Koramei posted:

podcat posted:

pretty sure that was a joke, but yeah we dont have a nato counter DLC (or do we! )

Agean90 posted:

laffo like I'm not just gonna conquer the primitive fucks

LordMune posted:

The tick rate hasn't been looked at in a while, it happens to be functional for dev purposes. We'll be tweaking it, but I can't promise that it's temp because 10 ticks per day might turn out to be the magic number.

Hitlers Gay Secret posted:

I was actually seeing if they needed someone to help make the inevitable Hellenic Restoration DLC for Crusader Kings II.

Tahirovic posted:

What was the official release date anyhow, Q1 2016 for both HoI IV and Stellaris and Victoria III ?

Larry Parrish posted:

The weather effects look like rear end IMO and I wish I could turn them off. My political map mode mod hides it mostly, but it still appears on buildings and uncolonized territory. I also don't like how the lighting gets a little duller in winter.

"Frontspac" posted:

Also have an 1821 start and give us working Eu4 and HoI4 converters for full-bore Mega-Campaign goodness, because if we're going to dream why not dream big?

Back To 99 posted:

Victoria 2 is too short, please somehow make the victorian era last longer next time.

StashAugustine posted:

Whenever I go on a Shogun Total War binge Steam starts recommending anime games

GSD posted:

I like the bits of Australia in the Great Denmark map.

Rincewind posted:

Well, yeah, but the various bad things I did in that LP weren't reenactments of actual historical atrocities that happened within living memory, and by the time we got to the 20th century we were radical syndicalists intent on Smashing the Fash.


gosh why would i possibly not want to play as the perpetrators of the holocaust in a game series i enjoy for their emergent narratives

I mean, obviously I'm not saying that everyone who plays as the Nazis in any WWII strategy game is a bad person, or anyway-- I'm just talking about my own personal comfort level. But for me, what elevates Paradox games over other strategy games is the way they tell stories, of the way they take at least an abstraction of some real moment in history and then diverge from it in interesting ways, instead of just being an abstract system that's kind of history-themed, like Civilization, or whatever. Even when I'm not actually doing an LP of a Paradox game, the narrative the game creates is still at the front of my mind. And "how Hitler turned things around and won WWII" is not a narrative I really feel like seeing play out.

And, I mean, maybe that's hypocritical, since in other Paradox games you're probably still doing like twenty awful things a minute, but HoI IV feels a little different to me since it's both so much more recent and so specific-- it's not several centuries in which some stuff that may or may not be similar to real-world events might play out, it's 1936 and Hitler is already in power, and I (again, just speaking personally) can't get over the sense of just what that represents in the narrative of an HoI IV game and just appreciate the abstract strategy or it all, or be interested in the Man in the High Castle-esque historical counterfactual, or whatever.

Again, I'm not saying that everyone is morally obligated to feel like this, or that we shouldn't have WWII games, or whatever-- I'm just trying to articulate the reasons why I, personally, am kind of weirded out about playing as the Nazis. Like, it's fine that not everyone feels like that, but I hope it's at least kind of understandable why somebody might be?

Funky Valentine posted:

I wonder how the new culture mechanics in The Cossacks would realistically work.

"ATTENTION PEOPLE OF SKANE, YOU ARE REQUIRED NOW TO ADOPT THE CUSTOMS AND SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE NENETS. YOU ARE TO TAKE NENET NAMES AND PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION. FROM THIS DAY FORTH, ANY MAN FOUND SPEAKING THE SWEDISH LANGUAGE WILL BE WHIPPED PUBLICALLY."

Another Person posted:

How do you play Viccy 2?

The Sharmat posted:

Vicky 2 is extremely cool and good.

VerdantSquire posted:

Pops were amazing because they added a sort of character to your nation. Not only did the fact that they were independent actors capable of influencing the player from the inside of their nation make them an interesting gameplay component, but just their presence gave the player an idea of what their nation actually looked like. Pops were a great idea that I will defend to the death, and I'm really happy that they'll be in Stellaris.

DStecks posted:

Why the gently caress was "secret" even a prefix?

Crash74 posted:

Has there been any Stellaris News lately?

Fuligin posted:

Very true, although by late antiquity the idea had diffused enough that people in Britain and Egypt could bothl unselfconsciously call themselves "Romans" and citizens of "Romania."

Groogy posted:

October 27th, 2015 is a day I will always remember. It was the day I became cynical, bitter, and distraught. You may call it an overreaction for me to feel this way simply because of the helleniophilic disposition of a few internet forum posters, but let me explain what all of this means to me.

My life was thrown off balance and I never regained my footing after that day, because I lost my ability to respect. An essential part of being human is to feel respect for those who may or may not be deserving of it. But it is equally human to feel painful disillusionment when someone or something you respected turns out to be much less than you thought. But the level of betrayal I felt when Fintilgin told me the theme of my new Office tore something from me that I'll never be able to recover. They tore away my ability to respect anything, and they tore away my ability to feel human.

Tuskin38 posted:

Paradox's new office. Looks nice.

http://imgur.com/a/sHEPd

Baronjutter posted:

I do hope it's really easy to make empire graphics though. Simple 2d portraits and some txt files or what ever. Workshop will be full of cool race sets.

Aerie posted:

Yes, modders will be able to add their own portraits, none moving. And if you have the skills, you will likely be able to create your own moving one too.

Koramei posted:

Anyone know what they mean by moving portraits in this? It's been brought up in a few places but it's been pretty vague- is it just people blinking/ aliens dripping slime and gnashing mandibles, or are we talking fully animated with people turning their heads and gesticulating and so on, or something in between?

ArchangeI posted:

If Hitler had instead ordered the advance on Moscow, he would have won the war easily.

BBJoey posted:

that you ignored the bit about the "honourable SS" is telling, kameraden

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Fredrik Wester is secretive about whether Paradox Interactive, with the acquisition of the White Wolf, now approaching an IPO. There is something both big stall owner and investor Peter Lindell previously announced.

Kavak posted:

Great, now I'm depressed

Daeren posted:

Bloodlines 2 by Obsidian is, on its own, probably enough to justify a couple million dollars for the entire IP warehouse.

Drakhoran posted:

500 million Swedish Kronor, or about 60 million US Dollars. That might be enough to fund a single AAA game if they felt like betting the company on it. Paradox have been doing pretty well lately, but they're not really up there with the big boys yet.

StashAugustine posted:

Yeah if they do Cold War DLC it would have to be some sort of althist thing to extend the timeline through the 50s allowing for a post- peace conference showdown.

Bort Bortles posted:

I would go bananas if they announced this.

Dapper Dan posted:

One thing I'd like to see is a Vampire: The Dark Ages game in the vein of Crusader Kings. I think that'd be pretty drat awesome