H3SW v0.8.0 Bug Reports

Few bugs found:
1. When I had city with buildings able to build I could build them all during one day, and my money was reseted to 30k gold, 30 wood/ore and 15 other resources. All I had to do is leave city screen, where I builded a new structure (mage gulid or something)

2. Deamon cave had guards of 5 stacks of peasants with 0 units per stack


3. Halfling dweling asked me, if I want them to join me. after selecting "Okay" this screen appear. I couldn't recruit them


4. building tiles and background mismatch

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1. When I had city with buildings able to build I could build them all during one day, and my money was reseted to 30k gold, 30 wood/ore and 15 other resources. All I had to do is leave city screen, where I builded a new structure (mage gulid or something)

Re-download the mod (preferably from Mod Database or Dropbox), then re-install the game and the mod over it. The bug should be gone.

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2. Deamon cave had guards of 5 stacks of peasants with 0 units per stack

Broken creature bank. You can fix it manually by opening the map in the map editor (h3swmaped.exe), delete this bank and place again, then save map.

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3. Halfling dweling asked me, if I want them to join me. after selecting "Okay" this screen appear. I couldn't recruit them

This is interesting. Please tell me the map you play, and like in previous case, try to delete the object and place it again on the map.

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4. building tiles and background mismatch

Will be fixed sometime in future when we provide more compatibility with HD Mod.

Orzie wrote:

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3. Halfling dweling asked me, if I want them to join me. after selecting "Okay" this screen appear. I couldn't recruit them

This is interesting. Please tell me the map you play, and like in previous case, try to delete the object and place it again on the map.

Its a Good vs. Evil map.

I'll try to re-place objects later during the day.

maybe save file sharing would be helpful as well?

Not sure what might be causing this but high amounts of Veteran Pikemen are appearing out of nowhere in enemy armies. When this hero captured my castle there were no Pikemen in his army. Also saw a scout hero with around 160 of them, without any other creature on him.


Also a small typo Archery Range has two Rs.

Orzie wrote:

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1. When I had city with buildings able to build I could build them all during one day, and my money was reseted to 30k gold, 30 wood/ore and 15 other resources. All I had to do is leave city screen, where I builded a new structure (mage gulid or something)

Re-download the mod (preferably from Mod Database or Dropbox), then re-install the game and the mod over it. The bug should be gone.

I reinstalled the game and mod to the ground and the issue is still there. Two of my friends are also observing it. Downloaded it from Dropbox.

Things I've noticed:

1. There's absolutely no way to build Fortifications in Knight's town.  

2. Mines don't make any sound when flagged.

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halapli wrote:

Not sure what might be causing this but high amounts of Veteran Pikemen are appearing out of nowhere in enemy armies. When this hero captured my castle there were no Pikemen in his army. Also saw a scout hero with around 160 of them, without any other creature on him.

Had the same issue with around 250 crossbowmen that spawned in enemy's army and caught me off guard. There's no way he could get them normal way as there were no knight towns in his possesion.

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3. Game crashes every time I click on sprite deweling in Sorceress town but ONLY AFTER Crystal Garden has been built. (Actually you don't even have to click on it. It also crashes when you just move your cursor on it...)

Found a bug with combination artifacts.

When I have the: scroll of knowledge, war hammer, caster's blacelet of magic, defender helm of protection I get: you have all the componets to assemble -1. If I click OK the items dissapear...Maybe this is true for other combinations will check it out more

Somehow by starting gaming with random castle/hero I found these:

T5 Mage Guild does not unlock T5 spells in Knight Castle.
T4 and T5 Mage Guild does not unlock T4 and T5 spells in Barbarian and Witch Castles.

Yonderbrack wrote:

Orzie wrote:

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1. When I had city with buildings able to build I could build them all during one day, and my money was reseted to 30k gold, 30 wood/ore and 15 other resources. All I had to do is leave city screen, where I builded a new structure (mage gulid or something)

Re-download the mod (preferably from Mod Database or Dropbox), then re-install the game and the mod over it. The bug should be gone.

I reinstalled the game and mod to the ground and the issue is still there. Two of my friends are also observing it. Downloaded it from Dropbox.

I've got that issue when used google drive version, however I found a workaround.
For some reasons, installation files from various mirrors (google drive / dropbox) were different.

So I've installed dropbox version OVER the google drive one (without uninstalling anything), then I had to reinstall HD mod. After that I do not encounter that issue anymore.

