How is the Space Age expansion treating you?Have you started to explore rarity yet?What's the most spaghetti part of your base?
>>1935880It's not a challenge, it's just tedious.Once you make one craft that can make it to Aquilo you just copy it.Problem is that Fulgora is a trash heap and I will need to bootstrap even more garbage to it till I get the platforms to unfuck fulgora. I guess I should be thankful I'm not made to ship things to fulgora as well.I guess I am shipping artillery shells to Fulgora but that's not that bad.
>>1936167>shipping artillery shells to Fulgorafor what possible purpose
>>1936179High throughput "recycling" of things that clog up the scrap processing.Load up a train with all the red circuits clogging up production, unload them with active providers, store them in a cluster and shell every hour.Once I finish Aqulio I will be able to automate it using bitter spawners.
why the fuck isnt there a tank turret
>>1936181I can't imagine that's the most efficient way to do it, but honestly, I applaud the creative thinking
what are your thoughts on the new dlc? also aow 4 thread
>>1932186Lizardmen were included in the first DLC.
>>1932347Wtf, I didn't know that...Well, does it have campaigns?
>>1932551The game itself has sort of a campaign, but it's more like a handful of story maps that tell a story when played in succession. Some of the DLCs also add more story maps but the Dragon Dawn DLC (which includes the lizardman race) doesn't. It does have a playable scenario (Ashen War) though that's not the same as a story map and not part of the game's storyline.
so giants should be coming out some time in feb?
>>1937222Nah the release date says Q2, so that's probably April.
Favorite tower defence games?
>>1913315for me it was pic rel and sanctum
>>1924111Kingdom Rush is still free on phones.
I wish the Dungeon Defender devs could make a game as good as the first one. Instead of constantly making new games and being unable to make it as good. Maybe they don't play their own games and that's why.
>>1936892Key staff of Dungeon Defenders including lead designer/lead programmer Jeremy Stieglitz and level designer Morgan Roberts left Chromatic Games to make ARK: Survival Evolved before DD2.
Unironically Arknights, if you can deal with the gacha bullshit. It's by far the highest skill ceiling gacha I have ever played, just dragged down by the daily grind and having to pull for characters.Two unique features here, each "tower" is named and unique, so you have a shitload of "loadout" options for each stage. And there is no "gold" just a regenerating deployment resource. You can retreat and redeploy any tower at full strength in another location, and the game balance expects you to keep moving your defensive line around.There's almost no walling though. I guess to make up for the towers themelves being more interactive.
Time to talk about an obscured gem from the 90's.
>>1930655I've never played the feature phone ones, but I have finished the PSP ones:1 - Shining BladeMy personal favourite of the 3 PSP Shining games. It's like Valkyria Chronicles but fantasy. Really nice graphics for a PSP game, excellent music, a very large cast of playable characters (seriously, it's more than 20 but you can only bring up to 5 in a battle). This game is actually kind of an "all-stars" of sorts for the post-Camelot Shining game, since it featured characters from 3 previous games, i.e. Shining Tears, Shining Wind and Shining Hearts. The main protagonist is a likeable fellow. The story is ambitious and for the most part it sticks the landing. My only complaint about the game is that it's far too easy outside of the bosses.2 - Shining ArkVery similar to Shining Blade but smaller in terms of scope. Less characters, but the balancing is better, has more challenge than Blade, looks nicer than Blade, has more mission variety, etc. I just wish the story was something I cared more about, since I just found it to be weird. Also the main heroine annoyed me since she's weirdly autistic and not in a good kind of way. Overall, if you just want "more of Shining Blade" then you can't go wrong with this game, you'll find it enjoyable despite my many complaints.
>>1916750I played it on the computer because it was available on a CD as well. I emulated the 2nd one.
>>1924796That was the problem with all types of games. There were so many games that me and my family loved, where I somehow either wasn't aware sequels for them even existed, or they were just impossible to find, so I just forgot about them (Bubble Bobble 2, Wizards & Warriors 2, Rescue Rangers 2, etc).Back then we had no Amazon, so if you wanted to buy a game, you better hope they had something you wanted in stock.(I'm not sure what it was like for Shining Force, because I never remember seeing it or caring about it growing up, but I played those in the Dreamcast Jampack-thing, and ended up loving them... Same with the Phantasy Star games on that compilation.)
