The map does not match that of the original game.

[Otakufanatic]

Preliminary checks

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Platform

Windows

Describe the bug

In the "Campain Expansion - Descendand - Scenario 4 (Cracy Uncle Ivan)" of the original game you could go through here and reach a clearing where there was an artifact, currently in this version of the game you can not.

Save file

No save file.

Additional info

version 1.1.0 (22 May 2024)

[oleg-derevenetz]

Apparently this is related to #4495 and #8390.

[ihhub]

I need to crack my head how to solve these passability issues :(

[Districh-ru]

I couldn't go this path in the original game...

HEROES2W.2024-07-25.20-09-41-345.mp4

[Otakufanatic]

The original game is MS-DOS although they released some versions for windows that gave quite a few problems. If you play the ISO with DosBox of Heroes II Gold that integrated the base game and the expansion you will see that you can go through that area. In fact the video you send you will see that there is a clearing with an artifact and several treasure chests. Well, you can only access through this little secret. I send you a video of the original MS-DOS game so you can see it. Maybe what happens to you is that in the windows version the bug was not patched and that's why you can't pass, but as I said it gave you a lot of problems with the audio. Best regards.

H2.secret.path.mp4

[oleg-derevenetz]

If you play the ISO with DosBox of Heroes II Gold that integrated the base game and the expansion and with the last official patch (2.1) you will see that you can go through that area.

Interesting. In the following video I'm playing the 2.1 DOSBOX version from GoG:

DOSBox.0.74-2.1.Cpu.speed_.max.100.cycles.Frameskip.0.Program_.HEROES2.2024-07-26.21-52-18.mp4

and I'm still not able to move to this area.

[Otakufanatic]

It's strange, it seems to be a map bug introduced in v2.1 that changed some game maps with errors (like mines that could not be captured among other things). I've tried it in MS-DOS and Windows English version and I get like you, inaccessible the way to get to the clearing with the artifact and treasure chests. On the other hand with the 2.0 version in Spanish if it is possible to access.

But the crystal mine in my game has a tree stuck (as seen in the video) and can not be captured, I think that when I fixed the mine in 2.1 they loaded the access...

[ihhub]

I am closing this issue as it is not a problem of fheroes2 engine but different maps being used.