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jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

how has Xi been able to so completely consolidate his power?

The mandate of heaven just smiles on his proper conduct!

# ¿ Oct 25, 2017 15:29

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:10

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

gradenko_2000 posted:

What are Miriam's strengths, if you're playing her faction?

free units + 25% bonus attack strength

also cheap probe actions/good probe defence if you're into that

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 00:12

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Dreddout posted:

I'm if you spend enough to loving around with that blasted UI you deserve whatever advantage you can get

I'm the surprisingly not removed in patches 10 mineral trance scout team which will defend any base from worms forever.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 00:45

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

Think I'm going to reinstall it this weekend. I bought the GoG version years ago but never really got into it. How well does it work on new monitors?

Works fine, just looks slightly worse than it did in the past.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 00:45

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

Any mods that help with that or is that a waste of time?

If it's not working at all, you need to change the ini to include directdraw=0 and then manually set the resolution, but I don't think anyone ever made a "proper" widescreen mod.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 00:51

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Just fired it up myself and wiped out Morgan with some X Laser Squads as Miriam.

10 year sanctions don't mean much in the mid 22nd century!

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 01:10

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Tiny Bug Child posted:

there's another older patch by a guy called kyrub that was an attempt to improve the AI. it basically teaches it how to use crawlers and properly terraform. i wouldn't say it makes the AI "challenging" but it does make a noticeable difference, they'll build tree farms and plant forests, crawl mines, and even build boreholes. sadly it doesnt work with SMAX, only the original game

SMAX added nothing of value other than fungal artillery so that's okay, imo.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 01:23

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Typo posted:

smax adds a bunch of extremely overpowered wonders

Also stuff like 3-res armour on the extremely-good-for-builders tech path of Formers/Aquafarms into 1-3r-1.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 14:12

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Typo posted:

yeah so you basically want to pay writers instead of people who make pretty graphics: totally do-able with kickstarter

every single kickstarted RPG has been cargo cult chris avellone (including by chris avellone) and is unbearable lol

A new game with good writing would be good but I don't think kickstarter is the right place for it, since it literally trades in nostalgia

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 18:45

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Typo posted:

wait did no one else like pillars of eternity

There are many people who like Pillars of Eternity, that one with the norsemen and a snake, Divinity and so on but I'm not among em. I even didn't buy Tyranny + Torment because it looked like more of the same.

Kickstarted SMAC is pretty much Pandora: First Contact, which was really not a good game (it's Okay but when you're trying to live up to something Great that isn't enough)

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 19:25

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

divinity 2 is real good imo

If I got bored of divinity OS' status/element swapping fights before the end of act 1, got to act 2 and it was more of the same so I quit, is DOS 2 much different?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 20:08

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

it has an armour system where enemies have either physical or magical armour. they're immune to all status effects until the armour of the corresponding type is damaged enough to no longer be there. I've been running a 2h melee, 1h 1shield melee, dw rogue and a ranger and i'm doing really well. partly because physical gets the objectively best CC in the game but enemies usually have more physical armour. I'm playing the main elf starting character and decided to level summoning because its a good thing to level and by using the elf starting skill i can make my summon only do physical damage and it now easily does most damage. try and make sure you're all either physical or magical damage basically.

you can respec for free without losing all the stuff you learned like the first game too

its probably worth installing a mod that makes item scaling not so insane because its alright in act 1 and most of 2 but becomes genuinely ridiculous after that. If you decide to only use 2 people and go lone wolf it breaks the game fairly heavily but you miss out on a lot of story stuff. I burned out of the first game after act 2 but this i'm nearly finsihed and its a lot of fun

Cool. Will get at christmas sale.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 20:15

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

as a guy who posts like that constantly, It's Okay.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 20:16

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Calibanibal posted:

skimmed thru this rpg talk but i just say this - everybody play everything by spider software. geneforge, nethergate, avernum remake, avadon. all good tactical turn-based, awesome plot huge world, thanks for reading

ehh

Geneforge is an interesting universe killed by a shite interface and weak zone design.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 22:57

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Ze Pollack posted:

if you want it to be an exercise in puzzle-solving, with different characters' different skillsets requiring different applications depending on the enemies' strengths and weaknesses, pillars is unquestionably the superior game

The puzzle of apply as many debuffs as possible and hit them with a sword, yes very good.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 23:01

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Ze Pollack posted:

which debuffs, where, to counter what, putting who up front and who in back, etc etc

put eder in the front with magic line power

make other heroes cast freezing mist / daze spells / whatever else while very loud singer companion buffs the party and makes skeletons.

