What Are You Playing Right Now? (Gaming Thread)

[Ares]

@Scoot26 I finished my HOI4 game with the new expansion.

Idk how they can fix it, but I found the Spying component of the game to be an annoying chore I had to deal with instead of managing my armies, fleets, and air groups.

Side question, do you play it beyond the end of the main war?

I find towards the end you run out of shit to research.... building new ships or tanks or anything is kinda pointless because you'll never finish it before the war ends.

I wouldn't mind a game that pivots to post WW2 National Focus trees and has an entire new section of research and such, so you could continue playing into an alt-history future.

 

[Scoot26]

@Scoot26 I finished my HOI4 game with the new expansion.

Idk how they can fix it, but I found the Spying component of the game to be an annoying chore I had to deal with instead of managing my armies, fleets, and air groups.

Side question, do you play it beyond the end of the main war?

I find towards the end you run out of shit to research.... building new ships or tanks or anything is kinda pointless because you'll never finish it before the war ends.

I wouldn't mind a game that pivots to post WW2 National Focus trees and has an entire new section of research and such, so you could continue playing into an alt-history future.

There are mods that do what you want. I usually quit in 1946 or so due to the game becoming bogged down. I don't have the CPU capacity the game requires later on as the CPU just keeps creating more and more units.

Sometimes I've had games where I've managed to pretty much take Europe, North America, and defeat Japan by capitulation and then I'm generally done. Rarely do I go into S. America or deep into Africa. North Africa is usually the only place I go.

 

[Ares]

There are mods that do what you want. I usually quit in 1946 or so due to the game becoming bogged down. I don't have the CPU capacity the game requires later on as the CPU just keeps creating more and more units.

Sometimes I've had games where I've managed to pretty much take Europe, North America, and defeat Japan by capitulation and then I'm generally done. Rarely do I go into S. America or deep into Africa. North Africa is usually the only place I go.

Oh damn I forgot about that.... even my machine running an i9 CPU with 12 cores and a GTX 2080 GPU starts to choke late in the game.

I was thinking post-war all the armies go home like IRL, but I imagine the game Soviet Union would just be like "We have 800 divisions, why not 1600?"

 

[Ares]

@Scoot26 they are both so fucked....

 

[Scoot26]

@Scoot26 they are both so fucked....

Down with the traitors!

 

[Ares]

Down with the traitors!

Is it bad I always go after the Commies first because they took Chicago from me?

 

[Scoot26]

Is it bad I always go after the Commies first because they took Chicago from me?

lol.. I suppose not. I always would keep the commies at bay while destroying the Confederacy first. Though it took me 3 or 4 times to get that strategy down.. Usually my eastern front would utterly collapse early, then I'd only have the west.

I actually never won as the US if I had to face 3 fronts with the PSA joining the war, I'd get utterly crushed. Are the PSA even a thing anymore?

 

[Ares]

lol.. I suppose not. I always would keep the commies at bay while destroying the Confederacy first. Though it took me 3 or 4 times to get that strategy down.. Usually my eastern front would utterly collapse early, then I'd only have the west.

I actually never won as the US if I had to face 3 fronts with the PSA joining the war, I'd get utterly crushed. Are the PSA even a thing anymore?

The PSA is still in the game, I believe, but they didn't split in this game.

I find the best strategy is to just establish defensive front lines, build fortifications, especially in that corridor that holds East/West open around St. Louis, and then spend the first year or so forcing the SPA and AFP to waste men and material storming the proverbial breach.

You get way behind on equipment, but even Divisions at 50-60% can hold these fortified positions.

Eventually they will expend so much on both sides in men and infantry equipment they will dry out their reserves and halt their offensives once they are around 40-50% strength on their units.

The whole time you just keep calling up militia and producing as much infantry/support/artillery as you can, trying to get to where your Divisions have 80%+ strength.

And if you're me.... once they finally halt their big offensives, build more fortifications for all but one army, then shift your most experienced/strongest Divisions to that one army... for me the 1st Army over by Ohio/WV.... then setup an offensive that you trigger once all the repositioning is done and fortifications are protecting those weaker defensive armies.

I'm in the middle of that push.... WV is mine and most of OH.

At the same time, assuming enough fuel, you blockade the **** outta the East Coast/Florida Coast/Gulf and really choke their ability to re-supply their divisions.

Even the odds for your mostly-militia armies, and then let them go on offense as well.

I am quite.... methodical.

 

[Scoot26]

The PSA is still in the game, I believe, but they didn't split in this game.

I find the best strategy is to just establish defensive front lines, build fortifications, especially in that corridor that holds East/West open around St. Louis, and then spend the first year or so forcing the SPA and AFP to waste men and material storming the proverbial breach.

You get way behind on equipment, but even Divisions at 50-60% can hold these fortified positions.

Eventually they will expend so much on both sides in men and infantry equipment they will dry out their reserves and halt their offensives once they are around 40-50% strength on their units.

The whole time you just keep calling up militia and producing as much infantry/support/artillery as you can, trying to get to where your Divisions have 80%+ strength.

