Why the fuck does Against the Storm have so many buildings? What's the point of separating harvester camps, herbalist camps, fishing huts, and trapper camps? This is BLOAT
>>2461930If you don't like it at first I don't think you'll ever like it. It's more similar to anno than most other strategy games.
>>2456122Wut
>>2461930I'm with you bud. I have heard so much praise for this game, and have tried for ~5 hours to get into it and don't get it at all. I feel like I'm playing a different game than everyone else.
>>2467531You are talking to shills.
>>2467596Just because someone gets the game for free doesn't make them a "shill".
what makes it so good?
>>2464783Being a game with a mythological setting when there were very few that did tbqh
Wish I knew how to make games, its time for a successor to build upon it
>>2464783Etimos?
>>2464783inorganic rock paper scissor unit balancing makes it a pretty ugly game. its grounds for automatic disqualification for any rts or strategy game imho
>>2464783Great campaignSovl factions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BOaaB9I1QCampaign Mode is out.do you like?
>>2462274>not at allI meant “not exactly,” lmao
>>2419515Because the teenage trannies who spend all day in the discord talk exclusively about PvP meta, and estrogen destroys your desire to create, so you just end up with balance juggling as a simulacrum of development effort.If everything sucks it's "expression of skill".So there is an active drive to removing all meaningful interesting choice from the fleet building aspect of the game, and single player, in service of developing a balance meta that prioritizes a specific type of micro.Notice how it's impossible to make effective hardkill anti-missile missiles in the game? That's because way pointed cruise missiles and soft kill are the chosen "skill expression*of the community.
>Devman making best possible chance for a more 'milsim' styled empire at war successor>troons out, caves to the tiny clique of pvp meta fags and makes homeworld without cutscenesEaW fans really are hated aren't we?
>>2430356Don't forget to account for troon selection bias. They're more online than most people.While you're content to just play the game, the troon has time to answer polls, react to dev announcements with the troon flag on discord, and shit up any forums in general.They're still a vanishing amount of any normal community. Unless I am supposed to believe that there are thousands of trooned out Russians and Chinks playing deadlock, because the troon flag always gets the majority of reactions to any dev post.
>>2464735Discord should be banned, its truly a meanace to society.
Does anyone want to talk abou it?
>>2464349>DESU on the other hand they also don't have any levelling. OTOH, despite not having xp levels, the only crew you can reliably afford to lose are husks.
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>>2464325>minibossAin't it a bit of a stretch to call it a miniboss when I would have an easier time fighting two flagships at the same time?
>>2466057A patch just dropped for Void War. Brings some new stuff.
Holy shit, has Relic fallen low. Now they're selling game modes as separate games. Something that should be a free patch for the base game, or at worse a DLC. But this, this is simply vile. Fuck Relic, I hope they end up out of business sooner rather than later.
>>2442071this
>>2441841I like it
>>2455008name 5 COH examples then.
Yeah nah, this shit is dead.
>>2466743I'd assume most people are playing it through CoH3 instead of the standalone
Post yer campaignsRight as I beat Rohan this mad lad comes up my rear
>>2465765Falling beneath a wave of iron slabbed blades the lord of Gondor is no more.
>>2465861His favoured son and the new lord of Gondor was spotted sneaking his way out of Lorien, why he was there or even how he got there is something not even the wise know. Sharku was plased to bring his head to Saruman.
>>2465865The Gondor v Mordor stalemate continues despite Gondor losing it's best commanders.
>>2465867Hearing word from his scouts that a Moria Goblin army with 250 trolls was on it's way to attack a Lorien town Sharku was swift to join them and begin the burning of Lothlorien for his lord.
>>2465765Which mod?
What is the point? Where is the fun?I see many people shitting in the dlcs, but where is the fun in the vanilla?>waste time in x3 speed until something happens>same events and quests all over again>no nation-building: you must waste soldiers, money and time against your vassals' rebels, but they will not help you if you are in trouble>no survival instinct: your vassals can lose his domains against an invader, but he will not help you defend HIS territories, not even if he's from your dynastyYou have to Kek seeing how all non-whites in vanilla are brown moors, according to woke swedish Paradox.
>>2462529>Can you give more context?Nothing more to it, ISP started doing his annoying nasal voice as a homage to Fitzthistlewits. Then he just... kept going.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MhyVjJ7tA&t=17The only difference is ISP thought the humor was in doing the annoying voice, not in the actual humor.
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>>2461856There is no point. Nobody with a brain plays with no dlcs. Even poor dudes either just crack them or don't play because it's shit without the added content.
>>2462532>>2462534Ok thanks, why did Fitz leave YT?
>>2465677How could people enjoy this game before its first dlc?
