Wasteland Wasteland 2 Thread - Director's Cut

[Vault Dweller]

Sorry for being lazy and not reading through tons of posts, but anyone willing to give some feedback on how's the game? I'm thinking about buying it in two weeks or so but GabeN stole too much money from me recently so decided to stick to more, ahem, informed purchases.

Obviously there's plenty of stuff on the net to read through but I'm specifically interested in how does the Kodex Kritical Konsensus feel about this one.

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,4787.0.html
^ love it and recommend without reservations

 

[Monocause]

Sorry for being lazy and not reading through tons of posts, but anyone willing to give some feedback on how's the game? I'm thinking about buying it in two weeks or so but GabeN stole too much money from me recently so decided to stick to more, ahem, informed purchases.

Obviously there's plenty of stuff on the net to read through but I'm specifically interested in how does the Kodex Kritical Konsensus feel about this one.

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,4787.0.html
^ love it and recommend without reservations

Brilliant, cheers! Gonna read through that in a bit.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

MCA on his work on W2:

- Providing what templates and design formats I could for area design and reactivity.

- Writing the vision document for the game (which we shared with the public) incorporating all the design pillars that Fargo and inXile wanted the game to embrace. This was pretty terrifying since I wasn’t sure how it would be received.

- Pitching in on the story design meetings.

- Organizing a small area design team (Team Tony) composed of a former programmer I worked with, Anthony Davis (and now work with again at Obsidian), and a former co-designer, Tony Evans, who I worked with on Knights of the Old Republic II, NWN2, NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer, and more… including Torment: Tides of Numenera (which I’ll go into more depth about below) to help develop the southern ruins of Los Angeles.

- Designing the maps, quests, monsters, and encounters for several locations (and sometimes variations of the same location depending on reactivity): Highpool, Agricultural Center, Seal Beach, and an additional area. To give credit where credit was due, the actual dialogue for the first two areas were done by two designers: Nathan Long (who I am also working with on Torment: Tides of Numenera) and Patrick McLean – I was responsible for doing a great deal of what I did in Fallout 2, which was to design isometric areas, quests, etc. Nathan did dialogue for the Ag Center, and Patrick did Highpool.

- Also, writing a WL2 novel as well. Phew.

source: http://www.scriptsandscribes.com/2014/09/qa-with-chris-avellone/

 

[Infinitron]

Sorry for being lazy and not reading through tons of posts, but anyone willing to give some feedback on how's the game? I'm thinking about buying it in two weeks or so but GabeN stole too much money from me recently so decided to stick to more, ahem, informed purchases.

Obviously there's plenty of stuff on the net to read through but I'm specifically interested in how does the Kodex Kritical Konsensus feel about this one.

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,4787.0.html
^ love it and recommend without reservations

Does that mean you can do our review now?

 

[bonescraper]

MCA on his work on W2:

- Providing what templates and design formats I could for area design and reactivity.

- Writing the vision document for the game (which we shared with the public) incorporating all the design pillars that Fargo and inXile wanted the game to embrace. This was pretty terrifying since I wasn’t sure how it would be received.

- Pitching in on the story design meetings.

- Organizing a small area design team (Team Tony) composed of a former programmer I worked with, Anthony Davis (and now work with again at Obsidian), and a former co-designer, Tony Evans, who I worked with on Knights of the Old Republic II, NWN2, NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer, and more… including Torment: Tides of Numenera (which I’ll go into more depth about below) to help develop the southern ruins of Los Angeles.

- Designing the maps, quests, monsters, and encounters for several locations (and sometimes variations of the same location depending on reactivity): Highpool, Agricultural Center, Seal Beach, and an additional area. To give credit where credit was due, the actual dialogue for the first two areas were done by two designers: Nathan Long (who I am also working with on Torment: Tides of Numenera) and Patrick McLean – I was responsible for doing a great deal of what I did in Fallout 2, which was to design isometric areas, quests, etc. Nathan did dialogue for the Ag Center, and Patrick did Highpool.

