Previous thread: >>549336010This 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
Stop dying you fucks.
>>549849923No! I WILL make sure my nation falls into ruin, and my city falls into ruin!
r8 my arnold expy
>>549853951What game?
>>549856056Age of Wonders 4
We are so alive
>>549853951Crom?
>Universe at War>Grey Goo>Dawn of War 3>Stormgate>Command and Conquer Tiberium TwilightHuh? I wasn't aware that Universe at War and Grey Goo were considered the worst RTS ever. But at least that explains why I can't find Universe at War. For Grey Goo it's a big surprise though.
>>549853951For Krolm!
>>549863713Crom. Whomst the fuck is Krolm?
>ded thred
>>549865802>Who the fuck is Krolm?https://youtu.be/Vqf54NPFak0?si=1SLv5sRTaESNhYBc&t=273
>>549869635Oh, the Majesty one. Agrelas fan here, so...
>>549870220I'm more of a Krypta simp myself.Good luck trying to get past my goth gf and her army of bone bois!
>>549874285I lost many Krypta necromancers to trolls or vampires, so I completely stopped going for Fervus and Krypta. They're just too mediocre compared to Agrelas and Dauros.>discord warriors are stronger but dumber, so they tend to get into fights they can't win, expect to hear a lot of "YAAAAAAAAARGH" as they die>Fervus cultists are okay, they're ranged, give free poisons to rogues, and negate wild life>necromancers absolutely suck
>>549856418>won in only 115 turns>meanwhile in 115 turns my first army is out
>>549875981Anon, do you have any news on Falling frontier?
How r we feeling about 4.3 in Stellaris?Gonna start a run in it soon nothing terribly complicated to see how it feels.
>>549883695same as every other version, it's shit
>>549883695I really wonder if I should even bother with the beta or wait for 2026 version
>>549889537Do it now, or you'll end up waiting and waiting and waiting...>>549880886No? Why would I?
>>549891317Sorry, didn't mean to reply to your post, just started a post as a reply and meant to delete the >> link, but then I forgot about it and didn't look back in this thread until you replied to me.
HAK HAK HAK
>>549842693The other news:Distant 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/648085384362721315
>>549768735I don't think you can overfarm in Oriental Empires, the amount of farms just determines the maximum amount of people your city can support. More is better in this case.
>>549897484...oh.Well I feel really dumb now. And very pissed at the advisor telling me that my farms got damaged.
>>549880886Only a few sneak peaks.
>>549900824Last one.
>>549900824>>549901015Well, the characters don't look too bad.
>>549901798They look tired and overworked.
>>549849923Maybe it's the holiday season that is starting?People have less time maybe?
>>549908507Should have more time soon
>>549849923It was the game awards, a bunch of generals burned through multiple threads
>grab some mods for AoW4 to make a proper snake cult with snake units since I cant rely on spawning next to a wonder that has the serpents available for liege recruitment >start a game>spawn next to a wonder that has the serpentsI'm glad I got the mods anyway, there's far more variety with them
Reminder we play tomorrow
>>549924951What time?
>>549925054Approximately 20:20 UTC
never really played an RTS - is AoE 2 a good start?
>>549932454Yes
>>549932454Yes.
well shit i just realized I own Rise of Nations but I've never played, how is that for a beginner?
>>549942434Pretty good since resource spots are infinite and the game is more macro driven than micro
>>549894829HYUK HYUK HYUK
>>549932454william wallace campaign might just be the best way to learn honestly
are tactics a strategy
>>549959803No.
>>549959803Maybe
>I'm not gonna take Evolution>I'm not gonna take Evolution>I'm not gonna take Evolution>[takes Evolution]
>>549963324>playing Stellaris
>>549964727Tome of Evolution
>>549964743>not playing Stellaris
>>549964727>I'm not gonna take cosmogenesis>I'm not gonna take cosmogenesis>I'm not gonna take cosmogenesis>[takes cosmogenesis]
Xenophobe:>Actually, it's *xenocide*.Neutral:>I can excuse Displacement, but I draw the line at Processing.Xenophile:>You can excuse Displacement?
