Game is so good that it destroys the franchise and developer

>weeb
>retarded
checks out

>make the game exactly the same as the previous one
>"game made for a quick buck. you're not doing anything to push the series forwards."
>try to innovate and push the envelope with its gameplay mechanics
>"this isn't HoM&M, everything's so different. i hate things that are different."

im right and you know it. name one thing HoMM does better than MoM.

This.4, 6 and 7 are unironically good games but they are being hated by autists that don't want to play anything different than 3

God Gothic 1/2 were good. 3 was of too big a scope but could have been good. Risen 1 was alright, Elex was alright. Gothic 1/2 are my favourite rpgs

gothic 1 was not good and also not a rpg

he's stronghold. not inferno

sure but you can find him in the first inferno campaign mission i think

Please describe the things you enjoyed about 6. I've literally never met anyone who's described it as good

Explain

Why does every heroes 3 thread have to be filled with autists screaming about how their favourite game is better

I haven't played heroes chronicles before, are they worth playing? I've heard they're very difficult but that was from my friend who's a casual

I remember when Heroes threads used to mean something.

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At least IVfag isn't shitting it up yet

Heroes chronicles are very easy, certainly easier than base RoE campaigns.
I remember only one semi-hard mission where enemy could pick units from two garrisons(it was probably just overlooked).

because it's a "defend your shooters" game and you only have one shooter unit, which kills your own defenders

Really? That's a shame. I liked the increasing difficulty of the expansions.

I did just see that cove has a campaign so I might do that instead

I don't think you have that much experience playing HoMM3 if that is what you believe

Fun fact: HoTA fixed it, you can manually aim the Magog fireball now as to not hit your own shit.

Just get tactics and/or air magic.

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Magogs are still shit considering the upgrade is +50 gold per unit
But Inferno ain't really about Gogs anyways. Either go full spellcasting & spell power, or tactical, aggresive, offensive combat spoiler]or cheesy shit like Demon farming or Efreetgeddon[/spoiler]. Inferno is decent town if you're able to exploit their strengths

I'd rather use mass slow than mass haste

Tactics is a given but you still wanna defend your shooters from fast units

Crossbows are probably more realistic. The only European nation in the middle ages that extensively used longbows was the Brits.

I always liked picking that one Fortress character who started with Basilisks. Why was he the exception to the rule?

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based and bronpilled

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Are they still so overpowered? Other than that I motherfucking love that town and the whole mod.

c-can we be part of this thread too?

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how's m&m X?

Yes. Contrary to popular taste, I like VIII, VII and then VI the most. They are all fucking great though.

THAT SOUNDTRACK

I personally prefer Drakon or Wystan for early game Fortress
You do get 130 movement points if you leave Gnolls at your base as a Bron, but mass stacks of either Gnolls or Lizardmen have better output damage

>tfw too dumb to git gut

Whoops, 200 movement points
I forgot that Basilisks have speed 5 and not 4

VIII was the first one I played and I liked it a lot, but I might have a personal bias. I really enjoyed VII as well. I haven't played VI yet, but I plan to eventually.
>tfw no dark elf gf

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He gets 2-4, right? He was never my starter but I always tried to get him.

At first I thought it'd be too OP for any other nation to have 4 level 4s as a starting army but basilisks are pretty good. Vampires wouldn't be upgraded so they're not too good, swordsmen are kinda meh, demons aren't great.

Only ones that might be an issue are ogres and maybe silver pegasi. It's a shame, could have been a fun mechanic

can't you recruit him from the tavern and keep him in later missions?

They get +1 speed from bron every 4 levels too, I'm pretty sure

For specialties you get static +1 speed, it does not increase with levels. Only attack and defence stats do, don't remember the formula, though I believe it's like 5% per 4 levels, coresponding with tier of unit

Why does this early 2000s rendering look like lots of modern celebrities

Are plastic surgeons might and magic fans or does plastic surgery just give you less facial polygons?

>tfw no dark elf gf
Truly, the pain is real. Also no minotaurbro and dragonbro.

Anyone doing you're MoM

I think "sexy" look is universal through entire time.

You are the only person I’ve seen praise heroes 4 besides mtself. It was a childhood favorite so it will always have a place in my heart

Nah, homm4 has fans, it's just h3 people are way more vocal and numerous.

Huh, I've been leveling those guys pointlessly then, I always thought that was the only way to get something faster than a phoenix was levelling a specialist.

Fortunately I guess I've never had a plan hinge on that. Does bron get the speed bonus straight away or does he need ti be level 4 to get it?

