/v/ - Video Games

First for death upon all t*rks

DH Kaiserreich got updated to 1.9. Has anybody tried it yet?

>>15939476

>It'll probably break my mods which I'll have to re-find manual downloads for in the event

I don't think any CK2 mod has been updated for it yet. Apparently they changed so much stuff (calling it CK2 3.0) that it takes significantly longer than normal to update the mods for it

>>15939455

Why would you bother with something made by HoI4 people?

>>15939476

Not remotely. Bloodlines are a mess, crusaders don't work half the time and are plain broken when they do; 30s upon of 30s of thousands not despawning or the Pope sprinkling artifacts and ducats like candy. The warrior lodges are shit on a stick as well as you can with a little antagonizing or duel anyone, duel anyone. So children, spouses, claim holders or people liable to attack you. And with a massive advantage, too, it's like the old assassinate spam but free, usable on children and often with no penalty.

Anyone else getting massive shortages of ~80% of ALL goods in HFM with Anon's edits? Even as number 1 GP, 10% tax, and negative tariffs none of my poor pops can get all life needs

>>15940553

Watt version you using

>>15940836

1.44 beta 0.55

>>15940840

That's kinda weird. What goods are scarce? iirc that shit only happens with ammo, boats and canned goods.

>>15940909

Cotton, wool, livestock, fruit, occasionally grain

Tea and Coffee were at 1:3 supply to demand until 1900 in all my games so far

A bunch of others are similar but I haven't been watching them as closely and I don't know if it's been consistent

I have been doing some big time meme blobbing the last few games so i don't know if that's the cause

What do you guys think of Age of Civilizations II? I'm new to the grand strategy scene and I just got it, but the lack of a proper tutorial is killing me.

>>15940925

Must've been the chinks fucking up the market. Shit tends to happen sometimes.

>>15944645

EU Rome

>>15944645

>I don't think I'd be interested in Victoria

Just play it and find out.

>>15944799

Mods like imperium universalis, MEIOU or after the end maybe?

>>15944645

Victoria

>>15944645

Play Geheimnisnacht and conquer the old world as Vlad 'the Chad' von Carstein.

Wasn't there a new Anon's edits hotfix in the last thread?

>>15954954

https://puu.sh/CpPFM/e206eb19e8.7z

Event hotfix for Aridoamerica.

So is Stellaris any good or nah?

>>15955012

Only if you're a headcanon fag. The game itself it boring as fuck unless you're autistically filling in the blanks yourself.

>>15955727

>operational level wargames are grand strategy

>>15955012

its the best space strategy game out there

unfortunately the devs fucked the game up with the latest update

i recommend you to wait until they fix the AI's autism

>>15956385

>Not distant worlds

>>15956364

Grand strategy is a meme marketing term.

>>15957032

Let me explain something to you, so simple that even your Fortnite tier brain will understand.

Let's say you want to invade the USSR as Germany so you can conquer it and post your epic Großgermania here. All well and good. Let us take a look at how this is accomplished in goy4:

<draw an arrow to kamchatka and click go

<win

This is not a grand strategy game. This is an abomination. The only """strategy""" in this game is learning to draw meme arrows and manage fuhrermana so you can tell Rommel hes your tank daddy and then every tank magically pierces 15% more armor overnight.

WitE has a 300+ page manual which includes merely the fundamentals of the game. There is a thousand times more strategy in this "operational" game than in your "grand strategy" that is goy4.

BICE is indeed superior to vanilla. More features, more flavor, more difficulty, more fun.

CK2 is in its own unique meme category. In no other game can I have a pregnant horse Pope lover and eat my children. No other game is like it.

EU3 and DH are good but simple gsgs and are should only be introductory titles to the main ones. A baby must learn to eat mush before solids.

Do not post again lest you embarass yourself with your simple peasant taste once more, or I shall insult you a second time.

>>15940178

>any one can duel anyone

Huh, sounds like a good/shit idea for a Warhammer mod for Khornite-faction.

>>15957327

Why are you shitting on him over HOI4 when he didn't even defend HOI4 retard?

>>15957327

But HoI4 isn't a gsg either you imbecile

>>15957327

>I'm an idiot who never played hoi4.

And it shows.

Are you ready to hand out your shekels to Johan for the newest HOI4 DLC anons? I know that the game has been shit so far, but it will surely become great gsg classic after the next expansion, this time things will clearly be different! Just look at its groundbreaking contents: the perfect combination of fan-made mods and features from other Paradox games like EU4 and Stellaris in form of modular ship building, parliamentarism and fleet-basing mechanics will surely revolutionize the entire Hearts of Iron-series. Beloved features such as mana points have never been so important as they will be needed for more and more decisions. The enlightened elite of Swedish development team is above such plebeian ideas as having nations start with ready-made cabinets and manufacturers and using the mana points to alter those or having manaless decisions which have actual impact. Those kind of outdated mechanics belong to ancient relics like HOI3, which Birger told me no one except autistic neckbeards care about anyway,

Its 2019, just hand out your shekels to the greatest gsg company ever to get your hands on that guaranteed Paradox Quality-product! Also remember to purchase totally-relevant soundtracks which are sold separately and which are totally not inferior to available free mods. You wouldn't want to support those antisemitic pirate nazis do you?

>>15957862

Stop with this shitty copypasta, anon. Please.

>>15957957

Don't be such a sourpuss and hand out your cash to enjoy the joys of decolonizing UK during the WW2! Removing racism has never been easier while making your Empire stronger at the same time. Why fight Axis on the beaches when you can fight at hearts and minds of pixelated AI which will surely appreciate your progressive efforts. Brought to you by your best friends at Paradox HQ who craft believable worlds for your enjoyment.

>>15957327

I don't think that guy said anything about HoI4 being a good game. Are you sure you responded to the right person?

Quality thread

>>15959727

Thanks bro you too

>>15955012

dogshit 4x

>>15963760

Holy Furry changed the way how combat works.

>>15963760

extremely deadly combat with a high chance of death or injury (thanks to Holy Fury) combined with infections and diseases from the Reapers Due produces those kind of results.

What do you think about CWE?Where is the Vic 2 anon modder?

