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 nels1031 wrote:

 ScarletRose wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:

 ScarletRose wrote:
Almost done with my first Rogue Trader playthrough, Iconoclast route with no DLC. I just need to fight the last battles on the last planet.

I'm definitely going to pick up the DLC and do a second playthrough. Probably go heretic and see what difference that makes.

Nice! Let me know what you think of the Iconoclast ending epilogue "montages". I was Iconoclast in my first complete playthrough and those montages made me think I made some things so much worse in the Expanse. Not at all what I intended, but that's 40K for you. It was also early in the games life, so it might've been giving me the wrong info at the end.

I have been meaning to do another playthrough with the latest DLC, but it hasn't been in the cards.

Wrapped up the last of it tonight and I liked it, but (major spoilers ahead)

Spoiler:

I was honestly a little confused by the end slides - so the Imperium comes to crush our little sector because the rogue trader gave people basic rights, but I also maxed Navy loyalty so the Imperium loses the space battle because so many captains sided with me. So did things get wrecked or not?

The ultimate fate of the expanse seems kind of ambiguous with how it's written. Like there's the threat that it'll eventually be crushed but so many of the slides are like "because of the newfound freedoms these planets prospered for many years".

I had been spoiled on it previously, but I was also unhappy with Pasqual killing Yrliet. I tried to really play towards my RT's mechanicus origins by being friendly with any AdMech, but that just seemed like a dick move on his part.

The rest of the companions were pretty satisfying, I liked that Idira seemed to enjoy her life even if it was brief because of her uncontrolled psyker-ness. I liked that Argenta got a fitting end in battle. I romanced Jae so that turned out great, even if she eventually gets assassinated at least she had a good life with her loving partner. Abalard got to retire, and we even got a good send off for the crew NPCs like the voxmaster.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how things ended up.

Ya, the confusion and mixed signals on some of the ending slides really annoyed me. I guess it wasn't an early game bug and just a feature.

I think they wrote themselves into a tough spot. I get wanting a third option for dialog so you're not stuck with cartoonish villiany or boring status quo, but you can't give a 40k game a happily ever after ending.

Despite that the last few fights left me psyched for more. I'll probably start a heretic playthrough this weekend.

Finally beat Witcher 3. Only took... *checks post dates* a bit over a month! Going to give it a week or two before I move on to Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions.

An overall very enjoyable game and I see now why it's been so highly regarded for the last decade. I must say that I did get a bit "lost" at times. The sheer breadth of quests available and things to do over such massive maps more then once left me a bit "out of mind" if you will, about what it was I was actually meant to be doing (that is rescuing Ciri and defeating the Wild Hunt).
And in Skellige I definitely fell into the trap of hunting down all those damnable "?" out at sea. I was hoping for some sea based monsters, or roving hostile pirates, or cool underwater caves to explore. Instead it was just smugglers cache after smugglers cache after smugglers cache. I won't be drawn into the next time around.

I'll be waiting for the 4th game to drop and the newest book to be translated into English before I go through all the games again. But I'm pretty keen.

Don't wait with the expansions, they are excellent. Many full games don't have as much well crafted content as these. They also offer much needed increase in difficulty (one of the few games the base game lacked).

The wait before I go back to them is a self imposed punishment. I've been a bit naughty last week or so, and have been neglecting some assignments I've got to complete for a training course I'm doing at the moment. Nothing critical, but need to be done none the less. So yeah, no more fun stuff for me until I've caught up with them.
I've even packed away all my paints and models until I've gotten back on track.

I am looking forward to the expansions though, and NG+. Difficulty was one thing I noticed lacked as well though. Aside from two particular "guarded treasure" enemies, a golem and a leshen, who were so well above my level that I just couldn't last against them, nothing really gave me much trouble in the way of combat, so a boost in enemy toughness would be nice to see. Even the camps of lvl30+ fallen knights weren't that tricky. And I would have been probably lvl 16/17 when I did them Probably helped though that I had the Wild Hunt Axe. That thing's got crazy armour penetration.

Abiotic Factor, where being HR looking out for a bunch of Summer interns is always a hassle and then some..

Fire Emblem Three Houses.

My first playthrough I did the White Snow route. Then Azure Moon. And I'm most of the way done with Verdant Wind.