And if you're me.... once they finally halt their big offensives, build more fortifications for all but one army, then shift your most experienced/strongest Divisions to that one army... for me the 1st Army over by Ohio/WV.... then setup an offensive that you trigger once all the repositioning is done and fortifications are protecting those weaker defensive armies.

I'm in the middle of that push.... WV is mine and most of OH.

At the same time, assuming enough fuel, you blockade the **** outta the East Coast/Florida Coast/Gulf and really choke their ability to re-supply their divisions.

Even the odds for your mostly-militia armies, and then let them go on offense as well.

I am quite.... methodical.

I always have had to push from the west first. Usually I grab Texas for the oil. Then I generally try to Sherman March (sometimes works out better than others) across the south to the Atlantic. I've been able to hold the line through Kentucky, VA, Maryland and such.. but never started an offensive other than to take NYC. Once I eliminate the AUS, I take out the Commies, which is usually easy by this point.

 

[Ares]

I always have had to push from the west first. Usually I grab Texas for the oil. Then I generally try to Sherman March (sometimes works out better than others) across the south to the Atlantic. I've been able to hold the line through Kentucky, VA, Maryland and such.. but never started an offensive other than to take NYC. Once I eliminate the AUS, I take out the Commies, which is usually easy by this point.

I save the AFP for later, I don't need their fucking oil.

Once I have the SPA done, I will build bombers and teach the AFP a lesson.

Total destruction, complete obliteration.... let all my armies build up to 100% and move their templates to normal army divisions and even some armored divisions.

Then when they are as fucked as they can possibly be, I send 4 armies to **** them all over again.

 

[Scoot26]

I save the AFP for later, I don't need their fucking oil.

Once I have the SPA done, I will build bombers and teach the AFP a lesson.

Total destruction, complete obliteration.... let all my armies build up to 100% and move their templates to normal army divisions and even some armored divisions.

Then when they are as fucked as they can possibly be, I send 4 armies to **** them all over again.

Guess I just hate the wanna be fascists more than the communists.

I forget, are the communist totalists or one of the other 6 branches of syndicalists?

 

[Ares]

Guess I just hate the wanna be fascists more than the communists.

I forget, are the communist totalists or one of the other 6 branches of syndicalists?

THEY ARE REBEL SCUM AND I WILL TREAT THEM AS SUCH.


But idk offhand which branch of commie they are... I imagine it shifts on each playthru

 

[Scoot26]

THEY ARE REBEL SCUM AND I WILL TREAT THEM AS SUCH.


But idk offhand which branch of commie they are... I imagine it shifts on each playthru

I looked it up... Orthodox Syndicalism
-Syndicalist states are decentralized and federal, all industries are organized into syndicates, labour councils elected from these trade unions manage local governance, and central government is vested in a national congress of trade union representatives

Totalism is more like Soviet Communism, though at one point in the game, they basically had it set up the Soviet Communism was still worse than Totalism, as you could make the Soviet Union still be formed. But they've had so many reworks I haven't kept track of it all.

 

[fatbeard]

 

[Ares]

I am confused, what are they doing?

Are they remastering all 3 games into one unified game where the combat and whatnot all feels the same?

That'd be awesome.

 

[fatbeard]

I am confused, what are they doing?

Are they remastering all 3 games into one unified game where the combat and whatnot all feels the same?

That'd be awesome.

Details are unclear, but I can't imagine simply remastering ME1 with updated graphics but the same clunky combat. I would think they have to do that part.

 

[Ares]

Details are unclear, but I can't imagine simply remastering ME1 with updated graphics but the same clunky combat. I would think they have to do that part.

I wouldn't bother with it if all they did was upscale the graphics.

They gotta be doing more to bring 1 and 2 up to ME3's level.

ME2 doesn't have far to go, it might just need graphics.

ME1 would need an awful lot of work/changes.... like the visit to planets and exploring in the Marauder.... that will need major overhauls.

 

[Ares]

It’s no surprise then that, on N7 Day, BioWare announced a new Mass Effect Legendary Edition that covers only the trilogy. It’s best not to get hopes up since the developer itself admits it isn’t a remake or reimagining of the game. Instead, it’s more about bringing the visuals to modern standards.

@fatbeard ^^^

Oh well...

Also apparently the trailer confirmed ME4 is in the works.

Mass Effect fans, however, might be more excited and, at the same time, apprehensive, about the confirmed next chapter in the series. It’s still in the early stages, BioWare says, so it has nothing to share. Hopefully, however, they have learned their lessons from Andromeda not to make the same mistakes.

I wonder if ME4 pretends Andromeda never happened lol.

 

[nvanprooyen]

I finally started playing TLoU 2 again. I'm probably like 70% of the way through it or so. I'm not sure what all the bitching was about. I think it's pretty great.

 

[Ares]

I finally started playing TLoU 2 again. I'm probably like 70% of the way through it or so. I'm not sure what all the bitching was about. I think it's pretty great.

So I've always been an Xbox guy, but I am far too old and have far too much money to be a console zealot.

So I bought a PS4 like a year or so ago, mainly to play Anthem (what a flop) with friends.

Is TLoU good enough to invest major time?

I was considering finally playing thru Dragon Age 2 and then 3 or trying to catch up on Assassin's Creed (two behind there).