quote:Heroes: While most units will be handled the way typical RTS games do, WCIII will see the introduction of hero units with RPG elements and attributes. You can choose to go with super-brawny mega-warriors, or instead focus your attention on extreme spell-casters. Each hero will be able to gain experience that will increase their level, and thus increase their attributes ? strength, intelligence, agility. (To tell these heroes apart from their less-heroic counterparts, the heroes have all been given glowing weapons. And each of the races will have four heroes to choose from.)
WCIII will also focus more on strategy and less on resource management. Yes, you will still need to build your town and you still need to mine for gold to do so. But gold is now the ONLY resource you need to mine (compare that to gold and oil and lumber in WCII). Trees can still be cut down, but that will only be to clear land for your town to grow in. And oil, used for boats in WCII, isn?t necessary anymore as there will be no water units at all in WCIII. As Rob was quick to point out, this is not an idea that was dropped from the game. Rather, the game was designed around land and air units only. In addition, previous plans for the Undead race to mine corpses instead of gold have been changed, but more on that later.

quote:Phyrexian Mercenary said: it looks like as if they are doing what we wanted to do