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Dimitris posted:PSA: CMANO-everything slashes prices per the Steam summer sale: I think I'll push the button on that bundle sale once steam stops crapping itself.
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Jun 25, 2019 19:58
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War in the East and Barbarosa are both 60+% off on Steam. Clearly the end times are upon us, some Grog devs are actually doing good sales. 
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Jun 25, 2019 20:13
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Zaodai posted:War in the East and Barbarosa are both 60+% off on Steam. Clearly the end times are upon us, some Grog devs are actually doing good sales. Oh Vic and the Grigsby guys have been long doing this. As Dimitris is demonstrating, up-selling with bundle packs is a thing even at the more hardcore end of the spectrum. e: also pulled the trigger of TOAWIV at 50% off, been waiting for that one.
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Jun 25, 2019 21:03
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Alchenar posted:Will you look at that, Military Simulation Games is a standalone promoted category in the steam sale. What's in there? Arma?
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Jun 25, 2019 21:30
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Wait. Why is Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY discounted to £31 and WOTY and Northern Inferno discounted to £20? Also Pike and Shot Campaigns, or Field of Glory II?
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Jun 25, 2019 21:38
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Deptfordx posted:Also Pike and Shot Campaigns, or Field of Glory II? I've got Pike and Shot and, if you like the time period, it's quite good. FOG 2 has the bonus benefit of being compatible with the new strategic game that's coming out next month.
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Jun 25, 2019 21:44
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Deptfordx posted:
Pike and Shot only if you like the era. FoG2 is, in my opinion, the far better game.
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Jun 25, 2019 22:36
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Popete posted:What's in there? Arma? Halo, lol
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Jun 25, 2019 22:41
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Alchenar posted:e: also pulled the trigger of TOAWIV at 50% off, been waiting for that one. Report back on whether it was worth it e: Deptfordx posted:Also Pike and Shot Campaigns, or Field of Glory II? sum fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 03:19
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FoG2 for $15 is low enough I kinda have to get it.
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Jun 26, 2019 03:31
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FoG II is easily worth $15 even without FoGE integration.
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Jun 26, 2019 04:41
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Been playing a lot of RTW2. Really makes me want to play some more WiTP; unfortunately, I cannot stand playing the scripted AI; and my pbem games always die early, plus I hate waiting days for turns.
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Jun 26, 2019 14:22
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sum posted:Report back on whether it was worth it I refunded after 15 minutes. Sorry but in TYOOL 2019 you need to accept that people may have bought a monitor with a standard native resolution sometime in the last 10 years and make sure your software can scale to it. Decisive Campaigns does it, CMANO does it, you can cludge it and make everything a little blurry if you need to, but no excuses for not doing it at all.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:24
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Alchenar posted:I refunded after 15 minutes. Sorry but in TYOOL 2019 you need to accept that people may have bought a monitor with a standard native resolution sometime in the last 10 years and make sure your software can scale to it. This is low-key one of my huge hang-ups with WITE because it won't scale properly to 1366x768
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Jun 26, 2019 15:35
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I avoid this issue by scaling the window to the scale of screenshots I'm taking. Using a broken system to save time. I'm weird though.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:53
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Alchenar posted:I refunded after 15 minutes. Sorry but in TYOOL 2019 you need to accept that people may have bought a monitor with a standard native resolution sometime in the last 10 years and make sure your software can scale to it. Are we talking "can't scale to 1440p / 4k" or "can't scale to 1080p"?
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Jun 26, 2019 16:31
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Dramicus posted:Are we talking "can't scale to 1440p / 4k" or "can't scale to 1080p"? 
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Jun 26, 2019 16:47
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I was honestly just assuming it was can't scale to 1080p. Being able to scale to 1080p basically gets you half-assed 4k support for free (it wouldn't be true 4k, but it'd look fine because it's literally just a doubled 1080p so there's no stretching). I guess it could be 1440 though, or one of those ultrawide monitors with a weird aspect ratio.
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Jun 26, 2019 16:51
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Alchenar posted:I refunded after 15 minutes. Sorry but in TYOOL 2019 you need to accept that people may have bought a monitor with a standard native resolution sometime in the last 10 years and make sure your software can scale to it. I....what? TOAW4? I play it at 1440p unscaled, and it's absolutely normal. This confuses the hell out of me. There's a Graphics entry under the [Scaling] section of the "Opart 4 Fonts.ini" for scaling text and some UI elements, but I haven't needed it on my desktop. It's certainly your prerogative! But I don't want people to stay away from it based on just that, because I don't see any issue myself. Ed: I picked the screen with the smallest text I could find, just to serve as an example at 2560x1440:  Ed2: Oh wait, do you mean scaling for smaller resolutions? Squiggle fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 16:55
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It also worked out of the box for me at 1440p.
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Jun 26, 2019 17:29
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Any opinions on Steel Division: Normandy 44 as a single player game? 66% off in the Steam sale - I'm either gonna buy it or remove it from my wishlist.
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Jun 26, 2019 18:45
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Children of a Dead Earth is on Steam and that game practically requires dual PhDs in nuclear physics and material science. Or a lot of trial and error.