>>15964328

It's okay if you enjoy world wars 3-9001 memes pretty sure he's on break for a little while, he mentioned before Christmas he was getting a bit burned out so it'll probably be a couple of months till next release I'd guess

Are there any other games that are closer to CK2? I'm an RP fag and enjoyed just focusing on my dynasty and fulfilling small ambitions or becoming a Satanist or something.

Some of the other Paradox strategy games like EU and HOI feel like board games.

>>15962774

You should have bought on the Steam winter sale a few days ago you dumb nigger. It was something like 75% off.

Just go download the 300+ page manual and read it for the time being. By the time you finish and memorize it, the game will likely be on sale again.

>>15963760

accurate.

>>15966831

maybe if it were vicky faggot.

>>15950826

Those borders are beauties compared to some I've had

>>15964328

NWO dev was pretty redpilled, CWE dev is pretty bluepilled. Unfortunately NWO isn't as actively developed and currently has an awful pixelly blob map. But it does have more techs and realistic pop growth.

>WitE

>WitW

>HoI3 BICE

>CWE

What does acronyms means? What games/mods are these?

>>15963760

Because it's a shit game and it being shit is accepted as a meme so they don't even bother fixing it?

>>15966831

Alright. You can join the prestigious club that includes the /kingofpol/ and the tranny of /nost/.

>>15967578

>WitE

War in the East

>WitW

War in the West

>HoI3 BICE

Hearts of Iron 3 Black Ice mod

>CWE

Cold War Enhancement mod for Victoria 2

>>15967764

Thanks

>>15967561

Yeah,climate change kills your rgo of plants,inmigrants from anywhere with enough titles of gender studies can become white,and other bunch of stupid shit.

>>15944645

Sengoku.

>>15949611

How do you even get the game running? I tried installing various versions, but it never worked for me.

>>15968040

I hope you mean Sengoku Rance because the paradox one is fairly garbage.

>>15939439

Daily reminder that Imperator will be shit and That Imperium Universalis is always the better option.

>>15968040

Just install the latest version (1.2) and make sure it's running on CK2 patch 2.8.1.1. There's apparently going to be a new version soon™ that's compatible with the latest DLC.

>>15972326

I just want to know how much WE WUZ and feminism will be in it.

There should be a rating system for games based on niggers, like "time to crate" but with black people.

>pirate HOI4 with all dlc

>max it out

>ugly as fuck

why paradox keeps pushing for 3D maps when they are ugly as fuck?

>>15976939

>wasting your time on HoI4

>>15976939

>why paradox keeps pushing for 3D maps when they are ugly as fuck?

This. I wish I could play Vicky 2 with a 2D map even when it's zoomed.

>>15976939

I think the same. Why bother with 3D world style from CK2 style, when the EU3 and Vicky2 3D style worked well ( enought detail of geography of the world, but political map was flat 2D when zoomed out). Paradox games are political simulators, and in said games, it is important to show the nations, empires and borders well detailed. Why bother with showing too much graphic details for games that no need it? And why make the geographic details be shown too when zoomed out? Makes full map images ugly and weird.

>>15977446

There's an option that allows you to set camera to be in permanent 90 degree angle to the map. At least in CK2.

>>15972722

I will upload it if you (or anyone else) posts a picture of their legs (with underwear visible) in thigh high socks with timestamp.

I have all the DLC as well.

I solemnly vow I will honor this deal if you post a timestamped picture or you may report me for being a lying faggot and I will accept responsibility in the form of a permanent ban.

>>15977446

I think the 3D world style makes sense when you zoom in. EU3 and Vicky2 had a problem of it not being obvious what terrain you'd be fighting in at first glance and I usually just memorized or clicked on every province but in EU4 it's a bit more obvious. Besides I always thought the map creases when you zoomed out were ugly and I always got a mod that got rid of them.

>>15950826

Gets me wondering, why do the borders always look so disgusting? Forgetting Ottoman blobbing for a second here

>>15955012

They recently released a big DLC that changed mechanics, as a result a shitton of stuff is broken, as are two of the end game crises (blanked out code with TODO comments everywhere) and the performance issues are horrible with the game becoming completely unplayable past 100 to 150 years in.

>>15976939

HOI4 is only for shitposting, bad memery and 100% BELIEVABLE history anon, the ugly map and poor performance are just par for the course, especially under current Parasomalia games.

>>15980569

It has a lot to do with the AI making really dumbass decisions when annexing territories, it always does so in a completely haphazardous way instead of having any consideration for strategy, resources or utility, it goes apeshit and tries to take whatever the hell it feels like, even if it means creating bordergore-tier useless enclaves.

>>15980569

A.I. is autistic and rebels are completely unrealistic, in my italy game almost every 10 years over 250k people revolted because i could not kill revolutionary ottomansfrom 1750 to 1821 i probably killed over 4 million italians and 1.5 million somalians

>>15983667

That community is only good for their X-BAMs

So is stellaris still shit?

>>15983715

What did you dislike?

>>15985471

It's version 1.3. That's the latest version you can get without DLCs.

>>15983715

Stellaris is currently in a worse shaped than it has been for ages: Performance is completly in the toilet thanks to the new trading/job allocation system, AI is even more broken, the new planetary system introduced more micromanagement when the opposite was advertised, two crisises are flat out broken, the market can be gamed easily for infinite money and there has been a huge deal of nerfs (hive minds/machine intelligences are now shit, city planets beat out everything while habitats are useless etc).

In short: It's a fucking mess, many of the existing flaw were not adressed (again) and the technical debt keeps increasing (again).

Recommend me something, /gsg/. I've been a long time veteran of grand strategy and strategy games in general. I got burnt out, however, and I'm wondering what games are there enticing enough to get me back. I'm looking for /gsg/ that is out of the ordinary, in either its gameplay or its setting

>>15988855

He likes sucking on penis

>>15988881

No king of pol said he liked traps and wanted some dude's dick pics a couple of months ago. Trannypol sucking dick a different but also a hilarious thing.

>>15987922

The genre doesn't have that many games and you should know that. Try some of the space games if you haven't, not Stellaris. Or just find some interesting for you mod. Or you know, you don't have to play such games if you are not having fun. Play something else and maybe come back to playing them at another time.

