
No. HoMM would have to go full Korean to get spankable characters.

>>5268000
HoTA has nymphs and sea witches for spanking.

>>5268002
Nymphos?

>>5268006
http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Nymph_and_Oceanid

>>5268009
>Horn of the Abyss is an unofficial expansion on the same level as Armageddon's Blade and Shadow of Death.
Starting to get curious about how many mods are out there.
Also, Sea Witches are definitely bulliable.

>>5268017
Sea Witches can cast weakness on you. They laugh at your bullying.

>>5268028
Urgh. This is why I stick to HoMM4 and its manageable-sized pixies.

Are there any custom campaigns or mods that feature campaigns on the level of Armageddon's Blade or Shadow of Death? Apart from HotA.

>>5268234
Never tried it.

https://www.hota.acidcave.net/download_various.html

On Heroes Community board przemo877 posted his conversion of the Heroes I campain and 4 campaigns from Heroes II expansion pack. You can spot a few differences in those maps for obvious reasons and sometimes changes were made for a climate puropose.

>>5268234
You could download Chronicles custom campaigns I guess, some of them are pretty decent.

>>5268234
Try Eternal Love.

>>5268234
Entire HoMM4?

MM4 question that's been bugging me since 20+ years ago. Is it possible to kill Lord Xeen (the last boss of MM4) without the Xeen Slayer Sword? This is in MM4 only, so no MM5 installed (World of Xeen).

>>5268794

Ya I've finished all of those.

>>5269939
Even addons for homm4? Are they good?

>>5260558
Beta 0.8 is up.

I tried to let people know <a href="//boards.4channel.org/v/thread/445412559#p445412559" class="quotelink">>>>/v/445412559,</a> but nobody seems to care.

>>5270076
>/v/

>>5270092
Elitism coming from /vg/ and /vr/ is misplaced, the only reason /v/ seems worse is the volume. Its the same retards posting everywhere, only we post more in the fast moving board.

>>5270020
they are terrible and obvious cash grabs before going under

>>5270094
>Elitism
The point is, you stupid motherfucker, average /v/ user is younger than HoMM3

>>5270097
>obvious cash grabs before going under
Considering they were the only way for NWC to have even a sliver of hope they will survive the collapse of 3DO as independent dev studio, rather than going under with entire corporate structure, I don't really mind. Also, the crunch time was insane for those.

>>5270020
I finished one of the add-ons, I think. It's been more than ten years.

The campaign was passable, but not on the level of the original HoMM IV campaigns. The writing was at best mediocre.

>>5270217
Shut your whore mouth, HoMM IV is magnificent.

>>5262361
>Todd

>>5270496
>see that shooter stack? you can clear it!

>>5270507
Anon, get on times. Todd currently is completely silent and holed up in his secret vault under Bethesda's main office, waiting for the fallout of FO76 to clear out.
Oh the puns!

>>5270284

>>5270284
HoMM IV is the best for spanking pixies.

>>5270496
>>5270518
who is todd?

>>5270076
That's because succ is a stupid meme mod.

>>5270535
nevermind, i found him. he's that fallout guy.

>>5270547
>he's that fallout guy
He's much more than that:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFcLyDb6niA
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uOPGkEJ56Q

>>5270496
Thanks I needed that laugh.

>>5270530
That too.

>>5270284
Add-ons suck ass. Gameplay-wise, HoMM 4 is a mess, with a lot of great things (heroes as units, hero-less armies, caravans, choice of units per tier) and equal number of horrible things (predominately related with flat-out broken AI script). Campaigns from vanilla game were golden, thou. A Pirate's Daughter a best.

>>5270565
>Add-ons suck ass
You wot mate

>>5259994
this is amazing

>>5270570
>Blatantly clear rush job on every step
>Poor map design eveb for HoMM4 standards
>Weak-ass writing

>>5264882
That was fun.

