Just the content that I want from a channel, PvP matches mixed with educational videos to better understand the game. Will be a long time subscriber, keep at it man!
I was so happy you mentioned that breaking in the first month is still ok. I watched a few of your matches where you break on like day 3 and I felt like shit ;d
Same here, I tried to do what Lexi does, but offline without timer and I could make it early week two, but only by going back to saves, but after this video I think I will give myself more time and rather just try to make it through without using save files. Btw, his videos on youtube are mostly great matches, where even if he loses, the game goes rather well, but watching his stream it was nice to find out that he can also loose on rather "stupid" things, like going for a tier 6 external dwelling too early and dying to AI on 113.
Thank you so much for the clarification! I was looking for it for ages. Some small things like town trade or game description is a huge problem for a noob =)
Let me translate the title for you guys: JC tips for online play, so I can shred more n00bs !!! PS: Just kidding Lexi, I love your content and it does help me improve my gameplay as well ;)
.. they will be clashing early .. matches don't last long because of this .. and that's why people love JC .. doesn't take too long, it's fun.... Boy, don't we have a very different understanding what fun is! :D
I found your channel from FantomH3 stream, and i love your content, i hope you'll grow big on you tube, and hope we can play together some JC when i train enough, am learning a lot from your gameplay videos, keep it up!
Cool intro to JC!, but what I'm missing, especially for PvP, is: - Purpose and rules of the auction. - Rules of reseting the map and lingo: "111", "112", "+", etc. - Basic strategies of auction and choosing the map. can you do a video on that? those topic are more "social", so they can be a bigger barrier to start playing than the map itself.
Yeah! As Coobie says, there's a video on these on my channel. As they apply across at templates, mentioning them every time for these videos is not something I'll be doing so i would refer you to that video instead. :) th-cam.com/video/7WxD4f9k6AY/w-d-xo.html Here you will be able to find all the terms we use in online lobbies and what they mean.
Lexi, thanks for the video, could you please explain how and when should you restart and also the interface of the multiplayer client. It would be helpful for new players just as this vid.
Going into too much details might not be worth long term, because the rules are changing over time - like one spell might be banned for a while and then in 6 months allowed again, so for these things it is best to look them up online.
Hey, Lexiav! I am a big fan of HOMM3 for ages but I have never played it "seriously". Then I have found your channel (and MeKick's) and saw how the game should be played irl :D Thanks for the great content. Just a question, what is your resolution? When I play 32bit OpenGL by Verok on 1920x1080 resolution, the movement of heroes on surface is extremely slow even in the fast hero movement setting (the one just behind no movement), like it takes 10-15 seconds to complete 2000 movement on paved road (no filters on btw). But they move all right in subterranean, which surprises me. it is all right on the lowest resolution (1100-something by 600-something) but I am not a big fan of the text on that resolution even with filters.
Love the content! Could you please do a short video / describe other fun maps? I like Jesus Cross but it doesn’t have the same Adventure-ey feel some of the classic maps did.
I was wondering what that Jebus Cross thing is... It's just a map objective mode. It's OK, but it's hyper specific game mode. I still kinda prefer my regular FFA game on an open map.
As a very recently returning player, the standard Jebus Cross template with strong monsters is way too difficult for me for it to be fun, I don't see how it's fun to get your ass kicked by guards and 9/10th of the monsters, avoiding almost every fight, and wasting so much time before finding and fighting players. I only tried it with strong monsters, as I presume it's what would be played in multiplayer, and it's just not my cup of tea. Everything is 50+ monsters, even with 1 stacks you're getting rekt, especially if you're unlucky and either only get ranged monsters or high level monsters blocking ways everywhere. Granted I only tried it with Inferno, but regardless of Inferno's power level, not being able to do creeps is annoying, especially the ones close to your home town. I thought the weakest monsters would be close to your town and the strongest towards the middle and further from your city, but no. Probably an unpopular opinion, but that's my noob pov, it's not fun for a beginner to play. I have so much more fun in more classic, easier standard scenarios. But then I presume almost no one play these in multiplayer. If this is the easiest template for MP, maybe it's not for me, as this doesn't seem very noob friendly to me. Or I'm doing something wrong, which is possible too.
