looking for RTS recommendations with good single player campaigns or matches vs AI.pic related is pretty much the first RTS I've fully dived into, beat the campaigns twice, spent some hours on skirmish mode but now I'm burned out on it. looking for something similar (other than the sequels), I liked how this game is more tactical and relies on you keeping your units alive rather than just have a massive army.
>>1757527EasyI hate shit UI
>>1757548There was an obscure game called Ancient Conquest that had a bunch of unusual QoL features for its time like a zoomed-out strategic map or ability autocast. It also had some autonomous commands that you still hardly see anywhere, like automatic harvesting in a specified zone, attacking a zone, defending a zone, or a scout command (move to a point and return if attacked).That said, UI is not a big deal in most singleplayer RTSes as long as they let you box-select and attack-move.
>>1756439Vlad and his chicken farms are from LegendsOr are you talking about a mod?
>>1758150Ah fuck, I am thinking of LegendsHe should play that too
>>1752978>>1752984Seconding this. Blitzkrieg is a ton of fun, really love it and all of the clones and spin offs. Very much a dated game, but I feel like nothing else has that right mix of jank and simplicity. Stupid difficult at times, but also can be a cakewalk after you memorize all the arty locations and counterbattery. It's worth a play on its own merits and uniqueness. But it doesn't have much of an AI, which is kind of a plus for a singleplayer, lets you pace yourself, but you can't really skirmish and don't expect complex maneuvers.
yes, i understand this game is still not good. but will it ever be good? has it steadily gotten better over time?
>soulless europeioid clean future cities artstylenopenever ever
>>1758945REAL>>1758942Game is already unoptimized trash, game didn't even launch with LODs for a city builder.>>1758761True. CS1 did have a lot of problems out of the gate but I dont think it launched in this bad of a state. I agree the under the hood is a lot better so hopefully it'll be better in the next 2~3 years which hopefully will give it enough time finally work out the polish its needed since announcement.
>>1758106nounity fired all of their r&d in like 2018, everything since then has been a series of austerity measures while the company burns through investors, most recently a data harvesting companythe engine is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, it lacks features that would be useful for large landscapes like doubld precision, which unreal and godot both have. unlike those engines unity doesn't have available source so it can't be retrofitted
>>1758761CS1 is as shit as CS2 it's not fun to play in both games i spend most of my time just working around the game's inability to do something instead to play as I wish
>>1758273Huh, I always heard the "don't make your own engine, just use unity!" crowd cite CS2 as an example of Unity being good at CPU-heavy strategy games, were they full of shit all along?
Black & White 3 NEVER EVERWhich Black and White was your favorite? Favorite Island? Share fond memories, I miss these games anons, I wish they were still around.
>>1755977I somehow glitched the game into stealing the wolf pet on the norse island. Which lets be real looked way cooler than the cheetah As for the 2nd game. I had a seizure while playing and skipped a lot of pointless finales for medical reasons and just take hard B's on them.
>>1758728>Richard Evans>Deepmind>Also worked on Sim3 Hmmm,,,,?
I'd like to replay the first one, is there a mod to skip cutscenes? I think one of the weakness of the series is the lack of different approaches to solutions.
>>1758882https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evans_(AI_researcher)
>>1755983Yeah, B&W1 is the god game. 2 is more of a city builder with some vestigial features like the creature or even miracles.Just something like changing the way of winning over villages from converting them with your creature and miracles to just building a better town makes it feel much less divine.
Will this be good.
>>1758404>all these new unintelligible polygon designations for various spacecraft when actual spacecraft variety jut got slashed and guttedJUSTFUCKMYGAMEPLAYUP
>>1758128>why is even the reason they can talk in dreams anyway?I also don't get this bullshit. HW1 and 2, during inter-missions (Hyperspace), Karan is fully awake and most of the time part of the narrative exposition for mission briefings.>The Taiidan Emperor did it in 1 once iircMakes some sense given that the exiles were in relatively close proximity already.
>>1749246We was kangs in space.No thanks. I can get my bike stolen anytime, why would i voluntarily give them money?
