Angery elf waifu Edition.This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Distant Worlds, Dev Diary #2 – Pirate Factions: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/716788020075823140GalCiv 4, Federations & Empires: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/679629698986149685Nebulous: Fleet Command, Campaign Act 1 will be released on May 29th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BOaaB9I1QNewstower 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/521993383330187248Airship: Conquer the Skies, Water! (but no boats?): https://steamcommunity.com/games/342560/announcements/detail/704400583238355622Falling 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/648085384362721315News Tower, Setting the Record Straight update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/719036195725640223Meet-up at Spiderfag's house at 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney.Theos: City of Myth, gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK96Es5yxEU== 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:>>579009562
>>580161823Distant Worlds, Dev Diary #3 – Lone Pirate: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/675130991105277977
Still laughing at that anon's explanation about what happened to Civ7.
Sleepy
HAK HAK HAK
>>5801626327 also fell victim to the "shitty and incomplete at launch" curse which was definitely a bigger reason for its fall, as anyone can see from Steam reviews, and then got hit with the "shitty overpriced DLC" curse, especially for some civs that should have been in the base game. Fucking Britain didn't launch with 7 and released later as DLC, and a few other civs that have been in the whole series since Civ 1 still aren't represented.Humankind being a Civ-killer was never an official marketing thing, but it's still funny that Civ managed to kill itself with their first game after Humankind. For numbers autism 7 has had less peak players than 5, and its 24 hour peak concurrent is 25k vs 5's 19k. 6 surpasses both by a huge margin (162k all time and 46k within the last day), but it all paints the same picture that 7 shat the bed hard enough that people aren't leaving 6 and so it's pulling civ 5 numbers a year after release. And as I'm typing this I just realized that 7's free weekend is going on, so despite that and the long American weekend 7's still putting out this terrible turnout; looks like normally 7's peaks are worse than 5's lows.The comedic tragedy comes from Firaxis's sheer incompetency. Their two biggest IPs, Civ and Xcom, are franchises where the core players will keep coming back after a long dev cycle if the game is GOOD. But 7 isn't and Xcom was left to rot. They could have given 7 another year or two of dev time and nobody would've cared, they just shot themselves in the foot for no reason.
>>580179032why was it so expensive anyway. what the hell were they thinking?
>>580179214They weren't thinking. That's the gist of it.
>>580179214Large dev games are just $70 now, it's how the industry's gone. Base 5 was $50 on launch in 2010, 6 was $60 in 2016, 7 $70 in 2025. Funny how it shook out like that.Funny, looking through old articles Civ V Complete was released for $50 back in 2014. Hard to imagine Firaxis doing a bundle like that now, considering 7 already has $144 in DLC a year and a half after its release.
Bump.
>>580185842For me, it's American using Day/Month/Year.
>>580185942Your deepest, most desperate desire?
>>580186895My most desperate one is to die and stop being anxious about everything in the world ever.
>>580185942>Day/Month/YearISO 8601's YYYY-MM-DD is objectively the best way of writing dates and I hate that my job uses DDMMMYY as a legacy standard. Spoken I don't give a shit about, nobody's going to be confused if someone says September 7th or 7 September because of the context to the question.
>>580179032>and Xcom was left to rot.What happened to nu-xcom?I dropped it half-way through the first one. Between infinite ammo and very bullshitting mechanics, coupled with an artstyle of that kind of modern western sci-fi for teenagers. I just couldn't be arsed to finish it.I would pulled through if the artstyle wasn't so shitty.>and then got hit with the "shitty overpriced DLC" curse, especially for some civs that should have been in the base game. Fucking Britain didn't launch with 7 and released later as DLC, and a few other civs that have been in the whole series since Civ 1 still aren't represented.Did they try to pull a Paradox then?
>playing a game as a peaceful wilderness empire minding my own business>realize one of the ai empires unleashed the prikki at like year 30>by the time I’m aware of their existence they already have like a quarter of the galaxy and everyone around them is weakened from constantly fighting eachother>have to upend everything I’m doing so I can throw my fleets to the complete opposite end of the galaxy to make border gore and slowly invade and dispose of their planets before the prikki steamroll everyone else>50ish years later one of the empires I saved from being prikki’d turned into a genocidal empire because they had fear of the dark origin>have to throw my fleet to the opposite end of the galaxy again>both times this happens I miss out on the forge championship events because my fleets are nowhere near my capitalCringe
>>580189876>What happened to nu-xcom?It was literally left to die. Last release was Chimera Squad, a hero-focused Xcom spinoff game in 2020. Key creatives behind Nu-Xcom 1 and 2 left Firaxis at some point after 2, but there's obviously other talent in the industry capable of making turn based squad tactics games given things like Menace, the Star Wars game, the upcoming Rainbow 6 game, etc. Firaxis just hasn't given Xcom any attention, which may be for the best looking at how Civ turned out.>Did they try to pull a Paradox then?Bit of a cynical comparison, but it's not unfair. It's more that they decided to rush the release for no good reason (they just announced they're working on adding the Atomic Age and Gandhi to the game in future updates) and had an atrocious launch roster (Aztec, Babylonian, and Zulu are still snubbed to this day despite being in the series since Civ 1). 7's DLC Iis mostly just leaders/cultures, not dramatic game-defining mechanics like a Paracuck game.
>>580191320>bailing out retarded empiresyikes anon, just embrace the inward perfection mindset
>>580193005Cringe.
>>580189876>Did they try to pull a Paradox then?Civ 6 has been a framework for DLC for years now so they are just greedmaxing their own business model. Civs 1-5 only had couple expansion packs per game. Civ 6 made insane bank by selling country packs. They made entire 7 around this idea where they sell leaders and obviously entire ages as well, they just forgot to make a good game on the bottom layer.
Civ7 good yet? Not gona bother with free weekend. If it’s close to civ 5 bnw, just gona get it while it’s on sale then creamapi all the dlcs
>>580187061based
>>580196390>Civ7 good yet?Not yet. Maybe in another two years.>Not gona bother with free weekend. If it’s close to civ 5 bnw, just gona get it while it’s on sale then creamapi all the dlcsIt took the free week for 7 to beat civ 5's current playerbase, and even then not by much. Everyone's still sticking with 6 and 5.
comfy village winter life
>>580203473What do you grow?
>>580193005I’d rather deal with the genocidals while they’re still fairly small rather than having a giant asshole that takes up 3/4 of the galaxy breathing down my neck
>>580204575beetroots, carrots, cabbages... along with orchards full of apples and pears. Also a bunch of oats, emmer and rye.
>>580207119Oooh... I don't even know what emmer is, but likely more than needed to make alcohol.
>>580207481emmer is just an old form of wheat. for alcohol in this game you need barley, but you can only really grow that in regions with rich lands. my peasants have to make due to apple cider, mead and what ale I can import - which is a lot because we're sitting on a huge salt mine and exporting salt is very lucrative
>>580207976This is offensive: you can make alcohol out of everything, not just barley.
Do (You) adjust tech/tradition cost when playing Stellaris?
>>580201903Tell me about 6, is it actually better than 5 now or just a zoomer favorite?I thought it was barebones but okay at launch. Then tried it again after some dlcs but it felt like instead of just usual ai cheating resources they cheat the game rules too. Had some guy rush me at turn 20 with no cb, beat him back and took his 3 cities. Suddenly some bitch I havent even met flipped one of those cities the next turn, I dont even have time to raze it. Then 3 other guys I never met declare war over the turn because I was such a warmongerer.Savescummed to leave the rush guy a city, but then he won’t accept peace, then a couple more turns at war I got declared on by those guys I never met all the same. Didnt touch it after that.
>>580211296I didn't like VI. It had no elves.
>>580212056neither did 5 you retard
>>580213292Hence why it sucks. Age of Wonder FTW.
foundation's kino it's like a more developed & cartoony manor lordshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/690830/Foundation/
>>580214485Does it have elves?
>>580214485I haven't played manor lords yet but having seasons is very nice for a city builder. It's a thing Foundation doesn't have (yet?).>>580215106He said more developed.
>>580196390its close to but at least Beyond is experimental shit
>>580214485Don't know why more games in this vein don't copy the custom building system in this. It's easily the best part.
is manor lord vaporware?
>>580220451No elves? NO SALES!
>>580211296Same story as 5, weak at launch but plenty of time developed it into a full version pretty diffferent from the base game. A lot bigger/more bloated than 5, but also allows more varied play than vanilla 5 with wide not being as harshly punished. More mechanics to interact with like districts, quests, climate change, natural disasters, but the UI's also worse.All in all it's just a different Civ game; Sid himself mentioned once that people each have "their" civ game that they'll stick with even after playing the newest entry.
surviving mars is getting a fancy DLC if anybody cares
Age of Empires 2 is getting a new DLC if anyone cares.
>>580235193>Danes - Pressure opponents early with swift longships to strike without warning. The unique Danish unit, the Jomsviking, is ideal for these raids as a nimble and hardy infantryman that hurls flaming torches to devastate enemy buildings and ships.>Saxons - Construct mighty fortified towns to lock down territory and stand firm against relentless invasions. The Saxon unique unit is the Hearth Troop, a heavy infantryman that opens fights with a ranged javelin before closing in for intense melee combat.>Varangians - Fearlessly master waterways, ride down your foes, and leverage mercenary-style flexibility. The Jarl, the >Varangian unique unit, is a fearsome axe-hurling cavalryman whose attacks tear through enemy infantry.>Leverage the 6 new units across these new civilizations, including 3 shared units:>Varangian Guards - deadly shock infantry who generate gold while fighting and excel at raiding and melee combat.>Mounted Crossbowmen - hard-hitting but slow-firing ranged cavalry who strike fear into infantry armies.>Longships - swift warships that combine potency and versatility.>3 New Campaigns Tracing an Exile’s Rise to LegendHow can they keep milking this cow like this
Civilisation 7 is getting a new paid DLC if anyone cares.
good morning /civ4xg/
>>580236104>How can they keep milking this cow like thisA LOT
>>580236443good morning sweetie
screw it, good night
>>580237121Samet. 10 at night here
>>580237121>>580237284good night sweeties
>>580237121>>580237284good night, 5am here if anyone cares (probably no one)
>>5802377644 am here
>>580238003too sleepnight
>>580238893night night
5 52 Playing free civ7 weekend City states are assholes.... they literally fuck my towns unless i suserain every ind city on map
>>580211296The leaders are extra bitchy due to agendas adding more diplo malus on top of conquering everything. You get less malus from surprise wars, but it doesn't really matter when you're razing a bunch of cities>is it actually better than 5 now or just a zoomer favorite?I got both and i prefer 5 b/c their overhaul mods have smarter AI than 6's. I can't find a mod that fixes their shitty district placements, which is one of the biggest issues with the cpu and is why if you last long enough with an ok district web, you can outpace them on deity easily.>>580242021Kill those barbarian scum before they ally with your rivals
>>580244294i tried.... but they send Golden Armada so i use my blue gold to bribe em (my archer nearly died when i missclick him on coastal)there is +2 ships somewhere
>>580232963>food is actually relevant nowSounds nice
>>580245347Are there UI mods to turn the leaderheads into something smaller, or into lines of text like in 4? I can't stand that aspect of 6 and 7.
