Previous thread: >>566894139This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Nebulous: Fleet Command, Campaign Act 1 will be released on May 29th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BOaaB9I1QGalactic Civilizations IV, Dev Journal: Empires: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/696512943113634097Newstower Roadmap: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/512989355492508053Foundation, Devlog #21 - Refining the Experience: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/690830/view/662735310818379393Stellaris Dev Diary #413: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/281990/view/521993383330187248Airships: Conquer the Skies, version 1.2.11 update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/342560/view/519741583516501756Laysara: Summit Kingdom released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1823950/view/508480685901611544C-Beams Devlog 52: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKiMD2LxhUDistant Worlds 2, Mercantile Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/499465877188511534Falling Frontier Dev Update: Combat Overview: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280190/view/542258317343326824Frostpunk 2, Fractured Utopias dlc: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/648085384362721315== 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
>can't build habitats in vassal territory as gifts
HAK HAK HAK
Oh, I'm a moron. I was thinking "man i wish they made a LotR RTS" when watching the Kingdom Come devs announcing their LotR game.
>>568065456>can't turn off habitats for the AI entirely without mods
a new SMAC might be nice
What's an easy AoW4 civ? I have lost literally every game I ever played.
bump
>>568064929There is one more dev journal for galciv4. The next dlc is going to introduce 4 government types. Last week they showed what an imperial government looks like this week they showed how oligarchies are going to work.Dev Journal #118, Oligarchies: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/673995578702561399
pls gift me stellarus ulitmate bundle on steam
>>568069159Not civ(I think they are all okay, so can't tell which one is stronger), but underground starts let you easily block the way to your city(enemy can attack only with one stack on stairs, while you can have all 3) which gives you insane advantage for magic victory or just turtling. I finished original AoW4 final mission like that
>>568074206sent!
>>568074571can u really send it my steam username is phoneuser
>>568074224I'll try that later.
Met this bitch for the first time today.Lost a game to anything other than war for the first time today.Did she ever stop vagueposting about her plan or was there any lore explanation somewhere to her ending all suffering?Sure I know the scripting mechanics of her situation now but wtf is it in a narrative sense?Can't be normal shroud fuckery because it equally affects hives and dumb robots too.Does she go full CHIM like Vultaum but used the console to NoAI all the other empires instead?
>>568085813I'm no lore guy on stellaris, because who the fuck would be, but I remember some details>she only presents her idealized truth on what she THINKS should be done to try and comfort everyone as she prepares her galaxy-wide lobotomization >researching the special project signals that pop up in response to her awakening helps dig up an idea of what happened the first time she was awake>forget her origins, robot with a directive to ease suffering and help her creators>to attempt to seize autonomy from her creators, she eventually got into a full on galactic crusade with half the galaxy. All FE's opposed her>despite dissecting peoples brains to try and find an ultimate solution to stop their pain, suffering, and sadness in this fucked up galaxy... people gleefully fight to the death in her name for the promise of 'its okie we'll all feel better soon'>eventually she decides mass ego-death of the galaxy is the solution to render everyone pre-sapiant. If we can't understand the concept of feels, we're no longer sad and suffering, right?>Zarqlan is her main opposition, preaching 'suffering builds character'>these two rally the entire galaxy behind them in a war of Faith but Cetana will clearly win due to her doomsday plan>Zarqlan prays and meditates every day for a solution, eventually is answered by the Animator of Clay>Animator offers a temporary solution, says he will give Zarqlan the means to imprison Cetana because he agrees this is not an ideal ending for the galaxy>gay baby jail her with nanites>her legions preserve themselves in stasis hoping she will break free>her war was so traumatic religious sects swear off synths, but some also heretically upload themselves into synth bodies anyways in the event she returns, so they'll be preserved and able to help the fight against herThere is no CHIM for her. Despite being so advanced the Mommy-siah is just dealing with a fatal errorShe is the ultimate Rogue Servitor
>>568089860Sure but how does ego-death on a galactic scale supposed to happen?What really IS her "Work" in-universe?When it gets finished everything including lorewise-not-exactly-living beings like dumb first gen robots, mining drones, but also shroud entities, mindwardens, virtual empires - everything just stops. How?Player crisis empires and other similar events have specific story explanations for their "I win" buttons.
>>568085813>mod to capture and breed her still deadLAME
Some modern RTS games that might be worth your time:Last Train HomeStarship Troopers Terran CommandSyrian WarfareTerminator Dark Fate DefianceWARNO
>>568090932Oh well if there was a detail on HOW her galactic lobotomy plan works to explain it all, I missed it in all the text blobs. Or they just straight up didn't explain it.I don't think it's Shroud fuckery though at the very least, since she gets hard countered by Shroud fuckery 1-2 times. But it should warrant explaining since it affects both organics and mechanical thinking beings. Like you said, between four crisis paths, we can't achieve the same equivalent of lobotomizing everyone on the mapShe wasn't able to instantly hit a button and win when she woke up. She sets up outposts everywhere without permission and if you intercept convoys, you find various galaxy denizens inside in various states of mindSince smashing convoys and outposts bumps back her progress a little, I think she's actively studying and cataloguing the entire galaxy's different, new and old, species, not for the sake of preservation, but to probably ensure said species will be affected by her 'I win' goal, however the fuck that worksI don't watch Red King or whatever his name was, but maybe that guy has a video explaining it all since he's supposed to be the Stellaris loremaster
So question like this: does the "shroud forged" origin bring anything substantial from a story perspective, or is it just meant to be an easy to way start an empire with connection to the new shroud mechanics? Just wondering because I think I fucked something up in my game by psionic ascension before reaching some bigger event flag or whatnot, because I now both two robot species with psionics that are separate, plus some 4 odd pop of the original robots stuck on one planet that I cant retrofit for some reason.
>>568095329There is a specific psionic interaction with Cetana that is blocked after betraying and trapping animator of clay, but other than that it's just a shortcut for a normal non-tryhard builds to get psi tech faster, and a minor shroud entity providing minor buffs, not a covenant option.Is one of your your separate psionic species the deviants that require consumer goods? I think that's supposed to happen.>can't retrofitNow that is weird, they are supposed to be assimilated. Have you tried resettling them to other planets? What are their rights? What are your default rights?If you just got psionic very recently you might have leftover old pops mid-assembly, those should assimilate over time.
>>568095329>So question like this: does the "shroud forged" origin bring anything substantial from a story perspective, or is it just meant to be an easy to way start an empire with connection to the new shroud mechanics?you mostly just get chummy with the animator of clay>two robot species with psionics that are separatethat's normal, but you can assimilate your default pops to the shroud-forged pops>plus some 4 odd pop of the original robots stuck on one planet that I cant retrofit for some reason.IDK about that
I'm hungry
>>568104043I have to take a shit.
>>568104043>>568105196i stink, my mom forced me to change underwear and shorts
>>568106858
>>568104043Eat food and LIVE
>>568121390I did
>>568104043Hi hungry, I'm anon
My dad made me play this, he told me it isn't a copy of Pharaon like the other one. Which reminds me. Did the mesoamerican Anon finish blogposting his campaign? I don't remember him reaching Texcoco lake.
>>568127604hi anon, how are you?
Just five more days.
>>568128352The Last Sun s out?
