Heroes fans eating good in 2020's.. I had great time playing HOTA since the last big update, now there's another town in sight as well as Olden Era which also looks great
OMG! Olden Era just released a bunch of exciting announcedments as their end of year gift and now GOATs at HOTA also come out swinging with yet another new town! My god, is it, FINALLY, a good time to be a heroes fan once more! Thank you for all your hard work, hota crew! You've created a masterpiece. To me, the greatest modding project of all time
Thanks to the entire team developing this project. Until recently I didn't have the wildest dreams that this game could be so refreshed and given a second youth, and with that bring so much joy to so many people all over the world, regardless of the land they live in. May your spel books be always full of mana!
With a new town and campaign, I'm really looking forward to what's in store for this new year. Awesome job HotA crew! P.S. It could be interesting if you guys made a Heroes Chronicles campaign for every one of your towns.
@@heroangel-i5p yeah, shame there isn't real good Cove and Factory placement on Chronicles. Though seeing Foolhardy Waywardness with the Cove would be cool 😎
@@J4R0D For sure, after playing as Cove it doesn't make much sense for stronghold to be the pirate town in Foolhardy Waywardness. But Cove and Factory just might work for Chronicles. I can imagine Tarnum helping the halflings retake Terra Nova from Kastore or helping Bidley and Jeremy defeat a returning Casmetra.
Wtf This was something i did not expect , and definitely not so soon Probably gonna take few more years but very happy nontheless the hota crew did not stop at factory
Are you going to make the Sword of Frost a usable artifact? Also, it'd be fun if there was a cheesemaker town building since one of the only pieces of lore about the Frost Giants is that they make a very valuable cheese called eldenbrie.
@@AW00047 How is it a ripoff? Literally none of the units shown so far look like anything seen in the Heroes 5 dwarf town. They look more scadinavian mythology, then full on fantasy dwarfs
Fuck yes🎉🎉🎉 I love all of your work, towns, buffs, changes, quality of life stuff, graphical improvements, editor, this game will never die it is immortal and you are the reasons why it's more popular, alive and just better!! Hota Hota Hota!! Keep cooking Hota crew you are the best!!! (Please let there more artifact's, balance towns like Fortess with others, add some more specials abilites to units like Factory have, and at least one-two Forge neutral unit/or any other stuff, thing related to it in gameplay, my dreams would come true😭)
I am sceptical, but i made bo rush judgements because so far everything you guys have done was spot on, perfect :). Thank you for the updates. I really liked the egyptian town - i remember it was almost ready at one point and it looked great. I also like the evil version of factory - you know the heavenly forge from the original design.
So white elves will be coming to the game. I always liked GELU's inspiration in creating a new city based on the lore of the original. I would also really like it if they made a city based on dark elves (WYNONA from factory). A city in a dark forest. Assassins, poisons, great archers, but also dark beasts like nightmares or werewolves. I would like to see something like that someday :)
It's not really how the Dark Elves of Alvar are. Great archers to be found amongst them, to be sure, but they're not really forest-dwellers, rivers and shores are preferred (easier trade - they're effectively governed by their Merchant's Guild), and they've no particular connection with dark beasts, unless you count their occasional ties with the wererats of Jadame.
I'm really happy about new town, but it doesn't look like it's same quality as Factory or Cove. New units sprites on map looks very bad, you can't really tell what it is. And new Units looks like they belongs to VCMI, it doesn't really fits in heroes 3 artstyle. I hope that some changes will make this town as amazing as others. Please don't rush with the development, take your time and make Bulwark great :)
I vastly prefer Day of Reckoning's rendition of a more mystical/enigmatic "high civilization" Vori town/faction (Palace) but this one's also nice in its own right. Alas as they say: "variety is the spice melange of life"; can't wait! P.S. those "Snow Elves" (the hero and the harpoon throwing unit) should have chalk-white skin; just look at Gelu (half-Snow Elf half-Human but the half-breed part shows up in his red hair). They also shouldn't have a "primitive look" like we see here based on what little lore tidbits we have (even based on HoMM3's manual alone) which points to a "high civilization" type with "high magic". Probably some administrator/specialist caste among the Ancients from the generation ship/ark they've descended from (kinda like Kastore). You guys did Regna justice but I'm really not getting the Vori vibe here (I hope there's a good lore framework behind this). P.P.S. I hope that Mammoth/Mastodon will be enlarged in size because it looks way too tiny for what it is (especially relative to human-sized units; they should be "behemoth sized" on a HoMM 3 scale)
I'm guessing that where Day of Reckoning's Palace is focused on the Snow Elves first and other inhabitants of Vori second, this is focused on Vori's other inhabitants (Lars Eilief's barbarian people, and so) first and the snow elves second. Hence, the more generally primitive look of Bulwark.
