Aurora editionPrevious thread: >>556581359This 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
So since I haven't been able to find it anywhere, does anyone know about the full release of MENACE an indication or solid date? Really enjoying the game but it is clear that the blackmarket, factions and Impetus probably will be improved upon and these are more refined drafts. Really hoping that they>Add an Impetus with OCI’s being switchable between missions and or bonus placements and or upgrades being added.>Blackmarket will be expanded upon with “blackmarket” being a general all rounder and Zayn-Breaker, Dice of the Gods & Backbone getting more faction specific items (and perhaps even pirates and other faction to be added)>Expanded upon strategic layer with travel time implemented among other things.Had a blast in early in my first playthrough, thought things were going pretty well until pirates started to increase in number and HMG trucks showed up followed by facing rogue army which was a hard change from bugs as well. I feel like all factions could deal with a more expanded roster. Menace themselves are in a placeholder state for now I feel, I thought that they were extra spongy in first encounter so you wouldn’t steamroll them the first time you encountered them, but it turns out there were just that tanky and dangerous.
Predictions for when the big civ 7 update is releasing fully? Also I read somewhere they were going to bring back unique music for each civ per age, ala civ 6, any evidence of that anywhere? I thought that was bullshit because that seems like too much work for a free update
>>558326297>civ 7No one cares.
>>558326616Its in the fucking general name
>>558327464it clearly says civ 4, tard
>>558327464and yet no one cares about that piece of shit game
>>558324174Shadow Empires seems cool, but also very autistic.
>>558327570nice one
>>558329084Its pretty cool, i really need to go deep into it someday.
>>558327570Only the best Civ is welcome here.
One more turn
>>558327464desu no one has posted a Civ 7 game here in a long time. I'm still waiting for it to get it's legally mandated 2 DLC before I think about touching it
Thoughts on this bundle? I'm thinking of buying full price
>>558341276>paying for shitfox game>paying for DF>everBruh. Just buy SOS along.>DF bundled with WarsimI always had that game in my backlog, seems like something right up my alley.
>>558341276>Buying Dwarf fortress>A Game that has been free for literally decade+I hear good things about songs of syx though, might be worth it it costs less in bundle than if bought separately.
>>558342993dude if i had a penny for everytime someone told me to play the free version i'd be filthy rich, just let me spend my money how i want...anyway, i dont think syx will go on sale anytime soon since it almost never went, so i will buy full it at full price
>>558341276Worth it. The Steam workshop and the QoL of the paid DF versions are very nice.SoS is practically feature complete. So you can have fun with it with virtually no problems.
>>558343941DF goes on sale for like 23 euros, it's 5-6 euros cheaper than full price so who cares about it, i will grab when i get paid on Thursday. Syx interests me a bit more desu, i think it has immense depth like paradox games
Family's friend gave me 20€, might go to the bank and deposit it to buy either DF or SoS :^)
>>558346086So much to take his virginity?
>>558324174OP you forgot the news.Airships: Conquer the Skies co-op update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/342560/view/528744981882471023Foundation Devlog #20: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/690830/view/505101083838776367C-Beams Devlog 51: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjXh42TOhAI
>>558349247are there any games like airships: conquer the skies that have a much more detailed interior system? it would be cool if you had to manage more than just crew hallways. stuff like building fuel and water pipes around the ship and conveyor belts for supplies would be cool
>>558352212Mmm. Cortex Command? I don't thunk anything is as autistic as you want, Anon.
>>558352212From the Depths and I dunno what else.
>>558352594i mean for vehicles>>558352687what kind of interiors does it have? i do still want to see all my guys running around
I'm playing Age of Wonders 4 and really struggling to defeat Grexolis. Can someone recommend a tailor-made build to complete that mission? I'm at my wits' end.
You should be able to blow up habitats with fleets cause wtf is this bullshit every habitat I find is stacked with 100+ armies.
>>558360152but muh balance???
You guys ever tried Planetary Annihilation?
>>558363606Yes. It's weird. Kinda meh.
i've been wondering about EU5does trade actually flow? does anyone know?is it just between different market nodes?or if you have a empire spanning a large area, will the raw resources from your colonies flow between nodes to your heartlands? i can never get a clear answer if one at all
>>558366835>>>/vst/gsg
>>558367427dumb nigger i'm on the 4x general asking a question on a 4x game
>>558363606I think it's more fun in theory than in practice. The whole 3D aspect of planets just doesn't lend itself very well to gameplay (for a human anyways). A 3D planet is just a really shit "map" for any strategy game, it hides everything interesting beyond the horizon and because it opens up so many routes it means there's no natural "home" and "enemy" areas to help your brain to process what's happening. The air and space layers are frankly just boring. It's not strictly bad game but it leaves lot to be desired when pitted against the immediate competitors. Due to the perspective you "need" to play zoomed out to the max which means you don't get to see what units are doing except as moving icons. The interesting part is the various super weapons and mega mechs but honestly there's probably a more interesting game buried in there and it's not worth playing trough PA just to get to use one planet buster more than couple times. Supreme commander is just lot better basically. If you really like supcom and beyond all reason (which is literally free btw) it's worth checking out, it has a nice spin on the genre, but it's definitely not the game I actually come back to often or play in multiplayer.
>>558367485Wrong general, tranny.
We will never get a Spore 2.
>>558363606Dont support the devs after what they did the MNC/SMNCThey're grifters
>>558373027it already exists thought
>>558367694The only game that did 3D planets right was Populous.
>>558377453And by that I mean Populous: The Beginning, specifically.
>>558377453>>558377626The Playstation game?
>>558377752Yes.
I'm really liking AoW 4, you guys know any other games that scratch this same itch? Very combat heavy with some faction variety?
>>558391093The other Age of Wonder... Endless Legend? Lord of Magic?
>>558392113I'll check them out, I'm new to the genre.
>>558392294Be aware that as far as combat go, Age of Wonder is a bit of an anomaly.Master of Magic/Deity Empire also have turn-based combat but it's not as deep.Otherwise, SONG OF CONQUEST is the current meta, but you might not like it, it's Heroes of Might and Magic like.
>look up prices for new computer parts a month ago>check back over the weekend>prices are up 200 USD excluding RAM>meanwhile all the games I play are either 2D or were released in the 2000sLooking forward to a few thousand FPS when I play something like Tropico 1
Soviet Dictators raise up
>>558396263Sorry, Sumerian dictator here.
>>558396606Show me the Ziggurat
>>558397408
>>558397881You spit in the gods' face with that temple. You need more layers than that
>>558398045Yes.
The dev for Banished died to covid didn't he?
>>558392623Yeah, hardware prices are up all across the board because the source component manuacturers are having their production bought up by big business. They're signing multi-year contracts and so there's much less being supplied for consumer tech. I really do hope any /civ4xgeezer/ who plays new stuff upgraded their rigs last year because it's probably going to keep getting worse long before it gets better. But I guess the true geezers are playing older games anyway.Or one could buy chinesium, since that technically is an option I guess.
onemorenever ending war HOLY SHIT WHERE DOES THE AI KEEP PULLING THOSE TROOPS FROM
Care package for you!
We call that an Israeli drive-by!
>>558359448I beat Grexolis at release and certain whatever I did to beat it won't work the same way anymore. That's even if I remember it. Roughly what I do recall>night weaver ritual at the start gave me extra astral monsters to use as meatshields>had some chaos affinity, chance of free t1-2 units on winning fights>avoid contact with the big Onmar, until it actually happen, then fight as dirty as possible to cripple them>pray allies keep the others away from you People still say underground starts on that map are good but I forget how.
Damn, Princep didn't skip workout.
Timberborn is pure crack, it's somehow relaxing and demanding at the same time. Holyshit, what a game.
>>558420315Yeees, yes, join us...
>>558420914This might be the shittiest colony you've ever seen but it's honest work, i'm only 17 hours in in total. Yesterday it was sitting at 5 hours btw
>spear not available on a horseWeird, weird!>>558421782As long as it survives, there's no "shitty colony". You're too harsh on yourself.
Heck.
>>558422071These are my plans for now, i'm lacking a lot of logs and trying to make up for it by planting oak trees.
guys I found spiderfag
>>558422071game?
Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar Project. If we're going to slow them down, we'll need to move, fast.
>>558433096Yes, I know.
>>558433096Oh, you were asking. Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition.Janky but very oddly fun.
>biosynthesis perks allows you to assimilate hive mind pops from being drones>except for wilderness, as they are a "mutualistic intelligence"Well fuck you, too.
>>558436504>Sweden>Doing something funlål, lmaå
rare armament hitting its targets moment
>>558453719Why even use infantry when you can just have an APC?
>>558454005Concealment, supply cost and vehicles can't do certain objectives. Also there's a certain bullshit enemy that just absolutely fucks up vehicles if you don't have a scout.
>>558396606Oh this is one of the earlier levels.
does anyone know what the best way to play tiberium sun x RA2 widescreen is these days? I just wanna play the singleplayer not interested in MP, some modern controls would be nice too, and cutscenes should workrn playing through cnc1 and ra1 in the remastered, plan to continue after that
>>558458961Oh yes.
>>558324174Spiderfag, did you ever visit Normandy?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_du_Roule
>>558459056man GDI feels like shit in this game, a single flamethrower blast just erased my whole stack xdmissile troops > grenade dudes too
>>558464098ahh nevermind GDI also get rocket troops at least
>>558464098>>558464407this game is so hard mangetting resources takes forever, and the AI keeps pumping out attack waves, base defneses suck, if you're not careful your whole army can get obliberated by aoe damage
>>558464098GDI sucks in this one. Play Tiberium Sun, with the fascists disc throwers.
>>558466836man the whole game is kinda mid except the 10/10 soundtrack and cutscenes, like its retarded how much you have to turtle even on normal difficulty, the way combat is is so strange
>>558468726>kill hand of nod in my last attack>AI instantly rebuilds>troops are backwhile I have to wait for the painfully slow harvesters to make 10 trips to get an army its so stupid
Getting the Hero of Humanity rank with Terrans was extremely easy. It has only taken me 6 hours.Also those single stations engineers missions are hilarious.>need 2 stars engineer>my fighter has 2 service crew with 2+ levels of engineering>send one of them to the stations>???>950k space credits deposited on my account.Easiest mil I have ever done.
Two miners mining ore and silicon. They are more to prop up the Terran economy against the consant Xenon meat grinder, than for actual profits. As even with the cheapest build my RoI would be around 40-50 minutes. They are a million and a half each, so I don't really mind.Have the free Teladi ship on auto exploring. And going to use another scout ship to explore even more. Have to keep tabs on all the Xenon systems, and monitor how the other factions deal with them, and if needed, assistem.Will grind more missions with my starting Kukri, save for a mining trade stations, and start looking at refining ore on my own and sell it to Terrans.Terran's economy and building uses different resources and components than ALL the other races. So they really need my help, even if that means I can't grind money as easily. Still, I may set up a trading station or two on Argon territory.
>>558483050I remember trying to get into X3, but bouncing off hard because the tutorials were abysmal and trying to upgrade was a headache of nonsense ship classes and parts. And it ran like shit and I'd never played anything like it before.Maybe I should give 4 a shot.
Going to invest in another scout. I want two scouts exploring the Antigone flank of the Sol System.>>558484402>I remember trying to get into X3, but bouncing off hard because the tutorials were abysmal Yes. The X games are notorious for being obtuse, vague, unintuitive and downright without ingame information. Althought it has improve a lot in X4.>and trying to upgrade was a headache of nonsense ship classes and parts.It's not that hard. Ships have a size, S to XL. With S being fighter-like, M corvettes/frigates. L cruisers and X/XL battleships.Ship equipment are mainly weapons, manoeuvring thrusters, engines and shields. Which are very self-explanatory,In X3 it was hell to figure out in-game where to get equipment and ships, but in X4 it is told where to buy what, specially if you do the recommended starts, as you have the classical "NPC tells you how to tie your shoes".Now the hard unintuitive part is how to trade automatically, station economy and NPC ship/fleet management. Luckily there's a lot of mods for QoL that saves you a lot of micro with the janky interface.>And it ran like shitIt always does. This game simulates each ship in the galaxy, with their AI. Including combat, mining and trading. So from the start you need a good rig, and by late game(if Xenons or other "end game crisis" doesn't wipe everyone out) it struggles a lot. Luckily the mid to end game gameplay is virtually only CEO/grand commander. You buy your battlecruiser, outfit it like like a flagship, and control you economic and military empire from there. With breaks to lead your main fleet personally, for those high risk operations.
