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Kryo can you plaster a big notice on the forums saying 'Beta now closed!' We've been getting an awful lot of these threads.
[quote who="niteshade6" reply="4" id="2715580"] I wouldn't necessarily expect the elemental AI to be any better on release, there was a very recent developer journal saying that it's nowhere close to being ready.[/quote] That's not at all what he meant - Brad said he will continue to work on it. That doesn't mean it won't be good on release, just that it will get better. Gal Civ 2 was praised for its great AI but they continued to improve it for about 2
One worry is possibly that since AFAIK the spell victory requires control of all four shard types, this would be easy on a big map and really difficult on a small map. But if shards are rarer on big maps they have a different dynamic than on small maps.
I enjoyed EU Rome but there were just too many crashes, it got frustrating (admittedly I got it cheap to start with). They are very addictive to begin with but buggy buggy buggy
[quote who="angryandroid" reply="11" id="2713659"]Me too, not happy. Edit: Just sent a cancellation email (2 actualy, by mistake). I read that someone could not cancel this pre-order. Well UK law states otherwise and if they would like to not cancel it, my credit card company will be happy to deal with it.[/quote] You cannot cancel your preorder if you have downloaded the beta. Since you haven't, it isn't a problem.
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The devs have said that the gold version is so different from the last beta that there isn't much point in reporting bugs now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU [e digicons]:grin:[/e] One question: Will my LE box be cunningly sent early so it arrives on the release date? My internet connection would not be amused if it was told to download the full game.
They should put a note on the site saying beta access is closed, there's been a lot of threads like this and it would save everyone time. Oh and if you wanted to play the beta as a sort of demo, forget it. These are Stardock betas. They cause brain damage.
I'm going away for the weekend, I demand hope for lots of screenies and videos by then. The Empire tree is now really like the Sins one (which is good) and now looks actually useful (which is good). Looks miles better as expected, UI improvements also look good.
With the Sins expansion betas it was a full reinstall, I guess it will be the same here. I'm getting a box anyway as my connection is currently dire.
Froggie is banned from doing anything to GalCiv2 until Elemental is released [e digicons]:)[/e]
Try uninstalling via impulse if you have it.
When G4 want to put it on - they want nice balanced shows so not everything is shown immediately after being recorded. Probably sometime this week.
I don't expect much before the gold date. Then a flood of pics and videos of the gold version.
I can confirm the 32bit Vista OOM as well. Do you want me to play through on a leak hunt or have you already found it?
The min specs are meh, slightly higher than I might have expected from a TBS. Will still be able to run it on my laptop though. Surprised by the recs though, they are quite high, well beyond my system in almost every respect. Then again 'recommended' is very subjective anyway - some games I make the rec specs and it plays awful, other games barely min and it whizzes along fine.
Rubbish Frogboy AI = Well above average AI. OK Frogboy AI = Brilliant standard AI. And cut scenes are usually the last thing to do since they don't affect the rest of the game.
[quote who="delijoe79" reply="7" id="2706447"]I just hope that Stardock never gets bought up by some big conglomerate like EA... Bioware USED to be a great developer, and now since they've sold out they've gone way down the tubes...[/quote] Stardock is privately owned. So if Froggie doesn't want to sell up, it can't get bought up.
I suspect the battle UI might not have been finished, after all Brad said there were still bugs and stuff do be done to tactical battles.
I have no doubt that each person will attack seperately, as in GalCiv 2. Otherwise there would be no point in elite units - you could just tech up on squadrons and peasant spam.
This is without doubt the 'beta 5' Froggie talked about in his post yesterday.
I'm impressed how many are saying Elemental actually - of course most are going to say Civ 5 because... (in the words of one respondent) it's Civ 5. Big (the biggest in TBS terms) franchise, big company, but the 'upstart' (how Stardock can seriously be called upstarts after GalCiv 2 though I don't know) is getting serious attention.
There will be more with EVERYTHING on release.
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