Okay and fun, but needs balancing around spells (not nerfing but of buffing). Not truly a HoMM successor either, especially 3, so if you're looking for anything of that autistic caliber avoid.
>Anyone played it?
Yes.
The only thing it had over HoMM was the robust spell frickery, but it was nerfed into the ground.
The writing is also pretty cringe. >66% sale >leaving EA soon >price increase after
That's surprising. >new price 35$
kek
>we have now spent over seven years of our lives creating our dream game
Millennial homosexuals...
In terms of spell combos & wielder death combos, no. No, they nerfed a lot of it (the version Sseth played it, it was kinda more HoMM like).
In terms of music being good, Yes. IMO I agree with him.
There's 1 hour till the sale ends and 10$ isn't much... Hmm...
Regardless, it's pretty funny, that I could run HoMM on Pentium 2 with 16 MB of RAM but this game needs a dual core and 8GB of RAM. It's like we are living in the Dark Age of IT.
In defense, it's also due to higher resolution that the hardware has to keep up with. As well as, shitty drivers Windows have to interact with it's already bloated OS. I mean there are lazy devs and especially modders who can't even reset RAM, but it's not the only cause.
Like the best hardware consumers can get in 1997 (HoMM3) was 1280 x 1024, and most was stuck with the recommended 800 x 600. So even by file size alone, current FHD (1920 x 1080) is 4 times your average of 1997.
I didn't mean to egg on it, nothing more than an afterthought.
Missed the sale by minute though. Was typing in my card details and the price changed on confirmation. I guess it wasn't meant to be. Have fun playing it, guys.
It's obvious it was made with SteamDeck in mind.
It's a dumbed-down children of HoMM 3 and King's Bounty series:
Pros: >good map editor >gorgeous artstyle direction >unit design isn't that bad, although only one faction has a wait option
Cons: >not that many artifacts, so you tend to just hold 10 identical swords in your backpack and they're all +X to a stat >only 4 factions at release (HoMM 3 had 8) >you're intended to lose units (unless you have a really big advantage, but no more early battles with 0 loses thanks to abusing ranged units and some good strategy) so the cycle is lose some units>go back to reinforce>fight again, which gets tedious fast >you get new units every day, so it cuts out a lot of the strategy from trying to do as much as possible before the 1st day of the week >campaign is short and there is really no place for man-made maps that require lot of time and strategy to complete, like the Lotr map for H3
Contrary to what my opinion might suggest, it's not horrible, but it doesn't beat the classic.
As someone who never played homm, I like it, but I feel like each faction needs a couple more units
There's no heroes so it's lame
it has heroes theyre just called wielders
There's heroes but they're called "wielders" so it's extremely lame
Yeah but they have no battlefield presence aside from a caster
Yeah but they can cast non stop spells as long as you have the resources... They break the game lmao.
>non stop
>as you have the resources
So it's not non-stop, also essence generation was nerfed repeatedly.
Okay and fun, but needs balancing around spells (not nerfing but of buffing). Not truly a HoMM successor either, especially 3, so if you're looking for anything of that autistic caliber avoid.
It's pretty good, but it still has a way to go development-wise. Check back on it in a year or so.
Still waiting for a discount Necron/TombLords faction that's just "HoM&M3's Forge but not cancelled at the last minute" get announced for DLC.
>Anyone played it?
Yes.
The only thing it had over HoMM was the robust spell frickery, but it was nerfed into the ground.
The writing is also pretty cringe.
>66% sale
>leaving EA soon
>price increase after
That's surprising.
>new price 35$
kek
>we have now spent over seven years of our lives creating our dream game
Millennial homosexuals...
Is sseth's review still accurate?
>still accurate
He opened the review with:
>I am extremely biased
>I am straight up shilling the game due to it being HoMM-like
In terms of spell combos & wielder death combos, no. No, they nerfed a lot of it (the version Sseth played it, it was kinda more HoMM like).
In terms of music being good, Yes. IMO I agree with him.
>good music
So the main theme and this:
?
I like the exploration music, but the Battle ones are also good.
There's 1 hour till the sale ends and 10$ isn't much... Hmm...
Regardless, it's pretty funny, that I could run HoMM on Pentium 2 with 16 MB of RAM but this game needs a dual core and 8GB of RAM. It's like we are living in the Dark Age of IT.
In defense, it's also due to higher resolution that the hardware has to keep up with. As well as, shitty drivers Windows have to interact with it's already bloated OS. I mean there are lazy devs and especially modders who can't even reset RAM, but it's not the only cause.
Like the best hardware consumers can get in 1997 (HoMM3) was 1280 x 1024, and most was stuck with the recommended 800 x 600. So even by file size alone, current FHD (1920 x 1080) is 4 times your average of 1997.
I didn't mean to egg on it, nothing more than an afterthought.
Missed the sale by minute though. Was typing in my card details and the price changed on confirmation. I guess it wasn't meant to be. Have fun playing it, guys.
oof sorry. I got it and I'll give it a shot, I have been itching for "homm-likes" lately
It's obvious it was made with SteamDeck in mind.
It's a dumbed-down children of HoMM 3 and King's Bounty series:
Pros:
>good map editor
>gorgeous artstyle direction
>unit design isn't that bad, although only one faction has a wait option
Cons:
>not that many artifacts, so you tend to just hold 10 identical swords in your backpack and they're all +X to a stat
>only 4 factions at release (HoMM 3 had 8)
>you're intended to lose units (unless you have a really big advantage, but no more early battles with 0 loses thanks to abusing ranged units and some good strategy) so the cycle is lose some units>go back to reinforce>fight again, which gets tedious fast
>you get new units every day, so it cuts out a lot of the strategy from trying to do as much as possible before the 1st day of the week
>campaign is short and there is really no place for man-made maps that require lot of time and strategy to complete, like the Lotr map for H3
Contrary to what my opinion might suggest, it's not horrible, but it doesn't beat the classic.