Heroes Of Might And Magic Olden Era Trailer, Necropolis Reveal And First Impressions

[@TheProtectorate-yq7vi]

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[@Ezekiel_B_Gruntfuttock]

Paul Romero confirmed to be doing the sountrack... This might have potential boys!

[@qkhuve]

And also the music will be recorded by a real orchestra, the HoMM-orchestra!

[@Flirt136]

Absolutely zero potential. Ubisoft will find a way to kill it

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

@@Flirt136 Bingo.

[@fawli86]

@@Flirt136 released as autoplay mobile game lol

[@xKinjax]

Funny thing, since you mentioned Angels and Archangels, since we're back in Heroes of Might and Magic 3's world, there's nothing divine about them. According to one of the lead developers of the game they're actually highly sophisticated androids created by the Ancients to exterminate the Kreegans. And the Kreegans, since many people forget this part, were literal space aliens who invaded Enroth. The old lore was really wild.

[@milosznonyabuisnes3054]

I really hope the old lore comes back but theres been a divide for years. When Heroes spin off came out, it gained new fans - most of those new fans didnt like the scifi aspect from the m&m rpgs and by the third game, they bullied the dev into easing on that aspect a bit.

[@johnconnor5124]

Have you played Horn of the Abyss (HotA) mod for heroes 3, which adds a lot of QoL changes and bug fixes on top of 2 new cities?

[@ilikepasta-2584]

Oh a fellow with fine taste! I love HoMM and am glad to see so many excited for this release

[@cp1cupcake]

2:15 its the dungeon. The main thing I am worried about in with this is how the game just looks like a mobile game.

[@ZymethShinsey]

Exacktly. I don't see people widely complaining about this. This doesn't look like Ashan or Heroes.

[@BAMGM]

​@@ZymethShinsey Wdym Ashan? This is set on Enroth, namely Jadame, where Heroes games haven't gone yet.

[@arturoalarcondonate4034]

1. it's not done yet, they can change a lot of things, art direction included 2. even if it launches like this, it fucking looks gorgeous, what's the drawback of "looking" like a mobile game?(which in my opinion, it doesn't, but whatever)

[@ZymethShinsey]

@@BAMGM Ah, thanks. Still, Enroth / Heroes series. @arturoalarcondonate4034 Not exacktly, they clearly have a lot of graphics made and this is not cheap. Drawbak of looking like a mobile game (or a cartoon if you'd like) is looking like a mobile game, simple and candy-like. Half of units got neons in one way or the other, heroes look like doing skin care all day long, even necropolis. It lacks grim darkness. I'm not saying it must be super dark, but the balance is clearly off toward candy direction. I hope they replace bunny-jumping and crystals forming minotaur, I hope they replace happy green goblin with golden teeth or a dragon with neon crystals etc.

[@junnexgolem]

why does it matter if it runs in a mobile? That's not an issue so long as it's also in PC.

[@SirDudemann]

I hope we’ll get even more information about the mechanics and the factions and their heroes, units, skills and abilities, buildings and lore soon.

[@WaywardHex]

I wish they stopped with the cartoony shit. Heroes 3 looked good because it used the stylization to create realistic feeling. Everything looked as real as the technology permitted.

[@ThomasWade]

100% agree. This is too cartoonish. Just like when they remastered Pharaoh. They made it from realistic feel into cartoonish feel.

[@WaywardHex]

@@ThomasWade I wouldn't even be that negative if it wasn't for the castles. They lost every last ounce of the pseudo-realism they had in H3. At this point they look like a cartoony theme park.

[@Gront100]

Як кажуть, гру роблять для дітей. Цікаво скільки дітей буде грати у цю гру? Здається, що не дуже багато, враховуючи ігрові смаки школярів. Тому, якщо гра не зазнає кардинальних змін, її можливо чекає такий же провал, як Kings of bounty 2.

[@CoL_Drake]

homm3 looked as "real" as your diploma mate ... this looks like a modern homm3

[@heathensein6582]

​@@CoL_Drake I am sure the modern audiencies are gonna love it. Pass

[@maortopf4274]

I think the problem with the dread knight is that thier mount looks small, not intimidating

[@Amonimus]

Have you seen the Dungeon one?

