[quote who="Stuie_" reply="50" id="2884910"] Quoting Werewindlefr, reply 49 Mount-Hyjal Had to google that reference. You kids nowadays and your MMO games![/quote]As the previous poster mentioned, it's a reference to the last mission of Warcraft 3 vanilla, so not related to WoW. Just some good old fashion RTS culture.
[quote who="Austinvn" reply="22" id="2884868"] Also to avoid significantly throwing off the balance of combat, any armor decrease should be accompanied by a health increase. I really don't want to see more oneshot kills - longer combat is more tactical! You have time to make more choices, and the results are less affected by luck.[/quote]If the combat is too long, it breaks the pace of the 4X game. But yes, a large number of factors (extremely high values of attack/defense compared to HP
It would be interesting if failing or succeeding in a quest could make another quest available much later. I love the Demon portal thing, but I also like the story behind it and can't help thinking: "wouldn't this be cool if, whether you close the portal or not, things escalated?". What if the Lord of Demons started meddling with the affairs of the plane of Elemental in a later quest? This could almost turn the game, temporarily, into a "let's put our differences aside and mount a Mount-Hyjal
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[quote who="TheProgress" reply="19" id="2881105"] I'm running XP on hardware that is around 4 - 2 years old. I can play Crysis at high detail at 1920 * 1200 just fine. I own DoW 2 and get 60+ fps. Don't have Batman. Point is, your comment is s-t-u-p-i-d . [/quote]Sure, 2-4 years old, that's 2003-2004. Or wait, it's not. (I'm only talking about the hardware; I don't care about the OS).
Please add the AI not using shields/1-handed items on the list. [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]
[quote who="NoobFukaire" reply="99" id="2880689"]guess which part was a massive failure? [/quote]Part S . A non-freeware MoBA with 8 heroes ? It's just like a racing game with 10 cars. You can make the content well polished and interesting, it's just not enough and will not sell. Look at LoL and HoN for comparison, and LoL doesn't even ask you to pay 40 bucks to play it. Even with a very good multiplayer support, DemiGod needed at le
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[quote who="Aeon221" reply="10" id="2880348"]Why upgrade to 7 when it uses twice the ram? So that you can add more ram? Higher clock speed? Overrated! Bigger video card? Who uses 19x12 anyway? My machine is from 03-04 and still runs everything from Victoria 2 (processor hell) to Dragon Age (video card rapist), so I'm not sure what all the fuss is about personally, especially considering how simple, low maintenance and well designed XP is at this point. If you think you need a pimpw
[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="93" id="2880640"] I object to Lua on the same grounds I object to Python. AngelScript is clearly the best choice of the three as it ignores whitespace and has strong typing.[/quote]Python, and to a lesser extent lua, have a clear advantage here. Modders are often familiar with them. Even if they aren't, those languages are not uncommon and learning them will be useful elsewhere than when modding Elemental. I mean, sure, I'd love Elementa
He admitted to being a fat geek, so your doubts are understandable. Geeks don't get laid.
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="80" id="2880579"]They are taking gaming business more seriously and even hiring people like Mr Paxton and Mr Shafer to help with Elemental and beyond. Mistakes may be made but I would say that at least the intentions are not to repeat EWoM's events.[/quote]That's very good, except there's too much "and beyond" for now.
[quote]In the broadest sense, almost every game is a RPG, as the term itself simply means that you, the player, play a game in which you take on some role. [/quote] Exactly. In the Monopoly boardgame, you play the role of a Tycoon, in IL-2, a Sturmovik pilot. But if I had to define what is the difference between an RPG in the more common sense of the term and those games, I'd say it's a matter of choice-based gameplay. A P&P RPG is almost only a game of choice (and, for many peopl
[quote quoting="post"] 2. In the default formula for calculating the hit point bonus from level and constitution (10 + level * .4 * constitution), made 10 data-driven, can be set with the tag in ElementalDefs.xml. [/quote]Very Good. Now I can make my homebrewed balance mod - and simple enough that I can still use Kenata's / Heavenfall's mods with it. I am reluctant to ask for more, but if we could change what unit qualities
[quote who="BernieTime" reply="65" id="2880455"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 21 I'm not sure how popular our concept of an RPG would be. We're talking pretty old school stuff. No first person. Just old third person, party (Baldur's Gate / older Ultima). Very niche. There are great examples of turn-based RPG's that I loved playing. Baldur's Gate, X-Com, Silent Storm, Freedom Force. [/quote]X-Com, Freedom Force... RPGs? I know computer RPGs have a sl
I think NelsMonsterX has been somewhat too harsh here, although I see his reasoning. As I said on another forum (to which Frogboy actually answered), this sounds like a Molyneux-ism. I'm confident part of this roadmap will be good games; I can't say that they will all be, but there is little evidence pointing to the mediocrity of all these games. If it had been Derek Smart, I'd have said otherwise, but it's a completely different situation. I don't know about FE, and I don't know what ar
Hi Derek, Can we expect a fix to the CoreUnitStats.xml*/CoreUnitGroupingTypes.xml/CoreUnitQualityTypes.xml trio, or would that require extensive changes to the code ? *Some parts of it work, like accuracy, but it's impossible to change base hit points from here anymore.
