Previous thread: >>547983256This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Foundation Update 1, Quality of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1NfIITshxwFalling Frontier Dev Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280190/view/539994465116356609Frostpunk 2, Fractured Utopias DLC will release December 8th: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/809085268448510868Endless Legend 2, multiplayer review: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3407390/view/585031732510589022Endless Space 2, community patch: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/392110/view/510720518552291537Town tto City, Animals Update trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TK_xF0x9iEC-Beams, Devlog 48: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Qdes6JY6ENebulous: Fleet Command, Devlog 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgbXiJdJTk&ab_channel=EridanusIndustries== 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
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>>549333568Northgard
>>549337587>rubber banding AI
>>549336010So apparently there is a beta for Manor Lords with a huge amount of fixes.Manor Lords beta patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1363080/view/532116974486947130
>you can also migrate the city to your own race>this is an evil act, however
>>549337934What's wrong with that?
>>549339127>forced displacement of people is evilWho would've thought???
>>549337587yeah this looks pretty chill, thanks. can I just play single-player?
>>549339391Yes. There's a campaign that lets you play as the base game clans iirc
>>549337482HYUK HYUK HYUK
How do you beat Gray Tempest nowadays? They have 600k in the factory, 240k in the entry system. I have the largest most advanced empire in the galaxy and I only have 100k total. Federation allies bring it up to 160k but their ships are hot garbage.Ship tech is about on par.
For AOW4, how are these mods balance-wise? Anything you guys recommend? Mostly looking for more tomes to improve the RP angle of this game, but anything is fine.
>>549254658what game is this?
>>549359893>>549184980
>>549337934Is this AoW4? In 1 and 2 you could just migrate races, but it could tank your relations with them.
>>549353018>100kI have at least 3x that number to beat the fleets camping at egress. The factory goes down surprisingly fast, tho
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Idk if this is the right thread but I tried song styx during the free trial period and really enjoying it. I was wondering if I should sink a lot of time into this game or rimworld instead since I want a more relaxing game recently and xcom 2 permadeath and rng pissing me off. What would you guys recommend? Or maybe another similar game in the same vein?
>>549374819Anno 1800 with either no AI or easy AI.
I've always thought AoW was like Age of Empires, but it's a combination of HoMM, Total War and DnD
I've played three games of Stellaris recently and "The Chosen" have appeared in all of them and have taken over at least a third of the galaxy each time. Did I just get unlucky with some event or are they some kind of midgame crisis now?
>>549378983kinda unlucky, they show up half the time
>>549379745man that sucks, I don't want another advanced fanatic purifier every other game
>>549380282they're usually not that tough
>>549377519Welcome aboard.
I will start using stellaris to slow my attention down. I will try to read every event and at least give the big ones a fair chance. I legit only ever read the bonuses and I have 0 story considerations in my 50 hours of playing.Also I’m taking the ego down a notch and playing on low difficulty.Now my question is:Any fun builds? I feel like the game has too much content abd will need multiple games to experience it but for now just wanna play low and slow. Also good galaxy generation settings? I have all the dlc through steam so dw about that.
>>549353018build more ships buddypump that alloy production up
>>549353018cheese them with cloaked frigatestempest has zero detection, you can just fly into their home system with a large enough ball of cloaked frigates and nuke the factory which will instantly kill all their fleets
>>549381590How do I pump up the pops to fill the alloy foundries? I last played way before 4.0 so I've lost my touch with the meta>>549381747How many ships/fleet power do I need to guarantee the kill? Like I said I left sciships in the cluster so there's like 600k+ worth of defense there now
>>549380914Just play "tall" so you don't have to deal with a billion notifications and can take the time to read events. Machine Species, Guardian Matrix civic and Virtualisation ascension. I think it was stronger before but it's still silly now.
I'm not a big fan of Stellaris. The power system feels like I'm playing a Chinese xianxia game. You're either vastly weaker than your enemies or overwhelmingly stronger. There doesn't seem to be an in-between
>>549384853Kinda wish true tall was possible but oh well
>>549388620What's not possible about it? Tall with vassals is better than wide now. Suppose it's how you're defining tall but reducing empire size is meta now.
>>549388620What do you mean by “true tall”? If you take the ringworld origin you can just stay in your home system without expanding and make it work, that’s about as tall as it gets
>>549336010I-is this the place to post about tycoon/park builder games? (Ie Rollercoaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, Planet Zoo, Jurassic World Evolution, etc)?
