Thread 2162039

Beta for the next update is up.

>>2162039 (OP)
is it good yet?

>>2162045
It's getting there

So, how is the game now? And is it worth buying while at sale? Or is one of those games You drop 20 hours into and never open the again? And what about mods?

>>2162136
fucking NIGGERS in the ASS!!!

>>2162136
from what i've seen from playing a bit before going to bed:
>they added a few more game settings (win conditions)
>more maps
>you can actually choose were you start on the map now
>migration and aproval mechanic changed a so that you dont have to play the exact same way or risk stalling with your pop, and it is overall less awkward
>the town perk system has been reworked but still wip
>they are starting to add on map AIs. I didnt tried, but i think the beta already has then but they are wip
>you can build walls/castles now
>production chains have been reworked a bit there are a few more new things to produce now

It is definitively moving away from >You drop 20 hours into and never open the again
But lets see if they really deliver in the comming months now that they restructured into an actual studio with a team instead of a solo dev

Last update /vst/ attacked me for being an american with my village so I turned my brain off designing it this time

>>2162039 (OP)
New maps are pretty fun. I figure the jagged cliffs one will be very fun when multiplayer is added in 10 years give or take
>>2162295
Kino

>>2162273
If the start is less awkward, that's good enough for me. Wasn't my biggest complaint, but it was kind of a pointless chore that stopped me from exploring the game.

>>2162308
>Kino
What I'll say is I still have to restrain myself minmaxing, the devs have a healthy direction where you can kinda go with the flow and things will work out but for example extension yields sometimes being tied to size of the plot sometimes now throws the vibe off, hens and apiaries should also scale up with size

All these years gaming studios brainwashing us with specs and all the graphical progress buzzwordage and all you need to give is us basic shit well put together.

Either that or greg is a geniuis cause this looks magic

Castles take forever

They really need to find a better alternative to the ox pulling logs around.
It is so annoying early on, specially when you have resource node as far away as possible from your starting area

>>2162317
I've only a limited time engineering this stuff, but graphical fidelity of this level is fairly easy to optimize (for a programmer that isn't a complete fraud). It's usually elsewhere that things go wrong.

>>2162295
Fat roads stop me from making these kind of settlements. Fuck automatic road fattening.

My interface keeps disappearing, when I build a tower on my stone walls. Sometimes it also just crashes the game. This patch is fucked.

>>2164125
Castle building is still yanky as hell, try to get it somwhat right once with stone wall and everything and dont touch it again.

>>2162295
trve evropean chaos

>>2162295
you went full retarded
yeah medieval urban planing wasnt like the roman/modern one, but this is just chaos

>>2162295
heh

Is it just me or are smallholdings kinda trash?

>>2162295
I love making my towns chaotic, but too often I'll find out that some particular road corner becomes too thin and people get stuck in it and cause a giant roadblock that snowballs until my economy falls apart.

>>2162273
Have they fixed your entire harvest disappearing from crop rotation?
That game ending thing that's been around for over a fucking year?

>>2165972
No

>>2162039 (OP)
So is this just medieval tropico?

>>2162039 (OP)

It keeps saying I have policies available but I dont see any policies to choose.

I see the new development/environment page where policies used to be, are policies hidden somewhere so I can get some better resource node limits?

>>2168793
The cards are clickable. Only "Origins" category is available tho

>>2168837

right I picked one of the 7-8 cards but that seems all the customization that opens at this point in the new beta

>>2162985
damn looks cozy tho! how much till 1.0?

>>2162985
The massive amount of dressed stone motivated me to just make a small enclosed space and give up on having a large castle yard. But it's worth it to just see the castle looming over the village. Anything bigger and with more inputs wouldn't be worth bothering. Wish there was a way to build stone walls around the whole village.

Do fish die for some random reasons, or is the reserve bugged once you reach a specific number between 120-220?

>>2170666
I think they are supposed to have a replenishment season but it could as well be bugged

>>2170730
What's happening is that everything works fine setting up the fisherman's hut to 120 reserve and 320 reserve, but for some reason 220 reserve in specific resulted in some major overfishing. If nothing is supposed to kill the fish, that seems like a very specific bug.

>>2167676
no it's shittier

>>2170464
If you do choose to do a big project make sure you finish before exiting the game. Unfinished stone castle bugged my save so I had to dismantle it.
>Wish there was a way to build stone walls around the whole village.
I tried this again cause they did say they'll enable it but yea still not possible

>>2168905
Probably a year

>>2162317
>basic shit well put together.
So unrelated with Manor Lords?

>>2162295
People will shit on you but I deeply envy you. I will never be able to overcome my autism and not do commie blocks in every city building game

The flute music is sublime

>>2170587
>charcoal burner near the center
Deserved

>>2172735
I noticed it sounds almost identical to Shogun 2 flute song

>>2172510
It takes a big toll trying to make the village feel organic especially in this game where you need to create a new village for every region. You can't scale to >100 households by being artisan with your placement.
Maybe take a look at some medieval towns and you can copy their build patterns for inspiration

>>2173525
race mixer burned at the stake in the village square?

I had 5 dedicated tailors and could only upgrade like 2 houses to tier 3. My game will also start to crash after playing a save for so long.

The beta has so many bugs that it's better to not even bother with it. If you're waiting for 1.0, then keep waiting. This patch is 2 steps forward and 3 steps back.

Did they take away houses making their own market stalls? It seems like only stockpile workers are making them now.

>>2177078
Only stockpile and granary workers do now, I think.

>>2177302
Thats fucking gay. I hope that's not intentional. I loved having a cool little marketplace.

>>2178282
>noooo you can't just regulate commerce
>that's not laissez-faire reeeeeeeeeee

Has anyone ever witnessed an archer actually kill someone in this game?
I haven't.

>>2181601
They will do the heavy work by firing on the flanks after you pin down the enemy troops

>>2181601
My xbows murk niggas but I've never tried using the archers, they look too crappy

>>2181601
I've had them firing straight in to bandit rif raff running right towards them with no casualties.
So I switched to crossbows and never bother with bowmen again

i think the seasons changing is one of the most beautiful parts of the game
i hope the update comes out by this year's first snowfall

>roads are constructed instantly
is there any way to turn this off? I want roads to take time to construct.

>>2193823
I'll give you a clue:
This game is trying to reinvent Ostriv. 100x times better marketing, made Paweł bank, but gameplay wise, it's Ostriv, but shit.
And Ostriv had its own issues, so go fucking figure.

t. Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

>>2172735
>Six (6) notes looping after 20 seconds is now sublime
Nigga, you tone-deaf or just regular deaf?

>>2162045
20 more years
Please understand, small indie dev with 20 mil bank