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PKPenguin321 wrote:fixing it is half the fun

That's why you should be playing Bethesda games, my African-American brother!

Yeah, not sure on the 1.0 ETA since it's being left intentionally vague so that he has time to finish it, so that's fine. Went to check and see if .19 was worth upgrading to, but I think I'll go back to .18 to use the huge modlist I've compiled over time, there's not really much in .19 that is worth the headache of getting everything running together again.

Floiven wrote:Yeah, not sure on the 1.0 ETA since it's being left intentionally vague so that he has time to finish it, so that's fine. Went to check and see if .19 was worth upgrading to, but I think I'll go back to .18 to use the huge modlist I've compiled over time, there's not really much in .19 that is worth the headache of getting everything running together again.

most mods are updated for B19 already. imo no reason to stay on B18 anymore

Fug, never had to face a coalition before. Not a fan of the European dogpile on top of the empire-wide rebellion that came with me eating the entirety of Mexico in one war.

I'm not even sure how I did it, but I won despite being 5 tech levels behind with a shitty Navy. Inca is probably the most fun I've had with EU4

The coalition formed and DoW me in the span of a couple of months. I also had Ming and a few European allies who all abandoned me as it happened.

I had like 80 aggressive expansion and 260% over extension, not to mention recently annexing a vassal, giving me -9 diplomatic reputation

Fortunately the only superpower involved in the war was France, as I had an ongoing truce with Spain, England and Russia

Still a huge pain in the ass, because all those small countries basically refuse to accept defeat in a coalition war

Unrest on small countries doesn't help you though
It just means they'll get some shitty peasant rebels that will unsiege your occupation, enforce their demands and then the little shits buy some mercs/rebuild an army and they'll fuck about in your land

Also you should probably give Mexico to a colonial nation, just..Fuck it, not your problem?

I was too busy grabbing land in my own continent to get anything substantial in North America before it was all taken. I still ended up with one Colony after I wiped out Holland and assumed lordship over all their vassals. Wasn't expecting this and they hate me because I'm way behind in diplo tech + my massive mercantilism. I'm actually fighting an independence war right now and I can't get a good landing on their lands before they wipe me out. I need to quickly invest in transports.



Spain is a fucking spain in my ass

CosmicScientist wrote:>-9 diplo rep
did you annex three at once? It stacks?! I miss the times of -1 diplo rep or at least I think it was that.

Overextension alone gave me -6 diplo rep
Annexing is another -3 rep
Europe hates me too and they keep sabotaging my reputation to counter all my positive modifiers

One war after another, Europe keeps DoW me. Now that I’ve defeated the Revolution and decapitated their budding Monarchy, England wants a piece of me. They’re only sending their hilariously massive Navy to deal with me leaving their colonies that cover most of North America to fight the land war. It’s actually pretty tough as they’re united against me and is still 3 tech levels above me.

Ming is useless. They always abandon me in larger wars and they’re getting manhandled by Russia and the Hordes. They have 0 mandate with negative growth so I expect them to implode fairly soon. Portugal is helpful as their large navy kept the carribean safe. That is, until the English Royal Navy came. I think I managed to get an alliance with them because they fear my army size, and we have no contested borders.

Rising Storm 2 is nice
Even if I've yet to figure out how to avoid just dying
Or how to spot enemies reliably in any variation of jungle

Or really how to do anything other than urban fighting. That's a thing I'm actually good at. Shame there's only one map that's actually vaguely urban
For the emphasis the Vietnam war had on guerrilla warfare, the maps sure as fuck don't lend themselves to it. It's all a straight push with essentially no chance to flank the enemy

XSI wrote: For the emphasis the Vietnam war had on guerrilla warfare, the maps sure as fuck don't lend themselves to it. It's all a straight push with essentially no chance to flank the enemy

what maps have you been playing ligga

Every single one is like that because once you actually start to flank or get behind the enemy for a good attack
>Enemy controlled zone
>Your gun stops fucking working

I mean, if you get *too far* behind, sure.
But I've found most of my best sharpshooter setups about 45° behind an enemy-held objective, and that still at a range of roughly 150m.