[@VincentVanZigel]

While I certainly agree that undead army without zombies feels weird and incomplete, I've always, always hated this unit with a passion. Necropolis is my favorite faction, and although I'm a decent HoMM player at best, I've never been able to utilize them for anything better other than backline defence. I wouldn't mind having ghouls back from HoMM 6, as they feel like a better trade-off for me while still keeping the theme. Completely agree with you on the death knights. I love my undead wielding scythes just as any other edgy nerd who never grew up, but here is feels out of place. A large rune blade, like they had in HoMM 5, would've been better, as this scythe looks really cartoonish to me. Also, I wonder if the reason they've added dogs here is to kinda dilute the humanoid-only feel of the faction. I mean, I don't know if these are ALL the units they have, but notice that the dragons appear to be absent from this list. But, this is purely my imagination at work here, I mean, I say that Necropolis has a "humanoid-only" feel to it, but Castle also only had gryphons as a non-humanoid unit. Also, ALSO, one more thing that REALLY grinds my gears: undead units BLEED. I hope, no, I PRAY that the devs would remove blood for undead units. I mean, keep it on vampires, sure, and sanguine liches due to their theme, grave robbers too probably, but skeletons and ghosts should never drop red blood, this is just silly.

[@xKinjax]

They already fixed the blood issue, it was just placeholder, remember that this game is not even coming out as a full release it will be early access. They changed it in the newest build to everyone "bleeding" something appropriate. Undead "bleed" dust now, the robot thingy "bleeds" glass shards, etc. As for zombies i don't think they're iconic at all, imho the two most iconic creatures for Necropolis have always been Vampires and Liches. The doggos are a weird change but this is taking place on a different continent than the other HoMM games so they could explain it away in some way.

[@RAMB0VI]

Skeletons: - Skeletal Archer (would be cool if could choose Crossbow or Bow, Crossbow: Higher dmg + Armor Pen, Bow: Chance to attack twice) - Skeletal Draugr (2H Claymore, lowest def / highest damage, medium speed, ability: something) - Skeletal Defender (Shield + Morning Star, high def, slow-med speed, ability: can be used to reduce ranged damage to friendly target by moving it infront) Undead Hounds: (did not like this either, but liked that they are trying to bring something new Necropolis) - Looks too much like Hell Hounds from previous HoMM releases, perhaps they are trying to save this unit from deletion since Inferno is now insectoids or something like that Replament idea: (I think Zombies have been done to death) - Revenant, ability: units killed in stack return to stack from the dead once after one turn of losing them, does not happen if entire stack is killed during turn, sounds too OP to balance out - Would prefer some kind of beast but do not know any undead beasts Death Knight: - Different type of weapons would nice for each upgrade type (Scythe, Morning Star etc, or better yet different weapons for all units (except casters) to add strategic depth) Vampires: - Did not like the wings or the swords, for me it's the old school Nosferatu no weapons type Vampire that does the trick - Nosferatu, unarmed melee, ability: Cast Darkness on self, increasing def or avoidance and granting damage bonus when attacking from Darkness) Think the Death Knight mount is some kind of bone dragon, for those who might miss the Bone Dragon that is no longer?

[@FilmGamerHUN]

There is a Dungeon reveal too

[@Raidermanhc]

no its not rly ubisoft. its outsourced to another small company, wich have worked on disciples 3 among other games so im hyped for this one...

[@joshuasanders4302]

Sorry to disappoint you but, Ubisoft milks this franchise for quarterly earnings every so often. Heroes 5, 6, 7, and 8 were all different studios. Ubisoft gives a contract to some random small studio somewhere, doesn't give them any time or resources to do a good job, and then fires the studio when the game inevitably fails. This will be no different. We have already have 3 past examples. It could be the best studio in the world. They don't have the time, and they don't have the funding, because Ubisoft is run by souless business majors that hate video games and gamers, but love the money we spend.

[@joshuasanders4302]

KZbin deleted your comment for some reason. But I dunno, I'm skeptical. Im not super impressed so far and I feel like this new studio is making all the same mistakes as the previous ones. If they're trying to reach the players who play hota... I don't think they're anywhere near that mark. But we shall see. I'm willing to give it a chance .

[@Raidermanhc]

@@joshuasanders4302 i said that the developer has already told us in their videos that the have been given all the time they need to make this a great game, so no rushing there, also why they release it in q2 as and early acess so they develop the game while listening to the fans. you should try to watch their vids if you are not already doing it.

