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>>527428489
/g*g/ faggots NOT welcomed here. Go to /vst/ and stop shitting up threads with your shittery. Fuck off.

==NEWS==
Frostpunk 1886, coming in 2027: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3645160/view/545607485799530656
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Big Age of Empires 2 patch in the works.

== Pastebins ==
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Stellaris DLC guide: https://rentry.org/STDLC384
Endless Space 2 + Endless Legend: https://pastebin.com/yu57huWm
Civilization: https://pastebin.com/eeL9tyaW
/cbg/: https://pastebin.com/ZSLVg9kT
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>>527973912
What did they mean by this

>>527981061
Vermintides reference.

money well spent, comrades

>>527985320
AK47 for everyone!

>>527987336
(training not included)

I want to fuck.
Also, Red Alert 3 is actually pretty mid, surprisingly.

>>527992761
>I want to fuck.
Read Alert series is known to cause this, if you get what I mean.

>>527993260
>Read Alert
Oh no, he's got a book! He's going to READ! AAAAAAH!!

>>527993360
oh shit, a typo, I am sorry not

>>527994996
Never be ashamed of your mistakes! Especially if they're hilarious!

HAK HAK HAK

>>528017009
HYUK HYUK HYUK

>>528022865
Send this post to the Swarm, let's wait their response.

Any Space 4X games with the simplicity of Civilization?

>>528023892
MOO

>>528023947
Who let the cow in here?

>>528024090
Sorry about that. It must have gotten out of pasture while I wasn't looking.

Why does it reinstall it every time?

>error: file too large
FINE

Won my first 2vs2. I think I underestimate manalith and how useful they are.

Is the latest Stellaris version and the Bio-Genesis DLC actually stable enough to play a full game yet without many issues? They're been releasing a fucking crazy amount of hot fixes since it dropped. I want to play a Viltrumite inspired Purity campaign but I don't want to get the new DLC if the game is still unplayable.

>>528042891
Haven't tried it in a while, last I played it was close to DLC launch and back then I got stuck at end game with game crashing on me constantly.

John Marston implores you to play stelloris.

The new CTA: Osfront DLC and free DLC is out.
Gonna start a new German conquest campaign.

Also my dad is now playing 0 A.D.

My voidborne,nascent stage bats race is literally unplayable. Keeps crashing my game. Went for a overturned origin chasing for cloning path and game hasn't crashed yet.

>>528042891
stable? yes
not laggy? well...

The new victoria 3 update is fire

Mirror matches in Tempest Rising are a lot more interesting, because AIs behave differently. The GDF seem to develop defensively, making up a lot of defenses, while the Nod is a lot more aggressive.

>>528059727
Wrong general, tranny.

>>528059727
is vic3 any good now?

>>528059898
no this is the one

>>528061117
it's where it should have started at launch many years ago

>>528061223
is it? vic2 feels like you are creating your own creature and vic3 feels simply feels like ticking numbers. I have not played since launch tho

>>528061223
Fuck off, tranny.

New medieval city builder. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245250/Thrive_Heavy_Lies_The_Crown/
Mixed reviews so dunno if give it a try or wait it out.

>>528064454
Getting Settlers vibes from it.

>>528064242
Which country should I run next, I can do a aar for you, frendo

>>528064813
Fuck off, tranny.

>>528064957
Not sure why you sign your posts with Tranny, I'll call you tranny-anon (trianon anyone?)

I'll surprise you tomorrow, same place?

>>528064957
You struck a nerve, the redditor is lowkey furious.

thank god this replaces gsg just look at all this wholesome engagement

RTSloppers really are something else.

>>528065269
Why do you think this trash is made out of redditors?

>>528065749
Same forced friendliness that hides seething anger. When someone goes "friend!", you know they're actually shaking in impotent, furious anger but try to hide it and pathetically fail, since they never touch grass and thus are totally transparent.
The next stop is to make vague statement about whoever they don't like, without adressing their thread nemesis directly out of fear of getting wrecked.

>>528065976
This, I'm seething

are we just making things up now

>>528065976
>without adressing their thread nemesis directly
You predicted it right.

Song of Conquest is pretty good. I'd suggest it if you weren't all so into Stellaris.

stop being autistic

>>528068554
different sorts of games

>>528069296
Just strategy games, 4Xs and city builders. /gsg/ cried enough to have their own thread, now they want to get back in the cool club? Sorry, no faggots allowed.

>ballistaman
>NOT a siege unit
?????
I don't get Battle Realms's logic, sometimes.

>>528079108
>mixed French and English language text
grinçant

Is mutagenic spas supposed to be a bad civic? I tried it earlier and was getting like +55% pop growth speed, unless I’m misunderstanding something

>>528085928
it was less than great in 3.14, maybe it's better now

>>528089902
Iirc in 3.14 the boosts were tied to industrial districts but now it’s tied to city districts

Whatever happened to that big nazi mod for stellaris? I remember there being one that had a whole new ship set and music and everything but I cant find it anywhere.

>>528095505
Do you mean the Iron Sky one? I remember that. Obviously it was deleted because Nazi shit always gets deleted at some point.

>>528082472
Yeah, it's a bit odd. The "new" tooltips introduced by Zen Edition are still in Shakespeare's awful slang, while the "original" text is still in Molières's awesome language that the entire world wish they could speak.

>>528095505
Might be on one of these sites, but I don't know, since I don't know that mod.
https://aqxaromods.com/
https://basedmods.eth.limo/
https://schaken-mods.com
https://laxmods.site/
https://rentry.org/Non-NewtonianMods
https://forbiddentaboomods.blogspot.com/
https://basedmods.eth.link/
https://moddinghaven.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

Any total war recommendations?

>>528124170
You should ask their general, but probably Shogun 2. It's the most straightforward of the lot, since all clans are similar, so you'll rarely go "wait, what is this unit?".
And the DLCs are also pretty nice. Fall of the Samurai is excellent.

