This is unfortunately a common issue with relatively complex strategy games.

Most of the time you have to learn by doing either some bigger easier being addressed via web search.

It’s modern reincarnation of MicroProse from the 80s/90s.

They are pretty indie focused if you look at the games they publish.

Sounds very manageable! Cheers!

How is the combat? Are their playstyles that allow you to minimize the combat? This is something that wasn’t clear to me from the reviews I read.

I love the concept and the management elements sound like a lot of fun, but I am curious about the how the mech combat jives with the other strategy gameplay elements.

Oh OK! Yeah, local network is a whole different experience because you have a great degree of control.

Our internet infrastructure is probably in some ways better [*] than the US or Canada, based on my experiences living and travelling in North America, but it seems if you have WiFi involved anywhere in the chain, it’s difficult to get a good experience.

• In the sense of a near universal median experience, we don’t have the high end stuff, the Verizon telecom service in some rural areas is impressive, but I will speculate the majority of households can get gigabit fiber for $15/month and mobile access is universal, cheap and competitive (but we don’t have 5G).

I tried that when I was in another city for a few months. It was all right, but I was on WiFi 5/AC and I live in a country where buildings have thick walls and sometimes there would be issues with streaming, even though I had gigabit on both sides and my desktop was/is on ethernet.

And I play strategy games, which from my understanding are a better fit for streaming than most single player genres.

I found myself playing older indie games that I missed (actually found a lot of cool stuff).

I spent my childhood with a desktop (mid 90s to mid 2000s) then I had gaming notebooks until 2018 or so, except for a 3 year period in beginning of the 2010s.

A gaming laptop (or even a mid-weight laptop with an eGPU) is always a compromise (in both directions).

A “gaming desktop” can generally do so much more than just gaming. I did video editing and encoding on my gaming laptop, you can make it work, it’s slow and the heat noise can get annoying (versus a desktop that’s possible to make quite even under load).

And with some ML video stuff like Topaz Video (*) even a powerful desktop can struggle, I can’t image using Topaz video on any laptop. Especially any tasks with 4K using complex algorithms beat my poor desktop to pulp (5800X, 3080, 64 GB, not the latest and greatest, but no slouch).

(*) I’ve successfully upscaled older video footage (586x320) from mid the 2000 by 4x along with X4 frame interpolation without it looking overly fake and being pretty decent quality. You can even do complex scenes like public events as long as you have source 720p footage. It’s like magic.

Also large storage is a pain with laptops. You really need a fast SSD with at least 2TB (it’s also good to have a secondary SSD) and another 10 TB+ HDD storage. This type of setup is difficult with a laptop.

For a second I thought this was Postal 2 Community Edition.

I use Voyager for viewing content and the mobile web view if I am posting.

Voyager is a slick experience, but they have zero support for Piefed features.

Been meaning to try Blorp and Interstellar. Would appreciate if Blorp and Interstellar users can comment on how well Piefed features are integrated (post labels, tags, unified cross-post comments, reactions etc).