/v/ - Video Games

Apparently the Vamp Pirates objective in the Vortex Campaign will be to stop a great Merwyrm (Sea Serpent) that has woken up from terrorizing the seas. They do this by finding the lyrics to a sea shanty that will lead them to a long lost magically harpoon which can kill the sea monster.

>>15545293

>>15545329

Already a thread up

>>15545335

That one is crap though.

>>15545293

>>15545329

"Don't buy or play our games. We hate your money and we hate you."

-Creative Assembly Staff

>>15545340

Just like this one.

>>15545344

>I don’t know feminists or women who actually have an interest in warhammer, but jeez

Didn't stop CA from sending in sock puppet accounts with 4 hours in the game to give positive reviews and flood the forums with, "lol boyz, we've been asking for female military unit for like forever! This game wasn't made for you!"

Reminder the Medieval 2 has a Warhammer mod and a historically accurate Roman era mod.

also, FreeLC better be Thanquol and Boneripper as some kinda Horde faction that’s goal is to “help” other skaven/chaos groups while getting their own Macguffin and trying not to die to Gotrek and Felix

>>15545354

Yeah I’ve reinstalled Med2. Absurd amount of better shit to play on it.

go away, shill.

Die shill

>you can preorder already

NICE gonna buy it now

>>15545398

Plz no ironic CA todd posting

Say what you will, but CA is treating these lesser factions better than GW ever has.

from what i know the team making warhammer is separate from the team working on rome 2 so I dont know if supporting this will make CA think people want more female generals in general.

Vampire coast sure sounds cool though. Vampires were already my favourite faction in the game so I am sure I will like these guys as well. even if I have to pirate them as well.

>giant crabs

>>>/n/

lmao, even having a thread up about this game shows 8ch is just as cucked as 4chan

>>15545517

>nippon comes out

>its literally just shogun 2 with a bit of magic on top.

I would be ok with this

>>15545517

Cathay seems like a given, Nippon would be interesting since from what I know, GW ignored the shit out of that faction and most stuff for it comes from fans.

It's funny that just as GW ends Old world warhammer in favour of age of sigmar, the video games like this and vermintide bring tons of interest back to it instead.

>>15545547

this isn't even the first time something like this has happened, Dawn of war brought a fuckload of people to try warhammer 40k so GW really should have known something like this would happen. Thankfully they're willing to let anyone make a warhammer game now as long as you can make a game.

>>15545567

Where's my warhammario 40kart, anon?

My dick is pretty erect with the news of pirate ghosts becoming a faction, as well as some much needed undead stuff.

But when am I gonna get more rat related shit? They always die off fast as AI and playing them is shit if you don't have somebody helping you stomp the elfthings.

>>15545405

>imblying anyone but CA marketing bots are bumping these threads

These threads should be auto-bumplocked

>>15545607

I know there is a warhammer 40k racing game where you play as orks racing other orks. Cant remember the name though and google isn't helping me.

>>15545603

Don't forget the Dogs of War.

>>15545533

I agree fellow Channer, we should be focused on Real Games(tm) like Assassin's Creed Oddyssey am I rite?

>>15545647

Does it have estalian diestros and tilean pavise crossbowmen?

>>15545683

Arent the dogs of war just tilean mercs?

>>15545671

Gorkamorka, the PC game never took off though.

>>15545700

It does, if I recall correctly.

>>15545700

A lot of them are Tilean mercenaries yeah, but there are some non human Dogs of War as well

I really like the Warhammer games and the team making them. The dlc even looks kewl. But fuck CA and their "Historical" team. I'll wait for the crack.

>>15545721

The problem, ultimately, is that modders can't really make new armor or weapons, so the "pavise" is actually just a wooden shield like the Bretonnians have.

>>15545700

It has pretty much all of units from the table top and a few basic mercenary units like dwarven artillery and such, but the factions have slower recruitment times to balance the expansive roster.

When I was playing them i'd describe them as a "Swiss army knife" faction. None of their units were god tier but they always had something that could counter enemy troops.

The mod is balanced around vanilla so it won't work with an overhaul like SFO.

>>15545721

There's also companies comprised of Dark Elves, Halflings, Orcs, Dwarves, Lizardmen, Hobgoblins, and the undead.

