What are some of the best (preferably cheap) tower defense games?I've already played Bloons, Dungeon Warfare, Defense Grid, Sanctum, and PVZ.Something more traditional. Not really looking for an RTS-Defense hybrid like They are Billions.
>>1798862>Defenders Questi used to check in every so often about DQ2>10 years after he first let people preorder it>still not releasedquite hilariousi dont know why people didnt get mad about it, he basically took their preorder then decided to spend a bunch of time doing everything other than working on the new game
>>1798862Kingdom Rush is solid. Haven't played any of the sequels except for the Evil faction one, but they'll keep you entertained for short sessions.
>>1798763kingdom rush
There's that one old tower defence game I used to play as a kid but can't remember the name of it at all.Early 3D graphics, fighting various spooky monsters, 3 types of tower (AoE cannons, Anti-air magic and universal/poison plant ones) that'd visually evolve and get bigger and fancier as you upgraded them.Had a campaign where the first map started you in a city, then the fields outside a castle's gates, then a series of increasingly magical and bizarre places. I'm fairly sure you ended up on a bunch of floating islands and an ice cave at some point.When you reached the desert map (I think) you got access to a hot air baloon that'd automatically keep on dropping bombs on whatever location it was parked over.Does all this ring any bells to anyone?
>>1798862Cheers to the Gemcraft guy keeping it up since Newgrounds. Had fun with Frostborn Wrath even if it was a step down from the previous one.
modern xcom games threadEnemy Within and War of the Chosenexercise restrain when using explosives
Any good recs on similar games to how xocm apocalypse played? I loved the pausable realtime, felt so much more dynamic than pod bullshit
resistance friend activated the codex again
>>1804431Are the sexy mods any good?
so i met the Archon king today, so much for a deathless run
archon king softened them up but it was a codex that killed them
>try ck3>no idea what is going on>quit after half an hour>try koh2>everything is much simpler>having a blast an hour indo you think it's because the map of koh is simpler than ck?the map of ck being split up into a million pieces might have fucked me up, or the ui being insane as well
>>1805360Paradox games rely on game mechanics being intentionally vague and unexplained. Once you learn everything after about 50 hours 1 of 2 things happen1) if you are intelligent you realize these basically amount to several layers of cookie clicker with no actual strategic thought. The systems allow for no variance of strategy or dynamic stories, hence whey every game has some sort of “mission” system where you click a magic button (provided by a $20 DLC) to do something that the game would normally be incapable of doing Or2) You are a low iq chimp person, who is easily entertained by this sort of thing. Typing a really big number into a calculator would likely give you the same pleasure
>>1806335... but enough about HoI4, time to go back to the subject of KoH2
>>1806337i dont know about koh2, got bored after an hour
>>1805360CK3, from what I remember, is mostly a more barebones CK2 sidegrade. CK2 is not that complex, so I guess Koh2 is even more barebones then?
>>1806775>I guess Koh2 is even more barebonesPretty much. It's an extremely streamlined version of Grand Strategy which intentionally puts a hard limit on the amount of characters you can manage (1 king + 8 knights), which in turn limits the amount of actions you can take at any one time, to make sure the player never has too many things happening at any one time. Doesn't help that realistically most of your knight slots are going to be taken up by Merchants and Marshalls by default, while you can often get away with having only one or even zero Diplomats, Spies and Clerics.
Darkest Hour is 2€ right now on Steam.Is it worth those 2 eurodollars?
>>1804283>You don't need to fight the war, let the AI-controlled countries fight for you!Learn to play the game, retard
>>1804286not engaging with a retard sorry
>>1804298I never told you to masturbate, anon. I told you to learn to play
>>1794703If you need to ask then you are too fucking stupid to play it.
>>1794436>You can’t put the game on max speed and AFK like 4I put a small part of my army under AI control and it landed in india on its own when I wasn't looking. Not even hoi4 is like that.
Tempest Risers we're winning so hard...
