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TABLE OF CONTENTS
GETTING STARTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
GAME SETUP
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Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
PLAYING THE GAME
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New Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Game controls
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GETTING STARTED
System Requirements
Supported OS: Windows® 98/2000/ME/NT/XP (XP recommended)
Processor: AMD Athlon™, Pentium® 1.5 GHz (2,4 GHz recommended)
RAM: 512 MB
Video Card: 64 MB DirectX® 9.0-compatible video card (128 MB
recommended) (see supported list*)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0-compatible sound card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c or higher
DVD-ROM: 4x DVD-ROM
Hard Drive Space: 2 GB free
Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible mouse and keyboard
Multiplayer: Internet connection
*Supported Video Cards at Time of Release
NVIDIA® GeForce™ 3/4/FX/6 families (excluding GeForce 4 MX)
ATI® Radeon™ 8500/9000/X families
Matrox Parhelia™
Laptop versions of these cards are not fully supported. For an up-to-date
list of supported chipsets, please visit the FAQ for this game on our
support website at: http://support.ubi.com, or consult the readme file on
the game disc.
NVIDIA® nForce™ or other motherboards/soundcards containing the
Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for DolbyDigital
audio.
NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying
that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives.
Installation
Installing Heroes of Might & Magic V Hammers of Fate
Insert the game disc into your DVD/CD Drive. If you have enabled the
Autorun option, the game installation will start automatically. Otherwise,
double-click on the CD-ROM icon in the My Computer menu. Find
Autorun.exe in the list of files and folders and double-click on it to start the
installation process. Select “Install” to run the installation and follow the
installation wizard guide to successfully install the game on your computer.
Uninstalling Heroes of Might & Magic V
To uninstall the game, click on the Game Uninstall icon in the Start menu.
GAME SETUP
Double-click on the desktop icon or click
once on the icon in the Start menu to
launch the game.
Main Menu
After the game intro, the main menu
screen will appear. Here, you can select
one of the following options:
Single Player
This option opens the single player game menu, where you can start a
scenario campaign or select an individual mission. Here you can also choose
or change your player’s profile. See the Heroes of Might & Magic V manual
for more details on single player games.
Multiplayer
This option opens the multiplayer game menu, where you can select one of the
following modes: playing with several opponents sharing the same PC (Hot
Seat), playing with partners on a local area network (LAN) or via the
Internet. See more details on this in the Multiplayer section at the end of the
Heroes of Might & Magic V manual.
Options
In the Options menu, you can change graphics and sound settings to best suit
your own configuration. You can also change several game settings. Check the
appendix section of the Heroes of Might & Magic V manual for more details.
This menu is also accessible from the Adventure map, and some game
settings are also available from the battle screen.
Credits
Shows the game credits.
Quit
Quits the game to the OS.
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PLAYING THE GAME
New Features
Caravans
Three new tabs have been added to the in-town creatures purchase interface:
Hire creatures from dwellings; Hire creatures from neighbouring castles;
Caravans’ estimated time of arrival.
Hire creatures from dwellings
The “Hire creatures from dwellings” tab
shows all dwellings owned by the player in
which creatures can be hired. It also shows
the creatures themselves.
The ‘buildings’ icons are replaced with the
‘dwellings’ icons; the figures show the
number of creatures, the increase per
week, and the caravan movement time.
The dwellings are sorted by running time
from the top down.
Hire creatures and send them by caravan by clicking the Confirm button.
Hire creatures from neighbouring
castles
In the “Hire creatures from neighbouring
castles” tab, the player’s castles are
shown with all creatures that can be
hired there. Everything else is similar to
the dwellings tab.
Caravans’ estimated time of arrival
This tab shows all caravans travelling towards this town. The caravans are
sorted by arrival time from the top down. Similar creatures are grouped
depending on their time of arrival and the type of place they left from
(dwellings are grouped with dwellings, castles with castles).
Caravan mechanics
A caravan is a self-steered cart (a special
unit on the adventure map) visualised as a
cart model. A caravan can only move
creatures, and does so between towns
belonging to the player or from dwellings
belonging to the player to his towns.
A caravan travels by itself (automatically)
from the preset origin to the preset
destination. A travelling caravan is visible
both to the player who owns it and to his
opponents (if it comes within their scope). A caravan travels at the speed of a
hero who has Expert Logistics and Pathfinding. All terrain penalties are
considered. A caravan consists of an arbitrary number of creatures, but no
heroes. The number of creature slots in a caravan equals the number of slots
for a hero. Creating the caravan itself is free.
