What games are you playing these days /int/I like this, building my comfy medieval town
>>221151689Contemplating whether to get bunch of SW games for May the Fourth
>>221151689Endless Space 2
>>221151689Factorio
>>221151689europa universalis iv, creating my zoroastrian Persian Empire in honor of Iran
Russian Fishing Simulator 4
>>221151689Trolling in Brawl Stars.Main Bibi btw
>>221151689baldurs gate 3
I'm installing Dead Island 2
>>221151689I played foundation. I play Against the storm and Whiskerwood. And HSR, and Darktide.
>>221151689Comfy Roman city builders
>>221151689Morrowind and Arcanum
>>221151689SimCity2000 on DOS emulator on my phone
>>221152149I played that too, pretty fun. Gods are cunts
>>221151689Is this game actually good? I've wanted to try it for a while now. Anyway:>Total War: Atilla>Total War: Shogun 2>Ground Control 2
>>221153116>AtillaHow do you overcome the burden of military and civil maintenance? That game has so many fun mechanics, but desu it’s sooo fucking daunting no matter that stage of the game.
>>221151689
>>221153116wait for new dlc then
>>221151689https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ePphEutTJ8
i have put a stupid amount of time into this game that's only early access and it just got updated so i'll probably play a bit more this weekend
>What games are you playing these days /int/The Long Dark and Yakuza 8
recently menace, darktide and enshrouded
>>221153116I think it's pretty great yeah
>>221153345>The Long DarkI read this and my brain went straight to BBC. I need a break from 4chan.
I interject occationally with historical titles or Laurian games but by and large this is it. I’ve bought every single dlc ever since vanilla TWW over then years ago. I probably have nearly 5000 hours into these
>>22115168920 year old strategy games mostly
Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era & Far Far West
>>221151689played Age of Mythology Retold and I've also been getting into Age of Wonders 4
I basically just play Skyrim, Oblivion, Pokemon, and Breath of the Wild over and over again in attempts to find immersive soothing and solace.
>>221153159Imo it depends on what culture and faction you're playing as, but the general consensus to me is to approach the game with the mindset of fighting till the very end, sometimes you can even beat the odds with your garrison. Anyway here's my 2 cents (though i only play on hard)>Great Migrators/Barbarian KingdomsWhen playing these guys make sure to entertain the idea of migrating, and don't be afraid to get to greener pastures one way or the other. I recommend Alanii as they have a very powerful army comp, t1 Alanii horsemen can hold the line against spears to tie them down and anvil with more t1 alanii horsemen. I tried to conquer Rome with them but got btfo by Attilla so i packed up and fucked off to North Africa and became Strength Rank 1 insanely quick.>Roman FactionsI think these guys are the epitome of the game's mechanics, some players do insane shit like convert ERE to Slavic Paganism and become richest most powerfuk faction in the game somehow. Anyways, these campaigns basically force you to play like the Imperium of Man, you are more often than not surrounded by enemies and false allies, internal politics are dogshit, but you have THE most powerful troop comp in the game. I've held armies off using only the local garrison. If you see an unwinnable battle on a settlement, fight it anyway. Every dead barbarian on a Roman sword is one less barbarian raiding and killing other Roman citizens. Make sure you bottleneck and turtle, on both the campaign and battle map. Enemies tend not attack when the AI thinks they can't win, use this to your advantage. In sieges and field battles, use your core of spearmen to bottleneck and force your enemies to trap themselves into your force. Use a lot of Javelins, they break men easily and use whistling arrows once the general (because the A.I loves doing this) eventually charges into your frontline for no reason. >Cont.
>>221153116Holy based, switch Shogun 2 for Napoleon and you're the GOAT
>>221151689Total War and Crusader Kings>>221153116>>221153159>>221154170You better be playing as the WRE, aka the only correct choice.
>>221151689My main game over the years has been World of Warcraft. I raid in a 6h/week guild so not pushing that hard, only around WR 500, I killed mythic Crown recently. Other games I've played recently were Nubby's Number Factory and Dwarf Fortress with the Forthammer Fantasy mod.
Space Trucker lately. Since Anno 117 got a dlc might play a bunch of that during the weekend.
