Slavic Crime Yacht posted:

what... am i looking at?

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Christ, this game.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I know y'all said it was gonna be a long mission, so I thought "It's probably gonna be like 20 aliens, instead of the usual 6-9, I better strap in", but gently caress me.
Restarted the mission halfway through, because I was at a point where I'd barely make it to the evac on the second level with three partially wounded out of five dudes. I kept moving the goal posts for restarting like a dope fiend tells herself she'll never trick for the next hit, until it became apparent that the mission was impossible to complete.

The second approach was so loving cautious that it took twice as long. Had everyone set up overwatch, triggered each subsequent wave with my squaddie Ranger, hacked one mech per wave and primed it before walking it next to another mech. The second level was a cakewalk with all five folks alive, and with everyone on elevated positions, the roof was equally easy. My specialist with a boltcaster, and my sniper would instagib every recurring mech spawn, the sectopod was under continuous fire and wouldn't do poo poo until it was at 30% health, at which point I had Shen hack it to shut it down for a turn. Sustained my only injury when the fucker telescoped up and sprayed half the map and I couldn't to squat about it. That was the scare to end all scares, though.

The exit from the first level ended up being somewhat comical on the second run, because I'm almost 100% certain I could have sustained picking off the new waves of mechs infinitely. Overwatch would damage or take out one of two at minimum, reloading and snapshotting on the following turn with three troopers would leave enough actions for overwatch for the next wave. Not sure if there was a spawn limit.

Christ, this game.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I know y'all said it was gonna be a long mission, so I thought "It's probably gonna be like 20 aliens, instead of the usual 6-9, I better strap in", but gently caress me.
Restarted the mission halfway through, because I was at a point where I'd barely make it to the evac on the second level with three partially wounded out of five dudes. I kept moving the goal posts for restarting like a dope fiend tells herself she'll never trick for the next hit, until it became apparent that the mission was impossible to complete.

The second approach was so loving cautious that it took twice as long. Had everyone set up overwatch, triggered each subsequent wave with my squaddie Ranger, hacked one mech per wave and primed it before walking it next to another mech. The second level was a cakewalk with all five folks alive, and with everyone on elevated positions, the roof was equally easy. My specialist with a boltcaster, and my sniper would instagib every recurring mech spawn, the sectopod was under continuous fire and wouldn't do poo poo until it was at 30% health, at which point I had Shen hack it to shut it down for a turn. Sustained my only injury when the fucker telescoped up and sprayed half the map and I couldn't to squat about it. That was the scare to end all scares, though.

The exit from the first level ended up being somewhat comical on the second run, because I'm almost 100% certain I could have sustained picking off the new waves of mechs infinitely. Overwatch would damage or take out one of two at minimum, reloading and snapshotting on the following turn with three troopers would leave enough actions for overwatch for the next wave. Not sure if there was a spawn limit.

Christ, this game.

boop the snoot posted:

i want to sell my ps4 and if i get the itch again i'll just build a computer. i never use my ps4 when school is in.

but the exclusives, man.

cowboy elvis posted:

Just keep it. How much are you really gonna get for it anyway.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

i sold mine after reading the japanese art of tidying up

also my apple watch

cowboy elvis posted:

Yea needed the cash for roscoe’s hot dog diet.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

please excuse the mess. kids have been home for 4 days straight due to the storm

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Third World Reggin posted:

https://gfycat.com/BlaringEnchantedAmericanquarterhorse

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

Finally played Crusader Kings 2 after getting most of the DLC from this years steams winter sale.
I tried the tutorial with the recommended age/playable character.
Instigated a plot against the dude who dislikes you, despite the 94.7% chance of plot success, no one else would join the plot even with bribes + titles golden-showered on them,
then the game told me to trump up charges against an old dude in that same region as originalHaterMan and imprison him.
Imprisonment attempt failed, rebellion happened, I was at war but no actual war or army thing popped up, just constant seiges vs me that I lost because I had no idea I was at war.
Lost my kingdom, became a vassal, somehow another war started, and I still had no idea what the gently caress the army did.

Meanwhile, my main character got married, had 3 kids, cleaned up his murder-maze which buffed his Stewardship stat, then peasants threw chickens at the main character during a diplomacy/solomonic decision event, and
then the game switched me to an heir while the original main character was still alive.

All in all: wtf write large. Does CK2 get more interesting if you go ahistorical or with totally made-up nations/factions?
And is there a tutorial that explains armies in CK2 that's not a LP or youtube video?

at the date posted:

There is no cap on plot power, even though it's listed as a %. 94% is actually quite low. That and other non-intuitive mechanics are best learned by watching a tutorial on YouTube, unfortunately. Paradox map game tutorials are notoriously bad, and CK2's are the worst of the current generation.

When you start playing, it's a very difficult game because there are dozens of systems interacting with each other to govern all your interactions among a giant web of personal relationships. You get the hang of it eventually, though. Having certain DLCs also makes a huge difference in terms of both difficulty and quality of life.

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

When did Galactic Civilizations II come out? That was one of my favorite 4X games of all time.

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

When did Galactic Civilizations II come out? That was one of my favorite 4X games of all time.

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

Gal Civ 2 came out way before 2009. Sins of a Solar Empire, co-developed by Stardock, came out in 2008.
Everything else Stardock has made or published after 2009 has been either re-releases of existing Stardock games
(cough SINS cough) or badly insert-adjective games at best.

Like Elemental: War of Magic which came out in 2010.
At launch it resembled a uglier minecraft with worse-character models, and no those weren't placeholder graphics, that was the game at maxed out graphics settings.
The dialogue seemed like it was translated from the original english into japanese then russian then into welsch then back into english by a drunken gaelic is my 1st language septic technican.
The actual gameplay in Elemental: War of Magic, welp, it kept the trend of being really bad. So bad everyone who pre-ordered Elemental got free license keys to the followup game, which also sucked real bad. Source for this info: I was one of the morons who pre-ordered Elemental: War of Magic, which cured me of pre-ordering games until Witcher 3 was announced.

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

Yeah I was a sucker too because Stardock did such a great job with the Galactic Civ games. I thought they were going to do a fantasy version of the previous games and instead it was a weird mix of Heroes of Might and Magic and Dominions that didn't work and was unfun and unstable. I forgot about how much that game sucked. I also never bought Gal Civ III because it's reviews were bad and I had other games to play.

mods change my name posted:

How does gc2 hold up to something more modern like Stellaris nowadays, a space 4x sounds fun right now