[quote who="BernieTime" reply="14" id="2878065"]That's a pretty weak list of "Must Haves".[/quote]I agree with that. Among these, I've only ever needed VLC.
[quote who="M. Agrippa" reply="239" id="2877773"] Honestly all the people complaining about lack of content never make it even 1 level deep into the forums to notice the amazing stuff the mod community is putting out there. Must not join the .... s [/quote]I feel somewhat insulted by this comment, and I am glad Stardock doesn't follow this philosophy of game development. Mods are not here to fix the game or to make a dull game not-dull. Availability of mods isn't an excuse fo
Derek, I have a couple questions about 1.2: -Is it going to follow the same update schedule as 1.1 ? Regular patches with incremental fixes/improvements ? Or does 1.19 contain the bulk of the changes we should expect in 1.2 ? -Can we expect more armor fixes ? From my experience in 1.19, it's still really broken, "blocked" results are the norm instead of the exception, and quality is still far superior to quantity. -Is the new spell (from the contest) going to be imple
[quote who="Gene1966" reply="37" id="2876953"]I want "Balance" to be addressed in Beta 1.2 PLEASE!!! [/quote]Actually, the reason why the AI is not that hard to beat in "ridiculous" is a game balance. The AI is coded to play the game as it should be, without cheesy armor-rush tactics. Sure, it has issues with using equipments, but it really wouldn't be such a problem is there wasn't such a crushing domination of quality over quantity. Fix armor to have it become damage
[quote who="CHiZZoPs" reply="176" id="2876081"]I still don't get why tactical magic doesn't have a spell skill rating ala MoM. Just have it be based of off intelligence, and suddenly int becomes a bit more important. A 25 int could mean 25 mana pts could be used in combat, in the case of a 1:1 ratio, for example.[/quote]Well... simple: it requires some extensive(-er) modifications to the game, which are outside the scale of this update. I'm with the devs on this one, it
Derek, could you please make a small change for us modders ? We've lost the possibility of changing base hit points (in CoreUnitsStat.xml - changes there have no effects) and Unit Quality/Group attributes (CoreUnitQualityTypes.xml/CoreUnitGroupingTypes.xml). If I'm not satisfied with the current state of the game in terms of balance, it doesn't matter so much as long as I can mod it. But currently, some basic properties are not accessible from the game, although they previously were. Please r
[quote who="Dsraider" reply="169" id="2875931"] If you can cast infinite fire balls in a row why not Blink? Even if you added cool-downs to all spells it would be lame because people would still just alternate between similar spells. Fireball, Magic Missile, Lightning etc.... WHat possible reason could be given for being able to throw lightning but not fire twice in a row? [/quote] 1) Why not ? It might require some charging time, or it might strain your body. It's magic, make u
[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="167" id="2875721"] - Diplomacy? Broken with op politicial capital, exploits in trading abound and a power rating system which doesn't work at all. [/quote] Yes, diplomatic capital needs a overhaul. As it is, it's a tool for making the AI poor if you find a diplomatic resource. [quote] - Economy? Gildar is of no concern since Gildar income and expenses aren't balanced (ie. there is way too much income) - Research? Ther
Using the same calculations, if the attackers had 30 attack instead, they'd have dealt 5 damage (166-161, because of the cap on attack). That's calculated using the same set of rolls than your 1-900, but raising the 10 and 14 to 15 (after square root). I'm... not sure it's enough, really. And if they had 20 attack... I mean, full light plate is 14 defense, and a broadsword is 15 attack. It's not like equal defense vs. attack was rare or extreme. Also, here, part of the problem
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="126" id="2872839"]Can you throw some numbers our way as to how damage vs armor works in 1.19? That knowledge is needed for mods, and for the hardcore players. #52 is extremely vague.[/quote]I think I can answer that one in his place: If nothing else has changed, then the max value of armor or attack is squared before the roll, then the roll is between 1 and max squared with equal probability for each result, then the result is square-rooted. For attack,