Fallen Enchantress

[Hawawaa]

Steam sale http://store.steampowered.com/app/216390/
27$

 

[GoodGame]

It was on flash sale for $20 a day or so ago. I picked it up at that price.

 

[EddyGamerLP]

Hi everyone,

I just started a new Let's Play series of Fallen Enchantress.
This time I play on a large map an Expert difficulty against 5 opponents and I made sure that the faction that I played in my first LP is one of my opponents so it should use the custom units I designed for it.
Here is a link to the first video:
Let's play Fallen Enchantress - Expert p01

The link to the playlist is in my signature.
Enjoy.

 

[Luckystrike77]

Hi everyone,

I just started a new Let's Play series of Fallen Enchantress.
This time I play on a large map an Expert difficulty against 5 opponents and I made sure that the faction that I played in my first LP is one of my opponents so it should use the custom units I designed for it.
Here is a link to the first video:
Let's play Fallen Enchantress - Expert p01

The link to the playlist is in my signature.
Enjoy.

Cool! I'll be following this one. Love the settings you mention here, and too many LP's are boring because normal and challenging are almost certain wins in the end (but some super noob players are fun to watch as they struggle to survive......).

Keep it up, chap!

 

[Sphinx]

Hi.

I used to play quite a bit of Elemental: War of magic, even have the limited edition. Recently got Fallen Enchantress. Game is nice and polished. After playing a few games, i started missing some features like dynasties and the different metals. If i recall correctly, then the tech tree used to be a lot bigger in WOM (besides the adventure tech tree).

I wonder if more features will be added to FE, because it looks kinda stripped (it is still a good game). Would be awesome, if all features from WOM would be added plus some more (and multiplayer).

 

[EddyGamerLP]

Stardock released a map pack DLC for Fallen Enchantress:

Play on maps designed by Stardock. They introduce new challenges, dangerous threats and worlds to explore. In addition to a new hand crafted map for every map size along with new stamps to spice up random map generation, it also includes the full Anthys map. A gigantic map that contains the entire known world of Elemental (at least, as of ~150 AC).

Clash- Play against a single opponent on a balanced map, or discover a ship and explore the nearby islands.
Crucible- Four opponents with a common area between their starting positions, can you hold the center and take out your enemies?
Dust Bowl- A dangerous map with few fertile positions. But the land isn't empty, hordes of monsters have claimed it.
The Wildlands- 10 Wildlands on one map. Can any empire rise in a world ruled by monsters?
Anthys- Play across the entire world of Elemental on this map that is over twice as large as the largest maps in Fallen Enchantress.
Price of the DLC is $4.99, and purchasing options are available on the DLC info page.

Purchase here - http://elementalgame.com/fallen-enchantress/mappackdlc

And here's a FAQ about it:

Q: What is the Map Pack?

A: It is a collection of pre-made maps and random map stamps.

Q: Does it help with randomly generated maps?

A: Yes, it includes a host of new stamps that make the random maps richer as well.

Q: What’s special about the pre-made maps over a randomly generated map?

A: With pre-made maps, we can do things that the random map generator can’t.

Q: Like what?

A: For example, it includes the Anthys map which is over 5X bigger than the normal large map. A normal large map fills up with 8 players. With Anthsys, over a dozen players would have lots of room to expand.

We also have boats on these maps that players can take to sail out to areas and explore the seas for hidden islands and treasures. Pre-made maps also let us do crazy things like have a map where it’s all Wild Lands all the time with everyone trying to survive and ultimately conquer them.

Q: Are the starting positions hard-coded?

A: No, even on Anthys, we made it so that the starting positions are randomized so that you can play it over and over again.

Q: How much does it cost?

A: $4.99

Q: Where can I get it?

A: You can get it here: http://www.elementalgame.com/fallen-enchantress/purchase. If you bought FE on Steam, you can get it on the Steam page.

 

[LDiCesare]

I find it quite disgusting to sell 3 maps for 5 dollars. The part about what generated maps can't do is also pitiful. Considering the map-modding capabilities of Civ, Elemental falls short, and Brad never seemed to understand that it would have saved him money to actually open up map generation to modders because people out there would have provided him with the code. Now this.

 

[Aroddo]

well, if the random map generator is absolutely hideous then the price might actually be justified.

nah, just kidding. would anyone pay money for a civ5 map pack if it didn't have other stuff coming with it?

 

[GoodGame]

well, if the random map generator is absolutely hideous then the price might actually be justified.

nah, just kidding. would anyone pay money for a civ5 map pack if it didn't have other stuff coming with it?

The random map generator isn't hideous.

 

[Ozbenno]

I agree that it is pretty poor form to sell something like this as a DLC, a new epic scenario or somesuch would be (maybe) acceptable but not maps.

 

[EddyGamerLP]

I think it is important to remind everyone that Fallen enchantress comes with mod tools that allow anyone to make their own new tiles and their own maps.

It might be poor form to sell a map pack dlc if it is the only way to get new maps but it is far from the case.
If you want new maps for free, check the modding forum( here ), check the Nexus mod website( here ) or make them yourself.

 

[LDiCesare]

The price remains ridiculous considering the content. Mod tools exist, but come very short of what Civ has been providing since Civ IV.

 

[Aroddo]

It's a horse armor.

 

[GoodGame]

The price remains ridiculous considering the content. Mod tools exist, but come very short of what Civ has been providing since Civ IV.

The map making tools in FE are just different, so I wouldn't say they fall far short of the Civ3/4 map-making tools. The FE map maker GUI is a tad hard to comprehend but if you play with every button for a while, it starts to make sense as to what is going on.

It's basically that you create and use "stamps" to fast prototype map sections over placing individual tiles. In a way, it is much more powerful than the GUI map-editor that ships with Civ4.

I won't be picking up the DLC, but it's really no different than what Civ5 was around the first few DLC releases---about $6 for like one new civ and a few maps that editions before would be free content, or 1/10th of a proper expansion pack.

 

[LDiCesare]

The map making tools in FE are just different, so I wouldn't say they fall far short of the Civ3/4 map-making tools.

In Civ you could create maps cripts. In FE you can't. That's a whole level of difference. It is not possible to create random maps the way I created them in Civ IV. Or, in order to do it, you'd have to go through some external programs and then import them in Elemental through painful processes.
Note that Civ V also botched that map-scripting power by forcing resources to be part of the script, whereas Civ IV read them from xml.

And I think the same about Civ V DLC's. Give me a Dominions 3 patch anytime instead.

 

[LDiCesare]

To make it clearer. This excellent Civ IV/FfH2 scenario is not technically feasible in Elemental.

 

[[to_xp]Gekko]

I'm not sure about that, they created the campaign with those tools so scenarios are definitely possible. and WoM had a mapscript made by cephalo so I expect the same should be possible for FE.

 

[LDiCesare]

cephalo's program is an external application based on what we could understand/reverse engineer from Elemental map format. The link I posted creates new maps in-game.

 

[Draginol]

You can definitely create scenarios and a map editor is included with the game. The map pack DLC isn't for everyone to be sure. A modder could have made the same maps with the included tool but then again, a modder could create the in-game scenario (Fallen Enchantress). It just depends on how much you value your time.

 

[LDiCesare]

Please look at the link before posting nonsense, Brad. The scenario I linked has DYNAMIC map generation during runtime. It's like a roguelike where you generate a new dungeon evrytime you go up or downstairs. Kael knows this scenario, check with him if Elemental allows a modder to do it. AFAIK, it can't.