It is very helpful to have or bring along a spellcaster who can cast Haste if you want to capture more than one critter in one tactical battle, as the cooldown for Tame is 10 turns ... that's a big reason why webcasters are helpful, even beyond the first one you capture, to help keep the other critters you want to tame from melee attacking.
[quote who="Polistes" reply="3" id="3266584"] I like corpse spiders, also skaths and slags. I hope you can capture demons and dragons but I have not tested it that far yet.[/quote] Umm, the game won't let me try to capture a slag. You cannot capture demons nor dragons.
My first priority is for spiders that can web (Black Widows, Corpse Spiders, Harridans) because they really help reduce the risks of trying to capture other critters. It is very important to get your Spell Mastery as high as you can get it, and given how expensive Tame is at the start, it helps to get promotions or equipment that also helps with the mana cost of tactical spells (Mana of Oceans really, really helps, but it requires level two in Life and Water magic). Harridan a
1680 x 1050, the native resolution of my monitor I do switch the game between 1680x1050 (Desktop) and 1280x768 (Windowed) for recording
Am I the only one whose loading screen which displays before the intro movie shows is cut off at the bottom, cutting off Stardock's trademark notification at the bottom of the image?
[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="9" id="3266543"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 8I don't know what you can control with the map editor, but one 'goodie' you can get from loot is a collar, which gives you a one-off 'Tame' spell essentially. Resoln, I think, can actually train spiders out of their cities ... I've never played them, but in my current game (which I've been capturing to video and uploading to Youtube here -> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?l
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="3257692"] Indeed. It's an unintentional experiment in bandwidth use. Stardock still has all the bandwidth servers from the Impulse days (long term contracts). But we've never had a situation where tens of thousands of people were downloading a 3 gigabyte file within a short amount of time. It's fixable with either a) more bandwidth or a tighter Stardock Central or c) a combination of A and B.[/quote] &nbs
[quote who="Mmrnmhrm" reply="109" id="3266147"] I think it's totally legitimate to call someone out who predicted a metacritic average of 68 as being someone whose point of view is out of the mainstream. I don't think the pro reviewers are mainstream. Rather, I think that a person who thinks that the pro reviewers would give this game a 68 is out of the mainstream.[/quote] And, again, I find mainstream thoughts a
Eek, I derped. 'A few minutes' was just the end of the first pass on the last video ... 2nd pass will take another 4 hours ... arrgh. :/ Wonder how badly my laptop would choke playing FE ...
Apologies to any and all trying to follow along, but I seem to have mis-configured MS Expression in encoding Parts 6-10, so have been having to re-encode them. I at least want the text in the video readable, which it wasn't, and the audio was pretty terrible too (not that I have a golden voice by any stretch of the imagination). I moved all the previous 'takes' (games) and the subpar 6-10 to a Scraps playlist on my Youtube account. Unfortunately I can't do
I've been a loyal Stardock customer for the better part of a decade. WoM's bugged release was a big disappointment, but I know it was for Stardock and was relieved when Brad (Wardell, the Chief Executive Frog of Stardock) owned up to it and made an unfortunately extraordinary gesture to his customers -- not unfortunate that he made it (though I'm certain it starts off FE and the next expansion with big holes in that Stardock won't be receiving a penny of sales revenue fr
[quote who="Mmrnmhrm" reply="101" id="3266091"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 99 Quoting Mmrnmhrm, reply 97 Everyone who posted a number is based on what they think it will get and it is based on thier opinion. So trolling me will not affect that. Yea, and you said 68. So when you give your "opinion" in the future we can reflect how mainstream it is. And when you give "your" opinion in the future, I can reflect how you substitute mainstream/popularity for meri
My forum posts, and a long going (11+ hours thus far) gameplay video I think show that even with a lousy starting position, you can persevere. I play as a 'Beastlord' profession, which enables me to essentially assimilate a military through Beastlord's special 'Tame' spell given to my sovereign, which is a spell that can (if not resisted; it works as a spell so costs mana and can be resisted) permanently convert an animal to your side. I've made a serious
[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="1" id="3265989"]It's called the Adventurer's Guild. Research Heroes (on the magic tech tree) and you can build it.[/quote] Your avatar reminds me a little of the Liberator from Blake's 7.
[quote who="Mmrnmhrm" reply="97" id="3266026"] Everyone who posted a number is based on what they think it will get and it is based on thier opinion. So trolling me will not affect that. Yea, and you said 68. So when you give your "opinion" in the future we can reflect how mainstream it is.[/quote] And when you give "your" opinion in the future, I can reflect how you substitute mainstream/popularity for merit/value.
Stardock could give the official answer, but if by 'hard copy' you mean physical media, I don't think Stardock sells those. I know the last Sins of a Solar Empire was 'digital distribution' only meaning download-only (which seems an inaccurate term to me, as optical media -- a DVD -- is digital). If that's the case, I'm sure you could buy a download, download it onto a thumb drive/external drive or burn it onto a DVD-R to give it to your friend.
Whiners harp on how 70 (or its equivelant 7.0/10) is a bad score. I completely disagree ... but, then, my bias probably comes from my go-to source for game reviews I've stuck with all these years: Gamespot. No, Gamespot hasn't reviewed Elemental Fallen Enchantress, at least not yet, but nonetheless here is Gamespot's breakdown of what varying scores mean: http://www.gamespot.com/misc/reviewguid
Why is it when I shuck recording for the tutorial I'm trying to put together and play a new game by itself, I always do better than when I'm trying to record the game and narrate my decisionmaking? I think the game knows when I'm recording, lol. Whenever I try to record, my spells seem to miss more often, especially my first Tame ... but for now I'm playing a bit for fun and right off the bat I tamed not just a spider, but a Ravenous Harridan. XD
"Kiled" is obviously mis-spelled, but even as "killed" it is actually inaccurate, as this quest stage triggered after I tamed the Ravenous Harridan, so perhaps "defeated" or "eliminated the threat of" might be more accurate if generic 'victory' text is needed.
I prefer mountains, it gives me a decent advantage over the AI in that the AI can't seem to recognize chokepoints created by blocking terrain, and its easier to limit avenues of attack against my cities.
[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="14" id="3264939"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 8Without Shrink, dragons would be unassailable until you could cast Diamondskin. There's also blindess, or you can have a dragonslayer marksman + champion' lance + giant form double-strike the dragon. I've had my Verga kill dragons with one shot, and he did not have access to life magic.[/quote] Blindness seems to not be working, as reported by another user.
I thought they weren't stackable, except for that annoying Wilding Shaman's Shrink? Effects on Juggernauts and similar where it completely zeroes their attacks are a bug due to the inconsistent order of operations, as was pointed out in another thread. Without Shrink, dragons would be unassailable until you could cast Diamondskin.
The AI always skips turns when webbed and no one is in melee range, which does indeed seem like an AI bug. AI spiders who themselves have been webbed won't try to cast web themselves, but will skip their turn if no one is in melee range. Web only affects movement ... archers don't need to move except to try and flee.
Stardock's favorite answer: When it's ready! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote who="JSchoeck" reply="9" id="3263796"]Why not create a central hub with Torrents for the mods? I don't know if enough people are into playing FE with mods, but that would certainly be a completely free and distributed way of sharing files.[/quote] I wish more folk would do this. It might seem like a nightmare to manage to weed out copyright-infringing torrents folk might upload, but if Stardock really wanted to kick mod-friendliness up to the next level, it could