He gives +1 speed always and bonus to attack/defense depends on level, look at the table here.
heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Bron

Not as bad as expected but still not good.
They tried to get back to the roots a little bit too much, meaning you only can move in squares. Which is awful because as soon as you meet an enemy who is too powerful you might as well restart the game because you can't really flee from him, or use your surrounding to your advantage.
Like IX no dolls to dress anymore and the whole world is linear as fuck, with barely possibilities to explore since too strong enemies mean your certain death. I think I was able to do one branch before the object I was suppose to do first.
Therei still some elements for tactic, like magic attacks that hit on contact and/or move the enemy.
Another good thing is you can make notes on the map for teachers or other notable things.

I believe the speed bonus is active straight away since level 1, yeah
Then you've been either selectively or unconsciously ignoring blatant autistic screeching of HoMM4 fanboys for a long, long time

Not exactly. Sometimes Sneetches like stars on their bellies and sometimes they don't.

bone/ghost dragons are kawaii as fuck
i wanna snuggle with them

I think it's the pronounced cheekbones, women nowadays are painting on a contour on their face to look less fat and the dark elf has them because she's been given them specifically

Gothic 1 is the best Piranha Bytes game.

fuck you heroes 4 is one of my favourite games and has been since it came out, the overworld music in that game cannot be beaten

oh yes, i've recently played through mm6,7 and 8 for the first time ever, now on 9 which feels a bit clunky.
best one so far is mm 6 imo
it's fun, but it's a bit different from at least 6-8.

how are the earlier ones? mainly 3-5 or something

never really played this, just remember getting the demo disc with this and god of war as a kid and beating that

I think her render is a lot like those bikini models in the 80s and 90s, with that toned body and high cut look to her panties. It's a quite distinct kind of sexy.

Where my /comfymap/ peeps at?

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Why can't you fuckers make your own thread, goddamn.

I love them too, I know it's suboptimal but I turn all my dragons into ghost dragons.

Aging is really good when it procs with a big stack. Some people don't realize how much health they lose and underestimate ghost dragons so they attack them without baiting the retaliation and lose their stack of T7s

Working on my shit
Been experimenting a lot with the AI and testing tons of different maps I got recommended and how to properly time things

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>RPG lets you fly
>the only invisible walls are the very edges of the map
Why the hell is this so rare?

>kurva with simple v
Czech or Slovakian?

What's that mansion looking thing on the necropolis one? The thing opposite the vampire estate

Czech

>only game worth posting

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That's Mansion creature bank, addition in HotA
heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Mansion

All the broken and silly shit you could do with spells in the games were the best part.
>Can nuke the entire map at once if you're outdoors with one spell
>Can permanently reanimate the dead and kill them for experience
>Can permanently enchant items and weapons
>Town Portal you can cast while you're in combat
>Lloyd's Beacon

nah, they got toned down, and are pretty balanced currently, all things considered

Doufám, že nejsi z Prahy

Thanks, gonna give it a shot.

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5.5 is better than 3, search your feelings you know this to be true

Sice střední Čechy, ale od Prahé je to daleko, klid kamaráde

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Kids in gradeschool and highschool in Croatia are still playing HoMM3, Stronghold and Unreal Tournament.
My theory is that they've been passed on for multiple generations now through shitty school computers.

Velmi dobře. Parádní mapy btw

I don't know, it's part of why I love morrowind so much

To add in flying you have to have an open world and as well my guess would be they don't add it in as flying can trivialise a lot of stuff. Combat with anything without a ranged attack is easy and you can fly over common obstacles like lava or spikes. Also games devs are lazy and wouldn't add in anything to reward you for having it like they did in morrowind.

Your language holds no secret from me.
t. Polish

just cheat your way to the better campaigns

Absolutely based. My favorite castle and incredibly strong defensively if you know what to do.

Learn your place kreegan trash.

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>tfw terrible inter-slavic
t. Croat

My bone nigga

Oh, neat. I've just started with HOTA and I haven't seen one yet. I was putting it off because I like necropolis and I don't like the halved necromancy.

I did like the admirals hat though, it makes boats actually useable

Slav power
Slova/inska moc/sila

saved

Heroes thread přivede slavs. No surprise.

>Working on my shit
I'm glad to hear that! I'm making a concept for Rampart, though I might move the waterfall around a little bit.

>they've been passed on for multiple generations now through shitty school computers
Well, it certainly helps that all of the games you mentioned are objectively fun to play.

