Happy holidays edition.Previous thread: >>549842693This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==NEBULOUS Devlog #39: Cooperative Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05rc5j9QxAADistant Worlds 2, Mercantile Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/499465877188511534Foundation 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: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/648085384362721315Endless Legend 2, multiplayer review: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3407390/view/585031732510589022Endless Space 2, community patch 1.5.75: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/392110/view/655966683127611518C-Beams, Devlog 48: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Qdes6JY6E== 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
HO HO HO
Falling frontier anon, hear my plea! Please tell me there has been updates on the development!
>playing 12hrs of StellarisI hate that slop but i cant stop..
Looking to get either Home World 3 or ASKA. Which game should I buy?Let's see if this thread manages to live until New Year's.
>>551801361How? Is map painting that fun?>>551801336Eh no. There was a pretty big update on what they have been doing little less than a month ago. Since there was so much news I think the game is still alive. That's about it for now it seems apart from some screenshots.
>>551801660I heard homeworld 3 was kinda meh also the strategy relied too much on boring active abilities (like more damage and such) of ships that you had to click in the menu yourself.
Last one.
>>551803090Im just basically doing a visual novel while listening to vidya podcasts..
HAK HAK HAK
>>551801336Game's alive, but is stuck in the situation Skong was in, a possible "dev heaven".
>>551803306>HW3The game has solid bones. Sadly the important part (the story) was horribly shitty, and Gearbox forced BBI to focus the DLC on the unimportant game mode instead of the true meat of the series, skirmish. We want Lin Joyce to burn like Kharak for ruining Homeworld.
>>551805569 (me)I also must mention it runs on UE5, and thus will need a NASA pc to run that sonofabitch. On the upside, unlike most games with that accursed engine, its modding is surprisingly flexible.
>>551803306I heard that too, and the reviews are grim. But I don't want to buy another game to sit in my Steam library.So I'm either between making me play HW3 or ASKA. ASKA is in early access while HW3 is feature complete and will never ever get a DLC.I'm also eyeing Dawn of War 3.
>>551805815>Spidersoft gamesExquisite taste good sir.
>>551805952You don't know how frustrated I was, when I discovered that all the trash I picked up was useless. There's around 300 items in that picture.
>>551805815>DOW3By the Emperor, don't put yourself through THAT. Relic ditched it for a reason, and it's the reason Geedubs ditched Relic for the Iron Harvest developed.
>>551807369>Iron Harvestwas this a success?
>>551805815I tried to replay avernum once but it's just such a slog in the early gamegeneforge is better and more replayable
>>551805815Go with ASKA, I have no idea what it's like, but it can't be worse than Homeworld 3.>>551803090>>551803306>>551803516>>551803717Thanks anon, your posts keep me alive until next time.
>>551807369>By the Emperor, don't put yourself through THATBut what if they make HM4? Like with DoW4 I would need to play it to understand the plot.>>551807746>was this a success?Not that fag, but no, it wasn't.>>551809693>I tried to replay avernum once but it's just such a slog in the early gameThere's now a remake of Avernum 4, which seems to be even more autist when it comes to traits.I want to play it, but I know I would restart a bazillion times until I got the right builds.>>551810297>Go with ASKA, I have no idea what it's like, but it can't be worse than Homeworld 3.From what I read, it seems to be a viking medival fantasy village builder/open world survival craft.
>>551811623NTA but damn you, you made me buy ASKA..
>>551796705Me, pants down, big hard dick poking my ass, going from one cheek to another, then forcing itself between them.
>>551811623ASKA looks unironically good. Tell me moar.
>>551818159
>>551805179HYUK HYUK HYUK
Good night.
>decide to try gaia seeders hive mind because I’ve never done it before>get baol as my precursors >find Habinte unified worlds and they gift me a gaia worldThis is some fantastic rng I tell you what
>>551832567Why is space so fucking bright?
>>551834282no atmosphere. realistically the shadows should be black
>>551835775...oh.Yeah, of course. Space stuff can be so unintuitive yet obvious at the same time.
Damn, Lord of the Realm 2 is pretty fun, but really not obvious.
They wiped my party.I'm not quite sure how Lords of Magic works, my Shambler who looks tanky as fuck got wiped the fuck out very easily.
>>551832567goodnight
>>551860502what is lil monke eating
>"Haven't played Endless Space 2 in awhile, used to love this game!">load in, shit system with no resources>restart>load in, decent system but one planet system near me and a 5 planet system that has 0 good resources>restart>load in, got no systems near me and only constellations for 10 turns until I run into a 2 planet system>restart >load in, finally a worthwhile start, forget to pass a law turn 1 and didn't save>restart>game crashesYep, I missed this
>>551861747banane
>>551861970It looks like there's something white in the center.Is that a different kind of banana?What is it like, compared to the ones usually in an American grocery store?Can I get it here?
>>551862362is just banane
>>551862362It's an indonesian variety of banana called banane
>>551863606Lady finger banana?
>>551861890>rerolling until you get a good startKinda deserved to be honest.
>>551866139nta but my experience with Endless Space is a lot like CoE5, the winner is decided at mapgen. The start is everything and if yours is bad, you're just fodder for the snowball.
How much assymmetry should 4X factions have in your humble opinion
>>551871818As much as possible without being unbalanced.
>>551861890>>551867001Wasn't there some setting that alleviates the start randomness with the map gen? I've done scores of playthroughs of ES2 and never had RNG as crippling as you're describing
>>551872038Same. Then again I'm not as competitive as him, but still.
>>551871818As much as possible. I don't care about balance.
>>551801198I mean, HAK HAK HAK
Damn first time i see leader from other race..
Zerg are the best RTS race
>>551883991too bad they lost all their soul in SC2
>>551884230Bugs don't have souls.
Good lord. How the fuck do I win this? My lord died instantly, my berzerker mercs died before they could stutter "just pay us and we'll betray", and my rock hurler got wiped.
>640x480Yeah no.
>>551894804Fire is all attack, no defense. And fucking death troops?
>>551895234I tried with earth troops earlier, same shit, they got picked from afar with arrows. Even my shambler died really quickly. I assumed fire would be like in sacrifice: very good killing power, but the AI is expert at dodging.
>>551895401Well they have cavalry so you could try to just wait them to charge your ass and hope the hurlers kill one or two. Then you mop the infantry.
>>551896075It doesn't work, the AI in Lord of Magic is very passive and let you approach them.
>start game>half fields are left untended, other half is used for cattle>designate half the fields for growing grain>nothing happens, all the peasants I place on the fields return to chopping wood>check in detail>finally find a line>"0 sacks of grain used to seed">AreYouFuckingKiddingMe.jpg>buy 150 sacks of grain>finally the fields start looking properFuck sake, Lord of the Realms II is equally hard, but more in the economy department. At least I don't have to deal with soil fatigue or whatever.
>>551895208I haven't played this game since I was a drooling baby but I DO remember that individual units can have rank/experience level ups of some fucking sort for better combat performance. Because I had the same problem with recruiting shamblers early as Earth and they die to basic looking dudes in a dungeon. I think sticking heroes in my guilds helped both the hero and unit recruits get level ups?Also the sseth video taught me parry was a thing, kid me never fucking knew that
>>551900923I dunno about parry, I tried doing that, it did nothing. It's meant to turn half of your offense into defense, right?
Oh for fuck's sake, you can combine armies. It's nost just a Lord + 3 assholes.
>>551901791>He lacks critical information
>>551902757>Anon is an aesthete
Is the Early Start DLC for Workers & Resources good now?
>going berzerk drops the hero's defense to 0...ha. That's why my hero died.
I DID ITI DID ITI hate that you can't tell if an unit is parrying or not. Or if it works on ranged damage. My cavalry got wiped out almost instantly, but my Lord held the line.
>select Thief hero>notice another hero>"waa waa our people don't like each others but plz don't kill me">okay I'll parley>try to trade crystal for gold>get a weird proposition where I should trade 80 crystal for 20 gold>click on "autocalculate", assume I fucked up and that this'll automatically calculate a good deal>it's actually to battle the enemy hero>lost my thief
>>551924498>my Lord held the line.Thank you Jesus!
>>551727492>No, you will not breed my mount.That sounds as if she was to breed with that bird.
>>551926782He held the line.
bump
Jesus hold this thread up!
Been playing Farthest Frontier. Addictive little gem. All it needs is a better UI for the decoration and desirability stuff. You have no idea how to tell how many of what you've placed and where it is unless you click on a specific decor piece to highlight the rest, like parks. You basically have to spitball how effective everything is based on a green arrow pointing up and the cost to build and upgrade.I've been stuck in T3 because my Homesteads won't upgrade and then I finally realized I needed Parks. As soon as I put one down a Homestead started upgrading...
Today was a bad day for 4X games
>playing lord of the realm 2>sell all my cattle>buy a lot of grain>my peasants ate the grain instead of planting itMy game is lost but I'm playing until you morons all die of starvation. You deserve it for being massive fucking retards.
Oh. So that's what 'everything in their power' means.
>>551951798Sounds like me when I play Dw*rf Fortress. Walling my problems away.
ill probably restart again
the price of stellaris+all it's DLC is fucking absurd, I hate Paradox so much.
>>551967168Cream it
>>551967706Hot
can't sleep...
>>551833567Baol is so good it invalidates the civic if not for the fact that you can't add the bloomed trait through gene modification.
dead
Hows the new Heroes game bros
>>551992206?
>>551951798I need to play Rome 2 DEI mod soon....
>>552000363No.
>>551952475Can't do that anymore since the siege update. Sieges can now smash trough walls and dig to your fort if there is no other easy way in.>>551959630Why?
>>552006581?
>>552010053>Why?'tismtesting some basic decorations. there are other stuff like walls and arches and braziers
ONEMORESPREADSHEET
>>551861890Are you playing after community patch?How do you find the balance changes they made? I assume you played a game or two, or no?>>551866139>>551867001Kinda. My recent experience after the patch is that no matter what you do, Sophons will win Science victory no matter what, and gods help you if they ally with Vaulters. If those two dont get you, Lumi & Co will win with eco. I am not sure what the hell is up with the community patch, but it feels way off.
>>551872038>>551872305There is a setting, and yet even with it being set to balanced/normal it can fuck your shit up.
>>551951798There's like 3 waves, each one bigger than the last.
>>552019484He probably thought of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
>>552036516
>>552038769Ah, Paradox. Not even the strategy space is safe from shitty game companies.
>>552048119I'd argue they're even more prone to it since there's so much less competition for strategy games. Paradox and Firaxis have near monopolies on GSGs and Civ-likes so can do whatever they want
>>552036982Fortunately they decided to slam into my 2-stack one at a time instead of all at once. They were also hemorrhaging troops from lack of corruption, so their armies were 1/4 dead by the time they even got to me.The greatest danger they posed was to the game itself, by making it crash like 6 fucking times.
