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Cynic Jester posted:Sommerfugl is the Norwegian word for butterfly. If you translate the two words separately it translates to summer bird though. It's not in Icelandic but Norwegian. If it was icelandic, it'd be something like sumarfugl or sumarlegurfugl or something. Icelandic is strange. Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen.
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Cynic Jester posted:Sommerfugl is the Norwegian word for butterfly. If you translate the two words separately it translates to summer bird though. It's not in Icelandic but Norwegian. If it was icelandic, it'd be something like sumarfugl or sumarlegurfugl or something. Icelandic is strange.
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Edit: gently caress it's not here
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So im playing ck2 I started as Wessex in 769. It is now 1002 and I am England + Wales. All is well. Question 1: Black Death. How survive? One char dead to it, another infected. Apocalyptic. Question 2: How do I gently caress over my council to get power back without them voting me out. Question 3: How can I fix the Continental countries' borders. They gently caress ugly
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1. Close the gates before it arrives, hope to outlast it. Have a built-up hospital and hope it dodges you. Have a good court physician. Pray. 2. Get people who like you on the council. Yes, your powerful vassals get mad if they're not on the council - but it's better to have one rear end in a top hat duke at -60 fuming about their lack of power than it is to have them at -20 and loving up all your votes. Stockpile cash in case there's a messy faction, kick out the troublemakers and replace them with sycophants, and then go ham. 3. Invade and fix them yourself.
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Phlegmish posted:He's Icelandic so I'll trust his judgment this time. Icelandic word for it is Fiğrildi, Fiğrildaland would be cray too, but Iceland surprisingly doesn't lend itself to much other than living smugly and well Bort Bortles posted:They eat rotten shark and consider it a delicacy, so I am not surprised that their language is "strange".  (What? Linguistic purges during the romantic period? I'm sorry, I don't understand any of those words) Phi230 posted:So im playing ck2 You can also hide on a boat but that way you get scurvy 2. Imprison all of them and keep them in there forever until they die, then imprison your other vassals, then fill your council with lickspittles and rubes, buy favours from them and force them to vote your way 3. This has already been answered
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Trying to figure out HoI4... Is it just me being unlucky or are large armies (like 120ish divisions) reaaally wonky with the battle plans? I do 2-3 of the 24 division armies with generals and it works out okay but when the field marshal is handling a large group half of the army ends up running around doing nothing. Worse than nothing actually because half of the troops seem to go up and down the front while their friends get massacred. Just tried to invade Poland as the USSR, watched several battles of 2-3 divisions fighting while 8-10 milled around behind them all up and down the border. Should I just divide it up into smaller armies and not try that again?
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Sep 24, 2016 12:37
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Roylicious posted:Trying to figure out HoI4... Is it just me being unlucky or are large armies (like 120ish divisions) reaaally wonky with the battle plans? I do 2-3 of the 24 division armies with generals and it works out okay but when the field marshal is handling a large group half of the army ends up running around doing nothing. Worse than nothing actually because half of the troops seem to go up and down the front while their friends get massacred. Just tried to invade Poland as the USSR, watched several battles of 2-3 divisions fighting while 8-10 milled around behind them all up and down the border. I get by just fine with everyone in a single army under a field marshal. Like 300 divisions plus, as long as the front is sane. Have you got your generals set on Blitz mode? Do that.
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Sep 24, 2016 12:48
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Gort posted:Have you got your generals set on Blitz mode? Do that. Oh well no I don't because I'm dumb 
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Even on blitz mode I find that they're not as aggressive as I'd like. Basically if there is an empty province on the enemy front line, I want my units advancing into it. Instead they wait for organisation (I assume) before advancing.
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My generals have actually been fairly good about that since the last patch. I usually have them set to balanced rather than aggressive, and they still advance pretty well. The only time it seems they won't advance into empty provinces when told to (with a battle plan) is when doing so would widen the front too much and leave a gap. They're still pretty terrible at initial distribution of troops along a front and still shuffle troops around too much though.
