Strange horror behaviour (likely bug)

Corwin · #1 November 6th, 2006, 01:55 AM

Any ETA on hotfix yet from devs? (or at least confirmation that hotfix is coming)

LeSquide · #2 November 6th, 2006, 03:01 AM

Wait. The travel spells are still bugged? >.<

Jack_Trowell · #3 November 6th, 2006, 06:00 AM

I confirm that the eater of heroes attack units in the HoF without any horror mark.

Tried several games yesterday :

in the first game, 2 mages (both with heroic abilities) got eaten in the same game.

Second game : ermor with awake prince of death : my pretender was killed in a year of two (did'nt have any item yet, and raise dead in not enought versus an horror).

Third game : another mage eaten

I didn't have any game where I didn't lose at least one commander.

Scales that could have an influence :

magic was neutral or drain in all games (so I don't think that high magic can increase the chance)

luck was +2 or +3 in all 3 games (I'm tryibng differents nations and want to see their heroes ^_^)
I would think that if anything luck should decrease such random attack, but from a previous poster in the thread, it look like it could increase ?!

Nerfix · #4 November 6th, 2006, 07:51 AM

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Wait. The travel spells are still bugged? >.<

Yes.

Archonsod · #5 November 7th, 2006, 06:07 PM

I dunno, it is kind of funny.

Actually, I'd like to see the hunter of hero's left in, if tuned down a tad. It's a nice restriction on SC's.

Alternatively, it might be fun to have it randomly attack arena champions...

Teraswaerto · #6 November 7th, 2006, 06:44 PM

Do SCs need still more restrictions? I don't have any MP experience with Dom3 yet, but I've gotten the impression that they are much weaker than in Dom2, and that there are more counters to them.

Originally, from the horror's description, I thought the Hunter of Heroes was supposed to attack entities in the HoF at random whether they were horror marked or not, just not quite as often as it now does with the bug.

IMO, misfortune 3 (or maybe just 2) should cause random horror attacks even against non-marked targets.

alexti · #7 November 8th, 2006, 12:04 AM

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Actually, I'd like to see the hunter of hero's left in, if tuned down a tad. It's a nice restriction on SC's.

It's not much of a restriction on SCs. They aren't really bothered much by those attacks (unless they get morphed into something else, of course). Scripting is pretty much the same (whether for horror or for planned batle) anyway. Supporting battlemages are in worse position, because their scripts designed to support an army with powerful spells don't work so well vs horrors.

mivayan · #8 November 9th, 2006, 05:52 PM

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Actually, I'd like to see the hunter of hero's left in, if tuned down a tad. It's a nice restriction on SC's.

It's not much of a restriction on SCs. They aren't really bothered much by those attacks (unless they get morphed into something else, of course). Scripting is pretty much the same (whether for horror or for planned batle) anyway. Supporting battlemages are in worse position, because their scripts designed to support an army with powerful spells don't work so well vs horrors.

The bugged hunter of heroes attacks isn't much of a restriction on SCs? It's an assassination. Your unit goes first, then usually dies.

Or are you talking about normal horror marks?

Meglobob · #9 November 9th, 2006, 08:24 PM

2nd year, my pretender blue dragon got attacked by the hunter of heros, slain in 1 hit.

Hall of heros, contains 10/15 dead heros/pretenders by the 2nd game yr...the hunter of heros as been busy...erm...not what I would call in any way balanced.

Game destroyer/wrecker would be my words...

alexti · #10 November 9th, 2006, 09:56 PM

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The bugged hunter of heroes attacks isn't much of a restriction on SCs? It's an assassination. Your unit goes first, then usually dies.

I didn't notice SC having much difficulty in slaying Hunter of Heroes - it has rather mediocre stats by SC standards. I imagine you face the risk of failing MR roll if you're attacked before you can put MR items or spells on your SC. But considering that the time frame between getting into HoF and getting MR items is small and that early your SC is probably your pretender (with MR 18) overall chances of your SC getting killed are pretty low. I'm not considering a risk of getting morphed here (nobody else has seen it, so I suppose it's pretty rare occurence).

HoF full of slained heroes is usually a result of battlemages or early thugs quickly getting into HoF and they stand little chance vs HoH.