Thanks. I realize how the left hand keys correspond to what I want to do. Like Q+Q is build a house and Q+A is farm. I started with Campaign because I figured it would be the easiest. I kept restarting on standard and then was like fuck it, i'm going to switch to easy mode....only to realize standard was easy. I didn't realize in random matchup you can get an easier setting. How do I quickly find and select all of my guys that can fight vs my villagers? That's where I feel like i lose the most time.
How many soldiers do you usually use to attack a fort/castle/opponents area? I'll get 10-15 and roll up and I feel like I start off good, but then they act all stupid and start attacking buildings or running up ahead near their TC and get killed. I have to micromanage the hell out of them and it's annoying bc they keep running into danger and at the same time, my villagers are idle. When you say Macro, are you saying that I can click a villager and hit macro and they will know to build a house then to start picking berries?
You can set a keybind to idle villager. I think it defaults to f12 or something, but I set it to like mouse3 or mousewheel. You can highlight the military units you want and ctrl+1 through 0 to create control groups. To highlight them or call them up you just double press the corresponding number. I set spacebar to go to town center because early game your villager uptime is critical.
So, typically you do no want to attack castles without siege unless they're a forward castle and they do not have the murder holes tech researched. If they don't you can attack at the base of the castle and not take any damage. I would not advise fighting a castle in Castle Age without rams. It's impossible to kill them with any archer/melee combo. You can use cavalry very effectively raiding wood lines or gold/stone because it's typically out of range of the town center. You're not trying to destroy buildings in Feudal or Castle Age as much as you are trying to destroy their economy by killing villagers or forcing their villagers to go into the town center. It's really really really hard to balance in this game. For the longest time I would just get lost in my military and let my economy just get out of control and suffer. That's where hotkeys come into play. Being able to quickly go back and forth is critical. Some of the best advice I can give is when you're pushing a base and you have a clear advantage that you also take 2-3 seconds and make sure your villagers aren't idle or bring villagers up and start to build forward military buildings to cut down the time for reinforcements to arrive. It's all nuanced though. One tactic may not work every game. You'll develop feel. Macro means taking care of your economy and ensuring your villagers aren't idle and making sure your villagers aren't walking a long ways to get to your lumber camp after cutting wood for 20 minutes. Micro is limiting damage to your military by dodging arrow attacks, or moving your military in and out of fights.
I played it solo. It's awesome. Haven't played since the hearth and home update or whatever it's called.
you spawn as a viking on a huge open world map and you build a base and work to arm yourself and defeat various bosses within the viking world. It's third person and PVE mostly but you can join your friends too.
I need to get a screenshot of the monstrosity of a waterwheel powered industrial complex my swamp dogs are constructing.
I finally broke down and bought a decent laptop last night that can handle the latest games and installed New World. I’m really enjoying it so far but haven’t done a whole lot. Just picked a faction so I guess the game is just starting to open up. First PC game for me since D3. (RuneScape doesn’t count)
3060ti, 3070ti, 3070 whatever I can get for MSRP. Buddy is helping who has gotten a few from Best Buy
So Newegg is selling this for $1250, seriously considering it since getting a 3060 level card anywhere is almost impossible. I already have dead money in a 1TB SSD and 16GB memory I had been accumulating before I ran into the GPU shortage, so I would be adding those into this box. Thoughts? The CPU is lower than I wanted but the GPU helps make up for it. I know someone ITT has bought one of these ABS systems, I seem to remember they liked it. CPU: Intel Core i5-11400F Rocket Lake 6-Core 12-Thread 2.6 GHz (4.4GHz Turbo) GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB (Brand May Vary) Motherboard: Intel B560 RAM: 16GB DDR4 3000MHz (2x8GB) SSD: 512GB Intel M.2 NVMe SSD CPU Cooler: RGB CPU Cooler
Just finished the gearing design last night man. I’ve got probably 3 hours just in the design of this thing. Once they wrap the build I’ll save a backup, tear down layers, and take snaps for each.
I bought something like this to get the 3060 and I'm happy with it. It has the obnoxious rgb lighting out the ass but I just ignore it. Mine came with a sata ssd though
Allegedly if you pay for some best buy service, you get first priority on this stuff. If you're potentially buying a 3070, it might not be the worst thing to spend money on
thanks dude, yeah I could care less about the lighting, and from a comment I saw it can almost all be turned off, but it seems easy enough to ignore. Glad to hear you are still happy with it. My main hesitation is to see what kind of deals there are for Black Friday/Cyber Monday
Best Buy does theirs for like a month to prevent people running into the store like idiots, fwiw. I think it was a covid precaution but they're just continuing it. You're not going to get a pre-built with a 3060 for much cheaper than $1200 for awhile
i just went looking at those, didn't see much from BB yet but Dell has a nice deal, i7-11700 chip with a 3060 and 32 GB RAM for about 75 more than that one from Newegg. That's the best I've seen yet, don't like not knowing some of the components but still a nice deal regardless, methinks
In the top right corner you can make it where you can see 1 layer at a time. Even if you just post a screenshot of the unit as a whole, I'm sure I can understand some of it.
As much or as little as you want. I took my time and beat all the content on original release in about 35 hours. It can be done quicker, but a lot has to do with your map seed.
