Might be a post-apocalyptic map game. Modern day is too touchy, so we are skipping straight to after the end.

>>2472055
its dune

>>2472055
the worlds first porn grand strategy game

Ngl, i'm hyped

israel simulator confirmed as next paragoy game?

>>2472472
>laughs in VenusBlood

>>2472099
I wish they tried Cold War again, it could even be a March of the Eagles situation where they try out systems for HoI5.

It must be a post-apo game..

Whatever it is it will be busted garbage that will never be fully fixed and the fixes you do get you'll have to pay for

Post nuclear apocalypse?

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>>2472524
Took a screenshot of the structure in the corner of the page, here is the original. It looks like some kind of skeleton or alternatively a ship. My guess is something not set on Earth so I doubt it's post apo

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>>2472592
>>2472055
Here is after raising the contrast and dicking around in editing software. Maybe one of you anons could do a better job

>>2472593
Now that I'm looking at it again I think maybe it's a dragon skeleton

>>2472516
>Whatever it is it will be busted garbage that will never be fully fixed and the fixes you do get you'll have to pay for
And if you come back in five years to play it, it will have a thousand different unfinished dogshit DLC systems that boil down to clicking a button every five years

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>>2472593
>knife underneath flag
Gives some indication to the tech level/time period

>>2472596
It's a machete, post apoc guaranteed

Its another stellaris spinoff game with stolen assets that no one will play

>>2472472

>Sengoku Rance
>VenusBlood
>Madou Koukaku

There are also a bunch of others i dont recall the name, mostly by the studio that did Alchemy and Castle Meister

I hoipe its the grand strategy fantasy game people have been speculating about, the Anbennar niche caught the attention of paradox i've heard

>>2472508
theres a cold war game thats been on vaporware/dev hell status for like 5 years, but seems to have decent interest in it, its a definite untapped niche

>>2472668
Maybe they could include in it other fantasy IPs they own like Tyranny, World of Darkness, Exalted, and hell, maybe some Stellaris stuff.
Like the Super Smash Bros, Heroes of the Storm etc. of grand strategy games.

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>>2472593
It's a tie fighter.

>>2472478
At least the dogshit AI will be excusable seeing how inept Israel's enemies are.

>>2472666
Sengoku isn't even the first GS Rance game.

>>2472666
>the studio that did Alchemy and Castle Meister
Eushully.
A studio that is very consistent in delivering gameplay that is more interesting than the porn around it. Really good stuff.

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>>2472055
I hope its like shadow empire but with hoi4 type combat.

>>2472511
>>2472524
Hopefully a good one, all post apoc strategy is pretty much bad, except for shadow empire.

>>2472650
Nah if its like hoi4 they could print money, they just refuse to have good war systems and are obsessed with stupid spreadsheets nowadays.

Like give us a wargame please, that is what made you the company you are.

Make me spend my time supplying and building my army then unleashing it.

I don't care about 2% trade tariffs on the county of oocares-novere.

>>2473101
MANY are saying this but the porn is good too thoughbeit

>>2472472
Wake me up when RTS porn game comes next

>>2472704

a GSG from the lore of Tyranny would be cool as fuck, its a crime they never expanded on that game, the Archon Armies concept was very cool

>>2473121
HoI4 already exists. And actually putting in a logistics system would be yet another brainlet filter, dumb faggot.

>>2473010
nigga that's not a tie fighter

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>>2473211
oh my science, did you just misidentify that TIE pattern you bigot???

>>2473238
goddess... some people really have zero media literacy

>>2473255
Please, since you're such a trekkie, why don't you clear up what it is for the rest us... I'll wait.

>>2473182
I don't think Shadow Empire's logistics are as difficult as everybody says.
If you are having trouble just build a higher tier Truck Station.

>>2473264
sorry but i dont owe you emotional labour. have the day you deserve, chud /s

edit : Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

>>2473267
>I was wrong and I cannot admit it.
It's OK to concede, daddy isn't here and he's not going to whoop you for it.

