I never look at positive reviews on steam anymore, they're NEVER useful. always some garbage that doesn't apply to the game, a review placed at literally 0.2 hours (playtime less than 15 minutes btw) or something moronic like . who the frick gives a shit about potential when the game sucks now?
negative reviews are the only ones worthwhile. they usually actually review the game and leave criticism/things to keep in mind/what could be better.
Same here. It's especially bad with games that more recently got popular where half the positive reviews are genuine spam copypastas. It's to a point I'd rather just see checkbox garbage reviews over "lol sex" for the 900th time.
Negative reviews are usually at least somewhat insightful and when they aren't it's usually a moron who's never used a computer before and those are entertaining for a whole different reason.
>Negative reviews are usually at least somewhat insightful and when they aren't it's usually a moron who's never used a computer before and those are entertaining for a whole different reason. >6283 hrs on record (5922 hrs at time of review >dogshit game, has nothing to do, content releases too slow, game for mindbroken morons
>picks the one type of review that is more than obviously a joke
t. posts good reviews with "omg so good! this game will be goty in 20 years when it's finally done!"
It's exceptionally good advice. One that carries far more weight than someone who has little experience with the drug and just one of the many potential reasons why a high play time does not disqualify giving a "Not recommended" judgement.
Because that's what it is, not a review. A recommendation. It could be the best game for the past decade but it's shutting down in a day, I wouldn't recommend people purchase it at that point; for instance.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Is that not good advice?
video games are basically just drugs where the objective is wasting time, if someone wasted thousands of hours on a game then that's proof that it fulfilled it's purpose as a game, even if you write a negative review you already lost, if someone wants to do drugs and sees people doing heroine then he'll think that heroine is a good choice, even if the addicts tell him that it sucks
Literally me when I play foxhole and the alts show up to win a war or the devs decide to make shit take 20x longer and more tedious for no fricking reason
too many garbage games with >90% positive reviews. the ones that made me lose it were Ixion and that other garbage Signalis. Never trust reviews, most reviewers are cucks, shills, homosexuals, or morons that give positive score to everything.
Reviews are fine, you're just a fricking moron who doesn't understand what the rating Steam displays is. It's just an owner approval rating, which is entirely distinct and different from a review score. It just tells you if the owners are happy with the game they bought or not. You still need to use your brain to filter out games that don't suit your tastes. If I don't like sports games and I know I don't like sports games, I'm not going to buy the latest FIFA or whatever the frick just because 99% of FIFA owners rate it positively.
Technically it's not even that
The thumb is literally "would you recommend this game"
I could play through a game in full, enjoy it, but still not recommended it for various reasons, and that mindbreaks a lot of people on steam
I refunded Signalis and made a review SHITTING ALL OVER IT and opened up the comments, Jesus CHRIST did the trannies come out of the woodwork, it was hilarious.
>that first "review"
FRICKING HELL I HATE THAT homosexual SHIT. It's not a fricking review it's just a dumb meme comment. That useless shit tells you nothing about the game being good or not, it's just a fricking meme comment. Every fricking game is full of these absolutely reddit tier uncreative monkey brain meme comments. Steam should have a review section and a comments section and then purge of those trash """"""reviews""""""
Imagine you'd buy a Supra on the internet and you look at the reviews page on Toyota's site and it's full dumb of positive reviews repeating cringe memes just to get attention like "omg it's a supra!?!!?!?!", "stutututtutu!!!", "vrooooooooom". Make those cringe jokes at the comment section of your favorite homosexual youtuber or chat of your favorite homosexual streamer
The worst part is Steam encourages it. Meme reviews were always a thing but not as common, but then they had to add the funny button as well as the shitty reddit award things. They could've nipped it in the bud years ago, now it's completely unavoidable. This is the future they willingly chose for some reason.
I understand your frustration. Freedom of expression is good, but a lot of people abuse it. Having comment sections and review sections would be a good idea.
Lol, you're right, but in the case of Steam the reviews are often written by children and teenagers, which is why there's so much moronic and annoying stuff with no content. People who buy cars are adults.
In fact, a large part of the Internet's problem is children and teenagers writing their useless opinions (and people around the world whose IQ is too low for them to mature beyond the adolescent stage).
>who the frick gives a shit about potential when the game sucks now?
That's a shit ton of people on steam. Steam reviews are fricking horrible. you can't leave a bad review for an early access game because "It might get fixed later" or "it has potential". Who the frick cares? IT bad now, the whole point of a review is to say what the current state of the product is, not how you want it to be a year or two from now.
that's always been the case, the winning formula: >look at games that match your preference in genre or gameplay >if early access, skip >scroll past all marketing material to the reviews, set filter to negative >check a handful of reviews to see if any of the things the consensus are pissed off about even matter to you.
half the time it's like "this game crashed on my toaster!" or like "I have a sub 60 IQ and this game was too hard"
I agree.
Surprisingly your screencap managed to catch one decent review though (the guy with 14.4 hours). But that still just 1/7 which means the other 6 are garbage.
>one decent review though (the guy with 14.4 hours
yeah, that one seems fair, problem being is that it's 1/7 chance to get a normal review
forgot to put it, this is literally the most top review.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/mmenolas/recommended/1363080/
as is the case with any game (I just randomly chose tekken 8), the ratio of actual reviews vs useless dogshit is too low. the review you posted is a good one but that doesn't make up for the countless worthless ones
also lol at the morons nitpicking the negative reviews, literal children thinking a random meme is a good review
nah, I mainly just look at % positive/negative at a glance. If I see high positive percentage I know it's (very likely) not fair, and go read negative reviews. if I see high negative percentage it's probably fair and don't bother looking further
>public opinions are too easy to sway with marketing or solicitation
true, or the devs removing bad reviews (happened recently with suicide squad I think), but that just introduces a nother skill floor to this b***h of a game trying to know if a game is worthwhile
1 month ago
Anonymous
reviews are almost always worthless. i dont actually even understand why people read reviews, a review has never influenced my purchase decision. all i do is google the game and look at some random gameplay. and steam btw is also very very fricking shit at even this, because every store page lists 3-5 pre rendered cutscenes and hides the actual gameplay. steam just has no worth in the whole process of buying games, they just offer the download button.
all comments are shit
negative comments are what,
game crashes because I'm stupid
game crashes because my pc is shit
developer hates trans folk
developer loves trans folk
developer is a nazi
developer is not a nazi
Those reviews still server their purpose, they are recommending the game. If you are the type of person who are interested in that type of game, and you see the game has 90% positive reviews even if 90% of the positive reviews have no substance, it's likely a very good game to purchase. Negative reviews are useful for identifying common issues and seeing if those bother you.
>negative reviews are the only ones worthwhile
moron, negative reviews can be just as vapid as the positive ones. the only thing that should matter is time played and arguments.
you are just as stupid as the people looking only at the positive reviews
Just bought the game... The sheer potential this game has is unbelievable, besides the game looking good and having the best elements of other RTS games, such as Stellaris and frostpunk, this game promises a lot(HOW WAS THIS GAME MADE BY ONE PERSON?)
This game was literally made by 1 guy. A single fricking person and it's lowkey better than 99% of AAA games. Could you make a better game? I doubt it. I've sunk 8 hours into the game and it's still hella fun, it's so refreshing to finally play a game made by someone who's passionate about their craft and not blinded by corporate greed. So instead of being a frickwad, maybe you could use your fricking brain? Or is that too much to ask since your IQ is lower than a potato.
It's gonna be so long before it's finished though. What's there is genuinely fun but the game is like half finished at best. And that fricking slav Black person won't hire more people.
>buy unfinished early access game >complain the unfinished game you paid for is unfinished
Do early access cucks really do this? I wouldnt know i dont buy early access slop
I agree with basically all of that, except the farming stuff since my first territory had dogshit fertility for every crop so I haven't tried any farming yet, but I still think the game is pretty fun overall. Once you get past around 12 houses the macro issues start becoming pretty significant and house-based production needs to be way clearer in the UI.
Early Access has completely ruined PC gaming and you can't even offer criticism because of the moron horde running in with "IT'S STILL EA LOL JUST RELAX BRO THE REAL GAME WILL BE HERE IN A FEW YEARS"
It's the opposite of this shithole. Everyone here is a contrarian TORtanic gay and everyone on reddit and steam are full throat wiener riders. It's all so tiresome.
All the tryhard reviews already use a rating system of their own that's not just a thumbs up or down. Steam should implement it, would filter out the clown reviews as well to some extent.
>every issue listed is quality of life or game balance related, things which are most effectively identified and dealt with via playtesting and feedback >"see, this is why early access shouldn't exist"
???
>the Ai is claiming territory left and right
why is thjis a problem? is there a lose condition where if the ai gets enough territory your game is over?
If you want an unclaimed teritory it costs 1k influence, teritory claimed by the AI costs 2k. It makes it very difficult if your started teritory doesn't have a good iron deposit or good farming ground.
Ultimately the AI will try to claim you and attack you with 100+ men and you lose the game. Its very, very aggressive (it can claim nearly all the map before you are close to start making claims).
Manor Lords, what a letdown! You'd think a game promising medieval grandeur would deliver, but nah, it's just a mess. First off, the graphics? More like graphics from the Dark Ages! Seriously, did they outsource the design to a bunch of blind monks? And don't even get me started on the gameplay. It's like watching peasants plod through mud - slow, tedious, and utterly soul-crushing. You'd have more fun herding sheep in a rainstorm.
And the controls? Ugh, it's like trying to navigate a labyrinth blindfolded. I spent more time wrestling with the interface than actually enjoying the game. Plus, the AI is about as sharp as a butter knife. I've seen more intelligent behavior from a sack of potatoes.
And let's talk about the bugs. I've encountered more glitches than there are stars in the sky. It's like the developers threw in the towel halfway through and said, "Eh, good enough." Well, newsflash, it's not!
Save your coins, folks. Manor Lords is a medieval mess that's better off gathering dust in the bargain bin.
You can literally watch them do it though. Even regular farming only needs like 2-3 months of work a year. They spend most of their time plowing, then they sow for a bit and then they frick off to do other things while it grows for 9 months.
Is there any where to actually see where families are assigned? I have 9 families assigned but can only remember/find 8 by looking at random buildings.
I think all you can do is hold tab and scroll around
Somehow I missed the whole tab thing, cheers.
Obviously I'd prefer something that lists 4x farmers, 2x woodcutters, etc. but that's something at least.
Steam Reviewers are just as dumb and bad as professional reviewers are except they don't get paid shillbux by publishers like Doritos Pope & his Game Awards show does.
The reality is the best "review" is make a fukken demo and let people play it their own damn self--a practice that fell out when publishers realized if the game was a FAT TURD a demo would reduce sales.
Is crop harvesting bugged? I have 4 roughly .5 morgen sized fields and I walk away with 6 whole fricking wheat. How is that possible? Fertility is just under 30% which isn't good obviously but 6?
Idk wtf is happening. I guess I was one of the lucky ones which had 50% fertility for basically everything. My first farm was like 1.5 morgen but they only plow 1.0 for some reason. They literally leave the rest untouched. When they harvested the wheat to 55% fertility I only got 16. I did rye earlier and I remember getting like 40 so it might be a wheat thing. I'm still getting the bakery set up but I think bread lasts longer than other food. The initial 10 bread you get lasting for quite a while if those fricking bandits don't steal it.
I think this person is moronic and trying to have a single gigantic field.
Plow upgrade is useful because 1 farmer with 1 ox is far more efficient than 1 farmer with 0 ox.
If you have multiple fields, you'll have a horde of farmers go do 3 fields or whatever while 1 guy takes the ox and does the fourth singlehandedly.
>game gives unparalleled freedom to build housing area with flexible roads >people just build grid shit like cities skylines/anno >I can literally differentiate Americans from thumbnails on twitch.
It's also pretty dumb to make minimum sizes carrot patches because the yield depends on surface, so he's wasting a ton of labor on multiple families when he could make 1 big carrot patch and have just 1 family take care of it instead.
my 1000 years old city has multiple districts (very unusual yes), one of them, the newest one is exactly this, grids grids grids, everything is the same, i fricking hate visiting it, without a gps map i could easily get lost there, BUT when im the one planning the city in a videogame i can see the efficiency of this approach
1 month ago
Anonymous
>BUT when im the one planning the city in a videogame i can see the efficiency of this approach
You can tell that modern city planners just don't give a shit about people.
yeah the bigger the vege patch land the more yield, keep in mind it still has to be tilled, sowed and harvested
1 month ago
Anonymous
Do the people living there do that or do the farm house people do it?
1 month ago
Anonymous
pretty sure it's the residents of the plots, I think they'll store some veges to fulfil their own household needs before the rest get transported to the marketplace
1 month ago
Anonymous
its the people living them. But who exactly im not sure. I dont even know who is working where in this game, is it a family, is it one person or what is going on
finished gameplay loop, and probably $1/hour content ratio.
you can raise the price as you add more stuff to your game, as long as that ratio (or better) continues to hold true.
at the moment I paid $40AUD and after 5 hours I feel like I've seen the whole game.
