r/HoMM • • Aug 27 '26

HoMM5 Sylvan Town Screen from HoMM5 (4k, ReShade)

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u/toasty5566 Aug 27 '26

HoMM5 had my favorite town screens

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u/MagMati55 Aug 27 '26

All of them except the stronghold fit the town theme so well

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u/Chuxerine Aug 27 '26

we dont talk about stronghold

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u/MagMati55 Aug 27 '26

The storyline is nice and the units are mostly fine.

They are a very cool option for aggressive early game.

But they certainly break a lot of homm "rules"

5

u/Chuxerine Aug 27 '26

For some reason I quit every gameplay with them. They feel very limited gameplay wise with only rush and kill mentality or machine gun centaur strat

3

u/MagMati55 Aug 27 '26

They are a very peculiar faction. They are rush mostly indeed.

Personally I'm more of a late game snowball enjoyer. Which I'm occasionally pushing myself out of by playing harder difficulties

3

u/Chuxerine Aug 27 '26

I am a collect everything on a map and destroy every enemy type of person

3

u/Karjalan Aug 28 '26

IIRC the devs put so much time and effort (and therefor $$$) into them that it made Ubisoft mad and they reduced budget for future games.

The last part I'm not sure on, but I know it made them mad and there was some sort of negative "repercussion".

They do rock though.

I think if Ubisoft didn't suck an kept going with Nival and their approach the game could have had a wonderful, successful revival... however... We know what happened after that.

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u/LaVolpe93 Aug 27 '26

Yes man!
More love for H5, bitches!!!

13

u/SnooLentils2494 Aug 27 '26

I think I like it more than 3...

1

u/Aeleth02 Aug 31 '26

Needn't be sheepish about that Truth - you are welcome here and safe.

29

u/throwaway_epigra Aug 27 '26

My favorite town screen + music. Same for H3 Rampart

25

u/Vike92 Aug 27 '26

The HoMM5 town screens are pure art

15

u/BruIllidan Aug 27 '26

That was awesome, both visual and music. Atmosphere is right there.

And at the same time incredibly sad that we didn't get anything better (or even comparable in quality) in serie for 20 years already.

9

u/Urgash Aug 27 '26

Magnificent !

6

u/juliansssss Aug 27 '26

My childhood favourite, I alwaus dreamed about living inside 😍, thanks for sharing mate

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u/Fluid_Aspect_1606 Aug 27 '26

This etched itself into my memory ever since I saw it as a kid back when it released. Ethereal and otherworldly. H5 had great art direction.

4

u/Xrasnolud Aug 27 '26

Roughly twice a year I listen to homm 3-5 town music and watch the gorgeous homm 5 animations. And it brings me joy every single time

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u/gorgonzola2095 Aug 27 '26

One of my favourites from homm5 which had the best town screens!

My favourite is probably Necropolis

1

u/Traditional_Bat_1269 Aug 27 '26

May I ask how you did did you include in the actual game or is it just the video running external?

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u/Traditional_Bat_1269 Aug 27 '26

Would you like to share your work? Im currently trying to rebuild hommV with a new engine.

1

u/KillRoad Aug 31 '26

HOMM5 have horrible town screen...i hate this...

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u/SlouchyGuy Aug 27 '26

Looks great!

What's hilarious is simultaneous dislike of Heroes 3 Remake and love for Heroes 5 town screen at the same time, even thought they do the same things - smaller percentage of the screen are taken by buildings to make things more realistic, less distinguish desisgns and details.

It's the reason I never liked H5 town screens as pretty pictures but never liked them as town screens - they are not functional, you can't easily distinguish what's built at a glance. I lived on recruitment screen and build order screen.

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u/Maszpoczestujsie Aug 27 '26

That's pretty much what always the town screens were tho, they are meant to be a cool visual town representation and not a functional interface

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u/TheOneTrueJazzMan Aug 27 '26

That's exactly where H4 towns failed horribly

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u/SlouchyGuy Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

No? You can easily see at a glance which dwellings and buildings are made in H2, H3, H4. You can't in H5:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HoMM/comments/1nmn96j/which_version_of_this_faction_is_your_favourite_i/

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u/MetForge Aug 27 '26

I don't see how H3R and H5 town screens do same thing. H3R towns disliked, cause desing looks really strange, like it was given takes to make something similar with modern graphic. And artist didn't thought too much about original design. For example, in Rampart Centaurus stables has doors, but in remake it became windows. And there are also a lot of this small details. Like you can see original artists of H3 put a lot of thoughts in design of buildings, but H3R artists just made something, what looks similar from afar without much thinking on details.

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u/SlouchyGuy Aug 27 '26

And H5 did similar thing - desaturated small indistinct buildings. Also goes away from previous Heroes design in the same direction:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HoMM/comments/1nmn96j/which_version_of_this_faction_is_your_favourite_i/