>>552037179maybe...it's divide et impera mod...>>552038769pops are at least fun for some sort of roleplay autism, I wish CK2 had them (also dynasty sims roleplay), the rest of pdox spreadsheet is not fun tho
>>552048119>>552051730Well. I like those kinda games, that's why I posted that pic. I felt called out.
>>552053357Shipset like this for Stellaris?
>>552053818https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2827860713&searchtext=US+Astro+fleet
>>551800943rec for someone who is fucking retarded and hasn't touched the genre in forever?civ is boring as fuck at this point so not that, stellaris was enjoyable but want something else.
>>552065351Age of Wonders
>>552064103It do be like that sometimes
>>552064103One time in XPiratez the head gal got downed, and that combined with it being a long mission meant one of the others went berserk and fired her ballistaThat was loaded with a nukeIndoors
>>552070000the female gaze
Half Life mod released a demo, finally.The seven hour war is predictably not actually seven hours, but the content is pretty good for a demo. It really is a hectic rush to try and fix shit before the combine shows up, in a fun way.
>>552000363>look it up>has to be split into 3 parts because it's over 6GBDamn. Not gonna reinstall Rome 2 but that's a pretty chunky overhaul.
>>552073010Manual download is 2 parts. Just download extract two files. Nothing clunky about it.
>>552037179....no?I mean, Romans were already gay as fuck, so...>>552070402Wrong general.
>>5520730106GB? For a mod?!?
>>552083830That's nothing
>>552083830Some Empire at War mods are 10+. Shit gets nutty when you're adding new assets.Even without 3D models you can balloon the size with how much you stuff into it. IE, the Multiverse mod for FTL is 700MB, while the game itself is only 300MB.
Good night, spiders
These rats have fuckin nukes?
>>552103431go to /twg/
>>552104115eeeeww
>>552083830There are larger mods for older total war games, because they add new textures and such. Maybe DEI adds some too, but probably not nearly as much, as some total conversion mods.
did anyone talk about the city builder by the grim dawn nerds i haven't been in the threads
>>552103431Yes. Welcome to Skavens.
>>552103431yes yes
>>552103431https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB5qHSlTENk
>>552103431https://youtu.be/i5-Tuo1bmFM?si=fgjurgNsoSudDX69&t=313
>>551993573Old era
>>552027846Oh that looks pretty.>>552036516Not all strategy games have been purely spreadsheat simulators but that genre has kinda taken over. There's even excel world championship these days.
>>552127231>excel championship
Does anyone know any satisfying game for making and hoarding money?
>>552130639Hoard? I'm sorry, I'm confused what you mean.
>shroud avatar appears in one of my systemsPanik>its a system that has every exit into my territory covered by a fully upgraded defense fortress because its a former territory of a marauder klanno panik
Could have gone better but whatevs.
>>552152418That's a lot of torpedos
>>552127231It's just amusing to be so reductive with these games. We all know there's some level of truth to it, but how much varies depending on the game
Any tips for playing Civ2? I keep getting my ass kicked by AIs and barbarians each time i start a new game
>>552157640Gotta be sure the effect.
>woman commander
Any mod for more detailed terraforming in Stellaris?
Happy new year, anons and spiders.
I just read some tarot cards at midnight as the year changed, asked them how Falling Frontier would end up this year.The Answer was, lack of control, lack of direction, aggression.Which I'm interpreting as the dev deciding to redo something fundamental, again and then having a melty with the community.>>552192057Happy new years, want me to do a reading for you while I'm at it?
>>552193037>Happy new years, want me to do a reading for you while I'm at it?Nah, I do not tempt fate.
>>552193248That's fine.The Cards also said this year ending up being pretty shit for gaming in general, stalling, fear of loss and needless sacrifice. Makes me think some decent dev team is gonna get axed for ultimately no reason, publishers still being afraid of trying anything too new and all promising sounding projects remaining in development limbo.
>>552193037>>552193942I'm curious, what sort of spread do you use?>stalling, fear of loss and needless sacrificeI blame the AI bubble for all of this.>stallingCompanies being unable to deliver on increasingly insane promises, so they're resorting to buying out all manufacturing just to prevent competing companies from getting access to it. Also ensuring no consumers have access to hardware as a byproduct.>fear of lossThrowing ever increasing amounts of good money after bad because of FOMO.>needless sacrificeThe bubble finally bursts, when in a sane world there shouldn't have been one in the first place.
>>552196778Nothing official, I just pull 4 cards and place them in a roughly diamond shaped pattern.While drawing a card I think of some particular question and interpret it from there.Also, I tend to turn the top and bottom cards into their reverse positions, while right and left are turned on their regular facing.
this is anno 117
Hey, no dying this year either!
>>552207347If you had to die, would you choose a tactical death or a strategic death?
>>552210381An interesting question. What would the context of the situation be?Would the difference be getting vaporized by a tactical nuke vs strategic nuke?
>>552211623>What would the context of the situation be?That would only be fully understood decades later after lots of investigative journalism and official inquiries
>>552211927Their findings? Ultimately anon had to act if he wanted to live in a different world
No dying, all I have to bump with is skavenposting.
>>552228252I'm not playing anything on topic so I have nothing to bump with
new year...
>>552228252I spent eight hours at work stuck in a hole with no internet, doing nothing but watching Raiders of the Lost Ark again and again and again.Any game like Return to Castle Wolfenstein? With actual WWII Germany but Red Alert 2 kind of wacky?
>>552236160old dead thread
My New Year's Resolution is to become more Horatio-like
>>552248621Disgusting.
Is Manor Lords good yet?
Happy New Year anons.
>>552249247This is what peak performance looks like
>>552269487FUCK OFF
>>552259793Happy new year anon, hope this year goes better than last one.
Happy New Year anons!Anyone played Endless Space 2 after community patch got rolled out? If so, what are your impressions?
Do more people play Civ 5 or Civ 6? They're on sale for cheap so I figured I'd buy one of the two to play multiplayer. Can you use CreamAPI on it or do I need to buy the premium edition or whatever?
>>552294216Civ 6 is the most popular civ game
>>552294571I figuredI was told basically everyone plays with Gathering Storm but can you use CreamAPI or do I actually need to pay up like a good goy
TURNMOREONE
>restarted Stellaris againI hate myself
I'm noticing quite a lot of performance drop when a system has a bunch of bioships, same doesn't happen with classic ships. Are these some "fine details" shenanigans? Is there a mod to fix it?
>finally found a species mod for Stellaris that does basic humans but beautiful>for both females and males>it even has only token amount of n**gers ( like 3-4 out of 70+ ) as a bonusBased
>>552309787Feel like sharing your finds?
>>552310824https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3085704196Animu shit so it might be a problem for you.
>>552311341I love animu shit but it's a bit too AI flavored for my tastes.
>>552311618You do you.
>>552311341Not at all, I'm fine with anime.
>>552313183Welp, looks like I had already subscribed to that one.
>>552294661Civ6 with all DLC was up for like 15$ a few weeks ago. Just wait for another sale.
>>552311618You're wrong, this is not AI-flavoured animu. This is animu-flavoured AI.
I purchased the entire Men of War collection. You guys ever tried those games?
>>552294661You need additional files if you're going to cream it. You CAN use cream for it but you're reliant on the ruskies uploading the clean DLC files and you putting them in the right spot and all that shit. I'm also talking about singleplayer since I never play it MP, no idea if MP has additional checks or not, I assume not
>>552104115It's an e-celeb general though.
>>552327052Wrong, faggot.
>Age of Mythology added an "unit perspective" modeOne day they'l add a real first person mode, like in Dungeon Keeper 2. I fucking love that game.
>>552336525>FPS in a strategy gameComplete waste of resources
>>552337183Spoken like a trve cvck.Trve cvck, for trve women.
>>552318825Yes, i just played that yesterday. MoW:AS 2 is the good one with the RobZ realism mod, use an older version because the newer shit is unstable as fuck.I like blowing up tanks across the map with a skill shot, shit is so satisfying. That mod adds like 5000 ways to disable a tank and heavy tanks are almost impossible to fucking kill, you need to match fire power or it will sit there as a turret until it runs out of ammo.>>552118807Yeah I finally hit T4 yesterday. You need like 300 bricks, 300 iron, 300 everything and 6000 gold. The bricks were unironically the bottleneck. Bricks eat so much fucking coal it's unreal.Never turn on the policy that enables coal for firewood unless you have 5 coal mines all around you within a stone's throw. Learned that lesson the hard way.FF is different from Banished in that there is no efficiency in the processed things like coal or smoked meat, it's more about stockpile than efficiency.
>Install mod to reduce cosmic storms gfx>Game runs better in system mapExpected>Game runs better in galaxy mapOh, wow. It's another episode of what the hell are stellaris devs even doing.
>>552347910they're too busy selling dlc
Rolling:1-2: corrupt.3-4: torture to death, keep as spirit flying around.5-6: torture to death, reincarnate as a wizard.7: feed to minions by throwing him in the tavern's blender.8: throw in the arena to be executed by a minion9: turn into gold0: just burn alive in the cryptDouble: corrupt, possess, then bring to hero gate and have him torn apart by stone knights.
Depraved!
NO THIRTEENTH MONTH, I SAID
>>552368721your dungeon floor is lumpyorder your minions to jump up and down
>>552368902My dungeon floor is tilted.My creatures are furious they can't play marbles.
>>552368721stick some vampires in that arena
>>552369716I hate vampires.>huuuh i need blood, should I kill that level 1 gnoblar, or that level 10 dwarf warden?>let's kill the dwarf lol
evil priestess
>>552371320Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
>>552374115I am evil, so... it's nice to have a priestess who can literally resurrect friends.
>>552371320Ok, how did you get her?
>>552380946I captured a priestess and tortured her.
>Playing SC2 co-op because I'm too shit for ladder>Still have to sweat because the other player takes 15 minutes to build their first unit
>>552386160That other player might be me. Is he Tsukov or Tychus?
>>552361775Game?
>>552387289War for the Overworld.A very immoral game where most of your problems can be fixed by throwing prisoners at them.
>>552387227It's generally Raynor or Artanis players that think they should skip straight to BCs or Carriers.
>>552386160Do people still play on the ladder? I got an itch to get my Zergies fighting again
>>552385634Nice
>>552389809You need a succubus or an inquisitor to make them see reason, though.And surprisingly, wizards are extremely hard to torture.
TFR gave me the idea to play a Cogno/NWO larp Humanity in Stellaris, and it's been a hot minute
>>552389982You had me at "succubus torturing priestess", I can't get any harder than this.
>>552389054I think ladder is still decently active but you'll run into a LOT of smurfing barcodes.
>>552391353Yeah. Too bad torturing the priestess causes her face to grow dark and full of wrinkles with shining red eyes.
>>552391447Why do people smurf? What is the psychology behind this?
