Does anyone know wtf happened during Total War Empire's development? It really looks like they just made half the game and mechanics and called it a day (like when you get succession wars or the heir born event even though there's not even a royal family tree or royal characters anymore)
>>2273922They literally run out of money to finish it and tossed on the market what they had.>>2273980>Underworld premiere
>>2278092>>2278105It is true.However, "they've patched it" doesn't mean "it works well". It means it's patched.I've been there on R2 release.I've been there mid-unfucking.I've been there when Emperor unfucked it fullyAnd I've been still there when they kept tinkering with it.Is it good? Not really. Is it vastly better than it was on release? Without a single fucking doubt.>>2278322It's the reverse, and with few extra steps>R2 is a shitshow on release>They scrap Atilla, their first major DLC, as a separate game>Patchwork on R2 while A is developedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2274157Counter-point: Original War has no AI whatsoever (every enemy move is simply scripted) and yet it's challenging and requires to strategise
>>2276024He said "never buy".He never said "never play".t. someone who only bought Shogun 1 and 2, but played all their games except Troy, Pharaoh and WH3
>>2273922Simple: they run out of money.The real question is why didn't they patch it, but still made a phone version that fixes a fuckload of bugs and issues the PC version has.
>A.K.A. /eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5 General"92.3% Discipline" Edition>NEWS>Patch 1.0.8 is live(sleepy restful AI)>https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-1-0-8-live-now.1884049/>Patch 1.0.10 open beta is available(hyper aggressive AI)>https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/open-beta-1-0-10-is-live-now.1884934/Embracing institutions: >>2279718
>>2287170it's better this wayno one cares about ur epic grossprussanium blob screenshot
>>2287170And in a minute, no imageboard.
>>2287164New, I fucked it up sorry.>>2287171>>2287171>>2287171
"Won't no one bake a new bread?" is this place's "rid me of this turbulent priest?"
I was going to post a really great and on-point image to an anon’s post that would’ve gotten the whole thread cackling… but alas… we’ve hit the image limit.
I don't care for Total War
>>2279479go back to /v/
Do a Seleucids campaign in the original RTW
>>2283226NO, I DON'T WANT TO PLAY AS FUCKING PONTUS
>>2279479t. Volound and LegendOfTotalWar
I don't know how I dealt with shogun 1 as a preteen.Left click everything, drive the camera around like a tank, walking up a hill exhausts the unit entirely.But I think it was more kino when you're bad. The enemy has troops and you don't have infinite money.
What happened with the latest Protectors update? Is it so bad that the thread had to die here as well?
Great deeds await
>>1908009Yeah, I believe one of warlords threads made the record when /vst/ was just a new board.
>>1908009fuck yeah
Gonna make it?
>>2283307Hwat for. Ded game ded mods ded thred.
Thanks to the C3X mod, it's now possible to build districts in Civ 3 as well. Check instafluff’s post for the recommended settings: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/c3x-exe-mod-including-bug-fixes-stack-bombard-and-much-more.666881/page-159#post-16889104
>>2256530>Suede has shit opinions whenever he's outside his specialty of talking Civ3Shocking!
Holy autism, Batman.https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/star-wars-the-mod-awakens.631116/
>>2264254I downloaded that one a while ago and was disappointed how it starts you off with all that shit. Civ is best when it's entirely your semi-randomized thing. With a huge premade scenario, I can't get a 'feel' for it. I'd rather play the LotR or HoMM3 mod instead of that
>>2264593>civ2 WW2 scenario>pick Russia and make every single city spam tanks>you left the mechwarrior 2: mercenaries disc in the drive>redbook audio playing>mfw
>>2239006>districts
I know I'm late, but I finally tried Civ VI with all its DLCs, holy moly the downgrade. Civ V(anilla) still invictus.Not only it's more tedious, but the DLCs don't add anything fun, immersive (they just unnecessarily overcomplicate things for the sake of it, to make you waste more time while trying to trick into thinking the game is more deep when it's not) and the artstyle is kinda shit.At some moment it becomes good, fun or I need overhaul mods?Is Civ VII worth it?PD: when the gameplay (specially the combat) is going to be like in the cinematic trailers (massive cities, massive armies, massive world to 4X'd)?