>got vegetation dynamics in my map simulator nowJust need a 3D ocean simulation and it should be ready for me to be disappointed with how the maps play in game
bump
Play Age of the Ring OR ELSE
Anyone play Town to City? Looks sweet
>>558516607*cuts your head off*
>>558527723I'm still pissed that Elessar would do that.
I can't do math. If my fleets power is 2.4k, but I have the Vultaum Relic that gives me 40% of damage and health, how much would that put me up by? Because I got a Fallen Empire on one system and I have Shard the Grand Dragon on another. If I use this on my fleet, will it be enough to fuck both up?
>>558532098Fleet power isn't linear calculation. If you want to know what happens just save and use the thing and see what happens.
>>558532098Stop doing math.
first time playing civ 6, is theocracy not op? making money and training units both takes fucking ages in this game it looks likewith theocracy I just buy whole armies with faith which trickles in pretty fast, OP
>>558551505>is theocracy not opMost things in the game are "OP" if you are building in a specific way. Yes the ability to faith buy is strong and if you are going for a faith built you probably should go for it but it's not automatically best just off the back of that.
>>558552285I'm just messing around in singleplayer huge map 500 turn matches, pic rel was my final japanese empire but basically i saw no reason to switch to fascism/democracy/communism, theocracy was so fucking good becuase I got a ton of faith wo even investing in it much, and I bought all my armies for the conquest with faith alone, also just spreading your religion + having the tithe bonus gives you easy income too, faith in general seems like a good thing to abuse? i don't own any of the dlcs though, gonna buy those next week and try another playthrough with them
>>558552592also goddamn map gen really screwed me over, ugliest continent ever
>>558552592You can win with any government (and basically any build in general). It's just a matter of choosing one that fits your current build or playstyle and one that you enjoy. If you like Theocracy just pick it, but know that strength of a government is determined by how quickly you can win with it especially against competent opponents.
>>558552819yeah that was on 4 difficulty desu, might try 5 or 6 next, i haven't played civ in yearsbut the AI was really passive in 4, declaring wars but not doing anything, barely resisting my conquest, maybe a little too easy, at the same time though it shat out wonders a lot so idkshit builds so fucking slowwwwwww in civ 6, both units and buildings, I think I might be missing something, some district or tech or something that will make shit go faster
>>558552957Just increase difficulty after every win and try to see what you can improve. Change up the civ and win condition and map you go for an try to have fun. That's the essence of the game.
>>558553380does the AI start cheating on any difficulty? also is there some mod or something that will make continents gen better? look at that monstrosity >>558552592i wanted something like 5-6 different but still big continents with distinct shorelines
>>558359448I had a wipe on that scenario and came away with some lessonsthe problem is your placement always seems to be in the middle and your allies are almost right behind you not leaving too much roomit's very easy to overextend and put cities too close to the Onmar. this is probably the biggest mistake you can make because you will pull his aggro. If you leave a lot of buffer space he'll probably focus on fighting whatever ally has more direct access to his territoryI took advantage of that and would just stage some guys in his vision if he started creeping a small army in so he'd back off.since the other faggots were fucking with me right when my economy got going I dealt with all of them first, I think I was 2 turns away from magic victory when the teammates actually just went and killed him.I didn't have any of the expacs when I did it so that simplified things not having all the little events. I don't know how fucked up shit would get if I tried it now.
has anyone played warfront turning point smelling like another replay of that gem is in order(yes i knew it before the mandalore vid its one of my childhood games)
Terran forces are gathering a fuck huge fleet at Mars.Hope it is going to McCallum's. That place is top in my list of Xenon sectors to attack.
How would you rank the AoW4 DLC in terms of buy order?Which would you say adds the most for the price or is important for a better experience. Subjective flavor preference and power level (what is most OP) aside.
>>558562586I wish I could give my opinion on that, but I got them all at once, so I'm not really aware of any big gameplay difference, only that I like some of the ethics/leaders.
>AoW4is this game as hard as as the other paradox gamesthat dinosaur skeleton scares me can i play it as a braindead command n conquer/civ player
>>558565027I didn't find it particularly challenging, but I didn't play it at the highest difficulty so idk that much
>>558565027I had a very hard time against the AI, but most of your energy goes to expanding. At least in my experience. It's just that moving on from crashing neutral to fighting other empires is a huge spike in difficulty.
>other factions:>Sauron, a Maiar of Industry turned evil>Galadriel, one of the Firstborn Elves, notorious for telling Feanör to piss off and kicking Sauron's ass so much he calls her mommy>and then there's bilbo baggins
>>558552592I generally switch to fascism for the combat strength bonus after faith-buying my units. The theocracy legacy card doesn't have the 15% discount, but more policy card slots helps more with keeping flexible>>558553471Try Perfectworld6, although the river shapes tends to make aqueduct/dam placement more difficult
>>558565027It's more akin to hex tactics and civ than a gsg, so yeah
>>558575653Play as sexo plantoid humanoids, or try this mod:https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2813732355Worked for me on 4.2
>>558576102based
Grinded enough money for a M Katana.x2 MK2 shield generators, x2 MK2 all round engines, x2 M Barrage Turrets for anti fighter, x2 frontal MK1 tracking missile launchers with x31 Windstalker missiles, and two frontal Meson Lance at a whooping 400k credits per unit, for when I have to deal with harder, bigger targets.I have no idea what I am doing.
It's fucking huge.
The cockpit is huge.
I love walking around the bridge while my captain flies.
>>558586223Nice but so much wasted space.
>get to invading late classical AI in Caveman2Cosmos>already got flintlocks since I use all means to get free techs>can't take first 2 settlements for a while because there's 200 composite archers, hundred doggies and a bunch of other crapThat was a lot of slaves though. Murano glassworks were built entirely overnight by Sumerian slaves.
Tried out Whiskerwood. Didn't play much, performance was abysmal. I'm talking sub-20 FPS with a half second of input lag and citizens flickering because their fur shaders broke. I'll give it another shot when I have time to dick around with settings.
So many fucking enemy contacts.
>>558590746You know what that means?Epic fight music time!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpRj5BsYRA
>>558590746KRUMP THEM
bump, writing a big post
>>558607780>posted picture earlyShit. Anyway, that was the hardest game I played so far.>2vs2>me (Gondor, aka the West aka what Elon Musk wishes he was) allied with Haradwaith (all kind of people enslaved by Sauron)>versus Mordor (aka actual US) and Misty Mountains (they replace the Goblins, they're made out of all kind of disgusting, repulsive creatures, such as Elon Musk)>start defensively, fortifying the perimeter with stone towers, garrisoned with fiefdoms troops>slowly move on from fief troops to Minas Tirith troops while constantly pushing back Misty Mountains attacks>notice ally is in trouble>go attack the Misty Mountains, destroy as many buildings as I can before retreating>while attacking, I was recruiting heroes, so Pippin, Boromir and Beregond wait for us at the fortress>go north to defend out ally>after a very tough fight, Boromir is grievously wounded, and Pippin has fallen, likely to be a pleasure object for orcs>revive Pippin while making some cavalry to quickly counter the Mordor's archer critical mass>move on to finish the Misty Mountain group>fortress falls, unlock the Dol Amroth castle>recruit Imrahil to lead my knights, use them for defense to snipe battering ram and archers, spearmen will get crushed by my defenses>suddenly hear "our ally has fallen!">check north>Harad fortress is nothing but crumbles>Sauron will pay>start to harass Mordor, destroying buildings left and right, try to target the siege camp to prevent that battering ram spam>can only take down the orc barracks and troll pit before I have to retreat>decommission all my remaining fief troops, now go fully upgraded Minas Tirith troops>also recruit Faramir to have his rangers instead of Minas Tirith archers>one last push>the enemy fortress falls to a trebuchet stratagem, had to desperately defend it from orc spam>mordor fortress fall>now it's just cleaning up and sending the wounded battalion back home to heal and recoverP H E W
>>558590746Does your ship have any autoturrets?
>Didn't grab rare technology>My overlord has been ruling over me since the beginning and has the strongest fleet>I can't break free>Have one ascension slot left>Want Mega Structures>Have Zero Point Tech, Citadel, and Battleships researched>It won't fucking dropGIVE ME THE FUCKING THING RNG
>>558532098While fleet power means very little, I don't see any scenario where a 2.4k fleet wins those fights regardless of composition or modifiers.
>>558396263turn on depthoffield or whatever graphics option i dont know what they fucked up but that does way more than it should
Now it just needs wings.
>>558621052Heavy Gunship. Have fun.Or alternatively, just fill a transport with T1 bots.
I'm hungy
>>558631525Hello hungry, I'm anon.
>>558636658Hes hungy not hungry
Any Dwarf fortress updates that lets me finally lava all the trash clothes?
Hell, Dol Guldur is a vile faction.They expand extremely quickly, making them very good in early game defense, BUT they can't send their units away from their buildings unless they're specialized units (like corrupted entwives or blighted trappers) or they're led by a hero (armored Castellan, the Necromancer).Their basic units are the broken rabble (wanderers and adventurers captured and horribly tortured until they're insane), and their only value is that if they reach level 2 before dying, they come back as undead.
>>558647521Hasn't that been in the game for decades?
>>558610738I was doing one of those anti Xenon war mission. The one about dropping satellites and turrets, so I used my Kukri.
>sit on bridge>send orders for docking/traveling>take up helm when there's combat>the rest of the time I just watch the map and give orders
>>558653052No. You couldn't really collect items with quality below average so your fortress would just fill up with thousands of worn down items unless you manually set them as discards one by one.
>>558656208>sit on bridgeThat's right, the chair is for the flying crew only, not for the owner.
Thinking of just beating cnc 1 on easy, this is the most frustrating rts I've ever played
>>558668107The game has almost a puzzle like quality to it with the way the missions are set up and with the huge money buff they get. Some of the missions are pretty difficult if you don't cheese them.
>>558671495More like you're just incentibized to save scum, there's 0 resources on the map, if your attack doesn't work it's gg, you just have to restart, it's rly frustrating and aids, I like the way the game looks and feels otherwise but yeah the missions aren't very fun, I hope ra1 is better
>>558672793for some reason the village is flagged as hostiles on this mapmaybe Nod is right...
>>558462229Or Britany? Spider?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Nazaire_pocket#/media/File:Grand_blockhaus,_Batz-sur-Mer-4866.jpg
>>558565027Dunno about AoW4, but in earlier games some campaign maps could have annoying bullshit starts where you need to rush.In AoW1 I often relied on leader, heroes and some top tier units to capture a breathing room, maybe raze some enemy cities. But AoW1 is a different in balancing than later games.
How come no other game ever used Simcity 4's neighbor system that lets you connect regions?Imagine your favorite city builder, now imagine your saves can interact with each other.
>>558696698Does that not happen in Anno? I thought it did, tho it's been ages since I played any anno
gyat
>>558462229Don't think I ever did.>>558679217I am from Britany, so yeah. Visited Rennes, Brest, had a job in Lamballe, and gf was in Caen. That's why I like boats so much.Wouldn't get in one, though.
>>558699794Kinda, sorta, it just feels less organic than it did in simcity 4.
>>558701282Oh, cool. Do you speak or understand Breton language? I would assume not, but still.
>>558701983No, sorry. It wasn't taught in school. Literally all I was taught was kenavo, it's goodbye.There's also "Ker", it means something like castle, I think. A few village around here are called Ker Omnes, Ker Opers, Kermilien, and so on. And also Plou, not exactly sure what this one means. There's Plouvara, Ploufragan, Plougastel...
>>558701983stop flirting with spidey
>>558651410should I play battle for middle earth 1 before 2? Both have their own unique campaigns right?