>>1913914Because Grandpa's out right now so there's no one left to talk about this
>>1937162I'd like to let you know, I've just turned 40, thank you very much.I know that most people only care for May and Mae (May best girl, btw.) but what about the male centaurs? Personally, I always liked Chester the most. And to be honest, I never promote Elric and Janet to Brass Gunner, because I don't like the design of the sprite they get then. Yes, it's also about aesthetics for me.
Why the fuck is it that every time I click on the "Strategy" tag on Steam it's always>Roguelike deckbuilder>CRPG>Porn game>MOBA>CRPG>Roguelike deckbuilder>Worse remake of a classic RTS>Roguelike deckbuilder>Roguelike deckbuilder>An actual strategy game (either complete garbage or the same thing you've seen about a thousand times so far)I like roguelikes and CRPGs, don't get me wrong. But I expect that when I click "Strategy" the listed games are strategy games, not games with a mild requirement for strategic thinking because that's 99% of all videogames. It's either that or some tactical shooter (CSGO isn't a fucking strategy game, what the fuck is it doing in the "Strategy" tag). It doesn't have to be some big war game or historic RTS, I just want an actual strategy game where the main factor determining success is your goddamn strategy.I just want the early 2000s golden age of strategy games to come back.
>>1937308>can't name any of the "vast majority" of games in questionWhy do you all even come here? You complain about games you don't play, pretend you play them, pretend you WOULD play them, and then just talk to other people who don't play games about all the flaws that pervade your imaginary games you still don't play.That's what /v/ is for. Go back.
>>1937313Okay, take for example Endless Legend. It is a 4X game, no? You are in command of individual engagements, no? Just as in practically every other 4x game, including the classics like master of magic or master of orion.
>>1935672Just use the hipster search function that let's you specify how old and popular you want recommendations to be..
What's the point of this thread? Just seething at tags?
>>1937316Don't know. First one to come to mind for me is Oriental Empires, and you only macromanage armies in that game.
nothingburger simulator
I always have fun playing the Ottomans in GFM or something. Every so often I'll steal Sicily and Naples as a little treat.
>>1936065TNO and its consequences to trannydom.
>>1921703Earliest you could get is 1821, otherwise people will start demanding AU content for Napoleon escaping again
>>1921687Anon, the "rural ancient people" in europe got their shit pushed in by roman "weak grain mulching diseased cucks" two thousand years before the game even starts.
>>1933639What the fuck is going on in Lithuania?
Any of you fuckers playing these niche titles? Just got out of a fun PBEM game. Pic related. We won't have any similar simulationist RTT or turn-based WEGO games centered around the tactical scale of modern warfare until Armored Brigade 2 comes out.
>>1935217Disappointment. For some fucking reason the devs decided to set the game in Sicily (where only reservist/rear guard Italian units were stationed), meaning that you don't get the Italian medium tanks that could actually feasibly stand somewhat comparable to Shermans and the like. Instead you only get L3/33s and marginally modernized interwar designs.
>>1935217ill play a battle with you if you want, i also just picked it up
>>1936038I'm just getting started since this is my first CM so I'll probably try to get used to it before I start playing multiplayer
Favorite Mius Front campaign? Any side and any time period, just looking to see what people consider the best. I have a few DLC and have played about half. None of the different time period ones though.
With the mortar platoons should I be using the heavy weapons squad commander or the firing platoon commander? Does it matter?
We should bully paradox to release source code
>>1924967Fuck HoI3.I just want Darkest Hour fucking playable on a 4k monitor. That's it.
>hoi4toddlers and dheddiors are the same peoplewow who could have guessed
>>1932415Nice art.
>>1924967vvvhhggg der groBe deustchland!!!!!!
>>1924987And so we just have to wait for the open source vic2 community to finish their game, then we can build hoi3 off of their work
Thoughts on this month $10 Humble bundle?
>>1931290buy an ad
>>1931290Can you kill commies in JA3? This is important question.
>>1931334There are a couple of commies you can theoretically kill, but you're mostly killing militia niggers since the country it's set in is (loosely) based on Sierra Leone.
>>1931290Against the Storm and JA3 are both solid. I had to skip this month since I already own both games. My only issue with JA3 is you can very easily break the balance and the game becomes trivial. I prefer some sort of challenge when playing games, but the person I was playing co-op with wanted to strictly do the easiest route possible which was too boring and I never bothered finishing the game because of that.
