/v/ - Video Games★

>>15440026

Don't believe I've heard of it. Will add it to the list.

Have you played Hammer and Sickle? It's in the same engine as the Silent Storm games and set during the cold war but the scenarios are really badly designed. First non-tutorial mission embedded.

>>15440073

It has to have good singleplayer level design. It's why I dropped Invisible Inc despite initially really liking it.

Your turn is taking too long, anons.

If I had to choose one of the firaxis games, Enemy Within or War of the Chosen?

How's performance on either?

Advanced Wars

Valkyria Chronicles

Fire Emblem

Is this what you're looking for?

>>15439968 (OP)

>Is there some console TBT I missed?

Seems like youre sticking exclusively to western Tactical Turn Based games. But I would recommend

Operation Darkness (xbox 360)

OG Valkyrie Chronicles (PS3/PC)

and

Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter (PS2)

if you want to try some good japanese TBT games. I'm sure people would recommend Fire Emblem, or Final Fantasy Tactics but I didn't really enjoy those as much as others might.

>>15440073

I thought there was an unofficial patch that fixed a decent amount of issues?

>>15442823

In turn-based mode obviously.

>>15439968 (OP)

>silent storm

absolutely patrician taste my nigga. sentinels is also pretty good if you haven't played it

>>15439968 (OP)

There is Phantom Doctrine that came out recently where you lead a spy cell in the cold war.

>>15443206

And how is it?

>>15441316

wotc performs better but enemy within is the better game, reckon you should play ew c/i to see if you like it

>>15444846

It's alright but kinda broken. There is also no to hit RNG.

Wanted to ask, does anyone know of a game called Atlas Reactor? It seems like a decent take on the Frozen Synapse simultaneous turns method

>>15444860

You serious with Chosen working better? That's amazing.

What about mods? I remember hearing how Within had terrible modding support outside of Long War.

>>15444951

>no to hit RNG

What replaces it? Damage reduction over distance?

>>15444997

Yes but positioning is far more important. And besides if you are in a firefight you are already kinda fucked since it's supposed to be a spy game and the enemies don't stop spawning.

>>15445010

Really now? Stealth TBT like Invisible Inc? Just answer me this one question, is the level design any good or does it cycle through the same 10 rooms as levels like InvsInc?

Play the X-com files for open x-com you bunch of cunts.

>>15445030

Never played Invisible Inc but it's decent in the beginning and gets completely broken in the late game when you get good gear, and several disguises per map. I think the levels are unique for every map location and there is a lot of locations.

>>15444997

>You serious with Chosen working better? That's amazing.

For me it runs and loads a lot better with same settings

>What about mods? I remember hearing how Within had terrible modding support outside of Long War

Not sure mate, only ever played LW (havent looked at any for WotC yet), but EW does just seem to have LW add-ons and a few armour types

WotC is still a really great game but I prefer EW's atmosphere/enemy designs and second wave options

Frozen Synapse 2 is out, but I suffer every day from crippling racism, and I noticed a prominent black face on the picture of the game for Steam (worse, it's across a picture of a white woman's face).

How likely is this game to trigger my racism?

Please think of it as epilepsy and provide an honest answer, please. I was born this way.

>>15445516

I haven't looked it up but unless it went way from brightly colored, featureless neon soldiers I doubt any shit's coming up.

>>15445603

that's the gameplay, which is probably amazing

but there's also the story that consists of conversations between pictures of avatars

>>15445618

There's also that sick music by whatshisname testpilot.

Fuck, I might just postpone War of the Chosen and play both Synapse games.

IGN focuses on the black face ofc.

http://www.please use archive.ism/articles/2018/09/13/frozen-synapse-2-review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOshXL3z1g

black guy is the tutorial AI

… WTF

It's Belaqua!?

That AI wasn't fucking black

fucking taking a decent character and blacking him up to appease goD(FJ(S*DJFODFJJ"j

sorry. racism. born with it.

anyway if it's just Belaqua that got fucked over then the game probably won't bother me that much

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>>15445696

>>15445724

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>>15445797

helpfulness: 0/10

probably because it's a new release and not an X-Com knockoff for the PSP which was good though

I appreciated being able to directly state my concerns.

Bumpan. Synapse is as good as I remember it being.

>>15445833

Lol i bought it and it actually has kind of an x-com apocalypse feel. There's a city you have to protect from terrorist incursions and it's all about securing funding from the various factions.

I am very racist and haven't really noticed anything pozzed but i haven't been watching closely. Most faction contacts are white or else sillouhettes. Like 2 Asians iirc, one as the head of the university faction and then a negress runs the local religious cult.

>>15449896

Nigga were you not around for when they changed the ending because they got butthurt that people didn't like ME3's ending?

>>15449946

Wew

>>15439968 (OP)

Combat Mission games have that. Want to know the downside? Developers are acting like fucking kikes, and newer Combat Mission games don't work all that well in turn based mode.

>>15450492

I played it but I did not particularly enjoy it. I'm not sure why.

>>15445516

Frozen Synapse was fucking garbage. Tactical games lose all meaning when the gameplay is about dealing with enemies spawning in random locations without prior warning. That's one of the two fatal flaws a tactical game can have. The other one is having huge RNG swings with no ways to prevent, mitigate or recover from them. The best example of this is Fire Emblem. For those who don't know, Fire Emblem features a weapon triangle system where each weapon type is strong vs one weapon and weak against the other one. FE also features a perma death system. You can have a heavily armored unit face off against a weaker unit, in a matchup where your heavy unit wins the weapon triangle, and have your heavy unit get 1 shot by a crit. If that happens, you either need to restart the mission or complete the game without that heavy unit, since it's fucking dead. All your careful planning and preparations don't mean shit because you can get 1 shot without warning.

Wesnoth.

www.wesnoth.org

>>15450840

That's why they implemnted sissy in awakening and the rest so your units don't permanently die.

>>15450840

Honestly if I have an issue with Synapse it's this odd bug where my guys won't shoot and would just keep jittering in place while being shot at. It's really knocking the winds out of my sails now.

>play xcom2

>Like it, has to hit fuckery with the melee weapon but it's fun so far and thankfully my potato can run it, albeit at like 30 fps

>third mission into the campaign, the fucking thing keeps freezing after the mission success prompt

>none of the fixes suggested do shit

I guess it was for the better anyways. Despite enjoying it I feel like it's too focused on being flashy and well animated(ish) than being an actually good TBT. I mean shit, no ballistics, no clear line of sight rules or cover not extending past crouching behind it, what a load of bull.

When is Phoenix Point coming out? I remember looking at videos and somehow thinking the Firaxis games were pretty much the same with flashier graphics.

>>15450509

Because the campaign is kinda shit. You play randomly generated levels that get old fast between the 8 or so that aren't, and the ones that aren't usually boil down to "complete X objective and don't mind the fact that the enemy has an endless supply of dudes who other than having bad AI are roughly equal to yours in strength"

Multiplayer is fun, but unless you've got a friend who owns it, good luck finding someone to play against.