New Mod Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Babies!

[MattCaspermeyer]

Originally Posted by jorko80

Hi Matt , glad to see that you continue to work on your mod . I really hope to see the blue dragons in motion and the other dragons and changes ,that we've spoken last year. It seems you've canceled the mod developing for AP/CW ?

You're comments have been very helpful - and sometimes it takes me a while to sift through and find bugs and problems that people have mentioned.

Case in point, you had mentioned that a lot of enemy heroes were choosing Geyser and I had not seen it to the extent you had, but guess what? When I was making my pass through the spell AI, I found that I had an error there, where the probability of them choosing Geyser had a bug due to the misalignment of some variables on the output of the power function and duration was being set to the chance of stun! So you can imagine if you're supposed to be multiplying by a number from 2 to 6 and instead multiply by a number more like 40 to 80 making them 10 times or so more likely to choose that spell!

There was also the double casting of Mass Stone Skin sometimes, and I looked into there and found out that the Demon's Blood Rune was acting like a unit and causing a division by zero error that made the probably of casting Stone Skin infinity!

So this update that I'm working on has numerous bug fixes, and it just goes to show that debug, debug, debug new code you're working on as you add it. Just because things appear to be working, they might not be intended as you look under the hood. Some of these things, though, I need people to play and post comments to find - take a look at WotN and I&F and you'll see that it takes time to find errors and fix them and they are using many people!

The important thing, is that all comments, good or bad, are used to make this mod better and this should lend to making the AP / CW / WotN / I&F / DS versions of this mod better if and when I get to them.

I don't necessarily agree with everyone's comments, but I think we all enjoy playing a game that is challenging and fun and to that end, I work to make the King's Bounty world better.

Unfortunately, there is only so much time in the day, and between a normal day job that typically consumes at least 50 hours a week and then my second "job" creating King's Bounty mods you can see where time quickly runs out. I've actually not been able to play any games for about two months due to my continuing work on the H3B TL version of my mod (my poor Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls (I can't even remember the new Paladin class's name) character sits at level 4).

Nonetheless, I do hope to bring these ideas forward to the other KB games, but I certainly have to learn to deal with the intricacies of each (for example the item limit has forced me to rethink the Tomes aspect), and so taking a step back from the AP / CW H3T development has helped with giving me ideas going forward. I have no idea what awaits for WotN and beyond, but I'm sure there will be some fun stuff to learn along that path as well.

I can only hope by the time I'm done, I'm not the only King's Bounty player left...

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[MattCaspermeyer]

Okay, I've finished implementing Blue Dragons!

Let me say, they are awesome!

I had fun doing their attack animation - I used the KB Editor to attach the particles to Drahha and then I copied and pasted them into my BLUEDRAGON.ATOM file. This is the first time I used the editor to edit the particles of ATOM's - it is really neat!

There are a ton of particles that start with TheRock and I imagine that there are all kinds of neat animations that I didn't even look at. Regardless to say, I came up with a combined Electro-fire breath attack, and then their zap attack animation is really cool, too! The 25% chance of accidentally discharging their zap attack as retaliation can be quite dangerous if a unit is in a surrounding hex!

My poor Dragonflies got accidentally zapped hanging around them. Ranged attackers especially can wreak havoc on your troops if they attack the Blue Dragon and your troops are around it and it goes off! Having Tactics is probably going to be a necessity to move them away from your troops if they get attacked before they can move to the enemy. Fortunately, they do have high initiative [8].

Their main attack is 60-70 Fire and 60-70 Astral with 50% chance to burn or shock and hits two targets (like normal dragons). Their Zap attack does 140-170 Astral Damage and has a 75% chance to shock targets (resistance is Astral, which means there is no resistance to it).

They are going to be very rare, but there will be at least two shops that sell them - Welbewooll's shop in Demonis (he has you go get the Sapphire Egg in Ultrax) and a Dragon Shop in the Labyrinth. Welbewooll sells 1-5 Blue Dragon Eggs and 1-5 Blue Dragons. The Dragon Shop in the Labyrinth sells 10 to 20 Blue Dragons so you'll have a minimum of 11 Blue Dragons in a game. There are a few other shops in the Labyrinth that have a chance to sell them or their eggs, but only a max of 50% chance (with most of the probabilities 33% or less).

Well, I have some more debugging to do, but I'm hoping to get a new update out soon...

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