- Also, writing a WL2 novel as well. Phew.

source: http://www.scriptsandscribes.com/2014/09/qa-with-chris-avellone/

Looks like he didn't work on the best areas then. Rodia and Angel Oracle are fantastic. This is not our "New Reno" Avellone.

 

[Ivan]

Holy Shit LA is amazing. Definitely Fallout 1 caliber.

Spoiler

Made it to Pete's town. Refused to coff up ammo to gain entry, shot the whole place up. Reloaded save just to see what I missed out. HOLY SHIT. So much content!

 

[Grunker]

Sorry for being lazy and not reading through tons of posts, but anyone willing to give some feedback on how's the game? I'm thinking about buying it in two weeks or so but GabeN stole too much money from me recently so decided to stick to more, ahem, informed purchases.

Obviously there's plenty of stuff on the net to read through but I'm specifically interested in how does the Kodex Kritical Konsensus feel about this one.

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,4787.0.html
^ love it and recommend without reservations

Does that mean you can do our review now?

 

[mutonizer]

Rodia and Angel Oracle are fantastic[..]

Hmm, crap...really?
Arrived at Rodia gates, saw some crazies, killed everyone involved.
Arrived at Angel Oracle, saw some crazies, killed everyone involved.
...
Rodia "normals" were nice though, was glad to finally meet some normal folks, living decent lives and all. Doc ALMOST ate one when he started dicking around with cat litter but managed to control myself long enough.

Really need to replay this game so drunk I laugh when anyone says "fart" or something...

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Love this game..

Starting to HATE STEAM with a passion though, not sure why this is considered more 'user friendly'.

Here is my current steam rage problem. I started to try and play wasteland 2 and steam informed me there was an update patch. Yeah, a patch! So it begins downloading and my computer starts to freeze up, the download times says there is 15-19 minutes left, but as my computer slows down it turns into hours etc..finally it freezes and I have to restart the computer and the patch was only about 15% downloaded. So I restart the computer and restart steam and try to load wasteland 2 again so it can finish patching. (the setting is on 'always keep game updated BTW)...well the game loads this time without anymore downloading or patching, I am thinking it can't possibly be downloaded since it said there was 15-20 minutes left on the download when it froze up and I turned the computer off and back on and immediately tried to run the game to finish the patch only a few minutes later. But the game does not seem to be updating or patching, nor does steam seem to think I need to patch it now...problem is I have no idea, there is no version number in the wasteland 2 startup screen, or credits or anywhere I can see. On steam I can't find a version number, nor can I see anyway to know if its actually patched.

I click wasteland 2 game update history and it tells me all about the new patch, but I have no idea if it applied to my game or not and to me it seems impossible it could have finished patching since it froze up with 15 minutes left on the download and I restarted the computer and its only 2 minutes later. I guess the new shit is to just assume 'THE STEAM' has it all under control and not to worry about what version it is or if it applied or not because THE STEAM has it all covered, but the problem is I can't understand how the patch might of installed in this instance and so much information is hidden from me and there is no way to just go download a patch off the internet and apply it to my game since it has to work through steam and so I am left with the option of just assuming THE STEAM just never fucks up and its all working, but I hate that shit..


Second of all, what does 'backup files' on Steam mean? Does this mean can 'backup' my files and play my game without the internet? Does it mean there is some way to actually install the en tire game on my computer using the 'backup files' utility? I don't know what 'backup files' means or why I would want to do it. I read about it on steam help and its still unclear what it is or why I would want to do it. If it means it installs all the files on my computer so I don't need a steam connection then I think it should be called something else, like 'full install', because 'backup files' to me means just making a copy of files I already have on my computer, and I don't see the need to do this. So maybe 'backup' means full instal, and that would be cool, but I don't actually know. Thanks STEAM for making my gaming experience so much more user friendly. The problem with steam to me seems to be they try to anticipate how stupid people think about computers or something, but in the process they actually have made the entire experience more confusing and opaque for other types of users.

