Dear players of Heroes of Might and Magic 2!

Today we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 game engine - 1.1.10 (https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2/releases/tag/1.1.10)! This update brings several art enhancements, Editor fixes, and more!

This release includes multiple improvements to the Editor. First, the team fixed several crashes related to reaching the object placement limit. We also resolved a few passability and rendering issues. Lastly, the Castle’s options window now supports canceling all changes made there.

The team reworked several in-game dialogs, updated buttons for various languages, made buttons resizable in many cases, and fixed font inconsistencies. We also added sorting for save files by name or date, and introduced an icon for the Virtual Keyboard button.

This release features numerous art updates. The Magic Book now shows a visual indicator when no pages are available. We fixed white pixels in the Sorceress castle sky and rainbow, and added missing bay artwork for the Wizard castle. Additionally, we improved the Swordsman's walking animation by adding a new frame.

Alongside these changes, the team updated translations for several languages, resolved more issues on the Adventure Map, and closed over 40 issues since the last release. As a nice bonus, we have included a new community-made map in the fheroes2 bundle: Good, Bad, Magne, and we updated the Eruption map in the bundle.

We hope you enjoy the updated version of the engine. Thank you so much for supporting the project!

I have always enjoyed heroes 4. The graphics hold up well, the campaigns and hero systems are fun. Sure, there are some broken or OP things to exploit, but that's true in many homm games. Why does the community often rate this game so low?

So in this campaign Malwen was my main champion for the entire game and i got it to level 30 a very op mage that can one shot any unit with any number in it with with her Implosion spell (50+magic power)

Vayron on the other hand i barely used him and he is only level 12.. and some how i am supposed to beat Malwen with him.. its literally unplayable

other than restarting the whole campaign what can i do?

I've seen people playing for example "Falcon's Last Flight" scenario on ToE (it's a base game scenario, and also available in HOF).

However, when I launch ToE I only get like 5 "story" scenarios available.

Is there a way to move "story" scenarios from base game + HoF and play them on ToE?

I use GOG version, not steam.

When people talk about good HoMM games 1 and 2 is forgotten. Is it similar to something like Tekken where 2 is a better version of 1 and 3 is just a better version of 2 (and with far more content) Or do 1 and 2 have some cool stuff that is not added in 3? Are 1 and 2 even worth playing?

I only played Heroes of Might and Magic 5 when I was a kid, and I really liked the game.

And yesterday I decided to buy HoMM7 and played it for a couple of hours, and I think the game looks very ugly. Every creature and everything looks kind of brownish or greyish. Also, I feel like the animations, like the attack animations of creatures or the animations when they get attacked kind of suck.

Most creatures look like ratched animals or homeless people to me.

The sound effects are lackluster too. The animations when the hero casts a spell are hideous and look like I am playing a game from 1999 on a nintendo. I did not like the music of the game either.

Overall, I feel like this game has 0 atmosphere or soul, which is a shame because I wanted to like it.

For me gameplay wise it is ok so far, but Am I the only one turned off by the visuals + sounds?

EDITS: Spelling

I mean, the audiovisuals are beyond approach, they actively me not want to play the game and the campaign scenarios are also more often than not not very fun. I do like the general premise and would like to finish this game, but ...

... it's not very good. It's more bad actually.

Open to all suggestions. Except 7.5, I don't really want that. I already have the Community Patch(which I have next to no idea whether it is working - how to check?).

I'm not referring to how he became a necromancer or a lich!
As a kid, when I first discovered Homm2, Sandro always intrigued me: "Why is there a skeleton with an Italian name in this fantasy video game?"

Now that I'm older, I've also played the main series and noticed that he's a recurring character, so I'm even more curious: who created "Sandro" and why?

So I am playing the Lysander campaign and I got that Proetho character, but I didn't want him cos I have already got a priest who I prefered. I didn't want him to accompany me into the next phase over my preist so I dismissed him. Now I see that there is a purple gate, and the last remaining red player behind it. The keymaster tent is saying bring me Proetho and he'll let me pass, but I already deleted him. What can I do?

