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I picked up Steam and Iron and have played some of the battles. It's pretty fun. I tried the Battle of the Falklands (historical) as the Germans and the result turned out pretty true to history. My two armored cruisers approached the harbor and sighted the two large battlecruisers. After firing off a few shots, I turned and ran, hoping to put enough distance between us while they were raising steam so that we could escape at night. However, the battlecruisers were both faster and had bigger guns, so they ultimately caught up and wiped out my cruisers. So I took a different tack the second time.   I still lost my cruisers, but HMS Invincible will be in drydock for a while. 
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On that note the Rule the Waves 2 expansion just became RTW 3 instead. And it's launching in the fall, on Steam.
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May 17, 2022 21:39
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HMS Invincible heads to dry dock Rule the Waves dev removes head from rear end. Blessed day
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:On that note the Rule the Waves 2 expansion just became RTW 3 instead. Nice!
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May 17, 2022 22:44
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CMO just got a pretty huge beta update. Some highlights :quote:Hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) weapons and directed-EMP (D-EMP) weapons are now available in the commercial version. It's a big loving list. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BadmDHlVALmhwv43UGIxbws34zIVoetS7lD_yqnXqD4/edit
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May 17, 2022 23:00
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:On that note the Rule the Waves 2 expansion just became RTW 3 instead. I genuinely thought Steam releases would never happen.
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May 18, 2022 02:43
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What I want to know is, are they gonna take Steam's advice on pricing or are they gonna stick with the tried and true grognard pricing strategy? Pretty sure I already know the answer but a man can dream. Steam adoption is pretty good as is.
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May 18, 2022 03:27
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Tomn posted:What I want to know is, are they gonna take Steam's advice on pricing or are they gonna stick with the tried and true grognard pricing strategy? The announcement on their forums said they're planning between $35-45 but haven't settled on the final price yet.
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May 18, 2022 03:51
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Honestly that's probably the right move, it's not like they'd sell twice as many copies at $20
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May 18, 2022 10:06
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I can't wait to read the community forum graphics & ui discussion. I know it's bad of me.
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May 18, 2022 10:20
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simplefish posted:Honestly that's probably the right move, it's not like they'd sell twice as many copies at $20 Just have it on almost perpetual sale. 39.95 feels right if a little expensive but the rush for getting it at 19.99 during a steam sale is priceless!
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May 18, 2022 23:47
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I look forward to the next RTW just so I can build more palace botes for LPs of the game. Still mad that my replacement royal yacht wasn't selected in Grey's LP. Do you know how long it took to make an outline of the Winter Palace in the shipbuilder?!habeasdorkus posted:
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May 19, 2022 03:45
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habeasdorkus posted:I look forward to the next RTW just so I can build more palace botes for LPs of the game. Still mad that my replacement royal yacht wasn't selected in Grey's LP. Do you know how long it took to make an outline of the Winter Palace in the shipbuilder?! RtW "Let's All Play"s are always good fun
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May 19, 2022 05:27
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habeasdorkus posted:I look forward to the next RTW just so I can build more palace botes for LPs of the game. Still mad that my replacement royal yacht wasn't selected in Grey's LP. Do you know how long it took to make an outline of the Winter Palace in the shipbuilder?! Sir that is clearly a Death Tsar
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May 19, 2022 13:12
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It does look like RTW3 will let you build more detailed pixelbotes:
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May 19, 2022 14:19
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Fantastic! Can't wait to be able to build literal pagoda masted battleships!
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May 19, 2022 17:28
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simplefish posted:Honestly that's probably the right move, it's not like they'd sell twice as many copies at $20 Funnily enough, that's exactly how Gabe Newell used to think. They put games on sale at half price, and sold more than twice as many copies. I think he put out some video back in 2011 talking about how they put a game on a 75% sale and sold forty times as many copies. Steam sales be weird.
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People see the sale and want to lock in that price. It's a rational action on an irrational impulse. Although maybe not so much in hindsight, as the race to the bottom on game prices that we saw in the first half of the 2010s seems to have subsided. That was spurred on largely by Steam sales and bundles, but since Steam stopped doing flash sales and several publishers like Paradox stopped being quite so keen on being bargain brands, this has subsided and there are some games where at the time that actually was the best price ever. I bought Empire Total War in 2011 for 2.50, and it's 5 bucks now even at its deepest sale.
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Gort posted:Funnily enough, that's exactly how Gabe Newell used to think. They put games on sale at half price, and sold more than twice as many copies. Most Steam games aren't a glorified visual basic macro...