>>558702928I just want to cheer him up (and myself).>>558702827I see. Also, how's the weather during summer in those parts?
>>558702962BfME1 and BfME2 are a lot different, and they both retell the same events. I went in BfME2 without playing the first one, and I still got to ravage Middle Earth.>>558703107>how's the weather during summer in those partsBritanny is famous for its rain, so... rainy. Usually. Even a bit floody: the sewers in the garage overflew and I might have to use the broom to clean my garage now that it's settled.
>>558703492just googled it, redditors say 1 has a better campaign but 2 is the better more polished game, regardless I guess I'll try 1, more freedom with base building or something too, in my yearly rts binge so I'm playing all kinds of games at once, cnc series, warfront turning point may as well try bfme too, never played bfme
>>558704486The game I've been posting isn't BfME2, by the way, it's a stand-alone called Age of the Ring: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-horse-lords-a-total-modification-for-bfmeSimilarily to that Chinese mod for American Conquest that added the Chinese and their weird cheker formation: https://www.americanconquest.info/
>>558704696oh cool, wait, these campaigns are basically total war/dow soulstorm right? Or are they linear in 1 and 2, should I just skip to that mod instead of they're iso
>>558705484Can't speak for 1, but in 2, the campaigns are linear. That is, the story campaigns are. What you're thinking of is the "War of the Ring" mode, which is pic related.Dunno if it's in BfME 1, so can't help with that.
>>558703492Beyond place names, language, do you know of other stuff about Breton culture? I assume you consider yourself one, regionally, even if you don't speak that language.
>>558706624Not really, sadly. The Bretons were extremely troublesome people for the French to rule over, and even today, there are still cretins wishing for independance.Anyway, most of the Breton history I know is about Anne de Bretagne, and how the Bretons opposed the French Revolution of 1789.The rest is anecdotal, like the fact that Brittany was really big in ranches, orchards and fishing. There's a reason the Breton speciality is the apple cider. Thank heaven we never invented the stargazing pie or the boiled beer.
After around 13 hours, I'm finally selling the shit I had in my inventory.I was told that in X4F you can make a lot of money by simply picking up cargo from destroyed ships in warzones. Should give it a try.There's also something called "close loop economy", in which you can make ships by recycling the hulks of destroyed ships.I should start learning how to set up stations and crank out ships. As I have modded the Xenon to "evolve" every 10 hours. And their fleet, number of stations, and station defence will increase each 10 hours.
>>558709621Damn, so you're on a global timer, like in Space Rangers?
>>558709735>Damn, so you're on a global timer, like in Space Rangers?Basically, yes.In X3 the player ends up being the "end game crisis". In X4 it seems there's research that unlocks "crisis" for end game fun. One for robot death by Xenon spam another one by insect Khaak death and finally one that triggers conflict randomly between all the factions.I'm a retard, so I installed an overhaul mod and cranked up Xenons on my first play through in this new X game.Larping as Terran supremacist.
>>558710323I remember really wanting to get into this game, but then I googled it, and found pages and pages of forum posts to report all kind of stuff not working so it scared me away.
>>558710627>pages and pages of forum posts to report all kind of stuff not working/indie/ studio, please understand.That's the reason why I haven't try to play it in 8 years since it came out.13 hours in, with 62 mods, including X4 Reemergence, VRO and DeadAir eco/warfare/scripts. And ignoring that I have to launch the game with:# Define arguments to pass to X4$ArgList = @( "-nosoundthrottle" "-nocputhrottle" "-showfps" "-debug all" "-scriptlogfiles" "-logfile $ArgLogFileName")For it to not crash a few seconds after loading the save. I can play actively for 4-5 hours without crashes. No mayor bugs so far. The piloting AI glitches a bit every now and then, but if you go outside the sector, the ships aren't simulated, so they go back on working order.
>>558711230Yeah, I think I'll pass, I'd rather play an uncomplete old game over a better but unstable one.
>>558711354The vanilla game with all its DLCs is 100% stable. People leave it all night and during the work day running, for their stations and ships to grind money, then come back after work and play. It has been a staple tactics to cheese the game, and people do it in this version too without any problem.I am the retarded one that has decided to mod the shit out of it as my first playthrough. Every crash I get is because of my own doing.
>>558706370Suppose I'll play the normal games for the story mode then go the mod for war of the ring
>>558717860???I guess you can do that? Good luck getting the "normal games", though, I couldn't find them online. Gotta buy a CD.
>>558717953wat? Instantly found both on 1337x
What about Gary Grigsby's games?
>>558718396Heck's 1337x?
>>558718596They're expensive
>>558718680Torrent site manUr so innocent
>>558719562Oh, okay.Last game I tried to pirate was Stubbs the Zombie and it killed my PC, so I completely swore off pirating games.Movies are fair game because eat my dick, I'm not buying a Blue Ray player just to watch the old Godzilla movie.
>notice "alternate faction: grey company">don't remember where they're from>try them>they mix fiefdom units and dol amroth units with a few of dunedains units, and a LOT, LOT of heroesDamn, they're fun to play. Shame they have no hobbits units, the dunedains get bonuses to them.
Game is mid imo, but easily the best OST of any rts I've playedhttps://youtu.be/wE07lSSEFQ8
I think i hit my head while sleeping last night cause i got an odd urge to play Civ Beyond Earth.>>558562586The ones that add new lords take precedent over any others. Most notably the dragon and giant DLC, those seem to be the most well received. Weather you get the Vampire or Eldritch one is up to you if you like those themes or not. I think people were pretty whelmed with the eldritch lords. Never really looked around much to see how people felt about the vampires. After that you pick which theme looks cool to you and go for it. I haven't kept up with balance for the game so i have no idea whats op or meta these days.
>>558735387>urge to play Civ Beyond Earth.It did have a sort of redemption arc with rising tide. I'm not sure if you can call it good but it's at least not nearly as bad as it was on launch and honestly I can forgive anyone who dropped it and never looked back but it's at least mediocre in the state it was eventually left in at.
>>558735387BE needed more time to develop its own identity instead of being a spiritual remake of SMAC
Are there any city building games that incorporate snow mechanics including snow plowing, snow removal and alternative parking demand during snow removal?
>>558752360based snow autist
>>558752360W&R has the plowing
>>558775604Your mum has the plowing too.
>>558752360uhhh frostpunk?
>>558777906Eh, your folks don't seem to care so much about the snow itself and your roads automatically melt snow away.
Did any anons here ever play Close Combat games?
>>558790148Yes.
>>558790531Which ones?
>>558790764Only Gateway to Cane or Caene or whatever is spelled.
>>558792456I see. I played Invasion Normandy, remake of it and I think one other. Kind of why I was pestering spiderfag about Normandy, desu.
>>558792586It was bad.I'm looking now into weather get Flashpoint or Panzercorps 2.May even give a try to Battlesector or Terminator Dark Defiance.
>>558792456Caen, you fucking retard.I could show you a gif I recorded in Caen. It'd get me banned, but it'd be fun.
>>558796397Please spider, keep your Caen pegging to yourself.
>>558796546Weak.
>feel like playing Ymir, it's that time of the year>get kinda shit farming cap but large copper, silver and even tin within cap reach>because of said shit farming can't deal with barbs before they rekt my shitOkay, duly noted. Fuck barbs even if pops suffer a bit.>start new game>nice oceanic peninsula, perfect for farming, no barbs in sight>get tin ore exploring from event that let me research bronze working while I hunt for tinFuck the north of this peninsula is mountainous as shit and one of those cavepig packs must be sitting on tin.
I have to find a specific ship that is in Xenon controlled space.I'm zooming around in my Kukri, praying that I don't get a stray shot that disables my travel mode. I really need HOP rep to keep the eastern flank stable.
>>558777543ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh brr brr brr brrrrrrrrr (air horn sounds)
I'm assuming Falling Frontier is dead, since anon who normally posts latest pics about it hasn't been around in a while.
>>558751753>>558741894I think it would be really good if it got that last expansion, kinda how much better Civ 5 was after BNW came out. I never played Alpha Centauri but to me it always felt like a overhaul mod for Civ5.
>>558815743Comfy
>>558775604W&R snowplowing is so gay, the "storm" is over before the plows can even leave the TO and then they spend the next in-game week clearing the roads before the next storm makes them instantaneously snowy again.Plowing should be a "battle" against the storm where the plows slowly clear the roads while the storm slowly fills them up over the course of several days. The mechanics for this exist already with varying degrees of snowiness which affect how fast vehicles can drive, but practically there is only clear or 100% snowy because of how fast the snow builds up. Only the few meters behind a plow at the very end of the storm will be have a level that isn't clear or 100% snowy.
I'm thinking about becoming Cybran
>>558829741>W&R snowplowing is so gay, the "storm" is over before the plows can even leave the TO>Only the few meters behind a plow at the very end of the storm will be have a level that isn't clear or 100% snowy.
>>558835589Based.
I am angry.Angry about Dorwinion!I read the Hobbit, I read the Lord of the Rings, all the Appendixes, I even read the bloody Silmarillion, and I have no fucking idea what the fuck Dorwinion is, why they look Roman, why they have Chinese-looking allies, or why they're so about wine!
>>558844306>DorwinionPretty sure it's a case of not having much if at all official information so they just made something up.
>>558846735No, that faction has too much soul for that. The men of Dorwinion use Roman architecture with late Roman armies.I mean, look at these fuckers: banner carriers in the base game walk in front of their units, while slave drivers in the expansion walk behind them.The Dorwinion decurions (except they're 30 and not 10) walk on the side, like they historically did.Fuck me this mod is so good, I feel like I stole it.
>>558847123Just making something up doesn't mean it's bad of course. There's plenty of legitimately good fanfiction out there.
>>558847263Dude.Chinese Elves (I think?).I hope they can make Dorwinion into a full-fledged faction, like they did with Rohan or Dol Guldur. Especially Dol Guldur, they made an anecdotal faction into a giant pile of shit that I hate because of how evil it is.
bumperino
>>558815743No they just haven't been posting interesting images on their discord. Also I'm too busy playing bannerlord.
>>558847123LotR aesthetics were fucked by movies, that added plate armor. LotR should have been early medieval setting.
>>558856276Unfortunately I started watching the movies before I read the books so I literally cannot imagine them differently.Through I imagine how the Orcs looked like in Bakshir's movies were scary.
>>558815743Falling Frontier is weird because it's still in development, but the devs don't post updates very often (at least outside of Discord, but fuck normalfags for abandoning forums for a closed chat platform that is now succumbing to the gay retarded shit like all of its predecessors). They're published by Hooded Horse, who apparently are willing to keep funding long dev times up front. The idea is that if they make enough money on their on-time/released games they can support the ones that take longer in the oven, then in the long run those become profitable instead of never getting made at all.>source: Mandalore doing a podcast with some of his buddies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Nyjy9iXVw
>>558853680I would love to play Bannerlord, but since I am busy and they still update it and break mods, I decided to put it off for now.
>>558790148I used to play 5 like 25 years ago
>>558865870>5 So that Normandy one, yeah I played that one too, had a CD, maybe it's somewhere still.I have also played the remake of it Longest Day, which was nice.
>>558790148no
>>558871940oh...
>>558860272yeah bannerlord is pretty fun
Do you care about your troops? Like give them custom names, if game allows you to rename them, give them histories?I know that this is autistic, but...
>>558885481No. I do, however, feel like losing people is a failure. They're easily replaceable but it's not the point.
>>558885481Depends on the scale and the game, but like the other reply says, I always hate losing troops even if it's a game winning trade.
The Xenon managed to pop one of my scout ships. The crew managed to bail on a scape pot but got popped too. The pilot managed to eject and is floating in his spacesuit, with his oxygen going down fast.I wonder if my Sentinel will manage to pick him up before he dies.
Nope.The pilot is very much dead. The HOP destroyer can't attract enough agro to let me close in without having half a dozen enemy lock alarms.Well, valuable lesson learned. Do not auto explore Xenon sectors.
