The Heroes Round Table

So Minotaurs have broken free from slavery and become kings



Is the history for the game going to be rewritten?

Why did they change Ghosts to Manes? I bet most people don't even know how to pronounce the word (/manayz/), and that it doesn't have a singular form "Mane". Also, Manes means the deified souls of dead ancestors, and those foul Necropolis creatures are anything but deified.

I tried for hours but just couldn't get into any normal game. Kept seeing dialogues like "entering game" or "creating game" but frustratingly, nothing ever happened after long periods of wait. However, I did manage to play two duel games, or more like one game since I was disconn...

In HIII luck affected the attack,and in HIV it affected the defence.So why does it affect just attack again? It's bloody obvious actually. Everything associated with Heroes IV is bad and symbolizes failure so that the developers shun it at any cost. You must be nuts by suggesting not going back to ...

I think all this elemental stuff is way too complicated and should be cut from the game. Didn't the developers argue that they give each faction only one hero type instead of two to make the game easier for newcomers? Then they confuse everyone, old and new, with this archane elemental stuff. :disag...

Yep that's where I've been looking, and it's still the same old'... Then I reloaded the page completely (i.e. overriding cache) and finally saw the sweet thing.

Here we go... Not sure how Fabrice will respond to this.

Huh? Where are the phoenix and death knight pictures everyone's talking about? I can't find them.

It's more likely that GameSpy and Ubisoft will share the revenues associated to the Heroes beta. Publishers cannot afford to sell reviews: the word will come out sooner or later and reputations will be ruined. Fabrice said they will get hardly any money from the open beta, but also said the deal wi...

Agreed. It's about twice what Half-Life 2 asked for on paper. Better be good.

Regarding the battlefield size, didn't Nival/Ubi say they changed it based on feedback from beta testing? But since everybody's complaining 8X10 is too small now, I wonder who advised them to do it in the first place. Glad to hear that a lot of effort has been put into multiplayer. On the other hand...

If this is a truly open beta, I hope their servers can handle the traffic. On another note, does multiplayer mode imply lots of waiting for turns and prematurely ended games?

It's official: the launch of open beta has been postponed. News on the French site.



Frankly, I half expected it to happen. We've seen plenty of delays up to this stage.
Edited on Thu, Jan 19 2006, 07:59 by umfridus

This one is of syndicated comic strip quality. Excellent!

That "quasi-triangle" is the C, and the "inverted C" is a moon crescent, though what it signifies isn't altogether clear to me. Hmm... Perhaps to signify "celestial"? That clarifies it a bit. It's a little difficult to make out from the banner, though, as the three par...

Isn't it a bit funny that the Devil's on Peasant's side while the Angel's on Imp's side?

What is the significance of the newly unveiled CH logo? There seems to be an inverted C laid on an H, but what is that quasi-triangular thing to the left? Pardon me if this has been answered somewhere else.

Maybe a darker theme could be better? Personally I quite like the look of CGTalk (http://forums.cgsociety.org/).