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We Are Legion DLC Campaign released today
>housing density upgrades now tied to the fortification/patrol security feature>by the time I can even unlock anything starting with the manor I'm damn near 30 villagers and all their little 2-person huts are cluttering up my hillside
>>505621107>and all their little 2-person huts are cluttering up my hillsideraze them and put them in a tenament!
>>505621107
There's not really all that much in the demo, just like, most of the first tiers of the common and labour upgrade paths.I still absolutely love the wheat fields in Foundation.
>>505636753They remind me of Medievil. Is there anything hiding in them?
>>505639490Fuck is medievil
>>505620867Is it any good?
im noob to this genre, what can i say. reccomend me some, hard sci-fi maybe? *claw clack*
>>505652885First few missions of Nexus: The Jupiter incident.
>>505652885Terra Invicta, you play as a shadow organization, trying to guide humanity in a post-first contact world.
I want to make a super long game in Civ 6 like I mean this will take an awful long time to complete. Mainly because I feel it goes by way too quickly and you hardly get any time to even use the era's units before having to upgrade.What would be the best mods for this?I already have Take your Time Ultimate which allows me to slow down research to a crawl if wanted, aka first research is more than 999 turns but this doesn't affect production so Im stuck only either building units for time over and over and it's kind of annoying to keep producing a lot of units so quickly.
So City Skylines 2 finally fixed the homeless bug.
>>505647383I haven't installed the update yet, I've been hooked on the human campaign the last 4 or 5 days. It has definitely fulfilled the RTS want that I've had.I wish there was a dynamic style campaign like Call To Arms: Gates of Hell has, though.
>>505672885Kill them all. They are different from us, which means they are evil!
Luv me heroes of might and magic 3Simple as
>>505676785IV is better. More women creature to defeat and rape in post battle.
>>505676223Got cowardly humans trying to backstab my forces too
>>505681794Humans? I thought you were playing Terminator.
>>505684853lol, I think that I've fought maybe 4 battles focused on the Terminators, more have been against raiders, cartel members and turncoats
I am definitely looking forward to seeing what the Terminator campaign is like after this, the patch notes mention customizing the crap out of all of your terminator infantry squads.Looks like it was cracked day one too, if anyone wants to try it before they buy it.
What are some good games if I just want to autistically balance numbers?
>>505686165There are turncoats and cartels in that version?
any comfy RTS games recc? something oldschool-y like sc1how is dow1?
>>505689313The early side quests have a few extra missions focused on them>>505693060Dawn of War 1 is very comfy, I was considering that a couple weeks ago but couldn't find a copy.
>>505693216just bought it on steamturns out the bundle thing is actually 4 games in the library>soulstorm>winter assault>dark crusade>anniversary editionwhich one do I play first?
Still can't believe didn't got banned.>>505693653In chronological order? Anniversary.Then Winter Assault, Dark Crusader, and finally Soulstorm.Or just skip the others and stick to Soulstorm.
>>505636753>>505600990Very nice. Has the game been updated? Have they finally done something about the performance?
>>505695551If you have performance issues, I recommend viagra.
>>505695551it's the demo build of the full release. the base game won't be updated until jan 31st when it officially launches. I've never had performance issues with it in the past and the demo build doesn't run any worse so I can't say whether or not it runs better.I haven't gotten it up to higher populations, since really the demo doesn't have enough available in it to warrant getting past 40-50 people.
>>505696719slight example - the only edict from the manor you can issue in the demo is a levy. can't even promote anyone - however, to get around the villager social status requirements for some professions like the tax collector, baker, stone mason, etc. they just don't register and let you appoint people for the spots in the demo.A lot of the new art for things like the manor and rustic church pieces all look really nice.
So, what's the general stance on civ 7? I liked that they made the age transition hold you back a bit to even the playing field for the next epoch, but not being able to play fully as the same civilization (that stands the test of time) seems underwhelming. Also, it seems that they aren't really taking into account civilizations that didn't go overseas and explore for the second age.Most of all, we might miss some great civilizations. I'm a great fan of Byzantium, but Constantinople fell 1453 and discovery of Americas happened 1492. On the live stream, the second age jumped to 7th century, so that gives me hope, but again, Venice, Byzantium, Genoa and the like were Med empires, not ocean faring ones. How will these civs be implemented when there's so much focus on new lands?
>>505709992>So, what's the general stance on civ 7?That it's not out yet.
>>505710387only reasonable answer itt
>>505711376I am the voice of reason in this general.
I spent like 4 hours on the last battle in TerminatorBut holy shit, this map is huge! It's going to take a long time to battle through.
>>505714185Wait, you mean the one before this one, or the last map of the campaign?
>>505714771The previous battle, not the final battle.I'm not sure how long the campaigns are, I'm on battle number 8 right now.
>>505716482Hell. Let us know how long that one took.
>Stellaris>the version number for the last couple of updates is pi with an increasing amount of decimal places
>>505721825heh
>>505696719I didn't really have any problems with running it but my laptop strarts to sound like it's going to lift off while I run it. The game uses one cpu to do most things so one gets really hot while the rest barely do a thing. Anyway the game looks a lot better.
How do I stop my economy from shitting the bed in Stellaris? Every game by 2250 it spirals out of control. Am I colonizing planets too early? Or building robot factories too early? It always starts with a shortage of consumer goods too.
>>505730909By playing a better game.
>>505730909The economy is fake and gay
>>505730909The bed is fake and gay.
>>505662702I would not recommend that game to anyone new to the genre. I also would not recommend that game to anyone who wants to have fun.
>>505732494>>505732620>>505732730thanks fellas
>>505734772this, just refunded it. shitty tutorial, overly complicated UI, and the gameplay amounts to just waiting for dice rolls.
Super crazy mission, first it was a stealth operation then it turned into an escort mission now it's a defense mission with dwindling resources
>>505751947Heck. Sounds like missions are anything but boring.Are skirmishes a thing still or is it a campaign only game?
>>505753613Yeah, it's got skirmishes and multiplayer. I haven't played either but the menus looked pretty similar to Call to Arms skirmishes.Had to leave a captured terminator tank behind because it ran out of fuel this mission
>>505755920>fuelHell. I like it, sounds like a very hard game.
>>505709992I liked humankind initially (posted some runs here) still kind of do so the premise is interesting. However because they never sell a complete civ game anymore I'll wait 2 to 3 years before even bothering to see if its my cup of tea
bumpo
Good day fuckos, how's it going?
>>505793786Still playing Valheim(blogged posted a bit on indie). May retorrent and play Per Aspera.
>>505793786I may take a break from Dark Defiance to play some Resistance
These RTS games feel like they become tower defense games after a while.I don't know if it's because the way the AI operates or a design decision. You would think that the AI would try to go about its mission or reinforce its current forces instead of making a bee line straight towards your units.
>>505794746>Terminator resistanceMy nigga! Have you tried the Terminator game mode and Annihilation line DLC yet?
>>505795207Installing it for the first time right now
>>505764295Are 4X games the best genre for AI slop?
>>505802315I think that would be gacha
>stellaris>install any single mod from the workshop>game now has a 90% chance of being stuck on 30% on the loading screen and freezing until it crashes>doesn't matter which mod it is, even one that simply changes the background galaxy texture causes this>google it>find a thread on paradox forums with the issue>paradox employee has answered and said they're looking into the issue>that was 4 years agoI HATE SWEDES
What's the oldest/most esoteric 4x or strategy game in general you have ever played?
>>505810028think it might be Sid Meier's Colonization
>>505810028Oldest probably pic-related.I didn't got a PC until well in my teens.
>>505793786Going through my old GIFs. I'd rather not post there here, but I like rewatching them and remembering.
>>505810592There was more to Tzar than just Burden of the Crown??
>>505811476Yup. I got physical Excalibur and the Gold edition.It warms my heart removing the arabs from my country.
had to double-check that I hadn't accidentally installed lustful void
>>505813228Remember how Paradox added the empire wide gender modifier to the game after Lustful void added it?I do.
>>505810028I suppose it would be the Close Combat series. There's a lot of open source stuff for it now, I guess.
>>505811773Wait, wait.Wait wait wait.What do Excalibur adds?
>>505814140Just a normal day in Brighton, eh?
>>505813228>robot overlords understand humans just want to have sexBased>higher mineral upkeepDo I even dare ask?
>>505810028Oldest: Master of MagicEsoteric: I liked the Rebuild series! Never really got a good successor.
>>505821586It's pop upkeept, lithoids eat rocks
>>505821586Need lubricant for that pegging.
>not dry
>>505823774>lithoidsForgot those.
>>505810028>oldestHmm, dune or master of Orion. Then warcraft2>esotericEither the pirated copy of ancient cities or earth2150. Earth2150 is tits.
>>505835801>Earth 2150t,
>>505836219Earth 2150 is such a fucking amazing rts. The expansions were fun. Modular units in a command and conquer style skirmish? 3 fully fleshed out factions with their unique styles? Limited resource campaign that also had a timer? Elevation, day night cycle mattering? And yet like no one knows of this game.Graphics were dated and yeah ui/tutorial not great but it's a fucking shame this game didn't get more exposure.
>>505730909like what part? not having enough energy? not enough minerals? get your shit pushed in by xenos?
Hey anons, I'm thinking about getting into Hearts of Iron. Should I buy HOI III with all the DLCs for about $4, or should I wait for the HOI IV Steam Sale?
>>505849652>>>/vst/gsg
>>505849652>>>/trash/gsg/
>>505810028>oldest 4xSpace Empires 1. It's just ass. 4 rendered the entire preceding series obsolete anyway.>oldest strategyXCOM: UFO Defence. I should get back to blogposting about XPiratez.>most esotericAn old AoE-like RTS named The Dark Legions, found it on Reflexive way back when that was a thing. Kinda ugly in a charming way. Doesn't really do anything special, save for the late-game magic. Non-campaign maps are atrociously balanced with some severe AI cheating on top. Doesn't play too nice with modern hardware but it's functional. Have literally never seen anyone talk about it, ever.
>>505817493As with the other two games, just a campaign.There was also a big fughuge spanish "mod" campaign with custom voicelines and scripting.
>>505850749Damn, those graphics make it look like runescape 2.
>>505851019Oh, that's all.Bit disappointing.>>505851037>OSRS RTSYES
>>505849652Buy none of it
these guys were so stealthy with their stupid brown color that I didn't even see them sneaking their borders in my direction
Good night.
>>505864643I was looking right at it and I almost didn't see it. Anons whats a decent amount of research I should be cranking out by 2300? Im at 438
>>505879687It's a tough would, but I'll manage it.
>>505879687I love these little vids, the only good thing Paradox has made in years
>>505887241>paradoxYou wot mate
>>505887545I thought it was Stellaris and not Endless Worlds, my bad.
>>505887801You have disappointed this entire general.
bump
>>505902252nice
>>505849652This is not /gsg/.
Try Silica.It's kinda fun.
>>505902252What would you have done if the nuke had clipped the edge of the craft roof?
>>505922683Is this really a strategy game? It looks more like a first-person shooter.
>play ciV>try one city challenge>completely dwarfed by other multi-city civs by turn 70alright, okay, i admit iti can't play civ well unless i'm scooping up swaths of territory and exploiting all the resources
There's way too many armored vehicles in this game to use infantry well. They need the option to dig fortifications.
kek the ai just keeps lining up more armored vehicles to drive into my c4 ieds
>>505803176>cheats
>>505944818slavic autists balance gameplay difficulty better than jeet internsnearly every modern game with DLC has power creep that completely neuters older gameplay styles and tactics
dow1 is pretty fun so far
>>505951656Yeah, it's a classic. What factions have you started with?