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Sep 25, 2016 09:35
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I mostly wish they'd take y it type into consideration when placing troops. hmm yes ai put all my mountaineers down in the fields instead of up in those mountains
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Gort posted:Even on blitz mode I find that they're not as aggressive as I'd like. Basically if there is an empty province on the enemy front line, I want my units advancing into it. Instead they wait for organisation (I assume) before advancing. There is a minimum organization requirement to be allowed to attack (10-20%? I forget the exact number. You can't even manually order an attack below that threshold), even if the "attack" is on unoccupied territory, so they might just be waiting for that. Agean90 posted:I mostly wish they'd take y it type into consideration when placing troops. hmm yes ai put all my mountaineers down in the fields instead of up in those mountains The best thing to do about that is to split your special forces into their own army, and just assign them a front line that only covers their specialist area. This also lets you assign a general to them that has skills that boost them directly, or at the very least allows you to get a general to learn those skills quickly. It is annoying when you're dealing with terrain that varies wildly over the whole front, but at that point you might as well just make everyone mountaineers and be done with it. The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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quote:Companies like Paradox make me appreciate those like CD Projekt Red even more where they say "we will release it when it is ready and not a moment too soon".
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I never got into the witcher 2 because the tutorial bugged out both times I tried it 
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Darkrenown posted:I never got into the witcher 2 because the tutorial bugged out both times I tried it It probably detected that you worked for an inferior, humanity-destroying company and decided to revoke your privilege to play a truly complete game.
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I'm going to guess that the community project to 'fix' HOI4 he's talking about is BlackIce?
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I'm going to guess that the community project to 'fix' HOI4 he's talking about is BlackIce? Probably. Just one of many great posts from a general complaining thread.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:There is a minimum organization requirement to be allowed to attack (10-20%? I forget the exact number. You can't even manually order an attack below that threshold), even if the "attack" is on unoccupied territory, so they might just be waiting for that. I've seen this happen in Africa and parts of SE Asia.
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Sep 27, 2016 13:50
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Darkrenown posted:I never got into the witcher 2 because the tutorial bugged out both times I tried it Well, if we are being fair in comparisons Witcher 2 came at around the same period as Victoria 2, which had - and has - its own set of problems. Both Paradox and CDPR learned a lot since then, and have developed bigger warchests to be capable of delaying releases until they are ready. A contemporary comparison would be between the releases of the Witcher 3 and Stellaris and Hearts of Iron IV.
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I think it's silly comparison anyway, being different genres of games and them having vastly more resources, but CD Projekt Red =! Witcher 3 and one really good game doesn't make a perfect studio. Mostly I just wanted to make a dumb retort to a dumb quote though.
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Victoria 2 is better than The Witcher 2
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I haven't been to this thread in forever. What's next on Paradox's sights now that Stellaris and HOI4 are out? Victoria 3? Rome 2?corn in the bible posted:Victoria 2 is better than The Witcher 2 Not emptyquoting.
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It sounded like there were 2 games going into preproduction to fill the major team voids left by Stellaris and HOI4 and Wiz was going to direct one. But then Wiz took over Stellaris and Doomdark went back to CK2. Doomdark might also be directing one of those new ones? I don't know, I've been busy actually playing the games instead of following gossip for once. Wiz being the original proposed director makes me want to hope its Victoria or Rome.
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zedprime posted:It sounded like there were 2 games going into preproduction to fill the major team voids left by Stellaris and HOI4 and Wiz was going to direct one. But then Wiz took over Stellaris and Doomdark went back to CK2. Doomdark might also be directing one of those new ones? I don't know, I've been busy actually playing the games instead of following gossip for once.
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corn in the bible posted:Victoria 2 is better than The Witcher 2 Victoria 2 is barely functional, and I say that as someone who throughly enjoyed it.
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ZearothK posted:Victoria 2 is barely functional, and I say that as someone who throughly enjoyed it. I wouldn't say that. It's definitely functional. You can play from the start to the end and develop your country and make it a great power. It's just the more esoteric parts of the game are fuelled by magic. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Darkrenown posted:I never got into the witcher 2 because the tutorial bugged out both times I tried it Funny enough, the tutorial wasn't even in the game originally. They added it later down the line (in the EE maybe?) and it was always buggy and completely pointless, as the main game pretty much teaches you how to play as you go anyway. I think it was a reactionary attempt to fix the big complaint people had about how the Prologue of the game was the hardest part of the whole game, but then they fixed the balance of that so... Also Witcher 3 was crazy buggy and crashes on release and bricked a few video cards even (some screens wouldn't limit framerate at all and you'd hear your video card fan start going nuts while reading books or stuff like that), so it's kind of a bad comparison anyway. Didn't have a single problem with HOI4 on release other than the AI and lesser bugs.