Pic related is the best German border configuration

>>15989634

I dont see it anon

>>15985471

give us more assburger comics

>>15981621

I guess FULL ON BELIEVABLE WORLDS also requires believable retards. You're right, they just seem to be programmed by a twelve years old.

>>15982672

That's because paracucks are huge communists when in reality most revolutions took at BEST 10% of the population of any given region, and that's the three-four most significant ones, even WWI Germany in its death throes couldn't muster more than a few thousand revolutionaries in Berlin and that was enough to call it a revolution.

how does /v/ feel about Crisis In The Kremlin and Ostalgie: Berlin Wall?

>inb4 ur a Marxist

no argument found

try to set your biases aside and be objective.

jsyk I get banned from leftpol a lot due to my social views not matching with my economic ones. socially I'm probably far more reactionary than average /pol/

>>15992210

never heard of either, tbh. Gonna try the kremlin one.

>>15992215

>being economically leftist

Are you aware that every country with socialist economy (and I mean economy, not just socialist policies) either abandoned it in favour of capitalism-lite, or shat itself?

>>15992229

But that wasn't TRUE economic socialism! :^)

>>15992215

>than average /pol/

Average /pol/ is an edgy conservative, saying you're "far more reactionary" holds no weight.

>>15992210

It's basically a VN and not a grand strategy game.

>>15992215

Go back to /suckysucky/ then.

>>15992210

Tried Crisis in the Kremlin. Not a GSG in any way, just a management game where you juggle the budget. Not very good at that either – while there are plenty of sliders and things to keep track of, there are much fewer things to actually do, and they tend to be heavily scripted. You essentially pick a path at start and then hope you can shuffle the numbers well enough to see it through to the end.

Let's hope the other game is better.

>>15994928

I forgot to mention that the game has abysmal documentation too. Playing with a guide is basically a necessity because the game gives you no indication of what the sliders actually do, and while shit like "houses" increasing "housing" are obvious, it sure as hell isn't clear that "computerisation" increases the amount of luxury goods.

>>15939476

The only good additions are all the hundreds of counties that were added, mostly in the steppes. So now you have a more detailed map is that's your thing. The combat system was reworked and is now more flexible (you don't need 400 gold swords to win duels). More traits and some pagan stuff.

>>15985471

>>15983667

Is there a way to bring back that 'open-borders' look? Maybe copy some files from the older version?

>>15990504

https://imgur.com/gallery/X8Hgh

>>15987762

Yeah, you're full of shit. The AI's not touched ei still crap and the planetary UI overhaul is the best thing this game got since the launch. The trade performance is annoying but you can manually mod it out in like two minutes.

The main issue was and still is that the game is pretty boring once you've seen most of the events.

>>15983715

In short, yes.

>>15994951

>hundreds of counties that were added, mostly in the steppes

How, dear God how, is that a good thing? I mean, sure, if you're a fucking pagan or even better a horsefucker then you've no problem claiming a bunch of land but can you imagine trying to take that shit outside of a full crusade? It already takes years to decades to take a duchy from a decently sized country as is.

Why the hate for HOI4 when CK2 is seen as acceptable? They are both shitty games which one can only enjoy for the memes. Even if you ignore some of the more retarded DLCs with Sunset Invasion being the worst offender, you are left with broken, unrealistic meme simulator instead of some gsg-masterpiece some people pretend CK2 is.

>>15999486

Speaking for myself it's because I've played HoI2 and 3 and this doesn't compare. But if it makes you feel any better I don't consider CK2 as anything remotely acceptable. For one because it takes a special brand of history revisionist swedish cocksucker to make a game about CRUSADER KINGS and make the both the Christians and kings as a form of government much, so much worse than any alternative.

>>15999486

The fuck are you being butthurt about? No one things CK2 is good. Just a bit more acceptable and mods can fix it a bit better. You can turn of a lot of gameplay shite too. It is going to always end up as BELIEVABLE WORLDS, but at least it you can accept it as another retarded child in the party.

HoI4 on the other hand is hated for representing even further the future of the genre through the work of Paracucks. It is a lot newer, but even much so of a meme simulator than anything else. Fundamentally broken since day one, no mod can fix it. There are games to go back to and enjoy better. On the other hand there is only CK1 before CK2 and clearly no one wants to go that much in the past. It was clearly never given the love of something like Darkest Hours for example. So if you want to play that period of time it pretty much is just CK2 and it was created even before EU4, even if by a little. It is bad, but from a period just enough better than current year.

>>15999742

>there is only CK1

You can always play sengoku :^)

>>15990510

i was genuingly getting angry because i could not conquer any late game colonies liek india because i had to ship al my armies back to italy to stop the fucking revolts, but they realy need to rework the rebel system no 3 development province in the fucking sahara can muster a force of 30k sand raiders with modern equipment, fully armed

>>15999497

CK2 suffers from similar problems that plague HoI4: retarded mana system, historical revisionism and unrealistic gameplay. Summoning all your kingdom's troops from feudal tile is just as retarded as drawing a line and pressing the go button, to say nothing of the assorted DLC bullshit. You can make arguments to defend that, but similar arguments could also be made for HoI4. So stop your pretentious bullshit about CK2 any better than HoI4 simply because you like its memes better. "Mods will fix it" is no answer because same can be said for both. Just accept that both are meant as meme games and your precious viking larp or cucking RP etc. is not any better than the people who get off on playing HoI4 with mods.

>>15999854

> retarded mana system

It's really hard for me to take you seriously when you apparently don't know the first thing about how said system works in CK2. In short it's just about the most pointless, irrelevant thing in that game there is. Unless you're a mudslime or pagan because they get some use out of piety and prestige. But even then it's not nearly as useful as cold hard cash.

If you want to talk, we can talk but if you're just looking for some attention with bad bait you've got the wrong mark.

>>15999854

>unrealistic gameplay

Just like all games made by Paradox. EU3 or Victoria 2 aren't any better in that regard.

>>15999854

First >>15999883 you are really making it obviously you haven't even played the game much, probably even lost horrible, or just watched some youtube videos at best and now use the staple meme opinions.

