Thread 719015946

>90% off
bros, red plll me on this
i know theres a new one coming but im sure that game would be worth only after 6-7 yrs later after release.
also, arent anno games <<< civ games? or its a dif genre at all

Yes it is worth it, don't bother with the DLC the base game is more than enough. It's nothing like civ games.

>>719015946 (OP)
its only worth if you have all the DLC, so hold until all of it are on sale

>>719015946 (OP)
different genres. anno games are supply chain management games, not 4x games

>>719015946 (OP)
Unironically, everyone who likes city builders or wants to peek into it should buy the game.

>>719015946 (OP)
1800 is good. They don't need the years of support, but the various DLC additions also help.
They're just generally good games.
>also, arent anno games <<< civ games? or its a dif genre at all
Anno games are city builders, Civ are 4x games. Anno has you building up a city, as well as trading between AI and your own other colonies to supply it with the resources it needs.

>>719015946 (OP)
if you haven't played any anno games, its the best one to get
the next one is a big improvement imo (but yea, shit would be expensive as fuck cus its ubishit)
>jpeg unrelated

>>719016181
Lets be real here, having all the DLC is just too much.

>>719015946 (OP)
>ubisoft games
The answer is always no.

>>719015946 (OP)
It's sovl overload, one of the best games ever produced at ubisoft. Only real downside is that you need to have uplay to play it.

just listen to the ost and you'll feel the SOVL right away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNtw16Krhfg

You can also just pirate the DLCs, including the ubishit cheevo ones, even the preorder ones

>>719015946 (OP)
what's better, this or Anno 1404?

>>719016527
>stone and cum buckets make wire

>giving Ubisoft money or an account or having anything to do with them in an official capacity.
Fuck off. I'll pirate it and never play it out of principle.

>>719016870
1800 has more advanced systems but 1404 just has a kind of timeless purity to it. honestly they're both equally good for different reasons

>>719017078
the anno 1800 crack was pretty shit, no?

>>719016181
Not at all. The game has plenty of content for vanilla.

>>719016667
That's nice and all, but does it play better than 1404? I honestly prefer the orient/occident theme to the industrial revolution

>>719015946 (OP)
It's top tier with the dlc, insanely comfy but the combat sucks ass and just feels like a tacked on way to spice up trade route gameplay

>>719017062
in case you're not just joking, it's copper and caoutchouc

>>719017250
I'd say it's a direct upgrade since it uses most of the same mechanics, only thing missing is ground combat.

>>719016870
apple and oranges
both are "alright" in terms of the overall game and the price rn

>>719015946 (OP)
1602 is the only good one.

>>719015946 (OP)
When I see these discounts I always think game is about to be in the next Humble Choice.

>>719017301
>combat sucks ass

Fortunately it is real easy to make peace and cease fires so you never have to deal with it.

Combat is just an annoyance that interrupts your city building.

>>719015946 (OP)
>pays ubusoft for games via tax money
>has to pay a second time to finally play it
Couldn't be moi.

>>719017912
that pricing is wild considering release dates

>>719017373
I figure it wasn't cum, but I've never heard of caoutchouc before. Also, isn't copper either orange or green, whether refine or in ore form? It really threw me for a loop

>>719018368
meh, i know some devs are scummy shit but some devs do it cus they know their shit is still popular

>>719015946 (OP)
If the DLC situation wasn't such aids it'd be the best Anno.

As it stands Anno 1404 modded is the best.

>>719015946 (OP)
Fuck off. Pirate or nothing.

>>719017621
I never liked the ground combat, so that's not a loss. Shame about the whole Ubisoft situation

>>719017912
S these games are basically "pick the period you like"?

>>719015946 (OP)
Civ and Anno are pretty dissimilar games. Civ is about going through the eras from Ancient to Modern and adapting to diplomatic conditions and geographic complexity
Meanwhile Anno is much more about the actual construction of your city(s) with resources existing mainly so you can make aesthetic production chains and keep you invested. It's a fun fucking game though when you get down to it, it's a game that really gives back the autism you put in
There's a couple DLC that I would recommend, Land of Lions in particular had a cool set of storylines but mostly just lets you completely break the midgame economy. Sunken Harvest allows Crown Falls which is basically the ultra super late game for 1800, you don't have to buy it right away if you aren't interested since on purchase it unlocks the ability to opt in on your save file

>>719015946 (OP)
I'm jealous Anno is doing so well compared to my childhood favorite series.

