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Taintrunner posted:You can find it for free on MyAbandonware. Matrix Games gave it out for free a long time ago, but lost the download link on their site. drat, that place has a bunch of old games I need to try again. Thanks! RIP free time. HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:I'm not going to make a third post saying the same thing. But I'll quote it. Yeah, but there ever been a good English translation of it? Last time I checked (Which was admittedly years ago) the ones that were out there were sorta janky.
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fartknocker posted:Yeah, but there ever been a good English translation of it? Last time I checked (Which was admittedly years ago) the ones that were out there were sorta janky. There's a full translation for Ghiren's One Year War campaign.
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Does anyone have the list at all of recommended mods and such for Distant Worlds? Have reinstalled and recalled that there was a chrome ui and ship sets and such that added to the experience.
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I don't know how to process a 2021 release of what looks like a mediocre early 2000s RTS based on a 1997 movie.
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Darkrenown posted:I don't know how to process a 2021 release of what looks like a mediocre early 2000s RTS based on a 1997 movie. I actually wouldn't put it past Slitherine for this to be heavily based on the 2000 Microprose game based on Starship Troopers
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Darkrenown posted:I don't know how to process a 2021 release of what looks like a mediocre early 2000s RTS based on a 1997 movie. Your inability to appreciate the glory of Terran Ascendency is why Paradox is losing its reputation as a niche developer of bug ridden janky games.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLMLusw4efU I would have never thought it was possible to make fighting a house-sized bombardier beetle look boring but by golly they've done it.
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Flavius Aetass posted:what the gently caress is that narration It's not literally the cheapest VA impossible because I know all those voices from Slitherine's other trailers. It's someone trying to do the 'would you like to do more?' voice from the film but they don't have the range.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I actually wouldn't put it past Slitherine for this to be heavily based on the 2000 Microprose game based on Starship Troopers This is exactly what it's going to be and we all know it. I don't know anything about anything, but Slitherine seems to have 2-3 games that they just reskin and remake as some other series. They're not horrible, but they're generically forgettable (Hell, anyone?). I think their rts attempts are especially so.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I actually wouldn't put it past Slitherine for this to be heavily based on the 2000 Microprose game based on Starship Troopers New Microprose would do a better job. https://twitter.com/micro_prose/status/1353027928704090112
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V for Vegas posted:New Microprose would do a better job. New Microprose is on fire with the announced games
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Phi230 posted:War On The Seas just dropped on steam Hell yeah, really hoping this is good. Gonna wait for a few first impressions before jumping in.
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Phi230 posted:New Microprose is on fire with the announced games When they deliver on some of these announcements, then I'll get excited. Popete posted:Hell yeah, really hoping this is good. Gonna wait for a few first impressions before jumping in. Okay, what the hell? What's $40. DLing now.
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Oh drat, hmm. Get me your sweet, sweet impressions. I didn't even realize it has subs too, I wonder how Cold Waters-y they are. Simpler? More advanced?
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War on the Sea is out, havent put much time in it, but seems interesting. Can't wait to try out the campaign
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I see it's still very grognard to just launch with no fanfare at all, also choosing a day when EA officially tell everyone about the Mass Effect remaster.
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Squiggle posted:Oh drat, hmm. Get me your sweet, sweet impressions. Can't say yet. Just done a couple training missions, but it seems promising. Can definitely feel its Atlantic Fleet roots.
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It'll definitely be interesting to see the split of Killerfish vs. Triassic when Sea Power comes out.
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Played for about an hour doing the tutorials. Feels like I have less control of things than Rule the Waves. The dogfighting tutorial attempts to sell you on dogfighting with tank control in the air. Sound is bad, graphic is bad. Not really motivated to invest more time into learning it for now.
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Well, I just fired up a custom battle between like fleets of DDs and CLs. When the shots are flying fast and furious it can be pretty intense. But, for a game that depicts something as visceral and messy as naval surface combat, it's kind unsatisfying how clean it is. There's no visual damage models on the ships other than a decal that blackens the hull a little bit. No bent metal, no pieces knocked off, just a some flame sprites and a hull that's slightly blacker than it was. For example, here's the IJN Kuma being stalked by the USS Chevalier after being absolutely pummeled by fire from five US DDs and a rapid fire Brooklyn-class CL.  meh The controls are reasonably intuitive. Menu UI is a little weird in places. I'm super jazzed that it picks up a constant axis input off my rudder pedals, which cocks up a couple of the less important sliders and drop down menus unless I hold my left toe brake just so. Can't find anywhere to de-bind that in the controls menu, so guess I'll live with it. Sound is okay. Overall graphics are passable, but kinda show their mobile roots. If there was a better visual damage model, it'd shrug off the overall models. Enemy AI appears to be able to target through islands without LOS even though I've lost contact and can't shoot. I haven't played the campaign yet, so maybe that will tie it all together. I won't refund it, but the most compelling reason not to is so that my son can get a hoot out of blowing ships up. Edit: Also, I'm not sure why there are options to build custom battles and such with dates into 1946. The most modern ships in the US arsenal are South Dakotas and Yorktowns. Maybe there's some late war DLC coming later... ? Edit 2: Wait, there are Tench class submarines. Their ship catalog doesn't make any sense. No Iowas or Essexes, but there's a Tench? Chuck_D fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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Watched some Twitch streams, one guy noticed they had regions for Atlantic/Mediterranean/Indian so my guess is they plan to expand this quite a bit. Combat looks decent enough but what's going to make or break it for me is the dynamic campaign. Haven't seen any footage of that yet.
