We would like to remind you that all the official PvE servers will have a scheduled wipe soon—this Friday, October 24th. The wipe interval for the official PvE servers is 12 weeks, making it ideal for ideal for relaxed and creative gameplay. Feel free to join any of the official PvE servers for a fresh round of economic and technological competition and race to reach the highest faction score on any of the regional PvE servers.

Official PvP servers currently have a 2-week wipe interval and the next wipe is scheduled for Friday, October 31st (next week). Enjoy a level playing field and compete with other players starting together from a common point.

1 PM by GMT/UTC time (as usual).
For your convenience, here is the local time in the primary time zones we have:

Farthest Frontier v1.0 is now available!

The game has officially left Early Access after 3 tremendous years of working with the community to make the game you want!

The team is thrilled to have reached this milestone. We hope you enjoy v1.0 and what will come beyond!

The playtest is now over (it was time lol)!

Thanks to the 275 players who go access to the playtest and congrats to gradinarulsef, toopA73 and NETTTROTNT for taking the top of the leaderboard!

I'll update the demo soonish with some adjustment, and then we'll head towards release.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2977820 See you soon 👋

Stardock Entertainment announced that its remaster of the Elemental fantasy strategy game series, Elemental: Reforged, entered Early Access today. The classic sandbox turn-based 4X game series puts the player in the role of a sovereign of a fledgling kingdom in a world that has been devastated by a war of magic.

“Elemental: Reforged is the culmination of the vision Stardock had for this series since we started work on it over 15 years ago,” said Bradley Wardell, CEO of Stardock and designer of Elemental: Reforged. “The design of the game was ahead of its time, but limited by PC consumer hardware of the late 2000s. Now with a 64-bit engine, updated graphical fidelity, and a combination of features from all previous releases in the Elemental series, Reforged is exactly what we hoped the original game would be.”

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3796960/Elemental_Reforged/

“Each game had certain key features that the others couldn’t fit. For instance, War of Magic has family dynasties where characters could get married, have children and the children visibly carried a blending of the parents. That meant even trolls and humans could have children. Probably best not to dwell too much on that,” said Wardell. “For Fallen Enchantress we focused on detailed unit stats and well-paced tactical combat. For Sorcerer King we had crafting and quests.”

Today’s Early Access Build is designed to showcase the new combined game and give players the opportunity to give feedback on which parts of the game they want Stardock to further develop and enhance.

“We wanted to get players into the game as soon as possible,” said Wardell. “As a way of making good on the promise of the original game’s ambitious design, our aim is to make sure we shape this the way our fans want to see.”

• Ultimate Fantasy Sandbox. Players can create their own leaders, their own factions, and build a fantasy civilization with its own history and lore.

• Unified Elemental Experience. Brings together the strategic depth, smart AI, and rich gameplay from Fallen Enchantress, the immersive crafting and quest systems from Sorcerer King, and the dynasty-building, terraforming, and innovative mechanics first introduced in War of Magic.

• Rich, Dynamic Worlds. Enjoy endless replayability through procedurally generated fantasy worlds filled with lore-rich quests, evolving environments that respond to your magic, unique fantasy civilizations, and bustling cities populated with individually simulated characters.

• RPG-Infused Unit Design. Customize heroes and armies through an intuitive RPG-style character designer, crafting each unit with their own unique history, stats, equipment, and abilities, growing stronger with experience.

• Compelling, Short Tactical Combat. See how your designed units and characters fare in battle in highly refined tactical battles that reward strategic thinking, or leverage a sophisticated auto-resolve system powered by advanced AI for streamlined empire management.

• Deep Quest and Story Integration. Embark on rich, narrative-driven quests seamlessly woven into the empire-building experience, influencing diplomacy, unlocking secrets, and offering meaningful rewards.

• Modernized UI and Graphics Engine. Explore enhanced visuals powered by DirectX 11, seamless zooming from strategic cloth-map to detailed tactical view.

• Integrated Modding Tools. A comprehensive built-in modding and map-editing tools, and a fully redesigned user interface optimized for modern PC gaming with Steam workshop integration.

