Anyone play the new age of wonders?

>>565912574
AoW 4? Yeah, I do. What about it?

>>565912671
Does it actually have an interesting sort of campaign/story and overall feel because it just seems to be fantasy stellaris

How does AoW compare to Endless Legend 2?

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hello there

>>565912787
nta but the campaign is not even a proper campaign its just self contained missions that have nothing to do with eachother going like "hey remember this character from the original games"

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>>565912787
No campaigns. You get scenarios, but they're essentially preset maps.
As for the story, well, God died, so the pantekathrone is up for grabs.

>>565912882
I modded those fucks to be productive members of society as a xenophile purity advocate.

>>565912865
Bigger scale, less relying on races and more relying on ethics (to a point that it barely matters if you're playing elves or dwarves), heroes aren't as strong, and I think there's no strategic ressources?

How to offset the opinion penalty from other empires by just being a crisis empire?

>>565913582
That might be one of the reasons.

>>565913571
Stop being the crisis or vassalize them

>>565913571
Interstellar Assembly is perfect for that.

>>565913051
God, I'm getting flashbacks about Grexolis. Genuinely so difficult.

>>565916084
if the ai on your side fucks up it is genuinely impossible but if they dont it can be really easy

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Have you played Spellforce?

>>565918172
I found it incredibly eurojank and not exceptionally good.

>>565918172
Played it once as a kid, I remember getting bored. I hated how whiny the elves were.
>we're surrounded!
>we're surrounded!
>we're surrounded!
>we're surrounded!

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So what do you think of my throne hall? I'll eventually fill the empty spaces with pools but alas I fear its going to take a while, as the cost in materials is simply beyond ludicrous, I mean 8 cut stone per single unit of pool kind of eat into a reserve pretty fast.

>>565925409
looks good, I wish I could get into that game

>>565925409
Looks pretty good. I do like the plaza just outside of it.

>>565916084
I think it was the only campaign map I couldn't finish

>>565929632
Oh wait, mistook it for Arcalot
Grexolis at launch was easy if you went underground+turtle any non military victory, these days you can't pull that anymore, but scenario itself got easier.
Vampie map with king vampire doomstack was pretty hard too, but only that part

Is settlers series dead?

>>565931881
Yes.
RIP in pepperoni.

wow whirldwind cruisers are fun
but i got.the rubicator and archeo engineers and mostly have cruisers and a ton of artifacts
good archeo build with cruisers?

is victoria 3 worth a damn now or is it still shit?

>>565937779
>>>/vst/gsg/

>>565938582
ah, sorry it's been a while since i've been on any of the /v/-related boards

>>565938582
heyy i made the first v3g and the first thread rentry

>>565938728
dont go to gsg go to /v3g/
its also on /vst/
/gsg/ is mentally ill beyond repair

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HOLD THE PHONE! R.U.S.E. IS BACK?!

>>565940316
https://store.steampowered.com/app/21970/RUSE/

How did this get out of limbo?

>>565940316
I bought this back in the days, I should still have it on steam, yet I don't for whatever reason.
I feel robbed.

>>565940802
>crisis aspirant
hell yeah

>>565940816
At one point the game was removed from steam a loooooong time ago. Somehow they were sued for having some jeep in the game I think. It was a crazy story.

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>>565940816
I have it though?

>>565943921
Welp, then I guess I'm just uniquely fucked.

>>565943921
It was removed from the steam store, people that already had it weren't affected. Except maybe the other anon in the thread.

I've never played the game and didn't think much of it because it was marketed as a console strategy game. But later I heard it was actually quite good and also a unique look on the strategy genre. Probably gonna get it when it's on sale.

>>565940316
>>565943921
Any naval units or can you not do a ruse cruise in R.U.S.E.?

>>565932735
Any spiritual successors?

Do you like to sit back and max out your army or are you more of an early bloomer and prefer to employ aggressive openings?

>>565960423
Dunno, never played any Settlers game.

what if psionic machines

>>565967368
praise be to the architect of clay

>>565940316
/wgg/bros we're so back

Using MO2 for everything, then using IronyMM for Stellaris, has made me realize Irony fucking sucks.

