==VCMI Mod Design Team ==
I am happy to announce newly created group Mod Design Team. As VCMI is getting closer and closer to playable version and long awaited map editor is going to be presented in next version (VCMI 0.99) we have decided to join forces and form new group which will be focused on delivering high quality content to the game.
Group members are people responsible for lately introduced Heavenly Forge (heroescommunity.com/viewthread.p … genumber=9), so if anyone is worried, I would risk statement, that we have skills to deliver good addon ourselves.
Our main objectives is to enrich game with extra content grouped in a form of submods. That means that several different ideas would be assigned to single mods with a possibilities to turn it on or off according to your personal taste. We feel that this approach is in the line with the philosophy, and our group guarantees it’s good execution.
You may ask what about this extra content in reference to new towns. Of course some of this content would be necessary to install them, but it is up to a town authors if they are going to do so. For sure there is a place for only-faction content, as we won’t be implementing special content in “base submods”, so you won’t be fighting with new Forge neutral (Alien) without installing town, or you won’t see Oasis-only artefacts without doing the same.
Note that presented below materials are considered “DONE” right after they appear in mod!
Here are main projects which are under development right now
- Alternative units
This idea was first introduced in Heroes IV, and then ended up as an one of abandoned HoTa project. In short it is about giving alternative option for creatures in line up of all towns. What is making new unit a good choice is situational pick and different strategies it will apply to gameplay. New units will have base, upgrade, fitting dwelling and it’s representation on map.
For now we are focusing on a basic towns of H3, but in a future it will contain alternatives also for Cove and our two towns. Plan is to introduce three creatures per faction, but first playable version will have just one.
Here are some creatures made by Witchking, Trith, Sower, Nephretes, Kuririn (hi)
I) HD
http://i.imgur.com/bDbPByb.jpg%20 http://i.imgur.com/dC74mx8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6wMAPQn.jpg%20 http://i.imgur.com/EYaHvHC.jpg
II) In game
http://i.imgur.com/wM6EypA.gif%20 http://i.imgur.com/q9nGfV8.gif http://i.imgur.com/nM7rzpB.gif%20 http://i.imgur.com/EWmHsPZ.gif
http://i.imgur.com/fe0jeSS.gif%20 http://i.imgur.com/cQHVSig.gif http://i.imgur.com/bKC3YLt.gif%20 http://i.imgur.com/n0EvLRh.gif
For now I won’t cover which unit is assigned to, so you may speculate yourselves.
III) Dwellings on town screen
IV) Dwellings on adventure map
PS. English is going to be official language.
V) Inside Town Hall
- Neutral units
There is nothing that diversifies game so easily as new neutral units. New creatures are always nice thing to have
Uśmiech, radość, zadowolenie. Some of them are specially preapered for this purpose, some of them are projects which won’t make it in alternatives
http://i.imgur.com/WJN0SY7.gif http://i.imgur.com/Xg6jHOH.gif http://i.imgur.com/wHaSxU9.gif http://i.imgur.com/uWm2yVi.gif
- New artifacts
Beside usual stuff like new artifacts with completely new properties, or new sets there will be completely new type of them called ‘Wands’ which will allow to cast spells during battle for free.
- Alternative special buildings
It is one of the most distant
22:16:25 future to introduce new special buildings to further differentiate strategy option for towns
- New heroes battle defs
VCMI allows to distinguish classes by sex. For now this option is only available for Forge, and future Oasis relase, but we are planning to make it for every fraction.
- Damn, this work never ends
What we have already announced is enough work for years, but who knows what we will come up with.
We are expecting great things from our side, but also we are hoping that development of our mod will coincide with VCMI progress
VCMI- FUTURE OF HEROES 3 IS HERE