Umm do they mean this? http://www.gamersbillofrights.com/ Looks like it's still there to me. The game is totally playable bar a few system specific bugs (Which are to be expected, you can't test for every possible type of computer build). Only a small number of people are experiencing them to. Now we may have expected more, in terms of content/features... But that doesn't make the game incomplete in and of itself.
There are movement penalties for rough terrain as well I believe. Having movement 4 wont mean much if you are trekking through forest.
[quote who="TorontoStar" reply="3" id="2729756"]Same. Have had this problem constantly and am running with 8 "megs " of ram[/quote] Well there's your problem! :-P
Thanks for the response everyone. Shirley the game verifies fine and professes to be installed correctly. Brightness slider has no effect. [quote who="Taraska" reply="3" id="2723894"]just change the AA setting in catalyst to Multi sample aliasing ...cloth map is black with adaptive to me but normal with multi[/quote] Taraska... Yep that fixed it. Thanks and well done on isolating the problematic setting. I've also verified that in addition to multi-sample AA, super-sam
[quote who="MxM111" reply="34" id="2723576"] That's strange logic. If you are going to have +10 armor eventually, why don't you start with it? [/quote] That's part of the choice you have to make. Are you going to start with excellent armour, forgoing spell books and focusing on arcane research. Or are you going to start with the spell books and research armour (You don't usually have enough character creation points to actually do both). The main difference is weapon and arm
Have we been given clear official word it will be coming back eventually? I'd be totally content with that. There are a lot of features still to come that aren't at release and I'm happy to lump faction creation in with them. As long as they do eventually come in (And do trust Stardock will see that though eventually if they say the will). I have several friends (like... 5) who might be interested in the game. They will want such features and none of them will be prepared to mod or us
Depends on how hard missing spell books are to specifically get. I haven't played without all of them so it's hard to tell. But I wouldn't want to have to play out the whole game being utterly unable to get fire or water spell books just because they didn't happen to come up. I heard loosely somewhere you can research missing spell books. If correct then why not start with them all, you'll have them all anyway by the time you can use them effectively. It's just trading research time for stats
Pretty sure I reported this issue during the beta (Kicked in around midway through Beta 2 from memory) and saw it reported several more times. The issue is my cloth map is black (see image). Everything on it loads fine, it's like the actually texture for the map itself isn't loading. Seem to remember this being an issue with the ATI control pane
60 spells in pretty on par with most standard game releases these days. I mean more is always nice and content, content, content and all that... But it's something they have promised to expand on (And the community will to with the mod tools) so I'm not too worried.
There are several problems with leaving it to the modding community though. Not everyone has the technical aptitude to mod their game. Many are also afraid to download mods made by other players in case they brake the game. A lot in both parties don't want to because think the end result is cheating (And without some sort of enforced limit on what abilities you can give the race, it possibly is). So you have a whole chunk of players there that simply do not have access to this feature at all
I want to know. We would then have objective benchmark for saying to people 'Stardock loves us at least this much and more'. :-P
Uh Brad did say that the "exclusive" content would become available to "everyone" eventually. People who ordered form best buy just get earlier. Pay attention people.
There is simple way to test it. First fill your bathtub with water. Now place your computer in it. Did your computer float? If yes then that probably wasn't your computer, try again. Okay did your computer sink? This is a clear sign that you can't run elemental, because some idiot ruined your computer by submerging it in water. Seriously though, you can install and play elemental on all your computers with no hassles. The game should run fine, but you ma
I just did, but it depends on if you intend to play it between now and the release. We don't actually know how long until the release. Could be another day or it could be right now... ... No? Oh well here's hoping. :-P
You can definitely pick them up through quests, even if you already have them (in the last release)... Not sure about researching them though.
[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="38" id="2720971"]It's 20:15 in western Europe now and the torture is just getting too much ... But still hoping for a long night! [/quote] You think you've got it bad? It's 4:30am on Monday here. :-P
Maybe it something we can mod in fairly easily. With the ability to raise and lower land it would be cool to have terrain affected by weather patterns Alpha Centuri style. You've got an enemy living to the East? Raise a mountain between you and him so clouds build up on your side making the land more fertile while his dries out and becomes desert. It's not a violation of the non aggression treaty. :-P
I was actually looking forwards to good modern 4X TBS game with decent multiplayer support. But I here the multiplayer has been gimped a bit... Still I'll wait and see. Might not be as bad as I was lead to believe, and even if it is... Maybe it something the mod tools can fix. Worst case scenario I'll still probably enjoy the single player sandbox on the nights we just can't get HoMM3 to recognise the network.
It's Australia... So traditionally... 3-6 months after everyone else. :-P Seriously though once the distributor has the game boxes, they'll want them on the street as quickly as possible (Storage is not cheep) so probably within the next week or two they'll start showing in whatever stores agreed to stock it.
Do you even need to spend essence to build cities in the final product? I don't think you do.
[quote who="Mobella" reply="48" id="2719249"]^^well thats intriguing... out of curiosity, is there any connection between the campaign and the rest of the game? will my coveted items from one, be accessible in the other?[/quote] Yes, will I be able to bring my adventuring party of friends carrying all my barrels of gold and magic jewellery along? Not to mention my precious recently aquired knowledge of siege mechanics...
[quote who="Pantasd" reply="9" id="2719064"]Assuming you make $30 a profit per game you sell... you've sold a LOT more preorders than I thought you would. they have a bigger profit if you buy only digital edition[/quote] Uh... If they are breaking even they haven't made a profit on any of them yet.
I'm being Facetious. :-P Most the ones I bought you can't get any way other then ordering online and shipping them in, and the others just worked out cheaper this way. But to get them all as cheap as possible you have to spend so much money! The irony... But that's business.
I haven't been able to find any brick and mortar selling the regular edition. Eb's and GAME don't have it. Makes the odds of getting the limited edition anywhere other then impulse rather slim (You know given the current exchange rate, even with the $20 shipping it still probably works out cheaper that way you know).
Damn it... Since reading this thread I've spent $95 on book on Amazon to save on international shipping... Which still worked out to an additional $50. Curse you Frogboy, Amazon, Marketing and... I don't know... Literacy?