Those who have the addon installed only need 2.1.

Good question. And I'm sorry I'm dumb enough not to understand the first time but, is it going to be this way all along once the HoF addon is installed? Thanks.

From my experience with the game:
If you have installed hof you can't install patches for the original game so if no patches are installed prior to hof you can't patch it anymore.

If you are using both exe's to run the game (that means if you want both 1.41 and 2.1) unistall hof, install original game, install 1.41, install hof, install 2.1.
In any case the 1.41 are present in 2.1.

lol... what a mess,

it makes sense to me that 2.1, being as large as it is covers both bases...

yea i want to complete the homm5 campaigns, but would want to play 2.1 online. why cant i just play the WHOLE game with the HoF CD in the drive is beyond me... its a quality issue i suppose.

UBI gets what it pays for i suppose, and then graciously passes the savings on to me... right? right?

grr...

i installed 2.1 HoF fine, but i could not install 1.041, it says its not homm5 is not installed. in game homm5, it says my version is 1.4

can someone please explain the reasoning behind this? im still playing the homm5 campaign... can i just play it in skirmish mode now or something?

@datachasm I did explain earlier. All homm5 original patches must be applied prior to installing the add-on.
This happens because as Romanov77 said:
"Nival programing extreme" .

I installes 1.41 and 2.1 together and I had no problems, so yes you could install them both since they are technically 2 separate games. Or one and the same. Depends on your thinking.

So in essence someone who has both can patch up both games and still have no ill effects. Worked for me.

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Originally posted by P42DM-AC:
I installes 1.41 and 2.1 together and I had no problems, so yes you could install them both since they are technically 2 separate games. Or one and the same. Depends on your thinking.

So in essence someone who has both can patch up both games and still have no ill effects. Worked for me.

Did it fix your issue with the crashing?

I don't know why, but I was expecting the Necromancy/Training changes to be in 1.41.

Rereading the initial post, most of the info is about 2.1.

Will the Necromancy and Training changes be in 1.5? Or does 1.5 only contain "the duel heroes editor".

Don't suppose anyone has a clue when 1.5 will come out.

1.41 does only adress the server thing and the Gating-bug.
1.5 will include the relevant changes of 2.1.

with the crashing I don't know, yet.

Anyone know if the instant travel bug has been fixed? I'm currently in the middle of an almost unplayable RMG game with computer players.

I didn't see this in the change log, but I'm hoping that it has been fixed anyway.

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Originally posted by unreal_az:
@datachasm I did explain earlier. All homm5 original patches must be applied prior to installing the add-on.
This happens because as Romanov77 said:
"Nival programing extreme" .

That's not true. Installing patch 1.4 already installs all the previous patches. That was stated quite clearly when 1.4 was released. My question for datachasm is this, did you use the auto patcher? And if so, did you use the autopatcher for H5 AND the one for HoF? Or did you just manually download them?

Autopatcher worked just fine for me and I had 1.4 and 2.0 on my games respectively. I had a HD crash about a few months back so I had to re-install H5 and in updating H5 I only installed 1.4's patch. So no, you don't have to install all the previous patches.

Right patches are all out check out www.mightandmagic.com for a list of mirrors enjoy!

Thx rick

So, Fabrice and/or Acheval, Why haven't you update this thread with the "links"to the patches?

And also do we install both patches if we own both Heroes-V and Hammers of Fate?

Will the upcoming 1.5 Patch be for both games and will it have new maps????

Answers please...

You do install both patches, yes.
And you do visit a major heroes fan-site for downloading new maps. That's why a map aditor is there. The patches won't contain new maps anymore. You have to rely on the creativity of your fellow Homm players or your own here.

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Originally posted by C_h_u_c_k_l_e_s:
My question for datachasm is this, did you use the auto patcher? And if so, did you use the autopatcher for H5 AND the one for HoF? Or did you just manually download them?

no i did not use the autopatcher... i grabbed the patches from http://patches.ubi.com/heroes_might_magic_5/ ... i tried heroes_might_magic_5_1.041_us.exe (since its release date is 1.29.07... 1.041 and 1.41 give the impression of different builds, by looking at 1.041 i would think the game was not at 1.1 yet). i installed 2.01 first to see if the 126mb patch was all inclusive... but in game homm5 it says the version # is 1.4 so i dont think it was updated. so, i after this update i tried to install 1.041 and it says homm5 is not installed. ill try again with the autopatcher later.

like i said before, i am still trying to complete the homm5 campaigns, but for obvious reasons would like to play 2.01 online... maybe i should just play skirmish maps and the HoF campaign and forget homm5.



not sure to chalk this up to user error, or just poor quality of the product. actually, i think the product is quality, but the execution of it is shoddy.

Well, I'm also in the middle of the original campaigns too. Updating the game mid-campaign won't cause any problems though...it's only mid-GAME that could cause problems with reloading savegames. So finish whichever map you're currently on and then you should be able to update without problems.

@C_h_u_c_k_l_e_s i was saying that after installing the add-on yon can't install the updates..
I've just tried and they seem so work so I retract my afirmation .