Might & Magic Heroes VII v1.4 Patch Released

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Written by BuckGB on November 5th, 2015

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Ubisoft has clearly been busy ironing out the bugs in the recently released Might & Magic Heroes VII, as they've already managed to bring us a version 1.4 patch that addresses memory issues, loading times, multiplayer-specific problems, editor concerns, and more in the turn-based strategy/RPG. The full patch notes to follow:

General

• [Fixed] AI Speed/Adventure Speed/Combat Speed from the Options menu will change to their default values when the user Loads or starts any save/load action
• [Fixed] Improved the destruction physics in Siege combats
• [Improved] The saturation of the world has undergone a major overhaul based on user feedback.
  • * The colors are stronger and more saturated.
    * The contrast has been improved.
    * Brighness has been adjusted.
• [Improved] There are new options regarding camera rotation:
  
  • * Mouse right click rotation can be disabled
  • * Mouse rotating sensibility can be adjusted
  • * Keyboard rotating sensibility can be adjusted
  • * Also the smoothness of the rotating has been improved
• [Improved] Added a new option in the Settings to enable/disable Atmospheric Fog
• [Fixed] The defeated heroes will still appear on the minimap after a save/load operation
• [Fixed] Game crashes on the loading screen if a save created contains a hero with governor abilities unlocked and is assigned as governor of town
• [Improved] Adjusted decision logic when considering attacking another player (taking into account relative player strength [relative to target] and absolute current strength [relative to all other players]
• [Improved] Adjusted AI reachability calculations to have more up to date info when saving and loading
• [Improved] Adjusted AI hero turn prioritisation to consider reinforcing heroes to move first

Multiplayer

• [Fixed] The issue of the game getting stuck if the last AI player loses in his own turn.
• [Fixed] More occurences of out of synch caused by AI in Multiplayer.
• [Fixed] An issue of the game gets stuck when the client quits the lobby while launching Duel multiplayer session.
• [Fixed] An issue when a multiplayer session is terminated on entering the session if any client joins the session which is already in the session-loading phase.
• [Fixed] An issue when a session goes out of Sync when the hero interacts with blind monastery again after learning an ability.
• [Fixed] An issue that thieves guild opens on all the player's screen, when one player enter's "Den of thieves" building.
• [Fixed] An issue of "Unable to connect to the server" message received if the user double clicks Join game on Online Game Browser.
• [Fixed] An issue of no error message received if the Host closes an open slot after the Client had joined the same.
• [Fixed] An issue of the number of resources displayed on (resources bar) will be the same for all players in the session in certain conditions.
• [Fixed] An issue of the game gets stuck for 30-50 seconds after keeping idle for 20 seconds on combat screen with the Neutral Army (SimTurns).
• [Fixed] An inconsistency of the Session settings for the Client on the Game Browser screen.
• [Fixed] Game going at the start of the game when rapidly ending the first turn.
• [Fixed] The game gets stuck for 30-50 seconds after keeping idle for 20 seconds on combat screen with the Neutral Army
• [Fixed] The number of resources displayed on (resources bar) will be the same for all players in the session in certain conditions
• [Fixed] No error message received if the Host closes an open slot after the Client had joined the same
• [Fixed] The session went out of sync after resources pick up and end turn
• [Fixed] Multiplayer session is terminated on entering the session if any client joins the session which is already in the session-loading phase
• [Fixed] Hero has no creatures in his Army on selecting a Random Hero and match cannot be started
• [Fixed] Game gets stuck when the client quits the lobby while launching Duel multiplayer session
• [Fixed] Session goes out of Sync when the hero interacts with blind monastery again after learning an ability

