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K got a save to endgame on EU for the tournament.

Took ~60 hrs to get through the game + dlc. 10 of those was probably raw grinding since speedrunning the story meant I had no masteries/materials/gear.

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>>2514202

I found out today that kills from Giselle's traps count towards Giant Killer because it's the traps that are considered to be doing the killing and they have no HP

>>2514199
all the more reason for Giant Killer to be busted on Giselle

Is there any way to repeat quest missions from town NPCs? I want to get machine hunter ezpz by doing that one mission with the 50 shitty drones.

>>2514203
Yes, talk to the NPCs and there should be a dialogue option somewhere
You can also use that to tame the unique yasha and negoori while they're babies

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>>2513975 >>2514029

zoomer devs of this are just now discovering the meme character traits for the first time

>>2513968
God, I hate zoomers so much

>>2513968
why did he write shi instead of shit

>>2514029
Tokbrain speak

>>2514029
Social media censorship has shaped younger generation's lingo. Like how they say "unalived" instead of killed. Blame Amazon and Google or something.

>>2513737
Politics as relevant to vic3 or 19-20th centuries which can be used for vic3 is not only acceptable but on point for the thread. >>2513683 however is pure politics which i entertained for about 2 sentences and referred to >>>/pol/.
My point in general is that the sheer amount of commie bullshit should not be removed but that their opposites in ancap policies straight out of the fantasies of the likes of spooner (and even anachronistically, later thinkers) should be added. There is a distinct lack of non-commie figures in the game like Pareto, Hitler, the aforementioned spooner desu.
There should also be an overhaul of tech as tech were invented by certain people and with patents and the piracy thereof, imagine dr. Diesel, Tesla, Graham Bell or Mauser as strategic assets in and of themselves. Say you extract Sikorsky from the fall of Russia and he gives a good buff to planes and maybe gives experimental helis towards the very end of the game or in mods.

The way multiculturalism works in the game is already pure fantasy. Why not include other fantasy laws?

Tips on how to decide what to build? I watched some hamkurtz videos and following his advice I built construction sectors until my balance is barely in the negative, then I tried building the construction sector input resources, wood and iron, but it seems like my resource deficits keep getting worse and worse and I’m going to spend half the game building logging camps as a Belgium which seems like a non-European thing to do, should I be building high level buildings and just importing the inputs, but how do I determine what to build.
Also how and when do I invade Africa, it’s 1846 and England and France are already conquering coastal nations. Meanwhile I don’t even have an option to declare war on the blacks. It says online you used to have to “declare interest” (press x to unlock diplomacy options and get better trade prices) but they removed it? And apparently I have to manually set up trades to import resources or some shit? I’m getting pissed off at this game, the economy is too complex and not in a good way. I don’t want to micro trades.

>>2514173
lumber is for big nations with shitload of peasants
i haven't played belgium, but im pretty sure you should have decent amount of iron and coal, so you can start with iron and transition into steel fast
just build the most profitable stuff
debt spending is honestly overrated, if you don't feel safe, just don't do it, it's very easy to spiral on non-gps
manual trade isn't really a thing, treaty goods exchange is basically just a commitment to buy some stuff from foreign market
you need fleet to conquer overseas, set it to project power and you will gain diplo interest in adjacent regions

it's easy to hit the ceiling with belgium, you have few people, few resources and no market really
i think reforming laws and depeasanting is the best part of the game, that's why i never played it
i played sweden on my first run i think, but i didn't understand anything besides just basics of building your supply chain

>>2514176
I didn't really mean going into debt, but deficit spending your savings to build things and then refilling the gold reserves via privatization. I though the fun of the game was supposed to come from turning a small low-pop nation into a world power by exploiting colonies to do the menial labor and then just having your elite accepted pops be the soldiers and administrators who run the empire.

>>2388636
This. Imperator: Rome was a test bed for EU5, Afterworld will be a test bed for HOI5

>>2391683
>vic3
>brainlet filter
Poor bait
Nu-Paradox fans really think cookie clicker is a brainlet filter, it's over

paradox games fucking suck

>>2500904
Modern Paradox would fuck it up, somehow

>>2510487
But I can't quit playing them

>>2513398
Fuck Alex
Fuck balance
Download 150+ mods and run them at the same time.
Bask in the glory of wacky bullshit where everything is OP and broken.
Have fun!