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Bracia!

What is it with this game and fucking slavs

>counterattacking one shitty pikeman takes full attention of 50 dragons in a stack

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slavs really like turn based strategy games for some reason, i think it's a similar deal with the disciples games

Bone pride world wide

There really aren't enough games where you can play as a necromancer

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PC gaming was huge in post-USSR countries because of the console embargo in early 90s. Even when PS1 got here, it was rather expensive.
It's not just HOM&M, tons of mid-90s PC game can be considered slavcore.

Not our fault slavs have universally good taste in games.
Can confirm, played a shitton of Disciples when I was younger. Shame about Disciples 3, it was shaping up pretty good when the last exapnsion came out and then they had to drop the game. Just before they were about to add Mountian Clans...

Is Heroes of might and magic really similar to master of magic? I only played master of magic and always craved for something similar to it.

they have nothing in common besides being fantasy sword & sorcery settings you dolt

comparing apples to philly cheesesteaks

Older games like Gothic and H3 have had a lot of traction in Eastern Europe because developments on the digital front tended to reach them later back in the day. Cult followings formed around those games and pretty much everyone that wanted to be a "cool kid" played them. The game is also incredibly multiplayer and mod friendly and can run on two rocks tied to a potato.

Darn. That looks great already
You definitely love that circular road design around Idol of Fortune, don't you

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>for some reason
Low system requirements, hot-seat, near infinite replayability and strong PC culture (aka, consoles were prohibitively expensive, at least for my household).

>you could split them up but you already have 7 different creatures in your army and there is nobody in the world capable of ordering around 8 different groups

We grew up with PCs instead of nintendos.
Heroes was one of the best PC games of late 90s early 00s, everybody has played it here

>but you already have 7 different creatures in your army
There's the first mistake.

>That looks great already
Thanks for the kind words!
>You definitely love that circular road design around Idol of Fortune, don't you
What can I say, I try to keep the design consistent across all maps.

Speaking of slavcore.
I hope I'm not the only one here who played pic related?

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>HoMM III in VR
Maybe this life is worth living after all.

I mean the rest of the world loves HoMM3 too, but we also love other games and genres. It seems the answer is this though As in you were too poor/backward to have all the newest consoles and high end PCs, so you got really obsessed with the old PC games you did have access to.

This. Only minority of minority rich kids had consoles. And we didn't had too many of them to start with. Computers were also promoted even by commies. We had these after-school activity groups, where you could join up (and were widely used by parents to get rid of you for a few hours a day) - from gym classes, athletics to even computers. Computer groups were usually about learning some basic programming, but everyone just misused it for gaming anyway. And since the instructors were usually some young guys who were there instead of military service and couldn't be bothered to do anything, they let us alone as long we didn't made too much of a fuss about it.

Just a demo. I must have played it tens of hours though.

>they have nothing in common besides being fantasy sword & sorcery settings you dolt
How can one man be so wrong? They are both 4x strategy games. They even have the same gimmicks with heroes being the main powerhouses, hilariously broken spells, capturing towns of other races to use their units, capturing resource nodes, having a separate map apart from the main one which you can shift between. Its like the same fucking game but MoM has like 20 more layers of complexity. The main difference is that HoMM is built off of King's Bounty whereas MoM is built off of Civ, but they are strikingly similar games.

There's some similarities but they're very different. Best way to see if you like it it just to play it. I find Dominions 5 is actually closer to master of magic though, the magic system is much closer

Also, >go to look up game play of Dragonbone staff since I've heard of it before
>go to youtube
>"hi and welcome to my lets plau, ladt time we..."
>Guy has less than 50 subscribers
>turn off sound but camera takes up a huge area and he spends ages being "quirky" with props, talking to action figures and wearing wigs

Why do people do this shit

Gonna elaborate Consoles were basically no-no for absolute majority of folks up until new millenium and PCs were still pretty scarce due to being expensive, especially when it came to high-performance rigs. For example, just the sound card like the Sound Blasters as expensive as twice the average monthly salary
That lasted pretty much to early-mid 90s as trade was getting established with former Bloc countries and accomodating to our economies. PCs usually still got shared on friend/family basis and there was solid internet cafe culture
To be all quite frank, PCs still tend to be kinda pricey when it comes to gaming rigs, usually reaching as high as 4-5 months average salary, though we'd be talking about the very latest technology

RPG is a sub-genre of strategy and implies strategic thinking as the main focus, but gameplay in Gothic 1 is overwhelmingly presented through exploration.(adventure) What few choices you have really don't matter, a fact further driven home by the final third of the game being completely on the rails and gives you so much items and stats that your character just becomes a jack of all trades.

