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Unread postby Joetheeskimo » 23 Aug 2006, 22:49

A few weeks ago, while playing Heroes III: Armageddon's Blade (I now have H3 Complete), I encountered a surprise within the game.

You know the 'Pyramid' object? Your hero battles around 70 guardians (presumably golems), and when the guardians are defeated, you learn a spell. I visited a Pyramid, and learned the following spell:

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"Fear ( disabled )"?? Apparently, this was a spell that was going to be added to the game, but was disabled in the end, but not before its picture was designed.

I excitedly checked my spell book, but was disappointed when I found it wasn't there.

The Azure Dragon's description is simply, 'Fear.' and when your troops are attacked by an Azure Dragon, often they will freeze with fear, signaled by a picture of a skeleton opening its mouth and hissing. Presumably, this is what the spell 'Fear' was supposed to look like when cast in combat.

Anyway, I found this interesting. Has anyone else encountered this?
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Unread postby Paulus1 » 23 Aug 2006, 23:12

Haven't encountered it myself, as far as I recall.

My wife claims she has encountered it once. She thinks it was a bug in unpatched Armageddons Blade expansion.
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Unread postby Kalah » 23 Aug 2006, 23:20

A wife who knows more about computer games than her husband... Can I have one of those, please?
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Unread postby Paulus1 » 23 Aug 2006, 23:25

Hehe, she doesn't know more than me - she just played AB more than me ;)
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Unread postby asandir » 24 Aug 2006, 00:51

doesn't that mean she does know more than you about it??

nice bug find Joe
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Unread postby DaemianLucifer » 24 Aug 2006, 08:14

Ive heared about this one before,but I never encountered it myself.
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Unread postby Paulus1 » 24 Aug 2006, 17:56

stefan.urlus wrote:doesn't that mean she does know more than you about it??
About Heroes III in general, no.
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Unread postby vhilhu » 24 Aug 2006, 18:07

pyramides are so pointless places, so the greatest thing about going there is finding this bug.
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Unread postby DaemianLucifer » 24 Aug 2006, 18:53

vhilhu wrote:pyramides are so pointless places, so the greatest thing about going there is finding this bug.
Not really.You may get some cool spell like fly,or DD from them.
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Unread postby asandir » 25 Aug 2006, 01:29

indeed DL
About Heroes III in general, no.
and im just teasing paulus
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Unread postby Joetheeskimo » 25 Aug 2006, 15:16

vhilhu wrote:pyramides are so pointless places, so the greatest thing about going there is finding this bug.
They're simply Spell Scrolls with guardians. What's so pointless about that?
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Unread postby vhilhu » 25 Aug 2006, 15:50

no they are not spell scrolls, just spells without any scroll, no?
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Unread postby Paulus1 » 25 Aug 2006, 17:49

I think a free lvl 5 spell is rather good. Of course the value depends a great deal on which spell you are granted and wether you have expert wisdom on your hero.

@vhilhu: you are correct - there's no scroll. Upon defeating the guardians, the victorious hero - and only him - is granted a random level 5 spell, not previously known to him.
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Unread postby vhilhu » 25 Aug 2006, 19:55

i always got sacrifice when visiting them :tired:
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Unread postby Joetheeskimo » 26 Aug 2006, 19:41

vhilhu wrote:no they are not spell scrolls, just spells without any scroll, no?
Hehe :D Good one.

..Oh wait, you weren't making a joke??


A spell scroll is an artifact that gives you a spell when you collect it.
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Unread postby Bonzer » 20 Sep 2006, 14:39

The FEAR spell was created for the Azure Dragon. When it appears in a pyramid it is unusable by the Hero who gets it, and is a bug or poor programming / mapmaking.

Actually, I don't think you can edit the contents of a Pyramid, so mapmaking doesn't come into it.

I always found pyramids useful to either get a level 5 spell that I may not have available in a guild (esp DD or Fly), or at least the xp if trying to level up. Not a lot of point though if you don't have expert Wisdom (I think it's Wisdom anyway - able to learn 5th level? How quickly we forget!)
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