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That's precisely the problem. After the unsuccessful release (I can't bring myself to call it a failure) of the fourth installment, the entire series revolves around "how can we add something new to the framework of the third game?" In the fifth game, this still made sense and looked decent, but 10 years have passed, and nothing has changed.

Moreover, things are going backward when the series director announces Heroes 7 as "a collection of the best songs of an ancient, well-known rock band." The modders will clearly do a better job, for free, and give it away to the people.

With the requirements for computer specs and 3D enhancements, the heroes will certainly suffer. The problem is that excessive beauty and turn-based strategy are fundamentally incompatible. The main strength of the Heroes series has always been and should remain in the diversity of mythological characters and strategies for implementing random scenarios. Everything else is distracting. The maximum would be an isometric view like in the fourth game or pseudo-3D (and yet, at the time of the fourth game's release, there was already the possibility of implementing an engine with full camera rotation, but talented developers understood its inappropriateness in a purely logical game).

Problems with the 3D perspective start to appear when you play Competitive matches against strong opponents. It's incredibly annoying when you make wrong clicks or simply don't notice chests, artifacts, etc., just because the camera angle wasn't right. Because of these small things and their consequences, the outcome of the game changes significantly.