I'll start with the fact I don't like the Populus games even 3.
>>2319080Total war arena was good
>>2319975have you seen modern paraslop UIs?
>>2324288Europe at war Also there is a Russian front mod, it's super autistic and it's not the eastern front one or whatever. It's hardcore and the madlads ported a bunch of red orchestra 2 maps into coh
>>2326756Ah thanks, it's built right into steam too that's pretty cool
>>2319080ck2 was too ugly for me to get into, looks atrocious
>game predicts isis
>>game predicts isisComputer, enhance their noses.*enhance*Yes, precisely as I expected.
is it really a prediction if you engineer itwestwood devs implicated
>>2327267the toyota wars were 15-20 years before generals thoughever.
>>2327267>technicals didn't exist before CnCDumb fucking zoomer
>>2327272>uzi
>see a lot of CK2 videos in YT>looks like a cool RPG / Grand-strategy SANDBOX game, it's also FREE>got it, play it, pretty boring, where the RPG? where the strategy? where the sandbox?>get the DLCs, just reskinned / renamed vanilla mechanics that make things into something unnecessarily overcomplicate for the sake of it, makes you waste more time while trying to trick into thinking the game is more deep when it's not >"ANON official CK2 is boring perse, you MUST play OVERHAUL MODS!">get them (AGOT, Warhammer, Warcraft, Faerun, HIP, WTWSMS, etc.), all were boring>where the RPG? where the strategy? where the sandbox?>also have to play it in x4 speed to finally see somthing happening, get PTSD from the constant notification spam (I wish there was a mod that get rid off that) >check Steam: all BLUE REVIEWS, check any forum: constant praising>"what am I doing wrong? am I so dumb that I can't enjoy RPG-GS games?"
>>2324362>where the RPG?It's roleplaying in the sense that you roleplay your character.Not that you're a member of a group of teenagers that watch your stats grow.>where the strategy?Depends on your strategy, what is your strategy?>where the sandbox?One time I played as vikings with my friends.Another we played as french christian vassals.You pick what you play and decide on your own goals, that's the sandbox.
>>2324362you are retard anon
>>2325115>if after all 4 steps are done you did not enjoy a single playthrough then the game is simply not for youThen, I guess the game is not for me, despite playing it for 1,333.3 hours and 43 achievements. I extracted all the juice it had.Thinking about starting other campaign to get an achievement or simply dumb-larp makes me have an awful burnout sensation.
>>2325955So, according to you, is it only F2P (Fun-to-play) in multiplayer?
>>2324451Most fun I had was playing Zunist and resisting the Abbasids while also culture swapping my dynasty to Norse.
Do people still play thisI recall this game had threads on /vst/
damn this board is kill af
no, dingusand there's already a thread for it>>2316222
I last played this game 3 years ago and i remmeber I almost fnished the campaign before the chaos expansion. Should I restart of finish it? Not sure why I quit but IIRC I can move my guys to the next campaign.
>>2327363Completely forgot how to play it though. Theres only one big tyranid infestation remaining. Can I restart the mission if my guys all get killed?
CAPTAIN THUUUULE!
>>2327625We should have gotten dreadnaught earlier rather than gated behind 5 story missions. By the time you get him, he can’t catch up with the rest of the team level-wise except for some true meme builds.
>>2327635Dow2s campaign is branched. You can rush him if you do the jungle world quests first, at which point he arrives basically in line with the rest of your crew's levels. The downside is that doing his quests first delays getting the terminator armour from the city world.I'm not actually sure which is the better choice. I think terminator avitus with the autocannon and Thule with the dreadnought autocannon are similar dps monsters.
>>2328126I wish the tyranid infestation level actually meant something besides a score at the end.
Also, is it there a mod for CK2 that makes the AI an actual Artificial INTELLIGENCE?
>>2324384>I tried all of those that you mentionated, I felt bored in all of them.it seems you've become Crusader Kings™i can agree that the games are too shallow and they resort to purposefully antagonizing the player by setting up shitty odds and events so their replay value is low for someone who has fun by organic gameplay.