But also you clearly are just mad for people liking one shit game better than another one, which makes no sense to be mad over. Except if you are actually for some reason more found of HoI4 and are just pretending to hate it.

Even if you don't ignore the mini meme events of rules CK2 is factually less of a meme game and BELIEVABLE WORLDS game than HoI4. Well okay, the latter might be questionable.

No one even said mods will fix it. As I said the base game is just better. Not great, nor good, just better when compared to HoI4. Maybe okayish at best. That actually makes it more salvageable by mods and the base game itself has the option to turn on or off many mechanics.

But again, your reason to be so mad makes absolutely no sense. If anything I would be more interesting to hear if people think CK2 or EU4 is mechanically better. Though EU4 I haven't even launched in a long time. CK2 at least I will start from time to time.

>>15999883

>>15999950

>>15999966

>actually defending HOI4 and EU4

fuck is wrong with you faggots

>>15999985

>>15999982

I guess English isn't your first language

>>15999985

Admittedly maybe it was a little ambiguous, but by linking first to 1ce83a's post I think it should have been clear I was replying to him and him only and was only trying to say you are right. So getting all defensive on me makes very little sense, especially if you considered I was arguing on the same side as you.

shut the fuck up nerds

>>15999883

>>15999883

Prestige and Piety systems were clearly prototypes of what became monarch points in EU4 and political power in HoI4. If anything I hold special hateboner for CK2 for being a prototype for the kind of mechanics which ruined EU4 and HoI4's futures by making Paradox think that lazy solutions were good idea. All three of them are objectively equally shit because of the same three core reasons which I listed before. No amount of mods will get around that.

tl;dr: Modern Paradox games are all shit, stop trying to pretend that CK2 is somehow less shitter than the other turds

>>16000273

>green/yellow soldier

For a moment, I thought it was a Muslim.

>>16000170

nigger, prestige and piety are clearly used as score trackers – there's barely anything that even makes use of them

>>16000061

Very nice

>>16000438

nonChristian, rather. But at least they got rid of the instant spawn tribal armies bullshit in the recent patch.

>>16000472

It made for a fun gamenight alright.

I am currently bit tight on budget and also not feeling like pirating game. Are there any good enough community driven open source grand strategy games?

Quick search revealed several candidates but most seem abandoned and unmaintained except for maybe TripleA. Any tips or thoughts?

my vpn subscription ran out and I don't want glow in the dark to raid share house I'm living

>>16000583

>>16000612

Dude, are you mentally retarded?

>>16000438

Like what? Piety and prestige are absolutely worthless for almost everything if you play christian. Pagans use prestige as money to build their shit and in events. It's not that there isn't ANYTHING they could be used for, but it's minor shit that's nowhere near EU4 mana, where it's the most important resource in the game

Just finished my first 700 year ironman game in CK2 and it only took me a little over a month.

>>16003057

I might've fucked up.

Have this hotfix, paste it over ANON_HFM/decisions

https://puu.sh/CxLoD/4aedacd42a.7z

>>16000061

>>16000031

>Cuckchanners jerking themselves off with shitty memes

>>16003092

How is she speaking with a dick in her mouth?

btw I got dethroned shortly after this

>>16003090

hey edits anon, dont want to rush you or anything but when do you think you'll release 1.45?

>>16003843

I seriously don't know. I'm wagecucking, so no ETA so far.

>>16004034

understandable, are you just adding stuff in america or europe gets new stuff too?

>>16004472

Just reworked some stuff in the Caucasus and I'm probably gonna start adding flavor to Mexico and the rest of America.

>>15955727

>HOI3 BICE

do you enjoy lagging?

>>16003342

How do you even get Zoroastrianism back in EUIV without converting from CK2?

>>16005333

I think 1 province (Yazd?) is Zoro by default, for the memes.

>>16003505

It's Evenicle, a shit game.

>>16005443

>>16005333

yazd is zoroarstrian and a releasable tag for timerlame, it was a historical holy site for zoroarstrians and because it was so lowly populated zoroarstrians formed the majority of the population until the safavids took over

>>16005173

I enjoy having an OC'd I9-9990k you poor goy

>>16005471

>alicesoft

>game's all about removing kikes and marrying virgins

>shit

I'm surprised a cocksucker like yourself can't appreciate a good blowjob CG

>>16005985

>white knighting MC

>absolutely retarded setting and story

>good

I'm surprised to see a faggot like you in a gsg thread, when you enjoy a game that drones on and on about how war is the pinnacle of evil

>>16007072

>Aster doesn't qualify for that on the sheer fact that he fucks almost everyone he meets and or fancies.

How about the countless "I helped u cuz ur a gurl :))))))"? The thing I hate about him is how he's the most generic good guy archetype whose only quirk is that he likes sex.

>You going to shit on them?

I don't recall any of them going "War? Isn't that that horrible thing in fiction literature? Oh my god how horrifying, why would anyone do that?" dozens of times throughout the game. I don't mind a setting like fallout, where you are shown the consequences of war, but I cannot fucking stand these retarded attempts at moralization.

and that's not even getting into the setting:

>do not kill or fuck more than one person or you're an outlaw

>if you're an outlaw then god will make it so that you can't grow any crops, can't mine any ore, will bring bad luck to aany community harboring you, and generally make sure you have no way to make an honest living

>but if you steal food to survive then you're an arch-villain that deserves death, and will be murdered in cold blood by special soldiers who were given an exception to above rule by the God :^)

>also if you get raped, then it still counts as having sex with more than one person, so you're an outlaw anyway, fuck you

>>16003903

>speak tiny horse grow moon heart knife cave walk

>somehow magically means “biangbiang noodles”

Goddamn moonspeak with its retarded logographic system. You know the chinks, et. al. have a different part of their brains light up when they handle language than Europeans do, right? The cortex for processing “pictures” is where they do their linguistics. About 40 years ago, the chinks were trying to develop a virus that would damage the part of the brain used for processing European languages and were going to spread it around the world. They would be unaffected.

>>16007099

Again, fine writing it's not.

>do not kill or fuck more than one person or you're an outlaw

Unless you're fucking notelves. Or wear a rubber. Or grow a vibrating haniwa on your dick. Also dragons don't count. Or saints. Or the goddess that made those rules. Also blowjobs, anal or handjobs don't count, obviously.