>>549394332Yes. Though depending on how autistically compelx the systems are it might go in /egg/
>psionically ascend and make a covenant with the composer>aura of the composer has extended to reach over a fanatically xenophobic pre-ftl planet in my bordersI like to imagine how horrified they would be as their species starts developing subtle mutations, and they eventually find out it’s some sort of “xeno magic” altering their dna. Now that I think about it I wish the auras had special pre-ftl events like the cradle’s aura making them pacifistic, the eater making them more aggressive, the instrument making them more authoritarian etc
>try to play the so called best realm in the game>no dragon lordsday ruined
>>549399767good, dr*gons keep out
Aurora bros
>>549400224I'm going to take out my anger on whoever decided on that
>>549400901Good, good. Let the hate flows through you...
This voting system is so fucking stupid. The option that won has less than half as many votes as what I voted for.Two of the retarded AIs voted for something that doesn't even do anything, since science victory is disabled, and no one has gotten far enough in tech to even build a spaceport anyway.
>>549402450Espionage? Wait, what game is that?!
>>549403016Civ VI.
>>549403473Oh thank heaven, I thought there was espionage in AoW 4 and that I somehow missed it.Okay, proceed.
Is the site back from maintenance yet?
>>549410926>Is the site back from maintenance yet?Yes. I'm just playing other games besides Anno 1800.I really don't know how I am gonna face Willie with a fleet of 10+ ship of the line. Even El Negro is easier to deal with. I'm trying to curry favour with the ginger pirate by doing case fires that increases favour by like 8. And is only like 11k money which is a drop in a bucket given that I have 1.5M
>spent a year playing my 2.5.1 Aurora 4x save and eagerly waiting for 2.6.0 to come out, there's so many good changes in it>it comes out>sure enough everyone says it's broken, as could be expected>eagerly wait for 2.7.0 to come out and fix the bugs>once it's out, changelog for 2.8.0 is already available and there are already really good changes on it>kinda want to wait for 2.8.0 nowGod damn it, have I fallen into a trap?
>>549410926No, we're all on 4channel.
>>549413101>God damn it, have I fallen into a trap?Yes, it's called version chasing. It happens a lot with games like Minecraft.
>>549336010Distant Worlds 2 Mercantile Update is now live! It includes a refresh of the Teekan and Haakonish some fleet and ship behavior updates and a bunch of small fixes. Now it's only the Ackdarians that need to be updated I think. Patchnotes from their forums: https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?p=5252980#p5252980>>549394332Yes this is the place for tycoon games but if they are very complex like factorio /egg/ would be more suited.
Mods to make Stellaris feel like a proper empire builder?
>>549416245uninstall stlelaris and reinstall sword of sins of solar empire : Rebellion
How is Act of War?
>>549422982What is act of war?
anyone playing anno 117 on hardest? it doesnt feel great, i need rows and rows of dwelling to break even. and it seems like the ai doesnt even attack you. this isnt a city builder its a griddy builder
>>549425762Why is act of war?
>>549428992Who is act of war?
>>549429251Where is act of war?
>run out of tools before I can finish the tool production buildings>game tells me to buy tools at exorbitant prices from my neighbor>okay whatever I'm stuck here forever if I don't do that>their fat lazy merchant waddles over after half an eternity>doesn't sell me shit even though I have the money and desperate needIt's over for my shitty village before it even really began.
>>549432078You need to set up the trades in the trade tab also assign a depot to take the goods you want to get. Sometimes (especially early on) there is no other option than to trade for stuff you can't make on your onw.
I see the wandering village is out now. Is it any good? Is it fun?
I forgot to post this but /hgg2d/'s divegrass team has a player that changes based on their opponent and for /civ4xg/ the player was Catherine the Great
>>549441758And here's the player as a drawing that one of the /hgg2d/ people sent me
Total Warhammer 3, what's a good faction for someone that hasn't played since Medieval 2?I know there's a dedicated general to ask but I'd rather peel my own skin off
>>549447584>>>/vg/twg/
>>549447584empire, high elves, bretonnia are very standard line of spearmen, some ranged units, flank with cavalry. the main difference between nu total war and the older ones is moral, the fights are a huge mosh pit and are over in 5 minutes, where as in something like the original rome if one of your hastati was too far ahead of your army it would break moral and run away
>10lmao
>>549441758Cute.
