Wasteland inXile's Wasteland 1 Re-Release

[Cyberarmy]

I Must be bored, i'm reading steam forum for lulz.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/259130/discussions/0/648811670585447916/

That's where I get my daily commedy dose Pure entertainment.

 

[SwiftCrack]

I'm pretty sure that that steamthread is a Codex-alt trollfest

 

[Infinitron]

http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4918

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Playing the game now, and I already have to redo my party. I picked weapon skills like rifle, assault rifle and brawling but the party starts out with pistols. I figured it wouldn't be a big deal, but I was quite wrong. When I met a mutant dog near the start of the game, I found that my characters were unable to hit the creature with their weapons due to a lack of skill. The two brawler characters were able to punch it, but couldn't do enough damage to pierce its skin. The creature killed one of my characters by the time I hit it for 1 hp of damage. I decided to close out of the game and redo my party.

I'm actually more pleased than mad. I felt Darklands was pretty easy in the beginning despite what I had read about it, so I'm looking forward to a challenge. I think I'll take a longer amount of time rolling for characters in order to get some better stats and invest in some pistol skill points at the get go.

 

[FeelTheRads]

It's like that thing Infinitron was talking about.

 

[Sduibek]

When I downloaded and played the GOG version, it most definitely did not have paragraphs in the game. I still got "read paragraph 34". And most of the options in the retro-looking config utility didn't work at all.

I was ecstatic about the improvements I got to experience but surprised at the total lack of the other ones / broken ones. Testing before release is a good thing.

 

[Infinitron]

When I downloaded and played the GOG version, it most definitely did not have paragraphs on the fans. I still got "read paragraph 34".

Click the little book thingy next to that

 

[Deuce Traveler]

It's like that thing Infinitron was talking about.

I just rechecked the thread and the only comment from Infinitron that I saw on either difficulty, the first combat, skill sets, or pistols was this brief comment:

I don't think the game is particularly hard, but the interface has aged poorly. It was already archaic by the mid-90s, let alone today.

Did I miss something I should read or are you just being an illiterate putz?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Playing the game now, and I already have to redo my party. I picked weapon skills like rifle, assault rifle and brawling but the party starts out with pistols. I figured it wouldn't be a big deal, but I was quite wrong. When I met a mutant dog near the start of the game, I found that my characters were unable to hit the creature with their weapons due to a lack of skill. The two brawler characters were able to punch it, but couldn't do enough damage to pierce its skin. The creature killed one of my characters by the time I hit it for 1 hp of damage. I decided to close out of the game and redo my party.

Crowbars are your friends.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Did I miss something I should read or are you just being an illiterate putz?

Nah, just trolling Infinitron for his complaining about skills which are useless at the beginning of a game.

 

[Sduibek]

Did I miss something I should read or are you just being an illiterate putz?

Nah, just trolling Infinitron for his complaining about skills which are useless at the beginning of a game.

Heh, I'm pretty sure this issue exists in every RPG since ever.

 

[Sduibek]

When I downloaded and played the GOG version, it most definitely did not have paragraphs on the fans. I still got "read paragraph 34".

Click the little book thingy next to that

Gah, Damn, can't believe I didn't see that. That's still a pretty weird implementation though. Why give the button at all? It should, if full paragraphs in game are enabled, only show the whole paragraph, and just have a heading of "Paragraph ###". Having to expand it is stupid. I don't get it. Maybe just limitations of them not having the source code :\

Reminds me of places like Stack Exchange where the New Post button is this tiny hidden thing at the bottom. If we have enabled full paragraphs, display the fucking paragraph, not a shitty link that at first glance appears exactly the samedas the original functionality.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

To me it was pretty clear what the book button does.

 

[Sduibek]

Shrug. All I know is I enabled the paragraphs in game option and it still said "Read Paragraph 34" and that was it. I didn't look for a button or icon because I assumed if it still gave that generic message, the functionality wasn't working. Which I honestly think is the rational/intuitive assumption, but meh.

 

[Crane]

I never played Wasteland, but I'm pretty into old RPGs and shit. Is Wasteland worth playing? How long is it?

 

[Sensuki]

Pretty sure that steam forum thread is going to spawn a meme for achivmentations

 

[Sduibek]

Pretty sure that steam forum thread is going to spawn a meme for achivmentations

"achivmentations" gets no results on Google. We must fix this.

 

[Sensuki]

This was my first thought. Someone will do better no doubt.

 

[TheEntitledOne]

Made it to Vegas at last, fuck robots.
Last time I played I got stuck fighting furry animals with catapults. I stopped playing thinking the game was silly. Good thing that shit gets serious soon.

 

[Sduibek]

Made it to Vegas at last, fuck robots.
Last time I played I got stuck fighting furry animals with catapults. I stopped playing thinking the game was silly. Good thing that shit gets serious soon.

Actually shit continues to be silly AND serious. One of the many great things about Wasteland.

 

[MicoSelva]

I never played Wasteland, but I'm pretty into old RPGs and shit. (...) How long is it?

http://www.howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=11098

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I didn't look for a button or icon because

Wait, you didn't notice the book icon that looks completely different than the rest of the interface?

 

[Bah]

I didn't look for a button or icon because

Wait, you didn't notice the book icon that looks completely different than the rest of the interface?

That book icon doesn't always show up. I've run into at least two paragraphs with no book icon to popup the text box with voice-over. Unfortunately, while steam has been patched to fix a lot of this, it still appears that the GOG version has not.

 

[Crane]

I never played Wasteland, but I'm pretty into old RPGs and shit. (...) How long is it?

http://www.howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=11098

If I could brofist your post, I would. That's awesome that a site like that exists.

 

[Sduibek]

I didn't look for a button or icon because

Wait, you didn't notice the book icon that looks completely different than the rest of the interface?

That book icon doesn't always show up. I've run into at least two paragraphs with no book icon to popup the text box with voice-over. Unfortunately, while steam has been patched to fix a lot of this, it still appears that the GOG version has not.

This is probably what happened then. I was playing the GOG version. Considering I've played Wasteland like 50 times, I'm pretty sure I should have noticed a new icon/button thing I mean I saw the one in inventory screen that gives manual text. And, I also was just testing the game for less than 30 minutes so I only encountered 1 or 2 "read paragraph blah" entries, so it's entirely possible those 1 or 2 are the bugged ones.