The problem with that is that Snow Elves are both in DoR's Palace and in Bulwark and Palace also incorporates the other inhabitants of Vori including the Norse/Vikings and the like and does this in a much more balanced/seamless manner as part of a coherent design. I guess you could add Snow Elves to a non-predominantly Snow Elf "Vori town" but you don't also have to make them a low-tech/low-sophistication eskimo harpoon chucker unit (and apparently a T5 "shaman"). The whole concept seems ill-conceived to me and it certainly isn't how I've imagined a Vori town to be like (Palace is much closer while also being overall higher in quality in terms of visuals/designs). To be honest, I also really didn't like both the design and overall visual quality of the units and I hope this was early alpha or something. It definitely doesn't match up to Cove and Factory in terms of quality.
@@LordInsane100 DoR's palace will also extensively cover their Viking aspect. Bulwark just makes snow elves look much more backwards in comparison to AvLee.
@@goshapodkova3545 Have you seen the Tier 5 "Snow Elf Shaman"? How 'bout THAT for making the Snow Elves a bunch of primitives loooooool... Imagine the most cliched depiction of an Asiatic/Eskimo shaman complete with tum-tum drums :facepalm: @LordInsane100 I've seen the full roster and it's... yeah... 1) Kobolds 2) Argalis 3) Snow Elf Harpooners 4) Yetis 5) Snow Elf Shamans 6) Mammoths 7) Jotnar. Even Palace only has a single Snow Elf unit even though the overall architecture/culture suggests that they're the ruling class - so this seems to be both predominantly a Snow Elf town and the enigmatic and highly magical Snow Elves of Enroth's lore are a bunch of asiatic/eskimo tribal primitives for some reason - that T5 Snow Elf Shaman is just... ooooooofffffff. Eskimos with elf-ears glued on. No otherworldliness, nothing elvish, just bland... Sad! On another note, a plain ol' mountain sheep has got to be the most boring and uninspired HoMM creature ever. @madoqen Pale white is not "chalk-white" (Gelu was chalk-white despite being a half-elf). However that's among the least of this Snow Elf concept's problems.
Yes such a nice town , love the yeti mage and the jotunn warlord seems like a level 7. Wonder if there will be something special to a unit like lets say having 2 upgrade paths for a unit like heroes 5 ?Also seems to me mage guild will be level 3
Honestly, I’m very happy about this, just like last New Year, when the factory was released... Although I would add additional team colors. In addition to the standard ones: red, blue, green, brown, orange, cyan, purple and pink. (8 standard castles - 8 colors). Colors have been added: Black, Gray, White, that I want to see in a future. In honor of the new 3 castles. That would be great.
@mustacheBpf They were, in the latest balance patch. Learning now instantly levels you again upon taking it, and Eagle Eye copies spells before combat and let's you view the enemy spellbook.
xD I've been waiting on them to add the new Campaign images so I could snatch a few of them in HD. Poor souls over at the wiki. Left clueless and have to start the year in overtime!
Well.. I am sure we will see the release soon ... or at least in 10 years time :D Jokes aside - I am thrilled to see Homm 3 thrive in 2025. Keep up the good work
Hota team does a incredible work with all their efforts and this one is no exception snow dwarfs look awesome. Ubisoft should hire these guys and let them do their magic keep up the amazing work💪💪
Looks like a mix of a Viking / Vori town? A W E S O M E ! Interested to see if we'll get new terrain for the town or will they share Snow with Tower? Same as Fortress/Cove do now. Of course looking forward to yet another campaign!