>>528124170
Really depends on the time period (or warhammer) you like and want to play and possibly also mods you might want to use, like LotR mod.

>>528138221
EIGHT.

>>528138390
Good taste Anon.

>>528139929
Just the perfect mix of classy and sexy.

How the fuck did my dad discover 0A.D.?
He hasn't stopped playing it since yesterday.

>>528142539
Your dad is fucking based AF, mate!

>>528142539
Is your dad hot?

>>528143845
He probably is.

>>528124170
Alot of people sleep on Atilla. Arguably one of the best modding communities across any of the games in terms of realistic historical reskins and different time periods. Mechanically its pretty straightforward for someone who has never played total war. The horde and raising mechanics are also pretty fun. Being the Huns and destroying every settlement on the map is fun. Shogun 2 is also a classic like the other anon mentioned. I've played each for over 1k hours.

>>528124170
For the best mods, Medieval 2 Kingdoms. Mechanically, Shogun 2 for an introduction to Total War. Vanilla Shogun 2, the DLCs are a lot tougher, with agents being more relevant and all.
Otherwise, depends if you're a fantasy enjoyer, or a history buff.

>>528163909
Did you ever beat the campaign?

>>528164132
>did you ever beat the campaign
I have but maybe not as many times as you'd think. I dont really care much about the victory parameters the game sets. Sometimes just getting one island and turning it into a powerhouse is enough for me.

>>528168191
I have several hundred hours into the Total War games. Never beat a single campaign.

>>528168464
Yeah I cant blame you. The victory parameters are totally arbitrary and I dont find it fun to mold my entire strategy around holding a few random locations the game tells me to. Plus for some factions it just gets so fucking tedious to try. I've never beaten a campaign in Empire or 3 Kingdoms.

>>528127257
Got a link to the lotr mod?
Might as well redownload Medieval 2 and give it a shot.

>>528172297
https://www.moddb.com/mods/third-age-total-war
original
https://www.moddb.com/mods/divide-and-conquer
DaC

>>528174034
Thanks! Which one would you recommend?

I started playing the base version of Stellaris for the first time today, it's fairly enjoyable but the one thing that bothers me is I will control every system of another faction and they are just idly at war with me doing nothing, but I still have to wait for influence points for claims, which seems really broken. Is there a DLC that fixes this or am I missing something? They don't want to give up either except for the claims I've made. Does Apocalypse / Federations / Nemesis / Overlord fix this?

>>528174607
DaC has more factions and more things in general, but it does have some weird balancing things and scripts that might spawn armies out of ass for AI if it's doing poorly against the player, so you might want to look into disabling them. Maybe total war center website forum thread about DaC will have more info, or their discord or whatever the fuck they are using these days.
It has been years since I played DaC, and probably a decade since I played original Third Age.

>>528176942
you need to invade their planets
just pirate the dlc with creamapi

This one is for the anon who signs his posts with tranny

Also what happened with that Stormgate game

Well, time to start doing my job as a citizen...

>>528176942
you're not occupying their planets

>>528197607
Security work?

>>528187826
Oh I have to make land armies gotcha. The nation eventually forced peace but it split into two and half of it became a vassal anyway lol

>>528204963
Nnnope.

>>527971419 (OP)
What the fuck is that pathfinding?

>lithoid hive mind
>ascetic + permutation pools
>calamitious birth origin + crystallization trait
I think this is my favorite way to play lithoids now, it all works synergistically to work off their strengths while completely eliminating their pop growth weakness. With the permutation pools you’ll almost never encounter issues from the habitability penalty because you’ll have a massive +55% habitability bonus

>>528187826
>just pirate the dlc with creamapi
How did you do it
github.com/Novattz/creamlinux-installer unlocks it but it seems to still need the dlc files
I tried a few from 1337xto but they stalled

>>528229393
are you a fucking newfag

just admit it if you are, then I'll help you

how long will it take stellaris to be good

>>528229587
My 4chan addiction began around 2010, I think that still counts as new. Any help is most appreciated :)

>>528231048
post hand, I'll only help you if you're not white

>>528231697
I found it, thanks for nothing you ragebaiting bot
now report this link
pixeldrain com/u/ejBQ6RQ2

>>528234064
lmao get rekt bitch

The outback tycoon scenario is the biggest exercise in bullshit RNG tolerance I've ever seen. Fucking Australia what a G*d forsaken h*ckhole, I hope they all get cancer.

>>528230597
What would it take for it to be good for you?

YOUR FEELING OF OF HELPLESSNESS IS YOUR BEST FRIEND, SAVAGE

spidersissy what do you think of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3BHyOhVXmE

On the contrary this is probably the easiest scenario in existence; your 2 AI allies get their starting settlers stolen within 5 turns and are unaware of the power of crossbowman in encapment for defense.

>>528246386
I play it in Holdfast. Very good song to shoot disgusting, filthy Br*ts with.

Hey, no dying on midsummer!

>>528270197
Midsommar.

>>528244323
Not being bad

>>528277225
So what's bad about it for you?

>>527971419 (OP)
Can anybody tell me why like 99% of the mods uploaded for Civ 6 in the last year are chinese anime mods

>>528279505
Because China finally obtained internet, and they outnumber even Spanish people and American roaches;

>>527971419 (OP)
>Big Age of Empires 2 patch in the works.
is this going to be more MP shit?

>>528292986
Patch would imply MP balance patch not a DLC (single player content) but literally have no idea.

>>528214054
Fleets dont path through uncharted systems and he probably has no military access and shit.

cant decide what to play tonight, as my usual go to games are already played to death, any recommendations? already played and I guess liked these
>ck2
>wc3
>civ4-5
>warhammer2
>stronghold

>>528305035
Call To Arms: Ostfront.

