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>>562716569
more like deedlit nutz lmao

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>>562716569
Pirotess mogs her, sorry brah.

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>>562718268
I don't care much for Pirotess, it's, um... her colours. She ain't the right colours. She ain't a proper drow, not even a dunmer, she's a... a Nestlé bitch. A Milka thot. A Easter Elf.

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It's very shitty that now I have to spent 100 OP to be able to fight and capture downed UFOs.
I remember there was an option to disable it on campaign start.

>>562719270
>100 OP
that is a lot of faggots

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HAK HAK HAK

this is a glorious Zephon thread

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This isn't even half the amount of neutrals there are on high count
its missing the 5 harbingers, 6 devourers, 8 malakim, 4 disciples of throkos, and an aygellan worm for good measure
its all t2 units too, like 5 dragoons, 2 militants and the a this amount of outriders but all fucking plasma guns and cannons that still punch my stuff hard

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I am complete, can anything redeem this horror?
i forgot to take a picture of her specific win screen and only nabbed the Voice chat, her quest completion screen and the victory screen make her look way better than her diplomacy screen does
definitely lowering neutral count next game amongst some other fiddling
Next either the hollow warlord or to start revisiting the ones i already played but fucked up their quest

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Unpopular opinion but I find knights cooler than their upgrades. Except maybe paladins, paladins look cool.

>>562724134
Kill Ezra.

>>562726231
no, he is fren and also i don't want to spend the next several hours microing every epicurean to whittle down all the praetorians and assault troopers of a fucking fallen soldier for a game i already won
i'll see about starting a new game tonight
that or farming the win screens to save because fuck it is impossible to find art for the game

>>562726696
>i don't want to spend the next several hours microing every epicurean to whittle down all the praetorians and assault troopers of a fucking fallen soldier
ok
With the translation on, now, please?

>>562727016
He's saying that the other player is utterly dominating him militarily speaking and that he's a pussy-ass bitch-ass who doesn't dare to call out his friends when they do shitty stuff.

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Damn, knights are costly, but they're worth it. Okay sure the castle was weakened by an earlier attack by throwing axemen, but still.

>>562728982
>he forgot his paladin research

>>562730259
Too expensive. I only got it too late for it to matter.

>>562731637
Get 20 more villages and chuck em on gold. Paladin is extremely good upgrade.

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air & sea units are so fun to use and smooth in RA3

>>562723468
jesus you have taken alot more outposts than before

>>562719270
>multiversal ayys
Huh, feels like X-Com Apocalypse in a way. Is this the set background for ehere the ayys come from or is it slightly randomized, like maybe one run the ayys are come from a Mars base on Cydonia as per tradition?

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Reminder that Tlatoani: Aztec Cities is finally out of Early Access, and is 30% off for 14$ for the full launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khkSv3SqlZU
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3161270/Tlatoani_Aztec_Cities/

For those unaware this is an Impressions Games style isometric citybuilders with, as the name suggests, an Aztec setting, and a very well researched one at that. If anybody is playing it and has feedback or questions, I can pass them along to the developer probably (or maybe even get him to pop into the thread), I've spoken to him

t. That one anon who does giant obsessive posts on Mesoamerican history and archeology

Is Manor Lords still getting updates or was it another early access scam?

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feels so great to play the empire (smoothly)transforming units is something more RTS should do

Is civilization 4 still the only one with good mods?

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>>562746461
its over... only uprising to go then i'm gonna play the game that killed C&C

>>562746993
5 has a matured modding scene, but nothing crazy to the levels of Caveman 2 Cosmos. Vox Populi is the popular revamp modpack. VI has a bunch of mods as well and benefits from VI being on like every platform during an extremely long console/gaming generation; VI was alive for like 9 years until VII released in 2025 and VII's release has been underwhelming to put it kindly.

>>562742964
>Is this the set background for ehere the ayys come from or is it slightly randomized, like maybe one run the ayys are come from a Mars base on Cydonia as per tradition?
It's for thw whole game.
In the first one the ayys came from another star, and it was the 80's.
In this one the aliens seems to be from a multiverse and it is 2009

>>562746461
Oh, I remember the executioner. He's on a skirmish map in RA3 vanilla, which I think was cut from Uprising.

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Shaking off rust by playing on hard from get-go might have been a mistake.

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>>562757519

>>562757519
Those poor beavers

>>562757965
How so? They'll survive that drought no problem but if I roll a badtide before the bypass is done I might be fucked.

>>562757965
They're fine. 752 food and 680 water.

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>>562758302
Maybe they're not approving of my 20+ hour standard work day but to that I say that's the only thing keeping them alive enough to whine.

Speaking of city builders where you fuck around with water, anyone tried All Will Fall?

>>562759978
I'm not even sure what these do since they'll fuck off work to relax whenever they feel like anyway.

>>562761489
Social buildings use and taking care of needs only when they're critical as opposed to topping them off whenever. They also drop from exhaustion now and then but I'm an irontooth main so that doesn't concern me that much.

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first mission of uprising and its in romania so its a ghostly dark vampire-y vibe
cnc expansions always pure kino

>>562763793
This is where Yuri was.

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>>562763793
>>562764029
oh shit
yeah
that lvl was beautiful too

>>562764112
The game gives you tesla troopers right away.
They know what is good in life.

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>>562764198
most of the soviet units are great but i really miss RA2 tesla troopers
ra3 are so goofy wtih the wide suit lol

>>562764339
I miss RA2's French dub. It was cheesy, but in the fun way. Soviet units had extremely thick Russian accents. In the RA3 French dub, the accents are a lot lighter.

>>562764590
why do you play stuff dubbed anyway, i understand as a kid but these days since i know eng if something is dubbed in my language i don't touch the dub, when the original lang is english, no reason to change

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>>562721394
HYUK HYUK HYUK

>>562727016
Those are unit names, retard
and a leader name at the end

>>562765257
>why do you play stuff in your native language instead of playing in a Monarchy language
Because I hate the British imperialism and hegemony?

>>562778880
the british don't own the english language

>>562779034
They created it. Also I hate Monarchies.

