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Thread: [ENGLISH] Streaming Heroes III SoD! | This thread is pages long: 1 2 3 4 · «PREV / NEXT» |
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted August 02, 2015 07:16 PM |
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Starting the Heroes III stream LIVE on twitch.tv/theknownworld/!
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zmudziak22
Supreme Hero
Heroes 3 Fan
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posted August 02, 2015 07:49 PM |
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Maybe other heroes games would you stream?
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted August 09, 2015 08:26 AM |
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zmudziak22 said: Maybe other heroes games would you stream?
I tried some of the other Heroes games, and the only two that interest me enough to continue streaming them are Heroes II and III for the time being.
It's time for Heroes III... in 11 hours.
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OhforfSake
Promising
Legendary Hero
Initiate
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posted August 09, 2015 01:54 PM |
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Hello!
I took a peek at your stream and found you were playing Diablo 2 some days ago. I could see the game name and password and was tempted to join with a new character, but as I am not a subscriber I am not sure if you'd even want that?
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted August 09, 2015 07:21 PM |
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OhforfSake said: Hello!
I took a peek at your stream and found you were playing Diablo 2 some days ago. I could see the game name and password and was tempted to join with a new character, but as I am not a subscriber I am not sure if you'd even want that?
On the contrary, you are more than welcome to join us for our weekly Monday Diablo 2 playthroughs if you'd like. In fact, we're actually looking for people to form a full party of 8! (We usually begin 12PM PDT / 21:00 CEST.)
Starting this week's Heroes III stream LIVE on http://www.twitch.tv/theknownworld/!
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted August 23, 2015 10:28 AM |
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The next stream will be for Heroes III in 9 hours.
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted August 23, 2015 07:13 PM |
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Starting this week's Heroes III stream LIVE on http://www.twitch.tv/theknownworld/!
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The_Polyglot
Promising
Supreme Hero
channeling capybara energy
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posted August 23, 2015 09:58 PM |
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*Filler post*
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted August 30, 2015 07:27 PM |
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Thanks, Polyglot!
Starting this week's Heroes 3 stream LIVE @ http://www.twitch.tv/theknownworld/!
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blueskirt
Adventuring Hero
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posted September 01, 2015 08:16 PM |
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I'm not much of a Twitch user but I watch an awful lot of Let's Play on Youtube and I managed to stumble on one of your older stream yesterday, the Necropolis 1v7. It was great, even if you got me to shake my fist at the monitor quite a few time when you lost some easy to defend castles, or completely ignored the Vampire Cowl the first time you bought the artifact merchant.
Gameplay feedback I have: When you play the skeleton hoarding game, don't be afraid to develop your mage guilds or spend an awful lot of cash to try hiring Thant and a scholar to transfer the Animate Dead spell to your main heroes, because even when you forgot to split your skeleton stack before sieges a lot of losses could have been avoided had you invested some of your time and resources to give Animate Dead to your main heroes. In fact, if I recall correctly Vidomina still hadn't learned the spell by the end of the game.
Streaming advice: If you can and if it's not to much of an hassle, don't be afraid to cut your videos when you upload them to Youtube, into thirty minutes chunks or one hour chunks, I find it more convenient to watch smaller stream than huge ones as I typically watch streams in multiple sitting, and it's easier to remember where I left a stream at.
And suggestion for a possible future stream: Ever since another occasional Heroes 3 streamer I watch went for Efreeti/Devil to Efreeti/Phoenix/Dragon + Armageddon during his Inferno playthrough, I've always wanted to see a good Inferno stream that pulled of the Demon hoarding strategy, although from what I heard it involve quite a lot of micromanaging.
That's pretty much it! Looking forward to your next streams!
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted September 02, 2015 01:06 PM |
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blueskirt said: I'm not much of a Twitch user but I watch an awful lot of Let's Play on Youtube and I managed to stumble on one of your older stream yesterday, the Necropolis 1v7. It was great, even if you got me to shake my fist at the monitor quite a few time when you lost some easy to defend castles, or completely ignored the Vampire Cowl the first time you bought the artifact merchant.
