Pre-order “Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia. HD Edition” — General

Buka_Entertainment

11 years ago

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The most beloved game has been given a new lease on life in high resolution! Pre-order for “Might and Magic. Heroes III. The Restoration of Erathia. HD Edition” is now open in the digital store shop.buka.ru.

ATTENTION, PROMOTION! Everyone who pre-orders the game will receive a promo code for a 15% discount on any subsequent purchase in our store.

Game Features:
Now in HD: stunning graphics, support for widescreen displays. In the updated version of the game, battles will become more colorful and exciting.
Enjoy the gameplay of Heroes III: you will find 7 campaigns, 50 maps, and an editor for them, as well as the ability to play over a local network.
New online multiplayer mode: now, thanks to Steamworks, you will have access to an online lobby where you can chat with friends and challenge the Heroes III community.

Lider1

11 years ago

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There's a similar topic here with a discussion: /topic/11159/

I wonder if there will be a random map generator for Erathia?
Will there be quick buttons for exchanging armies/artifacts like in the HD mod?
Or is this just

basically recompiled source code from RoE with minimal changes and no serious rework

(c)?

where

most likely both the AI and everyone's favorite bugs from the original will not differ from the real RoE.

(c)

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Dirty_Player

11 years ago

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I’m just curious, why RoE?

psatkha

11 years ago

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Since I've pre-ordered and purchased discs and digital versions of games in the same series before, I got HD 3 with a 10% discount! :smile54:

dom2

11 years ago

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Since I had pre-ordered and purchased both physical and digital versions of games from the Heroes series in the past, I bought Heroes III HD with a 10% discount!

Since I had NOT pre-ordered and NOT purchased physical or digital versions of games from the Heroes series in the past, I ALSO bought Heroes III HD with a 10% discount! :D

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MontikM

11 years ago

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Dirty_Player

I'm curious why RoE?

Because the source code for Armageddon's Blade and The Shadow of Death was lost by the developers... Only the source code for The Restoration of Erathia remains.

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Plotnick

11 years ago

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Dirty_Player

I'm curious, why RoE?

First, we need to assess the level of interest. And based on the results, everything else will become clear.

upd

Although, they say everywhere that they really lost the source code. It's funny.

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dnaop-wr

11 years ago

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Plotnick

...Although, everywhere it says that they really lost the source code. It's funny.

Yeah, it's lost. After all, the secret of creating Might and Magic was passed down from generation to generation, from father to son, and after the company's demise, it disappeared. And the new specialists are not capable of recreating what others created - they lack the qualifications.:smile35:

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Mur

11 years ago

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dnaop-wr

Yes, they are lost. After all, the secret of creating Might and Magic was passed down from generation to generation, from father to son, and after the company's demise, it disappeared. And the new specialists are not capable of recreating what others created – they lack the necessary qualifications.:smile35:

It's one thing to reprogram from scratch, and another to take a ready-made game, create new packaging, and sell it for 800 rubles.

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psatkha

11 years ago

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dom2

Since I haven't pre-ordered or purchased physical or digital versions of games in the Heroes series before, I also bought the HD version of Heroes 3 with a 10% discount! :D

Well, I don't know, they sent me two emails with a 10% discount - one specifically to me, as I bought the Jewell version of Heroes 5 from their store, similar to the one from Бука, and the second one to my wife, as she gave me a gift - a collector's edition of all the Heroes games in a large white box with Heroes 1 to 6 + a booklet + a t-shirt! :smile13:

Eleondor

11 years ago

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And where do you get a 100% guarantee that the source code was lost?)
Nowadays, you can lie in such a way that no one can find fault with it, and besides, if the rights to the company and games were sold, then the source code was definitely obtained.
And also, we should not forget that reverse engineering can restore any application, provided that the application itself exists, because the processor still only understands 0 and 1.

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MontikM

11 years ago

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Eleondor

How can you be 100% sure that the source files are lost?)

Message from the developers on the Heroes 7 website (they announced it there)
https://mmh7.ubi.com/ru/blog/post/view/a-special-announcement

Community team note: But why only RoE? To understand the origin of the project and its development we need to go back to 2003. At that time we asked New World Computing to retrieve their archives for all the Might & Magic titles. We found tons of documentation and data but regarding Heroes III we had nothing but the usable source code of Heroes III Restoration of Erathia.

If you translate this text into Russian, the meaning is that they don't have any other source files besides the Restoration of Erathia.

Aslan

11 years ago

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Hello everyone! When will there be a separate section for Heroes 3 on Steam?;))) I challenge everyone to a duel! ;) :-P

psatkha

11 years ago

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I don't know what the issue is, but if you modify the file with the numerical range, the Steam version simply won't launch – and it doesn't even display any errors! Has anyone who doesn't use Steam tried tinkering with the resources?