Underrail [PRE-RELEASE THREAD, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Pope Amole II]

• Tranquility - reworked: now reduces AP cost of all psi abilities by 10 while the invoker is at full health

TBH, that's really, really overpowered. Considering the amount of disables available to you, it's really easy not to take any amount of damage in combat - at least not for a couple of first turns. I actually played through the old demo with a tri-school pure psion char and that's how my combats went on - damage, disable, damage, disable, rinse and repeat until they're dead. That is, if they lasted that long. And with this change and the new old premeditation (which is fine by its own, mind you), we're talking about potential 3x electrokinesis on your first turn - that's a ton of AoE damage and three foes stunned.

And even if you do get damaged, just shoot up that hypo and you're still getting a huge boost for a turn.

Otherwise, great changes.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Fucking awesome.

 

[anus_pounder]

The amount of damage blocked for each impact speed depends on the modulators used to craft/generate the shield emitter, but overall shield emitters are much more effective against higher impact speeds, so melee characters and, to a lesser extent crossbow users, will have an edge when fighting shielded enemies.

THE SLOW BLADE PENETRATES THE SHIELD!

Spoiler

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Broseph]

I started playing this last night, excellent stuff Styg.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Neat upgrade, that energy shields will be a nice adition to my tech monk.

If I can find some time to play this ofc....

 

[Styg]

• Tranquility - reworked: now reduces AP cost of all psi abilities by 10 while the invoker is at full health

TBH, that's really, really overpowered. Considering the amount of disables available to you, it's really easy not to take any amount of damage in combat - at least not for a couple of first turns. I actually played through the old demo with a tri-school pure psion char and that's how my combats went on - damage, disable, damage, disable, rinse and repeat until they're dead. That is, if they lasted that long. And with this change and the new old premeditation (which is fine by its own, mind you), we're talking about potential 3x electrokinesis on your first turn - that's a ton of AoE damage and three foes stunned.

And even if you do get damaged, just shoot up that hypo and you're still getting a huge boost for a turn.

Otherwise, great changes.

I've been very generous when buffing the old feats. My primary goal with this is to make these feats a valid choice again first and then we'll worry about toning them down if necessary, possibly even before the new version is released.

 

[eklektyk]

so i fumbled with it a little and still get crash here :

if u want i can send u save file and crash reports [pm me with mail details or smth]

 

[Styg]

Yeah, send it to admin et underrail dot com. Is this area somewhere near Junkyard?

 

[eklektyk]

junkyard is up north [moment earlier i fought 2 azurites here]

edity: mail sent [it could be some software glitch on my laptop but since its in "alpha" i can report problems not to mention that so far its THE only glitch i got so thumbs up]

 

[Styg]

Found it, fixed it. Thanks for the help.

Btw, I'm glad to see you're finding the compass useful.

 

[eklektyk]

switched it on when fiddling with it in inventory
did not bothered to switch it off ...
it simply IS

 

[cherry blossom]

It would actually be quite neat if cardinal orientation varied in some places ie. North not always to the top right in game screen, purposely to screw with the player, so the compass would actually serve a purpose for those who remembered to use it.

 

[Styg]

It would actually be quite neat if cardinal orientation varied in some places ie. North not always to the top right in game screen, purposely to screw with the player, so the compass would actually serve a purpose for those who remembered to use it.

We have something similar planned for an area in Deep Caverns.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Finally bought it on steam and learned that you can customize the bullet order in your weapon clip. I'm in heaven! Also, took the wrong turn, got mauled by dogs and some bandits, but I will be back!

 

[cherry blossom]

I'm definitively going to do something like that, though I have to figure out how to fit it into the smaller windows.

Based on the lowest resolution and with less buttons; instead of dedicated multiple-selection buttons, you just right-click the buttons to select multiple:

And alternate multiple selection indicators:

Solution compatible with all resolutions

 

[railway]

Did you fight in the Lower Underrail there? If so, those areas are a bit tough for a new character. The SGS outposts that you need to visit in the first quest shouldn't be so difficult since I've been toning down the early game difficulty steadily for a while now.

Yeah nevermind, I was just being a retard and, like you said, went straight to the Lower Underrail instead of the "Beginner's Cave" where things are in fact a lot easier (it wasn't really obvious to me that one can talk to Malcolm(?) without lockpicking his door first).
Still, after trying different builds and equipment the Lower Underrail became easier for a level 1 character, too. It's nice how little changes can have big impact in combat; just buying a single grenade allowed me to turn the tides in a fight where I was steamrolled earlier. The loot from that fight was enough to kickstart more succesful ventures into the Underrail.

 

[cherry blossom]

Functionality suggestion:

CTRL + Left click to immediately remove 1 item from a stack
CTRL + Right click to immediately transfer 1 item from a stack

 

[SuicideBunny]

i like that feeling of gettin lost and not knowing wheter this will end in reload coz of untimely death ....

it's reminiscent of fallout when you step out of the rat cave and have no idea what the fuck to do and is nice for a little bit, but eventually it just gets on my nerves when i want to quickly travel from one far away place to another and there is nothing that could possibly hurt me anymore in between..

 

[eklektyk]

i like that feeling of gettin lost and not knowing wheter this will end in reload coz of untimely death ....

it's reminiscent of fallout when you step out of the rat cave and have no idea what the fuck to do and is nice for a little bit, but eventually it just gets on my nerves when i want to quickly travel from one far away place to another and there is nothing that could possibly hurt me anymore in between..

well to preserve that initial feeling of exploration we can hope styg can add somekind of map as a buyable comodity, say after halfpoint of gamestory or smth

 

[bledcarrot]

How is this coming along? I played it last about four months ago and was loving where it was going. Decided to hold off until release but I'm thinking about peaking back in.

 

[Cyberarmy]

How is this coming along? I played it last about four months ago and was loving where it was going. Decided to hold off until release but I'm thinking about peaking back in.

It's coming along great! They've added some new areas and new oddity xp system suits game very well. It'll be a fresh experience even if you played it before.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

How is this coming along? I played it last about four months ago and was loving where it was going. Decided to hold off until release but I'm thinking about peaking back in.

The improvements in balance and gameplay since then are insane. So, so good. It was good but is now shaping up to be classic, imo.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Yeah, shit is so good that I spent my hard earned potatoes on it!

I managed to get to the Rail Crossing mission and decided to stop there and wait for the full game to come out. But boy, that will be one hard wait for me.

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

I want to play it now - but I kind of want to wait too...

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!

 

[eklektyk]

I want to play it now - but I kind of want to wait too...

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!

play it TWICE *badumps*