*quietly disappears into obscurity*
never understood the hype
>>1842830the power of virality got to me as well, i had it wishlisted and got it on my birthday as a gift. Holy shit it's just banished with training spearmen and enemies spawned off map. Wish I got this much recognition for making a basic game over a couple years.
>total war killerkek, those eceleb grifters were so fucking retarded
>>1842814>shizo cant let it go even after all those monthsit still has almost 5k players every day playing it and its doing better than 95% games posted here
It's pretty good. Getting regular updates and has a steady playercount. Cavalry soon.But despite the fact that the game is shaping up very nicely, I really wish the dev wasn't so attached to his retarded population system. The game strives for realism in multiple ways ways, but then for no reason at all age doesn't exist and every family is two adult men and one adult woman, who always just spawn in randomly from outside the map because pops don't reproduce. And it's not like reproduction is too hard to program or anything since animals are allowed to breed and have young normally. Shit makes no sense.
What's this game like? Is it even good?
>>1842922>Getting regular updateswhat the fuck are you smoking nigga
>>1842969One update every year is regular
>>1842948>What's this game like? It's a Banished clone. >Is it even good?Yes. Ten years after the release of Banished, this game and Farthest Frontier have demonstrated that devs have finally managed to make a better Banished. There is again hope for the future.
>>1843020>>1842969You have to switch to the beta branch to get most of the updates.
>>1842871I never understood how so many people jumped to this conclusion.>this tiny indie settlement builder game has a combat element that vaguely resembles Total War formation battles, except simpler and on a smaller scale>TOTAL WAR KILLER CONFIRMED, CA IN SHAMBLESI'm not against shitting on CA considering the state of them, but people should at least use their fucking brain before making retarded claims.
>>1842814The dev made 21 million USDBut I didn't understand the hype either, quite realistic and fun looking but nothing too special
>>1843146>The dev made 21 million USD
>>1843146when that game released half of twitch streamers were german speaking boomers, no idea why but they love it for some stupid reason.
My god I fell for the hype hard on this>spent almost a year with it top of my wishlist>bought it instantly when it released and seethed that it wouldn’t install properly at first because millions were all installing it at the same time>played like 2 saves>realised how basic it was>never played it againHas anything been updated since release that makes it worthwhile?
>>1843164lmao
>>1842814It's basic bitch city builder game with no depth. The graphics only lured people in. Goes to show graphics aren't everything.
More like MANURE Lords!#rekt#gottem
>>1842830same
>>1843065>>1842871it is more a successor of lords of the realm than any total war tittle
>>1842830>Medieval Europe games are lame as fuck, everybody can feel it now. How many times are we gonna have to sit back and watch some dirty smelly white people ruin everything around them for? Its gotten old.
>>1843164The Settlers and Anno audience
>>1843045>It's a Banished clone.I haven't plaed Banished, is it even good? But I played Ammo.
>>1843437>I haven't plaed Banished, is it even good?not really, but it is subgenre-defining
>>1843437I love the soundtrack, it's enough to make me put in 4-5 hours every year or so, but it has very basic gameplay that doesn't really hold up much longer than that.
>>1843065>I never understood how so many people jumped to this conclusion.It's called clickbait Anon, a very old and respected grifter technique for amassing clicks, view and engagement.
>pigs addedhaters in shambles
>>1842814>Pole makes a game>He scams gullible zoomies and westoids to give him 20 million bucks for asset swap Banished cloneAnd the best part is everyone was telling up-front that this is a scam, but the sheeple as always got excited and consumed the product
>>1842830I always wanted a game like stronghold with a sandbox campaign
>>1845403>REEEEE, IT'S A SCAM!!!!11
>>1846033But there's no castles or walls
>>1843407Kill yourself, non whites are subhuman
>>1846054at the moment
>>1846054Castles will come when the manor upgrades get added. It's basically a design your own castle system except at the moment it barely has any options yet.Town walls will probably get added sooner. There are already manor walls which you can use as town walls if you want, but that tends to be a bit jank right now.
