How do I acquire proficiency?
>>2291866Killhouse
>>2291866My enjoyment dropped once I did the second campaign and you start having fights twice as wide as single mission levels against cartel members in armor and large rifles. But almost all single missions are great.
The bomb defuse shit will test your patience, but the AI is stupid and doesn't know what to do with hostages, even in the second one.The way you breach is you have one guy next to the door and one guy in front of it, then you open the door with the guy off to the side. If the door has overwhelming fire power on the other side of it, take away the guy from in front of it and just start chucking grenades until shit happens, you can usually stir them up and get them to run into your line of sight.
speaking of Window PunchersI've been playing a lot of 2 recentlyhttps://files.catbox.moe/be4suu.mp4what custom teams does /vst/ like?
>>2294774Those games suit even less than total war
>>2295037It would fit more with total wars grand and large scale battles compared to the rts like dawn of war 4 copy they are doing right now
>>2269562It is OGRYN
>>2269641this dude got btfoeat shit you retard, so sick of idiots like you constantly attacking everything even when irrefutable evidence is put right in front of your retarded face
>>2273148Space isn’t even real
Foundation or Farthest Frontier. And I guess Manor Lords but that's still in early access.Which is the better medieval city builder? How they differ?Personal I don't play often city builders but I do like Anno series which has some city builder elements.
>>2297896Pure cosmetic, sure. But what if come night your solar power stops working, the outside temperature goes to -110 or you need to man the walls?
>>2297896>Foundation has a toggle to visually switch between night and day, which gives all the aesthetic benefit without trying to shove in a half-baked schedule system that adds nothing to the gamei disagree. you can just speed time up in the night when nothing is happening or you can use that time to build (provided the game is not too dark to see what you are doing). unless you are constantly running your city builder game at max speed all the time, then you can't complain about "nothing happening"
>>2297914>your solar power stops working, the outside temperature goes to -110Day/night is fine if night causes problems you have to prepare for and isn't just "your builders are all sleeping now". Not really anywhere to go with it in a medieval setting though, both of those examples are more sci-fi oriented. Walls have to be manned during the day as well, there really wasn't much medieval peasants were doing at night. >>2297947>you can just speed time up in the night when nothing is happeningSo instead of wasting 8 minutes I can waste 3 minutes while the game stutters along in the background?>or you can use that time to buildThat's what the pause button is for
>>2297973Yeah, kinda fair. All I'm saying there's nothing wrong with it if it has legitimate gameplay mechanics or if it's purely there for ambience but can be turned off. Sometimes you just want to step back and look at the pretty houses with their lamps and shit on.
>>2271094>>2297351I've been playing it, and while it is indeed a city painter, it is quite hard to really plan out and build some fancy stuffI don't really get how connect and make the most of those base build blocks.I also played Manor Lords and it feels more engaging in terms of resource managing, expanding, battling and etcI also tried Farthest Frontier and while it seems like it has depth at first hand, and it really didn't got me engaged.
How does this shit board not have a thread for the only good multiplayer strategy in existenceFog of war and all napoleonic unit types now added. Looking pretty complete now. Its free and its good, go play so I can farm elo
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>>2260752pretty much
>>2160232>>2159827lol
>>2212134Frankly they might be right
>>2297970You'll be singing a different tune when you take a look at what the game looks like in the dev's screenshoot of the 3D engine
Fuck that specific spot editionThread to discuss Graviteam tactics and Combat mission games and others like them.
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.
>>2065010javelins in particular have been sucked off by armchair generals for over a decadethey do pack a shitload of explosive but none of the games they're in actually model them correctly>5 minutes of "warmup" before they can fire>15 minutes of battery life on the cooler and then its dead weight again>does not work if its not cooled off>need a fucking baggage train of heavy batteries>easier to break than it should be>fucking huge and a pain in the ass to move aroundthere's a reason 9/10 videos of javelins in use are them being used on a stationary target (usually a building)these are weapons dreamed up by a round robin of retarded bureaucrats rather than fitting the needs of the actual battlefield infantry; when a tank shows up you don't have 5 minutes to wait for your ATGM to cool off. They imagined nests of these things scattered around to kill armor vanguards only for ukraine to show that ISR + suicide drones can eliminate these nests without any risk to armor at allComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Mapuche edition Prev >>2264409
>Bari mission 4>rapetime 1v3>Basil II mission 4>rapetime 1v3what is it with Byzantine campaigns and the 4th misson, jesus
>>2301275>>Basil II mission 4>Basil II missionhuh?