Thank you @dodge, it worked that way lol.

Could someone make "step by step" installation guide? I can't run the game, I guess i'm doing something wrong.




//Ragoon
Hello! I'm posting a guide from facebook if anybody missed it:

Orzie wrote:

Installation:
Unpack the self-extracting archive to a directory with clean Heroes 3: Shadow of Death or Heroes Complete (No WoG or ERA can be installed in that folder!).

Attention! If you cannot launch h3sw.exe for some reason on your computer (like getting the WINGRAPH.CPP error), you will also have to use Heroes 3 HD Mod (not Heroes 3 HD Edition). Don't forget to write this line in the HD Mod Launcher:
< Fix.Cosmetic > = 0. (without spaces /Ragoon)
Download HD Mod at:
https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/rus/description

Also, there seem to be a bug (inifinite building for testing purposes) in one of the mirrors, we're working on it. Thanks!

Edit: Still can't run h3sw. I'm getting "assert violation in file" error. Original HoMM works fine.

Scenario: Dungeon Below

There is a Dragon Tower with the upgrade already build in the Warlock castle at the beginning of the game but Player cannot access this building. In the Town Hall the building is not marked as build.

robizeratul wrote:

Found a bug with combination artifacts.

When I have the: scroll of knowledge, war hammer, caster's blacelet of magic, defender helm of protection I get: you have all the componets to assemble -1. If I click OK the items dissapear...Maybe this is true for other combinations will check it out more

This -1 item also can be found in the Last Hope scenario. It is the first item behind the very first guard just south from the Knight's castle. But it does not disappear. Just hangs in the bottom inventory bar.

Ergon wrote:

Could someone make "step by step" installation guide? I can't run the game, I guess i'm doing something wrong.

1. Install HOMM 3 Complete Collection
2. Download the mod from either moddb or dropbox (googledrive one seems to be broken).
3. Paste the installer into game folder.
4. Install the mod using the installer.
5. Install HD mod.
6. Launch the game using HD mod.

Malins2000 wrote:

Its a Good vs. Evil map.

I'll try to re-place objects later during the day.

maybe save file sharing would be helpful as well?

No, in this case not. It's a map error, 99% probability.

halapli wrote:

Not sure what might be causing this but high amounts of Veteran Pikemen are appearing out of nowhere in enemy armies. When this hero captured my castle there were no Pikemen in his army. Also saw a scout hero with around 160 of them, without any other creature on him.

Yes, some people reported Knight creatures spawning from nowhere both in singleplayer and multiplayer. We are looking into it.
Please specify if that bug occurs on Heroes 3 map conversions (Sandro's head for format icon), or all maps.

Yonderbrack wrote:

Orzie wrote:

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1. When I had city with buildings able to build I could build them all during one day, and my money was reseted to 30k gold, 30 wood/ore and 15 other resources. All I had to do is leave city screen, where I builded a new structure (mage gulid or something)

Re-download the mod (preferably from Mod Database or Dropbox), then re-install the game and the mod over it. The bug should be gone.

I reinstalled the game and mod to the ground and the issue is still there. Two of my friends are also observing it. Downloaded it from Dropbox.

Try another mirror, something might be related to the browser cache, I think. The installer is the same in all 3 mirrors.

Deltowskyy wrote:

Things I've noticed:

1. There's absolutely no way to build Fortifications in Knight's town.  

2. Mines don't make any sound when flagged.

These are features. We should implement Fortifications later (same as Dervish's Mirage building). Mines did not make a sound in Heroes 2, but we might look for something in Heroes 1-2 sound files.

Deltowskyy wrote:

3. Game crashes every time I click on sprite deweling in Sorceress town but ONLY AFTER Crystal Garden has been built. (Actually you don't even have to click on it. It also crashes when you just move your cursor on it...)

Understood, we will investigate.

Yonderbrack wrote:

T5 Mage Guild does not unlock T5 spells in Knight Castle.
T4 and T5 Mage Guild does not unlock T4 and T5 spells in Barbarian and Witch Castles.

Confirmed, will be fixed in the next update.

dodge wrote:

I've got that issue when used google drive version, however I found a workaround.
For some reasons, installation files from various mirrors (google drive / dropbox) were different.

So I've installed dropbox version OVER the google drive one (without uninstalling anything), then I had to reinstall HD mod. After that I do not encounter that issue anymore.

