Brahma
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Steam Deals and Digital Sales
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Brahma
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Total War is split into 2 "games" basically, a simplified Civ-like map campaign where you capture territories, build stuff in them to manage ressources, trade or declare war with other factions, upgrade your tech tree, produce units/armies in a turn based system. It's very simplified compared to Civ as I said though don't expect too much but the map is very large and there's a ton of different factions(it's warhammer after all) so it's still pretty fun.
And then it has a 2nd aspect, real time army combat unlike pretty much every other civ-like, and that's a lot more indepth than the combat in those games. Combat plays like a RTS for the most part, although you don't build bases or units during combat since that's the map aspect, you enter a fight with your army units and have a phase to position them on the field, and then you fight each other, with units being anywhere from a single strong character(in warhammer, heroes, spellcasters, monsters and so on) to full 200+models units of peons shit you throw in front of your army to soak up arrows and cannon fire. You also get active abilities and spells to cast and you can assault fortresses or defend them and shit like that.
I'd recommend checking out a let's play or whatever to see what the game looks like, I had never bothered with Total War until Warhammer(besides a short Shogun test way back when) and wasn't sure I was gonna like it(I don't like Civ for example), but to me it's just a really fun combo of mechanics and is really nice to play. I especially like the fact that each faction plays fairly differently since it's Warhammer, and the monsters and stuff add a lot of variety to combat unlike more realistic versions.
You field armies of 20 units of groups of soldiers for the most part, and need to manage the actions of those 20. The gameplay is mainly focused around that, plus a campaign map system where you manage your empire and the armies on a macro level
You can control the speed of the combat, and pause at any time. You can also group units up into control groups and issue commands to them as a group. The only time I've ever found it micro intensive or stressful is when combat gets spread out and there are multiple fights going on across the battle field.
The combat pretty much plays out the same across all the TW games, so if you have an older one you might want to mess around in that to see if you can handle it.
Rime
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Yogscast Jingle Jam is up on Humble Bundle. $30 gets you a mishmash of games, new ones added every day until the end of the month. 100% of the money goes to Charity.
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I played through the initial game at launch and once again with the big 2.0 release to fix the problems.
They didn't fix the problems. Game still sucks with horrible optimization. It will run like trash even on a bleeding edge system.
At level 20ish get a simple ass gravity gun and proceed to shit on the entire rest of the game with right click channeled AoE attack. That is literally the entire game.
They didn't fix the problems. Game still sucks with horrible optimization. It will run like trash even on a bleeding edge system.
At level 20ish get a simple ass gravity gun and proceed to shit on the entire rest of the game with right click channeled AoE attack. That is literally the entire game.
spronk
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its a really fantastic deal, $12 for shadow tomb + ancestors + phantom doctrine is absolutely fantastic. ancestors seems cool but not worth paying MSRP or anywhere close to it.
the humble interface is ASS though, you first have to "prepay" (why am i prepaying for Dec? shouldn't it have billed me already?), then you have to go through some stupid interface and "choose" 10 games, even though there are only 10 games, and redeem each steam key. Its confusing and pretty awful
the humble interface is ASS though, you first have to "prepay" (why am i prepaying for Dec? shouldn't it have billed me already?), then you have to go through some stupid interface and "choose" 10 games, even though there are only 10 games, and redeem each steam key. Its confusing and pretty awful
Hateyou
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Agree. I wanted to select the December games but it wouldn’t let me, so I’m kind of confused, do I only get to pick them when my monthly auto bill happens? Do I have a limited number to pick out of those ten or do I get all ten of those when it happens?
Im guessing it’s not that difficult to understand but I didn’t have time to fuck with it and research it this morning when I tried to redeem stuff.