Stronghold: Definitive Edition - Free Build Gameplay (ft. Community Q&A) 

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Dear Firefly, please add some weather and day/night effects to this legendary game. This will enhance the game's medieval atmosphere so much

My only big complaint about the updated designs is the scribe. The old one is iconic. Is there no hope that we will eventually see him in the game?

Sometimes when fighting, units aren't doing their attack animation in the correct direction, seemingly punching air. If you look at 35:43, it shows a swordsman near the entrace of the keep fighting pikemen from two sides. After killing the one he faced directly, he did not turn when attacking the other pikemen. I assume he still did damage, but it looked a little silly regardless

Generally Suggestions (Skirmish, Modding and Generally) Tools for AI/Stats/etc.: An improved AIV(illage) Editor & UCP (2.15 or higher) for everybody! Give us the Tools for changing of AI Behaviour, so we can make even with only a few lore-friendly and classic Lords a diversity of Adversaries. Possibility of new Skins would be a nice Addition. Buildorder Unit Variety Castle Layout Early, Mid & Late-Game Behaviour Where, when Attack Limits of Buildings/Units Certain Values like Armor/Damage/Speed/Costs for Units and Production Output for Buildings. Etc. Skirmish/MP AI-Lords (3-4 Castle Layouts, more like 8 could be made by the Community): The Rat (Class 1 Lord) (Wooden Keep, Wooden Barracks) The Snake (Class 2 Lord) (Stone Keep) The Pig (Class 3 Lord) (Fortress) The Wolf (Class 4 Lord) (Stronghold) Lord Manikin OR The Black Friar (Class 1 Lord) (Wooden Keep, Wooden Barracks) Lord Woolsack (Class 2 Lord) (Stone Keep) The Marshal / Sir Longarm (Class 3 Lord) (Fortress) The King (Class 4 Lord) (Stronghold) Type of Keeps (4) / NO Saxon Hall (later/see downwards for another Idea) (Players should have the Option to choose between Keeps BEFORE a Match): Wooden Keep (Costs less than the standard Stone Keep, then Wooden Barracks) (Class 1 Lord OR Human Choice) Stone Keep (Standard) (Class 2 Lord OR Human Choice) Fortress (Costs more than regular Stone Keep) (Class 3 Lord OR Human Choice) Stronghold (Costs more than the Fortress) (Class 4 Lord OR Human Choice) *Saxon Hall (As a „new“ Building - Ranger Guild) Additional Lore-Friendly (Outlaws help you in some Campaign Missions) Unit and the „Saxon Hall“: Ranger (Hunter-Skin, maybe a bit different, WITHOUT Dog Buddy) Saxon Hall Entity rename to Ranger Guild. Ranger Guild as Recruitment-Building for Rangers. Rangers can camouflage like the Assassins from SHC. NO Bow/Weapon required but costs 50 Gold. Same as Monks, only a Building as a Requirement. Better Accuracy than regular Archers. Faster Shooting than regular Archers. Same (weak) Melee Damage as regular Archers. Same (fast) Moving Speed as regular Archers. Need a „Hold Fire“ Button, to not unconceal their whereabouts. Only if they attack or enemy Units are too close, they can be seen. (Like SHC). Market (Auto-selling Option) should be included: Like in SH Warlords Organic House vs „fixed“ - self evolving Houses: There are 3 Stages of the Houses in SH1. Would be cool to COULD have them separat, especially with enabled Building Limits.

Are the maps bigger? That's one of the main point in Stronghold that always held it back. Size. (The other was AI Skirmish mode and, well, units all moving through each other)

You know, while seeing you guys building the cathedral, i thought it would be cool if one could 'produce' monks in the cathedral, kinda like it is in SH Crusader. Perhaps someone could look into it and make this available. I unfortunately forgot about this in my feedback/review ive wrote in the demo already. Plus changing our own player colour (atleast for the map editor) would be a great addition. Im really looking forward to this Definitive Edition!