>>580249843Food is always relevant.
>>580264323For 6 there aren't any mods afaik, but you try editing the ui scale xml and reduce font size.>>580245347Wait a minute... aren't you the suzerain of Khalchyan based on the leader icon next to the name? You're playing as Rizal, right?
>endless legend 2 is a half baked turd>efforts being directed towards humankind 2 (???)>vodussy still isnt realwhat the fuck is going on at amplitude
>>580271162Marketing took over, just like Bungie.
>>580267615i bribed them with influence literally spend all my blue points to save town
I think im done with civ7 weekendget new age.... literally skipping turn because no one want attack me because i construct too much units in prev age.... (also skipping last 20 turns because nothing to do )Good - narrative events resource management(resources are bland but still) explorationBad - all not mentioned
>>580271162>humankind 2u wot m8
>>580274609https://store.steampowered.com/app/2581850/HUMANKIND_2
hoot
>try SupCom>lose>AI somehow manages to see beyond the fog of war, but it knows exactly what it's hitting instead of just seeing vague shapes>planted T2 factories all over the mapSo frustrating. You can't really reverse a bad economy in SupCom, once you start losing, you're fucked.
Am I the only person getting rusty extremely quickly with RTS? I used to be able to beat the hard AI in SupCom, but now the easy one kicks my ass.
god the exotics system from sins2 is the biggest cancerpure fucking RNG gets to decide if an what captial ships you get to build because HURRR DURRR
>>580289209So it's okay when Stellaris has a random tech tree but Sins 2 making sense hurts you?
>>580275015The trailer looks as if those chink ones made by AI.
Been trying Civ7 because of the free week. Did they get rid of all proximity penalties for towns? The AI is just settling shit in the middle of my empire with impunity, to seemingly no penalty unless I respond with war.Doesn't help that the numbers are so opaque now, I've gotten riots in settlements with +30 happiness and I don't know why. I'd unironically rather be playing Millennia
>>580222849Agreed. In this game clipping things together is great instead of an eyesore.
UNLIMITED POWEEEEEEER!!
>>580298552 (Me)>Did they get rid of all proximity penalties for towns?To answer my own question with Google, yes, it's strictly a "diplomatic" penalty, so the only thing preventing everyone from fucking up your internal trades routes is if they can survive you being pissed off at them.
>>580311417not even loyalty penalties?
>>580313231Aside from one specific time-limited crisis, loyalty is completely gone.
>>580315210Amazing work, Firaxis. I remember at launch this was a big complaint yet they still haven't fixed it.
Why do I suck SO MUCH AT RTS FOR FUCK SAKE
good night, anons and spiderfag
>>580171835HYUK HYUK HYUK
I think /civ4xg/ could make a better civ killer than Amplitude at this point
Is it moral for alien slavers and human competetive racists to team up against horrors from another dimension?
>>580328608Dunno, ask /tg/.
>>580330686Top of the morning to ya.
I'm playing this dumb shit that nobody cares aboutwho should my sponsor and commander be
>>580338136what game
>>580338540surviving mars 2: cash grab boogalooanyways this is what I'm going with
>>580338136>>580338709>immHave you no shame? At least pick russia, brazil or eu and pretend there's a failure condition.
>>580338709the new tech screen is definitely something>>580339258I play this game like once every three years, I have no shamealso I think I did either brazil or EU the last time I played
>>580339791Hey, US or IMM are equal to playing with cheats on what's already a very easy game. You do you but you'll kill what little fun there is. Oh and I'd not fuck around with underground without backing up my save. That's what killed it for me last I played.
>>580339791damn it's aliens and shit>>580340018noted
>>580340235man I don't remember what I need to get colonists on marsalso my poor little laptop is chugging
>>580342436oh I'm ready
Alright, that total war campaign is a wrap. And it's a failure.What a RTS with undead where a 6 hours long campaign won't end in failure?
>>580347670Spiderhammer: The Elfening
>>580347670Warcraft III
>>580351068If only.>>580351364I could try that one again, yeah.
bump
>>580328608I don't see why not.
>>580342658Can you dismantle that new spire building that does the politics now?
>>580367839You could move it since forever.
as ded as this game
>>580375068is that civ 7? that UI is atrocious
>>580375068Idiots will claim aliens made these.
>>580378818Okay, show us your UI then, Mr Armchair Expert who knows everything better than everyone but never made a game.
Anon been real quiet since >>580379031 dropped.
I'm tired
>>580387982Me too, boss.
>>580325494>amplitude master plan to make humankind a piece of shit to bait firaxis into killing themselves with civ7>the madlads actually make the turd that is civ7>amplitude buys out their freedom after the humankind flop lowers their value enough>everyone expects them to make endless games and collect free money again>endless legend 2 comes out as a half baked mess>in a complete subversion of expectations announce humankind 2
>>580378861ayy get the fuck off my board
>>580378861stacking rocks into a big 3D triangle is clearly beyond what humans could possibly achieve
yaaaaaay
>>580397330damn my colony's fuckin ugly
>>580398867>the meal names are just for flavorhehehe
>>580399231yaaaaaaaaaaaaay
>>580400358I suppose I'll make a research dome here to take advantage of these two research vistasI can't find any rare metals so far though...
>>580401726>alien crystals give rare metalsneat
surviving mars sounds interesting, but it's made by paradox and apparently has a history of terrible updates and DLCnow I wonder if I should give it a chance or not while its on sale
>>580338709>surviving mars 2: cash grab boogalooHow come I thought they tried to fix some things and create a more complete package? Is it that bad?
>>580402112I shouldn't have made this a micro dome, everybody here is unhappy>>580404045I pirated it desu>>580407340the DLC is scummy and this remaster shouldn't have been as expensive as it was
Its been so long since I've played this, its the first I've seen the intro, kinda neat desu
Barely just made by my first drought, but then the colony stabilized quite well
>>580409364Also forgot to mention, wasting pretty much 2 hours because of a lamp placement
>>580408760>>580338709>surviving mars 2Doesn't it look exactly like the first one?
>>580369058Not on launch I could not.>>580409821There is no second game, its just the first game again but remastered but they fuck it up>>580404045The original with a bug fix mod (from the workshop) plays fine enough but the latest 2 DLC don't integrate well on the base game, but that doesn't matter now since Paradox delisted it.>>580407340>they tried to fix some things and create a more complete packageThat was the objective and add more DLC and they fuck it up.>>580399231Please provide more info on the new food DLC as you unlock stuff, it seems superfluous so far.
>>580281951Raid with light units, plant radar everywhere or use scout planes, reclaim everything you can get your hands on, bomb their backline economy. Unless the enemy is overwhelmingly ahead of you, you can reverse a bad economy with enough effort. Also, not sure how much the AI knows, but you can tell what a unit is by their icon in the fog of war.
>>580411871Yeah, but you can't tell if a building is a turret or a T2 immobile engineer.Also how do you even raid? Feel like the enemy has units or turrets everywhere.
>>580412029If I remember right, you can tell what a unit is if you scout them with a plane first. Their icon will remain until they get out of range or something. Either way, break out the artillery and make it rain. If it shoots back, it's a turret. If not, it's an engineer. As for raiding, scout, scout scout. Know what your enemy has, know where it all is, and strike where they're weakest. Tailor your strike forces to what they have, as well. Bombers work just as well as light units when it comes to sniping metal extractors. If all else fails, play UEF against an easy enemy until you get the hang of things, and then bump up the difficulty.
>>580412696>If I remember right, you can tell what a unit is if you scout them with a plane first. Their icon will remain until they get out of range or something. Either way, break out the artillery and make it rain. If it shoots back, it's a turret. If not, it's an engineer.Oh.Dammit. that's why it knew to target my auto engineers with that T2 cruiser.>If all else fails, play UEF against an easy enemy until you get the hang of things, and then bump up the difficulty.I might have to do that, I did exactly what I used to do (rush air, then spam interceptors, bombers and gunships to destroy anything trying to get near), but the AI did something I never saw: it focused on sea units and then shoot down all my units and building while I was just breaking T2 land factories.I am likely very slow and rusty.
>>580413086If you haven't played in a while it can take time to get used to things, yeah. The UEF is the most balanced faction and has a great roster of units. And that situation is exactly why you scout constantly. If you know what's happening on the battlefield you can pivot to counter it. Set your scout planes to patrol if you don't want to constantly micro them.
>>580413787I can do that, I think. I'm just used to the Cybrans, but if I remember right, the vanilla Cybrans are a bit cucked with their T2 turrets and tanks.
>>580414259Cybrans have Salems though so they're cool
>>580414524Honestly I mostly like the Cybran because the first picture I ever saw of SupCom was a Monkeylord. The whole thing took two pages, and had little zooms here and here to show off how cool the Monkeylord was.Back then, the idea of an unit being able to fire several guns at once was mind-breaking.
>>580410614>Please provide more info on the new food DLC as you unlock stuff, it seems superfluous so far.there are new resources called delicacies, and each one gives a bonus of some kind when colonists consume it. it's mostly just +5 comfort or health or whatever. there's a variety of ways to get them so there's some new supply chains. it's not groundbreaking but it's fun for flavour (heh)
>>580414259Oh, if you're cybrans then you should be great at rat tactics. Your basic unit is great for just swarming the enemy backline. I think at least one of your units has a built-in jammer, and more help to keep your bases safe-ish. Your gunships are reasonably good as well, and should be good for frontline skirmishing and backline raiding. Cybran T2 turrets are fantastic for holding ground, and T2 is when your navy really shines with the Salems and such. Also, never underestimate a sneaky jammer base in the enemy backline
>>580417867Do the AI in SupCom really react to jammers, or is it like in every fucking RTS game ever where they know you're here but can't shoot you? I have bad memories of Starcraft's AI knowing where my invisible units are. And always using a comsat scan right on their head.
>>580418373That is actually a good question. Base SupCom, I think jammers work. FAF may or may not? Depends on how they upgraded the AI. Same for any AI mods that are out there. It has been a while since I played, so take that with a grain of salt, but jammers are generally very useful.
