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Talk about new mods, mods you're hyped for, etc.CTS: campaigntrailshowcase.com/campaign-trail/index.htmlNCT: newcampaigntrail.com/campaign-trail/index.html
>>2191006>Can't play as LPFlame
>>2192543The same LPF who by 2003 have lost their leader, had their previously novel talking points on immigration and crime become totally co-opted by other right-wingers, and generally been reduced to politically irrelevant schizos?
>>2192561absolutelygives me Reform 2000 vibes after everyone electable bailed out in one week
heartwarming
ugliest mod of all fucking time
There's not a thread up. For shame. Started an 1890 game as Austria-Hungary. Got into a 4 year war with Italy and despite having 1.5x tonnage I beat them. Around 1900 there's a naval treaty. I'm limited to 60000 tonnage which is bullshit FOR 15 YEARS! I'm tempted to just roll with it, but I can for the life of me get into a war with Spain (who are close tonnage wise to me, Italy is too far ahead).
How do I get into this game?I don't even know what to do on turn 1.
>>2191802step 1 look at your fleet. Step 2. make it functional and maybe even good over the next 10 years until it gets outdated again. Step 3 navigate geo politics, and maybe win naval wars as they spring up.Yep, you need to manage the navy and play the game, crazy how it works. Good starting place is looking at all the menus and options, specifically ship design and technology, but you get new tech over time, so don't invest too heavy into that. Have fun learning about actual naval history.
Really need a boats general. Either way, if I had to play with 60000 tns in 1900, I'd forgo everything other than 20000 tns for a BC, and 12000 for a Big CA. You can build useful enough CAs at 4000 tns, and shit out a load of 300 or 400 tn torpedo boats. Obviously though, you have to end that ASAP, high intelligence on everyone and everything. Declare war on the moon, China, the Marshall Islands, who cares if you can get there or not. Ending that treaty is most important.
>>2193631>boats general.We call those admirals.
>>2193692Carlos you little shit.
It's up
>>2094975How will they otherwise keep generating money when every sequel game sucks
You know this might be more cost effective than horse archers + assassins
>>2186339>Nomad is the best ai lord by far because he rushesCome on, that's the only thing he has, without it he'd be firmly in the lowest tier with the Rat and the Sultan
>>2186520What is with this retarded level of sharpness?
>>2187776Dunno. Can't reduce it in options or anything. What, your game isn't eye shredding?
Alexander mommy editionPrevious>>2180586
This is some Berber shit, push them and they are at full strength in 3 minutes, I'm afraid of picking up legendary difficulty
This piece of shit campaign might throw at you infinite hordes of enemies but once you prevail then you feel like on top of the world.
>>2193609Teutonic Knightthey're auramaxxed
>>2193605Skill issueBuild more castles
>>2193125I wish more developers had this level of dedication
Duel of Fates editionhttps://gofile.io/d/zAJ2RV - Full DV leak repository. Proposal, charts, maps.https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasLands - Leaked build footage. Nearly finished and scrapped Italy, very unfinished Germany/US reworks and more.https://space.bilibili.com/385529615/upload/opus - BiliBili leak video repository.https://files.catbox.moe/80z6tb.png - Bormann TNO2 flowchart (never releasing).https://files.catbox.moe/cdag1w.pdf - Vote Pig, the US rework proposal. Read all about this hot new TCT mod.https://files.catbox.moe/j8tp21.pdf - December roundtable notes. Germany never.https://files.catbox.moe/9320n5.pdf- Japan rework. Now with a full proposal leak.https://files.catbox.moe/xlhrjj.pdf - Sweden proposal. Dev still lurking, will respond to all bait.https://files.catbox.moe/ycctp0.png - Sweden flowchart. We lost Pakt Sweden for this OTL-fest.https://files.catbox.moe/l70qhw.pdf - Burgundian Eulogy: Burgundy 2 was real but got scrapped like everything else.https://files.catbox.moe/zff5y4.pdf - Serov "facelift" document. The first leg in the now confirmed Komi rework.https://files.catbox.moe/ymgaur.pdf - Amur rework doc. Over two years in dev hell, still no release date.https://files.catbox.moe/iwmxg6.pdf - Manchuria doc #1.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2193192What, that Mango is teamlead?Or that he and his Clique are a bunch of dickheads?
>>2193195No, that he's scheming to delete Guangdong. Everyone already knows that Mango and his friends that run the mod are retarded dickheads
>>2193109Guangdong has already been deleted in the chinese git that was leaked last month, youre so delusional
>>2193521Got a screenshot? I wanna laugh.
