The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[viper37]

My game pass ultimate subscription is over.

I am finally free.

Welcome to the old age.  

[Grey Fox]

I did buy the premium edition of Forza Horizon 6 for 185$ with the logic that that's the price of a restaurant dinner for my family. 

[crazy canuck]

Galactic Civilizations IV had a small special for Christmas time.  -20% for the base game, and all the expansion to come in 2024.

Jesus, that 129$ dollars on games I just spent.  Sure, I bought the BlueCoats for 1,69$ in that.  But I don't think I've ever spent that much on video games in any one time.  I'm not even sure I bought that much in any one year

It does not seem a radical departure from Galciv III.  Not like, say, the Dragon Age series.  But to their defense, having seen Galciv III evolve, having participated in its bug correction and AI balance, it's amazing how these games evolve over time.

They said they would no longer develop Galciv III two year ago, but they are still fixing stuff and introducing minor new features.

Back to the game.  It has nicely evolved.  There's a major expansion coming in June, touching the government system.

The government you chose will now affect which ships you can make, the interface, the resources you have access to.

I do like the workshop mods that let you pick different civs and ship designs.

What set up settings do you use?

I tried a huge galaxy, but that's way too big and too long.

Large galaxy, many clusters, 19 civilizations, Abundant planets, common habitable, normal hyperlanes.
Custom biological civ with standard tree.  The human tech tree is bugged for a custom civ.
Huge galaxy with 38 civs takes about 30 seconds to make a turn change.

Most of the severe bug have been fixed as of 3.31 insider patch.

I have this mod package:
UP Bundle of Mods V2.3.04 by Draver
https://www.galciv4.com/mods/manager/download/61

Many thanks