BATTLEMODE Plays: Shadow Empire Oceania| Water World | Ep: 001: A New DLC Lands!
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2023
- Shadow Empire is my favourite strategy game, a masterpiece 4X/Wargame hybrid from VR Designs, published by Matrix. In this new series, I ramp the difficulty up to Extreme and play on what I expect to be a fairly difficult planet in the hopes of testing the AI out properly.
You can find the game at www.matrixgames.com.
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You and DasTactic are my two go to people for watching some nice, relaxing and very enjoyable Shadow Empire playthroughs. Keep it up!
Das is the only other gaming channel I watch to be honest, I find him really entertaining and relaxing too.
And thank you, I really appreciate the kind comment.
I watch them both more than any others, well except Corvette content, lol
if this game would have slightly better tileset and significantly better ux/ui .. would be probably one of the best 4x games out there..
but its so cumbersome that navigating the game feels like a chore
@@Microphunktv-jb3kj the tileset can be changed with a mod I believe. DasTactic uses one he created. And the UI is a bit cumbersome, but to be honest I don't know how to make s better UI for sa game with so many options. Actually once you learn the game the UI becomes quite intuitive, at least for me.
Can't believe youtube never recommended this to me. 2 months late but that just means there is more to binge. Looking forward to it Battlemode.
::shakes fist:: ooh that dirty lowdown algorithm!
Oh man to see you and DasTactic play a mp game of this would be great. I love the game and I love both of your guys videos. An mp game with you two would just make it all the better.
I'd love to, but I fear Das will say no, his last SE MP experience with TorgugaPower was tough and I don't think he enjoyed it much. But if you can petition him hard enough he might consider it.
The problem for me is time, but if Das did have a change of heart, I'd defintely make the time for it.
AWESOME !!! Happy to see you doing a series :)
Cheers Jim, glad to have you aboard!
I'm excited to see this series continue
You aren't kidding about getting $$$ in Oceanania is a challenge in this update. I'm gonna have to figure out how to get it rollin' in. Tips appreciated :) lol
The MTHs also offer opportunities to make money, through events (help their ship in trouble!) or through dividends. So it's not all bad.
One of the best 4x turn based pc games...ever. (imho)
100% agree
Love the game as well :)
Glad you're enjoying it!
Your slogan is now "Battlesharks Roar!" 😅
I like it
Great game, for elite strategist
Indeed! I think the DLC really improves the grand-strategy side of the game
Looking forward to this new series!
Great stuff, thanks!
I'm excited to see this series continue too. I have this game and I think it's awesome, but watching people who actually know what they are doing is a treat.
I'm doing a multiplayer game of this right now with a similar setup and had the misfortune to start on a 4 tile size island while my opponent is sitting on a mega continent. The new DLC just opens up so many new and interesting potential setups. It's a shame the MTH's are so clunky though. Can't wait for real navies so I can punish the exploitative MTH's.
Yes it would be nice to be able to reach out and touch them from time to time! Let us know how the game goes!
Kino & a great day for strategy fans - gonna give this another week for patches before I pick this up though
Enjoying the dlc and vids about it!
One question: do you get better leaders at the start if you choose meritocracy in the school class phase of the setup? Because that team of leaders you have there is unbelievable. Or were you just lucky?
I'm about 99.9% certain that the answer there is yes. Democracy gives you worse leaders for sure.
dats lotta o waer!
All the water!
92meter is quite normal for bigger trees...
Awesome, didn't know that!
I can’t seem to locate the livestreams you did. I was working while listening and was trying to rewatch them?
I took one down as it was essentially me just running into a bug that Vic fixed the next day. The tutorial stream is available now.
I need as much BATTLEMODE playing shadow empire as I can get…
@@jznvsglassworks That's really kind of you to say so, plenty coming up! I'll finish Ice Planet soon too
Given your local temperature you seem to be located in the Tropics
Bang on!
I like the cults, since they seem to all be positive. The corporations really annoy me. I haven't done much with the crime syndicates. Perhaps I should give them a go.
If you think having thousands of your population sacrificed turn by turn is positive, I have a newfound respect and fear for you Trifler! The Cults are horrendous, and the cool unit feats they give are not at all well compensated for the horrific stuff they pull on you if you let them get too strong!