>tfw 1k tech at 2320 grand admiralhow do you even play this game anymore? im getting fucked with the 250k khani didnt take any crisis perk
>>552392382They get to their actual skill level and get mad that they start losing games. So they make a new account so they can win against bots and shitters.
>>552391497Yeah. Well, that's where AI sloppa comes in to save the day.Bonus points, I can make my priestess look like any anime girl I want.
>>552394071Remember to replace the burning wheel of torture by a spanking chair. Or by a pegging rack.
>>552394071based
>>552394071>I can make my priestess look like any anime girl I want.anybody's dream
Too bored to even play
>>552408006Reminds me of Spore.
>>552065351>>552065467also curious about this. aow is ass
>>552065351Endless Space 2, maybe? And El1 was good fun, even if flawed.If you want a civ like (and don't mind shit graphics), can suggest Millennia.And unlike that other guy, I do like Age of Wonders
How long until we get a good alternative to nuCiv?
>>552426967Just hold out for Humankind 3
>>552427293There's a 2 coming out?
>>552426967The only thing it has going for it is it's gameplay, but Millennia.
>>552435603Yes.
No dying!
>>552459967fuck you i die when i want
>>552463171Please no spiderfag, we'll miss you
>>552467195That wasn't me.
alright, going to worktake care, faggots
Why did Paradox kill Millenia?
>>552475881Because it was shit, and I say that as someone who actually wanted to like it. The age system was a cool idea but executed poorly, it was annoying as fuck to have the AI be retarded and lead everyone into a crappy age every game. The resource production chain was neat but they didn't really do anything cool with it. Everything else was just bad.
boomp
>>552478505Hey at least paradox didn't fuck it
Is BAR worth trying or is it yet another TA fangame?
Is there a general consensus on how the different cultures in AoW4 stack up against each other?
>>552497873I like it. It's probably the closest you'll get to a modern full fledged TA game with out doing crazy stuff like other spring off shoots. Though notably the way air stuff works is a bit diffrent.
>>552501563Like what?
What 4x/turn-based strategy games currently have the most active online multiplayer? I'm feeling competetive and want to get autistically good at something.
>>552510931civ 6 and stellaris probably. I would throw in dominions as a wild card too it's probably a magnitude less popular than those two but considerably more autistic. If you want more popular and more competitive games specifically then look for RTS AoE2 and SC2 are both popular and have easier time with multiplayer games and laddering than the others mentioned.
>>552510931Certainly not the most active by any stretch of the imagination but I'm pretty sure the guys in the Dominions general regularly host games.
coming back to shitlaris for 4.3 beta after skipping the entirety of 4.0-4.2 feels fucking great. aside from the occasional bug, the new gameplay is slowpaced and calculated, war is a pain in the ass (as it should be), and I'm having fun >>5523926264.3 crisis is not balanced yet, but the insane difficulty really makes it feel like an actual crisis
>>552370136Vampires satisfy their need for blood if they engage in combat with an actual opponent, so sticking them in the arena covers this. If you stick 2 vampires in the arena, they will infinitely sustain with lifesteal so they can endlessly train.
>>552513292Ooh, good to hear. I assume they still execute prisoners though.
>>552513664Nope, their thirst for live blood is satiated by any form of combat that isn't a training room dummy. Even fighting gold sentinels somehow satisfies their hunger. Arena combat basically removes the only drawback of vampires.
>>552514951>let you level up monsters>let you level up minions>let you execute prisoners without having to torture them>provides entertainment >keep vampires fedArenas are awesome.
>>552199194OHNONONOhard pass on that pozzed shit
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>>552529396god fucking dammit could you not have posted 20 seconds earlier
>>552371320what game is that>>552529524no
>>552514951You were right. And the best part is that it works with beasts too.
>>552529823War for the Overworld.
any good diplomacy (like the board game diplomacy) games that are free and have ai?
>>552530423thanks
>>552501502I think I've played each culture at least three times. Kinda unfair to compare the ones that haven't gotten a fair tuneup or subcultures to the ones that do, but some of the worst of the bunch already got their reworksReavers, despite the cool aesthetics and guns, still feel the generally weakest start to me. They're the first DLC culture and didn't come with any sub-options
>>552555934Will all cultures get an update eventually? I know about pic related, but nothing else.
>>552501502>culturesAoW1 was never about cultures, it was about RACES.
>>552566115ok
>>552103431I am burned with jealousy. the rats got experimental tab while tenheniuan get a pryamid scheme.
>>552501563Ha, that's why you compared it to Spring. It looks like Zero K, but a bit different.
>>552576946I wish I could get into FAF
>>552588086I think I hate BAR.
>>552566115Yeah, but we can't have a race war in 2026.
This city is incredibly #noisy!
bumphave a good day
>>552600247Don't tell me what to do
>>552609858You better have a good day, OR ELSE!
Boomp
Bugs submitted to BTC.Ngl i was surprised they themselves proposed being my vassal.
I saw some stellaris edits and i thought it was cool,i bought it on sale but only the vanilla game,so far it's very complicated:>Commonwealth of Earth>so many things to do,Super develop earth and colonize Alpha Centauri while i try to find a way to terraform Mars cuz humanity rules>do this for like 20 years without sending scouts to scan planets because i'm scared of finding the bad aliens>get over it and do it anyway,find aliens and as soon as i press befriend they declare me rival and my relations with them goes to -200>jumpy as shit i scramble all my research and resources into better ships,learned how to edit them (went from 1200 fleet power to 4.2k+another smaller fleet of 3.2k)>realise one of my OG scouts is trapped and cannot comeback cuz these aliens don't allow access anymore>gain claims on the bad aliens+non agression pacts with some other alien fanatics or something and other pacifists so they don't get involved>declare war and go system to system destroying their fleets even making it to their home system>end up defeating their spaceforce but when i tried to land on their planet i got my shit pushed in ):>they sue for peace and i gain 4 new systemsHonestly? it was pretty fun 5 hours,when do i get to cracking planets? that seems like the fun thing to do and i wanna do that to these alien fucks before they do it to me.
>>552629154Cracking planets is end game tech so not for a while or almost immediately depending on when you stopped in the tech tree. Probably a while longer still. Consider enslaving the aliens instead?
>>552630149>enslaving the aliensAfter they called me ugly water bag?After i tried to befriend them and they spat on me?>Enslaving this and having to hear their growling No i don't think so,i'll surround their system and when i get the technology i'll crack their planet.I was going for peace because i was scared of the little green mean aliens, i now realise The stars are humanity's birthright.
Punt the aliens.
>>552511530I just played 4.2 on Admiral, and it is just so boring. I am swimming in resources and fleetpoints.Is AI kickin ass again, like it was before Biogenesis?
I don't understand Age of Mythology at all.
>>552656234bump?
Thoughts about pic-related? Has anyone played it? Is it harder than Avernum 1?https://store.steampowered.com/app/206020/Avernum_4/
>>552663601are you asking about the original specifically or did you mean to link to the new remake
>>552647283Why? What is the problem?
>>552664417>did you mean to link to the new remakeDidn't know there was a remake. I just had this wishlisted for the longest time. So yes, I'm asking about the remake.
>>551800943C-Beams Devlog 50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FuqhlL19UE
>>552666020Nice! Can't wait for this one to come out.
>>552667229Yeah it's looking very impressive so far. I wonder if they're getting some writer(s) on the team to make an interesting story. I hope it's not relying too much emergent narrative with the open world and all.
>>552666020ngl this looks juicy af especially with the kinetic weapons/missiles being the main armamnet.
>>552666020Looks good, but this kind of RPG isn't food me anymore. I really just want an optimised Stellaris 2 :(
>>552665721it looks exactly the same as avernum 1-3
Here's one last post to wrap up the divegrass team's campaign. It was great to see the team play again after a long absence, thank you all for your support of the team and your input on so many different aspects of it. The team finished 9th overall and earned a starter spot on the /vg/ team with Stalin being the thread's rep based on comments from here. /vg/ plays in the 4chan winter cup which starts on the 23rd of this month so you'll see him in action then. Tournament awards were announced today and /civ4xg/ received the But What If Though? award and were runners up for Most Exciting Team and Match of the Tournament (the round of 16 match vs /tf2g/ which you can watch here if you haven't https://implying.fun/video/vgl25/2025-12-20/?t=2:23:30.0)The team will be in cryostasis (with Horatio) until probably around mid March for friendlies, then the next /vg/ League will be from late May through late June. I'll post again before each to see who you guys want to face for friendlies and if you want any changes for the team roster, player models, songs, chants, etc. One model I think I'm going to see about improving (assuming he's still on the team next league) is Sid Meier since I found his animated 3D model in the depths of the Civ 4 files. If you have any comments or suggestions about the team before then, feel free to post them here, I always have the thread open so I'll see them
>>552671715thanks for all your hard work mister managerwe need a proper title for you, which on topic games do you actually play
>>552671979Lately it's been Civ games, Unciv, a bunch of RTS games (Age of Empires, Rise of Nations, Empire Earth, World in Conflict, Empire at War), Railroad Tycoon, Aurora. I've been meaning to try out EL2 once it gets to a more mature state
>>552671715Thanks anon. Looking forward to the friendlies in March.
>>552666020>when you mount your main turret behind your superstructure
>>552664553What counters heroes? Is it interesting to make any melee unit since I can just spam archers and it works against everything except Anubites?
>>552676549It's space you could just fly the top forward when shooting. ye it's bit of a space battleship meme>>552677048Human units counter heroes which counter myth which counters humans. At least in principle. Heroes may beat humans 1v1 but usually they come with either a cost or some other limitation where in a similar investment to regular dudes can just overwhelm them and trade cost effectively.
>>552676549So just like real life BB's?
>>552677882Real battleships have more considerations to make, namely their structure has to be balanced front/back otherwise the ship sinks. Guns are heavy so they have to go to both ends of the ship to balance each other out and building tall is both heavy and difficult so there's a limit on superfiring (pick related). If you don't put guns at the back then you are just missing free firepower, so you may as well put some in the back too which at least lets you shoot if you have to run away and most of the time all the guns can shoot to the sides. OP's ship can't shoot at the broadside because of the side guns which were abandoned for the same reason. Space has one less axis to worry about because a spaceship only has to be really balanced along the axis of thrust instead of front to back and side to side which means there's no real reason why you can't put all of your guns to the front (or the back which ever you like). A star wars flying wedge is much better design for a warship that still operates under the "navy but in space" rules lot of fantasy does since it can concentrate all of it's guns forwards.
>>552680056So what you are saying that its even less of a problem?Gotcha.
>>552680640No it's more of a retard move because there's less reasons why you have to position your turrets in places where they can't shoot. In water it's ok to put a turret where it can't always shoot because that's the only place physics allows you to put it. In space where no such limit exists it's only down to your IQ to put a turret in place where it can't shoot at the direction you expect your enemies to be in.
