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SotS has 3 expansions actually, or 2.5 if you don't count Argos as a full one since it didn't introduce a new race. But yes, the game play is dramatically improved over the initial game. My comments on the GC AI have more to do with the decision to go with an open space design, which the AI simply could not handle. Brad even told me why back in the old forums, the AI didn't look at everything in it's scanner range. Meh, if you develope

[quote who="Rasael" reply="11" id="2745563"]I wish we could get that amount of depth in Elemental, this game would be Emperor of Gameland for years to come! Especially the magic system is awesome! Just wait until you get kidnapped to Tartarus (I really miss this sort of thing in Elemental )[/quote] Indeed. Though if you remember Dom1 and 2 (and even FoE) then you realize just how far Dom has come. By the time Elemental gets to I

Neither, Sword of the Stars (and it's expansions) is clearly superior to both. Especially GC2, which becomes trivially easy to beat due to piss poor AI implementation on the strategic level. Then again I don't know what the going prices are for any of those games, so maybe you can afford to just get all of them ;)

SP exists only for you to check out various start strats, and maybe end strats, though the latter is a bit boring as you are just cranking micro to finish research/acquire gems/whatever you are missing. MP is truly excellent, if you are into that sort of thing. The community is pretty solid too, or it was, been over a year since I last did any MP, I don't even know what patch they are on now :p Anyway, if you can handle the low quality gfx,

https://forums.elementalgame.com/393123 A similar system, though incorperating a fatigue stat to allow for better differentiation of weapons and armor. Also gives additional perks to groups, and allows for additional techs to be introduced to fill out the tech tree (at least for warfare) and provide specialization in different forms of combat via research. The WH system is fine for tablet

[quote who="MisterS" reply="3" id="2738599"]Great ideas. What I would also suggest is a (small) defense/attack bonus to squads (greek phalanxes were tough because they were groups - taking lancers on 1 to 1 is much, much easier than 100 by 100) and a shock modifier. Seriously, morale has no role in the game whatsoever at this time. Especially cavalry should be able to rout units. Fatigue and morale linking leads to flanking bonus while not even having a flanking modifier: attack them with you

Thanks for the comment Sathar. I'm not sure my system is the 'best' or even 'doable' given the potential code limitations, but I wanted to get it out there before I lost the details ;) Anyway, if the combat system is as moddable as the rest of the game is supposed to be then my hope is that those with an interest in this area will have the mod tools available to make combat as simple or complex as we want :)

https://forums.elementalgame.com/393123 Addresses this issue indirectly by adding another stat, fatigue. Thus you can balance weapons by making them tire your units more quickly, or giving maluses to hitting or dodging. So take your biggest damage weapon, but realize that your unit can only swing it 5 times before their ability to hit anything begins to degrade, as well as their ability t

Check out my overhaul... https://forums.elementalgame.com/393123 Though it doesn't exactly get rid of 1d rolls, it does address the problem in another way.

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="9" id="2733161"]I've heard of Jagged Alliance but never played or seen it. So fans, tell me why I should be excited about this remake [/quote] Do you like turn based tactical squad combat games? If yes then be exicted. If no, then don't bother with it.

A proposal to make melee combat more interesting/realistic/balanced Note that this proposal would require some rebalancing in the distribution of unit statistics, as well as the introduction of 3 new unit/item stats. First I will describe the necessary stats for melee combat. Strength (STR): Base damage of a unit. Modifies unit encumbrance (ENC). Modified by unit fatigue (FAT). Dexterity (DEX): Base chance to hit and dodge. M

[quote who="sagittary" reply="1" id="2735084"]WHile I can understand where you're going, I don't think making quests/mobs/etc increase with time is good, if for no other reason than predictability. As it is, you have no idea when new things pop unless you're leading the way in adventure tech. If the game simply scaled them up, you could then easily plan for Turn 100, level 3 mobs appear. Doing it dynamically (mobs scale based on some system) could work better for this but then that takes away

[quote who="Philamon" reply="106" id="2735021"]Really makes me wonder how much Titan Quest-itis is going on... how many complaints (post-patch, anyway) are relevant, and how many are from pirates who can only access the buggy, unfinished version and are outraged the game they spent all that time and bandwidth downloading doesn't work right... As for the current problems, I'm surprised... as of 1.05 I still had a few CTDs, OOM and sudden decline in performance. As of 1.05

The teleport spell should be sov only, it doesn't seem right that you can just jump your SoD around, seems to remove almost all strategy from the game really.

