Why is the 3rd game in a strategy series often cursed?>HW3sucks>AoE3sucks>DoW3sucks>Victoria 3sucks>HoI 3sucks>Civ 3sucks>Stronghold 3sucksComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2288196>it's broadly praisedThat's rarely the sign that something doesn't sucks.
>>2288130>fallout 3good opinion>baldurs gate 3bad opinion
>>2288211I'm all ears
>>2287986Yeah, those weren't hard in the remaster. I heard the fleet scaling supposedly makes it hard to beat without a mod to dial the scaling down, and the Kadeshi levels did filter me at first. However, I tried again a few months later and beat the whole whole game after that no problem. Like I said, a wall of capital ships owns almost everything smaller (cruisers demolish frigates in just a few shots from a long range, yum), and also gravwell generators make strikecraft harmless. I don't remember whether the original was hard, but I do remember it being long-winded.
>>2288196>>2288274Trump is broadly praisedSo was Clinton and KamalaSo were Epstein and EinsteinPick your poison
waiting for elder kings editionprev>>2229560
>>2290497I agree with you that the basics of the medieval dynasty sim are there. It’s just that events are still very static, don’t respond dynamically to new information, are easy to exploit, or are just buggy even after all these years. It’s still fun, but 5 years after release, I’ve come to expect much more. I can imagine how all of those problems affect China… I mean even the devs have made mod collab dlc packs in the past so they’re definitely aware that mods have been doing at lot of what they should have been doing all along.
>1.18.2 has been in beta for almost 2 weeks nowIt's so over.
>>2290635By Christmas*
>>2290717It's more over than previously thought possible.
>>2290487the team is perfectly fine, when management isn't apparently crashing out from a months-long cocaine bender. Feels like it's been an off and on sort of feelings since Rajas of India. If it's possible to see if they had layoffs around when that expansion dropped for CK2 you could literally pin whenever they started getting a more extreme rollercoaster on QA at least.
now that devs have run off and dust has settled, what are your opinion about this game? Personally, I like game, but I'm rather pissed off that last few updates nerfed Corrino's hard. And I feel that devs could've added new faction, or at least revamped assassination/espionage game (like they said they will). now they run off and didn't even finished tutorial missions.
I mean this game is okay, but have you tried its board game?
>>2287721thanks. I usually pick Sardaukar guy (15% power per truce) and free Empire mandate and either Irulan or Hasimir. (Conquest Mode) A lot of forums say that Irulan is must pick, but i dunno, Hasimir is cool as well. >>2287972which one? I have: Dune 2018 (OG dune reprint), Movie Dune (2018 Dune lite), Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium Uprising, Dune betrayal (social deduction game), Dune war of Arrakis (WOTR: Dune Edition), Dune House Secrets (I can barely call this a game), Dune 2d20 RPG, Dune Dawn of Fremen (Borderlands/Gearworld reprint)
>>2289048looks like it's Dune Imperium
>>2289048Irulan is considered a must pick because being able to double up on village buildings can rocket you ahead if you roll well on traits, but even if you don't get villages with useful traits she still compensates for corrino's slower expansion since she effectively doubles your village count.
>>2289711IMO best Dune board games are: Dune 2018 (factions are very asymmetric where knowledge is tangible resource you can trade, Atreides/Paul feels like Paul, as if you keep notes, you know like 95% of hidden information).Dune War for Arrakis (really captures 2nd part of the book (fremen uprising) really well. while from technical point, its dumbed down version of War of the Ring, game really holds up. While Dune Imperium and Dune Imperium Uprising are great games, from mechanical perspective, I just don't feel Dune theme so much. you can change theme to be anything else, and it would still play pretty much the same. where in OG/2018 Dune and War of Arrakis, Faction identity is baked into the rules. >>2289784Thanks. are there any other must pick councilors for other factions? (Conquest Mode)I'm pretty much always take Paul Atreides if see there is medium/high sietch activity as it gives me a lot of authority and fremen friendship in long run.
Toozer editionprevious >>2254243
>>2290715>GURRRR HURRRR MASK BAD
>>2291000>hurr durr people won't notice that I'm a male if I wear a mask!!!!!
>>2290961No, unless people have specific knowledge of this tweet, it would seem too outlandish/ridiculous to people.
