Factory Town Has TWO Tier 7 Creatures? Heroes 3: Horn of the Abyss Mod

A closer look at pre-release Factory, the 2nd new faction in the popular HotA mod for HoMM3. This town is based in the wasteland terrain and thematically focuses on advanced technology, similar to the cancelled Forge town from Armageddon's Blade. This video explores the heroes and units announced so far, including Factory's two level seven creatures, the Dreadnaught / Juggernaut and the Couatl / Crimson Couatl.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:51 About Factory (and Forge)
04:16 Balancing Two Tier 7 Units
07:00 Dreadnought / Juggernaut
10:35 Couatl / Crimson Couatl
14:28 Halfling / Halfling Grenadier
15:09 Mechanic / Engineer
15:43 Armadillo / Bellwether Armadillo
16:39 Sandworm / Olgoi-Khorkoi
17:40 Gunslinger / Bounty Hunter
19:17 Factory Heroes
21:00 Closing Thoughts
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Dreadnaught Preview Post: heroescommunity.com/viewthread...
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[@Norovo]

Factory has now been released! Check out my town overview here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKDJoWyKr5mgZ68

[@alexrom.5548]

Docent Picolan , one of the main people of HOTA crew died a couple of days ago in a car accident. He was coordinator and responsible for music and some visuals. He will be missed in the abyss

[@livedandletdie]

He was also the founder and the main force behind almost everything ingame. Without him progress will slow down, and he will be missed.

[@vincentwilmet9789]

To honour his memory, Paul Romero has decided to continue his work on the theme of the Factory. Such a nice gesture !

[@adrrob7106]

F

[@Boss-_]

Ah, damn. I just discovered HOTA and was gonna get back into Heroes III, so it is quite sad to hear. F

[@msfritz9158]

@@vincentwilmet9789 oh my god this is so sweet

[@patrickng1129]

Factory town just got released! Time to make a series with the new town!!

[@SirBananaFunk]

Russians are mad HoMM3 fans. Like seriously, it is probably the most beloved video game in Russia

[@andriusjanusauskas1097]

Well, because russians like ocupied lands

[@fizzybubblech666]

@@andriusjanusauskas1097 Crimea is OURS!!!

[@kraizmerentertainment2121]

@@andriusjanusauskas1097 because in our mentality "everything I see is mine"

[@user-fq6fc4hi3k]

Ты прав! You are right!

[@marcelx2x137]

And other Slavic countries, especially Poland

[@deanfraiser]

KZbin : Hey, wanna watch a video about a game you haven’t played in 10 years? Everyone on KZbin : sure

[@Norovo]

Time to reinstall. 😉

[@pvv890]

Norovo yess

[@SanjayMerchant]

More like 10 months in my case....

[@domeplsffs]

@@Norovo Just reinstalled yesterday, and was looking for some info about what HotA change. Now i'm watching this - no regrets xD

[@naruchan1010]

More like 2 days in my case. 😉

[@dergrim224]

Do the critics know that the science fiction Element was always a part of Might and Magic? Demons are actually aliens which were blasted to oblivion by my hero group with their new found laserrifles. They were a good upgrade to bow and sword.

[@dr.strangelove9815]

It amazes me how few people know that the roots of HoMM is science-fantasy, not simply fantasy. It's high fantasy with an underpinning of high technology. The older M&M rpgs display what the setting was all about, especially M&M 7.

[@croc_moat2327]

I'm russian,and russian HoMM community(which I'm is a part of) still loves this game and many people in slav countries still plays this game and make mods for it;) This game is totally iconic and legendary,and it will never be forgotten;)

[@ildlyn8966]

Because your potato powered pc's can't run anything else lmao.

[@1989Brolly1989]

@@ildlyn8966 beter to have potato computer than mashed potatoes insted of a brain, like you.

[@spamator12]

Yep here in Poland we play this game a LOT. It's a very good game.

