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Stark wrote:The UI suxxx and the faction creation is manual xml editing because after 90% of people said 'making a faction' was the best faction they externalised it.

Fuck stardock. BTW the bad guy in the story is THE DREADLORD. Someone stop Brad Wardell.

GiantBomb wrote: What Is Going On With Elemental: War Of Magic?
Added by Matt Kessler on Aug. 25, 2010
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according to the article at PC Gamer, the game is chock-a-block with game-breaking, showstopping bugs. Francis describes some of the problems that the publication encountered with the launch-day version of the game:

The game crashes constantly.
The game's battle system only works 20% of the time.
The game's multiplayer mode "hasn't been switched on yet." Simply put, at this moment, the game's multiplayer function does nothing.
AI-controlled races will oftentimes not leave their town or defend it from attacks. That's like a truck race where the other truckers don't race.

And according to Francis, that's across multiple testing machines.

Elemental's woes don't stop there; since the game's launch, Stardock has released two patches in an attempt to try and salvage the game. The first, smaller patch apparently did alleviate some of the game's crashes, as well as fixed the battle system. However, the second, larger patch that had "been in the works for a month" made the battle system totally unplayable again.

You read that right; Stardock's latest "fix" to Elemental patched out a key gameplay feature that a previous patch had fixed.
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However, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell doesn't seem to think that there are problems around the releases of his games. In the all-purpose thread for Elemental at the Quarter To Three forums, Wardell responded to hostile claims that his company's game plays "like an early beta" by asking players of that mindset to, "...please stay away from our games in the future. I consider [Elemental] ready for release and if others disagree, don't buy our games."

Wardell's stance is especially harsh, and in sharp contrast to the Stardock mantra of respecting its paying customers (hence, no intrusive DRM in Stardock games). Elemental could very well be fixed down the road, with Stardock ironing out the rest of the game's issues. But these are issues that should have been fixed before the game was sent out to retail. Constant crashing and broken AI shouldn't be day-one patch material, right? As a result of the game's bugs, Francis told the readers of PC Gamer that, right now, they shouldn't purchase Elemental, saying that the game is currently too broken to recommend.
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Stark wrote:He may well BE Derek Smart. This is the Fox-supporting lolbertarian who didn't want to use the MoM licence because Atari (the licence holder) has corporate policies around social responsibility and would need to make sure no Stardock facility uses child labour etc.

He seriously said in an interview PFFFT WHATEVER HOW STUPID.

Stark wrote:He may well BE Derek Smart. This is the Fox-supporting lolbertarian who didn't want to use the MoM licence because Atari (the licence holder) has corporate policies around social responsibility and would need to make sure no Stardock facility uses child labour etc.

He seriously said in an interview PFFFT WHATEVER HOW STUPID.

jessenclerk wrote:Well, The game might have it's flaws, but if you're going to rail on it you should probably include evidence that you at least played it. This review is garbage and should honestly be taken down and redone by someone who will do more than just read the box.

Stark wrote:If only someone would hack MoM to run in a window, we wouldn't even NEED Elemental.

jessenclerk wrote:Well, The game might have it's flaws, but if you're going to rail on it you should probably include evidence that you at least played it. This review is garbage and should honestly be taken down and redone by someone who will do more than just read the box.

jessenclerk wrote:Well, The game might have it's flaws, but if you're going to rail on it you should probably include evidence that you at least played it. This review is garbage and should honestly be taken down and redone by someone who will do more than just read the box.