Essay About Hot Key Cycles And Menu Menu

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New World Computing
Heroes of Might and Magic(TM) III
2/12/99
Thank you for purchasing Heroes of Might and Magic III. We hope you
have as much fun playing Heroes(TM) III as we had making it.
1) New Features
2) Manual errata
3) Hard drive space required
4) Mplayer.com
5) Heat.net
6) MSN Gaming Zone
7) Windows(R), Virtual Memory, and Hard Disk Space
8) Miscellaneous
9) Troubleshooting
10) Purchasing 3DO Software
11) Contacting Customer Support
1) New Features:
After the manual was printed, the following features were added to the
game:
The “T” hot key cycles through each town button on the adventure map.
The “S” hot key brings up the save screen from the adventure map.
The “L” hot key brings up the load screen from the adventure map.
The “I” hot key displays Scenario Info from the adventure map.
The “P” hot key displays the Puzzle Map from the adventure map.
The “V” hot key shows the View World display from the adventure map.
The “D” hot key tells the current hero to dig for the grail.
You may delete a save game from the load game screen by selecting the
file and pressing the Del key.
You may delete a save game from the save game screen by selecting the
file and pressing the Ctrl-Del keys.
2) Manual errata:
Page 8
Back. “Menu Menu” should be “Main Menu”.
Page 35
Armorer secondary skill. Damage reduced by this skill is 5% at Basic,
10% at Advanced and 15% at Expert skill level.
Page 38
Offense secondary skill. Offense increases the amount of damage in
hand to hand combat only.
Page 42
Tactics Formation Table. If a hero has one higher degree of the tactics
skill, troop placement is within the first 3 hex columns. Two higher
degrees of tactics skill allows placement within the first 5 hex
columns and three degrees is 7 hexes.
Page 44
Luck. A positive luck score gives creatures the chance of inflicting
double damage instead of maximum damage.
Page 74
Berserk Spell. The duration for this spell is one attack, not one
round.
Page 78
Frost Ring Spell. The duration for this spell is instant, not one
round per Power.
Page 82
Hall Structures, Capitol. You may only have one capitol. If you take
an enemy capitol, it is downgraded to a City Hall.
Page 89
Harpies & Harpy Hags. The first sentence should read: “Harpies have a
swooping attack that returns them to the hex they started from”.
Page 94
Gorgons & Mighty Gorgons. The second sentence should read: “The
mighty gorgon has a death stare with a 10% chance per attack of killing
1 creature per 10 mighty gorgons outright.”
Page 98
Efteet & Efreet Sultans. Efteet and Efreet Sultans have Fly movement,
not Ground movement. Efteet Sultans have a natural fire shield
defense, similar to the fire shield spell.
Page 119
Barbarians. Jabarkas is an ogre, not a goblin.
Page 120
Battle Mages. Dessa in an ogre, not a goblin. He also starts with
Basic Logistics, not Basic Ballistics.
Gird starts with Basic Wisdom and Basic Sorcery instead of Advanced
Wisdom.
Oris starts with Basic Eagle Eye instead of Basic Learning.
Vey is an ogre, not a goblin.
Page 121
Beastmasters. Tazars secondary skill should be Advanced Armorer, not
Advanced Defense.
Page 122
Clerics. Rion starts with Basic First Aid instead of Basic
Leadership.