Stellaris editionPrevious thread: >>554788846This 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 50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FuqhlL19UE== 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
Stellaris is mediocre
Menace is great
>>556581359How do they pronounce their name? Everyone knows that pirates should introduce themselves to instill fear in their victims and increase their infamy.
Fuck aliens
>>556583549Full stop of course
>>556582358Yeah, but so are all these other space 4x games.At least stelloris has more shit to fuck around than most others.
Diana.
Well hello there beautiful.What brings you to a nasty neighborhood like this?
>>556591813IFV? Like in Red Alert 3?
>>556592093I'm going to find out (if I even have enough trade resources for it).
>>556592408Looks like I do have enough moolah for the IFV.Gonna see if I could also get the armor piercing bullets.
>>556592564Welp, I ended up on a bit of a shopping spree and got AP ammo, IFV and a new rifle. in exchange for all of the pirate trucks I had, varied alien body parts, lots of armors and other infantry items.
>>556592867Here she is, ain't she a beauty?
>>556593127Hellz yeah!!!!
>>556593127>50>MMGIs the name not supposed to make sense or did they bump the caliber classifications in this space future?
>>556596681To make it even more confusing, it counts as light vehicle weapon.Also, yes, there are bigger vehicle mounted machineguns too.
Just went to black market to buy my vehicle extra ammo boxes and found this thing just hanging around.
>>556597607>It didn't add a physical missile/pod on my tankMeh.
>>556596681Names often don't make sense, which one of these machine guns has the highest caliber? M2, M240 or M250. Also obviously the designation between light, medium and heavy would vary between the ages. You need hevier weapons in the future with better armor and vehicles also would naturally use a different criteria on what counts as heavy.
HAK HAK HAK
>>556582358hot take of the thread
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
I think Foundation SUCKS
>>556604383American soldiers debarking from McAssault lander colorized ca 2055
>>556604383What that? New game by BB's devs?
>>556606825Yes, It's called Menace.We sci-fi space marines now.
>>556608436I'm on phone, in the train, I can't really see the picture. Is it like xcom where you pick fights, or BB where you just walk around and get your ass pounded by monsters way above your nuts-punching weight?
>>556608436>The year is 3528 and the StuG III is still in serviceI know it's just a generic assault gun but it's amusing to me
>>556608837What's more funny it seeing some very exotic real weapons in such settings, like G11 or Pancor Jackhammer. Or picrel.
>>556609450I fucking love the jackhammer and the kraut space magic gun
>>556608837You pick missions and your squad gets pounded by enemies who understand how cover works and how messy a firefight can get if your flank is exposed to enemys automated weapons.In other words, get a tank/APC/IFV and rush the enemies before they can hunker down behind cover and start aggressively flanking you.On the plus side, you don't pick individual squaddies, you pick whole squads and vehicles into your ops.
>>556609450Crocodile, my beloved.
>>556609795So basically Brother in Arms but as XCOM.
>>556608436I'm finding the game extremely hard.In Battle Brothers I would farm brigands and pick up one skull contracts until I felt I was strong enough for higher difficulties. Also I could field whatever weapons and armor I had, without any "supply cost" mechanics artificially making things harder just because. There was not so much enemy spam, no ammo limit for main weapons other than bows/crossbows. Enemies have zero self-preservation instinct, and behave like orks, which coupled with their retardedly high numbers makes every fight a slog. And all faction's loot price was good enough to sell and have actual money to buy more gear. If you pick the lmaoo planet as your first pick, it is miserable, and even if it isn't your first pick, trying to upgear your troops barely scales well enough to be worth it.
Yeah, I'm thinking about savescumming now.>>556610243Enemy spam? In this game?
>>556582358Sure but it soothes my autistic desire for space exploration and ayy lmao interactions while being good enough. It'll do while I wait for a new ayy lmao story game coming out in the later part of this year.I just hope paradox stops fucking up the game with the new version, it's like they fix something only to break something else more. I can't imagine what a bowl of fine italian spaghetti the game's code must be at this point.
I'm new to multiplayer but something tells me this is gonna go really poorly
arabistan is growing well
>>556617425sigh
>>556617656okay cool
>>556610841>Enemy spam? In this game?And all other points.
>>556619336>lies? in your house of god?It's more likely than you think!
>>556626126>no uI accept your concession.
What the?This guy stole my mech loadout AND is mogging me with his custom paintjob!?That's it! This guy is dying!
>>556634080Is that a Tau pulse rifle?
>>556634765It's a laser lance, does tons of damage and pens armor of a single target, but produces metric assloads of heat.In that earlier pic you can see 6 empty pips in laser lance pic, those are empty heat slots, firing that gun once produces like 5 heat, so you have to either not fire it for couple of turns or vent it next turn, which costs as much AP as firing it.
hey guys, i am looking for a strategy games like the settlers, knights and merchants, timberborn but without any fighting in it, is there anything like it? i just want to build stuff and collect resources and build more
>>556640014Against the Storm?
Do they make a mod that automates planets in Stellaris? Idgaf if it's a cheat I don't like micromanaging.
>>556640014Annon 1800 with no competitors or pirates.Fuck the captcha when I get a new IP btw.
