You activated my trap card edition.This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==C-Beams Devlog 56: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrdmaooeT88Distant Worlds 2 Dev Diary #4, Gameplay Improvements: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/672881095979565359GalCiv 4 Dev Journal #123: The Galactic Roadmap: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/667250959956574377Plan B: Terraform, Worlds of Fire and Water released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/692017587063622384Foundation: Harvest Festival launches at October 8th: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/690830/view/712286322480383257Stellaris v4.5 Cygnus released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/281990/view/704405656884478809Airship: 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/542258317343326824News Tower, Setting the Record Straight update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/719036195725640223Theos: 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: >>581398397
HAK HAK HAK
>>582808840My god, the swarm migrated here already?!
By the way. How is the big Stellaris update?
>>582809101you can now choose your border and filler countries seperatly from your empire colorssame goes for ship colorsand it also made the game eat more ram than ever before. for the first time in all the years I've played it I had Stellaris crash from being out of memory.
>>582809101A decent amount of changes, but I've only played like 3 hours of it so far
>>582808840HYUK HYUK HYUK
>>582809101>bugfix log says they fixed necropurge>load in as necrohive and start purging my starting secondary species to test>still brokenHow do they manage it?
>>582781694They do carry anti tank shells, but not in numbers to actively use them as AT, at least without a supply truck stuck to their asses. And their reload times are abysmal compared with a dedicated AT gun.
What do you think he feels about the current state of the franchise?
>>582836430he probably either approves or doesn't carewhen's the last time he even worked on a game?
>>582838472Around '93 until the spectrum merge
game over
>>582809101Angered the turks.
Is there a lore explanation for why Wilderness empires can’t become psionic?
>>582849834Dunno, maybe balance, but more likely just arbitrary decisions.
>>582849834presumably they wanted an origin that's locked into purity
good morning, sirs
Something new, it seems. Maybe Spider will want to check it out...Anyway, I am off now, will try to back into the thread once in a while, but will be busy overall today.
>>582857093freak
>>582809101I'm just gonna wait for the culture/ethics DLC
>>582858185What?
Play Age of Wonders 1
>>582871534fuck off goblin bomber
>>582871624Rude Spider. Meme unit th
Good morning spiders, no dying on my watch!
>>582871534No, play Stellaris!
>>582838472IIRC he actually did work on Railroads!, but not on any of the other games with his name made after '97.
What was the point of having a year of early access for EL2 just to launch with so many bugs?Also I feel like, as much as I understand what they were going for with the Tidefall mechanic, but cutting naval based gameplay and water interacton altogether aside from as an adjacency bonus for your farms was a massive misstep.
>>582871534I actually feel like replaying it. Probably will start with scenarios, since those actually are a secret mini campaign, will post the chart for anons, if I can find it. Then will do one of the campaign branches. AoW is good if you want to wind down.
Another day of looking at the Shadow Empire entry in my steam library and dreaming about playing it before going back to Stellaris
>>582899865So why are you not playing it?
Bamp
>>582900164To stupid too into it (really I can't get to the initial point of having fun to help push myself along the learning curve)
>>582894106That said, it was a bitch to set it up working, for GoG version, but I think Steam one also has problems. On win10, probably same on 11.But I got it working.>>582901729Yeah, it seems autistic. I could try to get into it, but my days of getting into complicated games are kind of over, don't feel like it.
bampo
>>582907676But looking at it, I will probably play some modded AoW1 instead, as there are some good mods.
>>582916543https://www.heavengames.com/This place has good stuff, not just for older age of wonders games, but some others, links are on the left, click on the names. Maybe Spiderfag will find something here too.
nighty night
>>582894106https://aow2.heavengames.com/gameinfo/story/aow1timeline/This timeline explains why you can play premade maps as a sort of bonus prequel campaign. Pic related is the order of it.
Why is this metal extractor not getting any workers? I got a train station for the dome, and the extractor is in range of another station. I've got geoligists to work the extractor. The stations work for elevator access but not for the metal extractor? I don't get it.
>>582926801pay them more
>>582932341People in any city building game I play should have to work for free
truly the chinaman fears nothing
>>582939241literally asking for it
>>582921837Good night anon.
>>582926801Assuming you haven't forbidden passages for work on that dome the stations may be too close together, as in, they both cover the same dome and that's often a pathfinding issue.
>>582944814Good morning sweaty
>>582958454
I think they're kinda cute
>>582971327you're kinda cute
>>582973435o-ok...
>>582937687A lot of businessmen would like that.
>>582951903no, they don't both cover the dome. that's why I built a second station in the first place
>>582984247
>>582985340I know. I thought it would cover the dome too, but when I only had that station up the dome kept telling me it didn't have acess to the elevator, so that station somehow doesn't count as covering it despite touching the dome
>>582985736pic related, how it looks with the upper station turned offmaybe its because the dome is range of the lower train station, but that train station isn't in range of the dome so the game gets confused?
>>582986112Yes.
>>582986297yeah, that was itwhat a strange interaction
>>582991765A normal person would just say, thanks anon.
Stellaris DLC subscription is evil anyway, but even worse they don't put the 1 month version on sale, only the 3 and 6 months.
whew, playing as the terraforming initiative I actually got an ecological government choice for once - has to be a dictatorship though
and for some reason there is a "mars should stay a shithole" party
>>582994475Live service-fication of singleplayer. AVOID
Busy playing AoW1.
I am quite new to 4x style games, only played Civ 6 and 7, and just got into AoW 4 and played a fair bit of EL2 over early access and since release.Is Endless Space 2 any good? Or is Stellaris just a better game overall for that "space empire management sim" vibe
>>583008965ES2 is good
>>583008965I have not played ES2, but I have heard good things, besides that one of the expansions (with the Academy or whatever) fucked things a bit with balance or something like that.Stellaris is fine, I think it's about the best game in the category of more sandbox space empire builders, but I have not played too many and everyone has their own preferences. But Stellaris does have a lot of content, so if you like it, that's a nice bonus.
