Kudos to Black Hole

[PBF]

I feel like Heroes VI is the way the series should be progressing. Big thumbs up from me Black Hole. I am a big fan of earning achievement points and spending them as you see fit. The uplay concerns are a bit overdramatic as everyone has connectivity nowadays and it does add to the game with dynasty weapons and whatnots. Overall this is a 9.5 out of 10 for me. I hope they can continue this success in future version. The only things worth noting as needing improvement are voice acting and bring back the visual town screen.

If you dont play and win on hard every campaign then you are a wussy! I have every Heroes game except one map on Heroes V where you are the barbarians first map I think it was. Nigh Impossible. You need perfect random rolls.

- PBF

[WrathOfLust]

I think so too :) its great game,probably will be the best heroes game ever made once patches/expansions fill in the gap.

[groocz]

I feel like Heroes VI is the way the series should be progressing. Big thumbs up from me Black Hole. I am a big fan of earning achievement points and spending them as you see fit. The uplay concerns are a bit overdramatic as everyone has connectivity nowadays and it does add to the game with dynasty weapons and whatnots. Overall this is a 9.5 out of 10 for me. I hope they can continue this success in future version. The only things worth noting as needing improvement are voice acting and bring back the visual town screen.

If you dont play and win on hard every campaign then you are a wussy! I have every Heroes game except one map on Heroes V where you are the barbarians first map I think it was. Nigh Impossible. You need perfect random rolls.

- PBF

How many campaign levels have you finished on hard
Whats your dynasty level
How many hours played do you have
Whats your favourite faction

Questions I'm interested in learning your response of relating to just Heroes of Might and Magic VI.

[Darkobra]

Where there's connectivity, there's connectivity problems, so it's not as moot as you're thinking.

[groocz]

There have been games with the ability for online play in the early 90's as far as I can recall and in this day and age its generally assumed that if a game is desgined to play with others or has a co-op/hot-seat mode it'll have a multiplayer option and the ability to mingle with an online community.

I honestly don't even know why theres an offline setting for this game it seems to be a lot more trouble than its worth. It seems to me to be a gernerally online enviroment type of game.

[djoffer]

Totaly agree this game is awesome:) Btw am i the only one who wonders why the hell none of the major gaming sites have a review up of this game yet?

[citrixscu]

Totaly agree this game is awesome:) Btw am i the only one who wonders why the hell none of the major gaming sites have a review up of this game yet?

Maybe UBI's horrible DRM keeps dropping their connections :)

[groocz]

Heres a Review for you

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/might-magic-heroes-vi

I find a lot of the reviewers stay away from PC games intil they absolutly have to and just stick to reviewing the same game on Console or the console exlusives

[eldar_20000]

I love the game, personally :) The campaigns are a ton of fun.

[Sabster]

I thought so until the ubisoft servers went down; and you can't play offline... (and that's singleplayer - not multiplayer)

[Draconicus]

If the game was called something diferent i will could agree with you maybe., But as Heroes of might and magic VI, i strongly desagree with you:(

[eldar_20000]

Sabster, I'm pretty sure there's a way to play offline as well. You might not be able to use your saves online, though.

[PBF]

I won the tutorial on hard and and won 1 map of necro campaign on hard. Generally loving game but I have ran into some issues:

1) Getting achievements I did not qualify for.
2) Disconnect from conflux on second tutorial mission and unable to play for 30 minutes because no connection to conflux but my internet was fine.
3) One of my saves loaded my hero character in mid air and crashed game so its good I had backup saves. This could have been a disaster.

So I am starting to see some problems and have to downgrade my rating to 9 out of 10 instead of 9.5. This game gets 10 out of 10 easy if it didnt have these bugs and they brought back cool visual town. The voice acting I can now overlook. The cartoon like feel of it is growing on me.

Still the atmosphere, strategy, and feel of heroes is back and this is a game heroes fans should be loving. Healing is OP now with it Rezzing units BTW. Get drain life its rigged.

[groocz]

Can you put Drain Life on Vampire Lords and get double the life drained?

[WrathOfLust]

Can you put Drain Life on Vampire Lords and get double the life drained?

Yes,drain life works on vampire and makes him near immortal :)with addition of stone skin :)

1) Getting achievements I did not qualify for.

some make no sense at first like winning 50 battles without loosing a single unit but there not done in a row it counts every battle you ever did,so sometimes u get achivment out of nowhere without realizing its been counting all the stuff together

[groocz]

Yes,drain life works on vampire and makes him near immortal :)with addition of stone skin :)

I found this awesome for the Uriel Fight.

