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Thanks everybody who bought RTW2, for showing the rest of us what a clusterfuck it is I think I'll just play one of the hundreds of games that I have that aren't a complete shitshow, until the RTW devs get their heads pulled halfway out of their asses
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# ¿ May 18, 2019 15:34 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 10:53 |
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Asehujiko posted:Sadly the person who makes the final decisions on whether or not to use Steam can't even spell it's name correctly and consistently calls it STEAM. Do you suppose he thinks it's an acronym, or do you think he's just SCREAMING it
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# ¿ May 26, 2019 19:00 |
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Dramicus posted:I use Dwarf Fortress as a metric when judging performance. Yes, I am eagerly awaiting the release of a 64-core threadripper cpu, why do you ask? Isn't Dwarf Fortress single threaded?
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2019 00:49 |
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Nothing like wanting to play some Steel Panthers and realizing that you got one download back in 2013 I think fans have updated it since then, fixed some bugs and such. You might want to download it again
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# ¿ Oct 3, 2019 00:45 |
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Popete posted:Is there an option to just napalm the entire map and win? They tried that irl and it didn't work
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2019 20:40 |
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Horseback Commander where you're writing letters to your generals all day
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2019 21:17 |
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BattleMaster posted:Unironically yes, I'm kind of fascinated by how hard it was in the past to send orders and get/track information and I'd be all over games hat are about wrestling with the constraints of a time period It would be pretty cool, yeah. The Scourge of War games do the writing letters thing to a certain extent, but I'm bad enough at the lower difficulty levels so I haven't really played like that much
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2019 21:34 |
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It's Gary Coleman I bet
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2019 02:16 |
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Mokotow posted:Speaking of which, the Supreme Ruler devs just announced something called Galactic Ruler. Wow, those screenshots. I get that graphics aren't the priority here, but god drat There are a lot of reasons that this won't work, but my favorite is the AI. For fourteen fuckin' years people have been begging Battlegoat to teach the AI how to do an amphibious invasion, and they just could not figure it out. Now they're making a game where every invasion is basically an amphibious one. Maybe they finally cracked that nut but I seriously doubt it And everything else about the game just doesn't even scale to one planet, much less dozens of them. I really wonder what made them think this was a good idea
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 00:34 |
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A Real Horse posted:So reading through this thread over Thanksgiving inspired me to pick up a couple of games during the Steam sale. I now own Fields of Glory 2, which I’ve already played a bunch of and absolutely love. And Operational Art of War 4, which I’m kind of terrified to start but had the steambux for and took the plunge. Anybody have any advice for someone just starting it? Is advice even needed? Am I just being a big scared baby over all the counters and symbols I don’t know? Well in any grognard game you're going to be overwhelmed at first. What you have to do is just start pushing counters around, and you'll be totally absorbed before you know it. I mean, you can always restart the scenario if you gently caress everything up
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2019 23:38 |
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Taintrunner posted:Has anyone had any experience with Supreme Ruler Ultimate? It was on sale and seemed like it'd be a ton of fun, taking over the world and all that. Like a sort of off-brand Paradox game, but it goes all the way up into modern days and the future. I've been waiting almost 15 years for them to turn Supreme Ruler into a decent game. Hasn't happened yet. I don't know why I keep buying these games, but you at least can learn from my mistakes
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2019 19:43 |
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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 I just want them to put a Storch into new IL-2. I love that plane you guys
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2020 06:13 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:TOAW 4 scenarios you should check out, varying in quality from "good" to "playable": I like the Ia Drang scenario even if I suck at it. Also the invasion of Greece one
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2020 05:37 |
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uPen posted:We're halfway through March, release Aurora already! The guy said it would be the end of March, and also, that might be delayed: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10606.0 posted:Why isn't the code open source? Can I crack the code?
