Thread 723473906

HOMM older era thread

May your morale be high and initiative steadfast!
Discuss the game, your playhthrougs, strategies, OP unit comps.

>Latest news:
>Twilight is still OP
>HOMM Olden Era has reached OVER 1 000 000 wishlists!

>>723473906 (OP)
buy an ad faggot

I like it. Can't wait till multiplayer comes out EA.

Alright lads, this has been my last playthrough for the time being. 22 hours in and finished 4 campaigns with all the races, increasing difficulty each time. Here are my latest thoughts for +200% difficulty Temple:

>Is temple the weakest faction?
Hard to say without PVP data. I have not felt a noticeable difficulty increase however. The strategy for Temple seems to be maxxing out on morale, daylight skill buffs and +% ranged damage. They have THREE long ranged units and ALL have laws increasing their growth and damage. Add to this a max-level blessing and maxx morale and you become a ranged powerhouse, 2 shotting everyone and decimating the enemy before his turn even begins due to high initiative (take the initiative law too). Weakening ray removes all counterattacks from all enemies at max level, meaning you are guaranteed to almost never lose any units against the NPC armies towards the mid-game. Take the upgraded units that give +stats on buffs (archangel, sun herald, sunspear etc). Max daylight + expert luck + expert morale = killing machine.

Oh and btw, ascension and buff copy are useless to. I NEVER lost a stack through the entire playthrough and NEVER had to copy buffs as I always used the buff-all ones.

>Is increasing difficulty making the game easier?
Seems so. The AI in my 200% run was pretty much at the same unit stacks as the 150% one. The only difficulty for the player is the increased stack size in the early game, but you can bypass this with smart attacking choices, going for the easy fights, prioritizing getting your archer units etc. Resources are scarce for the first few weeks but once you get them going ++ upgraded ranged units you can start snowballing just as easily as on the other difficulties.

>Is Master Skill worth it?
FUCK NO. I needed only 2 more skills and had 4 slots empty but the RNG completely FUCKED ME OVER and I could only get 4/5. It also forces you to get useless shit like summon avatar to get there - IT IS A TRAP. AVOID.

>>723475313
cont.

>Are some skills bad
Yes. Summon avatar is useless, AVOID. Ascension and all the all-stack-must-die mechanics (looking at you, schism) are shit. Tactics, diplomacy, siegecraft, thaumaturgy are weak. Resistance is weaker too since you want to kill the enemy before he gets the chance to hit you back with spells, and the strongest spells are all buffs/nerfs anyways rather than pure damage. Economy, recuitment, scouting are ok to have on secondaty heroes if you can level them up for free with XP-giving buildings

>What about items?
As I said in my previous post, they need to reduce the number of sets a little bit, it's too saturated. Also the lower-level items must be improved, as of now there is not much of a reason to keep anything
>Alchemical dust
I am conflcited about it. On one hand it's cool that it makes getting higher tier units harder, but as I've described, if it means having to delete some items to get it (and you WILL do it since the upgraded units are so much more valuable) it becomes an anti-fun mechanic. You'll also be at the mercy of RNG, if you get lucky and get the buldings that generate it every week, or the one that lets you trade for dust you're good but if not you're fucked. So it also introduces multiplayer balance issues.

>Are the graphics shit
Honestly I'm starting to slowly warm up to them a little bit. Overhead map looks fine but the colors can really blend through in battles. Overall the color pallete between the factions should be more different to allow for clear differentiation

>is the game FUN?
Yes it is. It has great potential honestly. It has a lot of the things that gave homm3 SOVL

Heroes of Rape and Sodomy: AIDS Era

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/three-ubisoft-former-execs-found-guilty-of-sexual-and-psychological-harassment-given-suspended-sentences

Former Ubisoft execs Thomas François, Serge Hascoët, and Guillaume Patrux have been given suspended prison sentences for sexual and psychological harassment.

As reported by The Guardian, the trial – which began in June – saw an "overwhelming" amount of evidence of harassment against Ubisoft employees from the three former executives.

During the trial, employees described the company's offices in Montreuil, Paris as being run "with a toxic culture of bullying and sexism".

François, former vice president of editorial and creative services, received a three-year suspended sentence and fined €30,000 for sexual harassment, psychological harassment, and "an attempted sexual assault". He left Ubisoft in August 2020 following allegations of sexual misconduct.

