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>>13877699

>Start off as imperials

>Battle of endor happens

>You survive and get to see that empire is evil

>Defect to the new republic side after murdering half a million of them

After recent events I feel like this should have been a Planet KIller edition.

Playing Starpoint Gemini as it seems like the only decent space game right now.

>What are you playin

Trying to figure out Dominions 5

>What are you Listening

Open Hexagon OST

>What are you invading

Getting invaded more than I can invade atm.

>>13878096

Starpoint Gemini is a surprisingly fun game, especially a pirate campaign where you can't buy most of your ships so you have to plan out which ships to hijack so you can get bigger ships with more marines to capture increasingly large ships. Also those fucking mercenaries that constantly hunt you.

>>13877929

The rest of it as I heard it is

>Defect

>Get info for another Empire super weapon

>Blow it up

>you win

WOW I WONDER WHAT INSPIRED THIS PLOT

still shilling this garbage

shipbuilding is fun

>>13878354

Yeah the only thing I don't like about it is the enemy scaling. Its lazy and I hate that shit in any game. I'm also playing it in 4k so I can't read any of the fucking text. Even with the big text mod.

Still a good game though and its scratching that Freelancer itch not like there's anything else

>Fdev keep using CGs to progress the story of E:D

>The latest one involved gathering tissue samples from Thargoids but the goals set where that of a normal trade CG and literally unreachable within the time set.

>Fdev cancel the CG outright instead of just tweaking the numbers like they have in the past

>Players where also unable to collect tissue samples due to the research limpets being fucking bugged and in classic Fdev style haven't been fixed

There is your E:D fuckup update, I will continue to report on FrontierDev's continued efforts to ignore the community that is the only reason the game is still alive and drive the game into the dirt with updates and shit people want not arriving until next year.

>>13878359

How come Disney or EA can't make a decent plot for any movie or game? It's always that same fucking plot, as if Lucas never released the first two trilogies. It'd be cool to see some pirates once in a while, or some infiltration on Coruscant of all places. Some fucked up shit happened there that the Empire and the ancient Sith kept hidden away that was pretty fuckin' important.

>>13878804

Please no

>>13878759

Rouge one was a pretty big leap from the usual formula and I'm hoping, seeing that success they'll do some different things for 8

EA admitted that Battlefront 2 was rushed to get some of that Star Wars hype for episode 8. The last half of the single player isn't in even in the game yet. I've seen some argument that with all these movies there is no room for a Star Wars game plot that could do anything interesting without making their own characters and then instantly killing them off like Rouge One cause it would have to be part of the universe now Star Wars is a cinematic universe. My guess is the whole plot was a rushed mess and they did not spend the time to talk to any of the official writers and work something interesting out.

>>13878944

>Rouge one was a pretty big leap from the usual formula

Fuck you.

>>13878998

*fit into the original trilogy

>>13878968

The interesting stuff Rogue One did wasn't just killing its entire cast, but setting a movie in the star wars universe that wasn't all about space wizards and their high tech butter knives.

Its likely the closest we'll ever get to a movie version of Republic Commando or a movie about a group of stormtroopers hunting down a cell of terrorists or a movie about Bobba Fett hunting down bounties.

It gave us a side of star wars that was completely different from the usual formula. So what if CGI Tarkin and Leah looked like shit? Personally I'd much rather have more of Rogue One if thats what it takes to not have to sit through more movies about some douchey teenager with daddy issues acting out.

>>13878804

>mystery meat sheboon

>autistic, facially deformed space Englishman

>their child is an autist who can't keep her mouth closed even when she's not speaking

Seems right.

>>13879005

To add: are there any more spacegames/mods for spacegames that feature going real fucking fast?

>>13879462

>Renegade Squadron

My nigga.

>tfw a psp game had a more profound story than the new Battlefront.

xbtf is the best space game

you literally cannot prove me wrong

>>13879758

How would I know if I don't even know what the acronym stands for?

How do I make Elite Dangerous fun?

>>13879780

X Beyond the frontier

>>13879790

You kill niggers in trading ships and farm salt, or you make an 800m/s Imperial Eagle and go canyon running.

>>13879790

You play it once a year for a few hours. Alternatively, play with friends.

>>13879874

Have they actually added any co-op functionality? Last time I played the only thing you could do with friends was to group up in a flight wing or whatever, but there were no group missions and no real group content

>>13879400

Strike Suit Zero and Everspace

>>13879888

I don't know. When I play with a pal, we just kind of fuss around. No clue how fleshed out it is.

>expecting content in E:D

Fool.

>>13877962

So is Elite dangerous worth playing yet? It looks pretty in screenshots but I don't want to play something bare bones.

>>13880208

Then don't play E:D.

>>13880266

I see, thank you anon.

>>13879462

I tried the original Battlefront, if I ever want to subject myself to a secondrate battlefield knock off like that again I'd have to start with getting a lobotomy.

My point wasn't about comparing the movie to a specific game so much as to point out that the Star Wars universe can be used for more than just stories about Jedi's, and that I would nice to get more movies focused on those other parts of the universe, rather than more jedidoggerel.

