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I just finished playing Kingdoms and Castles, and it scratched an itch I have perfectly: A small-scale city builder where I can watch individuals go about doing specific tasks, without having to worry about external threats. Kingdoms and Castles has a casual mode where the only worry is your people being hit with a plague, or running out of resources. Can anyone else name any city-builders where there's a mode with no external threats (But isn't a sandbox mode where I get unlimited whatever-I-wants), and where each individual is going about specific tasks (Which rules out, let's say, Cities: Skylines)?
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sebmojo posted:For the King is free on Epic now, I remember hearing good things about it a while back. Yeah, I've picked this up. I've heard it's best played co-op with three players.
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Apr 24, 2020 10:01
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Banished. Depending on your definition of city building, Autonauts.
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Apr 24, 2020 10:27
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pentyne posted:Only Bethesda could make a radiant AI so bad it looped back around to good and started trying to destroy the game to experience the sweet relief of death. Even Gamebryo has had enough at this point.
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Apr 24, 2020 11:30
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ahobday posted:I just finished playing Kingdoms and Castles, and it scratched an itch I have perfectly: A small-scale city builder where I can watch individuals go about doing specific tasks, without having to worry about external threats. Kingdoms and Castles has a casual mode where the only worry is your people being hit with a plague, or running out of resources. Go classic, and pick up Settlers 2 or 3 at GoG or wherever
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Apr 24, 2020 11:45
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Pyromancer posted:Go classic, and pick up Settlers 2 or 3 at GoG or wherever Instead of classic Settlers 2 go with Settlers 2: 10th Anniversary Edition. It does have fighting, but it’s really simple. Just soldiers walking to an enemy barrack/fort, then they start dueling an opponent and one of them (usually the higher rank one) wins after a while. Repeat until one of armies no longer has soldiers nearby and loses some territory. I think the AI never attacks first if it has the
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Apr 24, 2020 12:04
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ahobday posted:I just finished playing Kingdoms and Castles, and it scratched an itch I have perfectly: A small-scale city builder where I can watch individuals go about doing specific tasks, without having to worry about external threats. Kingdoms and Castles has a casual mode where the only worry is your people being hit with a plague, or running out of resources. I think threats in the Stronghold HD economic campaign are pretty limited, especially if you set it to easy.
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Apr 24, 2020 12:12
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ahobday posted:I just finished playing Kingdoms and Castles, and it scratched an itch I have perfectly: A small-scale city builder where I can watch individuals go about doing specific tasks, without having to worry about external threats. Kingdoms and Castles has a casual mode where the only worry is your people being hit with a plague, or running out of resources. Stronghold? Caesar 3. Children of the Nile. Tropico series. If you can deal with infrequent combat, Dawn of Man. Also, Surviving Mars does not have combat but your mars colony can fail in rather horrific ways if you don't plan ahead. That environment is a harsh thing. Also, unrelated: Thea 2 is a good game. I just wanted to say it.
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Apr 24, 2020 12:26
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FFXII got updated to include the job reset and additional gambit sets that the Switch and Xbox versions have.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:03
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Antigravitas posted:Stronghold? Caesar 3. Children of the Nile. Tropico series. If you can deal with infrequent combat, Dawn of Man. Also, Surviving Mars does not have combat but your mars colony can fail in rather horrific ways if you don't plan ahead. That environment is a harsh thing. I assumed that Caesar 3, Children of the Nile, and Tropico didn't have tracked invidual people are assigned jobs and go about doing it on their own?