*telesnipes u with my COM*
I'm trying to make a railroad up to this plateau and this ramp is being jank as hell
>>580415190Also how buggy the game so far seems, the changes they made (asteroids now are captured in orbit by default, elevator is a big deposit) seems to incentive players to actually use said content, and I hope it's working now.
>>580429932Is this the remaster?
>>580429932I really wish there was a button that says "GO FUCKING SEE A DOCTOR AND QUIT BOTHERING ME OR I'LL MOVE YOU TO RADIOACTIVE WASTE MOVING DUTY".
>>580432285These things are systemic issues. They aren't going to a doctor because they can't not because there's a lack of a button that would force them to do so.
>>580432967And they have customised solutions: GO A DOCTOR BEFORE I KICK YOUR ASS
>>580429932finally got rare metals extraction goingI've given up on fiddling with the train, it just seems inferior to shuttles>>580431704yeh
>>580429932Anon... Build a goddamn tunnel.
>>580438094I know I should have but I wanted to try the train
>>580439996Trains use those too
>>580440581you're fucking joking
>>580441465No, I'm not fucking anyone.
>>580441465Nope. They do rovers, trains and transfer power/air. Used to be separate ones for trains and rovers but that got changed ages ago.
>>580442714I am somewhat peevedcan drones go through them? otherwise you can't transfer anything without shuttles or manually doing it with an explorer
>>580443512Your depots not working or something?
>>580443820?
>>580444404Yeah, daisy chain depots until rail stations are online? I thought you said you played this before.
...what? How did I win?man i somehow suck at chess even more than i suck at warcraft 3
>>580449119I meant can drones travel through tunnels? it would be annoying to maintain two separate drones areas without shuttles
>>580450805You're going to need a range booster on their tower but yeah, I guess you could use them like that. For some reason. And no, you absolutely want separate drone areas connected by rail stations. Alternative involves your resources being shuffled all over instead of where you actually want them.
>>580271162You can take the devs out of the corporation, but you can't take the corpo out of the devs.
>>580429932What is that pipe? For steam?
>>580467986For your MOM
>>580467986If you meant that elevated piece of shit snaking up the slope that's magrail for trains.
good morning, sirs and spiderfags
>playing civ 7>Rome war on me>destroyed him take 1 prize city>left corner is Brazil dude>100 relationship>instant war after few turns>take my 2 cities because my logistic is non existant>i fight back>he calls America>fight both back>start wiping both>they instant want peaceNEVER TRUST ANYONE(deity btw)
>>580378818i still dont understand what specialists do literally no UI or tooltipsmany thing literally missing in civ its like mobile version of civ i hope they fix it because i like some aspects
>>580189876>to nu-xcom?They made some capeshit game, not sure beyond that. I think some devs moved to another company and made that Star Wars xcom style game, but maybe that's a rumor.
>>580476830hi
>>580449423Only chess game I play is LoveChess: The Greek Era (2004)
>>580489004is this gay
>>580490417I think it has one or two lesbian moves.
>>580491420meh
>>580494471spider...
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-432-yet-more-about-4-5-cygnus.1941026/New Stellaris dev diary, release date coming next week for real this time
Bamp.
spoopy crystals
How machine intelligences are written during events>beep boop this does not compute error 404 extermination protocols engagedMeanwhile machine intelligences in reality:>sup bro wanna prank some organics?
Spider, did you play that Xcom style SW game? Zero Company, I think it's called.>>580512141I think second style makes more sense. They are not simply robots, but artificial consciousnesses.
>>580511789this is pluto erasure
>>580513947Ganymede is 9th planet.
>>580511789Oof. Is the next crystal floating in orbit arround Jupiter by any chance?
>>580513947I got the train operational, thank god it's automatic>>580515853I'll let you know once I hook all these crystals up
>>580515948I made a senior quarantine dome
>>580520780Good riddance.
>>580520780I'm also making a fucking and farming dome up herea trigon has room for a spire, right?
>>580521830All domes have spires slots minus micro and barrel domes.
>>580521830it's so difficult to fit every service inside a single dome that I'm making an ancillary dome for this one
>>580524884I'm doing asteroid shit too, finally gathering exotics
>>580527184delicious bugs
>>580528139Grub. Slimy, yet satisfying.
>>580528139I wonder how much the distance from the sun affects crop yields on Mars
nighty night
finally won my first total war game everI think i prefer dune spice wars
Simple rock-paper-scissor counter system for RTS, or complex spiderweb of counters?
>>580538275Both? Have rock paper scissor for starting units, and get more complex in the mid/lategame?The real question would be: soft counters or hard counters?
What's the consensus about first-person strategy game?
>>580543187The new japanese themed one seems pretty fun.
>>580536059Good night.
>>580544214I'm a bit sad that there are no youkais or anything, but a historical Japanese war sounds fun too.
>>580524884>fit every serviceYou're not meant to and you'll fuck yourself trying to. Different specs have different needs and there's the shock the gay away sanatorium spire for gamblers and other degeneracy.
>>580558121>you'll fuck yourselfI accept your challenge.
>>580559984How's this for challenge - don't make braindead shitposts for a week.
>>580563347You want me to fuck you braindead? Sure!
>>580564665Cut the crap. What are you playing? Thinking of giving aow4 or planetfall a go again myself.
>>580565781AoM.Jap.Black Forest.
>>580524884Not feasible until a Medium Dome and even then there is not much space left for population, which is why you kick the kids out to their own dome with a school, nurseries, and unless they changed parameters on this new version, they only need a playground and some food storage nearby to be comfy.
>>580558121the problem with that dome is that I tried to fit homes + farming (because I had a tech or law that gave me comfort from farms) + kid stuff so that left little space for other thingsI probably shouldn't have done the water reclamation spire either
>>580566226You still doing that timber into farm rush thing?>>580566935Do a central processing dome with those big storage units and starport nearby and have it connected to specialized domes via rail. Looks good, your resources flow to and fro a central position and you save a ton of FPS for not needing a gorillion +1 shuttles later. The expanded network helps when you decide to make it green later too.
>>580567497No, I try instead of hunt for ages 1 to 2,5.
>>580566226Black Forest is an AOE2 map though
>>580573350
>>580573473That's Boisombre. Next you'll be telling me Spiderfag exists.
>>580573936What do you think Boisombre translates to?
>>580574276Boi sombre - sad boy
>580574543You're a moron.
>>580574801C'était une blague, M. le Spiderfag
>>580568123Fishing is alright too but not as good as in aoe2. How about timing attacks, practiced doing those?
Any 4x games in which I can grow yams?
>>580543187Sounds fun in theory, but probably can be annoying to control.Good morning now.
>>580583185good morning sweetie
good night sweeties
>>580585928It's past 10 am, anon....
>surviving mars f2p for the whole weekendnow I have to try it, huh
the humans in this game look weird
>>580594908Who said you could repost my selfies?
>>580594908cartoony
okay lads here we goI'm picking europe and a doctor commander because I heckin love science and a happy healthy population!!!
>>580597314I'd suggest japs instead but hey, eu isn't too bad either.
>>580575770Timing attack? You mean that thing from SupCom I never understood?>>580583185Sadly yeah, the best option is either to renounce movement like in Battlezone 2, or have everyone follow you.
*farts*
It only took me 15 days, but my first settlers can finally start living in the most basic way possible
>>580606853Is this an American game?
Oh well.
Well, that's the absolute state of the Minerva colony. I found an area with great bonusses to domes (comfort and research) so I moved my first dome way farther south than originally planned. My initial landing site and logistic center is now way out of position and I should move all the resource depots to a more central position. And by the time I found the money minerals I had already built my first dome. So its either waiting until I research trains or try that naturalist habitat thing once I can order more people.
>>580608569Don't do turbines if you don't have to anon. The machineparts upkeep will eat you alive.
>>580609137What's the alternative? A billion solar panels and batteries? I'm not paying out my ass for sterling generators.
>>580609249No, that'll eat you in metal upkeep. You float with solar, turn off non essential shit during the night to save on batteries and then build your own sterlings. You can also go fusion if you get the appropriate breakthru.
>>580609249>I'm not paying out my assNobody will want it, spiderfag. We all know it's been ruined by all your girlfriends.
>>580608332BulgarianWhy?>>5806091371. Polymers are ass to produce2. Machine parts covert metal into more power than just metal to power3. Machine parts are not in demand unlike polymers
>>580610316>Bulgarian>Why?Mmm. Just found it weird that it was "Europe" and not individual countries, and in my experience, only Am*ricans are that ignorant.
>>580610482>ignorantNot exactlyHaeminmont Games (Bulgaria) is the original and current dev. Before Relaunched Paradox handed over the game to Abstraction (Netherlands) for DLCs
>>580610482Not that guy but we do literally have an European space agency running these types of missions. If anyone from Europe would send any colonists to Mars it would obviously be them
>>580610316They're a waste of both metal which requires refining into parts, electronics for the factories and engineer manpower but you do you. Polymers are infinite, scale better with production buffs, their plants don't take up domespace and you need them for other stuff as well. Plus you can get them for literally free. I wouldn't make more than a couple large ones even if I was doing a max storm region.>>580610482EU is a thing...
>>580611472>one studio made the game>then another studio made the DLCHow do...What for...How can you be sure that the second studio will understand the game's balance and not completely ruin it like they did in Unreal???>>580611550Not for long with the G*rms getting infected with Nazism again.
>>580611653>understand the game's balanceBalance is easy to understand. You don't need to code a thing to see if it's working right, if anything often times being the developer prevents you from seeing the mistakes in your product. Not being the primary developer hurts the actual development side but if the dev tools are good then that's not an issue. Lots of studios do this kind of work or outsource bits and bobs of their games to third parties like music or art or story or what not, it's the same thing really.
>>580611938Except music and art can be changed later on. Meanwhile once a game balance is fucked, it's insanely tough to change.Again, look at Unreal. Same thing with Gladius and Endless Space 2, I guess. And also SMAC.also whomst the fuck outsource the FUCKING STORY? That's the one thing you want to keep for your're are self.
>>580612157You been drinking again?
>>580612157Are you stupid, like legitimately do you have some kind of condition or are you just baiting for bumps or what?
>>580612387Yes.
>>580612157The post that angered the tourists.
Give me a civ to play as in Pie's Ancient Europe later
>>580611550I prefer to use solar panels too but domes, pops and batteries need a lot of polymers. Earthborn colonists have occasional breakdowns due to working outside which is annoying to deal with
>>580612945Paradox nuked my savegames but you can see I use them >>580608562But day ~350 with unlimited metal and every other resource you can do a lot of vanity shit you can't afford day 15 with 12 colonists is all I'm saying.
