HEROQUEST - COMPANION APP discussion

[Kurgan]

It's the afternoon of August 16th as I write this and still no official update on the HQ Companion App. No official PDFs either of "Dread on the Horizon" or "Return of the Witch Queen" though fan scans have been posted for awhile now.

[Kurgan]

And here we are approaching mid-November (post Spiel Essen, post LUCCA) and still no update yet. Maybe by December 30th?

[Kurgan]

Barely 2 hours ago the App was updated to 7.0. "Contains content updates and bug fixes" is all it says this time (unlike Michael's last update).

Sadly it looks like not much else was done besides adding Wizards of Morcar functionality.

These quests have purple fog of war (like ROTDM).

Issues noted:

- No female wizard (4th alternate) variant (just the Mythic one we've had all along).
- Scouts can't search for or disarm traps (!)
- Mercenaries can't use ANYTHING (the booklet only explicitly prohibits them from using "any Equipment or Treasure cards" but it doesn't say they can't use Artifacts... which were called "Quest Treasures" in the EU original).
- No Return of the Witch Queen "Pulse exclusive" ("online/digital" Quest 005) quest.


As before, some sought after updates are still not present:
- No Rogar's Hall
- No 2nd and 3rd alternate Druids (ATOH)
- No 3rd alternate Knight (ROTDM)

[HispaZargon]

Good news to finally see Wizards of Morcar in the official companion app, however in some chacks I did, I have already detected several bugs.

I already reported them to the official Discord server of Avalon Hill and Tess (AH) answered they were going to have them into account, but I would like to post them here too for future tracking:

Quest 1, if a hero does not ends his turn in the green area of room A, and opens the Chaos Warrior door, no message is given, though same message of stoping at green area should be triggered before opening the door

Quest 2, the app allows killing Sir Ragnar. However he should not be able to be killed according to the questbook. If killed in the app, the quest cannot be completed succesfully.

Quest 3, if Zanrath casts Escape, he is not teleported to the square indicated in the questbook, he is incorrectly teleported to the square with a Teleport Trap icon marked A.

Quest 5, the special treasures of Storm Master room (gold, potions and artifact) are not given to players by the app, even if the Storm Master is killed.

Quest 7, the art of the minotaur encounter incorrectly shows the skeleton minotaur from Crypt of Perpetual Darkness campaign, instead of a living minotaur

Quest 8, Sir Ragnar art shows the prisoner look from Game System Quest 2, instead of a Sir Ragnar figure with armor and sword.
Sir Ragnar map icon does not match with the one used at the end of previous Quest, which is confusing

Qiest 8, if Sir Ragnar dies during the Quest, the ending messages when the wizards are killed and Mentor appears do not consider that Sir Ragnar was killed.

Quest 9, if the four evil wizards are killed and room A has not still be searched for treasure, there is no chance to continue the quest and search for treasure in room A.

Quest 9, when an evil wizard opens a closed door it costs them an action, so they do nothing else in their turn. Opening a door must be free.

Quest 9, if Zanrath casts Escape, he is not teleported to the square indicated in the questbook, he incorrectly stays in the same square he was placed, without teleporting nowhere.

General Comment: No remind message is given to players about they can go to the Outpost after Quest 2, it is like it does not exist for the app.