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1.08 slated for tuesday?

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1.08 slated for tuesday?

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Making use of a lesson learned

By Frogboy Posted September 9, 2010 12:14:31 PM

I have good news and bad news.  The bad news is that we’re going to have to delay v1.08 for a few days. The internal QA deadline for the test build was this morning and unfortunately it needed a few more hours before being submitted. Rather than even remotely risk something that is going to cause pain (for our players and us) I’m just pushing it until the next QA slot which is next Tuesday.

The good news is that it means that there will be substantially more game play improvements in v1.08 than originally intended because the team’s spell changes, tactical battle tweaks and such weren’t going to make it for v1.08 but will now look like they’re going to make it.

Our schedule to put up more modding support this week, however remains intact so no changes there.

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absolutely cool with that if it means tactical battles will be fixed!  (honestly I would have been pizzed off if that didnt make 1.08)  definitely worth the delay!

 

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Reply #51 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting cwg009, reply 50
To paraphrase another one of my favourite game designers, Johan Andersson over at Paradox:

A patch is never late nor early, it comes out exactly when Brad means it to!
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All Paradox games are buggy piles of messes though, so there's that.

Reply #52 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting solidsmooky, reply 51


All Paradox games are buggy piles of messes though, so there's that.
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So you agree then that Paradox is another small developer/publisher with lots in common with Stardock?  :grin:

I sort of think of Paradox as Stardock's european counterpart. Both are indie developers/publishers who make and love strategy games and I love them for being there to take a risk on doing it, since strategy is my favourite game genre.

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #53 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 4
Tactical battles won't be in MP for v1.08, that's a feature that will take some time since we did not originally envision tactical battles being in MP but later revised that based on beta tester feedback but that was after a lot of design work had gone into the system (basically, once it was decided that tactical battles wouldn't be real-time it was decided that they would take too long in a multi-player game, while in hindsight, I wish we had just made it an option, we didn't and so it has to be added).

Now, I can say this, if there's even a remote following for Elemental's multiplayer after we put it up, we're willing to commit quite a few resources to it to keep expanding it in updates.  Essentially, we can keep updating different areas of Elemental as long  as there's interest from the community.

I know that personally, I am interested in having magical duels (Channeler vs. Channeler in a tactical battle where they start with nothing but rather must summon or battle each other) but that's something we'll have to look at for the future.
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Umm that is not good news. Well guess I'll just have to concentrate on the Single play until MP has tactical combat. I hate auto-resolve combat of any game that has TB in it. However please add it in the future some time. Also I like the Channeler vs. Channeler in a tactical battle AKA Magic the Gathering idea.

 

Reply #54 from Elemental Forums Top

You are the first person to mention the archon adept game in MANY years.  I loved it... but Apple \\+ s are fossils now.  But we are not!

Reply #55 from Elemental Forums Top

Sounds wonderful that a new patch uis coming out.  however, i still have no way to patch my CD version of EWOM.  The advertising I read siad the interent was necessary ONLY for multi-human-player games.  However, it seems I cannot download ANY patches UNLESS i purchase internet access at home AND then install impulse on my home computer.  I don't.  Need to be able to download patch to public computer (the has web access) and trsnsfer patch to thumb drive, and take portable drive home to patch my CD version on stand alone computer.  I just don't know how to do this... hor do I get patch ...?  Thank you. 

Reply #56 from Elemental Forums Top

Patching through Impulse is how Stardock controls piracy. Thus, I seriously doubt if you will ever see a patch file that is portable.

Reply #58 from Elemental Forums Top

You might have to wait awile but Brad did promise to reissue the Gold DVD later this fall.

See item #4 in his Aug 29th post.

https://forums.elementalgame.com/394104

Reply #59 from Stardock Forums Top

I wonder, Civilization V just got a review score from IGN of 9.0. Does this mean the end of Elemental multiplayer?(Reminder IGN Elemental score ws 6.0!!) Will anyone be playing this game? Or should I invest in Civ V better than Elemental?

Reply #60 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting control-SEVEN, reply 59
I wonder, Civilization V just got a review score from IGN of 9.0. Does this mean the end of Elemental multiplayer?(Reminder IGN Elemental score ws 6.0!!) Will anyone be playing this game? Or should I invest in Civ V better than Elemental?
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Oh, that sucks, they rated it worse than Civ 4, which I hated. 

Hooray!  Now I won't have to waste my money on Civ 5.