IraJacobs
05-27-2006, 01:59 PM
Hi,
I've been playing a 2-player LAN game of HOMM5 now for quite a while including many saves and loads(I'm sure you all know how long multiplayer games can take).
There are very many crashes/freezes/bugs that we've encountered, here are some that I remember:
- random crashes for no apparent reason reporting either "opponent disconnected" or even windows-type errors where it prompts you to send and error report.
- Going into an elemental stockpile (I think that's the name...a sphere of each element floats around above these) crashes the game, I think it was an "opponent disconnected" message.
- sometimes when one player is fighting a battle the other player will freeze, this has in fact been REPRODUCIBLE (unfortunately I didn't bother to keep a savegame of it) but workaround-able by taking different actions in the same battle.
- finally, and this is the worst part - we have finally encountered each-other in the game, and not only can he not see my hero/creatures on his map, but when I attack one of his characters or castle, it prompts me to place my creatures in tactics mode (like normal, except my hero has a tactics skill and I can only place creatures in the rearmost 2 rows), but once I do that, it just sits there, as if waiting for my opponent to place his creatures, but on his screen it's simply a "other player's turn" display.
Has this entire game been for nothing? We don't even get to have our massive final battles? Why did I buy this game if that's the case?
PS: I've seen piracy brought up in just about EVERY other thread in the forum. Just shut up about it, it's completely moot, these are problems with the retail 1.0 version of the game!
I've been playing a 2-player LAN game of HOMM5 now for quite a while including many saves and loads(I'm sure you all know how long multiplayer games can take).
There are very many crashes/freezes/bugs that we've encountered, here are some that I remember:
- random crashes for no apparent reason reporting either "opponent disconnected" or even windows-type errors where it prompts you to send and error report.
- Going into an elemental stockpile (I think that's the name...a sphere of each element floats around above these) crashes the game, I think it was an "opponent disconnected" message.
- sometimes when one player is fighting a battle the other player will freeze, this has in fact been REPRODUCIBLE (unfortunately I didn't bother to keep a savegame of it) but workaround-able by taking different actions in the same battle.
- finally, and this is the worst part - we have finally encountered each-other in the game, and not only can he not see my hero/creatures on his map, but when I attack one of his characters or castle, it prompts me to place my creatures in tactics mode (like normal, except my hero has a tactics skill and I can only place creatures in the rearmost 2 rows), but once I do that, it just sits there, as if waiting for my opponent to place his creatures, but on his screen it's simply a "other player's turn" display.
Has this entire game been for nothing? We don't even get to have our massive final battles? Why did I buy this game if that's the case?
PS: I've seen piracy brought up in just about EVERY other thread in the forum. Just shut up about it, it's completely moot, these are problems with the retail 1.0 version of the game!