>>558891842>The Xenon managed to pop one of my scout shipsRIP bozo
>>558885481Depends on the game. Primarily if the game has low enough amount of units that it's meaningful to track them individually and if it's the same units doing things all the time or just a group of generic 5 marines or what ever it is.
>>558891842>>558892717I don't know what is happening here but it looks kind of cool.
>>558562586Just pick whatever faction you wanna play.I like architects and primal.I never bothered with dragons giants or eldritch sovereigns. Elder Vampires are fun as fuck tho and feel very strong
>>558565027The campaign missions will expect you to play very aggressively and expand fast.However if you play on low difficulty it should be ok.Builds and expertise in tac combat makes a big difference.The most important thing is to just keep fighting and feeding your guys XP (tho Aperently they’re changing this to be less of an issue)Also if you’re having a hard time expanding fast enaugh. Oi can always run with chosen destroyers and just unga bunga the game which is a great way to break the game in single player
>>558885481I try to force myself to do that because it makes the game more fun.When I was younger this would happen automatically.It’s very easy to do in Songs of Syx, slightly works with fleets In stellaris.Surprisingly difficult in Age of Wonders
>>558894051x4 is a game about angry triangles killing other angry triangles
>kept wondering why my units took damage in ancient war>notice the centurion didn't take any damage from a mysterious explosion>realize Exterminate doesn't check for friendlies, and damages everyone aroundI don't want to punch down a game that's in early access, but damn.
>>558885481i customize the uniforms of my elite soldiers but the grunts are all random
>>558885481I could never, I would get too attached.
>>558836534Yes, on the subsequent storm while they're still clearing roads from the first one.
I'm getting tired of doing mine/turret removal missions. Going to bully the Xenon a bit.
>>558900283Reminds me of Particle Fleet and that other game where you fight computer viruses in some cyber reality world or something. I forget the name.
>>558890819>>558888762I don't mind loosing them personally, at least in most games, or most units.>>558895272>>558901039>>558901346It's usually better if it's some sort of tactics or squad game, so you can rename whole units. Total War games, or Fantasy Wars, especially if you can take them on a long sandbox campaign or multiple missions campaign.
Riddle me that: hastatus at level 1 (they start at level 0) have 203 HP. At level 2, they have 284 HP.Calculate how much HP they get between levels, since I forgot.
Not very profit at all hunting Xenons.I got 250k for around 10-15 minutes of fighting.
>>558907287
>>558876896The lighting is a bit off sometimes since the new update. Also I had a stutter that made the game unplayable until a couple of weeks ago. They still need to add more diplomacy options and things like feasts. The boats are really nice though.
Too many contacts.I'm going back home and will bring a bigger stick later.
>>558917835Or better yet. Pack a gun.
>>558917835Get a fleet broApes together strong
I liked the personality trait thing from Beyond Earth, i wish they stole it for other games they made.
>>558944031Hope you're hanging in there, mon ami.
>>558945560Barely. I play games but nothing feels entertaining.
Been playing picrel. It's okay, but I find the A.I, especially vehicle path finding, to be terrible. The UX of issuing orders is a bit shit. It's virtually impossible to figure out elevation at a glance.Is there something similar but better?
A reminder that AI Opponents harder than intermediate or normal in most games literally cheat to win, but for Japanese 4x anime games it's the easiest difficulty.
>>558948846Wrong. They don't cheat to win, they cheat to be a challenge.>japanese 4x anime gamesWhat????
which rts has the best enemy simulation that tries to avoid impossible actions?
>>558948965Enough about Total War, not every game is that.
>>558949072>avoid impossible actions
>>558949563the ai should be restrained by resources and explore the map with fog of war instead of knowing where everything is
>>558949440I have no idea what this is. Is this like Langrisser or Fire Emblem or Nobunaga's Ambition? No, these are not 4X since you don't explore or exploit in these.
>>558949932None of them. The AI knowing your location is how it attacks. The AI with a resource handicap is how it bounces back after a snowball of failure. For games that don't have base placement, the AI only targets control points and objectives as movement nodes. Some exceptions such as purpose built units that hunt vehicles will map hack your vehicles that were not seen yet. Last of all the AI knows where you click on the map, and uses that heat map to avoid units or flank on a different path. The AI will most likely counter by the structure built and units in queue before it ever has any of their units see your base.There is no secret that the AI also likes to envelope on the weakest player on the map, and that is usually the only human player in the game, and a generalized tactic to win.AI in most games are unable to defend and fortify objective points. But AI in most RTS's are either dumb or cracked on trainers. Most startups are wave defense games because of that. But the irony is most players can't play the game better than the easiest of AI, and that is why I have 6:1 wins multiplayer in one game so far.
>>558950007Do you not have Youtube? Wikipedia? IGN? Fandom?
>>558953384yeah well i want a game where it doesn't do that
>>558953525Do you guys not have phones?
>>558953574The Advanced Wars trilogy, formally Famicom Wars has good AI reacting to Fog of War rules. They don't target units outside unit visions, or in hide-able tiles. AI units also will collide with hidden units, ending their movement and removing turn's attack action.
>>558953682Well first you must answer that phone. Ring Ring
>>558954431Ring ring ring ring banana phone.
>>558941270Aren't mementos sort of that?
>>558954681I got this feeling, so appealing
>>558955023Yeah i can sorta see it, but like most things civ 7 its a lot worse then it could or should be.
>>558954681I've got this feeling
>>558959031Deep inside of me.
>>558946658Yeah, I kind of stopped playing for now as well.
>>558968009I hate that I keep finding fun/cute stuff, and I'm like "hey I'll show that to my mother", then I remember and I get sad.
>>558968902Yeah... but maybe you have somebody else to show something? Dad, other family members?
>>558969757None of them really care about odd stuff I find. They're not nerds interested in art of animals, I can't go to them and go "hey you know there's a viscacha? It looks like a bunny mixed with a squirrel!"
>>558954431Hullo?
>>558970231Hey, boo. It's me.
>>558970351Hey, babe. Y'all an your way home?
>>558969931Then you should post that stuff to us, anons.
>>558970592I'm still at the 7-Eleven. I forget what you wanted. Again.
>>558970727Y'all can't never amember nothin'!
>>558970848Just post the gif, faggot.
>>558968902:(
What's the weirdest rts game you ever played?
>>558985492Populous: The Beginning. Just everything from the graphics to the sound effects. I remember it being fun though.
My apologies but im going to make a quick, slightly positive Civ 7 post. I was up late last night past 2am unable to sleep and bored enough to play civ 7 after not touching it for a couple months. I played Tonga cause i never tried them before and it was a little fun. Being able to actually explore the entire map instead of it being cut off was nice. Anyway, will i play it past the first age? No. Is the UI still the worst UI in the history of 4x games? yes. And all the other negatives were still mostly there. But i had fun for a little bit at least.
>>558994414>Is the UI still the worst UI in the history of 4x games? yes. And all the other negatives were still mostly there. But i had fun for a little bit at least.What makes the UI so bad? Also, besides implementation of civ eras, what have been 7's biggest faults? Haven't really been keeping up with news about it.
>>558985492Brütal Legend
>>558997496The UI is so bad cause it tells you nothing. It looks bad from a color standpoint (Take note in the pic i have a mod that adds a little more clarity to it.). There's many many more problems that if you're interested enough in go check any regular civ youtuber and they probably have a video out with all valid points about the amount of mistakes in the game. The devs are slowly adding things and making an attempt to improve the game, but at the same time the game is over a year old and you still can ONLY trade cities in war peace treaties. You cant take gold, resources, anything. Just white peace or take cities. The TLDR for Civ 7 is the game was released a year and half, maybe even 2 years too early.
>>558970596Bit off-topic. Have a picture of it anyway, it looks cute and fluffy.
>>558999497They do look cute, also kind of always comfy.
>>559002259You can be sure they're the kind to make any skirmish last at least 40 minutes.
>>558985492Sacrifice.There was a warcraft 1 ripoff with samurais i dont remember the name of.There was another one back in the 90s where you built your base like a hive and every faction had different resources they needed on the map, dont know the name either.
>>559003416Sacrifice was the weirdest one? How so?
>>559004207Not many strategy games that have you summon volcanoes, lets you delete terrain below the enemy and requires you to ritually torture enemy units for resources. The soundtrack is really spooky too.
>>559002397What do you mean?
>>559005635I just fucking love Sacrifice because it makes sense. In other games, people get turned into marines in 40 seconds, and you just accept it.In Sacrifice, no. It's acknowledged how little time it takes to train a new unit, and I love that gameplay and lore are well-mixed.>>559005845They take it easy, maaaaan... Built three layers of walls, research all the techs...
Any Endless Space 2 Hissho players? I used to play them a fair bit and had no issues but I've been struggling like hell since the patch>starter behemoth that can't be redesigned yet seems to lose to even small pirate scouts, so I have to babysit it or bleed keii fleeing>can't build enough ships to roam around looking for fights to farm keii because I don't have the dust income to support them>sitting and defending means i can't finish quests, farm keii etc so I just bleed out and die if I do that>if I go roaming i lose the behemoth which equals death>if i ritual sac a pop for dust, my output feels too low to get enough fleetsI genuinely never had any issues like this before the patch; there was always something to fight or a quest/deed to finish to maintain keii before, but now it's as if everything in the game goes out of its way to starve me.Very frustrating experience.
>>558932021>>558917835Hows that game? Is it better than AP/TC ??
>>559010725>Hows that game? Extremely fun.>Is it better than AP/TC ??Yes, quite a lot. Egosoft has improved a lot of mechanics over the years. Though the game will still rape your CPU.
>>558985492Not RTS but CTP is kind of out there in retrospect
>>558985492I would say some of the weirdest I seen were played by Ross Scott on Game Dungeon channel.Baldies is weird enough of a concept, but there were weirder ones.
>>559028358Baldies looked fun in theory, but over relying on traps and having to check every tree sounded like a pain.
Is Battle brothers permitted here? I got it yesterday and my dudes keep on dying.What do I do?
>>559035217Try /indie/, it was popular there back in the day
>>559035217I think there's always a battlebrothers thread up on /vst/
>>559048110fuck off horatiomore like SHIT+ratio
can anybody with stellaris installed upload their copy of pop_jobs.txt in stellaris/common? thanks
>>559035217I played it, but I was never an expert at it.
>>559060629What do you need it for?
>>558562290That looks like a bunch of frigates and fighters.I dont' see a battleship there. Weak fleet.
>>558581556What you want from terran ships is the Syn (Mk2).Looks great and is a really powerfull destroyer.
>>559056447Mad cause you're not genetically perfect
>>558997496they split the game into three sessions on the same map a la pandemic legacyfirst two, antiquity & exploration, are goodthe third, modern, is a rat race to win because the era specific objectives are tightly bound to victory conditions, so you usually end the game on turn ~10-15 and ignore industrializing and air combat. really boring.also some hate swapping civs between sessions, which is fairUI is also turbo shit in some spots and that's been slowly getting better since sukiract got hiredi've played the latest ptr and most of those pain points above (at least for me) are gone>>558326297target seems to be early-mid may for 2.0, and i'd put money on expack 1 in winterptr had era specific music, not sure if all civs will get that>>558999031yeah peace deals need more levers, but fuck I hope trade deals aren't imported from 6 that shit was ass
>>558994414Every Civ since 3 has been getting more and more clutter on the map
>>559081843mad cause lonely
>>559048110Hoeratio sauce a day, keeps spiders away.
Bamp
>>559106003Playing Abiotic Factor. Can't bump with my X4 uber modded run.
>>559073534I want to check the job swaps, which aren't technically job swaps anymore
>>558422947> No dams planned> No solid dams anywhere in the map> Not even on plan> Cycle 5> 21/6 bóbr count> Oaks just plantedBut:> Large warehouse, double street avenue pigfat excess, large water pumpIn a cycle or two, this colony will be obliterated by a Badtide. By cycle 5-6 you should not only be drought-proof (at the 6-8 day "droughts" C5 has on normal), but have a Badtide diversion system
>>559131697>space after a quote arrowBACKTODISCORD
>>558573491You mean the guy who outwitted a dragon and resisted the single most corrupting artifact for 50 years? The guy who's tales inspired the ones who eventually destroyed said artifact and killed both the Dark Lord and Shelob?
