Galagraphia translated the meaty parts of a 2-hour interview with WD and blame InanKy. This is about 1/3rd of it so far.

The original interview is here for those who speak Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3LVUQpW7PM

Host: “Introduce yourselves”

WoodenDragon: “I’m Liza, community manager”

InanKy: “I’m Lyonya, I’m just a game designer.”

Host: “Just a game designer!”

InanKy: “Well, it’s a small insignificant role in a project few know about.”

WD talks about how KS had fun parts. Like people guessing the next stretch goal

Asked about raising more money than DOS2. InanKy says that now they have to make a game to match, and it’s a big responsibility

They talk about who they are. InanKy says he started with NWN? Didn’t hear that part well. And made characters that didn’t work. WD adds that now he makes characters that do work. Then he played tabletop games at 6-7 grade. They got asked about PoE2 that made little money…

…they answered very diplomatically that there are too many opinions about that. In general they don’t think it was because now it’s too many RPGs, there’s enough RPG, and there’s a demand for more, and they are making one.

InanKy says another reason may be that RPGs take hundreds of hours to play, and instead people may want to play 4 different smaller games. I somewhat agree, I do that sometimes.

Asked about additional gameplay features like Kingdom Management and the new systems in Wrath…

WD: “We are not going to take HoMM and put it into Wrath”

Only the part where armies fight armies will be in, and it may look similar to Heroes

InanKy talks about the magic on the crusade, how they want to make these global spells like in Age of Wonders? I didn’t play, so I don’t really know what he’s talking about, but I have some idea like maybe control weather? Change landscape with stone-shaping magic?

Asked about their favourite games. InanKy loves NWN1, and has difficult relationship with the Witcher

Wooden Dragon finished Witcher 3 on switch [edit: WD commented that she is still playing and didn’t yet finish it]

Asked about romances and turning into “various things” (mythic creatures)

InanKy: “Imagine you are dating a girl, she’s great, you love everything, take her home, and in bedroom it turns out she’s a swarm of locust”

The romance stories are not finished yet, so he doesn’t know if it will end the romance, but he thinks weird transformations will have weird effects on your personal life

Asked how much they were hoping to raise. WD says 1 million plus…

Asked if they will move the release date. WD says no, when they were preparing the stretch goals, they considered both money and time. The release date may move a little, but not into 2022.

Someone asked a question that doesn’t make any sense to me, and I can’t figure out how to translate that shortly

It boiled down to how some people tell girls what they want to hear to lure them into bed, their relationship probably won’t work out after that. Because you turn into a swarm. And then she will turn into a swarm. Wooden Dragon: “And then it will work out!”

Asked about intelligent weapon and whether it’s related to archetypes of arcanist and magus. InanKy says no, because these archetypes can use any melee weapon. Second “how do you imagine writing basically a companion for 2 archetypes out of 170+?”

Confirmed Chris Avellone is writing a companion, again

Asked about int weapon again. Doesn’t know yet, suspects it will be a weapon that will be suitable for different builds

Will whips appear? InanKy: We want to, but I’m not sure we can, so I’ll say I don’t know.