Heroes 7 patch 1.8 now available

Downloading this new update should be automatic on both Uplay and Steam.

Heroes 7 Content

• [Implemented] The Lost Tales of Axeoth: Every Dog Has His Day.

Heroes 7 General

• [Fixed] If a magic guild is prebuilt in a town, the player can`t set its specialization.
• [Fixed] Pathfinding ability and Pathfinder specialization.
• [Fixed] In some campaigns, players can get stuck when spamming ESC during scripted scenes.
• [Fixed] Warcry abilities would not upgrade the icon frame of the corresponding warcry in the spellbook.
• [Fixed] Unresolved text placeholder in the tooltips of the Onslaught ability and the upgraded Engage warcry.
• [Fixed] Display of pink border showing on Necropolis town screen with certain graphic settings.
• [Fixed] Skull Ring effect.

Heroes 7 Gameplay

• [Implemented] Pending Caravans now show up in the recruitment window until they depart at the end of your turn.
• [Implemented] Altars and Seals now show up on the minimap.
• [Implemented] Caravans arrived at a Fort but not unloaded, can now be accessed and unloaded manually.
• [Improved] The random Skilling Popup has been overhauled.

Heroes 7 AI

• Added Wait action to the Combat AI
• Added Caravan handling for the Adventure AI - the AI will now try (if available) to supply their main fighting heroes with a caravan-based supply chain
• Adjusted AI scoring for the Adventure AI - it now tries to be more proactive about gathering pickups and generally also engaging the player in combat more
• Adjusted AI money management for the Adventure AI - reprioritised the order in which AI purchases buildings/heroes/units
• Adventure AI now uses Forts and external Dwellings more readily
• Fixed smaller numerous bugs with AI scoring

Heroes 7 Multi-player

• [Fixed] A bug where the game would go out of synch when deploying more then 7 stacks in combat [Fixed] A visual bug where the resource income would be incorrectly displayed.
• [Fixed] A bug where the hero got deselected at the start of a new turn.
• [Fixed] A bug where the game gets stuck when the AI attacked an empty town.
• [Fixed] A bug where the player could multiply creature stacks under certain conditions when using auto merge button in town.
• [Fixed] A bug that caused a game crash sometimes when pressing "spectate" after losing a game.
• [Fixed] A bug that caused the game to go Out of synch sometimes when a hero died.
• [Fixed] A bug where the language of the AI player was incorrectly displayed.
• [Fixed] A visual bug where the camera clipped through the healing tent.
• [Fixed] A visual that caused the town screen to shake.
• [Fixed] A bug where the game gets stuck when pressing auto combat shortly before the victory animation.
• [Improved] Made Duel Multiplayer sessions more stable.
• [Implemented] You are now no longer able to join session for which you don't have the map downloaded.

Heroes 7 Level Design

• Stronghold Map 2
  • [Fixed] An issue that players could teleport to town before fighting Jengo in the Ritual Fight.
  • [Fixed] An issues with Cutscenes preventing the player from ending his turn while running.
• Stronghold Map 3
  • [Fixed] An issue that AI does not want to go through the portal, and therefore leading to the player not being able to end the map.
• Dungeon Map 2
  • [Fixed] An issue that led the player to be stuck when spamming ESC during a Cutscene.
• Dungeon Map 3
  • [Fixed] An issue with the quest 'The price of Friendship' not being completed as the player is unable to reach the quest objective.
• Scenario Timber Wars
• [Fixed] An issue that triggered the defeat under wrong condition.

