Previous thread: >>534882775This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Endless Legend 2 demo has been extended: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3407390/view/836099892906558187 News Tower will release on November 4th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2MZJadP40&ab_channel=TwinSailsInteractiveC-Beams devlog 46: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwaI6GjO5w&ab_channel=LevelCapGamingTropico 7 announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ZrwBfbALU&ab_channel=KalypsoMediaNebulous: Fleet Command, Devlog 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgbXiJdJTk&ab_channel=EridanusIndustriesPlan B: Terraform, will release on August the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/532104920883537578Dev Journal #106: Organic Difficulty in GalCiv IV: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/515215878272319582== Pastebins ==Alpha Centauri (new 14/06/22): https://pastebin.com/QgEvG3ETFree and open source games pastebin: https://pastebin.com/8nRQckSNStellaris: https://pastebin.com/hPfrhazx https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Stellaris_WikiStellaris DLC guide: https://rentry.org/STDLC384Endless Space 2 + Endless Legend: https://pastebin.com/yu57huWmCivilization: https://pastebin.com/eeL9tyaW/cbg/: https://pastebin.com/ZSLVg9kTWorkers & Resources: https://pastebin.com/XaWF8mE6
>>536235548Also Plan B: Terraform wil release next week on the 29th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmXErtkqNo&ab_channel=IGN
any mods that remove h*r*t*o from es2?
>>536236604You can try remove them yourself. Could be fun too.
>>536236175Let's just say I can't wait to see the doctor again.>>536237049YES! YES! YES!!
>>536238170Well damn, hope you get better, spider.
Bro King difficulty in Civ V is actually kinda hardI like it
>>536248861Really? Maybe you're just playing a weak civ?
>>536253734Is Morocco considered weak? Their ability seems pretty nice. I was spawned next to Korea and they out-Scienced me and Siam was on fast track for a Diplomacy victory
>>536235548https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aZx3IGpLCU
>>536253971Don't remember it has been ages since I last played Civ5. Maybe check this tier list: https://youtu.be/jhTdDH0VU5A?t=294
>>536255000>still haven't beatened mechanicus 1
>>536262149God I'm so starved for proper sci-fi.
>>536262149Preeetty.>>536262382Same!
>Life Seeded>Civil Education>Parliamentary SystemWent all-in on the unity rush, became Virtual by 2245. Is that too slow? I know you can do it even faster with Clone Army but I’d rather not
>>536262382Reinstall Startopia.
>>536262382vgh... fractured space... gone too soon
>>5362740022014...
Is Stellaris 4.0 still a laggy piece of shit compared to version pi?
>>536262149Really pretty, but UEslop. I'd pass even if my PC could run it.
What are you doing there, Sparta?
>>536279410Why do you think the latest unreal engine makes games look like slop? I kinda agree, I got that feeling with frostpunk 2 but I want to hear your point of view.
>>536282348To be honest, I don't care how a game looks. I care that it runs at all. Unreal Engines 4 and 5 are like fat pigs that can never be satisfied. They eat up far too much system resources for their own good.I know some of you don't give a shit, but most people just don't have the hardware to even play those games. Some have to make do with decade-old laptops that were hand-me-downs from their fathers, who got all the good shit for themselves and shared it with nobody.Especially when some still have to make do with malfunctioning 1GB GPUs and 2nd gen Intel CPUs, like me. UE4 runs at seconds per frame in my rig, and usually doesn't run at all. 5... I won't even bother.And I bet you'll just brainlessly shout "hurr durr poorfag" but this shit is becoming widespread. That's one of the reasons younger people stopped playing AAAslop, as their stuff can never run those pieces of shitty and buggy, bloated software.
>>536280808What are you doing, Sparta??????
>>536285125Luv me rivers for grinding down waves of attackers, simpel as.
>>536286490luv me some humanity fuck yeah
>>536286490They don't know when to give up.>>536287175Un petit morceau d'humanité dans l'esprit de l'existence obstinée, pédé d'araignée.
>>536289465J'ai chié sur le capot de ta voiture, sale macaroni !!!!
>>536289465
>>536289465Let's see how the Spartans like it now. An earthquake and tsunami hit a few turns ago and most of the tiles around Athens had their improvements removed as well as an epidemic debuff applied to them.>>536293701>>536297140Le schizophrène est arrivé.
>>536298852Goodnight spiders.
>>536253971if you spawn next to korea why are they not dead?
>>536282348Ppl who made latest unreal engine like that look in games for some reason due to severe autism probably.
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>>536284596Yeah I agree with this too. I thought that it was more style related because I've seen some comments of people that said that unreal engine 5 has this particular look that you can recognize across different games made with that engine. I stopped caring about graphics too a long time ago. There are so many great classic games that I've played over the years that I didn't have a chance to play as a kid that helped form this opinion. I also prefer indie games most of the time because I've always been a poorfag too, I just can't be bothered to spend that much money on a single hobby.
Sorry bros, I haven't been keeping up. The last time I posted I had finished the gold seal. I told myself that I would stay on top of my log and stuff, but in reality I'm all the way to adamantine cycle now and I am like 50 entries behind. I still take the important technical notes each time, but I have not turned it into a narrative since around the middle of Platinum. I will try to get to it soon, but honestly every time I come to the decision of catching up on the log or playing the game, I choose playing the game.
>>536341038Good luck.
/civ4xg/ makes a 4x game when?
>>536349745When we bother to learn to code.Which is never.
>>536350335I could code. I have a prototype for a princess raising game somewhere.It's not really 4X, but...
>>536351896Princess raising a'la Akabur, or what?
Nice formation
What shall I call my studio /civ4xg/?
>>536358715Three Rats in a Raincoat.
>>536359557Why rats?
>>536358715Rat Utopia
>>536359625Because "Three Discord Moderators in a Raincoat" doesn't ring the same.
Okay how about this? The other animal symbols you can use are: bison, elephant, cobra, owl, badger, rhino, lion, zebra, peacock, lama, bear, stag, fox, goat, BOAR, rabit, wolf, koala, hedgehog and lemur.
>>536235548How do Stellaris anons set the empire pop growth settings post 4.0? Does having it on still make the lategame faster? Does having it off break balance that was calibrated for it being on?
>>536361426
>>536362242Then what would the name for the elephant logo be? Or maybe BOARing Studios? Bear necessities studios?
>>536363592PRÖÖÖÖHHH!! Sttudios.
>>536363592Does the name have to be a joke?
>>536369645Haha benis :DDD>>536371443No of course not.
It doesn't fit in the middle, this is kinda bothering me. I'm never gonna start this game, am I?
>>536375579Prööh, then?
>>536378937Nah I think I'll go with Pröööh Sdudios.
>>536379824Fine! Have fun!
So I'm producing the movie "Messenger of Death" that the now bankrupt studio shot but couldn't finish. Also building a script department to start work on a new movie.
>>536380062Thanks anon.
Max, dearest of all my friends. What are you doing!?
>>536382646Wait, it's isometric? Not 3D?
So who are my other two screenwriters?>>536384215I think it's just 2d, you can't rotate the camera. Most of the game is played in different menu's with numbers anyway.
And of course the guy I named Horatio is a racist. That gene splicing maniac.
>>536383130https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u116HbMOF_YKek, what game btw?
What should the tag line be? It's a story about a serial killer, killing young engaged women disguised as a messenger bringing flowers. His own fiance was cheating on him after having recieved flowers. He went on a murderous rampage on random innocent women after that.>>536387986Hollywood Animal. I'm playing with the tutorial and the pre-made character already had the last name Payne.
>>536388547I went with: "Flowers are in his hands, death is on his mind."
This is going to be an adult movie is it?
Too bad sci-fi isn't an option yet.
Let's make some garbage for the masses.
Oh, this isn't even that bad.
Oh my, blackmailing my actor. Maybe I should increase security to dig up dirt on the others too. What could possibly go wrong.
My God this Peter Harris guy is a maniac.
>>536402792Forgot the image.
>>536385007Ha, it's like This Is The Police.>>536387307Horatio is always racist. Don't ask him what he thinks of spiders.
This manlet Peter Harris keeps causing problems. He isn't even good and he's constantly acting like a primadonna.>>536405657>Ha, it's like This Is The Police.Yeah this game is by the same developer.>Horatio is always racist. Don't ask him what he thinks of spiders.Indeed, what an asshole. He also keeps making film about a character named Horatio.
