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AI War 2

Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 03:29:38 No.170748 View Reply Original Report

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>switches engine and redesigns entire game halfway through
>goes into massive debt in doing so
>wife leaves him
>creates the highest IQ game of all time
How are your matches going? When will sseth do a video on it and save poor Chris?

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 05:42:54 No.174382 Report

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>>174151
It ran well enough on my i7 Haswel laptop

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 06:49:03 No.174537 Report

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>>174083
>It should ramp up in difficulty at a set amount per unit of time.
This is something you have to deal with in certain situations, and it is sort of a background mechanic as reinforcements pile up over time, lesser defenses are rebuilt, instigators spawn...
Was it the main source of difficulty, the game would stop being about strategy and would devolve into a cancerous mix of speedrunning and gookclicking.

>>174061
2 is much easier to get into and runs far better, 1 is far more complex.
I'd suggest trying them both, if you like them buy them.

>>174151
Depends on the laptop, 2 runs very well on a 2500k but that's a desktop CPU.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:28:21 No.174678 Report

Quoted By: >>174687 >>174772

>>174083
>That is such a lazy way to design a game
It's actually a very good design. Ramping it up over time introduces an unnecessary time pressure in a game where a single "round" can last many hours and could lead to unwinnable scenario after 10 hours of playing, just because you weren't fast enough.
Any permanent damage you do to AI or advantage you gain raise the response on their own, so it's not like you can just turtle the AI to death.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:37:49 No.174687 Report

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>>174678
You kind of can, thought.
I've won a game before by just sending every outguard I hacked throughout the game at the AI home planet repeatedly until it was ground to dust.
In another game, I just walled the AI in with marauders (had to help them quite a bit to get started, to be sure) and raised the defenses to their systems so high that they prioritized taking out the AI homeworld over trying to break through my systems.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:30:57 No.174772 Report

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>>174678
>Any permanent damage you do to AI or advantage you gain raise the response on their own
You can destroy guardposts to redirect reinforcements at no AIP cost, but overall you're right.

>>174687
On which difficulty were you playing?
Because even just on 6 the average offensive outguard fleet isn't going to do shit against the dire guardposts let alone the overlord.

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Zoo Tycoon

Anonymous Thu 10 Sep 2020 00:47:08 No.133528 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Last thread died ): >>10222

Zoo Tycoon is one of the best and most in-depth management sims from the golden age of tycoon games. The first game is gold standard (better than RTC2 imo) and the second one is a legit classic

Any tips, tricks, lore, mods, patches you got?

still waiting for an open-ZT1 desu

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 03:03:31 No.174076 Report

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>>173795
>Is there any reward for the latter, or is it just there for completionists like myself?
For Ultimate Zoo, there's nothing. You got the trio statue from super zoo, and will get non-cheat deinosuchus from breeding the t-rex.

Just a tip though; you'll need to save before and when the T-rexes arrive, so in case any one of them dies of old age before they can breed, you can savescum.

>>172221
Goddamn the bug where guests randomly fall off from elevated platforms and onto the exhibits is fucking annoying. They run around panicking and cause a chain reaction of panic causing the entire zoo guest happiness rating to plummet.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 03:08:51 No.174088 Report

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>>174076
I thought as much. I beat it as a lad, but didn't recall if there was anything I earned from it. This is my second attempt at the Tyrannosaurus scenario. I thought I'd be fine last time and they died in like April of Year 4. I got cocky after the pandas were so EZ, shit sucks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 03:34:30 No.174185 Report

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What are your must-have ZT2 mods? The benthic biome is so barren and reef needs critters for a hybrid exhibit

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:41:37 No.174694 Report

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>>174185
Yeah, deep ocean stuff really got nerfed in ZT2 compared to 1.
No big fish really, no whales like ZT1, or giant squid iirc.
I do really like the seafloor stuff irl myself, although my speciality area is more coastal/reef in ZT2 terms.
>>174088
Is that a goanna? We actually had one of those come in through our centre yesterday coincidentally.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:30:44 No.174771 Report

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>>133528
Is there really any strategy too this, you just control everything at your leisure

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Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 00:24:34 No.168027 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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ITT: /vst/ only you played.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:22:34 No.174749 Report

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>>169969
I played it as kid and couldn't pass the first mission.
Replayed it recently - it's shit.
Still, cool I guess.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:23:58 No.174752 Report

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>>168027

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:27:33 No.174760 Report

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>>169969
>>174749
Is it fantasy or historic?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:29:46 No.174767 Report

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>>174760
Fantasy but based on Polish history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polanie_(video_game)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:30:33 No.174770 Report

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>>174747
>/vst/ only you played
>TA
I like replaying it every now and then but the pathfinding is the worst. I wish I had a way to make it less dumb.