>>549422982>How is Act of War?Fun.>>549425762>What is act of war?What C&C General wishes it was.>>549428992>Why is act of war?Oil deficit.>>549429251>Who is act of war?Eugen Systems.>>549429539>Where is act of war?GoG.
>>549448063tbdesu the real main difference is that nuTW is all about shitting out doomstacks on turn 5 and smashing them against dozens of other doomstacks for the entire rest of the campaign.
>>549447584Empire, Dwarf, High Elves, Lizardmen.Empire start with very weak infantry, but it's versatile, so you can see what you like and move from here.Dwarfs have tougher infantry but excellent artillery, and are more fit for passive, defensive games.High Elves are like Empire 2.0, very versatile, but with better late-game infantry, through they lack anti-armour options.Lizardmen, are BOK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkoPDAZV1yI
>>549447584Oh, and probably Vampire Counts too. They're relatively simple: just make monsters. No artillrey, no range, no balance, just monsters.
i wonder if there is a strategy game out there that functions kinda like MULEin that the goal is not necessarily control through combat, but to have the side with the highest economic value (in both buildings and units) by a set time limit
>>549461951A lot of modern RTS have a countdown system. Company of Heroes, Dawn of War 2...
>>549462175that's one thing, but i'm talking about a strategy that incentivizes an economic victory first and foremost rather than a military one
>>549462360Closest I can think of is... Etherium? And well, "economic victory" means "blowing up the enemy fleet".
>>549461951off-world trading companyaoe wonder victory
>>549447584>I'd rather peel my own skin off>>/vg/keng/
>>549432078This happened to me, and then there was a event with the king offering tools for a loan to pay later. pretty much a fail safe I think.
>>549464432>>>/vg/keng/
>>549463956>off-world trading companydead game
>>549447584What's wrong, why are you pi voting away from the dedicated thread?
>>549447584I'd say the factions to avoid at first are Tomb Kings, any of the Chaos factions (if it looks demonic or looks like it comes form Bristol, it's a no-no), and Vampire Coast.Tomb Kings have very fragile armies but they recover them very, very quickly, and most of their army suck.Vampire Coast can be fun, but they rely a lot on diplomacy and pillaging, so you don't want to be at war with everyone.Chaos is always a bit weird to play, whether it's Nurgle, Khorne, Brighton, Cawston, Bristol or just Sussex in general).
>>549467459ntadoes it have singleplayer?
>>549471481Yes.
>>549471481And I mean it literally. You can literally play without AI opponents.
>>549471883wait a minute what the fuck
>>549478786Yes. I don't really remember the conditions, but it's allowed. I dunno if you win right away and can keep playing or if it's something vague condition like "build a wonder" or "get all the patents".
>>549360790thanks, but now that I look at the other images, look kinda meh
>>549487195Like YOUR face lmao gottem
>>549478786>he never played AOE without other players and harvested every resource as a kid
>AoEPeon.
How is Runequest bros?
>>549508964This masterpiece was abandoned while AOE lives on
>>549514114Is is really living when you're just a shambeling corpse that gets pumped full of DLC? They even had a 3 kangdoms fantasy DLC.
I managed to get my tool production going, and now that I have tools, clothes, and a trading partner that buys both I'm drowning in moneyDecided to built a monastery on this island, surely it is big enough for that.
>>549523180Forgot picture fugg :DDDAlso where the fuck do I get a watchpost, I need to get that housing density up. Do I need to build a castle for that?
>>549523362Here is some inspiration. Every monastery needs to have a claustrum, which is a walled garden or square.
>>549523892Another one. Do keep in mind that you need huge amounts of stone and cut stones.
>>549524138Yeah, cut stone is the issue because the stone cutter only employs one dude and he's slow as fuck
>>549524138A smaller example.
>>549524268Yeah cutting stone is hard work.>>549524356Citeaux was massive even in the middle ages, it was the start of the Cistercians order. You can see the barock facade in the bottom of the image.
>>549525017Were mixed-sex monastaries a thing? because the game lets you do that but somehow I'm thinking it's not very realistic
>>549336010Distant Worlds 2, Mercantile update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/499465877188511534Frostpunk 2, Fractured Utopias DLC: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/507347176534312523
>>549525330Yes but after the early middle ages they became very rare because they were banned in the second council of Nicaea.