Ho sempre sospettato che ci fosse un'altra nuova città in Hota 2.0?,grazie al team per il lavoro svolto e per le meravigliose notizie sul prossimo futuro,and now we wait for the Bulwark (kronwerk revisited), I can't wait, I already like it, I hope that HotA continues "forever"
@@Raziel_J It's one of the unreleased towns of HotA. There are Forge (now Factory), Kronverk (now Bulwark) and there is another town is called Cathedral which is based off the old century of Europe, particularly the Inquisition period (basically like a counter part of Castle). So if they're still following the order, then Cathedral should be revived next.
@@Raziel_J Yup you can search for "Heroes 3 Cathedral" to see the graphics of units & townscreen they've released. The towscreen looks very nice and the units look amazing. Especially the 7th tier unit the "Fallen Angel" looks super dope.
Heroes fans eating good in 2020's.. I had great time playing HOTA since the last big update, now there's another town in sight as well as Olden Era which also looks great
Thank youuu HotA team!
WHAT!?seriously new town already? And it's Kronwerk! Fantastic new year's news! Hypeeeeee
I somehow felt they will come up with something this new year like how they did come up with Factory last year. I KNEW IT!
Not delivered already
@@Shkdnjideh76433 Factory's development phase was extended up to almost 9 years, so I was expecting Bulwark is not coming this year.
OMG! Olden Era just released a bunch of exciting announcedments as their end of year gift and now GOATs at HOTA also come out swinging with yet another new town!
My god, is it, FINALLY, a good time to be a heroes fan once more!
Thank you for all your hard work, hota crew! You've created a masterpiece. To me, the greatest modding project of all time
Thanks to the entire team developing this project. Until recently I didn't have the wildest dreams that this game could be so refreshed and given a second youth, and with that bring so much joy to so many people all over the world, regardless of the land they live in. May your spel books be always full of mana!
indescribable joy to see this timeless game receive more and more love
That's insane! Finally a Nordic town! Big love to HOTA devs for keeping this game alive, you're the best!
After so many years we're finally going to meet Vori.
Interesting! You guys are doing a tremendous job, HOTA team! Your work looks stunning! I'm very impressed! 👏
Best regards from Norway :)
Hero portrait looks amazing! Hope you gonna keep with the artwork for the rest of them aswell.
With a new town and campaign, I'm really looking forward to what's in store for this new year. Awesome job HotA crew!
P.S. It could be interesting if you guys made a Heroes Chronicles campaign for every one of your towns.
The Bulwark could work with Sword of Frost!
@@J4R0D Although we probably wouldn't be playing as Tarnum in Bulwark, because he's a dungeon overlord in that campaign.
@@heroangel-i5p yeah, shame there isn't real good Cove and Factory placement on Chronicles.
Though seeing Foolhardy Waywardness with the Cove would be cool 😎
@@J4R0D For sure, after playing as Cove it doesn't make much sense for stronghold to be the pirate town in Foolhardy Waywardness.
But Cove and Factory just might work for Chronicles. I can imagine Tarnum helping the halflings retake Terra Nova from Kastore or helping Bidley and Jeremy defeat a returning Casmetra.
какая команда ? там один человек
Wtf
This was something i did not expect , and definitely not so soon
Probably gonna take few more years but very happy nontheless the hota crew did not stop at factory
But I think the progess will be faster this time because Factory was delayed you know because of the passing of their team leader.
Are you going to make the Sword of Frost a usable artifact? Also, it'd be fun if there was a cheesemaker town building since one of the only pieces of lore about the Frost Giants is that they make a very valuable cheese called eldenbrie.
This seems very much the fortress dwarf faction from heroes 5. Fkn love it guys!
It's gonna be way more varied then that, it seems like an amalgamation of frost elves, dwarfs, yeties and giants! I'm so excited, it's crazy!
That's a ripoff, what's to love?
@@AW00047 How is it a ripoff? Literally none of the units shown so far look like anything seen in the Heroes 5 dwarf town. They look more scadinavian mythology, then full on fantasy dwarfs
@@AW00047 Ripoff of what?
