Marcus Aurelius
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HotA Crew made a deal with Baratorch not to create an Overhaul for SoD – this, of course, added fuel to the fire of the holy war; these are rather dirty tactics in the fight for their audience.
As I understand from this post, the HotA team did not use any dirty tricks; baratorch himself turned to Sav, he agreed on his own not to make an Overhaul in SoD, and he is also interested in promoting Hota:
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I wasn't sure if I would even have time to make a decent working version of the Overhaul in the near future.
And I asked Sav for help (the main programmer of Hota, if anyone doesn't know).
Sav has advanced further in analyzing the game code than anyone else. He agreed to help. He agreed to give me all his developments on the condition that the Overhaul will only be available for Hota.
I am part of the Hota team, I have invested a lot of work into it and I am interested in its promotion, so such an agreement suits me personally. I agreed.
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Moreover, even if baratorch had not given this promise, it is far from certain that the Overhaul would be available in SoD:
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That is, I cannot create an Overhaul for SoD because I am bound by my word.
And even if I weren't, the Overhaul code is now tailored for Hota; the implementation for SoD would differ structurally. The fact that I focused on one platform (Hota) also reduced development time.
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Intelligent algorithms for interrupting the Overhaul, which will allow you to play with the Overhaul until the very end, will be developed jointly with Sav or even by him alone (I’m not sure if I will find the time).
So, the most advanced and complete Overhaul is possible only within the framework of Hota.
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Let's still understand that we are not talking about comparing Hota and SoD, but about comparing Hota and HD+.
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And if you have to choose between HD+ and Hota...
Why compare Hota and HD+ and choose something between them when there is an opportunity to play Hota with HD+ connected to it? All the functionality available in HD+, connected to SoD, plus simultaneous turn mode, is available there.