KickStarter ATOM RPG - Wasteland Soviet style! - now with Dead City update

[Abu Antar]

Game is 25% off on Steam.

 

[Atomboy]

Is it possible that your character start the game intoxicated by something? And thus would have lowered stats, and would need to find a cure to fix its stats? Thus making it weaker, while retaining its levels/xp/skills etc.?
Are cybernetic implants out of the question? It would allow for a parallel layer of progression, making your stats/levels etc. just half of your character prowess.

We'll leave cybernetics to our GOG overlords - the CDPR :D Soviet tech didn't evolve to that level yet. The disease thing is interesting, I'll put that into the list too, but I dunno how most of our players, especially the brutal munchkin types would react.

Some really good looking wallpaper art in that dlc.

'Locator', and 'Meeting the reality' is my fav. Tell the art guy he did a good job.

Oh man, we tell that to him every time he does anything for us! :D Love that dude. Thanks!

Deluxe Edition coming for GOG version?

Sure. It would've been there, but see, when you log in, go to your dev settings, and attempt to add a DLC, you get a GOD DAMN ERROR BLANK SCREEN which gives you the option to enter a long email back and forth with the dudes that work in tech support. They are pretty awesome guys, I mean the one dude I've been constantly pestering for help does everything with lightning speed and helped us out numerous times. But the system isn't too... friendly. Like, adding stuff is a nightmare. We actually have a GOG build ready, but I suspect the dude went home for the weekend.
And it doesn't end there. If the summer solstice celebration is a government holiday in Poland like it is in Latvia, the dude won't be back to help us upload the DLC until the 25th. I'll wish for a swift GOG upload as I jump through the fire in my oak leaf wreath, but you know how it is with the old gods, they don't do nothing no more. So I give it 3 to 6 days.

Game is 25% off on Steam.

It sure is! And don't quote me on that, but I think it'll stay the same (or turn into 20%) during summer sale.

 

[PsychoFox]

Sure. It would've been there, but see, when you log in, go to your dev settings, and attempt to add a DLC, you get a GOD DAMN ERROR BLANK SCREEN which gives you the option to enter a long email back and forth with the dudes that work in tech support. They are pretty awesome guys, I mean the one dude I've been constantly pestering for help does everything with lightning speed and helped us out numerous times. But the system isn't too... friendly. Like, adding stuff is a nightmare. We actually have a GOG build ready, but I suspect the dude went home for the weekend.
And it doesn't end there. If the summer solstice celebration is a government holiday in Poland like it is in Latvia, the dude won't be back to help us upload the DLC until the 25th. I'll wish for a swift GOG upload as I jump through the fire in my oak leaf wreath, but you know how it is with the old gods, they don't do nothing no more. So I give it 3 to 6 days.

Waaghh! That's horrible

Guess i'll just have to wait before i can throw you money.

 

[Blaine]

• Added Grass Bending;

I'm finally ready to buy this game. It was unplayable without grass bending.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Just purchased the Supporter edition, loved the Igograd added severs content here purging the mutant scum with Commissar's Lenin Guard comrades, hope to play new content in Dead city soon, thanks for all the (hard) work making the game which really made me hope there is future and hope in the CRPG genre Comrades.

P.S. Thanks to modding community Comradess Slave has now boots (and can shoot her gun)

:russiastronk:

 

[Abu Antar]

• Added Grass Bending;

I'm finally ready to buy this game. It was unplayable without grass bending.

I read this as ass bending when I was quickly scrolling down the page. I had to scroll back up to see if I was wrong. I was.

 

[Luckmann]

Game is 25% off on Steam.

It sure is! [...] it'll stay the same during summer sale.

Awesome, I'll make sure to tell my friends!

 

[Blaine]

I wasn't kidding, by the way. I just got the game today.

There was a very short-lived save game bug (you couldn't save the game at all, by any means) while I was playing through the tutorial today that was fortunately patched around the same time I opened my browser to start troubleshooting.

Anyway, I've rolled a diplopuncher and should get around to finishing the whole tutorial by the end of the evening.

 

[Yosharian]

Steam sale... 25% off... VERY tempting to pick this up, too bad I just re-addicted to Rimworld...

 

[RK47]

Hm. Maybe it's just my imagination but having a low LUCK seem to increase enemy crit chance?
Just got killed by a critical crowbar to the head that dealt 46 damage. Head literally exploded.
Of course those accidents stopped the moment I killed a scavenger carrying a cast iron shield.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Steam sale... 25% off... VERY tempting to pick this up, too bad I just re-addicted to Rimworld...

Just get it, man. It's great and you'll play it eventually. Plus cheap as fuck.