Somewhere a lot further along than this. I've got about 7 hours played and there's nothing else to see or do. For $30 ($40 without launch discount), that's not reasonable. A city builder with the longevity of a COD campaign is just inexcusable.
finished gameplay loop, and probably $1/hour content ratio.
you can raise the price as you add more stuff to your game, as long as that ratio (or better) continues to hold true.
at the moment I paid $40AUD and after 5 hours I feel like I've seen the whole game.
What the hell are you people talking about? There's no way you're reaching anywhere near done with a game at 5-7 hours.
Unless you literally just mean "oh welp I built one of most of the buildings, I'm out of CONTENT". That's just begging for arbitrary locks to draw out playtime rather than wanting a game with proper systems in place to build organically.
No, I mean I built everything and solved all the problems so now all that is left is capturing more plots and literally doing it over again whilst having to wrangle an absurd self-trade system where it costs the same for a piece of bread as it does for plate armor.
all this while the AI can just capture all the other plots because it has infinite resources/influence.
I can play much simpler games for much longer because they have DEPTH, you don't need "content" if you have depth, which this game does not have (yet, hopefully)
if Im wrong, please tell me how someone can play this game for 5+ hours and still have new experiences?
Explain right now how you would stretch the abysmally low amount of content and depth in the game right now beyond that amount of play time. Because there's nothing to do and most mechanics and systems are not even available in the game at the moment. There's no build variety, no cosmetic elements, at least half the tech tree is locked, no political systems yet, the AI cheats so it always steamrolls the map with infinite money and troops. All there is to do is build the same mud huts over and over and wrangle with the clumsy economy and trading systems.
The same way every that scale inherently changes every other city builder ever made.
I mean for fricks sake you get people saying this is worse than banished here, a game with almost the exact same combat and even less systems in place than this.
This is objectively worse than Banished. It's a deeply unfinished clone of it. To claim otherwise is just shilling.
1 month ago
Anonymous
The game has a superset of Banished features, that's just moronic.
What does Banished have that Manor Lords lacks? The stupid school system and a river to fish on?
it doesn't really change that meaningfully with scale though, in city builders you have "is this local area covered by all services" and "can people get/leave here" both of which should scale with population so you have to find new and interesting ways to manage them, especially transport as that actually requires thought rather than just building more service buildings, good city builders will also have higher tier service buildings which might have requirements that make using them more interesting too.
this game doesn't do that, you just go "do they have enough food/firewood" and then you sprinkle on some other services for higher tier houses (only 2 tiers btw) and that's it, you don't have to worry about the streets piling up with un-transported bread, there's nothing to solve outside of basically the two problems and then it's just building more wheat farms or more woodcutters or more charcoal burners.
and like, every starts the same, hunting and berries which can support X population, it's basically a solved game in that you could play it by reading from a list of instructions.
there's the bones of a good game here but in it's current state there's not much to it.
Explain right now how you would stretch the abysmally low amount of content and depth in the game right now beyond that amount of play time. Because there's nothing to do and most mechanics and systems are not even available in the game at the moment. There's no build variety, no cosmetic elements, at least half the tech tree is locked, no political systems yet, the AI cheats so it always steamrolls the map with infinite money and troops. All there is to do is build the same mud huts over and over and wrangle with the clumsy economy and trading systems.
Are you playing at 4x speed? I'm at 11 hours and I haven't built everything yet because this game is very very slow. Not sure why everyone has to be le ebin contrarian 100% of the time. Just be honest.
Explain right now how you would stretch the abysmally low amount of content and depth in the game right now beyond that amount of play time. Because there's nothing to do and most mechanics and systems are not even available in the game at the moment. There's no build variety, no cosmetic elements, at least half the tech tree is locked, no political systems yet, the AI cheats so it always steamrolls the map with infinite money and troops. All there is to do is build the same mud huts over and over and wrangle with the clumsy economy and trading systems.
You can release it, just make it free. Use the early access phase to get feedback.. Charging people 40$ to Alpha test your 40% finished game should be illegal.
dev should at least have had the decency to flesh out the few things that currently are in the game
combat is a fricking joke, farming is utterly broken and there are only 2 laws and a couple of skill-points, half of which are total ass (like beeswax having no use in the game yet)
>tax the frick out of village to afford mercenaries to defend against imminent raid >approval tanks but at least I won't get pillaged >hire company one week before raid, they arrive just in time >3 packs of 18 brigands incoming >herewefrickinggo.jpg >they see my mercenaries, they frick off and despawn without fighting >I'm now poor
KEK. I figured the first fight should be easy enough that the 20 weapons they gave you for free can handle it. I simply put my 20 guys in defense formation and flanked with my 4 retinue bros and btfo'd them.
There's no such thing as "savescum", monkey. If the devs didn't want me to use saving and loading they would not have made it a feature and instead relied on checkpoints and autosaves.
This failure has me in the mood for city builders. What should I get instead? Already have the likes of Banished, Anno 1800, and Cities Skylines, as well as classics like Sim City 4 and Pharaoh. What's good in this genre lately?
its basically finished manor lords with worse graphics, it doesn't get mentioned because a lot of people switch off immediately when seeing the graphics (dev himself has said hes had a really difficult time marketing).
I have about 20 hours in a save and I feel like im just scratching the surface
It's been dominating my life recently, absolutely fantastic game though I'm yet to actually hit end or even mid game yet because I keep restarting when I theorycraft a new idea for a cool city. It's like a larger scale Rimworld with actual progression
>play game >not bad not bad but still a long way to go >how long has it been worked on so far?
Seven fricking years? This dude is developing at the speed of Notch.
How the frick do I make use of a second region after claiming it?
I have a pack station but I cannot use it to send the two most crucial resources: logs and workers
With all resources and population stuck on 0 I might as well have not claimed it at all
>I liked all of these games
Manorlords feels way unfinished though, if you want a game like it that is way further in development but looks like shit, try Farthest Frontier.
KCD is top fricking tier bud, an amazing game. Bannerlord was a fricking bait and switch for sure. Never played mordhau. Manor lords is potential: the game. Time will tell how it proceeds.
>spam the same combat move or get punished >horse riding is a bug/crash gamble >soulless oblivion tier cities/villages >skyrim civil war tier battles lmao
the only redeeming thing about KCD is the wholesome characters and 2-3 fun quests, that's it.
Nah, not even him, I love history but he has the right of it. That game was extremely mediocre. Charming quests and characters, pretty graphics, dogshit everything else.
>charming quests and characters
What more do you want out of an RPG? Oh I get it, you're the kind of person that loves Bethesda games aren't you?
the disconnect between available content + quality of available content, and the outpouring of 'hype' for this game, which is objectively bad and almost unplayable
I refuse to believe people can play what is available and still be excited for it, because it's not good
the only conclusion I can draw, logically, is that the hype is manufactured and the pre-release wishlish figures are botted, which is something eastern european slavic scumbag homosexuals would have no moral issues with doing
The demo was really fun and seemed really polished but with a lack of content. It wasn't unreasonable to assume the guy added more since then. Unfortunately he did but not nearly enough.
He can't because he's a moron who forms his opinion from regurgitation of Ganker and le epic oldgays. People who shit on Bannerlord are literal morons who compare Bannerlord to modded warband, and quickly forget that compeltely native warband is extremely barebones and shit and the actual Warband experience everyone remembers is usually from having a shitload of mods tacked on, even to "native" modules. Bannerlord's modding scene is just not as good yet. As a standalone game it is infinitely better than Warband.
this game actually sucks
refunded it quickly
I've never seen anything so heavily botted/shilled, it's like the devs spent 1 million + dollars on bots and shills, its actually wild
going to come out eventually and it will be a fun scandal to read about
the disconnect between available content + quality of available content, and the outpouring of 'hype' for this game, which is objectively bad and almost unplayable
I refuse to believe people can play what is available and still be excited for it, because it's not good
the only conclusion I can draw, logically, is that the hype is manufactured and the pre-release wishlish figures are botted, which is something eastern european slavic scumbag homosexuals would have no moral issues with doing
I really enjoyed the demo two years ago. I had expected and hoped this would be a much more complete and fleshed out version of that. Instead, it's literally just that again with nothing new at all. What a massive disappointment.
like
fricking archers don't even work
you make a medieval rts/building game without archers in the first playable release?
frick off, these homosexuals played us
I promise you they are swarthy, fat, and gloating over the scam they just pulled successfully
There is literally 0% chance they will finish the game. The game is just too fricking successful so devs don't have any financial insentive to work on the game. They will release one patch once a month that fixes a couple of bugs and that's it.
You're supposed to conquer all the regions on the map to win the game. Currently there's an off-map AI opponent with infinite resources but the game rules show that there can also be on-map AI opponents with their own towns you can attack.
They did not
Tortanicgay is blowing shit up as usual
First they said the game is a scam and all the video and images are fake
Now they said the dev will run away with his money
alright sisters the dev's response to everyone in the community turning on him impressed me.
the only city builder i played was against the storm, for about 20 hours. if i REALLY like manorialism, should i get this game? i've never been a huge city builder guy....
and again i LOVE manorialism. i've even founded the largest manorialist party in Minnesota.
I can tell from that statement he wants larion tier developers at jeet prices. Well maybe now that he's a millionaire he can afford to hire competent devs. Talent costs money.
if gamedev was my real passion it would make me want to work on it more, I just got 3 million dollars? Never need to worry about making rent, groceries, ANYTHING ever again while I can just comfy work on my game.
Just wait, anon. You've got tons of other games to play, this one will be worth playing in the end, dude doesn't seem like he can't make this game good it's just that he hasn't yet. People will complain and you can't really fault them for it but this is what early access is for. Hope it's not Kenshi time scale of EA though.
Its over, here is the next patch
Main points for the planned next patch:
-Fix all the weird homeless bugs
-Tune the archer damage
-Tune the trade oversupply mechanics (it's too harsh and punishes regional specialization)
-Slow down the rate of the AI claiming territories
-Improve the sawpit efficiency / storage.
I don't even get how people need farming, as far as I played I just got by with vegetable gardens, berry picking and hunting.
1-2 goat extensions for t1 homes and hunting is enough hides usually so the rest of t1 can just be eggs and veggies, but then again I always started in the poor fertility regions that either got big hunting or berry nodes.
200 pop as in 200 families? I got about 80 families right now and I'm having surplus food, but I don't think I can grow the town much more without making it look ugly as frick by just cleacutting the woods.
>watch review by the guy who received game before EA >he points out everything in the game and what is missing >says that game is about 50% finished >don't buy yet if that's not enough for you
meanwhile Ganker >I WAS SCAMED, THEY SAID(never points out who are those """"""""they"""""""") IT WAS COMPLETELY FINISHED, I PLAYED IT FOR 7 HOURS AND WANT A REFUND, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I have several games i bought and didn't start yet because they are still deep in early access and i don't feel like spoiling my first playthrough with wip version.
This game is just Against the Storm with none of the depth. Its nice looking but that's pretty much it, there's no goal and no interesting decisions to make. This game needs like year or two in the dev, its not ready for even as a demo.
>This game needs like year or two in the dev, its not ready for even as a demo.
it's solo dev making it, to expand to even small team he will need capital. If he wants to actually make the game in that time best thing he could do is to release what he has as alpha, get money, hire people and speed up work
I just took a really big, steamy shit into the toilet all by myself, wanna come and see?
It doesnt matter if its solo dev or 999 dev or whatever, if the product is bad it should not be on sale, it should be on developement and wait for release.
This game feels like the usual EA scam. Will see in a year if its worth investing my time and money in, right now there's dozens of better city builders out there.
I've got my village at the bottom right and my Iron mining top left
am I supposed to build a few houses close to the mining thing? My people take like 50 fricking years to walk from their home to this place
Who cares? Time has no meaning in the game anyway. Just assign everyone to the mine for a month and you'll be drowning in iron. There really is not that much depth to the game.
The game lacks basic management tools. I can't see where my people are working, I can't see how much shit I produce and consume, and how much wealth I make. I need to manually click every building to find working families and re-assign them.
Some people might say it is intended, since it's a medieval sim, abd therefore it should not have any kind of financial reports. But even ancient sims like Caesar 3 had better management.
So the enemy AI has claimed nearly the entire map and then claimed the section that I had already claimed. Tried to stop him and his army is hundreds of dudes. What the frick are you supposed to do at that point?
same thing happened to me, I tried negotiating some sort of peace bribe in the region map but the UI is bugged and I couldn't adjust the offer. Regardless, he accepted even though his army stayed in the battlefield until the timer ran down and then they fricked off.
Alright according to the steam forums the AI gets influence by killing bandit camps early game. If you wipe out the camps ASAP it shouldn't be able to spam claim the entire goddamn map.