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 21:37 |
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Pharnakes posted:DC:B was $60 wasn't it? I don't know, but it's $50 right now. The other Decisive Campaigns games are $40 and Advanced Tactics Gold is $30. So the price will probably be somewhere in there. Anyway we're grognards and will probably pay up to $80, but let's not give them any ideas
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# ¿ May 22, 2020 18:00 |
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Hey, does anybody know if those anniversary coupons that Matrix/Slitherine sends you are good for new releases? I want to know if I should use mine now or wait 'til the 4th
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# ¿ May 24, 2020 16:35 |
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Lotti Fuehrscheim posted:The code good for everything you buy in their webshop in a single transaction, except the physical goods (those are sold at cost price). It is cumulative with regular sales. It has a limited timespan however. I am lucky mine comes in December, so I can combine it with their Christmas sale. Alright, cool, looks like I'm getting Shadow Empire a bit cheaper. Thanks
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# ¿ May 24, 2020 18:09 |
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Well, I just got Shadow Empire. Did you think Alpha Centauri was a complicated game? You were wrongSaros posted:Be nice guys we are all friends here. This is hilarious because the first thing I noticed was, these guys are motorized infantry, this is the wrong symbol
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 21:50 |
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Okay this is bad enough: But it gets worse. If you zoom out, they're armor: I'm just gonna go have a little lie down, I think
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 22:13 |
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Hippocrass posted:Does Matrix do refunds! Awesome game, nonetheless
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 22:20 |
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Saros posted:AT guns using the artillery symbol. You really know how to kick a guy while he's layin' down, don't ya
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 22:28 |
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Grey Hunter posted:So, if I was to do a key giveaway for a slithering game as part of their 20th birthday, what game should I pick? It's five keys from a slitherine game, not sure if that's just slitherine or the matrix catalog as well. That $50 version of Steel Panthers
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2020 17:26 |
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Manually editing text files is how configuration *should* be done, anyway. GUIs are for the weak. Also how am I going to write a script that edits my configuration if it's all some binary blob
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2020 16:49 |
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IAmThatIs posted:Also has anybody played Wizards and Warlords? It looks like the perfect combination of low graphics, uninformative UI, and super deep gameplay! I've played a couple of hours of this and I'm liking it so far. It's like an extremely complicated version of Master of Magic. It reminds me a bit of Eador as well, and the procedurally generated stuff brings Warsim to mind, if you ever played that one. So it seems pretty cool but I can't tell for sure because I've got no idea what I'm doing. The game really needs some documentation. I'm gradually puzzling things out with trial and error, but it'd be nice if the game or a manual just told me all this poo poo. I guess the community has posted a bunch of stuff about the game, so I'll check that out next Anyway, I've passed the window for a refund and it doesn't bother me, so 10/10 I guess
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 07:38 |
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Drone posted:The boomer poster who's still running Windows XP and refuses to upgrade. the guy complaining that the UI doesn't work at 1024x768 resolution
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2021 15:43 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Pride of Nations for ppl who played victoria 2 and were like, this isn't complicated enough also processing a turn takes about as long as a game of vicky
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 08:43 |
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just gonna copy/paste the post i made in the RtW thread quote:oh wait, this was the guy that we were joking was mailing out activation codes by hand, right?
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2021 01:29 |
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Libluini posted:It's mostly for these reasons: yeah but aren't you that guy who has the 1000 page master of orion 3 let's play? i don't know if we should be taking space 4X advice from you
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2021 02:11 |
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played some distant worlds 2 and it does a lot of things better than the first one, such as:
anyway i uninstalled it already
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2022 20:10 |
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fuf posted:One very funny UI thing is that you hold left click to pan the map, but this also deselects whatever unit you had selected. So you can't select a unit and then scroll somewhere to give it an order... yeah poo poo like this was why i uninstalled the game. i'll only put up with so much poo poo in order to play "distant worlds--" and they are way over the line. i've played games with clunky, unintuitive, arcane, and just plain bad UIs, but it's quite an accomplishment for a UI to actually piss me off. congrats, codeforce, not even tarn adams managed that
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2022 22:51 |
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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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# ¿ May 21, 2022 23:29 |
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Terrifying Effigies posted:BTW looks like the new Shadow Empires Oceania DLC will be dropping at the end of the month: oh cool, maybe i'll actually get around to playing some of it now
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2023 20:50 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 10:53 |
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it wasn't that i felt anything was lacking, really; just that i never got around to playing. a big update's always a good excuse to dust off a game though
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