HOMM5 demo out

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Didn't even get that far. I wandered about for a few turns around the starting area of the first campaign scenario, killed a few stray creatures and collected some loot, then went for the first town I found, the one very close to the starting area with an ore mine in front of it. I captured the town, and the game crashed when I tried to leave after looking about and making a few build orders.

Okay. I didn't get a single crash in about three evenings of playing so far. But whenever I enter a town and see all those fancy swirling 3D graphics, I can't help but expect a crash any moment. I guess years of gaming having taught me that Pavlovian response

Oh, I've found all the camera controls, but no way does it move as I expect, so often I find myself staring off in the wrong direction. The more I zoomed out the worse the jerkiness, the more I zoom in the harder it is to get the camera to behave.

I'm notoriously reluctant to explore a UI. It usually takes me six months to find some essential UI feature that would have made all the difference to gameplay, LOL.

I've just got no patience when it comes to learning new software. Just hop right in and hope for the best

I'm not excessively worried about the game's performance. Yet. It's a demo of a work in progress, and my drivers are possibly a bit old for a new and demanding game.

It's not that bad. But as I said to you on the GalCiv thread, I just have a thing about games that don't scroll efficiently. It could definitely be a lot smoother.

The comments about AI do worry me. Can only hope it improves in the release version; correctly or incorrectly I gather the game itself is still unfinished and that this demo is more of a taster for veterans than a demo to sell to the public.

Oh heck, I thought the game had been released. Oh well, I guess I can save my money a bit longer then

Yeah, I hope the AI is improved too. But my experience with RTW makes me suspect that what you see in the demo is pretty much what you end up with in the finished game.