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new maps etc should help a lot if they do indeed come. That being said it's kind of hard to judge the longevity of Red Dragon. If there isn't a large player migration I could see it going a while, but the community is a lot more... toxic than it was during the earlier games and I think that will negatively impact its mutliplayer life.
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Shanakin posted:Just be aware that the multiplayer focused balance patches for EE had a detrimental effect on the balance of the campaigns, although the last one is apparently still good. EE's campaigns remind me of classic RTS campaigns like age of empires etc where you start off with given units and a set piece battle and maybe have some interesting and unique objectives beyond just kill lots of stuff. I didn't play EE until this past August, but it was still a good experience. I regret purchasing ALB and RD, though. Online isn't my thing to begin with, and the community of these games is awful.
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Nov 27, 2014 16:28
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At least with RD I find that Skirmish mode goes a lot farther since: 1. The AI is still a cheater, but not nearly as bad as ALB. 2. You can assign it whatever decks you want to make some fun matchups.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:At least with RD I find that Skirmish mode goes a lot farther since: Have they changed around the skirmish mode AI since release? Because when i played that the AI was such a vast cheater it was hilarious, it was calling in so many units it was getting traffic jammed around its call in point, it got to the point where it was almost unwinnable because you were just sitting there against an innumerable horde of enemies that you couldnt bring in ammo fast enough to kill them all,
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Polyakov posted:Have they changed around the skirmish mode AI since release? Because when i played that the AI was such a vast cheater it was hilarious, it was calling in so many units it was getting traffic jammed around its call in point, it got to the point where it was almost unwinnable because you were just sitting there against an innumerable horde of enemies that you couldnt bring in ammo fast enough to kill them all, Well it at least doesn't constantly psychically snipe your CVs like the ALB AI did, so that's a bit of an improvement. Maybe its just me, but I find the Conquest mode AI cheats a fair bit more than the Destruction one. Whatever income boost the AI gets seems magnified in CQ. Switching to Destruction mode for skirmish has reduced my AI frustrations and increased my fun. They still don't build ships on non dedicated naval maps through 
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Hazamuth posted:They could always make a F2P -Wargame with random unit drops, abysmal balance and a slow grindy player progression from Cat C to Cat A where new accounts start with mixed Cat C -deck. Would unironically play this. In fact I bet this would be phenomenally profitable,
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Well it at least doesn't constantly psychically snipe your CVs like the ALB AI did, so that's a bit of an improvement. I still have yet to get my CV sniped by an AI in ALB, but otherwise basically yes. Honestly i just prefer destruction in the current Tanka Tough meta, mostly because the numbers popping up is satisfying and sitzkrieg is worthless in this meta.
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I used to get hidden stuff randomly smoked by artillery but never actually fired on with dangerous shells.
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Shanakin posted:I used to get hidden stuff randomly smoked by artillery but never actually fired on with dangerous shells. Oh yea totally, the ALB AI teaches players to never use forest recon because it will always be smoked, which is a bad lesson but different bad. Though "CV gets randomly sniped" is something that happens against humans, especially with clusters.
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Saw RD was on sale for 75% off was like oh hell yes I can spare  turns out no its only 50% its just advertised everywhere else as 75%
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Shanakin posted:new maps etc should help a lot if they do indeed come. That being said it's kind of hard to judge the longevity of Red Dragon. If there isn't a large player migration I could see it going a while, but the community is a lot more... toxic than it was during the earlier games and I think that will negatively impact its mutliplayer life. It's interesting just how dominated the player base is with hard right wing racist types simply because the game is real world military based. Are there no "nice" arm chair generals anymore? It seems if you like tanks you have a 90% chance of being a ridiculously racist nationalist fuckwit. I like tanks. I'm scared that i'm going to buy Mein Kampf any day now.
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's interesting just how dominated the player base is with hard right wing racist types simply because the game is real world military based. Are there no "nice" arm chair generals anymore? It seems if you like tanks you have a 90% chance of being a ridiculously racist nationalist fuckwit. I like tanks. I'm scared that i'm going to buy Mein Kampf any day now. You mean like this?  http://www.theonion.com/articles/peace-activist-has-to-admit-barrett-50-caliber-sni,234/ quote:BURLINGTON, VT—Despite his staunch opposition to the National Rifle Association and U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, peace activist Paul Robinson conceded Monday that the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle is "pretty drat cool."
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's interesting just how dominated the player base is with hard right wing racist types simply because the game is real world military based. Are there no "nice" arm chair generals anymore? It seems if you like tanks you have a 90% chance of being a ridiculously racist nationalist fuckwit. I like tanks. I'm scared that i'm going to buy Mein Kampf any day now. At least some of the goons playing this game are actual human beings, so don't sweat it.