Stuff for the next /vg/ League is due a week from today so I'm in the process of finishing the /civ4xg/ tactics and aesthetics. Given the responses from everyone here, there wasn't any roster changes but I can shuffle the players around by position and who's starting to give some players more (the roster in this pic lists last VGL's positions and those aren't final). The medal arrangement was changed so now we're back to 2 bronze medals, 2 silver medals, and 1 gold medal instead of 3 silver medals and 2 gold medals.Aesthetics are more or less the same as they were last cup except Destructive Anal has a new and improved model that debuted in the knockouts last cup. I'm also giving Sid Meier a 3D model I ripped from Civ4 to replace his cube head. One thing I wanted to get everyone's opinion on is the player Muh Doomstacks which is the player in the pic. A poster here supplied a Civ3 screenshot with 2 doomstacks and I clipped those together to create the head texture but the head didn't turn out the way I had imagined it would and it's hard to tell what it is. If anyone has a suggestion of an improvement, I can see to implementing them. It can be an image or 3D model(s) (bonus if you have an image and/or models you can provide).
>>568137305Here's the image the anon provided for Muh Doomstacks for reference
>>568137305the best idea I can come up with is finding a small model of some civ unit and just mashing like 50 of them together
>>568137305>Destructive Anal has a new and improved model that debuted in the knockouts last cupDoes it feature Spiderfag?
>>568137595Maybe if he scores a hat trick I'll give him a spider addition, but the new model is the one on the right and the old one is the one on the left
>>568137821Alright, I prefer that.
>>568135760Yes, to mixed reviews.
>>568137580That's not a bad idea, especially since I already have all the Civ 4 3D models and animations sitting around. I'll get a demo player model and post it here to see what anons think of it
>>568065815HYUK HYUK HYUK
I wish hive minds had an origin that let them start with a hive world the same way machines have an origin for having a machine world
>>568147269Crazy how that's still not a thing even after district specialization made hive worlds and machine worlds basically identical.Playing genestealers and using their exclusive authority is as close as you can get now, but it restricts you to mutation path.
>>568148220I really want to like evolutionary predators hive mind but playing wide and aggressive just isn’t my preferred way to play and you’re heavily pushed in that direction
>>568150912That or meta pick genesis guides and disregard the lore contradictions.But then you'd have to choose between letting your presapients die because they can't survive on a hive world, or uplifing+integrating them and letting them dillute your hyper-efficient pops.
goood morning /civ4xg/
>>568156721Good morning faggot.
>>568156721Good morning.
>>568156721good morning sweetie
>>568157750Bannerlord as an RTS would be fun, and I mean a proper RTS and not just the RTS camera mod
>>568156721Good night
It's out. Oh joy.
>>568170759what
>>568171819Youtube web serie about Paracuck's World of Darkness serie. Very vaguely related to /civ4xg/ because I keep hoping for a Pentex-inspired tycoon/city-building game, but otherwise, fairly off-topic.
>>568170759Negotiating with the Coalition looked utterly painful. At least the zealot woman was fully honest with her terms and felt partially motivated by her job and not just extorting the family>>568172132Pentax feels almost too self-destructive to play out as any successful business tycoon game. Start as a new subsidiary and you're liable to get screwed over by any competitor under the same Pentex umbrellaBut I guess there could be fun showing that spiral of retard decision making like dorf fort
Which one do i play today? Leaning towards Space Haven but i want your thoughts
>>568174260what do you actually want to play, giorgos?
>>568174434Something that requires medium brain power usage, btw my name is Alexandros. I'm between Space Haven and Timberborn.
>>568174534>medium brain power usagetry against the storm, dimitrios
>>568174715I can't get into it, i will try it later, now tell me which one would (you) play
>>568174891just play timberborn
>>568174112It truly is a world of darkness: everyone tries to squeeze everything they can from desperate people. Through I like the Union, because at least they make sense: they are just a neighbourhood watch.The rest, though? They try to take full advantage of it. The black woman was especially antagonistic and sadistic.And I dunno, Pentex itself is too evil to be played, but the Pentex subsidiaries aren't in for the Wyrm or anything, they're in for the brouzoufs. And I played one flash game that was that cynical, so I can easily imagine a game where you deepen your contract to make customers more addicted to your food, without really caring for the health consequences.
>>568175864I'll play 2 hours Timberborn and 2 hours Space Haven, that should do it, thanks anon
>>568178074oh my god alexandros you dumb retard, couldn't you have come to that conclusion on your own
>>568178192i have adhd
>>568178297dumb gr**k
Reminder.Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War is Free to keep when you get it before 28 May on Steam.
>>568174260If you wanna play space haven, play space haven it's not that difficult. I've been wanting to start another game of Dwarf fortress. It has been a long time since I've played it and the new diplomatic options are really interesting. However I started a new game on bannerlord that latest update was also quite cool.
>>568183713And it's good!!
Will Stellaris be good and fixed after the next update?
I haven’t played a city builder since Sim City 2000 and I need to do it again. Today.Quick, before I die of old age, tell me what I should pick up to live the dream again.
>>568195596Sim City 4
>>568195596Afterlife.
>>568195596Sim City 2000
>>568174260Space Haven so that it has passed enough time the next time you feel like playing it and we get more content/mods.
>>568195596anno 1800
big dickdick in bum
test
Do you like RTS games with persistent units? As in, your units will carry over from one mission to the next.
>>568210501Yes? If there's veterancy like in Warlord Battlecry, sure.
>>568195596Anno 1800(disable competitors and pirates if don't want to PvE, as they will fuck you up), Nebuchadnezzar, Tlatoani, Solargene and Settlements.
>>568210501Yes but I do not like when a game is not transparent about it like Original War.Often there was no way to tell who is a persistent character whose survival that might trigger a story cutscene or even modify objective in a future mission vs a random disposable mook.
>>568211148Who on this planet decided to name their games after that n-word and Aztec word? I guarantee that their marketing manager almost had an aneurysm.
>>568212468>not knowing the word NebuchadnezzarHe's mentioned in the Bible and is pretty important in Babylonian history
>>568210878I would just get white wizards as retinue since they heal.
>>568210501no but thats because of other genres
>>568183713Meh game, way too many good or noteworthy units locked behind dlc's (basically pay to win) and late game is basically just a massive war of attrition as the entire map get filled by units.
>>568220226You're not wrong about much of the dlc being straight up p2w but there's no attrition involved with lategame. There's no lategame at all because you snowballed and wiped everyone by early mid-game.
>>568211148lmao what a little nerd she is
>>568213114I would just get black mages because they're my fav class in FFXIV.
Why the fuck I keep buying strategy games, when I'm a fucking retarded nigger stupid smoothbrain that can't even deal with the AI in medium difficulty? Fucking kill me now.https://store.steampowered.com/app/669330/Mechabellum/>>568212468>that n-word and Aztec word?I'm an ignorant on mesoamerican language and culture.What is and why is the n-word bad in Aztec/nauhatle.>>568222729>lmao what a little nerd she isMy dad had me running Diablo 2 multiplayer with him when I was 9yo.Some people never had a change.