>>2473270
source?

>>2472055
If it's a post-apocalyptic game as many are now speculating, it could be fun and interesting if done correctly because they'll no longer be confined to make something (loosely) historically accurate and can focus on fun. It would be a setting that would allow them to finally do something interesting with Africa and South America for example. Imagine a PDX game where there's something to do in South America besides saving it for last in your world conquest!

Kinda worried about Podcat being the lead designer after what HOI4 was before he left and they reworked the entire game, but the alternative is having Johan be the lead designer and we all saw how that went with both Imperator and EU5.

>>2472508
In the years since they initially said they won't do any more attempts at a Cold War game, the world changed and now they super can't do another Cold War game. You can't do a proper Paradox-style Cold War game without including Israel's hijinks during the time period, and even East vs. West had a Six Day War bookmark. But now we live in an age where you, as a publicly traded company, can't make anything that makes Israel look bad or antagonistic, or else they completely destroy you. So the most they can do is make something where it's just the US and USSR trolling each other in Europe, which has already been done (HOI3 had an Operation Unthinkable bookmark, which is the furthest you can go with a Cold War game these days).

>>2473272
It's conjecture. I don't have direct evidence of daddy whooppings.

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I'm genuinely hyped. I can't wait to buy 500€ worth of DLCs on a broken game, unironically.

>>2472668
Wait isn't that Age of Wonders?

>>2472099
>Modern day is too touchy
They could minimize the backflash by focusing it on a specific time and place in modern day rather than whole world maybe? Imagine, a middle east GSG set post WW2 to modern day. What could go wrong?
(It would probably unironically do well I think, discounting how scared shilltubers would be to touch it anyways)

>>2472055
Cant wait for more boring 'simulation' shite from the maker of imperator and eu5

>>2473308
I’d be more concerned about the ravenous libtard hordes freaking the fuck out and trying to kill you if you depict socialism as even slightly not perfect or Israel as anything but giga Hitler 2.0 with events about crispy Palestinians kids going in the ovens.

>>2473364
No. Not grand strategy at all, it’s a very mid 4x game.

>>2473387
I imagine they'd make it more like Stellaris if they go with the fantasy route.

>>2473361
Why wait? EU5 is right there.

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>>2473361
>Buying Paradox games in The Big '26
A fool and his money are soon parted

>>2472055
Desert, ship ruins, pirate flag, machete. Probably post apoc or something where the world desertificates over time.

>>2472055
>CK3 still not fixed
>Victoria 3 still not fixed
>EU5 is barely playable
>BUT LET'S MAKE ANOTHER GAYME GOYS!
And the retarded cattle will eat it all up. It'll be Stellaris 2.

>>2473511
What a dumb, illiterate nigger post.

>>2473511
CK3 and V3 are both much better than EU5 though

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>>2473419
Already have that

>>2472508
>Cold War
Speaking of, whatever happened to that Espiocracy game?

>>2473640
I saw a while ago that it's coming out in 2026 and then the niggers changed it to 2027.

>>2473642
Watch Gilded Destiny do the same.

>N1RV Ann-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
>Added on 2019-12-01
Bro...

Kreml- I mean, Nostalgames are our only hope.

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>>2473658
Zero chance we get Gillded Destiny this year.
The dev diaries have been scarce this year wich probably means that it either is approaching close to a beta state or it's in development hell. I say the former because the game looks good on the videos.
We'll be lucky if we get a beta at the end of the year wich could mean a late 2027 release. The alpha is not even a game, it's just a map with some menus.

t. Original backer with alpha access.

>Paradox makes a Post Apoc GSG right when I am almost done making my own.
FUCK YOU PDX FUCKKKK FUCK YOU!
FUCK!
I am not joking this is years of my fucking life.
FUCK THIS COMPANY!

