Thread 722904721

How is your campaign going anon?

I'm at work.
Anyway probably want even touch this after discovering it disincentivizes actually going into combat. Was there not a single person at the studio who'd say "uhhhh maybe the players should be able to switch the quick combat off"?
Amateur hour.

It might be the honeymoon period, but the game feels good.

i'm still playing the playtest because the demo removed my waifu hive queen

If every t6 hero starts with t6 units I'm guessing these will be picked every time

>stuck at work
i require HoMM memes

>>722905849
is he available in random maps? Heroes like this are campain only in Homm3

>>722904721 (OP)
Might give it a shot later today, but I don't expect anything. 3 is the peak.

>>722906927
>is he available in random maps?
Yes. Not every faction has one, schism thankfully doesn't, but the ones that do are dubious in terms of balance

>>722907298
medussy

>>722907334
Gotcha covered fäm

>>722904721 (OP)
>campaign
Only the demo is out, and it's not even coming to Early Access until 2026.
I downloaded it yesterday, but haven't played yet. I've heard they cut out the tentacle town from the demo though, and now I'm sad. Well, I guess, I'll just fall back on Necropolis, the old faithful.

>>722907496
They cut out the inferno replacement hive, the schism town is still there

not bad for a demo!

>>722907538
Ah, okay. Cool. Hopefully, I'll have time to try it today. Since it's FRIDAY NIGHT and all that.

>>722907601
its friday night in mumbai

>>722905849
i dont know if the early game bump will make up for the subpar special effect. some are absolutely bonkers, like magic school speciality preventing the enemy hero from casting spells from that school.

>>722904721 (OP)
the music fucking sucks. Did Paul Romero really write these songs or is this just another marketing stunt?

Very rough UI and balance. AI is surprisingly competent.
Visuals are okay. Not a fan of the style but it works. Boring music.
Kingdom mechanic is good, not so sure about dust mechanic
Magic feels pretty meh so far while higher tier units are blatantly overpowered.
I expected better polish after so long but it's not bad at all.

>>722907864
Paul Romero is washed up
sorry not sorry

>>722907298
Why does a medusa need dicksucking lips?

>>722907926
He's too busy being Sseth's monkey I'm afraid

>>722907864
Collab between romero, heroes orchestra and some other 3rd party
I got the idea that romero wasn't really involved which makes sense given than even just 6 months ago unfrozen said they couldn't get romero to do the music because they needed ubisoft's permission, and once the publisher changed suddenly they allegedly got him just a month before there was music added to the game

>infernal troglodytes have toxic spear
>toxic troglodytes don't have toxic spear

>>722907949
To suck my dick? (I'm blindfolded, she can't turn me into stone)

>4.7gb
Finally not a bloated ware game.

I want it so bad, bros

>>722908109
This guy is gonna get his dick bitten by snake hair

I'm not feeling it. It feels overly generic. The moment you hit the map in homm1-3 you were hooked with the music. This feels meh.

>>722907864
Judging by art style of the game either Ubisoft managers or developers comissioned retarded ambient.

>>722908182
Me too, but I have no one to play this with and I'm not autistic enough to play a board game with myself

I don't get it

>quick battle simulator with terrible UI and art
meh

>>722908036
>>722907926
even worse are all these subhumans on the Steam discussion boards that defend this music. Like what the fuck? Are these all paid shills?

>>722908424
>Are these all paid shills?
Worse. It's mobile games audience.
And shills of course.

>>722908424
Main and schism themes are ok

>>722904721 (OP)
>Tried it out with pretty high expectations
>A few features didn't click with me and the UI felt clunky in places but otherwise felt like a faithful upgrade of HoMM3
>And yet, I lost the drive to keep playing pretty quickly and stopped playing
I think I just don't have the time to dedicate to games as ponderously slow as this anymore.

If you're still in that rhythm then you'll probably love it.

>>722908482
Trying a bit too hard shill

>>722908532
Take your medication anon

>>722904949
>it disincentivizes actually going into combat
What's the issue with that? If you're strong enough that you won't lose anything then the combat is a trivial waste of time.

If the projection shows you're gonna lose some units then you should (hopefully) be good enough to do better and lose less, or concentrate the losses in a manageable way.

>>722908489
The UI, dear god the UI.
>Go into town
>Click on the largest building visible
>...
>nothing happens
>click on the next largest building
>it's a tavern
>where the fuck do I build stuff or hire units??????
>look on the left side
>fucking round glossy buttons for each function
Into the trash it goes

>>722908339
They both love virgins? I guess? But who doesn't love virgins.

>>722908585
Trying a bit too hard shill

>>722908638
Yeah, I hated the way the town kept bobbing and moving too.

Finding out where the buttons were after that wasn't too bad (although they need to put tooltips on them when you hover over them) but it's annoying how your town keeps shifting with your mouse. Hopefully you can turn that off in settings.

>>722908482
>Main theme
>ok
You mean the fucking theme song that has one highlight around 10 seconds in and then is nothing but background music? fuck off retard

>>722908182
Dont. I bought it with all addons but at the end of they day i would rather just reply video games

>>722908841
What prompts people to make comments like this?

>>722904721 (OP)
haven't gotten around to playing it. Work is killing me.

>>722908908
20 years of nonstop letdowns by Ubisoft.

Apart from 3, are the other installments of HoMM worth playing?

>>722908978
2, 4 and 5

>>722908978
5,2,4,1

>>722908978
all of them except 1 and 7

>setting from OG HoMM
>faction design and identity from VII with same visual design

>>722908978
5, 6 if you're desperate. 6 has the best visuals of the franchise but has only 6 factions and less content overall.

Don't play 6, it's completely fucked.

While I appreciate the sexy brown girl, these units look straight out of torchlight, and the final unit is so fucking busy it's hard to make out what it is

>>722908849
think there's a setting to turn off town movement

>>722904721 (OP)
>How is your campaign going
It doesn't. Skirmish was enough for me

I miss it

>>722909853
I don't, olden era has a streamlined version which works much better

>>722909907
>I don't
We know shill.
>which works much better
>perks to increase initiative permanently
Ever wonder why V never had something like that in SkillWheel?

>>722908978
I grew up playing 2, but 4 will always, always be my favourite.

The fact that it's the only one with an actual story (and a fairly decent one) is nice too. I relayed 3 this year and I was surprised at just how bad/non-existent the story was. I wasn't expecting much, but it really was just all in the manual.

>>722909853
I absolutely do not. I was worried that would be one of the things they'd take over, just for the sake of doing so.

>>722909995
Fuck off retard

>>722910002
>only one with an actual story
Only Vanilla campaigns.
The rest are just Spazz memes

>>722904721 (OP)
Memory Lane is that one pvp map yes? Any tips on where the fuck i am supposed to go?

>>722910125
>no argument
Expected from cheap russian shill

Can someone make a thread on the steam discussion boards to point out how absolutely fucking shit the music is? I'm at work, can't login right now. Maybe there's still a chance when they get enough negative feedback to have Romero redo all this ambient shit in the coming months. Fuck the game, just save the music by complaining as hard as possible.