>>505925457It's strategy/first person.Think Battlezone 2. Or Dungeon Keeper.
W&R has quite a few "gotchas" that make realism mode impractical I thinkfirst there's the whole dormant workers thing, you gotta be careful to not accidentally activate them, and it really demands that you build new and move people in rather than building out from the old towns, which I find more satisfying, but adding services to old towns in realism mode just takes way too long, they all died or defected by the time you have running water and a grocery storethen there's power lines and pipes, you have to pre-make branch points built in from the start everywhere, or else you'll have to tear down your main power/water line for months to rebuild it, which basically ends the game.and the worst one is how inconsistent it is with what buildings can be driven "through" and which one's can't. the bus stop lets traffic flow, but the bus platform stops all throughtraffic even though the road part looks the same, you can't really guess which ones allow traffic and which ones don't, you have to know it by heart, and its safest to just assume they don'tall of this kinda saps my will to play it, I feel like the game needs a substantially better engine than it has to support these things, in every other transport game you can add a bus stop to the side of any road but in W&R you have to tear the whole road downI still want to give full realism a go but keeping all these gotchas in mind and not knowing if there's something else I missed that might end the game if I don't work around it ahead of time is putting me off>>505954350except battlezone is good and silica is shite
>>505836219>>505838663I really love how that game goes "the world is about to end, you have 6 months, and no we're not going to tell you what to do, good luck"
>>505954663We're talking about Silica though, not your mother.
>>505954663I haven't even tried realism mode yet. It sounds harrowing.
HAK HAK HAK
spooders
>>505966172you continue to be famous in /erg/, for the wrong reason
>>505966254Mmm?
>>505966327>>505965456is this not your butt?
>>505966583File Deleted, I can't say. But I'd argue I'd rather be famous for my butt than for desecrated a dead body.
>>505966668are you talking about the guy that stuck his dick in a skull?
>>505966932I'm talking about Logan Paul, that mediocre low-tier youtuber who mocked a poor sap who unsubscribed from life.Who the FUCK stuck his dick in a skull?Actually don't answer that.
>>505966583Okay, I see it in the archive. Yeah, that's my butt. I should post some gifs sometimes, when people don't expect it.
>>505970073you should not do that
did paracox end up fixing cosmic storms?
>>505979292I think the base concept is unsalvageable
>>505979729everything I read about it made it seem like a "pay to be somewhat annoyed" kind of DLC
>>505979876it just sounds so fucking boringeven the origin is just for people who want to speedrun seeing what the dlc adds and then be done with it
>>505978053Why not?
>>505982502Thoughts on Total War going full on Bannerlord gameplay style?
>>505986865>ThoughtsI try not to. My main fun is inspecting the maps anyway, I suck at these games.>try Chosokabe in Shogun 2>rush Kyoto to win campaign easily>declaring war on the shogun creates a full stack out of his ass>if I manage to take Kyoto, Japan immediately falls into total war>try warhammer 3>try dwarf>take a few settlement>Manlet van Carstein, Khalida, Settra, Skarbrand suddenly all want a piece of my ass
>>505987108It's mainly about getting past the first few hurdles in a campaign and then your basically steamroll the rest of the map.I'd really like to see some 1st/3rd person mode introduced after giving basic orders to unit officers. CA has done a 3rd person action game before. Bannerlord sort of expanded from the other direction. They started with the 1st/3rd person action combat and added a command ui in later.
I started this mission with 1 light vehicle and 2 infantry squads. This game's recruitment scheme of finding reinforcements on the battle map is something else.
>>505991742How so? Do you need to explore the map to find more units to use?>>505988829Make sense, the only campaign I did okay in was with the Vampire Counts. And I spammed monsters.And, yeah. That is why I like Silica, against my better judgement.
>>505991742Last time I saw that sorta recruitment scheme was in Treasure Planet: Battle at Prodyon.Name of the game was huge false advertisements, despite fighting the Procyons we never fought at Procyon prime.
>>505995065>How so? Do you need to explore the map to find more units to use?In Terminator Dark Fate Defiance, you join a lot of battles already in progress and end up with a lot of the troops that you save.
>>505995698Fits John Connor, I guess. Gotta build that reputation as a warlord.
>>505995782You don't play as John Connor in that game.You play in the new movie universe, fighting a killer A.I called Legion instead of Skynet.Also in this timeline John got killed by a Terminator between 2nd and 3rd movies, so it's a different resistance force in general.
>>505995782I haven't seen or heard of John Connor in this one or skynet. I think its using an alternate storyline.>>505996154I believe this is correct. I haven't kept up with my Terminator lore since the series with Summer Glau.
>>505996154>You play in the new movie universeAlright. My interest for the story died with that sentence.
>>505996303terminator resistance is surprisingly good, and very faithful to the two movies
>>505996967First two movies, I may add.Also it has a Terminator mode in it.
Bumps? In THIS economy??
>>506007530what's the exchange rate of bumps to USD?
>>505952002uh, the campaign?the story is surprisingly competent, probably because most recent strategy games don't have a real storyalso is it just me or the normal difficulty too easy? i just wait a bit and then deathball steamroll the whole map
>new le hecking update>load my city for first time seems alright>crashes to desktop for no reason>reopen the game and now it's sperging me about I have mods installedI hate this transgender game sm
>>506016528>patch breaks mods>water is wet
>>506023882>when patch does nothing but break your modsth-thanks, todd howard
stop it spiderfag
>>506027495?
>>506029963you know what I mean
>>506030617No.
What kind of RTS/4X game would you make out of this title?
These giant mechs are crazy!
>>506036218Shoot them
>>506033738pulling levers/switches in a rail yard to redirect trains pulling into the yard so the cat doesn't get run over, i don't know
>>506033738Save Twinks?
>>506033738Save Twix is a recreation of the normandy landings where you protect various sweets with a focus on the titular Twix bars against advancing american amphibious units (colorized). Take command of your forces and drive the mobility scooters away and back into the sea in this plants vs zombies meets total annihilation RTS with a sugary sweet graphics
>>506036037what gaem?mech looks cool
>>505954663Nothing about W&R made me think "man I wish I had even more things to juggle."Is it just extra tedium or something meaningful?
>>506072893W&R?
>>506073095Workers and Resources Soviet republic>506064187Terminator game it seems >>505620867
>>506064187It is Terminator: Dark Fate: Defiance
I wish the free cam mod for Terminator Defiance wasn't packaged with all of the other overhaul stuff.
>>506072893realism just means you don't have access to magic building with money, and all construction and demolition must be done with the construction officesauto-buying resources is also disabled so you must import resources from the customs houses with trucks or trains
Feels like I'm getting near the end of the campaign.From what I saw online, there's like 12 or 13 missions in the human campaign
I've enjoyed customizing my army and all the vehicles. I had hoped that there was a bit more depth to it like training the militia units into more specialized and elite forces but it just seems to end after getting a few experience ranks.I may just go back to GURPS tabletop with custom wargaming rules to scratch that itch.
>>506076087Ammunition is a thing?
>>506087242Oh yeah, it's basically a Call to Arms clone, I dig it a lot even though I have no clue about the new Terminator setting. The only thing missing is the 3rd person shooter mode, that would have been badass to have and a few more customization options in the difficulty and skirmish/multiplayer modes.lolthis little settlement was not ready for my Himars, mobile artillery, 4 tanks, 4 IFVs and 4 attack helicopters
>>506088497Never played Call to Arms, so...
>>506094356It's a pretty good RTS series.I believe the most popular entry into the series right now is Call to Arms: Gates of Hell: Ostfront.They released a DLC expansion for US forces earlier this year for that game.You manage an army force through a campaign, it has a 1st/3rd person shooter gimmick that I wish that more games would add and refine.
>>506097189I think the only WW2 strategy game I remember is Company of Heroes. And it's an infuriating game.
>>506097335>the only WW2 strategy game I remember is Company of HeroesAh, Call to Arms is from the makers of the Men of War series, that one always seemed a bit bare bones to me, so I focused on their Call to Arms series instead.I think that I've played Company of Heroes before but I don't recall much of it.
>>506097872Company of heroes is from same guys who made original dawn of war series.
I am just steamrolling the machines in these last missionsTheir second giant mech didn't even slow me down.
hahaharidiculous! I used maybe a fifth or sixth of my forces this map and my choppers are just acting as transport instead of gunships>>506101764ah, that was a great series, too bad there weren't more
My train network's gridlocked.If I could just get the motorcar to back up a few meters, the trains on the left could get out and leave. But the motorcar refuses to move in that direction. Not even a little bit. It's vibrating in place.Jesus fuck I wish there was a manual "go here" button.
>>506114462Oh hell yes I got one train loose
>>506114683And the other as wellI had to change the semaphore between them to one way
Looks like that was the last mission!I had 8 gunship helicopters flying by the end of it.>>506114462>Not even a little bit. It's vibrating in place.lol>I wish there was a manual "go here" button.Yeah, I need manual controls on my games, its why I don't touch Warno or Steel Division
I kind of liked that little ending vidhttps://youtu.be/8JOwPx8JsIY?t=455I guess this Terminator story was about building the beginning of The Resistance
>>506115557Good job.
>>506124893Thanks. I wish that campaign weren't so short. An endless campaign like the dynamic campaign in Ostfront would be ideal. In that game, you can invite friends to join your campaign games and battle against the AI with the army that you've built.
Looks like there's been a minor release of radioactive material at the site where I've been temporarily storing nuclear waste for the last three years or so. Comrade Sergeyevich, the ranking engineer in charge of the power plant, has assured us that there is absolutely no danger. 3000 Sv/h is about the equivalent of a chest X-ray. There is no graphite on the roof.
>>506131660You are delusional.I will climb up here myself and ACK
Genuinely not sure what happened. The worst hotspot is in this open field.
>>5061358433,6 roetgens. Not great, not terrible.
>>506136045I'm theorizing that the radiation monitors are using the wrong unit and it's actually supposed to be millisievert, because 3000 sievert is equivalent to 300 000 röntgen. For comparison, standing next to the Chernobyl Elephant's Foot when it was first discovered would have given you about 10 000 röntgen per hour.
dow1 campaign's difficulty keep jumping around
>>506147103>easyLiterally tech 1 rush every single map>mediumTech 2 rush every single map>hardNintendo hard. Have to cheese. Half the fortresses are impossible without a huge honor guard>also fuck the sisters fortress
>>506147103Oh, important note : stealth works differently from one expansion to another.
>>506148180>>506149374I finished the original campaign>daemon prince>gets kited like a fucking dorkand
>>506149998>destroy the mcguffin>release the big bad demon
>>506149998Not a daemon prince. A major daemon. You don't meet a daemon prince until the Karawa campaign.
>>506151809Sindri becomes a Daemon Prince with the power of the Daemon.
>>506153237Never finished campaign. The Librarian rushes my base with a major daemon of Khorne in one of the last missions, never beat it.
>imperial guard campaign>literal human wave tactics
>>506163870Don't bother trying a deathless run.
>>506163870Glory to the first man who dies!
>>506164093the guardsman are so goddamn paper they keep fucking dying
>>506168845You're meant to abuse building garrisons, abuse chimeras, and never let the guard get under fire.Avoid direct confrontation unless you have distraction tanks or ogryns.
