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Gandalf196
Disgraceful
Supreme Hero
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posted April 30, 2020 12:41 AM |
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Regarding Magi losing "No melee penalty"
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 13, 2020 09:41 AM |
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Edited by BTB at 09:42, 13 May 2020.
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Been making a LOT of progress lately, learning more about hacking the game faster than I can process it. Finally managed to update the beta and (mostly) finalize the Readme, so please have a look if you want to know what's going on.
Still haven't done snow with HotA and am quite frankly dreading it. Will maybe look into it after I update my hacking guide again.
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RerryR
Promising
Supreme Hero
Researching Magic
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posted May 13, 2020 11:53 AM |
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Going through the Readme I must admit that a lot of work went into this modification and all this is done with hex editing.
It is nice to see that I agree with most of the changes, to me it seems that when you have played that game long enough, all changes strive towards the same result. I can say that because a lot of changes you made are also in some way or the other present in my mod. Discussion in the HotA suggestion thread go in a similar direction. That corroborates my thesis that in the unmodified H3 game a lot of mechanics are oddly underdeveloped for some reason.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 13, 2020 10:15 PM |
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Work in game design long enough and you'll start to see unrealized potential everywhere you look. HoMM3 is actually one of the most well developed and thought-out commercial games out there, at least for its time.
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FirePaladin
Promising
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted May 13, 2020 10:17 PM |
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BTB said:
Work in game design long enough and you'll start to see unrealized potential everywhere you look. HoMM3 is actually one of the most well developed and thought-out commercial games out there, at least for its time.
I know. Playing certain games is just depressing at times knowing all of this stuff. Hence the potential of H7, which turned out to be... meh...
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Enshackling time itself, heralds of the Ancients among their heat-depleted land.... Who could they be, who could rally the beings of the East and the North and control the mortals' fate?
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 17, 2020 08:54 AM |
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All right, updated again with a few minor things... I honestly forget what at this point.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 25, 2020 08:49 AM |
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Major update. I've combined the Ballistics and Artillery skills and reintroduced Diplomacy (which has been nerfed down to an acceptable level). I've also rebalanced the stat-boosting artifacts and reintroduced several that I'd removed (Elixir of Life, Wizard's Well, etc.) now that I possess the ability to edit them. Finally, I tweaked fight and creature AI values according to the following formula:
FIGHT VALUE: HP*10 + (ATK * SPD * (Tier -1))
AI VALUE: Fight Value + (DEF * MaxDamage)
(NOTE: the neutral dragons use "MaxDamage" in place of (Tier -1))
So far as updates go, we're about finished at this point. All I have left to do is edit campaign maps to fix anything my changes have broken, figure out how to disable banned skills from appearing in Witch Huts, and look over the cosmetic stuff (Hero Bios and Tavern rumors). A huge thanks to everyone who's played and helped me out thus far o/
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Gandalf196
Disgraceful
Supreme Hero
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posted August 01, 2020 01:56 AM |
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 01, 2020 04:19 AM |
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I *really* want you to enjoy yourself while playing my hack.
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firespirit
Famous Hero
with warm hands
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posted September 12, 2020 07:06 PM |
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I'm interested to try this, but can't get it to install. Could you give instructions as to what folder needs to be put where? I tried the H3 directory and tried to create an AH3M subdirectory to put it there too. It says something about needing to create and HD exe, but I've done that too. Can't seem to figure it out
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted September 12, 2020 07:45 PM |
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Edited by BTB at 19:51, 12 Sep 2020.
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firespirit said:
I'm interested to try this, but can't get it to install. Could you give instructions as to what folder needs to be put where? I tried the H3 directory and tried to create an AH3M subdirectory to put it there too. It says something about needing to create and HD exe, but I've done that too. Can't seem to figure it out
It's looking for the Heroes 3 HD.exe in the folder just above the installer, and will give you that error if it doesn't find it.