>>549525330The mixed monasteries got a bit of a revival later on. This is the abbey of Fontvraud which was also a dubble cloister but only one of the few arround its time. It also houses the grave of Eleonore of Aquitaine and became one of the burial sites of the Plantagenet family.
>Civ 6>get a nice spawn that is on one side closed by a 1-hex wide mountain pass with a city-state on the other side and from the other side by a 6-hex wide empty desert>build cities at both ends to bottle up the plain in between so I can freely use them later>buy tiles with gold to create a border on the desert>retard computer just dumps cities right next to my borders, that can't grow because no water or food and immediately start to rebel and ask to join me>I can't get rid of them later, but they eat up my amenitiesI think I've been had. Shouldn't have accepted them joining.
>>549525017>barockI think you mean baroque. That's mid 17th to mid 18th century.
>>549527250The Plantagenets are cunts, though. Still not as bad as the Hapsbourg, but still...
>>549527595Oh I didn't know what it was in english. But you can see the monasteries got modified and expanded well after the middle ages. Citeaux was disbanded during the French revolution, I think most of the stone was used to make the harbor or part of the harbor of Marseille.
Don't die
i only know about this place because of the football team. can someone explain why stalin is the captain?
>>549539467Quick... recommend me some strategy games.RTS, 4x, turn based, doesn't matter, just give me 20cc's of your best strategy, before it's too late!
>>549541613Because he has been a playable leader in several Civilization games.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSS9sm6ubAc
>>549542075is his name a civ meme?
>>549541740Seven Kingdoms 2.Act of War : High Treason.Warrior King Battle.
>>549507165I do this now but with Stellaris. I just empire build and make a perfect Utopian empire.
>>549545710This, but with a 25X crisis at the end.
>>549551168Same bro
>>549527250>Plantagenettime for the EFA and NDC to work together
>>549551746EFA and NDC?
>>549555435Earth Federation ArmyNeo Divine CrusadersSuper Robot Wars Original Generation
>>549508964this is literally the laziest most soulless reskin ever, the lead developer was openly proud of putting in so little effort to shit out a branded product in less time for less money,literally just take aoe2 engine, apply star wars mod, ship it. zero attempt to adapt the mechanics to star wars setting, mechanically it's still a game about medieval castle sieges and holy relics.I don't get why people suck this shit off, it's just a paid mod at best.
>>549556841Still some of my friends liked it back in the day.
>>549555587Fuck, it's been so long that I forgot the operation was named that.
Monastery is still looking pretty barebones, but at least my shithole is a town now
>>549559731A humble start
>>549525017>>549524356>>549524138>>549523892>>549523362very nice, so lots (you)sIn my map I have both a island and adjacent plateau, I want to build both the monastery and castlemy initial thought is having the monastery a top the plateau, and the castle in the island,makes sense for either way, since the island is also a strong defensible area, and I guess can fit some village stuffwhat you guys think?
stelloris
>>549580173
>>549580374Dumb moth should have been an arachnid instead
>>549580374>"Fuck me yourself" I say, lighting candles and winking while the xenophile trait symbol flashes in the lower right of her video feed
>made a decent easy cruising stellaris run>still speedrunning and not really reading the events etcWhy dies this game make feel like pressing auto skip when it goes nowhere when you do beyond warslopLike what’s wrongI even picked a lore heavy origin and build with endbringers and I’m missed reading half the eventsIs this ae problem or am I crazy to think the game “feels” like it’s rushing you despite the pause button. Like running with nowhere to go
I'm going to answer your question, but first I want to ask you somethingare you dumb?
Average iq
>>549585715okayyou're gonna need some self-control, champ. I understand what you mean when you say the game is rushing you but you gotta realize it's self-inflicted, nothing is stopping you from reading the events but yourself
>>549584781try using your imagination to visualize the events and their impact on people, from the popup text?
>>549586141I’m literally retarded I guessLiterally just auto skipping cause I just assume it’s not important when like wtf am I there for if not for the stiries( yeah spam a meta build what’s the point?)I kinda wish the game kept a log of all the events year after year so I can go back and read what I missed.
>>549586537>takes a lore heavy origin>auto skips story>wonders why things feel rushedretarded, yeah
>>549586537>auto skipping cause I just assume it’s not importantDo you have a bunch of not important events coming up, and you're rushing to skip past those?Or are you just extra retarded?