>>2290790Lafayette is based, along with the Lion of Socialism, Legate Erasmus and Radelsfuhrer. And there's nothing you can do about it.>>2290770Alright, let me see.>An unknown phenomenon occurs in Central Asia during Bronze Age, creating The Mansi Sea, which prevented Siberia from being colonized and allowed the Cumans, Saka, and Buryat peoples to thrive.>During the collapse of the Ming dynasty, the upstart Shun Dynasty defeats both Ming remnants and Qing, establishing an empire which survives to the 80's.>Jeffersonianism beats out Federalism in the United States, which led to a more decentralized and less powerful USA. This included no civil war happening (although brief skirmishes between states were more common) and the matter of slavery being settled on a state-by-state basis (with Kansas, having had the pro-slavery militias win the "Bleeding Kansas" war, still being a *de jure* slave state by the mod's start in 1985).>The Decembrist Revolt in 1825 succeeds, and Russia is a (mostly) stable Social Liberal parliamentary democracy.>A more disastrous Franco-Prussian War had a socialist revolution execute Napoleon III, and form the Commune of France.>The division of the Japanese archipelago between two imperial courts prevents the destruction of the Korean Empire.>British Israelists were able to discover The Ark of the Covenant in Ireland in 1900, and capitalizing on it slowly wormed their influence into England's government, until they performed an open takeover in the 1960s. Their new "United Kingdom of Ephraim" is a theocratic world power bent on securing the will of the Anglo-Saxon and 'Israelite' peoples.And that's not even mentioning the fucktons of schizo paths, the "technologically syncretic, with a bit of magitek" setting, vampires near the coast of Britain, Atlantis and Mu existing, straight up SCP shit as secret paths, and Land being an Azatoth cultist.
>>2291096>Lion of SocialismQRD?
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.
with no survivors
casting a new stormgate tournament
>>2284979i dont know any of these people
>>2285063Is that Brian Peppers?
>>2290658xe's the chad of the starcraft general
General Guide Mastery Set Effects, Mastery Drop List etc:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1349483727Finding Masteries, Modules, and Troublemakers:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1971619284Mastery/Module Descriptions:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2037290423Taming and Beasts Guide:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2020436206Farming Guide:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025825529Machine Guide:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025828272Troubleshooter Encyclopedia:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2064539292Bonds Guide:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Here's what actual ESP attacks look like. The important part to determine whether it gets silenced or put on cooldown is "Damage type: Fire" up top. ESP utility skills like Wind Veil have a "Used Type" instead.
>>2289685hax lol, no wonder Ray hated her during WLBW
>>2286523>>2287556thanks anon, this is what I ended up with and its crazy strong.
total Jim death(but only after spawncamping his summons)
Steal specced Misty with "The Expert" is kind of fun. Probably not optimal but it's fun. I wish there was a Superstar/Dancer with this stealing gimmick. Constantly resupplying consumables with 0 action time use.
>places within your country with 0% government control generate no wealth whatsoever>money taken from your pops through taxes is straight up multiplied by your tax efficiency>taxing your pops at 100% ends up making them pay ways more than their income into the state treasuryAt this point I'm convinced that paradox is incapable of not filling their games with blatant socialist propaganda. EU5 is just as filled with it as Vic3.
>>2272901>except not even estates/pops make money from provinces with 0% state control
>>2262869It goes to rebel movements
>>2272888You are actively fucking yourself over in the game if you are not taxing as much as possible but not simply because the player is smarter at investing the money than private holders controlled by shit AI (the estates) but mainly because every taxed ducat gets instantly multiplied by tax efficiency before entering the state coffers. Not only that, but estates also pay more taxes than their income once the slider is high enough which is literally creating money out of thin air into state coffers.Lets say the burgher estate has 100 ducats of income. You can let them invest it, or you could put the tax slider on max, and they will somehow now have to pay 160 ducats into the treasury. Then those 160 ducats get mutiplied by 1.1 if your tax efficiency is 10% (which is not hard to reach). Congrats, now the state has 176 ducats to invest.If this isn't blatant communidt propaganda then I don't know what is.
>>2275047yeah that sounds lame. could probably flip it to have it make more sense. 1 - tax efficiency with full tax efficiency meaning it's frictionless(should be impossible to achieve). would probably require a full rework of the numbers for balancing. more likely to see it in a mod
>>2263125>There should still be a system for province/location level elites and local wealth (like in MEIOU.) Paradox claimed they tried this but it supposedly made playing wide too strong. Which just sounds like they didn't implement all the issues that would result if you just let nobles run loose, starting from corruption (manageable, in a way just the EU4 autonomy but the money goes to elites and not empty void) and up to complete fragmentation of the empire when people stop pretending that some guy in the capital is in charge.That's what vassals are supposed to be.