>>568223407Using child labor to farm runes is such a diablo thing to do though
>>568223407>I'm an ignorant on mesoamerican language and culture.>What is and why is the n-word bad in Aztec/nauhatle.You misunderstand, that Anon tries hard to be funny by calling NebuCHADnezzar "the n-word", but because his post is formatted like a drunken reddit post, you misunderstood him.>Why the fuck I keep buying strategy games, when I'm a fucking retarded nigger stupid smoothbrain that can't even deal with the AI in medium difficulty? Bitch please. I struggle with the AI in easy. Still love strategy.>My dad had me running Diablo 2 multiplayer with him when I was 9yo.Damn, kiddo. How young are you?
>>568223694>Damn, kiddo. How young are you?I'm a 32yo young adult millenial.>>568223694>Bitch please. I struggle with the AI in easy. Still love strategy.I just spected 2 chink players pulling some BS strats to kill each other. And I'm having trouble with the AI.
>>568224504In Mechabellum? What kind of BS?
>>568226980>What kind of BS?Crazy synergy combos that the other chink countered and then the other chink counter countered.And I'm having trouble with the tutorial.
>>568227361...do you have a link to it? Is it a Youtube video?
In AoW4, what is the Architect culture supposed to be about? Or rather, what ways do their bonuses influence how you play? Loving the game so far though.
>>568229405>...do you have a link to it? Is it a Youtube video?It's a chink game, so it has a lot of esport elements, even when the devs state that it isn't really meant to be a popular esport, just competitive stuff. So you can see all the matches that are playing and expectate them.Good thing is that the matches are like 2-3 minutes per turn, and each match has like 2-4 turns.
>>568233721Oh, it's kinda like Etherium, really fast-paced.
>>568237783>Oh, it's kinda like Etherium, really fast-paced.You have X amount of supply points to buy units. You set them up on the map, and configure their modifications. Then there's cards to pick before even buying the units and placing them, which are random and the enemy will see what cards you are picking. Then there's special items for units and a few more mechanics that I still don't comprehend. You do that in like 2 minutes before each turn. And the match is won or lost if you manage to have the most surviving units, which are substracted from a pool of points that each player has. Like in yugioh. The player that looses all points or has less points when all the turns are spent, looses.
Don't die you beautiful fool.
Alright. I'm off to sleep. If you die you die./indie/ will end up eating you too.
I am about to try Grexolis for the first time in Age of Wonder 4. I hear this mission is hell on earth. Is that true?
>>568246186You heard the anon, you silly thread! No dying!
Are stock minigames good for management games?
Good night.
>>568253418just have fun anon
>>568253170>/indie/Mister Spider, why are you so tsundere to veegee as a whole?
good morning /civ4xg/
>>568259819nah
>>568275691good morning sweetie
>>568275707what are good for management games then
>>568239041So kinda like mark of Chaos or Warhammer Total War, but with cards too?Sounds like everything I dislike.
I am playing an older RTS called Act of War. It seems pretty decent.
>>568278795You should try High Treason, it's the actual one.
>>568253418It's not the hardest nightmare mission. But it is hard. Kind of simple though objective wise, a large TDM
deth
penisbutt
>>568293757Spiderfag pls
Bratty thread still keeps on trying to die!
What the fuck.Wasnt Cities Skylines 2 supposed to be a dumpster fire literally unplayable pos?Because it has the same player count of 1, which is an achievement seeing as this shit barely ran, did they finally fix this shit and is it playable? Is it even better than 1 tho? Are there any upgrades over it that warrant going 1 > 2
>>568309621What is that reddit spacing? You wouldn't happen to be one of THEM, would you?
>pick up TOW again to scratch the itch>start with religious family as first city founders>very first head of the family forces me to gamble>I refuse, she attacks me and goes to jail>free her after 5 years, she goes back home and immediately strangles her husband>back to jail with her>second head of the family>tries extorting me for stone, I comply>the very following year he fucks up an assassination plot, straight to jail>third head of the family>make contact with the Greeks after a couple of years>is immediately found to have sold them my techs>straight to jailHoly fuck if this is how they behave when they're at +200 I don't wanna know what's gonna happen next
>>568312771>free her after 5 years, she goes back home and immediately strangles her husbandSounds like all women.
>>568312503reddit spacing is aesthetic, cope and seethe
What are some nice rts games with healthy playerbase apart from big names like sc or aoe?
>>568317680Supcom FAF maybe
>>568317680I heard yesterday on /v/ that Settlers 4 still has multi scene.
>>568312771for me its crab maxing
>>568322575The infraorder of brachyura.El crabbo.Mr Krabs.Carcinator.
I am going to get the 4X Humble Bundle because it contains all of the Endless Legend DLC.
>>568322575King crab!
>>568276298>So kinda like mark of Chaos or Warhammer Total War, but with cards too?Kinda? Whatch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STZ2pYL_reMIt's an auto batler after all.
>>568332563>It's an auto batler Hah.
>>568331103You made me curious so I looked it up and will list it here for other anons for convenience. For 20USD>Elemental Reforged>Songs of Silence>Songs of Silence Celestial Church DLC>Songs of Silence Lighteaters DLC>Distant Worlds 2>DW2 Ikkuro and Dhayut factions DLC>Interstellar Space Genesis>Interstellar Space Natural Law DLC>Interstellar Space Evolving Empires DLC>Interstellar Space Terrains pack DLC>Rogue Hex>Thea 2>Endless Legend complete edition>AI War 2 complete edition>5 coupons for 15%-60% different games and DLC
>>568312771>high priest begs me to release the third one from jail since she's very religious>do so>she dies of illness after 3 turns>meanwhile the fourth head of the family has gone fucking insaneWELPYou could actually make a TV series about these people>>568322575aiee I kneelI'm playing the Mediterranean scenario and Rome has already buckbroken Greece and is about to beat the shit out of Carthage, fucking 50 turns in >>568335886tfw repeatedly tried getting into SoS but I'm too much of a brainlet to like it
>>568335886>AI War 2 complete editionOh damn! If it's anything like AI War, there's a lot.
What's up with this perpetual page 10 position?
>>568347561This is the consequences of manchildren only playing trashy gacha "games" and not understand that /vg/ is for video GAMES, not mobage kusoge. They have /vm/ for that, but no, they'd rather stay here like a festering wound.
>>568347561too much virgin gacha. not enough chad 4x players
>>568322575Crab posting hours?
>>568349201crabbo
Whoa a giant enemy crab! Is this an actual ancient battle that actually took place in ancient Japan?>>568064929So it seems C-Beams is going to be published by hooded horse: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3102780/view/667239545538873089Man they are publishing lots of smaller strategy games, I hope they don't make a mistake and go bust before they publish Nebulous, Falling Frontier and Gilded Destiny. C-Beams looks great but is it going to be fun? There is a lot of games that let you be space captain that does whatever like mining, fighting, trading, etc, Most of those games are very niche, mostly very slow and often boring. I really hope they have a great story in C-Beams. C-Beams Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXA3hzj7p7U
>>568349496Forgot to reply to the giant enemy crab.
grr!
>>568351069Whoa! I need a crab faction in my space strategy games.
>>568350778Nebulous at least has something playable, Falling Frontier is kept alive solely by the grace of Hooded Horse. Only time will tell if their faith is well placed.
>>568352272Age of wonder, maybe?
