Hired by E-mail is what I like to refer to as the "Holy Grail" of SoW glitches, and it is much better than the Siege Surrender method from the previous tutorial (as long as you have a controller, of course). Unlike the previous trick, this does work on Ologs. HBE was first discovered back on October 10th by The Pumpkin, mere minutes after my previous video released. We both actually happened to come across this glitch the same day due to very similar circumstances (stick drift). Pumpkin's discovery preceded mine by about 2 hours.
Can’t wait for monolith to be done with the WW game so they can make another masterpiece of this, I already got everything from orc titles to glitches 😫
Oh man, took five years, but this game finally has the ultimate exploit! I've already suggested that The Spiffing Brit makes a Shadow of War video about this. One downside I thought of about this glitch is that the recruits will start with no loyalty, so they're likely to betray you... but that doesn't matter, since you could just use the trick again! Of course, if you don't want to do that, you could use my favorite exploit, the one that gives your followers up to +20 levels in a single mission. The way to do that: Find an enemy captain with an easily triggered Terrified weakness. Get him much higher level than your own troops, easily done by letting him kill you. If he doesn't lose his Terrified weakness, start ordering your followers to kill him, then as soon as the mission starts, set off the target's Terrified. He'll retreat, which means your guy just won the mission, getting the full XP for you and your follower. Then if you let the target escape alive, you can immediately do this again... Great way to gain levels on Talion and your troops, while also building loyalty with your followers from doing a bunch of missions with them. As a side effect, the guy you farm the levels from will end up hating you so much he'll often chase you into other zones, which is a bonus, since you can just start abusing him for free levels all over again!
I know uruks hollow won’t see this but, your vids were the best bro. I started playing shadow of morodor in middle school and relied on your vids in crafting awesome captains. And followed your vids till shadow of war and still tried to learn. Thanks for all the help over the years bro
I put at least 40 hours of gameplay to recruit and clone Zog on level 80 thanks to your previous video. Now I find out there is this easier method to do this. Man your videos are keep getting better and better. Thanks for effort you are putting in this.
The trick is to tweak the analog just until the camera pans, but not too much until the blue ring appears. And hit the command button the moment it highlights the enemy captain. I know it's difficult and needs a couple tries.
Amazing video as always, the level of detail and research into this is far beyond anything else! Also thanks for the shoutout in the description, was a team effort to get the testing done!
I tried this glitch for the first time last night and omg I can't believe it works!!! I've always wanted to recruit Zog into my army and I finally can I'm overly stoked lol
Ok, after some experimentation, it looks like using this in Lithlad for online conquests comes with additional caveats: You can still do the glitch, BUT you can’t make Orks that are a part of the siege itself besides said body guard, allied or not, so unless your body guard is directly next to an orc that _isn’t_ in the siege, and can thus hopscotch off HIM a little, you can only nab whatever captains are directly around your bodyguard. Complicating this further is the fact that the army map has all captain positions randomized in regards to the assault leaders you bring in, so you can’t even tell if that bodyguard will be next to _anyone_ to poach. Still, nabbing even one or two enemy captains before the battle begins wreaks havoc behind enemy lines…. Just make sure you’re prepared to swoop in and save them if you wanted them for their own merits instead of a distraction, lest they be mauled alone without support. As an addendum, it turns out said stolen war chief bodyguards also have a nasty tendency to outright KILL their chief you stole the, from. Great if you just want to clear the fort, bad news if you were actually going to capture him. My advice would be to email hire the captains as you make your way to each point when you’ll be ready to nab them.
This changes everything… I’ll have to evacuate Minas that I’ve been using as a training ground for weaker orcs, barring an undead bodyguard or three just in case, make space in my vault, and make sure nothing is going on in my other regions. Then I’ll die over and over to enemies of my choice and mass recruit the best cuts of meat (I’m aiming for a sniper shot no chance explosive bolts marksman), THEN I’ll make preparations for Lithlad.
Dude I love your videos so much. Im already at a point where all the interesting characters that I can’t recruit from the story are already dead so maybe I use another account
Can't wait to try this! I stopped playing the end game because all the captains I wanted to recruit all have Iron Will. I was shaming them for a while, but almost every time they went deranged. Thanks!