If anything most of the Alicesoft games openly make fun of hard "systems" and hard "rules" you see in most JRPGs in particular. Rance as their best known example is a walking contradiction to just about anything from established in game lore to biology and gravity. For example I don't know whether you played X but it's heavily implied that his hyperweapon reached the point of being able to pierce the supposedly perfect protection force field demons and even archdemons have.

>I helped u cuz ur a gurl

A cute girl. You then fuck. What's the problem?

>>16007141

>A cute girl. You then fuck. What's the problem?

It's just a boring and kind of annoying character. I was hoping for another Rance, got this moralfag instead.

>>16007179

haven't played galaxy angels, but yeah, I can't stand kamidori either. Actually forced myself to try and play it through a few times due to all the shilling, but I just couldn't stand the MC.

>but it's hardly the worst fucking game ever

It's not the worst game, but the writing is undeniably worse than in Rance games and the gameplay is generic at best. Sure, gameplay isn't that important in games like these, and it was absolutely dogshit in early Rance games, but I still played through them because I thoroughly enjoyed the writing. In Evenicle, that was not the case. At least the CGs look very nice, I guess.

>have you tried Duel Saviour?

I have not, will give it a try

>>16007213

Alright

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Bear in mind that it's going to be a pain to run and that this is a rare example where the game does massively improve the more you play it. The characters get more complex and the combat scales difficulty with each beaten battle. It also has a tendency to go from classic slice of life braindead comedy to some deep dark fantasy tier everyone's dropping like flies grimdark.

>>16007239

this better not be dolphin porn, anon.

Thanks.

>>>/hgg/

>>15999854

Combat/war is arguably the worst part about CK2, but unlike HOI4, CK2 isn't a wargame, and isn't as reliant on combat. Again, CK2 is enjoyable despite horrible combat, while HOI4 can never be enjoyable due to the horrible combat.

>>16009921

It's true though. It's more of a roleplaying game with vassal management. The wars are the result of your politicking and scheming to get claims on thrones.

>>16009090

hoi4 has good combat though compared to all other paradox games

>>16007125

>About 40 years ago, the chinks were trying to develop a virus that would damage the part of the brain used for processing European languages and were going to spread it around the world. They would be unaffected.

Did you play mgs5 while overdosing on semen.

>>16010499

Substantive rebuttal

>>16010630

Do you want to know how I can tell you're from reddit

>>16009090

HOI4's combat is fine by grand strat standards. In fact I find it a lot less painful and tedious than most of them. HOI4's problems are the severe lack of historical accuracy (I played as Germany and WW2 didn't even happen because the Danzig corridor massacres never happened so I had no impetus to risk war over Danzig), the over-reliance on focuses that are basically decision trees, and the bugginess.

>>16013389

oh wait, apparently that was a mod i never got a chance to break until now

>>16013389

>>16013393

Latest version?

>>16013401

yea, latest verion

it was the settlement populations mod

definitely getting rid of it, i didn't realize it was this retarded

>>16013436

>breaks the game that badly

technically it's still playable, recruitment gets scaled

but if you try to go anywhere with your army you'll go bankrupt in only a few moves, which is my biggest problem

>>16013443

>but if you try to go anywhere with your army you'll go bankrupt in only a few moves

Wait, shouldn't income be scaled as well? How much is upkeep?

>>16013459

it sort of is, i make like 49g a month

but the army upkeep is way higher, not sure how much but i go form around 700g to -999 after moving through a few tiles

>>16014866

the whole lineage shit was retarded from the get go. It was used in the Elder Scrolls mod, but that was a fantasy setting. IRL none of that shit would give you any bonus. If some dude came to you and spent half an hour reciting all the famous people he was descended from, would you suddenly fucking love him, or would you think he's a fucking arrogant faggot?

>>16015095

I don't agree. Semi permanent or straight up permanent claims based on ancestral legacies is both reasonable, historically friendly and not too OP considering it's a free CB at best.

>>16015095

>>16015171

Mind you, free CB's and maybe some more sex appeal or prestige are a far cry from being able to slaughter battleworn berzerkers six minutes out of the womb.

>>16015171

claims, yes, but that's all.

>>16015237

Maybe if they're not static? I believe HiP had bloodlines that changed with your ruler death so bad ones or even horrible relatives could ruin it for everyone. I mean, you agree that someone with the name Casanova would have less issues chasing skirts or that you'd think twice about fucking around with someone named McRapesyourfuckingskulluntilyoudie. Now whether the next generation lives up to the name is a different question and one that should have a mechanic to account for it.

>>16015741

You don't get to bring friends

Is there any mod for Darkest Hour that actually fleshes out countries other than Germany? I'm bored as fuck of doing Barbarossa over and over again, so I'm trying to find a good mod for Italy or, prefferably, Japan, but none seem to do either too seriously beyond a few events. Also, AI Germany seems to be incapable of invading England even if there are no troops left there, and taking Englad as Japan just feels dirty.

>>16015950

Don't worry no charge for them.

>>16015793

is the game fun?

>>16015793

what game?

>>16015741

Steam ID?

>>16013389

>Irish ecumenopolis transported backward in time by 2000 years

That'd be a fun scenario.

>>16010304

Underrated post

>>16022009

DELET

>>16022009

This lil nigga gon be a baller yo

>>16022012

Please help man, I don't have the RAR I unzipped it from anymore, so if it's an issue with the files of the converter I'm up shit creek without a paddle. It wouldn't make sense for that to be the case anyway because I haven't altered the mod files.

The guy who made it appears to have scrubbed the converter off the internet aside from unusable github source code without a frontend exe file, also the only alternative to the converter I was using makes every country below 1820 start date tech a primitive nation and England into Canada.

>>16022038

>converter gets nuked just before I want to try it

fuck

>>15992215

You one of the Strasserfags?

>>16022009

Is this an abortion ;_;

What's the latest version of anon's mod for HFM?

>>16030568

Ignore flag I was doing a thing.

>>16030568

>>16030569

>>16029684

"cheap historically accurate" is too much. Just say 'Historically Authentic'.

>>16032721

see

>>15940178

>>15994951

>>16032731

That's clearly the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, can't you tell?

