[Heroes Of Might And Magic 5 Mods
Luther Lazaro
MMH5.5 is an unofficial expansion pack for HOMM5 Tribes of the East (standalone) or HOMM5 Complete. The pack will include many new adventure objects, new larger battlefields, new heroes, new classes, new specializations, new skills, new artifacts, new adventure spells, new HD textures and a greatly improved RMG with more than 60 'visualized' Templates. The AI is much more intelligent and calculated much faster. Balance is also greatly improved both for small competitive multiplayer maps as well as crazy XXXL maps with countless epic battles vs Neutrals and AI.
The Advanced RMG
The new RMG will fix the lack of great H5 maps and increase the replayability of the game. It combines the excellent 3D landscaping capability from the original H5 3.1 RMG with a complete overhaul and extension of the internal adventure objects, artifacts and monster placement mechanics. The advanced RMG is capable of properly balancing player starting zones and differentiate between early, mid and late game areas. It places all 30 new adventure objects and previously excluded adventure objects. The resistance is much stronger and various with 480 additional mixed neutral stack templates. The new RMG can create balanced PvP maps as well as gigantic singleplayer XXXL maps with hundreds of epic battles and all zones scaling up to crazy powerful heroes.
New Artifact Framework
MMH5.5 was the first mod to add new artifacts to the game. Currently 103 new artifacts are added including 12 new ultimate items. The effective amount of artifacts in the game will now be much more than any H3 version or H4 if you don't count potions. There will also be many new effects, in terms of unique effects the variation is far greater than the old games. Furthermore Smart backpack items will increase the amount of effective slots to the same amount as H3/4
Enhanced Class/Skill/Spell System
MMH5.5 will have might/magic and balanced classes with ingame skilltrees and 8 secondary skill option for all 24 classes!. New framework with 18 heroes per faction, 6 heroes per class, all heroes have only professional quality Ashan style portraits and many newly programmed skills and specializations. Improved experience levels allow the player to fill more slots and level up to 40. Smart witch huts that ask questions and understand class differences. All set artifacts will be rewritten for 24 classes. Improved spell system with spellpower dependant light and dark magic, nurf/buff strength improves with spellpower or the creature stack size. See the Details
Faster AI and Performance
MMH5.5 uses the very fast reprogrammed H5_AIProcess31j.exe from Quantomas. New Quick-Combat loss correction scripts will keep the AI challenging even on the largest maps without losing calculation time. Recently the AI is made modifiable by the player by selecting different game modes, allowing to team up all AI player against the human player, set AI heroes unable to flee or unable to be looted for extra challenges. There will be a new 64bit exe file that can address more memory and fix performance and CTD issues H5 was having on XL maps.
Competitive PvP balancing
H55 has many balance improvements through years of mathematical analysis and analysis of streamed PvP matches. pretty much all exploits and abuses currently known to us have been removed and if any more arise they will be dealt with. Creature upgrades are balanced to be really different from each other but equally useful. Hero specializations are re-balanced to be all competitive, but some may be more effective on larger or smaller maps.
Campaigns and Maps
All old campaigns and singleplayer maps from H5/HOF are playable in MMH5.5 with new features. There are also 15 demo maps available that allow to explore all new adventure objects and features without the need to read the ARMG manual first.
Advanced Town Portal (optional)
The ability to teleport to any desired town from H3 is back in H5. In MMH5.5 the system is very simple and balanced. Every town with a mage guild lvl 5 receives a 'town gate' and all heroes can be teleported back to that town if desired, regardless of their level.
Governance (optional)
The new optional governance feature, introduced in RC4 will allow players to use secondary heroes to govern towns and gain experience points and skills by doing that. Governor heroes will also receive various special bonuses from the town buildings
Town & Dwelling Conversion (optional)
Starting from MMH5.5 RC3 it will be possible, but not obligatory, to play any H5 map with town & dwelling conversion. In H5.5 Town Conversion will be much better balanced then it was in H6. In H6 it made the game too simple, because it was too cheap to convert towns and there were not enough restrictions. In H5.5 Town Conversion can actually make the game more difficult, instead of easier. There will be various new RMG Templates available designed specifically for expert players who want the game to be harder and more chaotic with Town Conversion enabled.
Hotseat & LAN require script activation!
