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Second Expansion officially announced

Unread postby Mystic Phoenix » 05 Apr 2007, 17:26

The second add on for HoMM V "Tribes of the East"is officially announced on the German UBI site. Have a look here.

Key features seem to be the new orc faction as well as an alternative upgrade for every unit in the game so far. Sounds exciting!

Bad luck for the naga lovers, however.

Here are some screenshots.
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Unread postby Monteniger » 05 Apr 2007, 17:33

Finally!!!!
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Unread postby Arveragus » 05 Apr 2007, 17:57

There is also an announcement (including some screenshots) on the UK English site. Check it out here: http://mightandmagic.uk.ubi.com/
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Unread postby Kalah » 05 Apr 2007, 18:01

A stand-alone product, that's nice. Justifies the price and should bring a few new players onto the pitch...
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Unread postby PhoenixReborn » 05 Apr 2007, 18:25

Kalah wrote:A stand-alone product, that's nice. Justifies the price and should bring a few new players onto the pitch...
Doesn't it mean I won't be able to play the new faction on original game maps? Not nice.
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Unread postby Starbatron » 05 Apr 2007, 18:38

Yes, a good point. Will the import the old maps into the new game, along with the announced new maps, or are we just out of luck with the old maps? That would stink!! :flame: The new alternative levels for creatures sounds intriguing. Will the new upgrade for the bone dragon and wraith make them worth buying? I can only hope... :beg:
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Unread postby Arveragus » 05 Apr 2007, 18:43

PhoenixReborn wrote:
Kalah wrote:A stand-alone product, that's nice. Justifies the price and should bring a few new players onto the pitch...
Doesn't it mean I won't be able to play the new faction on original game maps? Not nice.
Not necessarily. The Dark Crusade expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War was also stand alone (it was the second expansion for the game as well) and was integrated perfectly into the original game and its first expansion Winter Assault. When you entered the registration keys for the original title and the first expansion during installation, this enabled you to use the old factions in multiplayer games.

But if you are asking whether you can play the new faction when playing the game with the orginal game (.exe) then the answer is obviously no. As far as I know, you can not use the Dwarves in the original game either. As long as the 'old' maps from the original game and Hammers of Fate are included with Tribes of the East you should be able to play with any faction on them if the same system used in Dark Crusade is applied to Tribes of the East.
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Unread postby Starbatron » 05 Apr 2007, 18:45

Yes, that is good news. Now if they only remember to include the old maps...or perhaps they will save that "addition" for a patch :rofl:
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Unread postby Zamolxis » 06 Apr 2007, 02:46

What they should do, is to implement a tool (menu option), that would allow the games to load maps/campaigns from previous games, if already installed on the PC, in case they want to play them under TotE.

It's not only fair towards the old players, but also good for Ubi, as such a feature, such a link somewhere in the menu's, might stimulate new gamers to buy the old product as well. ;)
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Unread postby danijel1990 » 06 Apr 2007, 08:26

OMG cant wait until its released!!! :-D :D
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Unread postby Apocalypse » 06 Apr 2007, 09:30

The alternative upgrade level looks cool indeed.

But I don't like this new faction...
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Unread postby borco » 06 Apr 2007, 09:33

you simply can load old map in TotE map editor and save it with new extension, I think it can be done that way.

I' am mostly interested in that alternative upgs. and their balance.
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Unread postby erased. over. out » 06 Apr 2007, 19:07

The news about alternate upgrades is the best thing I've heard in a long time! Hopefully, it'll play as good as it sounds. Fingers crossed. :devious:
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Unread postby watcher83 » 06 Apr 2007, 19:36

from the pics we have some goblin warriors and one goblin shaman, a female orc and its upgrd, a large creature(ogre or cyclop), a centaur and a paokai...so where are the male orcs? it is a orc faction after all, isn't it?
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Unread postby Elvin » 06 Apr 2007, 19:53

It most certainly does not seem that way...
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 06 Apr 2007, 20:29

Slouching armored guy seems to be an orc.

And i wonder if any of you would have been complaining if there where males and no female.
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Unread postby TheUndeadKing » 06 Apr 2007, 21:03

Hmm... So, they're adding the Isengard faction to HoMM...
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 06 Apr 2007, 21:09

At least they're done with Warhammer.
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Unread postby Zamolxis » 06 Apr 2007, 21:48

AMEN.

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Unread postby Metathron » 06 Apr 2007, 22:38

They could've come up with a more imaginative name than "Tribes of the East".
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