How did you develop an attention span to play strategy games that are more involved? I got the steel division games and I really love them, best strategy games ive played in a long time, but I have this horrible habit of hyperfocusing on one area of the map for too long. I do it every time. I'll try to put together a flank push but now the town I'm holding is getting attacked, now I completely mindwipe the flank like I just got hit by one of those men in black mind erasers. It gets pushed in and I lose. I get hyperfocused on whatever I'm doing and forget to check the map constantly.I feel so ADHD playing games like this and I wanna actually get good at strategy games. Do you have any tricks or ways you deal with this?
>>2465726all RTS games require some micro skills so you'll just have to git gudthat being said, if you can get a good grasp on the number and location of the enemy's units then it's easier to parce which locations you need to keep an eye on and which locations you can afford to forget about for a bit. A waterproof frontline helps with thisTaking the initiative also helps (an enemy that is always defending is never attacking)
>>2465726idk I'd rather call it the ability to oh fuck it's 6 am again
The tiktok generation is doomed.
>>2465726Try training your multitasking ability on time management games like Papa's Pizzeria or Jacksmith.
>>2465726Look at minimapRotate through your unit groupSpread small unit into Recon and Guard duty outside the main line of defense.You too should press units staged to attack to commit about the time enemy started theirs. If your mobile troops are close to enemy main push you can pinch those, otherwise you trade and hope you can head to their spawn quicker than they do. Not all trade is equal.Don't mass too much on flank to the point that you can't pinch out the center push that directly win/lose the game. The shortest path between two opposing center of gravity should not be treated lightly.
This game was blast few times i played it. story and setting was nice mix of dune, foundation, hyperion cantos, but after several completions of all 6 of chapters, i felt that gameplay wise, games felt very lacking? yes, has multiple ships that map to different factions and gameplay, variety still felt very shallow compared to FTL, Void War and other games in genre. So, while story was interesting, game as a whole feels like wasted potential.
>>2463907while story was cool for a roguelite, it bothered me somewhat that from chapter 3 onwards, everyone seems to be aware that Master Node exists, even it was stated to be biggest kept secret in Imperium.
>>2454624the story and atmosphere were the only thing that got me going after a while and thats a death sentence for these gamesthe dev released a new game recently about battlestar gallactica which I enjoyed much more
>>2465243while i really like how they tried to transpose theme of BSG to scattered hopes, gave has even less variety than Crying Suns, and you need to do at least 12 runs to do secret true ending, while only having 4 type of fleets to chose from. and as per >>2463632>>2463640At least crying suns gives significantly different playstyle focus based on ship you pick. in scattered hopes, while different fleets somewhat encourage you to play differently, they usually end up feeling the same as your vipers do most of heavy lifting anyway. I know game is relatively fresh, so I hope they'll add more content or DLC before abandoning ship like they did with crying suns.
Best ost?For me it's:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGkT_NxirH4
>>2465678i like these while im reading some sci-fi books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voOlrUTb5Tchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAqjZygcMCshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr6QCtDzdR8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtRAeNYnC8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsQ5Fq_aRNQotherwise OST is not that special IMO,
Which is more efficient?
>>2438618the people that didn't figure this have to cope some way
Holy shit the tower defense games are dogshit play the shooters..Garden warfare made the franchise actually good and relavent td games are nigger tier at best that's why pvz should be focused on its shooter games instead
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>>2438610Bump
>>2448208That's because it saves time since the peashooters are closer to where the zombies spawn. That doesn't make it the optimal strategy for winning in general.
I know some people are like >"THIS IS THE LAST ANNO! THERE WILL BE NO OTHERS AFTER THIS!!"But let's say that's not true, what do you think they're doing next? They're probably going to do something gay like go back to the future, but what I want them to do is remake 1701 as a global game like 1800. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking:>They'll just make it woke again!!!That is true, but I think with AI it's easier to change characters to their correct race than it was when 1800 came out.>Just mod 1800, faggot.It's too difficult to take 1800 and try to make it 18th century. It's like making a completely different game.1800 was the video game that taught me that I don't like the 19th century as much as I thought I did. Too industrialized. 18th century, pre-industrial revolution was the best time and it had fantastic architecture too. I hope they remake 1701.
>>2465054Eh History Edition is alright, especially for the older ones like 1503 which were locked in a shit tier resolution. Also apparently 1701 didn't have a campaign before Sunken Dragon, unless jewgle is lying.
>>2465056Fair enough.