Are rules for different map templates listed somewhwere? It feels a bit scary to have these rules like "No skipping the guards" for a new player or who havent played multi
Did they nerf the amount of creature banks? I tried several times and got like 3,4 hives/pickets at best, and only one game they were actually close to each other. I remember seeing a 113 break game with something ridiculous like 8+ hives... Thats impossible with the current bank spawn.
I have to agree with you! I very rarely get many creature banks close to each other, and for the early breaks I see on his videos, it seems like a must to have those.
Thanks for the video. Could you or any one here please explain the "Protect saves with the password" functionality? After a successful game me and my friends decided to reload one of the early auto-saves, but were unable to do so getting wrong/missing passwords error even though we used the correct one in multi combinations (only one enters, all enter, etc)
@Lexiav Why do you even play JC, especially 1v1? Why do you need to start at map full of random and restart 2-4 times, when you can just create better template with more balance (and which not make a half of a map on 1v1 be a garbage). Template editer is very versatile and you can make perfect map, where you'll need no restarts, 'cause it will fine and balanced for every player. Also jebus is kinda imbalanced, 'cause one of the middle towers can spawn closer to other player, also one of two towers in players zones can repeat their main town and one of the player get opportunity of 2 native towns. When in template editer you can make another towns in players zone never repeat their native one. So there is a main question is: why do you play JC if you (or any good player) can make a template much better, balanced and also more interesting to play than JC?
Hey! You sound like the type of guy to want poker to be played with matching hands. xD There is no perfect map. Even if the map is balanced the game might come down to morales, lucks, item rolls, hero level ups, mage guild outcomes and so on. Heroes 3 inherentaly, no matter what, will be very RNG focused, and the fun part is trying to reach for the best outcomes, and that what skill in heroes 3 is. So... We play 1v1 jebus cross because it provides for fun and exciting matches that don't take 10 hours. It is certainly not perfect, but then again no map is or ever would be. Not that we would want that to be the case even if it was possible.
@@Lexiav when we cant fully remove random (and dont want to), but why we dont want to improve map quality for a bit less random(that will also save some our time that we spend for restarts) and little more fun. For 1v1 case i meant 1v1 maps (medium sized for example). Obviously maps/templates that was designed for 1v1 games will provide better expirience than x4 map (JC) played like 1v1. And I dont want to play poker with matching hands. =) Instead imbalance in map it is like each player play with its own card deck, when one have all aces and kings, when another only numbers =). Assuming that, if we have random we dont like (especially when it becomes the reason of restarts and another regative expirience), then why dont systemize it and make a game a little more dependent on skill than random, when we have tools full of methods to reach this goal? :) p.s. So you getting fun of playing in worse situation than your opponent? )
@@Guapter You're vaguely gesturing something that i don't really understand. There's mirror templates that people can play where both people play the same identical map, yet the better player doesn't always win, and ofcourse these maps are less popular too. Saying 'Why do you even play JC, especially 1v1' comes off as very rude, kind of like missunderstanding why we would even play the game in the first place. We play to have some fun matches, not to critically analyze who is the best player at any moment.
@@Lexiav That wasnt my point )) I playing this game for fun too. But the fun includes interesting matchups. I only say it could be more interesting to play map, which provides i little more stability to resources outcome. Also i wasnt talking about full mirror maps, but only about a some more stability and a little more formulas in map generating which will provide more equal conditions to players (you dont play on default full random maps, which randomize everything. Even JC have stability in count of mines and castles). But i understand you point, ty =))
@@Guapter I agree. If the point of Jeebus Cross is so the game is quick, then lets improve the template and make it quicker! The whole need for restarts seems so weird haha
I expect that this game is popular in the english-speaking community because it was made in the USA and is the most widespread language, but why it's also so popular in russian?? Just a curiosity .
Ok, but why do people online play only jebus? It's played *nothing* like a classical HoMM3 game. I want to look streams, found a surprising amount of people on twitch watching HoMM3, except they're all jebus. I want to look content creators on YT and find mostly only jebus. It's disgusting.
This is so true. I have been wanting to get back into Homm3 and when I heard there was a competative scene I was so excited....until I learned of this Jeebjs Cross herasy.