>>559134895Shelob never died, she survived Sam.
>>559153979>mfw trade routes are blockaded again
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>>559153979>>559157423Milk must flow.
>>559141250I used to love wipeout on my N64. Had 3 racing games and wipeout was the best, amazing music and huge speed. What a blast from the past
>>559172084He who controls the dairy farm, controls the universe!
>>559157423>lumeris has an empire trait to prevent trade routes being blockaded>lumeris 50 population bonus also prevents trade routes being blockadedAm I missing something here? Why the redundancy?
>>559180202You can get the bonus if you aren't playing as them but get lot of their pops
any good citybuilder out there with anime girls?
>>559183960I figured that much, was wondering what Lumeris themselves gain.I looked into it and it seems the empire trait only works for blockades from factions you're in cold war with, and the 50 pop bonus works even when you're at war
Roma
>>559164823Whoa, impressive.
>>559204874he's a clever bun
>>559174230I only had a demo for wipeout on the ps1. It only had 2 tracks but as a kid I played it a lot. A bit later I had a N64 emulator on my pc and played a lot of F-Zero X. I prefer F-Zero, wipeout just feels so sluggish. Also the soundtrack of F-Zero X, so many bangers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUSxabS5_qM&list=RDEUSxabS5_qM&start_radio=1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJsLDL8NQAk&list=PLU_Xkza2XzrNs-XO3asZyRSFjUnfcu9in&index=2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiZSaZt9_I&list=PLU_Xkza2XzrNs-XO3asZyRSFjUnfcu9in&index=4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqIgKg7WwU&list=PLU_Xkza2XzrNs-XO3asZyRSFjUnfcu9in&index=8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41c7Sdl5sMk&list=PLU_Xkza2XzrNs-XO3asZyRSFjUnfcu9in&index=10>"You got boost power!">"Watch your back!"
>>559197380Lewd shit ruined it.
me:
>>559215213easy on the pizza, anon
>>559222639Too late!
>>559222825What /civ4xg/ is the cosiest to play while pigging out on pizza/comfort food?
>>559233191Halo Wars.
>>559233191fat nigga
>>559233191Some grand strategy, city builder or turn-based game(are turned based games fitting for this general? I always tend to see them more in /indie/, the OP really needs more work.)
>>559233191Pizza Tycoon of course.
>>558324174GalCiv 4 finally has a game manual and it has all the math and equations in it: https://www.clairvoyanceai.com/view/share/bItmLqzXEkIR
From the creators of Kingdom Wars 1, 2, 3, 4 and Renainssance and Knights of the Crusade. They have now a next iteration of the seemly the same concept as the free version I played 14 years ago or so. Now with AIslop art for the capsule.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4066390/City_States_Medieval/
>>559237163...ha, shame for the AI slop.
>>559237340I really don't know how this devs have managed to crank out the same game for the past decade.I somehow I'm unable to unsubscribe from their newsletter and I have kept getting their games news since forever.
aint no nod diggers getting into my base
>>559241206GDIs are fascists.
>>559244726t.
>>559245561I'm only saying the truth. They do that Nazi appeal to ancient Greek history with the disc throwers while oppressing and taxing the population, ignoring everyone in the red or yellow zones, and they probably only visit the yellow zones to capture some poor twink and take turn fucking him until his ass is loose.
>>559245768the zones were a necessity GDI always does the best it can desu
>>559245768>that Nazi appeal to ancient Greek historyBut Nazis did Roman larp. They found Greeks too homosexual and degenerate.
Just played a game of Stellaris for the first time in years and I’m so glad I pirated the DLC before buying. SO MUCH BLOAT>cosmic storms>space fauna ranching>astral riftsWho approved these? Who thought any of this trash was going to be fun?
>>558363606I tried to force myself to enjoy it because I like the idea of multi-planet colonization and warfare but unfortunately it’s an *rr t** *ss so I eventually got sick of all the clicking.
>>559251697Storms are shit and rifts are meh, but I kinda like the fauna stuff.
>>559246490Always the appeal to ancient history. They tried to take over the Oylmpics.
Picked up my Servants run again, I'm determined to finish it off. I'm at 2.9 billion people under alien control, 33% of the required 65%, but progress in Europe has slowed to a crawl because of the low number of abductions and the constant battleground of enthrall-crackdown-purge-repeat. So I took a look at Africa and, well whaddya know, it's chock full of abductions I don't have to do and high popcounts to ramp the number up. The AA have finally landed their assault carrier, but if their new armies are as useless as they have been so far, I'm not expecting much.Also I lost ~40% support in India in a single turn, so the AI is breaking out all the cheats. I made up for it by blowing up their 100-strength fleet.
Did they massively buff Tempest Rising's AI? It's now harassing from all angles.
I wanna play Dune. Gimme your best Dune game.
>>559134895They can't take him seriously because he's a hobbit. That simple really.
The conquest of Africa is going well. Most of the eastern half has been taken over, and a few high-pop countries are lined up for the next few turns. Giving them a land border to Egypt seems to have kicked the AA into gear, since they started actually attacking it, which dislodged the rest of their armies and have eaten a good chunk of the EU. And they're enthralling India giving me 3/5 points, it'll be a massive boost if I can completely take it.I'm so tired.
Fucking nice. This might just push me over the finish line.
So fucking close. Just a few more pieces of Africa.
i wonBloody hell, three assaults to get there, and I had to use espionage a lot.But the third assault came with a neutral Fremen and likely Fanfreluches rebels assaults, so the Harkonnens couldn't counter me.
It is done. The aliens have won. A mere decade since their discovery, they have completely conquered the earth. Mostly thanks to me, since I had to feed them two and a half fucking continents.Brutal victory, and with the achievement for less than 3 atrocities. I'll make a proper writeup for my thoughts on the playthrough in the morning.
>>559279865>less than 3 atrocities...ok.
>>559279865(me)>0.5% have won on brutal>0.4% have won with < 3 atrocitiesDamn, people really like their nukes.
>>559280040Is this like Dune Spice Wars? The nuke button is the easy option?
Nukes? Nukes!!
>>559286007NOOKS!
>>559289653BOOOOM
Spiderfag,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-RmSG2s1kexplain French music.
>>559304659Oh, c'est Richard Gotainer. C'est un bon artiste, j'aime bien ses chansons.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uExCBOMsRESi vous trouvez cela glauque, ne regardez pas "gare au gorille". Je crois savoir que celle-là avait été interdite à sa sortie.
>>559278036So what are you gonna do once you capture fatty?
>>559307605Have you ever prepared a chicken?
>>559307174>gare au gorilleCan seem to find, but dare I ask what is it about?
>>559307885No, chickens are decent people. I would not do that to them.
>>559307943Oh boy. A very raunchy song from Brassens, an old fart who hated authority and governement, and rather than building a killdozer, he wrote songs about how much he hated the police."Gare au gorille" is a song about a gorilla in the zoo. The gorilla is very bored because he's adult but he has no female, and all the women of the town come to see his member and laugh.One day, the gorilla has enough, and he breaks his cage, causing all the women to run away, with Brassens commentating that "in the end, they were just talk but couldn't follow it". The poor gorilla has to pick between an elderly woman, and a judge in his black robe.He takes the judge, drags him in the bush, and rapes him so hard the poor bloke shouts for his mother.And yes, it's said in a lot of details.>>559308081You should, they're evil. They want to eat you entirely, starting from the legs.
>>559308371Oof, the French...
>>559308969He made some cute songs too. Like, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7S52PfvWC4It was originally a song about a guy who just does his own thing, he doesn't go to the church the Sunday, he doesn't stand up during the national anthem, and he sides with thieves against shop owners.He ends up lynched and dies dangling from a branch.
>have base>have to spend like 5 mins laying down concrete in small increments everywhere in case nod diggers + engineers come in so cancer mantotal nod death
>>559310203What's that about concrete? I vaguely remember something similar in Dune, I think?
>>559310279not have underground digger APCs that, unless you lay down concrete in every exposed surface on your base, the AI fills with engineers that pop out from those surfaces and just start capturing buildings in the middle of your base
>>559310392Damn diggers, always ruining the neighbourhood. I bet they blast shitty music and form gangs too, like Caine Street, or the Ballas (of Caine), or San Fierro (of Caine).
>>559310392nod*you have to carefully go over with the pavement selected to make sure theres not a single spot where a digger can pop up altho so far they've only done it to me once desu but i had to restart the mission since it capped my barracks + mcv so
>>559310592lmao lolWho are you playing against?
>>559310725im just playing the campaigndoing a run of every single CnC game except generals (Cause i already replayed that a year ago)
>>559310830Oh, that's the AI.This is surprisingly smart. Is it scripted? I was dead sure you were playing against another human.
>>559310907i dunno, it definitely does digger + underground flame tank attacks, but idk if it has engineers in there every time or that was a scripted thing also>"no tiberium?"
>>559311098Still interesting. I can't remember the last time I saw AI use transports.
>>559311098What was this guy's problem?
>>559251697It exists so you have shit to click on so that the entire game can appear deeper than it is.
>Aurora forum downWelp shit
>>559320739according to cnc4 cannon hes like an alien thats there to just fuck earth up i haven't played cnc4 yet so idk more i guess it'd explain why he doesn't age
where's the city builder general?
>>559325661here
>>559325208Wait what, he was an alien all along?!
>>559339214Yes.
>Terra InvictaOverall, I liked playing the Servants. It turns the usual gameplay loop on its head. Instead of guiding world research towards exploiting the solar system, you have to dominate to impede and stagnate it. Instead of building nations, you have to tear them down to make the invasion easier. Instead of focusing on your little corner of the world, it's a mappainter.The new lore is pretty cool too, like insight to who and why the aliens are, and their plans for humanity and how you subvert them. Or how the Servants are so batshit insane yet utterly devoted that the alien's mind control straight up doesn't work on them. Your advisor gives off 'crazy MLM-hawking pastor for an esoteric semi-rural cult operating out of a Planet Fitness' vibes.The first 20 hours are fun, between planning and preparing for the alien's arrival, reading the new lore, and the initial rush of the Alien Admin taking over the world. But after that rush, the game slams into a brick wall and the last 10 hours are a miserable slog of mostly-empty turns that each have 30+ game-pausing notifications as you make piecemeal progress towards the end. The aliens constantly enthrall useless countries, the other factions swarm in to crackdown and purge, and it repeats endlessly. And enemy station whack-a-mole is plenty tiring too.Difficulty-wise, I played on brutal and it was still piss easy. For reference, difficulty enhances the enemy factions and the aliens build up faster. For Servants, the alien bit is inverted, where the aliens have have power equal to cinematic difficulty. But it's still easy, because the human factions are borderline useless and all the struggle in the game comes from the aliens, and by removing that entire mechanic, the game becomes a cakewalk.But apart from the endgame, the Servants are a good playthrough. It's easy, it's lightning fast compared to a usual run, and it has plenty of unique quirks that differentiate itself from the other factions.
>>559340835Kinda like that forbidden god game?
Axes
>>559340835It's still funny that the faction that is outright siding with the aliens still manages a better result than the cuck UN faction.
>>559325208Wait, he killed Stalin?
>>559365313Perks of having actual convictions that you stick to, deranged as they may be.
>>559376792Yep.
bumpeth
>>559358457Can you throw them?
kill
>>559398227kill
>>559398205No. This game doesn't like axe throwers, best you get are javelin throwers.
>taking over the Shire gets me +5 ppI think some of my soldiers are pedophiles.
>>559093706>Ruins your day with unreadable nonsense
>>559412613I like how in civ 3 luxuries were just an icon, you could immediately recognize them no need for extra tool tips or symbols.
>>559412613i love the idea of cities expanding into more tiles as they grow larger (since its kinda retarded imo how a size 30 and size 1 city look almost the same on the map) but they need to fix this mess of a dogshit mobile UI>>559376792yeah in the soviet campaign victory turns out that stalin was just kane/nod's useful idiot, and the USSR was a front to expand and create nodeither way kane was stalin's advisor lol I have reached the final GDI mission in tiberian sun, great game
Has anyone tried Fall of an Empire?https://store.steampowered.com/app/1830290/Fall_of_an_Empire/
>>559421116Or is this too much grand strategy?
