Pretty cover art edition.Previous thread: >>496286836==NEWS==Nebulous: Fleet Command, Devlog 35: Strike Package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA1_SUYpvcoGalCiv 4, v2.9 Starview Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/4678766374116320488GalCiv 4, Dev Journal #75 - Terror Stars: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/4676515207797437250Distant Worlds 2: Return of the Shakturi dlc dev log 2: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/4675388674389181062Sins of a Solar Empire II, v28.16 Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1575940/view/6743666355154616622DUNE: Spice Wars, community update #3: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1605220/view/4344369662289739605Civ 7 releases 11th of February 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_JrrP9m2UStellaris Dev Diary #356 :https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/281990/view/4697907940247564841== Pastebins ==Alpha Centauri (new 14/06/22): https://pastebin.com/QgEvG3ETFree and open source games pastebin: https://pastebin.com/8nRQckSNStellaris: https://pastebin.com/hPfrhazx https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Stellaris_WikiStellaris DLC guide: https://rentry.org/STDLC384Endless Space 2 + Endless Legend: https://pastebin.com/yu57huWmCivilization: https://pastebin.com/eeL9tyaW/cbg/: https://pastebin.com/ZSLVg9kTWorkers & Resources: https://pastebin.com/XaWF8mE6
Based.Next OP should get some "/gsg/ faggots not welcomed here" message.
>>497537687Dune is so good. Even if Atreides got nerfed badly.
>>497537687Another great cover art.>>497538614Maybe, it should be obvious by now.
>>497538887Just in case these fags decide to split, fake /civ4xg/ if we die etc.
>>497539668Oh okay.
been playing Dawn of War 2 lately
>>497546432I haven't had any time to play games. Last game I played was High Fleet. Haven't even finished that run but I'm in a very strong position to win the game.
>>497547079I wish i had time to play this shit with my backlog...
Tau kinda fun.More than any other race, I think, you're meant to carefully plan your moves ahead. sinceany unit can target enemy units to support further blokes, which cancels the distance damage dropoff.
>>497548526Is that homeworld? I also have yet to make time to play that.
>>497550459Those are UNSC ships
>>497550616Oh shit, new Halo Wars?
>>497546432Is it good? I'm really fond of Dawn of War 1, never really played the second. I don't think I ever tried orks. Or Space Marines. Or anything that isn't Tyranids, really.
Good night.
>>497550950very impressive and fun game it gets better at chaos rising and retribution
RISE VIRTUAL
>>497551267Night.
>>497516964Yes, but no. Tervigons and monsters will shrug off Fire Warriors' fire.
>>497550950https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVWVmoevEwIt plays very differently when compared to 1, but at least it's not a MOBA like the third game.
>>497552410Yeah, it's more like Company of Heroes, with a lot of tug of war.
>Tau's loyalty building is a statue of the first Ethereal>a lot of listening instruments are hidden in it to identify dissidents
Anyone remember the city builder Tlatoani?It's basically mesoamerican PharaoApparently it has a release date 31. Octand they have a publisher Paradox not sure how to feel about that.
>>497559396Oh, I know the dev for this, just congratulated him after seeing the announceme->Paradox...ah...
Should I be crossing my routes together? Does that matter?
F R O G
>be devouring swarm>grab tons of planets>empire size through the fucking roof>barely any pops to work the new jobswhat do
>>497561575yeah, but I have still some hope for itI liked the demo, and I find the setting is refreshlingly interesting
>>497568259I have hopes for it. Dev is as much as an Aztec nerd as I am.
Alright. Don't let the thread die, and see ya.
You see this busty bitch smashing into your system. What do you do?
>>497571494Get down on one knee and propose
That's certainly an interesting crew bonding exercise.
>>497537687DUNC
>>497571494"Hey pretty gurl, you here for the party?">synchronized novalith firing sounds
>crashed againOh come the fuck on I just wanna get to week 2000 for fuck's sakeThis game is impossible to play around the 50k population point
>>497574140>turns your ships into simps
>>497574264Finally
>>497538887I keep thingken bout thos remnants of the precusors but I've never gotten around to trying it. Which I should, because last time I played some classic MoO was a really long time ago and I remember coming to the conclusion that MoO1 had aged more gracefully than MoO2
gm
gm lads
Goodnight, dream of clapping muton cheeks
>>497606862I'd rather dream of clapping harpy cheeks.
I liked Ixion, any more like it?
>>497538614Dream autism more like.Going to post about CK2 just to piss you off.
>>497573835Came here to post this
>>497573835i think about this word from time to time
>>497612634I'd rather dream of getting my cheeks clapped.
>In the rear, with the queers
>>497622815Why dream? Go get your cheeks clapped NOW
>>497624517no gf to do it, sadly.
>>497612634Visit your local harpybrothel today!!
>>497631280yay
nighty night
need more content in manor lords
>>497559396>ParadoxI had hopes for this game until I I read this.
>doing first lead seal map>spawns a dark gate in the middle of my settlement one stormfuck you
>>497657616Luck of the draw, kidI opened up a dark gate glade in a costal grove map and it fucking demolished my settlement -10 resolve AND +300 hostility is jist unreasonable desu>just kill a villager broNo. Never.I still won that settlement, but I had to resort to mass opening glades during the storm because of the tools perk I picked up. Ended up having just enough to clear itIt's honestly a little weird how unbalanced the forbidden glades areYou have the dark gate, which is pretty much impossible (without killing a pop) unless you have all services and complex food fuffilled, then you have something like the fire sprite, which you will probably be able to handle at any point as long as you have some of those firestones a, or a molerat, which will basically be able to go unchecked the whole game if it's far enough away from you
>>497662385>No. Never.bro you'll get a replacement and like four more the next batch of newcomers. that only matters early on when you have fuck-all for people, but once you have 20+ its easy to replace them, just like if they leave from unhappiness
>I hecking love Victoria 2>genocide mod is based>I love genociding Ottomans and Alb*nians
>>497538887It was all downhill after moo-1
>>497664030Also some cornerstones give you bonuses when people leave or die.>>497662385Losing villagers is really no big deal and in no way does it mean you're losing the game.
Say, this guy seems familiar.
>>497675239Ah yes, the famous orphan rogue trader, Han Singular.
>>497675607Fuck Disney.
Lotta nice loot on his ship though, lasguns and UAC rifles are a real treat. God I love landed Smuggler ships, so rare but so, so sweet. Shame one of the catgirls died though.
>>497676993>Shame one of the catgirls died though.RIP. They will pay for every death.
>>497678226Unfortunately I'm the one that killed her. In my defense, she was an enemy, was literally invisible, and was in the way of a grenade.
>>497679640OH NO
>>497664030>>497667014I am on the cobalt seal currentlySo far, only 5(five) have died on my watchThree from exposure to the storm and two from starvationThey weigh heavy on my shouldersPeople can leave all they want, that means theyre still alive. But to die? To end their lives, especially directly? What kind of man should have that power?People's lives are at stake here!You call you yourself a Viceroy when you talk about "replacements" as if this is a fucking game to you. Shame. Shame on you. We are supposed to be better...
>>497682534
Graceful and elegant, like a thrown ham sandwich.
>>497689628lmaoI love these events.
I just preordered Civ VII Founders Edition and I wanted to tell you all because I thought that might make you angry
>>497690389lmao dumbass
Good lord. The bolter bitches aren't pushovers as Emperor TTS led me to believe.
I love the Sisters of Battles.>xenos? Meh.>space marines? Meh.>CHAOS? REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
>like the infamous Blood Ravens or even the Necron Lord Trazyn the Infinite, the Sororitas also keep artefacts safe
This is just the Bene Gesserit.
>>497537687It's pretty
>>497715059like ur mom lmao
>>497690389>Think it might make us angry when we are all Civ Fanatics hereANONYMOUS YOU'RE BEING SILLY AGAIN
>>497721172Yes.
So I was going to buy Anno 1800 on the Ubisoft app, should I just wait for Tencent to buy Ubisoft assuming there is gonna be sales and other changes like removing the app?
>>497715472br00tal
>>497707218>Bolter bitches who instead suck you for the emperor>>497722117Might as well buy it on steam, those guys aren't going anywhere.
>>497682534I will murder entire families if that gains me a single reputation point.
>>497730159No...
>>497516964play tau in battlesector if you really want to snipe shit from miles across the map. the broadside and hammerhead (railgun loadout) have a maximum range of 12 tiles
>>497742260units in battlesector normally only have a sight range of 5 tiles on the direction they're facing that's how long 12 tiles is
>>497723384Yeah. His mom's pretty, I saw a pic the other day. His dad's lucky.>>497729256More like find you a good partner to avoid inbreeding.
>>497742260>>497743001>40 eurodollars for thisDamn choom, I ain't got eddies for that!
>>497742260>>497743001This looks like a gacha game.
>>497743485nah it's simply a video game version of the tabletop it has some of the nicest 40k models i've seen in a game and customizable loadouts for some of the units is pretty nice. astra militarum is coming in december
>>497745029Nice. And when do the Imperial Guard comes?
>>497743445here it's cheaperhttps://www.humblebundle.com/games/warhammer-day
>>497745541December 10th. They're going to be the faction with the most vehicles in the game.
>>497746703Wait since when is there a Rogal Dorn tank?
>>497747110It was only added a few years ago. It serves as middle ground to the leman russ and the baneblade, functioning as the heavy tank of the three with the baneblade being the superheavy.
>>497748085So Leman Russ is the small, flappy, flobby one, and the Rogal Dorn is the long, big, hard one?Can't imagine he's too happy about it.
What was that game that had a military academy?
>>497753494valkyria chronicles 2
corpses make such good screenshot material.
>>497756306I know, right?
>>497755558No, a RTS. Age of Empires 2?
>>497730159>*gains 5 impatience*
>>497757232what in tarnation
>>497601217What game is this?>>497591172>MoO1 had aged more gracefully than MoO2The gameplay is a lot better than building every single building on every single planet.
>>497537687Update 0.3.2.22 - Fleet Editor Improvements, Part II: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/887570/view/4686648941196943949
RIP...
>>497760443For Nebulous.>>497759565Not a game.
>>497758812Which in turn reduces hostility, it's a win win. It's such a good tradeoff that think i might even kill you
>>497762136You are a disgrace to the Viceroy name
>>497760957Yeah I forgot to add that it's a new update for Nebulous.
>>497762268Come here, i need to get another blueprint!
Supcom 2 is shit but I like the story.
>>497687949Wait what? So this game is actually going to release? I thought it was abandoned and now all of a sudden youtube recommends me this trailer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7-j4PeDzw&ab_channel=GameTrailers
>Saint Celestine and Holy Saint Celestine are two different unitsQué?????>>497767270It's not abandoned, there's just one guy working on it so it's slow as molass.But hey, now he's getting Paracuck's money.
motherfuckers shot down my mcdelivery
>>497769471They shot down our inter-planetary Wolt delivery? They will pay for this!
>>497706586>>497707218Anon, you can't just post stuff like that and pretend we know what it means. We don't speak baguette.
>>497769819You can learn, can you?Just use today's sponsors, Square Space, and enter our keyword, LazyBurger.
Can I get a retard's guide to endless space 2? I tried getting into it twice, and I can't figure out how to play even the basic loop efficiently. I loved endless legend, so I feel extra stupid for not understanding space.
>>497774105>learn French>just to read some random anon's screenshots on the Norwegian whalehunting forumFrench arrogance never ceases to make me laugh.>LazyBurgerI'm a Slav. Stay obsessed.
