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Doomforge
Admirable
Undefeatable Hero
Retired Hero
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posted July 06, 2012 03:51 PM |
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Heroes 6 : Exclusive community Q&A
Some fresh news from Heroes 6 team!
Warsaw, Exclusive Community Q&A
During the press tour Stephan Winter (Managing Director at Limbic Entertainment, developing studio based in Frankfurt, Germany) and Alexis De Becque (Heroes 6 Producer at Ubisoft) spent some time to answer community questions about Heroes 6 and its future. Check it out now!
1) "Where could Heroes VI be improved?"
Stephan: "We identified a couple of different topics we want to work on and we will work on those. First, we want to continue working on the balance of the game. Generally speaking, there are 2 parts if you are talking about balancing. One is using the existing mechanics and making the right changes to those existing mechanics. On top of that there is an overall approach for balancing, for instance making bigger differences between the factions and changing abilities and such. Right now and for the future weeks we are focusing on pack 1 (changing the existing balance and improving it). Hopefully, we will be working closely with the VIP community. YouĒll see some of the first results in the patch 1.5. There is going to be more. Hopefully, it is going to be the right way."
2) "Are you going to improve the skill & artifact screens?"
Stephan: "To give the very short answer, no. We had long discussions about different parts of the game where we consider that there is something we want to change and we can change. Finally the decision making was to townscreens. If we are talking about Heroes, everyone is thinking about townscreens. This was the big focus. It comes with the next patch 1.5 for everyone.
Beyond that point right now, no. Sorry for that. "
3) "Would it be possible to add unlocked hero followers (like Xana or Nebiros) to the starting hero pool?"
Alexis: "Yes, we are aware of this issue and we would like to take care of this. Right now we have been busy shipping the Adventure Pack, the townscreens, the patch 1.5. But we definitely want to try to take care of this issue later on".
4) "Will the duel mode be improved?"
Stephan: "We would love to improve but it is not on the priority list for the moment. We are still focusing on another topics. Same answer as before: never say never. But it is not going to happen in the near future."
5) "Are you going to make the map editor easier to use?"
Stephan: "Yes, we are going to improve the map editor. Yes, it is going to happen rather sooner that later because we absolutely want to have it there. We know from the other Heroes games how valuable a good map editor and a good community content creation can be. This is the guaranty for the game for a life time. We are absolutely aware of it. We need to be honest: it is huge! The map editor itself, the map tools are huge tools! They are very-very complexe, they are good tools, but they are not easy to use.
Nonetheless, we will improve it. We will try to support people who are dedicated in creating the maps. We want those community-made maps more than everyone else. But it is not going to be a miracle, like out of a sudden there is an easy click-click-click map editor or a campaign editor. This is not going to happen. But improving the map editor is very high on the list and we want to work even more with some of the community members to get their input on that and to take that step by step. ThatĒs the way we have to go.
In terms of time, the map editor is going to be improved in the next few weeks and months. In a perfect world we could constantly (from patch to patch) have dedicated changes to the map editor. This would be my perfect world. Let me take it from there!"
6) "Do you have a special message for the fans?"
Stephan: "We are gratefull and we are very happy to work on the project. IĒm speaking for the team and the guys who are currently in Frankfurt and they are trying to fix and polish all the stuff for the Adventure Pack. ThatĒs the first message: we enjoy it and it is important for us.
The second message is for communities: we are watching, we are probably not the super forum active guys discussing every little details, but I can ensure you that at least twice a week in the meetings we are discussing summaries of whatĒs going on in the community, what is happening in the VIP forum. So, even if there is no big answers from our side, we are aware of your feedback and we learned a lot. There is even stuff we could not have done without community input. This is something we are very grateful."
Alexis: "We have spent a lot of time and resources working with Limbic for the past few months. Now we are trying to release everything in time and to show to the community our good faith, to prove that we are going to keep Heroes 6 to its promised glory instead of being an uncompleted potential. This is something we want to develop and we hope in the coming weeks to show it to everyone. Thank you!"
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War-overlord
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Presidente of Isla del Tropico
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posted July 06, 2012 05:29 PM |
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It's nice to be reassured that work will continue. However, we haven't learned anything new, have we?
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KingImp
Famous Hero
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posted July 06, 2012 06:48 PM |
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Quote:
3) "Would it be possible to add unlocked hero followers (like Xana or Nebiros) to the starting hero pool?"
Alexis: "Yes, we are aware of this issue and we would like to take care of this. Right now we have been busy shipping the Adventure Pack, the townscreens, the patch 1.5. But we definitely want to try to take care of this issue later on".
How about unlocking ALL the heroes of each faction so were not stuck having to choose from the same two per faction that are provided?
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Brukernavn
Hero of Order
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posted July 06, 2012 09:59 PM |
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"Yes, we are aware of this issue and we would like to take care of this. Right now we have been busy shipping the Adventure Pack, the townscreens, the patch 1.5. But we definitely want to try to take care of this issue later on".
Does the Adventure Pack mean Pirates of the Savage Sea DLC? In that case, the last comment from Alex is not what they have accompolished; "Now we are trying to release everything in time and to show to the community our good faith, to prove that we are going to keep Heroes 6 to its promised glory instead of being an uncompleted potential."
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 06, 2012 10:02 PM |
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Do you ever do anything else than complaining?
I'm looking forward to the new patch and adventure pack, but we've already had that discussion.
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Over himself, over his own
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Brukernavn
Hero of Order
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posted July 07, 2012 01:10 PM |
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Actually, if you look back more than a year ago, you were the one complaining about the game (Link), and I was the optimistic one (Link).
In September more information had been revealed, and I was less enthusiastic;
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I never really understood the whole dynasty thing. But now I clearly see it's just a sneaky online DRM.
My expectations 6 months ago:
 "It's going to be a great game!"
My expectations now:
 "Meh..."
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And when I actually played the game, I didn't like it at all. As they said in the Q&A they are reading the forums. So if I want H6 to become better, or H7 to be what H6 was on paper, I need to voice my dissent. Don't you agree?
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alcibiades
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
of Gold Dragons
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posted July 07, 2012 01:22 PM |
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Well I don't want H7 to be what H6 was on paper. I want H7 to pick up the torch from H5. At least that was a good game, for all the flaws it still had come TotE.
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What will happen now?
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Brukernavn
Hero of Order
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posted July 08, 2012 12:07 AM |
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