>>549586994I feel like a lot of the time they blend togetherSo yeah I’m a moron I’ll shut up now
>>549588087the first step in curing your retardation is acknowledging it
>>549525525>deadthreadanyone touch the frostpunk 2 dlc yet?i like a few of the changes they've made like now being able to select the communities and the factions instead of a semi-random selection.
>had stellaris installed on my pc so long with such old files that when I tried to play again after so long it crashed when loading every time>tried deleting mods, deleting configs and caches>tried verifying files>eventually just reinstalled the whole game after deleting the folders>works, but now I have to remake all my mod listsfuck
>>549556841>reddit spacing>stupid ragebaiting opinionYup, it checks out.
>>549597496>paragraphs are somehow reddit>facts I don't like must be ragebaitwho is the redditor again?
>>549599014>no uYou lost./civ4xg/: 1.You, a newfag: 0.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aClBi451sFgTouhou!
>>549599383>>549603316You can piss off back to /gsg/ falseflagging assholes
>>549603423>no uWe accept your surrender, newfag. But a word of advice: you're trying too hard, it's not convincing.Rein in the pain of getting defeated in an argument argument, the humiliation of embarrassing yourself in front of us, and accept that you are wrong, and you'll be a lot happier.
Man, the AI is nasty in AoW4. Reminds me of Fire Emblem with how they'll all rush and focus down a single unit. This game truly is a mesh of all the strategy games I've played
>>549604348>>549336010
>>549604348You don't blend in to this thread at all.
>>549604348You struck a nerve, the shitposter had to samefag.
Is this how rogue servitors work?
>>549606930yeah
>>549605350I'll have to remember what you just said once my copy of Awakening arrives.
>>549608248Which waifu will you release baby batter in?
>>549608542The main girl. All I know about Fire Emblem comes from Super Smash Bros, so...I ordered Awakening because I kept bitching that FFXIV had no fun tactic game and I was told that Fire Emblem was pretty much that.And no I don't wanna try Final Fantasy Tactic.
>>549609813Anon... that's the female protag. You can't fugg her.
>>549610590Well, can't fuck anyone else either, can I? So I'm better off picking the girl protag so that I can look at someone cute the whole time.And also I love playing women in games with bandits, they always go "capture the women", then you answer with Firaga and you burn him alive.
>>549610940Well, you can fuck a dude as the female protag.From a meta perspective you should, because it unlocks access to the strongest character later down the line.
>your brilliant and ingenuous plan is a giant success!I fucking love the French dub in Mark of Chaos>>549611061>you can fuck a dude as the female protagBut if I wanted to fuck a dude, I'd do it IRL.
How do the automation buildings work in stellaris? I get how they work on a basic level that they fill 25/50% of the jobs but what happens when the pop increases? Do pops get forced into being civilians (synergizing with all the new bonuses for civilians) or does the automated workforce get replaced? The automated workforce gets standard output bonuses but its worse than pops that have trait bonuses like ingenious right.
>>549611692AFAIK, pops get forced out of jobs by automation.
>>549611865But these are jobs the population doesn't want!
>>549609813That was my first FE too...>path of radiance>radiant dawn>everything elseYou have the whole series to go through if the game clicks with you. I envy you
>>549615461That's a big if, because honestly, I struggle with tactic games. I never got into XCOM.
>>549572495this is the town btw, island in the background, and plateau on the right
>>549618073Also, how do you guys not make a fucking mess, from the initial limited space and all that fucking crap you need to build to start progressing on some areas?
Trying to figure the best way to build a palisade around here as well.
>>549619781You should have baths too.
>>549619781Don't need walls if you block off the river with a huge chain
>>549635848What do you mean?Anyway, started rearranging the city, but I always feel everything is kinda not optimizeddo you guys build specific depots near the industry that produces/uses the resources?Or huge debot in a somewhat central is better?
>>549572495Thanks anon I did some research into shapes of monastery for Foundation.>>549591251>anyone touch the frostpunk 2 dlc yet?Not yet but I'm going to, it looks really interesting. It looks like the built on the factions and gave each of them unique buildings and such. Looks interesting. I'm still a bit dissapointed that utopia mode is supposed to be the real game instead of a propper campaign.>>549618073>>549619438>>549619781>>549636264Looks really nice anon.
