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In reply to medstrax
13 years ago
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medstrax
A hellish map. Not in terms of difficulty, but in terms of how tedious it is to play. It's not a strategy game; it's one long quest, and a very monotonous one at that. Everything boils down to finding a hidden passage, an artifact, or an event. There's nothing else interesting on this map. The battles, especially after obtaining the vulnerability medal, are nothing but a yawn-inducing experience.
P.S. Regarding the game freezing, starting at a certain point. This isn't a bug in the map itself, but in the game's heroes. On practically any map where there are legions of troops and the game has been running for more than 10-15 months, you can encounter this. Without going into the reasons, I found a solution. Using a debugger, it's easy to see that the program enters an infinite loop in two places when the game freezes. If you 'nop' the conditional jumps that are used to exit the loop at that moment, the subsequent execution proceeds without any visible issues. In any case, I haven't noticed any deviations in the gameplay. You can, of course, patch the executable file on the disk in advance, but I prefer to patch only the memory when the game freezes.
Could you provide more details? This map freezes at the 18th month, after I defeated the last Air God, and then it just hangs
13 years ago
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It happens, especially after playing for a long time. I've encountered this myself. They say it's a bug in the game. The only solution I know is to use a more recent HD mod.
In reply to Lider1
13 years ago
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Thank you for the advice and links, everything worked, and I completed the map. By the way, after the Godfire, the game is far from over. I think it would have been impossible to win the last couple of battles without 100,000 liches...
12 years ago
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When you need to go from the city of Princetown to kill King Arthur, and there's no way through the cursed land, can you give me some advice on how to get there?
12 years ago
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When you need to go from the city of Princetown to kill King Arthur, there's no passage through the cursed land. Can you give me a hint on how to get through?
You need to pass this place using the "Walk on Water" spell; the Castle of King Arthur will be to the left.

In general, after about 16 months of gameplay, freezes started to occur at the beginning of a new day. I tried the latest HDmod, but it didn't help. What can I do?
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12 years ago
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zin-renat, please upload a save file before transitioning to the next day. Let's see if it will lag for others as well, with different versions of the HD mod. Another option: I managed to overcome the lag on one map by completing the turn in WoG, then saving the game and continuing again in SoD.
In reply to Marmot
12 years ago
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Marmot
zin-renat, please upload the save file before transitioning to the next day. Let's see if it will lag for others, with different versions of the HD mod.
Another option: I managed to overcome the lag on one map by completing the turn in WoG, then saving the game and continuing again in SoD.
I have already tried variations with different clients. Once, it helped, but it doesn't help anymore.
Here is the save file. It lags on the computer's turn immediately after the current day.
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12 years ago
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zin-renat, good news: I loaded your save, took a look, didn't change anything, didn't move anyone. I ended the turn – everything is normal, a new day has begun. Yes, I have version 3.07f of the HD mod.
12 years ago
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Marmot, could you please upload this specific version of the mod and my save file with the additional day completed? After reading this thread, I tried to find version 3.07 of the mod, but the oldest version in the archive on the official website is 3.46, so I decided to use the latest version – 3.65, but that didn't help.
In reply to Niemand
12 years ago
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zin-renat, the game freezes during the exchange between Marius and Ash – this is noticeable if you open the entire map using a cheat code and set "Enemy Speed" to the minimum in the system options. The problem lies in the number of Magogs that Marius has. If you reduce their number by about three thousand, the freezing will stop. This is clearly a bug in the game when exchanging computer-controlled heroes.
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12 years ago
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zin-renat, the reason for the crashes you're experiencing might be that you haven't configured the mod after installing it: currently, by default, the mod settings have everything disabled that doesn't match the SoD gameplay (highlighted in the "HD+" options group), including fixing the original bugs in the game. Enable HD+ or find these fragments in the ini file:
< AutofixMap > = 2
{
Automatically fixing Adventure Map bugs (hero clones/ghosts, gray towns, heroes controlled by two players, ... )
0 - option is turned off
1 - option is turned on for SoD/Complete/HotA only
2 - option is turned on
default value is 1
}
and
< ImprovedGameplay > = 1
{
fixes gameplay bugs (Artifacts merchant, "Not Me", Refugee camp, arrow towers, endless AI turns, Clone cast, ... )
ATTENTION! You should turn this option off if you play a pure SoD offline tournament!
0 - option is turned off
1 - option is turned on for SoD/Complete/HotA only
2 - option is turned on
default value is 1
}
and set these parameters to 1.
12 years ago
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GoedenDag, thank you.
Stormbringer, and how can this be done?
Marmot, after installing the active (not grayed out) checkbox for Improved Gameplay in version HD mod 3.07, which GoedenDag uploaded, the game stopped freezing during the next turn. So far, everything seems to be working normally, and I will continue playing. Thank you very much! :)
In reply to zin-renat
12 years ago
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zin-renat

Stormbringer, and how can this be done?

You can view it using HeroesInfo, and you can fix it, for example, with this program - http://vitonic.narod.ru/heroes3se.html.
Or, better yet, ask baratorch to fix this bug in the next version of the HD Mod - the reason is known, and a save file with the bug exists.

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