MM Heroes: EoC - New Content Promise
- by Pol
If you are like me, then last chapter for you was "Chapter 18: Deal with the Devil". And you are saying, what else now?
Because, that was end of the story. Temporarily. World froze.
Of course, you can hide in the Online Lobby to arrange match with other players, using several modes. — For these reading about EoC first time. This match is just a duel - one battle or many. Solely army vs army. Not any MP fight over map or even campaign. — Cannot complain, if you like that, there are many choices.
But this is for what we were waiting, today announcement by CM-Evelyn:
(excerpt, rather jump to the end for promise)
Dear Lords,
Might & Magic Heroes: Era of Chaos will be undergoing maintenance on February 18 at UTC 6:00 - 8:00.
1. New heroes coming:
Tower - Draco
Inferno - Zydar
With more heroes coming to help, choose a leader, and take your army to conquer the world!
2. Added awakening missions for the following units:
Firebird, Pikeman, Skeleton, Black Knight,the strength of the units will be greatly improved after awakening!
3. Updated Heroes’ Lore: The Duke of Gold – A Biography of Crag Hack.
4. New magic in Magic Guild: Chaos.
5. Conflux Plane now opens to level 20.
6. Account level caps open to level 90.
Other improvements:
1. Added localization support for Italian.
2. Added Conflux Plane in the guidebook.
3. In the chat channel, click the translate button next to the text to translate messages into the currently set game language.
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"Meanwhile, we are also speeding up on updating new versions of game. New gameplay and chapters will be added gradually in recent updates. Thanks again for your understanding!"
And there are some screenies how it will work:
In other words, it will work very slowly. Base number of tokens for 6 stars units is 400, then you can activate potential, probably for the same number. And seeing two spots, for hiring means that you can got 8 pieces daily, or 16 if you will pay additional 100D.
If the final number of soul tokens will be 900, then in normal speed - 8 tokens per day - it will take exactly 225 days.
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Kings Bounty II. - Devs Diary
- by Pol
Information about new Kings Bounty II. are finally, albeit slowly, pouring to the public. Period of silence after GamesCom in Cologne seems to be over.
At this moment there are planned three main heroes classes, for which you will be able to play. Traditionally they will be Knight, Paladin and Mage, thought the names are not final.
Knight hero will be Aivar, and there's already short introduction at the Steam page.
Developer 1C-SoftClub is very ambitious about KB II. It's one of the biggest projects And they assembled a completely new team of 65 people, when not counting in also all of the outsourced staff. To bring you RPG with realistic graphic, with many quests and challenging combat. It shall be big.
They will focus on:
- RPG part (with different lines, led by your decisions and character, many side quests)
- Combat (limited units stacking, affinity, forcing you to combine different units which can work together, elevated terrain to give you an advantage)
- Cut scenes - they have a special team for it. Show more, talk less is their motto. The game should be almost in cinematics quality.
- And overall realistic graphic in UE4.
Watch Devs Diary I. - Introduction
And special reportage by Anton Logvinov,
where you fortunatelly can enable english subtitles, as reportage is in russian.
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MM: Chess Royale Released
- by Pol
The game was released and it's available for download. Supported platforms are Android, iOS and PC(via UPlay). If you are curious for autobattler let go for it.
Need to say, that we here, are not. There were much better attempts from Ubisoft in the past, MM:Showdown comes to mind, which was at least arty.
Autobattler means that you get your units ready, put them in formation and rest is handled by AI. It's perfectly fair, from some viewpoint.
But it doesn't sound like a fun. It's more just like playing Dice, pretending that these are Chess with microtransactions.
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MM: Chess Royale Announced
- by Pol
Ubisoft announced new loose spin-off game Might and Magic: Chess Royale.
This will be quick autobattler, with each round taking 10mins and 100 players. And just one winner. 
The key will be lying in units combo.
Release date is scheduled at January 30 2020.
And it will be available for Android and iOS (aka mobile only). Pre-registration is already opened. Meanwhile they are testing it thoroughly in Early Access program.
Gameplay video:
(From Early Access)
Official game pages:
MM: Chess Royale
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HotA 1.6.0 released
- by Pol
Horn of the Abyss 1.6.0, short new features overview:
- Resistance skill is back as voluntary skill. Naturally disabled in all HotA maps but available to choose again.
