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I can’t wait to listen to Queen Victoria talk at me while I wait for the game to calculate provinces.
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THE BAR posted:The Chosen DLC for XCOM2 completely ruined the game for me. Keep the railroading in Vicky games, please. This is still the only DLC I've ever bought which I then turned off, most bad DLC is just forgettable rather than actively making the core game worse
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 14:39 |
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RabidWeasel posted:This is still the only DLC I've ever bought which I then turned off, most bad DLC is just forgettable rather than actively making the core game worse Shocked at this. I loved that DLC and couldn’t imagine playing without it now.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 14:52 |
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I thought they were talking about Alien Hunters at first, not the fantastic expansion pack.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 15:00 |
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I,ve been reading Late Victorian Holocausts, and aside from being incredibly depressing, it makes me wonder if the big famines will happen.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 17:39 |
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In general Paradox doesn't like the events that just screw you over. I remember some EU4 devs explaining this when talking similar grand disasters like East African migrations or New World epidemics being really tame.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 18:22 |
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ilitarist posted:In general Paradox doesn't like the events that just screw you over. I remember some EU4 devs explaining this when talking similar grand disasters like East African migrations or New World epidemics being really tame. it did make reaper's due completely underwhelming. not only were diseases relatively harmless, but it did not really mark a huge social upheaval, just a temporary province debuff.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:07 |
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Cease to Hope posted:it did make reaper's due completely underwhelming. not only were diseases relatively harmless, but it did not really mark a huge social upheaval, just a temporary province debuff. It was there so you could get the cannibal trait easily.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:16 |
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THE BAR posted:It was less the gameplay decisions for the DLC, and more everything around it. A linear mission structure wrangled into the base game's more sandboxy design. Cutscenes with characters who would never shut the hell up, ruining the unknowable enemy that has been key to the setting since the original X-COM. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. You know what this gritty guerilla resistance against a powerful and mysterious alien empire really needs? Some loving anime villains to monologue about how the player's actions are futile.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:28 |
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People care about the aliens in X-com? They are just flavorless cannon fodder last I played. Giving them something worth caring about seems like an improvement
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:32 |
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Why should I care about the chosen though? They suck.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:35 |
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why should i care about xcom itt?
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:42 |
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Speaking of weird civ games no one has heard of: This ad is on the back of the manual for Warlords
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:45 |
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. You know what this gritty guerilla resistance against a powerful and mysterious alien empire really needs? Some loving anime villains to monologue about how the player's actions are futile. hell yes!!
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 19:50 |
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VostokProgram posted:Speaking of weird civ games no one has heard of: Oh, I remember that one! Didn't spend that much time with it though.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 20:12 |
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. You know what this gritty guerilla resistance against a powerful and mysterious alien empire really needs? Some loving anime villains to monologue about how the player's actions are futile. Correct.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 20:37 |
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ilitarist posted:In general Paradox doesn't like the events that just screw you over. I remember some EU4 devs explaining this when talking similar grand disasters like East African migrations or New World epidemics being really tame. A Potato Blight event basically shouldn't be just something that happens, but something you respond to. A Britain that prevents the famine from ever coming to pass through direct aid to the Irish would probably be seen far more favorably by the Irish, plus it'd move Britain closer toward knocking down its ancient institutions. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Aug 21, 2022 |
# ? Aug 21, 2022 20:47 |
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. You know what this gritty guerilla resistance against a powerful and mysterious alien empire really needs? Some loving anime villains to monologue about how the player's actions are futile. i think adding scenery-chewing saturday morning cartoon villains was a good fit for xcom 2 but i don't think it would be good for victoria 3, the game this thread is about
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:07 |
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Cease to Hope posted:i think adding scenery-chewing saturday morning cartoon villains was a good fit for xcom 2 but i don't think it would be good for victoria 3, the game this thread is about There's hardly anything to feel inhuman about until release so I think people should be free to air other humanity-destroying grievances
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:11 |
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Having Lanfang in means I pretty much have to turn Indonesia into a
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:15 |
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Cease to Hope posted:i think adding scenery-chewing saturday morning cartoon villains was a good fit for xcom 2 but i don't think it would be good for victoria 3, the game this thread is about the game is called victoria, i think victoria should periodically call and taunt you no matter what country you play