Guys this looks so much better than the "new" 3d graphics, hopefully you can see that. The retro look is the way to go for future iterations. There are so many ways to improve on the concept without trying to reinvent the wheel every time. A construction system, new resources and buildings, increased scope, politics and social. Hopefully the definitive edition will sell well and it'll open your eyes. Take some notes from Frostpunk, which is the first game that captured me as much as the first Stronghold, this could become much bigger

Nick with the Weights in the Background, living the Castelord grindset 💪

I used to play this game and now my son plays it. thanks for this sweet sweet memory you made for our family

It would be cool if you could put a line out in X and Y when doing walls to help you line it up better. Also if it extended and showed which tiles are buildable it'd be great to prevent having random gaps on cliffs. I always used to mess up and have holes near those. Or just a hotkey to show all the navigable tiles.

I sure hope you will remake the classic Stronghold intro of the knight walking towards the castle. INCLUDING the classic Wolf character. Same goes for the old game cover. NO EXPERIMENTS.

I hope they make the map scrolling faster. Even on highest setting it feels super slow.

I legit cant wait, keep up the good work guys!

The original death animation of swordman being killed by slash attack is still missing. Are you going to fix this or not?

Add ability for lord to move speical in multiplayer and fix lord's hiden bugs

The peasant animations still look buggy, I hope this can be fixed? See for instance 26:00. Sometimes animations seem to freeze, or loop the bowing animation.

I love everything about this game so far besides the scribe. I know it will probably be some extra work but it would be greatly appreciated by everyone if you could adjust the look to something that is based on the old design and not some generic guy. Otherwise I'm looking really forward to playing this!

The way the wolves and horses are moving doesn't look natural. They look like flying ghosts. Could you fix this?

I can't wait for this game to be released. I really hope you can do a remake of the origianal Stronghold Crusader game.

The upresing of the games elements looks fantastic! Time for Crusader definitive edition i rkn!

Hey, army control hotkeys, for "Stop" "Patrol", etc... buttons, would be very nice! :)

Give the options to: remove arrown trails and set to permanent decals (dead bodies and blood). PLEASE! :~

After 20 years you have not realized that people like the first stronghold because it has "realistic" graphics and a realistic scale with respect to the size of people and buildings, that is why the last strongholds have failed, because they are cartoon-like , a 3D stronghold could work if it met these scales and that type of realistic image, that's why people will always like stronghold 1 and crusader. Something like the graphics of epic battle simulator or total war series.

i hope this remaster will be good

Such nice juicy QoLs coming, we eating good when DE drops. My heart did drop when the fully stacked armories were deleted :(

put the demo back up, i missed it

Could you add option to shrink down buildings but not flat them out? there was this kind of option in original game

Just wondering if you own the game on Steam already if there gonna be an option to update to the definitive edition or am I gonna have to buy the whole thing again?

Hi guys. With DE I'm expecting to see some speedrun attempts (as fan of Lutel, he already said he will make a trial). Do you consider doing Dev Commentary over those speedruns? (you know, just to see how many unintended features the same has :D)

It's like that remaster you think you want but you don't.

now look stronghold 2 in the face and bring a nice optimization update

Would you be able to play online player vs player or is it only skirmish? And campaign?

Are cathedrals bugged? they dont seem to give the permanent popularity bonus

Please please please add customizeable hotkeys! And I want to be able to select the buildings I want to by with they keyboard, instead of having to click every time. Also the Barracks and unti creation should be hotkey-able.

Maybe get some meat from killing the rabbit. After seeing them pop up frequently enough, you'd think you got something out of it.

How to build Walls afar from Base? In mp

thanks, you are cool!!!

Bring back old scribe!

16:30 best thing in the game!

It is impossible to explain why so many years in this incredible innovative idea of developing a castle simulator of the highest aesthetics and detail have not been added buildings, fortifications, production chains, riverside trade, ech. Dozens of things are missing that we expect to be added, and so far you don't seem to be doing anything. It is sad

Please i need that game on DVD

For the language decision, can you add Farsi? Iranian community loves stronghold series and we had to translate the game to farsi back home. But if you can add it, it would be awesome!!! (Although, ppl might still get the game illegally because everything is banned there(steam,paypal…,lol)

greatest game of all time ^_^

You're talking about langueuges of country's where you've got fans. I'm dutch, maybe also making in the game Dutch availeble?

V key used to lower walls so you could see behind them

double clicking a unit used to select all of the same type

22:07 well, if I would put my whole economy into sleep mode, in original Stronghold, I would have many more archers at once. Doesn't this translate into Definitive Edition?

is there gonne be custom gameplay against ai?