The original game’s release, Elemental: War of Magic, was limited by the constraints of 32-bit technology, which unfortunately wasn’t able to execute the game’s ambitious mechanics and design in the way Stardock planned. Now with Elemental: Reforged, modern computer hardware is fully capable of delivering the fully realized vision of the series in a package that includes content from all three previous Elemental games.

As a result of the technical limitations of the day, Elemental was released as War of Magic, Fallen Enchantress and Sorcerer King, each with its own subset of the original design.

The single integrated game, Elemental: Reforged, blends the best of all three games with Dynasties, Unit Design and Crafting by moving to a 64-bit game engine and a modern version of DirectX.

Hello Cursed Walkers!

In this DevLog you'll see how interactions with world items and dialogues will function, alongside test rolls and their outcomes. You'll also have a quick look at some other elements of the interface that we'll talk about in later DevLogs.

Known issues

• Some audio is currently disabled due to problems with an add-on

Added

• Aging horses now experience monthly stat decline after age 6, with accelerating decline as they get older (max stats/genetic potential remain intact)

• Horse ability and potential stars now display with knowledge-based uncertainty - lower knowledge shows less accurate star ratings

• Horse age into the stable training table

Improved

• The main menu world selector is now a bit nicer with custom icons

• The first autosave is now triggered right after generating a new world

• Ability to restart tutorial for a page from top bar question mark

Fixed

• Themes not working with Godot 4.5

• Small possibility for crash in staff page

• Deleting email now reads it (possible fix for the notification error where it says you have email when you don't have)

• Gray coat (and some others) when racing had the wrong coat color, this is now fixed

• Read messages no longer disappear when leaving the inbox, regardless of message age

• Unresponsive/hidden UI after quitting to main menu and starting a new game

The first community challenge has come to a close, but that just means it’s time for the next one! It’s time to stop, drop and kick all over Castor Woods. We knew you’d like this one!

Community Challenge: Dropkick Rush

Goal #1: 1,000,000 dropkick kills
Reward: Sunset SUV Car Skin

Goal #2: 2,000,000 dropkick kills
Reward: Sunset Machete

Note: Dropkick kills are counted if: the dropkick directly kills an enemy OR within 3 seconds of the dropkick, an enemy dies after hitting a wall, spikes or falling.

Call of the Beast Week 2 runs from Thursday, October 23 at 4PM CEST until Thursday, October 30 at 4PM CET.

IMPORTANT: Unlike last week, the rewards won’t be sent to your in-game stash as soon as the goal is completed. Instead, they will be distributed at the end of the challenge.

As before, to know how close the community is to victory and your rewards, head to Dying Light Outpost to see the progression.

Now get out there and kick (literally) some zombie ass!https://store.steampowered.com/app/3008130/Dying_Light_The_Beast/

Stardock Entertainment announced that its remaster of the Elemental fantasy strategy game series, Elemental: Reforged, entered Early Access today. The classic sandbox turn-based 4X game series puts the player in the role of a sovereign of a fledgling kingdom in a world that has been devastated by a war of magic.

“Elemental: Reforged is the culmination of the vision Stardock had for this series since we started work on it over 15 years ago,” said Bradley Wardell, CEO of Stardock and designer of Elemental: Reforged. “The design of the game was ahead of its time, but limited by PC consumer hardware of the late 2000s. Now with a 64-bit engine, updated graphical fidelity, and a combination of features from all previous releases in the Elemental series, Reforged is exactly what we hoped the original game would be.”

“Each game had certain key features that the others couldn’t fit. For instance, War of Magic has family dynasties where characters could get married, have children and the children visibly carried a blending of the parents. That meant even trolls and humans could have children. Probably best not to dwell too much on that,” said Wardell. “For Fallen Enchantress we focused on detailed unit stats and well-paced tactical combat. For Sorcerer King we had crafting and quests.”

Today’s Early Access Build is designed to showcase the new combined game and give players the opportunity to give feedback on which parts of the game they want Stardock to further develop and enhance.

“We wanted to get players into the game as soon as possible,” said Wardell. “As a way of making good on the promise of the original game’s ambitious design, our aim is to make sure we shape this the way our fans want to see.”

• Ultimate Fantasy Sandbox. Players can create their own leaders, their own factions, and build a fantasy civilization with its own history and lore.

