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A Buttery Pastry posted:Finally Paradox takes the Historical part of Historical Grand Strategy Games seriously. Maybe we'll get the option to care of well-poisoners too. Also yes
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If I kill my cat, can I entomb it in my wall and then consequently be haunted by it? This is very important.
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Rumda posted:Also yes
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Aug 27, 2016 07:13
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i preordered stellaris and i was wrong
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Aug 27, 2016 07:51
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Reaper's Due for CK2 is easily the funniest part of the entire game now. The diseases/doctors/treatments are awesome and the stories about cannibal nobles devouring shitloads of people are never-ending lately. I even heard something about one of the Paradox devs had an incestuous immortal cannibal queen devouring generations of her own horribly inbred progeny. Reaper's Due owns so loving hard. e: and somebody just discovered that lunatics can make a horse their doctor, Horse M.D.
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Aug 27, 2016 07:52
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corn in the bible posted:i preordered stellaris and i was wrong Yeah, when's that gonna be as good as EU4? 
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Aug 27, 2016 21:57
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Yeah, when's that gonna be as good as EU4? EU4 at release or EU4 right now? Because EU4 now is after three years of iteration on the game,.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:58
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I just heard about the new CK2 expansion for the first time with Darkrenown's post and so I looked it up and... wow. No offense, but there's some real barrel scraping going on with this one. It just looks so inconsequential, you know? Like no major new features, just some occasional event stuff and that kind of thing. My court doctor cut off my face to cure me of the Black Plague and it worked. Reaper's Due owns.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:02
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Honky Dong Country posted:Reaper's Due for CK2 is easily the funniest part of the entire game now. The diseases/doctors/treatments are awesome and the stories about cannibal nobles devouring shitloads of people are never-ending lately. I even heard something about one of the Paradox devs had an incestuous immortal cannibal queen devouring generations of her own horribly inbred progeny. I wasn't on a CK2 kick right now so I was willing to wait for a sale on Reaper's Due. I'm not waiting anymore.  
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Aug 27, 2016 23:14
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Wiz posted:EU4 at release or EU4 right now? Because EU4 now is after three years of iteration on the game,. That's true, but it sure seemed like EU4 at launch had a lot more compelling stuff going on than Stellaris had at launch. I do regret preordering it, and I didn't feel that way about EU4 as I recall.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:30
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Reaper's Due is Cool and Good. I quite enjoyed watching Europe die en masse in the 11th century from an early black plague in my current game.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:34
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:That's true, but it sure seemed like EU4 at launch had a lot more compelling stuff going on than Stellaris had at launch. I do regret preordering it, and I didn't feel that way about EU4 as I recall. EU4 had years of event writing and testing of which mechanics were good or bad from EU3 and even earlier backing it though. CK2 was positively event-barren at the beginning and even it had some carry over from CK1. I do think Stellaris could do with a few more folks employed solely as writers and event coders to make up the gap, but that's started to happen with the Sunless Sea dude being hired.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:36
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Jazerus posted:EU4 had years of event writing and testing of which mechanics were good or bad from EU3 and even earlier backing it though. CK2 was positively event-barren at the beginning and even it had some carry over from CK1. I do think Stellaris could do with a few more folks employed solely as writers and event coders to make up the gap, but that's started to happen with the Sunless Sea dude being hired. We have the largest content designer team at PDS, so yeah we're focusing hard on pumping out more content for Stellaris. Monday's dev diary will be about some of that, actually.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:38
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Stellaris is still distant worlds away from being a good game but I hope it can someday make it there
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Aug 27, 2016 23:43
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Wiz posted:We have the largest content designer team at PDS, so yeah we're focusing hard on pumping out more content for Stellaris. Monday's dev diary will be about some of that, actually. That is pretty encouraging to hear.
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Aug 28, 2016 01:54
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I feel like, at this point, I mostly want Vicky 3 to come out so I can complain about how it needs another year of work. Just this strange obsession I have.
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Aug 28, 2016 04:14
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corn in the bible posted:Stellaris is still distant worlds away from being a good game but I hope it can someday make it there u fucker
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Aug 28, 2016 05:24
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I haven't played V2 since they did that surprise patch a few months back. 1) Is the new patch worth it? I remember a handful of minor issues coming out of it, but I'm assuming those have been ironed out? 2) Can I get the patch on Steam? Or was it automatically pushed out to Steam users? gracias.
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Aug 28, 2016 06:28
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:That's true, but it sure seemed like EU4 at launch had a lot more compelling stuff going on than Stellaris had at launch. I do regret preordering it, and I didn't feel that way about EU4 as I recall. eu4 and ck2 were both very solid at launch. they really turned around paradox's reputation from every previous game, and it annoys me sometimes when people claim that they were real janky or unfinished or whatever. retconning!
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Aug 28, 2016 06:35
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Mister Adequate posted:I wasn't on a CK2 kick right now so I was willing to wait for a sale on Reaper's Due. You're doing the right thing, friend. Anybody who thinks Reaper's Due sucks is dead inside. 