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Anonymous Sat 19 Sep 2020 14:09:51 No.162980 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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How do I git gud? I start out nice, lvl and gear up my bros but at a certain point I am unable to replace my losses and a defeat spiral fucks me up. How do I grow my company in a way that I am always able to replace my losses?

Also Battle Bros general I guess

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 07:22:37 No.174589 Report

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>>174584
who said anything about crying
are u crying anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 07:23:38 No.174591 Report

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>>174554
i always just dual grip flails on most guys and headshot brigands

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 07:24:40 No.174593 Report

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>>174570
>reddit cuck cant handle people posting without capitalizing
yikes. wrong website, faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 07:33:21 No.174607 Report

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>>174589
when someone is asking/demanding you to do something in an annoying voice, but has no actual authority or power to make you do that thing, that is colloquially called crying. like a baby, trying to make their mom cater to their needs, based only on the power of "feelings". and just like a baby, you mature by coming to terms with the cruel facts: your feelings have no actual power. it was just an illusion created by your loving mom.

babies learn to stop crying, not because they no longer want to cry, but because they discover it no longer works. they still feel like crying, but since it won't do anything, they have no choice but to develop a personality.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:30:12 No.174769 Report

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>>174554
Dual grip just gives you more damage, it doesnt help to hit and that's the main problem early
Having a shield is actively helping you not getting hit
Therefore I put my good bros with a pitchfork behind the fodder

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Lobotomy Corp / Library of Ruina

Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 10:54:37 No.171301 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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RIP emotion levels' extra dice

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:24:10 No.174753 Report

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>only first ranged card of a character follows ranged alfa-strike rules
>all subsequent ranged pages follow normal speed rules
Here fixed ranged key pages from being either absolute nerfed trash or op bullshit

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:27:47 No.174761 Report

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>if you spam space bar quickly enough while the current turn is ending staggered units stay staggered
hella OP bug

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:28:31 No.174763 Report

Quoted By: >>174764 >>174768

>Liu fight 2 ONLY HAS 2 ACTS
Come on PM.... It really wasnt that hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:29:28 No.174764 Report

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>>174763
imagine being a dumb gatekeeper

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:29:52 No.174768 Report

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>>174763
sounds like they never wanted the game to be that hard which makes it sound like whoever they got playtesting is some kind of gigachad

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Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 13:40:03 No.171602 View Reply Original Report

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>defeat enemy empire decisively
>occupy all their provinces
>congrats, with 100% war score you can only take 10 of their 100 provinces, did I mention their development is too high for vassalization?
>if you want to full annex, you better repeat the progress nine times, after five-year truces
>have fun occupying the same provinces, again, again, and again....
This is every Paradox (minus Stellaris), and paradrones actually defend this awfulness
>muh, if you could annex the entire nation after a full occupation, the game would be too easy
I thought overextension mechanic was there for that? If you overextend ridiculously, you are going to be overwhelmed by revolts, which is fine. But why can't Paradox let players make that mistake? There is a chance you can stabilize such endeavour, but nope "you can only x amount" even though the enemy nation is literally at your mercy.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:53:19 No.174704 Report

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>>172773
>10:1 always results in an instant stackwipe.
If the enemy army is larger than their combat width then you cannot instantly stackwipe them.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:03:52 No.174719 Report

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>>171663
>it's strange paradox never put any event in to facilitate ottoman conquest of them
In older versions there was an event which gave Ottomans a unique annexation cb on Mamluks. Although the triggers were really arbitrary and strict, so much so that it would practically only fire because the player knows the triggers and tries to set things up for the event to fire. It was shit and the devs eventually realized so they removed it.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:06:41 No.174723 Report

