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Legendary Heroes - Monday news

Greetings! Memory is remembered Last week we discussed that we really wanted Legendary Heroes to support 32-bit for the new "Huge" size maps but the current FE/LH builds couldn't do it.  So I agreed to spend the weekend going through the code to see what I could optimize. I'm pleased to say that enough optimization was done that LH users will be able to play on the new huge maps. But if you play it on a 32-bit machine, it'll pop up a warning since it's going to be... [read more]

Dev Journal

Legendary Heroes–February review

Last month a lot of time was spent on Fallen Enchantress v1.3.  We also used that time to do a lot of play-testing of Legendary Heroes.  The more we play, the more we think players are going to like it.  Memory We are going to delay the beta one more week. We were planning on having it come out next Thursday. But after talking to the marketing team, it was decided that the question of 32-bit support needed to be answered by the time pre-orders start.  That is,... [read more]

Press Releases (FE)

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress 1.3 Now Available!

Stardock has released its biggest update to its popular fantasy strategy game, Fallen Enchantress thus far. Version 1.3 of Fallen Enchantress adds: New spells Adds hundreds of new unit designs for the AI Updates the economic balance Improved performance on low end systems And much more. A full list of features can be found here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/440201 Fallen Enchantress is a strategy game set in the world of Elemental. In it, the player takes on the role of... [read more]

News

Derex Paxton on Quarter to Three’s Games Podcast

Stardock’s Derex Paxton is on the latest episode of Qt3’s game podcast: making strategy games even better.  Derek talks about the upcoming Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes among other topics about strategy games. Listen to the full podcast here - http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/02/20/qt3-games-podcast-making-strategy-games-even-better/ [read more]

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RTSguru Chats with Stardock’s Derek Paxton about Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes

RTSguru.com has an interview up with Stardock’s Derek Paxton about the recently announced Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes . “First, let’s get this out in the open.  An expansion isn’t just about additions, sometimes it’s about strategic cuts and changes to make the game better too.  With that in mind, LH will be cutting “Influence” from the main game as a form of resource, with the idea that this will actually make Gold matter more in the overall empire building aspect ... [read more]

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The Escapist Interviews Stardock's Derek Paxton

The Escapist has posted an interview with Stardock's Derex Paxton about Fallen Enchantress and the newly announced Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes. " Derek Paxton : We've been excited to see people playing and enjoying Fallen Enchantress, and to get positive coverage from reviewers and our fans. It was nerve wracking to think about pouring so much effort into a game that may be dismissed by players that had heard bad things about War of Magic, and we hoped we would ge... [read more]