A July- December marathon, What's planned for IA V6 Options

[Sikret]

I will start working on IA v6 in July 2008 (I'm too busy till then to add any new major content to the mod, though if we happen to find any glitches or bugs in the current version of the mod, I will be here to fix and release new versions; but working on the nex big new version will be postponed to July) and will probably release it before the end of next year.

thetruth has given very good suggestions to me and we have good plans for IA v6. Other players' feedbacks about the content of the mod will also help me to enhance the mod further. For now the general outline of the new plans for IA v5 is as follows:

1- Adding a very big (huge) quest to the game which will probably contain a number of big quests inside itself.

2- Extended Twisted Rune (new big quest)

3- Expanded Fighter Stronghold

4- Improved TOB Final battle at throne of Bhaal

5- Expanded Druid Stronghold.

I will write more (and will add many more new features) as soon as we start working on it and I will pin this topic at that time. For now, I just wanted to say that we have our plans and new ideas for future and that you (everyone) should not hesitate to send me your suggestions for new quests/features to be added to the next version of the mod. This mod belongs to all who love it. (Of course, to be able to give good suggestions, you will probably need to play the current version of the mod completely for a couple of times with different classes and protagonists to see all of the existent features of the mod.)

Cheers

This post has been edited by Sikret: Oct 14 2007, 11:38 AM

[Roy]

4- Improved TOB Final battle at throne of Bhaal

Will this be different than ascention mod and how?I like the ascention
features of the ravager,recruiting balthazar or bodhi and the additional
powers.Maybe adding new stuff to it will be great.

[Sikret]

4- Improved TOB Final battle at throne of Bhaal

Will this be different than ascention mod and how?

It will be definitely different from Ascension, but we have not decided the details yet.

I like the ascention features of the ravager,recruiting balthazar or bodhi and the additional powers.Maybe adding new stuff to it will be great.

We won't add things to Ascension. We will create completely new content. Once this feature is implemented, IA will be totally incompatible with Ascension (even with its core component). One of the difficult problems we need to solve and decide about is whether the final battle with Melissan should be more difficult than the "Epic Divine Encounter" or not. There are justifications for making it more difficult than EDE but on the other hand, making a battle more difficult than EDE is a very delicate thing to do. Once thetruth said that EDE is almost the maximum level of possible difficulty in the game. Making a battle more difficult than EDE requires much thought and many turns of testing to make sure that while it's more difficult than EDE, it's not an absolutely impossible battle.

We also intend to add a good deal of role playing content to the final battle. I don't know yet, but we may even change the end of EDE and relate it to the final battle somehow. The dialogues in EDE are currently very related to Melissan even in IA v4 (& v4.1); so, it's not difficult to extend EDE a bit more.

When I start my work on V5 in July, my first priority will be the Expanded Fighter Stronghold (You have found the Stained Letter with Glaicas, didn't you?) and then I will work on the Extended Twisted Rune. Then we will have more time to discuss the final battle. By that time, you have also played the EDE and will probably have some better ideas to help us with your suggestions.

EDIT: Just for clarification, the final battle with Melissan will surely have a different style from EDE. By comparing their difficulty I didn't mean to imply that the final battle will have the same style and layout with just additional difficulty factors. I was talking about the troubles a party may have in order to win each of them.

This post has been edited by Sikret: May 1 2007, 06:13 AM