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Anonymous08/23/26, 23:40No.2473580/awg/ - Afterworld General

Discuss Paradox's post-apocalyptic grand strategy game.

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Anon08/24/26, 00:38No.2473605

WTF OP that's not a PDX game.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2839720/Afterworld/

Anon08/24/26, 00:45No.2473612

THE VIPER AND THE BULL

Anon08/24/26, 02:55No.2473675

Will there be pops? Will there be ideology? If not, I am not interested >T. 4700 hours on Vic 2

Anon08/24/26, 03:01No.2473681

It's just Shadow Empire for retards. Isn't it?

Anon08/24/26, 05:15No.2473732

i am not hyped. leftie / lib post-apocalypse is only cool when it's made by abrasive weirdoes with fringe ideas and a bit of punk edge, while paradox is inoffensive smooth and glossy corporate slop. the exact opposites of the kinds of people who can make these things interesting.

Anon08/24/26, 05:25No.2473736

Ancient technology? Are we releasing an apocalypse upon the apocalypse?

Anon08/24/26, 05:38No.2473748

After the end but less gay and muslim?

Anon08/24/26, 06:34No.2473761

Posadist faction or no buy

Anon08/24/26, 13:35No.2473879

Could be ok, if it's not some EU3/4 reskin again or HOI clone.

Anon08/24/26, 14:21No.2473900

if we can't recreate the caesars legion from fallout we riot all three legion players that is

Anon08/24/26, 14:42No.2473911

That's not what the announcement is going to be retard

Anon08/24/26, 14:55No.2473919

I actually love the idea of this setting in a GSG.

Anon08/24/26, 19:49No.2474123

So it'll be a setting with violent warlords competing for limited ressources but there'll be no slavery again right

Anon08/24/26, 22:04No.2474211

as long as it's not too fallout/mad max influenced

Anon08/25/26, 01:19No.2474276

How would this work on a Grand Strategy level? The fights you would have in the Post-Apocalypse would be on a very tactical level, instead of the strategic layer like Hearts of Iron. How are they going to simulate that?

Anon08/25/26, 10:42No.2474423

Can you form a rape gang in this game to repopulate Earth?

Anon08/25/26, 10:56No.2474431

Drone spotted https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/our-games/canyouguesspdx

Anon08/25/26, 11:16No.2474444

Article leak https://archive.ph/2026.08.25-084427/https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/paradoxs-next-grand-strategy-game-is-taking-cues-from-fallout-and-mad-max/

Anon08/25/26, 12:40No.2474483

Keyart

Anon08/25/26, 13:10No.2474499

Hoping for formables so I can build the NCR ...is the NCR copyrighted?

Anon08/25/26, 15:57No.2474595

drug trade

Anon08/25/26, 17:53No.2474671

Is this finally going to be the game where going tall is the play?

Anon08/25/26, 19:12No.2474724

New trailer https://youtu.be/9PU1e7kfkfs?is=OzNKSAFPcUkHlnxF

Anon08/25/26, 19:15No.2474729

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920230/Afterworld/ gameplay screenshots here

Anon08/25/26, 19:15No.2474730

>we wuz the president n shit

Anon08/25/26, 19:16No.2474732

yup, it's stellaris alright

Anon08/25/26, 19:46No.2474758

They made a comic book https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/afterworld/about

Anon08/25/26, 19:53No.2474760

Inevitable $45 Old World DLC

Anon08/25/26, 20:05No.2474775

>Nutrition. I am listening. >food spoilage I am listening intently.

Anon08/25/26, 20:05No.2474776

Devblog https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/afterworld-dev-diary-1-afterworld-the-vision.1938948/

Anon08/25/26, 20:15No.2474792

i feel like paradox shied away from doing a cold war game because i guess they thought it would always end in nuclear war anyways and thats no fun because everyone would lose. so they just sped up the timeline to afterwards. fallout is popular enough, its getting talked about here a ton, this is bethesda's fault for not branching out and making a strategy game.

Anon08/25/26, 20:20No.2474797

>Explore a procedurally generated North America. The terrain and geography are recognizable, but resources, tribes, and threats are different every time, creating a new strategic sandbox with emergent stories in every playthrough. I don't know if I like this.

Anon08/25/26, 20:34No.2474823

I'm buying day one as a paradox shill and shadow empire lover

Anon08/25/26, 20:37No.2474829

Looks ugly and stupid. My monitor is on.