Again with this manlet clown. Luckily I have security that can turn this arround sheesh.
>>536406914>Yeah this game is by the same developer.Oh...Yeah, sorry, but it's a big miss for me, I tried This Is The Police, and I absolutely hated it and had a miserable time. It's one of these games where you can't win because the system is so insanely corrupted that you play against overwhelming odds and I hated it.It seems this cinema game is a bit similar, given some of the screens you shown.She was only 15.>He also keeps making film about a character named Horatio.At least he doesn't ask for young actress feet pics.
>>536407550I liked This is the Police. You just need to be careful and pay attention. Some of the calls you get give a hint if they can be trusted. For example sometimes you get a call from an elderly person hearing something going on in the appartment next door, these kind of calls can just be false alarms. There are a few story missions that can fuck you up though. I think this game is far less rail roaded because they're not trying to tell a specific story.
Yes, thank you Wiz, what an excellent edition to our story element toolkit.
>>536408676Ha, you unlocked SOVIET CINEMA.>>536408428I really disliked it. Ironically, TitP is not enough playing a game and having fun.
>>536408676>Protag goes on a treasure hunt with his friend>After finding the treasure he necks himselfPURE CINEMA!
>From the files of police squad.>>536408829Oh okay. What do you think of Papers Please, that game is also pretty railroaded and punishing in very similar ways.>>536413690Maybe this should be the next script.
THIS FUCKING GUY! I can't wait until the concract expires and I can get some else that doesn't fuck up every single time.
Gimme a break. Well maybe this could be a good thing. I hope he breaks his leg on the stronger door.
Hahaha, I might be going bankrupt but this was worth it.
>>536415923>frank drebinOh no.OH NO.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2-BJgllagAI haven't tried Papers Please, I have a dislike for that kind of soviet-like atmosphere, it makes me very uneasy.I play games for escapism, so I want elves, dwarfs, slaughter and bloodbath, not Paranoia Simulator™.>>536416714>>536416936For fuck sake. Just dump him in the river when you're done.
>This will get me in trouble won't it.>>536417673Oh okay, Papers Please has a very similar feel compared to TitP.>For fuck sake. Just dump him in the river when you're done.I'll just wait for the contract to end. I kinda burned through all the money I had and I have a court case with a constructor that will cost me half a million if I lose. I have only 50% chance of winning that case.
>>536418329>I have a court case with a constructor that will cost me half a million if I loseWait... In the game, or?
>>536358715Looks like an intresting gameWhat's the play like?Might consider grabbing it if it's cheap, but SILKSONG comes out soon, so idk
I don't know shit about Halo but I still like halo war
This will the the alcohol promotion mister Irish bootlegger wanted.>>536418664Yeah of course and of course I lost. In the tutorial your legal or financial guy finds an old contract by the former owner of the studio that stipulates that you have to make a deal with a certrain constructor for at least 500K. I couldn't order them to build the buildings because I got into a conflict with the mayor which only left the absolute worst contractor to hire. Long story short I spent 100K in legal fees and lost 500K because of the case.>>536420664It's still in early access I got it on gog because it's on sale now.
>>536421197>Yeah of course and of course I lost. In the tutorial your legal or financial guy finds an old contract by the former owner of the studio that stipulates that you have to make a deal with a certrain constructor for at least 500K. I couldn't order them to build the buildings because I got into a conflict with the mayor which only left the absolute worst contractor to hire. Long story short I spent 100K in legal fees and lost 500K because of the case.Yeaaaah no offense but I'm steering clear from this game, I wanna make movies, not deal with Epstein.
>armor goes from 4 to 8 because a SPARTAN is piloting itNeat!If only I knew exactly what armor does...
Oh damn I just realized that the reason Halo War is so easy is because picking Easy slashes the enemy's HP.
Yeah, raised difficulty to normal, it was a lot less one-sided now. My vehicles can actually get damaged now. And telling Spartans to comandeer vehicles is a lot more interesting now.
Cyclops are still awesome. If I could play one in Halo, I'd like these games more.
Good morning.
>>536457350Good morning sir.
Right in the middle of filming. She wanted to make a comeback but alas. I have to restart, I made too many mistakes early on that have cost me too much money. I think the trick is to keep movies with bad scripts really really cheap there's no point in trying to improve the rating in later production steps.
>>536460948What a shame. You have to make shit on purpose.
>>536235548what game?
>>536238170
>>536469626Endless Legend 1, it's a city of the Wild Walker faction.>>536469289No not at all. You can hire almost anyone on a per movie basis, you can also buy good scripts. It is a bigger financial risk and since I'm still learning the game I try to steer clear of big financial gambles. In this regard the game is much better than The Movies in which you really are forced to produce mountains of bad movies.
Oh my.
>>536470384Aight, time to start filming hentai.
>>536470384That's a lot of stars. I understand why you get so attached to your hirelings.
>>536471391He's still young, I hope to train him to become a good writer. At least he doesn't have any potentially problematic trait like gambling or drinking.
I really wish Gaia worlds were more competetive, but Ecus shit all over them for everything but basic resource productionNot to mention that getting the Climate Restoration tech is a random shitshow while Anti-Gravity Engineering shows up pretty reliably
>>536472080In that case he's gonna start calling young girls to his office.
>>536472080I concur with the other guy. Given how cynical this game is, you want someone whose flaws you know. If you see someone perfect, it only means you don't know his flaws yet.
>>536470384Hot.
>>536472668Build whichever one matches your donut steel empire OC.Nothing wrong with being a super xenophobic species obsessed with perfection who genetically engineer themselves and terraform their worlds.
>>536483045There are no perfect people just those without major risks. It's okay to have one or two people on a film with an addiction or some other problem but if you have too many it can quickly spiral out of control. You burn through a million pretty quickly if that happens to one of your more expensive films. Also I wouldn't say the game is cynical, showbusiness has had a darker side especially in the early 20th century.
>Why?! You were so promising at 18 and this is your limit?!
I have to become the king of kino.
>>536497491Artsy fartsy.
>>536497491Just make a proper film adaptation of lone wolf and cub and you will win every award ever.Bonus points if you manage to keep it true to its Akira Kurosawa influences.
>>536494134Wait they have a max skill cap? That SUUUUUUCKS. I'd add more U's to drive the point, but you get it.
>>536301471The siege of Sparta continues with a major blow dealt to the Spartans when their great general dies in a Greek assault.
>>536507142And down it goes.
tech tree smech shmeeI'll just make more base warriors
ded genre
>>536262382>>536262149God i wish Aurora had IOS version, id kill to play it at work..
I'm thinking of starting my first proper game of W&R on realistic mode, but with money on easy. Can't wait to put 100 hours in just to realize I fucked something up in the first two.
>>536535894W&R?
>>536539660Warriors And Republic.
>>536539915Never heard of that one and google doesn't know it.
>>536540652Because I'm bullshitting you, it's workers and republic.
>>536540867
>>536541475FUCK SAKEWorkers and RESSOURCES Soviet Republic.https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/?
>>536539660>>536542371Yeah, Workers and Resources, soviet autism city builder.
Good night.
Has anyone played Void War? It's a tactical game along the lines of FTL but a darker atmosphere.
>>536507379Is this mod on a Europe map?
>>536555983Pie's Ancient Europe uses a map of Europe.
>>536556973gay
>>536547991Yes. It's good.
HAK HAK HAK
death
>>536568535HYUK HYUK HYUK
>>536592005
alpha centauri, to play or not to play?
>>536614042You either play it or we must dissent.
>>536614042Play it. Only Alpha Centuri, though, not the other one, Crossfire or whatever gaylord.
What keeps me trying new things are unlocking achievements in Civ V. I've been trying to play Large Pangaea Standard as Egypt, but I keep getting my shit kicked in during Antiquity with other civs going to war with me before T100 and trying to take one of my cities early
>>536615858I don't get why you care about achievements, but if they ruin your fun...
>>536616226You don't get better by playing the same map size/map type/difficulty/civilization, plus it keeps it from getting stale too. Maybe Civ 7 was made for players like me in mind
>>536616403You don't have to get better, it's a game. Just have fun.