>>13880855

Blue Planet is retarded on the whole

>muh good shivans

>hippy earth

>somehow the Jovian moons are independent from earth

Also, the idea that the GTVA would be able to launch a major war after the Second Incursion is ridiculous since they're in an even worse strategic position at the end of 2 than they were at the end of 1

It's way over hyped

>>13881139

Pity it isn't a gassing

>>13881150

Well, the rebels become the new empire in the form of the new republic… i guess.

>>13881259

I miss the highly incompetent New Republic and how they caused the bloodiest period of galactic conflict with magnitudes greater loss of life than the Empire would have even dreamed of

>>13881070

You sort of do for a while after Battle of Endor. But that's where the plot starts to unravel. Apparently the emperor was a selfish autist and had a secret contingency plan called "Operation Cinder" which was essentially a scorched earth policy based on his belief that if the empire isn't strong enough to defend its emperor, then it wasn't strong enough to exist period, nevermind the fact in an autocracy the state is only as strong as its leader is capable. The protag is a drooling retard who spends 3 missions retrieving doomsday weapon parts only to realize it's going to be used on her homeworld. She has the sudden epiphany that the empire can and will do bad shit arbitrarily to anyone at any place while her homeworld burns down around her and that the rebellion was right all along. And then she joins the rebellion and runs a bunch of missions that don't really matter. Oh ya, her hook nose jew husband gets shot in the end. There's also some speculation that the daughter she has with her jew husband is mary sue Rey from ep 7.

>>13881560

>I miss the highly incompetent New Republic

Good news anon, that's still cannon.

>>13882376

All of it

>>13881129

>webm

i dont have that picture, can you post it, anon-kun

>>13881259

>And don't get me started on the new books in new cannon.

well, we are in h8chan, fire away, anon

>>13881826

>Apparently the emperor was a selfish autist and had a secret contingency plan called "Operation Cinder" which was essentially a scorched earth policy based on his belief that if the empire isn't strong enough to defend its emperor, then it wasn't strong enough to exist period

what the fuck? i was expecting a huge ruse were he was cloning himself or ruling as a ghost form or something more interesting.

>>13882376

reminds me of that fps pic cluttered with useless info

>>13881886

I never read those books and only saw them in Rogue Squadron- what the fuck did the world devastators actually do? Like what kind of weapons did they have or what did they do to the planet underneath?

>>13881886

Dank Empire was pretty retarded. It single handledly managed to make Superweapons not scary nor seem like a threat.

>>13882548

I'll go one better, here's the thread:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=91051.0

So I asked this question last thread right before it dropped off but has anyone else played Avorion, and what's your opinion of it? For the most part I'm having decent fun, it's simple in a lot of it's features but it feels like a Sandbox done right. Any gripes or things I should avoid about it? I'm only a little ways in, but it doesn't seem too bad.

>>13882608

>I'll go one better, here's the thread:

nice!

>That puush could not be found.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhh!

>>13882697

>Explain?

its the individual links for the pics, thanks for the pixiv link

>>13883858

>that pic

I think that actually pisses me off a bit. Did they think no one would notice?

>>13883923

They wrote it down as the prototype for the B-wing, pure trash. Because a different Mon Calamari built this they retconned Ackbar out of the B-wing's creation completely.

What's a good or must have mod for Albion Prelude?

>>13883923

>>13883858

they also fuck over the tie defender

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcM1gUWRX48&t

time stamp 5:00-5:11

can't embed vid for some reason

>>13884273

Don't forget TIE interceptors at least 2 years before they should exist.

>>13883858

>>13883923

>>13883971

>>13884030

>>13884273

>>13884278

The original origin of the Rebellion was that it was meant to be Imperial Officers, a lot with Old Republic Military backgrounds being disgusted with what the Empire has turned into, i.e. a Moff circlejerk rather than a force for stability and order. They brought experience, weapons and even warships to the Rebellion. Hell a good chunk of the Rebellion's initial pilots were former TIE Fighter pilots. How the Rebels supposedly got ahold of the original Death Star plans. A lot of them gave their lives so that the Rebellion could have a fighting chance.

Now how it is written is that the Rebellion was formed by a bunch of spoiled brats angsty that their daddy never got them that space pony they wanted and upset cause the Empire gave them a spanking and told them to stop being childish brats.

>>13884758

you also forgot to mention several Senators (Mon Mothma, Organa, and others) technically where the ones who planned a rebellion

Is Elite Dangerous any good? Seems like shittier EVE Online to be honest.

>>13884785

Every time I have heard someone talk about it its always about the grinding and lack of content.

>>13879891

That can't be it, surely? I had hoped that since all fast was killed off in shooters at least spess games would fill the hole in my heart

>>13884805

Freelancer has mods to go fast. But honestly you're hard pressed to find space games with a competent combat system, let alone fast. Someone else might know more games

>>13884851

All they have to do is copy Freespace and they can't even do that. Dimensional eclipse is pretty good considering the biggest change is just tripling the game speed, basically

>>13885739

I don't understand what's so hard about it. Other genres rip shit off all the time, but it seems like Mech and Space games can't do it for shit.

