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What good, free software is available for recording games to video and editing video to make a tutorial? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I'm trying to create video tutorials for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, but am an absolute beginner. My first attempt is ... well ... pathetic. For some reason, the video produced is all of maybe one frame per second, very choppy and quite low resolution despite specifying a 1024x768. I used Camstudio to try to record E:FE (running E:FE in a 1024x768 window), then tried to edit the video in Windows Movie Maker. I tried using WMM's snapshot to basically

Fallen Enchantress ranked #7 in Gamespot's Top 10 Games in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Still no review there. Kevin VanOrd reviewed World of Magic at 4.5 out of 10 ... I'm very curious to see what he says about Fallen Enchantress. His most recent review at Gamespot was posted October 9, an 8.5 out of 10 score for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Reply to [Bug]Attacking monsters during the "end of turn movement phase" places your troops in square with loot in FE Support Elemental Forums

THings get even more bizarre when you have a skill or spell that can convert an enemy, such as 'Tame' which comes with the Beastlord profession and enables your sovereign to convert beasts such as wolves and spiders. If your sov's army is maxed out and you convert beast(s), each beast will get its own army -- no big whoop -- but they then appear at the location where they were when you attacked them (or they attacked you). This has a potentially big oddball effect if t

Reply to Incorrect Hit Chance Percentage in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

The only one I know for certain is buggy is that it does not take "Fear" status on the attacker or "Fear Cloak" on the defender into consideration. Sometimes luck rolls. 75% chance to hit is not as high as most folk think ... getting 3 or 4 misses in a row with a 75% chance to hit is not unheard of. There is no guarantee that every 3 out of every 4 attacks will land successfully.

Reply to Turn ends too soon in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Yeah, its proven ludicrous to have it on.

Reply to Oh The Pixels That Might Have Been in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

The program I used to use to put together animated .GIFs, JASC's Animation Shop, no longer works on current versions of Windows unfortunately. :(

Reply to Will WoM get any more patches? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

WoM is still being sold. Stardock has stuck by their products in the past, even the older vanilla version of a game after an expansion has released (such as Galactic Civilizations II and Sins of a Solar Empire, both had patches to older iterations after newer expansions came out IIRC)

Reply to [Possible Longstanding Bug] Certain lairs, often containing spiders and/or Butchermen, use up at least 2 movement when you defeat the guardians. in FE Support Elemental Forums

If you don't have Master Scouts or a Compass, I find you tend to use up however many movement points attempting to attack an adjacent tile in Strategic view that moving to that square would -- if its hills or forest, it consumes 2 movement points. If you have a trait or equipment that should eliminate the movement penalty for moving through forests/hills/etc., that probably is a bug.

Reply to Oh The Pixels That Might Have Been in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I enjoy pixelart ... one of the few things I found I can actually do, but I never stuck with it, unfortunately.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: So it begins! in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="boshimi336" reply="41" id="3259973"]2am I need to stop playing ... I have work at 6 ...[/quote] My sovereign just fell because of a mis-clicked spell because it was 2 a.m. :/ That could be just a story, but I was writing a tutorial while playing, and could not help but make mention the 2 a.m. factor in the nearly disastrous result! lol.

Reply to [GUIDE] Army of Beasts (guide to playing as Beastlord) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Now for the next segment ... As I was moving Hannis back toward New Pariden to acquire Divula's armor, the Logging camp completed in the forest south of New Pariden, which caused the border to expand to encompass the Bear Cub. This caused the bear cub to w

[1.00] [Sandbox] [GLITCH] Battle summary Details cut-off in FE Support Elemental Forums

As can be seen off, the lower margin of the Battle Details is oddly cut off well above the bottom of the scroll window. A single tip up the scrollbar scrolls the text down, as can be seen, but the bottom line vanishes to a mask a good 4 or 5 text rows tall at the bottom of the scroll window for some rea

Will WoM get any more patches? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Just curious. I seem to recall Galactic Civilizations II vanilla getting patches even after Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor. I know it will never be a Fallen Enchantress, but wonder if, after the momentum of patches for Fallen Enchantress wanes in a couple months or so, if WoM might get some touch-up attention.

