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MazelTovCocktail posted:I think I might have some weirdo settings enabled as the Soviets on turn 2 just murdered me. Scenario must have been updated at some point. Same. Basically split my forces and pocketed both split pieces in a single turn.
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Ha, to quote myself from the last thread:Squiggle posted:My first attempt to follow along, the Soviets kicked the absolute poo poo out of me on turn 1 and I couldn't recover. THATS WAR BABY And, also, to quote myself again because I found them SO much better than the included rings: Squiggle posted:Well I can't post this to the Matrix forums because of their dumb restriction on links for new accounts, so: (they might go somewhere else in the Steam version? not sure) Squiggle fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 7, 2019 |
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Zaodai posted:Did that law actually get changed in Germany? Seems like that would have been a rough sell to push through most political bodies. It didn't. Swastikas were always legal to use in art and for educational purposes, the German ratings agency just declared that it wouldn't rate any games with swastikas (or other Nazi-adjacent symbols such as the SS lightning rune) in it. Without an age rating no retailer in Germany would touch it. More recently the ratings agency decided that it would not refuse to rate such games out of hand but would decide whether or not the Swastika was included with artistic intent.
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May 7, 2019 21:45
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Well that seems fair.
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May 7, 2019 21:57
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Practically speaking it's still safer to just not include them rather than risk not being rated though.
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May 7, 2019 23:53
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BTW we might close the old thread.
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May 8, 2019 01:40
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Oh Uboat or Wolfpack or both?
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Probably neither yet. I sucumed to wolfpack temptation last night and between the jank, performance issues and bizarre design decisions I couldn't finish the first tutorial. Save your money.
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RTW2 was delayed because Christopher Dean couldn't finish the store in time due to needing to care for his sick wife. Dean happens to also be the sole person responsible for mailing you your APS(which I finally discovered stands for Anti Piracy System instead of anything meaningful) key, which he still insists is easier for the end user than using STEAM[sic], which is known to cause "complications" according to him. So yes, you could say my hype for rtw2 is dead.
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Popete posted:This is rich, coming from the devs too SCARED to put historically accurate swatiskas in their game. I don’t give a poo poo if they do not want to use Steam. Fine, whatever. The business practices I object to, other being complete assholes, are things like charging $10 for a loving patch. Darkrenown posted:Practically speaking it's still safer to just not include them rather than risk not being rated though. Having worked in the industry before these sorts of art assets are easy to switch and replace, so you (grog developer) might as well submit with the swastika. Worst case scenario you get rejected, and then swap out the assets. Honestly though, again as a former video game developer, the most irritating thing about Germany and Australia art wise was the need to make all the depictions of blood in games green rather than red. Edit Is there any news about War In The East 2? Seems like I haven’t heard much about it lately. Double Edit Asehujiko posted:RTW2 was delayed because Christopher Dean couldn't finish the store in time due to needing to care for his sick wife. Dean happens to also be the sole person responsible for mailing you your APS(which I finally discovered stands for Anti Piracy System instead of anything meaningful) key, which he still insists is easier for the end user than using STEAM[sic], which is known to cause "complications" according to him. I am so confused. The RTW2 release date is still posted as May 17th. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 15:33 on May 8, 2019 |
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May 8, 2019 15:01
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In other news, Panzer Corps 2 got a reveal yesterday, Steam Page included, and is set to release this year. Devs did a video on it, not sure how I feel about the move to fancy 3D models and there's at least one new interesting mechanic (regarding splitting a unit), and hopefully they retain what made the first game so amazing.
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May 8, 2019 15:34
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ZombieLenin posted:Double Edit It was supposed to release 2 weeks ago.
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May 8, 2019 15:37
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Don't worry everyone, you can have absolute faith in the reliability and security of our human based anti-piracy program. Also no keys will be issued until further notice because the human in question has to take sick leave. I just want to scream at them that the issue isn't piracy, it's that I'm not going to give money to a company that so obviously has zero business resilience.
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May 8, 2019 16:24
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Sounds like something a pirate would say to me.
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ZombieLenin posted:
It's still in the works. No idea on timeframe though. I'm in the beta and it's progressing well.
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Matrix/Slitherine has announced a new WWII game in development called "WarPlan" http://www.matrixgames.com/products/product.asp?gid=806 It looks like it's an engine ala TOAW which will allow for scenario creation on a grand strat level...I think?