>>506168984not vibing with the campaign so far, not feeling the guard and the eldar so much
>>506169749Play sisters then they have great honor guard, ability (forward base) and very strong units. And get to btfo guard first.
>"Naturally we invest in creating plausible historical characters too. We decided, for instance, that we want female characters to play a greater role in our parallel version of history than they did back in Roman times (Everything in the history points to a deeply patriarchal society in which women had very little power or freedom). Nevertheless, we strive to make them appear in roles that have some credibility, though in at least one case we break the rules entirely, simply because we like the idea of doing so"Why can't these guys help themselves? Why do they insist on doing this shit?
>>506176074>A UBISOFT ORIGINALnext it'll be "an ubisoft joint">A before UDamn, they're dumb too.>Why can't these guys help themselves?They're being instructed on what to do out of a manual after sitting through a dozen powerpoint presentations from an obese niggress or tranny that grifted more from their companies than they'll ever make in their career.It really is time to abandon modern gaming and just make your own.
>>506177387>A before UIt's pronounced "youbisoft"
>>506178026If they wanted people to call it youbisoft, they should have told people that 30 years ago in a midi like Sega did, I've never heard it pronounced youbisoft until literal faggots recently started saying it.
>>506178026..I thought it was oobisoft.
>>506176074>"we want plausible historical characters">"that's why we're taking one of the most patriarchal society that ever existed on Earth, and we're adding big fentasy female characters"...why. Why not make a game about pueblos instead, these were matriarchals.
>>506178929Because they want they think Romaboos will buy anything Rone related when in reality Romaboos are ultra autistic about historical accuracy.Ubisoft wants to have their cake and eat it too
>>506179223Makes sense, that's what got Assassin's Creed in trouble.>oh yeah you get to fight Toutankhamon as an undead mummy>but it's a DLC, so it's okay!
>>506178929You think they know or care about that? They're just trying to tick as many boxes as possible with as little effort as possible to open up as many wallets as possible.
>>506179425I hate it. If you wanna take historical liberties, then make a fantasy game.Why restrict yourself to history if you're going to ignore it?
>>506179558Box. Effort. Wallet. What is there to not get? History is already made. Even if you're turning it into fantasy, someone (thousands of years of someones) has already done the groundwork for you. With fantasy, YOU have to make it, from the ground up. And fuck that, that costs money, and even more if you want it vaguely passing standards. Take what you have, give it a coat of paint and some sparkly tassels, shove it out the door, and rake in the cash. Why do something and make money, when you can do nothing and make more money?
>>506180236Disgusting.Normies getting into video games ruined them.
>>506179223It's not like you can't have both. It just takes marginally more effort to to make gender roles depend on a game setting. Or to let the player do the Roman women's liberation himself, like in CK2.
play homm3captcha: G4YST
>>506182990>marginally more effortit would take a lot more effort to have essentially two separate versions of the script, character lineups and voice acting
>>506196319>it would take a lot more effort to have essentially two separate versions of the scriptYou realize these games are tens of millions of dollars projects.These faggots, can spring for the extra 60k or whatever in salaries for writers and scripts (as proven by beth and starfield, none of these devs have writers)
Is Silica good? What is the campaign like? I want a sandbox game to build an army force up in.
I'm still playing through the starting tutorial but playing as the machines this time around is quite different. They are much weaker and get many scripted reinforcement waves.
>>506204926https://files.catbox.moe/90eakp.mp4
>>506191710Ew no.
>>506201484Kinda.Just a solo experience.The main salt is playing online and sharing roles, with one player being the general and others being soldiers.
>>506204926>machines are weakerHuh.
>>506209712Yup, my mp4 on the catbox there shows 4 units against 1 full unit and 1 damaged unit and how their health slowly gets whittled down. They can't go prone to take defensive positions, either.
>>506210110Sounds like the machines are at a massive disadvantage.
>>506210317Oh no, they absolutely flood you with reinforcements. Their strengths are probably progress locked too, I'm only 2 missions in on the tutorials portion.
>>505620527Is there a way to make the controls for shadow tactics more bearable?>>506206708Is this a Terminator game or a Terminator inspired game?
>>506213329I dunno, in the movie, the machines are on the side of quality. I'm surprised this game reverses it.
>>506213691Yeah, it's Terminator: Dark Fate: Defiance by Slitherine.>>506213702Yeah, I haven't gotten to the point where I can upgrade anything yet. I don't even seem to be keeping the same units that I've fought with either.
>>506214487Upgrades?
>>506216861Yeah, the patch notes for the DLC show a bunch of different upgrades you can add on to your terminator units.
>>506216992I'm lost at what kind of archetype the terminator side is going for.If you stick to the movie, they'd be very strong but expensive, but you said they're actually shit. And that the game ha no money anyway, making it a communist dream.Then you say they have upgrades, so... are you meant to spam them? I don't think I ever played a game where you have a lot of cheap units with potential to grow.Majesty does not count.
>>506217221>And that the game ha no money anyway, making it a communist dream.There's scarcity in the human campaign and I imagine there has to be in the Terminator campaign too, the main resources for humans are supplies and manpower and there are also multiple currencies, one of which is gold that loses its value after a few missions.
>>506217539>gold that loses its value after a few missionsGet out of my general.
>>506218765>>gold that loses its value after a few missionsGolden Pesos to be exact.No cartel to back the golden peso, no value. They return to the noble fiat bottle cap.
>>506219331Get the fuck out my general.
>>506219597
>>506220332You piece of shit.
Alright, bed time. You lots take care.
>>506222375Good night anon.
>>505620527crusader kings bros, how long will i have to wait for 100 years to pass? i already finished world conquest and i want the cheevo for getting to 1453 but there's like 100 years to go, how long will i have to wait with medium lag? i'm a consolefag so i can't mod it to make it go faster
>>506227695Stop posting off-topic garbage, you trans sexual nigger freak
>>506227695Have you considered killing yourself?>>506176074Great yet another watered down ai art stale ui game with nothing new or standout city builder. When will they learn that in such a saturated market you either have to stick to what made a prior game fun (a la nebuchadzar) or something deep like W&R or even foundation which while simple at least keeps stuff somewhat fresh.
>>506227695Wrong general. Try /gsg/.If /gsg/ is dead (good riddance) see if there's a thread on /vst/.
Any consensus on Starship Troopers: Terran Command in this general?I tried it out before but didn't give it a chance past the middle of the first battle because I had no patience for tutorials at the time.
>>506239457It's pretty fun, I got mine for like 15 bucks on g2a and enjoyed a campgain playthrough. That and dune took alot of my 2023
>>506239457I pity you for not knowing what you missed out on.
>>506239643>>506240361I looked at it on again on a similar games list today, it said there's "limited base building."What is that? I didn't have much hope for it because there was no base or anything like that in the first mission, just a handful of rifle soldiers.
>>506240995There are few locations on maps where you can call in buildings and their upgrades.Said buildings are required to call in specific new troops and vehicles.
>>506227695You can't accelerate time in the console version?
terminator clown cars lol
i miss playing an actually good game. Guess i'll just reinstall Crusader Kings 3
>>506248017You could always play Helldivers 2.It's a great single player game right now.
>>506227695VGH, ROMA
Funny that there's a correlation between having a small dick and playing gsg shovelware.
>>506248017Could always try to kill yourself faggot
>>506258090Based.
>>506258090What? Retarded worthless scum kill your worthless family then yourself
>>506259254>kills it's own general>scumbag comes here to parasite once more End the cycle. Suffer Not the /gsg/ rapefugee. Hate, deride the /gsg/scumbag>also in hindsight should have said uninstall your life faggot
>>506260684You forget. >come here begging for a place>after raiding us for fun several times in a row>and when they got a general, the nanosecond they got /gsg/ back before it was killed again, they immediately went back to shitposting here because revenge /gsg/ at this point is a drug addict who only cares about itself and will drag everyone in shit out of egocentrism just so that it can post about its Grossgermanium for the 4646686th time.
>>506262259Yeah like after years of their shitting up the place plus the general autism of current paracuck players not going to open this gateAt least the xcom guys are pretty chill. Even snake fucker was usually restrained. But /gsg/ sperg'd their own grave now they get to stay to /vst/ dead threads
gsg bro here comfy or nah
>>506262956Good fucking riddance. It speaks volume when even 4chan doesn't want you around.
>>506264708comfy when you get some mods to get rid of the piss filter
>>506269991>womenTruly the most incomprehensible aliens.
>>506271228We must make better women, robo-women
>>506269991Good night anon.
>>506275375We must make 2B.
>>506275375Gotta make a mod for the terminators to look like this
I was a bit disappointed with Battlesector when I tried it. It seemed very primitive somehow.
>>506286365Try Gladius
>>506287094That was decent. I played a few multiplayer games of it.
Are the red alert, tiberium sun, and C&C remakes worth it? Or just cash grabs?
>>506299298They're just convenient. I don't recall there being any major changes. I heard the rumor that the danger-haired faggots at EA lost the source code for parts 2 of the series and won't be able to remake them properly, so they'll be incomplete anyway but enjoy the 1st if you can get it for 75 cents like I did.
da
Good morning spiders, no dying.
keep going spiderfag
>>506302837Wait they lost their own source code? Lol, lmao even. So no more Westwood remasters?
I don't hate the ImpGuards but the eldars is annoying. Maybe I'll go for a SoulStorm campaign. which of the factions have fun airships? I like planes.
Alex Grandi sends his regards.
>>506333087They all have flagships.
>>506341879Archibald! Nooo!
>>506349808Archibald yes!
I'm not liking this campaign as much.The core army that I've kept over 4 or 5 battles was completely wiped out via a plot point
>>506357064>Sniper rifles>Grenade launchers>LMGs>KneesThat last one seems a bit odd.
>>506357367Oh, those are unit upgrades for increasing speed. They still move at a snail's pace even with them. You have to drop them off with armored troop carrier to effectively move them around the maps. I bought a bunch of upgrades when I was anticipating an expansion in my army and being away from supply lines, neither of which have occurred.
Now these guys, these guys are fast as hell but they are vulnerable even to machinegunners in heavy weapons teams and only really effective against light vehicles and infantry.
>>506358201BONE MALONE AND THE SPOOKY BOYS??
>>506358732RATTLE EM BOYS!
Though the thread is a crushing failure and disappointment I am here to report that Old World is Gladius with actual gladisssueses and way more 4x elements but it should still be played as an RTS
>>506360384But doesn't it have artillery?
>>506357064>>506357771Game lets you create your own units? Nice.
>>506362138Yeah, it gives you the choice of a few upgrades for units plus weapon loadouts.
>>506362830So like Warhammer 40 0000, Armaggedaddon the Armless.
>>506333087Tau is for you
Do I betray the cartel or keep them as an ally?
>>505620527Foundation leaves early access January 31st. I really do hope they did at least something about performance.Foundation demo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMozhImo67U&ab_channel=PolymorphGames
>>505620527Distant Worlds 2, Know Your Enemy - Part 2:https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/677325818015252535
Night time bump.
>>506390720
>>506380252Such a letdown on release is it better than dw1 yet?
>>506394786Don't know if it's better than 1 but it 's a fun game now. Performance is much better than release, empires play more differently, there is more content (more missions, end game crisis).
>>506395585I'll have to check up on it after some more galciv4, thanks anon.
