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Galaga Galaxian posted:What did you expect from a casual game? It's not like this game is simulating U-Boat warfare at all, it's just candy-crush with a lick of u-boat grey paint and the cooks' blood in the corner of the galley. I know you're doing irony but I was sorta hoping that U-Boat would allow players to use actually realistic tactics (operating in wolfpacks, surfaced night attacks, etc.) unlike the Silent Hunter games. From everything I'm seeing though it seems like it still mostly forces players into doing boring submerged attacks
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As someone who'll buy RTW2 on day one, I think it'd be smart to make a separate thread. I seem to remember the grog thread was 90% RTW posts when goons discovered it, plus having it in a separate thread might help to get fresh eyes on it. Once the hype about it dies down in a few months the conversation could just be folded back into here
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Apr 19, 2019 00:09
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The whole crew system should be seriously overhauled. It sucks. I can see what the idea was (it does make the game more immersive) but it's tedious and it's compounded by the fact that the user interface is a pain to deal with. Maybe after I have a few hours in the game I won't find it so irritating but as far now it's seriously getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Also, why would you reduce the boat's complement from 50 to 15 and then have crew fatigue? It's such a bizarre choice.
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Speaking of bad aircraft encounters, I lost my first boat when I got spotted by a Sunderland while trying to transit the Gibraltar straits. At 2 in the morning. Aircraft seem like they're still a work in progress. Also, is anyone else bumping into a lot of friendly U-boats? I feel like I'm averaging like 3 per patrol. It's weird.
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May 1, 2019 00:57
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Anyone having difficulty finding ships to sink? I've been on 3 straight patrols without seeing any ships in my patrol area (I did run across a Type VII taking on a pair of corvettes with it's deck gun. Ended about as well as you'd think it would), although I don't know enough about the Battle of the Atlantic to know if that's realistic or not.
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May 1, 2019 03:12
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Coiler121 posted:If I liked Silent Hunter 3 (I did) would I like UBOAT? It's still very early access. There are numerous bugs, limited content (you always start in May '41 commanding a Type VII in La Rochelle) and they're still ironing out big wrinkles in the gameplay. Also there's no manual targeting. I got it for $20 and I don't regret purchasing it but you'll probably get the best experience if you wait a few months.
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May 4, 2019 07:27
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nipperi posted:There is manual targeting though? There is! I feel stupid. In my defense it's never mentioned in the tutorial.
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May 4, 2019 20:32
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I dunno I get the sense that Unity of Command is only able to have such a clean UI and intuitive game mechanics because it seriously compromises the actual simulation aspect of the game. This is a perfectly understandable decision, but for me it makes me feel less like I'm Mark Clark at the Battle of Anzio ( ) and more like I'm playing a World War 2 themed puzzle gamee: Pharnakes posted:That's true and all but UoC is barely a grog game really I think. It's a puzzle game dressed up as a wargame, which swings a little too far to the simplification side for my tastes. You can absolutely put yourself in a no win situation despite following the "rules" of stacking attacks just by getting unlucky on a die roll, with no way to recover. Which isn't to say that doesn't reflect reality necessarily, but I like to be more complicit in my own downfall than losing a die roll. I'm a firm believer that wargames should be heavy on the RNG. Unexpected stupid poo poo that dramatically alters plans is a common theme in military history. I guess that's not the most fun from a gameplay aspect but I think it's a very important part of the simulaton. sum fucked around with this message at 19:55 on May 10, 2019 |
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May 10, 2019 19:49
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Anyone figure out how the hell you get seaplane tenders to actually launch a strike? It keeps complaining that "Strike exceeds deck capacity" even when the sortie size is one (also the 'deck' is the entire ocean??). I have to say though, I'm enjoying the new fleet exercise feature (even if they do seem unrealistically pricey). It'd be cool if they added a joint exercise feature where you could fight a simulated battle against a foreign navy with low tension or something. sum fucked around with this message at 01:06 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 14, 2019 21:37
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The demo's great, I played through it about 3 times. The one thing I can already tell is going to be really annoying though is retrofitting all your ships with anti-aircraft guns. It's a really easy thing to forgot to do and it takes loving forever to get your entire fleet. I feel like AA rebuilds should be something the player should be allowed to automate.
