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Elemental: Fallen Enchantress–Legendary Heroes v1.4 has been released!

  Deadly Foes update released! v1.4 Stardock is proud to announce the release of v1.4 of Legendary Heroes, the expansion to Fallen Enchantress. Version 1.4 adds dozens of significant enhancements to the game including but not limited to: The original Fallen Enchantress scenario has been added A host of new summoning spells Enhanced AI for handling the new summoning spells Significant improvements to late-game performance for multi-core PC players Rebalancing of m... [read more]

Press Releases (FE)

Stardock Releases "Deadly Foes" Update for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes

Plymouth, MI – October 24, 2013 – Stardock updated its popular fantasy strategy game Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes today with its fourth major patch since the game launched. Version 1.4 adds powerful new summoning spells to the monsters infesting the wilderness and makes the AI much more dangerous in both the strategic and tactical layers of the game. Beyond adding new capabilities to the enemies players face in all phases of the game, the “Deadly Foes” update... [read more]

Dev Journal

Iterating further on Elemental

I was playing Galactic Civilizations II last night. I hadn’t played it in a very long time and was stunned by just how much…awesome it has in it.  That awesomeness didn’t come from the original design. It came from years and years of iteration and frankly, labors of love. The problem I see with Legendary Heroes is that it’s really hard to do iteration like that.  After all, it’s technically Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes. It’s a mouth full.  No one ... [read more]

News

Stardock 20th Anniversary Sale

It is Stardock's 20th Anniversary and to help celebrate we have a big sale going on with games and DLC 50 to 75% off!  You can buy directly from the Stardock store or through Steam until October 21st. See the games available in the sale in our latest mailer here .     [read more]

News

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.4 Beta Update Available

Help us test the next patch coming to Legendary Heroes and get an early taste of the AI improvements and the new toys we’ve given the monsters use in their futile resistance to your unstoppable expansion. The Fallen Enchantress scenario is also playable for the first time in Legendary Heroes v1.14. To get the beta: Open your Steam client Right-click on Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes in your library Select Properties Select the Betas tab In the upper drop... [read more]

Dev Journal

So many skeletons

Been working on the tactical summons code for v1.4 of Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes! Should be some fun.  While I was in there, I made some tweaks that should let the AI perform magic just generally better.  This is one of those things that just takes a lot of play time to master.  Knowing WHEN and WHERE and WHY to cast spells is not an “AI” thing. It’s a human judgment call that has to manifest itself in AI. So keep those posts coming. ... [read more]