Vampire Lords with Stoneskin, Drain life, Regenration and Sacrifice was pretty damn beast for tanking that crazy Angel

[PBF]

The bonus specializations like lord of the vacant dont work or they dont stack with anything like the bonus to creature buildings. Quite a bad bug or implementation. Would be nice to know what stacks with what but this is hardly ever stated well in any game. Things like this are really starting to detract from the game and I see now why the reviewers gave it 80% or so.

We need another patch to sort this out pronto.

[groocz]

Its not so much a bug as one of the elements in the game That I think make Haven somewhat useless to play as but I can't stand that if your going with a spec that buffs your archery and ranged damage that As soon as you try and attack with Marksman you are likely to kill as many of your praetorians/griffins/general melee units nearby as you are of the enemy, I've only played as Necro Santuary and One level of the Haven Campaign but Haven is the only faction I've seen this effect on the ranged units.

[alonzobistro]

If you dont play and win on hard every campaign then you are a wussy!

That kind of statement will make you instantly lose all credibility and respect normally due to grown ups ... Sorry to dissapoint you but beating a game on hard level never made anyone a tough guy and the contrary is true too !..
Now for your kudos to Black Hole (an aptly chosen name if you ask me, given how much functionalities, skills have been sucked into nothingness ..) I beg to differ ... At best, you could tell they did an average job, and you'd still be nice ... In other words it's not because you find the game likable, that it means it's good and it doesn't have issues !..

[DrakenLord]

Its not so much a bug as one of the elements in the game That I think make Haven somewhat useless to play as but I can't stand that if your going with a spec that buffs your archery and ranged damage that As soon as you try and attack with Marksman you are likely to kill as many of your praetorians/griffins/general melee units nearby as you are of the enemy, I've only played as Necro Santuary and One level of the Haven Campaign but Haven is the only faction I've seen this effect on the ranged units.
Learn to use them properly. Skip your turn with marksman and let the enemy get closer, usually you can hit at least 2-3 units this way. Keep in mind, attacking 3 units at a time is equivalent to attacking with regular crossbowmen for 3 whole turns! At this point even if you have to skip a turn as to not damage your units, you still came out ahead in damage compared to crossbows.

If later on you are forced to do friendly fire, use the faction ability to make a stack invulnerable before that. And if there's more than one, then hell change target or move! as I said a single attack is worth many, so moving to get in a great position makes sens because you always come out ahead.

[PBF]

I found some more bugs after I thought it had patched but I think that was just the launcher so I thought I would post them.

Imperial Griffins special attack does nothing.
Sun Riders bonus to damage based on per square moved to target does nothing.
Sometimes when you take control of a crystal mine you have to save and load your game for it to work.
Dynasty weapon Arachne will become too good if you cycle its xp (I killed a stack of 999,999 earth elementals and it jacked its drain life to 847159184%.)

Basically the more I play this game the worse its getting. What a shame because its so pretty and I like the direction its going but it needs a patch so damn bad.

FIX THIS GAME FOR GODS SAKES BLACK HOLE!

[dragon764]

I found some more bugs after I thought it had patched but I think that was just the launcher so I thought I would post them.

Imperial Griffins special attack does nothing.
Sun Riders bonus to damage based on per square moved to target does nothing.
Sometimes when you take control of a crystal mine you have to save and load your game for it to work.
Dynasty weapon Arachne will become too good if you cycle its xp (I killed a stack of 999,999 earth elementals and it jacked its drain life to 847159184%.)

Basically the more I play this game the worse its getting. What a shame because its so pretty and I like the direction its going but it needs a patch so damn bad.

FIX THIS GAME FOR GODS SAKES BLACK HOLE!

I bought this game just minutes after it was unlocked on steam and believe it or not the game was even worse then, God love the blinking cursor.

I would not even attempt to review this game until it has a few patches under its belt.

Oh and there is another bug your missing from your list and if it happens it could be "Game Over" I think it may have something to do with the "Tears of Asha" I found the Tears on Map 4 on the Haven campaign and then I went to the next turn and the next thing I new every dwelling I controlled had -13000 or something for each creature available to purchase so I couldn't purchase any more creatures at all.

[groocz]

I bought this game just minutes after it was unlocked on steam and believe it or not the game was even worse then, God love the blinking cursor.

I would not even attempt to review this game until it has a few patches under its belt.

Oh and there is another bug your missing from your list and if it happens it could be "Game Over" I think it may have something to do with the "Tears of Asha" I found the Tears on Map 4 on the Haven campaign and then I went to the next turn and the next thing I new every dwelling I controlled had -13000 or something for each creature available to purchase so I couldn't purchase any more creatures at all.

It's not to do with Tears of Aisha its a random bug.

It happened to me wehn I cosntructed the tier 3 building for Necropolis and so I restarted and never built that building and It was fine.

If it happens when you do something you can avoid doing then don't do that.

If it happens when you do soemtihng you are required to do then restart the map and hope it doesn't happen again :P