Hero Companion 0.12.24

Hero Companion 0.12.24

• The Leveling Journey. Your whole 1–50 as a road you scroll like a map — every level a stop with its power pick, new enhancement slots, and milestones; click a card for what that level buys you. Security-level badges sit at 10/20/30/40/50 with the game's own descriptions, and a "Zones & badges" drawer holds the full exploration-badge catalog straight from the game's files, find-hints included. The 🗺️ Journey button in the header is its on/off switch (✕ and Esc work too). Zone display names, level ranges, and task force suggestions are labeled as coming (they need server-side game data, in progress) — nothing on the road is a guess.
• A 1–50 character's Journey starts ON. Build or resume a leveling character and the road opens itself the first time, introducing what it's for, how to toggle it, and how to turn on the game's chat log — with the full 2-minute setup steps right there. Then it's your call: close it once (or press "Got it") and it never opens itself again.
• The wizard never asks a question twice. The archetype recommender now owns no questions of its own — it reads your Role / Mostly-in / You-fight-from answers and lives right below them. Asking it with Role unanswered flags the question instead of quietly assuming damage.
• Farm advice works for the real farm choices again. Eight pieces of server-side farm guidance were still listening for the retired "Fire Farm" key; all of them now recognize the AFK and Active farm choices (and the old name, for older saved characters).
• Your archetype's hidden mechanics are now in the math AND on the screen (model v36). Fury, Domination, Defiance, Vigilance, Scourge, Containment and the other built-in meters are credited with stated steady-state assumptions, and the new Inherent Mechanics panel shows every credited meter with its assumption written next to it. Champions re-certified under the new math.
• Live game-log connections are now a named list, not a bare number. Each connection shows its file path and last-activity time; stale logs expire out on a stated timeout.
• Optional: start Hero Companion automatically when you sign in to Windows. Asked once on first run of the installed app — never turned on silently — changeable any time from the tray menu, quiet at login (no browser tab until you click), removed completely on uninstall.

Both artifacts are code-signed (publisher: Joel Andrew Chambers).

Data currency: game data current to the client re-export of 2026-07-15 (Homecoming live); no game patch has shipped since.