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Topic title says it all. I'm curious, because I'm just wondering how much money I'm going to have to shell out for expansions for this game, if there are any. Not that spending money on games is a bad thing. In fact, it's a much better use of money than many.
Long story short this forum is full of details on the first expansion called Fallen Enchantress that is coming out around year end or sooner. If you purchased the basic game Elemental:WoM when it first came out you get it and another expansion that is also coming out in the far future free. If not than you get a discount on FE.
Note its a stand alone expansion so you don't need EWOM to play it.
Fallen Enchantress is not an expansion. It's a standalone.
I'ts important to differentiate between the two. Not only because he doesn't have to buy War of Magic but also because the term "expansion" has come to mean "more things" like factions, units, equipment, spells, quests etc....
Which isn't the case here. Frogboy (owner of Stardock who makes the game) says that Fallen Enchantress will be a completely new game in the Elemental universe.
I don't agree with that, but it will be a new 4x TBS.
They're changing mechanics, gameplay systems, upgrading the graphics engine from Pixel Shader 2 to Pixel Shader 3. That's the big things.
They're keeping the lore, story and stuff like that so it will still be the Kingdoms of Altar, Pariden, Tarth and the Fallen Empires of Magnar, Kraxis and Resoln.
A comparison would be to take Company of Heroes and change the resourcesystem to StarCrafts, get rid of squads in favor of single units (like in StarCraft) and make doctrines into subfactions like in C&C Generals Zero Hour.
Then you upgrade the Essense Engine (used for Company of Heroes) into Essence 2.0 which was used for Dawn of War II.
That's how I understand the difference from War of Magic to Fallen Enchantress.
This is the shortest summary I can think of on the subject:
1) There are no expansions planned for War of Magic.
2) War of Magic might stop being developed after version 1.3. This will remain to be seen, depending on the reaction we have for 1.3.
3) There will be at least two new games released, Fallen Enchantress and ************. You will get a discount from Fallen Enchantress if you have bought War of Magic.
4) If you bought War of Magic last year you get Fallen Enchantress for free.
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