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How combat works? I find Anno so challenging (in a good way) the simple idea of going alone in the map trying to build the best production chain gives me a boner.

Preordered on Steam but pretty sure BB says it will launch at 12am EST, no matter what.

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free DLC roadmap

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>game journalists

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>want to buy on steam
>refund still pending
aaaaaaahhhh

>I like to play these games stoned so I always wind up with really inefficient shit
pls no bully.

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You would have to be a special kind of retard to wind up with anything even resembling that though.

I don't play much anno, what am I looking at here ?

I love Tropico 6 currently but would Anno 1800 be worth getting down the line for something different? I see its based on the indsutrial revolution and shite but what's fundamentally different?

When does it unlock on steam?

Really bad layouts. Like, really bad. I don't mind some inefficiency for the sake of aesthetics, but that isn't even good-looking either.

I haven't played 1800's beta or whatnot, but in most anno games building a good town center with houses and service buildings is a big part of the game. The image shows houses mismashed with production buildings near the coast and it just looks like whoever built that has no idea what they're doing.

To say it's inefficient doesn't even work. It's literal insanity and stupidity. The marketplace is almost on the shore so half its range is in the water where nothing can be built. The houses and roads were laid out by a shit eating madman. Animal farms are literally surrounded by homes and the service buildings are placed exactly as retarded as the marketplace.

And this guy who clearly has no idea what he's doing scores the game a 70 and claims the game's strength is in screenshots.

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Ok cool, thanks
I'll keep this stuff in mind when I play 1800

Try buying it with an empty credit card or something. Steam saves your cart on failed transactions, maybe you can get it like that.

Worst case, you can buy it on uPlay and add it to Steam as a non-Steam game.

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I loved 1404, but I never finished it. I didnt play 2070 either but I bought it long time ago. Should I just replay 1404 if i Scratch my anno itch? Or there are no point of playing those old version if this version its actually just plain better?

see

What site?

Not bad for a 6 year old playing a videogame for the first time.

1404 bored the shit out of me, which is weird because i liked 2070

I wish it was cheaper than $50. I'm such a fucking cheapskate, I can get all new games for under $50 usually but this one is a bit tougher.

Think it was PC Invasion or some such?

i didn't see a range on the marketplace in the beta, don't they use roads now?

I've never played a city builder before. I guess the closest game to this genre i've played is EU4 (and a bit of civ). Will I enjoy this?

>trading post over water
>what's wrong

Thanks. I felt compelled to comment.

Tropico is smaller scale with much more complex simulation of each individual citizen's needs, politics, traffic etc.
Anno is much larger in scale but doesn't simulate each individual citizen. The focus is on building production chains to fulfill your citizens needs, managing shipping routes, settling new islands to get resources you don't have on your main island and using diplomacy or war to protect your interests against NPC factions and pirates. Its combat is also much more RTS like with direct control over your war ships.

The biggest difference is that Tropico is more about the campaign missions each only being an hour or two long or so while Anno is all about playing the endless game mode.

Like I said, I haven't played much Anno and it just wasn't clicking

why is the anno series so popular? the gameplay is literally just spam housing everywhere.

and then the populous riots because you don't have enough soap or beer or clothes

Probably. 1404 is really cheap if you want to try that first. store.steampowered.com/app/33210/Dawn_of_Discovery/
There's a demo too but it's hard to find, Ubisoft likes to pretend the game doesn't exist.

That makes it even worse, as the incoherent zigzaging roads sap all the marketplaces range. The Anno series is a grid whore for a reason

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>he never got off his first island

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Alright imma pick up 1404 first and see how it plays. Are 1800 improvements significant enough that I should pick it up if I like 1404 or should I just stick with until im done the campaign or whatever it is?

Can someone explain what this game is like? How long does a game last? Is it real time or turn based? I want to get into more strategy after only playing a lot of civ 4 and 5 and getting tired of it.

1800 seems better from what I played in the beta, it adds the good ideas from the awful game that came before it while adding back all the great stuff. Seems like a straight upgrade, but you can get a lot of hours out of 1701.
Personally, I've played almost all the games in the series and never touched the campaigns. Much prefer sandbox mode, you might too if you like EU4 and Civ since not being assed with objectives is what I love about those series too.

1800 supplants everything about 1404.

Make sure to buy it on gog.

Compared to 1404 is the economy balanced better or is it still house spam?

Real time. You have a lot of stuff to juggle and there is conflict, but you can play in such a way that it is also slow and relaxed, it's kind of up to the player's playstyle. Games will last probably at least 10 hours if you're looking at solo play to endgame buildings/economy and probably longer or shorter if you play multiplayer.

It's very heavy on economic production chains so it's not terribly comparable to civ games. I play and enjoy both series though, try 1404 if you don't wanna buy this at full price.

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>season pass
>free DLC
uwot

You will still want houses because you need actual workers to work production buildings. That said, it's less spammy since you no longer have a tax slider, residents pay you more based on how many needs and luxuries you provide them with.

I find it a lot more fun to balance as you need the right class of worker for the right job, so even end game you'll still need peasants around to work the fields.

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>almost 2 hours
>Brother crashed my PC with League.

Fuck

LMAO

Crack when?

Can you build a cathedral like in 1404?

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Are there multiple maps like in 2205?

While neat at first, it ended up being a huge pain in the ass having to go through multiple loading screens every time i wanted to update my supply chains

why did he forsake us?

>buy it on steam now or it's epic exclusive
topkek

The final tiers weren't unlocked in the betas. I'm sure there's something similar but no idea what it might be.

I hope soon. Given it has Denuvo it won't be instant, but I doubt it'll take awhile either.

Really glad they confirmed arctic biome/building. Hope that works out to arctic towns like Murmansk/Alaskan places and not actual tents out on ice, that'd be kinda lame.

youtu.be/1_jYGVHRkuQ

Something like this ideally.

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For what I saw in the first trailer, you can

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>tfw last thing I wrote on the cathedral's visitors book was "suk my deek"
pls notre dame get well I didn't mean it

the view from the spire is pretty nice, had some chinks (of course) taking flash photography of shit inside though
get well Notre