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:18 |
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Kaiser Wilheim will also taunt you in the late game but it just leaves you a bit confused and slightly annoyed
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:27 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:Kaiser Wilheim will also taunt you in the late game but it just leaves you a bit confused and slightly annoyed He will give you advice which will be out of touch, impractical, and extremely patronizing, and he'll sign off with "your dear cousin Willy"
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:33 |
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Him ending his taunts with your dear cousin wily no matter what government type you are would own
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:35 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:Kaiser Wilheim will also taunt you in the late game but it just leaves you a bit confused and slightly annoyed He should rather compliment you if you build a nice navy.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:36 |
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VostokProgram posted:There's hardly anything to feel inhuman about until release so I think people should be free to air other humanity-destroying grievances specific threads for specific topics is imperialism
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:38 |
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Cease to Hope posted:i think adding scenery-chewing saturday morning cartoon villains was a good fit for xcom 2 but i don't think it would be good for victoria 3, the game this thread is about I don't know, considering the time period it actually makes way more sense in Vicky3. Receiving death threats from Socialist Revolutionaries that are trying to overthrow my enlightened monarchy or having Lenin call me up to tell me that my defeat is inevitable feels pretty on point. Or like, literally anything with Baron Von Ungern-Sternberg.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:51 |
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I'd be down for receiving a telegram telling me to turn on my Monitor (ironclad).
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 21:56 |
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Is your monitor running? Better go catch it!
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 22:00 |
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Late Victorian holocausts is specifically about how Capitalism and Imperialism dismantled the systems in place to alleviate famines so suddenly millions died.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 22:26 |
MonsieurChoc posted:Late Victorian holocausts is specifically about how Capitalism and Imperialism dismantled the systems in place to alleviate famines so suddenly millions died. When you start off there are only a few organized industries and a huge pile of "subsistence farmers." This population basically just produces what they require, so they're stable, but "unproductive" from the perspective of the player. You spend the game filling up the arable land with the particular crops that are most profitable, and you tempt all those "unproductive" masses into factories and such. The state ends up a lot more powerful, but having filled all the arable land with centralized farms, everyone's vulnerable if something goes down. It would make sense if there were events to let you deal with this situation, but even if it was just set up so that your accepted pops get access to dwindling resources before your marginalized pops, you've dynamically simulated these horrors with regular gameplay. Though, I'm not an expert in how these famines actually went down so there might be a lot I'm missing. Incidentally I like the gameplay dynamic of "subsistence farmers," even if I'm not sure that's the right term to talk about everyone living their own lives without the interference of the state. I was reading one of the AARs on their discord, and there was some scenario where the folks reading the AAR were worried about discontent unemployed people, when the issue was that the people outside the factories and plantations were actually too content to be useful to the state. "Unemployment" only becomes an issue when people have shifted their lives around to be dependent on the industrial institutions that only really develop over the course of this game.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 22:52 |
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OddObserver posted:He should rather compliment you if you build a nice navy. I want to see AI Generated images of boats in that late Victorian hand drafted style.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 22:58 |
Snooze Cruise posted:the game is called victoria, i think victoria should periodically call and taunt you no matter what country you play only if the taunts appear in live-action like command & conquer
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 23:18 |
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Ticker tape shitposts from assorted figures.
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# ? Aug 21, 2022 23:31 |
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Jazerus posted:only if the taunts appear in live-action like command & conquer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nvckip7qxk
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# ? Aug 22, 2022 00:28 |
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Jazerus posted:only if the taunts appear in live-action like command & conquer as long as napoleon 3 is a clownish buffoon im all for this
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# ? Aug 22, 2022 00:34 |
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Was that a clip of Peterson being earnest? He's such a loving dweeb, like a much much shittier version of Skeletor.
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# ? Aug 22, 2022 01:35 |
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yeah he was mad his twitter account got suspended for misgendering elliot page
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# ? Aug 22, 2022 02:38 |
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TwoQuestions posted:Was that a clip of Peterson being earnest? He's such a loving dweeb, like a much much shittier version of Skeletor. It's my new favorite genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPmx9wpnLTo
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:It's my new favorite genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiQsfC-OhMs Capitalists have built a trans surgery enterprise factroy.
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