>>13884805

If you want competent speed you need to get a time machine and go back to the likes of G-Police or Colony Wars.

Incedentally, you should play them anyway because they're all fucking great, Psygnosis were damn top-of-the-game

>>13885806

>Mech

blame harmonygold for that.

>>13886485

Has there ever been such an obvious and strangely well-circulated scam the likes of shekel citizen?

>>13886674

Snek Oil

So, are there any spehss games where glassing a planet is more impressive than having the small message "Planet X lost 15 HP" ?

>>13877962

>Also, this game es beautiful as fuck.

too bad es boring as fuck, guey.

>>13886970

Aurora.

>>13882593

Karen Traviss is still on my shit list for what she did to the Mandalorians. She was the only one to ever write for Delta Squad to my knowledge however, so I'm torn whether I'd want their story to end or to be bastardized.

>>13886970

I used to play Space Empires, and my brother used to tell me that he could detonate suns to destroy any upstart empires, if that kinda stuff interests you.

>>13886970

I always used to get a particular forbidden type of feel nuking planets in sins of a solar empire.

>>13886970

If I recall correctly in Empire at War you can use the Death Star to reduce a planet to an asteroid field. Same in Galactic Civilizations 2, though you do need a lot of tech.

Speaking of which, I wish Stellaris had some way of destroying planets. As far as I know some of the late game events can reduce planets to barren (but terraformable) wastes and there's only a couple of ways to permascrew a world, none of which are really accessible to the player.

>>13886970

I liked how you could destroy planets in Sword of the Stars and the ayyliums laser destroyers in sins of a solar empire were pure sex.

>>13886970

Lategame of a match of Interplanetary can get pretty impressive, although its generally a drawn out slog-fest of rail guns, rockets, lasers and the occasional hit from a diverted asteroid. That does a real number and is pretty neat to see.

>>13882697

>>13882767

Anon, name your favorite spaceship.

>What are you playin

Elite Dangerous

Took a long break because i have other games to finish

>What are you Listening

nothing, was gonna finally get myself to watching some LOGH while I do nothing in ED, its comfy that way.

>What are you invading

Nothing, just doing some space trucking and maybe go out and do some exploring.

At least I'm not buying digital land plots that are not even made or in a game for 50 bucks.

>>13889579

>At least I'm not buying digital land plots

>not investing for the future

your loss, friend

>>13889765

stellaris sucks, just when it starts getting good, when you get your empire set up and have multiple powerful fleets, the performance goes down the toilet

>>13889780

Play with 25% habitable planets.

>>13880028

>>13880004

I've been looking to get in touch with the author of the original mod to see if he'd be willing to release control of his assets/mod for a port to SoaSE: Rebellion, but most likely I'd have to rebuild shit from scratch to make an up-to-date LoGH mod for Sins. It's worth doing, and doing right though, especially since it's probably the best space RTS for a mod based on the series with the slow pace, strategic layer, fortresses, fleets that mostly stand still and trade blows rather than maneuvering, etc. I'll probably post about it if anything actually manages to get done on it.

>>13889344

In general or in Freespace?

>>13890378

In general.

>>13889579

>At least I'm not buying digital land plots

You might as well since you bought ED.

>>13892990

ED may be boring as fuck but at least it is a video game that exists and can be played.

>>13889765

>>13889780

Apparently the devs have a massive rework coming. Reading the forums, there are some good ideas but knowing them they will fuck it all up.

Plus, can't forget all the DLC jewing.

>>13893085

>a massive rework

Again? Why can't they just make a good game in the first place instead of spending more time patching it after its been out than they ever did working on it before it released? Oh right, shekels.

>>13891647

That's kind of a hard question. I was going to say anything with rotating sections but those aren't ships those are just pornography I suppose I probably have a few to be honest that I could shortlist. I'm a fan of Klingon designs since any race that not only attempts but succeeds in putting a flamethower on a Starship is worthy of making the list. I actually may have to come back to you with that question once I had a good think about it.

>>13893085

>a massive rework coming

for a low low price of 29.99!

>>13893218

Well, what would the hottest possible ship with rotating sections be like in your opinion, if it could have anything?

>>13889780

Stellaris makes me sad. There's so much potential for an awesome game but it's ruined by the devs. At least they're working on a huge content patch that should alleviate some of the problems it has. I'm having fun with my pirate version but there's no way I'm giving them money until they at least unfuck the military balance and unfuck the sector mechanics and AI.

>>13894957

What's wrong with the sector mechanics? As far as I know it's just helping you with a bit of automation. It's very helpful on a massive sized galaxy like the one I used to play (10k size).

>>13881886

You call that good?

Clones that have your memories are a shit concept

>>13893085

>Some good ideas

Wiz, is that you?

>>13893116

Prepare yourself for:

ONE Propulsion type: Hyper-lanes!

