Line battle kino is back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbMglbO9e4

It already looks better than his last game.
Griffin is a closeted Chud so I genuinely hope he finds success.

those are some dreadful portraits

>>2106145
I can deal with portraits but those formations are painful to look at

>>2106107 (OP)
is this only for iphone or android

>>2106145
gameplay > graphics every single time.

>>2106185
>Boring-ass line infantry warfare
>>Gameplay > Graphics
Dumb-ass nigger, the only thing that's interesting is seeing your line of dudes shoot at other lines of dudes. The "gameplay" is dogshit.

>>2106190
Yea, you do have to be White to appreciate linear warfare.

I don't know if I like that progression system.
On the one hand, I like how he seems to go for the "FTL" style achievement rout, i.e. what we used to call "unlocks" back in the day, on the other hand, why would unit types be locked behind achievements (with extremely cringy names nonetheless)?
Would that only be relevant for skirmishes? Will the campaign be completely ahistorical?
Also, I have to agree with the other anons, those portraits look like total ass, did he hire some tumblr tranny or what?

>>2106190
stop malding in my thread!

>>2106219
I mean, can you really look at this and say "yeah bro this looks good", especially when it's so obviously "inspired" by Ridley Scott's Duel?
Also, what the fuck is this, Crusader Kings?
Dude, I appreciate that you're doing a SYW game, but please, please, please, get your artstyle in order.

>>2106185
if he doesn't have the taste to pick a good portrait style why would i trust him to have taste to pick a good gameplay style?

>>2106219
ah, the engaging gameplay

>>2106190
Why are you in this thread then you stupid fuck?

>>2106125
>Griffin is a closeted chud
What makes you so sure

>>2106237
Physiognomy

>>2106242
can't argue with science

>>2106236
>>2106219
>>2106203
Shills detected.

no but really why did you go "i want my dudes to look like the suits from a deck of playing cards but fat and gay"

>>2106250
retard detected, thanks for the bump.

When's it out?

>>2106252
to be fair it was the voices in my head. not strictly my idea.

>>2106271
so you subconsciously want them fat and gay

>>2106272
no. this "entity" is not me.

>>2106237
he parroted cia (old cia not new gay one) talking points

>>2106237
In that same stream, he named his artillery battery "88th Bosnian Artillery".
You aren't as smart as Griffin and just drop an 88 completely unaware.

>>2106277
What??

>>2106125
He is a secret chud. Sometimes he takes off the mask during streams lol.

>>2106190
If you think that's all what linear warfare is about, you're not autistic enough.

>>2106107 (OP)
This looks really fucking good.
Graphics are fine, and being simpler probably makes this run well on a wider variety of machines including older PCs. People bitching about the graphics are women and children.
Hope there is a decent campaign and multiplayer.
Only "no fuck off" from me is this CK bullshit here >>2106219

>>2106438
Mostly agree but I think the landscape could look better. For example Ultimate General looks really fucking good.

>>2106446
The battle maps are procedurally generated whereas all maps in Ultimate General were handcrafted to represent the real life locations. I agree that the game having graphics like Civil War would be dope.

>>2106107 (OP)
Granted you are just play testing this but it seems to be a bit disturbing the way the AI doesn't react to your movements.
>Meh, just flank these guys, and they are gone.
>Just charge my cav in while the opponents cav is fucking around uselessly somewhere else, and they gone.
Also exchanging prisoners for upgrading your troops? Come on, that's just as bad the HQ supply build up mechanic in WitE. Pure fantasy.
The more I watched this the more I began to think it would be hours of microing your troops to take advantage of AI stupidity, always wining, and realizing you have wasted hours fighting battles you were never going to lose.
Now tell me I am wrong because I hope I am.

>>2106438
>People bitching about the graphics are women and children.
Nobody is bitching about simple graphics or anything, people are bitching about the shitass artstyle, which, whether you like it or not, is always one of the main draws of a game. But then again, maybe this IS supposed to attract a certain kind of audience.

This looks promising. I'm starving for a decent historical strategy game. Added to my steam wishlist.