>>580612716Franks.
>>580589216good morning sweetie
>>580615883>morningAnon, it's half past 5 pm...
>>580616523not for me hun :)
>>580616523I SAID! GOOD MORNING!
i win
>>580618876I thought those were the Timberborn beavers for a second
>>580618978Cat Chess.It just came out and there are already DLCs for it.I hate modern gaming more and more, I just want my cute Battlechest with cats.
Where is Fungal Farm? Am I blind?
>>580621157nvm, found it
oh cool a meteor storm is about to kill me, and if there's any way to protect against it I can't find it in this mess of a research treeguess I hunker down and pray
>>580622009Don't be a baby. It's free research, metal and polymers!
>order medic specialists from earth>they'd rather work the diner than the infirmary
>>580622009it's honestly not that bad
>>580623659>it's honestly not that bad
>>580626021I suppose it could be bad if you chose a landing location with really bad meteor showers
>>580626425Nah. Worst case scenario at that stage you lose a couple of drones and maybe a rover because leaving it on automated means it'll charge right in there.
>>580626425>I suppose it could be bad
>>580626021It honestly wasn't. Not a single meteor came down anywhere close to the colony. Nothing ever happens.
>>580627879why are your domes so close togetherwhy do you have three small housing buildings instead of a single large onedid you build a fucking amusement park
>>580628074>did you build a fucking amusement parkOkay Robotnik
>>580628437okay okay finethat train station nestled between the domes and the spires is mad comfy though
>>580628074>why are your domes so close togethervista + research bonus>why do you have three small housing buildings instead of a single large onethat's just the basic housing building? I don't have anything else researched yet.>did you build a fucking amusement parkmy colonists kept having mental breakdowns, surely the amusement park will help better than infirmaries and medical posts
>>580628927No matter where I look, everything reminds me of my wife.
>playing some thermophile hive mind and chillin >see 15k strength arkship that I recognize as the CFL enclave enter my systems >pay no mind while I wait for contact to finish>suddenly get an alert that I’m under attack>out of nowhere CFL is now hostile and bombarding my home planet with their 15k strength arkship at year 20Nothing a little “damage 9999999” can’t fix, but still wtf?
>>580629362>that's just the basic housing building? I don't have anything else researched yet.there's a full triangle (idk what else to call it) housing building unlocked from the start, it's marginally more efficient than the small triangle (you know what I mean) ones
>>580631104yeah, that full big triangle housing is what I've been building
>>580631321oh I think you're just using a different visual variant, I'm dumb
>uhh dude just build with faith instead of building materials???why is the faith faction so retarded?
>>580633665Because it's the faith faction. Faith operates on different rules than logic.
>>580633665>Faith>2. strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof
>fit, sexy, gamer engineerso much for this being realistic
>>580637736I'll have you know I'm a gamer and I'm sexy.
nighty night, anons and sexy gamer spiders
>>580637996Weren't you complaining recently about gaining a bunch of weight?
I'm gonna make two mega domes here, but I need to flatten out the land first
>>580630940>cheating in Paradox's perfect game
>>580642471>50 food for 50 electronicswhat the fuck are the chinese doing over there
>>580644183f l a t
building a network norde for a sketchy company to house its AI project in? What could possibly go wrong?
>>580644356d o m e s
>>580642498Don’t think of it as cheating think of it as bugfixing
>>580644356boring and flat>>580648941nice and perky
>>580641248I am a gamer and I'm sexy.never said anything about being fit
>>580642471>gets multi spire domes>doesn't use themWhy?
>built a whole ass logistics network of cables, pipes and rails through the natural landscape>along mountains, canyons and god knows what else>spend in-game days trucking the resources around with transporters and using a command car to build it all>finally bother getting one of these dozer things how useful can they be>it flattens a mountain in less than a day>mfw when I could've just turned the massive mountain range into a pancake and have the most direct and efficient route for my logistics autismFUCKSHITARGH
>>580660306aren't geodesic and capital city the only multi spire domes?
>>580661302Hell no.
>>580661596looking at the wiki, I don't have access to any dome that can have 2 spires
>>580661975Diamond and oval are breakthroughs. Basically make sure to pick up any planetary anomalies that don't explicitly say resource reward before the ai does.
>>580662661yes I know, the point I was making is that I don't have any multi spire domes
Endless Legend 2 doesn't seem half baked to me.
>>580670992ur mom
>>580659828If you're as sexy as you are talented at games, then I'd hardly call you much of either. But admirable self-confidence regardless, monsieur.
>>580675692I have more people wanting to fuck me than being impressed by me playing games. Except when I stream FPS's and somehow manages to land a 360° mid-dodge with a Shock Rifle. Pure luck tho.
>>580670992Post a playthrough because I haven't seen one posted here
>>580665112If you say so. A couple can be gamechangers but spires in general are vastly overrated.
Things are picking up, sad it seems like folktales are still fairly weak in terms of power stuff
I still have to secure a decent amount of water, I thinking making a big dam up stream here, but damn that those flow control things are pretty pricey
And just like that, had my first extended drought and barely made it, if it wasn't for that improvised reservoir.
>>580684249forgotten picture
>>580684120Oh hell.
>>580683950>folktales are still fairly weak in terms of power stuffYou're crazy. Windmills rule.
>>580684120speaking of which, have you guys figured out how to maximize power output?the water wheel max at 270, but I can only get 160 average, that's with the natural source flow to two rows of water wheels,Maybe if I focus flow into a narrow strait of 1 row, but then I'd imagine flooding might happen, I'm not sure one row can outweight the power output even if maxed out
>>580686605Pressure doesn't transfer well across height so keep that in mind. Just funnel it in a straight line and maybe add a tesla valve or few until it's capped and then do vertical wheels. Not worth doing for folktails since no permanent badwater imho.
>>580687231>maybe add a tesla valve or fewThe what?>then do vertical wheelsWhat do you mean?>folktails since no permanent badwater imhoAgain, but what do you mean here? Its been quite a while since I've last played so I'm a bit out of the loop.>>580686401I think this anon may be right, maybe I'll just fit some a couple more waterwheels in there, and then seems suitable for some weight batteries and wind mills.There are two badwater sources down south too, so I'll leave that to experiment more with water power contraptions.
>>580688407The tesla valve or few.
>>580689529Ohhh I see, actual tesla valve, as in>funneling flow increases fluid velocityGotcha
>>580688407That's the same anon. But anyway. Related is a tesla valve, the flow from the tributaries either slows down the main stream or if the design is reversed speeds it up. In your case increasing power.Ironteeth have permanent badwater. Folktails do not. So if you're playing with long droughts that's not going to cut it.>vertical wheelsEither use pumps or some creative terraforming to make an artificial waterfall. It's not as powerful as a long line of wheels but it's very compact.
>>580688407>>580689928One other neat trick you can do if you're going for the line approach is stacking the wheels in a closed pressurised tunnel. If you're not against messing with automation you can even do a perpetual machine using flow gates. And if everything is paved over with metal and artificial walls there's very little seepage or evaporation either.
good morning
>>580695835good morning sweetie
>>580686185lol what
Another meteor shower coming upMaybe something will happen?
>>580665112What breakthroughs did you get?
The surviving mars tech tree seems I dunno how I would describe it disjointed maybe.Last time I played was back in the pre remake days and the linear progression with techs there was maybe bit frustrating but manageable. With this new system you have so many options but if you don't play with easy settings research points are very hard to come by and there's lot of "filler" techs too so the path to any significant objective is pretty arduous.I spawned on a plateau, turns out there's no metal up here so I need to get down. I'm going by with 100 sponsor research. What are my options here, I could attempt to gain more sponsor research or funding but those are behind something like 5 techs which is going to take months. I could go for the tunnels but that's again months away. Lastly I can make a giant ramp which I find least interesting but that's just one point and right at the starting circle even if it does cost an expensive rover import. I'm not sure if I like this version. I think maybe if I played 5 or 10 games the random and blind techs would get boring and this free form system allows for more variety of builds but dunno for just a game or two.>>580708119Meteor showers almost never hit anything of yours. They are more of a resource delivery vehicle than a real threat.
>>5806709926 and two half factions at "launch"
>>580705373Found out about Star Wars Chess. Been having fun looking at the Stormtrooper spam getting kills.
>>580718687play that SW xcom game then
>>580724176That what?
>>580724534Star Wars Zero Company
>>580724647YO WHAT THE SHIT
hm... maybe plugging in the overlord wasn't such a great idea
>>580725973>what is the meaning of life?>42
>>580725973Why would you think that Dave?
>>580725973>>580726235>>580727061It pulled an Asimov, you philistines.>INSUFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER
>try Japanese campaign of age of mythology>first mission is a desperate survival mission that I barely beat>finish mission>"would you like to see the tutorial now?"YOU FUCKING NINNY
So I built a dome in a crater because its full of resources, but I'm also slowly getting into terraforming - if it starts to rain naturally, will craters turn into lakes and everything in there drowns?
>>580736195No, they won't drown, but they'll get eaten alive by crocodiles.
I'm never leaving civ 5 at this point. civ 6 was just dogshit, disneyification and the maps and UI was terrible. civ 5 is the last good civ dont @ me
I enjoy Cities Skylines 2I wish there was a perfect hybrid between this and Workers and Resources
>>580736195Lakes only show up if you make them manually, early rain often ends up acid and form large 'puddles' of toxic sludge that you can remove. Also no, your colony won't be underwater no matter the location on the map, you can be in Hellas Planitia and still be a 'island' on the map.
redpill me on the mars caves. I'm kinda intrigued but my surface colony is already so huge that I'm not sure going underground is worth it.If anything it makes me want to pick the spelunker commander and go full grug from the start
nighty night, sweeties
What a beautiful way to travel to the moon to take the new job as Director.
Now a short shuttle ride to the Moon's Hope-2 station.
Now on my way down. Surely nothing bad could possible happen.
Oh, what was that.
Uh oh.
That's not good.
AEIOU
It was my first day.
I really appreciate the radio channels in Surviving mars, more games should do stuff like this
>>580689928>>580690915Just saw a video testing the physics over two years ago, and it tested the tesla valve.Results weren't convincing to be honest.I had to do a double check, and indeed, seems like my pure water source kinda sucks, the badwater ones have so much more flow to it, my plan now is moving the biggest part of manufactory around here.Currently I just need to test whether all this flow can funnel down two tiles without flooding
Nothing a bit of elbow grease and some duct tape can't fix.
>>580755313That car or truck reminds me of Mass Effect ones.
>>580755970link us the tracks/ost
>>580771389I dunno you can probably find them from youtube, it's not the music that matters but the radio channels on a conceptual level.
