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

[Darth Canoli]

There aren't many Fallout 1/2 fans recently as I knew, good to hear there are still enough for a good game.

You're on the Codex, you could close your eyes, throw a stick and hit a Fallout 1 fan.
Not that there isn't some Millennials Faggout 3/4 minions as well but still, anyone who can make a coherent post and explain what he likes in a game around here is a Fallout 1 fan.

Is this the kind of game where you can beat it all the way through without much prior knowledge, or do you need a highly optimized build like in underrail? I'm planning to play on the equivalent of 'hard' difficulty for my first run.

That's what I did, the early game can be pretty rough but I think the difficulty has been unfortunately toned down a little.
Planning is easier since all the perks are visible and there isn't as many as in underrail, just focus on one weapon and then one defensive branch and you'll be fine, end game isn't tough at all.

 

[bobocrunch]

playing through dead city now and god damn has the game peaked, the more focused setting and overlapping world maps add a lot to the game and the exploration is fuckin amazing. hope it's a taste of what trudograd is like, because i wasnt really a fan of the whole mushroom plotline

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Huh neat they made a version specifically for the Steam Deck.


It's not the regular Linux version, it has a different UI.

 

[bobocrunch]

edit: realized this was the trudograd thread but oh well

just finished up the first game, enjoyed it overall and agree on the 7-8/10 rating. rough around the edges on some parts but genius in others, it was worth playing just for the gun variety for me. for being a russian indie game im surprised at how well the grammar and writing came off, there were times it was stiff but it was at most 2% of the lines and half of them were probably intentionally cheesy or just memes. the side stories were interesting too, some of the more basic quests were made up for with spiced up ones like the fucked up tunnel family among tons of others, i like how realistically edgy it got at times
last battle was super fun and tough, ended up planting 3 explosives and baiting around a corner in the hallway because of how easily they'd kill me
no idea how people get high levels, did everything i could see and only ended at 17

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i ended up logic and facting the mushroom people and telling them that people would fight against their plan, so thats neat even though i really didnt care about those people. red fighter fell apart which i assume is because i didnt pour money into it but i had to pay off caravan mercs with 15k

end stats (drugged out)

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[Yoomazir]

Devs, will you guys be fine?

 

[Calcium]

Devs, will you guys be fine?

Aren't they russian? They'll be alright.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Devs, will you guys be fine?

Aren't they russian? They'll be alright.

AFAIK either a majority or large part are from Ukraine.
Atomboy is from Latvia, so hopefully he's fine at least.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

Devs, will you guys be fine?

Aren't they russian? They'll be alright.

AFAIK either a majority or large part are from Ukraine.
Atomboy is from Latvia, so hopefully he's fine at least.

 

[RK47]

Good on them not politicizing shit further.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

At least they will win Codex GOTY 2021 with ATOM RPG Trudograd.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Dead city and Pass of Wolves would be ripped out of game and sold as separate DLCs if made by western studio, its the first game I not only bought at full prize in years but also bought all DLCs cause 11 zion bux for Tutograd is steal.

 

[Tacgnol]

In all honesty, I'd even recommend Trudograd to people who disliked the original ATOM. It's an improvement in almost every area.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Lets see how things goes.

Build:

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edit: I picked Unlucky optimist instead of Sex appeal.

 

[Wunderbar]

Nooooooo you can't dump luck, you will miss out on unique interactions nooooo!
Not the hecking luckerinooo

 

[Dishonoredbr]

This game has quite bit of reactive towards a female character. Already incline in my book

 

[Humbaba]

Good on them not politicizing shit further.

Not much left to politicise, their country is being attacked, simple as.

Nooooooo you can't dump luck, you will miss out on unique interactions nooooo!
Not the hecking luckerinooo

Luck builds are very cool!