This strategy works for at least 20-30 hours of hard mode which is when I quit because the writing isn't good and the combat is formulaic.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 23:54

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

religiously motivated concentration camps seem pretty rare

have you heard of the concept of "a ghetto"/"the shoah"

or was this a joke post idk you post a lot of at face value incredibly stupid poo poo

# ¿ Nov 1, 2017 14:18

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Jose posted:

tfw you fusion planetbuster every city on the planet that isn't yours in the same turn

this is the future Trump wants

e: oh ya also civ 3 should've been the good mechanical aspects of both SMAC and CtP but it weren't, rip

# ¿ Nov 1, 2017 20:36

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

rudatron posted:

lal is the only good guy, the rest of alpha centauri are all psychotic fanatics, how did none of you pick this up

Lal is a creep who would rather bring back his ex from the dead than find someone new, and his entire worldview is backwards-looking. His aim is control, in a very old fashioned way, of very old fashioned people by the time the game's set. All the characters are flawed. That's why it's interesting.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 16:12

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Typo posted:

lal is unethical as gently caress lol

he basically pulls rank to get his wife on the spaceship to centauri even though she's unqualified to be on the mission

then she dies on the spaceship in events preceding the game so he feels guilty about it

so instead of moving on his literally clones her in the events of the game so he can "love her again"

ofc cloning doesn't work like fully adult version of a person comes out of the vats, so it's more like he clones his wife and gets her as a child and is gonna groom her to be his lover even though he's literally like 100 years older

right exactly while I was posting this lol

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 16:13

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

for real though don�t overanalyse smac factions lol. like do you reckon a bunch of anarchohackers could run an entire civilisation? or some hippies could survive on an abjectly hostile planet? uhhh

SMAX isn't real I tell myself as I close my eyes and smash my Battle Ogre Mk 1 into Dawn of Planet

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 17:14

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

that's what " built states which guaranteed their own survival" means

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 17:33

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

you’re scandinavian so you must love pillaging stuff on boats

he wasn't even a proper scandi, he was an american. Sad!

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

the only smax faction with actual ideology is free drones and theyre just old school commies.

ya also their leader being a talent with brain damage was p. Problematic

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 17:57

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Dreddout posted:

Zakharov is a "I loving love science!" guy

he's space peter thiel.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2017 00:13

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's interesting that if you follow Morganite social engineering according to roleplaying logic and choose Free Market, it's impossible to use nerve stapling because of the massive Police penalty. But there's a Morgan quote that directly contradicts it.

As any fool knows, Morgan runs a green police state to protect and enforce his corporate hegemony while talking a good game about the Free Market.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2017 10:44

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Cerebral Bore posted:

Morgan ironically has the least reason to run Free Market out of anyone since he can get to +2 Econ just by running Wealth.

PS/Green/Wealth is definitely The Build.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2017 13:31

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Tiny Bug Child posted:

pandora wasn't very good but imo it was way better than Civ:BE

Gonna say a huge "no" to this one.

Stacking units and then dropping infinity XP on them with a special satellite was garbage, as was the unit designer which didn't even let you save stuff for using again in future even though the Very Slightly Randomised Tech Tree always contained the same stuff just in a different order. I'm always going to want a sniper/flamer unit. And one that's a trike. And one that's a tank, etc. etc. but it makes you redo it every game. Sad!