>>722905849
Why the fuck does Necro get +2 Growth and everyone else gets +1?
Unrelated, did anyone figure out a reliable route to get Subclass unlocked?

>>722910192
The ultimate skills are almost as powerful as in 5, except you can actually obtain them without relying on insane luck
Fuck off and play the demo you actual dysgenic incel

>>722904721 (OP)
does it have random map generator? that's one thing I really liked about 3 that somehow went missing for long.

>>722909123
Devs blame Ubisoft. But as far as I can remember Iratus was also on more "generic" side too.

>>722907864
people were creaming themselves when Romero agreed to do a track for the last HotA town, but then the music he produced ended up being totally unfitting and his stuff was shoved into a campaign background. Just the way it goes.

>>722910504
The demo only has randomly generated maps

>>722908978
2 and 4. 4 is more of an experience than a proper game, as a game it's really unbalanced but there's a lot of really cool if underbaked ideas in the gameplay, great soundtrack, surprisingly great story. It's my second favorite after 3.

>every creep battle starts with your army surrounded
not interested in this dumb shit, uninstalled.

>>722910576
where can one listen to that track?

>can't complete market tutorial, not enough money to buy resources
>can't beat enemy hero in flee/surrender tutorial, too powerful
I'm washed, it's over

How does the tavern work in this game. Can you only buy a hero each week or something like that?

>>722910380
Is there any way to guarantee these? Forcing me to pick Avatar in Dungeon feels like a violation of my human rights.

>>722910738
literally how secondary can you be

>>722908978
1 and 2

>>722910834
It works normally, some game modes have limited heroes

>>722910917
bro I walked to fight a bunch of spiders in an open field and my army had to position in the middle, so the spiders could reach my backline on turn 1.
then I walk to fight a dragon, again in an open field, and my army had to position in the middle, and the dragon can reach my backline on turn 1.

This happened on the first turn of the campaign.

It was pretty good, they definitely took features from HOTA and in grateful. The combat speed needs to be upped dunno how to do it or if you can do it currently. Artstyle is bad but game mechanics are very good.

>>722911046
Huh. I guess the mode I picked only allows the player to have two heroes then. I recruited once and wasn't able to buy another one for the few days I tried.

>>722911054
same, that fucking dragon killed 2/3rds of my units, which I had just bought from the town. WTF

>>722911072
how do people not go through the options menu on a new game theyre playing is baffling to me

From the demo to judge. How would you rank Olden Era, preliminarily, compared to the other games?

>>722911054
>>722911204
its literally this building from hota

>>722911267
I didn't enter any buildings
And it's been 20 years but I don't remember ever being surrounded in heroes 3.

>>722910762
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzaBd6C4b68
is his version, an iteration of the original theme by Docent Picolan, one of the HotA devs who died before he could complete it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55YPo5af0U
this is the town track, which is something the HotA devs had to cobble together after they got Romero's version.

Both are fine tracks and I can identify the motif, but it takes a while to get them going, and once they do, they go too hard - neither of these qualities are what you'd want out of a town track. The Cove theme, which Picolan finished by himself, fit the bill much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMrdt0Subs

>>722908182
one of my friends brought his sets over, we played 3 different scenarios over a weekend, was fun, might get them for myself plus i can use the minis for D&D/Pathfinder

>>722911343
>one of the HotA devs
He was THE hota dev and I'm surprised the project didn't die after they got factory done

Are green/gold dragons confirmed for the rampart equivalent?

my man has the most hilarious death animation

>>722910794
ok, I won, feels not as bad now man

>>722911231
On the one hand, the game feels like HoMM3, which is good, but on the other hand, I wouldn't mind having a full 3D environment like in HoMM5.
So, I'd say it's like this: 3>5>the golden era.

>>722911604
I feel like it's supposed to be a reference to the witch king of angmar from peter jackson's ROTK

>>722910380
>The ultimate skills
>almost as powerful as in 5,
AHAHAHAHA! What a fucking retard.
>except you can actually obtain them without relying on insane luck
That's because they are completely optional. Meanwhile your picture is pure cancer, which kills all the fun and variety of leveling up because it's mandatory and OP.
>Fuck off and play the demo you actual dysgenic incel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHqdqx5V78

>>722911604
I

>>722904721 (OP)
what campaign ?

>>722911604
I expected him to collapse into himself

>>722911835
Fortress' ultimate in 5 is literally the enemy always rolling bad luck against you
The picture you're looking at are two ultimates availabe for death knight only, necromancers have 2 different ones, meaning each factions have 4 ultimates to choose from instead of trying (and usually failing) to obtain the only one available to you in 5
You are such a miserable retard it's actually incredible lmfao, do the world a favour and twist your neck backwards until everything goes dark

>>722911604
REEEEEEE
RREEEEEEEE

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>722911108
Nah, it's probably the scenario that only lets you have as many heroes as you do cities. So you'll get more later still

>>722911979
>Fortress' ultimate in 5 is literally the enemy always rolling bad luck against you
Which is completely useless against at least dozens of artifacts and perks.
>, meaning each factions have 4 ultimates to choose from
Holy fuck, you are complete idiot if you didn't see an issue here
> instead of trying (and usually failing) to obtain the only one available to you in 5
Keep playing with bots exclusively Ivan.

>>722912087
Yeah I should try reading next time I play the demo. I'd like to try some other factions.

>>722911343
Factory is so bad. I can't believe they would think it would fit in the actual universe.

>>722912142
Concession accepted lil schizoid, may (You) seethe in peace

>>722911231
4 > 3 > Olden Era > 2 > 5

I didn't play the others.

Is there a way to speed up the combat animations?

>>722912142
Don't know what's more impressive, how shit your bait is or that the guy keeps falling for it.

>>722912252
Yes.

>>722912215
Ivan trenches are waiting you.

>light primal bullshit magic
>no elements
I dont like it. Die.

>>722912165
fits better than the original ayylien scifi plant lmao

>>722911835
>Hasn't played the game
>Doesn't know about the game's mechanics
>Has extremely strong opinions about the game regardless

>>722912309
>Taras cries out as he strikes you

>>722912376
>>Hasn't played the game
Stop projecting shill.

I wish they'd just put the old games on Steam

I've never played a HoMM game before probably because I live in a first-world country but the demo seems pretty fun so far, even though I have no idea what I'm doing. Asynchronous factions and great fantasy design make it pretty fun to replay over and over.
I can see why people get a mobile-game feel from it though, and that alone probably turns a lot of people off.

>>722912336
Instead of mixing everything together, you have
>magic school dedicated to damage
>magic school dedicated to buffs
>magic school dedicated to debuffs
>magic school dedicated to summoning
I like it. Live

>>722912354
The setting where Demons are literally space aliens and the bad guy getting a portable Glock factory sets off the end of the world???

shamone
tee hee

>>722912390
>>Taras cries out as he strikes you

nope, next tutorial vs Hive Queens filters me, I'm gonna cry now

>>722912452
m&m isnt canon, m&m is dead

>>722912492
I really likes these meme picks desu.

