Elemental: Reforged

Elemental: Reforged v1.4 Update Now AvailableView ChangelogThe v1.4 update for Elemental: Reforged is now available. This release improves AI expansion and battle decisions, adds creature type icons to the unit panel and details window, fixes a crash when loading into or leaving a game, and preserves outpost upgrades across saves while stopping quest and monster battles from stacking on the same spot.Smarter AI - AI factions now found outposts reliably, grab nearby treasure, keep their armies together on an attack, size up fights before picking them, hunt monsters more aggressively, and more.Added Creature Type UI - Creature types are now visible where you need them, with a new icon on the main map unit panel showing whether a unit is a Champion, Beast, Undead, or another type, and the Unit Details window displaying that type in its title.Gameplay and Stability Improvements - Outposts keep their upgrades through saves and ownership changes, quest and monster battles no longer stack on the same spot, rally points deliver their units, and a crash when loading into or leaving a game is fixed.

Elemental: Reforged v1.3 Update Now AvailableView ChangelogThe v1.3 update for Elemental: Reforged is now available. This release resolves multiple crash scenarios, restores tactical UI info cards, adds a new strategic unit speed control, and speeds up map generation while rebalancing loot drops.Stability and UI ImprovementsResolved multiple crash scenarios across research, audio, terrain rendering, and game cleanup. The tactical unit hover info card for abilities, active effects, and consumables has been restored, with a new rollover effects list grid added above the rollover unit panel, and map-anchored info cards now skip the tooltip delay so information appears instantly.New Strategic Unit Speed ControlA new Strategic Unit Speed slider in the General options lets you set how fast units move and animate on the strategic map, from 0.5x to 2.0x. This update also fixes unit movement being tied to frame rate, which was causing units to move slower at higher frame rates, along with correcting run animations that were playing faster than the actual movement.Faster Maps and Rebalanced LootHuge and Gigantic maps now generate noticeably faster. Treasure likelihood values have been reduce

June was pretty rough for this game. At some point, we don't know when, there was what we think was an OS update that slightly changed the way the game's audio system integrates with the OS, which resulted in what seemed to be (but weren't) random crashes.So what happened?In the game there are WAV files and MP3 files, and previously, for the last 15 years anyway, if a file name had a typo or something the game would just silently fail and go to the next one. So a given sound effect or track of music would try to play, and if the file wasn't there or the file name was not the right case, it would either not play or just skip to the next track.But then in June this stopped being the case, and the game would either plain crash or the music would do something funky (like go into a loop) and then crash.This issue mostly happened if you were playing as one of the Empires. That's why there was some consternation in the forums and Discord, where someone would complain about random crashes and others would say "well, it's rock solid for me." In truth, they were both right. If you were playing as the Kingdom, it probably worked. If you were playing as

Elemental Reforged v1.2 has landed and it is a meaty patch. Focusing on stability and bugfixes, v1.2 irons out many of the crashes and performance issues reported since launch. In this video, we highlight some of these fixes and changes made to improve the game.