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Posted by Cepheus at 06:36, 4 Apr 2009:
Dual Classes Mod - Early Beta Released
Prolific modder Magnomagus has released an early beta of the community-created Dual Classes Mod for Heroes V. This preliminary version turns eight of the game's most suitable Necromancers into the classic Death Knight hero class, modifying the Necromancers' skill wheel and hero specialties to create a unique advancement path for both the might and magic-based aspects of the Necropolis.
Grab the beta here, where you can also keep an eye on discussions about balance and ideas relating to the upcoming mod.
Posted by Cepheus at 13:59, 9 Mar 2009:
News in the Community
First of all, a greeting to all resident heroes: I'm Cepheus, taking over as an acting news coordinator for Age of Heroes following GenieLord's departure. GenieLord's contribution was vast, and I hope to act as a worthy replacement in his absence.
Without further ado...
Rumours relating to the development of Heroes of Might and Magic VI persist at the Ubisoft forums, Celestial Heavens and our own Heroes Community. It's been hinted at that Ubisoft have abandoned Russian developer team Nival Interactive in favour of a new, undisclosed Hungarian developer for the project, although no official details have emerged.
Elvin's Duel Map Tournament for Heroes V is ongoing, and each updated version of the Duel Map brings the competition closer to a perfect balance between factions. The duellers heartily welcome new entrants, so feel free to join if you're up for a few battles. Even if you don't consider yourself a strategic genius - or strategic at all - don't be discouraged from competing, as several newer players have claimed high rankings in previous rounds. In addition, a WoG Duels Tournament for Heroes III is also getting started - entrants are equally welcome to participate.
In modding, Heroes Community member kainc has started work on a very promising and interesting mod for Heroes V - the Oblivion faction, designed to replace the Inferno with new creatures, heroes and graphics. Though unreleased as yet, work on the mod is progressing quickly - keep your eyes on his thread for a beta, most likely in the near future.
Meanwhile, a team of talented Heroes III fans at the Russian forums continue to develop the Horn of the Abyss mod. There's so much content in HotA that the mod promises to act as an unofficial expansion for the base game. The mod's creators appear to have worked around the previously-unbreakable town limit coded into Heroes III, as the three new factions included in HotA will not replace existing ones. Currently, the developers' tentative release date is April-May 2009. Check out their thread at HC for the latest news and updates.
Posted by Valeriy at 22:31, 5 Mar 2009:
Server Move Completed
Age of Heroes and Heroes Community have been moved to a shared web host again. There are a couple of reasons. Firstly our dedicated server was severely underused and its high cost was not being justified. Secondly our dedicated server got infected with trojans few times and got used by the hackers to send spam. Protecting against these ongoing attacks required either additional expenses or time that I don't have. So I've decided to go back to shared hosting which now offers much more than what it did two years ago. Host staff will be taking care of defending against these server-level hacker attacks.
Transition only caused few hours of downtime and there are good news. Firstly we will be keeping all of our functionality including HC filespace and e-mail forwarders. And secondly contrary to logic pages seem to load even faster than before. We were put on a very powerful shared server with not many other clients :)
Posted by VokialBG at 11:22, 26 Oct 2008:
Goblin pick pocketers, ceremonies and Orlando in ToK
Remember Tales of Karador? One of the greatest H5 modding projects ever started? I'm sure you do! The best news for you, is that we have some fresh info from ToK's kitchen!
Still all the info is consist of hints and screenshots.
A stolen artifact?! - Take a look at the goblin pick pocketers event, Pendant of Mastery was stolen!
... you'll meet a character... - Orlando is still alive! And he is ready to crush you in the name of the Red Order!
A Ceremony? - Save the poot village man!
Posted by GenieLord at 13:35, 9 Oct 2008:
HoMM6: what factions we want to see
The results of the great faction poll have been advertised by Gnoll_Mage. On the poll, the participants were asked to choose which factions they would like to see in Heroes of Might and Magic 6, out of 44 options.
The most wanted factions:
Elves
Demons
Necropolis
Orcs
Lizardmen
Wizards
Faceless
Humans
Dark Elves
Trolls / Ogres
Beastmen
For further details and participation in future polls about HOMM6, press here.
Posted by ThE_HyDrA at 08:09, 21 Sep 2008:
Heroes V Tribes of the East Manual v.3.1 Released
The fan manual that contains the changes from the latest 3.1 patch has been released by Sfidanza at Heroes-fr, and can be downloaded from the Manuals page. The manual itself is packed with a number of new changes, but thankfully, it also comes with a changelog. Further localisations of the manual into other languages are ongoing.
Posted by VokialBG at 03:49, 5 Sep 2008:
New modding surprises!
New modding surprises! First we have stack of new NCF creatures by Fauch, try his new inventions: Centaur Captain, MystoDragon, Ninja and Power Mage.
Staing on the NCF subject, Radar updated his NCF Crystal Dragon to 1.01, for changelog and download link click here.
Disturbed-Gnu released new skin for the classical NCF Stormbird.
And the most important - the New Creatures Framework (NCF), was updated for version 3.1 by SimonaK, visit his thread, if you wish to install it. For full list of NCF creatures and info, visit Warmonger's new thread here.
But not only our NCF worshipers are in favour. Fiur updated Xazardous Combat MOD for H5 TotE 3.1, and it's ready for download. He also announced his new map - the Abysmal, keep an eye on the thread for updates! BAD updated his fast leveling mod to 1.2 (supporting TotE 3.1).
You wish for more? We can't leave our dear mappers, visit Asheera's scripting pettern if you wish to create maps with mixed neutrals.
Related:
Editing the DE (tutorial) | Necro Power Pack (fun mod) | Necro creatures (fun mod)
Posted by GenieLord at 03:48, 24 Aug 2008:
HC Olympic Games
Right from Beijing, the Olympic games have come to HC! Right now, we are playing HC Treasure Hunt, Trivia and Riddles solving, DRAMATIC Writing, H5 Duel Battles and Quoting Wars, but later we'll also have H5 and H3 knowledge quizzes, simple modding contest and H3 creature contest.
Medals will be given to the winners of the competitors, who represent the different forums of HC. The forum with the largest number of Medals at the end of the HC Olympic Games will greatly rewarded.
The games take place at the Age of Heroes Coliseum.
For further information about the Olympics and the games, click here.
Posted by VokialBG at 16:03, 19 Aug 2008:
Heroes 5 TotE Patch 3.1 has been released!
The long wait is over! Patch 3.1 has been finally released! We learned this at the official Heroes 5 forum, thanks to post by Fabrice Cambounet (Produser of the the webbased game "Heroes kingdom", Heroes 5 and it's first addon Hammers of Fate). You can read several answers and explanations about Heroes 5, future patches and the webbased Heroes Kingdoms in his post.
For 3.1 changelog and discussion, visit this topic, at Heroes Community, posted by Asheera.
Download links:
European and US versions (120Mb)
Czech version (114Mb)
Hungarian and Polish version (116Mb)
Russian version (113Mb)
Chinese version (114Mb)
Korean version (114Mb)
Posted by VokialBG at 07:41, 18 Jul 2008:
New NCF based creatures
You want new NCF based creatures for your game? Here are the latest released NCF creatures:
Try Radar's Dark Champion, Skeleton Mage or Crystal Dragon. You need even more undead units? Download Fauch's Ghost Knight MOD. If this isn't enought visit Eugen's thread and find the HoMM5 version of the Magog.