Tried doing the Crimson Flower route, and the choice to join with Edelgard did not come up like it did in my first playthrough. It turns out that there's three requirements for Crimson Flower. You need to get a C+ support with Edelgard, then you need to do the coronation with Edelgard, then you need to talk with Edelgard once per month at the monastery. That last one most people do not bring up. So, had to start yet another game for that.

Probably coming to the end of my play-through of Oblivion Remastered. Level 28-ish, done assassins guild and nearly finished thieves guild, and coming up on the big final battle of the main quest line. Will probably call it a day once I've done those bits. Really enjoyed it though!

WH3.

Chaos Dwarf campaign is getting bonkers. Have all 3 factions confederated, possess the entirety of the regions between the Worlds Edge Mountains and the Mountains of Mourn. At war with 2 factions of Dwarves(Thorgrim and Ungrimm), 2 factions of Greenskins(Skarsnik and Grimgor) and trying to reclaim the vast majority of Greasus Goldtooths diminished empire to create a loyal ally and an eastern flank buffer zone. All of my trade convoys have to battle through the dwarves and greenskins, but luckily they're strong enough to push through.

Army Upkeep is killing my economy and all of my income is from battles and raiding.

Its a lot of fun with every turn being multi battles against various factions. Not really steamrolling yet, but once I start getting more Earthshakers, it'll get silly fast.

Bananza! It's quite good. Basically a huge, concentrated dose of everything that makes Nintendo. If anything I find it a little overwhelming and find myself taking some breaks to recharge between layers.

 Snrub wrote:
Finally beat Witcher 3. Only took... *checks post dates* a bit over a month! Going to give it a week or two before I move on to Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions.

An overall very enjoyable game and I see now why it's been so highly regarded for the last decade. I must say that I did get a bit "lost" at times. The sheer breadth of quests available and things to do over such massive maps more then once left me a bit "out of mind" if you will, about what it was I was actually meant to be doing (that is rescuing Ciri and defeating the Wild Hunt).
And in Skellige I definitely fell into the trap of hunting down all those damnable "?" out at sea. I was hoping for some sea based monsters, or roving hostile pirates, or cool underwater caves to explore. Instead it was just smugglers cache after smugglers cache after smugglers cache. I won't be drawn into the next time around.

I'll be waiting for the 4th game to drop and the newest book to be translated into English before I go through all the games again. But I'm pretty keen.

When you get to Blood and Wine I suggest you do what Regis suggests.

Dark Souls NG+. I've never been bothered to complete a NG+ before but I've gotten pretty close so let's see if my interest holds. I have the Witcher 3 lined up for Winter but I've not been able to stick at it yet, just need a decent stretch of play to get into it I reckon, or the right mindset.

Started up another game as fascist japan and in 1948 i have: india, dutch east indies, all but the capital of british malaya (i swear they put a million forts down there near that port and it just won't fold), china, tibet, australia, new zealand, part of south africa (it gets mostly taken by axis even if you take it as japan) and just most of everything outside of the americas is part of the baddies which we're currently playing. USA never joined the war, UK just won't go down, canada is still alive (for now), brazil is alive and in the allies and there are some low level nations in allies as well but that's basically it.

Axis seems to be winning the air war against the UK but the uk naval supremacy is too strong for a naval invasion so it's clinging to life annoyingly. Normally as japan i could maybe help lower british naval superiority but it's basically halfway around the world and i have other things to do.

The real question for me is if i should invade canada next or brazil and i'm thinking canada once all the middle eastern countries in the war against us capitulate.

As you can see everything outside of the americas is basically axis or my japanese faction.

I found out Steam had all of the classic Marathon games for free, so I downloaded them and have played a bit of the first one. You can kind of see the bones of Bungie's later and more famous Halo games, although being that Marathon came out in 1994 it's a lot more primitive. It probably compares more to Doom, Quake, and others of that era.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I found out Steam had all of the classic Marathon games for free, so I downloaded them and have played a bit of the first one. You can kind of see the bones of Bungie's later and more famous Halo games, although being that Marathon came out in 1994 it's a lot more primitive. It probably compares more to Doom, Quake, and others of that era.

Thanks for the head’s up. Added them to the library.