>>552676549That ship has a spinal rail gun as its main weapon. I don't like the placement of the gun in the back and I think the original concept had the gun higher than the bridge.
>>552680813All i hear is "its even less of a problem than in real life" because space ship can actually turn in all directions.
>>552681019All I hear is you have low reading comprehension.>>552680963The bridge and the turret could just swap places. It's almost certainly placed there because it looks more like a battleship and battleships are cool.
>>552681146Thanks for agreeing with me i guess.>The bridge and the turret could just swap places.Makes no sense, its space - enemy can come from everywhere so its better to have closer to 360 coverage.
>>552681146The spinal mount ship is a destroyer, I think the bigger ship next to it is supposed to be a battleship. Mostly semantics but the destoyer only has the gun in the back as some sort last defence. I think it's meant as an escort.
>>552681458It's a game anon, and space in the game is going to be represented in a 2D plane.
>>552681513It's the same for the destroyer. The turret should be above the bridge, which could be done by swapping their places, putting the higher bridge section in the back and the lower mid section in the front or by putting the turret to the bottom of the ship or something if the high front section is required for the gun.
>>552681653Yes but in universe it still makes more sense to build >>552666020 over this retarded >>552680056 monstrosity.
>>552682127The example may be a stupid design but it's principally the correct design for space. There's no need to worry about front/back and side to side balance so the correct design is to just put all guns facing forward in superfiring positions. You can utilize the wedge in both front to back and side to side spaces so you arrive at the wedge which is the optimal shape for this kind of ruleset.
>>552682602>it's principally the correct design for space.Of course its not. It has a massive blind spot at the back, depending on the universe you are running it might be anything from hindrance to outright death sentence.C-Beam one at least have rear half of the ship covered without runing the entire ship.
>>552682915What a stupid post
HOI3 USA Air strategy:1 TAC and 1 Multi-Role division per army corps1 Interceptor division per theater to counter bombers1-2 CAS per theater1 Naval bomber in pacific to help with main IJN fleetDon't build strategic bombers, they're a meme
>>552630639Ok i came back to their home planet and this time i absolutely destroyed it,unfortunately i can't crack it yet but they yielded Sirius and the nearby systems to me,absolute domination.I will get you...eventually...
Now that is a good fucking change.I was so annoyed you cant just pop anti missile sensor without also switching on the big guns and showing entire system where you are.
>>552688004I should try to give that game another chance. Last time I got overwhelmed trying to build a fleet. Only managed to colonize and explore.
>>552688540i still havent played a decent length campaign in C#, its annoying me that after waiting for so long and so many hours in VB6 i cant force myself to play C# because FOMO.
>>552688004While that is technically a good change for gameplay reasons the whole idea is pretty silly. Active sensors light up like beacons because they suffer form r^4 loss in strength while listening to them is only r^2 and the advantage should be bigger than that for detection vs targeting purposes. In reality even small active sensors should have basically "infinite" range to be detected by passive sensors for tactical location purposes. In game passive sensors detect actives at r^2 while actives also detect targets at r^2 so small sensors get to slip under detection way easier than their size ought to cause them to be.
Hexes or Squares?
>>552680056Spaceships still need to be balanced else when they turn their engines on they'd spin out of control, it's just they don't need to have the same balance as an ocean going ship
>>552697938tiles
>>552698006tilefucker pls
Don't die.
You ever get those dreams where you're in an infinite, grungy public bathroom, where all the stalls are disorientingly long and the doors are only half size?
>>552708284No. My recurring nightmare is simpler.
>>552708284I had a dream a few weeks ago that I had a tooth fall out
>>552708284Old men of /civ4xg/, lend an ear to my plight. Do you ever dream that you start peeing, only to wake yourself up because yes, you did actually start peeing in the real world?
>>552717271I instinctively kick myself awake if I ever dream I'm pissing to prevent that from happening not even exaggerating
>>552717271I had a dream where I peed, but I got up and I hadn't peed yet.
>>552718740>>552719016Thank you, fellow geezers, I figured my fellow old coots would understand the indignities gifted by the ravages of time.
Fucking Chaos empire skill spawned a shitter on the encounter tile, now it takes all the rewards for itself.
>>552697938>>552698006Free space ala Aurora.
>>552671715Thanks, no more input for now.
>all these new optionsHoly hell i really need to play Aurora..
Cetana is cool but autodestroying FEs ruins the game.
>>552754812Every time I play Aurora I spend like 10 hours setting up medals and ranks and fleet/army hierarchies then I don't touch the game for another month
>>552757017Thank god for export/import on medals at least.
ONEMORECUSTOM FACTION
>>552766458JUST ONE MORE
>>552757149So do you recommend trying the current Aurora version?
>>552594281https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtKVQJb208Age of Wonders was originally a project to redpill kids on race, it worked.
>>552767715No idea, im >>552688731 so i still havent played a decent long campaign.
>>552771492Then poking >>552754812 with this question >>552767715
>>552681458Actually, you'd have closer to 360 coverage if the gun was at the highest point of the hull (where bridge is now) and could lower the barrels below horizontal. That would allow it over 180 degrees front-to-back and probably around 270 side-to-side, with numbers in between diagonally.Right now, the gun only has less than 180 side-to-side, since the smaller guns will block it, less than 180 front-to back, because the superstructure blocks it and at best has around 180 diagonally.
>>552767715It's as good as it has ever been, it's still aurora.
>>552779012In other words, the most efficient design for battles in 3D space is a regular octahedron with main turrets located at the apexes. That would give it fully spherical field of fire as well as the ability to bring all guns to bear in one direction at the same time.
>>552779262I will add it to my backlog then. After this Christmas I have a lot of shit to play.
Reminder that if you play regicide in Civ 3 on the 8th of this month that kings will have a unique skin
Terra Invicta just came out of early access is it worth playing?
>>552787006hell no
>>552787006eeeeehhhhhhhIt's like 3 games stapled together. The earth layer, which is balancing the spinning plates 20 different numbers and goals to keep track of, the space layer, which is closest to a traditional 4x, and the combat layer, which is a spreadsheet-fueled blob of unnecessarily-realistic autism.It's both unforgiving (if you fall behind, it's very hard to catch up, and you'll need to savescum to balance out AI cheats) but also extremely forgiving (as long as the aliens don't totally conquer the planet, you can come back and win even after the other factions have won, there's even an achievement for that).Performance is kinda bad and load times are atrocious. 5+ minutes.It's basically 'Noob Trap: The Game' with a large number of techs, mostly for ships, that serve no purpose than to waste your rapidly-dwindling time. Each tier has a best-in-slot, a couple of runners-up, and everything else just kneecaps you, and you won't know until you make a spreadsheet to compare them or look up one someone else already made. There's like 40 types of engines, but only 5 are actually worth using.A single playthrough can take almost 100 hours.
>>552789086Im still annoyed they went with the gay ass "muh shadow organizations" shit instead of just fucking nations..
>>552787006Did they make it fun?
>>552789086Not that fag but thanks, I will avoid it.
>>552790910why did you have to call me fag
>>552789360Meh, I don't mind it. It's more flexible and if I wanted a mappainter I'd just play H*I4. Having 7 different illuminati groups running around gets kinda silly if you think about it though.
>>552791579To hide my own homolust for you anus.
>>552789086That sounds detestable.
>>552797468Its even worse.>muh climate change>pop growth gets negative with no way to reverse it>muh inequality as game mechanicsGame sucks dick.>>552792113Nation gameplay would be much better.Its much more fun to be US Navy in Space than muh iluminati.
>>552800507>US Navy in SpaceSo a lot of criminality, rape, drug smuggling, and friendly fire accidents?
>>552801085More like capturing ayy leaders in 2 hrs without casualties.
>>552801442Hey remember when they opened fire on Israeli coastal defenses and got shot back at?
>>552800507>pop growth gets negative with no way to reverse itAchktually you can get popgrowth positive by building up GDP and I think reducing inequality. The preset per-nation pop gain/loss equalizes to 0 over a decade iirc.
>Aurora finally allows multi system NPR generationDamn, Steve really did a nice job with C#.>>552801903Who cares, nuke israel and be done with it.
>>552802172Oi vey, we can't nuke our trusted allies for generations, what would the rest of the world think?
>>552802479At this point there would be world wide celebration if it happeend.
>>552802172you'd have to take out all of the subs all at once
>ships can now mount multiple refueling systems and the rate combines>specialist troops are easier and cheaper to train on planets with coresponding terrain>enchanced Spoilers>crew quarters efficiency tech>changes to NPR hostility due to multi system being a possibility>normal NPR's can be now on 4 different development stagesFucking hell, Steve is a GOD.
What the fuck? Has anyone ever met a Dark Champion or a Goblin Knight?!?
>>552806846only late at night
>>552801085Oh, they're nowhere near the top in horrible navies. Have you ever heard of the Second Baltic Fleet's journey to Japan?>set sail>flagship immediately runs aground and a cruiser loses its anchor>while waiting for the flagship to be refloated, a destroyer rams into a battleship>open fire at another russian cruiser in the Baltic, thinking it's Japanese>miss every shot>later near the Baltic Strait, one cruiser signals it's under attack by 8 Japanese torpedo boats>alarms>turns out there's nothing there>open fire at fishermen at Dogger Bank, thinking it's Japanese torpedo boats>keep firing for 20 minutes>complete panic with Russian sailors running around their decks with cutlasses, trying to repel nonexistent boarding parties or curling up on the deck in life jackets, ready to be sunk >fishermen losses: one trawler sunk, one fisherman dead, one more later died in hospital from shock>Russian losses: 2 armored cruisers damaged, one priest dead, one sailor dead and one severely wounded>Britain renounces the fleet's access to the Suez Canal, so now they also have to sail around Africa>when Russia has no holdings in Africa or South Asia to make any repairs or restock>forgot to raise anchor at Gibraltar and cut a telegraph cable to Algier>one of the ships gets lost for a week off the coast of Africa>after returning, it reports sinking three Japanese vessels>turns out they were Spanish fishermen and a Dutsch schooner, but it didn't sink them, all shots missed>buy coal from some Germans on the way>keep giant piles of it on the decks, to have enough to go around Africa>sailors start dying from black lung from breathing in the coal dust 24/7cont. in next post
>>552808034Nevermind, I checked, it's in Gathering Storm, and I only played vanilla HoMM IV.
