KickStarter Encased - isometric post-apocalyptic RPG under the dome

[The Wall]

Yeah, DEAD game from Russian urban libertards. Has option: OTHER for gender. First option during character creation is female soldier. Half of portraits are funky smug 70s style smilling ugly niggers. Dropped like fucking rock. Fuck all Slavic urban liberal inteligentzia

 

[Mortmal]

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

Game was too unfinished and unconsistent, first part was great then it falls down quickly from mysterious plot and strange land to explore, to "dude here's some posters to glue in town". Combat is far from great either , so what is there left to chill for? It's good looking i guess, that's not enough to excite us.

 

[The Wall]

Game is made by St. Petersburg urban zoomers and millenials who live for only one purpouse: to mimic West and be loved by the West. It could have been worse: made in Moscow. Worst case scenario: made in epicentre of Slavic fandom for Western cultural sensibilities: Warsaw

Fuck these weak traitors. 100.000+ MEN died in Ukraine and every war ever fought. Default seletion in Encased character creation? Female Soldier. You can also have black male scientist portrait for xer

Maybe ESG money from Prime Matter played a role. Either way: FUCK Russian, Serbian, Polish, Czech and other Slavic Western cock sucking inteligentzia. And fuck this game. Deleted from my brain's memory

 

[The Wall]

And yes it used to be so promising, like Fallout + Arcanum. Then they changed everything, pulled all teeth from gameplay so that even on hardest difficulty Steam babies wouldn't cry, started sucking BlackRock cock and instead of finishing the game they spent all the money on St. Petersburg tranny hookers and voiceacting. FUCK

 

[rusty_shackleford]

damn that was a quick 180

 

[The Wall]

I have IRON RULE: never, nEVER, NEVER play or heaven forbid buy, game where you can choose third gender and where female soldier is default selection for your character. Those two things are like those little nasty things that pop up on faggot's face when he has monkey pox. You can bet your money everything in that game is product of people who are of liberal - far left thinking. All fantasy and sci-fi worlds are built on top of same reality - OUR REALITY. I just can't believe in world where 50% of Paladins are female and where squad of soldiers in power armor take off their helmets and they are all black smug teen girls with Brooklyn accent. That's not fiction which explores certain what ifs which exist or not exist in our world, these what ifs transported into fantasy world and examined and explored. No, this is WOKE cermon

Meanwhile 100.000+ MEN died and keep dying in Ukraine

 

[The Wall]

Aim HIMARS at urban centres of St. Petersburg and Moscow. It will only improve Russian role playing video games. Warsaw can't be saved. Orbital bombardment on Warsaw and Witcher 4 might end up being good

And YES! bomb Belgrade downtown. Don't worry, Styg lives in Borča

 

[gurugeorge]

I just can't believe in world where 50% of Paladins are female and where squad of soldiers in power armor take off their helmets and they are all black smug teen girls with Brooklyn accent.

I agree with that, but having some tranny options in character creation isn't necessarily a sign that the whole thing is shit - they might just be doing that because it's a cheap and easy way to get the Eye of Sauron to pass over them and swivel on to some other poor, hapless fool

 

[The Wall]

Hahahaha. I know, I know. But geeks should stop being dorks and grow balls. Noone would punish any indie dev who made Arcanum or Fallout or Morrowind in 2022 with all those sensibilities, in both gameplay and narrative. And let's not forget that Gothic 2 from mid 2000s or A: Black Flag from early 2010s were nothing but classicly liberal. They'd even get awarded with money shower. Problem is that all these geeks mingle in normie circles and normies downtown Belgrade or Moscow or Prag are, you'd be suprised how much, Callifornia minded

I have female friend from Belgrade Faculty of Biology, she graduaded last year. Firmly believes in: there are as many genders as stars. Herself "identifies" as "cis". Many such cases among young. Either completly hedonistic fuckfaces that fuck like rabbits and flex all day, all night or wanna be little Americans

I'm no Ancient Alien. I'm 26

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Hahahaha. I know, I know. But geeks should stop being dorks and grow balls. Noone would punish any indie dev who made Arcanum or Fallout or Morrowind in 2022 with all those sensibilities, in both gameplay and narrative. And let's not forget that Gothic 2 from mid 2000s or A: Black Flag from early 2010s were nothing but classicly liberal. They'd even get awarded with money shower. Problem is that all these geeks mingle in normie circles and normies downtown Belgrade or Moscow or Prag are, you'd be suprised how much, Callifornia minded

I have female friend from Belgrade Faculty of Biology, she graduaded last year. Firmly believes in: there are as many genders as stars. Herself "identifies" as "cis". Many such cases among young. Either completly hedonistic fuckfaces that fuck like rabbits and flex all day, all night or wanna be little Americans

I'm no Ancient Alien. I'm 26

Why is she your friend?

