Hello everyone. I hope everything has been going okay. This week I continued my Western Roman Empire campaign in Total War Attila. The Huns have been defeated, the interior of the empire is secure, and all that remains is uniting the eastern half of the empire. Easier said than done
I have made the mistake of buying Stellaris in the current GOG sale and now I’m completely addicted
I bought the Starter Edition that comes with Utopia and Synthetic Dawn, but I’m not giving more money to Paradox both because I don’t have it and because their business model is just shit, I’m not paying a gajillion bucks for your DLCs bro, just incorporate a bunch of them into the main game ffs, so I
them yesterday lol. I have also pirated the whole of Victoria 3 but I’m not touching that right now that’s for sure.I started my first run/match/playthrough, whatever you call it on this game, before doing that and it’s been super fun. I don’t know what I’m doing tho, lol. I decided to use the premade United Nations of Earth empire to start and I only have Utopia and Synthetic Dawn enabled since that’s what I started this one with. I left everything default when choosing the difficulty and modifiers, and currently I’m the 3rd biggest empire in the galaxy, but the two above me are Fallen Empires that are much more powerful.
Detailed description of my run if you're interested
I’m like ~165 years into the run and I managed to be peaceful so far, to the point where I only really battled once against some pirates lol. The last 2 days I have been mostly trying to fix my economy since my Energy and Minerals fluctuates from surplus to deficit every month and I clearly need more Unity production since stuff is getting expensive really fast.
Other than that I have a federation with some peaceful religious zealots and some guys that were hostile to me until recently. I also have 2 vassals that I give almost total freedom to just do whatever they want, I didn’t ask them to become vassals, they just asked me a long time ago when my military power became greater then theirs. One of them is to the south of my empire and they are a cool reptile, kinda dragon-like creatures, the other is a frog looking creature to the north that were enslaved by the hostile avian overlords and that liberated themselves.
One issue I have since the start is that I spawned sandwiched between the hostile avians on the north, the religious dudes in the south and a fallen empire to the east, so my empire is rather small. Also the Earth is literally at the border with the avians.
If someone have good videos for beginners please send me, that would help a lot. I have mostly been relying on googling and using Kimi for help, but the AI is inevitably gonna hallucinate even if it has been helpful so far.
I thought this was a pretty good guide since its mostly true regardless of the version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjRmKwikk4w&t=1s I assume you are playing the game on version 4.3
If you have any questions feel free to ask. Im not the greatest stellaris player but I have over 700h in Stellaris and have been playing the game since its release in 2016.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Yeah I’m on v4.3, I actually started that video yesterday but it was super late so I fell asleep lol, but I’ll watch it now, thanks, if you have any other resources I’d appreciate it.
I actually have a question. There’s 2 systems I have that are blinking orange but I can’t research them, when I zoom in it says it’s two infertile planets (don’t know if that is how it’s called in English, I’m playing in Portuguese), and there isn’t anything about it in the F1 menu, what can I do which these?
You dont mean dead or tomb worlds right ? Cause you cant settle those. Its possible to terraform some planet types later and make them habitable if you have the tech for it. But the game usally tells you about those. (At least last time when I played which has been a while)
Just checked by launching the game in english, it’s a Barren world. The game has told me about terraforming because I think there’s a few worlds I can do that, but at least these ones I can’t and there isn’t anything else telling me what to do with them for now.
Oh yeah I vaguley remember you cant do much or use barren worlds.
Playing Diablo 2 still, moved onto nightmare with my hammerdin. I might pick Ragnarok Online back up later this week.
Oh you doing a full solo run?
Yeah I have a pirated copy so I’m on single player. But I’ve read that battle.net is all bots now anyways.
Finally have every item I need to master in Warframe, now I’ll probably grind out the event through nightmare missions. After that, a combination of Perita to get the three Taurons I’m missing, grinding out a couple duplicates for Helminth (Nidus, Protea, Khora, Ivara, all the really annoying ones basically), and finishing Descendia enough times to finish Roathe’s story. Will probably continue to do ETA/EDA now that I’m used to it as well.
Been playing too much Marathon and damn, I’m gonna be pretty sad if it shuts down anytime soon. Haven’t gotten super into a competitive game in years but this one just clicked. Mostly been playing trios with strangers and the average person is… pretty normal? Only had a couple toxic people and way more that were friendly/helpful.