Did you like wormhole generation? Did you like the freedom of moving your ship from any star to any other relatively nearby star? Did you like not getting blocked by nigger ancient aliens and other faggots? TOO BAD, SUCK A COCK! and if you think that's bad, wait till you see what they've got in store for fleets!

HARD FLEET CAPS! Did you like having one or two fleets which were large enough not to get entirely decimated by enemies? Suck another cock you fucking retard! Now you can't have fleets above X size (to be announced). So that means you'll probably end up with TEN or TWENTY shitty fleets, instead of one or two good ones! This will totally solve the non-problem of "doom stacks" and not at all be a whole lot of micromanagement and in-the-end-it-doesn't-even-matter because you can just tell fleets to follow each other!

Speaking of fleets, were you annoyed that Stellaris isn't CK2 and that ships always stay the entire fight or until you tell them to retreat? Well then this is the update for you! Because now, unless you specifically change a policy (which can only be done if you're in the "bad guys" section of ethics) your ships will all run the fuck away if they think they might die! Because a broken fleet is more useful repairing at your space port instead of preventing the enemy fleet from crippling and killing you!

Now let's talk missiles, do you like them? Well, now all missiles use the torpedo slot. Also all missiles act like torpedoes. Hope you like lasers or guns you piece of shit - you'll be using them even if you don't!

I'm omitting a lot of things, there were a few big posts regarding these updates. I just felt the need to make this post because of the some good ideas comment. I just can't fathom how you think of it this way. I'm still going to play, mind you, but I'm sure I won't like what happens.

TL;DR: This update is going to be horrific.

>>13896356

They weren't JUST clones of Palpatine anon, They WERE him. His Ghost just jumped from body to body

>>13896396

WHAT THE FUCK ARE PARADOX THINKING BY IMPLANTING THIS SHIT? This is crazy, and it will only screw up more the balance & the content of the game. Truly Paradox have become shit, because even after EU4 & HoI4, I hoped that at least they would try their best with Stellaris. But NO, Stellaris is only barely ok, even after all the patches & content added, AND NOW THEY WILL TRASH ALL OF IT. Fuck this crap.

Doomstacks have been a part of every paradox game, in fact a part of every RTS ever made, and complaining about them is fucking retarded. They exist for the simple reason that the more firepower you bring to the table, the faster the enemy's firepower is depleted due to casualties, and accordingly, the less damage you'll take overall. Overwhelming numbers will always bet the optimal choice.

>>13893116

>Why can't they just make a good game in the first place

Easier said than done. Even Sid and Wil has trouble making good games.

>>13896655

> you shouldn't be completely helpless against an enemy just SLIGHTLY stronger than you

You aren't, micro will still help you - moving your units to evade projectiles, instructing them to target the enemies they hard counter first, that kind of thing. The enemy will have a leg up and if his micro's just as good he'll probably win, but if your micro is better chances are you'll still win despite slightly different odds.

Oh, what's that, Paradox isn't actually adding micro? Well then I guess you're still just as fucked against superior numbers as you were before, and the idiotic fleet cap won't help with that.

>>13896702

>>13896396

You faggots are forgetting the part where smaller fleets will have big bonus to evasion, firerate and greater chance to disengage with less/no damage.

IF they don't completely fuck it up, one of the hopes is to use smaller harasser fleets to wear down a large stack.

But this is Pardaox we're talking about so I'm not optimistic.

>>13896655

I'm pretty sure I've seen all of those maneuvers watching gooks play Brood War.

>>13884758

>How the Rebels supposedly got ahold of the original Death Star plans.

I'm still buttmad that we went from "a lot of Bothan spies died for this info" to a bitch and her multicultural troop.

>>13896825

The Bothan spies were always ROTJ and the Death Star II ya dingus.

>>13896655

>but you shouldn't be completely helpless against an enemy just SLIGHTLY stronger than you.

You aren't. The AI is very exploitable. If the enemy is in your system and you bring in your own doomstack they will move to fight it. So, divide your doomstack and use one half to bait the enemy fleet while you use the other to bomb and conquer the enemy worlds.

It's still retarded, but it's sort of like using tactics against a somewhat superior force. Also, if you can catch the enemy ground troops when they're separated from their main fleet the enemy can't do anything to you.

>>13882376

Yeah, lowsec is cancer

>Overwhelming numbers will always bet the optimal choice.

It's a damn shame for China since this only works in video games

>>13899950

Vietnam and Korea are widely considered US defeats though.

>>13882376

carrier pvp is aids

>>13900245

Defeat in Vietnam was purely political. Burgers never lost any battles with the NVA or the VC, but the media at home still managed to drill it into people's heads that the south had already lost.

I'll half-give you korea though, since the chinks came in with the threat of nukes after the norks were all but defeated.

>>13896875

End your miserable existence

>>13896396

only having hyperlanes though will lower the computations required by the ai, which should mean that you can play the game >200 years on a large 1000 star map without any microlag

>>13902295

Where vietnam went fubar wasn't in the american politics, it was in the politics in South Vietnam.

All Guerilla wars are primarily convincing the locals to support your and fight the enemy, regardless of whether you are superior force or not.

