KickStarter Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones - a Lovecraftian Computer RPG

[Strange Fellow]

Characters in this game are pansies, people don't lose sanity so easily. Oh no, a dead horse! I'm fainting! This is not how humans work.

It wouldn't be Lovecraft if the characters didn't go nuts from the unspeakable awesome impossible eldritch terror of their own shadows.

 

[HoboForEternity]

also judging by the achievement, i really think i completely underestimate the depth of this game. it feels like AoD level replayability and the fact it's 20 hours long really helped. they really need to add faster mode for travelsal and combat and the game will be 100x better

 

[RNGsus]

Also encountered guy stuck doing black face for eternity and his friend Stinky in French Hills. Overall not too preachy attempt from devs to say "kiiidz black face is not ok, mkaaay". Ok, Lady Cthulu, we wooon't do it anymoar . . .

Why do they give a shit about niggers, I thought they were Turks?

Loading times are ass, and the overlay froze after my first combat, but its been fun otherwise. Decided to play as an explorer for dog companion. Also, they need to tone down the animations in combat, or let me click hexagons, because its annoying trying to click a bitch I need to shoot while they're dancing.

 

[Zombra]

lack of proper wiki is not allowing me to properly plan my character.
I want speech+sneak+subterfuge, hence either performer or gansta.
What i dont understand is how useful skills/attributes are.
I cant seem to find throwing weapons early, are they viable?
What sexappeal on movie actor does?
looks like i can be lax on attributes and max dex + cha even if i play old character. Does it make skills better for me?
Increasing CHA doesnt seem to change much, it claims to affect speechcraft but its not shown how?

You've already done way too much research. Just play the game, take abilities that sound cool or fit your concept, and make it work. No guides!

What is the most deus vult archetype in this game?
I think it will be fun to play zealous catholic who tries to purge anything touched by supernatural as heresy.

Definitely Occultist/Depraved/Divine.

 

[RegionalHobo]

I am a few hours in and it seems that range weapons are pretty useless. My female companion just spends the time sitting in the corner because of how low her weapon damage is. While my thug group beats the shit out of everything in front of them.

For the warehouse you could use occult check to make the ghouls kill each other. Also the last fight,the ambush is optional,you get some neat weapons from that crate tho.

Also the game runs perfectly fine on HDD ,the guy up there is just a retard or a troll lol.

You could open the safe and other shut boxes with a crowbar and athletics checks,you get the crowbar from the pawnshop,it is a weapon type.

Annoying thing i noticed is getting an insanity trait from nowhere. All that negative shit seems like forced shit to make it more "lovecraftian". It only messes up your screen and text during dialogue,it is just stupid mechanics.

yep as a ranged weapon user you have two choices:

keep shooting and miss a fuckton even with modded weapons

focus and shoot and do half the damage of a melee

focus has the potential to work better with heavy ap weapons but who knows

 

[hivemind]

Occultist/Depraved

Yeah, that fits catholicism all right

 

[filpan]

So, it sounds this game need patching, I guess I will wait until they fix it

 

[fantadomat]

So, it sounds this game need patching, I guess I will wait until they fix it

There is not much broken content,but it does need patching.

Characters in this game are pansies, people don't lose sanity so easily. Oh no, a dead horse! I'm fainting! This is not how humans work.

It wouldn't be Lovecraft if the characters didn't go nuts from the unspeakable awesome impossible eldritch terror of their own shadows.

Ahhh going down the street and just getting a notification that you are now sociopath or some other mental illness is retarded!

 

[GandGolf]

Occultist/Depraved

Yeah, that fits catholicism all right

As a Catholic myself I take offense at that remark!

 

[CryptRat]

Ahhh going down the street and just getting a notification that you are now sociopath or some other mental illness is retarded!

True that but theses mental ilnesses are cool, granted all these things don't come from somethinge else then besides adding a horror filter to the graphics and making you see illusion characters schizophrenia occasionally disables a dialog option and replaces it with some crazy boy line.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Can you not go back there after leveling up?

also not sure what max skill level is but the game says you can only max out skill levels of the skills associated with your archetype (3 of them)

yea that s why i picked the noble archetype, because of speech and got stuck with the butler lmao. then again i'm not 100% sure i can t dismiss him but i did not found the option.

as for going there later i guess it s possible but i needed the exp for one point in another skill to solve another wall in another quest

i guess stealth only counts in the MC just like crafting, which is bizarre since it s a starting skill for the outsider

But even Batman that is the greatest detective and a mighty ninja keeps his butler in service!

hey i'm not complaining the guy is hard carrying me. him as a full melee does at least double the damage my gunslinger do every fight, much better than alfred!

I don't understand this. There's no way the final room of the warehouse isn't optional. The three ghouls that exist at the start of the fight are bad enough, but 4 more just arrived? This is literally impossible...

Where the fuck is that crate?

yea i had a lot of '' fun '' doing that room

But is that where the transmitter is?

I remember i saw some part for the quest (transmitter maybe?) in the inventory of that junk merchant

 

[RNGsus]

Saduj is a pussy.

 

[fantadomat]

Ahhh going down the street and just getting a notification that you are now sociopath or some other mental illness is retarded!