>>16034509

So, why the hell didn't he reform into Russia? Also what's the deal with the HRE now-a-days? You're only able to reform and centralize it if you keep it decentralized? The fuck? Yes I know EU4 is crap but what else to play

>>16035842

EU3

>>16033431

Considering you now had the Moscow rail nexus as well as a secured Leningrad front, aren't you giving him too much credit by saying it would be a stalemate? Or are the Axis latewar modifiers really that disproportionate, in spite of your success probably preempting the degradation they impose from happening?

I mean, 30,000 tanks of which a substantial portion are assault guns & breakthrough tanks seems like enough to go on making mini-pockets even as you keep the best and less disposable materiel in reserve. And the T-34s could be used more flippantly. His logistics should be in total shambles. And what muddy backcountry airfields will he have beyond the bounds of metropolitan Russia to actually leverage his aircraft advantage? Sure, his unit output will be unmitigated since it's from past the Urals, but with such a huge loss won't it be a trickle?

More importantly, why'd you agree to a '43 scenario anyways? From the little reading I did before, '41 is even or a little in Axis favor, '42 is the competitive middleground, and everything after is an exercise in losing more slowly against non-AI. Unless, you know, the Soviets decide to reverse-Kursk and fuck themselves. For some reason.

>>16036066

It's the same shit. And I already played it to death.

I want to say that CK2 with CK2+ and no other mods is a very good game and not a meme.

stop hurting my feelings, immediately

>>16035842

I assume they needed those two provinces in the Petrograd area to reform into Russia but the AI thought it was a good idea to eat Scandinavia instead. This is from EU3 Miscmods + DAO, not EU4.

>>16036983

Prepare to get bullied faggot: even when pozzed DLC is stripped off CK2 is still a meme game.

Never play shattered or randomized world with nomads ON. 100 years later half the map are steppenigger tengrists and Mary Sue descendants with maps that look like a butcher's shop.

Does anyone have a link to up to date CKII+? It doesn't look like it's in the folders and I only have one that was for 2.8.3 or something.

>>16040377

I'm going to do you a favor and not link it

>>16041176

Meant to say "Natbol"

>>16041329

Alright, it's a reiteration, but it makes sense. His units can't make headway because they're shit. Your units can't make headway because there's not enough to spare and debuff modifiers plus number disparity even the field unless he really fucks up, so 'muh 30,000 tanks' don't mean much. Still, I'm curious as to how much of this was really set in stone with the depth in play here. Say that you had both chosen to go on. Do you think piecemeal mini-blitzes, either on attack or counterattack, could go in your favor? 'Major' offenses are precluded by air power attrition, and any of his offensives are basically fucked from the outset. But would there be any flexibility to this front after an initial settling in period? Can you wrest the initiative back on your own terms, or would he have to seriously bungle things again?

What would the Eastern forever war start looking like once you get to '44 or '45 with regular Army units disappearing in favor of a gaggle of SS and co-belligerent line fillers? Would you shorten the line, or try to hold most the ground you've taken while repeating the previous retreat-and-encircle defense gambit? What are your chances to make sneeki attacks to encircle & eat a hex or two or three of units in a localized offensive fashion? Almost like trench raiding, but with tanks and on an operational scale? All tanks forward, big fuckoff encirclement is logistically untenable, but could you take the losses of smaller efforts- potentially lessened by juggling fighters for local air superiority, and maybe concentrating SPAA- to whittle the Soviets down and keep the standstill out of their favor? Is there any meaningful counter to the raising standard of AT weaponry/field guns in their divisions? Could this ever lead to a Soviet operational breakdown, or is the opposite more likely just due to the out-of-your-hands attrition from division pullouts? Or could you have gamed the pullouts by intentionally using the units that're going to disappear offmap as roughly as you can before they go poof?

When's Gary Grigsby going to make a unified campaign game, anyways? I've heard War in the West has some substantial improvements over War in the East engine wise, but I feel simply porting the old to the new would be a waste compared to a merger. Both fronts plus North Africa & the Levant, at least.

>>16032753

It’s shit

>>16041176

>Our wombs are connected to the moon and the ocean and mens penises are connected to nothing

So the strength of a man's cock is his own? Nice.

>>16045076

They did not have enough armies to handle the rebels with countries so big, they could have infinite troops (mercs or ArmyPro, whatever), when the revoltrisk was high due to conquering/WE.

And by shitty rebels, I mean mostly the standard separatists. But saw basically all kinds of rebels winning in medium-sized countries. When you see the province revolt risks, you can always tell when and where a rebellion is going to happen, is it going to be covered by forts, what size etc.

If you can't handle it you can still harsh treatment them, or worst case scenario increase autonomy. AI does none of these, when it has no troops left, even though it could hire some to hold on to the conquests.

>>16003578

Which game is that?

>>16045034

Parashitters cannot make a good AI to save their lives. It's utterly retarded in every game they make and they never actually improve it (despite claims on the contrary). I think the strait update that happened several DLCs back is the biggest eye-opener on their design philosophy

>players keep gaming the Bosphorus to block Ottoman armies from crossing, and thus survive as BYZ

<let's change the way the strait works so you need to block it with ships AND control at least one of the crossing provinces! Let's also plop a fort down on the Ottoman province there so that they can't capture it before the turkish army crosses

Instead of fixing the AI to deal with that shit, change the game rules.

>>16046132

Yeah, but he's talking out of his ass. The AI is definitely not something to write home about but they specifically built failsaves to prevent exactly what he's talking about. The AI will never of it's own volition go over it's overextention cap and even if it somehow does, for example you force fed him some lands or something, it straight up cheats to avoid that. He's not qualified for the worst rebel sentiment events, his unrest it lowered for every difficulty level including easy and he'll never run out of manpower unless you, as a player intentionally bleed him out during years and years of occupation.

>>16045262

>When's Gary Grigsby going to make a unified campaign game, anyways?

WitE 2 is in development, but I don't think it's going to introduce western front. They're at least expanding the map to Karelia. Only for multiplayer though.

>>16046164

I'm not talking about overextension cap. It's the overextension mechanic that's always there while you're coring.