I did itI fucking did itI got both the homestead and thr rainpunk foundry on the costal groveIt took days of trying. About 5 or so actual attemps, the set up for which was hours and hoursI basically got enough blueprints so that it was 100% garunteed to pull from the expeditions. This required to set up an infinite settlement and to run through traders for decades. I finished the game around year 50. Using a temple with infinite coal from the mines, got me to over -1500hostility. That means Im balanced at H13 for the entire game. I have enough stuff to keep everyone happy at that level. I could also deal with each storm like this, as thr sacrificing just compounds and inevitably lowers hostility. However there was an easier way. I had a holy guild house from a glade and an infinite trade set up. That means when I had 3 people in it, I got +80 resolve for everyone. I just traded THAT much over time. Insane. Because of these two facts I was able to go on for 50 years. Now the second hard limit to time is impatience, which grows at 0.09 per minute. I got lucky enough to get a cornerstone that let me lower impatience by 0.5 TWICE if i open a glade in a storm. Therefore, I opened one glade per storm and lowered impatience by one. Because there were roughly 30 glades that I hadn't opened by the time I got those perks, this EASILY gave me 30 years of time.Lastly, the holy guild house boosted my trader arrival speed by 50%. This eventually reached close to 500% arrival speed when counting all the fast trader perks which would occasionally pop up in their wares. Basically I had a trade arrive every 2m10s. This means I got 3 traders per year every year. Most of the time they were useless, BUT I eventually managed to snag enough blueprints to garuntee that my expeditions will return what I need. They occasionally sold smuggler cornerstones, too, so I got 3 from that. Finally, I got zealous architects, which gives me 4 blueprints for 12 fully upgrades housesI fucking won.
>>549971274I have no idea what you said, but I assume it's Against The Storm? Good work.
Having to awkwardly figure out which tome works best while you get the 6th unlock to continue on what your faction would realistically do
>doing yet another autism run of utopian humanity surrounded by xenophile alien babesWhy must I always do this. It's either this or genocidal machine empire, there is no other style I do.
>>549980969Clearly you need to do both of those with lewd mods.
>>549982310>Purge type: Succubus Energy Drain
>>549983006She can succ my ass.
>>549983006
I'd kill for a good successor to Empire at War.
>>549984715>Anal Drain
>play with the new infernal genocidal civic>first contacts with enclaves are eternally stuck on the very last step and can never be finished, forver cluttering the screen, the log, and making it impossible to use the top bar thing for quick access>suffer through it>muh great khan happens>beat him down>another fucking great khan happens with another marauder empire>they don't spawn the chosen of the great khan you need to kill to quickly end the crisis>so all I can do is destroy their fleets over and over for like 20 years before the event for his natural death triggers>great khan (blank) has died!>pick the hyperthermia crisis>at the final level all empires declare war on me>including the fallen empires when they don't do that for the other player crisis options>fucking die to literally millions of fleetpower I didn't expectGood morning I hate swedenEvery single run I try with Infernals is fucking cursed like this
>>549990520>including the fallen empires when they don't do that for the other player crisis optionsThey really should though.
>can't upgrade aspirant knights to tier 4 knights if you're a vamp b/c upgrade buildings are different to feudalWell that sucks.
>>549963324Why Evolution?For me, up until current patch, it was always Warding. I liked the illusion fighters, liked the free elemental damage reduction, and liked the staff upgrades, since I had a trend of stacking support enchant buffs that let my healer units dish out enough utility to outdo a heroSince the Dark culture rework I dropped that trend finally since they don't start with support units.
>>549900824need disinterested hj from the hag
>>549985483Same.
The 8th day of VGL starts at 17:00 UTC (3 hours from this post) and we play /kfg/ at around 20:20 UTC (about 6.5 hours from this post). We're currently guaranteed to advance to the knockout stage but by the end of the day we'll know if we're first in the group and going straight to the round of 16 or if we're second in the group and going to the mini-knockout stage that precedes the round of 16. /dbg/ and /hgg2d/ play before us and if that match ends in a draw or a /dbg/ win, we're guaranteed to top the group no matter what happens in our match. If we win or draw then we top the group, and even if we lose and /hgg2d/ wins we'd still top the group unless /hgg2d/ wins by a lot and we lose by a lotHere's the tournament wiki page. Today's games and their start times are listed at the top https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//vg/_League_25Here are the stream links https://pastebin.com/SmvU9UQ2
>>550004072>/dbg/dragonball?
>>550004270Yeah Dragonball. then /hgg2d/ is the 2D hentai games general and /kfg/ is the Kemono Friends game general
>>549998209nevermind i'm stoopid and wrong
>>550005020Screened.
