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Official message from Community Manager Irina:

hello heroes!

we can definitely see that you are losing patience regarding the coming patch: some of you are very bothered with bugs and you are challenging us to release the patch as soon as possible. We are often asked at least to communicate about the content and the date. The point is we don't want to speculate with this information by promising things if we are not sure it will be available. That is why we are taking our time to make an official announcement.
On the other hand, we are currently running technical tests, so we are waiting for the confirmation that everything is OK and the patch 1.2 will solve issues and won't create new ones. We will make an official announcement very shortly as it is obvious for us that it is important to you. Sorry for the delay, guys ...

While waiting, please, take into account that we are checking out your feedback on our official forums, facebook, twitter and community forums. The Customer support is providing us with a detailed report of bugs received from the community. This service is very important to us. So, don't hesitate to contact your CS and report bugs.

We'd like to thank you for your support and also your patience. I'll try to get back to you with more news in the coming days.

Kind regards,

Ubi_Irina

And she added (Ubi_Irina):

"No, town screens are on our list of improvements to be done, but it will not be included in the coming patch for sure.
There is no officially stated date yet. I'd like to tell you more, but as far as it has not been decided yet, it is not possible .
An every week patch will not be possible: it is rather time-consuming for developers to test it, so once a month looks more realistic to me. This suggestion will be communicated to the developers. After that, let's see together if there is enough content to be patched or hopefully it will not be necessary any more"

• Major bugs have been fixed (Plague Week, Dynasty Weapons, creature abilities, scripts, localization);
• Skirmish AI improvements:
  1) Now tries to defend all its cities (previously, it only focused on the starting city);
  2) Now the AI defends a city if it deems it necessary. Previously, it always surrendered if the player's army was stronger than the computer's army;
  3) Always defends the last city if it can inflict significant losses on the enemy;
  4) Thinks faster, 2-3 times faster;
  5) Improved coordination between the main and secondary AI heroes;
  6) Improved AI map exploration and priority selection;
  7) Calculates how many soldiers a target can gather before the hero reaches it and decides whether to pursue the target;
  8) Improved use of city portals;
  9) In FFA, it tries to defeat weaker players;
  10) Fixed a situation where the AI attacks an opponent much stronger than its army;
  11) Fixed an issue where the AI divides its army between two heroes for no reason;
  12) Fixed an AI error in calculating the required movement points for a portal, resulting in the city remaining undefended;
  13) Fixed ignoring some buildings on the map;
  14) Fixed some minor bugs;
• AI improvements in combat:
  1) Improved target selection for all units;
  2) Improved use of hero abilities;
  3) Improved use of racial abilities;
  4) Improved selection of hero abilities, different development schemes for Sword/Magic and Blood/Tears heroes;
  5) Improved use of creature abilities;
• Gameplay improvements: Now, troop placement after taking a tactic is remembered.
• Balance:
  1) Fury II-IV level now gives +10 to physical attack instead of +15;
  2) Attacks from own units give 16 points of fury, attacks from enemy units give +8 (previously it was +20/+10 respectively);
  3) Guardian Angel: High morale now gives 70 points instead of 100;
  4) "Recharge" of the Aura of Retribution has been increased to five turns instead of three;
  5) Initiative bonus from Haste has been increased to +12 instead of +10;
  6) Initiative penalty from Slow has been increased to -12 instead of -10;
  7) Initiative bonus from Mass Haste has been increased to +6 instead of +5;
  8) Initiative penalty from Mass Slow has been increased to -6 instead of -5;
  9) Damage from Father-Sky is now 380 units instead of 353 units;
  10) Damage from Air Idol is now 276/318/366 units instead of 240/277/319 units;
  11) Martyr's bonus to physical defense and health is now +10.8%/12.4%/14.3% instead of +21.6%/24.9%/28.6% to physical defense and +13%/15%/17% to health;
  12) Additional damage from Hourglass of the Ages has been increased to 31% (previously it was 21%);
  13, etc.) simple increase/decrease of creature stats.

Irina, can players from Russia participate in this contest? Will we be able to play a duel?

I checked, it is possible if you have the Steam version and, therefore, play on international servers. Unfortunately, it is technically impossible to connect to a purely Russian server from the Ubisoft office (Paris) :-(.

:) Good day, dear Heroes,

for now, you can only meet in a Duel. Playing with a team is only possible through Steam (unfortunately). If we see a large number of people from Russia who want to participate, we will definitely find a solution next time so that you can battle on a Russian server with Russian Heroes.

Sincerely,

Ubi_Irina

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