>>1846036Well, it is a scam, so I fail to see what's your point here.Do you even have one? Other than some Pawel Bszechiszczrzwiski got himself set for life thanks to unlimited human stupidity, that is. Which is a feat that I admire due to the sheer size and quality of balls it takes to pull off.
>>1846188>it is a scamThen prove it, because it sounds like you don't even know what that word means.
>>1846196>Nearly two years of astroturfed online campaign for the idea of a game>Actual work only starts when a business angel shows up with cash>Few months later>Empty hype game selling bare-bones EA for 50 bucks>No meaningful updates in sight>None of this is an indication of a scamTell me anon - how many hundreds of hours you've already managed to clock in a game that has content for about 4?
>>1846196>>1846200And to make it crystal clear:I get your buyers remorse and the intense cope needed to deal with the fact you've bought a tech demo of a pre-alpha build of a promised game for 50 bucks. That's obvious. But it's September already. Most people managed by now to let go. Why then still fiercely defending your wallet spendings?Guy had you, set himself and his potential kids for life. That's admirable. What's not is pathetically still believing in "the plan". The plan already happened - forking about 5 mil ameripeso before people wise up. Except it made him 20-21, which is even better achievement.
>>1846055based
>>1846200>guy developing a game on his own so it progresses slowly>it's so good it attracts an investor, he can now devote all his time to the game and hire contractors to help him, so development speeds up>releases the game in early access, obviously still incomplete since that's what early access is for, but already fully playable>regular updates adding new features and fixing bugsThe "scam" only exists when you forget to take your meds and give in to your hallucinations.
>>1846200>>1846204A mentally ill tortanicfag, how surprising. >astroturfed online campaignWhat some people imagined the game to be is irrelevant, the trailer was quite clearhttps://youtu.be/SV9gNI5DHy0>Actual work only starts when a business angel shows up with cashIt took 4 years between announcement and EA release and considering that it's a solo project, that's nothing extraordinary.>Empty hype game selling bare-bones EA for 50 bucks40>No meaningful updates in sightThe game receives updates every few weeks, recently it got ported to UE4.>None of this is an indication of a scamYup.Your autistic ramblings are hilarious. All that /v/ brainrot makes you obsessed with games like you were a bunch of stockfags. So much pointless talk about sales, player count, update rate and other bullshit. You even came up with a bullshit story about my buyer's remorse, for what reason? You think you can read my mind? I bought it on sale and 26 euros is not enough to activate that buyer's remorse.You've just shown that you really don't know what scam is.
>>1846299>guy developing a game on his own so it progresses slowlyDo you have any actual proof he was working on anything, other than him saying so?>it's so good it attracts an investorYeah, the buzz was absolutely phenomenal, hard social media work>he can now devote all his timeWhich explains why he was still having his regular, 8 hour office job>and hire contractorsTo work for him, not help him>but already fully playableI'm sorry, but which game we are talking here, again?>>regular updates adding new features and fixing bugsI guess once per year is still regularThe scam is where a tech demo is given 20 million by gullible buyers. It's like you never in your life heard about speculation bubble, where first someone builds "hype" (used to be called "forged interest", but that was before internet), and then dumps the product to the stock market. The people into it make their money, the idiots thinking they are investors happily sponsor them. Then the whole thing winds down and before anyone's any wiser, the scammer is already rich and there is no way to prove you've been scammed. After all, you were given the product, right? Never mind it's not up to promises.You'd make an excellent bottom in a pyramid scheme. You'd be working your ass even after the company would bankrupt and its owners went to jail, still convinced you're going to make millions
>>1846303>>None of this is an indication of a scam>Yup.Remember, anon - trust the plan
>>1846126>will come>will probably get addedMan, I really missed out by not paying for this.
So this game is ok because it was developed by a single dude, otherwise it's shit, correct?