>>221154170>Cont. RomansDon't be afraid to build a few public order buildings and use your agents to get ahead. Something i also like to do is conquer a single profitable settlement in a region, and instead of giving them buildings that increase public order or sanitation, just build an insane amount of commercial buildings then fully upgrade the garrison as best you can. Very good to use port settlements too, you can use barricades to lure enemies to the docks and have your archer ships loose arrows on them, archer ships can REFILL AMMO.>Desert KingdomsMany of these are some of the easiest when it comes to administration, often having traits that increase sanitation. Sassanids imo have a mid(ieval) unit roster, Immortals are unlocked relatively late and by that point my hordes of camels, cataphracts and Armenian Spears have already taken Constantinople. Very good diplo traits, especially with vassals and clients, and White Huns in my experience tend to die early in the campaign. I Himyar and Aksum are also good desert factions, Himyar iirc has a really good fertile city game start an Aksum can get very rich, the ERE are too busy fighting Sassanids to care about their southern regions. Garamantia imo kinda sucks, and they're kind of boring.>Horde FactionsHuns and Hephtalites. They are Horde Factions, if you like raiding and pillaging and horse archers then go for it, i don't really play them.>General StuffSkilk trees are very simple, governors should focus on taxes and public order skills. Generals should focus on mdef, mattack and campaign movement skills. Regarding family management, it's actually way easier than i thought, other than personal traits, all you really have to do is make sure your king does a lot of fighting so they get influence then continuously adopt every notable in your kingdom, always make sure they're loyal, and marry girls to more nobles,. I'm not a master but these are my tips
>>221154246Fots is a better napoleon game than Napoleon
>>221154632I don't care about gooks chimping out so I could never get into Shogun
>>221154595>Cont.I actually completely forgot i also have the Age of Charlemagne and Last Roman expansions. I haven't played much of The Last Roman but it seems like a cool, battle heavy campaign. I kinda suck at managing money as Roman Expedition though. AOC is a very easy campaign, and has really low unit rosters. I suggest playing Mercia, Cordoba or Charlie's factions. But again, it's an easy ass campaign, mainly because the armies are way smaller, the funds are smaller, and the diplomacy is very forgiving, your friends WILL stay friends. Only played on Hard though.
>>221153116>>221154595>>221154888Based flip, enjoyed these posts even though I am an unc who only played the original Barbarian Invasion
>>221151872I liked Endless Space 1, but got overwhelmed by the next games and didnt enjoy them as much
>>221151689Trying out OpenMW. It’s wild how much you can change the graphics to something that looks like an Unreal Engine 4 remake/ESO. A shame the elder scrolls community is full of browns these days.
>>221151689I'm replaying Stalker SoC, I'm at the part where I have to meet those mutant guys with gas masks who look like flies in some ecological base in Yantar>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqqqo2tYM0Vanilla, in master difficulty and with no aims, of course
>>221155265uh, that video is of a modded gameactually vanilla game (although I don't think people in here don't know SoC)>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41UpbddCFk
how do i get good at crusader kings 3?
>>221155507it's genuinely the easiest paraslop game, what could you possibly be having difficulties with?
>>221155507Cheat at first so you aren't scared of mechanics. Then play it for real.
>>221155507its unironically the easiest paradox game ever since you cant even lose when you start a game first marry off as much family members for alliances as you can because apes together strong when the AI does calculations to attack you it factors in all your alliances total manpower so with a good marriage or two you will never be declared on and second Stewardship is the GOAT to build up your buildings in lands you own which in turn makes you more money which then you spend on Man at Arms which destroy everything
>>221155507haven't played CK3, only CK2 but the key is to just give up trying to control things and just let the shit fest unfold, no matter what you do your kingdom will end up in a thousand pieces and you will be playing as the inbred retard you sent off to die in Africa
OpenTTDI never figured out train signaling
I'm playing approaching infinity, new heroes of might and magic, wuthering waves and pragmata
Spider Solitaire
The Banner Saga trilogy Currently on the third game. It's crazy how underrated these games are. They are beautiful, come with an amazing story, fun gameplay and a supposedly great novel that I have yet to read.I also really loved Disco Elysium. Really I love any story focused game.
>>221155083I look like this
>>221155181>ESObut ESO looks like shit
so many fucking autistic losers on this site, playing weird autistic shit like map painting and city building. it's unbelievable
>>221151689>not available on MacDropped.
>>221153345>The Long DarkBut enough about your mom's boyfriend!
Still league of legends and eu4
>>221152160God tier taste
>>221157566lol those games are old. Do they even have season passes or franchise cross over skins?
