Previous thread: >>536235548This 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
Is Stellaris the Simcity 4 of shitty space 4x games?
>>538119125A Popular, heavily modded game people play for role playing value?Yes, it's exactly that.
Hey, no dying!
>>538128239fuck steam, GOG's got a sale for $67.49
>>5381285804x is a dead genre.
>>538130894What is dead may never die
Aurora bros!2.6 is out
>>538137460What the actual fuck, its not a hoax.Fucking hell, the second i started a new campaign AND when i have to go to work Steve does that..
>>538137460Has he added graphics? I need to see pretty things.
>>538137847>t. 5
>>538141019Respect my disability, bigot.
>>538145721Being a faggot isnt a disability.
>>538135237Civ4xg fhtagn!
Now that the dust has settled, is Humankind worth a try?
I feel like if I talked about AoW4 in /twg/ I would get more feedback lmao. This place has terminal cancer.
>>538165393You can't even talk about historical Total War in /twg/ these days.
fuck it, I may as well fight assyria while france is distracted with swedenI am so ready for this game to be over>>538165393no u
>>538165393I hate /twg/. They have excellent games, and they waste their breath on "nooo tranquol soon".
barely above a medium dificulty
>>538170481Motherfucker is actually trying to play a game I tried to forget. What race were you playing?
>>538170761Goblins vs pc Dwarfs
>>538176775..huh. I always thought goblins were shit.
>>538178083maybe they are, and maybe that is why is hard, but I like big orange giants throwing big rocks.
>>538178276Oh yeah. These assholes are the best siege machine in the game.
>>538165393>f3 aow4 in previous thread>no results>f3 age of wonders in previous thread>no results>f3 age of wonder in previous thread>one post, about fucking ff14that cancer there better not be youso are you going to at least try to talk or ask about aow4 here, or are you an eternal faggotask a goddamn question
>>538194542I did post a lot of AoW4 a while ago.Mostly confused questions because THAT GAME KICKS MY ASS
>>538196056For the longest while I was playing on easy just to learn everythingAND because someone said the AI still gets a small eco buff even on normal, not sure if that was true or if it still gets that handout in the current patch since that was way back in AoW4 launchdifficulty settings expanded since then to be more modular, and I got really used to enjoying the combat. Forced myself to play mystic potential culture and not rely on auto-resolvenow I'm a lot more confident in the game but still mainly just setup power fantasies for myself. Like, half my created civs are all underground societies since underground feels so fucking good after the Giant Kings dlc
Fuck is this demon thingy?Did Zen Edition add new things?
bump
>>538204965No
>>538205343Why not?
>>538205343yes, fuck you.
>>538205684If you're going to bump, you must post a picture.Them's the rules.
>see stellaris supposedly changed how population and growth works in their latest big patch>Oh damn does that mean there's actually population simulation for a change instead of the same garbage "your city has 7 population" system everyone in this genre aped from civ?>No lol you just have 100 pop instead of 1 pop>Everything's basically the same but times 100What even was the point of changing the system then.
>try wolf>against lotus>expect to steamroll them>get steamrolled instead...what.
I've been unfocused, because of a comment a friend made a while ago. Basically, he claimed you can put everything into D&D alignement, and I've been struck trying to put the different Battle Realms clans into this chart, because at first glance, it's simple:- Dragon is Good Lawful,- Serpent is Evil Lawful,- Wolf is Good Unlawful,- Lotus are Cunts.But it doesn't work, because, in the case of the Dragon: at first glance, they're all honorable and chill as fuck, but when you take a look, the archers and spearmen are humble warriors while the Samurai is proud of his skill, but they are still all fanatics ready to murder the fuck out of you violently just you even present a danger, they won't wait for you to attack first.So does that really work?
>>538209241>he claimed you can put everything into D&D alignementthat's retarded, people have been arguing over alignment for decadespeople can't even agree to what alignment Batman would be, anything more complex than a saturday morning cartoon character isn't going to fit neatly in a 3x3 chart
>>538209241>Basically, he claimed you can put everything into D&D alignementtell him that he's a fucking moron
>>538207264None. The change from 25 was just that they wanted pop numbers to be high so it looked like planets had lots of people.So next update they'll probably multiply the number by another 100. Then your new colonies will start with 10,000 settlers and your capital will start the game with 500,000 pops.
>>538209835Batman is obviously chaotic neutral.
what the fuckoh shit I think I won a score victory
>>538213539let's drop a celebratory nuke or two
>>538213721pretty much all of my score was from nukes. now that I've used them, france is higher than me. too late though, hehehe
>>538214093>you can win the game by nuking everyonebrb goin 2 whitehouse
>>538214587no, you misunderstand. I won because I didn't nuke anybody
>>538215113Oh, from stockpiling and hoarding them?Now everything makes a lot more sense. I think I finally understand.