>>497786926I just wish that retard got a trip or namefag so I could filter xer
I need help remembering a game. It was an RTS from roughly 15-20 years ago and looked kinda like AoE3/AoM, with that 'cartoony realistic' style, set during a medieval-ish era. I'm pretty sure there were multiple playable factions but I only remember one, and I think it was egypt-like and predominantly yellow. The big gimmick of the game was being able to personally control the hero unit in a third-person view for combat, and the standout moment was loading the hero onto a ship to take them to the enemy city, and from the deck of the ship you could snipe the opposing archers off the walls before landing and engaging the rest of the troops in melee.
>>497775258Hard question. What exactly stops you?
>>497774105You struck a nerve.
>>497775258Remember, don't build everything on same planet.
So what do we think of this game?
>>497769471This is one of those things I really like in ES2. Supporting a newly settled world (not a full colony yet) requires transports that actually cross the map. In Stellaris everything is so detatched from place.
>>497790634>laughs in Aurora
>>497790379It's good but very deep on details. Hard to learn but rewarding if you get a town to work well.>>497790728I can't into aurora it takes to much time to learn everything, I don't have that much time to play games anymore. Distant Worlds 2 with most things on manual control is about as deep as I'm willing to go with space strategy games.
>>497790379It's not about France, therefore we don't care fir it. Another foreign game about an imaginary country, and it git fucked by some lawyer or something who got it pulled from Steam.
>>497790941I literally cannot stand any other space 4x now that i played Aurora, i hate them all for being so fucking shallow and basic.
>>497790941>It's good but very deep on details. Hard to learn but rewarding if you get a town to work well.its overly complicated
>>497787615I mean he's posting games and he's not talking about trannies so I'm gonna put this at France 1 rest of the world 0>>497788610That sounds slightly familiar, fuck. Rise and Fall Civilizations at War maybe?>>497790634Stellaris somehow has negative flavor and I don't know how they pulled it off. I guess the moral of the story is Paradox games rely too much on going "Tee hee, that isn't historical at all!" and without that propping up your enjoyment you're fucked. Although to be fair the Endless games are the kings of fluff so it's not precisely fair to shit on Stellaris in that comparison but I'll do it anyway
>>497791470Based.
>>497791470>tranniesRent free.
>>497791941This isn't /gsg/ here. We do not say this. You should actually try to integrate and learn the general's culture.
>>497791941Uhmm sir, sorry but we do not endorse trannysism here, please go to /gsg/.
>>497792071>>497792203Based general regulars. Tourists gotta lurk more.
>>497769819Tyat is why I bothered commentating to explain what it's saying. Or are you saying you don't know the Blood Ravens or Trazyn the Infinite?And also I did change language to English once, and people reacted by congratulating themselves on making me change my mind, and didn't talk about the game. So now, you're getting screenshots in French, and if you don't understand, ask or Google it.
>>497792890>Or are you saying you don't know the Blood Ravens or Trazyn the Infinite?That's not what I'm complaining about, because I know what they are. I'm complaining about>Tyat is why I bothered commentating to explain what it's saying.Comparing something to Blood Ravens and Trazyn doesn't mean jack shit if I don't know what the picture itself is saying. Are you making a straightforward comment about gathering artifacts or are you making a sarcastic "lol they steal other people's shit" joke?>And also I did change language to English once, and people reacted by congratulating themselves on making me change my mind, and didn't talk about the game.And now we're ESPECIALLY not talking about the game because most people here don't speak your retarded frog language, with its retarded spelling and its retarded number system. Either post in English or don't post at all. You're not actually contributing a single thing to this thread by posting in a language barely anyone else understands.>Google itI am not transcribing those walls of text into Google Translate. Fuck off.
>>497788610Wait, so was it a RTS or a beat them all? Do you remember which console it came out on?
tfw no qt pilot gf
>>497795246based
>>497795246TL;DR
>>497759565>The gameplay is a lot better than building every single building on every single planet.Exactly. That's something that always chaps my ass in 4x, and it's one of the things I really like in Sword of the Stars. Give the player a few sliders or something if they want to push a world more toward production or money or whatever the fuck but then give it over to AI planetary governors because the player's the big galactic cheese and should only be dealing with the broadest strokes for individual planets and shit god DAMN it
>>497795246>Comparing something to Blood Ravens and Trazyn doesn't mean jack shit if I don't know what the picture itself is sayingIt's literally what the picture is saying though.
what thewho the fuck is this? it's not the academy
>>497797331It's related to the sophon's main quest.
WELCOMETO ANOR LONDO
Eldar town for scale.Yes, it does look like Dawn of War buildings randomly mashed together. But Eldars are actually fun to play in that game.
>>497797582>SoB just cover the world in churchesGladius is looking cool, I really should try that out. Heard good things but I'm always such a diplomacy shitter I dunno if I'd get into all-war 4x
Is it true that in the new Men of War you are unable to mix and match weaponry by collecting enemy weapons? Having German squads with MG42s, bazookas, Garands and .50 MGs was the best part of Assault Squad 2. Historically stupid too given all sides of WW2 used captured weapons.
>>497797931Honestly, the main flaws I have with this game is that there's no diplomacy, there's too much DLC (but it's a moot point), and the way the game is made can be annoying. If an unit is out of actions and movement, the game automatically takes you to the next unit, which is usually fun. UNLESS you're trying to clear terrain with a builder unit, in which case the game takes you away from it before you can give the order.But honestly, I kinda like it. You can have short games (short by 4X standards anyway), and if you like fighting, you should love it. Because honestly you're constantly killing something: the bloody map is full of neutrals like Castellans, Umbras, Slavers, and the parasite wasps. Think Conquest of Elysium: by the way you meet with the enemy, you're already a veteran and your units are all toughened.But yeah, I don't think there's any diplomacy at all.Also dark eldars kinda suck, they's so bloody fragile, and some of their researches aren't translated.
>Oh look, these are the annoying moralists. "For the Greater Good." Shut up, talkative imbeciles. The Greater Good? Hah! Ethic is just a society-sized brainworm that goes against self-preservation. Let's just kill them all.
>>497800770Half Light moment
Dark Eldar town for scale, before I quit the game because two Catachan devils spawned on my kabalites and murderfucked them straight to Slaanesh.I do appreciate the little tidbit of lore that Dark Eldars have a lot of neutral ports that trade in whatever goods, and are opened to aliens. And that they also employ a lot of mercenaries. That explains why other races aren't ganging up on them: they're too useful to be wiped.>>497801182An entire race of half light.
>>497801182what
>>497802538Disco Elysium.
>>497802538I mixed you guys up with /indie/It's a skill from Disco Elysium, here's a taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX_05uYAJBs
Well this is depressing.In Gladius, all the narration is done from your faction's point of view. And the Space Marines' opinion of the Imperial Guard isn't really good.>Oh, so an army of the Imperial Guard is present, so? Unfortunately, because of the risk of xenos infestation and heresy, they cannot be allowed to leave the planet.
>>497791045? It's still on Steam
Whoever wrote the text for the Scouts fucking loves them.Simply put, Scouts murder.There's a typo, though. I'll have to tell the dev somehow, assuming they haven't dropped the game yet.
>>497804845He GOT IT pulled from Steam.Past tense.
Space Marine town. Singular. Much like the Cultists in Endless Legend, Space Marines only have one town. And you might notice something else too, they have no food and no ore, only requisition.
>>497791470>Rise and Fall Civilizations at WarYeah, that looks about right. Thanks, that's a 20 year mystery solved.>description on myabandonware: This is the 2008 free, ad-supported version of the game, supported by the US Air Force, which does not work anymore....the fucking US air force? Why in the fuck?
I think I have another issue with Gladius: some towns are genuinely nice-looking, and others feel like just random assets dumped together. It kinda works with the bolter bitches, but less so with eldars or tyranids.>inb4 "maybe you're not meant to zoom in so much>>497805668That actually looks like fun.
Just lost my first settlment bros.. feels bad man>on cobalt seal. Haven't lost yet>last few games were particularly difficult despite the upping prestige conditons not seeming like too much>settle next to corrosive torrent world modifier, which means you cant destory buildings to salvage the materials>storm is coming and I dont have enough parts to build the blightpost because I forgot about not being able to tear down a camp>none of my orders that give parts are completable without that thing built>out of fuel>out of food>only real chance is a trader selling parts. Which I call in four fucking times and they dont have it>year three and the writing is on the wall>I'm about to lose three of my settlers to corruption>impatience bar 4 away from full>abandon settlementFeels bad to lose this late into the game when I've so far had a perfect streak, but Id rather lose 3 years of time and a settlement than any more with a bunch of dead settlers on my handsNow I NEED to complete the next one before year 8 ends, which has been pretty hard for me to do this seal for some reason, or else I wont have enough seal fragments to go to the sealed forest. Unless there happens to be one more world event where I can get them via trade or somethingThings aren't looking good brosThis has been the first time things were well and truly SCUFFED desu
This one's for you, incendiary grenade anon.
>>497814560I am pleased. Thank you.
infection free zone any good yet?
Traveler here. There was a game I think in EA half a decade back (maybe less) with a similar theme to Surviving Mars, but it wasn't Surviving Mars. It had a ambient-ish soundtrack that wasn't too serious, wasn't too whimsical; a good mix of light-hearted chill stuff. I can't for the life of me find what game it was. Any ideas?
>>497815253surviving mars is shit though
>>497815570Well it's a good thing I don't want to play either game and I just want to listen to the soundtrack.
>>497815253Planetbase?
She'll be sleeping off that tranq dart for a while.
>>497816304No, music is better and a bit chiller/little more "whimsical"? Thanks for the shot though.This is going to drive me fucking insane I can't find it and I hate leaving shit like this unknown.
>>497815253a mars colonizing game? offworld trading company?
>>497818574Darn, sorry. I went through my entire collection to find that one.
>>497818690I don't think it's necessarily specifically Mars, just an extraterrestrial colony sim or 4X game. It kind of had similar names to Surviving Mars' tracks in that they were single-word references to science or exploration, but I don't remember nearly as many compounds (if any) used as track titles, more whole words. I also think I remember a track ending in -ium and one having to do with light I think? Maybe? Fuck, super vague, sorry, this is dumb lmao. >>497818876Hey I just appreciate any effort any anons put in, this is a stupid fucking request so hats off lol.
who the heck listens to video game sound tracks....
>>497800374Having short games by 4x standards is actually a large plus for me, since I'm usually happier with a short heavily replayable thing than a single long thing. And you comparing it to CoE is another big plus since CoE's damned cool. Might try downloading it tonight and giving it a go if my shots don't fuck me up too bad>>497805668There was a window where the military was trying to lure The Gamers in. Why the air force for an ancient world RTS who the fuck knows, however>>497818690Even if that's not the answer I will say that OTC has a fantastic soundtrack. It's actually a really great game in general, scuffed a bit by Stardock fuckery but it's like a modern MULE (And even has an obligatory MULE shoutout) which is neat
orangecrons are cool yes they are an actual thing google mephrit dynasty
haha I'm to smart for the taxman.
>>497820225https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giqNtBAukbgIn fact I will even toss link for the soundtrack because it's that good. I will say it works a bit better in-game since it shifts based on what's going on (Similar to how EL and ES soundtracks are better in-game as they change when you go through menus) but eh
>>497820225>Having short games by 4x standards is actually a large plus for me, since I'm usually happier with a short heavily replayable thing than a single long thing. And you comparing it to CoE is another big plus since CoE's damned cool. Might try downloading it tonight and giving it a go if my shots don't fuck me up too badI mean, it lacks CoE's economy, but honestly, it's a plus. I love CoE, but strategy wise, it's utter shit because map generation is so damn random. I got a bloody magical tree close to my villages, so new creatures constantly come out to recapture my only income.
going nowdon't let the thread die
>>497824001Jannies trying to ban me, I can't make promises
>>497812784It's fucking over brosI've failedMany have diedMy back hurts from their weightNone were killed by my hand, but they were lost due to my failures as a ViceroyNearly twenty, now, have perished. The cobalt seal remains open.Do not destory the hearth of the firemoths. No good can come from it.