• Unified Elemental Experience. Brings together the strategic depth, smart AI, and rich gameplay from Fallen Enchantress, the immersive crafting and quest systems from Sorcerer King, and the dynasty-building, terraforming, and innovative mechanics first introduced in War of Magic.

• Rich, Dynamic Worlds. Enjoy endless replayability through procedurally generated fantasy worlds filled with lore-rich quests, evolving environments that respond to your magic, unique fantasy civilizations, and bustling cities populated with individually simulated characters.

• RPG-Infused Unit Design. Customize heroes and armies through an intuitive RPG-style character designer, crafting each unit with their own unique history, stats, equipment, and abilities, growing stronger with experience.

• Compelling, Short Tactical Combat. See how your designed units and characters fare in battle in highly refined tactical battles that reward strategic thinking, or leverage a sophisticated auto-resolve system powered by advanced AI for streamlined empire management.

• Deep Quest and Story Integration. Embark on rich, narrative-driven quests seamlessly woven into the empire-building experience, influencing diplomacy, unlocking secrets, and offering meaningful rewards.

• Modernized UI and Graphics Engine. Explore enhanced visuals powered by DirectX 11, seamless zooming from strategic cloth-map to detailed tactical view.

• Integrated Modding Tools. A comprehensive built-in modding and map-editing tools, and a fully redesigned user interface optimized for modern PC gaming with Steam workshop integration.

The original game’s release, Elemental: War of Magic, was limited by the constraints of 32-bit technology, which unfortunately wasn’t able to execute the game’s ambitious mechanics and design in the way Stardock planned. Now with Elemental: Reforged, modern computer hardware is fully capable of delivering the fully realized vision of the series in a package that includes content from all three previous Elemental games.

As a result of the technical limitations of the day, Elemental was released as War of Magic, Fallen Enchantress and Sorcerer King, each with its own subset of the original design.

The single integrated game, Elemental: Reforged, blends the best of all three games with Dynasties, Unit Design and Crafting by moving to a 64-bit game engine and a modern version of DirectX.

Breachers Competitive Season 6 has arrived! We’ve made a couple of tweaks and of course a new skin as voted on by the Community! And don’t forget to enjoy your “Digital” Vezin skin from last season.

A few changes have happened to queueing, matchmaking, and MMR & SP, to improve player experience. Some of these have already gone in effect, some are new:

• Added rank disparity lock for Competitive (Diamond players and up will only be able to queue with others within a one rank difference)

• No longer will people be able to see player names of the enemy team ahead of the match by pressing the Oculus report button

• We’ve made SP correction more gradual, which should result in less extreme cases

• MMR Volatility will be clamped to keep MMR moving a bit more still toward end of season

• Squad SP weights have changed slightly.

With that, we wish you the BEST of luck. Happy Breaching!

• Read part 1 for the overview, ways of obtaining the gadgets, and the main usage mechanics.

We deliberately limit players to one gadget at a time. This decision is driven by several reasons:

• Balance – unlimited gadget use without cooldowns would give players a significant advantage (e.g., a “grasshopper” constantly using rocket boots or stacking barricades would be near unstoppable).

• Specialization – each team member should fulfill their role rather than be a universal soldier. The developers want players to interact more and assist each other. This improves teamwork efficiency in both PvP and PvE battles.

• Preventing overpowering combos – some gadget combinations in the hands of a single player could disrupt the game’s dynamics. Our motto is “One gadget per player!”

In the future, gadgets may be split into “lethal” and “support” categories, allowing players to take one of each type. While this idea is still under discussion, we look forward to further tests and your feedback on gadgets, which will help the dev team test their hypotheses.

Overall, we’re satisfied with the current variety but don’t plan to stop there. Future updates may introduce new gadgets, alternative mechanics, and other changes. The developers intend to rely on player feedback and statistical data from playtests.

Gadgets in NCORE aren’t just auxiliary tools — they are a full-fledged part of tactical gameplay. Their variety, mechanics, and balance create dynamic and intense battles where every player can find their style and develop strategies. Given future plans, the NCORE arsenal will only expand, making the game even deeper and more engaging.

If you’ve already played NCORE, share your thoughts on the current gadget lineup. What did you like, and what would you improve? And if you haven’t played yet, tell us which games you think really nailed gadget design?