>>221151689DK Bananza
>>221151689Death stranding 2Im trying to scale a near vertical mountain face near the pizza chef for no particular reason, the area isnt even unlocked yet so I can only build ladders and ropes.
>>221151689Overwatch and all of the Touhou games. I started playing OW again this year for the first time since 2019 and I've wasted so many hours in it already.
>>221151689KOTOR and Ruse currently, might go back to Banner Saga or GTA4
>>221151689I'm too depressed to enjoy games anymore. I bought Black Mesa during a recent sale, figuring I'd enjoy it since I was a massive HL fanboy back in the day, but nah. I occasionally load up Team Fortress 2 or Euro Truck Simulator 2 and play for a few hours, but the spark just isn't there anymore.Pic rel, it's me.
>>221155507>Other anons have covered the alliance strats.Pick stewardship focus and get the golden obligations perk so you can demand payment for hooks. Get a good spymaster, and have them spy on large kingdoms or empires to get hooks. Blackmail and demand payment for ez money early game.Congenital traits are op. Try to marry a genius or intelligent character. You can pick the blood dynasty legacy to make it more likely your children keep the good traits and get new ones.Education tree is also good (after some perks from stewardship) because it helps you with development and a perk in education focus gives you some skill points from your council.Don't die broke. Leave your heir a war chest to fight or bribe the pretenders. When you become a king, max out the the lodging thing in court so characters are more likely to join your court. Give your children tiny independent kingdoms so they give your dynasty renown that you can use to get legacies, and get higher levels of splendor which makes marraiges easier among other things.Don't be too eager to ransom powerful vassals (or their heirs) that dislike you. They can't rebel from prison.
>>221157534Have 29yos even heard of SteinsGate?
>>221151689right now: Minos, Airborne Empire and 2 Points Museumfew months ago it was Drop Duchy and Hades 2anyway, I'll come back soon to Hitman, CK3 and Against the Storm, as always
>>221159865aren't you embarrassed about flaunting what a pathetic little failed manchild you are?
>>221151689Replaying Underrail trying to do a punch / psi monk build since it had a robot update awhile back I never played. Just as kino as ever
>>221151689Used to play a lot of this when it came out. Now I'm getting into Rimworld
>>221151689Been on a retro game spree lately since I got my old 2007 rig working again. Played through Cold Fear the last couple days. Pure kino.
>>221153116>Is this game actually good?Its cute, but demands way too little from the player. I remember dropping it a few hours in, because my decently sized town could subsist entirely off of 2 infinite berry bushes in the town center
>>221160371Currently playing manor lords by the way and my village almost starves every winter even with enemies disabled. I like how it makes ya do crop rotation and depend on the seasons for harvests and shiet (even if the exact rules are pretty autistic)
>>221159962imagine being a 4chan dwellers and calling someone else a manchild
>>221160474Do Frenchmen enjoy getting pegged?
Chivalry 2 with Australians. Shout out to conspiracy discussion group on Chivalry 2 OCE mixed 64 players.
>>221155507i only played when it came out but back then blackmail was insanely strongalso going feudal from tribes was a scammaybe they patched it, doubt it tho
>>221155692>>221155764i try to force everyone to Catholicism and it never works.>>221155709i probably should.>>221159790>>221161120i will try these
anyone else on this kino?
>>221155782How does this keep fucking happening to me.>Die at age 86>Well-prepped heir, here we go>Heir dies at 47 for no reason>O-okay well my grandson is still prett->Grandson assassinated>I am now playing as some fuckwit 10 year old with no fief and a distant claim on Ugurubungu
>>221154827Get the total fall of the samurai mod. It lefts you play as Europeans with some pretty flashed out units and you can colonize Japan.
LMAO at all the fucking socially retarded autistic incels who rack up hundreds or even thousands of hours in map painting games. holy shit i had no idea how deep the autistic incel retard problem was here
>low quality b8.jpg
>>221161192as far as I remember when your heir inherits he gets a opinion boost if his predecessor was well liked but then when he dies abruptly and his grandson inherits all that positive opinion is lost immediately. Also since he is a child his claim is weak and vassals will see it as an opportunity and if they turn your spymaster which they easily will then you have a "its so over" situation
>>221161192Just take the theology way of life and join the Dominican order. It's genuinely cheating how easy the game is if you do that every character>>221161328Don't allow people who have lower than 35 opinion of you be your spymaster, just replace them if necessary or leave it vacant
>>221151689I play uma musume a lot. I founded a top 500 club and babysitting it takes a fair chunk of my gametime. I also play autism simulators like Crusader Kings and Rimworld (with full hentai and loli mods of course) as well as roguelikes such as Cataclysm Bright Nights.