>>722912436
>I like it.
And you are..?

>>722904721 (OP)
I'm downloading it now.

>>722912593
Your dad. Clean your room

>>722912660
Why lie? You would need a better job to start a family.

>>722912692
Your mother and I are very worried about you

>>722912547
Not gonna dispute you on it being dead but it was always a goofy setting. Factory was well within Might and Magic. But then again so was Conflux and I admit it sucks ass aesthetically.

>>722912757
Worry about yourself Ivan. You need a better job or you will get conscripted.

Zamn.

>>722912826
>I replied to a schizo
Grim

Does movement path auto accounts for roads and terrain for optimal path, or I should manage that myself?

>>722912984
Just use the flight spell and don't worry about it. I think the game tries to find you an optimal route but terrain penalties feel pretty goddamn severe.

>>722904721 (OP)
power liche status? how much power? how much liche?

>>722912945
That's a bold words from someone who is so lonely he had to imagine having a family.

>>722913101
pestilent lich gives you aids, sanguine lich gives you health

>>722913245
but who gives me sex?

>>722913378
hive queen

>>722905849
I forgot about this game and remember why I wasn't that excited for it, the UI is so ugly and sterile.

>>722904721 (OP)
So are the other two factions inferno and rampart?
Also Walkha best girl

What do?

>>722913378
Wraiths

>>722908978
2, 5. 4 if you want some strange shit.

>>722913531
check your spellbook or swap units for faster ones

>>722913487
It seems Schism has more inferno-esque mechanics in its setup but yes it's the fire insect faction and the forest faction

>>722913487
rampart and hive, which is only visually similar to inferno

>>722913316
-> >>722912660 >>722912757
Must be pretty sad existance to see random anons as your kids due to the absence of actual kids.

Please, keep the sexy appeal

I don't miss Fortress.

>>722913531
change the fog of war to be similar to homm3

>>722913796
Demon bugs are kino, I like it.

>>722913876
They would need to get it in first place.

>>722909235
>they couldn't be bothered to make readable icons for the units and just took a shitty screenshot of the models
>international dev team
over under on a mostly indian dev team?

>>722908978
5 but don't bother with campaigns. Absolute trash

>>722913873
I'll never understand schizos kek

>>722913980
>over under on a mostly indian dev team?
Russians.

>>722914001
No wonder why you cannot understand yourself and find a better job

>>722913937
There is a lot of cleaveage and cuties

>>722911305
you do in these fights >>722910917 , its not something new, you shouldn't start surrounded on open world map fights tho

>>722904721 (OP)
For anyone who have tried the game - are heroes locked to specific units or factions to be viable?
Example - Heroes 5 orc heroes having abilities like bloodrage or something, which work only on orc units.

>>722914186
Some of them, yes.

>>722914112
post some

>>722913716
>>722913892
Both of these were very helpful, cheers!

>>722911835
There's literally perma goodluck/badluck ultimates in 5
I know that because I got all the ultimates in the campaigns

>>722914186
Other than the Necromancy for the obvious reasons no, nothing like that

>>722914186
haven speciality of your troops gaining boosts when friendlies die apply to every unit iirc
schism speciality if your troops growing only applies to schism units
hive speciality of summoning a swarm works independently of your units
necropolis speciality of raising the undead isnt good with non-undead troops, obviously
dungeon speciality of battle stances work with every unit

>>722913983
>Absolute trash
Story is. Campaign design on the other hand is great (especially difficulty spike on Wizard campaign)

>>722913983
I never played the DLC campaigns but the main one was pretty good, at the very least gameplay wise

>>722913796
I don't mind the insect monsters, hopefully we get some more factions down the line. I'd like tower, 3's stronghold, and a retry of 6's samurai town.

>>722914640
schism is practically tower with high intelligence and all but like 2 creatures being capable of shooting or long range attacks

>>722914392
>playing campaigns through ultimates
Ever guess how I know you played on easy difficulty?

>>722914708
I'm not good enough at the series to be able to base my like of a town on its gameplay function, my preferences are aesthetic based.

>>722914708
>and all but like 2 creatures being capable of shooting or long range attacks
So they just copying elements from all other games.
Makes sense since most of the visual was made with AI

>>722913796
I understand that demons were bugs originally in m&m, but still... kinda wanted the standard pitches-forks dudes, or maybe something from Disciples

I like it so far. The downsides are 1)the UI is so small that I can't see shit properly. Maybe it's made for 4k and I'm playing on 1080p, but it's awful, especially the troops upgrade screen in the town 2)Sound design seems straight up unfinished, some spells and attacks make no sound at all, some sound bland at best. Could also add some voice over to units to give them more character

>>722914857
luckily unfrozen has confirmed they will develop more factions during early access with iirc 8 aimed for release, however i doubt one of them will be another snow faction. most likely stronghold and maybe some elemental shit similar to conflux, though the water samurai town from 6 would be cool

>>722914984
>however i doubt
Then may be you should ask your senior manager?

>>722914945
>I understand that demons were bugs originally in m&m
I thought they were ayyliens?

>>722908424
>steam discussion boards
For some reason, unless it's for a game that recently had a massive scum move/drama involved and everyone shits on the dev, steam discussion threads are full of bootlickers.

>>722914941
>>722915051
Go back to 2ch Taras

>>722908182
You don't actually want the official one. The board game that is actually closest to HoMM3 in terms of gameplay is Mage knight.

>>722914959
The playtest version of the game didn't even have music until like month or 2 ago and it's like half a year away from early access release, yeah probably a bit unfinished

>>722914746
Some ultimates are doodoo tier so you're actually actively gimping yourself by going for them since there's always some trash you have to pick up on the way.
It was a goal I set to myself and I went for it. I don't remember whether it was on hard or heroic though.
Campaign becomes easy if you spend your time on every map grabbing every statup, but that's every homm game.

>>722915120
Yeah, bug aliens, you find laser guns and kill their hive queen in one of those blobbers

>>722915139
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xozt1nARUc8

they are trolling

>>722915247
What's the deeplore behind inferno's t7 unit being a literal devil if they're alien insects

>>722915245
>Some ultimates are doodoo tier so you're actually actively gimping yourself by going for them since there's always some trash you have to pick up on the way.
Such as..?
>It was a goal I set to myself and I went for it.
It's not hard on easy difficulty.

>>722915308
Fuck if I know

>>722915308
Wish this one had unique hero models like 5 had, for the campaign at least

>>722914941
long range attacks are literally a new mechanic to the series retard

>>722909409
holy shit what is wrong with modern devs and their obsession with vomit-like color palletes? Game looks horrenduous here can barely make out what's what.

>>722915602
>is that....blue???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upNphtZCvjs

should I try this or just stick to HoMM3
>t. haven't played HoMM3 in like 15 years

>>722904721 (OP)
>There hero cap
>Total cap depend on how many town you control
Is this a good idea?

>>722915775
How are you sticking to a game you haven't played in 15 years lmao

>>722915775
keep not playing 3, it's for the best desu

>>722915989
yeah I'll stick to that, thanks anons!