 

[rusty_shackleford]

problem with luck is there's very little benefit unless you're at max luck

 

[Humbaba]

problem with luck is there's very little benefit unless you're at max luck

Depends. There are tons of items that boost luck. My guy had base 7 luck. To get past the final fight I drank myself stupid on vodka to have 3 intelligence and 9 luck, then put on a rabbit foot to get 10 luck. I am not sure if you can boost other stats as easily. Are there mentats even?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

problem with luck is there's very little benefit unless you're at max luck

Depends. There are tons of items that boost luck. My guy had base 7 luck. To get past the final fight I drank myself stupid on vodka to have 3 intelligence and 9 luck, then put on a rabbit foot to get 10 luck. I am not sure if you can boost other stats as easily. Are there mentats even?

each of the alcohols stack independently and 5/6 of them give +luck, meaning any character can temporarily get +11 luck
there's no int boost consumable afaik, maybe one of the % chance side effects has an int boost

more of a probably unintended/broken mechanic tho, you should pass out or something if you try to chug that much alcohol

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Ngl. I didn't noticed until 7h in that you have to actually ask NPCs names otherwise you will never know their names.

Nice attention to detail.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Ngl. I didn't noticed until 7h in that you have to actually ask NPCs names otherwise you will never know their names.

Nice attention to detail.

Some of them will actually have their name(the one given already) change as you learn more about them.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Going back over the game a bit to collect my thoughts for a review... eventually..

Atomboy are there any plans to do a balance pass with regards to perks("abilities")?

Here's how I ended the game doing(AFAIK) essentially all content. These screenshots are taken right before the game ends in the very last room after the last battle. I'm level 20, I can't see a way to pick difficulty but I'm pretty sure I picked whatever the hardest is.

While my main character grabbed a few, it's still not that many. Capping perk cost at 3 or making it based on distance from center would probably help in this regard. I don't think perks felt overly strong for having a couple more.

Let's check in on Dzhulbars

Level 13, big gap between him and my character.
Even if I didn't grab that bottom left perk, I wouldn't have filled out the top right. Mind you, this is taken at the very end of the game with no content left.

And still, many of them are very weak.

10%? That's incredibly tiny, especially for the investment needed. 30-45% would be more than fair enough for how much damage he takes. In most fights I have him running away just to prevent him from dying!

Same deal here. I hate perks that are just minor bonuses.
How much is 3 dodge, you ask?

10% dodge bonus, and it gets worse the higher level you are.


BTW, I like that Dzhulbars has his own perk tree. Very cool. I heard the slave does too, didn't check. Would be nice if the other three at least had a few unique perks locked to them.

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Additionally as a tip since I don't think the game mentions this anywhere, if you open the context menu on a party member during combat you can issue commands to them. Works at any time, not just during your turn.

VERY useful for focusing fire, keeping allies alive, etc.,

Atomboy another suggestion for both ATOM and Trudograd: right-click instant context menu. Both games have it available as a mod(highly recommended), consider integrating it into the base game. Having to hold left click for context menu is strange for a PC game.

 

[Alphons]

I heard the slave does too, didn't check

She has the same perk tree PC and other human companions have. Including the weapon perks that she'll never use.

 

[Technomancer]

Atomboy are there any plans to do a balance pass with regards to perks("abilities")?

IIRC there are no plans on porting TG perk system to first game. Which is sad. Atom 1 had a horribly designed perk system. Amount of perk points you get is gated behind difficulty. Devs said it's fine coz it makes the game more difficult but this is the most lazy and unfun way to do it.

 

[jackofshadows]

nother suggestion for both ATOM and Trudograd: right-click instant context menu. Both games have it available as a mod(highly recommended), consider integrating it into the base game. Having to hold left click for context menu is strange for a PC game.

MAYBE because it's not strictly a PC game, mr. soon-to-be-reviewer? They actually went a long way to make their game a multiplatform one and I even vaguely remember you congratulating Atomboy with the latest xbox port. So all the UI and control changes in both games reflect that. I like the OG UI more by the way. And I'm not sure but I think even that context menu used to work by right click in vanilla.