Posting slavcore essentials.

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...

wish there was a hd version of this, couldnt stomach playing in low res with visual bugs

>Gorky
Fuck yeah. Loved it. Got original game somewhere.

Yeah, me too.

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Can't wait till you finish it up and hopefully follow with Inferno
Any plans on making Conflux and/or Cove?

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The best!
The best!
The best!

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Still have no idea why Spellforce isn't RPG/Strategy essential, period.

Those games were godlike. Even got a sequel last year, I think(it was pretty mediocre from what I've heard though).

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Spellforce 3 had some nice bits to it, but the game is a bit too drawn out. Spellforce 2 is awful though, while Spellforce 1 is absolutely fantastic, I had finally finished it and all its expansions with a single character. I think I did have to create a new one for one, but I'm not even sure now.

Thats actually the mansion building from Heroes 2, neat.

Ja jsem z prahy

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Same like the Black Tower is the Dragon dwelling from Warlock's town in HoMM2
heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Black_Tower

>archangels good at basically everything, have high hp, and are usually agreed upon as the best t7
>archdevils are fragile with low hp and only good for a single pathetic cheese strat revolving around their lack of enemy retal

Why did Inferno get so shafted?

Breath of Winter is unrelated to the base game.
However both of those have their finale in Shadow of the Phoenix.

Mandatory along with 2 and the expansion.

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Everyone constantly says this, but again, Hota kinda fixed this with addition of negative luck, Archs will legitimately shit on your damage with their -2 to luck unless you bathe yourself in luck bonuses.

BIJTE HO, PRAŽÁKA ZASRANÝHO
Just kiddin' man, jen si dělám prdel

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Love that cover. Greatest armpit hair of all time.

Vanilla H3 inferno is only good at one thing: farming insane demon stacks. If they can manage to get it going, there's absolutely nothing you can do to save yourself against 500+ horned demons at something like end of month 1.

it's fucking shit, I have no idea what you Slavs see in this game

No I mean it's weird that it says "so and so would like to join you but there aren't enough provisions to support them" regardless of whether your army is 7 pikemen spread over 7 groups or 9999 black dragons x 7. Doesn't seem so much like a provisions issue as a command issue

I know you should usually have a space free, maybe 2 if you have diplomacy

>hopefully follow with Inferno
Oh, definitely - I'm just having less and less time to work on them. Here's one of my previous concepts for Inferno!
>Any plans on making Conflux and/or Cove?
Of course, though I thought about making Conflux a neutral town which all the other players need to build a Grail in to win.

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how tf are you going to get 500demons month 1 without diplo?

Imagine having such shit taste.

>

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Pit Lords
Never heard of Demon power stack farming?

I love 4, but calling 6 a good game is just going too far.

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Is the HD version really that bad or are you just upscaling with SaI?

>mandatory such a shit taste post

Eat shit, you fucking mongloid

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I know about demon farming, I'm asking where do you get enough meat for them w/o diplo lol

so 7 is good?

That's why you take diplomacy.

any way to get bigger hud on hd patch?

diplo is banned in multi also it kinda breaks the game

xDD

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>shitposts
>gets a shitpost in turn
>waaah how dare you reply in kind to my shitpost
Learn to take it, boy.

>4
God-tier soundtrack
youtube.com/watch?v=hkDXNSWJLuo

what about tribes of the east

THIS THREAD NOW BELONGS TO THE ALLFATHER

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Without it, you should have about 130-150 which still is a considerable amount unless you play against something like perfect week 1 behemoths that isn't exactly easy to pull off.

>replies to a shitpost
>gets a shitpost in turn
>waaah learn to take it boy
>moral superiority achieved

My point stands, you guzzling buffoon

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>my shitposts are better than your shitposts
This isn't gonna end, you know.

Hold it right there bucko.

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>UNGA BUNGA ME PLAY NECRO ME AM GUD AT GAME

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rate all disciples games. which I should start with?

>this isn't gonna end

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Necro with Galthran ban is fairly balanced though.

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2. one is too janky, everything got refined in two and it hasn't aged very well. I have literally never heard anything positive about 3, so play at your own risk

Never actually played it, so can't really say. Appears to be better than 6, at least.
And linking the best song right away. Great taste! So good it was sold off to Japanese: youtube.com/watch?v=hHcrkxQ0Cks

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no

What's so special about this game? What makes it "one of the best games ever"?