>raiders literally walk in with an army of 15 when i can only rally 10 and rape my manors and after they rape it, another bandit camp spawns and starts a scripted attack (?)
jesus fricking christ do i really need to watch some HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR FIRST WINTER shit or just turn the combat off
The raider appear 2 years after you start a game you moron. If you only managed to get 10 men in 2 years then you should uninstall and play survivor games or diablo 4
lmao i am getting freezing manorerer and homeless warning after i rebuilt my houses from the bandit rape and they don't wanna reclaim them
no you moronic gorilla Black person they literally walked into my camp with inpunity in the first winter, even if i had 15 people they would win because the AI gets no penalties from marching in snow
are you playing 0.7 build? I only ever get raiders invading 1 year after starting and you get a prompt to track their moves and have 365 days to prepare
0 7 954, i think im done with the game though. systems seem like they are either weirdly confusing or broken, really reminded me of playing cities 2. you cant have the simulation aspects be confusing in a game liek this. like i have half the town working on planks and half the town transporting them i should be getting planks.
He's not wrong. It's still comfy as a city builder, but I did expect more after the demo 2 years ago. Other than adding the combat and nerfing farming to the ground, it really hasn't changed all that much. It's still lacking in many areas.
>Other than adding the combat and nerfing farming to the ground, it really hasn't changed all that much.
So he made total war game, added it to the game and its "nothing"?
Manor Lords has worse city building aspects than Farthest Frontier
And not even close to Total War scale of battels or strategy. You will never see more than 200vs200 units in this game.
This is a fricking 2024 game, but the gameplay mechanics, economy, battle systems and fun is somehow worse than Stronghold a game from FRICKING 2001. Greg should either hire a team or just cancel this project.
i'm pretty sure you can select all and rally. also not sure how so many are having issues with food. you just need berries, hunting, and wheat. you can use multiple ox to plow if you have multiple farm houses, but only one ox is necessary. just manage your pop to assign them to farming whenever march rolls around. the bigger issue is harvesting since it only gives you a single month to do it, but even then you still harvest enough to feed ~50 families for a year.
Are farms worthless? I only got a small handful of grain from mine, barely enough for a few loafs of bread
Also got some hunter upgrades at the start, but hunting also seems really shit, the animals just don't repopulate fast enough for it to be even remotely reliable
I really wish there was some way to manage livestock at pack stations and stables. I have an ox at my pack station which is absolutely useless and I can't see any way of moving him to a stable.
Its more finished than Manor Slops, you have more realistic farming system to plan ahead with land fertility as well as removing stones from the field and having to deal with different plants being planted on different season.
You also have now better military system and NPC have better AI and pathfninding
Honestly, people shilling Manor Lords over Farthiest Frontier feels as if people tried to shill project zomboid over Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead
I expected it to be a bit of a bullshot but this is crazy how shallow manor lords is. What did he do this whole time? There's just nothing. 10 hours and you've seen everything. That's really fricking awful for a city builder, but this is also not just a city builder but has RTS-lite army fighting and AI opponents yet somehow still has less to see than games without those aspects.
Thats why im suprised too. For all the hype in 2024 game i was expecting Total War 2 tier fighting with Stronghold 2 type economy and siege elements.
But the game itself is simpler than Stronghold 1, we already have dozen medieval city builders better than this, i doubt it even beats Banished in term of city building.
This is honestly dissapointing, when i first played Mount&Blade, it early access blew my mind becuase it was first time you could engage in battles like this, but now Manor Lords is as hyped while adding NOTHING new to the genre and doing WORSE than their older "clones"
This is worse than No Man Sky and Fallout 76 dissapointment. And I'm Polish so i really wanted to shill it as polish game representation
I agree with alot of what that man said.
I've only played for about ten hours, so I might be wrong, but enemies don't appear to have any cities. They're just this looming off screen threat that tries to occupy the map and sends mercs at you. I hope they change that so I can actually fight them
>tfw my dream game is Europa 1400: The Guild recreated as a system within a larger simulation like Manor Lords >tfw this isn't even close to being it
The search across these barren lands continue. Someday, some indieBlack person will choose to put down his pixleshit anime inspired allegory for depression and loss and make a success to 1400 The Guild
My dream game is Battle Brothers in 3D environment like Munt&Blade where you also manage castles and villages. However the fights are more realistic like in Neo Scavenger, where instead visible HP bars you would only get info of whether your head is bruised or bleeding and you will also have chance to get your warrior killed by a single well aimed arrow
Strategy is so shit. What the point of specialization if every region has all the resources? Wow i get 40 deers instead of 20, im sure going to invest in hunting town!! Frick off, game would be better if you had zero deers, but you could conquer a region that had unique forests with unlimitet hunting game (but for example no stones or iron in it at all) and THEN you could invest in protecting it and building a village of hunters
This is the most boring map i ever seen in city builders
Uhh.. skill issue uhh.. its early access ehh.. i mean its just one guy deving it...
Yeah, there's not much strategy or decision making, its like really thin Against the Storm.
>delays it 3+ years to 'greatly expand the systems' >release it >the AI opponent doesn't actually exist, doesn't build a competing settlement >it's just an infinite number generator off-map that has infinite resources and is preprogrammed to harass you in specific ways
I played Age of Empires 2 Custom Scenarios on MSN Game Zone more complex than this 25 fricking years ago. Frick off.
>this diarrhea reminds me ostriv exists >go to check it out >barely any progress has been made >worse, the dev has gone schizo and rants about muh russia in most of his patch notes now
yea, its not normal clothes that they b***hing about
before i upped the difficulty i did not even notice any requirements that they have unless its to upgrade the level of the house
Trading is fricking broken, in the bad way. Sell one fricking batch of a produced good like roof tiles and the market is instantly "critically oversupplied" forever and they're worth less than the clay was.
I noticed that as well, normally in these games the selling price of goods rises the more steps of processing the goods have gone through plus limited resources give more than unlimited ones
In Manor Lords selling processed goods ends with you making a big loss. From what I've tried so far the best export is livestock
A sheep farm and livestock trading post makes more money than clay pit + woodcutter + clay furnace > to sell roof tiles
how do i stop my joiner from eating all of my planks?
i'm trying to build my manor but ALL of my planks are being sent to the joiner to make wooden parts and there's it looks like there's no option to stop him other than destroying his house
Whenever a new game, indie/made by a small business game comes out you see that kind of thread with hundred of anons calling it the worst game ever made. Then when the thread dies it's back to the current AAA slop spam from poojets like currently with the fallout stuff/frogBlack person threads.
Very organic.
Big corporations became so SHIT at making games that now instead of just shilling their own trash they also pay thirdies to shit on anything that might create a competition, and indies must be snuffed as fast as possible before they become a threat because unlike them they know how to make good games.
One dollar spent on an indie game is a dollar that EA/Activision/Bethesda etc won't see.
I rather spend my time and money to a game thats 1. bug free
2. meaningful choices
3. not betatest it
And thats why these EA scams can frick off, this thing needed 1 more year in the oven before doing this.
I challenged Hildebolt on his first claim on my first game and got rekt. Started a new game and was able to do it at about 100 population by hiring a bunch of mercenaries. Kinda fun.
What should be my first year goals if playing on the harder difficulty? I ate through all my bread before I started picking berries and then ran into an issue where my hunter couldn't supply enough meat to upgrade burg plots. ordering an extra oxen also didn't seem nessecary
I feel like the logging camp needs a dedicated oxen by year 2. But yeah, berries are super important early, that and logging camp are the two things I build first, then granary, etc.
agreed mostly but i liked some of the ID ones, i have a thing for weird trilingual HAPA things that barely speak either of the 3 languages because i can relate
that's what westoids think, which is why they suck, they're obsessed with being "genuine" and "true to themselves" so they're always very on the nose about the fact that they're just ugly old women using an avatar, just being themselves all the time talking about their worthless prostitute lives, japanese vtubers understand that the real point is putting on a performance where they act as an idealised anime character, not just generic western prostitute but with a mask on
western vtubers adopted the western streamer persona, which doesnt really exist in japan. instead a lot of the biggest japanese vtubers are ex and current egirls who know they are there to provide gfe. though a certain number of western vtubers, as well as streamers also fall into this category. its just that the "brah im so wacky but im also a carefully constructed brand that has to act as a voice of authority to my fans so it looks like i'm doing anything but shilling" doesnt really exist in japan. japanese have absolutely zero regard for dignity or integrity and 90% of their interaction with their fan boils down to "look at this product and go buy it"
1 month ago
Anonymous
there's been streamers in japan too, that are not too different from western ones, but it's all been males with a facecam who were usually ex pro players at an e-sports team who retired into being streamers, female streamers in japan have been pretty uncommon, for one thing there aren't female pro players who could retire into streaming and secondly japanese value privacy very highly, they don't like showing their faces, names, or any personal info about themselves online at all, probably the fact that most japanese live in a small area in or near tokyo contributes to the fact, if you have beef with someone you can just find them and stab them irl, in the west people are a lot more spread out, even if an italian guy has online beef with a guy from arkansas it's very unlikely that they'd ever get near each other, so japanese especially women are a lot more careful about being known online, to which vtubing offered a good way of being online without sharing any of their personal information, and they understand that they're competing for the attention of guys who have all the movies and tv shows at their fingertip, so they have to put something on the table that will entertain them, for westoids the privacy thing is just largely moot, they're very straight up about "hey it's me stacy cuckson, and this is vtuber avatar lol", there's also a level of cultural difference, westoids always care about being genuine and honest, and that absolving you of bad things for some reason, like if you're being upfront and honest about being a prostitute who just has an avatar to bait simps then that somehow makes it better because you're just telling it like it is, and hate people being "fake", while japanese have no qualms about being fake, honne and tatemae and all that, and the point of being a vtuber is being fake, be fake, creative and intersting, I don't care about the stupid, boring prostitute life of someone even if they put on an anime mask
1 month ago
Anonymous
they could just stream without a webcam
internet already allows for anonymity by default unless you are in china or nk i guess
1 month ago
Anonymous
some people used to do that, but nobody likes being a faceless voice or listening to a faceless voice, both for the streamer and the viewer having an identity with a face to match feels a lot better, even if it's a drawing, like in japan just writing the script for a video and having a tts read it out loud is pretty common too, for people who don't even want to show their voice, that's how much the japs care about not sharing personal info, vtubers are a good halfway point for a lot of people, especially women who feel especially vulnerable if people found them irl, they can have an identity without showing their real face, and they can hide their voice to a degree too by changing the tone and pitch that they talk in, making the whole thing naturally lean into ad lib acting more than just being a western style streamer with a mask on, since westoids have no real concerns about privacy and safety, as well as a cultural basis of being honest and genuine, even if you do bad things, because being honest absolves you of the sin of doing a bad thing, they end up completely missing the point and reasons of being a vtuber, it's no real mystery that vtubing is drying up in the west, it has no real basis for existing in that culture and they only very superficially imitated what the japanese do while betraying the core tenets of it
1 month ago
Anonymous
>nobody likes being a faceless voice or listening to a faceless voice
Frick you. Twitch was tremendously better when facecams wasn't as proliferated as they are now. I take a voice with gameplay without facecam any day over seeing some soiboi face pretending to act obviously forced persona.
1 month ago
Anonymous
you're autistic so nobody cares
1 month ago
Anonymous
We evolved most of our intelligence and empathy to observe human faces and read their mental states, emotions and wellbeing. You are 100% severely autistic.
1 month ago
Anonymous
I don't understand. Why does it have to be one or the other? Plenty of OF girls do good gfe but you still 100% know that it's all an act and you're paying by the hour or whatever. I'd rather have the girl be honest about selling sex and treat me like a customer rather than pretend that she's doing nothing wrong yet constantly begging for money. I hate the famous "e-girl pretends she's single so that her 1million fans keep thinking they have a chance."
1 month ago
Anonymous
I hate all you fricking simps giving these women the attention they crave
i think the dev intended way to beat the game is to pac man ur way thru the bandit camps and keep buying mercenaries and prevent the ai from snowballing but i dont know i played like 1hr before rageclosing the game
Kinda related but my reviews are always sterile, succinct and serious while trying to be helpful. I'm pretty sure people think I'm either a shill when my review is positive or a gpt bot.
fact of the matter is that nobody cares about being helpful or logic or whatever, at the end of the day long essays are just convoluted, full of subjective things and of course different people have different priorities, the only thing that people really care about is a consensus, how many people like the game, and how many people don't like the game, and how many of those people are from tribes that I identify with and how many are from tribes that I consider my enemy, this is why reviews like op's and the "x thousand hour played negative reviews" baffle most people, you might think that they're just being logical and objectively evaluating the game, but realistically, nobody cares, if you played the game for a long time, or if you think the game is decent then you should be on the side of people who like the game, not the opposite, long story short, people care about tribalism and picking sides over efforts at being logical and objective
Which sucks because I take time to read non-memeish reviews and mark them as helpful if they really are. I combine that and watching the first 10-15 minutes of gameplay before committing myself to playing a game. But I keep finding myself having to scroll longer and longer to find such reviews as opposed to meme-ish ones.
the "meme-ish" reviews are what people care about, or more accurately they care about reviews that raise the flag of a tribe and then declare their stance, long helpful essays about evaluating the game are irrelevant for most people, they want to see "I'm from northland tribe and I support this game" or "I'm from the gray sea tribe and I oppose this game" of course fill the tribe names with whatever conemporary group you can think of, this is what matters to people and what they really care about, granted people are more likely to use codewords specific to a tribe to show their support or opposition of a game, which you probably consider "meme reviews"
> beeswax: 0 use > tools (and thus Smithy): 0 use as well
I'm now unironically blackpilled, no way this "game" is a passion project
because if it were then the dev would have found the time to implement this (which really shouldn't take that long) or at least would have had the decency to not include it in the curret version of the game at all - because at the moment it is nothing but a cheap decoy to trick people into thinking there is more to this game than there really is
i dont think he needs to trick anyone with that level of hype. The game clearly was worked on for some time and then he decided that its good enough or that he likes to eat food and released it. Most of the time obviously went towards graphics which is a right call for a huge audience of normalgays
>spawn in a fertile land >build field in a deep green fertility area >place it near a cute little river >enable crop rotation leaving every third year fallow >fence it and let animals herd there when it's fallow >sacrifice a goat for good harvest every year >fertility maxxing wherever I can >check crop fertility after 5 years >stuck at 20%
What the frick did they mean by this?