MMH55 is a script extension and H5 does not have scripts activated in multiplayer modes (Hotseat & LAN) by default. Therefore it is required to activate scripts on newly generated RMG maps and also on multiplayer maps downloaded from the internet (which don't have any scripted content) if you want to play those in Hotseat/LAN. You don't need to do this for playing in single player. All H5.5 default maps and included maps have scripts already activated.
System requirements
MMH5.5 has higher system requirements ,you can pretty much consider the H6 requirements as applicable. Otherwise you may suffer from adventure map lag. MMH5.5 uses more detailed landscape textures. Next-gen core-ix processors with high clockspeed on single core really make the AI 'fly' and are highly recommended.
Map Compatibility
All MMH5.5 functionality works automatically on all H5 default multiplayer maps and also old RMG maps, user maps that don't contain any modding content. Adventure Objects like crypts and witch hut will automatically convert to the new functionality, but of course since these maps are made before this mod they don't contain any new objects. Therefore you have to play Advanced RMG maps to check out all new stuff on your first map. I will add additional demo maps, so the mod can be played right away without even the need to read through the ARMG manual first.
EDIT : RC19 was replaced with RC19b, a bug had disabled the windowed mode and caused crashes in campaign, also combat animation speed was reverted to vanilla (h55 is faster at max setting)
Today we release RC19, in this version a new level of tactical depth will be introduced by having the option to show the precise atb values of creatures in combat, the numbers can be switched on and off in the options menu. The combat camera also allows more pitch and zooming.
We are still planning to do our first H55 tournament. For this there will be 2 significant balance changes in this release to make competitive play less random and more skill-based. Hero initiative will be increased to 11 from 10 (notice that atb reset values and sorcery will therefore have lower numbers to keep them equal in strength). Luck and morale will increase dmg/atb by a little less, since they were still overpowered with all the additional items that increase/decrease them compared to vanilla. After the tournament we will evaluate if people prefer things to stay this way. Also heads-up: in this release artificer doesn't work on heroes that don't have the skill.
There will be a lot of balance improvements to the ARMG, additional army combinations, a bit less shooters, a bit more unguarded chests and for balancing reasons all wood and ore mines will always be generated with 2 piles next to them.
UI changes are also inbound that allow visualizing creature ATB values in combat, option to autosave before combat and borderless window mode configuration and making combat camera modifiable.
Integrated seamlessly into the engine but no creatures are currently added. Submodders and content creators can now add new creatures by drag-drop in usermods folder. Please consider IDs from 180 to 249 reserved by MMH55 Team. Content creators please use IDs from 250 onwards!
Problem with Necropolis campaign, 1st mission. The beginner armies are unbeatable with Markal. You face tons of armies with mages and many other units, and with only 10 mana you can't recover nor reach the mages before they annihilate your starting units.
Hello modders i like to reports some small bugs (don't know if intended or actual bugs?) when i playing Death Knight class.
- Apparently i can learn Shatter Summoning skill despite not in DK skill wheel (learn from Witch Hut).
- Pariah also give my DK Vampirism spell (description only for living hero right?) and Reanimation still use its old name from the pop-up text "Raise Dead added to spellbook", i don't have screenshots sadly.
Guys, please fix the last mission tribes of the east campaign, Orcs without blood bonus its turbo weak. I cannot win kUjjin battle vs Inferno casstle siege. Because Kujin is attacking instead of gotai.
Helloo, i did installed the translation patch for my current language (italian), yet after placing it in the /data folder, the original and hammers of fate campaigns are still fully in english. Is there a way to fix it or i did something wrong? Either way, amazing mod, and thanks in advance!
Hi. I experienced a problem while playing the campaign The Queen - Mission "The Siege" (1-3) of the original game.
What happened : At the final of the mission, when you've defeated all the inferno units on the map, you're supposed to fight an inferno army chasing you, with an army strength relative to the amount of weeks spent since the start of the mission. The inferno lord wasn't chasing me, to begin with, but he also had a single imp in his army, making the fight terribly anticlimatic. (I also noticed that the color of his model's banner is neutral, when the info panel indicates him as controlled by the Red Player)
Contextual infos : I'm playing on Windows 11, with the MMH5.5 Play (64 bits) launcher, based on the GOG Galaxy version, french language version.