The Heroes Round Table

No, MP is still not playable (not as it should)
The synch problems, while not so evident as in 1.1, are still there.
I played 8 MP games so far with 1.2 (LAN, 2 human players, a few AI players) and we were able to finish only 2 of them, the other 6 six got stuck due to the synch problems.

You are experiencing the same problems we all have. Let's hope 1.2 will make multiplayer playable.

Hi guys.. has anyone of you tried the patched game in multiplayer? Does it fix all the problems, crashes and freezes of the original game? I still wasn't able to finish an MP game.. I was hoping this patch would have fixed most of the problems.. but looking in the patch notes I don't see anything th...

Mhm.. where are all the fixes for multiplayer games? The game in unplayable in multiplayer.. I don't see anything that will improve it in the patch notes

The TBS genre, unlike the RTS/FPS isn't filled with cookie cutter games. That's all I have to say to you. All I have to say to you is that every succesful TBS that I can think of has FoW, H3 does not have it just because it's very old and at that time FoW was not so common as of now. FoW has lots o...

Infiltrator wrote:The FoW that restores itself belongs in the RTS genre, heroes is good with what we've got now, imo.

Ah.. really? So... Age of wonders? TBS.. FoW. Warlords? TBS... FoW.
Lords of the Realm? TBS.. FoW again... Master of Orion.. TBS.. FoW
These are just the first the came into my mind.

Gaidal Cain you remember well. Civ3 had FoW.. and of course Civ4 had FoW too. Civ without fog would suck. Corribus.. that is not because of FoW but because of the terrible H4 Ai.. and also because in H4 creatures could wander without an hero. Fallen angel... so you would have scouts even in enemy te...

ThunderTitan wrote: Haven't you heard? Anything that was in Heroes 4 but not 3 is the work of teh devil and must be kept out of Heroes 5!

LOL.. now it makes sense.. it's sad but they are really working this way..

ThunderTitan wrote:Nope, no Fog of War.

How could they came up with a so dumb decision?
FoW is considered a must in modern strategy games.. if there's someone that doesn't like it ( and I'm sure they are a minority ) make it an option..

It will be an huge step backward if it won't be in.. being able to see your enemies sucks.. this is a strategy game.. if you can see your enemies you lose lots of strategy possibilities.. why do you think that in the past 4-5 years every strategy game had it? This has to be at least an option.. if n...

As someone pointed in the official forums... H5 beta does not have fog of war.. I strongly hope they will include it in the final game.. Every strategy game has it since years.. it makes multiplayer games much more enjoyable.. and also singleplayer games benefits from it ( it helps the Ai ) FoW is a...

minger wrote:wait- - so what eaxctly were the three things everyone hated?

lots of bugs, no multiplayer and a crappy AI

I assume you're talking about the combat AI. You can't even have a computer player in the game. But they included a duel mode specifically so people could tinker around with combat strategies and balance. The combat AI for multiplayer games is there so that you can experiment with various abilities...

I liked H4, I think it had a good potential... but a very very crappy Ai and tons of bugs made the game nearly unplayable. It was rushed and its unifinished taste made me prefer to stick playing the old H3 most of the times. On the other hand I have to disagree with you about the graphics, I think H...

My impressions about H5 after playing for a while the beta are negative. I know it's a beta and so it is supposed to be buggy and in no way finished... so I will not complain of lag, speed issues, crashes and other techinichal problems. But the game has some major flaws: - Balance, the game is reall...

I'm with you guys, I think that 8x10 is too small. I don't like fast and furious battles, this is not Need for Speed it's HoMM! In heroes3&4 battles strategies and tactics were important and using a good tactic could meant win even against a larger and stronger army. More squares means more stra...