>reaction image quote with a reiteration
I can do this all day, buddy old man.

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its easy and quirky, Yea Forums's favorite things

Play it and find out, we're not a H3 marketing department.

Perfect balance between "one more turn" and relaxing. Charming audio and graphics. Runs on thirty year old laptops. Massive nostalgia points. Take your pick.

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>mercury.jpg

All day my ass, faggot

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Don't really know how should I rate them based on a numerical value. Haven't played in a long time.
The story is pretty good in 1 and 2. Godly artstyle(though there is some issues with some units blending in with the overworld map, because there is a lot of brown in the palette).
All in all 1 and 2 offer a pretty unique spin on turn based stratedy they is distinct but not convoluted.

3 was bad, but it got much better with the lastest expansion. There were others in the works, but the publisher pulled the plug. It was too big of a departure from previous games though.
I'd say start with 1, and if you don't like it, skip it and go for 2 - it's got plenty of content with the expansions(you won't get all of the story nuances though).

age of wonders 3 any good?

>doesn't mention gameplay mechanics
user...

Played it, and enjoyed it.
No idea how it compares to the previous ones though.

>it's easy
try playing online fuccboi

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Based

Do these have artifacts and stuff addded or are these just for display, so to speak?

That's the "one more turn" and relaxing part. It just flows so nicely...

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break jebus week 1 kurwa

Most comfy game experience ever.

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Huh, interesting.
If I was a gamve dev studio CEO I would've chose between either Paul Anthony Romero or Jeremy Soule as music composer.

that's just saying it's addicting. what about the gameplay is so special that makes it GOAT? elaborate.

It's fun enough and pretty comfy in its own right:
>youtube.com/watch?v=XK7bT1aluPM

>Do these have artifacts and stuff addded or are these just for display, so to speak?
The map is primarily made for aesthetic purposes though it's perfectly playable, should you ever decide to use it as a part of your own map.

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For the sake of the experiment, if you'd get Castle as Inferno and 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th dwellings in a week, you'd get at max 18 demons altogether with the HP of Imps and Gogs at your disposal, making it 72 Demons in one month
If you would convert Cerberi to Demons as well, that would make +8 Demons per week, aka +32 by the end of the month. That's 104 Demons in a month so far. You could also turn Efreets and Devils, but I guess that'd be overkill
You will also probably turn every single stack of units that you'd get from the tavern, which means 2 heroes with armies per week, averaging about 200-300 HP per new hero, thus 500 HP to Demons means another 14 Demons per week, 56 by the end of the month, making it grand total 160 Demons
For the sake of experiment, let there be just a single another town, with dwellings up to 6th tier units and a Castle, to turn units into Demons, and you get averaging ~1700 HP to turn into demons per week, which makes 48 Demons per week, 192 by the end of the month, thus making it 352 Demons by the end of the month
Get a third town or turn higher tier units of Inferno into Demons and you're all well even without Diplo

>all these rules that get established for pvp
>all the balancing that happens
>but they still don't bother touching magic, and mass fucking slow is still a tier 1 spell
Why do they even bother pretending to balance when you have by far the best spell in the game day 1 with expert earth day 3 or 4 (if you're late), making early farming a complete joke? Heroes of Slow and Kite 3

That's a nice franchise you have there, it'd be a shame if something completely unrelated bankrupted its studio.

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Basically this.
Ahh.. cold autumn evening, raining outside, sitting with my good ol' IdeaPad Y550 back at uni times, playing SoD campaign with a mug of hot seasoned tea.
Good times.

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>literally every other reply is saying its good because its comfy or atmospheric
lel eat shit cunts, you know the only reason its popular is because its easy as fuck. play a man's game.

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Adding Kai Rosenkrantz. And Yuki Kajiura. Maybe not for a game.
It's one of those games that you play when you have a whole afternoon for yourself, so the addicting part is very relevant.
As far as I know H3 does not have any unique features when compared with other turn-based strategies. It just blends the core elements particularly well. The development of your army, the economical aspect and strategic layer on the map work very well together, and they're all just deep enough without feeling cumbersome. Additionally, lack of fog of war and turn based aspect to all management adds to the overall comfiness immensly.
Honestly, the strongest point of the game is the fact that it does not feature any glaring weaknessses that could put you off. Aside from Necro and Conflux being unbalanced pieces of shit towns if left unchecked.

