Posts from Heroes: Golden Dawn

This is a radical change in the atmosphere and style of the heroes. Changed graphics, interesting scripts, complete detachment from Enroth. For me, Heroes is first and foremost a beautiful fairy tale, a kind of unfinished, fascinating legend about misty mountains and ivory towers... And it is precisely for such a slightly unfinished, slightly abstract fairy tale that I will rework the heroes. The game mechanics will also change, but I do not plan any revolutionary ideas; it will rather be an expansion of possibilities, such as triple upgrades or new unit properties, or other pleasant little things. The main emphasis is on changing the style and atmosphere. What has been changed: + Three reworked cities (Castle with slightly changed game mechanics, Necropolis, Inferno) + A number of redrawn neutrals (when I say redrawn, I mean redrawn by someone else) + Triple upgrades (right-click on the capital building to learn more) + All war machines have been redrawn except for the ballista + Unit biographies + Adding gods (when you find 25 mithril and enter the city with it, you can attract the attention of the patron god of that race) + Some changes to unit properties - for example, spearmen have an anti-cavalry bonus, archers can shoot with precision, skipping their turn and then dealing 300% damage to the selected cell. (Yona mod) + A large number of new scripts, mainly from Algor's script pack, but not only. + Redrawn building for hiring knights and paladins (replaces angels and archangels) on the world map. + All hero portraits have been redrawn + Faction flags have been replaced with coats of arms + The hero images on the battlefield have been slightly changed for the Knight, Combat Mage, Demon, and Wanderer. + A manual has been added What is planned in the near future: Reworked Dungeon Redrawn ballista What may be done later: Reworked remaining castles New hero and commander biographies Redrawn objects, spells, artifacts Small additions, such as a loading screen, scenario selection images, and a main menu New music Perhaps something else)) There is a drawback: - Almost all new units have old icons on the hero's status screen. - Tier 1 units of the castle are slightly stronger than tier 2 units; I will try to fix this soon. Screenshots: [img width=640 height=480]http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20130423/83RTvGWS.jpg[/img] [img width=640 height=480]http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20130423/1w4J5rK4.jpg[/img] [img width=640 height=480]http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20130423/V3IKt0kG.jpg[/img] [img width=640 height=480]http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20130423/H7mSLRxa.jpg[/img] [img width=640 height=480]http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20130423/VqcE1S2o.jpg[/img] Preview version including the reworked Castle, several new neutrals, Yona, gods, and biographies: http://wikisend.com/download/395486/Knight%20Castle.rar http://heroeslibrary.net/homm35wog/mods/ready_1/Golden_Dawn/Knight%20Castle.rar - direct link Full version: http://wikisend.com/download/518588/Golden%20Dawn.rar http://heroeslibrary.net/homm35wog/mods/ready_1/Golden_Dawn/Golden%20Dawn.rar - direct link It is installed on the Era 2.4 modification; you can download it here: http://wforum.heroes35.net/showthread.php?tid=3155 Era is installed on Heroes 3 Shadow of Death or Heroes 3 Complete. After unpacking, put the mod folder into the Mods folder in the root directory of Era, then through Era Start Menu, select mod management and enable the three mods: Golden Dawn (mainly graphical improvements), Scripts (scripts), and Yona (several new unit abilities). Attention! There will already be a Yona folder in the Mods folder; feel free to update it. Acknowledgements: Berserker - for creating Era and providing valuable advice Etoprostoya, Totcotoriy, Iv - for numerous tips Hippocamus - for the Gods script Packa - for creating a huge library of defs Feanor - for the script that allows you to create biographies Iv – for the coats of arms Algor – for a huge set of new original scripts Ideas, suggestions, and criticism are welcome. Beautiful defs and interesting scripts are very welcome. Contact: http://forum.df2.ru/index.php?showtopic=29739 - discussion http://wforum.heroes35.net/showthread.php?tid=4249 – discussion on the Era forum