Stardock is pleased to release v3.0 for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes today. This new major update includes a host of performance improvements, crash fixes, balance updates and more.

• Tile yield update on screen aborts immediately if the terrain is invalid for a city (perf)
  
• Fixed crash bug where garbage characters could get inserted into a scene node
  
• Increased the map tilt further so you can see more pretty stuff
  
• Calc Military Might now longer force updates the battle rank of units. (perf)
  
• AI city updating is now multithreaded (perf)
  
• CalcBattleRank changed to automatically cache the battlerank of the unit (major perf boost)
  
• Units now always get a battlerank of at least 1 to ensure caching of battlerank
  
• Sub-units of an army are no longer recalculated unless expressly ordered
  
• Thread safe city count method added
  
• Fixed a crash deadlock
  
• AI monsters less likely to attack a city on lower difficulties
  
• Monsters now use a cached combat rating to determine city strength (performance)
  
• Fixed multiple crash deadlocks
  
• Unit vector sized at 10 at start to reduce increments. (perf)
  
• Timer update increased from 1ms to 0.5ms
  
• Conclaves provide more research but less production and money
  
• Fortresses provide more production but less money and research
  
• Towns provide more money but less production and research
  
• New improvement: Tower of Knowledge. Provides +1 research per essence
  
• Tiny map size increased to 5x3
  
• Small map increased from 5x4 to 6x4 (20 to 24 sectors)
  
• Medium map size increased from 6x5 to 7x5 (30 to 35 sectors)
  
• Large map size increased from 7x6 to 9x6 (42 to 54 sectors)
  
• Huge map size increased from 8x7 to 12x8 (56 to 96 sectors)
  
• Wrote a replacement for toupper() that is much faster
  
• Lots of new quests
  
• AI improvements
  
• Quest based champions added
  
• Units take slightly longer to produce to balance the availability of more champions.

Version 3.0 of Stardock's fantasy civilization style game, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes gets updated to add more quests, heroes, city upgrades and general performance and stability improvements.

Conquer your enemies and explore the world of Elemental in Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes! We've updated this beloved classic with a new Tower of Knowledge faction structure, some highly requested AI improvements, and some performance updates that we know you'll love.

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes is a fantasy strategy game in which the player builds a civilization in the world of Elemental. This world was nearly destroyed by the War of Magic, and it is up to you to rebuild it.





Unlike most civilization games, the Elemental games put you into the game directly as a character.

Over the past year or so, players have been sending us their saved games so that we can use them to determine certain edge crash situation or stuck turn scenarios. We know that when it happens to you while you’re playing that it doesn’t feel like much of an “edge case,” so we wanted to make sure to find and fix as many as possible.

To make tactical battles more interesting, we made some AI improvements and wrote some new code that should improve turn times substantially, especially on larger maps. Because of these performance gains and greater stability, we increased the map sizes just a bit as well.



To see everything we've added in v3.0, check out the changelog at the bottom of the post!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/228260/Fallen_Enchantress_Legendary_Heroes/

• Tile yield update on screen aborts immediately if the terrain is invalid for a city (perf)
  
• Fixed crash bug where garbage characters could get inserted into a scene node
  
• Increased the map tilt further so you can see more pretty stuff
  
• 0Calc Military Might now longer force updates the battle rank of units. (perf)
  
• AI city updating is now multithreaded (perf)
  
• CalcBattleRank changed to automatically cache the battlerank of the unit (major perf boost)
  
• Units now always get a battlerank of at least 1 to ensure caching of battlerank
  
• Sub-units of an army are no longer recalculated unless expressly ordered
  
• Thread safe city count method added
  
• Fixed a crash deadlock
  
• AI monsters less likely to attack a city on lower difficulties
  
• Monsters now use a cached combat rating to determine city strength (performance)
  
• Fixed multiple crash deadlocks
  
• Unit vector sized at 10 at start to reduce increments. (perf)
  
