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1. While playing online, I noticed that the opponent's random map generator (RMG) on a standard map generates tents and guardians. I was surprised because I've never seen this happen on my own. Then I tried to ask what kind of RMG it was, but he wouldn't answer, saying I should find out myself. So, here I am, looking for answers :-) Also, it didn't generate any healing forts or cartographers (or maybe other useless objects, who knows?). I know that to some extent, this possibility appears in *Warlords of the West*, but I don't play *Tales of Terror* or *Warlords of the West* at all. We were playing 100% on *Shadow of Death*, except with the HDmod, but I have version 2.98f, and my opponent has some unknown version, but it's probably also the same. Is this the work of the tournament module? I thought it only appeared in version 3.0... In general, tell me what you know about this :-)

2. Are there any patches for *Shadow of Death* (similar to patch 4.1.1.1 for *Platinum*), that eliminate morale? Or are there any patches that change something in the game but don't change the gameplay? Besides HDmod, of course)

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And here's another, easier question:
On GoG.com, there's the original *Complete* edition, but it weighs almost one and a half times more than almost any *Complete* or *Platinum* edition I've seen. What is this due to?

1. Regarding tents, guardians, healing forts, etc., they are not affected by rmg.txt, but by zaobj.txt, where all tents will be removed from all templates.

2. Why do you need any patches? There are generally accepted versions of the game on which online games are played; just play those.

3. There can be many reasons. There might be extra videos from campaigns somewhere, or too many saves in the games folder... It doesn't matter; the main thing is that it works.

Hmm. I checked it out out of curiosity. Indeed:

download size 820 MB

This is explained there as well:

Bonus content included for FREE with purchase:
3 manuals (209 pages)
soundtrack
creature tables

That's 120 MB of extra stuff. Would you really buy this, in English, and for a whole $9.99?!

Marmot, 2 years ago, I would have done it. But now I understand that it's not really necessary. :-) I read it carelessly, or rather, to be honest, I wasn't reading about the size on the GOG website.

Dirty_Player, thank you. :-)

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http://www.forum.legendyheroes.pl/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=760

found it on a Polish website

there is a changelog, but honestly, I didn't see some of the files that are listed there, and it's a little unclear how to generate creatures on lava %)

if possible, either provide this folder, if anyone has it (it seems the download is no longer available), or briefly explain what's what

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I'm slowly starting to understand the objects; I just need to find out what the large number of ones/zeros means. The second column, as I understand it, is special for each territory (9 in total, not including rock).

Vaflya, now it's even "stranger": why... do you need the Polish TE and their stupid rules, which are significantly different from the Russian ones (they were just discussing this here the other day)?!:eek: Find a "normal" Russian SoD/Complete Collection - "and you'll be happy!";)

In total, 120 MB of unnecessary content. Would you really buy this, in English, and for a whole $9.99?!

A whole three hundred rubles. I didn't quite understand the fuss about such a small amount of money in the Diablo thread, but after googling a city in Belarus, everything became clear. ;)
It's better to steal it from torrents or somewhere else.

Morning, I'm not falling for that trolling. And how much do you copycats get paid for this propaganda?;) We've already figured everything out. If you want to buy it, that's your right! And I have the right to decide: what to buy, what to download, and what to just ignore completely. Some games, praised by many, turn out to be utter garbage.:( And Diablo 3 is just Torchlight (which, in turn, was copied from Diablo), only prettier! I liked Torchlight.
Here, I just wanted to convey a simple idea: if you replace the original game with something unknown, it almost certainly guarantees problems and headaches; people have been through this 100500 times: someone writes that it doesn't work for them, they try to help, and then it turns out that they have a "creation" from who knows whose clumsy hands!..

I had Heroes 3 Complete, and it worked perfectly.

A whole three hundred rubles. I didn't quite understand even in the Diablo thread why people get so worked up over such a small amount.

It's not about the 300 rubles, but about the principle itself.

Not a penny!

A whole three hundred rubles. I didn't quite understand even in the Diablo thread why people get so worked up over small amounts.

I guess you're used to throwing around your parents' money, not earning it yourself. And money earned through hard work is just too precious to give away for something uncertain, especially when that something might turn out to be worthless.

Just a little more, hopefully to resolve the financial issue. Morning, I opened your profile again and looked at your age. No, I can't explain the essence of it to you, even if I wanted to; you didn't live (or rather, didn't survive) in the turbulent 90s, and the name "USSR" is only known to you from textbooks. Be glad that you live in a new, happy era! As for "Diablo 3": I saw videos on YouTube, and Madison's review, and I read articles, and I'll say this: Blizzard won't get a single penny from me for this masterpiece, not on principle!

Well, as for me, I never paid money for games and I never will! I'd rather buy a game disc in a store, and it will stay with me for years, and I can install it whenever and wherever I want! By the way, I've had the Heroes anthology disc for about 2 years now, installed it about 100 times due to reinstalling Windows or just Heroes crashing on me)) but this disc cost 200 rubles, and it has all of Heroes 1-5 and all addons — all in all, a pretty nice purchase. But downloading games for money is utter nonsense! Your computer breaks down because of some crap and the money's wasted. Also, you can't always transfer them to something like a flash drive or other electronic media. So it's better to buy discs, from trusted places. Much more reliable, and you won't pick up extra viruses)))
P.S. And in my opinion, it might even be cheaper)
P.P.S. Is it just me, or were there links on HeroesWorld somewhere to download the third game?

I was born in 1990, which should answer the age question. Even a student, who is arguably the least productive social group, earns an average of twenty thousand rubles in Moscow. In the regions, of course, it's less. That should be enough for ice cream, a game every ten years, and the English version of the Heroes 3 anthology (very elite, no one knows how you can play it in English instead of Russian?!).
In Ukraine and Belarus, the conditions are different, so I won't say anything about that. But three hundred rubles is not even nine hundred. In the Heroes shop, SoD costs one hundred rubles, and RoE costs one hundred and fifty. That's enough for one day of travel on public transport. Well, I don't know, to each their own.

Am I the only one, or did HeroesWorld have links to download the third game somewhere?

There were links.

Actually, we weren't talking about the Polish version of the game, just so you know. We were talking about GoG.ru; look it up on the wiki to find out what it is. And for me, 300 rubles is like 4 packs of cigarettes, which I smoke in 2 days. So, these days, it's not a lot of money. As for those who are used to getting everything for free, go ahead and get viruses and non-working software, while I'll go to the Union and get it there, knowing that my computer doesn't have WoG or other foreign stuff installed. I personally check every game I install. Right now, I have a licensed version of SoD, which I'm completely happy with. I found the configuration files for patching in 3.2, asked someone for help, and wrote my own patcher so as not to add anything unnecessary to the executable. As a result, I have a stable version that has been working for 7 years without any crashes or unexplained lags. Regarding the game settings, I got some help on DF, figured out where everything is and what it does, and I thank them for that, as well as the local community. We were talking about modifying SoD specifically, not involving WT in it, which, when installed in the first game, gave a script error, even though I, as a rather attentive person, meticulously followed the instructions and installed everything as it should be. That's why I don't use anyone's creations made with clumsy hands. :-)

This isn't a criticism of asm and the team; you guys are doing great and moving forward, but there are just people for whom this isn't necessary, and there are also skeptics like me