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[quote who="joasoze" reply="6" id="3231022"] My wife is in Tallin. I demand patch now [/quote] I hear you, my girlfriend is in Shijiazhuang. Need patch to keep busy!

Now I don't know much about coding, but I do know that even Rome Total War several years and years ago, with thousands of units on screen at once, could pull it off. So I'm sure Elemental could pull it off as well. Long story short, desynchronized animations. Meaning that when units move, or even just do their idle-animation, they are slightly desynced to not look like identical robots moving in perfect harmony. It looks incredibly artificial to see soldiers in

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="22" id="3078892"]one of the soundtracks reminds me of GalCiv2.[/quote] The entire UI reminds me of GalCiv2.. Good UI no doubt, just wish it did not remind me of space. One more week til the update? Means one week to finish my Civ4BTS-BATmod Aztec game [e digicons]O:)[/e]

[quote who="Barrynor" reply="3" id="3078515"] - Once you are dedicated to kill something, KILL IT! Currently the AI switches targets, especially against superior numbers, and attacks all of em a bit. If its dead, its not doing damage anymore. He who slaps the most wins... dead things dont slap. A unit with 1 HP leftover is still 100% more effective than a unit with 0 HP. [/quote] I wish this was true about, idk, EVERY game i've ever played.. The AI

There's no need to play the Be-Different-From-Civ game when it actually hurts gameplay and UI friendliness.. A simple popup "City has finished xxxxx, what do you want to build now?" is an absolute neccessity in 4x games. This makes me think of Galciv though, where the notifications to the right of the screen are far easier to spot.. Perhaps because they are at the bottom right above the minimap? Yeah, LOL... I think that's it actually! Move

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="25" id="3077724"]There need to be some relatively common events, that effect single cities, and more rare, but still relatively more common than current world events, world events. I think there is either a bug with World Events or that they are just too rare still. I don't know of anyone who has played the beta who has reported getting a single World Event, and how many beta testers are there now? How many thousands? I think that tell

Is this intended? I somewhat like using the proportional unit scale on the campaign map as it looks a bit more, proportional.. But when a battle occurs, the units are still equally scaled down, while the environment, trees etc, are obviously scaled up! The first genuine feel i had was that my troops actually shrunk even more as i entered a battle, now resembling midgets! Seperate settings for the unit scale, or having them scale 1 step up in battles would feel like it makes

While we all agree the animation speeds in battles in Elemental WoM were abysmally slow usually, to the point of being in slow motion if we're talking "realism", i find the animation speeds to be way too fast in FE! Lol, we are never happy, are we? [e digicons]O:)[/e] I was surprised that the options let you choose between normal, fast and superfast. But no options below normal! A 0.5 speed or at least 0.75 speed option would feel absolutely perfect for me.

Yeah but even the tooltips are opague black. It just feels too spacey for a fantasy game. Paper fits all, evil or good.

I really do.. ALOT.. I very much dislike this modern galciv'ish interface visual style. Note, i love the improvements of it, i'm merely talking about the visual style of it. The skin if you will. And where the book / paper style still exists, it seems so white and clinical. I miss the warm paper tone.

[quote who="Sanati" reply="23" id="3075380"]What is the point of testing like this? Serious question. I don't think anyone sits down to play a 4x game with the intention of winning as quickly as possibly, whether or not the AI can survive a turn 10 rush is kind of irrelevant I would think. I don't see how it could fare well anyway, regardless of intelligence. The way the game is set up your main force is your sov, and your sov is also the unit you explore with, so if you st

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="3074623"]I saw in another post where it was said that people love MOM except when they don't. That is doubly true of tactical battles. We *explicitly* want tactical battles to be a quick and fun event. Derek has told me that anything that makes a tactical battle take more than 3 minutes to finish is a bad thing and I have come to agree with that. Which, it turns out, is how MOM was. MOM tactical battles were extremely fun but didn'

