Raptomex
Member
I agree with this. It has a brutal feel but it's never physically made me sick to my stomach or anything. The game is bizarre and I love it.
Ok. I didn't try
throwing shit at her
I always get sniped with something or chopped up
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microtubule
Member
Cactus really has found the magic at making something off the wall enjoyable. Thanks for the link!
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I think what does it for me is the fact that when I play the game I:
1) have been drinking
2) play in a pitch-black room, and
3) play for an extended period of time
It takes a little bit, but the game really gets to ya if you play it like that. Or at least... that was the case for me.
Johnlenham
Member
After awhile just get in this zone of the pounding music repeating over and over and trying to do stupid stuff like drill as many people as possible.
notoriousKTR
Member
Ugh, Patrick is playing way to methodical. He is gonna shoot himself in the head in later levels if he continues to play like that.
Aye, needs to loosen up, move quickly, use lock on, and throw every single weapon he has. Just look at the end when he says 'sod it' and goes on a rampage. Suddenly doing a whole lot better and beats the floor. Shame they didn't get to the mini-boss though, that would have been amusing to watch.
Nihilistic Monk
Member
I think
the coma bit is spot on. He's remembering how all this came about. Interestingly enough, in the ending they mention how they force people to work for them and the violence comes from that... Then they start to enjoy it. You rescue the girl early on, and there's references to breaking up with a girlfriend. My theory is that this woman possibly IS his girlfriend, and that was how he was forced into all this in the first place. At first he obviously doesn't want to do this. He throws up in the first mission after all.
tsunami643
Member
Wow I just started using the scroll-button lock-on and everything is a million times easier. Throwing items is actually useful rather than a massive gambit. Made the
a million times easier.
It would be glorious to see some Steam Workshop integration with a level creator on this.
biker level
It would be glorious to see some Steam Workshop integration with a level creator on this.
Raptomex
Member
Yes. That's what I've been saying. No idea if the game was made easily moddable, though.
rosaceadude2112
Member
So I managed to play this for about 10 minutes before it crashed. Now whenever I try to launch it, it either crashes on startup or the music doesn't play.
Raptomex
Member
Are you playing through Steam?
rosaceadude2112
Member
Nah, GOG. Guess I'll try reinstalling and restarting.
Raptomex
Member
Oh. Not sure then. Hopefully the patch will be out soon if not already.
Does this happen after you enable Steam? I get an error if I hit "yes" then some error message then I abort and there's no Sound. If I don't enable Steam it's fine.
Dog Problems
Banned
Not yet. Developer on the Steam discussion area said it would be there sometime tonight.
I've gotten the error message, but it sometimes happens regardless of which I pick. And in both I can hear no sound...uninstalled and redownloading now.
Raptomex
Member
Good lord. Didn't they say yesterday it would be released overnight?
The day it was released my game was fine. Then yesterday for some reason I had the error/sound issue.
Dog Problems
Banned
That, or early in the morning.
Raptomex
Member
Or tonight evidently.
Beat the game earlier today and then started speedrunning earlier levels.
MAN, this game really blossoms when you've gotten accustomed to everything and can just start blowing through the levels with quick thinking and reflexes. I feel like a total badass blowing through hordes of white-suited thugs with ease now, smoothly flowing from one takedown to the next. After it's all said and done, I'm standing in a room covered in corpses and viscera, wearing a unicorn mask.
The glitches annoyed me on my first playthrough, but the core gameplay is ace. I would KILL for some kind of level editor functionality to be integrated in the future. Leaderboards would be nice too.
MAN, this game really blossoms when you've gotten accustomed to everything and can just start blowing through the levels with quick thinking and reflexes. I feel like a total badass blowing through hordes of white-suited thugs with ease now, smoothly flowing from one takedown to the next. After it's all said and done, I'm standing in a room covered in corpses and viscera, wearing a unicorn mask.
The glitches annoyed me on my first playthrough, but the core gameplay is ace. I would KILL for some kind of level editor functionality to be integrated in the future. Leaderboards would be nice too.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Hmm, can't even start it. I get the splash screen as it's loading up on Steam and then I just get a black screen.
Tried running it by itself without Steam and I had the same result.