Caravans can be attacked by enemy heroes. This leads to a battle, controlled
by the player, but without a hero on the side of the caravan (because there are
no heroes in caravans).
An allied hero can interact with a caravan (when the mouse cursor is moved
over the caravan, its shape changes in the same way as when interacting with
a friendly hero). Before the interaction attempt, the player receives a
[Yes/No] Message Box saying, ‘Do you want to withdraw creatures from
the caravan? Caravan will be disbanded’. If the player responds Yes, an
interface similar to the Swap Creature interface opens, where troops can
transfer between the hero’s army and the caravan. After the interaction, the
caravan is disbanded, and any troops remaining in it disappear.
A caravan selects the shortest unblocked route to its destination. If travelling
is impossible (blocked by other units or respawned monsters), the caravan
stops, with an icon over it showing that it stands idle. Once the caravan
owner’s turn begins, he sees a popup window saying, ‘One or more of your
caravans is standing idle’, with the OK button. A caravan’s destination can’t
be changed.
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If a town to which the caravan has been travelling is seized by an enemy, the
caravan continues on, however if the town remains under enemy control when
it arrives, the caravan will stop at a distance of 4 tiles and wait.
The number of caravans is limited since they are in the same interface as the
heroes. The number of heroes and caravans together cannot exceed the
maximum number of heroes. Caravans cannot be controlled manually, and
their destinations cannot be changed.
Random Map Generator
The RMG allows you to create a map for
games against the AI and in multiplayer
mode.
You can select the size of the map,
whether the underground map is used, the
power of neutrals guarding the resources
and the number of players.
The RMG works with templates. The
templates describe the game zones (size,
content and links with other zones). The
game zone is similar to a local part of a map, limited on all sides by borders.
Each zone has one or more links to other zones. The content is the number
and composition of interactive objects, such as mines, dwellings, resources,
artefacts, etc.
After setting up the parameters, the RMG selects a random template which
meets the necessary conditions, and builds a map on this template.
Experienced users can select templates from the existing list.
Press “Generate” to start the process. It will last anywhere from several
seconds to several minutes depending on the settings. At the end, a small
image of the map is displayed. The user can choose a name for the map and
press “Save” when the map is ready. The map will be placed in the Maps
folder.
A map created by the RMG does not need to be sent to other users. It will
generate identical maps automatically on the connected players’ computers.
Simultaneous Turns
This mode is intended to make gameplay faster at the beginning, while
the initial development is taking place. Simultaneous Turns is selected by
default (global var "mp_simultaneous_turns", default value "1" ).
In this mode, the players take their turns simultaneously. Clicking on End
Turn brings the player into Waiting Mode (waiting for other players to
finish their turns) or into Ghost Mode (if it is turned on; see below). As
soon as all players have pressed End of Turn, the next turn begins.
Simultaneous Turns only works until the first conflict. A ‘conflict’ is a
situation where players can affect each other. Since the game is essentially
turn-based,any encounters between two or more players can cause a game
mechanics failure (for example, if two players attempt to take the same award
simultaneously). Conflict probability is estimated at the beginning of each
turn. If conflict is possible, the game is permanently switched to the basic
turn-based mode. All the players receive a message confirming this.
Simultaneous Turns and Ghost Mode
If both options are active, Ghost Mode starts after the player has clicked on
End of Turn, and remains active until all opponents do the same. The ghosts’
energy is charged according to the length of their previous turn in Ghost
Mode (i.e. the time the player waited for his or her opponents to click End of
Turn). When the game changes to Turn-based mode, Ghost Mode also
becomes turn-based.
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Game controls
(already in the Heroes of Might & Magic V Manual)
Clicking and releasing the right mouse button on an object opens the context
tip relating to the object, or cycles through the other tip screens if there are
several.
