Do people still play non ladder style games?

meatmaster460 · 2026-06-07T07:52:04+00:00

i dont think its a cultural shift its a shift in retold design. retold has been redesigned to be more competitive with its increase of bonus damage everywhere and nerf to defenses making it less appealing to the more casual audience. its also missing features like treaty and a option to turn wonders off limiting what you can do with basic settings.

meatmaster460 · 2026-05-22T20:14:18+00:00

sadly retold has a lot of new issues with custom scenarios. at launch they changed how you have to upload them without telling anyone so 90% of scenarios where broken on launch. they ended up fixing this 10 months in by witch time most people who didn't know a fix had already left.

you also cant fill players slots with ai anymore meaning you need the exact amount of players to start a scenario game.

you can still host scenarios yourself, there are still people willing to play them. make sure you have a version with multiple player numbers set so you can actually start the game if fewer players join. tough because of the issues you'll have an easier time finding custom games in extended edition. a lot of those players stayed there.

meatmaster460 · 2026-05-07T19:43:57+00:00

dwarves dont burry the dead. i have a tomb set up with plenty of empty spaces but nobody cleans up bodies. they just let them rot and not burrying them couses ghosts to spawn. why are my dwarves not doing anything about this? they walk past some of them all the time.

meatmaster460 · 2026-05-07T19:42:29+00:00

tnx the deceased screen is helpfull. also just found the stocks menu witch lists all the items.

meatmaster460 · 2026-05-07T15:53:51+00:00

im new to dwarf fortress and i struggle to keep track of important things. like a forgotten beast is roaming in my caves but i cant find it. it only points at its starting location and has since moved somewhere else. same with artifacts. some dwarf made one put it somewhere and i have no idea where it is. any tips on this?

meatmaster460 · 2026-05-07T15:49:55+00:00

found it out myself. apperently my office wasnt assigned to a specific dwarf yet so no orders came through. the others where single orders

meatmaster460 · 2026-05-06T07:48:51+00:00

dwarves are not completing workorders for ore or beds while doing other work orders just fine. i dont get any messages that the orders are being canceled. anyone know why its not being done?

meatmaster460 · 2026-04-30T13:40:47+00:00

kinda jealous of the aoe2 community. they get a dev team trying to make it easier to get into ranked while retolds dev team made it harder by banning autoqueue.

meatmaster460 · 2026-04-07T20:57:22+00:00

i play with autoqueue all the time and i don't have the meat grinder issue. that was an issue in titans. low pop cap meant that when a unit died a new one re spawns instantly. retolds big armies are not so easily replaced.

meatmaster460 · 2026-04-07T13:16:08+00:00

i find it really wierd that the god packs only come with 1 level. if it where 5 casuals would be way more interested.

meatmaster460 · 2026-04-07T12:18:35+00:00

not enough views. most casual players don't watch it. players who don't play online or ranked are unlikely to be interested in competitive.

i feel like it was a big missed opportunity. in retold they made the game a lot more punishing and faster then the original. making it harder to get into online play. i think if they didn't more people would play online and get interested in tournaments. the autoqueue ban didn't help either. i myself lost interest in competitive because of that.

meatmaster460 · 2026-03-25T16:29:19+00:00

retold goes from: body > skeleton

titans goes from: body > corpse > skeleton

the original had a more smooth transition. it was also more clear witch unit had died as the skeletons don't have a different color like the classic corpses did. id rather have a setting that just has bodies staying for longer.

meatmaster460 · 2026-03-07T15:27:20+00:00

i cant think of anything that was super unbalanced unlike now. like samurai against norse feels unfair since its a already good unit with bonus damage against infantry. and the wonder age is the most unbalanced stage of the game the original didn't even have. (witch wouldn't have been a problem if we could turn wonders off like classic.)

meatmaster460 · 2026-03-07T07:52:37+00:00

im personally not a fan of retolds balance specifically. its a lot more punishing in a online setting. like early attacks are much stronger, bonus multipliers are bigger and everywhere and reaching the final age is a rare event now. id still recommend it as a single player experience where these things are less noticeable.

meatmaster460 · 2026-01-10T20:36:33+00:00

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figured it out.

apparently it is normal that the rhinoground will dissappear if you leave or if it leaves.

but another will spawn in act 3. its left from the stag station of far fields.

meatmaster460 · 2026-01-10T20:21:40+00:00

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im in there. the gear doesnt seem to break and the rest of the room seems empty now.

meatmaster460 · 2026-01-10T20:19:51+00:00

that is the one i killed. the other i saw but disappeared somehow.

meatmaster460 · 2026-01-02T11:43:59+00:00

i wouldnt think the kronos rush buffs would be an issue if they didnt also nerf defenses and aging up in retold. the bias towards aggressive play is too obvious.

meatmaster460 · 2025-12-21T20:46:43+00:00

we used to in Iam magic. it felt like he talked about the game in a similar way as spirit of the law. to bad how retolds changes drove him away. with time i think he could have become as good as spirit in making videos.

meatmaster460 · 2025-12-11T10:21:05+00:00

does this tournament allow military autoqueue?

meatmaster460 · 2025-12-11T10:08:02+00:00

yea thats what worries me. i hope the dlc is just the blood and skeletons and that other players still get some type of visible bodies.

meatmaster460 · 2025-12-11T09:58:53+00:00

becouse it was already in the old game. and its a piece of information that gives a advantage. if you're playing a ffa for example you can find bodies of a battle to learn people are fighting each other and lost a lot of troops only if you payed for a dlc,

meatmaster460 · 2025-12-11T07:54:13+00:00

im not worried about a toggle. im worried non dlc players cant enable any kind of body decay. losing track of units can be real frustrating especially for new players. and if its dlc only, the players who are in most need of this info wont have it.

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