The O. G. Forge is coming back, too?! I've been waiting for it since one of the first modding teams announced it on the Heroes community forums over a decade ago! I'm looking forward to Day of Reckoning even more now. You guys are doing a great job! 🥰
The Vori town "Palace" looks so incredibly good; an immensely magical/mystical atmosphere combining the arctic and the cosmic themes inherent to the celestial visage of the polar regions of a planet. Bravo! The units are top notch as well although I would have preferred just one more Snow Elf unit to match Rampart's two elvish units (the tiger could have had a rider perhaps just like the Pegasi). I wonder if that third town is a Jadamean Dark Elf/Dark Dwarf town with a subterranean twist (with all the shroom stuff) to also fit in with the other towns straight from the M&M setting of Enroth. One of the units from the other teaser videos does resemble a Dark Elf from M&M 8 (the one with the dual-wielded swords and the half-mask). That one could be a neutral unit though... Edit: the Forge theme from Romero is of course amazing; I love the ominous and desolate feeling of it combined with the "mechanical touch".
There was an interview in the stream the following day with a bit more information. The third town, Grotto, is apparently a _pre_-Jadamean Dark Elf/gnomish town in its primary setting contextualisation, though it could stand in for the later Jadamean dark elves. Basically, Heroes Chronicles established that part of Antagarich's underground network is a vibrant "Roots of Life/World Tree" tunnel network which long before Heroes 3's main time-period was guarded by elves until they somehow failed, which Day of Reckoning is tying into the Dark Elf/Light Elf wars MM8 mentioned as having been incessant until an uneasy peace began centuries ago.
@@LordInsane100 That's a very nice tie-in with the established lore (I wasn't too far off in guessing what that could be via extrapolating from the project's faithfulness to Enroth's lore and the appearance of that one MM8 Dark Elf looking unit). I totally forgot about the Heroes Chronicles stuff (didn't play every single chapter of it, thought it was kinda sloppy/meandering at parts) but I did remember that lore snippet from the Dark Elf chainmail relic from MM8. BTW somebody ought to "remaster" the "Sword of Frost" chapter of HC that had Vori towns represented with Rampart and replace them with the proper Vori town from this project.
I'm a huge fan of this project, but I have a few problems. What I like from what I see is that you want to give all animations in 60 fps. But the palace unfortunately looks like a weak VCMI or other WoG mod. The units and the city itself stand out too much simply graphically. I like the concept itself, but I'm afraid it went in the wrong direction. But forge. Forge looks badass. When I read about this city, this is practically how I imagined it
Mwah i love it, the fact that you guys contacted the members of the team responsible for creating the concept art for the first forge is crazy, i cant wait for this to come out :D
Wow! This looks authentic like HotA does. The city screen of the Fordge looks much better than all previous versions I saw. Guys, good luck with your mod. Can you say when approximately it will be ready or at least what is the percentage of readiness at the moment?
I will never be a fan of the forge town, but I admit, the rest looks great. In the last trailer I had some reservations about the looks of the Palace units (they all looked too mono-color white) but at least the few units on the overworld map looked improved. And those water-based resources and mines? I love them!
It's called Grotto (had been revealed before but hadn't technically been confirmed) - there was more information the following day, it's a neutral underground town with dark elves and gnomes that live in a much more vibrant tunnel network than Dungeon's (hence all the mushrooms and having a more loam-y native terrain), mostly represents something from long before H3's main time-period but could be used to stand in for the modern dark elves over on Jadame.
@@LordInsane100 Yah I just found out the town is called "Grotto" right after commenting lol but thanks for the information anyway. I really like the vibe of that town cuz it reminds me of the dark elves like Dungeon from Heroes 5, which is my favorite town from the game. So I really looking forward to it. Hopefully the mod will come by the end of this year.
I will admit that I'm a bit sad that doing a town around the modern Jadamean dark elves - who wouldn't be in a town with H5 dungeon vibes - is tricky enough to fit into H3 that no-one seems to have bothered to even try.
Grotto, underground dark elves and gnomes from a vibrant tunnel network (hence all the mushrooms). Neutral alignment, based on obscure lore about there having long ago been underground elves from Heroes Chronicles and less obscure lore about incessant dark elf/light elf wars that ended centuries ago from MM8.
