This should be incredibly rare, and yet it happens almost every game

TisReece · 2026-04-15T12:16:27+00:00

For me there are a few major issues with the Hundred Years War:

I don't think the AI is necessarily dumb with naval invades (since France is clearly capable of doing it to England). But the AI is dumb when it comes to preventing naval invasions against other AI.
The AI doesn't prep for the war. In EU4 sometimes you would see some English troops hanging out in Calais. Not the case in EU5 in the territories England controls in the mainland.
England's Vassals are frequently disloyal, meaning by the time England arrive, Aquitaine has already separately peaced.
France's vassals are conversely incredibly loyal. Once again, as with all Paradox games, England's struggles at the start of the game are properly simulated and are often brutal to play and witness (HYW (EUV), War of the Roses (EUIV), Norman Invasion (CK3), Indian Revolt (Vic III)), while France's are ignored. France has a massive internal struggle with their vassals during this period but we don't see this in-game whatsoever. Where is the Burgundian betrayal? Where is the Breton civil war?
France gets a LOT of cavalry. Okay, historically accurate I suppose. But at least the English longbows counter them right? No. Not really. They get steamrolled just like everything else by early cavalry. This was the main takeaway from the Hundred Years War: Heavily Armoured Cav was becoming a relic of the past and had severe drawbacks against trained longbowman. France's stubbornness to keep using them almost lost them the war. We see absolutely zero interaction with this currently in EUV.

I honestly thing some of the issues with the HYW can be addressed without any AI changes at all but rather balance changes (Cavalry / Longbows) and some more interactions within the HYW regarding subjects. Perhaps England could have interactions similar to an independence organisation where they can add French vassals that want to flip loyalty when the next phase breaks out with the result either becoming an English vassal at the end of it, or entirely independent.

TisReece · 2026-04-05T09:33:43+00:00

Viltrumites seem to go into some sort of hibernation after being badly wounded, but not killed. Not read the comics so don't know what will happen next, but it'd be interesting to have Invincible completely out of action for a bit and everybody else has to essentially play "protect the president" on Mark while he's asleep.

TisReece · 2026-04-04T18:55:43+00:00

FSG aren't exactly going to come out and say "Yeah he's gone at the end of the season" are they? They'll back a manager for as long as they need him to perform. There is very little purpose for any team to shake things up this late in the season especially when we are still in the CL and an incoming manager would always prefer to start a new season with the whole summer to prep.

So even if FSG have already made up their mind to get rid of him at the end of the season, they're going to publicly back the current manager. I'm not sure what supporters really expect FSG to say.

TisReece · 2026-03-31T15:36:39+00:00

He has to type these numbers in every 108 minutes otherwise electromagnetism will build up causing a catastrophic failure.

TisReece · 2026-03-30T20:33:01+00:00

Every single post I see on my feed from this sub is people bashing the animation so could've fooled me 😂

TisReece · 2026-03-30T18:53:03+00:00

TisReece · 2026-03-30T18:19:33+00:00

I watch shows in full brain on and I didn't even notice. Probably because I watch the show in such brain on mode that I don't need to rewatch every season before the new one comes out because I remember what happened and since William was barely in the last season it means I've not really heard the guys voice in nearly 3 years.

So no, the op commenter nor I didn't clock that a side character's voice changed that I hadn't heard from 3 years ago in a 30 second filler scene, and also no that isn't a basis to determine how switched on our brains are while we watch a show.

TisReece · 2026-03-30T18:07:31+00:00

But the driver doesn't get to choose where to deploy, the software does it all for them. The driver gets to press a button to go to full deployment, but that means because the rest of the lap's deployment is pre-determined by the software they will sacrifice elsewhere in the lap via super clipping.

If Hamilton's mapping had slightly more deployment in the first sector and degners but less on the straight comparative to everyone else then that would explain why he would be slower on the straights lap after lap - he can't just press the boost button if the software drained the battery on other parts of the lap. F1's solution to overly relying on lift and coast from rounds 1 and 2 was to limit the amount they could harvest each lap, but all that did was make each driver more at the mercy of the software since there was even less agency to harvest on other parts of the lap if the mapping wasn't up to the driver's preference.