So it would be C:/Games/Whatever/Heroes III/AH3M/Install.bat
More to the point, this is the logic it follows:
if not exist "../HEROES3.exe" echo.
if not exist "../HEROES3.exe" echo. Please place this folder inside your Heroes 3 directory.
if not exist "../HEROES3.exe" echo. (i.e. "C:/Games/Heroes 3/AH3M/Install.exe")
if not exist "../HEROES3.exe" echo.
if not exist "../HEROES3.exe" pause
if not exist "../HEROES3.exe" exit
if not exist "../HD_Launcher.exe" echo.
if not exist "../HD_Launcher.exe" echo. Please download and install HoMM 3 HD.
if not exist "../HD_Launcher.exe" echo. https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/
if not exist "../HD_Launcher.exe" echo.
if not exist "../HD_Launcher.exe" pause
if not exist "../HD_Launcher.exe" exit
if not exist "../Heroes3 HD.exe" echo.
if not exist "../Heroes3 HD.exe" echo. Please use the HD Launcher to generate an executable file.
if not exist "../Heroes3 HD.exe" echo.
if not exist "../Heroes3 HD.exe" pause
if not exist "../Heroes3 HD.exe" exit
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firespirit
Famous Hero
with warm hands
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posted September 12, 2020 08:12 PM |
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Aha, so that's how it was! I moved the .exe file into the same directory, so that's why it didn't work. Thanks, gonna try it now 
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NimoStar
Responsible
Legendary Hero
Modding the Unmoddable
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posted September 13, 2020 04:39 AM |
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seems insteresting but I don't see downlkoad in this page of first post. Realize people like me are lazy and don't want to read the whole thread : P
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted September 13, 2020 05:55 AM |
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Edited by BTB at 06:06, 13 Sep 2020.
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NimoStar said:
seems insteresting but I don't see downlkoad in this page of first post. Realize people like me are lazy and don't want to read the whole thread : P
Download link is the first one in the first post. I even bolded it.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted January 15, 2021 05:28 AM |
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Well, it won't let me edit the first post in the thread... guess I need to ask a moderator to let me do that.
In the meantime, I've been in heavy development. The beta linked to in the first post has been taken down and the Readme is out of date, but I have put the finishing touches on what I like to call a "printme", similar to the original game's Creature Compendium, but more more comprehensive and informative:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/692895170722660434/799494347573166080/Printme.pdf
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted March 18, 2021 12:10 AM |
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pictures of what your mod does would be nice. there's a reason many real-life ads come with more than just words. even nike has the swoosh. 
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted March 18, 2021 01:34 AM |
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fred79 said:
pictures of what your mod does would be nice. there's a reason many real-life ads come with more than just words. even nike has the swoosh.
It's pretty hard to convey rule changes and rebalancing through pictures. Not sure how I'd show war machines not being lost after battle or rebalanced spell lists for each town. Best I could really do is assorted right click text which is best shown through... well, text.
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NimoStar
Responsible
Legendary Hero
Modding the Unmoddable
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posted May 11, 2021 10:49 PM |
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Quote:
the hero with learning will probably be 40-50% higher levels than the player without learning
Fake news. 50% more experience doesn't mean 50% more levels since at high level each level experience is like all previous levels combined. At the same time having +1 level in high means nothing since it's just +1 primary skill once you maxed secondaries.
So I don't believe 50% learning at max would be overpowered.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 11, 2021 11:39 PM |
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Yeah, I did the math and even with the overbuffed Learning specialties, you're only looking at a steady lead of just a few levels max.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 17, 2021 04:34 AM |
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Edited by BTB at 03:41, 22 May 2021.
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Updated the beta link... this version has a few changed and a crash fix in it.
Another update...
Inferno Castle Gate now transports to any friendly town
First Aid skill now increases health of units and tent
Added option to refuse skills from Witch Huts
Corrected specialties for Bless/Reanimate/Enslave/Pain Reflection/Toxic Cloud
Wizard Eye and Clairvoyance now cost 0 spell points at basic spell expertise
Corrected difficulty level descriptions
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