>>722912452
What was with the 80s and all the hack authors wanting to shove Sci Fi nonsense into Fantasy, anyway? Ultima did the exact same thing. Hey, it's a fantasy setting, but here's your raygun and your spaceship.

Was it just because of Star Wars? It's fucking stupid and I've always hated it.

The modern version seems to be "That fantasy setting is actually built ontop of a post-apocalyptic Sci Fi setting!" which is just barely better. I still hate it, but we've at least gotten a few good games with that. Usually in spite of, rather than because of it.

>>722908182
I have it with all the expansions (and waiting for the next batch of expansions to arrive). Have played a couple times with some friends that are equally as autistic as me. I wouldn't necessarily play this single player but multiplayer is fun. It's not the best board game ever. But it's the best heroes 3 fanservice board game ever.

>>722916082
>reee I hate popular thing
Please become a better person.

Is there a button to look at hero's spells while inside a town?

I dislike visual font/style too much to even try. Homm5 was the last good entry that still felt like the original but with improved graphics.

I know I'm not going to get a satisfying answer to this.

But what in the world is the thought process behind coming into a thread like this, about a niche series, to whine and shitpost and shill for HoMM5? Is there some fraction in the HoMM community that doesn't think enough HoMM fans have played one of the most popular games in the series?

It's all completely disingenuous from start to finish, like obviously nobody's being paid to shill a game like this, yet here we've got a dozen posts whining about that. For a HoMM game? Of all things? What drives a man to this stage in his life, when he can't handle discussion on a niche, strategy game trying to capture the magic of a 30yr old classic?

>>722915540
>long range attacks are literally a new mechanic to the series retard
>when very first game in the series have more optimized UI and more readable map

>play game
>doing normal things
>eventually come across enemy AI
>has 3x as many units in all tiers as me
haha okay, fun demo though. Going to be pirating this at the most.

>>722916082
fantasy and sci-fi was joined at the hip until relative recently. just a thing that was.

never thought heroes threads of all things would be full of schizos

>>722916579
>the AI is good
>NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
git gud

>>722916397
>For a HoMM game?
For a game made by scammy studio.
>trying to capture the magic of a 30yr old classic
Unironically one of the main complain is how painfully obviousdevs trying to run nostalgiabait, while completely disregarding source material.

>>722916397
I just want alternative upgrades from HoMM 5 to become a thing in the series again.

>>722916615
Oh, you sweet summer child.

>>722916579
they made the AI so hard just to please the faggot powergamers crowd, the same kind of assholes who shat on you for taking XP from a chest instead of gold.

I downloaded the demo and shall give this a try, bros.

I enjoyed HoMM 2, 3, and 4 back in the day. Never played 5.

>>722916397
The answer is "this is /v/", most active anons on the board are <18 and post solely to epic troll any and all threads. They don't care about the game or topic. Rest are oldfag posters who are impossible to satisfy.
Plus a bunch of on-topic lurkers see this autism, decide to leave and go play the game.

Necromancy doesn't work or what? Never saw a single stack going up in numbers.

lmao, the inquisitor unit is a woman?
I feel like there are far too many female units in this game for a strategy game.

i really hope they remove Kittenhorns from the release version, what a fucking reddit unit

>>722904721 (OP)
how is this compared to AoW4?

>>722916984
Why would you think that?

>>722915308
Nobody really cared about the Lore back in ye olde days. Rule of cool was more important

polskie kurwy jak tam wasz HOMOs? Chodzi wam na najniższych w 800x600? Ja pierdole normalni ludzie grają w prawdziwe gry jak Elden Ring a wy w jakieś kurwa gówno gdzie jakiś pedał jeździ na koniku xD

P.S chuj wam w dupe

>>722910146
>The rest are just Spazz memes
This is only second expansion. First is just generic "heroes unite against dark lord" story

>>722916984
>for a strategy game
Elaborate. Why would strategy games have more males on average than the other genres?

>>722904721 (OP)
>mobile-tier graphics

I'll pass.

>>722917064
>fromslop
Peak cwel.

>>722916519
>DEI archers
Grim.

>>722917037
Mine just got hit in battle and let out a moan, also the upgrade is called 'mother superior'
>>722917085
It's a genre strictly played by men, so nobody cares about representation, therefore it should be mostly men on the battlefield, at least when it comes to human forces, idc about the others, since they're all monsters and demons.

>>722916615
I think it's just the one Schitzo. He'll probably take it too far and get banned soon enough.

>>722914381
Already posted
>>722907389
>>722912831
>>722909235

>>722917036
This is remix of HoMM3, doesn't feel like aow4 at all, besides surface level hex tactics battles.

>>722908036
Iirc Romero only made the town themes.

>single hero mode
based

>>722917235
the castle nigress can step on my any time

>>722917215
If nobody cares about representation why can't we have female units? Just look at previous games, they had plenty of women.

>>722917215
>It's a genre strictly played by men
So are gacha games. Ever seen a gacha roster?

reminder to turn off TAA

>>722917392
It's a fucking turn-based game. It hardly matters.

>>722916729
I'm probably in the minority here but I don't like upgrades to begin with, I was really glad when 4 got rid of them. Going back to them and then adding alternate versions was just too much of a pain for me.

It's this reading/knowledge check on every unit in every town, just to play the game. It's not enough to recognise the Vampires, I've gotta remember which kind of Vampire etc etc.

Feels like a grognard thing, basically. And I liked HoMM more as an adventure and tactics game, rather than really digging into the mechanics and playing like a grognard.

this shit is way too slow no way epic pro gamer jebus cross grinders (ubisoft unironicaly wants homm to have esport scene) will stomach these slow ass animations and how clunky the ui are and how there are no keyboard shortcuts

>>722917456
What does it have to do with blurry TAA screen?

>>722917367
Yes, but like I said almost all those female units were some sort of monster or magical creature, I only care about the human units.
>>722917378
Those games are played by gooners and trannies. Strategy games and strategy rpgs aren't.

>>722917496
Do you even know what TAA stands for? Actually, don't answer that. The very fact that you're asking that questions is an answer in itself.

>>722917490
You can speed up the game even more than in heroes 3.
Also all shortcuts are there.

>>722917215
>It's a genre strictly played by men
And men like seeing hot bitches
see the lightbringer or whatever, if it was about representation she wouldn't have cleavage.

>lore is hidden behind tiny little button
>70% of the screen is unused while in hero menu
retarded

>>722917456
it's a good looking game and there's no reason to make it ugly with taa

I'm so fucking tired of all modern strategy games having the same fucking UIs. #whenIwasyoung I loved how much flavor there was in the UIs and how - in some games at least - you had different "skins" for the UI depending on the faction you played as.

>>722917597
Temporal Anti Aliasing that will blur your screen and add capious amount of ghosting you cockmongler. Kill yourself nigger.

>>722917557
>never played warcraft 3 or red alert 2
what's with these puritan posers these days.