Maybe I'm just too new or bad at 4x/city management sims but this game is very strenuous I'm only on the second difficulty...
>>497830921What are you having trouble with specifically? I've got like 700h and think I'm pretty good at it (though I did just get my ass handed to me by the Forest)Still, my win rate is at 95% on this run and was over 90% on my lastYeah, I am bragging
>>497832596It feels like sometimes I get orders that are impossible to fulfill because I don't get the blueprints necessary to fulfill them so some settlements are kinda at the mercy of glade RNG to get what I need to either satisfy my residents or build reputation through other methods
>>497796313Okay. Next time post it in English so we would actually know.
Remember, people are a renewable resource.
>>497837409Yes, that does happen occasionallyYou have to make thr best with what you've got and try to choose the orders you know you will be able to doSure, sometimes they're very hard, but others are basically freebies. Keep in mind that you can sometimes fufill orders with different means. An order that asks for a bunch of bricks doesn't necessarily mean you need to get the brickyard. You can buy the bricks, craft them in different buildings, maybe even find themWhen you're early on in the game, you do have much less to work with in terms of buildings and stuff, but that begins to open up as you get further inSometimes runs live or die on the orders, but don't get too obsessive over them, as in later difficulties you'll have more rep to get than the orders will cover anyways
>>497837409I'm not >>497841918 but another tip I'd wanna add is don't fill all your orders if you'd be wasting the impatience loss. More of a low difficulty thing but it can still sometimes come up if you bang out an order or two in quick succession early on
>>497824001Bye Spider, I gotta go too, so no more bumping from me after this post.
>>497847823Yeah, what's a decent option thing to do is go call in a trader early on if you have an order ready to go to cancel out the impatience growth, but you risk it because he might not have anything you need that early, plus you might need a fast trader later on and it'll be too much impatience cost
After experiencing such a brutal loss, I've decided to end my run of AtS here, with the Viceroy staring into a firemoth hearth. After having gotten all the way to the cobalt seal with no lost settlements until the last two at the very end, it just feels fitting to leave him there amongst the lostI feel like I saw everything the DLC had to offer. I fucking LOVE the frogs so much. I really like the costal grove, too, but it does feel a bit too difficult to manage fuel on it. Much more than any of the others. Still, I had a ton of fun over my idk 80 or so hours on this runLast time I cleared all of the seals, including the Adamantine seal, and with a win rate above 90% as well, but those last four seal do take forever, and I think the game does become less fun on the higher difficulties. It's not that I don't like the challenge, it's that I think some of the prestiges are not fun to play with and should be reworked. For example, Having less choices for blueprints, down to 2 from 4 is just too annoying to play with because it actively removes player agency by limiting your choices. I don't want to call it the "artificial difficulty" meme But I kinda feel like it is. Also feels weird that you get a citadel upgrade that increases it, only for it to be taken away late game. Idk I just feel like they could find better ways to make the game challenging than just taking away your upgradesAnywaysLove frogsWill be back for more AtS with future updates. I'm gonna write up a suggestion for their suggestion site about BEARS as the 7th playable race alongside a Snow biome
>>497567230any tips for this?it's just a bunch of empty planets after I eat them allmy mid game is 2275 and there's barely any time for the pop growth to catch up
>>497837409Don't try and make a self sustaining city. Specialize in what the RNG gives you and sell everything you can (trade goods in particular).Then, when the trader comes you can buy everything you need.
>>497854176Also,if you're not on the royal woods biome, make it a priority to find an alternative to burning wood.
For all my Viceroys in here, rate my tired write up of my ideal Bears DLCGonna fix it up then post it to the request board, hopefully it goes somewhere in the endHarpies were added, afterall, based on a suggestion from thereAdd Bears!Polar Bears as the seventh playable race!Native to the Snowy Hills, Bears are a hardy and humble species, who care more for the well-being of their fellow settlers than for themselves. They take comfort in community and excel at beekeeping. >Polar Bears have high resilience but need to take the longest breaks. Their resolve is middling to start out and have high decadance. As well as being the least susceptible to starvation.>they are something of a 'support' species for the others. What I'm thinking of is a system where they get resolve bonuses if OTHER species have their needs met, BUT if those other settlers happen to leave the or die, then Bears will take a hit to their resolve.>they have very few complex food requirements, perhaps only one, (porridge is the obvious choice lol), but have the most needs out of all the other races when it comes to services, at a staggering four (this serves as an opposite to the way lizards are)>those four are comfort, education, training, and a new service- music!>bears love music, which they play and listen to in the new service building- the Bear's Den- which provides a different small bonus depending on which species are playing in them that aligns with their race. For example, a harpy in the den would increas global carry capacity by 1, while a fox would increase glade event work speed by a small percentage. These can stack or mix depending on who you place. The "lore" justification for this is that different species provide different types of music. However the catch all service resource would be instruments, which can be crafted in a woodworking building
>>497855234>speaking of resources, since they don't need much complex food, they do enjoy a new raw food resource, honey! Honey can be gathered in either one of the existing camps or a new one, but can be made in the apiary, which is a new building that needs to be placed close to unspent resource nodes like berries or flax (or perhaps another new one, which could be flowers that can be made into dye easily). This means bears can supplement fertile soil buildings by raising bees next to them, which both provide honey, and a slight bonus to the farm growth and harvest>Bears can also have a proficiency in fishing, because there currently isn't one, and they seem suited for it>lastly, as bears are happy to live in caves, and to give them a slight twist on housing, perhaps their specific shelter can be made with stone instead of wood or the building materials, OR if you want to go even more crazy with it, maybe Bears don't have a specific housings building but can actually live in any of the other species specific houses, again, since they play as support (that's way out there, tho, that's like, a crazy idea)>lastly lastly, perhaps serving as an opposite to harpies, maybe they don't need any type of clothing at all (though bears in boots sounds like a fun time)>anyways, my goal with these ideas for the Polar Bears is to make them feel like a full on "support" species that adds to what the others do. Many of the other aspects of the game have their niches carved out already, humans-food, beavers- wood and amber, harpies- cloth, etc. So it would feel nice to have one that can supplement what the others do without having to add too much complexity to an already complex and seemingly full system
>>497855362>Bears are native to the snow covered hills biome, which is the new winter biome they come packaged with>this biome is so cold that the rain has turned to snow, sleet, hail, and whatnot. Collecting rain is much less efficient here, but there are pleanty of natural geyser and hotsprings to counter that. The cold requires heated pipes in most buildings to fight against, but because of the cold, blightrot is much less quick to grow.>as far as resources go, there is pleanty of stone, as well as copper and coal to be found in mines, but exploration is difficult as the frozen trees take longer to cut down and off-road movement speed is slightly reduced. For the major food resources, there is a new variation of the fish ponds- frozen ponds, and plenty of berries all around, but very little fertile soil>the cold also makes clothing much more necessary, which means either the settlers run through them quicker, or they have a resolve penalty for not having any>I will add that, personally, one of my favorites over world modifiers is the frosts, which reduce hearth radius significantly. While I love this modifier, it may be too much of a change to essentially incorporate it natively into the snowy hills, but a slightly modified version of it might work great. I find that I very rarely make multiple hearths, as I like playing with one central hub the most, but it would be very nice to have a biome that forces multiple hearths by design. Perhaps there can be hotsprings in glades around the map, where you can build hearths next to that count as harmony or aestheic decorations, so you reduce the need to build those and have more room for your housing and work>also please find a way to make the snow biome look very good without hurting our eyes, obviously it's easy and obviously to make it white, but that can be very straining on the eyes to stare at for a long time
>>497855475>my goal with these ideas for the snowy biome is to make a place where fuel is ironically easy to come by, but rainpunk is essentially necessary as it isn't enough to keep the fire going, but that "heated" water needs to be pumped into all the workable buildings for the settlers to be safe working thereTo summerize this long and rambling post>Polar Bears as the 7th playable race>they serve as a support role to the others>their lack of complex food and housing needs is balanced by their heafty need for services as well as the well-being of others in the settlement>music and instruments as an added service>honey as an added raw food>Snowy Hills as a winter biome, on which rainpunk is necessary to heat buildings for comfortable work. Pleanty of fuel, not much in the way of food, and exploration is difficult, but damn does it look good
>>497855234>>497855362>>497855475>>497855604What game?
>>497859806Against The Storm
he's literally me
>>497859884What game?
>>497870904Sid Meier Alpha Centauri you dumbass.
>>497870959Not getting any result.
>/gsg/ is actually deadIs this what it felt like to be a Babylonian after the fall of Assyria?
>>497874343/civ4xg/ is next
>>497874343I for one feel like an Atlantean, watching you lesser races worry about your existance.
>>497874343Good fucking riddance. If they died, it's because literally nobody liked them.
Any interest in an openttd server?
>>497880536NO
As someone who has never played a paradox game, what would be a good one to start with? Something not too complex but fun.I have some experience with games but less than most here, I played some xiv and some galciv2 back in the day and I guess some total war, so it's not like I have zero experience but I am by no means a veteran.Bonus points if it's playable on the steam deck (font sizes, performance, interface etc).
>>497880536>>>/vst/
>>497881309If you liked galciv2, galciv4 is pretty decent aswell.
>>497882090You suggest 4 over 3+expansions?
>>497882735I never played 3+ expansions so i can't say.
>>497882735Yes, Galactic Civilizations 4: Supernova is basically 3 with most of it's expansions plus some bigger and smaller changes and a few minor additions.
>>497886271Taking the Tropico route.
>>497887897They had a lot of criticism on 3 when it released with lots of things (like factions, mega events, terror stars, lots of minor things.) missing from 2 which were later added with dlc.
in AoS, you get more rewards for settling on a tile a lot farther from your recent one, but does that impact the time of the overall game as well?
>>497889104Age of Sigmar?
>>497889237against the storm
>>497889657So in American (Simple English), the is written with an o?
>>497889657>against ohe storm
>>497889850>>497889769oops
>>497889104I don't think you get more rewards, the rewards are the collected sum from all adjacent tiles that haven't been collected yet.As for the time, distance doesn't matter i think, only how many years you spend on each village.
>read civ7 wiki>but also on the actions you took and the prerequisites you completed during the previous age (e.g., Egypt may be given the choice of evolving into Mongolia if they develop enough Horses)>a civilization is now locked to their predetermined age: Egypt and Rome can only be played in the Age of Antiquity, the Songhai and Mongolia can only exist in the Age of Exploration, and so on.what in tarnationdead on fucking arrival
>>497891086So it's like Humankind but even worse because now some civs are locked behind prerequisites?
>>497838015That's what I did. Can't you read? Are you stupid?
>>497890121I didn't realize the difficulty is forced to be higher the farther out you are from the city, so I didn't notice it tick up when I was picking a tile and the rewards were better
/vst/ allows generals now, the sticky has been changedkeep this in mind incase this thread dies due to the gacha spam and is unable to keep up
>>497896943One more reason to not allow the scum from /gsg/.
>>497889104>>497890121The difficulty is what increases the rewards, which also increases the time spent in each game from 12-14-18 rep neededThe farther you go, the minimum difficulty increases
>ARE YOU STUPID ARE YOU STUPID
bamp
>>497904810duduk smiles
>>497795364>tfw no space mommy tiddies...yetWe must explore the vastness of space
>Times of war are upon usKol battleships are the most based spaceships, simple as
>>497908890This anon gets it.
has anyone done phoenix point terror from the void? i feel like it has a lot of artificial difficulty
>>497897959Oh, I didn't know that minimum difficulty increases the farther you are.
