>Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy!Act 2 update just came out yesterday.https://youtu.be/5Gd_0R7hJXU
>>2345137Yeah. That one was actually a difficulty spike.
>>2336195delulu
>>2345137It was weird because I had no problems with besides just orientating myself and finding where shit wasMy AI partner took care of all of the battles, I just scrummed around and found out if you click and objective it'll show you where that last rune is
>>2336228damn those midgets got fucked up
>>2328884This games needs to happen with the Middle East crusades desu
Which Civ has the best scenarios and more important, does anyone even plays them?
>>2345591Hmm, nevermind. It's not as great as I remember it from 10 years ago, which was the last time I heard it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BDM_V5830I'd have to go with Pocatello's theme instead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOHHEU4m14
My favorite is the new world one
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>>2345596>Civ V scenario could play as the Portuguese and the natives while the actual Colonization game couldn't
>>2331956It has to be Mesomerica from civ 3, Sengoku from civ 3, Rise of Rome from civ 3, and Napoleon's conquest from civ 3. The alien and fantasy ones from civ 2 are good. There would be more if I played the the test of time more. I played the gold edition and should probably pay the scenarios again sometimes, I wish they'd release it on steam or openciv2 on steam.I honestly can't judge civ 4 scenarios fairly since they are split between different expansions for some crazy reason and I don't remember civ 5's or civ 6's
Is it any good?>Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
yea its decent, not very hard but fun. its like goofy voice acted suzerain. just try it, its like 3 dollars
>>2344479its meh, not really worth the time
>>2344479>>2344482It was a fun game when i played it on release. Saw it got a bunch of updates but never had any urge to replay it. Got kinda annoyed i cant take land from people and i can only white peace or lose. Its fun and silly though
Is this that game where whatever you do or don't do you're liable to get fucked in some way unless you already know the event outcome?
>>2344592This is the direction where suzerain devs should go desu
Anyone played this? Seems interesting and it's on sale
>>2343815It's fun but a bit underbaked. The plot only really starts in the last non-True Ending chapter. The streamship gimmick could be improved by making the streams more influential, as you're probably using the one halting enemies or the one boosting movement 95% of the time. A lot of late-game elites are overbuffed, so your main strategy is just throwing bodies at them (and the devs seem to notice that as one of your last recruits' entire deal is respawning immediately). The non-recruits path is a solid challenge run after you complete the game properly for the first time but doesn't really utilize the fact that you play as a self-proclaimed psycho villainess and her handler rejecting or outright killing the rest of the cast. I didn't expected full-blown evil route like Soul Nomad, but getting a few alternative cutscenes beyond the ending or seeing how the True Ending chapter could be done with two units would be nice.
>>2343949Mostly agreed but I never had to throw bodies at any of the end game stuff. You should have plenty of broken combinations of your own by then.Never did the kill route though, I would never be able to stomach killing Carmine.
>>2344226Scarlet simply scares her off. Just before or after killing her brother, but that's a small, unimportant detail.
>>2343815Didn't work in my machine lol
It's decent. I haven't beaten it and I'm on my first playthrough (evil) but it feels kind of juvenile and a little bit half baked. The story is pretty dumb, but the gameplay is alright. Kind of stale, but you can only play 2 units in this route so it's probably better on the good ending.
This has to be one of the worst focus tree layouts in a mainstream mod.Now with baking!——-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.
>>2349984New ‘toss just for you, anon>>2350039>>2350039>>2350039Threads getting cumbersome anyway
>>2350069Baking early is seen as ok if the thread is well over a thousand posts long. Like with everything else in life, blame the TNO dev for shitting up the thread with his shilling.Migration tends to be slow anyway when it's like this.
>>2350121Retard what the fuck are you even talking about
>>2350135>Doesn't understand basic concepts>Calls other people retardedGigantic post counts make thread slow. New thread warranted sooner.Early bake even if warranted means that people migrate more slowly to new thread since there may still be ongoing conversations here.Hopefully that was more comprehensible for you.
