Anno thread.Anno 117 gets a timed demo tomorrow. Expectations? Personally I hope they don't fuck it up, anno 1800 was great.
>>2135078Looking forward to the demo. loved the setting and gameplay of 1800, I'm not that much into Rome, but the game does look interesting anywayAnno is the last Ubisoft franchise that has stayed good
>secondary location is fucking england of all places>black romansnot feeling so good
>>2135203Also you can bet your ass isn't going to have a slave economy.
>>2135212>Also you can bet your ass isn't going to have a slave economy.Idk, 1800 was great at white-washing colonial exploitation in a ridiculous way. Journaleros and Obreros are all smiling happily while they toil away to bring tobacco, sugar, coffee and cocoa to the mainland, and get nothing in return.
Liked 1800 but Rome is boring as fuck, I want future Anno back2070 was peak soul and 2205 was better looking than 1800, gameplay aside
>>2135299Neither of the 2 futuristic annos were good, so I'll pass on that garbage fammer.
I've always found anno games just kind of shitty to play. I feel like they run out of content once you've learned the basics. I'm still optimistic, I'll give it a chance.
>>2135212they'll never say "slave" but I wouldn't be surprised if your population tiers were "servant", "freedman", etc
>>2135302hush, the adults are talking
>>2135212Yes, Anno has romantic portrayal of the past as its tenet.They even say so themselves, you can listen to the presentation they gave on the history in the game at Gamescom.
>>2135308>likes the most dogshit games in the series because the glowing lights and muh grafics are le gud>Thinks he's an adultkys nigger.
>>2135212>>2135306iirc the lowest population tier is freedmen
>>2135470ugh the game is pozzed?!
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>>2135078I expect it to be whitewashed & woke. If they show females in administrative offices I won't touch that crap. Simple as.
>>2135470Please tell me this is photoshopped.
>>2135078what time does the demo start?
>>2135561>>2135472>>2135470least obvious raid, fuck off you already made a thread discussing your nigger keep it there
>>2135212it's rated T
>>213556612 CEST
how long till someone cracks the time limit?
demo is up
>1 hour and first two tiersWhat's the pointPlop down a lumberjack, plop a food building, plop a service building and a market, do a rudimentary three building "chain" for some basic good. I don't have to download the game to know exactly what I'll be doing. The first two tiers are the least interesting part of Anno.
Hope there is a crack of the time limit, wish they have you like 4 hours
>>2135584>>2135648doubt it, it's a big studio, and if someone did crack it they'd just update it real quick
>90GB for a demopathetic
>>2135651does make me wonder if it is just the full game with a basic lock on it
>>2135652There's no way they're that dumb. Cracking the time limit might happen but the game beyond the first two population stages just isn't gonna be in there.
the latium NPCs I've met so far seem nice enough
Performance could be a bit better as I am floating around 90 with everything maxed out, but drivers on release might address that.Game is still fun, although there is a very noticeable console-first philosophy behind their UI design. Nothing mods can't fix though.Gonna give a couple more runs a go before deciding on whether to pre-order it or not.
>>2135630okay, you pointed it outeverybody saw it, if some retard doesnt' see it and buys the game then it's just natural selectioncan we now leave the malding behind and focus on actually analyzing the rest of the game?it's woke yes got it
>>2135689I like the art styleany pics of the opponents if there are any?
>>2135698nothing that I could find in Latium, starting a Albion game now to see if there's any there
>requires ubisoft connect accountthey're still doing this garbage? no thanks
I only played 1404 (which I liked) and 2070 (which I didn't). I want to try 1701, was it good?
>>2135689why is there a chinese boy
>>2135698>>2135699best I could find is the scary welsh lady but she's not a governor>>2135712that's actually a woman, though I have the graphics cranked down a bit so all the models look a bit off
>>2135741Where the black folk at.
>>2135741no pirates?
>>2135805not that I came across, wouldn't be surprised if they where turned off for the demo
Never played Anno before but this game has my eye, what's a good place to start in the series and anything I should know before jumping in?
>>21358131800 is great to start with, but if you play it you cant play the previous ones anymore because its that good at QOLif you have time to play all of it start from 1404 or 1701
>>2135805The not-Boudicca in his picture is the Albion session pirate who apparently gets salty if you Romanise.
Is the optimization garbage or what? It defaulted to Ultra but it sounds like my GPU is going to kill itself.
>>2135836Optimization is always garbage now. You'll just be told "your PC is a potato, upgrade".I'm thinking of refunding. I can afford to upgrade, but I don't know if I really want to jump through a hoop because game dev said so.
>>21358367800X3D, 4090, 4k resolution.Getting 70-90 fps. With performance as is, I expect less than 30 when looking at an endgame island.
I fucked around with cheat engine and found the address for gold accidentally (It's just in there as a 4byte value), but didn't have any luck with the demo timer. might try again later
>>2135299You're right, Anno 2070 had the most soul before 1800.But can't blame Ubisoft for stepping back from futuristic titles after 2205. It just wasn't interesting and things became too abstract.They'll have another crack at it some day I'm sure.
>>2135966Can you pause the timer by pausing the game and then just build a mega island with infinite money?