>>550003170Evolution unit xp buff, draconic minor transformation for that healing, a healing spell that benefits from nature and chaos buffs, slithersWyverns are shit but there's still good stuff I can use
I wish I was t stuck in the theorycrafting stage of stellarisI’m too stuck trying to optimize some non-strategyAnd my autism doesn’t even let me pick meta unless there is lore/story reasons abd even worse I hate picking YouTuber stratsTruly cursed completionism on top of everything just means I restart every day
Bump
>>550004072Good luck.
>>549922474>>549908507Are you sure it isn't the fact that a new gachaslop is released every month creating a general yet the /vg/ limit does not increase to accommodate this?
>>550018438I'm pretty sure /vg/'s page size increased sometime this year
>>550018438/twg/ went through 6-7 threads in 10 hoursI think saying the video games awards had an affect on the board
>>550022048I blame Warhammer 40k. This shit attracts talkative nazis like shit attracts flies.
BUMP
>>550022048Having 2 game announcements including the long awaited Medieval 3 will do that
>>550004072They're setting up the /dbg/ vs /hgg2d/ match now so we'll be up in 40 minutes or so. I'll post again when they're setting our match up
>great khan spawns right next to me>know I stand no chance>surrender and become his vassal before he completly destroys me>instant the vassal terms destroy my economy>he instantly turns around, runs himself against a fallen empire and dies>he respawns, does it again and dies for good>become independent>get a free marauder fleet>the khans former empire turn into a successor state that's super cool with meEverything turned out kinda fine I guess?
>>550033768The /dbg/ vs /hgg2d/ match just ended so we're up nowhttps://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleague
>>550038075REMOVE HORATIOREMOVE HORATIOREMOVE HORATIOREMOVE HORATIO
>>550038217KEEP HORATIOKEEP HORATIOKEEP HORATIOKEEP HORATIO
>>550038075The end result was a 2-2 draw but we topped the group and will be advancing to the round of 16 on Saturday. I'll link the VOD later for those who missed it
>>550042581good enough job
>>550038075GG. The Friends will be hibernating for the winter.
It's kind of weird that our intro anthem and victory anthem are both the same.
>>550043157What are they right now?
>>550043906Baba Yetu
>>550038217Even the commentators agree
>>550044193Makes sense, it's probaby the most iconic song out of any 4X game. Should we take suggestions and make a poll for an alternate anthem? I'm partial to Adagio for Strings as a victory theme since I like Homeworld, but it's definitely not the best representative of /civ4xg/.
>>550044964I demand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19mg4ci69A for the losses.
And that's itJust got the speedrun deed for completing a prestige 20 settlement in less than 3 years. I was cutting it a little close, but I had enough points and time to spare. Not as difficult as I thought it would be with a full embakation set up, but it was still heavily rng basedYou basically have one option>scarlet orchard>b-line directly towards the archeology sites immediately, using oil and amber embarkation>also have incense, tea, scrolls delivered>they should all be ready by the time the second phase comes around>third phase, call in traders and buy stone, barrels, and incense, you'll probably have to get rid of most camps as parts are the easiest to use for phase 3>you can get 6 points from those, plus a ton of money, so you should finish them as fast as you can>HOPE that you can make up the other 12 points through the orders and whats in the glades you opened>if you're lucky, all 7 of your orders that you will have access to by year 3 will be completable>if you're lucky, all of the glades you opened will have events that give you rep. >I wasn't able to clear every order, nor did every glade have rep events for me>was able to pull it off because I got lucky with tool production for 1 point and I found a treasure stag that gave me 1 point. As i finished the game in clearance y3,I had 1.75 more points actively being worked on that would have finished in time before y4, so I did end up with some space to breathe, but still, I had to open twice as many glades as would have been optimal if I had been luckyAnd with that im doneThere is LITERALLY nothing else to doI've done every single deed and hidden deed in the gameI've completed it all the way through 3 timesI have every main menu skin and every decoration1.5k hours in against the stormIt's overMy life just got a little bit more empty, brosJust tell me what is up, tell me what is upI've almost had enough, you're playing with my loveJust tell me what is up, yes, really, what the fuck?
>>550044964>iconic song out of any 4X gameWe are RTS and city builder too.I would request an edited version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXRJBK8oJSA Which you can recognise, it's one of the most memorable RTS songs ever. You can decrease the volume incrementally until minute 1 when the tenor starts singing. But I'm shit at editing music.
>>550048046bumpo
>>550048046Bad opinion.
How do we fix Civ 7?
>>550058796can't
>>550058796Just write it off as not your Civ and move on. Wish I could find the source but Sid mentioned once that most Civ players will gravitate back to the first one they played/the one that clicked with them the most, even if they own all the titles. VII being bad doean't ruin your favorite Civ, and it probably boosts confidence in Amplitude and other smaller devs that their efforts in the 4X genre matter.