[@Carpatouille]

@@ildlyn8966 Yeah because it's so much better to run shitty 70 dollar movie games that are over in 3 hours with a 5k computer

[@zenithquasar9623]

Wow, HoTA people are pretty great at creating concepts!

[@ThePsychosis92]

Yes i wish they had the rights to heroes..just a dream.

[@chainsawplayin]

@@ThePsychosis92 Just like how a Russian studio made Heroes 5.

[@auroriasolaris]

I like how people are saying that those things do not fit Heroes 3... meanwhile those who played original Might and Magic series should remember all those lasers and literal nukes and aliens... good ol' times.

[@SanjayMerchant]

I wonder how many people will object to the Factory precisely because it's a compromise backing down from the original Forge concept. There's an argument to made that it being transgressive against the genre conventions was part of the point and scaling it back to make it more palatable defeats that particular purpose. Personally, I'm still excited for this faction in its own right, even if there's still that wistful, "what could have been" feeling about the Forge.

[@magonus195]

Forge was horrid and I'm glad it wasn't included.

[@hundvd_7]

Personally I'm all for the compromise. This version looks a lot more fitting. If they actually made Forge, instead, then I would look for ways to disable it.

[@chainsawplayin]

Pirates and Wild West / Steampunk... I'd much rather have this than the uninspired mess that was Forge. It literally used other creatures, mainly of Necro and Dungeon, but with some mechanical parts.

[@frankvandorp2059]

What I will never understand is that "being transgressive against the genre conventions" is presented as a good thing. Genre conventions often exist for very good reasons and going against them isn't necessarily a sign that you're being edgy or creative or even talented. It can also be a sign of creative laziness, just take things from other genres that people find 'cool' and stuff them all together regardless of whether it make sense, so you don't have to come up with a real creative concept that actually fits in the universe you're working in. Instead, just appeal to the most easily impressed consumers in your target audience with lots of flashes and explosions. I really wish people stopped treating "being transgressive" as a purpose in itself. You should include new concepts in a game because the concepts are great by themselves, not because those concepts go against everything else and you can tell yourself you're being a subversive rebel and feel pleased with yourself. If you write a medieval knight story and all of a sudden you interrupt it with an invasion of alien space reptiles with laser guns, you're being transgressive, but very likely you're also writing a very bad and cheesy story. It reminds me of how a lot of modern art and architecture is created, when 'going against conventions' is considered more important than quality or creativity, with monstrously ugly results.

[@Hachimaro]

@@frankvandorp2059 Have you played any "Might and Magic" games?

[@artursartemjevs6097]

The world of Might and Magic is NOT fantasy (at least not in a traditional sense). It's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi masquerading as your standard elf/dwarf tolkienesque world. There was a lore explanation for the Forge town based on the events in the "Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor" game.

[@Murgraht]

But more like 90% of HoMM players don't know about M&M xd

[@drmrtld11]

abs r8

[@user-ne3ss9mk3k]

No, its like Wizardry: space ships are common but there are also swords and magick.

[@oni2185]

@Jakub Bończak My man, the original poster is right: "Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor" explained it quite logically. There was no jump, a bunch of technologically superior alien adventurers found the remnants of the previous sci-fi civilization on the Heroes planet and decided to conquer the world using it. I think that was the canon ending of that game.

[@Murgraht]

@Jakub Bończak Było niby w M&M 6 albo 7 że Anioły to strażnicy Starożytnych, i jak umierają to wracają ich dusze/jaźnie na bazę kosmiczną nad Enorth, a Tytany to kolejny wehikuł dla tych istot. Podobnie z Kreeganami - nazywanymi diabłami - to zwyczajni kosmici.

[@DemicentDog]

Love the fact that they will get the wasteland as their home terrain. Which made me realise that the only unused terrain in game by a faction is the beach terrain which would actually be fitting for the Cove and their pirates/sea side theme. How much work would take to fix that ? Fortress has the swamps.. give Cove the beaches, make justice in H3 HOTA!

