Being 29 January you are very likely to have an accurate guess

I predict it will never come out

I know it will, I just can't pinpoint a specific date

Somewhere between Wednesday and Star Date Alpha20.456.P to be exact.

Nice that should narrow it down

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Nice that should narrow it down

or on December 21 2012 when the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by the Maya civilization ends ... some say it will also be the end of the world

a great date for a HoMM patch

Weird, just yesterday i watched a movie about that date...

I guess that confirms it then, IT'S A SIGN!

I've set a reminder not to bother buying Christmas presents for 2012...a few extra beer tokens then...Armageddon ain't such a bad thing after all

It could be better to have lotsa beer during the week before and the armageddon should be a relief.

Pft, Armageddon. I've had hangovers worse than Armageddon.

Cheers!
According to my calculations, this TotE 3.1 thing should come three days after patch 2.4 for the first expansion of "HoMM XII Casandra's Vengeance". Sorry, guys, it's scientifically proven.

Does anyone actually know what's supposed to be in patch 3.1?

You guys obviously don't visit the Celestial Heavens home page where there is a link to a Q&A from Fabrice regarding patch 3.01 along with some other subjects as well. Here tis: http://www.celestialheavens.com/ and scroll down to the revellant article.

well they are having a little fun.

Does anyone even care any more about patches for heroes 5?

The game will never have stable multiplayer...for single player there are some amazing maps being produced like 'shadow dreams'(GOW) and the new lotr map from Vlaad, not to mention Marzhin's legends of the ancients campaigns. So SP's get a good deal...and as has been proven many times that is the majority of heroes players.

If I didn't have to work I would make some maps, but life gets in the way.

Nah single cannot captivate me anymore, it's simply not fun as a human competition. And what instability are you talking about? If we exclude the fact that my net gets crappy from time to time I have not had any problems with online gaming for a long time.

I for one an glad my prediction came to pass and the patch is later than expected. This assures they have time to eliminate the memory leak, improve the AI, and speed up turns.
Maybe they will throw in some new scenarios for good measure because we waited so long!

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If we exclude the fact that my net gets crappy from time to time I have not had any problems with online gaming for a long time.

What about when your or your opponents computer crashes multiple times in one attempted play session? This usually makes me give up in frustration.

Also, some have slower connections and that makes the game go slowly.

Actually the game rarely crashes more than once and I am responsible for it since I alt-tab between turns. I have not played many games online so I cannot tell if the game should be faster or slower.

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Originally posted by Elementalist.:
Actually the game rarely crashes more than once and I am responsible for it since I alt-tab between turns. I have not played many games online so I cannot tell if the game should be faster or slower.

If Alt-Tab'ing affects the game, its just poor programming. (especially bad in a turnbased game really)

Even without it though, the AI is unstable and have a habit of deadlocking, ruining the game completely (no save will help). Desyncs between players are also still there. All of these things are the result of poor programming. Desyncs the game should be able to recover from, AI lockups it should be able to detect and recover from as well, Alt-Tabbing shouldn't have any effect on gameplay.