Fanboys are going to pretend same dwarves with same runes and same mammoths are not the same until their eyes start to bleed 😂
🔥🔥🔥
Did not expect that but really excited to see what you guys are cooking.
Thanks for the awesome news!
Fuck yes🎉🎉🎉 I love all of your work, towns, buffs, changes, quality of life stuff, graphical improvements, editor, this game will never die it is immortal and you are the reasons why it's more popular, alive and just better!! Hota Hota Hota!!
Keep cooking Hota crew you are the best!!! (Please let there more artifact's, balance towns like Fortess with others, add some more specials abilites to units like Factory have, and at least one-two Forge neutral unit/or any other stuff, thing related to it in gameplay, my dreams would come true😭)
We need a werewolf neutral unit
@@Sigmaverickwerewolves are in ERA, but unfortunately it can't be integrated with HoTA. Not very impressive as a 5th lvl unit
@@MagiCave Why cant be integrated ?
I am sceptical, but i made bo rush judgements because so far everything you guys have done was spot on, perfect :). Thank you for the updates. I really liked the egyptian town - i remember it was almost ready at one point and it looked great. I also like the evil version of factory - you know the heavenly forge from the original design.
Thx for your hard work and for 1.7.2
What a gift! 🤩 Happy new year, everyone!!! 🥳
Amazing, thank you for your work!!
Looks great! Thank you to the HOTA team for working so hard in your free time to keep this masterpiece of a game growing and evolving 30 years later!
0:21 Eagle Eye rework confirmed or you just trolling us?
In the new 1.7.2 update (which came out yesterday) Eagle Eye has already been reworked... it lets you see into the enemies spell book...
Extra excited for upcomming 12th faction to Heroes 3. Awesome news
Seriously? This is really happening? I love you guys!
When will this be released?
Has a viking-Might and magic Vori, H5-7 Dwarven feeling town! Some effect from Olden Era 6. icy town? :)
So we can already see 5/7(8?) units. Nice!
Ура! Спасибо вам , вот отличный подарок всем фанатам героев!!!
Now, the real question... Wil Romero compose the town theme?
Now we wait among this fierce winter of blind mutant penguins from Lovecraft.
Thanks a lot to the team !
Snow elf town. Cool!
Woo-hoo :) You guys are amazing.
PS. please make the campaign possible also for weaker players :). I could not finish the previous one.
Vikings and dragons town would be crazy tho!
Awesome!
So white elves will be coming to the game. I always liked GELU's inspiration in creating a new city based on the lore of the original. I would also really like it if they made a city based on dark elves (WYNONA from factory). A city in a dark forest. Assassins, poisons, great archers, but also dark beasts like nightmares or werewolves. I would like to see something like that someday :)
It's not really how the Dark Elves of Alvar are. Great archers to be found amongst them, to be sure, but they're not really forest-dwellers, rivers and shores are preferred (easier trade - they're effectively governed by their Merchant's Guild), and they've no particular connection with dark beasts, unless you count their occasional ties with the wererats of Jadame.
@@LordInsane100 Very interesting informations. Is what you are writing about related to the Might and Magic RPG series? I don't know this facts.
@@quentin6829 Yes, the Dark Elves and their Merchant's Guild play a very large role in Might and Magic VIII.
So awesome! What a suprise!
Great way to start the year, thank you for your amazing work!!!!
I'm really happy about new town, but it doesn't look like it's same quality as Factory or Cove. New units sprites on map looks very bad, you can't really tell what it is. And new Units looks like they belongs to VCMI, it doesn't really fits in heroes 3 artstyle. I hope that some changes will make this town as amazing as others. Please don't rush with the development, take your time and make Bulwark great :)
I assumed that the next town would be something like cathedral. I hope a bad-alignment town is still in the works.
I vastly prefer Day of Reckoning's rendition of a more mystical/enigmatic "high civilization" Vori town/faction (Palace) but this one's also nice in its own right. Alas as they say: "variety is the spice melange of life"; can't wait!