>>562779159
no they didn't, no person created the english language

>>562740720
How it goes, if i have the units to make a breakthrough not only would the outposts be mostly unnecessary but also it wouldn't just be a small expansion but a crusade to the corners of the map.
>>562728819
You're not baiting me into wasting half a dozen more hours into a game i already won
and the rest of you bait doesn't even make sense

>>562779669
Okay, woman. Stay in your breedable position for your massively superior military neighbour to have his way with you.

>>562778880
language is just a tool desu

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>>562779809
You mean my weaker ally in my already victorious game?

>>562779971
Soon, he will stand against you.
Kill him.

>>562778880
>still types in english

>>562781346
Because it's the only language you speak, ergo I have to lower myself to your level.
Do. You. Understand?

>>562781462
>puberty hitting anon hard
I'll have you know my native language is a guarani clicking language from central africa thank you very much. What's more ^*.,>,*^^>'<!

>>562782098
>making shit up
Keep trying without the wind blowing through your front teeth, Brit.

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>>562782165
why are you so rude

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>>562790928
Miquella cute.

>>562750369
anything like fall from heaven or orbis?

>feel like playing civ 7
>find out there's a huge update incoming
>lose desire to play
Release the workshop FFS it's like a gameplay overhaul with how much is in there

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first game since I started playing again about a week ago where I've made it past the mid game crisis
the game feels a lot more rewarding when you actually make it through, me and my federation boys just killed some fanatical purifier sissy

>>562802696
put your fucking ringworlds in a sector

>>562802854
Oh right. I was to busy with killing the fanatic purifier to remember to do that.
Thank you.

>>562797910
play zephon

Is there a standardized build order for Must We Suffer So mutator? Feeling it out
also just how much should i be building bikes as the Hollow Warlord, they're kinda fun but jaegers seem better clearers

>researched Dyson Sphere
>cant make one because you need to have Dyson array's first
>fucking 150+ years in, dyson array has not shown up once
reeeeeeeeee

>>562811019
>175 years in
>finally get Dyson Swarm to show up

>Can't post on the official forums because of some weird account bug
Is pop migration in stellaris totally borked right now? Robot pops seem to be gathering on certain planets and migration treaties are sucking my workforce away.

>Really like the MENACE early access, decide to go on Discord and visit the r*ddit to see what is new and what others are thinking and to give feedback
>r*ddit has straight up retarded fanmade SL’s with artwork stolen from other fiction, retarded faggots talking about “dating” squadleaders and suggestions that are so hyper fucking specific that they wouldn’t even work within the framework of the game
>discord’s feedback is a big unmoderated free for all with cretins thinking of more dumb out of place shit or reposting enemies from other franchises which “would fit” the Menace universe as well
I feel that back in 2010 period these people would have been shouted down and especially the sex obsessed pest would have been told to fuck off right away. Either way the game is great, the latest updates make people seethe because the mission objective isn’t “kill everything” and you actually need to “TEMPO-TEMPO-TEMPO” your way through it. Can’t wait for whats next and hope they introduce more missions like it because it really switches
>>562736676
>>562746461
>>562750206
>Still no new Red Alert or C&C on the way
I fucking hate these kike corporations and all corporate management faggots cocksucking shareholders for their mediocrity.

>>562815970
I miss forums. Leddit's points-based posting and threaded reply chains leads to weird circlejerks even with a specific discussion topic, and discord kiddies are retards hiding behind servers which means any cool or useful information isn't searchable and is siloed on a platform just as liable to death/getting outdated as any IM/VOIP chat client before it. Not to mention that Discord and Reddit accounts are global so that also poisons the well for how people behave.

>>562815970
>TEMPO-TEMPO-TEMPO
triggered
That being said being dumb fucking aggressive always seemed the correct way to play turn based tactics games until something goes wrong. You win big most of the time with almost no pain and then the minority of the time you get shit on for accidentally biting off more than you could chew
But yeah the modern internet is fucking awful for proper discussion nowadays, just people trying to attention whore or completely incapable of compartmentalizing interests. Sometime between 08 and 16 it happened

>>562818702
>Leddit's points-based posting and threaded reply chains leads to weird circlejerks
There's a couple posters who are posted completely unrelated bullshit about mechs from other instances with questions that seem like they'er trying to farm engagement and gather karma or some shit. It's insane.
>>562820025
>That being said being dumb fucking aggressive always seemed the correct way to play turn based tactics games until something goes wrong.
I'm pleasantly surprised by the new patch and playing on expert which punishes this and actually makes smoke grenades more useful.
Blobbing your troops ups is still the best move though, having one squad by itself is asking for it to get ripped apart.
Progression and logistics system needs to improve
>Individual promotion points earned and not a shared pool for SL's
>3 Star SL's with higher starting stats level slower, 1 star SL's with lower stats level faster
High performing veterans should scale slower and thus be powerful in the early game but not gain new abilities as fast as the 1-star's who catch up around the midgame with stats but better abilities.
>Decouple mission supplies from the SL's and introduce a manpower (or do away with it)
It's silly that if I promote my SL's I cannot take the same squad as before while the enemy keeps getting more troops to throw at me. Should both be balanced.

Is Xenonauts 2 any good?

>>562829854
It's a lot better than Final Fantasy XIII.

>>562829854
Very fun.
I just lost my first campaign due to UFO delegation points and lack of enough fighters.

Trying the Aztec city builder. Just doing the tutorial right now and I'm pretty impressed by the amount of mechanics present even at this point of the game, they clearly took the impressions games model and then added few layers on top which was a thing I was worried about (as in just clone with a different skin which this is not). At the same time there's some extremely weird jank that one would think wouldn't get past the testing phase. Generally impressed with how the game looks and sound, though I think some of the buildings could use bits of animation to really bring this to 2026 standards, even the older impressions games had a non working and working sprite which made the city much livelier.
Will play some more and report back later.

>>562830080
FF13 is underrated . people want a return to atb but they wont play this atb game

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good ol soviet infantry rush

>>562815970
i still haven't given out hope fully for a possible C&C resurgence, but yeah, not anytime soon

>>562716445
Wtf, why is Spiderfag so violent.

What is your favourite 4X game?
Mine is Endless Legend.

