Wasteland The Wasteland 2 Beta Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Tytus]

You can't polish a turd.

You can mold a turd into pretty much any shape if you get to it before it dries out.

Perhaps its shape, but not its substance.

In Africa they go through elephant shit to dig out the undigested nutrients. And they love it. So don't discard any possible turd yet. Maybe you end up eating good parts out of it, and liking it.

 

[tuluse]

From the guy that Tim Cain literally had to beg not to cancel Fallout and after it prooved a smashing hit, alienated its founding fathers by allowing the suits to take over their brainchild, Wasteland 2! (59.99 tax included)

From the guy that played Fallout for a weekend and said, "when I go up a level, skillpoints aren't enough for me to do..." thus initiating the discovery of the perk system, Wasteland 2!
Disclaimer: Wasteland 2 will not feature a perk system or something remotely related.

 

[undecaf]

Disclaimer: Wasteland 2 will not feature a perk system or something remotely related.

Is that confirmed information?

 

[Infinitron]

Disclaimer: Wasteland 2 will not feature a perk system or something remotely related.

Is that confirmed information?

No, although I suppose it's as likely as not that they're not going to add a feature like that at this point.

Anyway, Grotesque is just being pissy. I pointed out that Steam image because it's funny that they went to such lengths to mention Fallout at all. It's working though, because Wasteland 2 is now the #20 top bestselling game on Steam.

 

[SuicideBunny]

You can't polish a turd.

You can mold a turd into pretty much any shape if you get to it before it dries out.

Perhaps its shape, but not its substance.

do yourself a favor and google polished coprolite.

 

[Tytus]

Disclaimer: Wasteland 2 will not feature a perk system or something remotely related.

Is that confirmed information?

No, although I suppose it's as likely as not that they're not going to add a feature like that at this point.

Anyway, Grotesque is just being pissy. I pointed out that Steam image because it's funny that they went to such lengths to mention Fallout at all. It's working though, because Wasteland 2 is now the #20 top bestselling game on Steam.

To quote the Wasteland 2 kickstarter Pitch. There was Fallout 1?

I wonder how many of their customers when they hear Fallout they think Fallout 3 and think it's guys from Bethesda working on a new game

I really hope not that many.

 

[Grotesque]

pissy?
tag incoming. do it!

Fallout's perk system: invented by Chris Taylor in a day and implemented by Tim Cain in another.
Of course Wasteland 2 will have something similar!
I am just fuckin' with you because I am so butthurt.

 

[FeelTheRads]

It's working though, because Wasteland 2 is now the #20 top bestselling game on Steam.

And most who bought it are probably thinking of Todd Howard.

 

[Infinitron]

https://twitter.com/Kotowst/status/458463921511223296

Working on WL 2 opening movie today. Great visuals and amazing storytelling.

 

[felipepepe]

That's cool, I honestly thought there would be no intro movie.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

I imagined it would be something like slides with voiceover. But a full movie? Maybe by amazing visuals MM meant amazing art on slides?

How is the new map? Was it Darwin village?

 

[Kem0sabe]

I hope they would do something like the animated hand drawn cutscenes in homeworld 1, those are still my favorite

 

[undecaf]

Hmm, I hope they have something nice cooking. Part of the reason (to me) why the beta has felt plain is because there's no backdrop at all to set the stage; just "find a corpse and then go fix some radios".

 

[Trash]

So, to those who actually play this early on. How is it shaping up? Decent quests? Nice combat scenarios? Sense of discovery? How is the writing? Music any good? Any c&c? Is it, you know, any fun to play? What are its pros and cons so far? Worthy successor to Wasteland and perhaps even Fallout? Enlighten us bastards who are waiting for the whole thing to be released with your thoughts.

 

[SuicideBunny]

I hope they would do something like the animated hand drawn cutscenes in homeworld 1, those are still my favorite

considering how undeniably goddamn sexy homeworld is, it's weird that there aren't that many devs taking cues from it.

 

[Infinitron]

Don't reply to Trash

 

[Trash]

Don't reply to Trash

Why not? Information sharing is the cornerstone of a forum like this. Why act so petty?

 

[Infinitron]

I was trolling. It's just that we've kind of done this to death

 

[felipepepe]

Don't reply to Trash

 

[SuicideBunny]

Don't reply to Trash

i wasn't going to, but then you made me. YOU. MADE. ME.
this is on you, Infinitron:

So, to those who actually play this early on. How is it shaping up? Decent quests? Nice combat scenarios? Sense of discovery? How is the writing? Music any good? Any c&c? Is it, you know, any fun to play? What are its pros and cons so far? Worthy successor to Wasteland and perhaps even Fallout? Enlighten us bastards who are waiting for the whole thing to be released with your thoughts.

too lazy to read the last few pages and expecting somebody to sum it up for you instead or just trollbaiting?

 

[Trash]

I was trolling. It's just that we've kind of done this to death

Well, same goes for talking about rpg's. I'm genuinly curious to the things I asked and I'm wondering how people feel about them now that the game is slowly getting to its feet. I was very sceptical at first and got a rather bad impression from earlier footage I watched and hope it actually turned out alright.

too lazy to read the last few pages and expecting somebody to sum it up for you instead or just trollbaiting?

I blame it on megathreads being unwieldy. But no, I did read about ten pages back. If you do you might find how very uninformative they are. Not to mention that there is little to no info on the whole state of affairs since the last update.

 

[SuicideBunny]

that's because not much changed in the last update in regards to the things that were perceived as shitty, from what i could tell.

I'm genuinly curious to the things I asked and I'm wondering how people feel about them

i feel that expecting wl2 to be a sequel to fallout is about as ridiculous as expecting it to be a sequel to anything else that fallout was inspired by but shares no real connection with.
it's an okish sequel to wl that does suffer from some shitty design decisions like spanning tree mapdesign or that shitty timed stuff in rail nomads camp (in a tb game, no less... at least when you implement timed events implement some kind of world pause toggle too or the ability to force combat mode), but at least some of those are being worked on.

 

[Trash]

Thanks. With people now favourably calling Underrail a worthy successor to Fallout (which still puzzles me btw) I was curious to what people thought about a game that is actually being hailed and even marketed as a spiritual successor to Fallout. Also was quite curious to how feel of exploration, quest design, overall writing, c&c, encounter desing and so on have grown since my earlier unfavourable impressions. Apparantly not then.

 

[SuicideBunny]

i think people just go "omg postapoc, this is soooo fallout!" and turn their brains off...
still, underrail is fucking excellent.

 

[DosBuster]

Is there actually an rpg that the Codex will actually say, no argument at all that it is "amazing"? Because since I'm loving this and you guys are hating it, I want to see what I'd think of your perfect game?