Quoting: foobrew

Quoting: ShabbyXBlizzard is dead to me

Agreed. The purchase by M$ was the nail in the coffin for me. I'll continue to play D1-3 but I'm no longer interested in anything beyond that from them.

Personally I disagree. M$ has bad CV for what concerns platform lock ins, PC tech stagnation, bad software usability and whatever more. But it's not a bad game developer by any means. Their historical IPs continue to produce very good off the shelf games without microtransactions, loot boxes or other mind fucking tricks.

This Diablo is pure Activision. Based on M$ history the future looks brighter for Blizzard IPs now than in the Kotik era. Diablo 3 was as bas as this one when it was released. The drops were so bas that there was no way to progress without spending money in the AH. That's just them trying yet again to force microtransactions in the game. I guess Activision love for microtransactions is more unkillable than Diablo. :grin:

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Awesome! I just need the 100k to finish the game now.

Jokes aside, I admire Blizzard problem solving skills:

- Develop Diablo III masterpiece
- Boardroom crooks push to ruin it with bad drop rates and real money action house
- get backlash from angry PC gamers
- Blizzard forced to release a dlc with no ah and balanced drops.
- game becomes a (true) masterpiece
- Boardroom finally learnt its lesson: for next Diablo they drop pc gamers altogether and move to mobile junkies to sell their addictive microtransaction shit.

If it wasn't that we still don't have a proper Diablo IV I would actually be grateful to them for not trying to sell us their crap again.

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Good DLC for what concerns the foreign policy. A vassal rework was sorely needed. I see also some adjustments in the movement that should help a little with warfare, namely the space highways. These should make less painful to repel incursions later in the game.

Althogh I believe that overall a lot of the content of this DLC will be dead on arrival until they rework movement.

When I read "reinforce your borders by employing powerful fortress vassals and all sort of static defense bonuses" and "avoid any enemy static defense with the new teleport anywhere (like enemy capital) wonder" and in the very same patch notes... I'm more and more conviced that whoever is charge is more concerned in bloating the DLCs with all sort of catchy but useless stuff rather than actually put toghether a sound game design. But hei! Maybe next week there will be some surprise patch note and everything will make sense for once.

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I'm still confused if this is an A fish that has gone to waste or a real thing. Perhaps we've been all trapped in a dream world made up by Lechuck?

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Quoting: peta77450W?!!?!?!?! so we just need losts of 3090Ti in germany and we'd be independent of putins gas in no time! :tongue:

Wut? I thought you guys opted to use lignite for electricity. Putin gas is just for home heating. If anything those cards will actually help you by keeping houses warm during winter without the need of gas. :grin:

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Quoting: rcrit450W GPU aka "watch your lights dim while processing large data sets"

But it's electric power, so it's green and human rights respectful. It would be a different story if this were a gas powered GPU. :tongue:

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Do we have a benchmark? How faster does this one mine compared to the old model? :huh:

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Quoting: denyasisSo question. Does this mean the game is less big free than Stellaris or CKII? Follow-up. You guys mentioned multiplayer. How is it for solo play? This is very tempting if I can play it alone while ignoring my friends and family, lol.

Now the game it's ok.

Like many other Pdx games, and definitely more than the most recent ones, the game has a quite steep curve of learning. Especially if you start with all the DLCs as you would with this pack here. There is an outrageous amount of buttons and modifiers now in the game. Youtube is your friend but be prepared to lose badly a lot in your first plays (I did lose a lot at least).

For single player, if you set to unlock achievements, it ranges from relaxing to frustrating depending on what you want to do (and the patch you try to do it I'd say). Given the ridiculous amount of tags and achievements you easily have thousands of hours of play.

A defect in solo, in my opinion, is that the game falls off a lot in the late game. To explain better, the game changes rules over time to reflect the different eras, and while in the early game you can get an endless amount of troubles just by conquering the wrong province at the wrong time, in the second half of the game once you are an experienced player you methodically start to blob out without control and end to conquer the world or close. That ofc is different in multiplayer but with AIs it's that. The game tends to be more "fun" in the early years. But again, since there are so many tags and achievements, it's still plenty of fun. It's absolutely normal not to play a game until 1821.

Quoting: PikoloNever played EUIV. Is it playable on small screens? I've found CKII unplayable due to tiny interface elements, even with interface scaling set to 150%, on a 1080p 13.3' screen

I dunno small screeens. I have issues with big ones (i.e. couch playing on TV). Reading the numbers is hard at couch distance and while the interface scaling fixes the readability it doesn't behave well at 1080p resolutions since the game windows become to large to fit the screen.

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Quoting: MisterPaytwick13'3 may be kind of small still. EUIV is fine, but the bundle is needed to get into it now. Classic Paradox.

Tho, I'd like to kind of modulate your words here, Liam:

Paradox has a good history of Linux support too, with this being available as a native Linux port.

Sometimes. For at least 4 years (from the top of my head, I could dig into my message over the Paradox forums and all to be more accurate), EUIV was broken for any cross-play multi for Linux users (they'd desync less than a minute into the game, as the underlaying clock system was broken for that much time)

Paradox support was "meh" to put it mildly here. They do try to support Linux well, and overall it is good. But here? EUIV was broken, yet HoI4 and Stellaris were patched for that very bug at most a year after it first appeared.

Yeah. Multiplayer sucked. But on the bright side on windows EU4 took 5 minutes to load while we were on the map in 5 seconds (and the game has to restart whenever a save is loaded, so it was not just a once per game issue). So on solo play we on Linux used to have the upperhand for a long time.

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Quoting: foobrewSo buying the soundtrack separately automatically gives you access to all future expansion soundtracks too? If so, that's pretty sweet. I have the "Original Game Soundtrack" which came with a bundle but not sure if it includes any future ones since I've yet to buy any expansions...the vanilla game still overwhelming enough and I have about 100 hours into it already.

I dunno how humble bundle manages goodies. But on Steam ofc the service is top of the class. Check this link [External Link]. Perhaps you actually bought the steam dlc with the bundle and in that case you already have everything in your game folder. :wink:

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Actually I just remembered that some time ago I had some issues with this feature since at game release the files were located in the game folder... and they are still there, but only the vanilla ones which ofc may give the wrong idea that that's it (Pdx should remove those files from the game folder). So to make it short: find all your mp3s by using the steam client with library -> soundtracks -> stellaris > "browse local files".

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