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

[Товарищ]

Ughhh, you will be missing non-magical explanations for cuthulu possessions as well. And for gold fish. And.
Its a comedic reference theme park. With a try hard intro and broken combat.

Another problem about the writing is that the references are reddit level. I know that name!
They dont pay homage to what they reference. They just repeat the names.

 

[bataille]

references are reddit level

I've spotted a commoner.

Don't fret, I'm finishing my Prestigious Codex Review. All the haters are gonna get told, boy!

 

[D!!]

Ughhh, you will be missing non-magical explanations for cuthulu possessions as well. And for gold fish. And.
Its a comedic reference theme park. With a try hard intro and broken combat.

Another problem about the writing is that the references are reddit level. I know that name!
They dont pay homage to what they reference. They just repeat the names.

"Possesions" are actually have scientific explanation, you can read about it on Wikipedia. Golden fish is an obvious Easter egg with specific Luck requirement. "Talk to animals"-potion without even really stupid "muh radiation" or "muh mad scientist experiment" explanation is just awful.

 

[Товарищ]

I can read about it on Wikipedia? And you are complaining about srs tone in a vidya?

 

[filpan]

I played 1.0 version and I agree that the first fight in Mycoleum bunker was so fucking unfair and toughest in the game. Last fight was a breeze compared to that one. I still dont know how I managed it after trying for about two hours. There were three of us and I didnt want anyone to die. Two fucking hours! Somehow after raising my Endurance, Strength and Dex to max with help of those injections that I found in the Harbor in Dead City I managed to kill every one of them. Two guys with machineguns are top priority, then comes the bitch. I equipped Fidel with a machinegun, Hexagon had a Dragunov, and I was switching from Vintorez burst and a heavy machingun. I got addicted to stimpaks during the fight because I was taking them in the ass like crazy, I probably took about 12 superstims during the fight.

 

[Товарищ]

I've spotted a commoner.

Don't fret, I'm finishing my Prestigious Codex Review. All the haters are gonna get told, boy!

Refs to obscure things hurt worse than an arrow to the knee. They pretend to be something they are not. Name drops.

Hexogen is a writer character self insert. Including the combat stats...

The game features the common russian cultural trope of love for literature among the economical lower class and the oppressed интеллигенция. But its basically a banally played stereotype that serves as masturbation. Its not expressing any idea whatsoever on top of it.

And the references remind me of the recently linked article here on the Dex
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/
in the part about "Edgy" Prose - how fitting.

And the most important part making the writing in this game into common trash is american insincerity.
The defining characteristic of a lot of great russian literature is a naivite of character and a moral compass.
The stereotypical "russian soul". And post 45 - melancholic outlook born out of suffering and depression.
And the game doesnt have it. Or rather it actually does but its plastered over with so much wacky that honesty loses all honesty.
The snuff slavers are fucking clowns, one of them is from the internet...
Mutant clown with the belly mouth raped a child boy who is a walking joke with retard strength and a future in porn...
Shit on top of shit.

And the game features little satire to be satirical tbh.

Умом Россию не понять - it is not.

It reminds me of anime even... Thats how bad it is...

And this garbage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.N.U.F.F.
which is moronic pseudo intellectual explainbear book for mental midgets

 

[Товарищ]

The only good thing about the game is that you can drug and rape a minor village girl!

PROBLEMATIC MUCH?! WTF! REPORTED!

 

[RK47]

Don't forget to have fun.

 

[filpan]

Alright man. Now if you would please leave the thread.

 

[Commissar Draco]

The only good thing about the game is that you can drug and rape a minor village girl!

PROBLEMATIC MUCH?! WTF! REPORTED!

Now tell us how this game force you to drink vodka and smoke cigs and then fuck some village slut in hay, unless one is some kind of faggot or white knight everybody did such things during the youth in 80-90 ties while camping or helping in in Kolhoz during summer brakes. This game is much more sanitized than original Fallouts as there are no children in game by the way you would explode playing this or some other older tittles. One of the strong sides of the game is that unlike most modern tittles it doesn't take itself too seriously not tries to educate player on current year political correct values. Nice to see you are so triggered about reference to SJWs too makes you really think who you are Comrade.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Probably just Templar G(oat)R(apist) alt

 

[bataille]

Hexogen is a writer character self insert

Should have stopped right there. This is an embarrassment to end all embarrassments. Just shows how well-read and competent you are to make all these bold statements.

Do I need to tell how inept it is to have a problem with a postmodernist piece for it not being (meta)modernist? Its inherent playfulness and the lack of preaching is hard on your conscience, great. It casually quotes and references literature to have fun and not to teach you not to kill or rob your fellow humans, what a travesty. Do you want it to apologize to you for offending your mid-19th century sensibilities?

And diamonds like
>american insincerity
>The defining characteristic of a lot of great russian literature is a naivite of character and a moral compass.
Beg the question why you haven't linked a wikipedia article of the Sokal hoax to expose postmodernists for soulless heathens they are.

 

[Товарищ]

Haha, lets laugh at the Skyrim references, bros! xD

 

[razvedchiki]

Bataille are you russian?

 

[bataille]

Bataille are you russian?

Sadly, no. But I've been trying to atone for this sin...

 

[razvedchiki]

Your mystery ratings are killing me.

 

[Товарищ]

Should have stopped right there. This is an embarrassment to end all embarrassments. Just shows how well-read and competent you are to make all these bold statements.

Says who? Hex? Being a reference roffles, with uberstats, a wisecracking pretender and fraud? Just like *wink*

Do I need to tell how inept it is to have a problem with a postmodernist piece for it not being (meta)modernist? Its inherent playfulness and the lack of preaching is hard on your conscience, great. It casually quotes and references literature to have fun and not to teach you not to kill or rob your fellow humans, what a travesty. Do you want it to apologize to you for offending your mid-19th century sensibilities?

