ELEX Pre-Release Thread

[ERYFKRAD]

ELEX: Not Even Once

Begone, heretic.

 

[Sranchammer]

Is this something I should pick-up in 2020?

 

[Beowulf]

Is this something I should pick-up in 2020?

Do you always wait 3 years for Greatness?
Why postpone it. You have to learn to embrace it.
ELEX.

 

[pOcHa]

 

[ShadowSpectre]

Is it October 17th yet?

In other (old) news, DLC stinks and ELEX don't have that shit: https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000063294868/elex-verzichtet-auf-dlc-weil-dlc-stinkt

 

[Jenkem]

4 "randomly" chosen readers of pcgames test Elex along with Björn Pangratz (Piranha Bytes) and Florian Emmerich (THQ Nordic) for 5 hours. no new footage and also no too critical feedback of the readers



What the four concluded:

Pro:

• Atmosphere. It smells like Gothic, you feel immediately like home.
• You start as a weakling without any armour.
• It's just fun to explore the environment.
• Combat in the beginning is tough and needs getting used to. Due to the stamina system button-mashing leads nowhere. High difficulty in the beginning, therefore you die often.
• harsh dialogues, typical PB-humour
• faces and natural looking skin tones look well-made
• game world looks homogeneous
• Science-Fantasy-Setting is working quite well
• Jetpack is fun, convenient in combat, for exploration and too avoid falling damage
• AI can be abused to, e.g. lure a troll to a camp
• No artificial borders, only own weakness and enemies strength limits progression

Con:

• Combat in the beginning is tough and needs getting used to. Due to the stamina system button-mashing leads nowhere. High difficulty in the beginning, therefore you die often.
• vegetation and trees weirdly weigh like crazy in the wind. looks just odd and is annoying.
• frantic moving shadows from vegetation jump all over npc's faces in dialogs and are annoying.
• The effect that simulates the eyes adapting to different lights is far too long/strong. Coming from the sunlit outside into a dark room leaves you blind for some seconds, even when coming into a similarly well lit room or when using a torch.
• assignment of keys at times weird. You need to use backspace instead of ESC with no option to rebind them.
• characters are not so well-developed as e.g. in Witcher 3
• graphics are not up-to-date but look nice enough
• low-res textures occasionally

additional feedback:

• option to hide the quickslot, without removing the HUD entirely.
• Trading interfaces should allow input from the keyboard. the number of items is determined by cursor key-hits.
• more aid and hints in order to track quests would be nice.

Misc:

• some smaller bugs but nothing severe
• Autosave-Intervall is configurable
• difficulty level can be changed mid-game
• difficulty level also affects "minigames" like chopping, lockpicking or hacking

 

[ortucis]

• difficulty level also affects "minigames" like chopping, lockpicking or hacking

Fuck..

 

[Gepeu]

Just checking in to inform that ELEX will be the most ELEX game.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

I'm a little out of touch, but is anyone actually expecting a good game to come out of this? Has anyone played any pre-release versions and have any comments on gameplay etc?

I'm no great fan of the Gothics, but Risen 1 was decent until near the end. I haven't summoned the will to play the others even though I own Risen 2.

 

[Gepeu]

You must be extremely out of touch to ask a such stupid question!

 

[Darth Roxor]

I'm a little out of touch, but is anyone actually expecting a good game to come out of this?

Well, DUH?

 

[Jenkem]

when someone comes in here and doubts the ELEX or tries to disparage the ELEX or comes to mock those who love ELEX, do not insult them, do not shun them, but show them the Truth about ELEX so that they may also receive its greatness.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

You must be extremely out of touch to ask a such stupid question!

At some point I was following this thread and it was all



Now it seems to have turned into



I'm assuming it's a coping strategy and ELEX the meme has taken over from ELEX the game, but I just wanted to check before I join the party.

 

[Raghar]

• difficulty level also affects "minigames" like chopping, lockpicking or hacking

Fuck..

What's chopping minigame?

 

[Jenkem]

What's chopping minigame?

 

[Darth Roxor]

What's chopping minigame?

 

[Latelistener]

I'm a little out of touch, but is anyone actually expecting a good game to come out of this?

It's already better than Risen 2/3, but by how much remains to be seen.

 

[Alienman]

Those cons are still not bad, and I'm not sure why difficulty are considered to be one. The key assignment is a bit odd though.

 

[Jenkem]

At some point I was following this thread and it was all



Now it seems to have turned into



I'm assuming it's a coping strategy and ELEX the meme has taken over from ELEX the game, but I just wanted to check before I join the party.

In a time where Trump is President and Grimoire actually came out, there's only one logical thing to do--believe. The personification of Incline is upon us, and its name is ELEX!

 

[Bumvelcrow]

 

[MasPingon]

I'm a little out of touch, but is anyone actually expecting a good game to come out of this?

Good? Is that how you describe what a blind man feels when he finally sees? Such a common word, Mr.

 

[unfairlight]

Despite Risen 2 and 3 being "bad" I still liked them for their charm. The combat somewhat sucked in 2 so you mostly abused your musket and dodge rolls since swordplay was basically random, in 3 you really had to outplay your enemy in swordplay to win and it wasn't anywhere near as random as Risen 2, but the easy way out is spamming shotgun and musket and dodge rolls. But the quests, characters and world were really enjoyable so I overall liked them. Main issue with Risen 3 for me was that there wasn't enough shit to do. I couldn't really go cave exploring in the late game because I probably already cleared them out since most of them were questline related.

• assignment of keys at times weird. You need to use backspace instead of ESC with no option to rebind them.

This is pretty baffling to me. They better fix this ASAP.

 

[Visbhume]

How do you say "quivering breasts" in German? Something like "schwingende Brüste"?

 

[Morkar Left]

or "hüpfende Brüste". But I guess you really mean "bebende Brüste".

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I'm no great fan of the Gothics

Even being a vegan is more tolerable.