Just a rule that we have for the template. I think the rule is something the original author of the template made. And it is cheating because breaking rules = cheating :D
How is it cheating to dimension door through a guard in Jesus Cross? If game mechanics don't prevent you from using a spell, then it is not cheating, deal with it noobs.
Just the content that I want from a channel, PvP matches mixed with educational videos to better understand the game. Will be a long time subscriber, keep at it man!
THIS is video i waited for. Just start to think yesterday what i want to join online community and here weee gooooo
how has it been so far? Thought about joining it you :)
I was so happy you mentioned that breaking in the first month is still ok. I watched a few of your matches where you break on like day 3 and I felt like shit ;d
Same here, I tried to do what Lexi does, but offline without timer and I could make it early week two, but only by going back to saves, but after this video I think I will give myself more time and rather just try to make it through without using save files.
Btw, his videos on youtube are mostly great matches, where even if he loses, the game goes rather well, but watching his stream it was nice to find out that he can also loose on rather "stupid" things, like going for a tier 6 external dwelling too early and dying to AI on 113.
Happy Birthday Lexiav!
Thank you so much for the clarification! I was looking for it for ages. Some small things like town trade or game description is a huge problem for a noob =)
Thank you for this!
I didn't know what it was.
Let me translate the title for you guys: JC tips for online play, so I can shred more n00bs !!!
PS: Just kidding Lexi, I love your content and it does help me improve my gameplay as well ;)
.. they will be clashing early
.. matches don't last long because of this
.. and that's why people love JC
.. doesn't take too long, it's fun....
Boy, don't we have a very different understanding what fun is! :D
Hey Lexiav great Video as always. I have a suggestion for a tierlist: Jebus Cross tierlist for Break / Units who protects entrance to the dessert
And how to evaluate boxes maybe? I feel like streamers kinda know what will be in the box just by seeing how its guarded
I found your channel from FantomH3 stream, and i love your content, i hope you'll grow big on you tube, and hope we can play together some JC when i train enough, am learning a lot from your gameplay videos, keep it up!
Cool intro to JC!, but what I'm missing, especially for PvP, is:
- Purpose and rules of the auction.
- Rules of reseting the map and lingo: "111", "112", "+", etc.
- Basic strategies of auction and choosing the map.
can you do a video on that? those topic are more "social", so they can be a bigger barrier to start playing than the map itself.
His other video "HOW TO START YOUR ONLINE ADVENTURE! | HotA Lobby guide" goes into that.
Yeah! As Coobie says, there's a video on these on my channel. As they apply across at templates, mentioning them every time for these videos is not something I'll be doing so i would refer you to that video instead. :) th-cam.com/video/7WxD4f9k6AY/w-d-xo.html
Here you will be able to find all the terms we use in online lobbies and what they mean.
Cool! exactly what I meant. :) thanks gyus!
Lexi, thanks for the video, could you please explain how and when should you restart and also the interface of the multiplayer client. It would be helpful for new players just as this vid.
Going into too much details might not be worth long term, because the rules are changing over time - like one spell might be banned for a while and then in 6 months allowed again, so for these things it is best to look them up online.
4:32 time to break month 1 on 111 Kappa . Thanks for info Lexiav
I've seen people saying Kappa a few times, but I couldn't figure out what it means. Could you kindly explain it?
@@fiuza78 it implies sarcasm or /s ,
This is just what I needed! Thank you!
Great video! Thanks for putting it together. 🙏
yeap, love this kind of videos from you.well done!
Apparently one guy started with ranged road blocks into a titan break.
please explain all the prematch conversations, thank you buddy
Finnaly i know what jebus cross means :D
Hey, Lexiav! I am a big fan of HOMM3 for ages but I have never played it "seriously". Then I have found your channel (and MeKick's) and saw how the game should be played irl :D Thanks for the great content. Just a question, what is your resolution? When I play 32bit OpenGL by Verok on 1920x1080 resolution, the movement of heroes on surface is extremely slow even in the fast hero movement setting (the one just behind no movement), like it takes 10-15 seconds to complete 2000 movement on paved road (no filters on btw). But they move all right in subterranean, which surprises me. it is all right on the lowest resolution (1100-something by 600-something) but I am not a big fan of the text on that resolution even with filters.