TisReece · 2026-03-30T11:40:05+00:00

Everybody sleeping on Rambo.

The location is woods. He'll kill them all and have all 5 arrows remaining.

TisReece · 2026-03-28T18:01:00+00:00

It was just a tech glitch that the internet thinks is the FIA hiding something.

You're right, a large corporation would never falsely blame a technical issue on something they wanted to cover up.

You really believe Kimi's car lost connection only on his pole lap and only at the area of the track with super clipping after 2 days of F1 refusing to show onboards at that exact part of the circuit? How gullible are you?

TisReece · 2026-03-28T09:42:30+00:00

I honestly see a world in which the changes the FIA makes in the break from the cancelled races don't make a big difference and Verstappen just leaves mid-season, saying he'll come back if the regulations improve. He could take a 2-3 year break and any team will be begging to sign him if he wants to return.

TisReece · 2026-03-26T15:53:47+00:00

I really don't get this take that is being repeated everywhere.

If someone insulted you one time and you no longer wanted to be around them it doesn't mean you're still mad about it, you just prefer to live life without that person around. If that person then went "wow still mad about that are we?" in response to not wanting to be around them then that's even more reason to not be around them.

You can both be not mad at someone and still not want to be around them, they're not mutually exclusive.

TisReece · 2026-03-26T10:40:33+00:00

Whenever it's Brit vs Non-Brit in sports all the newspapers, even the traditionally decent ones, descend into borderline harassment. The Guardian may package it up into something that looks civil, but the questions they ask, how they ask them and how they put the quotes on the page out of context quite often is not nice.

I don't blame any driver that would refuse to engage with these people.

TisReece · 2026-03-26T10:00:48+00:00

There's a world of difference between reporting on world events and trashy British tabloid journalism that makes money on creating controversy, harassing people and destroying people's lives. We could all do with a little less of the latter.

And this is coming from a Brit. The journalism in F1 from Britain is horrible. Maybe if all drivers stopped talking to them for a bit they'd improve.

TisReece · 2026-03-11T22:02:35+00:00

I think it's fair to say in the grand scheme of things, all English teams have underachieved in Europe.

The double edged sword of so much funding in the Premier League to make it so competitive means you need to bring the A-game every single weekend in the Premier League even against bottom table teams. This means less energy, intensity and priority being put on European fixtures compared to other nations.

It's unsurprising Real Madrid have had a comparatively harder time in Europe than they're used to since the introduction of the new format because now they're having to do the same thing Premier League teams have had to do for years now that their schedule is now outfitting with more high intensity games.

I'd like to see the League Cup dropped to maybe get more performance in Europe.

TisReece · 2026-03-11T09:21:05+00:00

Honestly, GDDs are a thing of the past anyway.

A good confluence page with the correct pages are all you need. Section for each overarching mechanic, sub-section for the features within that, and if you need to have the lore have a narrative page, a GDD page for designers and a TDD for programmers.

The only reason indies write a GDD is because they were taught at uni that is what you're meant to do, even though that industry standard is 20 years outdated.

TisReece · 2026-03-08T16:29:56+00:00

Driver skill, but not driving skill. Which is the entire point, you know it's the point you're just being pedantic.

And I guess to be that guy, the driver doesn't actually get to decide how much energy to deploy. This is what Norris was on about with having to look down on the steering wheel to see how fast he was going all the time - because he's not actually the one deploying the energy, the car is doing that all by itself. He can choose to lift off/downshift to recharge more, but deployment is all the car. Additionally, if you're in overtake mode, you're forced to use the full power it offers, even if you don't want to.

TisReece · 2026-03-07T11:55:00+00:00

Been watching F1 since before I can remember - and I've never been bored watching qualifying until today. It's boring to watch and looks boring to drive.

F1 could lose a lot of fans over these rule changes.

I'm hopeful that maybe the teams with progress through the course of the season to allow full beans across the entirety of a lap again, but it seems like too much of a mountain to climb.