[@itap8880]

I think beaches are supposed to cover less space than other terrain types. They're beaches after all. However, I wonder what if cove had two native terrains: beaches and shipdeck.

[@madtechnocrat9234]

1) wasteland was added for factory, it is something from h2 not h3. 2) it is a desert not a beach. 3) its usefull for map makers to have neutral terrain.

[@keirawisnu]

thanks for the update info, cant wait for the release date

[@sevret313]

The dreadnought looks cool, but I think I'd prefer the faster unit and pick Coualt as the one I've the most faith in, especially if it is the fastest unit Factory has access to.

[@nemou4985]

You can have both thus factory is incredibly unbalanced

[@matejbosela9093]

This is what exactly was in the MM6 and MM7. I still can remember alchemists labs (Agars laboratory from MM6 - Enhancement and organic creatures, and then something like Clankers (tge one where Archibald goes) lab from MM7 - he has been creating golems, Archibald alchemy party tried building machines).

[@kraizmerentertainment2121]

It's more than that. Archibald's advisors were actually from the other planet and each of them had a functioning deadly blaster.

[@matejbosela9093]

@@kraizmerentertainment2121 that is the endgame spoiler, dont do that here please

[@kraizmerentertainment2121]

@@matejbosela9093 want to talk about the spaceship control room under the pyramid in MM6?

[@matejbosela9093]

@@kraizmerentertainment2121 dont bring up Linccoln or shit like Varn.

[@FarkasAbel91]

That feeling when talking about MM VI and MM VII endgames are spoilers

[@cero1399]

As i know from a lot of ru HOTA streamers that developers were takin advises from origin gamedev's about upcomin castle : how its better to look like about creatures, stuff like that

[@sesimondo7393]

Thanks for the video. I have all the updates from you, keep doing this pls. You are doing a great job!

[@martinlisitsata]

Real shame that we are never gonna get it .

[@hpholland]

Love that HOMM3 is still going strong

[@TheLaughingMax]

nice. I didn't even knew that the HotA team is still developing let alone creating a whole new town. I also really like the idea of "splitting" the towns development. A lot of cool things. I hope you keep us up to date when new stuff is announced/shown :-).

[@mishab4065]

Music for the town is being written by Paul Anthony Romero himself!

[@alexc302]

So excited for this.

[@deadtempleknight.6332]

Jesus H Christ that Couatl looks stunning!

[@chrissheri5731]

Interesting to see that the special resources required are crystal for Couatls and mercury for Dreadnoughts. Definitely going to have to manage your resources well.

[@semanticac.9320]

Thanks for this great video!!

[@d.f.7397]

This is so nice! It makes me want to give the team some money for this project.

[@retardinhojunior6546]

They don't accept any, unfortunately.

[@Deavhrmordhau]

@@retardinhojunior6546 they do :D

[@BuscoAlmas]

Wizzard's Castle from Heroes 2!!

[@Murgraht]

Praise those Russians!

[@PPDust3r]

при чем тут казалось бы русские =\

[@Sintarzus]

@@PPDust3rмод создаётся русской командой.

[@kukumarro]

Am I the only one that thought of Doc Emmet Brown in Back to the Future 3 after seeing the bounty hunter and the crazy hair hero?

[@4rgenn]

The Atmospher is like " canyon concept" so, for the next one you can think about "Ancient Egypt". You can use Mummy ( already in the game), sphinx, giant beetle, scorpio man, anubis man and others!

[@-Zakhiel-]

This town actually exists in the mod Heroes of Might and Magic 3 : Succession Wars. The Dervish town. Wich is a cool town.

[@flymodselling8663]

No, sorry to say, but it's an awful concept and dont match the game.

[@BloodwyrmWildheart]

@@flymodselling8663 Ah yes, because a desert town is an "awful concept" which "don't[sic] match" a game that already has mummies, robots, orcs, spaceships, demons, pirates, and wizards. /rolleyes

[@BloodwyrmWildheart]

Btw, check out the Bastion mod for a finished Egyptian-themed desert town. It's almost good enough to be official, and IMO should be added to HotA.

