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Greetings! It’s been awhile since we’ve put up an update on where things stand.  So without further delay, here are some answers to questions we’ve received recently:

When will Beta 4 come out? The best I can say is “This Summer”.  It definitely won’t be out in June but might make it in time for July.

What will be in Beta 4? Beta 4 focuses a great deal on the civilization aspect of the game.  Specifically, the way cities are constructed. A third prime resource, essence, will be introduced (grain, materials, and now essence) which will help encourage greater specialization in cities. The graphics and user interface will also see a significant series of improvements for Beta 4 as well.

Will there be a Beta 5? Probably. Depends on how we’re feeling about Beta 4.

Will Fallen Enchantress require Steam? No.  We plan to make Fallen Enchantress available to purchase on Steam. But it won’t require Steam to play.

What is the status of multiplayer? It is our intention to add multiplayer after release but it won’t be available on day 0.

What is the status of modding? We would like to open up modding officially during the Beta 4 phase. No promises though.

Will there be more spells? Yes. We add more spells as we go along.

When will the final game be released? We don’t have a release date yet. But we are hoping sometime this Fall. We want to make sure we have all the time we need to make Elemental: Fallen Enchantress as good as we can make it.

 

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on Jun 14, 2012

I would like to use my essence to bring Umber back!

on Jun 14, 2012

Sarudak
But what does essence do??????????

Makes people happy!!! (no I am not serious)

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

on Jun 14, 2012

From a simple Civ look at things then essence most likely affects research.

on Jun 14, 2012

Lonemessiah
From a simple Civ look at things then essence most likely affects research.

Hmm?  So, if I build a Library, I get magic esssence, which enhances my magic research.  If I build a barracks, it provides military essence, boosting that research, etc...

That could be interesting.  Shot in the dark, of course, but such a system would be cool - so long as there are tradeoffs.  What would stop a player from doing what we do right now, and building every eligible building?

 

But again, this is just speculation.  But I do like your idea.

on Jun 14, 2012

UmbralAngel
I am looking forward to this. I liked how Warlock had lots of variety in bonuses you could attatch to your city, while the only unique thing about your city in Fallen Enchantress is your city level up buildings. Those are pretty bland in most cases, so I never get get attatched to my cities.

Same here Warlock is a very good game. The only two down sides to it currently is the bland magic system (I only use 4 spells) and the AI is weak but them most of these games in this day and age cater to the carebear players who balk at any challanges,  I recently got the King Arthur bundle from Steam for $12 which included all the expansions and DLC's and King Arthur 2. It was refreashing to play a game Original King Arthur that actully had a challanging AI. Have not played KA2 but I had heard it had some issues.

on Jun 14, 2012

Awesome news Frogboy!

All we can hope for in a game we want to love, is a team dedicated to producing the best game they can, and we got it.

on Jun 14, 2012

I hope you're not stringing me along with the "MP after launch" note... Quit playing games with my heart!

Edit: Added smiley to make sure the tone came across as was intended.

on Jun 14, 2012

goodgimp
I hope you're not stringing me along with the "MP after launch" note... Quit playing games with my heart!

Edit: Added smiley to make sure the tone came across as was intended.

Quote this for the ages:

ASSUME that Fallen Enchantress will never ever have multiplayer.

That way, if things don't work out for it, you won't be disappointed.

The reason we want to put MP into FE is, really, because I want it in. There's no business rationale for it. But so much of the MP is there I just hate seeing it not finished off.

on Jun 14, 2012

Frogboy
Quote this for the ages:

ASSUME that Fallen Enchantress will never ever have multiplayer.

That way, if things don't work out for it, you won't be disappointed.

The reason we want to put MP into FE is, really, because I want it in. There's no business rationale for it. But so much of the MP is there I just hate seeing it not finished off.

 

Hopefully that stops that discussion, or at least simmers it down.

As to other matters (crashing), I do still get the disabled turn button crash, not often but I do get it. Has there ever been any way to know that you have received the automatic crash report? Have never seen any pop up windows or anything saying "crash info submitted." I suppose next time it happens I'll just submit manually regardless.

And every now and then I get a corrupted view of the trees/foliage, but that usually goes away with a quick scroll in/out with the mouse wheel.

on Jun 14, 2012

I didn't give a rat's ass about MP in E:wom, but I have to admit, as FE is getting better and better my interest in MP for it is starting to increase.

I really hope SD can make this game work financially though. I'd love to see a threequel.

on Jun 14, 2012

Frogboy

Will Fallen Enchantress require Steam? No.  We plan to make Fallen Enchantress available to purchase on Steam. But it won’t require Steam to play.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

Will be buying the game as soon as I get home today.

 

on Jun 14, 2012

Is there a possibility to get a steam key as part of the Fallen Enchantress for free if you preordererd War of Magic deal? Downloading directly from you guys is fine, but a steam version would be super. Especially if there will be achivements.

on Jun 14, 2012

Essence is just the generic name for a commodity that breaks the third wall. Essence is essentially virtual cash. it plays on the idea of "essence" being vague and ethereal...which to the characters in-game it is.  But to you it's a 'real' thing.

You will be able to buy dyes for your champions' magical gear, and even new accessory slots for various visual 'upgrades' (they will have no impact on game-play.)  You will also be able to trade in essence (albeit at a very steep rate) to go against pre-orders of future Stardock titles.  There will be a set limit of 50% off, since quite frankly there is no online check against hacks or exploits...it will be pretty easy for people to just give themselves loads of essence.

But hey, 50% off your next Stardock purchase?  Sounds ok to me.

on Jun 14, 2012

Lord Xia
Essence sounds like a terrible name for whatever it does.  We will have to change that.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes?qt=qt0454454

 

on Jun 14, 2012

Thanks for the update.

In another thread Frogboy said that essence = beer.   So that issue is solved.

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