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Mandalay posted:I'm guessing it's not as good as the first one and expectations were high. It ranked below EU4 in metacritic but still is one of the above-average games this summer: http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/new-releases/pc/metascore?view=condensed Note that user-score though. And this time it is not about some DRM-policy.
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KDdidit posted:What happened with R:TW 2? A quick google just brought up a patch and not sure I want to wade through the whole thread. I don't follow the thread either, but from my experience its a good game, marred by a lot of bugs. Mostly stuff like terrain not properly loading so you get a big black spot where part of the ground should be, framerate issues seemingly unrelated to whats actually happening onscreen, and things of that nature. I'm not sure if people are hugely exaggerating how bad it is (though, again, it is a good bit of a clusterfuck) or if I'm just uncommonly lucky (Empire: Total War worked perfectly for me at launch when it was unplayable for most people so maybe the Total War gods just love me  ).
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KDdidit posted:What happened with R:TW 2? A quick google just brought up a patch and not sure I want to wade through the whole thread. It's performance is completely unpredictable, almost unrelated to your computer, and generally bad. It's full of bugs, some of which are atleast funny. The AI is a mix of weird (endless full stacks of slingers) and nonfunctional (stand still while you leisurely shoot them to death). The UI is the worst thing, Vicky 1 literally had a better UI. The actual battles are terrible and consist of 5 seconds of mosh pit followed by the player who brought less heavy infantry running away. Unit stats are terrible and completely unbalanced, both within factions and between them, it is always optimal to mass heavy infantry.
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The interface in Rome 2 is soooooo bad, holy poo poo. So bad.Agean90 posted:Goons bought in to their own hype, game is as buggy as any other Total War release, que It's not just the bugs. There are some pretty serious design flaws that just make it worse than Shogun 2 or Napoleon. It seemed like the TW games were on an upwards trend, so it was easy to think Rome 2 would continue the trend.
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KDdidit posted:What happened with R:TW 2? A quick google just brought up a patch and not sure I want to wade through the whole thread. They took everything they learned in the last 10 years and flushed it down the toilet. It's like after CK2, Paradox hyped EUIV to oblivion and then released a game that was as bad as vanilla CK1 (with each game-day taking 5 minutes to cycle through all the AI countries). Edit: Not to crap on CK1 of course, I've sunk hundreds of hours into it myself, but people would go understandably apeshit if they took such a giant step backwards like that. Sulla fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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After seeing this in the politically loaded maps thread: I was inspired to (cheat to) create this:  I'm not planning to actually play this game, but it was interesting to see how this would look in HoI2. I gave all the countries cores on their slices of Germany, giving Poland in particular shittons of IC (East Prussia+Silesa+East Germany, plus east poland). In the above image, Belgium feels a little left out so I gave them a slice too. I feel artistically satisfied with the final product. The original image was from a real Nazi propaganda poster from WW2, trying to scare Germans that the allies had in mind the total partition and complete annihilation of Germany should they win the war. After some searching I couldn't find that image so I used the next best thing from a strange maps website.
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Sep 9, 2013 19:00
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The second round of East vs West We are the World contest winners are posted.quote:Fifth place winner: sjord1 for the entry Juan Fontanes East vs West is looking up.
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Sep 9, 2013 19:40
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Patter Song posted:The second round of East vs West We are the World contest winners are posted. You do realize you've now locked yourself in to Let's Playing this game when it comes out, right?
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Wow, I must say that the We Are The World contests are turning out better than I thought they would.
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Gonna update the OP later tonight to reflect the obvious fact that EvW is going to be the Game of the Year for 2014.
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Patter Song posted:The second round of East vs West We are the World contest winners are posted. I almost didn't notice the second-place winner there. Good God, Gorgo.
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Eregos posted:politically loaded maps thread hook us up. (please post a link to this thread) e: vvv thank you gentle goon fuf fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Sep 10, 2013 |
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fuf posted:hook us up. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3531615
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OK, quick question for the thread. I accidentally stumbled onto the fact that Hearts of Iron II and III are both on the Mac Appstore, with their expansions included as well. If I were to get one for a laptop, which one would be best in terms of overall gameplay and mod support? In most paradox games I prefer to do as much bullshit diplomacy and espionage as warfare, if that helps narrow things down between the two.
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Patter Song posted:The second round of East vs West We are the World contest winners are posted. So not only do you get your ~original character (don't steal)~ and their backstory in the game, you also get bonuses added to their nation? 
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BBJoey posted:So not only do you get your ~original character (don't steal)~ and their backstory in the game, you also get bonuses added to their nation? My "original character (don't steal)" happens to be the OP of this thread, thank you very much.