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Jun 26, 2019 18:56
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Invader Zym posted:Any opinions on Steel Division: Normandy 44 as a single player game? 66% off in the Steam sale - I'm either gonna buy it or remove it from my wishlist. Single player campaign is a handful of scripted missions, it's not worth it. But if you don't might fighting AI in skirmishes I found it pretty fun.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:03
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They could have done so much with the campaign's, something which it seems they've taken on board with SD2 but even some sort of campaign/map editor could have extended it. But DLC campaigns would have been a winner.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:07
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SD2 dynamic campaigns have me very intrigued. I don't have a good sense of how they actually work yet, but it's really tempting me to pick it up.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:12
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Funny thing if you look at steamcharts - Steel Division 2 superficially looks like it's doing well, but it's got half the launch numbers of Steel Division 1 and rapidly falling off. Neither have the staying power of Red Dragon.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:17
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As someone who enjoys the CM games I'm looking at the Graviteam range of games, with 85% off should i go with Tank Warfare? I'm really looking for something that's an in-between CM Normandy and HOI and with SD2 being full price I'm looking for a similar fix of a dynamic campaign and I've heard generally good things.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:25
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Depends what theater you're interested in. Tunisia is obviously the North Africa campaign. Mius Front is probably their biggest game with a ton of DLC and is a good starting point.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:27
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Popete posted:Depends what theater you're interested in. Tunisia is obviously the North Africa campaign. Mius Front is probably their biggest game with a ton of DLC and is a good starting point. Does it have both eastern and western front? As a Tanky I'm after some decent armoured warfare at battalion level as I've realised that while playing CM:BS it's incredibly small in scale in terms of armour as cramming a Troop of tanks in to a 2km frontage is ridiculous.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:36
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Mius Front is Eastern Theater only, so only Russian/German stuff. There are plenty of tanks, but also static trench lines and AT guns. Tunisia Tank Warfare is pretty heavy on tanks and huge open dessert maps. I never really played much of it because the first campaign mission I tried had my band of lovely Shermans going up against a column of Tigers and I couldn't penetrate them even from behind point blank. I enjoyed Mius Front setting a lot more. That said, both games play exactly the same. It's just a matter of which theater interests you more.
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ZombieLenin posted:Been playing a lot of RTW2. Really makes me want to play some more WiTP; unfortunately, I cannot stand playing the scripted AI; and my pbem games always die early, plus I hate waiting days for turns. You should try one of the smaller scenarios - I have a pretty fun Guadalcanal run going right now with some Russian guy. I sunk Zuikaku and Shokaku but lost all my CVs but a badly-damaged Wasp in the process, so freaking CVL Ryujo is queen of the south seas now
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Invader Zym posted:Any opinions on Steel Division: Normandy 44 as a single player game? 66% off in the Steam sale - I'm either gonna buy it or remove it from my wishlist. I never bothered with MP and barely touched the campaign but I enjoyed noodling around with the division creator and trying them out against the AI in skirmish mode. Re: Pike and Shot vs FOG 2. I was leaning on FOG because it's cheaper and looks more polished. I was wondering though what exactly is the integration with the forthcoming FOG: Empires that people keep mentioning.
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Jun 26, 2019 21:17
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SD2 is better than SD 44 by far. Much better campaign too.
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I have been really enjoying the SD2 multiplayer since it hit beta. It is a marked improvement over SD '44. The number of tanks especially is much more interesting to play with in SD2, the increased engagement ranges, and improved mechanics surrounding elevation are really nice too. One of the biggest problems with SD '44 was the deckbuilding was almost pointless, SD2 is still no where near the glory of the Wargame deck system, but most of the divisions actually offer a few distinct choices to make in each slot, and the divisions that are launching with the game provide a nice spread of options. It also feels like all the balance changes make the game really tight. Infantry finally feel right, they don't get completely evaporated (unless you drop really really big HE on them). But they also aren't totally invincible. There is an interesting interplay between the differently armed infantry squads. Also AA can get kills now, you are still best off with fighters to finish things off. Worst part about the game is team mates that sit back and only throw planes and artillery at the enemy but refuse to take ground.
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Jun 26, 2019 22:52
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Deptfordx posted:I was wondering though what exactly is the integration with the forthcoming FOG: Empires that people keep mentioning. Empires is kind of like a paradox grand strategy game and if you have fog2 you can fight the battles instead of having them resolved with dice rolls a la Eu4/imperator.
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Jun 27, 2019 00:14
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VendoViper posted:
Sounds exactly like Wargame lol.
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Jun 27, 2019 01:23
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Dramicus posted:Empires is kind of like a paradox grand strategy game and if you have fog2 you can fight the battles instead of having them resolved with dice rolls a la Eu4/imperator. Ok. How does that work? Is it all going to be smoothly integrated or is it going to be some byzantine save your game, exit, launch FOG II, load the save from the other game, play it out, save the result, quit, load back into empires, load the save state madness.
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Jun 27, 2019 01:25
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Basically the latter, but Empires can launch FoG2 automatically!
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It's fairly smooth. When you're in Empires and a battle comes up, you press a 'Play in FOG2' button. FOG2 starts automatically and you press a "fight battle" button. Fight the battle and the result is automatically sent to Empires. You switch back to Empires and press 'import results' and you're done.
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