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I still think HoMM3 is the best, but imho HoMM6 is the second best. Much better than 4 and 5 in any case!
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No trolling, please.
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The original HOMM was okay but then the quality dropped. It's better to play the actual Might & Magic, the best one was MMIX. There, ARE WE DONE?
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 00:47 |
Nenonen posted:The original HOMM was okay but then the quality dropped. It's better to play the actual Might & Magic, the best one was MMIX. You’re about to be hella done, bucko
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 01:15 |
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"Eastern Europe: AntiHOMMusexuality laws pass duma."
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 03:23 |
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homm3 rules, i just got back into it a couple months ago. it still owns that a single misclick can totally ruin a 12-hour game. merciless AI
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 03:38 |
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King's Bounty.
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 09:52 |
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H4 at least tried something new. Tried and failed, but still. And it had some of the best music, only behind H2
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 09:56 |
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when i fire up homm3 i have to turn my speakers way down at the intro screen; even pre-saved music at zero and sound effects at one creates a blastwave
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 10:05 |
i say swears online posted:when i fire up homm3 i have to turn my speakers way down at the intro screen; even pre-saved music at zero and sound effects at one creates a blastwave Check out https://h3hota.com/en/documentation (which includes https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/ by the way). I highly recommend it, over whatever was the recent remaster - this is going to be both better “HD”, after you tinker to your liking with new graphics settings, and will have quite a few balance and bug fixes. It’s also the edition of the game played currently only and in tournaments. I suggest installing it over https://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_edition - this gets you all campaigns, and everything of all worlds basically. If you check HotA documentation, you’ll see random templates mentioned - multiplayer happens on randomly generated (to a specific pattern) maps. Quite a bit of those will be really hard for someone who’s not spent time learning how to chain heroes and win fights at a severe army disadvantage (on template maps, roads have numbers indicating guard strength, and guard strength above 10 is probably going to eat any recreational player alive on a non-rich template). Here are some default HotA templates that should be interesting enough for a single player game:
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 12:25 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Check out https://h3hota.com/en/documentation (which includes https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/ by the way). I highly recommend it, over whatever was the recent remaster - this is going to be both better “HD”, after you tinker to your liking with new graphics settings, and will have quite a few balance and bug fixes. It’s also the edition of the game played currently only and in tournaments. I suggest installing it over https://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_edition - this gets you all campaigns, and everything of all worlds basically. there's another install over the most recent version? what's hota? i understand random maps, but what are specific pattern random maps? i played a random map once that had no nearby lumber or stone, or one or the other? do you just restart at that point or keep going? do you really tailor down logistics (or ban the heroes) speed to the point in order to chain heroes/new week refreshes? what is guard strength ten? oh no i'm a noob
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# ? Nov 27, 2022 13:00 |
Breathe out and ask your questions slower. Clicking the first link in my post would explain both what HotA is and what map templates are.i say swears online posted:there's another install over the most recent version? what's hota? Concerning the game versions, the original release, “HoMM3”, is Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (1999). After that was out, two expansion packs were release for the game - Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon’s Blade (1999) and Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death (2000). Later in 2000 the game with expansions combined was rereleased as Heroes of Might and Magic III: Complete. Then, in 2009, a Russian dude nicknamed Baratorch did release a mod (more like a custom launcher) called “HoMM 3 HD” that does a few things, but most importantly upscales game graphics to resolutions and aspect ratios of modern monitors. Subsequently, in 2011 a team of community modders, including Baratorch, did release Heroes of Might and Magic III: Horn of the Abyss (HotA), a fully fledged expansion mod for the game. In its current state it includes a new town, 3 story campaigns, HoMM 3 HD, and all necessary functionality for the modern multiplayer, including the aforementioned template-based random map generation. Unlike Heroes of Might and Magic 3.5: In the Wake of Gods (WoG), one of the more popular of about half a dozen community expansion mods out there, which tried to change the game in some far reaching ways, HotA is quite conservative overall, and feels just like playing the base game - even better, since between HoMM 3 HD and other parts of HotA quite a few bug and bullshit fixes have been implemented for the base game. Simultaneously, in 2015 Ubisoft released Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition. While you could think that this is a remaster of Heroes of Might and Magic III: Complete, this is actually a remaster of Heroes of Might and Magic III: Restoration of Erathia, since Ubisoft was unable to find source code for the official