initially yes. after the patches its pretty decent, far better than 4 and 5 imo
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Announcement trailer - Might & Magic Heroes VII
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initially yes. after the patches its pretty decent, far better than 4 and 5 imo
The one thing I don't really enjoy about the Heroes series is that in seemingly every single entry in the series the difficulty curve of a typical match/campaign looks something like flying up a 200 meter wall and then jumping straight off when you get to the top. I can only assume this is because in lieu of developing a competent AI they simply give it production advantages. So once you meet, let alone overcome, the AI's production it's basically game over. And for the same reason the only realistic strategy on higher difficulties is to rush, rush, rush lest you find the AI a month or two into the game with an army a couple of magnitudes larger than anything you could ever produce.
I'm not sure how this could be remedied or even if it's just me that thinks it an issue. Anyhow, anxious to hear more about the game!
I'm not sure how this could be remedied or even if it's just me that thinks it an issue. Anyhow, anxious to hear more about the game!
I agree with you, the AI is the biggest issue with just about every TBS game (Civ, AoW, etc).
Looking forward to hearing more about this one.
Disciples 2, Age of Wonders 3, Warlock 2, Eador.
I can't seem to click in to Warlock 2, but put in over 100 hours into Age of Wonders 3 - and well over 120 hours into Eador and THE GAME IS STILL GOING.
Wiktor
Member
Keep Legends of Eisenwald on your horizon. It's in early access now, full version should be out in few months and it's the most King's Bounty thing among upcoming titles
Sounds like everything Heroes 5 wasn't. In other words, good news!
Nikodemos
Member
You mean 6. 5 had war machines, many resources and caravans.
HoMM3 still plays great and is generally regarded as the best in the series. It's $10 on GoG and has about a million hours of gameplay even if you just play the campaigns.
Kageshinzo
Member
I skipped out on HoMM VI because of awful reviews. I hope this one goes back to III's gameplay, or even V.
Heroes 3 is far and away the best in the series. If you prefer having better visuals then check out Heroes 5, which is basically the same game as 3 but prettier.
Where do you think my username comes from?
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The official website has already some good stuff.
Like this awesome Academy artwork - I really love the Heroes V Academy style.
Also
https://mmh7.ubi.com/en/factions/academy
Core Units, Elite Units, Champion Unit ...and Warfare Units? Were those existant in Heroes VI?
StoppedInTracks
Member
Amazing.
Goddamn I never thought Ubisoft would really resurrect and respect the Might & Magic universe (M&M10, Heroes 7).
Props to the French! Merci bocu!
Nikodemos
Member
Old? The Academy's Levantine artstyle debuted in HoM&M 5. Before that it was a somewhat genericised 'magickal' style (it even had dragon golems in 4). Heck, the core terrain for HoM&M 3's Tower (the original name) was snowlands.
Same with the Haven's WoW-ish look. 3 and 4 had a more subdued, generically Western medieval style.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Tower Town looked so great:
And that track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0L6YZDb-6w
Ah, memories.
Everything after 4 looks like WoW to me in terms of art style.
Every HoMM prior 4 had different art style and i probably liked HoMM 2's the most, but they still had common style.
Nikodemos
Member
I think it's the highly-colourful style. Blizzard did it first, and a huge amount of people were exposed to it primarily through WoW (sure, there were 3D MMORPGs before it, ex. EverQuest, Asheron's Call, but none had as high an expansion rate and they tended to be more subdued in terms of colour palettes).
They didnt do it first, but they made the worst kind of art style very popular. There are tons of games with good colorful fantasy art style that are not similar to WoW.
Etherlords had much more fitting art style for new HoMM games than 5 did.
Nikodemos
Member
Funny you should mention that title. It was developed by the same people who did HoM&M 5 (Nival).
EDIT: OBTW, people who intend to buy/play 5 should grab the AI pack (I think the last version is 3.1j) and the Content pack. They don't add a lot to the campaigns (they tried but the scripts are simply too hardcoded/primitive), but standalone scenarios get a bit of enhancement.
Darkstorne
Member
Tried playing Heroes 6 again last month, wondering why I'd never properly played it despite owning it. I got booted out of the game after half an hour without even the courtesy of an auto-save. Presumably because my internet connection dropped?
I loaded Heroes 2 up immediately afterwards and realized the franchise will never again reach this level of quality.
If HOMM7 requires even a HINT of internet reliance, I'm not giving them a penny.
I loaded Heroes 2 up immediately afterwards and realized the franchise will never again reach this level of quality.
If HOMM7 requires even a HINT of internet reliance, I'm not giving them a penny.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Tower = Inferno > Necropolis (dat music) > Castle > Dungeon > Stronghold > the rest > Heroes 4 > ................. > Rampart
Nikodemos
Member
NO here is my order Dungeon (Black dragons<3) >>>>>>>>>Castle>Necropolis>Rampart>Tower>Stronghold>the rest>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Conflux (hated it and thought it was really lazy)
and actually I liked Heroes 4 why so much hate sure it was different but it was pretty good just different.
I loaded Heroes 2 up immediately afterwards and realized the franchise will never again reach this level of quality.
If HOMM7 requires even a HINT of internet reliance, I'm not giving them a penny.
I would pay full price for HD remake of HoMM 2.
I liked all HoMM to 4, but for me HoMM 2 was magical, also the only one i've made some maps for in creator.
32167 for life
And Vampires 'blaah'
Necropolis is dam awesome and they have interesting units. Too bad they are so underpowered when compared to Tower, Castle and Dungeon. It's actually ridiculous how overpowered these three factions are against all the other castles. Well, Dungeon isn't all that powerful but Black Dragons are difficult to beat.
I would pay full price for HD remake of HoMM 2.
I liked all HoMM to 4, but for me HoMM 2 was magical, also the only one i've made some maps for in creator.
32167 for life
And Vampires 'blaah'
This, this and this! HoMM 2 was the first one I played, and also only one I bothered to make custom maps for. I hope 7 would bring back the random map generator, but I guess that'd be too much to expect.
hmm looks soooooo much like heroes 6 on the graphic department and art style couldn't even tell the differences at first look.
Nikodemos
Member
Yeah, having to Benny Hill-chase an opposing tertiary hero around your mines got really old, really quickly.
I hope they don't repeat the whole uPlay thing. I mean, LOL:
Press "End Turn" get auto-kicked because your net hiccupped.
Ubisoft decided they wanted the 'Might & Magic' branding to be more prominent.
Stupid decision to make 6 games into a franchise, but Ubisoft gonna Ubisoft.
Come on man. Sylvan is a classic faction in HoMM. They had Unicorns, Pegasus even Gold Dragons. Strangely enough they also had dwarves
Also Fortress was boring according to most people in HV mainly because units were pretty much the same. Dwarf lookig with different abilities.
Orthogonal
Member
Cool, I enjoyed Heroes VI well enough. Looks like it should be good.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Please do not have that online garbage that kicks me from a single player game when my connection drops. This pissed me off immensely, and ensured I still play Tribes of the East.
Edit: God those screens look great.
Edit: God those screens look great.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Haven't heard anything, but I'm figuring that they'll probably unveil something about an MMXI later, probably after HOMM7 releases. MMX did really well as I recall so it should get some support for a new entry.
believe
Well development on HOMM VII started while MMX was still in production, so in theory Limbic has 2 teams. Hopefully they didn't just absorb the MMX guys into the HOMM project and let them start on XI.