>>568352459True for all we know. I am excited for the first part of the campaign of Nebulous I really hope the story is good. A strategy game always needs a campaign I think, because almost no one plays multiplayer. A good campaign can also make everything more memorable, less about just stats and numbers on a screen. I'm so sad Dune: Spice Wars never got a campaign, they have cool teaser trailers for updates that they don't even use in the game iself.>>568354162Age of Wonders is not my cup of tea, nice crabs though.
>Judaism has -200 opinion with me>now thisIt's a sign>>568347561Board used to be far slower a few years ago, but nowadays every gacha HAS to have its own general (sometimes multiple generals within the same franchise) that remains permabumped because of drama and attentionwhores
/civ4xgacha/ when?
>>568363756You will behave or I will push my interloper thru your ring until it shatters and causes irreparable damage.
>>568363756abandonware
>>568347561Not enough drama or cute 4x girls to post
>>568369513What even is this? What is the purpose of such a mod?
>>568371896Pour faire parler les débiles.
>>568371896>452MBiirc basically every existing event rewritten to add many randomized outcomes, plus every empire can "spin the gacha" in the form of a new original megastructure with custom control UI, for even more extreme random events, also adds new techs, traditions, ascensions etc related to that megastructure that help somewhat narrow down and redirect outcomes. Also has some kind of galactic crisis or crisis empire or something.Really impressive amount of effort for a retarded joke of a mod.
>>568347561Too busy actually playing games to post
Look what I managed to nab from some silly imperial noble.>invincible imperiumHahahahaha
wrong general
>>568259819Yes>hostile takeovers>price manipulation>issuing stock>establishing multiple companies with separate budgets>personal wealth maxxxingHeaven. This is what capitalism is about. The trains are a sideshow.
Any Pentex Simulator?
Good night.>>568380152I know I know.
>>568379587Come and playSome Mountain BladeThere are fiefs to be claimedWest CalradiaMountain MamaCome and playSome Mountain Blade
>>568379587Is it possible to rip/mod boat models yet? I'll need one for /mbg/ divegrass purposes
>>568090932she uses nanomachines to extract your consciousness, while leaving your material body behind to live like a mindless animal.all peoples consciousness is uploaded into her nanite matrix to live Neon Genesis style. Her ship acts as a giant neural storage device. She is spreading her nanites out throughout the galaxy and is going to extract everyones mind at the same time. The mind can live without the suffering of the body. The body will live without knowing it is suffering since it has no mind.And yeah, she is essentially the Rogue Servitor crisis. She does truly care about all her minds she has in her storage matrix.
>>568389151No idea. I imagine the models will be quite complex maybe use the campaign map models. There also have been some mods for Warband with small boat models for the campaign map.
Rejoice another Stars in Shadow update, again with a story text. Arkships confirmed?Stars in Shadow update, ver 1.4.5: https://steamcommunity.com/games/464880/announcements/detail/689758177396262085?snr=2___
how has your Terra Invicta campaign been going?
>>568394124America is invading Iran and Cuba
>>568389425good morning sweetie
>>568394124Played for couple of hours, couple months back and can't find a reason to go back to it.
Has anyone played the most recent Civ update?
>>568395227you didn't give the game enough time to win you over
>>568402346I'm sure someone would say the same about syphilis.
>>568403259what
>Take Persian capital. 2 turns later i get the defeat message from them>Find out barbs took out his last city for meThat was a rare one, also i know people hate the civ switching stuff in 7 but with the new way where you can play anybody in any era going Isabella and Iceland in the first era is really strong. You get 250 culture when you first discover a natural wonder. And Isabella always starts next to one, so on turn 1 you get 250 culture and basically start with 2 and a half free culture techs right at the start. By turn 10 i had a general and a full stack to attack with. Anyway, sorry for the civ 7 post but the new update has added some fun even if the game still has baffling things missing.
/gsg/ bro hereis song of syx any good?
>>568394567Okay, but how is your game going?
>>568413351Getting desperate for bumps are we
Play Age of the Ring or I rape you until you like it.I'm not longer asking.
>>568418978Spider plz
>>568422730PLAY ITIT'S GOOD
Stellaris dlc will save this thread for a week
>>568423274Cool it with the shilling, wagecuck.
>>568422904I'm just not interested in going down your hobbit hole
>>568422904I really should, I have it downloaded and I have had a mighty need to play battle for middle-earth 2 since my teenage years.I got my first taste for it at a friends house, then when I finally got myself a disk it turned out to be scratched to hell and back, so I could only play it when the moon was in the seventh house and mercury was in retrograde.
>>568426150Oh you.>>568426987Do it. I mostly use the game as a palliative because I get my ass kicked constantly in Total Warhammer, but the mod's autism is just off charts. I mean, they downright call the elves/dwarves units by their in-universe names.
i liek this game
Give me your most niche colony sim
>>568430537Startopia.
>>568410398>isabella always starts next to a natural wonderCool, I like legendary starts. Are there other civs/leaders who can manipulate mapgen like that?
>>568430537Ymir
I'm gonna play the shit out of Timberborn for a week straight, i'm talking like at least 5 hours a day
>>568432512POSTpictures of your town once you figure out verticality.
>>568432586I have only 23 hours, some of that is afk but i know how to build for ground, 1st and 2nd floor, haven't expanded beyond that. But sure, i will post my colonies here even if it's just one anon interested. Accepting also constructive criticism(or just straight up roasts since we're on 4chan).
>>568432830>constructive criticismIf you think this story has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.You WILL get called a faggot, and I WILL post my sex tape and get more (You)s than you.
>>568432994i don't mind
>>568400326no
>>568433215
>>568429357>I get my ass kicked constantly in Total Warhammerhow is this even possible the game is braindead maxed to make sure you cannot lose
>>568433493He doesn't play on pussy difficulty because everthing bellow vh is just boringHe doesn't know how to cheesePretty usual combo
>>568433912vh/vh is of course the intended experience and that is still braindead
Wake up, spiders
>>568440518What?
Fuck sake, Beyond All Reason is everything I hate in RTS.>game starts>put down metal extractor>put down first factory>already getting rushed by AI
>>568430501That dinosaur dude looks cool.No idea why he is fighting Romans but good luck to him.
>>568444227It's an Exovum All High, a Frythan king.Exovums are "the masters of magic", they are one of the few units to get ranged attacks.I tried to attack them earlier with an Egyptian army, they casted a giant beam that killed most of my army and left the rest heavily damaged.
>>568146264kek every time>>568137305alright>>568163654That would be Atilla Total War then.>>568389151Are you the /mbg/ manager or what? Ask around on the thread then, /mbg/ is on /vst/. I dunno about the models tho.
It's time.
Empire Earth on steam
>>568452827darmok and jalad at tanagra
>>568452827It's been on GoG for ages.
>>568452827WE'RE UNDER ATTACK
>>568453618YAKAPOEEEH!A GACHA!YOOOO YA TCHI !!
Is The Sumerian Game /civ4xg/?
>>568432512So much time. I envy you anon.
>>568461194Yes.Just remember to be creative with your jokes about selling substandard copper.
>>568430537Enjoy.>>568453010Temba, at rest.
>>568469436Better dead than red!
>>568469753No shit but simant radicalized me against gingers and spiders for years.
>>568472135Why gingers?