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="101" id="2734693"]I think what bothers me the most is that the harsher critics of Elemental are basically lying about the state of the game at the moment. I'd say that any outstanding issues as of the 1.05 patch are minor at worst, yet you have people out there saying that the game is practically unplayable.[/quote] Well maybe it is for them. Did you ever stop to think that you're not the only one with a computer

lol... anyone who takes this rossanderson idiot seriously needs to slap themselves he's easily the biggest most repetitive troll of anyone posting here just ignore him and your time spent here will be more pleasant.

[quote who="Jourdelune" reply="10" id="2734126"]Life is duality. We got the people who love to learn by themselves, you got the other who want to be taken by the hand. Guess what, that UI is far more advanced than civilization UI. Why? 1- Event don't bug the flow of the game. I don't need to answer (show me button) each time a city build a building. EWOM > CIV 2- The button to get the next city that do nothing is fab

I would guess that the 2nd defines 'finished' better, or at least what SD means by 'finished'. Because 'finished' just got finished being taken out back and severely beaten...

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="226" id="2732394"] Quoting Birdmon, reply 224I am sick and tired of spending my hard earned money on UNFINSHED games. I will NOT buy this game. We keep accepting unfinshed product as "ok" - because they all do it. Well it stops now for me. Good Luck fools Thanks for sharing now get lost...if you don't have the game, don't plan on buying the game, you got nothing.[/quote] Nah, he registered here just lik

[quote who="chaintm" reply="214" id="2732202"] Quoting greywar, reply 187 It isn't germane to the meat of the review of this game which is spot on for large chunks of the customer base. bah defend your publisher all you want, but pc gamer uk is known to be the "worst" review/preview etc etc in all publications. Maybe the people in the U.K, are actually blind to this fact, but not many others outside it. Funny thing is, the Pc Gamer US version is al

Kudos to you Brad, I knew you'd take the high road here. The internet is the internet, and you have to be painfully careful what you say on it when you're in a position such as you are. I hope you are able to get some good rest and not let all the hoop-la eat at you too much ;) Time heals all wounds, and eventually the craziness will settle down and the merits of the game will be discussed rather than the merits of the release.

[quote who="surlybob" reply="189" id="2731887"] Quoting greywar, reply 177 Quoting surlybob, reply 176This is total bull. Elemental is more bug-free and playable than most major house releases on day-0. Another crappy commercial gaming rag slamming the games that aren't made by major advertisers. Behold the power of lowered expectations. Behold the power of unreasonable expectations. Elemental, in its current

I would just read the patch notes (since there already is one) and from them deduce if you think the game is 'ready' enough for your standards. It doesn't matter what people who have the game say, it doesn't matter what people who don' t have the game say. You're the only one who knows what you find acceptable, so if you've taken the time to read about the issues (or non issues depending on your POV), then you can look at the patch logs and see which ones that troubled you got add

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="42" id="2730346"] Instead PC gamer quotes Brad as saying "we think it's finished and if you don't like it, don't buy our games." Yeah, that's the one Basically, there were around 4 pages of back and forth between Brad and a few others ('Ben' is the only name I remember) talking about the stae ot the game. MANY complaints, about everything from non-intuitive UI, design choices, and technical issues. this turned into "the game was not ready f

[quote who="NDYag" reply="2" id="2730313"]I'm somewhat shocked that this kind of combat model isn't already implemented. It seems like it ought to be an obvious thing to separate the "to hit" roll, and the "damage" roll, especially when you have a computer to do all the computation and rolling. It adds a great deal of depth to the model, and increases the choices available to the player. Great post. I hope one of the developers sees it.[/quote] &nbsp