>>562842409
nobody took him down so he grew arrogant

>>562842554
im a fraud that only comes to this thread to post random shit about RTS.... all i play is civ once in a while but I always get bored after 2-3 runs and ditch it for months
i need to pick up one of those new ones
Stellaris, Endless Legend, and Age of Wonders
or something

>>562835436
>FF13 is underrated .
No it ain't lol

>>562843170
it has better combat than any atb game since ff5. Compared to FF12 i idle half the time in that game, in ff13 i can constantly time my shifts and animation cancel. It is fun. The character building is too linear outside of weapons but the combat gameplay is good.

>>562843665
No, it's shit.

>>562835436
>FF13 is underrated
Said no one in the history of anything ever..

I really like missions where you have a shift in perspective, bonus points if you get to play on the opposing side.
Examples of these kinds of missions:
Starcraft 2 and playing as Zeratul's Protoss in a hypothetical future
Age of Mythology and having a dream mission where Arkantos helps the bad guys destroy Atlantis
Warcraft 3 when you get to play as Chaos Grom Hellscream

The reason I thought of this was because you guys were talking about Final Fantasy 13 and in 13-2 you can turn enemies into party members.

>>562848472
Blizzard's games are really weird.

>>562848472
the variety and scale of wc3 campaigns is just incredible, need to do a replay sometime
i dont wanna live in a world where we dont get anotehr singleplayer rts of that scale again

>>562848667
>warcraft 3
>rts
you disgust me

>>562849942
???
wc3 is very much an rts nigga wtf are u talking about

>>562850323
Only if you are underage who hates rts
It was okay in 00s for zoomers, because it predates dota they moved on later. But as rts? It was shit

>>562850843
u are a dumbass, having heroes doesn't mean its not an RTS, online wc3 plays just like an RTS with more micro due to low unit count, wc3 is a great rts and its one of the most played online rts to this day

>>562844050
>>562847921
>>562843170
people said that about ff8 for a decade and people said that about FF12 for the first 5 years after it came out. As someone who has played FF14 it is incredibly easy to disregard the opinions of the fanbase and believe whatever the hell i want. is ff13 a top 5 in franchise game? no. is it underrated? yes.

>>562851004
>online wc3 plays just like an RTS with more micro
starcraft had both more micro and way more macro than wc3, faggot.
Fuck, even age of empires demands a lot of micro if you play it seriously. WC3 is jsut trash that punishes you for having army, with you getting less gold, and focusing on circlejerking hero instead of actually playing the game
>and its one of the most played online rts to this day
By people who hate rts and would rather play dota

>>562851490
you don't know what you're talkinga bout or you played one game of wc3 20 years ago that went like that and now you think there's no armies
https://youtu.be/meQ6rfxxc2c
check this just watched it
wc3 ladder match from a day ago, tell me if there's no armies
farming ur heroes and items etc are very important but that doesn't make it not an RTS, and there's no overlap, you sound just like those faggots that think wc3 is just the custom maps or the rexxar bonus campaign, the core game is still an RTS, simple as that

>>562851042
FF13 is absolute trash, FF8 for all its fault at least felt like FF game with side activities, open character builds and shit.
FF13 is a fucking hallway that artificially opens 30hrs into the game and you have to read novellas worth of text to understand what the fuck is going on.
Only good thing from 13 was R34 porn with the female characters.

>>562851042
>whataboutism

>>562851732
>5 minutes in
>guy runs with hero and 2 units
Yep, typical wc3, where "skill" is moving unit away from being killed and feed to enemy hero
>final
>12 units full group + 6 units group isbiggest army they could gather, because going bigger would punish player
That's just sad

>>562852118
>whataboutwhataboutism

>>562852238
its a low unit count rts where every single unit counts and they're pretty tanky, but that's the game, its still an RTS
base building, base expansion, control group micro etc

>>562852050
the hallway is ludokino, it is a solid representation of the plot of being hunted down. 13 is literally what the west asked for after FF12 , both games were misunderstood at launch beacuse everyone was hooked on worlo. the combat gameplay is better than anything save ff5, 7 and 8. better usage of atb than ff4,6, 9. Game is also gorgeous , held up way harder than its peers. I wish i liked lightning returns more, we need a decent one character FF game that isn't a moba. The plot is pretty intresting if you ignore them schisming the fabulae novae crystalium and treat type 0 and 15 as part of the same universe. On a personal level i like that l'cie turning into statues explains why there are statues all over the landscape of seiken densetsu 3 .

>>562853217
>13 is literally what the west asked
Why do you lie? I never asked for this.

>>562853382
stop acting like an obamanoid

>>562853382
You struck a nerve, the fatherless is now slipping into racism again.

Nice bait, faggot.
Now go back to /g*g/.

>fatherless
>racism
projecting. Ironic that u think calling someone an obamanoid is about race and not about political alignment. How many of you fuckers are chasing me across the site today?

>>562853664
You really angered it as well, it's shaking so hard that it couldn't even click on your post to answer you directly, what a frightened child.
No wonder he got laughed out of his containement general.

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>>562854346
i don't play grand strategy games i play square-enix slop, civ3 mods and zephon.

>tfw people in this thread have never seen bretonian vs moon elves vs the burning legion

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Okay, now that the fatherless has been shown the door, any good game with elves?
Hard mode: no Age of the Ring.

>>562855374
The only good games with *lves are those where you remove them like Dwarf Fortress

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>>562855665
I said GOOD games.

>>562855374
civ3 mods has moon elves, plus the burning legion can summon like 30 avatars of khaine

>>562855374
Rimworld

>>562835436
>FF13 is underrated
It really isn't.

nta but we get it calm down faggots
one of my first ever goons was to that pink haired bitch tho

when was the last time any of you tried ff13? 10 years ago?

>>562856691
so you're into femdom?

>>562857983
yes, but nothing hardcore like pegging or dirty stuff

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>>562855970
Yeah but I assume they're not cute or hot?

>>562856041
Urgh, no.

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What's the best way to download the 4.3 GOG release?

>>562858710
Pegging isn't hardcore.

>>562858767
are you aphantasic?

>>562859169
pegging feels amazing but both the gospel of philip and my grand uncle jack parsons caution against it

>>562859454
Oh so you're a projecting retard, okay.

I want to project my semen inside spiderfag's bussy.