[@CoL_Drake]

they already said they do 3d cities because community asked for it, they changed alot already based on feedback of community they are a rly great studio

[@фанатКуплинова-ь1е]

Passion doesn't often translate into skill, don't be blinded by mere passion.

[@lojzini]

Would have loved if Dread Knight was just a mob in a black robe, rather than riding a mob. That would be more epic IMO. A Robbed Knight with a giant Scythe!

[@fila365]

7:45 the skeleton is not wearing a shield, hes wearing his tombstone lol

[@Guru_Guru]

It looks like it being 2.5d like Octopath traveler but with higher rez textures, Saluti Di Salento!

[@illiteratus]

Sheesh, HOMM was certainly a big part of my childhood. Started with 2, played that for a year, discovered 1 then back to 3 until 5 which I found to be a huge disapointment. Can't remember the last I played, but this looks neat. Long story short, guess I was a New World Computing fan (wow, just had a flashback of that iconic fully interlaced sword/world intro of HOMM 2) and never cared much for ubisoft.

[@Ragnarok6664]

Looking forward to this

[@diesegeties8918]

Nice to see that your channel is getting more and more subscribers.😊😊

[@chukkie0001]

"3DO sold the rights to the Might and Magic series to Ubisoft" well we have to see when it ever comes out.

[@shawn6860]

Those look like Heroforge figs. that is awesome

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

You basically exclaim "wow" everytime you read a "cool" word.

[@caracal82]

OMG Metatron plays HEROES? How long has this channel been up?

[@junnexgolem]

where's Sandro?

[@jarnathan-snow]

I hope this cartoonish style not to ruin the gothicness of places like Inferno or Necropolis

[@Awakeandalive1]

I was a huge fan of 1, adored 2, adored 3, but I gave up on the HoM&M series after 3. Everything after that seemed to be a dramatic drop in quality... So I'm cautiously optimistic about this one.

[@GabrielVinzenz]

i would love if the units were overall bigger some uniots spanning againg over 2 hex fields. that small they really dont feel that impactful!

[@Belnick6666]

3DO! and New World Computing!

[@Number8z]

I think this is very probably going to be fun, but I'm not into the art style, a bit cartoony.

[@Gront100]

Гра через такий стиль пройде повз значної частини аудиторії, що люблять грати героїв.

[@NPC-xd6on]

New city is developing atm called bulwark

[@omnibrain3198]

I hope that they're succeeding in building a better HOMM. HOMM1 was good, 2 too and 3 was the best. Without Jon Van Caneghem the Might & Magic franchise wasn't the same. They should've maybe brought him to this project. Don't know what he's doing today. Technically this game looks good and it tries to re-ensemble heroes 3 however the feeling is important. I'll buy the early-access ASAP but no heroes after 3 came close. I always did go back to HOMM3 + expansions.

[@AkhshamiKsyAksKhaos]

Heavily inspired by Song of Conquest visual design…copy right infringement not intended…

[@AshtonvanNiekerk]

I'm in a minority here, but HOMM 4 was my favourite by far.

[@hamidious]

Wow, didn't think a historian would be such a HOMM nerd. I think Heroes 2 looked the best, H2 and H5 were awesome.

[@yohan9101]

I've been waiting to see what you think of this seeing as you're so passionate about homm, personally I am looking forward to this game in a positive light.

[@SisyphusOfSodom]

They should make Battle for Wesnoth with this engine and style.

[@MII2o90]

Dread Knight looks the worst. The coolest looking unit in H3 reduced to shit. What is he riding, a dead dog?

[@Arcodus]

I really, REALLY hope this turns out well. Not too keen on Inferno being insectoid but maybe that will change with game in hand. Saw in one video that the final faction (town?) will have aquatic/marine design cues. I hope this turns out epic!❤

[@andreasstephan8301]

I liked the Heroes of might and magic 3 Arch Angels the most

[@LK2.O]

I hope they allow for Linux

[@WillMoon]

They actually made a HoMM game!

[@huncyrus]

We still does not seen the game. Just photos and animations. Never an actual running software. If I have to guess, this is fake (talking about music and such? Who cares when the actual gameplay is in the focus?), and there is no actual game, they just try to build hype and gather money on pre-sale, then they will start actual development. (Feel free to prove me wrong, but everything point into this direction)

[@guybrushthreepwood3054]

Vampire with a giant manga sword? what kind of nonsense is that?

