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I'll describe it now, but first, let me express my excitement about the person who hasn't followed the Heroes series for 5-7 years. That night, I finally installed the latest update manually, and spent the whole weekend exploring the new features and playing the new campaign. What can I say... Kudos to the developers! The HD mod is simply divine! Absolutely all the things that a hardcore HoMM player would want are implemented, and they are implemented well and in a usable way, in a complete style, that is, exactly as one would want! This is incredible in itself; I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it. Moreover, a ton of things have been implemented, things that one wouldn't even dare to dream about – they seemed so unpromising and unrealizable. For example, simultaneous turns and (simply amazing!) a dedicated lobby in the game with all the features. And this is in a game from 1999, when even abroad, the internet was not available in every home, that is, in a game that was not designed for normal online play. There are no words. A big thank you to the developer for all this work. The history of game development will not forget this. Regarding Heroes in general, I'll write about it separately somewhere. Probably... All that's left is to buy the rights to the series and launch it on Steam. Success is guaranteed ;) Just don't tell Ubisoft, or they'll steal the ideas. By the way, there is HoMM III with increased resolution and the title "Remastered" on Steam. I was happy, thinking it was something like a remastered version of Homeworld, where new developers take old content and harmoniously integrate it into a new engine or refine everything that fans have been waiting for in the old engine. But no, my disappointment was boundless – it's just SoD, just a different resolution. And that's it. But you went much further. Sorry for the long text, I got carried away. So, about the errors. The very first one was something like "Folder _HD3_Data not found." By the way, there was a mention of this on March 25 in the "bug reports" on VK, but there is still no solution or continuation of the discussion. There were also errors, I think, related to access (UAC), something like no access to files. Now it's hard to remember exactly what they were, but after an unsuccessful attempt to install the updates, I had to manually give myself permissions to access these files, as they were changing. After all these errors, I installed the game not on the system drive and manually installed the update through the installer posted on the site. In general, I simply bypassed these errors, so I can't describe them in more detail. Now everything is installed without any particular problems in "automatic mode," with one exception: "Please close HD Launcher and retry." It's funny, of course, to read this as a user when the update is launched from the launcher's interface; a regular user is not aware that HD3_Update is responsible for the update. And I couldn't find any technical description of which files go where. It would be logical for the update program to check if the launcher is running, close it if necessary, install the update, and launch the new version, as happens in the normal user world. Another thing. If you click on the shortcut, the game starts (let's say, in full screen), and a separate window of the launcher reports that an update is available. This is cool, but it would be logical to check for updates before launching the game, update itself, and then launch the game. Otherwise, the whole point of the automation process is lost, because you have to close the game, click "update," close the launcher manually, update, open the launcher, make sure the new version is installed, and then play. But these are user complaints; the main thing is that all the main features have been implemented and are working! Added after 21 minutes Finally, I went into the lobby, and everything became clear about the activity: with the appearance of the lobby, the community no longer needs other places to communicate. Respect