>>562859169
it is nigga
im into femdom but would never take it up the ass, i have hemorrhoids anyway so it would be very painful and bloody regardless

>>562860806
It isn't.
Also get surgery, moron. No problem will ever go away by ignoring it.

>>562860971
i've lived wtih mild off and on hemorrhoids for 20 years I'm not gonna go get my ass eviscerated in some surgery nigga
not planning to take it up the ass anytime soon so its not a problem, also i consider it hardcore
soft femdom would just be women slapping or commanding you during sex, or at most amazon position

>>562861162
>not planning to take it up the ass anytime soon so its not a problem
BUT YOU POO FROM HERE
Surely it feels like glass ripping your ass inside-out every time you take a shit, right? Or do you only drink milk so that the constant diarrhea doesn't feel like Fred Krueger fingering your bumhole?

>>562861435
uhhh no
sure bad cases can get like that
but i use a bidet, just took a shit 5min ago, its mildly uncomfortable for like 10-15 min and then it goes away entirely, i use a bidet for more than a decade now though since bad anal hygiene makes hemorrhoids 10x worse, ever since i started washing every single time there's been no problems, slight discomfort and it goes away

>>562861797
I don't think I ever used a bidet for anything other than washing my feet. And I used to have such big constipation issues that taking a shit would be more intensive than lifting weights, I'd be done red in the face and out of breath, and my ass twitching.

Also we might be slightly off-topic, but please get that treated, hemorrhoids are no joke and it's no way to live.

>>562861162
>>562861797
>doesn't want for a cute girl to bully and milk his prostate until he passes out on a puddle of seminal fluid
Gay.

>>562862052
im gonna pass man, even wo hemorrhoids, i hate anything to do with anal, its nasty, i would especailly never eat ass, ive only had sex 3 times, and one time i tried eating pussy, it was icky as fuck, didn't enjoy it, but i guess its a chore to keep ur SO happy
>>562862015
man i appreciate the concern but chill, its just a mild case, they've been "dormant" like this for a decade and its ltierally normal, even after massive shits theres slight pain for 10mins and it poofs away, but yeah i imagine if i take a fuckin dildo up there its gonna agitate shit and be awful for all parties involved

>>562862305
I mean I got a dildo in mine and it was agitated indeed.

>>562859038
I dunno, through GOG launcher?

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>>562860704
ok grimm

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Ahh, owning half the galaxy is pretty nice

>>562878069
What about the other half?

>Cetana's thing spawns in one of the fallen empire's territory
>she quickly devours them
>I try to contact the spiritualist fallen empire
>they're busy doing 'internal stuff'
I hope they awaken and go on a crusade against that ROBO BITCH.

>>562879254
When you own half with another half to go, you're a conqueror.
When you own everything, you're just a glorified janitor.
Always have to leave something to be controlled.

>>562869326
I remember back when only /hgg2d/ talked about this.
This lizard-thing was a trap, right?

>>562884251
Yes? I mean, it's extremely obvious ingame, he barely hides it.

>>562881062
spiritualists never become guardians of the galaxy I think

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gosh i wish that was me

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It's been a while since I played Stellaris, what kinda civ should I play? I've done Shroud and cyborgs I think

>>562894619
hmmm... what do you feel like doing? maybe try democratic crusaders and suffer not the tyrant to live?

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>>562894619
What about the fascist GDI?

>>562896351
>>562896673
Is the new heat planet stuff fun? What about biomorphs?

>>562897815
>>>/vst/gsg/

>>562898681
I dont have the 3 most recent DLCS so I don't know.
I do want to get them though.

>>562898908
Do the worry, I don't even own the game myself

>>562898681
volcano worlds are weird

Great Khan is such cancer after the ship nerfs. Did they forget to nerf non empire ships too? Why are they spamming 40k power fleets when 20 is like the reasonable max for an empire?

No one can handle them and either the Khan suicides into a precursor or just takes everything over.

>>562900985
I don't know but they might have.
Also, apparently crisis strength affects the power of mid game crisis's as well if your above ensign difficulty.

oh Cetana's bullshit storm just spawns over every fallen empire and begins killing them...

>>562905854
yeah, she automatically kills one and gets massive bonuses against the rest

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Considering restarting, just doesn't seem too fun a game this'll be

>>562908185
Do it.

>>562908020
>check up on it
>FE only do like 10% damage to her
jesus, that's kind of lame

If Cetana REALLY wants to reward me for going along with her dumb plan, she should give me SEX.

>>562912292
is there a mod for that?

>>562912543
No idea.
But there is Stellaris rule 34.

bump

>>562898681
>volcanoes
Kinda like lithoids but better. The actual planets can be nice even if you're just a machine or highly adaptive organic
The crisis path is alright. Feels the weakest of all of them, but it's a bit thematic at least
>bio
Meat ships are neat, more specialized than mechanical ships, different eco specialization needs for way more food, took awhile to get used to growth states
All three different bio ascensions were also decent to try once at least, plus it adds options to existing shit like Clone Army origin
Behemoth crisis is really fun at the start but can get progressively more annoying midway

>>562908185
they need to make something that interacts with volcanos in zephon. That forest heavy terrain seems quite hostile but that will make it easy to defend.

>>562921367
I'm just still trying to figure out a good build order for Must We Suffer mutator
turning down wildlife definitely makes an earlier engineer way more viable but nothing feels quite right, i feel like i've got no units
researched scramblers but i don't even have a factory to output them yet
It is somewhat defensible but an awkward resource situation to balance and hollow warlord benefits more from open ground in the first place

>>562922352
the fast start mutator ( must we suffer) seems pretty sweet. I wonder what late game research feels like with that and the " Was I the greatest to ever live?" mutator that makes research compound

Have you tried the unlimited tile aquisition range mutator? " Was Zephon truly alive?" aka " Can AI be alive?" That one sounds fun and I wonder what limits are on it. Can I just acquire a tile next to an enemy base?