Without the support of the locals, no resistance movement can succeed. They have a hard time trying to recruit, few places to hide and will lack local knowledge of the terrain and locals, if few or none of the locals will support them. If the supperior force cannot convince the locals to support them against the guerrillas in turn, the enemy will have all these things, and the harder you fight the enemy, the more locals get killed, either fighting for the enemy or caught in the crossfire and you will be blamed for all of it by the locals, sending them further into the guerilla's camp.

Its largely the same reason the Taliban have been winning in Afghanistan. They have far better PR with the locals than the corrupt politicians being kept in power by invading foreigners.

The only way to "win" a war like that with militarily is to commit a major genocide against the locals, which will just raise more trouble than its worth. The more people you kill until then, the more their relatives will want to fight back.

>>13902633

This is another reason why I hate auto-updates. Endless Legend has massive changes each expansion, but even if you turn off the dlc the underlying game has been rebalanced to work with it. You thought you could get resource screwed as the cult before? Wait until there's even less resources on land and there's fuck all cash from goody huts so you can't even explore without going bankrupt.

>>13904767

I've never managed to get AMMs to work.

>>13904833

>Open Combat Assignments screen

>Select fire control

>Select missile launcher

>Select missile type

>Assign all

>Upper right is a 'Change Point Defence Mode' box

>Choose how many missiles you wanna launch per incoming missile

>Set mode

>Open Fire

Don't forget to turn on your actives too

>>13904833

It now occurs to me that maybe you didn't mean 'I don't know how to launch them'. What's your issue, anon? Their design? Do you fire them and they don't seek? They never seem to hit?

>>13904897

>>13905137

Nah, that helps. I thought I'd done things right after following that one anon's guide but now I realized I probably kept forgetting to set it to point defense.

I was sure I'd done so but my ships would keep launching their AMMs at enemy ships instead of missiles.

>>13896875

>buying skins

Just let the game die.

>>13909527

I'm flattered, but in reality I just have an autism hardon for realistic failure analysis, enough so that I forced myself to learn the game. It's really not that complicated once you understand the interface.

>>13909822

>sims

If you mean more arcadey "sims" similar to TIE Fighter, look at X Rebirth or Strike Suit Zero, although I haven't personally played either so I can't really vouch for them. Though, both of those are probably better off played with a mouse anyways. I honestly can't think of anything that fits the bill, sorry anon.

>>13909527

pls gib source for that webm. i have a hard on for gigantic space ships and space politics

>>13911836

Jupiter Ascending.

It's pure shit from the tranny creators of the Matrix.

>>13911881

alright. thanks tho

>>13910623

>Strike Suit Zero

don't, the game isn't that great. It's super floaty combat, limited weapon choice for main guns, bullshit checkpoint systems and the strike suit mode is just awkward to use

>>13879400

What if we could have Tribes + Vanquish + Space?

>>13911881

what was wrong with it?

>>13913140

Shit story about interstellar matriarchies and planets who only exist to supply the elites with youth serum harvested from the inhabitants of said planets, Earth being next.

>>13913420

>interstellar matriarchies and planets who only exist to supply the elites with youth serum harvested from the inhabitants of said planets,

Anon, this sounds like the plot to some hentai doujin or something.

>>13911881

>>13913420

Is there any explanation for why the chair has a woman as part of its front? You can't have that kind of thing and not at least give a general reasoning behind it. Hell, that is also pretty out of line for matriarchies.

>>13890211

>fleets that mostly stand still and trade blows rather than maneuvering

ummmm did you watch the same anime that i did? because pretty much all the battles were yang wenli or that siscon soyboy and neither had much aversion to tactics t b h

>>13913140

The story revolve around a girl who firnds out she's a perfect genetic match for a long dead interstellar aristocrat apparently randomly reborn due to a limited number of possible genetic differences in people, or some such, no the movie doesn't really explain it being run through the intergalactic bureaucracy while the kids from her past life try to steal her inheritance the one her past self left herself, bee's instinctively recognise intersttellar aristocrats for no explained reason, they just do and the earth is being used by interstellar aristocrats as a breeding farm and when the population reaches a critical limit they will dissolve ever human on it to make some kind of eternal youth elixir.

TL:DR the plot is beyond retarded, but the movie looks pretty.

>>13914832

You make is sound almost Lovecraftian in the sense that humanity is pretty much some alien race's unprocessed crack. From what I've seen the movie really is quite mediocre though.

>>13914923

*you make it

I really should not post when I'm tired.

Need more settings where humanity is the Big Guy crushing vile xenos and not the underdog.

>>13916682

>Galactic Civ III

Man that campaign was a let down. They really overhyped it and never delivered.

>>13917879

But anon don't you want to know how Cadia was destroyed or how Guilliman was revived and took control of the Imperium or how he made brand new and improved space marines that use completely new wargear or maybe even how Eye of Terror expanded and split the galaxy in half?