>>1759365I have no idea why they felt the need to change the polygons of all things. Even DoK used the same shapes for the same (land)ship classes. It's a HW3 thing I guess - taking something that worked fine and making it worse for no apparent reason.
>>1757659There's nothing wrong with critiquing women and brown people
Which "post-Westwood" game do you think was the best? (Or the least worst, if you're one of those people)
>>1753353>IMO the unit design peak was Tiberian SunYes
Anyone know how to unfuck Yuri's Revenge on Wangblows 10? The game just like 'hangs up' when you clear a mission and keeps showing the victory screen for the previous mission while the next mission is already playing. I got cncnet installed and RA2 worked perfect.
>>1758012Does it happen after any mission? I just loaded up the game and completed the first allied mission and it worked fine for me. I just installed RA2 and YR with the old xwis installers and then copied the relevant data files from my CDs to enable single-player content.
>>1759218It happens after every mission yeah. I might try uninstalling CNCnet and attempting without but oh well. Thanks for telling me the method you used though.
>>1731100Generals.Because no matter who you play, you get to heal your units.
Is there a business/economy/finance simulator that lets you grow from one dude or so to a massive megacorporation? Something like Mount and Blade, but for money and not horse.
>>1757482Game dev tycoon and its spinoffs?
>>1757529They never really scale in the way that I feel would be fun. I'm talking like EU4 or Victoria 2, but businesses. Business grand strategy, maybe?
>>1757482Software Inc. sort of does that.
If you're starting with one person, then, you're usually sticking with relatively, few people. In Mad Games Tycoon 1 and 2 you eventually reach a couple hundred employees, but not sure if that qualifies as a megacorporation. GearCity has you be a car tycoon, with well-populated factories, but you never see any of the employees, nor yourself.
The Guild 2.
What went wrong?
>>1757298>When are you going back? To where? Oh, reddit. Nobody talks like this on reddit either. It's a me thing. >(You)r culture is still worn on (You)r sleeve.It's fitting somebody with no understanding of culture would misculture me.> I don't think you even care about Humankind whether you think it's GOTY or trash.I thought it was a fine but flawed game with a poor dlc model that made me lost interest. Your argument was just retarded.>Your original point was "Culture is just clothes and restaurants". And you proved that when you were actually forced to explain what you liked about your culture. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1757120Neither game was a bait and switch. They prominently featured blacks and everybody went into it knowing you were going to play as a black character.>>1757216It sold fine and made a profit but underperformed. Typical video game situation. If we apply this same logic to games starring whites, we shouldn't see a single one anymore.
>>1751268Muttkind
>>1752906You know you don't have to keep parroting world war 2 propaganda right?
>>1751268First thing I can see is that 'Mankind' is spelled wrong.
Lands of Lords threadHow goes your fiefs m'lords? I'm trying to make the highest quality wax and soap around just for the sake of it but it's not coming together well.How about >(You)?
*rattles back to life*
>>1757030Any old faces here? Defson? Ensburry? Brexit?
>>1759259Anier, Bunyan, Brexit, Benis, and Sternmir are still around.
>>1759261Good to see some of the old guys are stll around
>>1759266Ah fug the nostalgia...
>title name and colour customisation>CoA customisation>custom faiths>hybrid/divergent cultures>architecture/fashion mix&match options>achievements allowed with modsWhy did they never add these things back in CK2? Was player choice not respected back then?
I just realized that the game has been out for almost 4 years and they still haven't added the ability to play as a merchant republic. Grim, they were fun as fuck in 2
>>1741381Ck3 is the result of Paradox seeing a bunch of redditors memeing abut how hecking epic it is to marry your own sister in CK2 and deciding that they should base the next iteration in the series entirely on epic incest memes and screenshots.
>>1757610It's because there were low numbers of people playing them so paradox won't waste dev time on adding them.
Help me pick between:>Blobbing as a Hittite in the bronze age mod>Blobbing in the Roman fall mod, if so then as who and with what objective?>Blobbing in the Shogunate mod + Korea, if so then as who and with what objective?>Blobbing in a(which?) East Asia mod, if so then as who and with what objective?>Blobbing in StellarisAlso for the love of God and all that is holy tell me of some difficulty/behaviour mod that makes the game more difficult and dynamic, I can already see from a mile away that even if I were to start a Manchu game with the intention to blob into China the latter would just sit on their ass for hundreds of years, waiting passively for me to get strong enough to rape them.