>>562922683
Haven't unlocked it yet, after my first couple games i've just ended up going independent every single one, either because i felt like it or because neither zephon or anchorite liked me; and i haven't made it a priority over getting the leader quest mutators done first since those two can technically be done any game.
>was i the greatest
also missed that one during my platinum scion playthrough because free antimatter sounded better than influence
The fast start can be convenient but it also confuses the build order a lot. Without it the build is very straight forward recruitment building->research lab (with it as your first tech)->resource gen building->hab block->holo theater all while bee lining for engineers in the tech tree. With it on you want to build a whole lot of stuff all at once in the first ten turns but are forced to choose, especially with being able to do a 2nd con yard turn 1 and a sub turn 15 engineer. But rushing the engineer too early delays your pop growth a lot and also puts you at military risk if you have other mutators on like the double unit production speed one. Lots of factors to manage
Also yeah volcanos are pretty awkward right now especially if they're not in a map edge or in the dead center

>>562923358
volcanos should either soot the soil for +food ( forget which civ game does this... civ3? ) and also be able to be offensively detonated

>confuses build order
bruh just apply creative thinking

>missed the mutator
feels bad. There arent many guides for these , i got the scion one but I wont be suprised if I miss the count one. I havent touched my active save in 10 days or so but you are motivating me to stop playing cards and being glued to the war footage . My AI told me i could save scum mutators by saving before the last turn ( or the end of days? ) but it does not work. I know about getting them on turn 0 but thats not very sportsman like- getting 2 or 3 off one playthrough I'd be okay with though

>>562835907
Generals 2 looked solid and those fucking retards blew it because they were probably doing focus group testing with a bunch of cross-eyed retards who wanted to play a MOBA or COD.

These fuckers could have ridden it high by doing the usual DLC faction grab, even worse is that they had plans for progression systems IIRC where you could at them to your roster (which ended up in that godawful C&C4 game).

It would have been peak, but instead they made 6 new sportsball games with gambling.

>>562923883
>bruh just apply creative thinking
Its not that hard but it just always leaves my early game feeling like i did something wrong even if i'm getting ahead whereas if the mutator is off there's a semi-rigid path to follow that then opens up afterwards. Just always thinking that i've done something less efficiently than i could've even if it's probably the best start possible.
>guides
i wasn't using it until rogue operative. I need to go back through and pick up all the ones i missed since Hollow Warlord is the last leader i need to play to have tried them all. Think i'm missing Platinum Scion, Infinite Count, Furtive Tribunal, Hollow Warlord, maybe fallen soldier or heartless artificer but i don't remember, pretty sure i did their quests but maybe picked a neutral mutator option
and then i need to play them all again with their mutators on for the additional Voice chats and then the new leaders and just
taking it one at a time right now

>>562925159
you are way the hell ahead of me. I do want to get deep into voice chats though. they added a mechanic similar to voice chats to city of heroes recently, very based. Fallen Soilder is another one i blind picked. I intend to try the warlord after my count run - i want to try warlord + jets ( please do not do this you will drive me insane with fomo :V else dont post too hard about it) cyber vehicals with warlord sounds interesting to.

>>562925628
>i want to try warlord + jets
well now i have to
>cyber
the drone stuff would be good for farming influence and i do have the all affinities mutator on? Chayots are always good siege weapons, more fun than tank spam...
hmm, if it was easier to do the research dip for anti-grav bays and chayots i'd 100% do it

>>562881062
Fallen empires are all scripted to job against Cetana, they do like 90% less damage against her ships

>>562926163
once you get the tech that gives you a discount on both non default affinities alternate technologies become cheap, especially with the global cyber research discount tech ( i think this is universal and not platinum scion exclusive- i hate that I can't look at what every leader does for the tech tree online, that and quest rewards can be more pivotal than their initial passives)

the cyber bus is hella nice. i hope we get some kind of f-zero themed unit for cybers at some point.

>>562927950
>both non default affinities alternate technologies become cheap, especially with the global cyber research discount tech
still takes extra turns that could be going for t7-10 stuff
>new units
honestly every affinity needs at least one more air unit though something like that should probably be another hero

>>562928831
levraging leader abilities with units they are not nearly as designed around can be very fruitful though. regenerating flesh of the fallen soilder with crila witches or platinum scion's discount on spamming units with voice units both come to mind ( he benefits from their influence bonus operations too)

>>562929130
Sure being able to hit and run with a vanquisher so you can always get an accurate shot off sounds pretty solid but at the same time is that sidetrack worth it when you could just bee line for elohim maelstroms instead? Turns spent researching the structure, turns spent researching the unit, and then turns spent building the both of them could instead be used to just expand the production of what you already have going on. Diversifying like that really only seems to be worth it once you've already hit tech ten and at that point its basically too late to be worth it. If you were to increase the number of techs needed per tier to advance to the next you would definitely see more cross pathing because then it'd just be more efficient usage but you'd also have to shift the End of Days later

>>562930709
you can change the techs required to go up a tier and the end of days length in the game settings .

The time to get sidegrades is when your lower tiers take 2-3 turns and the next tier takes 4-5 turns, aka, when you need more research buildings. If you are busy building other stuff or maybe waiting for a specific high yield research tile then you have more time for side grades. I ended up trying crila witches with atlas tanks beacuse my fallen soilder run gave me a quest to build witches.

also consider that rushing to tier 10 makes the end of days happen faster, if you dick around in the lower end of the tech tree you hold back the end of days.

>>562912292
There used to be Captureable Cetana lewd mod.. Its not longer updated tho.

What are some longer origins in this game? Is Coomic Dawn any good?

How do we solve the Stellaris problem

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>>562933681
>Coomic Dawn

>>562940337
Which one? It has so many.

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>>562930709
you inspired me to get off my ass and keep working on my save. Just got my first crodeus on the map this turn. Played 2 turns and the game swapped when i used my elect to swap position with my crodeus over a cliff.

the first save i ran of zephon ran like absolute shit despite gladius running smooth as hell. I used to have to wait almost 20 minutes between turns and I would read passages on a richard bandler book on neurolinguistic programming between turns. The game would take almost half an hour just to start up and load before now I can get in in under 5 minutes, when my web browser isn't too full to close without a PC reboot at least.

i always play with one of every faction enabled , this game has evolved into a big ass 3v3 war that looks quite fair and impressive. I've been clearing out space for a third city but idk if I want to spend the time to get enough loyalty to get it up and running - its turn 90 i doubt its worth it.