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Apr 24, 2020 13:03
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Gort posted:Yeah, I've picked this up. I've heard it's best played co-op with three players. unfortunately co-op is a little anemic feeling: it's basically just a simple RPG, with co-op being giving control of one of the party members to a player. it's more nuanced then, like, the tales of series co-op being combat only given the individual party members can walk around the map, but you're still just playing singleplayer with only one thing to control over three.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:06
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In case you've been holding out on FFXIV's early game to get revamped, they are finally releasing some details about that. There's a live letter going on as of this writing - 13% quests gone, others have a reduced the number of steps required to complete them. Fetch quests are mostly gone. They add gear and experience to ensure you can progress smoothly, and they'll shower you with experience, so your main job can progress further even when you technically reach the level cap for the given expansion. No more forced grinding of sidequests. You can finally use flying mounts in ARR areas! This gets unlocked automatically once you clear the main scenario for ARR, no need for aether currents.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:13
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Worth noting that the patch that this is happening in is probably coming in like July. Was planned for mid June, but Covid.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:26
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ahobday posted:I assumed that Caesar 3, Children of the Nile, and Tropico didn't have tracked invidual people are assigned jobs and go about doing it on their own? Tropico did, iirc, in all its iterations. I'm actually not sure about Caesar 3 and Children of the Nile, but I think they did? It has been a few years.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:32
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I'm playing Metro Exodus through Game Pass and I just came across a bizarre bug where Anna's rifle kept on shooting after the firefight on the train's control room at the very beginning. Like she'd have it holstered and it would still be shooting. Currently going through a long conversation where it's STILL shooting, causing sparks and blood to pop up all around her as her character model moves.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:18
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Azran posted:I'm playing Metro Exodus through Game Pass and I just came across a bizarre bug where Anna's rifle kept on shooting after the firefight on the train's control room at the very beginning. Like she'd have it holstered and it would still be shooting. Currently going through a long conversation where it's STILL shooting, causing sparks and blood to pop up all around her as her character model moves. I love this kind of stuff: (Heavy Rain spoilers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og
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Apr 24, 2020 14:30
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XCOM Chimera Squad: the writing is so gooood I had the biggest smile on my face while playing it. 49 minutes in, and it seems to be everything I want from a small-scale XCOM Apocalypse kind of game. Lots of Invisible Inc vibes from it!
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Apr 24, 2020 15:15
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So what happens at the end of XCOM 2 anyways? My game permanently crashed before the last mission.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:17
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Antigravitas posted:Tropico did, iirc, in all its iterations. They did, managing the paths your citizens would take to make sure everything was properly distributed was like 75 percent of the game.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:17
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Anonymous Robot posted:So what happens at the end of XCOM 2 anyways? My game permanently crashed before the last mission. you kill the boss aliens
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Apr 24, 2020 15:18
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Anonymous Robot posted:So what happens at the end of XCOM 2 anyways? My game permanently crashed before the last mission. You, that is you the commander, have a goku beam fight with the boss aliens
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Apr 24, 2020 15:24
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Anyone looking for impressions of XCOM: Chimera Squad it's pretty good. Your squad is made up of unique characters all with their own kind of class. Big improvement (IMO) they all have an ability that only takes one action point so you're constantly using abilities instead of saving them for the right moment that never comes. Then you can usually still crack a shot off so you're doing a lot more per character per turn. Turns now have characters going in staggered order and there's an easy to read list right on the side of the screen. Taking out a problem character just before its turn in the order is a good feeling. Each mission is made up of 1-3 rooms (so far) and you breach each room with bonuses or penalties depending on where you choose to breach. Smashing through a wall and murdering most of the room before they move continues to be fun. When you breach enemies have different statuses so you can choose to shoot at the ones that are going to shoot your team or take out some easy targets that are surprised. If you lose a character and still have rooms to go you can build lovely robots to fill a hole in your squad. So far I've only had that happen once. There seems to be three factions to defeat and you focus on one at a time (I may be wrong about that it's just what seems to be happening so far). This isn't great because it feels like I'm fighting the same robot/turret/soldiers over and over instead of new things. I guess some ninja/wolverine guy showed up in my last mission and that was new so hopefully I'll see more things soon. It's a very slimmed down Xcom experience. For the current price it was certainly worth my money.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:31
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XCOM Chimera Squad is also a brilliant palette cleanser if you had been feeling down from trying to play Phoenix Point... It's full of charm and character.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:38
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I still hold out hope that whenever phoenix point drops on steam it'll be good. I guess we'll see. Anyways, the abundance of good games I have to play is a blessing because I'm in incredible pain and the painkillers are waiting to work so distractions are the best. The best.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:41
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StrixNebulosa posted:I still hold out hope that whenever phoenix point drops on steam it'll be good. I guess we'll see. That would take a goddamn miracle. That game is awful. Charmless, with a crap AI and terrible design desicions (like manual aim being a better choice 100 percent of the time)
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Apr 24, 2020 15:43
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That would take a goddamn miracle. That game is awful. Charmless, with a crap AI and terrible design desicions (like manual aim being a better choice 100 percent of the time) They have between now and December/early 2021, that's an eternity and anything can happen, so I will continue to hold out hope. It's either that or getting a time machine and going back and stopping myself from backing it. 
