Posts from NHF – new heroes for Heroes V 3.1.

A new version of the NHF mod, 0.88, has been released.

You can download it as always at the following link: https://yadi.sk/d/m_foxfV2gNqpx

Changes in version (0.87.0-0.88.0):

New heroes:
1) Vainiris, Sylvan, NHF_E;
2) Zenda, Necropolis, NHF_E;
3) Vidomina, Necropolis, NHF;
4) Kella, Fortress, NHF_E;
5) Indira, Academy, NHF_E;
6) Aeris, Sylvan, NHF;
7) Danan, Sylvan, NHF.

Changes:
1) Rann's icon has been changed;
2) Rickfrost's icon has been changed;
3) Leila's specialization, Necropolis, NHF_E, has been changed;
4) Linda's specialization now belongs to Vidomina from NHF. Linda with the new specialization is now in NHF_E, Necropolis;
5) Robert's specialization has been increased by 150%;
6) In Mirabelle's specialization, the increase in pirates on the ship has been reduced by a third, Navigation has been replaced with Scouting;
7) Baltazar now receives +2 to spell power for each "more powerful counterpart" learned;
8) Galtran's specialization formula has been changed;
9) Hafad's specialization formula has been changed;
10) Kaellin's specialization has been increased by a third;
11) Tanna's specialization has been changed;
12) Agbet has been given Tanna's former specialization;
13) AI heroes now start at level 5 only on the "Hero" difficulty, and not just on "Veteran," as in the previous version of the mod;
14) Melchior's specialization has been strengthened;
15) Hiormel's specialization has been strengthened;
16) Wilhelm's specialization has been strengthened;
17) The description of Constantine's specialization has been clarified;
18) Kirie's specialization has been strengthened;
19) Veligg has been given Silsay's specialization, and he has received a new one and different starting skills;
20) The Pirate file date has been updated, which will allow the mod to be prioritized when using the Yeti ID for something else;
21) Mirazel's specialization has been weakened by a third;
22) Taveril's specialization and starting skills have been changed;
23) Unutel has had his tent removed;
24) Faidaen has been lowered to NHF_E;
25) Saf has been given different starting skills and a specialization;
26) Ula's specialization has been strengthened by a factor of two, and her starting skills have been changed;
27) Istar has been lowered to NHF_E;
28) Aeris has been given a new specialization and starting skills, and has been moved to NHF;
29) The former Saf's personality has been changed to Danan, and her specialization has been changed;
30) Talanar's specialization has been strengthened;
31) Geirmund's starting skills and specialization have been changed;
32) Ashbet has received a Portal to the city;
33) Sigrun has been given Scatter;
34) Shagrat has received War Cry;
35) Hugul now has different starting skills;
36) The icons of Ariana, Vidmina, and Galtran have been changed;
37) AI heroes no longer receive additional experience thanks to the NHF mod.

Fixes:
1) A critical bug related to interacting with cities and garrisons has been fixed (p.f. 0.87.1-0.87.2);
2) The animation of Renegade heroes on the map has been accelerated (p.f. 0.87.3);
3) A critical bug for heroes with CUSTOM_ABILITY_TRIGGER has been fixed: the special abilities of Valafar, Nergal, and Biara did not work (p.f. 0.87.3);
4) A bug that blocked access to the hero interface when playing a sound for other players has been removed, but now enemies cannot hear or see the effects of the special abilities of heroes who attack them, such as Hafad (z.f. 0.87.4);
5) The path to Eric's biography has been fixed (z.f. 0.87.4);
6) Building arrays on the map now contain less redundant data when combined (z.f. 0.87.4);
7) Hiormel now receives messages about gaining fifth-level spells (z.f. 0.87.4);
8) When Kirie reached level 25, she did not receive spells; now she continues to receive them (z.f. 0.87.4);
9) A bug in Taveril's specialization has been fixed, where improved versions of Ents provided a different number of creatures than the regular ones. The tooltip for the increase has been corrected. It has been placed alphabetically in the list of hero choices (z.f. 0.87.5);
10) Correct delays for pop-up messages for Talanar and Menan's specializations have been made (z.f. 0.87.6);
11) The description of Erin's specialization has been corrected; in reality, it provides three times fewer sixth-level creatures (z.f. 0.87.6);
12) Valafar's specialization has been corrected, where the distance between portals did not depend on the level, but depended on the location of the previous portal of the same color (z.f. 0.87.7);
13) A visual bug when moving Frida's model has been fixed (z.f. 0.87.7).

p.f. - public fix
z.f. - closed fix

Not fixed:
1) Visual bugs when moving some female models of the Order faction;
2) The animation of the movement of the Overlord (Kha-Beleth) on the adventure map

Regarding the loading screen image, which was discussed in the chat during the stream: - the readability of the map description has decreased due to the introduction of a new image (concept art of a knight for Heroes 5).
Psatkha, as requested, I am posting the art that I personally use.


Some interesting, but untested options: (see attachments)
1. Battle between an angel and a demon
2. Elrath and Malassa
3. A knight with a demon behind him.

In my opinion, the first option is the most successful.

The second option stylistically suits Heroes 6 better than Heroes 5, but I think it will look good anyway.
The third option might create the same problem as the current one, plus it differs slightly in style

In my opinion, the first option is the most successful.

Well, in principle, such a background can be added as an add-on, but on widescreen resolutions, there will be vertical stripes from the main gray background! :smile02:

Wouldn't it be possible to try a different font color for the description? The image will look different on different monitors, which is not ideal.

Couldn't you try a different font color for the description? The image will look different on different monitors, which is not good.

By the way, that's a very good idea!

By the way, that's a very good idea!

Can we test different options? And is it possible to do this for all maps?

Is it possible to apply this to all maps?

Well, that's the idea – it will apply to all maps. If a map doesn't have its own unique settings on the loading screen, the standard one will be used...

Can I test different options?

What do you mean by that?!

So, what?!

To understand which font color will look best. Although I don't understand what's unreadable there.

The English version of the mod is ready. Many thanks to Lokken and Uraabk.

And I almost forgot to share an interesting “figure” with you, friends! The number of heroes in the expanded version is 412!

NHF is growing! Dyrman, thank you so much for the mod! And to all the other authors as well! I hope to find time to play soon. I like the changelog :) It would be great to bring back the old Zehir, who would take Utopia in the second week :smile08: Now it will be difficult for a hero with companions on a small map - that's a fact :smile15: P.S.: The mod still makes people learn logarithms to calculate the bonus for Kubera, which is useful ;)

NHF is growing!
Dyrman, huge thanks for the mod! And to the other authors as well!
I hope to find time to play soon.
I like the changelog :)
It would be great to bring back the old Zehir, who took Utopia in the second week :smile08:
Now it will be harder on a hero with companions on a small map - that's a fact :smile15:
P.S.: the mod still makes people know logarithms in order to calculate the bonus for Kubera, it's useful ;)

The archive is getting fatter and fatter)
Zehir has been weakened for the regular version ;)
Why is it harder? The conditions were more difficult in the previous version ;)

P.S. And arithmetic progression ;)

Well, it's possible to increase the number of lore-based heroes (again:D). A new game in the Ashan universe has been released: http://ru.mightandmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Might_and_Magic:_Elemental_Guardians
It was released in May – maybe you already know about it.
It features a couple of new characters (several elves, Sandro's sister, and a not-so-dead Shantiir king).

I've added this game to my list for extracting heroes, and also this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z0bPsKt7xE

It might be possible to extract something after all, if there are icons available.

Umm... why is it in Chinese and not English?