IIRC, the backstory behind the game is that there was a big crystal that was shattered, and that the channelers can draw from pieces of it. Maybe the spell of making reforms all the fragments into one big one under the control of the caster? You'd be the only channeler left at that point. Either that, or maybe it makes a horde of bear cavalry riding black mages. [e digicons]^_^[/e]
[quote who="psychoravin" reply="12" id="2288222"]I think what they wanted and most of you fell for it was just some upfront money so they could take a nice long summer vacation on your dough. lol I never liked paying someone for work not done because of this. You get all kinds of promises and perks promised and blah blah and in the end you end up waiting on them to do something they promised months ago. What a nice excuse using Demigod as a reason for the setback and you all still waiting to
[quote who="Aesir Rising" reply="18" id="2285524"]It's not as a dramatic a reason as "preventing piracy" but I still say the reason you're going to be forced to use Battle.net for any multiplayer is due primarily to the in-game advertising deal. That's where the money is at, not piracy prevention (hahahaha). [/quote] I dunno why people see that as a big deal, though. Diablo 1 and Starcraft both had ads in the battle.net lobby. Most of them were ads for other Blizzard stuff,
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They could add DX10 later, but when XP is a major part of your audience and the game isn't meant to be Crysis anyway, it's probably not a priority. 11 at this point would be a total waste of time, the installed base for it in terms of hardware is non-existent. I do agree though, it looks great in LotRO (outside of Moria, inside there was some shadow bugs).
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="1" id="2284404"] It will be cracked, and when it is it won't just be pirates who patronize this service, but otherwise legitimate players seeking LAN gaming. Congratulations Blizzard, you've just brought the mainstream gamer and the pirate into the same fold. This is the ultimate irony and idiocy of trying to combat piracy by taking away features from a legitimate user. [/quote] "Cracking" is really the wrong word. A normal "crac
Another question - are the trees "done" yet? A friend of mine was looking at the screenshots and commented that he really didn't like the trees in the zoomed in city. (He did really like the combat one and the tech demo one though!)
The city stuff looks great. :) I'm pretty sure I've seen a similar combat screenshot too. I like where its going though. Honestly I'm still not that clear on what the tactical combat is like, but I never played X-Com.
Trying to force me to go outside on Canada Day instead of reading the forums? [e digicons]B)[/e]
[quote who="Dyranum" reply="16" id="2283910"]Some of you (meaning most people) are pretty uninformed on this. Blizzard have said that they'll implement L.A.N. through Battle.net 2.0 somehow. [/quote] (odd, I can't type capital r anymore. It brings up some weird ruler thing instead.) So when rob pardo said "we will not support LAN", what he really meant was "we will support LAN"? I can see how that might confuse people.
[quote who="lmudmanl" reply="9" id="2283741"] No, it's not activision. It was made very clear when the merger took place that activision was going to have zero control over blizzard.[/quote] Yeah, right. Every game company buyout/merger follows that script at the time. It appeases the fans. It's usually not true. This whole thing fits Activision's M.O. to perfection. Exploit, develop rapid sequels, and monetize everything in sight. Blizzard suddenly changing directi
Nah, this is Activision at work. They've got their fingerprints over a lot of stuff lately, like how WoW is now going to allow you to change a character's faction (and thus race), for a fee. That was previously something they said they weren't going to do. That buyout is a bad, bad thing.
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="12" id="2283192"] Quite the opposite. Now the only way to play LAN without buying multiple copies is to pirate or get third party hacks. [/quote] How so? Battle.net doesn't let you on without a valid cd key. If there's no LAN support in the game at all, there's no magical pirate switch to enable LAN. This is almost certainly aimed at piracy, since no LAN = no Hamachi pirate networks either. Starcraft had a battle.net server emu
Well, at least he's not calling everybody carebears now?
[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="23" id="2281638"]Quoting psychoravin, reply 2010) Are you really going to make a NEW fantasy strategy wargame or just another repeat of the ones past with some new glitz and glamor? I just have to respond to this. Elemental is not a wargame. Jesus Christ in a handbasket how many times do we have to tell you that? [/quote] You expect our resident troll to actually *read* things?
How does tactical combat actually work? There has been a lot of confusion over that, and "continuous turn-based" around here. What happens if a channeler is defeated in combat? If I ask really really nicely, can I get one of those "We want you for the Drengin Empire" posters that was visible in one of the Demigod videos? [e digicons]^_^[/e]
I'm not even sure what this thread is about anymore. Therefore, I will post a random emoticon. [e digicons]:meow:[/e]
[quote]Goodmorning all; The problem i have with this is that the "if you have something so complex that you want the AI to do it for you . . . it shouldn't be that complex in the first place" people still will feal that they are not playing a game built for them. they are playing a game crippled for thier ammusment. If you read frogboys post on player added mods and exponentially complex chains of supplies to build bigger and better creatures ad-infinitum, you get the
whee, thread necromancy. All these comparisons to GC2 don't really fit that well. The whole thing in GC2 was ship component space. You have X space to fit stuff. Laser II to Laser V changed the size, so in some cases it let you fit an extra one (or something else). Clearly it can't work that way in Elemental, since you aren't going to be able to wield 3 Claymores at the same time no matter what you do to the size of them. Since you can only have a certain number of weapons any
[quote who="Mazuo" reply="5" id="2277406"] Ubisoft support over at the German forums has already stated they just have to be contacted and they'll reset that if needed. [/quote] If that's actually true, then what is the point of the DRM at all? It won't stop pirates for more then 3 seconds. If you can *really* just call to get it reset (and I don't buy that), then it won't stop the resale market either. So just who are they targetting with this defective by design garbage?<
[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="3" id="2037848"]nVidia drivers for Vista work in Win 7 Perhaps, but the drivers Nvidia intends for you to use are only available through Windows Update. And they work just fine. [/quote] In the first few months of Vista's release, the drivers Nvidia "intended" you to use were a buggy PoS that actually topped a list I saw as the #1 cause of ALL Vista crashes. They really can't do much worse this time, especially since they don't ha
[quote who="CarGuy1" reply="20" id="2276509"]Does anyone have any release dates for Windows 8? If you add them up, this is Windows 8 1. Windows 2.0 2. Windows 3 & 3.11 3. Windows 95 4. Windows 98 & 98se 5. Windows ME 6. Windows XP 7. Windows Vista 8. Windows 7 [/quote] You forgot a couple of versions of Windows NT in there, which is the actu
[quote who="Denryu" reply="11" id="2276456"]At the very least I would expect either an email or a PM (or both). It would be weird if it just showed up on Impulse and there was no other notification. [/quote] As I said, if you get in, your pre-order gets charged. Stardock automatically sends an email to your Impulse account when that happens. The email gets sent before the game is registered (though if the Impulse tray app shows a notice for a new game appearing, it's p
They could send a PM to the chosen 24, but they'd only have to do that if they can't figure out what the persons Impulse account is in order to activate the registration. If they can find you that way, you'll get an email from them when the charge goes through and the game becomes active for you anyway.
It'd be more realistic to have a MM option where some things are simply hidden from you if you want it on simple. The AI governor can take over and automate stuff like town development, tax rates, combining resources, etc. You'd then not see that stuff, but it's actually going on still. Making multiple systems the way you described it is as others have mentioned a development nightmare, and not practical if they ever want to release the game.