>>580755596So how's the Crust? Any good?
>>580773290>Any good?Yes, very fun.
>>580752943>>580753254>>580753534>>580755313YOU FUCKED UP NOW
>>580772103It serves some gameplay purpose too?
https://www.youtu.be/9eQUtOQXYgQOh hey new Starcraft next decade.
>>580783518Here's how we get an RTS revival
>>580783518>>580786480Wait fuck it's NOT an RTS. It's apparently an "open world" FPS. Wish they could've put that in their video description so I could find out in the trailer and not while I was googling it.Blizzard, man. This vaguely reminds me of what they pulled with the Diablo mobile game announcement in the sense that it was a spinoff that none of the fans wanted.
>>580787968>open world" FPSNigger that's Starcraft Ghost
>>580789042Time is a flat circle. https://xcancel.com/StarCraft/status/2098838756157739045
Trying Civ VII, is a scientific Independent supposed to just come out of the fog of war with 6 boats, 6 infantry and an army commander a quarter of the way through Antiquity?
>>580799150Oh my god, Roger A Muirebe killed Roger A Muirebe while Roger A Muriebe was watching!
>>580794501Is that their Era Crisis thing? I haven't kept up with VII.
>>580740375From up above it looks neat indeed, but I'd imagine it still looks meh close up.Did they manage to actually implement farms nowadays?
First badtide caught me a little bit by surprise, but not too bad I guess.
>>580806956Until your beavers are all sick.
>>580810318>viceroy in yellow
...the fuck is that?
Why is an ashigaru giving order to a samurai?
>>580813410Lovely blue snow.
>>580756336If you mean that rce video that was before 1.0. They further tweaked physics since.
>>580820803urgh
>>580815446A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
>>580831180Except with samurais. They have a MASSIVE EGO
>>580815446Maybe he's a great sandal warmer
>>580832052There's a joke here I don't understand.
>>580799862ayy>>580799150Which one will Spiderfag support?
>>580835805I support the Cravers that are offscreen and coming in quickly.
>>580835791Toyotomi Hideyoshi... Went from peasant to servant to official to retainer to daimyo to de facto shogun.
>>580764647>That car or truck reminds me of Mass Effect ones.Its design is like one of those concept designs that NASA churns out every few years when they talk about going back to the moon.
How the fuck did the Moon supply so much stuff to Earth that a month of interruption would cause so much damage?I get it that the end-game resources to extract is helium-3, but that would only cause an energy crisis.
>>580841741The lack of affordable processed cheese from luna cheese mines means no cheeseburgers. No burgers and the society unravels itself.
>>580843706They clearly have to send Wallace and Gromit, to help with the search and rescue operations on the Moon and the rebuilding of the production infrastructure.
>>580841627I guess, but it also does remind me of Mass Effect. Not the one player uses (besides wheels), but there are other vehicles.
>>580850296Aye. I know which one you are talking about, tried to google it but had no luck. It was one of those vehicles on the human colony worlds.
I built a dome in the underground
>>580853925I swear I'm gonna start terraforming just so these fucking dust twisters stop appearing
>>580853925Should've left room for a large trainstation there.
>>580854443>no one's moving in>this dome does not have access to an elevatorI may have made a mistake>>580855398I have made a mistake
>>580856171>train station by the elevator on the left>train station by the dome on the rightthis better fucking work
>>580856674I need a train station next to my elevator on the surface, don't I? it's not enough just to have shuttles?fuck
>>580857767Turns out they don't fly so good under ground
Aurora 4X 3.0 patch waitan...
>>580837821He waited until he was daimyo to order samurais around.And also Hideyoshi wasn't obeying some tengu.
>>580857767I powered up all the crystals and now they're leaving>>580858387I literally have the tech that makes shuttles work underground
>>580863416uhh... they're not leaving.
>>580863416>Commander! I bear news of the utmost important to you!>what is it?>3 people are in discomfort!
>>580863652Colonist discomfort is an alien crystal level threat
>>580863619how boring
>>580862527Details, details.>>580863416You should ask for a refund. you don't have the tech that allows them to fly between different map layers do you? :)>>580863619Oh, shut it. You manually picked that mystery because it gives you unlimited raremetals.
>>580868149I picked that mystery because "the philosopher's stone" sounded interesting, I didn't know what it didnext time I play in like 2-3 years I'll pick one of the hard mysteries
I should stream a game.
>>580868294>>580338709 >i-i stumbled on bitchmade settings by p-pure accident>h-honestSure. And there are no difficult mysteries, that's the joke of it.
>>580820803Yeah, I'm not sure how valid it is, but anyway, I was right on my hunchmoving the factory to the badwater streams, basically all the power I could ask for(pic is fairly old as I already filled up the place)
>>580869980You wasted a lot of wood on that.
>>580870226define wastedAlso been working on this funny thing today,
>>580870447An actual water dam/power plantdesu its more aesthetic and cool than functional, but its IS quite functional with automationThe hard thing is factoring in everything else so its somewhat smooth
>>580870447Here. The cubes' corners are impervuous, so you didn't need to build there. Also you probably want to build a bridge to problem your beavers from going in the water and getting sick.
>>580869980Just fyi, you're almost certainly losing some power on this bend.
>>580870679Seems my idea on avoiding the bad tide also worked well, well... aside from an oversight that probably would prevented even more contamination on that reservoir
>>580871102And well aside from a bit of flooding here too>>580870865nahh its fine, that was in progress build, I was testing the flow,later I'll get a better picture, but I need to get some sleep
>>580871429Bold of you to assume you will sleep. Timberborn is a game you mustn't play because once you get into beaver autism, you're here forever.
>>580876152longus kattus
>>580882051I want to fuck an elf.
>>580892692Night faglord
>>580892692Good night anon.
>Aspects Pacifist>Dosh Lords Econ>Tahuks science>Necros conquest>Kin of Sheridan all rounders/conquest>Rogue Kin conquest/expansion>Rogue Necros conquest via minor factionsAre the sand faction Industry based?
>>580902708Good night
Good morning /civ4xg/
>>580916898good morning sweetie
>>580902708Reminds of Spore villages.
>>580886621Spider...
>>580921428A...
>>580922309Hey! You are taking my /indie/ gimmick!
>>580922617mine now
>>580916898What are you in Japan as well?inb4Austraya
>>580916898It's 10 PM though
Gonna dump my autistic review of Civ 7 now that i've played it the entire free weekend, before i forget everything. TL;DR it's 6 + city lights mod with inflated prices in an era where the previous games are out for a fraction.AI>AI is still 5/6 vanilla levels of stupid. Likes to target scouts instead of fortifying or retreating, making it easy to taunt them out of attacking your units. Also noticed modern era ais not update ship of the lines to dreadnoughts despite them clearly having the tech and gptbugs>Using both WASD and mouse drag to pan can cause the cam to move indefinitely>unit action icons move around dependin on how many actions it has. Also the heal button disappeared from all units at one point and had to reload save to fixloyalty>this was mentioned already by anons, but no loyalty means AIs will forward settle you if you let them. Since canals are delayed for a future update, say goodbye to strait cities since the ai is too dumb to make them unless you want to permanently lose influence razingmissing stuff from prev. civs>no trade route lens - have to select individual trade units to see their routes>aircraft carriers have a slower movement than dreadnoughts and are treated as commanders. Hence, you can't bunch them up with a naval commander and need to manually move a boat atop them to prevent snipes since there is otherwise no unit attaching>NO city liberation, nor city trading outside of peace deals, with the civ you are at war with. How do you try copying paracock CBs w/o making diplomacy screens to negotiate balkanizing with your allies??On that note, you still aren't reminded to renegotiate open borders before your units get pushed out, same as 5/6. Noticed, 3 out of 4 times after peace ais are willing to sign open borders at least. But if they don't and your unit is stuck on a surrounded neutral tile, lmao.pricingui>NO policy yield changes on the cards and no tile tacks. That's the start of it. Still needs ui mods like 6, whew
>>580929813Forgot to add my thoughts on pricing, but just look at Brush & Blade priced as much as an expansion despite being 2 civs and 2 leaders. They are really counting on weeaboos/goreaboos dumping money kek. Now time to forget about this game
>>580929813Civ VII's absolute bungling really makes me root for Humankind 2, solely as a full circle on the Civ Killer meme. Amplitude now has six great Civ games and two bad Humankind games to analyze for what works and what doesn't, making Humankind 2 a better successor to Civ VI is definitely in reach.
>>580934269nobody care
>>580938476This.
>>580934269CivKillers will fail.
(not so) good morning...
>>580948047what's the matter, anon?
Let's try being a fucking caveman on MarsI picked Japan because apparently they're hard as balls, that scanning research seems kinda ridicolous though
YES GIVE ME MAXIMUM METEORS HAHAHA
Didn't expect Japan to have that hot pink color schemealso there's no concrete but surely the caves will provide
We found something amazing: A big holeStill no concrete in sight though
>>580951450forgot pic
I wonder if Afterworld will be any good.>>580949927didn't sleep well
>>580950051Worst thing about japs is they're limited by new applicants but if you roll clones or such they're awesome. Specialist performance is really good, automated mines got nerfed but still very convenient and the flying drones are chef's kiss. You should give russia a go sometimes as well. Extended rocket time can be mitigated but their driller rovers are incredibly useful and one of the best alternatives to mo-hole when paired with asteroids.
>>580910695Just realised the launch is in like 3 days time and there's literally no info on the last faction. They're really hauling ass to get this shit over the line as abandonware so they can focus on Humankind 2
>>580953039>but if you roll clones or such they're awesomeDo biorobots count as clones or such?
>>580958663Yes.
>>580959182Japs building robots is kinda on point tooThat said, I went for the full RP route and decided to map the entire underground first to find the be best spot for my first dome. So it's Sol 33 and I haven't had a single human down here yet. The Indians are seething mad at me.Well, at least I can start with a medium dome right away.
BLOODY BASTERD REDEEM THE DOMES NOW SAAAAR
>>580959487having your first dome be underground is definitely somethingyou'll have basically infinite water though
>>580959487Only I'd put domes here if space is adequate. You can get unlimited extraction from underground deposits even without breakthroughs and space is at premium there. That area where you have your dome is 12-24 extractors easy.
>>580961123It's the area with the magical deep pit wonder, I put the dome there because I think it will eventually benefit from the pit. Unless it has a mapwide effect.Either way, the dome is almost finished, the first colonists are on the way and it too late to tear it down and rebuild now.What bugs should zey eat? Mealworms seems like the most efficient for pure food output, but I should probably throw in some cockroaches for the extra meat.