>>221161139>CatholicismI wanna encourage you to try playing Asatru. It's very fun. It takes much much longer to convert counties until you reform your religion, or you might end up having to convert anyway to avoid wars. Start in 867. One part of this that sucks is, the Norse culture doesn't have catapult men-at-arms. I recommend forming a hybrid culture with someone more technically advanced in that area. You will have good ships, though, and be able to raid across the world. the classic move is raiding Rome, kidnapping the pope, and getting his massive ransom
>>221151689Rome tw/Rome 2 and attilaImperator RomeEu4 as byzatiumCk2 as byzatiumWarband roman modCiv 4 as roman civAnd stelaris as the roman galactic empire
>>221161278In the realm of video games, those are probably the least wasteful of your time, I mean you're at least learning geography and some historical tidbits, multiplayer games with comms could be good too I suppose if you actively strategize with your teammates, absolute worst and downright determental are the slot-machine type games where you just gamble for dopamine/money while lights are flashing in your face
>>221155507Ck3 its so easy you just need to let your character survive the fart events and you win the game
>>221151689I'm currently playing kingdom two crownsthe shogun expansionI want to finally complete a campaign and be done with the game, I always drop it mid campaign even tho I really like the early game
>>221161596are you the guy on /vst/ who keeps bringing up the fart court event? ive literally never seen it lmao
>>221161613No just joking,but seriously just play ck2 and if you manage to make an empire being a count in there ck3 will be a cake walk for you
>>221151689https://store.steampowered.com/app/2879980/_/?l=japanese
>>221161689im ok at it, im not the guy who was asking for tips but the sri lankan guy had a bunch of good ones
A couple days ago I downloaded Rocket league. I absolutely stink at this game no one told me this shit is so hard
>>221161785playing that game is an actual e-sport. you need to practice every day to have a good rank lol
>>221151934Currently on shapez 2, factory bro
>>221151689Stellaris Ready or NotH3VRCities SkylineRoblox
>>221161575shut up you autistic incel fag
>>221161575For me, it's cookie clicker - the original flashing light slot machine game and still the best.
KoF 2002 Unlimited MatchYunyun Denpa Syndrome
>>221153345>>The Long Dark>Genre: Open World Survival Cra-There's such an ungodly over saturation of trend chasing slop in this genre, that I'll likely never play the few good games it has to offer
>>221155146>got overwhelmed by ES2yea, it takes time to learn and get used to it for sure.
>>221151689Helldivers 2.If any of you cunts want to play with me i would be pretty happy.I used to.play darktide too but got bored with it. The older i grow the more i think Warhammer fantasy is superior to 40K.
>>221151689DarktideKCD2Over The Topvarious indie games
>>221161154>JEW 3
Fifa 13
>>221163658>The older i grow the more i think Warhammer fantasy is superior to 40K.that's because it is>>221163787how is '83? i only played the first test. been waiting for that fucking game since 2019. i played RO2/RS1 and RS2 a bunch>War Blunder - Runningwhat are you playing?
>>221164236very bare-bones for now
>>221162017>StellarisSuch a boring game
>>221162850>>Genre: Open World Survival Cra-That's not really an accurate genre for the game. While it does have a minimal amount of crafting and the world is technically "open", as it is in most games, it doesn't really resemble any of the "open world survival craft" games that there are tons of. It focuses heavily on survival (against the cold) and story. You can't build anything and you can't modify the world and the (mostly optional) crafting is making/fixing clothes and some basic bow and arrows and some improvised knives.
I've been playing nothing but PEAK since last September. But this week I started playing other games again.>Platypus Reclayed>Dawn of War: Def. Ed.>Grow Home/Up
>>221151872Great game>>221151934Great game>>221155146I still like both ES1 and ES2. But how do you get overwhelmed by 2? If anything, it sometimes feels like it was simplified too much, especially the ship building aspect? Sure they add a bunch of mechanics, but you don't really have to care about that when starting out on a lower difficulty>>221161983Might have to try that. It's an autism time sink like Factorio?
