A Third Chronicles Newsletter

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 30 Mar 2007, 20:10

Ubisoft sent today the third Chronicles of Ashan newsletter to its customers. If like myself you haven't received it yet, here is a quick summary with links, when the article is available online:

<li>Jeff Spock and Erwan Le Breton talk about the <a href="/http://newsemea.ubisoft.com/P/v3/r.asp? ... 7">origins of the Necromancers</a>.

<li>Fabrice Cambounet talks about his <a href="/http://newsemea.ubisoft.com/P/v3/r.asp? ... 07">visits to Moscow</a>.

<li>Jeff tells Labyrinth why Xana asked Sareth to not bring the 7th Dragon's skull to Kha Beleth.

<li>Liviu Galateanu talks about the Heroes V <a href="/http://newsemea.ubisoft.com/P/v3/r.asp? ... 7">testing process</a>.

<li>Fabrice announces that patch 1.5 is coming soon, and announces the winners of the official mapmaking contest: Ogo, Razeriel and Datarush.

<li>Alastair Halsby talks about Dark Messiah mapmaking, and provide tips on how to create good maps.

<b>Important</b>: Regarding patch 1.5, Fabrice tells us that there was a last minute change: "The tournament tool being described will not be delivered in the upcoming 1.5 patch. We decided to take more time to finetune it, and it will be delivered later."

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
https://www.celestialheavens.com/1175285430

Campaigner · Unread postby **Campaigner** » 30 Mar 2007, 20:39

At first I was like: Who gives a shit..?

But the Necromancer origin article was ok.
The visit to Moscow was bad. Waaay too short.
The testing process was also short and general....

To summarise, they suck! They haven't written more then they had to but worst of all, they don't tell much! The lead tester could have said what was changed due to their suggestions and what Nival refused to change but didn't....

VodevilX · Unread postby **VodevilX** » 30 Mar 2007, 20:42

YEAH!!! 1.5!! come to us

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 30 Mar 2007, 21:32

Angelspit wrote:"Liviu Galateanu"

Well that explains a lot.

Akul · Unread postby **Akul** » 31 Mar 2007, 11:18

I really liked the Nekromancers article.

alx516 · Unread postby **alx516** » 01 Apr 2007, 04:47

"Liviu Galateanu"

Well that explains a lot.

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what's that supose to mean ?

you have something against Romania ?

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 01 Apr 2007, 04:57

Don't worry, it's just the type of self-ironical "something" that Romanians can have about themselves.

I didn't know H5 was tested in Bucharest

In any case, that text of Gălăţeanu's sounds rather shallow to me

"Oh, it's such a great opportunity; oh, the pressure and stress; oh, our suggestions were not neglected..." What the...?!

nevermindspy · Unread postby **nevermindspy** » 01 Apr 2007, 05:17

Heroes 5 testing process? What testing process? We all know what was the testing process... They released the game and wait for the millions of players to play it and give them error reports which they keep patching till this day, That what they mean?

Wurtzel · Unread postby **Wurtzel** » 01 Apr 2007, 05:47

@Nevermindspy Makes me wonder which is best... It's taken millions of players (according to you) this long to find all the bugs in the released version.. How long would you think it'd have taken to get the game out if it was being tested by a handfull of people?? Having said that, it's still no excuse for the "little blunders" such as spelling ect......

Zamolxis · Unread postby **Zamolxis** » 01 Apr 2007, 20:50

ThunderTitan wrote:
Angelspit wrote:"<Liviu Galateanu>"
<Well that explains a lot.>

No it doesn't. They could have very well done their job perfectly, reporting the bugs till the last one. If Nival didn't bother fixing them, don't blame it on the testers.

See how many bugs (and how "fast") Nival fixed through patches after the game was out (with the list of bugs to be found on any forum), and you can easily figure how things went also before the release.

Koni · Unread postby **Koni** » 04 Apr 2007, 13:28

If this is the Third Chronicles Newsletter about Necros, I have missed the Second One. Who could tell me, about which faction the second one told and where I could get it?

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 04 Apr 2007, 13:57

A quick search on CH with the 'newsletter' keyword would have given you a link.

Anyway, here it is

Koni · Unread postby **Koni** » 05 Apr 2007, 08:14

I know this Ashan Newsletter about 'The Skull of Shadows', but I thought, that this was the 1st Chronicles Newsletter. Thanks, anyway, Angelspit. Ok, I checked it out: 'Skull' was the 2nd one and the first didn't contain an Ashan Story, right?
Edited on Thu, Apr 05 2007, 01:22 by Koni

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