>>528305035
So mostly fantasy games and horrible pieces of trash, mmm. Maybe Settlers?

>>528310708
>Settlers?
>trash
nta but you are trash!

>>528310708
havent tried them, which one is considered "the best"?

>minimum price for buildship
AAAAAHHHHHHH

>>528313201
I'm afraid I have no idea, sorry. They're all more of less about setting up production chains, but I think that Rise of an Empire has some fighting too.
Out of all the games I can think of, only this one seem somehow close to your tastes, and isn't ugly or 20+ years old.

>>528314151
Does the newest X game have its combat be a bit faster? I fucking hate the slow ass clunky fights of Reunion/Terran Conflict..

>>528315517
It's still fairly slow, especially in the begining when you don't have all the liscences for the better weapons. Granted X4 has the 'better' combat compared to the previous entries; at the very least you can play it like an actual flight sim rather than just a fleet manager.

>>528316332
All i want is faster projectiles, faster firing weapons with longer ranges and shit..

>>528316690
The wiki has some range stats if you want to have a look. The missile weapons have decent ranges, with the EMP having a max range of 578km. For the base game's primary weapons the Mass Driver looks to have the furthest range, with 12km

https://wiki.egosoft.com:1337/X4%20Foundations%20Wiki/Manual%20and%20Guides/Objects%20in%20the%20Game%20Universe/Equipment/Ship%20Weapons/

>>528313201
In my highly biased opinion, Rise of the Empire is best.
It has good art style (unlike the one that came after it), has simple combat (unlike the game that came before it, also known as Heritage of kings, aka "we want the Age of empires audience"- game), and its supply lines, while sufficiently complicated, aren't full on autismo mode like some of the other games in the series.

Discuss.

>>528319854
This is the reason why contingency won't trigger if the swarm is present.

>>528319854
Yep.

If I want to give Old World a shot should I be playing it vanilla or with all DLC? As in is this a Civ 4/5 situation where the DLC is just the finished game or is it a bunch of extra stuff that doesn't impact the core game and thus more suited to future runs?

>>528320097
Cravers confirmed to be hotter than fishtits

>>528320105
I didn't play it a lot but vanilla should be fine for your first game, then you can decide if you want more

>1890 start
>get a 20 year disarmament conference right at 1981 that makes me have to stop building ships and scrap a decent amount of my starting navy because lol fuck you
>click next turn for a few years
>France decides they want war
>have to throw start spamming ships
If I were smarter, I would have ordered some ships then halted construction with 1 turn left so I could have materialized a navy in the event of war. Anyways, 1 battle in and I sunk a French armored cruiser so I guess I'm winning.

How does a normal machine intelligence (non-assimilator/servitor/exterminator) compare to a normal hive mind (non-bodysnatcher/devouring swarm)

The absolute state of the French navy.

>>528328929
>3:0 in dreadnoughts
OOF

>>528328929
>ships
>AA fire
Huh??

>>528320314
jej

>>527971419 (OP)
>no r4 free states
gay

>>528334508
Arfjord? No ship hailed here for a whiiiile.

>>528334317
That's for when you get zeppelins and planes.

Any news on my boy?
Is it coming out this year?

>>528338068
Anon, I...

I realized after swapping from modded to vanilla for a multiplayer game, that I'm not good at stellaris, my mids just make it easier

>>528355078
stellaris isn't exactly hard unless you're playing on GA no scaling

>>528334317
You develop carriers and land based aircraft eventually. Obviously those don't exist in 1890 but the game isn't professional enough to hide currently useless data and just presents you the spreadsheet as it is.

>>528338068
There's a small video on their discord, that is all the news from last week. Can't post it here.

>>528375071
Was it a gameplay video?
Did the dev say in it anything of interest?

>>528375724
No just a very short clip of zoomed out gamplay of some ships shooting missles at eachother.

>>528376587
Well that's a shame.
I wish the dev would stop blueballing me already.

>>528380273
You could also play other games to fill the time. There are lots of other fun games anon.

>>528384554
I already am, yet I still can't wait till Falling frontier comes out.

>>528365785
>Obviously those don't exist in 1890
What about zeppelins?
Fuck I miss Rise of Legends, it was FUN.

>>528384709
>runescape
Good taste
>runescape 3
BLEEEEEEEH

>>528384773
I can't be assed to create a new character for runescape classic, this whole jagex launcher thing was enough fighting for me last year.

>>528385419
If I can do it, you can. I'm tech illiterate. Wanna know how much I struggled to install the Unification mod for Dawn of War Soulstorm?

>>528385480
Meh, I've spend 20 years on this character, might as well keep an eye out on how jagex fucks up the game further down the road.

>>528385564
...holy shit.
Only 2 weeks on mine. Please accept my formal apology for bleh'ing at you.

>>528385635
I thought the cape was a dead giveaway.
https://runescape.wiki/w/Veteran_cape_(20_year)

>>528385685
I played like 20 minutes of Runescape 3. 98% of my playtime is on OSRS. (I'm excluding Dragonwilds)

>>528385957
I wish I could rollback my character to RS2, it definitely had more soul than RS3, even though it was a "garbage version" like my upperclassmen called it some 20 years ago. They were still playing the original original Runescape back then.

>>528386476
This is why I like OSRS. It just tickles a nostalgic bone.
I kinda wish that we got actual ye olde 3D à la OSRS instead of that Playstation retro thing. Give me EARLY playstation with weird flat faces instead of detailed faces.

Intensify food production.

It's stonk time!

>>528397154
>vidya stonks
May as well go for a real thing then.
But you will need the money.

>>528397832
>But you will need the money.
I do index funds mostly because pooerfag. The most recent crash fucked me in the ass...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245250/Thrive_Heavy_Lies_The_Crown/
>60% discount and it just released
>mixed reviews
Why everything I want turns to be shit?

is the stellaris sub worth it?
$6 a month sounds ok to have all the content if I play in bursts (which I mostly do)

>>528401115
what's stopping you from just pirating it?