 

[Infinitron]

Love this game..

Starting to HATE STEAM with a passion though, not sure why this is considered more 'user friendly'.

Here is my current steam rage problem. I started to try and play wasteland 2 and steam informed me there was an update patch. Yeah, a patch! So it begins downloading and my computer starts to freeze up, the download times says there is 15-19 minutes left, but as my computer slows down it turns into hours etc..finally it freezes and I have to restart the computer and the patch was only about 15% downloaded. So I restart the computer and restart steam and try to load wasteland 2 again so it can finish patching. (the setting is on 'always keep game updated BTW)...well the game loads this time without anymore downloading or patching, I am thinking it can't possibly be downloaded since it said there was 15-20 minutes left on the download when it froze up and I turned the computer off and back on and immediately tried to run the game to finish the patch only a few minutes later. But the game does not seem to be updating or patching, nor does steam seem to think I need to patch it now...problem is I have no idea, there is no version number in the wasteland 2 startup screen, or credits or anywhere I can see. On steam I can't find a version number, nor can I see anyway to know if its actually patched.

I click wasteland 2 game update history and it tells me all about the new patch, but I have no idea if it applied to my game or not and to me it seems impossible it could have finished patching since it froze up with 15 minutes left on the download and I restarted the computer and its only 2 minutes later. I guess the new shit is to just assume 'THE STEAM' has it all under control and not to worry about what version it is or if it applied or not because THE STEAM has it all covered, but the problem is I can't understand how the patch might of installed in this instance and so much information is hidden from me and there is no way to just go download a patch off the internet and apply it to my game since it has to work through steam and so I am left with the option of just assuming THE STEAM just never fucks up and its all working, but I hate that shit..


Second of all, what does 'backup files' on Steam mean? Does this mean can 'backup' my files and play my game without the internet? Does it mean there is some way to actually install the en tire game on my computer using the 'backup files' utility? I don't know what 'backup files' means or why I would want to do it. I read about it on steam help and its still unclear what it is or why I would want to do it. If it means it installs all the files on my computer so I don't need a steam connection then I think it should be called something else, like 'full install', because 'backup files' to me means just making a copy of files I already have on my computer, and I don't see the need to do this. So maybe 'backup' means full instal, and that would be cool, but I don't actually know. Thanks STEAM for making my gaming experience so much more user friendly. The problem with steam to me seems to be they try to anticipate how stupid people think about computers or something, but in the process they actually have made the entire experience more confusing and opaque for other types of users.

Right click game --> Properties --> Local Files --> Verify Integrity of Game Cache

I believe backing up is meant for transferring your game to another computer with Steam installed.

You're welcome.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Sorry for being lazy and not reading through tons of posts, but anyone willing to give some feedback on how's the game? I'm thinking about buying it in two weeks or so but GabeN stole too much money from me recently so decided to stick to more, ahem, informed purchases.

Obviously there's plenty of stuff on the net to read through but I'm specifically interested in how does the Kodex Kritical Konsensus feel about this one.

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,4787.0.html
^ love it and recommend without reservations

Does that mean you can do our review now?

Sure. Should I start working on it or do you want to discuss it with the other admins first?

 

[Infinitron]

Sorry for being lazy and not reading through tons of posts, but anyone willing to give some feedback on how's the game? I'm thinking about buying it in two weeks or so but GabeN stole too much money from me recently so decided to stick to more, ahem, informed purchases.

Obviously there's plenty of stuff on the net to read through but I'm specifically interested in how does the Kodex Kritical Konsensus feel about this one.

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,4787.0.html
^ love it and recommend without reservations

Does that mean you can do our review now?

Sure. Should I start working on it or do you want to discuss it with the other admins first?

Crooked Bee LET'S DISCUSS

 

[Crooked Bee]

OKAY

(I mean, what is there to discuss? Just let VD start working on it. )

 

[Infinitron]

Vault Dweller Our discussion has concluded. Finish the game, a few times if need be, and get started.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Awesome.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Love this game..