Good video, short and to the point; What about the variants: Jebus King and Jebus Outcast ??
You should also be taking about wheter or not some things are banned in a template, ie some spells, or some other things.
I'll mention those as i go over template that has these as a feature ofcourse. Jebus Cross has nothing of the sort, so seems not worthy of mentioning.
@@Lexiav Yup, just giving a heads up.. I've seen you go to final fights and forgetting your army lol so you know... yea, just a heads up ;)
Love the content! Could you please do a short video / describe other fun maps? I like Jesus Cross but it doesn’t have the same Adventure-ey feel some of the classic maps did.
I was wondering what that Jebus Cross thing is... It's just a map objective mode. It's OK, but it's hyper specific game mode. I still kinda prefer my regular FFA game on an open map.
Yeah, Jebus Cross basically simplifies the game into a race.
But that simplification is needed if you want short matches of 1-2 hours. I think nobody would engage into 6-8 hours FFA in multiplayer that often.
As a very recently returning player, the standard Jebus Cross template with strong monsters is way too difficult for me for it to be fun, I don't see how it's fun to get your ass kicked by guards and 9/10th of the monsters, avoiding almost every fight, and wasting so much time before finding and fighting players.
I only tried it with strong monsters, as I presume it's what would be played in multiplayer, and it's just not my cup of tea. Everything is 50+ monsters, even with 1 stacks you're getting rekt, especially if you're unlucky and either only get ranged monsters or high level monsters blocking ways everywhere. Granted I only tried it with Inferno, but regardless of Inferno's power level, not being able to do creeps is annoying, especially the ones close to your home town.
I thought the weakest monsters would be close to your town and the strongest towards the middle and further from your city, but no.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but that's my noob pov, it's not fun for a beginner to play. I have so much more fun in more classic, easier standard scenarios. But then I presume almost no one play these in multiplayer. If this is the easiest template for MP, maybe it's not for me, as this doesn't seem very noob friendly to me. Or I'm doing something wrong, which is possible too.
Lexiav highroll even biom for template showcase... Three behe dwellings, consas next to road and tavern next to break :D
yeah, I've never even played hota and that triple behe crag made me feel things...
Love that type of content
thank you for your amazing content
Is there any video or stream of lexiav talking about the rest of the Heroes saga? I would love to ear his opinion of heroes 4 and 5
Very cool video! thanks for helping us noobs :)
Are rules for different map templates listed somewhwere? It feels a bit scary to have these rules like "No skipping the guards" for a new player or who havent played multi
Did they nerf the amount of creature banks? I tried several times and got like 3,4 hives/pickets at best, and only one game they were actually close to each other. I remember seeing a 113 break game with something ridiculous like 8+ hives... Thats impossible with the current bank spawn.
I have to agree with you! I very rarely get many creature banks close to each other, and for the early breaks I see on his videos, it seems like a must to have those.
4:10 yeah not so long. Today Gluhammer was held hostage for over 8 hours
very good video
Thanks for the video.
Could you or any one here please explain the "Protect saves with the password" functionality?
After a successful game me and my friends decided to reload one of the early auto-saves, but were unable to do so getting wrong/missing passwords error even though we used the correct one in multi combinations (only one enters, all enter, etc)
Hey, dude! Speaking of custom JC maps, where can I get the Jebus Outcast or any other custom made templates?
Thanks in advance!
@Lexiav Why do you even play JC, especially 1v1? Why do you need to start at map full of random and restart 2-4 times, when you can just create better template with more balance (and which not make a half of a map on 1v1 be a garbage). Template editer is very versatile and you can make perfect map, where you'll need no restarts, 'cause it will fine and balanced for every player. Also jebus is kinda imbalanced, 'cause one of the middle towers can spawn closer to other player, also one of two towers in players zones can repeat their main town and one of the player get opportunity of 2 native towns. When in template editer you can make another towns in players zone never repeat their native one.
So there is a main question is: why do you play JC if you (or any good player) can make a template much better, balanced and also more interesting to play than JC?
