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Investigator went into investigation spam. The game has some problems like that. Last playthrough it was the dread spawning non-stop. This time it was the investigator starting investigations within 30 seconds of the previous one ending. She arrested one of my pawns and took out the hired muscle I finally managed to send after her. *sigh* At least the cult is growing like crazy.

5th Cult has started. Got 4 believers and 2 pawns real fast. Also not making some mistakes I had been doing last time. Steady income... not as high as the previous character, but steady. I hired a shifty lady and she destroyed the first tentative evidence against me. That should keep me safe for a while.

And my 4th Cult went the way of terrible RNG. Everything was going great and the game decided to randomly spam Dread, then to make other timers refresh and last longer so I couldn't counter it.

That is because I was making a living as an artist for a while, using my mystery and notoriety to sell paintings of the otherworldly dreams. But I was drawing too much attention. Luckily the third bombing attempt finally killed the first investigator, and some hired muscle took out the second. Now this new guy has to go. He is erratic and unpredictable. Now I keep a low profile, but as I see people still think of me...

Bah. Cult is going downhill. I can't keep Passion up. Lost one cannibal Disciple trying to procure artifacts. Another failed to assassinate my boss. Now I need luck and cash to get more Passion, and then I need to recruit new believers, capture victims to sacrifice for them to feast on and become disciples.

First attempt: 4th attempt: close call (in 51,7 seconds the investigator would find the evidence. But in 49,7 seconds the evidence decays)

First cult in Cultist Simulator kinda wasn't going anywhere. Eventually my character decided this whole cult business wasn't all that and settled for the day job. Second character had a folder on the cult activity of the previous. They destroyed the information and lost their job. They struggled to get by with physical labour, got sick and died without ever even coming up with an idea for a cult. Third character was living the life thanks to their stipend from dad. They were approached by someone. Agreed to something. Were too slow in getting the cult going and could not provide the sacrifice they had promised to deliver. They were sacrificed instead. Fourth cultist is doing better. Not necessarily their followers. One hanger-on disappeared trying to make evidence disappear. One hireling the same. Three hirelings disappeared trying to assassinate investigators. One hanger-on got arrested. One followers and one hireling each vanished trying to procure items for the cult. That leaves me with four followers. One of those performed the second rite, finding out our Cult seems to be cannibals, as he ritually feasted on one of the investigators.

Played a game of Cultist Simulator (from the guy who did Sunless Sea). The writing is OK. But it is a lot of very small snippets and doesn't really create a story. So the first game just ended up trying to figure out what item can go in what slot to hopefully get what icon to match in another slot.

The Q&A:

They should have three words on them. You find them in the cylinders.

I return for the odd mission every now and then. Waiting for the devs to release Necromunda. Then I'll be back in these picture threads in full force!

With the Engineer you may also get lucky and get some loot codes in random missions. Write them down and trade them at the black market.

Yeah, they don't get xp so you end up farming missions a bit to get them to keep up.

I had one of each class to swap in to try something new. Prototype is a good tank. Engineer didn't fit my playstyle.

What's your line-up? I mostly used a Force Psyker (Hurlshot) for shielding, a Hacker (Labadal) for healing and then a Cyberninja (Shadysands) and my own Void Psyker for the damage. Basically I took out their shields, Hurlshot gave us shields, Shady cut them into ribbons, and Labadal made sure we staid on our feet.

Didn't pay attention to the mission description and walked into a Brutal Difficulty Scattered Deployment. First round this happened: Nearly lost the Necromancer and two ghouls as well, but we managed to get out on top.

When I was a kid I started digging one in the yard. My parents let me. An 8 year old with a shovel will not dig far they thought. They were right. But the house was a rental, so even had I persisted, I'd only have given the next lot a free secret base.

It is very different. Alpha Centauri and Age of Wonders are my favourite 4X titles, but they each have their very own spot that doesn't antagonize the other. AC is a Civ in space done right. I don't think one should expect any similarities to it from Planetfall. They have far different background to draw from gameplaywise.

My money is on TrueNeutral breaking them up eventually because the argument will reach the post limit for the thread .

Talking about nudity and suggestiveness, I still need to try the DLC for Age Of Barbarian.

I'm not touching this discussion with a barge pole. Or a stripper pole. I'll just be over here playing Saints Row 3.

Thanks

And now we can start the back and forth of "yes, they did" "no, they didn't"

They had said they were working on something, and that it was not AoW4. So in retrospect the announcement makes perfect sense.

Same here.