>>536616751Yeah I guess that's true, and Civilization V is a fundamentally unbalanced game so it's a bit of an uphill battle I suppose
>>536615858It's the opposite for me, achievements are for when the average game starts getting stale and I need a challenge
>>536262149wat gaym?
>>536615858Yeah I am an achievement hunter as well, I wish old civ games had achievements, particularly civ 3. Like those Retro achievements for old ps games.
Hmm today I will play a custom Empire in Stellaris...>EARTH>HUMANS>DICTATOR>UNDER ONE RULE>MILITARIST, AUTHORITARIAN, MATERIALIST>PSIONIC ASCENTIONNow get this... Eventually during the run, instead of staying dictator I "declare Imperium". Then I change the name of my Empire to the "Imperium of Man".I know, I AM quite the character. A cut above the rest of (you). It's okay though anon, don't feel bad we can't all be this great.
>>536626264C-Beams, a top down 2D space action rpg. It's being developed by the youtuber levelcap and one of his friends.
>>536628123what a brilliant idea, you're so clever anon
same but bone every alien to death
>>536628123Unironically its probably the most fun you can have in Shitlaris
>>536628123For me its>RANDOM SHITHOLE>ANIME GIRLS>IMPERIAL>MODDED ORIGIN>FANATIC XENOPHOBE, MILITARIST>FANATIC PURIFIERS>PURITY ASCENSCION>14 AI EMPIRES, 2x PRE-FTLSAnd all I do is KILL KILL KILL until I get bored or defeated
>>536629604Pretty. Starcom: Nexus and Starcom: Unknown Frontier are good and similar.
>>536284596My dude, you are trying to run shit on comically outdated hardware. It's not an UE4 and 5 problem, it's a you problem.I understand that it's because you're a poorfag, but that doesn't mean it's a "widespread problem", or it's a buggy bloated problem because your shitbox from 2010 can't run it. Sorry, this is just absolutely retarded.
>>536628123I feel called out...
WRSR heating system is raping my brain... I made it through the last year fine (~12-14C in most of my city during the harshest siberian winter months), but after building a few more districts and failing to finish a new heating plant in time, my city is now falling below 10C across the board and there is nothing I can do about it because the heat exchangers have a ~400m range and I can't "disconnect" all the surplus housing even after it becomes depopulated. I managed to finish the heating plant and a single heat exchanger by December, and it's working in full force, but now I have a 80C water temp heat exchanger sitting next to 60C water temp housing, and it seemingly does nothing to heat things up. How do I even unfuck this?
>>536649425it is a widespread problem thoughin the third world
>>536649425UE5 sucks dick regardless of any brownoid trying to run it on ancient hardware.And it offers nothing in return to add insult to injury.
>>536649425>I can run it, that means it's okay
>>536649757Wish I could help you, dawg, but I'm too new to it.
>>536655453bruh at some point you're going to have to accept it
>>536615858just play fractal map every time
civ 7 game director got fired
>>536659000I'd fire Sid too for allowing such turd to bear his name
>>536659000the tranny one?
>>536659000source?
Y'know I'm really curious if there's a competitive scene for Halo Wars because the Covenant has high pop, can heal their units for free, and has short training time.For all the love i have for the fascist UNSC, they feel strong, but not as strong as the Covenant.
bump
/civ4xg/ OpenFront match when?
>>536680618I'm down, kinda, I guess
>>536680618Redpill me on it
>>536680829https://openfront.io/#join=SboXJtBa>>536681128Open source fast-paced real-time RISK clone with nukes
>>536680618I died
>>536685021nah youre goodshoulda allied me
>>536685362I didn't know what was happening tbqh.
>>536685607we got shafted by the AI is what happened. didn't realize you're new, let's do a game on lower difficulty: https://openfront.io/#join=htDnMn6Z
It's over
>>536687547go again I wanna play this time
>>536687547gg!hop in some random public matches on the home page to get a better feel for the game, let's play again when you can beat me. team-based matches are much easier to chill in as long as you start near your team.
>>536687692last one for me: https://openfront.io/#join=HXRX2ufd
>>536687908>took too long loading and didn't spawn
>>536687908gg, I'm starting to get the hang of it
>>536688301rip, next time fren!>>536689945gg!
So am I dumb, or are harmonic cores better than thinkstems? You need both unity and research, and you get more total jobs that way which is great for wilderness since jobs are automatically filled.
>>536697143not really, because planetary designations
>>536697143Yes if you assume that 1 unity and 1 science have equal value harmonic cores produce more value than thinkstems even with designation, until like 5 planet ascension levels.
sleepy...
>>536671061firaxis job listing
>>536707662do you think they'll hire me?
>>536722808Give it a shot, anon.
>>536722808cant possibly do a worse job than the previous guy so probably
>>536728982Is that a challenge?
>>536729370i mean if you could bomb it even harder maybe they would just cut their losses and go straight to the next game
Which Tropico game should i get?
>>5367321282.
>>5367321281&2
>>536628123It's the only future for mankind.Maybe not psi-ascension. We get a special one with latent psionic and limited cybernetic (with ritualistic implants).
>>5367321283
>>536628123What 3 civics should an Imperium of Man have?
>>536656981Managed to salvage things somehow by reloading a half a year old save and micro-ing my construction vehicles to build more heat exchangers in time. This sucked so much ass and I'm never getting out of debt now.
Pangaea maps are not fun if it's too big
>>5367321284 and only 4
>>536741434most things aren't fun if they're too big
>>536742545HUH
I finally di it lads i'm playing fanatical Aztecs. If you want to know about the government let me know.
>>536748242What does it do?
>>536748534
>>536748606This specifically for wartime, but there is also theocracy of course.
>>536748606>additional free units 30I'm sorry what4 military police and communal corruption is neat though
>>536749868Yeah I think I should probably also buff the worker speed and maybe more units, you get this government right in the second era though so there is that with lessening corruption that much that early is pretty good.
Got the Pangaea achievement on Civ V by playing Duel Pangaea Epic King with Zulu. Now to never play Pangaea maps ever again
>>536750151>Yeah I think I should probably also buff the worker speedit needs to be balanced somehow, that's an amazing govt for early medieval
>>536748606Does communal mean high or low?
>>536763518it means corruption is equally distributed between cities
Archipelago maps suck tooContinents truly is the only way to play
that's a lot of STONEwhere should I settle?
>>536767705Na man I love civilization islands, the smaller the island the cooler it is, of course this mostly applies to civ 3 and civ 2 and especially without shitty districts.
>>536765668Yeah, it actually doesn't say in the game though, but yeah defining communal is distributed between cities.>>536757748Honestly I'm learning that these science caps don't matter much just build science buildings.
>>536767705long snaky fractal map is the best
No dying!
Anyone interested in some OpenFront? Playing for the next hour or so
>>536787865Sorry no time. What is OpenFront exactly? Is it kinda like risk?
>>536794035It's an open source(free, browser-based) fast-paced real-time RISK clone with nukes. openfront.io
After playing over 100 hours of Civ V I now realize just how bad the snowball effect is. If I'm 1/3rd of the way into the game and I feel like I'm behind, it doesn't give me a lot of confidence to continue, especially on a map like archipelagos where it's difficult to lean into other victory types like Diplomacy or Domination. It's pretty much Culture or Science or bust
>>536787865I'm down to play in about 30 minutes.
Guys? Why is this general such dogshit?
Starting in 15 mins, join up frens: https://openfront.io/#join=Q7hFgTz9>>536795752Sweet>>536795961Because you're not contributing
>>536768754up your ass lmao
I one would like to play Rome: Total War, how is the remaster nowadays? Has it been improved? Are there mods to make the ui or game map like the old game? With that I mean more informative like the campaign map having all kinds of details that actually give you a lot of information.
>>536798732why don't you go ask /twg/ dumbass
>>536739356Militaristic, Spiritualist, Xenophobicdo you really have to ask?No fanatical, since they're all fanatical
>>536797756Sorry I was a bit late but I'm in now.
>>536799325Oh yeah, somehow I thought they didn't exist anymore.
>>536800407They only talk about Warhammer now unfortunately.
dogshid militia wins yet againalright I'm getting back to work now
>>536800505Yeah I thought so. That's why I suspected to place to die out because you can't keep a discussion about the same thing going for years and years. But since there is a specific thread I'll ask there.