>>5270616
>Weak-ass writing
m8 fuck off

>>5270669
Nigger, you are getting tiresome at this point. Even NWC openly admitted they did a poor job with the add-ons in terms of writing. And even without that, the disparity in quality between vanilla game and add-ons is so huge you could cram inside your mom

>>5270731
t. Mongo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Dz8mKgeOs
Since the RPG thread bring him up...

>>5270731
You don't fuck with Spazz Maticus, a young king on a mad conquest to rule the world, son

>>5270740
... I just posted his video, so go fuck yourself with a rusty piece of rebar

>>5270743
t. Mysterio

>>5270731
>he doesn't like Spazz Maticus, a young king on a mad quest to rule to world

>>5270738
>Polish peasants
>kurwa jebać

>>5270284
HoMM IV is like Star Wars prequels

mostly hated but still better than sequels

>>5270778
I grew up with the original Star Wars. Don't fucking get me started.

>>5270778
>Comparing HoMM to Star Wars
>Even implying HoMM is this fucking bad
Daytime in States is in full effect I guess

Hey /vr/, what am I now?

>>5270907
Losing.

>>5270907
Still better than Tower.

>>5271182
>Inferno
>better
>than Tower
Pick one

>>5270094
Third post is already complaining that the graphics is shit, which is objectively wrong.

>>5271661
>Taste and opinion
>objectively

>>5269274
No. It is immune to all damage types (Fire, Ice, Poison, Electricity, Magic, Energy, Physical) in both MM4 standalone and WoX. The Xeen Slayer Sword doesn't actually have a damage type, and getting it messes up the balance in the rest of the game. For example Winterkill becomes a normal hack and slash like anywhere else despite the immunity to physical damage.

If you do have WoX, using it on Darkside will always allow you to effectively cheese several fights with high physical resistance or outright immunity such as Gamma Gazers, Minotaurs, and the Water/Air Elementals in their planes. Where it is the most broken is the Mega Dragon. The Mega Dragon has 100% immunity to all damage types other than physical which it is 90% resistant to. This is supposed to be a ridiculously annoying fight as it has an aoe instant eradication move every round with 200 speed and tons of hp (64000 I think). If you use the Xeen Slayer Sword though, since it has no damage type, it does full damage and you can easily kill the Mega Dragon in 1-3 rounds with endgame characters.

>>5271872
Just check the MM4 hintbook. You're right about Xeen's immunity.

That Xeen Slayer Sword to kill MM5 Mega Dragon looks interesting. When I finished MM5, I had deleted the MM4 (I borrowed both MM4 & MM5 from a friend). So I didn't have the Xeen Slayer Sword. Is it possible to get the sword in MM5 magic mirror? I'll keep in mind about this trick when I try WoX someday.

>>5271965
The Mega Dragon fight was really hard. I use the default party and only the Knight was able to stand its attack. I don't remember the party average level, but I'd completed MM5 before facing it. I used a cheat tool called Game Wizard, it's a TSR (terminated & stay resident) program that you can use to edit the memory. It also can save state your game. I used it because my party was down to a single char, the Knight. And I used save state everytime the Mega Dragon eradicate him.

>>5271779
Are you retarded? How is the Heroes 2 graphics ugly? You can't give me one good reason why it's ugly. He finds something objectively good looking ugly, thus his subjective taste and opinion is shit, not the graphics.

>>5271965
If you are talking about the "I lost It", yes that works in vanilla MM4. Using the code in Clouds still gives a Xeen Slayer Sword though and the question was do you need a Xeen Slayer Sword. No it does not work with the MM5 mirrors.

You can skip all the progression other than Cave of Illusion (using skulls for stats as necessary for the cupie doll requirements)-> Tower of High Magic -> Darzog's Tower -> Clouds -> Castle Xeen

>>5270743
>>5270731
T. Mungo the unga bunga barbarian

>>5256864
is there a way to take shit out of the garrison

>>5272473
You can't unless whoever made the map lets you.