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>wow most of the players are casuals, who would've thought!
kys yourself

There's still some minor shit like that you get the base growth of units when you buy their respective dwelling, giving some extra HP to throw around, buying units from external dwelling, finding units in Pandora's boxes, getting units from creature banks, etc.

>if 0.01% of the player population are speedrunner-tier autists that race to see who can break the game the fastest most contrived annoying way possible and win its a hard game!

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How is the balance atm, I remember Conflux and Necropolis were way overnerfed and went from best to worst

sounds like you're butthurt after getting suka blyadded by twenty angels on week 2

playing vs CPU doesn't fucking matter in most games

>how are the earlier ones? mainly 3-5 or something

I am to old for this board. Yea Forums where the fuck can you talk about game and game design!? Tell me you fucks!...please. Anyway user, the third one is widely considered as the best one. Play it.

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It's partially dependent on the template used, but Necro and Flux are still incredibly strong.

200% cpu in Heroes 3 can kill someone that doesn't know what they're doing and pretty much all of the campaigns ramp up in difficulty extremely quickly. The game is far from easy.

>Anyway user, the third one is widely considered as the best one.
No it isn't, this what happens when you let the retarded echo chamber of underage BRs on /vr/ influence your opinions. Xeen is exponentially more popular and slightly better, but they are both pretty good games.

Comfy isn't the opposite of challenging, you idiot.

It looks amazing, honestly. If you did add in the cove town as the neutral place to build a grail structure like you said, maybe added in a second town somewhere for each town(probably not needed with all the monster buildings) and added random treasure I'd never need another map again.

>Comfy isn't the opposite of challenging
the main draw of a strategy game shouldn't be that its 'comfy'

Oh wait I misunderstood. Thought we were talking about heroes. Please continue this worthwhile worthwhile discussion.

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>I'd never need another map again
Well, I might not get to live long enough to complete the map the way I envisioned it - after all, it took me over three months just to make the concept for Fortress (check the image posted here ) and I've been working on the Rampart map since January (though not in continuity). Best you check out much more prolific map creators on Maps4Heroes. Also, be sure to check out stuff made by Timothy Duncan (aka Corvidius) - the storyline in those maps is better than the entire HoMM campaign and they're pretty as well!
In any case, you may occasionally find me shitposting on /vr/'s HoMM general.

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The main draw of heroes is that it's a fun strategy game with hundreds of options to choose from. Being comfy is a side thing it does well, and since lots of people still play it 20 years later, it's probably something you should consider rather than just dismissing it out of hand.

Obviously you won't though because you just want to piss everyone off.

Cheydinhal
Home ...

Least it was before I discovered a spooky door in the basement of one of the abandoned houses

Hahaha XD

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I'll keep an eye out, I normally have a tab open with the VR thread open

Keep up the good work dude, everything you've posted is great

>read that cheydinhall was influenced by dark elf settlers
>loved morrowind so I excitedly set out to see some crab shell houses
>turns out dark elf influence manifests as a normal house with a purple roof

Thanks Todd

>Keep up the good work dude, everything you've posted is great
Thanks! Catch you on /vg/ some other time!

to be fair dark elf settlers dont' necessarily mean vvardenfell, and other dunmeri architecture is mostly pointy houses going by the tribunal DLC of morrowind. Still looks pretty generic though.

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what brand is the beer on the desk?

Fortress best theme, best terrain, best 2nd tier unit, best 5th tier unit, best utility units
Best town confirmed

youtube.com/watch?v=SkuPY3sweZQ
because composer is a good guy

Yeah they look like mini cantons, I assumed there wouldn't be a lot, but that there might be a dark elf section of town with a silt strider house or some of the mournhold houses. I just wasn't expecting them to be purple tudor manors. Same with leyawiin supposedly being like black marsh and having red houses

While looking up the image I found out they have mournhold on ESO online, as well as a bunch of places I always wanted to see. Is ESO worth playing?

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interesting, i guess i made a mistake with starting from 6 then.
oh well, will finish 9 and then go back to 3-5.
thansk

As far as I'm aware the guards in ESO mournhold don't day MOURNHOLD CITY OF LIGHT CITY OF MAGIC constantly so it sucks

hobgoblin

for me its the dungeon

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edgelord

how do I get into this game, any patches/mods needed?

Never played it but everyone seems to cream over it and I know people still play it religiously to this day.

There's a free period that will end in 1 day and 22 hours, so it's worth checking it out. It's a big download though, especially if you get it through steam cause it basically downloads the whole game twice from what I heard. As far as gameplay goes, it will depend a lot on your personal experience. When I started playing it I couldn't get invested because the way Iwas doing quests was monotonous, but when I joined the thieves guild in its DLC I really got into it for some reason, and I wasn't just following a straight path anymore, which is something you can avoid in ESO if you want.

