What difficulty do you use in single-player? (H3)

[Qurqirish Dragon]

I normally play on hard- the AI is at full effectiveness, and doesn't get cheat-resources. The only exception is if a map has a day 1 drain on resources, in which case I play on impossible- If I'm going to play with the penalties, I might as well get the score bonus

[Nucleon]

I normally play on hard- the AI is at full effectiveness, and doesn't get cheat-resources.

With all due respects, this is not all true, althought it is indeed what the main menu tells you.

Here you are going to constat the subtler differences.

[Vlad976]

vote Normal.
I'm an "I suck" kind of player. Regardless of whether it's actually true or not.

[Monte Cristo]

What i find is that the larger the map, the easier it is to play at Impossible, generally i play at Expert or Hard

[Monte Cristo]

On average, when you have played a map once, it becomes easier to play at a higher difficulty level

[dallasmavs41]

Usually expert, but I'm trying to do impossible every once in a while.

[Qurqirish Dragon]

I normally play on hard- the AI is at full effectiveness, and doesn't get cheat-resources.

With all due respects, this is not all true, althought it is indeed what the main menu tells you.

Here you are going to constat the subtler differences.

I knew about the hero quantity limitation changing- but since I normally don't use more than 2 or 3 heroes, I ddin't consider it a limit on the AI effectiveness.
What I didn't realize was the AI is more cautious at those higher levels also.
I still would have preferred seperate settings for AI skill and starting resources, but that's a topic for another thread.

[Pol]

I still would have preferred seperate settings for AI skill and starting resources, but that's a topic for another thread

Why?
I like to playing on highest difficulty but with first resources script (It's must for some maps). I can quickly simulated it on any map, just by adding global event.... anyone can.

[Qurqirish Dragon]

I still would have preferred seperate settings for AI skill and starting resources, but that's a topic for another thread

Why?
I like to playing on highest difficulty but with first resources script (It's must for some maps). I can quickly simulated it on any map, just by adding global event.... anyone can.

But you must WoGify for a script. When I play a map I download, I like to play it w/o WoG, so I get the map designer's intent (particularly since I normally review any map I download and play to completion.)

If it IS a WoG map, then I want the options that the designer intended, so again, I will not add in the script.

For similar reasons, I won't add a timed event for the starting resources to a downloaded map- and there it is also because I do not want to see anything in the editor before playing. I'll check that out enough afterward.

[SmokingBarrel]

voted Expert, but nowadays I hardly ever play single player because I want to teach Banedon a lesson...always losing...

[Banedon]

voted Expert, but nowadays I hardly ever play single player because I want to teach Banedon a lesson...always losing...

Don't be so modest. Sometimes you win.

[Orfinn]

Training makes perfect (or at least close to perfect) you know

[Milla aka. the Slayer]

I am so lame when it comes to difficulty - I voted easy because I hate losing. I wanna win all the time. I know I'm suppose to challenge myself but it seems I always fail when trying something more difficult. I fall apart if I meet an enemy hero who has more than one high level creature...

Damn I'm tired..

[Metathron]

Don't worry, Milla, you've only just started playing Heroes and I think it's quite natural that you play on easy difficulty at this point. I used to as well, then I moved on to normal and now I most often play on hard. Give it time!

[Milla aka. the Slayer]

To: Metathron:
Yeah I know. I'm just not the patient type. When I say that I am new to this game I mean that I am not as good as it seems like you all are. I have played it for a couple of months and I am getting better. I just hope I get too bored of the easy stuff soon so I will force myself to move a level up! How much time did you give it?

[Vulcanic]

Expert. Hard is balanced, which is going to knock the AI out, expert is normal, and impossible is just too unbalanced. But I might try impossible someday when I get Heroes 3 back on my computer again.

[Paladin]

Expert or Hard. Provides a challenge without numbing your brain.

[keanu]

try to defeat the AI in the scenario "chasing a dream" where one starts with maybe the worst initial town possible(the tower)and with no gold and no resources!
i'v tried it a couple of times,but it really drove me off my rocker and than set the level back to expert!

[ByteBandit]

I usually play on Normal or Hard difficulties. I like to win once in a while, you know.

[Pol]

I play Impossible but only on known balanced maps.
(generally two, Good to Go or my 8th aka Realm of Chaos.)