[@mandor7005]

Very cool concept! It mixes very naturally to world of homm3! And also the music is amazing (I already see other video) When It will be the release!? Hope to see soon!! :)

[@Norovo]

Are you Team Couatl or Team Dreadnought? 🤨 No "it depends on the map" answers allowed - choose a side!

[@QTPiHayley]

why not both?

[@SanjayMerchant]

On the one hand, Couatl seems like it'd be more useful more often because high Speed is just so dang useful, but on a gut level, I like Dreadnought better because if you're playing the high tech faction, you might as well commit to the gimmick! Let's go with Dreadnought. I can make 8 speed work most of the time. But the unupgraded Couatl is pretty fabulous....

[@TheGoldenNick]

I love the design of the Couatls, but the Dreadnoughts are just so cool with how many ways they function, I'm excited to see how they'll be in combat! Also, max haste will do the trick for their relatively slow speed I'd say 🤔

[@_Seph_]

Probably Coualt. I like their ability and I'd love to try it soon. But yeah, Dreadnoughts are also cool

[@kosviik9584]

I slightly prefer the Couatl over the Dreadnought, but all the other units are heavily Dreadnought-side favored to me.

[@monkeygaming2859]

So basically factory is just going to be academy from homm5 just with less magic and more tech

[@rhyfelwrb9367]

This is a great video. Thanks for the information. Couatl all the way! That thing looks awesome

[@1313hman]

Barring whether the factions fits into the game or not, I'm curious if the Ginslingers' Quick Shot works if the enemy shooter has No Retaliation (like the Corsairs from Cove who are ranged with no retaliation)

[@MrBiglal83]

Thanks for the great video - I’ve played HOMM3 for years and years but somehow missed out on the expansions you’ve been highlighting. Where could I find a proper, complete version of HOMM3 to install on my Mac?

[@lordhuebi]

I'm not sure about Mac but GOG.com has a complete version with expansions iirc. Pretty affordable, too.

[@MrBiglal83]

Egrin yer a star mate.

[@Norovo]

That's right. For anyone else wondering, you need to get the complete edition, not the version from Steam (HD Edition).

[@GregJonson]

Here's the thing. I can generally get behind the existence of constructs and guns. Both of them are existing concepts in D&D which shows that they _can_ work in the fantasy environment. What bugs me are the freakin' gunslingers, I feel like they're the most out-of-place thing about this.

[@livedandletdie]

They aren't out of place. You can get behind Angels, which in the lore are Giant Ancient Tech Robots... The Planets of CRON, Terra, Xeen and Enroth are all located in a region of space known as the Spinward Rim, Webstation Beta 5 was basically a space station created by the Ancients which allowed travel between CRON, Terra, Xeen and Enroth freely, however when the space faring Aliens known as Kreegans invaded it and destroyed parts of it, travel between these regions became restricted and the contact with the Ancients were lost, this event is known as The Silence. The Silence is a known event from which time in the M&M universe is counted from, all years there after are known as x AS AS stands for After Silence. In the year 1166AS the warriors from Terra arrives on Enroth on their space vessel the Lincoln. In the year 1175AS the Reckoning occurs in which the world of Enroth is destroyed and everyone that can flees to Axeoth(HOMM4 planet) Oh and the last Forge as in Forge Town, stopped working in 113AS. Conflux is supposedly added to the game because of the good ending of Might and Magic 7 allowed for it's creation otherwise if the actual canonical bad ending of Might and Magic 7 was used which it is in the 8 and 9th iteration of Might and Magic contra HOMM3 the Forgetown would've been implemented. But that's just so they could escape fan wrath, however, as I said before Angels are Robots created by the Ancients to fight Kreegans, aka the Inferno town demons/devils...

