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ShitLurker said:
As for the beef against 3 in particular... didn't play it and no idea if it still applies... but I believe the native campaign is ass with a very jank system to progress through the realms of chaos, the siege battles got even shittier (and they were already pretty shit) and most battles are some form of that instead of pitched battles. Those are the big things I can think of related purely about 3, also, the base armies seemed pretty barren even though they did have varied mechanics.
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That one specifically applies to the Realms of Chaos campaign, which really is just jank all around. So much so that after the chorf release they decided to stop updating it completely. Chaos armies are slowly being fleshed out with DLC, with Slaanesh remaining that is still looking to get their update to the roster. (Which ToT is supposed to cover, I think.)

If anything, the main complaints afflicted TWW3 is that Immortal Empire is simply too densely packed with legendary lords all around due to the plethora of DLCs of the games past. Wherever you start on the map, you're guaranteed to run into another LL within 2-3 provinces.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I think someone has the opportunity to make the BattleBit of Total War.

What do I mean?

First, my apologies if I've already said this somewhere. Now, what I mean is that BattleBit made a big splash because despite looking like blocky indie game shit it delivered extremely polished Battlefield gameplay. It focused all in on gameplay to the exclusion of other things (spectacle).

Total War could, at its most abstract, be portrayed as a game of geometry. There's this valley between good graphics and bad graphics where improving the graphics actually makes it worse because it is too bad to look good but too good to be an intentional stylistic choice. Well, there is nothing about Total War that can't be expressed through simple geometric shapes, colored maps of terrain, and so on. Very clean. Moreover, if the differences between units come down to, say, art of the soldier at the most, then it becomes very easy to add lots of variety. Without animations it becomes very easy to add any type of unit you can think of, from the Bronze Age to pre-WW1, as long as it fits into the basic framework of "moves and fights as a geometric shape."

You could have a Total War that runs on the cheapest laptops, has the most polished gameplay in the world, and is modular to where it can serve any timeframe - like, churn out DLCs of entire eras and sell them for a few dollars - and it would lose the spectacle customers, but may just gain the core fans, like BattleBit.

I don't think it would even be that hard, aside from AI, to make such a thing.
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BTW everyone this is (minus the strategic map, and in a very simplified fashion) what Lines of Battle is shaping up to be.
 
The comical mismanagement of Total War's community management all comes down to middle class white women. From the weirdly passive aggressive interactions with their creators to them censoring chat and later removing chat in their games.

ShittlerNiggler said:
With Pilps and Melkor also gone you can pretty throw the entire TW youtube sphere in the trash.
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Pretty much every Total War youtuber that has stayed loyal has dogshit numbers. Lionheart, HeirOfCarthage, etc. Cody Bonds is probably the only one still going and even then CA has always treated him badly.
Now all of the top dogs that actually talk about Total War are just haters.

At least PrinceofMacedon is happy making his Disney-adult videos. His numbers are low, but I'm pretty sure he's also just a normal guy with a job.
 
Snekposter said:
Hell, it even works too well at times, since when I played MechWarrior Online through Steam the game wanted me to redeem some things you can buy on Steam that are classed as DLC.s
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That might be patched, I had that happened to me before once but not on a another account years later...oh wait this is a TW thread. Uh...Med 3 will be Mid 3 and the 40K game will somehow be worse than the Fantasy games.
Monopolywheel said:
Legend of Totalwar quitting video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mX7Th-91t2U
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Unsurprising, he's been doing this shit for years so I can understand the burn out. Not to mention whenever he dared to criticize the games he played or the company ruining later TW releases he was shat on and even removed from the creator platform. Burnout and frustration, I'd have quit far earlier.
Probably posted already but Pilps, the semi-Total War (medieval) and DoW content creator got hit with demonitization by CA on Christmas day for...reasons (most likely criticizing CA shitty behavior). Volound boosted it too, most likely because Pilps also shat on some faggot named TheTerminator (who wasn't even the subject of the original fucking video :story:) , who I only know because Volound also shat on him before, and not long afterwards his latest video was struck by CA. Just speculating but it sure is suspicious.
The video itself is pretty good too:
Caesare said:
Did you guys notice if you owned either TW Warhammer 1 or 2 on Steam, you now have Warhammer 3?
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Can I ask for a refund? Also lmao at the people who bought this dogshit only for people who only owned one of the two previous games to get it for free (still need to spend a retarded amount of money for the "full experience" but I wave the black flag for a reason).
 
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Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
Unsurprising, he's been doing this shit for years so I can understand the burn out. Not to mention whenever he dared to criticize the games he played or the company ruining later TW releases he was shat on and even removed from the creator platform. Burnout and frustration, I'd have quit far earlier.
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I bet he would have. Eu5 is basically just the perfect lifeboat to escape CA. He can now get a base of people who like him for other games and still shit talk CA.
 
Monopolywheel said:
Melkor is still around even though I swear he said he was quitting youtube
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Melkor already came back a few times but he made it clear that it was just temporary, hence is irregular uploads. He is mostly busy with real life stuff and only makes videos when he has nothing better to do.

I found this clip of Legend arguing with his youtube chat.