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Elukka posted:How would you deal with with a combo of Longbows/Ka-50's sitting a few hundred meters behind a top tier tank? If there's sufficient AA to prevent you from killing the tank with planes or choppers you can't get your AA in range because the tank will kill it and you can't get your ground units in range of the tank because the chopper will kill them. Demoralizing the tank with arty can help a little bit but chances are it will still kill your AA. Do you have a specific example of this happening? Because the ranges involved don't really pan out except in very particular circumstances of terrain or you have a very deficient unit selection compared to theirs. The top end IR will engage helos a solid 1000m outside the tanks range, and to push the tank out to solve this should provoke your own use of ATGMs or helos or whatever. Now, being on the offensive against someone who can micro this type of thing well likely means they are smart enough to do other things, like dump artillery on any spotted AA, so there's not likely to be an easy solution except you know dumping AP MLRS fire when you can. That, and I would say the only thing that might be able to stop a AGM plane before it smokes the tank is the Patriot. I really only expect my AGM planes to kill one important thing so it's a trade off you learn to work with. Mazz fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Nov 27, 2014 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's interesting just how dominated the player base is with hard right wing racist types simply because the game is real world military based. Are there no "nice" arm chair generals anymore? It seems if you like tanks you have a 90% chance of being a ridiculously racist nationalist fuckwit. I like tanks. I'm scared that i'm going to buy Mein Kampf any day now. I remember the good old days when you get non-nationalist wierdness in the in game chat. Like the guy who posted a script for a gay porn version of black hawk down line by line.
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's interesting just how dominated the player base is with hard right wing racist types simply because the game is real world military based. Are there no "nice" arm chair generals anymore? It seems if you like tanks you have a 90% chance of being a ridiculously racist nationalist fuckwit. I like tanks. I'm scared that i'm going to buy Mein Kampf any day now. I added an unironic pubbie Trotskyist to my friends list and we chat about Jacoin articles when I see them online. But way too many Nazis otherwise.
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Agean90 posted:I remember the good old days when you get non-nationalist wierdness in the in game chat. Like the guy who posted a script for a gay porn version of black hawk down line by line. Link to script please. Regarde Aduck posted:It's interesting just how dominated the player base is with hard right wing racist types simply because the game is real world military based. Are there no "nice" arm chair generals anymore? It seems if you like tanks you have a 90% chance of being a ridiculously racist nationalist fuckwit. I like tanks. I'm scared that i'm going to buy Mein Kampf any day now. I think it's actually because the player-base is mostly European and this is just the baseline for white Europeans in terms of general racism.
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The forums are full of loud weird nationalists but I thought it was mostly the "DISCOVERY CHANNEL SAID ABRAMS BEATS EVERY TANK!" type. I can't say I've run into them in game. Unless you count the lobby chat. The lobby chat is universally terrible.Mange Mite posted:I think it's actually because the player-base is mostly European and this is just the baseline for white Europeans in terms of general racism.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:See, this is why I miss the Cat C bonuses from ALB, because there was nothing a horde of Mig-17s wouldn't solve. Zapp Brannigan's East German Air Force was the best way to play REDFOR on ALB.
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Mildly amusing: http://www.wargame-ee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=155&t=49681another505 posted:From Forum Rules: raventhefuhrer posted:Eh. I think he's toxic to the community and a significant hindrance to improving the game. Most of the marshals think so too - that's why so many of them have resigned and why so many others scarcely come onto the forums or play anymore. MadMat posted:Well, at least we agree on something once in a while ... Sokol fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Ran into this channel today: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCM2PfWdxRs2__3FfUBlU6w It's bad but not bad in a way, because they usually get in massive battles, and it teaches you how not to play the game, i.e. they never use recon, and move their units exclusively with move/move fast commands. Like, look at this poo poo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8PwJBcO-E That must be thousands of points of infantry getting wiped out by a few city block of US Riflemen. Plan Z fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Nov 30, 2014 |
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Are there any actually good YouTube channels? I'm bad at this game, so I'd love to see someone doing it right.
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-Anders posted:Are there any actually good YouTube channels? I'm bad at this game, so I'd love to see someone doing it right. Someone here was making good videos, but only did like three of them and stopped. Most people on Youtube I see are pretty bad. It's a shame, because there are some parts of the game I want to get better at.
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Plan Z posted:Someone here was making good videos, but only did like three of them and stopped. Most people on Youtube I see are pretty bad. It's a shame, because there are some parts of the game I want to get better at. That would be me. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4L4Z8rfzCpJlNPFkelFsfi73Vrz0OsU 
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How exactly did MadMat's relationship with the community deteriorate so fast? He was always like this, but it seems he's gotten infinitely worse over the past few months.
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It's almost like people are being banned for being right!
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Xerxes17 posted:That would be me. These are actually very good and informative, it's a shame you've stopped doing them.
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-Anders posted:Are there any actually good YouTube channels? I'm bad at this game, so I'd love to see someone doing it right. I like SaucyNetwork and VulcanHDGaming.
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-Anders posted:These are actually very good and informative, it's a shame you've stopped doing them. I might start doing them again in the near future.
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According to Orcbuster, panzer grenadiers are finally getting some Nerf (or equalization to other shock troops)
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OctaMurk posted:According to Orcbuster, panzer grenadiers are finally getting some Nerf (or equalization to other shock troops)
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OctaMurk posted:According to Orcbuster, panzer grenadiers are finally getting some Nerf (or equalization to other shock troops) am I going to have to retire my "Wave of Marders" W German Mech deck now?
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Will eurocorps armored still be a viable infantry deck rather than outright better than some? Inquiring minds must know.
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I am so bad at this game that today I got told to kill myself What can I do to get better? I've been watching some videos on youtube and trying to translate that into something useful when I'm playing, but I just seem to get destroyed no matter what I try.
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-Anders posted:I am so bad at this game that today I got told to kill myself Play with goons, they can give you some pointers if you let them know you are new. Otherwise I found the pubbie 10 v 10 games to be a good place to experiment, there is enough bad play on those with enough people that you messing about won't be noticed.
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RangerPL posted:It's Versailles all over again Truly a stab in the back. Probably still going to have vastly more high end LAWs than a faction has any right to but hey.
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