>>5271991
The default party isn't great. Rangers are garbage and the knight really doesn't add anything. It's been decades since I played vanilla MM5, so I forget if they used the same party (I would always install Clouds with floppies and then hit the option to to combine into World when installing Darkside). Since you are already low on magic a barbarian isn't nearly as useful as he is if you are stacking yourself with Clerical and Sorcerer school casters (Paladins and Archers get the same spells at double cost and half the spell point pool).

The OP pastebin has downloads for MM1-8 as well as some strategy notes, although the ones for 6-8 are more detailed because more people play them.

>>5266225
Huh, I just won MM7 for the first time a few minutes ago. What a coincidence. That segment where you go into the sea with those diving suits was spooky as hell. I wish that area was a bit bigger and had some more enemy variety.

>>5272212
Can you read? Because I have serious doubts here. Nobody said ANYTHING about them being ugly. It was your retardation and lacking reading comprehension driving you to even more absurd conclusions, taken drectly from your ass.
And my point was very fucking simple: tastes are subjective, period. Takes to be a stupid nigger like you to think otherwise

>>5273576
>why fuck up the graphics
Yeah, totally doesn't imply that Heroes 2 graphics is bad. Retard.
And yes tastes are subjective, doesn't mean they can't be wrong and bad.
Now fuck off back to /v/.

>>5267697
trogboys RISE UP

>>5267709
>>5267720
>>5267712
the one in the pastebin retards

>>5273612
Oh, so you can't read

>>5273621
Oh yeah, I forgot we had one. Still makes it the GOG version.

>>5274104
You're an idiot.

Is this Jon Van Caneghem himself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP233gXpZpY

>>5274163
Says the guy who has reading comprehension of a first grader

>>5274178
>yfw

>>5264806
Idk, I kinda like the way the magic elementals attack by exposing themselves - they're like weaponized flashers.

>>5274182
Is this supposed to be your auto-reflection on your retardation, you illiterate piece of shit?

>>5264806
>The setting is M&M
>REEEEEEEE the only elements that could be are the Greek four!

>>5264806
>>5275273
And if anything, it was Psychic elemental that was weird.

>>5275275
They should've named him Aether elemental instead.

>>5275282
The fuck is aether?

>>5275318
that shit that make your soul burn slow
>fuck Jay Z

>>5275318
Are you serious?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)

>>5267697
>her first love
kinky

>>5270778
Heroes 5 ToE was good

>install horn of the abyss
>start some balanced map
>initial enemies are 120 imps, 120 pikemen, etc

I am sorry, what? Just what? What.
Am I misremembering, or did it used to be 18-25 enemies instead of 100+?

>>5275318
air on steroids

Why exactly is it that every faction is multi-racial except Castle and Necro?

>>5275502
Geopolitics.

>>5275502
>Griffins are human

>>5275502
But you have both human skeletons AND dragon skeletons. Just because they're both dead doesn't mean that they're the same race.

>>5275518
>>5275524
I mean the Heroes, all the other factions has at least two different races, while Castle just has humans and Necro just has humans in various states of undeath.
>>5275508
What does it really say that humans are one of the few races capable of having a wide variety of goals and ideological inclinations?

>>5275356
homm v was never good

>>5275549
Doesn't look very monoracial to me. There is even a token nigger like a proper multi-culti society.

>>5275560
Cool it with the racist remarks, this is 4channel and it has no place here.

>>5275560
Negromancers are a thing.

>Warlocks are evil druids

In MM7 promotion for druid is warlock

Is this a thing or they just run out of ideas?

In AB Orwald from Mutare's campaign is druid but he is described as Warlock
I know it's because he is just Coronius with a different portrait so he could have Dragon Slayer specialty
but is this actually a part of official M&M lore?

So warlocks are druids who hate nature?