@@kudorgyozo I don't think they will appear in the game in that shape and form, they're just a showcase of the lighting function really. The applications of that function can be much different and more subtle
yes. yes! soon i will be able to switch from hota. they promised me greatness and bringing forge back but they sniffed too much of their farts and had to change the design.
The weird thing is that Forged in Fire has quite a few elements that seems almost tailor-made to set-up something close to the OG Forge in the context of the Light Path ending to MM7 - but Factory has just enough things from OG Forge that they can't cleanly do a refined OG-like Forge (like Day of Reckoning is doing).
Apparently one of the HOTA devs have hinted at Forge being made, but that still runs into the issue that they did an excellent alternate Forge backstory in the campaign for a town that has bits of what Forge would have.
@@LordInsane100 i wont deny it being excellent but if something doesnt belong its factory. not forge. factory is even more out of place than sci-fi forge.
@@DroopyYoga I hope, but don't think it would be so easy to turn off Forge. It's not possible in HOTA to turn off Factory, unless you are of course playing random map, but even then I'm not so sure about random stacks on the map. Would hope so. And I'm not really mad, but yeah, a bit disappointed I'd guess. Will stick to HOTA most likely.
@@gbxgbxgbx ? ? ? What are You taking about DoR is most advanced than Hota and developers said that will be turn off Forge if needed ? Read informations on Heroes Comunity.
The piano music was just for this teaser, the in-game music is done properly and orchestrally, by using many of the old sound samples also used in H3. :)
I didn't have time for full orchestration (the whole theme for the teaser was made in less than 2 hours), but I won't rush it for the official release, I promise.
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God bless Paul Anthony Romero
Paul Anthony Romero: "I hope you'll enjoy the music as much as I enjoyed creating it"
What a freaking legend
This looks so beautiful, and having legendary Paul Romero awesome x2!
This is amazing
Looks (and sounds) fantastic, very interested to see more
I was just about to post on your latest video asking if you had seen it :D
Love the videos you make dude!
Brother are you making deep dive video yet? If not you should.
Long live our lovely Paul Romero! 🥰✌💪
With Romero music this expansion is official 🙌
I am more excited about this than I am about HoMM: Old World.
THESE WATER REFLECTIONS THO
The O. G. Forge is coming back, too?! I've been waiting for it since one of the first modding teams announced it on the Heroes community forums over a decade ago!
I'm looking forward to Day of Reckoning even more now. You guys are doing a great job! 🥰
Although I'm hoping there's an option to swap to the original town screen that was shown for SoD.
What a high quality of new stuff. It's impressing
Absolutely worth the wait. And the soundtrack is fantastic!
The Vori town "Palace" looks so incredibly good; an immensely magical/mystical atmosphere combining the arctic and the cosmic themes inherent to the celestial visage of the polar regions of a planet. Bravo! The units are top notch as well although I would have preferred just one more Snow Elf unit to match Rampart's two elvish units (the tiger could have had a rider perhaps just like the Pegasi).
I wonder if that third town is a Jadamean Dark Elf/Dark Dwarf town with a subterranean twist (with all the shroom stuff) to also fit in with the other towns straight from the M&M setting of Enroth. One of the units from the other teaser videos does resemble a Dark Elf from M&M 8 (the one with the dual-wielded swords and the half-mask). That one could be a neutral unit though...
Edit: the Forge theme from Romero is of course amazing; I love the ominous and desolate feeling of it combined with the "mechanical touch".
Wait until you hear the whole thing, sounds like it was written in 1999, no cap
@@SaturnineXTS Already got that vibe from what little I've heard from the teaser fr on god
There was an interview in the stream the following day with a bit more information. The third town, Grotto, is apparently a _pre_-Jadamean Dark Elf/gnomish town in its primary setting contextualisation, though it could stand in for the later Jadamean dark elves. Basically, Heroes Chronicles established that part of Antagarich's underground network is a vibrant "Roots of Life/World Tree" tunnel network which long before Heroes 3's main time-period was guarded by elves until they somehow failed, which Day of Reckoning is tying into the Dark Elf/Light Elf wars MM8 mentioned as having been incessant until an uneasy peace began centuries ago.
