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[0.981] Beta 5C -- Game Nine & Game Ten: Comments/Bugs/Balance/Tweaks/Suggestions/Etc

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[0.981] Beta 5C -- Game Nine & Game Ten: Comments/Bugs/Balance/Tweaks/Suggestions/Etc

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[0.981.1] Beta 5C for Game Nine:

[0.981.2] Beta 5C for Game Ten:

Comments/Bugs/Balance/Tweaks/Suggestions/Etc 

 

Game Stats are as follows:
Map: Random
World Size: Medium
Map Type: Balanced
Wildlands: Many
Champions: Moderate
Quests: Plenty
Difficulty: Normal
Monsters: Dense
Pacing: Normal
Magic: Moderate
Resources: Moderate
Random Events: More often

Going to go with Lord Relias this time around. 

I’ll be rearranging all the items I find into corresponding groups again. Please bear in mind that these notes are no longer in chronological order. Thanks.

  • [Applause] Book sound is excellent now!!
  • [Applause] Just spotted an ‘enchanted’ shard. Don’t know what it is yet, but it’s AWESOME.
  • [Applause] Really, Really appreciate how to reintroduced ‘snaking’ to obtain the river and forest tiles! Thank you VERY much!

 

  • [Question] I’ve never played Relias before, but is he suppose to level up right away without gaining additional experience?

 

  • [Suggestion] The new selection sfx is a very abrasive sound. Recommend considering a softer ping.
  • [Suggestion] That selection sfx is becoming downright annoying. Strongly recommend changing it. Perhaps something that more of a fantasy oriented sfx?

 

  • [Balance] Yikes, research tech has expensive again!
  • [Balance] Does blindness ever end? Seems very powerful.
  • [Balance] Still think the warg should receive a bonus to attack.
  • [Balance] 25 seasons have gone by and I’ve still only research 1 tech. Really feel like this is slow.
  • [Balance] I’m now on season 50 and still have yet to build any troops.
  • [Balance] I’m now on season 50 and still have yet to receive a random event.

 

  • [Bug] Tactical combat still has those extended white lines when cursoring over tiles.
  • [Bug] In the patch notes you mention that mana will always be posted, even if it is 0. This was not the case when I used up all my mana in a tactical combat.
  • [Bug] Just ran Relias northwards onto a river tile, but the animation was consistent with my last move eastwards.
  • [Bug] Entered into the Bhinadmi Fissure, but when the cutscene played, no change of music occurred.
  • [Bug] Not sure if this is suppose to happen, but I’m beside Gilden’s borders now, yet I do not see any of their faction stats on the faction power bar. Should I not recognize their existence??
  • [Bug] Growth onto a unit riding a warg still has the Shrink animation.
  • [Bug] After entering into a loot tile, the screen still moves over to the next unit BEFORE the loot has a chance to be explored. Makes for confusion UI.

 

  • [Tweak] Pioneer spam still runs rampant. Recommend removing the ability to build outposts with pioneers.
  • [Tweak] Scouts still serve no function in game as heroes do all the scouting necessary. Recommend adding the ability to only build outposts with scouts.
  • [Tweak] While I never attempt map restarts, the map I am currently playing on is still VERY low on essence. Strongly recommend allowing Scrying Pools to be built by every race, tied to a mid-game tech. Imo, each city should eventually be able to gain access to a minimum of 1 essence as there is SOOO much importance and design currently placed around the mechanic of essence.
  • [Tweak] Outposts are still being built too close to AI cities.
  • [Tweak] Really don’t like it when I walk over AI resource improvement and it automatically destroys it. Should have a ‘raze’ option at the bottom of the army UI to give player the choice whether or not it should be destroyed.

Will be taking a break now for awhile. More to come in the near future...