>>528401115
>is the stellaris sub worth it?
no

John Marston implores you to sub to Stellaris.

>>528401115
>giving 72$ to Paracuck
>ever

>>528401631
$72? I wouldnt sub for a whole year, or do you have to sub for a whole year?

>>528401115
>is the stellaris sub
Only if you're a submissive bottom.

>>528401115
It's better than buying the DLC separately but worse than pirating the entire game

>>528402827
ehh, but if I pirate I have to manually download each update
guess its not so much of a problem now that 4.0 seems to have stabilized, but not sure if worth the time if youre not a neet

I saw a spider today.

>>528410561
They hate you.

>>528411326
That escalated quickly... I dindu nuffin.

>>528410561
Remember that they are more afraid of you than you from them.

>>528410561
>>528411824
>Have silverfish problem
>Go to take a shit
>See small shadow on the tile
>Lizardbrain kicks into gear
>Go to squish
>Stop a few inches when realising it's a spiderbro
>mfw
I'm sorry fren, please eat your fill of the plentiful bathroom critter bounty.

time to play some civilization

>>528429927
You're too uncivilized for it.

bump

>>528430593
dont make fun of jamal hes just living out his fantasy like the rest of us.

Good night.

>allied AIs
>retarded morons
>enemy AIs
>literally skynet
this is so annoying

>>528450143
Welcome to modern gaming. And don't you dare complain, "you guys don't have friends?"

How is wild calling + beastmasters? I don’t own the grand archive dlc but the origin + civic seems fun

>>528459045
No.

>>528450143
having you considered having fun instead of wanting to win?

>>528472079
I only have fun when I win.

>>528472170
many such cases, you only have yourself to blame for being bad

I hate it when the game forces country sizes to get larger as time increases. Resource efficiency should scale with country size in AI factions which should boil down to their leader's traits, which should be manipulatable by the playore via spy networks.

How is Bellfortis?

Crusader Kings 3, any way to change the map mode? It has terrain mode on and it's hard to read the county names and even harder to even tell who owns what

>>528494560
And this is why you people belong to /vst/.

>>528502318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDB1b1tvBBw

My waifu.

>>528512612
She'd kill you.

Her little sister.

>bla bla bla of all the losers using black magic, the great sorceresses are the worst of all, the most depraved, except maybe compared to the Bitch King himself, they can hurt your feelings and your body in several different ways.

>>528513570
Je veux qu'elle me tue pêh

>>528513570
Shut up, dark elves are the only good faction in that kitchen sink mess of a setting.

>>528514172
You misswrote "Dwarfs".

>>528514906
annoying grudglets

>>528515305
That's a grudgin'!

Age of Dark, Final Stand.
I find this game a lot harder than They Are Billions, but I also think that melee combat is a trap. Don't fall for it: make archers, don't rely too much on melee.

Any reason to use this other than cool factor?

>>528525698
Does it need another reason?

Anons, frens, I am drunk because of Baltic version of midsomer. What should I play?

>>528534064
Godsworn.

>>528534064
My summer car.

>>528534143
Seems based, thanks.

>>528537424
I think it's Baltic, but honestly I'm very ignorant of this part of the world.

>>528534064
Thea: the awakening for eastern flavor

Age of Poo 4

>Russian made RTS game
>Mission is about an American airborne invasion of an airfield
>It's intentionally made to be the most cumbersome and annoying battle to deal with
They're just that fucking petty now are they

Is machine intelligence just supposed to be a slow growth playstyle like lithoids? Even if you maximize your assembly speed at the start you’re only getting 5 pops a month which is pretty slow. Are you supposed to like setup worlds specifically just to assemble pops and then move them to your actual resource production worlds?

reeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>528584650
We dead.

do bishops love sci-fi

>>528589605
Bishops? What, the Vatican blokes?

>>528600573
yeah

>>528534064
I drank far too much wine....
>>528541810
Also seems interesting.

Bumping with very unstable internet connection.

>>528616543
die

>>528616543
get lost

Starting to get the hang of this game. Simply put, you don't play it like you'd play They Are Billions, you're meant to move around a lot, and get smart with your units positioning so that the enemy artillery is in range of your archers.
Bit too much micromanagement, though. It's very difficult to deal with said artillery, they kill most of your units in two hits, and instantly scare them (-50% movement speed and -50% damage).

>>528616543
Bumping with stable internet connection.

>>528640153

>>527971419 (OP)
Nebulous: Fleet Command, Update 0.5.2.9 - Modular Spacecraft: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/887570/view/532100473328502810

Plan B - v0.9.4: Grass Everywhere: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/532101750029550577

>>528651746
>humanity is symbolized by an Am*rican statue
These blokes really suffer from unwarranted self importance.

>>528651902
It's one of the secrets you can find in Plan B. It's meant as a movie reference, the original Planet of the Apes.

>>528652337
I know what it referred to, thank you very much. I am just irked that out of all the monuments mankind made, a flimsy hollow statue was somehow the surviving one.

>>528652465
Yeah that's a good point. Maybe it's because of french engineering?

>>528652728
Oh fuck you, you clever asshole.

Not quite sure how the trade depot works. Apparently, it's its own storehouse, but it can also get fed from nearby factories, or receive excess ressources from all over the map.
I think.

I'm not quite sure what determines how much iron it got for sale.

Killing an elite nightmare requires taktikz.
The taktik is simple: bring the pikemen, get them to shout "FOR GORK!!" and then hold the line while the huntsmen with their longbow tear the boss a new one.

Carried again by my Br*tons longbows~

>>528652928

>>528654021
He knows that I'm French, and that I cannot badmouth French engineering. So the clever whore moved the goalposts from American arrogance to French engineering to shut me up.