>>2135990On the one hand 2070 let you make hyper industrial mega polluted shitholes where you pump out oil or whatever but on the other 1404 gave you stuff like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDiTSNfk6ABoth good games but i think the aesthetics of 1404 edge out 2070 for their respective time periods
>>2135299Anno only properly worked in New World colonialism context. Starting from quasi-medieval 1404 the series looked outright silly with those perpetual islands which are just there to exploit.
Some screens
>>2135712greeks are DLC and they needed a bottom
>>2136067Any idea why there are so many fat fucks in this game?
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>>2136074Just fat my shit up senpai
>>2136075Last oneThinking i might get BF6 now and wait for this to age a little bit. Not impressed with the demo
>low poly shitwhy does this game look like something from 2005?
>>2136039The islands work in 2070 because they're meant to be the high ground left above water after global warming floods the planet. The old world, Africa, etc. areas being islands in 1800 is nonsensical.
>>2136082साआर
>>2136096You basically have to accept that the Anno world is made up entirely of archipelagos. Which I'm fine with, if they lean into it.
>>2136082enshittificationAlso it's very clearly built for consoles.
>>2136082the British just look like that
>>2135990>>2136037>>2135299I had this dream Anno game dreamed up of basically it was a solar system trading game but I agree with >>2135990 it becomes too abstract. Like trade ships and space combat but it'd be hard to make all the planets/moons feel important and interconnected. I thought 2205 would go that route but instead they did their poor DLCs rather than full moon/planet expansion.The other idea that would work would be a ww1-coldware/modern setting focused on freeways, airports, etc. Large project could be giant projects or something simple like a space race. Now that I'm thinking about it it'd be even better now with the re-addition of ground combat. Aircraft carriers, Anti-aircraft guns, nukes, troop transports, beach fortifications, Saving Pvt Anno.
>>2136120I'd love an Anno '45 where it's immediately after the setting's equivalent of WW2, and you are tasked with rebuilding but the area is divided between NATO and the Soviets so you have to manage two populations.
>>2136120>>2136121The Anno devs do not like to portrait "negative" parts of history. That's fairly common knowledge among the community. War is minimized and never the focus. Slavery, drugs and suffering in general is kinda brushed over or ignored.That's a stylistic, deliberate choice on their part. We'll never see a cold war style Anno I don't think.That said, if the devs were to make such a game (and best not call it Anno), it could be super interesting. Devs are German, they certainly have family members remembering living in the GDR, the older ones among them first hand.
>>2136124So don't portray it as negative?You know, Rome had a bunch of slavery...
>>2136075>Brits: Luv em>Romans: 'ate em.>Simple asLmao. Is it maybe some issue with your settings?What preset are you playing on?Though it's kinda neat how everyone on Albion is that NORF FC guy.
The most comical woke shit in 1800 is the female arctic explorers. I'm expected to believe women were climbing mountains in the arctic. Women as crew on ships that are on months long voyages is absurd too. They'd all be raped and pregnant by the second week and the ship would need to turn back.
>>2135991nope game timer is always running
>>2135470Lmao it's over.If they want to be inclusive make a game in the future.
>>2136125yeah, almost all whites. This is very problematic for the modern world's agenda.
Game looks visually great, but my only issue was with the UI being a bit obtrusive/clunky.Overall very happy that it's a lot like 1800. Here's hoping the optimum chain charts get leaked so I don't have to spend so much time thinking of how many buildings are required per chain.
>>2136075>>2136074>>2136073>>2136071>>2136069>>2136067KEKwhy are they all norf FC
>>2136082the anon posting the screencaps said he is running on low settings >>2135741
>>2135078just getting started and it fucking ends. great demo.I still hate the ui and was fighting with the construction menu popups being in the way of the rest of the menu.
>>2136232just realised there was no combat either
>>2136249good
>>2136124That one is not historical but 2070 is a postapocalyptic setting where resource shortages, nuclear war and climate change presumably made most of the mainland uninhabitable and people live on islands now so there's that. The game is pretty environmentalist so I guess that checks out with the more liberal sensibilities and not necessarily in conflict and even the capitalist megacorp is portrayed as a somewhat reasonable while the greens are not all good and have eco terrorists.
>100gb demo>requires ubisoft connect>can only play for an hourI can deal with 1 and 3 but holy shit why won't they ditch their god awful launcher
UI is not great in 117.
>>2136274The best part about 2070 is you can be a Captain Planet villain.
>>2136574made for consoles, please understand
UI is fuckin trash, voice acting is eh, giant "funded by the german government" logo in a game with a black roman officer in Briton. Real crazy choices... I really liked everything else, though. Being able to build diagonally was sweet. The added radius effects to building was cool and helped break up my usual commie blocks
>>2136777>"funded by the german government" logoBased, it's about time we put the rest of the world on notice.You WILL look at this logo every time you start up yet another great entry of one of the best game series.
>>2136814>published by ubishit
>>2135078>rome slopyaaaaaaaawn
>>2136574both use/readability and I also hate the colour. how does that match with the rest of the game?
>>2136777the UI is for consoles and I fucking hate that, give us a PC UI instead of using one for both>>2136814I mean yeah, people need to know where the government money went and to stop people from bitching that germany has no impact on gaming
>>2136777>voice acting is ehGerman voice acting is alright, thoughand i won't play Anno in any other language
>>2136777>>2136896they should have done latin and celtic voice acting