>>1931290You can get them for free elsewhere
>>1907582I feel there are an above average amount of games where you play as ants compared to other animals. They compete with cats.
>>1914064>One side has jewish nosesReally makes you think
>>1907582Literally a game came out this yearhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2287330/Empire_of_the_Ants/
>>1912101>>1912776This. Dwarf Fortress but ants in a top-down 3d or isometric procedurally generated environment would sell gangbusters. You should be able to design your own ant nest and designate foraging/combat areas but make the ants autonomous. You could even make it even more hands-off and just issue general orders - you'd issue a directive like "we need more space for eggs" and the ants would dig the space out themselves for more of an ant farm feel.
>>1909072Are roaches goblins?
Is this piece of shit ever going to fix infantry AI?>tell squad to throw AT grenade at tank that is within throwing range>one guy pulls out AT grenade>runs all the way to the end of the trench to exit it>runs along the entire trench again to reach the tank>tank moves a tiny bit when he's close>stops in the open, standing straight>slowly rotates towards the tank that's moving backwards at a snail's pace>thro- gets shot and dies>select squad and tell them to attack a trench>they all run in one big blob or line at it>when an enemy is encountered they stop in the open field and start shooting from standing position>even the MG gunner is hip firing his MG>none of them use grenades to attack the trench unless manually told to do soComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
They are literally the same fucking game.
Soooo has anyone managed to get this mod ?
>>1937004Never heard of it, what is it called?
>>1937050Not sure, I think it’s a skin pack a Chinese dude made, but i haven’t found a download link, only a sketchy website where you can buy some models... and it’s all in Chinese ofc
>>1937163'Aight, if it was made by a Russian I might have been able to dig it up, as I have done that before with old ass MOW1 mods, but I know jack shit about chink mods.
Spellforce 3 reforged. Did this game just died as soon as it came out? The mp is almost non existent but campaigns seem cool.
>>1937147The MP was never going to be successful. The series is known as being a neat but janky RPG/RTS hybrid. People enjoyed it, but the RTS aspect is never going to be good enough to have an MP scene.
How did Slay the Spire achieve such perfection? There's no way the sequel can possibly live up to this legacy. And yes this is a strategy game
>>1931556What will be the outcome of this combat?
>>1930057I can't Imagine being this tryhard about a phone game people play while on the toilet
I know it might be off topic but Doom would be my favorite RPG, a game where you roleplay a demon slayer, if I actually liked Doom much. It's okay but I played Diablo 2 way more than I played Doom and it's not like I am a big fan of that one either.
>>1931637I can't imagine being so chronically constipated that you regularly play games while shitting
>>1931556>>1931579I'm sure he'll respond any minute now.
Now that all talented people have left and theres no hope for improvement, what was their best game? ps. No, its not vic2, it barely counts as a video game
>>1936432if they don't massively cut down on the use of mana I'm not interested
>>1931760Ck2 hands down. It had some shit dlcs but it hits the goldilock zone of being non-jank yet not yet made for the lowest common denominator.
>>1932927They probably should just make Stellaris II because it's filled with so many bad mechanics it needs a big purge. But I also wouldn't actually buy Stellaris II so I dunno.
>>1937062Most of them are flavor packs that don't fundamentally break anything, and without major ones gameplay tends to have holes, like it's technically playable but lacks support between mechanics.
>>1937066oh thx for answer, i hastely deleted post cause i thought i psoted wrong thread when later i saw OP lol
Playing the regular campaing as the Initiative. Around which year should I start building the outpost on the moon? Also Terra Invicta thread
>>1936265>he thinks rampant off topic discussion is unique to this gamelol (lmao, even)
>>1936292so gsg was banned on vg but allowed on /vst/? explains why jannies on this board were pedo tranny cultists, they all are gsg rejects.
>>1936292Thank god, I was sad whenever I entered one of their thread.People treated it as /pol/ meets /b/.
>>1936265What's there to discuss?Early game is shidLate game is even worseBalance is always worse than last time you playedGameplay layers still work against each otherPeople are working on making a game with just the parts you like but none are out and never will.The devs have created a negative feedback loop around their game, but the release schedule is so slow you hardly even notice it getting worse.
>>1936071Can you take over ayylmao station with operatives? I've never tried. I'd assume using marines works, just build a station full of marines and invade like in planetary bodies.