>>552808083>around Africa, buy cigarettes for sailors to raise morale, turns out they were laced with opium>once the officers find out, they confiscate all the cigarettes, so sailors get mad and sick from withdrawal>stop at Madagascar>to lift spirits, tell sailors they can bring one thing from land back to the ship with them>crew brings in venomous snakes, crocodiles, and various other animals>venomous snake bites an officer>parrots learn russian swear words>chameleons breed like rabbits, cause they camouflage well enough that russians can't find them>cooling plate on the refrigerator ship breaks, so they have to dump all their meat into the ocean>now followed by a swarm of sharks>due to one of many stops for a sailor funeral, the gun salute was accidentally made with live rounds, one russian ship damaged>conduct firing practice by having one of their ships tow a target>0 hits on target, 2 hits on the towing ship>passing Africa, to raise morale have sailors write letters to their families and dispatch them to Russia on a smaller, faster ship>also, were supposed to get a supply of ammo, but received fur coats instead>passing India, see the small ship with mail>sailors get excited for the replies to their letters>turns out the ship malfunctioned and spent 3 months under repairs in India, their letters have not reached Russia yet, morale tankscont. in next post
>>552808083>after returning, it reports sinking three Japanese vessels>turns out they were Spanish fishermen and a Dutsch schooner, but it didn't sink them, all shots missed
>>552808240>make a stop in Vietnam to restock without approval (Vietnam was French), find out Port Arthur had already fallen>decide to take the shortest route to Vladivostok>full stealth: radio silence, lights out, except for the hospital ship, since those are Japanese waters>finally encounter a Japanese ship during a foggy night>they think it's Russian, and Morse all the fleet details to it blowing their cover>this results in over 4 thousand russians dead (21 ships sunk, seven got captured, six got disarmed) at Tsushima, to 120 Japanese (lost 3 torpedo boats)>four cruiser escapes Tsushima>crew of one of them is so afraid of pursuit they try to scuttle it, but fail>run it aground and walk to Port Arthur>only three reach Vladivostok>one of the officers returns to Moscow to find out that they already held his funeral
>>552808240IT'S STILL NOT OVER?!?
>>552808387>finally encounter a Japanese ship during a foggy night>they think it's Russian, and Morse all the fleet details to it blowing their cover>this results in over 4 thousand russians dead (21 ships sunk, seven got captured, six got disarmed) at Tsushima, to 120 Japanese (lost 3 torpedo boats)Good lord. This is such a level of incompetence, it's... you're bullshitting, right?
>>552808638Nope, this level of incompetence is standard russian military practice.
>>552808785>Her commander, Captain Vladimir Nikolaevich Miklukha, refused help from the Japanese and went down with his ship.Well, they were grossly incompetent but they had honour.
>>552808785To be fair, the commander (known mostly for constantly getting mad and tossing binoculars overboard, so the crew kept a whole box of them as replacements) was somewhat competent, but he was the only one. Only half of the crew were actual conscripts with some training (in the army, not navy), the other half were freshly taken from farms and shit.
>to lift spirits, tell sailors they can bring one thing from land back to the ship with them>crew brings in venomous snakes, crocodiles, and various other animals>venomous snake bites an officer>parrots learn russian swear wordsThis can't be real...
>>552809248Apparently, they also taught that snake to drink vodka.
>>552808083>>552808240>>552808387>>552808638Reading on 1890-1920 Russian history is fascinating.Orlando Figes has a great book on this, "Tragedy of Nation".
>>552809337>>552809607This is some sitcom shit. Do they have train monkeys to serve beer?
>>552809897Its tragic actually. Such a great nation, fallen so hard and low and then communism deals the coup the grace to them.
>>552810075Wasn't Russia on par with the most advanced nations during the Rennaissance?
>>552810972Not really, they were always behind.in the 1850-1920 period they have been incredibly polarized with upper echelons living in splendor and oppulence like Europeans while lower echelons being dirt fucking poor, even more than medieval European peasants at times.Tsar and various statesmen tried to remedy this but they ran out of time.
>>552812478I see. That's what happens when the classes are too separate.
>>552813167Yeah pretty much.
>>552800507>>muh inequality as game mechanicscan you remove shitskins such as blacks and arabs to reduce inequality?
>>552817171No.There is no racial/ethnic breakdown of population
>>552800507>muh climate changeSomeone on reddit did some experiments and figured out that, not only does climate change have negligible impact on the world as long as you have a stockpile of cash to counter the bad-thing-happened events, but the level it has to get to to actually matter is so high it takes a very long time of dedicated playing-the-game-wrong effort to reach, and is wildly higher than both what the 'World's gone to shit' scenario starts with and what it would take for the real world to start going to shit.
>>552640109mass economy nerfs across the board, now getting fleets up is much much harder and slower. naval cap is also nerfed as well, individual ships takes much more fp
>>552819545I love how instead of ships needing supplies, maintnance and stuff they just decided fuck it, entire homeworld of a species can barely support ten dinky corvettes to solve the fleet problem...
I am playing Dungeons 1 and it seems like the hero is incredibly powerful.
Any other games like the Age of Wonders series (emphasis on turn based combat)? Yeah I start auto resolving eventually but it's still fun. I didn't like the real time aspect of Total War. I also played Gladius and that Zephon game or whatever.
what are some good entry level city builders? i have CS1 in my library. is workers & resources too advanced?
>>552808083>>552808387>Russian sailors running around their decks with cutlasses, trying to repel nonexistent boarding parties>they think it's Russian, and Morse all the fleet details to it blowing their coverI knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was THIS bad.
Will we ever get an actual licenced Middle-Earth 4x?
>>552841839cities skylines it's a good and easy city builder for anyone looking into the genre. workers and resources is very challenging but it's a good game too.
>>552800507>>muh inequality as game mechanicsHow does that work? You have a bar telling you how negroes, spics and jews are getting assaulted by microaggresions?
>>552865463It's probably more like a bar showing you how many % of your citizens are holding 99% of the wealth.
>>552865463>game about hidden jews doing jewish things has a jew power baroutrageous
>>552865463Calm down coomer.
Do you like hero units in RTS games?
>>552878215If it's ok for them to die, then yes.If they are instant you lose buttons, then no.
>>552878215They are either huge OP or just above average units. No in between.
>>552878215Only if they can be countered by units. If I need a hero to kill a hero, then there's a problem.
>>552878215In SP RTS they are a must, every faction should be chock full of bullshit super unitsIn MP RTS they are a bit of a problem for balance reasons, mothership is a fantastic unit but it's always been either a must have turbo tard or a flying -400/-400 donation to your enemy
Now this is my kind of game..
That cruiser is about to get fucked up..
How the fuck do people get to Anschluss in 1936?
>>552889818By posting on a different board.
>Sea Power now has versions of Harpoons that dont pop up in final stageBased
Bamp
>>552878215maybe
Bampalamp
>>552901407>>552915705Thanks for these pics anon.
>>552915705This gives me anxiety.
>>552915705Woah Black Betty>Bampalamp
Damn. I like that game but it takes so long to build up.
>BAR>sci-fi>allows you to literally resurrect dead units, or reclaim the bodies for metal>8Bits Hordes>fantasy>wizards are just fancy archers with an armor piercing missilesI hate this so much.
>>552915705Is there anything special with this space station or is it a normal one? I'd believe it if you told me the long "spine" housed some sort of weapon.
I finally learned EU5, its pretty fun to play as small state, should i try EU4 next?
>>552942626ask /gsg/ you RETARD
>>552942626Wrong thread, tranny.They taught you about genders but they didn't teach you to read?
>>552942906I'm asking a normie thread for a good answer thouThose fags want me to play Victoria 2.
>>552943156We do not deal in "Grand Strategy" trash. Go ask /v/ if >>>/trash/gsg is too retarded and autistic to help.
Terra Invicta released, is it good?
>>552808083>>552808240>>552808387you forgot> The victory established Japan as the sixth greatest naval power while the Russian navy declined to one barely stronger than that of Austria-Hungary.
>>552950974nevermind, I just bumping the thread before checking its been talked about alread
Just bumping to tell you that I have no idea, last played it during beta, so no clue how it is right now.
>First time booting up Port Royale 4anyone dabbed into this?I'm not sure but it kind seems the graphics are crap (playing on linux btw, something might be missing)
>>552975643It looks like those fake mobile game ads. Especially the dude in the corner.
>>552976594it actually looks like a game from 15 years ago, according to the store picture it does seem to be right thoughNo that it is all that bad, kinda evokes a nostalgia feeling.
>>552975643But this series isn't known for good graphics is it?
>>552937780That is the first time I hear this. I dunno anon.
>>552975643>anyone dabbedI can proudly say I never did.
>>552983285Not specifically, though the previous games where known for fairly beautiful arts.
>>552915705Neat
>>552956538That was russian's only attempt to actually be a naval power (can't really exert influence with your fleet if it's harbour-locked by ice for half of the year, or can get completely blocked from doing anything by Turks blocking the Bosporus) and it failed. They never tried again and are still butthurt about that loss.
>>552808083>>552808240>>552808387I love seeing the Russo-Japanese war and the Baltic fleet get posted. I guess it's more /k/ and /his/-coded so it figures that /civ4xg/ probably has never seen the screencaps before, I wonder if /gsg/ knows it or if they're just poser larpers.
>>5530168802/4
>>5530170813/6, since I'm a retard and miscounted.
>>5530173274/6
>>5530175185/6
>>553017834And 6/6, the prim and proper retelling.
>>553016880I first heard about it in the World of Warships general.
>Antonov airport >Moscow theater hostage incident>ruzzian's school hostage incident The more I read about them, the more I believe we live in a clown world.Thanks Anon for posting that.
>>553016880>numerous cruisers report being hit by torpedoes>battleship reports being boarded by japanese forcesGenuinely how does does that even happen? Was everyone actually just legit schizophrenic? A gas leak? I know combat is chaotic and confusing, but you gotta be a special kind of special to mass-hallucinate wholeass people and explosions under your feet
>>553022932I assume they did not know how to properly use their communications systems, did not learn Morse or the flag system properly. You need to remember that russians were, as usual, behind in tech and did not have radios yet (Japanese did have them).
>>553022932The long version goes into more, but it's a combination of the fleet being fed nothing but false info about the Japanese, most of the sailors being simple peasants/revolutionaries/generally poorly trained and not any form of "professional" at all, likely a lot of substance abuse, miscommunication between ships due to poor training, and fear tending to spiral. Mass hysteria is a real thing, like when the whole world started panic-buying toilet paper because some Aussies were having shortages. It's the same principal but now it's a bunch of dumb young men with access to explosives and who believe the boogeyman's about to get them.
>>553022932Probably bunch of first timers mistook their own guns firing as explosions and explosions = torpedo by the japanese + signal misuse.
Okay I was wrong about the load times of Terra Invicta. They've been improved for 1.0. From 5+ minutes down to ~1, on my ancient HDD.
>>553024993>ancient HDDMy condolences, anon. Normally I would recommend upgrading to an SDD but prices have shot through the roof these past few months.
>>553022932Probably the same way they mistook one of their ships to be sinking off the coast of Madagaskar, because some condensation water was pooling in engine room and someone thought the hull was leaking.
