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Might & Magic Heroes VI |OT| give us town screens back
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Minsc
Gold Member
V_Arnold said:
Inferno had devils, Castle had Angels, Tower had Titans, Fortress had Hydras, Stronghold had Behemoths / Cyclops. It was a bit more varied than how you make it sound. The Dungeon's black dragons were immune to spells, others, such as the Rampart's Gold Dragons, not so much. Necropolis's Ghost dragons had the aging effect. Then there was a whole bunch of neutral dragons, the fairy dragons had random magic, rust dragons, crystal dragons that had no breath attack, and the azure dragon w/ its fear ability. Phoenix had rebirth, Magma Dragons couldn't fly. They were actually pretty well varied.
Minsc said:
I know that. But what it ultimately came down was that 3 towns (Black, Gold, Ghost) had the same main attack-type creature (2 unit breath, plus one additional stuff), with adding Phoenix in the fray since other than the resurrection (which was useless anyway, you should not be losing all of them in a fight, that is not what they are good for), it behaved like a Dragon: 2 unit breath, and huge size. The others wished they had a dragon instead, because Behemoth or Hydra was just not cutting it in the long run - with the exception of godlike upgraded Giants, the Titans.
StoppedInTracks
Member
The art is impeccable as always with Heroes games but the monsters have such a weird names...
Danne-Danger
Member
It'd make this thread my go-to place for information, there's no good way to compare all that stuff in-game. :<nickcv said:
Just a thought! My two cents.
Throwing it out there.
V_Arnold said:You say "creepy", I say original. And humans will be the last I will touch, lol
StoppedInTracks said:
All of it is a D&D rehash mash-up. Those nagas have all kinds of slaad and yuan-ti in them. Necropolis is taking from Llolth and the drow in a big way. The infernal looking faction is old school Demon Types.
Whelp, I wanted to like this game but here's a list of the bugs I've encountered so far:
The blinking cursor bug, which humorously just got patched by Steam when I exited the game a few minutes ago. It's the only thing the patch fixed. Hooray?
My hotkeys (like [W]ait and [D]efend in combat) just stop working randomly. I have no idea what causes it.
The map will stop scrolling sometimes when you save and/or load in game. This includes both pushing the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen and trying to use the arrow keys. I have found that saving your game, exiting all the way out (including the Ubi Launcher), and re-loading from desktop will fix this problem however! What a pain in the ass.
Finally, I just had nearly 2 hours of an Undead campaign map wiped out when I returned to town to find that the number of creatures I had able to recruit were somewhere between -55000 and -35000 across the board. Those are indeed negatives. Helpfully every week it took 20 or so off those numbers, I could probably beat the map if I waited a few centuries in game time. Unfortunately I had no saves that went back far enough to before the problem, and no idea what caused it.
I may be sounding a bit whiny, especially when I know there's no one to blame for myself for paying full price for a day 1 Ubisoft PC game. I have loved HoMM since the new age computing version of King's Bounty and I was weak! I was frail! Mostly, I'm an idiot.
Here's hoping I just saved someone else some money.
The blinking cursor bug, which humorously just got patched by Steam when I exited the game a few minutes ago. It's the only thing the patch fixed. Hooray?
My hotkeys (like [W]ait and [D]efend in combat) just stop working randomly. I have no idea what causes it.
The map will stop scrolling sometimes when you save and/or load in game. This includes both pushing the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen and trying to use the arrow keys. I have found that saving your game, exiting all the way out (including the Ubi Launcher), and re-loading from desktop will fix this problem however! What a pain in the ass.
Finally, I just had nearly 2 hours of an Undead campaign map wiped out when I returned to town to find that the number of creatures I had able to recruit were somewhere between -55000 and -35000 across the board. Those are indeed negatives. Helpfully every week it took 20 or so off those numbers, I could probably beat the map if I waited a few centuries in game time. Unfortunately I had no saves that went back far enough to before the problem, and no idea what caused it.
I may be sounding a bit whiny, especially when I know there's no one to blame for myself for paying full price for a day 1 Ubisoft PC game. I have loved HoMM since the new age computing version of King's Bounty and I was weak! I was frail! Mostly, I'm an idiot.
Here's hoping I just saved someone else some money.
Bisonian said:
This is an issue that is caused by "The Week of the Plague". They are aware of it, and hopefully it will be corrected soon.
I'm with you though, they do have a lot of fixing left to do. However, once all it comes through, I have a lot faith that this will be an amazing addition to the HoMM legacy. I'll just have to wait til it gets a great discount during a Steam Sale.
PuppetSlave
Member
So bugs that where in that "very old" build demo are still there in the release? How impressive. I encountered that scrolling bug for example in the demo.
Does not really speak well for any future patch that they still have not been fixed I have to say.
Does not really speak well for any future patch that they still have not been fixed I have to say.
lordy88 said:
Yeah, I was really enjoying the game but it's just too frustrating to play right now. I remember having a week of the plague in the game I was in so that's definitely the problem. Does that mean that if plague comes up randomly your game is just shot? Unbelieveable.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
It's ridiculous I'm still getting the scrolling bug in the retail release. It was an obvious and common issue in the beta that made the player restart the whole fucking game to fix it. How do you not put a couple guys to work on that for a day...