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I need to say the mission from new campaing (that one in the demo) is making me want to rage quit like really this mission is a pain due to fact how often you are getting attacked this mission would be much less painfull if bandits wouldn't attack SO OFTEN

Stronghold 2d>>>>>>>>>>>stronghold 3d

no new units ???? pffff its looks the same shit only graphic change... look aoe2 so much better change

hate to say this but 2D stronghold >> 3D

As a Ukrainian citizen, I was very surprised and pleased with the latest diary reveal for there would be implemented Ukrainian localization. I'm waiting for the moment when the game will be available for pre-order. As we still have hard times with the war still influencing our lives, I plan to buy several copies of the game for some of my friends and family members who enjoyed playing the original game. It may not be much but at least 14 copies of the game would be bought for sure. Once again, thank you for the awesome games and for the possibility of playing at least one of them in my native language.❤

Please remove the music volume lowering on speech, or at least add an option to disable it, it’s very annoying

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Stronghold 2 remake/reboot or something similiar

You should let us pre-buy game now, why wait ?

Personally, my most desired improvement would be some kind of change to the unit collision system for armies. I simply dislike the infinite one grid stacking of units in battles.

I hope after game releases you will do more videos like this, maybe on upcoming projects

thank you a lot for great approach of releasing a lot of content. And for Ukrainian language as well ❤ Can't wait for a game, so much love for a whole team working on old engine and code, keep pushing to deliver lovely extension for fans.

Thank you very much for adding Ukrainian! ❤

are we going to have definitive edition for stronghold crusader HD?

Please make a new Stronghold Legends game or an definitive edition

1:04 I would love to be as wonderful as Aaron :D

Is there any information about whether Stronghold Definitive Edition will be released for macOS (M1/M2)?

Just release it already, cant wait

This game will forever be in my heart. I'm going to show this game to my future kids too oneday.

Would have been nice to have included AI as a faction through skirmish modes, that would have massively increased replayability value.

Apart from some other things that get mentioned often, like the advisor, I'd like a toggle for the sound, when a voice speaks then the music gets quieter, this was not in the original, both tracks had the same volume. Might be easy to implement. Edit: already gave feedback but forgot about this, so that's my chance to throw it in lol

6:10I love that thing and the sounds! Gives a positive nice atmosphere to my castle and makes me feel like im doing a good job making a great happy castle

Smoke animation and empty building sign look like slide shows, please make them flowing and one motion, its really noticeable

I was playing the demo and sometimes my archers on the ground just didn't seem to want to attack. Been playing the game for 20 years so i know when they should be shooting

Will there be a skirmish mode like in stronghold crusader ?

Dont simp for ukraine, ta

I play stronghold crusader to this day and extreme. In the last 15 years i must have completed every mission like 10 times. I try to stream it sometime i love it so much. Will def pick this up and try it

Why did you decide to remove the sounds for hovering over building categories (tower, hammer, apple) ?

Hi guys, could you make ALT+TAB work, where it throws you onto your desktop and minimises the game onto the taskbar, instead whatever it's doing now.

THE WAR EFFECTS ARE STILL BASIC . WE WANNA SEE CRUMBLING WALLS AND GATES EFFECTS AND LIKE WHEN THE CATAPULT FIRES AT THEM

Pleas make the game to be 3D pleas always wanted a remake off the first legendary stronghold one.Big fan off stronghold got all the games every singel one except this one can't wait. Love the music and medieval texture and so forth. It you could made this stronghold one like stronghold 3 kind off graphics and 3D but I this picture looking off game this wil be the best. And you should never changed it to deserd always the green lands pleas veels more right for the medieval wibe. And motes looks best the water to stronghold two.and would be cool if the soldiers collect their weapons at the armory to gear up. Would be nice feature. The best thing for me is if the chain doors closes on Castle it says castle is closed. And that you can click it to close and open. Not like stronghold 2 it closes by it self it enemy is close by.keep up your lengendery game. It's my best one off all.pleas never change the medeval game to Samurai its just not medieval stronghold. Thanks for the best battle sim medieval game ever made.

Thanks for your work! Wait for the game

I love how the camera is still rotated when starting that map, like in the original Also I hope we'll get unlimited rocks in the editor