[quote who="Frogboy" reply="49" id="3047632"] Quoting mqpiffle, reply 46I think trading with resources would be simple and useful, if not necessary. IE: I need metal and I have plenty of gold. My ally needs gold and has an abundance of metal. We trade one for the other. Why is this so difficult or unsavory? "Need" is a 3 month coding process, minimum otherwise you'd just have players exploiting it. I've written
Yeah, we really need to get some actual tactical battles. But Derek has said this won't go in because coding the AI would take a long time. That means it's likely that it'll happen at some point when Brad feels the AI for existing systems is decent, but probably not before the second expansion.
I'm hoping it's a spell or a Champion ability that lets him scale the mountain.
Those are some delicious tooltips, they look great and should be really helpful. It's good to see tech taking longer. I've always played with tech acquisition on the slowest setting, but I'm glad that's now becoming a part of the core gameplay paradigm and should get appropriate attention. The new clothmap icons (the lock, and the purple wolf's head) don't seem to fit the clothmap's aesthetic well. Perhaps you could make them look more like glass bea
AoW has a hell of a lot more to its battles than Elemental does, first of all. The maps are not flat - there are walls and buildings. There are lots of spells and abilities that alter the map and the way in which units traverse the map. And even with those features, far beyond anything we've seen so far in Elemental, you often end up commanding your soldiers to just walk forward and attack with no need to consider tactics of any kind.
[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="22" id="3040048"] Quoting Cruxador, reply 21Uh... So you're saying "it's often just fluff, and that's bad" and then saying "I don't need crunch". So what the hell do you want? Are you misunderstanding on purpose? I say the gameplay adjustment of having height differences is meaningless to me, and the AI would have a hard time with it. So I don't feel there's any point in wasting resources to do it.[/quote] Were you
[quote who="Sir_Linque" reply="18" id="3039747"]It's often just fluff, and fluff that the AI sucks with. I don't mind graphical hills, but I don't really need any gameplay adjustments with them.[/quote]Uh... So you're saying "it's often just fluff, and that's bad" and then saying "I don't need crunch". So what the hell do you want? [quote who="Gandhialf" reply="20" id="3039919"]1. (Complexity.) Climber doesn't want to
[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="16" id="3039738"]I love the cave. Quoting Climber, reply 14[...] At the most basic level, I want to see if 'height' is in. A very simplistic implementation will be nice already. 3 height levels: A, B, C (while A is the lowest). Normal non-reach weapon cannot hit A C, even if adjacent. And it is not possible to walk from A C, unless there is jumping/climb
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="38" id="3039647"]Assuming they have ever visited a town ever. Nope, don't like that. They should either go to the capital or go to the nearest city. And no deaths. Why? Because they are limited. And all that death will do is cause a reset. Now, if they "can't escape", have no other towns to go to, then they should go back to being free agents, or be hired by the nation that defeated their old one. No death. &n
Thanks for the heads-up. Went and nabbed it.
[quote who="Detridus" reply="10" id="3037823"]Okay it would be fine for diplomacy but as you said, a scout unit can be made and does pretty much all the scouting one needs.[/quote]Scouts aren't free, they're not fast, and they can't do shit if they're dead. [quote]If you can't get there with a scout army how will knowing about it help your cause?[/quote]You can send actual military forces there.[quote]Loot is pretty standard in this kind of game.[/quote]Not really. A very
[quote who="Murteas" reply="296" id="3038691"] Quoting Heavenfall, reply 293I doubt the spell system has been done yet, as it was worded in that thread there was a high uncertainty if it would be in the game. I have read this a few times, and I think it is a joke, but I am still confused. Heavenfall, what do you mean if you were being serious?[/quote]Based on the post directly above his, I'd guess a non-hardcoded modder-accessible spell system.
[quote who="DsRaider" reply="294" id="3038633"]I kinda assumed that the magic system was done because the beta would have been out if they hadn't delayed it in order to balance the game. [/quote]The fact that it's going to beta doesn't actually mean they'll stop working on things. And "done" is a relative term.
[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="276" id="2990132"] More spells are coming. Reduced 85%Original 512 x 512[/quote]Oh hey a spell to turn everyone into stone. that's always good.
[quote who="Kantok" reply="1" id="3037880"]Can you kill the spider separately from the champion? Or do they share a hit point pool?[/quote]In WoM mounts counted as equipment. While it would be nice if that had changed, Derek probably would have mentioned it when he was talking about combat stuff in general.
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="5" id="3037759"]A treasure map in action: an item you click, and it reveals a "treasure quest" location on the world map. You can go to the location, and you'll enter a bear cave, or you'll have to nab the treasure from some pirates. Sounds like an easy thing to mod, if they don't include it.[/quote]Unless the treasure isn't a quest thing, it's a resource. Hell, a map that isn't a treasure map would be a good thing to f
Sounds good to me.[quote who="Detridus" reply="4" id="3037756"]I wasn't here for that but it seems like a total waste of loot. Why the hell would I want a part of the map uncovered when I could get a good sword? I literally can't think of anything I would less rather have than a treasure map. From what you describe, it doesn't even have any treasure on the map. Don't make this the yellow skittle everyone throws away. [/quote]If you want the game to always giv
I agree with Lord Xia entirely on this matter. [quote who="seanw3" reply="11" id="3037113"]I think it is best to treat the Elemental devs like a dartboard. We need to throw as many darts at them as possible and some of them will stick. Sure we could form threads for the really important things that should be added or fixed, but that will have to be after the beta. I think that attacking from the rear and having one's flank covered should confer a bonus to attack for instance. That
I want this too. Adding abilities to the game is all well and good, but if we wanted that we'd be better off playing Pokemon. Elemental, even in the upcoming iteration (judging from everything we've heard of it) needs a hell of a lot more before it can be said to have tactical battles in the literal sense. Which is a bit of a slap in the face really, since better tactical battles were allegedly one of Derek's goals for FE.[quote who="Goontrooper" reply="7" id="3007506"]Good i
[quote who="AlLanMandragoran" reply="2" id="3036784"]Daggum seanw3! That shot really shows a scale difference. Is that from the strategic map view or tactical?[/quote]Derek has confirmed that "tactical" battles will be blank room scenarios, whereas that map shows a chasm with a creature in it. Also the thing with the book on top loos very much strategic map scaled.
Something I've noticed is that shooters tend to be primarily a teenager thing. Why that is I couldn't really say.
The notion of pirates' eyes lighting up at a game without DRM is pretty naive. Pirates crack everything. The only question is whether it's everywhere the day of release or just the week of release. Also I don't know that 5:1 is really all that bad. [quote who="Kantok" reply="4" id="3035270"] Quoting GeneralEtrius, reply 2Give or take 20 years and it will happen. I hope it never happens. You want to see video games st
Yeah, it would be nice to have more historically accurate/practical weapons, instead of just swords and axes everywhere.
Damn, this game is great. Just played through the whole demo (which is substantial) and buying the full game now. I don't even normally like this sort of game, but I'm loving this one. Regarding the guy in the video's criticism of the humor: It's more like it's humor about the characters than about the references dropped. The main character just happens to be a reference-dropping guy, because he contextualizes things in terms of his experiences. And the references
I got the mail today as well.