Thank you so much for your videos. I was struggling with the last pit fight mission in Minas morgul and this tip helped me recruit the guy that destroyed my people.
@@Odin_7023 Yes! I use it all the time its very useful, if your on steam i suggest you lower your games framerate it makes it much easier to pull off consistently
Thank you so much man I finally found a tower variant and he was unbreakable and iron will but thanks to you I got him I love this community btw I’ve been looking for 1 for like 30 hours this WEEK alone
This might be the most useful glitch of them all. (Well, there was this other glitch where you could one shot the overlord when sieging a fortress, but idk, this may be AS GOOD. Depends on how strong the Uruk you want to recruit by using HBE is)
I can confirm it still works but for me its hard to do but works i managed to recruit 2 Uruks this way. Update: Managed to get Baz And Gaz with it they are chilling in my fort in gorgoroth
I used HBE to make Bruz my bodyguard during the early part of the game. When I summoned him I attacked him and let him bleed out thinking that the game would stop it from happening. Instead he died and got replaced and now I think my game is softlocked since I need him to do the siege.
I can't believe I discovered this literally the day after I killed all of The Ones. Shit like this is making me wonder if I should just start over again.
This glitch is super good, but takes a while to make it work. Luckily, after 25+ tries it finally worked and my blighted (ex)-ghûl lover joined me. Now it's time to level him up and hope he loses his two weaknesses (dazed by fire and poison). And I won't mind another resistance... Or even two resistances. Anyway, thanks for showing us this glitch.
Cause of this glitch, my garrison went from 40-300... vendetta missions go quicly so as long as i capture one captain, i hbe the rest within minutes. But I also think I'm fixing a problem in my gaming. Since the game dropped, I haven't seen: warlock, crafty, and grabewalker. I only saw them one time when the game was fresh. 5yrs ago. After I started hbe the whole camp and found one orc of each title. I plan to make each warlords in my regions so hopefully the titles would start to spawn again
Holy Shit. This is as stupidly powerful as the Resto Loop in Skyrim. With this there's NOTHING standing in your way, you just need one Captain and suddenly you can take over a whole Region if you just have the patience. Captains that are normally difficult to recruit are made as Easy as can be.
Hey man, just wanted to say I know you obviously can't upload much more on this channel as you really did cover like a ton of content on the game, but just wanted to say I appreciate the work you did, it was super helpful and I used to really enjoy when a new video came out.
Damn this makes me want to reinstall the game again, and try it out. I hate having to shame enemies down to my level to recruit them, because of how easy it is to destroy their brain. Or trying to break iron will without breaking their minds.
Heard this somewhere but today it happened. At the final quarter of a siege, the final 2 points, my spy died on the point. Cutscene starts, he walks, then poof knife in his back and he dies. I think its cool im discovering new stuff
THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH.. I HAVE ZOG BECAUSE OF THIS. This shit right here blows the warchief method out of the water by a long shot. You have earned my sub
@@nathanmeredith zoom in just a little, and slowly move the stick to the captain, and look at just before it bounces, keep doing until you memorise just before the bounce, and then press triangle just before it bounces. When you do that, the order goes from the bouncer, to the bounced, and then you got a captain. This dudes advice is ass, zooming in makes it way harder. Zoom in with just one quick click from way far.
Those who are on ps4 try and do it as fast as you can while not making the cursor turn blue I tried doing it slowly for a whole 30 mins didn't work tried it fast once and i finished the whole captains on my side
@@UruksHollow That's excellent to hear. I was worried it might be a new wave of cheated orcs and trolls in sieges. If they level down though, I may be tempted to use it just so I can avoid the shame mark.
They may "lose" some level-locked traits (like Determination) if they get brought down around lvl20, but in reality, the traits are just disabled until they level up again. Their armor stays the same. It is actually possible to exploit this to level down captains without needing to shame them, and level them up again with DTs to give them more chances to gain more strengths.
HA! Yesterday, I was doing a Vendetta & the target was Unbreakable and Iron Will. It was in a fortress and there were 2 other Uruks with the same traits and I didn't understand how that was possible. The player had recruited them with HBE and tried to upgrade/trained an Assassin by getting killed by it. The MF was tough, but I killed it, but I was pissed, because I use Vendettas to recruit good Uruks, sop it was a waste of time for me. I don't cheat and I don't like cheaters.
