Crashes when attempting to complete level

[tonythecapeguy]

Okay, so idk how y'all can beat campaign mode without cheesing the crap out of Ghiron, so that's what I did. I just had him fight so much that now he's level 163 with 180 damage per shot so he one-shots everything. Stone towers? Play-dough. 50 enemy units with artillery support? They might only do like 100 damage to his 900HP before they all die. xD

But! My game breaks. Mind you, it's not like getting overloaded, my PC isn't crashing. No what happens is that I think because my heroes are such high level, the game has a hard time loading the next mission?

So here's what happens:
I'm on mission number Kill The Mages to Get Rain Of Fire book ('cause I'm not sure how to look up what mission # you're on) and I won. They let me build a magic shop, so naturally I took the liberty of drinking a bajillion EXP potions to give Sartor another 50 levels.

BUT NOW THE GAME WON'T LET ME LOAD THE NEXT LEVEL! Every time I give Ghiron the book, it completes the level, but when I click "Continue" it Alt-F4's me. This happened earlier on but with enough attempts it eventually gave up and let me through. This time it has not been so easy.

[tonythecapeguy]

Every now and then it'll continue as far as the loading screen and stop once the subtext says "Deleting Old Game...", but it's stuck. It does nothing. It's still eating CPU so I'll leave it alone and see if anything changes if I give it a million years. I wonder if leaving a game to idle on Turbo mode makes it harder for it to be deleted? o.0 Very strange.

[Rakhat Lokum]

Hey, I think I had the same problem a few years ago and I tried pressing ENTER and typing "hmnext" (without the " " ofc) to start the next mission. I can't remember if it helped, I believe it did, but I'm not sure it will save levels, attack, defence, mana etc. of any hero if you have buffed him using the magic shop (note - I believe it will keep every buff you gave them which isn't from the magic shop). I don't know if you like using cheats, but as far as I know, this shouldn't be considered cheating, because you have already done the mission and you just can't start the next one. So yea, give it a try and let me know if it helped.

P.S.: I'm no PC expert, I don't know what causes the problem, but I think this should help.

EDIT: I have 0 clue how to help about the problem you explained in your comment (about getting stuck on the loading screen), sorry :(

[tonythecapeguy]

Originally posted by Rakhat Lokum:

I tried pressing ENTER and typing "hmnext"

Thanks so much, but unfortunately it treated it no differently from just clicking the continue button (as in it closed the program). I appreciate the response though!

[tonythecapeguy]

Update:

The problem is still there, but I found a way to proceed. Got lucky really.

So, when I first played this level, I breezed past to the end (because by this point Ghiron just walks over to the enemy base at the beginning of the level and solos all the towers and peasants and such.)
JUST before ending the level is when I spotted that I could build a magic shop, and here's where things get spicy. I ran two experiments:

1. Give Ghiron a manna potion
2. Give Sartor an EXP potion

The manna potion did NOT carry over, but the ONE level increase from the EXP potion did. So this really got my gears turning, but here's the important part:

AUTO SAVE SAVED MY ENTRANCE INTO THAT NEXT LEVEL! So I just loaded this save file.

As for the problem, Between time spent idling on Turbo speed and time I spent actively engaged, I mined out all resources on the map and created some 50 EXP potions I'm sure.

So my guess is that something about leveling a bunch with potions bugged out my ability to proceed. One level was fine, but a bunch was not.

[dopp]

i had no items and game also crashed once at the end of level, then i replayed again and it passed to next level without bug, i think it's good to always save right before victory just in case, until developers fix this bug, i hope they hear us...

[76561198976385084]

I have same ceasing issue in both standard and deathmatch after 30 mins of play, Game developer should think of remastering this good game

[GenSec39]

Guys, atm I'm on a mission where you have to build merchant guild and protect the island as Ghiron and Vandar untill Sartor arrives with ninjas. The problem is - he never arrives. I cleaned entire map, no resources, no enemy buildings, nothing. Only enemies keep spawning at 3 locations but I control them.

I tried to build numerous merchant guilds, on both islands, on different sides of the islands, even tried to build asian guild - nothing. Destroyed and rebuilded - nothing. Any help? Anybody knows what exactly triggers Sartor's arrival?

Update:

Seems like I managed to solve the problem. Well, I still had to restart the mission. It looks like Sartor always arrives during certain time frame. Thus, if you managed to build merchant's guild during this frame - he will arrive with a fleet in few days. But if you didn't - nothing will trigger his arrival anymore.

I won't take responsiblity to say how long exatly this frame is, but after 2nd big attack from the north (with dragons and big catapults) it still works. If possible - build it as soon as you can, coz you already have resouces for it.

[markus.sitzmann]

Hello everyone,
I had this problem every time I played the campaign. Somehow I always managed to get to the next level without really knowing how.
I think I have the solution.
The game crashes if the mage tower is destroyed before Ghiron has the spellbook.
As soon as you pick up the book at the mage tower, the tower belongs to us and the surrounding watchtowers shoot at it.
If the tower is still intact when Ghiron receives the book, the next level will also load.
I hope this is helpful for you.

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