Former CCO Hascoët was found guilty of psychological harassment and "complicity in sexual harassment". He was given an 18-month suspended sentence and fined €45,000. Hascoët, who oversaw Ubisoft's editorial team, resigned in July 2020 following a number of accusations.

Former game designer Patrux received a 12-month suspended sentence and fined €10,000 for psychological harassment.

As reported by France24, lawyer for the civil parties affected Maude Beckers described the ruling as "a very good decision today, and for the future".

"For all companies, it means that when there is toxic management, managers must be held accountable and employers can no longer let it slide."

François, Hascoët, and Patrux were arrested by French police in 2023 – along with two other employees – following a year-long investigation. All three former executives denied the charges.

>>723475313
>>723475376
Kill yourself immediately you shit eating shill faggot

UBISOFT IS GUILTY OF A NUMBER OF CRIMES:
1. Unfrozen discord child groomer and Russian draft dodger Denis Fedorov gets his hentai OCs "canonized" before Ubisoft sells this shit to Hooded Horse for a kickback, so Hooded Horse cuck CEO Tim Bender and his CCP bug hotwife can fully pivot to CCP funded gacha data farming the Asian market. I hope you like all your Heroes to be anime school girls. Sorry Slavs your time is done. Ubisoft was bailed out by Tencent. Heroes of Might and Magic? More like Heroes of Data Mining and Kompromat (hi Timmy Bender blackmailed by bugwife)
2. Hooded Horse is running a shitty gaslight (aka lying) campaign to get discord troons to buy this shit. See: the cat thing with the dildo on its forehead. Kittendildo, soon to be a Funko Pop exclusive Q1 2026!
3. They are begging you to call them faggots so they can blame this controlled demolition of the Might and Magic IP all on TOXIC COMMUNITY, in fact they already have. They are also literally shit eating faggots.
4. Unfrozen is not a studio, it's an agglomeration of disposable temps. Unfrozen CEO Denis Federov should be dying in Ukraine for Russia instead of commissioning tentacle rape porn OCs in troon color schemes.
5. Ubisoft never changes even if their fist is up Hooded Horse's ass for now. If you aren't old enough to understand how awful Ubisoft is, then you were probably molested by their employees on various discord servers. If you find yourself defending Ubisoft without financial compensation, please seek professional help immediately.
6. Ubisoft is now a Tencent/CCP subsidiary.

>>723475476
oh my god thank you for reminding me anon, I HATE that unit. Is that the one that, after you kill it, it makes your unit enraged and attacks the closest friendly? What a pain in the ass that is

>delayed twice mobile game
lmao

>>723475376
>thaumaturgy
>weak
are you insane? the ability to cast 2 spells per round is obviously broken in any late game fight

>>723473906 (OP)
I liked this banner much more.
Why did they change it to generic knight on generic hill?
Schizo voice: THEY CENSORED MY TENTACLE HEROFU

>>723475846
>Why did they change it to generic knight on generic hill?
deceptive marketing to try and convince Slavs the game isn't riddled with faggot shit (it 100% is). They already tranny baited with the League of Legends mobile game shit

>>723475516
It doesn't make you attack the closest friendly, just the closest stack.

>Unfrozen must use the few remaining months before closing down to convince 4chan they didn't make an LGBT mobile game
Dire.

>>723475476
Rent free, nafotranny

>>723475831
agh must have confused the skill names with another one. But yeah it's cool that all things considered most skills are viable and they have subspecializations that interact with other skills so you can create "builds". Also like that the buffs are quite generous (some might say OP) instead of being the standard +-5% you see in other games due to balance creep. Hope they keep this ethos for release too.

>>723476424
ESL marketing kill yourself discord faggot

>>723476496
^)

>>723475313
>>723475376
Nice and completely organic blogpost on 4chan

>>723475932
Take medication for your mental issues.

>>723476793
sorry bro, forgot that 4chan /v/ is only for schizoposting rather than game discussions

>>723477153
>blogpost
>discussion
Pick one

>>723473906 (OP)
>No unique hero models for the inhuman heroes
I will not play this until this is fixed. Its a 3D game pretending to be 2D there is no excuse for not at least having generate models for the different races.

