fheroes2 is a recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
The launch of the new version of Heroes of Might and Magic II 1.0.4, which comes with various improvements, bug fixes and, above all, as the main novelty, support for compatibility with widescreen resolutions and compatibility with scaled resolutions, 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 1.0.4
In this new version of Heroes of Might and Magic II 1.0.4 that is presented, as mentioned at the beginning, the main novelty is the support for widescreen resolutions and as well as the update of the compatibility with scaled resolutions
Another notable change is the support improvements for different languages in the virtual keyboard and a button to change the language has been added.
In addition to that, we can also finde the ability to skip the musical intro has been implemented in battle by clicking the right or middle mouse button or pressing Esc, as well as added titles for many in-game info windows and descriptions for user interface elements.
Some spells now have a visual interpretation its ability to be used under the conditions of the game, improved AI behavior on adventure map related to the interaction with some objects and the path of nearby heroes.
Of the other changes that stand out of this new version:
- Fix for no delay after animating creature grimaces and before doing the next move
- Fix when it was not shown that the enemy city or castle has no garrison if the kingdom has no thieves guilds
- Fixed idle animation delay when casting any spell
- Fix for creature idle animation freezing during Blind/Paralyze spellcasting
- Fixed an issue that caused an AI hero standing next to Stone Liths to block the path of another AI hero standing on these Stone Liths
- Added checks to detect corrupted data resources
- Improved the resource value estimation algorithm for AI
- Fix logic and reward of Daemon Cave item for AI
- Ability to cancel waiting for the end of the pre-battle sound
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"
You should know that 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.