Might & Magic: Heroes VI

SWAG

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Much needed fixes

i accidently delete my CD-Key for the game ( Heroes might and magic VI) need help !!!!! what can i do

Overall, as a casual player (who doesn't seek big challenges), I enjoyed the game.

Pros:
* Easy difficulty campaigns have nice story flows, easy for casual players like me. (Some enemies can be challenging, but being patient and growing creatures will do the job)
* I like the teleport system, quite convenient for travel and defense. It's from town buildings, instead of a spell that requires luck to get.
* Some new designs are quite cool. Especially in the campaigns, there are many special environments, buildings and even bosses (almost a bit like baldur's gate in some way). Quite impressive.

Cons:
* Bugs (usually not too bad, can still play the game; worst thing is some campaign settings are bugged, in a stronghold campaign, you even start with the wrong hero, wtf??? No one has fixed such things???)

Ok, yes Ubisoft has not supported Heroes of Might and Magic well; and in particular for VI and VII they basically released buggy games and then dumped the developers.

But I started with Heroes I and love the strategy / fantasy combo. Heroes VI gives a few twists that I like and you may as well. At this point, it would be nice if Ubisoft would let some modders take over; but they won't so.... this aint bad.

Definitely one of the weaker titles in Heroes' history. I do like some of the things but it pales in comparison with it's predecessors. Even it's successor is better.

That being said, if you like Heroes of Might and Magic series I'd still give it a go as it does have some things unique to it.

does not seem to work on modern systems, screen turns dark randomly so you can't see a thing (not blackscreen) and the game becomes unplayable...

Great addiition to the series

If you know what to expect from it (as I did), it can be an ok experience. The "Just one Turn" still works.

Do note however, that there are a ton of annoying bugs. Some examples:
- The AI is just completely braindead. On some maps it will just remain in their towns doing nothing, even when they could easily crush you with their army. Sometimes it will leave a town while you're standing right in front of it, allowing you to capture it without a fight. Sieges can either be an absolute nightmare or child's play, depending entirely on chance: Sometimes the AI - with all their shooters dead and their meele troops being more than enough to deal with you - will just stay behind the walls spamming defend, allowing your shooters to hit them until they die. Other times it goes full aggro, blasting you with spells and moving their (most of the time bigger) meele stacks out immediately.
- Inferno Campaign 1 Azkaal Bossfight: Insanely difficult due to his abilities not working properly: The one stating that it increases fire damage received by a unit by 100% does nothing at all - while still consuming your turn.
- You can't select some of your heroes for the final campaigns
- Spells/Abilities work inconsistently. (Example: "Rush" increases dmg for every tile crossed. Darkness elementals and pit lords are units that both teleport to their location. The elementals do not get the dmg increase while pit lords do.)
- Duration of spells works inconsistently with Morale - sometimes good Morale counts as a turn, sometimes it doesn't.
- The scaling of some spells and abilities is broken: My 15 Spell Power Hero's healing spell would heal for more than my 40 Spell Power Hero.
- You cannot replay the campaigns with a different Hero affinity anymore. The button is still there but it will always start with the default affinity hero.

Design Flaws:
Since the AI, as stated above, is just bad, difficulty is created instead by the following means:
- The AI blatantly cheats: Its armies increase even in towns with no dwellings built.
- The AI can constantly spam its racial ability even when the requirement to fill up the gauge (e.g. good Morale for Haven) did never occur.
- ALL of the AI heroes are close to your level. For mission 3 and 4 that means endless spam of Chain Lightning and Fireball on Turn 1. That is, if they're magic affinity. Might heroes are just sad, the AI will mostly just spam puny normal attacks.

