This 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/XaWF8mE6Previous thread:>>569050370
>>569455367>Philiphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrP83Uj_B4g
The situation is shockingly grim
>>569456234Worrying.[the situation progresses]
Penis
Play Age of the Ring.
HAK HAK HAK
WHO THE FUCK IS ALCARWEN
glub glub glub
>>569468319kaboosh
>>569469160I fucking hate that guy, by the way. He snatches enemies and eats them alive.Poor elf appears in Mandos's cavern covered in saliva and has to explain what happened.
Using skills in age of the ring is frustrating. You click on it, click on the enemy, and there's a wait before it's used, and it expires really quickly and take ages to recover.
Good morning guys.
>>569475641We died during the night
>>569475697I noticed.Sucks.
Low on pictures.And I gotta go, so... no more bumps from me.
>>569480914no......
>newfag>learning how2science>let's explore the rift, what could go wrong>assrape9000 bots swarm my scientist>it's fine, they'll probably just stick to their little region (even if it does saw my empire in half)>they moveWelp, today I learned something newOn an unrelated note, I am amazed at how bad this game's ledger and overview are, I kept wasting a ton of time trying to figure out how I was bleeding so many rare resources every turn: the system overview tells you which systems are problematic but then you gotta go through each planet one by one and figure out which one's research center is wasting your natural gas
a bump before I go to bed
>>569488893
>>569489017
>>569489148This artist is great
>>569466131HYUK HYUK HYUK
Is Ixion worth 12 bucks?
>>569494391Depends on how many bucks you are in possession off
>>569494391It's ok for a playthrough.Personally I would wait until its 5 bucks.
>>569455367What's it take for a game to get into the OP?I keep answering questions about AoW4 from people who stumble in here, that the thought crossed my mind seeing this new thread after the last one was left to die
>>569498527Is there a pastebin for it or recent update news?
>>569501443No pastebin at all. The game is there years old but still going strong so far it looks like. The Paradox publishing decision seems to ensure the studio keeps getting money to release and support the game without missing a beat so far. I do think that times may be a more uncertain for them ahead. They've hit a LOT of fantasy trope options at this point, so, it'll be a bit harder to sell future DLC as the idea pool of what's easy and popular to make in game format becomes smaller. I think it'll depend on the success of this story pack about to come out, show if they can get a handle on making plot a selling point for future DLC as much as they can anymore missing fantasy tropes they can try to sell.Someone would have to make a paste, even I'd do it for free if I had enough time to myself. Just dunno when that'll beThere's been a steady stream of news as of late. Secrets of the Archmages is their final content pack of this 'season'. No new cultures, no new ruler types, but six fucking tomes for research options, three new story maps, and an alternate map layer to replace the tentacle rape dimension that we can explore and steal shit for. Oh, and owls. Owlpeople are a thing now I guess. FLC update includes an empire tree expansion to make it less fucking one note by DOUBLING and expanding our options for picking stuff, and Reavers getting a touchup; now having a Federate sub faction, for those who still want to shoot guns, but want to vassalize, whether through peace or force.It releases one day separate from that Stellaris Nomads DLC. Now while I do still like Stellaris, I am not too excited for Nomads, and will probably just do two origins I'm curious of before dropping it for AoW4 for the next month or two
>>569455367C-Beams Devlog 53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMLoS74c6DMGalCiv 4: Dev Journal #119 Spring Status Report: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/667241447643152798Nebulous, The Campaign Update Act 1: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/887570/view/716780409378047464Also some Distant Worlds 2 news.>>569417250>>569417453
>>569484014Good night anon.
>>569511257Also new Stronghold game will be announced at the pc gaming show this Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLFpwlnLDF0Dustfront RTS will have a demo on steam Next Fest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4m_KvHLXuo
Hello, what's this?A New mega structure for Stellaris?And it's a giant cannon? Sounds neat! How does it wor...>140 day long countdown to fire>It uses up your entire energy stockpile each time it fires>Damage scales based on thisSo it's gonna be slow to fire and I can only use it like once every few years during end game? Sounds very meh, what else does it do?>Should your shot use more than 50000 energy, you will also increase the temperature of all planets in the systemWell that sounds more like it! I can blow up enemy planets with thi...>this will not move a planet out of being habitable or into being habitableWell shit. So it's yet another "balanced for multiplayer" mega structure that doesn't change gameplay in any significant way.>In addition, the AI has a few more restrictions, in that it will only target enemies if it has more than 10000 energy in storage, has a positive energy balance and will only target systems with fleets that have more that piddling fleetpower, mainly so they won’t waste their entire energy budget on shooting single ship reinforcements.Oh, so it's going to be an annoyance mechanic then.Fuck my life.
>>569512506Shit like planet crackers or wiping planets I assume they intend to keep behind the Colossus ascension perk to keep it relevantThat said, I would argue if I have this giant space gun AND the colossus project, I should be able to crack planets with this thing too. It is straight up BIGGER than a colossus, it doesn't fucking move goddamn it.As is it's just an expensive intergalactic siege cannon rather than a planet blower upper gunFail
>>569514372Yeah and since it has a long firing time AND you cannot fire it at systems that have your own colonies in them, it can't be used creatively as an anti-menace weapon either.
So playing nomads as a megacorp is basically gonna be the best way to play nomads right? Go fanatic xenophile for extra trade and diplomacy and then find somebody to latch onto and not only get their space deposits but also build shit on their planets?
>>569519159it'll probably be good but not necessarily the bestI foresee being aggressive early on and creating a vassal swarm will be effective
How do we fix Stellaris?
>>569523954What needs fixing?
>>569526857Need I say more?
Are cybrex meant to shit all over every other precursor?
>>569536524meant to? probably not, but they still do
For me, it’s the Baol
>>569536524I don't think they win in every scenario but at the same time the ringworld just tends to be great in any scenario. Cybrex is never bad is the thing.
How do we fix Spiderfag?
>>569480914Is Silica any good? Been wanting a Nuclear Dawn replacement ever since it died.
>>569544330Fix his hatred of Horatio
>>569545227I can't break every mirror in France
X4 foundations 9.0 in 5 days and Stellaris Nomads in 9, spacefags eating good this month
im a few turns from losing my very first gamei have learned something in the process, but it felt like i didnt have a chance here...
>>569547237Not to forget Nebulous. Has anyone played the campaign yet? I saw they used drawn images like homeworld did.
>>569554012How do I into this game?
Good night.
>>569561941Nighty night anon, hopefully the thread won't die again.
>>569564172it will
Can't believe a trashy garbage general like /indie/ is alive and healthy everyday while ours keep dying
>>569545320>Spiderfag is HoratioWtf
>>569566093>he hates horatio because he hates himselfit's like pottery, it rhymes
>>569570868Who can fix him (Spiderfag)?
>>569574552only he can fix himself...
>>569574659But will he?
>>569574836probably not
>>569580629This is so sad
spiderfag what the fuck is pommes allumettesand how is it different from just pommes frites
>>569507405>check some of the other pastebins when I get home, curious how they are, comparing them>some are great, like the open source/games list>some are abysmal fuck outdated like the Stellaris entryOkay that's not too high a bar, I can do that
>>569544665It's early access, so strictly speaking, it isn't good. It's unoptimized, unbalanced, and you can spend 5 minutes walking in the desert and get headshot by a sniper since soldiers can't order vehicles, only commandeer them, and the free bike has a long respawn time and will despawn quickly once you're off it.But it's promising and kinda fun if you're lucky.
>>569564413The rest of the board just needs to calm down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HfhiWkkleEthread theme
good night /civ4xg/
>>569589669Not him but aren't they much skinnier than normal pommes frites?
>>569606235Yes, just french fries cut thin while frites are cut thicker.
A wise anon last thread told me to avoid using auto-management like the plague, but I assume that auto-assign is fine? Because when I see a planet like this, am I meant to make an informed decision based exclusively on number of districts, so an urban world in this case? Maybe farmville instead since that's my whole shtick?
>>569609346auto designation is fine, this place looks good for gas farming and science
>>569610042>scienceBecause of?
Any news on falling frontier?I beg for a release date...
>>569561121With great difficulty.
Sup guys? I'm back.Thinking about playing a Chinese game, and Total War Three Kingdom's too annoying. Anyone tried the Stronghold one? Crusader 3 was shite.
>>569615460Levelcap joked about a release date for Falling Frontier in his last devlog. Apparently he knows some people of that team that helped get him in contact with Hooded Horse. I don't think we'll get a release date anytime soon since there isn't even a date stating 2026. Just try any of the other space games anon there are lot of those.
>>569625537FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKKKK!!!!!
I know it's a flawed game but can't help playing a round or few every so often.
>>569628289Flawed game? You whut? It's a very fun game and I like it, fuck off.
>>569628827Really? So you'd be opposed to the promised never ever modding support, a proper campaign, village lists so you don't have to scour where you're missing a militia and general balance that's not made around the non existent competitive multiplayer scene?
>>569629635...yeah well your face looks like a penis.
That's a lot of DLCs. But I'm so very tempted to get the Chinese one. And the Vikings one.
>>569630294And then you wonder why the thread dies as often.
>>569631056Hmpf.
man i fucking suck at this game
>>569631323So, who shat in your onion and froglegs soup? I assumed you'd enjoy having a chat about DSW.
>>569631930DSW? And no, busy trying to figure out this game. The way I play would make any slav who grew up on HoMM III roll their eyes so hard they'd go white.
>>569633695Sorry, not familiar with what you have there. But seeing some of your previous work I believe it.
Reminder that /civ4xg/ will be playing today in /vg/ League 26 around 20:20 UTC with the stream starting at 17:00 UTC (just under 2 hours from now). I'll post right before the match starts. Stream link https://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleagueTeam wiki page https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//civ4xg/
>>569635229It's Song of Conquest. Imagine Heroes of Might & Magic 3.And make it even simpler but also a lot worse. That's it. Also add too many DLCs.
>>569637815Just meant I haven't played it so can't really offer a comment. It's on my backlog, well, that and gorillion other things.