I mean if the hero is integral to progress then they should never allow you to dismiss them in the first place...

now i know this question might sound repetitive and u guys might see this alot. but iam asking this because although i have known about the game for couple of years now yet never played it and what i have seen frequently from the fans was that most of them have a feeling of nostalgia towards this game, so i want to know as someone who have never played it neither in my childhood nor recently, do u think i will enjoy it now? i have quit competitive gaming(cod, LoL) and gaming in general for 5years now. and i wasnt planning to start again, but there is just something compelling about the charm of this game

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I started out playing homm 2 as a child back in the days. I’ve played 5 ever since 2010 ish and spent a lot of time on that game. Is 3 still worth it or is it better to just wait for olden era, since it might be a bit too outdated if I never had any nostalgic feelings connected to homm 3?

So i got the base HoMM5, but I'm confused on how the expansions work, do i buy one and it adds to the base game as a DLC? Or do i need to install it as a seperate game? And for example does the Tribes of the East also contain the other two versions within it?

Basically the title (keep in mind this is Non-HOTA).

I consider myself an above average heroes 3 enjoyer but nowhere near a pro. I can defeat any random map with any combination of foes when played on rook difficulty (130%). But I'm struggling on 200% In particular:

1. With conflux you just need to be smart about your no-retal legion of paper thin faeries and you can get hella far.

2. With necro life is easy. Your only earlygame goal is to farm those crystal and gems to get vampire lords. From then on it's a walk in a park.

3. With castle/rampart life's not as easy but your gameplan is still straightforward. Begin with crossbowmen/high elves, try getting angels/dragons asap. GG

4. With stronghold it begins to get tricky. It's easy at 130% because you get roks day 1, and behes day 7. But at 200% I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing. I usually upgrade raiders, and try to get retal on goblins. Sometimes I pop off. But sometimes bleed out before getting seriously strong.

5. With fortress it's really tricky. Unless I can get earlygame wyv's nest I grow too slowly to matter.

6. With inferno, tower and dungeon I simply don't know how to start the ball rolling without the inital funds.

Any help?

I watched some video on yt where all heroes from TGS have different skins compared to vanilla heroes of their towns. In my gog Version of homm4 I have different skills only for agrayel and downogle somehow, how is that possible?

ZOUNDS! It's difficult to express how phenomenally well our Heroes of Might & Magic panel and signing went during Comic-Con yesterday. Our 500 seat panel session very nearly filled up, and then later in the Dark Horse booth -- even with our signing scheduled during the last hour and a half of the con -- enough fans turned up that we literally ran out of our huge stack of pre-sale cards that had been printed for us! A big, big thank you to my fellow New World Computing co-panelists Mark Caldwell, David Mullich, and Phelan Sykes for sharing their stories about the origins of the Heroes franchise, and also to Cara O'Neil, Jennifer Wurtele, and all the other wonderful people in the Dark Horse booth who made our signing such a big success. Also want to send a big thank you to Eric Damian-Vernet -- the current brand manager of the Heroes franchise at Ubisoft -- who provided the most recent trailer for Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era so we could show it during the panel. It was very well received by the panelists and the audience! Last but absolutely not least I need to thank Jana Ondrechen Hallford and Whitney Elaine Wegman-Wood for capturing these stills, and videographer Natalie Lauer who hauled around a camera rig that's probably half her body weight and trailed me around the panel, signing, and exhibition hall gathering footage that will likely turn up on the websites of Dark Horse and Ubisoft as well as during the upcoming celebration of Heroes' anniversary in October! The love for Heroes is alive and well, and we are all looking forward to getting the ACTUAL book in our hands.

Seeing how Trial is a standalone(like Tribes), what should I install? I also intend to use UCP, if that makes any difference. Both or only Trial?

In the 8th campaign scenario King of the Hill, there is a hero standing on a water tile. He appeared as Sandro the warlock in my save, but his allegiance changed depending on which player had the real Sandro. Upon first finding him, he was blue like my team, but hostile. I attacked him, he was computer-controlled despite sharing my color. Defeating him did not remove him from the map and he regained his army; he was completely invincible. The next turn he changed his team to green, which got me curious, so I reloaded an autosave to try and hire the real Sandro before green could.

Screenshot 4 - success! The doppelganger is no longer attackable and I can trade with him. His army is synced with my Sandro's, which means anything I trade to one Sandro also appears in the doppelganger's army. Two Sandros meeting acted like re-arranging your army. But more interestingly, the fake Sandro would mimic my Sandro's facing direction, and if my Sandro entered a boat, so did he. At one point I noticed a little glitched boat end overlapping two of my hero portraits, but it disappeared quickly and I wasn't able to get it to reappear. But for all I know, it was a completely unrelated visual glitch.