Elemental Twitter Updates Weeks 10-14

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Weeks 10 through 14 of the twitter updates pertaining to Elemental (and it will probably continue into a couple more weeks, depending on how many are posted) For preveious weeks:

TeamElemental

  • Inbox flooded with bug reports...looks like you guys are realling playing the beta ;)
  • Beta 1 out!!! Go beat it up for us :)
  • Elemental beta looking good...fun to see the AI striking back when I tresspass in their territory. :)
  • Encoding the Intro video for Beta 1...very proud of what what we've come up with :) Can't wait 'till next week!
  • Day2 of PAX down...Editors, Art style, and Terrain spells impressing (who dosen't love to volcano their enemies into submission)?
  • Elemental previews at IGN, Gamespot, Kotaku, and 1UP...but with 9 days 'till PAX we lack time to fully appreciate their awesomeness :(
  • Nice HRD Lighting comparison @ http://sd.stardock.com/elemental/hdrcomp.jpg ...moving away from 'cartoony' and closer to the look we want (left has hdr)
  • Just raised 20+ volcanos in the map editor...quite satisfying!
  • The crew is really busting out some awesome new technologies to polish up our PAX build...we'll have some awesome spells to show off!
  • Brad in CA with a fresh build of Elemental...look for coverage later this week, fresh with new screenshots (and perhaps some video)!

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh........... Screeeeennnnnssssssshhhhhhhooooooooottttsssssss.......... :drool:

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 1
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh........... Screeeeennnnnssssssshhhhhhhooooooooottttsssssss..........

What about the video? I really hope they decide to show the video:pout: :drool:

Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Too cool..

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

His schedule says that today he'll be doing some on-camera stuff..dunno if that's for Elemental or something else, but I'll keep everyone posted if some videos get released.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Awesome Thanks BoogieBac. Video of Elemtental would be best, but of anything you guys are working on rocks.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting BoogieBac, reply 4
His schedule says that today he'll be doing some on-camera stuff..dunno if that's for Elemental or something else, but I'll keep everyone posted if some videos get released.
looking forward to that! :D

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Updated

Man, I can't wait for PAX:drool:

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Updated again. I don't know if I can survive to PAX... I might just die of anticipationXO

 

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Oooooohhhhhhh......... vvvvoooollllccccaaaaannnnnnooooooeeeeeeeesssssss........... good to see that they'll be in the game.

Man, now they're coming in almost too fast!

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

oh man, most recent twitter is talking about volcanoes.  I hope those are fun.  (I wonder if they create fire and earth mana the way they created "chaos" mana in MoM)

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Nice HRD Lighting comparison @ http://tinyurl.com/l66yrm ...moving away from 'cartoony' and closer to the look we want (left has hdr)

:drool:  

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

Updated. It looks very nice:drool:

Quoting Tridus, reply 11

Nice HRD Lighting comparison @ http://tinyurl.com/l66yrm ...moving away from 'cartoony' and closer to the look we want (left has hdr)


 

Hey! How many times do I have to say it? That's my job!XO

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

(I wonder if they create fire and earth mana the way they created "chaos" mana in MoM)
Probably not. I think all mana comes from shards or essence/the channeler, possibly with some awarded from quests. Would be nice to get dev confirmation, though.

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting kyogre12, reply 12

Hey! How many times do I have to say it? That's my job!

That one was too exciting to wait. \o/

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

Wow, that looks good...


Are the colors of the roof different because they are of different factions or has the general building color changed during developement?

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Two different buildings as the forts are not exactly the same. Nice to have a variety of roofs and more!

:thumbsup:

From what I recall of Fallen structures, they are decidedly different than Man's.

Fallen

 

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Wow, that's the first genuinely impressive screenshot I've seen where I can honestly say if the game comes out looking like that I'll be totally happy with it. I've always been a fan of the way the art direction for the game was going, but up until now it really hadn't clicked and was just a hatful of potential. If it had stayed as it was looking up to this point (which was really never going to happen given how early we are in developments..but just humour me :P) the visuals would have been something I would have tolerated rather than luxuriated in, now it looks like they could end up being a real feature.

It's really amazing how much difference lighting makes to in game graphics. I've got a friend who's making a map for TF2 which I've viewed all the way through development and the point at which lighting gets added really gives the biggest leap in quality than any other stage... it really is as big a difference as someone turning on a light in a darkened room :omg:

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

Two different buildings as the forts are not exactly the same.

As I see it it is the same building just from different angles (rotated 180°).

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Wahngrok, reply 18
Two different buildings as the forts are not exactly the same.

As I see it it is the same building just from different angles (rotated 180°).

Look more closely.

Reply #20 from Elemental Forums Top

It's like in GC2 where you can customize your races colors, only this time your tweaking roofs and plaster colors (instread of engine and ship's metal colors).

Reply #21 from Elemental Forums Top

I recall seeing something along the lines of actually being able to construct your own custom buildings from pieces like some kind of simplified spore. Is that still in the plan? Because that would be seriously cool. 

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

Is that still in the plan? Because that would be seriously cool.
  The tile editor is our main tool around the office and will definatly be made available to all players :)

Reply #23 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting BoogieBac, reply 22
The tile editor is our main tool around the office and will definatly be made available to all players

\o/ You guys rock.

Reply #25 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Jonny5446, reply 17
up to this point (which was really never going to happen given how early we are in developments..but just humour me ) the visuals would have been something I would have tolerated rather than luxuriated in, now it looks like they could end up being a real feature.

 

I am sure they have improved from this point.  That image is 2 months old.  Just wait until we get the PAX pics.