[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="141" id="3058253"]Quoting Gandhialf, reply 138So many old but excellent ideas are waiting to be implemented in FE!So many unreasonable ideas which would be beyond Stardock's budget or skills (not saying they're unskilled by far, but I'm not sure this is their specialty). Being a bit more conservative at first is a good idea; it ensures a game people want to play, instead of a game people dream about until they realize it sucks.[/quote] <p

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="3049606"]Quoting Sanati, reply 8I'd really have to play it to know for sure. From what I've seen in screens and videos it essentially looks like a WoM mod. It's the same core game, the same major assets, the same layout, it's just been modded a bit (or a lot) with some alternate gameplay rules and some new spells and monsters. Basically if you look at FE screens next to WoM screens, you can't really tell the difference, other than some pu

WHAT?! The Fall From Heaven modder is the project manager for Fallen Enchantress?!? Put this on the box, no joke. I had no idea. Suddenly I have massive hopes for the gameplay in this. (i'm still not in beta) Modders have huge "gamer pr" value. Heck, just as an example, if i saw an expansion for Civilization 5 i'd just think "oh great, it's another half-arsed addition with no real deep gameplay". But if i saw the same expansion "box" (or features list online), with a

I was an early buyer (i think i even pre-ordered??) of WoM, yet it claims no such thing on that page. Just gives me the normal "pre-order now for 39.99 (or what the price was) and get in beta 2!". Then again, the whole Gamestop buying Impulse thing messed up my accounts a bit it seems. I can download Elemental and my copies of Sins + expansions & Galciv2 + expansions in the Gamestop Impulse client, but if i log in to the Stardock Store website, an exp

Yeah. Especially very border/territory-specific spells. Some of the most interesting ones gradually changed the terrain in your territory to whatever your units were most proficent at fighting in (desert, grasslands, tundra etc). But i suppose as Elemental already does that automatically it matters less :) It would be interesting to see a more terrain-heavy implementation though. Perhaps making the terrain change gradual when taking over or building a new city, and having your u

This is my biggest question right now regarding FE, will there be spells (endgame high cost spells) that have 'cool' empire-wide effects? I'll use my fav fantasy strategy game as an example, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. Such as, a spell costing upkeep (or just lasting a few turns) that grants vision or denies enemies from seeing far into your lands (a sort of "Dark shadow terrain" spell). Or something like, if you're playing as as human race you could cast a

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="3" id="2998273"]I've been running with no sounds forever in E:wom because the sounds are quite boring and repetitive. Then again, I do that in almost every game. [/quote] You're missing out on half of what pretty much every game has to offer O_o I had a friend like that, it was always completely incomprehensible to me. They add so much atmosphere that to play without sounds or music in games is like playing scrabble by yourself in a qui

To me it seems the problem with Elemental from the start was a lack of proper planned out game design. Through all the patches and everything the past months, things have changed so much and in such different directions, it is clear that it wasnt thought out from the beginning. I don't know if it is a matter of development time or not, perhaps developing the engine took too much time or focus away from the gameplay concepts. I just feel that Elemental is insecure, I don't

I did the same, however while i can play the game, i cant login to impulse from ingame, it says my account does not have access to the game, lol? Even though i just downloaded it via impulse.. Sigh.

Oh, you have to turn off "show beta versions" in the impulse settings and, idk, re-download the game i guess.

[quote quoting="post"]+ LOTS of code to handle the increasing costs in terms of people to run your improvements. If anyone thinks that getting highly talented people remains equally easy as you grow, ask google, microsot or apple about that. It's not. [/quote] Indeed, though the argument (in lore temrs) could be made that as a population grows into the thousands, and you already have studies (schools) built, more and more educated / skilled people are available compared to wh

6:50 nice to see that the good old "can place multiple copies of the same unique building" bug still isnt fixed. (note how the Study is still selected and ready to be placed even after being placed once already)

THE SAME DAY AS THE CIV5 PATCH??! This is indeed, a happy day to be a strategy gamer :D