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Gewehr 43 posted:Well, I just fired up a custom battle between like fleets of DDs and CLs. When the shots are flying fast and furious it can be pretty intense. But, for a game that depicts something as visceral and messy as naval surface combat, it's kind unsatisfying how clean it is. There's no visual damage models on the ships other than a decal that blackens the hull a little bit. No bent metal, no pieces knocked off, just a some flame sprites and a hull that's slightly blacker than it was. These are pretty much my impressions. The campaign feels unfinished. My task forces are constantly pestered by search planes and I need to keep clicking skip to advance time. Then my CAG is suddenly dumped into a point blank battle with a surface task force... how did my search groups not see that coming in clear daytime weather? Maybe I missed a command and this is probably user error.. but for reasons above I refunded this. I may buy back in after some patching and at a cheaper price.
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The new flare path site is like 90% loving puzzles and I goddamn hate it.
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BrotherJayne posted:The new flare path site is like 90% loving puzzles and I goddamn hate it. Yeah that guy sucks on top of being a transphobe and poo poo. I don't think devs are going to be as friendly with him on updates going forward. I really just want regular updates on grognard/skims and outside of Flare Path there's a massive vacuum to be filled. goon project
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Gewehr 43 posted:Well, I just fired up a custom battle between like fleets of DDs and CLs. When the shots are flying fast and furious it can be pretty intense. But, for a game that depicts something as visceral and messy as naval surface combat, it's kind unsatisfying how clean it is. There's no visual damage models on the ships other than a decal that blackens the hull a little bit. No bent metal, no pieces knocked off, just a some flame sprites and a hull that's slightly blacker than it was. That's odd, it looks like the same engine as the mobile game and that had proper damage graphics and shell holes.
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I've been playing Grand Tactician The Civil War 1861-1865 today. And what a god drat mouthful that title is. Seems fun, there must be about 20 minutes of documentary style footage I've run through so far explaining the lead up to the war in a basic way with reenactors and everything haha. Game itself seems interesting but lacking in fleshed out features and quality of life stuff. I think this studio could employ a UI designer and fix the majority of nit picks I've had with it so far but grogs gonna grog. I was feeling fairly secure along the virginia border as the confeds when I was blindsided bu a 100K plus army landing near Richmond. My recruitment has been taking a while and I've been focused on launching a few invasions west. Screenshots! Doomstack makes it over to me surprisingly quickly once I notice them  My defending force that I quick marched down....15k  My only other sizable unit, 20k. Being railed south and stretching my rail capacity beyond its limit  Disaster? We shall see 
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BrotherJayne posted:The new flare path site is like 90% loving puzzles and I goddamn hate it. Have you seen the new Wargamer site update? 
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Every day we stray further from the light of god... GT:tCW looks pretty... how is the combat?
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BrotherJayne posted:Every day we stray further from the light of god... It has the fun drawing lines and advancing - the core is solid, but the AI is still fairly braindead,
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War On The Sea trip report: 8 B-17s bomb a submerged IJN submarine causing critical damage.
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Phi230 posted:War On The Sea trip report: As a WITP player, this is.... Normal?
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Taintrunner posted:I really just want regular updates on grognard/skims and outside of Flare Path there's a massive vacuum to be filled. goon project I do have a site that handles this sort of stuff irregularly and would welcome other folks to write there. My focus is on poo poo I enjoy, which lately is CMO / CO2 tutorials. So if you want to write, ala Goohammer, let me know.
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Grey Hunter posted:As a WITP player, this is.... Normal? Yes but bombing accuracy in WitP is hosed.
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Yooper posted:Have you seen the new Wargamer site update? i'm too old for the internet and it's passed me by a while ago, apparently. i got into wargaming for the thoughtful, strategic decision-making, and slow, plotted moves that you could measure in hours or days, if you felt like it. this seems to be the complete opposite of that. oh well.
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Yooper posted:Have you seen the new Wargamer site update? Jesus.
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