Requires Uplay - Gruesome

HOMM3 I have played all night long, marketed with the study HOMM4 frustration and cursing about the lame AI of HoMM5. And now HOMM6. Yes, I knew beforehand that the game is an online connection and some special software needs to start. Never mind, for I have a games machine where else is nothing important on it. Now I have the game almost 6 months, and fed up.

* Steam and GameStop / Impulse :: Reactor always works great, so why should it be different here?

I did not expect with the amateurish developers from Ubisoft. Who so laid some eggs:

1. The game needs CONTINUOUS an online connection (Conflux). If the in between only interrupted for a moment, then breaks off the game and all progress since the last save is lost. Playing on the train? Or generally with UMTS? No Chance.

1a. The Conflux server are difficult to reach from time to time or be taken out of service for "planned maintenance" and even a week (!).

* Then there's still the offline mode:

. 2. The offline mode is a pain you can not use online objects (logo), but she gets forced into the hero inventory placed, from which you can not remove, because - yes, because you Offline halt any online listings can use. Then you walk with grayed, ineffectual weapon and armor around in the area and can not take the things.

2a. Some cards can be in offline mode not play, but are necessary for advancement in the campaign.

2b. Scores Online / Offline is not in sync. If you want to play offline, we must start the campaign from scratch and then encounters problem 2a.

* Oh but they have Automatic Updates ...

3. Uplay is probably the grottigste insolence that has me ever a Spieleverlag pressed on the eye. I whopping six times click anything, enter or select until the game tries to start (and then probably crash again). And that's so when I start the game from the icon on the desktop. I always land in Uplay main menu where me first then any advertising is played.

3a. When updating sometimes disappear all Scores and again you have to manually do any magic things then ultimately not certainly lead to success.

3b. The update mechanism is functioning - sometimes. Sometimes you may after the unsuccessful patch, the Uplay in a loop from the start, patch, crash, reboot, patch, etc. ad nauseam Crash sends, uninstall the game completely, manually delete any files from the disk, clean the registry and the game new download and install (about 3-6 hours of waiting time, if the servers are reachable, see 1a).

3c. Before Uplay updates should switch to offline mode and then watch the forums otherwise may hairy tentacles grow on the hard disk, refer to 3b.

* Yes did they not support?

4. The support consists mainly of forums in various languages, their mods studiously ignore bug reports, to the displeasure expressed but is too large. The absolute bottom is that the support a sometimes says that as an error occurs only in stolen versions. Oh wow, incompetent and even cheeky. My forum account is linked to the Key. You look so well, that I bought the game?

* Conclusion:

If it works for me, then it's a graphically appealing game with a detailed story that offers more than for infants and the claim already in the original English has a language level just above the cellar floor. The graphics are great, some missing elements to the series include (city screen etc.) to be replenished now, the interface is clear and easy to understand. But there's the three star game. If the online connection is not implemented so amateurish, then would be 4 stars in it.

Nevertheless, I advise against the purchase. I want to relax while playing and not be surprised with the fact that there is a forced update, which I have to wait first (Hello? I'm now an hour's play freely made. NOW, not in an hour!) And then ensures that I can not play, because the game will not boot afterwards. For this, the shameless support, so that I do not need.

The circus has nothing to do with recreational fun.
HOMM6 was the last game of the series, which I bought.