Disciples III: Resurrection Interview

The guys at Hooked Gamers managed to corner Disciples III: Resurrection producer Alexey Ilin for a two-page Q&A about the upcoming standalone expansion pack. Some of the questions and answers that stood out to me:

Hooked Gamers: Disciples III: Renaissance received very mixed reviews but everyone seemed to agree that the art style, aesthetics, and lore were among the best in the genre. The Artificial Intelligence on the other hand was generally thought to be lacking and even at the most difficult setting failed to provide a challenge for the elite among armchair generals. Have you made any changes to increase the difficulty on the higher settings?

Alexey Ilin: We’ve kept the style and atmosphere and as you can see on the screenshots, and arguably, we’ve even managed to improve it.

We have also been working on the strategic part of the game and have made lots of improvements. We left the (Easy) game mode for players who are just starting to play Disciples and learning the rules of this world, but we made the (Hard) difficulty level much more challenging for the player. On the (Hard) level, the AI is significantly more aggressive, uses magic on the global map and skills in combat. The difficult level not only modifies AI behaviour, but it even improves mobs standing on the global map.

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Hooked Gamers: Tell us a little bit about the new leaders, heroes and bosses the player will meet in the game.

Alexey Ilin: Disciples 3: Resurrection introduces 2 new heroes, 4 new leader, and 2 new bosses.

Each of them has unique abilities and skills, and as you can imagine, all of them have their own impressive stories and hard fates that are intertwined with the course of the plot. We have divulged a lot of information about the heroes and leaders in our recent news-letters, but we’ve never revealed any information about bosses in the game. So, in order to not repeat myself, let me unveil some exclusive details about bosses. We’ve already faced one of them in the previous game. A man named Ferre became the Emperor of the Humans, and is now one of the new bosses. He has usurped power over the Empire of Nevendaar and launched many bloody wars of conquest. Some people hate him for his cruelty and ruthlessness but he is still respected by the others for his strength and fearlessness. This is the man whom we shall defeat. Undiguillash, a youthful mermaid and the queen of the merfolk, received great power from a mysterious artifact. In the hearts of the merfolk and Gallean himself, she has taken the place of Soloniel, who became the Undead Goddess. Let’s try to imagine how powerful a level we will must reach in order to defeat both Ferre and Undigillash. 🙂