If everyone is pirating Paradox games, how are they still making games?
>Despite what the obsessed shitposters would have you believe, all of the main Paradox games have very large fanbases on /vst/t. johan
>>1878266By having convoluted marketing model which easily confuses idiots (their main buyers) and makes them pay weekly salary for DLCs that they don't need>>1878324>False assumptionIrony at the finest
>>1878329*zoomersftfy>>1879201Shit-tier programming, duh.Their games are notoriously poorly written in terms of actual code, which wasn't a big issue in 32 era, but with 64, they wrongly assume that higher capabilities of the PC is going to cover for the fact their games quite literally don't compute themselves by late game thanks to having improper functions and using fucking 2-bit programming, running out of memory in zero time. I mean by I:R they self-admitted they have no proper coding team anymore.
>>1879424I'm pretty certain you have no idea who millenials are.
>>1878324>Reddit spacing>Shit opinionMythical duo.
Is it really gonna still be called Europa Universalis V in this current political climate? I think something less eurocentric would be better...
>>1869164I really hate Greeks, Greece shouldn't exist, Greeks didn't even exist as a unified people groups until the late 1800s, and only through horrible acts of violence, where lapping European faggots invented it out of thin air. The simple fact is that Greece was better off being rulled by the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Macedonian Empire, etc. The only time that this place was ever historically relevant was when it was being dominated by other ethnic groups. Greece is a spiritually, physically, emotionally defunct nation that deserves to me excised from the planet and given to more SOVLful ethnic groups such as the Turks. This is true for numerous other Balkan "ethnicities" that only exist as a result of western European imperialists seeking to weaken the glorious and virtuous Ottoman and Austrian Empires by schizophrenically constructing ethnic groups which don't exist. (What I have said is also true for Serbs, Slovenian, and most certainly Hungarians)
>>1869164I'm becoming racist because of Black Ops 6. Basically I've been playing Zombie mode since it came out.And I noticed that those who choose the black character almost never revive their teammates who are down.The ones who revive the most are those who take the white character or the latina girl.This is crazy stuff, right ?
>>1869164Yesterday I had a conversation with a white American on a gun discord who went to Poland to sneak drugs and he talked about Polish people like they're Ethiopians in the 90s.>this is Europe, but not Europe Europe. It's like, Eastern Europe. These people would suck a dog's dick for 3 dollars>a bunch of women hit on me but I have empathy, which is the ability of putting yourself on someone else's shoes. And if I were a smoking hot blonde in Eastern Europe, I'd seduce men and then steal their shit>I made sure to hide a little tip everywhere I went, but didn't stay for the reactions because good people don't do good for a rewardThis isn't even the case for modern day Ethiopians. They have tech industries and stuff like that nowadays. But he talked like a tip of 10 dollars would be life changing for a pole.Worst part is, man was clearly not a rich American. Not even a middle class American. He's just a working class white Texan who got sent to Poland to sneak drugs because he's white, for some Mexican (probably) who is way richer than he'll ever be.I didn't even tell him I'm Brazilian. If that's what someone thinks of Poland, what would American and European normies think of a country like Brazil? It's so embarrassing. Wish I could change my nationality but my family didn't keep the records, so I can't get an Italian citizenship.
>>1869164I imagine myself in Europe, leading my Platoon. Our mission is to stop wh*Te dogs from advancing. We mow down wh*Te dogs but they keep coming. I shoot wh*Te dogs but I run out of ammo so I draw my sword and begin slaughtering wh*Tes, since wh*Tes are way more psychially inferior to me, I slay them by dozens. Then I get shot, but I didn't fall, I kept fighting. Then shot again and again. wh*Tes were shooting me from a distance like the cowards they are. I lie down, facing up to sky and I see KARA BOĞA (Tengri) smiling at me, I smile back… Then I woke up, in africa, my homeland. My BLACK brethen gave me a warm welcome to heaven. I finally made it, I finally made it into heaven..
Okay who left the bot running?
So, we're all in agreement?
>>1874692And yes, Dungeon shared first place for basically the same reason.
Castle should outrank Necropolis on consistency, Necropolis is too dependent on artifacts. Conflux is S because it's broken.