>>722917557
I recommend you play some strategy games and strategy rpgs before posting

>>722917660
Modern UI design is absolute ass

>>722915337
I'm gonna do you one better.
I was gonna do other skills but got bored so I just did the ults
Dungeon is probably strong, but it's based on your hero so it's not gonna be as strong as something that affects your army. You have so much SP over the campaigns that you're probably nuking every stack they throw at you.
>It's not hard on easy difficulty.
It's not hard on Hard/Heroic either.

There is one tune of the ost that sound very similar to an old homm 2 song, which is nice. Except I just wish it was the homm 2 song instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzlgtJPx6Q

>>722918324
I blame UX assholes. "OH NO don't make buttons that are anything else than a plain rectangle, that makes them harder to aim at, thus making the experience veeeeery frustrating for a lot of people! A lot of research supports this :)"

I like Dungeon and the dragons flying around. Pretty alright music.

>>722918538
Disgusting. The second skeumorphism left logo designs and UI/UX designs all sovl was lost forever. We've travelled to a bleak dystopia we can't escape.

Alright, where do I start with this series?

>>722918685
1

>>722917490
Ctrl + Right Click is all I need.

>>722918685
Demo for the new game, tutorial, then quick play with the faction you like.
After that HoMM3.

why are people talking about ubisoft?
The publisher and the developer isn't marked as ubisoft on steam
If it's gonna require ubisoft account when it releases I'm pirating.

>>722918685
HoMM3 (Complete on GoG, not the "HD" edition; it doesn's even have the expansions). It's old and still the best in the series. 4 (depending on whom you ask) and 5 are also great.
If you want to start "at the beginning" and play through the entire series, I'd recommend that you don't: about half of the games in the series are trash. Also if you really have to start from the beginning: still don't. At least skip to HoMM2

>>722918907
the franchise has been owned by ubisoft for 20 years but ubisoft has literally nothing to do with this game, they've forgone publishing to a third party and the developer is also a third party
anons are being retarded (as usualy)

>>722918907
Ubisoft is a co-publisher

>>722918685
King's Bounty (1990)

As usual the HOMM 3 faggots come out of their woodwork with their
>hurr nothing will beat the third one
they didn't play the fucking thing in two decades, don't even play other turn based games but have the most to say about which turn based games are good, the same shitter retards who advocate for rushing capitol

>>722918685
The first one.
People telling you to skip to 3 are ignoring 2, one of the GOATs

>>722904721 (OP)
I wish for it to crash and burn

>>722918763
>>722918842
>>722918974
>>722919061
>>722919216
Thanks, I'll try the demo later on and see if the series is for me and go from there

>>722918685
with the first one of course
if that one's too primitive for you go with 2
if you hate the 2d artstyle go with 5
if you just want to play one game from the series go with 3, it's the best one (inarguably, anyone arguing with this is just farming you's)
games released after 5 are not worth playing

>>722917064
>Elden Ring
>not a game where jakiś pedał jeździ na koniku xD
You are a Debil

god damn

>>722916984
Who cares? I'm more concerned that (s)he doesn't have gloves on

>>722919235
Ubisoft already pushed the publishing duties on Hooded Horse. They are still collecting rent from the license though.

>>722918986
Hooded Horse is quite literally a Trojan horse for Ubisoft as a publisher, nothing more, nothing less
Those French cunts know they'd be avoided like a plague otherwise

>>722919701
I'm racist but...

>>722919247
Fair choice.
1 and 2 have really cool fanmade ports to obscure stuff like the Vita if you have one of those.

>>722916791
are you too proud to lower the ai difficulty or what :DD

>>722919701
>this replaces monks
white boy extinction

>>722919701
Wtf I'm praising the Sun as we speak.

>>722916983
Open yer eyes

>>722919858
>trojan horse
you make it sound like a bad thing. Nice to see some frogblood money actually spent on good stuff. The worst you can say about Hooded Horse is that they try to be Paradox Jr.

>>722919701
I wish black women were real.

>>722917490
The game was developed by pvpfags tranime, ubishit has nothing to do with it
>not looking through options menus and crying online instead
Why are tranimes like this

>>722904721 (OP)
CAMPAIGN? IS IT OUT?

>>722904721 (OP)
What campaign? Are you guys currently playing this crap, or somethin?

>>722917490
you can increase the animations speed on the option menu, animetard.

>>722908339
Probably some stupid sex joke, or whatever..

>>722920363
A wide demo is out since the actually EA launch got postponed to 2026.

>>722919701
Enroth is healing

>>722920239
same

>>722918685
3. If 3 looks too old school for you, then 5.

Wait, it released?

>>722921178
I don't think it's nostalgia to say that homm3 looks near-timeless, whereas 5 looks ugly as shit (and I prefer 5 over vanilla 3)
Sprites > 3D always, even in first person games

>>722921178
I'd say 5's 3D has aged worse that 3's sprites.

>>722921271
I agree, slap HD mod (not the shit HD edition) on it and it might be a modern indie game.

I wanna fuck pixies.

>>722921251
demo out

Should I try to make a powerful mage in this one or just get a warrior stat hero? I heard magic blows so far.

>>722921397
Might heroes have always been better than magic heroes throughout the series regardless of how actually good magic is, you benefit from power/knowledge only so much but every point of attack/defence matters
Also the magic doesn't blow but it requires a lot of resource investment to level up spells

>>722919701
>>722921085
How are the upgraded version?

>>722921497
You can go for some ultra degenerate magic strats in older Heroes games, but they are risky since artifacts might hard counter it.

>>722921641
You can do the same here, the point was that not every point of power/knowledge matters in most fights, but every point of attack/defence does

>>722919701
Need more fatassed female units.

where do I start with the Might & Magic blobber games? Are they good? Never played any of them but those screens when in a store or talking to someone look very, very nice.

>>722921625
>pussy out
Oh dear.

>>722921770
i think they're real-time combat which means they're shit

>>722921607
she gets a cape sadly

>>722921779
The upgraded succubus in HoMM5 has flaming pubes.

>>722921938
If someone remade this game (with the 5.5 mod) just to look like homm3 I'd buy 5 copies of it

>>722915291
You can win that with 3 fireballs and 3 lightning bolts if you move and wait your griffon properly, the AI will make the same mistakes every time.

>>722905849
Love this guy. He's cool. Having Death Knights from the start is cool.

>>722905849
>>722907298
Temple has this orange tomboy.

>>722916791
why the fuck would i take gold from a chest when i have two towns running at full eco

>>722922159
Cavaliers are t5

>>722922159
Oh wait, I forgot Cavalier is now tier 5 unit.

>>722909409
That's looks really awful, just visual vomit.

>>722921938
the rakshasa in 5 have visible, modeled assholes. dont ask me how i found that

I like the gameplay I think it's an elegant and natural evolution of 3 and if you think otherwise go fuck yourself

>>722921625
I can fix her.

>>722922159
>no white guy with sword hero
dead on arrival
>b-but le mandalore
cringe

>>722922430
Post proof or it didn't happen.

>>722922430
How do you know this?
I implore you to share the pictures.

>>722922713
What about this guy.

>>722922430
The males too?