>>538214093>we'll let you claim victory just please don't fucking nuke us
>>538209835As a gross oversimplification, I mean. Of course you can't judge someone only through this alignement, which is why Warhammer RPG instead uses two goals.
>>538213539>year 2050>turn 330 (so quick game speed?)Yeah, score victory. What victory condition were you originally going for?
>>538220764I have no idea honestly, diplo was probably my best shot
>>538137460how does one even play Aurora? has he made a tutorial?
>>538223514>has he made a tutorial?Lol.On a real answer, reading the wiki, tutorials made by other people and if you can stomach it, youtube tutorials.Almost all of them will be kinda outdated in some regards, but I think (You) are smart enough to overcome a minor variation.
>>538223514Trial and error. Its not that complicated game desu.
Are there any mods for aurora that make it look less than my 62 year old coworker's spreadsheet at least?
>>538237986There's a mod that makes it look like win95 spreadsheet
>>538235206lol
>>538213721Hooray!
>>538196056Is it still kicking your ass?I burned a lot of time on it. Still bad at it I guess, but I at least know what's going on if I'm getting raped
alright here are the next game's settings. doing another team game, with 4 teams of 2. I am going M A X I M U M war this time, conquering everything that looks at me the wrong way. playing rome because they've been a pain in my ass the previous two games
>>538265906I can survive, compared to how I fared in AoW2 where I'd get raped by dragons, but the AI leaves me in the dust.
>>538271415not a great start
>>538273309yep.
Haven't touched Stellaris in few years.How is 4.0 and Biogenesis?I've heard it is bad and not getting much better.
>>538276231biogenesis is good, 4.0 needs work but there's another DLC in 2 weeks so it's going to need even more work
>>538276231>How is 4.0 and Biogenesis?Trash. The pop changes are absurd and ended up being absolute failure and the game runs even worse now.
>>538276990>the game runs even worseAnons keep saying this but it doesn't seem as bad, to me. It slows down in late game, as it always does, but it doesn't repeatedly hang for a moment like it used to. Pop calculations seem to be done monthly rather than daily, like they used to.
>>538276402>>538276990I guess I'll ignore it and go back being bad in Anno 1800
>>538273309>go for a war run>get spawned in with the most aggro motherfucker alive>he has super strong early game units>plus this dude >>538273623 whose civ bonuses let him science good>meaning he'll keep technological parity with your army for longer>and fucking Alexander, another often aggro AI, is on the only other team that hasn't declared war on you yetWew. Have fun, friend.
Is this a black woman adeptus mechanicus beating 3 necrons on her own? Aren't necrons supposed to be really fucking difficult to kill even for Space Marines?
>>538273623okay, I don't remember which team this smug asshole is on, but it's something>>538281617yeah tell me about it
>>538284534they were with the aztecs apparently, so I'm turning straight around to kill the koreans
>>538284756weird. I'm not going to do it because they denounced alexander and I am for sure going to be at war with monty in the future
>>538288291one city down, 3 to gomonty and alex went to war too, so it was a good idea to not declare friendship
>>538288528s-siam? sir?
>>538237986That's part of the soul of it.
>>538283259I didn't even notice she was black. You really are obsessed with race...
>>538297287I only noticed it myself when I paused at this specific shot where she crushes a space terminator's head like he's made out of paper. I guess it only legitimizes the pattern recognition.Even Tyranids fear these dudes and yet here's a trio of them getting trashed by a tech nerd.
pmub
>>538276990How can Stellaris run even worse. It wasn't running great ever since the 2.0 update.
Players should be able to emphasize tech unlocks but not focus them exclusively like civ does.
If Civ7 wanted crises they should have given unique tech or units like in Millennia.
>>538315023Well no shit tyranids fear necrons. There's zero biomass on them.
>>538283259Play Mechanicus. You beat those skeleton wannabes like they owe you money.
>been getting a strong itch to start playing AoEII ranked again>ended on a win streak high note well over a year ago at 1450is there a way to just nuke my elo down to 1k so I don't have to just lose 30 games in a row while 'remembering' how tf to do everything?
>>538324085They fear them because they can't beat them in a war of attrition, not because they don't have biomass. The latter is just disinterest.
observe the assfucking that monty has received, courtesy of famous buttfuckers alexander the great and me, augustus caesar
>>538315023Techpriests aren't exactly space marines. Aren't they more like commanders?
>>538331725just about done here. I'm going to raze that last city
Oh heck, chi shield suddenly a lot better.
Oh, dragon breath got nerfed, now it only eats four dragon warriors.
>>538338063>the food resource is represented by ricename 10 strategy games so I can avoid them
>>538340921Yes? Is this really the hill you want to die on?
>>538341202i'll gladly die on it once you explain those chinese characters in the bottom left to me. 水雲?