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Aug 28, 2016 06:42
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Mister Adequate posted:u fucker i appreciate that stellaris has a weak imitation of the ck2 character system but the star rulers are all the same
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Aug 28, 2016 07:36
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:I haven't played V2 since they did that surprise patch a few months back. it's a good patch but you have to turn it on in the beta menu in steam yes
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Aug 28, 2016 07:37
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corn in the bible posted:i appreciate that stellaris has a weak imitation of the ck2 character system but the star rulers are all the same it's better than all of the other space 4xes though, it's not as asymmetrical as ck2 but there's at least some actual differentiation between the galactic civilizations through their star drives
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Aug 28, 2016 08:17
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Never got the hype for Distant Words. You either had the AI run everything or it was way too complex to play "casually".
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Aug 28, 2016 10:16
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Is there any historical basis for horses being physicians in medieval times? I feel like they are jumping the shark with this expansion.
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Aug 28, 2016 10:38
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Not that I think you are serious, but the good news is that people who hate fun can turn off Fantasy content in the game rules now. It also disables the cannibal stat gain and immortality.
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Aug 28, 2016 10:42
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BadOptics posted:Never got the hype for Distant Words. You either had the AI run everything or it was way too complex to play "casually". Once you've figured out the daunting interface, it is satisfying to find a balance between automation and intervention as far as the economy and expansion are concerned. I really like that part of the game. Then you get to the military stage and it all falls apart as it is almost impossible to get your military to do what you want either through automation or direct control. If the stars align, you can get a few good invasions going, but you will inevitably get bogged down at some point. God help you if you're on the defensive, you can watch your fleets randomly move away from systems you've explicitly assigned them to. It's all just an exercise in frustration. Some people put DW on a pedestal because it attempts to do things that no other game does. There really is nothing quite like it in the genre. Unfortunately, as it turns out, there is a good reason for that.
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b0lt posted:it's better than all of the other space 4xes Now there's a bar so low you could ski over it.
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Aug 28, 2016 13:05
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waitwhatno posted:Is there any historical basis for horses being physicians in medieval times? I feel like they are jumping the shark with this expansion. Shark jump event please, Paradox
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Aug 28, 2016 13:36
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The Narrator posted:Shark jump event please, Paradox My favorite form of FTL.
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The Narrator posted:Shark jump event please, Paradox Seriously please make an event where your ruler tries to jump over a shark using an experimental medieval speedboat and water-ski. It appears during a summer fest, ruler has to be Italian and insane. Chance to successfully jump the shark is 0.05, to be horribly mangled by the shark is also 0.05, 0.9 to just crash and break a leg. Call the event "Fonzie scheme"
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Aug 28, 2016 14:12
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b0lt posted:it's better than all of the other space 4xes though, it's not as asymmetrical as ck2 but there's at least some actual differentiation between the galactic civilizations through their star drives sword of the stars is way better
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Aug 28, 2016 14:39
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& why cant i be jan mayen in ck2? fuckin lameo!!!
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Aug 28, 2016 14:39
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b0lt posted:it's better than all of the other space 4xes though, it's not as asymmetrical as ck2 but there's at least some actual differentiation between the galactic civilizations through their star drives uh, what. have you literally never played sword of the stars ???
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Viral Warfare posted:uh, what. have you literally never played sword of the stars ??? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3788149
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Aug 28, 2016 15:10
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the weird bird dragons with the flock drives were best
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PleasingFungus posted:eu4 and ck2 were both very solid at launch. they really turned around paradox's reputation from every previous game, and it annoys me sometimes when people claim that they were real janky or unfinished or whatever. retconning! EU4 was really great at launch but it had the bonus of being EU3 with the bad parts taken out so I'd agree it's unfair to compare.
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Aug 28, 2016 16:35
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zedprime posted:CK2 is probably the best comparison for Stellaris then because it was fully functional but kind of hollow and you were probably satisfied after your first serious play through. You didn't really get people raving about it until the Old Gods patch. There were absolutely people raving about CK2 on launch. EU4 too. Not as many as with Stellaris but Stellaris also sold way, way more than either of those two games on launch.
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Yeah CK2 was a really unique game, there wasn't anything else like it that had to do with dynastic politics and poo poo. It's what broke me and a bunch of people I know into playing Paradox games and that was well before the Old Gods patch and I know we weren't at all unusual. Just getting into grand strategy games through it also meant I think most people didn't have many expectations in the way of events and flavor. EU4 on the other hand as I recall had a really mixed reception, at least that was my impression of it before I picked it up myself. A lot of people (i.e. curmudgeonly established Paradox fans) reacted badly to some of the changes from EU3? If anything it was EU4 that I think people were mixed on until Art of War; CK2 had constant praise right from launch.
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Eu4 was generally well received and the only detractors at launched screamed "monarch mana" or some bogus poo poo
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