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No, I think only OP is forgeting that. :) If you look at the list of stuff that was mentioned for backporting, it was "I'm not saying ALL of it, just the things like UI, champions, world variety, etc" Of course if you take those things, you need to also take the engine improvements that were made to support them. You're probably bringing Shader Model 3 as part of that because "world variety" now has shinier SM 3 art that you need to include. All the art has to get backported.<

[quote who="Sethai" reply="20" id="2956144"]Great news. Traits are a great idea: there is a reason i think why almost every RPG system ends up having a feats, perks or traits system (or something similar). I also love the new interface and all the art that is coming into the game generally. I am however, more used to trait type features for characters rather than units. It’s important that they are exceptions to the rules, rather than the basis for the game. I’d hate th

The Trait UI right now doesn't seem to display what the trait you're selecting does. That's just a work in progress oversight, right? :)

[quote who="DevildogFF" reply="13" id="2955896"]I don't think it's like any of those analogies, really. I'm just saying that they should give WOM some of what makes FE a better game. I'm not saying ALL of it, just the things like UI, champions, world variety, etc. That shouldn't be THAT hard to do and I wouldn't see it do anything but make the game BETTER. [/quote] Why? The whole point of making FE is that they can work on all this stuff

[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="9" id="2955793"] We've heard about a better world (dev journal), better champions (dev journal), better tactical battle (dev journal?), and a better magic system (no dev journal yet), but we haven't heard about yet is unique factions. I fear this is going to be the major epic fail in FE. If we just end up with the same factions who SD think are unique because they get a different starting tech, then the critics and this forum are going to

[quote who="alaknebs" reply="7" id="2955671"]wouldn't be surprised to see some fe stuff in wom at a later date if fe works out. that is if those things fit in with wom. stuff like champs from quests or some such for example... think i saw fb mention that[/quote] He also said he found it hard to work on WoM given how much better FE is, and that he doesn't expect a lot of demand for WoM after we get FE. If FE works out, there's no reason

Depends on if you find and's easier to read then or's or not. Personally I prefer this version: if (enemyPower > ourPower && (!humanHasRanged && !humanHasCaster)) { } :)

[quote who="Teslacrashed" reply="3" id="2955625"]better analogy. I own a sedan. it gets me and my friends from point A to point B. My mother owns a van. it gets her, and her work supplies from point A to point B. Both are vehicles, but serve different functions. Neither is "better".[/quote] You have car A, which is a 2010 model year car. I own car B, which is a 2011 model year version of the same ca

[quote who="Buladelu" reply="48" id="2955128"] Quoting Lycenae, reply 45Instances? Tiers? You must be playing world of elementalcraft. So you are not freaked out by DPS in turnbased game...[/quote] Nah, "DPS" has become a generic term these days and people know what it means in this context. No need to change it to DPT. :)

He looks really happy to me, but not quite as much as this guy :D I like the smilies here, they're almost as good as the pre-2011 Windows Messenger ones.

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="18" id="2954357"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 10You guys starting to see why I'm having a hard time working on War of Magic v1.3? FE is just so amazing. isn't FE just a remake of war of magic seeing as most people that bought it are getting FE freely? seeing as FE is based of WoM your working on FE in a sense.[/quote] FE's forked at this point, and looking at how different a lot of stuff already works (housing is gone for example among oth

If you have a "stay at home" Sovereign or Champion that sits in a city and gives it bonuses, do they gain experience from doing that? Or do they share XP when your others do stuff? Looking good otherwise. :)

I stopped playing WoM a while ago, and boring combat is the main reason why. I can live with a lot of other stuff, but with so few units having skills, no traits, very easy to beat AI, and no terrain modifiers/obstacles , tactical combat is pretty much exactly the same every fight. City sieges in AoW 2 were the highlight of the entire game, and without walls, trees, bulidings, and other obstacles there's just no way

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="30" id="2953510"] I haven't been keeping track of that. GameReactor said that. They may have based that on amount of consoles sold. I think the Wii is the easiest console (of the Wii, Xbox 360 & Playstation III) to pirate games for so that might be why.[/quote] The Wii sold the most consoles because a lot of people who don't normally buy consoles bought one. But those people also didn't buy very many games. The attach rate

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="21" id="2952883"]I've seen the presentation of the Wii-U and I'm supremely impressed! I NEVER thought I'd be that impressed by a console. The innovation in that thing! Nintendo has done it again. They will win the consolewar again.[/quote] Again? Going by the measure of games sold that didn't ship with the system, they didn't win last time. :P The Wii's biggest problem in the market is that people don't

[quote who="Austinvn" reply="82" id="2952893"] Thing is, AOW:SM is not a 4x - it's more of a 2-3x, so to speak. It has no technology research (spell research doesn't really count), city founding and development are very minimal, little diplomacy, and so on. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the game for the tactical combat, which is quite good; when it comes to redesigning tactical combat for FE, the more ideas they inherit from AOW:SM the better in my opinion. I just object to

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="18" id="2952751"] Also, last I heard, it's not technical reasons preventing the use of multiple controllers. Apparently they don't want to force people to buy expensive tablet-like things (which is actually a pretty good thing if you ask me. Those won't be cheap assuming they do sell them).[/quote] But doesn't that also mean you can't use the new controller's features in any game where more then one person can play on the same

[quote who="Bellack" reply="19" id="2952827"] Wait a minute....If is is the best and only AI guy in Stardock and WOM AI sucks then that does not bode well for FE. Me thinks there are other AI guys flying under the rainbow or Brad is actully working more on FE than WOM. [/quote] FE doesn't share WoM's problem of changing so frequently and drastically that the AI is being written against a constantly moving target. It's a more formally specced out

There's still the "third game". They could add some of this stuff back into that one since like FE it'll have a full dev team and dev cycle, rather then a couple of people trying to patch stuff in.

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="11" id="2952377"] Let me know when your iPhone has anything equivalent to Mario, Zelda, Uncharted, Little Big Planet, or anything that isn't a glorified flash game. And it's hard to stay the number one portable console when it never held that title in the first place . The DS has sold at least 144 million, while the iPhone is at 73 million (both of those numbers are from the end of 2010). [/quote] With the rate at which phones

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2952186"]With that said, the following titles in particular I thought looked extremely high-quality: Bf3, From Dust, Prey 2. There was also an action-oriented game with a main character that was immortal, you could rip your own head off and roll around. Don't remember the title, but at least a tiny bit of originality in there. [/quote] <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/asuras-wratch-the-god-finger-attack-post

Technically sound (ie: stable, no memory issues), wish list "more of everything" implemented, and available within the next 4 years. Pick two. ;) Unfortunately when building anything on a limited budget, you need to focus on what you can actually do with the resources at hand. That's one of the reasons behind FE cutting a lot of stuff, the aim is to do fewer things but do those things better.

I'm not sure it's going to matter a lot either way for Elemental, but if your intent is to play games on the laptop you're going to want the stronger GPU. Anything that uses shaders and such (and Elemental does) will benefit from that tremendously.

Send an email to [email protected] and explain it to them. They'll be best equipped to sort it out.

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