Heroes in troubled times

Enhanced AI, PVE balance overhaul MOD

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**Suitable**

• Players who need to enhance AI, stronger AI, and make the original AI more challenging
• Players who want more reasonable units, spells, and mechanisms in the PVE environment

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Detailed content of Heroes of Troubled Times

You can view the details of the MOD changes here, and you can simply click the chapter label on the right side of the guide interface to switch to the part you want to read. Some contents of the MOD are hard-core changes to enhance AI. Please choose the campaign difficulty that suits you. Of course, you can also turn them all on and face the most difficult game.

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**Current Version**

In the current version, you can experience:

• Set the difficulty and special mechanics of the game in the menu, and customize the strength of the AI
• Improved the original AI potential mechanism, and now the AI ​​bonus will be increased to a more challenging level
• Improved the original AI strategy mechanism. During the battle, the AI ​​is more alert to the surrounding situation and more willing to attack the enemy.
• Customized combat AI for units. During combat, they will pay attention to key enemy units and prioritize vulnerable targets.
• The impact performance of all cavalry has been greatly improved, both in terms of data and usage feel.
• Major adjustments to the campaign AI have been completed, and players will face more challenging opponents.
• Factions that have completed basic unit adjustments: Empire, High Elves, Dwarves, Vampire Counts, etc.
• The recruitment template of the AI ​​faction has been redone to make the AI ​​army composition more in line with the faction's characteristics and tactics.

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**style**

CA's official balance and upgrade patches are based on PVP balance, so players will see CA continue to strengthen some units that are already strong in PVE but weak in PVP, and will also continue to weaken some units that are not strong in PVE but are too strong in PVP. Therefore, some of the original settings are not applicable to the PVE environment. Therefore, this MOD hopes to focus on the balance of the campaign in the PVE environment, while also providing some interesting or challenging additional content.

For now, it is hoped that these changes can achieve two goals, and at least achieve the first goal:

• When an AI faction recruits weaker units from the original version, the battle will not be less challenging due to unit strength or incompatibility with the system
• Improve these originally weak units so that players are willing to recruit and fight them

Heroes of Troubled Times will be a long-term updated MOD that will iterate and progress one by one in terms of units, skills and props, technology trees, skill trees, buildings, etc. During this period, we will always pay attention to long-term content such as battles and combat AI. If the improvements to the original version cannot satisfy the adjustments, new skills, new units, and new mechanisms will be created.

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**compatibility**

The current main changes in Heroes of Troubled Times focus on campaign and combat AI, unit attributes and skills, building effects, etc. When you use similar MODs, please note that activating multiple such MODs will generally not cause the game to crash or freeze, but the game will only select the changes of one of the MODs. For example, if MOD A increases the archer's range to 200, and MOD B shortens it to 100, the game will only choose one of 200 or 100 to use, and the priority will be determined by the named ASCII order of the data table.

Recommended to match with MOD

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**ADDITIONAL FEATURES**

The current version also includes these fun little features:

• Purple Void: a faction-wide event that allows all factions to start the game from a new random, climate-friendly locat …