fheroes2 is a recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
A few days ago the release of the new version was announced. Heroes of Might and Magic II 0.9.19, version that incorporates several corrections in the AI, as well as improvements and optimizations in general.
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 0.9.19
In this new version that is presented, it is highlighted that AI algorithms have been greatly improved both evaluate and use artifacts, as well as for fix hero rendering on the move, also for correct starting of resources for AI players, making artifact evaluation for AI more granular, and adding difficulty selection for campaigns.
Another change that stands out is thate added a selection of creatures using arrow buttons for priority transfer between heroes, as well as whate added the ability to instantly end the battle in auto mode by pressing the Q button.
In addition to this, it is also highlighted that I know text generation was implemented on the buttons to create new interface elements in the game, in addition to which a difficulty option is provided to pass the original campaigns.
Fixed rendering of Mine Guardians, as well as optimization for minimap rendering.
Regarding the corrections, we mention those made in a possible blockage in the user interface window, in the representation of the castle on the minimap, in the placement conditions of the Ultimate Artifact, in the representation of the cities for the spell "Seeing cities" and in the representation of tall objects.
Of the other changes that were made in this new version:
- add popup dialogs for well buttons
- generate the MIN button based on the newly added source
- fix AI heroes constantly moving around when they have nothing to do
- update polish translation
- implement some improvements when exchanging an army between heroes
- fix incorrect rendering of some icons in The Price of Loyalty campaign windows
- make the "Show terrain penalty" option the default option
- speed up searching for files on case-insensitive file systems
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.
It is worth mentioning that the recommendation is made to use the SDL2 version for newer operating systems, while SDL1 is preferable for older systems.
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.