 

[flushfire]

Hm. Maybe it's just my imagination but having a low LUCK seem to increase enemy crit chance?

May just be by chance. I've played a 10 luck character around halfway thru the game and a 2 luck one til the final 2 bunkers. Didn't notice any difference with regards to possible luck related effects.

 

[Black Angel]

It will in no way improve your game apart from what I mentioned above, you don't need it for a full Atom experience. We're very thankful for the support, but those who already supported us once by buying the game and won't want to do it anymore won't lose anything. It's a donation, not a way to buy a somehow improved or better game like it was with say DS2SOTFS.

 

[RK47]

Hm. Can confirm that killing scavengers random encounters do not trigger bounty hunt on your head.
I think the clue is the absence of radio in their inventory.

They're pretty tough to kill in early game but once you got your party going, it's free cash.

 

[Luckmann]

Steam sale... 25% off... VERY tempting to pick this up, too bad I just re-addicted to Rimworld...

So? Get it anyway, and play it when you feel like. 25% off is a great deal for a game as good as this.

 

[Atomboy]

I wasn't kidding, by the way. I just got the game today.

There was a very short-lived save game bug (you couldn't save the game at all, by any means) while I was playing through the tutorial today that was fortunately patched around the same time I opened my browser to start troubleshooting.

Anyway, I've rolled a diplopuncher and should get around to finishing the whole tutorial by the end of the evening.

Yeah, that was terrible! Real sorry. It broke as we made the build :\ Now it's okay though! Took prolly an hour after release to patch it. Thank you very much for supporting us!

Hm. Maybe it's just my imagination but having a low LUCK seem to increase enemy crit chance?
Just got killed by a critical crowbar to the head that dealt 46 damage. Head literally exploded.
Of course those accidents stopped the moment I killed a scavenger carrying a cast iron shield.

It's not supposed to do that. We'll double check, but this was never intended!

 

[PsychoFox]

With a dex of 9, should put all my chips into dodge or should i consider wearing armor? What do you think?

 

[Saduj]

With a dex of 9, should put all my chips into dodge or should i consider wearing armor? What do you think?

Wear armor. Dodge is really only reliable against early game critters.

 

[PsychoFox]

With a dex of 9, should put all my chips into dodge or should i consider wearing armor? What do you think?

Wear armor. Dodge is really only reliable against early game critters.

Hmm okay. What do the doge numbers mean anyways. For example what does 18 dodge mean?

 

[ironmask]

Hey Atomboy, is there anywhere we can listen to some samples of the remastered soundtrack online? In your opinion, how much better is it compared to the original?

 

[Saduj]

Hmm okay. What do the doge numbers mean anyways. For example what does 18 dodge mean?

Higher is better but I don't know how exactly it factors into the to-hit formula. Another thing is, you want your Dex to be an even number. Your # of action points goes up 1 for every 2 points you put into Dex. So at 9 Dex, you're going to have 9 action points (which is fine) but you'd also have 9 action points with 8 Dex. At 10 Dex you'd have 10 action points. I believe Endurance is similar where your HP per level goes up 1 for every 2 points in Endurance, so you always want to have an even number there. Original Fallouts were the same.

You should have at least one opportunity in game to raise the attribute of your choice. I would get that Dex up to 10 for the extra AP.

 

[flushfire]

On the topic of odd DEX:

Spoiler

There's a guy in Dead City that will give you a +1 Dex distinction if you win his competition, so raising it to 10 from 9 using any of the other free points isn't optimal. 9 AP is good enough for most of the game.

 

[PsychoFox]

^^Thanks to the both of you for the info.

 

[Saduj]

On the topic of odd DEX:

I didn't know about that but I'd still consider using the early game opportunity to take care of it since the area you mentioned is something that he'd normally visit pretty late in the game.

Then again, "late game" is now relative with an expansion in the works...

 

[Atomboy]

Hey Atomboy, is there anywhere we can listen to some samples of the remastered soundtrack online? In your opinion, how much better is it compared to the original?

I'll ask the music guy to maybe like make an example or something for Youtube, if he can spare the time, but I'll tell ya straight, I'm not the guy to ask. I lack musical skills, the only thing I play is the jew harp, and a droning ambient with a 128 bitrate is the same to me as the 512 bitrate. If bitrate even is a thing anymore... Last time I learned stuff about music was 2005. The music guy and those who love Atom's music say it's plenty clearer than the in-game one, but I can't argue one way or the other, I just know that OST files are generally more fat size wise, which probably means more qualiity to those who can spot it. Maybe some codexers who got the thing can tell us?

Edit: Oh, yeah, and there's one genuinely better song, because it has like additional sounds put into it.