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Ah, good old windows update fuckery. When you're forced to install an update and you just know it's going to fuck something up.

And then your sound isn't working for no discernible reason :I

Edit:

Aaand it seems only reverting this shitting thing to a previous version would fix it. Also it seems that the update made it so you couldn't get rid of Edge, so that's an extra bonus reason for reverting.

Can't wait for the system to start shitting itself and screaming that I HAVE TO UPDATE NOW!!!1!1!! again tho :I

I think what was meant as a fluke was the game succeeding like it did, especially when it was based on a setting they pretty much took a hatchet to a few years prior.

Their data suggested that WHFB was dead and the games selling like hotcakes did nothing to change their minds, or rather, since they'd burned the setting and salted the earth for good measure, the PC game couldn't really bring new people into the hobby as they'd come in looking for a version of they just played and find shit like sigmarines waiting for them.

Except now the spark has made the lengthy journey from their ass to their brains and they're trying to resurrect the setting in some form. Not sure how well it'll work out for them since people like to get burned only so many times (and seeing their current actions is not going to make anyone give them the benefit of the doubt anymore imo)

Ujico* - 空中都市

Random YT recommendation strikes again. Some super nice and breezy tracks on this one.

Where Ebay games come from

It's equal parts terrifying and puzzling, I want to know the history of that place now, what the hell happened, what's the state of it today, who took the time to map it all out like they did, why?

Sure, I guess? Some semblance of balance still needs to be present if you want any sort of longevity, even if it is singleplayer only, saying just don't use him is a bit silly since he's the bloody faction leader, not playing him the way he's been designed to be played is gimping yourself intentionally because the devs were too lazy to balance things properly. The old Beastmen were too weak, and I get wanting to buff them but I think they overshot a touch.

Because it's not just Malagor, tho he's the most glaring example, any bray shaman with the beast lore can do almost as much horrible things to any infantry heavy army. I'm not sure if traitor-kin was this stupid before but it's essentially a flock of doom except better.
No idea if you can view the actual numbers for both skills anywhere, but from what I've seen in combat, flock of doom has a high chance of affecting the target but it deals fairly low damage over a short period of time, so you generally need at least 3 casts on a healthy unit to see any models going down, even if the entire unit is stuck at a third of their max hp. Traitor-kin on the other hand seems to do stupid high damage but has a lower chance of actually hitting, I've seen it start racking up kills on the first cast, and this was fairly significant numbers of dead units, only to see it fall off as their numbers got reduced.

And as nenjin pointed out above, it's not just that he's bonkers strong, the big part of the issue is that unlike cheese and doomstacks other races get, Malagor gets to roll over shit after a few turns only since you only really need to upgrade flock of doom itself and then rush the first cost reduction skill.

So Malagor is kinda stupid now :V

Even early game, he's capable of making the t1 shitty spell Flock of Doom into a monster of a siege spell, my most recent siege was of Karak Eight Peaks, some 3500 orks versus my 1700 beasty boys, tho, most of those were irrelevant as Malagor, on his own managed to do some 120k damage and kill around 1200 orks. It took a while, but boy when that grinder starts going, it really goes to town.

Plus, I'm not sure if there's a targeting bug going on or there was some weird unit placement fuckery going on, but multiple times the spell went off on units that were clearly outside of the AoE that I placed down.

And this is before I've gotten the bastard leveled up enough to grab some of the really broken stuff that makes his spells even cheaper.


That said, I fear he might have the opposite problem from before, that he's so stupid strong it makes the campaign a touch too easy and boring. This might just be because orks aren't exactly the strongest counters to beastmen and folks like the Empire or HE might prove more difficult, so we'll see.

Relic didn't die tho :V

They're part of Sega now, and besides this they've been working on Age of Empires 4. No idea how many of the original folks are left working there, but the first impression of this isn't looking nearly as bad as DoW3 was.

Apparently Company of Heroes 3 is a thing, just out of the blue they kicked out a pre-alpha thing that a bunch of folks streamed. Looks pretty good for a pre-alpha.