cpl_rk

I've never seen 40+ units in a town in this game, but I've always been able to win on large maps with max # opponents by the 350 to 500 turn range. It never gets further than that for me. In fact, I've always been able to win before fully reaserching all the techs. In one game I saw an AI with several 10-man catapult squads which were very strong, and I realized I needed to move faster to win, that was the one game I lost, I think that was when the 1.08 patch came out which nixed wanderi

[quote who="mriguy" reply="42" id="2809650"]I agree that the concept of teleportation has no place in Elemental... Now, folding space, that's an entirely different matter. [/quote] What they should've done is tied the teleport to certain spellbooks, or attenuated the effects based on teleport. Say for example there was a basic teleport that moved only one guy and an advanced teleport that moves a guy + army. Have som

[quote who="dabrownsrphat" reply="49" id="2809657"] I am talking about a single battle. Fighting a force that takes up 90% of the free spaces on the battlefield and if you lose your archers due to ammo, you almost have no chance at winning. So this would mean either not having archers, or go into battle at a disadvantage. I'm for realism, but this game is not about realism, unless people could throw fire balls, make lightning storms co

[quote who="Istari" reply="126" id="2809763"] When you say specs for the 3 or 4 test rigs, do you mean for the game to be published with the specifics of all the hardware and software versions used in those machines? For example, Asus Geforce XXX with XXXMB DDRX, Intel Core iX @2.XGHz, XGB DDRX RAM, Soundcard X, Windows X XXbit, DirectX um....X, .NET X, Service Pack X, etc.? [/quote] Yeah I guess that's the idea. The potentia

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="122" id="2809735"] There are still one man/women games being developed, and a number of them actually work when they are released too, on a number of machines. [/quote] How hard would it be, for example, for someone with (say) a degree in CS, who otherwise never used it professionally for whatever reason, to create a game using something like this http://unity3d.com/unity/ </

[quote who="Istari" reply="113" id="2809626"] Speaking for myself, I don't have a problem with being disagreed with, but I do take issue with the tone and method of communication being used, even when I agree with what's being said. ....... Being a fanboy or a hater (however you wish to define the two), or somewhere in between, does not preclude that your comments and opinions can be put forward in a way that is tactful, constructive, and with an inoffensive t

[quote who="nickak2003" reply="104" id="2809248"] The problem is a severe lack of ****GAME****. If the AI doesn't work, that's not a game. If the balance is absurd, that's not a game. If the gameplay is BOOOOORING, that's not a game ( or at least shouldn't be one). [/quote] I'm not going to comment about the talent or lack of talent, since there's absolutely no way to objectively quantify that with respect to game developers. I'll agree that the

[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="45" id="2807443"]The only thing taht must be improved in 1.1 is the AI, strategic to tactical. I could care less about all the rest as it can come slowly if the AI would just be challenging and fun and proper difficulty by difficulty levels like GC2. [/quote] I agree 100%. AI is the most important, and its ability or lack thereof will ultimately decide how long I stick with this game. Even if they did nothing

[quote who="dabrownsrphat" reply="46" id="2809484"]Limited instead of infinite ammo is not a good idea. I am guessing you have not played a very long game yet. When you come into a battle where every spot on the battlefield has an enemy unit except the squares right above and below your army, THEN think if limiting ammo is such a good idea. When archer units run out, they are useless. No limited ammo. [/quote] Yeah, but they would auto-reple

[quote who="Black-Knight" reply="12" id="2808975"]Alright alright I was drunk when I wrote this shut up everyone! [/quote] [quote who="Lord Xia" reply="13" id="2808995"]It's cool, I say dumber shit all the time. [/quote] What was that movie with Jim Carrey? .... oh yeah, Dumb & Dumber [e digicons]\o/[/e] Sorry, couldn't help myself. You guys just left yourselves wide open for that, someone had to comment, better me than someone else [e digicon

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="90" id="2809004"] You can expect/demand anything you want. The question posed was why do so many games ship with problems. I've given some pretty specific, concrete examples. You can say it "doesn't matter" all you want but it doesn't change reality. [/quote] That's right, the reality is I've bought some PC games that didn't work "out of the box" even though I've met the system reqs given by the computer ga