Should be an interesting couple of weeks for TNO as a whole. Both CA and TLL will come out in a matter of weeks. Will play both to compare the quality. Anyone has a insider for either to get a better estimate?
It's not groundbreaking, but what it tries to do it does quite well. Meaning it's trying to imitate an outdated yet beloved game. What makes or breaks a game like this is mission design and I have to say they fucked it up here. They have units with Starcraft like abilities and the whole (not)GDI faction relies on these gimmicks, but also kinda kept the tedium of C&C mission with some additional tedium of Starcraft. You can also break mission, if you purposely don't do an objective, but rather explore the map, you can wipe the whole enemy force and the magically, the game spawns additional forces and building to destroy - fucking shit design.Other than that and the sub-par try-hard cut-scenes. I'm having fun. It's just too bad that so far it's so fucking unoriginal, it feels like a high quality rip-off, rather than its own thing.
>>2159005Tried this game recently and quit two mission maps in. I don't understand how we're progressing backwards with RTSs. Fucking warcraft 3 was made by like 50 people a quarter of a decade ago. You'd think technological innovation would make just replicating old successes easier, but no one seems interested in learning. I was amazed how i couldn't tell any units apart, the infantry is like 5 pixels and all black, double click selection has a delay, etc. Meanwhile i can look at footage from an RTS 20 years ago like cnc generals and immediately tell what's what. The campaign progression unlockables are also some of the most uninspired shit imaginable, like infantry leaves car, or 10% of the time deal 15% more damage type of effects.It really shouldn't be hard to see what people liked about old games and for start just do that.
>>2159005I'm not even mad at it, but it's just underwhelmingIt is almost good but just not that funIt's got C&C vibes which is cool but also many of the C&C gameplay (BAD)It is more starcraft-y and that ain't necessarily a bad thing when microing, but also doesn't have exciting units, endgame cool weapons or a particularly good interface. I remember on the beta I suggested that they made rally points easy to set up from the minimap and to select production buildings easier instead of one by one, and of course, this objectively QoL improvement was met with furious resistance from some fanboys claiming everything was fine and something along that it would make the game spammy... which it is, it's a fucking C&C clone. Thread was closed by a mod and then I've never engaged with the game ever again.I wouldn't say it's a mediocre game because that sounds awful, but its really close to being mediocre. a 7 at that.
>UEngine>as always, should be a pretty sight if it was static, but it's a videogame so it's notTanks in this game explode with the basic UE burst of Gears of War 1 and there are no sci fi cool units but a ball somewhere on the not so interesting tech treeTiberian Sun had mechs, flamethrowers, siege walkers, tunnelers, cyborgs, mutants, etc.
>>2193303Flying box is basically Chinook from Generals (2003) but even blockier than Chinook from early 3D RTS Generals (2003). And fucking ball is literally a rolling ball from Bloodborne but even goofier, and I am pretty sure they added it only because DORF showcased something similar but there it was literally a ball made of junk and rubble and seemed to be just a very crude siege weapon
>>2159005This game harvests your data and sends it to the communists so I refuse to try it
FOUL SORCERY edition>M&B Wikihttps://antifandom.com/mountandblade/wiki/Mount_&_Blade_Wiki> BANNERLORD>Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/tAvcAbpT>Custom Banner Makerhttps://bannerlord.party/banner/>Banner Code Sharinghttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEM-0Fz0yetJ8cZgLrPpHuDU6dO33bhsFiHsiWwiCDM>Asset Extractorhttps://github.com/szszss/TpacTool>Create Custom CompanionsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Post your latest screenshot
>>2191321its propheSy
Brobecy ob bendor:DDDDD
>>2193541o fuggg a barbails :DDDDDDDD
>>2188988Not Dickplomacy specifically but I've had this happen a few times
In less than 24 hours, Park Sang Hyun, also known as Soma, will defeat Bisu, qualifying for the ASL 20 final, wherein he will defeat Snow, thereby avenging Soulkey's aberrant defeat and keeping the title in Zerg hands for the fifth ASL in a row. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
>>2193502>too oldSoma and Snow have a 2 year difference.Soulkey is 2 years older than Snow and he was consistently winning till now
>soulkeklmao. how can he be older than snow but fall for retarded scams all the time?
>>2193581Intensely dedicating your whole life to one thing might stunt your development in other faculties
>>2193512>>2193578OK nvm then, Snow has literally no excuse. He's just a shitter in the skin of a lucky reaver user
>>2193243to be fair they're both asl champs, something snow might never be.
