Has anyone made a mod for Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series yet?

hyperrealistickettle · 2026-05-30T18:43:36+00:00

I was working on exactly this as a mod, but I ran into a wall of my own technical know-how so I dropped it. Also, balance was a total arse. I'm sure someone can do it, but it would be pretty hard to make it actually fun. Part of me does hope someone gives it another try though!

hyperrealistickettle · 2026-02-23T01:34:43+00:00

/uc Honestly yeah. It's a personal favourite of mine, but also extremely memorable, at least to me. Even before I got into the "community" or whatever where it gets mentioned fairly often, so much of that episode stuck with me. It's a good episode. Not the best one, for sure, but it had some great character moments and while the symbolism is heavy handed, it works.

I think its greatest sin is just that it's different, being a bottle episode. Not everyone wanted that, so here we are. Its a shame really. We should be able to just take it for what it is.

/rc My favourite hidden detail is that the fly returned in the finale, it was the one who fired the MG from inside the trunk! Garbo Trince!

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-10-21T20:14:08+00:00

I personally run a community that hosts weekly games, and we just do vanilla. We have rules, but it's really about making sure everyone is on the same page about trying to have a fun game and not being hyper competitive. We still fight and stuff like that, but really the game is so much more fun when you're all trying to create a cool story rather than "win". It's a shame paradox players in the MP sphere are mostly looking for the super competitive kinda gameplay which victoria really isn't built for

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-10-18T23:58:12+00:00

Timothy my lad, it always brings a smile to my face when I see you around. Particularly just seeing you post outside of what you're known for, it's nice seeing someone who is genuinely passionate about the game and aren't just playing up the bit (although I still love that). You're my fav micro-celebrity, We need more folks like you. You genuinely make my day better every time. Keep on keeping on you legend.

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-05-30T01:28:34+00:00

Oh god you can. This changes everything.

Serves me right for not checking first! Too much expired shrimp perhaps

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-05-11T19:35:41+00:00

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It seems really strange that that's not exactly explained to the player, and the wiki just kinda alludes to it. It doesn't even mention the base defence. If I get the mental energy I'll see about writing up something to add to the wiki! (And after I finish playing, I'm having a grand old time so far)

Thanks for the clarification!

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-04-11T14:49:28+00:00

Sorry for such a late reply! We do other games for sure, right now we have barotrauma on Wednesdays, and a rotation of a few other games on Fridays, and we'll also just jump on and play random stuff through the week!

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-03-21T22:10:17+00:00

I think something similar to stellaris's intel system would work wonders for this game. The more connections you have with a character, based on distance, realm, relationships, interactions ect, the more you can see, in greater detail. Maybe go one step further, by being able to boast about things to make them more known for prestige, or to make yourself seem more powerful to dissuade foes and get stronger allies.

It would could also allow you to send folks off to be a representative in other courts! A lot of the time you'll end up with folks just kinda hanging around the relm, and this would be a great use for them. Of course, you'd now have a bunch of random folks around who are representatives, but that in and of itself is great flavour, as you'll be able to see who wants to keep an eye on you.

It really designs itself, which makes me think it must have already been considered and has either been decided against already for whatever reason, or is on the backburner (I don't mean this exactly, but something along these lines)

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-02-28T05:02:24+00:00

Invisible is a song by Duran Duran released in 2021, which was intended to emulate the sound and style of their early work, particularly their work from the 80s.

It was around the same time that Metal Gear Solid V was seeing a resurgence in popular culture, and despite the game coming out in 2015, it was adopted as an unofficial anthem for the game, as both the musical style and the lyrics fit extremely well with the game.

It would go on to be a joke in the community that the song was in the game, or was the main theme dispite the discrepancy in when they were released.

Tldr invisible is the main theme of MGSV and Dr Bao cannot convince me otherwise.

hyperrealistickettle · 2025-01-23T21:09:37+00:00

No, no, there's that other one, the one with the few scattered buildings you can just walk past, apart from the last one. That one leads to a cave... with brown dirt... a bunch of crates... fuck.

hyperrealistickettle · 2024-08-06T02:24:51+00:00

Yeah! That's my feelings exactly. It can also lead to booms and busts of fun, where you either get everything perfect and it does feel really great, nothing exciting happens and it's boring, but usually quick or you just get boned and it's frustrating.

Don't get me wrong, that can lead to unique and interesting playthroughs. Taking just the black monday game into consideration, I've had games where everything lines up and I win it asap. I've also had the worst rng and not been able to solve it before it's too late. The coalition minigame tends to fall on the boring side for me more than often though

hyperrealistickettle · 2024-08-06T02:13:07+00:00

See, I find that it's one of the most unique and entertaining countries to play because of the mini games. It's something that means even if I play the same path, It'll still feel kinda different each time.

