Heroes Moving in on China?
- by Kalah
There's an interesting announcement on Ubisoft's Chinese channel, talking about a cooperation designed to increase Ubisoft's sphere of influence, increasing their activity in the Chinese market. Granted, my Chinese is about as good as my Klingon, so I had to rely on an online translating tool and things may have gotten lost in translation - still, it seems Ubisoft are looking to spread their market shares in the mobile market by entering into such cooperations.
The international channels are quiet so far, so there is no telling what effect (if any) this will have on the English-speaking part of the franchise.
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AI Enhancement Tool - first test results
- by Dalai
As we wrote in previous news article, we has some progress with AI Enhancement Tool programming. We decided to put the tool to test.
To do that we chose one of the maps selected for World Championship 2016 Heroes 4 online - W16 El Dorado. We let the AI play this map twice for two months. First playthrough was AS IS (AI-1), and second playthrough AI was aided by scripts from AI Enhancement Tool (AI-2).
H4MG AI panel settings:
Then we compared the results, and want to share them with you.
Read more: AI Enhancement Tool - first test results
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Maptesting Manually
- by Kalah
As we still haven't been able to get a proper map section up and running, we're entering manual mode. I've been frustrated over this but then I remembered: we have a forum, let's use it. Maps can still be uploaded and downloaded to and from our servers, it's just the actual map section pages that don't work. So, when you want to submit a map for testing or distribution, use the e-mail: maps(a)celestialheavens.com. As soon as we have it uploaded, a post can be made in our forum's mapmaking guild. There, we can create dedicated topics to each map, for discussion and feedback or just matchmaking.
A new map is already out for testing - a Heroes V TotE map which you can find and discuss here.
Alternative solution for maptesting, if you want to do the whole thing yourself (it's faster), is to upload the map somewhere online, and then create a forum post in the mapmaking guild yourself. Just enter a link to where the file can be found, your contact information and whatever else you want to say.
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Duel of Champions Closes Oct. 31
- by Kalah
The M&M DoC team have announced that on October 31., Duel of Champions will close down. After this date, both the game itself, the website and its official social media channels will no longer be accessible. The announcement also warns that you will have to convert all your remaining resources before the closing date, otherwise these will be lost after the shutdown.
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GamesBeat Interview JVC
- by Kalah
GamesBeat did a really nice interview with JVC some days back, about the new Creature Quest game and some other stuff.
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Lost Tales Scripts Available
- by Kalah
For those of you who are interested in reading the actual scripts of Heroes campaigns, here is a bit of a snack for you.
Thanks to Karmakeld for the tip.
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New Fan Mod for MM:H7 - Wryn Pendragon: Umbramancer (WIP)
- by Pol
There's new fan project of H7 Add-On, it goes under name: Wryn Pendragon: Umbramancer
Developers (and they are still looking for new modders) are Lord Graa, Antalyan, Arsheesh, ticor and Maksim Bugrimov, Evgeny Korchuganov (3D Modelers).
Monsters and many faction details, including maps and scenarios are already in. As monsters there are done Scavenger, Mine Beetle, Searcher, Xenophage and Enslaver. Also some heroes like undead Yana Rane and plethora of factions, making a chance for perfect plot. 
The project is in czech language only, with fraction of description translated to english.
source: www.worldofheroes.cz
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Planned Downtime
- by Kalah
Dear visitors,
Our virtual server provider will be doing an upgrade some time this month. We have been placed in a queue, so we don't know exactly when it will happen, but we expect a few hours downtime when it's our turn.
If you see us down, rest assured it should only be for a short while.
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Marzhin Moving On
- by Kalah
Level designer Julien Pirou, also known to us old-timers as "Marzhin", has announced that after working with the Might & Magic franchise for seven years, he is moving on to other projects. Pirou has been applying his creative talents as a level designer on the Heroes VI adventure packs, Might & Magic X and Heroes VII.
Pirou went on to say that he had had a great time working with Limbic and that he had learned a lot about the process of game production. We wish him every luck for the future.
You can find our previous interviews with Marzhin on our interviews page.
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