>>719016870
1404 doesn't have any uplay crap

>>719018595
2205 is shit, almost mobile tier slop. Not a proper Anno game.

Everything else is great. Not sure why 1503 isn't there but it's an absolute gem.

>>719018436
Caoutchouc is natural rubber, tapped like sap from rubber trees.
The copper is green but the icon is grayed out because copper isn't available in the new world, you have to ship it in from the old world.

>>719015946 (OP)
Doesn't this pos require creating an account?

>>719018896
Yes. All modern Ubisoft games require their client.

>>719016870
>what's better, this or Anno 1404?
If you can stomach all the DLC and Uplay and other Ubislop nonsense, 1800.

But 1404 + Expansion is fantastic with no nonsense, and modded it's even better.

>>719018896
Yeah but that also means you can use the DLC unlocker.

>>719018938
FUCKKKK
>>719018968
real?

>>719019003
Yeah, for real. You only need to buy the base game. It got cracked too but that's years old by now.

>>719018938
>>719018968
I don't want any more clients on my PC so I'm out.

I give Ubisoft a lot of leeway just because they continue to fund this German autism game series.

>>719019003
Yeah bro look it up in cs.rin.ru

>>719016479
game?

>>719015946 (OP)
for that price super worth, dont even need any of the DLCs, lots of content even without them only downside is
>ubisoft

>>719019090
You are just like me.

>>719015946 (OP)
whats the difference of this over the year 5 gold edition?

>>719015946 (OP)
if you're going to buy it DON'T listen to >>719016181
playing anno with all the dlc enabled first time is a bad fucking idea

>>719018717
>anno
>childhood series
sprechen sie deutsch?

>>719018864
You know, in hindsight I should have picked up on it being grayed out, but since I didn't know what the bucket was I never got beyond confusion. Still, maybe one day we'll get a game where you have to manage the logistics of breeding horses, with cum buckets being sent to nearby farms for fun and profit

>>719019389
Does the main/tutorial campaign even allow you to play with full DLC? If you aren't playing sandbox it shouldn't really matter

>>719019410
NTA but it's reasonably popular in other european countries too.

>>719019440
We can only hope

>>719019138
probably cuckpunk

>>719015946 (OP)
You can buy the base game and then use the ubisoft cracker to get all the dlc for free. Ubisoft connect is so poorly designed that doing this doesnt even disable achievements. Anno 1800 is a very good game though I recommend it

>>719015946 (OP)
>90% off
>Still $8
Jesus, it must suck being canadian.

>>719019494
you'll get DLC pop ups as you progress through the campaign
it's a surefire way to kill your interest because it'll drag you down rabbit holes and you'll forget what you're planning etc

Uncle! How good to see you!

For someone who stepped into the Against the Storm rabbithole recently, are the newer Anno games even challenging and have decent replay value?

I remember playing 1503 and only ever finishing 2 maps, because I felt like after maxing out one sandbox map I've seen everything the game has to offer.
I also read that 1503 was supposedly the hardest title in the series

>>719018595
Try and get the older games on gog since they dont have ubishit connect built in

>>719016527
Can I enable/disable DLCs when starting a new game or is everything always on?

Do not play with all DLC if you're new, you will get so overwhelmed. It will take 200+ hours to complete.

>>719020161
I honestly think Anno 1800 is pretty hard, you are juggling so much shit and if you have rivals fucking you over it's even worse. Add to that trying to build aesthetically and you have a pretty good challenge ahead of you.

>>719020225
Yes you can decide what to activate when starting a new game

Who is your waifu and why is it explorer-chan?

i dont know if this is recreatable, but i purchased the base game and all dlc for like 35 euro now on the sale, then i refunded everything and only bought the base game that was 90% off, i still have all the dlc for some reason, on steam it says i have no dlc, but on uplay it says i own it all. free shit, even works with all dlc when i launch on steam.

>>719015946 (OP)
>80 GB
Lol, refunded before even installing it.

>>719020328
OK I might consider it.
That Ubi launcher tough...
Honestly reading this thread I wonder how much damage is Ubishit causing to themselves by sticking to that crap.