Now when you say you enabled rotate crops, are you doing 2 years of the same crop? Because that's not even rotating crops.
The entire idea behind it is different crops leave different chemicals behind in the parts that aren't harvested, which get churned into the soil in the plow phase.
Notice that it's better to simply manually deal with farms. Fricking morons planting in October, the abominatio left in spring still ate half the fertility and I onky get 10% of the yield.
Is there an option I missed somewhere to specify planting/sowing cutoffs. If I had to fight a war that started in Feb and the womenfolk were only able to ploy half the fields by July they should stop planting because it's just going to eat fertility for minimal yield. The wheat we get is the worst winter wheat I have ever heard of.
>150k concurrent >game easily sold just shy of 10 million usd >steam+epic takes 30%+5% gross >20% VAT and up to 30% income tax or whatever his slav country taxes him out of what's left
i mean he gets raped by taxes but he's still filthy fricking rich from this
>i mean he gets raped by taxes but he's still filthy fricking rich from this
The people hating on the dev will never, ever attempt to make something themselves. They will constantly bleat about how easy it is to become a millionaire with an asset flip but never ever do it themselves for some crazy reason
making a game entirely on your own over 7 years even if you flip all your assets and release a game that functions like this is pure hell. even i can make a game in UE where you just run around and shoot at things with some basic systems but once you start asking the engine to do something that isn't something you can learn in 5min from a pajeet yt tech guide it goes into unbelievable levels of esoteric bullshit
Correct. That's why I congratulate the dev on his accomplishment while others want to paint it as nothing but an asset flip
> le solo dev
the reason why people don't attempt doing this because they usually don't have the luxury of having a dozen friends who happen to be artists / 3d modelers / the proud owner of a motion capture suit
There's the excuses. Don't worry anon nobody expected anything from you anyway. >nooo he's not a solo dev he used UE!
1 month ago
Anonymous
> nooo he's not a solo dev he used UE!
no-one said this
the point is that the whole "oh he's just a single person doing everything"-argument doesn't really hold up so the fact that the gameplay has been exactly the same for 3.5 years is inexcusable
1 month ago
Anonymous
Do you believe anybody who uses UE cannot be a solo dev because they're utilizing a tool created by many developers?
1 month ago
Anonymous
are you stupid or something?
This wasn't about UE, it's about a decent chunk of the art, the only thing that really changed in the past 4 years, being done by other people
1 month ago
Anonymous
But can you answer the question? >Do you believe anybody who uses UE cannot be a solo dev because they're utilizing a tool created by many developers?
This may be a hint at why your complaint about him utilizing contributions from other devs making him not a solo dev is moronic
1 month ago
Anonymous
the engine is not part of the game, it's a tool that you don't see in the final product
meanwhile art, music and modelling are (part of) the game
1 month ago
Anonymous
not him but you are so fricking stupid, read the fricking thread again
[...] > le solo dev
the reason why people don't attempt doing this because they usually don't have the luxury of having a dozen friends who happen to be artists / 3d modelers / the proud owner of a motion capture suit
You know how you get friends like he did? By engaging with the wider gamedev community. Guaranteed that they were all still paid too despite being friends. If you sit in your basement whinging about others acheivements then you will never have support like he was able to garner.
1 month ago
Anonymous
> I've been engaging with the wider gamedev community all my life and all god ever gave me was trannies and indians
whats logic in robing an individual in percentages. The government will never provide him an equal amount of services for his money. I guess its fair for those who are broke but not for successful ones.
manor lords looks alright but it legit has some of the weirdest most rabid fanbases, what the frick? it's just a chill village builder with some simple gameplay mechanics, somewhat worrisome that its all you get after 8 years of dev since that means the finished game will come out in like 30 lifetimes, but it is what it is
were ppl really this mindbroken thinking that it was, out of all the fricking things, a total war competitor? are they having 30$ sunken cost phallusy or whatever the hell? get a life
You will never be German. You will never be autistic. You will never make comfy autistic games. You are a slavic man twisted by occupation and colonization into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.
Your slavic language and poor work ethic betray you for what you really are, a developer of janky unfinished trash.
Agreed. It's like 20% of a game, and the AI is just extremely broken with unlimited resources so there's nothing you can really do against it. 99% of the time, it's just super slow with nothing going on. Things take forever to build. It takes forever for new people to join your town. It's got about 6 hours of fun in it currently and nothing beyond that.
First 2 paragraphs could be applied to Wicked too. So many EA scams these days.
but think of the potential! THE POTENTIAL!
I never look at positive reviews on steam anymore, they're NEVER useful. always some garbage that doesn't apply to the game, a review placed at literally 0.2 hours (playtime less than 15 minutes btw) or something moronic like . who the frick gives a shit about potential when the game sucks now?
negative reviews are the only ones worthwhile. they usually actually review the game and leave criticism/things to keep in mind/what could be better.
Same here. It's especially bad with games that more recently got popular where half the positive reviews are genuine spam copypastas. It's to a point I'd rather just see checkbox garbage reviews over "lol sex" for the 900th time.
Negative reviews are usually at least somewhat insightful and when they aren't it's usually a moron who's never used a computer before and those are entertaining for a whole different reason.
>Negative reviews are usually at least somewhat insightful and when they aren't it's usually a moron who's never used a computer before and those are entertaining for a whole different reason.
>6283 hrs on record (5922 hrs at time of review
>dogshit game, has nothing to do, content releases too slow, game for mindbroken morons
>picks the one type of review that is more than obviously a joke
t. posts good reviews with "omg so good! this game will be goty in 20 years when it's finally done!"
Yeah true, those are definitely most of what negative reviews are and certainly not one of the exceptions covered in the word "usually"
>heroin addict told me not to do heroin
Is that not good advice?
It's exceptionally good advice. One that carries far more weight than someone who has little experience with the drug and just one of the many potential reasons why a high play time does not disqualify giving a "Not recommended" judgement.
Because that's what it is, not a review. A recommendation. It could be the best game for the past decade but it's shutting down in a day, I wouldn't recommend people purchase it at that point; for instance.
video games are basically just drugs where the objective is wasting time, if someone wasted thousands of hours on a game then that's proof that it fulfilled it's purpose as a game, even if you write a negative review you already lost, if someone wants to do drugs and sees people doing heroine then he'll think that heroine is a good choice, even if the addicts tell him that it sucks
Good post. Very succinct and cuts right to the point of this bullshit reasoning.
Literally me when I play foxhole and the alts show up to win a war or the devs decide to make shit take 20x longer and more tedious for no fricking reason
>checkbox garbage
i hate those reviews
too many garbage games with >90% positive reviews. the ones that made me lose it were Ixion and that other garbage Signalis. Never trust reviews, most reviewers are cucks, shills, homosexuals, or morons that give positive score to everything.
Reviews are fine, you're just a fricking moron who doesn't understand what the rating Steam displays is. It's just an owner approval rating, which is entirely distinct and different from a review score. It just tells you if the owners are happy with the game they bought or not. You still need to use your brain to filter out games that don't suit your tastes. If I don't like sports games and I know I don't like sports games, I'm not going to buy the latest FIFA or whatever the frick just because 99% of FIFA owners rate it positively.
Technically it's not even that
The thumb is literally "would you recommend this game"
I could play through a game in full, enjoy it, but still not recommended it for various reasons, and that mindbreaks a lot of people on steam
signalis is good though
I refunded Signalis and made a review SHITTING ALL OVER IT and opened up the comments, Jesus CHRIST did the trannies come out of the woodwork, it was hilarious.
>that first "review"
FRICKING HELL I HATE THAT homosexual SHIT. It's not a fricking review it's just a dumb meme comment. That useless shit tells you nothing about the game being good or not, it's just a fricking meme comment. Every fricking game is full of these absolutely reddit tier uncreative monkey brain meme comments. Steam should have a review section and a comments section and then purge of those trash """"""reviews""""""
Imagine you'd buy a Supra on the internet and you look at the reviews page on Toyota's site and it's full dumb of positive reviews repeating cringe memes just to get attention like "omg it's a supra!?!!?!?!", "stutututtutu!!!", "vrooooooooom". Make those cringe jokes at the comment section of your favorite homosexual youtuber or chat of your favorite homosexual streamer
oh boy I sure do love this discussion!
Christ is king!
u need to gain self awareness because this is really cringe bro on my mom
based. steam culture is far worse than 'ddit
pc gamers are the biggest homosexuals.
Based, but at the same time this is just because this is a hobby dominated by literal children.
you are one of the only sane people left but we already lost this battle
The worst part is Steam encourages it. Meme reviews were always a thing but not as common, but then they had to add the funny button as well as the shitty reddit award things. They could've nipped it in the bud years ago, now it's completely unavoidable. This is the future they willingly chose for some reason.
From memory they added the funny button because memes and "jokes" always got the most updoots so would dominate the top reviews
I understand your frustration. Freedom of expression is good, but a lot of people abuse it. Having comment sections and review sections would be a good idea.
Lol, you're right, but in the case of Steam the reviews are often written by children and teenagers, which is why there's so much moronic and annoying stuff with no content. People who buy cars are adults.
In fact, a large part of the Internet's problem is children and teenagers writing their useless opinions (and people around the world whose IQ is too low for them to mature beyond the adolescent stage).
unfortunately, just like the clown award, Steam encourages this shit by allowing you to vote if the review is funny. its so fricking moronic
>Hovering around barely an hour of playtime
>"WE ARE TRULY IN THE AGE OF SMALL DEVS KILLING AAA"
why are gamers so fricking stupid bros?
I've left some reviews with a short playtime because I pirated the game and played it long enough that I decided it was worth buying.
Should have written you played pirated first. AAA hates the "piracy brings genuine sales" thing
>who the frick gives a shit about potential when the game sucks now?
That's a shit ton of people on steam. Steam reviews are fricking horrible. you can't leave a bad review for an early access game because "It might get fixed later" or "it has potential". Who the frick cares? IT bad now, the whole point of a review is to say what the current state of the product is, not how you want it to be a year or two from now.
that's always been the case, the winning formula:
>look at games that match your preference in genre or gameplay
>if early access, skip
>scroll past all marketing material to the reviews, set filter to negative
>check a handful of reviews to see if any of the things the consensus are pissed off about even matter to you.
half the time it's like "this game crashed on my toaster!" or like "I have a sub 60 IQ and this game was too hard"
>I have a sub 60 IQ
Discriminating against Blacks again? I fricking hate this website.
>why are you looking at the negative reviews? Just buy the game
>game sucks cause can't sex [male npc or boss]
Just bought the game because of these reviews. Sounds comfy as frick.
I agree.
Surprisingly your screencap managed to catch one decent review though (the guy with 14.4 hours). But that still just 1/7 which means the other 6 are garbage.
>one decent review though (the guy with 14.4 hours
yeah, that one seems fair, problem being is that it's 1/7 chance to get a normal review
as is the case with any game (I just randomly chose tekken 8), the ratio of actual reviews vs useless dogshit is too low. the review you posted is a good one but that doesn't make up for the countless worthless ones
also lol at the morons nitpicking the negative reviews, literal children thinking a random meme is a good review
>reading reviews from random laymen
i mean this is what "game journos.. imagine listenign to them amirite fellow Ganker badasses" gets you.
personally i never cared about open reviews. public opinions are too easy to sway with marketing or solicitation.
nah, I mainly just look at % positive/negative at a glance. If I see high positive percentage I know it's (very likely) not fair, and go read negative reviews. if I see high negative percentage it's probably fair and don't bother looking further
>public opinions are too easy to sway with marketing or solicitation
true, or the devs removing bad reviews (happened recently with suicide squad I think), but that just introduces a nother skill floor to this b***h of a game trying to know if a game is worthwhile
reviews are almost always worthless. i dont actually even understand why people read reviews, a review has never influenced my purchase decision. all i do is google the game and look at some random gameplay. and steam btw is also very very fricking shit at even this, because every store page lists 3-5 pre rendered cutscenes and hides the actual gameplay. steam just has no worth in the whole process of buying games, they just offer the download button.