They come.

>>528659386
I'm the same anon you're replying too. It was a fun conversation, I was just having fun. How could I have known you're French?

>>528665762
I... I'm kind of a big deal here.

Anyone ever played an MMO RTS?

>>528669528
A web browser one, yes. Why?

>>528669640
I don't think I ever played MMO RTS myself. I wanted to try SAGA, but never did.
I played browser based ones too, but 4x or whatever you call ones, not RTS. Some weird ones that also had RPG mechanics and I don't even remember their names, they looked dated even in late 2000's early 2010's.

>>528665850
don't get full of yourself

>>528669978
I'm sad that the Iron Grip universe died.

>>528450143
Name the game so I can play it.

>>528670094
I'm a pretty big deal on this small general on a small board on the 4chan. Everyone here knows me.

>>528670916
Such is the fate of live service/mmos.

Today on "I am a fucking dumbass."
1) I put the traps too early, they all expire before the enemies get close.

>>528671937
I signed that petition and my country reached 100%. What did you do?

2) I overestimate how good the triage tent is: it doesn't save your "killed" units, it just gives them "a chance" to not die out there and be teleported to the tent.

3) I overestimate the bellows towers. AoE are very good at clearing the chaff, but they cannot win the battle by themselves.

4) I forgot to order the ballista tower to target the toughest enemy in range, leaving the enemy artillery and the skrasher to molest my walls unmolested.

5) I didn't have a plan B in case the first wall was breached. My melee soldiers got slaughtered to a man and my Hero barely made it, and my archers were almost engaged by the time the invaders broke.

>>528682998
I signed and got some family members to do so as well. But I never had big hopes, even if this would have passed.
Basically, you need to pirate or buy DRM free from GoG and avoid online only.
Or know what you're getting yourself into with them.

>>528684407
My nigga.
Here's hoping we get some industry regulation some day.
Probably after some politicians kid cries to them about their virtual character getting deleted by game host for some gamer words in chat.

Final) I forgot I had siege machines.

Good night anons.

Hello anons, is there a general where people discuss broken arrow

>>528694448
The American protocol for lost nukes? That'd be /k/.

>>528694448
there's a thread on /vst/

in theory this is the general for it on /vg/, but as you can clearly see, we don't discuss anything here

>>528694448
We don't discuss anything here. Simply put, except for Stellaris, there are no two Anons here playing the same game. You can talk about Broken Arrow but you'll be the only one playing it.

>>528694448
Please tell me about broken arrow.
How does it play? Is there base building? What sorta units do you use in it and are there any hard counters for each unit type?

>>528695187
>>528696343
>>528699262
Oh it's a game? Is it like Act of War?

>>528694448
Please tell us something about it.

>>528694448
It looks like World in Conflict mixed with Wargame, is it good?

>>528704423
Tons of detailed units, reminds me of Eugen games. Modern warfare so it has drones and all the latest shit we know about

>>528705109
I'm so dogshit at these games but I am a huge autist for modern equipment so I jumped in
The consensus seems to be that the game actually promotes strategy and not just clicking the fastest, I can't quantify this as Im a complete nooblet but so far so good.

It is missing some serious QoL features (single player with AI teammates is missing and I guess you can't save mid campaign?) but the dev is in the process of fixing both these things

>>528710989
Have you tried Tempest Rising? It's a mix of modern and SF.

Good morning, sirs.

Is Gal Civ 4 good?

>>528736192
No. Stick to 2.

Webbed.

>>528736192
It's ok/10

>>528740212
cute

We’re talking about levels of “would” that keep me awake, tossing and turning at night

>>528755364
Do not the forbidden noodle creature.

Is Civ6 worth it? It's on a big sale right now, for reference I thought Civ5 was OK and Civ4 is the best game in the series

>>528765580
It's been ages since I last played it, can't remember much about it but it didn't hook me like how 5 did, neither did it feel deep like 4.
Also I don't care for the leader art-style in it.

Any AA releases this year anyone could/want to recommend?

>>528776249
Tempest Rising is my personal recommendation.

>>528736192
Yeah, they took 3 and all dlc as a base. And put the whole thing together in a more coherent way.

>>528785595

>>528785595
>>528789654
>Destroyed ships leave behind hulks
My man, you have no idea how hard this makes me. One of the reasons why I loved Homeworld 2 and battlefleet gothic so much.

>>528789654
That's the falling frontier news for this week I guess.

nighty night

>>528785595
>>528789654
>>528791112
My penis is hard at looking at this for some reason.

>>528790895
Funny, I dislike it personally.
I think of the poor fucker who'll have to clean up everything.

>>528801412
>I think of the poor fucker who'll have to clean up everything.
Me with a cormorant after a several trillions ISK battle.

>>528790895
>>528801412
>>528803384
More games should include wreck mechanics.
Especially with shit like boarding them for valueable info, reverse engineering tech etc.

Good night.

>>528810607
motherufcker look fmailirar llr lar elr ejsielsihmefe: mfse!mf.Es

>>528810607
are these smack's guys?

SMAC

I hate to say this, but i had fun in civ 7 playing as Augustus/Carthage and making a super capital with a bunch of strong towns thanks to the new urban town focus. I kinda wish there was another civ with that kind of focus in the later ages.

>>528827115
>i had fun
Disgusting.
Guards! This woman has lost her composure. Take her to the exit.

im redownloading frostpunk 2

i wish this game gets bigger updates like stellaris

>>528835549
oh yeah I forgot I want to watch the new daredevil

>>528835549
>clair obscur
on a besoin d'apprendre français pour le jouer

>>528837169
What the fuck did you just fucking say to me you little bitch ?

>>528837169
you have to... enjoy/appreciate french for the game?

>>528842580
oui malheureusement

>>528842825
>malheureusement
bad... something?

