Well, at this point, Beta 1 is fun for me. It's the discovery of what is there, and how things work, and how far I can push things. If that isn't the sort of fun you have, and you need a "almost completely fleshed out" game, then you might want to come back in a few release cycles and check back.

BTW, is there a wiki site for use early sloggers to go to post our "how this works" or read other's tips on such?

Well part of the point of a Beta is to find crash bugs and fix them, you can't really expect the game to be totally stable at this point. It's crashed a few times on me to, but it's still fun to a degree even thought it's basic I love the pewter minatures look.

It's not really getting me steamed I mean it's a very early beta, at this time I expected lots of crash bugs on different rigs so I'm not put of by this at all.

It will be a while before it's stable and anywhere near feature complete.

Yeah, be happy it runs.  I'm out until the next build because I have to use the familytree work around just to get past the intro screen and then its a weird version of the game where your units stick to enemy borders.

But it looks like it has potential!

Ren

Cheer up, I've been through much worse in terms of betas.

Take Mortal Online for example. It was so bad I had to contact VISA to get a refund on my CC. The company refused to refund me for a pre-order they hadn't delivered.

I've learned my lesson. I'll never pre-order a game again. I'll probably buy Elemental when it comes out, though!  

Its running pretty well for me; I haven't run into any crashes or stuttering.  I have had some odd transparency issues with screens over text and some unit selection difficulty, but nothing crazy.