Istari

Since the WAR and the MAGIC parts of Beta 2 are disabled, it probably does feel a little less strategic. Keep the ideas rolling in though.

We appreciate the feedback here.. We have some of the UI controls disabled. But we agree, there's more work to be done on that screen.

Glad you like it. It's still far from finished. Next few weeks will see major changes.

[quote who="Kobracan" reply="147" id="2648298"]Wow people must have been hitting the servers pretty hard. It's very slow. I've been downloading for the past couple of hours and I'm still at 34%.[/quote] Where you located?

Being ahead of schedule means extra time for polishing and implementing user suggestions. :)

There is no scenario where Stardock would want to force users to use our servers since that would cost us extra money. LOL.

Please make sure to post at least your debug.err and a basic summary of your hardware (use dxdiag if necessary). See https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285

https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285

https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285

Hortz, please go away.

A few good articles on the issue: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/understanding_climategates_hid.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/

BETA before end of summer.

Basically, Stardock's position is that on the games we host there will be users whose Internet connections fall below a certain threshold of quality. Rather than letting those users, as has happened in Demigod, wreck the experience for all players, they won't be able to play on our servers. The threshold will be determined by the beta testers and Stardock during the beta. However, when users choose to host games themselves, they can make whatever rules they want. There has bee

They're at the Stardock booth.

Gamespot has put up some new screenshots of Elemental. Check them out here .

Family members are merely one type of hero.

Not new. That's from GDC.

That video is ancient. Not sure why it's up. Just waiting for some of the news to come up so that we don't preempt anyone.

There won't be any video until next year. We're a long way out.

As Brad would say, Stardock betas are explicitly designed NOT to be fun in order to ensure the final release IS fun for the beta testers. The alpha will be more like torture. :)