They were ahead of the curve when they came out, but as you say, that curve was 30 years ago, so a bit dated.

Just completed a playthrough of Atomfall.

Not exactly the longest or most open world of games, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. A good mix of action, stealth and some puzzle elements.

Maybe not worth a AAA price, but I for one don’t feel cheated. Others may wish to wait for a sale, but I’d say it’s definitely worth playing.

Ok so a lot happened in the singleplayer japan run in hoi4. I took brazil and then just got bored and took the main british isle (basically everything but the 2 irelands). I capitulated the UK which took forever and then i got screwed in the peace conference due to war participation score.

Then i started a new run as historical uk and entered the war against germany before czechoslovakia was annexed and entered the war with france and czechs. It was a stalemate for a while and italians didn't join for a while so i decided to naval invade germany to avoid all the land forts. This proved to be a very good move and when germany also tried attacking poland we just curb-stomped germany without them doing much of anything really. However italy and other axis nations joined in and italy became faction leader before germany capitulated which i find weird. Italian east africa also took a bunch of my african territory when i wasn't looking (sneaky little jerks).

So far this game seems to be going hilariously well. In fact it's going so well if i take out italy soon enough i might just invade the soviet union if they don't declare on the allied faction. Also france never got close to falling in my game. Not even close. I think it's only 1941 as well.

At least Canada survived?

Picked up SimCity 4 for 5 bucks on Steam. Since my ancient computer won't run Cities Skylines, it's the next best thing to scratch the city-building itch.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
At least Canada survived?

If by saved you mean it was never invaded then yeah it wasn't invaded. However mexico wasn't either but got grabbed in the peace conference by me and i dunno who got canada (probably germany and/or italy). War participation and peace conferences work weirdly in hearts of iron 4. Anyway the game auto-ended in 1951 when i took out the main british isle of the UK. Canada and Mexico are just really hard to get to.

If you want a good example for how war participation is in hoi4 i have taken most of the enemy territory of germany by myself by naval invasion but since the other dudes were holding their lines they got significant war participation scores. I only have about 50% war participation despite all my efforts against germany. Germany capitulated but italy is still in there and all you really need to do is to capitulate the faction leader of what side you're fighting against. That said since italy was also fairly strong it took over as faction leader for axis so now i have to capitulate them and things should work out.

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@zergsmasher:

Same for me dude. Not that most games have excited me since 7 years ago or so but expedition 33 and space marine 2. I would buy Cities Skylines but i can't run it and the 2nd game seemed to get not great reviews much like everything on steam these days.

Finished the main story of Donkey Kong Bananza last night. Definitely one of the most all out finales Nintendo has done and surprisingly difficult given the game to that point really hadn't been. Excited to do the post game stuff now.

Mordheim: City of the Damned, a game that would have benefitted from a bit less symetry in the way factions work, and a couple more factions, otherwise, I am really enjoying myself.

 Bobthehero wrote:
Mordheim: City of the Damned, a game that would have benefitted from a bit less symetry in the way factions work, and a couple more factions, otherwise, I am really enjoying myself.

Its great, but such a grind at the end. I get the urge to play every now and then.

Its a shame their attempt at a Necromunda game fell flat.

 LunarSol wrote:
Finished the main story of Donkey Kong Bananza last night. Definitely one of the most all out finales Nintendo has done and surprisingly difficult given the game to that point really hadn't been. Excited to do the post game stuff now.

Bananza is the main game that has me somewhat interested in getting a Switch 2. I mean, I can't possibly afford one right now, but I'd love to play that game specifically, as before it came out we haven't had a proper 3D Donkey Kong game since DK64 (which is one of my all-time favorite Nintendo games).

 nels1031 wrote:

 Bobthehero wrote:
Mordheim: City of the Damned, a game that would have benefitted from a bit less symetry in the way factions work, and a couple more factions, otherwise, I am really enjoying myself.

Its great, but such a grind at the end. I get the urge to play every now and then.

Its a shame their attempt at a Necromunda game fell flat.

That, it is, on both accounts, I am slowly grinding my Mercs to be able to hire a Warrior Priest to finish the band properly, last time it got to that point, I reached the 2nd last mission, but it had a very frustrating mechanic of a respawning boss that could act right after ressurecting, that felt like a cheap shot, we'll see how that goes this time, with planning.

