TNO with actual gameplay, what a novel idea.
Paradox needs to give New Zealand the Biggest Bob, give people a single reason to play them.
Reddit is creaming over this - is it mandatory that you have a memory of a goldfish on there? The last few years has been them pissing about how useless and pointless the air/naval/tank designers are and now suddenly it's "zomg p1000000000000000 Ratatatatat!!!!", as if it's not going to be something you spend $30 and 30 minutes on just to realise it adds nothing to the game and is a waste of time and resources.
I understand the concept, but there's no way this isn't going to be phoned in like everything else in HoI4 DLCs. Science man sits in box for 140 days which unlocks research for 280 days which unlocks producible unit which requires five factories and 365 days to build.
I'm guessing either a meme battalion or support company that gives 100% hardness, has no HP, and infinite soft attack.
Yeah I'm going to second this. 1998's Star Wars Rebellion had a better system research system because at least your researchers could be used for other things and where you placed them mattered.
I knew of ICBM (hadn't tried it yet), didn't know they were making a sequel.
It was only recently announced. They handed out a bunch of keys to youtubers to demo the game in the last week or so, and IIRC it's being released in November. It looks really fun IMO. They added a crap ton of conventional/non nuke stuff. Things like army divisions/spec ops teams/new airbases + airplane types. You can also now physically invade territory, and if you hold it long enough you take over getting all the research and production etc. I know it's supposed to be a nuke game but honestly I'm looking forward to putting a massive no nuke timer on it and playing it like an arcadey modern day strategy game for a bit.
Very much agree, and to reinforce my point about this being, well, pointless; these things aren't going to be usable until late game. Which is useless because the game is won.
but will there be cannibalism and human sacrifice like all proper sims games?
Looks like impression games clone. I had my fill with Pharaoh/Caesar. Not sure if they were ever that popular.
Human sacrifice is in at least. At 20 seconds there's a shot from a festival which shows you can sacrifice captives. Then at 24 seconds you can literally see someone being sacrificed on the temple steps.
I played a little of the demo they've had out, a lot like Pharaoh and Caesar.
In today's terms not really, but for the late 90s-early 00s they were. There were a few stragglers after Impression shut down - Stronghold was the biggest and became its own zombie of a series, there was also Grand Ages Rome - but by and large it was holding the genre up by itself.