>>1800843>I learned to not get baited by "made by the makers of x now with their own studio"everyone should learn to do that. stop overstating people's accomplishment. that shit leads only to complacency
>>1800843>"made by the makers of x now with their own studio"a lot of people in gaming industry had just 1 great idea and thats it, not only that but its almost never 1 guys work but entire team of talented artists, music, story writers etc who make game special not a single guy who was managing all of them and often is credited the success.
>>1792076>cheap chinese copy of C&CThe devs aren't Chinese.
>>1791703Finally, people begin to reject the cartoony shit und start to embrace more mature/sober looking game.I hope they also add an uncinventional fraction in TR
>>1805265Worse, they’re eurocucks.
Will you finally buy it?https://store.steampowered.com/app/1575940/Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire_II/
>>1764094>Yeah even if you are wrong, they shouldn't be wasting time and energy replying to you. They shouldn't even be reading that shit.As a matter of fact, they shouldn't even be making video games! Who the hell told them to do that? They should get a real job.
>>1745196>Sins of a Solar Empire II on Steam >Will you finally buy it?>my dick is in my pants, will you finally suck it?
What do you say to a /v/tard that's screaming 'rts is dead' ?
>>1807038I tell him he's right to make sure he never discovers the ones I'm still playing.
Haven't played Sins2, waiting for full release. If trade is the TEC's unique mechanic what is the Vasari's?
This is one of the worst RTS I've ever played, why are so many people saying it's good?
Retarded nigger bait thread.
>>1792456>This is one of the worst RTS I've ever playedhow come?>why are so many people saying it's good?because it has a mix of features from Civilization and AoE, some of the most popular RTS gamesalso, nostalgia I presume
>>1793892>You can't do meaningful raids or flanks or feints.Cavalry archers would like to disagree
>>1793441Shame they ran out of budget and half the campaign missions were generic>conquer this base in 90 minutesshitThe Vinci and Cuotl campaigns are like apple and oranges for the depth/effort they put into the Vinci one
>>1792456Rise of Nations is decent, but I’m more into Rise of Legends myself. I’ve got a strong feeling Gates of Pyre is gonna be next-level.
>Steam summer sale starts Thursday What are you hoping to get?
>>1804874Just use Epic's generous refund policy to request a refund.Or does only Steam have a generous refund policy?
>>1799711I fuck my gf for free
anon knows any neat city builders
>>1799651Ok, but are they also strategy games?
>>1789088>i hope to convince my friendI'm already hyping my bros to gear up for Gates of Pyre once it's out of Beta.
I know know hoe logistic works
>>1800498Noice
>"heaven of calm" creates mostly farmer minors>"more dangerous regimes" creates mostly hunter and raider minorsWhat's a good way to get a balanced amount of minors?
>>1800498>no way to share seedthis game is to much junk that be kino jank>>1800918both at once
>>1756691Playing against yourself? Might be fun, actually.
>>1803599I only play with myself.
Do people still play this? The modding community is kinda dead. And the game updates from the devs are very slow. What gives? It's a good game. Also, I get why province resources are randomized to give replayability, but I would prefer it if they were fixed.
>live service games bad>games done on release badhuh
>>1806004Yeah, agreed. The crusades update was good but after that it's just been QOL and balance fixes. That's acceptable, but where are my new mechanics? New questslines, nation flavour, new units etc?
>>1805997... how many more near-identical KoH2 you plan to post this week?
>>1806006>Bad game badftfyPlus - KoH2 isn't "done", which is part of the problem
>>1806651It's definitely not me dude. I don't hang out in /vst/ alot. Just started desu to get some news on paradox games
>male>protestant>craftsman>capricorn>all points into Handicrafts>change game language to GermanYup. It's Die Gilde 2 time.
>>1806804>65 and unmarriedThose 4-year time skips can really get away from you sometimes.
>>1802344>telling a prot to suck off the popeat least get your insults right, fedora-anon
I know 2 is superior but damn do I miss doing the zombie graveyard shit in 1.