>>2473677
Is yours actually any good? theirs won't be.

>>2473707
Mine has a real time battle layer

>>2473677
Rip anons profits

>>2473677
Hey man, it might flop hard with a bunch of disappointed players who are looking for an alternative that doesn't suck. They're creating a market for you!

apparently it leaked, it's called afterworld and yes it's post apocalyptic, and an original IP, so not dune or any of that already established stuff

>>2473380
>ravenous libtard hordes
The 2010's ended 6 years ago m8

>>2473677
The outcome for whatever you're making would have been the same had this game been announced or not. Paradox made one (1) decent game in the past 10 years, and even then anons will disagree with me and go "nuuu, CK2 is still better!" even though CK3, unlike Vic3 and EU5, has seen wide adoption by the fanbase. This also works in your favor if the paraslop game comes out first because then you can see what doesn't work in that game and fix it in yours (it will be years before it's fixed in the PDX game).

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>>2472055

>>2473812
>and an original IP,
At least it's that.

>>2473380
Why would liberals want a positive depiction of socialism?

>>2473380
>seething in defence of Israel totally unprovoked
>conflated liberals (ie the establishment) with commies and seething about them totally unprovoked
why are rightoids like this? you already control the world and have paedo sex islands and yet you still have to cry on 4chan?

>>2473812
>>2473827
That's clearly not it, that's a game by a totally different studio that was announced 6 months ago. Are you actually retarded?

>>2473827
man I was expecting nothing and am still disappointed

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>>2473917
Sure buddy

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>>2473917
It has this same banner

>>2473827
So is it gonna be real paradoxslop by actual Paradox or another Surviving Mars type of deal?

>>2472055
Gonna be a fantasy version of Stellaris where you create your own fantasy universe/world.

>>2474074
Actual Paradox.

>>2473916
>>2473870
Lmao cope and sneed bitch nigga

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>>2474195
Words words words. Typical leftist seethe meme

>Drone showed up on the teaser page
Oh fug.

>>2472472
Daibanchou
7th RAIZIN

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920230/Afterworld/ well

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>>2474740
So you can only play in America? Dissapointing..

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>>2474740
>combat
How will this work? The units on the map all seem to have individual HP bars, I wonder if that's just cosmetic or if there's some tactical control as well

>north america
dropped

>>2474761
I would guess it's gonna be like stellaris

>>2474759
America is a goated continent, Hans

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Not!enclave is in

>>2474761
Probably just lumps up all the numbers and then shits out a result like Civ

I'm claiming Michigan, boys

>>2474777
>square slop

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/afterworld-dev-diary-1-afterworld-the-vision.1938948/?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_content=dd&utm_term=cawe&utm_campaign=aft_aft_20260825_interest&lid=s79yro4c28gy

Mechanically looks more like a Stellaris spinoff than anything, just with a swapped theme.

>>2474781
>Accessible, with Growing Depth - Afterworld aims to be the easiest GSG to pick up and get immersed in, without sacrificing complexity or depth. We do this by tying many mechanics to exploration and discovery so that they get progressively unlocked for a deeper and deeper game without overwhelming you during the first 10 minutes.
EUV overcorrection

>conquer entirety of NA
>finish spacefaring tech tree
>convert save to stellaris
>post-apocalyptic origin tomb world start
K I N O

>>2474785
DOA

>Setting - Stellaris started as a sandbox where any trope or inspiration from space sci-fi could fit (altho has been developing its universe more and more over the years). Afterworld has a distinct and defined history and world with established characters and factions, although the apocalypse itself shakes things up every game for replayability (find out more in a future diary). Both games have room for you to create empires and tell stories but in Afterworld, more has already happened before you get started.
>although the apocalypse itself shakes things up every game for replayability (find out more in a future diary).