>>506397405Early next year the game will get another big update that will diversify the factions. All the dlc factions have had special bonusses for playing in certain ways. So far of the original factions only Ackdarian, Humans and Mortalen have gotten an update, maybe the Teekan too. Some original factions still need to get an update.
>>506398148That's good to hear. Dw was like aurora lite for us semi spergs with alot of micro managing but enough visuals and automated stuff to keep me interested. Dw2 barely worked and seemed so blank and cut content really left a bad taste.
>>506400381I remember the economy being broke in DW, missing inputs/broken supply chains, etc. Did they ever fix it?
>my arm is getting that tingling feeling againWhat do I play to keep myself away from Rimworld?
>>506408516Helldivers 2?
>>506408516Get pegged by your girlfriend.
>>506408516Dorf fort
>>506408516Battlezone 2.
>>506408516Play something else. Try Kenshi.
level up vigor you stupid fukcing gay spider
mantheres all these little annoying thingswhy can't i vent/dump excess resources with all these mixed inputs/outputsand why the fk can't i build bridges over pipes/conveyorswhy can't i prioritize employment dynamically
>>506430081Mods are your friendBut getting shuttles or playing japan helps alot to reduce the micro managing of zonesAlso tunnels do exist but are very limited in use (unless mods. Get mods)
>>506434792i feel like you are talking about a different game
>>506430081I really enjoyed this game when it was only drones, I played that way for hours. Then I lost interest once the people showed up.
>>506438243???that is not surviving marsyou can see the people walking around when u zoom in
>>506438462My bad. What Game is it actually?
>>506439479alien horizon
>>506440170lol, the first result on yandex is surviving mars then it shows alien horizonis it a spinoff or something? all the assets and even the ui looks incredibly similar
>>506430081Looks like Captain of Industry that's wearing Surviving Mars's face.
>>506443265i dnno its a solo dev game so he mighta stolen assetsits like surviving mars if your colonists were ur worker bots and you just kept building like that
Interesting! Terminator: Dark Fate: Defiance may be getting a sandbox mode called conquest.I NEED THIS! NOW!
Also, I read that Edward Furlong missed out on being in a recent Terminator sequel from being passed out with a needle full of heroin in his arm.Grim.
look at these absolute worker ants
Good morning spiders, no dying today either.
He's right, you know.
>>506465879Heh. That's cute.
>playing Caveman2Cosmos>late medieval>fucking clockpunk tech appearsNo fucking no. I edited the modules for all alt techs to not load.
Um, what happened to /gsg/?
>Bored winning with a giant empire in stellaris dominating everyone>Go third party in the war in heaven>They just shit out 600k fleetpower armadas non-stop.>Crisis shows up>Second Crisis shows up>Game went from Star trek to 40kWhy did I think this was a good idea?
>>506470136>missing out on AI spamming early helicopters that can go trough oceans
>>506471335Well I did check and it seems the tech is just place holder without any units or follow up techs in it. Have to make a new save in case there is some crap in there.
>>506465879My brain is too smooth to start playing Aurora.
>>506470136I can only imagine the fury of getting through the gazillion turns to only realize half way through the game it's worked. Godspeed anon o7.
>>506471048In general, it's like>early game is Star Trek>mid game is Star Wars>late game is 40k
>>506400583I don't know. I've never played DW:U. I think DW2's economy works and is largely the same as 1. There are less fuel types in 2 but the groundwork is there to expand upon this.
Giving Starship Troopers: Terran Command another try.Do fulfilling the mission achievements give you unlockables or anything?
>>506502154I don't recall them unlocking anything.Still, good luck fighting the bugs.
>>506502154I don't remember them giving you anything other than achievements.
>>506502513>>506503001thanks guys
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xe2DBSMT6Awhat is this
>>506509194Death of a series, could have easily been Barrack Obama but he wasn't female enough.
>>506491916>late game is 40kOnce I was playing MP with a friend but had to step out for a bit and let the AI take over my empireReturning to what Stellaris AI thinks is a good economy really made me feel like Guilliman waking up to a 'bloated rotting carcass of an empire'
>>506511792>be Guilliman>wake up from an almost-10,000-year-long coma>look around>"fuck, put me back in"
>>506521675>mfw I see a planet that's literally only holo threatres
>>506526528My favorite part is that they made the first words he said to the Emperor into a hymn, completely ignoring the rest of what he was saying.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z65rDDrXfjY
>>506458774Trying not to boss
>come to check on /gsg/ for the first time in months>it's finally deadthat non quoting, self-talking madman finally managed to shit up the general so much that it died. I'm kind of glad but also sad because it means paradox won, they probably organised the takedown
>>506503001What about citizenship?
>>506526528ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY ENDS
>>506552850EVEN IN DEATH, I SERVE THE OMNISSIAH!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gIMZ0WyY88
>>506555132I should finish that game one day.
>>506555639>Dark Souls>"Roll for anal circumference"Hello fellow fa/tg/uy, its an okay game but the music, sound, and the trailer are the best parts in my honest opinion. Other than the easter egg where you can find Hatsune Miku in the game.
>>506548908this mod is kind of brokenits turning my soldiers into super soldiers after like one battle and leaves no room for growth after thatthe only thing that blocks progress is a scarcity of resourcesI'm not sure that I like that model, I was hoping for extended skill trees or something like tiered improvements
>>506556486>Dark SoulsELDEN RING, YOU SWINEAlso what the fuck.
>>506557296I never payed attention to Fromsoft past DS1, so good to know lol. What you don't like Miku?
>>506557457Just confused. It feels pretty random to have Miku. Why not the Vtuber fad, too? I'm curious to see what Scaevola would think of people using Abominable Intelligence to change their appearance.Scaevola, more like SIMPvola.
>gsg ded even doe me and more people than the drooling retards that post itt are posting on gsg rn
>>506559436Knowing Scaevola it would go instantly into the "TOTALLY NOT HERE AND TOTALLY NOT FULL OF HERI-TECH" vault of his.
>>506482943If an ESL boomer can do it, so can you! Believe in yourself!
>>506570567I've tried before but made trash spacecraft with no idea of what I was doing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAs31v2IxIs
>>506556486I like the dialogue writing.
JUST fuck my whole franchise up
For Civ VI, does the speed of the AI and overall turn to turn loading increase with better host connection or is it based on how good the game runs for the host? Like if I host a game with my friends and ai on my brand new pc, will it be faster for everyone, as opposed to someone hosting with a shitty pc
>>506596137should be faster for everyone
if money was not an issue is cities skylines 2 better than cities skylines in any way or nah?
>>506594563So, is she a new leader or is she a mid-game menace?
>>506590634>has to rely on "well someone said"Is this a techmagos or a /pol/tard.>>506569329Inquisitor? Yeah, that guy.
There was not a single communist leader in Bourgeoislization VI. Will we get a commie in VII?
>>506599035>Is this a techmagos or a /pol/tard.He's a based retard>yes magos dominus it is important that we dedicate resources away from the war effort so that I can drive an incense servitor through the tombs and hotbox the place with holy smoke>when you're done with that we can do it again but with a loudspeaker servitor to mildly annoy the necrons with holy hymns
Game for this feel?Not Warhammer 40000, but futuristic Stalingrad simulator.>>506604042Can't Necrons turn off their hearings? I remember 1d4chan mentioning one Necron lord that experiments on prisoners.And naturally anesthesics are in short supplies, so they get loud.
>>506601480Nah they don't dare to touch that. Unless it's about creating an outrage to get free publicity but only alt right populists would actually buy something if the idea would exist that it would make someone else mad. This kind of thing doesn't exist for self proclaimed communists so that kind of publicity would not be effective in selling games.
>>506599035Videx exemplifies the "priest" part of being a tech-priest.Scaevola is more on the "tech" side.
>>506613469I was spoiled that eventually one of them betrays you no matter what you do.
>>506604147https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffCIxFhgbUForever winter might be what you are after.Although it's more of a Civilian in warzone trying to survive simulator rather than a Stalingrad simulator.
I just saw Xcom 2 removed the 2k launcher. Did that break any mods?
>>506617807doesn't look very 4x, RTS, citybuilder, and strategy
>>506647294Yeah, there aren't really that many stalingrad simulators of 4x or strategy variety.
>>506604147>>506647294>>506648354Foxhole can be considered strategy stalingrad simulator.But for that you need to be in a clan.
>>506633872More likely its removal made mods work better, the launcher was notorious for breaking mods or just not loading them at all.
LIVE
Does anyone know what happened to Universal Conquest? It looked promising but the guy for some reason pulled it from steam?
>>506674984El Resplandeciente got to him.
>>506678109Good night.
Is any of the Worker and Resources DLC worth it?
damn the orc stronghold in soulstorm is a fucking pain in the ass
>>506650347>you need to be in a clanAw shit, do I need to lynch black people?
>>506599035>>506613469Scaevola got to where he was especially because he knows how to skirt around imperial law when it comes to banned technology and where and how to hide it, like any good high ranking techrpriest.
>>506693808Yup. Good luck.
How's Starcraft nowaday?
>>506711539the same as it always was? it's fucking starcraft
>>506711867So it has lots of custom maps that are hilariously unbalanced but tons of fun? A thriving population playing said maps made by random people?Don't lie to me. I know those days are gone.
>>506713257cringe
Trying CS2 again after a year hiatus. It seems to be in a much better spot at least in terms of building variety with the amount of asset packs and patches adding stuff that they've dropped. Can't tell yet if the simulation is actually improved but it does seem a bit more difficult than I initially remember to keep everything balanced.
>>506678109>Overlord 3 never everFeels bad man.
>>506739485Be very thankful. They could have turned Overlord into a big lipped twink, all of the damsels into 300 lb dangerhaired sheboons and the minions into communists constantly throwing work strikes and demanding that you use their pronouns.
Surviving the Abyss was surprisingly comfy. I enjoyed having a clone village at the bottom of the sea.
>>506744740it was a cool concept but a bit sad that it was fumbled so badly
>>506744603Thanks for bringing me back to reality.
>>506739485I never got the appeal of "ebil pikmin", and I say that as a person who likes Pikmin and welcomes new competition into that kind of genre, but there was always something about Overlord that was just so "meh" to me. Maybe its because it had a Fable-like look to it and I was so sick of Fable after Fable 2.
>>506760207Too bad, first two Overlords were great.
>>506760207ever played dungeon keeper?
>>506765780nta, what's your opinion on war of the overworld?
>>506773683I really liked it, it was the dungeon keeper 3 that we never had
>>505620527cute spider
>>506678109>>506739485I like the concept of overlord, but it was always too kiddy to me. It's the "Play as the bad guy" game, but you're never really that bad, and the game is so childish it feels like it's for 10 year olds. Not saying I need a dark and gritty overlord, but it would nice to have something in that style that's more "all ages".
How is Distant Worlds 2 these days? Is DWU still preferred for a functional experience?
>>505620527Spider....
>>506227695Play CK2 instead. Trust me.
>>506795328Fuck off and die, kindly
>>506796492no
>>506795328>play a shit game only liked by autists and nazisNo.
>>506800719You will mod it, play it and like it!
>>506800719It's just better. Well, more like a sidegrade, if you really want those ebin 3d models.
>>506747337I've been looking at this one. What fucked up?
>>506801967Faggot go back to your shit vst thread and die there. Your shittism killed your vg thread. Let the immortal 4x limp on in peace
New galciv4 update made all near planets shit quality. But not the ai. Hate that type of shit. Either let the galaxy be pure shit or make it more equitable, hate artifical difficulty
>>506801967Based, how many kids?
