What is the Dark Souls of strategy games?
>>1881018Total War is easy out of the box if you're already aware of the hammer and anvil tactic from historical studies.
>>1881018>first played total med2 when I was 11 years old>won every single campaign by just spamming random units TW is piss easy even the old games
Chromehounds. An actual strategy game made by From unlike piss easy baby games posted here by retarded anons.
>>1880141Probably an rts like starcraft and nothing that is turn or time based.
>>1880141Starcraft because no one in this thread would be over 100 apm and shit takes forever to get good at
Will Microsoft save this trash?
>>1876690Haven't they been responsible for the AoE revival? The Definitive Editions have done well.
>>1881871Looks like the usual suspect that always posts ragebait shilling in wc3 threads has arrived early this time
>>1875642They better save HotS first.
Add a Murloc campaign.
>>1882186I find it funny that in base WoW, they covered up Sylvanus's midriff, but in HotS and the Overwatch 2 skin, they stuck to the sex appeal.
Why is creative assembly no longer capable of making good "historical" total war games? It's been a decade of disappointments. Maybe all the A-guys are focusing on fantasy. Rome 2Arguably Attila ToBTroy3KPharaoh
>pick up m2 for the first time>play a vanilla short campaign, enjoy it and want to check out mods>most mods predate the release of the game on steam so there are separate steam install instructions>not an issue, i'm not illiterate>playing on linux which has a slightly different version than windows>all the mods insist on using exe installers (that may or may not still be available) instead of using archives>have to use winetricks and regedit to add enough information so installers will cooperate and "install" their files so i can copy-paste them into my steam directoryi'm biased since i've been playing rtw for 15+ years but i'm impressed with all the content of m2 and how well it holds up. rome remastered was pretty good imo (ui aside) but i'd probably buy a m2 remaster just for the sake of making modding easier
>>1879602>but i'd probably buy a m2 remaster just for the sake of making modding easierSame, a mod workshop for M2TW would be amazing
>>1850038Look into the competence crisis. CA was ahead of the curve on that.
I was about to make a long-winded post about my failure to get M2TW to run problem-free (crashing due to pic rel, low framerate) on Windows 11 but while I was listing all the things I tried I accidentally found M2TWEOP on the TWC forum and now it seems to be running perfectly. :))))))))
>>1875678I used to watch his TW challenge videos as a kid and enjoyed his banter with his friends but holy fuck he needs to move on he clearly hates TW and CA + Community but still sticking to dead horse fights.
What could have been...
>>1859914Do you have a source for these claims?
>>1878830The Songs of the Eons>discord
>>1856822At least we still have Gilded Destiny out of that little trio
>>1878839I used to be in the discord and I remember the reason being work related
>>1882409Yeah, moving to Japan to get a job.
With the recent release of the remake on Steam I decided to play the PS2 version because my PC is a potato I thought it would be a good idea to know your opinions on this saga that lets you either alter the course of the game or change the course of the game or follow the linear story What experiences have you had with these games?
>>1882361>>1882361played 4, 6, 7, 8 - mostly 4 and 6steam remake - guessing from reviews - is not good and you are better playing something else
Jannies deleted the thread so here's the encirclement in action before I go to bed
>>1883323>did you see Mike Tyson wailing on that baby? He didn't even twist his hips when he jabbed, what a fucking idiotYou're very, very stupid
>>1883323>swimming>when you could win in a single day with airborne
>>1883323>>1884496>surrender + TUR + ITAI'm the smartest and most skilled player in the thread
and so the hoi thread ends with gsgtards arguing about inane shit
>>1885962Were you not here for the entire rest of the thread you stupid dumb cunt?
We will get a new game one day, right?
>>1868647I hate silver claw and I hate anyone who voted for itWe could have had forest gnomes, wizards, Goblinds, but noThese shitheels picked the ancient rats, that have no place in war and will never advance
This game would be fun if every game wasn't decided by who resigned or timed out and when
>>1860202Pathetic AI, no anti-vehicle infantry and no per faction unit visuals, what were they thinking? Down to the unit movement specifics, almost everything is the exact same thing as AW, and what's different about it is just worse than AW
>>1731248hopefully
>>1879538stop playing 16-player FFAretvrn to casual 1v1 on meme maps with predeployed units
It's out of early accesswhat's the verdict?
>>1879022agree 1 and 2 was quite kino and nice to play, didn't played 3 so can't say anything about it>>1878573komgdom rush, at last the first 3
>>1878573I liked Bad North even if its not tower defense game as you don't have towers
>>1879852The random generation is nice, but the soulful-looking islands rarely translate to interesting engagements, especially since the grid restricts movement and ability use which themselves are already very situational, and enemies are super fast and aggressive. Also, the best tactic, if you really want to save all the houses scattered all over, is to upgrade your archers asap, park them on the beaches, and try to spawncamp most attackers into the water.
>>1878754Not after he added the quadruped bots that "walk" over any tiles like they're just not there. A flying unit that is only targeted by ground turrets is AIDS. There were other bad decisions before, like making the core auto-incinerate overflow and having a limited number of waves after which you've permanently conquered the sector, but this is the final nail.
>>1878573Deep Among the Swarm by a landslide.
>10 months since the release date change>3rd faction delayed to post-release>barely any news this year>still no new release dateIs the Tempest still Rising?
>>1875058When each haphazardly created demo mission adds additional 10 gigs to games weight
>>1858444not enough yeast.
Closed beta announced. Is this the Stormgate killer we were hoping for bros?
