Nival’s answers about the future of Heroes 5.

What kind of Castle are you talking about? (that's already four words)

1. Doll - Unlikely. What is its functional purpose?

I repeat: It's not necessary to max out the Ultimate skill at all. It was designed to be optional. In reality, you can only max it out in ideal conditions, that is, by playing on a large map with a computer opponent – when playing against a human, you are unlikely to be able to develop it that much. When playing a Campaign, it can only be obtained, if at all, somewhere in the last mission, which can be completed without it. We don't plan to make it easier to obtain, as it is indeed the ultimate skill, and if there were guaranteed ways to obtain it, everyone would immediately focus on obtaining it, and any game would be reduced to a race for the ultimate skill. For the reasons mentioned above, we don't see a problem with the fact that some heroes cannot obtain it at all, and we don't plan to do anything special to fix this.

This is an ambiguous innovation of the 4th part, which was not liked by everyone. The point of collecting troops across the map is that it is a normal strategic choice that the player should make before each specific battle: attack immediately or bring up reinforcements, losing time.

An alternative upgrade (that is, a situation where you can choose which creature to upgrade an existing one into) is bad because, in reality, it will most likely turn out to be quite unalternative, since out of two creatures to choose from, one will still be better than the other (otherwise they will be practically the same).