As for Necro, can't comment on it much, didn't try that one.

Back to HOIV, yeah, the new german tree is still nuts AF

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
At least Canada survived?

If by saved you mean it was never invaded then yeah it wasn't invaded. However mexico wasn't either but got grabbed in the peace conference by me and i dunno who got canada (probably germany and/or italy). War participation and peace conferences work weirdly in hearts of iron 4. Anyway the game auto-ended in 1951 when i took out the main british isle of the UK. Canada and Mexico are just really hard to get to.

If you want a good example for how war participation is in hoi4 i have taken most of the enemy territory of germany by myself by naval invasion but since the other dudes were holding their lines they got significant war participation scores. I only have about 50% war participation despite all my efforts against germany. Germany capitulated but italy is still in there and all you really need to do is to capitulate the faction leader of what side you're fighting against. That said since italy was also fairly strong it took over as faction leader for axis so now i have to capitulate them and things should work out.

Its too bad I can't figure that game out. Next challenge for you: take over the world as Canada!

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
At least Canada survived?

If by saved you mean it was never invaded then yeah it wasn't invaded. However mexico wasn't either but got grabbed in the peace conference by me and i dunno who got canada (probably germany and/or italy). War participation and peace conferences work weirdly in hearts of iron 4. Anyway the game auto-ended in 1951 when i took out the main british isle of the UK. Canada and Mexico are just really hard to get to.

If you want a good example for how war participation is in hoi4 i have taken most of the enemy territory of germany by myself by naval invasion but since the other dudes were holding their lines they got significant war participation scores. I only have about 50% war participation despite all my efforts against germany. Germany capitulated but italy is still in there and all you really need to do is to capitulate the faction leader of what side you're fighting against. That said since italy was also fairly strong it took over as faction leader for axis so now i have to capitulate them and things should work out.

Its too bad I can't figure that game out. Next challenge for you: take over the world as Canada!

So there is a fantasy element to the game after all.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
At least Canada survived?

If by saved you mean it was never invaded then yeah it wasn't invaded. However mexico wasn't either but got grabbed in the peace conference by me and i dunno who got canada (probably germany and/or italy). War participation and peace conferences work weirdly in hearts of iron 4. Anyway the game auto-ended in 1951 when i took out the main british isle of the UK. Canada and Mexico are just really hard to get to.

If you want a good example for how war participation is in hoi4 i have taken most of the enemy territory of germany by myself by naval invasion but since the other dudes were holding their lines they got significant war participation scores. I only have about 50% war participation despite all my efforts against germany. Germany capitulated but italy is still in there and all you really need to do is to capitulate the faction leader of what side you're fighting against. That said since italy was also fairly strong it took over as faction leader for axis so now i have to capitulate them and things should work out.

Its too bad I can't figure that game out. Next challenge for you: take over the world as Canada!

So there is a fantasy element to the game after all.

Well yeah, flamingkillamajig has taken over the world as everyone else already. It's our turn!

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
At least Canada survived?

If by saved you mean it was never invaded then yeah it wasn't invaded. However mexico wasn't either but got grabbed in the peace conference by me and i dunno who got canada (probably germany and/or italy). War participation and peace conferences work weirdly in hearts of iron 4. Anyway the game auto-ended in 1951 when i took out the main british isle of the UK. Canada and Mexico are just really hard to get to.

If you want a good example for how war participation is in hoi4 i have taken most of the enemy territory of germany by myself by naval invasion but since the other dudes were holding their lines they got significant war participation scores. I only have about 50% war participation despite all my efforts against germany. Germany capitulated but italy is still in there and all you really need to do is to capitulate the faction leader of what side you're fighting against. That said since italy was also fairly strong it took over as faction leader for axis so now i have to capitulate them and things should work out.

Its too bad I can't figure that game out. Next challenge for you: take over the world as Canada!

So there is a fantasy element to the game after all.

Well yeah, flamingkillamajig has taken over the world as everyone else already. It's our turn!

Ask Not Online instead of me. He's the pro and did the world is owned by brazil achievement. I don't think he'd try canada honestly. He doesn't do the impossible ;P. However i haven't seen him be true to his nation and do a Historical switzerland run (build those forts Not Online ;P!). I've only been doing japan and UK mostly and i find UK easier. Both are massive naval factions. On the subject of conquering switzerland i'd imagine paratroopers are the best choice. They have mountains and forts and all those negative modifiers from both but they'd never see a paradrop coming!