>>497904810MOURNHOLDCITY OF LIGHTCITY OF MAGIC
sins 1 was so soulful but i couldn't get into it
Damn it's easy to get sucked into CoE5 once the ball gets rolling.
>>497910357There are lines around the map where it jumps up by 5 at a time, it isn't every single tile, you probably haven't noticed if you haven't gone for enough in your run yet, viceroybro
>>497923983Well, I always play in prestige 1 or 2. Does it go over that later?
>>497924285Yes, I think the gold seal forest is always minimum 5, then after that it increases until the adamantine seal at 20, which is very far awayIn my opinion the game feels the best balanced between challenge and relaxation around 10 or so. After that, the prestige modifiers start becoming really annoying to deal with
>>497920397Welcome to the club.
>>497850423I've decided to keep playing just cause I want to play more, but my run does canonically end at the edge of the cobalt seal. Just gonna play for fun now without stressing about pops dying or losing villages :)Hopefully they add bears nextI just made my post about it in the suggestion site, feel free to go give it an updoot brosShould be the first one there on the new tab
Making assets
>>497801182oi m8got a loicense for that pyrrolidone
>>497938264VROOOM
>>497906174>tfw no space mommy tiddieThe agony!
Galciv4 or sins 2? I’m looking to get into a space 4x properly. I didn’t like stellaris much, my main experience with 4x games has been civs4-6
>>497944363Sins 2 is more of a RTS, so probably the other one?
>>497944363GalCiv is definitely more of a 4x, Sins is about smashing fleets together and is closer to something like Age of Empires.
Only tried a bit of Gladius so far since learning a new strategy game while feverish and delirious isn't a good idea and it does seem neat but the research seems really funky. I don't know if it's just because I clicked the babymode tutorial thing but most techs taking roughly 5 turns to research when it also takes 5 turns to make a squad of tactical marines feels weird. Healing also seems kinda brutal for space marines, lotta standing around with your thumb up your ass. Seeming cool so far though>>497938264>>497938582>>497939102Looks very disco
>>497946009Oh yeah, technology is researched VERY quickly, but to compensate for it, you start with very little, and you have to adapt to what the enemy fields. I kinda like it, honestly, because you can go slow and focus on low tier techs to buff your infantry, or you can try to rush vehicles and airships.
>>497946413That's a good point, if the game goes long everyone will have all techs but the main bottleneck is resources and production times which incentivizes you to protect even those tier 1 basic bitch tactical marines because your units are precious. Very well might not be the case with shit like orks but since space marines look like they're the tall faction it'd make sense. And it is nice to value all your units
>>497948435That's also why heroes are interesting in Gladius, because they don't get weaker as they take damage, unlike normal squads.And also I like how Gladius make transports so bloody good, because until you have an apothecary, you cannot reliably heal units.And if you don't know, units only regain health if they haven't moved or done anything this turn, so either you put them on a town or a captured ressource hexagon, or you garrison them in a transport and let them heal slowly.And Space Marines ARE the tall faction, they have only one town.
Yooooooooowho the f let /gsg/ thread diesomeone make a new thread
>>462Fuck off.
>>497949462Game screenshots general was so based some of the best webbies I ever laid eyes on.
>>497948865Do you get extra healing from a town/resource node/transport? I did see that they only regen if they don't move or attack, but it's incredibly slight at like 1.5hp a turn or something. Interesting to hear that about the heroes too, built one and waddling him up but haven't gotten stuck in so I didn't realize they stay at full fighting strength unlike normal units
>>497949980Yes. I think ressource nodes are +50% healing, and towns are +100%. So yeah, you're meant to retreat them to your territory to heal, especially since I think reaction shot cancel the healing, so the enemy can just follow them to prevent them from bandaging.Transports get nothing, but allow you to move your units, so they're excellent.Don't overestimate heroes, thought, they aren't like Dawn of War's heroes, and they can die quickly if targeted by an enemy town or too many anti-infantry units. Well, to a point anyway. An AI Tervigon (Tyranid hero) pretty much stopped my entire army until I got heavy firepower.
EU4 is on sale, wish me luck
>>497951006>off-topicSee you in three days.
>>497950414Ooooh, very nice. Yeah that would definitely make transports even more valuable since healing in the field is slow as hell, and shuttling injured units back and picking up restored units would be great. Although restored units you might be able to deep strike if they're back at town, I think I saw something for that in there
>>497951321>/civ4xg/ - 4x, RTS, citybuilder, and strategyit clearly says strategy there
>>497951556I mean, you'll quickly realize that forests and imperial ruins really slow your units down, and while towns and ruins give a nice ranged damage reduction, any unit currently running around and left in the open will be slaughtered by towns defenses, so transports are excellent for that too: get fresh units in, get wounded units out, and avoid having too many units in the field, because unless the enemy brings in infantry to defend the town, you won't need snipers or scouts taking up a slot.
>>497951789It doesn't say "massive fucking losers". Ergo, you're not welcome.
>>497952404Hey be nice.>>497951789I'll let my bro post here, it's such a good general with so much on topic game discussion and is well regarded across the entire site as the premier place to discuss strategy games. Welcome aboard! Pic related: This one time I played aurora 4x 6 years ago (very advanced and technical game for very smart boys like me)
>>497952404Based and triggered the neonazi.
>>497952404>It doesn't say "massive fucking losers". Ergo, you're not welcome.this has to be the cringiest fucking shit ive ever read, and I say this as a civ 4 autist
>>497953294Ah a fellow civ 4 autiste. What is more cringe? Arguing with an imaginary /gsg/ refugee or spending the entire day pretending you play video games? Hypothetically speaking of course.
>>497953636>/gsg/ refugeeMore like rapefugee.
>>497953703They were raped out of house and home by the little kitty big city collective and the /vg/ frye clique.
>>497953853As they deserve. Maybe if they were nicer to newfags, they wouldn't be so few to defend against the video games screenshots BASED chads.
>>497954537FUCKI meant to post aurora screenshotGuess the jig is up nowI'm the aurora anon...and the game screenshots general anonAnd the baselion Roman anonAnd the ai generated greentext anonI masterminded this whole thing as a project with my two sons (Braden and Caeden) and we ended up bonding as a family but I realize it's gone too far and innocent people have been hurt. I'm sorry an innocent general like /gsg/ had to get hurt, I just wanted to spend time with my famjly. Please understand.
>>497954537what game is this
>>497954967Nta but I think it's against the storm>>497954991That gun sucks bro mace is better
>>497955124Mace sucks against groups.
Dubs picks my class.
>>497956397Whichever one is the most SEXO desu
>>497962229But kobold sucks
I've wandered into hell.
timerborn any good?
Can have 25 000 blokes.Good lord.>>497956397I'm fond of Baron, but... what the heck is "Bystander"? Which CoE are you playing?>>497964467Kinda fun, but no random maps so might get repetitive.
>>497965826Bystander is a mod class that can't move or recruit, but is effectively immortal. You set an AI player to it so you can have 'free roam' and explore the worlds after killing everyone else. Better than camping a dwarf mine forever.
...shit.>>497967137Oh shit, that's the one I need. Only fix I found was playing against myself in a hot seat.Go for Baron, and become Emperor.
>>497967390If you decide to get the mod, use the modified version. Puts the bystander underground so no one suicides themselves against it.
Holy cow I'll never trash talk healers again. They only heal 10 HP, but enough of them, and tehy hold the line.
>>497971028>>497967390>>497967390what game? I thought it was dominions from the class icons at first
They fucking held the line. Axe Warriors and Spear Soldiers held the line.I feel so tired.>>497971797Oh, sorry, forgot to say. It's Diplomacy Isn't An Option, a survival RTS following in They Are Billions' footprints, but with a weird medieval twist to it. And some fantasy.
>>497971959thanks, I'll check it out. I like that wall of guys holding the line
>>497972068Normally, you don't want men to hold the line, you want walls to do it. But I fucked up during wave generation, and they attack from East rather than from South, so they attacked a point I wasn't ready.Hence why the door collapsed, the archers got massacred, and my army arrived just in time, but normally, yeah, you have defenses ready.
We lived.Axemen are too damn good.
Mounted archers are shit, but with upgrades, their explosive arrows are awesome.
>>497956397You know there are only 00 dubs here, right?Uh...Dryad Queen.
>>497956397>beholderThat a mod too?
25 000 draks
>>497981265>>497975220>>497973621>>497972267>>497971959>>497971028I have Diplomacy is not an Option bought right now, but still thinking over refunding it or not before playing some more, it just felt cheap not worth the price desuwhat do you think? did you like it?
>>497982823I kinda wrote a huge wall of text here, but then I realized I was getting off tracks, so I'll stick to what you asked.Yes, I find it fun. Yes, I like it.And yes, it does feel cheap.I'll let you decide if you feel like playing more or not.
>>497984308Is there any replayability to it?
>>497986420Yes and no? On one hand, it's a RTS, so once you saw all the buildings and all the units...But at the same time, there are challenge mode, endless mode, and a campaign that offers choices, so it's not linear.
I really tried to play Victoria 2 and EU4, but its just soooo boring, takes too much to learn, and I jsut stare to a fucking map 24/7 with porn site like notification popping up every secis this really what those games are all about? why do so many people play them
you are just bad
>>497992926Head over to /gsg/ and ask them.
>>497992926Ask /gsg/ at >>>/vst/gsg/, it's their trash to deal with.
Taxes!
...it's treason, then.AaAaAAAAAARGH!!
I really love the briefings between missions. They reek of the story writer not being a native english (a lot of sentences are oddly written), but I like the dry humour.
>go help uncle>get in castle>beheaded guy whose head is pinned to the wall>another hanging from the towerYeah, I'd fuck off too.
Dude thinks he's Settra. But everyone calls him Ferdinand the Fat.All of that just to say "hold the line".
Oh god. The Rebel leader is Scott the Bloody.They aren't peasants, they're SCOTTISH!!
Newfag here, should I pick up Sins 2 or Rebellion? I've heard Rebellion has some performance issues since its old but wasn't sure if thats reason enough to avoid it
>>498020207Rebellion has loads of mods and at the moment more content.Pick that up now and get 2 in future.
>>498020718Gotcha, is the performance not too big of an issue then?
>>498020207Rebellion. It's essentially 1+expansions, but it works as a standalone.
>>498021809Both have worked fine on my RTX 4080, your milage may vary.
Finally plating civ 6, anthology Seems some good and bad ideas How does it sit in the community nowadays?
>>498020718What mods are the way to start?
>>498030958It comes down to your personal preference.If you are into star wras, try Interregnum or Thrawn's revenge.If you are into star trek, armada 3 is great. Ages of federation would be cool, but it was pretty unstable on my old PC.Sins of the prophets is the Halo mod, with unsymmetrical playable factions of UNSC and Covenant. Also it has Flood as extra difficulty option.There's tons of other mods worth your time, but remember, these mods only work one at a time, so don't try mixing them.Also, I'd recommend playing the game through vanilla style first.
>>4980269065 > 4 > 6, among the modern Civs
I do have a major beef with DinaO: there's no real armor system. Age of Empires 2 has melee armor and pierce armour, and some counters. It doesn't work that way in DianO, and armor only means a flat damage reduction, without any real counter weakness.Outside of spearmen doing 3x damage to horsemen, but horsemen are rare.