[@ThatWanderingDude]

@@livedandletdie I'm pretty sure in MM6, your party turning on the oracle (a massive planetary supercomputer) activated enroth's planetary defenses. Hence why in heroes 3 angels start "reappearing", oh yeah and christian (yes that christian) is your boat captain when you want to go to hermit isle in 6.

[@shigerufan1]

Given that the last faction they added has pirates with pistols, it's not too far out of place, just that unit again with a western skin.

[@rhysjones81]

The animations on the creatures look fantastic, now could they just redo all the original lineup like that? :D

[@Nightingale1986]

Looks kinda hard to balance for most of the tournament templates. HotA crew are superb, though

[@Lifeform84]

I always thought Iron Golems, Steel Golems, & Gold Golems belong to factory town units, they should have taken heavy inspiration from them. It could be really cool to have a town that focuses directly on mechanical units.

[@BAMGM]

Technically, the gunslingers’ health is tied with diamond golems and 2x that of enchanters, so I dunno about that “lowest health tier 6” thing, but I guess you don’t see enchanters or diamond golems in your army every day.

[@Norovo]

Fair point, I didn't think about the unaligned tier sixes.

[@Legion12Centurion]

I loved all golem armies in vanilla but it was sooo difficult to make them work well against ai because you usually got so low amounts of diamond ones.

[@milat9287]

Honestly wish HotA had found a way to incorporate Gold and Diamond golems into Tower so that you'd get to use them more. Always feels kinda dumb when you find a Golem Factory dwelling and can suddenly purchase things in it that your capital city's factory can't. Not to mention, they're considered neutral so you can't even mix them into your army instead of iron seamlessy or something

[@laurivaisanen6918]

Sandworms burying might have some restrictions, like maybe in a boat fight it cant burrow.

[@JaniTheBoxESCChannel]

They have taken it to account, for those terrains/surroundings they have a separate movement animation for it. Read more here: heroes3wog.net/sandworm-factory-nature-tier-5-horn-of-the-abyss-update-15/

[@laurivaisanen6918]

@@JaniTheBoxESCChannel Nice and ty

[@endzor]

Рад, что есть такие видео

[@kolorec]

Swarms of O-Ks drilling under the moats to invade a sieged castle?! Yummy! Such a great idea - so obvious now so simple but excellent

[@Rider-lo9vt]

Require more resource and grow slow but more powerful units? I love this new town concept!

[@molariu404s5]

Am i the only one excited about halflings not being neutral and can actually recruit them just like heroes 2

[@nemou4985]

that is already in heroes 4

[@shigerufan1]

@@nemou4985 Yeah but Heroes 4 isn't heroes 3.

[@nemou4985]

@@shigerufan1 It also isn't heroes 2 but many of hota ideas are taken from H4 including satyr and leprechaun neutrals

[@FilmGamerHUN]

So you can choose almost like in Heroes 7 you have both level 7 in town and you can build only one. If course i know here you can build both if you have enough time and resource but it seems in mulktipalyer you will havent any possibility to build both. Olgoi Khorgo or what uses the same underground teleport as Troglodyte in H7 :D

[@SanjayMerchant]

I wonder which resource the Resource Silo will produce? The original game had exactly one faction produce each rare resource (with everybody else getting generic Wood and Ore). Of course, the original HOMM3 time threw that out themselves when the Conflux produced Mercury just like the Inferno. Sulfur would make a lot of sense for a faction that uses guns and such. Though that would make three factions that produce Sulfur (alongside Cove and Dungeon), so my desire for symmetry wants them to pick something else.

[@chrissheri5731]

In the video when they show recruitment cost for the two lvl 7 units it showed crystal for Couatls and mercury for Dreadnoughts. As for the silo it might possible be another wood and ore. We'll have to wait and see.

[@ahmadabughazaleh8246]

Im here from time the update finally released

[@Marvolaukes]

Dlaczego ten golem w zbroi na początku filmu ma mordę Jana Pawła 2?