In my multiplayer Ahistorical game with a friend i did finally manage to get a naval invasion of germany and usa pursued interventionist policies to join Allies. I think it's 1941 now and we (me as democratic UK and him as democratic France) took out Germany, re-established Netherlands, re-established czechoslovakia, took a portion of Kingdom of Italy by land (which forced a civil war between them) and fought other axis powers. Also we're now fighting Shogunate Japan which somehow managed to take portions of Malaysia even though it should be locked down by sea. Ethiopia and others also joined Allies (like 30-35 nations and some of them are really powerful) and has been fighting italian africa. Aside from that Italy seems to be locked down in africa where Libya is in present day. The annoying thing is all of the Axis land we've taken in Europe or most of it is getting taken by my France ally (despite the efforts of me as the UK) which finally has more factories overall than me.

@Kamikaze Canuck:

Honestly canada is really hard to naval invade even as Japan. Honestly the best way to get to them at my point in the game would've been through Alaska meaning i'd have to fight the USA which is a bad idea when also fighting the UK. The pacific ocean is huge and has lots of little islands which is probably easiest to take through paratroopers even if most small islands probably go down to small naval invasions better. I can't tell you how frustrating the naval invasion of the UK was as Japan from the other side of the world while making sure i had significant presence to defend Japan and my holdings. I basically tried bleeding the UK out of oil but the best way to do that is to destroy their resource convoy ships. Of course that also takes naval supremacy near the UK to a degree which isn't easy because it's the FREAKING UK during ww2. The other way to prevent them getting oil is through canada and maybe USA but honestly that's really hard.

@Kamikaze Canuck 2:

Honestly most of what you need to learn that i've learned about Hearts of Iron 4 is that anywhere outside Europe, maybe Japan, the USA and possibly Canada is a supply desert so plan accordingly. I'd recommend not playing as japan or france first and maybe not even italy since they civil war by losing an inch of land somewhere in italy. Supply Desert areas it tends to be best to build railways to maybe tier 2 or at least tier 1, upgrading to high supply on supply hubs, upgrading to high supply on army motorization on armies. I guess this'll re-supply your armies faster. If you have the covert ops/spies dlc you gotta build intel networks in the countries you fight (different amounts of dlc works differently in the game significantly but buy on a Steam Sale because holy crap is it expensive for all of it). The main planes you need are Fighter planes to keep air operations going well and in supply deserts you want transport planes. If you fight in Supply Deserts which is most of the world you also probably are better off not using apc's or even transport truck armies since it costs a lot of trucks to keep your army supplied anyway so just focus on infantry weapons and artillery mostly for a lot of factories.

Also a huge, HUGE thing is you want to increase stability and get factory upgrades through research that increase factory production speed and even construction speed for building speed boosts. This helps give your dudes enough equipment in the field to build lots of armies rather than one or two every so often. This and a few infantry boosts are needed for most armies fighting in supply deserts. I'd also say where possible try to build towards the resources you have or try to take somewhere that has resources you need and build infrastructure on resources you need mostly or super low infrastructure areas you need to fight in.

God there's too much to talk about with Hearts of Iron 4. It'd take up a huge wall of text and i haven't even gotten into naval engagements which you need to know as UK and Japan and maybe Italy. All of that is just what i've learned and may not be fully accurate but gives you a basis to understand the game. I don't think i've ever gotten info outside of some friends on the internet slightly and my own fumbling around. I have maybe 450 hours or so in the game and most of it is as UK or more frequently Japan but slightly as France (uk ai partner doesn't really help france out in land fighting and early on outside of naval invasions i don't think there's many good ways to get beyond the forts separating germany and France. I think super heavy tanks are mid-to mid late game units and those go through forts easier. That and maybe strategic or tactical bombers could do it.

Flaming, canada is easy, because you have a bigger army than the USA. Curbstomp the US, turn it into puppet, use puppet manpower and stolen industry, play worse focus tree USA.

All you need is a plan for the early war against the US. Personally the only hint i give you is justifying against the philipines.