I might try story events next time but I prefer my struggles to come externally, rather than internally, and so I usually turn them off.
@@battlemode Oh, they sacrifice people? Where does it say that? Maybe I'm blind, but I haven't seen any indication to tell me that. Maybe Vic needs to make that more obvious. :)
@@Trifler500 Early on the benefits are more obvious but all of the cults have trade-offs. e.g. Lower income because of donations to the church, limits on recruitment and apparently sacrifices. You can influence them quite a bit but late game there can be many to juggle.
The info is in the cult menu and is detailed in (most?) relevant places on hover over afaik, but it has been a while since I did a game with cults on
Regarding the model designer's Technician skill: don't you think he rolls better values if he has a higher skilll and vice versa?
I'm not sure actually. I do know he will add his Technician skill total to his die roll when making checks but I'm not sure whether very high rolls give better results. Might be a question to put on the Matrix forum so the experts can answer
@@battlemode I just asked chatgpt and this is what "he" said:
"In Shadow Empire, the Model Designer skill affects the quality of the troops that can be designed, but it does not directly affect the random values assigned to troop designs.
The Model Designer skill increases the number of design points that can be spent on designing troops, which allows for more customization and specialization of troops. However, the specific values assigned to the different design attributes (such as weapon damage or armor protection) are still determined randomly.
That being said, a higher Model Designer skill can still lead to more effective troop designs overall, as it allows for more efficient use of design points and can help to identify and prioritize the most important design attributes for a given situation.
So while a high Model Designer skill does not guarantee better values for troop design, it can certainly increase the likelihood of creating effective and specialized troops for various situations."
Maybe they should implement that AI to play the game instead of the current cheating AI lol
There isn't much landmass to play with, or am I wrong? It looks like that, I think.
I'm afraid you're wrong, the map size is absolutely massive and although it looks like those "islands" are small, they're all big enough for some decent sized wars!
@@battlemode Oke, thanks for your answer. I was a bit worried this planet type isn't worth my time. You convinced me to try it.
The AI still ignores logistics completely in this game or has it been changed?
The AI has never completely ignored logistics, so not sure what you mean there.
@@battlemode Yep, it does. Major regimes get free dirt road and free logistical points and unlimited AP range in their cities, that's essentially ignoring logistics. Take a look at the manual, page 353, there's a table of difference in rulesets.
If it ignored logistics you'd not be able to encircle them, so this isn't right. They do get free road building but that's a tradeoff for the AI being able to play the game. Nearly every strategy game AI has cheats like this you know?
@@battlemode Well, it's on the manual, if you doubt the very game designer who probably wrote the manual there's not much I can say to you. And yes, it ignores, you can't 'starve' a city by circling it, the only purpose of doing that is for attack bonus, true and tested.
And, lol, of course I know, giving AI bonus is a common way to increase AI difficulty, but not ignoring a main mechanics of the game, that's a design flaw, tbh, I'm just glad that Vic didn't go a long way to hide the AI ignoring mechanics this time, like he did in Advanced tactics.
Shadow empire is a great game and it's understandable that in such a complex and with few development resources (it's just one dude after all) game the AI would have to be limited, but ignoring a fact won't help in anything, let's not be fanboys.
Edit: just to add why I asked in the comment if the AI ignoring a important part of the mechanics. I was one of the many beta testers of this game (das was also and if I'm not mistaken you were too) and Vic explicitly said in the forum he would try and bring AI logistics mechanics closer to how human players work, it's understandable that his priority's are in putting out more content to the game, but there's the forum post proving this.
@@Blefiz sorry man i missed d this comment. UA-cam Studio doesn't flag up replies to existing replies for some reason.
I don't really care if the AI plays a different game. I'm most concerned with immersion and challenge, whether the game is fair or not in a single player game is of less concern to me.
How is the AI these days? I'm considering the game but heard it's lacking and relies on cheats/bonuses.
@@IlIlIlIlIlIlIIlIlIlIlIlIlIIIII AI is very good
@@battlemode Thanks I appreciate the reply.