>>553023797>russia behind japanIt keeps happening.Japan in 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZAsGmztG0Russia in 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZWEhS3u-FI
>>553023797>most of the sailors being simple peasants/revolutionaries/generally poorly trained and not any form of "professional" at all, likely a lot of substance abuse, miscommunication between ships due to poor trainingYou are describing a ton battles the Russians had in Ukraine. Which in hindsight, it's the same. Specially because now they are using penal battalions.Man I should drop by /k/ more often.
Some Civ 7 future DLC leaked:A core concept about it is is based off of "Great Units" You are limited for the amount of each one you can have by the era (1,3,5) by default.You can upgrade any military unit that has killed another unit to a Great Unit the turn after it kills a unit if you do not have any other limit. This makes it so after every kill after being promoted, it gains a random upgrade.Upgrades include:>Active: These upgrades have an active bonus. Once the unit is killed, they give a debuff for a set amount of turns.>Defensive: These upgrades only function when the unit is killed but gives a negative debuff when it's alive>Shrine: These upgrades only give any benefits once the unit is retired into a monument tile. If they are raided, they give the reverse effect until restoredOther players can interact with them to gain massive war score when killing them, to even trying to convert them. If converted, the original owner gains the debuffs for a few turns while the upgrades reset for the new owner. Civs can gain wargoals over Great Units to humiliate them in battle. If they die for any reason, they give debuffs based on the upgrades unless it's Defensive upgrades. Retiring them turns them into a monument which has it's own upgrades, but it's own downsides once raided.It's made to have a risk vs reward element to promoting Great Units and with feeding them more troops. Not all upgrades are beneficial and they become easy targets. Only the owner can see their benefits/cost.
>>553025965>In russia, even robot is drunk
>>553018083>>553017834>>553017518>>553017327>>553016880kek
ONEMOREWONDER
>can play games on archive.orgHuh. Neat.
>>553027451Sid Meier's Heroes
>>553027451that kinda reminds me of legendary units from a Civ4 mod, it was quite cool back thenhowever, with these mechanics it kinda sounds pretty bad and annoying
Winner takes all.
ONEMOREGOODY HUT
>>553071885I play with goody huts turned off though
>>552928263Play the campaign.
>>553078490Goodie huts are one of the redeeming features of Civilization howeveristicallly
>>553053468Did a replay of Castle of the Winds on that until I got better local copies. Works pretty ok
>>552806846Yeah, there's a fuckton of them in Gathering Storm campaigns.Final map's final boss even has them in his army.Thing is, GS and later Winds of War didn't come with a lot of skirmish maps, and new units DON'T spawn naturally, they have to be placed manually on the map when you create it. Same for their dwellings. So unless you play campaign or one of the, like, three maps that have new units pre-placed, you are not gonna see them.
>>553013239Horatio sauce a day keeps spiders away.
>>553085584No, campaigns suck. They're always "hey take that castle full of T2 units, but oops, you only have T1 units and no techs lol"
>>553107440Warrior Kings Battles campaign is just all skirmish maps but you get can get bonus resources and tech unlocks from conquering shit. Barbs still win most fights lol.
>>553107440I said play it, from the original game, not Battles. Listen to me, Spider.
>looking through mod git repos for civ>commit titled "updates">4080 files changed>+673,578 additions, -20,296 removalsYeah, ok
>>553120432probably minor changes like typos or removing old code.
>>553120432Best /g/ practices.
Ok, this game actually seems like a fun town building strategy
>>553125883Still playing Port Royal?
>>553126081Yeah, tried a dab at it todayMind me, I don't get much time otherwise,buts chill, same as previous in the series, you automate some convoys and rake in the cash, however the city building elements are insteresting
>>553121602I checked and it looks like 99.99% of it was because they added a new dependency and all of the intermediate build outputs in the commit so it's like >>553121781 said
Do you like fighting alongside AI-controlled allies?
>>553129567Only if.>They are competent enough to not die>Smart enough to stay behind some defensive walls and let me handle the fighting>NOT MADE OF FUCKING TISSUE PAPER AND ARMED WITH THE INTELLECT OF A WW2 ERA JAPANESE OFFICER SCREAMING "BANZAI" AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS, YOU FUCKING STUPID KNIFE EARS STOP RAMMING THE FUCKING ORKS!!!!
>>553130454Is that Gothic Armada 2?
>>553130563Nope, gothic armada 1.I like the game, but there are few missions that are bullshit because you have to either babysit an inquisitorial ship on a mission of exterminatus, while a whole chaos warband is trying to destroy his ship and at that point you have like, couple of cruisers at your disposal.The Mission that rustles my jimmies, is the fucking eldar co-operation mission, where you and the knife eared fuckup of the void are fighting against the orks.Originally, this mission wasn't impossible, but since the ships in campaign are exactly the same as the ships in multiplayer, that means that any and all tweaks to the ships, for the sake of multiplayer fairness, will end up happening in campaign too.So, in original game, elves were just tanky enough to not melt when coming in contact with orks, but since they were cancer on steroids to fight against in MP, the devs nerfed them hard to give MP babbies (like me) a chance against the knife eared menace.So now, if you choose to side with the space elves in campaign, you practically soft lock yourself from finishing the game, because 1, the elves are weak as shit and 2, their AI isn't half as dickish as a real competent player, so they can't pull of those same stunts that human players were pulling off in MP and, in general just wander in too close to the enemies and get rammed.Also, did I mention that it's an automatic game over if your knife eared ally's ship gets destroyed in that mission? And that he starts off halfway across the map, almost right next to the enemies, while you have to make your way up to the elf raping grounds?
>>553131401Damn, they need separate stat sheets for multiplayer and campaign. Starcraft 2 released in 2010 and even they knew to do that.
>>553131707Yeah, well TIndalos interactive aren't the cleverest devs around.
>>553129567>>553129567>>553130454I wish space 4x got more PVE shit with multiple players trying to take down massive, powerful AI enemy.XPGamers had a great series in Sins of Solar Empire Star Trek overhaul where several players tried to take on uberpowewrful Borg AI, that shit was fun.
>>551800943Got filtered hard by Anno 1800. Can't get the artisans, need the school.What's an easier city builder?
>>553027451>Georga Washington replaced by Michelle Obamafuck off
>>553137750Have you tried building more houses?
>>553137750>>553138109Bought Tropico 4.
>sol startor>custom system startWhich one ??Aurora of course.
>>553065748This game has so many bad reviews, it it worth playing?
>>553140606I think sol start is better since it's bit more thematic. I don't think the random start adds anything substantial, I would pick that once I have played at least game or two in sol and want to larp something entirely different.
>>553139656nice
>>553143891I had few fun custom starts in VB6.In C# im leaning towards it purely because then i can just make most basic 'Colonial Infantry/Security Team" ground unit and go from there.Meanwhile Sol start means my autistic ass will sperg if i dont create elaborate, detailed ground formations meant to represent existing Earth militaries in some capacity...
>>553141026I like it but consider these things:The gameplay loop is very minimalistic Your hero is very overpoweredStory is barely even thereYou spend more time managing the heroes invading your dungeon then your own creaturesA Kalypso account is required to start the gameThis is less Dungeon Keeper 2 and more invite heroes to explore your dungeon and then kill them before they leave. Cool if you like scaling your main character and watching him destroy a small army on his lonesome.
They are looking for voice actors and campaign (act 1) testers for Nebulous.
>>553146747Didnt tranny who runs this game scrapped the campaign?
>>553146837No they scrapped futher updating a strategy layer of the game. You can still play conquest but they stopped working on it because the focus of the game is tactics. Testers were winning battles with superior numbers which isn't what the game is balanced arround. I think it was the right call in the end because the game focussed on tactics and team work. After stopping development of conquest they started on a single player campaign instead. You will get choices were to go, but it will be a series of maps you need to win. A bit like homeworld.
>>553147637So it sucks.
>>552806846>>553092389How are the expansions campaign for HoMM4? Played it as a kid but never knew about Gathering Storm or Winds of War until way laterThe story content for the original game campaigns was pretty fucking great, and I enjoyed the game in general. I've been told story quality drops to the fucking floor in the expansions, but if they're still fun to play, I could try them after I tire myself with HoMM 2, 3, and maybe Olden Era if it's out
>>553139656Also fine. I suggest giving 1800 another shot down the line though, it took until reaching engineers for the game to finally click for me.
>>553145590Did you play the sequels too? I'm looking for a dungeon keeper clone that isn't as sweaty as war for the overworld.
>>553153627>WftO>sweaty?
>>553154050I remember it being an incredibly tryhard looking game when I saw some videos years ago but I guess I was looking at speedrunners or something. I'll check that one out again.
>>553155840I mean...? I guess? It can be hard, especially when you're on a timer.
>>553153627No, Dungeons 1 is the first I have played. I got them in a Humble Bundle.
>>553150553Why?
Play something.
>>553169320No
>>553169320I amBut it's not civ4x
This game has a second act with new units and enemies.
>>553171442I fucking hate dungeons. You have to spam decorations to improve your fame and unlock new stuff, and you're constantly micromanaging your hero to kill adventurers.
>>553171591Yep, and I am a sucker for it.
>>553171749Oh. Well, good for you. I do not understand you but I don't judge you.
>>553171813Everyone has their guilty pleasures. I have even heard rumours that some people play the new Civilisations.
>>553169320Same as this anon >>553169676. Currently playing /aceg/ titles, need to finish a Mercenary run of Zero before I can finally do the Gauntlet.Maybe I'll play a game on the Strangereal map for Civ V one day.
>>553169676>>553172967Play a /civ4xg/ game.
survive
>>553174520Instructions unclear, thread not bumped.
>>553151418There's not much to the story but the maps are harder. I remember the elf campaign in Gathering Storms I finished with the hero alone thanks to grandmaster stealth.
>make a new infernals empire in stellaris>it's another genocidal race as the new volcanic civics dictatebleh. i just want 4.3 to release so i can meme on the game reducing fleet sizes to ES2 scale
>>552389054Wanna play against each other?
>>553169320I'm playing the europe travel simulator, better known as Resident Evil 4.
bamp
Zooming in to system to bump the defences.
>two jumps from SolNeat, i usually have to go to war to grab these.
>>553225307Is this a mod or did paradox actually add some space ship wreckage that you can rebuild?
>>553225959No idea, i never played full vanilla.Its either vanilla/dlc or Giga or ACOT.`
>>553225959Oh and these arent that powerful, you still need their relevant tech to rebuild them.
>>553225959>>553226108it's from gigas
>>553226239>you still need their relevant tech to rebuild them.Viz's influence has even corrupted the modding community...
>>553226573To be fair someone stumbling on two-three BB's let alone titan/juggernaut this early and rebuilding them from the get go would be practically unstopable.Power difference between BB's and DD's/Corvettes is way too huge.