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Spiderfist Island posted:OK, quick question for the thread. I accidentally stumbled onto the fact that Hearts of Iron II and III are both on the Mac Appstore, with their expansions included as well. If I were to get one for a laptop, which one would be best in terms of overall gameplay and mod support? In most paradox games I prefer to do as much bullshit diplomacy and espionage as warfare, if that helps narrow things down between the two. Darkest hour is the correct answer. HoI2 is IMO better than HoI3, but darkest hour is a stand alone mod of HoI2 that is awesome in terms of mods for it and game play but all three are lacking in the spy/diplomacy area.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Darkest hour is the correct answer. HoI2 is IMO better than HoI3, but darkest hour is a stand alone mod of HoI2 that is awesome in terms of mods for it and game play but all three are lacking in the spy/diplomacy area. Darkest Hour isn't for Mac (I've checked everywhere), so it was just down to those two. I was leaning towards HOI2 just because it's cheaper and I know it'll work fast on my computer without any problems. I'll see if I can pick it up in a few weeks after school's settled down, then!
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SickZip posted:It's performance is completely unpredictable, almost unrelated to your computer, and generally bad. It's full of bugs, some of which are atleast funny. The AI is a mix of weird (endless full stacks of slingers) and nonfunctional (stand still while you leisurely shoot them to death). The UI is the worst thing, Vicky 1 literally had a better UI. The actual battles are terrible and consist of 5 seconds of mosh pit followed by the player who brought less heavy infantry running away. Unit stats are terrible and completely unbalanced, both within factions and between them, it is always optimal to mass heavy infantry. Also, the campaign AI is goofy. The big factions ALL get beaten up and annexed (Carthage, Rome, Egypt) by those random tiny factions. The AI is super aggressive when you're small, but once you have 6-7 cities, I found them to be basically passive and lifeless. I miss M:TW 1 and R:TW 1. I do hope Paradox makes EU:Rome 2, it had a lot of redeeming qualities, but there were some things that were totally bizarre- for example, the whole religious influence thing. Could never figure out what affected the prestige or whatever of the various religions.
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rhazes posted:I do hope Paradox makes EU:Rome 2, it had a lot of redeeming qualities, but there were some things that were totally bizarre- for example, the whole religious influence thing. Could never figure out what affected the prestige or whatever of the various religions. Or just straight-up start a new classical antiquity-era franchise. With the requisite save converters, of course... 500BC - 1935, anybody? 
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DStecks posted:Or just straight-up start a new classical antiquity-era franchise. With the requisite save converters, of course... Steppe Wolfe is the answer, as indeed it is the answer to many of life's questions.
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Patter Song posted:My "original character (don't steal)" happens to be the OP of this thread, thank you very much. Your entry was actually good, I'm more talking about the lovely nationalist fanwank, like the one where a Prussian general stages a coup in East Germany and reestablishes the German Reich. (I think that one actually got a prize in the first round?)
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Spiderfist Island posted:OK, quick question for the thread. I accidentally stumbled onto the fact that Hearts of Iron II and III are both on the Mac Appstore, with their expansions included as well. If I were to get one for a laptop, which one would be best in terms of overall gameplay and mod support? In most paradox games I prefer to do as much bullshit diplomacy and espionage as warfare, if that helps narrow things down between the two. The smart answer is Darkest Hour, because that's like HOI 2+ and can get the Kaiserreich mod. HoI III is only good if you really want to find out what micromanager's hell is, and while it is really ambitious most everyone agrees it's not as good as HoI II. Except for me, since I've sunk like 400 hours into it according to steam because I am weird like that. It does lack mods though, the only ones I've played that were actually "fun" (this is if you think HoI III is fun to begin with) were the WWI mod and the Historical Plausibility Project. The latter one is great though, I've never broken a game in half so easily before. EDIT: D'oh, beaten like the Byzantines.
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There's someone on the Kaiserreich forums right now who's trying to convert it to HoI III- he'd made some good progress with the map last I saw, though I don't know how far he's progressed now, or how he's going to handle the nightmare of Intelligence and Diplomacy.
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What is the benefit to having cores in Vicky 2 HoD? I'm playing as Sardinia-Piedmont and took back Lombardia, with France's help, from Austria. I now can enact a decision that gives me a nice amount of prestige and cores on the 3 Lombardia provinces, but I'd also cede Nice and the 2 Savoie provinces to France. Are cores really worth losing 3 provinces?
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Omelette du Fromage posted:What is the benefit to having cores in Vicky 2 HoD? I'm playing as Sardinia-Piedmont and took back Lombardia, with France's help, from Austria. I now can enact a decision that gives me a nice amount of prestige and cores on the 3 Lombardia provinces, but I'd also cede Nice and the 2 Savoie provinces to France. Are cores really worth losing 3 provinces? No. Do not enact Cavour's Diplomacy, it's a trap. Cavour's Diplomacy is as dumb a thing in game as it was IRL. Cores prevent your culture people from assimilating away if you don't own the province (the South Germans in your Milan won't become North Italians as long as Austria has cores on Milan...but if they move to Turin they're fair game to assimilate). Cores are also easier to take in war. They don't do much else.
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As often happens in this thread or Paradox games in general, these last posts sent me off to Wikipedia to learn a little about this Cavour fellow I'd never heard of. History's greatest goon.