@@LordInsane100 That's a very nice tie-in with the established lore (I wasn't too far off in guessing what that could be via extrapolating from the project's faithfulness to Enroth's lore and the appearance of that one MM8 Dark Elf looking unit). I totally forgot about the Heroes Chronicles stuff (didn't play every single chapter of it, thought it was kinda sloppy/meandering at parts) but I did remember that lore snippet from the Dark Elf chainmail relic from MM8. BTW somebody ought to "remaster" the "Sword of Frost" chapter of HC that had Vori towns represented with Rampart and replace them with the proper Vori town from this project.
I'm a huge fan of this project, but I have a few problems. What I like from what I see is that you want to give all animations in 60 fps. But the palace unfortunately looks like a weak VCMI or other WoG mod. The units and the city itself stand out too much simply graphically. I like the concept itself, but I'm afraid it went in the wrong direction. But forge. Forge looks badass. When I read about this city, this is practically how I imagined it
Mwah i love it, the fact that you guys contacted the members of the team responsible for creating the concept art for the first forge is crazy, i cant wait for this to come out :D
The video and everything gives me late 2000's vibes (not talking specifically just about HOM III - I know when the game came out).
Its should be made in to law that anyone making Might & Magic games first has to ask Romero to make music for it.
Looks fantastic! Now the waiting continues...
This one is Expert Fire Magic fr 🔥🔥🔥
Send to artist who made Palace design applause from me. It's very beautiful🤩
This looks absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to play this with the volume turned up!
ahh this is so exciting!! this all looks amazing!
If that zooming in bit suggests there is also a zoom out, I am interested. I have cast view earth before just to get a better look at the map.
I wish they'd give all the rights of HOMM III to people like you
Looks really cool! Any chance we'll get an estimated release date soon? 😅
Amazing stuff and it is always great to see Paul Romero!
Aaaaah
Some interesting insights from the thieves' guild today.
Wow! This looks authentic like HotA does. The city screen of the Fordge looks much better than all previous versions I saw. Guys, good luck with your mod. Can you say when approximately it will be ready or at least what is the percentage of readiness at the moment?
God bless you and your autism, Romero. Thanks for the love you have for our community and the game!
I will never be a fan of the forge town, but I admit, the rest looks great. In the last trailer I had some reservations about the looks of the Palace units (they all looked too mono-color white) but at least the few units on the overworld map looked improved. And those water-based resources and mines? I love them!
Damn... Can you cooperate with Horn of the Abyss? Its getting very hard to decide which one to play... I love both mods...
Wow, this is a big update. Until now I thought you were only working on one new town.
its crazy Paulo Romero compose music to this
Hopefully you guys haven't changed the frost giant from the early version, it was such a cool design, tallest unit in the game
That forge theme is really similiar to Dwarven barrows theme from MM7.
oh heyy, nice to see I'm not the only one who noticed that! parts of it indeed remind heavily of the barrows
The Palace faction by far seems the most interesting out of the 3 and I'm definitely going to try it out the moment DoR is released.
@csaros, Day of Reckoning releases in 2025.
Wow looks really cool and great that Paul contributed in this too! When it will be released? We need H3 complete for it?
Only one question - when?
So good! So interesting!
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Ciężko pracowaliśmy nad modelami i dziękujemy za wsparcie projektu! Mamy nadzieję, że się spodoba, gdy w końcu się ukaże!
Forge? With Romero's music? All kinds of yes!
Let it be OG Forge tho. No strange crabs or leeches, please.
It is OG forge.
Look amazing as always. Btw what is that "purple" looking town ? It's not yet revealved ?
It's called Grotto (had been revealed before but hadn't technically been confirmed) - there was more information the following day, it's a neutral underground town with dark elves and gnomes that live in a much more vibrant tunnel network than Dungeon's (hence all the mushrooms and having a more loam-y native terrain), mostly represents something from long before H3's main time-period but could be used to stand in for the modern dark elves over on Jadame.
@@LordInsane100 Yah I just found out the town is called "Grotto" right after commenting lol but thanks for the information anyway. I really like the vibe of that town cuz it reminds me of the dark elves like Dungeon from Heroes 5, which is my favorite town from the game. So I really looking forward to it. Hopefully the mod will come by the end of this year.
