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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 23rd of June:1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships1280 – The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile1287 – The Aragonese fleet under Roger of Lauria defeats a Angevin fleet in the Battle of the Counts close to Naples1532 – Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor1565 – Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta1594 – The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv1908 – The Persian Cossack Brigade bombards the building of the National Consultative Assembly of Iran, killing hundreds of civiliansComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
eu5 should add a malice to jews and christians (but not muslims) for desise resistencegnostics, marcionites ect would be exempt of course>holy war sounds sillyyeah that's why it's "clense heresy" instead (they're pravoslavl, poland is catholic)>even if volhynia is paganit's not>go for it, then?but it'd waste parliment support on that>how so?to get the parliment CB you need use up 50% of their support and i'd rather change laws (like revamping education) instead>you vill take kyiv and namechange that shit to kiev, und you vill like itoh absolutely, but please enlighten me how i'm supposed to take it from the teutons in this peacedealyou're jumping the gun, take a chill pill, maybe lie down for a bit>do whatever you'd like with lithuanian land, i don't carethat's not very helpful
if you dont want to go overboard just do max money, war reps and then whatever you can squeeze in for land and like i said make fiefdomsyou want to annex lithuania to form the commonwealth anyway
>>2439011why was this post deleted
i want to tell you why but if i speak i am in a big trouble
i want to be in a big trouble but if i speak i tell you why
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>>2439237tung tung tung sahur aah sounding name
>fight through an annoying independence war where the emperor abandons the entire crusade he's suffering just so he can go fight me>several years of batting down armies and rebellions happening on the same fucking places every five fucking seconds even when the "revolt chance" is like 1%>finally independent, time to become an empire>"lool sorry you actually need a title for this kigndom which is LITERALLY ENTIRE OUTSIDE THE AREA OF THE EMPIRE", you just do okay lolFuck it. That's it. I quit. I quit this stupid worthless piece of shit game.
>>2439462https://youtu.be/mqWMEbvnXrU
>>2439462https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8MZBUoQt68&list=RDa8MZBUoQt68&start_radio=1
>>2439462you could cheat, no? just give yourself the title, or give yourself the provinces, claim the title, and give them bacl, all through console.
Been playing this and I enjoy it, what are /vst/'s thoughts? I think a tactical RPG-roguelite is pretty cool conceptually.
>>2439153>>2439149References in the pluralmultiple referencesAn actor being in a production is an appearance, not a reference Which means at the moment we're sitting at zero jerma references despite your best attempts
>>2439250You make a good point, this game is NOT for me at its current discount. Maybe next sale, ha ha.
>>2439014So far the humor, as well as the lore, have been bearable for me, and a bunch of it is on the practical joke side like an item that does nothing and you're asked not to lose it, and then every game mechanic encourages you to ditch it or makes you break it on accident, classic Edmund McMillen. But I still haven't further than act 1 and only survived one invasion, so what do I know, maybe it gets worse in the future.
I really like the idea, but I absolutely hate the gross humour. There's only so much farting and shitting and gore and pus I can take.I can't get into it.
>>2438992does it suffer from the same tedious rng as isaac?
An awful thread for devs and no-devs to post their awful ideas for strategy games that will never see the light of day, etc.previous thread:>>2032893>Useful resources for making gamesFree icons: https://game-icons.net/Free HQ textures: https://ambientcg.com/Kanban for organization: https://www.kanbanthing.com/3D modelling program: https://www.blender.org/Pixel art editor: https://www.aseprite.org/Image editor: https://www.gimp.org/Vector editor: https://inkscape.org/Map editor: https://qgis.org/Game engine: https://godotengine.org/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Thanks, anon.This week, I haven't done much of anything. I did make this promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuq9A4KcwZwBesides that, I have been trying to decide if I should implement physical tax collection mechanic.
Been trying to make an RTS in Godot and it's been a disaster. Enjoying the process.
>>2392494strategy games are practically exclusively large scale projects anon... I'm sure it would be wondrous to work with someone that could implement any "idea guy" heres ideas, knowing there are many in this thread, but people are looking for long term commitment.
>>2439186>and it's been a disasterOn what front exactly? Godot-specific shit or more general game making stuff?