You are projecting. What I want is for the game to stop winking at me. I dont find it attractive.

And diamonds like
>american insincerity
>The defining characteristic of a lot of great russian literature is a naivite of character and a moral compass.
Beg the question why you haven't linked a wikipedia article of the Sokal hoax to expose postmodernists for soulless heathens they are.

Diamonds? Why would a need to link to evident common knowledge? I bet you like comic book movies for what they are...

As a sidenote, I am shocked that someone could feed NPC mountains of cigs and consider it entertainment. But not only that, he would also max pickpocket and use it in a broken system with savescumming. Why, Oblivion is a greate!

 

[bataille]

You really need to stop. I'm not going to bother anymore.

 

[Товарищ]

I think you are too dumb and too far removed from the material to actually have a valid opinion.

 

[bataille]

I bet that's the reason.

 

[Big Wrangle]

I bet you like comic book movies for what they are...

Ah yes, as well all know every goofy superhero needs to be like Spec Ops where the script whines about how EVUL the viewers are for watching violence.

 

[Luckmann]

Ughhhh, potion that allows talking to the animals is pretty retarded. Why is it even in the game? It's not even an Easter egg. Am I missing some kind of non-magical explanation for this?

Just think of it as the fact that you just downed a mixture of pickles, moonshine, and hallucinogenic mushrooms, mixed together in a boot before you drank it out of the jar.

Really, the only issue with the mixture is that it should also give you [Hallucinating], just like eating the mushrooms themselves do.

 

[Atomboy]

Ughhhh, potion that allows talking to the animals is pretty retarded. Why is it even in the game? It's not even an Easter egg. Am I missing some kind of non-magical explanation for this?

Sure there is. There's a toadstool in the recipe. You'll hear animals and various objects talking even if you eat it raw. Everything paranormal you experience in the game can be explained either with hallucinations, or with people acting really strangely for a reason of their own. The goldfish is probably just a mutant of some kind!

Ughhh, you will be missing non-magical explanations for cuthulu possessions as well. And for gold fish. And.
Its a comedic reference theme park. With a try hard intro and broken combat.

Another problem about the writing is that the references are reddit level. I know that name!
They dont pay homage to what they reference. They just repeat the names.

See, you might think that if the only thing you recognize in a reference is the name. You really think Hexogen is our Mary Sue? Come on, dude. Did you even play the game? Hexogen is like the last person anyone would want to be. And his stats are like that, because most testers found him while being around level 10, so he needed to be on par with the player. I'm not even getting into the rest of the debate. Although far from just namedropping, my (I'm just one of the writers, not talking about all of us) references are a collection of things I like and want to commemorate. It rarely has any additional artistic or didactic value, and there's just enough of them mixed in with stuff thought up on the spot so they won't seem obnoxious. "Mutant clown with the belly mouth raped a child boy who is a walking joke with retard strength and a future in porn..." for example, was made up on the spot, and has no ties to anything I'd like to make a reference to. Yet you still seem offended. Did it wink at you as well? Some people...

Don't forget to have fun.

Nice thinking! Also, can't find the post where you ask for switch to change character in a barter menu. This is a good idea and I'll introduce it to the team!

What exactly does failing to meet the STR requirement of a weapon do? Does it increase both AP required to use it as well as accuracy or just the latter?

Doesn't do much now... Lowers aim for 10% and some other distance related stuff, but that's it. Thinking of nerfing it tho!

so the dead city map is covered in radiation and is there anything you can do except eat tons of RAD-X?

Yes visit northern Stalkers base, then institute, then harbor and then base to do all quests there in 24 hours then leave I once ventured into crater it was all gud til protection stopped to work and I died before having time to open inventory lol. You should follow the advice of People there and travel with geiger counter in hand too:

Spoiler

South and East part of map are much less radioactive then rest.

Comrade Atomboy the rate in which you meet the gang you have bounty on is too low there unlike Death Gang I needed to load several time before they were encountered. The fight is very hard but doable and thus very satisfying when you do succeed. Any word on Sequel btw? Would love to play game located in Siberia with its radioactive forests, mutated bears and tigers and of course Jakut Shamans.

That's really strange. I never spend more than a minute looking for the marked gang. You're talking about the one the KRZ militia chief sends you after, right? We'll look into it. Nice thinking btw, the sequel will most probably take you to a much colder place, just to get rid of all the yellow we got going :D But I think (and actually hope) we'll do a completely different game before making part two of Atom. A huge stand-alone DLC might come out some time soon, tho.

 

[Atomboy]

Ughhh, you will be missing non-magical explanations for cuthulu possessions as well. And for gold fish. And.
Its a comedic reference theme park. With a try hard intro and broken combat.

Another problem about the writing is that the references are reddit level. I know that name!
They dont pay homage to what they reference. They just repeat the names.

"Possesions" are actually have scientific explanation, you can read about it on Wikipedia. Golden fish is an obvious Easter egg with specific Luck requirement. "Talk to animals"-potion without even really stupid "muh radiation" or "muh mad scientist experiment" explanation is just awful.

See, that's the thing. The potion is an average potent hallucinogenic substance. But it's called "Potion that makes you talk to animals". It's name gives a suggestion for your hallucinogenic trip and your wacked out mind falls for it. Like, imagine giving some good stuff to a first-time user, but saying "It's a See Dead People Come At You Serum"! My money's on he will actually see dead people. See, how deep it all goes!

 

[razvedchiki]

comrade Atomboy are you planning a second pass on the combat system?