The UI is shit, it's all in there.

A question...

I purchased the Tribes of the East version but there does not seem to be that many senarios etc in there, should i purchase the vanilla version as well or maybe just get any additional expansions?

Go to that site : http://www.heroes-fr.com/pages/campagnes_originales.php

I'm sorry, it's in french but i'll try to explain to you what you need.

Just download

campaign data, textes anglais, voix des scènes de dialogue --> anglais.

Put all those files in your UserMods folder. Then you'll be able to play all campaigns.

There isn't a lot of maps in ToTE, but you can find a lot on internet

http://www.celestialheavens.com

A useful HOMM website.  You can find campaigns and such. I'd recommend the unofficial manual and the skill wheel.

By the way, many of the campaign scenarios don't feature city building, even though that is still a major part of the game, so that might be where you're confused.  I'd still recommend getting all three parts if you can.

Thanks..

How about " Animations pour les cutscenes (271Mb)"?

In your Heroes of Might and Magic V - Tribes of the East installation folder, be sure to create a folder named Maps (next to the Music folder) : all downloaded maps that are not campaigns must be placed there to show up in the "show multiplayer maps" list, in the scenario selection screen.

The Maps folder might not have been created when installing the game : create it yourself.

If you use the HM&M 5 editor, you may easily open & edit maps that are located in that specific Maps folder.

The info contained in the Editor\H5MMods can be ignored.

The map-files (with a .h5m extension) located in the Maps folder represent the crucial data to load & edit maps & scenarios that did not come with the game's installation.

Well, I can't really tell in comparison to the earlier games, since I only played 6 to 8, but those I really liked.

Have to admit though that although the graphics in 7 and 8 are considerably better, I liked Cosmic Forge best. But this is mainly due to me being a big fan of greek mythology and Ninjas which this one featured to a certain extent.

The puzzles can be really difficult and somewhat annoying though. Especially finding some specific places you need to go to , because there are hardly any hints.

Sylvius (a forum member I happen to know) stated that Wiz 5 was pretty much ground breaking because it put you in the place of the big bad guy trying to break free from his prison dungeon. I'd like to try this one some time too.

I didn't know about the english site.. because I'm french. I just gave the informations I had. And if the first campaigns were a problem for the devs they would have already made a move against it, no? I think that playing the first two campaigns are a good thing for the franchise.

A thing about the three campaigns :

The first is more like a big tutorial. It's well done but the scenario is a bit .. weird, and the characters are a bit flat.

But the second and third campaigns are really really good. But they follow the first. So I recommend to do it even if it's the least appealing

At the risk of dating myself, I played the Original King's Bounty, and HoMM 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 when they first came out. I have also played the recent King's Bounty remake. I tend to have a somewhat different take than the great masses on what was good and what was not. Having played a lot of wargames over the last 35 years or so, what attracted me to the series was its roleplay elements. For this reason I tended to rank the games more on their campaigns and the customizability of the characters. The campaigns and voice acting/stories in HoMM 4 were some of the best I have ever experienced so HoMM 4 was by far my favorite of the series. If you somehow were playing this series to play a wargame, then HoMM 3 is your game but for me it was the worst of the series for its weak RPG characteristics. The eye candy in HoMM 5 is nice, but I thought it was the least polished of the series from a gameplay perspective. All of the previous titles were very serious works with a lot of depth and thick manuals filled with information to demonstrate their first rate quality. HoMM 5 was a very different, and cheaper animal.

I would like to add that the new King's Bounty is probably better than the entire HoMM series and is extremely polished and benefits from an extreme developer attention to detail. It has a lot of replayability but is one campaign so it doesn't have as much replayability as HoMM 4 with all of its campaigns and scenarios.