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STASIS |OT| An isometric sci-fi horror adventure game inspired by Alien & Sanitarium
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thehillissilent
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If I remembering right,
you will need to open up the furnace and run out of there quickly before you burn to death. This will melt the ice in the morgue and I think the slabs will open. There is something on one of the slabs that you need for the tram.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
This is out? Fuuuuuuck yes I know what I'm doing this weekend
jhmtehgamr20xx
Banned
But it being full 3D or 2D doesn't inherently change the quality of the game. It'd still have the same writing, same voice acting, same puzzles etc.
I respect what the devs have done here; it's inspired me to try getting familiar with the engine/framework they used for my own pursuits, and if nothing else serves as a testament to what that engine/framework can handle. I've barely scratched the surface of the game myself but I don't regret buying the thing; there's something wholesome and oddly comforting in the way it's been built and presented that making it a full-blown 3D release would have lost.
That being said anything is possible with a sequel or spiritual follow-up.
More_Badass
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I believe the dev wants to do a cyberpunk noir game
More_Badass
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jhmtehgamr20xx
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Like Blade Runner? I've heard great stuff about that game fwiw; everyone seems to have wanted a spiritual successor to that.
As far as I know, there isn't much that you can miss out on in your playthrough. It is rather straight-forward.
wanderingprostheyltite
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I played tons of adventure games back in the day but never got good at them, and that's rearing its head again now xD
Stuck at
Stuck at
biometric scanner for morgue I'm assuming? Any ideas? Also no idea what to do at the train, inside of it or how to get those wire panels off.
More_Badass
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You should have a glass shard in your inventory. And the biometric scanner needs a handprint to work
Hey guys, love the game so far, but now I'm stuck at the
Help would be appreciated.
clone vat. I took the drill to the electrical pole, then pried it up with the crowbar and now it has some exposed cables. The thing is, no matter what I do or whatever items I try to use on any item in any room between the tram and the clone vat, I just can't seem to continue.
Help would be appreciated.
Get the tape you took down, to enter the next room, after the tram fell down and tie it together with the crowbar.
More_Badass
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Grab the Do Not Cross tape from near the tram crash, combine it with the crowbar to make a grapple hook, and drag the dead body that's in the vat towards you.
That should put you on the right track
wanderingprostheyltite
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Thanks, figured I had to use that but didn't work on the
bodies around the scanner, shoulda noticed the twitching arm on the other level as a hint
wanderingprostheyltite
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This game has a remarkable atmosphere, one of the best in recent memory, which is saying something about an isometric game in 2015. That said, egads I wish there wasn't so much VO between the main character and that girl, spoils the feeling of isolation and negates a bit of the horror imo. The most effective parts are during silence.
and I feel it's effective due to during its first sighting your character mostly shuts the hell up. Considering this is an indie game though, it's truly incredible what they've achieved here.
That initial sighting of the vat and seeing all the semi formed bodies writhing around in it is some of the best bits of atmospheric horror I've seen in ages,
Phat Michael
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this looks amazing,. Might have to pick this up along with the new shadowrun this weekend.
too many games on too many systems :/
too many games on too many systems :/
Agreed. There are moments in the game where hearing the character reacting to the horror around him actually diluted the expeiece for me.
Again though its mind blowing what a small team has achieved here, with a small budget to boot.
Chris_Bischoff
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c:\users\username\appdata\local\The Brotherhood\Stasis\Savegames
Extra Sauce
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Pandorum was a great sci-fi mystery hidden under a crust of bad filmmaking.
RPGCrazied
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So, I'm stuck near the beginning.
The room with the radio, I got the broken glass, and the rag from the bathroom. Can't seem to open the elevator, and the only other room has a pda that I've looked at a few times already.
More_Badass
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Need to reset the security alert. There's another room with storage tanks, have you checked out that area?
jhmtehgamr20xx
Banned
Like the poster above said,
reset the security alert. You need to falsify a leak. And you need the needle drill from the robotic arm to do so.
drangleic tourism
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So I somehow missed Sanitarium on its release. Stasis was pretty great overall, maybe I should make some time this month for Sanitarium next?