>>580961672food is more important than delicacies when starting off
>>580961672Keep in mind the pit needs a very large structure built on top of the edge and slightly beyond. Unless they changed something in the latest patch that is.
>>580962421It doesn't seem that bigI'm more annoyed that it's not in range of the dome and there's exactly 1 spot you're allowed to place itI'm gonna have to build another trainstation there, unless you tell me that colonists can use shuttle hubs to go there, I want to build one around that are anyway
>>580965661I'll never stand in the way of more trains, at worst I'll suggest a better route if I believe I see one. That said, if you find me nagging you I don't have a problem with fucking off.>not in range of the domeThat's what I meant. Trainstations got buffed for increased range and colonists can commute past several stations as long as they're on the same rail line. You pass that law for unlimited underground resources, maybe luck out with that breakthru that does the same everywhere and then plant 6-7 extractors, each amplified, on each of those nodes and a pair of tribs when you can afford them to avoid having to maintain them. You're pretty much permanently set for everything other than exotics with that one area.
>magic ayylien artifact turned 5 of my dudes into fucking DRONESWHAT THE FUCK
The drone conversion shit counts as unnatural deaths, which swept my applicant pool clean of every singe specialization I need right now.It might unironically be over. Colonists were the biggest struggle already, and this bullshit event basically deleted my pool.
>>580968843NERVE STAPLINGANIMALIZATION
>>580970842Make a couple tv workshops and laugh it off.
>>580970842Embrace the robot life
>they strongly dislike warmongers
>>580978742
>>580271162troons outrooned themselves
>>580982160obsessed lmao
I kind of rage quitted and started a new game as the terraforming iniative and their horrible shade of greenWondering where to place my first dome. It's either on the vista site near my inital landing site, in the hope that +10 comfort will make the founders breed super fast and let me skip through most of the founding phase. Maybe connect it per train station to the rare metals up north, but this faction is well-funded at least so I'm not that desperate for it right now. I'll have to get by with what metal I can find on the surface, but it should be enough for the time being.The other option is the research site with a metal deposit north west of the landing site. I could try to get some early research up and secure a steady metal income, but I will need to build two trainstations and a fairly long railway to connect it to the landing site.I'm leaning towards the former.Also I picked the hydro engineer for RP and this colony site had like three bars of water in the preview, yet my starting area is so full of water holy fuck
>>580950693>Didn't expect Japan to have that hot pink color schemeMaybe it's supposed to represent cherry blossom.
>>580985658iirc it's literally called something like that
>>580985891Is the remake fun? Or is it too expensive for what it is?>>580161823Foundation: Harvest Festival launches at October 8th.https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/690830/view/712286322480383257
>>580986021Here is the short Foundation dlc trailer.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nwqdycUZQDU
>>580986021If you like sci-fi and a very casual colonybuilder and don't mind occasional gamebreaking bugs it's alright. Would pirate again / 10.
>>580986419Gamebreaking bugs after all this time. Oof.
>>580988724Comes with the territory.
This is fucking satisfying, now I don't know what else to do in the playthrought
tired...need sleep... can't play....
Time for pictures, to the one who doubted my design capabilities
got a bit creative trying to figure out space for storage stuff in here, particularly proud of the setup below the paper maker.Of course, leaving a bit more space for extra stuff, but honestly, not even needed.
>>580992243Told you.
Its neat to experiment with the flow gates, seems that at 0.3 m3/s the wheels will stop.But the best thing is the automation stuff, the flow gates will open up when gravity battery reaches a threshold, and then another set will open gates from the upper reservoir to the lower one.
View from another angle, I know I could just build up to the height of the upper dam, but it feels more aesthetic this way.>>580992254Tell me about it, I'm taking enough time just posting this and almost sleeping on the spot
Quick view from the mess of the town, I know its barely anything to brag about, but I quite like what a organic mess it is. Now that the factory part is all the way on the other side of the map, I'm thinking of the demolishing all that stuff in the wall and start building a vertical favela there.>>580993858Unfortunately what I mean is I don't know what else to do in the game.
>>580995154well...start a new game on a different map then.
Just a side note, the map has this cool river cave, I dug a tunnel to tap into the source, now it takes water all the way around to that pool on my town.And when the badtide comes it has that outlet to drain the shit out.I guess one possible goal for next time is maximizing population, and building a bigger reservoir, maybe another drain tunnel specifically for the bad tide.
>>580995154>I don't know what else to do in the game.Try ironteeth.
>99% efficiency boost from height for 19.9 power>-30% maintenance from the strict building standards law for 0.7 machine partssurely wind energy is good like this
This is one creepy ass babby
>>580997798You can get absolutely bonkers wind power if you stack your modifiers with them.
Every council needs the one crazy retard faction to feel authentic
>>581006476Space mormons are one of the tamer ones actually
Who came up with the influence penalties on Capturing/Razing settlements in a game where you get forward settled so much? Someone was smoking when they made Civ VII.
>>581010971>he doesn't know
I made a geoscape dome to serve as a capitalI'll probably build my mohole and my space elevator next to this eventually
The /civ4xg/ divegrass team will be playing in an invitational next weekend and the weekend after in a tournament featuring only "real" game teams so no gacha or visual novel teams or players are allowed. The participants and current roster are in pic related with the temporary Fanatic Xenophile player being removed. If you all have any suggestions for player models or roster changes, let me know since the aesthetics are due this weekend. Keep in mind that any changes here aren't final/official, I'll be posting again next month for official roster suggestions.
>>581016693this is an area that gets hit by meteors though...
>>581016997what the fuck is all this
>>581017210It just sets some laws for you by default.
>>581017210we proportional representation now, ain't none of that first past the post bullshit
>uhhh heres 4 random gubberments, pick oneIs it too much to ask for at least some explanation of what they do? Also is there no terraforming dictatorship or something?
>>581020773There is. And it's not entierly random.
>>581020153delicious>>581020773the chosen factions seem to be semi-random, like with the earth council
>>581022186nice
>>581024209Nice.
>>581022186whut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6ORCL3hjIHopefully, they got rid of the -10 Def to Sandshapers units near water. That was NOT fun to play around.
>>580984818>their horrible shade of greenHEY, that's Brazil shade of green that was introduced on the Space Race DLC alongside Japan's pink, the terraforming sponsor just reuses it.
>>580997278>>580995761Nah, I've binged enough for the month, I've guess they made Ironteeth more challenging by having the bombs on the water source?Anyway, gonna wait for Transport Fever 3 next
mark is a cuck
good morning, sirs
>>581061720who?
>>580806014There are enough assets and things that you can get close up to look good. The farms and special industry are a bit weird in how they work sometimes but so far it has been easy to work with
>>581072975
>>581042003I thought brazil was the darker shade of green you can pickeither way I haven't really played any of the thirdies yet, maybe I'll try China or India. Or that wacky church faction.
>>581078689India is by far the worst of those three
>>581078957dunno, 20% off everything you build sounds useful if boringbut yeah, brazil looks like the most interesting going by boni and special buildingsthe church seems to be built to go heavy on martianborns ASAP, which could be fun
>>581073796wish my computer could run it
>>581079425Have you considered tourist ark pods?>indiaJust sucks imho. Constructor is pointless and buggy and at one point you'll find waste rock more useful than plain metal which should never be in short supply. More than average starting applicants but others do that much better and they're easier than ever to get in relaunched.>brazilOverrated but not bad. If you want to print money they're great. There's a nice meme for having their automated refineries + increased wasterock law + infinite extractors and you can rarely have too many rare metals.>chinaAll-round solid without anything too amazing. Tai-chi gardens rule. Extra rocket capacity rules. Tons of applicants.>blue sun bonus roundThis is the sponsor you pick if you want godmode on but have to work for it a little first.
>>581083000>Have you considered tourist ark pods?oh fuck that sounds hilarious, who wouldn't want to go on vacation in a shitty one-use pod meant to carry metal and shit?As for the other sponsers>IMMskipped it even on my first run because it seemed to be braindead easy and pretty boring with no real interesting gimmicks. They just give you infinite money, super stirlings, mega rockets, a free fucking dome pre-fab and tell you to go hogwild.>USlooked to be absolute vanilla with nothing interesting going on aside from free money, haven't tried it yet>Russiaall the fuel stuff and infinite concrete for infinite trade right away is really cool, but my autistic efficency minded brain just can't get behind the RC drill wasting half of every single deposit>EUresearch flavored vanilla, overall they were fun but kinda bland>JapsSomehow I keep coming back to them. The scanning research is stupidly strong and lets you build in whatever way you want. Still want to try them with the commander that gives you automated hydroponics to go balls deep into the whole automation identity. Only 1 rocket is surprisingly intriguing too, you better plan right or fucking die>TerraformingTerraforming feels like such a late game thing, so starting with a sponsor that really wants to do it asap feels kinda off>Bluesun/spaceySomething makes me hate megacorps on instinct, I'm not playing these cunts
>>581084269You're sleeping on US malls. Gopnik-rovers work on asteroids as well.
are asteroids the only way to get exotics
>>581086125you can get some from underground anomalyies, but that's about it
Spider...
>what should we do with the people that built this colony and have grown old creating our future?>deport them to earth lmao>this is by far the easiest senior care to passthis colony is fucked up man
>>581092792>have grown old>deport them to earthTheir bodies will get wrecked trying to cope with the increase of gravity after so much time on Mars' gravity. Specially if they are old.
>>581092792Florida is still on earth, isn't it?
>>581092792thank fuck that law exists, I hate old people
This time I know better, and as long as I don't build the repeater, I can hoard resources for the timed humanitarian aid mission and the rescue operation of the crew of HOPE-2.In my early access run it was a race against the clock, or rather against the dwindling O2 reserves in their escape pods.
yay
>>581097018Old men, are the future!
>>581081872What are you using? I'm still on a 1080
>>581102624gtx 1650, but the real problem is that I'm on a laptop that overheats
finally... mars is touching gras
looks much nicer at night actually
>>581101048Sounds like old men propaganda.>we're the future, we're totally not drain on a fragile society!!!
>>581111204Old men, running the world.
>>581111685A new age!
>>581111894WE are the future!
>>581111894We have other problems.
>>581112960The UNATCO?
>>581117704Formed by executive order after the terrorist strike on the statue.I have someone in place though.I'm more concerned about savage.
>>581119723He relocated to Vandenberg.
penis
The Stellaris 4.5 release approaches
>>581130745And literally nopony care.
>>581131053I care
>>581135523You're not a pony.
>how happy could my founders possibly be after I shoved them into an underground dome?>first babby after 2 solsvery happy apparentlyalways knew europeans were secretly dwarves
I'm thirsting for They Are Billions but with real world mil-tech instead.Another acceptable theme could be WH40k.
