So far by now:

1. "Heroes III in 3D"
2. no detailed focus on the hero (all are the same till now)
3. so many days and night i will spend playing, so my wife will divorce

My concerns

1) 3d ... I fear that I will have to zoom when I play . IMO the adventure map screen should be fixed no zooming etc ... zooming only in combat ,,, (and here I would also turn it down)

Why do we need zooming in heroes games any way ?

2) Game balance ... If this game is as balanced as h3 then it will suck ...

I fear about balance , but only a little becouse I know that ubi makes those beta - test mainly for the balnace thing ...

3) DD and Fly should be out ... I have seen a dimension spell icon and this wories me ...
I mean is it so fun to use those speels ? It kill MP ... and in Single it makes the game so much easier ...
Just try to play h3 campaign with and without DD fly or town portal ... it makes the game more dificult ...

My concerns are :
1.heroes 3 but 3D
2.no barbarian town
3.the retaliation system,i want to be like in heroes4
4.only 40 spells

Hmm, I think these have all been said already but:

1) Only 6 towns (hopefully add-ons will provide more)
2) Only 40 spells, that is seriously poor
3) The silly puff of powdered blood in combat is unnecessary and looks daft.

Other than that, I'm so excited I may have to buy a new PC just so I can play it. I'm personally a H3 fan, so if it's just H3 in 3D then that's fine with me. All I've seen so far on the clips and screenshots looks pretty lush.

My biggest concern is that my heart will give out due to the anticipation of actually getting the game. Me ticker can't be takin no more!

Actually, my only real concern right now is the apparent lack of in-game text. But this can easily be righted with the beta test. Also, there's nothing that says that the function won't be there for the map-makers to use. We'll see.

It seems lots of HOMMIV fans are finally coming to this forum after the closed beta was announced!

Biggest concern so far...
You guessed it right... HOMM3 in 3D
It has been discused many times, but still every video I see so far reminds me of HOMM3

I still hope I'm wrong, but after all, it is a concern so I'm correct right now

As everyone said here, Heroes 3 in 3D.
Others that haven't been answered so far:
- Magic School (missed the Fraction based spell of Heroes 4)
- The return of heroes Speciality (It would be great to see the heroes differences from their speciality not only by their potraits)
- Final Minimum Requirements for the game

Hopes they will be answered soon with the upcoming beta

Only one... starforce monster

the usuals : H3 in 3D,starforce lack of good old faction and not enouth interesting spells.

Hope the game will be good...

Besides the fact of it looks like a H3 3D with 3-4 less factions... well, that is just enough concern.

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Originally posted by Kareeah_Indaga:
I rarely if ever use:

1. View Heroes/Mines/Resources/Mushrooms/Artifacts,...

2. Inferno (like Chain Lightning better—its useful more often and seems to do more damage),

3. Sacrifice,

4. Frenzy,

5. Disguise,

6. Hypnotize (although I can see myself using that),

7. Quicksand (in H3—it was much better in H4) or Landmine (the random placement really hurts its usefulness IMO).

8. I haven’t used Visions recently, but I did for a while so I can’t say I’ve never used it.

1. Those are H2 or H4 spells (can't remember exactly)?

2. Oh, Inferno was one of my fav. Fire Magic spells, together with Berzek.

3. Rarely made use of it, but I gladly sacrificed some 5000 lvl.1 creatures, in order to resurrect 100 lvl.7 ones.

4. Frenzy. Again, rarely used it. Not my fav.

5. Disguised. Never used it (only for fun), never liked it.

6. LooL (I like the comment)

7. I like Quicksand, but not the way they put it in H3. Same goes for Land Mine. You should be able to choose an area (more or less as big as the Inferno one) where the 4/6/8 mines will be randomly placed. Otherwise you might have wasted your casting turn with a useless casting.

8. Rarely used Visions. I prefer the WoG / H4 Scouting.

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Originally posted by Hodge_Podge:
There were quite a few spells in H3 that I rarely (if ever) used:

• Force Field
• Counterstrike
• Disguise
• Death Ripple
• Fire Wall
• Misfortune

Some spells like Visions & Magic Arrow were repeated in more than one School of Magic … so maybe Ubi/Niv is taking out the repeaters & less useful spells as the difference in number of spells.

• Force Field - with the poor English I had 5 years ago, I found it a stupid name in the first place, and also a stupid concept. Where did they get the idea anyway? Star Wars?
• Counterstrike - Here I don't agree with you. This can be a pretty powerfull spell if you have Expert Air Magic and some important powerful units in your army
• Disguise - As said above, I didn't like it.
• Death Ripple - This can be again very powerful with Expert Earth Magic. I liked it (but not its animation)
• Fire Wall - I made use of it a few times. Very good with Expert Fire Magic
• Misfortune & Visions - Almost never used them.
• Magic Arrow - Strange spell for me, but easy to get & practical in early stages of the game.

quote:

Originally posted by Zamolxis108:
1. Those are H2 or H4 spells (can't remember exactly)?

quote:

Originally posted by Zamolxis108:
7. I like Quicksand, but not the way they put it in H3. Same goes for Land Mine. You should be able to choose an area (more or less as big as the Inferno one) where the 4/6/8 mines will be randomly placed. Otherwise you might have wasted your casting turn with a useless casting.

Agreed, I should clarify: I didn’t like the spell as it was set up in Heroes III, but in H4 it was useful. But you specified 70 spells Heroes 3.

Has the AI been discuss yet? That's what I'm worry about. I rarely play online and don't like playing against a dumb AI.

Second is the end game. I play a few games similiar to HOMM where if you capture a certain amount of cities you can easily eliminate the rest of your opponents easily. It's a streamroller effect. The AI is fighting each other and no one can stop you. Would be great if there's some events where other AI factions would be in an alliance (you can join or decline) if one superpower has a certain amount of cities.

My biggest concern is that is already Tuesday and neither me or my friends (and we are a few) did receive a mail invitation for the beta test. And they said that the beta will start in the middle of this week and that the mail will be sent 2 days before…

All my concerns have allready been posted.

So again...
H3 in 3D
The whole Law vs. Chaos instead of Good vs. Evil thing
The zooming and turnin' the map-scrap
The lack of the great, glorious, mighty, powerful, honored, valourus, stylish Barbarians.

they´ve made so many gameplay improvements we already know about and probably some we dont know yet about, so imo you cant talk of heroes3 3D anymore...

quote:

Originally posted by bogyvaly:
So far by now:

1. "Heroes III in 3D"
2. no detailed focus on the hero (all are the same till now)
3. so many days and night i will spend playing, so my wife will divorce

I have to add something new:

4. few no. of spells
5. no sign about beta or about the last three factions

i forgot one major concern, that will decide whether i play HoMM5 or not...

Linux support

if the game is not native to linux, or is not compatible with it, no HoMM5 for me... and that will be a shame

quote:

Originally posted by Lith_Maethor:
i forgot one major concern, that will decide whether i play HoMM5 or not...

Linux support

if the game is not native to linux, or is not compatible with it, no HoMM5 for me... and that will be a shame

there is now linux suport due to SF And it is a shame.