[ Interview ]
Fabrice Cambounet, in an interview with Age of Heroes, gave us more details about the upcoming Heroes of Might & Magic V updates, including a map editor and new multiplayer maps.
Fabrice: First I’d like to detail our updates planning on Heroes 5. We’d like to release a monthly update, starting from the release. Each update will come with patch material : crunching leftover bugs, improving the balance, tweaking the AI and difficulty level, and also with new features or material.
The first patch should have been ready for the US release, two weeks ago. I’m sorry that we didnt reach this objective, this was due to the patch creation process which was not tested previously. Hopefully this will not delay further patches now that we handled it once. We’ll try to catch back on our planning and release each new patch in the second half of each month.
The first patch mostly introduced another difficulty setting, the easy mode, which should allow anyone a safe cruise through the campaign story.
The second one will propose new multiplayer maps, and should improve the multiplayer gameplay. We’ll introduce ten new multiplayer maps starting from this second patch.
The third one, due in the second part of july, will propose the map editor. We’ll hand it over to a few selected testers in about a week, in order to fine-tune it. The map editor is of course a critical tool for the game interest in the long run, and we felt it was better to work on it a bit longer after the release.
Combined with the map editor, or with a further patch will be added the capacity to link missions together as in the Heroes 5 campaigns.
It's always a good sign when a developer is concerned about the long term interest in a game rather than just the first few weeks' sales.
Read: HoMM5 Interview
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