Wat do u think ur ruler does when you're just completely assraping in a game?Like whenever I'm owning in a game as Isabella I like to imagine if I were her I'd be getting dicked every other night to take the load off of running the world's greatest empire.Like I'm not gay or anything but if I were a ruler that's what I'd do
>conquer english city as phoenicia>we both have unique harbor districts>harbor disappears when the city gets conqueredIs this just because we both have unique versions of the district?Googling suggest that it should convert to your type of harbor.
>>2279627Catherine is getting dick from the hottest enemy civ leader I've conquered At least when I play
>>2279627Bro. There's gay, there's gay and there's your post ie ultragay.
How many games did Sid Meier actually worked on? I heard he quit in one of the earlier games
It's strange to me how they've gone from what feels like a major part of the game to a mostly forgotten side feature to something that has been totally removed in everything but CK3. It's especially noticeable in the context of EU5, with many people wishing the game had featured a different start date. What caused them to fall out of popularity, either with the game developers or the fans, so much?
The only reason people did not play the other bookmarks is because nothing about the game changed with the date and map painting is the only purpose of playing. Take Ck2 for example, there's a good argument for playing in 1000 over 700 depending on what you feel like doing. Even in Victoria 2 with some mods you would have legitimate reasons to play different start dates. If EU5 had an actually decent battle system you would see people playing pike n shot eras or napoleonic eras over the earliest start dates. But with the current game mechanics its like saying you want to play Civilization at a later tech. There's no reason to.
>>2272362I would use it for EU V. Every other game has a decent 'main' start date.
>>2272252Two reasons. One, every new start date means a lot of extra work to be done on top of what already exists. Two, this amount of work was not justified because the vast majority of players would just pick the earliest date.
>>2272430>what other start dates should EU5 have?At least one around the siege of Vienna.
>>2272252>What caused them to fall out of popularity, either with the game developers or the fans, so much?They would take a retarded amount of work to implement, as the province count and map density of the games has increased exponentially. And hardly anyone plays any bookmarks other than the normal one.
I started Jagged Alliance 2 at least 12 to 20 times at various points in my lifetime.I never got past the first four towns or so. I only finished the game once when I snuck into the final time and solo killed Deidranna. Are there any good tips & tricks to keep in mind for tactically challenged players? Is it possible to finish the game while letting the auto-battle resolve all the militia fights? I hated the militia fights.
>>2265538>>2265794The guy fortified the election to rig it by weighting the votes, to stop BG3 from winning out of spite. I was very disappointed by BG3 and think it’s a bad game, but that was clearly a petty and bullshit thing to do.
>>2265895Who is the guy?
How do I set JA2 Stracciatella launcher to launch from steam? I’d like my hours ingame to show up on steam but changing the file name to ‘JA2’ just leads to the game crashing
>>2270597The folder name?
>>2245833It passes the "this is dogshit" bar that games past 2 set as the standard and actually came out, but it has some of nucom's problem that it went too far with video-gamey power progression, and the writing doesn't fucking work.Sometimes the game comes together in well thought-out encounters, sometimes it's just bad.
what pre-gunpowder grand strategy has the best combat? is there anything with the depth of hoi4 but pre-gunpowder era? i'm tired of the crusader king style where wars are just send a big stack to beat the little stack and win the war
>>2281292https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwPuNw15Sbw
>>2281327Personally I always enjoyed boiling alive their envoys suing for peace in chariots of war.
>>2281273>the depth of hoi4lmao
>>2281292bro this is like flashgame tier.
>>2281463Not nearly enough starfox rape to qualify for that tier.