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>>2510009
Based. Thank you good space comander. May the Ludd guides you during your path beyond core worlds.

>>2513398
Forget this, just ask Claude to finish the game. I was worried about it with other games, but if it can speed up development of tmodloader to make Terraria modding up to date, why not here?

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Overhauled deployment. Your fleet can now deploy in formation!
>>2513643
>does it mean that each division has a leader and influences the division's actions depending on the division leader's personality? Would it conflict with officers with other personalities in the same division?
Yes, but that's like scope creep and shit and maybe I should save it for after I release a basic version. Right now most multi-division formations and tactics is handled by your Officer in Tactical Command. The authority chain is set up and strong, but stuff like conflict of interest is more inferred than explicit at the moment.

>>2513398
I don't know why he doesn't just have the invasion of the Doritos escalate on a timer like the Ur-Quan Masters.

>>2514012
>>2514077
I mean can't you say the same thing about Scandinavia in 867? Were people like Bjorn Ironside and Harald Fairhair even real?

Also the Mayans (or maybe the Inca) had writing, but I think it was rather limited and the conquistadors just burned all their books.

>>2514089
Yes because they interacted with people who did write like franks and anglo saxons

>>2514089
>Bjorn
Yes. He shows up in contemporary sources, so it's fair to say there was a viking guy called Bjorn raiding France and Mediterranean around that period who probably was either a ruler or a relative of a significant ruler to be able to gather significant forces.
>Harald
Probably. We don't have any contemporary sources - we have later copies of what would be a contemporary source but they could be later inventions. That being said the idea of there being a viking guy called Harald who was a king who fought some battles and maybe went to England at least once is probably true.
>>2513982
You could try to scavenge something roughly accurate in the broadest sense from archeological record but it would be absolute fantasy and Claude hallucinations anyway.

>>2514089
The fuck are you smoking and where can I get some?

>>2514089
I believe the only location in Europe that paradox have said they're kinda making guesses for the 867 start is in the Estonian, Lithuanian baltic area cause of how hard it was to find a complete record of who owned what back then. As for the Aztec and whatnot while we might not have 100% accurate names for 867 central America i believe they at least have enough info to give you something to go with. The respective cultures have been settled there since the bronze era. So while Spain did its thing there's still stuff to discover and at least get a skeleton of what things might've looked like.

I think the difficult think to pin down would be the native Americans in North America. They were so nomadic that outside of a few hills where Cahokia was people have found almost nothing about them in terms of borders.

>>2514126
>If you invested in food you'd be safe
The sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor

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>>2514188

pretty accurate death count for the 30 years war although it only lasted about 5 years
prosperity is fucked all over germany too but it recovers too quickly in this game for it to matter
id like to see the 'increase development' and 'recover prosperity' cabinet actions removed or gutted

>>2514186
30yw type stuff can't really happen because the AI is too eager to peace out wars and truces last too long.
As soon as the AI starts winning against another AI they take 3 locations and war reps, then call it a day for 15 years.
This messes up time-limited situations like the italian wars and hussite wars too.
The optimal play in the hussite wars is to just sit on Bohemia as long as possible, starve them out and click the genocide button on repeat.
AI prefers instead to annex a few locations, Bohemia never actually gets defeated and returns to full strength soon enough.

>>2514188
the game can't handle multi phased, regionalized conflict like that anyway, it was just world war .5 with every country from portgual to hungary fighting over every tiny scrap of land
i'd just have random fucking OPM german states sending 500 levies into my territory randomly all the time

>>2514188
>The optimal play
Objectively speaking, the optimal play is to take actual rewards if you're winning. Bohemia suffering doesn't really help you, so it's not exactly "wrong" for them not to do that.
If you want to history RP, then Austria would have to devastate Bohemia and also lose the war, and the mechanics for something like that don't exist in this game.