>>559421116looks amateur as hell desubut i haven't played it so idkdamn though tiberian sun atmosphere is among the best out there in RTS
Been outside for the night, to watch some stars, might do it again when they turn off town street lights. My mind would sometimes imagine star lines like in video games, between the stars.
>>559412487Is this modded Battle for Middle Earth 2 or what?
>>559428037do you ever try to spot satellites? i sometimes see a series of them depending on what time it is
goddaym
>>559429331nod acquired some prime progadandists this time around
Has anyone here player Parkitect? How is it compared to RCT2? I saw it's on a sale right now.
>>559429331>>559429538The 90s were great.
Slowly working on my super autism map generator. I've got the 3D ocean simulation working and connected to the atmosphere and plant simulator so everything just works. Left is the surface temperature which seems realistic. I even got some sea ice stuff in so for example this map didn't start with any sea ice, but the white regions at the north and south of the map on the right are places where sea ice formed. The ice reflects sunlight and other shit that affects the climate so you could potentially set up an ice age scenario with a feedback loop. The whole thing works surprisingly fast at about 3/4 of a second to simulate a day on the planet but the ocean will take probably centuries to millennia for all the deep water currents to stabilize so that will take hours to days to get something truly realistic, but who needs realism when I'm going to throw some dogshit landmass generated by the default Civ map generator in it
>>559428305Yes. Age of the Ring.>>559421116Looks like /gsg/ rather than ours.>>559426117I like the wolverine.
>>559421116I might try it out, if I get some free time.
>>559445483Yeah I thought so too. It has an interesting twist on the genre though.
>>559449361I mean I'm a sucker for Rome and if my Dune Awakening refund is accepted, I'll have some money, so maybe I'll try it.
Anyone have Stellaris installed and mind looking through the files to see if there's an animated image of the Prethoryn that can be ripped from the files?
>>559449548>Dune AwakeningI thought Dune Awakening was pretty good? I heard a lot of good things about it a couple of months ago. What gives?
>>559450309Simply put, I'm a very casual gamer, I can go weeks without playing a game.And Dune Awakening is kinda like Rust: always online, can't have a private/solo server, so always on a timer, and you have a base that can run out of energy.So to keep playing it, I'd have to log in once at least every two days to scavenge for fuel cells to keep the shield up, and all my spare time is dedicated to Final Fantasy XIV, I don't have room for two big games, and I don't like Dune Awakening enough to give it my 100%.I can tolerate jank, but a game that wants me to be often online or else it erases my progress? Forget it.Also I really dislike that you can get taught by a Gene Gesserit acolyte and she can teach you the Voice, that thing is kind of a secret. Or that mentats are an actual frontline class. It's like putting a logistic officer in Battlefront 2, it's not a good idea.
hexbump
>>559455168Young man, this is a square tile household. I will have none of this 66hextile shit
GONDOR!!
>>559460440square suck
Not so funny now, heh? Cunts.
Distant Worlds is still way too fun.
Spess!
>>559417113>i love the idea of cities expanding into more tiles as they grow largerI like city sprawl as well but i feel like they went a touch too far with it in 7. In most cities you end up with pretty much no rural tiles, which is always fun making those farms, mines etc. into massive yields. But at the same time some of the cityscape can look cool around the navigable rivers and mountains. Thats kind of the thing with 7, you find something you think is neat or fun but then a giant flaw bashes you on the head.
>>559485135The scale is just wrong with it in Civ7. The cities are frankly just far too large in comparison to the terrain for this kind of sprawl to look nice. It doesn't help that the sprawl and the artstyle hides the stuff that you do care about like your districts in visual clutter. Like in this image there are at least 4 large green roofed buildings that look to be important but who the fuck knows what they are or do from a glance and if they are even actual buildings or just randomly generated sprawl.
>>559486425>Like in this image there are at least 4 large green roofed buildings that look to be important but who the fuck knows what they are or doI 100% agree with this, they should color the building based on the yield it provides like in 6. Its insane how much more readable the game is. I always thought what they need to do is the colored buildings and make the sprawl buildings smaller. You look here and while there's a bunch of urbanization and stuff going on you can clearly see which of the buildings are the actual things that matter and what are the small little visual clutter to make them look better.You can tell that 7 was rushed out over a year early, this isnt some small indy dev thats never made a civ game before. This dev team has been here before and it just feels like some of these issues would've been ironed out if given the time.
>>559488169penis penis penis penis
>>559488169I never played 6 or 7, but does 7 still have the adjacency autism?
>>559505352It's just that actually
Anybody know why, no matter what I do, my specialized farming industry buildings are all stuck slightly above 50% employment? I've tried everything I can think of, I have no schools, turned on "schools out" (citizens prefer working over education), I've created bus lines all over the city that go to the agricultural area, I've destroyed all generic industry. The only way I can get more workers to level up my industrial zone is to build more buildings but they will immediately filly to near 50% employment and just stay there forever.
>>559509379Are your guys too educated and there are enough unemployed people?
>>559509658No, I of course figured it out 5 seconds after posting. My city is too uneducated. All the uneducated positions are full but none of the educated ones are
>>559509789That's the rare scenario, usually with industry people build cities that are too educated for them but yes that's also how it can work.
>>559460440free roaming no tile bump
Spiderfag, are you playing anything?
>>559523609Spiderfag has returned to his home planet
What's the oldest /civ4xg/ game worth playing?
>>559537267Anacreon: 4021.
>>559537267lot of old RTS and strategy games still hold up.
>>559412613>>559417113>>559485135The thing about urban sprawl is that it isn't equal at all times in all places. Even before we had multi-tile cities in 6, in 5 the cities would have a noticeable urban core that's densely built up on the actual tile occupied by the city, and then there would be little suburbs on the tiles around it that would have no gameplay effect but clearly showed how the urbanization tapered off the further from the core you got. There's none of that in Civ VII. Every tile that is developed is immediately developed and doesn't grow bigger or more complex the more yields it generates or the more ages pass. >>559488169And even indie Civs last year were better.
>>559460440isometric tiles bumo
>>559509379honestly this is just something that plagues the industry DLC buildings. they never fill up unless there are absolutely no other jobs available
Started playing Foundation again after a long while. Just started breaking ground on a monastery.
>>559523609Dune Spice War. I also made the mistake of starting Distant Worlds again. Man, that game is a doozy.
Just to let the other anon here who played Menace know, the devs have finally fixed the AI, it no longer runs away from your undetected units.
>>5594604403D space movement bump
>take away Free Company's melee stuff>their model get upgradedNeat!
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE ARTICULATED BUSSES MODS FOR CITIES SKYLINES 2? MY BUS LINES ARE DROWNING AND IT ISN'T REASONABLE FOR THIS LINE TO BE TURNED INTO A TRAM LINE
Not Starcraft.
>>559529041You mean France?>>559537267Play Age of Wonders 1>>559553858go on>>559559184alright
awooga awooga
Anyone playing gladius?
>>559589850Care to tell us what mods you have been installing?
>>559591878I do. What's your question?
>>559593334nta but its Orca something species pack.
>>559593747Just wanted to have a chat about it if you're so inclined. Do you play with mods or personal tweaks for example?
>>559060629nobody did this for me and I'm crying
>>559595696I mean, why can't you check in your own game files?
>Aurora forum permanently down for good>new one opens>i cant access it on mobileDamn i have to wait till im back home to satisfy my Aurora itch.
>>559595804it's not installed and I don't want to install it just so I can read some text in a file
>>559595918lazy
>>559596361take that back
>>559595595Nah. I mostly just play Imperial Guards anyway, but I stopped playing when I realy that changing the AI's difficulty didn't make it smarter or dumber, it just affected its units' damage and HP.So I felt like hot shit when I won.
>>559596995Well, yeah. They get a loyalty and starting level bonus. Had to fuck around to enable ai to use transports as well. Can you believe that functionality was in the game but they enabled, or later introduced it, for precisely one dlc unit?
>>559597382It's not just loyalty: equivalent units will totally krump each others depending from difficulty.
>>559596932lazy lazy lazy
>>559598223TAKE IT BACK
>>559597787Level modifier 4 means they start at level 4. That's 40% more damage as well. afaik they don't get anything else on top of that.But what really did it for me was changing everyone except bugs to use the enclave system from sobs. That + no clear terrain made it rather fun.
>>559598735>Level modifier 4 means they start at level 4Oooh, okay. Man, they couldn't make a "real" AI but they just gave it different flavour of cheats.
>>559599574It's not like google made a real ai either with god knows how many more resources. At least they didn't neuter what ai they could come up with on easier difficulties and it's both optional and transparent.
>>559582840I mean, I don't have any other pictures yet as I was stupid and hit 'build all' and got stuck waiting for enough stone to be quarried. I also don't have any growth on the rest of the town because I've been highly controlling the immigration rate so as to not have a bunch of cottage sprawl eating up real estate and forcing me to buy a bunch of extra territory.That really is the main thing that annoys me about the EA builds and how it changed with release, requiring basic-tier housing to have patrols and fortification to upgrade its density.
>built a new PC that cost an organ or two>immediately boot up Civ 4Gaming time
>>559602591>New PC, play a 20 year old game?
>>559602471The initial monastery is up. This isn't the fancy one with a cloister for later on, it's just supposed to be a scriptorium, chapel, and out-buildings.Still need to wait for MORE GODDAMN STONE before I can build their vegetable fields.
>>559611519The rest of the town. Don't know why hitting the screenshot button didn't do it like this one for the other screen.
>>559589850>This meeting is surely a blessing
>>559611701oh yeah, they also added some new controls for editing monuments a little while back. Lets you just straight up pick a piece and replace it with others without messing shit up.It is fucking RAD.
>>559601204Yeah, but like, having the same AI with different layers of cheating is just low effort.Also good luck lmao!
I fucking love Age of the Ring. They tried to respect every faction's spirit while making them fun to play, so even Isengard, who is meant to have an elite army, still has wildmen and dunlendings as chaff.also wtf that's ragnar lothbrok
I always forget just how much waiting there is to do in this game before you can do things.I really probably should have spent the time decorating things instead of just sitting around waiting for more people to come so I could set up patrols.
Nighty night anons and spiderfag.
>>559636461Sleep well, dude.
>>559626094age of the ring adds too much desu, which is common among RTS modsI like the new mechanics though, the rohan peasant stuff is neat
love playing age 2 with friends against AI, just played against the "hardest" AI, its always an insanely rough start as it throws its mega army at you but after its manageable, slowly withered it down with in this case jannisaries, caveliers and an army of trebssatisfying to btfo the piece of shits mega base, so many buildings
>>559644742I dunno, I feel like it adds just enough. But honestly, I played the fuck out of BfME2, so maybe I'm not as doozy as a new player would be? I do appreciate how it expands on what we had.>>559647250I wish my friends enjoyed RTS.
Money printer activated
>>559648015No ekranoplan port?
>>559648015money?
>>559648405What is that>>559649149I must feed my trains addiction
>>559649539>What is thathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
>>559460440ran out of movement bump
Fuck it, reinstalling Gladius. I'll try a game in "normal" difficulty. I almost never do that, but seeing the breakdown of how cucked the AI is in easy mode just irks me.
>>559648015that's a big boat
I guess this is the most appropriate thread for this. This game really surprised me with how good it actually is in terms of strategy. Anyone else play it?
aw hell naw who invited this kid?
>>559662597Fuck you.
>>559661261Strategy? This?You have to explain yourself, mate.
>>558949440Holy fuck this came with my R4 like 15 years ago when I was in high school. I had no clue how to play but the girl on the cover made me horny so I kept trying to figure it out. I never quite grasped it but the game got stuck in my mind. It's strange to look it up now and realize it was a 4x game.
>>559661261This really killed XCOM?>>559663157kek
What are you playing?
