With the beta scheduled to go out TODAY I thought we should go over some of the game concepts here.
Now, as has been mentioned, the graphics for beta 1 are stripped far far down in order to focus on the core game play.
Now when you start out the game, it is just your sovereign. The world is largely covered up. As seen in this screenshot, you see the outline of land but not much else.
Eventually, you will come into contact with other players as you can see here.
Designing units (with weapons) revolves around 3 factors: How often they can attack, how much damage each attack can cause, and how much training time the selected weapon adds.
I must say I admire the resolution
woa woa woa! I thought we were going to tone DOWN the graphics!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hehe priceless! Reminds me of the old days when my father got his first philips 'console'. About the samen quality (that was 1981)
It looks the enemy has an advantage over you in the SN.
Sweet, it's color, I was just hoping for Vectrex level graphics!
Ha, reminds me of this old electronic measurment device my dad had, it could do about as much as the modern hand-held onse, only it was the size of a shopping cart.
Looks like Sin(x)s of a Solar Empire, to me.
(Sorry, I just had too)
I thought you said we'd be playing on a cloth map not an oscilloscope!
BTW notice how in the third graphic when the weapon is complete that it adds 25% to the power of the unit, I bet that is one gnarly weapon.
Alright Brad... stop being evil and launch the damn beta!
Bah!, sure you are trying to get down our expectations for what awaits us... later I hope.
Please, don't play so much with our impatience.
wow now i'm reassured that my laptop can run it
ROFL Well the Beta certainly looks healthy if nothing else.
Then don't forget we send in our bug reports and suggestions. You should be filling out a form for them that looks like this:
Binary is a simple language and keeping it in binary or hexdecimal makes it easier for coders like Frogboy to understand
woa im getting horible flashbacks of my phisics practical lectures in uni if the beta is as much fun as those were ill shoot myself now to save having to download
If youve got time to mess about with "screen shots" youve got time to relese the beta
At least it will be easy to tell if we are alive!!!
soooo ... elemental is now tennis for two 2009?
At least it looks better than Pong...
And i foud first bug inBeta Unit equpped with wepon on screen 3 hould look diffrent than norman and it isnt changing
This game looks AWESOME.
But you promised Lissajous Patterns... Does that not come until beta 2 now???
There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the six months, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your computer. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Elemental War of Magic Beta.
Based on the build Frogboy is using in those screen shots, I can tell already that Stardock is going to lose to PC Gamer.
Wow, people will "line" up to play that!
No? howabout...
He really threw us a curve with those screenshots!
or....
It's gonna take me awhile to make sense of this "wave" of new information.
I'll be here all week... (like it or not)
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