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When we made Elemental: War of Magic and Fallen Enchantress , the hardware, by today's standards was very modest. Combine that with very tight memory restrictions and a general trend in gaming that AI players should be "good losers" and you end up with computer opponents that are
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Elemental: Reforged v1.4 Update Now Available View Changelog The v1.4 update for Elemental: Reforged is now available. This release improves AI expansion and battle decisions, adds creature type icons to the unit panel and details window, fixes a crash when loading into or leavin
We are in the exciting world of late game optimization. Got a saved game that was on turn 800. Anyone getting to that point in any 4X strategy game has found themselves in the "there be dragons" area of gameplay. In Elemental's case, of course, there are actual dragons. The first
Elemental: Reforged v1.3 Update Now Available View Changelog The v1.3 update for Elemental: Reforged is now available. This release resolves multiple crash scenarios, restores tactical UI info cards, adds a new strategic unit speed control, and speeds up map generation while reba
June was pretty rough for this game. At some point, we don't know when, there was what we think was an OS update that slightly changed the way the game's audio system integrates with the OS, which resulted in what seemed to be (but weren't) random crashes. So what happened? In th
Elemental Reforged v1.2 has landed and it is a meaty patch. Focusing on stability and bugfixes, v1.2 irons out many of the crashes and performance issues reported since launch. In this video, we highlight some of these fixes and changes made to improve the game.
Elemental: Reforged v1.2 Update Now Available View Changelog The v1.2 update for Elemental: Reforged is now available. This release is focused on stability, AI improvements, and an overhauled loot system for the base game and gameplay updates and bug fixes for Treasures of Magi.
I really couldn’t think of a good theme for this week’s journal entry. There’s a bunch of things we’re working on simultaneously so let’s tackle them in no particular order. General polish and bug fixing Bringing Elemental to the modern age has been pretty challenging to say the
Stardock Entertainment today released Treasures of the Magi , the first DLC for the fantasy turn-based strategy game Elemental: Reforged . Priced at $8.99 (enjoy the 20% launch discount through May 28!) , the expansion adds new monsters, treasures, items, and quests drawn from th
Treasures of the Magi is the first DLC for Elemental: Reforged. It adds a host of new items, armor, weapons, potions, and other gear, along with a handful of new lairs, quests, and monsters. Two of my favorite additions are the Mage Wands and the Shapeshifting Potions. But player
When we shipped 1.0.3, the team sat down and made a list of the things that were nagging us. Not big design questions. Not roadmap items. Just the stuff that, after a long play session, you start to feel. A few systems were slower than they had any right to be. Some encounters di
Treasures of the Magi , a New DLC for Elemental: Reforged New expansion adds monsters, treasures, items, and quests drawn from the lost age of the Magi, launching May 21, 2026. View game page Stardock Entertainment today announced Treasures of the Magi , a new DLC for the fantasy
Fantasy 4X is a sub-genre of strategy game with a very definite set of mechanics that came from a couple of very early titles, with Master of Magic being the primary inspiration. Stardock's series of games in the Elemental universe aimed to improve on some of the bigger flaws tha
You’ve loaded up the game, created your sovereign and started playing. You are alone. Well, kind of alone. There’s lots of monsters and goodie huts. The question is, why? Today, I want to give you a bit of a lore dump. Why is the world filled with bandits and ruffians at the star
Elemental: Reforged v1.03 is Now Available View the full changelog Stardock has released v1.03 for Elemental: Reforged, a maintenance patch that corrects a long-standing issue with Fire magic, resolves a handful of crashes that were surfacing in longer campaigns, and tightens a r
In this video developer journal for Elemental: Reforged, we discuss post-release updates, including critical bugfixes, improved game AI, a new ability for Heroes and a "will I win?" indicator for the pre-battle UI.
You know those weeks where you're heads down, coffee-fueled, and the commit log looks like a novel? That was this week. And last week. And honestly the week before that. It’s been a bit of a rough few weeks here. Too many big changes got put in too late without enough testing. So
Battle forecasts, expanded modding tools, and stability fixes View the full changelog The biggest addition is a new battle forecast system. The pre-battle screen now shows a predicted outcome before you commit to a fight, ranging from Crushing Victory down to Likely Defeat, color
Lots of cool things going on. We’ve been reading the feedback closely as well as reviewing and fixing crash reports. Your posts are extremely helpful in narrowing things down. So today we want to talk about the roadmap for Elemental: Reforged. We have two years (at least) of budg