Quoted By: >>174742

>>172393
> decide to play as Napoleon and conquer all of Europe
> everyone forms a coalition and declares war on me
Whaaaaaat?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:20:06 No.174742 Report

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>>174723
Machiavelli thought the French conquest of Italy was possible if the French didn't trust the Spaniard or their other allies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:29:32 No.174766 Report

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>>172878
you just outed yourself hard friend

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Starcraft thread

Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 02:36:27 No.170668 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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GSL tomorrow, our madlad Zoun is up again
TY vs Dream
Armani vs Zoun

https://tl.net/calendar/

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:22:08 No.174748 Report

Quoted By: >>174755

GSL time boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgrSgwzhBXw
TY vs Dream
Armani vs Zoun

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:25:28 No.174755 Report

Quoted By: >>174758

>>174748
where's the thread

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:25:50 No.174757 Report

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LETS GO

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:26:15 No.174758 Report

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>>174755
You're in it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:29:31 No.174765 Report

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>>174731
>gold league
>asking for build orders
all you need to do is literally just macro nonstop and you'll be in diamond in no time

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Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 13:24:09 No.171575 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>173716 >>174623

About to fire up Battlefleet Gothic for the first time, what am I in for?

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 01:00:31 No.173716 Report

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>>171575
It's weird. I played it for some 20 hours and had fun, but just got bored and dropped it. It kind of feels like a mobile game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 06:55:57 No.174547 Report

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Fuck Darkhammer

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 07:45:07 No.174623 Report

Quoted By: >>174669

>>171575
assuming you're playing 2 and 1, kino prologue, decent campaign. one's campaign was better, but this one is quite serviceable.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:21:11 No.174669 Report

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>>174623
>2 and 1
2 and not 1*

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:27:55 No.174762 Report

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Is Eldar pulsar faggotry still a thing?

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Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 17:06:12 No.172251 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Where my Gaulbros at?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPhGpbCIPUA

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 07:55:44 No.174635 Report

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>>173071
Mail armor ain't light anon with all the clothes and paddings.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:13:29 No.174661 Report

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>>172457
>Are any of the Asterix films worth watching?
Mission Cleopatra for live action is top tier
DO NOT watch Olympic Games EVER
The recent animated ones (The Secret of the Magic Potion and The Mansions of the Gods) are also very good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:14:58 No.174736 Report

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>>172589
Hell, they made Macedon and Greece two different civs.
The civilopedia claims Alexander wasn't a Hellene.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:21:06 No.174744 Report

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>>172457
Mission Cleopatra was ok. The recent 3D animated one was goofy and fun. You're honestly better off sticking with the comic books. Like Tintin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:27:07 No.174759 Report

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>>172775
The description also refers to Hallstatt culture, so maybe the idea was to imagine what if Ambiorix were from the Bronze Age?

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Endless Space 2

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 16:17:44 No.148984 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Hey hey people. Is Endless Space 2 worth playing? I know to avoid the awakening dlc

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:11:29 No.174657 Report

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>>174643
>establish colonies
STOP. You get a growing penalty for every system colony you create over your overcolonization limit. You will end up crippling yourself and your empire if you just play like a wide faction.

Hissho play tall, and rely on behemoths and resource drones to turn their home system into a monster. You maybe want to take a handful of excellent systems (or home systems if you are playing for Supremacy) and you want to turn the rest into behemoth harvest fields.

Always be scouting, and always be picking fights with pirates or other major factions you're comfortable bullying. You need a constant stream of Keii to colonize the handful of systems you do want to control and to place fealty upgrades on them.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:40:10 No.174692 Report

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>>148984
i'm newfag. why should avoid the awakening dlc?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:40:29 No.174693 Report

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>>149375
yarrr

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 08:55:06 No.174706 Report

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I feel like a total mong playing this, as I keep getting outpaced by the AI even on standard difficulty. Are there like some common beginner mistakes to avoid in this game or do I just have to play some more until it clicks?

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Anonymous Wed 23 Sep 2020 09:25:33 No.174756 Report

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>>165096
>>165341
splicing vodyani as horatio is the best feeling ever

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