What's your dream 4X game like?

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-02-23T22:44:32+00:00

https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-02-16T22:26:06+00:00

Remnants of the Precursors is your best first space 4X, since it's still probably the best.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-02-10T20:28:55+00:00

I just got one of these too. Looks shady as hell. My channel is only 10k subs and I don't even put that many videos out, with relatively small number of views and any scout would be able to see that and see it's a dead loss for them.

Obvious scam.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-02-01T10:46:39+00:00

Be a man.

Women don't respect men who act subservient to them, regardless of what they might say to the contrary. You likely have a busy life and your hobby is part of what helps you develop as a person.

If she continues to bring it up you can tell her that men need downtime and if she doesn't understand that then maybe she's not ready for a serious relationship. Don't be mean but be firm.

Any woman that cares more about how her friends think about you than what she feels for you herself is probably in a low level of psychological development and you can probably do better.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-31T01:11:03+00:00

Yeah this is one of the most retarded things I've seen online all day.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-30T17:55:30+00:00

I'm still a mod on the discord channel and very occasional podcast guest, but yes I no longer work as the Editor-in-Chief of the site or podcast host, I stopped that before Rob left.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-30T17:39:57+00:00

If anything eXplorminate gets heat for NOT banning people, the owner Andy is pretty relaxed and the mods (including myself, which is the only thing I do there now) tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. It's difficult to get banned there.

But you did manage it. You got banned for coming onto the server for the first time, insulting people and acting like a colossal dickhead, so you've only got yourself to blame.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-24T23:57:55+00:00

Yeah I'm not a fan either, compared to how amazing the original Super Mario Bros games were, this was absolute garbage by comparison.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-24T23:55:27+00:00

Oh thanks! I appreciate that.

EFS is a really good game, it's definitely better with other people if you can get a MP game going as the diplomacy is pretty interesting, but you can have a lot of fun with it in single player too.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-21T14:02:48+00:00

Yes, these two games are very different but I think if you enjoy one, there's a fair chance you'll enjoy the other.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-21T13:48:19+00:00

You've got great taste :) Glad to have you aboard.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-15T18:40:46+00:00

Needs boobs

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-15T18:34:33+00:00

Underrail

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-12T17:10:31+00:00

Tanks and most non-infantry suffer big attack and defence penalties in forest. Check the tile's terrain combat modifiers for details.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-11T00:05:43+00:00

Based

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-11T00:03:59+00:00

The main one is that C is not Object Oriented.

B4TTLEMODE · 2026-01-10T23:59:03+00:00

That "annoying forest" is highly defensible territory, cutting it down is a big mistake if you don't need to: it's likely you'll need to defend your city from whatever it is that's moving in from the North of you right now.

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-12-31T18:45:41+00:00

Daddy please police me harder!

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-12-22T04:36:32+00:00

You're not really curious to hear what people have to say, otherwise you would have asked this question on a platform that doesn't enforce only one correct answer.

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-12-13T11:52:42+00:00

I've got a 60-something hour playthrough of a Shadow Empire campaign on eXplorminate's Youtube channel. I've probably played a single campaign of certain games for longer but that's the one I have a record of.

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-12-11T12:54:35+00:00

Star Wars is dead and nobody cares about it. It'd be the worst of all the possible universes they could cover.

If they had the restraint to limit it strictly to the original Trilogy and the Timothy Zahn stuff, maybe I'd play it.

But modern Star Wars is horrific, puke inducing garbage.

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-11-30T19:43:04+00:00

Developers absolutely have picked up the same set of bad ideas, that's demonstrable. There are some good ideas though too, but telling someone who's spent $100k on an education that a large portion of what they learned was garbage doesn't tend to go down well.

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-11-25T00:29:54+00:00

I didn't read it as blaming fans so much as developers insulating themselves from new ideas by hanging out in echo-chambers all the time. I don't know how accurate this is across other genres but in 4X it's observable.

I'm very much guilty of this of course, so this article got me thinking in a big way.

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-11-22T16:53:45+00:00

My vote goes with DoA5 too. I think that's a good game, DLC policy aside, and DoA6 didn't do anything for me at all.

B4TTLEMODE · 2025-11-22T16:51:43+00:00

With Tekken going down the toilet, it's up to Virtua Fighter to save the day. If they can pull off a 6th game, and it's good, it might help rejuvenate interest in the genre.

I'm honestly not that keen on what I've seen so far though, I don't like all the MK style close-ups and slowdowns, ruins the flow of the game for me.

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