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May 15, 2019 20:04
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Stairmaster posted:The restrictions regarding building your first CV are bullshit!!!!! I wonder if they did that just for the demo or because they actually forgot that the Hoshu and the Hermes existed in 1920
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May 15, 2019 20:40
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You know I sorta figured that the game had gone gold at least a few days ago. Grog development sure is something.
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May 17, 2019 22:40
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In retrospect they probably shouldn't have given a specific day as release day
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May 18, 2019 01:50
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Oh thank God I can just use Paypal. I was certain they'd make me send my credit card info via plaintext e: 11:51 PM CST. I guess that's technically May 17th e2: what the gently caress is this lol  e3: a guy just still manually emails you codes. great system sum fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 18, 2019 |
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May 18, 2019 05:55
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V for Vegas posted:Ugh this is my legacy fleet as Germany in 1920 I believe this is because of the Treaty of Versailles. I disabled that option for my 1920s Germany
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May 18, 2019 08:27
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I am extremely displeased to announce that RTW 2 loving rules and I love playing it. Sorry to anyone this disappoints.
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May 18, 2019 20:41
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 France! You need to build CVs pal!
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May 19, 2019 00:03
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On the other hand the attacked battleships also didn't have the heavier AA and anti-air fire directors that 1940s battleships had when they got creamed by aircraft. But yeah for gameplay purposes at least I think maybe AA should be more disrupting for attacking aircraft, or AA disruption should be inversely proportional to the speed of the aircraft or something.
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May 19, 2019 19:25
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Not sure if anyone's posted this in here yet but Ultimate Admiral now has an actual website with a couple dev blogs on it. If this blog is to be believed they're not dumbing anything down from RTW. It's looking really good.
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May 20, 2019 20:27
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Boiler ventilation and bulkhead divisions are more exciting than the dumb shooty-shooty part where some Hun blows up all your precious designs
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May 20, 2019 20:47
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Squiggle posted:4. Is there good reason to build any new ships before research starts to work its magic? My first ship building priority at the start of the game is always corvettes. You need to have a dozen or so ships out on trade protection during wartime and it's nice to not have to use your fleet destroyers. Besides that I might pump out a couple lovely cruisers for foreign stationing depending on the country.
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May 22, 2019 21:00
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Squiggle posted:...Do you mean "tiny destroyers" since I don't see corvettes as a class option? That's odd, they should be right under destroyers in the ship designer. You can't build them below 600 tons in peacetime but they should always be an option to build. But yeah in the 1900 start I suppose a 500ish ton destroyer would be about as cheap and also more useful so I'd build that instead.
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May 23, 2019 00:12
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End of battle torpedoings wouldn't be so galling if they didnt count for VP (like all the other ones)
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May 24, 2019 03:48
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FrozenVent posted:A pop up saying “The crew of BB Poopsocker is abandoning ship!” would be both realistic and useful. ~80% of the time if an enemy ship has slowed below 10 knots it's terminally damaged and if it's dead in the water it's almost always sinking. You might need to manually intervene to prevent your ships from wasting ammo on them though. The aircraft pummeling already-sinking ships thing rings true to me. There's plenty of stories of Japanese battleships eating dozens of bombs and torpedoes and it wouldn't shock me if most of those hits came in after the ship's fate was already sealed. sum fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Jun 3, 2019 01:30
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In CMANO, is there a way to enter god's eye mode in a scenario (not the editor)? I like to do it while debriefing but I couldn't find an option for it.