>>556640014Dystopika.All you do in it is build your own cyberpunk dystopia city, nothing but chilling and adding details, including your own custom images and texts and even videos on giant screens across the city you build.It's like Galactic civilizations ship builder, but as a city builder.Down side is that when I call it a game, I'm doing it in broadest of terms possible.Besides building, there's nothing else gameplaywise. No resources, no time limits, there is a bit of progression, but you naturally unlock never stuff by just randomly building older stuff and growing your buildings.Oh and the buildings don't grow based on any gameplay mechanics like pops visiting them or traveling by them, there's just a slider you pull or push to make the building taller or smaller, at certain intervals the building transforms to look like a new kind of building.
>>556641153doesn't planet automation already exist ingame or is it too bad at the moment?
why has no one made a clash of clans type of game on PC yet? but without the constant waiting
>>556643345Fuck, forgot my image.
>>556648110>>556643345>Dystopika.>not even 7 eurodollarsIs it really a game or a """"game""""?
>>556648407NTA but based on his description it's a game in the same way something like universe sandbox is a "game".
>>556626126
>>556644370It does but it kinda doesn't work.
>>556650815I love you.
Is the new Anno fixed now?
>>556660279>Is the new Anno fixed now?Come back in 2 to 3 years. If Ubislop doesn't die before.
This talk of Menace made me finish the second mission.Somehow looted weapons, when my dudes didn't managed to kill not even one enemy squad.
>get motherfucked>buffNIGGA BE BUILT LIKE A TANK
>there are jetpacksThis will be interesting.>>556666084Forgot pic, was talking about the negro with the LMG I have.
Why there's an interrogation mark when my squad is practically on top of it?Are there ninjas?
>>556668385Ninja cyborg ayy lmaos
>my pilot just drove forward and back a few times over the bugsThis is quality tactical driving.
>>556650815i'd fuck bluefang
>>556668385We just don't know (?)
>>556616524I barely know AoW4, but how are the Japs different than that new Daimyo faction?
>>556618520Does this mod have custom map gen?
>>556685813Japs are chill. Daimyos are SengokuJidai era.
>>556669529So, how are you liking it so far?Facing some ordinary bugs I see. >>556668385
Playing Age of the Ring makes it impossible for me to enjoy BfME2 anymore.>fountain guard>in vanilla BfME2, they're just fancy spearmen, nothing special>in Age of the Ring, Fountain Guards are insanely tough assholes, almost comparable to the Heron Guard from Myst
LAME
I was playing Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm and my god is Kerrigan overpowered. I think you could win some missions just by using her.>>556710986What game is this? That guy looks cool.
Welp, it's over now.Guess I'm just gonna do some more random missions till I get bored and move on to next game.Really liking the game so far, some of the MENACE units feel like bullshit but I guess that's the point.Feel free to ask me anything, I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities.
>>556711425>I was playing Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm and my god is Kerrigan overpoweredYou definitely can and that's kinda the point of that campaign. For better of worse they tried a more hero centric campaign with that. I think super heroes were hot shit when heart of the swarm released so they went like notch too far into the hero genre with the game. It's double sad because I think the zerg faction upgrade system was the best out of the three games.
>>556692973of course, it's not a fixed map
>>556712365How long did it take you to get to that point?
I wasn't even winning against tibet and they just called in 4 more civs against metime to restart boys, I was doing shitty anyways
>>55671659230.7 hours, with savescumming and occasionally alt-tabbing to watch some other stuff.
>>556711425Lessaria. A poor man's Majesty.
>>556601098HYUK? >>556669529This was made by devs that did Battle Brothers, right?>>556707209You might like Third Age total war mod, or submod DaC.
>>556722095Age of the Ring is already its own mod.
>>556701535>So, how are you liking it so far?So far it has been easier than I think it would. I think the party wipe I had on the first mission was just a learning experience. Kinda miffed about the supply points because I couldn't equip all my squads with the new weapons I bought, but we'll see.
>>556722095>This was made by devs that did Battle Brothers, right?Yes. It even has some mechanics from Battle Brothers.
>>556724479Don't worry, the supply points keep increasing with each operation.Don't know what causes it, could be faction mechanics, could be some sorta hidden progression system, I don't know.What I do know is that currently I'm comfortably fielding 5 rifle squads and one makeshift tank to my operations.
Fuck me, these guys are TOUGH.So, the Guards of the Fountains, that are just shmuck in vanilla Lord of the Rings? They're heroic units in this mod, as tough as... I dunno, the fucking Wyrmslayers, or the Nazgûls.
>>556726312>Don't know what causes it, could be faction mechanics, could be some sorta hidden progression system, I don't know.The supply points seems to be tied per mission.Also I think I gimped myself a bit by picking Marta Carda.
haven't touched stellaris since march 1 2025is it in a decent state atm or more in a shitting-the-bed state? IDGAF about multiplayer, or mods desumost importantly, does the Khan tend towards greatness, or is he a limp pool noodle that gets fucked before he touches a quarter of the galaxy?
One of my squaddies got hit with a laser.No need to worry though, our ship has state of the art medical facilities!
>>556729189I don't think even reconstructive surgery can help now.
>>556729789Squaddie is fine, he walked it off.
>>556720219Not bad. Did you enjoy it?
>>556729189>>556729789>>556729936Nothing an aspirin and plenty of rest can't fix.I think I'm going to save up to buy another squad.
>>556730113Very much and still do.>>556730183Unironically, that's what this squad leader thinks.
>>556729936>>556730183>"I got better!"
>>556729789Drink water, rub some dirt in it.