>>506806362Can't remember.It's been ages since I took that screenshot.
>>506236320/gsg/ is on /vst/
>>506544183>>506470426janitor told us to go to /vst/ and banned every /vg/ thread
>>506808289Janny is BASEDBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASED!!!!!111111!!!SO FUCKING BASED HE COULD SWIM IN ACID AND BE UNAFFECTED
>ruin own thread with autism >spamm other threads when bored cause no one shows up to your own thread>even lazy 4chin nannies sick of youImpressive desu. Imagine spending any of that time playing any other game. Fuck man thank God your kind is a genetic dead end
>>506808669The jannies were paid to kill it retard. They have to supplement their non-existent income somehow.
>>506808669The hilarious part is that these fatherless mongrels are now believing in a bullshit conspiracy.Truly a brainlet moment, how pathetic, LOL!
>>506808784Well, whoever bribed the jannies is a true philanthropist.
>>505620527>an entire general dedicated to talking about another generalWhat the fuck?
>>506809112The annoying patt is theyll shit up this thread until banned. Same shit for what like 6 years now?Anyways, amplitude got let go of Sega. Chances for better or worse what's the odds we get good endless legends 2?
>>505620527What the fuck happened to Stellaris? >NÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖP NÖÖÖÖÖÖP NÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖP>Some space storm happened at the other side map>Mixed economy? Welcome to consumer goods hell>Some leader has a trait!>MÖÖÖÖP MÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖP MÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖP>2250>Yep, it's still corvette time>Oh a fully built out planet? Sorry, but we don't do pops here>Bullshit boni of random map mobs can defeat 3xfleet power>NÖÖÖÖÖP NÖÖÖÖÖÖP NÖÖÖÖÖÖP>crisis.jpg>Fuck yeah, it's the new cyber mommy one>Piss talk without any consequences >MÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖP MÖÖÖÖÖÖÖP MÖÖÖÖÖÖP>Sits in her system doing jack shit till my fleet comes around>Gets defeated>You winLast time i played was february 18th. How the fuck did they manage to fuck it up (again) so much. I feel borderline scammed out of my 10bucks. Which is really the only saving grace i can see they added.
>>506814435Fuck off. We don't want you here.
>>506814435Ignore him it's literally the gsg dude trying to shit up the thread, stellaris is 4x>not playing the early game going wideStellaris is all about wide. Early game should be going all in to capture territory and consolidating later
>>506816412Who do you think you're fooling?
>>506816412Stellaris is 4X. But it's still shit and that guy is still a retard for shitposting with so much greentext.
Astroturf elsewhere /gsg/ scum
>consider picking up stellaris again>go through my old mod list and realize half of them don't work anymore>decide to post on /civ4xg/ instead
>consider playing Supreme Commander>check it on steam>remember I can barely beat normal AI>go play something elseI hate that I can't enjoy games in easy mode because I feel like I'm just grazing the surface.
>>506819246>remember I can barely beat normal AIHow? I'm shit at RTS and even I can beat normal AI skirmish and campaign.Once you get nuke protection and a few experimentals you can turtle forever.
>>506819953Simply put, it overwhelms me. I tend to focus on land, air OR sea. But even Forged Alliance's easy AI will notice you have no air, and will make a T3 bomber to snipe your UBC.In Normal, from my garbled memories, you have to make fighters right away, and have them patrol the middle of the map to intercept any gunship/bomber.
>>506814435I really wish they’d just stop updating Stellaris. Do a final run of DLC, actually balance the game perfectly and fix any remaining issues and then just leave it the fuck alone. Treating a 4X like a fucking live service shooter is AIDS. I have to imagine the vast majority of players are like me and only come back every few months at most for a new campaign. Having all your mods and knowledge get turned upside down every single time you return is exhausting and puts me off.
>>506820232I've been saying this for years. They need to go back to the drawing board. Figure out what parts worked which didn't and make a new game. But then again it's paradox were talking about. Maybe it's better if other studios took the parts of Stellaris that work.
>>506820205Well, is always a good moment to replay the campaign of 1 and FA.And forget 2 ever existed.
>>506821571Well, nevermind.>game freezes for 5 seconds whenever I take a screenshot>google the issue>"you might've too many screenshots in your folder already mate">tell steam to delete all the screenshots>it freezesGuess I'll be playing GoG games, then. Do I even have a strategy game on it, I wonder...
>>506820205Yeah the easy ai always fucked me up tok if too passive. Had to stick to a solid build and not let off the gas. Which is great for medium but easy should be easy. Same stuff made 2150 bounce off young me need a sandbox to explore.
>>506826609I mean, I can beat medium, but I can only play one or two games, and it leaves me as tired as a 2 hours walk.
bros im tired of waiting for a stellaris humble bundle and im tired of pirating everytime there's a new patchif i get the ultimate bundle, is there anything else i have to watch out forshould i just do it
>>506820232>I have to imagine the vast majority of players are like me and only come back every few months at most for a new campaignMaybe some students, else every stellaris player i know is like that. So at least five people.>Having all your mods and knowledge get turned upside down every single time you return is exhausting and puts me off.I don't mind that per se. Coming back and experiencing new stuff can and should feel nice after you paid for it. However this time they definitely fucked with their additions.>>506821112>Stellaris 2Long overdue. Kinda funny when the forum expected it to be quite around the corner in 2021. Similar to CK3.>>506818424Sounds like a retard who doesn't know what a shitpost is.>>506816412>wideSo tall is even more dead now? Kinda meh.
Memoriapolis updated today with an overhaul to their faction system. Instead of having a shit ton of various cultural factions coming in and snatching up districts left and right you get one that will spread out to adjacent districts as they gain power.Haven't fucked around with it enough to see how it really changes things up, though. They didn't seem all that expansionist with how frequently they requested moved into new districts. They will make requests for edicts in the senate and supposedly will also make requests for you to build certain buildings for them, but I never saw that one in particular pop up (it's probably tied to what you have unlocked and I was always kinda starved for architectural plans this go-around).The changes to the generational algorithm for districts is better, I only tried the one quick start to scope it out but I already feel like I'll be able to plant cultural buildings further away from the town center without it resulting in barren patches.
Shit. This isn't going well. I should've trained my speamen.
>>506832837I have never heard of this game, what is it?
haven't played stellaris in a few years, is biological ascension still shit compared to psionic and synthetic?
>>506834151gridless city builder. You put down production and cultural buildings and districts get generated from there. It starts in antiquity then goes up through to the enlightenment. Currently there's only antiquity and medieval in the early access but the update with the renaissance is set to come out in several weeks.it's made by frenchies.
>>506843305Was about to ask if it's even released yet. I doubt one can enjoy it knowing how much we fucked European city images in the 20th century and i doubt they're bold enough to emphasise these aspects.
>>506804689>youI don't post on /gsg/, I post here. CK2 is just one strategy game among others that I like, I don't even care about other Pdox games. Well, I did play some Stelloris, shame on me.
>>506853078Fuck off back to >>>/vst/gsg/
>>506854367No thanks, although /vst/ CK2 threads are good.
Districts seem to be generated much more quickly but don't fill up with people to match. I also always forget just how fuckhuge the circus maximus is.
>>506857905Also faction leader sexo
>>506858092>women>holding any position of power in RomeHUH?
>>506858181they aren't romans. those three are Heliots (production), Merchants of Tyre (commerce), and Druids from the Isle of Man (education).The other factions include Hoplites (military), Followers of Isis (religion), and Plebians of Rome (politics).I haven't seen any of the medieval changes yet.
>>506858391>Plebians of RomeSince when are plebeians allowed to have an opinion? Doing politic is a patrician's job.Keep sweeping the floor, floor sweeper.
>>506808784>muh conspiracy theory
>>506860837Shh, let it cope.
>>506858737Plebs did have one representative in the senate.
>>506867435ONE.
Anyone know of any WW2 real time strategy games with a sandbox campaign?I'm getting close to going and taking another look at the ancient Close Combat games
Who wants to see some boybutt?
>>506870158Spider, please.
>>506870304That ain't me, I'm busy.
>>506872094Show it you coward
>>506878089Show what? Was busy getting plowed in Age of Darkness.
Trying out Age of Darkness : Final Stand.Name is fucking generic as fuck, and something with the controls feel even worse than Diplomacy Is Not An Option.
Game is a They Are Billions-like, you have a keep in the middle of nowhere, and you're constantly pestered by monsters asking you to return the slab.You have money, wood, stone, and iron, but stone and iron are extremely very rare.The game seem a lot more melee-focused than TAB or even DINAO, but has a psychological side to it: some enemy attacks can cause your units to become horrified, while halves their stats, including movement speed. It also has a weird blessing system where surviving a wave gives you a boon out of three (you can pick it).The difficulty scale feels a bit off, though. Wave 3 expected me to have a lot of ballistas ready, but the map generation cucked me out of iron and stone.
BUMP
The beginning of the end.Unlike the other two, walls in Age of Darkness are extremely weak, but I suspect it's to encourage actual fighting, instead of shooting enemies from afar. You're meant to fight at the foot of the wall, then retreat to heal, then charge out again.It doesn't help that there's an "upgrade" that let you set your walls on fire, which will damage enemies attacking it.
Before I notice it, the hero of the map (the bloke in >>506882205) is dead. Without him, defenses immediately collapse, and the army is wiped out.
The keep is attacked.You might notice a little number above the healthbar, the thing that says 11/150. It's the building's armour. Armor in Age of Darkness works by reducing all incoming damage by 70%, but at the cost of losing one point of armour per hit. And once it's gone...
Welp, shouldn't have bothered to explain it since I later took a screenshot explaining it.I'm not quite sure what "shred damage" is, but since I jumped in Survival instead of doing the campaign...
DIE
I'm having fun playing space dorfs in Planetfall
>>506838753with the new dlc bio asc is literal dogshit compared to synthetic (now is split into nanite, modularity, virtual) which are 3 different flavors of broken.
>>506899680wait do regular organic empires who do synth ascension also get to choose one of those three?I thought it was only for empires that started as machines
>another age of darkness lossOkay, this one is hard. I'll play something else.
>Recently got a gaming PC>Want to try a 4x and like space stuff>Stellaris on sale>That DLC listI know I don't need them all and I've read the post in the op, but that shit just feels overwhelming and stupid for the price.
>>506904289DON'T
>>506904578Why?
>>506905080It's shit.
>>506905127Are any of the space 4x games good?
>>506905313Galactic Civilizations, maybe? Sword of the Stars... Sins of Solar Empire Rebellion?
>>506905406I'll look at them, thanks.
>>506905572Depends what you want. Sword of the Stars is apparently really good, but the artstyle turned me away.I really like Endless Space 2, but the game feels frustrating because you're always lacking something and it's hard to decide what to pick in the research tree because you need everything.Distant Worlds : Universe is my favourite, but fuck, it's hard.AI War : Fleet Command isn't a 4X. But I like it.
>>506905725Don't really have anything specific outside of grand space strategy right now. Will take a look at the ones you mentioned, i'm sure i'll find something.