Shorter clip of him raging at the end

I like Legend but damn, imagine being such an old guy, who has been on YouTube forever, only to end up feeding the trolls by getting this upset. :stress:
He also should just let go of his hair at this point.
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ShittlerNiggler said:
Melkor already came back a few times but he made it clear that it was just temporary, hence is irregular uploads. He is mostly busy with real life stuff and only makes videos when he has nothing better to do.

I found this clip of Legend arguing with his youtube chat.
Legend of Soyrage.mp4

Shorter clip of him raging at the end
SoyrageCut.mp4
I like Legend but damn, imagine being and old guy who has been on YouTube forever only to end up feeding the trolls by getting this upset. :stress:
He also should just let go of his hair at this point.
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Lmao what stream was that clip from?
 
ShittlerNiggler said:
Melkor already came back a few times but he made it clear that it was just temporary, hence is irregular uploads. He is mostly busy with real life stuff and only makes videos when he has nothing better to do.

I found this clip of Legend arguing with his youtube chat.
Legend of Soyrage.mp4

Shorter clip of him raging at the end
SoyrageCut.mp4
I like Legend but damn, imagine being such an old guy, who has been on YouTube forever, only to end up feeding the trolls by getting this upset. :stress:
He also should just let go of his hair at this point.
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That is some chud energy. Always knew he was a ticking time bomb.
 
ShittlerNiggler said:
Melkor already came back a few times but he made it clear that it was just temporary, hence is irregular uploads. He is mostly busy with real life stuff and only makes videos when he has nothing better to do.

I found this clip of Legend arguing with his youtube chat.
Legend of Soyrage.mp4

Shorter clip of him raging at the end
SoyrageCut.mp4
I like Legend but damn, imagine being such an old guy, who has been on YouTube forever, only to end up feeding the trolls by getting this upset. :stress:
He also should just let go of his hair at this point.
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Saw this on /v/.
I think the stress and hair loss might also be from his new kid?
I guess we'll see him back when medi3 and 40k land with a thud.

Is Volound next?
 
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Yeah he's probably best off cashing his winnings and staying the fuck away from YT. He attained lolcow status with his viewers and is physically turning into DSP.

If he needs another flow of income maybe buy one of those funny utility cars they have over there that appear in every aussie dashcam video and a few baggies of meth and do carpentry instead of losing one's precious few hairs over a fucking videogame.

Props to him to still do the stream after and owning that he suffered an army-wide morale break there. I would have just vanished if I were him.
 
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ShittlerNiggler said:
Melkor already came back a few times but he made it clear that it was just temporary, hence is irregular uploads. He is mostly busy with real life stuff and only makes videos when he has nothing better to do.

I found this clip of Legend arguing with his youtube chat.
Legend of Soyrage.mp4

Shorter clip of him raging at the end
SoyrageCut.mp4
I like Legend but damn, imagine being such an old guy, who has been on YouTube forever, only to end up feeding the trolls by getting this upset. :stress:
He also should just let go of his hair at this point.
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I thought the longer version would make more sense but he really just spergs out over nothing.
It just boils down to his viewers saying "we got your back!' and him getting angry saying "No you don't! That's fine but stop saying you do!" I guess that checks out as something a depressed person might say but still.
 
Brahma said:
Agreed.

They never really fixed the main problem the Rome1 map introduced ie: having to chase small armies all over the place to fucking properly control your territory..

Also, if you controlled or at least weren't being actively opposed, you could move armies by sea in a single year instead of slogging around for a fucking decade to get your legions to egypt.
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This problem is even worse in NUTW, because you are forced to have general in charge of every army. So you can't just split your big army into multiple smaller ones and hunt down those small armies.
Also replenishment. If you don't destroy enemy army completely. It is able in just few turns regenerate enough to be nuisance again.
 
Kharash said:
I thought the longer version would make more sense but he really just spergs out over nothing.
It just boils down to his viewers saying "we got your back!' and him getting angry saying "No you don't! That's fine but stop saying you do!" I guess that checks out as something a depressed person might say but still.
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He had two problems at that time, taking things he does seriously, too seriously* (hence him quitting rather than just doing less)
and playing Rome II which he considers mediocre.

*in the same live stream someone called him a scammer, he responded by stopping the game, singling out that person and demanding an explanation
instead of ignoring that person like others would
 
Eurasier 2025 said:
He had two problems at that time, taking things he does seriously, too seriously
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I tuned in for <30 seconds of the Attila stream and he was having a cringe worthy discussion/rant on ancient religions. He reminds me of wings, pretending to be an expert on every topic. People who play videogames all day are not respected as intellectuals.

If I'm not mistaken, legend made a bunch of "I love trannies now guys!" videos/rants after he started gaining notoriety for having an edgy/chud fan base. Obviously telling a bunch of your fans to gtfo was not popular lol. It is much safer to simply avoid those topics but he never learned his lesson, classic lolcow behavior.

Dreamland said:
He attained lolcow status with his viewers and is physically turning into DSP.
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Lmao the signature dsp "salt and pepper style" beard. He needs to shave the beard into a goatee and grease up his hair if he wants to complete the look.
 
Dreamland said:
I guess we'll see him back when medi3 and 40k land with a thud.
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Probably if not sooner I remember that LTW already did this whole song and dance atleast once before. 4-5 years ago he also talked about how he is quitting ,
8 years ago
4 years ago he was "quitting" streaming
Just couple examples I found in last 5 minutes
 
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