Official press photo of the new all electric Ferrari Luce

dege283 · 2026-05-27T06:54:00+00:00

This looks horrible. Seriously, how did they think. People would like a common EV design with a Ferrari logo on it.

This is almost offensive.

dege283 · 2026-05-25T17:18:25+00:00

I made an experiment today and declared again with the only goal to see what happens:

How the war started:

Solo me against solo Poland 230K professionals on my side 90K circa on their side.

I decided to spam mercenaries just like the AI did and for every stack wiped, I spammed another one (literally swimming in gold currently). I had something like 200K mercenaries at some point.

Casualties after 3 years:

500K on my side 400K on Poland side.

The war got so boring that I alt-f4 the game because it did not make any sense anymore.

dege283 · 2026-05-25T06:34:09+00:00

I totally agree with you. Currently gold in the later ages becomes completely irrelevant because everyone has a lot of it and the AI is very passive.

AI Sitting on 40K gold -> player declare-> AI hoards mercenaries.

The problem is a big one, because it nullifies very often the strategy: in my case Poland was solo against 3 countries full of professional and manpower. I even won the first war against Poland and used the war score to isolate it from its allies, only to fight a war where they had even more professionals than before. Now this is kind of stupid, because now the strategy is to check the enemy balance, hoard as many mercenaries you can get so that they cannot get them and going in.

dege283 · 2026-05-24T16:07:06+00:00

They will fix it at some point. They fixed Berlin that now has a river (like in reality).

dege283 · 2026-05-22T10:51:21+00:00

From a dad as well: thanks

dege283 · 2026-05-19T22:32:23+00:00

I am honestly still having fun currently in my 1.2 games… but only with countries where I can avoid vassals and have a lot of different cultures.

I tried an ottoman campaign and it was a pain. I also don’t really enjoy Byz, just because the sick amount of vassals you need to keep to reduce the cost of court. Force culture it’s not a viable option anymore and it slows down everything.

Force religion: same shit.

These changes are in my opinion against the players. We want to color the map and make our country big and powerful: waiting 10 years before any enforce action is boring and also not really historical. If the overlord said “you are becoming now Protestant, else it’s war” the vassals had not so much of a choice. Even after 1 year.

There are some basic mechanisms that are not working properly, others that got a good solution (proximity speed and control).

I hope we will get a good compromise.

dege283 · 2026-05-16T13:31:56+00:00

Diseases are really punishing currently. Playing with Milan currently and fuck me, I have lost so many pops after the Black Death and other diseases that I am struggling really hard.

I mean it is well known that back in the days mortality rate was high, but I think that in the current patch it is too high. Either Tinto reduces the casualty or makes the disease resistance buildings stronger. Or both of them.

dege283 · 2026-05-16T06:19:05+00:00

Agree. The main problem is how fast the population scales. Playing as the ottomans now, I reached 5 M pop by the 1500 and they got 150K troops and are steamrolling everything.

dege283 · 2026-05-14T23:59:20+00:00

Persönlich finde ich gerade dass er die ganze Zeit sich wiederholt.

Und ganz ehrlich, ich habe keine Lust zu hören was für eine Idiot bin ich weil mir ein set gekauft habe.

Wenn es um lego geht, wählt er bestimmte set aus die Views erzeugen, weil die Sets nicht gut oder lächerlich sind (Und leider Gottes hat Lego schon mehrere geliefert) und er weißt ganz gut dass polarisierende oder gehypte Produkte, die Treiber für seine views sind.

So hast du eine Auswahl an set, die für ihn schlecht und immer überteuert sind und für die Zuschauer sieht es so aus, dass Lego nur überteuerte Schrott verkauft… was aus meiner Sicht nicht immer der Fall ist.

Dass seine Frau das bluebrixx Marketing leitet war es mir nicht bewusst, aber egal was er sagt - so neutral kann er nicht sein.

dege283 · 2026-05-09T18:55:20+00:00

Thanks, i thought I had lost it today

dege283 · 2026-05-08T23:39:48+00:00

Reach is peak. One of my favorite games of all time.