• Timer update increased from 1ms to 0.5ms
  
• Conclaves provide more research but less production and money
  
• Fortresses provide more production but less money and research
  
• Towns provide more money but less production and research
  
• New improvement: Tower of Knowledge. Provides +1 research per essence
  
• Tiny map size increased to 5x3
  
• Small map increased from 5x4 to 6x4 (20 to 24 sectors)
  
• Medium map size increased from 6x5 to 7x5 (30 to 35 sectors)
  
• Large map size increased from 7x6 to 9x6 (42 to 54 sectors)
  
• Huge map size increased from 8x7 to 12x8 (56 to 96 sectors)
  
• Wrote a replacement for toupper() that is much faster
  
• Lots of new quests
  
• AI improvements
  
• Quest based champions added
  
• Units take slightly longer to produce to balance the availability of more champions.

Stardock is pleased to announce the release of Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes v2.51 today. This new update makes a number of balance adjustments and optimizations to performance.

• Unit movement engine optimizations
  
• AI update to be more greedy about getting goodie huts
  
• Early game technology costs reduced
  
• Default unit movement increased from 2 to 3 tiles.
  
• Sovereign default combat speed increased from 22 to 32
  
• Sovereign default HP increased from 20 to 28.
  
• Several bug fixes to late game instability

Happy Summer!

We've been playing with audio, AI and looking for bugs as we play.

When this game was originally developed, the tools available to us were so primitive. It's really pretty shocking how far things have advanced in such a short period of time.

I can now tell you exactly where every byte of memory goes and what it is doing.

There is also some balance changes coming in. For one thing, your sovereigns will no longer start with colleagues. Instead, your sovereign will have more HP and faster combat speed but will be alone. We think this makes the start of the game more compelling and interesting.

Our biggest focus for 2.51, however, is making the late, late, late game perform better. This takes a lot of playing the game but, we are heroes and so we make the sacrifice to play the game again...and again...and again! It's all for you!

Stardock released a major update to its classic fantasy strategy game, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes today. The new version incorporates many months of fixes, performance optimizations, AI enhancements, balance tweaks and a host of other improvements.

We are really happy to finally be able to get this update out to the fan community. We've been making improvements to the game for many months and been waiting until it reached a critical mass of updates to get it out there.

The game takes place on Stardock's fantasy world of Elemental. In it, players start a kingdom from the a single leader and must contend with other civilizations who are looking to take control of the world. Players research technology, design their own units, build cities, fight wars, go on quests, engage in diplomacy all while trying to unite the world under their rule.

Everyone loves the heroes and factions in Legendary Heroes, but not everyone knows, at a glance, what they do. We recognize this, so we’ve fixed an issue where custom faction abilities wouldn’t show what they actually did. Now when you go to check what an ability means, it’ll actually tell you! ;)

Happy hero-ing!

Conquer your enemies and explore the world of Elemental in style! We've updated one of your favorite classics so that it looks great on 4K, 5K, and even 8K monitors! In addition, all of the custom faction abilities now have descriptions so you can tell what benefits you'll receive from them more easily. Finally, the "slow" spell has been tweaked so that the initiative penalty is more punishing for your opponent.

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes is available on Steam or through Stardock.

For more information, visit http://www.elementalgame.com/legendary-heroes

Conquer your enemies and explore the world of Elemental in style! We've updated one of your favorite classics so that it looks great on 4K, 5K, and even 8K monitors! In addition, all of the custom faction abilities now have descriptions so you can tell what benefits you'll receive from them more easily. Finally, the "slow" spell has been tweaked so that the initiative penalty is more punishing for your opponent.

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes is available on Steam or through Stardock.

For more information, visit http://www.elementalgame.com/legendary-heroes

You Survived the Cataclysm - Now You Must Survive the War in
Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition Rise from the ashes and journey into a dark fantasy world.This set includes Fallen Enchantress, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes, and all DLC for both games.