>>497537687Distant Worlds 2: Return of the Shakturi - Dev Log #3: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/7490140434868912147
is civ6 just not for me, or am i missing something?i dont have the dlc and i did a campaign of it, i basically conquered everyone and have 0 motivation to do another campaign, it feels like every campaign is extremely samey with you just researching and minmaxing all the same stuff, with just some variation being the map and your civhow do people dump thousands of hours into this game without getting bored?
in against the storm do I ever get more guaranteed blueprints at the start than the racial houses
>>498049280There's the field kitchen. Can't remember more.
>>498047940You mentioned civ6 specifically but described every civ gameThey all have "optimal" strat routes if you really want to meta itIf anything civ6 convolutes it with things like distract planning etc.
>>497956397I couldn't get into Dom nor CoE
>>498021809sins 1 is 16 years old. you'll be fine
>>498029776Ummmm but ACKSHEWALLY AM should look like Harlan Ellison, and Glados should look like Caroline. This also begs the question of why Hal's got an eyepatch but Glados doesn't. No, no, none of this adds up>>498049280Like the other anon said, but then there's the few difficulty related ones like blight posts and forsaken altars. Can't remember everything you can add when you're picking your starting goodies before launching a run though
>>4980318984's the one I played the most but I haven't played it in so long I'd have to take another look at it to properly compare it to 5 and 6. I think the only mainline civ I genuinely disliked was 3, and I still appreciated the borders and shit to help minimize the AI plopping cities in your territory and being a fucker but for some reason I disliked most of the rest of 3
>>498056505Why so?Graphics? Gameplay? UI? Or just not feeling it?
>>498063059Which one is 3? The one with cottages rather than markets?
>>498064076The turnbased movement is too much of a chore for me, which is why I also couldn't get into homm3
>>498071437Fair. Avoid Gladius then.
King viper rapes my soldiers
>>498081609You can't rape males.
>>498082108He freezes them to exploding cars and then tongues them to death, I'd call that gay
>>498082676We have a poster here that got pegged by a female, I'd argue getting frozen isn't that gay in comparaison.
>>498083096But the snake is a guy, isn't being tonged by him gay?
>>498083249The snake is male? There are male snakes in XCom?
finally went ahead and bought the gamelooks some pretty big content updates since last I've played
>>498085368I remember getting frustrated with that game because you need space so bloody much.
>>498085368Post your progress anon.
>>498083352He raped and killed everybody but one person in my party, they killed 8 soldiers before they died right before reaching the end point
>>498085935I'll,I played a heck of a lot of this game some time back, heck it must have been a couple years alreadynot even any of the original maps are there any more,
How the fuck do I pick it up? I had this sniper kill off 9 fucking soldiers alone to get to this point. I only get the option to pick the guy up, but the marker is still there
>>498089314Never mind, apparently bringing him saved it and saved the guy carrying it, even though he was dead for 10+ turns
>>498054868Speaking of civ, is Vox Populi still any good? If not, what's better between Sapiens or Empires Ascendant?
XCOM2 is my favorite dress up game that also happens to be turn-based tactics.
>>498090694>no leotardBoo.
>>498089314>>498089459>guy with important item in his pocket gets head blown off>grab the severed head and get out>pull important item out of mangled neck stump>mission successFallout 3 prepared me for this
>>498090694NDTwoFives again?
>>498090694I should look at Xcom 2 mods. It's my favorite of the Xcom/X-com games by a mile and one of my favorites in general but that high regard for it led me to never actually want to put mods on it and I probably should
>>498091020I realized I should have been playing with the expanded version...
>>498099570you should. I'd recommend LWOTC and a good number of cosmetic mods for a first modded playthrough
love how i customized this squad
>playing civ 6>you have entered medieval era!>immediately summoned to world congress >voting with 4 civs 1 of which is [Unknown]>2 others are out at sea only made contact by far off boat >vote for the world dominant religion we will accept >next few turns continue with my war against ottomans on our own island>SPECIAL SUMMON AT THE WORLD CONGRESS! After I take one of his cities >all these civs including the one I don't even fucking know forcing me to stop What the fuck were they thinking
I was looking cause I wanted some links but did /gsg/ finally fuckin get put down like it should had over a decade ago? Or did some retard just forget to make a new thread?
>>498115057wtf is that UI for EU4
>>498036823>I do have a major beef with DinaO: there's no real armor system. Age of Empires 2 has melee armor and pierce armour, and some counters. It doesn't work that way in DianO, and armor only means a flat damage reduction, without any real counter weakness.Thats what Im saying anon, it feels pretty cheap for the price they are asking, I will probably refund and get it on a sale when there is more stuff added like flying units or something
>>498029776>anthropomorphizing intelligences that innately believe humanity is beneath themAkin to cockroaches drawing us as cockroaches. As if that wouldn't be an existence worse than death to us.>implying AM wouldn't annihilate itself before donning the skin of its oppressors
>>498115057This is not /gsg/.
>>498115057/gsg/ is over at /vst/ And who plays EU3 in the year of our lord 2027?
>>498085368I remember playing this 2 years ago. Felt a bit lacking back then. Last time i played it was aboard a ferry boat from Rome to Barcelona
>>498089314phoenix point?
>>498121008I mean that, and also, another problem I didn't have issues with before but now that I noticed it, I can't unsee it: there are no ladders, so there's no point in garrisoning melee units on the walls.I doubt anything will be added, sadly.
Wait what the hell?!
>>498133217SHOOT EVERY APE
>>498133217gaem?
>>498132526I kinda regret getting it tbdesupaisenIt tries to do a lot but it's just so shallow. If I like the horde part then I'd play TAB, the siege part is Stronghold, the RTS part is literally any rts in the past 10 years
>>498134141Plan B: Terraform
>>498134228And that's why I like it, but yeah. You should refund it.
>Timberborne updated>announced a price increase as wellMan fuck indies, the game is nice but it's not $5 off an AAA title. It still doesn't even have random maps.
>got a GOG promo key for Endless Space 2 + all DLCWhat am I in for?
>>498141598Disabling most of the dlc
>>498141598Fun. >>498141938Only the last major one.
>>498141598Fun.But turn the Academy off.
>>498141938>>498142408But why?
>>498142767Because outsourcing to a no name company is a bad idea.
>>497805723>Towns>Eldar>NidsThink i found your problem
>>498142767Academy is a neutral faction that provides heroes to the galaxy.The DLC made them a player that is totally cheated.
>>498143073No the academy becomes a computer played faction with the last dlc. You can game the system by making it attack other computer players. You can also get access to one of their fleets with enough favour. It's unbalanced and makes the game easier.
>>498142408Amplitude released a patch this year that supposedly fixes the last DLC. Haven't tried it though.
>>498145128Haven't tried it myself either but I know it didn't change the main problem of the academy being one of the space empires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO1oZCrMltU
>>498085368making it through the first droughthe start is usually slow but crucial, getting enough food and water, but most importantly, securing a timber source before it runs out
comfy times
>>498151784Zoom in.Beavers are cute.
Now when times start to get rough, got carried away with berries and ended up nearly causing a faminemap is the easy one called "lakes", for a obvious reason, though its kinda hard to plan around it given it doesn't have many obvious places to dam around
>>498152008Zoom IN. ON THESE FARMS.
>>498151784Very nice.
>>498147963>first French>now German
>>498172760>they only american is an insane zealot
>>497904810Cozy city :3
>>498152442omg are you a perv or something?
Want to keep building up the multiplex here, what do you think is the best, most autistic way to do it?
Oh and one of the new features, we now have evil water, plus 3d liquid physics and natural over hangers, quite literally aqueducts, looks cool as shit, and this are right here would make the ideal industrial powerhouse
So now that Diplomacy is not an Option been out for a while, what do we think of it?
how does one upgrade frog houses
Limited resource deposits stress me out, they should just drop in efficiency by like 50% when they're empty. This applies to every game in which they appear.
>>498176086TIME TO GET FERTILIZING, BOYS
>tried a fish modifier (no orders) on veteran for first time>poor food nodes>no good stone or clay nodes>people dying or leaving left and right>blueprints so far haven't been helpfulI might finally have my first failed game here
>>498182793Personally I like limited resources, in the vast majority of situations. Figuring out how to stretch every metaphorical dollar to its limit, special resources being well and truly special instead of just slower common resources, being able to slowly grind down a superior enemy by picking away at their exposed bits until they're weak enough for the kill. It's almost like a puzzle in addition to whatever the game is. Tickles my brain meats in a way I like.
>>498177043Couldn't play a lot of it yet, seems like a typical entry to base defense, which is both good and bad.
I just wish the lamps did also have a bit of light effect on their own
>>498184672couldn't produce enough shit in time to outpace queen's impatience, which is still at 0,21 per minute until I was already nearing 13, but an altar I needed a trader to get goods from pushed it over 14 before I could turn it around
>>498184672No orders always feels rough as hell but I'm also no Slay the Storm master. Kinda like it can be tempting to take that "No traders but extra productivity" passive but the traders are such a huge part of the game you probably should make sure you've got some decent production chains set up already
>>498187021I already did it on settler for the achievement so I wanted to try it again for the rewards since I'm trying to stick to veteran difficulty now
>>498182793Same. Or have a cap on how many people can use them.
So I tried a bit of DINAO, its... okay, it needed way more time in Early Access before a full release though
Time to get penetrated
>>498197029heh
bump
>>498204262Why is there a giant nose on the front of a plastic bathtub submarine?
>>498204837Yuri's uncle was Jewish.
so anyone play alien horizon
>>498208183NO
>>498208362how comeits better than most of the other dogshit ppl play here
>>498209007NOTHING is better than SEVEN KINGDOMS 2.
>>498209257some garbage age of empires mod?
>>498209505Your mother never loved you.You are the reason your father went to get milk and never came back.Your sister cheats on you with her boyfriend.
>>497946009
Alien rulers are so much BS as they always spawn on the flank, makes perfect sense why the DLC nerfed them
A new challenge arises, apparently there will be seasons where normal water gets replaced by menstrual water, poisoning everything in its path
Tho I'll say, this looks cool AF
>>498213209Iron Lung x Timberborn crossover??>>498213540I genuinely love the wooden buildings in this game.
And also, just the general building madness
>>498213596it does looks extremely nightmarish
>Made three of the six guys on turn one go unconsious right as he was discovered in the best position to fight him in>Lost my two best soldiersI think my run is over.
>spawn with six glades around starting settlement>all dangerousfuck you
This run is so fucking over.
>>498216873That's XCOM, baby
GET A JOB
>>498216873You're fiiiine.
>>498217813>>498217281Those were my last soldiers. I'd rather start a new run at this point, at least with the nerfed alien rulers. I lost most soldiers to them.
>>498218598Yeah the rulers start out real fuckin nasty and only get worse, especially the archon one. But if you don't do the mission (or don't do the Advent labs where they spawn, the mission brief has yellow text and a different image from normal labs) you can delay them I think indefinitely.
>>498219872That's really good to hear. Outside of them, the enemies are manageable. The enemy that can clone and teleport is really annoying though but they seem balanced enough so far.
Tartan Cruiser reporting
>be age of empires 2>still the best RTS game in the markethow
I SEE YOU TRYING TO MAKE ME WATCH THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF SOME NERD PLAYING CLASSIC EVERQUEST
Anyone play Thronefall?
>>498090694>try xcom 2 vanilla>crashes in the first cutscene>fine let's spend five bucks and get wotc>all the voice overs are broken and skip after the first second or soXCOM 2 is such a broken mess.Maybe I'll play XCOM EW again
>>498239820Did you try using the Alternative (mod) Launcher? Even if playing unmodded it circumvents 2K's launcher which has a habit of breaking the game and making it unplayable, for some fucking reason. At least it did when I last played.
