jackofshadows
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So I finished Olympus 2207, enjoyed it a lot. The ending was kinda underwhelming including the boss but still very in a vein of the original dilogy. Like I mentioned, my praise comes from the fact I don't mind at all constant random encounters, killing mobs at mass, selling loot etc. Picking heavy guns was the best decision since the game has plenty of them, introducing machineguns for other calibers, 308, .50 even. Flamethrowers are really, really strong as in the original games, stronger even. There's a new 40mm grenade-launcher also. So you just kill, kill, kill stuff and kill again. I like that.
I guess the devs increased encounters spam (though not by THAT much as you could think reading this) in order to compensate the amount of hand-made content. There's only like 6 relatively major settlements (including the biggest one, "Olympus" itself) and a handful of small locations, with a quest or two or none. At the same time there's a lot of work and passion put into those settlements, including tons of various NPC responses depending on your reputation with a settlement in question, various secrets like hidden ladders, loot (the loot negates by pressing left shift I guess they've added this highlighting feature later). And a good amount of quests and colorful NPCs. IIRC there's not a single quest of the "kill x things" type. It's all been carefully written into the setting. Although some of the ending quests don't make a lot of sense tbqh.
The important note is that this game was made by men (there's not a single female listed in the credits if I'm not mistaken) and obviously for men. You cannot even play by female and it was deliberate design decision, imagine that. You have like a female childhood friend (and possibly more) there, you have a whorehouse, a quest where you stay as a lookout while one raider from a gang is banging gang leader's chick! You can also blackmail some young beautiful scientist girl into coming down to some literal guard nigger and he fucking rapes her, gifting you an awesome pistol for that (also you receive significant -karma score). You can check up on the girl later too, she hates your guts, obviously. Scratch that, they replaced gambling skill with "Casanova" one where the starting value scales off... luck, I loled so hard. It allows the PC to bang certain female NPCs for no apparent benefit whatsoever as far as I can tell (I didn't invest in it, just loaded a game several times and set easy to check that so maybe later on there're benefits).
Unfortunately there's not a single mega-dungeon a la Glow or Mariposa, not even close. It's all small-scale but the core team consisted of 3 guys and it's still I'd say a very good game so small complaint here. Anyway, I've no idea what's there with the ENG translation so dunno whether to recommend this or not but I think it's worth a try anyway. Just remember that the prologue is very meh although it sets the right tone for the whole game.
The question is: what global mod I should play next? What's considered the best one also?
I guess the devs increased encounters spam (though not by THAT much as you could think reading this) in order to compensate the amount of hand-made content. There's only like 6 relatively major settlements (including the biggest one, "Olympus" itself) and a handful of small locations, with a quest or two or none. At the same time there's a lot of work and passion put into those settlements, including tons of various NPC responses depending on your reputation with a settlement in question, various secrets like hidden ladders, loot (the loot negates by pressing left shift I guess they've added this highlighting feature later). And a good amount of quests and colorful NPCs. IIRC there's not a single quest of the "kill x things" type. It's all been carefully written into the setting. Although some of the ending quests don't make a lot of sense tbqh.
The important note is that this game was made by men (there's not a single female listed in the credits if I'm not mistaken) and obviously for men. You cannot even play by female and it was deliberate design decision, imagine that. You have like a female childhood friend (and possibly more) there, you have a whorehouse, a quest where you stay as a lookout while one raider from a gang is banging gang leader's chick! You can also blackmail some young beautiful scientist girl into coming down to some literal guard nigger and he fucking rapes her, gifting you an awesome pistol for that (also you receive significant -karma score). You can check up on the girl later too, she hates your guts, obviously. Scratch that, they replaced gambling skill with "Casanova" one where the starting value scales off... luck, I loled so hard. It allows the PC to bang certain female NPCs for no apparent benefit whatsoever as far as I can tell (I didn't invest in it, just loaded a game several times and set easy to check that so maybe later on there're benefits).
Unfortunately there's not a single mega-dungeon a la Glow or Mariposa, not even close. It's all small-scale but the core team consisted of 3 guys and it's still I'd say a very good game so small complaint here. Anyway, I've no idea what's there with the ENG translation so dunno whether to recommend this or not but I think it's worth a try anyway. Just remember that the prologue is very meh although it sets the right tone for the whole game.
The question is: what global mod I should play next? What's considered the best one also?