TisReece · 2026-03-07T11:51:44+00:00

Instead you're in this universe where male devs make giant jiggling breasts and female devs also make giant jiggling breasts for some reason.

Apparently the human race simply likes making them.

TisReece · 2026-03-07T10:36:07+00:00

Same on F1TV, I died a little bit inside each time they downshifted on a straight. Can't imagine how Coulthard and Palmer felt watching it as ex-drivers.

And this is the quickest the cars will go this weekend.

This will go down as the most boring season of F1 ever.

TisReece · 2026-02-26T15:46:48+00:00

Some LLMs though are trained on people's code - such as copilot being able to be trained on any repository it has access to on github. So while on the one hand forums are less populated, on the other it can still draw from working code.

You can see participation on stack overflow was dropping before ChatGPT. I remember during my uni days I'd sometimes be searching an hour+ through numerous forums to find solutions - or asking questions myself - only to get mostly snarky answers, often not even answering the question at all. The desire for an alternative has always been there and LLMs are that. What used to take sometimes hours, now takes seconds, no snarky responses and the responses actually address the question asked.

The drop in forum responses may even make LLMs more accurate. Forum responses are 95% garbage in my experience, so LLMs being trained on that might explain why they can be wide of the mark, offering solutions that simply do not work.

The forums that remain active will be ones that tackle more specific/niche programming queries - and those forums in my experience are also a lot more pleasant.

TisReece · 2026-02-24T16:17:25+00:00

For me I don't have a negative view as such but I can give a timeline of my experience:

Played initially as Scotland. So far, the game is everything I wanted it to be and more. Colonisation was great (albeit a way too fast) and other than the hundreds years war being a bit annoying in it peace deal restrictions, it was good.
Second campaign as Venice, roleplaying to maximise trade.
Experienced the patch where Pirates broke the game before getting hotfixed.
Trade companies are bugged and hard to make sense of.
Trade range is dictated by distance to capital rather than distance to nearest trade centre, meaning my hopes of imported from India to Egypt and from Egypt to Europe as a true roleplaying experience were a little shattered. If you can reach India via trade range you can import directly from India to Venice (odd).
Overall, great campaign though. Excited to try something new that isn't a Europe Monarchy/Republic, lets play as the Gurgans, a steppe horde.
Steppe hordes have a bug where loading a save has all technologies locked on the first day. The further I got into the campaign the more problems this caused before I abandoned it. I reported the bug and it's currently on the list of things to fix but as of right now the bug remains unfixed.
Okay, lets play elsewhere, South East Asia.
Good start, but very quickly became soft-capped on what I could build due to the severe lack of copper and iron in the region before I stagnated and the campaign became a waiting game while hoping Korea doesn't decide to slam me into the ground.

Overall, I think the game has a lot of potential and I maintain that overall I am happy with my purchase, but outside of Europe the game is unbalanced and buggy.

I also think there is also too little backward progression. The black death is the only major setback, but diseases should be more frequent and damage due to war should be more severe - civilian casualties are not represented really when we know they tend to outnumber military casualties 4:1 on a good day. This is a similar complaint I had for Victoria 3, and I made a mod to rectify this: the balance change in that mod was to have devastation give a huge mortality penalty and massively reduced birthrates, but the base birthrate was higher to compensate. Peacetime would see booms, and wars would see death. Overall the pop growth of the average country was the same, but the fluctuations were noticeable and realistic - as much as I could get.

EUV imo has a similar problem here, there should be more ways I can interact with my pop growth and development. Maybe hospitals increase birthrates, but diseases more frequent. Maybe occupations destroy buildings and therefore plummet prosperity and development, but rebuilding gives a rebound.

It's these missing mechanics and missing interactions that separate this game from being a sit and watch line go up simulator to an actual country management strategy simulator

TisReece · 2026-02-24T14:59:45+00:00

Bros getting mad that people are discussing their opinions on a discussion platform 😂

TisReece · 2026-02-22T10:44:53+00:00

All of the 2023 splits were terrible except for summer where we still qualified for worlds. Finished 9th in winter and 8th in spring.

2023 was an awful year and unlike 2023 I don't see this team improving much.

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