>>506906079Gal civ 4, Terra invicta,Invicta, master if Orion, sins (og), all these might fancy your tastes
>>506904289>>506904578I pirate stellaris once every 2-1years, ive done maybe 10 full playthroughts total, most of them moded. Its in similar boat as civ6 for me, i can give it a go once in awhile, paradox produce new contenct, i forgot about cons and story bits, so its a bit fresher and less painful. I think besides paradox sales model and their dlc fuckups/metachangings the game can be alright. Its a game to scratch that itch, its not good for prolonged sessions/multiple playthroughts. After one playthrought once every dozen of months im done and to bored to continue a new playthrough, but its kinda the current model for most of the new 4x/strategy games. After initial honeymoon period, game is boring, ai to dumb, meta and story is known and you have nothing left, but wait for the new content or move to different game./4x love/hate (hate being the stronger one) relationship to this title is very peculiar, i didnt see this many people playing game that they hate in one general, well maybe some moba can be a contender.
>>506904289stellaris is actually good don't worry about it
>>506906546>sins (og)No. Rebellion FTW.
>playing on GA>make friends with my immediate xenophobe/militrist/hive mind neighbours and peacefully subjugate them all>try converting them to scholariums >1 has 2k research>other two have less than 1k research>it's year 2310WHAT THE FUCK Some of these guys haven't been in a single war the entire game and their planets are underedeveloped shitholes with 5 pops living on them, this is on GRAND ADMIRAL so they're literally getting resources for free honestly tempted to just accept the empire size penalty and invade them at this point
>>506909134>make friendsPathetic.
my last 3 playthroughs were all genocidal or cosmogenesis, i need a break from being insulted every 5 minutes by a pathetic/pathetic/pathetic balkan state
>>506911339>i need a break from being insulted every 5 minutesWhere do you think you are, faggot?
>>506911970you're not pathetic/pathetic/pathetic though, right anon?
>>506912225I own an axe.
>>506901072yeah only machines get to pick the new asc pathsdriven assimilator get to pick between those and cybernetic, which is pretty alrightit's just that bio empires have to do all that just to mimic a fraction of machine empire's power
>>506906998I meant sins1 w/ dlc. Not sins2
>>506904289buy the basegame for mods, pirate the dlcs with creamapi
>>506901072bio empires that synth ascend get to choose between modularity-lite and virtuality-litemodularity-lite is almost as strong as regular modularity, especially if you take the new synthetic fertility originvirtuality-lite is even stronger than modularity-lite but it's much worse than normal virtuality because you don't get free pops (but you don't get the empire size penalities either IIRC so you can play much wider) nano = virtuality >> modularity = virtuality-lite > modularity-lite >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything elsemachines are fucking insane atm
>>506912342Kiss me
i wanna synth ascend irl fuck being a shitty pre-ftl
>>506914489What the fuck.
I tried doing the overtuned + imperial chipset memebuild but I fucked it up because I didn't avoid lifespan extending tech and now I can't stack enough overtuned traits to get my leader lifespan low enough to the point where I max out the imperial chipset before the crisis spawns maybe i'll try again in a few months...
>>506914492yadda yadda from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh yadda yaddawe've all been there, manI want to upload myself to the cloud
>>506915618>we've all been thereI'm not. I like my fleshy, meaty body.
>>506915729when your mind is digitalized we can easily fix such bad opinions with a simple software update
>>506915876But I will lose my ass.
>>506915928you can have a big ass in vr
>>506916753So can anyone else.I will lose what makes me special. Others will keep their intellect, their culture, and I'll lose the only thing I can kinda confident in.
>>506916953you can live in a vr world where everyone has a small ass and it'll be so immersive that you won't even care that you're talking to literal NPCs
>>506917383You make it sound like hell.
>>506915618My favorite 40k lore tidbit is that the flesh is weak, motto of the iron hands, omits the 2nd part: " but deeds endure." Basically it's that strength through overcoming adversity is important. The iron hands being traumatizes turboautists forgot this and instead became robohomos
>>506918301Aren't Iron Hands misunderstanding their primate?Anyway, off to bed.
>>506917459real life is hellyou're born without your consent and gas lit into thinking that wanting out is a mental diseaseyou're trapped in a rotting flesh suit that grows old and saggy with each passing dayyou have no free will from both a deterministic and a quantum perspectiveyour psyche is a jumbled mess of highly sensitive and failure-prone animalistic instincts that are modulated by neurotransmitters which are in no way optimised for happiness or our current lifestyleyou spend your entire life working and even if you're successful enough to achieve FIRE you'll be past your prime by that point, senile and decrepit a few decades later, and then deadand you think having a giant ass in a VR paradise is hell? get real
>>506918543>their primate?Kek. Guess that's what happens when you play too much 40k in French.NTA. You mean "primarch". They aren't apes.But yes. As with everything in 40k the joke is that the Ironhands don't really do as what their Primarch wanted.
just bought Stellaris cause it went on sale for ultra cheap. How do I order my science ships to re-enter a system where they saw hostile aliens when I think/know they've left?
What was that Orion-like game that had matte paintings for species representation in Diplomacy and one of the species was like a insectoid drone w/ wings?
>>506918939Primarch, yeah. Sorry, I'm really really stressed recently. Been transitioning from evening dhifts to morning shifts, I'm completely KO.And that isn't a joke. A joke would be funny. This is just tragic.
>>506919723>Been transitioning from evening dhifts to morning shiftsThen who is gonna bump /civ4xg/ and /indie/ at 4AM?
>>506918939>They aren't apes.
these lil' niggas haven't attacked anyone all game, presumably because they're miles behind their neighbours in fleet strengthand because they can't attack, they can't expand, and becaues they can't expand they can't get a bigger millitary and so onpretty funny desu but I'm a bit surprised, what determines their starting economy/tech/fleets? >>506919021I'm pretty sure your scince ship have a hyperlane detection range of atleast 1 (later on you'll get tech that can buff it), that means that they can tell if there's a hostile alien in that system if they're 1 hyperlane from it so try moving the science ship next to that system and then click on the system and see whether you can see inside of it or not, if there's no hostile aliens inside of it, you should be able to move your science ship backotherwise idk, maybe setting your ship stance to passive (instead of evasive) will work?
>>506919923Someone else, I want to take a break anyway. I'm really stressed and ranting about RTS doesn't actually helps.
>>506915928consider: shiny metal ass
>>506919021If you're confident you can change their fleet stance from evasive to passivejust make sure to change it back at some point otherwise they'll just sit there while they get eaten instead of trying to flee when someone enters the system
>>506921421Would it compare to mine? Also, see you in a few days.>>506919923Congrats, you inherited my job now. Bye!
>>506909134the difficulty bonuses basically mean it's acceptable for the AI to have underdeveloped planetswhat I want to know is why there's no AI mod to improve their planet management
>>506922039If you're serious about getting banned you should post child porn.
>>506922039I'm not saving this one
>>506918543Yes and noFerrus 100% pushed them into the direction they are now. He punished all weakness, pushed them, and made sure they fought and strobe to be better. His genetics lent them obsessive traits (hence they weirdly mirror the emperors children) and started them down the path of mechanical replacement. However ferrus realized this path was self destructive and swore once the hersey was over and the great crusade completed he would discard his iron hands and become a gentler father. He saw how they were replacing parts of themselves and trying to take away their soul. He had a quote about a forge without a fire that later stronos echoed about "a forge without a fire makes no tools." He really too late realized he needed to be better. Then istvaan happened he become ded and likely the primarch of the legion of the dammed and the iron hands devolved into what they were until the gaudian hersey. Only recent lore has them trying to come to grips with the contradictions and mess they became.God I wished some 4x games would really be deep 40k and not just reskin. Albeit dow1/2 gladius and daemonhunter all dope.
Anything good on the sales?t: already have sword of thestars, sins of a solar empire (which one? YES), supreme commander, master of orion (the new one and I think the older ones too).
there's plenty of sci-fiction strategy games that are set in the milky way galaxywhat about that spans multiple galaxiesor one that's just set in the solar system?
>>506929416>or one that's just set in the solar system?Terra Invicta maybe?
>>506922039Did you transition yet spiderfag, or youre still playing 4x in closet?
>>506922039Based. /lgbt/ won.
>>505771261i never played but was kinda disappointed by itthought it was gonna be like a "what if alt cultural shift" or integrating cultural bonuses through trade or conflictnot>hur der we all people guys of course we go from niggers to nips in a few centuries
>>505810028oldest C&C Red Alert (first rts i played)most esoteric, i guess Rise of Nations, idk how popular it actually was bc i got it at Sam's Club
>>506858181>through their husbandI know there has been done some research on this topic.
>>506929416>what about that spans multiple galaxiesStar Ruller 1 and dunno if in 2 you can do it.I remember sending colony ships in 1 to other galaxies with low engine tech, and then surpassing them once I got FTL.
As star nations vile with one another in petty disputes, sinister forces of unimaginable power are arraying themselves against all sapient life. Who will protect us?
>>506923359No.>>506923478Don't save them at all.
Hell?>>506930896What do you mean?>>506934975No
>>506923717>Only recent lore has them trying to come to grips with the contradictions and mess they becameYou know I'm an Imperial Fist fanatic, but I'd love to see Iron Hands struggling with that. Space Marines are already barely humans, I love stories of people struggling with themselves.>God I wished some 4x games would really be deep 40k and not just reskin. Albeit dow1/2 gladius and daemonhunter all dope.Amen. I mean, the Battlestar Galactica or whatever they're called are apparently really good.Also, page 9.Also,>can postI don't get it.
>virtual pops are instantly created and destroyed to keep jobs full and unemployment at zerowhat the fuck. this gives you infinite pops essentially
Team Fortress 2.
Anyone know if these Grigsby games are any good?
Tried Godsworn. Got rekt.It's heavily inspired by Warcraft 3, with a levelling hero.
Very inspired by Warcraft 3. The AI is as brutal.
what the fuck is an auto-battler?
>>506979938It's a game like Stellaris where you don't have a single influence on battles.
I do like the artstyle.But I was expecting something like Warrior Kings, and I got Warcraft 3.
>>506961586Then you'd love wrath of iron and the eye of Medusa. One has an iron hand rejecting and digging deeper into bionics and machines to control his feelings of inadequacy and shame. The other is one learning how to balance all the negative emotions, and then channel those feelings into rage. Both are imho great grimdark 40k books. >battlefleet GalacticaBattlefleet gothic? First game was fun but 2nd ones launch was shit. Maybe I should get it now the dust has settled.>>506982157Goddamm that is a clone for certain. What does it do differently?
Alright you fucking nerds, shill your favorite 4x
>>505620527
>>506994801My favorite 4X is still Alpha Centauri.The setting/story are great classics but I really like how much control you have over the planet with terraforming. The custom unit workshop was something great that really became a standard too.
>>506994801I still like Stellaris, with all of its flaws.
>>506953610>tee hee hee don't pay attention to me boys I'm not begging for attentiongayer than wearing a skirt desu
>>507009896More like there's still no real alternative to it. Pdx would do well with some competition, but alas high iq games are apparently too niche for the average gamer.
>>506833826But did you play the campaign?
>>506964354see why machine ascension is strong now?but this is basically capped at around 6 or 7 planets? (dont remember) so it's only a MASSIVE mid-game powerboost, and is outscaled by Modularity at late game bcs of the cracked assembly and AT LEAST 60% bonus to pop output
So, did anyone figure out a fix for civ5 not launching anymore?