>>536798732that was a cool game, but i didnt even know there was a remaster :C
>>536795961It was fine until you showed up.
>>536794634A consistent civ issue desu
>>536813159Yeah it's nice when you're winning but once you pick up on the pattern, it feels a little empty since your victory almost feels guaranteed depending on what you're aiming for. I guess this is what they were trying to fix with Civ 7
>>536794634The only way to combat this is to introduce more micromanagement and logistical/resource constraints. Then the game becomes less fun. No way around it.
penis
>>536826417show us
>>536826417Many are saying this
>>536828301The /civ4xg/ is the last place I expected to find gay posts
>>536826417vagina
>>536828301No, don't wanna get bullied. Already posted my butt.
>>536800160Civics, not government.You know like Distinguished Admiralty, Corvée System, etc.
>>536854138definitely Byzantine Bureaucracy
:think:
>be me >cis man scum>playing star ruler 2>suddenly, start wondering>a large part of star ruler 2 is about colonizing planets that have water/food and export it to other planets to make mad dosh>BUT>food is biomass, once shipped off-planets, it permanently takes from the agri-world's finite biomass, since nutrients never return to the soil>UNLESS you have gigantic cargo ship transporting feces and dead bodies back to the agri-world to be used as fertilizers>meaning that there are entire caravans of poop shipped back to New Arkansas>the alternative is to turn every agri-world into a bloody dustbowl, not fit for anything beside survival
>>536864609makes sense.
>>536864609Might be more efficient to have fecal processing plants on each world, recycling the sewage on site, so you can extract drinkable water and then just send the concentrated fertiliser to the garden world?
They'll never understand...
>>536879352Comfy
>>536814221Yeah the idea was to make the game essentially 4 or so mini games and incentive you switching up each game as you see fitInstead we got a worse humankind lol
>>536879352Understant what?
>>536885878You only prove him right.
Rank em>real time>real time with pause>sequential turn based (like civ)>simultaneous turn based (like rock paper scissors or some variants of turn based multiplayer games where everyone performs their actions at the same time)>phase-based/we-go where everyone submits commands then everything is executed at once (like Shadow Empire)
>>536893869You ranked them already
Dock.>>536888132How I don't even know what he is talking about. Is the the other ai's that don't understand? People who haven't played civ3? Or is it about the tactic he's using? I wanna know.
C-beams destroyer.
Wish 4X/strategy games had better representation of asymmetric war and low level conflict. War in games is too binary where you're either at peace or at total war with another faction but it would be interesting to be able to fight another civ at peace with clashes that may or may not escalate. A common complaint about war games is that peace is too boring so this would make things a little less dull.
>>536901878Civ opened my eyes when I realized that in many cases a Civilization whether peaceful or not will not respect your shared border unless you have units lined up along it
>>536901878Maybe Dune: Spice Wars. It's not actually countries or civilizations but there is lots of ways to fight your opponents economically or diplomatically.
>>536901878You say that but it would be extremely annoying to play against an AI that constantly raids you with "tehehee were not at war so this doesn't count" attacks
>>536901197>>536901416Looking very nice.
>>536235548Distant Worlds 2, Roadmap 2025/2026: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/528730392279122047
>>536893869>real time with pause>phase-based/we-go>sequential turn based (like civ)>simultaneous turn based>real time
>>536893869>phase-based/we-go where everyone submits commands then everything is executed at once (like Shadow Empire)Isn't Shadow Empire completely turn based?
>>536926763goodnight
Well, it's over.It's so owari da it's not even funnySo basically I had been behind on keeping my logs since that instance where 3 villagers died and I CHEATED to save them, using my own retarded headcanon to justify quitting out and reloading. Should've really just ended the entire run there desu. That was around the Platinum Cycle, I believe. Anyways, I reached all the way up to Adamantine and several things happened that just killed my run. First off, this ENTIRE run, I had only settled the cursed royal woodlands biome a single time prior to this last village. It's already a rare biome, but it was really unusual that I didn't have any opportunities to get it. This last place was the second time I found it. The big thing is that a Bat starved to death here. And she starved to death while there was food literally in the production building as they were bringing it to the warehouse. Immediately following that, there was a surplus of food because I just had gotten the building online. While this was happening, I was worried about them dying from blight corruption, as there was 30 blightflowers (insane amount) due to a glade event. I survived that by building 7 extra blightpost stations, but I was so focused on combating the blight, that I didn't notice my food was dissappearing. I do think it was a little bit bullshit because it didn't give me a warning beforehand. The game is supposed to tell you when villagers are dying of starvation, and it did. It told me HUMANS ARE STARVING. i said "okay, no problem, there's food on the way. It usually takes another couple minutes before the gu-DDDIIIINNNNNGGGG A BAT (BUILDER) HAS DIED (STARVED TO DEATH)WHAT THE FUCK man. It didn't warn me. She just fucking died after it told me Humans were starving. Anyways. I won the settlement in the end. BUT, here is the second thing that killed my run. I was just out of reach of the Sealed Forest with no more time left. I don't feel like I fucked around too much this cycle
At the start I made a short detour before heading as straight as I could towards the seal. But as I got close to the end, I needed some negative modifers on the overworld so I could get extra settlement distance as a reward for beating them. I had timed it out, calculated it. There were 3 opportunities before the seal and I just needed one of those fucking questionmarks to be a negative mod. Nope. Two positive and one world event. After finishing the settlement where a bat died, I was ready to atleast attempt the final seal anyways, but nope. World event. In the end, both of these things were my fault. I should not have let the Bat die, and I should not have dilly dallied at the start of the cycle. I had 3 original goals with this playthrough.>beat the game without failing a settlement>beat the game with no villagers dying>beat the game without failing a single seal in progressionI failed 2/3 of these goals. Technically, I didn't fail at a seal, as I didn't lose the game ON the seal, but I was considering failing to reach it to begin with as a fail state. So now my game stats say>100% win rateBut in my heart I know it's 99%And that's why I've decided to canonically end this run here, with the Viceroy dissapearing into the curesd royal woodlands without a trace. The log unfinished, devolving over time into schizobabble as I just bulletpointed things and said fuck you to the game alot, only writing down the autistic technical side of things instead of an actual written story.My previous full game run was a little similar. I made it close to the cobalt seal and I accidentally got 20 people killed in one village after destroying a firemoth hearth lol. That run ended canonically with the Viceroy becoming a firemoth himself, staring into the flames of the ruined Hearth. Anyways. I probably will not go back and finish these logs. I will probably play again and close the adamantine seal anyways, just so this run is "closed off" for good. But yeah. That's all folks
>>536869847I know literally nothing about this, but doesn't it mean that the agriworld will still lose water, since it stays on the customer planet?
Dinolord.Looks kinda fun, but it makes me want to try Paraworld.
>>536940361Imagine a civ-style version of Lost Eden.
>>536942467A civ like version of WHAT?
>>536905181Russia is quite annoying, yes
Any Old World players around? I saw Wrath of the Gods was on sale and wondering how people thought of it.
>>536966292no
>>536893869>sequential turn based>real time with pause>real time>everyone submits commands then everything is executed at once>simultaneous turnsthis pseudo real time shit is the worst like its in humankind and unfortunately in endless legend 2 aswell where you have to spam click at the start of a turn like its real time to do stuff before your enemies
>>536901878endless space 2
>>536926763Good morning!
Horatio
>>536992641Shooting target.
>>536992641Beautiful. Gorgeous. Perfect.
>Stellaris>Custom Empire>Corporate Government>Indentured Assets>Criminal Heritage>Name: "Greater Israel"
>>536994986You forgot necrophage.
>>536994986You forgot sodomite.
>>536994986brave and stunning
>>536966292It seems interesting
How is freeciv? Is it a good recreation of civ? I always see screenshots of it with random countries and I can't tell if those are mods or the base game has tons of civs.
>>536981838Good evening.
>>536235827Tomorrow.
ded
>>537036104Between modded Minecraft and Elin I don't have that much time or will to keep going with my Anno 1800 run.It doesn't help that now I need New World stuff to keep progressing but I like a retard went into Enbesa too. And now I'm afraid if I ignore Enbesa other competitors will spawn there and take over the islands.