>>1880174So what, now game weights 5 terabytes because of all 3 skirmish maps they added?
>>1858444hadn't heard of this game, honestly looking it up just left me more confused>top down shooter into boomershooter into early 2000s shooter into C&C RTSwhat's up with this franchise? who the fuck comes up with this shit?Shelly better be a commander or something in this one
25 hours remain.
Can anyone please give me a quick rundown on what this new dlc will have?
>>1883802reworks Germany, Hungary, and research, adds content for Austria, Belgium, and apparently the Congo as well
The new Raid mechanic looks pretty sick
Belguium dayhttps://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/developer-diary-belgium.1711693/Burgundy Returns!
>>1886233Finally the REAL Burgundy
Let's see your strongest Irene.
>>1885141All greatswords masteries or magic knightIf you think magic albus is a meme is cause you don't use cover/reponsive attacks where he throws his missile at people.
>>1885158ebin ESP :D:D:DDDgurse of sword xDDDbew bew jusdis bictory blade :D:D:D:D
>>1885370broteggtion of abalon ::D:D
>+500 esp poweralright the game wants me to play magic knight I guess hiw do I into ICBM magic knight?
>>1885858You'll definitely want>Willpower>Muscle Training>Blessing of Avalon (Avalon + Distortion Field + Magic Shield + Holy Sword)You'll probably want>Justice Victory Blade (Avalon + Holy Sword + Roar of Victory + Veteran)>Blood-Absorbing SwordSome people also like Promised Land (Avalon + Sage + Recluse + Mage) including some of the most powerful pvp teams, but I find it difficult to fit into my boards because of how Support-heavy it is.
>Cheese is competitively viable>Terran and Protoss are easy and overpowered>Full of smurfs and chineseAbsolute slop
bumb this was a really important thread and needs to stay up!
So glad I bought into the hype. I uninstalled after 10 mins. I will not reinstall until it's finished (20 years time) I will not relearn changed mechanics with every patch.
>>1877762It's an inferior version of Stronghold without castles
There's already a thread up about this, learn to use the catalog retard.
>>1877834hi dev lol
Youtube just recommended me this vid, had no idea game like this is being made, looks very inspired by Victoria 2. Are you going to be finally free from modern paradox slop?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcAeD7GUhXk
>>1877252>AI art
>>1877103this is ok for prerelease placeholders but i agree that launching with ai art is a major yikes
>>1877128>decrease pricesReleasing full games at launch is more important
>>1876616I've known about it for a while though I'd like to see some longer gameplay before I make a judgement. There was supposed to be an alpha at some point, any news about that?
>>1877103Looks way better than Vic3 characters
Anyone remember playing a Star Wars scenario on Warlords 2 Deluxe?For some reason growing up I had all of these base scenarios, but then like just a few more that I thought were standard too, like middle earth scenario and star wars scenario.It was a neat window into perceptions of star wars lore from the mid 90s.
>>1881245nah you are rightfor me its Master of Orion 1neat sleak design, no unnecessary bloat
>>1881274Got curious so I downloaded a pirated version of the GOG version of Warlords 3.There's no K4SH mod applied.My download is from december 2019, so just a month after his review.It does come with the 1.02 patch though, I think Ashaman isn't just thinking of Reign of Heroes changes, but the patch difference when I'm looking at what he is saying.Like in og Warlords 3 Darklords Rising, 1.0Knight Lords had +2 Morale.In 1.02 they got Dragonslayer instead.Elven Lords also had +2 Morale, and got Demonslaying.I think Elven Cavalry had nothing, but in 1.02 they got +2 morale instead.Lots of hero abilities were also changed from 1.0 to 1.02.You could easily add 2 types of dragons as allies in 1.0, like having Gold Dragons and Red Dragons on your 3rd and 4th ally slot, but with 1.02 they added an extra penalty if you had more than 1 type of dragon.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1881245>i'm not the smartest person, maybe there are people out there who get into things like MoM, Dominions with the same ease.I've been very stressed the past 2 months, and I kinda defaulted to playing some warlords2 deluxe.Like when it comes to many games there's a lot of preplanning, what do I wanna go for.Because I don't merely just care about winning in Civilization, I wanna build a cool civilization, or have a neat conquest, so it's a lot of thinking about what civ and map I wanna play, maybe which mods.Similarly with master of magic, which retorts and build do I wanna go for, also mistakes are very punishing on hardest difficulty so a long game can end fast.In Warlords 2 I pick a map, hardest settings and then just play through it. It's not necessarily hard, but I have to think strategically enough that I turn the game into some math problems.One issue I have with games is that I often pick hardest difficulties even when I'm not ready for it, but for warlords it just happens be smooth even if I haven't played in a long time. If I didn't have that issue, maybe I could have similar chill experience just getting whatever retorts in master of magic and just play more casually at a lower difficulty level.It's like the strategy version of playing vermintide(fantasy left4dead) for me, just starting it and then mashing while brain goes into auto mode.
>>1881293>Got curious so I downloaded a pirated version of the GOG version of Warlords 3.>There's no K4SH mod applied.>My download is from december 2019, so just a month after his review.Exactly, always look into these things yourself. These people are legitimate morons.
>>1881302i've been watching MoM veteran play troughs, and it has to be a blast, being able to envision your run 75-100 turns in from the start. i'd be cock-blocked by the game, for not picking the right mix of books or something. have the 400 pages strategy guide on my hd, but jesus christ, it's super dense. i'll get there, some day.