Heroes 7 Map Editor

• Object Properties
  • [Fixed] Capped Fog of War revealing radius properties to 300 to avoid crashes in the game.
  • [Fixed] Properties were only saved when the map was saved as well for Towns, Forts, Garrisons and Hero Armies.
  • [Fixed] Clicking on the Landscape does not open an empty window anymore.
  • [Fixed] Changes are not saved when closing the Property Window
  • [Fixed] Scroll feature from numeric box, to avoid that values are accidentally changed when scrolling through the Property Window.
• Dragon Utopia/Elemental Forge Properties
  • [Fixed] Editor crashes on removing Reward Item.
• Merchant Properties
  • [Fixed] Editor crashes after deleting a 'RewardData' from Merchant building properties
• Magic Menagerie/Elemental Conflux Properties
  • [Fixed] "Allowed Factions for Recruitment" option.
• Battle Site properties
  • [Implemtented] Options to define Resources and specific Artefacts as rewards.
• Hero Properties
  • [Fixed] A crash when assigning a hero to a creature army with an unset warfare unit.
  • [Implemented] Increased level cap from 30 to 999.
• Town Properties
  • [Fixed] No Scroll Bar present in the general tab.
  • [Fixed] The Govenor and the Garrision could not be removed once assigned.
  • [Implemented] A Tooltip when the Govenor list is empty, explaining that hero armies from the player need to be present on the map.
  • [Implemented] Sculpt Ground option.
  • [Implemented] Moved Garrison to its own tab.
• Fort Properties
  • [Implemented] Local Guard Tab.
• Map Properties
  • [Fixed] Custom player names not correctly displayed. If your map is affected, you need to open the Map Properties, click OK and then save the map.
  • [Fixed] The Editor crashes if the underground layer is destroyed on the auto-save pop-up.
  • [Implemented] Increased level cap from 30 to 999.
• Chest Properties
  • [Removed] 'ResourceAmounts' option.
• AI settings
  • [Implemented] AI tab to Town Properties.
  • [Implemented] AI ignore setting to Armies and Buildings.
  • [Implemented] AI border control setting to Armies.
  • [Implemented] AI stay in Area of Control setting to Armies.
• Script Editor
  • [Fixed] Debug text is displayed on using the action 'Add/Remove/Set Hero EXP' in the map to subtract hero EXP.
  • [Fixed] Script Editor does not save if the map name contains spaces
  • [Fixed] Speaker and Position properties are disabled when creating new dialogue lines
  • [Fixed] Empty Hero list in 'Hero touches Cell Trigger' action.
  • [Implemented] Custom Heroes into Script Editor Hero list.
  • [Implemented] Added proper councillor names to the SpeakerType selection of dialogue lines.
  • [Implemented] Increased level cap from 30 to 999 in "Hero reached level" action.
  • [Improved] Renamed actions "Win/Lose Map" to "Win/Lose Game" and moved them from the "Quest" category to the "Game" category to make them easier to find.
  • [Improved] Renamed action "Cell Event" to "Hero touches Cell Trigger" to make its function and connection to the Cell Triggers placed on the map more obvious.
• Unreal Editor
  • [Fixed] Editor cannot be launched after switching Renderer to DirectX 11.
  • [Fixed] Editor crashes after selecting 'Replace SkeletalMeshActors' from Unreal Editor.
• Heroes 7 Campaign Editor
  • [Fixed] Editor crashes after following certain steps and saving the campaign from the campaign tool.
• Layer Tools
  • [Fixed] Selected combat map name doesn't save after the user hits create.
  • [Fixed] Area of Control, Combat Map Areas and Passability do not open in Layertool when user accesses them from Menu Bar.
  • [Fixed] Improper appearance of Academy Bridge observed when used in the map.
  • [Fixed] Improper appearance of Cartrographer and Fortune Teller when the user drags these buildings onto the map.
  • [Improved] Moved Town/Fort Connection Label to the top.

Heroes 7 Audio

• [Fixed] Battle Sites "Elemental Forge" and "Dragon Utopia" do not have any combat music when encountered
• [Fixed] loss of background music after returning from a Battle Site combat
• [Fixed] that combat map specific ambient sounds do not play if music is muted in the options
• [Fixed] that combat map specific ambient sounds continued to play on the adventure map after battle