How important is immediately annexing your animal totem for Primal culture? I just started a game with it and mine seemed like it was almost two screens away.
>>549959803Strategy requires thought; tactics require observation.
>>550062167Stellaris?
>>550064101Sorry, Age of Wonders 4.
>>550064238You can take over your own totem?
>>550048046Good if you want to fall asleep.If you want RTS and "city" builder, try:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUBrjGrzBm0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4GbGmvNRchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENyxseq59YQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_dXaBwYxfchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJM7E0zkZNwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oENUA2B1_uMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdek0w_kBSkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwMLoRxUao4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX1la-yfR4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347qmxgydkE
steloris
>>550062167If you can grab it, go for it. Taking two different one spawns a quest with an infestation to clear, at least for the few times I picked Primal culture. It can be a sudden challenge but also nice early reward if you succeedAnother thing to keep in mind I guess is how annoying or easy it is to spread your favored terrain normally. If you have alternate terraforming methods, either giant king runesteles or plan to research a tome with some spells, then I would not be in much of a rush
>>550048046>>550068215Humankind's opening could be ironic since despite never being marketed as such the gaming community jokingly called it a Civ Killer, and then Firaxis up and goes and copies it for VII. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_LLbHCBqdc. Alpha Centauri's theme isn't iconic in and of itself but it's got a synth progression that feels vaguely victorious, shame it's only instrumental versions are covers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImfaxsbZLg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9_osClr3QI've also always been a fan of this Vodyani theme, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dB6RCs464. Xenophobia's the classic filk song memed into association with Stellaris, altough it's also strongly linked with 40k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0WQOGVLLGw.And I guess XCOM's very ded but I'll plug some of their victory themes since they're still on the roster. Classic isometric X-Com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFNNF_5nMVY and modern XCOM 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhVhelwnT8k
>normies filtered by homeworld yet again
>>550084515Homeworld's iconic but 3 shat the bed hard and there's other equally famous RTS like AoE and Starcraft. Its OST is great but it's not that well suited to a divegrsss anthem. Plus I haven't seen Homeworld posted /here/ in a while, I think most recently it was me sperging about how classic didn't run on Windows 11.
Hello?
>>550091920hello?
>>550085370https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nDzLtCGoFo
>>550068215something hype and energetic like hell march should be used as the opening theme while something relaxed like baba yetu should be the ending like how it's done in animes
>>550043157>>550068215>>550094706For me RTS = Frank Klepacki, but Hell March might be too obvious.Dead game theme is just right for a dead genre.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg7tH1N182gidk how these anthems work but you might want to skip to 0:50, 1:33 or 2:52
>>550096319Meh. If you real goodness, go for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzWdGQYpKU instead.
>>550058796Let the ship sink and keep poking Firaxis to remaster older civs to 64-bit and with extra modding support.
bump
>>550094706Hell march or maybe something from starcraft is basically the RTS music. Hell march with the first few seconds cut directly to where the guy says something and it really starts is what I would pick. The point isn't just "good music" but recognizable music.
>>550106629hell march sucksGo for Tanks Assault instead.
>>550117558May I make a suggestion?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347qmxgydkE
>>550118365May I make a suggestion?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqKdfV67Do
>>550120401/vst/ already uses this is in the main 4chan cup league but I guess we're basically a mini-/vst/ already so I suppose it fits.
Since the captain is>somehow I'M the bad guysurely this is besthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rbFhbcbT8
>>550117558Doesn't matter if it sucks (according to you), it's iconic.
>>550120910That doesn't work since Soviets ARE bad guys.
>>550120615This post was meant for >>550118365. I may be stupid.
>>550121734Aw. I'm the only person playing Startopia...
>>550120910That's already his goalhorn
>>550122164whoops, my mistakethat's what happens when you only check the results
>>550042581Forgot to link the VOD for yesterday's match https://implying.fun/video/vgl25/2025-12-13/?t=3:30:25.0
Whats the deal with this mine (and other around this bolder)even if conditions are met, territory is mine, it doesn't allow me to build, aka the red tint over the ore depositI don't have the problems with other deposits, is it a bug?
Any chill fantasy city buildersSomething cute with loads of starting customization
>>550129980Caesar III. Tlatoani. Emperor. Lethis b
>>550129980Anno 2070, Anno 2205, Anno 1800.
