ELEX ELEX RELEASE THREAD

[Darth Roxor]

Are there any consequences for chugging Elex potions? I saw some guy claiming it leads to a bad ending or something.

High cold means you are too rational, and too rational for some reasons prevents to make irrational decisions, which might lock you out of some dialogue options.

the opposite is also true

 

[Elex]

Cold+, your level of cold determines options you can take

It's pretty odd that being "emotional" is considered a desired/positive trait in a video-game about a post-apocalyptic world with only scraps of resources that people relentlessly murder each other over.

Spock is not considered a bad guy.

 

[Lambach]

Repeatedly getting my ass kicked by a motherfucking chicken.

Can't wait to get a decent ranged weapon so I can rain fury on his feathery ass from the skies.

 

[Shadenuat]

Why does every faction have same strict hierarchy and structure? Why does faction called Outlaws has ranks and high tier armor? They're all about profit. Shouldn't they sell everything to anyone who can pay a lot of money? Shouldn't your reputation there be split between multiple gangs/scraplords?

"it's pb game" as answer is not accepted.

 

[Darth Roxor]

it's pb game

 

[Gepeu]

it's pb game


dang

 

[Elex]

Why does every faction have same strict hierarchy and structure? Why does faction called Outlaws has ranks and high tier armor? They're all about profit. Shouldn't they sell everything to anyone who can pay a lot of money? Shouldn't your reputation there be split between multiple gangs/scraplords?

"it's pb game" as answer is not accepted.

they sell powerfull stuff only to people that they can trust and that generated profit for the Duke.
they don't want to give armor and powefull weapon to people that want to rebel and take the duke place.

 

[Shadenuat]

Lazy explanation, lazy design.

Also, everyone sells stuff if you're level 15-25-etc., not if they trust you or not.

 

[Shackleton]

Repeatedly getting my ass kicked by a motherfucking chicken.

Can't wait to get a decent ranged weapon so I can rain fury on his feathery ass from the skies.

Really don't get this rage about the chickens. They have the most obvious and easily avoidable attacks in the whole of Magalan. Pause, paw the ground a bit and then rush forward in a straight line with three pecks. All the bird-type AI is the same. The dog sort AI is worse imo, with the enormous jump about the length of a football pitch that takes a big chunk of HP off. Still easy to avoid though, just hurts if you miss even one dodge. Wait until you get to the Mechs, with the laser attack and the ground slam, then you'll know real pain.

 

[Incantatar]

Give me a few examples of functioning self reliant and sizable communities with no forms of hierarchy.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Really don't get this rage about the chickens. They have the most obvious and easily avoidable attacks in the whole of Magalan.

They are 'ard-ish because you can't stagger them reliably with a one-handed weapon. So even if you provoke the three-step charge and whack them, they can still retaliate.

Wolf-types, otoh: just wait for the charge, doge, block their subsequent normal attack and finally slap them sideways.

 

[razvedchiki]

dont crimelords have some muscle to do stuff rl?

logan wants you to be one of his muscle.

 

[Jim the Dinosaur]

Why does every faction have same strict hierarchy and structure? Why does faction called Outlaws has ranks and high tier armor? They're all about profit. Shouldn't they sell everything to anyone who can pay a lot of money? Shouldn't your reputation there be split between multiple gangs/scraplords?

"it's pb game" as answer is not accepted.

Ordnung muss sein is a German proverbial expression which translates as "there must be order." The idea of "order" is generally recognized as a key cliche for describing German culture.[1] Franz von Papen, for instance, cited it in 1932 as Frederick the Great's "classic expression".[2] As a slogan used by Paul von Hindenburg, it became "world famous" in 1930, according to The New York Times.[3] A longer version is contained in a mid-19th century collection of proverbs where the title is a Wellerism: Ordnung muss sein, sagte Hans, da brachten sie ihn in das Spinnhaus (in English: "Order must be, said Hans, as they took him to the madhouse)."[4]

Related German proverbs are Ordnung ist das halbe Leben,[4] literally "order is half of life", humorously extended in the antiproverb und Unordnung die andere Hälfte ("and disorder the other half"). Similarly, a proverb says Wer Ordnung hält, ist nur zu faul zum Suchen meaning "he who keeps order is just too lazy to spend his time searching".[citation needed]

There is an Ordnungsamt (Public Office for Order, Code enforcement) in every German municipality and city. Minor or petty offenses are called Ordnungswidrigkeit (meaning "offense, (or rather) contrarity to (public) order").