>>1806892>zombie graveyard shit in 1.never played 1. Whats this?While I'm at it, Never played 3 either but reviews say it's dog shit and watered right down. Which is really too bad as 2 is one of my favorite business sims
>>1807047In The Guild Gold the graveyard was manned by Zombies instead of workers, and you had to balance out basically forcing people to pay you for plots of land or else they'd be tossed into a ditch and weird necromantic shit for cursing others.
>No unit variety.>Everyone is virtually the same>ROTS sucks>Too easy to cheese>Same fucking shit sieges>1545 start date>teppo ashigaru suck ass>no good modsall in all it was a step down from shogun 1 which had far more engaging content and a functioning AI
>>1805703
>>1805703>No unit variety.Benefit.>Everyone is virtually the sameBenefit.>ROTS sucksAgree but I think FOTS also sucks.>Too easy to cheeseThat's all of them.>Same fucking shit siegesAgree but again that's all of them except maybe R1/M2 at a stretch.>1545 start dateAgree.>teppo ashigaru suck assI don't even know what the fuck that is.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1805703Realm divide is a shitty mechanic and kills both diplomacy and any replayability.
>>1805703>No unit varietyyes>Everyone is virtually the sameyes>ROTS sucksI like the way it sucks>Too easy to cheeseyes>1545 start dateyesAnd it's great.
>>1805703should just write you dont care about jap shit, i also dont give a fuck about nips and their history
Blainesweep editionTalk about your favorite mods and your least-favorite devs
>>1806409That mod had a decent idea, but holy shit is the map ugly. The writing is also pretty bad. Half the time it seems to be going for a W. kind of "ur bad actually" narration, which it doesn't do very well, and overall its just bad at getting information across, which is probably the most important thing in a text based game. I have a feeling that it would benefit a lot from the textboxes that W. and a few other mods use, a little blurb explaining the various characters and bills and so on as they come up would go a long way towards making the mod more understandable.
>>1801281Hey, JAIR modmaker here. I was forced to or the mod wouldn't be put up. The CTS/NCT jannies are very paranoid about any kind of mean words in a campaign clearly depicting a right-wing conservative, which is inexplicable to me lol.I'm pretty angry they decided not to pin it. Was a lot of hard work. People seemed to like it a lot.
Goodbye Stranger, it's been nice
>>1806731>You can't be Historically accurate in a mod because mean words are bad!1!!I can see this being real sadly.
>>1806731Sorry to hear, man. I loved your mod.
EU5 american states in the 14th century
>>1806632Anon power projection means you can influence the nation's and governments in an area to your liking. The fact that US just fucked off means they didn't do any form of power projection, just hunted the pirates and left. Now if the US decided to take a trade city and coerce Algeria into US demands to expand US influence and interests in that region then that's the example of power projection. You have to exert power constantly be it soft or hard so that you have a projection of it over the region, that's literally what the term means! What Teddy did wasn't power projection, just an impressive flex and a show of force. If he concentrated that show of force to a specific region within a timeframe then that's power projection.
>>1804517They're changing regions based on feedback in every map shit they postPlus the fact parajew change the map multiple times through a game's lifeSo yes, it will change at some point
>>1806673>Now if the US decided to take a trade city and coerce Algeria into US demands to expand US influence and interests in that region then that's the example of power projectionOh boy wait until you hear what the US did with marines and Tunisia in the 2nd Barbary war. Sweden was also involved so that means Sweden was also able to project power greatly.
>>1805906Sounds like a massive dose of "git gud" was neededWeak Qinks
>>1806786I mean we had anon insisting that Russia strong, because it participated in the same diplomatic play as Brits, so this is going full circle now
Hooded Horse's Rimworld+Crusader Kings game is out on early access, any guinea piggies try it out?
>save got corrupted>its the only save
>>1806574This game was made by a russian studio which registered in UK.
misleadingest splash art ever
>>1806700his head should be half the size of his body
>>1806848like this