I really like this channel. It’s great. I still play this to this day. Never gets old. I have a question, is there a glitch where you can play as Sauron’s fair form like when you fight him at the end? He has his own character model with a sword and everything, I wish he was a skin. And another question, can you play as actual Celebrimbor from his memories from the past missions? He doesn’t have the same fighting style as Talion even if you select his skin you’re still fighting like Talion. Celebrimbor from these missions fights much differently, more fluid like an elf. It would be cool to glitch that into the Main game. Probably not possible but one can dream.
Hired by E-mail is what I like to refer to as the "Holy Grail" of SoW glitches, and it is much better than the Siege Surrender method from the previous tutorial (as long as you have a controller, of course). Unlike the previous trick, this does work on Ologs.
HBE was first discovered back on October 10th by The Pumpkin, mere minutes after my previous video released. We both actually happened to come across this glitch the same day due to very similar circumstances (stick drift). Pumpkin's discovery preceded mine by about 2 hours.
Can’t wait for monolith to be done with the WW game so they can make another masterpiece of this, I already got everything from orc titles to glitches 😫
Best glitch ever just used it
Did you check if it could work in the desolation of Mordor DLC
Yes
@@endermanpro200 as long as you have control you can do it
MOM WAKE UP THERE'S A NEW URUK'S HOLLOW VIDEO
"WAHT? WAHT ARE THEY SELLING??"
All my ancestors rising from their grave to watch uruks hollow
Someone please try this glitch on Desolation of Mordor
W
Once in a blue moon, the avatar of Mordor returns to make another banger.
No way the ultimate glitch is that simple ! Keep up the good work with your unpredicted videos 😁
Finally I can have infinite pit fights without falling asleep trying to recruit captains
Oh man, took five years, but this game finally has the ultimate exploit! I've already suggested that The Spiffing Brit makes a Shadow of War video about this. One downside I thought of about this glitch is that the recruits will start with no loyalty, so they're likely to betray you... but that doesn't matter, since you could just use the trick again! Of course, if you don't want to do that, you could use my favorite exploit, the one that gives your followers up to +20 levels in a single mission.
The way to do that: Find an enemy captain with an easily triggered Terrified weakness. Get him much higher level than your own troops, easily done by letting him kill you. If he doesn't lose his Terrified weakness, start ordering your followers to kill him, then as soon as the mission starts, set off the target's Terrified. He'll retreat, which means your guy just won the mission, getting the full XP for you and your follower. Then if you let the target escape alive, you can immediately do this again... Great way to gain levels on Talion and your troops, while also building loyalty with your followers from doing a bunch of missions with them.
As a side effect, the guy you farm the levels from will end up hating you so much he'll often chase you into other zones, which is a bonus, since you can just start abusing him for free levels all over again!
I know uruks hollow won’t see this but, your vids were the best bro. I started playing shadow of morodor in middle school and relied on your vids in crafting awesome captains. And followed your vids till shadow of war and still tried to learn. Thanks for all the help over the years bro
I put at least 40 hours of gameplay to recruit and clone Zog on level 80 thanks to your previous video. Now I find out there is this easier method to do this.
Man your videos are keep getting better and better. Thanks for effort you are putting in this.
How do you clone him?
you cloned an army of zog?
The trick is to tweak the analog just until the camera pans, but not too much until the blue ring appears. And hit the command button the moment it highlights the enemy captain. I know it's difficult and needs a couple tries.
Im getting pissed and I can't get it to work
Amazing video as always, the level of detail and research into this is far beyond anything else!
Also thanks for the shoutout in the description, was a team effort to get the testing done!
