I’ve grabbed a physical copy of White Box FMAG and downloaded the PDF for this one, and I think in a single book it immediately covered any rules options needs I could ever have had with that game! It really is a great book.

The article reads severely like “old man yells at clouds” against the practice of modding. If people want to modify the experience, it’s their game to play (or ruin)

BAR is peak RTS game. Although lately I’ve mostly been playing Dawn of War for my strategy fix.

I’ve been playing American Truck Simulator, OpenTTD, and sometimes hopping into my playthrough of Stalker Gamma. It’s a simple life.

I’ve been playing Doom again lately (as one does) but I really should take a detour through the other idSoftware games… especially this one

Yeah they don’t want their precious anti-cheat to be tampered with… to protect their microtransactions, which is the real reason they are even making this game in the first place. To make it a vaguely skateboard themed Fortnite skin selling money printer.

Linux IS a lot of work to keep up with. But it’s also way better to use after that work is done. And won’t be enshittified against your will with every update, unlike Windows.

Fucking hell UK. Fuck that stupid ass island and it’s government. 1984 and V for Vendetta were documentaries. huh.

I don’t like that, but I’m still refraining from buying the game altogether because of it’s ridiculous always-online requirement. The predecessor wasn’t like that, and there’s no reason for the singleplayer segments of a racing simulator who enjoyed extreme longevity through modding, to be stuck on remote servers that can and WILL be shut down at some point in the future.

Thank you! This is exactly what I needed. Now I can convert those files to something I can use.

Yeah, I gathered that, but I don’t know the name of the tool to uncompress them into the emulator. That’s what I’m trying to find.

The age old conundrum of the unit that may or may not be strong in real combat situations, but becomes absolutely gamebreakingly busted when added to videogames, because it’s strenghts translate into overwhelming advantages with none of the real life drawbacks it had to endure, usually via game design, bad balancing or games putting said units in unrealistic situations.

Take for example anti-aircraft guns since WW2. Other than the obvious real example of the FlaK88 being turned into an AT gun by the Germans, several others of these become anti-infantry or even anti-armor rapid firing nightmares in war games, because they’re put well inside their optimal range and within threatening range of infantry and tanks. Which would usually destroy them from afar. The OTO Melara gun is a good modern example. Italian radar guided 110mm naval gun, was never mounted onto a proper line vehicle that was adopted by any country. But the prototypes, like the OTOMatic, absolutely terrorize every game where they appear, as a hyper accurate, rapid firing, high damage anti-everything gun.

Horse archers are just the ancient ages example of that.