>>2106107 (OP)
this might've been decent, but the 2005 flash game UI and artstyle is hugely offputting for the game's atmosphere. The "will never buy or check out" kind of offputting.
It should be full of classical renaissance/enlightenment paintings, I'd even accept AI slop here as it wouldn't be cheap to commission a bunch of these.

>>2106515
Thanks! Added 0.01 rupees to your shill account

>>2106107 (OP)
Total War Napoleon wants it's interface back.

>>2106527
go back to /v/ cockroach

>>2106500
Shut up child, adults are talking.

>>2106542
>still no arguments
How about you fix that shit instead of engaging every single negative post on a cambodian elephant warfare forum?

>>2106500
>But then again, maybe this IS supposed to attract a certain kind of audience.
then i applaud op for making VIDEO games for the blind. truly groundbreaking

>>2106531
sorry ranjeet, I'm autistic and see through your subtle call to action marketing with ease.
>Added to my steam wishlist.
nobody talks like that. Nobody has EVER organically naturally said this unless they were working in game marketing like me and wanted to subtly point people in the "right" direction. This >>2106515 is a 100% certified disingenuous marketing shill post

>>2106446
man ultimate general battles with a campaign could be the next total war killer

>>2106500
>>2106527
>>2106679
stop bitching, sissyboy

>>2106679
i added to my wishlist too faggot

>>2106686
meds and a different marketing specialist. Preferably me. I can do it much better and probably cheaper

>>2106687
same, shill sister. let's make this chuddie sissy mald even more ahaha

>>2106698
>143 hours in empire
based

I guess I don't see what's wrong with the art style, it looks fine. I'm more concerned that the procedurally generated campaign maps will begin to feel samey and lack clear reasoning for a campaign. I mean Silesia's geography determined so many of the campaigns fought there, to replace it with a random map each time seems weak. Especially if your army has to stay in a single blob. Plus, the object seems to be to destroy the enemy army, which is not necessarily what campaign objectives should be in the 7 years war. We'll see, but with so few options, I'll probably still pick it up

How far can you zoom in?
I want to see musket balls smashing into faces.

>total war is le based and good
the game in the question. empire was never good. napoo was never good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYv5GrwGY_4

>>2107173
>vanilla sp

come home, maréchal de l'empire.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/napoleonic-total-war-3

>>2106679
What are you doing on this board if you react like this to people talking positively about a strategy game? Why are you here you subhuman?

>>2107354
>people talking positively about a strategy game
So far the only people talking "positively" about this are you, the dev, and your very obvious shills/sockpuppets.
Everyone else who actually watched the video is at most cautiously optimistic because there are a bunch of very questionable design decisions.

>>2107418
>i dont like the game
>so everyone else is a shill
>listen to me whine like a bitch
>Eeeeeeee!

>>2107173
Its made deliberately bad so stupid little assfucks can convince themselves they would actually be a great General.
It helps sell the game.
"This game is so good! Lololol! 11/10!!!!"
Selling lots of copies with a bad AI to morons is far more profitable than putting the effort into making a great AI that then has all the morons crying.
"This game sucks!!!! Reee! 0/10!!!!"
Unfortunately this is the sad state of the world we live in, and which is why I support eugenics.

>>2107444
Nice schizo theory. That would mean that CA actually knows what it's doing.

>>2107418
just hide the thread and move on lil bro, this game is not for you. Better yet, go back to /v/ and whine about something else away from us.

>>2107418
Nooooo, the other time you called ME the developer of this game, not THAT anon.

>>2107209
Mods don't fix the fundamental issues of TW AI, they just tweak some values around and retards like you eat it up even though it's still fucking broken.

>>2107493
An ex-CA dev has come out and confirmed that they literally do it on purpose.

How can a game that isn't out yet can already have such an insufferable fanbase?

>>2106219
at this point why not do all the art with tasteful ai slop

>>2107418
I didn't post this guys. You're spitting venom at a different anon

>>2107600
that's a multiplayer mod thobeit. you're so lucky it's anonymous Tibetan fishnet knitting board

>>2107667
Stop talking shit and you'll stop getting hit.