>>581138949>I'm thirsting for They Are Billions but with real world mil-tech instead.There's gotta be something for you. Maybe not a full game, but I'm sure there are maps for Red Alert 2 that use the Yuri's mind-controlled civilians as placeholders for zombies.And no, no Warhammer 40000 yet. Your best bet is to play Dawn of War with the Unification modpack, and play a survival map.
>lost to easy AI>againWhy do I suck so much at strategy? I get it, I don't know the build order or the matchups, but still, I should AT LEAST be able to beat the easy AI without any training or idea what I'm doing, build orders are only for like hard AI.
Looking for a new rts and a 4x type game. Are there any new games with good campaigns yet? Most of the stuff i looked at just seemed like low budget knockoffs of c&c, wc3, and sc. And for a 4x... age of wonders 4 maybe? Endless legend 2? I'm looking for something more in depth than civ, but less grand strategy. At a glance they both looked super simple?
>>581142206>Are there any new games with good campaigns yet?Age of Mythology? I mean, if you look for a campaign, I dunno if any 4X can fill that need.
>all my domes are underground>elevator decides to break for 72h>the dudes I sent on an expedition might just die in orbit because they can't get to a dome if I let them land nowtime to commit sudoku, I have failed humanity
>Last faction a special terrain terraformer with some tacked on power ups for doing the terraforming>1.0 is just the early access with a bit more art, 50IQ AI instead of 0IQ and a couple of half baked sidegrade factionsEL2 might be one of my biggest gaming disappointments ever, it's so painfully mediocre.
I love missile barrages. We need more of that.
>>581143842can't they survive in orbit for 5 sols?
>>581144401Be sure to preorder Humankind 2!
>>581144486Heck is this?
>>581144491yeah, they made it with about a sol to spare, jeez
>>581142316one of each i mean.
surely we're save from all the disasters here undergrou ACK
>>581115865Good night.
Oh, Total War Shogun 2 is announced.It's a "complete edition".
>>581144692Zerg Tosgrilisk. Evolutjon of Mutalisk. Uses graphical assets from freeware RTS Priority: Survive
>>58115015710 buckeroos for modern resolution support and modern controls is honestly not that bad
>>581151282>Priority: Survive...tell me more, please?I suck at RTS but damn do I love them.>>581151396Honestly I think so. But what annoys me is that it's going to be yet another 70+ GB game, and I don't like these.
>>581150157>>581151396there's a total war general you retards
>>581151668And it's shit, it's been taken by rapefugees from /tg/, so I'm inviting myself here.Can I stay here?Yes of course, you're welcome.Thank you!
>>581151479>Priority: Survive.Never played it or watched a playthrough. Can't tell you much besides it being a Command and Conquer clone.
>>581151787Since you are here, got any good tactics for empire in total warhammer 3?Preferably with minimal microing.I'm old and micromanaging an army tires me.
>>581153242Does that mod change the AI as well? It looks surprisingly gung ho to you have your head over the fireplace.>>581153621Sadly not really. You can spam steam tanks, but you'll still have to order them around. Just abuse the pause to take things at your own pace.Honestly I can't do battles in Total War, either I mess around in custom battles or I do campaigns, but I very rarely lead battles myself, and the only factions I won with where the ones with big monsters, like the Vampire Counts or Khemri. Ushabti spam is fun.Lorewise I love the dwarfs and the Empire, but I struggle to play them. Especially the dwarfs.
>>581153974The AI is far more aggressive (except for when they have a brain aneurysm and float 3k minerals off 2base 3 gate). Overhauled entirely from the vanilla AI scripts, save for some classic vanilla behaviors like building up squads before attacking. This clip is AI vs AI for reference.There's plenty of PvP castovers too on YouTube if you search up Cosmonarchy.
>>581155816>This clip is AI vs AI for referenceDear god...
>>581156374There's more.
>>581156934No...
>>581155816Haha!I can tell you that this protoss cannon comes from Five Nations!
>>581157707The mod indeed uses plenty of assets from Five Nations (among other RTS like Atrox, and of course, Starcraft itself), alongside plenty of more "custom" assets (like the new CC in the bottom right)I think one race's assets almost consists of placeholder Five Nations sprites.
>>581158443That's interesting. I assumed Five Nations was insanely obscure as fuck, but it seem to have a fanbase.And yeah, I recognize a lot of these buildings. Not really seeing the "new CC", though. What's different?
>>581151668total war chads are keeping this general alive for another day
>>581158629>Five Nations ObscureSurprisingly, I don't think the dev of this mod ever got to play it (it didn't run for some reason)>Command Center DifferenceLighting + entirely new model render (The bunker also has feet now)
>>581159086Oh shit, you're right, it's actually entirely different. There's even a chute for crystals on the side.It feels like they put the model through AI or something: it looks similar but is different.>I don't think the dev of this mod ever got to play it (it didn't run for some reason)I mean, it's essentially a flash game or something. I don't feel encouraged to move on to Windows 11. How many of my games will stop working?
Okay that thing with the eye is also from Five Nations, but WHAT THE SHIT is that abomination at the bottom? What game does it hail from and can I play it? That's so grisly, it isn't Sun Age or KKND Crossfire...
>>581160143I am 99% sure that asset is from Atrox (2001). Easily findable on MyAbandonware
>>581160567Dammit, I don't like getting old games for free (they're already cheap enough), but I can't find it on Steam, so... Guess I'll have to look around.
>>581160567Ooh, this is disgusting and it pulsates.I love it.
>>581160567You were right.
>>581162023It's 10 at night
>>580161823OP made me kek as i was actually on my way to a diffrent general.
>>581169240Liar, its about midday
>>581172487No it's 5 AM.
To whoever posted that Cosmography mod: you made me divein a weird hole of old RTS. Damn you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcfFoInLq1Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbOc5TbR1T8What the FUCK is all this Starcraft shit?
bedtime
How's the late-game lag situation on stellaris? Did I hear correctly that it's a lot better or did I hallucinate that? It's honestly what's kept me from playing it more.
>>581162023you too>>581187904It used to be a problem, at least for some, but I am not sure how it is right now.
>>581191085It only ever became a serious issue for me in the "you've already won" phase when it came to vanilla, but since I started to use post-post-endgame mods trying to push further past required being genocidal to keep things moving past a slow crawl. Trying to watch a fight was a very dangerous prospect too.Your allies never understand that your genocides are for the stability of the universe either.
>>581176450why does it remind me of warcraft
>single biome planets in stellarisI wonder if tundra or steppe planets are even possible. I am pretty sure those would at least have large ice caps and some deserts, maybe even a temperate zone on the equator. They wouldn't just be "tundra" planets. But maybe I am wrong.
>>581197045habitable single biome planets are kinda retarded, but they're also a staple of sci fi so a kitchen sink game like Stellaris had to throw 'em in
>>581193985Because you have no imagination and you cannot describe a game without going "it's a mix of X and Y" like the basic bitch you are?
>>581198930You can have ice world, and probably hot desert world, although, biodiversity in those would probably be poor.>>581201017rude
>>581201963You call me rude, but I don't see you calling me wrong.
Halberdiers.
>>581201963>You can have ice world, and probably hot desert worldI wonder if higher life can actually develop on such planets. On earth modern humans started somewhere in Africa and only later migrated and adapted to climates with extreme conditions like sand or ice deserts.
>>581202982>modern humans started somewhere in AfricaI read they started in Iceland, in Ultima Thule?
>>581202982>On earth modern humans started somewhere in AfricaYou know that theory is largely discredited right?
>>581203081calm down /pol/
>>581203128The fuck does /pol/ have to do with this?
>>581202982Don't know.>>581203081Oldest fossils of Homo Sapiens were found in modern day Marroco, which is in Africa.Australopithecus before that is also from Africa. Before that? I read theories that deeper down the tree our ancestors may have been from somewhere in Eurasia, but who knows for sure. And further back still you go the harder is it to know from which ancient continents our line comes.
>>581203204Oh, sorry, I thought you were going to go full retard "actually the earth was seeded by space engineers" or some stupid crap.
>>581203295>>581202982That said, speaking on ice worlds. Look up Cryogenian period and slushball earth theory. It's actually just before when first animal fossils appear, maybe first ones (sponges) where just during that time. And certainly bacteria and other stuff were surviving in mostly frozen planet. Although, you were asking about higher life. I doubt on that part, because even for a long time after that (hundreds of millions of years), there was not even wood as a material, or breathable atmosphere on the surface.
>>581202904WE ARE THE MACEMEN
>>581205857ATTENTION!
spider...
lets try the stupid church faction in surving mars, just rolling for my colony nameevens Kyrie Eleisonodds Feed and Seed
>>581215914We must dissentoria?
>>581215914Sir Feed and Seed, formerly Sir Fuck and Suck
What are some essential Civ 5 mods in big 26? Got the itch to play it again but vanilla Civ V gets boring after turn 25
>first martianborn on sol 10whew, that's the fastest I ever managed
>>581229997Imagine living in a giant snowglobe.
>>581229734I play vox populi but it's a total overhaul
>>581182227There's actually a "Remastered" version of the Insurrection campaign (by vorgozz) that rebalances and buffs the units and maps for a. . . ''slightly'' more enjoyable (but still cheesy) experience>>581193985RTS in fantasy setting using the Blizzard RTS formula (with the twist of an Underground layer) will do that
>malicious asteroids choose to crash into two critical logistical points at the same time>everything is in the negatives now>drones would rather do anything else than fix the fucking pipes and cables>death wave from hypothermia despite the fact that I have almost a Sol worth of everything banked upoh fuck offI don't mind getting raped by games, but when your own worker units choose to actively make everything worse it just gets annoyingThankfully I have these dirt cheap ark pods to replace everyone, but still
>>581240242Do you have both free drones and iron near there. You should have a hub with universal storage near every processing area for this reason alone.
>>581242001Please understand, that anon enjoys being melodramatic.
>>581243113The point isn't his melodrama, the point is that drones do in fact prioritize fixing broken cables and pipes, if that's not happening the issue is unavailable metals or drones or both.
>play games about american colonization>THIS is the bad guyok
>>581251119Your average American.
>>581251119fucking indians had it coming
>>581197045My headcanon is that those areas represent the best areas of the planet and are the ones prime for a colony
Forgot how fun AoE3 was.
>>581229734i would highly recommend sapiens it fixes most of the stupid shortcomings of civ 5 like unit upgrade paths making certain units useless and reduces global unhappiness from cities by 1 so you are not fucked for settling more than 4 with tradition free buildings
>become americanlollmao
man i hate playing against americans>sneeze too close to american town>immediately all the civilians grab a gun and start blasting my scouts
Today on "what were they thinking?", we have Age of Empires 3.Where this unit, a spearman (aka a lancier in French) is renamed to thrower (aka a lanceur in French).