Been playing some civ6 coop recently and tinkering with mods.I don't think I wanna play with a big tech overhaul mod, at least not for coop, but the placement of Men At Arms is really annoying me.You get them with Apprentice as is, the big medieval econ tech, sure they require iron, but they're still a bit too accessible and they kinda squash the earlier eras.my idea>Bluemoving men at arms from Apprentice to Military Engineering.>Greenadding Engineering and Mathematics as prereqs for Castle(and Coursers)>Redadding Iron Working as a prereq for Military Engineeringadding Machinery as a prereq for GunpowderHalberds and Crossbows might still be too easy to get, and Men At Arms is still kinda accessible, but at least it's not bundled with the great economics techs.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2289679yeah vanilla civ6 sucks so much I install like 30 mods usually
>>2290425>I install like 30 mods usuallyoh yeah not even an exaggerationI have 27 mods just for the UI1 mod for making it easier to add mods9 mods for making maps, larger maps, more players on those maps, then more religions to compensate for more players, more luxury resources since otherwise some continents won't have any luxuries at all, civ color overhaul so there's no color conflict with the extra civs, and a mod that lets team start closer(in our current game my two friends started close to eachother, by the northern tundra, while I was by the southern tundra so adding this one for the next game).1 mod just for flavor, it's fun seeing the top 10 cities for each era, and their "population", makes it nice and immersive.Then 7 gameplay mods I'm currently thinking of playing with next.Probably more, since at least I wanna adjust men at arms.I'm not sure about Coexistance of Districts and Resources.We had a game where we had 3 techs left to research, the ones that reveal Coal, Iron, and Niter, and we avoided them since they'd interfere with district placement, which gets kinda silly.This mod might be an overcorrection though since now you can just plant districts on luxuries as well.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
/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.
>>2289515that sliver of texas you own tells me that they won the independence war and you took the mexican side of texas. border gore indeed...
>>2289515>Britain still owns EIC/SA/Canada>doesn't own all of Arabia/Persia>didn't unify into Iberia>doesn't even control BrazilPathetic
>>2289501>>2289515>playing portugal weeks before patch that fixes latin america and europewhat's this US denizen of dark admixture doing
>>2288701wrong thread anon
Britain doesn't really like giving you investment rights, but when they do...>>2289928Mexico had a secession while America was manifesting their destiny. I thought it would be nice to protectorate them and have a land connection to the USA in case I had to invade them.>>2289947Britain and Brazil were my only friends during this campaign, I value my frens. I also wanted to keep my tag as Portugal and leave Iberia for after the DLC is released.>>2290132It's my favorite small nation.
Fuck that specific spot editionThread to discuss Graviteam tactics and Combat mission games and others like them.
I wish CM had more than 1v1. Team games would be amazing.
where graviteam devs
>>2284000Where as in where do they live or what the fuck are they doing nothing new has come out? They're in Ukraine so who knows what's going on with them. There was an update in September for Tank Warfare to rename it to Graviteam: Tunisia. One of the devs (I don't know how many there are or if it's actually a one man operation) seethes at people on the steam forums when they ask questions that are answered in the manual. If he's still seething then I guess things aren't that bad. There were teasers about some Jap assets they were making.
>>2284471>>2284000I forgot to mention that the war also hampers development in general. They pride themselves on accurate recreations of maps and battles using info from contemporary sources. I'd imagine they probably went to sites that were reasonably close. The war makes that much harder. From what I've heard the DLC they've released since that started had already started development before. More North Africa when?
>>2284000Enjoying blow and hookers from the treacherous lakes money. Don't worry they'll run out soon.
MoO1 vs 2 vs apparently we don't talk about 3 vs Conquer the Stars where apparently mods make it OK. Which Master of Orion do you prefer? I've only ever played 2 but love it dearly, minus some of the micromanagement with planets that tends to happen
>>2282728Space Ants aren't chineses, anon.lol. the modder made them hate everyone. cmon, their perks aren't even as strong Draconians and Dracs at least like lizardmen and gnolls IIRC.>muh cultivation meme>units are weaker.meh.
