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Pirate Radar posted:So global chat will be terrible again, yeah The best thing was saying 'the Tiger was a bad tank' in global chat right before starting an 8v8 and then finding the argument still raging hard on finishing the game.
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Dibs on "RommelWasAWarCriminal" as a new Eugen ID.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Dibs on "RommelWasAWarCriminal" as a new Eugen ID. Calling HimmlerDiddledKids.
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Mar 9, 2017 21:27
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I'll go with KulikDidNothingWrong
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Mar 9, 2017 21:30
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I'm going to use "Control Volume"
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Mar 9, 2017 21:36
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Alchenar posted:gently caress it, reinstalling Red Dragon. Would be nice to get the old gang together at the weekend for some games. I'll reinstall Red Dragon as well. is anyone else from the old gang still around?
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Shanakin posted:It already got filled, within 3 minutes. why didn't they have people sign up and then randomly give out the keys....
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Stairmaster posted:why didn't they have people sign up and then randomly give out the keys.... as a person with an f5 button i prefer the system they used 
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OctaMurk posted:Chugging the stairs mumble The CtS thread says they've moved to Discord, is there another thread
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Enjoy posted:The CtS thread says they've moved to Discord, is there another thread No it doesnt, its still in mumble. The old CtS died go to private game servers and go to Chugging the Stairs https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3796734&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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Get a beeta code if you missed out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steel_Division/comments/5yqjzq/did_you_miss_out_on_a_sd_beta_code/ Also, quite an interesting picture that is telling of the new deck and phases system:  As we can see, your points income changes from phase to phase. Not only this, but you get units in different availabilities in each phase--for example you can buy a card of M10A1s available in Phase A but you will only get 2, or you can get a card of M10A1s with availability of 6 but you have to wait until phase C to deploy them. We can also see that veterancy is also tied to phase. For example you can buy a card of 4 anti-tank marines in phase B at base veterancy, or buy a card of 4 with increased veterancy available in phase C. The vehicles the units are brought in with can also be determined by phase. The Phase A 57mm towed guns are brought in by jeeps, while the phase B towed guns are brought in by half tracks. At the top left of the unit cards we can see some symbol that possibly has to do with attack, while at the bottom right is a number that presumably corresponds to the vehicle's armor value.
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Mar 11, 2017 05:29
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I'm not staying up to 3 AM to get a code. Ungrateful Frenchmen! 
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I'm gonna miss playing as the ddr but this game looks cool. I could do with another ww2 rts after coh2
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You can also see that anti-air and artillery have been taken out of the support tab and have their own now, which is good.
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what are those three numbers on the top left? e: oh it's the number of units available in each phase. Stairmaster fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 06:43
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Stairmaster posted:what are those three numbers on the top left? I think it may be income per tick, for each phase.
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Mar 11, 2017 07:10
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Looks cool! Gonna be fun smashing some Panthers with Free French tanks.
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I've been hoping Eugen would do a follow up to R.U.S.E. I'd prefer it was set in the early war with all the funny early and inter-war vehicles though.
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Mar 11, 2017 11:11
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Well there is always the eventual key begging.
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Mar 11, 2017 11:28
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No idea how they're even thinking of balancing this.
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Alchenar posted:No idea how they're even thinking of balancing this. It's cute that you think Eugen is thinking of balancing this.
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Alchenar posted:No idea how they're even thinking of balancing this. Well they've already taken artistic license by letting axis players have air units.
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Alchenar posted:No idea how they're even thinking of balancing this. By taking license with the equipment's capability, presumably.
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MrYenko posted:It's cute that you think Eugen is thinking of balancing this. Oh I'm sure they're thinking of balancing it...
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Pirate Radar posted:By taking license with the equipment's capability, presumably. That's the one thing they shouldn't do. They've got enough different levers to adjust this time around without having to touch the unit capabilities.
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Yeah I hope they avoid screwing with hard stats for the most part. But I don't know how they'd do the disparity in numbers between allied and German air support. Unless the Luftwaffe was itself pretty much a noob trap, which they kind of were at this point in the war, in a weird way. Seeing two Mustangs fighting two 190s over and over would be pretty lame.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:59
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why would this disparity be represented in the game at all
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Looking forward to expansions that go earlier and earlier in the war until we get to the Battle of France and a complete roster. Plus seeing the Char B and the Pershing fighting side by side in the spring of 1940 would bring warm feelings to my heart.
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Stairmaster posted:Well they've already taken artistic license by letting axis players have air units. This is a good post.
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Wooper posted:why would this disparity be represented in the game at all Because it's not unachievable, and it sets the tone of the design direction in what may become a series of games. And thinking about it, its probably going to be there innately by just giving Germans less aircraft in their divisions to start with.
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It may be like Wargame in which deck design naturally discourages some factions from spending too much on air due to opportunity cost in the deck design. For example, since Axis have both heavy tanks and medium tanks, they may be spending their deck slots on heavy tanks instead of aircraft while the Allies are spending slots on tankbuster planes and the ASF or recon planes to support them. Or the Axis decks may be simpy limited in the number of deck slots they may allocate to aircraft at all. But nonetheless, I think this discussion is on the level of "how come T-72s don't cost 20 points to simulate USSR's numerical superiority in tanks".
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I mean, the state of Wargame balance always came down to 'are infantry capable of creating no-go areas for tanks?'. If so, infantry heavy decks win. If not, Heavy Tanks always won. I can see the first two weeks of meta after release being German players throwing all their points into a single Phase A Tiger tank that kills everything around it. That, or it'll always die to massed paratroopers and airstrikes and the wehraboos will all quit in disgust.
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Alchenar posted:the wehraboos will all quit in disgust. pretty much the best outcome for any ww2 game imo
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Alchenar posted:I mean, the state of Wargame balance always came down to 'are infantry capable of creating no-go areas for tanks?'. If so, infantry heavy decks win. If not, Heavy Tanks always won.  I hope they manage to make fighting in build up areas actually good this time.
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Mar 11, 2017 23:00
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Watch the Germans have fighter "Aces" that cost twice the price of american aircraft.
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Agean90 posted:pretty much the best outcome for any ww2 game imo Problem is that wehraboos spend shitloads of dollars.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Problem is that wehraboos spend shitloads of dollars. otoh pissing on wheraboos causes people to flock to your games in greater numbers while preventing your game from turning into company of heros 2 it also improves the quality of the main chat channel so we get more gay porn scripts based off black hawk down and less ascii swastikas
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What's worse, people bitching about German units being too weak, or people bitching about the Germans being too strong? It's a strategy game, having either side be disproportionately stronger than the other would be the opposite of fun. Hopefully they balance it giving the Germans low unit availability or prolonged deployment time to mimic small numbers and poor supply lines. Personally I'm looking forward more to the early war expansion. France, Africa, and Russia. Less Wunderwaffen.
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