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Welcome to Adolf Hitler Germstraulia

galactic imperium really isn't worth it if you're in a really good federation damn

>>565976527
extreme austria/australia mixup

>>565979337
No
But it's good to fuck over a rival with a federation to break them up if they're in the galactic community

>>565968220
>>565967368
Is psychic robots outside of Shroudforged even worth trying? They'd still have good pop growth I imagine but competing with that origin's benefits is insane. I can still see value in a combination for a roleplay gimmick though

>>565994770
>Is psychic robots outside of Shroudforged even worth trying?
probably not, you even need an additional AP to start the ascension

lets learn to love our neighbors like the christians learned in rome!

any setting ti nerf AEs? thry absolutely demolish thr crisis in every game

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>>566002443
turn the crisis multiplier up

>>565912787
If you want AoW campaigns play 1, 2, Shadow Magic and 3.
They are decent.

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This is why I usually hit observe right at the start, because holy shit this is an atrocious spawn.

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>>566007520
This is what the guy to the left gets.

bump

there is no anti player bias in stellaris
thats why when the great khan sent 500k fleets to my citadel system and i surrendered he just stood there till he died of old age and my economy went to shit
absolutely fun :D
im disabling this fucking niggery holy fucking shit the great khan is such aids

>>566018204
git gud

>>566018476
no fuck off i wanna roleplay and have fun not whatever the fuck this khan shit is
also
>can't lock terminal egress with a lock because it has too many entrances
wow thanks paradox for the useless as shit ability

>>566018204
khan feels overtuned as fuck, nigga has like 100k+ fleetpower when he spawns in midgame. even citadel systems with fortification tradiiton and eternal vigiliance just get raped and there's no way you can push out enough ships to compete on fleetpower
I too turned him off, a mid-game shake up could be cool, but not a guaranteed mid game loss were your only realistic option is to submit and get your economy annihilated

>>566023798
What's the point of space mongols if they can't threaten you?
If anything, I wish he would never pick fights with fallen empire, and rape galaxy instead

>>566024190
there's a balance between "push over" and "lmao no gg get rekt nerd"
Why should I play with a crisis that you can't possibly even hold at bay without the sweatiest, cheesiest build in my autistic space RP nation building game?

>>566024528
Again, what's the point os space mongols if you can easily hold them?
You posting how you entitled to beat a khan, how he should never be a threat to you, etc. For things like that, games where player is center of universe and everything exist as theme park entertainment, you should play aurora instead.
Entire point of mongols, is that it fucking sucks to be close to them when they decide to chimp out, anything that doesn't provide that experience is pussy ass shit.
Also, there are sliders, specially for players who want to take it easy.

>>566024835
>Again, what's the point os space mongols if you can easily hold them?
Again, what's the point of a crisis you can do nothing against but lay down and give up? I might as well spawn the endgame crisis in 2250 to get same epic experience of getting steamrolled.

>>566025032
>>566024835
>>566024528
>>566024190
>>566023798
All because Stellaris combat system sucks dick.

>>566023798
Yeah Khan is way too strong to deal with in the time he comes out after the 4.3 changes.

>>566025032
So, you are saying it would be great if some tibet village alone could easily defeat mongol hordes
As I said, asterix with obelix and aurora should be more to your tastes then, and there no reason for you to try and ruin experience for people who wanted to experience space mongols.
Because next you'll demand for ai to stop streamrolling you for not building fleet, because you feel entitled to it or something
>>566025297
Khan always was pain in the ass though, especially if you spawned close to him with going vasal instead of fighting always beign a good choice.

>>566025910
>aurora should be more to your tastes then,
This nigga never spawned Invaders in the first system he visited.

>>566023798
economy fucked
federations fucked
vessels fucked
yesh fuck off
he broke through a citadel witha maxed out starbase with fortifications and eternal vigilance plus my 100k fleet kek
he had 370k fleet
i used the intel cheat to see why he did it it seems he was amassing all his fucking fleets in an l gate system then sent them all at once just to fuck me over
this is not normal.behavior he shpuldnt be seeking me out like this

>>566024835
i wasnt even close to him
he decided to.ignore everyone just to bee line my system which eas the most fortified in the game
ignored neighbor ais and just went for terminal egress with all his fleets despite me having 200k defensive power there
this feels very cheesy and very anti player
ill get on my pc later and take a screenshot

>>566024835
>games where player is center of universe
Imagine unironically claiming that everything in Shitlaris doesnt revolve around the player.