>>528800850
Good morning, sirs.

Spiderfag, did you ever visit the Landes?

>>527971419 (OP)
>Neptunia empires
A based thread cooker, if you read this show off how you made the empires and what mods you used

>10

>>528867073
ass

>>528842962
Unfortunately.
Not a literal translation, but you get it.

>>528856913
Sure, hold on. But keep in mind this was launch Stellaris, so mods might be outdated.

>>528856913
Oh boy.
Okay, so I used https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=696538217, but it's outdated, and links to ANOTHER mod that's also outdated: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2459093681

>>528856204
The French Landes? No. But I went to Cardiff, so I saw the Welsh landes.

>>528879628
>The French Landes? No
Yeah. Oh. Seen a video about it, with how shepherds would walk on ling stilt sticks, like some circus performers, due to how swampy it was. Cool.

>>528879923
Wait, I thought landes were semi-mountaineous lands? I might have no clue what you mean...

>>528880250
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landes_(department)
This, but I guess more specifically
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landes_forest
this

>>528880564
Never went there...

>>528884753
Good opportunity for summer trip then, maybe. Although, maybe it's too far for you, since France is big.

>>528888950
That, and I don't have a car.

>>528889181
Might get there by train or bus tho, I don't know.

>>528889592

>>528827115
I'm trying to like Civ 7 but the abrupt change when the age moves on and the inevitable quartering of all your yields is annoying

>>527971419 (OP)
Last Lords - Faction Spotlight, Endless Legend 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-YTktAP1U8&ab_channel=EndlessUniverse

Broken Lords confirmed!

>>528819143
Yeah bu those are portraits from Starsector they were added as a homage.

>>528893627
I think this doesn't happen in French railways, but I might be wrong...

>>528902476

>>528903417
I know that THIS doesn't happen.
What is this, reminds me of Planetside.

>>528903871
Battlezone 2.

>>528904094
jesus christ sound still works

>>528909545
Yeah, when the script doesn't poopout.

>>528874803

>>528867073
>>528874803
>>528924474
God i miss old games. So much fucking charm and sovl.

>>528924474
I'm still mad that Lord Haart was the traitor.

>>528924698
heroes 3 is back and better than ever with the horn of the abyss mod, if you haven't tried it do so because it's great. It features everything from fixing bugs, bringing the resolution up to new factions and AI improvements.

>>528925142
There were bugs?

What’s your favorite stellaris empire that you’ve made?

>>528931910
The one that won me a game.

>>528926447
Yeah obviously.

>>528935359
Like what?

>>528935471
https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Horn_of_the_Abyss_(Changelog)
Search for SoD bugs

>>528935914
They are either menial or introduced by HotA. There's no big issue like "will crash the game" or "will freeze".

I hail victory nigga
2.6.0 soon, it's been foretold

I havent played since 2021 and felt the itch. is there any other DLC I should get?

>>528937776
Insanely based.

>>528938502
The CreamAPI one.

Hows Shitlaris these days? Are mods updated for it or are we still in the "patch every five days breaking more than it fixes" stage?

>>528941056
Last I checked about a month ago, NSC and some other mods were updated.
I'm pretty sure you can play it normally again.

>>528941056
last patch was 10 days ago, it's fixed enough that you can play it. there are small bugs and some weird inconsistencies still

>>528938502
Do NOT buy them, PLEASE.

>>528942781
>>528945158
tbf im only interested in few mods like Gigaengineering, maybe some UNSC mods and lewd ones..

>>528947604
gigas needs a lot of work I believe

>>528947735
Well fuck...
What is some nice ship mod? Preferably something like Infinity class, op as fuck but FUN.

>>528947604
Lewd ones are fine, last I checked sins of the prophets and some other UNSC stuff that wasn't only ship mods, those weren't updated for few years.
If you can find just some ship mods with UNSC ships in them, those should be fine.

Welp, everything crashed.

>>528956065
Sorry to hear that, how's the trouble shooting going?

>>528957360
Tried to install an AI to turn bad 3D porn into better 3D porn.
Moron PC decided to, rather than install everything in F:/ who has 200 GB free, to install everything on C:/ who has like 3 GB free and who is constantly hogged by Windows.
Result: installation crashed, and Windows is telling me to uninstall Darktides to free 60 GB. Darktides is not on C:/.

>>528961450
>installing ai for gooning purposes
deserved

>>528968394
I'm already gooning. I just wanted to do it more efficiently.

Why yes, I am a fanatic xenophile, how could you tell?

>>528975128

>>528900751
>the broken lords escaped auriga and colonized on saiadha
now that's a scenario I never expected

Would you recommend Stellaris? The dlc seems kind of pricey even on sale

>>528976292
It's a fun game, possibly the best paradox game honestly, Just get the robot DLC and have fun.

>>528976292
you can pirate all the DLC

>>527971419 (OP)
bump

>>528961450
Good luck on your journey to AI lewds. You got everything you need?

>>528968545
based
>>528973892
Shame Endless Space is such a shitty game, the art is top tier.

What's up with the whole Spyware thing on civ6 that I see on steam?

>>529004731
2K updated their EULA, now all of their games are effectively spyware, from Borderlands to Civilization.

>>528999430
No. I need an AMD thing, and I literally can't install it. So I'm perma blocked.

>>529001962
Endless Space? Shitty?

Just came back to Stellaris after a couple of years and what the fuck have they done? Every planet now has thousands of population units, producing like 2.41 of a resource while consuming 0.48 of something else. The fuck is this? This is all nonsense numbers.

>>529008662
They tried to make it more economical. Paracuck forgot that Stellaris is strategy.

>>529007889
Welp, I'm sorry for you.
What sorta AI were you trying out? Stable Diffusion?

>>529010798
Yeah. Friend has taken some of my pics and made them very good, but when I tried to... Fucking stupid installation.

