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Arvenski said:

I've never played any of the Ultimate General games (yet), but that reminds me a bit of Age of Sail. The frigate and small ship combat is really fun. The later missions are heavily focused on ship of the line combat, and they can be a slog because ships of the line in Age of Sail are just boring. Probably the most unbalanced feature of the game is the upgrades, though. You can upgrade your ships to give them substantially more health, speed, melee (boarding) damage, etc, and equip your ships with all manner of different cannons, including carronades that will do significantly more damage in close quarters (where a lot of fighting occurs) than standard cannons. All of this is great, except that the AI never uses any of this, so your ships can have significant advantages even over ships of the same class. It's not game-breakingly OP, but it's noticeable. And it would be easy enough to fix: just let the AI upgrade their ships and change their cannon loadouts. It might make combat even more interesting and unpredictable, too. That's one reason why I wish the devs would develop the game further, instead of moving on to the next game. They've made a fun game, now, keep building on that. Oh well.

On topic, are there any other upcoming games where I could get my sailing ship combat fix? I've always had a thing for games with sailing ships. (Every now and then I get nostalgic for Tradewinds 2 and Tradewinds: Legends. Anyone ever played those?) I saw a trailer for Republic of Pirates, a city builder RTS that looks... okay, I guess? Graphics look fricking outdated, but hey, who knows. Ubisoft has/had a (multiplayer, IIRC) fantasy pirate game that was announced so long ago, I can't even remember the name of it. I guess if it hasn't been released by now and I've missed it (which is possible), it's either dead or it's been in development hell for years. Is there anything else?

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Adorno said:

This looks interesting and has some good reviews. Can't remember if it's been posted here.
It's just very early acccess with plenty of issues.

Dream Cycle on Steam

Venture into Lovecraft’s legendary Dreamlands and join an epic struggle to save humanity. Master occult powers, unique weapons, and special combat abilities to vanquish powerful enemies. Explore, adventure, survive, and find a way to break the curse that threatens the waking world.

store.steampowered.com

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Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James said:

Steel Division 1 just has a generic list of missions like RUSE, but Steel Division 2 has a tabletop-like scenario mode where you move divisions around. Some of them are goddamn gigantic.



For context this took him about 40 hours to complete.

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Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James said:

Any world war 2 game that tries to have "good guys" is just disrespectful in my eyes. The Nazis went well out of their way to exterminate people, I don't see how you could possibly spin that to being "the good guys" without turning into David Irving. Even having them as the playable protagonist faction wouldn't be so bad so long as you don't pretend they weren't agents of genocide wherever they went.

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Poddicus said:

Can we get a game where the Germans are the good guys please

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Mushbeast said:

Couple juicy ones on the horizon.

NEOLITHIC​

Age Of Empires style city-builder with citizen management and individual needs set in the Neolithic era, with a never-ending open map and of course, warfare. Pretty much a dream come true in my eyes, and is fairly far through development though with no release date yet. The developer also plans to add multiplayer in further down the line as one of his main goals.

NOTE: This Kickstarter trailer is fairly out-dated now, and you can hop onto the discord to see more recent updates and further information.

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