>>569636338Have you removed Horatio yet? We had a poll going and it was decided to remove him.>>569638112I'm surprised there's a /civ4xg/ regular who never played HoMM III. I was under the impression everyone played it, and that everyone but me enjoyed it.
>>569640076Here is your son in all his saucy glory at this morning's training. That supposed poll does not exist and if so, was not sanctioned by Horatio and is therefore void
>>569640470I hate you. I'll go support the other team.
>>569609346you can change the designation freely, it doesn't matter
>>569640470delicious horatio sauce
>>569640470Bless you
>>569640076First you don't know the game you blogposted about previously and directly replied to and now you're not following I meant Song of Conquest. You back on graveyard shifts or what?
>>569640076Spiderfag, what is the French consensus on who "invented" french fries? Some claim it was the french and others claim it was the belgians. I'm curious because the earlier discussion of frites and allumettes reminded me of it.
>>569644596Brave choice asking the person who struggles to boil water.
>>569645047>Brave choice asking the person who struggles to boil water.Story? Also @Spiderfag is this you?
>>569644487What I mean is that Song of Conquest is heavily based on HoMM III.>>569644596That we invented it, and that the Belgians tried to claim them from us because otherwise they have nothing for them.>>569645620Nah, I don't burn pasta.I did, however, made the mistake of serving coffee in a camping mug.
>>569645620>>>/ck/fuck off
Another wonderful day on the Moon.Surely nothing bad could happen!
>>569649334Oh, wait. What is happening?
>>569649530Oh my.
>>569649334aeiou! John madden john madden john madden!What game?
>>569649730Oh, no.>>569649870>What game?The Crust. Is Early Access. But like 2 updates away from full release.
>>569649981What the fuck is going on?
>>569649981That's not good for my first day.
>>569650165oops.
>>569650165That's no bueno.
>>569650379It was Robert's last week before going home to his child.
>>569650379...hold up, getting flashbacks:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6BXaGEuqxo
>>569512506That's cool, its just like an ICBM where instead of destroying any country in the planet you destroy any planet in the galaxy, i imagine using it will turn the galaxy hostile
>try age of the ring>get swamped in goblin>lose>try age of mythology>settle too close to AI>lose to snake spam>try song of conquest>lose my only hero to neutrals>play AoE2>get spammed with knights in a game where I went full skirmishers and archers>loseSome days are just awful days.
>>569658213Read the post anon.At max power you can terraform planets in the system, but NOT beyond the habitable range.It only causes devastation on the planets, so no population loss either.Building it does make the galaxy feel uneasy about you and using it makes them dislike you, but I doubt Paradox is going to make it cause a galactic war declaration against you after firing it.
>>569660969Sucks to suck
>>569660969you're just bad, spidey
>>569660969Daijobu.
>>569636338They're about half way done with the match before ours
>>569664669Well, usually I can at least win against the easy AI, but today, nothing works. Absolutely nothing.
>>569668515Wait, wait... you got bullied by easy ai in aoe2 or aom? HOW?
>>569636338And the match before ours just ended, they'll be setting our match up in a minute or two. Get in here
>>569669268For AoE2, I tend to harass the enemy very early. This time, I tried not to.For AoM, I tend to wait the second Age to make barracks, and I make them halfway through the map, but if you settle too close to the enemy, he'll attack right away, and even on easy turtling, he'll always start pumping units the moment he reaches the second age. So, settle too close, and...
>>569636338>>569669789Good luck.
>>569669789Go lose.
>>569671820https://www.twitch.tv/vglvods here's the direct link
>>569671880Yeah sure let me make a twitch channel so that I can insult people.
>>569672097Have twitch open on one screen and the chat on another, no one uses the twitch chat
>>569670589I'm sorry but that's just cope and very shit excuses. Aoe2, either HD or original you can hold hard, not easy but hard ai with your city centre a bunch of farmers and a row of houses or palisades in front until the rams show up. Which you can beat with those farmers with more than enough time to build something resembling an army. You're only ever in danger if they start bombarding and trebing your ass and you realistically should never be that far behind with goddamn easy ai. Aom? Fuck me. I assume retold and since you said snakes, egypt. How in the actual fuck do you lose to easy ai egypt. If they're seth use villagers. If they're myth snakes, use priests. Use slingers for everything else, use myth units of your own when you stabilize and then trample him with your migdal units.
Fucking stupid game.>>569672505eat my dick for breakfast
Horatio scored
Horatio is a loser. And the commentors are boomers.
>>569673578Not into micropenis for breakfast but thanks, you whiny, filtered by easy ai dumb bitch.
>>569674585Cry some more, you bald piece of shit. This was a fluke and you know it.
Strong showing.
>>569674796Keep venting, shitter. I'm sure it'll help with the asspain from being beat by easy ai.
>>569675028It's not a 4-1, it's a 3-1 and you know it.
>>569674796you're not gonna win this one, spidey. you're actually whining that you can't beat easy AI in multiple games. just accept that you're bad
>>569675175Fuck off. That was a lucky shot. Horatio is hogging screen time from better players who never had time to shine.
>>569669789A solid showing from Horatio, Wololo, and HAK HAK HAK. Next match is on Friday against /alg/
Don't bully Spidey. Only I am allowed that, and I wouldn't do that.
>>569675175I mean seriously, I'm a jerk and I know it but I actually tried to help the avatarfagging little shit despite knowing better.
>>569675335You really need to take Horatio off the terrain. There are players who never played and that overused unfunny joke is still the spearhead. It's a joke that has run its course.
>>569675294It was Hak's day.
>>569675507Yes. But more players need to play.
>>569675469If you have ideas for players, I'll be asking for player changes late October-early November
>>569455367Blessed artist.
>>569675469Only way we could do that if we replaced him with Spiderfag himself, with that anime spider player rep, maybe.Otherwise it would not be iconic.
>>569675742Just rotate them more. Shitratio is always the spearhead, while objectively more interesting players have been warming the bench so much that their asses are probably flattened by now.>>569675817Yes.>>569675827NO. Why're you guys so gung ho on a tired joke? Just replace him by a better one, like Destructive Anal, or something out of Stronghold. You keep insisting on using the same tired jokes over and over, and then you complain you're out of content. Like that boomer who commented that he hasn't had a good RTS in ages: my brother in christ, you're comparing every RTS to the only one you know, like some Tvtrope faggot.Be more open-minded and try more games.
>>569676048>Shitratio is always the spearheadHe last scored in an official match 6 years ago but I can understand the desire to rotate players. There wasn't anything significant this time around so I shuffled the non-medals but if you mean like changing medal players up too, again remind me when I ask about the roster in 5 months
>>569676363>There wasn't anything significant this time around*There wasn't anything significant suggested by the thread this time around
>>569676363>>569676553bullshit i said loud and clear that we should remove horatio but you fags keep keeping him
>>569676048Spiderfag is our mascot, that's why. Hoeratio by extension too and being old meme.
Oh wait, I get it, it's Spider bitching about the Horatio rep.
>>569676678If you wanna make me the mascot, pick up "old RTS" or something like that. Not something that irritates me to no end. I fucking hate that bald fuck and his incredibly punchable smug smile.Like a white Ajit Pai.
>>569676668Many others said the team should keep him so the democratic option was chosen this time around. Sumimasen deshita, Spiderfag-dono
>>569676974I made a fucking poll and the poll voted 90% to boot his impotent smug face out of the team, wtf the fuck do you mean "democracy"?Also, Caesar was picked democratically, and turned Rome into a dictatorship and became Emperor, you cannot trust the small people to decide, they are blinded by their emotions, like teenage girls, unable to control themselves.
>>569676842Yup.
>>569676875Not old RTS, only as Spider rep from that manga or whatever. That I would be cool with. >>569677227Chill out spider, it's just a meme.
>>569677227>like teenage girls, unable to control themselvesAnd next you know it, they dump you.
>>569677439He's just very tsundere for Horatio, don't mind him
>>569677439You misunderstood me. Go play Age of the Ring, NOW. I am not asking.I'm not going to be the only one playing more RTS while you're all replaying the same stuff over and over.>>569677667Exactly. And for stupid reasons too.
>>569677227Roman democracy was not much of a democracy, but anyway and Ceasar got much of his power by corruption and force, but that's another topic.
>>569677943As long as the power belongs to the people, it's a democracy. That's what it means: "demos", the people, and "kratos", the power.And not Deimos, who's a loser, just like Phobos.That the "people" is very limited in size is a detail.
>>569677803Exactly. And then you're left with becoming psyoped into being gay and seething over Horatio.
>>569677803I am sadly not replaying much of anything at the moment.
>>569678350Say that again when I give you a little brother to break all your toys, loser.>>569678507I wasn't asking. Do it or I send cyberhounds after you.
Let's all be friends
>>569678670I always imagined the original Horatio also got dumped and that triggered him to replace the society that rejected him. But he presumably was less of a complete and utter fuck up than you so it is what it is.
>>569678934Liz love
>>569679552they shunned him because of his weird cone head, but he was a trillionaire regardless
>>569679979ngl, I'd take a cone head for being a trillionaire any day. Fuck, I'd settle for make it a polkadot green and purple octagon for billionaire and I'd still call it a deal. >b-but muh societyToo busy playing custom made vidya on my private island to care for that.
>>569680487true
>>569679552>i always headcanon'd Horatio as not a massive loser like I am
For me, it’s aquatic progenitor hive with bioships
>>569681624I can forgive lashing out in venting because you got REPEATEDLY humbled by EASY ai but capitalization in muh greentext? Man, that's just lame. Hope things get better for you. Good night.
>>569684045Hope you die in your sleep, like all of us. Good night.
>>569687736funny looking toilet
good morning /civ4xg/
>>569693489good morning sweetie
>>569693489good night
>>569705960>aliens that disguise themselves as fruitSounds like a fun idea for a Stellaris run
bump for this mean thread
>>569714223
>>569706254No.
>>569687736What game is this?