>150m
>Not wanting to be at at least 350m
I'll take 200-250 but it's still uncomfortably close
Either get me long range or close enough that I can whip out my dick and slap them with it. None of those in between bullshit

I'll agree on the 45 degrees though, that's a sweetspot for many objectives

You're not going to get long-range in the jungle, unless you're playing An Lao, which gives you about 250m.
And I fucking love An Lao, not least because I also play pilot a lot.

Maybe not the jungle, but there's a few maps with great sightlines that you can't use because they're technically outside the map

I can fly helicopters fairly well myself. Landing them though. That's an entirely different beast
Landing them in a way that I can walk away from it that is. Making it get on the ground is easy. Making the heli and squad in it survive that is not

XSI wrote:Maybe not the jungle, but there's a few maps with great sightlines that you can't use because they're technically outside the map

I can fly helicopters fairly well myself. Landing them though. That's an entirely different beast
Landing them in a way that I can walk away from it that is. Making it get on the ground is easy. Making the heli and squad in it survive that is not

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also this playlist

Yeah the 'frontline' mechanic is one of the things I've hated about the rising storm games.

My favourite map from RO was that one in summer where one side had to assault some trenches and then capture a building next to a rail line.
LOTTSSS of opportunities for flanking with a sniper rifle and picking cunts off

Today I learned how to play pointman and use the claymore.
Using it to pop a tunnel plus the squad that just spawned on it is fun.

I'm still torn on grease gun v XM177, though, and I've been told the M2 isn't actually as bad as I've been told.

I installed VTM Bloodlines again.

brb, doing the same

I played Frozen Synapse 2 for a few hours and was having lots of fun managing the incursions, contracts and investing in other factions so I don't get boned by deployment rng (spawning next to a shotgun is a teamwipe most of the time) but then some bug or whatever broke my savefile and I lost my progress refunding that shit until it's playable, still recomend it though!

CK2 is hilarious. Played through the Leon tutorial and now I’m on my second generation in England. I laugh so much at pretty much everything that happens in this game.

Back to Mein Kraft.

Building chink shit.

MTG Arena is out of beta. It's pretty pretty good, don't really know if economy is reasonable. And I suck at MTG anyway.

CK2 is hands-down the best story generator game I've ever played

King Robert IV of England died in his chambers under suspicious circumstances, so his plans of legitimizing his Bastard Son never came to fruition, leaving the crown unexpectedly to a young Princess Marthe, the first Queen of England. The old King was a terrible womanizer and held 4 lovers in addition to his wife, and fathered many children. Naturally this meant there were several attempts on Marthe's life.

Everyone hated her. Even her own mother the Queen Mother tried to have her assassinated. The pope excommunicated her while she was afflicted with Typhoid Fever. The lack of a powerful monarch meant a few Dukes of England were able to seize much power themselves and they controlled the Council. England was losing its grip on Ireland and her own demesne was suffering from revolts and plagues so money was tight.

Somehow, 10 years later, the Council is basically a rubber-stamp that passes whatever law she pleases, everyone in the realm is loyal to her (even the ones she imprisoned), and Queen Marthe of England is now known as Empress Marthe the Crusader of Britannia, Hero of the Crusade and was granted southern Hispania by the Pope who excommunicated her earlier. From the worst start of a reign to the best monarch I've ever had. And she's only 26.

dat mary sue doe

>Those siblings
>Almost all dead
That probably helped

50% =! almost all

It is if you consider that the only adult one has no titles
No threats remain from there

you were referring to siblings, not to siblings with titles

But who killed the king?

also I just checked DLC prices for ck2 and holy shit >275 dosh total what the actual fuck

My whole line of succession consisted of just my sisters for a long time. I imprisoned a few of them which was why Mother was so pissed off. There’s also quite a few Dukes in my prison as well.