>>722921810
Rtwp
>>722921770
Play mandate of heaven


Olden Era looks far too ugly and full of bloat, not playing, I'll stick with 3. Dungeon best btw
>>722922250
These are some lame ass units, why do they look like wow characters and why is the t6 just a woman?

Stronghold a shit!
Shit!!1

No spazz maticus no buy

>>722922861
Too old, smile too wide, bottom gay eyes, stupid moustache

>>722922742
>>722922853
It's something I found playing 5 on release years ago, I don't even have the game any more - if someone could rip the model I guarantee it would be there.

>>722922940
Don't know, I only checked the female one.

>>722922713
theres one guy with a visible sword and one literal knight
dont you have anything substantial to cry about

>>722922713
Was there one in HoMM3 either? It has two swordman specialists and both of them are women.

>>722908339
armored autists that hermit themselves away from the world and burn things that upset them.

>>722922861
walrus ass nigga
>john johnson
ok they were taking piss there at the male fighter with sword and shield dnd meme

Someone post full model of castle chocolate cake

havent played it yet. bros just tell me is it good or bad?

please be good

>>722923212
Play it yourself? You at work or something?

>>722923212
It's a free demo bro, just play it.
I think it's good, especially for a demo.

>>722923212
its like homm 5 and 3 had a bastard baby
its okay

>>722923132
Woah they are just like me.

This shit just plays like some shitty mobile game between the movement, combat and upgrading shit. IS this really what people shit and pissed themselves over?

>>722908182
>>722916104
What do you think about teaser for three new expansions from the recent series celebration video? Pretty sure the factions gonna be Factory, Bulwark and Forge. Personal I don't play the board game but it'll be interesting to see Forge finally realized into something.

>>722923381
why do secondaries have to piss and shit all over

>>722923131
i didnt meant the speciality but character designs (also catherine is giga stacy wouldnt mind being led by her)

Thoughts on Single Hero Mode?

>>722923495
Every HoMM3 game I play is a single hero mode

>>722923381
nah, plays like all the other oldass 2000s pc strategy games, down to clunky UI

>>722904721 (OP)
I'm a zoomer, and I like it. My only knowledge of the series is having played a bit of HoMM3 before and having played Songs of Conquest.
Am I going to get yelled at because I haven't played through every boomer game in the series to get to this latest entry?

>>722923495
cute and sexy gif
I like the 1 hero mode, sometimes you just wanna blast without strategizing or thinking, you know?

>>722923495
This is exactly what I needed. Now I'm waiting for the editor to appear and for the moderators to bring the legend back to life.

>>722910794
>"Nah I don't need tutorial. I played theses games since a little lad."
>"What the fuck is focus charges?"
>"What the fuck is alchemy dust?"
>"What do you mean I can upgrade spells now?"
Yeah, they add some new stuff.

>>722923701
Homm is niche enough that gatekeeping is minimal to non-existent, we'll just tell you that you should play some of those older games notably 3 and 5

>>722923415
Oh shit I had no idea we got a teaser for more exapnsions. I'll get everything, the second kickstarter is sick and the preview for the new mechanics seem to fix a lot of my gripes with the game if not all of them. Your intuition about the factions seems correct. It's wild that we're doing hota factions here, we're already getting cove and I can't wait to play.

>>722911604
i'll give the game a fair shot but holy hell are the graphics bad. out of all the art styles they could've used, they fucking copied blizzshit's cartoony trash aesthetic. looks like wc3 units.

really is there no caravans? you fucking niggers?????????? so you put like 2 hero cap limit and expect me to with 1 hero fucking pick up units from dwellings from all over the map?

>>722923495
I thought I was doing great until AI surprised me away from the town with far greater army. But yeah, I like how much straightforward this make the game. I wouldn't play it all the time but it's fun.

>>722923792
5 looks like abysmal dogshit which makes olden era look downright beautiful in comparison, but most of us played a lot of 5 because it's still great. graphicstourists need not apply

How do we feel about music in this one?
https://youtu.be/AYvIvlchn0A

Also Sorceress theme from 2 is still the peak.
https://youtu.be/9Z_avCG9tPs

>>722923825
the recruitment skill has a subskill that allows you to grab units from any town you own no matter were you are, otherwise town portal works just aswell

>>722923825
Pick tentacle faction, their unique building allow you to recruit external dwellings.

>>722923784
Yeah it's here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB2kNoEMd70 at around 27:50 mark. Not a lot revealed tho.

The animation in this game is so ass i remember in homm 5 blade dancer does like cool aoe attack and camera follows him and in olden era its just atttack.motiondata

>>722923825
>raiding corovans
agreed, every good game should have this feature

>>722923825
I'm thinking the biggest filter to this game is the people's inability to read
>why bother reading tutorials it's the same game
>proceed to cry because he didn't read

is 4 good? it rarely gets mentioned

>>722923495
It's a chore, better play campaign/maps with good story.

>>722924119
why is necro theme so SHIT

>>722924259
Not bad just regard it as spin off.

>>722924259
It's a very different game, fun for its own unique reasons but might as well not be part of the same series. TThe soundtrack is incredible.

>>722924259
4 is unbalanced and easily broken for the player's favour. it's also way more hero focused and way less creature focused
definitely worth playing, just dont expect to sink 100s of hours into it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDXNSWJLuo

What's happening here? Why isn't the fog of war receding?

>>722924259
Yes. It has it's issues and no balance, but it's campaigns are amazing and people should give it a chance just for them.

>>722924470
It's called the end of the map you fucking WHITE CHUD

Necro MOGS other factions as usual

>>722904721 (OP)
Waiting for Sseth's video about it.

>>722924259
Its good I don't know why people hate it
>it looks le bad when you rip off models and zoom in haha look at this silly gnome face
>umm 3d renders made into sprites are le bad even doe warlords battlecry and disciples also used same method and nobody complains how those look

Only legit problem with 4 is the AI is nonexistent and only 4 tiers of creatures

>>722924470
bruh

>>722924493
Can't be. My hero just walked IN there.

>>722924561
It's called a bug, chuddie.

>>722924470
Hic sunt dracones

>>722924561
I'm sorry, Anon, he is gone...

>>722924535
You probably don't know why people "hate it" (which almost nobody actually does, they just prefer 2, 3 and 5 over it) because you made up fake scenarios in your own head that nobody actually says

>>722924470
Its a beta chud

>>722924535
It was really buggy at launch because New World Computing rushed it out of fear of their publisher 3DO going under any day. They still had time to iron the worst flaws out before 3DO collapsed.

>>722913716
I am stupid, please explain in detail as I keep failing

>>722924259
It's good but the visual artstyle is very bad, also maybe a couple of new features were not very good.

>>722924702
No it's you who have head up their ass
Ask any strategy goober about 4 and they will tell you it's look ugly because umm sseth review said so

>>722924862
creatures with low speed slow down your hero

>>722918974
Perfectly said.

I don't know what /v/ thinks of Sseth, but he's right on the money about HoMM2. A great game for its time, horribly unbalanced, and not as good as 3, but still good. https://youtu.be/GD75wi4_6Ow?si=GKXNsC89KP-kGMnt

>>722919701
You people need to play more gatcha games if this gets you that much.