>>498240623Yeah, and wotc doesn't even start anymore
>>498231812That guy is tied with Silverbell for the best AoE2 stuff.
>>498240806Then I'm all outta help for ya. Have fun exercising restraint in using explosives.
>>498241152Res...traint? What is that concept?
>>498241152Well okay.Where to start? I think I'm gonna go with Europe, never started there.
>>498242892Start with the World Trade Center, they're used to being blown up.
>>498245202Dude... Too soon.
>>498248025It's been over 23 years, grandpa.
>support and sniper are wounded>heavy in the process of getting his limbs chopped off>have to take a council mission with 1 assault and 3 rookiesWish me luck bros
anons hello! how is Diplomacy Is Not An Option and Cataclismo? thanks!
>have everybody in good cover>bait with my assault into an overwatch trap>thin fag just spits at my recruit and poisons half his health awayI HATE THIN MINTSI HATE THIN MINTSI HATE THIN MINTS
>>498251886Hey, I've seen this movie. The assault is going to make a valiant sacrifice to save the rookies, who are going to be shunned by the rest of the troops for letting him die, but over time the rookies will prove themselves and be begrudgingly accepted, but over time everyone gets picked off one by one until it's just the (former) rookies left, who share a heartwarming moment together before going on a final mission where only one of them returns, where he sits in front of a full memorial wall and silently stares before it cuts to credits.
no one asked but...Distant worlds universe seems more fun than 2
>>498252520Nah, everyone survived and only one dude got woundedNow I've got three fucking assaults and the next alien abduction happend before anyone recovered so now the team is 3 assaults + 2 rookies
after having put 60 hours into against the storm I can certainly see why people say its boring and repetitive. even with the world modifiers or difficulty map bonuses fucking with you, it all plays out basically the same. once you get a food and clothing production going its basically over. its still "fun" to figure out how to work up to that point, but it loses it by the end of a game
>>497676845Best post in thread
>>497676845I would much rather fuck Disney princesses.
Good I love instant autopsiesInvesting in south america was such a good idea
>>498253109>>498256459>first French>now GermanYou people are doing this on purpose now.
>>498258810>/civ4xg/ is HRE clay
>>498258810>>498259030In this thread we venerate Charlemagne.
>>498258810yeah I always play in english the translations are usually terrible
>>498259424My country's dubs of cartoons more often than not make me cringe. Americans have slowing been experiencing this as well with Japanese games and anime.Thank god at least movies are subbed. I'd kill myself if they too were dubbed, like they are in some other Slavic countries.
>>498259424same here, I can't fathom people playing something in a different language, even if its not their motherlanguage
>>498259762are your spongebob dubs any good? my country's mr krabs is surprisingly very good
>>498260012I'm in Croatia. It's surprisingly good and I'd totally use it as an example of a good dub.The original Yu-Gi-Oh was a weird example. When the first two seasons were originally broadcasted 20 years ago (early 2000s), it was good as far as I can remember, and I'm still surprised we had a VA good enough for someone as fabulous as Pegasus (all three Yami character also stand out in my memory). Then, when the other seasons got broadcasted on another TV station 10 years later, in mid or late 2010s, the quality suddenly dropped as an entirely different team started working on it. It was clearly something about broadcasting rights.
>>498249250NEVER FORGET>>498252198Former is okay, but in retrospect, may be too basic. Dunno latter.
>>498255020Only anal, then.
>>498261230You say that as if it's something bad.
>>498262514It's meant to. For them, anyway. Better bite your lip, Jasmine, that desert booty's getting plundered dry.
That's one big ship, I don't think I've ever played this mission before
>>498265817wot dis
>>498273729XCOM:EU, the first of the new xcoms.
>>497537687There used to be a website for Age of Empires 2 that had custom campaigns, missions, with story and so on.Sad that I don't remember the name of that site.
>>498278829https://aok.heavengames.com/this one?old RTSes all had heaven pages
>>498279221Might be, it has been many years since I last played those maps...I used to use Age of Wonders heaven for the maps. There were some cool ones there. It's mostly just repository now, forum being dead and most guys staying on AoW heaven discord.
Oh boy, it's eggsalt time!
>>498286940night
>You're all just pupp -ACK
>>498291392Forgot my pic, gomenasorry
>>498287819Good night.
How do anons play Stellaris and manage 20+ planets? This shit is impossible. I'm getting empire size debuffs but for my brain
>>498304817Stellaris was never desgined to make that a possibility. Before megacorp it was easier but even then managing a lot of planets required a lot of busy work. Play a better game I guess. Stars in Shadow has minimal planet management. Distant Worlds has only a few buildings you can build plus lots of automation.
>>498304817With sheer autism and the pause buttonOnce a planet is fully build up you can automize it, just forbid the AI from building anything
>>498304817>How do anons play StellarisWe don't.
>>498304817By forgetting about them for several decades, then coming back to planets full of unemployed people, which I then start building up.
>>498304817>How do anons play Stellaris and manage 20+ planets?By not playing this fucking game.And when i did i just paused and did this shit by hand as i abhor AI control.
If you have Stellaris on Steam can you pirate the DLCs and still use workshop mods?
>>498304817It's not that difficult, couple basic buildings and few districts to set them up and then just build more of their specialty district with some housing and amenities when ever the notification comes along.
>>498309304I think so, yes.>>498308452>By forgetting about them for several decadesTruly the Imperium of Man.
>>498310817I wish I could set up planetary and empire wide bureaucracies.
>>498311343I wish I could get a girlfriend to peg me.Or a boyfriend.
>>498311736Spider plz
>>498304817Some people receive sexual gratification through micromanagement. They're usually also the kind to spaghettimaxx in Factorio.
>>498315662Factorio sucks tho
why do all these city builders wildly under estimate how much % of the population is needed to feed a group before the industrial era
Anyone need a bandaid? I got some spares.
>>498317559This would depend a lot on where the city builder is set. Also it wouldn't be fun because every change in the game would take ages. Most economies before the industrial revolution and before capitalism (in its earliest form) had growth rates of 0.12% (this is the estimate for western europe). This is why almost all games with population and economic growth have very high growth levels.
...oh yeah. That's why I have no room.
I think it looks good now. Will do a lod version and upload it.
>>498321870>truck hits a pothole and rolls over>it's Faln and can't get up
>>498323484fuck you for making me laugh
>>498323484I think in-lore explanation is that they're ro-ro airships compatible, and small wheels lock into cargo holds.
>>498319408You have me legit curious. What's the most commonly cited figure for outside of western europe?
>>498316210OIfuck you too
I will have to say these new mechanics are pretty interesting,the map despite being easy, you have to manage the routes where water can take and then switch when the badwater tide comes in
>>498325813Oof, I don't know exactly. The .12% is from contours of the world economy. It's the estimate for western europe between 1000 and 1500. The estimate it gives for eastern europe and asia (including russia) is at 0.04%. But europe started much poorer than a lot of places in asia. By 1500-1820 growth was roughly 0.14% but in the Netherlands/Low countries and UK the average (over this time period) is estimated at 0.28 and 0.27% respectively. By today's standards these growth figures would all be terrible, and it would mean you would need decades if not centuries to really notice a difference.
>>498325813I haven't read this >>498335018 book but I've seen the figures referenced in a more recent book. However I don't know how solid the figures for China or India are.
little picture of the setup before I changed it over, we also have a new sluice thingy that actually works like a power dam would
>>498334860flushing out the rivers after the bad flood
>>498335476also started work on getting up there, though I have to say power output here was quite a letdown compared to my main setup
>>498323484medium heh
>>498287819good morning sars and spiders
In Civ 7 you can play as Dylann Roof
>>498336184>>498335951>>498335476>>498334860So how is Timberborn, any good?
>>498317559Because it's more fun to build couple farms and then build a temple and theater and military academy than build 10 farms and then die from dysentery. Games aren't and shouldn't reflect reality but the fantasy or reality.
I understand the dangers of turning on xeno-compatibility. But the pacifist cyborg-butterflies are cute, so your warnings have been disregarded.
>>498365423At least play in a small galaxy with few habitable planets.
This robot is trained to punch your face in
>>498356014Was that the Batman shooter?>>498375451
>>498359792Yes
>>498326279It suuucks!I played it with a former friend, it was horrible and stressful, there were bugmen everywhere, constantly sneaking through defenses, and over time, even getting strong enough to overwhelm them.Horrible! One of the most stressful games I played, AND I didn't even get the grid thing.
>>498379524Factorio is fun, altough it takes autism to fully appreciate that game.
>>498379667I can imagine having fun with it, but I'm like "oh hell ten ovens? That's too much".Then I played with an /indie/ guy and he's like "oh hell fifty ovens? That's not enough".Felt instantly left behind with no hope to catch up.
>>498379942Ah.I don't think you have the right 'tism for Factorio.
>>498380147I did enjoy Satisfactory.
>>498380195OI*sigh*opinions, or whatever...
>>498379942Yeah thats what i mean about autism.Its a game that no amount of resources is ever enough, you can always optimize shit etc.Not my cup of game too desu.
>>498381679I mean, like Old School Runescape.That one is frustrating to play because at first, you're always wondering how you can farm more efficiently.
>>498379667I never have fun in those kind of games because i'm never satisfied with what i have, i have the need to constantly expand my production lines. And the worst part is i need it to be aesthetically pleasing.It's exhausting.
>>498383870>And the worst part is i need it to be aesthetically pleasing.Oof.Yeah, that's crippling in Factorio.
>>498381263It sucks lmaocope and seethe and dilate
>exploring some spooky scary abandonded villageHey, I think I remember this one. Lots of Chryssalids, wasn't it? Not that it will be much of a problem this late in the game, I just raided the alien base. Time to farm XP for some of my squaddies.
>>498389930Depends if 1 or 2.2 adds zombies.
>>498389930If it's the fishing village then yes, it's chryssalids.
NOOOO NOT SHEN HE'S THE ONLY GUY IN THIS BASE THAT I ACTUALLY LIKE
>>498397452He's DEAD.
>>498397921https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziLChLIV2cWhy is the Shen DEAD!?
>>498398302LOOK! AT THE PICTURE!SEE, THE SKULL, THE PART OF BONE REMOVED!
>>498397452It's ok anon, none of that actually happened.
>>498334860>picrelSomething something soul.
RIP in pasta random security guy, at least you managed to nade some drones and shoot a sectoid
>>498335018todays standards are like -2% a year population growth though with below 1.5 TFR
>>498406532I wasn't talking about population growth. Those figures were economic growth but it does corelate with population growth in some way. Europe had the problem that after the middle ages all the highly fertile land was already cultivated so new sources of economic growth were hard to come by.
Get out of my base fucking berserker little shit
>>498407665This makes me want to start a new xcom2 campaign.
>>498408420This is the first one thoughAlso this retard came to the wrong neighbourhood
To the most wrong neighbourhhood in the entire world
>>498408867The Geneva Convention and the Coran both forbid using fire as a weapon.
>>498408615I know, i just like 2 more.
>>498409059Thankfully Colonel "Inferno" Harris doesn't even know what a Geneva is or how to read your funny lettersAll he knows is that he must remove alien
>>498409285Honestly I'm not sure the Geneva Convention applies to aliens anyway.
night
urge to buy somethingcomfy cheap rts?
>>498420297>comfy cheap rts?https://store.steampowered.com/app/621810/Strain_Tactics/This one is always comfy with a sniper build.Also they are supposedly working out a sequel.
>>498385650There is nothing to fix tho...