>>1864245What am I supposed to be getting from this besides some crunchy images?
>>1864245>So, we're all in agreement?No, definitely disagree.
>>1864245In my casual opinion:Necropolis and Castle are easy mode and can win with one unitFortress, Stronghold and Conflux also have strong units early that can easily start clearing the mapInferno is bottom tier for being expensive and having boring units also demon farming is tediousThe rest are somewhere in the middle
We're going all in, folks.https://files.catbox.moe/uq883w.pdf - Brazil-Argentina war design doc.https://files.catbox.moe/djf9rg.pdf - Latest Moskowien rework proposal. Years of work flushed down the toilet for less gameplay and no wars.https://files.catbox.moe/zff5y4.pdf - Serov "facelift" document. The first leg in the now confirmed Komi rework.https://files.catbox.moe/cdag1w.pdf - US rework proposal archive. Read all about this hot new TCT mod.https://files.catbox.moe/9nqmlk.pdf - Iberian Wars rework document.https://files.catbox.moe/ymgaur.pdf - Amur rework doc. Almost two years in dev hell, still no release date.
>>1886301after all the ideology is called "responsible republicanism", imagine the damage of a "responsible" and generally bipartisan presidency crash and burn. i need to stop fantasizing about actually interesting things though because they're never happening
>>1886308No I agree, it could be a good setup but we know who the people making it are and they're going all-in on nothing ever happening. When the demo drops, it's going to make Kalterkrieg look like Red Flood in terms of wacky excitement.
>>1886299Yeah and also I think the head of government is Rumsfeld.
APOLOGIZE
>>1886344>you can get wholsum Democrat I agree with or le evil RepubliKKKan NeoKKKon I disagree with>why yes I voted for Obama, Hillary and Biden how can you tell?>TDS in captcha
What are the best strategy games set in medieval Japan?
>>1884014Ah to btfo anon, got it. Interesting nonetheless. I liked Rome and Medieval even if the AI is braindead and most of the matches play the same
>>1883961The ship is extremely dangerous yeah. in a manual battle under player control it can take out entire top of the line fleets with minimal issues. It's still pretty strong under the ai too. but in auto resolve anything strong in limited numbers completely shits the bed.
>>1884058That wasn't my intent. I've just got a handful of old S2 screenshots that show something moderately interesting.This one is from 15 years ago, I turtled and destroyed 2/3rds of Japan with Christian rebellions and then bribed them to join my faction with Metsukes.
>>1883625Since nobody mentioned it I'll go with Nova Monumenta Iaponiae Historica for CKII.
>>1884397I do enjoy Shimazu and Date because you get to start from an end. Then again AI loves to bypass the frontline with boats.
I've been thinking of getting this game. Is it worth it? General thought on it?
The balancing is awful. Starbases need to be removed and reworked. Did these idiots play test their own game?
>>1881178Because they're OP or UP? Most people find they fall too fast.TTK is weird in Sins, it's somehow both too quick (stack fleets melt rapidly) and too slow (chasing ships takes forever).
>>1881501they are too squishy but also too spammableAnd they make the novalith literally useless why does it even exist???
>>1881501It's weird because it's functionally multiplicative. One ship has to do piddly damage so that 1000 ships don't end a fight in the blink of an eye, but balancing for combat scenarios where you have earlygame fleet vs endgame fleetcap means both extremes feel unsatisfying.And of course the fact that ships fly themselves and most abilities can be automated with no downsides means there's very little for the player to do to influence the outcome of a fight beyond just amassing a stronger blob and picking their engagement.These were all issues in Sins 1 as well. Pve becomes trivial once you realize all you have to do is minmax your eco and arrive vs the AI with a bigger fleet when it wants to fight. Pvp just devolves into a race to develop your eco/fleetcap while disrupting your opponent's through very limited and predictable raiding options (raiding options which tend to either win or lose you the game outright in the opening minutes). When a big fight happens it's just a question of who has more resources worth of ships in the fight. It suffers from the problem of a lot of RTS 'wargame's where war is actually just watching 3D models pewpew each other and doesn't really involve much strategy, decisionmaking or, well, gameplay, and the actual gameplay is centered around building and managing an economy.