>>2280825>https://www.moddb.com/mods/caster-of-magic-for-windows-warlord/images/gamplay-screenshot13#imagebox>turn all beastmen into cowmenbut why?!?
>>2288449MoM sprites are so unintelligible that I can't even see where I am supposed to see cows and where normal beastmen.>>2288430I can only guess but I think they were named after 轩辕国 'land of Xuanyuan' - a mythical country of half-men half-snakes living to the west of China. Due to their association with Nüwa, goddess of fecundity and marriage, their pop bonus may reflect that.
>>2289534>half-snakes living to the west of China.That's just East Turkey.
>>2288430>lol. the modder made them hate everyone.they also made High Men have higher Unrest. it's like the modder hates human beans.
Can anyone tell me why my guys are starving despite available logistic points being like 7 times higher than consumed ones? Are they just too fucking lazy to pick up their stuff or what?Logistics man, how the fuck do they work?
Does he have any intention of making this IOS compatible?
>>2278081What's it about
>>2286292Some political and diplomatic update/dlc.
why cant vst and g make a open shadow empire engine?just slap some 2d gpu rendered engine together and just port all shadow empire fluff as a mod
>>2290475Waiting for ChatGPT 6
Ok, I've seen enough. I've had my fill, I've played my money's worth. When did you realize you were done with your favorite strategy game, and that it was time to move on?
>>2276456Color me sceptical.
how was the update?
>>2290217As dogshit as this thread
>>2220582literally neverI replay total war atilla from time to time, always funrecently had slavic conversion wre run, most busted shit you ever see (well excluding ere which is just btter but less of a challenge, sucks to play without 2h axes tho).
>>2290217absolute shit, its an actual downgrade of japs and chink trees are those of minor nations, not something big like soviets or italians in their dlcsor even austriaabsolutely horrible
All guides i find online write that Darth Vader is one man army super unit that can take planets in ground battle at his lonesome, but i found him to be too underwhelming. what he is great blaster magnet and that's it. Emperor is kinda weak as well. Jedi hero on other hand are all fucking OP as hell. Kenobi can auto heal, is tanky as hell, way more tankier than vader anyway, Luke is very fast and you can turn invisible and run away if he's low on HP, and yoda IIRC can auto heal as well. General Veers is Empire's MVP of ground combat. he can spam units and his range is almost like artillery unit. and how you use Boba Fett in ground combat? his jetpack is good if you need to run away, but other than his flamethrower, he's just bit tankier stormtrooper (against anything other than infantry, he's useless)
>>2287384It depends on the stacking category of the bonus which is something you would only understand if you look at the code. For example, Thrawn and Piett's general bonus are the same stacking category, and within those stacking categories the highest has primacy. That means with both on the field all other ships would get Thrawn's 10% buffs in other categories and Piett's 25% buff, except for themselves with their own buffs. Piett's Star Destroyer buff is a separate stacking category so that is added separately on top of that.
>>2287790thanks, i didnt knew that. I guess ill continue using all big ship heroes for battles as hey, its free SD class ship.
Most fun Imperial warlord after the (obligatory) Thrawn campaign iyo?
>>2289566Zsinj.
>>2289566Zsinj is a staple, because he has a good roster, unique events, special mechanics, and a good range of heroes.Personally, my favorite is Eriadu Authority because it has my favorite roster. Great ground forces and an even better space roster. Plus, its starts are all fairly interesting; the galactic south gets overlooked by every other warlord and the Empire (eras 1-2), while its one planet start makes it a fun challenge mode in later eras.
How well you think this will perform on strategy games (and specifically the unoptimized garbage Paracuck keeps propping up)? Specs-wise it looks fine, though I don't know how well SteamOS runs games made for Windows.Also even though VR is typically viewed as a meme gadget, imagining the entire world projected on my living room wall for me to paint gives me a massive hard on. What do you guys think?
>>2234379Valve's 2nd attempt at pushing hardware to get more players to play their own titles through Linux adaptation, and it looks good for anyone who is still on a pre RTX cards or doesn't have a gaming PC. In essence, it's Valves ecosystem to compete with consoles this gen while being as open and PC like as possible without the yearly sub if you think about it.
>>2234272Have you seen RAM prices since the announcement? The project is dead in the water.
>>2280528I blame a certain chosen people of god for this
I would play openxcom on a steam frame in bed
>>2289763Based