Camera management
from keyboard:
<up> move camera forward
<down> move camera backwards
<left> move camera to the left
<right> move camera to the right
<Page Up> zoom in
<Page Down> zoom out
<Home> set camera on average height default camera
<Ctrl> + <left>
<Insert> rotate camera to the left
<Ctrl> + <right>
<Delete> rotate camera to the right
<Ctrl> + <up> tilt camera up
<Ctrl> + <down> tilt camera down
with mouse:
<wheel> change scale (zoom in or out)
<RMB> + left move rotate camera to the left
<RMB> + right move rotate camera to the right
<RMB> + up move tilt camera up
<RMB> + down move tilt camera down
<RMB> + <Ctrl> + move move camera in that direction
Mission map
<Click> on hero portrait select this hero or town, focus the
or town icon camera on the selected object
<Click> on location or object
set this location as the destination
for the selected hero (route will be chosen)
Double <Click> on location or Tell the selected hero to move to that
object, or <Click> on destination
location or object
<Click> on friendly hero approach a hero and open the
exchange screen
<RMB> on object open the object (hero, unit, building)
properties screen, which depends on
the object type
<Space> tell a hero to move
<Ctrl> + <E> end turn
<Esc> cancel hero movement, clear chosen
route, close current dialogue window
(if applicable)
<M> map
<N>, <Tab> select next hero
<Shift> + <Tab> select previous hero
<ë> open spell-book on strategic level
spells section
<E> End of turn
<F> switch to selected hero screen and
open inventory window
<P> switch to selected hero screen and
open abilities window
<K>
switch to selected hero screen and
open individual and acquired skills window
<H> switch to selected hero screen and
open biography
<O> open objectives screen (main page)
<L> open objectives screen (log page)
<T> switch to selected town main screen
<U>
switch between surface and underground maps
<G>
invoke Tears of Asha map
<1>...<8> select hero by number (left to right)
<Backspace> (network game only) open text input string
<Enter> (network game only) send typed text
<Esc> (network game only) erase typed text
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Town
<B> erect selected building
<R> switch to creature hire screen
<M> switch to market screen
<Enter>, <Esc> leave town interface for mission map
<Tab>, <Shift> + <Tab> select next/previous town
<Space> switch places of garrison and visiting hero
Battle arena
<Click> on enemy unit attack enemy by melee / shooting / magic
(depends on the available weapons / magic)
<Ctrl> + <Click> melee attack regardless of default
on enemy unit weapon / magic settings
<Click> on own unit Cast Spell / Use Ability on unit (only with
magic currently selected)
<Space> or <D> tell unit to pass to the defensive, adding 30%
to Defence
<W> switch unit to waiting mode
(for half of a usual turn’s time)
<ë> open spell-book on combat spells section (if
book icon is present on the control panel), or
use special ability (if special ability icon
appears)
<Esc> when spell /
ability selected cancel casting spell / using ability
<Enter> tell hero to go on the defensive or skip a turn
<A> switch to automatic fighting mode
<R> flee or surrender (retreat)
General commands
<Esc> display game menu
<Pause> pause mode on / off
<Print Screen> create screenshot (*.bmp file in the
screenshots folder)
<F4> show game settings screen
<F6> quick save
<F5> Save
<F7> Load
<F8> quick load
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT
NEW: To serve you better, Ubisoft is now providing full ONLINE
support, to solve your gaming problems quickly and efficiently.
Simply go to http://www.ubi.com/uk and visit the Ubisoft Frequently
Asked Questions first!
By visiting our FAQ database, you can find exactly the same answers
that are available to you by calling or sending web-mail to our support
representatives. This service is free and available 24/7!
If for any reason you do not find the answer to your question, you can
click on the Ask a question link in the FAQ to send us a web-mail,
ensuring that we get all the important information on your system and
your problem so we can answer correctly the first time.
Make sure to include all information on your system, your problem, and
the game you are playing.
If you do not have internet access, Our support representatives can assist
you from 8:00 am until 10:00pm daily (excluding Bank Holidays) on
Telephone: 0905 – 482 - 0109 Calls cost 30p per minute. Please be at
your system when calling Ubisoft for support.
Australian technical support
Technical Support Info Hotline
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(calls are charged at $2.48 per minute including GST.
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HINTS & TIPS
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Hints line: 0906 – 646 – 8477. Calls cost £1.00 per minute. Please ask
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WARRANTY
Ubisoft guarantees to the original purchaser of this computer software product
that the compact disc (CD)/cartridge supplied with this product shall not
show any default during a normal use period of ninety (90) days from the
invoiced date of purchase. In the first instance please return the faulty
product to the point of purchase together with your valid receipt. If for any
reason this is not possible, (and it is within 90 days of the purchase date),
then the faulty compact discs/cartridges should be returned to Ubisoft at the
below address, along with a dated receipt, location of purchase, a statement
describing the fault, and all original packaging.
Address for returns:
Ubisoft, Chertsey Gate East, London Street, Chertsey, Surrey, United
Kingdom, KT16 8AP
Where a CD key is required to access on-line game play, this cannot
be reproduced or replaced. It is the responsibility of the original
purchaser to keep this CD key secure. Lost, stolen or damaged CD
keys cannot be replaced.
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