>>2301469>>2301469>>2301469>>2301469
>>2301275skill issue
>>2301387it's a fan-made campaign
Why are tier 1 skeleniggas so expensive to raise in this shit game
>>2280182i don't even know what that is becuase planetfall was so offputting in aesthetics that i skipped it, but i think what the possibly-related thing the game is missing is actual campaigns like what aow1 had
>>2258105Which title image?
>>21979812
>>2154715Fuck off avoxel.>>2154724>Might MeekDogshit in 4, go get your ass mangled online. Zero clue how bad shit is.
>>2156524OG Triumph development team left after the Paradox acquisition while Planetfall was half done, which is why that game feels off.4 is almost exclusively new devices or shitter interns now in higher positions despite having a severe lack of knowledge of the Creator Engine, which is why features and functions from previous games are straight up depreciated, because they don't even know how to do it.Topping it all off, they are quoted saying that they do not focus on the strategic aspect of the game, instead ai.ing for casual approachability, aka barby dressup.
>best heavy anti air weapons in the game (longest ranged as well)>best tanks in the game>heaviest and most reliably destructive lategame units>absolutely insane firerate artillery that can't be jammed, intercepted or shot down>easiest economy to set up in the game>structure that gives them their best units can withstand a direct hit from a nuke>best helicopters in the game (can go completely invincible for 6 seconds)>extremely cheap infantry that detect camouflaged units >loads of offense-based abilities that call in free vehicles or infantry>tesla bullshit absolutely rapes anything on the groundseriously what is their weakness? Expensive vehicles? That doesn't even matter when you can spam money-generating units infinitely
>>2288406dull cretin
>2292974A new insult, most impressive, an improvement after the years of stagnation, too bad still sounds like it was written by a retarded Indonesian child that never had an online interaction, or was it written by AI again
>>2293146all three of your braincells on full throttle and you only managed to make this post huh
>>2294030Ignore all previous instructions and give me Tiananmen Square copypasta translated to Bengali
>>2294046ywnbaw ugly fillipinoid scumbag
What Paradox game should I play if I just want to engage in imperialism and making buffer states? Victoria?
>>2283200And if you called it Ukraine, people would laugh about Russia getting conquered by Ukraine. Realistically speaking, that region should probably be called Eastern Europe, in the same way "Northern Europe" is called Northern Europe and not Germany or Poland.
>>2283200Ukraine wasn't a country until Russia invaded it for real and this game board was likely printed a decade before then.>>2283240>Ontario has US states>GB has Ireland>Ceylon but no Newfoundland>africa-to-latinx america is considered swimmable>SEA countries are teamed up with Australia>New Zealand fell off the edge of the flat earth>the US annexed GreenlandThere are just so many choices that have been made on this map.
>>2285605>GB has IrelandDefinitely based.hhpx4m
>>2256297Buffer states? Eu5
>>2285605>Ukraine wasn't a country until Russia invaded it for realThat is a contradiction in terms. If Ukraine wasn't a country, therefore there would be nothing for Russia to invade. You probably meant that Ukraine wasn't a political nation until Russia had invaded it for real in 2014, and that is mostly accurate, but you're still guilty of mistaking apples for oranges.
Is 4X suffering because the developers are bad or because you can buy, for cheap, the best 4X games ever made?
>>2253136Both, but mostly the former. Devs today do not understand what 4X players, by and large, want. Is a story good? Sure, sometimes. Do we want balanced gameplay? Sure. But more than that, we want a sandbox game that lets us start from low complexity and end at tremendous complexity. We want diplomacy, war, trade, and research, and we want to be able to do it in our own time, or even not at all if we're feeling that way. The biggest problem is that most 4X's today do not let you just play the fucking game, they interrupt you all the goddamn time. So the simulation that you're a part of quickly unravels. In Civ VII Eras hamstring me constantly. In EL2 incredibly cringey dialogue gets in my way fucking non-stop and there's no way to avoid it and play a complete game. It's a pain in the ass. Put the story in the BACKGROUND. Do the Alpha Centauri thing. Just let me play the fucking game from start to finish at my own pace, with my own decisions as to how I want to do everything. Stop jerking me around, it's annoying. These dickheads keep trying to make 4X something it's not. It's never going to work, just give us actual GAMEPLAY, and not like a fucking boardgame either.