>>2107493
having exploitable AI is one thing, having total cretin ai incapable of playing teh game is another

>>2106107 (OP)
>cavalry counter charging through their own infantry
man

>>2107600
>An ex-CA dev has come out and confirmed that they literally do it on purpose.
what years did he work? If post m2 then he's a coping retard

>>2106219
>duel with swords (no information)
>duel with other swords (no information)
>do nothing (no information)
Riveting.

>>2108103
He worked at CA from Napoleon all the way to Attila when he quit the company due to frustration with management iirc.
>If post m2 then he's a coping retard
You're not implying M2 had good AI, are you?

Goddamn, all I want is a decent musket and horse era tactical game that also includes operational level campaign ( which is basically how wars were decided at this time ) combined with a grand strategy overview, along with a competent AI for SP, and a streamlined multiplayer system that keeps quitters and retards from being matched against me.
I want to be able to play historical scenarios but also have a sandbox game where you can do anything within the realms of plausibility.
I want to play a campaign where Nappy has won at Waterloo and now faces off against the rest of the Coalition. I want to be Wolfe at Quebec. I want to be Clive of India. I want a resurgent Ottoman Empire going full retard against Europe. I WANT TO TEACH THOSE DAMNED YANKEES A LESSON AT GETTYSBERG!

IS THAT TOO MUCH TO FUCKING ASK?

>>2108154
That's what that revolutionary war game was trying to do and failed so fucking badly.

>>2106107 (OP)
It looks like a fucking mobile game. Big NO for me

>>2108154
well maybe AI will democratize vidya industry within a couple years

>>2107669
the problem is the goal, so using a different tool to get there wouldn't help

>>2108161
>filtered by the looks
That's fine, we dont want mentally stunted asswipes playing this. Better you stick with games like Legend of Zelda, lol, you faggot.

line battle kino is already here though

>>2108748
Get some new material, faggot.

>>2108748
If it looks like SHIT it plays like SHIT simple as that. No self respecting game developer would have their product look like SHIT

>>2108768
>>2108815
Trannies, specifically one singular tranny.

>>2108865
The dev is a tranny? Didn't seem like one desu

>>2108749
What game is this? Never seen it.

>>2109120
https://linesofbattle.net/

>>2108768
Lol, I made the poor little mentally stunted asswipe cry!
>>2108815
Time you went back to molesting the retards in your care.

>>2108815
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the art style. It's even kinda charming.

>>2109474
Exactly. The art style is fine, besides its what under the hood that counts. The guy you are replying to is just some snivelling lowit faggot.

>>2108865
>>2109357
>>2109474
The dev will troon out soon, mark my words

>>2109562
>besides its what under the hood that counts

>>2109617
The dev canonically hates fags, niggers and kikes tho!

>>2109617
I dont see any anime girls injected into game or nogs so not likely

>>2109985
The character portraits look like something a yaoi fangirl would draw THO

Step 1. Round up all those who constantly bitch about a game's graphics
Step 2. Put them through a wood chipper.
Step 3. Global IQ increases.
Step 4. Global homosexuality decreases.
Step 5. We finally get good strategy games.

>>2110038
You look like something that would make good compost after you have been through a wood chipper.

>>2110580
>still being THIS butthurt
You ARE the dev, aren't you?
Why don't you just use the time you spend making these assblasted, needlessly violent schizo posts on here and improve your fucking shitass-ugly portraits?

>leave one comment about obviously garbage portraits being garbage
>5 days later someone is still seething about it, intensely
hm

>>2106237
>>2106426
didn't he get engaged to a poc women?

>leave 25 comments seething about perfectly fine portraits in a game he doesn't have any interest in
>comes back 5 days later to post more retarded seething
hm

imagine being a graphic fag in strategy vidya

Imagine being too retarded to understand the difference between graphics and artstyle

Imagine caring about artstyle over gameplay in a strategy game where it doesn't matter

>>2110830
>where it doesn't matter
Wrong, patently wrong. And if it doesn't matter, why don't you use better ones?

