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KickStarter Encased - isometric post-apocalyptic RPG under the dome
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Lord_Potato
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So, several days ago I finished the game.
Took me 50 hours, though I did try several different endings (they were all available from the final location anyway).
I cannot agree the game is barren after Act 1.
Act 1 took me 26 hours. Act 2 - 22 hours. I revealed the whole map and found dozens of locations, many of them only available after reducing the Maelstrom, so in Act 2 (I hid this for people who want to explore on their own):
What is barren for sure is Act 3. The voyage to the devastated Concord is a major disappointment. For many hours I prepared the major expedition to the ruins, worked with all the factions to win their support and in the end not much came out of it. Sure, you can call support for the final battles, but the problem is, that there are pathetically easy anyway. The final location does not offer any challenge in terms of combat, exploration, puzzles, anything. There's not even a boss fight. Major disappointment.
Encased surely could need some late-game content patch, but mid-game seems ok at the moment. It seems to be a trend with Fallout spiritual successors those days. Northern Invasion in Atom: Trudograd was also a major letdown, although not as large (there was a possibility of a boss fight at least).
Also, progression was totally broken. By being thorough with the game I reached level 43. As a White Wing with brains 10 and some perks for increased learnability and skill points I managed to max out all non-combat abilities, plus high-tech weapons, light weapons, and psionics, plus a big investment in contraptions. In my short review of Trudograd I complained that it allowed me to create a post-nuclear soviet Mary Sue. Here it's even more ridiculous. My Dome-roaming Gary Stu was completely overpowered and had basically everything. The skill system itself however is something I enjoyed - even minor investments in skills provide you with various useful abilities, both active and passive. If the skill point flow was more limited it might have led to some interesting builds. Perhaps one day (when they add content DLCs) I must try the low intellect run - with fewer skill points (but also unique abilities and dialogue options for a literal moron) it might be quite an experience.
All in all, the game is not as good as Atom/Trudograd (mostly due to poorer atmosphere/worldbuilding), but much better than earlier efforts like Krai Mira.
Took me 50 hours, though I did try several different endings (they were all available from the final location anyway).
I cannot agree the game is barren after Act 1.
Act 1 took me 26 hours. Act 2 - 22 hours. I revealed the whole map and found dozens of locations, many of them only available after reducing the Maelstrom, so in Act 2 (I hid this for people who want to explore on their own):
What is barren for sure is Act 3. The voyage to the devastated Concord is a major disappointment. For many hours I prepared the major expedition to the ruins, worked with all the factions to win their support and in the end not much came out of it. Sure, you can call support for the final battles, but the problem is, that there are pathetically easy anyway. The final location does not offer any challenge in terms of combat, exploration, puzzles, anything. There's not even a boss fight. Major disappointment.
Encased surely could need some late-game content patch, but mid-game seems ok at the moment. It seems to be a trend with Fallout spiritual successors those days. Northern Invasion in Atom: Trudograd was also a major letdown, although not as large (there was a possibility of a boss fight at least).
Also, progression was totally broken. By being thorough with the game I reached level 43. As a White Wing with brains 10 and some perks for increased learnability and skill points I managed to max out all non-combat abilities, plus high-tech weapons, light weapons, and psionics, plus a big investment in contraptions. In my short review of Trudograd I complained that it allowed me to create a post-nuclear soviet Mary Sue. Here it's even more ridiculous. My Dome-roaming Gary Stu was completely overpowered and had basically everything. The skill system itself however is something I enjoyed - even minor investments in skills provide you with various useful abilities, both active and passive. If the skill point flow was more limited it might have led to some interesting builds. Perhaps one day (when they add content DLCs) I must try the low intellect run - with fewer skill points (but also unique abilities and dialogue options for a literal moron) it might be quite an experience.
All in all, the game is not as good as Atom/Trudograd (mostly due to poorer atmosphere/worldbuilding), but much better than earlier efforts like Krai Mira.
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Hmm. I'll probably get it.
Iluvcheezcake
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Wait for a sale
GentlemanCthulhu
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I'm about 8 hours into this one. I am enjoying the skill system and it seems to support a variety of play styles (currently rolling a drug-addled slasher surgeon --- chems + bladed weapons + medicine. Game actually has some creative skills/perks that let me RP this build well (Vampire perk, schizophrenia perk, poisoned blade skill in medicine skill tree, etc.).
But tbh I can't seem to get invested in the world and the characters. I think it's just poorly written, in the sense that the language is unusually complicated while at the same time not saying much at all.
Also, it seems like this is another rpg where stealth is entirely broken. I invested nothing in stealth, but my character is able to sneak past any enemy in any situation.
But tbh I can't seem to get invested in the world and the characters. I think it's just poorly written, in the sense that the language is unusually complicated while at the same time not saying much at all.
