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Total War has deteriorated to such an absurd fucking degree they make good ideas shitty in practice every new game. i entered the TW fanbase quite late (2016) but despite that i find myself playing mostly older games, shogun 2, Attila and occasionally Napoleon. i LOVE the ideas Troy put foward having more resources has always been an obvious expansion for TW, being able to switch between fantasy and historical is also a very good idea considering the many mythical creatures they could've/havd added. and yet despite all of this Troy is fucking shit because the core fundamentals of TW have degraded to such an extent it's just a worse game. Morale is utterly useless and broken, units can survive until they have 5 men in them, literally what's the point of tactics? why flank? battles are now only decided on who has the better men. Shogun 2 and Napoleon have by far the best morale system, despite Attila using the Rome 2 system i still find it quite good (at least for the early game). shit even fantasy TW should be awesome and instead all units feel the exact same, how do you even do that? you have limitless opportunies yet 90 percent of the roaster serves the same function. i have lost all hopes on those faggots.

Switch 2 Direct just dropped!!!

Your thoughts?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?

It’s the 42nd millennium in the newest edition, the tyrannic wars have mostly ended, the wars for Armageddon still loom on with the orks weakening each day, the necrons, tau, and eldar are showing signs of instability, and the imperium is looking towards entering another “age of apostasy” situation even with the galaxy being torn in half. If the age of strife never happened, the imperium in its current state would be as strong if not stronger than the ICOG from xeelee. But how strong is the imperium right now?

They’re pretty fucking OP that’s for sure.

Unlike the low effort bait spewed out on community threads, the imperium has only been expanding rapidly since the Horus heresy. The guard and the astartes got reorganized into legions and chapters to maintain cohesion and improve their stability. The sisters of battle exists as a check to keep the administratum and inquisition from irresponsible decision making and as a stand-alone fighting force. Recovered STCs have brought the return of primaris and centurion space marine power armour. Guilliman, Vulkan, and rogal dorn are back. Several space marines were discovered during exploration trips or were added to the chapters. Some improvements (and I mean some) to imperial leadership have been seen to make the empire less comically fascist and incompetent under guilliman. Finally, the sheer number of humans in the galaxy has rapidly grown thanks to fertility rates and the introduction of vitae wombs on planets like Vraks—seriously, those planets can produce fifty million soldiers a year; imagine how many people in general they pump out. To top of everything else, all imperial worlds have been fortifying for ages now while the imperium has been passively expanding its reach into new worlds since the great crusade started. Just look at the story of tertium as an example of how fucking huge the empire really is.
Unless GW can pull an extremely sound excuse to give some random heretic or alien uniquely strong plot armour, this franchise isn’t going to end the way Fantasy did but with the galaxy cleansed of any nonhuman and robotic life in a few centuries to millennia. The only things going on so far are the returns of angron, Magnus, and mortarion.
Thoughts? Personally, I want to see how this board game ends. Would be nice to finally justify not painting anymore models.

God damn we should have gotten a biomega like art style for cyberpunk man. The art style in 2077 is so fucking bland compared to the dark grey, purple like, edgy shit pumped out in this fucking hard as fuck comic.

Everything in cyberpunk looks too much like it’s trying to hard to appear punk as shit. Nothing in that game radiates the same fucking force felt just by staring at DRF goons.

>teens forced into world where they have to kill each other for freedom
>problems resolved by "voting like their lives depended on it.
>once the characters awaken from their false consciousness and see the world for what it is, they literally solve the finally problem with abstentionism

was it actually 'based?'

Is there any good space ship or space battle game? I've been reading SF lately and want to know if there is any game where you control a spaceship or a fleet into battle, or just travel through space.

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, fallout 3 has a built in mechanic called super slam and stay back. These mechanics are actually perks. What makes them unique is that they cause enemies to get knocked out if you shoot them with a weapon that deals enough damage to them. You can also do this in souls games, but the mechanic isn’t as developed or important.

I wish more devs would just implement a knock back and bleed feature. Killing people by loading them with endless bullets is so boring. Like cmon, how many times do I have to break some motherfuckers skull before they go out cold. It’s 2025. Basic hit reactions shouldn’t be rare and knockdown should be standard in single player game.

So apparently there's an "arcade" in Cuba which is really just 10 gaming PCs in some guy's apartment where people gather to play.
https://www.arcadecuba.com/
Actually I'd hang out there, looks comfy, it even has those brothel lights

Any idea if this is common on the island?

Everything is so bulky and over the top like 40k, but it’s so edgy that I can’t take anything I see seriously. Given the subject matter, you would expect the artists to show a little respect with how they represent Christian and Muslim history and art. They don’t. The designs feels like what a world of Warcraft player would make if they were asked to make a game about Christianity.

The models lack the elegance (simplicity and beauty) that the dune films had with their models. Unlike dune, trench crusade feels “dirty” and immature. Trench crusade feels like it was made for people that don’t shower and think they’re smart.

What do you think Karl Marx would have to say about raid farms in Minecraft?

Context: In the 1.14 update, villages as a mechanic were overhauled. allong with the addition of tie in content for their new spin off game, Minecraft Dungeons: Pillagers, a halflife combine-like presence of fast moving grey villagers with crossbows, axes and familiar summoning, and witches but they were already in the game but they serve as healers during raids.
At random intervals, pillager patrols spawn near and attempt to kill players, and if the player kills a crossbowman wearing a flag, they recieve a Bad Omen effect (curable with milk, as of 1.21 it's a potion for ease of stacking for the later implemented trial chambers) that triggers a raid when a player comes close to a village, where pillagers attempt to massecre the player along with the villagers, forcing the player to fight waves. When the last wave is cleared the Bad Omen is replaced with Hero Of The Village, granting the player gifts from the villagers.
By keeping villagers in a hard to reach spot, raids can be repeatedly triggered, pillagers can be dropped in a kill chamber, and the player can farm these gifts, as well as drops exclusive to the pillagers. Thus: raid farm.