The reviews made by people farming for (you)s are the only worthwhile ones?
all comments are shit
negative comments are what,
game crashes because I'm stupid
game crashes because my pc is shit
developer hates trans folk
developer loves trans folk
developer is a nazi
developer is not a nazi
based. all people are moronic. turn the internet off and avoid the suffering.
Those reviews still server their purpose, they are recommending the game. If you are the type of person who are interested in that type of game, and you see the game has 90% positive reviews even if 90% of the positive reviews have no substance, it's likely a very good game to purchase. Negative reviews are useful for identifying common issues and seeing if those bother you.
What about this review?
forgot to put it, this is literally the most top review.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/mmenolas/recommended/1363080/
>negative reviews are the only ones worthwhile
moron, negative reviews can be just as vapid as the positive ones. the only thing that should matter is time played and arguments.
you are just as stupid as the people looking only at the positive reviews
Just bought the game... The sheer potential this game has is unbelievable, besides the game looking good and having the best elements of other RTS games, such as Stellaris and frostpunk, this game promises a lot(HOW WAS THIS GAME MADE BY ONE PERSON?)
The game is perfectly playable at its current state and on top of that there is a 25% discount.
No it isn't and it utterly is not worth it at any price point right now.
>t. got raped by bandits
Hey chucklefrick.
This game was literally made by 1 guy. A single fricking person and it's lowkey better than 99% of AAA games. Could you make a better game? I doubt it. I've sunk 8 hours into the game and it's still hella fun, it's so refreshing to finally play a game made by someone who's passionate about their craft and not blinded by corporate greed. So instead of being a frickwad, maybe you could use your fricking brain? Or is that too much to ask since your IQ is lower than a potato.
Cope.
It's highkey complete shit. Go suck the dev's balls somewhere else you total homosexual.
Enough with the pathetic chumpfrickery you twit. Go back to playing fornite or fifa.
>it's lowkey better than 99% of AAA games
no its not you little Black person, it's barely a tech demo
Cool. Buy an ad
r*ddit moment
This guy's negative review was actually good and described stuff I ran into but I still like it a lot
It's gonna be so long before it's finished though. What's there is genuinely fun but the game is like half finished at best. And that fricking slav Black person won't hire more people.
>I wouldn't say it's early access yet
>I think in a year or 2 this will be a great game
this guy's a moron lol
>buy unfinished early access game
>complain the unfinished game you paid for is unfinished
Do early access cucks really do this? I wouldnt know i dont buy early access slop
This shit has been in development longer than most games took to finish.
because it's being done by 1 guy
notch vibes all over again
How do I force those stupid fricking artisans to do what I need? I need large shields and spear and not side arms and small shields.
you built the wrong thing moron
No I didn't because I just figured it out moron.
Click their home, go to advanced (If i remember rightly) and click what you want to make.
Go to their home and get on general. Should have the option to change what they produce.
You just don't get it. You don't get the VISION
All of those are good points. Game looks great, very organic, but the gameplay is whack
I agree with basically all of that, except the farming stuff since my first territory had dogshit fertility for every crop so I haven't tried any farming yet, but I still think the game is pretty fun overall. Once you get past around 12 houses the macro issues start becoming pretty significant and house-based production needs to be way clearer in the UI.
>make good looking but barebones city builder for seven years
>become millionaire
Damn, maybe I should try it as well.
Early Access has completely ruined PC gaming and you can't even offer criticism because of the moron horde running in with "IT'S STILL EA LOL JUST RELAX BRO THE REAL GAME WILL BE HERE IN A FEW YEARS"
It's the opposite of this shithole. Everyone here is a contrarian TORtanic gay and everyone on reddit and steam are full throat wiener riders. It's all so tiresome.
having to formulate an original thought must be so tiresome for you, I am sorry.
>wherever I am I must seethe
You're so smart and unique anon, not like those trannies over on reddit.
Steam reviews are completely compromised. I'd rather judge a game by Youtube comments these days.
>having an oxen
>fricking it
>game just came out
>what the frick? the people who reviewed it don't have much playtime?
>how could this be?
>haven't played game
>still review it as positive despite not knowing if that's true at all
your posts are as honest and useful as your reviews
Horse or Ox my hebrews?
Is there a difference?
Horses are only used in trading building
Most Steam reviews aren't helpful. I wish there was a 1-5 stars option
All the tryhard reviews already use a rating system of their own that's not just a thumbs up or down. Steam should implement it, would filter out the clown reviews as well to some extent.
I'm sad that it's so unfinished, and the backlash that's coming with that. I would have rather waited for a full game, so I'll just be pirating it.
Same, if it was 20 beaver bucks I'd say frick it and buy it while I wait for it to be finished but not for 38.
Greetings, I'm Shad.
jej
Quite a reasonable review. Farming is just him being mostly moronic and you can rally all of your dudes at once (he just doesn't know how)
>every issue listed is quality of life or game balance related, things which are most effectively identified and dealt with via playtesting and feedback
>"see, this is why early access shouldn't exist"
???
He's right though. This game is a tech demo at best and should be rightfully review bombed.
>the Ai is claiming territory left and right
why is thjis a problem? is there a lose condition where if the ai gets enough territory your game is over?
If you want an unclaimed teritory it costs 1k influence, teritory claimed by the AI costs 2k. It makes it very difficult if your started teritory doesn't have a good iron deposit or good farming ground.
Ultimately the AI will try to claim you and attack you with 100+ men and you lose the game. Its very, very aggressive (it can claim nearly all the map before you are close to start making claims).
When he start a claim, save and load the game, thge mercenaries and claiming progress dissappears
Farms seem fricking useless. Making ridiculously huge housing plots on the lowest housing density with huge vegtable gardens seems to work way better.
Where are you going to get your booze from?
You just buy it. There is a perk that makes mines have infinite yields. I just mass produce clay tiles and sell them.
Manor Lords, what a letdown! You'd think a game promising medieval grandeur would deliver, but nah, it's just a mess. First off, the graphics? More like graphics from the Dark Ages! Seriously, did they outsource the design to a bunch of blind monks? And don't even get me started on the gameplay. It's like watching peasants plod through mud - slow, tedious, and utterly soul-crushing. You'd have more fun herding sheep in a rainstorm.
And the controls? Ugh, it's like trying to navigate a labyrinth blindfolded. I spent more time wrestling with the interface than actually enjoying the game. Plus, the AI is about as sharp as a butter knife. I've seen more intelligent behavior from a sack of potatoes.
And let's talk about the bugs. I've encountered more glitches than there are stars in the sky. It's like the developers threw in the towel halfway through and said, "Eh, good enough." Well, newsflash, it's not!
Save your coins, folks. Manor Lords is a medieval mess that's better off gathering dust in the bargain bin.
Thank you GPT3.5 Turbo.
They should give us the ability to knight villagers.
the button is there in retinue customization but its not clickable yet.
Do Apiaries actually work? I have 3 families assigned and have never seen a unit of honey.
They do, your villagers might be gobbling it up
motherfrickers eat honey likes it honey
The game says gardens require labor. Like a full time job? Should I try to leave those families unassigned?
No, gardening is more like a side job
You can literally watch them do it though. Even regular farming only needs like 2-3 months of work a year. They spend most of their time plowing, then they sow for a bit and then they frick off to do other things while it grows for 9 months.
Is there any where to actually see where families are assigned? I have 9 families assigned but can only remember/find 8 by looking at random buildings.
You can click a house and see where they are assigned.
Pressing tab will show you any unassigned senpaitachi
Somehow I missed the whole tab thing, cheers.
Obviously I'd prefer something that lists 4x farmers, 2x woodcutters, etc. but that's something at least.
I think all you can do is hold tab and scroll around
Steam Reviewers are just as dumb and bad as professional reviewers are except they don't get paid shillbux by publishers like Doritos Pope & his Game Awards show does.
The reality is the best "review" is make a fukken demo and let people play it their own damn self--a practice that fell out when publishers realized if the game was a FAT TURD a demo would reduce sales.
Is crop harvesting bugged? I have 4 roughly .5 morgen sized fields and I walk away with 6 whole fricking wheat. How is that possible? Fertility is just under 30% which isn't good obviously but 6?
That sounds about right. 30% is very low
Idk wtf is happening. I guess I was one of the lucky ones which had 50% fertility for basically everything. My first farm was like 1.5 morgen but they only plow 1.0 for some reason. They literally leave the rest untouched. When they harvested the wheat to 55% fertility I only got 16. I did rye earlier and I remember getting like 40 so it might be a wheat thing. I'm still getting the bakery set up but I think bread lasts longer than other food. The initial 10 bread you get lasting for quite a while if those fricking bandits don't steal it.
Post towns or covid memes
dead thread
dead game
I think this person is moronic and trying to have a single gigantic field.
Plow upgrade is useful because 1 farmer with 1 ox is far more efficient than 1 farmer with 0 ox.
If you have multiple fields, you'll have a horde of farmers go do 3 fields or whatever while 1 guy takes the ox and does the fourth singlehandedly.
Yeah I think he doesn't know that you're supposed to make a lot of small plots instead of giant fields. Ox plowing is actually really good.
>ploughing the ox
Democrat thread
nothing gayer than letting an ox work the fields instead of good old fashion labor
That's what your veggie garden is for.
vegetable gardens are the ultimate solution to the food question
>game gives unparalleled freedom to build housing area with flexible roads
>people just build grid shit like cities skylines/anno
>I can literally differentiate Americans from thumbnails on twitch.
shut up moron
It's also pretty dumb to make minimum sizes carrot patches because the yield depends on surface, so he's wasting a ton of labor on multiple families when he could make 1 big carrot patch and have just 1 family take care of it instead.
how big of a field can one family harvest
guy explores it a bit here
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he didnt really analyze which one is the best
cities is specifically the anti grid game, grids just turbo rape your traffic and its a traffic management sim
Grid is the ultimate solution.
my 1000 years old city has multiple districts (very unusual yes), one of them, the newest one is exactly this, grids grids grids, everything is the same, i fricking hate visiting it, without a gps map i could easily get lost there, BUT when im the one planning the city in a videogame i can see the efficiency of this approach
>BUT when im the one planning the city in a videogame i can see the efficiency of this approach
You can tell that modern city planners just don't give a shit about people.
Non capimus.
Does the longer house make it so you get more vegetables? I have three or four veggie farms and they produce barely anything.
yes it does and it says so in the description. Only works for carrots and orchid farms.
yeah the bigger the vege patch land the more yield, keep in mind it still has to be tilled, sowed and harvested
Do the people living there do that or do the farm house people do it?
pretty sure it's the residents of the plots, I think they'll store some veges to fulfil their own household needs before the rest get transported to the marketplace
its the people living them. But who exactly im not sure. I dont even know who is working where in this game, is it a family, is it one person or what is going on
>have to pay a ton of money for a trade route
>If you use the trade route the price plummets to nothing
:^)
The merchants always win ;^)
every trade route pays for itself!
buy more trade routes!
Where do you even unlock trade routes? All my trading posts tell me I need them but they won't tell me where to open one
Needs an option to limit the prices at which you sell.
*hand rubbing intensifies*
So... what is the appropriate state to release a game into early access?
Peoject zomboid build 41. Rimworld build 18. PUBG was only good in early access and went to shit immediately after full release.
finished gameplay loop, and probably $1/hour content ratio.
you can raise the price as you add more stuff to your game, as long as that ratio (or better) continues to hold true.
at the moment I paid $40AUD and after 5 hours I feel like I've seen the whole game.
Somewhere a lot further along than this. I've got about 7 hours played and there's nothing else to see or do. For $30 ($40 without launch discount), that's not reasonable. A city builder with the longevity of a COD campaign is just inexcusable.
What the hell are you people talking about? There's no way you're reaching anywhere near done with a game at 5-7 hours.
Unless you literally just mean "oh welp I built one of most of the buildings, I'm out of CONTENT". That's just begging for arbitrary locks to draw out playtime rather than wanting a game with proper systems in place to build organically.
No, I mean I built everything and solved all the problems so now all that is left is capturing more plots and literally doing it over again whilst having to wrangle an absurd self-trade system where it costs the same for a piece of bread as it does for plate armor.
all this while the AI can just capture all the other plots because it has infinite resources/influence.
I can play much simpler games for much longer because they have DEPTH, you don't need "content" if you have depth, which this game does not have (yet, hopefully)
if Im wrong, please tell me how someone can play this game for 5+ hours and still have new experiences?
The same way every that scale inherently changes every other city builder ever made.
I mean for fricks sake you get people saying this is worse than banished here, a game with almost the exact same combat and even less systems in place than this.
This is objectively worse than Banished. It's a deeply unfinished clone of it. To claim otherwise is just shilling.
The game has a superset of Banished features, that's just moronic.
