Releases March 17, 2026
Journals
Dev Journal
As some of you know, Elemental BETA 3-B is the last public beta prior to the Modding beta (Beta 4). The modding beta will take things into a different direction while the team focuses on polishing, fixing bugs, and adding your requests into the main game in time for both the DVD release version (August 6) and the Day 0 release version (August 24). Having done these beta programs over the past 17 years, we’ve gotten a lot better at addressing beta tester concerns after the beta clo... [read more]
Dev Journal
One feature that players haven’t gotten to really see yet because they’re mainly applicable in tactical battles only are special abilities. Special abilities could be likened (and are actually implemented) much like a spell. For instance, a spider might have an ability where it can poison a unit. A ghoul might be able to send a unit into panic for a turn. The way it works is that in tactical battles, you will want to click on the various opponents to see what special ab... [read more]
Dev Journal
Greetings! Oh how I love this part of the beta. First off, you guys are doing a wonderful job getting us great feedback. There have been several crashes that even our internal QA team hadn’t found yet. The net effect of the public beta team is that it effectively adds engineering hours available to us because we’re able to find and eliminate bugs quicker than we had originally projected. Jesse and I were debugging through the ridiculously slow movement issue when you have an army.... [read more]
Dev Journal
Scott and I take a look at some of the things in Elemental beta 3A that we need to focus on for next week. [read more]
Dev Journal
This isn’t going to go live until tomorrow probably. This week was a short week for Stardock as we took last Friday and Monday off for the 4th of July Weekend. Beta 3-A is mainly just a stability pass at Beta 3 which we felt was too buggy, even for a beta. We put off making the tactical battles public because we still are adding AI and more tactical maps to it so that’ll come in next week in a Beta 3-B. Beta 3-B will be the last “game” beta. After that, we’ll close up an... [read more]
News
Elemental: Destiny’s Embers
I know this has posted a few times before, but since we have so many new users to the site and game, I wanted to post about it again. Destiny’s Embers is a book written in partnership with Random House by Stardock CEO Brad Wardell. Destiny’s Ember is a book written about the world of Elemental which revolves around the Kingdom and the Empire trying to regain the mastery of the world. The book will be available on August 24th, and can be found at several retailers including A... [read more]