Bay 12 Games Forum

May as well bump this, eh? Although there is already discussion going in playthrough thread.

I remember someone snarking about game-breaking power creep seeping into CoE5's technical part when I ranted about it's nonsensical in-mods-bugginness. Don't know about power creep in CoE, but in Dominions it shows. Only select few units had invisibility, before devs dropped a whole nation of invisibles in Dom5 (and Ubar in general is power creepy as heck). In Dom6 there at least some means to obtain it on things that didn't have it in first place, and means to counteract seem widespread. A bit silly that the very first buff of Glamour is to disregard any other Glamour buffs the other guy may have.

EDIT: Why did they have to follow the trend of thinly spreading interface over edges of the screen, dear god... And recruit and army setup hotkeys are right next to unrebindable end turn button.
Looks like they sweetened arena deal. Winner of this one got about 400 gold and 22 fire gems in addition to artifact. Order of fighting is still weird though. Angakok went in and massacred almost everyone, finishing with mutual kill against abyssian slayer. Then king of both worlds fought rain priest and won.

Some bad translation sillyness:
"The value indicates possile patience bonus" - "The value indicates a possible probability of persistence"
Possible probability of persistence. I'll put it with "anyone struck with this sword will be lost unconscious".

Which was out on steam since Dec 12. 

Stupidly unspecific request - something sorrowful. Not sorrowful for self, though. Things in my music heap that are remotely close:

Umineko fan (?) song "-Umineko- Hymn -賛美歌- -English Subs-" that I now can't find. Glad I saved it. Would make it the first song that was actually deleted from Youtube after I did. EDIT: Found it with russian subs, though.
"-Ib- Ballad of the Windfish" - also can't find it!
Reading of Edgar Poe's "Raven"
Something from "The House in Fata Morgana", surely.
And so, I could not link any of the actual examples. Motherfuck.

If we allow near human nations, specifically with wings, I've seen it done to good effect for Condors with Nazca, although I feel like that's sorta a greedy build on top of a greedy nation. I've also done close to a hell bless with Xibalba... I mean, if your troops are bad enough, no need for money right? (I've lost every game I tried it with soooo.... take it with a grain of salt.

Condors? I thought the supayas were all the rage with Nazca. And even the reason it is considered borderline OP, though I don't quite see why. Though, if one takes hellbless for those, one may not have money to actually summon them.
Definitely seen EA Xibalba's freespawned hellblessed beast bats being used decently effectively, with combination of Death Explosion+Charged Bodies+Blood Vengeance+some other stuff, of all things.

A thing I never understood in Dominions 5 - how do you properly play as LA Marignon? For one, it seems to be the only nation that cannot expand by itself, unless you get very lucky with indeps. Starting footmen are so ridicolously inept you are actually better off without them. Warring is also odd. People seem to insist on hellblessed flagellants, but I don't see what bless can make them able to win fights. There was a bug (which was used to great effect with MA Marignon in one of the Bay12 rounds) where blood vengeance activated before luck, but even that is fixed now.
Never even seen Larignon being used to any actual effect. First I seen it played was somebody in Bay12 round trying to play through hellbless and blood and flopping it entirely. Next was my own attempt at mixed approach, which mostly resulted in me learning a lesson - if you want to play through blood, go all in. And the last was a blitzer that seemingly played through troops and navigators, but let all mages stay in the capital like lemons for all 50 turns. Apparently, he also spent crapton of cash trying to domkill someone with temples and missionaries.

Darkest Dungeon 2. First thing that came to mind was Little Goody Two Shoes, of all things. Art and animations are wonderful, but the game is not present. Second was Lobotomy Corporation, as I noted with mild surprise that after it this kind of grotesque freakery is nothing but admirable to me.

Sat down to play modded Terraria and stopped 10 hours later. Got reminded why I hate Steam Workshop the very next day. Its such a joy to see "The Stars Above was updated from 1.4.6.8 to 2.0.0.1!" upon launching a game, immidiately followed by "This character has not started in this world. Want to synchronize? Y/N". Good thing I haven't started with it before then and didn't really know what it is or was.  And, hell, at least it seemingly unfucked itself.

No changelog for mod in Steam, because author loves Steam not. No links except piecemeal one to Discord either, because Steam hates modder also. Modding in general is all about hatred, you know.