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LordInsane
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posted October 13, 2024 01:31 PM |
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avatar said:
You can see more in this teaser.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8KyBxIevQcA?t=15056s
Moving water is really cool!
"With new terrains, skills, spells, banks and more" - new terrains was known, banks are expected, some spells aren't that unexpected, but new skills I certainly didn't anticipate. Will definitely be interesting to see what that's about, in the fullness of time.
EDIT: And in my delay to posting this I see there was a new post. Definitely intriguing...
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FirePaladin
Promising
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted October 13, 2024 01:40 PM |
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You can watch today's stream here. More DoR (and HotA!) info should come, and in English. 
https://youtu.be/F0pddUMwLOA
EDIT: Will be shown after this match!
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Enshackling time itself, heralds of the Ancients among their heat-depleted land.... Who could they be, who could rally the beings of the East and the North and control the mortals' fate?
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Ehlesgens-Art
Tavern Dweller
DoR concept art - writing
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posted October 13, 2024 02:40 PM |
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Thank you all for the kind words on the various Forge and Grotto designs 
I'm very glad the concept we worked on has been well received.
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LordInsane
Known Hero
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posted October 13, 2024 03:56 PM |
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Ah, so Grotto is contextualized as an historic faction, native to a relatively eldern time-period from the perspective of the mid-late 12th century AS.
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FirePaladin
Promising
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted October 13, 2024 03:59 PM |
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Yes, and as the precursor to the MM8 dark elves. In fact, we have taken strong inspiration from them, and the faction can (and might be) used for them, too, in future campaigns.
The spider motifs, the connection to Escaton (which will be explained in the DoR campaign), the crystals in some MM8 cutscenes and many more.
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Enshackling time itself, heralds of the Ancients among their heat-depleted land.... Who could they be, who could rally the beings of the East and the North and control the mortals' fate?
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FirePaladin
Promising
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted October 13, 2024 04:37 PM |
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The DoR teaser presented at h3gg is now on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/Yiz6Rsv2Zco
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Enshackling time itself, heralds of the Ancients among their heat-depleted land.... Who could they be, who could rally the beings of the East and the North and control the mortals' fate?
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LordInsane
Known Hero
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posted October 13, 2024 04:45 PM |
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Hey, I recognise that image.
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FirePaladin
Promising
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted October 13, 2024 04:51 PM |
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Crap, wrong one. I'll edit that. =p
EDIT: Edited, thank you.
EDIT 2: Made the T1 and T2 dwellings of the Forge visible in the video, by moving the YT endscreen farther into the video.
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Enshackling time itself, heralds of the Ancients among their heat-depleted land.... Who could they be, who could rally the beings of the East and the North and control the mortals' fate?
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pekute99
Known Hero
The prettiest I must say
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posted October 13, 2024 07:04 PM |
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Grotto is still being a mystery. We haven't even seen the townscreen yet. Anyway, hope the mod will come on this year's Christmas. Will be so perfect for Palace's release.
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AirikrStrife
Hired Hero
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posted October 13, 2024 07:30 PM |
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It looks absolutly amazing Firepaladin (with team). With this and Olden Era in the pipeline, it is a good time to be a MM fan
Now when Grotto is revealed, could you be so kind to share what pieces of lore it was you found out? In which game and from what conversations/items?
Furthermore I was wondering about the idea of having alternative characters, what is the design philosophy behind creating new units in terms of lore? I guess what I am coming for if the new units will create opportunities to something akin to sub-factions have sub-faction, or if it's more to create more depth for each faction as it is?
Final question is if the cult of Baa will be considered when making more units for Inferno, it is to me one of the biggest MM faction/concepts largely missing form the heroes games (the fact that inferno has soem human heroes sort of acknowledges it)
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LordInsane
Known Hero
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posted October 13, 2024 08:09 PM |
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AirikrStrife said:
It looks absolutly amazing Firepaladin (with team). With this and Olden Era in the pipeline, it is a good time to be a MM fan
Now when Grotto is revealed, could you be so kind to share what pieces of lore it was you found out? In which game and from what conversations/items?
The World Tree having been guarded by elves in the - distant at the point it is stated - past is in the "The Roots of Life" scenario of Heroes Chronicles' The World Tree campaign, in a timed event, and the follow-up event explains that the World Tree is the source of life in the world and that the vibrant underground tunnels is the World Tree. Of course, this is all from an in-universe commenter, so they might not have the full scope of what's going on (certainly we know that at least some of the life on the world came down from the Void), but it's at least accurate enough to be an in-universe perception, and the key point of vibrant underground tunnels with an old elven connection remains.
The dark elves having been driven to Jadame is, so far as I know, not strictly stated anywhere, but MM8 certainly established that there had been war between Dark and Light Elves and that it ended several centuries ago (see Glomenmail's description), and tying that into the dark elves arriving on Jadame in enough numbers and long enough ago to establish themselves as arguably the main polity by the 1170s (while there aren't any mention of other elves present except, maybe, for a "Western Elves" group that wasn't necessarily on Jadame) is a fairly reasonable way of fitting the lore together.
