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And the computer takes much longer to make its move in Heroes 5 – it gets boring waiting.

Yes, what bothers me most about Heroes 5 is how long the computer takes to make its move. In the first week, everyone moves quickly, but then it becomes so slow that sometimes I think people would move faster. And if you're playing a map with 6 or 7 opponents, it's just awful!

Let's have computers that think quickly in Heroes 6!!!!!

And one more thing: I think it would be more interesting if you could only save the game once a week in Heroes! Otherwise, you fight the computer, lose half your army, and think, "I'll try again," and then you fight again and barely lose anyone, while the computer fights without saving and slowly loses units, and also divides its army. But with this limitation, the chances would be a bit more balanced.

That's how it was done with the 5th installment. They took the old factions from the 3rd game (with some exceptions) and, overnight, to avoid looking completely ridiculous, they came up with a new world. A familiar story, when you want to pass off someone else's work as your own.
Many fell for this trick.
Therefore, statements, the general meaning of which is "Ashan is the best," only make me smile.

And such statements only make me smile.

No, that's not what I meant. They simply couldn't have avoided releasing the 5th installment – Ubisoft was probably not allowed to forget the success of the 3rd game. Well, there was a crisis of ideas or something else... But everyone wants to make money. As a result, things like the movie "The Three Musketeers" or the game "Heroes 5" appear, and the general idea behind them is the same – to make money off a brand created by other people. From the outside, it looks exactly like that and doesn't inspire respect.

The best thing our developers did was the translation of the 1st game by Buki; they would have been better off not touching anything else.
No one is saying that the graphics in the 5th game are unplayable; it's just that the game itself could have been made better, which was beyond the capabilities of a rather mediocre company. At least, most experienced Heroes players didn't like the way the material was presented.

What I don't really like about the 5th game is, oh, I don't know – some sluggishness (although maybe 1GB of RAM is not enough...) that is imposed by the 3D graphics, the camera rotation, although it may not be very noticeable, but it seems to me that the 3rd game is much more dynamic in this regard – it just flies, although it's clear if you compare the graphics). And the computer runs much longer in the 5th game – you get tired of waiting. And the design, it seems to me, could have been better.
But nevertheless, the 5th game is not a cheap fake, but a quite decent game; I enjoyed playing the 4+ expansion.
But what's next? I personally am waiting for the 6th game to be a game with a neat design; you can add all sorts of mystical fogs during magic, embellish nature, come up with a good viewing system, and then the gameplay will be even more enjoyable... although I don't complain about the 3rd game.

But at least they were released by the same team, and with a relatively short break. But a game released under the Heroes brand after 7 years with minor additions, if not counting the graphics, which changed from part to part anyway... makes you think.

This is just a rumor; there was no official information, but I read that the Necropolis faction will not be like usual (all sorts of dark castles with vampires), but like the mages in the 5th game, in an oriental style with all sorts of mummies, etc. Well, personally, I think this is nonsense, and the Necropolis faction should be as it was before; why change it?

Do you think the 5th game should have been released with the graphics of 1997?

Will the 6th "Heroes" come from China?
There are signs that the next installment in the Heroes of Might & Magic series is being prepared by Ubisoft Shanghai.

In the studio's announcement about a job opening on the Gamasutra website, it was said that the new employee would work on a Heroes of MM project, described as a fantasy role-playing game. The project is intended for computers (PC and Mac) and consoles (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3).

The description of the project and the requirements for the applicant suggest that this is the next installment in one of the most famous game series. This is how it was understood on the Kotaku website. Meanwhile, the project name (Heroes of MM) has disappeared from the announcement. There are no official comments from the studio or the publisher yet.

Recently, we have become more familiar with the world of "Heroes" through its strategic component. The action RPG Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is more of a side project. The last role-playing game about the world of "Heroes" – Might & Magic IX: Writ of Fate – was released more than 7 years ago.

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What will the Chinese do, and will the Heroes stop being a strategy game? That would be a disaster. We'll wait and see.