Stupid, sexy muton edition.>OXCE?OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) and 1996 X-Com: Terror from the Deep games.OXCE extends OXC modding capabilities and is home to megamods like X-Piratez, X-Com Files, 40k ROSIGMA and more.>Gamehttps://www.gog.com/en/game/xcom_ufo_defensehttps://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/>Modshttps://mod.io/g/openxcomhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads (XPZ)https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/the-x-com-files (XCF)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2291082>High-end Ubers and Agents are so much better than their rookie counterparts that getting them wiped once the difficulty ramps up can be game-ruiningNot really, in Piratez lategame you get so many ways to resurrect people that it doesn't matter.In Files you don't, but it also doesn't have as much long-term powercreep from medals. You can maintain a reserve of decent units without having to shuffle them through several in-game years worth of missions.
Oh wait you were talking about total squad wipe?Yeah, that complicates things for Piratez.
>>2291115Council loss is a doomclock, too, it's just not as blatant (and PXZ does have the lategame switch off for it). The saving grace is that interceptions can keep you afloat, giving you a safety next that FiraXCOM lacks. But my point is that it's still an absolute fucking disaster in a way that vanilla isn't. I guess that's to be expected of a megamod, they're usually made for people who have gotten way too good at the base game, but it is still a shift in that direction.I suppose to take my turn to bang on about action points, though, the big killer was that they went for a fire-and-maneuver system, but left out the fire part. We all know the cover system means flank for easy kills, but getting the flank is too easy. Long War went somewhere with this by giving everyone the suppression fire ability, but they really should have been going into setting firing arcs that suppress and overwatch everything inside it. I suppose you'd at least be expending enough ammo to make inventory management matter, but you might also have to automate reloading just so that you aren't going through the whole squad to pay the "I shot last turn" tax.
>>2291160Funding nations mean jack shit. The entire lot of them can sign a pact to betray the payer and the game will continue regardless. The three loss conditions for the game are having two consecutive 'bad months' (a month is flagged with a warning for either insufficient score or funding, exact threshold determined by difficulty), losing all of your bases, or starting and failing the final mission.Council doomclock is a Nucom thing only.
>>2291182Hmm, maybe I'm timeline shifting again. Still, I can make the same argument about bad months, that you're being propped up by your interceptors if you're too banged up for the ground missions the late game throws at you.
Got this from a sale on GOG, what am I in for?Played some AoW, Gladius, Civ V, VI, Millennia and Endless Legend
Refund it and get Elemental: Reforged.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3796960/Elemental_Reforged/
>>2277158I got it for 5 euro, but I'll keep any eye on it
i miss the family trees
>>2276993good game but the ai is a bit dumb dumb and will place cities all over the map even when it makes no sense.
>>2277158nah, wait for real content before buying this one.
>starting a new country from nothing is fun>exploring the map is fun>claiming valuable land and resources is fun>developing your economy and infrastructure is fun>defending your borders from barbarians is fun>fun stops when you get to war because while you were busy building a nice country another player was just spamming troops and rushing military technologies so you just get stomped with doomstacks for merely existingI genuinely wish there was a game that was based ONLY around this early phase of every civ game where you explore the map, expand your borders and grow your economy without the part where some agressive player rapes you. Preferably with more detailed economy.
>>2162034>Realism Invictus modI thought I'd check this out and there's AI sloppa everywhere and I uninstalled.
What were they thinking?
>>2264043Kangs nigga.
>>2264345For redditors even the Iron Cross logo for the German civ is almost another shoah. I wouldn't be surprised if they BLACKED Darius with this audience in mind.
>>2188418Are you saying you jumped into Realism Invictus without first playing vanilla 4?>>2252139This mod predates AI, retard.
>>2243014I know most people hate it but I cant stop going back and playing PoP once every 9 months. I dont even mix it up and I end up doing the same build and run every single time. Hard to explain why but being able to break the game is so satisfying.
