Disco Elysium Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Heroic Liberator]

I'd rate this a tier above ATOM. It has a million words and 5 years of dev time. It's slick and polished. I dunno, just my opinion. Anywho, I just wanted to answer someone about melee weapons. You get a prybar but I don't know if you can hit anybody with it, sorry.

C’mon, you can dual wield a sabre and a nock gun!

Mishima cop it is then! To which skill does the sabre correspond to in combat?

 

[Lithium Flower]

I wouldn't have spent $40 on Atom, which this looks to be about on par with.

The same game, basically.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

$40 is a lot for an isometric game.

If only it was first person like FALLOUT 4, I would surely pay all the monies the gentleman asks

The fact that a shitty mainstream game (with a multi-million dollar budget) was priced similarly doesn't change anything. I wouldn't have spent $40 on Atom, which this looks to be about on par with.

This is substantially better than ATOM. Don’t get me wrong, I loved ATOM despite its flaws, but Disco Elysium makes it look like shovelware by comparison. Deadfire was $50. Kingmaker was $40, though it was bigger than BG2 so you got great value for your money. TTON cost $45 at launch and it was much worse than this game.

I like Disco more than any of the new isometric CRPGs (and more than most of the old ones). Again, while the maps aren’t huge, they’re densely packed with content and it is NOT a small game.

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Fluent you can get a sword if you

Spoiler

take the fisherwoman on a successful date

I haven’t used it in combat, though, because I’ve usually got a gun again shortly thereafter.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I haven’t used it in combat, though, because I’ve usually got a gun again shortly thereafter.

So it is not a viable alternative to a gun?

 

[Kasparov]

I haven’t used it in combat, though, because I’ve usually got a gun again shortly thereafter.

So it is not a viable alternative to a gun?

Have you seen the Indiana Jones films?

 

[Grauken]

I haven’t used it in combat, though, because I’ve usually got a gun again shortly thereafter.

So it is not a viable alternative to a gun?

Have you seen the Indiana Jones films?

You can survive an atomic bomb by hiding in a fridge

 

[Kasparov]

I haven’t used it in combat, though, because I’ve usually got a gun again shortly thereafter.

So it is not a viable alternative to a gun?

Have you seen the Indiana Jones films?

You can survive an atomic bomb by hiding in a fridge

Naw that’s Fallout 3+ material

 

[Prime Junta]

Look if you're left-leaning you will probably love this game, you won't even understand the subtext. If you're a full on communist you will really love it. Have fun.

Marat Sar said in an early interview that they’re not going easy on anybody... it’s just that in his experience alt-righties are the meltiest snowflakes. Some of you are certainly reinforcing that belief.

(TBF some are not.)

You can survive an atomic bomb by hiding in a fridge

...and it’s shaped like an ice bear.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I haven’t used it in combat, though, because I’ve usually got a gun again shortly thereafter.

So it is not a viable alternative to a gun?

Have you seen the Indiana Jones films?

I'm guessing that you're referencing this scene in particular:

 

[Rahdulan]

Is there some weird trend going on between RPG devs where they don't price their games on Steam until release or something? Same thing happened with Stygian so I bought it elsewhere.

 

[Kasparov]

Is there some weird trend going on between RPG devs where they don't price their games on Steam until release or something? Same thing happened with Stygian so I bought it elsewhere.

Game’s roughly 40 bucks. Steam is complicated; please endure

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Big day today, cultists! In the face of coming ruination of your shriveled storyanimal hearts desires you should at least act jubilant, minds destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
Stick to your delusions to the bitter end so that we decent human beings can scoff at you better, no shirking from shilling now!

Dude, you joined the Disco Discord the day it launched—clearly you, too, were plenty hyped. Are you seriously still pissed that they booted you for disparaging our Nubian brothers?

