Agree with everything you say - very interesting to listen to. For beta 3A, do you want us to list out where there are no sound effects or visual effects, or where clicking through menus is unintuitive?

All I can hope is that I came off as brad's 'yes' man...I felt like all I could do was agree

We'll have to do these more, mostly in post production when the weight of gold is off our chests  

I agree with picking up the pace a little, at least if you are not playing on Epic. It's feel like 300 turns go by before I have really done anything other than the bare basics.

My first thought was how is he hitting with an arrow threw all the trees.
Arrows from distance is cool, I don't think its over powered if... its broken into 2 shots types.

1) Arch it over objects with less accuracy

2) direct LOS with more accuracy.

My 2 cents.

Looks better and better every version

i think arrows are overpowered as is.  i think that this can be solved by either decreasing damage or accuracy.  we should be able to let loose a volley of arrows, but it should be augmented by terrain.  if you are on high ground and firing into a valley then sure you should get big bonuses.  firing into a forest however should give you big range penalties.

you could give units with projectiles a certain number of them.  this would be based on equipment such as a quiver added to them.  ammo amount is like mana.  standard quiver gives 5 shots.  if you have a supply unit(wagon, beast, etc.) then they replenish standard 1 shot per turn.  better items and supply units do better.

otherwise units that require projectiles must return to a settlement to replenish.

I should point out that it is really difficult to pan around the map to find the place where you want to teleport. To get around that, I tried to click the empire tree to go to a city and then click where I wanted to teleport to, but it de-selected my unit when I tried that. There needs to be a minimap or a way to jump to where you want to go, or it is really difficult to get around.

I've been playing on a Phenom x4 with Win7 Ultimate 64-bit, 8 GB RAM, and a Radeon HD 3850 with 512 MB RAM. While it's not the most up-to-date system in the world, it's still a pretty decent system. However, Elemental is dirt slow on this system. Trying to zoom out and back in like you guys do in these videos ... forget it. It chugs and then jumps to being zoomed out or jumps to being zoomed in. Same thing for panning around or revealing the fog of war. If I turn off the advanced lighting, then it runs a bit smoother, but still is not entirely smooth. My system is only a couple of years old, and it's not exactly a low-end system. I hope you guys can improve the performance a bit. Seeing how smoothly your system handles zooming and panning, I think maybe you need to work on slower systems so you can spot the areas where you need to improve performance.

Nice designer video. It really started to hit on a lot of the key aspects of the game, that do need to be updated. And some that I guess I just accepted as polish that'll happen in time (walking sounds), (terrain tearing).

And it brought a smile right to my face when Brad mentioned that the units cost to much. Because they really truly do. War of Magic, with half a dozen guys, isn't a war, it's a gang fight. And the amount of wealth gained, doesn't balance that out enough. It just takes forever to get forces put together.

And the cost of upkeep is too high currently vs the gold that is coming in. 

But all of that is gameplay adjustments that will feel right when it goes live. They just have to get them worked on and then it'll be what were all hoping for.

And Boogie, you weren't so much of a Yes Man, as someone who also was sharing some interesting insights yourself.

The whole video had a great feel. It was very much a video diary, and felt organic. Great job guys!

Agree with this.

still a little confused of how combat is.

Basically i think if we are playing like from square to square on a map, i think Fantasy Wars/ Elven Legacy did it great.

Terrain details per square grant bonus to defense, and additional attack perks. IE hills grant +1 distance to archers attack, but forest protect from arrows and cavalry. But biggest difference between those game and this, is that the terrain was obvious. Hills were easy to spot and so are forests. Felt like a table top terrain game. I lliked it. As you guys mentioned in the video when hit by a arrow it is to make it obvious the guy has been hit, include a  "got hit" motion and damage number on top of head.

Not sure how strategic warfare will be.

And i agree with Gorstagg. 50 turns in a game and all  i got is 6 champions wondering around and maybe 5 units defending 3 bases. But then again maybe the battles arent final and neither is aggressive AI so, once strategy is included we can find a reason to use regular units.

Nice vid, thanks for posting, oh and thanks for the glow lines on the splash page of 3A too!

The recruitable NPC @ 5:00 is Raline the Weaver. Original post below:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/381751

To be honest Tormy, living here in the Twin Cities.. I don't mind cities being so close to each other.