[@JoLiKMC]

16:08 - … oh, crap. If the Armadillo is based on the one from _Darkside of Xeen,_ then it is going to be *a nightmare creature.* At least until other players have sufficiently powerful units to deal with them. Seriously, between the Armadillos and Vulture Rocs, Darkside is a freaking scary place. Also? _Very_ excited by the prospect of Kastore returning. He's a default hero from _Might and Magic III,_ and in _Heroes of Might and Magic II,_ someone got him confused with Seymour from _Might and Magic: World of Xeen._ All that said, I'm hoping for the original _Might and Magic III_ version, just to confuse people. (;

[@rogermarlin3758]

When is factory town gonna happen?

[@Vaginaattori]

An idea for a hero specialty/skill(not necessarily for this town): a skill that lets you accumulate golems daily, weekly, whatever. Similar to H4's summoning. Have some legendary golem master hero create diamond golems at expert construction.

[@felipehoferdenecken9332]

Hi! very cool stuff! hey my battle music do not play when i`m in a battle! )= this happened after updating the launcher )= any idea to fix it?

[@xSauseBrausex]

when it comes out?? it feels like a lifetime !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@retardinhojunior6546]

Devs suffered a tragic loss in November 2020, so don't expect them to finish the work anytime soon.

[@sayak9693]

Forge was 100% lore friendly because it was actually necropolis from M&M7, and M&M series lore is more than bloody Stargate than ppl think

[@machberet4884]

I can see at least one small mistake - 1:58 NWC were not going to put THAT in the game, this was a leaked conception art, it was not going to make into the actual add-on, as stated by Greg Fulton

[@firepaladin7909]

The nude version of it, that is, but not the creature itself.

[@karpai5427]

Hmm.. Is he used as a portrait for one of the new Barbarians in hota?

[@nhodoan8318]

I am a crazy hota fan from vietnam❥

[@Evoken111]

For the Factory!

[@oskarmadry550]

Ok nice but when will it come?

[@zuuzel]

21:02 hi where can i download the mod with the city of slau?

[@ZenonMcRae]

Nice. Thx Btw Hota team should add na option to donate.

[@DeGameBox_SRBT]

personally, I would like the factory to be a superior city, but very expensive, depicting the superiority of technology

[@GregJonson]

One of those unachievable dreams I have is being able to partake in creating a new H3 faction. I'm not a coder, and I don't know anyone who would either be able to code nor willing to dedicate their time to such a lengthy project. But I do have most of it planned. My dream faction would add a town onto the sand/desert terrain, probably called Oasis or something like that, and it would be loosely based on the middle-eastern culture. A key mechanic that this faction would bring into the game would be slavery. The same way that necromancers obtain skeletons from defeated enemies, the Oasis heroes would be able to gather the remains of fallen foes and enslave them. (There's the issue of, for example, enslaving dragons which would still turn into humanoid slaves. But necromancy works the same way, visually. I'm sure there'd be a lore way out of that. Or giving all humanoid creatures in the game the "humanoid" trait, and only such creatures would be available for conversion into slaves and/or skeletons.) The slaves would be, similarly to skeletons, a tier 1 creature. A cool way of making use of slaves could be, if a certain amount of slaves are stationed inside a mine, the productivity of said mine doubles. That way you'd have to choice to sacrifice some of your army's strength in favor of wealth. The upgraded version of the slave would be the gladiator who would lose this ability, but instead would have a fair chance (like 33%) of restraining a foe with a throwing net upon melee attack. A restrained unit has its speed reduced to 0 so that it cannot move, but may still attack if an enemy unit is within range (melee or ranged). What's up for debate is whether the gladiator would be then able to leave without releasing the unit, or not - which would effectively make it the same as the dendroid's root ability, minus the chance of failure. The tiers above that are completely up for the taking. There's a number of possible middle-eastern inspiration, such as mounted archers (shooting units on horsebacks, with the potential of being among the fastest ranged units in game), elephants/mûmakil (with regards to the Middle Earth lore), the nomads could also be included the same way halfling are going to be included into the factory over here. For anyone reading this, have you ever fantasised about creating your own H3 factions? I'd love to read about that!