/v3g/ is a thread for the discussion of the game Victoria 3 mainly, however discussion of other Victoria games like 1 and 2 as well as mods or even similar games is allowed.FAQis discussion of other victorias welcome?Yes!Can I come here to complain if I never played the game?NoAre the dlcs worth it?Some are, some aren'tComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Accidentally catch me mum's fit mate in the shower>Play with my dick until I CUM all over the carpet>Now there's a big stain on the carpet and I cannot get it out!FML!
Any good overhaul/flavor mods worth playing?
As the Ottomans, I should do investment rights to get the Urbanization tanzimat faster right?
>>2193616Anbennar and Exether are both going to be ambitious.
>b*napartists trigger a civil war>because they take my Algerian holdings with them, it triggers the Algerian Fiasco
If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.How fares your empire, /gsg/?On this day in history, the 26th of October:1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire.1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor.1520 – Charles V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor.1597 – Imjin War: Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.1860 – Unification of Italy: The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.1905 – King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.1937 – Nazi Germany begins expulsions of 18,000 Polish Jews.1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
3.0 is a pile of dogshit that requires a masters>>2193223 in transology to make worktoo bad they never brought 2.6 to the later versions
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This game has spoiled me as far as QoL in gaming goesI don't care if you like it or not, if you're a SucKom moldy sandwich hugger or campaignlet or whatever, what I'm saying is that the QoL that this game has introduced is by far the best experience in controlling anything in an RTS and makes me uncomfortable to play anything else now. I want this level of easiness to play to another game like Age of Empires or even Starcraft clones. Runs on any potato seamlessly with 8v8 people as well, looks incredible, is a proper sandbox and supports modding as well on top of being free.But I don't want more BAR. I want others to realize how much they have been sucking lately and how mogged can they be. I want more RTS with different flavors and rules in my life, not only more TAs, but with this level of quality.
>>2193516>Runs on any potato seamlesslyLikewise I can't speak for how the game is to actually play, being a mostly Brood War and Turn Based bab, but similar to you it's spoiled me on the fucking optimization, turning this game on made me question whether anyone else was even trying. Haven't seen a game so smooth since MT Framework was new.And then they somehow improved performance when adding in the new lighting? Sheeeeeeeeit
>>2193516Zero-K is ugly as fuck but it has every major feature BAR does and a few extra like auto skirmish.
>>2193516>This game has spoiled me as far as QoL in gaming goesWait till you play Zero-K.BAR and Zero-K share the same game engine, but, where BAR focuses on graphics, Zero-K focuses on gameplay and mechanics.>>2193533>And then they somehow improved performance when adding in the new lighting?That was down to a well known issue with the GUI, there was an option to fix it over a year before the Lightbringer update, but the decision was made to hold back on the fix in order to increase the impact of the update.
>>2193516it lacks any humanity
Year 3 season pass just revealed
I don't have time to watch all the live streams, have they shown anything cool for the ToB that aren't talked about a lot in the dev diaries?
>>2160189In the first AoW you can set it so that all the players on the scenario map can move at the same time which can result in such fun as you making a big brain strat you can't utilise because the enemy just engaged your hero in combat before you could even move him. Too lazy to check if you can make the same shit for the battle maps or if those are always turn-based. So there's some RTS in there, if you so desire.
>>2192826you can do that in aow4 tooit's cancer, don't do it
Is there any way to end a game and get pantheon points if surrendering does nothing?
>>2193515Surrendering does get you pantheon points. It only works once though.
Anno thread.Anno 117 gets a timed demo tomorrow. Expectations? Personally I hope they don't fuck it up, anno 1800 was great.
>>2193191Nobody cares, chud.
I cant wait to review bomb this turd lel
>>2193191>Germans are mad because you put woke gendered conjugation language into their localizationNo one tell him
>>2193191not my problem astrochud
>>2193505well it's not my problem because I'm not buying this crap of a game. It's Ubisoft's problem and their bottom line problem.
I noticed no Stellaris threads on the board. I know 4.0 was a huge fuckup but I at least expected some talk about the new Psionic Expansion. How you fellas feeling about it. ( If any of you guys are even bothering to still play it lol). Is the UI update doing it for ya ?
>>2192191>but I cant snowball at all wtfffffCloning and bio ascension for pop growth.
>>2192191>Apparently growth was decimatedit's an adjustable setting now you fucking retardzip it all the way to minimize/remove the scaling and enjoy your space bangladeshI know I do
>only 4 new species traits
>>2192191Pretend bio psionics don't exist.
>>2193328The new default setting for growth is at the maximum. That honestly shows they haven't figured it all out properly yet.