>>1846303I'm pretty sure this guy was spamming prerelease about the game being a tax scam and not actually coming out.Game actually coming out and being a huge success mindbroke him
>>1846303I had my doubts too but it's a real game. Also 5000ish people playing it right now.I think he faked it until he made it
>>1846840Steam reviews and popularity mean little, check out one of the most mid games out there - wukong. Which according to steam is the best games ever.
>>1846843Yeah and? I didnt buy it nor said anything about how good it is
How come every Banished clones are still worse than Banished and has less features at released?
>>1842830I don't understand the dedicated hate campaign.
>>1846843You're just saying that because it was made by chinks. Your burgerpunk programming prevents you from admitting the chinks succeeded at anything.
Consistently the worst threads on vst
>>1846325Why do you spend so much of your life hating a game you obviously know nothing about?
>>1847203/v/ brainrot
>>1847203>>1846901It's just one hyper-autistic lores who predicted that it was a fake game that would never be playable, because it was just a scam to get free govenment funding. So when it actually came out and everyone loved it, it permanently mindbroke him. Now he spends the rest of his days making up reasons for why it's secretly still a scam and he was right all along despite being proven wrong at literally every turn. Just look at how he's still claiming the game will only get one patch per year, despite it getting two patches just this month.
>>1847206
>>1846126>medieval city builder >no castles Jfc
>>1847517>3,000+That is actually pretty good.
>>1847571Dude the game just came out like 5 months ago and lost 90% of its player base are you retarded?
>>1847591Normal for single player games.Do you need other people playing to play an SP game?
>>1847517I'M PLAYERCOOOOOONTING
>>1846917No he's saying it because Wukong is a generic rollslop game with the same le monkey king protagonist we've seen 1000 times.
>>1847206>It's just one guy!Consult >>1847517Also, as far as the original reports on the dev were, he did an actual EU grant scam on non-existing office space for his (then) physically non-existing studio, effectively pocketing 20k eurodollars that were not spent on the grant's objective. Shit was intense enough that Polish gaming outlets covered it, and suddenly a week later the company had an office.With different address than claiming so far and hastly correction in the registry of companies (where it was previously registered at the flat the guy was living in), but oh well.t. Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz - and unlike >>1845403 I don't find it admirable at all. It's just another episode of someone stealing and nobody doing anything about it. It's all so tiresome
>>1847632>Hey, the game sold, what do you want? People actually playing it?You remind me something a friend's wife showed me once. I came to visit the friend, since we were going out for a camping trip, his wife was playing TW3. Knowing my utter disdain for cheevos, she showed me the page with them and pointed the one that you automatically get for finishing the opening, tutorial area, the first... dunno, 50-60 minutes of game.And it was at limp 25.something %Meaning only one out of four players played the game past tutorial. But they still paid money for the whole thing, in a game that, unless speed-run, takes about 80-90 to finish and twice as much if you plan to do sidequests. They dropped after an hour of that.One of the best selling games of the decade.Really makes you think how fucked this whole business is.
>>1847685Well, the numbers will be higher than that in games where mods disable achievements. I've never played wh3 unmodded for instance, same with many paradox games.
>>1847797Even if that number would be 80%, it would be still weird as all fuck.Meanwhile, that was a PS version, so I doubt mods had anything to do with it, since, you know
>>1847798Oh, I know, there's loads of people who buy things and never play them, which is strange, but less so than maybe seems. People stuff storage units, which they pay for, full of junk they've paid for and never used. I think it's just nature for some people to collect these things.
>>1847861Every 8th person has a foot fetish, you know. This being common doesn't make it any more normal, understandable or, probably more important, something that others exploit for their profit.
>>1848086I understand your point, but I'm pretty sure OnlyFans is something people exploit for profit.
>>1843168>>1842867>wishlisting a game without trying it firstHow fucking retarded can you possibly be? You know piracy exists and is useful for this sort of thing, right? I pirated it and played for about an hour which is all it took to know this game was just derivative trash that does nothing as well as the games it's stealing from.
>>1846054I assume they will come eventually, Anyway I just want a stronghold style game with rts, in depth feudal city and army management and AI lords to work or fight with. If this game delivers this I will buy it, otherwise I will wait until another fellow autist makes a game like this.