If you just wanna sightsee mournhold, then it's really not that great. You do get to meet almalexia in quests, but she somehow looks worse than vanilla morrowind.

as probably the only one ever to play 7, its decent but incredibly broken. sorcerors dont even need an army just one sorta beefy unit (they have one thats immune to magic completely and is beefy) and they can summon tons of elementals and pretty much oneshot the enemies with aoe spells.

Get Complete edition with all the expansion packs, get HD mod and play vanilla first
Then move to either Horn of the Abyss, aka HotA, mod or Wrath of the Gods mod/modding platform, aka WoG

wog is shit

Did they get the original composer for the mod?

atleast make an accurate but funny reply like "Basementdweller"

I mean Wake of Gods. Jesus, that was a massive brainlag on my part
I don't think you've ever played any mods based on WoG, or just the shit ones

>loved Necro all my life
>find out that its super busted
>can't express love for necro without people thinking I'm a competitive tryhard
>tfw

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Based and Bonepilled.

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No, the user is just a dummy.
The HoTA team made their own theme.
Same for the Factory announcement theme.

Played 7 here even the multi, a lot.
Magic is broken. Academy is overpowered.
You can pretty much rush anything with magic. And the only faction who excels in magic also has a very effective cheap unit immune to magic the gargoyles. There's also black dragons too of course from dungeon but if you can kill those easily even if your hero is a magic oriented one.

Adding to this Sylvan also has a very effective rushing method that doesn't rely on magic with the ballista/warfare and Mother Treant resurrecting the dryads but it really depends on the map. In the usual 4 player ones they will get shit on by magic eventually.

3DO > Ubisoft

but is it fun?

some campaigns are fun others are tedious

so just like 3

Depends, like the other user mentioned there are campaign maps that range from decent to absolutely fucking terrible. I did enjoy multi to a degree but anyway I would never recommend buying this but it's worth a pirate.

dungeon or rampart is the way to go

ironically the 6's campaigns were better especially the dlc.
You had stuff like missions where you had to save some guy and end a battle a limited number of turns like that's a first in a HOMM game including things like boss battles.
Inferno campaign even had you turning into a boss demon yourself and wiping out the army you yourself had gathered.
Too bad the maps are atrocious in 6 and how they botched different aspects like resources.
Each new HoMM game had some very interesting features but they take one step forwards and ten steps back.

>all those special snowflakes afraid to admit basic is best
Don't mind me, just casting Prayer or my Crusader powerstack.

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do any of you mapfags have download links of your stuff to share?

Necropolis is great, I never really liked skeleton farming and preferred black knights, vamps and liches. Liches especially are awesome and I wish there was a way of getting more of them that didn't ruin the game.

I have no idea why ubisoft turned necropolis into a weird spider cult.

Good luck burning in the fires of armageddon angel-faggots

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fuck this game

time wasting shit made for autists

no wonder it died, the core fanbase that liked it is full of autists and they couldnt handle change

>ctr+f bastion
>0 results
Why nobody like my favorite castle

none of the fanbase bought it lol

>time wasting shit for autists

Welcome to video games

>Etherlords, Sudden Strike, Zanzarah, Space Rangers, Nexus, Freelancer, Painkiller, Will Rock

>Bastion

???
Is that a mod or something?

Anyone preferred the original dungeon racial in HOMM 5? The final version was just plus x damage boring thing.

what the fuck is bastion? did it come with some add-on or what?

my bad i though of rampart in my own language

rampart

>ironically the 6's campaigns were better especially the dlc.
>You had stuff like missions where you had to save some guy and end a battle a limited number of turns like that's a first in a HOMM game including things like boss battles.
How are those good things? Strategy games are not designed to accomodate arcade-style boss battles, shoehorning them in is just stupid.

Because they were f u n. Even in the case of limiting turns to end the battle they add pressure to actually think about your moves this is why this fanbase is done for that they still cling to the primitive Heroes 3.

Shameless bump

I've been looking for this song for fucking ever holy shit thanks user!

are all campaigns 3 stages long or was spoils of war just really short?

Ah okay, honestly bastion is a better name than rampart.