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ZombieLenin posted:Having worked in the industry before these sorts of art assets are easy to switch and replace, so you (grog developer) might as well submit with the swastika. Worst case scenario you get rejected, and then swap out the assets. I also work in the industry and was speaking from our (PDS's) PoV. Speaking abstractly it should be simple enough to colour swap the blood too, but in war even the simplest things can be very difficult 
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Darkrenown posted:I also work in the industry and was speaking from our (PDS's) PoV. Speaking abstractly it should be simple enough to colour swap the blood too, but in war even the simplest things can be very difficult It isn’t. You are right. I am just speaking from an artistic perspective. I was way cooler with not using swastikas than I was period games where representations of soldiers bled green...
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May 8, 2019 20:03
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I'm also part of the industry and boy are my arms tired!!!
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Dandywalken posted:I'm also part of the industry and boy are my arms tired!!! This is exactly why I stopped making video games for a living!
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Pharnakes posted:Probably neither yet. Wolfpack seems like it would be fun if you have friends to play it with. For Uboat the management sim quality to it seems really neat and the devs do at least seem to work on it full time and with quick turnaround on updates.
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poo poo wait I meant uboat. Wolfpack is probably cool but like you say really needs friends.
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Darkrenown posted:I also work in the industry and was speaking from our (PDS's) PoV. Speaking abstractly it should be simple enough to colour swap the blood too, but in war even the simplest things can be very difficult You guys really like Clausewitz.
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Pharnakes posted:poo poo wait I meant uboat. Wolfpack is probably cool but like you say really needs friends. Wolfpack is pretty fun with friends, especially when you have a lot of friends so you can do multiple uboats coordination. However, the content right now is quite light, and updates are coming at a very slow pace. I'd say keep an eye on it for now.
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Yooper posted:It's still in the works. No idea on timeframe though. I'm in the beta and it's progressing well. Is WitE 2 an updated version of WitE but with WitW's supply and air power system added to it, or is there more?
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Hammerstein posted:Is WitE 2 an updated version of WitE but with WitW's supply and air power system added to it, or is there more? I'm pretty sure it's going to at least use the WITW map, because that was the entire point of making a map and writing a weather system that covered an area well beyond what you would need just for the Western Front.
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Shame the witw map is butt-ugly. It's a map game, make a nice map ffs.
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uPen posted:Shame the witw map is butt-ugly. It's a map game, make a nice map ffs. For some reason I swear Decisive Campaigns is the only map that is both easy on the eyes and uses text and “game pieces” that are easy to read. Also I swear it’s the only one with decent oob and finding units. Oh can anyone recommend a good Silent Hunter 4 tutorial YouTube series.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm pretty sure it's going to at least use the WITW map, because that was the entire point of making a map and writing a weather system that covered an area well beyond what you would need just for the Western Front. Will this be the full Euro map they talked about some years ago on the Matrix forums? Their long-term goal being to have one big map from France to the Urals.
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Hammerstein posted:Will this be the full Euro map they talked about some years ago on the Matrix forums? The full euro map already exists in WITW - it's just locked to only show the pertinent parts. Presumably WITE 2 would do a similar thing.
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Cool, the new Armored Brigade DLC is out. Can someone please whip up a campaign for it now TIA.
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May 9, 2019 21:21
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Oh good lord I have a 9 year Matrix/Slytherine voucher, what is worth it these days.
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Speaking of Slytherine.... Flashback to 1994 - is my memory bad or did the original Panzer General from 94 have a synergy between armor and infantry which the Slytherine remake does not have? Namely, infantry parked next to armor protected armor from Close Assault attacks, which was a special infantry attack stat, that got used when attacking armor in rugged terrain like cities or forests. Hammerstein fucked around with this message at 14:37 on May 10, 2019 |
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New dev diary on Unity of Command 2. https://steamcommunity.com/games/809230/announcements/detail/1618392861327357479    gently caress that looks nice.
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I am super excited about RTW2, but... Please gods, I know grog devs read here, could someone please remake Fighting Steel, preferably with a campaign a la the NWS Fighting Steel Project? Pretty please? I would legit pay super grog prices for it. Like $200 without a single hesitation.
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May 10, 2019 15:06
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Today I found out that seeing Italy not properly rotated slightly unnerves me.
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May 10, 2019 15:12
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It took me an embarrassingly long time to work out it even was Italy.
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I'm lying, it really unnerves me.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I'm lying, it really unnerves me. It looks as if the boot was trying to kick little Sicily away.
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