>>549639469>Thanks anon I did some research into shapes of monastery for Foundation.For designing my own monastery in the game. The game is a bit fiddly with bigger buildings if there are height differences in the terrain.
So are pops in Stellaris no longer horrifically laggy? Can I have ten bajillion people in my empire without my game slowing to a crawl now?
>>549641230yes, pops are no longer laggyas a side effect economies get so strong your ten bajillion people can afford ten bajillion ships which slow your game to a crawl
>>549644960Guess I'll look for some stronger and fewer fleets mods.
>>549626845>wearing a swimsuit in an onsenDoes she not watch anime? You're supposed to only have a small towel with you. This is a place for bathing, not for swimming.
>>549647287She IS the onsen.
>>549647414Why would an onsen wear a towel? In that one manga where a dude dies and gets reincarnated as an onsen, he was not wearing anything. It makes sense when you think about it.
>>549647730>Why would an onsen wear a towel?Meant to say "Why would an onsen wear a swimsuit?"
>>549647730Probably to be kids-friendly. I think the name is Onsen Musume, but I dunno if it's anime or a g*cha.
>>549647730>In that one manga where a dude dies and gets reincarnated as an onsen
>>549648093They're running out of ideas.
>>549648093When manga publishers realized there was a big market for Isekai stories, we saw a lot of really stupid crap. Including one where the guy is reincarnated as a vending machine. In a dungeon.
>>549647930It may also be a promotional campaign for onsens or something. They sometimes do those for various regional things all around the country.>>549648093Isekai Onsen ni Tensei shita Ore no Kounou ga TondemosugiruThe story is meh, but the girls bathing in him are pretty cute.
>>549648596The vending machine crap at least got an anime. I think it's two seasons now? I liked the onsen manga better but it didn't get shit.
alright you fuckin weebs get back on topic
So yeah, I think Onsen Musume is an anime?I dunno, it just had a cute girl with an excellent ass in a swimsuit, so I saved it.
>>549649185>The Onsen Musume Project is a "regional revitalization project" created to communicate the appeal of hot spring resorts and local cities across Japan both domestically and internationally through IP (intellectual property) such as anime, manga, characters, and voice actors. Two-dimensional characters with motifs from various hot spring areas across the country are being developed in multifaceted media such as comics, novels, games, and animation! ! We are turning the area into a ``sacred place'' (tourist attraction) by holding on-site filming and talk events at the hot spring area by the voice actors who play the characters.
>Genuinely trying to git gud at Civ 6 because 7 is garbage >Barbarian Clans make the game a lot more fun >If it's even possible to win>50% of the time it's not >Frequently 3+ camps right outside of my first city within 10 turns >Strong chance they spawn the most powerful military on the face of the earth within 30 Just got out of 4 consecutive games where I had to start over because there were 4+ horsemen, multiple warriors and slingers, even 2+ hetairoi right outside of my first city within 30 turnsWhat are you even supposed to do against this? How the fuck is it even possible to? I could just be bad but this feels like really garbage design
>>549651442You need to take them out as soon as possible. You can either build a slinger first after settling, or (since building anything takes so long) get a mod that lets you adjust the units you start with. One warrior and one slinger should be enough to take out a camp with some careful play. Once you research Code of Laws, get the policy that gives you extra attack power against barbarians.
>>549654594Oh, forgot to add - this may be a bit different on difficulty levels higher than King, since enemy units also get more bonuses the higher you go.
>>549653782I thought those ships were Munificents for a second
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Did the Frostpunk 2 dlc fix the game?
>>549676215What needed to be fixed?
>>549677452It's not Frostpunk
>>549673426How's the game these days?Last I played it was when it launched on early access.
>>549679071It's not the same as the first game that is true but I think the step they've made was logical. Otherwise they would have made the same game with maybe a bigger final boss. They could have added more events arround singular people in your city and show how your choices have affected their lives, that could have grounded the story more. They have added more events with the free patch and the dlc but I haven't played it yet. Maybe the extra depth to the factions will also make utopia mode more interesting. Utopia mode is supposed to be the main experience and the story is just a big tutorial. >>549679208I dunno, it was the first time I was playing the game. It was fun.
>>549679071They did release a small sneak peak of Frostpunk 1886.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CcZfqQ8kws
>>549679071Good, because every other game is Frostpunk now. Doing something different with the sequel was the right move.