 

[Tigranes]

Really don't get this rage about the chickens. They have the most obvious and easily avoidable attacks in the whole of Magalan.

They are 'ard-ish because you can't stagger them reliably with a one-handed weapon. So even if you provoke the three-step charge and whack them, they can still retaliate.

Wolf-types, otoh: just wait for the charge, doge, block their subsequent normal attack and finally slap them sideways.

You can get almost certain two hits in at their butt, but after that it's iffy - so if you are 1-2 hits from death that means you roll 8 times then whack twice. Or in other words go away & come back later

Outlaws aren't very outlawy when you have a hostile natural environment, one established place to live in & earn shards, and has been recently taken over by a powerful and charismatic strongman. The Duke, as his German lines for Clerics shows, has larger plans than 'ok gais do w/e elexit is king'

 

[Lambach]

I'm not complaining about the murder chicken, per se, (it's a PB game, you're gonna be fodder for everyone and everything early on) I just think it looks bloody hilarious that a grown-ass man with a big fucking axe is getting slaughtered by something that looks like an overcooked Thanksgiving turkey.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I'm not complaining about the murder chicken, per se, (it's a PB game, you're gonna be fodder for everyone and everything early on) I just think it looks bloody hilarious that a grown-ass man with a big fucking axe is getting slaughtered by something that looks like an overcooked Thanksgiving turkey.

coo cooooooo

 

[agentorange]

in gothic 2 you wake up after having taken down a god monster from another dimension single handedly and immediately go back to getting your shit pushed in by a boar in the woods

 

[agris]

as it should be

 

[Raghar]

I'm not complaining about the murder chicken, per se, (it's a PB game, you're gonna be fodder for everyone and everything early on) I just think it looks bloody hilarious that a grown-ass man with a big fucking axe is getting slaughtered by something that looks like an overcooked Thanksgiving turkey.

Bitters are mutated chicken. Skexes are mutated Turkeys.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Why does every faction have same strict hierarchy and structure? Why does faction called Outlaws has ranks and high tier armor? They're all about profit. Shouldn't they sell everything to anyone who can pay a lot of money? Shouldn't your reputation there be split between multiple gangs/scraplords?

"it's pb game" as answer is not accepted.

They’re called outlaws, not anarchists. They have far fewer rules than the Clerics or the Berserkers about individual behavior, but in the end they’re just a big gang—what’s so hard to understand? Gangs almost always have a hierarchical power structure with a despotic leader at the top. Al Capone and the Chicago mafia, Jesse James and the James/Younger gang, Butch Cassidy and the wild bunch... Hell, even Robin Hood and his merry men.

Honestly, it makes perfect sense that a stationary criminal organization with its own territory would behave a lot like a nation state—they have all the same incentives. If I had access to JSTOR I’d post Mancur Olson’s paper on the subject, “Dictatorship, Democracy and Development.”

 

[Zerth]

What does Attack Strength skill actually affect?

 

[Ziem]

stagger/knockdown chance
item buffs that affect this skill don't seem to work for some reason

 

[Junmarko]

 

[Jasede]

.......

I'm assuming the 'translators' couldn't actually read German and nobody at PB could read English

On the other hand...

I played the entire game in German and there were MULTIPLE instances where the writer clearly didn't know that you cannot literally translate an ENGLISH idiom into German word for word.
This I found dreadfully confusing.

I am assuming the game was first written in German. And yet, you get these weird fucking phrases at times that are CLEARLY from English, just word-for-word translations into German. So either the Germans who wrote this spent so much time on the Internet that they forgot that some English idioms cannot be translated that way into German, or it was written in English first, or whoever wrote it was simply an idiot.

I think it's the latter.
It's a PB game, babe.

 

[Elex]

.......

I'm assuming the 'translators' couldn't actually read German and nobody at PB could read English

On the other hand...

I played the entire game in German and there were MULTIPLE instances where the writer clearly didn't know that you cannot literally translate an ENGLISH idiom into German word for word.
This I found dreadfully confusing.

I am assuming the game was first written in German. And yet, you get these weird fucking phrases at times that are CLEARLY from English, just word-for-word translations into German. So either the Germans who wrote this spent so much time on the Internet that they forgot that some English idioms cannot be translated that way into German, or it was written in English first, or whoever wrote it was simply an idiot.

I think it's the latter.
It's a PB game, babe.

the answer is probally both.

half game in english
half in german

then they translate all in german internally.

other translation are a mess too.