- New skill "Interference" is introduced. And it does lower enemy power by 10,20,30%. In a similar fashion there were introduced three new artifacts: Plate of Dying Light 25%, Charm of Eclipse 10%, Seal of Sunset 10%
- Beautiful Wasteland terrain and decorations inspired by Heroes II (but no Factory town, that's yet to come)
- New Quest conditions and triggers for AI-controlled player
- Specify Banks guards and rewards
- New Unit: Steel Golem
That isn't all. For all futures description please go to HC. List to the middle of the page.
For consulting a full changelog.
Download: HotA Site | Acid Cave
And to discuss in our forums.
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Merry Christmas!
- by Pol
CelestialHeavens wish you Beautiful Christmas full of fluffy snow, cherishing love and happiness. If you can, spend in the circle of your family and friends.
Merry Christmas!
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Ubisoft release Era of Chaos worldwide
- by Pol
MM Heroes: Era of Chaos were released worldwide! If you pre-registered I can only guess that you will receive your "pirate Catherine skin and Legendary pack" when connecting the game with your Ubisoft profile. Which needs to be the same like your pre-registration e-mail.
Let us know, if you play the game ;)
MM: Elemental Guardian - a few days ago received series of updates. Improving graphics, stability and running on phones with 1GB of RAM.
The Last one bring new monsters and spell, being called: "Dark and Light Update". In April Dev Sergi released roadmap, you can check it here. Some of its planned futures were however already delayed, like "Infinite Turns Strategy". As there would be too much changes at once.
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Heroes of Might and Magic III HD+ Mod receives epic update
- by HeroOfPunk
Heroes of Might and Magic III HD Mod here just breathed some new life into my personal favorite installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series.
The Change log looks like this:
5.0 RC61 -> 5.0 RC63 (11/18/2019)
[+] New graphics modes: (stretchable) 16-bit OpenGL and (stretchable) 32-bit OpenGL by Verok use GPU for scaling, filtering and rendering , unlike other modes which use CPU.
[+] 32-bit True graphics modes have become even more True for SoD and for the future HotA
[+] System cursors which was used in 32-bit True (stretchable) GDI mode is now used in all modes.
This option is highly recommended for use.
[+] All graphic modes and some filters renamed , the functionality has not changed
[+] Changed the option code Sys.CPU.ReduceUsage (= 1 and = 2) Now in the message loop instead of "Sleep (1ms or maybe more)" the game tries to do "Sleep (about 0.5 ms, no more)". Changes apply only to Windows.
As usual, it is recommended to use Sys.CPU.ReduceUsage = 2.
[-] Settings are no longer reset after update.
[+] Minor changes and fixes.
So, why the excitement? Well, take a look at the 32-bit true GDI mode and the OpenGL mode. I just launched up Heroes III using Verok's OpenGL and the difference is amazing. The entire feeling of the graphics make it feel new and fresh. Details feel more crisp but the main thing is without a doubt the on map animations.
Here's the regular version:
And here's the updated version:
While it truly may not look like much at first, there are some distinct changes that, in my opinion, makes a whole lot of difference!
What are your thoughts on the latest update?
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Might and Magic Heroes: Era of Chaos
- by HeroOfPunk
Ubisoft, just opened their pre-registration for their all-new mobile game Might and Magic Heroes: Era of Chaos which is currently playable in China, New Zealand and the Philippenes. Some game-play videos have emerged on YouTube but Ubisoft themselves claim, that this is a spiritual successor of Heroes of Might and Magic III. Without having been able to test the game myself (yet), we can see some old Heroes such as Gelu, Crag Hack and Queen Catherine available in game.
Also gathered from the information given by Ubisoft, we can tell that this is an anime-inspired game, drawing some thoughts towards the Clash of Heroes release for mobile as well.
While the graphics are not very promising, there is great potential in the game-play. Do you think the gameplay will make up for the graphics? Are you on-board with the direction Ubisoft it taking with the franchise? Let us know in the comments!
There seems to be a good system with clans, battle systems, chapters of a campaign amongst other things. This will be definitively a download for me. The Ultimate Question for me is, can we survive the anime?
There is definitively no doubt that we will report on this, as soon as we get a hands on review!
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