>>569726018Enshrouded. A weird 3D Terraria.Survival slop but with NPCs and you build a village.
Good morning spiders and horatios!
Fuck sake Isengard is pretty fun too. You get the Wildmen, who are pretty much British, and you get the Dunlenlings, who are Vikins, led by Ragnar Lothbrook aka Wulgraf.AND you get the uruk hai as actual elite troops.
>>569733717True wildman geezer, drinkin' a pint 'fore goin' to da mines ta earn da dough for da missus an' gits.
>>569735694I MEAN
>>569678201Strictly, the Roman Republic was, as the name suggests, a republic, not a democracy. A pretty convoluted one by the late Republic era, that separated the popular vote by three (or maybe four, historians debate on the exact specifics of what the pleb assembly vote actually did) whole levels of representation from the people that actually got to make all the rules.
>>569736003>industry BAD>wild men BADwhich one is it tolkien you hack
>>569736379Truth is, he was a product of industrial society, I doubt he would have liked actual wildman life.
>>569736379The wild men aren't evil they were already at war with the Rohirrim when Saruman started his shit and were willing to ally with anyone that'll help them kick the strawheads out. In other words they're Finns in 1941.
>>569736379Wild men are bad because they aren't civilized.
>>569736379Oh fuck off, fatty. Not everything is political, you Am*ricans want to shove politics everywhere.
>>569736379Both. There is a nice middle ground between dirty savagery of tribalism and limitless, polluting industrialization for all costs.
>>569736003CAM ON WILDER LAND!*BOOM BOOM BOOM*SCORE SUM FUCKIN' GOALS!
>>569739808OIYA GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT KNOIF
cheap
>>569747552A Cheap elf slave girl, you say?
>>569750140All of that. Except she's not a slave.
>>569750352Well darn.
PC gaming show is gonna start in 1 hour and 40 minutes. Where will this be streamed? I wanna see the new stronghold announcement.
>>569738586>unprovoked seething about politics and burgers over a joke post about Tolkien, whose worldviews and religion famously inspired his writingFren pls be calm stop being so mean. Also for the record Thomas Mann was a kraut.
So they announced a Star Wars X-Com-like game at the summer games thing. Is that kosher for /civ4xg/ on account of it being /xcg/-adjacent or is it verboten because /swg/ exists and it's been a long time since anyone's /xcg/ posted here?
>>569774742Please, tell us more about this Xcom wars game.
>>569774742They already made an Xcom game about superheroes and it failed so miserably it got the creator of modern Xcom fired
PC gaming show incoming.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVxQ7VLmHI
When does Endless Legend get good? I've just started playing and if the whole game consists of exploring ruins and conquering minor factions then I can't imagine it's going to be that interesting.
>>569778190I mean there's not much to say. Looks like 4 man squads, set during the clone wars, and you can play as humies/clones/jedi/ayys/R2-D2 astromechs. In an age of $70 games it's a $50 game, $60 if you want the ultra deluxe version skins, although with EA's track record that might mean it's short or will be abandoned as soon as they can regardless of any game breaking bugs/performance issues.>>569779027At first I thought you meant Chimera Squad, since that was very character focused instead of /yourdudes/ focused. Completely forgot about the Marvel game, holy shit.
>>569779856If you don't like you don't have to play it, just play something you like.
>>569783376Yeah I know but some games take a while to click, others if you don't like it at the start it doesn't change.
>>569779027Superhero XCOM? Tell me more, it sounds awesome on paper.
>>569779758Anything nice so far?
>>569779758Stronghold 4 is up now!
>>569779758STRONGHOLD 4!!!
>>569787940>>569787976It's even coming this year.
>>569785183Besides Stronghold 4 just now?Nope.
>>569787940>>569787976Please be good, please be good...
Planet Zoo 2 now.Did anyone play the first one?
>>569788491Yes, it's a good game but from what I've seen of 2 it looks basically the same but with fish and birds.
>>569785143its called Marvel's Midnight Suns ive heard its a good game but performed very poorly finnacially
Company of Heroes Definitive Edition announcedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnVoeTSC4rU
>>569790589okay I guess
>>569790589Isn't that the third version already?
Ugh 40k.
>>569793780WOOOO!!!!I'm unironically hype!
Will there be space battles though?
>>569794476It's a huge part of 40k, but I have a feeling it won't be in the game, or at least not a detailed version.
>>569794628Yeah but if there were space battles in the game shouldn't they have showed a glimpse of it? I was never into 40k but I'm also very sceptical of creative assembly, I kinda stopped following their games after Empire.
>>569795046It's early days, they may still show it off but don't get your hopes up.
>>569795046Considering that their games have had proper naval warfare since Shogun 2, I'd be surprised if it didn't have space battles.
>playing hive mind>come across a special project where I find a kid in cryostasis>has part of a relic but I need to find more pieces in order to use it>my only option as a hive mind was to abandon the child which apparently locks you out of actually completing the event chainWtf dude
>>569808240Cybran king
>>569801180oh no, poor keides...I think you can eat him if you're evo preds
>>569816340Better than a roundabout or what?
>>569823520Yes.
I feel like attacking genocidal empires should give you an opinion bonus with other empire, since you’re destroying an objectively evil group of fuckers. Even if you don’t outright destroy them, doing something like taking half their territory and severely weakening them should be getting other empires’ attention
>>569816340pedestrians status??>>569829212probably belongs under "mutual threat"
>>569790589Anything new with it? I assume it has the 2 original DLC with it
>>569829212"Look he could've destroyed them but didn't. The cunt"There's just no pleasing some people.
Good morning, sirs.
Anyone got any tips for celestial empire? I feel like my warehouses are always struggling.
>>569826784I don't believe you
>>569835569These people are called tumblrtards.
AoE4 DLC introduces the Vikings (cringe and lame-o), and the Scots.Kinda hyped for the latter, in case you couldn't tell, they were pretty fun in Cossacks 3.
>Riftborn nowhere near my core systems>not a single Riftborn ship in my space>somehow, they're able to place a singularity on my core shipyard>load up modding tools>change perspective to the Riftborn AI>they just place the singularity on the system even though it's not discovered by them at the start of the turnWelp. Nothing I can do. Skill issue, I guess.On the bright side, I guess it extends the time until the planets on that system become depleted...
>>569863627Go ask on the forums if it's normal?
>>569863904Already did. A dev clarified the limitations on singularity placement to me since I was unsure of them due to almost exclusively using compression singularities on my own systems. I'm certain it's a bug since they need to have the system discovered to be able to place a singularity on it, but at the start of the turn, the system isn't discovered by them and, seconds later, the singularity appears on it anyway.
>>569858791Vikings are cool though
>>569873383A bit overused. The Varanguan Guards were cool though.
Varanguan.Through the stats seem to be off: they should definitely hit a lot harder with these axes.
>>569876298what the fuck is this is you french frog fuck
>>569876527>average Am*rican reaction after being reminded that other countries exist
>>569455367Stronghold 4 announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5iFil7KIIgWhat are the other 4xg announcements from yesterday? I also saw there's about an hour of gameplay of stronghold 4.>>569846715Good afternoon.
No dying!
>get competitive quest that requires 100 antimatter>vaulters have more antimatter than me>vaulters also just requested a truce with me, offering up half their antimatter stock>accept>immediately declare war again
>>569883374Company of Heroes DE
>>569883374AoE4 DLC.
I think this game is more a /egg/ thing than /civ4xg/. But I'm unsure.
Huh. I have zero colonist tech. I can't even build a bed.
>>569896480YOU FUCKED UP NOWNOW YOU FUCKED UP!
Huh. CRUST is giving me science and FASM is giving me money. Science seems to have to be bought, so I will go with CRUST, as the colonist give a huge boost to production buildings.
If they die, they die.
>>569816340How often do people drive on the wrong side of it?
>>569897897Never because we have a working educational system.
>>569904975>working education>in the USLOLLMAO
>Error: File too large.Huh????
>had to resize itok
>>5699134374MB limit>>569913808This image is if someone purposefully made a filter that takes maximum file size to represent. So much visual noise. Next time don't resize just crop.
>>569914979It was 3,33MB before I resized it and lowered the quality.
>>569907389rent free
>>569455367Company of Heroes – Definitive Edition Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnVoeTSC4rUAge of Empires IV: Raiders of the North Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmM3GFr6O5g>>569889216>>569890896Thanks
Don't pollute Earth, mine the Moon!51 day for the crew of Hope-2 to land their scape pods at my moon base.
Gotta protecc the brown lolis.
>>569922348What's going on in this game? Earth depends on the moon for everything now?
Wow. The underground elevator is really physically on the same part as on the top one. This is going to make logi a tad more interesting.>>569923934The Moon is were Earth gets now most of its rare earth resources and electronics and whatnot. A meteorite smashed right in the middle of the production base, and now everyone is fucked.
>>569926396Oh, okay. So basically a very expensive investment that got fucked over.
>>569926746Yes. That's why you have to mine all the moons and planets and asteroids of your solar system. Also have viable populations of humans everywhere.You don't want to get dinousaur'ed.
>>569927229Don't drop any colony on Earth.
>>569927443No promises.
>>569928020Control your inner Zeonist, Char.
>>569928020Sieg zeon!
>>569929535Zeons are literally worse than nazis.
Can't you monkeys not even land without the crashing part?I sent you a ton of parts to repair the scape pods for a reason.
Good night anons, spiders and horatios.
>>569934242Good night anon
That fucking Treasure Island reference in that tooltips.
>decide to play stellaris again since it got tons of updates>game going well>january 2nd 2300>VOIDWORM PLAGUE>less than 6 months later I have 7 20k voidworm fleets spawned in the middle of my empire>3 months later each 20k stack spits out 5 more 20k stacks because I can't possibly deal with them before they eat all my pops>before the year is over my entire empire is destroyedwhat a fucking dogshit mechanic. hard code them to ignore the AI because the AI is incapable of doing the cheese you are 100% required to do to be able to deal with them, so an entire galaxy's worth of voidworms hits the player all at the same timeits doesn't even have the story aspect the great khan does. its literally a purely binary cheese check, if you fail you restart because there's no way to deal with it "organically". you either have 50 science ships and gravity snares, or you're a pure warmonger with oversized fleets, or the game is overnow I remember why I dropped this dogshit game. the devs are fucking retards
Kill 'em all. No prisoners.
