Great video as always :) I think it should also be mentioned that the developer tried to include the community in the developement of the game with creature and faction votes (i dont know if the website is still up). I really think that helped with the monster design of the game which i really liked. However the other parts of the game seem a bit underwhelming at best to me. Maybe the community vote process took so much developement time, that they had to rush other parts, as they didnt know which direction to go in, since the story would be bound to the decision of the community at the time. I could imagine this would make writing a cohesive story difficult. I also dont think of homm7 as a bad game per se. Its just nothing new or exicting. As you said, homm5 just seems like a better version, so why not just play 5? I really had hopes for 7, but find myself more drawn to the older titles in the series :)
I should have included the fan votes, as they made it so dungeon (beating inferno) and sylvan (beating fortress) factions got added. i also agree on the game not being bad as the fundamental things that makes heroes games fun is there its just meh.
Heroes 5 has skill wheel too but just behind the screen. Heroes 5.5 mod showed it. Heroes 7.5 mod is way better now than base game! 12 factions also are in it! Inferno Sanctuary, Tower, Xel, Temple and many many other things. New spells too m new artifacts, new battle maps, new terrains, new buildings, new Secret abilities for some units. Cooldowns for greatest spells. Balanced many things and killed many bugs in the game. Also there are 11 units per faction now you can bought 8 at max, so there are alternatives yes!
FYI, I fixed the performance issues by using DXVK. It's a dx9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer. The game was made on Directx 9 in 2015!!! What a spit in the face of consumers. Directx 9 uses only one core (can be 2 threads on the same core if cpu supports it but the performance is about the same). With the translation layer to Vulkan it now properly uses all cores.
Firewall was actually not broken until the final patch. It's rather frustrating how the final patch introduced some serious issues, and they did not even bother reverting back to the last one. Though at least the build that we have now is several times better than what we got at launch. Loading times were incredibly long, AI was actually even more stupid than it is now, if there was cover on the map and you had a ranged unit, the enemy would hide behind cover as long as there was nothing in range that they could attack, the enemy would just send out swarms of heroes with no armies that you could easily defeat, there was placeholder text in a lot of places... oh and you know the animated sequences in the campaign that takes place around the big map? Those were static with just the camera moving around while the characters were frozen in place the game was very obviously rushed. It's a shame, because there are things in it that I like, like the level up mechanics, but sadly there are just so many unfinished and/or unbalanced things in the game that it becomes more painful than fun to play.
I don't really get the hate for the town portal, and you highlighted how orcs shouldn't get access to it. But like, in 5, orcs also got access to town portal by building a specific structure, the one that gave map spells, while everyone got it from the mage tower. I kinda interpret 7's way of doing it separately as not forcing might heroes into building mage tower that they don't benefit from just for that spell.
If there would be Inferno, they could also have a town portal since they are specializing in Gating Heroes Online (now Offline) used Hexes instead of squares and Heroes Online was the first game that introduced flanking to the series, not Heroes 7 In case of Gloria, we met her in Lone Wolf scenario as Konrad. Imo it was poor scenario but still she was introduced before campaign And agreed screw Ubi launcher, in recent patch you can't play Heroes 6 and 7 on Windows 7/8.1 because launcher no longer works. If they got released on GOG it would be much better
In Heroes 7.5 mod is really great there is Inferno also Tower, Sanctuary from H6 and 2 new one Xel and Temple (with Gorgons, Dragon fly) and many many new things i wrote about upper AI is better random maps better etc Win 7-8 noo :D
Man, these games are so damn ugly and cluttered. The grids are awful, the world looks artificial, the camera angles are weird. It all just feels so lifeless and barren. IT just blows my mind that nobody has ever managed to compete with the masterpiece from 1999
Great video as always :)
I think it should also be mentioned that the developer tried to include the community in the developement of the game with creature and faction votes (i dont know if the website is still up). I really think that helped with the monster design of the game which i really liked. However the other parts of the game seem a bit underwhelming at best to me. Maybe the community vote process took so much developement time, that they had to rush other parts, as they didnt know which direction to go in, since the story would be bound to the decision of the community at the time. I could imagine this would make writing a cohesive story difficult. I also dont think of homm7 as a bad game per se.