>>22757981866 is updated for Warband? Where? Also how do you launch EaRC?
>not between empires0/10 post
>>2261469all of this is bare minimum for good warband mods now, perisno has all this, Aut Caesar Aut Nihil has this, basically any mod that still gets updated has something like this
>>2273051Literally any Large Address Awaren patch works.
>A.K.A. /eu5g/ - Europa Universalis 5 General"They offer us their flank!" edition>NEWS>Patch 1.0.8 is live>https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-1-0-8-live-now.1884049/>Patch 1.0.10 open beta is available>https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/open-beta-1-0-10-is-live-now.1884934/Assimilating Culture: >>2276321
>>2282888Is that Portugal taking land in ireland? I kneel
>>2282859>>someone needs to pay >You didlistenit's fine if johan wants me to beta test his game for freebut i'm not going to pay him for the privilege
>play sweden>get option to send theologians for a debate in Constantinople>never hear of them againHope they are having a good timeMaybe they are scamming them out of a years income of gold
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>>2287981move >>2287171
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>>2283630Whoops, I should've addressed that, my badI thought about "Hetman Republic", but didn't for two reasons1) I wanted a more unique name for my puppets2) From the wikipedia " hetman [is] the title of the general of the Zaporizhian Army." I dunno, it just didn't feel right to name it after the position of general. I wanted something closer to what the people there would call themselves. But I haven't ruled it out. Hetmanate just sounds better than Cossack Republic
>>2283638Domo
This might be the first time I've ever actually played this late. Usually, by this point I've either stopped playing or and just pushing through because I want to play with the RevolutionI FINALLY got Russia to form. I while I was throwing Sweden out, the Ottoman swooped in and I had to find them. As a result, I found myself in possession of Crimea. I had planned to give it to the Cossacks, but during the war, I figured I could set up a Caucasian puppet state to keep the Turk away. So, again, I'll take any ideas for names or borders. I'll probably pick something boring like the Caucasian Federation. Hungary PU'ed Poland finally, so they can have it after all.I've been so distracted in the East, my AE in Germany is totally gone. Maybe I should swoop in and form Germany after all. Though, I kinda like Bighemia At a minimum, I need to straighten out the Schedts borders.
I'm probably done with this campaign. I was thinking about going all the way, but the Revolution spawned in the fucking Falklands, and I'm not waiting for it to get hereAnyway, this was one of the more fun campaigns I've done in a while. Here's the final map. I have no shame in saying I just used the console to integrate Lithuania before taking this screenshot because I didn't want to spend 20 minutes dealing with France (ally), Russia (guaranteeing) and Britain (DoF)I had to go with "Transcaucasion Union" because "Caucasian Confederacy" was too long, and I didn't want to think of a better name. That last war against the Ottomans was so fucking easy, I forgot how hard decadence wrecks them. I was winning sieges in 4 days. I took all their Steppe land and gave it to Russia for cleaner borders. You can say I gave it to them in exchange for Lithuania if you care about RPI am never making a Low Countries puppet again. Scheldt was constantly disloyal until I got the Age Abilities reducing LD. And even when loyal, it's development was so high it stopped getting the really good March bonuses. I never posted about Riga's government, but it's the only one I bothered manually picking. I had them go Sortition because that added to the feel that the government in Berlin was actually the one choosing the Rigan leader. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with these borders. South Germany is a bit silly, but I think Bohemia actually has really aesthetic borders. East Europe feels distinct enough that it's not just "Brest-Litovsk but 1700's", even though I never found a Ruthenian name I liked. But the Rigan Federation is the real gem here, that one I'm really happy withAlso I kept Crimea and Jerusalem because why not?I think that's everything. Like I said, I think this is the first time I've played this late while still having fun. I never mentioned it, but everyone east of France and Savoy went Protestant barring Switzerland (reformed) and Sweden (Catholic) character limit lol
Im playing Anbeannar, its actually really funTried some kobolds, now im going to do some goblins
