Voice of the Community | Expert Interview with kesZu - H3.GG, spells and balance throughout Heroes 3

In this video, we get to meet with Keszu (Michał), who is one of the most influential streamers in the Polish community and owner of h3.gg. He made a very big impact on the competitive scene, being part of the team that is organizing some of the biggest tournaments, along with the ongoing XXV Anniversary Championship that will have its finals soon.
In this interview, our focus was to find out what is missing from Heroes of Might & Magic or what is in need of balance, and Keszu provides great insight into both the single-player and the multiplayer aspects. Together, we will delve into ease of access, learning the game, spell balancing, template&town balancing, and what is required to improve the overall experience for both newer and experienced players.
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[@korana6308]

Чем больше смотрю, тем больше мне нравится эта команда, которая создаёт новых героев.

[@daneo1952]

It is so nice to see that the devs are passionate about the project talk to actual high lvl players and take their input seriously.

[@RinhardPlays]

I agree with kesZu - the mini game around picking castles can be fun and can be used as option. But the base game should strive for factions to be good enough for multiple scenarios (they may be good in different ways and strats ofc).

[@Chyrosran22]

I'll say it again, the art style looks too anime for me but everything else has me very excited and the devs really seem to have the very best intentions for the game and hugely passionate about the project :D . I think replays are a must. This will allow you to see what a good, competitive opening is, and would help content creators show you how to play the game better as well. This can greatly lower the threshold to playing multiplayet. I can think of few things more frustrating than having to negotiate how much who gets what to offset bad balance though.

[@alucard4974]

zajebiście, będzie oglądane jak wrócę!

[@FilmGamerHUN]

Hi great interview ! I talked about these balance issues for a long time ago! (And even more ones like Mass hase-mass slow, or blind, the bad speed system, the luckful of luck and morale system, the useless tons of units and spells or spell branches, less skills for heroes and units (and many on some maps are useless also) than in H4-5-6-7, the 30% chance for unit skills trigger sometimes weird separated 6 stacks of Thunderbird can lightning you with each stacks in one turn, random maps at start sometimes you know you cant win, for one player the block before the desert on Jebus is so weak and the other one had dragons there, Factions sometimes are too OP as well, for example Necreomancy or the Dungeon portal if you have a Dragon lair on the starter territory , or Behemoth built on 4. day, every prof. gamer play only with angel wyverns etc because of their speed and tiers and too much creature banks with them...... etc, i talked about these on many videos. ) For me Heroes 5, 5.5 mod is way more balanced in our tournaments its proved that also in practice. Also H7 were more balanced just that is a mess with the online system (lagging, freezing out of synch) technically still sadly. Also now this new Scifi like Heroes games Silence of the Siren even in EA mode it seems quite good in balance and in AI on hot seat though just we tried it. Its just 3 faction now 2 more come next year in final. Because of these unbalanced issue we had only short 3-4-5 minutes long final battles many times in our H3 or HOTA camps or tournaments but with H5-6-7 and now SIlence we had so longer final 1v1 battles sometimes 40 minutes long ones with our friends! So more tactical possibilities there and less balance issues. Exciting battles. In one battle my friend Gabor had only 1 Cyclops remained in H6 i think :D and he won over me. It was frustrating 45 minute long battle :D Stronghold against Sanctuary

[@invoid4565]

Of course, another video about streamers, balance. It was online that made heroes a legendary game

[@snakefan1495]

How likeable is Alexandra? I feel my mood improves when she's on screen.

[@Phoenixzs1012]

I wasn’t going to comment on every video you guys put out but townportal and dimension door are mentioned :). Please talk to the “experts” more about balance. The secret sauce what keeps people coming back to the series is the ability of the player to adapt to random or changing situations. A master player should be able to adapt to different kind of situations. Random map is a gem. A game balance should not aim to please exploitators. Simultaneous turns made the rebirth of H3. It’s vital, it stays. People deviating from mono castle builds should get serious morale penalties (At least don’t mix opposite alignment factions castle with tower is okay but castle with inferno is a sin). People doing this should be ready to improve their morale. Competitive A.I. is a must. It gives each game that random kick. There should be toggled options where it gets A) More Resources per mine captures B) More creature recruited per money spent (even if there is no available) C) More exp for enemy heroes combating. Neutral army combat could be a bit more spicy.These combats should take a bit toll but the level should depend on the skill. I recommend building creature pairs (Lich+Zombies+Skeletons) (Mages+Golems) (Archers+Cavaleries).Usually one melle and one ranged so that solo stack combos don’t work that well. Town portal should be acquired after a hero reaches a level (like 10th level) Town portal should be universal 4th level spell.At basic level it should give you the option to chose the castle to travel but use up your all movement points.At advanced level it should use up only half of your movement points and at expert it should use up 1/3 of your movement points. This will be also countering high logistics heroes. Either travel normally or travel by magic not both at the same time. Dimension door at basic level should allow you to teleport 5 squares with half of your spell points spent. At advanced it should allow 7 squares with 1/3 of your spell points spent and at expert level it should allow 8 squares with ¼ of your total spell points spent. This way it would also give incentive to mages who travel a lot to try to replenish mana and stay at some place not hopping around like crazy grasshoppers. Number of stacks of creatures in an army should affect the movement speed of the hero.Bigger armies should move slower. Hero chaining should go as well or nerfed at least. Dying heroes should give a lot of exp no matter what(5000 exp at base).Having cumulative increase in hero prices after the second one was a nice touch as well.No more one imp heroes walking around. Skill,spell,creature, hero balance. If I click on the all random icon and find myself in randomly generated map I shouldn’t be feeling sorry from week 1 day 1 :) They should have some map clearing ability and some comparable late game strategy and creatures. Although ghost dragons are weak , dread knights+vampire lords make up for it to some degree which is important.

