I created a Modded 8 player Map for the Demo.

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Due to the easy moddability of the game I've made a 8 player map for the demo that everyone can download and play now.

It features... 8 players, Free for All, Classic map.
You start with only 1 hero and 1 city but there is another city nearby you can capture.

Active Heroes capped at 3 per faction. You can also change it to 1 to make it a single hero map if you prefer.

It's just a json map template... zero risk of trojans or malware or anything of the kind.
Don't worry your PC is safe :D

It's available for download on my discord. (Because google drive has download limits)

https://discord.gg/MQKnrrt


EDIT:

---> You can now download it here. <---- Release v1.15
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JQ6dyjZ8Ub6zbgM3kr_J2MOHy3PpkkZO/view?usp=sharing

You no longer have to overwrite the original demo maps, though you will see duplicate maps with the same names appearing.

Installation Instructions
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Go to this folder or use steam to open game folder and find the "StreamingAssets/map_templates folder"

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE_Data\StreamingAssets\map_templates

Unzip the contents of this modpack into the folder. It no longer overwrites existing maps but in the demo it will show up with the same map names. This cannot be changed or fixed as these are demo restrictions.

[OPTIONAL STEP]
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Backup or Rename your Core.zip in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE_Data\StreamingAssets

Then Move/Copy the modded Core.zip into the folder and overwrite if necessary.

There are a few key balance changes in this modded Core.zip

1. Rebalancing the cost of buildings to slow down the pace of the game by increasing the cost of castle upgrades by 20% to 100%

2. Massively Nerf Global Neutral Movement Spells. This prevents portal abuse and makes the game more challenging

3. The result of these changes makes easy difficulties easier and harder difficulties harder and games last a bit longer

Kaen's UnFair'n'Square
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Kaen's UnFair'n'Square is an 8 player map designed for slower paced development. There is plenty of farming you can do within your starting region and border guards have been greatly boosted to allow you between 3-6 weeks to develop your army sufficiently.

Start Heroes = 1 (Capped at 2 Initially and up to 3 Max when you take another city)
Start Cities = 1 (With One more city within your start region that is of a different faction)

Map Type = Classic (Kill all enemies and take all their Cities)
Map Size = 192 x 192
Players = 8
Castles = 24
Map Difficulty = Easy

This map appears as a Classic map called "Fair'n Square" but shows up as a 192x192 map with 8 players.

Kaen's Wasteland of Doom
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Kaen's Wasteland of Doom is a 8 player map designed for seekers of extreme challenges.
It is designed with huge contested zones accessible by many players that portal to the many treasure zones in the map. Will you farm the riches in the treasure zones or will you crumble to the armies on your way to glory?

Designed specifically to remove expert player strategies that make the game too easy.
You will find out once you play it.

Start Heroes = 1 (Capped at 2 Initially and up to 10 Max when you take more cities)
Start Cities = 1 (With One more city in the next region that is of a different faction)

Map Type = Classic (Kill all enemies and take all their Cities)
Map Size = 192 x 192
Players = 8
Castles = 24
Map Difficulty = Medium

This map appears as a Classic map called "Jebus Cross" but shows up as a 192x192 map with 8 players.

Kaen's Arena of Champions
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Kaen's Arena of Champions is a 4 player Single Hero map designed for huge epic battles.
It is carefully designed to put the player up against a Boss AI and his 2 Minion AIs.
The Boss (Blue/Player2) has signed up for the Arena of Champions tournament and gone afk farming for some sweet gear.
He has assigned his 2 minions Orange/Player3 and Green/Player4 to take out his competition before the tournament starts.

This mission, should you choose to accept... will put you up against 2 AI with equal resources. If you beat them and/or survive the 81 days till the start of the tournament... you have the chance of taking out the big boss and becoming the ultimate champion of the arena. So what are you waiting for... Punk?

Start Heroes = 1 (Single Hero Map, You do not lose if your hero dies but you can never hire more than 1 hero)
Start Cities = 1 (With Two more cities in the neighbouring regions that are of the same faction)

Map Type = Custom Single Hero Hybrid Map with Battle of Champions Win Condition
(You have to beat the Big Boss in 81 Days in the Arena to Win, beating his minions doesn't matter)

Map Size = 160 x 160
Players = 4
Castles = 14
Map Difficulty = Easy

This map appears as a Classic map called "Shamrock" but shows up as a 160x160 map with 4 players.

[Elindos Phar & Family]

When I modify files they are not taken into the build.
Is there something I have been missing?
such as adding a hero etc.

Also I don't think it's really nice to send people to your discord here (adding that you are a twitch channel you may be farming for social), I think there should be sharing places with less limits.

good thing you modded it though.