>>15545697

but that means i follow "if i ignore it then it will surely go away", someone might be convinced to like something i don't unless i drown out the conversation because im always right and can't comprehend how anyone can think differently

>>15545517

So according to tw forums the code name for this dlc was 'sparrow' as in Jack Sparrow. The next two dlcs are codenamed 'pasta' and 'carpet' which would clearly be Southern realms and Araby respectively. Obviously just a rumour currently but with how they have fleshed out minor factions like norsca and vampire coast its certainly interesting

>>15546799

if only there was some mod to fix this. god playing games on PC sucks, it's tough being part of the patriarchy and being held down by variable in a game file :^)

>>15546809

modders don't get paid for doing good work, CA does for pissing on their fanbase. Is that justice?

>>15546812

patreon beggars would like to have a word with you for one, and two its literally called the patriarchy mod. its already been made and probably took like 10 minutes to do compared to the days of whining you've done

>>15546819

Oh I guess that means CA is forgiven.

>>15546819

>MODS WILL FIX IT

>>15546799

Did everyone forget their data miner that they had in their launcher as well?

Yeah, no, fuck CA.

>>15547825

>shills

I think its one guy who does it for free. Had it all the way back with Rome 2 before it came out and we still had hope, fools that we were, comes out trash where most of the budget went to live-action pre-release media, and then Total WaWa comes pre-packaged with the denuvo poz. The female general fiasco and their response to it just shows they're beyond the pale now.

>>15547825

Gee, I sure hope you fucking niggers are spamming the AssCreed and Blizzard threads with your bullshit as well, or otherwise you'd be *gasp* hypocrites.

Warhammer II mod recommendations (playing mortal empires):

>Steel Faith Overhaul II

>SFO submod more loreful elven units

>SFO submod regen cap

>Old World Rites

>Re-banner II

>Grand Campaign Custom Maps (GCCM) and all required submods

>Cataph's Southern realms, required submods, and SFO compatability mod

>JR's Old World Skill Overhaul and SFO compatabilty submod

>Dryrain's reskin mods (bulk of these are loaded into four overhaul packs)

>Decline Diplomacy

There are a few required supporting/submods but all the major ones prompt you for the ones you need.

>>15545359

If they do it, his "help" must ultimately harm the skaven in horrible ways everytime while he is still getting stronger.

>>15555331

All of those are excellent except.

>Cataph's Southern realms, required submods, and SFO compatability mod

If you're going to be using SFO then you're going to need an alternative to Crynos's Faction Unlocker.

Crynos's Unlocker does a lot of tweaks that mess with various factions. Their isn't an official patch for both Crynos's mod and SFO.

They can still work together but your game will be really buggy and unstable otherwise.

Also Dryain's Reskin mod has reskins for SFO if i'm not mistaken.

Which TW game/mod best resembles the following?

>lots of different tactical options so battles feel varied (like sneak some forces to the opposite side of a castle you're sieging to open a gate from the inside)

>environments that are not just hilly fields

>minimal tedious stuff (like short loading screens)

I don't care about the setting or scale of battles

>>15565612

I don't know if nu-Total War lets you do this but you can send a spy into the city before the siege to open the gates from the inside. Not sure how you'd sneak in guys during the siege when the gates are all shut tight.

The bulk of mods for Medieval 2 and Rome 1 tend to add variety to the terrain and make the forests all denser. It was common practice because TW's bland geography was always an acknowledged shortcoming.

>>15565612

>I don't care about the setting or scale of battles

You must be new to Total War then.

That's literally the selling point.

>lots of different tactical options so battles feel varied

Warhammer, Hand down.

>(like sneak some forces to the opposite side of a castle you're sieging to open a gate from the inside)

Ehh, It's not as fun as it sounds. Usually the AI can see you coming and positions troops to intercept you. This strategy can work, but it's not as easy as it sounds.

You can do this in basically every TW game except Warhammer. (Probably because GW's advisors wanted the cities to be YUGE. So you only end besieging a small portion of the enormous cities.) However, Warhammer is the only game with flying units so you could fly around the back if you wanted to replicate what your talking about doing. You can also send in agents to blow open holes in the wall ahead of your army.

