I was wondering about the rules of using some of HD Mods features and I guess these need to be clarified. ATM the rules say that we can use HD Mod, updated to its latest version.

1.) So do we use HD+? It's an option in the launcher settings that fixes some gameplay bugs (mainly crashes) and makes some things easier (Replayable Quick Combat). I have been using it on my runs so far and I guess Long Live the Queens WR is made on HD+.

In my opinion HD+ should be enabled, since some of the bugs that HD+ fixes can easily ruin your run. The changes to gameplay are not that big in HD+ compared to HD, and you can't really use it for your advantage.

2.) Are we going to allow tweaking the game via launcher? Most of the tweaks change some options that can be found in the game also (e.g. Combat Auto Spells - Can be found in combat settings), so they don't have to be set during gameplay.

The one that I'm interested in is UI.Tavern.InviteHero, which I guess you cannot find in the game settings. Enabling this option from tweaks makes runs less RNG based and that makes some tactics more consistent.

For example in Liberation Mission 1, you can't get Summon Boat spell anywhere from the map, but hero named Gem has it ready. Using summon boat in this mission would save around 5mins. This tactic can only be considered by allowing Invite Hero mechanic, since it took me around 60 restarts to get Gem in tavern just with RNG based hero recruitment.

IMO using the tweaks or atleast Invite Hero mechanic should be allowed also, since Heroes 3 is already quite luck based game to speedrun and by being able to invite heroes you could make runs more consistent overall. Inviting heroes is still slower than getting it right away from tavern, but this mechanic would decrease the amount of restarts that runs require.

EDIT: Just wanted to make sure am I allowed to use these before I start playing with these settings.

Hey!

It's nice to see this game at speedrun.com. I was wondering would people be interested to see full campaign runs? (SoD, RoE, AB)

I could start practicing speedrunning this game but would prefer to do full campaign runs.