# ¿ Nov 15, 2017 20:30

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Flavius Belisarius posted:

I haven't played Civ 6 yet and it's been out for a while, which is a first for me since 2. I'm sure this is a worn out opinion, but I can't get over how cartoony the graphics look, like a mobile game or Civ: Rev 2. It looks impossible to immerse yourself in the empire building when everything looks like a game tile.

It also plays like absolute garbage, but that's most every 4X from the last 5 years other than Age of Wonders 3.

jBrereton has issued a correction as of 16:41 on Nov 16, 2017

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 16:39

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Yossarian-22 posted:

I'm a strategy game noob who plays waifu sims like fire emblem. What should I play as an intro to the genre?

X-COM Enemy Within is more of a strategy game but has turn based tactical combat like yer waifu stuff.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2017 21:22

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Dreddout posted:

Holy gently caress, imagine the kind of person that has this take.

AoW3 owns, not going to apologise for that take.

It's the game Endless Legend should have been. Clean design, fun combat that interacts with the strat map, AI vaguely knows what it's doing.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2017 02:36

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Autism Sneaks posted:

Endless Legend is the one that interacts with the strategy map though? AoW3 shunts you off into a tactical pocket dimension when you don't autoresolve

Unless you're talking about spells and abilities like mining that change the strat map, which you are right about

It shunts you off into a tactical pocket dimension that you can affect A Lot on the strat map and not just down to terraforming but also casting spells which affect city areas and so on, plus the different races in the game have wildly different environmental tolerances. S'nice.

EL the battles are On The Strat Map but this also completely fucks the scale up when your guys can quite happily bound over 8 tiles of map to fight but for some reason only move three or four a turn otherwise and then slowly (gratingly slowly) sidle back to their old position at the end of combat.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2017 17:28

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

tbf you can probably beat America as regular HoI4 mexico if you declare at the point where they have like 22 regiments.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2017 01:32

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

�x nations� answer to $popularwesternbrand� are always insane garbage

where does your posting

# ¿ Dec 1, 2017 15:19

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Flavius Belisarius posted:

Picked up Oriental Empires on sale yesterday btw

It's a little bare but it's pretty fun. I really like the way they did the tech tree. You're constantly researching 4 different trees, Stellaris-style. Having to deal with managing farms and flooding in your cities is good too, as is the separate noble and peasant happiness.

Shame the combat is absolute aids and the game is so swingy in terms of research rates you find in a hut.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2017 17:50

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Typo posted:

idk if that's good or bad knowing creative assembly they might end up having actual dragons or poo poo in there

or something like how they butchered egypt in rome total war i.e having them being Egypt circa 1750 BC or so instead of a Greek dynasty with a Greek style army as they actually were during the time period of the game

Interesting that you thought it was a mistake to make egypt extremely cool instead of just another lame pikeman faction to defeat w/ a legion

# ¿ Dec 7, 2017 00:25

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

rudatron posted:

for real though smac has such a terrible ui that i'm shocked it ever became popular

first time approaching it, you can never loving find anything

First time approaching it you don't have to!

There's automation on all kinds of things, any time society changes come up it opens the menu (see also Workshop stuff), even if you never look for it, and on piss baby moron difficulty you can win without even changing the sliders or pop booming with psych spending or knowing about crawlers etc.

It also never really became popular at the time. Civ: CtP was the one that got the sequel, I guess probably because it retained the Civ name.

SMAC had a really good 100 turn demo when it came out in '99, though, which is why a given age of computer games player knew it and all bought it for basically nothing when it came out on GOG.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2018 03:34

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It was notable for being the highest rated PC game of all time by PC Gamer though.

yeah for the real bad expansion pack which got 98% or something (but only ever sold a couple of thousand copies at the time); I think PCGUK gave the base games both 85-90% scores? They had side-by-side reviews in the second ever copy of PCG I got bought, that much I remember.

In which someone wins by transcendence on Transcend difficulty in under 100 turns, lol http://www.dos486.com/alpha/

# ¿ Jan 11, 2018 04:13

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:10

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Karl Barks posted:

National Office for the Fight Against Pornography, or NOFAP

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# ¿ Jul 16, 2018 13:50

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