1) Real AI does not exist yet2) Any AI sufficiently advanced to simulate even one human opponent would not run on a home computer.So you are stuck with shit.The only solution for the foreseeable future is to kidnap orphaned street kids in 3rd world countries. Get them hooked on hard drugs, amputate their legs so they cant escape, and wet wire them up to dedicated game servers. They act as online opponents. Available 24/7. If they win they get their fix, if not they go cold turkey. Once they burn out they go to the pig farms, there's always plenty of fresh ones to be harvested from the streets.
>>2325410>The only solution for the foreseeable future is to kidnap orphaned street kids in 3rd world countries. Get them hooked on hard drugs, amputate their legs so they cant escape, and wet wire them up to dedicated game servers.company of heroes 2 does this
Remnants of the Precursors with Fusion mod Stars in the Shadow and Old World. Their AIs actually plays the games well without blatant cheating. For most part, 4X games are fun during the process of mastering them, and then only against human opponents or as an optimization puzzles against bullshit difficulties and challenges.The dude who made AI for Remnants of the Precursors is currently involved in a new scifi strategy game Astro Protocol, but it is going to be more streamlined and board gamey game.
>>2324394I wonder how much 4X / GS games would change if the AI-RPG mod was implemented in them. Perhaps they would actually become fun to play.
how do fix mental omgea
>>2327307can't fix almost perfection
>>2327307delete soviets allies and yurinow mod is perfect
Why are tier 1 skeleniggas so expensive to raise in this shit game
>>2326610They don't really offer much outside of their strength in combat. They're really fucking strong in combat though.>>2326900I don't think it's shit. I like it quite a lot, actually.
>>2326533>>2326512especially since nothing forces you to play pure astral>>2326610spellblade for breath+physical attack spam or warrior for killing momentum, either way go full chaos for your dragon upgrades since it has the most critical hit increases, start with tail swipe and then get other shit, your goal is to do a lot of damageload up your race with damage bonuses since the dragon will inherit themyou can go either reclaimer and equipment hoarder for big economy bonuses, or you can replace one of those two with vision of ruinif you make it until late game your strongest spell will be call forth avatar of chaos, in the tier 5 chaos tome, all it does is summon your leader into a battle, but that means that in the late game you can win a battle which is theoretically something like two tier 1 units on your side and 18 tier 3+ units on the other
>>2327579>>2326610oh, and barbarian will produce more damage from your dragon while industrial will supercharge your economy bonuses, so probably pick one of those for your faction
>>2321071Took them long enough, it has been decades at this point.
>>2326900because it's just dumbed down planetfall with no empire modeplay SM if you want an aow game that's actually fun
What are some citybuilders with military? I love stuff like the impressions games because you get to build a city and then fight inside of it. Just citybuilding by itself is boring.
>>2326654How else will decadent west fear your strength without a mighty parade?
>>2327224I stand by what I wrote.
>>2327235Fair
Dwarf Fortress
>>2326204>>2326297Let me guess: you went to a base built by others and without bothering to learn even the basics of the game mechanics, started building/digging some most low IQ dogshit stuff and essentially griefed your own team by your ignorance. Then you failed to communicate with others and got told to fuck off and l2p. Then due to your autistic main character syndrome you got really mad without even trying to understand what happened. Many such cases.
War in Spain is out now. Anyone played it? Is it a prototype for War in the Mediterranean or a WitP2?
ohhhhso THAT's what she means when she says she "needs to find a mousehole"
This game lets me shoot commies, nazis, corpos and thirdies. I see it as a win.>but some characters are womenYeah. And?>but some characters are gay.So fucking what?>but some characters are no longer 80's action movie tough guys like in previous games.Still plenty of those.