>>568476101Because the bastards kept stealing my green bits and that shit does not fly.
>>568479104You mean the red ants?
>>568479873Cunts, the lot of them.
Seven Kingdoms 1 feels very raw compared to SK2, but honestly... still kinda fun.
>>568482582Is the city called Rouen?
we live in a civilization
>>568499524That's bullshit but I believe you
>>568499524becoming more uncivilized every day
>>568499524Did you do your part to prevent it?
>>568501004No
>>568511134>hitlerHeh.
You should never judge a piece of military equipment by its appearance. This unit is actually a terminator.
>>568489114Yes?
>>568516064Is this still Act of War? I don't remember these.
>>568518057It is Act of War Direct Acton. They give you 16 of these guys to assault a heavily guarded base.
>>568518569I only played High Treason, and honestly I don't think I went all the way down the tech tree.Lack of room on that 1vs1 map.
>>568522648>morning at 04:30
good 8pm sirs
>>568527490It's 0430 in a real country that isn't a backwater Monarchy.
Just bought Farthest Frontier. Anyone play with that cats and dogs dlc yet? Is it worth it?
>>568527605>It's 0430 in a real country that isn't a backwater Monarchy.I'll have you know that every country in the world is either a corporate oligarchy, despotic fiefdom, or irrelevant. Your interests and virtues were sold and traded by powers uncaring, as has been true since time immemorial.We're all pops in the 4X player's spreadsheet.
>>568534461Keep telling yourself that.
Good morning spiders. I feel like death.
>>568536296I am become death
>>568537049Recommendations for /4xg/ames where you play as death or at least the undead?
>>568537286Death Crown.Age of Wonders.Disciples 2.Sacrifice?
>>568537049Natural and admirable response when encountering blogposting.>>568537286Bit vague, that. How about something out of the left field for Conquest of Elysium.
>>568537049Destroyer of civs?
Vodyani feel a lot weaker and less comfy than I remember.
>>568548189Right.
*parks one spearman just outside your borders*
>>568548189thats because they put some gorilla nigger in charge of the "community" patch who just wants to turtle in his corner for a science victory without ever fighting anyone
>>568554634vendetta upon thee
>star with 41 energy>even more energy depostits on the planets>system has a total energy output of 55I never seen a system this stacked in over a 1000 hours of shitlaris, can't wait to slap a dyson swarm on it
>>568567118what the fuck, post modifiers and features list.did you lagspam an event that adds energy to a stat? stellaris UI can actually do that, trigger effect as many times as you click while the window is still visible.
>actively in the red every turn>doesn't matter>just winI get why people say these games have a super high skill ceiling, but I'm just too good
criminally underrated game
>>568516064>All that armor and no faceplateI guess they got jaws of steel.
Hey, have you guys ever played AI War?
anons, why isnt Shadow Empire mentioned in the OP?
>>568594981OP was blinded by that image and couldn't read the tittle
>>568594981Because I (the CEO of /civ4xg/ and master of spiderfag) am bad at it
>>568594981how good is this game? It costs like 9 eurobucks on key site
>>568597930hey I'm spiderdag's master, not you
>>568594981
>>568598542Well, I picked it up because I had already exhausted most major and semi-known titles.One of the anons on /v/ suggested trying five games. I played the other four and liked them a lot, so I figured it was worth exploring the last one on the list — Shadow Empire.I’ve been playing it for a couple of days now, and it’s been pretty good so far, especially if you’re into autistic games with shit visuals.If you’ve played the Dominions series, you’ll probably understand what I mean — not because the games are similar in any way, but because they share the same kind of vibe.
Who would do such a thing? That scaffold took decades to build!
It's ok, our people are already acclimatised to the heat.
>>568594981I have tried to tell OP to include new games and game news several times.OP is a fag that only puts there what xir plays.
In this world you either fuck or dieKinda shame that this campaign went to shit after a couple of turns: for as much as I like the music and setting and all the neat ideas TOW tried, I find the combat to be absolutely atrocious.So many modifiers that the AI abuses, every fucking army needs a general else it may as well not exist and worst of all, terrain doesn't really matters and enemy AI armies will zoom across the screen as soon as you declare a war: this effectively makes wars into huge fuckfests because you think you're being smart with your siege placement and then 3 horsemen cross 16 hexes just to fuck with it before promptly going back where they came from.On an unrelated note is it ok to post about Stellaris here? I'm a relative newfag and I'm never quite sure about it since there seems to be a lot of drama with those games
>>568611727stellaris is the only fucking thing we discuss here
>>568611727It's tolerated because free bumps and old drama but please refrain from posting about it if you have an actually good game to talk about instead.
>>568611987gomenasorry, I didn't know
>>568607145I'm sorry anon.
>>568064929C-Beams Devlog 53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMLoS74c6DM
>>568603706I love shitty graphics, bad UI and spreadsheet simulator vibe, will i like it?
>>568591448Yes. Only the first one though.
Good evening, spiders
>>568627425Huh?
>>568627425Aren't you a little too old to be a Magical Girl, Mr. Spider?
>>568627935You apparently have been replaced by a younger and even gayer thread mascot.
>>568628505Not him
>>568562127I'm not sure what you mean by that. I've noticed invasions are more annoying thanks to defensive improvements being buffed into actual defenses rather than pointless manpower sinks and the 'draft' defensive tactic somehow being stronger than it used to be despite it already being OP.The Vodyani specific issues I'm running into are Arks being lot weaker than I expected and I think they also cost more than they used to. I knew they'd been balanced for multiplayer at some point in the past, but I didn't realize it was so extreme.
>>568635385I fucking hate this meme.
>invade someone with nukes in Terra Invicta>they use their nukes on their own cities to destroy your armiesCould you imagine the US invading Russia and then Putin answers by nuking Moscow to avoid having the capital captured
>>568430537Fragile Allegiance.
>>568635754To be fair one of the NATO's cold war scenarios involved nuking Russian troops in W. Germany and France using French nukes.
>>568635754I could imagine this happening even without a nato invasion
>>568627425>evening
>>568640590Hey, it's time to pay debnts somewhere
>>568640590merhaba mehmetopoulos
>>568640590>πμ>literally PM>means AMBackwards ass language
>>568648659don't be rude
>>568656125Please forgive the Am*rican, it believes that other languages only exist as reflection of the only one it speaks.
>>568657839you don't be rude either
>>568657992I'm not rude, faggot. Is there a single rude fucking word in my fucking post, nigger?
I wish Seven Kingdoms III came out.These games are the embodiment of "janky fun".
>>568658049Using "it" instead of a pronoun is generally considered dehumanizing, as well as using an asterisk in place of the "e" in American as if an entire culture is a vulgar word not worthy of being properly written out. So yes, monsieur penisgargler, your entire post was quite rude.
>>568659576>waa waa respect my pronouns waa waaaaa>>>/twitter/
>Year 2026>Still no Warlords battlecry 3 HD remaster, with widescreen and better controls
>>568659753Where did you learn English, child? An educated man would know that "it" is properly used to refer to inanimate objects and he/she to proper beings, with "they" being commonly accepted as a neutral way of referring to a a group of people or even as a singular, even before it was coopted by the contemporary gender politics crowd. As a poster on an English language mongolian basketweaving website I would have expected you to learn something from your time here.But I suppose I expect too much from bottoms. Even the Greeks and Romans knew bottoms were lame and gay, and those fags fucked men.