>>722924903
but both knights and skeletons available in this tutorial have foot icon with 3?
Am I missing something?

>>722924902
Stop making up fake scenarios, nobody dislikes homm4 because "it's ugly" or "youtuber said so"

>>722923701
Not really, because HoMM 4 is the only game in the franchise that is radically different from the rest. With the rest of the games the quality is measured by how much content and factions the game has. Shittiest ones have least amount of factions and least amount of stuff you can find on the map. Homm 7 is shit because its just a lazy asset flip of Homm 6 with even less content in it. Its like playing a fighter game where roster is half the size of previous games but otherwise the gameplay is identical.

>homm4 (which literaly uses some random licensed music that costed few pennies) has better music then olden era
How

>>722925013
fuck off subhuman insect

>>722924902
Are you OK? Do you have mental damage? People have mentioned criticisms for 4 in this very thread that contradict your post.

>>722919858
Hooded Horse published Against the Storm. That's worth a fair amount of credit.

>>722925013
>girls flatline

>>722925018
idk i havent played the tutorial, just thought that info might help as it does in some custom maps in other homm games

>>722925206
maybe rotate skeletons for terrain for them and swordsmans...idk

>>722925027
You know I wish that was trie because homm4 is a good game
>>722925140
4chan is not all of the m&m fanbase

>>722924535
I liked the visuals way less back in the day, hero system is wack, units and castles aren't as fun, overall it felt cheaper somehow, It grew on me with time, still a good game, just not as close to perfect as 3 or memorable as 2 or 5.

>>722925319
>Ask any strategy goober
>There are strategy goobers ITT listing critiques of 4 that aren't your head case scenarios
So uhhhhhh which is it? Lol, are you gonna admit you've got a case of the retards or are you gonna double down?

Out of all the wild shit HoMM4 does, simultaneous retaliations stand out as particularly "but why"

>>722923992
>5 looks like abysmal dogshit
no, 5 looked ok. wasn't great but certainly wasn't "dogshit" either.
>which makes olden era look downright beautiful in comparison
hell no. olden straight up looks like low poly cartoon mobile shit. i can forgive it if everything else is fine but i'm not going to lie to myself and say it's good aesthetically when it's not. it's fucking terrible.

>>722912574
>Adahn
That really updates my journal.

>>722925461
It's more realistic though

>>722921770
Go for Wizardry instead, desu. Anything from 6 onwards.

https://youtu.be/_G0yeNCu5VU?si=z63bDy7_QW0yI0b5

>>722921770
>>722925553
Actually, I take that back. Play Betrayal at Krondor. It's not a strict blobber, but it's easily the best.

Grimrock is also meant to be good, especially if you've got that 'thal DNA.

>>722925013
no thanks, I prefer real video games

>>722925415
You deliberately not criticised the game in a way I wanted you to because you are evil chud that hates me
That was easy heh guess I win another online discussion

>>722925547
Even in ranged combat?

>>722925634
>Grimrock is also meant to be good, especially if you've got that 'thal DNA.
Sapebrain, you're thinking of of Grimwah. You can ride on...turtles in it.

>>722923739
My experience exactly.

>>722925013
>you need to eat shit like me!
fuck off gachatard

>>722921770
Disregard retards itt. Get 8, get unification mode and start with playing 6's campaign, mostly real-time using turns when it gets tough. M&M6-8 feel like proto elder scrolls, they are fun to explore and exploit, very juicy and charismatic games.

>>722924259
It's the best in the franchise, and the only Heroes game with a good story.

It's actually funny if you go back to HoMM3 after 4 and check out the apocalypse story because it doesn't really exist, nothing like what 4 talks about actually happened lol.

But yeah, being able to make your heroes into Superheroes and being able to use them on the map just really appealed to me, I loved it.

Amazing QoL stuff too with stuff like not having to get every single dwelling and water mill every week. But, all the HoMM grognards threw a fit about that, so they reverted it back for 5. Shame.

>>722919701
This ends racism

>you just get town portal from sub perk when lving up logistics
Lol ok

>>722917105
The previous game by this developer also looked ungodly hideous, but it was actually really fun gameplay-wise. Based slav devs filtering moviegame graffixfag secondaries

>>722904721 (OP)
What campaign? There is no campaign.

>>722926140
you can get town portal the usual way too

>>722925013
I've seen all of this in hetai games 25+ years ago, pass

>>722926140
The town portal from logistics sucks balls, very low range

>>722925191
Anon, DP-12 is back.

>>722926140
The one in recruitment is very good

>>722925751
You're completely right, my bad.

>>722925013
There's a line between "sexy" and "cartoonish", and the entire gacha genre is on the wrong side of that line.

>>722926140
I like that global spell that lets you interact between heroes at a distance.

>>722925013
i'd rather die.
have fun with your transition, neet.

>peasants are tier 2 units
>swordsman tier 1
Lol ok

>>722926863
Post peasants i havent seen them

>>722926563
>>722926206
As opposed to going crazy at a unit in a strategy game having an ass?

You literally can't tell some units apart from their upgrades at a glance

I sincerely hope the UI is a placeholder and not what we'll end up with because it bores me to tears. Game is also obviously missing a lot of sounds but I expect them to fill that in upon full release. It's eerily quiet, and the battle themes feel too calm imo.
Overall I'm happy with it so far, could be a pretty good game, art aside.

>>722927075
I can, so can you ;) after over 50 hours in the playtest

>>722927116
ui in homm games have never recovered after homm5

>>722927116
>>722927219
>>722925182
I wonder if Hooded Horse could reach out to Eremite for some of this.

Against the Storm had fantastic sound effects/music and a very nice, very easy to use and clever UI. It's leagues ahead on both regards, they could surely take some cues from them.

>every unit is only one tile in size, even the gigantic ones
I don't know how to feel about this

>another shitty russian dev hiding in cyprus
lmao

>>722927396
That was expected. HoMM4 was the last time a Heroes game tried something truly innovative. After that flopped they've just been iterating on 3.

It's not that bad, HoMM3 was good and it's a good game to iterate on, but it is what it is.

>>722927523
But 3 literally had units bigger than 1 tile

>>722927464
I'm pretty sure Unfrozen is Serbian and nominally in Cyprus for good old fashioned tax reasons.

>>722927571
Unless I'm going crazy, it definitely didn't. Which units in 3 took up multiple tiles?

>>722927523
but big units were big as far back as homm1

>>722925013
How about I kill every single fucking gacha nigger instead, huh

>>722927026
Yes.
Tiny model on a hex grid with 5 pixels of boobs and ass is inherently way sexier than another generic over animated SMF anime girl #3461.

