fheroes2 is a recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
Announced the launch of the new version of Heroes of Might and Magic II 1.0.2, version in which about 60 bug fixes have been made, in addition to adding some improvements and above all adding a virtual keyboard for the Android version.
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 1.0
In this new version that is presented of Heroes of Might and Magic II 1.0.2, they have proposed new game settings icons, as well as that a optimized rendering and reduced power consumption, In addition, a virtual keyboard was added for the Android version.
For the part of the improvements within the game, we can find that the AI gained the ability to use the City Portal spell, as well as that a part of the construction of the captain's dwelling in the city of sorceresses has been completed and that an indication of the duration of the game was provided in the characteristics of the save file.
Added spell damage display when hovering over a target in combat, fixed pathfinding logic in combat and some spells, and improved all translations.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Fixed display of Haunted Mines on minimap and View World
- Added the missing part of the Captain's Quarter in Sorceress Town
- Fixed reporting of battle casualties when a non-true Resurrection spell was used during battle
- Change in the logic of reinforcing the army of the guest hero during the defense of the castle
- Added the logic of AI heroes using the city portal
- Fix for high CPU usage during battle while using higher animation speeds
- Battle AI tactics estimation fix
- Fix pathfinding not updating after revealing fog when visiting Magellan Map
- Fixed experience calculation for AI controlled heroes while visiting Tree of Knowledge
- Added a frame for a hero portrait in the quick info dialog
- Added missing experience displayed in the Tree of Knowledge window
- Fixed music effects while visiting an empty object in Adventure Map
- View World rendering optimization
- Added tooltip damage information for single target attack spells during battle
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
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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 run 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.