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

[jackofshadows]

I'm speechless.

 

[Fenix]

not only you!

 

[Mud']

Brother, I figured out you could double-stack chems in ATOM in the final dungeon, because it was hard and I was looking for an edge.

I figured out you could double-stack chems in Fallout by reading your poasts. And I finished those two at least 7 times, as one does.

Today I learnt that i can stack chems in Fallout 1/2/Nevada/1.5 too and I finished each game 3 to 4 times and played a fuck ton of FOnline too.

If it wasn't for that edge of double stacking drugs at the end of ATOM, I probably would have to savecum my way to victory.

 

[Ismaul]

savecum my way to victory

putting sperm on ice is wise

you never know when the soypocalypse gonna hit, or the vaxxpocalypse

 

[ironmask]

the shashliks quest is one of the very few quest in rpgs that actually disturbed me because of how real it is. The plot twist at the end was great too. I rate it up there with the pedo quest in Fallout 1.5 Resurrection. These quests would never make it in an AAA game, not even in a modern fallout game. This is why I love Atom. It's not afraid of going where most game devs would not go and doesn't bend the knee to make a more "accessible" game.

 

[Butter]

 

[Darth Canoli]

Fucktard, a shitty 150 minutes "review" video 3 years after release...

 

[Butter]

Fucktard, a shitty 150 minutes "review" video 3 years after release...

Wait until you see his 30-year belated reviews of Champions of Krynn and The Magic Candle.

 

[Serus]

I'm making a character , only question because there is really no way to know from description. How crippling is "Glutton" ? Also do thos traits produce some additional or alternative options to dialogues or solutions to quests? Say a glutton meeting another one and talking about how difficult this lifestyle is on post-soviet wasteland? Those were two questions in the end.

 

[AdolfSatan]

I don't recall any particular event tied to traits, but Glutton has no downsides in essence since food is always aplenty.

Tbh I kinda wish they had removed the hunger mechanic altogether, it adds nothing other than a mild annoyance.

 

[Serus]

A glutton Soviet Russian it will be then. How that happened is a mystery though.

 

[Sykar]

Avoid Glutton, get something with real drawbacks. Glutton is basically FO Gifted.

 

[Serus]

But it's quite funny if you think about it. If i can think of one place that has shortages of food it is... a soviet post-atomic wasteland. It's sad that there isn't a real food system. One that would be really challenging but also non-tedious for such person.
Gifted was better and almost broken.
I'll take you input into consideration comrade!

 

[zapotec]

The addicted doctor perk is more broken, especially in Trudograd.
I found glutton ok, it's really annoying eating every 4 tiles crossed.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

hope it gives a nice boost in sales to fund future games

 

[HoboForEternity]

So i started my 2nd playtrough. How much of the game has changed since 2019? Bunch of new scenes in the beginning. I recognize new animations too?

 

[HoboForEternity]

Is the toilet krull a new content? And the whole sewer becoz i dont remember it at all.

 

[Atomboy]

Is the toilet krull a new content? And the whole sewer becoz i dont remember it at all.

Nope, he was in there ever since the update which came 5-6 months after release.

 

[Alphons]

Replaying ATOM before Trudograd and met both foreign soldiers. And I thought I saw everything previously.

 

[Die Healing]

Have been replaying this game after being soured by some recently released RPGs. My initial playthrough was cut short after 25~ hours from lack of interest, I just wasn't impressed at first and it seemed like a subpar clone. This time around I appreciate the game a lot more, the developers really understand what made the classic Fallouts fun and stood out from the rest of the genre. The biggest accolade the game can be given is the NPCs, giving every single one unique portraits and dialogue is quite the feat and talking to them isn't even exhausting like in other recently released crpg throwbacks. In fact the dialogue in general is just how I like it in games, interesting enough to keep you reading all of them but you can just turn your brain off if you want to. Quests are mostly fantastic with only a couple stinker fetch quests (get me x20 gunpowder). I agree with some other points in the thread that the setting including a lot of prewar Russian survivors makes it a hell of a lot more interesting than the standard post apoc fare. The references can get pretty memey but overall there are some great ones like the snuff barbecue joint vs the WASTE courier.
My character at lv 12:

Spoiler

I do have a some complaints though
-it is annoying how your npc companions lag far behind you
-more variety in available companions would have been appreciated
-some areas are fuckhuge big for no reason, give me the ability to travel straight to KRZ main square from the map
-monster encounter design is pretty uninspired, you fight not one but three rat armies followed by a giant rat king in the game
-all the loot fetch quests are lame
-would have preferred a regular perk system to the skill tree progression
-the urgency (or lack of) in the main quest is just right for this type of game, but tying the cult directly into it was a bit uninspired to me, just a matter of I've seen it all before
-the death tunnel was a kind of shit area (this and the point before are why I dropped the game at first)
-fidel keeps ragging on me for being a creeper, but slept with the beetroot seller while her husband was incapacitated? cmon bro!


I'm not finished yet but overall I do think it may be superior to the Fallout 2 it apes. I will definitely be playing the expansion yet with my character.

 

[Alphons]

-monster encounter design is pretty uninspired, you fight not one but three rat armies followed by a giant rat king in the game

Both agree and disagree. TOO MANY RATS.

On the other hand you've got a bunch of different creatures that can be encountered only in one location or area.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

-would have preferred a regular perk system to the skill tree progression

The perk system is much better in Trudograd. Most of the issues you mention are fixed for the better. I'm not done with Trudograd yet but it is really good.

 

[Alphons]

Valery and his wife die if you leave Roaring Forest without killing the wolves.

 

[Tacgnol]

-would have preferred a regular perk system to the skill tree progression

The perk system is much better in Trudograd. Most of the issues you mention are fixed for the better. I'm not done with Trudograd yet but it is really good.

Yeah, I wish it was backported to the original. It's a much better system.