Might be a bit of an acquired taste, but here is my contribution. Good background music: <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RhHkUg-QCwk&hl=en_US&fs=1" allo
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="2699379"] Quoting Ravenstrike, reply 7Well don't worry too much about Fable 2 taking up your time, you'll get through it in about 5 hours. =P terrible game. Even Peter himself was recently quoted that he thought it was actually crap. Elemental is coming along nicely. It's still a beta and we still have a month to go. It was 100 times worse than it is now a month ago, alot can change. &
[quote who="shimwooley" reply="3" id="2699334"]Hello Frogboy, The game seems to run really good so I don't think it's a card issue. I just wish it would continue to run as good as it does for the first several turns. Please let me know how to send the debug ?[/quote] Read this: https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285
It seems like just the kind of niche game that would fit in here. Very steep learning curve, almost limitless options, and a living world. I haven't played a Guild game before (or the Europa game), and it is a bit overwhelming, but it does give you the sense of building your own dynasty. So who else here plays this? What are some of your tips/tricks? Does anyone else feel this game deserves more attention than it gets?
Demigod is what happens when your publisher has more passion about the game you're making than you do.
[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="37" id="2698518"]I don't know if I had it or not - but I had the bug where you didn't get tactical battles, which seems like it was a symptom of not having the hotfix. I uninstalled Elemental and then reinstalled it and now I have it and got my tactical battles back.[/quote] The first Beta4 update was missing files which is why tactical battles didn't work. You probably reinstalled it after the second update.
[quote who="Admiral100" reply="9" id="2698519"]Hey, I have a complaint. Every time, and I mean EVERY SINGLE time, you guys release an update we get a thunderstorm. How the heck are you guys controlling the weather? Are you checking the Weather Channel and seeing if a storm heads this way? Freaky I tell's ya! Oh, and don't hand me any of this, "'Hey, we don't control the weather,' stuff either. [/quote] Are you in Arizona too, or is it
If you buy it in the retail store you don't have to activate it and there is no DRM on the disk. You only have to activate it through Impulse if you want to patch it; otherwise it'll run without any online activation or anything. Also I believe if you ordered it through Impulse as a digital download, then it's activated already in your Impulse account and you only have to sign on when you want to patch it after you download it once.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="54" id="2698310"] Quoting SpaghettiMon, reply 53 Oh man this will be the most amazing TW game yet, that's for sure.. that new video was jaw dropping. Sh!t yeah it was. Honestly it took a lot to think that was all actual in game footage. Granted I've seen them do some impressive things, like the water effects in Empire, but that was almost too good to be true. When the boats were sailing and it first showed them and the waterline, and then
Trust me, no matter how much you hate your job; you'd definitely hate looking for a job in this economic climate even more. I think I've made over 9000 cover letters, but I digress.
I think I may have been rotating the camera when it crashed. Either that or I was rotating the brick. Then it just suddenly blackscreened and crashed. Here's the debug.err and dump: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9570272/debug.err http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9570272/Elemental0_98-2010-07-29T13-06-06-714.zip
[quote who="Vermillion_Hawk" reply="2" id="2698332"]Awesome then, I was addicted to that game when it first came out on the PS1 and now I'm really looking forward to Elemental![/quote] If you want to check out what it looked like in the last beta, check out this guy's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-BBLNsyhnI Watch his other videos if you're interested. Brad has said they've mad
Yes the tactical combat is similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, in that it's turn based tactical combat fought on grid of tiles. It doesn't seem to be working right at the moment, but they're workin' on it.
[quote who="Aractain" reply="3" id="2698290"]Its kind of funny actualy to go to a Stardock forum and see a long line of "STEAMWORKS!!!" threads, heh.[/quote] Hopefully soon after Elemental is released we'll see some more Impulse::Reactor threads :P
[quote who="Raven X" reply="52" id="2698275"]I've got Complete and Total faith that Shogun 2 is going to kic Serious Ass!!! Should be the best one in the series yet. They boosted the amount of units you control from 20 to 30 for starters and for once the AI will be able to handle putting troops on boats and launching invasions (a common problem that has plagued them with Every game at launch). I also saw some new art work for the game that showed Ninjas, so...Ninjas are IN!!! Can't wait.[/quo
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="2698202"]No, there was a miscommunication with the build team on what maps were supposed to be included and none of the tactical ones (or even the seed maps) were included. [/quote] I imagine the build team's office sounded a bit like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khSIYmTzt6U
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="2698199"]It looks like a few files weren't included in the beta update. They're rectifying it now.[/quote] Sweet! I was worried we'd have no tactical battles in this build. Guess I'll screw with the modding tools until you guys fix it [e digicons]:D[/e]
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="7" id="2697865"]And how do you do this with auto-resolve? How does the AI do this? As much as I like tactical battles, you gotta remember that the game isn't a tactical battle simulation and they're meant to be short and sweet because you can have many of them per turn. Stuff like tile bonuses AFAIK are already planned and a good addition, but unit facing needlessly complicates things. If you want flanking, just make it so that a unit attacked from behind can't c
[quote who="Belwolvie" reply="5" id="2697776"]I'm guessing all of this would have to come post release as a patch or even as part of an expansion pack, but the line of site stuff would be great and also having bonuses to terrain would add a lot more depth without necessarily causing battles to last lots longer. I thought Frogboy mentioned that terrain bonuses were going to be in tactical battles so maybe this will be in beta 4. Also some kind of attack bonus when attacke
[quote who="Stmorpheus" reply="2" id="2697580"]yeah this would be a fun addition. i wish they would go back to having the units start at the edge of the maps as oppose to being near the middle. make terrain alter line of sight. this way you could sneak some guys around that forest and you wouldn't see them.[/quote] Yeah a fog of war type thing for line of sight would be sweet too!
Separating the game into 3 full priced packages has nothing to do with trying to make the campaigns lengthier, or better. That's just PR propaganda. The real reason they did it like that is because Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision(Blizzard). Their business strategy is to make money every year from iterations of the same game at full price. This is why you see a new music game from them every year that's basically the same, this is why you see 1-2 CoD games every year, and this is why we
I think my suggestion is pretty obvious from the title. However, I'd like to go into some detail on why this should matter in tactical combat. Almost all great battles prior to the industrial revolution have been decided on who could outflank and/or protect flanks the best, as well as their field position. It's hard for me to see tactical combat being more than a glorified chess board if this kind of thing is never taken into account. What I sugge
[quote who="davidabc66" reply="82" id="2696817"] Quoting SpaghettiMon, reply 77 If I have to hack a game to enjoy it, or use it reasonably, might as well just skip the purchasing part of it. I had to crack Bioware to get my legit copy to even work, and since then I've sworn never to buy another product that'd put me in that kind of situation. I'm glad some people support it, I just wish more people stood up to companies like Activision who are only aroun
[quote who="DethAdder" reply="76" id="2696665"]Well, I was a one of the naysayers. "oh it's just slightly updates SC", or "How the hell can they be doing this and that". After spending some time with it at a friends. OMG! It may actually be worth it. Just fricken awesome from what I've seen. And for someone like me only interested in SP campaign or skirmish, there is already hacks out where you never have to let it online for anything. Win![/quote] If I have to hack a g
Great videos Gorstagg. You definitely have a good voice to listen to for these videos. Have you done any broadcasting or podcasts or anything?