jackofshadows
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Wait, what? You're not sure? So it all falls back then because in my experience level and luck does affect caravan's stuff and significantly. Could you ask other, hard-code devs about it?I think it actually does affect caravan loot. Not as much as in older patches, and I always thought it's an urban legend, but then I played a Luck 1 character and only got 1 weapon in 20 caravans. But then again, I got much more weapons and stuff with the same character on a higher level. So, I guess, Luck and Level still influence the stuff you get in trade to some degree, and so does Barter. I even reported it as a bug.
Absolutely not, don't worry :D I just didn't mentioned this aspect because it would look like trolling here since a) I played on russian b) most of the 'local' guys are at least ok with the writing. I think it become a bit more polished but even worse in general. Change of dialogue structure is a definitely positive thing though where all optional stuff belong to special branch as it should. First off, all damn needless expression hasn't gone anywhere and it's one of my biggest gripes about it. There's even fucking shtiblet base game reference with reverse roles! Painful, just painful (I even dropped screen of it to that guy who has quit after Otradnoe's guard dialogue which I mentioned earlier). Second, too much wacky/anime stuff for meSo you love the dialogue now? God damn it, and I spent so much time typing a reply to the previous post! I think the problem with the maps being the wrong way around is because one guy makes the actual location, makes a screenshot from any angle he feels like it and sends it to the author. Looks like the guys read your feedback tho because they are planning changes for this particular aspect of the game.
There's a lore reason for cold, basically Trudograd stands in the middle of nowhere somewhere on tselina, with the closest city being two days away on car, so it was the only target for the nukes in a huuuuge area, and them nukes all got killed off by anti-nuke wonder device. So it's free of radiation except for VERY deep ground waters it's mutants have another reason for being mutated, and it only suffers from climate change. But it might be a myth too.
Opera singer (simply dreadful), not a fan of cultist girl/fanatic near the police station but thouse tolerable in comparison, turnips mother (fuck me...), the quest with nothern avengers falls into 100% anime category, just like similiar in the base game, more even. Some quests looks alright untill you check different outcomes: tell writer girl's husband that she's banging janitor and he dies from a heart attack, wtf?
Even within quest which I liked a lot - robbery, where you can ditch your partners and kill'em but not because "you're really need that money for the mission's sake" but because you're selfish asshole (which I'm ok with playing by but that's not the point).
Well, to clarify, I'm from that very intelligentsia family and I do call people господа и дамы a lot (but more like that, in plural, separately or not), so I might be wrong about the big picture but I've seen my fair share of street life and my neiborhood was very, very common so I talked with all kinds of folks. And yes, some of thouse people used 'comrade' in a daily life but that wasn't my point, I should've been more clear: using not just like greeting but like commie greeting.And a hello to you too, tovarisch! Dude, I completely respect your dislike for the text and find it totally reasonable, it even paints you as a kindred spirit. Well, not because I hate Atom's writing, but because I believe the ability to actually feel something strong for the text (even disgust) is a sign of intelligence. When I was 16 I chucked a book I paid good money for out the window from a Khruschovka because it hurt my soul! I later stepped on it and sunk it into snow. And look at how well I turned out to be. However, I don't think you fulfilled your duty as an intellectual to tear our text a new one with well places examples. I'm from an old commie family, and everyone here talks like that. Both физкульт-привет and привет-привет от старых штиблет are heard constantly from neighbors young and old. I even hear that on TV when my mother in law watches her shit too loud. And wtf, everyone called everyone comrade. I call people comrade too. It works as a joke, it works as irony, it works if you don't know someone's name, it works when you address a group of gopniks. It worked for me when I called an ambulance on a drunk guy once, describing him as тут какой-то бухой товарищ в кустах валяется. Literally, first time I heard calling people comrade is archaic was in the Steam reviews by intelligentsia. Do you call people барин? Господин? Сэр? And, like, maybe I'm dumb, but what the hell is wrong with the tampon one and the bookseller's description? Both really funny if you ask me! The donkey and lion stuff is a warped Bible quote even, what, you hate the Bible too, atheist!? And why wouldn't Pasha Technic be in the game? What is the reason to not include him? WHY!? Game needs a mechanic and there's a man called Pasha Technic who is a living meme. I even wrote a few emails to ensure the legality of referencing him, if the law side of things concerns you. Also didn't get the translation part. Is it bad because we should've stylized it for US or to be more like FO2? We didn't even aim for FO2... I mean what's there to ask from a translation, as long as the meaning is somewhat understandable? There are tons of English-only references, memes and phrases inside the translated text, but mostly it just translates what the people say into Engrish. What else should it do? Jokes aside, I'd love to talk to you more. I can't promise we will change anything, since like I said above, most find it tolerable and some glorious few even love it, but I'm really curious to learn of your reasons.
So when I played ATOM for the first time it seemed to me like some commie-like pastiche coupled with bizarre lenin-fetishists (which are by itself mandatory for post-soviet game like that, I'd add that myself even), soviet simbolism bits here and there which is unavoidable but then you see KRZ with red flags all over (well, the name) and I was like... 'why'? Maybe some commie-ideologists in charge? No, far from it, just the usual good old 'nomenclatura' which could have been ditch all of that in a blink of an eye because simply no point in that anymore.
As for 'not in the titties' - it was just example of a bad 'combat taunt' imo. I'm aware that it has been discussed already (they should look intimidating for the opponents, not humiliating to themselves) but posted anyway since I stumbled upon it in the eng version. Btw, AoD is a great example of a proper Fallout's combat taunts inheritance. As for Abraham dialogue... it's a too wacky quest to begin with, the whole dialogue looks ridiculous and the Bible reference is making it worse, not helping at all (I mean, how on earth some old man would not only give a fucking battle cry but which resemblance anything like that?! It's highly inappropriate, that's all).
It's also refers to the fact that I'd prefer much more serious tone of the both (now) games but it's just me. I liked a lot barbecue-quest in the base game but when next to it you see stuff like Pasha-technic insert it devalues the whole thing, basically. I get that Pasha is a walking meme but a) why you need so much memes and references in the game? This is why I wrote earlier that you allegedly were aiming for F2 flavour b) he's fucking obnoxious beyond any reasoning thus for thouse who're not familiar with him it would be nothing and for thouse who are... well for me it was painful, again.
And no, of course I don't think you should have stylized it for any other game, not even Fallout. ATOM inspired by it enough as is. Likewise, nice talking to you. I'm not under illusion that my words capable of affecting art-direction of your games but I'm also curious about reasoning. Who were you refering to when talked about authors as a teachers if I might ask?
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