Might and Magic The Might and Magic Discussion Thread

[Darth Canoli]

Is this correct for the merge mod?

https://gitlab.com/templayer/mmmerge/-/wikis/Docs/PlayerManual/Install

The "mod pack" link times out.

Celestialheavens forum seems down too...

 

[Invictus]

Is there a hi res mod for the separate games also? I loved how the games look in higher res

 

[jackofshadows]

Also didn't know that the composer was such a chad lol. That guy is buffed!

*do you even lift jpeg* check his youtube channel, there's some insighful stuff, even aside from
When I did stumble at his channel and discovered that Rachmaninoff is his favorite composer it was like everything fell into place. Several themes has made more sense to me personally but beyond that I realized why exactly he's so beloved precisely around here un Russia. No coincidence, I tell you.

 

[Darth Canoli]

Is there a hi res mod for the separate games also? I loved how the games look in higher res

There is a chinese "HD" mod, it's even compatible with MMerge, i think, you'll find it at celestialheavens when it's up and running, might be on modDB too but i never used it.

 

[fantadomat]

Rachmaninoff is his favorite composer

That is fucking prestigious,the dude that could write true Russian music and only slavs could fully feel his music! Really miserable bastard,very respective! One of my favourite composers and pianists. And one really good reason to hate kwan swines!

 

[jackofshadows]

That is fucking prestigious,the dude that could write true Russian music and only slavs could fully feel his music! Really miserable bastard,very respective! One of my favourite composers and pianists. And one really good reason to hate kwan swines!

That's one weird conclusion. Kwan swines have actually provided him shelter and the opportunity to work. Same goes for Stravinsky and many more less known artists and beyond. One really good reason to hate fucking bolsheviks (and commies in general) would be more reasonable conclusion, I'd say. Every time I listen something of later Rachmaninoff's work pains me but at the same time no less than listening Shostakovich's work of the ~same fucking period

 

[Antorus]

So no way to download the merge mod right now?

 

[fantadomat]

Kwan swines have actually provided him shelter and the opportunity to work.

Not really,they were just hunting for culture and accepted anyone gifted from Evropa because they were mainly a country filled with inbreed retards. They got intellectual cowards from all over the world. Yet in the end they didn't give two pisses about man's wishes and denied his death bed's request to be buried in Mother Russia,even now they still refuse Russian's request for his body to be returned to Russia,because muh tourists and money making. I find it disgusting all around. Kwans are just parasites and vermin in me eyes,the worst thing that could have happened to the world. While communism is an ideology that comes and goes in a few decades,kwans were the same scum throughout their whole history. That said i blame the Monarchy in Russia for being too weak and pathetic,for letting the communists to take power. Romanovs at that point were extremely pathetic at that point,the nobles should have beheaded the little cuck and took power,instead of wasting time fighting muh germany. A slime compared to the Tzars of old,like that glorious bastard Ivan Grozni.

 

[JarlFrank]

Does anyone have an alternate download link for that M&M 6+7+8 mod? I wanna play it but the website linked in Sseth's video is inaccessible...

 

[jackofshadows]

Not really,they were just hunting for culture and accepted anyone gifted from Evropa because they were mainly a country filled with inbreed retards. They got intellectual cowards from all over the world. Yet in the end they didn't give two pisses about man's wishes and denied his death bed's request to be buried in Mother Russia,even now they still refuse Russian's request for his body to be returned to Russia,because muh tourists and money making. I find it disgusting all around. Kwans are just parasites and vermin in me eyes,the worst thing that could have happened to the world. While communism is an ideology that comes and goes in a few decades,kwans were the same scum throughout their whole history. That said i blame the Monarchy in Russia for being too weak and pathetic,for letting the communists to take power. Romanovs at that point were extremely pathetic at that point,the nobles should have beheaded the little cuck and took power,instead of wasting time fighting muh germany. A slime compared to the Tzars of old,like that glorious bastard Ivan Grozni.

You're the one edgy motherfucker. Ivan Grozni was barely better than Stalin and basically was the same parasite on top of what's been great. But let's drop that.