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>>566025910
>So, you are saying it would be great if some tibet village alone could easily defeat mongol hordes
No, I'm saying there should be an actual WAR with BACKS and FORTHS not "LMAO YOU LOSE RETARD", I'm saying there should be a point to go all in on defensive starbases with Fortification and Eternal Vigiliance. That there should be a point of building a federation and a united front in the galcom against him. instead the magic space nigger pulls more fleetpower than the ENTIRE FUCKING GALAXY CAN MUSTER out of his fucking asshole to the point that FIGHTING AT ALL IS ENTIRELY POINTLESS
He's not a dynamic fucking crisis, he's -30% to all your resources and naval cap until he fucking dies because becoming his subject IS THE ONLY REALISTIC OPTION
WHAT'S THE POINT OF A FUCKING CRISIS WITH ONLY ONE FUCKING OPTION THE FUCKING KHAN MAKES CETANA LOOK DYNAMIC YOU TREMENDOUS DOUBLE NIGGER

>>566025910
i have a feeling you havent played vanilla stellaris in your life
shut the fuck up we are talking vanilla here

>>566026561
>I don't want space mongols, I want germanic tribes who could only pillage civilizations after they almost collapsed, but I want them to be called a space mongols
Again, see no reason why you demand khan to be changed, just because you don't like idea of space mongols acting like space mongols
You just want game to change experience to something else, instead of playing themepark game where everything exist for your entertainment like you want

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look at this shit
he is ignoring everyone around him just to amass 400k almost in fleet power near an L gate to attack me even though he is surrounded by weak targets and even a robot fallen empire

>>566026561
This post is literally what the entirety of Central Asia was thinking when Genghis Khan went westward.

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>>566027471
forgot to put explanations
look at this shit and tell me hes not coded to seek out the player only

>>566027402
You're working really hard at avoiding the point. Clearly the game is perfect when the Khan single-handily unavoidably invalidates every gameplay option from federations to vassal based empire to the galcom to turteling to playing genocidal every single time he shows up. You sure love railroading the entire galaxy for your space mongol worshipping.

>>566027573
Yeah and it's retarded. Mongols being spooky in real life when "archer on horse" was the ultimate weapon makes sense. The Khan shitting out 100k fleetpower from 3 barren systems with a handful of ships cobbled together from asteroids is as silly and unbelivable as space pirates.

>>566027932
yeah wtf he also doesnt adress how youre supposed to survive if youre playing a genocidal empire

>>566027696
balans for mutlipalyer
Paradox knows their AI can't compete with a real player, so they make it so that AI players get obscene bonuses and naturally collude with each other to stand a chance against real people :^)

>>566028031
we should've shot HOI4 fags dead the moment they even posted about MP balance on the forums

>>566027696
>hes not coded to seek out the player only
He's not

>>566028152
oh sorry hes just playing intelligently then here there is nothing weird with him doing this

speaking of subjugation. what's the idea behind being so ahead you can only make your subject empires protectorates which are so bad?

>>566028395
>idea
I don't think Paradox had one. Their MO always seems to be
>remember <thing> from <show/movie/book/etc>? now you can <thing> too!
Without caring how it affects game balance or performance.

>>566028135
I'm pretty sure multiplayer has always been a scapegoat for Paracucks, since none of their playerbase have friends to play with and their games have far too atrocious desync to actually make multiplayer viable. The real answer is that they hate you and know their audience is in too deep to ever leave them. In their defense their specific style of map painter games are pretty unique within the industry and they do heavily encourage mod support, but every drug needs to have a high to entice people and not just be all lows.