>>1742464skill issue
Is there any other trading games liek Patrician 3 or Port Royale 2, where you lead a trading company? Doesn't have to be ships only. Or this it?
There are quite a few, like The Guild series. For me it's Trade Empires. It's a little different from Patrician and Port Royale, but it's pretty nice and fun.
>>1758519The Merchant Prince games. They're trading games mixed with more Machiavellian vying for power.
>>1758948How do you even play this? I tried installing it from abandonware and it bugs out.>>1759045I'll take a look.
>>1758948Came to post this game>>1759112There are two copies in circulation, one with bugged patch, nad one that works. If you are willing to wait, I can offer the working one on Sunday evening, when I will be back from a weekend trek.Keep in mind that Trade Empires is a very straighforward game in design, but it's intentional - it was designed to teach kids and teens how monopolies and various other market structures work and how prices rarely represent value of various commodities
>>1759158> it was designed to teach kids and teens how monopolies and various other market structures work and how prices rarely represent value of various commoditiesIn fact I loved it as a kid back in the days.
>He gives his dorfs 2x1 bedroomsngmiAnyways how is your fort going?
>>1759373What a twist
>>1759303I know, I was asking because I fucking hate using third party programs just to play the game. At some point I realized that outside of minmaxing, you can get by fine without it.
>>1759373sounds about right
>>1737772how do i know what damage obsidian swords do compared to wood and copper ?i have layers upon layers of the thing under my feet and noticed you can make swords out of it
>>1759389wiki
Relic finally fixed their engine editionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbI--hIXb18
>>1758762yes - source: the survey the community put out >can I see it it came out years ago and was sent to emails. I took part in it and I'll go look for the email now
>>1758523You know that you're not debunking anything, right?
>>1758528American post. >>1759088I'm debunking the idea Italy is a great main faction for coh.>>1758588Yea man, it's not like those land conflicts were completely one-sided with a handful of tanks. Banzai faction not fun. As other poster said, the community already voted on it via a survey. It's not happening. You are the types who want a Croatian faction or Manchuko faction. Really?
>>1759140> I'm debunking the idea Italy is a great main faction for coh.
>>1759140>i'm debunking italy as a main faction because the Germans provided some assistance to it, meanwhile Panzer Elite, OKW and DAK are totally fine as main factions despite just being a part of the Wehrmacht because... uh?
aka the GOAT ck2 total conversionAny news on the ck3 port?
>>1759236>I mean, since this isn't based on an already existing IP it's essentially making shit up with OCs around a post post apocalyptic america, I might be wrong thoughThat's a good point. I still like to try for more grounded characters.>I'd love to see that!I might include a few in the next update, then.>dude that'd be great, thanks for adding them!Hey, it's the least I can do, you did help, after all.I just wish I properly credited the previous anons who contributed when I first released Deposed.>Do you have any other things you need help with?I can't think of anything atm, but there's definitely a few things.>I remember that some anons were talking about revamping Texas and I've had some ideas but it'd be hard to get around that character that gets a lot of events in TexasSpeaking of which, I got around to replacing the old High Queen of Texas with the High King today. I hope I got everything.Anyway, I just finished restoring the Kingdom of Carolina.Currently, it's only formable via decision, requiring you to be independent and completely control all duchies within the kingdoms of Tarheel and Palmetto.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1759332>I can't think of anything atm, but there's definitely a few things.alright then, looking at the discord screencap I posted here >>1751286, originally the HCC's capital barony was Fort Sumter but the FF devs renamed it to The Citadel, so that needs to be renamed, could you please do that?if something else was changed/censored or you anons have ideas to replace the gayer stuff please let us know>Speaking of which, I got around to replacing the old High Queen of Texas with the High King today. I hope I got everything.I see, how did you get around the events and such? and what did you end up making him? my ideas were>main texan house was called House Hillwalker, as a reference to KOTH and Walker, Texas Ranger, and maybe its founder's name is Clint>their CoA is pic related it's supposed to be a reference to the strickland propane logo, with the flaming sword replacing the propane flame and it also just being a general christian reference, asuming we're making them christians instead of americanistsI did it in a rush so it's obviously not thought up properly and scaled properly but still>Anyway, I just finished restoring the Kingdom of Carolina.>Currently, it's only formable via decision, requiring you to be independent and completely control all duchies within the kingdoms of Tarheel and Palmetto.>I'm still fine-tuning the requirements and description, if anyone has any better ideas.I think the description is fine, can't wait to see the Kingdom of Dixie one!