I'll be playing SOMA on release too...not a P&C game, but loving the sci fi horror vibe this month.
I'll be playing SOMA on release too...not a P&C game, but loving the sci fi horror vibe this month.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Absolutely, one of the best pnc games I played in the 90s (and I played a lot of em). Visuals obviously aren't as nice as Stasis' art and backgrounds but it's still great. It's on gog and steam iirc.
drangleic tourism
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How Long To Beat is saying like 6-8 hrs to complete. Maybe I can squeeze it in on the weekend. I got through Stasis in a couple marathon sessions(well for me, marathon is anything over an hour or two now).
And it's definitely on GOG.
Pilgrimzero
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Looks like this game may be to tough for me. I can't even get passed the first area. Have an empty syringe and a drill. Can't figure out what to do next.
If I can't even get passed the start, no idea how I'll figure out the more advanced stuff later.
If I can't even get passed the start, no idea how I'll figure out the more advanced stuff later.
Played it a bit and got a refund.
It didn't have the classic Mark Morgan sound, sadly - very cliche modern teen horror music sometimes and I couldn't stand it. The ui is not the best imo - the mouse over text is at the bottom of the screen in tiny font, the computers you interact with are the same sized font but on colored and textures backgrounds. The animation is very amateurish, with no transitional animations for when you turn your character - not a huge problem for games that have low number of animation cycle frames but in this one there is a jarring imbalance. The voice over is excessive but only because the acting sounds off or like some voices were recorded in different rooms.
Nice try but I'll go with something else. And I don't get the marketing text: " STASIS is a point-and-click, sci-fi, horror adventure game played from a unique isometric perspective." Since when is isometric unique?
It didn't have the classic Mark Morgan sound, sadly - very cliche modern teen horror music sometimes and I couldn't stand it. The ui is not the best imo - the mouse over text is at the bottom of the screen in tiny font, the computers you interact with are the same sized font but on colored and textures backgrounds. The animation is very amateurish, with no transitional animations for when you turn your character - not a huge problem for games that have low number of animation cycle frames but in this one there is a jarring imbalance. The voice over is excessive but only because the acting sounds off or like some voices were recorded in different rooms.
Nice try but I'll go with something else. And I don't get the marketing text: " STASIS is a point-and-click, sci-fi, horror adventure game played from a unique isometric perspective." Since when is isometric unique?
I think what that sentence is trying to get across is that point-and-click adventure games aren't typically played from an isometric perspective, not that STASIS invented the entire concept. You can kind of tell because the marketing text doesn't then go on to explain the term "isometric perspective" as though it were obviously something the reader had never heard of. Also there's like a dozen genres that typically feature isometric perspectives, most of them over a decade old, so it would be excessively vainglorious even for marketing lingo to try and make the claim of having invented it.
Without spoiling anything, what kind of bug is it?
wanderingprostheyltite
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Yeah probably the biggest oversight about it, and considering a lot of it is reading pda logs I can't understand why they don't include an option to increase it in settings. I sit about 5-8 feet away from my display (tv) and it's a heckuva strain trying to read everything, I've even started skipping some of them due to it. Needs a patch!
Yeah im a comfy couch tv user too and its a bit tough on the eyes to read the text. Hoping to play some more this weekend. Launching at the same time of MGS V is a killer.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Couch PC gaming is king
I'm holding off on MGS, bummed to hear how sparse the story is and how grindy it seems to be, not really the kind of game I'm looking for right now. Think my money for rest of September is going to Mario Maker and Soma.
It's at the end of a puzzle solving sequence with some story moments after. The game doesn't load up the last segment of the story moments and just kind hangs there if you don't cap your refresh rate. Can't access menu or move mouse or anything, have to alt tab and kill the process.
Picked this up on a bit of a whim, but also on the strength of a few words here and there. Helps it is nice and cheap too.
Having just completed The Fall and The Swapper, I think this will make for a nice follow-up! Any idea how long it is, approximately? HLTB doesn't have a proper entry just yet.
Having just completed The Fall and The Swapper, I think this will make for a nice follow-up! Any idea how long it is, approximately? HLTB doesn't have a proper entry just yet.