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Elemental Beta Gameplay

September 17, 2009 8:23:24 PM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

I recorded some gameplay of elemental. Maybe this can help those friends of yours who are still on the fence about the game

Also, for stardockians and developers, there's a few bugs in the videos (like of the world loading but just being the cloth and that's it)

 

 

 

 

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Reply #1 September 17, 2009 9:31:29 PM
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"like of the world loading but just being the cloth and that's it"

That's all that's in the beta. Did you not read any of the multiple posts from Frogboy saying that it's cloth map only? He did make quite a few of them and made it very clear it'll be cloth map only for quite some time!

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Reply #2 September 17, 2009 9:40:03 PM
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That's all that's in the beta. Did you not read any of the multiple posts from Frogboy saying that it's cloth map only? He did make quite a few of them and made it very clear it'll be cloth map only for quite some time!

 

Watch that part of the video again. The channeler isn't there, the whole map is covered in fog of war.

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Reply #3 September 18, 2009 11:21:06 AM
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Nice videos!

I was wondering though how you managed to have the "official" font in-game. When I play the beta I have this somewhat ugly generic arial type of font.

 

Thanks for any help on this subject!

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Reply #4 September 18, 2009 11:32:21 AM
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Some versions of windows will auto-update the fonts, and others require a restart. Try rebooting your machine and see if the fonts show up then.

Yeah, it pains me to see screenshots with that generic 'Arial' throughout 

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Reply #5 September 18, 2009 12:02:14 PM
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Hi BoogieBac, thanks for the quick reply and trying to help me!

Unfortunately rebooting did not help.

 

I am running the game under Windows XP Home Edition (German version) with all the service packs installed.

 

Do you have any other ideas on how to solve the issue? Also, I think that I am not the only person with this problem, I think someone in the beta forums complained about "choppy fonts" as well, and the provided screenshots looked more or less like my screen.

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Reply #6 September 18, 2009 12:11:29 PM
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Barring the reboot you can copy the fonts from the font folder to Windows\Fonts to install them manually.

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Reply #7 September 18, 2009 12:20:33 PM
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I haven't listen to your whole videos, but I should mention that you can actually select the number of opponents : just click (or double-click) on unselected nations will add them to the game.

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Reply #8 September 18, 2009 12:25:08 PM
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Actually, I am not really a computer neophyte, so I should have figured this out by myself..

 

Anyways, thanks for your help - you guys rock!

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Reply #9 September 18, 2009 2:33:38 PM
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I haven't listen to your whole videos, but I should mention that you can actually select the number of opponents : just click (or double-click) on unselected nations will add them to the game.

 

I said in the video you could pick who they were and how many there were, I just went with the default

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Reply #10 September 18, 2009 3:34:25 PM
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Wow, I'm really glad you posted this. I never realized that the fonts had never installed on my comp. I was getting the ugly arial text, and the text for the buildings (like Inns produce blah blah gold a turn) was not showing up at all. I just figured it hadn't been implemented yet.

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Reply #11 September 18, 2009 3:41:14 PM
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Hey sir,

 

You can change quality when you research it in the Warfare tech.  I was able to improve quality up to Elite.

 

R,

Nacho

 

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Reply #12 September 18, 2009 3:48:17 PM
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You can change quality when you research it in the Warfare tech. I was able to improve quality up to Elite.

 

Yeah I played today and realized that. I'll add it in the video as an annotation.

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Reply #13 September 18, 2009 3:50:40 PM
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where canI find the beta please ?

 

I preorderedthe game, but can't find the beta anywhere

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Reply #14 September 18, 2009 4:12:50 PM
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Quoting cromcrom,
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where canI find the beta please ?

 

I preorderedthe game, but can't find the beta anywhere

You have to set impulse to display non-released software.

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Reply #15 September 18, 2009 4:17:59 PM
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Anyways, thanks for your help - you guys rock!
  Thanks, but we definatly need to figure out why some systems aren't getting the fonts. Asking every user it manually install them is pretty amature hour. 

Oh, and Thrawn!  Thanks for posting a 'Let's Play...' vid of Elemental....totally made my night yesterday!!!

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Reply #16 September 18, 2009 4:19:47 PM
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Thanks a lot for the fast answer

 

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Reply #17 September 18, 2009 4:32:05 PM
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Quoting BoogieBac,
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Anyways, thanks for your help - you guys rock!  Thanks, but we definatly need to figure out why some systems aren't getting the fonts. Asking every user it manually install them is pretty amature hour. 

I made a thread about it before I read the rest of the posts in this thread below the videos

https://forums.elementalgame.com/364327/

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Reply #18 September 18, 2009 6:26:18 PM
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Heh, I didn't even notice the difference in fonts, as apparently I have the same issue, though copying and pasting the fonts did work.

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Reply #19 September 18, 2009 9:25:20 PM
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Thanks for posting a 'Let's Play...' vid of Elemental....totally made my night yesterday!!!

 

Hehe. I do plan on making more as more phases come out to show the progress of the beta, or just to show features I forgot. Glad to see it made you day. Feeling any better or are you still sick? I really regret not being able to do it with Sins of a Solar empire

 

EDIT: For people who don't have the fonts working, I did have to install Elemental twice due to a  C++ error on the first install. Maybe thats why my fonts worked and so many others didn't?

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Reply #20 September 19, 2009 1:57:30 AM
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good call, I was thinking about recording some beta play myself, but you've done a bang up  job so I say you did it for me.  +1

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Reply #21 September 19, 2009 3:44:08 PM
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Great Videos. I can't wait to get into the beta action. Now I just have to make sure I can afford the game before the end of September...

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Reply #22 September 19, 2009 6:23:57 PM
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Quoting Raven X,
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Great Videos. I can't wait to get into the beta action. Now I just have to make sure I can afford the game before the end of September...

 

Well if you don't get into beta 1, you can preorder before early next year and get into beta 2.

 

I hope you manage to get the $50 by the end of the month though!

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Reply #23 September 20, 2009 2:36:03 AM
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Quoting BoogieBac,
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Anyways, thanks for your help - you guys rock!  Thanks, but we definatly need to figure out why some systems aren't getting the fonts.

My first guess is the user profile lacking permissions for changes to the Windows/Fonts directory.  My second guess would be one or two types of anti-virus software view the new font files as a threat and have them removed.

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Reply #24 September 20, 2009 7:49:41 AM
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^ Yeah prolly some permission problem.

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