>>1881906You can disable the all the capital ship's auto abilities by right clicking on all their abilities. You can do this in sins 1 too. Almost all subcap ships have some sort of ability or two as well after research. So just disable every auto and have fun manually micromanaging every ship in your fleet.
What's the best way to play these in 2024? Is piracy the only way? Looks like Blizzard doesn't sell it anymore... only Reforged. I only care about playing through the campaigns really, not local or online multiplayer.I know everyone hated Reforged a lot, but:>Why SPECIFICALLY did people hate it so much?>Was it never fixed, either by Blizzard or modders?I don't mind buying it on sale for $15 if it can be made into a good experience, but if it's still completely irredeemable then I guess I'll just have to resort to piracy.
>>1846920>You don´t even touch a gacha game in you shitty life
>>1819039The best way to play it is to never touch it.
>>1820264bruh OP is a blizzshill, check the formatting and questions
>>1879193>if you activate your WC3 and TFT key on bnetThe Frozen Throne CD-keys are redundant for Patch 1.31 and onwards, including current version. They're only useful if you want to put up older patches. Otherwise, it's just Reign of Chaos key you need.
>>1883471Yeah I'm a blizzshill retard, that's why I repeatedly talked about piracy and then ended up doing just that.
Minecraft is /vst/ nowDiscuss. https://youtu.be/YA789zV5P5M?si=1E1xtTCtCDPXeX7V
>>1883772The pathfinding is ass but this shit is surprisingly well made for a mod, at least judging by the tutorial map.Reminds me of Lambda Wars a bit. Probably because it's the same premise. I can see some fun to be had in this, but If i were in charge i would've also added a spellforce-like gamemode where you would be able to control a hero mob directly.
>>1883772looks like dogshit with rts smeared on top
>>1883918Alright, we get it. Saying dogshit once is enough.
>>1883772I wish Minecraft had a mod that integrated with all the other mods that add companions/followers/anything else that uses wolf code, and lets you control them via one unified control interface.Imagine, legions of littlemaidmob vs a fleet of shincolle vs whatever customNPCs your heart desires, vs those clay golem dudes that you actually get to RTS instead of just watching them autobattle. If a mod were to unify all of those and all the others, it would be the first mod that you can truly call "kino".
>>1883772looks interesting
Looks like Rome kino with an actual (sorta) combat is back on the menu boys!
>>1875947How do those aqueducts work?
>>1883836bucket chain mechanism
>>1883844Powered by a waterwheel?
>>1883912or slaves. doubt they ever made ones so tall though
>>1875947I played a bit and it made me feel like I was about to get hit with a popup saying:>do you want to recharge your energy for $1.99?The UI is a major turn off and so are the graphics. Looks too... clean I guess?Also it makes my GPU really toasty and with the game looking like it does there's really no reason for it.
Lets ignore the civ switching thing they stole from Humankind.What actually is there in Civ7?There seemed to be no workers, cities still spread out but for each building?combat is continuous?Didn't seem like a lot of inputs.
>>1882754>Greek/Hellen - it didn't have primacy as the modern nationality does.Because the modern Greek identity isn't founded in its ancient past, it's founded in the hardship Greece experienced in its War of Independence. Breaking almost 400 years of Ottoman subjugation is far more important to them than what happened 2000 years ago.
>>1882715>otherwise why change the mechanics?In all honestly, it was probably something they thought up mechanically first and then tried to crowbar in a lore justification later. The mechanical reason being trying to fix the fact that people don't pick late-game civs because they're just objectively worse than ones with early-game bonuses because late-game civs can't snowball.
>one civ7 thread, specifically about the other mechanics, not the civ switching>subhuman retards still talk about the civ switching instead of making new threads
I dont like the civs staring at each other in diplomacy. They should be staring at (you) while you do diplomacy. Just a small thing that makes you like or hate an ai leader more.