>>566028395
Real world, you actually can't get anything from tribal village these days, until you kick them up enough to start contributing.
Soviets did that with northern tribes
Britain did that with some literally who islands
etc

>>566028152
He kinda is as everything in Stellaris is slanted against the player - FE requests, npc placements etc

>>566030370
>as everything in Stellaris is slanted against the player
It's just a meme started by retards who made fanatic henophobe empires, and then were surprised that neighbors don't like them, same as retards who for some reason bring up "muh multiplayer" despite paradox never bothering to balance their games, especially for multiplayer

>>566023798
Khan should pretty much always be strong enough to take on at least the nearest few empires, except maybe a well tuned player empire or some extremely lucky AI. If that's you then you just gotta surrender and work your way out from inside which is the intended mechanic or actually get a tuned empire done before he spawns.

If you are seething though you can always just disable the khan, alter mid game date or get a mod that suits your preferences. The vanilla intended behavior should not change though.

>>566027696
The AI deals more in terms of connections. To an AI a L gate means that you are neighbors. The horde also has plenty of fleets in the path that connects it to the FE that you claim is destroying it and other fleets doing other stuff. It's just reacting to you massing your fleets there.

>>566031731
Its not a meme you faggot, Ai is literally designed to spawn close to you, with opposing ideologies to box you in and provoke conflict.
I wouldnt be surprised if there was some hidden value that makes Khan and all FE's focus solely on player.

>>566031731
>fanatic pacifist base AI spawn weight 33
>fanatic militarist base AI spawn weight 250
you're a retard

>>566034932
That's not "anti player" that's just to ensure that the galaxy isn't boring hubox. There's no particular anti player bias in the galaxy as a whole being biased towards militarism.

>>566035045
>galaxy generation bias is good actually
straight out of the paracuck apologist playbook

>>566035045
People are just used to handholding games where player start is always scripted to have benefitical first turns of exploration, and so they see any fair simulation as anti player bias.
Same reason why main rule when making action game, is making player hitbox smaller than real body, while enemy hitbox always bigger.
Retards feel good about themselves when dodging through weapon swings, but if they feel like their attack should have hit enemy but it didn't(even if it really didn't) they get mad

>>566034394
>if everything doesn't go my way it's anti player

>>566035554
Yes I would prefer a galaxy where stuff happens. Has nothing to do with the spawning being somehow anti player

>>566035618
>spawning only 2 AI empires right next to a player in 1k galaxy is not anti player bias
Nice bait, no one can be this retarded.

>game is boring without constant conflict
>make it not boring? no, just force constant conflict
11/10 gameplay, will buy all DLC

The seether is going all out again

>civic_default_random_weight = 5
>civic_uncommon_random_weight = 3
>civic_rare_random_weight = 1

>civic_fanatic_purifiers random_weight = {base = 1000

there's no bias bro

Better answer me, are there new tipes of fanatic purifiers/swarm/etc in last 2 years?
Need to upgrade my empire list

not the first time i see a game with blatant anti player bias and have people defend it and say it doesnt exist
ive seen it with total war games and paradox games mostly
what causes people to pretend there is no bias?

>>566040456
there's a thermophile one that only hates non-thermophiles

>>566040826
Total War games are actually designed to be anti player, but outside of shogun 2, no one defends it. And it's mostly poltards and alt right incels who for some reason belive that CA games were codded better in the past
There no anti player bias in paradox games, you just salty because game doesn't handholds and panders to you

>>566041530
I want a galaxy diverse of ethics, not me vs 19 hegemonic imperialists every single game

>paradox dickrider denies the obvious and long standing anti player bias in their games
>muh pol
>muh incels
Nice fucking bait.

>>566041828
this
why is it not an option for me to adjust

>>566041828
>I want a galaxy diverse of ethics
Well, show your galactic community from your last game?

>>566041530
>deflecting
ok

bump

>>566027471
>horde
Are they space nomads?

>>566055991
its the khan

Nighty night, it's a thunderstorm outside, perfect for sleeping. Can't play anyway, too tired.

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Found a weird demo, do you fags mind if I post about it?

>>565912496
Galciv IV Federations & Empires Expansion announced: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/685252675610083889

>>566058165
What kind of demo?

>>566058165
yeah I mind you fucking bitch

>>566058464
Two levels, heavily scripted, extremely easy.

>>566056873
Good night anon.

Jesus Christ IronyMM is ass. Unironically worse than just using the launcher.

Now I realize I'm stupidly late for this game, but I started playing it because whatever, it seems fun enough.