>environments that are not just hilly fields

Warhammer 1&2 have a lot of fantastic battlefield design. GCCM maps are even better in this regard.

Also GCCM fixes the siege battles for a lot of cities, making it so you can march around to the back of a city like in the older titles.

W2 also have choke point battles that trigger in certain spots on the campaign map. They are basically battles were there's only a narrow opening which the armies can cross at.

>minimal tedious stuff (like short loading screens)

Not much you can do about that. The older games tend to have better load times, obviously.

If you have the money, I would highly suggest an SSD. They will fix load times in basically every game.

However, the Turn-based waiting times depend on you CPU.

>>15565612

Europa Barbarorum 2 for Medieval 2 is like a completely different game when it comes to battles because everyone has massive morale and high defence, so you actually have the time (and the need) to come up with an actual plan, otherwise a battle ends up being decided by attrition and if you're playing on hard or very hard you will likely lose it.

Campaign turns and general management of your nation can take a while if you're not already familiar with everything.

>Unironically shilling for CA.

Control your addiction you disgusting smooth-brain.

>>15566453

>calling other people vapid

Can you guess how many playable factions in Medieval 2 are locked behind a paywall while we're on the subject of sucking dick, you eternally battered bitch?

>>15566453

Its not about warhammer vs historical

Its about modern CA against old CA.

>>15566453

Anyone who treats videogames like normalfags treat sports teams is a retard.

Stop being so sensitive you fuck.

>>15545293

>2018

>playing anything after empire

Kek. Have fun buying your blood packs while I play Third Age Total War masterrace.

>>15566558

nu-CA factions work differently. In previous titles like Medieval 2 all the minor factions are grouped under "rebels" and there are a few factions that are horde/event like the mongols and the noble's rebellion in the Britannia campaign. In nu-CA every single minor enemy is its own faction and that bloats the numbers. Then again, the rebels in Med 2 had very basic AI and did not really play the game, wheras nu-CA minor factions actually make decisions and move around.

Medieval 2 is objectively better than any other Total War game that came out after it. I honestly wouldn't mind WaWa if it didn't have the denuvo poz. As it stands, it sits in the "never buy" category with all the other Denuvo titles out there.

>>15566594

>Medieval 2 is objectively better than any other Total War game that came out after it.

I spend all my time on Medieval 2 but we have to admit it's nothing without the mods created for it.

Especially with the pathfinding on sieges being so ridiculously awful, and the controls being extremely bugged on average. Do you know how rare it is for my units to successfully charge the enemy? The mods are the sole reason it is worth playing.

Meanwhile, on Attila or Shogun, I can order my soldiers around without worrying about bullshit pathfinding making everything a headache. Nonetheless, the game feels soulless and terrible campaign wise. Overall, Rome 1 has the best campaign, and Attila the best battles (with mods). Let's not completely shit on Rome 2 and all the newer games because some SJW dev pissed you off, faggot.

>>15566618

The pathfinding is awful, true.

>>15566634

If you don't want anons to post in your thread then go take your precious discussion somewhere else.

>>>/reddit/

>>15566666

checked

>>15566558

Yes, over a hundred factions, most of which play exactly the same, what an achievement.

>>15566634

>That filename

Hey /leftypol/.

>>15566666

Calm down, Satan

>>15566634

>>15566666

>58a58b

wasted on /leftypol/ redditor

>>15566756

That was review bombing for Medieval 2 you absolute nigger.

>>15567159

Why are you still here? Go bother the console niggers.

>>15567165

>OP is resorting to console warring

Can you possibly be anymore of a faggot?

>>15545329

Tomb Kangz are still better.

>>15577514

Yep CA had the chance to make their own LL that's not even in the lore and all they can do is shoehorn a fat fucking bitch. And all these faggots can say is "WOW HUHUH SO CREATIVE". Fuck video games current year. Everything is infected current year.

>>15577648

He didn't, but posts like this

>>15567165

>>15567147

>>15566684

>>15566666

>>15566634

don't help his case, and means that he's still a faggot even if he isn't a shill.

>>15577514

Eh, I like the lore of her design, but that's also the problem. Her lore ONLY explains her design and doesn't explain how a former Brettonian opra singer became a powerful spellcaster that can lead undead armies.