Spectacular Dr Dawg
Member
Nice to hear that this turned out well. I'll pick it up on a steam sale since I have a huge backlog and I haven't even started HoMM5 or Kings Bounty Armored Princess/Crossworlds and I'm in the middle of Age of Wonders: Shadow magic
Wait, there's 60 fps limit? Ugh, I want to play at 120fps. Or is the game very demanding?Gyoru said:
masterkajo
Member
That is not acceptable. I played the demo for quite some time now (still not sure if I want to buy at full price since I will mainly play solo... maybe I cave when my brother visits for hot seat^^) and I got this bug more times than I would have liked. Hope they fix that soon.Heavy said:
Playing it too, it's really good. I remember when somebody made a thread a while back saying how good this game was, and I agree with everything he said. I'm only 5 hours in, the only thing that I don't like is that sometimes, among dozens of dozens of easy enemies there's one that are some which are hard as hell, and they still appear as 'low' risk in the map. :\ Other thing is the lack of AA, I mean, I'm using that FXAA thing but I didn't notice too much difference, looks still jaggy to me.
Vhalyar said:
if you get stuck at the splash screen you need to check the game integrity and close and re-open steam... if you had installed the demo or the beta make sure you uninstall it before installing the full game.
if you get stuck with the black screen is a gpu driver issue... try updating them.
nickcv said:
It was the splash screen, yeah. Demo was uninstalled and checking for integrity did nothing, but after browsing for a solution I came up on one that said to add MMH6 to the Data Execution Prevention list and that made the game run like a charm.
Beyond that I have not encountered a single one of the bugs that people keep talking about, so I'm rather happy about that. I got started on the Sanctuary campaign, pretty fun (and campy)
witchedwiz
Member
buying it fo'shizzle my nizzle!
Joseph Merrick
Member
fucking awesome game. very impressive.
gametrailers did their game review: 7.8
the review is not bad by any means, so i'm wondering:
are they using a proper 1 to 10 scale to rate pc games?
enjoy it!
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-might/723308
the review is not bad by any means, so i'm wondering:
are they using a proper 1 to 10 scale to rate pc games?
enjoy it!
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-might/723308
Steve Youngblood
Member
I was going to scream bloody murder about a 7.8 absolutely destroying the Metacritic average, but much to my chagrin, it's only got a 76 right now. Ergo, the 7.8 would have brought it up slightly.
Poor Black Hole Games. A 76? Not only is Ubisoft not going to hand out bonuses for that kind of score, but I bet they're even going to demand a partial refund of the salaries already paid to the developers.
Poor Black Hole Games. A 76? Not only is Ubisoft not going to hand out bonuses for that kind of score, but I bet they're even going to demand a partial refund of the salaries already paid to the developers.
FrontalMonk
Banned
well, HOMM5 got a 77 on MC, and the expansions got a 66 and 70 for Hammers of Fate and Tribes of the East, respectively. it could be considered on par with prior entries, which is to say that it's not "knocked out of the ballpark" awesome, but it's a respectable score.
witchedwiz
Member
arrived!
but!
i was under the impression that this one would have been a steamwork title
oh well
but!
i was under the impression that this one would have been a steamwork title
oh well
Wiktor
Member
Personally I think this is the first Heroes with actually good art. I loved HoMM 1-3 (heck..even liked 4), but the all had IMO a terribly ugly art). HoMM V was nice to look at, but it looked like lifted straight from Warcraft. Heroes VI goes for more realistic/darker style and it's so obviously BlackHole. I'm loving it.StoppedInTracks said:
Sadly i had to cencel my pre-order after i played the demo
The missing town screens and the very simplistic reqruit method totally put me off the game
As a Heroes veteran, with almost all editions of the games, i cant simply accept such a loss of the charm of recruiting from a proper city and dens, that was one the major things that made Heroes so special to me
Also i read developers are thinking of introducing real cities in future, so i will simply wait it out and get the game then, maybe a re-released version with towns patch included in the disks, would be the most desirable, maybe along with an expansion
And Dragons are really missing imo, i agree that in Heroes 5 they were a bit too similar in looks, but in Heroes 3 they were trully epic, the Azure, Rust, Crustal, Fairy dragons especially stood out completly
The missing town screens and the very simplistic reqruit method totally put me off the game
As a Heroes veteran, with almost all editions of the games, i cant simply accept such a loss of the charm of recruiting from a proper city and dens, that was one the major things that made Heroes so special to me
Also i read developers are thinking of introducing real cities in future, so i will simply wait it out and get the game then, maybe a re-released version with towns patch included in the disks, would be the most desirable, maybe along with an expansion
And Dragons are really missing imo, i agree that in Heroes 5 they were a bit too similar in looks, but in Heroes 3 they were trully epic, the Azure, Rust, Crustal, Fairy dragons especially stood out completly
