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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 17, 2012

My initial reaction on reading about essences was, 'oops, they want to add another imbalance to the game'. 

The community has been making many posts in the Beta and Support forums about existing imbalances that need to be ironed out (including trade, economy, mana management, pioneers and overland magic). 

Are you planning on implementing all features first and THEN addressing balance changes, Frogboy?

How are you and your team managing that data coming in from the beta testers?

on Jun 17, 2012

GFireflyE

Not 7.....Home.

I run win 7 home, have never had any problems with FE... well thats a lie, but I dont think I have extra problems... damn I hate when you guys FORCE me to play FE for hours and hours just to test if it crashes.... well thats the official excuse anyways

That said I miss my win 7 ultimate instead of home, I vaguely remember it running more awesomely on my PC upstairs. (But the laptop is more powerfull, so more fun to use, also allows me to lie down and play)

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

on Jun 17, 2012


All is nice but right now I think the major gripes are:

* UI issues

* Performance

How many times my armies were standing for seasons because even with auto switching they were left behind? Why when entering battle game switches to another army? Wtere did the mine was destroyed? These may sound trivial but all that little things create the image of the game. 

on Jun 17, 2012

I run on a pretty old machine and 32 bit vista and haven't had a crash in several patches.  The only problems i've seen are the running man and other known issues.

on Jun 20, 2012

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.

Will those of us with a Steam account and who are eligible for a free copy of Fallen Enchantress be given the option to download the game via Steam instead of Impulse/GameStop?

on Jun 20, 2012

Mtn_Man

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

Will those of us with a Steam account and who are eligible for a free copy of Fallen Enchantress be given the option to download the game via Steam instead of Impulse/GameStop?

You probably will receive a CD key somewhere on this page, or the page you can download the game from, and you can type in that CD key into steam to add the game to steam too.

Did this with a few of my CD'ed games. (Its called retail games?, anyways, the ones I bought in a store and got a box and stuff)

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

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