Heroes of Might & Magic III: Horn of the Abyss

[Docent Picolan]

http://heroes3hota.com/ - all news about HotA

[Muszka]

Nice... I think I liked the other Nightmare better, but great to see some move. Hope that you'll find the strength and time to finish this project.

[Pol]

Hmm, this is looking really good.

@Muszka
I wouldn't be afraid that they will not finish it. I feel a strong will here.

BTW any chance of getting Phoenixmod in english? I remember that it was wanted.

[Warrior]

BTW any chance of getting Phoenixmod in english? I remember that it was wanted.

Yes. I've started working on a new version (3.5) and I'll translate it into English. But without help only 5-10% of all innovasions are easy to find so I'll try to make very short variant of manual with all main features.

I wouldn't be afraid that they will not finish it. I feel a strong will here.

And good team

[GrayFace]

What about the skins you started?

[Docent Picolan]

A few more screenshots..

6. New Monsters seen in battlefield action: Vanilla creatures + Satyr, Faunus, Oceanid, Assyd, Nymph, Haspid, Spirit of the Sea



7. A few of the planned new artifacts:


8. Numerous new objects seen on the map:


9. New monsters in action: Nightmare, Hell Steed, Rune Priest, Snow Leopard, Berserker

[darknessfood]

Well, tbh I LOVE the new creatures.I really hope you can find the time/will to complete this project. It really looks great. It's amazing to see how this is progressing. When done, ill be sure to stick a lot of time in this game!

[akstylish]

Holy...How did you make the creatures look like 2.5d?? Did you actually use a 3d modeler?

p.s.:oh hai. I'm new here.

[Docent Picolan]

Did you actually use a 3d modeler?

Yes, sure, we've got a couple of skilled 3d modellers on our team list; the models are textured, animated and further rendered as sprite animations

[darknessfood]

I gots a question. How is it musicwise. You got 3 new towns planned, does they come with their own soundtrack as well, and maybe more music added?

[Docent Picolan]

We have a professional composer in our team. He is working on creating town music at the moment...

[darknessfood]

Ah, nice to hear that , really looking forward to the beta and the full product . Nice work already !

[Pol]

I always sought to being music composer, and I'm still not having keys and proper pc centrum. Slowly forgotting the notes...

[Deadguy118]

Impressive to say the least. I look forward to playing this.

[Docent Picolan]

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[Pol]

The bridge is working how is?

I see many of your units are smaller, are you planning to accustom to it game standart units? (Let say stone golems will be about two inch smaller than diamond golems...)

[Docent Picolan]

The bridge is passable for heroes, no movement penalty is applied (the bridge "terrain" acts just as regular dirt). Ships can pass directly through the bridge (as if they went underneath it), just a conditionality quite characteristic of the whole HoM&M franchise (otherwise you'd get dragons ten times larger than a pikeman). As for the creature size, all the new units are already scaled up to the regular standard. The only short creature seen in the screenshots is Leprechaun - but they ought to be this way, just like the H3 dwarves. By the way I don't see how you came up with this idea that our creatures appear smaller - nobody else voiced an opinion like that before.

[danijel1990]

Projects's looking nice so far...
just one question: will u add 3 towns, or replace old ones with your new ones?

[Docent Picolan]

We are going to add theese new towns without replacing anything.

[danijel1990]

Ok then, great
But I thought that it is impossible to add more towns as wog team is trying to break the limit of 255 creatures