The Heroes Round Table

I used to be on this like with Star Trek, that "any Trek is better than no Trek". But while I tolerated Enterprise for 4 seasons, barely, I could not do so for Heroes since Ubi took over. That me, a hardcore HOMM fan, never finished the walkthroughs of Heroes V, and barely played VI and V...

As far as I can tell it doesn't, what are you talking about? I'm talking, of course, about HoMM3. It doesn't need rehashing, you can just play the game. The sale+Kickstarter idea is interesting... Kickstarter is a nice communication medium, which would allow for taking fan input into account. It al...

2) What we don't like from Ubisoft HoMM games? And I mean we should rate every important element like 3 graphics, bugs, system, storyline, similars to old heroes etc. From your list, for me the important elements are storyline, system, and to a point similarity to original Heroes games... but in tw...

Hm. Honestly I'd either take option 1 with huge reworks or option 2 with a good team. And by reworks I mean an entirely new planet (or Axeoth, that works too). Whereas by good team I mean someone who has worked on the games before (HC, HoMM4, etc. teams). Without that there's no chance of getting an...

Woah. That's unfortunate. Was anything leaked? Is the vulnerability already fixed? Things like that is why I'm trying to move my own website from Joomla to Jekyll, sigh... I suppose this shows time and again how important it is to keep backups. So good job at doing that. Also, sorry for not being ve...

Again, depends on what you want to do on it. If do stuff on the computer, then a monitor.
Note that there are also monitors with integrated TV tuners, so basically mini TVs that can be used as monitors comfortably. Can't watch that on a couch though.

Today I managed to set up a network play in vanilla HoMM3 Complete. Between three people, who were using Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Linux. Using no external tools whatsoever (yes, no bloody GameRanger, Hamachi, VPN, etc.!), via TCP/IP. That's quite a feat, but turns out that it's pretty simple in t...

Yea, installing cards is really not difficult. It's a bit like legos, except that you need to read the manual before doing it

Sounds nice.

Well, the fact that you could play something a while ago with worse hardware doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to do that now. XP (NT 5) is quite different from later Windows versions (NT 6 and 10). Case in point: try running HoMM1 Windows version on XP or later. It won't work, because ...

Also I just saw that book 4 was never released, so that kinda rules out the idea.. I'm not sure where you looked, because it certainly was released :P https://www.celestialheavens.com/homm5/art_of_lota_complete.pdf (176 and onward) As for the interactiveness or closeness to the MMH7/5 version, I pe...

@GreatEmerald. The way I see it, Unity and Every Dog Has It's Day, being two seperate campaigns/stories, only being linked by the fact that they were never released, makes it hard to come up with an easy reference name for them both combined, though that's what we've been discussing in the other tr...

Hm, well, since those were planned campaigns, bundling both together makes sense. And you'll probably need a name for them for easy reference. Something that makes it clear what they are. Though you might also eventually want to add LotA campaigns into it too. Whether it would be the same, or a diff...

Yea, no reason to change the name. Making it different would just seed more confusion anyway.

Hm, fascinating. From what I gathered when reading about stuff, LotA isn't finished either (although it's not based on Terry's scripts, right?). So this could be an interesting solution, especially since HoMM4 obviously already has the needed art and whatnot, and generally making maps there is easie...

Uh, can someone explain what that is? For those out there like me, who are ignoring everything that comes out of Ubisoft?

Speaking of which, something of the sort for LotA would be interesting too.

I just tried to use custom audio files, and, well, it doesn't seem to work that well. When I encode MP3s with libmp3lame, I get a bit of audio corruption in the audio, and the lower the bitrate, the more of it I hear. This is very odd, because even if I copy the original file's bitrate, I still get ...

He dont has right. He invent his own weird fantasion. But it is between me and him. He knows and I know. Dont enter beetwen us. Write what you think. Ha, no. Avonu and XEL II are the foremost experts in MM series lore. I'm afraid you're not really making a good case here. Erathia is Erathia. Erathi...

Yeap, Avonu is right. You can't take one game and try to apply it as-is to another. The world of Enroth is not that static; quite the opposite, it's fuzzy, and for one, MMs are a better source of information on that than HoMMs. The strategy games had to be solid in terms of gameplay first, and the s...

You can probably sell it on ebay or such.