Posts from NHF – new heroes for Heroes V 3.1.

Hooray!! Finally! Thank you to all the comrades who participated in the development, and a special big thank you to comrades Dyrman and Gerter!

By the way, I already found a strange thing (a bug?) with Fiona. When attacking peasants, I was shown a message flying away from the enemy stack "-9 units", but from mine "+44", i.e., the initial number of creatures, and not how many were left/added...

great class, but when can we expect models for characters like Belkhet, angels? Should we expect the models for Agrael and Biara to be restored, and is it worth waiting for that in the near future?

I would also like to make a comment about one specialization, the "Master of Initiative." With each level, it reduces the enemy's initiative and increases its own. At level 40, this is +40% to its own initiative and -40% to the enemy's, not counting the acceleration from magic and artifacts that boost initiative. You might say that such heroes exist in the NHF E version, and yes, they do, but even there, it is impossible to play against heroes with this specialization; they simply don't let others move. This is an imbalance, even for NHF E. I would change the specialization to 1% for every 2 levels, instead of for every level as it is now. In its current state, it is overpowered and cannot be countered, and it is impossible to use such heroes in a party at all.

Why don't you change it? They reduced his spell damage from 50 to 20 on level 40, which is almost never achieved by a demon. Now it deals 800 damage, which isn't that much, but the demon rarely gets to cast spells. However, the overpowered initiative should be slightly reduced, because it's impossible to play against them. If you play against the AI, you can win 2 out of 10 times, and that's only due to the AI's stupidity. But against a real person, it's impossible. My friends and I only play with the NHF E mod; we don't play the regular version at all. You can play against everyone, but not against this monstrous initiative. Level 40 might be rare in the game, but it's quite common on maps that simulate the final battle. And even at level 40, it's not necessary. At level 20, minus 20% for you and plus 20% for them, just like that. And then, even more acceleration for themselves, rings for initiative, and so on. I think you understand how imbalanced it is.

Everything is fine; just give these heroes a speed aura (+15% to initiative). That would be a good balance. Also, revert his model; maybe it changed because his special ability was changed.

A new version of NHF 0.89 has been released.

I'll continue with a small showcase of resources from official browser games based on the Might and Magic universe.

There used to be a browser game called Might and Magic Kingdoms. The models of cities and creatures were taken from Heroes of Might and Magic V. The hero portraits were also partially taken from Heroes V, but some were new artworks.
These artworks not only often fit very well with the style of Heroes V, but they can also be considered "canonical" in a way. Perhaps some of these artworks were taken from unused drawings for Heroes V.

Perhaps NHF or some other mod could use these images for hero icons.

In the attached images, I'll only provide a couple of examples; the rest can be found in the archive.
Download the archive with all the preserved artworks that I managed to find

I will continue with a small collection of assets from the official browser games based on the Might and Magic universe.

There used to be a browser game called Might and Magic Kingdoms. The models of cities and creatures were taken from Heroes of Might and Magic V. The hero portraits were also partially taken from Heroes V, but some were new artworks.
These artworks not only often fit very well with the style of Heroes V, but they can also be considered "canonical" in a way. Perhaps some of these artworks were taken from unused drawings for Heroes V.

Perhaps NHF or some other mod could use these images for hero icons.

In the attached images, I will only provide a couple of examples; the rest can be found in the archive.
Download the archive with all the preserved artworks that I managed to find

Awesome! Really awesome! They will definitely be useful! Do you have the names of these characters?

A Knight and a purple Necromancer go quite well together =)
The Academy Sorceress was a bit of a shock (someone really put effort into drawing her) xD