P.S. those "Snow Elves" (the hero and the harpoon throwing unit) should have chalk-white skin; just look at Gelu (half-Snow Elf half-Human but the half-breed part shows up in his red hair). They also shouldn't have a "primitive look" like we see here based on what little lore tidbits we have (even based on HoMM3's manual alone) which points to a "high civilization" type with "high magic". Probably some administrator/specialist caste among the Ancients from the generation ship/ark they've descended from (kinda like Kastore). You guys did Regna justice but I'm really not getting the Vori vibe here (I hope there's a good lore framework behind this).
P.P.S. I hope that Mammoth/Mastodon will be enlarged in size because it looks way too tiny for what it is (especially relative to human-sized units; they should be "behemoth sized" on a HoMM 3 scale)
I'm guessing that where Day of Reckoning's Palace is focused on the Snow Elves first and other inhabitants of Vori second, this is focused on Vori's other inhabitants (Lars Eilief's barbarian people, and so) first and the snow elves second. Hence, the more generally primitive look of Bulwark.
The problem with that is that Snow Elves are both in DoR's Palace and in Bulwark and Palace also incorporates the other inhabitants of Vori including the Norse/Vikings and the like and does this in a much more balanced/seamless manner as part of a coherent design. I guess you could add Snow Elves to a non-predominantly Snow Elf "Vori town" but you don't also have to make them a low-tech/low-sophistication eskimo harpoon chucker unit (and apparently a T5 "shaman"). The whole concept seems ill-conceived to me and it certainly isn't how I've imagined a Vori town to be like (Palace is much closer while also being overall higher in quality in terms of visuals/designs). To be honest, I also really didn't like both the design and overall visual quality of the units and I hope this was early alpha or something. It definitely doesn't match up to Cove and Factory in terms of quality.
But the unit has white skin, or am I seeing wrong?
@@LordInsane100 DoR's palace will also extensively cover their Viking aspect. Bulwark just makes snow elves look much more backwards in comparison to AvLee.
@@goshapodkova3545 Have you seen the Tier 5 "Snow Elf Shaman"? How 'bout THAT for making the Snow Elves a bunch of primitives loooooool... Imagine the most cliched depiction of an Asiatic/Eskimo shaman complete with tum-tum drums :facepalm:
@LordInsane100 I've seen the full roster and it's... yeah... 1) Kobolds 2) Argalis 3) Snow Elf Harpooners 4) Yetis 5) Snow Elf Shamans 6) Mammoths 7) Jotnar. Even Palace only has a single Snow Elf unit even though the overall architecture/culture suggests that they're the ruling class - so this seems to be both predominantly a Snow Elf town and the enigmatic and highly magical Snow Elves of Enroth's lore are a bunch of asiatic/eskimo tribal primitives for some reason - that T5 Snow Elf Shaman is just... ooooooofffffff. Eskimos with elf-ears glued on. No otherworldliness, nothing elvish, just bland... Sad! On another note, a plain ol' mountain sheep has got to be the most boring and uninspired HoMM creature ever.
@madoqen Pale white is not "chalk-white" (Gelu was chalk-white despite being a half-elf). However that's among the least of this Snow Elf concept's problems.
Yes such a nice town , love the yeti mage and the jotunn warlord seems like a level 7. Wonder if there will be something special to a unit like lets say having 2 upgrade paths for a unit like heroes 5 ?Also seems to me mage guild will be level 3
Hey, when Ubishit inevitably goes bankrupt and need to sell assets, could you put in an offer for the franchise?
Honestly, I’m very happy about this, just like last New Year, when the factory was released...
Although I would add additional team colors. In addition to the standard ones: red, blue, green, brown, orange, cyan, purple and pink. (8 standard castles - 8 colors). Colors have been added: Black, Gray, White, that I want to see in a future.
In honor of the new 3 castles.
That would be great.
Looks great, but Mammoth should be bigger unit. Right now looks like a pony.
Thanks!
Learning AND eagle eye 💀
Might be a hint that those skills will be getting buffed?! I seriously hope so
@mustacheBpf They were, in the latest balance patch. Learning now instantly levels you again upon taking it, and Eagle Eye copies spells before combat and let's you view the enemy spellbook.
