My rushed impressions of Expansion Pack

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 17 Nov 2006, 21:45

The new portraits are well designed and appealing.Too bad some of the dwarven ones are...lacking.

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 17 Nov 2006, 21:45

Eternor wrote:Svea spent her youth in the towns of the Silver League as part of the Dwarves' small embassy in the land of the Wizards. But while other Dwarves, depressed by their stay in the foreign country, were giving way to homesickness, Svea spent her time studying all the mysteries of the League’s magical art. The outcome of her studies was the mastery -- unusual for a Dwarf -- of Lightning Magic.

I see that Ubi forgot to run a check of what the names means in different languages- not sure how I feel about the embodiment of Sweden lending her name to a dwarven heroine. At least she's the one with some shred of modesty...

Akul · Unread postby **Akul** » 17 Nov 2006, 22:36

However, I do like the new bios. They don't seem to be Hero Spec. depending (at least some of theme).

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 17 Nov 2006, 22:42

Marzhin wrote: There are dwarven women, and they have no beard.

They compensate with weird hair though

Znork · Unread postby **Znork** » 17 Nov 2006, 23:02

Should you buy hammers of faithe? Znork thinks yes!

Well first off all there is no intro cinematics, and the cut sceens are porly made as we hade in h5. But aside from that the story is more intresting and beliving. The new units are fun, and the game is realy mature! Beeing a littel disapointed withe h5 i realy daubted if i was to buy the addon. But i did, and i dont regrate it.

Withe this addon we finaly have a realy fun and intresting game. So if you have bught the h5 and dont want to buy the addon i think you are missing out! Well go to go back to the game!

Alamar · Unread postby **Alamar** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:10

Sauron wrote:Really, thiese potraits do look childish.

As often as I disagree with UBI / Nival decisions I don't mind the portraits at all. IMHO HoMM is a fantasy game so I don't mind if some of the heros are a little "over the top" ...

Sir_Toejam · Unread postby **Sir_Toejam** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:15

Ya5MieL wrote:So if we have 2 separate gamefiles... it means that optimisation mentioned will only apply if HoF one is ran...

And i hoped im gona replay 6 original campaigns with increased framerate ..

hmm, i should try the old version and see.

I believe installation of HOF updates the original with the latest patch, which might have the optimization routines built into the executable.

so many things to do.

Sir_Toejam · Unread postby **Sir_Toejam** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:16

Elvin wrote:Good enough.I had noticed that crystal is not needed much and hoped for such a solution.Still what's wrong with these people?They can't have been testing it enough to make it like this and certainly display no familiarity about how a faction can play with its requirements

whee!

sounds like the genesis for the first HOF mod to me.

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:42

Go Sir Toejam! Glad I gave you some inspiration,I would like to see such a mod myself.Once I get HoF of course,which should be tomorrow if I am lucky

Sir_Toejam · Unread postby **Sir_Toejam** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:47

meh, I'm really being a bit flippant...

I have 30 mods to wade through to see if they work or not with the expansion, and then figure out what needs to be fixed (at least for my own) first. I also will need to contact the other authors to notify them if I find their mods don't work with the expansion to see if they want to fix them.

then i need to get what info i have into producing a mod manual (finally), and of course I'd like to get around to actually PLAYING the expansion.

I'll probably mod the resource issue sometime next week, right before i start playing the campaign

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:55

Don't worry I wouldn't want to use it before finishing the campaign

You know,to feel I've finished the official product as it was meant to be.
...Forget the last part

But I still believe mods are for single scenarios,not campaigns.

Sir_Toejam · Unread postby **Sir_Toejam** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:56

..Forget the last part

LOL.

you have a point, though.

since I'm anxious to go ahead and play, I'll probablly forgo the modding for a few days to get a better feel for the faction.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 18 Nov 2006, 00:58

Sir_Toejam wrote: then i need to get what info i have into producing a mod manual (finally), and of course I'd like to get around to actually PLAYING the expansion.

Oh,youre actually playing games?I thought all you do was mod them till your eyes bleed,and then some more

Sir_Toejam · Unread postby **Sir_Toejam** » 18 Nov 2006, 01:06

hardly, but then I thought all you did was post messages on this board?

you play games too?

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 18 Nov 2006, 01:09

@ST
Probably the best thing to do.Personal recreation comes first,right?

Maybe not always but since you work for providing us a better gaming experience I don't think anyone would complain for a while.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 18 Nov 2006, 01:09

Sir_Toejam wrote:hardly, but then I thought all you did was post messages on this board?

you play games too?

Yup,between posts

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 18 Nov 2006, 01:11

DaemianLucifer wrote: Yup,between posts

Damn he is fast!

Sir_Toejam · Unread postby **Sir_Toejam** » 18 Nov 2006, 01:12

...or he's mutant with multiple arms.

Meandor · Unread postby **Meandor** » 18 Nov 2006, 08:12

Sauron wrote:Really, thiese potraits do look childish.

H5 heroes looked chidlish so there are really no reason why new ones shouldn`t.

Akul · Unread postby **Akul** » 18 Nov 2006, 10:19

Meandor wrote: H5 heroes looked chidlish so there are really no reason why new ones shouldn`t.

The original ones looked LESS childish then thiese ones.

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