So.... Them Paradox games...

ancapailldorcha

MOH wrote: »

Cheers, thanks, must check that out. It's the one thing that's always put me off playing

My pleasure. He seems nice without being edgy. His campaign was only started last year so his build should be reasonably updated but I don't think he has all the DLC.

Why did I have to buy the DLC...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbrlO8vuZS0

Colonel Claptrap

The DLC policy is certainly controversial.
I'm a massive fan of Paradox so get a lot out of each DLC (which I only ever buy when on sale). But I can understand why an average player would get lost or pissed off at the large number of DLC.

I haven't touched Imperator. Sounds like it needs a lot of work.

ancapailldorcha

The DLCs for CK2 and EU4 are nearly £500 between them. I got them on sale and spend feck all on games so it's not the end of the world but it seems excessive.

pixelburp

500 pounds? That's ... insane. Though I'll see your £500 and raise you ...

... ... €7,340 to download all the DLC for Train Simulator.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator_2019/

ancapailldorcha

pixelburp wrote: »

500 pounds? That's ... insane. Though I'll see your £500 and raise you ...

... ... €7,340 to download all the DLC for Train Simulator.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator_2019/

£250. They were on sale.

Did you buy all that?

pixelburp

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

£250. They were on sale.

Did you buy all that?

Naw just knew Train Simulator by repute for its insane DLC totals. Makes me yearn for the innocent days of expansion packs

The Specialist

Just to chip in on my stellaris adventures on PS4 - found out its miles behind the PC updates at the moment (this is 1.x while PC is around 2.2). That wouldn’t be so bad if 2.0 didn’t overhaul loads of the systems to make them more user friendly such as planet management (no longer done through the wreck head tile system since 2.0!). Think I’m just going to have to park it for now and see what further updates appear, I just can’t get my head around all the layers needed to even get up and running

Shame as I loved games like Total War when I had a PC and would have lost whole nights on them. This just isn’t in the same ballpark at the moment.

EoinHef

I gave up on stellaris for many reasons,the ridiculous amount of confusing DLC packs was one.

The second was after playing it for awhile and getting the hang of it i realised that once you get past the intial phase of a game the middle is just a slog and boring. You spend ages doing things like getting fleet power up to a level to just match your neighbours,nevermind gain an advantage.

Diplomacy is just a bit silly. Just constantly spending resources to keep enemy states from the door which in turn hinders your progress to build your own empire to match that enemy.

Meh,got bored after about 15-20hrs.

Shiminay

I think I'm one of the very few people who prefers Civ VI to V, especially now with the latest DLC.

The problem I have with a lot of the Paradox games is that when they release a new DLC, they fundamentally reconfigure a big chunk of interface or mechanics and tbh, I don't have time to relearn how it works cause it tends to be several months in between games for me.

s7ryf3925pivug

I remember slowly expanding across the globe in Europa universalis 3 or 4 as Spain. The globe is pretty big and it aspent a long time until I deleted it. But it was interesting in a stir up interest in history way before it got silly.

ancapailldorcha

Somehow managed to get claims on Monaghan and Cavan/Louth and took both. Think I'm finally starting to learn this though I did fail to imprison a schemer so I'll likely still lose the game.

Maguined

Love Paradox games and Stellaris in particular. I find it very hard to enjoy other strategy games like Total War after getting the hang of Paradox games. Sure the learning curve is so steep but the reward is well worth the effort and the narratives each game naturally creates is more entertaining to me than the predictable and staged narratives of TW.

I especially like the setup for multiplayer, the real time aspect that you can speed up or pause is infinitely better than a turn based system for multiplayer.

ancapailldorcha

I'm actually starting to have a little fun with CK2. I managed to create the Duchy of Ulster for myself last weekend. However, Norway has Antrim. Even have myself a vassal now as well after figuring out how to do that. Now, I've about a third of Ireland and am facing down another chap who has a sizeable amount of Ireland as well.

pixelburp

I just searched for a random Let's Play of CK2, just to remind myself if I wanted to give it a go; you know, maybe I was a little harsh on it and now that I'm older, wiser I might have more patienc... OH GOD I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.

ancapailldorcha

pixelburp wrote: »

I just searched for a random Let's Play of CK2, just to remind myself if I wanted to give it a go; you know, maybe I was a little harsh on it and now that I'm older, wiser I might have more patienc... OH GOD I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.