Tranny looking game for trannies made by a tranny

Schizo in this thread foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog over the art. All schizos should be humanely euthanized.

>>2111650
>All schizos should be humanely euthanized
that's antisemitic

Thanks for the bumps guys
Make sure to wishlist, leave a comment in the discussion thread and preorder my game

>>2111697
>preorder my game
lmao

>>2111650
The only one foaming at the mouth here is you over people insinuating that the art might not look good, which is pretty baffling, since you claim that the artstyle doesn't matter in the first place, so you shouldn't get that defensive over such a simple statement. Loser.

>>2111801
thanks for the bumps, schizo anon

>>2112089
>newfag doesn't know about saging
>newfag retard now resorts to simply calling people schizos because they disagree with him
What a dumb faggot you are, no wonder you think those portraits look good.

>>2112105
thanks for the bumps, schizo anon

>>2111801
Tell your Doc to up your meds since the current dosage obviously isn't high enough.

>fag got so mad he reported me for announcing a sage (I suspect)
AND you made another extremely butthurt reply to the very same post. Amazing. You should really get some anger counseling or something. Or are you legit autistic? I bet you're screeching all day and your parents are thinking about killing you.

>>2110739
Never Ask a White Supremacist the Race of His Girlfriend.
>>2111801
The art is fine, cope.

Is there a campaign?

OP sucks donkey cock and never replies to any of the reasonable questions itt
Good indication the game is shit.

>>2113282
It's FTL meets Empire, select 1 of 7 nations, navigate through a region, fighting battles, having events, building your army of goons. Then you have a big battle against the last boss army and repeat the process with your more veteran troops. Harder battles and so on.

Sorry nonny, I was put in jail for gooning to Robutts...

>>2106231
Truth nuke

>>2114051
I really hope you're pulling my leg here, anon

>>2106526
Agreed, very jarring

>>2114039
>>2114076
>>2114077
>>2114078
fuck off

>>2114077
What, you don't like FTL combined with Empire?

>>2114079
Rent free

rent free

There's actually a ton of info on the steam page, if you go look. Each nation has 10 unique units to unlock via meta progression in the game, IE Units unlocked via cheevos.
Here's the list from Britain roster.

Britain’s 10 renowned units include:
Schaumburg-Lippe Artillery
Campbell’s Highlanders (tartan kilts)
Legion Britannique Musketeers
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Hanoverian Foot Guards
Coldstream Guards (navy trousers)
Von Roth Hussars
Bueckeburg Carabiniers
1st Dragoon Guards
Royal Horse Guards (“The Blues”)

>>2114104
Yes, that's what the dude already talked about in the stream OP posted, but having *some* units unlock is still not as bad as having some kind of procedurally generated campaign where you keep fighting stronger armies and then keep your army to do it again or whatever that fag further up said.
But I get it, making an actual historical game warrants doing research.

>>2114051
That's not a campaign. That's a mobile phone bullshit.
>Unlocks.
If I wanted unlocks I would play fucking runescape.
I am giving this a pass as wide as OP's mother.

>>2114183

>>2114104
>10 unique units to unlock
gacha game for morons

>>2106185
I agree with this statement. But the problem with the portraits isn't graphics, it's style.
Style > gameplay. If a game has a horrendous art style, no amount of perfect gameplay choices can save it.

>>2114757
Go back to Runescape turbotard.

Alright, I AM looking forward to it next month, the battles alone look very enjoyable to me. The FTL lite shit they got is pretty cool, think I'll main Russia and be a hoard of raiding, barely trained retards.
However I have some complaints, namely the art style.

It's his YouTube channel art style and wether or not it translated well to vidya us up to the beholder but I do wish he went with a more realistic art style.
Kinda hard to immerse myself in the brutality of the 7 Years War when I'm looking at a literal cartoon.

I appreciate the gore, watching cannonballs pulp 6 Prussians at once was very nice. AI ain't great, better than Empires. Can form lines and react to you.

