Another game coming up soon focused on tactical battles. Here is a video: Link and here is a demo including 4 missions link have to admit, quite nice and impressive with number of choices, and with good AI.
Inspired loosely by tactical battles of XCOM and boasting very cool fully destructible environment this game deserves a close look: LINK
Jafo: following your line of reasoning, if it is really by GUI that system is judged, and the fact that the very next generation likes this kind of GUI, perhaps the Win8 will pass into history as groundbreaking and revolutionary MS system :) Second, i thought we are talking on Elemental-website, did not know elemental is about win-modifications. Third, paradoxically, Win8 made me buy the only software from Stardock i am actually using, namely Start8 :)
[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="180" id="3317746"] Quoting Savyg, reply 174Been using computers for 27 years now and I love it, so that's bullshit. "using computer" =/= Experienced Computer user My mother has been using computers for the last 50+ years (she was weened as an IBM Operator), but she will be the first to tell you she is not an "experienced computer user".[/quote] I am computer programmer by my profession, though i do not work
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="9" id="3310735"]Fighting on roads only costs 1/4 movement points.[/quote] Not true. It is very inconsistent. Many times for fighting on the roads you get penalized by loss of mp depending on a territory, as if road did not exist. It varies also if you auto-resolve or not.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="126" id="3309989"]Lot of path finding work got pushed into the v1.2 build insteaad of waiting for 1.3.[/quote] Finally, dream comes true.
[quote who="willie sanderson" reply="16" id="3309741"]I've been running without a paid one for almost 20 years now and have only gotten one issue that a small FREE program like "UNHACKME" easily fixed[/quote] Seven years without an anti-virus and still counting .... Once a year i install couple free antiviruses and some payed from my dad, no viruses so far. In this age any serious email, music, software server runs good anti-virus. No need to slow down your comp.
[quote who="baddl" reply="35" id="3308859"]There are numerous surprisingly detailed bug reports on the forum. The bad thing is that bugs are not acknowledged, let alone fixed. I would expect that testers take over, trying to reproduce the behavior, maybe asking questions, and then passing "tickets" on to the developers with sufficient detail.[/quote] Agree. Following FE development for two years, and some bugs are immediately acknowledged, meanwhile others are totally and systematical
[quote who="CogBurn" reply="97" id="3308598"]Currently, if you move in tactical, even if you had movement points left, you are stuck wherever you moved to. You essentially get one move. Either use up all your movement points or you're screwed. Why can I not move a couple squares, and then a couple more? If you don't want abuse of move-attack-run away, then make it so doing an agressive action (offensive spell or attack) expends remaining moves.[/quote] Fully support - it is a
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="83" id="3308316"]The mouse cursor not highlighting the correct tile is very high on my list. I haven't seen this so I am thinking it might be configuration specific. I want to emphasize, does this happen even with the HW mouse cursor on?[/quote] Had same problem couple times, especially during the long session. Re-starting the game solves the issue.
Since lots of the posts mention pathfinding i thought i will provide a link with a detailed list of annoying path-bugs, at least those i have identified. Here is a link: https://forums.elementalgame.com/435933
1) Pathfinding Especially when you go out of a city and missing road for some strange reasons 2) Roads Not only that they go through lairs, but also this: new city/outpost always creates a road only to one city. If i have a cities A and B not connected by the road, and then i build an outpost between them the road will go only to one of the cities. Similarly, if i have a number of cities in a shape of circle and i build a city right at the center of the circle it will
[quote who="nDervish" reply="9" id="3303070"]For what it's worth, I never allow attack orders to run past the end of a turn (I like to control my units turn-by-turn for everything except long marches through safe territory) and, in something like 120 hours of play, I've never encountered this problem in the context of an attack.[/quote] Yup, it is working. Sad, though, that the bug reported for two years has never been solved, or at least, acknowledged by devs as 'known is
The issues with path-finding caused me to take some break from FE ... Especially on the roads and coming out of a city.
Interesting new game with a free demo available. Similar somewhat to the Battle of Wesnoth (except possibilities to play with terrain modification) and is focused on tactical turn-based battles. Looks very promising. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1426761469/telepath-tactics/?ref=kicktraq
I liked the movie, though i did not like much action scenes. I enjoyed non-actions part mostly - dwarf intro scene, gollum's riddles, trolls, and i have to admit that dragon is depicted brilliantly. Meanwhile battles, running through mines etc. felt kind of forced to me, and very similar to LOR's scenes. It feels like, i have seen it already....
[quote who="jutetrea" reply="806" id="3291537"]The main point - once I can handle any of these bigger spawns its pretty lackluster. by this time there are so many stacks to clear its a bit monotonous and while i can barely clear a 5k elemental stack - the AI has NO chance. [/quote] Agree. I usually give up a game when it is just too much work to clear a map from hundred of stacks. You cannot auto-resolve battles, and they can take a long time. The only factor is how much hp/mana battl
[quote] If they had only spent a bit more time to fix it. Fun game with frustrating bugs.[/quote] Could be a great post. If he has spent some time more formulating his thoughts.
[quote who="uberlicker" reply="13" id="3291064"]Seems promising, though I'm a bit put off by the early economy since getting enough scrolls of wisdom or portal (or whatever they call it) is a bit of a hassle apparently. I guess you can just sell unIDed stuff you're not going to use anyway, which is what I do, but the inventory feels small, and the inability to easily go back to sell 'junk' makes me sad.[/quote] Because game discourages you from selling 'junk' :
I used to play a lot Quake 3 cpma mode, and i developed a taste for fast and totally skilled based shooters, hence, I do not enjoy much Battlefield nor COD. Recently i have discovered Shootmania, paid for the instance beta access and I really enjoy it. Game is simple, not many guns, but with many fun modes and lots of skills involved to master. It is pure shooting, pure as it gets. Thought game a little bit simplistic in the beginning (you cannot change your weapon for most of t
[quote who="Kongdej" reply="18" id="3290732"]Sometime during the Beta testing, Stardock yelled out a motto, it was "Go big, or go home". They removed all the attributes like "Stength" due to this motto, since the Strength score wasn't important, it was the modules it affected that was important. The problem is, they only really had this motto during 1 month removing stuff, then they kind of forgot about it and left it there. Well thats my grumpy post written while in pain for more gr
[quote who="Murteas" reply="3" id="3290114"]Or just a general open/closed borders option with a certain faction. [/quote] Exactly. Once i had a neighbor that was pushing his pioneer through my territory - every turn i had to tell them to leave .... Very, very annoying. AI, however, never gets tired from telling you off and throwing you out from their territory. I suspect that it will be hard to implement, however.
[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="3" id="3287269"]1. UI : Show the pathway movement (and how many turns to get there) before I click to move.[/quote] Yea, i am waiting for an expansion/fix myself, before i return to play. Too many rage-quits after random moves ruins the game for me at the moment.
[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="76" id="3287282"]I have won insane with four of the vanilla races - Gilden, Resoln, Yithril, Tarth, and Altar. Make that five. I would probably not be able to do it with three cities, and enjoy it with anyone but Altar.[/quote] Respect :) I understand your point, i just somehow dislike the idea of cities development stopping abruptly - yes, not even slowing down, but just stopping dead - and forcing me to do civic research. </p
[quote who="NaytchSG" reply="6" id="3287408"]How did Google Translate do on that, native Polish speakers?[/quote] Very funny and does not make any sense at all :)