Heroes of Might & Magic 7

[Archibald]

But Dwarfes and Elves aren't living together in Academy.

 

[Eirikur]

But Dwarfes and Elves aren't living together in Academy.

You're right. It's even worse...

 

[a Goat]

Niggers, elves, bad news

 

[Naraya]

Conflux also has awesome music, almost as good as the Tower.

 

[octavius]

You're right. It's even worse...

Ebony and Ivory living together in perfect...Academy?

 

[Bubbles]

That Ubisoft post-beta survey is pretty damn detailed:

"The universe of the Bad Neighbours map."

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

I can't follow this anymore. It's not a funny trainwreck this is just too painful.

 

[Archibald]

Isn't this supposed to be released in 11 days? Anything substantial changed in the beta?

 

[Jaedar]

https://mmh7.ubi.com/us/blog/post/view/the-lost-tales-of-axeoth
Apparently they discovered lost manuscripts from heroes 4, that they'll release as free DLC after launch. Pretty interesting, since heroes 4 was pre-ashan.

And there's an info video, but I didn't notice them saying anything that wasn't known.


It is certainly interesting that they'll release this in 11 days, when a third of the factions apparently wasn't ready for beta test 2 weeks ago.

I am tempted to get this, but not blind enough to get at launch. A buggy experience would seem to be expected.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Apparently they discovered lost manuscripts from heroes 4, that they'll release as free DLC after launch. Pretty interesting, since heroes 4 was pre-ashan.

Holy shit if that fat fuck is trying to pass his fanfiction as lost 3DO manuscripts we're going to have the drama of a lifetime.

 

[bloodlover]

Oh sweet we get RMG now and not with an expansion. Too bad the game will most probably be buggy as hell. Also, I am assuming no more Uplay bullshit right?

 

[MicoSelva]

This game will fail not because it is bad or buggy, but because of its high system requirements. I have a 4Ghz i5-3570K, GTX 680 and 16GB of RAM and I had constant performance problems during the beta, including very long AI turns.

HoMM has always been a casual strategy game (as in everyone played it) and it needs to run well on most PCs, laptops included, to be successful. And instead of Ubisoft building on this legacy and nostalgia, here is what we get:

• 
  Minimum:
  • OS: Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8/8.1 (64bit only)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 660 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2 GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1024 MB VRAM)

• 
  Recommended:
  • OS: Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8/8.1 (64bit only)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6100 @ 3.3 GHz
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX670 or AMD Radeon HD7870 (2048 MB VRAM)

Quad core CPU + GTX 460? Most laptops will not even be able to start this game (or it will star but run like absolute crap). This limits the potential audience so much that that it amounts to taking HoMM behind the shed and putting a bullet into its head. There are not enough 'core gamers' with machines able to run the game well, who are interested in it.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

HoMM is my favorite laptop game. Shit plays so well disjointed, in the train, at lunch...

Still those system requirements are far too much for those graphics. It's UE3 not UE5.

 

[hoverdog]

it was one of the problems of HoMMV too. It was a fine game, but high (for its time) system requirements, long loading times and VERY long AI turns made the game almost unplayable in multiplayer.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

This game barely looks better than Homm5. Aesthetically it generally looks worse. Those system requirements are for cutting edge cry engine games, this runs even worse than Attila Total War.

 

[whatevername]

This game will fail not because it is bad or buggy, but because of its high system requirements. I have a 4Ghz i5-3570K, GTX 680 and 16GB of RAM and I had constant performance problems during the beta, including very long AI turns.

HoMM has always been a casual strategy game (as in everyone played it) and it needs to run well on most PCs, laptops included, to be successful. And instead of Ubisoft building on this legacy and nostalgia, here is what we get:



Quad core CPU + GTX 460? Most laptops will not even be able to start this game (or it will star but run like absolute crap). This limits the potential audience so much that that it amounts to taking HoMM behind the shed and putting a bullet into its head. There are not enough 'core gamers' with machines able to run the game well, who are interested in it.

Stick a proper videocard into your craptop http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/my-laptop-with-desktop-gpu.98838/

 

[Archibald]

Holy shit if that fat fuck is trying to pass his fanfiction as lost 3DO manuscripts we're going to have the drama of a lifetime.

What fat fuck?

Stick a proper videocard into your craptop http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/my-laptop-with-desktop-gpu.98838/

Well he is point is that casuals won't be able to run this and they sure as fuck aren't going to stick a proper videocard into their craptops.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

What fat fuck?

http://lota.celestialheavens.com/characters.html

And Ubisoft made this shit canon. So probably, they are referring to this turd.

 

[Archibald]

Ah I remember, he was some modder/map maker/faggot who eventually got hired by UBI, no?

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Yes. He's one of the leads on the entire franchise as of right now.

 

[mondblut]

I wonder if I am the only one who keeps reading the thread title as "Herpes of Might & Magic"?

 

[twincast]

Also, I am assuming no more Uplay bullshit right?

I seriously doubt it won't have the usual Upoints shenanigans, but no quasi-forced constant online connection, no.

 

[twincast]

Anyway, regarding the slow death of Might and Magic under Ubisoft:
I liked Heroes V and Dark Messiah! A lot, actually.
Heroes VI and Heroes Online... the less said about them, the better. Could be worse, I suppose.
Clash of Heroes and Duel of Champions, though, are really good specimens of their respective genres (puzzle fighter & online CCG); not the absolute best there are, but great fun nonetheless.
Finally, Might & Magic X and Heroes VII... Limbic's old-school enthusiasm is palpable, but fearing a Unity crash-fest, and having a considerable backlog, I still haven't actually tried the former, and it's painfully obvious how budget constraints led to widespread involuntary half-assedness in the latter.

 

[bloodlover]

it was one of the problems of HoMMV too. It was a fine game, but high (for its time) system requirements, long loading times and VERY long AI turns made the game almost unplayable in multiplayer.

Hopefully they will fix this in time, like they did with H5. I think that the long AI turns are still there but the overall performance increased a lot when they released the expansions.

Still, I find the requirements very high. AoW 3 came out last year and the requirements are much lower, plus it is well optimized and to be fair, the difference in graphics is not that big. Not to mention that fans don't give a fuck about the graphics when it comes to these games.

 

[theSavant]

Oh sweet we get RMG now

yes, but the RMG is only available in the map editor, not in the game.