I've gotten far enough to learn about Winterhome, but the issue is, I feel like everything's just too fucking messed up. You start out with a singular ring, so of course you just slap in whatever you can, but then later on you have a fucking order/faith thing and of cooooourse it depends on a little-ass cone so fuck you, your whole city design is screwed, discontent death spiral wheeeeeeeeeeee

Like, tf am I supposed to do? Do I just start over and somehow draw up a design that I can expand? How the hell do I do that at the start when I only got a single ring of warmth?

>>566061925
what gaym?

>>566062079
Frostpunk (1)

Every fucking "city layout" I find online just acts as though you're already in the endgame where you can put a bunch of shit all the way in the ass end of nowhere. I can't. I can't put a fucking "medic zone" all the way in the outer border because I have one(1) ring of heat and no boilers.

>>566062249
Can't help then, sorry.

>>566062249
You shouldn't be looking at the solutions to the game, just play and feel it out yourself.

>>566063701
Did you actually read at what I said? Like did you actually read the issues I have? This is not "ermrmererherehrhr just play it yourself :)" this is "the buildings don't have consistent sizes fuck you"

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I'm still waiting for a game with a good asymmetric war mechanic. I want to fund low level rebellions and conflicts and engage in proxy wars

>>566072095
What, like Distant Worlds, where pirate players have different objectives than empire players?

>>566061925
Whine and bitch some more? I'm sure that will help

Firstly, we live in a world where complaining about things can often get you ahead.
Secondly, have you guys ever played Steel Division 2? I watched a video on it today and the player was building trenches and machine gun nests in a hope to slow down Operation Bagration.

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berry

>>566077485
But where's the meat?

>>566081405
No meat in that game, it's like v0.0.1.

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Heartless artificer donesky
now to get the mutator for her quest or for siding with zephon?

>>566062249
The childrens can work, physical labor shall keep them warm, with extra overtime rewarded with an extra ration of sawdust.

>>566086647
>sawdust
What, do you want to spoil the kids? Have them forage in the permafrost and rife through the burnpiles and landfills like normal children.

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they added a new escort mission to anno 117, but it just spawns ships to attack the npc escort. did it for the first time and almost lost a trireme

>>566095867
sasuga ubisoft

They should invent a game that doesn't suck

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>>566102024
simcity 4

>>566102658
what am I looking at

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>>566102808
it's simcity 4

>>566103131
no I meant that image specifically
smallest possible city or something?

>>566063973
Yes I read your post. The point of buildings being inconsistent sizes is that it's the challenge of the game, I also read that you are looking at solutions online to which I said you shouldn't be looking at solutions to the game, just play and feel it out yourself.

>>566095867
looks kind of cool tho

>>566095867
How is the new anno 117 dlc?

>>566085378
map looks messy as fuck
Can you post screenshots with less UI poped out? I wanna see how environments look in the game.

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>>566121490

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>>566121678

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>>566121840

I hate Paradox modding so fucking much

>>566103921
Courage the Cowardly Doge.

I hate Paradox so fucking much

I love Paradox.

>>566124887
t. Paradox

>>566126060
That scene with the village chief's daughter was hard to watch.

anyone else feel like default habitable worlds settings are too numerous?
i never feel like im fighting over planets

>>566131690
Yes, it's normal sometimes to get systems with 3+ planets in it

>>566131834
is it supposed to be that way or will the game be more interesting with less

>>566131690
I'm getting around 3 planets per sector, but add in terraforming and habitats and it explodes

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>retarded alt right ai unleashed event fanatic purifiers, and got raped by them, while trying to wage war against me for some reason
>Pocket of galaxy he was stuck together with purifiers actually is cut away from the rest of galaxy, and I'm the only one who borders them.
Time to gather army and expand, I guess

>>566121951
Visually it's still a fucking mess. Probably partially because the grid based map design, which gives sharp borders. Still, textures are weird too, it reminds of Warhammer realms of chaos or something like that.

colossus project shouldnt be a perk id like to see the AI wielding them more
also the AI never ascends because of the fucking tech and special buildings needed now he AI never seems to favor making those buildings like psi corps

>>566056641
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54

the idea that even egalitarians use psi corps is terrifying
is this commentary on jedi being evil too in starwars

>>566135450
Fenrishion?

