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LintMan:
Anyone here playing Stardock's Fallen Enchantress beta?  I'm really curious because I'm hoping Stardock will make good and come back strong after the disastrous Elemental release.  I'm eleigible for the FE beta but despite my curiosity, I'm scrupulously avoiding it, and pre-release betas in general now. 

I fear the Elemental beta scarred me for life: spending several months of the beta seeking out and dutifully reporting bugs and flaws made me all too focused on its problems (and then to watch the game get released without fixes for any of them) so the one time I loaded the game a few post-release patches later, I couldn't get myself out of beta bughunt mode and found myself still fixated on spotting the bugs/flaws and unable to enjoy the game.  Being a software developer myself is probably part of that.  I'm really hoping the FE reboot with a more savvy game designer in charge will turn things around, but don't want to risk getting myself stuck in beta mode again.

Similarly, I've bought AVWW and really wanted to try its beta, but it's probably better for me to avoid putting myself in beta mode.   :D 

Dizzard:
I was just looking at a video of fallen enchantress on youtube. I'm still a little confused what it's about.

Is it an mmo? Or is it some sort of turn based tile rpg. (like Fire Emblem)

chemical_art:
I can't take anything about enchantresses seriously.

I blame TV.

LintMan:

--- Quote from: Dizzard on February 26, 2012, 12:58:10 PM ---I was just looking at a video of fallen enchantress on youtube. I'm still a little confused what it's about.

Is it an mmo? Or is it some sort of turn based tile rpg. (like Fire Emblem)

--- End quote ---

Fallen Enchantress is a turn-based 4X strategy game set in a fantasy magic-n-monsters setting.  I've never played Fire Emblem, but I suspectthat's more about the tactical battles.  This is more like maybe Heroes of Might and Magic, but with more city-development/economy emphasis including founding new cities, and a research tree.  It is the apology/follow-on to Elemental:War of Magic, which was somewhat billed as the spiritual successor to a legendary classic 4X fantasy game called Master of Magic (MoM).   (If you haven't heard of MoM, it was by the same people who did the first two Master of Orion (MoO) games, still revered in the space 4X genre.)

After Elemental was released half-baked and with fundamental design flaws, Stardock promised to make it right and to give everyone who bought the game the first expansion for free.  This expansion morphed into a major rewrite and a stand alone product, but is still free for the early Elemental purchasers.

Souls-Stream:
A bit old but I'm in the beta of fallen enchantress and also sins of a solar empire rebellion.

Well, rebellion is totally badass I every way, it's SOASE but much better !

FE ? Can't really say the same, the beta is practically unplayable right now because it keeps crashing every so many turns ! Never saw a game crashing so much... But the devs know it and will fix it.
As far as the game it's way better than war of magic and they really made a huge progress, it's more like master of magic now. I complain a lot about the magic system, tactical battles and research in general but a couple should be fixed by the release ! The new system is cool and not cool IMHO, so many things I hate and yet so many I love ! Though the devs are really attentive to players but don't dream too much, it's far from arcen games :( I'll see what it will be by beta 3 in April but I don't know... The different spells are still blah to me :( and earth magic is a total failure ! Armor / creating mountains and leveling terrain ... Blah thats so pathetic when it could totally modify the battle field with cool stuffs.

In FE you don't research spells anymore, you have to gain them through adventure and I hate it, you just can't stay in your city fortifying and researching until you are ready to rock ! They really force you to go out of your way which is good and not good at the same time IMHO .

So much to complain about but hey, where month away from release date so hopefully it will go well ! But I can tell that they are going on the right track and working hard, just check the main page with the main forum topics, it's pretty awesome :)

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