What does Banished have that Manor Lords lacks? The stupid school system and a river to fish on?
it doesn't really change that meaningfully with scale though, in city builders you have "is this local area covered by all services" and "can people get/leave here" both of which should scale with population so you have to find new and interesting ways to manage them, especially transport as that actually requires thought rather than just building more service buildings, good city builders will also have higher tier service buildings which might have requirements that make using them more interesting too.
this game doesn't do that, you just go "do they have enough food/firewood" and then you sprinkle on some other services for higher tier houses (only 2 tiers btw) and that's it, you don't have to worry about the streets piling up with un-transported bread, there's nothing to solve outside of basically the two problems and then it's just building more wheat farms or more woodcutters or more charcoal burners.
and like, every starts the same, hunting and berries which can support X population, it's basically a solved game in that you could play it by reading from a list of instructions.
there's the bones of a good game here but in it's current state there's not much to it.
Are you playing at 4x speed? I'm at 11 hours and I haven't built everything yet because this game is very very slow. Not sure why everyone has to be le ebin contrarian 100% of the time. Just be honest.
yea, most of the time. This is how all management/building/4x games are played
This sounds like a dreadful time. I can't imagine playing Farthest Frontier or Anno like that.
Explain right now how you would stretch the abysmally low amount of content and depth in the game right now beyond that amount of play time. Because there's nothing to do and most mechanics and systems are not even available in the game at the moment. There's no build variety, no cosmetic elements, at least half the tech tree is locked, no political systems yet, the AI cheats so it always steamrolls the map with infinite money and troops. All there is to do is build the same mud huts over and over and wrangle with the clumsy economy and trading systems.
You can release it, just make it free. Use the early access phase to get feedback.. Charging people 40$ to Alpha test your 40% finished game should be illegal.
there are demos which are free and then theres early access which is an investment
dev should at least have had the decency to flesh out the few things that currently are in the game
combat is a fricking joke, farming is utterly broken and there are only 2 laws and a couple of skill-points, half of which are total ass (like beeswax having no use in the game yet)
>everyone hypes up manor lords "release"
>turns out it didn't release, still in early access and most of the features missing
I hate EA, both of them
>tax the frick out of village to afford mercenaries to defend against imminent raid
>approval tanks but at least I won't get pillaged
>hire company one week before raid, they arrive just in time
>3 packs of 18 brigands incoming
>herewefrickinggo.jpg
>they see my mercenaries, they frick off and despawn without fighting
>I'm now poor
KEK. I figured the first fight should be easy enough that the 20 weapons they gave you for free can handle it. I simply put my 20 guys in defense formation and flanked with my 4 retinue bros and btfo'd them.
Also there's a special tax you can do specifically for mercs but idk if it works in EA.
Show me your farms right now
look at this gay bragging he spawned on farmable land
>not rerolling until you were on farmable land or had a good adjacent farming region
Let me guess you also savescum in every RPG.
There's no such thing as "savescum", monkey. If the devs didn't want me to use saving and loading they would not have made it a feature and instead relied on checkpoints and autosaves.
ok shitter
I'm making it work
checkd
Why? Everyone will have the exactly same buildings that look exactly the same.
I cannot fathom why someone would spend their time being as sour as you that someone is enjoying something they don't enjoy
This is my small farming village in the Rundling layout style.
cool
Why would you waste a clay source to build a church? Are you a moron? This isn't on line game to show off your town fricking moron, go play sims
>Why would you waste a clay source to build a church?
Because i literally have 3 more. Why would you destroy a Church and Hallowed Ground to build an ugly mining pit?
Do you not believe in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
Heretics like you burn at the cross
dont mind me, just pirating your exquisite layout
It's not mine to be pirated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundling
This failure has me in the mood for city builders. What should I get instead? Already have the likes of Banished, Anno 1800, and Cities Skylines, as well as classics like Sim City 4 and Pharaoh. What's good in this genre lately?
Farthest Frontier if you like Age of Empires. Still early access but it's version 0.9.
Nobody ever mentions Songs of Syx in these threads, is it just a meme game?
its basically finished manor lords with worse graphics, it doesn't get mentioned because a lot of people switch off immediately when seeing the graphics (dev himself has said hes had a really difficult time marketing).
I have about 20 hours in a save and I feel like im just scratching the surface
It's been dominating my life recently, absolutely fantastic game though I'm yet to actually hit end or even mid game yet because I keep restarting when I theorycraft a new idea for a cool city. It's like a larger scale Rimworld with actual progression
We've fought the bastard off!
HUZZAH
Nevermind
>fight him off
>get attacked by outlaws
>another stack of units comes from the AI
Good night sweet Christhill
>sees a sea of white faces
>starts thinking about Black folk
rent free
>play game
>not bad not bad but still a long way to go
>how long has it been worked on so far?
Seven fricking years? This dude is developing at the speed of Notch.
How the frick do I make use of a second region after claiming it?
I have a pack station but I cannot use it to send the two most crucial resources: logs and workers
With all resources and population stuck on 0 I might as well have not claimed it at all
Please respond
Luke, use the horse.
Go to admin tab in building
There should be an option to put down tents and start a new town, it will cost money
>Ganker hypes KCD
>turns out be a janky mess
>Ganker hypes Bannerlord
>absolute scam, bannercucks still thanking Cyberjunk to this day for taking the heat
>Ganker hypes mordhau
>game dead after 2-3 months
>Ganker hypes manorlords
>ea unfinished milking scam
east eu shitholers keep scamming the shit out of Gankerirgins who never learn lmao
>I liked all of these games
Manorlords feels way unfinished though, if you want a game like it that is way further in development but looks like shit, try Farthest Frontier.
Manor Lords really does give the same vibes as Bannerlord. Very worrisome.
nah
manorlord is still playable despite being a puddle deep game, bannerlord was not (constant crashes and gamebreaking bugs).
>game with nearly same name gives of the same vibes
KCD is top fricking tier bud, an amazing game. Bannerlord was a fricking bait and switch for sure. Never played mordhau. Manor lords is potential: the game. Time will tell how it proceeds.
>spam the same combat move or get punished
>horse riding is a bug/crash gamble
>soulless oblivion tier cities/villages
>skyrim civil war tier battles lmao
the only redeeming thing about KCD is the wholesome characters and 2-3 fun quests, that's it.
You just don't appreciate history. The simple minded rarely do.
Nah, not even him, I love history but he has the right of it. That game was extremely mediocre. Charming quests and characters, pretty graphics, dogshit everything else.
>charming quests and characters
What more do you want out of an RPG? Oh I get it, you're the kind of person that loves Bethesda games aren't you?
The demo was really fun and seemed really polished but with a lack of content. It wasn't unreasonable to assume the guy added more since then. Unfortunately he did but not nearly enough.
KCD needed one last good patch for it to be great. It's still quite rough around the edges.
all of those games are good and gave me the funs
>absolute scam
qrd? I played it and found it a bit boring. It seems nice but it's not for me.
bannerlord is objectively a bad game
Just explain a little more. What's bad about it.
He can't because he's a moron who forms his opinion from regurgitation of Ganker and le epic oldgays. People who shit on Bannerlord are literal morons who compare Bannerlord to modded warband, and quickly forget that compeltely native warband is extremely barebones and shit and the actual Warband experience everyone remembers is usually from having a shitload of mods tacked on, even to "native" modules. Bannerlord's modding scene is just not as good yet. As a standalone game it is infinitely better than Warband.
Game feels fun so far. Starting a new run after getting a feel for what to do.
this game actually sucks
refunded it quickly
I've never seen anything so heavily botted/shilled, it's like the devs spent 1 million + dollars on bots and shills, its actually wild
going to come out eventually and it will be a fun scandal to read about
>nobody has ever been genuinely excited for something
>it must be shills!
What compels you cretins to think like this? A lifetime devoid of happiness?
the disconnect between available content + quality of available content, and the outpouring of 'hype' for this game, which is objectively bad and almost unplayable
I refuse to believe people can play what is available and still be excited for it, because it's not good
the only conclusion I can draw, logically, is that the hype is manufactured and the pre-release wishlish figures are botted, which is something eastern european slavic scumbag homosexuals would have no moral issues with doing
I played the game for like 4 hours and realized I was playing wrong then got excited to play it correctly
I wanted the game to be good
I bought into the hype, I watched the trailers, I was interested
then I actually played the game, and within literally 10 minutes I knew I was the one who had been played
Sad truth...
I really enjoyed the demo two years ago. I had expected and hoped this would be a much more complete and fleshed out version of that. Instead, it's literally just that again with nothing new at all. What a massive disappointment.
>Play for a bit
>When do I unlock more buildings
>Oh....
Theres fricking nothing to the game
>tfw you finally realize what everyone has been saying for the last 24 hours
oh to be black again
like
fricking archers don't even work
you make a medieval rts/building game without archers in the first playable release?
frick off, these homosexuals played us
I promise you they are swarthy, fat, and gloating over the scam they just pulled successfully
He made a medieval city building game where you can't make wall without bricking your city, lol.
Does this game even have a goal or is it another "make your own fun, bro" shit?
It's another spend your money now and check back in 5 years to see if the developer didn't scam you game
What he said
There is literally 0% chance they will finish the game. The game is just too fricking successful so devs don't have any financial insentive to work on the game. They will release one patch once a month that fixes a couple of bugs and that's it.
You're supposed to conquer all the regions on the map to win the game. Currently there's an off-map AI opponent with infinite resources but the game rules show that there can also be on-map AI opponents with their own towns you can attack.
How do you get money in this game? And how do you get sheep/livestock?
Trade to make money and buy livestock
You only have sheep now and they only have wools
how the frick does the npc gain influence so fast
Cheats. It just has infinite resources and isn't even building on the map with you.
It takes years for me to even afford mercenaries rushing income meanwhile this c**ts running around with a 250 man army
The meta now seems like you should build your manor asap and tax your pop, just dont make the approval rating go under 50
Why did they make literally the worst game ever? Kinda weird tbh...
They did not
Tortanicgay is blowing shit up as usual
First they said the game is a scam and all the video and images are fake
Now they said the dev will run away with his money
alright sisters the dev's response to everyone in the community turning on him impressed me.
the only city builder i played was against the storm, for about 20 hours. if i REALLY like manorialism, should i get this game? i've never been a huge city builder guy....
and again i LOVE manorialism. i've even founded the largest manorialist party in Minnesota.
I can tell from that statement he wants larion tier developers at jeet prices. Well maybe now that he's a millionaire he can afford to hire competent devs. Talent costs money.
Should wait for a patch at least
He seems to try to fix a few annoying balances
this guy has no real reason to finish the game now
he's scooped a cool 3 million bucks or so, he can frick off forever if he wants
if gamedev was my real passion it would make me want to work on it more, I just got 3 million dollars? Never need to worry about making rent, groceries, ANYTHING ever again while I can just comfy work on my game.
>they miss deadlines
Ironic
Just wait, anon. You've got tons of other games to play, this one will be worth playing in the end, dude doesn't seem like he can't make this game good it's just that he hasn't yet. People will complain and you can't really fault them for it but this is what early access is for. Hope it's not Kenshi time scale of EA though.
Its over, here is the next patch
Main points for the planned next patch:
-Fix all the weird homeless bugs
-Tune the archer damage
-Tune the trade oversupply mechanics (it's too harsh and punishes regional specialization)
-Slow down the rate of the AI claiming territories
-Improve the sawpit efficiency / storage.
Well, those are fine fixes and changes. But waiting for him to actually finish this game is probably going to be more glacially than the game itself.
I normally play niche shit like Grindr. Will I like this game?
glad i didnt pay for this
genuinely shouldnt have been released at this state, but the money grab worked
I don't even get how people need farming, as far as I played I just got by with vegetable gardens, berry picking and hunting.
1-2 goat extensions for t1 homes and hunting is enough hides usually so the rest of t1 can just be eggs and veggies, but then again I always started in the poor fertility regions that either got big hunting or berry nodes.
Going over 200 pops is pretty difficult without other food sources
200 pop as in 200 families? I got about 80 families right now and I'm having surplus food, but I don't think I can grow the town much more without making it look ugly as frick by just cleacutting the woods.
>not sorting reviews by "minimum 100 hours played"
for the time travelers
okay time to try the final battle again
ez
time to try the hardest difficulty now, knowing what is a waste of time and what isnt
How long did that play-through take you?
12 hours roughly
i did lose the first attempt to an AI, the second one went much smoother but still not great
I got the warning about bandits coming in 1 year
I weighed my options and decided to buy the missing spears and shields from the trade post.
I don't think I will afford it but let's see.
just hire mercenaries
>just hire mercenaries
>when you won't even have a manor to set taxes until around the time the frickers arrive
They're easy to produce domestically
>watch review by the guy who received game before EA
>he points out everything in the game and what is missing
>says that game is about 50% finished
>don't buy yet if that's not enough for you
meanwhile Ganker
>I WAS SCAMED, THEY SAID(never points out who are those """"""""they"""""""") IT WAS COMPLETELY FINISHED, I PLAYED IT FOR 7 HOURS AND WANT A REFUND, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
thats very unusual. I call it sus
Who would buy an early access game only to not try it though?
whats a backlog
I for one only put complete games with all the DLC bundled into my backlog
I have several games i bought and didn't start yet because they are still deep in early access and i don't feel like spoiling my first playthrough with wip version.