I will admit that I'm a bit sad that doing a town around the modern Jadamean dark elves - who wouldn't be in a town with H5 dungeon vibes - is tricky enough to fit into H3 that no-one seems to have bothered to even try.
Good take on Forge. Love that it's not a copypaste of the original questionable NWC design. Best wishes to the team behind this!
this MEN are GENIUS
Not feeling the new towns too much but zooming in, animations and water effects are to die for!
I also heard about Horn of the Abyss. Does that have something in common with this expansion?
This is so full of life and passion,looka great. Compared to the Olden era mobile ai generated slop....this is a work of art
I feel like Palace town screen needs more work, but otherwise eveything looks amazing. Great job!
I am so excited! I have always wanted to play as an "authentic" forge faction!
Out of curiosity, will this be compatible with Horn of the Abyss mod?
Horn of Reckoning
Will multiplayer be a thing?
So from the last screen I can understand that it will be fully compatible with hd mod and SoD_SP, right?
I'm not sure if hdmod supports water like this
What are these lights on the map? Doesn't look very good. Palace town looks nice though, kinda like a postcard (in a good way).
You made me impatient now. Just work on the goddamn thing instead of making us drool all over the keyboard.
another version of forge :(((
what is the third new faction?
Dark elves and mushrooms propably
Grotto, underground dark elves and gnomes from a vibrant tunnel network (hence all the mushrooms). Neutral alignment, based on obscure lore about there having long ago been underground elves from Heroes Chronicles and less obscure lore about incessant dark elf/light elf wars that ended centuries ago from MM8.
why is the map glowing? Is it part of the mod?
it is a showcase of the graphics engine's lighting capabilities, yes
@@SaturnineXTS cool thanks, maybe a bit annoying, those light specks should be a bit smaller imho
@@kudorgyozo I don't think they will appear in the game in that shape and form, they're just a showcase of the lighting function really. The applications of that function can be much different and more subtle
One heroes woman name is Elsa or it is not a real Ice city!
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yes. yes! soon i will be able to switch from hota. they promised me greatness and bringing forge back but they sniffed too much of their farts and had to change the design.
The weird thing is that Forged in Fire has quite a few elements that seems almost tailor-made to set-up something close to the OG Forge in the context of the Light Path ending to MM7 - but Factory has just enough things from OG Forge that they can't cleanly do a refined OG-like Forge (like Day of Reckoning is doing).
@@LordInsane100 Because they are regarded and for some reason didnt want to do it. I truly live in the worst timeline
Apparently one of the HOTA devs have hinted at Forge being made, but that still runs into the issue that they did an excellent alternate Forge backstory in the campaign for a town that has bits of what Forge would have.
@@LordInsane100 i wont deny it being excellent but if something doesnt belong its factory. not forge. factory is even more out of place than sci-fi forge.
Lepszy mod powstał w Heroes 7, więcej miast bardziej zróżnicowani bohaterzy i sporo nowych animacji . Czyli to mod Heroes 7.5
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Mad Max in HOMM3? So much work hours wasted. :( Forge will make this expansion unusable for me and many of my fellow players.
You could turn off Forge and assets if You want soo. So dont need to get mad
@@DroopyYoga I hope, but don't think it would be so easy to turn off Forge. It's not possible in HOTA to turn off Factory, unless you are of course playing random map, but even then I'm not so sure about random stacks on the map. Would hope so. And I'm not really mad, but yeah, a bit disappointed I'd guess. Will stick to HOTA most likely.
@@gbxgbxgbx ? ? ? What are You taking about DoR is most advanced than Hota and developers said that will be turn off Forge if needed ? Read informations on Heroes Comunity.
@@DroopyYoga Ah, thanks! Didn't know that.
@@gbxgbxgbx it will be exactly as easy as unchecking a box
Sorry, but this piano music doesn't fit in the H3 theme at all. But the Forge music is good.
The piano music was just for this teaser, the in-game music is done properly and orchestrally, by using many of the old sound samples also used in H3. :)
I didn't have time for full orchestration (the whole theme for the teaser was made in less than 2 hours), but I won't rush it for the official release, I promise.
Cool! Wasnt the Forge added alredy to the game btw?