

Also, 2 official add-ons came out, which contained a little bit more than just patches to versions 2.0 and 3.0 respectively: new creatures and artifacts. Patch to version 1.2, then to 1.3, to 2.0, next to 2.2 and finally 3.0. There has been 5 offical patches that solved various problems. That resulted in many fans of Heroes series returning to play Heroes III. It had quite poor AI, missing mulitplayer mode (in the beginning only Hot Seat was functional), continuous memory leaks and crashes during the game which made it run slow even on some powerful machines, absence of a combat grid, wrong descriptions of some artifacts and many more issues arose. Heroes of Might and Magic IV game was developed in a hurry, and rushed to the stores too early.