>>2350161why are you even still here? move to the new thread for fuck sake
Just played through the Songs of Conquest campaigns.Hero progress carries over between missions which is nothing unusual, but also between campaigns when you're fighting the guys you controlled in a previous campaign.Silverlink still had all of the resource generating Glimmerweave items I stacked on her in the previous campaign.I imagine you could make things a lot easier/harder in later campaigns depending on how you leveled and itemized your heroes.
>>2323401Nigga just play the fucking game. It's not an issue at all and if you play some challenge mode on hardest dificulty you can simply unequip the items before finishing the mission.What the fuck are you crying for?
>>2322903I didn't even notice it until this thread pointed it out despite always grabbing as many items and levels as possible
>>2333867I think the only reason I noticed it was because I had specifically stacked 3 of the same item on one hero. Also it was the final mission of the 4th campaign, so it should've happened a few times before, but their item setups didn't look suspicious to me.
>>2322903It's good game design if you're not a metagaming pussy
>>2328544nta but this kind of response is so gay, really outs someone as a tardboy.
I liked it. What went wrong?
>>2336496I only played it during the free weekend years ago but I remember the game started lagging and eventually disconnected and kicked me out during a single player skirmish against AI.I did manage to rush through the campaigns anyway. Like everyone else said, it's just boring. The characters suck and the factions suck. The fact that even the goo faction just uses a bunch of walkers for units is impressively uncreative.
>>2336527>>2336496shit i just remembered it
I liked some parts of it, but I hated how hard they tried to pander to the esports crowd. They really wanted to be the next SC2, and when the game flopped, all of that development effort put into the multiplayer aspect was wasted.The music was really good, as expected of Frank Klepacki. The campaign was alright, but it was too short. Good ideas, poor execution.
>>2336496It was just oppressively bland.
>>2336496Made for competitive multiplayer.
How are you holding up AoE2 chads? Excited for the Mapuche? I'm really looking forward to Bolas Riders and the team game synergy, can't waitPic related, glorious one hand victory while snacking on naans dipped in garam masala. Post your favorite AoE2 snacks
any relaxed one hand player here
>>2346972Relaxed? Far from it, these new campaigns are pretty challenging
>>2346972>ai generated reddit meme
fucking LOL at the new dlc being marketed literally as 'resist le colonizer!' how do you cucks cope?
>>2346972Bold to assume I even touched ASSFAGGOTS in the first place
Modern Japan with the Oda emblem is kinoThey should put lots of videos into Medieval 3
>>2336370Does the clan emblems being up on modern buildings imply 21st century Japan is still under shogun rule?
>>2343383Nah it's just a family business logo. You can actually see them everywhere if you know what to look for.
>>2341599It probably helps that in Shogun you had a monocultural setting, so we only had to make a single set of videos.
>>2343814They should contract it out to indie animators who will work for dirt cheap to show off their styles
>>2336370shogun 2 was the last total war with any soul whatsoever
ohhhhso THAT's what she means when she says she "needs to find a mousehole"
>>2338989they wanted to add iconic guns but not all of the special snowflake calibres because that would have made inventory management even more of a chorei'm sure some autistic gunfag has fixed it through a mod by now
>>2326973cyka blyat
I played it just after release *no bobby rays), there's not been a ton of new content but I completed it again last month and it's a good game, satisfying to play. Like others said missions triggering and you missing out on stuff or being rushed all of a sudden really sucks, map is alright but I feel the bottom right corner is wasted and all the best shit happens in the first desert bit>>2340043There is a mod that adds all that shit and its pretty good, but I can understand why the devs streamlined it all.>>2323486>modsThere aren't a ton of mods which is a shame, the tools are there but I don't think anyone likes the game enough to go full autism and make a new campaign for it. I made a Alan Partridge merc and getting it even semi working took a lot longer than I would like to admit
>>2323427Why did she has the same pose as Cyrus
>>2323486Jag 3 shows a realistic post colonial African country, its full of violent, superstitious, impoverished black Africans who take pleasure in enslaving, imprisoning, stealing and killing each other. You come in as a group of mostly white Americans/Europeans and kill them by the boat load. Most of the competent NPCs are white.
