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Originally posted by SirJohn1965:
It is much too soon for this patch. We need more time to find problems before a patch is rushed out for no good reason.

Made my day.

I'm glad I amused someone out there.

Nice, happy new year and all that Now how about that patch? It's been delayed a lot already.

If you don't give your games the appropriate loving, then how can you expect your customers/fans to love you/your game...

I don't think they should ever just stop patching, I mean, I recall a lot of WC3 patches came out well after WoW, and even some Diablo2 patches after both WC3 and WoW.

If something is stupidly over powered, it should be fixed, a blatant bug that is ruining the game experience needs to be fixed also, having not yet played ToTe and just running through HommV HoF campaigns atm I can't comment much, but I am hoping they aren't broken.

I want better early game Inferno. Boost demons, please

What this game really needs is a serious AI adjustment. Unless you're playing multiplayer against other human players only, it's completely useless. The AI will flee any battle it determines it can't win. It won't even try to inflict you any damage whatsoever even though it has a powerful hero and a giant army if your army is slightly superior. It's complete nonsense and ruins the whole game experience when all you fight throughout an entire game is neutral armies that you basically just blow away for some XP. And the weird part is that the higher difficulty level you play at, the more likely the AI is to flee...WTF!

Pathetic.

You really can't expect that to be fixed now after all this time - it would require serious reworking. But there are many easy fixes that could be done faster.

http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=24772

There is a mod there that improves AI performance and challange.

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Originally posted by Inferno015:
http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=24772

There is a mod there that improves AI performance and challange.

HOT, I can't wait to try that out.

I hope Nival is making good use of its time, and will implement some significant balance changes for TOTE.

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Originally posted by Inferno015:
http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=24772

There is a mod there that improves AI performance and challange.

That's awesome! Do you know if it works with multiplayer? I mean, if both parties install the mod, will we still be able to connect or will we get the classic 'wrong version' error?

Here is a wish list I made previously (and have added some suggestions from others) and here it is:
1. Playable L/SL/Imp map with up to 8 players that doesn't involve a supercomputer
2. Improve online playability
3. Nerf Sylvan late game
4. Boost Inferno early game (badly needed)
5. Boost Fortress early game, nerf late game
6. Boost Might hero (perhaps increases their direct damages to creatures)
7. AI speed... there must be some way to speed it up without sacrificing AI intelligence
8. Buildable Bone Dragons dwelling
9. Improve map editor features
10. Nerf Divine Vengeance

Btw, it's very nice that the AI operates better, but will it still flee every single battle it cannot 'mathematically' win or does it actually stay and put up a fight? That's what really bothers me right now.

Hmmm my wishlist would be:
-Nerf Sylvan/Blood Rage/Divine Vengeance
-Rebalance weak alternates/original units so they actually constitute worthwhile choices
-Give Dungeon slight boost (Allow Warlock to breach Rage Shield with racial special (e.g. by 75% if she has the Pendant of Mastery), boost Warlock's Ultimate skill and strengthen Fury/Brisk Raider/Matriarch/Mistress)
-Differentiate alternates and originals more in some cases (e.g. Mistress should have different spell set to Matriarch)
-Give Inferno a slight boost
-Improve AI - make it faster

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Originally posted by Phoss:
Btw, it's very nice that the AI operates better, but will it still flee every single battle it cannot 'mathematically' win or does it actually stay and put up a fight? That's what really bothers me right now.

AI should be fixed like that:
- when being attacked/ attacking, seek to damage the player's troops as much as possible being fleeing
- otherwise, AI should learn when to surrender (taking account into the costs to re-hire the hero on the same day)
- also, AI should learn to re-hire the fled/ surrendered hero ASAP

Patch for 3.0 coming out! OF SYNC

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Originally posted by st14z:
Patch for 3.0 coming out! OF SYNC

Don't do that, that's not funny!!

I really tried being very patient with this game but that's enough. It won't be good enough even after a decade of patching. they can't get rid of the minor issues like the horrible mouse movement and positioning during a battle and at the initial game menu screen not to mention the AI, the actual balance and the crappy heavy engine (which is not fixable obviously).i just let go of it after being constantly dropped in the beginning of the week at dark ways and deeds mission , i managed to avoid this by moving my heroes to different locations but soon enough it just started to drop me every single day...so yeah take your time with the patch i don't care anymore...

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Originally posted by Vempula:
I did some calculations. [...]
Vittorio's Ballista does 123.75 points of damage per shot (+50 points of fire damage from Flaming Arrows).
Demon Lord's Ballista does 166.25 points of damage per shot (again +50 from Flaming Arrows).

You forget...the...specility: Siege Engineer, i.e. Ballista receive +1 to their Attack for every level of the hero. It's not a small bonus, here the Vittorio's ballista has 15 (expert warmachines) +21 (speciality) +3 (Ammo Cart) = 39, really more powerful than the demon lord's ballista.

I predict the patch will come some time after January, if at all.