>changed Tausil's warlock skill>can no longer grieve ally by killing his unitsSadge.>>538341989Hell if I know. Might be gibberish for all I know, Battle Realms isn't historical at all.
>>538331783>>538324759Yes, mechanicus are less combat-inclined, but them being able to fight so well would raise the question of why they aren't the frontline of the Imperium instead of, well, the marines.Here's a cutscene from this very same game series that shows how strong they are:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa6F-DuVmIo
>>538347341>warriors only beat space marines because they outnumber themokAlso, consider the following:it all depends from dices, so don't rely on freak accidents and lucky streaks to jauge of someone's strength. I once had a squad of termagaunts absolutely analhilating a squad of these dark eldars wyches in a single shooting phase.
>>538347478>because they outnumber themThey get back up after being shot. That's what gives them the "near-unstoppable metal tide" reputation that they had when they were a new faction. That's why the only surefire way to stop them is to deactivate their tombs/monoliths before they ever wake up.But even in gameplay they're tough to kill, hence why they move so slowly as a balancing measure. Dawn of War Winter Assault's final mission is portrayed as, and plays out like a fucking nightmare because of that. It takes an imperial Titan just to stop a local mob of them... and now they're jobbers?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puaEL2cL6h8&t=776s
war, what's it good for
It's time lads, and i'm here for it. Say no to reroll, be a real civilization.
>>538347478> I once had a squad of termagaunts absolutely analhilating a squad of these dark eldars wyches in a single shooting phase.you're wasting your breath, nobody here actually plays the game
>>538352830I would 100% reroll with that much marsh, that's fucked up
>>538355473It's okay, the swamptites will rise.
Uh oh
>>538348786It takes an Imperial Titan to stop several MONOLITHS.>>538352878They should, it's a pain to set up, but it can be hilarious.
>>538358095what kind of fucked up map settings are you playing on
>>538358343300x300, 31 civs, TAM mod.
>>538358413yeah the map gen gets kinda wack when you go above vanilla sizes and civshave you seen those clusters of 10+ luxes?
>>538358908Not yet, but those are funny, once witnessed a mountain range of silver in the MEM mod.
Controling the marshes.
>>538358095Real David vs Goliath energy in that map.
>>538365127Indeed! How much the pheonicians have discovered the world for me.
>>538365450Is the island with 3 cities your land (even though you have bunch more)?
>>538366202Nope, i'm on an island surrounded by sea and ocean we no timber (for advanced boats), I have nine cities.
>>538365450Holy shit. I didn't have a grasp of Civ 3 map sizes so seeing that puts it into amazing perspective. Something akin to a Pale Blue Dot type of awe.
>>538367994Biggest civ ever I think, the turn timer can be bad but you can go up to 340 x 340. The zoomed out and more simplistic design just hits me right, it's why I just do not like the district system of all the 4x's recently.
The marshes have been cleared and hopefully I pop some lumber.
>>538365450...heck.
Yeah the farms look better for sure.
>>538118126Are we hyped for Endless Legend 2 (and Olden Era)?Wonder how much they will cost.
>>538366534Ye but where are you on the map, it's pretty confusing
>>538372780I'm on the island in the square purple color.
>>538372839See>>538366202So that island with 3 cities is where you are then.
>>538372979Yeah, I thought you were thinking I had colonies, when you said alot more land.
>>538373090Cause the map shows only 3 but you have 10 cities on it.
>>538373203Yeah don't worry about it anymorem it's all ogre, VP points ended it. I was going for this mod's version of space race and didn't make it. Full map though.
You should know this!
>>538376849I don't know anything.
>>538378819Okay Jon Snow.
>>538370189>all those seasIs that done manually or automatically by the game?
Civ 3 but with hexes
>>538395563Like magic?
>>538399651Like 6 sided polygons.
>waited for Aurora 2.6 for so long I decided to get back into WRSR for the time being>just as my republic really starts coming together, Steve drops the updateIt's so fucking unfair.
>>538352710>That UICiv never recovered from that. UI's have been shit ever since.
>>538402065Glorious republic tovarish.
>>538402527Thank you! New city and steel industry coming up, I'll see how far I can get before the urge to conquer the stars overwhelms me.
>>538400003Sounds like witchcraft, to me.
I wiped out korea before the aztecs. rip.
>>538418654And somehow you're the bad guy.
>>538418654He's right.Now who's gonna make RimWorld HAR/xenotype mods?
>>538425345I mean he kills non Whites so who cares.
>kick paradox 10 dollars for their scam of a dlc sub for stellaris because somehow i would have to spend 100 dollars to get the ones i dont have>they update the game every 2 days now and all mods are permanently brokenwhy is every game i like made by the most incompetent retard gorilla niggers on the planet
>>538387959By the game, probably just wonky generation.
>>538427415Those haven't been relevant since Biotech.