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>>562949628
game stops me from alt tabbing in the later turns too, its weird
Better finish the game quick since the free update is tomorrow
if your game pace is normal then yeah turn 90 is too late to get a third city and have it be productive in time to actually help the Last Days on Earth, probably want it up by turn 60-65 to truly be worth it and then you can entertain a 4th if you think the game will go long so it can be a pure unit producer
God i wish the crodeus was better. Deleting a late game non-titan is nice but they're still so shit at combat otherwise

>>562950234
I'm on a pirate copy so I don't update as frequently. my pirate site has been updating patch by patch so it wont be long before its on there. I still don't have to pay upkeep on operations lol

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That's one fucked up turnip patch.

Stellaris is the only good 4x game

>>562955459
buy an ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwWh1xy6gvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7XV9fRAhu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2DEpC2oMws
What the FUCK is up with ye old RTS games featuring absolutely lit mixtapes?

>>562956387
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbSPb0bFmms
we've come along way

also the music in gladius and zephon is fantastic. the fucking 808s and 2011 golfwang synths in gladius especially

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Finally got enough breathing room to think about making this look nicer. What'd you think about turning the old tree farm into a relaxation bay with town wrapping around it and moving the bakeries across the soon not to be shitty river?

>>562954925
Why the dynamite?

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>>562963730
The wheat must grow.

>>562772147
every time

>>562884351
I haven't played it, just going off what I remember from lurking /hgg2d/ back in Fumika days.

Some decent songs
Endless Legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhG6Qaij7VE
Beyond Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrFX9rXfYQY
Starcraft 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzxdczZKjY

>>562974068
He's hot.

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>>562716445
btw Frostpunk 2 is getting a second dlc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPEBF9XL1Qs

How was the first dlc anyway?

>>562757519
I do the same thing and always die of starvation or thirst my first drought.

>>562976183
Biggest mistake I made in that one was not rushing metal floors and beehives with processed food. Also kept wondering where the fuck are my mangroves.

any interesting fantasy rts with many races and cool voice lines?

>>562977812
Warcraft 3

And there is this small tech demo from the Dust Front developers. They show off the destruction in their game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQthkIpbXcg

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>hmm I hear manor lords got a big update let's play it again
>they changed the old techtree unlocks into some kind of card system where you pick specializations with advantages and downsides
>only the very first one is actually in
>there's now less to progress towards than before
>also vegetable plots now cost six million wealth so you better start with a rich food source or die
sasuga early access

>>562983559
Wasn't this game supposed to be some huge thing or was I fed marketing lies

>>562991428
People were hyping it up here and on /v/ for reasons that mystified me. Either he actually paid for people to promote it on 4chan, or it became the object of some kind of discord group's attention, because it was really weird to see a game like that get so much attention and hype.

IIRC, they kept comparing it to Total War of all things, and I know the Total War fandom is currently in a state of civil war / rebellion against the developer, so it might've just been part of that.

>>562991590
DEI gotta make a DEI alternative to every game ever. have u seen the version of F zero where captain falcon looks like ambessa from reague of regends? lmao

CIV DID CARDS WE BETTER DO CARD DRAFT TOO AAAA

>>562991428
It got a lot of attention because
>it actually looked nice
>has battles
>muh heckin free build!!! (you only freebuild basic houses, roads, fields and pastures, the rest is static buildings)
>historically accurate or some shit
after the inital hype the devs fucked off for like a year to work on big new updates, that are all half-baked and most content is marked as coming soon

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>>562993340
Sounds like the average EA game

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Finally, my boys are coming to Age of Mythology.

>>562991590
>I know the Total War fandom is currently in a state of civil war / rebellion against the developer
To be honest, already in Shogun 2 people bitched. I saw people bitching that CA abandoned "civilization" to focus on "the gooks".

>>562991590
>the Total War fandom is currently in a state of civil war / rebellion against the developer
Is that just because of Warhammer/40K? A valid crashout, but sadly big IPs are probably the best bet for some niche game genres to survive.

>>563008680
No it's been going on longer than that. WH40k was just the latest reason for them to lay into CA. They've been upset for a long time.

>>562991590
>the Total War fandom is currently in a state of civil war / rebellion
When are they not?

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Whenever I decide to try the Teuton, I get a ghastly reminder of how insanely tough the Teutonic Knights are.
Once fully upgraded, they deal 25 damage per swing, to buildings. And they swing fast. I dare not imagine them against Eagle Warriors or Karambit Warriors.

*farts*

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We'll smoke that bandit for ya
>>563010441
its a little worse right now given that tw40k is for fucking consoles and we're in a complete dearth of content, the nearest announcement is for shitty tigermen and the actual important shit isn't coming until end of summer

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We call this an escort mission

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And that's victory

>>563032239
Congratulations anon!

>>563038417
Now to wait for patch before going back over any of the mutators i missed

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>>563040769
Forgot this
kind of fucking absurd how strong of a force the anchorite's dickload of infantry was that it was legitimately about to wipe the heartless artificer if i didn't send a few tanks up to relieve her some

removing empire size from stellaris was the best decision i have made in a long time

Should I give empire earth 2 and 3 another chance?

>>563043479
what was your breakaway point? third city?

how many hours are you zephoning a day? 12?

>>563055056
the third city was up by turn 60 or so which is when eco broke away
the military chart breakaway happened once i got hangars up to get out some interceptors along with the assault troopers since i skipped vulcans and tanks don't contribute that much (still a little miffed tanks and jaegers are the same tier)
not that long, played from like 5.5 to 6 hours to finish up and won't start another until tonight

>>563056353
>6 hours is a 'quick' 4x game
how was the biker leader with jets synergy?

>>563056457
>6 hours is quick
that was for finishing up from halfway, that game as a whole probably took 10+ hours but broken up over 2-3 days
>jets
zero tech bonus for them, horde mandate is just good in general and would've been great for them if i had pressed that button more
really he's just solid because generating influence every time a unit fires meant i had 2k influence banked up at one point so i could always buy enough resources to keep making more stuff (plus a free global 9 loyalty)
it works but his specific unit buffs are pretty weak overall, its just getting an additional model for scramblers as far as i can tell and then the tier ten 10% production cost discount (not resource cost).
still, felt somewhat in line with him to use them when i normally skip them

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Project wet blanket is a go. are beavers not in vogue itt anymore? Hardly want to be annoying trying to talk about a game no one gives a fuck about.

