VCMI: open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III released in version 1.7.5

VCMI has been released in version 1.7.5.

VCMI is an open-source reimplementation of the Heroes of Might and Magic III game engine, making the game compatible with higher resolutions, modern operating systems and mod support.

This update focuses on stability: numerous crashes were fixed, including issues when starting random maps, loading corrupted saves, or during certain combat situations. Saves from version 1.6 can still be loaded in 1.7.

Stability

Fix possible crash on starting random map with random number of players

Fixed crash on updating a mod in which mod description file has been removed

Block special creatures from being selected for special weeks even if they are marked as allowed to prevent crash

Fixed crash on failure to load H3 bitmap font, in favor of using true type font provided by VCMI

Fixed possible crash on starting a save with eliminated human player

Fixed possible crash on Android on displaying message boxes when VCMI is inactive

Game will now stop video playback on stream corruption instead of crashing

Fixed failure to open .zip archive on systems that use minizip-ng library, such as Fedora

Fixed crash on attempt to create zero-sized slider

Fixed crash on right-clicking on configurable map object with empty config

Fixed several possible crashes on shutdown

Fix potential crash due to use-after-free in movement animation

Fix possible crash on hero with invalid starting army escaping a battle

Fix concurrency race in NKAI’s

Fixed crash on manual import of mod with unsatisfied deppendency

Fix crash on having ADVANCED_NECROMANCY bonus when loading game started in 1.6 release

Fix possible crash on object fade-out

Other

Do not allow targeting unavailable hexes with area attacks

Fix saving of server port number

VCMI screenshot

VCMI is available for Linux via Flathub and for Ubuntu via a PPA, among other platforms.

Source: GitHub