Stardock's new game -- Elemental: War of Magic

**Veho Nex** · 08-29-2010, 18:51

I cant get this game to load past the artwork it shows after you start a random map. Ive waited for 30 minutes one time. Its not freezing though... Its driving me off the deep end, and add my issues with wireless I just cant seem to get anything to work for me....

**Xiahou** · 08-29-2010, 20:06

Originally Posted by Veho Nex

I cant get this game to load past the artwork it shows after you start a random map. Ive waited for 30 minutes one time. Its not freezing though... Its driving me off the deep end, and add my issues with wireless I just cant seem to get anything to work for me....

I'm starting to think I must be the luckiest guy on the planet when it comes to this game. Other than the slowdowns- mine gets down to 18FPS, which is still entirely playable for a TBS -I've had nary a problem.

I think I might not be ready for a large map epic game. After the last patch, I started a small map, normal paced game and I'm doing much better. Early on, I absorbed one of my fellow empires because they were sitting on lost libraries and other great resources that I just had to have. After that, Pariden started to get aggressive towards me once again and was hemming me in territorially. I managed to quickly capture their city that was hemming me in, kill many of their armies, and curse their best research city with ignorance. After that, I offered them very generous peace terms and they've essentially been my vassal since.

My next war was with yet another empire- Umber, when I decided to come to the aid of my new allies, Pariden. I took one of their cities(killing the sovereign's wife and daughter in the process) and intercepted their sovereign and his army when they were coming to retake it. I've still been researching heavily into magic and have a large force of summoned creatures and was able to kill their sovereign in the field, thus ending the Umber empire. My remaining opponents are the kingdoms of Pariden, Tarth, and Altair- the last of which I still have no contact with. Now I'm able to summon demonic troops, and frankly, it's hard to imagine how any of them could oppose me.

My first demon, about to set to work on some hapless bandits:

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My empire as it now stands:

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**Veho Nex** · 08-30-2010, 03:46

Well I finally got the game running, only took me uninstalling and reinstalling then re-patching about 10 times. Hit a memory leak issue every 250 turns or so but from what ive read thats common. I havent delved too much into the magic section, been focusing on heavy hitting inf lately. I'll post some pictures from my game later.

**Whacker** · 08-31-2010, 20:08

Been waiting for this for quite some time now, I just bought the Collector's Ed. last night.

Gotta say, I want to love this game, and when they finally get 'er all patched up, I'm sure I will. But for right now I'm putting it aside.

Bugs bugs bugs. I've ran into more than a few of them, and both of my campaigns I've had to abort/shelve for now. The "end turn" button bug cropped up on both of them, which forced a hard stop as you can't continue. I've been able to build multiple buildings in the same city that I should only be able to build one of. I've not been able to build in a city when I know I haven't hit the 50 tile build limit at all. Some unit bonuses aren't working, I forget which ones I ran into at this point. I saw but didn't run into the level 7, 8, on up spells not working/showing up in game. Units not following shortest/best path when auto-moving really vexes me. The overall game UI could really use some tweaking and polish. Other things here and there, but I've definitely seen more than a few bugs.

Tough-love assessment: they pulled the trigger on this about a month too early. Lots and lots of rough edges, and some stability issues for quite a few people. This is Stardock though, and they've proven to be a solid business with good ethics toward their customers and fans, so my disappointment is somewhat tempered. Will try it when the next patch comes out, hopefully very soon.

**Whacker** · 09-02-2010, 16:27

I didn't see this until just now. Here's a really good, comprehensive master list of bugs that SD is working on. Really would like to see a patch soon.

http://forums.elementalgame.com/394530

**Veho Nex** · 09-02-2010, 17:58

Was using that custom memory leak patch, they recently did something that makes a giant frowny face appear and my game screen starts spinning. Found out I either have to deal with mem leaks or not play. I chose the latter.

**Beskar** · 09-02-2010, 18:27

Still waiting for word on when my product will arrive. Sent a customer request to Stardock which will hopefully at least shed some light on the issue.