>>15577514

Someone needs to meme this with the cisbusters movie…

What Total War games and mods to you recomend for begginers? Because i never a single game and i want now to were to start.

>>15580150

Shogun 2 and before are good, although none have as many mods as Medieval 2.

>>15545293

>>15580197

Thanks now i am downloading Empire:Total War

>>15584218

play Stainless Steel Historical Improvement Project instead; it's another submod for SS6.4, you can find it on the twcenter forums. The turns are a fair bit faster than vanilla 6.4, and I only got 2 CTDs in about 140 hours of playing it.

>>15584400

testing something real quick, ignore this post:

here we go. here we go. i wonder if i.

>>15584400

What's the difference? I like how titanium merges all several of the generic "peasant spearmen" units

>>15580541

If you're interested in the time period, play Napoleon with Darthmod. Empire is mediocre.

>>15579959

Fuck, thank you, I knew she reminded me of some other crazy fat bitch but I couldn't put my finger on who.

I hope people don't sperg out if Diao Chan and the Qiao sisters are included in Three Kingdoms.

>>15584290

Thanks for the recmendation , because i just started to donwload the Anthology.

Any recomendable mods?

Rolling for CODEX cracking this

Rome 1? Honestly, the base game is perfectly fine. Once have a grasp of the mechanics and gameplay in Rome 1, move on to Medieval 2. THEN you can play around with the ridiculous amount of mods.

>>15585017

Forgot to quote >>15584850

>>15584850

Also, make sure to listen to your General's pre-battle speeches in Rome 1. They do a fantastic job of hyping the battles.

>>15585044

This is a bitch to install in a steam copy.

>>15585050

Then just pirate the gold edition faggot.

>>15585044

For an experienced Rome player, absolutely. A new player would get overwhelmed.

>>15585053

I did faggot.

>>15585056

Then why are you talking about the fucking steam version then dumb fuck?

>>15585060

Because it's something you should have mentioned you uneducated cunt.

>>15585062

>uneducated

leftist faggot detected.

>>15585065

>lefty reeee!!!

Hello r/t_d

>>15585066

I´ts not necesary to fight guys i just learned that,by the way the new games are worth pirating(Aftter Shogun:2)?

Anyway to pirate it with all dlcs, including mortal empires?

>>15584850

There are tons of mods, but you'll probably want your first experience to be pure vanilla.

Same with any of the games, really.

>>15585242

Attila TW looks pretty awesome to me.

>>15566594

>nu-CA factions work differently. In previous titles like Medieval 2 all the minor factions are grouped under "rebels" and there are a few factions that are horde/event like the mongols and the noble's rebellion in the Britannia campaign. In nu-CA every single minor enemy is its own faction and that bloats the numbers. Then again, the rebels in Med 2 had very basic AI and did not really play the game, wheras nu-CA minor factions actually make decisions and move around.

Minor factions and naval battles are the only good ideas CA came up with after medieval 2. If M2's game engine was updated to accommodate these, use more memory, and have more than 30 faction slots, then the game would be pretty much perfect. Honestly if I was Soros tier rich I would just buy CA and then hire the stainless steel team to start making new games on an updated version of the old engine

>>15566618

Rome 2 is shit in every regard except naval battles

>>15587210

Naval battles sucked in Rome 2, they were buggy as hell and no one knows how to play them (which is hilariously kind of apt now that I think about it.) Warscape as a whole suffered from being used for melee centric games, but the naval engine was meant for simulating ships of the line engaging in broadside duels, not ramming and boarding actions.

>>15597347

Honestly I'm worried about Noctilus hes either gonna be a solid lord or hes gonna get shit on because hes a hybrid caster thats slow as fuck.

Also Tretch is the best, but its annoying as shit to play as him early on.

>>15596731

There'd be better discussion if the game didn't have Denuvo.

>>15597456

(You)

>>15596731

>Warhammer is a solid title for being a recent CA game.

It always boggles my mind when someone says such blatantly wrong shit like this.

There's nothing "solid" about it. Every aspect is fucking dogshit.