expansions. Furthermore, the graphics work they did is literally worse than that of HoMM 3 HD, and they’ve similarly got nothing on 13 years of cumulative patches released by the community. In short, installing HotA over Complete is the way to go about running Heroes 3 on a modern computer. i say swears online posted:i understand random maps, but what are specific pattern random maps? what is guard strength ten? https://h3hota.com/en/templates i say swears online posted:i played a random map once that had no nearby lumber or stone, or one or the other? do you just restart at that point or keep going? Sometimes random maps generator misses essential objects, in which case you’re best suited by restarting the map. What should or should not be generated, however, is specific to the template. i say swears online posted:do you really tailor down logistics (or ban the heroes) speed to the point in order to chain heroes/new week refreshes? In competitive play, taking the most popular template, Jebus Cross, the game tempo is very high, and more than 90% of non-beginner matches conclude before the end of week 2 (and this is an XL map). 50% of games on it, if I had to guess, end on the first day of the second week the latest. The way that happens, and the way most multiplayer is played nowadays, is through players chaining hero movements using taverns and often buying 5-10 heroes per turn just to get more move points out of 8-hero limit on a player, using them to mule the army around basically. That’s not something you should think about, especially for single player. All templates I mentioned are playable without that at their own pace. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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nice, congrats riddle on gaining the genprokutor's ovation and fame forever https://twitter.com/ABarbashin/status/1597549172508721153 what else do they have to ban going forward? Russia In Global Affairs?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Check out https://h3hota.com/en/documentation (which includes https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/ by the way). I highly recommend it, over whatever was the recent remaster - this is going to be both better “HD”, after you tinker to your liking with new graphics settings, and will have quite a few balance and bug fixes. It’s also the edition of the game played currently only and in tournaments. I suggest installing it over https://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_edition - this gets you all campaigns, and everything of all worlds basically. I usually play Eador, the 2d one at least, which is very much made by someone who was super hardcore into homm3 and is completely tuned for that level of difficulty. Well, i used to play eador it crashes a lot nowadays.
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# ? Nov 29, 2022 15:50 |
Eador seemed pretty cool when I tried it once, like 5 or 10 years ago, but it didn’t stick with me.
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# ? Nov 29, 2022 15:51 |
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https://twitter.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1597558956121260033 Such a nice fellow, rushing things. On February 30, 2023 they will decide when to begin discussing it.
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# ? Nov 29, 2022 16:46 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:As in, HoMM 5 absolutely has a better reputation with the surviving HoMM 3 community, than HoMM 4 does. Yeah, but you have to weight that with players being conservative idiots throwing shitfits because things changed. Also chaining and 3's dimension door was loving stupid. Nenonen posted:The original HOMM was okay but then the quality dropped. It's better to play the actual Might & Magic, the best one was MMIX.
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# ? Nov 30, 2022 08:34 |
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https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/11/29/pope-francis-calls-buryats-and-chechens-the-cruelest-russian-troopsquote:In a recent interview with the Catholic magazine America, Pope Francis shared some striking words on the violence in Ukraine. He didn’t name Putin, for example, among those responsible for the war because “it is already known.” We regret to inform you that milkshake-leftist pope from Latin America is an idiot Just noticed that meduza quotes a lot of Ru government functionaries but no Buryat/Chechen activists. Not a good look
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# ? Nov 30, 2022 10:06 |
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Fun interview with a couple of Ukrainian anarchists. In general there's been a few really cool Ukrainian leftist voices out there that are unfortunately missing from the Anglosphere. I ran this interview through Google translate. I'm glad politics went through some self-reflection through this war, it's supposed to be an ideological framework that addresses practical problems in life - my boss is loving everyone over, someone is not allowed to express their identity, the state is putting people in prison for Facebook posts, etc. A good chunk of anti-establishment western left badly failed with their answer to the admittedly unlikely but very real problem of "a fascist state is invading us to take us over", with some vague bleating about needing peace and negotiations. But thankfully there's plenty of those who showed themselves as compassionate to the plight of Ukrainians and able to offer reality based solutions quote:The Western left has become accustomed to listening to Moscow
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# ? Dec 3, 2022 03:07 |
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I am stretching the definition of Eastern Europe a bit, but protests erupted in Mongolia, protesters stormed government buildings after news of embezzlement of billions https://tvpworld.com/64919462/protesters-in-mongolia-storm-the-state-palace https://news.mn/en/798378/
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TV Rain (Dozdhj) gets their broadcasting license annulled by the Latvian media regulator: https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1600029264547414017 I'm a bit ambivalent about this, so no real comment from me. Just the newsdump.
