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In the summer of 1886 the snowstorms began. Crops failed. People Starved. Millions fled south. They met only chaos, famine, and death. In the farthest reaches of the resource-rich north, the British Empire began construction of heat-bearing generators, where a chosen few could survive from the chaos of crumbling civilization. They ran out of time. An apocalyptic ice storm came from the south, devouring all in its path. People fled in panic. Some managed to cross the seas and reach the site of a generator only to find it frozen solid. The generator was designed to power a city capable to weather the end of the world..... It falls to us to build it. Tinfoil Papercut posted:Welcome to my glorious city, I hope you're prepared to eat sawdust soup and put those kids to WORK! PLATFORMS:
https://twitter.com/frostpunkgame/status/1116642207820320768 Frostpunk is released on April 24th website | twitter | wikia WHAT IS THIS GAME?
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STRUCTURES Tinfoil Papercut posted:Welcome to my city! Here's your tent. Now before you look at the price - remember that real estate is location, location, location. This tent is only 15 minutes from anywhere you'll be sent to work!
TEMPERATURE As mentioned earlier, it's crucial to manage the temperature in your city. Temperature can affect the health and well being of your population. The conditions outside, generator level, building placement and building insulation all have an affect on the temperature. Each individual in your city has to deal with the temperature both where they work and where they live. If it's too cold, they may get sick, or worse, die. THE BOOK OF LAWS Tinfoil Papercut posted:Huh... it says here that the mayor of the city gets to personally warm up one woman of his choosing every night. *Shrug* Big government at it again, am I right!? Allow or ban child labor? Establish an neighborhood watch, which might lead to guard stations or the introduction of propaganda creating a faction of deserters, or create a safe space for your citizens? Will you open a fighting pit to keep people entertained? Will you put your children to work? Will you allow whorehouses? What fun things will you add to the soup? How will you deal with the corpses of the dead? All these choices and more are yours to explore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYiL_j890a0 TECHNOLOGY TREE Tinfoil Papercut posted:The faster we get aerosol hairspray, the faster we can punch a hole in the ozone layer and warm it up a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDHRcAQuBr8 HOPE and DISCONTENT Tinfoil Papercut posted:All I hear is complaining all friggin day: "My back hurts! - my feet hurt! - I'm only four!" ANNOYING STREAMS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IoOdpMaFvs -Because I find British accents tolerable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMmJay3ah2I -Good intro / explanation A two and a half hour demo of the game from Lewis and Tom of the yogscast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuZNWmfpBnE#t=395s (I recommend checking this video out for a few minutes if you want to see what the game is about) "Getting through the first 10 days with a solid base" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrCAbUirA18 Trailer - Heartbeats (debut gameplay trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxTxUL_8VkA Trailer - Whiteout (cinematic trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6saqbmVT9qk Trailer - Serenity (date trailer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPCgltNJoHI ----- Props to Drunkill for making a better post then conceding to mine. ------ Mayor Tinfoil's Tips
Korthal posted:You can rotate buildings with middle mouse button... Tinfoil Papercut fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Apr 12, 2019 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:12 |
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I've been ready for this since I first heard about it, I'm very eager to enrich myself with warmth while the plebs freeze.
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# ? Dec 26, 2017 23:55 |
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This looks baller as gently caress and just the right aesthetic to get me into some kind of weird roguelike-citybuilder phase again. Is it going to be an early access title or released complete?
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# ? Dec 27, 2017 00:18 |
wtf this looks cool
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# ? Dec 27, 2017 00:34 |
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Pierson posted:This looks baller as gently caress and just the right aesthetic to get me into some kind of weird roguelike-citybuilder phase again. I believe they have said there will be no EA or beta - when it hits it'll be full. *Usually* they are able to give out a few early access copies out for marketing and game review types, of which streamers count.
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# ? Dec 27, 2017 00:38 |
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Updated with some more info I was able to extract and more pics.
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# ? Dec 27, 2017 18:09 |
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https://twitter.com/frostpunkgame/status/956880081917480961
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 21:02 |
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Is it coming to Steam, or is there a website for this?
