Mhormal

Agree the poll show the vast majority of this forums resident enjoy it like it is, but here's is the place of die hard fans , the few grognards left .Do a poll about elemental and you will have pretty much same results.This is the thing that worrying me, far too positive comments here, they will not believe me , why would they , people are happy here. But once its released to a wider audience they will fall from heaven indeed... Wait for the steam release

Ah the fall from heaven mod try it , and you will see whats missing on FE even more . Blackrain try to ignore what i suggested,blatantly insulting me at every post , i cant be more clear, i want choices in the game, a skill tree with various choices , more feats more items , unique building unique units. Its not just a matter of pretty cloth on my sovereign, its a matter of faction personalities, plenty of example in the fantasy litterature, makes evil faction feels like mordor ,

I dont know if i am an authority on TBS games , but i did play them all that from the beggining of computer gaming first ones in the 80's or so , so i can at least says i know what i am talking about. Today's we have electronic devices that would be sci fi in my childhood , yet i dont see much progress if any at all in video games except graphics. 18 years later master of magic is still a better game, why is that ? Warlock isnt doing much better either to be fair . <

[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="48" id="3211621"]I have a right to say whatever I want to the OP so please don't tell me or anyone else what to say, thanks. I can tell him to do or go anywhere I like. He doesn't have to listen but don't be a hypocrite. Also, most of the things you are saying are not going to happen, don't you get it> The factions are not going to change, they are set in stone. This is why Frogboy and some others complain and tell you to find another game. Yo

OP has right to say he is not satisifed, and please dont tell him to go play another game and be "constructive. We have seen what all the postivity has brought us with elemental. I usually love star docks games, having a blast with gal civ and Sins of solar empire, i am not biased agasint them far from it they still get my money. However when i played elemental the first time i thought it was a bad joke they were doing to me. I expect it will not be the same

You think magic is overpowered ? I think not , an army consisting of archers and even better catapults can sometimes one shot a sovereign and its very unlikely hes able to cast anything at all. Its getting better , yes but theres still a huge balancing effort to do. The defense stats is oversimplified, units should have specific strenghs and weaknesses. I think catapults should not be able to hit a sovereign, they should be able to hit infantry ,

Its nice to see someone admitting he completely failed, its rare to se that happen in any business. Seems brad had a reality check, it was a catastrophic release. If you revamp the gameplay and indeed give a new campaign for free, you will rebuild your reputation. Its in sad shape but salvageable. Heres my game experience , at first i couldnt play at all cause of crashes, then when i could, i finally noticed how shallow the game was. Large m

Honest answer ? i have put the game aside till they improve IA and fix most serious bugs, my crash problems were mostly solved, still getting too slow end game alas. Is it fun ? yes but far too easy to stomp the IA, and no multiplayer yet to challenge other human being, its not at the level of galciv .Once civ 5 is out i will probably play it instead. You seems to be bored and desesperate for a good 4X, elemental will turn out very good but right now its a paying beta, keep your money.<

Yes i've seen it already 3/10 is close to be the worse they could give to a game, but they arent completely fair with it , its an express review he doesnt explain in details whats wrong. Basically he says its ugly , rushed , unbalanced and bugged,a melting pot of older games ideas without being better than mentioned games(master of magic , age of wonder), but he doesnt elaborate. I disagree on the ugly part , it has a different a

Now people , or rather sycophants , pretending theres no problems are making me aggressive. Theres several report in tech support and even saves uploaded, on medium maps and over its slow down to a crawl ,download the saves and try . I am ok to help them if they need me to test stuff , i can tolerate some bugs as the game has potential to become a classic but no its not in shape of a release game even with patch 1.05.Theres serious play test

Since 1.05 I have a crash just trying to stack 2 armies heres my savegame: http://filebin.ca/mkqzn/CRASH.EleSav Try merging rilis with the main army, instant crash http://filebin.ca/uvymev/debug.err Also clicking on one of my cities instant freeze the game, one in the northeast corner.

You are not the only one,with the problem at least, and i still get CTDs all the time.Elemental is an unplayable mess atm.

Maybe an useless advice, but try checking the mouse hardware option , i noticed framerates going back to normal after that.

ah shorter this time http://filebin.ca/osovjy/debug.err

sigh... http://filebin.ca/mdthqb/debug.err

it worked for good 15 min: http://filebin.ca/rprfbx/debug.err

ah.. surprise, another crash at a different turn Heres the savegame file: http://filebin.ca/enskgy/debut.EleSav But if you want more debug i can provide them too ! http://filebin.ca/cfutv/debug.err

another crash : http://filebin.ca/btuzre/debug.err i also have complete elemental freeze without error logs, so roughly a crash , freeze every 10min

and yet another different crash: http://filebin.ca/btuzre/debug.err

I found a fix for that slugginess problem , checking on the mouse hardware option strangely make it fluid again, now why i dont know... However after playing like this i get multiple crashes still . Heres the debug.err after a crash : http://filebin.ca/rqcktn/debug.err

Yesterday it was running ok, not super fast but ok, now its extremely sluggish and i get 1 fps near big cities or 5fps if i restart a new game near a starting city. Its not even a 3D issue Using the cloth map doesnt help as the game still sluggish and commands not responding. heres my dxdiag if it helps: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 8/24/2010, 17:00:16 &n

ahah i asked the same question in a post at the very same time...

Just got the game and encountered multiple trouble while paying the campaign, its supposed to be introductory to the game, but i really struggled with the interface, especially the tactical combat, the auto center on units made it completely impossible to target enemy units and its not obvious how to move the camera in this mode, moving the mouse on edge dont work, right mouse button , neither, i finally find out its by holding the middle mouse button, but why is it not explained anywh