>>582807739Hold the presses! Breaking news! They're are supporting Knights of Honor 2 again!Knights of Honor II - Patch 1.8.0: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/736820/view/680763027479330892
>>583023414What is this game like? Is it a bit like Crusader Kings 2 or something else?
>>583023414>>583029619If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-434-4-5-2-cygnus-tentative-patch-notes.1943322/New Stellaris dev diary
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>>583041929Is KoH2 (or 1, for that matter) a gsg?
Fuck off.
>>583060979Ah, so so as I thought, it's a bit like CK2. Also, stop being angry at me, since I am one of few people that keep the thread alive and post with you, Spider.
Fuck off, freak.
Stop being rude.Anyway, good night.
>>583061163he's become really annoying this past year
>>583029619No it's a Medieval total war lite. Less emphasis on battles more emphasis on kingdom building. Also because of it's simplicity it's neatly balanced like Moo1. Your advisor slots are limited and the kind of advisors you pick determine your overall strategy of mix thereof.
>samefag intensifies
>>583008965ES2 will give you less headaches with its UI, costs less for the full experience, and is more focused overallNot really a fan of the Academy changes, but i think it's been toned down after the recent patchStellaris lets you play as Wakandans vs Spess Turks tho if you're into that. ES2 does let you customize your empire, but you're using one of the main factions as a primary template and there aren't many graphical mods for it.
o shiet its mah nigga guk
>>583080664Cute
test
Back.Sorry, was playing Dawn of War for the last few days. I like the Imperial Guard.
Grenade launchers are definitely OP, I'm surprised Definitive Edition hasn't nerfed them.
>>583093234>I'm surprised Definitive Edition hasn't nerfed them.If they did IG early and mid game would be unviable.
>>583093576Yeah, but the problem is that you can just spam guards and any infantry and commanders are instantly defeated. Stunlocked.Whenever I tried Imperial Guard, any challenge only lasted until I got grenade launchers, after that it was smooth sailing until the enemy started making armors.
>>583093850Bad game design. We've been saying it for decades. The IG lives on grenade spam until you can roll out the lemons.Which reminds me. Is the Ultimate Apocalypse mod on the remaster? I haven't played it in like a decade easily, only vanilla.
>>583094342I dunno, friend has been buggering me to get "Unification" instead. I just wanna get my fill of vanilla game before I start dabbing into mods.And I really hoped the Definitive Edition would fix some of the issues.
>>583094342Meh. Gls on ig and chaos are good for t1 but they usually don't do shit against t2 infantry.>>583094516>friend has been buggering me
>>583095456Yeah? So what?And I dunno, Guards with a priest leader and plasma rifles will murder everything.
>>583097065No, they won't. First you'd want comissair for the fire rate or psyker for anti armor/anti vehicle ability and even then they're one of the objectively weakest factions.
Jedi army. 5 masters and 10 knights.>>583097698Mmm? I thought commissar was only for morale?
>>583098043Being filtered by not reading unit abilities tooltip is a new low even for you.
>>583099750Oh, you're suggesting assassinating your own men. Sorry, I don't do that kind of communist crap.
>>583100073I was under the impression you lot did that as well. And no, you don't get a pass after bitching about muh overpowered balance and fixes required after not taking 2 minutes to learn what basic unit abilities do. You want to grumble about something? Try happy feet eldar bullshit.
Is Ozymandias any good? Like Polytopia?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5094350/Age_of_Wonders_4_Expansion_Pass_4/Age of Wonder 4 keeps rolling on>new season pass>forgettable buy in ruler that probably has one good trait glued to it>Silver Seas, water water water, pirate/merchant gunpowder faction>future fey DLC, fey ruler, hopefully eerie shit to continue creepy fey buildup theme they have going>future dwarf/construct dlc that sounded heavy metal>FLC frog witch ruler model and broom enchant is cool? Kinda thematic for the month sureSo, Mercantile culture. You can build your cities in either land or sea apparently. Trade is important somehow. Fantasy Venice maybe. Be a merchant jew or be a pirate freeport? Barony/Cartel are the subcultures, primary element for picking them is Shadow, that's kinda cool. Think that Astral remains the least common followed by Shadow.>new racial forms, standard looking merfolk, and fucking sharkpeopleNew tomes to research include>Hydromancy, water stuff, finally summon tidal spirits>Damned, drowning themed and Ghostfire status effect theme>Piracy, what the fuck is Ember Dust status effect?>Eternal Ice, now have a late tier frost dmg option here, also we can freeze oceans if we want?Also unique pirate dwellings to interact with, two new Wonders, critters, events, fuckin just dumping a bunch of ocean themed stuff to make water tiles desirable and worth exploring now I guess
>>583100496>Try happy feet eldar bullshitTell me more? And these were collaborators and traitors, they aren't humans. You lots should've done away with the traitors who tried to storm the white house.
>"hellhounds are good against buildings!">take longer than just a lot of infantry>2 sentinels and heavy weapons supports with lascannons (anti-vehicles) are better against buildings than the antibuildings vehiclesMEH!
Hello! Manor Lords good yet?
>>583101993I'm playing modded AoW1 right now.
What's in shitlaris 4.5? Last time I played was the ship size overhaul
>>583113681No.>>583124856Shit.
>>583124856Pop can have multiple ethics and factions where membership is denoted by a percentage
>>583124856>What's in shitlarisTake a guess: four letters, starts with P, rhymes with Goop., is a synonymous to "crap".
