Patch 1.4 is coming...

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Unread postby Mytical » 11 Nov 2006, 10:32

Ok, people seem to be negative about this, and it seems to stim from the paperdoll and Hot Seat. True, those things were bad, really really bad. Yet, they did take a step in the right direction, so lets at least give them credit for trying. Sure it should have been done earlier, and it should be better, but at least they have finally started on the correct path. This patch helped the memory leak (I think on really large maps there still exsists a problem, but it is better), the AI seems a bit smarter. I don't know if it still cheats however (havn't gotten arround to redoing the 'cheat' aspect yet). Sylvan was helped a little, so was inferno, and others didn't fair too bad. Inferno may even be able to go toe to toe with necros in large maps (lots of looms and the 5% extra for gating AND looms can = huge gated armies. And unlike necro's who get Skelly Archers you get some heavy hitters also. Plus you can gate your creatures right next to their ranged units to stop them being ranged (regardless where they put them at). If they lump all there creatures together a quickmeteor shower from your pit lords will show them the error of there ways :). Anyhow, this patch should have been out months ago, but at least it is out, and there is more positive then negative. Still needs work though.
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 11 Nov 2006, 14:19

Yeah, now all we need to do is break some legs and they'll really start giving us what we want.
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Unread postby The Mad Dragon » 11 Nov 2006, 14:34

So now we're mobsters? 8|

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Unread postby King_Roland » 11 Nov 2006, 16:03

I will add my comments on the paper doll. I think the paper doll with patch 1.4 is very poor.

Its shape is way too square and doesn't fit the hero's body. The 'inventory' mod is much better - I'll be re-activating that mod.

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Patch 1.4 is Out

Unread postby LindaG » 11 Nov 2006, 16:47

After reading all comments, pro and con, maybe I'll just wait for the expansion pack...

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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 11 Nov 2006, 17:11

Anyone have any pics of the inventory mod?
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Patch 1.4 is Out

Unread postby Angelspit » 11 Nov 2006, 17:34

There's one on the Mods page (Heroes V, Downloads, Mods).
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 11 Nov 2006, 17:40

Damn.... my lazyness was hoping for a direct link. Crazy, ain't it.

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Okay... tell the truth, which looks better:

https://www.celestialheavens.com/images ... 20Doll.jpg

https://www.celestialheavens.com/homm5/ ... nie640.jpg
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Unread postby DaemianLucifer » 11 Nov 2006, 17:53

Maybe you could start a poll.If it isnt obvious to everyone that the fan one is way better that is.

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Unread postby vhilhu » 11 Nov 2006, 17:56

from the official one, i dont get what goes where. and the squares are not in correct place either.

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Unread postby BigBadPig » 11 Nov 2006, 18:45

Has anyone already "discerned" what does "... and some more" mean this time?

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Patch 1.4 is Out

Unread postby Angelspit » 11 Nov 2006, 19:13

That patch took me a while to download, even from the Game Updates. But I'm glad we have a cumulative patch now.
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Patch 1.4 is Out

Unread postby Donsta » 11 Nov 2006, 20:15

Ack! the game ran fine on my Dell XPS before I patched. Now it shuts down to windows every few minutes.

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Unread postby The Mad Dragon » 11 Nov 2006, 20:45

And with all the random effects that this patch is causing, I won't be dl it until I hear that it's finally stable.

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Unread postby DaemianLucifer » 11 Nov 2006, 20:50

So,if you had problems with the game,instal the patch and it helps,but if it was fine,then dont because it will screw it up? :|

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Unread postby The Mad Dragon » 11 Nov 2006, 20:52

Apparantly, thats what it seems to be doing.

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Unread postby Sir_Toejam » 11 Nov 2006, 21:52

wrt to the paper doll issue:

do take a close look at the Nival vs. fan made one.

count the slots available.

yes, one does LOOK better than the other (how hard could it have been to make it look right Nival?), but Nival added extra slots for miscellaneous artifacts.

which also suggests that some artifact types have changed.

will a clover leaf work in the shield slot now?

doesn't look like it.

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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 11 Nov 2006, 22:26

Yup, they added one misc slot. That really justifies taking out all the nice drawings of what each slot was.

It's like they're doing it on purpose: "So you want a paperdoll, here it is, how do you like them paperdolls!"
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Unread postby Shad0WeN » 12 Nov 2006, 22:43

ThunderTitan wrote:Yup, they added one misc slot. That really justifies taking out all the nice drawings of what each slot was.
That's one reason why the fan-made one looks (and functions) better. It would be nice if the author would be so good as to update it!

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Re: Patch 1.4 is coming...

Unread postby Shad0WeN » 12 Nov 2006, 22:49

DaemianLucifer wrote:

- perk "Power of speed" was changed and grants "Mass Haste" spell now

- perk "Power of Endurance" was changed and grants "Mass Endurance" spell now
Again,details.Does it give them for free?Does it give them imidiatelly?
Assuming it works exactly the same as before then, yes. You immediately get the spell in your spellbook and the ability to cast it at no cost, except now they are mass spells so it would seem they just wanted to make the perks a little more useful.


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