[@wowathena]

wow, u actually described a nomad faction from age of wonders 2 shadow magic right to the letter :)

[@teodormickoski751]

Personally for me this is a better town to be added than Factory. I think middle-eastern town fits much better than cowboys and western inspiration. Hope we can see it one day 🙏

[@alpgunay9202]

dear friend, i hope you read this soon. i have bought homm3 complete edition from gog, but i was pretty sure i had played with different chars and maps before. i saw some other expensions i was unaware of. i bought my first homm3 `cd` a quarter century ago, and could never give up playing. and now that i learnt there are more expensions, i want to get them,too. could you please recommend a page i can buy these expensions? or should i search with different names? *i saw sth in gog but i couldnt be sure because it was saying only some exktra maps and heroes but not castles thanks in advance. :)

[@Crazy-Drokon]

There were 2 official expansions for Heroes3. The base game is called Restoration of Erathia (RoE), next one is Armageddon's Blade (AB) Final is Shadow of Death (SoD) Complete edition is RoE + AB + SoD combined. There were "heroes chronicles" series but those were simply stand-alone campaigns devoted of any other content, so we don't talk about it. There are two popular fan-made extensions: Wake of Gods (WoG) - an old 2003 mod which adds script language and allows wild (but most of the times very low quality) custom modifications. Horn of the Abyss (HoTa) - fan made but considered to be next in the line of RoE, AB, SoD, HotA because of how faithful it is to original formula. All fan-made extensions are free, you only need to buy base Heroes3: Complete edition from GoG or get it by other means and install hota next. Steam's "HD-edition" of Heroes 3 is bare RoE without extensions, not modable (and is trash in execution) Don't confuse it with HD-mod which let you set game's resolution, stretch filters and interface QoL upgrades. Also distributed freely, compatible with H3: Complete and bundled with HotA installer.

[@l.e8907]

Anyone know when this will be released or updated information?

[@danielnoland8319]

Damn the Coatl evolution should be flipped. The regular Coatl looks so much more glorious.

[@BH_Restorative_fitness]

Can you play this game on a Mac and where do you get it

[@FilmGamerHUN]

I hope they can manage to balance this faction!

[@Lapantouflemagic0]

The rainbow quatls are really beautiful, it's really a shame that they lost the colors when upgraded. I think the modders plan is solid, but i seriously doubt their balancing between the two halves of the town is fair. the quatls are faster, but overall quite fragile and not extremely strong, while the dreadnaugts are much stronger and can be repaired ? i didn't play Homm3 in ages but that seem quite the obvious choice. provided there is no shenanigans such as pop growth of the quatls is actually 2/week while the dreadnaughts are 1/week of course.

[@bingobongo73]

Factory brings back necopolis and conflux into ranked matches

[@prof.mauriciooliva4364]

wating for this town :)

[@heroesofmightandmagic356]

How to play online hota? And how to play custom maps online? Tnx

[@BAMGM]

And yeah I have no idea how they’re even gonna begin to balance a halfling specialist. Possibly nerf the halflings, make it so there are much fewer of them in starting hero armies compared to gremlins, or even make that specialist a campaign hero?

[@eroalduin7305]

Probably just less halflings

[@milat9287]

If they insist on giving the gunslingers revolvers, I'd say the least they could do was give the ranged retaliation 5 charges. Ideally 6

[@divineantiwokegangster]

to fit into the lore every town has to reasonably be able to build itself with the ressources of their locality also using magic, that rule would guarantee lore fiting, in the case of forge and factory thats not the case those towns depend on ressources and products from huge imperial networks.

[@BloodwyrmWildheart]

The Forge's technology is literally canon. The idiots who spoke out against it were never M&M fans to begin with.

[@invisibility1987]

Maybe alien town would be a better idea ... i cant imagine how "Gun slinger" vs "archer" could happen in any world

[@mass2048]

Are there any new updates regarding HotA 1.7.0?