I think I now know why OP is being such an incredible faggot.
I saw the dev had another stream about random encounters or something, and apparently he works together with the chat and gets direct feedback from the people watching him, and probably a strong discord clique.
So what I think is that OP is one of those discord fags and because he thinks he has a stake in the making of the game, or who actually is responsible, at least in part, for the artstyle to be the way it is, lashes out at anybody criticizing it.
It's all the more telling as the gameplay issues are not adressed with such vitriol as the comments about the artstyle.

>>2114853
Yes, we know you like play dough, but explain why you like to suck dick.

>>2109136
>simultaneous turn based
Ok that's based

>One troon is just schizo same fagging over and over again
Getting rid of IP counts was one of the worst things Gook moot ever did and all he ever did was make bad choices.

>>2115154
Tell us more about this same fags living rent free inside your head. How far up your anus did he penetrate you?

>>2106107 (OP)
Are pophistory youtubers really making fucking games now?

>>2115195
Since this game is clearly not meant to be historic, I don't think so.

theres a low effort rock paper shotgun article for the game even lmao. that's how you know someone somewhere passed some money to some other guy who will then trickle the money down further to people who will then talk about the game on their platforms or in any relevant interest group. i guess that's how it has to be with how the market is now, but it's kinda sad to see people who supposedly love vidja so much coldly butcher it for quick investor bux.

anyways tldr op is a fag game looks gay pic related

>>2106219
>the alt right loves The Duelists, better have duels and let’s make the guy a ripoff of Keitel while we’re at it
My shit sense is tingling. This game is going to be shit.

>>2114853
yep, that is how it usually go
discord was a mistake

>>2114853
shut the fuck up my art direction is flawless

>>2115473
go back there then, we don't like your kind here.

>>2115512
>discord was a mistake
>go back to discord
retard

>>2115514
yes, that's what I said, go back there.

>>2115528
fuck off

Knock this faggotry off.
You vill talk about ze game or ze 7 Years War it is based upon or Linear Warfare in general. Und you vill like it.

>>2115533
4chan is kill. On nearly every board.
There are no good faith reasonable discussions anymore. Admittedly there only ever a few, but they have mostly vanished.

>>2115531
no you fuck off, we're trying to discuss a game here.

>>2115541
k., tell me why cavalry can charge and counter charge though its own infantry then

>>2115543
It's realistic.

>>2115533
>it is based upon
See, that's the problem.
It shouldn't just be "based on", it SHOULD BE a 7YW game. Like, why even choose that setting if you're going to be completely ahistorical in the first place?
Just make it some kind of not-warhammer setting and you will already have a way bigger audience. Like, why go niche without actually going niche?

>>2115555
...Are you being retarded on purpose?

>>2115558
Make a better game, fag

>>2115555
how about go and make a game for yourself then? an asset/ai slop shouldn't be that hard

youre malding at least since this post >>2106190

>>2115832
How about you go and make a better game instead of seething at EVERY SINGLE negative post in this thread?
Oh wait, we're all samefags, just one mad retard, right ;^)

>>2115233
I don't think griffin can afford shill campaigns. That's reserved for paradox.

op mad & faggot

Is the Manor Lords schizo shitting up this thread too?

>>2116232
Redpill me on Manor Lord schizo.

>>2116232
I think the core issue is that this board tends to attract some of the most unhinged and autistic anons, and they end up projecting all their personal misery into some sorta jungian shadows case in point: the anon obsessed with the art style of the game

I like how schizo OP is STILL obsessed with people criticizing the artstyle and then has the gall (or maybe it's plain insanity) to call others unhinged and autistic when he is in a constantly state of meltdown, as evidenced by this entire thread.

I like how schizo OP is STILL obsessed with people criticizing the artstyle and then has the gall (or maybe it's plain insanity) to call others unhinged and autistic when he is in a constant state of meltdown, as evidenced by this entire thread.

>>2116643
thanks for the bump, retard.

>>2116651
>still relying on other people saging his thread so he can bump it himself because nobody actually cares for his low-effort slop
How about you make actual posts about the game and try to make it alluring to people instead of seething like a retard who derails his own thread?