Also I bought the game + DLC when it was on sale for about 100$? I think it goes -75% for the base and -50% for the major DLCs. The cosmetic stuff is very much optional

Malkevin wrote:But who killed the king?

The plot was sophisticated and I never learned the identity of the plotter. Could have been anyone, he was quite hated as well. Probably a Duke, but there were many enemies in the realm. It doesn't help that since everyone hated him the only loyal Spymaster he could hire was his own mother.

Stellaris is at 40bux base and 140 DLC
You can probably drop a little bit off the dlc because that includes shit like the ebooks

been thinking of trying to get into private server mmos since there are no good ones out right now, any suggestions?

wotlk or tbc private servers are the only right answer

ive never played wow before though, so i dunno if that'd be a problem

I think the star wars galaxies private server is still up and active

Deitus wrote:ive never played wow before though, so i dunno if that'd be a problem

The fact that you didn't play an entry-tier MMO before won't be a problem you silly goose.

You ignored Rimworld?

PKPenguin321 wrote:You ignored Rimworld?

fuckin game is amazing. Plus all of the mods for it. I was tinkering with the 40k mod the other day.

Every single time I check, Rimworld looks like it's one of those 'Almost great' games that just never gets there
Mods try, but being mods, they don't always manage to help

XSI wrote:Every single time I check, Rimworld looks like it's one of those 'Almost great' games that just never gets there
Mods try, but being mods, they don't always manage to help

for me mods made the experience several magnitudes better (right up until i completely broke the game). rimworld mods are rich in both simple QoL/UI stuff and new features/balance overhauls, and there's an incredible amount of variety and content to experience. not sure what you mean by "mods being mods," sound a bit handwavey

i honestly dont get half of what you just said
you dislike killboxes?

Killing enemies with combat is the small smooth-brained solution.

Big, wrinkle brains lure their enemies into a long hallway filled with wood at one end and seal them in moments before setting the wood on fire. It's always fun to watch them try to break the granite walls with their bare hands, but it won't help

honestly just get the embrasures mod if you hate killboxes. it gives an actual alternative to base defense that, while powerful, doesn't outright nullify everything in the game like killboxes do.

CosmicScientist wrote:

PKPenguin321 wrote:You ignored Rimworld?

New word for steam's not interested option because... I don't know but I hear there was a database or system migration since a fair number of users had their data deleted, especially those who hit not interested on all items in the shop for shits and giggles.

Or if that's not what you meant, I just didn't like the design direction and a lot of the small things despite it being dorf fort but with a user interface and a way to set up continuous jobs of make X until you have Y then ignore until stockpile is down to Z that was removed from the lazy newb pack on dorf at some point. Still don't know why turrets, deadfall trap corridors and killboxes filled with attack-preventing boulders became the norm after Tynan said he was upset his wild western shooter simulation was being ignored before the deadfall traps existed.

Did Tynan ever fix the I crash landed on this planet that apparently had my mother in a pirate raid so now I'm going to set the colony on fire because she died?

Standing Orders were removed from the Lazy Newb pack because Toady added them natively to the manage jobs screen.

>want to get into dwarf fortress
>get basics down, ready to start watching my dorfs get into all kinds of story-worthy shennanigans
>day ?????
>nothing happens
>one dude made a heirloom rock or something but he just threw it in his closet for safekeeping
>no attacks despite my well-equipped military
>get bored and quit

should i just shell out for rimjobworld if i want a story creator then?

>Nothing happens
I don't believe you. You must not have digged down far enough

Embark on a purple location, then you will experience !!FUN!!
Or play 40d, as that was the last version where things were balanced correctly and all the special events happened magically on predictable triggers instead of requiring things to be in place on the world map.

Edit: Holy shit, 40d is over ten years old now!!