>>498180253Sorry for the late replyWas banned for heckin racism on /ck/First you need a citadel upgrade, which is pretty far up in the treeThen you need to click on a separate tab in each house and upgrade using building packages, which you craft in the makeshift post or other buildings>>498184672>>498186927>>498187021>>498187286No orders is one of the harder modifiersIt's not just because you get rep for them, but sometimes the rewards, especially from timed orders, makes or breaks your settlment. Feels good to have an>explore 5 glades in 5 minutes Order that gives you a brickyard and 5 stone per minute when you have froggos. That shit basically garuntees a max teir housing for all of them and gives you an easy path to victory through resolve from workplace rainpunk.Personally, I like to save the no orders deed and double up with the>get 18 points through resolveDeed at the same time. It's pretty rough, but if you're late enough in the game and have decent upgrades you can still do it around P10. You basically need good traders unlocked and to go full ambermode and get comfy with rocking high impatience for most of the gameAnyways, I just had a really aestheic settlement that went like this>just finished a forbidden glade world mod settlement in the forsaken woods where I didn't open a single glade>find starving fishmen world event>I am a kind and benevolent Viceroy, so I trade some food with them for artifacts>very next world event right next to it is Sadrath the Wise>he can spawn a world modifier that you choose in exchange for artifacts>use the artifacts I got from the fishmen to spawn a Fishman Ritual Site>settle the marsh right next to it and knock out all of those deeds at once; fishman ritual, no orders, 14 & 18 points through resolve in one gameWas fucking kino, bros
>>498422269how late in the game do you stop deciding to take a cornerstone that gives some resource per minute, if you take it at all?
>>497545435pharaoh is peak sierra
AAAAAAHHH PUT THE HIDEOUS CREATURE BACK IN THE TRUCK
>>498409651Makes an interesting question though. The Geneva Convention's purpose is, for the most part, to minimize unnecessary death and suffering in an otherwise brutal situation. No chemical or biological weapons=indiscriminate in their effect and can inflict severe environmental damage and be carried into civilian centers. No false surrendering=prevents troops from preemptively executing *actually* surrendering soldiers out of suspicion or revenge. No disguising yourself as international aid orgs=prevents actual aid workers from getting killed.No setting up false PoW detainment centers=prevents real PoW holdings from getting attacked and their occupants killed (likely inadvertently by their own countrymen).No indiscriminate slaughter of civilians=this should be obvious.What do you do when one of the parties of war is an extraterrestrial invader? They're clearly technologically superior, are completely unknown from ethics to goals, are attacking all of humanity, and are obviously not a signatory of the GCs. In a fight for humanity's survival (or, in the best case scenario, stellar sovereignty), how many rules do you toss out and justify to toss out? Obviously some won't matter, an invading force is unlikely to bring its civilian population along, and who knows what the aliens think about "war crimes" and could end up committing many without a second thought. But do rules still matter with an unknown, non-conforming party, even when some keep you from shooting yourself in the foot?
>timed order to not cut down any trees for 8:30 in year 2sweating a bit
>>498427497No.
>>498429664I mean, not only they are easy to recognize, but they also never surrender, and they also target civilians.
is against the hurricane a good game now?
>>498429720unless you have a steady source of marrow or oil, I would never take that
>>498428424what is happening heremods?
>>498423232You mean how late in each settlement? It really depends. Sometimes I wont take those at all even at the start depending on what it is and what the other options areAs an example, if you have foxes, frogs, and humans, who all have a need for porridge, which wheat directly can craft, then you should always take that cornerstone regardless of when you are in the settlement. If you have the other 3 species, which don't care for porridge AND you also don't have an easy way to turn it into flour or packs of crops (or a use for flour or packs of crops) that cornerstone is essentially worthless as you'll just end up with 200 useless wheat in your storage. I guess you can sell it? It all depends on what your other choices are, too. It may be useless, but it may be less useless than some other thing or an extra 10 amber you might not needAlso I guess I would refuse other per minute cornerstones if I'm already stable on the thing they provide. I don't need 3 more clay per minute when I already have 200 in the storehouse and my buildings are all built
>>498430430Yes but also it always was
>>498431520DLC. This is a super strong psychic.
>>498431845Too bad her German dub is just Vahlen with a horrible french accent, I'm not sure I even wanna use her
>>498429720>timed order to fell 50 trees or something in 3m>take it>immediate next order is to not cut down any trees for 8:30We do a little trolling hereYou should ALWAYS wait a bit of time before checking the next order just incase they can't be done at the same time, but don't wait too long as they might synergize perfectlyIt's a difficult balance desu
>>498431935>horrible french accentTa gueule, sale émo.
>>498214028Luck of the draw, kid
Also fuck these niggas, every time they use mindcontrol they succeed. The highest will of all my soldiers is 88, he's psychic too but he still got mindcontrolled the second one of these cunts looked at himWorst of all I'm just sitting around with my thumbs up my ass because I don't have enough weapon fragments to research the Firestorm and shoot down the magic purple UFO
>>498432948Their face says "spends all day listening to talk radio and yelling at gas station clerks", but their body says "fantasizes about molesting the waitress at Olive Garden"
Just had one of the most scuffed settlements in a while. Pic not rel, different one from the past>costal grove>torrential downpour modifier (no refunds for destroying buildings)>h'mans, fregs, lizhards>best thing I have going for it is the cornerstone which increases resolve by 5 extra if they have training service taken care of>second best thing is I get the woodcutter's prayer cornerstone (plus one to woodcutting but lose all stored fuel on pick-up) TWICE>this means my woodcutters cut THREE, often SIX in once charge, so I'm never out of fuel despite not even having mines>things are going alright but I'm kinda blocked up. Don't have a true way forward as I'm out of blueprints, basically close to starving the whole game, glades are giving me shit, etc. Only real way is to force resolve, but I'm on high prestige where they rise higher and provide less, so it's hard>get a new timed order I've never seen before. Produce 300 wood in camps in 8m. ONLY possible because I had the double woodcutter's prayer>gets me the frog fight club. Alright. Just need training gear now and I'm set>still feeling locked, completely forgot about making tools, which I had access to. Churn those out and send those packages to get close to a win, but impatience is pretty high>pull some cornerstones from the alter that basically save my run from total disaster, as well as get some shitty production going for gear>finally, at the end, I'm at 17.6 rep. I need BARELY any more but resolve will go NO higher from frogs or lizards, let alone humans>hadn't stayed ontop of corruption, so several have died in the storm>i need one final point, which I can get from healing a corrupted drainage mole. I have the materialsAnd here is where I fucked up everything bros>didn't read the working effects of the event>knew it opened the blights immediately.Thought I could take care of them real quick and just burn through time till he's healed>didn't read the second one>spawns 16 blightrot flowers
>>498429983But that's because they have ethereal fingers up their asses. After the invasion as seen in Apocalypse and Chimera Squad they're mostly other poor fuckers that got mind controlled. Except chryssalids of course but we don't talk about them. But all this would be sort of a moot point until after the war since it's not like the ayy lmaos could tell you they were controlled and it's not like the humans realize it or arguably care until after the war
>>498434184>check my blightpost>zero(0) purging fuel>about 30(thirty) blightrot flowers (I had more that I hadn't cleared last storm)>all of them increase hostility, which is now at fucking 14. Highest I've ever seen it desu>corruption spreading. My enentire village is about to fucking die>stopping work on the event doesn't remove the effect (it does say this, I just didn't read it and I forgot from previous games cause I'm something of a fucking retard)>i have effectively commited suicide and snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory because I wanted to win a year earlier. I could've just opened a different glade and sent a final cache or something man>in a last ditch attempt as I watch the village begin to burn around me, I call in the trader, who is the royal guard that has been training my frogs and lizards via that cornerstone>hope that he has purging fuel or something to help me survive. I can't tank more than 3 deaths.>game decides to throw me a bone>he has 0.5 rep I can buy>holy fuck this guy just saved my life>buy it and win>>this settlement has proven it can sustain itself, are you ready to move on>haha yeah :) it can sustain itself alrightIn my headcanon, what happened was like when the fellowship of the ring encountered the balrog in moria. The village had been trained under the royal guard the entire time but at the end the corrupted molerat appeared and the leader was like "this foe is beyond any of you. RUN" and we all abandoned the land while technically winningWhat a fucking shitshow bros
Fuck SAKE the scarab is tough. And no, these aren't scarabs, they're too small. The scarab almost wiped my entire bloody army.>>498434994Yeah. What a shame.
These dumb bastards, clustering around light while in the middle of the night. Don't they know light is death?
>>498427497It's the remake but I agree. Emperor is very nice too especially because you can filter walkers with gates. But I prefer the monument building in pharaoh.
>>498252198>>497545435>>498427497>>498438825Pharaoh wins purely because its about stone age and desert...God i love those settings, i need like a 20 book series about some dude like King Scorpion traveling ancient desert Ntsth and being badass...
>>498438825Emperor is my favourite, because I prefer ancient China to ancient Egypt.
The space dragons sure like to take their ships out on a stroll inside my borders. I'm sure everything's fine though they're going to backstab me aren't they?
Starbases annoy me to no end in this game. This simple mining station is able to easily defeat an entire fleet with ease.
>>498359792If you couldn't gather from my posts alone, yes I quite enjoy the gamealso, the pictures pretty much show what to expect there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENyxseq59YQ
>>498442106You'll be lucky if it's a stab and not something else.
Fucking Christ if you're going to give an event special music, edit it down a few decibels first, I'd like to keep my eardrums un-exploded.
>rebellion leader comes at me in the second mission of the campaign
HURRY UP
Well. He's dead, rebellion's crushed.Game over I guess.
>>498461906Thy haveth five stinks, m'liege
>>498463332They are brave warrior fell in the defense of our proud castle.
Harpy sexo
>try the populum mod for CoE5>it renames all the classes into forms of governmentBut why
Rain's falling
Regards, cool dragon slayers too retarded to talk to the dwarf king and learn about the dragon slaying blade before bullying a shadow dragon to death
>>498489064Good job.
>>497537687I love HOMM3
>>498493691Isn't it kind of a classic?
>>498451543W-What do you mean?
>>498494789That big thing? It's not a codpiece.
>>498494860Hot
>>498483508May the storm be gentle on you, Viceroy
>>498483508Rain's fallen, millions must drown.
>>498499797aka China
is stellaris good yet
>>498505037It was good 5 minutes ago but it's shit again now. You just missed it anon.
Please help I have no idea what I'm doing.
>>498409128I like the first one more just because MECs are way cooler than SparksLove my cyborg dudes
>>498506264Is this one of the Command And Conquer games?
>>498507316Yeah, Generals. I don't get it, everything dies in three hits. I'm sending tanks (anti-armour) against jeeps (anti-infantry) and I still lose some tanks because the jeeps fire rockets.
Going to work now. Take care.And someone try D&D Dungeons, tooltip says to read the manual, but I tried to, and I felt like it all went flying above my head.
>>498507412the rockets are an upgrade from memory, tow missles? They're not default
>>498454923They will just pirate the dlc.
>>498508216damn that's some old ass game
>full set of orders that aren't easy to do>keep losing population left and right>can't keep up with basic start of game crafting to even push forward>people keep arriving too slow>impatience already up to 12 with reputation at 1.5this one's fucked
>>498507316Seems to be C&C: Red Alert 3
aoe2 got a new standalone gamelooks like an overhaul mod
>>498442106The drath usually like to set two other empires against eachother. I don't know about galciv 4 but in most other games they had an ability or tech that allowed them to get income for every war that is going on.
are they seriously not backtracking on that dogshit decision of having the civ leaders talking to each other rather than with you? diplomacy has always sucked but this will make it even shittier than usual
>>498549176They get twice the value of a trade route if the destination civ is at war, if i'm not mistaken.
