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NimoStar
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posted May 18, 2021 09:51 AM |
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Edited by NimoStar at 18:31, 18 May 2021.
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Loathing favored enemy mechanic
I played as nature towns in H3 (Rampart) and H4 (Preserve), but I was never able to get over the absolutely awful "favored enemy" mechanic that the H5 nature town has as an "exclusive" perk.
This mechanic is so dumb because you need to kill certain number of those enemies first to be able to choose them as your "favored enemy", but then you have ALREADY killed them. Most times in normal maps this is completely useless or very nearly so.
This uses your unique hero ability slot and even a building in your town.
So, is there a mod that completely removes/replaces this mechanic?
In any case, what would be a good idea to replace it? (not just buff it)
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Elvin
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Endless Revival
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posted May 18, 2021 12:17 PM |
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One way would be to lower the bonus and have it work on every unit (which requires hex editing knowledge) but then you'd have to remove the rain of arrows ability. Imagine if it rained spells on every enemy unit, with high druid bonus. Heh.
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Zaio-Baio
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posted May 18, 2021 02:04 PM |
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NimoStar said: I played as nature towns in H3 (Rampart) and H4 (Preserve), but I was never able to get over the absolutely awful "favored enemy" mechanic athat the H5 nature town has as an "exclusive" perk.
This mechanic is so dumb because you need to kill certain number of those enemies first to be able to choose them as your "favored enemy", but then you have ALREADY killed them. Most times in normal maps this is completely useless or very nearly so.
Just play large and rich maps where its easy for Sylvan to get all favored enemies. On small and medium maps Sylvan loses anyways due to week 2 war machine rush that is really hard to stop.
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NimoStar
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posted May 18, 2021 07:23 PM |
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Zaio-Baio said:
Just play large and rich maps where its easy for Sylvan to get all favored enemies. On small and medium maps Sylvan loses anyways due to week 2 war machine rush that is really hard to stop.
That just means I waste a lot more time in ranger's guild choosing favored enemies for underwhelming and rarely used bonuses... plus you need to go to castle to do it before combat
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Elvin
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posted May 18, 2021 08:12 PM |
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You mean like.. most other factions?
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NimoStar
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posted May 18, 2021 10:40 PM |
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Edited by NimoStar at 22:41, 18 May 2021.
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I don't think so. Demon Gating doesn't work like that, neither does buyable runes for dwarves, or creature artifacts for Academy, and so forth, in that they don't force you to change it for each damned different creature you are going to fight. AFAIK even in DUngeon you can just choose your favourite element and mostly be done with it.
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Zaio-Baio
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posted May 21, 2021 12:41 AM |
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@ NimoStart
I think you are mainly playing in single player vs many AI opponents. In that case avenger is really underwhelming. Its hard to get much value out of it when playing against many different towns.
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NimoStar
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posted May 21, 2021 03:12 AM |
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Zaio-Baio said: @ NimoStart
I think you are mainly playing in single player vs many AI opponents. In that case avenger is really underwhelming. Its hard to get much value out of it when playing against many different towns.
Indeed. I only play vs AI because I have a bad connection. And if they have different towns the skill is almost pointless and requires lots of micromanagement. Thus why I think there should be a mod which replaces for some other thing.
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Elvin
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Endless Revival
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posted May 21, 2021 02:19 PM |
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Incidentally, I quite liked H7 nature's revenge.
[Enemy creatures get up to 1/2/3 marks after being the target of a friendly unit's attack or ability. Creatures attacking a marked creature benefit from +4 Attack for every mark on the target. The mark lasts until the end of the combat round.]
Some nice complementary perks as well:
Mark of the Avenger
The hero's attack additionally marks the target creature.
Impede
Marked enemy creatures also have -1 Movement for each mark
Fast reload
The Sylvan Ballista gets a second attack after attacking a marked creature.
Nature's wrath
The hero gets +1 Magic for each mark on enemy creatures until the end of the combat round.
Sting
At the end of each combat round every enemy creature gets 50 Earth damage for each mark on it.
Nature's luck
Friendly creatures attacking an enemy creature with 3 marks always make critical hits.
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thGryphn
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posted May 21, 2021 09:28 PM |
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True that. Quite nice mechanic they built in H7.
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NimoStar
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posted May 22, 2021 12:16 AM |
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That would be something cool to translade to H5, yes, that doesn't require killing stacks first and switching creature modes before each combat. The values would have to be adjusted of course since things like +4 attack or -1 speed would be bigger in h5 context, but the idea is nice.
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thGryphn
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posted May 22, 2021 05:42 AM |
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NimoStar said: That would be something cool to translade to H5, yes, that doesn't require killing stacks first and switching creature modes before each combat. The values would have to be adjusted of course since things like +4 attack or -1 speed would be bigger in h5 context, but the idea is nice.
I think it may be possible to implement it in H5 as combat script, but I'm not 100%. There is also disabling the existing Avenger mechanic. If it's not possible to disable it, scripts can be used to amend the existing mechanic, to apply it on creatures "not" on the kill list. Balancing the bonuses would be key. It would make Avenger more useful for sure.
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Zaio-Baio
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posted May 22, 2021 04:07 PM |
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I think the most simple way to do it is make avenger not unit specific but tier specific - for instance putting any lvl 7 unit in your avenger list should let your units deal increased damage vs any lvl 7 units they fight.
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zmudziak22
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posted May 25, 2021 08:21 PM |
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Indeed, in Sylvan Campaign as Findan you usually targered skelletons, vampires and liches iirc. It would be more better, if it was tier based. or you could select favourite enemies for entire faction(for all heroes)
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