[@Anima__Mundi]

yes but no exact release date yet

[@christianrasmussen6759]

any new info of then this comes out?

[@user-fk1rr1os6y]

Ждём с нетерпением.

[@Kligor2]

Where do yall find HOMM3 mods? I cant seem to find any sites that actually still work lol

[@Romazetti]

this is not really a mod. this is community made addon basically. h3hota.com/

[@TheEvilGrandmother]

So when is this coming out?

[@xDarkOverLordx]

I am still waiting for werewolves in homm3 :D

[@nemou4985]

WoG/ERA has werewolves

[@lolmandofgof9996]

how i download the factory town mod ?

[@oiytd5wugho]

on thematic consistency and the town not fitting in: Wasn't the Mght&Mgck world attacked by flying saucers at some point? Like, it's too late to care *now*

[@JustinJTime]

Yes it was, but the Heroes fandom were too dumb to remember that Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic are both from the same universe. But I guess Heroes is the sexy younger brother and Might and Magic is treated like the ugly, redheaded step child.

[@bosspoke]

I guess Blitzcrank gave up on being a champion in the rift, and decided to join heroes 3 instead (juggernaut)

[@TheApeRocket]

Im here still waiting for Patch 1.7, as you said it might come now before newyears.

[@Darkblitzie]

Somehow I was expecting their level 7 unit to be a giant mechanical spider. :P

[@muchomachoman6396]

How u have more units than HD edition from steam store?

[@Crazy-Drokon]

HD edition is shit. No official add-ons, no mods. Bare game from 1999

[@Raziel_J]

Very good video! Personally, I don't see the current concepts of the mechanics and bounty hunters combine entirely with the world of fantasy of HOMM. In any case, I'm excited to knowing more about this mod!

[@Alex_GLIGL]

HOMM not fantasy!

[@frogbonegames5175]

This town looks interesting, the mix of western and south american symbols are a strange idea, but I think they can make it work. The quality of the graphics is also amazing.

[@dougkleen9917]

might and magic had Alien ships so I have no problem with sci fi in heroes

[@gmoomhunteriv8090]

when will this be available? i had no answers

[@sasiji7638]

Most probably 1rst January 2021

[@MrKert86]

Will the expansions come to steam anytime soon? For the HD version

[@kraizmerentertainment2121]

You really bought HD version?

[@Norovo]

Nope, sorry, it's for the complete edition (which is often cheap on sale at Gog). Unfortunately HD Edition is based on an old, outdated version of the game.

[@kraizmerentertainment2121]

Why would anyone buy HD version?

[@FarkasAbel91]

@@kraizmerentertainment2121 I didn't buy the HD version, but Steam gave it to me for free after getting Heroes VI or VII. Still sticking to the GOG version, though.

[@tekken9265]

Anyone know what city they will create after factory? Any gossips?

[@DmitriEE]

Nothing.

[@DmitriEE]

@Patrick Bateman they planning to create own game with simular mechanics. As i got the same hmm3 but with new graphic.

[@GreatInternetKnight]

It seems that after factory there will be no more cities, because head developer of Hota, Docent Picolan, passed away at the end of previous year. This is truly a tragedy for all HOMM3 fans and developing this town to the end is kinda complicating. So, in memoriam, they decided to complete this work and there is no information about future patches or projects.

[@fergus247]

Finally a new town i can behind (conflux wasnt me, niether was cove. but this seems cool)

[@ChrissieBear]

Might & Magic was ALWAYS a sci-fi series. HoMM3 fans were ignorant of what they were actually playing.

[@BloodwyrmWildheart]

Some "fans" they turned out to be, eh?

[@BET-xz5il]

Any news when ???

[@ViggaTron]

2 years later =P

[@claudefrollono1]

Russians also created most of Mortal Kombat Mugen games, a number of which are maybe even more awesome than the originals on which they were based. A people with a level of creativity which is nothing short of astounding.