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IWD: Heart of Winter Patch Update and More

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Mar 17, 2001.

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    (Originally posted by Darien)

    Here are some comments by Producer Darren Monahan from the Unofficial Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter Board.

    Patch Update: We'll essentially have two "patches". The first, v1.41, will address issues you guys have been finding since we released HOW. It should be about a 4-5 MB download.
    The second which I'm hoping within the next month or two is the downloadable dungeon that we're putting together for you guys right now, which will include 1.42. 1.42 will also be available separate from the download pack in case you have a slower connection and don't want to download the dungeon but want the fixes.

    Compatibility of downloadable dungeon pack: Yep, we won't leave the non-English people out in the cold, we plan to localize it for everyone to play.

    Heart of Winter soundtrack: The current Icewind Dale soundtrack does not feature music from Heart of Winter, however there is a LOT of good music on there (and I'm not saying that because I work here. Jeremy Soule (the composer) is a talented guy and it shows on this CD.

    There's some ideas being tossed around right now for the HOW music, perhaps some kind of Baldur's Gate/Icewind thing or a Black Isle Soundtrack or something, I dunno. Nothing firm at the moment though.

    Major trends in gaming: Well, our marketing folks do some surveys and such, but in Development, we're just like you guys, we buy tons of games, play them all the time after work, and ultimately try to just make games that we think we'd like to play and hope you guys feel the same way.

    As for looking what people want, a lot of times, we just read what people post on message boards. I read through the Interplay ones, this one, and quite a few others and just jot down things I see that sound interesting.

    As for the future of PC gaming, I think we've got a lot of interesting stuff coming. The GeForce III stuff I've been seeing is AMAZING, and we're getting so close to real life graphics, it's scary. All that stuff I read about Consoles crushing the future of PC's, I think right now that's a lot of BS. Don't get me wrong, I love console games too (in fact I'm producing one now), but I just don't think at this point PC gaming is going down any time soon. Just my opinion I guess.

    Darren
     
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