>>13917970

>irrational

At least you have a bit of self-awareness :^)

>>13917970

paradox is doing a decent job at releasing updates to fix a lot of the game's design issues, but I can't shake the feeling that we've been playing a beta for the past year and a half

that being said I think there are mods to fix most of the more glaring problems and add some more interesting content

>>13917942

>>13917961

It sound almost like you guys don't want to know that Ynnead was prematurely born and that Biel-tan got destroyed or that The Emperor stopped giving a shit about humanity and that it's finally M42.

>>13917688

>A low quality trimmed mp4 is better then the hd version on youtube.

>>13918389

>In actual fact she received this scar whilst opening a closet

Fucking budgetary constraints. Shitty fighters, shitty violently exploding closets. She's lucky she got away with just a scar.

No seriously what the fuck, how can the closet be so poorly made it causes something to slice your face? Was it shrapnel? Did the door come unhinged and smash her in the head? This is more interesting then the rest of the biography.

>>13918471

The music and sound effects are what make it superior. Unforunately, no one has edited the full version to include the ones from this version.

>>13918389

>Read bio

>Implies that good Imperial pilots shit on TIE Bombers

>Implies TIE Bombers isn't the best Anti-Fighter platform when loaded with missiles

>>13917942

>>13917912

>>13917961

Are there any seriously good 40k games?

>>13919131

DoW1

DoW2

Space Marine is okay

>>13890211

tbh, LogH would be amazing in the Homeworld 1 engine.

>>13919131

Final Liberation and Chaos Gate are worth a look as well. No space games though unless you count Battlefleet Gothic. I've read mixed things about that game.

>>13918497

Something fell out of the closet when it was opened obviously.

>>13919619

>tbh, LogH would be amazing in the Homeworld 1 engine.

>Friendly fire

>Collision with other ships

>Killing yourself with your own missles

Please no

Why is this game so comfy?

Its like I'm playing Ogame but actually good.

Considering getting ED despite possibly better judgement. It just looks so comfy at times. I imagine the bulk of the active playerbase has good ships now so will I just be eternally ganked?

>>13920070

Yes. What people do is fuck around in singleplayer until they get a decent ship and then get raped online. Do note that the game not only has multiplayer but is also a multipayer game to boot.

>>13917912

>>13917822

>it's real

why

>>13920082

That sounds pretty gay. The more I look into this game the more disappointing it gets. Can you still have fun ruining the game for everyone or is everyone running high end combat ships rather than space trucking with cargo routes?

would you say the game is comfy at least?

>>13919641

>I've read mixed things about that game.

the game went to shit due to the devs being retards basically and fucking with balance because forum lords made a huge stink about how their faction sucked. Plus matchmaking was awful

The campaign is alright, but there's no real consequences for losing worlds and the ships can be a pain in the ass to micromanage with their abilities

>>13919796

>He doesn't use formations

>He doesn't use tactics

>He never played Homeworld

>>13917912

He didn't make them. That super-ancient techo-magus biologus did. And aren't they just regular space marines with 2 new organs?

Also, let's not pretend Guilliman was a Marty Stue in this one. He was actually very cool (and got beaten).

>>13919877

>Why is this game so comfy?

Because it has a great soundtrack and nice aesthetics. Just like Endless legend the gameplay is not the top of it's genre but most of the other things make up for it by making it such a comfy experience.

>>13921798

Magnificent music!

>>13924702

>Calling Cataclysm Emergence

What some of bastardised copy of Homeworld 1 did you get? It wasn't the Remaster was it?

>>13924727

It was the re-release if I am correct.

>>13924741

I am so sorry for you anon. Re-release version is known to be bugged beyond fucked

>>13918497

Blame on another shitty imperial design, now whit furniture.

>>13924789

In the (((Remaster))) they fuck around with a lot of things they shouldn't have with Homeworld 1. Such as movement code, difficulty scaling, hell they even took out online multiplayer! I have no idea what they did with the Cataclysm re-release but from my experience of trying out their attempts at the originals I doubt it will be pretty.

Remaking Homeworld 1 in the Homeworld 2 engine was the most retarded thing they could have ever done considering Homeworld 1 actually relies on proper movement and projectile physics while Homeworld 2 runs on RNG mechanics.

>>13924873

>As far as I am aware, the version on GOG is the original release.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they've tinkered with somehow or fucked something they shouldn't have knowing (((Cuckbox)))

>>13924913

From GOG;

About: Homeworld: Emergence was originally released as "Homeworld: Cataclysm". "Cataclysm" is now a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., and the game has been renamed to avoid confusion. Other than the subtitle change, the game is identical to the game released in 2000.

That being said I can also try to find my copy and upload it somewhere.

>>13924873

>the AI dynamically scales the number of enemy ships in each level based off of how many you have.

That's really gay.

>>13925054

Its too bad you can't steal and use the Junkyard dog. Imagine their faces when their heavy cruisers get hauled away by a single corvette

>>13920305

no lol, traders just stay in solo mode 24/7 which is retardedly still online only so it's just carebear mode without risk for the same reward.

The literal only thing going for ED is the atmosphere and aesthetic. Everything else is raw sewage.