This game is just Against the Storm with none of the depth. Its nice looking but that's pretty much it, there's no goal and no interesting decisions to make. This game needs like year or two in the dev, its not ready for even as a demo.
>This game needs like year or two in the dev, its not ready for even as a demo.
it's solo dev making it, to expand to even small team he will need capital. If he wants to actually make the game in that time best thing he could do is to release what he has as alpha, get money, hire people and speed up work
I just took a really big, steamy shit into the toilet all by myself, wanna come and see?
It doesnt matter if its solo dev or 999 dev or whatever, if the product is bad it should not be on sale, it should be on developement and wait for release.
This game feels like the usual EA scam. Will see in a year if its worth investing my time and money in, right now there's dozens of better city builders out there.
A
I've got my village at the bottom right and my Iron mining top left
am I supposed to build a few houses close to the mining thing? My people take like 50 fricking years to walk from their home to this place
Who cares? Time has no meaning in the game anyway. Just assign everyone to the mine for a month and you'll be drowning in iron. There really is not that much depth to the game.
The game lacks basic management tools. I can't see where my people are working, I can't see how much shit I produce and consume, and how much wealth I make. I need to manually click every building to find working families and re-assign them.
Some people might say it is intended, since it's a medieval sim, abd therefore it should not have any kind of financial reports. But even ancient sims like Caesar 3 had better management.
I skipped all tutorials, should I make big houses or small ones?
So the enemy AI has claimed nearly the entire map and then claimed the section that I had already claimed. Tried to stop him and his army is hundreds of dudes. What the frick are you supposed to do at that point?
same thing happened to me, I tried negotiating some sort of peace bribe in the region map but the UI is bugged and I couldn't adjust the offer. Regardless, he accepted even though his army stayed in the battlefield until the timer ran down and then they fricked off.
Alright according to the steam forums the AI gets influence by killing bandit camps early game. If you wipe out the camps ASAP it shouldn't be able to spam claim the entire goddamn map.
Instead of development points there should be research, craftsmen training (apprentices,
journeymen, masters) and buying crops for specialization.
>Single household whines about not having food
>Look at the house
>Not even a minute walk from the market
Lazy bastards
Umm Sir, you're not supposed to write actual reviews. Memes and jokes only.
my manors didnt manor so well
>raiders literally walk in with an army of 15 when i can only rally 10 and rape my manors and after they rape it, another bandit camp spawns and starts a scripted attack (?)
jesus fricking christ do i really need to watch some HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR FIRST WINTER shit or just turn the combat off
The raider appear 2 years after you start a game you moron. If you only managed to get 10 men in 2 years then you should uninstall and play survivor games or diablo 4
lmao i am getting freezing manorerer and homeless warning after i rebuilt my houses from the bandit rape and they don't wanna reclaim them
no you moronic gorilla Black person they literally walked into my camp with inpunity in the first winter, even if i had 15 people they would win because the AI gets no penalties from marching in snow
are you playing 0.7 build? I only ever get raiders invading 1 year after starting and you get a prompt to track their moves and have 365 days to prepare
0 7 954, i think im done with the game though. systems seem like they are either weirdly confusing or broken, really reminded me of playing cities 2. you cant have the simulation aspects be confusing in a game liek this. like i have half the town working on planks and half the town transporting them i should be getting planks.
>this could've been a Mount and Blade mod
Damn
He's not wrong. It's still comfy as a city builder, but I did expect more after the demo 2 years ago. Other than adding the combat and nerfing farming to the ground, it really hasn't changed all that much. It's still lacking in many areas.
>Other than adding the combat and nerfing farming to the ground, it really hasn't changed all that much.
So he made total war game, added it to the game and its "nothing"?
You've never played total war.
Oh I forgot, he should have added lord that can solo 1000 men, true total war experience in 2024
You've never played total war.
meanwhile gameplay of most popular total war game
If you compare Total War to Manor Lords you've never played Total War or Manor Lords.
Manor Lords has worse city building aspects than Farthest Frontier
And not even close to Total War scale of battels or strategy. You will never see more than 200vs200 units in this game.
This is a fricking 2024 game, but the gameplay mechanics, economy, battle systems and fun is somehow worse than Stronghold a game from FRICKING 2001. Greg should either hire a team or just cancel this project.
i'm pretty sure you can select all and rally. also not sure how so many are having issues with food. you just need berries, hunting, and wheat. you can use multiple ox to plow if you have multiple farm houses, but only one ox is necessary. just manage your pop to assign them to farming whenever march rolls around. the bigger issue is harvesting since it only gives you a single month to do it, but even then you still harvest enough to feed ~50 families for a year.
Are farms worthless? I only got a small handful of grain from mine, barely enough for a few loafs of bread
Also got some hunter upgrades at the start, but hunting also seems really shit, the animals just don't repopulate fast enough for it to be even remotely reliable
Just want a successor to Banished. That game was fricking comfy and awesome with all the mods. Will modding be available for ML?
I really wish there was some way to manage livestock at pack stations and stables. I have an ox at my pack station which is absolutely useless and I can't see any way of moving him to a stable.
No female warriors?
ERM Problematic much??
This is literally what people wanted from Manor Lords, Manor lords even badly copied the farming system from this game
All these early access town building games play the same
Its more finished than Manor Slops, you have more realistic farming system to plan ahead with land fertility as well as removing stones from the field and having to deal with different plants being planted on different season.
You also have now better military system and NPC have better AI and pathfninding
Honestly, people shilling Manor Lords over Farthiest Frontier feels as if people tried to shill project zomboid over Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead
And looks like shit with moronic fog of war
lmfao that final sentence is golden, you're just the CDDA schizo that posts in every zomboid thread ever. kys shill
>good game comes out
>Ganker seethes about it for weeks
Like clockwork
Its not good. Its literally unfinished slop that was overrated by some mongols who never played base building medieval sims
Post playtime.
I pirated it. Can't imagine people who bought it, do anything other than cope over getting scammed.
Post playtimes of other medieval sims.
EA game is unfinished?! Holy shit you might be on to something here. You're a goddamn genius anon. 180 IQ for sure. At least.
whats their problem
its an unfinished game AI, if NPC won't go to buy the resources, you will have to wait for months until he does
>buy early access
>complain it's early access
Next time don't buy unfinished games, like all normal people do.
I expected it to be a bit of a bullshot but this is crazy how shallow manor lords is. What did he do this whole time? There's just nothing. 10 hours and you've seen everything. That's really fricking awful for a city builder, but this is also not just a city builder but has RTS-lite army fighting and AI opponents yet somehow still has less to see than games without those aspects.
Thats why im suprised too. For all the hype in 2024 game i was expecting Total War 2 tier fighting with Stronghold 2 type economy and siege elements.
But the game itself is simpler than Stronghold 1, we already have dozen medieval city builders better than this, i doubt it even beats Banished in term of city building.
This is honestly dissapointing, when i first played Mount&Blade, it early access blew my mind becuase it was first time you could engage in battles like this, but now Manor Lords is as hyped while adding NOTHING new to the genre and doing WORSE than their older "clones"
This is worse than No Man Sky and Fallout 76 dissapointment. And I'm Polish so i really wanted to shill it as polish game representation
KCD2 is firmly repping the slav dev mantle.
Kingdom Come 2 gonna be huge.
Although i still give props to Manor Lords for not making it woke and not letting women into the army
>What did he do this whole time?
Rebuiding the marketplace system over and over for years.
I agree with alot of what that man said.
I've only played for about ten hours, so I might be wrong, but enemies don't appear to have any cities. They're just this looming off screen threat that tries to occupy the map and sends mercs at you. I hope they change that so I can actually fight them
WHERE THE FRICK IS THE GOAT MEAT GOING TO HUH?
This but also sheep
No mutton? I spend a development point for this shit
>tfw my dream game is Europa 1400: The Guild recreated as a system within a larger simulation like Manor Lords
>tfw this isn't even close to being it
The search across these barren lands continue. Someday, some indieBlack person will choose to put down his pixleshit anime inspired allegory for depression and loss and make a success to 1400 The Guild
Did you play The Guild 3?
My dream game is Battle Brothers in 3D environment like Munt&Blade where you also manage castles and villages. However the fights are more realistic like in Neo Scavenger, where instead visible HP bars you would only get info of whether your head is bruised or bleeding and you will also have chance to get your warrior killed by a single well aimed arrow
Why would anyone care about making something to your specifications? You'd just find some reason yo shit on it.
Make your own game (you won't)
Strategy is so shit. What the point of specialization if every region has all the resources? Wow i get 40 deers instead of 20, im sure going to invest in hunting town!! Frick off, game would be better if you had zero deers, but you could conquer a region that had unique forests with unlimitet hunting game (but for example no stones or iron in it at all) and THEN you could invest in protecting it and building a village of hunters
This is the most boring map i ever seen in city builders
Uhh.. skill issue uhh.. its early access ehh.. i mean its just one guy deving it...
Yeah, there's not much strategy or decision making, its like really thin Against the Storm.
>delays it 3+ years to 'greatly expand the systems'
>release it
>the AI opponent doesn't actually exist, doesn't build a competing settlement
>it's just an infinite number generator off-map that has infinite resources and is preprogrammed to harass you in specific ways
I played Age of Empires 2 Custom Scenarios on MSN Game Zone more complex than this 25 fricking years ago. Frick off.
>this diarrhea reminds me ostriv exists
>go to check it out
>barely any progress has been made
>worse, the dev has gone schizo and rants about muh russia in most of his patch notes now
convinced that he’s the schizo that’s shitting up every manor lords thread
everyone b***hing about difficulty you have no idea how easy you got it
build the mass graves and dont upgarde building if you dont have the industry for clothing
yea, its not normal clothes that they b***hing about
before i upped the difficulty i did not even notice any requirements that they have unless its to upgrade the level of the house
STOP STOP! GRIDS DID NOT EXIST IN MEDIEVAL TIMES. EVERYONE WAS TOO moronic BACK THEN!
Trading is fricking broken, in the bad way. Sell one fricking batch of a produced good like roof tiles and the market is instantly "critically oversupplied" forever and they're worth less than the clay was.
I noticed that as well, normally in these games the selling price of goods rises the more steps of processing the goods have gone through plus limited resources give more than unlimited ones
In Manor Lords selling processed goods ends with you making a big loss. From what I've tried so far the best export is livestock
A sheep farm and livestock trading post makes more money than clay pit + woodcutter + clay furnace > to sell roof tiles
is there some easier way to manage ur citizens than going into the buildings and clicking the +- buttons
pretty sure there are a hotkey but no general panel yet no
Problem is if there was, half the play time would just be staring at that window since allocation has no automation functions
how do i stop my joiner from eating all of my planks?
i'm trying to build my manor but ALL of my planks are being sent to the joiner to make wooden parts and there's it looks like there's no option to stop him other than destroying his house
theres an option to pause production at the house screen.
So what is this game then, Banished but with multiple towns and combat?
I don't know what you guys are talking about
I'm having a blast
Whenever a new game, indie/made by a small business game comes out you see that kind of thread with hundred of anons calling it the worst game ever made. Then when the thread dies it's back to the current AAA slop spam from poojets like currently with the fallout stuff/frogBlack person threads.
Very organic.
Big corporations became so SHIT at making games that now instead of just shilling their own trash they also pay thirdies to shit on anything that might create a competition, and indies must be snuffed as fast as possible before they become a threat because unlike them they know how to make good games.
One dollar spent on an indie game is a dollar that EA/Activision/Bethesda etc won't see.
I rather spend my time and money to a game thats 1. bug free
2. meaningful choices
3. not betatest it
And thats why these EA scams can frick off, this thing needed 1 more year in the oven before doing this.
>early access game is in... early access?NOOOOOO, HOW CAN THAT BE? THE DEV LITERALLY FORCED ME TO BUY IT! I WAS TRICKED!
I didnt buy the game tho and glad i didnt since it was the usual EA scam. The game is not in a publishable state.
fallout has a popularity spike because of the tv show
you see everything in 5 hours
Just reached 500 pop and won my first battle.
I challenged Hildebolt on his first claim on my first game and got rekt. Started a new game and was able to do it at about 100 population by hiring a bunch of mercenaries. Kinda fun.
Those look very comfy anon.
SOVL
What should be my first year goals if playing on the harder difficulty? I ate through all my bread before I started picking berries and then ran into an issue where my hunter couldn't supply enough meat to upgrade burg plots. ordering an extra oxen also didn't seem nessecary
I feel like the logging camp needs a dedicated oxen by year 2. But yeah, berries are super important early, that and logging camp are the two things I build first, then granary, etc.