>>549682712>lets ruin our game with unreal engine 5
>>549684294Not that anon but I do think the sequal feels a bit sterile. Like I said before I think the game could have been better with a more fleshed out story. Maybe some scenarios that radically change the way you need to play, etc. They also could have added some random events that let you follow up on people during the story. You only have the girl that is born on the day the generator was fired up again. Those kind of things could help ground the story or your decisions.>>549684476Yeah lots of unreal engine 5 games look similar in some ways.
>>549685268They don't just look similar, they run like ass and have tons of visual artifacts.
no wonder the first enemy turn during base defense took so long
>>549626845>>549647414>温泉むすめyeah lol, where the fuck is that place in the map supposed to be though?Btw, one of my favorites things in japan, shame the game doesn't have that tho
>>549694651>where the fuck is that place in the map supposed to be though?In Japan? I don't get your question;
Where do I find coomer mods for Civ4?
>>549703240
>>549701206>In Japan? I don't get your questionduh, not a reconizable map of japan as I could see, couldn't read the place name either,but after a little research, its 鳥取県
Is stellaris good yet, or is there a mod that makes it good yet? I ask this question about once every three years
>>549703936Japanese tend to move Japan 90° to the right.
>>549704775can I get a source on that there image anon
>>549704775I ask it once every 3 days
>>549708574
Hey, no dying!
>>549747234Shikata ga nai
>>549747234I'll die just to spite you then.
Aztecs announced.
>>549753026Need Aztecussy
Is Sengoku /civ4xg/? I saw it in my library and remembered I bought it and very quickly dropped it, but I can't remember why.I fear it might be /gsg/ clay though.
>>549762475considering it's basically CK2-lite, it's /gsg/
>>549762663Then I'll play something else.What's a good weeaboo game with lot of samurais that isn't Total War? Age of Mythology?
>>549762831battle realms?
>>549764320Isn't that more like World of Chinacraft?
>>549703240Dunno, I haven't found any for civ in general.
>see Oriental Empire in my Steam library>"oh, I remember that, looked fun. Why haven't I played it in years?">boot it up>giant tech tree with four simultaneous research>very costly decrees to improve my bureaucracy while I struggle to make it even because one of my town is too far form the others to trade despite roads existing>try to dismantle some of my armies to make ends meet>every neighbour immediately declare war on me>farms get pillaged, lowering my food input, facing farmer riots>loseAaaaaaaaaaaaaah, that fucking game is brutal.>>549764320Not exactly what I meant, but that'll do. Been a while since I played it anyway, and it's still one of my favourites.
And all this time, I thought I was overfarming since my towns are surrounded by farms, but turns out the AI farmed even more.
Last screenshot for now: you upgrade town size by growing its population and then forking out 2 000 Chinese Shekels to improve it.
>>549769753Go back to play Icarus, you didn't even reach tier 4. If I think you are who I think you are
>>549770392I'm taking a break from Icarus, I accepted a mission to forge iron stuff, but I skipped over iron tech to move on directly to steel, so... time to grind some more experience because otherwise I'd be cancelling two missions in a row.
>stellaris is getting another rework, this time for navy>also huge changes to the economy along with tons of civics, traits and origins getting re-belancedtime to relearn the game again, haha!
>>549770689Do Operations, they give more XP than SIMPL3 missions. And tier 5 soon(tm).
>>549773223I think it was one of these. But sadly, I reached a point where I should move to a new biome, except I utterly HATE moving, so I'm staying in the forest.I don't even know if it's possible to move, I'm afraid of storms destroying my main base while I'm away.Anyway, wrong general. Suffice to say I'm busy with FFXIV, Darktides, and Etherium.
>>549773719>I reached a point where I should move to a new biome,Which Operation? There are very few in which you have to make a base somewhere else. Furthermore bases don't take damage while you are in another biome. And different biomes have different weathers(top right desert may have dust storm while middle bottom starting biome may have a sunny day and so on).>DarktidesDarkdites or Darktide 40k? I bought it at full price and it turns out I don't like it. I thought it would be like Left 4 Dead but with 40k, but it's so melee-centric that I simply don't like it. I want to spam my lasgun and autogun everywhere.