>>15597478

I've only played the older titles and have never laid a finger on Total WaWa, can you explain why it's dogshit?

>>15597478

Okay what specifically makes it dogshit? Or are you just gotta shitpost and be done with it? For example while Medieval 2 was a great game it had some flaws. Animations were long and slow, the AI wasn't the most responsive. As a defender in sieges it just turned into a grindfest because putting your units on the walls was basically a death sentence if we are being real.

STOP BUYING CA GAMES.

THEY DON'T GIVE NO SHIT ABOUT YOU.

Go spend money on actual devs that deserve money like Darth team's Ultimate General series or Battle Brothers.

>>15597528

Some flaws are that the politics system basically doesn't exist. Siege battles are pretty simplified, well the game as a whole is simplified. What it really boils down to is being a strict battle game which it does very well it just loses out on some of the other aspects that the older TW games focused on. That being said the battles are quite enjoyable and the different factions and sub factions have a pretty decent variety to them. Cavalry feels good, units feel responsive. You should at least pirate it and see what you think.

What does Steel Faith Overhaul do? The mod description just says it a total overhaul.

>>15598179

It's a lore-friendly overhaul. Battles last a little longer, magic has more impact, new units, new faction mechanics…

>>15597550

this needs to be on every OP total war thread because I am absolutely fucking sick and tired of people on this site shilling CA even though they went full woke. The thread is full of this fighting, could the CA PR Reps please kill themselves so we no longer have to put up with their shit here thanks.

>>15599440

Rome 1 and Medieval 2 both had problems, but honestly Rome 1 was better tbh, but like older TW titles the AI is still not the best. Older TW games were the whole package and TW WaWa is just a battle simulator and thats just fine because its battles are fun to play out. It is easy to understand how like you said that it isn't for everyone.

>>15600510

I agree.

Those two games used to be incredibly buggy messes that would crash at the worst of times and I still quicksave after every move out of habit.

I liked how in Rome 1 the troops would do their best to fight and kill each other whereas in Medieval 2 they'd just awkwardly stand around and wait until someone got within range unless you or the AI forced them to move into the enemy.

I still prefer Med 2, if only because it has a lot of other small improvements, like the formations not shitting themselves if all I want to do is slightly angle the units.

>>15600586

They may have been both buggy messes, but they still ran better than Rome 2 for the longest time. The AI in Medieval 2 really became a problem during siege battles. If you put your units on the wall there was like a 200% chance that you couldn't pull them back in time before the towers made it to the wall.

>>15600668

>If you put your units on the wall there was like a 200% chance that you couldn't pull them back in time before the towers made it to the wall.

Yeah it was always weird how that worked. Usually an army would camp around a city and build their siege equipment there. So the defending army would know exactly what direction they were coming from.

>>15599440

> but complete garbage when compared with the older games.

How?

I mean, modern CA sucks and I'm probably not going to touch another CA game after Warhammer 3, but How?

I've played Medieval 2 and there's nothing really that different about it compared to Warhammer. You get more playable factions in M2 but a lot of them are very similar playing.

All the mechanical differences are mainly due to the setting, the pope, the linage system, religion. All those are things that wouldn't transfer well over to Warhammer anyways.

The only thing you can really ding Warhammer for are siege battles, but those can be fixed with mods. As can a lot of Medieval's problems be fixed with mods. (except for the crashes)

In my opinion it's that Shogun 2 and most games before Shogun 2 were fun, and fit their settings. All of them were even better with mods but that's kind of a given.

Rome 2 was bad, Attila was bad, Britannia was bad, and the Three Kingdom's is probably going to be just as bad. Mods can't even really fix them.

Warhammer is is fun and fits its setting, but it gets lumped into the Rome 2 crowd so everyone talks crap about it without really knowing what they are talking about. Warhammer is also enhanced by mods, but again that's kind of a given.

Once this Warhammer series has run it's course I probably won't be touching any new CA games, since they will just be shitty rehashes of Rome 2 and full of pozz.

Of course, (((CA))) can still fuck things up for this Warhammer series. The fact that they were able to pull this fat ghost bitch as a "new character" is very unnerving.

Araby has yet to be released. So now that they have creative freedom they could "we wuz" Araby, or give it female legendary lords.