Rate the new snow wasteland recruits.The SVOLblader (my 20th gen daughterfu with no exclusivity clause Ishmaela)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fE6TihxGm4The Master Blaster (my 20th gen daughterfu with no exclusivity clause Israela)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hki2OK5YJOkThe Silent Wind (my 20th gen daughterfu with no exclusivity clause Medanela-san)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCiOv1QHObcThe Police (my 21st gen daughterfu with communal exclusivity clause Diana)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHPiLXZQL9YAlso somebody please tell The Master Blaster she is holding the bazooka backwards and pointing in the wrong direction.
>>2331833What is this?
>>2341594My proposed custom ranger party. I'm currently playing SaGa Frontier 2, but I plan to play Wasteland 3 afterwards. I've watched some Youtube videos about character builds, and I often hear that you need a character that's a "battle starter", ie, one that would pick off certain enemies or soften up the enemies before the battle starts by initiating an attack. It was either a sniper or a rocketeer, and then I thought why now both. Actually, this is what I wanted to know, maybe I should have been more direct, if it's a good idea to have 2 battle starters, with 2 in-game characters filling in any gaps, like another melee character or a shotgun leader.
How'd you like Saga?
>>2331833kys weeb
>>2344151It's an intriguing story, I got hooked with the story's rise of the hero theme. It's actually my second playthrough after a long time. I remember that ending scene, I think it was a secret ending, the iron sword breaking the mana egg. It's so iconic and poetic, that the one who couldn't wield the Firebrand would one day save the world with his own created sword.
>ai creates this monstrositywhat do?
>>2334712NO ONE CONQUERS THE TAMIL KINGS
>>2334712Rate my monstrosity I created.
>>2343175We Gan.
>>2343251I succeeded where Alexander the Great could not. All hail Shiva! Also made Constantinople Hindu.
>>2344039>I succeeded where Alexander the Great could notBut you still don't control Arabia nor Italy, aka his next two planned goals. You merely reversed direction of his conquest, so... still didn't succeed?
Greetings. I am looking for strategy games, preferably grand strategy, that will help hone my political abilities and train me for my future career in politics. I am looking for accurate simulations that allow access to all policies, do not enforce socialism as the default winning strategy (all Paradox games are excluded here), and do not have alt history rubbish like Latvia forming the Kurgan Empire or whatever. Just pure strategy, that will sort strong politics from weak.Thank you for your suggestions.
>>2321375>as there can only be one winnerWrong.If your alliance won, then you won to.In ALL games.People who insist there is only one winner are the people who do pointless betrayals in stuff like Twilight Imperium, cuz "only one player is a winner".t. perfectly content with making sure my side wins and I helped to make that happen, regardless of final spot
>>2341853Well, I suppose you could say you won if you helped one player and they win, but considering the two winning conditions of Dominions are to be the last nation standing or hold enough thrones (Which will require you to invade other nations to get enough), long term alliances always carry the risk of betrayal. You could play disciples games if you want teamwork, but those are rarer then free for alls.You still want to scout and open up relationships and with other players, as even something as simple as knowing they're in a war can benefit you if you share a border. Popkill nations have a diplomacy males in multiplayer, as everyone knows the longer they're around, the more useless their lands become and the more chaff you have to grind through.
>>2316284Any of the officer play Romance of the Three Kingdoms games. Debates, forming patronage networks and voting blocs, and managing pressures from above and below are integral gameplay mechanics and are modeled better in RotK 13 than any game I’ve ever played. There’s a lot of stats but the disposition each character has towards you and how your behavior can affect it is sort of obscured from you.I’m sure there’s plenty of autistic Japanese salary men who have figured out how to min max and trivialize it, but for a first playthrough it sells the illusion really well. It’s also completely self serious too, so when random stuff happens it feels realistic instead of the wacky ironypoisoned stuff you get in Crusader Kings. War is a grind and a test of attrition.
