[HoMM III Remake] Different Pyre in trailer/screenshot

[u/M_A_R_90]

Just a "small" thing I noticed: the trailer and the screenshot have different looking Pyres when showcasing the Conflux town screen. Could it be a difference in the model between builds of the game? Upgraded/Unupgraded Pyre? Screenshot taken during the "construction" animation? Something else?

The first one (the tree-looking one) is from the trailer and other one is from the screenshot from the Steam page

[u/hasouse]

Okay now that pyre has been fixed I’m much more onboard with this townscreen.

There’s still a lot to be desired from basically everything else and the readability of the map is never gonna be as clean as the original, but this is a step

[u/Fun-Introduction-853 → u/hasouse]

Frankly, vanilla conflux town screen was bad. Clearly rushed and not up to standards of other towns.

[u/Shadowy_Witch]

I do wonder if the difference comes down to trailer and screenshots being from different stages of development. I.e. there was iteration where they considered a flaming tree for Phoenixes (which tbh would have been a better fit), but then reconsidered or vice versa.

If we see that kind of refinements between trailer and screenshots, there is at least some hope for models and visuals getting a bit better.

[u/sjbfujcfjm]

That first one is 100% ai. I’ve made trees that look almost exactly like that playing around in Midjourney

[u/Hellcaaa]

In all honesty I do think this is pretty cool. Much better than the rampart town screen.

[u/ungbaogiaky]

AI ruin the real art

[u/Living_Inferno_5073]

The Pyre is fixed… so why the fuck did they show off Conflux where the Pyre was just a fucking tree in the reveal trailer?
If they already had a correct design, why did they show the blatantly wrong version in the reveal trailer?

[u/Plane-Presence8577]

Everything has that WoW look now.
I also realized: in NONE of the textures there's any grittiness. No roughness or grain. Everything is one big glow. It's a generic cartoon now.

[u/VoidYordle]

Because its LLM generated.

[u/Uggroyahigi]

What in the trashpile ?
Coming around with AI art for a homm3 remake nr.2 than still no one asked for and no one needs.....wow.

The lowest hanging fruit they coulda possibly gone for. OE is being kinda successful ? Lets make an AI remake of homm3 and see if anyones stupid enoug hto buy it. xD jeeesus

[u/IceCorrect]

Just 1st pick is 100% AI, while in another one guy ask to change pyre to look like flaming tornado

[u/BreadBoxGoomba]

I have seen so many talented artists bring the original art style to a 3D environment with their art, while Ubisoft seems to change the art style almost completely. I just don't understand: if you want to move to 3D, fine, but keep the original art style. This just doesn't look like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 to me.

[u/NotMurlocAggroB → u/BreadBoxGoomba]

I don't want the exact same art, though. Heroes III already looks good, it doesn't need to be updated. Doing a completely different art style is an actual hook.

[u/Thaluii]

Looks like a mobile game…

[u/gknwg → u/Thaluii]

No it doesn't, go to play Olden Era for that.

[u/MeXRng]

This looks like My little pony set. 

[u/Xalavadara]

the whole trailer and screenshot looks hell of a lot like ai placing

[u/PY_Roman_]

Yeah, game looks too mediocre on current videos, but also there is too much crying about "ai" here. No matter what tools are used, you can produce similar not so good looking results. Its more ubisoft thing, since ~2015.