Posts from Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era - Обсуждение

Okich

The animations are lacking, both for the swordsmen and the skeletons. There isn't much to come up with for the crossbowmen or archers' shooting, but they could have given the skeleton a two-handed sword that it drags along the ground, and when it attacks, it rotates around its axis and adjusts its helmet on its eye sockets, which, combined with the cartoonish style, would look great. I've seen something like this or very similar somewhere before.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that the animations in Heroes 2 are even better than in Heroes 3, purely because of their simplicity. In Disciples 2, you can turn off the animations completely, which gives this game a certain "democratic" quality, just because of the option to choose this setting.

You can completely disable the animations in Disciples 2.

Disciples 2

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I've seen something like this, or very similar, somewhere before.

Oh my god, I'm embarrassed, I completely forgot. Of course, it's in Fable: The Lost Chapters. It's the most fairytale-like game. There, the undead slowly approach, moaning, and attack with sharp, ornate movements. Sorry for the off-topic comment.

In modern PvP for Disciples 2, players mostly use this tactic to somehow speed up the extremely long turns. And there are, on average, up to ten turns... and each player has a lot of heroes who pass units to each other to conduct as many battles as possible in one turn... and a lot of restrictions in the rules... and mods... it's not at all like in the good old days.

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P.S. Not sure why, but some videos from VK, like this one, have poor quality. If you have a better version, please upload it as a replacement, and I'll delete the low-quality ones.

Unfortunately, I am currently in the hospital and cannot upload replays directly from the Anfrozenov Discord.

Also, I don't understand in these videos why the creatures on the right side suddenly become left-handed. It looks especially silly in the video with the skeleton and the armored/sword-wielding unit.

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The same thing happened in 1-3; they just mirrored the sprites. When they switched to 3D models, it was a different story. But why they mirror the 3D models here, I can't imagine. I've stopped trying to understand the logic of the creators; there's less logic there than in the plot of "Doctor Who," but at least "Doctor Who" is fun to watch.

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Get well soon.

Thank you.

Another low-quality recording from VK. It's painful to watch.

Hmm, even without the music from the fifth game, which was unnecessarily overlaid, the transitions to and from battles still don't look very good. And where's the "whoosh"? And where's the "you won, here's the stats, the hero gained X experience"? This is not right!

Is that a griffin pecking grain off the ground like a chicken? 😃