The fact that some fuckers don't wanna let Rachmaninoff's body away is troubling but that's irrelevant because life is what relevant, not death. Especially now, at information age. In life, it were the kwan swines who saved him.

However there's a fascinatinating derivative out of all this: their (Rachmaninoff and others) art work could have been something else entirely if not this exile and the life after it. Something to think about.

 

[Efe]

Does anyone have an alternate download link for that M&M 6+7+8 mod? I wanna play it but the website linked in Sseth's video is inaccessible...

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Might and Magic 6, 7, 8 merge based on mm8 engine. [upd. 12.07.2020]
Postby Rodril » Nov 13 2017, 18:17

cthscr wrote:Links from the first post of Merge thread are broken now.

Latest Rodril's pack (v. 12.07.2020) can be obtained here

Latest Rodril's patch was 16.08.2020 which is not recommended to be installed due to being broken regarding quests.

Latest Rodril's changes (including patch 16.08.2020 and fixes) were from 2020-10-01. You can get them via 'rodril' branch of mmmerge @ gitlab. (As usual additional fixes were applied in 'rodril-fixes' branch of mmmerge @ gitlab.)

(And of course more features, more possibilities and even more fixes [that often can't be backported easily] are in 'master' branch of mmmerge @ gitlab)

Installation instruction: https://gitlab.com/templayer/mmmerge/-/ ... al/Install

Issue/Bug tracker: https://gitlab.com/templayer/mmmerge/-/issues


Hello.

Here is thing i did for past time: merge of mm6, mm7, and mm8 on base of mm8 using MMExtension.

Game files v. 12.07.2020
MEGA: https://mega.nz/file/zvh3nJrQ#ABcmCuolD ... 1joc_GNnpQ
OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am9rWpMJxt9sasRuJzl ... o?e=QqD6vJ

Update (if you have game files of previous version): https://mega.nz/file/n7oH3DZJ#VIxXt_S7T ... OUBvOU_H2Q
Patch 16.08.2020: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oif3enzrrl405 ... 0.zip?dl=0
Update localiztion files after applying this update, if you use them.

How to install:
Warning: do not install MMPatch before applying game files.
1. Install GOG version of Might and Magic VIII.
2. Copy mod files into MM8 folder, replacing existing.
3. [Optional - skip this step if game already works] Install MMPatch 2.4.1 (https://github.com/GrayFace/Misc/releas ... v2.4.1.exe )
4. [Optional] - download localization files, links below.

Check community branch for hotfixes and additional features.

Known unfixed bugs/issues:
1. One half of double-leaf doors in MM6 dungeons sometimes stays impassable, second part usually works fine.
2. Check tracker for more.

Possible contributions if someone would:
1. Testing.
2. Repainting mm6/7 armors to fit mm8 dolls. (List of armors requiring to be repainted: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1uxa88lcbioif ... t.txt?dl=0)
(video-example at 1:18 : https://youtu.be/lipriutf3SI (video a bit outdated, use dump(*table*) function to find new fields of structures)).
3. Some texts have not been localized yet, translate any, and share them here, please.
Here is list: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qzcvdzeajg5z ... t.txt?dl=0
put this file into "Data" folder to see new texts in game. Open debug console with ctrl+f1 and execute "RelocalizeTables()" (without quotes) with ctrl+enter to see new texts without relaunching game.

Current contributions:
- Two elf females and woman from MM7 by J.M.Sower.
- Two elf males and man from MM7 by Albahr.
- MM7 dwarves, goblins, and all MM6 characters by Jamesx.
- Two connective cross-continent questlines by Echo.
- Items splitted into subtiers by Xfing: Weapons, Armors (not fully implemented yet), Apparel (not implemented yet)
- Water frames, body armor conversion and code fixes by GrayFace.
- Suggestions/bugs/tasks tracker by Templayer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xf4 ... mZ3o/edit#
- MM6 -alike interface by Vinevi

Localization:
This is English version based on GOG releases. I did external database to not get confused with all game files, i think, i can use it to automatically replace current files with other localization, send me your *.lod archives from game folder, so i can try to do it.