 

[The Wall]

"Friend". More like concubine. Sex is good with crazies and all feminists are total submissive sluts in bedroom or college bathroom.

[UPDATE]: I successfully got banned from Encased Discord after larping as nationalist teenage Indian boy who thinks it's luducrous that company from Russia has California 2013. sensibilities. Everything went fine until I threatened with snitching on them to uncle Putin and sending him copy of Encased

 

[agris]

Encased was kinda shit, why should we follow it breathlessly?

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

It's always been like that man. Lots of mouth breathers filling up AAA threads with posts, slurping whatever inXile/OE/Ubi/MS/EA excrete while most quality games get little attention. Reading your newer posts, it's clear that you've decided Encased isn't quality, which actually helps explain why it has 94 pages and not 15.

There are some exceptions of course, like Underrail, but even back in the '00s and early '10s you would see huge threads for shit games while smaller quality ones went under the radar.

I can understand being mad at it, but it isn't a new phenomena.

What *is* new is the mindless, repetitive posting of tweets/youtubes/PRs in threads for games that have no discussion around them. That shit sucks, likely the product of poor taste and mental illness - much like anime. But what can we do about it?

 

[Darth Canoli]

What *is* new is the mindless, repetitive posting of tweets/youtubes/PRs in threads for games that have no discussion around them. That shit sucks, likely the product of poor taste and mental illness - much like anime. But what can we do about it?

Play good games and stay active in their respective threads.

 

[gurugeorge]

What *is* new is the mindless, repetitive posting of tweets/youtubes/PRs in threads for games that have no discussion around them. That shit sucks, likely the product of poor taste and mental illness - much like anime. But what can we do about it?

Waitamiinit, aren't you contradicting yourself there? Surely you want there to be tweets/youtubes/PRs for the games that have no discussion around them, to bring more attention to them, since ex hypothesi they're the good games that aren't getting all the mouthbreather attention?

 

[agris]

What *is* new is the mindless, repetitive posting of tweets/youtubes/PRs in threads for games that have no discussion around them. That shit sucks, likely the product of poor taste and mental illness - much like anime. But what can we do about it?

Waitamiinit, aren't you contradicting yourself there? Surely you want there to be tweets/youtubes/PRs for the games that have no discussion around them, to bring more attention to them, since ex hypothesi they're the good games that aren't getting all the mouthbreather attention?

Not quite, which is why I stopped short of drawing the link - although I do imply it. There are gems with low page count threads that simmer over time. Then there are threads that exist solely for the purpose of someone searching "rpg codex [GAME]" and getting a hit. Those threads have little to no user discussion but lots of PR posts.

It's like pornography, people know it when they see it. To write out rules clearly delineating it is pointless.

also: fallacy of those twitter/youtube/PR posts being informative and/or illuminating.

 

[gurugeorge]

What *is* new is the mindless, repetitive posting of tweets/youtubes/PRs in threads for games that have no discussion around them. That shit sucks, likely the product of poor taste and mental illness - much like anime. But what can we do about it?

Waitamiinit, aren't you contradicting yourself there? Surely you want there to be tweets/youtubes/PRs for the games that have no discussion around them, to bring more attention to them, since ex hypothesi they're the good games that aren't getting all the mouthbreather attention?

Not quite, which is why I stopped short of drawing the link - although I do imply it. There are gems with low page count threads that simmer over time. Then there are threads that exist solely for the purpose of someone searching "rpg codex [GAME]" and getting a hit. Those threads have little to no user discussion but lots of PR posts.

It's like pornography, people know it when they see it. To write out rules clearly delineating it is pointless.

also: fallacy of those twitter/youtube/PR posts being informative and/or illuminating.

Like any marketing, they don't have to be particularly illuminating or informative, they just have to remind you that they exist and how close they are to coming out.

 

[agris]

I think we're talking past each other gurugeorge.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

informational:
devlogs

not informational:
nearly everything else

 

[Gastrick]

You gotta understand that 3 places where now indie Devs interact with gamers are: Discord, Steam Forums and occasionally Twitter

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.

Can you link then, what discord channels they interact with gamers on. Edit: Also what you hope to accomplish by sending Codexers over.