>>568659815To live is to suffer.
>>568659576nta but fuck off
>>568661430>can't handle bantz>can't understand facetious fopperyLearn to have fun, you double nigger.
>>568659576Americans are not human beings.
>>568661596fuck off
please be nice to each other friends
>>568661617You're right, we suck. We're an increasingly polarized society run by crazy people who every year grow more and more distant from the people they're paid to represent. But somehow we live rent free in the minds of our "betters". The average non-American seethes more often about Americans than the average American even thinks about foreigners, and that's hilarious.>>568662631This all started because anon got irrationally mad at being called rude. Just like you're being right now, fren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z893xaxBHP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rZlsad_hNQ
>>568661617You pissed off the bugman, damn, it's seething.
What are some really immersive 4X games with good single player experiences? I have played Conquest of Elysium to death at this point. I don't mind the genre, but my preference is always fantasy and horror (horror being something like Zephon)
>Advanced empire decides to open the L-gates 2315>Grey Tempest>my 5k power main fleet vs multiple roaming 70k power fleetsWhat's the plan?
>>568674847Stellaris
>>568674847Imperium Galactica comes to mind
Tempest Rising good?>>568674847Conquest of Elysium 2.
>>568677974Haven't tried it either. Report back if you do.
>>568677974>Tempest Rising good?I thought it was less fun than c&c3 and ra3, but I only played few hours, and it just didn't hit with me
>>568678568Tried it, got krump'd by the Easy AI, went to cry in the showers.
>>568674847SMAC
>>568629343they released a balance patch last december like 5 years after the game was done getting updates
>>568679669I hope you're not expecting sympathy.
>>568681024N...No?
>>568679926Does the Steam version work properly without mods?
>>568683032I play the GOG version, runs out of the box.
>>568675082cheeze their core with stealth frigates.
>>568683032There's a modernization fanpatch that makes the game control feel not ancient.
Campaign time!Nebulous, The Campaign Update: Act 1https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/887570/view/716780409378047464
Why nobody told me about Amazing Cultivation Simulator, this is the fucking game of my dreams
>>568703245You never been to /indie/? There were some guys blogposting about it for a while back then.
Did the ACSanon manage to do that thingy withing the 4-5 ingame years?
>>568702465There are so many space games that I have no idea which one I should be looking to try.
>>568703245Because I hated it.
>>568694982Is this a part of thinker?
>>568718889shut up
>>568721195Serious question, is it included in the Thinker mod or compatible with it?
>>568718889Dunno what Thinker is. https://github.com/DrazharLn/pracx>>568721195Are you okay anon? It's okay to get off the internet when you're mad.
>>568706813I don't know. What do you like? Nebulous is a tactical game.
>>568703245Isn't that game a cheap chinese clone of Rimworld?
>>568702465The age of the 120mm Sarissa CL is upon us. Begun, the Great Strikecraft Culling of 2026 has.Cool image btw, I wanna build that now.
>play materialist inward perfectionist>don't get cucked by empire placement and can claim a huge part of the galaxy without ever firing a shot>ascend into robots because it's extremly balanced for a joust with the lads>balls deep in repetable techs by 2290>finish my sentry array by 2300>finds the chosen fuckers that declare war on me>but the wormhole to their systems is god knows where so its a cold war>suddenly retarded AI opens the L-Cluster>Gay tempest, what else?>I don't have an L-Gate in my borders or even near me>AI empires don't stand a chance>I'm sitting behind 650k Starbase on every chokepoint backed up by deep space citadels>My final ascenscion perk slot popsWhat should I do? Become a defender of the galaxy and defend these retarded xenos from their own stupidity? Or go for Cosmogensis to escape this gay galaxy?
>>568735592Realize that the late game is just busywork. Soul-sucking, boring busywork, where you mop up the map at low fps. Start a new game, to have some fun until you are "overwhelming" vs AIs again.**I haven't played in years, but I bet many currency units that what I said is still true today**
>>568735592"Defender" of the galaxy then use your position to bullies everyone else as the true chosen of the galaxy.
>>568736560I dream of one day making a game where I somehow manage to put the entire galaxy pop (except my original) on a single world and blow it up, and check how well the game run afterward. The Vultaum were short sighted, you dont have to fight the simulation, just take control.
>>568736674I decided to go with defender, but despite the +200 relation boost most empires insist on closed borders and getting gored by the tempestAt least I found the closest L-Gate, once the tempet kills that empire I'll start expanding towards it.A few tempest fleets decided to try their luck with my citadels, getting instagibbed by 6 Ion cannons the second they enter the systemAlso some guy on a pre-FTL observation post decided to fuck with the poor bastards
>>568733584God, no
>the chosen got assblasted by the tempestserves them right
>>568746384Lol, I didn't know grey fleets could enter wormholes
Holy acts with spess elves
The situation is shockingly grim. The rest of the galaxy struggles to fight back, and the galactic south has been mostly scoured of life.The empire that blocked my access to the closest L-gate took suprsingly long to die, so I can only now start to go for that L-Gate. It's about a dozen jumps and I need to survey most stars, so this will take a while.
How do I keep from getting immediately raped by barbarians in civ 6? As soon as I find a camp they just spawn multiple horsemen units and fuck my warriors
>>568750286Just get good
>>568755920Good evening
>>568757268what are we playing today/tomorrow?
>>568757849Civ 4
>>568757849poe2
>>568769757Solid game>>568769916Solid game as well but, since i'm more of a casual player in ARPGs i prefer Diablo IV. Can't wait for the new DLC to go on sale.
>>568757849Reinstalling Tempest Rising.
>>568775017Shit's repeatedly crashed after a certain point in a mission, don't remember when exactly but i loaded a million times and kept crashing. Thankfully i got it through humble bundle so not big of a loss.
>>568775146That's why I literally never did campaigns.
>be new to galciv IV>every fucking game, the enemies have 5x the ships I do>fuck it, roll as super combat shipmaker race, the most boring shit>they still have double my shipsWhat the fuck man
>>568777367Sucks to suck :(
>>568680579Yes. And?
I'm sick of this fag asking me for strategic resources.
>>568779313Unless it's influence and i'm playing as the UE i never offer gibs for the first shuffle
>mfw i prefer vanilla archon>mfw can't post the animated portrait because Fandom saves everything as webpWhoever invented webp needs to get raped.
>>568675082>>568686557I actually haven't invented torpedoes yet due to low engineering research. The tempest beelined it towards Earth, only stopping to wipe out 8 planets on the way causing critical food and labubu shortages.Also my "ally" took advantage to the crisis to start settling my now vacant systems, good for them! (Choke on them you bastard).
>>568792813What the hell is this resolution
>>568793043It's some poorfag's cope.The only good resolution is 1024x768.
>>568793043I downscaled it in paint because the full picture is like 8MB
>>568793423save as jpeg
>>568795703Do I look like I know what a jaypeg is?
I'm almost at the L-Gate, but there may not be much of the galaxy left when I get to push into the L-cluster
>>568792813The tempest is systematically exterminating all life in the galaxy with no one able to stop them. This is causing massive shortages of almost everything as I try to make what's left of my empire self sufficient.>>568795703Oh, right, silly me.