Its just nothing new or exicting. As you said, homm5 just seems like a better version, so why not just play 5? I really had hopes for 7, but find myself more drawn to the older titles in the series :)
I should have included the fan votes, as they made it so dungeon (beating inferno) and sylvan (beating fortress) factions got added. i also agree on the game not being bad as the fundamental things that makes heroes games fun is there its just meh.
@@uncausedunicorn8541 Exactly :D BTW I did also experience heavy performance issues, so i guess its not just your machine :P
@@Klaudscript Well good to know it Wasn’t just me
Heroes 5 has skill wheel too but just behind the screen. Heroes 5.5 mod showed it. Heroes 7.5 mod is way better now than base game! 12 factions also are in it! Inferno Sanctuary, Tower, Xel, Temple and many many other things. New spells too m new artifacts, new battle maps, new terrains, new buildings, new Secret abilities for some units. Cooldowns for greatest spells. Balanced many things and killed many bugs in the game. Also there are 11 units per faction now you can bought 8 at max, so there are alternatives yes!
Where can I found 7.5?
the 3d view in 5 is SO NICE, especially with the amazing music they got in that game.. disappointing that 7 didnt do this
FYI, I fixed the performance issues by using DXVK. It's a dx9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer. The game was made on Directx 9 in 2015!!! What a spit in the face of consumers. Directx 9 uses only one core (can be 2 threads on the same core if cpu supports it but the performance is about the same). With the translation layer to Vulkan it now properly uses all cores.
Firewall was actually not broken until the final patch. It's rather frustrating how the final patch introduced some serious issues, and they did not even bother reverting back to the last one.
Though at least the build that we have now is several times better than what we got at launch. Loading times were incredibly long, AI was actually even more stupid than it is now, if there was cover on the map and you had a ranged unit, the enemy would hide behind cover as long as there was nothing in range that they could attack, the enemy would just send out swarms of heroes with no armies that you could easily defeat, there was placeholder text in a lot of places... oh and you know the animated sequences in the campaign that takes place around the big map? Those were static with just the camera moving around while the characters were frozen in place the game was very obviously rushed. It's a shame, because there are things in it that I like, like the level up mechanics, but sadly there are just so many unfinished and/or unbalanced things in the game that it becomes more painful than fun to play.
nothing like HOMM IV which imo remains the best
Oof
I agree, it was a pity it was polished with some time.
I don't really get the hate for the town portal, and you highlighted how orcs shouldn't get access to it. But like, in 5, orcs also got access to town portal by building a specific structure, the one that gave map spells, while everyone got it from the mage tower. I kinda interpret 7's way of doing it separately as not forcing might heroes into building mage tower that they don't benefit from just for that spell.
If there would be Inferno, they could also have a town portal since they are specializing in Gating
Heroes Online (now Offline) used Hexes instead of squares and Heroes Online was the first game that introduced flanking to the series, not Heroes 7
In case of Gloria, we met her in Lone Wolf scenario as Konrad. Imo it was poor scenario but still she was introduced before campaign
And agreed screw Ubi launcher, in recent patch you can't play Heroes 6 and 7 on Windows 7/8.1 because launcher no longer works. If they got released on GOG it would be much better
I havent played heroes online so appreciate the information.
In Heroes 7.5 mod is really great there is Inferno also Tower, Sanctuary from H6 and 2 new one Xel and Temple (with Gorgons, Dragon fly) and many many new things i wrote about upper AI is better random maps better etc Win 7-8 noo :D
only played it for 1 day and then quit since it was pure shit.
understandable
im sorry for the one week delay of this, i got sick when i started scripting.
It's not Heroes of Might and Magic :)
It's Might and Magic Heroes
Fair :)
so ugly heroes 5 is better
Nice...✨✨
Man, these games are so damn ugly and cluttered. The grids are awful, the world looks artificial, the camera angles are weird. It all just feels so lifeless and barren. IT just blows my mind that nobody has ever managed to compete with the masterpiece from 1999
Very good game but III not IV V VI or VII just III II and I then they destroyed it.
Although the Necropolis chapter 1’s level design gaves me pretty good emotional damage too, fking epic battle.