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Unread postby Angelspit » 26 Apr 2006, 14:02

Back in late February, Fabrice Cambounet and Corribus started an <a href="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/506">email conversation</a> where they discussed how Heroes of Migth and Magic V was shaping up. The second part of that discussion kept being delayed as Fabrice and his team went into crunch mode to finish the game on schedule. Now that this important milestone has been reached, you can read about the importance of the fan community and how it has influenced the development of the game, Dark Messiah and a possible RPG game, the events that might follow the release of the game and what's up with Fabrice now that the game is gold. It's all <a href="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/518"><b>here</b></a>.

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Unread postby Infiltrator » 26 Apr 2006, 14:14

Nice to see the 2nd part done :)
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Unread postby Biggles Final Flight » 26 Apr 2006, 14:21

That's got me thinking about the expansion packs again...

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Unread postby Falsted » 26 Apr 2006, 14:24

A good read :)

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Unread postby Thelonious » 26 Apr 2006, 14:24

notable parts of the interview:



"Another point is that developing a rpg game today is a big challenge, and we wouldn’t want to do it wrong."

and

"We are planning a lot of things after the release. While the typical balancing patch is expected, we will also include game updates in these patches. The map editor itself will be made available to everyone through one of these updates."



This first one promeses a good M&M X and the latter: I'd probably want to test the game to get a feel of how it really works anyway so perhaps it isn't such a bad thing.
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Unread postby Corribus » 26 Apr 2006, 14:30

Well it seems pretty certain now that new factions (or old factions...) will appear in the EPs. Only question: which ones?
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Unread postby theLuckyDragon » 26 Apr 2006, 14:40

My only question is this: who exactly is the story writer of Heroes V? Who came up with Ashan and all the mythology?
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Unread postby FantoMaxJM » 26 Apr 2006, 14:46

*Heh* Interesting article, good questions & nice illustration. :)
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Unread postby Labyrinth » 26 Apr 2006, 15:20

Very good interview! Congrats to FC as well as to CH. Good questions and good answers on both sides. I'm really looking forward to the release :)
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Unread postby Corribus » 26 Apr 2006, 16:19

Well, the "interview" questions were written prior to the SF announcement - and prior to the Gold announcement as well. I tacked on the Gold question just recently; forgot to ask about SF. Oh well. :)
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Unread postby Sir Charles » 26 Apr 2006, 20:01

@ theLuckyDragon:



The universe creators were Erwan Le Breton and Richard Dansky (although I'm sure there were others involved with the project). They introduced themselves with one of the Developers Diaries. "Revamping the M&M Universe" You can find the full article here. http://www.the-genies-lamp.com/heroes_5 ... EVELOPMENT DIARY #1
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Unread postby theLuckyDragon » 26 Apr 2006, 20:11

Thank you! :)
I must say though, I kinda liked the discreet idea of a Sci Fi universe behind everything, in the original Heroes games... I was unusual, in the good sense.
And maybe this has been mentioned before, but the Isabel in that sketch in the interview looks much better than the one I've seen in screenshots.
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Unread postby dragonn » 26 Apr 2006, 20:37

Nice article, but it seems that we will have to download a lot of patches as I recall :(. And only bug fixes and tweaking? I supose that means they didn't change too much in version 1.0 (well, there is a possibilty they were already working on version 1.0, while the demo was meant to be released in version 0.9, and the decision was made long before it)



But hey, I'm not complaining :P. I'm just happy the game is very close to it's release and I just can't wait...
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Unread postby Kalah » 26 Apr 2006, 21:44

Very interesting. Thanks to Fabrice for talking, and good (chocolate) hunting!
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Unread postby Psychobabble » 26 Apr 2006, 23:56

What is this game Migth and magic you speak about :)



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Unread postby Orfinn » 27 Apr 2006, 14:57

Great interview!!! :D

And good choclate hunting FC ;)

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Unread postby DaemianLucifer » 27 Apr 2006, 15:11

Nice interview.So we really can see in the future.We predicted the new factions in the expansions :devil:


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