[@Ezekiel_B_Gruntfuttock]

Thank homm5 for that.

[@Ultr4l0f]

It helps with readability to have some exagerated parts. That has been a thing in many types of media. Basically you want to see a siloutte and instantly recognize the unit

[@guybrushthreepwood3054]

@Ultr4l0f It's because they are not capable anymore of designing and implementing good 2D graphics and pixel art. It's a lost craft unfortunately. That's why they have to abuse the effects, shiny animations and ugly, disproportionate items.

[@Midelioss]

​@guybrushthreepwood3054 No this has been a principle even in 2D art. Ask any fighting game from capcom and I guarantee this has been a thing since when their games were still sprite based. Also, for the original commenter: which version of vampires do you think had the best design? Because 2 was charming but incredibly corny, and 3 had an ok idea with poor, awkward execution. 4 almost looks like 2, and 5, while bordering on anime, arguably had the best design.

[@dodang_9147]

@@Midelioss homm5 was plated armor+a evil greenish great sword. and than they had blue sword, blue vampire was so useless though. one of my main concern with alternate units is the fact that some units are so trash compare their counter-parts that they don't look like an option.

[@Azhalan]

Really looking forward to the game. A bit colorful for my taste, but I can live with that as long as it has the old addictive gameplay.

[@Akitorbenov]

Dai ma davvero eri appassionato? .mi guarderò il tuo video con calma allora. Grazie!

[@Thunderlips-60602]

Looks good honestly.

[@robinhood263]

Art direction sucks...

[@HostageMax]

The game is in the Might & Magic 8 setting.

[@Gman1991]

I loved HOMAM 3!!! Im really hyped for this new one 👍👍👍

[@geog26]

Looks like mobile game with cartoonish overhaul 😢

[@joshuaryan7130]

I started with one of the heroes chronicles campaign spin-offs, got ahold of 3, 4 and 5 and played them to death

[@jshadowhunter]

Will you play Total War Warhammer 3?

[@Adamantios-Alian]

makes me want to play disciples 2 all over again.

[@ZymethShinsey]

How is that every1 seems fine with cartoon / mobile graphics.

[@baraka629]

Buys one (1) dragon, dimension door dimension door dimension door dimension door dimension door Armageddon Win Ah yes good ol, HoMM3 😂

[@ayhanfedai5013]

all I want is another DarkMessiah in this universe but another M&M heros V would be great too

[@Sticklemako]

The faction isn't human .. it's empire..

[@GabrielVinzenz]

i thought it was called temle? Or is this a different faction

[@Sticklemako]

@GabrielVinzenz there were seven factions, empire, dungeon, stronghold, fortress, inferno, necropolis and rampart.

[@txdmsk]

@@Sticklemako Huh? You mean "Castle"?

[@SwordQuake2]

With Ubisoft's financial troubles and idiots rooting for their bankruptcy don't hold your breath for this.

[@zealgaming8161]

I approve of their bankruptcy after cranking out 3 awful heroes games in a row. H7? Even was a complete scam with the AI not even functioning.

[@SwordQuake2]

@zealgaming8161 ok, edgelord

[@zealgaming8161]

@@SwordQuake2 Did you play Heroes 7? The AI is so bad that it doesn't even function. Unfinished garbage product. Happy Ubisoft games are now on steam so I can refund them if they turn out to not work.

[@SwordQuake2]

@@zealgaming8161 no and I don't care about "heroes". I'm also unhappy with how they butchered "assassin's creed". Doesn't mean I want to them to go bankrupt.

[@zealgaming8161]

@@SwordQuake2 Why not? Scammers are "#¤%. I'm happy to see when people who scam others out of their money get what they deserve.

[@TheLedan]

I was wondering where the H3 went from the main channel, guess it went to the second channel :D

[@TheProtectorate-yq7vi]

Third! My second is the language one Metatron's Academy

[@MaxHardcore-p7t]

Love it!

[@danm3570]

I don't understand why they don't just remake homm 3 exactly the same with modern graphics since that's the one that all the gaming nerds love so much. I personally liked the later ones because the graphics were nicer, these days though have many other games to play

[@shadowpriest2574]

Hota already exists, which is an improvement in everything except Graphics, which HOMM3 does not need more of .

