This mode is still being built and is not finished. Expect rough edges: connections that fail
to establish, sound that does not always come through, and battles that need starting over.
It is here to try out and to report back on, not to rely on.
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The host needs
One of you runs the actual game, so that person supplies the Heroes II data — once, from their own machine.
- A desktop browser; Chrome and Edge handle the folder picker best
- Their own copy of Heroes II — the folder that contains
DATA, about 40 MB. What that means - To pick that folder once. It is stored in that browser and is never uploaded anywhere
- To leave the tab open for as long as you play
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The guest needs
Nothing at all. No download, no game files, no account, not even a copy of Heroes II.
- A browser, on more or less any device
- The six-character code, or the invite link
- You see the host's game as a live stream, with sound, and play your own side by clicking straight into it
- One of you hosts. Open the browser version and point it at your Heroes II folder, once. It stays in that browser and is never uploaded.
- Share the six-character code — or the invite link beside it, which saves the typing. Rooms are short-lived: a code lasts about fifteen minutes, and the host's tab waits three.
- The other one joins. A small rendezvous endpoint on this site is what introduces the two browsers to each other; after that the picture, the sound and the clicks travel directly between you.
- Pick the armies, then fight. Outside a battle the host can hand the mouse over so their opponent builds their own army, and take it back at any time. In battle, only the player whose turn it is can click.