This is so cool I kinda wish we didn't have to use glitches to recruit Zog I would've loved to see the full original plan for him
I tried this glitch for the first time last night and omg I can't believe it works!!! I've always wanted to recruit Zog into my army and I finally can I'm overly stoked lol
Ok, after some experimentation, it looks like using this in Lithlad for online conquests comes with additional caveats:
You can still do the glitch, BUT you can’t make Orks that are a part of the siege itself besides said body guard, allied or not, so unless your body guard is directly next to an orc that _isn’t_ in the siege, and can thus hopscotch off HIM a little, you can only nab whatever captains are directly around your bodyguard. Complicating this further is the fact that the army map has all captain positions randomized in regards to the assault leaders you bring in, so you can’t even tell if that bodyguard will be next to _anyone_ to poach. Still, nabbing even one or two enemy captains before the battle begins wreaks havoc behind enemy lines…. Just make sure you’re prepared to swoop in and save them if you wanted them for their own merits instead of a distraction, lest they be mauled alone without support. As an addendum, it turns out said stolen war chief bodyguards also have a nasty tendency to outright KILL their chief you stole the, from. Great if you just want to clear the fort, bad news if you were actually going to capture him. My advice would be to email hire the captains as you make your way to each point when you’ll be ready to nab them.
Too.......much......writing
This changes everything… I’ll have to evacuate Minas that I’ve been using as a training ground for weaker orcs, barring an undead bodyguard or three just in case, make space in my vault, and make sure nothing is going on in my other regions. Then I’ll die over and over to enemies of my choice and mass recruit the best cuts of meat (I’m aiming for a sniper shot no chance explosive bolts marksman), THEN I’ll make preparations for Lithlad.
Good to know the Shadow of War community is still strong great video.
For anybody wondering it’s still working as of November 2023, yes it is
Yeah, just did it with zog and baz
They won’t patch it.
Wow that's... surprisingly easy for such a useful method.
Lol, does it even works?
@@douggta6 Yes, works in 23 January, probably never patched, the game no received more patches 👍🏻
Tried it didn’t work.
@@ghostthegamer99 maybe you did it wrong
@@jerk_berk I got it too work
Dude I love your videos so much. Im already at a point where all the interesting characters that I can’t recruit from the story are already dead so maybe I use another account
Can't wait to try this! I stopped playing the end game because all the captains I wanted to recruit all have Iron Will. I was shaming them for a while, but almost every time they went deranged. Thanks!
So have you tried this glitch? The video is fairly old, so I'm wondering if it's been patched out.
@@quetzalthegamerthe game doesn't get patches any more, it will stay this way forever
@@SonicEndouRed Yeah, I tried it like 2 days later and it still works.
Holy sheeeeeittttt..... Confirmed working on SOW PS5 27th September 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU DA REAL MVP BRO!!!!
Uruk hollow plz come back we all miss you
Thank you so much for your videos. I was struggling with the last pit fight mission in Minas morgul and this tip helped me recruit the guy that destroyed my people.
I didn't think you'd be back, please come back like before.
I tried this glitch today. Turns out that it also works on spies as well (because you get a similar command prompt on spies)
WOW! I just found your channel and its amazing! These guides are very helpful and its nice to see people still uploading on this game!
Sorry but this is the most recent comment I found.
Do you know if this still works?
@@Odin_7023 Yes! I use it all the time its very useful, if your on steam i suggest you lower your games framerate it makes it much easier to pull off consistently
Oh just a little note: If you recruit Baz and Gaz, you will not be able to recruit Daz as his spawn requires their deaths
And if they put Baz and Gaz on garnison ?
@@kaourvolvo then at that point you have to do a new save. Daz only spawns on their deaths
Could always reanimate them.
@@slay-many-foes1160 as long as their corpses remain dead on the army menu, sure
OMG THANK YOU this is gonna help me so much making my super OP uruks, its gonna speed everything up so much 😭 I LOVE YOU
Thank you so much man I finally found a tower variant and he was unbreakable and iron will but thanks to you I got him I love this community btw I’ve been looking for 1 for like 30 hours this WEEK alone
Awesome video! Grew up with both games and still glad to see content about them, keep up the awesome work!
This guide was so helpful, I was able to recruit Zog the Eternal with this
I love how this guy is still responding to comments years later
A very useful glitch indeed also great vid 👍
As soon as I come back to Shadow of War, you post this awesome glitch. Thank you!
Cool that you are still doing content for this game!
I'm sure to try it out when I play in Shadow of War next time.