>>569938339Heh, skill issue buddy I usually just turn them off completely
I'm going to need more defenses.
i cast resurrection
>>569950565Rude
>>569601485Luv me Endless
>>569954018'ate da endless'ate da vodyani'ate dust'ate isyaraluv da lostluv da nakalimluv isyanderluv da academysimple as
when are we going to play chess /civ4xg/
>>569966678These look like sex position.
bump before bed
>>569966678>tfw to stupid too into chess
chess is lame, we should play stellaris
>>569977625What is the king's pawn game of Stellaris?
>>569976825It's simple. Just intimidating.
Damn. Guess that AI mod I installed is actually working if some of their invasion ships are this strong. Really highlights the fact I've been on tier 3 military tech for the past 60 turns.
>diplomacy is not an option added an option to control units differently>it uses a crappy WASD system and can't be revampedin the trash you go
>try to take the nightmare general>he wipes my army and then my fortress>game overfudge :DDDD
>playing northgard because i like the aesthetic and the factions are cool>however about 90% of the game is just optimizing your build order because the economy mechanics are extremely volatile>"you built a 2nd dock instead of upgrading your 1st one? enjoy a 20% economic hit bro">that 20% economic hit causes your food production to go from +5 to -5 you starve the next winter >you can remedy it by taking an even more of an economic hit >eventually the compounding economic damage means that the enemy will roll you with 10 units to your 4, and because the combat is extremely barebones "bigger mob always dumpsters the smaller mob" kinda shit, there's no way to come backalso this game has that classic online RTS thing where it takes a miracle for everyone to load in because half the players are playing on wooden PCs i really wish there was something similar to this to play, that doesn't suck. like a fairly comfy almost 4x style multiplayer game that doesn't have 3 hour matches. i remember having this issue like 4 years ago and went as far as to try to develop my own game (got far to put out a prototype but needed to put in a lot of time and money in it to make it actually human-playable and kinda gave up lol)
>>569554132Yup. Is good, save for a few annoying mechanical oversights that need to get fixed. The character dialogues aren't anywhere near homeworld level though :(
>>569985583>"you built a 2nd dock instead of upgrading your 1st one? enjoy a 20% economic hit bro">that 20% economic hit causes your food production to go from +5 to -5 you starve the next winterGetting uneasy Driftlands vibes from this.
Any preferred first time settings for Stellaris?
Another guy looking to jump back into Stellaris and actually learn it instead of pressing funny buttonsAre there any real DLCs I should Avoid/look into?I'm going to snag a few on the summer sale and hear that the storms DLC is not worth it.
>>569991738uninstall>>569992006uninstall
>>569991738Not really, just play what feels right to you.
>>569991738turn off voidworms and the l-gates. actually turn off storms too
>>569999785Good advice.>>569992006Nomads seems promising.Bio genesis added bio ships and the ability to capture spaceborne fauna and use grow them into combat ships or harvestable resources.Shadows of the shroud added new shroud mechanics.Apocalypse for the obligatory death star.Megacorp for different empire type (same reason why you should get nomads).Federations for more diplomacy gameplay.Nemesis, so you can become the end game crisis and get more out of some of the earlier mentioned DLCs.Overlord for more mechanics as an empire that vasallises other empires to do its bidding.The Machine age for playable robots.I'd consider those to be required stuff. The Rest are mostly fluff or cosmic storms.
>>570000352Sweet, storms I'll probably hold off on as it very much feels like a "Pay money, make game worse" sorta thing.
>>570000352>Bio genesis added bio ships and the ability to capture spaceborne fauna and use grow them into combat ships or harvestable resources.I thought grand archive was what allowed you to use space fauna?
>>570000608You're right.My mistake.
>>570000578Storms I don’t think are as bad as some people think they are, but they definitely aren’t appealing to people who want a consistent experience. They’re basically just random effects that can help or hinder you and you have no real control over them until you get certain tech. One of these days I want to do a run focusing on cosmic storms and the superstitious beliefs civic to get blasted with as many random effects as possible and see what happens
>>570005781I'll keep that in mind then. It very much seems like the only true 'skip' when people talk about it so I was unsure as to if it was 'that bad' or if its RNG deciding to Kneecap you sometimes.
>>569991738The settings don't matter much. Turn off advanced empires but besides that you can leave most actual galaxy generation settings on their defaults. Bump up difficulty if you are experienced gamer™ and galaxy size if you have a beefy PC though, feel free to pick which ever galaxy shape you like the most. Either use the default human empire or make a "default human" starter empire with prosperous unification and without of the weird origins or perks.
>>569779856EL1 or EL2? my enjoyment of endless legend 1 varies heavily on the faction i'm playing. broken lords is genuinely the most boring shit faction i've played in any 4x game and somehow that's the one they decided to bring back for EL2. however Forgotten, Mykara and Roving Clans are all fun to me thanks to their gimmicky playstyle. i love the "thief" faction archetype a lot, i wish i could play it in more gamesi only played a little bit of EL2 before refunding, since the game seems really bare and didn't even have multiplayer yet. i don't know if it has gotten better though. in many ways it was an improvement over EL1 but it had just enough of humankind's DNA in it that it might just be shit forever.
Help is on the way. Just sit and count the stars while the rover arrives.
Couldn't you niggers aimed to crash in the same area?Fuck me, I should be glad they crashed on the same celestial body.
why is stellaris such a controversial game? can /civ4xg/ not appreciate wiz's genius?
>>570014428The seether is seething about it that's why
>>569999785>>570006863Thanks>check out the steam page>upcoming DLC bundle costs as much as the base gameHoly fucking shit I know Paradox is greedy but this is retarded. How the fuck do normalfags and paypigs tolerate this?
>>570016551Use subscription in one months bursts every 3 or 6 months when you get the itch.
you ever play a strategy game with some truly fucking awful macro gameplay, and you just know you will have a nightmare about managing it later
>>570016551I was cured of the paradox disease years ago after the economy rework that came with the Megacorp DLC. I realized that the AI empires sat on maxed-out stockpiles of strategic resources, yet never upgraded their production buildings to actually use them. Getting the DLC out in time for chri$tma$ was more important than making sure the basegame AI isn't economically braindead, pretty disillusioning moment.Tried some time later, when I heard that endgame lag has gotten better. How? Instead of fixing the problem in a clever way, they simply amputating global population growth. The max population for ANY empire is hard-capped, very ingenious solution. So all those cool megastructures like ringworlds and ecumeopolises are mostly useless vanity projects since you'll never be able to populate them.I feel like most DLCs are like this. You get a shiny new thing to be excited about (and if you don't have a particular dlc, the game never fails to remind of it). The underlying mechanics are stale and lame, only the early phase is challenging. Afterwards, you're playing "numbers go up" the game. I guess it's different in multiplayer, but this is EXACTLY the kind of game I don't want to play with other people. Also the roleplay faggotry that seems so popular with Stellaris is really off-putting, I want to play a strategy game and not a gay catboy emperor.One of the best games for listening to audiobooks though, as it requires very little attention.
>>569938117F U C K this gameThe building/defending part was sweetBut holy fuck the missions that required you to actually go out and fight were an absolute snorefest, just endless waves of spam getting smashed against each other, with progress being made every 10 minutes or so because your units are utterly unresponsiveNot to mention how bullshit it is that 1 (one) enemy guy can single-handedly shut down half your economy if he gets in unnoticed because buildings are made of fucking paper
bump
>>570021357I fucking love the artstyle and how you can trade food for materials, but damn. Once you start losing, you're fucked. I had a nightmare general making to my base and murdering me, and as you said, all the buildings are very fragile.
>>570029694Yeah if the whole perimeter of your base isn't fucking stonewalled by 3 mins, you're fucked because a random zulu warrior can just walk in and demolish half your houses before you can react, which sets you back for a whole dayIt doesn't help that a lot of maps feel super claustrophobic, which is awful because farms take up a fuckton of space and you need to get a lot of them up else everyone fucking starves within one second of the new day startingThe tipping point for me was the final kingdom mission, where you sail back to your king's city and have to siege it down: I had virtually infinite resources and production, and I still couldn't progress for shit because the 2 small entrances were jammed with people, and unit control is so sluggish and shit that I kinda gave up on trying to actively coordinate fighting. I think I had it run for 30 minutes until I realized that this game simply wasn't for me, alas
>>570031263As much as I like Diplomacy Is Not An Option, sadly, the while system does NOT work well with melee. There's a very solid reason They Are Billions relied so much on ranged units.Through funnily, I do fare better at it then Age of Darkness: all the issues you complain about, I met them in this game, and it utterly ruined it for me.
>>570031263why would anyone ever work at the over factory
>>570033425In this job market you can't be picky.
>>570033425Haven't you heard? It's never been more over. "It's Over" is is trending all over the place, literally bigger than coke (the beetus kind and the fun kind). Never been a better time to work at the Over factory, lines are running hot 24/7 is what the reports tell and the quarterly numbers are fantastic.
>>570037836when you put it that way...
>>570020898Is Supcom the only good strategy game with good macro gameplay?
>>570041721its been like 15 years since i played so i dont even remember what supcoms is likehonestly i don't mind shit like getting population capped because i forgot to build a house or something, since that is very easy to learn how to but the kinda shit i hate is going like "hm i am low on corn think ill build a corn factory" and only finding out that it was actually a game losing mistake 30 minutes later when i am floating 1000+ corn and my opponent steamrolls me. or even worse i never even know what mistake i made, just that my opponent somehow outboomed me by a factor of 3xi like simple economies where you are just meant to get after important resources, and the difficult part is obtaining them. not this weird spreadsheet balancing shit that essentially mandate you into rigid build orders in order to not be suboptimal
>>570043952>its been like 15 years since i played so i dont even remember what supcoms is likeCRINGE
>>570043952You really should replay Supcom, it's good!