>>553226693>>553226573And of course - good game would balance it out by making it an issue of supplies, fuel and ammo to power that monstrosity but as we all know Stellaris doesnt do such silly things.
penis
Thoughts on this 9.5/10 game?
>>553233223feels anemic and light on content, not to mention it uses slop for the background art and loading screensget 1800 instead
>>553233223every anno game is the same
>>553169320Thanks for the tip anon.
>>553233223I'd rather get pegged than play it.
>>553221258What game is that anon?
>>553233908Wouldn't we all?
>>553234173It's an awful game.Or...
>>553233908why are you gay
>>553234312I didn't say that... but it wouldn't be gay
>>553233223>Thoughts on this 9.5/10 game?Will not play it until the devs says they have finished with all the DLCs. Same as with 1800.
Hopefully 1800 goes on sale within a few days
>>553238410YES. We are still alive and kicking!
>>553238881Well not that guy lmao
>>553233961Sins of a solar empire 2.
>>553239171He's hanging in there. Taking a small break from fighting.
>>553233223Not gonna pay $60 for a game lmao
>>553241607Remember the words of wisdom of yore.
>>553241959>no adjusted for inflation
>>553243391Wait for sales, anon. At any given time over half of the recommended /civ4xg/ titles in literally every sub-state of /civ4xg/ are well over five years old (and often over ten) so they get heavy discounts during sales.
>>553243391>$20 in 1990 has the same buying power as approximately $49.60 today (early 2026)
very comfy
>>553244705You also have to remember that the MSRP for Secret of Monkey Island was 59,95$. It's mentioned at the beginning of the game as being "totally worth it".That is ca. 148,68$ in today's money.
Posts?
>>553247261Which is most important:A. FoodB. AlcoholC. Loyalty to the State
>>553243391Ok, I will adjust using Japanese rates of inflation>$20 was approx ¥2,500>¥2,500 in 1990 adjusts to ¥2,709.75 in 2026>¥2,709.75 in 2026 is worth $17.15Adjusting for inflation, never pay more than $17.15 for a video game
>>553266747I guess that Japan forgot to invent inflation whilst it was speedrunning civilisation.
>mapgen created a mini Japan complete with whalesNeat
>>553269608Game name?
>>553270620Sam Miller's Cetaceans IV
>>553269608>that uranium depositMapgen system is definitely shitposting.
>>553239703When I was a kid I always thought Sins was so pretty. Sins 2 looks as good as child-me imagined 1 was.
>>553269608>complete with whalesI loled.
>>553273802Like me when I played Spyro.
Does Song of Syx really have any depth if you can just trade anything you want and some random bandit raid will have you set moneywise
>>553262157It's soviet, so the answer is always alcohol.
BUILD IT
>>553247261>about half as much alcohol as food>said alcohol is probably vodka, therefore very concentratedisn't that a bit much
>>553284031city destroyers > city builders
Why? WHY!? A awoken empire just joined in too.
>>553298767What even is happening here?I play Stellaris, but I'm a couple versions behind since I don't see much point in updating right now, and I always have UI Overhaul Dynamic.
>>552841839Skylines with all the DLC. You'll get owned by trash and land value management and traffic, even though it seems easy at first. It's one of those games where you slowly lose.First itll be your interstate freeway that gets jammed up with traffic because you would've developed all around the offramps without planning for the interstate to be jammed first.Then the trash will pile up and you'll have to revamp where the landfills are and how much access they have to the city.Then over time your land value will tank because you haven't been distributing parks or anything desirable, you've only been building economic zones, you have a literal recreation of America at that point.
>>553309216ntaWhat's the issue with low land value?Not enough property taxes to stay afloat?
>>553238410Phantom brave?
>>553309356The population will abandon the place and your budget will shrink until you're in the red. This is extremely bad if it happens to dense residential because then you lose a SHIT ton of residents and abandoned low value shit has a knock on effect to buildings around it. So you can see how that can quickly become a huge problem if left unchecked. Everything can multiply though, the trash levels and corpses can drop the value on top of it. You'll suddenly be in a pit that can take a while to recover from and be expensive.
city builder but it's in a gigantic intergalactic spaceship the size of a city
>>553169320What is that artwork of?>>553233223Is it the one with negro romans?
>>553326836yeah but the black roman is in fucking britannia for some reason
>>553327443But there was one negro legionaire who was seen by an emperor in Britannia and killed as an ill omen as the fucker offered him laurels.
>>553313068Yes.>>553326132The Horned King from Taram.
>>553328916>The Horned King from Taram.thanks
>>553330449Your're are well cum.
penis in bum
how cum are the mods stellaris these days?
>The Last Chieftains introduces three captivating new civilizations, each with their own unique units and technologies: Mapuche, Muisca, and Tupi. Challenge your friends in skirmish matches or battle your way across South America with three new campaigns, commanding the forces of folk heroes such as Lautaro, Pacanchique, and Arariboia. These campaigns feature memorable characters, like the cheerful berserker Galvarino, and Nicolas Durand, the swashbuckling adventurer. The Muisca campaign can even be played from two unique perspectives, depending on whether you decide to serve the noble Nemequene or the greedy Quemuenchatocha!Well they're not Aztecs but I'm still very curious!
>>553337150>still no spiderfag sex slave population
cumers
>>553308991>Space bugs try to colonize a empty habitat>AI come in and carpet bomb it>Game breaks and gets stuck>Can't land troops because technically, there is no one there to attack even though the Bugs are trying to colonize it>Can't nuke it because technically there is no one there>AI keeps stacking troops and ships thereI was forced to use console commands to delete this habitat to unstuck these retards.
I wish there was a space 4x version of Rule the Waves 3 - a game set in space where you are just a supreme commander of the navy who gets the budget, builds ships, deploys them but everything else is handled outside of you and you have to deal with shit politicians and other people brought on your head.
respectfully disagree
Just recently fired up Endless Legend 2 again after a while away from it. What the hell did they do to the Tahuks? Why is every single mechanic they have straight garbage now?
>>553340678never heard of that game before. is it any particular time period, or is it a hodge-podge of meso- and south american nations?
>>553368461It's a DLC for Age of Empires 2, sorry. I should've started with that.
>found a bug in some really autistic AI code that I can't figure out what's causing it or even if it causes any issuesWhatever
>2400s>Mid double crisis>Lag>Retarded Religious fallen empire obsessed with sperging out on me every ten years>Federation continuously trying to knee-cap my fleet capacity>Galactic Senate prefers to vote useless trash over focusing on dealing with the crisis>My fleets can't find a pathway to they star system directly next to them>Can't finish the religious fuck because my fleets refuse to jump to the next system>In the meantime, his fleets can just waltz around with no issues I'm done. Fuck this gay shit, I'm playing Civ V
>>553376930What the fuck?
>>553376930Jeet coding quality.80$ please
>>553377024>>553377479you can drag and move buildings around in anno (for a fee), but they made it so farm crop tiles count as a building a guess so if you are trying to paint crops like i was doing then it will result in a negative user experience
>>553378838...what? So basically, once a farm runs out of fields, it creates a second farm?
>>553379163no it doesnt create a second farm, see the oat field amount is x/80. i was left clicking and painting out fields so once it got to 80/80 oat fields then the oat field + farm is considers a complete building. then when i left clicked the oat field to drag out more oat fields, the game considered it as me left clicking a building and wanting to drag and move it somewhere else, which created the situation which caused me to exit the game
>>553380136I see. Kinda. That's kinda shit, no?
>>553381112maybe they'll fix it
>>553314223>rent is low>people leave because there's no parksDo they not have internet?
>>553383714>No parksWhere else are they supposed to meet their heroin dealer?
>>553388642Your mom's bedroom.
*wheeze*
>>553394703Triple the defense budget!
>>553394703perhaps the most unrealistic thing ever imaginedt. burger
Stellaris is so comfy when you just want to take it easy and build economy
I won't destroy the overworld if you give me...1 million souls!"Sir, a million is nothing!"1 billion souls!
im going to start a new Karl campaign after about 2 years. anything i should look our for? i want kiswev and dwarf and woodelf allies to recruit units
>>553398857>then... 2 millions!>one billion is more than two millions, cretin
>>553395551Hey you never know, maybe the dread of a looming alien invasion could finally shake up the increasingly-fracturing ideologies and force the political machine to direct its efforts to mutually-beneficial causes in the name of survival.Nope, couldn't keep a straight face.
>>553402146The right would say "fuck the aliens"The center would say the aliens don't existThe left would say "fuck the aliens"
>>553401710They should make a game about that.Like, aliens invade Earth and you fight them. That'd be pretty popular I think.
>>553407661Yeah. And they should call it Aliens-international. Or Extraterrestrial-International. Or just X for short.
>>553407661I have no idea why you would think that would be popularsounds boring as hell
>>553383714I think I might've confused the Entertainment and Land Value together, they're 2 separate things to manage. Been a while since I played, been too busy on Farthest Frontier and Tavern Keeper.
I'm not satisfied with US+Canada, so now I'm cracking into France. Servants had 60-70% support pretty much the whole game, but a couple years of propaganda (and some from the Academy, for some reason) have torn them down to just 25%, giving me just enough of an opening.Fortunately, the European Thunderdome is an even bigger shitfest than normal so there hasn't been any unification. Unfortunately, it means taking even longer to rebuild the EU.
>>553413920this nigga's actually playing terra invicta
>>553413920I remember servants always being a menace early game, they fix that?
>>553414559They haven't really interacted with me so I dunno. It's just 3 years after start though and the aliens have only recently started abductions, so the Servants haven't gone full dickhead yet.
>>553247261is this a campaign of sorts? Or just tutorial?
>>553407661If they found aliens they might have to send less money to Israel, imagine that.
>>553431037No way Trump would let that happen, he's a slave to them.
>>553431037>If they found aliensWho do you think aliens are?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wai7VFzycI
>>553432139https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAom8ws8qp4
I went outside today.The cashier at the supermarket was a Star Wars fight.So, any good Star Wars RTS recently, or do I reinstall Empire at War or Galactic Battleground?
I have anno 117 pax romana, Clanfolk, Rimworld, Manor Lords, Norland, Ratopia and Timberborn city builders, do i need anything else? Thinking of buying Town to City full price.
>>553437589Against The Storm?
>>553438047Missed that, thanks for the reminder. How essential are the DLCs? I don't have any.
>>553438371They're mostly just new biomes and races. It's nice for variety but not essential.
Is cataclismo any good?