Anon08/25/26, 20:54No.2474845

The trailer looked extremely generic

Anon08/25/26, 20:57No.2474853

Reminds me of Song of Syx of all things.

Anon08/25/26, 21:00No.2474856

The aesthetics fucking suck

Anon08/25/26, 21:07No.2474866

This is going to be another DLC mine, moreso than the usual Paradox reasons. Notice how all the goods are pretty basic. Like shit you'd produce if you were a bronze age civilization. Anything more advanced will be DLC, and by the end of its product lifecycle you'll be building your own cars, mechs, and so forth. But it will NOT be in the vanilla game.

Anon08/25/26, 21:14No.2474878

I still don't understand if it is tileslop or not. At least I don't seem to see any hexagons.

Anon08/25/26, 21:17No.2474879

>it's another game nobody wants instead of the game everyone wants again Paradox is a stupid fucking company if you think about it Some retard boomer dev likes Amerislop so now all the fans have to suffer ?

Anon08/25/26, 21:24No.2474890

Fallout mods on this are going to be awesome

Anon08/25/26, 21:25No.2474892

The only way this setup can work is if there is extensive capability of roleplaying your meme political/religious ideology as you rebuild your society. And we know that won't happen.

Anon08/25/26, 21:33No.2474897

Research tree is more Imperator than Stellaris

Anon08/25/26, 21:39No.2474902

paradox will make a post bad ending cold war game before making a cold war game.

Anon08/25/26, 21:44No.2474905

I'll clock in the "muh no EVROPA VGH" poster. See how many times he resurfaces during development.

Anon08/25/26, 21:44No.2474907

Not read the thread yet but honestly I am looking forward to it and think it sounds fun. People on the Paradox forums seem kinda unhappy about it though lol.Looking at the steam page description it seems promising. Kinda stellaris-like with the randomised, generated empires/tribes, with starting small and growing big, and with there being fallen empires/ancients.I expect people are gonna recreate Caesars legion from New Vegas and that modders were make a Europe mod too

Anon08/25/26, 21:47No.2474912

You can racially discriminate against mutant freaks and cyborg clankers

Anon08/25/26, 21:58No.2474929

Looks shit, but I know millions of cucks will buy it.

Anon08/25/26, 22:06No.2474941

If it was RTT missions Coh 2(Zone control tactics like missions), with X Com group/base building (Slavery to Lone Wanderer to Robots), and a strategy map like Attila Total War with resources and encounters like Fallout Tactics, maybe. That is the game I imagine would be my post apocalyptic world.How they handle drones and slavery/rape will determine alot of the world. I hate the art no one dresses up in metal armor to live in a desert. So fuck their slop so far no wishlist from me it looks like I wouldn't even want to torrent that shit. The neo America president just looks like Enclave and Luminous ones fucked and that is their bastard child. I am sick of the tropes they stole that faction idea. Dead America should only exist an idea, one that factions/players react to or have an opinion on, not a pet faction. It works in OWB because of the faction count and slivers of territory to mark the minor factions.Reforming America is an idea that a few side groups can choose late game, no one is still wearing U.S. flag shit in a wasteland. People serious about the U.S. republic know not to wear the flag as clothing.Fucking Euros making a game about U.S. Fallout London should be made by English, Fallout Russia should be made by Russians. Fallout New Vegas was made by Californians like 1 and 2. Bethesda is literally HQed in Washington. When you assume that things are a given...

Anon08/25/26, 22:10No.2474945

Yeah I'm sure loads of people would buy it if it was set in South Africa, or Indonesia, or Slovakia

Anon08/25/26, 22:13No.2474952

The default post-apocalypse setting is Australia.

Anon08/25/26, 22:17No.2474956

>Eastern Roman Empire misnamed >we must seethe >Balkans misrepresented >we must seethe >MY personal alt-history isn't taken seriously >we must seethe >Paradox's alt-history is too silly and fun >we must seethe >wrong continent chosen for our game >we must seethe Now imagine Paradox trying to dev a Cold War game.

Anon08/25/26, 22:17No.2474959

>stellaris but instead of space it's just america

Anon08/25/26, 22:19No.2474964

Can I fashion my tribe after the strongest, most virile black bucks of Mississippi and spread our gangbanging ideology and bibisi throughout the wasteland?

