Frosted Flake posted:

KSP is getting savaged. Why did they release as a half-cocked early access after KSP 1 was such a big hit and exists for people to compare side by side?

double nine posted:

is it in a different engine? not gonna touch it with a 100 yard stick but if it's built on a better engine it might make for more ambitious background simulation (spacecraft drifting when not under direct command for example)

** if it gets anywhere rather than shutdown of course, which lol, lmao

Frosted Flake posted:

I started KSP when the earth was flat and there were like 7 parts, on the recommendation of Games, I think, so I get what you mean. It took a long time to get to where it is.

I suppose I’m asking more why they didn’t wait until they had at least the content of the final build of KSP 1:1, everything except the interstellar stuff I guess. You can’t even do career mode now.

gradenko_2000 posted:

UoC2 is decidedly less of a puzzle game

you can try the base game first and play only as the Allies, and then pick up the two Soviet DLCs later which is a big step up in difficulty (I have not tried/played the Desert Rats campaign)

V. Illych L. posted:

are there two soviet dlcs? there's moscow and i thought that was it

the moscow '41 dlc is goddamned brutal though

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Further to the south, the XI Corps of the Eighth Army was joining the race. The 187th and 188th Glider Regiments of the 11th Airborne Division and one battalion of the 19th RCT of the XI Corps were landed at the beaches of Nasugbu Bay on the morning of January 31st. The plan called for that 511th Parachute Regiment to be dropped further to the east at Tagaytay Ridge on February 2nd. The two Glider Regiments would advance to the east and link up with the 511th and then advance on Manila from the south.

On February 1st, the two glider regiments advanced to the east along the Palico River and found the 17th Infantry Regiment of the Fuji Force dug in up on the heights in the path of their advance. For the next two days they attacked the Japanese positions. The defenders were dug in and had the advantage of the terrain.

The drop of the 511th had to be pushed back to February 3rd. The attack of the glider troops forced the Fiji Group forces opposing them to retreat. Many of the Japanese units simply ceased to exist. On the 3rd, the paratroopers dropped on Tagaytay Ridge and linked up with the advancing glider troops. Japanese reinforcements which tried to attack their positions were driven back with heavy losses.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I've driven along Tagaytay ridge dozens of times and have been to a few local museums and it's going to be incredibly interesting to see this play out on terrain I've physically been to.

The devs are absolutely right that this is a largely ignored section of WWII, or even in games that deal with WWII in the Pacific specifically.

The only thing I'm a little worried about is their depiction of the urban fighting in Manila, especially when they specifically didn't try to model that in, say, Stalingrad '42.



oh man, literally "I can see my house from here"

Frosted Flake posted:

Lostconfused posted:

New change to Victoria 3 wars is uh interesting.

War exhaustion now scales to casualties, and since most casualties come from attrition and not combat, actually mobilizing your population is a horrible idea that's more likely to lose you the war than anything else.

Frosted Flake posted:

If I'm not mistaken, that unit and geography is also where Rod Serling, who created the Twilight Zone, fought, which did a lot to inform the anti-war position of his later work. Just a bit of trivia, but him talking about it was the first I had heard about airborne in the Pacific and events around Manilla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ywWdT6IL3o

It must be surreal seeing your neck of the woods like that. Are there many local museums? What are the memorials like? Any preserved battlefields? Here, we have the forts from 1812, and memorials, reenactors but obviously it must be so much more vivid there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wcInFvF5Kc

Last question: How recognizable is that geography today? Are all of those roads and streams still visible, or is it all under subdivisions and highways now?

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

That's fine, total war mobilization is a very insane thing to commit to in reality. They need to fix the AI so they don't just mobilize 100% in every war though.

StashAugustine posted:

Got through north Africa in Unity of Command 2, the persistent campaign and alternate attack modes are a little hard to wrap my head around coming from the Soviet campaigns in UoC 1 where bloody attacks with artillery infantry solved all your problems. The end of the Sicily scenario in particular means I'll have to sort out how to deal with enemies in rough terrain. I do like how the persistent HQ stuff makes the game a little less "solvable"

Mantis42 posted:

It's better than the other WW2 Twilight Zone episode with a Star Trek actor

Frosted Flake posted:

I think it was a very good episode, and Nemoy is great in it, it's an incredibly thoughtful script, but...

