A Preview of Elemental Beta 3-B

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Beta 3-B is the big one. It’ll be the first beta build that should start to feel like a game.

First off, there are the major features being enabled in the public beta:

  1. Tactical Battles
  2. Master Quests
  3. Near Final technology tree
  4. Near final city improvement list
  5. Tons of game play tweaks
  6. Lots of bug fixes

This beta will start to show just how much impact the beta community has had on the game.  I’ll be doing a video preview in the next day or so.

Coming up: Tactical Battle Preview

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

 Ooooh, tatical battles:drool:

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

always those small screenshots that can't be made larger :(

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Looking forward to it - thanks for the update Frogboy.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

You have no idea how many times I clicked those screenshots hoping they'd expand.   :D

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting kyogre12, reply 1
 Ooooh, tatical battles

Seconded! :drool:

Any word on if we can add special abilities to units from the UI, or do we have to mod them to do that? (eg if I wanted to make a soldier with a "whirlwind" ability where I already modded the whirlwind ability in. Can I build a solider and assign that skill to him, or do I have to mod a custom unit?)

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Mmmm, melting faces with fireballs in tactical battles....

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

You guys are really rolling 3, 3A, and soon 3B?

I thought sleep was a necessity. I'm starting to wonder if Stardock was the right CO Name.. Insomniacs might have made more sense =P j.k Thanks for the update! Looking really forward to 3-B.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting tesb, reply 2
always those small screenshots that can't be made larger

 

yes i vote for better screenshots too :P

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Marks1381, reply 7
You guys are really rolling 3, 3A, and soon 3B?

I thought sleep was a necessity. I'm starting to wonder if Stardock was the right CO Name.. Insomniacs might have made more sense =P j.k Thanks for the update! Looking really forward to 3-B.

Sleep is not something game developers get much of during crunch time. I've got a friend working in the industry who is at that point right now, and his schedule is pretty insane. I tend to refer to him as a slave labourer because the hours he's working would be illegal for me to do. :P

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Hey Brad... I'm concerned that we won't see 10,000 man armies anymore. Is that the case?

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting drakkheim, reply 4
You have no idea how many times I clicked those screenshots hoping they'd expand.  

 

 

You haven't clicked enough! Keep clicking!! They expand eventually!

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting MagicwillNZ, reply 10
Hey Brad... I'm concerned that we won't see 10,000 man armies anymore. Is that the case?

There won't be 10,000 unit armies in v1.0. It'll probably top out at hundreds instead of thousands in a given fight. We'll look at increasing the limit in the future.

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

tactical battles... it just sounds... right. \o/   definitely can't wait to see my once-rather-useless magic rip them apart.

Though i won't be able to hear it since my sound driver screws up the beta... so i can't hear the amazing music you guys have put on there

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

Can't wait. :) Thanks Brad for keeping us so well informed throughout this process. It is very much appreciated.

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

OOoooo, tactical battles. Can't wait to see them :-). Very curious to see how the Empire plays now as well. Seemed to need a Lot of work done in 3-A. Also.... 3B at around the same time Starcraft2 Phase2 stops. The timing! Perfection :-). Though SC2 beta just doesn't have the interaction of this. As somebody who's worked as a software engineer but never ever on a video-game it's awesome seeing how things come together :-).

Reply #17 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 13

Quoting MagicwillNZ, reply 10Hey Brad... I'm concerned that we won't see 10,000 man armies anymore. Is that the case?

There won't be 10,000 unit armies in v1.0. It'll probably top out at hundreds instead of thousands in a given fight. We'll look at increasing the limit in the future.

64 bit?

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

Dang. Such a tease Brad! Can't wait to see what you guys have done :)

Reply #20 from Elemental Forums Top

I have not pre-ordered this game yet but after 3B with tempting battles I simply do not think I will be able to resist any more. 

Reply #21 from Elemental Forums Top

I know i say this all the time but....OMG cant wait!

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

Well .... if a unit won't go higher than 20+ people, and in a given battle we can see HUNDREDS of people ... sounds cool to me!

(as in tactical battles can be "big" ie a lot of individual units and a large map)

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Hellfirex25, reply 11
ETA?!

probably friday evening, based upon the betas from 2.

 

frogboy, will we be seeing ANY of the stability improvements, and ram leaks plugged?

harpo

 

Reply #24 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 13



Quoting MagicwillNZ,
reply 10
Hey Brad... I'm concerned that we won't see 10,000 man armies anymore. Is that the case?


There won't be 10,000 unit armies in v1.0. It'll probably top out at hundreds instead of thousands in a given fight. We'll look at increasing the limit in the future.

Thank goodness. :grin:

Unless companys upgrade into into something larger (Platoons?)  I can't imagine tactical battles of 10,000 units... That's like moving 500 units around on screen.:time:   :zzz:

Reply #25 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Marks1381, reply 24

Quoting Frogboy, reply 13


Quoting MagicwillNZ,
reply 10
Hey Brad... I'm concerned that we won't see 10,000 man armies anymore. Is that the case?


There won't be 10,000 unit armies in v1.0. It'll probably top out at hundreds instead of thousands in a given fight. We'll look at increasing the limit in the future.


Thank goodness.

Unless companys upgrade into into something larger (Platoons?)  I can't imagine tactical battles of 10,000 units... That's like moving 500 units around on screen.  

 

Yea, we've played around with all kinds of combinations over the past few months to see what is the most fun.  The larger ones make great screenshots but are just not very fun to play or manage.

10,000 guys require 1000 gildar per turn to maintain.