The Southern Realms are more established so they can't really do much there besides reach for as many female LL's as possible.

Also the Eastern Kingdoms are basically a blank slate, so they could inject pozz there.

>>15600992

I think they needed a 4th lord and someone who would play differently. Shes a stereotypical opera singer in design which fits with her being a Syreen or whatever. It wouldn't have been my first choice for giving the pirates a way of getting bretonnian ghost units. They should have gone for a former Bretonnian captain whose ship got sunk and then raised. Considering Bretonnia has one of the better navies. As for Araby Fantandira will probably be one of the legendary lords and shes a chick from lore so they definitely will jump on that shit.

>>15600992

I've said this before so many times, but I don't think it's worth repeating all the points again, so I'll keep it short.

>missing campaign features like proper population growth and building, instead of some arbitrary number and limited slots

>limited management in general, can't even adjust tax rates

>the entire concept of research which is extremely unnecessary and becomes redundant later on

>global recruitment and unlimited availability of units (even Rome 1 had limited recruitment in a way), unit replenishment

>siege battles being the way they are

It's a bunch of little downgrades all over.

Like I said, at the end of the day, it's not a bad game, just not one I enjoy playing

Shogun 2 gets a lot of praise here, but it suffers from some of these issues too and I don't like it much either.

There's some nice improvements as well, like a much better AI, finally getting rid of the 1v1 fights between units, diplomacy not being complete and utter shit and having unique factions instead of rebels (not that I really minded them).

It's fine, I guess.

And I should probably just stay away from discussions about the newer games because I don't really have anything to add any more.

I haven't played Britannia and I won't play 3K.

>>15600668

The AI is ass even with all the patches, but at least it kind of works now, even though it still makes some absurd moves during sieges.

>>15598289

>I could give you the mod list I use with it if your interested.

Sure.

>>15605430

Alright here's the list I run right now. I would suggest you look over each mod before you use them. A lot of these are optional. Each mod is grouped into a category.

Also if you play with SFO make sure you pick NO UNIT CAPS on the in-game prompt. Unit Caps are gay and should only be a thing for Tomb Kangs and maybe Vamps.

— Core mods - Framework for other mods —

- Community Modding Framework

— UI mods - Only affect UI interface —

- UI Modding Framework

- ALL IN ONE UI

- Clearer Unit Card UI

- Faction Unit Cards II

- Improved Border Colors

- Movement Zone Re-Color (Green)

- Restored Faction Intros

- Expanded Empire Event Art (Campaign)

- [HN] Banner Overhaul II

- Better LL Unit Cards

— Visual mods: only visual changes, and is a matter of taste to most. —

- Dryrain's Reskin Overhaul I (4/4)

- Dryrain's Reskin Overhaul I (3/4)

- Dryrain's Reskin Overhaul I (2/4)

- Dryrain's Reskin Overhaul I (1/4)

- GCCM: Unique Faction Capitals

- Darker and Deeper Sea

- Darker Grand Campaigns

- GCCM2: Custom Assets

- GCCM: Settlement Pack 01

- GCCM: Settlement Pack 02

- Improved Arrow Trails

— SFO + mods and patches that compliment it —

- Steel Faith Overhaul II

- Dryrain's Reskin Submod (Additional reskin for SFO)

- JR's Old World Skill Overhaul

- JR's Old World Skill Overhaul (SFO Unit Patch)

- Mixu's Legendary Lords 1

- Mixu's Legendary Lords 2

- SFO Submod; Mixu's Lord Mods

— Good mods that don't disrupt balance very much —

- Provincial Roads

- Faster End Turn Camera

- Faster End Turns (Reduced AI Diplomacy Offers)

- Diplomatic Options - Vassal, Liberate & Confederate

- Tiered Tax

- Brutal Battles

- Rebanner II

— Mods that disrupt balance and but don't skew it towards the player —

- Buff 'n' Nerf

- Extra Skill Points

- Sebidee's No Great Power Penalty

- Sebidee's Reduced Tower Range

- Force Confederation

- MrFestis' Climate tweaks [Mortal Empires]

- Reasonable Trade

— Mods that skew balance in favor of the player. —

- Region Trading

- Better Climate Balance