Also, check the ledger sometimes. You'd be surprised to see how often England, Ottos, Timurids etc. are constantly on 0 MP and dozens or hundreds of mercs. There's no AI to handle rebels and hold onto conquests.

Even if you get destroyed and your army wiped in a war, and see a separatist swarm coming after you've peaced, its a no brainer to take loans, use the estates or ease recruitment because losing your land to rebels is so dumb. You don't notice it so much when playing, I only did when observing.

>>16047848

The separatism sentiment events and such don't happen if you're bellow the 100% cap. And they really get ugly once you're past 199%. The AI will NEVER take more land than 99%, rounded down. And even if he somehow does he's literally immune to that shit unless he's your vassal. Cheap cheating but what can you do, it's the civilization tier bullshit design. Now, I don't really care whether he'll implode after being bullied in a bad war or not. I haven't played multiplayer all that much since they patched that cracked game workaround in Dharma but I can't tell you how many times I've seen a player do the exact same thing.

You don't punch above your weight, pace yourself and you'll be fine.

>england

I'll give you this. For some reason England/UK, Russia, Denmark and Spain always suck. Moronically so. But I don't believe I've ever seen any of them spontaneously balkanize as they would in Knights of Honor or something. Ottomans or Mughals though, will cause issues.

>are constantly on 0 MP and dozens or hundreds of mercs

That's how most players are playing as well, ain't it? Waiting for manpower early game is too much of a pain and later on it's a bad joke to suffer 100s of thousands on attrition alone.

>>15978465

Just a reminder, this deal is still valid.

>>15939439

I'm really enjoying Total War mod for Hoi4 as Japan

Hope they keep adding more focus trees

I want to try out Finland against Soviets

>>16054767

thanks, doc

>>16054767

I can upload it, but unfortunately the .exe seems to be tied to steam and wont open the game without verifying via steam. I have no idea how to crack it since I'm not slav. Do you still want me to upload it?

Maybe one of you knows how to do it.

>>16058412

It's related to steam_api.dll. If someone knows how to crack it, tell me and I'll try.

>>16058425

>auf

*in

>>16058425

How? My tank armies ran out of fuel and I stalled out against the Stalin line. Particularly getting the cyan tank army across the Dnepr took a turn or two and so much fuel I couldn't get a good pincer on Smolensk. I was tempted to commit the other AGC tank army against Leningrad but that seemed too far to move the tanks. I guess I'll play it out and see how fucked I am during winter.

>>16058425

The lack of sweden in the map triggers me

CK2 is so boring without Plus. I hope they release it soon.

If any of you is a pleb like me who wants to get into Victoria 2, it doesn't seem to be that hard once you got the hang out of it. Russia is probably a good choice for trying out the game. Maximize all taxes and tariffs (the effective tax and tariff will remain bearable) I'm uncertain of which techs are most useful, presumably ones boosting economy since Russia starts out as Great Power and as such, prestige rushing isn't necessary. Persia is easy to sphere diplomatically once you discover the influence interface from diplomacy screen. Other neighbors seem to hate you despite raising relations to the max. Also influence bordering Chinese substates. Lowering your army maintenance may not be same kind of money-saver like in EU4 since the money you pay for suppliers goes back to your economy if you produce your own supplies.

>>16063085

Did they ever fix that game? I absolutely love the period but I distinctly remember the pops and the shit mechanics that revolved around them being, well, shit.

>>16063202

>Did they ever fix that game?

No but modders did (to the greatest extent they can, really)

Try Anon's HFM Edits in the OP (on top of HFM)

>>16065117

>trying to move from 4x to grand strategy

>>15957817

>But HoI4 isn't a gsg either you imbecile

I guess you need to pick another game.

>>16065149

Well I play rts and 4x. Just trying to pick up gsg would be a better way of saying it.

>>16065162

By now HoI4 has more active players than EU4. At least on steam.

>>16065171

Popular does not equal good anon.

Not shitposting but curious, why is it that most people here hate HOI4? From what I gathered in this thread I've got

>Ugly

and

>Historically Inaccurate

Wanna know what exactly is inaccurate since I haven't played much of it. What else?

>>16065184

I didn't say that.

>>16065186

This is why new people that want to play grand strategies are likely to end up playing HoI4. Because it is the most popular cancer currently.

>>16065216

It is a meme game and that's not even a joke. Also you just need to draw a line on your touch screen and win.

>>16065216

Just look at images of world maps on your search browser.

Anybody have any interesting starts in CK2? I've played as Persian Zoro and restored Persia and also played as HRE up from Thuringii in the WTWSMS mod but not much else beside occasionally raping the world as Byzantium because of the ridiculous levies you get

>>16065718

Playing anything but something interesting is boring. Once I was playing welsh and kicked the anglos out of England, even converting the culture. I almost got to London when I stopped playing and now that I come back I can't play it because of the new update, so I'm just waiting for Plus to catch up because the game is boring as fuck without it.

Another time I played ancient aryans in the Tarim Basin and recreated the Bactrian Empire.

Another time I Reconquista'd.

Now I'm planning on we wuzing to Jerusalem from Ethiopia.

>>16065762

I was thinking about recreating the Himyarite Kingdom in Yemen or maybe the restoring the Hephthalite Empire

>>16065863

What I really want to do with the new expansion is revive Hellenism, but every time I try, the Emperor revokes all my titles.

I guess I can try to keep Zunism alive in the East.

In any case, this game really isn't worth playing until the mods are up to date.

>>16063085

V2 is easy when you learn to proper balance of spending and everything. You basically have the same game every time, just in different parts of the map.

>>16044667

It's a meme

>>16045365

THAS RITE

>>16065117

HoI series are wargames, not gsgs. The difference is small enough for them to be discussed here anyway, but the fact it's a disctinct group of games should still be noted.

If you want something like HoI4 but not dogshit, pick up Darkest Hour. It doesn't have the HQ autism of HoI3 and managed to be relatively easy to learn (you don't need to know ALL the mechanics to be able to play it – you'll learn them as you go). If you want a casual grand stategy game, pick up vanilla CK2 or EU4 – you'd need to be practically braindead to actually lose those.

