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Adding heroes to duel mode. Three new heroes have been added for each faction, in addition to the three that are already available. This is for those who are tired of the standard heroes and want some variety.

On average, the new heroes, with comparable stats for artifacts and overpowered upgrades, have about 10-15% more hit points than the standard heroes. I would like to hear your comments and criticism.

Installation: Place the ExtraDuelHeroes.pak file in the data folder in the game folder. Game version: 3.1

ExtraDuelHeroes.pak

Thank you for the mod. What is the reason for increasing the size of the armies of new heroes?

Actually, considering the standard heroes, it's not very clear who to emulate. At first, I thought I should aim for the average, but there's quite a large range. There's a striking difference between, for example, Ossir and Garuna. Or Nimus and Orson. For Helmarr, half of the heroes aren't a match in 90% of battles. In the end, I came to the conclusion that all heroes are closer in strength to someone like Helmarr, Ossir, Nimus, or Jaliba.

There's still no balance, but there's something to aim for, rather than trying to create a similar range between heroes as in the vanilla game. Although, some players have played a bit. And practice shows that the range still exists. That dwarves and elves stand out, on average, against the rest. I'll wait for more feedback.

I see it's not h5u
but
pak

Does this mean that after downloading these files, I need to archive them and change the extension to h5u?
P.S. Did this mod require any other files to run? Were there any conflicts with them?

No need to pack anything or change the file extension. Just download the ExtraDuelHeroes.pak file and place it in the data folder, which is located in the game folder. Conflicts will only occur with the "ER presets - New heroes for duels" mod. Also, the NHF mod enhances the specializations of some heroes, which will cause them to be stronger. Otherwise, there should be no conflicts.

There are kind people who can help me understand how to combine two mods: ER presets - New heroes for duels and ExtraDuelHeroes.pak.

Nikolai, we need to examine the files. We open the archive of one mod and then the other. We go into each folder one by one and check if the same folder exists in the second archive, and so on – until we reach the file. If the files match, it is considered a mod conflict, and you can either keep only one file from the mod or merge them (the method varies for different files). Files that do not match can be left untouched.

On Saturday, I can take a look at these mods if you provide a link. Or maybe someone else can help you before that time).

ER_presets.zip
ExtraDuelHeroes.pak
Here are these two mods; if it's not too much trouble, I would be very grateful for any result. I will be waiting for your reply, thank you in advance!!!!

conflicts are unlikely to be critical; the point is that you can create dueling presets in the map editor – they are separate mods and do not conflict with each other! most likely, conflicts will relate to large icons in the hero selection menu.

In both mods, there are 4-5 identical heroes. If the problem is only with the icons, could you explain whether it's possible to fix this? Perhaps by replacing the icons in the file itself (and their names accordingly)?

Alexey, the problem is that if two identical presets are created...

And I also explained the general principle of checking for conflicts. Not necessarily critical ones, just a coincidence of files

Who can combine these two mods?
ER_presets.zip
ExtraDuelHeroes.
It is important that the final result contains a total of 72 duel heroes; I am willing to offer financial compensation!

There are a few problems: 1) The first, minor one – Waterfall mentioned somewhere how to expand the total number of heroes and which lines to change. We need to find that lost topic. 2) The second, major one, is that there's no understanding of where the new icons from the file in the first post are located and how to link them. But he also wrote about it or made a video (or didn't he?). 3) There are 103 heroes, not counting Faidaen, who tends to glitch when switching heroes, and possibly some other hero that glitches. What should be done with the remaining ones? 4) Each set of icons needs to be linked to each hero individually (103 - 24 times?), creating a connection. Manually, for each one. However, if Waterfall wants, I think he can do it. I might try using images. For me, 24 random heroes are enough; they change every time I need them to, and searching for them is a long, tedious process, and frankly, not very necessary.

UI\MPDMLobby\presets.(DuelPresets).ru, this is where the icons and AdvMapHero for the heroes are linked. But if needed, I've already merged them, so you don't have to worry about it.