Also I hate how the best threads are always the off-topic threads on any given boardfucking hell
>>221155507how do you get bad at ck3?
>>221151689Only recently I realized that the real life is a free open world simulation game. Back in those days when they still haven’t explored the entire planet was the gold era imo tho. Imagine the “adventures” they could took. Modern adventures are kind of lame compared to those days but still it’s safer more than ever and you don’t really have to risk your life for it unlike those days. But honestly I don’t really wanna go to Africa after seeing all those insane shits being posted on /gif/
>>221165181Lol I've known this for years but I can't remember seeing anyone else make the same observation.
>>221162850The Long Dark is basically the opposite of all other Open World Survivals. It's the zoomers worst nightmare because it's slow, heavy, deep and has no flashy stuff at all. It's story driven and you actually has to listen and read for the game to make any sense. It was the first video game I got my dad playing and he's a stubborn old 68yo man. He loved it.
>>221162850>t.zoomer>>221166971Based Pew
>>221166971>the video game I got my dad playingHoly shit.My old man would never. Its that good?
>>221164236
>>221167628Yep it's very good. The only people I have ever seen hating on it are ADHD zoomers who can't focus for more than 20 seconds.
>>221167628Its a ok game, slow and just walking through frozen forests.
>>221165157i kind of get what he means, it took me longer to understand how it generally plays compared to ES1.
EU4CK3Vintage StoryPersona 5 Royal
>>221161689As a CK2 player, CK3 has finally surpassed it with All Under Heaven. By God Alone and Silk and Silver will be great. I have all the DLC except Persia, because who gives a fuck about Persia.
This is a very simple but awesome game
>>221163787'83 is such trash
>>221168359NTA, I tried the open alpha weekend and it was really bad compared to RS2. Really disappointed, I hope they manage to save it
>>221151689I'm playing the game of life. Building AI-agents, getting customers, making money, fucking a new ho each day with my BWC once I get rich.
>>221167695
>>221168421Yeah, me too. I waited for it since the announce and was excited like hell when they returned to work, nut when k got my testing key I played a couple of games and it felt really bad
>>221168524Herr Victor Saltzpyre.My king.
>>221159810nigga that shit came out in 2009
>>221151689Why is it that despite the French cultivating an image of themselves as artistically refined and accomplished, they are not that well represented in the top tier of most fields of art (with a few notable exceptions like literature and painting)?This is especially true of video games. When it comes to games, the only top tier French ones I can think of are Dead Cells, Dishonored and Clair Obscur, and naturally anything from Ubisoft need not apply.The actual countries in Europe making consistent bangers are Nordics, Slavs and with the rise of indies, increasingly German Mittelchads.This is not meant as an insult, but an opportunity for self-reflection.
>>221165157Idk, there is something more homely to ES1, even if the combat system was strange it doesnt get in your way
>>221169963>cultivating an image of themselves as artistically refined and accomplishedI think you're reading a bit much into that
Fuck I need to stop playing live service slop
almost finishing the true ending in silksong
>>221151689Don't Starve Hamlet (I used to play DS way back in the day too, but I suck at this DLC).Euro Truck Simulator 2 while listening to audiobookDOTA 2 sometimes.Generally horrid looking taste right now I promise I used to play cooler games...
>>221151689it's alright
>>221177854I'll post some games I really liked:>Age of Decadence>Modded Warband >Talos PrincipleCan't recall which other ones are pure sovl.
>>221166585I observed it as well, it's also true that you're gonna get the best advice on a non-relevant board.For example, best /fit/ advice would be found on different boards.Best /v/idya talk is found on other boards. Etc.
>>221151689The Witcher 3 expansions plus other indie shit in between>>221155507>Getting filtered by the easiest Paradox gameMassive skill issue
>>221178036Yeah /int/ has consistently had good vidya threads for a long time, I agree. You can have a better thread about anime literally anywhere but /a/. But more broadly than that, it's just that random off-topic threads everywhere have a higher average quality than on-topic threads.
KCDII is the best game I have played in a good while (my Henry is not homo for Hans nor friends with Musa)Only thing that bothered me in the game was how the bolts on the doors wouldn't actually work if mounted like in the game
>>221179921>bolts on the doors wouldn't actually work if mounted like in the gameUnplayable.
>>221180040Then there was THIS of course
>>221151689i tried the game because of you and it sucks. you owe me an hour buddy.