 

[The Wall]

Eh, I got banned there last night. Hi-Hi

But this is invite link: https://discord.com/invite/56RFZTV

 

[Gastrick]

Eh, I got banned there last night. Hi-Hi

But this is invite link: https://discord.com/invite/56RFZTV

Just make an alt using this trick and larp as someone else. Also, I edited my earlier post.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

 

[Dhaze]

So I'm playing it right now, and it's hard to like; the thought of asking for a refund has crossed my mind.

I'm out of what I guess is the extended tutorial or prologue, that is I've come out of some manner of stasis.

The first thing I did was travel south to the Picnic Neutral Zone, what with it being the closest place that's not a death-sowed parking lot, and a place I had previously visited during the prologue. There, Paris Langley is the very first person I talk to.

Uh... So far I've emerged from underground, very much unseen, then promptly traveled 10km without meeting anyone, yet I'm already The One Who Wanders The Dome? How? Why? Because it's a video game, I guess, and I need to be The One and everybody needs to know about it straigth away, without the need for any fait d'armes on my part; I'm the animu protagonist with crazy colored hair, so you know I'm special.

Now, amongst other things my questlog indicates the following: "Something changed in the world, and now you are to find out what happened under the Dome, and to you, while you were in stasis." That's great, but in Picnic there's half a dozen people, and I don't have a single conversation option to ask what the fuck happened. To Old Melville, a character I had previously encountered, I can ask how his life is going, or remark that the station now reminds me of a settlement (it absolutely doesn't, but whatever), but I can't ask what the hell is going on. Same with other people in the area.

Worse, it seems my character already knows about the current state of things under the dome, someway, somehow. Behind the station, I meet this guy named Aaron Usman:

Ask him where the Phalanx gets its supplies? What the everliving fuck is the Phalanx? And why is my character talking about it with apparent familiarity?

It's as if the game skipped a whole bunch of script pages, leaving me to play with a character who knows more than I do, and certainly more than she has any means to. And I'm in the nearest populated place from the starting point, so it's not like I did something wacky, e.g. going from Klamath straigth to Navarro.

 

[Dhaze]

Ok, so I think it's fair to say this game does things in a bit of a weird way.

With a slightly better understanding of the leveling system and some mechanics, I quickly restarted with another character. Out of the prologue I emerge, and the first thing in my mind is to find answers and who better to give me these than Martin Kingsley, the man who sent me to the Nashville Facility where things took a turn for the worse.

Because all in all, Kingsley seems like a nice man. This is when I contacted him from inside Nashville mere moments before things went absolute fubar:

He's in a high position of power, yet still humble enough to recognize his mistakes and apologize for them. Good guy.

And because of this conversation when I was in some manner of projected ethereal stasis:

I'm pretty sure of where I can find him. Straight to Magellan then!

On the way there, I collapse to the floor and suffer a vision:

Well, Magellan lies to the northeast, so I'm on the right track.

There in Magellan, I swiftly apply for citizenship in order to access the buildings proper then take the elevator to the sixth floor, where I see this:

But the door to his office is locked, and the secretary doesn't like that I try to enter anyway.

So I talk to her.

This is ridiculous. I was at the very heart of the most catastrophic event recorded under the Dome, and I'm simply here to talk with the man who sent me there, but the game doesn't offer me a single option to actually talk.

How about, "Hey, two years ago your boss sent me to Nashville, and I'm fairly certain he might be interested to hear me talk about what happened." Just that, that would have been the simplest, most logical and basic conversation option. But no.

Worse is that I can't call to him through the door, despite the fact that a bit sooner, I could do that exact thing with a much less important character:

So what happened? Did the devs forget the good, simple, effective idea they implemented five minutes ago?

Fine then; I'll use the gaming world's best-designed stealth system to sneak by and lockpick my way to Kingsley:

For verily I have become shadows and air, and none who walks this earth possesses the means to perceive my presence. (in all seriousness, I've never seen such a bonkers stealth system; in fact there's not even a system, you can't invest points into stealth or something like that, it seems innate to every character that no matter what, once you're crouched people suddenly become blind beyond roughly two meters)

But once I'm inside the keen-eyed secretary promptly notices the door has been unlocked, and she starts looking around. Still I am utterly invisible, because I know how to crouch.

So I talk to Kingsley while his secretary searches around like the daft moron she is.

But as soon as my conversation with him is over, she notices me.

I mean, there's enough things I like that I'll probably play it to the end, but some design decisions are completely mental. I only hope the decline in quality further into the game is not so sudden and abrupt as I've been told.

 

[Saduj]

I mean, there's enough things I like that I'll probably play it to the end

Friendly warning: The latter parts of the game are much less polished than the earlier parts. The world only gets less "realistic" as you progress.