 

[Latro]

punished maxie
-the dog who barks for revenge-

 

[Prime Junta]

Game’s roughly 40 bucks. Steam is complicated; please endure

and in enduring, grow strong

Spoiler

couldn't resist the serve

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Game’s roughly 40 bucks. Steam is complicated; please endure

and in enduring, grow strong

Spoiler

couldn't resist the serve

Äbsölütely, bröther.

 

[Van-d-all]

I wonder what regional pricing will look like, 40$ is a decent chunk of change for a game around these parts, I'll shell it out regardless, because proper CYOAs are where it's at, but yeah.

Another review's out btw:


There's a bit of a buzz on reddit as well, hope all goes well for the devs, shit like this is a rarity nowadays and should be treasured.

Cheers! Also I’ll note that it is fairly spoilery in the footage, just in case

Hah, even though I watch him from time to time, I knew to pass it this time. Somehow I think it'll be best to go in blind.

 

[luinthoron]

https://www.pcinvasion.com/disco-elysium-killed-me-in-three-minutes-with-a-ceiling-fan/

Disco Elysium killed me in three minutes, with a ceiling fan


Disco Elysium is a surreal fever-dream of a game. I’ve vomited four times, argued with my necktie, said some truly horrific things to a bartender, attempted to open an investigation into a non-existent missing cockatoo, and hugged people to spread communism. And believe me, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Disco Elysium also killed my first character with a ceiling fan within three minutes of finishing character creation. I’m very much still making my mind up about the game, but this is the sort of story I want to share.

Disco Elysium and the ceiling fan of doom


Character creation is enjoyably meaty, even if I have little idea what my choices mean down the line. Six is the highest any of the four statistics – Intellect, Psyche, Physique, and Motorics – can go, and with eight points to share between them, this meant I was going to lack in something.

I opted to venture into Disco Elysium as a smarty-pants cop, with a focus on Intellect but a degree of Psyche so I can suss out lies and have some empathy. Which, alas, means I’m in terrible shape and have terrible motor skills.

Character creation also offers up a choice of Signature Skill. This is effectively “what skill do you want a free point in,” but it also increases the maximum that skill can reach without outside help. I’m all for Visual Calculus because I want to be able to do the Sherlock thing of seeing a crime scene in my brain and immediately figuring out who was there and what they did.

Awakening


My dreams of being Sherlock Holmes were slightly dashed by the opening sequence. Disco Elysium quickly establishes your character as being a complete wreck of a human being (which, now that I think about it, would fit some Holmes interpretations) You begin in conversation with parts of your brain — offering the glorious dialogue line of “Help! Someone! Cut my head off, it’s trying to murder the rest of me!” — before you’re jump-started back to life with a murderous hangover.

A murderous hangover that was, apparently, caused by an almost literally murderous amount of drugs and alcohol. Our Disco Elysium protagonist can’t remember his name, job, or anything else about his life. Your first task is to stumble around the hotel room and find your clothes, and it was this dangerous task that cost me my life. The pants, at least, were obvious.

The green dots on the screen represent things you can look at for flavor text. Holding down Tab shows all hotspots you can actually interact with, which is how I found one shoe, hanging on the rack near the door.

Investigating a dangerous mind


I did get a chance to put my Visual Calculus to use, though. That broken window to the left was clearly something that needed investigating, and it didn’t take much brainwork to figure out that I’d… lobbed my other shoe through it. Unfortunately, pondering that maybe someone else threw the shoe led to me being sassed by both my Visual Calculus and Logic skills. Thanks, game.



While I should probably have tried to find my shirt and jacket first, my tie was obvious: it was looped around the rotating ceiling fan. My nemesis.

Pretty much everything in Disco Elysium works on dice. Mousing over any skill check shows your percentage chance of success, but failure and success are guaranteed on all 1s or all 6s. Wonderfully, just about anything can modify these chances. In a persuasion task, being nice to someone in the conversation beforehand (or establishing yourself as a tough guy) might give you a better shot of success. Throwing people off-guard by asking off-kilter questions or examining parts of the surroundings may assist with other skill checks.