>play japan>random event kills my only rocket>new rockets costs a ton of money>only way to make tons of money quickly is to export rare metals>for which you need a rocketAm I really just gonna have to sit here and wait while the TV station and Earth embassy slowly trickle me enough cash to buy a new rocket? How much is spamming that repetable funding tech really gonna help? Thankfully I'm already producing machine parts and polymers, so at least I'll only have to import electronics every now and then...
>>581281410Restart.
>>581281762but I'm like 70 sols in and got such a nice autistic network of trainstations goingactually rockets only cost 300 million, but the screens says that they're unavaible? Do I have to manually build them on Mars somehow?
>>581282005>actually rockets only cost 300 millionI'm a retarded faggot that should really go to sleep, its 3000 million and I'm only at 1.9 billion right now
>+50% construction time on the captured obusierWhy the fuck would I ever want that?>>581282005I'm afraid I have no idea, sorry.
>>581281410how do you have so little cash that you can't buy a new rocket
>>581283275The game is hardwired to give you one for free anyway
RUN, BOY.RUN!
since we're talking about surviving mars so much, here's an actual picture of mars from the curiosity roverhttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-postcard-celebrates-rovers-5000th-day-on-mars/technically it's not an actual picture, it's a combination of two with colour added
>>581297128Colours added? So it doesn't look like that?
>>581297838the pictures were taken with a black and white camera
>>581298443Didn't have enough money to put on a colour camera?
>>581299454it has a few colour cameras, but I think they're low resolution. maybe they're non-functional at this point
>>581299764How come? Mars doesn't have an acid atmosphere.
>>581300804no, but it is hella dusty and curiosity wasn't intended (or expected) to last for such a long timeanyways, I googled it and I think the colour cameras still do work. here's a colour image but it's from like 2012
>>581301786...urge to strike the earth intensifies
why the fuck is there a hexagon at saturn's north pole
>>581297128Why the FUCK haven't we started work on a mars colony yet? Why don't we have a base on the moon even yet?
>>581305092because there's no economic gain
>>581305092cost to do so is higher than the demand to do so
I don't care how much people doompost. EL2 is a good game, it just needs a lot of love. Namely,>improved worldgen>tidefall settings>ability to raze your own settlements>strategic resource rework>tech tree reworkPets are pretty dumb though. Having to go out of your way to collect them by doing out-of-game activities - some of which are time-limited fomoslop - feels like lazy engagement farming.
>>581307505What's different from EL1?
>>581297128Need real color version...>>581305092Not much to gain, and its not as easy as just flying there. How do you grow food, keep people healthy from lower gravity and solar radiation and shit like that.
Are there any city builders that you can actually control a character in on a meaningful level? I assume not but I figure I'd ask.
>>581315634that's not very city builder-y
>>581315634...how do you mean?
Penis builders
>>581315634I mean, there are village builders, like Conan Exiles or Romestead, but they're not really city builders.
>>581307505But the problem is it feels like the old games did get a lot of love and the Humankind announcement makes it seem like they won't give it the effort it still needs.
>>581303408Because Nature is incomprehensible.The real answer is probably something to do with atmospheric dynamics we don't understand because atmospheric dynamics are complicated and chaotic. it could also be related to magnetic fields, but I don't know where I got that idea so don't quote me on it.
>>581305092Shit's hard, plenty can go wrong and even if everything goes right it costs a whole lot for questionable gains. Your best hope is that the US and China get in enough of a dickwaving contest that they start trying to one-up each other when it comes to space shit like the good old days of the soviets.
>>581307505I wasn't doomposting until is saw humankind 2 get announced, now it's hard to feel like it's going to get said lots of love even if could turn out good if it did.
Was whining about the Humankind 2 announcement yesterday, it just feels like they needed to get a game out the door to make enough money to keep the lights on after the Sega split and it means probably permanently ruining EL for it. Just feels bad all around. If ES3 is good though I'll come crawling back of course.
Time to remove the commies from Spain.Glory to Castille!
>>581326860Miau miau! Miau miau miau!!! \o
>>581326860Kill them all.
El Caudillo is here!Also not having infantry units and having to rely on the AI is shit.
Good night faggots.
>>581334494It's morning though
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-433-4-5-cygnus-preliminary-release-notes.1941572/Dev diary with the Stellaris 4.5 update changelog and the update comes out on Tuesday.
>The Rogue Kin faction have to buy their military units>they don't appear to have any specific dust related mechanics except starting with the dust district???
(civ 6) i thought id encountered a bug or something sure mansa musa has buy bonus but this much?giant robots are 6k raw 4.8 mansa musa, but this city was giving me 1.2kturns out, id never noticed this city state that id liberated before, as much as 80% cost reduction on buy units if you have a maxed encampmentjesus fucking christ thats brokeni thought id seen all the civ6 there was to see, holy fuck thats broken
>>581307505if you mean endless legend, you can stack % bonuses and reach like +300% atk or +300% hp etc and create 1000 atk or 1000 defence monsters if you let a character level to like lv24shit was greatbut people never level like that through combat, youd need to put a combat guy as your capital governer turn 1 and later bring him out as a commander with all the good % items later to do it
>>581351501Yes, mali are busted.
kerrigan dicksucking lips are off the charts
>>581357819I always thought she was a mulatto with dreads.
>>581358435you must have mixed them up...
>>581358636No, her original tiny pic back in the 90s looked like that.
>>581358856her ass is insane in the remaster tho
>>581281410If you lose your only rocket it's pretty much game over if you don't have emergency funds. You just gotta buy a new one and there aren't many good ways to earn money once you exhaust the one time uses like scanning. You just gotta rely on the trickle from embassy and sponsor funding and the like if you want to keep going
>>581359065Damn... No wonder all the zergs tapped that to a point she can't sit anymore.
>>581359445>>581281410Also I should mention that some factions like the Church can get a new rocket in their mission goals but that doesn't apply to everyone. It's only relevant on the Church and Paradox sponsors since those start with 1 (Europe and Terraforming also get one but they start with 2). Sponsor goals could also be something you get for a quick cash boost, Japan has 2B in there but if you already cashed it in then that's no go as well.
>>581359065man literally all oldschool RTS do thisthe missions are a complete fuckin cakewalkUNTIL you start getting the giga hard ones and the enemies are a billion
>>581366175the moment i attack my position is fuckin swarmedmissions till now were rly ez
>>581366175>>581366502though my marine rush is workinggetting vespene gas is a pain in the assso i'll just spam marines
EL2 1.0 is out now. Seems like it released at least an hour early, but I only just woke up so IDK.
>>581366717here come my marine wells
The only people with less confidence in EL2 than me are Amplitude themselves.
Fuck me AoE3 is weirdly fun
>>581359065>>581357819noice
>>581368776What kind of fucked up main menu is this
>>581368776They fucked up. EL2 died for Humankind 2 after they saw not many people were interested in EL2.2 has less factions than base game EL1, worse objectives and the map gimmick is trash.All EL2 factions essentially play exactly the same except for the necros. What happened to Amplitude?
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>>581368776>>581373379I'm the one that asked about what happened with the new Civ. Asking again what happened with EL2. I have like 5 hours of the first one, but I got bored.
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>>581367939I want to buy it but I know my computer will struggle with it, and I didn't even like the first game
>>581374190>Sega owned Amplitude pre Endless Space 2>Amplitude ends up unprofitable even after ES2 and Humankind>Sega sells back Amplitude to Amplitude at a big loss just to be rid of it>Amplitude is now independent and still unprofitable>needs cash now>has two IPs that matter, Endless and Humankind>shit out an EL2 early access to keep the company afloat>work on Humankind 2 in the background>EL2 sucks ass because it was rushed and all their goodwill is burned because everyone knows now it was half assed on purpose with the Humankind announcementSomething like this
>>581375960What about the space one? I have like 21 hours in the definite edition(yes, I around that time I discovered that civ-type and MoO/GalCiv-likes are not my thing).
>>581377196ES2 is almost 10 years old. They released a coop twinstick shooter tower defense game that flopped between Humankind and EL2.Safe to say any talent they had when they made the original games left long ago and EL2 shows this. Endless games had very unique factions that played extremely different from each other. With only 6 factions right now, they are hardly distinguishable from each other.
>>581377196ES2 is a very good 4X in general and I like it a lot, some of the later DLCs are a bit suspect but you can turn them off in the settings if you don't like them. EL1 has this diamond in the rough feel and ES2 was very good so people were excited for more 4X games from but it's now been two shitty ones in a row so there's no reason to think about Humankind 2.
>>581377776Dungeon of the Endless 2 was bad too? Or was the name Endless Dungeon?
>>581378759>>581334494make up your minds
>>581378549It was a complete departure of the original game. It was more of a MOBA tower defense game. No pixel graphics and the characters had awful designs
>>581379394Oof. I still play the first one occasionally. Also have been playing the first humankind and it's a shame it's a mixed bag. The combat and the map are miles ahead of Civ.
>>581380367>Also have been playing the first humankind and it's a shame it's a mixed bag.Like all Civ games since 5 the final version is vastly different from the release version. For what it's worth everyone who's stuck with Humankind over the years seems to think it's great, but on the flipside launch version was disappointing enough that the vast majority dropped it and made their reviews then. Hence the "Mostly Positive" Recent/"Mixed" Overall Steam reviews.For a little more perspective, release Humankind was better implemented than current Civ 7. That's how much Firaxis fucked up.
'ello ladsAny cool transit/citybuilding games
>>581307505>1.0 just releasedThey're going to leave a skeleton crew on EL2 while they work on Humankind 2, aren't they
>>581389972That's probably what's been happening for months now.
>>581377776>ES2 is almost 10 years oldIt has been that long?>Safe to say any talent they had when they made the original games left long agoDoesn't the game director or whatever design the game? Wouldn't they be okay if they had the same designer?
>>581389608Heck's transit?
>>581391585>Heck's transit?He means one of those road designing games, like OpenTT or whatever it is called.
>>581391585Making trains or roads without having other aspects of city building as a part of the game
>>581392093>>581392691Like Tropico?
>>581392773>Like Tropico?No, like this one https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536610/OpenTTD/
>>581358435Jank old 3d rendering + Poofy haired Concept art will do that
New thread when?
>>581393493When spiderfag stops playing that oldass starwars game.
Worldgen mod for EL2. Seems better than vanilla based on the little experience I have with it.https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3779206322
>>581392773Like NIMBY rails
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