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Apr 24, 2020 15:47
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StrixNebulosa posted:They have between now and December/early 2021, that's an eternity and anything can happen, so I will continue to hold out hope. It's either that or getting a time machine and going back and stopping myself from backing it. The time machine seems more likely! The whole thing reminded me of the early-mid 2000’s XCom wannabes that were passable, mostly because it looked like that was as close as we were gonna get to more XCom. It has incredibly dated sensibilities and zero sense of fun. It wastes a really cool setting, too! I really like the background stuff!
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Apr 24, 2020 15:49
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StrixNebulosa posted:They have between now and December/early 2021, that's an eternity and anything can happen, so I will continue to hold out hope. It's either that or getting a time machine and going back and stopping myself from backing it. They recently released Blood and Titanium, one of the three announced dlc packs, with two ones they were waiting to announce later in the year. It brought some improvements and rescaled the difficulty, but it also messed with some peoples saves. They had a weird Backer offer where if you have ordered the Signature edition / Deluxe Edition, you got the Season Pass for free. It wasn't very clear and took ages to get out versions to people. As for the state of the game, you may have to wait a while on Steam to see if mods can help it.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:56
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I checked out the new Borderlands 3 event last night. It's solid with lots of chances for eridium drops and interesting new weapons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRR2qC5h47g
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Apr 24, 2020 16:21
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Zathril posted:I still have a key if you can give me some way for me to give it to you. https://steamcommunity.com/id/irritatedgoat or same id at gmail.com ?
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Apr 24, 2020 16:23
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Enjoying Cloudpunk, and enjoying it more since I turned voice volume down to 0%. The acting is so amateur it’s hard to listen to. Would’ve been much better if they had just used little beeping noises to signify incoming text, like old 16-bit RPGs.
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Apr 24, 2020 16:31
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edgar_ posted:Enjoying Cloudpunk, and enjoying it more since I turned voice volume down to 0%. The acting is so amateur it’s hard to listen to. Would’ve been much better if they had just used little beeping noises to signify incoming text, like old 16-bit RPGs. I wish if it would just instantly fill the whole text box when you hit A instead of skipping to the next line, because I usually try to just read the whole line instead of listening to the voice acting, which is... not good. It should only skip to the next line if you hit A after the text box is filled in.
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Apr 24, 2020 16:50
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Here's some keys: Walking *ead: TGQ9V-92*TH-Y5MC4 WD 4*0 days dlc: 3LTF9-I2Q6L-E*TZX Walking *ead Season 2: YEB0P-5VJ5H-YQ*V5 This Wa* of Mine: XZ069-P*6DI-0XB72
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Apr 24, 2020 16:57
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Jordan7hm posted:This Wa* of Mine: XZ069-P*6DI-0XB72 A lurker snagged this one
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Apr 24, 2020 17:16
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I wish if it would just instantly fill the whole text box when you hit A instead of skipping to the next line, because I usually try to just read the whole line instead of listening to the voice acting, which is... not good. It should only skip to the next line if you hit A after the text box is filled in. Yeah that’s another complaint I have too. Also there’s an ambient announcement about jazz being illegal that plays way too often and is distracting. Little things, still really enjoying the overall vibe of the game though. It pulls me in despite that
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Apr 24, 2020 17:18
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I just now realized there's a "Don't show this again" check box on the finish pop up when you install a game. I've been on Steam since Half-Life 2. It's been there forever hasn't it? 
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Apr 24, 2020 17:31
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sectoid kibble from the makers of bachelor chow
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Apr 24, 2020 17:53
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I just now realized there's a "Don't show this again" check box on the finish pop up when you install a game. I've been on Steam since Half-Life 2. It's been there forever hasn't it? Not that long, but it has been there a while now.
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Apr 24, 2020 18:00
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I'm looking for more chill games lately. Preferably ones that aren't story focused but have a chill and somewhat engaging gameplay loop. I was trying AC: Odyssey and Tales of Maj'eyal for that but the former has too much dialogue and the latter eventually got stressful in the later levels. I tried Wandersong on gamepass but kinda bounced off the traditional story structure. Johnny Truant posted:A lurker snagged this one Been wondering lately how many lurkers are around on SA.
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Codeacious posted:I'm looking for more chill games lately. Preferably ones that aren't story focused but have a chill and somewhat engaging gameplay loop. I was trying AC: Odyssey and Tales of Maj'eyal for that but the former has too much dialogue and the latter eventually got stressful in the later levels. I tried Wandersong on gamepass but kinda bounced off the traditional story structure. Cloudpunk! I’m not far in but it’s chill as hell and very pretty. I wish they’d jam a VR mode into it.
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