>>566086647
Children working is actually a pretty bad choice, you get flooded with so many workers you have plenty of them. Choosing shelters lets you upgrade into medic apprentices or engineer apprentices, which is way better, I am told.

stellaris getting an arachnophobia and arachnophilia mode plus 144hz

Why aren't you sucking Paradox's dick right now and thanking them for Stellaris and AoW4?

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>when at range, the samurai will pull out a bow and start nailing arrows
Nice.

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>chemists' upgraded missiles can set buildings on fire
Neat. And dunno why but my screenshots are FINALLY the right size.

>>566144462
paradox only made one of those games

>>566144462
I do, both games were saviors of genre

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I am playing the Dungeons expansion and it seems kind of cool. You play as the opponents from the original game and you can have multiple heroes on a single map.

>>566144462
Paradox didn't make AoW4
They are though, grinding their dick all over AoW4 as a publisher trying to take credit since the game has adopted their DLC policy, which is a shame.
That nomad DLC came out and I never even got around to trying it yet. Going to be sunk into Olden Era for awhile
And now Stellaris announced their own Nomads DLC.
Looks neat but eh, I'll get to it when I get to it. I played WAY too much Stellaris after that eco-balance reckoning patch, just to get a feel for things again

>>566151947
True, Triumph Studios made, though I am not sure how of much of the old guard still at the company. That said, while never games are fine and good (at least I liked AoW3, didn't play 4), they don't really have that old soul of AoW1.

>>566152174
>I liked AoW3
Opinion discarded

>>566144462
aow4 is great but its too "gamey" and not roleplaye enough like stellaris
AI is aware its a game and is playing to win

>>566152174
ssethfag kys

>>566153669
>ssetfag
Nigger, AoW1 was my THE childhood game in 2000's. While others played HoMM I played AoW1.
>>566153417
I didn't like the focus on class too much, or at least, I liked class units, but game needed more racial units like in AoW1 but I didn't find to be a bad game.

>>566154056
In 2000s, everyone played AoW2, faglord
And no one fucking played HoMM by the start 00s hit, people were jewed by 3.5 "expansion" spam already

>>566154601
For one, I live in eastern Europe, so trends were slower there at the time when it comes to pop culture shit, but more importantly AoW1 was something I had the CD for, so I played that.
So no, I mostly played AoW1 and only some of AoW2 when I learned to pirate shit. I liked campaigns, custom maps too (tho those actually have a story and you can play them as a sort of mini prequel campaign) and finally also maps from heavengames site.

>>566154934
Also, didn't play civ games. Only one I played was Call to Power 2, because I got a free CD for it from some gaming magazine.

>>566115236
havnt gotten to it yet, theres a new big island at the north corner of the map but its costs over 100k to settle, i think you start you game on it if you want.

is this the controversial age of wonders posting hour?
planetfall which i did not play for a very long time because of the horrible visual style mogs all the fantasy games hard thanks to the empire mode
aow4 made some really weird choices by making all races the same and only visually different when the entire point previously was to have unique class race combos
losing all the sovl for "stack modifiers" gameplay was a mistake

>>566161883
I'm still pissed that AoW 3 actually made the elves interesting, while AoW 4 made them sex objects only.

>>566154601
I knew a couple of guys that played hoom3 back in early 00s. Usually the mid-late forties incel before if was mainstream behind the counter at the local hobby store.

I just wiped my ass bloody

>>566173804
Shit happens.

balance wise why do shields cost energy but not armor?

>>566176256
armour costs more alloys

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I feel like the Japanese aren't that detailed in Age of Mythology: other civs get cosmetic upgrades as they level up, and I have the impressions Japanese only level as they improve their units.

>>566173804
benchod

>>566176256
Shields regenerate

>>566176256
Armor does not regenerate

>>566073106
I think the next Distant Worlds 2 dlc is gonna be playable pirate factions.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-419-happy-decennial.1920747/

shitlaris dev diary, nomad stuff

>>566077485
Berry nice.

nighty night

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Playing Chronicles of Mystara makes me yearn for a D&D strategy game. With bulliable hot elves.
Do you have anything you recommend, /civ4xg/?