Is the Anthology pack worth the money? I got the the Platinum edition a couple of months ago so I think I'm only missing the New Frontier expansion.
testablublublu
>>506987528I'll have to check these books, then. Shame the Trove died, I might have to actually BUY them.And what it does differently is the economy/citybuilding who is closer to They Are Billions with manpower being a thing.>>507021913I don't think so. Was I meant to? I don't remember.I'm so tired. At least I got panettone for family Christmas.
>>507022638>so it's only a MASSIVE mid-game powerboostdon't forget that you can easily cheese your ascension by taking parliamentry system. You can get your machine ascension down to year 30 if you minmax correctly,
>>507028820too cheesy
my current stellaris campaign is pretty fun, first time I played without cosmogenesis and machine species/synth ascension since the machine age came out. I didn't realise how hard I was being carried by those two desuIt's year 2344 and I'm the strongest empire by a slim margin. Don't have any mega structures, haven't been able to form the galactic council, not part of a federation (although my envoys are working on that) and I have 6 vassals but 4 of them are pretty weak. I've started to research a few repeatables and I'm producing 2k alloys/month with another ecumenopolis on the wayI'm playing on GA/10x scaling, so I think I might be able to survive the crisis *might*, really depends on whether I can get in a federation/become custodian in time, because right now I'm 200 over my naval cap and the bills are getting pretty big
also do augmentation centers still provide the 10% to specialist resource output even if you disable the job?
>>506858737Over time patricians lost the power and rich plebeians gained more power.
Oh no.Fought one of these fuckers in Monster Hunter.
>>507028624>Shame the Trove diedTry the eye . eu or that pdf share general on /tg/.
WHAT THE FUCK IS A LION CHERUB>>507030205Same with knights and merchants.Or samurais and merchants.Or merchants and merchants.>>507030297Aight, will try that, thanks.
>>507021815I wish. Imagine devs finally listen to average players instead of the twelve hardcore minmax multiplayer people.>>507029425>I didn't realise how hard I was being carried by those two desuTotally balanced as every expansion. Try biological ascension for a challenge.
For like.. the one other person who plays Millennia. I've been playing the game as baseline vanilla rather then running the Ancient worlds stuff. Is the nomad start anything good along with the later game horticulturalist stuff?
>>507032714>Totally balanced as every expansion. Try biological ascension for a challenge.Is bio ascension really that bad compared to psionic ascension? I know cyber ascension is very good and all of the machine ascensions are broken, but when I tried psionic ascension it felt kinda meh too, like a very RNG and crappy version of cyber
>>507030964>WHAT THE FUCK IS A LION CHERUBLooks like a fairly common anthropomorphsation of a cherubim. Essentiality shit with wings.
>>507033831It's really just a bio hive ascension at this point. For every other species it gets ruined by implants and psyonics fucking up your population pools.>>507033987>Essentiality shit with wings.God, i love christianity!
>>507033210Not really imho just prevents shit starts, think HK. My issue is it drags a bit and tile revealing as it thaws is kind of ugly I don't know how else to describe it but its jarring. I just rerolled bad starts on normal desu
average tributary in the year 2350
>>507036957Uplifted?
So does anyone actually fight Khan these days or is it just submitting and chill?
>>507037626nope, they're a regular prosperous unification empire that's been around since 2200no idea why their income is so low, I bombed a few of their planets but but their empire is decently large. Maybe their old overlord was taxing the shit out of them?
>>507037745i fight the khan everytime unless they spawn right next to me and it's a high crisis percentage and he awakens in the very early midgame, the relic is very goodoften times I just kill the marauders before they awaken if they're near my boarders and midgame year is about to start
>>507035815Yeah was wondering. It blows by so fast that I wasn't sure what the purpose of it was.
>>507036957Tributaries are absolute ass, if you want more basic or advanced resources just blob, empire size doesn't penalize resource production. You should always make these into science bitches and subsidize them with minerals and energy.
>>507029616I think so? you can mouse over the jobs in the job tab to see what the actually do
>>507045641empire size doesn't penalize unity or tech production either, only the cost of a edicts/traditions/tech so I prefer to do it the otherway aroundspecialize my planets into tech/unity/alloys/cgs and start offloading as much of my basic resource production to my vassals as possible. I do have a few scholariums though, mostly the ones who produce an unusual amount of research, or if I'm already floating too much basic resource production. I do it on a vassal-by-vassal basis idk, I can see pros and cons of either approach, next time I'll try that
>>507049708>empire size doesn't penalize unity or tech production either, only the cost of a edicts/traditions/techYes which is a massive penalty, if you double your empire and double your science production you are basically where you started. If you double your empire and double your mineral/alloy output you have now twice as many minerals and alloys.
>>507045641>Tributaries are absolute assEven more than me?
>>507028624Wrath of iron is on YouTube if you search it, pretty sure its ai narrated but that kind of works for iron hands. Has one of the most bad ass lines in all 40k during the climax>songs of conquestOk someone shill me this game. Is it like homm3? Reviews seem like it's homm3 knock off which desu I'm OK with, long time since any game scratched that itch
>>507050556> if you double your empire and double your science production you are basically where you started.wait noeach empire size after the first 100 is another +0.2% tech cost each pop increases empire size by 1 lets say you have 200 pops, then your tech costs are incresaed to 120% or multiplied by 1.2if you double your pops (including researchers), then your tech costs are increased to 160% or multiplied by 1.6 (1.333... times increase over previous cost) but your research output is multiplied by 2, so a 66.666% improvement in reseach speed to tech coststhat's if you just double the size of your empire, by outsourcing basic resource production to other empires, I can afford to field more researchers for less miners/technicians, thus further increasing my total research output faster than my empire size, and therefore faster than my empire size penalties to tech cost>double your mineral/alloy output you have now twice as many minerals and alloys.yeah but you also double number of miners/metallurgists which also increases your empire size. It doesn't matter what the pop is, more pops = more empire size so both of our approaches are equal from this perspective. I can see one benefit to your approach though, and that's the fact that ecumenopli are more efficient than tech worlds in terms of empire size and pop efficiency. Research ring worlds are extremely efficient too but they're much harder to get than ecumenopoli idk I feel pretty braindead today because I'm on painkillers so maybe I made a mistake somewhere
Is Stellaris good yet?
>>507070232hmmnyo
>>507070232yes
>>507070232Nah the biggest problems never really got adressed. Each new dlc adds new mechanics on top of the dysfunctional base.
Requesting that someone post the EL "winter has arrived" popup as I don't have time to boot up EL and screencap it myself.
>>507066525>wait noIt was a figure of speech, the point being that trying to grow your research by expanding is often a fruitless effort because new planets are less productive than your core and they bloat your empire size all the same.>mathNew researchers aren't strictly bad thing ever but they have diminishing returns and the effect of new planets trends towards the average of what your researchers make. The issue here is that the AI sucks at specializing it's planets BUT researchers don't actually get bonuses from specialties while minerals, energy and alloys benefit massively. Your researches are basically as effective as theirs but your alloy production is wildly more efficient than theirs. The end result is what you see in your screen, the AI struggles with basic economy but benefits a lot from little subsidies which don't cost you lot of jobs relatively speaking (this is without mentioning that you can gain minerals and energy relatively easily from non empire size effects especially in late game) when trying to extract science.>yeah but you also double number of miners/metallurgists which also increases your empire size.This of course is true as well, but the thing here is that you can opt into this when ever you want, but you can't opt out of empire size the same way. If you bloat your empire and then decide "actually I don't want this" it's very difficult to shred. Meanwhile if you are say researching and decide you want to build a navy you can just double your alloy production at any point and start shitting out ships which aren't penalized by empire size.>and that's the fact that ecumenopli are more efficient than tech worlds in terms of empire size and pop efficiencyThis is the key, minerals and alloys have much better stacking that the AI just isn't using the same way the player is. If the AI was played by another player then extracting resources would be the way to go because it keeps the vassal weaker.>>507070232Always has been
>>507071948most of the empire size come from pop anywayjust leave bad planets as pop generator and funnel them to developed worlds
>>507071948Ahh I see your pointokok I'll do this next game, thanks for the tip anon
>>507039020Ironmode and >= Captain? I call bullshit.
>>507075458bullshit over what?killing marauders at midgame?
>>507075458ironman mode + GA + 10x crisis is what I play if I'm NOT using machines and/or cosmogenesis, i suck at stellaris, still have no problems popping the khan at 2350
Anyone try out the Movies Tycoon yet?It's quite good but it needs the 1920s era which they claim will come in the next major update.
>>507070232if you didn't like it before you probably won't like it now
>>507085605How does it compare to The Movies?
i boughtpirating is inconvenient and i dont want to use creamapi whateveri think i last pirated (prob 500+ hours) like 4 years ago after the planet managenent system got revamped, what am i in for now with all the new updates
AAAAAAAAAAAAA I FUCKING HATE FALLEN EMPIRES HOLY SHIT I HATE HATE HATE HATE THEMWHY IS THEIR EMERGENCY FTL RATE SO GOOD
>>507086451I see a lot of reviews that say that its missing the soul of The Movies but I think that it is really just missing the 1920's era to be a good successor to The Movies.It allows all kinds of creativity to making the movie. You can edit the script and instead of the actors speaking simlish, they are voiced by TTS that you can directly edit in the script.
>>507074194This is also counterproductive because your research is limited by planets not by population because research comes basically exclusively from the researcher jobs which outside of orbital habs and ringworlds only come from buildings. In contrast this is very effective strategy when you are focusing your efforts on ecumenopolis which can and will produce infinite alloys given infinite pops but can't make anymore research than your average iceball.
>>507085605Hollywood animal will be released next year.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2680550/Hollywood_Animal/>>507086451I never liked the ui in The Movies. It makes it impossible to even handle more than a handful of actors. I also didn't like that you need to have certain sets to make your writers write stories that use them.
>>507090409>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2680550/Hollywood_Animal/lol, the features in that vid are something else, it's like a crazy hollywood gsg>>507088265Here's how the script editor looks.
t-thanks
>>507033987They throw fireballs, the fucker.s>>507062936>Ok someone shill me this game. Is it like homm3?Kinda. It's HoMM3, but with more and less stuff. First off, you can build the same housings over and over, so you can have entire armies of plague rats. Second, heroes (weavers) start with only 3 units slots. Want more? Level them up. Third, all weavers have access to magic, and they get mana by having their units acting. When a stack starts a turn, it sends some mana up to your weaver. So the more stacks, the better. Four, you can only play one faction at a time, you cannot mix them together. Five, you cannot find the rare ressources on the map, so better take over small neutral towns and build a lot of markets.
>>506987528>Goddamm that is a clone for certain. What does it do differently?Okay, I got it.SO!>factions are divided between pagans and believers>pick a hero, who is essentially its own subfaction, who has its own powers (tied to hero, or global à la Age of Mythology)>economy is kinda normal, you get worshippers, that you send to cut wood or what else>worshipper gains seem inspired by Battle Realms : you get new worshippers over time>the more max population you have, the faster you get new worshippers>idling worshippers will pray, getting your faith so you can create horrifying abominations like cherubs, leshen, or wyrms>main building is an extremely powerful defense building, so it's a tug of war until one is strong enough to crush the other
>>507091137>lol, the features in that vid are something else, it's like a crazy hollywood gsgYeah the game is more a management/strategy game with lots of tabs. Not actual film making like in The Movies.
>dual silver swordsGeralt go home, you're old news now.
Random admirer more like SIMP
>>507102664Good morning.
>>507102765I haven't even gone to bed yet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vs55Z7t7bk
>>507103475I got a cure for your insomnia right here.