>>559685076Spend 2 hours watching a movie with husband, I wanna play Halo Wars.Outside of Stronghold Legend, I don't suppose there's any Arthurian RTS you bastards would recommend?
>>559685162King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame?
>>559685327Excuse me the WHAT
>>559686317I have not played it myself, but you can check it out.
>>559686516I just might, reviews look mixed but it looks fun.Also,lmao @ Frodohas anyone really been as far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
>Gandalf reaching for the screen
>>559688854Can you buy these games somewhere or are they still only available as a physical copy?
>>559689602Given it's a mod (https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-horse-lords-a-total-modification-for-bfme), I think New Line Cinema would find the modders and rip their balls off if they tried to sell it.
https://galgame.dev/topic/43440/slg-%E7%94%9F%E8%82%89-%E5%8A%A8%E6%80%81-pc-%E5%85%AB%E6%98%9F%E5%B8%9D-v2.14-3.29gGod i hate that there are no more Western games like this.. NSFW link of course.
>>559685162>husbandgay or foid?
Finished a Plan-B terraform run. Pretty neat game, definitely worth 15 buckaroos for me. I think it lacks some kind of special sauce for it to be truly great but for a chill city builder and terraforming game it's quite good, there are no real enemies and no real way to lose at least not on the default settings so this isn't one for you if you are looking for challenging run. The weather simulation is pretty nice and the terraforming feels quite nice, you start on a lifeless planet, then you pump up the temperature to get water which then becomes a new obstacle and a new resource. Then with water you introduce plants and animals and get oxygen. Later on you unlock ground terraforming tools that allow you to shape the planet as you like if you want to go that route. I was at first booty blasted because you could drown your resources with the rising oceans which I fucking detest but turns out you can first protect them with high seawalls and later with the ground tools just dig them up from the ocean floor if the sea walls weren't enough which is nice. The logistics gameplay is generally enjoyable though bit simplistic. You mine minerals, process them in simple 2-3 step chains and then deliver them to the cities or factories making buildings. The only real curveball the game throws you is the waste that cities make that has to be dealt with by sinking it into the city demand as high priority otherwise it clogs up the whole thing. The game even lets your trains phase trough each other (though they do create traffic with trains on the same line) so you can very easily unga bunga most challenges away with more trains, trucks or ships. I didn't really end up using ships which I think has to do with the way the map was laid out.Managed to do the "finish in 100 years" achievement on my first try in about 80. I will probably play a second time and see if I can do the hardest settings achievementSpace niggers nuked my city twice too. Fuck em.
>>559700936nuke them back
>>559700936>Space niggers nuked my city twice too. Fuck em.Typical spacenoid behavior. They forget that WE BELONG TO EARTH.
>>559710390It only lets me build shields, when I shielded my cities they got bored and nuked each other out of existence.
>>559644742
>>559714264didn't mean to reply lol mb
I don't understand why I like so much the Warlords battlcry saga, pure nostalgia I guess. I come to play it back constantly.
>>559700936Yeah it's a neat little game. The single developer says he has big plans for it so there's probably some updates or things coming.
>>559714264>>559716209booba
>>559714264God i love the 80's/early 90's military beret aesthetics.
Is the campaign in W&R any good? They added it since I last played about 18 months ago. I want to get back into it but the complexity is overwhelming and I'm also hung over today
What nation has the coolest soldiers in 1100 Europe?
>>559700480Former.
>>559732971Does 1257 finally have a worthy successor?
kane has good taste...
>>559734223Don't go against Kane. Remember his character sheet.
>>559733636That's what I'm trying to figure out. They say that Empires of Euope 1700 is better than 1100, and then there's also Anno Domini 1259.I'm looking forward to trying them all out because Bannerlord does large warfare and cavalry better than Warband
>>559734376i assume this isn't related to that caine series of vampire games... they're on my backlog of what next to play
>>559736408It is. The thing was a roleplaying game before being a video game, and Caine is the first of the vampires. Hence his character sheet.
>>559736726he is? I know literally nothing bout the series lmao but gonna start it with blood omen 1 then go release order, ceptr maybe skipping 2 i guess
>>559736885Oh. No, different games. I'm talking about the "Vampire the Masquerade" games. You're talking about the Legacy of Kaine games.You're in for treats, Blood Omen 1 and Soul Reaver are good.
>>559737015oh I seei played bloodlines years ago but i don't remember any caine, like 10+ years agoalso soul reaver and the last one defiance or whatever now all have remasters so ill play the og blood omen then those I guess
>>559737180Good. If you see Caine in your game, that means you're fucked. Vampire the Masquerade is about you being a bottom feeder, and Caine is... strong. Insanely strong.In the backstory, one of the antediluvians (a third generation vampire) wakes up, and pretty much drains most of Africa dry before being taken out by several satellites firing at him. Caine's even worse.Check the forums for help, Blood Omen has no tutorial. I remember it's Ctrl tp attack, Space to use a spell, but I don't remember how the bat form (fast travel) works.
Also there are rumours the cab driver IS Caine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--hLw4LzuEoBut I dunno, that doesn't look like his MO. The cab driver fucks with you but is part of the whole "kill Delacroix by filling a fake antideluvian casket with explosive".
finished the nod ending, now for the DLC before RA2 I guessnod final mission was surprisingly super easy lol >>559737573i'll check it out, always consult pc gaming wiki before trying any old game and it showed me some patch for better res support n shit for blood omen i'll use that, maybe that + the gog version has some non-clunk controls too, idk
>>559741309Oh, I use the GoG version.Also, about world of darkness:>When Zapathasura awoke in the Ravnos homeland of India, it devoured all its nearby childer in moments, and sent psychic ripples across the world and spirit realms. Psychics, madmen, and anyone even vaguely touched by the supernatural felt on edge or suffered visions and nightmares. The nightmares usually featured the Demon-King Ravana (representing Zapathasura).>Zapathasura rampaged across India to Bangladesh for two days, calling its childer to it, but on the third day was attacked by three of the eldest Kuei-jin Bodhisattvas, Black Earth Boy, Rising Majestically and the Eight Thunders Master. In the meanwhile Tieh Juh, an Ancestor of the Kuei‑Jin, devised a plan to lure the Antediluvian into a trap, foreseeing the unfolding of events and preparing to ‘do nothing’ when the time was right.
LOL
>>559726080
>>559649660I wish
>>559745138Undead necromancers are OP
>>559749681you know what Is stupid.Play Fey, units get xp buff, wraith kills 1 fairy, now he can whipe your entire army and sucks everybodies xp to max level.I guess that is what you deserve for playing Fey
>>559750725Feys are shit.
>>559750931yes, their design is stupid, but for the same thing they intrigue me. designed to spam main buildings, upgrade them, and xp boost them.Also they reuse the little girls model from WB1
>>559751436Oh I remember her. Doesn't she die?
>>559753256Remember the story splitting in 2 directions, maybe she did in one of them.
>>559754507No, I think she dies before the story split. I think the bad story is your character rebelling, but I don't remember why.
>>559755245this will be my excuse to replay the campaign
>>559756201Do it, and then report back. Because I remember trying this game, but the dub was so horrendous, I gave up.
>>559595838You using the new light shipyards that don't need retooling?It's a neat idea but I can't come up with roles for it.
>hates northgard>love dune spice warWeird. Anyone here liked Northgard?
>>559743581lmao
>>559716209I only played Warlords Battlecry 4.
>>559755245If I remember correctly you follow orders in the good side leading to her dying, while you disobey in the evil side allowing her to survive. You then go on to lead an army of undead to destroy your boss and their citadel. She undoes the two macguffins used for this since they're too dangerous dying in the process.
>>559767094I see. Who is she anyway? I remember she exists, but nothing more about her.
Damn, I wasn't aware that the fiefdom units were to bad.
>trying to get back into stellaris>billion DLCs>everything has fucking changed>get trounced twenty years in two timesI guess I'm learning the game from start again
>>559781960Welcome to the Paracuck experience.
>trying to survive the Last Spark origin in StellarisFuck, its like pulling nails..
>>559791503>trying to survive (...) StellarisImpossible Request.
>>559792152Srsly, its like being buttfucked by a razor wire.Even with cheats you can lose it just like that.
>>559792846I already got buttfucked.Loved it.
>>559781960Don't forget to buy the next DLC
>>559804145Nah man, I'm like 20 dlc's behind at this point. I gave up, it will take too much money and time to relearn the game. I'll play other games instead.
>>559444764Remember that Maritime Currants have Directions
>>559781960>>559806269It’d be wise to wait to relearn the game until after the next update anyways cause they’re pushing massive economy nerfs and changes to fleets
>>559781528Total War mods did it better, fiefdom units often being pretty good.
>>559781960Pirate if you can't afford them.
>>559824809I don't like total war.
>>559815491No thanks I'm good. I just don't have the time anymore. Stellaris also takes too long, what if the game is still boring? I wouldn't know until I've spend an entire week relearning everything and playing a game.
>>559834215Well, I like it. It's one of few games where you can get semi realistic tactics combat, although, I am using realistically loosely here, but it's better than the other stuff. I like the eye candy of it, at least for newer games, and fielding a lot of units.But I no longer play fantasy mods for it, desu. Recently played some historical ones.
>>559834463I understand why you like it. I just don't, I find it stressful and unfun to pick your troops in advance without knowing what the enemy can have.
>>559813551Yeah, I'm just not plotting those arrows on the map
>>559595838Wait what it's down forever? What's the new link?
>>559844349Centurii a qt
>>559857345that's not the centurion tho you ignoramus
good morning
>>559866773the artist
>>559716209For me it’s because it’s a match based RTS with RPG progression I can pop into a game and have a little fantasy battle without having to think about a big 4x campaign or where in a CRPG story I’m currently at.No other game replicated this
>>559867864Funny, I hate it for a similar reason: it's boring as fuck until you're level 30.
Spiderfag needs to post cool pictures of Brittany for us.
>>559876130Here's a picture of the place where I got trained to become security.
>>559876643This is not cool... Do you have pics of nature, historical monuments?
>>559876882Not really. I live in the town, and I have been having a lot of issues moving recently. Here's an old one.
>>559877195That's much better, just keep them away from /mlp/. You should try to move around some, busses, on foot, whatever, be in the nature, visit historical sites.
I just want a balanced Civlilzation type of game.But I want era's to be longer. It just feels too fast on the acceptable speeds but then too much on the longer ones.Like on the acceptable ones you never really get to start a war or anything with the era units before it's already new era and time for upgrades.But too slow and you finish buildings quickly and then you hardly do anything but spam units.Then the AI cheats, player has to struggle with either buildings or units yet ai can do both.
>>559877425Here something I passed by a good while ago.
>>559877195Cute
>>559887426Goth mini horses.
>>559876643Ah yes, a little piece of Germany that survived the post-occupation era.
>>559882273Is that a historical site/museum or does someone actually live in it?
>>559882273Now that's better. Scaffolding ruins it, but what can you do. Looks nice, with that weather, would hang out there.
>>559888181No clue, that's an old pic.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823950/Laysara_Summit_Kingdom/Finished this city builder in 24hs. There's a -50% discount going on which I think makes it well worth the price.It's basically a hyper QOL Anno, very forgiving in terms of money management (as long as you're positive and avalanche proof, you will never lose) and everything builds and acts instantenously. You get 3 different type of climates on mountain plateaus that favors different types of resource outputs to make Anno like production chains. Space is rather limited so it's always a challenge to fit things around population centers or +50% output buildings.Lastly, each mountain is it's own map with different mix of resources and climates. Your colony will trade between each mountain and your goal is to finish building the Summit Temple on all the mountains. The campagin will bring you through about half of them and guide you through the techtree but it's dialogue is reddit and zoomer as heck. Recomend that you jump into sandbox and never meet the jesters again.
>>559891372What is that suspicious reddit pacing? Are you a chill?
>>559889386Silent Hill
Put down that Page 10 death, Falling Frontier updated their Youtube channel for the first time in nearly two years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msj-iui56so
>>559902245>that naval whistleNeat detail
>>559902245They also posted a new dev update.>>558324174Falling Frontier Dev Update: Combat Overview: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280190/view/542258317343326824
>>559876643Oof what a dreary place.