In General, there are just some big "wtfs" in the campaign:
- The story does not make any sense: People appear in random dialogues/cutscenes that sometimes are not even linked to what you are currently doing. (e.g. Cate, Sveltana, the angels...)
- Bossfights are not actually about strategy, because the bosses' stats are fixed. This means that you just need a certain number of units to do enough damage and to survive its attacks.
- Inferno 3 is quite challenging, as the enemy starts with 8 towns, all scattered across the map. In Inferno 4 (the last campaign) however the enemy starts with just 1 town, which it will almost never leave, even though there are several neutral towns nearby it could claim, making this one a piece of cake where you just conquer the map until your army is big enough to attack this one town.
- Sanctuary 3: The enemy can walk on water, attacking two towns from four directions. This means that your main hero will constantly town portal between them and hope that they don't attack both towns at the same time. (Your secondary heroes will be too weak to deal with them). This coupled with the fact that the enemy has an infinite amount of units available makes this mission a slog of saving and reloading.
- Sometimes it is just better to ignore secondary mission objectives, since pursuing them will trigger another AI to start attacking you, forcing you to constantly town portal with your main hero.
- Town portal in general: Everytime you get too close to an enemy, they'll just town portal back home, start travelling in your direction again, rinse and repeat.

Despite all that, I had some degree of fun. But I doubt that others will.

ubisoft broke the campaign. you cannot play as the intended characters for the campaigns now

always different and challenging

fun

could be better.Cant wait to see the MOD

Better than expected, with the reviews I really thought it would suck. I also really like the artwork in this one. Some people say the game doesn't work with Win 10 & 11 but I've had no problems with Win 11, personally.

Wow. I wish I played this years ago!!! PLEASE reinstate ON-LINE Multiplayer!
Set it up how you like it in your options. Rotate the Screen with extra mouse buttons.

Very Very addicting "One more turn" game loop. I bought this and Heroes 7 with STEAM's Spring Sale. 7 has a "softer" graphic presentation and more 3D world exploring view and controls with circling the turning the camera. Will play that later.... Heroes 6 out the gate comment below:

Graphics: I think they are great
Exploring and Fighting: Strategy regarding movement what to pick up, when to recruit, and how to move on the battle field makes a huge difference.

Music: Full and not "tiny" sounding. Sets the exploring and battle mood well

Addiction level: 9 out of 10. Would be an 11 out 10 with Simultaneous turns and Co-Op.

playable game. i didnt experience any crushes and bugs.

The problem with the black screen is real, but there is a tutorial on Steam on how to solve it. The cut-scenes animations are not that good. There is no MP, but fortunately, it has a hot seat, a feature I missed a lot in HoMM 5. I did not encounter any bugs for now. Overall, I think it is good, and it is getting too much hate because of Ubi, so I would recommend it.

The game doesn't work in Windows 10 or Windows 11. But there's more. I bought the main game, the Shades of Darkness expansion, and the DLCs on Humble Bundle. Since Ubisoft changed their launcher from Uplay to Ubisoft Connect, my Shades of Darkness expansion and DLCs disappeared from my Ubisoft library, and Might & Magic Heroes VI changed to a standard game. I went through a horrible experience with Ubisoft support to finally get them to agree that I am missing content that I am entitled to. But at the end when technical steps to recover the content failed, they ultimately told me that Humble Bundle is not an authorized reseller of Ubisoft content. We all know that this is absolute BS. Humble Bundle still continues to sell Ubisoft products, as well as other content from popular publishers and developers. Ubisoft just simply washed their hands of the issue. Avoid Ubisoft products at all costs.

Good.

Heroes 6 - A game not given enough credit.

I've been playing Heroes games for many years, throughout my time of loving 3,4 and 5 I've been told away to stay away from 6, but after years of hearing this I decided to give it a try while it was on sale and I must say on sale this game is so worth buying.

If you are like me, content starved of Heroes and you just want to play more (especially the campaign) Heroes 6 is quite a good experience, It feels like a reskin of Heroes 5 with some different features to make it feel fresher. Yes there are differences between the other Heroes games like the Garrision feature or you being able to recruit from 1 town/garrision a week but in my experience these help spice the game up compared to the others, if all Heroes games were the same they would not be nearly as fun.

Overall this game is worth buying, maybe not full price but on sale 100% recomended, it runs fine and it plays good.

strategic character grow, materials simplicity, combat oriented - that's good
constant internet connection - that's bad

I know this one has a bad reputation, but it still can just suck me in and make me lose track of time.

There's an unfixed glitch that makes the screen go dark. There is no patch. I'd wait for the patch.

Good game

it's fun...