It's ridiculous how easy this is. Now if only there was an easier way to get captains to cheat death with the legendary scars
The first time controller drift has ever been useful
The uruk, the hollow, the legend, the bane of Orks
This might be the most useful glitch of them all. (Well, there was this other glitch where you could one shot the overlord when sieging a fortress, but idk, this may be AS GOOD. Depends on how strong the Uruk you want to recruit by using HBE is)
You can kill a overlord, the glitch just makes it faster, but the HBE makes you do things that were impossible
@@arthur4041 I have a theory though: Does HBE work on Uruks that are a higher level than you?
@@gamerthings2559 Yes.
But they will become the same level as you (Sorry for bad english)
I can confirm it still works but for me its hard to do but works i managed to recruit 2 Uruks this way.
Update: Managed to get Baz And Gaz with it they are chilling in my fort in gorgoroth
Hey man, just wanted to say thank you for showing this amazing glitch because of you I have baz and gaz and soon zog and daz if they ever show up lol
Woooo yeah baby uruks hollow is back babyyyyy woooooo yeah buddyyyy
I used HBE to make Bruz my bodyguard during the early part of the game. When I summoned him I attacked him and let him bleed out thinking that the game would stop it from happening. Instead he died and got replaced and now I think my game is softlocked since I need him to do the siege.
It work ?
still works on PC. set to 30fps and zoom in. use stuff on the floor as reference to how close you are to the orc you are trying to get
Still works, just got the game few days ago glad not all glitches are patched 🙌🏻
A Zog ambushed me in Minas Morgul right after i learned the glitch, how lucky
This is why your the best shadow of war/Mordor TH-camr
I was contemplating on replaying SoW, and this video popping up in my feed secures it
WHAT THE HELL I just tried it, it actually works thanks for showing us👌👍😂😂😁❤
I can't believe I discovered this literally the day after I killed all of The Ones. Shit like this is making me wonder if I should just start over again.
Talion's Death Threat line to Zog is RAW as HELL
Just did this to Zog the eternal… Never felt so much happiness, confusion, and cheekiness all At once
Bro what a hero!! Thanks for these videos. I love this VIDEOGAME and their nemesis system!
This channel is legendary to me.
This glitch is super good, but takes a while to make it work. Luckily, after 25+ tries it finally worked and my blighted (ex)-ghûl lover joined me. Now it's time to level him up and hope he loses his two weaknesses (dazed by fire and poison). And I won't mind another resistance... Or even two resistances. Anyway, thanks for showing us this glitch.
Holy shit! You deserve 10 million subs for this vid alone!
For the ones that asks, yes it's still working
Cause of this glitch, my garrison went from 40-300... vendetta missions go quicly so as long as i capture one captain, i hbe the rest within minutes. But I also think I'm fixing a problem in my gaming. Since the game dropped, I haven't seen: warlock, crafty, and grabewalker. I only saw them one time when the game was fresh. 5yrs ago. After I started hbe the whole camp and found one orc of each title. I plan to make each warlords in my regions so hopefully the titles would start to spawn again
Holy Shit. This is as stupidly powerful as the Resto Loop in Skyrim. With this there's NOTHING standing in your way, you just need one Captain and suddenly you can take over a whole Region if you just have the patience. Captains that are normally difficult to recruit are made as Easy as can be.
Hey man, just wanted to say I know you obviously can't upload much more on this channel as you really did cover like a ton of content on the game, but just wanted to say I appreciate the work you did, it was super helpful and I used to really enjoy when a new video came out.
Uruks Hollow! YESSSS!
The return of the king
Damn this makes me want to reinstall the game again, and try it out. I hate having to shame enemies down to my level to recruit them, because of how easy it is to destroy their brain. Or trying to break iron will without breaking their minds.
Thank you for telling me about this I will surely try it when I find one I want
Bro I love you for this❤ Finally I can recruit The Contender to my army
What if I see a video posted by you were just brightens my day up
Uruks hollow is out here doing gods work
Uruks hollow. Are you okay? Blink twice if you are kidnapped by uruks!
It worked. Got Zog. And the glitch has hilarous name. Its perfect.
"yay a new E-mail :) Let's see what's in ins-
AAAARRRGGGGHH!!!!!!!!"
Omfg this actually f-ing works,thanks so much brother
I'm so happy that the community is still alive! Still playing SoW on PS4… Zog, I'm coming for you. (If you are still Alive and not killed by smb)
3:22 only on Lithlad…
Looks like I’ll have to stick with grocery shopping in the desert then from now on.