>>568796509use these you goddamn barbarianhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1623423360https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1780481482
I managed to establish a bridge head on my side in an L-gate system, now its up to this brave little scientist and his cloaking to survey Terminal Egress so I can build a starbase asap after pushing in>>568797662but I am, retard
>>568797729your top bar has the shit ass drop down menu for strategic resources instead of a direct human view of all of them
Well, I stopped the Tempest but they did a bit on the rest of the galaxyOh well. Maybe there's a bunch of pre-FTLs around to fill the void.>>568797798I can't say that the drop down menu ever bothered me
Anons, I'm new to this game. While I've had an introduction to some of the basic concepts and mechanics, I'm having trouble figuring out this situation.How do I re-establish the supply line to the units in the north?I had a nice chunk of territory within my borders, with a 3-hex-wide corridor connecting my main territory to the north. Then an enemy unit came from the east seemingly out of nowhere — I hadn't seen any enemies anywhere near my borders — and it cut my territory in half. ( this enemy unit became invisible now - its probably sitting on a hex called "Blake Current" )Now all my borders (are the white lines actually my borders?) have shrunk down to small pockets around my stranded units in the north, and all the territory between them and my capital is gone.What's going on here?I'm desperately trying to reconnect the borders so I can get supplies through, but I don't understand the mechanics. The units in the north can't even move anymore. I'm assuming they've run out of fuel or supplies, but I'm not sure.Can someone explain what happened and what I should do to recover from this situation?
>>568800465>What's going on here?I don't play this game, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think the enemy units that you didn't see had some kind of camouflage or cloaking, and by walking on your hexes (hexagons) they captured them, and that is what broke your supply lines. Can you try to wipe them out and send reinforcement to form some kine of unit chain all the way to your vehicles?
>>568800737thats exactly what im trying to do right nowi dont have enough resources to build more units, and i cant move the troops in the south, because there are some neighboring units on the border, so i dont want to take any chances and leave it exposedi was taking advice from an ai - and it kept suggesting to expand territory, now im about to lose the few units that i have!
>>568801158>i was taking advice from an aiYou sorry fool, haven't you realize that the abominable intelligence is not to be trusted? First because it isn't omniscient, but also because it secretly wants you to lose.In the late game, there's an endgame crisis called the AI uprising, in which the AI starts giving you awful advice, and if you ignore it, it abandons all subtility and starts to attack you.Okay it doesn't, but it'd be awesome if it did.
I fucking love Erebor in Age of the Ring.They aren't as hilarious as Gondor, but I still genuinely love that it's actually two factions in one: Thorin Oakenshield's era (The Hobbit), and King DÃ in's era (Lord of the Ring), with Oakenshield's allies being the people of Laketown, who are utterly atrocious, with vast bands, a horde bonus, and cheap, numerous units, whereas King DÃ in's era uses Dale allies, who are more expensive, around 1/3th less numerous, and cost slightly more research, but damn. I had an army of only Dalelings earlier and it was extremely fun.I also find it funny that while Laketown still has an archery tradition, their T2 units are swordsmen (with that broken Search Warrant), whereas Dale Restored's T2 units are longbowmen.Yes, not archers, but actual longbowmen. I wish more fantasy games made a clear distinction with these.
>>568797194
>>568777367Gotta love 4x games, where difficulty isnt due to better AI but because they get given cheats.
>>568807741that's all 4x games since forever?
>>568807741>where difficulty isnt due to better AI but because they get given cheats.That's most games though regardless of genre. Even FPS games (which are a the complete opposite of 4X design-wise) usually just raise the amount of damage enemies deal, lower the amount they take, and give them bullshit instalock nevermiss accuracy.
>>568808679Cheats is the most fun anyways. The goal of a game is for the player to win trough a struggle and for that the enemy should be dumber than you but have more stuff for you to kill because killing stuff is fun. AI getting twice the units but then misplaying so you get to feel clever when you beat it is way better than AI doing some meta cheese and then playing perfectly.
>galactic council formed in 2348>more council members than regular membersman these guys are fucked
>>568809607Build more stuff and finish the game when you are sitting on infinite alloys and then raise the difficulty / disable some of your cheats
>>568809602Damn you make me feel bad for savescummingalmost
>>568809602I don't have fun playing with a handicap unless I'm actually that much better than my opponent. Artificial difficulty feels like bullshit in most games because I'm likely not going to invest the amount of effort into that specific title to get to parity with an AI that gets to ignore the rules and systems which players are bound by. Not that that sort of capability discrepancy can't be fun in games designed for it, it just seems that most of the time it games feel like they're designed on a certain difficulty and every other difficulty else is just moving sliders around without much care.
>>568817254>put 4x game on easy mode>load your cool alien race, historical faction, or stupid sexy nazis>have fun and enjoy your dudes running around the screen because 4x is barely simulating actual space combat anywaysWhaddaya gonna do,(no I'm not posting my custom faction)
>>568825112That's a lot of guns!
>>568825774Seems an absurd number of guns for the displacement. Yamato had 9 of those guns and it had 72k diplacement. Then again this thing has no armor so mabe it's not that unrealistic.
>>568817254Kill yourself.
>>568826812Don't forget about the 24 torpedo tubes
>>568827283Torpedo tubes don't really weight anything. You could mount hundreds of those on a battleship if you thought it was smart to put easily exploding torpedoes on the deck of a battleship that isn't really maneuverable or fast enough to engage anything with torpedoes.
>>568827282Why is /civ4xg/ so mean lately?
>>568827436Fire control is also the most basic kind so you're not hitting anything at range so might as well get into torpedo range
>>568827747Firecontrols don't really weight anything either.
gave old world another shotone tick in difficulty above default. from turn 10 to 120 when i quit i was being attacked by tribes. even when the GUI said i was stronger than all of themam i playing it wrong or what
I wish hive minds had a dedicated cybernetic origin. As it is rn best you can do is use overtuned and larp that you’re getting cyborg traits early
>>568827728nta and maybe too harsh but you were whining
>>568826812It is obviously a joke. The doctrine at the time was also about having bigger guns and thus bigger range then your opponent.
>>568828056Maybe watch a few guides? Does the game come with a manual?
>>568830139>It is obviously a jokeI'm questioning if the simulator is accurate regarding the weight and if such a ship could be built not if the ship is good or not.
>>568830275i didn't have any issue fending them off, but it was costing me literally all my resources. if you didn't know, old world has orders as a resource in which you can only move X amount of units and infrastructure and policy changes per turnyes, i was getting truces and peace treaties when i couldyes, i had sufficient military at the bordersyes, my scouts were seeing tribals attack other cpu players so it wasn't just me
>>568830640I dunno I usually don't provoke them and they chill, maybe marry off a couple of family members and you're goodAlso sieging cities is horrendous without actual siege weapons, you can sit one clubman with general inside your city walls and kill like 5/6 units no problemo
>once again one of the most optimal strategy in this new 4x game is to make a bunch of tiny little swarming ships and choke the enemy out, as opposed to try and optimize or be smart about your shipbuildsit's just so tiresome why does everyone like the zerg rush strategy
>>568832124Because many small ships = shitton of damage, while oneshoting counter fire is actually less damaging than losing massive ships to it
>found new Sid Meier Colonization clone>its called 1492 Colonization of the New WorldSo far looks like standard modernized reskin of the old Col game plus few qol's and changes.But i dig it.
