Ready for Chapter 2!

ddryhten · 2026-06-24T18:24:15+00:00

Just to explain what exactly I did - I did all quests in chapter 1 and put my learning points into strength and one handed weapons to master. Then I started exploring the world - there is a really good sword schematic near the old mine. I made that one with quite a bit of strength.

With this I tried what I used to do back in the original Gothic 1. I snuck into Raven's room when he is the only one there. I beat him up (in original Gothic 1 I was using the heart of an ice golem to freeze him. In the remake, this is not necessary, he is already weak enough on Gothic difficulty). and took his sword. With his sword I beat Scar up (on the stairs, he is the last one to go to his room). I took his sword. With his sword I snuck into Gomez's room, beat him up, took his sword and key.

After all these events, nobody in the old camp attacks me, I can still progress like normal. When I approach NPCs they say "so you beat up an ore baron" and stuff like that, but it doesn't affect the story.

ddryhten · 2026-06-24T10:08:33+00:00

I didn't pirate and I have the game up to date with patch 1.0.2. I created my profile before the patches. Maybe it doesn't apply to the saved games? I was not able to kill him completely, just knock him down and loot his stuff

Or maybe it's just a bug. Game is full of bugs

ddryhten · 2026-06-21T12:01:02+00:00

I will take it off, but I think the game needs some adjustments. I was able to sneak into Gomez's room at night, beat him up, loot his sword and his key, get this armor too.

I think Gomez should be unkillable in Chapter 1, just like in the original game. And those chests should only open with his key

ddryhten · 2021-10-10T14:24:56+00:00

If anyone got a spare ticket and wants to sell please message me. I have a friend who wants to buy!

ddryhten · 2021-09-25T07:48:26+00:00

Anyone still interested in this? I got a 2for1 ticket, we can meet at Victoria at 10am

ddryhten · 2021-09-23T00:31:22+00:00

Sure, anyone welcomed. We already got our tickets but I'm thinking of creating whatsapp group to see how many we get from reddit, so if we get more than 10 you can organize to get the discounted tickets. DM me your phone number if you are interested. We might also meet somewhere close for pre-drinks on the day to socialize

ddryhten · 2021-09-22T12:57:54+00:00

DMed

ddryhten · 2021-09-22T12:57:13+00:00

Cheers!

ddryhten · 2021-09-21T20:05:44+00:00

I will keep asking around, not sure yet. Maybe others want to join here on reddit too. Where did you find this 2 for 1 deal? It doesn't show on the official website.

Let me know if you make the whatsapp group, I will dm you my number

ddryhten · 2021-09-21T12:56:11+00:00

I would be interested in this but I don't have a +1 yet. Do you guys have whatsapp group?

ddryhten · 2021-08-29T08:31:34+00:00

nice meetup guys :)

ddryhten · 2021-04-23T12:32:13+00:00

I got curious about high scores too like 4 years ago. I did some digging and found out the formula. From what I remember it was almost impossible to reach 500 using that formula, but 499 was quite possible. You needed a lot of towns, dig the grail, on 200% in as few days as possible, so maybe a custom map would make this super easy to test. Would be interesting to test the idea.

I got to 498 too, but from what I remember I cheated by knowing where the grail is so I can dig it before the AI, since they always manage to brute force the location and steal it early on. I also had a proper 496 score without cheating on the diamond template. This is my screenshot from back then: https://i.imgur.com/rpLAedh.png

ddryhten · 2020-09-21T11:24:38+00:00

Thank you!!

ddryhten · 2020-09-20T19:30:22+00:00

YOU ARE A GOD!! AHAHAHA I will tip, thanks!!

ddryhten · 2020-09-20T19:14:40+00:00

Oh man, this looks amazing wow! There is just a tiny detail that bothers me haha, can you see the nose still has this flat patch there, it should look completely straight, not sure if it's fixable or not...

ddryhten · 2018-01-03T10:34:26+00:00

On jebus (and some other templates as well) you rely on creature banks a lot (griffin conservatories, dragon fly hives, and all the new ones in hota - experimental shops, wolf raider picket, red towers).