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Jun 22, 2019 23:40
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Alchenar posted:e: also pulled the trigger of TOAWIV at 50% off, been waiting for that one. Report back on whether it was worth it e: Deptfordx posted:Also Pike and Shot Campaigns, or Field of Glory II? sum fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 03:19
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How's the difficulty compared to Paradox's recent releases? I seem to remember Johan saying that they've made their games easier because winning is fun or whatever, but I really have a hankering for a map game with old school Crusader Kings-style arbitrary empire explosions
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Jul 13, 2019 23:15
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Flannelette posted:Is Steel Beasts a Grognard game? Because they updated it and now it finally has proper not blocky 90s terrain, craters and doesn't slow down anymore if you have lots of units and long view distance. $125 + a monthly subscription  I know their primary audience is defense agencies but they would make a shitload if they put the personal edition on Steam for like $40 and market it like ARMA
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I can understand why they did it but the massively magnified scale for the battles really bothers me for some reason. I hope there's an option for a realistic scale.
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Maybe I'm crazy but I'm almost fine with no grand campaign. I don't think there's a way to get the AI to behave properly when the map is literally half the world, plus you end up spending most of your time scooting around divisions in Burma or setting up resupply convoys rather than living out your fantasy of being Frank Fletcher.
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Oct 29, 2019 18:11
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I watched a few AARs and it seemed like Armored Brigade suffers from Combat Mission disease where an average engagement has a casualty rate of 80%. Is that pretty typical?
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Oct 31, 2019 22:36
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I bought Armored Brigade, and after playing one quick battle I think I'll be returning it. Seems like a fun game if you're into doing ultra-nuanced setups where you individually check the LOS of a battalion's worth of troops for an hour before pressing "go", but that's not really my cup of tea.
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Oct 31, 2019 23:57
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Alchenar posted:Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts is getting some more vids from early access and it's looking really good still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxxHUAlu3jM This looks a lot better than the first videos that came out. I'm glad to see that the engagement ranges are realistic and there's apparently just enough concessions to make it playable in real time. Sorta weird that there's apparently not a tactical map view though, I can't imagine commanding anything larger than a small scrap from flying camera mode.
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Nov 10, 2019 18:38
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Taintrunner posted:Not-Sure-If-Grognard but this just popped up on Steam, coming out soon. Seems pretty neato It's sorta weird to me that we've got multiple wargame-y Afghanistan insurgency games now and not one of them has thought that maybe they would be more fun from the insurgent's perspective rather than the people responding to the insurgents. I guess it's the taboo against playing as the Official Bad Guys.
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Nov 12, 2019 20:32
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Ethiopia could actually be pretty workable. The only tank they really have access to before the 70s is the Walker Bulldog but I guess Kenya only gets the Comet before then so it'll be fairly balanced. If you're adding Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia are also logical to toss in
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I'd consider Somalia but the problem with Eritrea is the time they were a separate, recognized nation would be a grand total of like, three years in the timeframe I'm working with. Yeah I guess Eritrea would make more sense as the ELF/EPLF, but sources on their equipment seem pretty sparse and they'd probably come out being pretty generic "guerilla infantry" anyway
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Pirate Radar posted:RPS has a nice article about a real-time Pacific Fleet WWII game that looks interesting, if admittedly limited—no multiplayer, and only late 1941-early 1943. Yeah it looked really exciting. The fact that devs are building it around the realistic first-person flag officer mode is really encouraging; more wargames should borrow from Radio Commander. I do think the insistence on minimal abstractions might lead to a lot of jankyness though considering how small the team is
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gradenko_2000 posted:Thinkin about an East Front game where your only view is a map in a tent like it was Tabletop Simulator My dream grognard game is a first person Civil War game where you're stuck inside of a farmhouse headquarters physically shuffling around counters on a map and wondering why the hell your none of the couriers you sent off to XX Corps have returned
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gradenko_2000 posted:TOAW 4 scenarios you should check out, varying in quality from "good" to "playable": Any advice for nice low-complexity scenarios for idiots who just downloaded the game?
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This might be a little silly to ask, but is there a mod or game option or something for TOAW 4 to make the possession rules for empty hex exclaves like literally every other wargame (i.e. empty hexes surrounded by other hexes automatically revert possession)? I don't really have a reason for asking besides the fact that the border gore is making me want to stick a knife in my eye
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