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The Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.3 update brings major AI, Balance and UI improvements!
The Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.3 update brings major AI, Balance and UI improvements! Features: More Diverse AI (different AI players will pursue different paths to victory) AI is Smarter at Defending Cities, Waging War and Using Magic Enhanced Monster and Tactical Battle AI NEW Spell! Ineluctable Vision (reveals the world to those who can maintain its mana cast) Improved Performance Balance Updates UI Improvements Bug Fixes and more! ( http://bit.ly/175FqjE) ... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental: July 2013 Status Report
Greetings! So here we are! July 2013. Next month will mark the 3 year anniversary of the launch of the first Elemental game! 2010: Elemental: War of Magic 2012: Elemental: Fallen Enchantress 2013: Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes Could we worse. Could be like Star War: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones! So where do we stand? Legendary Heroes v1.3 We are still working on v1.3. The AI got a major overhaul for v1.3 and so ther... [read more]
News
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Gets Steam Trading Cards
Some of you have noticed that Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes has added Steam Trading card support. If you aren’t familiar with the trading cards you can get an overview here. http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/ Basically, you get these cool cards when playing games on Steam. You can then trade them, or craft them into badges. which give you XP on Steam where you can earn even more stuff. Lets give a big kudos to Leo who is an incredible artist at Stardock w... [read more]
Dev Journal
Get More Content with the Quest Pack DLC for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
The Quest Pack DLC for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes was recently released and brings quite a bit of new content including new weapons, armor, events, and more. While exploring and conquering your way through the world of Elemental, you’ll come across new creatures like the demon Cnotta and Ongr the Unbound in the 12 new events that are part of the DLC. Much of the new content is unlocked through quests and events that will appear while you are playing. How yo... [read more]
Dev Journal
I’m going to try to keep this as brief as I can. One of the most common complaints I see about strategy games is that the AI doesn’t play well. That is, in fact, a reality and there are a lot of reasons for it which I want to talk about in this blog. The biggest factory today against good AI is the bell curve. If you can make the AI “good enough” to beat 90% of the players on a reasonably high difficulty, it gets very tough to justify the extra expense in making it better.... [read more]
Dev Journal
Since the beginning of Fallen Enchantress, people have claimed that the AI monsters will sit next to any enemy city and not attack. They concluded that the monsters were giving AI players a pass. I have responded that I have looked at the code over and over and the monsters do not treat computer players any differently. Well, tonight I’m seeing the behavior very starkly. These ogres should be wiping out this AI city. The code says that the ogres want t... [read more]
Press Releases (FE)
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Releases Quest Pack DLC
PLYMOUTH, MI. – June 27, 2013 – Stardock released the second DLC pack for its most recent release, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes today. Cults have arisen around the worship of strange gods. Will you embrace these new religions and build wonders to them in your cities, or purge them from your lands. Will you hunt down rumors of dark clad warriors, when those that ignore their orders end up dead? Will you join a cult drinking and celebrating as they burn... [read more]