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ValeriKaludov
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 13, 2024 10:59 PM |
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Absolutely stunning work!
I am most hyped about the Palace town. The new units that we see tier 7 (Valkaries?) and tier 6 (Slepnir perhaps???) look awesome. The Grotto seems to me that it draws inspiration from the Grove town of old WOG (I see the Basilisk riders, Spider queens and possibly Amethyst dragons!!!). Of course they are all looking better than ever and the whole dark elf/gloomy mushroom forest is just excellent. Bravo for the concept and magnificent execution. As for the Forge this is indeed the purest and most polished form that we have ever seen. And I really appreciate the idea to make it entirely optional despite all the effort that went into it. Overall I cant praise the project enough. You guys are making something really special and the only thing in my opinion that is on he same level or maybe even surpassing HOTA. The only thing that I am not sure about are the health bars(I presume) on top of the stacks numbers in battle. Maybe it is another optional feature but for me at least it seems a bit off. Cant wait to get to play with the mod (new year release hopefully!!!).
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mitsche91
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 14, 2024 01:37 AM |
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I can just agree. This looks amazing. And of course a Christmas present would be nice
The water and the reflection of the objectives look fantastic. It's also a good feature that you can zoom near or far as you like with a high quality picture.
Is the Palace town screen fully built or are there missing some buildings like grail? What happened to Jotun? Is it an alternative creature of Palace or is it a neutral unit? The initiative skill from Palace sounds kind of strong. When it doesn't matter if your oponent has phoenixes because your first turn is always earlier it sounds very helpfull for slow factions like Tower or Fortress too.
The screen of Forge looks fantastic! I always thought the original 3DO screen doesn't look finished (of course - there was still work in progress). But the arrangemend of landscape and buildings look much more interesting and well-considered. It's a nice detail that Forge heroes get beer in their tavern  And it is a nice move to involve Paul Romero. To me the theme of the Forge sounds much better and much more fitting compared to the theme of the Factory which was used as a campain theme in the end. I also think the focus on war machines sounds interesting. I‘m curious about the skill changes for this machines to make them more attractive.
All in all amazing work so far! Thanks for creating such a wonderful new part of this world with so much attention to details.
Let's hope for a Christmas present
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MurlocAggroB
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 14, 2024 02:08 AM |
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mitsche91 said:
Is the Palace town screen fully built or are there missing some buildings like grail?
The town has 9K income, so the grail is built. If I had to guess, the constellation seems like a likely candidate to be the grail.
EDIT: Here's my attempt at labelling the town screen.
The only thing I'm not confident in is the Yeti dwelling. Every other dwelling in the last screenshot is being guarded by the creature it produces, while that one is guarded by a Nisse. Although, I have no idea what else could possibly be the Yeti dwelling.
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FdgK
Known Hero
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posted October 14, 2024 09:16 AM |
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mitsche91 said:
[...] What happened to Jotun? Is it an alternative creature of Palace or is it a neutral unit? [...]
If I had to guess, I would say that they are another alternative unit of Palace. I remember a hint that Firepaladin gave us once that there will be Metal as well as Wood Elementals in Conflux which would mean that the number of alternative creatures per town is not limited to one.
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e1churich
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 14, 2024 12:35 PM |
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Amazing work as always guys keep it up.
Just a question.
Will Grotto be evil or neutral?
I guess Palace will be good and Forge Evil.
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mitsche91
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 14, 2024 12:39 PM |
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e1churich said:
Amazing work as always guys keep it up.
Just a question.
Will Grotto be evil or neutral?
I guess Palace will be good and Forge Evil.
It was said to be neutral in an „interview“ during the turnament yesterday.
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planetavril
Famous Hero
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posted October 14, 2024 10:48 PM |
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As a non-Forge fan, I have to say that this screen with the central road is perfect
If for two out of three cities have published the complete screen, let's hope that the first version of DoR will be released by New Year's Eve, I can't wait to play with the palace and the other contents
Fantastic work
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Qualrath
Adventuring Hero
Kokonut's zealot
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posted October 15, 2024 04:00 PM |
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Do we know if the HD mod will allow for choosing between this, vanilla and HotA like it allows for choice between HotA and vanilla? I know making it double as a mod manager is a tall order but it would be nice to have it all in one package.
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ValeriKaludov
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 15, 2024 11:14 PM |
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What about the alternative creatures in the vanilla towns? As far as I know they will be mostly the same as in Tides of War mod for VCMI. Honestly concept wise it is cool but some of these are not on the same level as DOR. In my opinion warewolves and troll witches need more work if the same sprites are to be used. Also, for me at least, the tentacle dudes in dungeon don't fit the town aesthetic and color scheme at all. I am curious to hear other opinion on the matter. Here is a link to the mod for reference.
https://vcmi.eu/Mod%20Repository/Expansion/Tides%20of%20War/
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