[quote who="Storm" reply="26" id="2719149"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 25My sons are playing the campaign right now in the other room as I type this. I love listening to them figuring things out. True Torture!!! Having them play and telling us while we're all staring at the refresh button [/quote] Well if it makes you feel better, people will be able to make and trade their own campaigns with you. The whole campaign was m
My sons are playing the campaign right now in the other room as I type this. I love listening to them figuring things out.
[quote who="Storm" reply="22" id="2719094"]Brad, How long is the campaign that comes with Elemental: Destiny's Embers? Just curious in case that sways anyone's interest in purchasing the book. Storm[/quote] Probably about the same length. Though it will come in 3 parts so it'll probably be somewhat longer in total. The tools were still maturing when we did the Relias campaign for Elemental.
[quote who="niteshade6" reply="20" id="2719085"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 19 GalCiv II and Sins of a Solar Empire didn't come with campaigns at all. Didn't GalCiv II come with the Darklords campaign?[/quote] I could be wrong. All the campaigns in GalCiv II were pretty terrible though. The one in Elemental is, by contrast, pretty good IMO. It's just not super long. It could certainly last some
[quote who="edpfister" reply="13" id="2719027"] It took me about 5 hours to complete it. That's with me knowing how to play the game of course. I'd expect a typical user it would take them about 8 hours. Really, that's pretty short for a turn based game. I guess the campaign is really only one part of the game but I was expecting something more along the lines of 20 hours especially since you guys were saying how you were focusing on the single player game. I assum
[quote who="Pantasd" reply="3" id="2719002"]yea the problem is where to get 100milions for elemental http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft2/news.html?sid=6269369[/quote] We had about 3% of the Starcraft 2 budget to work with and that figure counts the engine budget.
[quote who="phazonfreak" reply="10" id="2719010"] Quoting fatindian, reply 88 hours seems short for a single player campaign, but remember that the meat of the game is in the randomly generated non-campaign games and the mods. It doesn't make sense to devote the company's resources towards a 20+ hour campaign when most people don't play these types of games for that. Don't get me wrong, I am sure that the heart of Elemental will be the randomly generated maps and I
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="4" id="2718987"]Hmm, a game mode based solely on special tactical battles? Sounds yummy. You could do all sorts of things with that concept. Best regards, Steven. [/quote] I agree. When you guys start making your own tactical battle maps it'll become really obvious the kinds of things you can do.
[quote who="StevenAus" reply="2" id="2718976"]Okay then, same as first post except replace "in the Day 0 release" with "as soon as possible after release". Best regards, Steven. [/quote] It's going to be high on our list to release no matter what because we want to have tactical battles available as a stand alone game mode because THAT is fun for a large percentage of people. The only feature in MP that is likely to be "gimped" for a long while are the que
After seeing what the Blizzard guys went through, I think we're pretty prepared for anything. I mean, Starcraft II, IMO, is about as perfect of a release you can get. I.e. unlimited budget, unlimited time to do exactly what they want with the result being an outstanding game. I'm not even sure how I'd improve on Starcraft 2. By contrast, I have a list a mile long on things I want to add to Elemental over the next few years.
[quote quoting="post"] Just wondering if there is an estimate on how long the campaign takes to complete? [/quote] It took me about 5 hours to complete it. That's with me knowing how to play the game of course. I'd expect a typical user it would take them about 8 hours.
It's not an option we can have in day 0 at this point because it's not been in our QA matrix in some weeks now. We can revisit tactical battles as an option in MP for a future free update. But there's no scenario where it will be in for day 0.
[quote who="Galahed" reply="72" id="2718634"] Quoting Magog_AoW, reply 71Interesting how he walks around in the woods, meets a girl wearing a dress, cape and a club, and marries her on the spot. Maybe I would too... hmm... "Marriages are made in heaven" (c) Euphues and his England (1580) Did you know, that your champion have teleport spell? He can tp to town, have wedding and even wedding night, and then just return to his champion's mission on tile
Anyway, I'm closing this thread.
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[quote who="Lord Grotius" reply="13" id="2718546"]Looking good, Brad! One question: did you guys ever implement numpad keys for movement? [/quote] Yes.
[quote who="RisingLegend" reply="4" id="2718503"]Dang it Frogboy, now no one is going to see the vid I posted on your 3rd installment! lol One thing I do wonder though, and maybe you could answer? Did you guys have an outside party do your 3D work for the races in GalCiv and GalCiv 2? Because it seems that they were a little bit more sophisticated looking even back in.. was it 2001? Not that it matters that much, I was just curious.[/quote] No. The d
[quote who="AbsynthMinded" reply="32" id="2717881"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 23 Quoting Thizzbaby, reply 10Love it can't wait! Anyone know how many turns is a year game time? Whatever your imagination needs it to be. The turns have no particular time equivalent. That begs the question on tuns till maturity of children? How is that being addressed, static number or increasing % chance per turn till m
The screenshots don't do it justice really. The game shows off the best in m otion.
I'm excited to start the next installment.
The Empires have a response. Coming up soon.
My general view is that just as single player shouldn't get shafted for MP, I don't like the idea of MP getting shafted for single player. I think that MP should get special attention over time. I think there's a lot of potential for this over time that we should (and will) visit. I like the idea of wizard duels more and more.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="5" id="2717797"]What's up with the "Myth meets X-Com" multiplayer mode? I was kinda hoping for a "Wizard duel" mode too In the future of course.[/quote] That's what I'm thinking too.
[quote who="Krelian77" reply="15" id="2717804"]mmm.... "Verga" is a very obscene Spanish (at leasy Argentinian spanish) slang word for penis. That makes the description really interesting. Other than that... can't wait![/quote] Well Lord Moco and his wife Mierda will certainly keep things interesting.
[quote who="Murteas" reply="13" id="2717792"]So awesome. I am really excited to play. Quick Question: So are you happy with how Yithril played, should they have crushed you? Is there something else that was preventing them from striking at your capital? Great AAR. Looking forward to part 4 (and making my own once we get the game ) [/quote] I'm not happy with the AI at th