>>2465061Actually, the "scenarios" in the base game are the campaign, that's why I said loosely connected, introducing the characters from the continuous mode. Those scenarios were part of the base game. Whether one can consider that a campaign? Dont care, they were fun
>>2457722you'd hear about it even more cause you'd have fuckers whining about it being broken
I hate the multiple regions system in 1800. It's such a waste of time and just slows down the game. Wish they could have it all on one map. Like a huge-ass map with multiple different biomes and maybe danger zones in the water that you'd have to manually route around.
LIST:Europa Universallis 1 and 2 and 3.Hearts of Iron 1-3Victoria 1 and 2. Crusader Kings 1.Svea Rike 1 and 2.Crown of the North. (Svea Rike 3)Two ThronesSengokuMarch of the Eagles(technically came out after CK2, but never got DLC, you can buy the full version on disc and play it offline no problem)
>>2460493Vic2 and EU3There are no other contestants. No I will not elaborate.
CK2 >>>>
EU2HOI2Imperator: Rome
>>2461995I agree with this dude here, even though he didn’t get the trips and is therefore a raging faggot who spends every free minute of his day slurping semen instead of playing vic2 and eu3
>>2460493EU2, HOI2, Victoria, Victoria 2 and I guess EU3Europa engine games were all quite simple, but they worked. The small team that used to be Paradox would work on weekends to fix all the bugs, modding was extremely easy too. Since the games were all historical, it was easy enough to expand the content too. No gay DLCs. While the railroaded historical events limited the replayability, they also gave the game its character, and high quality for that time.Victoria 2 was a straight upgrade from Vicky 1 which was already a good game.EU3 was completely different to 2, but it was saved over time and with mods.And CK2 was their last good game.
With No Compromise, No Surrender out in the wild, what are everyone's thought on it? What are some things that you feel should be improved on as of now, and what do you expect ( or wish to see ) on the new SEA-Oceania focused DLC coming out in the second quarter of 2026?Also, Hearts of Iron IV Thread.
>>2465729>build ships>at start, they automatically spawn in Germany>at some point, they start automatically spawning in Crimea of all placesI really hope you're samefagging because otherwise this community is literally the most retarded I've ever interacted with. I refuse to believe there are two absolute retards such as you. There actually are no words to describe how fucking stupid you are. It's a real shame.
>>2466361You can enable them without buying anything. Or just torrent the entire game. Supporting the cancerous DLC policy of a game that has 10+ year old bugs really makes no sense, and I myself wish I could unbuy all of them.
have they nerfed torpedoes? light gun DDs perform much better than torp DDs now.
>>2470242I use trop DDs and light gun CLs and combined they melt everything.
Suck my dick britfucks
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 31st of July:398 – End of the Gildonic rebellion after Gildo's forces are defeated by forces loyal to Western Roman Emperor Honorius under Gildo's brother Mascezel and Gildo's subsequent death.1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: A Franco-Scottish army is defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.1715 – Seven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.1917 – World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.1941 – World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisonersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
retrying europa nowarsalis 5 as muscovygoing to get some random shit built, including a patch of road, maybe 2 or 3
oops wrong thread
CK2 VS CK3https://strawpoll.com/XmZRQ85xLgdWhat's /gsg/'s veredict? Both with all dlc>inb4 CK1 KYS
Thoughts on Terra Invicta? Thinking of playing it today.
>>2472540I gave it a try and it seemed okay if a little overly complex but the big problem was that they make you look at hideous trannies the entire game with no way to turn them off. Each faction has their own unique hideous tranny in terra invicta, I'm really not sure what was going on when I tried it either because it seemed like they were supposed to be tutorializing me but none of the mechanics functioned in the way they were monologuing about and I ended up having to figure it all out for myself. Refunded after 1.9 hours because, after doing some light reading of the steam discussion page, the victory conditions for each faction didn't seem very fun to try to achieve in that your first goal as every faction seems to be to use your power to slowly take control of one nation you use to bludgeon the other AI controlled nations over the head with to achieve your objective passively. pic rel it's from the trailer. 1/4th of the game spent looking at these faces or more.
Anyone here play Software Inc.? I rarely (if ever) see this game discussed here, and i think it's a really decent game. So, let's discuss this spreadsheet simulatror.
>>2459947>Paying for an antivirusGame got that part right.
>>2451757I remember enjoying it ages ago but I didn't get very far. As soon as I settle into a semblance of stability, everything I'm doing becomes outdated and I get fucked trying to keep up with the times.>>2451803>>2452858>Finally, I just wanted to give a quick happy 12th year anniversary to development of Software Inc!from a few months ago lol. Wish them all the best.
>>2459918it's just a dollhouse simulator like megaquarium or zoo tycoon. there's not enough strategy to make it a strategy game
I can't wait for it to go on sale, looks like it will immensely satisfy my autistic thirst
>>2459947try making a sequelbitches love sequels