>Only North America
Meh

>>2474791
The kikes will sell the other continents as DLC 110%

>>2474740
So it's an original IP setting that is perfect for action and adventure (as shown in the promotional vids) but it's actually a fucking GSG and not an open world ARPG? lol

Entire game is made to be monetized.
>Mad Max ripoff DLC for Australia
>Akira/Rebuild World ripoff DLC for Japan
>No China DLC because grorious China could never experience apocalypse
>No India DLC because apocalypse would be an improvement

>>2474791
only continent that matters

It will have day one mods it doesn't matter

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>yankeeweeb slop instead of a fantasy game that's not nerfed by 4x shit gameplay
Swedes,Germans and the Dutch are still cocksleeeves of the USA even after trump it's insane, paradox needs to open a new branch in France so we can have a new game with fantasy, Eurocentrism, sexy elf and cat girls and anime
Seriously who the fuck cares about mad max in 2026, it's just hairy assholes and nowadays butch lesbians driving cars in a desert FFS I hate American culture so much who the fuck wants a strategy game out of that

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>>2474875
This is missing a totally-not-a-neonazi username, and it'd go in my cringe compilation.

>>2474875
mad max is Aussie though

>>2474875
fantasy isn't popular compared to realistic. They want to sell games.

>>2474937
Same shit
>>2474954
Fantasy is way more popular than post apoc
Specially in Europe, you know where the fucking company and player base exist

>>2474958
>Fantasy is way more popular than post apoc
Specially in Europe, you know where the fucking company and player base exist

It isn't, go look at how many movies are post-apoc versus fantasy. Historical paradox games outsell fantasy by a massive amount. The euro market isn't important compared to global.

>>2474954
>They want to sell games.
Then why are they doing a grand strategy game at all? The setting is completely fucked up.

>>2474975
>go look at how many movies are post-apoc versus fantasy
Lol even in your cherrypicked media its not really true isnt it?
Its much cheaper to produce a shitty post apoc movie than a fantasy one so there are a gazillion low budget shitty movies like book of eli but the most successful post apoc movies are still considered garbage compared to LOTR or GOT before they ran out of books

>>2474958
Like pretty much every AAA/AAA wannabe, Paradox wants to expand their customer base, not keep their old one. Especially after the success of CK2 capturing the American zeitgeist at the right time.

>>2474975
>Historical paradox games outsell fantasy by a massive amount.
Are the fantasy paradoc games in the room with us? because they only have AOW and its a shitty 4X game which vastly outperformed their other shitty non fantasy 4X game

>>2474875
your entire post was invalidated when you uploaded that image

>>2474992
EU and HoI grossly outsell CK. People are very obviously interested in crunchy historical sims over fantasy character story adventures.

>>2474759
Worse, only in north america, americas only (to start with) makes sense you're gonna be a long way off international travel, but not being able to do south america is lame as shit

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>>2474740
>Cannibal cult
Fuck it I'm sold
Time to recreate my Rimworld colony in a gsg

>>2475070
Please tell me whats the most popular mod of all time for EU, I'm curious

>>2475248
MEIOU and Taxes?

>>2475201
This is fucking shit @grok! Do better, slop machine!

>>2475269
>Anything positive is AI
Fuck off back to /v/

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>post-aslopalypse
I didn't think even paradox would be that shitty, but here we are.

>>2475272
I don't think it's AI but the style of the UI and GFX definitely is dogshit.

>>2475363
How are the UI and GFX dogshit?

>>2475248
Extended timeline

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>>2475468
Shut up
Also the most popular CK mod is also fantasy, its only HOI4 that has no fantasy mods because duh

>mad max
least appealing setting possible, survivalshit is always bad

>>2475490
Someone didn’t play mad max the video game

>>2475508
the kind of people who like mad max also like to listen to Ac/dc. it's just retardchow

>>2475490
I kind of liked Thea.

>>2475512
>the kind of people who like mad max also like to listen to Ac/dc.
That’s just you dude

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>>2475363
My sole complain so far is the brushstroke-like font used for the names at the top. The one used for the title of the event here looks better.

