a question about AI in Heroes III

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a question about AI in Heroes III

Unread postby The_new_guy » 16 Oct 2012, 16:56

Hi! I'm playing a Heroes 3 map "Ira the mage" atm and i got a little problem. in this map there is an enemy hero that u can beat only by luring him into a special place by running next to him with a small army and forcing him to attack. i tried to do so, but that hero ran away instead of attacking (he had like 10 dragons and i came with 1 eefrith so he was obviously stronger in theory). i asked some ppl to help and surprisingly everything went OK in their games (they did the same thing and enemy hero attacked them).

Earlier i played yet another map "Way home" and had the same problem: an enemy hero that was supposed to attack me (confirmed by some ppl, who finished this map) was running away or standing still instead. so my question is: how can it be and what can i do with that problem?

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Unread postby Pitsu » 18 Oct 2012, 07:07

First thing to confirm is the difficulty level. AI behaviour depends on it https://www.celestialheavens.com/24

If you have multiple heroes on these maps, then check that the strong one is not too close to enemy.

If that does not explain, do you have any mods installed?
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Unread postby The_new_guy » 19 Oct 2012, 18:40

Pitsu wrote:First thing to confirm is the difficulty level. AI behaviour depends on it https://www.celestialheavens.com/24

If you have multiple heroes on these maps, then check that the strong one is not too close to enemy.

If that does not explain, do you have any mods installed?
i played on impossible level, others were prohibited on these maps.

there were no other heroes around (on ira the mage map you cant have more than 1 hero)

i didnt install any mods. i played a common heroes3 SoD game, that i installed from an old CD of mine.

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Unread postby The_new_guy » 05 Nov 2012, 08:37

bump bump :)

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Unread postby Salamandre » 05 Nov 2012, 12:01

Ira the mage and way home are among the most difficult H3 maps, and tested 100%. If AI runs away, this simply means it is supposed to do so. Bring him down to a last town then the problem is gone. You can also ask in corresponding thread in mapsforheroes, it may help.

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Unread postby The_new_guy » 05 Nov 2012, 12:23

thanks for ur suggestion, but i already sent PM's with my game saved before this battle to some people (including a mapmaker herself) and everyone replied that they loaded my game and enemy hero acted properly (attacked them and died). so it doesnt look like i'm doing something wrong.

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Unread postby Salamandre » 05 Nov 2012, 12:29

Then is unsolvable. You should ask them to send you save after battle, so you can continue.

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Unread postby The_new_guy » 05 Nov 2012, 12:37

well... probably i'm using some different H3 version or something like that. is that possible? cant believe no one esle ever had the same situation in game.

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Unread postby Salamandre » 05 Nov 2012, 14:44

There are only 2 candidates for those maps, SoD and Heroes Complete. Try on both then.

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Unread postby Pitsu » 06 Nov 2012, 12:41

The_new_guy wrote: i played a common heroes3 SoD game, that i installed from an old CD of mine.
This made me think that you might not have the latest version of SoD. I do not remember the patch detais and whether it did alter AI, but if your game version is 3.0, then update it. https://www.celestialheavens.com/565

Or reinstall, if you have not tried already.
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Unread postby Pol » 06 Nov 2012, 15:40

Yes, he could be missing "Shadow of Death patch, version 3.0 to 3.2"
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