>>553365470I have chosen to abandon Tahuks and try the new Necrophages and Aspects.The unique districts for the bugs changing from 1-of to instant-build with scaling corpse cost feels really good. The whole Matriarch's Eye to level up districts thing kinda gives off Ardent Mages city planning vibes, which wouldn't really be v-eye-able n that game without the Eyes producing a fuckton of influence. Also, it makes it really awkward to generate good science/dust with labs and trading posts due to adjacency shit. Not sure how I feel about the Tails being the only military structure, it seems like that'd make defending the hive require substantial standing armies on patrol duty later on, and requires you to put Eyes on the frontier of your territory for security purposes (scary investment of resources). Feedholes amplifying strip-mining tiles feels awesome. I appreciate that their economy now runs on corpses almost entirely.Haven't gotten particularly deep with Aspects because I struggle to contain homicidal urges when other empires sieze land I wanted. The +1 food on coral feels extremely nice, as do the new district bonuses. The change from coral making bribes free instead of auto-pacifying helps solve their abysmal early game defensive play, but also really hurts their early economy (they lost the basic dust district, so more unit upkeep = slower coral growth). Their mid/late game expansion will likely be fueled by deposits for trading post adjacebcy bonuses. Buyout with influence feels as strong as you'd expect, but it also feels like retreading ground. My biggest gripe with them has changed from "They fall over to the slightest early aggression" to "They kind of just feel like they cobbled together ES2 factions". Also, I think they made their cavalry unit T2 and their flying juggernaut T3 now.Amplitude pls unnerf Tahuks.https://youtu.be/nzeBgLy6Y2g?si=3np1DsUBEyb_JyLF
>>553408375X is already taken. But, since you are fighting the aliens, you need to command your dudes. So it could be Extraterrestrial Command, or X-COM for short.
>>553445983Yeaaah, that could work.I always thought "com" was a reference to website being called .com
>>553446056I made that up, but it seems the game's name comes from Extraterrestrial Combat.
Pulling the trigger on Whiskerwood and Town to City
Thinking about upgrading my PC but the only games I play are autistic spreadsheet simulators like Rule the Waves and Aurora or 20 year old strategy games
>>553453009I think that there has never been a worse time to upgrade your PC.Nvidia and ChatGPT must pay for what they have done to us gamers.
>>553453820Tbh the last time I upgraded was in January 2020 right before prices went to shit and I feel like there hasn't been a good time to upgrade since GPT4 was released and AI became a marketing meme
>>553151418>I've been told story quality drops to the fucking floor in the expansions, but if they're still fun to playNarrative wise? Yeah, it's bad. New World Computing was going down in flames, they were putting those expansions together on a budget of chewed gum and empty pizza box.They are great as just raw unfiltered gameplay faggotry. In Gathering Storm your heroes start out weak but end up overleveled monsters that wouldn't be out of place in a Holy Grail War in Fate. Last map is all of them coming together to defeat the main villain as the world becomes unstable.Winds of War is just a set of challenge maps that tell a story about how several counties invaded the same kingdom at the same time. Maps look neat and are just a solid HoMM4 skirmish experience. It all ends on one giant map that represents the capital of invaded kingdom, and ALL factions are present at the same time. You actually choose which one you'll be playing as (and yes heroes are carried over from previous scenarios, so you'll be fighting heroes that you raised yourself). The end goal is to break into the capital and it's a set of decently brutal fights which I mostly remember because the final defender hero uses the portrait of my beloved Adelaide (don't judge me yes I had a crush on her since HoMM3).Winds of War introduces some new units and megadragons are really cool. But, uh, you already know how new units are handled integration-wise.
>>553435679>The cashier at the supermarket was a Star Wars fight.What does that even mean?
>>553454539It's even worse now, and it's only going to get worse for the next 4 years at least, unless the bubble bursts.Memory is skyrocketing up because of AI. That means RAM, SSD and VRAM (and everything else that uses solid state memory: USB sticks, phones, cars, toasters, etc.).Because of VRAM going up, GPUs are going up again, and in some regions, finding a GPU with more than 8GB is already impossible.AI server racks needs a ton of chips, and TSMC can't keep up with making them, so they are increasing their prices for manufacturing in 3nm technology, meaning CPUs are going up as well.
>>553454539>before prices went to shitMy dude prices of stuff like RAM has increased by 400%, and no, I'm not joking.
>>553466301I'm planning on reusing the RAM from my current system so that will save some money but I see what you mean
>>553473851The DDR5 2x64Gb RAM I bought are now 2000€. I bought the parts for my new computer this September, and it cost me 2300€ for everything. Now I wouldn't be able to even buy the RAM.At least now we can tell Grok to undress the pictures of little girls.
>>553473851>>553474314reminder that samsung's newest range of phones will actually have lower specs than their most recent range because the part of the company that makes the smartphones cannot actually get the orders of RAM they need from the part of the company that manufactures RAMbecause they're selling it all to AI firms
>>553453009Your best time to upgrade was a $150 5700X3D on aliexpress.Your second best time to upgrade was when 9800X3D was releases.
>>553463679>me, who's still using a prebuilt from 2017I'm fucked
>>553484510You are fine it it's a 2017 AM4, can just get some 5700 or 5800 whichever is cheaper, and DDR4 is not THAT expensive yet.
Don't forget that Micron, one of the three biggest memory manufacturers, closed their consumer sales in favor of catering to enterprise (AI). So Crucial, one of the best price/performance options for SSDs and RAM and a mainstay in laptop RAM, is no longer around.>t. malding because they were the ONLY fucks who made 64 gig laptop sticks, and had to bite the bullet when they made their announcement
does anyone wanna do a crossword
>>553491975Yes of course but I have to sleep pretty soon.
>>553494762https://www.crosswithfriends.com/beta/game/100501725-ont
>>553495321That was fun.
I believe this is what the kids refer to as a 'bruh moment'
>>553495321I don't understand 57 across (answer: touchdown) - "... or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34-, and 48-across." The first letter is those answers is BTTF. How is "touch down" the logical conclusion to BTTF?
>>553497084>had an amazing motivational speech>cut a really loud and prolonged wet fart right at the endhappens to the best of us
>>553497203>board>taxi>takeoff>flywhat's it called when a plane lands at an airport?
>>553497203>by the startsIt doesn't mean the first letter, it means the first word of each
>>553495321The C in /civ4xg/ stands for Crossword
>>553501408I am still on Anno 1404. I will get to Rome after about 3 more Anno titles.
>>553502331Rome sucks.
>>553511461Based.t. Brennus
Another Dungeon Master has been placed beneath our boot. Only 1 remains.
>>553517729Good job, Underlord!
There is always a bigger fiend in the depths.
hahaha, what the fuck
>>553498754>what's it called when a plane lands at an airport?"landing">>553498992>it means the first word of each>board>taxi>take>fly>touchdownvery logical, thankslynn lempel and will shortz sound like dirty nyc jews so that's probably why their clue sucks so much
Anyone played Supreme Commander Forged Alliance Forever coop campaign? Im going to play it with two buddies. Is it fun? Laggy?
This game is fine, as much as you expect from the series. The improvements to city building expect are cool, and the free camera I guess is the biggest change.Trading is fine as one would've guess, the route AI is quite good, however I just quite figure how to set up the "Star" trade route they mention, which is supposed just a central warehouse dump and distribute, because them the algorithm just doesn't seem work as properly
Anyone played The Crust or Worshippers of Cthulhu? They both look awesome but can only afford one
>>553479467I hate AI so god damn much.
>>552789086I was somewhat interested but I see they did the Long War 2 bullshit balancing again.Pavonis makes some really interesting baselines but they seriously optimize the fun out of their stuff by focusing on some hyper minmaxers and making that the only way to play the game.
>>553520119Weird looking build order graphic
civilization bump
humankind dump
stars in shadow bump
>We're working on it, and we have a playable build with the new terraforming system and a playable skeleton of the new faction (the Gardeners). We don't have a release date yet, and we still have a lot of work yet to do so it's not "soon," but it shouldn't be too long.From one of the developers of Stars in Shadow on the second dlc. was posted on steam last December.
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So what games are you playing? Anticipating?
>>553591846Playing RE4 and waiting for Falling frontier and Total warhammer 40K.Posting an image just for the heck of it.
>>553592775>waiting for Falling frontier and Total warhammer 40KOof that could still take a while.
>>553595202Second one they've posted.
>>553591846Playing AC7 and waiting for Falling Frontier, a new XCOM, and for Unciv to implement BNW mechanics.
>>553598630Is that Ace Combat 7 or Ass Creed 7?
>>553595202Yeah, well just wake me up from my cryo-sleep when the dev either releases the game or when he cusses out the fandom and leaves.
haven't played Stellaris in like 2 or 3 years, I'm assuming the game had like two distinct total overhauls of basic systems in the meantime?
>>553601863It sucks even more now, call back in 2-3 years.
>>553599275plen gayme>>553602281Has Stellaris ever gotten better? Every post I read is always talking about how it's gotten worse.
>>553605968Well, origins were a pretty neat thing to add to the game, so were traditions, but the constant fighting to get the district system working the way devs in their infinite wisdom see it working has ben a losing fight since the start.
>>553606354>origins were a pretty neat thing to add to the gameFuck no, literally just same old civics given a special flag making them automatically mutually exclusive with other such civics.By now half of them have neither mechanical nor lore excuses to be exclusive, especially compared to many new civics that might as well be called origins instead.
Should I buy CK3 or EUV?
>>553610743thisthere's a "decision origins" mod because of this nonsense
>>553612789Read the OP, tranny.
>>553610743But I like the one that makes my home planet explode :(
how do i healed as a Greek?
>>553610743Would Stellaris be good if it wasn't made by Paradox?
>>553618657I don't hate what origins do, I hate how they were split out from other civics.
Cities are meant to be destroyed not built, change my mind
Any strategy games that you are looking forward to in 2026?
>>553634940I don't know what you are playing but it is cool that your pikemen are protecting your artillery.
>>553635205Warrior Kings Battle.And it's not artillery, it's a supply wagon that is supplying my archers with arrows. If it didn't, they'd have to craft their own arrows on the fly, and it'd take so much time that their rate of fire would suffer once their quivers are empty.Also it constantly heals the pikemen.
Good night spiders
>>553639097je ne suis pas une spider
>>553639427T'es une araignée à mon avis
>>553639670zut alors
>>553639097Night.
I buyed boughted Old World and Terra Invicta, did i do well?
>>553645726Old World?
>>553646417
$15 for the full game? This is more like it
>>553649006Interested. How is the learning curve?
>>553651125*$15 for the base game with the DLC unlocker**$65 for the full game otherwiseI think it's pretty straightforward with a menu showing how much of each resource you're producing and consuming. The only thing that can fuck you over is playing with too hard competitors
Autosage soon.Time to find that picture of me crossdressing as a schoolgirl while I'm getting pegged dry.
I will invent Stellaris 2 and save the space 4X world
>>553658590but i am already saved
>>553659185>mfers playing excel and pretending he's having fun
>>553654429A French schoolgrill or Japanese schoolgrill?
>>553659996lackluster imagination is a non-white trait
New thread:>>553667576>>553667576>>553667576>>553667576>>553662225Dunno, you tell me. I wish I could do the Japanese one.