What are the other origins besides shelter? The randomize button makes it seem obvious that there will be way more in DLC.

>>2475482
I already told you CK is fantasy, thanks for backing me up.

generic slop tailormade for hyper DLCification. yawn

It likely will be a flop like a millennia

>>2475975
I'll go with... slightly worse performance than Stellaris, but same trends.

>>2475369
It looks like somebody asked to make post-apoc themed art to print on shirts. They clearly haven't done any research on the topic beyond googling popular shit

>>2474784
This

>>2475508
Yeah but this is an OC donutsteel ripoff of Mad Max

>>2476033
Furious Fred

>>2476065
Raging Ricardo

I dunno why people like Mad Max as a setting, its okay at best for movie stunts but for a setting? its just a desert which is the worst earth biome for any storytelling literally a void of life, beauty and things of note full of raiders that survive somehow despite only being raiders and everyone drives and worship cars because Australians and Americans have lead poisoning and have lost their souls

>>2474766
Not interested if you can't play as them.

>>2475623
Since it's Paradox Presents: Paradox' not-Fallout, my current bet is:
>Vault- I mean, Shelter dweller
>Tribals already settled on the wasteland
>Raider gang
>Le wacky chungus cult based on the old world
>(Likely DLC) Mutants
>(Likely DLC) Old World military remnants
>(Likely DLC) The Not-Institute

>>2476033
>>2476181
They literally have a mech in the trailer, among many other things mad max does not have. And multiple biomes have already been confirmed by gameplay reveals.
>its just a desert
It’s not just desert. You wouldn’t get it.

>>2474954
Hey buddy what's the most popular EU4 mod that's not a timeline extension, graphical overhaul or translation
what's the second most popular CK2 mod that's not outright cheating and also what's the third most popular mod that's not cheating or UI
what's the, have a look a the top 10 most popular CK3 mods too

>>2475602
I fucking hate modern UI so much.

>>2476181
Fuck off, retard.

>Jokes on me, you were merely pretending

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>>2475602
>shelterfolk

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>>2475602
I'm liking the writing style, it reminds me of wasteland 3.

>wowie zowie guess what you can do in our new postapocalyptic setting?
>that's right, you can EAT PEOPLE
>isn't that so heckin cool and transgressive??? ohhh don't you want to make an EDGY CANNIBAL GANG??
>don't forget your american football armor XD
I'm tired of the quirk chungusfication of every setting.

>>2482325
WE WUZ BRITZZ N SHIET

I'm simply wanted Fantasy Stellaris with custom races and fantasy superconstructions. Yet, Age of Wonders broke minds od Paradox decidents so we not only not get FS, but also the new game has a lot from AoW...

>>2472055
Imperator 3

>>2482550
Yea fuck this gay shit

>>2472055
After The End did it better

I can't comprehend why if you're gonna have multiple ticks a day anyway you don't bother to simulate nighttime at all

>>2474899
nowadays that would be furry porn with the mandatory human/chud self insert

do people really want more shitty 4x inspired slop instead of a carefully constructed fiction world?

Next imperator.

>>2495158
>carefully constructed fiction world
>it's just a fantasy parallel of the real world, even though magic causes it to make no sense

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>check wishlist
>Espiocracy 2027
>Gilded Destiny still 2026
>for now, anyway

>The Ancients had the science to do whatever they wanted. What did the Ancients want? This, at least, is obvious: they wanted to die.
Sounds like settings backstory will be retarded...

>>2496006
I think that line is kino

>>2496029
I don't. Doesn't makes sense.

>>2496029
This is like saying the Romans wanted to die by Barbarian invasion, or people in the Medieval era wanted to die of plague.

>>2496477
Well the romans did have far superior technology to the barbarians so it would still kind of fit yeah

>>2496006
reminds me of Angel at Dusks but way way less cool

>>2482550
Bodied those freaks