Mantis42 posted:

What I mean is it's better than the episode where George Takei is a Japanese American who gets possessed by a samurai sword and kills a bigoted veteran while screaming bonzai.

The Encounter posted:

Digging through his attic, an American World War II veteran named Fenton finds an old samurai sword. A young Japanese American named Arthur Takamori comes in looking for work, on a tip from a neighbor. Fenton is gruff yet cordial, and invites Takamori to share a beer with him in his cluttered attic. Fenton makes a remark about the incongruity between his first name and his obvious ethnicity. Arthur takes offense at first, but when it becomes apparent that Fenton meant no harm he admits that he changed his name from Taro. Fenton shows Takamori a samurai sword and says he took it off a Japanese soldier whom he killed during the war 20 years earlier. When Fenton leaves to fetch more beer, Takamori takes hold of the sword and says in an astonished way "I'm going to kill him. I'm going to kill him. Why?"

Fenton says he has repeatedly tried to sell, give away, or throw out the sword, but it always comes back. He has had the inscription on it translated: "The sword will avenge me". Seemingly despite himself, Fenton continues to speak in a racially offensive manner, such as addressing Takamori as "boy." Takamori grows more uneasy and more confrontational to match Fenton's increasing hostility. They have brief heated exchanges that cool but then reemerge. While recounting how he got the sword, Fenton appears to suffer a post traumatic flashback. They assume an adversarial posture, and Takamori challenges Fenton with the sword. This tension, too, subsides, though Takamori, seeming to gain some kind of supernatural insight from the sword, says Fenton killed the Japanese soldier after the soldier surrendered. Fenton challenges the accusation, but then admits to it. Intensely uneasy now, Takamori tries to leave but the door to the attic won't open for either him or Fenton, even though it doesn't have a lock.

In response to an insult from Fenton, Takamori describes his experience as a small child at Pearl Harbor. His father was a construction foreman who helped build the harbor. Takamori watched as the planes bombed the harbor, and his father with it. He first states his father tried to alert sailors to the attack, but then confesses that his father was actually a traitor who directed where the planes should drop the bombs. Seeing Takamori's guilt, Fenton tries to offer some comfort. The sword, however, appears to be dictating the course of the conversation, and soon Takamori accuses Fenton of being a murderer because he killed an unarmed man. Fenton defends himself by saying his orders were to take no prisoners, and he had been trained to think of Japanese as inhuman.

In a sudden depression, Fenton admits that he is unhappy with himself and what he has done. He has lost his job, his wife is leaving him, he is consumed with hostility and bigotry, and he coaxed Takamori into conversation because he does not want to be left alone. But Takamori, now thoroughly under the controlling influence of the sword, poises to kill Fenton. Fenton seizes him by his sword arm and overpowers him, and the samurai sword is dropped, wedging into the table supports, pointing upward. Going down to the floor to retrieve it, Fenton is then fatally impaled on the sword when Takamori pulls at his feet. Takamori takes the sword, shrieks "Banzai!" and jumps out the window, presumably to his death.

Moments later, the first floor door slowly opens on its own.

Lostconfused posted:

Yeah, no, I'm going to say combat is still broken.

Or someone is really bad at designing the UI

Lostconfused posted:

As for the Taiping Rebellion, yeah, I have no idea what happened there. That's why I'm just complaining about it feeling broken lol. It was a no win situation for me because Britain joined the fight against me. Even though I managed to convince Russia and Germany to go to war on my side, they both capitulated half way through because of the new casualty exhaustion mechanics. But on the other hand it apparently did nothing to the other side.

Cuttlefush posted:

warthunder is really good for making it extremely clear how absolute poo poo the big mighty axis tanks were when they weren't broken or out of fuel. piece of poo poo.

KomradeX posted:

Too bad Warthunder feels.too pay to win