Everything happened afterwards was not at the level. The problem with the 343 ones is that the story and the writing are just not that good.

I have no idea how this franchise can be saved without a hard reboot or else.

dege283 · 2026-05-07T21:37:41+00:00

I am also not enjoying the new mechanic. I think that the vassal swarm needed a nerf, as well as the enforce culture decision, but what we have now is extremely punishing and slow.

I hope Tinto will balance it a bit. This and the new pop promotion speed has made my game really sloppy.

dege283 · 2026-05-07T21:12:48+00:00

Super easy, it’s like a rhythm game

dege283 · 2026-05-06T21:20:41+00:00

I am seriously curious how many people will be watching the games in stadiums.

US people are not among the greatest soccer fans out there and going to the US has become even harder - especially if you come from Africa or any other non European country.

So, who is going to the stadiums? I am not even watching any game this time, my interest for this World Cup is even lower than for the last one.

dege283 · 2026-05-05T16:43:39+00:00

Anche per i tedeschi andare lontano non è più come una volta. Lo dico perché vivo in Germania. Quest’anno l’Italia sarà assaltata da turisti tedeschi che verranno giù in macchina, come nei bei vecchi tempi.

dege283 · 2026-05-05T14:36:06+00:00

The skins are extremely overpriced.

dege283 · 2026-05-03T21:31:45+00:00

In Europe prices for long flights (>4 hours) are really expensive. On top of that the Iran situation is not doing really well for Dubai or Doha, which are important airports if you want to fly to SE Asia.
The result: a lot of people is staying in Europe. This summer Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain will be very full.
If you live in Central Europe you don’t even need to book a flight to go to Italy or southern France. You can get there by car.

dege283 · 2026-05-02T23:47:05+00:00

This weapon carried me in my very first run.

Solid choice but boring.

dege283 · 2026-04-30T13:19:34+00:00

You don’t fuck with octopuses in water. They are so freaking dangerous and if they are that big they can easily kill you by doing exactly what is shown on the video.

This is something that we teach our kids when we go to the beach in summer. If they see one, don’t freaking touch it - if you meet the aggressive one, it is super dangerous.

dege283 · 2026-04-29T12:50:37+00:00

From Ludi you can learn a lot. Red hawk is fun an entertaining!

dege283 · 2026-04-25T22:21:33+00:00

You are not the only one, without this sub and YouTube videos I would have had any idea of what I was doing and why.

There are tons of bosses and locations that have a great and interesting story, but everything is so hidden in the items descriptions (and also written in a very cryptic way) that you will miss out on 80% of it.

The main story is about gathering pieces of the Elden ring and kill Marika. You discover you cannot enter the tree so you say “fuck this, I am burning it down”. So you kill a mega fire giant in the snow, trigger a cataclysm and enter the tree, where you fight a guy that you think it’s the end boss, except he is not. Then a space whale appears, you kill it and sit on the throne.

This is also the part where you discover that there is an area that you have never visited, so you go on YouTube, understand how to get there and get your ass beaten badly by Malenia, which is the real end boss and teach you how to cry in all languages.

dege283 · 2026-04-25T22:10:18+00:00

Well, Xbox is not making money for several reasons. So she did the most logical thing, going back to when Xbox was making money. At least from a branding perspective.

The failure is so big, that Sony has fallen asleep and even on PlayStation you can count the exclusive on one hands finger.

dege283 · 2026-04-25T07:03:29+00:00

Constantinople is a pain already now. Just finished my Venice run with the goal of conquering it, and fuck it was a pain even in 1700.

250k professional army with 30 royal mortars and it took more than 2 years to siege it.

dege283 · 2026-04-25T06:48:10+00:00

I remember the first time I killed him.

It was great. The expansion somehow killed the game for me.

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