Also, it seems like this is another rpg where stealth is entirely broken. I invested nothing in stealth, but my character is able to sneak past any enemy in any situation.
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Ivan
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had totally forgotten about this. are they still fleshing out the base game with DLCs?
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No they are not doing anything with it. Not even updates to fix bugs.
One can definitely have some fun with the game up to a point about half-way through or so (and for that reason I'd say it's just about worth the price), then one's interest drops off a cliff. That seems to be the common experience, and it was for me anyway. It's like the devs just ran out of steam. But for a time, it's quite enjoyable and feels quite polished and "solid," although the combat doesn't have as much depth as it promises, tbh.
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It's polished to an extent. I have already encountered bugs and some bizarre behavior caused by not properly implementing all the branching paths in some situations. And I certainly did not manage to develop any attachment to anything in the 9 hours i spent with it. I think I won't be playing any more. It's a shame, because the game does looks so much more promising on the surface.
GentlemanCthulhu
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This is an insane amount of useless objects and shit containers...
Wunderbar
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DOS' influence.
There will be updates and DLC/expansion for Encased. Also third person Encased 2 is in early development. All of this confirmed and two screenshots posted by main Dev/Owner of company on Discord in past 10 days
WTF?! happend to Codex. Codex used to know Devs' breathing patterns and give so much game design and marketing advice to indie devs. Codex used to fight for Devs to not join dark side of popamole, normiedom and SJWs. Now you old farts just passively consooom and hurl shits at each other. Jew is to blamed (ALWAYS!) but itz also our fault
WTF?! happend to Codex. Codex used to know Devs' breathing patterns and give so much game design and marketing advice to indie devs. Codex used to fight for Devs to not join dark side of popamole, normiedom and SJWs. Now you old farts just passively consooom and hurl shits at each other. Jew is to blamed (ALWAYS!) but itz also our fault
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Any change that those would be copy/pasted here?
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Encased was kinda shit, why should we follow it breathlessly?
rusty_shackleford
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Maybe they should focus on finishing their first game before moving onto the next.
Itz not about Encased, itz about everything. Baldur's Gate 3 thread has thousands of pages about latest breed of dancing tranny that was added in patch which are released once every 6 months. Everything worth attention, including latest Underrail: Infusion Dev Diary has less then 2 pages of discussion
Yeah, there's a good game there struggling to get out, and a lot of the groundwork for it is there, but they need to work on the combat to make it more interesting (IOW to make the many options that seem interesting actually interesting). More iteration and testing, iteration and testing, fine tuning and testing - I would guess anyway. Then flesh out the latter half of the game and make it as dense and rich as the earlier part, quest-wise, and you've got great game.
The moment Owlcat stopped (for the time being) releasing tranny concept art for Rogue Trader and started posting something you'd expect from 40k Warhammer Universe, interest of Codexers plummeted. Modern Codexer in 2022 is an old man addicted to tranny porn and drama. Thanks Lord Infitron!
Speaking for myself, it's more like despair. The future looks pretty bleak for the RPG - instead of getting better, they're getting worse, or maybe not worse entirely, but worse in segments, in stages, like the whole thing is gradually falling apart, compared to the promise it had as a genre. What's even more despairing is that as with modern tv/movie product, the production values are in some cases amazing, and teams are huge, so one's heart yearns to see magnificent games that have it all. But a lot of it's just lowest-common-denominator trash with pretty graphics now. So either people worry over the old games or just despair of newer, better games ever coming out.
And it's not just the woke content per se, it's the fact that only woke people are being hired (thus leaving money on the table re. potentially great programmers, designers, etc., who are non-woke, and so don't get to make games at all) that's leading to the decay. It's an industry that's not firing on all cylinders.
Nah. Woke will be defeated. Not with that attitude thou. There are plenty of based promising indie devs that recieve: ZERO attention on Codex. Just compare Colony Ship vs Wrath of Trannies. Or smallest whisper about Dragon Age 4 and Dev Diary for Underrail: Infusion. People jerk off to Starfield, what about getting hard on for Stellar Tactics. Codex has turned itself into passive consoomers. Itz never easier to make your own game, for cheap, in whatever graphic style or gameplay genre you want. Jew in charge convinced you that everything is lost, just like news say that Ukraine is winning
Nifft Batuff
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I am still waiting for the second part of the first game.
GentlemanCthulhu
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As much as the vocal paranoid schizoid minority might want to deny it, BG3 has thousands of pages because it's shaping up to be a great game, whereas Encased is mediocre and mostly unworthy of attention. If wokeshit was enough for a game to be popular, then Encased should've been doing much better since it's fully woke, complete with non-binary options in char creation and tranny prostitutes.
Darth Canoli
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Credit where it's due, DOS draw its "inspiration" from Ultima on that regard.
This and diablo itemization to randomly fill the crates.
Had it been a facebook game with micro-transactions, it'd have had even more success...
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