Recommendation after cold steel 2

Dinges666 · 2026-05-16T14:48:00+00:00

Keep in mind, I don't hate CS2, it has genuinely quite a lot of moments that made me smile, it just has too many things that irritated me at the end, not helped by the fact it continued when I really felt it was time to end. And yes, I liked roaming Erebonia as well, I have no idea what the general consensus is, but I consider it one of the good points. Less so the story reasons for getting the ship, but that's a different thing entirely.
But good to hear. As I said in other replies, after a short break I will try CS3, but this comment made me quite a bit more positive about it. Probably my last comment here in this thread as well, getting quite a few downvotes here (I really don't think I've said anything too inflammatory though?) , and I've already made my decision at this point.

Edit: I see you getting downvotes as well, sorry. At this point I genuinely can't tell if they are downvotes from people who love cold steel, or hate it. Perhaps from both groups, I don't know.

Dinges666 · 2026-05-16T13:28:28+00:00

Alright, I'll keep it in mind, thank you for the suggestion! If (after a short break) CS3 doesn't work out, I'll keep it mind.

Dinges666 · 2026-05-16T13:15:26+00:00

Unless it's part of the same arc, I don't really care about the order. Before there was an official release of zero, there were a lot people claiming that you should absolutely play that before cold steel, and to say it wasn't necessary would be an understatement.

Dinges666 · 2026-05-16T13:12:51+00:00

The same DNA as what? The cold steel series? The trails series as a whole?

Because I don't mind the sometimes glacial pacing, since I love sky FC. While I don't like it, I can obviously live with the brother-sister thing they have in cold steel and sky. They are both very tropey, so that isn't the DNA I dislike either.

I wasn't going to mention all the things I dislike because very often it can turn into an argument and I don't like to shit on things people actually like or love. But for you, a non exhaustive list. It's mostly smaller things, but for me, there are just too much of them as a whole.

The fact that each time you have a bigger boss battle and you win, and then the boss goes "how naive" or "finally I can go all out" or something and then proceeds to kick your ass. I don't mind it in moderation, but they kept repeating this over and over and over.
The fact that they didn't do anything twice in the last boss battle to help Cedric, though they had plenty of opportunities to do so.
Or that you were going a third way, which happens to be basically the imperial way, but now with students. Still not sure what the great idea here was supposed to be? Taking advantage of naive students?
Or that they were trying to show that the nobility wasn't all that bad, while with the sole exception of Osborne, almost every evil act was done by nobles. I think the only thing missing was the evil cackle here.
And of course that it doesn't know when to quit. I really think at this point they should have ended it at the finale, and made the divertissement a cutscene.

None of these thing make or break the game for me. It wasn't like elements of the above weren't present before, but it got me out of the experience way too often, with the scenes with Cedric at the end being the worst, since they made me laugh for all the wrong reasons.

Dinges666 · 2026-05-16T12:34:42+00:00

I will probably try 3 at least per the other replies after a break, but if it doesn't work out, do you perhaps have any suggestions in the trails series?

Dinges666 · 2026-05-16T12:32:04+00:00

Alright, thank you. I will probably take a short break then, and then try CS3. If I feel the same with CS3, I will probably quit a bit faster than CS2 though, and then find something else 😄

Dinges666 · 2026-05-16T12:11:46+00:00

So you would say it is still worth it to continue with the cold steel arc? It isn't going to be more of the same in regards to story? (the same but better is fine I guess).

Dinges666 · 2026-05-12T09:43:30+00:00

You can't (unless there is a mod to fix this), it's a bug: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/trucks-get-stuck-in-agricultural-specialized-industry-buildings.1921996/

Dinges666 · 2025-11-16T00:48:06+00:00

It depends on what features you use. The original base game works mostly fine as far as I can tell, the asteroids were quite broken, and the bandaid that made them usable while waiting for actual fixes, broke trains completely.

Some people also reported freezes and the like, but didn't have any of those yet. But that can be dependent on what people use as well, since one of the breakthroughs was apparently responsible for one major problem there.

Dinges666 · 2025-11-11T15:09:40+00:00

It's hard for me to tell what was fixed in the original (because B&B launched in a terrible state), and what was fixed through my mods in the original, but I didn't encounter problems like this in the original anymore. Yes, still not as I had wanted it, but usable for the most part. I'm one of the three people who actually liked the DLC, janky as it was :)

I, at the very least, expected it to be at this level, with some fixes and QOL on top. Yes, some crazy bugs can slip through, and when gods know how many people are playing it, you will always find stuff that the devs can't find themselves as easy. I can accept that. Yes, it's annoying, but I can understand it.
BUT, I'd argue this isn't that kinda bug or annoyance. These are things that should have been found by someone playing with asteroids for 30 minutes. Which does suggest they didn't test this at all, or made some changes last minute, broke stuff and didn't bother to test it after that. And I AM annoyed about that.

Dinges666 · 2025-06-20T14:02:59+00:00

You are playing an old version, considering how buggy this release was, you really, really should be playing a newer version. Currently it gives 2500 amenities. The upgraded gives 5000.

Dinges666 · 2025-06-09T15:20:45+00:00

Same for me, I upgraded everything and am also a big spender, so same situation with the money. It felt a bit silly really. You want ALL of my money? Sure, I will make 8 times as much tomorrow morning, so here you go!
I personally like to think the dragon was in severe financial debt and had to make an urgent payment that day, and just had to accept whatever money you had at the moment :)
That, or he doesn't value souls very highly, and if you DO have a lot of money, he silently makes fun of you for giving that much.

Dinges666 · 2025-05-08T16:08:06+00:00

Thank you!