>>570047845hmm it didnt run very well back in 2006 but maybe with modern technology it wouldnt be a lagfest
>>570049291Surely tech has caught up in 20 years.
>>570049291Wallet issue
WHO THE FUCK IS BERUTHIEL
>>569865834>>569863627>singularities without needing visionman, that's a brutal bug if you're playing hissho
>>570075215fucking clankers!
>>570075450that doesn't sound pleasurable
>>570078981>not taking the sexbots civic
>>570067957That sounds deep but it's actually retarded.
>>570083357as expected of Yang of course
>>570084716>"if something hurts you, get thing away from you"NO SHIT SHERLOCK? AND HERE I THOUGHT THAT SLAPPING MY DICK AGAINST THAT BRICK WAS A GOOD IDEA
>>570057663some bitch i dunno
>>570090348>>570057663she was a queen of numenor I believe. she had cats
>>570057663Some bitch from Nùmenor who married a non-noble and spent the entirely of her marriage whining and belittling her husband so much that he publically humiliated her. She locked herself in her room and never came out, only feeding cats.
>>570092092lmao
>>570092092Good morning /civ4xg/
It’s this guy…
>>570083357>>570084867>stop whining and git gudDunno, I can respect that.
It's finally time to deal with them properly.
>>569507405Also, lest we forget, one of the tomes is the first new Tier 5 tome in all this time and it seems heinously overpowered at that.I do hope they still keep releasing one new Culture and Ruler per season, but going more Tome heavy would be nice too.
>>569637815Ain't it just the Vikings, plant zombies and the Chinese? Hardly "too much"
Haha funny green man
>>570111265Ah, alien uncle Ted.Is he also an extreme environmentalist/traditionalist?
>>570111265>the violence has escalated
>>570110889Games that have ads in the main menu are my pet peeves.
4X humble bundle ends in 2 days
>>570119893mehmed my son
...um.Must be a time limit thing.
>>570107463Deal with whom?
Bamp.
Sins of a Solar Empire 2 dev interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3krSSTv8Jc
>>570134882who that?
aghhghgh i need a 4x to play again but idk whati loved EL1 but its kinda worn out. EL2 seemed kinda crap when i tried it in the beta. is it any better now or should i play something else
>>570139809play with my dickactually play rimworld instead
>>570140006no thanks i dont want e coli
>>570139809Play Civ
>>570139475The lady in Laysara: Summit Kingdom that represents the workers.
>>570150570That's a strong smoll bote.
Bamp I guess. Btw they're looking for beta testers for Distant Worlds 2 Shadows Rising expansion.
I heard u liek job efficiency
>>570164524fuck is that
>>570165472What?
>>570170426What has Wiz done to the square where you built facilities and moved pops around?
What am I in for?
>>570174476A skeleton of a game, with every organ being $15.
>>570174476situations
>>570179794>thing unironically called situationsParadox moment
>>570159362What's Distant worlds 2 like? is as deep and interesting as DTU? UI is giving me too much stellaris vibes
>>570174476Where are the DLCs?
>>570174476SITUATION LOG UPDATED
>>570204374I don't like this.
>>570209298Comfy
Finished my Cravers game last night with conquest victory. I could've drawn it out, but the easy win was right there and I wanted to start my next playthrough.>>570153617Could've been stronger.
>>570221617Heck are these giant cables? It's not aesthetic at all.
>>570110497Yeah that new tier V tome is making me think 'what do the current tier V tomes have over this one?'They all have good endgame shit that helps top off a combat build, this seems, crazy. But also harder to unlock, in theory. Outside of grabbing that starting artifact from the crystal dwelling, I never have points in all affinities1 point in each makes sense2 points in 3? That's incredibly easier to achieve though
>>570222847Probably fuel pipes
>>569490482what a fucking shit start.2 future ai colonies right next to you. i hate minor civs.
>>570209298Upkeep costs must be a bitch.
>cravers are my neighbor>tfw my direct opponent always gets spear unless I cuck them out of itTruly, if there's one thing I've learned from playing Hissho...Gardening is hard.>>570222847>It's not aesthetic at all.Okay, Horatio.>>570229772How so? I was Cravers, so I just invaded them. If I was a less aggressive faction, I just hack one of them to raise relations and use my influence on the other. The only way this doesn't end in my favor is if the AI is close enough to contest control, and they'd probably have to be adjacent to one of them as well.
>>570232146>Okay, Horatio.Stop insulting me or I'll get unkind.
>>570232923*injects you with Horatio genes*
>>570235226I'll destroy you.
>>570239150Just like your girlfriend destroyed your butthole, mon ami?
>>570194517It's like distant worlds universe but with a bit less content. Ships have specific hardpoints for slots so the combat is a lot more complex.
>>570221617So what's this build? What is the strategy? Evasion?
>>570240076No, worse.
>>570229792roads and railroads don't have upkeep in civ 3
>play 4x >doing ok, getting harassed a bit maybe etc.>some player (or bot) is running away with the game on the other side of the map>you can't do shit about it and his neighbors don't carewhat games solve this
>>570240234Jammers no longer give evasion. They give movement now. Lensers also don't give repair anymore, and also give movement. Questionable changes, if you ask me, but whatever.The purpose of that particular build is cloaking and anti-cloaking. Since both apply to the whole fleet and the higher tier modules cost a lot of strategics, I like to have a dedicated cloaking/anticloaking design on a protector, preferably with jammers to ensure it doesn't just die and need to be replaced after every battle. I threw on an orichalcix missile for the debuff. Probably not too impactful with only one per fleet, but I had an abundance of the stuff and wasn't using it for much else. I would've preferred EMP beams, but I never researched them.
>try to play a 4x>met with pic relatedi love this genre. the game might have cost 300 rupees to make but they'll still charge for the experience like it's business software
>>570249725also i tried zephon like a moment ago and was thinking like "hmm this seems so familiar" and i realized it is just literally just a reskinned gladius. like the main menu is the same, the basic gameplay is the same and the macro mechanics are an exact copy. this really pissed me off so much that i don't want to play a 4x anymore
>>569455367troonshit op
>>570249725Gladius is solid enough without DLCs.
>>570241267Roads have the opposite of upkeep even, they give you +1 commerce on the tile (unless you get despotism'd)
>>570244696Bribe them into declaring war
>>570250130nta but that's a load of crap. Easily half the factions and about half of each faction units are dlc. You can't even have goddamn chimeras for IG without dlc.>>570249725Thankfully it's easy enough to pirate.
Gardening is, in fact, hard.
>>570262935>Easily half the factionsNo, actually, fuck that. Out of 12 factions in the game only FOUR are not dlc. Orks, SMs, IG and crons. And each of the dlc ones also has additional and multiple dlcs for their full unit roster.
>>570264183Some of these change the balance of the game, too. Space Marines used to be terrible in lategame, but the DLCs add more Land Raiders and Primaris marines.
>>570266041If I'm not mistaken they don't even get land raiders without dlc.
>>570266041yea i recall playing gladius back in like 2023 and being extremely miffed about the dlc monetization model
>entire genre with multiple subgenres like 4x, city builder, colony sim, grand strategy and starcraft>not a single good game has been made in 20 years so people just play the old shitgrimi think in 10 years the only currently "new" game that will still be played is rimworld
>>570268943Honestly I'm not sure, I'm a Tyranid/IG player, I barely play the Space Marines outside of Boltgun.>>570271850Yeaaah, sadly.>>570272518Oh fuck off.
lost my 3rd gamethis time i was doing ok, right until the neighboring major regime declared war for no reasonhowcome they are about 1000% more advanced than me?..is it all RNG?ive played 35 hours now, but im still very confused by this game ( i was reading the manual and guides most of this time, but still )
Enshrouded pisses me off.
Poor Cravers got only small systems in their part of the constellation.
>>570281221So? Don't pitty them, they're monsters.
>>570281386yeah but they were made to be monsters
>>570281386>not supporting craver veteran retirement fund
>>570281663Yeah that's true but they are intelligent are they not. Don't they have any power over their urge to consoom?
>>570279919which part
>>570286517The stupid boss design. It's intended for entire party, not solo players.>hey let's have a boss that's pretty much constantly shooting at you>oh and it also fire an AoE that will deplete the shroud protection, with an uptime exactly the length of its cooldown>oh and let's put more adds around the area>oh and let's put shroud all over everything>oh and let's put mud all over over everything too>oh and finally if the player leaves the shroud, let's have the boss lose aggro and recover all its health
>>570287238oh yeah the bosses are assthe boss in the mountain area is a war crime
>>570287491The wyvern was already tough but I killed it on my first try, but the crater one? Fuck him.
Who is your shroudfu? For me it’s hard to choose between Cradle and Instrument
Reminder we have a match against /alg/ tomorrow around 19:40 UTC. We're the away team and while we'd usually use the green and gold Horatio kits, we have a few other options that don't get used often except for the cyan and black X-COM kits occasionally. Vote on which one you want to see the team play in (although if it clashes with the other team's kits, I'll go with the next most popular option) https://strawpoll.com/Q0Zp7X9MAgMIf people have ideas for kits, I can add some more or give you a link to the kit maker if you feel so artistically inclined
>>570282206the queen and the bishops are sapient, but I'm pretty sure they just wanna expand and eat too
Sup frens. Doing Cities Skylines again. What mods are mandatory to have at a minimum?
>>570301519NAM
>>570301519traffic manager, move it!, anarchy (whatever version it's in now), precision engineeringprobably a bunch of other stuff too
>>5702915431 please, green looks nice
I'm having fun in my first Stellaris game
>>570310048no you're not, you've just deluded yourself into thinking you're having fun
>>570310048no you're not you're just lying to try and get me to buy it
>>570263952>playing with the academy roles enabledcouldnt be me even after they fixed it for the most part
bump before I die
>>570324072>Not ending the filename in "where do we come from where do we go where do we come from cottoneye joe"
>>570310048I'm glad for you, hope you post more as you progress, seeing your reaction to different things is going to be priceless.
