Random heroes?!

[DefiantXYX]

Hello there,

I once again realised, that I could name my different AO runs by hero names.

My first run of the core campaign was a "liberator" run. I thought there are only 3-5 heroes, since I had like 5-7 liberators...

I remember a AO run, where I got a lot of supporting heroes, like double support, skilled support...
In another run I did not care if put my tanks in a city or swamps, since almost any tank got the vigilant hero...

In my current run I got plenty lethal attacks and shock tactics. Although these are good heroes, I start to recycle them... I dont have a single rapid fire, double movement, scavenger, vigilant, fast rebase and other guys.
Feels really strange, is the hero generation triggered by some stuff, like traits and skills or is it just messed up?
Or is it ment to be like that, so that any run feels a bit different?

[VirgilInTheSKY]

Some traits do affect hero generation due to the effect conflicts with each other, iirc.

[adiekmann]

Using the "runany Victory 0" cheat, I scout out the heroes that I get before beginning a campaign. I have done this countless times so can confidently claim to have a pretty large sample size over the years to cite from, and I have noticed the same thing.

For some reason, certain heroes, both good or bad, suddenly for a time come into vogue and seem to be awarded completely out of what one would expect from a random generator. And other times you are looking for a specific hero and you can't get one after dozens of attempts. You can expect randomness in any given campaign, but where I run through all the heroes that would be awarded to me for a campaign dozens of times and I keep getting a "[fill in the blank]" hero over and over again, it makes you wonder. Since I've owned the game (initial release), certain heroes are comparatively rarely awarded while others are far more common. Again, this has happened for both "good" and "bad" heroes. So, I do share your suspicion.

Oh, and those who have posted that certain general traits will prevent you from being awarded certain redundant heroes (e.g. no Scavenger if you have selected Trophies, to name just one) is NOT TRUE, or broken. I have multiple times received such heroes despite having selected the alleged disqualifying trait. And yes, my game is always updated to latest version curtesy of Steam.

[DefiantXYX]

Well yeah, I sometime try some new traits but tbh in most cases if always pick the same general traits. So that doesnt really influence the heroes in my cases.

The question remains, is this intended or broken? Like I said before, that makes any run somehow interesting. But finally it gets boring if you only get the same 4-5 heroes all the time.

[Wolfenguard]

from my playtroughs,
the traits have some influence on the heros
no overstrengh less half or zero slot heroes
no arty and or airforce, more support fire and the one with more dmg to entrenchments
Deadky AA less lethal dmg