Uninstalled the redist and uninstalled/reinstalled the game and still getting the black screen.
Tried running it by itself without Steam and I had the same result.
Uninstalled the redist and uninstalled/reinstalled the game and still getting the black screen.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Small team and they can't afford to test on a plethora of different PC configs?
I'm trying to be patient here. I can't get past the splash screen before my screen goes black.
Apparently one of the tricks is to turn of the Print Spooler service... What libraries are they using that would conflict with that?
I looked in the steamapps folder. There's a readme.txt file about what to do if you have the error message popping up at runtime, but it wants me to install one of the files in the redist folder, but there's only one folder, and it just installs the Visual C++ Redistributable thing that gets installed when you run the game from Steam. Doesn't seem like there's an apparent solution. And yeah you're right, I probably should not have been so hasty. Just sucks paying for something on a college budget and having it not working.
notoriousKTR
Member
Update is out.
Dog Problems
Banned
Damnit, controller support wasn't fixed in this update and should be there in the next.
I hope this fixes my no music problem!
Edit: it doesn't.
Edit of the edit: Tried restarting the PC after the patch, now the music works and it's GODDAMN AMAZING!
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Finished the game earlier today. All in all, fantastic stuff. I didn't even mind the stealth level, honestly... cuz the whole game was centered around stealth to an extent, anyway.
Think I'll go back and look for secrets and shit since... I want more. That's not a knock against the game's length -- it was just about right. It's just that it's some pretty addictive stuff.
Think I'll go back and look for secrets and shit since... I want more. That's not a knock against the game's length -- it was just about right. It's just that it's some pretty addictive stuff.
matthewrex
Member
Saw the the soundtrack on SoundCloud but is there a way to download the sountrack in MP3/FLAC outside of the .oggs included with the game?
So what was the actual way to beat the
? My stupid ass solution was to
No way that was the intended solution though.
That last boss was the only part of the game I didn't enjoy, besides that awful awful stealth mission. What were they thinking with that? Maybe my game was bugged, but I could not go anywhere without behind detected once I picked up that piece of paper in the room above the one you start in.The only way I got past it was because the game glitched out or something, and despite the getting-caught message popping up, I was still able to move, and just walked out. I must have gotten caught 40 fucking times.
uzi guy
throw the thing at the girl so she was in the crawling state, then I just went around and threw the 3 glass shards behind one of the pieces of cover, then waited for her to crawl to me to finish it. The uzi guy was easy as hell then, since I just sat behind cover and threw glass at him when he reloaded.
That last boss was the only part of the game I didn't enjoy, besides that awful awful stealth mission. What were they thinking with that? Maybe my game was bugged, but I could not go anywhere without behind detected once I picked up that piece of paper in the room above the one you start in.The only way I got past it was because the game glitched out or something, and despite the getting-caught message popping up, I was still able to move, and just walked out. I must have gotten caught 40 fucking times.
I feel the same way, both the music and the eerie/surreal tone. Super love this game, gets my heart pumpin!
PaineReign
Neo Member
Amazing game so far. It is so consistent in its tone (visually, musically, and through the gameplay) that you can't help but love it.
It just feels good to fight, the combat is really responsive and when you see enemies hit a wall it feels so satisfying.
The music is SO GOOD!
It just feels good to fight, the combat is really responsive and when you see enemies hit a wall it feels so satisfying.
The music is SO GOOD!
Raptomex
Member
Take the knives then chop off his arms then execute him
I just beat this game tonight. What a great game. The story is still weird and I have no idea
what the motive behind any of this really was.
cleaning guy
I loved seeing him in one of the earlier chapters just grinning at you all covert
he was involved somehow
Regarding the ending,
as bike-helmet dude, I don't buy that you put jacket-guy in a coma and most of the middle game is jacket-guy's coma. When you play the mission from helmet-dude's perspective and kill jacket-guy, you clearly smash his face in/decapitate jacket-guy, as in there is no way he would survive that. I doubt that really matters though in the long run, seems like the whole last part is an alternative timeline/world.
Raptomex
Member
I have no idea what's going on in the story. Im confused.
You also don't need to kill a single person in that mission besides the guy in the black suit. When you went there as jacket-guy, everyone was dead.