>>537037027>ElinThe Elona sequel? Is that worth the price tag, given the first was free.
>>537041079>Is that worth the price tag, given the first was free.I bought it 4 days ago and never played Elona.It is very fun and seems to update weekly. Also has a ton of sprite mods.
In this mod you can upgrade a regular worker to an asian worker, and I just find the funny.
hehe
>>537045975That's literally how it is in Civ 4 for the Indianshttps://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Fast_Worker_(Civ4)
>>537048797>racismCringe.
>>537048797Imagine being racist in 2025
>>537049779>racism is badThat is extremely anti-semitic, anon. Rethink your life.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THE COASTAL GROVE BIOME FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOURRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEFEELING LUCKY ACHIEVEMENT? MORE LIKE FEELING LIKE I'M GONNA FUCKING NECK MYSELF
>>537067479...shill mate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFpjtuvd5awGuildmaster looks fun, I should reinstall Conquest of Elysium.
Oi vey.
Any (non-anime) up to date portrait mod recommendations for Stellaris?
>>537067479coastal grove is based
>>537077226Yes that is where his base is, I think that's what is upsetting him.
Holy cow Guildmaster IS fun.You build a level 1 guild, like a thief guild, and you can upgrade it into a level 2 assassin guild. And if you also have a shipwright guild in there, you can get pirate ships.
Oh hey I captured a Gaza hospital.
>broadsword>not curved sword, boarding pike, or marine axe>but broadswordONE JOB
STOP KILLING HALBERDIERSThese guys are expensive.
Conquest of Elysium V throwing shit at Garrett.
I'm abandoning my egypt game, I'm in endless war and I have no path to victorywho should I play now though
>>537092750poland sounds good, and for the first time ever I'm going to play with teams
>>537093253I am now realizing that I have no idea how victory works with teams
>>537094068Just win.
>>536659000Who, Ed Beach? Thought it was just the new head of product listing
>>537107112>empire of CimmeriaNot kingdom?
>>537107112OH SHIt: James Earl Jones
>>537108318
>>537107112>(pleased)I like the "humiliate" war goal in Stellaris. You can wage a friendly war just to for fun and glory, without seizing territory and having to deal with that admin nightmare.The "warrior culture" civic should get a unique war goal. "Challenge", or something. Fight an enemy for glory and honour, with no need to be rivals.
>>537093253Huh, I never tried teams. I'll do that for my next game
>new surviving mars update>except it's not an update it's an entirely new game!>except it's not a new game it's the old game with some AI upscaling on the UI and the bugfixes for the fucked asteroids and trains DLCs that the remaining 3 players have been screaming for for years!>oh and some shitty political busywork UI mod has been integrated I guess>all for the low price of FOURTY FUCKING DOLLARS>unless you can prove you own the base game in which case it's TWENTY FUCKING DOLLARS for some BUG FIXES woohoo!
>play Brazil>didnt start on jungleI have already won
>>537130852>rio de janbrino...?
>>537130852I still haven't played Civ 5 beyond vanilla when it first released, although I guess Unciv counts as Gods and Kings.
Any news on Falling frontier?
>>537144059It was cancelled.
>>536235548>>536235827Plan B: Terraform is out: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/532108091999650505
>>537130852I lost
>>537144059They shared a few mp4's on their discord and opened a lore channel on their discord.
>>537148318gg
>>537149328For fucks sake. Are they also gonna release the game on discord?
>>537144059>the frontier has fallen
>>537148109Oh trucks now move 2 units. That's why I don't need a gorillion of them.>>537151079Dunno they've show very little the last few years apart from very short video's and screenshots.
>>537151152Haha, indeed.
>>537144059Lost media
for some reason I have "ass to ass" stuck in my head, as it's a catchy song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yN9Pcz9OnMhow is the Age Of Mythology Re-release?few friends wanted to play MP with me but they bailed out when they saw A.I portraits and fatty McCunt giving speech about it
>>537168218>make DLC for an old game after a 15 year break>remake it a few years laterSurely the devs would get bored of this?
>hmm let's try that stellaris modjam2020 modpack, seems like some fun origin>let's try Containtment Failure origin, looks interesting>has an unavoidable event that sets devestation on your homeworld to 100% like 10 years in>guaranteed to lose the homeworld to rebels and die because 80% of your economy is on the homeworld this earlywhat the fuck are these modders smoking?it wasn't even classed as a challenging origin despite randomly assraping you 10 years in
>>537168218It's actually pretty good. Chinese now have a real civilization.Game's still greedy, with overpriced DLC gods, but the AI is massively better.
>>537182349devastation was made more severe at some point between now and then
>>537192969why did Paradox do this
>>537193218Were you having fun?
Man I sure do love the khan event completely fucking up my subject's territories and then turning into a regular nation just as I get the GDF rapetrain rolling out. Now the space UN wants me to drop Custodianship despite the fucking worms still being a nuisance and I know the khan fucks still have their millions of ships if I decide to painstakingly get my subjects stuff back.Marauders are such a fun feature, yep.>>537117061That's an idea, maybe have them both get bonuses if a status quo is signed. More flavor for specific civics are very welcome.
>I beat up the indians so hard they will straight up give me a citypeace deez nuts
>>537200909thanks for the city bitches lmaooooooooooooI was going to conquer it but no way could I hold it
>>537201265They probably shitted all over everything.
>>537201265>no world wrap on either side
>>537201265GANDHI YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKERthat coal is the only reason I took this city>>537201484that would have been a great idea
>>537202297got it back hehehe
I need to record some Halo Wars webm for bumping purposes.
>>537210945no you don't
>>537211038Yes I do. It's a surprisingly good game, and a webm of it will appeal to the masses more than Seven Kingdoms 2.
>>537211591play a real 4x game spidey
>>5372025355 turns of peace then back to the endless war
c
>>537223886Fuck off Horatio.
I kinda wanna make a Stellaris nation that are literal corporate bug men.
Aurora
>>537256067Go full Ferengi.>authoritarian, materialist, either xenophobe or fanatic materialist>indentured assets, ruthless competition>only male leaders (forget the DS9 feminism arc)Be ethnocentric while happily exploiting your own. Send out envoys and make deal with everyone, try to maximise your number of envoys so you can spy and steal technology. Never enter into a defensive pact or a federation.
The trouble with (being born) the coastal grove is this FUCKING feeling lucky deed and achievement. It sucks and it's fucking gay. The game is full of rng to a large extent, but it's almost never pure rng, as you have choices and always have multiple ways to handle thingsBut this deed asks you to send out expeditions on the water to find a single random blueprint out of 28. It is completely rng with virtually a single way to improve your odds, and you can only improve it by into maybe being out of 24 instead. It's so unreasonable to get this fucking rainpunk foundry blueprint. The worst part is that I've fucking gotten it twice. The first time was before they altered the achievement when it was get TWO specific blueprints, being both the homestead and the foundry, in one game. Utterly impossible. And the second was during the queen's hand trail, where deeds, and thus, achievments, don't fucking count. You can't actually engage with the coastal grove biome as intended. You cant strategize and think to yourself, "hhhmm, I need a fertile soil build, I should send out a food building expedition to see if I can get one". No. It's "damn I need to send out another industry building expedition" for the 200th fucking time for it to return fucking nothing but a supplier you already have a repaired one of from a glade. You also can't consistently send out expeditions unless you get luck with blueprints and have a stable source of complex food from a porridge building or the cookhouse. You realistically will only get 4 chances in a regular game on a high difficulty. In the off chance you manage to get more, it will not avail you. One game, I had a great set up and I deliberately spent more time there, refusing to let my villagers resolve get high so I can send out more. I literally sent out as many as I could before the game stopped returning blueprints as rewards (happens at the 15th or something expeditions). Didn't fucking get it.
>>537272629On top of that, I had the cornerstone that gives a random blueprint for every 5 fully upgraded frog houses. So I fully upgraded 20 fucking frog houses to get 4 extra blueprints. I had more blueprints in that settlement than I ever had before. Yet still no fucking rainpunk foundry. Fuck this game and fuck my life.
>page 10
and again . . .
>>537291864Ded thread, more news at 11
>>537301696Page 11?
I love this general
>>537309906Waiting for other threads to finish their turns is agonizingly long.