Anon08/25/26, 22:21No.2474968

>you can customize your tribe... but not really >AI tribes aren't randomized >the map isn't randomized either what's the point

Anon08/25/26, 22:27No.2474982

There will be an inevitable European DLC. They're relying on you doing the marketing for them with this retarded slapfight.A name like "Afterworld" is meant to be as vague and all-encompassing as possible. If this was going to be America the Game, it'd use a more distinct title.The entire game is clearly set up to be the ideal DLC platform, including faction packs, story packs, scenario/setting packs, cosmetics, flavor packs, etc. If you're going to make the most generic commercial DLC platform, you obviously start with America for a variety of reasons, including >bigger customer base with a lot more cultural uniformity >all popular properties being ripped off are America and feature Americana

Anon08/25/26, 22:31No.2474991

Anon08/25/26, 22:33No.2474997

Id survive the apocalypse. You? Probably not.

Anon08/25/26, 22:34No.2475002

>post apocalypse >no rape mechanics

Anon08/25/26, 22:36No.2475004

Looks like a flop in the making

Anon08/25/26, 22:38No.2475008

How bout you come on over and flop that tight little ass of your down on my cock and balls huh? It's not gonna be a flop.

Anon08/25/26, 22:48No.2475024

Doesn't look interesting to me. I don't want to lead a country of 40 guys in a grand strategy game.

Anon08/25/26, 23:33No.2475067

just the fact they namedrop ck3 hoi4 on steam (lets ignore the piles of shit vic3 and eu5 :))) ) tells you everything. this game is not meant for us

Anon08/26/26, 00:01No.2475085

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TklC5kiivI4gameplay UP

Anon08/26/26, 00:11No.2475089

predicted price?

Anon08/26/26, 01:06No.2475115

It's going to play exactly the same as every other Paradox game.

Anon08/26/26, 01:10No.2475119

Man the game looks so... unexciting. Every element was already done by someone else, it's so generic. Looks so cheap. Somehow exactly what you'd expect from a paradox game but in a bad way.

Anon08/26/26, 01:49No.2475159

Once this game is released, half of /awg/ will be screenshots of people larping as Caesar's Legion showing that they control all of California. And they'll all make edgy jokes about raping NCR women. The other half will be similarly annoying larpers but showing that they "restored america" or some shit.

Anon08/26/26, 01:54No.2475162

I’ve been a Paradox fan since HOI1 and EU2 This looks totally retarded. Who asked for this? Hard pass.

Anon08/26/26, 02:06No.2475171

I'll stick with After The End thanks

Anon08/26/26, 04:15No.2475217

>stellaris but the ships are vehicles

Anon08/26/26, 08:19No.2475275

Kenshi mod when

Anon08/26/26, 09:30No.2475297

To make it good they'll have to avoid the Fallout trap of everyone still living in sheet metal favelas with skeletons everywhere centuries after the apocalypse. Make development and new tech actually feel like you're actually rebuilding.

Anon08/26/26, 12:20No.2475371

They better fucking not make the game totally devoid of any real world religions, Starfield was already obnoxious enough with that it would be so much worse here

Anon08/26/26, 12:38No.2475376

Reminder to read the comic book, feels weird to read something left to right these days

Anon08/26/26, 12:59No.2475406

looks like legally distinct OWB

Anon08/26/26, 13:32No.2475448

>Redditmerica Pass.

Anon08/26/26, 15:20No.2475527

Looks hollow. Like CK3 but even with less soul.

Anon08/26/26, 15:53No.2475550

The fact that all the 30 year old balding incels who browse here, with 5000 hours on hoi mods, making groBgermania on repeat for the 200th time, and who watch asmongold to get all their political views... all say they hate it and say it looks boring to them gives me great hope tbqh

Anon08/26/26, 17:47No.2475677

Shame it wasn't a fantasy GSG instead, something inspired by Anbennar

Anon08/26/26, 18:23No.2475720

>stellaris but post apocalypse earth >fallen empires and everything pretty hyped ngl also the fallout mods are going to be insane

Anon08/26/26, 18:25No.2475722

Wish we would get a poet-Apoc video game with Twilight 2000 vibes. >The division commander radioed in the clear to all units, "Good luck. You're on your own, now." Utterly unmatched intro hook.

Anon08/27/26, 03:30No.2476135

at the very least it seems like it has potential for the modding community, especially for total conversions. but, still, looks very bland and uninspired

Anon08/27/26, 03:37No.2476139

Looks less post apocalyptic and more like african warlord simulator

Anon08/27/26, 07:18No.2476187

So the game will be turn-based with RTwP or fully RTwP?