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 26
[Applause] Really liked that the tactical battle took the dark chasm from nearby on the strategic map and added it to the tactical map. Makes you feel like you are fighting the battle on actual land…

 

I love this too. k6

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top


[CRASH] Running a few seasons after turn 100. Not sure what's cause the crash, but it's happening in several differnt ways now, and only sometimes:

  • loading my saved game
  • at end of turn
  • randomly in the middle of a turn
  • in tactical combat.

Don't know what's causing the crash as the game performed flawlessly until this point. The only two things I did that can be considered out of the realm of normal were:

  1. Completed the Assassin's Blade Quest
  2. Lowered land across a mountain range so that I can cut units accross to the other side.

Now, I'm not saying that either of these are responsible for the crashes I've been experiancing...only that it's a possibility. Could also be some kind of memory leak for all I know...

 

 

 

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 27
[CRASH] Running a few seasons after turn 100.

You should post this in the support forum and upload your debug.err and dmp-files. Crashes are a high priority for the devs.

Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Gaunathor, reply 28



Quoting GFireflyE,
reply 27
[CRASH] Running a few seasons after turn 100.
You should post this in the support forum and upload your debug.err and dmp-files. Crashes are a high priority for the devs.

Thing is I don't really know what's causing the crash. Game crashes, I reload and it works fine...but crashes when I do something else. There's nothing to pin it down to.

Anyways, I'll tinker with my game a little more. If the crashes still happen and I can't get past the season 120 mark, I'll upload the save.

 

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 26
[Suggestion] On the topic of recovering, it would be cool if a building existed (maybe one already does) to half the recovery and healing time of units in that cit. A ‘hospital’ of sorts. Maybe a few tiers buildings, Medic - Infirmary – Hospital, providing different levels of heal rate reduction.

Such a building does currently exist, in a way.  It gives a flat bonus to healing for units stationed in the city, and it's a fortress levelup bonus for level 3 or 4.  I forget its name.

Reply #31 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 30
Thing is I don't really know what's causing the crash. Game crashes, I reload and it works fine...but crashes when I do something else. There's nothing to pin it down to.

Anyways, I'll tinker with my game a little more. If the crashes still happen and I can't get past the season 120 mark, I'll upload the save.

It doesn't matter, if you don't know the cause. If you upload the files, the devs have a chance to find out the cause themselves.

Quoting Emperorjarin, reply 31
Such a building does currently exist, in a way. It gives a flat bonus to healing for units stationed in the city, and it's a fortress levelup bonus for level 3 or 4. I forget its name.

That's the Infirmary. It's a Fortress level 3 unlock and grants +10 healing and +1 growth per turn.

Reply #32 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 27

[CRASH] Running a few seasons after turn 100. Not sure what's cause the crash, but it's happening in several differnt ways now, and only sometimes:


loading my saved game
at end of turn
randomly in the middle of a turn
in tactical combat.
Don't know what's causing the crash as the game performed flawlessly until this point. The only two things I did that can be considered out of the realm of normal were:


Completed the Assassin's Blade Quest
Lowered land across a mountain range so that I can cut units accross to the other side.
Now, I'm not saying that either of these are responsible for the crashes I've been experiancing...only that it's a possibility. Could also be some kind of memory leak for all I know...
 

Well, did some more testing on this crash thing I've been experiancing. Seems to be consistently happening right around season 110.

The good news is one time it didn't crash.

The bad news is this is the result: http://imageshack.us/a/img89/3626/game10bugyougotmeec.jpg

As soon as I figure out how to upload my save, I'll do just that...though emailing it to someone may work better for me cause I don't have online upload for files anywhere yet.

EDIT: Sent email to [email protected] with subject heading "GFireflyE Game Ten Crash Files". Two emails sent because of save file size.

EDIT2: Was able to load the 'aftermath' save and it seems like everything is good again. I'll let you know if the crash persists further down the road.

Enjoy.

Reply #33 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 33
As soon as I figure out how to upload my save, I'll do just that...though emailing it to someone may work better for me cause I don't have online upload for files anywhere yet.

Try this: www.dropbox.com

Sincerely
~ Kongdej