>>566187883
Only actual DnD strategy game I can think of is Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard, I think it has drow. One of few Eberron setting games.

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>>566187854
Good night anon.

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>>566188165
Drat, I was hoping for Chronicles of Mystara, or at least Faerun, I know nothing about Eberron. Thank you nonetheless.

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Anyone tried pic related?

>>566189491
you try and tell us how it is

Bought Age of Empires 2 and Return of Rome DLC, am I in for fun? Can't actually play until tomorrow.

>>566196450
Return to Rome? Isn't that the DLC that adds AoE1 to AoE2? Or am I mistaking it?

>>566196450
>Age of Empires 2
The quintessential RTS.
>Return of Rome DLC
Quite a mediocre DLC that focuses on campaigns (hardly the main appeal of AoE2), and adds only one civilization: the Romans.

Okay the Romans are fucking awesome, but still, it's a bit overpriced.

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>>566196428
I need an aspirin.

>>566162273
mounted elf archers were one of the most busted things i have seen in any video game

>>566207040
They don't make em like they used to

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrBdS0-BX-w
RTS won.

Anyone else have a weird issue in stellaris where the advisor randomly stops working and you need to swap to a new one and back to turn it back on?

>>566207040
too old for me

amneties and crime are such a joke to deal with
hope they fix it i never ever build an art installation

>>566241157
how old are you?

>>566243280
29
why?

>>566236087
ok epstein
I figured you preferred them early access

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infinite count is kinda my jam, just spawning caitiffs off neutral kills really lets you get that early game momentum. I wish he had some sort of research boost but really that's just the matter of being too used to the cyber ops building being op as fuck

>>566245570
kek

>Game goes great, slowly pushing fanatic purifiers back and getting bigger and bigger
>Yeah, let's explode something in astral rift, better rewards are always nice
>12k army fleet spawns, have nothing to beat it with
>They don't stay in system they spawned and just go raping me
Fun, I guess

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look at this godly start for my criminal syndicate voidborn pirates
>ringworld so close
>only 2 chokepoints
>ruined catapult
holy shit this is gonna be pure KINO

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>>566249603
peak kino start is on the far end of a starburst galaxy for me

I feel like ai got way dumber
Before they never declared war, without enough force to invade
But I did two games, and both times ai declared war, without even bothering to attack my chokepoint

>>566248148
do not put the drone in the hole anon

>>566254667
i think its the opposite the ai can see that they have way more war exhaustion reduction so they sit in their own space waiting you out

wait proxy wars are really funny

>>566245805
But seriously, what the hell is happening to the environment in this game.

>>566245805
God I hate how these kind of games all look the same, at first I thought it was Gladius.

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local man replaces mixed industry on capital with archives and instantly regrets it

>>566279437
>that alloy count/deficit
Jesus fuck
At least you have enough iPads for a few years but that's also gonna fucking sink you
Time to sell apples and rocks to buy alloys until you make a new industrial zone

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>determined exterminators get really creeped out when you ascend scynthetically
toppest of keks

>>566284439
You reminded me that it were like half of decade already if not more, since I played as servitors
Are they still in the game? Don't remember seeing them in matches

>>566285341
Rogue servitors? Yeah they're still in and still one of the strongest way to play machines

>>566279437
you can disable jobs

>>566287096
nah i fixed it in time

>>566284439
its fucking amazing how much love they put into such niche interactions that rarely happen fuck
i wish the AI was better at surviving as genocidal empires it either gets eaten alive or borders me and gets annihilated
i love the rogue servitor reaction to determined exterminators is WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR CREATORS? MURDERERS!

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post em

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>>566285740
>Yeah they're still in and still one of the strongest way to play machines
Starting penalties look kinda fucked up, and very harsh
Don't think that anything with citadel start should give it

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>>566287913
My autism is too strong for you, stranger

>>566292063
why are some disabled
i lost a lot of mine because i used to play pirated

resource consolidation is such a shit fucking start the penalty to jobs is nuts

>>566294962
they're either using modded civics/origins and I dont' trust the AI to not shit itself using them, or are Sol spawns that I turned off so I can still meet normal Sol empires