>>563061352
actually i think beaver game is the second coolest game in the thread after zephon. These screenshots are just pleasing to look at

>in vouge
be less gay

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>>563046286
The second, yeah. Not the third.

>>563061352
I mean I read your're are posts, but what can I say beside "huh, neat", or "wait so have you actually expanded your wheat crops" or "man I miss getting spanked with a leather belt and then getting pegged until I came by a college girl who never watched a bloody movie in her life beside the Grinch".

>>563061539
Vogue, not vouge, you uncultured swine. A vouge is a polearm.

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>>563061539
>be less gay
If spiderfag is still around, and going by the op he is, I can be as gay as I want and still not qualify for the gayest poster.

>>563061603
Shit, I dunno man. I picked up the game again after a about a year and just feel like talking about it. Plus gotta do something while planks and tnt production catches up to my megalomania vanity projects.

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>>563062190
I would appreciate you not throwing me under the bus when I'm trying to chat with you, thank you.

>>563062190
be gay somewhere else. don't change but don't broadcast either that is why so many people hate your kind.

>>563062190
okay what the fuck is that

>>563061352
It's in my backlog, but I have currently too much vidya to play and too little time. You will see me blogposting about it when I get around to play it.
In the meantime, please do keep blogposting about it.

>>563062576
I know you enjoy getting bullied.

>>563062912
Residential area bordering a lake resort and secondary food hub? Every path is dark green if you're concerned about access.

>>563063427
Not that. Why are you sacrificing good watered land for habs instead of MORE farms?

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>>563063529
HOA doesn't let me zone that area for wheat. The bastards.

>>563064320
>all platforms
what the fuck

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>>563064830
Get the idea? It's metal plates under the platform and yet more goddamn wheat above.

>>563064956
What do the metal plates do? Prevent the water from lowering?

>>563065316
Drastically reduce passive drainage or loss to evaporation. Really hands off way to irrigate your fields during those 30+ droughts but a bitch to setup.

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>>563065674
Ha, if it mitigates evaporation too, then I'm interested.

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>>563065842
I usually setup ditches like these asap because nothing sucks more than having no lumber income. You can have a couple with plates under them and they'll keep an area above green for insane number of days. I think related was at quarter capacity after 26 days but you can stretch that number way higher if you have secondary feeds and tanks. Like for example a 980 two deep tiles reservoir under your fields.

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My man. You're in a water reservoir that's quite literally under 12 large water containers.

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>>563071565
urgh I have nothing to eat

>>563071638
>not an mre or offbrand redbull in sight
Couldn't be mine. But fair is fair, there's at least a months worth of protein in roaches alone in there.

>living off red bull chinese knockoff and MRE
Disgusting. No wonder Americans have no culinary history.

>>563071638
>flapjack
>quak
>goy

>>563071638
Somehow that pantry angered people.

>>563071638
>>563079092
Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Spiderfag's pantry.

>>563079395
You mean briefs?

Been going through my backlog and I have gave XCOM Chimera Squad a go.
It is actually a lot of fun.

>>563079480
No, as in, food closet.
>>563079870
Why did they started to make capeshit instead of XCOM.

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>>563079395
>>563079970
I won't show it. I have food hoarding issues and I have food all around my place.

>>563077962
Trust me, smoked pork with peas, chicken mushrooms and taters or beef in buckwheat beats the provided mess-hall cardboard and dogfood alternative when I'm doing stints abroad.

>>563083786
>smoked pork
...why smoked pork? Why not smoked chicken? I love chicken. The Asian restaurant has chicken curry and I love that shit.

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>have masterplan of making cave dwelling noxious pops with all the habitability maluses because i have 80% minimum habitability no matter what
>never have to worry about terraforming because every planet just works
>go for evolutionary predators since they can get mutation ascension traits for even more minimum habitability bonuses
>turns out mutation is bugged as fuck and normal habitability bonuses start working again because the negative maximum habitability from noxious disappeared somehow
>the negative habitability trait now fucks me up for no reason
anyways thats what i get for trying to make something "smart" in a game made by swedish accessory salesmen

>>563084338
I've no idea. I order mine online and latvian army mre, no4 I think, is smoked pork with mixed peas, 2 bars of good chocolate, 2 bags of very good instant coffee, a cup of real honey, a bag of mixed nuts and dried fruit, rice pudding with dried blueberries and some very good if chewy bread. Again, beats the everloving fuck out of the usual alternative and it's like 5e for the lot when you buy in bulk.

>>563085386
What the fuck kind of luxurious MRE is that? I thought all MREs were like tofu and hardstack.

>>563085582
they have a standing army of like 5 men so they can afford to feed them well

>>563085789
They're also overproducing enough to sell them on the internet.
Also I thought Latvia was the country Dr Doom was from.

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I played XCOM EW Normal Ironman and want to play XCOM 2 now but there's so many knobs I don't know how to set it up for first play, getting conflicting answers from google. Basically do I enable all dlc or disable something? integrate DLC or not?

>>563084971
>swedish accessory
Just call it as it is, baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh6kbQnOAg4

>>563084338
pork has way more flavor than chicken

>>563085882
nu xcom is gay play the original

>>563085882
RWP and anarchy children are shitty cosmetic dlc I personally can't stand but you do you. Imagine: we must exfil this scientist and there's someone in shorts, a punk leather vest and a mohawk waiting for you. Alien hunters adds several unique and borderline cheat items but you don't have to use them and they come with a fun mission iirc. Wotc is worth it for the reapers and notzombie missions if nothing else.

>>563085582
It's not really luxurious but it's pretty tasty and on the cheap. When I can't find those or say some of the more eastern ones, because they come with real meat instead of some paste on pasta, I usually buy german army mres and those fuckers are expensive.

Good night, anons.

>>563094284
Good night anon.

>>562716445
Frostpunk 1886 dev diary 1: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/323190/view/497224400633857168

I noticed that some of you were talking about XCOM and I have some things to say:
Firaxis has made some bad decisions in the last few years. Midnight Suns and Civilization 7 have not been as successful as some may have hoped. Lots of layoffs occurred and many of the XCOM developers are no longer at Firaxis.
A new company named Bit Reactor was formed and it is composed of many former XCOM developers. They game they are developing is Star Wars Zero Company.