All the Uruks coming to watch Uruk’s Hollow:
29/08/2024 still works ahahaha , bit hard but once u do it once its over
OK, I am so sorry, Uruks hollow. I thought you were bullshiting, but I was wrong it actually works. I commend you sir
Can confirm a year later this still works
I just restart a game and met my old nemesis of som but i got unbreakable, thx you a lot
HOLY CRAP! Uruk's Hollow
this helps me a lot. thanks for making this video!!
2nd comment love your vids man you are dedicated to this game have a good one from cam the one and truly gravewalker
We miss you Uruk hollow❤️
Heard this somewhere but today it happened. At the final quarter of a siege, the final 2 points, my spy died on the point. Cutscene starts, he walks, then poof knife in his back and he dies. I think its cool im discovering new stuff
URUKS HOLLOW IS BACKKKKKK
your videos are soooooooooooooo good please start uploading again, even if it's not shadow of war
THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH.. I HAVE ZOG BECAUSE OF THIS.
This shit right here blows the warchief method out of the water by a long shot.
You have earned my sub
OH MYGOD!!!!! IT STILL WORKS!!!!!!! LESS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm really fucking angry, I can't get it to work.
@@nathanmeredith zoom in just a little, and slowly move the stick to the captain, and look at just before it bounces, keep doing until you memorise just before the bounce, and then press triangle just before it bounces.
When you do that, the order goes from the bouncer, to the bounced, and then you got a captain.
This dudes advice is ass, zooming in makes it way harder.
Zoom in with just one quick click from way far.
Those who are on ps4 try and do it as fast as you can while not making the cursor turn blue I tried doing it slowly for a whole 30 mins didn't work tried it fast once and i finished the whole captains on my side
Finally someone who understands my struggle
i hope that monolith doesnt fix this patch so i will be able to dominate a pretender
I have successfully did it and yes it is gonna take a few tries can confirm this works still
I didn't understand how to send death threats to our own Orcs
welcome back
This is probably the most difficult glitch I have ever seen so difficult I’m convinced it’d patched
Just got it to work
It’s very difficult but not patched
URUK'S HOLLOW LET'S GOOO
Time to make the impossible actually possible
What happens when you recruit someone higher level than you? Does their level go down to yours eventually? Or does it stay up forever?
They immediately level down to match your current level.
@@UruksHollow That's excellent to hear. I was worried it might be a new wave of cheated orcs and trolls in sieges.
If they level down though, I may be tempted to use it just so I can avoid the shame mark.
@@UruksHollow Interesting. Do they lose traits/armor if they're brought to an extremely low level? Similar to shaming?
@@theguyforbrawlz1961 Their hp and damage drop, but traits stay the same.
They may "lose" some level-locked traits (like Determination) if they get brought down around lvl20, but in reality, the traits are just disabled until they level up again. Their armor stays the same.
It is actually possible to exploit this to level down captains without needing to shame them, and level them up again with DTs to give them more chances to gain more strengths.
Now i need to find a playthrough that uses this on the Bruz squad
HA! Yesterday, I was doing a Vendetta & the target was Unbreakable and Iron Will. It was in a fortress and there were 2 other Uruks with the same traits and I didn't understand how that was possible. The player had recruited them with HBE and tried to upgrade/trained an Assassin by getting killed by it. The MF was tough, but I killed it, but I was pissed, because I use Vendettas to recruit good Uruks, sop it was a waste of time for me. I don't cheat and I don't like cheaters.
OK this one's crazy
Nice, thanks! Uruk’s Hollow and I’m glad Shadow of War is still doing good
I really like this channel. It’s great. I still play this to this day. Never gets old.
I have a question, is there a glitch where you can play as Sauron’s fair form like when you fight him at the end? He has his own character model with a sword and everything, I wish he was a skin.
And another question, can you play as actual Celebrimbor from his memories from the past missions? He doesn’t have the same fighting style as Talion even if you select his skin you’re still fighting like Talion.
Celebrimbor from these missions fights much differently, more fluid like an elf. It would be cool to glitch that into the Main game. Probably not possible but one can dream.