Elemental: War of Magic v1.39 Beta Released!

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Stardock is excited to announce the release of the v1.39 beta update for Elemental: War of Magic.  Current customers can update to the latest version via Impulse by showing pre-release version in their options, this update includes a variety of updated features and fixes.

Full changelog is available here, but here are some highlights:

  • Large number of balance tweaks
  • Improved path finding.
  • Improved performance and stability
  • Improved enemy AI

Get more info at http://elementalgame.com/!

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Awesome! I just started a new game with 1.30 like 10 mins ago but I'll abandon it now :) Much balance, but few bugfixes...

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

EDIT: Okay I found out how to install this.  I usually don't bother with betas, but I really want to get over this prestige penalty.

 

May I suggest adding something to announcements about new betas?  Something like

"To download this beta patch, ensure the 'Show Pre-Release Versions' option is enabled in Impulse under Settings (top left drop-down menu)"

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

In impulse open the menu and check show pre-release versions.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

For some reason I can pick up/collect structures that are level 3 and 4 with my guy who would only be able to have access to level 2 places. Like I can grab a level 3 chest, with my guy who's only supposed to be able to grab level 2 stuff on the map.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

This was changed in 1.3 I think, they didn't like it that you could see stuff and not pick it up. They tweaked the goodiehut code when they removed that limit.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 5
This was changed in 1.3 I think, they didn't like it that you could see stuff and not pick it up. They tweaked the goodiehut code when they removed that limit.

Really? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that make the part of the research tree and things you needed to research to increase your lore enough so you could pick up the "goodie items" completely use-less? I haven't gotten far enough in my current new game I started before I fell asleep this morning to get that far in the research tree, but, I'm assuming those research goals now do nothing or only have whatever minor side effects they had aside from allowing you to grab the goody. Did they change the research tree to reflect this new game-play change?

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

The techs spawn the goodiehuts.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 7
The techs spawn the goodiehuts.

Yeah, I remember that much. Last night was the first time I tried playing a game of Elemental in months to be honest though so I'm a little rusty now on some of the details. At first I couldn't even remember how to rotate a building when placing it in my city. The thing with the goddie huts though, was it was literally within the first 10 turns and I was picking up treasure chests that said they were level 2 and a few that were level 3 and the only tech I has so far was housing and I was working on the first warfare tech after that. I hadn't researched anything else yet. I was going to make a bug report about it but saw this thread first and mentioned it here instead.

Oh, on the main menu where it says the version number of the game should it say "v1.39 beta"? Because mine just says v1.39. I figured it was an oversight and they just didn't feel the need to put "beta" after the number. It leads to a minor bit of confusion as to whether or not you're playing 1.39 or 1.39 beta though.

On a side note I also noticed some of the skins on some of the modded races I have installed are wrong but I know that's from me not updating the mods on my end (I'll have to work on that tonight).