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simplefish posted:Most Steam games aren't a glorified visual basic macro... People will take a punt on pretty much anything if the sale price is low enough. I remember in the early steam sales when they would do like 95% off and I'd buy all kinds of weird poo poo because hey, maybe [genre I didn't even know existed] will turn out to be my secret passion. I bet there are a huge number of grog-curious people who would buy a lot of these games if they just lowered the price point.
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If I see RTW for 95% off I'm buying it immediately even though I know for a fact I will never play it.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:It does look like RTW3 will let you build more detailed pixelbotes: jesus. will it do something reasonable automatically or am i going to be loving around with a million lines in their terrible-rear end editor every time i want a ship that doesn't look like trash?
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Foo Diddley posted:jesus. will it do something reasonable automatically or am i going to be loving around with a million lines in their terrible-rear end editor every time i want a ship that doesn't look like trash? Those are all apparently hand-made by one of the beta testers so I imagine it will still have the basic auto-gen ship graphics for folks who just want to smash boats together.
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Hey, whatever happened with Battlefront.com porting all the CMx2 titles to steam? I thought they were going to do that not long after the modern era/cold war titles went live, but.... Nothing?
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May 22, 2022 00:51
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There was a plan to get them all up over the course of this year. The latest update from the Devs this month is that they're aiming to get Normandy up in June (so a 2-3 month slip on the timeline).
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Sweet, thanks. I hope my CMBN v3.0 key will work with steam. I never bought the v4 engine upgrade which is required for Win10 (gently caress me for keeping my system up to date, right), so I haven't been able to use a product I've paid for in several years. In other news, the latest DLC for Graviteam is pretty great. Lots of hot hot tank on tank action. The Soviets are pushing against an SS unit and just throw hundreds of T-34s against the German lines. Makes for some absolutely insane firefights. $13 to support a Ukrainian company that is still working despite being on the literal front lines themselves is a no-brainer. Bonus that the content is great too. Also, the overhauled off-map artillery system that they introduced a few months ago is much simpler to grasp.
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You gotta register your key with Slitherine/Matrix and then they'll give you a steam key on release.
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News about RtW3 has me wanting to play 2 again, but I don't have the installer on my new computer. With the storeowner dead, does anyone know how I get the game again?
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May 28, 2022 03:02
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Grognard Games Megathread - storeowner dead
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dublish posted:News about RtW3 has me wanting to play 2 again, but I don't have the installer on my new computer. With the storeowner dead, does anyone know how I get the game again? Go look at the emails you got when you bought it?
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ElBrak posted:Go look at the emails you got when you bought it? Broken download link, but at least it still gives me the serial and activation keys. Guess I'll reach out to the devs and see what I can find out.
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Yeah, get in touch with the devs and show them your proof of purchase.
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The very old, pretty fun game People’s General is on GOG right now, which it wasn’t last time I looked. Game is a Panzer/Fantasy General-type, but VERY late 90s in style and approach. Setup is China + NK versus the world; unusually, it places Russia on the NATO side. The overwhelming impression I’ve taken from it is that only artillery, aircraft and helicopters can actually kill anything fast enough to meet the turn limits for the top tier of win. Tanks have a niche role in the action economy because they can kill multiple (sufficiently weak) units in a turn. Infantry’s main role is as a speedbump/cannon fodder, but since the player is always on the offensive the only reason you would ever want an infantry unit over another artillery unit in SP is to crack heavy fortifications, of which there are maybe one per scenario. For this you want engineers or similar. Also, despite reading the manual, I still have no clue what support units do - they seem like a waste of a unit slot. So far each mission’s puzzle seems to be (1) recon to find an enemy unit roughly in the middle of the map (2) air attack it to identify enemy air defences and then SEAD them to death (3) try to find as many of their in range artillery as possible in turn 1 and hit them with your own artillery. Anyone got better thoughts? I’m finding it fairly challenging 4 scenarios in to the NATO campaign.
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Based on the most recent diary it sounds to me like Vic is going to make naval combat a bit abstracted in the Shadow Empire oceans update. There will be "maritime trade houses" that you make deals with, and they can fight amongst themselves.
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It makes me wonder if he tried out directly controlled navies and decided they didn't work, yeah.
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In a previous entry he said he was planning on doing full navy stuff later, that it was too much to do that and all the changes to add oceans all at once.
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I bounced incredibly hard off the air side of things in Shadow Empire so not particularly keen on more types of warfare.
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The air stuff swung wildly between op and bad, but what made me turn it off was realizing the ai was spending basically all of its metal on flak guns.
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