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Originally posted by Jolly-Joker:
That's easy: That even dumber people than some years ago with the forge will try to ruin everything with their whing about how the designers are incompetent and ruining everything.

Hey I represent that remark

I think that the biggest challenge is to get the devs to listen to our feedback without having to go to drastic measures.

Ooops .. I almost forgot that a good AI is required for me to believe the game is "good".

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Originally posted by Val-Gaav:
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 ...

Well it's fun to read this old topic that somebody refreshed

I still fear :

1)Zooming and 3d --- having played the beta now I know that sth hould be change to have one good fixed view on the adventure map.

2)game balance - I fear more and more about it, as with so many bugs Nival and beta testers have little time to balance up the game.

3) DD and TP are not so great in h5 as they once were .. This is good though Hipnosion as it is is a bit too much.

4) Well with the news about mac support with every day I fear more and more that there will be no Linux support ... This was not the case some time ago, but now I do fear about it.

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Originally posted by Sir_Brandon:
well starforce ranks at the top, but also i would like to be able to play the game without it crashing.
oh and a linux port/support.

Dude click my sig... and write sth in Linux topic. Lets show ubi that there is a GNU/Linux market for h5

To directly answer the OP;

It's an easy one - Battlefields. They are being considered but that's the point of the game I'm most concerned about.

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Originally posted by Lith_Maethor:
biggest concern? that it will be a glorified 3d version of heroes3 with no innovations and with all the good ideas of homm4 discarded because they were lousy implemented

Same here

why there are ppl whos afraid of 3d view???
cant handle a mouse?? , but anyway i think H5 will be great and the 3d is the first step forward so this is a start.

but im afraid that i will play again h3 with worse campaigns. couse that capaigns ruled.

so i like that are not so many spells couse a lot of them are just to be moooooreeee to get the game bigggeerrrr to make the playersss haappppyyyyy that they can use a lot of spells, but really face to face u use the same spells.)

that the maps will not be so rich as in the previous versions oh HOMM series. i want to spend time to colect houndreds of stupid items like, but not like those stupid pottions in h4 games and i really hope there will not be some new wonder formula to resurect one thing like imortality in h4 i dont want to resurect no militia or black dragon with buzz i want them to stay dead and i want to die not to resurect and resurect again.

and what more....aaaa i dont want to bring from h4 that huge system for heroes skills so u have to spend 12 month to have a uber hero when u can have fun playing with all the units. but i liked the skill tree system and i think the abilities and skils is what i want , but i must see it first, so its for now it stays.

i want huge maps to play when i dont want to see humans in flesh and bones and i want to be all alone so dont make that mistke from h4 where was only a half of map or something like that so the comunity have to work for u couse u are smart and know how to make a editor so work around and make 50 of them.

and i want pandora's box in the game, and to understand why troops are joining my army not like in h3 where everybody is joining everybody like they know eachother for years.

im also thinking if there any chance to make the water important in a game??? could u do that??? or else take it out couse is just to have fun or dont know go to fish if is possible, (dont have any prblem with the water in real life in fact i love it, doing scuba )

im woried about no barbarian faction but i can live without them. but hope they will be back.oooooo and the fortressssss love those, best campaign in h3 sod i think.

and dont mess the troops, stop moving from one faction to another couse i really dont know wich faction should ill play. hehehe but maybe im wrong

and the biggest is that the addon will bring a new town new units new bla bla bla but no new units to existing towns no existing avilitis to the exisitng towns no new buildings to existing towns. i realy wonder why they dont learn from blizzard ... u dont make an addon just so i can play with another faction to found out that is an addon, ill have to enjoy my fav town and want to see how my fav town gets a facial)))

well i think thats all, but i will think again.

hmmm... the AI. I have no idea how good or how bad it is at the moment.

Starfarce, eh, Starforce. Truly the dark side of the force when it comes to controlling and manipulating a PC's subsystems. This software is no better than a rootkit and is abysmal mal-ware. When I buy HOMMV I will only run it on an OS partition that is to be dumped when I am done with the game, until tools exist to remove Starforce (and work, the one tool that is "licensed" by Starforce Co. doesn't work, and there is no disclosure about what exactly is installed, where it is, and what it does, besides the hidden non-PnP drivers).

Just a tidbit from the Starforce developers, from their own web site:

URL Here

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Just to make sure, StarForce decided to have a worldwide contest among users of StarForce protected applications. We had an open invitation to visit our office in order to display the issue and receive $10.000 US in case the person would have proven the problem to exist. January 31st was the last day to apply for the contest which lasted for almost two months. The contest page was visited 48.000 times but we received 0 applications. No one showed up.

Therefore, we now have proof that such issues with StarForce protected applications are pure fiction and all of these rumors are false and probably initiated by frustrated pirates.

Yep, you know why no one showed up? They required you to bring your computer to their office... in Russia.

They were at CEBIT too,

URL Here

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We are looking forward to seeing you at our stand A55 Hall 7. [...]StarForce Technologies

l337speak, anyone? A55 Hall 7?

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Glad that the release was delayed, because after downloading and installing, found out that the online play is totally non-functional. Seemed like the single-player elements all work, but dropped connections, and confusing and undocumented "heads-up" or "heads-down" to start your game, turns freezing up, and total lack of any instructions on how to play really make the beta more of a farce than anything else. It was totally unplayable for me, and most online were just giving up.

Also, I found the combat field a bit contrived with the grid system. HOMM3 had a naturalistic looking combat field, and it just felt right, even though you were moving the stacks like chess pieces. The grid system unnatural, at least let us turn it off under game options.

My biggest concern is that none of my numerous minor concerns will be addressed. The sum total of this action would be ruinous.

That is to say, there is no single thing that is awful in the game, but there are so many minor to moderate flaws that it needs major help before it could be considered great.

Some of these flaws were fundamental design decisions that cannot be changed now (eg. abandon everything H4 did, copy everything H3 did), but many of the other problems can still be fixed.

Rise! RISE ANCIENT ONE!
*resurects thread*

Ooops

*runs away*

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Originally posted by Aseved:
Mainly... That the stepback from H4 is so big that it loses the improvements the 4th part of the series did. Still, I'm confident it will not be a complete 3d clone.

Secondly... That because of the aim on "speeding up" the gameplay, the heroes world loses part of its charm (no nice text descriptions, "soul-less" events or quests, no Signposts!!!!! , and so on...

if they were keen on speeding up the gameplay they should've never destroyed town portal and instant travel so bad its now practically useless and with 1.3 patch summon creatures has been rendered absolute it would be a better deal for my hero to go back to town itself.i have stopped playing homm5 alltogether but i look at the bright side of things at least it doesn't have the 3d0 trademark.homm4 wasn't epic but it sure was a good game i would rate 4 better than 5 any day of the week and its more than worthy of bearing the 3d0 trademark...

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