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>>730937292
What did he mean by this?

and that's a good thing

I'm usually big in gsgs but I can't get into this one.
Blobbing on earth is meh and the space part is uncooked

The UI is fucking terrible and half of the tech tree is fucking useless.

10/10, very happy with the 140 hours I spent on it and I will never touch it again

And the optimization is dogshit. Forgot that part.

Steam is always shilling me this. Anti-shill me on it.

>>730938967
You want to play a Map Staring game but you think Paradox games are too exciting for you

>>730938967
I needed to google spreadsheets to find out which ship components to research because the options in the tech tree are all clumsily tied together, poorly indicated (sometimes not indicated at all), there's a lot of false ends in the tech tree that lead to shit, and, assuming you are not reloading saves when you lose battles, investing in the wrong options could mean having to spend 6 hours rebuilding.

>>730937259
I like the idea of having a bunch of shadow organizations trying to pull their weight and do their own objectives, but I feel they could have cut a few out because they are just such cucks. Like, holy shit. Servants I get, right? But if you're so fucking retarded you think you can bargain with the ayy lmaos into going easy on you and selling people to try and be safe, I don't know what to say. The run away faction are cucks too. The rest all at least fulfill their role, but I don't know why some factions don't just dissolve if you're doing extremely well on, idk, the resistance or humanity first? Like imagine you're beating the ayy lmaos back and , and the protectorate are STILL trying to stop you.

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>>730940276
The Protectorate is the realistic faction. If a real alien invasion happened, they'd be our best bet, unironically.
With that said, yeah, in a game where we can manufacture war ships that fuck the alien's shit up within a decade, and we can also keep the aliens at bay that entire time somehow, the Protectorate doesn't make much sense, and they should absolutely just be allowed to dissolve and merge into other factions when it becomes clear their methods aren't needed.

The factions are all good at the start, some of them become a bit sillier later on but you can just handwave it away as people being too set in their ways and having spent too much time and resources on their way to give up now. Like console wars between billionaires.

>>730940479
Yeah, they do that well, and I guess that's enough to have them exist as a faction.
But yeah.... If you're doing well with anti alien faction to the point you have a really good shot at doing it, I makes almost no sense why they still are going.. Even the academy would work here though.

>>730940601
You can argue the Protectorate think the aliens still may not be worth pissing off, and that being losers who submit will still "ensure" who they're safe above all. It's a bit silly, yeah. Sunk cost I get can behind too.

>Manage to strand 8 alien armies in Madagascar
>Send all my armies at once there
>Have to quickly pull out, even though I outnumber them 5 to 1 and have all the military upgrades imaginable
>Nuke Madagascar
>Only takes out 15% off their health
>Have to nuke Madagascar 5 times
>0% popularity across the entire planet
I'm never letting assault carriers set up on Earth never again, good god

>>730939459
lol its funny cause its true

Why does /gsg/ not care about this?

>>730942112
I thought /gsg/ was for Paradox games

>>730942336
game is too deep for them

>>730942112
It's a puzzle game. The devs spent all of early access just seeing what strategies people used to win, and nerfing them.
So now you NEED to research specific techs from a huge (pointless) research tree. Only a few will actually ensure your victory. You researched the wrong ship part? Your save is bricked because you literally cannot beat the game anymore. Time to start over.

You didn't know about the alien event that just gives them territory on earth for free and research the one seemingly useless tech that can prevent it? Game over because they will keep getting free territory and you are stupid as fuck for not knowing it would it happen.

>>730943173
>The devs spent all of early access just seeing what strategies people used to win, and nerfing them.
QRD? Which strategies, in specific?

>you can improve a nation's heckin' democracy score
>meanwhile you control everything the nation does
What did they mean by this?

>>730937259
Why do they all have the same face?

>>730944374
That's a good point

>>730937259
I'm so angry about this game. It has everything I want and loads of content is actually fun, but between UI, the ridiculous time it takes and the poor balance for your choices it's only barely playable.
WHY can't the devs tune it right, everything is there for a great game!
Are they retarded on purpose?

>>730943173
You forgot when you get bricked after 50 hours of play

>>730944065
Its bullshit. They are just paradox shills coming to shit on a game that provides competition for their master

>>730943173
they don't get territory for free. it's a councilor action performed by the servants, and they first need a facility in that country which you can scan for and destroy.
just don't let the servants fester in any country. you have to fight them yourself because the other AI factions are shit at it.

>>730937259
>>730938967
Honestly, its a shit game.
Early game is a RNG fest scramble for territory.
Mid game is teching up, because you aren't going to do shit except shoot down the absolute smallest ship with anything but an endgame deathball.
Late game is boring as fuck because you're on a mop-up that takes literal hours because the realistic transit times coupled with the game pausing itself every five seconds to have you redo the early-game actions that have long since stopped mattering unless the AI manages to steal a nation from you.

Coupled with >>730937590 and it is a trash game that runs like shit.

>>730941106
How about orbital strike from low orbit?

>>730945465
Tried and it was working really well until it stopped working at all for some reason. Got one of the armies to 7 HP and then he regened. I was redoing the strikes and everything. Either a bug or some mechanic I didn't understand.

>>730937292
holy newfaggola

>>730945241
You're right about everything but I still liked it

>>730947962
He's wrong about the "RNG fest". The RNG in this game is very well done.