>>549771693>Effects and modifiers that granted jobs per pop have been replaced with static job numbers.this is probably a good thing>All unemployed pops now demote to Civilian (or Maintenance Drone, as appropriate) at the end of the month.unemployment is GONE>Soldiers are now Specialist (or Complex Drone) jobs with 1 Alloy upkeep.nobody's ever using soldiers again>The Arcology Project and districts on Ecumenopoleis now cost alloys instead of mineralsbruh
>>549774331No Operation, just boredom. I need to make a lot of levels quick, so I should move to a different biome to kill everything and get a lot of XP.And Darktides. Sadly the only "real" shooter in Warhammer 40000 is Boltgun, and you don't play an Imperial guard in there but a super strong space marine sternguard veteran. And it's a shame because Darktides got the lasrifle right: one shot and you tear off a leg.What's Darkdites?
>>549774907>What's Darkdites?Darktides*Dunno I thought it was some obscure RTS you were into. Like Etherium, it is in my wishlist but something tells me I will suck dick against the AI too much.
>>549776716>something tells me I will suck dickThat's just your sister talking. Through I'm tempted to try Darklands eventually.
>>549774628>The Arcology Project ... now cost alloys instead of mineralsAlways has been. Restore Relic world costs minerals. The rest is old news.4.3 (beta branch) will rejiggle EVERYTHING all over again.Basically all input output job modifiers will be replaced with job efficiency modifiers. No more upkeep reduction stacking until alloys are pulled from thin air.
>>549771693Wish they'd fuck off and let me enjoy my modded playthroughs in peace.
>>549774628>nobody's ever using soldiers againhow else are you supposed to get massive naval capacity? Anchorages don't seem to cut it.
I wish the Militarist faction approval was based on power projection instead of naval capacity.Increasing your naval capacity should not make them unhappy.
>>549771693Reminds me of the modding scene of Minecraft, in which everyone is trying to catch up with the latest version. Making certain versions have more mods for it than others.Anyway fuck shitllaris
>>549783929>Always has beenno, it cost 20k minerals, just like the restore decision>Basically all input output job modifiers will be replaced with job efficiency modifiers. No more upkeep reduction stacking until alloys are pulled from thin air.this is certainly a good thing, but if this update is anything like the last one, the game will be unplayable
>>549768079>ancient chinaYou got what you asked for.
two more years and stellaris will be goodit will not be jankyit will perform well in lategameit will have all the mods updated and working well together
>>549768079Well, why weren't you raiding other peoples rice paddies and trying to unify the lands?
>>549793689Because I'm an economical player. I tend to build a strong base first, and only get aggressive when I'm confident I can focus on it and not return to the main town to build more palissades.
Lemme get a, uhhhhhhh, militaristic faction. Roman theme. Latin personal and space ship names. And to spice things up, how about some anti-genetic and body modification societal views
>>549795185Daring today, aren't we?
>>549795185How original.>anti-genetic and body modification societal viewsMassively gimping yourself.
>>549795185No, today we're having humans trying to restore earth after the nuclear apocalypse
>check Steam sale>sports themed>apparently, Americans think that fishing, hunting and poker are sportsJesus fucking christ.
Our start at the galactic edge is a turtles wet dream
Our eastern chokepoint is occupied by marauders, who promptly introduced my scientist to their barbaric waysThis might seem bad, but that means they'll be an unpassable no mans land for other empires until 2100 or so
I went with Adaptability as my second tradition even though its an objectively shit pickThe one upside? Launching the agenda gives you the next terraforming research as a permanent option. There is practically no way to really steer your research towards the second terraforming tech that let's you terraform tombworlds and pick the worldshaper ascenscion perk.For an RP build like this its both useful and thematic.
>>549799375>tribute time
>>549801067You know it
>>549801067>>549802412Well worth the cost of fleets and admirals that sometimes drift from there.
Ahh, the wonders of the Oligarchic government type: pay a gorillion unity every 20 years or risk having some random shitter become the ruler for the next twenty yearsLovely. I just remember why I almost always play democratic or imperial.
It's 2251 and so far I've found>3 xenophobic imperalists>1 hive that hates me for existing>1 erudite explorer that likes meIt ain't easy being xenophile
>you can toggle race transformations offThank goodness. Thought I'd have to be a satyr if i wanted to buff dragonsAlso sex with nymphs
>>549809803>licking>feet
>>549798361People seem to think chess is a sport too.
>>549801067Yes
>>549813540>>549798361Practically anything can be a sport you spergs.