I'd to watch a fair few hours on Youtube before I was confident enough to risk the tutorial. The tutorial is completely worthless. Shocking how it can be so bad.

J Mysterio

I've actually watched two of the MATN videos series and they are very good. Informative and entertaining.
It also reminded me that I played this a little more than I thought.

I'm looking forward to finding sometime to give this another good play through.

pixelburp

Actually, I see there are lots of situational mods for CK2 - Game of Thrones etc. - are there any UI mods out there? Civ5 had a few, cos its own interface is a little cluttered in places so there are mods to tidy it up, so wondering if CK2 has any...

ancapailldorcha

LegendofTotalWar has a few shorter, single episode challenges which might be more useful than short campaigns. He doesn't explain all that much though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcAyJkKrPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIiAMT9LxVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGG0JS9aUb4

I tried to play Hearts of Iron 4. No clue what to do. No indication from the game what to do.

ancapailldorcha

Deleted User wrote: »

I tried to play Hearts of Iron 4. No clue what to do. No indication from the game what to do.

Try Quill18's tutorial videos. They're recent so they cover the latest expansion, Man the Guns.

ancapailldorcha

Here's a good CK2 guide I found. It does require some base knowledge of the game's mechanics though:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1455487649

pixelburp

I just watched a random Hearts of Iron IV video where a fascist Ireland annexed the UK, via an invasion of Republican Spain during its Civil War. There are about 100 things wrong with that entire scenario yet watching it was just hilarious.

Polar101

Deleted User wrote: »

I tried to play Hearts of Iron 4. No clue what to do. No indication from the game what to do.

Generally Italy has been a good "tutorial" nation in the HoI series as they aren't "in charge" and are big enough that you can actually do something at least.

Basically there's two phases, building up your nation for war (production, research) and then the actual war part. Unfortunately in the latest patches they started making the focus trees and political decisions very complicated, so it is getting more difficult to figure out where to go. That's always the problem with Paradox games, they just add more buttons.

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Big fan of the EU series myself, played them since EU2. Got over 1000 hours played in EU4, but now I think I'm finally done with the game. HoI4 (300+ hours) and Stellaris (150 hours) are alright, but never really got into CK2 (under 20 hours).

ancapailldorcha

Em... So... I've taken a good bit of Ireland. I've created the duchies of Ulster and Connacht. However, since it took me ages to start the feckin' Brits have only swept up everything else. I don't know if it is worth restarting as their King outnumbers me significantly. Any advice on dealing with a larger power? I've gotten his opinion of me to a very high level at least.

Zillah

EoinHef wrote: »

I gave up on stellaris for many reasons

Yeah I quit after an unbearably tedious war. I suddenly realised I was just playing CK2 in space when I had fleets roaming around the enemy territory looking for any significant military force to crush just to get the war score high enough to enforce my demands. Like, I've occupied all of their colonies, including their homeworld, but the warscore is still sitting at 99%, and when it's all over I just give them most of their territory back and only keep a couple of border colonies I had claims on. It's just exhausting and no fun.

ancapailldorcha

By the way, Crusader Kings 2 is now on sale in a Humble Bundle for less than a pound. You`re looking at a tenner with all the DLC. Disgusted given I only bought it in a recent Paradox Steam sale.

tusk

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

By the way, Crusader Kings 2 is now on sale in a Humble Bundle for less than a pound. You`re looking at a tenner with all the DLC. Disgusted given I only bought it in a recent Paradox Steam sale.

i got it for free a few months ago. just sayin :P

ancapailldorcha

tusk wrote: »

i got it for free a few months ago. just sayin :P

Only the base game was free, not the DLC.

Colonel Claptrap

Starting up a new game. Nuno the Duke of Portucale in 1066.

I'm aiming to rebel against my liege, form the kingdom of Portugal, take over Galicia, Leon and Andulicia, then finally place members of my dynasty on each of those thrones.

This was one of the 'Game of the week' challenges.

I finally have all of the DLC thanks to humble.

Whack1983

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

By the way, Crusader Kings 2 is now on sale in a Humble Bundle for less than a pound. You`re looking at a tenner with all the DLC. Disgusted given I only bought it in a recent Paradox Steam sale.

Thanks for the heads up, just bought the bundle. Can you continue games you started before activating the new dlc?