>>722927659
Bruh what are you talking about have you ever even played 3 lmao
It feels like this thread is full of tourists

>>722927659
dragons, cavalry, snake ladies

>>722927219
This game's ui is horrendous compared to 5
Tons of tiny buttons with no description on mouseover/right click
No explanation why you have -3 luck and shit like that
Terrible tiny unit icons that all look like each other
Seriously, why is everything so fucking tiny?! And it's not just scaling, this shit looks exactly the same on 1024x768
City list looks like a bunch of notifications that I can just dismiss
Hero list is on the other side of the screen (5 at least had all this shit together)
Very little feedback from overworld interactions, with some of them you have no idea if it worked or not, no pop-ups, however fleeting, just nothing

>>722912226
almost good. just swap 3 with 5. the rest doesnt matter

>>722927116
No, modern UI/UX designers are born and raised on mobile and web UI full of minimal shit, they literally don't understand anything else and have no artistic talent or developed tastes. They were hired to do a job and that's the only thing they can create.

>>722915540
heroes 4 pikeman?

>>722922713
>white guy with sword hero
you're not even white lmao

>>722927802
duel of champions was kino which made homm6 palatable...i miss mmdoc and those water niggas

>>722926863
Peasants are the backbone of any economy, about time they started to get appreciation they deserve

>>722927802
What the FUCK happened in M&M3?

>>722923495
I like it

>>722926917
The only time I've seen them was in that structure that lets you recruit 3 random units

>>722928204
They chose the Golden Path.

>>722927802
Naga queen, my beloved

Where is the fucking spell?

>>722926563
>There's a line between "sexy" and "cartoonish", and the entire gacha genre is on the wrong side of that line.
This is generalization. I mean you can hate them for being gacha and related stuff but not all of them are just girl only porn

the music is kino
i wonder if you can play this with a modern resolution like homm3 hd mod

>>722904721 (OP)
I dislike it, i will continue to play 3, 4 and 5

>>722928646
in the spellbook

>>722928204
It was a special time for many monsters.

>>722928716
Have you ever tried typing homm4 HD mod in your search engine sir

>>722928825
i dont believe in search engines they steal your dna

>>722928680
The only gacha games I'm aware of are the coombait games because those are the ones people insist on posting in unrelated threads.

>>722928756
Let me guess, you need more?

>>722928716
zero budget royalty-free music slaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0DnxTylOM

>>722928903
I absolutely do need a mouse yes

>>722928946
That has also been used in anime.

https://youtu.be/hHcrkxQ0Cks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLvRXPm6Q8
scary spooky skeleton

>all the retards crying about UI and graphics in the demo

nigger its clear 70% of this shit is placeholder (right?)

>>722928898
This somehow isn't coombait though? >>722919701 >>722921085 >>722921713 Nevermind all the reactions to it that're exactly in line with that.

These days Gatcha have better production values, better stories and better characters than the vast majority of the industry, and they're one of the few sections left that haven't been hollowed out by modern thinking.

>>722929462
i've endured homm5 and unfrozen's previous title so i honestly don't even care

>>722928898
Well I prefer not to post Limbus pics in unrelated threads but here example non coobait gacha

>>722929462
>It's a placeholder
People always say that all the way until it turns out it isn't.

>>722929498
I will not play F2P games with MTX business model, no exceptions.

>no movement penalties if
>1) if the terrain is native to hero's faction
>2) if the terrain is native to the faction of all creatures in the army
Wait, so I can satisfy ANY of these 2 conditions? I.e. if I have a schism hero I will not have penalties on snow even if I have skeletons in the army, right?

>>722927219
HoMM 5 had an iron gauntlet as a mouse cursor witch inmedietly makes it a good UI

>>722928716
>i wonder if you can play this with a modern resolution like homm3 hd mod
Equilibris unless you just want HD mod and not rebalance

>>722924535
haha look at this silly gnome face

>>722929662
yea sure

>>722929662
turns out the tutorial is a reading comprehension test

>>722928756
This is FnaF on eastern Europe

>>722929498
>gachas have everything except gameplay
exactly you fucking tranny lmao

>>722924535
decades later I remember that walking animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqUvJICbymQ

>>722928646
Speaking of, how the fuck do I get world map spells? It says I have too low level, but level in what, I have no idea. Can't be hero overall level.

>>722927849
I'm one and I can't find the magic of these games.
Half of HoMM 3 vids I see have people skip the combat which, when you watch how slow and apparently mindless it is, I kind of get. But then the overworld sim aspect is pretty simple and streamlined to accommodate constant fighting and I just get why I wouldn't play shit like FFT if I wanted real combat, 4x games if I wanted sim building, or TW or AoW if I wanted a hybrid

>>722929016
>>722928946
I've heard the same tracks in HoMM4, Stronghold, Black&White and Lineage 2
>>722928095
Well you're in luck, the same people that made HotA also liked that game, so you can still play it, google "MMDOC Revival"
>>722926917
I had to search through my saves, I got 30 peasants from pandora's box but it was too late to be relevant. The piglet description doesn't seem to do anything. Taxpayer passive is 10 gold per unit - I guess they had higher inflation in the prequel, lol. Has no upgrades, I went with them into a neutral upgrade thingy.

>>722930139
What beloved piglet ability does?

>>722930139
>>722930336
Oh i do remember this unit from the playtest, after it takes a certain amount of damage the pig dies and he becomes enraged with decent stats

>>722930430
Oh yeah, iirc he turns into werewolf of some sort. How does that work with multiple units in stack?

>>722929918
Plenty of gatcha games have perfectly fine or outright great gameplay, certainly better than the vast majority of AAA or AA games.

>>722929646
Well the only other option these days, is B2P games with a MTX business model.

>>722930856
A percentage of your stack has to die for the ability to activate and then the rest have better stats

Played trough a few solo hero games. Man, the nostalgia actually got me. Its great so far, and I can't wait to see the full release. I just hope that they have the fucking map creation tools shipped with the game.

>>722917557
>Those games are played by gooners and trannies. Strategy games and strategy rpgs aren't.
Bruh, pic related is easily one of the most iconic RTS unit ever.

>>722931284
People are saying the 2026 release is early access so I doubt it.

>>722911835
>Meanwhile your picture is pure cancer, which kills all the fun and variety of leveling up because it's mandatory and OP.
Except you can't guarantee it, and you have to choose between hoping to go for the 5 mastered skills, and brick your build with garbage, or just picking up good skills and powering trough the map that way.
There is literally nothing mandatory about the new ones.

>>722931402
If it's EA that's' fucked up, actually.

>>722931402
Fucking hell, I don't want to rely on devs to provide me good campaign maps. I just wanna cook up my own stuff. Why do no modern games allow you to do that anymore? Warcraft, SC, homm3, I spend as much time in the map tools as I did playing them.

>>722931402
Even Songs of Conquest (made by 5 people on a fraction of homm's budget) has map editor
They'd be real dumb to release without it, early access or not

>>722931284
>>722931402
>>722931751
There is going to be at least a "simple" map editor at EA launch, and they further develop it along the EA, likely according to mapper and modder feedback.

>>722929498
Are you telling me you think that unit is on the same level as something like >>722925013?

>>722932006
There are the same picture.

>>722929734
dios mios......
el goblino de los heroes.....

>>722925293
>>722925206
this was it
thanks anon
the tutorial says the hero suffers no movement penalties if all creatures in the army are native to the terrain