First Patch Announced

Sikon · Unread postby **Sikon** » 20 May 2006, 12:34

Nival representative Alexander Tikhonov has <a href="/http://forums.ag.ru/?board=heroes5&acti ... 4">said</a> on the Heroic Corner forums that the first patch for Heroes V will be released next week. It will include the "easy" difficulty mode. He hopes that everyone will have the Haven campaign completed by then.

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
https://www.celestialheavens.com/1148128468

theGryphon · Unread postby **theGryphon** » 20 May 2006, 13:01

I cannot read Russian, could you tell us what he says about the patch in detail? I mean what will be addressed, and so on

Thanks by the way, great heads up!

Sikon · Unread postby **Sikon** » 20 May 2006, 13:05

There is currently nothing else known about the patch.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 20 May 2006, 13:19

I guess we will find out soon enough. I hope someday they will change the brutal "You Lose!" message when you fail on your mission objectives... That's even worse than the "Game Over" message of the old coin-ops.

reynaert · Unread postby **reynaert** » 20 May 2006, 13:25

woo- exciting! Perhaps I'll be able to build bone dragons after all!

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 20 May 2006, 14:11

Why does he hope everyone will have finished the Haven campaign by then?

Continuity · Unread postby **Continuity** » 20 May 2006, 14:19

Just when I finally finished "The Conquest". Oh well, I bet I'll run into even harder stuff later, so bring on "Easy"!

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 20 May 2006, 14:21

theLuckyDragon wrote:Why does he hope everyone will have finished the Haven campaign by then?

I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps it's just a way of saying that players will keep trying to play at normal and manage to finish the Haven campaign anyway.

Sikon · Unread postby **Sikon** » 20 May 2006, 15:24

Angelspit, you're right.

Orfinn · Unread postby **Orfinn** » 20 May 2006, 17:27

Ah, a patch under way and so soon. Nice to hear it is

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 20 May 2006, 17:59

Orfinn wrote:Ah, a patch under way and so soon. Nice to hear it is

There is such a thing called relese day patch. This game seems like it would have greatly benefitted from one.

Bandobras Took · Unread postby **Bandobras Took** » 20 May 2006, 18:11

ThunderTitan wrote:
Orfinn wrote:Ah, a patch under way and so soon. Nice to hear it is
There is such a thing called relese day patch. This game seems like it would have greatly benefitted from one.

You have got to be kidding me. They release a patch within a week and half (and note that Heroes 5 is still unavailable where I live) and you're whining that it isn't soon enough?

Or did I misunderstand the intent of your comment?

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 20 May 2006, 18:39

You kinda did. I don't think it's late, i'm just unimpresed. The game's been gold for a month now. Plenty of time to corect all the spelling errors and make an easy mode.

Caradoc · Unread postby **Caradoc** » 20 May 2006, 19:04

For some of us, it will be a first day patch. Grrrrr.

reynaert · Unread postby **reynaert** » 20 May 2006, 19:47

Yes- it'll be my AI I forgot to order with the game!

Rapier · Unread postby **Rapier** » 20 May 2006, 21:24

I want them to make heroic harder... +.=

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 20 May 2006, 21:54

So,this means they started working on the patch before the game was in the stores?Why did they ship the game then?I though that we saved the heroes and that it will be a finished game once it comes out.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 20 May 2006, 21:59

Well we saved it from being released n an even worse state... presumably.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 20 May 2006, 22:13

They kept working on the game after Ubisoft started packaging and distributing the game boxes. That's why a patch can be ready so early.

Vision · Unread postby **Vision** » 20 May 2006, 22:27

SaveHeroes was set up to prevent things like multiplayer from being dropped in the shipped version... things like 3 duel mode presets (we have 18), etc.

A patch is done during the "Gold" status because nothing is ever bug-free on release, not even old console games

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