Reply to [1.0] [Campaign] [BUG] Unable to remove a champion from Sovereign's stack and Sovereign no longer appearing in battles in FE Support Elemental Forums

Would be great if you at least had to right click on a champion to talk to them, instead of them auto-joining you merely because you end your turn with your Sov stack on an adjacent tile -- especially when it has consequences of subsequent champions refusing to join you.

Reply to Panthers need to be viewed as more dangerous than they are. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

They give the AI fits when I attack them with Panthers I've Tamed. :P I have yet to see any unit that has more movement points, and well levelled, their attacks can be outright dangerous. They're perfect, in my army from being tamed, for going after enemy archers ... there is simply nowhere to run, lol.

Reply to [1.0 BUG] Limitation on the # of units in combat caused problems in FE Support Elemental Forums

Was this in Sandbox or the Campaign? Its already been reported for the Campaign (any units past 8 not appearing in combat at all, and getting marked as being killed at the end of combat) and I think it was mentioned it has been fixed on an internal build. I didn't think it was also in Sandbox ... in which case its even worse!

Reply to Game Informer Reviews Fallen Enchantress–8.25 Score! in Elemental News Elemental Forums

To put the score into context, the site and same reviewer rated Civilization V: Gods & Kings just a quarter-point higher at 8.5, and Warlock: Master of the Arcane one and a half points lower at 6.75. Very respectable score indeed!

Reply to [GRIPE] Trying to put together a how-to guide with screenshots is a lot of work ... in Forum Issues Elemental Forums

A game takes hours. Youtube limits me to 10 minute videos. I am considering eventually doing one with Youtube, but will try writing one out first.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.01 Changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="Ratatosk7" reply="47" id="3259771"]Anyone know where the Scrying Pool (+1 Essence) tech went too? Doesn't seem to be Delacon or Enchanters. On that note, what ways are there to increase a city's essence without using my cheese pools? [/quote] Its listed as a "Unique Improvement" when picking Pariden for a custom faction on the lower right. I don't see it listed, though, as coming from Amarian blood, Decalon nor Enchanters. :/

Reply to [GRIPE] Trying to put together a how-to guide with screenshots is a lot of work ... in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

I'm getting public links now, I just think it might be appropriate for Stardock to provide the storage and bandwidth for players to use to help other players. Yes, I play my particular way I do, but am of the opinion a wide variety of styles can work with the game. Customizability, I think, is one of Elemental's (yes, both WoM however loathed, and Fallen Enchantress) great strengths over other TBS games. Civilization V ... love it or hate it, you are very limited i

[GRIPE] Trying to put together a how-to guide with screenshots is a lot of work ... in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

I have been trying to put together a guide for new players for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress by walking through my game, using screenshots to show what I see, choices I make, mixed in with text explaining why I choose what I do in terms of game setup, where I settle my first city, the risks versus benefits over taking a particular enemy on, etc. Taking screenshots, cropping them down to their relevan portions and narratizing an explanation for the choices I make take time, of co

Reply to Brad's unofficial, private builds of FE in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

Are you insured against your private builds causing players to transform into frogs?

Reply to After all these years... in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Not really. One could consider the Death Star in Star Wars (for 'serious' science fiction fans, its more fantasy than science fiction) to be a 'Great Wonder' (if evil), but it took more than a decade to build the first one. Even in fantasy settings with magic, things don't happen overnight. Armies of darkness may suddenly attack out of seemingly nowhere and do BadThings(tm) where none were thought to be, but often there's a story that they've se

Reply to [REVIEW] Gameinformer: 8.25 in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

8.25 (presuming that's out of 10) is a very respectable score. It actually seems a bit high given the excerpt you quoted. Checking versus other games ... I am surprised Warlock: Master of the Arcane scored an abysmal 6.75. I've never played it myself, but every review I've seen has rated it quite high; that's one and a half whole points below FE's score. Civilization V: Gods & Kings scored 8.5, a mere 1/4 point more than FE ... tho

Reply to [REVIEW] "One of the best strategy games I’ve played this year", 10/10 (Kyo Akiara, Universal Gaming Reviews) in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="9" id="3259659"] That said, 10/10 for a game that has major diplomatic AI issues (leaving all other matters aside) seems over the top to me. The writer may not care about the fact that one player can attack you, and then all others will usually jump in, but that's the kind of thing people would find significant, worth noting, and lowering one's rating for. I suspect this was someone who played briefly, was thrilled, wrote, and moved onto