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yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted August 26, 2026 11:27 AM |
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This gameplay trailer is slightly better than initial one:
Gameplay Video
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Olegmods
Adventuring Hero
Wrath of the Creators lead dev
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posted August 26, 2026 11:59 AM |
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yasmiel said:
This gameplay trailer is slightly better than initial one:
Gameplay Video
If it's the one that I assume it is, kinda funny how they present HDE as "Original Heroes III"...
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kesnarii
Hired Hero
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posted August 26, 2026 01:23 PM |
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Saw it yesterday and burst out laughing...
Ubisoft again not understanding anything....
This could have easily been an expansion for Olden Era or something...having two HoMM games coming together, while on top of it HoMM3 having an actual playerbase spells d i s a s t e r
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TheJoker
Hired Hero
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posted August 26, 2026 01:57 PM |
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Edited by TheJoker at 14:21, 26 Aug 2026.
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Nah this doesn't look bad at all, it just looks very different from what we are used to and very un-heroes-esque imo. The Hero sprites look like actual AI tho.
But apparently this game will support all fanmade content released for the original game, supposedly it can be converted very easily. How exactly this works is not known yet.
Also HotA and original H3 developers were involved with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcC_NKDqSp8
This reminds me a lot of the Age of Empires Definitive Edition. It looked very strange and different at first, but today it's commonly viewed as the gold standard of Remakes in gaming, invigorating the community who was for years forced to fend for themselves.
I was skeptical of the AoE Definitve Edition, but I was proven wrong. I'm skeptical here too, and I hope I will be proven wrong again.
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zydar
Adventuring Hero
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posted August 26, 2026 02:05 PM |
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Horaaaay
Ashan is Deaad
Long Life Enroth
Cant wait Heroes 1-4 Remake
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Olegmods
Adventuring Hero
Wrath of the Creators lead dev
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posted August 26, 2026 02:29 PM |
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TheJoker said:
Nah this doesn't look bad at all, it just looks very different from what we are used to and very un-heroes-esque imo. The Hero sprites look like actual AI tho.
But apparently this game will support all fanmade content released for the original game, supposedly it can be converted very easily. How exactly this works is not known yet.
Also HotA and original H3 developers were involved with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcC_NKDqSp8
This reminds me a lot of the Age of Empires Definitive Edition. It looked very strange and different at first, but today it's commonly viewed as the gold standard of Remakes in gaming, invigorating the community who was for years forced to fend for themselves.
I was skeptical of the AoE Definitve Edition, but I was proven wrong. I feel the same here, and I hope I will be proven wrong again.
Well, personally, I feel that comparison with AoE's Definitive Editions (that you mentioned and the video did) is kinda not correct here.
IIRC they (the people behind Definitive Editions, I think these are the Forgotten Empires team, the former modder guys) did keep the core stuff for most of the part just redoing graphics, trying to be in the same style (for example, AoE2 DE is still a 2D game and as far as I can say from playing it quite a bit, it is trying to follow the original AoE2 designs). It's kinda (!) what HDE did, and it could've been smth like DEs if given proper support and the expansions were in the base game.
That H3 Remake does not really work well in that regard, as you may have noticed, people do complain about the entirely different styling being chosen already.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 26, 2026 02:32 PM |
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I eagerly await the inevitable deluge of accusations of it all being AI slop. And by "eagerly", I mean not at all.
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Ghost
Undefeatable Hero
Therefore I am
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posted August 26, 2026 02:47 PM |
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AI art is much better than remake, but friend could play remake, when he can't play an old and puny graphics, but he accepted H3 HD edition.. I don't play H8, thus graphics also I stayed in H3 and H4.. Impossible to leave H3 and H4.. Yeah I tell to friend then.. Thanks..
Why not H4 graphics? It enough well.. H4 modders copied H3 objects and passed to H4, but H3 modders never tried with beauty H4 graphics.. One failed with creatures in H3.. HotA crew copied a few of H4 objects and passed to HotA.. Think!
Yes Ubisoft listened, but creating wrong.. And more H3 again..
I don't know what I should to say.. But remake shows beauty dragons surely.. Where is WoG?
Then yes many players will buy to remake for collection..
Ok 
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Olegmods
Adventuring Hero
Wrath of the Creators lead dev
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posted August 26, 2026 02:51 PM |
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BTB said:
I eagerly await the inevitable deluge of accusations of it all being AI slop. And by "eagerly", I mean not at all.
There are some already, just mostly not here.
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Charrclaw
Known Hero
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posted August 26, 2026 03:06 PM |
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It looks like totally different Heroes game. Which I don't find bad. It has the cloak of HoMM3, thats it. Perhaps it will find and draw in a more "younger" audience to the genre and franchise.