Anon08/27/26, 07:44No.2476195

Do we know anything about recommended specs?

Anon08/27/26, 18:45No.2476542

I had a few mod ideas for this game already:>a mod where you play as an European tribe during the late Stone Age/early Bronze Age >a mod where you play as a Native American/Mesoamerican tribe before the arrival of Europeans although you would face them as a late game crisis >a mod where you play as anthro animal tribes (crocodiles, lions, hyenas, different kind of primates like chimps and gorillas, etc) in Africa >a mod which adds the option to learn about the Civil War and Confederacy and then larp as Confederates with 3D custom uniforms and everything but it gets banned from Steam Workshop because you aren’t allowed to only enslave blacksI can see the later two mods happening because Paradox games attracts a lot of furries and racists

Anon08/27/26, 20:54No.2476686

will only be worth it when the fallout equestria mod comes out 6 years from now

Anon08/27/26, 23:22No.2476787

I hope I can take slaves and concubines

Anon08/28/26, 11:00No.2477073

>afterworld >world Why just North America then?

Anon08/29/26, 10:20No.2477742

For me it's <10MW nuclear reactors

Anon08/30/26, 11:38No.2478455

Paradox's "Artifact"

Anon09/01/26, 00:32No.2479608

Are we getting a new dev diary today?

Anon09/01/26, 14:03No.2479885

Dev Diary 2 https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/afterworld-dev-diary-2-the-afterworld.1940048/

Anon09/01/26, 18:33No.2480031

Yes, I will be playing a tribe out of the great state of Ohio. Yes, I will forge an empire out of the Rustbelt Yes, we will worship machinery and steel as our faith Yes, we will conquer and enslave the rest of the continent and put them to work in our factories Yes, it will be great.

Anon09/01/26, 19:03No.2480050

Will there be a muslim faction? I wanna make an american Caliphat

Anon09/02/26, 00:29No.2480217

I saw this on the forums >although the more recent Fallout games have experimented a lot more with the actual "rebuilding civilization" part of the post-apocalypse. What? the most common criticism I see of those games is a lack of rebuilding

Anon09/02/26, 12:39No.2480444

They just confirmed you can choose your seed, can't wait to compete with /vst/ to see who can achieve the most success on the nigger map

Anon09/02/26, 14:11No.2480498

guess the DLCs

Anon09/02/26, 14:23No.2480506

So when is it getting leaked? I wanna try it

Anon09/02/26, 14:29No.2480508

going by the previews it seems it currently has the zomboid issue of having an engaging early game survival but becomes trivial once your secure

Anon09/02/26, 14:42No.2480517

>no river travel >in the US

Anon09/02/26, 14:59No.2480528

Oh hey context for that song about a battle in new Orleans I grew up with

Anon09/02/26, 15:47No.2480560

it should've been europe + asia but post apocalyptic, not america. i'm right.

Anon09/02/26, 19:16No.2480689

I don't see anyone posted this before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNOMe9kJ2Q

Anon09/03/26, 07:45No.2480959

Not interested if you have to fight Ancients and can't join them.

Anon09/04/26, 14:38No.2481845

>can't drop traits as your society/situation evolves disappointing, if a settlement of peaceful farmers gets run out of their fertile valley and have to resort of cannibalistic raiding to survive they should be able to drop aspects of their previous existence

Anon09/04/26, 14:39No.2481846

new dev vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xygtcjkcwCU

Anon09/05/26, 06:31No.2482355

I find the writing style funny. Kinda reminds me of wasteland 3

Anon09/05/26, 11:13No.2482446

>500+ replies How does Paradox do it?

Anon09/06/26, 12:01No.2483073

Looks souless. Just like all their new games, but GSG pander to number autism, so they could hide ugliness under stats. Then, game so much based on own visual aspect, simplyfying gameplay, must flop hard.

Anon09/06/26, 14:07No.2483109

>May your wanderings return you here for the next Dev Diary in two weeks time, on September 16th. Soft winds and safe waters, travellers! firstly fuck I didn't realize it was a 2 week gap secondly interesting that they say safe waters implying that the travel seemingly hinted at here for the next dev diary will involve water travel, but people who watched the youtube fags were saying there is no river travel

Anon09/06/26, 18:10No.2483208

This sounds like a fun setting on paper but I don't think having armies composed of a couple dozen individuals with names will work well in a "grand strategy" game. It's like they took the scale of a city builder or colony sim and decided that this works well on a map the size of a continent.