Recent content by zignor 4

Got a few hours in over the weekend. Coming straight from EU5, this seemed really simplistic at first (granted, so would brain surgery). Thankfully, the early game is deceptive and there's a good amount of complexity that layers in as you progress. This is going to be the type of game where I'll...

It's wildly GPU intensive. Even with not much going on...GPU load: 99%, CPU: 3%. I imagine this will improve with patches/drivers. Edit: No idea why but this is running far more smoothly using borderless windowed fullscreen instead of fullscreen. GPU meter still pegged, tho.

I'm playing at 4K and cranked everything to max and the game looks razor sharp to me, nothing at all weird graphically. My FPS is kinda shit though and I'm on a 5090. Either there is some optimization left to be done or I have to figure out what setting(s) are killing me.

Why does this have to release within a few days of EU5? I still remember spending hours working to get the large bath houses and other high end buildings to become available in the original Caesar game (holy shit, did that really come out 33 years ago?). SimCity + ancient Rome = crack.

Alright, I spun up another new game last night (still Naples) and am doing vastly better now. Despite the suggestions to fully automate trade, I found that ducking in and out to make certain import/export tweaks helped. I also have a much better understanding of building and pop interactions...

I tried this for a few hours over the weekend. As a total n00b to the series I think my biggest point of confusion is that I have no reference point or other clear indication as to whether I'm actually doing well or not. I've been playing as Naples and after restarting a handful of times I...

I've been itching for a grand strategy game lately. I've never tried EU, saw this had very good reviews and grabbed it for $50 off of cdkeys. Then I clicked on some random review..."I'm an EU veteran. I didn't feel like I knew what I was doing with EU5 until about the 100 hour mark. After 1000...

Yeah, gross. Please bring back the original Captain Pike.

Stopped at Target this morning and saw they had what must have been at least 100 of these on a cart with zero line. One dude strolled up to the girl at the counter saying "I know it's a long shot bu..." "Nope, we have plenty." Hopefully the eBay scalpers get wrecked.

Yup. A few coworkers and I played EQ in 2000 and one of them (a bit of a dumbass who made too much money) bragged about buying an SMR for the low, low price of...150 (real) dollars. No one was slinging those things around in their prime to random strangers as a potential entree to imaginary...

Apparently ~80% of you people if my years of playing Everquest are any indication.

I finally got some time in after buying this and apparently quickly forgetting about it back in 2017. How are the graphics this good 8 years later? With everything cranked up and HDR turned on it looks amazing. To boot, it rarely dips below 200FPS even @4K with 20+ characters on screen and...

Huh, looks like I bought this in 2017 and played it for all of 4 hours, I have virtually no memory of it. Was this the game that was loaded with loot box bullshit? Guess I'll download it.

Neumanns are awesome. I have the KH 150s (and a 750 sub) which are definitely overkill for the desktop, but my office opens up to a living room and you can crank them up to dance party levels and they fully fill the space while remaining clean.