In these 4X fantasy strategy games, the world of Elemental is at war and it’s up to you to either conquer it or destroy it.Lead your empire as one of 21 sovereigns, such as the traitor Emperor Karavox, the huntress Lady Irane, or the pyromancer Asha Furnaceborn. Powerful design tools also allow for endless possibilities for creating custom factions, leaders, and units. Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition offers hundreds of hours of exciting game play spanning two full games and six DLC packs.

These games span an epic timeline of war, chaos, and destruction. Civilization has already fallen in the wake of the Cataclysm and it's now up to you to decide whether or not you will crush the opposition and take control or help all of humanity rise to greatness again. Manage your kingdom, lead your heroes to victory in numerous tactical battles against a plethora of monsters, and utilize a rich palette of spells to either bring your opposition to its knees or inspire them to ally with you to achieve victory.

Recruit heroes to champion your cause, expand your kingdom to gather valuable resources, and engage in tactical battles against hundreds of opponents from Ravenous Harridan and Burning Wraiths, to Ashwake Dragons and the legendary Delin, the Pyre of Man. The DLC adds additional items like the Possessed Axe and the Shadowbolt Staff, events like the spread of a new cult in your lands or the appearance of a giant skeleton, maps, and more to further enhance your experience."We wanted to provide the best version of the game for new and old players," said Derek Paxton, Vice President of entertainment at Stardock.  "To do that, we have added a new Stamina system for more tactical combat, over 20 new abilities and spells, and each of the races now has access to new racial abilities. If you already own these titles, you don’t have to purchase the Ultimate Edition to enjoy all of these new features - we have added them into the existing versions of the game."


The Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition includes: 

• Fallen Enchantress
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Battlegrounds DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Leader Pack DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes The Dead World DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Loot Pack DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Quest Pack DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Map Pack DLC

 
Get it Now on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/85177/
For more information, please visit http://www.fallenenchantress.com/ultimate

You Survived the Cataclysm - Now You Must Survive the War in
Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition Rise from the ashes and journey into a dark fantasy world.This set includes Fallen Enchantress, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes, and all DLC for both games.

In these 4X fantasy strategy games, the world of Elemental is at war and it’s up to you to either conquer it or destroy it.Lead your empire as one of 21 sovereigns, such as the traitor Emperor Karavox, the huntress Lady Irane, or the pyromancer Asha Furnaceborn. Powerful design tools also allow for endless possibilities for creating custom factions, leaders, and units. Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition offers hundreds of hours of exciting game play spanning two full games and six DLC packs.

These games span an epic timeline of war, chaos, and destruction. Civilization has already fallen in the wake of the Cataclysm and it's now up to you to decide whether or not you will crush the opposition and take control or help all of humanity rise to greatness again. Manage your kingdom, lead your heroes to victory in numerous tactical battles against a plethora of monsters, and utilize a rich palette of spells to either bring your opposition to its knees or inspire them to ally with you to achieve victory.

Recruit heroes to champion your cause, expand your kingdom to gather valuable resources, and engage in tactical battles against hundreds of opponents from Ravenous Harridan and Burning Wraiths, to Ashwake Dragons and the legendary Delin, the Pyre of Man. The DLC adds additional items like the Possessed Axe and the Shadowbolt Staff, events like the spread of a new cult in your lands or the appearance of a giant skeleton, maps, and more to further enhance your experience."We wanted to provide the best version of the game for new and old players," said Derek Paxton, Vice President of entertainment at Stardock.  "To do that, we have added a new Stamina system for more tactical combat, over 20 new abilities and spells, and each of the races now has access to new racial abilities. If you already own these titles, you don’t have to purchase the Ultimate Edition to enjoy all of these new features - we have added them into the existing versions of the game."


The Fallen Enchantress: Ultimate Edition includes: 

• Fallen Enchantress
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Battlegrounds DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Leader Pack DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes The Dead World DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Loot Pack DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Quest Pack DLC
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Map Pack DLC

 
Get it Now on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/85177/
For more information, please visit http://www.fallenenchantress.com/ultimate