>>723476357
>nafotranny

>>723477197
>not a faggot
>you
pick one

>>723477197
oh no, he also has patch notes he wants to spam for his tranny mobile game too

>summon avatar
>send him to suicide against enemy units to activate Ascension
hey it's neat combo! If only they actually let us summon elementals instead of forcing you to pick A FUCKING SKILL to unlock costly SPELL that will summon ONE unit that's about their 6-7 in strength

>>723477153
>sorry bro, forgot that 4chan /v/ is only for schizoposting rather than game advertisements
kill yourself you sick sodomite fuck

>>723474363
1 million wishlist=10,000 Euros
LOL!

>>723477490
yeah the avatar is extremely underwhelming. It's even weaker than a T7 unit even at expert level.

>>723475846
>Why did they change it to generic knight on generic hill?
because homm3 banner was a knight on a hill

Hey guys, can you stop talking about how purchasing Steam wishlisting is a inextricable part of modern video game marketing? It's really upsetting some literal faggots on a discord trying to sell this AI generated mobile game to you.

>>723474363
Yikes

>>723477321
Would have been way easier to do custom models if it was all in 2D tho

>>723477987
>Hey guys, can you stop talking about how purchasing Steam wishlisting is a inextricable part of modern video game marketing? It's really upsetting some literal faggots on a discord trying to sell this AI generated mobile game to you.
/thread

>>723477987
I thought you got banned?
It's alright, something random will trigger and make you chimp out soon enough.

>>723478589
>t. an upset literal discord faggot trying to advertise this mobile game
>>>/vmg/

>>723477321
They really should do this. Modders will probably do it if the devs won't, but i would like it to be a vanilla feature.

Heroes of Rape and Sodomy: AIDS Era

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/three-ubisoft-former-execs-found-guilty-of-sexual-and-psychological-harassment-given-suspended-sentences

Former Ubisoft execs Thomas François, Serge Hascoët, and Guillaume Patrux have been given suspended prison sentences for sexual and psychological harassment.

As reported by The Guardian, the trial – which began in June – saw an "overwhelming" amount of evidence of harassment against Ubisoft employees from the three former executives.

During the trial, employees described the company's offices in Montreuil, Paris as being run "with a toxic culture of bullying and sexism".

François, former vice president of editorial and creative services, received a three-year suspended sentence and fined €30,000 for sexual harassment, psychological harassment, and "an attempted sexual assault". He left Ubisoft in August 2020 following allegations of sexual misconduct.

Former CCO Hascoët was found guilty of psychological harassment and "complicity in sexual harassment". He was given an 18-month suspended sentence and fined €45,000. Hascoët, who oversaw Ubisoft's editorial team, resigned in July 2020 following a number of accusations.

Former game designer Patrux received a 12-month suspended sentence and fined €10,000 for psychological harassment.

As reported by France24, lawyer for the civil parties affected Maude Beckers described the ruling as "a very good decision today, and for the future".

"For all companies, it means that when there is toxic management, managers must be held accountable and employers can no longer let it slide."

François, Hascoët, and Patrux were arrested by French police in 2023 – along with two other employees – following a year-long investigation. All three former executives denied the charges.

Man, Olden Era sure looks great.

Based ban evading schizo keeping the thread bumped.

>>723480470
literally homm5 UI and background

Demo update.

>spent more time on a demo of a game than any actual full game from 2024-25
Grim

>>723482801
Creatures icons should be redone completely.

>>723482801
early access scam that will never make 1.0

>>723477414
Nice projecting mechanism you've got here attentionwhore

>>723482801
all fairly basic fixes but good to see

>>723483994
I didn't expect a demo update of all things but that's good news.

>>723473906 (OP)
>game delayed twice
>game looks like AI mobile gacha shit
>don't know how to make a UI
>planning to rip and run with EA preorder money
>Ubishit
Pass

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>723482801
They're actually going to make the UI better in the next release? Nice.

>Jebus is now playable in 1 hero mode
Nice

>>723475376
I think you are overlooking how powerful schism summons are due to how easy it is to beat the ai. Phoenix resurrection was absolute bullshit in 3 and this is a spammable version of that. The threat of a summoning ritual prevents opponents from focusing down any stack at the start of the battle.