>>537260282>>authoritarian, materialist, either xenophobe or fanatic materialist>>indentured assets, ruthless competition>>only male leaders (forget the DS9 feminism arc)>>Be ethnocentric while happily exploiting your own. Send out envoys and make deal with everyone, try to maximise your number of envoys so you can spy and steal technology. Never enter into a defensive pact or a federation.>the noses and earsHmm. This sounds extremely anti semitic for some reason.
I need to make a miqo'te race in age of wonder 4.
>>537320286This kind of shit is why nobody liked you, even before you started genociding the Palestinians.
the war is unending
>>537320460>Racism outside of /b/ISHYGDDTthere is no need to bring your politics into /vg/
>>537321291SLAVA UKRAINIASLAVA PALESTINIA
What would it take to get in game cinematics like this again?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCB9yE9Hcc
>>537322084Passion.
>>537322084Silica's pretty fun.
>>537321047I have once again kicked gandhi's teeth inI'm sure I'll have to do it a dozen times more
>>537326072Why do you hate that peaceful man of peace?
>>537326072those fucking indian FUcSS stole my aluminum>>537326561HE STARTED IT
>>537327156I find it hard to believe that such a peaceful pacifist would seek out war. You must have provoked him.
>>537328301actually I think the romans started it. not that it matters, because it's a team game
>>537332660>fucking robots>no fucking clankersGet with the time, "clanker" is the new slur for abominable intelligence.
>>537345668soon
skitter skatter
I should return to Dominions, but this game filters me.
honey, it's time for another waryes dear
>>537320297Khajitt at home not good enough for you?
>>537144059>>537151079It's not coming out this year and probably not next year. Every year he comes up with a new excuse for delays.
>>537352962Do those dialogue options do anything different?
>>537364836no
>virtuality ascenscion is completly fucked>its main gimmick of filling all jobs doesn't work>spawns the pops, then deletes them, over and over>new beta is supposed to patch that>it doesn'tYou do not hate swedes enough.
>>537375789>You do not hate swedes enough.I play Coop games, I know what hatred is
>>537375789>doesn't workWorks on my machine.
>>537376995NTA but do swedes make coop games?
>>537352962Don't do it.
>>537349006Play against yourself in hotseat mode.
>>537379138Fatshark - made Vermintide/Darktide/ games Arrowhead - Magicka series, HelldiversOverkill/Starbeeze - PaydayIrongate studios - Valheim
>>537379138>>537382994I for one am in Stockholm syndrome mode right now.t: playing helldivers 2 and in few days we get a big update, with tunnel warfare and dragons.
>>537381846Tried it. I ended up in a stalemate.>>537382994Vermintides 2 is based. Even if cosmetics are shit.Valheim's ok.Payday... we don't talk about payday
imagine if greece helped me in this war at all
>>537392674AI allies are a punishment, no matter the game
>>537392674>Getting in your way>Taking spots around cities you are sieging, while they do nothing until the last second, when they only attack to capture the city you worked hard to captureIt could be worse.
WellIve finished the adamantine seal, and thus, my current playthrough of against the stormI have achieved a 100% win rate; out of 80 settlements, I didn't lose a single one, however 4 villagers were lost during the "canon" portion of the run and another 9 on a settlement during the last cycle where I rounded out the game. Bringing my total to 13 villagers. Absolutely pathetic display desuBut I will leave it at that. I've gotten very sick of the game over the last week and I don't think I'm going to be picking it up again for a very long time. Tbh I don't know if I ever will again if there isn't another major update or dlc, which it looks like there won't be. I might play one final settlement, a training expedition on marathon mode on the bamboo flats so I can create an ultimate gigafarm. Another thing I have never done is dabble in daily expeditions, which come with their own set of unique modifiers that I have never played with, so I guess that will round out my playtime with this game to have experienced quite literally everything over my 1k plus hours, but I wont be doing that now. Silksong is on the horizon.
>>537425397fuck off
>>537392674against all odds, I am advancing
>>537425397but what if...Croatio?
>>537427287>2018 alreadyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUrgh
>>537425397kek'd
>>537445120>i completely forgot about the EL2 demoDamnWell it's too late now
>>537445120Fuck this looks good.
endless legend 2 looks meh im going back to stellaris
>>537448536Yeah I had no time to play the last couple of weeks. I heard the demo was decent but it stopped right as the game becomes more interesting.>>537449845Endless Legend can look really pretty. Stylized games tend to stay pretty.
>>537450856Soul > graphisms.
>try early access game>it's bland>complain it's bland on forum>"well duuh, it's early accesss!!!!1111!!!">try to argue that I played demos that actually got me invested and curious in the full game>"well duuuuuuuuuuuuh it's not a demo it's early acces!!!!!!"Can't win, can I?
>>537427602>take vijayanagar>game crashes 20 seconds lateraaaahhhhhhhh
>>536235548>https://pastebin.com/8nRQckSNIm curious why wasnt the pastebin updated are there really no more games ?
>>537463358the game is consistently crashing now so I'm going to kill myself
Good lord phase spiders are no joke.
>want to build void navigators guild>"out of gems">check out>gem mines got recaptured by neutrals>send an army>expect 3-4 spiders>thisYou know what, you can keep it. Clearly you want it more.
>spear supposely only deal 1-4 damage, with a +3 bonus because of the strength>still 11 damage in one hit>on an expensive heavy infantryFucking iron wasted.
>virgin Warhammer Total War III >nooo we can't have naval battles>CHAD conquest of Elysium V
>>537463027Nope, never ever
>>537463027That's the way it is.
>>537473974they have bigger problems, like ranged units still unable to shoot properly without obstacles in the wayformations, naval battle is lost tech
>>537473974What's the point of naval battles, anyway? Fighting over fish? Who cares. Land is better. It has trees and mines and stuff, all water has is fish.
>>537492283There's the rare mine and shit in the sea and you won't have to trek on land.
>>537463027you have encountered a redditor in the wildmy condolences
>>537492283Sea is made out of water.Water generate gems.
outrageous
>>537492283the sea has been important for civilizations since antiquity
>>537425397Current year's obsession with watermarking memes is insane
>>537501541>t. malk unbound
>>537501541>current year'sIt's been going on for decades, faggot.
Trying to play an actual conquering enslaving empire in Stellaris for once and boy is it an ordeal.to wrangle these new planets. I don't have the energy cred to move around all these pops to fix stability issues and I can't abandon one useless colony because the species has fucking Nascent Stage and the game won't let me move the nascant pops for years.Also a bunch of the pops got moved to my incompatible homeworld via raiding but that's at least my fault.
anyone who played Civ gameshow is 4 different compared to 6(with dlcs like gathering storm etc...) on a mechanical level?
>>537519279well there isn't 1UPT, for one
>>537519279I haven't played 6 but I've played 5 and I can tell you that 4 is a whole lot different. The biggest ones are square tiles, no city states, stacking units (and collateral damage), whipping/slavery/pop rushing being an integral part of the early game.
babe wake up, new war just droppedit turns out turning off yield icons can help with crashing
>>537525267Finish this ASAP. If it crashes for good, I'll hear you crying all the way to france.
>>537525267God, this East vs. West map is disgusting, play Small Continents Plus like a human being
>>537528568Cry some more.
>>537525267But since you are playing Vox Populi, I will play Lekmod
>>537528237there's 90 turns left. I don't even know how victory works for team games, do we all need to achieve our own victory?>>537528568it's interesting but I doubt I'll play it again
wtf is going on hereMy economy is in shamble because this pile of useless just keeps building up.
any "quick" 4x games? where a game doesn't take me 15 to 25 hours to get through?
>>537541719any 4x, but you don't leave it on pause for more than 80% of the time
>>537541719DUNC spice wars can be pretty quick but it's a pseudo 4x rts hybridColony games can be this for missionsGenerally civ games can be set to 200 turns which allows like 1 day of gaming but obviously has drawbacks that YMMV
>>537541719Not a 4x but check out OpenFront.io
>>537541719Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim is designed to be over in one sitting. Haven't played it but it's supposedly fun with friends. Nexus 5x is a space 4x that is also made to be finished in one sitting. It started as a stellaris spin off, they've changed the name eventually. Apparently it is fun but again with friends. Also like the other anon said DUNC: Spice Wars can be quick, it's not quick quick most of the time but definitely not nearly as long as a civ game.