I'm a bit confused by the storytelling in the game. Maybe because I skipped the intro, but i'm immediately presented with the god of the moon (think Ares in God of War), his extremely ambitious daughter, and I'm repeated that the Goddess of the Sun is too passive for everyone's tastes, having them sit on their hands as YHVH is slowly taking over the region with His "drowning rituals".
>>507092994>more restricted but more options homm3Cool, I'll wishlist it or pirate sometime. Thanks spooder
>>507113064If you want a more indepth review by someone who played it more seriously, there's that Youtuber, Sseth, who reviewed it. He raises a lot of interesting points I haven't mentioned, like the fact that there are no cooldowns on spells. And that they stack.Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbK9C5mA94
Is Ultimate General worth a playthrough?
>>507120140Out of curiosity, yes.
Stellaris doesn't need anime mods. The avian portraits are fuckable enough already.
>>507122808These battles are brutal!They've been taking pot shots at each other and exchanging bayonet charges for a good fifteen minutes!
>>507130410Oooh. It's not the game I was thinking of.
>>507130650Yeah, I thought I was downloading a civil war game when I downloaded it, it ended up being the revolutionary war one.
Fraser's making a run for it! Cowardly lobster bellies!
>>507131586HE LOST THE KING'S COLOURS
>>507130410Addendum: I was thinking of Civil War 2.
Fucking hell, that game goes HARD.>okay so>once upon a time, there were cavemen, not!elves, and creatures from the Veil>the humans were just meat for the creatures from the Veil, until the not!elves sealed them with blood crystals>but then one human king declared war on them>so the not!elves plunged him in the veil as punishment>it angered all humans, and caused the genocide of the not!elves>then the Order was founded>alright enough of the intro, time to play
>>507149248>until the not!elves sealed them with blood crystalsBASEDInto the crystals foids and simps
>do the tutorial>okay so there's an apolitical Order who investigate breaches>the bishop of the Order says the crystal needs blood>the blood of a heretic>so they go to the nearest village and burn some woman alive because she's a heretic (???????)>husband who is a knight of the order tries to fight back, get tortured and killed with his body dumped>also his best friend betrayed him by staying true to the Order>also you play say best friend, ten years or maybe more later, after the wife got burned alive, the husband got shanked, and the baby... probably got killed offscreenAge of Darkness goes hard. And that's only the intro and the tutorial mission, not even the first actual mission.>>507149337Oh, I mean the not!elves sealed the Veil gates with blood crystals. Them shattered is what causes your town to be assaulted by nightmare creatures in survival mode.
PISS OFF YA TWAT
>>507149558>so they go to the nearest village and burn some woman alive because she's a hereticLmao, might try.
>>507090409I really like this frame from the trailer.
>>507151693It's a really weird game. I mean, I dunno how TAB's campaign is like, but Age of Darkness' is like any other RTS.
>tfw already 2336Is The Chosen a proper crisis? He didn't feel like one, but nothing else happened. Also no fallen Empires on the whole map, even though my settings have them enabled. Really a weird round.
>>507153973TAB's campaign was shit. Would not recommend it.
>>507155834That's why I didn't play it, but ultimately, it desserves me because I don't know how good Age of Darkness' own campaign is.
>>507128569for me, it's Plantoid #06
>>507128569
ideas for a tall empire in stellaris? tired of blobbing all over the place
>>507166207Uninstall that shit game.
Yeah, dude. Keep insulting the knight-in-training that already made it clear she despise your attitude. Surely it won't backfire on you later on.
>Order knight : "ha, the bandits had quite the treasure, let's split it with the villagers.">Kingdom enforcer: "uppity doppity, that treasure is now the king's property."
>>507171689game doesn't look that bad at allwhat's the gimmick?
Bamp
>>507166207Habitats, i used to grow extremely tall by building a bunch of them in a few systems
>>507171689Gives gothic vibes desu
>Level 56>Aspect of infestation still hasn't droppedSWEAR ON ME FECKIN MAM
A xenophile has an alien for a girlfriendA fanatic xenophile has an alien for a wifeA xenophobe has an alien for a slaveA fanatic xenophobe has an alien for a mistress
>>507177738Gimmick is that it's a They Are Billions-like, so the core of the game is that you fight off giant waves of monsters.So far, I'm very confused, the campaign is about dealing with unrest and bandits, while in survival mode, everyone is struggling against the nightmare.
>>507226914So are the melee units in this game actually good or are they just cannonfodder and the walls and ranged units are the thing that you should concentrate on?
>>507234881The melee units are actually good, it's the pathfinding that sucks, more on that later.There are archers and arbalest that you can send in towers, as well as ballistas and what else, but buildings are extremely fragile, so ideally, you want to keep the fight out of your walls, rather than let the nightmares smack on your walls.The game relies a lot on building up your units experience, since the nightmares can inflict horror on them, which pretty much break their morale until they heal at the keep. The annoying part is that horrified units also lost half their travelling speed, so it's a long way home. Once they're levelled up, though, they get emboldened, and thus are immune to horror.Game's one of the few, too, where melee units have range, so spearmen are actually superior to swordsmen, and look down on these amateurs with a barely concealed smirk of superiority.But the main issue is pathfinding. Units don't go around each others like in every game ever, they instead go through each others. So I often have the issue of my hero being pushed in the middle of an enemy group because other melee units behind him push him forward. Kinda like the cavalry in Warhammer Total War who would push general out of the battlefield instead of attacking them, if you remember.
>>507223336heh
man I have no fucking idea how anyone beats 25x all crisesI fought just finished winning a game of 10x crises, by the end of it i was the leader of a max centralization federation, galactic custodian with an expanded GDF and a I was at 3000 FP of pure battleships/titansstill was grossly out numbered by each prethoryn scourge doomstack, although my ships were designed to counter them so it was very easy to smack them into the dirt regardlessthat was 10x crises, how the FUCK is anyone supposed to win vs 200x crisis
>>507239638without cosmogenesis ofcourse*
>>507239638Mostly a mixture of exploiting game mechanics to levels far beyond what is normally attainable, usually through bugs and oversights, cheesing the AI into being far less impactful than normal or even outright nonfunctional, and most importantly, hundreds of hours of restarts/savescumming to hit that perfect streak of perfect luck. With a healthy dose of carpel tunnel-inducing micromanagement on top.
fuck it, I'm sick of winning, GA + No scaling + Fanactic Purifier + max empirestaking overtuned because I'm going to bioascend and the normal Prikkiki-Ti origin (Forgotten Empire) is not available, i haven't taken any overtuned traits yet, but I'll stack them once I ascend
>>507242454Forgotten Project* >>507241191okok if it requires savescumming and perfect luck to work then I feel less bad for having not beaten 25x all crises yet
>>507239810i havent played Stellaris in a long time, what does cosmogenesis do?
>>507252904It genesis a cosmos.
>>507254435Only serious answers
ok
Anyone here play DoW1 unification mod? Is it worth it? Damn things 16 gigs wanna know if worth the weight to download on my potato net.
Starting to figuring out Godsworn.Ressources are unlimited, but ressource nodes are rare, and usually protected by neutrals, so you want to use the hero you spawn with to expand quickly and lock as much of the map as you can. You are expected to lose a lot of units, because once you start pumping out upgrades, you get a lot of ressources.
The game is very early access, but I like it a fair bit. I don't love it, but still, I like the attention to details. Like units changing as you upgrade them, like the wolf warrior going from just a beef bloke with a wolf coat to a full wolfskinzerker.
>god of the moon versus angry woodboy>woodboy turns god into moonmush
>>507279413>the wolf warrior going from just a beef bloke with a wolf coat to a full wolfskinzerkerCase in point. The icon doesn't match the unit because it's the starting unit. The more upgrades I buy, the insaner he gets.
Damn, upgrades are powerful in this game.
>markmen can be upgraded to musketeersLet's kill these Pagans.
>>507235701>spearmen are actually superior to swordsmenyeah i'm thinking based
>>507295643Damn straight. Swordsfags go home.Honestly if they wanted to be realistic, they'd give them wood axes.
Going home for christmas.Bye.
this is kind of funny I guess>>507297638tell your sister I said hi
>>507297638Have a good christmas, spider.
>>507297638Happy Holidays spider.
>>507307309HOK HOK HOK
xmas bump
>>507304368I don't have a sister. >>507305938>>507307309Merry Christmas to all believers. Happy Hanukkah to the messiahslayers.Good holidays to all others pagans. >family invites me to spent Christmas with them>everyone split and is on their own phone/computerI hate modernity.
>>507320348you're just butthurt (get it?) that nobody wants to fuck you in the ass
>>507322318That too. But also annoyed even my own family annoys me. I reached a point where I can't stand anyone, and it's sad.
>>507322456I'm kinda like that toowe're probably both going to die alone
>>507322824Yup. It doesn't help that the only remaining person I like lives in California. It's a long way from home.
>>507252904it's another crisis path like nemesis BUT it's less evil and focused on technology instead of the shroud Main appeal is absurd science gains (like I'm talking 1MIL research/month if you optimise correctly) from genocide and fallen empire tech it's utterly broken and very very very fun
>>507304368>178k + 2k/month alloys>empire size 1:1 with population>1 mil unity >6k research/month research>year 2310>synth ascensionwhat the fuck am I looking at
>>507329750NTA, but you are supposed to laugh at the ancient mesopotamia meme.
>>507329435Its so much powercreep in every DLC they relase
>>507329750yeah I know I'm not playing well, it's my first game in like a yearalso how do you tell I have synth ascension from that screenshot
>>507333412how else are they going to sell random meme DLCs to people who don't give a fuck about them otherwiseworked on me I bought megacorp and overlord for ecumenopoli and orbital rings exclusively, i really couldn't care about anything else in those DLCs>>507333927no no i'm just shocked that you have so much resources and pops at such by the midgame, but then again I prefer to play tall and with max empires and I like to tech rush so that probably explains it I could tell from your Government Type "Dictorial Manifold" is the government you get with physical focused synth ascension + dictatorial
>>507320348>I don't have a sister.>he doesn't know
>>507335484oh, my pop growth scaling is lower and I'm on 0.75x tech and tradition cost, so things are a bit faster. plus various modsstill takes me an hour to play 6 years at this point though
>>507335735>still takes me an hour to play 6 years at this point thoughi thought I was the only one several days I've thought "oh yeah I'll be wrapped by tomorrow" and then I end up beating the crisis a week later
>>507333412>>507335484The latest DLC lets you roleplay as space British Empire. Once your space museum starts filling up, modifiers add up so hard, they end up being utterly ridiculous. Too bad I didn't keep that one Reddit screenshot from a couple of weeks ago to prove it.
I recently got a PC and i'm looking for some strategy games. What are considered the best RTS, GS and 4x games in past decade or so?
i hope they nerf spiritualistit's too strong>>507336783>RTScompletely dead genre, just play old gold unless you're into memEsports>GSlatest PDX game that you like the time period of>4xStellaris although it's basically half GS half 4x at this point
>>507337789>completely dead genre, just play old gold unless you're into memEsportsReally? I was looking at Sins of a Solar Empire, looked quite good. Might just get Age of Empires 2 DE and the retold Age of Mythology.
>>507340150>Sins of a Solar Empire16 years old, I think that counts as "old gold"
>>507341367Dude, the sequel came out this year.
>>507341367I meant 2 but yeah you're right.
one of you cunts make a new thread since spiderslut is indisposed
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