Too difficulkt to install this via Steam. You have to install Ubisoft packages and a Ubisoft account - after PC Restet and Reinstalling of Steam and this game, cannot be started because Ubisoft doesnt recognize my Ubisoft Account and denies the game code. Support doesnt answer.... Id rather stay with HOMM V (that said, both HOMM 6 and 7 lack the variety in heroes and castles compared to HOMM v...)

dont buy this game. in the age of win 11 the game is not working. if read several blackscrren stuff, but i formaself had a transparent game (so no visuals but if i stremed the game on dc for ppl, others could see it for some odd reason).

thers no reason to buy it other than trying to fix it if ur into masochist things.
play the 5th way better or the 7th (fells still like a cashgrab from uby cuz its buggy and not even finished)
by the way u need hamatchi, gameranger or something else to play it with ppl, cuz they pulled the plug on online services on this game

best strategy game ever !

Long story short:
Good Ideas, very good graphics for 2011, the game itself is fun for like 20-30 hours. Its worse then the other games of the saga (other then HoMM 4 of corse) but YOU CAN LAUNCH IT. yes you can i know there where comments on ubisoft launcher but you just need to make an acc and check remember me. Then it will always launch from Steam unless you have no WIFI.
anyways, dont buy the game if its your first of the HoMM saga but i would recommend to buy it when its on sale, it will be woth the price. I also had all the DLC content and weapons on max, so just buy it if you want to.

great strategy game. fun relaxing and something you can put down can come back to.

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Yes I would recommend this game to other especially if they have played Heroes of Might and Magic games before. Enjoy it.

Kept me entertained for days

Fckin pedos from ubisoft, 13 years old game and its still black screen upon choosing campaign, mtf.

DO NOT BUY, the game is broken. DLC campaigns will not launch and it's a very old bug. Your money will be stolen and you won't be able to play the game! https://steamcommunity.com/app/48220/discussions/0/4695658272798033432/

ubisoft launcher sucks!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3168792199
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3225873645
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1836516904

I can't even run this game anymore.

I loved the game am played it a lot. But with the most recent updates I can only start the turtorial, heaven and necopolis campains. For all others the start button does not work. As this is like 70% of the game, I cannot recommend it to anyone.

Besides that breaking issue Its a really great game!

Even on Easy setting, I just keep getting killed - this seems impossible. The tutorial mission I was not able to compete due to a bug.

Pretty solid game, I would definitely recommend it. The Ubisoft installer doesn't bothered me at all, It's a bit strange I agree, but it really doesn't do anything, you can delete it easily after you finish the game.
But if you have an Intel processor, make sure you turn off all the power optimization features in bios, otherwise, this game will crash like hell.

The game COULD be awesome, but due to all Ubisoft nonsense they brought it's not playable. Ubisoft's treatment of the users is simply disgusting.

It works perfectly for me. On my PC, on my Notebook and even on my Steam Deck.

It has minor bugs. No crashes. Not even sure if I should bother reporting them... I'm pretty sure they wouldn't patch.

The layout choices for loading a game is really poor. You have like 3 different options do load different kind of games, and yet to load a hot seat game you need to go to Multiplayer, change the type to Hot seat, then click to load.. or to start.. something weird like that..

Too bad not everyone has the same experience though.. I don't know why.. Ubisoft should drop this launcher..

It used to be a decent, even a good game before Ubisoft gutted important features and left the fullscreen mode still unfixed so much time later. Sadly I cannot recommend this in this state, although mods might be able to fix it up to some degree.

The game is glitchy as hell. It freezes up if you leave it sit for more than 5 minutes. Locks up and have to force quit. It happens in combat or just moving across the map. It is frequent enough that I will have to restart a game at least 5-6 times in the course of an hour or two of trying to play.

Not Recommended

it's old. The content is iffy at best. Your character building is pretty limited. The mechanics seem like they were written by a 3 year old making up rules to a game while playing it. The campaign is terrible. at one point I was playing a guy who gave his wife to a guy he hates. The mother of his kids...

A great game but due to Ubisofts reputation and how they made a game bug that is so bad that it made it unable to be played without changing things in notepad for the game. I loved this game. I highly recommend this game but I don't know the status of the series for Might & Magic.

Not worth it