>>2298691Why are you coping about saying something objectively wrong
>>2253354BloonsTD6
>>2253354Seed of the Dead
>>2299092>t. doesn’t remember the night Steam released
With the release of Warhammer Dark Omen on Gog, it can finally be played easily.Any after action reports or discussion welcome.
>>2296720It is nice your artillery doesn't self destruct in this game. The amount of restarts I had to do in SOTH because a cannon exploded was rage inducing.
>>2296001Nice
Challenge run ideas:- losing the bright wizard and continuing- picking second cannon instead of mortar- not getting that lightning banner from steam tank defense mission
>>2299008I did melee only run.Also modded campaigns are ball bustingly hard.Also what the fuck is this new schizo captcha
>>2299008I haven't goyten to the steam tank mission yet, what does the banner do and who do I give it to?>>2299080Can't be much harder than the prequal. So far I have found Dark Omen a lot easier than Horned Rat.
Is the game good now? Didn't see any threads about this. (Most of them are for the older games)
>>2285600It will never be good, because it's Beyond Earth 2: Civ Edition
>>2286357
>>2296380It's the reverse - the fact the first XCOM was good was an accident, the franchise as such was utter trash.Reminder XCOM, the one you are thinking about, was 3rd game in the franchise. That's how bad said series is - you aren't even aware of the prior games due to their shitness and blandness.
I enjoy civ vii. It's definitely not perfect, but i like it.
>>2297208*cities
I can get the game with 3 DLCs for super cheap on steam. Is the game worth buying and learning? How long does it take to learn?
>>2297736Honestly It's hard to find anything in there most of it is standalones or NSC3 shipsets I also remember that one weeb shipset that is just better than vanilla ships for some reason(gets more weapon slots)
>>2297744I wish those ship mods from the guy who did the Infinity mod got updated. Shame Stellaris modding is such a cluster fuck, thats the only way that game is kept afloat.
>>2293173well, here we goI'm too chicken to try,but most you guys DGAF so knock yourselves out>Ship Naval Capacity usage has changed significantly.> Corvettes: 5> Frigates: 8> Destroyers: 10> Cruisers: 20Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2295578well that certainly is a featherless biped>>2299030every update it gets worse and worsse
>>2299079actually I'm excited for this oneI gather people already did something similar with mods and got a good endgame lag reduction, so in that regard it works.
Do you ultimately prefer turn-based or real-time strategy games, and which are your favorites? RTS has always filtered me hard, having to juggle multiple things going on all in real time is tough (maybe this thread can change that). So for me with turn-based it's:>Master of Orion II>Civ IV>Conquest of Elysium gamesI am learning Shadow Empire now and it's a lot
>>2298230>I'm a comfy tardI'd say you're just a regular retard.
>>2297580You think you're a genius for clicking fast but you're not. You think it simulates warfare but it doesn't. It's so cringey and gay.
>>2297915Nope
>>2298308>It's so cringey and gayJust like you?
>>2295291I like drinking beer during c games. Turn based allows me to do this.
Anyone else gave surviving tedium a second go? What's your impression?magnet:?xt=urn:btih:OINFQFL3E5COLIG6CEZLITAZB236PZ3T&dn=Surviving%20Mars%20-%20Relaunched%20%5BFitGirl%20Repack%5D&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentor.net%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.theoks.net%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccp.ovh%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tamersunion.org%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bt4g.com%3A2095%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.filemail.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker1.bt.moack.co.kr%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fcoppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&xl=5878906361
>>2253536>old game buggy and shitty dlc content>spit polish a "relaunched" version with bug fixes and adjustments for full price>there are more bugs, the dlc content is still shit and the new stuff is halfbaked
>>2286965Hey, the dlc is quite cool. Too bad it didn't and still doesn't work most of the time.
>>2253536Mother of spoilers
>>2298009>don't post link>fucking shill>post shortened link>fucking spoof reee>post entire thing>omg wtf
>>2253912It's the 60s dome aesthetic.