>>529010974
What sorta GPU do you have? Could be it's too old for AI stuff.

>>529011484
No, it's not a GPU problem. It's a problem that C:/, my default disk, has like 3 GB free, and for some obscure reason, Stability Matrix tries to install the AMD thinjimagick in C:/, then move it to F:/, where I actually have 200 GB free.
For some forsaken reason, changing the installation folder doesn't do a thing.

>>529011664
Then I guess the only way is to free up space on C:/ until you are done with the downloads.

>>529012047
Which isn't really an option, I already trimmed it as much as I could, the rest is Windows stuff and game saves.

>>529012158
Well shit, guess you're SOL then.

>>529009559
God I wish we could go back to tiles. Put the population count in brackets and make it a multiplier on production and consumption, and leave it at that.

>>529008662
Do you like the district system yet? Paradox has only been working on it and revising it since version 2.0, not even entertaining the thought of going back to tile system of yore.

What's the current meta in Stellaris ship weapons? Do rockets still rape everything if you go all the way?

>>528671807
What an unwarranted sense of self importance.

steamsalesisters, are we buying anything? I'd like a fun and fast turn-based game, wargame. any recommendations? basically the opposite of Shadow Empire.

>>529018658
Yeah, pretty much everything that ignores shields is auto-win in this game, since AI never realizes to compensate by dropping shields and investing in armor/health instead.

>>529018658
same it has been since 3.6, unless you go archeo-tech

>>529008662
I just redownloaded it again after a few years too. This is absolute fucking insanity, whoever designed this should be fired, why do I have to do calculations on literally everything now?

>>529024425
>why do I have to do calculations on literally everything now?
you don't, 1 old pop is 100 new pops

>>529018876
Nah, it's warranted in my case. I'm special, I'm not like the 6 billions other people living on this small rock floating in the sky on the back of four elephants carried by a turtle.

>>529025141
8 billion

>>529025272
That's 7,999,999,999 too many.

>>529024425
>why do I have to do calculations
You don’t? I mean, you just look at how many resources you’re producing a month and then up the production on anything getting too low, what “calculations” would you ever need to do?

>>529025272
More like 11 billion.

>>529022229
Haven't bought a thing.

>>529038892
I bought a book.

>>529039045
show

>>529039263
Physical version of pic related.

>>529039434
that's not a book, that's a decorative piece that you're never going to use

>>529040301
I read it, so... no.

Dumb question, but if I buy Stellaris starter then later decide to buy the ultimate edition, will i get a discount for the purchased packs or will it be the same price no matter what?

>>529039045
based!

>>529039434
based!

>>529038892
based!

What are my ways to get new DLCs if I dont buy them?
Cant find anything about this "creamy" stuff that seems to work. Most online threads are about how it doesnt work or "there should be a thread on this or that forum".
Im playing via steam.
And why shouldnt I just buy one or two with the most/best features?

>>529054793
>Cant find anything about this "creamy" stuff that seems to work. Most online threads are about how it doesnt work or "there should be a thread on this or that forum".
cs.rin.ru also known as the russian site. If you have the legit base game(which is recommended to get access to the workshop) just download the DLCs pirated, although in some games they are already in(check the thread for that game to see how it works).

Is it possible to play as space venice in Stellaris where I only have one planet but control everything indirectly?
I was thinking of a machine race to control population growth and diplomatic protocols then alter spec into virtuality.

>>529055559
Megacorp DLC.
That lets you do it.

>>529055559
>a venitian
They're only fit for lynching.

nighty night

>>529055163
Been there. They say "go into the thread of the game" but the only threads on Stellaris I can find are about mods AFAICS. When i use the download from github and follow the standard process, i cant find the DLC marked as installed in the stellaris launcher. Does it work nonetheless?

>>529057747
>They say "go into the thread of the game" but the only threads on Stellaris I can find are about mods AFAICS.
You need an account.

>>529055559
without mods, no

>>529058130
For what? To find the the thread or to find more instructions.
The README said "Transfer the files from the DLC folder into your game directory." After the programm says "DLC unlocker(s) successfully installed and generated for 1 program(s)." I look in the folder for the API and there is are no files generated.

>>529059598
To find the thread.

>>529059598
did you download the DLC files from the russian site

>>529055559
It's very possible depending on what restrictions you place on yourself.
Beating the shit or scamming your neighbors early to vassalize them would be necessary though
You want others shipping you resources to make up for being one planet and vassal terms do that best
Being a megacorp can help a lot. Worker Cooperative alone can help you make up for basic resource deficits
For your capital system, it's up to whether you're going to settle on a single bigass world to make a ecumenopolis, bother with a starting ocean paradise world to expand with ice chunks first, or go with a ringworld start challenge
Virtual ascension is a good fit still

>>529046656
Steam discounts those bundles based on the things you own in them so generally yes you will "retain" the discount that way.

>get all the russian Downloaded DLC working
>install all files
>make my custom species
>game crashes on generating galaxy halfway through
>test with new download without any added DLC
>still crashes
Well i guess there go 2 hours of my time.

>get all the russian Downloaded DLC for Stellaris working
>install all files
>make my custom species
>game crashes on generating galaxy halfway through
>test with new download without any added DLC
>still crashes
Well i guess there go 2 hours of my time.

has there been any update on the upcoming batpeople dlc for against the storm since it was teased in april?

>>529073486

What's a game like Unholy War?

bbump good night

should i spring for Stellaris DLC? the Cosmic Storm and Machine Age ones sound nice, but theyre kind of pricey even with the summer sale. All the other DLC ive bought I felt I have made worthwhile tho.

>>529107742
Machine age adds both powerful upgrades and flavor for your machines and cyborgs, also Cosmogenesis is a crisis path trying more than once
Cosmic storms should be one of your last grabs if you're not getting a bundle with it.
Cosmic storms add space weather flavor, but they're mostly annoying more than any help. The benefits they can sometimes leave behind are often too random to plan entire planet economies around

>>529107742
Yeah, go for it.