>>559902245>>559906256Holy shit! I'm eating good tonight!
>>559882273That's a decent quality picture for a phone from 2005.
>>559915148It's good enough.
>>559906256>>559902245>FFI want to say im hyped but after Nebolous and Terra Invicta im incapable of being hyped for promising indie space 4x games.
>>559915148
>>559924305What is wrong with Nebulous? It isn't even a 4x.
>>559936261It fell for the left meme, so now scientists can have really weird traits that you, as the Emperor, really don't care about, like "twink" or "problematic", or what else.
>>559936261It got overrun by MP meta sweats, dev trooned out, shitcanned the campaign etc.
>remember Clockwork Empire exist>check it out>"this product is no longer available on Steam Store"...oh. So what's a good citybuilder or even strategy game with ye Old Ones that live below the sea?
Does anyone else just quit a Stellaris save when the crisis happens? Sorry I just don’t want to play your stupid games Cetana as you steal my systems.
>>559942103you can turn the crisis off
>>559948997You can turn yourself in.
This potato feller sure seems to get HOPELESSLY, MINDLESSLY, SHAMELESSLY ADDICTED OH GOD I CAN'T STOP CUMMING every time a new AoW4 expansion comes out and then immediately loses interest after he's made his one contractually obligated video
>>559955140There's an Irishman playing AoW4?
>>559955140what
>>559924305I mean there was that indie Homeworld-homage-with-4x elements a few years back. Not all space games are cursed, except maybe to live in obscurity.
>>559924305Try Five Nations?
>>559980304I love these modern swords but the lack of guard annoys me.
Werewolf mode in AoE4 just kicks my ass.
>>559972503Nah looks like crap.>>559968231>Homeworld-homage-with-4x elements a few years backContinue....
>>559882273That chateau looks familiar - is that the Rochefoucauld one?
>>559987831>Continue...Dust Fleet. It's $20 when not on sale, got it around its launch forever ago but never had time to play it. Had to dig through my library just to find it, since I have way too many games I'm never gonna get around to. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TatU9otQIRE
>>559994668No clue. It's a 2016 photo.
So I'm playing some Stellaris, haven't played it for a couple of years and I don't understand population growth at all. I started a colony and it had 1 growth for at least 1 month but now it has been at 0 for several months, why?
>>559955140Paradox asks them to put addicted in the title as part of the promotion. Go look when Legend of Total War got paid to play it. Im sure if you looked at other paid videos for the game it said the same thing.
>>560000425You have to resettle at least 500 pops to get full pop growth ion new planets.
Is the new Aurora forum cool? How'd the old one die?
>>560011124>Is the new Aurora forum cool?Is made by steve has set up a new forum.I'm only worried about the AAR and RP around them and how they will be archived.
Age of Wonders 1, when I played it as a kid, prepared me well for racialism and why some peoples don't mix together.
shitlaris 4.3 is coming out next week
>>560014379So?
>>560015919idk
ctrl+F0 mentions of zephoni sleep
Anything new and cool?
i play civ 4I like it
>>560035958Space Reign.Heart of the Machine.Rising Army.Humanica.Laysara.Territory Control 2.Songs Fantasy.
Having fun on age of wonders 4 right now. However, I was curious. I go heavy on the RP faction making and I noticed that in many games, you spawn near a free city that is of your culture. What would you normally do with them? Sometimes I feel like they spawn a little too fucking close though. I also hear these cities the AI controls don't really make good allies because they only build farms? Like what do people normally do with that first free city?
>>560040775>having fun
>>560036590Good taste
>>560035958play zephon
Are there any good scifi bug hunt RTS games? Besides starcraft
I get so retardedly fixated on this game
I wish I could dedicate the time to this game again but I don't know what the state of the economy is and I don't have a subscription. Instead I will slowly recycle the building materials of Mont-Saint-Sneed and hope that the walls won't crack on or before a Friday the 13th.
>>560056120Zephon has you fighting bio-horror, some of the factions play alot like bugs. Bleed and building on it or clearing it is very reminiscent of creep but fits better in the tech treethe scrin be spreadin creep n shit
I've never played Supreme Commander, should I try the steam version or give BAR a try?
>>560074675Give Zero-K a try instead.
>>558420315The new logic system looks cool for automating production chains. My last map died to fps death after I built pic related and plugged it into the power network. I think the switchbacks murdered my CPU or something
For any X enjoyers out there. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/392160/view/528744981882470468I hope these changes make AI controlled ships far more responsive and less prone to driving forward into an enemy station and exploding.
>>560078501>Improved capital ship combat movement against stations.>Improved capital ship avoidance of station turret range.Finally!!!
>>559889386Wow great picture. What camera did you use?
>>560040775Sometimes I integrate it through diplomacySometimes I become good allies with it, but leave it at the strongest state of vassalage to me if I have enough breathing room to colonize my other two cities quicklyThe last time I played was during the vampire DLC with the Dark culture rework, so playing Tyranny encouraged me to have as many vassals as possible. My same racial neighbor citystate was the only one I didn't conquer with pure force, I gave them a bit of special privilege as I acted a complete asshole to everyone else.I think the devs got asked about the 'starter free city' in streams two weeks ago and said they'd try putting in an option to turn its spawning on or off, depending if it interferes with any roleplay we might have. No clue if they did yet, I haven't booted up the game
>>560079561My phone. I have no camera.If I did, I'd have taken better pictures of my ass during my date.
>>560084757spiderfag, you went on one date and got spanked once and then made it your entire identity. you gotta move on dude
>>560084952Actually a few dates, but you don't get it. I made games, pictures, even stories about that fetish. None of them ever ended online because they were all crap, but this fetish IS my identity.I can't really gush over bunnies and how much I love them. Or talk about agriculture in Tenochtitlan or the history of the Mexicas.
>>560085237>but this fetish IS my identity.that's not a good thing
>>560085847If you take it away from me, all I have is an interest in story, history, and the rest is all guilt, self-loathing, and bloodthirst.
>>560046974What's wrong with fun?
>"nuuuh we can't find logs">literally in front of the log warehouseall my rage
>playing Caveman2Cosmos>actually stick around to reach industrial era>notice kind of big problem with the main infantry upgrade tree>you get musketeers at flintlock and riflemen at rifling, both in renaissance era>but infantry only becomes available in atomic era, so there's no infantry upgrade in industrial eraFucking hell mate, there should be matchlock and then flintlock muskets in renaissance. Rifling should only unlock specialist units like skirmishers since mass producing rifling was so expensive until industrial revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDddUWlEe1cX4 news
>>560078501>I hope these changes make AI controlled ships far more responsive and less prone to driving forward into an enemy station and exploding.Mods do that already.Also they nerfed Terran shields to the ground.
beaver
I finally tried Ara. It's too cumbersome to add supplies and materials one by one.
>>560118169gay
>>560115151I love these creatures.
>>560122401What, beavers? Castors?
>>560115151Cool, recently saw some beavers by the river. And their work aka some taken down small trees, with tree barks removed.
>>560115151I like to think how redwood beavers would laugh at these city slicking beavers that have to shave down their teeth because they no longer use them. Their kind is not welcome at chucks I tell you what.
>>560115151kurwa...
Man, that feeling when you complete your first dam.
bump, good night
>>560129407nn bro, many big tiddied elves to you.
>>560084757>pandaYou just know the guy inside that costume is a chinese operative.
>>560129407nighty night...
>>560115151https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzWgxi56WKgPut some stank on it, Dagget!
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>>560140959I will bully spiderfag's prostate until he passes out on a puddle of seminal fluids.
Oh hey. It's that thing my old physic teacher at schooltold us about.
I don't know much about fire emblem, could an RTS work ouf its setting?
>>560146842I mean, Fire Emblem is essentially strategy already, just turn-based and on a small scale. I can see it working on Battle for Middle-Earth 2's base, except that instead of being Sword > Spear > Cavalry > Archers, the base balance is Spear > Sword > Axe.
>>560129407Good night.
>>559743581>Aim higher>Arc ends up at target as intendedWhat's the issue?>>558341276Pay denbts.
>>559891372Nice. How is the campaign?
>>560130746>>560148913night
>>560151227
>>560152418nta, but...
>>560162461You lost a lot of range to perform that shot.
my cheribum canons are anihiliating this zephon save, and my ophani drone carriers are effectively tarpitting the enemy. I've lost two sets of enforcers, one set of militants ( lol ) and a car ( Rip ) in exchange for killing four titans and two cities since end game hit. Trump shouldn't have betrayed me and trent reznor
>>560171989Did he died?
>>560171989what a coincidence, I was just saving a cute elf girl.
I wanna play Timberborn but the idea of having to learn about water physics scares me.
>>560174350Oh and also hearing about lategame performance being terrible is putting me off too.
>>560173737What a coincidence, I was adding "cute elf girls" to my short list of grudges.Just kidding, these are not Warhammer dwarves.Also, fuck me, I love the alternative faction called Durin's Folks. I think I prefer them to Erebor.
>>560174350It's not that hard. Just channels everything through a thin channel and put a noria in the middle.
>>559509789>>559510018The issue I always have is mid education in Cities Skylines, I'll have enough uneducated and more than enough highly educated but never enough well educated and often lacking regular educated as well.
>>560179714overeducated sims can work in lower jobs
I beat Terra Invicta back in 2022 when it released in EA and i've spent about 50 in a new campaign and holy shit, they made this game worse.I now genuinely think its even more of a worthless slog, they didn't learn a fucking thing from their feedback did they? Nerf everything into the dirty, make everything take even longer, waste even more of your time as your agents do the same fucking tasks over and over.Pavonis really proved that they should've stuck to modding.
>>560187803I still stand by the opinion that game would be much better if you just had nations under your control not some gay illuminati knockoff.
Can anyone tell me if V, VI, or VII are worth playing over IV?I've not moved on because I'm not convinced they're better games. VII especially seems egregious DLC machine.
lol i built 10 cherub titans and like 3 seraphim archangels ( Didn't get to try the machine song sets everything on fire ability )turns out holoporters+anti matter dilation + flagship product is like 50 damage from a single attack. I fucked those titans up. They killed a bunch of my enforcers but mostly got tarpitted by the combat drones from the ophanium carrier. I kinda wanna try an interceptor jet build, human tech. My most recent run as the fallen soilder i had a quest to build cri'la witches so I ended up teleporting around packs of atlas tanks, that was fun. This game i didn't dick around with engineers much despite them being useful in combat for cyber focused factions. Somehow this lead to me having a size 38 main city and a size 34 second city when everyone else was around size 20. I got pretty lucky with military alliances today, aristocrat and soilder teamed up with me. the scrin tried to worm their way into my alliance by using the white muslim. First they corrupted the emulated mind, who was part of my alliance. I glassed that fuckin bot and none of my allies said shit about it. I need to figure out how to play voice/algae builds - idk wtf to do without clone wave
amigra faults excavation carried me hard. my third city didn't get planted until like turn 90 but it ended up generating enough minearls for me to try triple construction yard in my expansion. My expansion ended up stronger than my main city due to having triple airbases on a height 4 tile, the loyalty bonus was fantastic and I would run with that again.i was using the platinum scion - after I have 4 of a unit I get 40% off of that unit which is really strong, but my units either have less attacks, take more attacks or have negative speed ( eww) the game wanted fucking 450 influence to remove the speedcap off a 10th level cherub. wtf. anyway here is me dabbing on the titans.
honestly the early alliances I set up and bought into made this save pretty easy. My first base had two abkhan spawns nearby and I lost like 8 turns of production early game dealing with them. My military was pretty weak until enforcers and then again until airbases- but my allies put in work. I had to go back and defend my home base several times throughout the game, during the end of days only a single titan made it to the desert separating my base from everyone else. I was already camping some units on the aristocrat's city, he telegraphed his betrayal pretty readily. I kind of wish he convinced the solider to go with him, he would have been a good fight.
>>560190728ZEPHON is your friend though.
>>560195484not during this run, during this run he got taken out by NPCs