Gameplay Mechanics

• [Fixed] Entering a magic guild level 3 and upwards crashes the game
• [Fixed] The player cannot flank properly on destroyed Siege walls
• [Fixed] Game gets stuck while attacking with the special ability of Imperial Griffins "Diving Attack" on enemy creatures
• [Fixed] Area of control effects are not properly updated after save load.
• [Fixed] The "Soul Reaver" ability is not functional
• [Fixed] The Golden Dragon highlights tiles in a linear pattern as if he will use an ability when hovering the curson on a creature stack
• [Fixed] Namtaru can attack a second time if you wait after the first shot
• [Fixed] Die and idle animations don't seem to be affected by game speed change
• [Fixed] Resource income prediction of the resource bar is increased after save/load
• [Fixed] Areas of control of closed players are still colored in the underground on map start
• [Fixed] Warfare Healing Sister and Healing Tent plays healing animation instead of end turn animation
• [Fixed] Treant Synergy effect is activated on dead creatures
• [Fixed] Rare crash when having too many particles attached to armies on long playsessions on the adventure map
• [Fixed] Erratic Hero Decal behaviour (disappearing and re-appearing seemingly randomly)
• [Fixed] Crash with Suzerain ability when a governor with said ability was assigned to a town
• [Fixed] Gamespeed overriding from savegames
• [Fixed] Floating adventure objects behaving erratically (disappearing into the ground)
• [Fixed] A crash with battle sites after loading a game and getting defeated there
• [Fixed] A crash with having a lot of creature growth enhancers built in towns
• [Fixed] Minimap update on map start to properly reflect Areas of Control
• [Fixed] Random duel armies to give proper random army
• [Improved] Creature movement stop animation to scale properly with gamespeed
• [Improved] Waiting time after moving a creature in combat map to scale with gamespeed
• [Improved] Hero animation speed scaling with gamespeed in adventure map
• [Improved] Idle and die animation speeds to scale better with gamespeed
• [Improved]Optimised GUI calls on adventure maps when updating the hero list

Level Design:

• Academy 1
  
  • [Fixed] Creatures have no collision with gate's towers after warfare unit hit's them on combat map
    
• Academy 3
  
  • [Fixed]The Water level rises back up if a Saved Game is Loaded after The Flood
    
• Academy 4
  
  • [Fixed] Fahada does not retain her level and progress from Map 1
  • [Fixed] External dwelling ignores area of control
    
• Haven 2
  
  • [Fixed] AI does not end it's turn after talking with Masfar the first time when using a savegame
    
• Dungeon 1
  
  • [Fixed] No collision on the edge of the bridge in the underground layer
  • [Fixed] The "Shadowsteel Refinery" can never be built.
    
• Dungeon 2
  
  • [Fixed] No collision on the edge of the cliff near Dungeon Fort in the underground layer
    
• Stronghold 1
  
  • [Fixed] Wrong portrait is used for Kanoni
  • [Fixed] Random, non-interactable Stronghold hero standing around
  • [Fixed] Performing a save/load operation after demolishing the wizard statue will play the dam destruction sound effects, on am_stronghold_map1
  • [Fixed] Performing two save/load operations will misplace a quest marker and make another one persist after completing the Centaurs quest
    
• Sylvan 1
  
  • [Fixed] One-eyed rock fort is not visible if the video settings - visual density is kept on low or medium
    
• Final Map 2
  
  • [Fixed] Hero clips with the 'Mass Grave' structure
  • [Fixed] Artifact can be seen to be levitating in the air near the castle 'Barr Abhainn'
  • [Fixed] Nolwenn's level and skills are not transferred over from the previous map
    
• Necropolis 5
  
  • [Fixed] Mouse-over tooltip pop-up for "Well of Souls" spills out of the screen on certain points
    
• The Story of Solmyr and the Efreet
  
  • [Fixed] Multiple artifacts appear to be levitating in the air throughout the map

Editor

• [Improved] Custom Campaigns
  • * New fix for hero transfer from one map to the next, which was broken when the hero's properties were changed before, as the old fix had some sideeffects.
  • The downside of the new fix is that existing campaign heroes have to be manually patched: Open the affected heroes on all maps. In the properties uncheck "Save Progress". Click OK, open the properties and check "Save Progress" again. Save the maps and republish the Campaign.
• [Fixed] "Close All Popups" spawns the screen in the middle of the map
• [Fixed] Underground layer cannot be deleted from Map Properties
• [Fixed] Game crashes after completing a Combat Map launched using Play Map
• [Fixed] Editor crashes on adjusting the Map Grid Controller Properties
• [Fixed] "Hide or reveal object"-node will not clear the icon out of the Minimap.

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