>>528924474
She cute.

>>529071369
did you download the latest version's dlc

>>529130564
Contender.

>>529132097
Any other competitors or is it just these two?

>>529141747
These 2, I guess, for game 3. Unless I forget any others that got more than portraits.

>>529141747
Enclave mogs them.

>>529142889
>>529132097
>>529130564

>>529142889
What game is this?

Is the archive in Stellaris worth it for a commercial/tall empire?

>>529143060
Fucking filename. I bothered adding the name in uppercase just to avoid this.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/253980/Enclave/

Not too bad for a Xbox port honestly, but the Good campaign is a lot more keen on puzzles and the melee system sucks. Play a magic user and blast everything.

>>529143348
thanks

>>529143185
I'd say so, each exhibit gives bonuses or even produces some resources once activated.

Anyone tried Of life and land? I played the demo and seems promising for comfy settlement building, but no one died so I'm concerned that it's too easy and boring in the long run

>>529146957
Did you try Manor Lords?

>>529152628
Not yet, and I'm assuming I need a real GPU to play it

bump

>>529170397
Not now, busy raging at paypal.

>>529171503
why

>>529177484
Trying to commission some Miquella porn.

>>529177853
oh my god I fucking hate you

>>529178158
Good!

>>529178158

aurora 2.6 waitan

>>529181173
What's Aurora 2? The first one is already finished?

>>529181173
Same

>>529181271
Aurora 2.0 is the #c rewrite from VB6

>>529182890
...okay I understood "rewrite".

>>529181173
>tfw constantly making suggestions on forums, eating up steve's posting and development time and thus postponing the release
sorry not sorry

>>529183347
Remake of the game in a better way to support the scope of the game(detailed combat, simulating a bazillion things each turn, etc).

As a tall, trading machine empire, what would be the best tech tree to take after "Machine Age"?
Virtuality, nanotech or modularity?

>>529187619
virtuality was made to accommodate tallfags like you

>>529187619
Isn't virtual basically designed to be tall? I haven't played 4.0 though, idk if things have changed.

nighty night

>>529194903
cunt

>>529210245
no u ass

How the fuck do I forma federation with someone? is there a minimum trust/relation? Do I do it from the diplomacy screen or something else?
Yes I have the complete diplomacy tree unlocked

>>529213790
there's a tech for it now, they removed it from the federation tree. it's a pretty early tech so if you're not xenophobe you'll probably roll it early

>s there a minimum trust/relation? Do I do it from the diplomacy screen or something else?
yes

bump

>>529194903
good morning
>>529210245
rude

>>529234796
sup

>maybe I will play vidya to-
Nah, too lazy.

https://youtu.be/1XOnkW5k1fU?si=7C6l_P5VUeBcAtYo
What’s ur fav stellaris track?

SATURATION BOMBARDMENT

>>529253590
Real bombardment.

>>529258457
>scorch fades back to green
Unsatisfying...

>>529261125
Why would you want permanent stuff? Sacrifice has this, and by the end of a fight, the ground is nothing but scorch and blood.

>>529262339
good

>>529262467
Why would you want blood and gore everywhere?

>>529265960
It's not about Khorne things, just effects of destruction to the map.

>>529268130
Why would you want craters, blood pools, pile of gore, and a traumatized kid sitting in the corner with a thousand-years stare?

Why does the Grand Archive have to be so big and ugly?

>>529276161
Because Stellaris devs flunked their architecture classes.

COMET SIGHTED

Can i do the "one planet challenge" with broken ring?
I know it's technically up to 4 planets, but still.
What would a good layout be? megacorp? Virtual machines? Or going for pisonics and an organic race?

>>529291360
megacorp is your only choice really, you can't get minerals unless you leave one of the segments shattered

>>529291360
Of course you can!
>you'll be blobbed though

>>529291360
I have played Shattered Ring in a long while, isn't it only 3 ring segments since one is "irreparable damage"?

>>529287749
Good omen, that.

>>529301010
Having a good attitude can lead to 1+ stab hits, don't you know.

>>529294579
I was talking less about "one system" and more about one planet. i can still surround myself with a small cluster of buffer territories.

Good night.

>>529312526
>Under One Rule Psionic ruler

>trying to get back into stellaris
>all the new mechanics from the DLCs
>with complex espionage, relations, trust, liasons, envoys, ambassadors, astral planes, corporate entities, holdings, district rework, federations, overlord, planetcrackers, etc.
>just wanna focus on the 4 axis of industry, diplomacy, military and culture
>each of them have some many extra frills and tussles attached it became impossible to do anything straghtforward
>leaving one out makes you feel like youre not getting the maximum you could get
>impossible to see what information is actually important at the moment
Is there a game that still stays true to a simpler form that allows you to just focus on competing with other empires?

>>529314596
espionage can be entirely ignored

>impossible to see what information is actually important at the moment
it's really not, you're just overwhelmed because you're not experienced with any of it
>Is there a game that still stays true to a simpler form that allows you to just focus on competing with other empires?
genocidal

>>527971419 (OP)
>/g*g/ faggots NOT welcomed here. Go to /vst/ and stop shitting up threads with your shittery. Fuck off.
why are you so upset. who hurt your feefees?

>>529316348
>genocidal
I didnt mean "a game of stellaris" I mean a video game in itself

>>529316348
I kinda wish espionage was better to actually do harm to an empire, to act similar to a form of army that can take out key targets like space stations or outright prevent planets from producing

Based OP, you pissed off the /gsg/ger before it even started to shitpost.

>>529314596
The feature bloat is absolutely crazy now.
But it's keeping me busy. I can't leave the game on fast-forward for a minute anymore without something popping up.