What's your favourite thing about it? I'VE probably played it the least of any town so I don't really know what's good about it other than grand elves and centaurs

>I go to church every Sunday
Castle
>My mom told me I'm smart but lazy
Tower
>I'm a disgusting NEET hikki
Fortress
>I like to slap other men on their asses
Stronghold
>Gott ist tot
Necropolis
>Faps to the most disgusting shit
Dungeon
>I love to suck cocks
Rampart
>That creepy quiet guy who keeps laughing to himself
Inferno
>Phoenix is so cool!
Conflux

SHUT
THE
FRICK
UP

I believe you're actually looking for this

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How to spot the Polish guy.
In the Polish version Rampart is Bastion, and Fortress is Citadel, while Tower is Fortress, lmao.

>slavcore
is that even a term? i'm a slav and i've never hear of it
also fortress a shit

The only thing that should have been changed is Titan being Mike Pence.

how about a resolution that's not an eye strain?

kys snowflake

yeah, most retarded fucking thing about the polish translation

>main Tower and Rampart

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>main tower
I didn't think we had masochists in these threads.

we do uwu also I like to play inferno

I liked their aesthetic (and the fact they had the most ranged units) when I was a kid so I stuck with it. Wizards are badass.

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getting titans is so satisfying tho

>main Dungeon

OK, I guess it's true.

>that fortress description
are u a wizard?

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how do i into polish?

you don't, it's piece of shit language , too bad both Stalin and Hitler failed to release us from this curse

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i was actually thinking it could be rampart but wasn't sure

2500 gold and a contract work
because I already have necromancer on your job spot
here

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i dont get it

they should have stopped after the night of the raven

It's a Polish hiring ethics joke, probably none of people outside of Poland will get it.

Basically the potential employer tries to scam the potential employee out of a full-time job by offering him contractual work with less pay, that is easier to terminate on the pretense that he has someone to do the job instead of him(which is false).

>start playing the haven campaign
>All those fucking wolf puns

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based
this and fortress have best music by far

>I liked their aesthetic
Same here. Liked the traditional magician theme with some minor elements from other cultures. Too bad they were turned into notArabs.

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Ancient Greco/Roman-Byzantine-Persian style situated into Alps was absolutely top tier design decision for Tower

Based and Tazar pilled

i wish i understood all these kurva memes
use English you fucking goofs

There you go you fucknugget

Such a bizarre combination yet so amazing, they just don't make games like that anymore.

i unironically always picked either Wystan because he had a bitchin Jaguar on his head and i was 12 or somehting, or Korbrac because Serpentflies were my favorite unit and he got some lame bonus to them.

pronounced cheekbones, thick lips and a certain look on her face.
that was what the designated "sexy" of that time was.
Recently replayed Champions of Norrath and every female character in that game looks like that.
The kind of "oldschool playboy" look. cant realy discribe it.

no I mean there's just a bunch of Polish and Russian HoMM memes, I feel left out

get a room, you two

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AHHH WHY IS SHE SO PERFECT

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>Dread Knight blocks her path

klasyk

Holy shit yes

Oh
Well then, learn Slavic language of your choice I guess? Maybe add learning cyrillic into mix?
They say Slavic languages are tough and hard as tits to learn, but that's really on how you perceive it. What makes it hard is really all that how grammar works, which is complex or straight out irregular fuckfest. But what you really need is just getting firm grasp of vocabulary. Verbs, nouns, adjectives and sentence construction elements and congratz, you can now understand at least the point of majority sentences in most other Slavic languages. Just grab a dictionary and random book or just browse through Wiki/Wiktionary articles in the particular language and it's really just matter of time

I already can Cyrillic since 7th grade and can navigate rutracker easily but fuck actually learning slav
I'd like to learn German/Finnish/Italian/Jap much more desu

zabij się ty kurwo jebana
ale meme śmieszny chociaż

>How can one man be so wrong?
>proceeds to mention nothing but extremely broad and very abstract "simmilarities"
It's painfully obvious you're a try hard zoomer who just heard about MoM and KB. Have sex.

Out of those four, I'd say go for Italian or Jap
German is meh. Had to learn it as my secondary language next to English and it's kinda mediocre in difficulty. Things like remembering grammatical gender of all the nouns with tons of irregularities and now way how to identify the gender by yourself is just bit of a pain in the ass tho
Can't say much about Italian aside it's really nice language and that I've learned Latin a bit for like a year
Don't know about Nippon and Finnish is a nightmare from what I heard

well I just think German sounds really badass
but seeing as I'm on Yea Forums instead of actually studying I doubt my lingual gains in the near future lol
and I like Latin also, beautiful language, love hearing it in prayers and Gregorian chants