Posted by Valeriy at 03:15, 26 Mar 2007:
Heroes Community - ICTC2, Maps Contest, Avatars
Quite a lot of happenings at HC recently:
1. International Create a Town Contest 2 (ICTC2) is now over. We congratulate the top winners:
1st Place - The Bastion by TDL. 2nd Place - The Guild by Fofa. 3rd Place - Tropical by GenieLord.
2. The new Map Design Contest for Heroes 3-5 is about to begin. Click here for full details. If you are interested in being a judge, post here. Both single and multiplayer maps are welcome.
3. Thanks to Alcibiades and VokialBG the HC avatar collection now features over 300 new HOMM5 avvies, taking the total avatar count to a staggering 1,645! Make a cup of tea before you sit down to choose ;)
Posted by ThE_HyDrA at 06:47, 14 Mar 2007:
2nd Heroes V Expansion Tidbits
After a barren spell of a month without news, some surfaces with regards to the second expansion. Another one of many Q&As on the official Nival forums was answered (in Russian) on the 6th of March by Nival's Old_Boy, revealing a few possibilities and omissions for the upcoming expansion. Among the possible new features are the return of the Kingdom Overview, a Hall of Fame revamp, and the ability to teleport enemy units... Things that were ruled out include Crystal Dragons and Nagas, a return of the Fog of War, Spells that affect units' speed, and campaign heroes being used for Multiplayer. View the details on the Heroes Community Thread.
Posted by ThE_HyDrA at 21:41, 25 Jan 2007:
Heroes V Patches 1.41 and 2.1 coming Tuesday
The next set of patches are finally ready for distribution, Fabrice Cambounet informs us in official forums. In addition, there will also be a server reboot:
"So, the patches 1.41 and 2.1 are ready to be distributed next monday : the first applies to Heroes 5 (you need to have 1.4 already applied), the second to the addon Hammers of Fate. The links will be posted at this time, of course.
The main content is allowing a switch of online servers in Ubisoft. The servers will go offline on monday from 3pm GMT to 9pm GMT. After this phase, you will need to have these patches applied to play online. They will be made available after the reboot through the autopatch system, and on tuesday they will be replicated all around as usual."
Fabrice also mentions that the next patch, 1.5, will contain the Duel Heroes Editor.
Update: Public release of the patch has been pushed back to Tuesday January 30, at 10am French time due to server changes.
Posted by ThE_HyDrA at 07:24, 20 Jan 2007:
Heroes III WoG Mod - Quicksilver Beta Released
BIGJOCKER of the Heroes Community Forums has recently released the Beta version of his Quicksilver mod for the Wake of Gods. The mod is described to be:
"something like Equilibris for HoMM4, but just only for WoG.
It will include new upgrade system (4 second upgrades in every town, many of them will be new creatures), new stats of almost all creatures, new towns' look, some new scripts, new and special campaign, some new external graphics..."
Check out the Official Site and the Discussion Thread for more info.
Thanks to Vlaad for pointing it out.
Posted by ThE_HyDrA at 13:42, 3 Jan 2007:
Heroes Online still on the way!
A recent update as to the game's status was discovered by Vlaad in this thread. Heroes Online, which had been largely forgotten about pending the arrival of Heroes V and its Expansion, is indeed in development by TQ Digital, as the number of screenshots, concept art, and trailer show. View the updates here.