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# ? Jan 27, 2018 05:54 |
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clone on the phone posted:Is it coming to Steam, or is there a website for this? Yes http://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/ and yes! http://www.frostpunkgame.com/
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# ? Jan 27, 2018 15:01 |
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Release this week, or at least release date announced this week: https://twitter.com/frostpunkgame/status/957967865185013761
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 14:39 |
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Release date is end of Q1, so by March 31st, hopefully. Lookin' forward to it. I like some THEY ARE BILLIONS, but it doesn't go deep enough on the gnarly stuff. And the This War Of Mine folks are about nothing if not gnarly stuff.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 04:33 |
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If you can choose to eat the dead, and children can die in work accidents, I hope they go the extra mile and let us have real baby back ribs.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 05:12 |
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Bogart posted:Release date is end of Q1, so by March 31st, hopefully. Lookin' forward to it. I like some THEY ARE BILLIONS, but it doesn't go deep enough on the gnarly stuff. And the This War Of Mine folks are about nothing if not gnarly stuff. While that stuff is cool, I do hope they also have normal/positive things you can do, which make the game significantly harder. If it's just all misery all the time, it's going to be a very significant one trick pony of a thing.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 05:22 |
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Rookersh posted:While that stuff is cool, I do hope they also have normal/positive things you can do, which make the game significantly harder. Your city has hope and discontent meters that have to be managed. So it comes down to where you want to make trade offs. If you ban child labor and order a school built for the children it will raise hope and lower misery, but you deprive yourself those workers and have to devote resources to actually building it.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 05:54 |
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You can also opt for giant mechanical spiders to do your bidding as well. I hope they step on some folks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQgJeLskhmo
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# ? Feb 18, 2018 22:29 |
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Tinfoil Papercut posted:You can also opt for giant mechanical spiders to do your bidding as well. I hope they step on some folks. I saw something about these. An interviewer asked if they might rebel and go on killing sprees, to which the developer responded "if you are asking, you already know the answer." It may have been a joke, but given what I know if the game already, I suspect not.
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# ? Feb 19, 2018 01:59 |
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https://twitter.com/frostpunkgame/status/968805471133020160 I think we're getting closer!
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# ? Feb 28, 2018 12:22 |
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The update describes some features of the Order path, but do we know what the alternative is? How many civic trees will there be? Hype tho
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# ? Mar 1, 2018 11:27 |
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Pirate Radar posted:The update describes some features of the Order path, but do we know what the alternative is? How many civic trees will there be? They haven't said, I don't think. There's enough to indicate that there's solid end-game features to keep you interested and your city humming after the initial "hike through waist deep snow for coal" phase. Also the screenshots look gorgeous. https://twitter.com/frostpunkgame/status/969157279634411520 I'm hearing whispers that release is "end of March" but I can't find any official info.
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# ? Mar 2, 2018 17:50 |
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Tinfoil Papercut posted:They haven't said, I don't think. There's enough to indicate that there's solid end-game features to keep you interested and your city humming after the initial "hike through waist deep snow for coal" phase. They said they’re still on track for that, yeah. Their goal has been “sometime in Q1 2018” for a while.
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# ? Mar 3, 2018 04:30 |
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The correct answer was April 24th, come on down and claim your prize! https://twitter.com/frostpunkgame/status/972032998085419009
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 17:45 |
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That's almost March!
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 17:51 |
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Hah, well, alright
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# ? Mar 10, 2018 03:23 |
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That trailer for the release date is amazing, if a little (insanely) brutal. They dropped the sad cellos and violins from the other trailers and created contrast of the hyperdepressing reality with an upbeat blues, and still managed to make it mostly depressing. Pretty good. Also tons of little details, they really put a lot of work into that animation.
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# ? Mar 11, 2018 20:21 |
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Yay! A thread! I’ve been eagerly anticipating this game since December. The wait has been killing me. Before the release date was announced everyone on the steam forum was crying about how the game was dead.