>>719015946 (OP)
It's the best city building game until 117 comes out

>>719020564
Ubisoft is probably the worst run company of any triple a studio. The fact that they haven't died yet is a marvel

>>719020603
I praying 117 is good and not a repeat of 2205...this is literally the last good IP ubisoft has

>>719020532
I'm surprised you could afford to buy it in the first place, thirdworld-kun

>>719020161
Not massively, you can do sandbox mode where it has randomly generated islands/maps and replay if you want
Against the storm is designed for lots of small colonies whilst Anno is designed for one long sprawling empire, but I also find that this means the gameplay in against the storm gets repetitive very quickly. I'm only 14 hours into Against the Storm and I'm already bored of it

>>719020848
117 is literally 1800 with a lick of paint. It's nothing like 2205 was.

It's such a shame about 2205 because it's a gorgeous looking game with a decent setting/premise but they messed with the formula too much.

>>719021340
2205 was literally 2070 with new visuals and 3 separate maps though, and they still managed to fuck it up badly

1404 is pure soul that 1800 just cant replicate

>>719018575
What do season passes do for a city builder?

>>719021595
Collect all those other DLC.

>>719020445
Impregnation sex with my sister

>>719020564
a lot, enough that both ubisoft and EA came crawling back to Steam in the end and none of their new games on Steam require Uplay/Origin to be installed
I'm still refusing to buy on Uplay though, I bought Anno 1800 on Uplay and then bought the big pack on Steam because I hate having multiple launchers, especially when you have shit like EA spamming you with ads

>>719020836
Anno is the one series that has more hits than misses, and I'm shocked Ubisoft hasn't messed with it too much.

>>719021537
Say that to me again when you go into first person mode inside 1800 and find all the cool easter eggs like listening to the orchestra or finding the ghost in the window

>>719015946 (OP)
How desperate are they?

Just so anyone isn't confused, Sandbox is the main gameplay mode in Anno 1800, the campaign is a tutorial with a story. Finish the campaign, it's not that long, then move on to the real game.

>>719021839
Not much, it's a marketing stunt for Anno 117

>>719021885
Which would explain why it never resonated with me.

1800 is great and has some awesome mods too.

>Manor Lords - Unfinished
>Axion - Great OST, badly designed gameplay
>Frostpunk 2 - Simcity & Politics
>Rimworld Odyssey - More neat than anything
There's been a real drought of good colony games lately

>>719015946 (OP)
its a logistic simulator with an autistic amount of content and if you buy the DLC its like 10x times more content

Now it's been out for a while anyone have thoughts on the New Horizons mod?

Thinking of installing it for one last big 1800 save before 117 comes out.

I recommend the mod that makes it so the AI can't settle new regions before you do because I always play slow and AI rushes and takes all the good shit

>>719021678
bruh, your sister is cute. hook me up.

>>719022235
So those are not just city builders?

>>719022502
city and colony are the same things to me, i dont know the exact definition

>>719022502
there were always distinctions between these games in ratios to what they focused on. anno, the settlers, zeus, tropico, etc. are all city builders with differences.

>>719020328
Although if disabled at start it is pretty complex to enable them at a later point in the save, it isn't natively supported. Only works if you didn't own them at that point and there is a hacky way of convincing the game you just bought the dlc.

>>719020564
Tons, words can't even describe how bad this is for them.

>>719018595
Yes and no, mechanically they can differ quite a bit and that's ignoring 2205 which is it's own thing.

>>719016479
cant wait for this to be on sale with all the dlc released
wake me up in 2028

>>719019090
Certainly helps that the german government grants the studio funds. Not sure it would be as profitable for ubisoft to keep them as devs.

>>719021153
>14 hours
have you tried upping the difficulty?
I think the skill tree is really cool, you still unlock game mechanics after 100 hours. Even a few achievements unlock unique perks.
The game isn't very good if you want to build nice looking settlements though, not sure why they bothered with all those unlockable decorations.

>>719023592
Damage over Time for them?

>>719022349
>>719023592
lol, text wasn't sent.
you can have the rest**

>>719023707
don't forget to inseminate them

I really like how self aware this game is with the playtime warning messages.

>>719019138
Looks like Frostpunk 2. Rumors are that it's a step back from the first one.

>>719023845
Ah, that makes sense

>>719023592
>that pic
I am penitrated by your kindness

>>719024026
not just rumours, it really is a step backwards
i have no idea what they were thinking in making cold, the thing the game's name after, almost harmless in the sequel

>>719015946 (OP)
The cpu is cheating spawning whatever it needs

>>719024512
its like with zombies where it often turns out that other humans are the bigger issue and zombies just become background noise.