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Dwesa posted:I am stretching the definition of Eastern Europe a bit, but protests erupted in Mongolia, protesters stormed government buildings after news of embezzlement of billions Possibly most appropriate for the Finland thread? I didn't know Mongolia had such a problem with corruption but I like their style a podcast for cats posted:TV Rain (Dozdhj) gets their broadcasting license annulled by the Latvian media regulator: There was a strong nasty campaign against them looking for true and untrue things to throw at the wall until something sticks. Doesn't look good when there's actual people praising Putin or businessmen with stuff in Russia, but this is what the state is focusing on. This goes for all baltics, not just Latvia
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 09:50 |
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First batch of K2 tanks and K9 arty arrived in Poland from South Korea https://tvn24.pl/polska/pierwsza-do...w-gdyni-6404290
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 10:06 |
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More on TV Rain. In a staggering display of inability to read the room, representatives of the channel arrived to the meeting with the regulator without an interpreter and requested for the meeting to be held in Russian. https://twitter.com/DelfiLV/status/1600043810137919488 Lol if true. That's an unforced error, imo.
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https://twitter.com/DrRadchenko/status/1599772237459992576?t=edcoODN9m9EG6g_r_IVVnQ&s=19 These are a couple of threads that put TV Rain in an understandable context for me.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 10:36 |
a podcast for cats posted:TV Rain (Dozdhj) gets their broadcasting license annulled by the Latvian media regulator: I really like that we’ve been offering journalistic shelter to Russian media so… Somaen posted:There was a strong nasty campaign against them looking for true and untrue things to throw at the wall until something sticks. Doesn't look good when there's actual people praising Putin or businessmen with stuff in Russia, but this is what the state is focusing on. This goes for all baltics, not just Latvia …it was indeed sad to them getting explicit poo poo from NA and friends… a podcast for cats posted:More on TV Rain. In a staggering display of inability to read the room, representatives of the channel arrived to the meeting with the regulator without an interpreter and requested for the meeting to be held in Russian. …until they chose to show their whole clown rear end in the watershed moment for their channel. Lmao, just incredible - this one right there is a sharpened, poison-coated stainless steel rake lying on an illuminated pedestal next to the Monument of Freedom, and they did a loving salto into it. The offence itself I’m 50/50 on, and I think if they had chosen to not do the most tired of “arrogant things Russian tourists do in Latvia” playbook moves for their NEPLP meeting, it could’ve worked out through a combination of fines, firing of the involved staff, and some manner of programming review.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/DrRadchenko/status/1599772237459992576?t=edcoODN9m9EG6g_r_IVVnQ&s=19 A case in point is Navalnyi himself - the man’s saving grace abroad is his opposition to Putin, rather than him actually having politics likeable in the west (which he doesn’t).
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 12:38 |
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Shocking if true, I can't believe they wouldn't speak Englishcinci zoo sniper posted:A case in point is Navalnyi himself - the man’s saving grace abroad is his opposition to Putin, rather than him actually having politics likeable in the west (which he doesn’t). What do you mean? He's a Yale educated liberal with a program that was "let's adopt policies of EU countries, like Estonia which is not very rich but it's well taken care of" - that's a quote from memory
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Somaen posted:What do you mean? He's a Yale educated liberal with a program that was "let's adopt policies of EU countries, like Estonia which is not very rich but it's well taken care of" - that's a quote from memory In 2014 Navalnyi was pro-Crimea annexation: https://ukraineworld.org/articles/opinions/what-does-aleksey-navalny-really-think-about-ukraine-crimea-and-donbas He isn't pro-west/EU, he is anti-Putin. How much he would actually do to work with EU, not undermine it like the current regime, remains to be seen.
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Der Kyhe posted:He isn't pro-west/EU, he is anti-Putin. I follow Navalny and his team's work and this is 100% wrong, they love the west and want Russia to join the EU someday. I don't think I've ever seen a Russian imperialist use Estonia as an example to follow Der Kyhe posted:In 2014 Navalnyi was pro-Crimea annexation: I posted about this before, the stupid sandwich comment is the most damning thing anyone can dig up regarding this. It's because Navalny doesn't give a poo poo about Crimea and territorial ambitions, he wants Russia to have a rule of law and social programs for the horribly impoverished population and a state apparatus that isn't trying to kill him. The context of that phrase is that his electoralist politics had him make alliances with communists and nationalists and going against the Crimea annexation with the idiot vatnik population would have buried politically everything he did or touched.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 14:23 |
Somaen posted:What do you mean? He's a Yale educated liberal with a program that was "let's adopt policies of EU countries, like Estonia which is not very rich but it's well taken care of" - that's a quote from memory He’s an unabashed nationalist and imperialist. 1) Was an organiser for the Russian March 2) Co-founded NAROD with Zakhar loving Prilepin 3) Full support of the Russian position on Osettia, Abkhazia 4) “[Russia, Belarus, Ukraine…] are one nation” 5) “Putin is an enemy of the Russian World” Somaen posted:I posted about this before, the stupid sandwich comment is the most damning thing anyone can dig up regarding this. It’s more than damning enough. Don’t get me wrong, he’d be a massive improvement for Russians (perhaps an especially massive improvement for ethnic Russians, but nevertheless). And he’d like be an improvement for everyone else too, as he would likely move the government on from mafia games. However, there’s a a lot of space between “good” and “better than Putin”.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:The offence itself I’m 50/50 on, and I think if they had chosen to not do the most tired of “arrogant things Russian tourists do in Latvia” playbook moves for their NEPLP meeting, it could’ve worked out through a combination of fines, firing of the involved staff, and some manner of programming review. According to Dziadko, all previous sessions were held in Russian, and on the most recent one in October, it was decided to switch to Latvian, and they couldn't find an interpreter on such a short notice.