The mod scene is insane, too. I’m dipping my toes into it and trying to recruit a friend or two to have a shared save. My knowledge is only up to like the very basics of rail and some oil stuff. So much to learn still, been watching a KoS play through series.
You’ve probably figured this out but figuring out oil processing is the first big roadblock in learning the game.
Even finding it is a bit of a bitch. I’m not colorblind but I just thought I was looking at another small biter camp or something. My test save, I’m going to try to bring the crude in on rails, some fluid wagons, see if I can build the refinery at home rather than far off at the site.
Not trying to plug my stream or anything because I'm not trying to be anything on Twitch, just have fun with it. But if you want I my channel is twitch.tv/chuckycharms I'd be glad to give anyone the grand tour of our seaside viking resort.
I find it way easier to see on the map rather than on the ground. You absolutely should train in the oil to a central refinery IMO.
Sorry if this has been addressed, are there any Twitter accounts y'all watch for PC component drops, like is happening with PS5, or do those even happen over here with the master race?
When I was trying to get my RTX 3000 series card, I made looking for one my hobby. It’s what I did in my off time for 2+weeks. I loaded up Amazon links to specific ones I would be okay with, as well as the Best Buy website, and spent time refreshing each page to get one as soon as they drop. If you’re looking for a graphics card, it won’t be a fun time.
Sorry for assuming it was a graphics card you were looking for. Microcenters tend to have some stock of AMD gpus
When I was swapping my phone out at best buy the geek squad dude mentioned that apparently they have some subscription that guarantees you first crack at stuff like graphics cards Unrelated but he said they've had people try to be slick and buy pre-built 30xx systems and return them different graphics cards, like no one would notice
i've been playing sea of thieves with some friends the past few days. i don't know if i would play this game a ton but it's pretty damn fun as something new and if you have a crew to roll with. the constant arguing about driving the boat is so good "you suck at driving" "then you drive it" *drives the boat into an island*
I started using keybinds and pumping out villagers. I'm winning consistently on Standard (i've only done campaign so far). I also realized you can slow it down with NUM - so that has allowed me to have a second to think and understand some of the basic concepts. What point do you stop making villagers? I get to the point where I have cut almost all wood and mined everything and then I just delete them, but I feel like I could be winning much sooner if I move to military earlier. I'm guessing that comes with experience, but I got sick of losing because I would charge a base with only 10 military and a battering ram. Now I roll up 50 deep. Problem is each map takes me a few hours. I'm playing through Africa right now and am on the last one. Is there a suggested order to play through the expansions?
So in competitive online play, the sweet spot is around 110-130 villagers and then when your economy is set up such that it can meet the cost requirements of your final army composition, you delete about 50 or send a bunch toward the enemy to scout/die. Usually by this time you’re close to being out of resources on the map anyway and your wood and food coffers are full. In most games, you should be building a second TC as soon as you hit castle and ensuring your villager creation uptime is constant. Depending on how you want to play your mid game you can go 3 TC and boom for Imp or stick with 2 for some Castle aggression. If you’re rushing castle age, you’re probably getting there with 25-30 villagers and you’ll have a late feudal timing. If you go fast feudal for harassment it’ll be with like 17-18 villagers I think? 10 years ago when I was playing a lot, the build orders were less fleshed out and it was more of a feel game. There were orders but man now it’s like inputs down to the second for some of these guys. So as far as Campaigns go, the original game had Wallace, Joan, Saladin, Genghis Khan, and Barbarossa. Those would be the ones to finish first. Conquerors followed with adding Spanish, Mayans, Aztecs, Huns, and Koreans as well as campaigns for El Cid, Atilla, and Montezuma. Conquerors also added single mission games for famous battles in history. Those are pretty fun but are more reminiscent of the Age of Empries 1 gameplay and tile sets. After that the game sat dormant for a long time until another dev made an updated graphics HD Edition. They made 3 expansion packs to the game and also upgraded the AI and made the campaign difficulties harder. The first was The Forgotten which included Incas, Indians, Italians, Magyars and Slavs. Campaigns were Alaric, Dracula, El Dorado, Forza something and the Indian one. I didn’t play the Indian one. They then made The African Kingdoms which added the Berbers, Ethiopians, Malians, and Portuguese and campaigns for each civ (can’t remember them all maybe Sundiata, Tariq, and Yodit and the Portuguese one). After that was Rise of the Rajas which included the Burmese, Khmer, Malay, and Vietnamese. I didn’t play those campaigns but they added 4 for each civ as well. By that time I was on RTS hiatus for other games but still kept up with the competitive scene. After that came DE which is now what everyone plays and its two expansions. The original game added Bulgarians, Cumans, Lithuanians, and Taters and their campaigns. Then came Lords of the West and the Burgundians and Sicilians and campaigns for each. They added a Longshanks Britons campaign too which I thought was a nice touch as well. And finally Dawn of the Dukes which came out in like this past April and added the Poles and Bohemians with campaigns for each and I think a Lithuanian campaign as well. That’s basically the order chronologically if you wanted to play them in that order. The HD campaigns were so hard. You have to use lots of unit micro and run or you won’t win. Don’t be afraid to save scum lol.
Sea of Thieves is a stupid game but I kind of love it. I talked to a much larger boat trying to be cool, and everyone was cool. Then one of my teammates shot a cannon and we got owned.