So... are you glad you patched it?
So... are you glad you patched it?
Well, after reading many pros and cons... was it worth it to install 1.2? I'm nearing the end of a mission and was just wondering. With 1.1, the game's been stable for me. No crashes although it occassionally won't start up after launching it from the desktop icon. No big deal, though. I just ctrl-alt-del and stop it from running and then re-launch and it always starts then. Other than that, no problems. But, I'm a little concerned about adding new ones if there are any 1.2 problems. I know there are things that are fixed and rebalanced a little. So, does the good outweigh the bad is my question? Thanks a lot.
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Well, i like some of the improvements that patch 1.2 contained but unfortunatlely the european patch version opened up new flaws for me (and for a bunch of german users too):
The new description of how much creatures reside in a dwelling seems to be totally f***ed up for many players and some (including myself) are not getting damgage ratings of destructive spells in spellbook anymore.... the promised new enhanced spell infos are missing too!
C'mon, especially Ubisoft as an european company should be a little bit more keen to please the european community, not deisregarding them by such sloppiness....
....and bugs that spread through localized but not in the english versions smells rather "Oblivionish" to me.
Beside that "localized" problems, the battle cinemtaics sometimes create weird viewpoints now, quite often the POV excludes the attacking creature but shows the very interesting landscape beside the defender..... before 1.2 this was all fine!
So, if you're playing the english version i would recommend installing 1.2.... some good improvements and the 2 new maps are are relief for those who cannot see dragnopass, neighbours et al. anymore because copiously playing them!
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two minor typos!
Addendum: The "neutral stack increase mod" i gladly recieved here at the forums a few weeks ago seems to fail after 1.2..... does anyone know if or where there is an substitute somewhere?
ThX
The new description of how much creatures reside in a dwelling seems to be totally f***ed up for many players and some (including myself) are not getting damgage ratings of destructive spells in spellbook anymore.... the promised new enhanced spell infos are missing too!
C'mon, especially Ubisoft as an european company should be a little bit more keen to please the european community, not deisregarding them by such sloppiness....
....and bugs that spread through localized but not in the english versions smells rather "Oblivionish" to me.
Beside that "localized" problems, the battle cinemtaics sometimes create weird viewpoints now, quite often the POV excludes the attacking creature but shows the very interesting landscape beside the defender..... before 1.2 this was all fine!
So, if you're playing the english version i would recommend installing 1.2.... some good improvements and the 2 new maps are are relief for those who cannot see dragnopass, neighbours et al. anymore because copiously playing them!
edit:
two minor typos!
Addendum: The "neutral stack increase mod" i gladly recieved here at the forums a few weeks ago seems to fail after 1.2..... does anyone know if or where there is an substitute somewhere?
ThX
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NO! I'm on the verge of proclaiming the Heroes V developers as incompetent! *Grabs the idiot staple*
Here's my list of complaints:
Here's my list of complaints:
- It crashes after 2-3min and every other crash is a BSOD!
- And that Hall of Fame....HOW IN THE NINE HELLS COULD THEY MESS IT UP???
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OK, maybe I should have mentioned that it would be the American version of the patch that I'm asking about and I probably w/b playing 'single' player most of the time (at least for the forseeable future). Also, if I do install it, when exactly w/b the right time? I am finishing up the 3rd mission on the Necropolis (3rd campaign, I believe) campaign. Should I install right after it's over and I get the video? Should I save at that poine, patch it, then re-load at the very beginning of mission 4? Thanks again.
Paradox wrote: what are the cons?
These are the cons.
I'm seriously thinking about reinstalling and just applying the first patch because as far as I'm concerned this latest patch has introduced more problems than it actually fixed.
So glad we waited a month and a half for basically nothing.
Now they have changed creature icons to the incorrect AGAIN! What are they thinking? Maybe they have prepared those icons, and to fix up the creature models in yet another weak patch to make them match?
Im speechless..........do we really have to go the hard way to make those incompetent sobs at ubi and nival understand how much they have screwed the game and how easy it is to fix simple thing like icons by sending death threats to them??? A petition could be done first, but seeing how much the "save heroes" petition worked out, we need bigger guns
I have been on the fence with H5 in a looong time now, lending to both sides many times, but if these patches continue to screw the game instead of fixing it, H5 is gonna be the most messy heroes game ever!
Im speechless..........do we really have to go the hard way to make those incompetent sobs at ubi and nival understand how much they have screwed the game and how easy it is to fix simple thing like icons by sending death threats to them??? A petition could be done first, but seeing how much the "save heroes" petition worked out, we need bigger guns
I have been on the fence with H5 in a looong time now, lending to both sides many times, but if these patches continue to screw the game instead of fixing it, H5 is gonna be the most messy heroes game ever!
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A pity but i was thinking the same during the last 2 days.....King Imp wrote:
I'm seriously thinking about reinstalling and just applying the first patch because as far as I'm concerned this latest patch has introduced more problems than it actually fixed.
So glad we waited a month and a half for basically nothing.
for example first believed the new ATB bar was intended that way and i'd just have to get familiar with it.... but nope, the one from 1.1 was way better...
....but with the total lack of spell-descriptions in my spellbook, weird cinematic camera angles, numbers of creatures in dwellings not showing correctly, my stack increasing mod was nuked out too.... i barely see the point of using 1.2 anymore.... especially cause i play mainly single-player!, so the promised multiplayer enhancement (i din't test though) doesn't pay for me!
Is there a possibility Ubi/Nival may patch the patch?
Or do we have to hope that 1.3 will correct the 1.2 issues (maybe even WITHOUT intoducing new bugs) ?
Quite disapointing situation!!
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Me too … I ONLY play single-player, so the so-called multi-player fixes don't do a thing for me … but the new problems in SP and the disabling of the Cheat Codes have made my decision for me … I'm not going to install patch 1.2!omegaweix wrote:A pity but i was thinking the same during the last 2 days .....King Imp wrote:
I'm seriously thinking about reinstalling and just applying the first patch because as far as I'm concerned this latest patch has introduced more problems than it actually fixed.
So glad we waited a month and a half for basically nothing.
i barely see the point of using 1.2 anymore .... especially cause i play mainly single-player!, so the promised multiplayer enhancement (i din't test though) doesn't pay for me!
… Quite disapointing situation!!
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It seems that nival has a strange tendency to break some things whenever it fixes something.For example,when the game came out,it fixed a lot that was broken in HIV by making it more like HIII,but at the same time,broke a lot that was excelent.They also managed to fix a few things that were wrong in HIII,but then again,they broke some things that were great.It seems that they do the same with the patches.
Well anyone waiting for 1.3 you're wasting your time as it probably won't fix anything, since it's supposed to be the map editor. Pray they do not delay it to fix the things they broke in this last patch. Also let's hope someone figures out how to turn the cheats back on. You want to bet you have to download 1.2 before you load 1.3.Warmskin wrote:Well, I started this thread and unfortunately I got my answer. Thanks. Guess I'll wait for 1.3... And then wait again like I did with this one (for everyone to rush and install it first). Glad I waited.
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