Releases March 17, 2026
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Elemental – Beta 3B Changelog
It has been one week since the last public build. Here’s what’s new: --------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Beta 3B Change Log ------------- --------------------------------------------------- ******************** * Tactical Battles * Overview: Can now enter tactical battles if the unit threshold is within a certain number (defaults to 4). Battles are turn based, you can cast spells, traverse the battlefield, or even run aw... [read more]
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Brad’s Beta 3-B Walkthru Part 2
This is both a walkthru and my critique of where we are on the game. This is going to get updated a lot as I go through this so keep refreshing. The New Economy We definitely listened to your feedback. After considering the reports and lots of prototyping we came up with a significantly better, more original, more interesting way to run your Kingdom/Empire. The world of Elemental is populated with many resources. Admittedly, the screenshot above represents one of those really ... [read more]
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It took me all night but it was worth it. That was a city. Brigands took it out. There were so many checks to make sure that “monsters” don’t attack your city that had to be taken out in order to make the monsters have teeth again. So we’re going to create a new option “World Difficulty”. If World Difficulty is normal or higher, then monsters and other such things will take out players if they can. Before, monsters were prevented from even going into your zone of con... [read more]
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At heart, I’m a modder. So part of me really hates shipping games. I prefer them to stay in beta. Forever. But eventually, products have to be shipped and judged based on their state when they’re shipped. As a modder, the ship date is irrelevant. As a capitalist, I need the game to be good enough to get sufficiently positive buzz to generate the sales to continue my modding. Ostensibly, my main coding job on Elemental is supposed to just be AI. But that’s because all our previous games... [read more]
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A Preview of Elemental Beta 3-B
Beta 3-B is the big one. It’ll be the first beta build that should start to feel like a game. First off, there are the major features being enabled in the public beta: Tactical Battles Master Quests Near Final technology tree Near final city improvement list Tons of game play tweaks Lots of bug fixes This beta will start to show just how much impact the beta community has had on the game. I’ll be doing a video preview in the next day or s... [read more]