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Worth noting that he's 50 and a few months from death in that picture. Goons reach that look in half as many years.
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Now I'll never stop thinking of Count Cavour as Victorian Gabe Newell.
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My steam copy of Victoria II won't ever start properly. It always gets stuck at loading the map data, and when I alt-tab out there's an error message saying that a file is missing. I tried using Steam to repair the install, no luck. Does this sound familiar to anybody?
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DStecks posted:My steam copy of Victoria II won't ever start properly. It always gets stuck at loading the map data, and when I alt-tab out there's an error message saying that a file is missing. I tried using Steam to repair the install, no luck. Does this sound familiar to anybody? Sure does. Go into the folder for Vic II into map, then the cache folder. Delete everything in it and start the game again.
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DStecks posted:My steam copy of Victoria II won't ever start properly. It always gets stuck at loading the map data, and when I alt-tab out there's an error message saying that a file is missing. I tried using Steam to repair the install, no luck. Does this sound familiar to anybody? Yes, try deleting all the files in the map cache directory (Paradox Interactive / map / cache) edit: fb
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I legit thought that picture of Count Cavour was a portrait for East vs West.
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DStecks posted:My steam copy of Victoria II won't ever start properly. It always gets stuck at loading the map data, and when I alt-tab out there's an error message saying that a file is missing. I tried using Steam to repair the install, no luck. Does this sound familiar to anybody? Actually, once you delete the map cache like the other have suggested, you need to go into the game folder and launch the game directly (circumventing Steam) one time. After that, then it should work on subsequent loads through the steam menu like normal. For some reason it has trouble building the map cache when launched through Steam for some people.
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Hey everyone, I sure have been silent for a while huh? I guess you'd want to know how the mod and poo poo has been going. Well, I am still working on it but I did take a week off due to poo poo in life, you probably know how it goes. Irregardless, today's work is buildings and trade goods. Which are a bit much to try and come up with all at once. I think I have a pattern down for them though: Government Buildings - Tools of Rule and Administration: Current Lineup : Report System > Ad Climatiser > Autoban Conditions > Detailed Offense Records > Dedicated Local Moderation > Onsite Honeypot Subforum Land Buildings - rear end in a top hat Gatherings to get more assholes for the fights Current Lineup : Retort Repository > Monitored "Debate" Threads > Officiate Invasion Recruitment > Seed For Talent > Specialist Immunity > Program of Trollmnesty Naval Buildings - Data Transferance Current Lineup : Ham Radio Uplink > Supertwined Dialup > D S Hell > Cable Portal > Fiber Docktic > Quantum Bar for IT Chat Production Buildings - Tricks of Fraud and Income Trade Buildings - Content Creation, "Creation", """Creation""", and Transfer Forts - Hosting Setups Manufactories are in, as soon as I figure and entire list of trade goods. Uniquye buildings will be completely new and possibly linked to special units or other cool poo poo. Hopefully I didn't become another vaporware in my absence.
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So, let's talk about music. Because most of it's gorgeous, but some of it never gets played if you don't play certain nations. Such as "The Byzantine Empire" in CK2, which kicks rear end.  Sadly, there's not as much variety in the randomness in the CK2 game files, with most of the base music being weighted at 1 and culture/religion/type-specific tracks weighted at 2 if you're playing such a ruler and 0 if you're not. The interesting ones, though, are:
Now, in EU4, it's rather different. A lot of songs have been given weights in the file, but most are war dependent. Here are the weightings for the music. War songs
Other songs "De Hominis Dignitate", "King's Court", "Kings in the North", "Machiavelli", "Nighttime". To be honest, I'm actually disappointed in the lack of variety. Might make a mod to rectify that. TinTower fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Sep 12, 2013 |
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Patter Song posted:No. Do not enact Cavour's Diplomacy, it's a trap. Cavour's Diplomacy is as dumb a thing in game as it was IRL. OK good, I was thinking it seemed pretty dumb. I managed to finally sphere all of Italy and create it. This poo poo is overwhelming now - so many factories! Most of them are getting no efficiency bonuses and the factory screen isn't showing me what the RGOs are in each state and argh. This is going to be a couple hours of crap to unfuck all these states isn't it? On the plus side, I got cores on Venice now so maybe they'll stop revolting all the loving time.
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Patter Song posted:No. Do not enact Cavour's Diplomacy, it's a trap. Cavour's Diplomacy is as dumb a thing in game as it was IRL. This is overstating things a bit, as in real life, Cavour got France to join in a war against Austria, without which seizing those territories would have been nearly impossible. I admit the game decision is terrible though - the first time I played for Italian unification I expected it to either give me an alliance with France or straight up start a war between Piedmont/France and Austria, and was tragically disappointed when I read the actual effects. I think I ended up quitting that game in frustration because France and Austria had an undying alliance into 1890 which basically meant I could never risk war with Austria without being stomped on from both sides.
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Yeah, it's crazy how unifying Italy is way harder than unifying Germany even though Italy managed it 10 years earlier historically.
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