In a recently opened "questions to developers" thread on the official Nival Interactive forums, Nival has answered some Heroes V questions. The answers are as follows:

• The first patch will be out soon™.


• The Russian version of the patch will be 39 MB big.


• The map editor will be released no later than August.


• The random map generator will appear after the editor.


• It is possible that combined artifacts will be introduced.


• The possibility to load/quit during a battle will be added soon™.


• A more detailed manual with gameplay mechanics is in development, it will be available as a free download soon™.


• New maps will be in the second patch, soon™.


• The first patch will make it possible to play over a segmented network, but a direct IP patch isn't yet planned. They'll consider it if they get spammed with requests to implement it.