I believe you guys are will do a great job on the game! Just think back to a time when video games were fun & exciting and that's where you will hit your stride with Might & Magic X: Legacy. Look for games that you really, really, really, really, REALLY enjoyed when you were not a pro but a gamer looking for something fun to do.

I hope you guys haven't read my messages, cause my screen is full of white-out and I can't read them, therefore you can't read these either, so said the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

I really like your approach developing this game! Especially involving the community in such early state of the game.

I do have many questions, but what I really like to know if there will be also realtime fighting/movement as was possible in mm6-mm9. (One could toggle turn-based - realtime).

While I appreciate the fact you've addressed some concerns regarding the world map, one lingering question remains: is the map seen here: https://static14.cdn.ubi.com/udev/prod/img/main-bg.jpg the final version of it, meaning - is this how it will look like (either in-game or as a cloth map in the Collector's Edition), is this the final art style? I somewhat expected something similar to the lavish, beautifully hand-drawn map of World of Xeen: http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w66/Jaws2000/Images/WorldOfXeen_LandMap.jpg

Thanks for this FAQ. I am a huge fan of M&M and a huge fan of M&M 3-4-5 (very disappointed by M&M after 6 during 3DO era).

I couldn't participate in the chat. Then I post here.
I have some questions and suggestions:

1) When you speak about health bars, you said that it can be desactivated. It's a good choice because see the health bars is one of the worst thing bring by MMO. DAO was a bad example of health bar contaminated by MMO.
99% of MMO are not RPG but only action-hack'nshlash with a little of rpg components.

suggestion: In M&M 3-4-5, there was a spell which permits to know health points and a green,yellow,red bar to know if ennemie is hurt or not. Why don't make the same thing?

Cast a spell to know health bar is a roleplaying component. Dont' know automatically HP of ennemy is a good thing.

2) Do you know if M&M X will be translating in french?
I am french and I would love to play at M&m X. In english it would be very difficult because my english level is bad.

3) When you speak about challenge and difficulty levels, do you know if there will be a fix level scaling like in M&M 3 or a auto level scaling in oblviion?
Auto level scaling is a very bad choice.

I hope also that there is challenging until the end of the adventure. It's one of the quality of M&M 3,4 and 5.

4) In a other blog message, yous said that M&M 11 or after could be in real time like in skyrim. Why not but I hope that you never give up to make turn by turn RPG.

5)I am a little unhappy about diveristy of landscape. M&M 3-4-5 is caracterized with these landscapes: desert, fire zone, swamp, pasture, forest, cloud zone in world of xeen, orchard (zone avec des vergers en français) in M&M 3. The variety of these landscapes was a good thing for M&M.

6) Wizard eye (oeil du magicien en français) spell exist in M&M X or not?
Same thing for intervention divinine (in french) spell

7)Which many towns exist in M&M X? 5? more or less?
M&M 3 has 5 city. M&M 4 has 5 city. M&M 5 have 5 city.

8) In M&M 3, there was dungeon, caverns, castle, pyramid.
In MM4, there was dungeon, caverns (less than in M&M 3), castle, tower (remplace pyramid of M&M3)
In M&M 5, there was dungeon, caverns, castle, tower, pyramid

I would like to know if in M&M X, there will be the same variety or not?

9) The city will be the same size of city in M&M3,4,5 or not?
Thanks

French version:
Merci pour cette FAQ. Je suis un grand fan de M&M 3-4 et 5 (j'ai été très déçu par les M&M de l'ère 3DO à partir du 6 pour pleins de raisons trop longues à détailler)
Ne pouvant pas participer au chat, je poste ici quelques questions et suggestions
1)Vous dites que vous envisagez de pouvoir désactiver la barre de vie. C'est un bon choix parce que voir la barre de vie est pour moi une des pires choses apportée par les MMO. Dragon age origins est un exemple de cette contamination. 99% des MMO sont tout sauf des rpgs. Ne mélangeons donc pas tout.

suggestion: dans M&M 3-4-5, on avait un sort qui permettait de connaitre les points de vie de l'ennemi. Seule des couleurs vertes, jaunes et rouges permettaient de connaitre un peu l'état de santé de l'ennemi très succinctement Pourquoi ne pas faire pareil dans M&M 10?
C'est plus roleplay que de connaitre directement la barre de vie.

2) Est-ce que M& X sera traduit en français?
Mon niveau d'anglais ne me permet pas de jouer à un jeu en anglais avec du texte.

3) Est-ce que M&M X aura un level scaling automatique comme dans oblivion ou un level fixe pour les ennemies comme dans les M&M?

J'espère aussi qu'il y aura un challenge jusqu'à la fin de l'aventure. C'est une des qualités des M&M 3-4-5.

4) Dans un autre bog vous disiez que M&M 11 ou après pourraient être en temps réel comme dans skyrim. Pourquoi pas si c'est bien fait (c'est dans 99% des cas mal fait si on prend les rpgs en temps réel connus comme skyrim ou the witcher. Raison: les combats se résulment à cliquer comme on le ferait dans un diablo-like ruinant tout l'aspect stratégique et tactique d'un combat en tour par tour) mais j'espère que vous n'abandonnerez pas l'idée de refaire du rpg en tour par tour.

5) je suis un peu déçu de la diversité de paysage que vous sous entendez dans M&M X.
M&M 3-4-5 se caractérisait par une large variété de paysages: désert, verger, zone de feu, marécage, paturage, forêt, zone dans le ciel (world of xeen). C'était une des forces du monde ouvert des M&M.
6) Il y a certains sorts qui sont pour moi emblématiques de M&M. Le sort oeil du magicien ou intervention divine sont 2 sorts caractéristiques. Est-ce qu'ils y seront toujours ou pas?
7) Dans M&M3-4-5 il y avait 5 villes par épisodes. Combien y en aura-t-il pour M&M X?.
8) Dans les M&M il y avait aussi une large variété d'endroits à visiter.
Dans M&M 3, il y avait des donjons, des cavernes (les cavernes et donjons étant complémentaires), des pyramides, des chateaux
Dans M&M 4, il y avait des cavernes (en beaucoup plus petit quantité); des donjons, des tours (le remplacement des pyramides de M&M 3), des chateaux.
Dans M&M 5, il y avait des donjons, des cavernes, des chateaux, des tours et une pyramide.

Est-ce qu'il y aura la même variété dans M&M X?
9) Est-ce que la taille des villes sera la même ou pas par rapport à M&m 3-4-5?
Merci.

Might & Magic VII - For Blood And Honor was my first M&M RPG and first RPG ever and i loved it very much. VI and VIII were solid but not interesting as VII. VII had great atmosphere, excellent storyline, adictive card game - Arcomage and most beautiful soundtrack ever. If you manage achieve that with X i will die as a happy man. P.S I didn't play first 5 sequels and i am sorry for that..

I was on an airplane during the chat session, so thanks for the FAQ here. I also am very happy with the game's development so far.

I am thrilled to know that there are two difficulty levels available because for "new bloods" who are unfamiliar to M&M and those who wanna kill spare time, they can choose the generic level and enjoy their journey in MMX. However, for those who are old schools and not afraid of saving and loading many times, a challenging level is available. That's very nice.
Oops, two questions come to my mind, is difficulty level changeable after party creation? Are loot better at a challenging level?

A lot of this looks pretty good. I would however say (and I imagine I'm not alone in this) that whenever you say "we'd like to put it in if we have the time," my immediate reaction is to say "or you could make more time." I certainly wouldn't mind the release date getting pushed back a few months if it means a more complete game.

If fitting health bars toggle and other such things into the Options menu would be a problem, make an ini/registry setting for them.