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There is a real union in rhetoric and aims between Putinists and anti-Russian (as nationality) Europeans attacking Russian liberals. Really not sure what the later is trying to accomplish.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 16:44 |
Paladinus posted:According to Dziadko, all previous sessions were held in Russian, and on the most recent one in October, it was decided to switch to Latvian, and they couldn't find an interpreter on such a short notice. As I said before, there’s an element of political scheming from NA to this. If this is actually true, and at the moment I’m afraid I’m thin on a benefit of doubt to unguardedly grant them, then NA and friends may have exploited the situation a bit more ruthlessly than it would’ve appeared. The reason why I’m partially skeptic to their explanation, besides the political plausibility of NEPLP holding plethora of meetings in Russian, as a broadly Russophobic institution in addition to the conduct itself being unlawful de jure, in a country where VVC is going to hunt you down for it, is that I’ve had to look for an interpreter on very short notices in Latvia, and getting a Latvian-Russian one in Riga should be trivial without swinging excess cash even. FishBulbia posted:There is a real union in rhetoric and aims between Putinists and anti-Russian (as nationality) Europeans attacking Russian liberals. Really not sure what the later is trying to accomplish. The one thing that’s surely real is that you still struggle to consistently write posts which don’t sound like a 3am bottle of vodka shared between you and your telly. The gently caress is this even supposed to mean? Do you think it’s fair to have people maintain a catalogue of your posts to cross-reference for a few minutes every time you post anything? Navalnyi and his comrades still are supported here, just with a guarded enough attitude to hold mommy’s little Russian World explainer checked, as it would be a generous understatement to say that there may be a conflict of interests between, e.g., being friendly to Latvian statehood and being an organiser for the Russian March.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 17:28 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:He’s an unabashed nationalist and imperialist. That's all from over a decade ago though and ignores the evolution of the person and what he did and said after, which is generic liberal policies as an alternative to and in the context of an increasingly authoritarian corrupt state. Nationalists and imperialists don't hide their poo poo views and actively try to signal them to attract similarly minded people. Navalny notably supported BLM even though it pissed off a lot of nationalists and liberals, because he understands solidarity with the oppressed class having enough no matter their race or ethnicity. I quote:t’s more than damning enough. Sure, he's no saint like everyone has their faults, Nemtsov was a cooler guy. I'm just arguing for disliking actually held beliefs he might have as a distinct politician and not a made up golem of beliefs of russian liberal nationalism I think you're severely underestimating how much better minorities would have it in Russia if they could choose their own representatives and governors instead of getting them assigned from Moscow. I don't really get what in his electoral policies you see that puts Russians first? Genuinely would like to know Somaen fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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Well, he could try starting with one where randomly attacking neighboring countries every 5-10 years and annexing parts of them is strictly "a bad thing that needs to stop", not something you might do if internal politics show that it isn't too large dip in the percentages. That sandwich quote is damning enough because he clearly does not rule out wars of aggression as a popularity boost, if he/someone in Russia cooks up a good enough excuse and there is an opportunity to do so. Exactly the same imperial poo poo Russia is already doing, and has been doing since 18th century.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 17:58 |
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He unequivocally condemned the war on Ukraine on the outbreak of it on 24th of February out of prison, does that count
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https://twitter.com/IlyaMatveev_/status/1600173490958524419?t=Z5bbmr23_7cf1uGf4NQ3Fg&s=19
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Somaen posted:He unequivocally condemned the war on Ukraine on the outbreak of it on 24th of February out of prison, does that count last I checked he got mad about the mobilization draft and suggested the civil service should be rolled into the military or something
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/IlyaMatveev_/status/1600173490958524419?t=Z5bbmr23_7cf1uGf4NQ3Fg&s=19 https://twitter.com/Alexey__Kovalev/status/1599456499759054848 Why are people doing this. Like what's the goal with this deception here?
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 18:26 |