>>13925028

>That's really gay.

its not THAT bad if you know what you are doing, it mostly goes down to engaging the enemy fleet slowly, and the only mission that really got "Difficult" was the one were you needed to kill a bunch of battlecruisers, but the hw community was bitching about the difficulty so they tone it down bunch of pussies

>>13924827

>hell they even took out online multiplayer!

i was about to go full goy on gearbox, but that shit killed the deal for me.

>>13921913

I actually thought it was ruined with respect to comfy. The UE intro was the most backhanded pozzed thing I had seen all year.

>>13925750

>It's been so long, was that mission 12?

i dont remember, anon.

>>13925750

The strange part about Homeworld was it seemed like the AI learned from what I was doing. I think it was on mission 4 when you encounter the Taiidan carrier. The first time I played it I stole it with the salvage corvettes without any issues. On a subsequent play through the carrier started attacking my salvage corvettes as soon as he saw them approach. Did you experience anything like that?

>>13926165

DELETE YOUR SAVES BEFORE ITS TO LATE, ANON!

>>13934405

Like OMG! You are so unbelievable! Not all girls are women! like OMG i cant believe you right now!

How was my impression of a modern college girl?

>>13934419

Take your top off.

>>13934306

Did they fix the combat?

Trick question. They never do.

What did they fuck up this time?

>>13934646

Not gonna buy the DLC till christmas as for gameplay, no idea yet, havent polayed after the update.

>>13934660

>Not gonna buy

Why are you still buying Paradox shit? There's better. You're in a thread of better.

>>13934612

>not marrying cultist-chan

>>13934694

How much have Paradox fucked up the game with its retarded changes to the gameplay?

>>13934646

They're making extensive changes to combat in the upcoming 2.0 update https://archive.is/k2Hsn

>>13935110

>As a part of this (and the FTL changes) we have also made it so that fleets that are following other fleets will now jump into FTL together, making it possible to have fleets following each other without becoming 'decoupled' as they travel across multiple systems.

So you can no longer jump into the system while enemy fleet is jumping to the system you were just in so you can blow up their troop carriers?

Awww shit.

>>13935110

Oh no.

Oh no no no.

They're trying to 'fix' doomstacks.

And the way they're doing it is terrible.

>Smaller fleets will get a buff to balance out disproportionate casualties caused by having a smaller fleet

>Ships will try to auto-flee when hurt

>Arbitrary hard cap on fleet size

>Every ship now has a single reactor that just dumps a lump of energy based off ship size + tech, but you can get boosters that give you more power

>Armour is now a second health bar that must be repaired if damaged

>Missiles now bypass shields entirely and always go in the torpedo slot because…

>Ships now are weaker when they take more damage

>You can pick one of 4 tactics per ship design (hit and run, engage close, engage medium, engage far) and a combat doctrine which basically just chooses how fast you can run from fights

They have barely changed the level of tactics involved. It's still going to be doomstacks, just now you're going to have to segment them and click slightly different tactics on ships, assuming it doesn't boil down to 'Always run near/far, one ship size' like it has the last few times. Expect mandatory missiles on pretty much every ship since now you get a free slot for them and enemies do less damage when damaged, and forcing your opponent to build PD's to counter missiles means they aren't using moredakka.

>>13940033

I understand your concerns about the changes they're making but frankly I'd rather they do this than leave the game the way it is. At the moment just pushing singular doomstacks around the map gets tiresome, and in the late game when your empire is huge it makes securing all your borders annoying as fuck.

I think these new systems will allow for a wider range of playstyles. Depending on the size of the bonus they decide to give to the underdog fleet, I could see people using a shitton of smaller, fast fleets to constantly harass larger fleets. Economically speaking it will become more effective to send in multiple third- or half-strength fleets to take advantage of the fire rate buff.

I also don't mind the changes they're making to some of the ship subsystems. Having to click over and over again to place just the right number of reactors was tiresome. Armor was this weird odd-man-out system that only worked well on certain ship classes. This dev diary also didn't mention the different types of planetary systems now - some of them have negative modifiers, e.g. making shields completely ineffective while ships are in the system.

>>13940378

This is going to make ship design less tedious. They're reducing the number of times you have to click to design your ship, and reintroducing different types of combat computers for different behaviors. Now you can adopt a particular strategy and design your ships accordingly,

>If anything they should make tech more important

They are: https://archive.is/WoFgk

>every choice they make is going to be shit unless they redesign the military side of the game from the ground up.

I sort-of agree with this but I'm not sure how they would even approach a redesign

>>13940596

Civ's 4 taught me that a doomstack is not inherently bad so long as there is a well planned balance of counterplay between units, depth created through variety. Additionally in Civ's 4, because of the collateral damage effect of artillery units, attacker had preference, encouraging a game of positional combat, trying to get a good defensive point that the enemy wasn't bold enough to try and hit you while trying to edge in towards them to take their shit down. Running just a few of units away from your doomstack meant you could take a city, meaning they had to constantly be ready to defend.

No game has really captured doomstacks as well.

>>13940596

Just add logistics. There, problem solved.