Existing localizations:
German: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l44xd3is36ix ... Dwb0a?dl=0
- Texts and mm6/mm7/mm8 audio.

Polish: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hs5tur167a50 ... bVeXa?dl=0
- Texts and mm7/mm8 audio. If mm6 sound localization exist, send it to me, please.

Russian: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q5ld445zeqi8 ... o1B0a?dl=0
- Texts and mm6/mm7/mm8 audio + localized cross continent quests. There are two options: by Alexeevdenis and by Maslyonok.

French: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8u2mgfe73vfk ... 9_Pla?dl=0
- Texts and mm6/mm7/mm8 audio + localized cross continent quests by Mozaki.

Czech: *awaits bugfixing*
- Only mm6/mm7/mm8 texts + localized cross continent quests by Templayer.

Spanish localization by Roor (might be outdated): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/chkqg9sonz7z ... c6dua?dl=0

- copy files in your "...\Data" folder to apply localization.

Note:
These localizations were made mostly automatically, and have not been tested enough yet. English texts were manually reviewed by Phobos, misspells and some quest descriptions were corrected, which stays in localizations, texts for new quests does not have existing translation, if you'll resolve some of this issues, please, share new texts here.

Tips:
1. At certain points of stories you will receive instructions about traveling to other continents and explanation of it's purpose.
2. Party can be filled up at start or during gameplay by hiring random followers.
3. Game have weather effects (snow and rain), these are toggleable by new button in "Controls" menu.
4. Simple way to achieve high resolution (provided by China community): https://www.celestialheavens.com/forum/10/16658
Grayface's mmpatch 2.1 supports high resolution without any side software, check it's "readme".
5. I've used Marcon Phoenix's world map for new game menu.
6. Game bolstering monsters to match them with high levelled parties, who have already finished one of continents, if this became gamebreaking or annoying - disable or adjust bolster in "Controls" menu.
7. Use "f4" button to switch windowed and fullscreen mode in game.
8. Music is disabled by default, to enable it: open file "mm8.ini" via notepad, find line "PlayMP3=0", change it to "PlayMP3=1".
9. If music does not loop, convert .mp3 files into .wav (all music files stored in "Music" folder).
10. Cheat engine for merge: http://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9058
11. "How-to" modify in-game graphics: https://www.celestialheavens.com/forum/10/16923
12. "How-to" encode .smk videos for MM engine: https://www.celestialheavens.com/forum/10/16916
Last edited by Pol on Jan 29 2021, 12:59, edited 165 times in total.

links are dead tho
from a random poster on alst page
https://mega.nz/file/Ly5wDRBb#GWnXjPB3hprLz6iLkuQDUzg-LLG19y3uWCS1sk2y1xk

 

[Invictus]

All the activity must have crashed the servers, he DOES have a pretty big fanbase along with Mandalore

 

[rusty_shackleford]

mandalore's fanbase isn't big enough to even crash the codex and it crashes by itself all the time

 

[Efe]

mouselook is disabled whenever you click interact with an object

 

[Desiderius]

Kwan swines have actually provided him shelter and the opportunity to work.

Not really,they were just hunting for culture and accepted anyone gifted from Evropa because they were mainly a country filled with inbreed retards. They got intellectual cowards from all over the world. Yet in the end they didn't give two pisses about man's wishes and denied his death bed's request to be buried in Mother Russia,even now they still refuse Russian's request for his body to be returned to Russia,because muh tourists and money making. I find it disgusting all around. Kwans are just parasites and vermin in me eyes,the worst thing that could have happened to the world. While communism is an ideology that comes and goes in a few decades,kwans were the same scum throughout their whole history. That said i blame the Monarchy in Russia for being too weak and pathetic,for letting the communists to take power. Romanovs at that point were extremely pathetic at that point,the nobles should have beheaded the little cuck and took power,instead of wasting time fighting muh germany. A slime compared to the Tzars of old,like that glorious bastard Ivan Grozni.