[@unowen6411]

Ah, you`re such an expert😂

[@alucard4974]

after he called himself an expert I knew at first that I would read nonsense, but I thought that I still would find something other than the obvious things and complete idiocies

[@Phoenixzs1012]

@@alucard4974 he is an expert all right but he has been adapting so long to the imbalances he forgot some of them are exploits. He says in the interview that "with everyone rushing to the adventure map treasuries all the armies look the same cycplos/angles/wyerns" =>Yeah thats the problem. This exploit has overtaken the multiplayer scene,it's not a feature it'a unbalance.He should have thrown more ideas to improve.Imbalances such as mass spell spell durations, unusefull skills such as eagle eye and learning. etc etc. Could have used the air time better.

[@vladimironoprienko7177]

​@@Phoenixzs1012I think he's an expert at playing the game, not designing it. He is supposed to complain on something that disturbs him while playing. Generating ideas on how-to-fix it may be beyond his capabilities, that's ok.

[@Phoenixzs1012]

@@vladimironoprienko7177 you are totally right but we need some experts in the balance corner as well :). This dude learned to live with the shortcomings of the game but in the end new game should be more balanced.

[@Danny-zw7sw]

Ok I will say this, the random maps add a lot of replay-ability and not so much the art style, but it was on how easy the map was to understand by just looking, simplistic but easy on the eye was a big appeal. I was maybe 10 years old or so when I first played and could easily play and understand even if I wasn't the best player back then. Like I played HOMM6/7? can't remember and it was just too much on screen, tried to make it too graphical and it backfired hard imo. You can make the game look nice yes, but keep the map easy to understand just by looking and don't overflood it. Imo balance is good for online and competitive, but Era and maybe HOTA has it, just have options, like sometimes I mod to play with original OP skeletons Necro for fun and Conflux and other times I check boxes to balance the game and have fun. I feel like this argument around balance can simply be fixed by adding options like current mods do and split rules for competitive and casual.

[@DrunkenerWitcher]

Если после стольких стараний и интервью игра обосрется будет обидно.

[@pumpkinpie8235]

Regarding tutorials for multiplayer, for inspiration you might want to take a look at how Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition does it with its The Art of War scenarios. They more or less found the solution for multiplayer tutorials with that.

[@yuyudovg]

Музыка класс

[@tankegame1849]

I am 3 человек написавший комментарий

[@plamenveselinov6023]

nice video, your microphone is very bad, just compare it aginst the guys. Not sure if a setting can fix it.

[@o_chenash]

Як же це іронічно - Пол Ромеро приїзжає до Києва, дає концерт на підтримку України, висловлює осуд террористичній агрессії з боку рф. В той час юбісофт наймають росіян для "продовження серії Героїв". Юбісофт давав офіційну відповідь що Olden Era буде не доступна ні для продажу ні для гри в рф, дуже сподіваюсь що так і буде.

[@vladimironoprienko7177]

@@o_chenash Потеря крупного российского рынка может и не фатальна, но жизнь разработчикам усложнит. Ты не хочешь, чтобы игра получилась?

[@danandr25]

​@@vladimironoprienko7177компания родом из России, но сейчас зарегистрирована и располагается на Кипре, поэтому не платит ни копейки убийце украинских детей. Или у вас, как у Тварыны, позиция, что любой русский - это недостойный жизни человек?

[@vladimironoprienko7177]

​@@danandr25Я так понимаю, ваш вопрос адресован топикстартеру, а не мне. Тварына точно прям такое говорил?

[@danandr25]

​@@vladimironoprienko7177ну, не дословно, но он точно не рад любому русскоязычному на своих стримах (даже если это казах или кыргыз), и говорил очень-очень много крайне агрессивных вещей в сторону как России (которую он хочет, чтобы не стало), так и россиян вне зависимости от их взглядов. Что точно, так то, что любой россиянин для него равен: как провоенный, так и антивоенный. Что, конечно, печально

[@o_chenash]

@@vladimironoprienko7177 ринок, на якому 90% гравців піратять ігри з торрентів? пффффф)

[@ZabolotnyAS]

Русская с поляком общаются на английском. Это какая-то клоунада?

[@SyberianLynx]

Согласен, они должны были общаться на украинском)

[@vivaldi3367]

Болотный, они общаются на международном языке, подавая таким способом информацию для мирового комьюнити. Или ты хотел услышать интервью на польском языке?

[@E5tarh]

Маленький сюр :) Но "такая сейчас экологическая обстановка". Им на себя нагнетать ни к чему.

[@danandr25]

А на каком языке по-вашему они должны общаться?

[@E5tarh]

​@@danandr25 На русском, который они оба наверняка лучше знают. Александра то уж точно на 100% :) А сабы пусть будут на английском, а не наоборот. Но печальная ситуация диктует свои условия, как я уже сказал выше.