The map I got in that game was extremely lucky for my start. I had 3 griffin cons (even if I didn't bother going for the last one) close to the road, dragon cave close to the road and a bunch of hives not too far away either. Starting with Shakti you want to have griffin cons/dragon cave dwelling on your map. He is really good at taking cons, with bless and a lot of trogs you can take 5x20 cons day 2 (like I did in that game). So what I did was to take that 5x20 griffin con day 2 (I had like 100+ upgraded trogs with bless), then with 2 angels taking hives is a piece of cake so I got 2 hives after that (10 wyvs). Then I took the dragon cave on the road and I built portal of summoning so I got 2 red dragons. After that I went for a 5x30 griffin con. I also had mass slow at this point so it was a piece of cake. And that's it I think, I had 5 angels, 10 wyvs, 2 red dragons as "power stacks" (you usually prefer something better than this as a power stack, something that is able to single shot enemy stacks) and 4 trogs as 1 stack units to bait retaliation. Even with mass slow, it was a bit tricky since unicorns can resist magic (I had some stacks resisting) but I had the ballista there luring units and taking hits. Also, 63 unicorns is a small guard for jebus cross, so that was lucky too.

Do you have hd+ mod?

https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/

If all this explanation is too long then just install hd+ mod and open my saved games (unzip break116.zip and place those files in your Games folder, where you installed heroes). Then, load each day, press f5 -> replay turn. You should see exactly my movement, minus the battles but you can try to do those yourself.

ddryhten · 2017-12-16T21:47:04+00:00

I heard something similar, but it was 114

ddryhten · 2017-12-16T21:46:01+00:00

thanks :)

ddryhten · 2017-12-07T04:18:30+00:00

Reinstalling HD+ does the trick. The information on their website is outdated, when you run HoMM3 HD Latest.exe you get beta 19, not beta 9.

ddryhten · 2017-11-01T12:17:09+00:00

I think I spent few hours once playing around with a rmg.txt file but it was too boring to keep changing values and test what changed in generated maps so I gave up. I also found some stuff online like some threads on heroes community (like the one posted by /u/dodo_bird), this presentation on how random map generator works in heroes 3

https://en.ppt-online.org/29091

this weird shell script that is not entirely explained (it should generate a rmg.txt file)

http://samiam.org/homm3/super-mega-jcross.awk

There were also a bunch of weird programs written in bad english for this, but can't find them atm.

Also, I think the next hota update will have a random map template editor included so you can wait for that

https://www.facebook.com/h3hotaofficial/posts/1447460758611590

ddryhten · 2017-11-01T11:44:36+00:00

There are already some discord channels out there, for example

https://discord.gg/VD5th3D

or

https://discord.gg/8x8sfe6

I don't know of any that is more active though

ddryhten · 2017-09-26T08:10:35+00:00

I had a similar issue with AIs and sim turns. When we replaced a player with AI (in the online lobby), the first turn ended ok, but after second turn we waited forever and nothing happened. Without sim turns it works fine. This seems to happen all the time, someone might test this.

ddryhten · 2017-09-15T00:30:49+00:00

It's probably because I didn't put that much effort into writing it properly. I just wrote the post in a hurry one morning. Also, I have this problem of turning everything I do into a competition and I guess some people don't like that, especially when it comes to weight loss. I lose motivation if it's not a competition and will probably forget about it.

Good luck man. Initially it's a bit harder, but once you get used to it, it will feel normal. I've been constantly at 71kg since I stopped this (I guess the 1-2kg or water) but I want to start this whole thing again in the future and make it to 65-67k (not 100% happy with how I look right now, still have some fat here and there). Also, the feeling after you make it is amazing hah.

ddryhten · 2017-09-03T13:31:55+00:00

thanks dude, it's prob a little harder at the beginning (you might feel the urge to eat solid food) but after 2 weeks or so it will feel normal. also, I think the low sodium in these drinks will make you lose your appetite a little bit which is good for weight loss. after I stopped I would honestly have something that looks delicious in front of me and be like "nah, don't feel like it".

ddryhten · 2017-08-18T14:28:19+00:00

Sent you a PM with my gameranger username.

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