>>719015946 (OP)
the catch is that the game is 90% but the hundred dlcs and expansions are 10x the price

>>719015946 (OP)
bought it for 3 bucks just because the crack is dogshit

>>719015946 (OP)
the only Anno game I've played before this one was 1701 and I thought it was pretty fun, but when I played 1800 I didn't like it that much but I don't remember why

>>719024512
>100.000 peak
how optimistic of them

>>719015946 (OP)
its fucking great. pirate the dlc.

>>719025476
retarded devs forgot that frostpunk 1 had been on sale and part of humble bundle for years, and only a fraction of that player base were going to buy it
funniest part is that people fed bad complaints about the game in the paid early access 4 months before release, but the devs ignored them and pushed on with the release
now the game's forever known as "the game that's not like frostpunk"

>>719015946 (OP)
buy an ad, mastercard slave

>>719024808
Once you realize that the opponents islands don't actually reflect their economies and the buildings are just decorations, it sucks some of the fun out. Its also why they all get deleted when you conquer an island, even if you buy it out

>>719025965
>"the game that's not like frostpunk"
man the shills trying to say this was "actually a good thing". clearly it wasn't.

>2019
>grid based
sad and pathetic. If the roman anno is also grid based I will not even bother purchasing it.

>>719016870
1404.
kino.

>>719027103
see you in 5 years

TEST

>>719027725
I hope that interface is a placeholder because I hate it

>>719027103
still grids but with "upgrades"

>>719015946 (OP)
It's a game about colonization.

>>719028585
Based Archie getting his chocolate gf knocked up

>>719027875
>AUUGH IS THAT A NON-INTRUSIVE UI??? OH MY HECKIN' SCIENCE HELP ME ZOOMERBROS

>>719027875
this was from a couple weeks ago so i doubt it'll change much
my only complaint really is the bottom stuff, it's pretty low quality UI design. The rest is similar to what they did in other games

>>719027725
Hi Darren.

Do I need to watch a bunch of YouTube tutorials in order to learn how to properly play it like Cities Skylines, or is it something you can naturally learn by playing?

Im a retard and once I hit steam engines I cant balance my budget. Every new building sends me into the red. Never had one investor.... did put about 80 hours in between a few campaigns and had an absolute blast.

>>719015946 (OP)
>giving ubisoft money
>not paying attention to what kinds of things the retards who play this like
You'll get exactly what you deserve

>>719031103
luxury goods bro
also try and promote as much of the lower tiers of workers up as you can because the amount of taxes they pay is way better the higher you go

>>719030847
you can watch an introduction tutorial to get a better explanation of the game, but the game is ultimately a logistic simulator and building placement game
once you get your head around
>Factory 1 produces X goods per tick
>Factory 2 needs X input per tick to produce Y goods
>Your population needs Y goods per tick to be happy
and the campaign is one long ass tutorial to teach you everything

>>719030847
playing the tutorial campaign is enough, you may end up looking up tutorials for more aesthetic while efficient building though

I learned about the 10x10 square technique and never looked back

>>719031795
>>719032427
Cool, thanks bros

>>719032427
the 10x10 design philosophy is nice, I try to avoid falling into min-max building placement though as I get too caught up in optimisation instead of just enjoying the game

I love this game the year 5 version for 35 dollars has all of the gameplay related dlc. the more expensive one comes additionally with all cosmetic dlc which you don't need.
I can't recommend the 35 dollar version enough. this game is great and all the dlc makes it even greater. I suppose it's not for everyone but I really don't know how anyone could dislike this game.

I want to make one recommendation to anyone who decides to play this game for the first time. I post this in every thread. maybe someone else already covered it
When you go to play the campaign. Click easy, then click custom, then click next. this lets you customize the easy rules. there's one thing you want to change. go to the AI and deselect the medium AI and select a third easy Ai instead (or leave it empty). the easy AI will always ask permission before settling in island. the medium one wont, which can be annoying for a first timer. more importantly the easy AI will never go to a new region (like south america or africa) before you get there first. the medium Ai will eventually go there and start claiming territory after a preset time has passed. so you will end up arriving in africa and see half the islands claimed which is really frustrating if you are just trying to go at your own pace and relax.

You can change whatever other things you like too of course. personally I always turn off fog of war.