Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Gets a New Damage Formula, Mummy and Kitsune
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Short answer: Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era received its biggest balance update since Early Access on 29 October 2026. It replaces the Attack/Defense damage formula, adds two neutral creatures (the tier 5 Mummy and the tier 7 Kitsune), gives every hero a new First Aid skill and reworks ranked matchmaking. Hotfix 0.82.08 followed on 4 November. The game is still in Early Access on PC, with no 1.0 date announced.
What’s new in the update
Developer Unfrozen tested the changes on a beta branch first and released them in version 0.82.06. The main changes confirmed in the patch notes and in press coverage:
- New damage formula. The way Attack and Defense change damage has been rewritten.
- Two new neutral creatures: the Mummy (tier 5) and the Kitsune (tier 7).
- First Aid, a new skill available to all heroes, with six subskills.
- Matchmaking rework. Before a ranked match you pick the map templates you like (and an extended timer option), and you can queue for two or three modes at once.
- Smarter computer players on the adventure map, plus reworked skills, artifacts and creature upgrades for every faction.
The hotfixes that followed
- 30 October (0.82.07): the Medusa Queen’s Hail of Arrows now does half damage and costs less, and guards on artifacts outside random-map zones are reduced by 20% instead of 40%.
- 4 November (0.82.08): limits on how often computer players use adventure-map spells, set by difficulty, plus guard and template fixes for several multiplayer maps.
Release date, price and platforms
| Balance update (0.82.06) | 29 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Latest hotfix (0.82.08) | 4 November 2026 |
| In Early Access since | 30 April 2026 |
| Developer | Unfrozen |
| Publishers | Hooded Horse, Ubisoft |
| Platform | PC |
| Price | $39.99 |
What it means
The matchmaking rework was one of the items on the Early Access roadmap the team published in May for the fourth quarter of 2026. The road to version 1.0, with more campaign content, is the later stage of that roadmap, and no 1.0 date has been given yet. For what players and critics think of the game so far, read our Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era review, or see everything we have on the Olden Era page.
Sources
- Steam news: New Damage Formula, Updated Matchmaking, Smarter AI Enemies & New Creatures
- Steam news: Hotfix: Creature Banks, Templates & Bug Fixes
- iXBT.games: Olden Era gets its biggest update (30 October 2026)
- iXBT.games: Olden Era hotfix 0.82.08 (4 November 2026)
- PatchBot: Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era patch notes
- Worthplaying and PC Games Hardware: Olden Era Early Access roadmap
Last checked against sources: 11 November 2026.
