So in retrospect, it depends on how someone sees it. What about that?Р”Р„rticun: It is true that giving away features from the start of the vanilla game can hinder the further expansion of the faction in future releases but! Each expansion can add a faction or two and focus mainly on the balancing issues of previous factions or play with unit abilities. One could argue that giving all of these in the vanilla build of the game can hinder expansion. We also tried to make each tier between factions as diverse as possible (but understand that with so many factions and units, some roles may be more prominent than others), because we wanted to avoid the strong elite unit problem that rose with heroes VII (all strong elites are melee damage dealers). But even these units have alternative upgrades to follow the pattern of choice. So yeah, you have the orc for stronghold and you have the mage for academy for example. As for the iconic creatures, we wanted to have something like a constant per faction, something to say 'this is my faction' of sorts. Given that each tier has a restriction of choosing one out of two units, but that restriction adds to strategic choices. So, a 7 tier system that lets me choose which units i want each time suits this. I may prefer one unit over the other, or i may like one lineup over another from previous heroes games and i want to be able to customize my armies. All classic creatures were chosen at the beginning of making every line-up and are predetermined.Р”Р„rticun: Well, i always thought that i wanted to have diversity and replayability in my games. Classic creatures have two upgrades which are different from each other, usually they will have different roles and or abilities, another choice to make, let's hope not easy to make.

The only rule is, that it can't be for tier 7, every faction has two champions. In one faction they could have tiers 2 and 6 and in another tiers 1 and 3, so there is no rule what tiers those creatures would take in various line-ups. In every faction those classic creatures have different place in line-up based on the power level and how they fit with the rest of the faction. Those two creatures are 'classic' or 'iconic', it means that it is hard to imagine certain faction without those two creatures, creatures which appeared in most of the heroes titles. Minastir: Five tiers with two creatures, every creature with one upgrade, two tiers with one creature and two upgrades. I hope.Р”Р„ little bit more info on the tiers and why did you choose 'iconic' creatures and what makes them such? But when you have 12 unique units per faction, we can be forgiven if the game launches without neutrals. We understand that neutrals add diversity with the 7 tier system. It's harder to come up with a bigger line-up and we do like a good challengeР”Р„rticun: Also, let's not forget that we have neutrals as well. We could also make 3 or 4 tiers with one creature, not only 2 tiers but we decided it is easier to decrease the line-up than increase the size of it. We believe it would be better to have again three basic war machines for every faction and more creatures to choose from. Minastir: Well, now we have 8 creatures in every line-up and 3 unique war machines for every faction which gives us 11. There would be 12 creatures in total for every faction, that is too much ? Our idea? Much to what other fans have been saying so long, we feel that there is a need to go back to the roots of having a seven tier system but also add some diversity to it, by including the HIV dual choice tiers (which also started appearing in HVII) system with little bit of HV Now in HVII there is something that resembles a five tier system but still, disguised as a three tier system which ultimately makes it clumsy at best. The three tier system doesn't work, as it's too simple and the creatures have similar power levels (like it was in HVI).

Something that adds complexity and brings back some depth to this part of the game. Following fans feedback and realising that Heroes VI as well as VII have had a more simplified tier system that reduced depth and strategically oriented choices, Heroes VIII needs a whole new tier system as well as world setting for the game.

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