Google Drive was the slowest mirror to synchronize, so you might have had caught an older installer file when you downloaded it.
Right now all 3 mirrors should be identical, but the name file on ModDB differs (H3SW v0.8.0 Installer.2). This has no effect on the file contents.

Yonderbrack wrote:

Scenario: Dungeon Below

There is a Dragon Tower with the upgrade already build in the Warlock castle at the beginning of the game but Player cannot access this building. In the Town Hall the building is not marked as build.

You will have to re-install the game+mod+HD chain from scratch. This bug is fixed alongside with unlimited money now.

robizeratul wrote:

Found a bug with combination artifacts.

When I have the: scroll of knowledge, war hammer, caster's blacelet of magic, defender helm of protection I get: you have all the componets to assemble -1. If I click OK the items dissapear...Maybe this is true for other combinations will check it out more

Yes, some of the combo artifacts still try to be combined for some reason. We should get rid of this in the next update.

robizeratul wrote:

This -1 item also can be found in the Last Hope scenario. It is the first item behind the very first guard just south from the Knight's castle. But it does not disappear. Just hangs in the bottom inventory bar.

This is a map-specific bug. Will be fixed. Once it was an active artifact, but then during the development process some artifact IDs were shifted.

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Try another mirror, something might be related to the browser cache, I think. The installer is the same in all 3 mirrors.

ALSO: DO NOT CHECK THE MONEY BUG ON OLD SAVEGAMES! The issue is there, because the script is remembered by the game no matter how you change it. Clean installation of the game, mod and HD mod is required.

Orzie wrote:

Yes, some people reported Knight creatures spawning from nowhere both in singleplayer and multiplayer.
Please specify if that bug occurs on Heroes 3 map conversions (Sandro's head for format icon), or all maps.

Had it on Heroes I campagin map "The Archipelago" so it seems to be global.

Deltowskyy wrote:

2. Mines don't make any sound when flagged.

Orzie wrote:

Mines did not make a sound in Heroes 2, but we might look for something in Heroes 1-2 sound files.

I had to check because I didn't believe you! My memory failed me, you're obviously right. For some reason I find it a little annyoing. Personally, I'd rather there were sounds. It gives you feeling of accomplishment.

We need to try to figure out when the Knight troops appear. One user reported them appearing after a computer hero captures the neutral Warlock castle.

When I play as Knight and build Capitol I get H3 version. Then next day I can't select Capitol and I can't create any buildings.
Map: Broken Alliance

Jdoe wrote:

When I play as Knight and build Capitol I get H3 version. Then next day I can't select Capitol and I can't create any buildings.

Add line "< Fix.Cosmetic > = 0" (without spaces between text and < >) to your H3HD launcher tweaks. should fix the issue.

bug1: the black horseshoe lowers luck by 2 if I put it in my inventory, and 0 if I put it in the backpack. If I keep putin this and anything else, the luck keeps going 0 and -2 even if the horshe isn't equiped

Bug2: does the combination artifact bug affect everything? I can't make battleplate of anduan.

Should this item always be active, even in the backpack?

Deltowskyy wrote:

Add line "< Fix.Cosmetic > = 0" (without spaces between text and < >) to your H3HD launcher tweaks. should fix the issue.

Yeah that worked. Thanks!

//Ragoon
Please read the instructions for installing the mod before posting bugs. Thanks!
I will add an instalation guide by Orzie to the first post of this thread.


Another bug when I move mouse all unit animations freeze in Fort/Citadel/Castle menu. Don't know if this is intended.

EDIT: Also one person mentioned CPU getting a lot of Pikeman in their Castle. In my case on Broken Alliance map CPU recruits Crossbowman out of nowhere.

Thane starts with two balistas,

Bit of a nitpick but the name of Cross Bowmen could either be Crossbowmen or Arbalist (potentially Arbalest but that's not the weapon they're using I believe)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbalist_(crossbowman)


Note: Sorry if anything I post has been covered, I'll resweep the thread every now and then.
Thank you for allowing me to experience the beta, having a blast!

The name of Dervish buildings on the individual building screen (with the gold font) are prefixed with dots.

Air Elementals use H3 movesounds.

Acolyte mini-icon (used for stats screen) looks to be an old version with red pants.

Sir Gallant is available in Tavern and uses Orrin's face.

Great release btw. Best way to start 2019, all my congratz.