Gameplay feedback I have: When you play the skeleton hoarding game, don't be afraid to develop your mage guilds or spend an awful lot of cash to try hiring Thant and a scholar to transfer the Animate Dead spell to your main heroes, because even when you forgot to split your skeleton stack before sieges a lot of losses could have been avoided had you invested some of your time and resources to give Animate Dead to your main heroes. In fact, if I recall correctly Vidomina still hadn't learned the spell by the end of the game.
Streaming advice: If you can and if it's not to much of an hassle, don't be afraid to cut your videos when you upload them to Youtube, into thirty minutes chunks or one hour chunks, I find it more convenient to watch smaller stream than huge ones as I typically watch streams in multiple sitting, and it's easier to remember where I left a stream at.
And suggestion for a possible future stream: Ever since another occasional Heroes 3 streamer I watch went for Efreeti/Devil to Efreeti/Phoenix/Dragon + Armageddon during his Inferno playthrough, I've always wanted to see a good Inferno stream that pulled of the Demon hoarding strategy, although from what I heard it involve quite a lot of micromanaging.
That's pretty much it! Looking forward to your next streams!
Thank you for your feedback!
First off, I think you might be mildly mistaken. The 1v7 Necropolis I put on YouTube is NOT archived footage of my streams -- it is a video that I made offline that is a completely separate entity from Twitch.
My Twitch streams are something else quite different. On Twitch, I discuss strategies and play against others within the Twitch Heroes III community (amateur/casual PvP matches). Also, the community of people who join me are quite nice (even if a little bit on the "weird" side ... jk) and I usually spend just about as much time talking to them as I do about the actual game.
Now, regarding the way that my videos are set up (full-length gameplays), I've deliberately set them up like that. I don't relish the idea of having a 5-hour video divided into ten 30-minute parts and then spreading them out all over my channel (much like my "Heroes III: Restoration of Erathia Campaign" that few people watched) since it just seems far messier overall to try and maneuver through.
Of course, I do apologize if you did feel the need to shake your fist at the computer monitor (presumably at me). As I've said, I am just an amateur after all.
Yes, I did make some very easily avoidable mistakes such as the lack of castle defense. But I'm not quite sure I'd agree with some of the other gameplay suggestions that you've pointed out. (As an aside, might I ask at what time in the video I skipped over Vampire's Cowl? I don't remember this.)
For one, I disagree with the idea of spending potentially-ludicrous amounts of resources just to attempt acquiring Animate Dead from a Mage Guild. Furthermore, I disagree even more with the idea of cycling through heroes by using potentially tens of thousands of gold in an effort to get [specifically] Thant AND a hero with Scholar. What are the odds? And how much gold do you intend to spend on an endeavour that isn't even guaranteed? The way I see it, there are far better uses for gold and resources at that point than trying to set up Animate Dead.
On a final notice, Demon Farming was actually intended to be my fifth video at the time -- it's actually one of the strategies that I have the most fun with in Heroes III (the power of Math!). However, there hasn't been very much demand for it, and I typically like catering to gameplay strategies that are requested by viewers. So I'm still not sure what comes next.
I'm glad that you've enjoyed the videos so far though!
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blueskirt
Adventuring Hero
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posted September 02, 2015 07:14 PM |
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MeKick said: Yes, I did make some very easily avoidable mistakes such as the lack of castle defense. But I'm not quite sure I'd agree with some of the other gameplay suggestions that you've pointed out. (As an aside, might I ask at what time in the video I skipped over Vampire's Cowl? I don't remember this.)
I cannot pin point exactly when in the video but you just had one enemy hero flee from you during his ballista turn and you were wondering if you could snatch the Shackles of War in an artifact merchant, so you built one, visited it, it had no shackles, but it had a shield and the vampire cowl, and you just went "Oh! A shield!" and left and got me screaming "The vampire cowl! THE VAMPIRE COWL!" at the monitor. Fun times.