>>2341909>but considering the two winning conditions of Dominions are to be the last nation standing or hold enough thrones (Which will require you to invade other nations to get enough), long term alliances always carry the risk of betrayalYou realise you can conceed, right? You don't have to betray/be betrayed, if you understand that achieving victory by backstabbing your ally is completely pointless.Like seriously, why it's such a tough concept for idiots to grasp that even in games of "only one winner", you can deliver it to your alliance and then simply fold, giving them victory you helped to create (and then caused, since you are the final obstacle).There is a reason why I always play with the same guy with team-ups in various games - for he seems to be the only person to truly grasp how this shit works. In the end, depending on the game, we simply flip the coin or see who has the lead and the other one folds. But this way, we always win, never have to worry about "now I will betray ally for quick expansion that's gonna actually weaken us both" and have fun watching all the idiots backstabbing each other
>>2343358I guess you can consider it a win if you assist another player and they win, but alliances in Dominions are on paper only, with nothing like being able to move through their lands freely or being able to share research. It is possible to go an entire game without getting attacked ny a neighbor, but that depends on all sorts of factors. Just play the game with other players before going off on how diplomacy could work in it. The air of mutual distrust and give and take influence how you interact with everyone. MA Ermor is infamous for this. They're literally cancer, killing off their population to spawn skeletons. Nobody wants to fight Ermor solo, as that means punching through hundreds of skeletons to get territory that gives you little gold and can't support many troops. So they're often the target of a collation, as this benefits everyone that borders them. But of course, how this turns out depends on more factors.
Are there any truly great strategy video games out there today? Since largely migrating to board games about 10 years ago, it has become obvious to me that strategy video games largely fall into two buckets...1. Games where there's so many layers of slop that strategic thinking is inconsequential (civilization games)2. Games where there's so much complexity and admin that focusing on strategy is an afterthought (paradox games)Where are the approachable, yet tight and endlessly replayable games?I can play something like Imperial 2030, 1830, pax renaissance, Tigris and Euphrates and make far more interesting decisions, in the span of a couple hours, and keep going back to those games 10+ years later.
>>2343180>player doesn't want a challenging aiplayers do want a challenging ai. However, they do not want a cheating ai, which is what games usually offer.
>>2342838Try out MoM and/or AoW2. I find them the right balance of casual fun and having to use tactical planning and thinking.But if anything, I mostly play economical sims, so not sure if I can really help you.
>>2342838>Imperial 2030this sounds really fun
>>2343352Modern total war is the prime example of this, harder difficulties give you debuffs and the enemy buffs, they don't actually play much smarter. Which is why Medieval 2 is one of my favourites, the AI doens't get much in the way of cheats and harder difficulty makes it play smarter.
>>2343125>it looks to be very abstract. Looks more like a puzzlish solatire game.It is. I figured you were looking for something more competitive, but thought I'd mention it anyway.You move colonists around, explore, have them interact with planets and installations, make sure they have oxygen for upkeep, fuel for moving, security to move deeper into space, you draw cards to modify planet/deep space tiles and the goal is to settle a required number of people before the time runs out e.g. at the difficulty level of 25 it's 26 colonists in 6 turns. To me it looks like Against the Storm but turn-based. >AI WarI see it frequently recommended
New demo out until the 17th. Anyone interested in trying it?https://store.steampowered.com/app/1761210/The_Touhou_Empires/
>>2342874You gather booze and click the worker fairy button in exchange for it.
>>2342878eh im not convinced, but thank you
>>2337752Oh shit I almost missed it, I'm not really into touhou or RTS but this game grabbed my attention with the heros mega attacks and I liked the demo well enough
>>2343147liked the very first demo that is, judging by this thread there's been several more since then
>>2342880>>2342874There is no breeding you "summon" fairies.(Besides Tohous reproduce asexually with mitosis)
