Huge patch today

[Khoryace]

Anyone knows what's up? Any patch notes?

[Misti]

they are gone, and when you try to mod them in they have irina head over thier heads

[Inquerion]

Changes I have noticed (so far) in the new patch 2.1.1 from today:

GOOD:
- ALL DLCs are unlocked, even if you only owned base version of the game (good change and a small redemption from Ubi$oft for removing all multiplayer).
- Somehow you can load old online campaign saves and save them as "Offline game" (they added few new buttons in the menus). I'm positively suprised with this, I was expecting to lose all save games (if it is just temporary, I recommend you to save your unfinished campaigns as "Offline game", so you can continue them in the future).
- You can still create new heroes in "My Dynasty Heroes" submenu.
- You can still play the game with a friend in hotseat mode
- Price of the game on Steam was significantly reduced (makes sense since they removed significant parts of the game).

MIXED:
- All campaign maps are automatically unlocked. I only fully finished Sanctuary campaign so far, but now the game thinks that I played all maps and DLCs and can start any map. For me, it's a positive change (I can finally play these campaigns in the order that makes sense story wise; there is a guide on Steam regarding this), but I suppose some fans will not like this change.

BAD:
- All multiplayer features are removed from the game (yes, it's now impossible to play online game), but Dynasty weapons are still there (though reset to lvl 1.). I'm not sure if you can lvl them now.
- I was hoping that they will somehow allow us to play the game online through LAN/Hamachi/Gameranger, but nope. Many older (some 20+ yrs old) games are still playable with these programs even if official servers are dead for years.
- All in game achievements are reset to 0 and removed. Not sure if you can unlock them again, this time in offline mode.
- Altar of Wishes is completely removed. You can't unlock anything. Same with Bestiary. It's empty. Not sure if you can unlock it in offline mode.
- Game uses more space on your HDD/SSD (13.5 GB now).
- Old problems with launching the game are still not fixed. You still need to set Compatibility mode to Win7 and disable Full Screen Optimization in the exe to run the game on Win10.

[KoT]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Inquerion:

- All in game achievements are reset to 0 and removed. Not sure if you can unlock them again, this time in offline mode.

I've just loaded one of my campaign saves and instantly unblock 8, so there are unshockable.

[Black Drazon]

The official news post: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/might-and-magic-heroes-6/gameplay/article/availability-of-online-features-in-heroes-of-might-and-magic-6/000106804?origin=middle

"the development teams released a game patch that will:

Allow you to continue using your save games for single player and local multiplayer.
Unlock all Dynasty weapons and pets, as well as set them to maximum level from the start.
Unlock all Dynasty starting conditions and traits.
Unlock items that are available at the Altar of Wishes."

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My observations:
- The game still seems to require Ubisoft Connect to launch.
- The Ubisoft Connect rewards are back (the fifth Dynasty Traits slot, the Oblivion Dynasty weapon, and I think the bonus pet was the Dragon Whelp?). They were removed after the rewards server shut down so this is an upgrade over the previous version.
- You can't save your set of Dynasty Traits in the Altar of Wishes and can only do so at the start of a match, instead. Harmless.
- The unlockable heroes are missing, which means their Specializations are missing. While you can create your custom heroes at the Altar, and that's great, that feature has never supported the exclusive Specializations attached to certain, higher-tier (Silver+) heroes. Not sure why the heroes weren't simply unlocked by default like everything else, it seems like it would be so easy, am I overlooking something?

[trystan112]

As of a couple minutes ago, my dynasty weapons are all maxed out, even the ones I didn't do before. All trait slots unlocked, all heroes are available, all portraits are acquired. My custom heroes are gone, but I can make new ones.
Traits you now pick per mission. Achievements were reset which is rough but makes sense since some of those granted uPlay points, which no longer exist.
I'm very glad this happened.

[Black Drazon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Misti:

they are gone, and when you try to mod them in they have irina head over thier heads

You were able to mod the heroes back in? Do you know if their Specializations were still working or were those broken, too?

[ls612]

If anyone else is still having crashing problems with "disable fullscreen optimizations" I found that I also needed to disable the Steam overlay for this game for it to work.

[Freborn[Blood Angel]]

Nooooooooooooooo((( my dinasty((((( 10 yeahs(( lost/ that bad day(

[Misti]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Drazon:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Misti:

they are gone, and when you try to mod them in they have irina head over thier heads

You were able to mod the heroes back in? Do you know if their Specializations were still working or were those broken, too?

there is a mod that add 2 of unique hearos to each faction

[Black Drazon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Misti:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Drazon:

You were able to mod the heroes back in? Do you know if their Specializations were still working or were those broken, too?

there is a mod that add 2 of unique hearos to each faction

Oh, I think you mean RedTreant's mod? Or something else?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ls612:

If anyone else is still having crashing problems with "disable fullscreen optimizations" I found that I also needed to disable the Steam overlay for this game for it to work.

Not me, fwiw. Windows 11.

[Misti]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Drazon:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Misti:

there is a mod that add 2 of unique hearos to each faction

Oh, I think you mean RedTreant's mod? Or something else?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ls612:

If anyone else is still having crashing problems with "disable fullscreen optimizations" I found that I also needed to disable the Steam overlay for this game for it to work.

Not me, fwiw. Windows 11.

yeah that one

[Black Drazon]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Misti:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Black Drazon:

Oh, I think you mean RedTreant's mod? Or something else?


Not me, fwiw. Windows 11.

yeah that one

Thanks, that's a shame!

[OOPMan]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I ended up not playing this one much (not because I didn't like it, just time) and so I didn't lose much.

[Bedwyr]

Tell me, do you still have to log into Ubi Connect manually entering your password every time or has that been fixed?

[cantila1]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von trystan112:

As of a couple minutes ago, my dynasty weapons are all maxed out, even the ones I didn't do before. All trait slots unlocked, all heroes are available, all portraits are acquired. My custom heroes are gone, but I can make new ones.
Traits you now pick per mission. Achievements were reset which is rough but makes sense since some of those granted uPlay points, which no longer exist.
I'm very glad this happened.

Been playing the game for the first timethe past weeks and I've been able to pick traits at start of every mission pre-patch.
I am actually bummered all dynasty weapons were unlocked, it was fun to have as a goal to lfind them and to level them up and now you're really OP in the early missions.

I also just noticed that if you finish a mission, whatever Dynasty weapon you had equipped is now reset to level 1...sigh