>>498536914Yeah manSometimes it's just really fucking bad luckAlways feels terrible to reach year 4 and on when youve still only got the basic workshop lol
>>498562850Night anon
>>498540230uh no
>>498519626The Hamas jeeps?
>>497537687D U N C
>>498582462Me on the left
>>498582625Tasty.
>>498582462Looks cozy
I still want an XCOM-like in the Half Life setting.
>>498593894that'd be cool
>>498036823>and armor only means a flat damage reductionThat is a real armor system
is a train limit shared across stops with that name, or specific to the stop itself
>on the adamantine seal>almost have all the citadel upgrades>most deeds are complete, won't stress about getting them all, as I've done that on previous runs anyways (having all their needs met can go fuck itself desu I can rant about that for ages)>might attempt the hand of the queen trial again, but I got filtered last time I tried after losing like 7 times. Maybe it'll be better with froggos and such, idk. It's a very different game mode and you have to play differently in a way I'm not exactly used to, but I'll never feel like I've "completed" the game until I beat it, even though I have like 800h in itAnyways, the end is in sight bros
Good morning dead games general.
>>498614337Nice try
>>498614337Not dead, just slow.
>>498603718No, because there's no piercing damage.Only siege.
>aoe2 finally let you mark civ as favouriteNICEI was sick of constantly mistaking Malaysian and Malians
>>498617335looks like cartoon game for girls of course its a repostie...
>>498618706I mean, if you want a webm I did myself, sure.But it's even less of a RTS. At least bunnies were cute.
>>498574952Oh technicals? I think that comes from them salvaging destroyed vehicles, it's the last upgrade level.
>>498618843vroom
>>498619367Dunno if that's Ready Or Not, UI looks different, but it looks like complete and utter trash.
>>498620710its battlefield hardline general reposti
>>498621556Name rings no bell but that doesn't look like a Battlefield game.
On todays menu: Flame-grilled thin mints
>>498626376Yes, YES, BURN THEM ALL!
>there's a fan making his own precinct assault modeNice.
Caught myself a mystery nigga
In AoE2, is there any reason at all to make knights? Light cavalry is a lot more cheaper, faster to train, and with upgrades, can take down most things, so why ever make expensive heavy cavalry who doesn't even hit that hard, requires gold, and is weak to monks?
>>498635239Knight is arguably the most important or the second most important unit (debatable between crossbows, depends on the skill level) in the game. To answer you specifically, if you make light cav and I make knights I win.
>>498635510At equal number, yeah. But ressources wise, the gold you spent on knights that I saved by making light cavalry, I can invest it in something else, like defenses or whatever. Like archers to snipe your knights while the cavalry is covering them. I just don't get heavy cavalry.
>>498636868Listen if you want to be retarded you are free to do so but please don't do that here. This is a no retard zone
>>498637192I accept your surrender.
>the salted eggs think their smoke grenades will protect themCute. Now burn.
>retard can't explain why an unit is better beside "mine beat yours!!">gets mad when other still doesn't understand his shit explanation We really lost in quality since /gsg/ sneaked in.
>>498642846>passive aggressively refuses to quote>claims someone else is from gsgListen here, the person displayed a fundamental lack of knowledge about the game and general lack of intelligence so as a result I chose to dumb it down to the lowest possible level. Knights are good because they beat light cavalry. If you can't understand that then what on earth makes you think you can understand a more complex explanation? Like I said you are free to be retarded, it's not like you will ever play against me so why should I care if you want to lose.
>>498642846You struck a nerve, the tourist is livid.
The impact of the chosen one cutscene is just a bit lessened by this nerd refusing to take his helmet off
>>498644005Maybe it's just retarded. I thought I was simple enough, but apparently it can't understand basic English. How cringe.
>land of greed map modifier to make me focus on trade routes constantly>hostility 3 map effect to pay 1 pack of provisions per ingame year or get three buildings turned to ruinsthey do this shit on purpose
Final mission time.Last played this game like 10 years ago, I barely remember anything about the final mission.
Man the final mission was a stinker.Fighting two big ass killer robots sectopods was probably the highlight, the final boss was just one of the mystery niggas I've wasted a few times before.The final cutscene also can't handle helmets, leading to this shit.
>>498642846This is why the thread needs dragonslayers. Dragons feature in the Age of Wonders 4 expansion Dragon Dawn, and Age of Wonders 4 is published by Paradox, and Paradox also makes the games that must not be named. So it is in the interest of a healthy thread to have someone culling the dragon population>>498650754>Man the final mission was a stinker.It's a shame that Firaxis didn't have better RPG chops because they obviously have/had interest in making some tactical RPG stuff. Xcom 1 having the stronger story emphasis, Chimera Squad with unique characters and voiced dialog, Midnight Suns going so far as to be Persona-like as well as having some great fucking combat. Unfortunately the writing wasn't good enough for any of them despite all games having nice combat, and Midnight Suns apparently flopping so hard that blessed Jake Solomon was wither shitcanned or left Firaxis which is criminal. Although I can understand it because I didn't even know Midnight Suns was turn based tactics pseudo card game RPG thing until well after it was launched because the ads I saw just looked like a beat 'em up and my eyes glazed over
/vg/ is moving too fast again
https://discord.gg/CgtEmDkJmade a discord, come say hi :-)
>finished my xcom ew campaign>try that long war mod because people hype it up like crazy>first shot down ufo has a nigger with 10 health, regeneration, 1 damage and 3 drones that are basically immortal if you don't grenade them>all I get is six rookies that can barely reach 60% hit chance even while flanking>even one a hit they manage 2-3 damage at most, maybe 4 when that single percentage chance crits triggers>ufo giganigger happily one-shots my dudes through heavy coveroh it's one of these mods for people that want to fuck sandpaper
>>498667891It's definitely a mod that requires a significantly different approach and mindset and dropping the difficulty to minimum at first. And some light masochism. Are you playing base Long War, or the Rebalance fork?
>>498669940the basic one
>>498670659Drop the difficulty down to easiest (it's roughly between vanilla medium-hard), browse the second wave options, use guaranteed damage like explosives whenever possible to soften up (but not kill) the ayys, read everything thoroughly and get used to theorycrafting builds, be aggressive on the geoscape level, and accept you're going to lose a lot more people than vanilla. Maybe not oldCOM levels of casualty rate, but your memorial wall is gonna get chunky.
>>498380195you say that but it's not satisfactory to playand that's also a woman
>>497545435Still the best citybuilder in existence.
>>498672209>that's also a womanSo what? I'm still going to fuck her.
>>498674045Don't do that that's how you get cancer
>>498674851It's okay, I'll do anal. Can't marry a spearwoman, after all. Keep yourself for a Teutonic knightess.
>>498675175Then you will be safe, go with god anon
>>498675792Or I could save myself for a frankish axe thrower, my favourite unit in the game.
>they pushed back Nova Roma to 2025 without an announcementrip
>it's august>completely forgot to research sickbay>also realized I forgot to research onsen tooWhoops. Got caught in the prisoner farming cycle again.
>>498677364I feel you man.Both of us will get our games in 2025.Hopefully...
>>498679970>prisoner farmingGuantanamo mode
>>498534037That is me, every dlc fucking breaks something in the game, and makes previous dlc redundant. I am not giving parajews anymore shekels to play the game
As a longtime Civ 5 player, is there anything worthwhile coming to Civ 7?I tried Civ 6 but really hated it.
>>498619078How can jeeps defeat tanks?
>>498695520NoIt's gonna be worse then ever before
>>498695520>oh she's cute what anime->higurashiohoh no
>>498695520Well 5 was shit so you can only go up from there. If you want a GOOD civilization experience you should play 3 or 4.
>>498697910Yeeees. Her new stepmother doesn't make it.
>>4986955207 will save the franchise
>>498697910Honestly the show's pretty tame compared to the goreporn anime has released recently.
Bump, and good night.And whoever has sound turn on, have fun.I don't even remember what the music is.
You all made me play Rogue Trader for two months
>>498716132Get fucked, bitch
>>498729317BIG CUMS FOR FISH DONKS
>>498730519>No choice to let Cassia's mother posses her and then marry the navigator with her mother's soul inside herWe need more degenerates in RPG dev teams.
>>498636868>>498635239knights are the single most efficient stat beatstick in the gamefor the same amount of resources you need x4 the number of archer ranges AND stables AND vils on wood AND food AND gold just to match knights have 100 hp and 2+2 melee armor with 10+2 attack light cavs have 60 hp and 0+2 armor and 7+2 attack a light cav needs 20 attacks to kill a knight, and a knight only needs 6 hits to do the samexbows has 35hp and 5+2 pierce vs a knight 2+2 pierce armoronly a mass of 20+ xbows can kill knights in 1 shot, and that takes 5 minutes with 2 rangesmeanwhile the knights are already in your base and fucking your shit up, 3 knights are enough to completely shut down your econ and can literally just straight up fight anything you send to defend yourself>oh I'll just build pikesgood luck catching them lmao
>>498738806Oooh, okay. I'll try to make some paladins next time, just to see if they're as killy as you say, but you're right, they do have mobility.
>>498738954generally the builds in castle age follows from what you have built from feudal. competitive build orders usually involves rushes in feudal with units that your civ is good at. like brits want to do an archer rush, that kinda thingwhat happens in castle age can vary a lot, depending on if you succeeded with the rush and cripple the opponent enough to gain an econ advantagebut if you're playing with bots in single player, whatever goes. extreme AIs are around 1000 elo, and you can cheese the AIs pretty easily
>>498739547I mean, yeah. If the AI reacted to my builds, it'd be threatening, but I feel like the AI in AoE2 DE just pick a build at random, like "this time I'll make spearmen/archer" or "this time I'll make spearmen/skirmishers".
>>498736493I would agree with you but there were too many other things in RT that chapped my ass. Even though I did like the game it really bugged me how Owlcat went from WotR which had some fairly dramatic flavor and fluff changes based on your mythic path (The main story still largely playing out the same but you get sizable chunks of different flavor text, some different scenes, maybe a few different quests, etc) and then RT has 3 main paths that do so little in comparison. Then the actual origins you can pick have one or two lines of fluff in the prologue and then don't come up in the game proper even when they should. And the hidden alignment-locked companions not having dialog when at least one of the chaos companions should be a font of dialog all annoys me more than fucking the fishAll that bitching said I haven't played since they did the big combat overhaul and certainly not since the DLC so I don't know if anything's changed. Like the Pathfinders I'll probably do a replay in a year or two once all the DLC's out. ALSO I'm not the anon that was playing for two months I'm just swooping in here from the shadows
>>498739856the easier AIs are pretty stupid. Hard and up will fight you early with rushes, or will focus econ and fast castle
>>498740458Oh, I see. Harder AI aren't "easy AI but with infinite ressources". Might be fun to try them, even if they'll likely crush me.
I felt like playing ES2 and reinstalled it, are there any mods worth installing?
>>498745236No.
Scorpions need buffs.
Poor blob thing.
>>498750750It's a shame this guy deleted his entire Stellaris content on Pixiv.
>>498761159Je did? Why? Annoyed by paradox?
>>498764351No clue.This happened years ago. Luckily I downloaded few of his works before they were lost to time.Sadly I can't read Korean moon runes.Want the whole package?
>>498761159>shitty anti human NTRTypical korean bug faggot.
>>498764664I'm at work so they are firewalled, but sure. I'll save them once home.
>>498765568Ok, 2/3 here.
>>498730519The art in those storybook sections is absolutely incredible
>>498766461Last one.Hope you like these.
>>498767412>>498767412new bread.
>>498766878I'll save them after work.