>>570326040Well excuuuUUUUuuuuse me for not knowing all of your obscure Monarchist reference, princess!
Trying Repterra.Odd game.
>ankylosaurus can throw bombsNeat.
Tch.Can't crossbreed dinosaurs.
kill more dinosaurs
Yes, yeeeees. BREEEEEEEEEED.
>healer: heal all units around youFucking nice, genetic mutations rewarded me.
>occupy Cravers' capital>now have more cravers than my own major pops from that one system alone>>570292028Drones are technically sentient as well, but simply accept they're little more than cogs in the machine that is the Craver hive. Allegedly.>>570318174I'm kind of leaning this way, even if I didn't mind having to deal with my enemy having the spear fleet that much in this game. Vault Keeper is really nice, though.
>>570338695Lewd
>>570310048Why are the ayys so rude to me?
>>570354350This comes off more as the auy being retarded than insulting. But kill all ayys regardless.
>>570354350I think they want to fuck you..
>>570360819>submitting to ayysGay. Both literally and figuratively.
>>570370197>instantly goes to submitting>im the gay oneBreeding with your superior Human cock more likely.
>>570370312>>im the gay oneNah, the only gay one is spiderfag.
>>570370663I'm not gay, I fucked a girl.
>>570374475I thought she fucked you
>""""""girl""""""""
>>570377413Details, details...
>>570378338Mon cherie, you can't claim a point when the other team put the ball in your goal.
its a shame i cant find a way to enjoy any 4x that isnt endless legend or endless space
The team will be playing against /alg/ shortly and they're setting our match up now. Stream https://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleague but if that doesn't show the twitch stream, here's a link to that https://www.twitch.tv/vglvods
>>570291543good luck todayboth look good
>>570378886To be fair that's a time honored french tradition.
>>570382836Maybe Spiderfag was right about Hoeratio. But the whole team were playing like tards, /alg/ too.
>>570382836A 1-1 draw, not good, not bad. We'll be back next Sunday against /2hug/ with the goal machine unstuck
>>570387663One horatio is simply not enough to carry the rest of those misfits.
>>570354350The galactic council formed and I'm close to cruisers so I assume this should be around the half way mark
>>570394004brother make some anchorages
>>570394868I had a traveller faction give me a shitload of cruisers and I've slowly been getting back to normal
>>570394004Bro is at year 60 and only has 215 tech he’s ngmi
>>570399401This is my first game so I have no bearing for what's a good pace
>>570399672I seeWell to put it simply tech is the most important resource in the game and your tech income should be like 3x that amount by around now
I no longer know if this game is a colony builder or an /egg/.
>>570401829how can it be egg if it's made of cheese
>>570174476fun :D. I put 70 hours into my first play-through with no DLC.
>>570408495I also don't have any DLC and knowing Paradox's other games, I'm probably missing a lot of content
>try stronghold>losewtf i though that game was easy
>>570429784You should have held on stronger then
>>570430350Tried, but Caliph just spawned next to me and constantly killed my troops. Couldn't even have manlets and archers.
>>570429784I never found campaigns easy, although I mostly played Crusader only. Missions were sometimes easy, other times bullshit where your best bet was ignoring building and just rushing the enemy. But that was not fun. Never beat the campaign.
New update drop on Monday
>>570436072>reign of terrorSounds ballsy.
>>570436312The devs thought slaves had it to easy in previous versions so decided to fix that
Spider make more photos of Brittany.
>>570437078Can't, busy playing Celts in AoE2.Cogaaaath, cogaaath!
>>569468319real strats
Weather is either like middle of April or hot and humid. All in the same day. I'm going schizo...
/gsg/ bro hereanyone have played county of fortune yet?
You really can't genocide natives in EUV? Pozzed game
>>570456012You genocide them automatically by showing up
>>570456298Not realistic, desu.
>>570455426>>570456012Kill yourself.
Spider, if you can hear me, new Kumo has dropped.It's pretty short and not much happens in it, but such is the way of kumo comics these days.
>>570467293Time to catch up, then.
>>570467884Catch up in the webs?
i wish there were more 4x type games that have a more tempered approach to war, like that not every war should involve annihilating the opposition's army in its entirety and then steamrolling their capital. i think a lot of board games unironically handle combat better since you're just harassing the enemy or just taking out some of their economy, and not completely removing them from the game.for all its other deficiencies, i think humankind actually tried to fix it by having the war support system
>>570474396I only read one manga at time so that the others have time to update.>>570475345That poor marmot.
>>570394004I joined a federation and am patiently awaiting an opportunity to fight an easy war>>570399931So spam gas refineries and research buildings?
Thanks, I guess?
>>570455426>>570456012
>>570484174No. Fuck off back to >>>/vst/gsg/
>>570484262thanks i wasn't aware
>>570484174Fuck off we're full!
>>570484174Fuck off inferior being.
This is so sad. They're practically dead, though, so no surprise their attacks are kind of pathetic.
>>570484871Yeah, but enough about... oh, you meant the Cravers, my bad.
>join age of the ring discord server>chill there for a bit>suddenly get DM'd by someone there>panics>leaves in a hurrrySorry you're stuck with me.
>>570487397Cute autistic femboy.
>>570487397Keep those torches away from the hovels....
>>570502758What game?
>>570503129>he doesn't recognize endless space 2
>>570477402Are there any braindead picks for districts? I've been spamming the gas and crystals ones but it seems like classic Paradox +1.05892% modifier spam and nothing really meaningful beyond the resources
>>570503129Infinite space 2
>>570507532you should be specializing your planets
>>570509620Do those specialized buildings matter?
>>570509706the efficiency and upkeep reduction buildings? yes absolutely
>>570507532>braindead picks District provides jobs, you need pops to work the jobs.Rural district specializations double the number of jobs per district.You have all the numbers on your screenshot.
>Riftborn scout shows up in my constellation>shoot it down on principle, to prevent the AI from denying me mining space>tfw they instantly went from cordial toward me to hostile>gift them 20 titanium a few turns later>tfw they instantly stopped sneeding at me and are happy nowCute, geometric autists.
>>570507532You got 2.7K available jobs, 1.2K amenities (pops use them to be happy), 4.6K housing (this is fine and so you won't need more city districts for a long while), 179 pops (you need tons more to fill those jobs, either encourage them to move with DECISIONS, or by moving pops, which you can only do if you have pop controls enabled)
everybody deadi like that
>>570507532>somehow can't move fleet to a hostile systemWhat ingenious mechanic am I missing here?
>>570529376>magnet iconhyperlane inhibitor, either from starbase (but you already captured it) or hostile planet with fortress building
>>570529751Well fug>federation peaced outLessons for next time
>>570514934If we lose our next divegrass match I will PUNCH her geometry head
>>570542975He's coming home...She loses every time... Football's coming home...
>>570542975RUDE
>>570553350like ur mom lmaoI cut her off the other day and she called me a nigger
>>570542975Riftborn wife abuse....
>>570518601why would you like that
>>570558094https://youtu.be/phitdexy3YI?t=137
Is Grexolis in Age of Wonders 4 meant to be a 'haha fuck you' type map or am I really not understanding something?
>>570564336No. You have the right feeling there. Grexolis is a BITCH of a story map. It's a simple us vs them team fight but the deck is stacked against you thanks to angel orcs having an advanced start. It was the final vanilla story map, so I understand that devs wanted some challenge there. No DLC story maps felt harder than GrexolisExcept for ArcalotArcalot in AoW4 is a fucking nightmare, Grexolis is easier than Arcalot by far
>>570566113It's crazy how there's some super powerful synergies on grexolis like knowledge keepers +40 intelligence and yaka burn synergy and you still can't keep up. I actually really like it even though I can't destroy a single enemy capital.
>>570509410I wish there was an remake of infinite space.
ok so which one of the supcom clones should i start playing in 2026? prefer chill multiplayer lobbies with randoms and suchi played the original supcom and FA back like 20 years ago but dont remember anything about it.
>>570568921ok lol i tried BAR and this thing seems like the same kind of bland freeware jank as zero-ki guess i'll see if supcom has any players
>>570567335I remember for Grexolis I failed once with a previous faction, then just made a chaos/horde tome barbarian civ to combine with the Nightweaver ritual first go and put it all in on trash unit spam. This, combined with adept settlers/prolific swarmers to establish many cities fast in the hopes of scaling better the longer the game lasted, and avoiding contact with the Onmar so they didn't rush me immediately, actually worked. My economy was constantly in the fucking red half the time though. But fighting the angel orcs with unit spam was making me money and helped balance it all out.Think either Nimue or Yaka lost their capital fighting the others but weren't eliminated completely, so I still got the achievement I don't thing this idea would work as well in current version, a lot of small stuff changed since 1.0 which is when I did it
>>570568921Forged Alliance.If you wanna play multi, I think "forged alliance forever".
>>570568921Supcom has good player count with FAF so that's the OG experience. BAR is probably the slightly more popular and more accessible modern interpretation
>>570573474yea i found my way to FAF. seems like the way to go. i like that you can see how poor your teammates are via the CPU meter>>570573765idk what it is about BAR and these types of games, but it's like they try too hard to remake the experience that they forget to actually put any soul or "cool" factor into anything. its like 1 step removed from just having "damage bot" and "the tanky faction", rather than the actual pseudorealistic factions and units that supcom has
what are the best games for watching npcs work while my number goes up?
favorite 4x game that's relatively modern? I see people bitching all the time about stellaris for instance so what would be alternatives? ideally a space 4x
I'm looking for a city builder with lots of depth with production statistics, charts, spreadsheets, economy, etc. Workers and resources soviet republic looks promising but is there another? bonus if I have to manage different classes and their wants and needs.