>>16067259

>learn muh genre pronouns

Essentially, you're a nitpicking cocksucker and not a sucker of cocks with nitpicking tendencies?

>>16067514

>lol why, like, give words any meaning?

>>16067543

Oh, I'm sorry. You're just a garden variety homo.

Distant Worlds feels so unfinished and I don't know why

>>16069813

It's because there's little to no flavour. Lots of good mechanics, but little in the way of roleplay

>>16069813

>>16072234

You can set your own win conditions to economy/population/area. There are race based victory conditions with variety. You can combine them and whatever. There also scripted stories.

>>16067259

>HoI series are wargames, not gsgs.

.t someone who's never played wargame in their life

>>16072483

<wargame

>focused solely on military matters – peacetime mechanics being either absent or negligible – and usually taking place within the span of one war

<grand strategy game

>focused on both military and peacetime mechanics, trade, internal legislation and country management in general. Can take place within virtually any timespan.

>>16075581

Playable pagans shat up that game so much. Oh look, I'll start in blobbing wet dream start and then I'll blob up Whooptie fucking do. B-But it's fine because nazi memes!

For fucks sake.

>>16075581

>CK2

>challenging

I use CK2 and my primary non-hentai source of fap material.

>>16075581

>this shit

>challenging

If you want an actual challenge in CK

>start as a wiking in England

>conquer it

>reform faith

>blob into scandianvia

>estabilish bridgehead in netherlands

>all the at low enough crown authority for vassals to blob on their own into other countries

<switch to play as a christian count in BYZ

<watch as the ridiculosuly OP pagan realm starts blobbing literally everywhere with zero real opposition

<shit yourself as muslims do the same

<between a rock and a hard place

<try eliminating both threats now and return Europe under Jesus

constant Jihad/great holy war spam against you, since BYZ sits neatly right in between them, so they won't war each other but will war you instead. For added challenge, make sure to only hand out titles to your dynasty while playing the vikings, so that when you switch and some king-tier vassal wars you, the entire fucking country (except the emperor) wars you due to family alliances and all that shit.

>>16065306

>Also you just need to draw a line on your touch screen and win.

Just play multiplayer, anyone who tries to draw a line past Moscow and leave their army to do their thing will be watching Berlin fall in less than a year.

>>1607580

Yes, it's the most challenging I've done. CK2 is easy as shit.

>>16079795

I remember playing my first game and winning after 45 minutes, the AI did everything automatically and I pretty much just clicked OK and nothing else. Also the font is borderline unreadable like in EU4.

>>16078616

>Jewish

very

>>16063085

>sphering uncivs

There's no point. What sphering does is it establishes a common market between you and your sphereling. Uncivs can't research technologies that improve RGO efficiency, so you will get much less resources from sphering them than from direct conquest. You can't control their ruling party either, and if they have one with centralized economic policy you won't be able to build railways inside their territory. However, their pops can still suck up goods that should be going to your citizens. This is good if you have a good that's overproduced and seek new markets for it, by sphering a country you can force it to buy it from you and not someone else. But you're Russia and you have a huge population, so producing enough goods to satisfy even your domestic market will be difficult. So you're just making pops in other countries happier at the cost of your own.

What I usually do as Russia is I reduce China to what it looked like under Ming by conquering Xinjiang, Mongolia and Manchuria. It's not the most efficient way to spend infamy, but it makes sense from RP standpoint and looks nice on the map. Xinjiang and Mongolia are also particularly easy to settle with Russians because of their low population and I can easily take Korea if I ever run into coal or iron shortages. Likewise I prefer taking Persia's northern and central provinces to make the Caspian Sea my Mare Nostrum, but conquering the whole of it also works if I can spare the infamy.

>>16079795

Anon, do you not know what flavour is? It's text like lore, events, decisions, etc. that might have very little impact on the mechanics of the game, but help you immerse yourself in it and roleplay. I don't dispute that distant worlds has plenty of different mechanics and details, but it has very little flavour

aside from anon's edits for hfm, are there any other victoria 2 mods I should use?

>>16080552

Blood and Iron is the best one there is, in my opinion.

>>16082048

thanks anon, it doesnt seem to be updated anymore though

would it work with hfm? if not is there a way to integrate it to anon's edits?

>>16082140

There's no way it would work with HFM but you could maybe integrate some features but I don't know anything about Vicky 2 modding so I couldn't tell. Also I just noticed that the mod hasn't been updated in half a year but the Dev has made long pauses before so maybe (hopefully) he'll come back.

>>16082140

> it doesnt seem to be updated anymore though

That doesn't matter, because Vicky isn't updated anymore. There's a B&I for the newest Vicky.

>>16082386

It's really nice, it's basically Vanilla but with more content and some much needed tweaks.

>>16082396

I know that but the mod is still on beta so surely the dev will add more stuff some day

>>16082847

>my first blob

>validate me

Who gives a shit?

>>16082859

See you tomorrow.

>>16082174

Its not dead tho, I think one update took 9 months or something. I'm just busy and/or lazy

On a scale from CK2 to Stellaris, how shit is Imperator gonna be?

Apparently it's selling like hotcakes on Steam.

>>16089531

HoI4

>>16089531

Looks like palate swapped EU4 to me.

Here's a link to the HIP Holy Fury beta release if anyone is interested. It's buggy as fuck at the moment.

http://hip.zijistark.com/releases/furry_beta_latest.pl

>>16089531

It's literally just fucking EU4. I'm fucking tired of that, can't paradox just fucking make something halfway decent, with actual fucking effort and history rather then half-assing it? If your going to make a historical title, put as much fucking effort into it as possible, people don't want this 2-3 year inbetween of release dates, people can fucking wait!

Fuck me, I'm betting everyone's going to open their mouth for Imperator's shit, fall in love with it, and then a year later people will bitch on it… Fucking Paradox is nothing more then a bunch of money-hungry jews wanting to take advantage of a market of people who like history+strategy, and have a practical monopoly over it.

>>15939439

Whose bright idea it was to require IE with Distant Worlds? Going to have to find some way to install IE on Wine.

Anyone want to play a War In the East PBEM game? I'd be willing to play either Grobgermanium or dirty Bolshevists.

>>16091038

Waiting for CK2+

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>>16099086