Bill_Door

[quote who="Cookie_1" reply="19" id="2640481"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 17 As for being "RPG-ish", certainly there is an RPG sense to it in that you're not dealing with thousands of faceless people but rather every unit is individually represented and that you're dealing with much smaller numbers than the traditional strategy game where you might have 20,000 guys that die off in a single battle. Interesting. Does this mean the

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="85" id="2640222"] My 2 cents - separate the gameplay aspect from the realism aspect, and let the game-play drive the decision. It's a fantasy fictional game and those are written in reverse order of importance. Granted it is a fantasy game, at the same time reality has a lot of inspirational material. Detailed models do provide a lot of emergent strategy and simply looking at what would happen "in real life" gives us reasons why particula

[quote who="Zword-of-Vepscilicon" reply="30" id="2640002"]Hi, I'm really curious to know if it runs decently on an integrated graphics chip? I'm also wondering if you guys would at the very least consider a free timed beta (ie play 3 hours max) to minimize risk to your customers for preordering a game that could end up not running on their system. y/n? I'm not really a fan of betas being a "purchase only" system, but I realize the need

[quote who="StarCruzr" reply="8" id="2640065"]Hmm. I was looking forward to Elemental, but I have to say, these two videos left me thoroughly unimpressed. I know it's not the end product and that not everything that's going to be in the game has been shown, but still - what I saw I didn't particularly like. Maybe it is time to re-evaluate my purchase decision. [/quote] Well, what didn't you like?

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="17" id="2639623"] Quoting humorguy, reply 14 Well responses to my post seem to point out that nothing will change and AAA Mainstream gaming will go the way if the Dodo with only games like World of Goo etc type of games being available, which is not my cup of tea, Hence last year about 70% of my PC gaming was retro when the previous year I doubt it was over 50% meaning next year it could be 90% and the year after...... I re

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="44" id="2639576"] Well, the AI and the core gameplay. But the alpha game took care of creating a fun gameplay, didn't it? Yea, the beta 1 phase has turned out to be even more crucial than we had thought it would be when we first set it up. I wonder how many people remember what the game was going to be like originally. The enhanced design is just so much more enjoyable to play. One example: Recruitable NPCs were not

[quote who="Raven X" reply="67" id="2639486"] Quoting John_Hughes, reply 63 Edited the OP for those with a fetish for exacting particulars. P.S. Thanks to all the current respondents. Look forward to some FUN testing/Killing/putting Raven X in his proper place. Mwhahahahahaha!!!! Bring it. You shall kneel at my feet or be destroyed. The on-line world of Elemental only has room for One Master, and it i

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="10" id="2639356"] Quoting Bill_Door, reply 9 And PC Gaming dying? Does this need to come up again? It's been "dying" forever! ..as we know...it's dying but the various Facebook games will save it! [/quote] Let us all bow down before farmville, the savior of all pc games ![e digicons]:moo:[/e]

[quote who="Cyrogenic" reply="6" id="2639318"]... so long as you tell impulse to show pre-release versions. It's in the preferences in impulse (top left menu, preferences, should be the very first check-mark). Ordinarily, your games tab doesn't show beta's (or alphas, should you be in one.) [/quote] Yep, I forgot about that!

[quote who="Raven X" reply="12" id="2639263"] Quoting SavageBananaMan34, reply 11 Quoting Raven X, reply 9 Check this pic out....HELL YEAH!!! Reduced 29%Original 1920 x 1200 Honestly though, what looks more badass, that sterile chessboard picture or this: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/elementalwarofmagic/images/0/12/ That was one of the fir

[quote who="utawoutau" reply="4" id="2639200"]If we preorder now, how will we know when we can get into the beta? [/quote] Well, you'll get an email, you will get charged, and it should appear in your My Games tab in Impulse.

[quote who="humorguy" reply="8" id="2638965"]This is a good idea. his is about the survival of PC gaming for God's sake!!! Indie developers need funding, major publishers need original PC titles, if indie developers keep their heads together and look at what they sign, I think this can be very good for PC gaming. Would you rather have an excellent game like Space Rangers sell a couple 100,000 when an Activision has the muscle to get the game into the public eye, where I

IIRC, if you preorder through the site, it redirects you to the impulse store, so it shouldn't matter, you should be let in when Beta 2 starts (next Thursday).

[quote who="Spooky__" reply="2" id="2638554"]No, it's because Raven's post contains too many [code="html"] [/code] as far as I can see. [/quote] Looking at the source, this looks like the problem to me too.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="69" id="2638376"] Quoting Bill_Door, reply 53 Quoting Raven X, reply 52 quoting post Q: I’vie heard there are no flying units in the game. A: There are flying units in the game. However, there aren’t flying armies in the game (i.e. there are creatures and animals that fly, but we do not plan to have flying mounted units in – at least at release.&

I couldn't see Activision doing this for the good of the indie devs, which leaves only one possibility:

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="60" id="2638265"]BTW, if you guys want to know the most likely thing to cause delays, it's going to be AI. Having a challenging AI that doesn't cheat is a lot of work. Especially with islands. [/quote] Good luck, and I hope you succeed! I hope you have time to play multi with us though, to make the AI better of course! The AI isn't any reason to delay beta versions though, I'd rather have a beta with

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="55" id="2638187"] Quoting Omnax1, reply 51 I am not saying you can not do it, you can. And I know your build is much further. But there is still alot of feedback on all the stuff which is not implemented. However, I know how you care about your games, and I am sure, you will do things right. It just seems to me, that elemental will come all together at the last while. 2,5 month? Does not seems like you are expecting to do any

[quote who="Raven X" reply="52" id="2638168"] quoting post Q: I’vie heard there are no flying units in the game. A: There are flying units in the game. However, there aren’t flying armies in the game (i.e. there are creatures and animals that fly, but we do not plan to have flying mounted units in – at least at release. We can discuss with players – after they have the game – what practical means they could envis

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="109" id="2638002"]The ridge having a line like that is part of the illustrative art style (it's not supposed to look realistic, it's supposed to look illustrated). [/quote] Ah, ok, that makes sense, it looks fine, and like I said I don't care much about graphics, I just want fun gameplay.

[quote who="Omnax1" reply="43" id="2638009"]August 24th is still too early to me... lets have a look. We still havent got: Multiplayer (there can be problems witch connectivity) 3D engine (Again, hardware issues, performance) Fallens Diplomacy Victory Conditions Caravans and roads Whole combat system + (Naval, morale, sieges) Most of the spells Editor Tools AI <

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="107" id="2637930"]Can you explain how the screenshot in reply 70 is "boxy"? I guess I'm not understanding what you're looking for. I look at #70 and see a lot of detail. [/quote] It looks fine to me, the only issues I see is that the ore deposit looks kinda 2d, it doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the terrain, and the ridge of the hill looks weird, like there's no snow there. But I'm sure that's only because the gr

[quote who="Aractain" reply="29" id="2637510"]Soo this is the one where they go console with a dumbed down version and give the PC users, to their horror, the same version and act suprrised and hurt when the PC users throw it back in their faces? [/quote] "It's the pirates' fault!"

I don't care if it's ASCII, I just want a good game! Gameplay is ALL that matters, a game can have horrid graphics and still be extremely fun.

Here is a current screenshot: Ha! That actually looks quite good compared to what I'm playing: And no Beta 2? I don't care if all the AI does is hide in a corner and laugh maliciously, I want something to actually test!