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This is the first map from what I hope will be my future campaign, which, like Samurai Persistence, will focus on events that primarily take place between the events of Might and Magic V and Dark Messiah.

Title: "From the Frying Pan into the Fire"
Map type: scenario
Game version: 3.1
Map size: S
Author: Izenhorn
Map description: The time of the Sixth Eclipse and the usurpation of the Griffin Empire by Markel. Godric Unicorn and his daughter Frida are imprisoned. Archbishop Randell and Lord Coldwell Unicorn failed to organize resistance to the alliance of Markel and Isabel, and fled to Irollan, where the armies of the undead and humans are now trying to invade. At the same time, the purge of potential opponents of Markel within the Empire is not yet complete, as Godric's younger brother, Aidan, remains in the Duchy of Unicorn, and, receiving one alarming news after another, seeks to return to his native duchy.

Installation: Copy the folders with files from the archive to the game directory. If you have the GEMRed and GEMOrange mods installed, you only need to copy the Maps folder with the map itself. The map itself also contains mods, in particular, part of the NVS modification for expanding the interface and a mod for Talkboxes.

Link to the archive with the map
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The first map from, as I hope, my future campaign, which, like "The Persistence of the Samurai," will be dedicated to the events that mainly take place between the events of "Fifth" and "Dark Messiah."

I would like to express my gratitude to the people who made it possible for this map to see the light of day:
}{0TT@6bI4 - informational support, guides, help with scripts, TalkBox mod, co-author of the GEMORANGE mod
Xuxo - GEMRed and GEMOrange mods
zahar0z - transferring models from Heroes 6
fktifzobr@mail.ru - help in creating models for the main character of the scenario
Narron - NVS mod
The creators of HoMM5MapScriptsEditor
The Nival Interactive team that developed this wonderful game

A generative neural network, Stable Diffusion, was used to create the portrait-icon of the main character of the scenario, and SteosVoice was used for the voice acting in the in-game videos.

In the "video and audio settings," change the "image quality" from high to normal or lower (regardless of the reason), and the loading screen image will become pixelated. This happens because of mipmaps in the PWL.
Also, it's unclear why there's a mod to change the loading screen image to dragons in a mating dance? No one will see it when they launch the map because there's a PWL in the map itself. You can see the mating dragons by launching any standard map (scenario or multiplayer), but no one keeps a map with mods in the maps/usercampaigns folder, only out of ignorance. It would be logical to choose one or the other.

This is a really cool scenario; I wish you success in creating the campaign so that it can be completed in one go. The map design is simply stunning, especially the fork before the second town. The hero's ability is unique, and I love that. The only drawback I noticed is that it's too easy. Really easy; I even double-checked to make sure I hadn't accidentally created it on Recruit difficulty instead of Hero. All the battles are elementary, the initial battle is simple, and the battle with Laslo is too. I didn't even expect him to appear, but I still defeated him on the first try. You can safely increase the number of enemies by at least twice.

the game crashes after defeating Laslo in the second city of the Empire.

To be more precise, the crash occurred after the cutscene following the victory, but there was no save before the battle. However, I killed him outside the castle without any crashes (hero difficulty), so the mission is completed.

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And yes, thank you for another impressive piece of work.

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I downloaded the map yesterday or the day before, and it seems to be the updated version.