>>1843045>have demonstrated that devs have finally managed to make a better BanishedThere are plenty of better Banished games. Depraved is pretty decent, way better than this trash anyway.
>>1842830>never understood the marketing
>>1848869No, the original anon is right - there is marketing and then there is hype so weird, you just can't wrap your head around it. And this is such case - the hype made no sense from the get-go, then got overblown even further.
>>1850475>the hype made no sense from the get-go, then got overblown even further.It makes sense if you spend at least a few second to think about it. 1. The game looked pretty.2. Many people were (and still are) yearning for (good) historical TW and thought ML was it
>>1850811So you are saying that a relatively decent looking game is enough for people to ENTIRELY MAKE ON THEIR OWN expectations for a "TW killer" out of a Banished clone?Because this is the exact bullshit I'm talking about - it makes no sense whatsoever and if you would actually think for those few seconds, you would realise so, too.
>>1848821sorry I'm not poor and don't even think of shit like this as something troublesome in any way. Pickle some shit logs for the winter faggot
>>1850851>sorry I'm not poor
>>1850851Faggots like you are precisely the reason shit games are being made>Nah, who cares if I'm buying shit>What? You can't afford buying shit yourself?>There is nothing wrong with encouraging the industry with my money>EA is good business model>Crowdfunding is good business modelAnd then everyone is left with the fallout your faggotry is causing.
>>1850816It make perfect sense, at the time CA was fucking up everything and people just wanted them to fucking die, they would prop any upcoming game as "TW killer" to that end, the fact Knights of Honor 2 which was the closest thing to TW was ignored because it didn't fit that narrative, show you how much of that was just people looking for an excuse to proclaim it's over for CA.In retrospect this would be a very nice marketing strategy, make a clone of somehow popular game that have retarded devs, wait for devs to piss of people, announce your game, get everyone claim your game will be better, sell millions while delivering a barebones experience.
>>1850863>It makes sense for people to call a colony builder a TW killer, because... um, it just made... or maybe the hype was retarded and you are now pussy-wiggling how to say so without admitting the hype was fucking retarded and build on completely idiotic claims
>>1850851everyone thinks you're a fucking retard and they're right
>>1845742> The dev never advertised it as TW killer in fact he had to come out to tardwrangle the people saying that*inhales* KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
>>1851294uh-ohmanor goys have we been too cocky?
>>1851294>Even Armchair Historian fell for the meme
>>1851299> even Armchair Historian> even
>>1846188its not scam, just misplaced hypelike retards hyping themselves into buying it(or trusting click baiting youtubers)
>>1843168>>bought it instantly when it released
>>1851294he said that he will do his best(his best are not that good)
>>1850852im not eating shit, youre eating shit because your poor and cant afford food lmao>>1850853cry me a river fagbought 10 more manor lords copies for my bros to make up for your homosexuality and poverty>>1851241i dont care what you or anyone else thinks. Eat shit, im cool and youre gay
>>1851420>Dev building misplaced hype for your project for over two years is not scamOk
>>1851464>I am proud of being retarded, you mad?Not really. Not even disappointed, it's a given that retards gonna retard
>>1851659its notit was mix of YT shitting on CA and making clickbait videos for YT money, and people hyping itself for no reasonlike use your brain anon, would you eat shit if it was hyped enough?
>>1851666whatever you say satan
>>1851668in short it was self interest of YT entertainers and foolishness of easily hyped crowdonly fools and greenhorns fall for it
>>1850851Ads on YouTube exists because of people like you
>>1851666>It's not>Dev online feed for past two years is hyping the game>"But he didn't claim it's going to be TW killer, so it doesn't count!"Copium overdose
What are pros and cons of Manure Shmucks? I haven't played it, but people are saying it's simple? I mean Stronghold is one of my all time favorites and it's fucking 1+1 game.