@@murlocaggrob2192 I wonder if you start with a hero with learning, do they get a level instantly on day 1
Did you see that Todd leveled up instantly after picking learning? Yes, that's what it does now!
That disturbed me too... but it sounds like they might be improving them? I may have a lot of instincts to unlearn.
The Heroes 3 Wiki crew should start work on a page for this upcoming faction.
xD
I've been waiting on them to add the new Campaign images so I could snatch a few of them in HD.
Poor souls over at the wiki. Left clueless and have to start the year in overtime!
How to play HOTA? I was playing many years ago WOG and it was very fresh, seems now HOTA have new things
Well.. I am sure we will see the release soon ... or at least in 10 years time :D
Jokes aside - I am thrilled to see Homm 3 thrive in 2025. Keep up the good work
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Спасибо ребята!
very nice, thank you HotA team!
Very awesome, love to see more factions and you guys always do a fantastic job 😄
Looking great, but instead of elephants you could put mammoths, I think its better for the theme. Good luck and keep up the good work 🍀✌
Viking Faction!!
Hota team does a incredible work with all their efforts and this one is no exception snow dwarfs look awesome.
Ubisoft should hire these guys and let them do their magic keep up the amazing work💪💪
Should i be worried that my antivirus reacts to one of the files in the download?
(also some links/mirrors are more than suspicious :/ )
It's a false positive.
Looks like a mix of a Viking / Vori town? A W E S O M E !
Interested to see if we'll get new terrain for the town or will they share Snow with Tower? Same as Fortress/Cove do now.
Of course looking forward to yet another campaign!
Definitely Vori town with snow elves as the leaders.
wawawiwa
Wait weren't you supposed to balance the vanilla factions ?
Check the Patch 1.7.2.
happy new year guys! ( how long have you been working on this faction?)
Your team should work with the day of reckoning team
AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Ho sempre sospettato che ci fosse un'altra nuova città in Hota 2.0?,grazie al team per il lavoro svolto e per le meravigliose notizie sul prossimo futuro,and now we wait for the Bulwark (kronwerk revisited), I can't wait, I already like it, I hope that HotA continues "forever"
please no. ive played this for decades, i cant get into another month long run of Heroes 3
Holly shit!
Wow! Thank you so much HOTA team!
Long Live the Crew
That's exciting!
So the rumors were true... cool
I was hoping for cosmic horror town, but I like dorfs too.
0:50 on the left that is probably Graal? I guess..
WOW
Hype hype hyyyypeeeeee!
I think the old era will be released earlier than this town.
Of course. The Factory teaser came out 4 years before 1.7 did and Olden Era goes into early access in 2025.
Absolute legends!
Niezły progres jak na dwa lata od projektu zamku do teraz :D
OMG They are reviving Kronverk !!!! Yesssss. I hope the next town is Cathedral.
Hi. Do you mean that this town existed before? In which game?
@@Raziel_J It's one of the unreleased towns of HotA. There are Forge (now Factory), Kronverk (now Bulwark) and there is another town is called Cathedral which is based off the old century of Europe, particularly the Inquisition period (basically like a counter part of Castle). So if they're still following the order, then Cathedral should be revived next.
@@linhttm58 interesting. Didn't know about those. Thanks!
@@Raziel_J Yup you can search for "Heroes 3 Cathedral" to see the graphics of units & townscreen they've released. The towscreen looks very nice and the units look amazing. Especially the 7th tier unit the "Fallen Angel" looks super dope.
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Nice! Go HOTA
Viking faction always welcome, sincerely a Scandinavian
LET’S GOOOOOO!!!!
Oooooooooooooo, nice! 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
Do I hear music inspired by LOTRO dwarves?
very nice
Why god, why, would you take Eagle Eye?
Hyyyyype
Śniegowy koczkodan
Is this the final version of the music? Or maybe you will ask someone to help you cause...
Вы лучшие!
HotaCrew, you are the BEST!
Heroes fans have been eating GOOD lately
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Gamers develop better games than whatever a slop AAA company can make, blessings to you HOTA team.
Good luck in development, lads! Happy New Year!
WTF YES!!!
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