>>2439417Not Godot problems, my own limitations. Placing too much shit in one script, or putting the wrong things on the wrong nodes, having some nodes do 2 different things and then later it creates problems.I am not using the built in navigation, physics, or collision detection because I simply don't like them at all and the unit movement felt absolutely terrible using move_and_slide or move_and_collide
we've discussed many times what the best RTS game is on a number of different metrics. but which one has the best soundtrack?
>>2406783>but which one has the best soundtrack?StarCraft, not even close. SupCom may have the best gameplay, but StarCraft wins in terms of music (and story).
>>2406783Total annihilation. Jeremy Soule in his prime making robot warfare sound epic.
>>2406801>terran1>not terran3also>anything from tiberian sun that isn't thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq7NEhZcMC8
>>2406783https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bregXidDzkU
Broodwar Zerg theme, it doesn't get any better than that.
Total war - warhammer is on saleAny of them worth getting?Why do they still have denuvo 20 years after release?
>>2438838AI cheats with upkeep no matter the difficulty sadly. It will always skip the recruitment timer and just instantly spawns armies.
>>2438838I'm on campaign Hard, battle Normal (was Hard/hard at first, but I was having trouble getting off the ground). The empire was pretty bit towards the end, but not THAT big, I don't think. But rather than bang my head against a wall I decided I'll take my short campaign victory and move on to a big dumb melee army, so I'm trying Korne out.>>2438906They're definitely more fun than Korne is so far. I'll probably come back to them and try again at some point
Which of this DLC is priority to buy? fundamental shit, like fighting as Vampire Counts without fucking Corpse Carts level fundamental
>>2378765is it just me or does creamapi no longer work for wh3?
>>2410732Shorty got shitloads of Trollbusters, they will win the ranged fight. He needs to use Nehekharans to eat the Trollbusters and have the survivors go against unarmored Stunties and close in with Tomb Guard against Longbeards.
Big Steam sale. Any good strategy games worth getting? What are some good recommendations?
I'm thinking of buying Gates of Hell Ostfront. Does the base game have enough content on its own?Do you have any recommendations on the DLCs?
it's all slop. The less I buy, the more the industry fails.
The more I buy, the bigger my library of video games.It must never stop growing.
>>2439423Until steam deletes them like Sony
How's Zephon for multiplayer?https://store.steampowered.com/app/1481170/ZEPHON/I want to play it cooperatively with my friends. Does it have simultaneous turns, like Conquest of Elysium?
new update today
>>2439330>Your neighbors will have them for sale and surely you're producing something for export to barter with.Where do I go to find these slaves for sale? It is not using import depot right? Do I uFind it under diplomacy options?
I like this natural walkway mod but it sure creates some mega highways
I dropped Songs of Syx because it's just infinitely more fun to build in squares and copy buildings you've already built, but then it's so god awfully ugly.So either you get tedium or ugliness. I can't take it anymore.
>did you enjoy season 3 DLC junk?>did you enjoy gay vampires and blood tomes?>did you enjoy mobile home Nomads and Fractured TF?>did you enjoy raiding the closets of all the wizard kings from AoW2 to see what porn they have stashed away?>did you enjoy the free Empire tree rework?>did you enjoy the Reaver touchup and new Federate Reavers where diplomacy is an option but there's still fuckoff gun units?post your goddamn rulers and factions you fucks
>>2439307I can't think of anything else at this point and only make Wizard Kings and mostly Champions anyway. I made one Giant though.I guess >>2439400 makes the most sense
>>2439400That thought did cross my mind. The Endailon seem to be pretty active now and are actively choosing people to represent them so it wouldn't be a stretch to have an "Agent of the Endailon" ruler type. I think the only problems with that are that since it covers all 6 affinities it would have to paint some pretty broad strokes and it leaves vampire rulers as an odd one out that could've been rolled into this ruler type.
>>2437898Kinda sad we are going full throttle into wargame focus.
>>2439380Yeah, 4 legs, wings, breath attack that can be any of the six base damage types. Note that they're dlc content, not base game.>>2439307Some kind of greater fey/fey lord seems like the next most likely thing to add.
>>2439389I'm both the same guy but thanks. I recently just fired up AoW 3 about 4 months ago and I really enjoyed my time. >>2439425Now this is pod racing. This is what I want in a strategy game. A real dragon that I can play as. Already bought the game with the dragon dlc.