>>1851661thanks for the (you), chump
>>1851755keep seething must be painful to be so easily tricked
>>1851866Tricked into what? I've been telling you retards year ago it's going to blow, and here we are, year later and it blows.>>1851784It's barely an alpha build of a tech demo for an idea of a game. So it's hard to talk pros and cons, other than "it exists" and "it's kinda nothing, which costing 40 bucks". You can get 2-3 decent games for that money and still have leftover for some Coke.
>>1851872*while costing
>>1851872lmaoso in your case its not even buyer remorse, you are just mentally ill
It wasn't the worst 20 bucks I have spent on entertainment but the game has yet to live up to what it promised.
>>1851903>If you point out the emperor is naked, you're mentalCope harder
>>1852041you are the guy guy who shout that sky was blue yesterday and is blue todayonly retards fall for the hype and only retards thinks that it wasn't something obviousyou are not only dumb but also boring
Hold up, wasn't this a schizo verse paypig thread? Why are the schizos fighting each other?
>>1847685Honestly consumers buying the games and never / hardly playing them, then buying the next game, is a great scenario for devs.>consoomer buys game due to hype>never plays it long enough to notice how trash it is>consoomer swallows the hype again and buys next game
>>1852074>reddit spacing and ESLThe PIDF are here
>>1853051For devs - maybe.For everyone else, and especially people who play games - not so much.Case the point: the fucking state of the entire industry for the past 12+ years, thus since EA got common
>>1852076Because payouts are pretending to be schizos cuz payouts got BTFO when they lost 90% of the player base over a few months post release.
>>1842814I'm hyped, but I don't play Early Access games.
>>1851294Learn to read, retard.
>>1842948no. its a bare bones tech demo
>>1846033lords of the realm has existed for 30 fucking years
>>1842814robbie malding: the thread
>>1842922what updates?
>>1851464You have 10 brothers? Your mother must be the biggest whore in Puerto Rico.
>>1858276Check the steam page.
>>1843146jesus christ that is insane.
>>1853178>Case the point: the fucking state of the entire industry for the past 12+ years, thus since EA got commonI admit that I fell for it a couple times when EA was a new concept, but people who still fall for it today are basically the same personalities who buy scratch-offs or pay for gems in mobile games. If the scam didn't work on some people the scam wouldn't exist.
>>1842814The real joke is that the only threads discussing this game are those poking fun out of how it disappeared after all the hype burned within the first week. Literally nobody discusses this game in any other fucking context.
>>1859421>Literally nobody discusses this game in any other fucking contextNo1 play this game.
>>1859424I'm sorry, I can't read orcish. What does it say?
>>1859426So you elves don't know the numbers these days?It say>0.6%
>>18594290.6% of WHAT, you dumb fucking faggot
>>1859438Of people that get this achieve retard.Is it THAT hard to look on pic and determinate that is steam's achieve?!
NEW PATCH
>>18594805GB
Jewtubers are to blame for this misplaced hype. Especially Total War ones.
>>1859424>Beat "Restoring the peace" on "Challenging" difficulty preset.>a difficult achievement is rareWOOOOOOOW
>>1859443WHAT'S THE ACHIEVEMENT, YOU DUMB FUCKING RUSSOID?! It doesn't matter what's the percentage without stating which achievement is that. If you thinking I'm going to give this game search engine traction by googling cheevos list for it - you are way overestimating how crafty you are, Ivan
>>1859528>The guy behind this game hyping it on all social media since tail end of '21>IT WAS YOUTUBERSYeah, that cope story...
>>1859578>a difficult achievement is rareNot a difficult achieve is rare too, so what's you point?
>>1859639Oh you can't just use STEAM for identification, you need google to do all work for you?Elves in our days is just pathetic retards, seriously.We, orcs, back in our days played in mmorpg with only moonspeak and use software to get moonhieroglyphs from screens and then translate it.
>>1862404>>1862418>bumping dead thread that's dedicated to shitpostingThis is your brain when using Cyrillic
>>1862439>bumping dead thread that's dedicated to shitposting even w/o shitpostingThis is your brain when you have brain cancer.