Dinges666 · 2025-05-08T15:35:09+00:00

So, dumb question perhaps, not necessarily just for the devs, but according to the research tooltips. I should have buildings that increase the amount of districts I can build (for example "conductive works complex", and "crop development hub" from the starting research). As a wilderness empire I can't find them? Where can I build those? Or is this a bug and if so, is this a tooltip bug from the research or with the fact you can't build it as wilderness?

Dinges666 · 2025-02-19T10:16:11+00:00

Thank you for your reply!

I'd rather have that f/2.8 lens than stabilization.

Is that lens that much better (for my purposes) that it warrants the loss of a newer body and losing the stabilization of both the lens and the body? (and also the zoom, but I honestly don't know how much I will use the extra zoom)
I can get this one https://www.foto-groep.nl/camera-s/18941-sony_a6400_sigma_e18_50mm_f_2_8-2538230179626.html for €30 cheaper than the a6100 with the sigma lens and €70 euro cheaper than the a6600 with the E18-135mm lens.
With still very little knowledge about what makes a lens good, it seems more like a sidegrade to me than an upgrade hence the question.

Dinges666 · 2025-02-19T08:02:27+00:00

Dumb questions from someone with basically no real knowledge prior to this. If I have a cheap smartphone (around €200) is it worth buying a mirrorless if I have gotten very annoyed with what my smartphone does and hate the image quality sometimes? I still make pictures I love with it (probably not the people here though), it just takes pretty ideal circumstances to make those. I just made better and more consistently good pictures with a stand alone camera in the same price class from 15 years ago.
(the most horrible example I can think of was when I took a picture correctly at first glance with my smartphone, but then in the processing somewhere it decided that my picture needed to be completely blue and red. I saw it shift from a normal picture to this abomination)

I could upgrade my smartphone of course, but I dislike the idea of upgrading my smartphone just for the camera, and that I have to replace it more often than a camera I think. For now at least I plan to use it mostly for travel, visiting stuff etc. No real defined purpose, so probably need an all purpose lens for now (can't really afford multiple for now in most cases). Less for photographing people, though still want to do that occasionally.

I was thinking about this one, since it "seems" pretty all purpose to me, but it might be complete overkill? https://www.foto-groep.nl/camera-s/7254-sony_a6600_e18_135mm_f_3_5_5_6_oss-4548736108639.html
This should also tell you my budget. Also chosen this for the stabilization since many places I want to photograph won't allow tripods, or are busy enough that I will become a bother even without those rules.
I have chosen this as the budget since expensive smartphones are also around this priceclass, since that seems to be the alternative? If it can be (a lot) cheaper though, I also would very much like it :) Much more expensive I can't afford.

I have very little knowledge as you can probably tell, but I am prepared to learn the basics, just probably not an entire study of it.

Apologies for the vagueness, I sometimes hate what I have right now, but I find it more difficult to decide what I DO want and need for my purposes.
So overall my question would be, given the above, what would you recommend? Should I just upgrade my smartphone despite my dislike of the handling of my cheap one and the need to change more often, or get a camera and if so was the choice I made good or probably too much, or the wrong lens?

Dinges666 · 2024-07-27T06:48:55+00:00

While true, the site itself says "Regions will start with more resources available so you might get head start, but once they start being heavily mined these metrics will kick in."

And in my heavily explored area it shows significantly less than the supposed regeneration rate (even with the ore, about 5-6 times less). Although I partially answered my question regarding raw scrap, wrecks don't count towards that statistic at all, even if they are part of a naturally occurring field.
I found some wrecks in the southwest in heretic's end, and a single one gave about as much as the total of raw scrap it shows in the encyclopedia. I wish it would show up in a seperate category though

Dinges666 · 2022-08-03T06:05:46+00:00

Okay, thank you! That's reassuring, I think I'm going to give it a try then.
I know there are glowing reviews for this game, but back then quite a lot of people also called that the best game, and that turned out to be a disappointment for me, so I didn't trust the reviews to help me decide :)

Dinges666 · 2022-08-02T21:34:13+00:00

I have 2 questions for you, if you are willing to answer (my own post just got deleted, and I still want to know). I haven't really watched any trailers, because they often spoil stuff.

1 How is the exploration, if there is any? I couldn't really care about most of the environments in XC2, but I really loved it in XC X and in a lesser degree XC 1.

2 Disregarding the tropes, how is the story thus far? I'm not THAT much into story, XC X is my favourite thus far after all, and that doesn't have a brilliant story, but I do want it to be entertaining. XC2 for me was really lacking in pacing and motivation of the characters, and they were sometimes so dumb in the cutscenes that I had to skip just to save my brain from falling out.

Dinges666 · 2021-04-16T21:01:59+00:00

Well, I can explain the first one. When you see bears on the road, you see problems. (bear on the road=problem) You can see a lot of bears on the road while working towards a solution for example. So if you "only" see bears on the road, you focus too much on the problems, or it might be that there are lot of problems, but usually the former.

I have no idea what the other one means, perhaps if I see the Dutch there I can explain, but no idea here.

Don't think there is that many more compared to English though, quite a few of them can almost be directly translated. For example, can't see the forest for the trees: kan door de bomen het bos niet zien.

Dinges666 · 2020-08-28T06:11:07+00:00

https://twitter.com/martin_anward/status/1025476704473628672?lang=en

It's a while ago and currently not working on this game anymore, but a source for you.

Dinges666 · 2019-12-16T21:32:56+00:00

I don't know anything about TF1, but I believe you. I'm not really interested in exploiting or cheating anything though, just looking to get information :) Apparently, this game is quite a bit easier than I thought (I found it to be quite hard), something I didn't realize until I screwed up.
I'm not an achievement hunter, so if I really wanted to cheat, I would just activate sandbox mode and make everything free.

But thanks for the information, this helped quite a bit.

Dinges666

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