>>570581697Workers and resources is the hard game and if you want an easy game try anno 1800
>>570580913>space 4xto this day i have been unable to get into any space 4x except endless space 2. it's not exactly new but it's modern enough. the systems are generally good, intuitive and streamlined. desu i think i like it because amplitude is one of the few studios that thinks that making your setting into "space" or "fantasy" just doesn't really cut it. a typical germ developer will go "ja this game is set in fantasy and it vill have elves and humans" and that's the extent of their creativity. but amplitude is (was) made up of artsy frenchmen who treat "space" as just a canvas to do their own wacky shit in, like technovikings, bird samurai, a big space ghost that infiltrates everything and of course horatio. and they have their own aesthetic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyhIrlQalnkof course they did away with everything that made their games good with humankind but it is what it is
>>570582760meant to actually link the hissho cinematic but thats ok too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qe05XP5VFY
>>570580913Distant Worlds 2Aurora of course
kumo cameo in goblin cleanup
>>570585539is dw2 worth playing over the first game? never played either
>>570587009No idea
to me picking a 4x is like having a good time with a babe and then they invariably give u teeth at one point and it sours the whole experience
>>570585849Nai wa-
>>570588351>picks her up>she criesOH NO
>>569455367Galciv 4, Dev Journal #120: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/679626980701766884
>>570529376I restarted now that I have a better idea of what I'm doing and fixed the screen being cutoff. Time to see how much better I can do
>>570598724Hahaa, benis :DDDDD
>>570598724Pro tip: instead of spreading out in general you should focus more on finding and expanding to “chokepoints” and then going back to fill in your territory later. Makes you way more efficient at early game expansion and having a good chokepoint between you and a particularly dick-headed empire makes all the difference. Instead of having your commander stay idle in your capital, send them off to explore ahead of your science vessels so you can identify more of these chokepoints and expand to them
>make 500 minerals a month>hiveworld terraforming on most of my world finishes>suddenly make -1000 minerals a month
>>570612506mining drones probably got reassigned to specialist jobs
>>570612506Hiveworld triples jobs per district, all your miners are now unity and brain drones.
>>570614219>>570614980This would imply that anon hasn’t specialized his capital to produce one specific resource which is totally unoptimal dude #widegang4life #Ilovehaving300%techcost
Olden Era looking... fucking nightmarish, thank you Sseth, I'm not buying it.
>>569736751FINLAND MENTIONED, MEET AT MARKETPLACE.>>569736379Tolkien probably preferred pastoral Shire-core, not savage tribes.
Finland is shit.
>>570580913>relatively modernThat's the sticking point. The most recently released space 4x I can think of that I really liked was AI War 2, which is no longer really very recent (nor a purist definition 4x, for that matter). The genre's been sparse this past decade.
Good night
>>570598724>>570607383That's what I've been trying to do although I was restricted by influence. I have one more chokepoint to take at the bottom then it's a matter of conquest
>>570642906Do not lewd
New hey hey man Homm video dropped.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgi5uTqgtJM
>>570585849I fear spiders.
Kek
Riftborn on Riftborn violence...
>>570663135It isn't easy being geometric
>>570666002They're being overtly edgy.
>>570663135Not allowed.
>>570660351Never seen this quest before. Any idea what the trigger was?
>>570564336its rng because the ai is incredibly bad
>>570580913the only relevant space 4x games are stellaris and endless space 2
>>570646071Harpies are inherently lewd
>>570680352Warhammer Fantasy harpies thought me not to fuck with them.
guys whats taking paradox so long; i want to play nomads.
>>570685676arent they svedish? its june so theyre probably on vacation
>>570685676>>570689823It's out.Disable open beta if you had it.
>>570689823>Am*ricans have no holidayWork harder!
so uhhh nomads?
>>570693804Yes, nomads.
IM STARTING NOMADS
>shipsets have zero influence on how the ark ships lookminimum effort DLC as usual
>>570701893Post campaign and thoughts NOW
no mads
>>570659576He doesn't really say much except that everything is broken in that good way. Can confirm that, it's overall just pretty fun.
>>570678321It's part 2 of the Basryxo population quest. I don't remember seeing it before now either.Sidenote: I swear it was spelled "Basryxio" the last time I checked. Damn Mandela effect.
>>569455367Frostpunk 2, Breach of Trust Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJfAoP-C2UE
I was enjoying playing as a nomadic machine intelligence but then my game crashed…
>>570702413im playing a science arkship nomadic frogs who want to explore spaceits fun but the game explains jackshitfor some reason i dont have minerals or energy but an operations reserve you can do contractsi went to war with a hivemind that was being hostile using the subjugate but for some reason the game treated status quo as if i lost and wont create a splinter subject? maybe this doesnt happen with hiveminds? somehow they confederated mid war too and made the war last longer than it shouldi want to restart i feel like i fucked things upno clue how to upgrade my arkship
>>570709875forgot the pic
>>570708796Expected day 1 paradox quality
>>570709875>for some reason i dont have minerals or energy but an operations reserveyeah that shit is really weird
what the fuck do those lines between waystations mean
not sure what i signed up for (nomads spoilers i guess? it's just showing a new enclave)
Anyone tried the Brigador: Killers or the Dust Front RTS demos?
>>570711728isn't it a wayline
>>570712220I tried the former.
>>570711728It means they’ve formed a wayline. In the early game it doesn’t mean anything, but later on you get a tech that allows you to built something like a “hub” on a waystation which allows you to harvest from all connected stations on the wayline from that one singular station instead of having to drive past every single one
>>570712387what does it do
>>570712827oh i see
>>570713390doesn't it transfer resources or something? what this guy >>570712827 said
yay fallen empire slider
is it me or is the eco for nomads very weird. first im struggling for basic resources, then i get some tributaries and better developed waystations and im overflowing... but i can't take advantage of that because even though my arkship is stacked on furnaces the alloy cost for a new arkship is just way too high. the progression feels a little erratic.
>>570708796I came back just now to try to continue my save and it’s crashed yhree more times at completely random moments so I have genuinely no idea what’s causing it. No mods either. Guess nomadic machines are just too busted for the game to handle
why did they do basic resources like that
>>570726060They'll fix this problem with more DLC
>>570726060they had a dev diary where they said having a constant deficit of energy/minerals felt bad to play, so they came up with this reserves bullshit insteadIDK I won't play nomads for a while
>>570726060>>570726876>>570727483There’s literally nothing wrong with this new system
>>570733756If you're having so much fun then why don't (You) post your playthrough?
>>570734098I would but it keeps crashing
>>570735985With beta hotfix too?
>>570717060I am living in abject poverty.
>>570738717Just tried it, still crashing
>>570741359Have you tried building more energy districts to build up your operational reserves?
Why is nobody talking about how the new dlc is 24 fucking dollars
I think when you start as nomads, you actually don’t want to build waystations in the area you spawn, and you should instead hold onto those alloys and influence for when you find another empire you can cozy up to and start building your waystations in their territory instead
>create a new save on 4.4.2>still haven't found anyone except marauders and a fallen empireUhhhh based?
>>570750430>he isn’t playing as kinomadsWhy?
>>570751156I didn't buy the DLC and haven't been assed to procure the DLCs from elsewhere
>science nomad build and wanderlust HEAVILY encourages you to use ALL your scientists on arkships to survey and explore>arkships can’t do anomalies or special projects
>they added a Mongolian throat singing song for nomads Cringe or kino?
>>570758350Mongol. Not Mongolian. A Mongolian is a retard.
>>570758437Retard
>>570758915No, retard. No capital R.
>>570746951Because it's free.>>570694357
>>570760570It's not free because it costs your time when you could be doing better things
>>570717060i've played a bit more and honestly once you get going this is pretty strong, esp with contracts. im getting tons of resources and my fleet power is insane compared to everyone else. im about to hit mid game so we'll see how it holds up.
>>570766501an aggressive play style and creating a lot of vassals is probably really strong
no die
Machine Age?
>>570741359>should i invest into resource income to avoid this big "LOW" sign on my screen
Playing a settled empire with my buddy as a nomadContracts get weirdAI nomads will snipe some contracts but then won't be assed to actually complete them, locking that system from having more contractsSometimes the option to issue contracts is gone entirely, right-clicking a system doesn't do anything for some time. Reloading fixes it, as well as letting some time past. Not sure if that's an intended limit or just junk? Feels like latter.Abusing the contracts with how cheap they are can get pretty lucrative. Having a nomad as a permanent resident of your borders feels really nice.
>>570771981yes
>>569672505I mean if he's playign Definitive Edition AI that's significantly harder than HD or original at least
Wish me luck anons
How's the new Stellaris expansion, can i pirate now or should i wait for the inevitable hotfix patch for all the bugs?
>>570791309SURPRISINGLY stableMade it to year 100 in multiplayer with a single desync with a bunch of nomadic empires present
>>570792508>SURPRISINGLY stableisn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse?
>>570791309I would wait a bit, I’ve experienced a lot of crashing
>>570791273SO SAY WE ALL
>>570799443Never give up, never surrender.
>new patch>have to figure which of my 100 mods causes the crash on start up again
>>570799771>using cheatsPathetic.
What went right with Nomads?
>playing unmodded Stellaris>find a level X anomaly>wiki doesn't mention anything about anomalies going that highN-nani?!
>>570812492precursor anomalies can be that high
>>570812492Isnt anomaly level just difficulty of solving it?
>>570791309Got ~80 years in yesterday with zero desyncs nor crashes on already released inevitable hotfix beta branch with only basic UI mods.Doomsday Origin actually wanted to get the devastation cheevo but forgot that doomsday does not add devastation lmaoMapgen trolled me hard, squeezed the capital between fallen isolationist border systems, zero planets in my cluster, and a fucking inward perfection blocking the only way out and towards the free gaia AND relic in the comfy pocket in the middle.Before the update it would have been a "you are already dead" situation from the very start.After update Doomsday actually might be a good arkship kickstart, at least for machines. You get 40 years of crazy energy/minerals/alloy production, pay 10K alloys to embark (no science cost at all, it's a planetary decision), keeping all your pops and resource stockpiles AND lifting all the urban buildings + 9 districts directly from planet to arkship.