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zedprime posted:It sounded like there were 2 games going into preproduction to fill the major team voids left by Stellaris and HOI4 and Wiz was going to direct one. But then Wiz took over Stellaris and Doomdark went back to CK2. Doomdark might also be directing one of those new ones? I don't know, I've been busy actually playing the games instead of following gossip for once. I was the de facto designer for Reaper's and am now the de jure one too, Doomdark remains the game director though. He's pretty hands off and is also working on a new thing. I don't think we've really mentioned it but we have a Game director/game designer/project lead setup going on for all of our games now with the first doing most of the high level design, the second mostly doing details/implementation/balance, and the third trying to keep the crazy ideas of the first two in check and everything on time/budget.
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Rome 2 confirmed, its the biggest overlap between Doomdark and Wiz that isn't a theoretical CK3.
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Darkrenown posted:one really good game Whoa whoa whoa hey. Two really good games, mister. Just because Witcher 3 came along and carried the bar for "really good" over the hill and out of sight doesn't mean 2 isn't still a great game. 
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Ok this is going to seem really dumb but how exactly do I put armies on blitz mode? I don't see the battleplan action anywhere... I have the mobile warfare doctrine all unlocked too.Apoffys posted:They're still pretty terrible at initial distribution of troops along a front and still shuffle troops around too much though. God yes this. I have to go fiddle a lot with defensive lines because I'll notice something silly like 7 divisions stacked in a province behind a major river while there's 3 other open ones nearby with 1 division each. At least it seems to put mountaineers on hills/mountains if possible but maybe I've just gotten lucky about that. Roylicious fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:Also Witcher 3 was crazy buggy and crashes on release and bricked a few video cards even (some screens wouldn't limit framerate at all and you'd hear your video card fan start going nuts while reading books or stuff like that), so it's kind of a bad comparison anyway. Didn't have a single problem with HOI4 on release other than the AI and lesser bugs. I played the day of release and had a pretty smooth experience, don't even have a very powerful computer, so calling it crazy buggy sounds a tad melodramatic. HOI 4 had a pretty good release and I'd call it a fun wargame - making good (and fun) AI for a strategy game is a very difficult thing, so I wouldn't hold that against Paradox -, unlike Stellaris which ran out of singleplayer content after a few hours despite a very promising early game.
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Roylicious posted:Ok this is going to seem really dumb but how exactly do I put armies on blitz mode? I don't see the battleplan action anywhere... I have the mobile warfare doctrine all unlocked too. There's three buttons with arrows to the right of where it shows your general and his traits and stuff when you have an army selected. The furthest right one is aggressive/blitz stance.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:There's three buttons with arrows to the right of where it shows your general and his traits and stuff when you have an army selected. The furthest right one is aggressive stance. Holy crap thanks! I can't believe I haven't noticed that in like 8 games played so far.
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I dunno, I had to shelve Witcher 3 for a couple of weeks right after release because I got: 1) Random lockups any time I'd read books/notes/etc 2) Random crashes and freezes pretty much at any time 3) Consistent crashes in certain specific quests (All Fathers Eve always crashed in the same place every time) 4) Tons of weird physics issues though those were mostly funny rather than a problem (ala Skyrim) 5) Previously mentioned video card issue though mine was smart enough to not brick itself. There was also some fun stuff how it wouldn't work right at all if your nVidia drivers were too old but the latest drivers also had extra bugs in them. It wasn't like it was just me either, there was quite a lot going around right at launch about how buggy it was. The PS4 version was also basically unplayable on launch as I recall but that's another story. Regardless I basically had 0 technical problems with HOI4 on release and it feels like a pretty complete game as-is (though more is always welcome). Stellaris is a different story of course but I still had 0 technical problems with that one. Gwyrgyn Blood fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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I find Witcher and Paradox games to both be really good on the whole and wish their employees wouldn't fight. You can both be good, it's OK.
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Fight! Fight! A witcher and a knight!
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Gort posted:I find Witcher and Paradox games to both be really good on the whole and wish their employees wouldn't fight. You can both be good, it's OK. I agree, I was just saying I thought that post Slime Bro Helpdesk posted was extra funny because I had so many release issues with W3.
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