>>5275502
>>>/pol/

>>5275734
triggered? Good

>>5275764
>triggered?
>>>/pol/

>>5275770
>>>/lgbt/

>>5275764
You just answered yourself why people hate you, /pol/tard

>>5275771
>>>/lgbt/
>>>/pol/

>>5275635
Its kind of a thing.
Druids engage with nature because its natural.
Warlocks try to dominate nature, creating armies of monster familiars and enslaved dragons.
This is even reflected in HOMM1 and HOMM2 where the Warlock factions are monster factions

>>5275794
Wouldn't Necromancers be opposite of Druids then?

>>5275794
>Anglos and their retarded naming conventions for different kind of magic men

>>5275776
>le stormfags
The leftoid in your cap is seething.

>>5275502
EDRIC
WAS A BLACK MAN

>monthly succ wars check

>>5275817
what?

>>5275909
Only gay nerds care about this mod, if you want HoMM2 aesthetics, just play HoMM2, if you want good gameplay, just play HoMM3.

>SUCC
>Made in WOG
>Not in HoTA

No wonder it SUCCs

>>5276002
If your language has more than single term for magic using person, it's just as retarded as English

>>5276071
I doubt there are very many languages where that is the case, and the times where that is the case would likely be highly isolated tribal languages.

>>5276109
>>5276071
I can name 4 words for magic user in Russian.
I think you got it backwards, best languages have plenty of synonymous.

>>5276132
Only 4? That is surprisingly few for a european language, do you not use gendered words or are you perhaps not counting them?

>>5276139
My vocabulary shrunk pretty hard when I stopped reading books and mostly started reading internet.

>>5276071
In Poland there are at least 7 words for magic users as synonymous of the word "wizard"

>>5276152
Read books fren
>>5276157
Yep, it's such a major part of almost any even slightly sophisticated culture that it would be strange to only have one word. Even if there are languages with only one word (which I somewhat doubt) it would have to be the language of some hunter-gatherer tribe in the Kalahari desert or some small island in the pacific ocean.

>>5275812
Necromancers end up being the least unified faction, because its a bunch of Liches recruiting random people to run a empire.
Most of the melee commanders in HOMM is Liches, because its just a matter of using Soul Jars and bang: Immortality minus flesh

>>5276219
They're all just humans though, why are there no elf, dorf or troglodyte liches?

>>5276139
>european language
Cyrillic is just an asian equivalent of Latin.

>>5276249
>Cyrillic
>asian

>>5274165
looks like his crooked teeth

>>5276064
cuck

>>5276234
Are Might & Magic elves and dwarves long-lived? Human mages go for lichdom more because of the fear of death, beating mortality, and getting to continue pursuing their magic research.

>>5276478
Might &Magic is D&D clone so I guess so

>>5276132
There is a difference between synonymous (which is how it works in Russian) and random, autistic classification that makes no sense (English)

>>5276249
>Greek alphabeth
>Asian

>>5276478
But what about the troglodytes? Or minotaurs? Cows only live like 20 years at most...

>>5276483
I doubt they are synonyms, if Russian is anything like most other European languages.

>>5276483
>which is how it works in Russian
Yeah, sure чepнoкнижник, вoлшeбник and кyдecник are totally interchangeable. Fuck off.

>>5276494
Minotaurs are abomination inbreed magical creatures.

>>5276494
And that's how long they live

>>5276526

>>5276064
HoMM 2 town musics are the best.

>>5277043
Иди нaхyй co cвoими cмищными кapтинкaми.

>>5276526
>Implying they aren't all pagan satanist that should burn
>Implying the difference between the first two isn't superflous

>>5277194
You can download HoMM2 from the pastebin and play it whenever you want or even search for the music on youtube.com if all you want to do is listen to it, hope this helps :)

>>5277221
No. First is a strictly negative term, second - neutral to positive.

>>5277250
I have the MP3 of the musics since early 2000.

>>5274165
sicknasty trailer and song
makes me want to try the game

>>5277970
sadly it's total shit

>>5277252
Found the pagan satanist to burn. On Christmas, no less!