>>1835525For that i really like using perfect world map script and selecting "start in old world" AI is pretty good in claiming new territories once astronomy is resarched So you need to be prepared to claim them yourself fast. Once you do you have a choice, you can make colonial states that become your vassals and if you dont like that you should beeline for communism and get state property otherwise you bankrupt yourself. AI in not good at that aspect of colonialism, I noticed they typically dont do either and struggle economically.
what went wrong?
When did the tables turn, and it's the pirate's turn to be shrill, whiny and insecure? Yes, you're poor; no, the devs aren't going to listen to you, what's the issue?
>>1882142what went wrong?>Greed>Hubris>Complacency>DEI
Paradox games aren't "bad" because the devs are actually "listening" to this mystical fanbase of "paying customers", they're bad because they're poorly made, objectively.>but if they're not the best games ever how come I faithfully buy every single low effort DLC they shit out?Because you're a retarded NPC.
horse armor dlc for oblivion
>>1882142>Mana points>Le foci for every game>Memes>Ultra expensive
What happened with the latest Protectors update? Is it so bad that the thread had to die here as well?
WHY ARE ALL THE IMAGES DEAD AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>1864616It would be more popular if they didn't insist on fucking with major systems/mechanics that really didn't need to be fucked with
from dust we come
A class that has a skill that only works for a specific race is dumb.
to dust we go
Latin editionHow fares your empire, /ck3g/?Previous thread >>1863556
>>1885262I'd just go for stuff that helps make your empire rich and stable. Winning wars on the field is never a problem so long as you have money and aren't at risk of rebellions.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949862650&searchtext=Wish this was worked on again.
>>1874266What are the requirements for reforming feudal into administrative/bureaucratic government?
Is the pure blooded trait based on anything real? Can inbreeding really make you better?
>>1886548No, there's no irl gene that would affect the probability of other latent recessive genes from being expressed through inbreeding.It's great to have in CK3 if you're running a breeding program, which you should because you can make your whole dynasty stacked. That makes them better vassals, councilors, generals, knights, etc. and gives you an endless supply of trait stacked breeding stock.Pure blood is nice, you can breed closer relations if necessary to guarantee beautiful, herculean, genius heirs without getting freaks. It's not necessary though, and it's better to acquire it from finding children randomly spawning with it and breeding them in rather than forcing it naturally and having a dynasty full of monsters.
why does no one talk about shadow empire? I'm about to try it.
>>1879922>you think its complicated and too hard>i think its bloated and too easywe are not the same anonmost systems are just done in the worst way possible, its miracle that the game actually isn't that bad
>>1879758Shadows of Forbidden Gods released already. It's good and plays nothing like Shadow Empire
>>1879701Its okay.
>>1879701game would be better without all the card bullshit
>>1879701It’s fun for roleplaying as a Roman penal colony and getting in unwinnable wars of attrition. If you like to meta game, you’ll get bored once you figure it out. Lots of autistic detail, but not really challenging
So I'm getting into Kaiserredux and having a blast. First played as the KKK in the U.S., then AOG in China, and now Outer Heaven in Africa. What are some other must-playthroughs? Kaiserreich fans welcome to post in this thread, too (with note: why do all reworks in the past 1-2 years just seem like pure politics-wank without any fun gameplay? Ireland, Ukraine, etc..).
>>1883534don't worry, none of it matters. SURPRISE LOL
>>1871583>Can't they have the China team do something other than China?The China team only wants to work on China, they arent employees that you can shift around, the content that people want to work on, gets reworksThats why India is untouched, no one likes India
>>1883657I'm surprised that there are literally no pajeets around willing to work on India.
>>1883686pajeets dont play grand strategy gamesactually i dunno what they playBut besides that, the major issue with content in places like India, is that irl these places were pretty rigid, and coming up with alt his content for them is essentially writing extreme fanfictionOn the flop side, China was practically made for something like Kaiserreich because the country was already in chaos irl at this time, and theres many characters around that could viably become important with some minor changes in events
>>1883647Yeah it doesn't matter because I didn't make the right metagame choices and now the war's impossible LOL XD ANOTHER 5 HOUR PLAYTHROUGH DOWN THE DRAIN I LOVE EPIC REALISM GLUCK GLUCK GLUCK