True that but theses mental ilnesses are cool, granted all these things don't come from somethinge else then besides adding a horror filter to the graphics and making you see illusion characters schizophrenia occasionally disables a dialog option and replaces it with some crazy boy line.

Ahh you get the stupid text no matter the illness you get. I am sociopath and have the stupid text,it doesn't make sense.

 

[CryptRat]

Step 1 : crave for money (to be able and buy any food, ammos, medicines ...)
Step 2 : get some money.
Step 3 : Spend all the money on whatever garbage whose usefulness has yet to be proved with a cool description the next merchant has to sell.
-> Step 1.

All the fucking time.

 

[RegionalHobo]

anyone knows what s the filtering mechanism in the distilation machine?

 

[The Wall]

My first playthrough is with pre-made Private Eye. Fitting. I just developed addiction to tobacco. Fitting

So far game is great, except for rough edges like non-communicated time passage which makes paying henchmen/ food-sleep need managment very hard to track. Then again in this lost dimension watches are but jewellery and all time is up!

Yet I never got hungry nor sleepy as fast as my character in this game. Stygian already ate 6 hours of my real time

 

[fantadomat]

Step 1 : crave for money (to be able and buy any food, ammos, medicines ...)
Step 2 : get some money.
Step 3 : Spend all the money on whatever garbage whose usefulness has yet to be proved with a cool description the next merchant has to sell.
-> Step 1.

All the fucking time.

Ahhh i just bought a useless garbage that gave me +1 occult research,thinking that it will let me do two occult researches in one camping. It cost like 500 cigs and ended up useless also it pumped my angst up.

 

[Alienman]

Anyone know how to get more kerosene? I can't progress in the warehouse since I ran out. Nobody sells it either. I can see that the shop has some, at least as decoration... Also I noticed earlier I had a kerosene holder of some kind, but it disappeared somehow. I know it had a red icon.

Edit:

Yeah, almost forgot. Game seems a bit buggy.

I went into the warehouse with the fella that lost his horse. But I decided to go back out and get some more supplies and try to hire that muscle guy at the bar again. This broke my game somehow, or at least the guy mourning his horse:

He is following me everywhere now, and at times he turns into a giant

 

[RegionalHobo]

Anyone know how to get more kerosene? I can't progress in the warehouse since I ran out. Nobody sells it either. I can see that the shop has some, at least as decoration... Also I noticed earlier I had a kerosene holder of some kind, but it disappeared somehow. I know it was a red icon.

Edit:

Yeah, almost forgot. Game seems a bit buggy.

I went into the warehouse with the fella that lost his horse. But I decided to go back out and get some more supplies and try to hire that muscle guy at the bar again. This broke my game somehow, or at least the guy mourning his horse:

He is following me everywhere now, and at times he turns into a giant

that npc that sell itens on the street sells kerosene

 

[RegionalHobo]

fuck this game could at least tip where and what the fuck i need to use at the dist machine jesus

 

[Daedalos]

call me up when the combat is fixed, and has a fast mode

 

[Grauken]

Characters in this game are pansies, people don't lose sanity so easily. Oh no, a dead horse! I'm fainting! This is not how humans work.

Says the guy with over 400 people on ignore fearing for his sanity on the codex

 

[Ibn Sina]

Starting with the Royalty origin grants you your own personal butler right from the very beginning, a very useful muscleman with skills in firearms and melee and athleticism. He has his own dialogue and intervenes in conversations. He sponges and dishes all the damage while I focus on occultism and spellcasting. You can still hire the spainaired as he does not count as a companion and with the outsider you now have 3 henchmen doing all the work for you while you relax and read occult text. I have been cruising through the game so far with no real challenge. Also did I mention you start with extra money?

Now for a question: I dismissed the outsider to hire the dead animated solider but now I cannot find the outsider again, anyone know where he hangs out?

 

[RegionalHobo]

Starting with the Royalty origin grants you your own personal butler right from the very beginning, a very useful muscleman with skills in firearms and melee and athleticism. He has his own dialogue and intervenes in conversations. He sponges and dishes all the damage while I focus on occultism and spellcasting. You can still hire the spainaired as he does not count as a companion and with the outsider you now have 3 henchmen doing all the work for you while you relax and read occult text. I have been cruising through the game so far with no real challenge. Also did I mention you start with extra money?

Now for a question: I dismissed the outsider to hire the dead animated solider but now I cannot find the outsider again, anyone know where he hangs out?

that butler pretty much carried my useless gunslinger until i finally found a shotgun

 

[Ibn Sina]

Starting with the Royalty origin grants you your own personal butler right from the very beginning, a very useful muscleman with skills in firearms and melee and athleticism. He has his own dialogue and intervenes in conversations. He sponges and dishes all the damage while I focus on occultism and spellcasting. You can still hire the spainaired as he does not count as a companion and with the outsider you now have 3 henchmen doing all the work for you while you relax and read occult text. I have been cruising through the game so far with no real challenge. Also did I mention you start with extra money?

Now for a question: I dismissed the outsider to hire the dead animated solider but now I cannot find the outsider again, anyone know where he hangs out?

that butler pretty much carried my useless gunslinger until i finally found a shotgun

Do you know if you dismissed the outsider, where can you find him?