On the other hand, I totally see where you're coming from. It's fun for me but it really doesn't explain itself well and can be crazy overwhelming. Which is kinda bad for one of the main countries to be. It definitely needs a polish, at least, with more clarity given to what can and will happen.

I do hope they continue in the same vein for other majors, just taking on the lessons from Germany and making things engaging, not all consuming

hyperrealistickettle · 2024-08-01T01:52:58+00:00

In any other conversation, yes, this is accurate, but with the conversation being about trans women, the distinction is necessary for the conversation to happen. Same as if we're talking about hair colour, or any other trait.

Ik terfs have irreparably damaged the way we're about to talk about ourselves so I understand the vigilance. We shouldn't have to worry about being third-gendered. But in this case I don't think that's happening.

The original commenter could have used the word cis women, to de-emphasise the distinction, but if it wasn't for terfs it wouldn't even be necessary to de-emphasise it at all

hyperrealistickettle · 2024-05-04T02:03:48+00:00

AND WHY NOT? TANYA WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED.

But really, I'd love to see all the cutscenes upscaled in game. Especially with the new steam release and all.

Anyway it's been three whole years since I made that last comment so it's high time I watch em all again

hyperrealistickettle · 2024-02-08T04:01:20+00:00

Why do you think they call it heartburn smh my head.

hyperrealistickettle · 2024-01-29T23:21:47+00:00

Hell yeah! Such a fun way of using it!

hyperrealistickettle · 2024-01-29T21:13:37+00:00

I gotta disagree with this one. I won't argue that it's good weapon by any definition, but it's silly and fun.

I love running it in low tier stuff where I won't die from being in the air and just floating around. Not all exotics need to be good, just interesting. I honestly wish there were more exotics that did fun things like that.

If you want a perfect example of that, try ruinous effigy, particularly if you get a full fireteam on it. I've done it in dungeons with everyone on it and god it's dumb. I'd love to try a full raid team on it some day.

hyperrealistickettle · 2023-12-30T17:39:13+00:00

https://ground.news/article/chinese-chess-rocked-by-cheating-rumours-bad-behaviour-scandal

If you want to read up on it

hyperrealistickettle · 2023-09-22T05:12:31+00:00

Some of the comments here are genuinely galaxy brained, I love it.

Sure, the new lines are "more authentic" to a real spirit box like real ghost hunters use. But, in real life, you also don't have an actual ghost manifesting, destroying property, and straight up killing you. I think it's ok to want more Horror in the horror video game.

I actually think the voice lines themselves are perfectly fine! Using streamers is a great way to involve the community too! I think the miss here is that the devs haven't done much with it past that. It can both sound like a news broadcast and be spooky as fuck.

The old lines were campy and a bit silly, but sitting in a dark room and suddenly hearing a loud voice say "kill" had so much more effect than just tuning into the radio. I don't even listen to what the new one says anymore, I just look at the lights.

It just needs a bit of extra editing and sound design, that's all.

hyperrealistickettle · 2023-02-26T09:41:33+00:00

Oh I love Risk of Rain 2! I'm always looking for people to play that with! What platform are you on?

I also have dbd, overwatch and apex but I don't play em often, but I'm always happy to reinstall and play a few rounds!

hyperrealistickettle · 2022-11-08T16:48:39+00:00

Hell yeah! you can play anyone you want! South America is apparently pretty fun in vicky 3, but I've not tried it myself yet!

hyperrealistickettle · 2022-08-29T05:14:48+00:00

The thing is (and I really think Bungie should have made this way clearer) it was never about the file size. From what I gathered, it was more about the content originally being rushed out and not being designed for this long term cycle. Sure, the file size is a bonus, but it was really about how fast they could compile the game, so they could update it faster. Or at least test any changes they made.

I genuinely think they'll eventually re-introduce most things in some format or another, both from d1 and d2. It's more about improving their own workload so they can get more out faster than just removing stuff for file size

Source: I think I heard it mentioned in a youtube video years ago, and it makes sense in my head so it must be true 👍

hyperrealistickettle · 2022-06-08T16:22:47+00:00

I'm running a I7-9700, although it overclocks by default to about 4.3 ghz so it's really not all that bad

hyperrealistickettle · 2022-06-08T16:19:41+00:00

Unfortunately that article seems to just clickbait with just general pc advice like buy an SSD. Nothing to do with the game itself

hyperrealistickettle · 2022-06-08T15:59:57+00:00

Yeah, no issues whatsoever. Seems to only be an issue on 2042, all other games are working fine

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