uPen posted:

Stellaris has really turned around. It was hot garbage for a long time but the 2.0 update turned it into an actual (good) game.

The Bold Kobold posted:

I'm going to boycott this game until I can play Native Americans.

Wolfechu posted:

No one going with stellaris for 'best/worst paradox atrocities', huh? I mean, aside from destroying entire planets, you can turn entire civilizations into mindless slaves, or livestock.

bees everywhere posted:

Hmm is movement speed also an in-combat thing or is this what it looks like and their movement speed is reduced out of combat? Because I think it's pretty funny to imagine legions of Greeks marching in tight battle formations everywhere they go. "The enemy could attack at any time, boys, now form up! We've got two miles to go until we reach Athens, so we should be there by Thursday!"

EightDeer posted:

Where did they say that? I've seen Doomdark state that CK II is getting bloated, but not that Holy Fury is the last.

Crazycryodude posted:

Bronze Age Mesopotamian city-states game or maybe Egypt would be really cool.

Ulio posted:

First time playing a Paradox game, how do I find someone valuable to marry? Only courtiers want to marry me but I am a king and I gain no value from them.

Koramei posted:

Johan's said the start date isn't changing in either direction, although maybe that'll change.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

No imperial era

Strudel Man posted:

Syphilis probably didn't even exist in Europe until Columbus' crewmen brought it back with them!

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Oh. I read "random world generation" as making a new map, not keeping the same map but randomizing the countries.

Cease to Hope posted:

crusader kings 2 has a "purge jews" button though

Drone posted:

Have the devs given any reason for using Roman years instead of BCE/CE? I mean yeah :myimmersion: or whatever but you're going to get a pretty massive amount of people who don't really know much about the era drawing false assumptions about this game taking place in 450 CE, which is.. uh, a good half-millennium off the mark.

Alchenar posted:

It would be really nice if Paradox games did a check between the current checksum and the last checksum they ran on and then pulled a high level list of 'these are the big things that are new since you last played, read up on them *here* if you want'.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Nah, is just really weird that a game that lets you play as nazi Germany in WW 2 ignores all the absurdly evil stuff they did in this war

Eimi posted:

Paradox never figured out a good way to simulate the actual conditions of how these empires worked. Like there's no reason to keep a standing army in the rear end end of nowhere to defend it, meanwhile the Romans found tons of situations where they couldn't shift around men because someone has to guard the border. Meanwhile in like CK2 you bring down the full and total might of Byzantium down on someone.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Aren't we talking about Imperator, the game with pops and migration mechanics?

Volcott posted:

RabidWeasel posted:

This is not good news because my PC is definitely not up to the recommended spec

Elias_Maluco posted:

I could never understand how it is that watching videos of people playing video games became a thing

Probably a generation thing, I was already too old when that started

SlothfulCobra posted:

Maybe if they move to Catalonia they'll finally make a system to break up all those big blobs.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

You're posting this in the paradox grand strategy thread. A thread about games that often take dozens of hours to figure out if they're good, and evolve over time as patches and DLC come out.

Eimi posted:

Sins of a Solar Empire deserves a sequel that improves the exploration and economy bits to be as fun as the war parts. Sins is everything Stellaris combat wishes it was.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

Alpha Centauri sucks because nowadays you have to buy it on Origin

Rynoto posted:

CK2 still getting 3-4k concurrent players consistently kind of blows my mind.