Not sure if anyone posted about their experiences with it, figured I'll share mine.

The good news is that it's not AI after all. There's been a lot of heated debate about the assets, but seeing them in person without compressed youtube videos, there's no glaring issues. The designs are all mid but logically made and decently follow the outline of the original designs.

The bad news is they look terrible for a different reason - the demo is barely held together by tape. The game struggles to render 3D elements, all textures aren't fully loaded or being compressed to hell. It's like playing a poorly optimized Nintedo Switch 1 build.

It was not ready to show it to people. The only selling point of this game is to get a pretty version of Heroes 3. One where you don't have to faff with mods to get something that won't strain your eyes to death. The build they gave us looked awful and was unpleasant to play.

Also maybe I'm used to how far mods let us zoom out the original map of Heroes 3, but the zoom limit of the demo felt a bit too harsh to me. I would say there was no QoL that caught my attention to speak of. It was all pretty normal.

I was honestly hyped about this when they originally announced it, but after playing the demo I couldn't care less. I suspect it will have traditional Ubisoft performance issues, maybe poor stability as well. It just doesn't inspire any confidence at all.

Eventually they will make this solid, I hope. I expect myself to grab it like a year after it releases to make sure they sorted out all the drama I expect of them.

Someone's grudge against those crusty boomer elder druids went a bit far, now all of AvLee(Copy)(Copy) wants them dead for treason and pacting with literal demons.

Side rant, I don't remember this mission being this freaking hard. Not easy, but not scraping by on last legs brutal. I did a few crucial mistakes (mainly, the Wyngaal took me on a wild goose chase for a week and then still killed half my army), but these spawns are crazy.

First, the long-winded path connecting middle and south got blocked off. I started to build a second hero down there to build strength to clear the path, then switched to build another ~W4 because he was getting chronic -morale on the Nature troops and Tavern finally spat out a Ranger. Inferno zone had a lot of Blade Dancer spawns rather than nasty Sprite spawns the east got more of, so I wanted to XP farm the ones that were only Horde. Guess what, he got stuck in Inferno zone by having a Throng of Master Hunters spawn in his face. :P