New space game in early access.>>536626264Also whoever makes the OP is a retard. So many new games and the fag only posts the same 4-7. Dunno why we have that section when it totally nigger ASS.
>>537560884You are free to make suggestions anon or make a new OP when the time comes instead of complaining.
>>537560884>So many new gamesList them with trailers/workshop links.
>>537536868I think one winner wins for the entire team?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19mg4ci69A
>>537587052That's not Death, that's Skeletor.
I play xenophobe for once and nine out of eleven other empires are xenophile. This has to be deliberately coded in.
>>537588421It is.
>>537588421It is.I don't remember if it was datamined or people just start games and lifted fog of war to check, but it was found out that:1) you will always start surrounded by empire that will hate you,2) you will aways have lot of empires spawning next to you, with them being spread out if they're far from you.
>>537588805>you will always start surrounded by empire that will hate you,That's not true, there's often at least one that's neutral. Being xenophobe will probably push you into being hated, but that's part of the playstyle.
>>537588805>1) you will always start surrounded by empire that will hate you,this isn't true and if it ever was, it hasn't been true for years. there is a slight bias towards xenophobe and militarist, and if you're a megacorp it's more likely to have AI megacorps
>>537590990>Being xenophobe will probably push you into being hatedIt's possible to play Stellaris without being xenophobe?
stop dying
>>537602732no
>>537602819please
>>537541719MoO2 especially on small settings.
>>536235548>Endless Legend 2>HoMM Olden Era>Dawn of War 4>(and neither of them have extra launchers/denuvo)Strategy KINGS. We are feeding good.
>Stellaris stormsAnyone actually play with this shit on? Just seems annoying as fuck and the storms only seem to target me.
>>537621938they DO only target the playerlike any """"feature"""" they add, their dogshit AI would crumble if it had to face anything it can't cheat through
>>536262382X4?
>>536262382ive been waiting for Falling Frontier for years
>>537626041Same, did they release any news during PAX or whatever convention they had recently?
>>537630174No but have these that the dev posted a bit agohttps://files.catbox.moe/5acojj.mp4 &https://litter.catbox.moe/sgdpxm.mp4
>>537634497Thanks anon, I'm glad to see more stuff come out of this than from Mandate.It gives me some hope.
>>537635015You're welcome, anon! Please don't get too hyped for this game. Like the other anon said, we've been waiting years and years.
>>537621938Turn the entire DLC off and lose literally nothing because every feature in it revolves around the storms. You only buy that dlc to try a dedicated game revolving around the storms, and then turn it off when you're done.It might actually be worse then that one Endless Space 2 DLC.
>>537636060Well it's a good thing I've pirated all the DLC.Thank you CreamAPI.
>>537636491>pirateYou vile terrible sinister evil demon!
>>537636060>It might actually be worse then that one Endless Space 2 DLC.The hacking dlc?
>>537638840The REPARATIONS dlc
Haven't watched it yet but apparently Paradox dropped new info on Shadows of the Shroudhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9B6bqitFk
>>537643669So psionics isn't getting it's own branches like the other two, just the story event and new govs?
>>537647334Yeah it's fucking weird.Feels like they're making Psionics mandatory for every Empire on some level.
>machines can be psionicwhy
Honestly they should treat the ascension paths like Pokémon does starter type: Water > Fire > Grass > WaterWhere you'd have: Psionic > Genetic > Cybernetic > Psionic
>>537649631what
>>537647334Makes sense, I don't think psionics have clear options for branches like bio and synth do.
Is Biosphere a meme or is its tourism gain just hidden?
>>537652534it comes way too late to be usefulalso having neighbourhoods is a guaranteed way to deal with guerrillas if A.I is getting pissy
This game is so fucked up that I feel like sharing it with you guys.https://filebin.net/psgj3tudsruv607c/sovereignhruniandominions_-792031663.rarPartly from my own incompetence/inexperience but mostly from the randomization and sheer anti-me sentiment in the empires.Already moved onto another start but curious if recoverable.>>537650545Outwards - Effects other empires, combat/Subterfuge/Diplomatic Weight bonusesInwards - Effects your own empire, bonuses to stability/building/ethics/edictsCommunion - Shroud related shit, enhances whatever you get out of the new stuff, unusual options like summon psionic entitiesWhere's my 70k per year ParadoxMAYBE they're doing it through the Biomorphosis thing where you get basic bitch stuff like Telepaths and Psi-corps and Shroud contact and then the other slots in the Psionics tree are decided by choices in the event, if so I hope for plenty more options. Psionics should really be the most customizable in how it's applied to your empire.
>>537657668>Outwards>Inwards>CommunionThis absolutely.I want to make a group of psychics not reliant on the whims of the Warp - I mean Shroud.
>>537639053Ah, fuck that dlc.
live
can someone play warcraft 3 tft w me on gameranger? the room is called "normal 1.26 1v1, 2v2,...anything"
>>537657668I mean, it is pretty funny how opposite every other empire is to yours, but it's hardly unrecoverable. Shitcan migration rights and move pops until everything is evened out without a trade dependency, then build up efficient fleets to cover each angle of attack. ideally stack up claims and wait for someone to attack you. Consider buttering up the empire who owns the northmost empire you're already pals with.
>>537688097>can someone play warcraft 3 tft w me on gameranger? the room is called "normal 1.26 1v1, 2v2,...anything"I changed the name to: noob 1.26 1v1, 2v2,...anything
This Civ V Large Archipelago Epic game has gotten too big for even my stoned ass
We're in space! SPACE!
>>537692350
>>537657668Could also add alternate variants of all the perks for spiritualist.
>>537692350That capitalism hasn't soiled yet !
>tell gandhi off>it begins againendless war, to invigorate the soul
>>537692350https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_jAwOyrxU
>>537700873Beautiful town tovarish.
>>537698620>take rome>winoh right, domination victory
>>537702153I took carthage the turn before
>>537702153Control Rome, control the fate of mankind.
>>537702349TOO MUCH RED
>>537704197I'll be blue next game, just for you anon
>>537704523No, no, no Ultramarines. Go... green! Green is good!
>>537705182not everything has to be about 40k you fucking retard
>>537705357Hush child, the grownups are talking.
>>537705449>40k>grownups
>>537705182Like the Dark Angels? Or the Salamanders?
Refresh my memory on the non-Liberation Wars options for affecting other empire's ethics in Stellaris.I want to create a fan.xenophobe empire devoted to not enslaving or purging the galaxy but unifying it through the mutual shared enlightenment of seething hatred of everyone else.
>>537706959Not quite.
It's been real brosBut I'm about to let silksong devour my life for a whileSee you on my next kick
>>537707081there's the impose ideology casus belli>unifying it through the mutual shared enlightenment of seething hatred of everyone else.that makes no sense
let's fucking go boys
>>537714326>venice>archipelagoEasy win fr fr fr.Good luck.
>>537714326this is my island. there are many like it (presumably) but this is mine. >>537714446I don't even know what win condition to go for
>>537714693I don't play Civilizations, but can't you sell food to make gold? You have a lot of bananas.
>>537714693I suppose tradition is the only real choice here>>537714880...no.
>>537714979Go for tall then?
>>537714979I can found a city with a merchant of venice, which is a vox populi thing I guess. presumably it will be puppeted>>537715159brother I am venice, there is no other choice
>>537715626yep.
>>537715806this fucker again
>>537716304I can just... buy city states?
>>537716912I'm going to buy (?) valetta because it has iron
>>537680678once again
>>537712349It makes perfect sense. Peace through impenetrable borders. Everyone respects each others space and wants absolutely nothing to do with their neighbours.
>>537650545>path where you commit to some shroud patron>path where you go the philosopher monk route and ignore the whole shroud god thing>path where you try to create an artificial shroud god through worshipI could see it working
Hey civ4xg, I have this sudden urge to play something like a civ game but more autistic with stuff like detailed population numbers per city/tile, having to manage specific resources and logistics, communications etc to transport goods, people, trade and the like but within and without the empire, the more autistic shit it simulates the better say climate, soil fertility, army composition and the like, I don't care if it's a spreadsheet simulator graphics wise but I want the feeling of very detailed management of a developing civilization that is less abstracted than my usual civ games. Are there any games like this?