>>1848821>wishlisting a game without trying it firstI did try the demo, I thought it was pretty damn good so I wishlisted it. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined once I found out the "demo" was 90% of the game.Obviously, just because you wishlist a game it doesn't mean you have to buy it.
>>1842814dammit right when I finally gave in and bought it
>>1846033castle strike?
>>1843403A Royal Castle
>>1842814>No PvP
>>1871679if you want multiplayer then give the dude another 20 years for a half assed MP feature with constant desynchronization
>>1848821Wishlisting is pretty non-committal, far from a preorder. I just use it to keep track of sales.
>>1842830>>1842948It's essentially a decently good looking tech demo with chill vibes. It definitely lacks content and has frustratingly basic production chains and combat mechanics.Another kinda pointless Hooded Horse one-man passion project title that would be immensely better if it had a real indy studio working on it instead some single Polish king of autism.
This thread has unironically stronger staying power than the game it is baiting about
>>1876796>Another kinda pointless Hooded Horse one-man passion project title that would be immensely better if it had a real indy studio working on it instead some single Polish king of autism.The real joke it is a small indie studio working on it, while marketed as "one extra autistic dev in working". So it's twice as bad as it is, while trying to make itself half as bad as it really is.One man autism project it is not, either way, since it both lacks actual autistic elements and involved mechanics nor it has the actual dedication to the project (the updates went back to crawl, just as was the production for all the duration before the 3 months till demo release - since they had to shit out said demo
>>1842830>overhyped as a total war/paradox killer>turns out to be a colony sim with minor battles like all the other ones in its genre >dev repeatedly states that he doesn’t work alone and that it’s nothing like total war/paradox games but retards still refuse to shut up
>>1846901>dedicated hate campaignPeople not gushing over a game isn't that
>>1842830people memed it into being a total war killer
>>1847518>medieval city builderits a medieval village builder atm
>>1842814LMAO I swear white bois fall for this shit every single time. If I had a quarter for every time some rando dev of unknown origin claims to be making a "TRUE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE GAME ABOUT EUROPE (no colored people included*)" only for it to be complete ass and abandoned shortly after I'd be a fucking millionaire. Swear to god these fuckers fall for these half assed buggy trash scam games every time but you won't hear crack pot youtubers talking about it after they hyped up the retards into buying another white euro flop.
>>1878220Name three (3) examples
>1878220oh look, a tranny
>>1847206This. Some of the most severe mental illness i've seen here
>>1843045call me when manor lords will have an actual pc enemy to fight instead some bandits groups
>>1846200game at the core is greatbut there is no game in the first place as there is no enemy to game againstnot even multiplayerthe author menaged to make game but hi can not write computer controlled enemy as his game is too complex, even a full team of skilled experienced devs would strugle in writing competent ai that would compete well against player without cheating
>>1879526You turned off the Bandits, didn't you?
>>1878342Nta, butAncient Cities (remember me?)1 BC (not to be confused with the RTS 0 AD)This "game"And as a cherry on top - K:CD's ENTIRE marketing was on "no people of colour in our game set in 1410 Bohemia", which is equal with bragging that the model of car you are selling has wheels
never heard of it, looks kinda ass thoughnever heard of it and a google search brings up nothingnever knew this was marketed as an epic based white yurop game, I had only ever seen "comfy mediaeval city builder :3" shit. I wouldn't be surprised if it was considering the dev is a polak, but I haven't seen what you're claiming.KC:D, again, I don't remember any marketing about NO COLA PEEPO, I remember seeing a heavy focus on the "realistic" and punishing combat, the slice-of-life approach to its presentation and an effort to portray mediaeval life as something other than peasants in shit-brown rags squatting in mud. I do recall seeing complaints from the usual outlets ABOUT there being no coloureds in the game, but none of that came from the devs or the marketing team
>>1879704none of those marketed themselves as that you fucking schizo
People who bought it on GOG are getting update every 5 years
>>1880172Source?
>>1880173I am exaggerating, of course, but GOG only gets those proper updates but none of the beta versions