MeKick said: For one, I disagree with the idea of spending potentially-ludicrous amounts of resources just to attempt acquiring Animate Dead from a Mage Guild. Furthermore, I disagree even more with the idea of cycling through heroes by using potentially tens of thousands of gold in an effort to get [specifically] Thant AND a hero with Scholar. What are the odds? And how much gold do you intend to spend on an endeavour that isn't even guaranteed? The way I see it, there are far better uses for gold and resources at that point than trying to set up Animate Dead.
All towns have different probabilities of acquiring specific spells, and Necropolis is the town that has the highest chance of getting Animate Dead in its mage guild. You very quickly acquired two Necropolis town early in the game and didn't bother upgrading the mage guild to Level 3 in either, just to check if maybe you'd acquire the spell.
As for far better use for gold and resources than trying to set up Animate Dead, either by upgrading the mage guilds to Level 3 in the towns you conquered, or absolute worst case scenario farming Thant should everything else fails, skeleton hoarding is not only the most overpowered strategy but it is also the cheapest, and most cost effective strategy in the whole game, and you spent most of the game sitting on your resources even when it became obvious that achieving victory was a formality when you acquired that Town Portal scroll a couple hours in.
Look... I don't play on Impossible difficulty so I cannot really give you a lesson but, I have enough experience with this game to know that farming mage guilds in search for those spells that make or break the game like Animate Dead, Resurrection, Town Portal, Fly, Dimension Door... even Haste and Slow in some games where you are unlucky enough to get neither or only one of them, is not as far fetched as it seems to be, because those spells, once acquired, are worth every single penny you invested in acquiring them.
Had you not acquired that Town Portal scroll two hours in, at one point or another in the game wouldn't you have gone on a roaring purchasing rampage to upgrade those mage guilds to find one that had Town Portal or Dimension Door somewhere?
Anyway...
MeKick said: On a final notice, Demon Farming was actually intended to be my fifth video at the time -- it's actually one of the strategies that I have the most fun with in Heroes III (the power of Math!). However, there hasn't been very much demand for it, and I typically like catering to gameplay strategies that are requested by viewers. So I'm still not sure what comes next.
Well, if it is one of the strategies you had the most fun with, there is hope that once all the most requested strategies have been covered you may treat the handful of people interested in that strategy with a video.
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Kicferk
Known Hero
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posted September 02, 2015 07:21 PM |
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Contrary to your opinion, animate dead is not a key point in playing necropolis. It's a nice thing to have, but far from essential.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 02, 2015 07:21 PM |
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MeKick, you should stream Era (wog) maps too. With SoD everyone knows what's next especially when played amateur level. But wog maps have more unusual features which may look fun when shown the first time.
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Era II mods and utilities
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted October 29, 2015 12:37 PM |
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Salamandre said: MeKick, you should stream Era (wog) maps too. With SoD everyone knows what's next especially when played amateur level. But wog maps have more unusual features which may look fun when shown the first time.
Let me give that some thought. I haven't received too much demand from others to stream WoG, but the mod seems to add some interesting new features that might be worth trying out sometime in the distant future if enough people ask for it.
With that said, this weekend's Heroes III stream will be my game against Meridian on 11/1/15 @ 9AM PDT / 1700 CET, with the match taking place on the Jebus Cross template. Perhaps I'll see some of you there?
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted October 29, 2015 01:23 PM |
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MeKick said: I haven't received too much demand from others to stream WoG
Well, to use WoG in random maps you will need to study the Wog Options and mod descriptions and see what fits BUT there are dozens of custom maps and mods that completly change gameplay (like Phoenix, Master of Puppets and Sagamosa). If you try these, stream them and create YouTube videos, I'm sure you will get a lot of viewers.
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted November 01, 2015 09:08 AM |
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The next Heroes III stream begins in 9 hours!
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted November 01, 2015 06:03 PM |
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The stream has begun. MeKick v Meridian @ http://www.twitch.tv/theknownworld/
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted November 01, 2015 10:44 PM |
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Well, after this match I'm even more convinced Salamandre is right, you should definitely stream WoG maps and mods.
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MeKick
Hired Hero
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posted November 02, 2015 04:04 AM |
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Edited by MeKick at 04:05, 02 Nov 2015.
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The game has been saved and will continue next week.
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