>>2327082>also when steroid says that Kalena is so good because she is ukranian instead of russianThat's not a stance on ziggers and the four year long special operation though, that's just Steroid being Steroid. Part of his character is a joke about the Polish hating Russians over anything else in the world. He would refuse to join in JA2 if you had either of the Dolviches on the team and had quotes ranting about Russia back then as well. Was /v/pol/ seriously bothered by this?
>>2327437Chuds don't play games for enjoyment, they do it to play wokie amoogus and use this site as the meeting place.
>>2327437>Was /v/pol/ seriously bothered by this?I was bothered by all the guns having nonsensical wrong calibers
>>2327437Ivan make good kill but he is still a filthy Russian
Anyone else ever play this game? Never see any threads on it but its always been one of my favorites. The CTW campaigns are incredible, immersive and all the nations pretty well balanced (fuck the mayans though). Despite a few things that could be improved it still holds up well to this day. The soundrack is also just pure soul from the very early 2000s. Was it just not that popular or am I one of the few who actually liked it?
>>2323361>Weird they haven't done anything with this IPThey spent a solid decade focused on resurrecting AoE to which RoN would be a direct competitor. Maybe now that AoE is officially back they can try a remaster cash grab. But I doubt enough people would paly that to justify a full resurrection like with AoE
>>2323327None that were finished.
>>2316229>unless you really love spamming infinite instantly produced troops at each other until the one with slightly more economic and/or reflex edge gradually and painstakingly ekes out the winso like WW1
>>2301273played this when i was 5 and it gave me autism10/10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYH-2_93qY is seared into my brain, it always plays whenever you drop a nuke on someone
>>2306048aoe2 is alright but i don't think it's any better than RoN or similar games of that period. it just has better support.this idea that aoe2 is some sort of be all end all rts game is a very recent one.
>too many units on the map means certain units can't attack
In Earth 2140 a lot of units had unusual firing patterns. Take the heavy rocket mech for instance: it shoots 4 missiles in an initial salvo and then only 2 after each reload, but once it's out of combat for a decent while, it regains this initial salvo.Swarm Assault was also weird. Unit would fire at irregular intervals, basically the fire rate was randomized.
What's this?
>>2326561>broodwar is dogshityes, this is known
>>2327362Starcraft: Broodwar, the greatest RTS of all time.There was a bug at one point, maps have a unit cap, and Valkyrie projectiles counted as units so if there were already too many units on the map they couldn't attack.
>The game "Gostomel Bogatyrs" will be released on February 24, 2026, the 4th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and the landing of troops at Gostomel Airport.>The game will be priced at 750 rubles.>We're still working with Steam, and if we receive approval from the platform, we'll certainly let you know!>So, it shouldn't be long now. And yes, a demo version will be available for download on release day, so those hesitant can play one of the game's missions and decide whether the full game is worth the investment!Guess they got the morale system past the government.
>>2327361Mission 15 is unlocking the wire-guided drone thoMission 20 opens with harkonnen death hand (oreshnik) striking gas refinery
>>2327392>the same helicopters that dropped you off now pick you up
>>2327413>2016>silly Porofiro! What will he get up to next!>2017>THE JIHADIST DOGS WILL TASTE THE RIGHTOUS FURY OF OUR DESERT LIONS! FOR ALLAH, ASSAD AND THE GLORY OF THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC>2018>haha cute kitty adventures! what did they mean by this?
>>2327433And since death hand is unguided it hits random civilians instead
>>2327348Unternehmen Faustschlag my beloved
kino
>>23269253 D ! ! ! !
>>2327194Back in my day we only had 2D pixel sprites. 2.5D if we were lucky! And we had to march on Moscow in the snow! Uphill, both ways, with an onion in our knapsack, as that was the style at the time.
You knew you were in for some good shit when you saw the SSI logo
>>2327195>with an onion in our knapsackhttps://youtu.be/p3BHyOhVXmE
>>2326925based, all the Turcan games were really good. And felt pretty realistic for their time with the orders being sent by messengers. And no map view, just the 3D view of what you could see, so if you wanted one you had to use a real map you could draw on or move around makeshift pieces on.