Long story short: You might not get XCOM 3 but you will get at least one more game from the XCOM developers.

>>563097242
I'm so jaded about hearing about new projects from "devs who made that game you like from 20 years ago". Seen it over and over again...

>>563097242
>A new company named Bit Reactor was formed and it is composed of many former XCOM developers. They game they are developing is Star Wars Zero Company.
Grim, but it's the way of things. Old development team stops being the devs, new team owns the IP and hopefully honors it, new team stops being the devs and hopefully the next team makes something decent. That reminds me, I wonder how Phoenix Point is doing; I know it's changed pretty dramatically since release.

Oh, and
>Civilization 7 have not been as successful as some may have hoped. Lots of layoffs occurred and many of the XCOM developers are no longer at
Fucking good. They deserve all the egg on their face for panic copying the worst aspects of Humankind and stapling it onto the worst aspects of Civ 6. And for forgetting their target audience: Mildly history-inclined normalfags and autistic history nerds. People want to play the known cool civs like the Brits and the Aztecs, not meme shit that even historians don't geek out over like fucking Buganda or the Mississippi indians.

>>563110875
The mississippi indians are a cool lost civilization, we just don't know a lot about them. Which makes putting them in the game kind of pointless. There's a reason the same well-documented civs feature strongly. They have a more robust history to pull from, with lots of different leaders in different eras. Fucking Buganda? Are they serious?

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>xenophile FE actually gets off its ass and fights the gay tempest
honestly didn't expect that, you do sometimes find bits of soul in stellaris

>>563088189
Pork requires more food and infrastructure to raise than chicken.

>>563088391
You could just, y'know, learn to cook, too.

>>563110875
DEI

>>563113180
thats where the flavor comes from

>>563110875
>their target audience: Mildly history-inclined normalfags and autistic history nerds
I was really surprised and disappointed when I decided to try Civ recently and found out about this, I thought people play it for gameplay like Brogue and DCSS but turns out they treat it as little more than The Sims.

>>563114845
you're dumb, civ has always been babby's first "history" game

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>>563111070
>mississippi indians are a cool lost civilization
They're neat but again they're not something people geek out over. Along your line of thought most discussion about them approaches them more as a fun bit of trivia/mystery rather than as actual people or culture we can explore and trace.
>Are they serious?
I sperged out about it last thread after another anon complained about Brits not being in base VII and I decided to look into it. The bongs got added later as DLC, but that doesn't change that the launch lineup was fucking weird and a number of Civ mainstays (Aztec, Babylon, Zulu) are still snubbed in VII to this day. Bafflingly Buganda and the Mughals count as a modern age Civ and are contemporary with major industrial powers, and I genuinely can't fucking accept societies that were completely conquered by Europeans before the American revolution began as modern.

>>563113921
>DEI
I'm conviced this is why we had Indian representation in every era at launch while omitting Aztec/Babylon/English/Zulu civs. At least with China it's pretty much been one homogenous civilization throughout their history, the Indian subcontinent was always a hodgepodge of different ethnic and religious groups with distinct kingdoms that didn't claim succession or lineage from one another, until the Bongs lumped them all together for administrative reasons. And on a macro level the average normalfag doesn't give a shit about the jeets unless it's to talk about Indian food or yoga.

>>563114845
Yeah, Civ has always been more on the pop history/casual side of things. To make a /tg/ coded analogy, Civ's mechanics are like Cataan where it's accessible for everyone to play. Meanwhile the more autistic/crunchy types tend to find Paradox's strategy games like Vicky and HOI more their speed, which in this analogy would be like playing a tabletop historical wargame.

>>563116194
>mississippi indians
I believe they were added cause they tried to create a continuous north american civ progression. So Mississippi -> Shoshone -> America. And they were pretty much one of the few from that far ago that had any form of history to go by.

The "modern" era is poorly titled. They should've called it the industrial era since its obvious the game is going to have a proper modern era added later. Since the Mughals fit more into that era. Whats funny about England not being a launch civ is the victory screen for the eco victory in the modern era is literally downtown London with the UK flag on full display and everything.

Its very clear the civ 7 devs were rushed to hell by the empty suits at 2k after how badly a few other their games bombed hard. So they forced them to shit Civ 7 out cause the line must always go up. The amount of shit missing from the game at launch was inexcusable for a dev team that has been making civ games for years. For fucks sake you STILL can only trade cities in peace deals. How the hell do you launch a 4x game where you cant even ask for money?

Even though every civ game launches a little undercooked im worried 7 has too many deep flaws too far engraved into the core mechanics that will never get working right even if they're allowed time to try and fix it.

>>563122887
In the historical context, "modern" means "post-medieval". For Europe the modern era starts around 1500 AD, though it's usually delineated into "early modern", "industrial" and "contemporary" eras.

>>563123197
I get that. But in context of the game its why it was a poor choice to title it that. Since the 2nd age in game is the exploration age, which is mostly in the early modern era. Just another example of why the era system itself is one of those core systems that will never work right.

I forgot to mention in my post but Buganda is hilarious in its addition, not just from the "literally who" aspect but they're useless gameplay wise as well. Since their entire gimmick is based around pillaging which is pretty much never used in that era.

I'm gonna play a xenophile empire with xeno-compatability.
I will TAME space with dick.

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>>563125657

bros I'm addicted to playing gestalts

consumer goods is such a fucking pain to deal with now

>>563126220
it is until it isn't
and having high happiness worlds is worth the early pain due to it boosting production by a good amount

>>563123197
>modern" means "post-medieval
Renaissance is not modern and you cannot convince me otherwise
modern starts around enlightenment era when centralized nation-states became the real powers and war started becoming shitty in a new way with artillery dominance

>>563127960
>you cannot convince me otherwise
Then there's no point in talking with you. Enjoy talking to yourself.

>rolled Arc Furnaces and Dyson swarms early
allah be praised...

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>>563125657
Ah, yes. A Captain Kirk style Federation.

>>563125657
do NOT fuck the prethoryn

>>563143491
I will TAME that hivemind with my DICK.