Posts from Patch 1.3 [Discussion]

Regardless, patches are created not only to fix technical errors but also to improve balance. And in this regard, version 1.3 is the best of the released patches.

Regardless, patches are made not only to fix technical errors, but also to balance the game. And in this regard, 1.3 is the best of the patches released.

Of course, it's not the best compared to the others, but let's see what the add-on will be like!!:cool:

I don't know why you didn't like the ghosts. After the patch, I started considering them as viable units because before, they couldn't survive more than one average battle, but now you can even use them against giants...
I really didn't like the changes to the Castle faction – everywhere you go, you need ore and wood, plus it's hard to build dragons! And in general, changing the balance every month is too much...
Or should we just ignore all the patches and play the original Heroes V? This thought is coming to me more and more often...

There's nothing surprising here. Necropolis was very strong in the original game (some considered it overpowered), and patches gradually started to fix all this imbalance... :( :(

Killer, you are right. And this won't stop with patch 1.3.

Nah, everything is already good... I won't be installing any more patches... I'm tired of it... You barely get used to one, and the third one is already out!
If they're going to make changes, they should do it all at once, instead of releasing them once a month. Or do they want to start a patch subscription service?

Everything is fine with releasing patches; I have Warcraft installed with 20 patches (that's just the number, and there are often a, b, and even c versions for each), and that's normal. It's impossible to create a well-balanced game any other way... (sometimes, patches even changed the order of building construction). So, Nival is still at the beginning of a difficult path, namely creating a game for world championships, a game with almost perfect balance.

This 1.3 version turned out to be overly pretentious.

No, I am against releasing so many patches in such a short period! Let them test them on other games first. And don't release their unfinished work!

oO you know, it might upset you, but they are actually practicing on us, because millions of users will find balance issues much faster than a couple of thousand testers (I'm sure there are fewer of them). And if we look at the changes in these patches, we'll see that only the 3rd one brought significant changes to the game's balance; before that, it mainly improved the stability of the online game. And considering that the next update will probably be an expansion pack rather than a patch, it's likely that the balance was adjusted taking into account the seven factions already present.

I think you’re overestimating Nival, Alan. They haven’t even balanced the game for all six factions yet.

That’s for sure, and when the expansion with gnomes comes out, it will be even better:D

I think you're overestimating Nival, Alan. They haven't even balanced the game for 6 factions yet.

You know, even for Starcraft, with its 3 factions, they're still working on the balance, and the essence of the map and the game is simpler there. And you want them to balance it for 6 factions right away... At the moment, Heroes 5 has the best balance among all the Heroes games, and that's already a significant achievement.

Yes... But for Starcraft, over its 10 years of existence, only 14 patches were released, with the latest version being 1.14. And that's if we don't take into account the fact that Starcraft was initially released with version 1.4, which means that each patch for Starcraft was released approximately once a year. But for Heroes 5, a new patch is released almost every month, or even more frequently, and that's not a good sign.

Ah, Oblivion... The OFFICIAL ENGLISH version of Starcraft was released in version 1.0 (8.5 years ago), so if you're using a pirated copy, please be quiet. In the last 5 years, patches from 1.11b to 1.14 have been released. Before that, over 3.5 years, patches from 1.0 to 1.11 were released, each of which was version 1.x and 1.xb, plus three patches 1.xc. If you don't understand the issue, please be quiet...

Now, let's get back to Heroes. I'll repeat myself, but the first two patches are fixes for the online game; so far, only one patch has been released to balance the game itself...