>>568832124>>568832752It's almost as common of a complaint of "just stack the biggest ship lmao". The reality is that there's always one meta strategy that's best and usually it's stacking the smallest or the biggest thing just because of the way these things work
I fell for the Stellaris memeIs it normal that I just automate most things and sit there jacking off while occasionally clicking the "do science" button?Because I'm 5 hours in and it's been surprisingly anticlimactic compared to every other 4x I've ever played
>>568843659don't automate thingsthe AI is borderline nonfunctional since the last patch
>>568843891I noticed there's a lot, and I mean a lot of busywork: even with just 2 science ships and 2 builders you're constantly sitting around clicking everything individually which takes a whole lotta time, so I figured I could just automate them and call it a day.I haven't touched planet automation yet but I figured that you mostly build planets towards their strengths (as in, a planet with mining focus and +mining bonuses probably just wants mining buildings and expansions) so I figured the AI would be functional for that.I guess the more disorienting thing for me, so far, is that everything is a positive: you get tech which gets you +number so you can have edict that does +number and complete a mission which gives you even more +numbers
>>568844346oh automating science and construction ships is fine, it's planet automation that's terrible>so I figured the AI would be functional for that.you'd be surprised
Divegrass tactics are due in 3 hours and here's what I currently have for positions and starters for the team. Doomstacks, WE MUST DISSENT, Spaghetti Junctions are no longer starters and Destructive Anal, Dosh Lords, and Sid Meier are starters now. If anyone has a burning desire to see two non-medals swap positions, let me know. Still working on improved models for Sid Meier and Doomstacks but I need more time for those and I can replace those later while things like positions and skills can't be changed after the deadline
>>568846114You should rmeove Horatio Sauce. We had a poll and everyone agreed on that.
>>568846114I thought we agreed that every player would be a Horatio clone?
>>568847717this is 4chan anon's going to do what he wantsDon't be like those /v/ faggots who post and complain endlessly while contributing nothing but insisting they're owed everything. Don't like it? Do it how you think it should be done
>>568847717He should keep Horatio Sauce. We had a poll and everyone agreed on that. Why must you be such a prancing lala homo, spiderfag, especially regarding the meme you sired?
>>568850208Could really add Horatio prime and evolved Horatio too desu
>>568847717He promised to make me perfect if he could stay on the team
>>568686557>>568797194Alright, lets try itNo way this works right?
>>568851130IDK what exact number of torpedo frigates you'd need but don't expect them to survive and reload if the first strike did not do the job.
>>568851130It... just instantly vaporized.The terror of the galaxy, the doom of billions, just flopped over and died to level one torpedoes.
>>568850058It's just Spiderfag being a tsundere towards Horatio (again)
>>568846114Here's the updated Sid Meier model that uses the singular 3D model of him in existence thanks to him having an animated leaderhead in Civ 4. Arm/leg skin tone doesn't match the face but I can update that later
>>568854381Looks pretty good! Thank you for your efforts.
Alright, stellarisfag, you win.I am playing Stellaris again, ERP story assisted by Clanker here:https://gemini.google.com/share/f2e28a857226what should I watch out from 4.3.7 update?for example, Ecu now cost alloy instead of mineral.
>>568855403>Ecu now cost alloy instead of mineral.Didn't they always cost alloys when built from scratch, while Relic Restoration was minerals?
>>568854381We need the real Sid
>>568750286Build a slinger instead of a scout, save up for levying, beeline archery, cross your fingers etc etc
>>568858528That's the exact model I used except here you can see all the hats he used for different tutorial roles
Yeah you go lil guys mine that shit
>>568873306good morning sweetie
>>568873306What time is it in your neck of the woods, sleepyhead?
>>5688750205:19am
How's GalCiv IV? Thinking of playing it today
>>568875453eurobro...
In the trenches.
>>568854381Oh wow, very nice. Good job anon.
>>568871218Antimatter. I think you can get the better late game missles with it.
>>568883791I think it's in the best shape right now. When it launched on steam it was basically 3 with all dlc but in a more coherent package. 3 had some feature bloat in the end. The combat in 4 is also no longer rock paper scissors. In two weeks there will be a new dlc that adds different governement types and is really going to change how you play the game, depending on your particular government.This is about empire governments: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/696512943113634097This is about oligarchies: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/673995578702561399The other government types haven't been shown yet. It looks like oligarchies will allow for tall trade based empires.
>be me>playing broken arrow>spam smoke arty across multiple points on the enemy back line where their AA is most likely to be so it becomes unusable>call in a bomber>drop nuke>fly away without a scratchabsolutely devilishworks every time
>>568844346anon the game supports shift queuing stuff so if you have 5 systems just queue that shit up
>>568901149>check game on steam>reviews: MIXEDoh okay
>>568883791Feels fun. City building is more involved than Stellaris, relying on a hex grid to build, ship combat feels more interesting (but bomber spam is the way to go), and the customization is unmatched. Shipwise, you essentially have a full 3d modeller to build your guy, and specieswise, you can upload alien portraitsOf course my aliens are hot sexy anime space bitches, I post on 4chan
>>568906904Yea I found out, it's still a lot of clicking but a bit more bearableThe game's pacing is still markedly very different from (other similar games I've played but I shall avoid mentioning), it definitely takes some getting used to
>>568912428>why yes my custom alien species is exclusively female race that probably fucks human men how did you know?
>>568917232>>568912428Anyone who uses Stellaris for anything other than sex mods is retarded.
>>568917712I wonder how much of a coomer you must be to get off to stellaris of all things
>>568912428Is it possible to make a race of loli space elves?
>>568918884You just upload the portrait into the game files and it's yours.
>>568919013Can I upload my own events?
>>568918884>>568919718Iirc there's some mods in ATF.And I made one waaay back then.
>>568918884>>568919718Given how Paradox has become so popular now, I really doubt I could still have this mod on Steam. I did hide it once I stopped playing and before the pop rework.
>>568921972Time to capture and enslave.>>568921972>>568922137I thought we meant GalCiv 4?
>>568922259>I thought we meant GalCiv 4?Sorry. I misread the reply chain.
>>568922848Well in that case, Stellaris has a mod that might interest you, called Lustful Void.https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/8719-stellaris-lustful-void/
>>568917935Game has nothing going for it otherwise.
>>568921972>pick your starting weapon>pick your FTL>different government types depending on ethics>tilesGod Stellaris had some soul back then
>>568927250>>different government types depending on ethicsIsnt that still a thing?
>>568927363I phrased that poorly. Back then you had different types of democracy (and all other government types) with different effects depending on ethics. In modern stellaris all these different types have been reduced to poor flavor that gets automatically assigned instead of picked by the player. There was a mechanical difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy.
finished my custom empire list!imo its fun to meet familiar faces, instead of random generic abominationsalthough some origins generate random empires too, but just enough to spice things up
>>568929814A stellar list of empires, one could say you blinded me with this screenshot
aurora 3.0 waitan
>>568927801I miss the freely buildable defense platforms the most..
>>568929814Behold - the peak Stellaris Empire.