[@ASHFAR578]

Because heroes 3 fans will still go back to 3. They have done so every time. And this games tries really hard to copy it. Good thing it got some good gameplay mechanics from 5 tho

[@MoiMagnus1er]

Because they ruined the franchise so much that even the investors behind it were convinced there was no money that could get out of it. Until a team of independent developers contacted them with a prototype and data about "hey, look there are still all of those peoples interested, look at the modding community for the old games!". So they're giving a chance to this prototype to be turned into a full game (Olden Era), and if it's commercially successful you can bet we'll see remake after remake of the old games while this new team work on Olden Era 2.

[@dodang_9147]

@@MoiMagnus1er homm5 was very good game but it had some major flaws that you had fix through modding. the first problem was that AI had memory leaks and purely didn't function properly. after turn like 100, the game would lag so bad that it was unplayable. if olden era fixes this, already single player will be 1000x better. the second issue was that movement in the game did not scale with map size. so even small map would take 150 turns to win, a medium map would take 500 turns to win and large/very large maps were in 1000's and 2000's turns to win. the third issue was that game promoted "stacking" same army to biggest value BUT this left a particular problem in defence aspect of the game which was that if all your army has to be used offence, there is no defence in the game. castle and army fortress were impossible defend. this would lead to "skirmish" capturing where a player sends hero's with no army to bases that are empty making the game artificially longer because player cannot defend+attack. you would eventually overcome problem on 1vs1 level IF you kill enemy army than divide your army to defence+offence == enemy killed but once the game is more 1v6 or whatever. there is a problem where attacking one threat doesn't allow for multiple threats. So honestly if they just fix some of those issue from homm5 into older era, it will be top-tier game. A lot of changes shouldn't be hard to make. Make better AI that does not lag the game. Make it that movement level on hero scale. like +1, +2,+3, +4 depending on map size so not everyone has to go logistic skill or create bricked hero builds. Make it so that your offence army has % scale of fortress defending it. for example if you have 500 archers, 100 hound, 50 ghost, 30 vampires. 50% of your army is counted in base == to max number on field. so for example, if someone attacks fortress, it will have 250 archer, 50 hound, 25 ghost, 15 vampires as defending force even if nothing is garrisoned. if they just improve the game through common sense stuff, it will be great game. Hopefully they're bringing back map generator, that was AWESOME tool in homm5 to make cools maps

[@MII2o90]

Visual design looks like Warcraft which I usually like but not for a Heroes game. Neither do I like the cellshaded parts. It reminds me too much of League of Legends(which I generaly don't like). Nor do I like the huge statues in towns. If it's an oracle buidling I could understand it. Units do look to small. Griffin looks like a pet.

[@user-yr5nv2gv7m]

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[@mezedfs334]

Doesn't it look kinda like a mobile game to you?

[@CoL_Drake]

the main problem as usual are the fans. alot of what you read from people you can just pray they never listen to because 90% of what people "wish" i think kills the game flat dead

[@SpectralNebulah]

The game might be great, but the art style is terrible. We don't like this LoL cartoony stuff..

[@MrYarek]

Im still playing h3, olden era looks too cartoonish.

[@kerio4655]

This look like mobile game

[@GeMBoyYT]

Could you share an example, please? Would’ve like to play such a mobile game

[@CoL_Drake]

@@GeMBoyYT no he cant becuase he is talking out of his ass ... "x looks like mobile game" is the most comment of dipshits under every second game thats not battlefield basicly xD

[@antonlavrentiev5249]

looks like another mobile shit

[@Smight78]

if you do manage to contact them, please ask what happens if Ubisoft goes under, can they rebrand and publish under different IP , game looks good and it would be shame if it fails do to publisher stupidity and arrogance

[@Shadefinder1]

My girlfriend wants your hair lol

[@mattikuokkanen]

Looks promising. Let’s see how they frak it up.

[@HladniSjeverniVjetar]

I hope someone makes a Disciples game again... it was simply the best...better than HoMM...

[@miles3101]

Damn, I wonder how many broken strats will come up day one lmao

[@TM4N]

They forgot the G😂

[@Ultr4l0f]

If you want 3 hours of gold... The people who will play/record the music for the game is the HoMM Orchestra. And they did 3 hours live a few days ago. Just fantastic Bless the slavic people and their love for thos franchise :) kzbin.infonylunHejIak?si=o8ql_1tohRXCQLhs And like stated by abother person. The man who composed the music for the older titles (unsure about 6+7) will compose for this game as well. And another big name game music composer