Posts from The first Offline Tournaments for Heroes 5!

Yes, online championships are more challenging, simply because not everyone has the opportunity to participate in them.

Yes, online championships are more challenging, simply because not everyone has the opportunity to participate in them. :(

That's true. And there isn't enough time to play through a map multiple times in offline games. That's why the results aren't very good.

So, keeping in mind the goal of this offline tournament, I want to share my vision of how ready Heroes 5 is for hosting tournaments. First of all, the game is very raw, and various glitches are possible that interfere with players (giving grounds for suspicion, such as the 5th mission appearing after the 3rd, or the map having no end). By the way, I want to share my research. [off]I started with the initial save and played through the entire game from the beginning with the promised 1000 succubi. So, firstly, I completed it in 12 days (shoot-nick – it is quite possible to complete it in 12 days even without them, and I will write about this a little later). So, if you kill Gilraen, i.e., he doesn't escape, he still appears in his castle, but at the end of the week, the quest about the druids doesn't appear, and if you complete all the other quests, the map doesn't end! There is no quest; you can go to the druids and kill them one by one, but the necessary script for the battle with the druids will still not start, and you will not be able to win...[/off] About the 12 days... Honestly, I think that for the Hero level, it is unacceptable to be able to complete the map through rushing! This only highlights tactical skills in combat, i.e., the main thing is to be able to fight neutrals without losses. IMHO, the difficulty of the Hero level should be such that the Hero's starting army cannot destroy key monsters with any combat tactics. That is, if on the first day we manually move the Main Hero to the key neutrals, whoever plays as our Hero will lose. Then strategic skills would have to be demonstrated, thinking about which cities and how to build, where, when, and how to go, etc. You might say that many people couldn't complete it at all, and therefore the Hero level is normal..., but I think that those who couldn't complete it had reasons such as a lack of time or a lack of desire to continue because it clearly takes too long, etc. I am sure that everyone is capable of completing this map in some time. But the difficulty of the Hero level should match its name. All of this will be fixed with the release of the editor... So, there are still a sufficient number of uncorrected bugs in the game, such as gating with copies or 100% necromancy instead of 15%, etc. There is no editor yet, so for now, you can't create your own map... These are the downsides. The pluses are mainly in the graphics and the excellent spirit of the game. Its amazing atmosphere makes you eagerly await the new patch and the editor.... In conclusion, I will say that you can play it for now, but there will definitely be problems. I think that after the release of patch 1.3 with the editor, the situation will improve significantly! We will wait! What do you think?

Yes, with the editor, the game will be much more interesting, as I already mentioned. As for the bugs and winning battles against neutral creatures that outnumber you (and are also superior in quality) several times over, they will remain in any case. It is impossible to teach a computer to think; it will always act according to a template, and any non-standard action will force it to make a fatal mistake for itself. This has always been the case in all versions, and it will continue to be the case for a very, very long time until they come up with truly intelligent AI.

That's right. And in offline games, there isn't time to replay a map several times. That's why it doesn't turn out very well.

So, what's the point of talking about ONLINE games? Not only is there no time to replay them, but it's IMPOSSIBLE to do so, even if you wanted to :D

Is it possible to ask if there will be a second offline tournament and when? I'm very interested in participating.

Regarding the second tournament

I'm not sure, I want to take a break...
I'm on VACATION starting Monday:) :) :).\br>
Regarding the first tournament
The results have been summarized! I congratulate all participants on its successful completion!
The rank column will be filled in as soon as the results of the voting for the nomination - map walkthrough - are known

P.S. Everything depends on YOU, the users of our site!

I wish everyone many victories in future tournaments!

Sincerely, VDV_forever

Congratulations to everyone on the completion of the tournament. Thank you, VDV_forever, for the tournament, its organization, and execution. Hooray, comrades!

Also, congratulations to everyone on the completion of the tournament!!! Many thanks to VDV_FOREVER for organizing the tournament! The main thing is not victory, but participation! EVERYTHING WAS GREAT!!!:D :D :D

I also want to congratulate everyone on the completion of the tournament!!! Many thanks to VDV_FOREVER for organizing the tournament! The main thing is not the victory, but the participation! EVERYTHING WAS GREAT!!!:D :D :D

The main goal of the tournament is to find out how ready Heroes 5 is for hosting a tournament... What is your opinion?
Please share your thoughts. :)

I think they are quite ready for offline play, as everyone will be playing under the same conditions. As for online play, I don't know, I haven't participated in it yet.

Congratulations to everyone on the completion of the 1st offline tournament for Heroes of Might and Magic V on www.HeroesWorld.ru

Dear shoot-nick, please read the private message sent to you regarding your award.

Dear Admin! Could you share your opinion on Rankings, Tiers, etc.? Is it worth implementing all of this? And how difficult would it be to implement? What are your financial and human resources for this?

Basically, although the voting wasn't as objective as I would have liked, nor as broad in terms of participation, I will take the liberty of awarding points (Grails) for this category to everyone, based on my own grading of your descriptions.

That is, this only applied to those descriptions whose votes had the same percentage!

I hope for your understanding and a more serious approach to this in the next tournament, not only from our regular participants, but also from the users who are active in our forum's life!

P.S. Reminder:

awards for the amount of mercury and the sum of skills in this tournament were limited to the 7th day of the 4th week of the 4th month, i.e., exactly 112 days!

P.S. Grails may be renamed to another unit; please write all suggestions and wishes in the corresponding thread!!!

P.S.S. As for me, I'm leaving for a vacation, so all questions should be directed to our esteemed ADMIN!!!;) Or to me when I return:)

Awarding Grails according to the table specified in the thread: RANKING SYSTEM IN TOURNAMENTS
Player Nick	GR for tournament placement	GR for placement by skill sum	GR for placement by mercury amount	GR for placement by map description	Total sum of Grails
Shoot-nike	50	0	0	12	62
Bandit	45	0	0	16	61
Supreme	40	0	0	10	50
AlexeyPank	28	2	0	18	48
Varg-Nar	14	8	4	20	46
K@lb@zzer	34	0	0	4	38
Geser	36	0	0	0	36
Iron Axe	30	6	0	0	36
DeMoN	32	0	0	2	34
fanat	26	0	0	8	34
Paladin	12	10	5	1	28
VDV_forever	24	2	2	0	28
Necro78	20	4	3	0	27
Х@од из Фы@а	16	4	0	0	20
Sterh	18	0	1	0	19
Svyatoslav	8	0	0	6	14
di_ps	10	0	0	0	10
Evil_Hearted	6	0	0	0	6

Good luck to everyone in everything!!!

With great respect, VDV_forever

If it's not too much trouble, please sign me up.