(1) Your Dumbfuck moniker is well chosen.

(2) Wait until you find out that Wall Street funded the Bolshies...

 

[fantadomat]

Kwan swines have actually provided him shelter and the opportunity to work.

Not really,they were just hunting for culture and accepted anyone gifted from Evropa because they were mainly a country filled with inbreed retards. They got intellectual cowards from all over the world. Yet in the end they didn't give two pisses about man's wishes and denied his death bed's request to be buried in Mother Russia,even now they still refuse Russian's request for his body to be returned to Russia,because muh tourists and money making. I find it disgusting all around. Kwans are just parasites and vermin in me eyes,the worst thing that could have happened to the world. While communism is an ideology that comes and goes in a few decades,kwans were the same scum throughout their whole history. That said i blame the Monarchy in Russia for being too weak and pathetic,for letting the communists to take power. Romanovs at that point were extremely pathetic at that point,the nobles should have beheaded the little cuck and took power,instead of wasting time fighting muh germany. A slime compared to the Tzars of old,like that glorious bastard Ivan Grozni.

(1) Your Dumbfuck moniker is well chosen.

(2) Wait until you find out that Wall Street funded the Bolshies...

Eat shit faggot .!.

 

[JarlFrank]

installed the M&M 6-7-8 combi mod
started out in the world of 6, five characters, all-female party (I picked, of course, the ones with barefoot paperdolls )
already killed a bunch of goblins and found some treasure hidden under a random rock

I'm having fun. Might and Magic is just so much fun despite how simple its gameplay loop is.

 

[Efe]

you can always open an issue on gitlab for more bare feet paperdolls.

 

[fantadomat]

you can always open an issue on gitlab for more bare feet paperdolls.

And romance side quest mod with a full on footjob animations.

 

[Rafidur]

Spend 5 hours installing mods and running 3rd party tools to make the specular maps of each toe just the right way you want for the full skyrim experience.

 

[Antorus]

Mega link for anyone interested that someone else uploaded, haven't tested it yet: https://mega.nz/file/Ly5wDRBb#GWnXjPB3hprLz6iLkuQDUzg-LLG19y3uWCS1sk2y1xk
Their shitty site crashed again

 

[JarlFrank]

Mega link for anyone interested that someone else uploaded, haven't tested it yet: https://mega.nz/file/Ly5wDRBb#GWnXjPB3hprLz6iLkuQDUzg-LLG19y3uWCS1sk2y1xk
Their shitty site crashed again

I am playing the version downloaded from there right now.

 

[Storyfag]

Mega link for anyone interested that someone else uploaded, haven't tested it yet: https://mega.nz/file/Ly5wDRBb#GWnXjPB3hprLz6iLkuQDUzg-LLG19y3uWCS1sk2y1xk
Their shitty site crashed again

I am playing the version downloaded from there right now.

Any specifics on how does it work? Which class/skill progression, etc?

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Now I think it's a good thing we didn't get the Forge in the end. In M&M games the sci-fi element is always hidden as a surprise reward for getting to the endgame. Of course after beating at least one game it's no longer a surprise. Still its fun to wonder this fantasy world and wait for the sci-fi to pop-up. Forge being very in-your face sci-fi kinda betrays that idea.

Also the presented concepts were very not in-line of what we've seen in previous games. The technology was very futuristic and Star-Trek inspired. Meanwhile revealed concepts looked more like something from a post-apocalyptic game. Ogres with rocket launchers? Flamethrowers? Naga-tanks?

I think that the Forge should be obviously very powerful and advanced faction, but their technological origins should've been revealed only at the end of the campaign, like in M&M games. At a glance their units should appear to be using conventional weapons or magic. Goblins should still use blasters, but these blasters should look like magical weapons rather than standard guns. This would both prevent the backlash and retain the surprise ending similar to the M&M games.
Of course there's no way NWC would make know it back then.

 

[fantadomat]

Thank god that they decided to not include the forge. It looks retarded and very out place,it kills the relaxing mood of the game.