Elemental doesn't look like a proper game

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Maybe my expectations are higher due to King's Bounty: The Legend influence but aftar watching this I feel shocked at the scarcity of everything.

Is this really all there is to this game, why would anyone want to play it if they already played Civilization 4, even the terrain there has much more graphical meat.

Where is the visual meat in this game? I sure hope it is not only in the window pop up of animation of your hero?

Even the ancient Master of Magic looks better than this, what the hell is going on? You are the same people who made Sins of a Solar Empire?

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I will never get why people seem to be unable to read video descriptions on YouTube. :|

 

'This is footage from an early beta of Elemental. At this point, the pretty 3D graphics are disabled,...'

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Are you talking about seeing the beta? Only the cloth map is implemented. I would suggest you take a look around and educate yourself about what is and is not in the beta and the graphical engine as will exist in the full version...

 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Seriously? Have you payed any attention to the game? Obviously not, or else you would know that the betas up to this point are using only the cloth map and not the actual graphics engine.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Igor, you can't be serious, or are you trolling? <_< That is an early beta build, the gfx engine won't be implemented 'till BETA 3., and BETA phase 2. not even started yet. https://forums.elementalgame.com/363845

Also, stop comparing this game to King's Bounty. Elemental will be a much more complex & diverse game.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Eidolon94, reply 1
I will never get why people seem to be unable to read video descriptions on YouTube.

 

'This is footage from an early beta of Elemental. At this point, the pretty 3D graphics are disabled,...'
End of Eidolon94's quote

 

Oh, my mistake then, although I don't get that "cloth map" thing.

It seemed bizarre why would anyone disable all of the visuals or why would that option even exist to begin with so you can't expect people to see through all that strangeness.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting IgorM, reply 5

Quoting Eidolon94, reply 1I will never get why people seem to be unable to read video descriptions on YouTube.

 

'This is footage from an early beta of Elemental. At this point, the pretty 3D graphics are disabled,...'
 

Oh, my mistake then, although I don't get that "cloth map" thing.

It seemed bizarre why would anyone disable all of the visuals or why would that option even exist to begin with so you can't expect people to see through all that strangeness.
End of IgorM's quote

Stardock seems to have some strange vision where people actually do a little research and don't jump to conclusions. Also, they are using the only cloth map for now so that people pay attention to gameplay rather than worrying about visuals.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting IgorM, reply 5

Quoting Eidolon94, reply 1I will never get why people seem to be unable to read video descriptions on YouTube.

 

'This is footage from an early beta of Elemental. At this point, the pretty 3D graphics are disabled,...'
 

Oh, my mistake then, although I don't get that "cloth map" thing.

It seemed bizarre why would anyone disable all of the visuals or why would that option even exist to begin with so you can't expect people to see through all that strangeness.
End of IgorM's quote

Because some people woud like to play the game on a laptop. On very old laptops.

And the video is from a very first beta. Even with 1G the world seems a lot more "filled" with things.

 

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Long time forum members will remember IgorM as his past forum name, hortz, the man who wasn't going to be happy until the game was kings bounty and had FMV photorealistic graphics. Long time forum members thus know to just let any thread he makes die its deserved death.

 

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting endofdayz, reply 8
Long time forum members will remember IgorM as his past forum name, hortz, the man who wasn't going to be happy until the game was kings bounty and had FMV photorealistic graphics. Long time forum members thus know to just let any thread he makes die its deserved death.

 
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Oh, so this is hortz? I should've know, because he has mentioned King's Bounty...:rolleyes:

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting IgorM, reply 5

Oh, my mistake then, although I don't get that "cloth map" thing.

It seemed bizarre why would anyone disable all of the visuals or why would that option even exist to begin with so you can't expect people to see through all that strangeness.
End of IgorM's quote

Ever use the zoom feature in Sins of a Solar Empire to zoom all the way out to the farthest view? At that point, all the graphics are off, you just see icons for planets and phaselands, and basically dots for ships.

The cloth map is the fantasy equivalent. When you zoom out far enough, it'll kick in and let you see what is going on at a glance. The 3d graphics engine just doesn't work at very high zoom levels, similar to how there's no 3d graphics in Sins at that zoom level.

Once the graphics engine is turned on, at closer zoom levels you'll see the proper graphics instead. That'll be in beta 3 sometime.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Oh, so this is hortz?
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One and the same, even after he promised to leave and not come back until the 3D engine was activated. At this point he's just trolling, because he's well aware of the cloth map vs 3D engine already.