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="83" id="2808912"] Oh come on, thats just plain silly! Do you really think that gamers should have their games preform adequately if their hardware meets the posted minimum requirements and that games purchased should function as designed or have the functions as posted on their box? That's insane!!! [/quote] The game has to be functionable as defined from some starting point. I don't expect anything from

[quote who="dadoo2" reply="77" id="2808859"] Yeah he baited you, you let him and responded in kind then snapped at someone trying to be a voice of reason, someone who agrees with you if you hadn't noticed, just doesn't appreciate your way of expressing it, and if this keeps up, this thread will degenerate into a flame war. [/quote] Well, I wasn't snapping (at least not what I would define as snapping), nor was I trying to offend the second guy or start a flame war

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="79" id="2808872"]Let's put it in a real nutshell: I make a call to get a piece of memory from a video card via DirectX. On Card A, I get my memory. On card B, I get an error code. On card C, I get a bad pointer returned because it didn't handle running out of texture memory gracefully. On Card D, it crashes the process because it expected me to first query the pool available prior to calling it. If I, as a developer, don't happen

double post

[quote who="dadoo2" reply="73" id="2808813"] Regardless of the source of the problems with this game ... [/quote] Dude, you need to read the posts, the topic of the thread is "PC games" no longer work at realease. It's a very broad topic that covers pretty much all PC games of all genres (sp). I didn't single out particular games, unless I did so in another post. And, those were in fact game failures out of the box on my system which matched the required specs.</p

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="71" id="2808760"] A game or computer app should work as described on the box if my system matches the system reqs as denoted on the back of the box. When the system requirements on boxes start listing specific chips, along with all the other crap and peripherals you might have - maybe then you'll have a point. [/quote] I do have a point exactly as I've written it, and it's 100% spot on.

[quote who="Magog_AoW" reply="69" id="2808685"] I am tired of people who dogmatically declare that because games run fine on their computer, those who experience problems must have "really bad luck (or crappy system[s])". .... I would say they are crappy at using their computer and learning from earlier experiences. If you want to be a PC gamer you need to be a bit more interested in how computers work and good at problem solving. It's not a console. &nbs

1.1 is supposed to change the combat and magic system, I would definitely wait for 1.1 as these changes would significanlty change gameplay.

Better than release version, but *significant* changes will occur with 1.1 version, I would wait until then.

I actually did have a startup crash happen last night. My game locked up after I clicked the turn button (which usually happens if I don't save every 3 to 5 turns). I hit ctl esc, which is the only way to exit the game at that point. When I tried to reload the last autosave the game crashed at startup (wouldn't load: out of memory error), tried again same thing (apparently the problem got "saved"). I had to go back to the "previous auto save" before I could play the game. But this is not rela

I just want the game to work as described on the box if my system matches the system reqs as denoted on the back of the box. As a consumer, this is a very basic expectancy that anyone buying (any) product should receive in return from their purchase.

[quote who="Dhraconus" reply="20" id="2807891"] Please no. That would be so incredibly monotonous after about the 1st time. While I appreciate the concept and it would be more realistic I would hate having to constantly check, and recheck, squares expending mana in the hopes of maybe getting something. I would quickly stop doing it as I'm sure many others would. [/quote] Actually, the idea was 1 movement point to search not mana. Sear

I try to get in the habit of saving every 3 or 4 turns. Even if you autosave every turn it's still a major frustration having to go back and redo all the moves and battles for 100+ units on large maps when you get to the later turns, where each turn can take 20 to 30 minutes easy when you've made it 300/400 turns into the game.

[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="3" id="2808066"] Quoting cpl_rk, reply 2 Sometimes it does some kind of special damage, it occasionally hits one of my summoned guys and does like 40 points of damage & seems to inflect some kind of spell. Of course there is no description of this in the manual, so I have no idea what it is actually or what the chance is of it doing its special damage, it seems to have a small percentage chance, like critical hit, of happening. I typ