>>1759352>originally the HCC's capital barony was Fort Sumter but the FF devs renamed it to The Citadel, so that needs to be renamed, could you please do that?I saw that when I was making the Carolina decision and thought the name was weird and didn't fit. Reminded me of Fallout 3.But yeah, definitely renaming that one.>I see, how did you get around the events and such? and what did you end up making him?I just edited the localisation files, I have a feeling I may have missed something, but I didn't find anything else.I ended up making the High King a guy called George Walker as a reference to George W. Bush (His middle name is Walker), Walker, Texas Ranger, and General George Hammond (of Texas) from Stargate SG-1.In my original plan, I was going to add a KotH reference in there as well, I was thinking of naming him George Walker-Hill, but I wasn't too sure on that at the time.Actually, now that I think about it, George Hillwalker could work. It would also reference Hank's half-brother in his initials (Good Hank/G.H.).>their CoA is pic relatedI like it. Also, I'm going to leave him as Americanist, I don't want to change too much without input from more anons, and an earlier anon suggested keeping him as an Americanist.>I think the description is fine, can't wait to see the Kingdom of Dixie one!And here's Dixieland, I just finished implementing the decision. The description is very barebones right now, because I wanted to get it over with, lol. I think I'm done modding for the day.>>1756033Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1759369Wait no, The Citadel is an actual military college, so I'm not going to touch it. I kinda goofed there.But Fort Sumter is actually still in-game, just not activated. I'll activate it so we can have both.
>>1759369>Reminded me of Fallout 3.honestly same lmao, it's supposed to reference this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Citadel?useskin=vector>Actually, now that I think about it, George Hillwalker could work. It would also reference Hank's half-brother in his initials (Good Hank/G.H.).cool, George Hillwalker is a pretty nice name, I chose Clint for the obvious cowboy reference>I like it. Also, I'm going to leave him as Americanist, I don't want to change too much without input from more anons, and an earlier anon suggested keeping him as an Americanist.thanks! but since you'll keep him americanist I'm not sure if the religious flaming sword might fit, I'm not sure what their CoA should be thenI would wait for input from other anons as well if we were to keep him as americanist or change him to a christian>The description is very barebones right now, because I wanted to get it over with, lol. I think I'm done modding for the day.yeah fair enough lol, modding ck2's a hassle sometimes>>1759371oh I see, well make Fort Sumter the main capital barony with the upgrades and add the Citadel
I've recently finished the orc campaign.It was pretty good. Quite easy to cheese(at least on normal difficulty) but then again so was Warcraft 2. It still has its bugs like the game crashing every 2nd time you load but otherwise nothing too serious.Looking forward to the human campaign and the others that will come.What did you think of it?
>>1752994Not really. I meant like how all the custom units and characters use share the limited base models. For example in the opening scene while their equipment are different, Orgrim, Rend, and Main are basically built on the same model (which is young Thrall I think).
>>1753457I can see that now that you mention itI suppose it's way easier to use an existing model as base rather than making one from scratch
>>1749735I don't like how they lean in the movie designs
I really hate how they went with World of Warcraft designs. Too many bits on everything that don't make any sense. Basic grunts and footmen are way too ornate.
>>1749735Refunded was such a colossal fuck up, it's amazing people are still trying to salvage it
aye
>>1759333was this ment for tg or is there going to be a vidya accompanying the tabletop?
>>1759335sorry, my first time using this, did I post in the wrong place?
>>1759333The v in /vst/ stands for video games anon.>>/tg/ is probably what you want.
>>1759341>>>/tg/I mean
>>1759333tranny game