Trading is also crazy OP once you get the perk for it as well.
i recommend playing with no starting supplies at all
>Freeze happens
>bread gone
>only a few animals
>no berries
god damn, that one is definitely a mad rush
I'll form my opinions on the game after I finished watching this stream
the vtuber thing is still going?
perchance, western vtubers are trash though, they completely miss the point of being a vtuber
agreed mostly but i liked some of the ID ones, i have a thing for weird trilingual HAPA things that barely speak either of the 3 languages because i can relate
the point is for ugly people to farm simp money
that's what westoids think, which is why they suck, they're obsessed with being "genuine" and "true to themselves" so they're always very on the nose about the fact that they're just ugly old women using an avatar, just being themselves all the time talking about their worthless prostitute lives, japanese vtubers understand that the real point is putting on a performance where they act as an idealised anime character, not just generic western prostitute but with a mask on
western vtubers adopted the western streamer persona, which doesnt really exist in japan. instead a lot of the biggest japanese vtubers are ex and current egirls who know they are there to provide gfe. though a certain number of western vtubers, as well as streamers also fall into this category. its just that the "brah im so wacky but im also a carefully constructed brand that has to act as a voice of authority to my fans so it looks like i'm doing anything but shilling" doesnt really exist in japan. japanese have absolutely zero regard for dignity or integrity and 90% of their interaction with their fan boils down to "look at this product and go buy it"
there's been streamers in japan too, that are not too different from western ones, but it's all been males with a facecam who were usually ex pro players at an e-sports team who retired into being streamers, female streamers in japan have been pretty uncommon, for one thing there aren't female pro players who could retire into streaming and secondly japanese value privacy very highly, they don't like showing their faces, names, or any personal info about themselves online at all, probably the fact that most japanese live in a small area in or near tokyo contributes to the fact, if you have beef with someone you can just find them and stab them irl, in the west people are a lot more spread out, even if an italian guy has online beef with a guy from arkansas it's very unlikely that they'd ever get near each other, so japanese especially women are a lot more careful about being known online, to which vtubing offered a good way of being online without sharing any of their personal information, and they understand that they're competing for the attention of guys who have all the movies and tv shows at their fingertip, so they have to put something on the table that will entertain them, for westoids the privacy thing is just largely moot, they're very straight up about "hey it's me stacy cuckson, and this is vtuber avatar lol", there's also a level of cultural difference, westoids always care about being genuine and honest, and that absolving you of bad things for some reason, like if you're being upfront and honest about being a prostitute who just has an avatar to bait simps then that somehow makes it better because you're just telling it like it is, and hate people being "fake", while japanese have no qualms about being fake, honne and tatemae and all that, and the point of being a vtuber is being fake, be fake, creative and intersting, I don't care about the stupid, boring prostitute life of someone even if they put on an anime mask
they could just stream without a webcam
internet already allows for anonymity by default unless you are in china or nk i guess
some people used to do that, but nobody likes being a faceless voice or listening to a faceless voice, both for the streamer and the viewer having an identity with a face to match feels a lot better, even if it's a drawing, like in japan just writing the script for a video and having a tts read it out loud is pretty common too, for people who don't even want to show their voice, that's how much the japs care about not sharing personal info, vtubers are a good halfway point for a lot of people, especially women who feel especially vulnerable if people found them irl, they can have an identity without showing their real face, and they can hide their voice to a degree too by changing the tone and pitch that they talk in, making the whole thing naturally lean into ad lib acting more than just being a western style streamer with a mask on, since westoids have no real concerns about privacy and safety, as well as a cultural basis of being honest and genuine, even if you do bad things, because being honest absolves you of the sin of doing a bad thing, they end up completely missing the point and reasons of being a vtuber, it's no real mystery that vtubing is drying up in the west, it has no real basis for existing in that culture and they only very superficially imitated what the japanese do while betraying the core tenets of it
>nobody likes being a faceless voice or listening to a faceless voice
Frick you. Twitch was tremendously better when facecams wasn't as proliferated as they are now. I take a voice with gameplay without facecam any day over seeing some soiboi face pretending to act obviously forced persona.
you're autistic so nobody cares
We evolved most of our intelligence and empathy to observe human faces and read their mental states, emotions and wellbeing. You are 100% severely autistic.
I don't understand. Why does it have to be one or the other? Plenty of OF girls do good gfe but you still 100% know that it's all an act and you're paying by the hour or whatever. I'd rather have the girl be honest about selling sex and treat me like a customer rather than pretend that she's doing nothing wrong yet constantly begging for money. I hate the famous "e-girl pretends she's single so that her 1million fans keep thinking they have a chance."
I hate all you fricking simps giving these women the attention they crave
I watch Jap vtubers because I just think that the Japanese language sounds cute, even though I can't understand them.
Why the frick can you only make 6 militia units.
Not even 6, 6 minus however many retinue units you have. Shit's moronic.
who are going to fight. And you can have up to 8 retinues on top of militia, just make sure you dont loose any of the militia completely
Disappointingly simple game. Looks like the only challenge is to cover the map in urban sprawl. Anyone tried it yet? This is my progress so far.
>the only challenge
up difficulty to the highest and discover that your peasants actually have demands
I am playing on highest difficulty, but with bandit camps off because I don't like pausing my shit to play whack a mole.
i think the dev intended way to beat the game is to pac man ur way thru the bandit camps and keep buying mercenaries and prevent the ai from snowballing but i dont know i played like 1hr before rageclosing the game
why does every other house look the same?
solo dev please understand
Kinda related but my reviews are always sterile, succinct and serious while trying to be helpful. I'm pretty sure people think I'm either a shill when my review is positive or a gpt bot.
fact of the matter is that nobody cares about being helpful or logic or whatever, at the end of the day long essays are just convoluted, full of subjective things and of course different people have different priorities, the only thing that people really care about is a consensus, how many people like the game, and how many people don't like the game, and how many of those people are from tribes that I identify with and how many are from tribes that I consider my enemy, this is why reviews like op's and the "x thousand hour played negative reviews" baffle most people, you might think that they're just being logical and objectively evaluating the game, but realistically, nobody cares, if you played the game for a long time, or if you think the game is decent then you should be on the side of people who like the game, not the opposite, long story short, people care about tribalism and picking sides over efforts at being logical and objective
Which sucks because I take time to read non-memeish reviews and mark them as helpful if they really are. I combine that and watching the first 10-15 minutes of gameplay before committing myself to playing a game. But I keep finding myself having to scroll longer and longer to find such reviews as opposed to meme-ish ones.
the "meme-ish" reviews are what people care about, or more accurately they care about reviews that raise the flag of a tribe and then declare their stance, long helpful essays about evaluating the game are irrelevant for most people, they want to see "I'm from northland tribe and I support this game" or "I'm from the gray sea tribe and I oppose this game" of course fill the tribe names with whatever conemporary group you can think of, this is what matters to people and what they really care about, granted people are more likely to use codewords specific to a tribe to show their support or opposition of a game, which you probably consider "meme reviews"
does anyone know whether tools currently serve any purpose?
I don't think they do anything - they had a purpose in the demo from earlier on but can't recall what.
Feel like they speed up building. Took forever to build a level 2 church without any tools.
nope, nothing
> beeswax: 0 use
> tools (and thus Smithy): 0 use as well
I'm now unironically blackpilled, no way this "game" is a passion project
because if it were then the dev would have found the time to implement this (which really shouldn't take that long) or at least would have had the decency to not include it in the curret version of the game at all - because at the moment it is nothing but a cheap decoy to trick people into thinking there is more to this game than there really is
i dont think he needs to trick anyone with that level of hype. The game clearly was worked on for some time and then he decided that its good enough or that he likes to eat food and released it. Most of the time obviously went towards graphics which is a right call for a huge audience of normalgays
>spawn in a fertile land
>build field in a deep green fertility area
>place it near a cute little river
>enable crop rotation leaving every third year fallow
>fence it and let animals herd there when it's fallow
>sacrifice a goat for good harvest every year
>fertility maxxing wherever I can
>check crop fertility after 5 years
>stuck at 20%
What the frick did they mean by this?
sorry nitrogen fertilizers are not invented yet
20% is a tad low for a field that is only used for crops 2/3 years and well maintained outside of that, don't you think?
assuming it had 100% fertility to begin with
the best ive seen were 60%
Now when you say you enabled rotate crops, are you doing 2 years of the same crop? Because that's not even rotating crops.
The entire idea behind it is different crops leave different chemicals behind in the parts that aren't harvested, which get churned into the soil in the plow phase.
Notice that it's better to simply manually deal with farms. Fricking morons planting in October, the abominatio left in spring still ate half the fertility and I onky get 10% of the yield.
Is there an option I missed somewhere to specify planting/sowing cutoffs. If I had to fight a war that started in Feb and the womenfolk were only able to ploy half the fields by July they should stop planting because it's just going to eat fertility for minimal yield. The wheat we get is the worst winter wheat I have ever heard of.
>dev became multi millionaire in a matter of hours
why haven't you become a UE dev yet
steam, publisher, the government all got a little richer from that
>150k concurrent
>game easily sold just shy of 10 million usd
>steam+epic takes 30%+5% gross
>20% VAT and up to 30% income tax or whatever his slav country taxes him out of what's left
i mean he gets raped by taxes but he's still filthy fricking rich from this
>i mean he gets raped by taxes but he's still filthy fricking rich from this
The people hating on the dev will never, ever attempt to make something themselves. They will constantly bleat about how easy it is to become a millionaire with an asset flip but never ever do it themselves for some crazy reason
making a game entirely on your own over 7 years even if you flip all your assets and release a game that functions like this is pure hell. even i can make a game in UE where you just run around and shoot at things with some basic systems but once you start asking the engine to do something that isn't something you can learn in 5min from a pajeet yt tech guide it goes into unbelievable levels of esoteric bullshit
Correct. That's why I congratulate the dev on his accomplishment while others want to paint it as nothing but an asset flip
theres a reason he has a publisher, on steam, which is already a publisher
What's that reason, anon
>steam is a publisher
moron
> le solo dev
the reason why people don't attempt doing this because they usually don't have the luxury of having a dozen friends who happen to be artists / 3d modelers / the proud owner of a motion capture suit
There's the excuses. Don't worry anon nobody expected anything from you anyway.
>nooo he's not a solo dev he used UE!
> nooo he's not a solo dev he used UE!
no-one said this
the point is that the whole "oh he's just a single person doing everything"-argument doesn't really hold up so the fact that the gameplay has been exactly the same for 3.5 years is inexcusable
Do you believe anybody who uses UE cannot be a solo dev because they're utilizing a tool created by many developers?
are you stupid or something?
This wasn't about UE, it's about a decent chunk of the art, the only thing that really changed in the past 4 years, being done by other people
But can you answer the question?
>Do you believe anybody who uses UE cannot be a solo dev because they're utilizing a tool created by many developers?
This may be a hint at why your complaint about him utilizing contributions from other devs making him not a solo dev is moronic
the engine is not part of the game, it's a tool that you don't see in the final product
meanwhile art, music and modelling are (part of) the game
not him but you are so fricking stupid, read the fricking thread again
You know how you get friends like he did? By engaging with the wider gamedev community. Guaranteed that they were all still paid too despite being friends. If you sit in your basement whinging about others acheivements then you will never have support like he was able to garner.
> I've been engaging with the wider gamedev community all my life and all god ever gave me was trannies and indians
whats logic in robing an individual in percentages. The government will never provide him an equal amount of services for his money. I guess its fair for those who are broke but not for successful ones.
The farm doesnt need to have any workers when the crop is growing, right? More hands wont make it grow any faster, that is.
manor lords looks alright but it legit has some of the weirdest most rabid fanbases, what the frick? it's just a chill village builder with some simple gameplay mechanics, somewhat worrisome that its all you get after 8 years of dev since that means the finished game will come out in like 30 lifetimes, but it is what it is
were ppl really this mindbroken thinking that it was, out of all the fricking things, a total war competitor? are they having 30$ sunken cost phallusy or whatever the hell? get a life
You will never be German. You will never be autistic. You will never make comfy autistic games. You are a slavic man twisted by occupation and colonization into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.
Your slavic language and poor work ethic betray you for what you really are, a developer of janky unfinished trash.
better combat than in 1404
Who the frick plays a city builder for its combat?
and all first person games should we walking simulators aswell
stronghold 1 and crusader are among of my favorite games, together with settlers 3
>and all first person games should we walking simulators aswell
What the frick are you even talking about?
journalist's reviews of pathologic 2
1404 has a better naval system.
TF. I screenshotted my image above less than 10 mins ago.
Even the achievements are bugged. I started the game, restarted after 5 months and I got the "start the game" achievement twice.
> watch manor lords video from 2020
> see pic related
but remember! No one ever said it was a total-war-like-game!
Devs gonna frick off and enjoy hookers and blow. Hopefully has some decency to hire people to finish some of the building chains
I want to just filter Early Access completely on Steam but there is that one rare game once in a while thats worth playing and is pretty much done.
>write negative review
>put phone in my ass
this game is kinda boring. it doesn't feel challenging like banished, any difficulty comes from moronic events
Extreme early access, the kingdom mechanic not being fleshed out enough lends itself to that though.
Agreed. It's like 20% of a game, and the AI is just extremely broken with unlimited resources so there's nothing you can really do against it. 99% of the time, it's just super slow with nothing going on. Things take forever to build. It takes forever for new people to join your town. It's got about 6 hours of fun in it currently and nothing beyond that.
Gee, Heintz, how come the Manor Lord lets you have TWO wives?