[0.952] Various Beta Feedback

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UI is still the big one. Please see these posts as well:

[0.95]User Interface Issues

[0.952] UI issues, moving towards Beta 5

Other issues/suggestions:

* Sometimes the Food/Production/Essence icon disappears from the map. Usually when the fog moves back and forth. You can still settle on the tiles with the missing display. Re-loading a save-game fixes the issue

* There seems to be a problem with the number and quality of some monster squads. Eg. Attack a group of Mites. Three squads appear all with 5 units in them. 2 of the squads have 9 hit points and the third has 57. This happens with some other monster stacks as well.

* Remove the drop shadow from the health bar in tactical battles. The shadow looks like there is a little bit of health missing.

* Sometimes the health bar doesn't update in tactical battles. Can't see the pattern though.

* Would be good to generate random city names. As it stands when you come across a city you soon learn where abouts in the mix this city stands because of the name. Random names would bring a greater sense of discovery. Look at games like Dwarf Fortress and see how well this mechanic can be handled.

* The Earth Elemental initial tactical battle animation is way too slow. Need to be able to interrupt this or make it faster.

* AI offering tribute works in reverse. Instead of the player receiving tribute they end up paying tribute. This needs looking at also with what displays on the screen.

* Too many stacks on a tile. Suggest you only allow one stack per tile. Monsters spawning could spawn next to the stack.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

* There seems to be a problem with the number and quality of some monster squads. Eg. Attack a group of Mites. Three squads appear all with 5 units in them. 2 of the squads have 9 hit points and the third has 57. This happens with some other monster stacks as well.

 

maybe the last squad was simply on a higher level? i saw just today a pack of lvl1 wolves, with one unit having third level and obviously more health.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

* Sometimes the health bar doesn't update in tactical battles. Can't see the pattern though.
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This one has been in every version I played. It must be a real pain in the ass to fix. I also have no idea whatsoever about a pattern.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

How about the icons on the let side of the screen ending up behind the bottom left status window.  You miss out on them.  There has to either be a way to scroll through them, or a better notification system.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 3

* Sometimes the health bar doesn't update in tactical battles. Can't see the pattern though.

This one has been in every version I played. It must be a real pain in the ass to fix. I also have no idea whatsoever about a pattern.
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Playing a little further, this consistently happens with a Fire Elemental in one of my armies - without fail. Perhaps the XML for this unit might give a clue?

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

My impression is that the health bar gets messed up when you take damage from special abilities instead of spells or normal attacks. I remember deadly bite is one example, the mirror elementals another. I am not sure if they made it happen less in the most recent build or if I just haven't noticed it as much.