Posts from Heroes of Might & Magic III: Horn of the Abyss

and when will it be released?

Come on, can anyone share a link to the alpha version?

Bugs won't ruin the experience for me! Please send it to me in a private message!

I could make fun of it, but the game's release date is still "coming soon," for how many years now; however, what makes it more likely now is that for the first version they decided against transitioning to an era, which could have significantly slowed down development. It seems there are far fewer technical problems with the game than with the notorious alpha, and the maps are no longer at stage 0—in short, everything looks optimistic. There is one "but": personally, I thought HotA would be released in 2009, but....

Since I'm here, I promise to record a video from the campaign by the weekend. By the way, it's ready – I just need to test it.

This looks like a really cool add-on based on the images! :) I'll be looking forward to its release!)) It would be great if it featured traditional heroes (and not like in version 3.5**), as that version has some not-so-interesting elements:
1. Creatures also gain experience and develop. 2. In addition to the hero, who cannot be attacked, there is also a fighting unit. For some reason, these additions make the game less interesting, in my opinion. But the introduction of new skills, heroes, and, most importantly, creatures and factions makes the game much more interesting! Does anyone else think so? :)
It would also be fantastic if some creatures (at least one from each faction) could be upgraded three times in the castle, meaning you build an even more improved structure and get new creatures. For example, you could upgrade imps into devils and then into something else. Or, for the creatures from "In the Wake of Gods" for the Archangels, you could create a new building in the castle (i.e., three upgrade levels for the building)!

The first public version of Horn of the Abyss is out!

You can download it here: http://heroes3hota.com/HotA_setup.exe

More details here: http://forum.df2.ru/index.php?showtopic=26463&st=0&start=0

Suddenly! It's time to dust off the old SoD (The Shadow of Death), which was burned onto a scratched CD and hidden behind a bookcase.

Guys, please help me. I installed Hota on Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Platinum Edition, but neither in the missions with the "Breath of Death" icon (and as far as I understand, the add-on only works with Shadow of Death), nor in the campaigns, is there any trace of Hota (the city itself is missing in the initial game settings when selecting a mission). I installed Hota in the game folder. Maybe the problem is with the correct installation, or is Platinum Edition not supported? Thank you in advance.

Judging by the thread linked in the post about downloading HotA, the add-on doesn't work on Platinum. That's disappointing. I hope they fix it in the future.

Andrey_wq, you can disable those WOG 3.5 elements that you don't like. As for commanders and the increasing experience for creatures, they will be included in later versions of HotA.

Andrey_wq, you can disable those WOG 3.5 elements that you don't like. As for commanders and increasing experience for creatures, they will be in later versions of HotA.

No, there are no such plans yet. Most likely, neither of those will happen.

Is it possible to activate the random map mode (menu) in the mod?

The feature will be available in the future. It is currently disabled to prevent errors.

Guys, please help me install Hota on Platinum Edition. During installation, a separate folder is created in the Heroes 3 game folder, containing the Hota files. However, I didn't notice any changes (especially a new town) when I launched Heroes 3. Then, I went into the "newly appeared" Hota folder and clicked on the icon in the form of a horn; the launch process started (an arrow appeared, as in Heroes, a black screen, and then a crash, a Windows error). Finally, I reinstalled Hota using the same path – everything was the same, except that when I clicked on the icon in the Hota folder, the "horn" icon displayed a message saying that some files were missing (various ones). Example: ...dll. Anyone have any ideas? Share them :)

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I installed the latest version of Hota, and it launched successfully :) However, when you enter the "Dock" Castle, a message appears that says the following: ResourceManager::GetSprite could not find the "sprite" resource "TOrtre1.def" And then it crashes.

in general, beta version 1.0 was released for installation exclusively on the regular version of The Shadow of Death, not the complete collection, not the platinum edition, and not anything else.

so, first of all, I would recommend installing it on the regular SoD, as there is even a link to it in the topic on our forum.

and in general, an activist from our team created another version of the installation, which will most likely work on the Platinum Series (at least, it works on the Complete Collection).