Elemental: War of Magic - News Roundup

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We haven't posted anything on Elemental in awhile so I thought it's about time to do a roundup. For those of you still interested in seeing what can be done with Elemental here are a few news items you might be interested in:
War of Magic 1.2 Changelog - This was released back in May. It's much too long to post here, but here are a few changes:
Raze city no longer requires a tech and is available right off the bat for all of your cities.
Prestige penalty for multiple cities has been broken out in the Other category on the city screen (instead of being a part of the base prestige number).
In the city breakdown the amount of buildings is listed (so it will say Study x3 if you have 3 studies in that city).
Added a new game option to adjust Movie volume.
Removed the city idle dialog, replaced with a report item notification in the event list.
War of Magic 1.2a Changelog - Mini update to fix a few bugs and a crash.
Fallen Enchantress: Champions - Derek Praxton talks about the role of champions in the upcoming expansion:
Champions don’t run around as they did in War of Magic, they don’t come to you, you must go to them. There are no randomly generated champions in the game, each champion is specifically designed to be unique and interesting. Most are found in the world, but some unique champions can only be earned through quests.
RPS Interview with Derek Praxton on Fallen Enchantress:
RPS: I suppose that was one of the key issues with Elemental’s sandbox approach: there wasn’t quite enough to find, quite enough variety, for it to really feel like you were exploring and getting the most out of this world…
Paxton: Sure, and that’s a shame because the backstory and the lore really does support the creation of an interesting world. It just wasn’t reflected in the gameplay. We had large plains, and then hills, and then plains again. There’s not much to encounter out there, and so one of the pillars of Fallen Enchantress is making sure that the world is full of new and interesting things. Whenever a player starts a new game this time around, they will have something to discover.
RPS: Magic was a bit underwhelming the first time around, wasn’t it?
Paxton: Yes. We’ve gone through all the spells for Fallen Enchantress and looked what they did. We had a decent spell engine in War Of Magic, it could do a lot of things, but maybe not with as much as variety as we wanted. Many of the spells felt too similar. Some of them did the same thing with different numbers, so this time we are looking at each spell individually and we’re coding these spells specifically. That’ll give us unique effects from each of them, different reason why they are used. We also want larger impact spells in Fallen Enchantress. If you have 1000 mana stored then that’s a Civ player sitting on nuclear weapons. If you see someone creeping up on that, you might want to deal with them. Magic will be a significant part of this game, as it was in Master Of Magic.
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for people who have this is it playable yet? down to $28 on Amazon.
 
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True. I'd wait until Fallen Enchantress. I still haven't gone back to Elemental except for a short trip just to see what's new and it looks and feels different, but I'm still holding off on giving it another shot till after Fallen Enchantress.
 
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Isn't Fallen Enchantress going to be a separate standalone game?

Anyways, I purchased Elemental cheap a few weeks ago, but haven't installed it yet. I'm waiting for the 1.3 patch which is currently under development.
 
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I was almost tempted to reinstall it after playing at release. I'm surprised it is still in such a state this long after release.
 
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It was a disaster after release and I wasted so much money for collector's edition. I'm not buying anything from them ever again.
 
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Isn't Fallen Enchantress going to be a separate standalone game?

Anyways, I purchased Elemental cheap a few weeks ago, but haven't installed it yet. I'm waiting for the 1.3 patch which is currently under development.

AFAIK, it will require Elemental - and I think it will be an addition more than a completely separate thing.
 
AFAIK, it will require Elemental - and I think it will be an addition more than a completely separate thing.

Not sure about it requiring Elemental, but I don't think so. It is a completely seperate game, not an add on.
 
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Sort of, but they are working on the original game still as well as making a new one in Fallen enchantress.
 
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I bought it about 3 months ago and it's fun and very playable, with no bugs that I could find.
 
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ok, so what is it then? the expansion/sequel going to have a number of bug fixes the original doesn't right now?
 
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ok, so what is it then? the expansion/sequel going to have a number of bug fixes the original doesn't right now?

Easiest way to think of it is that fallen enchantress will be a spinoff similar game and the original will continue with a different focus..smaller team working on the original though.
 
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