Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era - Ubisoft returns to Enroth - coming to Early Access in Q2 2025

[Storyfag]

The units and most of the heroes are fine. The town screen? Ugh.

 

[Black]

 

[Hydro]

Has he ever said anything about the III one?

Also: are you telling me both Sandros are Poles?

 

[Black]

There's only one Sandro, kurwa.

 

[SixDead]

Also: are you telling me both Sandros are Poles?

Names are maya, divine illusion. Only profile pic matters. Your feelings are telling you there are many Sandros. But do know by your heart: Sandro is One.

 

[Storyfag]

There's only one Sandro, kurwa.

Also: are you telling me both Sandros are Poles?

Names are maya, divine illusion. Only profile pic matters. Your feelings are telling you there are many Sandros. But do know by your heart: Sandro is One.

Indeed, all three of us are One.

Also: are you telling me both Sandros are Poles?

There is also Spectral Pontifex, who, as far as I can tell, is not Polish.

 

[sebas]

Fucking 2D mobile ugly game, every new info video should have more of those perky tits thrown in to stop me from gouging my eyes out. It's like world of warcraft got fucked by Civ VI while sucking off an iphone.

 

[Meanie Leena]

I have been playing HoMM 3 for 25 years and HoMM 3 for 22, but I will put 0 trust into HoMM until Ubiturd colapses and IP is sold to private entity.

 

[Grotesque]

this face screams "old era"

 

[Gandalf]

I have been playing HoMM 3 for 25 years and HoMM 3 for 22

Meaning?

 

[Meanie Leena]

I have been playing HoMM 3 for 25 years and HoMM 3 for 22

Meaning?

HoMM 4*
Meaning I am autistically attached to these games. And I don't believe in this nostalgia bait :C

 

[Hydro]

I have been playing HoMM 3 for 25 years and HoMM 3 for 22

Meaning?

It’s 47 years in total

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

There is also Spectral Pontifex, who, as far as I can tell, is not Polish.

 

[Black]

I have been playing HoMM 3 for 25 years and HoMM 3 for 22, but I will put 0 trust into HoMM until Ubiturd colapses and IP is sold to private entity.

Lorelei would be an A+ tier dungeon hero in HoMM 3 if only instead of leadership she'd start with something useful like Offence or Tictacs.

 

[Laz Sundays]

>Heroes Of Might & Magic: Olden Era
>HOMMOE

 

[Infinitron]

In this interview, we are welcoming Lohikaarme, a former Heroes of Might & Magic 5 professional player and now the co-founder of Ashan Arena, which is one of the biggest Heroes of Might & Magic 5 tournaments with a massive following. He shares with us some great insights regarding the game's best features, as well as what is lacking compared to other Heroes instalments. Let us know in the comments below who you would wish to see us interview next!

 

[axx]

The dragon in the above video is from dragon bridge in Ljubljana btw. Looks cool, but a weird choice for a thumbnail.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

As a sidenote, there were rumors doing the rounds a year ago about Ubisoft having a Might & Magic title in development.
I don't remember if the exact title leaked at any point, but do we know if it's a different game (a proper mainline Might & Magic, maybe?) or are there chances this one was the rumored one?

It wasn’t rumors, they made a big announcement about how they have a whole new studio whose sole purpose is Might and Magic. While this game is probably part of their new big Might and Magic push, it’s not related to the announcement given this isn’t being made by the new Might and Magic studio they set up.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Heroes of Might and Magic is generic fantasy.

It is indeed a very generic fantasy that made a heavy use of mythological and classical D&D tropes.
Minotaurs live in labyrinths while fancy dressed vampires live in gothic mansions, elves are renowned archers who live in a forest while dwarfs like their gold and mines. Dragons are not going to be anything other than what you imagine your average classic dragon to be and even sci-fi elements from RPGs like droids or blasters look exactly like what you imagine if someone said "sci-fi robot" or "space blaster".

As weird as it sounds this reliance on ultra basic but widely and instantly recognizable fantasy elements is what makes old Might & Magic world kinda unique.
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It is and it isn’t. It’s generic fantasy stuff on the surface, but then there’s a bunch of pulp sci-fi stuff that you wouldn’t expect in a generic fantasy setting. Although the Heroes games don’t really get into all that stuff.

Kind of seems like a shame they don’t roll that weird Might and Magic stuff into the Heroes games. Give us weird robot angels and demons that are actually space aliens.

 

[SixDead]

Kind of seems like a shame they don’t roll that weird Might and Magic stuff into the Heroes games. Give us weird robot angels and demons that are actually space aliens.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 were supposed to have those things in add-on faction, Factory. It was canceled because of Columbine, my friend told me, but fuck him.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I fail to see the relevancy. HOMM3 tournaments are a whole another ball game (game design wise). No one at NWC thought HOMM3 is gonna become an esport in Poland after 20 years. Just like no one expected Starcraft to be one in Korea. Focus on making a good SP game first (and campaign) - but it's highly doubtful they will.

Blizzard was definitely thinking about multiplayer by the time they were working on StarCraft. While I’m sure it came as some surprise to them how big it got specifically in South Korea, they didn’t bump up Battle.net into being Battle.net for StarCraft not thinking multiplayer would be huge.

Most people probably don’t even play Heroes of Might and Magic games as single player campaigns. The series mostly lives in skirmish mode, just like all strategy games, be that turn-based or real-time, do.

 

[luj1]

Blizzard was definitely thinking about multiplayer by the time they were working on StarCraft.

sure they were but the focus was on delivering a good game with good campaign that is fun in SP too

 

[Cohesion]

The liches can raise dead now, which sounds like it could make them very useful.

They were already pretty OP. One of the best undead units (unlike shitty bone dragons or zombies).

 

[Meanie Leena]

I have been playing HoMM 3 for 25 years and HoMM 3 for 22, but I will put 0 trust into HoMM until Ubiturd colapses and IP is sold to private entity.

Lorelei would be an A+ tier dungeon hero in HoMM 3 if only instead of leadership she'd start with something useful like Offence or Tictacs.

If Gunnar or Malekith were goth girls/furry waifus that went well with my nickname and vibe, I would use their avatars the same I use them as my transcontinental black Dragogeddon/BDSM-party delivery service singing to Crazy Train.

Jeez, now I wish they make medusa and minotaur female heroes like in HoMM IV.

 

[Infinitron]

In our last interview, we discussed Heroes of Might & Magic V and the Arena mod. Naturally, we wanted to know more about how the game progressed! In this video, we are joined by Dredknight, who is one of the creators of the Heroes 5.5 Megamod, the most popular mod to Heroes of Might & Magic V. To no surprise, he brings us some very valuable insights about all the technicalities, PvE, PvP, and overall improvements to the game.