>>537751267I can offer you vastly detailed citybuilding autism (WRSR) or vastly detailed space autism (Aurora4x), no civ analogue comes to mind.
>>537751267Try Songs of Syx.
>>537751267If you hate yourself Ymir is pretty close.
>be me>playing against the storm>kvetching in this general about how bullshit the feeling lucky deed/achievement is>finish my run and decide to play one last game to see if I can get it so I can be done with the game FOREVER>do literally everthing I possibly can to increase my odds of pulling it>choose all production buildings from rep rewards>buy every blueprint available from traders>wait until the middle of the game to start sending out expeditions, after I've cleared every blueprint reward>odds are something like 1/20 now>get the rainpunk foundry on the first expedition>literally after saying, "watch, I'm gonna get it on the first try this time">mfw i have no face for this feel>feel like I've finally completed everything in the game considering I have every achievement now...>that is... except for the secret deeds...>look them up for the first time>some are relatively easy>some are batshit insane>like winning a game on p20 without cutting down a single tree>or getting BOTH the rainpunk foundry and the homestead in one game from expeditions (a 1/28 and a separate 1/18 roll)>decide that I have a couple days before Silksong, now only one day>try to see how many of the 13 I can get when I deliberately go for them. So far I have gotten like 6, mostly the easy ones that don't take too much effort or strategy. Currently working on 2 more on this one settlement, then am going to try a single time to get the feeling extremely lucky deed. I have been working towards it by stockpiling embarkation points to bring literally as many blueprints as possible into the settlement to begin with>in the future, I will have a new goal. Get every single deed in a single run, including the hidden ones. This will have to be separate from my no kills run, as some of these deeds require deathsJust when I thought I was outThey pull me back in
>>537759441>cheevosYou need to let go.
>>537716304His words are backed with nuclear weapons, you better watch it
>>537754595I hate myself but I don't actually want to play video games.
uhokay?
Next week I'm starting a new job. A Civ V civ for this feel?
>>537777802A civ that has a very location specific traits maybe. One that make you restart because your location is shite.
>>537769052He wants something to retire on when he hands you the keys to the kingdom. It's understandable.
>looking through some of the ongoing anime>find one that's a strategy themed isekai>look it up and the author has listed Stellaris, Age of Empires 2, and Fall From Heaven 2 as some of his favorite games>explicitly says Fall From Heaven 2 was a major inflence for the story and mechanics>look up the novels to see what it's about>first one has this descriptionShame one of the characters is a praying mantis not a spider, otherwise this would have been the official /civ4xg/ anime. There's apparently some references to Japanese civ memes and people have noticed a few spells/titles that are identical to ones in the Japanese version of FFH2. Crazy how some OC mod is that influential.
>>537791742Mynoghra is pretty based
LIVE
>>537754595What's so bad about stone age pig simulator?
>>537791742She's a mantis. And don't worry, she doesn't stick around too long.
>>537782257So the Iroquois, where it's literally unplayable unless you get a decent location, got it
WESTERN CIVILIZATION
>>537822981Commercial and Agricultural is so beautiful in civ 3. That flood plain money.
Ugliest city yet.
theodora giving me cash fuckin money for a tech
>>537836957gussy and I were friends until recently...
I feel like restarting Anno 1800 again. Unlocking Enbesa before the New World was a bad move.
I hate Stellaris.
>>537839125I really like Stellaris despite the game.
>>537839942same
>>537839942I get you. I play a lot of old games despite how awful AI and pathfinding are.They just are fun, but frustrating.
>>537843629harpy sex
>>537849053sexoooooooooooooooo
My bröthers I have 1325h logged in AtS. Probably a good hundred is the game still launched while I was eating lunch or something, but still. I've done something like 3 complete runs all the way through adamantine seal, not including 2 runs that were done before those updates where I just reached the end of the progression and tech treeJust a few days ago I finally got the "feeling lucky" achievement to round out my perfection of the game. Only after did I learn that there are, as of now, THIRTEEN HIDDEN DEEDS that you can try to do for cosmetic rewards. Fucking hell man. I only knew about one of them because of a devlog. After looking into them, I decided to try a few as I had 2 more days before Silksong came out (now about 10h remain). I actually managed to get about half of them, granted they were the easier half to do, but it felt pretty good, though, very sloppy. My last settlement was an attempt at "feeling very lucky" which asks you to pull both the homestead and the rainpunk foundry in one game from expeditions. This is mostly random chance, BUT there are several things you can do to improve your odds. I did virtually everything within my power to help>fucked around and stockpiled 28 reserve embarkation points to use on all the blueprints>waited until I cleared every rep reward blueprint>always chose orders that granted blueprints>waited for cornerstone rerolls yearly to try and get the smuggler or faster trader arrival, etc.>take frogs and get the zealous architects cornerstone, which grants you 4 random blueprints for 20 fully upgraded houses>bought every blueprint I could find from tradersIn the end, I managed to get the homestead and then a 1/10 chance for the foundry, which failed. There is very little I could have done very very little more to increase my odds further. Infact, this was a GOOD run with great luck up until the end. The one thing I missed out on were smuggler visits, especially the stormforged.Alas, I am 100% not enough
>>537851957achievement hunting is stupid and pointless
>>537851957Still, the deeds I did complete were>reconstruct a archeology site withing 25m (first 2 years) on p20>deplete a leviathan node in the marshlands naturally (almost got it on one run, but fucked myself over by choosing meat specialization, which increased the yield every 25. This means that the amount grew with every single harvest. By the end, the camps had pulled almost 50k (not exaggerating) meat out of the fucking thing. I ran out of patience before it was gone. Ended up depleting it properly on the next settlement, along with depleting the fungus and wheat)>finish a game with 999 salt in the warehouse (very easy. You just need Bats on the bamboo flats>win the stormant column world event without anyone experiencing hunger on p20 (also pretty easy, just embark with amber and bring in the first trader immediately. it's usually a food guy>solve 6 forbidden events in one game>attack sir renwald redmane (this mf killed 12 fucking villagers in the attack. Usually 2 or 3 die lol (you dont get any reward from this btw))So that's 6 out of 13. Not bad for a last minute attempt. Out of the remaining 7, 2 are tied to world events>pet the cat 50 times>kill 10 villagers in the forsaken gods ritual2 are not that difficult (seemingly)>win a game after harvesting 20 bloodflowers>open 2 forbidden glades in year one on the cursed royal woodlands (basically pure chance. Either in the biome with mist piercer as the first CS, or start with forbidden lands world modifer, where it's an instant get (I once almost got this as I had a spawn like that, but I didn't know about the deed then, so I did the game without opening any glades at all)
>>537853939And the last 3 are very intensive and require a ton of set up and skillful execution>aforementioned feeling extremely lucky>finish a game on p20 in 3 years or less (basically requires scarlet orchard and to rush the 3 sites while you hope you gave good glade rng and doable orders within 3 years. Possible, and I've done it before but around p12 or something, obviously much harder on p20)>finish a game on p20 without cutting down a single tree (holy shit this one sounds insane. Didnt even attempt it. This is like the true final boss of deeds. The two strategies I can forsee working are ->play on rocky ravine, use trade to constantly buy your way to food and resources. Hardly any orders will be doable, so you have to rely on resolve basically entirely>play on bamboo flats and use the starting glade to set up a farm to turn into to porridge production. Use that and trading to resolve the way to the end>both set ups would require as many supply lines as you could possibly bring and likely require atleast 2 out of 3 of Humans, Foxes, and Frogs, as porridge is the easiest complex food to make>both seem equally challenging. On rocky ravine you will probably struggle for food a lot. On the bamboo flats, the biggest issue by far will be fuel.>the one thing I'm curious on is if it only counts if YOU cut down a tree. But if you're playing with the Tree Grazer world event, maybe it doesn't count if it cuts them down? If not, you basically have free access to glades and resources, which would mean this deed is still very difficult, but no longer virtually impossible, if it's tied to this world event.... in another life ...>>537852609Anon all gaming is pointless
>>537854507>Anon all gaming is pointless
that is such a rude thing to say holy fuck
>>537854836WHAT THE FUCK NAPOOPAN
>>537855040oh my fucking god
>>537855542noooooooooooooo
>>537856537whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
>>537856820I'm abandoning this game