>>2512385
I had a few more crashes that got more common as I went on which was very unfortunate. I can't continue this campaign realistically since the autosave is only every 6 months and i've rewound more than 2 years of progress from this point in the screenshot without being able to declare any new wars.

>>2512385
where can i download?

>>2513111
https://github.com/Jupiterson/Throne-of-Lorraine/tree/Balkans

>>2513630
t. hanks
how many of the great powers got actual flavor in this mod?

>>2513854
Seems like Bavaria, Hanseatic, Netherlands, Lorraine, and France all have it but idk about the others I haven't played every country.

>>2514035
If you meant terrain FALLING and stuff, unlikely...voxel based damage MAAAybe....

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My first playthrough is done. I started on 23 of November last year, with maybe a month of downtime in total.
>19387 enemies smitten like sheep
>favorite gun - 14mm cannon (vehicle)
>gray codex

Think I'll take a break, gold or green codex next. I fucking love this setting.

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>>2514104 >>2514180

>>2514074
I mean like teardown

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>>2514093
yeah, like I said, falling, crumbling debris like that is no way, at least in a physics capacity, but individual voxel capacity maybe.

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>>2514093
you could do voxel destruction quite easy as a decorator on openxcom's grid.

>>2505417
Well, yes. I prefer the size/module type based system from 4 to 3's pure weight system.

I like mw5's size system, which is why I'm not really fond of yaml. It makes every battlemech feel like an omnimech with the crazy customization you can do. MW5 vanilla but with the ability to customize engines and internals/armor would be ideal. Just make upgrading to endo/ferro from standard cripplingly expensive.
With the metal fatigue thread up I always throught a battletech game where you create your own frankenmechs would be amazing.

>>2504225
IlKhan era reads like fanfiction. I stopped caring about the continuation lore when Dark Age hapoened when frankenmechs became the standard.

>>2505437
Yaml was made by the people used to MW4 mercs where you put guns on your legs cus the system was open to being abused.

https://mechcommanderonline.com/

>>2512474
Which ones

>>2506733
>Maybe The Best City Builder Of 2027
what else is there even?

>>2512643
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>>2512474
Tropico 6s sound track was s fucking banger, almost on par with 3. 7 seems to be just as good as 6 so we'll be eating good in the OTS department at least.

>>2512618
IIRC, the restaurant was Sol de la Manana, but that was months ago. The boat on the Nile was Bienvanudo a Tropico, without lyrics.

I want to strangle whomever decided that missile units shouldn't have guard mode toggled on by default in R2TW.

>>2514041
Did you know that Rome 2 launched without a guard mode at all? Attila doesn't have it either, but when that game didn't perform as CA had hoped and they ended up crawling back to R2 they eventually added guard mode to it in one of the DLC updates
Some times their decision making is downright bizarre

>>2514046
Sometimes? They constantly make retarded decisions. It's half the reason they issue an apology letter every year. The other half is greed.

>>2514041
No kill the guy that has skirmisher mode as the default stance for missile troops

>>2513471
All I wanted for Christmas

>>2514015
Oh G-d that Stronghold looks awful

>>2514082
It's quite literally the DoW1 stronghold with a second floor

Or do you mean the animations? Cause yeah those are awful

>>2514015
Absolutely baffling that an RTS will be inferior in so many ways to an RTS 20 years older than it.

>>2514149
It’s really not surprising at all, as DoW1 was the peak of the RTS genre.

>>2514149
I ask myself that question for most games desu

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>>2501580
the sheer scale of the battles is impressive, I reccomend turning the "Limit battle radius" setting in the options to "Unlimited" to really take advantage of it when playing operations.

Anyone want to do a FI PBEM against Italians? I'm also open to playing as ww2 or cw Brits

Would it really be so hard for them to add a pvp mode to graviteam?

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>>2497979
>reverse engineer
i am, sorry for being late to the party
only shock force 2 though, but cmsx2 should be easy for anyone else after that
also I won't be really supporting it, i might dump it on a github once parity is reached, then focus on making cool mods to fix it and just for my own shits and giggles

Any of you guys played Tunisia 1943? I think I got it really cheap in a sale but I never tried it.