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Originally posted by Elindos Phar & Family:

When I modify files they are not taken into the build.
Is there something I have been missing?
such as adding a hero etc.

Also I don't think it's really nice to send people to your discord here (adding that you are a twitch channel you may be farming for social), I think there should be sharing places with less limits.

good thing you modded it though.

Well Im a game dev not a modder... and the last time i shared a mod... google suspended my fileshare for "Exceeding download limits" in less than 24hrs.

So anyway I just made this for myself and my viewers wanted it so...

This is the google drive link... but if this goes offline or gets blocked /shrug.

EDIT: Removed old link. Download the link in the first post.


C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE_Data\StreamingAssets\map_templates

Go to this folder or use steam to open game folder and find the "StreamingAssets/map_templates folder". Make a Backup of the original map template first!!! Then replace it with this modded one for 8 player games.

[Elindos Phar & Family]

Thank you for sharing this.

So I guess we can modify existing attributes/maps but I failed to have new heroes/new maps (new entities) validated by the build, there may be some hidden requirements.

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Originally posted by Elindos Phar & Family:

Thank you for sharing this.

So I guess we can modify existing attributes/maps but I failed to have new heroes/new maps (new entities) validated by the build, there may be some hidden requirements.

Welcome

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Made a lot of updates since... mostly to map balance and challenge. Also fixed a bunch of smaller map bugs.

It's now a 192 x 192 map with 32 Cities for 8 players.

Take note that it is not a Solo Hero Map... but you will be spending some time with only 1 city and the base game caps you to 1 hero per city. Even though the max heroes are set at 3 per player, you still have to own 3 cities to recruit 3 heroes.

[Spiderbyte]

Originally posted by Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG:

Due to the easy moddability of the game I've made a 8 player map for the demo that everyone can download and play now.

Seems to work! Will be fun to play against 7 Ai opponents.

[itsTwobob TTV]

SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE.exe" -window-mode borderless -logFile "d:\Playerlog.txt"

does indeed log things. many many things

[Spiderbyte]

Originally posted by itsTwobob TTV:

SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE.exe" -window-mode borderless -logFile "d:\Playerlog.txt"

does indeed log things. many many things

Playing the updated mod now. Works very well so far 1 hr in even gave your mod a shout out in my positive review.

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Originally posted by Spiderbyte:

Originally posted by itsTwobob TTV:

SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE.exe" -window-mode borderless -logFile "d:\Playerlog.txt"

does indeed log things. many many things

Playing the updated mod now. Works very well so far 1 hr in even gave your mod a shout out in my positive review.

Cool! Glad you are enjoying it!

I just made another set of updates to it and fixed some of the roads not generating correctly. Just download it from the same link and replace the old one.

Tips to people trying this out.

Border guards are 2.25x stronger here. So you get MUCH more time to build up before that big AI army comes knocking on your door. This gives you approx 3-6 weeks depending on how well the AI is doing. If you notice that one of your border guards or portal guards was taken out... expect to see the mongols at the gates shortly... but you knew they were coming RIGHT?

[Rico Raccoon]

Apparently there is already a way to increase how many heroes you can hire.

Backup your map_templates folder (located in Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE_Data\StreamingAssets\map_templates)

Pick a map of your choice and open its .json files.

under the "gameRules", set "heroCountMax" to any number limit you prefer. Then save it.

Start the game

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Roads are definitely fixed now! Download the latest version from the same link. :)

That took a bit of work to resolve :P

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Originally posted by Rico Raccoon:

Apparently there is already a way to increase how many heroes you can hire.

Backup your map_templates folder (located in Heroes of Might & Magic Olden Era Demo\HeroesOE_Data\StreamingAssets\map_templates)

Pick a map of your choice and open its .json files.

under the "gameRules", set "heroCountMax" to any number limit you prefer. Then save it.

Start the game

This just increases the MAX heroes you can have as the upper limit.. the base game restricts you to 1 hero per city.

[itsTwobob TTV]

https://github.com/twobob/mnmVis might and magic olden era DEMO json file entity connection visualiser to help mod these files.

[Spiderbyte]

Originally posted by itsTwobob TTV:

woooooo

[Twitch.tv/KAEN_SG]

Final update.

EDIT: Removed old link. Download the link in the first post.

I've completed and won my run vs 8 AIs on my custom map so everything works fine and it's playable from start to finish. So I don't think I'll be updating this any further.

This map will help out players who are struggling with the AI as it gives you more time to develop in relative peace due to the higher strength border guards. Though if you have been developing too slowly it won't save you either.

Hope some peeps had fun with this map, cheers!