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How about overall slow game performance? The "late-game slowdown" bug is just a continuation of overall slow game performance from start.

They don't have to be "Flags" per se, it could be bars or something else similar that indicate faction, size and strength. I don't like having to hoover over every unit to see some information, or have to click on them to get everything I need to know. It should be visible on map in my opinion. And toggable for those that don't like it, just like city flags are.

[quote who="cephyn" reply="335" id="2747613"]Oh for godssakes you guys, give it a rest. it's been a week. it's not like the game would be cheaper if you waited a week or a month to buy it. give them a chance. you bought the game - why? cuz it sounded awesome. stardock has their developers working on it full-time for a year. did you play galciv2? the game didnt even resemble the release version in 6 months - it was 10x better. [/quote] "It's been a week"? I thought the game was

[quote who="I Intrude" reply="329" id="2746844"]Ive had two devs today tell me that there will not be a fix or patch for this today (Monday).[/quote] I hope they can give us a hint on if it's fixed or not soon. It's really annoying bug with manually countable framerate late game. CPU and GPU use is very low, GPU-Z says less than 25% GPU load, and Process Explorer showed that CPU use was far from maxed out.

Where is the review? ;)

Why are there no unit flags on the map? There are city flags that you can turn on/off, but no units has flags or did I miss something? I would like flags, and it would be nice if they showed which faction the unit is from, how strong it is overall and what health it has overall (maybe only for your units). The flags would also show when you are stationed in a town, so it's easier to find see them when in town. Example of how unit flags look in Empire Total War: <p

[quote who="greywar" reply="187" id="2731873"] I think it has little to do with the game or the fairness of this review. [/quote] It has to do with their credibility. I didn't see them coming to the rescue when the Total War forums was filled with complaints about crashes, bugs and an unplayable game. No, they gave the game such superlatives I thought it was a joke when I read it and many other reviews at that time.

[quote who="greywar" reply="184" id="2731840"] The mag being hypocritical doesn't make this game less broken or more finished. Enough with the "mag is biased" strawman.[/quote] And I didn't say that. If you read what I posted, you see I mention that it is fair to criticize a buggy game. So you think that it's not fair to criticize PC Gamer for their inconsistencies?

[quote who="enigma691" reply="156" id="2731716"]Empire Total War was imho way buggier on release and still managed to get high scores from nearly all the major reviewers. I thought it was the worst by far of all the total war games released. Yet somehow this game is worse for having all the bugs that Total war had? Yeah I would say this reviewer has some sort of axe to grind with either stardock or the CEO. This game has a few glitches but it is still playable whereas Total War was not at rel

Here is PC Gamers review of Empire: Total War http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=209544 The gave it 9.4/10, using an amazing amount of positive adjectives at release and I quote the beginning paragraph: [quote] This is the grandest, most spectacular work of strategy gaming on the PC. If you've not tackled a Total War game

It's funny how journalists always try up the ante on everything. The headline "Elemental’s disastrous launch: stay well away" is typical headlines to get more hits and to get their article read by a lot of people. The game was well beta tested as it had a long semi-open beta period, and I assume a lot of different tester hardware. That bugs still creep in is unfortunate, but I wouldn't call it "disastrous launch: stay well away", maybe "problematic launch: be alert". But I guess that wo

[quote who="Lucifon" reply="110" id="2726907"]Not in stores thats for sure. Online. Play.com, Shopto, etc often offer new titles for that price. Demigod was £17.99 on Play.com at launch.[/quote] Over here, sometimes shops sell games as bait products, i.e. at lower than normal price to get the customer there and buy other stuff too. But still most games sell at full price, which is normally 400SEK or more (just about €40, or £33). But that mostly happen to big games, l

[quote who="Lucifon" reply="98" id="2726770"]Very expensive for us UK gamers Can pick up alot of PC new releases for £18-£20 off sites here, Elemental is £32 for the digital download, probably a tad more when you get to the final price - stuff usually is on Impulse. But no retail version of the game over here.[/quote] £18-20 for a newly released boxed PC game sounds extremely low. Most new PC games cost double that amount or more. Where do you buy your games?<

[quote who="MartialDoc" reply="17" id="2726722"]Actually, I felt the GalCiv 2 AI needed some work... They tended to ignore certain aspects of the tech tree and the battle AI didn't work as well as it could have (still built excessive units it didn't need and didn't organize it's units effectively to attack). I am hoping to see an improvement over the AI in that series.[/quote] It is two complex strategy games with small budget, don't expect miracles. The quality of the AI is a l