ZehDon

ZehDon

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Reply to I like what I see, but I hope that Stardock has enought time and resources to finish and polish it... in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="33" id="2679818"]Are you expecting say the magic system (to pick one at random) to get a complete rewrite between feature freeze and release? Most of the game is there, feedback about it as a whole game is totally valid...[/quote] Re-writes? Hardly. Additions and tweaks, absolutely. As I said in my post, if something isn't up to scratch, explain why and offer some thoughts as it how to can me made fun, otherwise the post has zero validity.&nbs

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Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="80" id="2679824"]... to be honest, in the event of nuclear war I'm going to have more important things to worry about then if my games work.[/quote] Really? If the nukes start dropping, I'm firing up Deus Ex for a speed run. Sure, I could spend that time with the family and stuff, but honestly, I'd just regret it.

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Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

I'm guessing here, but it should function fairly basically. You'll buy the game on D2D. Either during or before the installation process you'll need to download and install Steam. You'll then need to run the game through Steam to play. [quote who="coreimpulse" reply="71" id="2679561"]That means now D2D is an affiliate of the Steam network. They probably made a google adsense-like affiliate deal, by which D2D sends their visitors to the Steam Store, since I doubt a

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Reply to I like what I see, but I hope that Stardock has enought time and resources to finish and polish it... in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

If you're not a Game Designer then how do you know one month is not enough? I'm not trying to insult you here, it's just that these kinds of "I don't make games, and I don't know how to make games, and I don't know how to make this game better, but this Game isn't good enough." posts are pointless. If you have a suggestion for the game, by all means post it. Offer up some constructive critism, present valid arguments and reasoning. Infering that the Deve

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Reply to I like what I see, but I hope that Stardock has enought time and resources to finish and polish it... in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="MxM111" reply="10" id="2678577"]I do not think that they are "much much further", because there would be no reason for beta test with us in that respect. And while we do test and report bugs, we are just now starting seeing the gameplay...[/quote] Stardock have their own internal Quality Assurance (QA) testing that catches as many bugs as they can, the object of the Beta test is to catch everything else as well help balance the gameplay. For example, you'll notice that

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Reply to I like what I see, but I hope that Stardock has enought time and resources to finish and polish it... in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote who="tesb" reply="7" id="2678451"]...a shallow game... as of now the beta is not particularly deep and it lacks unique playstyles. i am not worried about bugs or missing graphics or even lack of content (i enjoy playing on cloth map more) but different and unique game mechanics...[/quote] You're making the mistake of incorrectly identifying the lack of features for a lack of completion. For example, the Tactical Battle system has been completed for quite some tim

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Reply to I like what I see, but I hope that Stardock has enought time and resources to finish and polish it... in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]...I think only now the game shapes itself into something that actually could be called beta, but still lots of things are missing or not working, so I am not sure if it can be called beta, it is still more like late alpha...[/quote] I'm guessing you didn't read all of Frogboy's posts? He's been basically saying that the Beta program for Elemental is their Alpha, and that by normal standards what we have doesn't constitute a Beta. As Frogboy has been say

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Reply to How A Netgear Router (NOT Impulse) Ruined My Night... in War of Magic Elemental Forums

... So, I then tried to reinstall it from an installer downloaded directly from the Impulse site and that was considered "corrupt" and it asked me to find a new file. I wanted to blame myself (virus?) but was suspicious b/c my puter is on lockdown... Are all downloads, even those not completed through Impulse, becoming corrupted? Have you tried downloading other files from other sites? ...It updated by itself to the most recent version of Impulse

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Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Then they'll be selling other Steamwork enabled games, which means Valve have one less reason to remove the client requirement for Steamworks. Might as well just send ol' Gabe Newell to their customers' houses to download and install Steam for them.

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Reply to Is Elemental ready for prime time? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Keep in mind, what we have in the Beta is only a small fraction of the build Stardock have, and likely a lot of the present bugs/crashes/glitches are already fixed. We're getting tactical battles this week, and with that I suspect we'll see a host of stability improvements for the stuff added in Beta 3. As the old programming slogan goes: " Programs are never finished, they're meerly in stages of 'less broken' and if its not broken, it doesn't have enough features. "&n

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[Crash Bug][Beta 3A] Research Screen in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

When the research breakthrough screen comes up to allow you to select the breakthough you'd like, it displays what that breakthrough unlocks, and what it leads to. If you click on any of the icons it brings up its data screen. Now, when I click the 'X' in the top right to close this screen, the sound effect for the screen closing (page turning sounds) plays however the screen doesn't close. If I click the 'X' again, my game crashes. This appears to happen only by doing

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Reply to Am I The Only One Who Can't Stand Bioware? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="3" id="2675520"]The only thing that bothers me about bioware as a whole is they havent changed the formula at all, and I’d like to see something fresh from them. I’m not sure its fair to criticise their fantasy stories as derivative, since virtually all fantasy is. But I can certainly see your point. I still really enjoyed dragon age, because I thought the gameplay was fun. Story was meh. The opposite for ME2, where I thought the characters were fant

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Reply to Blizzard RealID... or Why I put my faith in Stardock. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="42" id="2674672"]...It's a lot more feasible to conclude that Blizzard saw how popular social networks and the features they provide have gotten and decided to hop on the train, rather than Kotick coming along and whispering sweet things in their ears to make them do things they didn't want to do.[/quote] I'd like to agree with you, however that's simply taking the situation at face value and thinking everything is simply geared to providing a better experie

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Reply to Blizzard RealID... or Why I put my faith in Stardock. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="37" id="2674648"]...Which is largely irrelevant as by all accounts save more unproven speculation, Blizzard is still independent. Just like there's absolutely 0 indication that Blizzard had anything to do with the merger, there's 0 indication that Kotick/Activision Blizzard had anything to do with RealID, Facebook integration, or anything Starcraft 2 related. [/quote] If you're unable to see the writing on the wall, then I'm afraid I can't ma

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Reply to Blizzard RealID... or Why I put my faith in Stardock. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="32" id="2674220"]Strictly speaking, Blizzard's parent company merged with Activision. Blizzard didn't exactly have much of a say in the matter.[/quote] While that is true, the Director's of Blizzard hold quite a bit of power within the Vivendi 'family', and hold quite large a stake in the company as a result; Blizzard's parent company is now called 'Activision Blizzard' not 'Activision Vivendi' for example. The exact dealings struck will neve

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Reply to Portal 2 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Ah, and you're quite right, too, that's exactly the game I was rambling about. Nice to see. Strange that I missed that piece of news, I must be going blind in my old age :(

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Reply to Portal 2 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Valve hired those guys, and they helped make 'Portal', didn't they? As far as I am aware, and I could be quite wrong here, Valve have not hired the people responsible for the creation of that game. I'm not saying they've stolen it out-right, however the concepts are quire similiar. I can't quite recall what it was called... it was available at the same time as 'Dyson' was and featured entirely cell-shaded levels, played from the first person.

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Reply to Portal 2 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

[quote who="DoomBringer90" reply="8" id="2673610"]Well, as VALVe is the sole company working on it, I don't see any problem with them making it a steam exclusive, just as I don't have a problem with Stardock making their products Impulse exclusive...[/quote] Exactly. I, for one, am looking forward to Portal 2. Some of its so-called 'new features' were the selling point of an independant game I played a while ago, involving using a paint gun to na

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