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The_Green_Drag
Supreme Hero
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posted August 26, 2026 03:40 PM |
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The reveal trailer was not great but after seeing the gameplay trailer, I’m actually excited for this. Graphics are obviously a work in progress but the art style is much closer to homm, imho. Hearing about automating secondary heroes like caravans sounds great and a new unit recruitment page that looks awesome. Hex battlefield with large units, as it should be. The only negative is there won’t be any line up changes or new units. But at least there’s no kittenhorns 
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LizardWarrior
Honorable
Legendary Hero
the reckoning is at hand
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posted August 26, 2026 04:46 PM |
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Why did H7 need a remake?
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Olegmods
Adventuring Hero
Wrath of the Creators lead dev
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posted August 26, 2026 04:48 PM |
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LizardWarrior said:
Why did H7 need a remake?
Buuuuuuuuuugs...
But on a more serious note, H7 without bugs and with more H6 content would be really nice.
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MurlocAggroB
Known Hero
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posted August 27, 2026 02:37 AM |
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Charrclaw said:
It looks like totally different Heroes game. Which I don't find bad. It has the cloak of HoMM3, thats it.
That's what I like about it. I don't need Heroes III with better graphics. It already looks great. But Heroes III with completely different graphics? That's actually interesting.
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LordCameron
Famous Hero
Veteran of the Succession Wars
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posted August 27, 2026 09:26 AM |
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I'm continuing to get the feeling Ubisoft has no idea why people like Homm3.
That said, they should have remade 4, 5, or even 7 in this style and it would have probably been a decent upgrade.
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What are Homm Songs based on?
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Olegmods
Adventuring Hero
Wrath of the Creators lead dev
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posted August 27, 2026 01:11 PM |
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LordCameron said:
I'm continuing to get the feeling Ubisoft has no idea why people like Homm3.
That said, they should have remade 4, 5, or even 7 in this style and it would have probably been a decent upgrade.
They indeed do not, likely. Moreover, the project as a whole is pretty much a big nostalgia bait cashgrab.
About the other games to tell tbh. I'd gauge that a remake of H4 or H5 in that style could also not be well-received.
H7 might be another thing, apparently Remake's models have similar-ish artstyle. Though, idk, as someone who played both H6 and H7 (which share the style due to some amount of content being from H6 reused in H7), I'd prefer to see more H6-styled stuff for a theoretical H7 remake. Though idk if Virtuos would be down to it, apparently they were the ones who made graphics for at least late H6 stuffs and probably H7 ones.
Nephretes said:
Why all new games look like they are using chinese mobile games assets ? Or should I say AI slop hallucination nowadays? It's another remake which is likely going to fail and I thought that one HD version from Ubi was enough of disappointment for the fandom
About the Remake, well, it looks like the Chinese mobile assets, since it is actually made by Chinese studios of Ubi, apparently.
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EvilP
Promising
Known Hero
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posted August 27, 2026 01:23 PM |
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Olegmods said:
Felt like it's worth to bring it up: apparently (according to XEL, one of Unfrozen's employees, on df2), the remake was started earlier than HOE development.
I asked some people at UBI Shanghai, and they said the H3R project started in 2022.
The latest Q&A also confirms this: https://steamcommunity.com/games/3809850/announcements/detail/676256257153171855
As for Olden Era, if I remember correctly, a demo was made in 2020, and full development began in 2021.
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Olegmods
Adventuring Hero
Wrath of the Creators lead dev
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posted August 27, 2026 01:31 PM |
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EvilP said:
Olegmods said:
Felt like it's worth to bring it up: apparently (according to XEL, one of Unfrozen's employees, on df2), the remake was started earlier than HOE development.
I asked some people at UBI Shanghai, and they said the H3R project started in 2022.
The latest Q&A also confirms this: https://steamcommunity.com/games/3809850/announcements/detail/676256257153171855
As for Olden Era, if I remember correctly, a demo was made in 2020, and full development began in 2021.
Hmmm... Maybe XEL was mistaken there or I misunderstood smth (maybe he did mean that the remake started before HOE's success and not the start of its development.
Also, the df2 thread where it was mentioned: https://forum.df2.ru/index.php?showtopic=40597 (idk if I can post working links atm)
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DarkAtom
Known Hero
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posted August 27, 2026 01:32 PM |
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Olegmods
Adventuring Hero
Wrath of the Creators lead dev
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posted August 27, 2026 01:36 PM |
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DarkAtom said:
...and they already screwed something up.
Tbh, the Steam H3 Complete release is a whole different topic.
Apparently (after they did get it working), it doesn't work with HD mod if you try to connect the Complete exe from Steam to it, due to being recompiled and apparently encrypted.
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