>>5278152
Anus burn yourself, dog.

>>5275271
Stop feeding that idiot.

>>5276478
>the mage strives to let the skeleton out

>>5277250
it runs like shit on win10 though
inb4 >win10

Will Factory be as lore-friendly as Cove (Regnan Pirates)?

They look like a mix of tech-savy and barbarian. Maybe they're from the Krewlod-Bracada borderlands, like a rogue splinter faction. What do you think?

>>5278568
I don't see anything barbarian-ish about them. Currently they've shown off Gnomes(?), Flamethrower, Cowboys, and Wind-Serpents. I've been seeing people mention they're gnomes. I don't know M&M lore well, so I don't know where they place there.

I imagine they must have some lore explanation for them, I can't see them devoting so much time for something with no lore explanation at all.

>>5278580
>gnomes
Eofol used to be the domain of Halflings before the Kreegans razed it, right? Maybe Factory is supposed to be Eofol after the Armageddon's Blade campaign. The Kreegans are gone and the midgets return to their scorched homeland.

>>5278646
What happens after the end of AB is that Enroth explodes though

I have a weird bug in MM8

I don't have dragons in character creation

weird

>>5278656
reinstall

>>5278656
uninstall

>>5278661
>>5278690
didn't help

>>5278746
?
Worked on my machine

>>5278894
>>5278746
sent you the solution in a pm ;)

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>>5276139
>Only 4? That is surprisingly few for a european language, do you not use gendered words
Not him, but even without gendered words (which don't exist for every word) there's plenty of terms:
1. Maг mag "mage"
2. Boлшeбник volshébnik "sorcerer" / вoлшeбницa volshébnitsa "sorceress"
3. Кoлдyн koldún "wizard" / кoлдyнья koldún'ya "female wizard"
4. Чapoдeй charodéy "enchanter" / чapoдeйкa charodéyka "enchantress"
5. Beдьмa véd'ma "witch" / вeдьмaк ved'mák "witcher"
6. Beдyн vedún "witch doctor" / вeдyнья vedún'ya "female witch doctor"
7. Знaхapь znákhar' / знaхapкa znakhárka - synonymous with the previous one
8. Чepнoкнижник chernoknízhnik "warlock" / чepнoкнижницa chernoknízhnitsa "female warlock"
9. Шaмaн shamán / шaмaнкa shamánka - self-explanatory

>>5272285
Yes, the "i lost it" code in the mirror. So the codes only works in their respective worlds? Like codes for warping to certain cities in Cloud must be done in Cloud mirrors? Code for warping to certain cities in Darkside must be done in Darkside mirrors?
>>5272641
I don't remember either. I used the default party in MM3, MM4 and MM5. Also in Sword of Xeen, I think. The Ranger/Druid has some unique spells like Water Walking. The default party in MM3 doesn't have Ranger/Druid and I picked the Archer in first town and another knight in second town. I almost stucked because the Swimming skill only let me travel near the shore. I think I use the magic etherealize to move move to the sea from the shore. And I think I had to recast the spell everytime I move from 1 square to another in the sea (no water walking). I remember trying to use etherealize near the edge of the screen (the black area), my party fell to their death.

>>5280551
Yes the mirror codes are unique across the 2 games and only apply to the one you are in.

Water walking is the only spell even worth noting in the druidic school in MM3(all unique druid spells were moved to the sorcerer or clierical schools in Xeen) and as noted you get around that with Etherialize. If you had to have it you can always hire the Ranger in Wildabar, cast Water Walk, and then dismiss. Nature's Gate was the only other really distinct spell and that wasn't much more useful than regular Town Portal even on the right day. The only new places you could get to without existing Mirror Codes or Town Portal were Castle Blackwind and Castle Greywind (and only on the specific day of the week), which were optional anyway because the sequencing codes were already given by the lion statues in the pyramid by Baywatch.