>>570799443I see I'm not the only one who immediately went to make a BSG civ, however imperfect. I still wonder if technically the President is the head of the government and not the Admiral. I haven't watched nu-BSG in so long. It also feels like a bit of a waste to have the military arkship and not be belligerent enough to use it. At least with Lost Colony they could actually have an Earth to find that is not a tomb world or primitive pre-FTL unless something unfortunate happens.
among us! (among us!)
>>570818010>Calls his civ imperfect>is miles better than my own abomination
whatever paradogg did with the launcher made it way slower, shit needs like ten seconds to even let me configure my playsets
evens I go robo nomadodds I'll go for the new galactic defender with a normal empire
>gestalts are generally able to make the most out of cramped “tall” empire situations simply because they don’t have to produce consumer goods which frees up their industry significantly>both gestalt machines and hive minds can get around the fact that nomads take longer to get a second “planet” because machines just need to build assembly plants and hive minds grow insanely fastI’m getting the feeling that gestalt nomads is going to be notably stronger than individualist nomads but maybe I’m just a retard and bad at playing individualists
>>570712393And? How was Brigador Killers?
>>570833513Felt very grindy, but might've been just me. I did a lot of different runs to farm equipement (the bad idea of the game being that you need ammo as well), and because I stocked them improperly (dumping them on the floor), I ended up progressing very slowly.Otherwise, it's pretty much Brigador except you start naked and have to build a mecha in your cave. And trust me, you're happy when you build your first car, because it let you carry a lot more loot.It's just that the demo had atrocious UI, so I felt frustrated with it, but if dev fixes it, it can be good.
>>570833823Oh I see. It's a very different game then. Maybe I'll check it when they've done some more work on it. Thanks anon.
>>570834318Oh, that's what you mean. Let me get more indepth.Brigador, you had the support of the consortium, so you only had to pay to get new stuff. Brigador Killers is more of an underdog story: the first maps you play are just you passing after a Corvid massacre to loot whatever you can, weapons, bandages, ammunitions. It plays like... a real time Jagged Alliance, where you try to sneak behind people and blast their heads off before they can shoot you back while stuffing your pockets with all the loot you can carry. You can also crouch to aim better, and there's a stealth system. Very basic one though.Then, as you get bigger guns, you take on harder missions, like visiting a crossroads where the Corvids are still present. It's a hotter area, but you get more weapons if you can kill their owners, and there are also vehicles that you can steal, either to carry loot, or to disassemble into material later. Some cars can be modified (I remember stealing a police car and putting a turret on top that I equipped with an uzi), and of course, eventually, your goal is to build a mecha, because cars are nice and can ram enemies, but mechas are cooler.
Lemme post some pics.Here is me, peeking on some corvids. I equipped binoculars and I'm crouching, that let me peek a lot, lot further than normally.
Once back at the garage, you can craft different kind of backpack to transport more stuff.
You can craft some of the pieces, but the chassis and engines are exclusive, so you can't craft a forklift out of the blue.And of course, if you die, you lose everything you brought. And you can only leave with one vehicle, you can't farm maps by moving several vehicles in the exit area.
>>570835503Nice. I know the gist of the story but never really read into it that much. Is the soundtrack still good?
>>570836458I don't know, the game was very, very early. Most of the assets are still placeholders, and I confess I never played with the music in Brigador.Also I was wrong, it wasn't a police car that I slapped a gun on, but a party van. Like in that Team Fortress 2 mario_kart map.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuefzdAPtQY
>>570836361It looks very ambitious and a bit all over the place, do the devs know what kind of game they want it to be?
Is playing nomadic supposed to be this micromanagement heavy?
>>570836759I think so. The impression I get is that it's still Brigador, but now you're the guy on the other side who isn't backed by a massive corporation. So you build your wartools froms scratches, any big operation requires a lot of preparation and spare parts to repair afterward, and the tutorial is essentially a bunch of brigador pilots assassinations.It's just the UI so far that is a total bitch to figure out, because to unload a car's trunk, it's a bunch of very annoying drag&drop.
>>570837051Okay seems interesting. Glory to great leader!
>>570837682It does seem so, but fuck me. I really hope dev will add an option to empty all your pockets the moment you come home. I was very pissed when I spent 8 hours grinding for materials and weapons, only to realize that nothing was saved because I should've instead dumped it in the chest.
>>570837051Are you still operating in Solo Nobre?
>>570828590just use irony mod manager
>>570833823>It's just that the demo had atrocious UI, so I felt frustrated with it, but if dev fixes it, it can be good.1) Shift+click instantly transfers item between left and right inventory screens in a smart way (prioritizong smallest empty weapon slot or fitting ammo slot etc)2) In the latest build any vehicle can loot from containers, you don't need to exit the tank or limit yourself to loader van.3) They did something about drag and drop zones being more freeform, you don't need to put weapons exactly in weapons tab within your backpack etc.Other parts that felt frustrating were "twinstick" move on tracked vehicles and snap aiming, until I changed/disabled those in options.Twinstick works on hovers that can strafe instantly, not on tanks that need to rotate to direction first.Snap aim sometimes makes you miss when your gun is not centered, like shooting sideways from a van turret.
>>570838390I think so? Again, been a while since (learning that the dev forgot to fix that feature that stuff left on the ground would despawn made it quit it right away), but the entire game is about, on short term, to get revenge on the brigadors who survived the first game, and at long term, retake Solo Nobre.
>>570836879>micromanagement heavy???use autoexplore
/civ4xg/ should make a better version of Stellaris
>>570848541We had an anon doing something with a hex spherical map or something, like 1-3 years ago.
Dust Front is pretty dope.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
Give me a non-nomad playthrough idea
Well, time to start a Civ 6 map
>>570865625good night!
i miss stronghold
I think from now on if you’re trying to do a peaceful run of stellaris you might as well do nomads every time. Oh you spawned next to a dipshit asshole empire? Just move away dummy who cares, you can always find at least one other empire to nestle into. As opposed to playing a peaceful settled empire that ends up getting boxed in with psychos at your door
>Play nomad religious nutjob cult going on a pilgrimage>Decide early gane to get buddy buddy with an enpire that somehow like me despite being barbaric despoiler>By the time im nearly done with the pilgrimage, start thinking about settling a bit in their space after this>They get absolutely obliterated into nothingness by a rebellion right in the middle of warGod dommot
>>570874335it misses us too
>>570886352Last time I played was lost so badly that I completely lost the desire to play it again.
>>570899252wow just look at all that dirt
>"Almost a year after launch we're adding art into our game!"Do you think they can save it? I get that they needed money after the Sega split but it was absolutely ass when it released.
>>570909723i would hope so, but i am doubtful. desu i kinda gave up on amplitude after humankind, because there's basically 0 chance of the game actually being truly functional if those same designers are still working there.it takes good number crunch intuitions to really design 4x games so they don't fall apart. simple improvements like "+6 gold per turn" or "+3 gold per turn for each city (can only build once)" are good since they can't really get out of hand. humankind did not do that at all, and instead it had improvements and districts that just compounded your numbers over and over, which inevitably meant you would snowball harder and harder and eventually send your FIDSI to the stratosphere. on top of that, it had that "first come first served" approach to the cultures too, which made it even worse lol. and desu the reason why i have no faith in it getting better is because generally, the people who design the game either get it or they don't. there are no hard rules to game design, so there's no way to even prove to someone that their design is bad, even if you try to explain it to them. it's especially hard to get a designer to actively remove something. an amateur game designer is always going to want to add more and more stuff, because they don't get that whenever you add something, you detract from something else. but i digress. i am only a retarded and lazy ex game dev
>>570911368>because they don't get that whenever you add something, you detract from something elseto give an example, like the best part about endless legend 1 is that the fidsi isn't very intensive and generally optimizing for it doesn't truly matter as much as your unique faction stuff, running around with your kitted out marine death squad, doing quests and generally being interacting with the game. on the other hand the only thing you really do in humankind is pump out fidsi, because if you don't then you fall off the train and can never catch up again
>>570911368>>570911638>the people who design the game either get it or they don'tI guess they lost a lot of people then? EL1 was a very endearing game despite it's flaws and ES2 is just really good overall outside of the DLC and stuff I personally dislike like behemoths. I don't mind snowballing in 4xs generally as long as factions that are designed to snowball have genuine weaknesses to compensate.
>new patch>start new game>everyone wants to be friends, +300 opinion, improving relationsW-what the fuck?
>>570912249They overhauled diplomacy and maybe overcorrected. You get a permanent relationship buff if you send a certain amount of compliments for example.
>>570911985i dunno what was happening at amplitude internally but i'm guessing it was something along the lines of>gameplay designers from EL1/ES2 get either promoted to more senior positions or they just left the company altogether>they hire new junior designers, and those people hecking loved FIDSI optimization gameplay (or it could have just been 1 guy) and they weren't very good at designing it>the senior designers never correct the course, possibly because they don't really understand number crunch eithervery likely EL1 and ES2 were designed the way they were because that's what the gameplay designers liked, and not because they consciously avoided FIDSI gameplay. and also even if the senior devs had some gist of the design flaws with cultures etc. they may have not brought them up because people in westerm game dev are usually not the criticizing type. for all we know, humankind could have legit been sank by literally 1 junior designer who was assigned the task of adding and balancing all the effects of the cultures/improvements/districts. balancing in general is considered "bitch work" in the industry after all
>>570717060>>570766501Okay same poster here: I'm doing a machine empire with tactical algos and diplo protocols. it just hit 2400 and i have almost every single other empire as my satropy. (i raped the great khan). I did Nanotech early and now I have over 1.5M nano resource and 1.3M fleet power (I can field way more too). I also did the new galactic defenders ascension and so my crisis damage bonus is insane. I'm going to take a break but when i come back I'm going to do the early crisis. Check picrel for more details on the stats. This shit is very strong.
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