HOMM5 Future Ideas for expansions.

[CarthianGod]

Roight!!

Now i've no bones about admitting that i'm a HOMM junkie and play it to death (much to the chagrin of my missus) and got da expansion an everythin.

Now it got me finkin bout interesting ways that da game could develop to provide more strategy and variety.

Heres me ideas:

1) A bit loike in HOMM4 you had a choice in the towns to EITHER build one creature dwelling or another meaning that you could build more tailored towns specific to how you wanted to populate your armies. By integrating this into HOMM5 you could increase the variety of creatures in the game and some neutral creatures like the Death Knights could be an alternative option to say wraiths. (I loikes me death Knoights I do.)

2) Lots more neutral creatures. Now HOMM has always stayed true to using classic fantasy creatures but could use many many more in HOMM5 if it liked. For example:

Halflings
Giants
Giant Spiders
Gnomes
Werewolves
Golem Varieties
Etc, Etc

They could use certain creatures as a random encounter for different places. For exmple when moving through a wooded area a small chance of being ambushed by say Giant forest spiders.

3) PLANAR CAMPAIGN: I remember with great fondness a HOMM3 Chronicle with that Barbarian fella Tarnum when he became a wizard and had to traverse the elemental planes kickin butts. It would be an awesome addition if you could access planar portals (which should be rare and involve some risky business) to gain acces to a plane (Whether elemental or Philisophical like D+D's Hells or Celestial Heavans.

4) Another human faction would be nice with an eastern flavour. Say with Samurai style elites, Ninja's elephant rriders, oriental dragons.

Well thats all I can think of for now but it's all food for thought..........

[ThunderTitan]

4) Another human faction would be nice with an eastern flavour.

Let's kill him...


The other ideeas aren't bad.

[Corelanis]

Welcome to the forum. No more humans ever or elves theres to many other more interesting races out there. I like the idea of having more than 2 levels in a map you could up it to four. Yes I know that not what your saying. A planar campaign my might be fun but im still getting over the campain of regular H5 im not so sure Nival could make it interesting.

[winterfate]

Welcome to the forums, CarthianGod!

Yes, those ideas are nice. I agree with TT though, for that human idea (no more humans; especially after they added those Renegade troops in the expansion pack ).

[omegaweix]

4) Another human faction would be nice with an eastern flavour.

Let's kill him...

Don't be so harsh to a newbie, TT!
Welcome to the forums, Mr. Carthian!

Say with Samurai style elites, Ninja's elephant rriders, oriental dragons.

...so NOW we have to kill him !

But really, as TT said before, the other ideas sound very capable!

[ThunderTitan]

4) Another human faction would be nice with an eastern flavour.

Let's kill him...

Don't be so harsh to a newbie, TT!

I'm inducting him into the ranks of the undead... he should be gratefull.

Welcome to the forum, and don't worry, i'll probably get banned soon™.

[PhoenixReborn]

Let's kill him...

Don't be so harsh to a newbie, TT!

I'm inducting him into the ranks of the undead... he should be gratefull.

Welcome to the forum, and don't worry, i'll probably get banned soon™.

Why because you're DL's good half?

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Random encounters can be fun...in heroes II you sometimes had to fight for artifacts or it was nice in the inferno campaign when assassin's suddenly popped out to fight you.

[Veldrynus]

Somebody said "Kill"??? Where? Wheere?

Oh. I see.

Ninja's elephant rriders? Sorry, but this is not good enough. Does it upgrade to oliphant samurai axethrower? I thought so.

[Mytical]

Welcome to the forum. Your ideas are pretty good . Just will politely point out that there are a few places that ideas have been discussed (ok a LOT of places). I can copy some links if you wish. Maybe we could get the mods to sticky an idea thread in h5, h1-4, and campfire..just a thought. Or even in just h5 *shrug*. Anyhow, I for one would be interested in hearing your ideas . (Even the one about the different style humans, but I am interested in all ideas..even dragons).

[CarthianGod]

Thanks for the welcome all, even the death threats Heh heh

I get the impression that more Humans arnt in popular demand, i'll have to trawl the forum looking for the topics when I get loads and loads of time ( A rarity bein married with kids (BAAH hUmbug)

But your feedback got me thinkin about another direction for Humans though (and even other races) Its a bit strange when you click on your faction town and despite say being in the desert your Fortress pans around a lovely snowy landscape or despite being above cround the Dungeon appears underground. Well why not an expansion that adds climate effects to your troops. Say Human factions appear with arabic style troops that have abilities when fighting in desert

No more humans ever or elves theres to many other more interesting races out there. I like the idea of having more than 2 levels in a map you could up it to four.

Yeah that would be Uber awesome. Mega maps with 4 levels comprising ground level underground 1 or 2 levels and maybe planar or sky levels. Would take a long time to complete though me thinks.

I'm inducting him into the ranks of the undead... he should be gratefull.

Kewl my best faction, despite getting my unholy ass kicked in the invasion campaign map by Havez,who's now made my list.

Anyhow, anyone else got any ideas for an interesting direction that HOMM5 could go in?

[Panda Tar]

Thanks for the welcome all, even the death threats Heh heh.

I get the impression that more Humans arnt in popular demand.

Welcome, human.

It is not that humans aren't that popular. It's because these silly people just want them disguised in other skins and colors pretending they are different. They all speak like humans, die, and behave similar, and others are half-human. To top it all, they all fight each other, so they have some human interests at all. I was always a supporter for an Eastern kind of town, but I just don't see it suiting the game. Well, but that doesn't mean they can change their skins into a green scale samurai sort of...thing.

Ahem, welcome.

[ThunderTitan]

Anyhow, anyone else got any ideas for an interesting direction that HOMM5 could go in?

I had plenty... they didn't pan out.


I'm thinking that we should already move on to H6, as i doubt that there will be any major changes in H5 any time soon. A new town and some creatures would fill any expansion they would wish to put out.

[Mytical]

Just want to help you with your search and point you viewtopic.php?t=3977 here. A bunch of different ideas (a lot of them are mine) and I will keep looking for other places to point you, there are a bunch .

[TelMarine]

personally I echo the sentiment that in another expansion they should add Stronghold.

[ThunderTitan]

And it's my sentiment that it should have been included from the get go...

[Kilop]

we ll, I just have one question: now that the estearn theme is taking by academy ( which I think is a poor choice ). What will be the theme of the free ceities of the East ? mongolian somehow , purely orcish ?
just a question, hope it is not too HS..

[ThunderTitan]

The Free Cities are inhabited by humans... play Dark Messiah to see at least one of them.

[Kilop]

Err I thought that orcs were with them ...
We will just have one dragon in the next expansion, not the air one too ?
what a shame

[ThunderTitan]

Except the Air one there's only one dragon left... i hope it drowns.

[aulfgar]

My thoughts for the next exapansion include but is not limited to a functional AI. That by itself would be a worthwhile expansion.