From what I know, even combat works like this. Combat is incredibly rare in Disco Elysium – I’m five hours in and I’ve encountered exactly none of it. But from what I can gather, it works off a dialogue tree and your various options will impact the success of your options. Letting people agitate you might make a tricky shot harder; conversely, taking stock of your surroundings or taunting foes may get you an advantage. Diplomacy might avoid a confrontation or it might let people get the drop on you. But that’s all based on a dev blog from a year ago, so it may have all changed.

Hello darkness, my old friend


Anyway! Back to the ceiling fan, which unfortunately was not a combat encounter. (Although I’d probably have lost anyway.) I could’ve turned off the fan, but I figured… well, what’s the worst that can happen? Even though my chances of successfully grabbing the whirling tie were a mere 27% because my motor skills are appalling, I figured it’d be amusing.

Reaching up for it caused intense pain, and what I didn’t realize at the time was I only had a single hit point because of my crap physical stats. Good morale to ward off psychological threats, but not much in the way of physical resistance. Which means that the intense pain…



… led to a heart attack. Rest in peace, detective whose name I didn’t even learn. You died due to reaching up towards a ceiling fan. That’s pretty much NetHack-levels of idiotic death.



Disco Elysium is an incredibly odd game. It’s crude, offensive, and mind-bogglingly weird. It marries all of this with lengthy socio-political dialogues and a world whose history I can’t even begin to understand. But the systems underpinning it are clever and solid, and the situations I’ve found myself in (and my methods for resolving them) have amused me to no end so far.

With only a few hours under my belt at the time of writing, I’m not even close to having a definitive opinion on it, but at the very least it’s given me some stories to relate. I mean, how often do you get a chance to write about a death-by-ceiling fan?

 

[Uncreation]

ZA/UM is a cultural movement uniting artists, writers, entrepreneurs and socialists, established 2009. Named after the Russian futurists' language of gods and birds it does popular and avant-garde. Creates and markets. In 2014 ZA/UM started Nihilist.fm - an online publishing platform. In print media, ZA/UM has published four national bestsellers.

more like a collective of BIG FAT PHONIES

This sounds so pretentious i am wondering if it's not meant to be satire. Named after the Russian futurists' language of gods and birds? Jesus fuck! No wonder the game sounds the way it does. And these niggus want 40$ for it? Lol, maybe i'll pirate it in a few months if i have nothing better to do.

 

[fantadomat]

I haven’t used it in combat, though, because I’ve usually got a gun again shortly thereafter.

So it is not a viable alternative to a gun?

Have you seen the Indiana Jones films?

You can survive an atomic bomb by hiding in a fridge

 

[Daedalos]

Imagine being such a fuck up in life, that you can't afford to spend 40 dollars on the best game of the year RPG, and you literally visit an RPG site telling other people you want to pirate said game.

Some people man, I swear. Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?

 

[fantadomat]

Imagine being such a fuck up in life, that you can't afford to spend 40 dollars on the best game of the year RPG, and you literally visit an RPG site telling other people you want to pirate said game.

Some people man, I swear. Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?

Yeah,it is real shame that non of the previewers decided to upload the game on rutracker.....i could have been playing it now.

 

[Wunderbar]

Imagine being such a fuck up in life, that you can't afford to spend 40 dollars on the best game of the year RPG

according to whom?
you haven't finished the game, so stop fanboying.

 

[Prime Junta]

Just spotted this on the Steam page:

The game contains instances of substance abuse and exploration of crime scenes.

Ya think?

 

[Hellion]

OK, just discovered a MAJOR flaw in the game: it doesn't adapt to my attempts at roleplaying a completely naked character. I went downstairs at the starting area without any clothes on, and Lieutenant Kim asks me to "search my pockets" for some items like nothing is different.

I withdraw my earlier review, new score is 0/100.

 

[Uncreation]

I can afford to, but just because i can afford to buy a game doesn't mean i should or want to. There's a ton of garbage out there i can afford to buy but never will, because i already have plenty of actually good games that i don't have the time to play.