The Heroes of Might and Magic II 0.9.17 new version released, version in which the audio improvements in the game stand out, as well as general improvements to the AI, among other things.
For those unaware of Heroes of Might and Magic II, they should know what it is a turn-based tactical strategy game developed in 1996. The history of the title continues with the canonical ending of its predecessor, culminating in the victory of Lord Morglin Ironfist.
Main new features of Heroes of Might and Magic II 0.9.17
In this new version that is being presented, some changes have been made in relation to MIDI music, since eliminated delays when playing MIDI songs during the game, in addition to the fact that optimizations to improve the quality of music and MIDI.
Other changes that stand out from the new version is that the case in which the sounds of the adventure map are still played when opening the main menu is solved, in addition to the AI received improvements, well now you can keep some creatures in reserve for the defense of the castle, as well as that the Genie special ability was improved to 20% as it is in the original game and the log messages during the battle are corrected.
Also within the changes related to AI it is mentioned that a new role has been added for AI heroes - the courier, the use of AI spells in the adventure map has been optimized, as well as the logic of the AI to defend the castles has been improved and the use of the spell in Adventure Map by AI has been improved
In addition to that, also highlights the new sound for the object on the map «Foundry», Taken from unused resources from the original game, the colors of some UI windows have also been changed to match the "evil" color scheme, and new algorithms have been added to protect castles and cities.
While on the part of the error solutions it is mentioned that se fixed potential sync issues for audio playback, as well as fixed possible crashes during sound playback and distance evaluation during Scouting and fixed invalid logic when neutral monsters whose number was set in the Editor did not grow at all.
Of the other changes that stand out from the new version:
- AI stopped hiring unnecessary heroes unnecessarily.
- You can now remap "hotkeys" in-game.
- allow remapping in-game hotkeys to add The Price of Loyalty gear to credits
- display a window indicating about missing video files for campaigns
- fix the class of a hero named Joseph
- fix extra shadow being drawn for Hero Screen dialog at high resolutions
- align the position of the File Options dialog
- fix campaign window button flickering
- fix missing column of pixels in map stage info window
- update french translation
- allow different translations of “Red Tower”
- implement AI courier hero role for better logistics
- fix display of negative resources in dialog
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it on the release of this new version. You can check the details In the following link.
How to install Heroes of Might and Magic II on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested to be able to install this game on your system, must have at least a demo version of the game Heroes of Might and Magic II to be able to play it.
To do this, simply use one of the downloadable scripts offered to obtain the demo version of the original game.
So that for Linux an explicit installation of SDL is required and for this, just script / Linux according to the package of your operating system and execute the file.
install_sdl_1.sh
O
install_sdl_2.sh
After the script has to be executed found in / script
demo_linux.sh
To be able to download the demo of the game that is needed for a minimum development.
Once this is done, just execute make in the root directory of the project. For SDL 2 compilation, the command has to be run before compiling the project.
export WITH_SDL2="ON"
The project code is written in C ++ and is distributed under the GPLv2 license. If you want to know more about the project or consult its source code, you can do it from the link below.