Author: Liso1 August 6, 2024 0 Comments

VCMI 1.5.6 is now available. This is another small update for 1.5 that focuses on issues discovered by our tournament players.

VCMI v1.5.6 notable changes:

• Mod compatibility issues when joining a lobby room now use color coding to make them less easy to miss, incompatible mods are now placed before compatible mods when joining lobby room.
• Fixed jittering simultaneous turns slider after moving it twice over short period
• Fixed non-functioning slider in invite to game room dialog
• Fixed some shortcuts that were not active during the enemy’s turn, such as Thieves’ Guild.
• Game now correctly uses melee damage calculation when forcing a melee attack with a shooter.
• Game will now close all open dialogs on start of our turn, to avoid bugs like locked right-click popups
• Spells the hero can’t learn are no longer hidden when received from a rewardable object, such as the Pandora Box and instead will be displayed with grayed-out name
• If player refused skill from Witch Hut, right-click tooltip on the object will correctly show skill granted by this Witch Hut
• Right-click tooltip on map dwelling now always shows produced creatures. Player that owns the dwelling can also see number of creatures available for recruit

• Fixed possible crash on transferring hero to next campaign scenario if hero has combined artifact some components of which can be transferred
• Fixed possible crash on transferring hero to next campaign scenario that has creature with faction limiter in his army
• Fixed possible crash on application shutdown due to incorrect destruction order of UI entities

• Mod compatibility issues when joining a lobby room now use color coding to make them less easy to miss.
• Incompatible mods are now placed before compatible mods when joining lobby room.
• Fixed text overflow in online lobby interface
• Fixed jittering simultaneous turns slider after moving it twice over short period
• Fixed non-functioning slider in invite to game room dialog

• Fixed some shortcuts that were not active during the enemy’s turn, such as Thieves’ Guild.
• Game now correctly uses melee damage calculation when forcing a melee attack with a shooter.
• Game will now close all open dialogs on start of our turn, to avoid bugs like locked right-click popups

• Spells the hero can’t learn are no longer hidden when received from a rewardable object, such as the Pandora Box
• Spells that cannot be learned are now displayed with gray text in the name of the spell.
• Configurable objects with scouted state such as Witch Hut in HotA now correctly show their reward on right click after vising them but refusing to accept reward
• Right-click tooltip on map dwelling now always shows produced creatures. Player that owns the dwelling can also see number of creatures available for recruit

• Fixed possible crash on invalid SPELL_LIKE_ATTACK bonus
• Added compatibility check when loading maps with old names for boats