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Roman · Unread postby **Roman** » 14 Mar 2007, 18:24

I think he means those things won't happen in patches. They may still happen in expansion packs (especially the Nagas, which I would love to see). Can any Russian speakers confirm whether this relates to future patches or expansion packs?

vhilhu · Unread postby **vhilhu** » 14 Mar 2007, 18:42

Angelspit wrote:And for some reason, they are not as popular... Go figure.

i thought theyre a bit silly too.. but on Heroescommunity, last time i was there(in december), they were quite popular

or maybe its just that people accept them as a teaser for the yet-to-be-released nagas.

Akul · Unread postby **Akul** » 15 Mar 2007, 22:11

I never tought we would get nagas. But we will get a swamp town with lizardmen who worship theme, just like the faceless worshiped by the drow.

Caradoc · Unread postby **Caradoc** » 16 Mar 2007, 03:58

Ahem. That's not a very impressive list of potential enhancements. The only one that attracted me is crossed off.

Marzhin · Unread postby **Marzhin** » 16 Mar 2007, 09:31

Hopefully there will be other features about which they can't talk yet...

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 16 Mar 2007, 10:33

How many feature they couldn't talk about actually made it in the game?! And i mean the ones that aren't "a feature, not a bug".

Marzhin · Unread postby **Marzhin** » 16 Mar 2007, 11:40

It's too early to judge the expansion, because we know nothing yet. Que sera sera.
Edited on Fri, Mar 16 2007, 06:27 by Marzhin

Campaigner · Unread postby **Campaigner** » 16 Mar 2007, 11:59

As usual you get disapointed by Nival....

No fog of war doesn't matter in the A.Is case but multiplayer would be much more exciting. But on the other hand HoMM is a SP game with MP support and since the upcoming duelmode where you buy everything with points will be used in 95% of MP (since every single game desynchs), FoW doesn't matter much.

No speedreducing spells....I can actually imagine why these won't happen. Since they're a curse their place is in Dark Magic but since Dark Magic is already very powerful it should be given to Summoning Magic.
And speedreducement is very powerful since it can take the affected unit one or two rounds extra time to reach the enemies which make a speedreducing spell more powerful than a initiative curse. But give it to Summoning and all is good. The Wizards with their many shooters and casters would make excellent use out of it.

Not visiting allies towns....This must be lazyness. It can't be that much work to implement.

Crystal Dragons can stay out. Nagas is just another creature so why care about them...? And when I think about Nagas I think about the WBC III variant with a mediumrange magic attack and an area-effect armor spell.

Kingdom overview I don't care about.

A HoF facelift means only a cosmetical change right? Getting it to work like in Heroes II or III would be grand.

Highlvl adv.map dwellings isn't that important....kinda like those bastions which are a little random in what they contain.

Faction balance optimization....just keep the differences and continue make Sylvan cost an Oak of wood

Alamar · Unread postby **Alamar** » 18 Mar 2007, 13:49

.... and still no mention about AI improvements? Better hero building, redesigned economic bonuses, custom difficulty levels.

... also nothing mentioned about the map editor and making it a little more noob friendly. [I'm a programmer but don't want to learn ANOTHER language just to make a map!!]

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 18 Mar 2007, 14:05

At this point I think we can forget about any AI enhancement. It's getting late already.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 18 Mar 2007, 14:10

You can forget about AI improvement the moment the game comes out. I don't ever recall any game getting a better AI after it was out, can you?

Humakt · Unread postby **Humakt** » 18 Mar 2007, 18:19

ThunderTitan wrote:You can forget about AI improvement the moment the game comes out. I don't ever recall any game getting a better AI after it was out, can you?

Heroes 4 has I reckon.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 18 Mar 2007, 21:06

Really, coz the way i heard it they managed to make it not seem so stupid despite itself.

Jolly Joker · Unread postby **Jolly Joker** » 19 Mar 2007, 08:46

1.5 will have some AI improvements.

Marzhin · Unread postby **Marzhin** » 19 Mar 2007, 11:30

Jolly Joker wrote:1.5 will have some AI improvements.

Somehow I expected you would say something like that JJ

Jolly Joker · Unread postby **Jolly Joker** » 19 Mar 2007, 11:41

Well. This
"- AI now ignores summoned creatures in combat if it can eliminate the main forces shortly. "
is one 7 lines of the 1.5 readme that start with the word "AI"
I think, that qualifies for a statement like that, does it?

Orfinn · Unread postby **Orfinn** » 19 Mar 2007, 11:45

What a hell is going on here? So much since last visit on these forums...no nagas...yeah what a surprise...crystal dragons another *sigh* hope those other things that WILL happen are gonna be worth IT!!

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 19 Mar 2007, 12:08

Yeah, great improvement. To really make it better they'd prob need to rewrite half of it.

Grumpy Old Wizard · Unread postby **Grumpy Old Wizard** » 20 Mar 2007, 03:46

Jolly Joker wrote:Well. This
"- AI now ignores summoned creatures in combat if it can eliminate the main forces shortly. "
is one 7 lines of the 1.5 readme that start with the word "AI"
I think, that qualifies for a statement like that, does it?

So the summoned creatures have a sign around their neck "I am summoned", eh?

Well, of course the AI improvement would have to do with nerfing summoning magic yet again.

Since summon elementals(level 4 spell) will no longer serve as even a distraction the weakest level 4 spell in the game just got weaker.

GOW

Jolly Joker · Unread postby **Jolly Joker** » 20 Mar 2007, 09:10

Can't you people read anymore? The AI ignores summoned creatures if it can eliminate the main forces shortly.

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