WARNING - The dreaded moment is here: Heroes 6 servers shutting down

[Blake]

Been wondering when this was gonna happen and how it was gonna go.. on jan 2024 Ubisoft will be shutting down the online features of Heroes 6.. effectively breaking most of the game, and knowing ubisoft there's probably no patch planned to fix it all unless the fanbase kicks up a huge fuss like what happened with M&M10. :/

https://www.celestialheavens.com/heroes ... unary-2024

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/ ... in-january

https://steamcommunity.com/app/48220/di ... 661721770/

The same thing that happened to MMX:Legacy [but worse]
If you think that server decommission affect only multiplayer then you are wrong. Most functionalities are locked behind Online-only DRM:

- Conflux and Dynasty profile will no longer work. Bestiary with artworks and lore descriptions will be unavailable.
- Amount of heroes in skirmish will be limited to 2 per faction
- Dynasty weapons and pets will be no longer available - All swords and Staves will dissappear from the game. Option to level up then will dissappear. People who leveled all of them to level 5 will lost all progress
- Dynasty traits and slots for them will be disabled. Those are a starting conditions like additional resources at the beginning, reduced cost of building, bonus stats etc.
- Achievements will be disabled. For doing achievements you would receive point which are used for unlocking stuff in this game: heroes, weapons, pets, traits, slots, portraits, titles etc.
- Multiplayer will be no longer available - obvious
- You will loose your online saves. Game forces you to cloud saving and limited you to 10 saves. Local saves will available? No idea

Not happy! As someone who still hasn't finished the whole game and wants to play the Xeen DLC content this is not cool. If I recall those bonus DLCs were downloaded inside the game. And there's so much other stuff inside the game linked to online.. if they just switch off the servers the game will be stuffed and I fear we'll lose access to DLC after a fresh install.

[Blake]

Was just thinking.. the only potential positive out of all of this is that IF Ubisoft do get the message and patch Heroes 6 to work better be more featured in offline mode, then that would finally open the doors to the modding community to try and fix other remaining bugs (ie black screen, dark map, buggy dynasty weapons etc) and add more content like we're seeing in the awesome Heroes 5.5 and 7.5 fan projects.

[Tress]

I am wondering about the conflux part. When cracked version started to appear, didnt it had all the stuff unlocked and accesible? Since i didnt took too much intrest in homm 6 until SOD came out , but i can swear i seen the game unlocked, so that made me wonder if really there cant be simple offline mod to unlock all the good stuff for people after servers go offline.
Multiplayer of course is different story as I understand there is no hosted game stuff and Ubi really tried to parrot blizard with their SC2 model (up to point they said design of faction ideology is similar, which arguably is kinda there) of not having normal non - centralized way of playing or some sort of LAN. So probably no real fix there, then again while I like homm6 personally , there isnt really community that would really need it in first place.
Personally i like 6 more than 7 as they tried to innovate, not always successfully but step back they made in 7 kinda lacks any sort of direction of game that would warrant its existence over 3 or 5. 6 like 4 is hit or miss, but is own game.

[Pol]

Personally i like 6 more than 7 as they tried to innovate, not always successfully but step back they made in 7 kinda lacks any sort of direction of game that would warrant its existence over 3 or 5. 6 like 4 is hit or miss, but is own game.

Me too, though I might be biased as was also game tester and lived with different units abilities, until they settled to final form. If the game woudln't be cut down and completed instead, it could been a miracle.

Not sure if nowaday is in the best form. Including special maps and such, visibly on the top.

[Angelspit]

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