>>2436107>leftist seethedepopulating ukraine (-20mil) and flooding Europe with another welfare leeches is in fact a win for Russia, not sure whatever commie propaganda you fell for but they can make up fake numbers all they wantalso does not change the fact that USSR uplifted ukrainians and created ukrainian borders and now ukrainian "culture" will die out in a generation like God intended
>>2432056Same honestly
>>2396222You just want them to be black for KARA BOGA memes
>>2436216>welfare leechesu can hate them for destroying job market but dont lie they are equal to illiterate sand niggers sitting on welfare
>>2438685worse. pseudointellectual slavs capable of armed resistance that have a completely different ethnic identity in every country they went to, don't speak the language of anywhere they went, are resentful their homeland is being destroyed while the other european nations do nothing, AND they collect welfare. Much much harder to remove than the humble retarded negro were the politics to change. Europe will see the mistakes they have made, in time, and so will my home in America. We are taking many ukrainian fighting age men in here who are illegally dodging the draft and it's already causing all kinds of problems, they keep getting into gang wars with our illegal beaner and mudslime populations.
What are your thoughts on this game? Looks interesting, it's like a mix of total war and paradox games
Nobunaga, dude!
>>2427207https://dengekionline.com/article/202606/77829>focus on claims/causes, kinda like paradox games. going to war with a good claim gives buffs while just declaring on everyone without reason can give debuffs. intention is to let smaller clans survive and be worth playing. >titles are worthwhile now with stuff like recruiting the officer with the title governor of kanto can give you just cause to invade kanto, etc. >castle management is a sandbox again. you plop buildings down on a grid map however you like. different regions will have different maps>game is more internal affairs driven rather than combat driven>nobunaga story mode thats about 20-25 hoursI'll play it but the focus on justification seems a bit worrying.
>>2432906I'm intrigued by the claim/causes stuff, hopefully it doesn't become a big fat mess like the Casus Beli in Crusader Kings games.
The day has come gentlement! Today (29/06) i will be buying Nobunaga's Ambition
>>2439179Which one though? Awakening?
Polish tourism edition. Why wait ten years for EU5 to be finished when you can play EU4 right now?
any recommended mods for somebody that actually doesn't like EU4?
>>2438847EU5.
>>2436708Unfortunate truth
AI Ming lost a war against the Oirats, somehow, now they are getting butchered by Ayutthaya and other nations want to join in. This might be the first time I've seen this happen so early.
hre or germany path in the austrian mission tree? which is more fun?and while we’re at it, the multicultural option or austrian conversion?
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>>2439245AoE2 is at its peak when playing defensively
>>2439265based retard
>>2438989Mobility is king in aoe4 because >>2438951 walling is terrible and buildings are not walls. Infantry tends to be bad in most games outside of niche cases with ranged + cav usually being best but in aoe4 is it really bad since maa aren't really even economical.Siege meta was absolutely miserable but I really wish the game had more structure and less running around like a hunnic horde trying to rape villagers.My pet idea is that some buildings should function as walls but not all of them. Basically, military buildings would connect with walls to make walling easier but houses, mills, etc would not to create a kind of halfway house between aoe2 walling and what we have now. I don't like quick walling as a mechanic but aoe4 is so horribly unstructured.
>>2439335>Wrath>6570 enemy units killedby Ares...
Happy belated 10th anniversary editionPrevious >>2422823——-MODDING RESOURCES———>bit dot ly 3GPdwPDGeneral Index of tutorials for photoshop, GFX, scripting, etc. This is a google doc, so be aware.>https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/ModdingGeneral article hub on modding, also has a lot of info in general on all pages.>Text Editors/Codinghttps://notepad-plus-plus.org/https://www.sublimetext.com/https://code.visualstudio.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2439315Thanks nigger.
>>2437893All it takes is a cute avatar to get over four armies worth of voluntereers
>>2439297noim pretty sure it still crashes if you try to start a new game
>>2439297>>2439381It says on their Steam page that they updated a few days ago which I guess must be a hotfix and not a comp patch. I'd say wait another week if you don't want to deal with reverts or random fix drops. That's usually how long it takes.
>>2439276Most likely, but still I'd be surprised if we get nothing on the 4th of July. It's THE American holiday and the mods most anticipated updates are focused on America.
