Posts from NTR – a multiplayer rebalance of mods for new towns.

It seems I've lost track of the conversation a bit. Let's go through it step by step and in more detail, because it's not clear what we're talking about in just a few words:
1. Rebalancing existing Factions - which ones? It seems that the decision regarding Factions from different mods has already been made. Taking the "Holy Mission" approach to rebalance any set of creatures from ncf with color correction of textures in Photoshop, or working with unfinished pre-alpha graphical assets, doesn't appeal to me (if anything, in theory, you could even balance squares with the inscription "I am a level 2 creature" and create new Factions, but in my opinion, Heroes 5 has a quality standard, and new Factions should meet it). If we're talking about the original ones, the balance in TE generally suits me, except that the Orcs and Necropolis are extremely strong in the late game, but this is a feature of their mechanics, and the only thing that could help is removing the free converter to undead and nerfing Blood Wrath (but here, we need to figure out if it's possible to do this without access to the executable code, which I personally don't have).

2. Alliance as a separate Faction without any undead - what is meant by this? As far as I know, in RTF, the Alliance is replaced by Free Cities, and there is no undead there. In Chaos Theory, it's a reskin of the Alliance with the replacement of several units with new ones, and there is no undead there either.

It seems I've lost track of the conversation a bit. Let's go through it step by step and in more detail, because it's not clear what we're talking about in just a few words:
1. Rebalancing existing factions - which ones? It's already been decided about factions from different mods. Taking the "Holy Mission" and rebalancing any set of creatures from an NCF file with color correction of textures in Photoshop, or working on unfinished pre-alpha graphical assets, doesn't appeal to me (if anything, in theory, you could balance squares with the inscription "I am a level 2 creature" and create factions, but in my opinion, Heroes 5 has a quality standard, and new factions should meet it).

But of course, some of the models are iconic. It’s a pity that there’s only one model per creature for the undead. I’ve already “borrowed” the attack animations for the mages. They’re in my test files.

I was thinking of giving the unarmored mage a whirlwind attack, increasing the radius of the lightning spells, and giving one of the upgrades an animation based on the meteor shower, and giving them attack ranges like 7x7. They would become incredibly powerful units with a small splash damage. This would make them level 6, or even 7. In general, I wanted to create more patterns for the factions used in NTR, but the problem is that I can’t get the game to add new abilities, even just as a name and description. So, there simply won’t be enough “extra” or duplicate abilities of creatures whose texts could be used for new patterns.

Hello!
I've become very interested in the mod, and I'm curious to hear what the original creators will say.
1) Could you briefly describe the factions in the topic header and their main features? The current description seems a bit dry, unfortunately.
2) I'd like to understand what specific changes are in the mod, and if there are many changes, a full guide might be helpful. Or something as close to it as possible.

Regarding the shadow skull – I assure you, I reviewed all the factions and creature animations in battle. The model design falls into the second type – they are not NCF-based, they are custom-made, and I can't even imagine how much time was spent on them, but they don't quite measure up, in my opinion (maybe I'm just a graphics snob... you get the idea=))). No arguments here =)

improving the textures isn't that big of a problem, as far as I know, but still, take a closer look, because some textures are taken directly from the sixth installment (like the spider legs).

The thing is, I haven't received any feedback yet on whether the description of the new mechanics will work.

[/U]In general, it would be possible to customize all abilities and racial skills more flexibly by tinkering with defaultStats, but the problem is that all such data is stored in one file, which prevents replacing the content in parts. If you were to do this, it would have to be done at once for all replaceable factions. However, if someone has not replaced all the factions and is playing, say, Sanctuary against Academy, then some of the skills will change for the non-replaced races, which is bad. What's even worse is that this will overwrite changes made in some already installed balance mod. So, you have to figure out how to proceed :/

Do as everyone else does, put up a sign.
May not work with other mods, it is recommended to use all parts of the mod at once

That's an interesting idea; it would allow for creating some truly crazy things. For example, you could adapt the Thunderstorm spell into some kind of fog that doesn't deal damage but completely reduces ranged damage over a large area, and other fun mechanics. In general, it would be good to create a faction manager in some simple language, let's say C++ with QT, create different versions of the DefaultStats file, and let the player check boxes to select which factions to replace, and the application will automatically change everything in the folders. Then, all that would remain is to choose a DefaultStats version for the base factions and plan the step-by-step modification of skills. Muahaha (However, there's still a lot of work to be done with this approach :/)

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Plus, in the current version, the ideas for mechanics have been refined, but I won't have time for thorough testing in the near future, so quick patches will be temporarily suspended (unless critical ones can be fixed more or less quickly). For now, I'll be monitoring the feedback. Especially, as comrade Dyrman already mentioned, the feedback from the original authors) (Crossed fingers, a prayer before bed). I also remember about updating the post header and providing explanatory manuals.