Now a big doomfleet will have big issues if a smaller fleet cripples it's supply chain.

In addition, a small fleet of fast ship can disengage more easily and thus do quick hit-and-run attacks on the doomstack.

>>13940378

Why aren't armies around the wold using doomstacks?

>>13941525

>Why aren't armies around the wold using doomstacks?

China, North Korea, Russia and most of the Arab world do.

>>13902295

>Defeat in Vietnam was purely political.

I wish this retarded meme would die already, along with the holocaust fantasy.

>>13880004

>an untranslated nip game.

Seven untranslated nip games. The latest is a very shallow RTT, but the older ones look interesting.

>>13941525

Because Stellaris has a stupidly simple combat model that allows no variety in tactics and barely any options strategically. Armies around the world have to worry about logistics and terrain and generally need to cover a much wider area. Not to mention you can properly flank the enemy if you divide your forces. In Stellaris there is no such thing as supply lines, terrain is non-existant (although they are using hyperlanes only in 2.0 so that's sort of like having terrain), you only need to defend the space above planets (and moving from one system to the next is very easy) and flanking has no practical purpose. You can't even attempt a proper flank because fleets get locked into combat as soon as they enter within weapons range of one another, so you either slug it out or hit the retreat button.

What are some must have mod for X3:TC?

What would be an ideal X4? What features would you like to see?

Will the space monkey program be the next scam citizen level cult

>>13946949

they have the same long regular cultist programming streams if popular will become large events

>>13946984

what mod is this?

>>13946844

From the video they showcased, here some stuff I know they have yet to include in X after all these years:

>can control capital ships like how you command ships in Homeworld/Starshatter Gathering Storm

>better UI

>orbital mechanics

>realistic space scale and space combat (think hundreds of thousand kilometer combat range)

>new aliens

>>13942935

There is unfortunately very little information on them in English. I found a torrent for #6, but it has no seeds.

>>13949137

Looks like the ships were directly inspired from Legend of The Galactic Heros.

>>13949586

You will be forever bullied.

>>13949137

speaking of Legend of The Galatic Heroes, anyone bet the reboot version would be shit or not

>>13950296

All new things are shit.

>>13950296

It looks like shit. It's going to be shit. The only good thing is that they had the decency to give it a subtitle.

>>13950296

It's got bad CG, it'll be shit.

>>13954713

wew

>>13954713

Come to think of it this is going to the the first post of the next Space Thread.

>love eve universe

>love eve ships

>love eve spreadsheet gameplay

>hate everyone who plays eve

Life is suffering.

>>13877962

E:D is an awesome game, I just wish it had features you probably hate me for wishing for, like procedurally generated cities with people in them.

>>13879116

I couldn't agree more.

So i started a new stellaris game to see how things are going and here aresome highlights.

>Don't own the latest DLC, yet some religious fanatic ships rebelling from my empire were using the new ship designs

>Be Commonwealth of Humanity, aka a group of people who are descendants of Terran explorers who left the Earth on generation ships

>Find Sol and discover that Earth is on the late iron age

>Even though i had set the United dindus of Earf to forced spawn on this game

>Kicking xeno shit in with UNSC ship pack

>Also missiles are still seemingly regular weapons and fleet cap isnt capped yet

hello,

wut gaem is like ace combat but in space

thenk,

anon

>>13963941

>pencil

>not a dick

one fucking job

>>13967656

Don't you mean the DIE Wing?

>>13879116

>So what if CGI Tarkin and Leah looked like shit?

I don't remember Tarkin in the movie, but not only did Leah not look like shit, she was also in the movie for LITERALLY less than 5 seconds, so why would it matter even if she did look like shit?

Galactic Civilizations 2 is on sale on Steam for $5. Is it good? Does it still hold up? Do I require significant strategy game experience to enjoy it? Is it worth buying or should I just snag a copy from elsewhere? Is GalCiv 3 better or worse? Is GalCiv 1 also worth looking at?

>>13969354

GalCiv 2 is my favorite 4X, I would definitely say get it. I haven't played 3, but I heard it was pretty bad. I grew up on 1, but I don't think there's really any reason to play it when 2 exists.

>>13969413

>I grew up on 1, but I don't think there's really any reason to play it when 2 exists.

That's the exact answer I was hoping for. I always get hung up on games with sequels, because i can't tell if they're different enough from each other to be worth playing or if the sequel is simply "X but better." I am trying to download a copy of the GOG version now. I'll give it a shot first; my experience with 4X games is minimal but I'm in a strong sci-fi mood and only own a toaster, so older space games are my ticket.

>>13969426

Do it. GalCiv 3 is finally in a good place, at least sorta, with the recent expansions, but it's still in flux, with more expansions possibly releasing further down the road, and also it's a bit underoptimized, so it might be too much for a toaster. GalCiv 2, on the other hand, is cheap, complete, and is honestly one of the best 4X games ever released. Wait until GC 3 is "complete" as a game, it'll be cheaper then, anyway.

New thread coming soon

NEW THREAD

>>13977100