Also back on Kerbal Space Program after Artemis II got it in my head. Despite playing the game quite a bit I’ve rarely gone further than Kerbin’s moons, want to try sticking with it longer.
Dug out my old gen 1 Meta (ew) Quest that I haven’t used since they functionally turned it into a paperweight (~2021?). Between Oculess (to disable meta bloatware), NetGuard (to firewall the rest of the shit), WiVRn (wireless PCVR on linux) and wayVR (overlay), it’s surprisingly viable as a headset for VR games on Steam via Proton. Was a lot easier to set up than I expected too, hardest part was running the cat6 from my PC to the router to deal with the lag spikes. Been getting back into Pistol Whip and Synth Riders. It’s a surprisingly enjoyable workout, especially for a nerd like me who doesn’t like team sports and thinks gyms are mostly a scam.
Im painting and reading. Will probably return to gaming with the upcoming Vicky 3 Navy expansion.
Thanks for making these threads
what’re you painting? :o
NSFW Art
Back to Valheim again. 'bout to feed Moder several hundred obsidian arrows.
Dwarf Fortress all day every day.
The stardew has continued, as has slay the spire 2.
I’ve been playing a bunch of arcade and early console classics too see how they work for my own game collection I’m making. Started with pong, asteroids, and galaga, and today I’m playing yar’s revenge, combat (tank mode and biplane mode), tempest, space wars, sea wolf, Kaboom!..
I got recommended a game called “firing range” by an ai but it didn’t say what console or year it came out and that name is so generic I haven’t been able to figure out if it’s real lmao.
Metro Exodus.
Game’s a buggy mess that frequently crashes, but (so far) lacks the persistent stench of centrism that previous entries had. Got to a sneaky bit that can’t be solved with my patented “run around and punch everyone” technique, so a change of tactics is required.
I got dark souls 1 running on the android handheld via switch emulation. That’s unfortunately sucked me in I just made it to anor londo. I had to jimmy the settings to get it to run consistently but I’m pretty sure it runs better than it did on the switch.
Still doin’ TOTK, I guess. It’s going to be a long time before I beat it. I’m using a spoiler-free guide from GameFAQs that mostly just gives you a list of basic tasks (Korok seed, Quest start, shrine, etc.) with coordinates and little maps, though I printed out a map that has a coordinates grid superimposed on it and I find that combo really helps make it feel less like busy work and I’m still actively engaged with the game, looking around the world, etc. Not just blasting through it, mostly. But it’s like 40 hours in and I’ve done maybe 1/5 of the game so far. I’m pretty sure I beat BOTW at a faster pace and I didn’t even use a guide for that one (although I didn’t do all the korok seeds in that).
I’ve started watching Patlabor so I want to play a game with mechs soon, but I can’t decide since there are so many. I know there’s a translated Patlabor game on Genesis, but it seems to be an adventure game and not a very good one at that. Considering Ring Of Red on PS2 or maybe starting the Front Mission series or something.
I’m playing Aethus, it’s a single player isometric survival crafter with a story made by a single dev as a passion project (I think). It’s been pretty fun, scifi setting with megacorp dystopia backdrop though this doesn’t give downer vibes since you’re screwing off exploring a prospecting claim your grandfather told you about on some undeveloped world.
I downloaded Monster Hunter World again. I tried it a couple years ago and bounced off of it immediately. It was just super clunky and had way too many walls of text in the tutorial which i naturally skipped. Obviously i didn’t know how anything worked because i skipped the tutorials.
I uninstalled it again, but came back to it a few months later. Same result. I did this a couple more times until now.
Now, I have been playing it for 40hrs and it is pretty fun. I don’t know what changed within me though. I still skipped all tutorials, but figured out how the game mechanics work by myself and i switched to a different weapon than the previous times (switch axe over the bow gun).
One more important thing is that i am cheating lol. I have an overlay that tells me the health of the monster and it’s status effects. It also shows the monster through the walls, but that doesn’t matter as much because you already have a quest marker of the monster when you track it. The overlay is pretty helpful in figuring out if i am doing enough damage or if i need to upgrade my weapon though.
After this i might go back to expedition 33 because there are new updates or the final fantasy 7 remake since i haven’t played any FF games yet.
