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ETA for E:FE Beta?

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ETA for E:FE Beta?

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Have there been any hints to this other than "soon"? Also, as an owner of the game when it came out will I have dibs on getting into the beta? =D

 

 

I really really wanna play this, after the epic failure of WoM and reading all the awesome stuff about FE.

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Reply #51 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 47
Personally I think quests as a concept are doomed to fail, particularly in sandbox. They give almost no replayability because they're the same every time. The game needs to provide custom-generated quests of high quality (a challenge if I ever heard one). Otherwise I fear - no matter how good the quests are - that we will end up like in E:wom. Of course I can't speak for anyone else, but when I play E:wom I just straight up ignore the quests (except my own dungeons from the artifact mod).

A quest editor would fix this as well. If people could make and share quest packs easily then quests would stay fresh.

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Reply #52 from Elemental Forums Top

I agree.   A well designed and integrated quest editor would overcome the problem of running out of good quests.  I'll give you a +1 karma to emphasize the need for a good quest editor (and it's time to get back in the habit of giving out some more karma too =)).

+1 for a well-designed and integrated quest editor for FE to keep quests fresh! k1

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Reply #53 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 42
That's exactly it. It's fine to want to get the beta, but nobody should expect that they're going to re-design whole concepts at this point. Bugfixes and polish.

 

this is very true, by and large. Though as long as implementation is not much too tortuous they might do some under the hood work, but I guess if any particularly noteworthy idea does crop up it will more likely go to expansion land.

 

Honestly I'd hope for as little under the hood work at such a late stage, from what I understand and from what I've seen, that is when things happen, not good things either.

Reply #54 from Elemental Forums Top

Ad ETA - I hope they will make it before the coming oil crash. There will be a lot of warfare, dying, food and energy scarcity afterwards, so not much time and resources for gaming.

 

EDIT: Oh, I get it now. The Fallen Enchantress universe will be the post-crash world. Neat. I like it.