>>550129980A fantasy city builder? I don't think I know any.
>>550129140Have you allowed your bailif to prospect the mine?
>>550123093Nice. I missed the game.
>>550145848I think I played one around 25 years ago, but I barely remember anything.
>excavate historical site>it's a heroic relic from a civ that was already wiped out>all my monuments are full>it gets sent to an archeological museum>but heroic relics don't go into museums so it's stuck there forever, can't be moved to anywhere else and permanently ruins my themingHow come this hasn't been fixed for 5 years? How come modders haven't fixed this for 5 years?
>>550129980I, huh... remembered one, in early access, but I couldn't remember the name. It's going to take a while, I have to check them all. One by one.
>>550156250OK found it, it was Majesty.
>>550160957I wouldn't call it cozy.
>>550160957not a city builder
>>550129980https://store.steampowered.com/app/2261150/Elven_City_Simulator/herehad to look a LOT of elf games
>>550160957It's a great game.
in anno roads are two tiles but diagonal roads are 3 tiles. so it screwed up my city. i will probably restart again
>>550163560looking at the webm again it seems like diagonal tiles are different from non diagonal tiles. so a 3 tile building is actually 4 diagonal tiles when it is diagonal. but a two tile building is then three tiles when diagonal
>tfw watching The Ark>tfw realize there is no game like Ixion but less gay and linear and more sandboxy and hard sfFuck..
>>550160957Know any other Dungeon Keeper games like it? Like RTSes w/o direct left/right click commanding (mostly)
Ascended a vampfu to Crom's pantheon
>>550168119What's that? I'm confused, you lose the ability to play her?
>>550168439>you lose the ability to play her?No. You get to recruit them as a hero or face them as an opponent in new games and they get an extra pantheon trait.
>>550161225How come? You literally don't do anything else than place and upgrade buildings around your castle.
>>550169225Yeah, you literally don't recruit heroes, pay for spells, place bounties, or deal with dwarfs.
>>550168646>You get to recruit them as a heroOh fucking neat. So heroes are ascended lords?
>>549897263>DW2Are the exploration mysteries from DW1 in the game yet? That was my favourite part of DW1...
>>550174132Don't know, I've only played 2. What are those mysteries?
>>550175696>What are those mysteries?You had those little "events" when you salvaged/recovered wrecks in DW1 ( also iirc if you surveyeed planetary ruins too ) where you had a signal pointing out to some far off star so you could mount a exploration mission and go check those out. Loved them, it made even STL gameplay fun with purposeful STL drones/probes building and shit. Helped a lot that DW1 had free hyperspace travel and no jump lanes like SE5/Aurora/Stellaris.
>>550176816There are events that do that but not a lot I think, there's also faction missions that can pop up and do this. There's also a dlc that adds a late game threat which you can beat if you research new tech.
live pls
>>550146134yeah, all of those are prospected alreadythe iron deposit as well, I can't build on it
Any other Soviet Republicans in the thread?
>>550190702This is what the ideal city looks like
>>550190856There's even a suburb for the best citizens
>>550192219You make Lenin cry.
>>550187040How is that? The novelty of an rts made in rpgmaker is enough to make me try it at least.
>>550196347breddy gudhttps://tokyohuskarl.itch.io/dis-legacyIt's incomplete, at least the english versionBut there is an endless mode. So far I have only played the tutorial
Did I get ripped off?
>>550207982Yeah I dunno that looks like an error. At least you get a tier4 items worth of material with disenchanting?
>>550207982maybe
>>550185549No
>>550198089the fuck is this
>>550227081A video game.
The Nova Roma demo is nice for "comfy" citybuilder enjoyers. A cool skin over Kingdom and Castles with more adjacency bonuses and supply lines to mess around with and hopefully the terrain modification will make it more replayable.
>>550228440Well this looks... like mobile stuff.
>>550229826Hopefully it'll be priced like mobile stuff as well. I think I got the previous game for $5 on sale.
>>550230041You know it's going to be priced $80 as a game for service fraud with micro-transaction.
Is 0AD any good?
>>550239261Dunno, haven't played it.Just replying to keep the thread alive.
>>550243567Damn. Shame the place gets quiet during the work week
>>550189839Might there be something else you missed?
>>550229826It has water physics.
Has there ever been a concerted effort from /civ4xg/ to make a 4x game?
>>550250191A thread or two ago an anon was showing off some development progress for a civ like game
>>549842693Endless Space 2, community patch 1.5.75: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/392110/view/655966683127611518