Starting to HATE STEAM with a passion though, not sure why this is considered more 'user friendly'.

Right click game --> Properties --> Local Files --> Verify Integrity of Game Cache

I believe backing up is meant for transferring your game to another computer with Steam installed.

You're welcome.

Awesome! That worked, and is now finishing the uncompleted update! Thanks bro!



I guess I am just a moron at this Steam shit..thanks for the help.

 

[bonescraper]

Rodia and Angel Oracle are fantastic[..]

Hmm, crap...really?
Arrived at Rodia gates, saw some crazies, killed everyone involved.
Arrived at Angel Oracle, saw some crazies, killed everyone involved.
...
Rodia "normals" were nice though, was glad to finally meet some normal folks, living decent lives and all. Doc ALMOST ate one when he started dicking around with cat litter but managed to control myself long enough.

Really need to replay this game so drunk I laugh when anyone says "fart" or something...

The Mannerites aren't that extreme tbh. They provide decent quatily of life and very good protection. I fucking loved them, it's like... Vault City meets Demolition Man? :D

Spoiler

And you can fix some of their more extreme habits (there are some lvl 10 ass skill checks though). There's also some faction rivlalry going on there, with cool outcomes.

 

[mutonizer]

The Mannerites aren't that extreme tbh. They provide decent quatily of life and very good protection. I fucking loved them, it's like... Vault City meets Demolition Man? :D

!!??

Spoiler

The dudes at the gate, when I came to investigate a "human existence threatening robot invasion", asked me about how to hold a frikkin fork or something then refused me access!

Spoiler

And they eat people! Or something I'm not sure, but I found evidence of that later on...or something

Spoiler

And it looked like a fun fight about to happen, what with an army of energy weapon dudes in full power armor. Was a bit tedious in the end though, but good fun at the start. There are LOTS of dudes in there

 

[bonescraper]

Uh, you don't know how to hold a fork? :p

Spoiler

They eat humat flesh, but you're there to bring civilization, peace and prosperity, right? BTW, you missed for example a decent investigation quest. And depending on who you side with, you can visit places you otherwise wouldn't see.

 

[J_C]

Borked GOG patch confirmed. It downloads and installs allright but trying to load a save hangs the progress bar half way through.

Fucking fantastic.

Exact same thing happened. Great programming skills Inxile. So, uninstalling whole game, reinstall, which - the game being 21 GB - will take 30 minutes. Great.

 

[cvv]

The Mannerites aren't that extreme tbh.

Well, compared to jesus freaks that fuck, steal and kill for pleasure, fascist cyborg cult and a lunatic that wants to EXTERMINATE!1!1! everything...yeah, they're not that bad.

Borked GOG patch confirmed. It downloads and installs allright but trying to load a save hangs the progress bar half way through.

Fucking fantastic.

Exact same thing happened. Great programming skills Inxile.

Seems it's a problem on GOG's end. Something with their idiotic patching system.

 

[Baron Dupek]

It was all lies
http://steamcommunity.com/app/240760/discussions/0/613937306674352565/

Hope no save broke this time.

 

[J_C]

The Mannerites aren't that extreme tbh.

Well, compared to jesus freaks that fuck, steal and kill for pleasure, fascist cyborg cult and a lunatic that wants to EXTERMINATE!1!1! everything...yeah, they're not that bad.

Borked GOG patch confirmed. It downloads and installs allright but trying to load a save hangs the progress bar half way through.

Fucking fantastic.

Exact same thing happened. Great programming skills Inxile.

Seems it's a problem on GOG's end. Something with their idiotic patching system.

In that case, mea culpa inxile, it is not your fault. You still suck at programming though.

 

[Cazzeris]

The patch from GOG worked perfectly for me.

 

[Grunker]

Awesome.

I thought you had reservations n' shit?

(glad that you're reviewing this, it is as it should be)