Posts from Islands of Mystery, Chapter 2: Dragon Wisdom

The second chapter tells the story of the mage Saddir and his search for the second part of a powerful artifact. The mage is driven to the islands by his flight from "justice." He is accused of necromancy without any reason. Saddir is thrown into prison, where he must await a harsh sentence. From this moment, his story begins...

Number of maps: 5
Race: mages (Silver Cities)
Game version: 3.0-3.1
Language: Russian
Difficulty: easy to difficult (depending on the player's choice)

Download here: Dragon Wisdom

Temporary mirror (thanks to RedHeavenHero, who found it).

I highly recommend it :)

Today, I decided to play "Heroes of Might and Magic V" again. I decided to start with your campaign, Ser9K, as I haven't seen it in its entirety yet. I'm playing as a Barbarian.

I started the first mission. I found (and still found :() one mistake.

Congratulations, Ser9K, on the release! You did a great job! :)

Started the first mission. Found (and still) one bug.

I think this is more of an exception than the rule.

Found (and yet :() already one mistake.

What kind of mistake?;) The mistakes need to be fixed, especially if something doesn't work.

What kind?;) Errors need to be fixed, especially if something doesn't work.

Everything works as it did before. The errors are still the same, grammatical ones.

After thoroughly exploring the entire map in the first mission and defeating almost all the creatures, my Saddir reached level 25.5 (and I haven't even taken the first elven garrison yet). Playing as a Barbarian is still not much harder. However, there is still a lot ahead. I can note that all the battles are very large-scale, and to keep all the troops alive, you have to maneuver quite a bit.

Regarding the errors:
- the typo in the thieves' guild has not been fixed: "he asked for a very big bribe".
- the quest "Elven Port" is very noticeable.

I hope you will fix these minor details to get a campaign that is perfect in every way :)?

Oh my, oh my, finally! And I also recommend Quantum – I join in the recommendation. Especially for fans of the Academy.

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And this, Ser9K, get in touch, I haven't seen or heard from you in ages!

Thanks to everyone ^__^

We will fix it; typos are, of course, quite possible. There's no avoiding that.

- The "Elven Port" quest is very jarring.

In this case, it's intentional. Again, you can write it however you want, whether it's "Elven," "Elfish," or "of the Elves."

Divinora, I'll be back -)) because it really has been like a hundred years (in my defense: I had a lot to do, and I also got a little sick, ahem).

No, I haven't heard of that form of the word before. Please provide an example of another word in the same form.

On word formation: the suffix of a possessive adjective is -ий- example: fish - fishy wolf - wolfish elf - elven something like that. In this case, I deliberately didn't use "elven" because it sounds too pretentious. In this case, the elves should have been downplayed...

Ser9K, could you please tell me where I can find the first chapter?

Hmm, in the case of these creatures, everything is correct, but you can't deny that very often some suffixes don't fit certain words. It seems to me that this is exactly the case, because the word "Elfish" sounds wrong. There is nothing pretentious about the word "elven"; it is a common possessive adjective. If you want to belittle the elves, it is better to write "Elven Port," because, you must agree, it sounds quite rude.

I finished the first mission at level 27. It seems to me that this is clearly an exaggeration. By the way, the mission was easier on "Warrior" than it was the first time I played it on "Recruit" during testing. Maybe it just seemed that way because I already have experience playing, and I took very good care of my army. I didn't find any other mistakes besides the ones mentioned above.

The second mission also went surprisingly easily. Perhaps I will check the difficulty level, although I clearly remember setting it to "Warrior." The introductory video is perfect, although you left too much time for Zazir's lines. I have time to read her lines twice aloud. In the initial message, again, the word "nechego" is used, although it should be "nichego."

Skull, there was no initial restriction, although it wouldn't hurt to have one. In the first mission, a level limit of 22 would be appropriate.

Soljie, you can download the first part of "Islands of Mystery" in the "Story Mod: Islands of Mystery" thread, which is in this section.

Skull is right. During the last testing, there was a limit.

From that... 0_o it really was! Moreover, it exists! I don't understand anything... For those in the know, here's a snippet from the map.xdb file, taken directly from the file available for download here:

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As you can see, 23 is the maximum level. I have no idea why it didn't work. Does anyone else have a similar problem? Gilraen, what version of the game are you using? Could it be because of that? Or because of another mod that removes the usual level restrictions... Added 3 minutes later Another thing: the Warrior is not for those who like a challenge. It's an easy difficulty level. Play on Veteran or Hero.

I wouldn't say I prefer more challenging levels, but this time, playing on a higher difficulty setting feels easier than playing on a lower difficulty setting last time. Game version 3.0. I only patch it for online play. But because of that... Oh! I downloaded the mod back when it was first fully released on the Dreammmod forum! Was there a limit back then? P.S.: And how did you rotate garrisons by 45 degrees in the first mission, since you can only rotate them by 90 degrees?