Hey! You sound like the type of guy to want poker to be played with matching hands. xD There is no perfect map. Even if the map is balanced the game might come down to morales, lucks, item rolls, hero level ups, mage guild outcomes and so on. Heroes 3 inherentaly, no matter what, will be very RNG focused, and the fun part is trying to reach for the best outcomes, and that what skill in heroes 3 is.
So... We play 1v1 jebus cross because it provides for fun and exciting matches that don't take 10 hours. It is certainly not perfect, but then again no map is or ever would be. Not that we would want that to be the case even if it was possible.
@@Lexiav when we cant fully remove random (and dont want to), but why we dont want to improve map quality for a bit less random(that will also save some our time that we spend for restarts) and little more fun. For 1v1 case i meant 1v1 maps (medium sized for example). Obviously maps/templates that was designed for 1v1 games will provide better expirience than x4 map (JC) played like 1v1.
And I dont want to play poker with matching hands. =) Instead imbalance in map it is like each player play with its own card deck, when one have all aces and kings, when another only numbers =).
Assuming that, if we have random we dont like (especially when it becomes the reason of restarts and another regative expirience), then why dont systemize it and make a game a little more dependent on skill than random, when we have tools full of methods to reach this goal? :)
p.s. So you getting fun of playing in worse situation than your opponent? )
@@Guapter You're vaguely gesturing something that i don't really understand. There's mirror templates that people can play where both people play the same identical map, yet the better player doesn't always win, and ofcourse these maps are less popular too. Saying 'Why do you even play JC, especially 1v1' comes off as very rude, kind of like missunderstanding why we would even play the game in the first place. We play to have some fun matches, not to critically analyze who is the best player at any moment.
@@Lexiav That wasnt my point )) I playing this game for fun too. But the fun includes interesting matchups. I only say it could be more interesting to play map, which provides i little more stability to resources outcome. Also i wasnt talking about full mirror maps, but only about a some more stability and a little more formulas in map generating which will provide more equal conditions to players (you dont play on default full random maps, which randomize everything. Even JC have stability in count of mines and castles). But i understand you point, ty =))
@@Guapter I agree. If the point of Jeebus Cross is so the game is quick, then lets improve the template and make it quicker! The whole need for restarts seems so weird haha
Lexi could you make a video teaching how to chain heroes
How much starting resources? -Any standard difficulty or dependent on player choices.
Also, are any heroes/artifacts/spells banned?
160% is usually what multiplayer games are played on, red orb of inhibition is the only banned artifact that i can think of
Any chance you could tell what are pandoras rewards on JC and their values?
template tierlist when
Can you do the same for the other maps pls?
Lexi where is my wizards and alchemists tier list?
I almost never run large maps. They are so hard to clear, tbh.
"Lithuania, my motherland, you are like health, how much you need to value, he only finds out who lost you" Adam Mickiewicz
I expect that this game is popular in the english-speaking community because it was made in the USA and is the most widespread language, but why it's also so popular in russian?? Just a curiosity .
It is the most played map in PvP all countries considred. And other most played maps are variants of this one.
Ok, but why do people online play only jebus? It's played *nothing* like a classical HoMM3 game.
I want to look streams, found a surprising amount of people on twitch watching HoMM3, except they're all jebus.
I want to look content creators on YT and find mostly only jebus.
It's disgusting.
This is so true. I have been wanting to get back into Homm3 and when I heard there was a competative scene I was so excited....until I learned of this Jeebjs Cross herasy.
Can you make a guide on how to not waste eachother times by trying to do slow conbat so save few units lmao. Wuickplay archwr best strat
By having a lower turn timer.
@@masansr yeah and simultaneous turns. but still xd lexiav do basic things so fast but most of us need way more time
Why is dimension door or fly etc past the break considered cheating?
Just a rule that we have for the template. I think the rule is something the original author of the template made. And it is cheating because breaking rules = cheating :D
@@Lexiav Just asking because it seems like an odd rule. Thanks for answering though.
How is it cheating to dimension door through a guard in Jesus Cross? If game mechanics don't prevent you from using a spell, then it is not cheating, deal with it noobs.
May be with russian subtitles?))
TBH JC looks boring and repetitive.
any info is useless if everything is guarded by a htrong of whatever the fck and you cant have a usefull turn..