Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword Interview

PC-dedicated blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun offers a new interview with TaleWorlds’ producer Mikail Yazbeck on Sich Studio’s stand-alone expansion Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword.

RPS: What sort of challenges have you had in making this particular game work the way you intended? Has the modern era of firearms changed the way the game has played?

Yazbeck: Balance was and is always a concern when you introduce something so radical as firearms into a game like ours, but we feel that overall firearms add more flavour and styles of play to the game and thus worked out they way we’ve wanted them to. I hope players feel the same way, and I’ll try to make regular polls on the forums to sort out the best balance for everyone, if they’re feeling too at odds with the implementation.

RPS: Can you tell us anything about future plans for the Mount & Blade series?

Nothing too specific I can reveal right now, except since the release of Warband we’ve staffed up and are cooking some pretty good things.