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# ? Mar 20, 2018 18:57 |
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https://twitter.com/frostpunkgame/status/981501914159435776 noice
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 00:21 |
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Huh, I like city-builders but not survival games, and I don't mind steampunk when it's done well (Rise of Legends). Will keep an eye on this, but I hope there's some sort of story to follow instead of just a sandbox. I like having a win condition.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 03:21 |
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I didn't see this thread and made one myself, oops. The game looks fantastic and I've been following it for awhile now, nice to know it comes out soon. Check out this stream which has 2 and a bit hours of gameplay and is very in depth and good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuZNWmfpBnE&t=395s I'll quote my OP from the other thread here if people wanted to see it, mostly the same information. Also take note of these two tips which are important and could be added to the current OP. Tip: Overdrive is best used at night when everybody is at home to benefit from the extra heat, it can be turned off during the day to reduce the stress on the generator. Tip: A human will eat 1 ration per day. Starving people eat 2 rations per day. If you have run out of rations people will eat 1 raw food per day. People eating raw food instead of processed rations are more likely to get sick. drunkill posted:
I also should have titled the thread" Winter is coming" drunkill fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Apr 5, 2018 |
# ? Apr 5, 2018 04:41 |
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Looks interesting, but all I've seen seems to be about how you slowly turn your frosthole into a totalitarian hell. Admittedly I only found out this game existed last night so I haven't seen much, so is there any dev stuff about alternate law paths/society plans that aren't grimdark?
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 10:08 |
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I think they are keeping the other paths under wraps deliberatly
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 10:16 |
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Seems like OKing cannibalism would be an easy moral choice. Better that than actual living people coming to harm. Those guys aren't even using those bodies anymore even! It's gonna be like the Fremen except instead of water it's human flesh. The Donner Party did nothing wrong. Axetrain fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Apr 5, 2018 |
# ? Apr 5, 2018 10:27 |
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im wondering how much depth there actually is to this game. with all maps ive seen basically taking place in the same circle that removes one of the most major forms of depth in the genre and idk if placement in the circle and the decision system can compensate. i found this war of mine rather shallow and it wasnt really great for replayability
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 10:56 |
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Davincie posted:im wondering how much depth there actually is to this game. with all maps ive seen basically taking place in the same circle that removes one of the most major forms of depth in the genre and idk if placement in the circle and the decision system can compensate. i found this war of mine rather shallow and it wasnt really great for replayability As far as I know the crater is the crater is the crater. Replayability will be meant to come from the book of laws and the branching storyline.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 11:16 |
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drunkill posted:I didn't see this thread and made one myself, oops. The game looks fantastic and I've been following it for awhile now, nice to know it comes out soon. Well done, I took the liberty to merge your superior post into mine so now I can take all the credit.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 11:17 |
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Davincie posted:im wondering how much depth there actually is to this game. with all maps ive seen basically taking place in the same circle that removes one of the most major forms of depth in the genre and idk if placement in the circle and the decision system can compensate. i found this war of mine rather shallow and it wasnt really great for replayability These games i think are mainly for the story and sadly most stories are only enough to hold most people once. Granted i played through this war of mine like, 3 times.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 12:35 |
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Really enjoyed This War of Mine and this looks awesome too. Really hoping that there's multiple optimal ways to build your victorian apocalypse hellhole. I watched some streamer play this the other day and he was basically huddling all housing and industry together as much as possible near the generator for warmth vs. some of the videos posted here where all residential is near the generator and all industry is on the outskirts (HE had to add steam plants or something to get warmth on the outskirts but apparently that can suck up coal fast). Some other brit dude youtube video recommended getting the beacon ASAP for mass influx of warm bodies and children to throw into the generator. Tech tree looks pretty extensive from the amount of stuff obscured and the law tree looks interesting. Should be worth $30 for sure. I think I only played through This War of Mine only a few times too, but that was due to OCD min/maxing fatigue and trying to build guns and weapons as early as possible and other stupid poo poo rather than just trying to play out every life regardless of what I got rolled with. Avalanche fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Apr 5, 2018 |
# ? Apr 5, 2018 13:05 |
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Please be good, I really could use a new survival/building game. I didn't like Surviving Mars and did a Steam refund after less than 2 hours, because I found the game stale and one-dimensional. I hope this will be better....
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 13:27 |
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Hammerstein posted:Please be good, I really could use a new survival/building game. I didn't like Surviving Mars and did a Steam refund after less than 2 hours, because I found the game stale and one-dimensional. I hope this will be better.... You can force people to work a 24 hour shift while you pass a secret law to chop up the corpses of the dead and put it in the soup, of which you've already spiked with sawdust. Avalanche posted:Really enjoyed This War of Mine and this looks awesome too. Really hoping that there's multiple optimal ways to build your victorian apocalypse hellhole. I watched some streamer play this the other day and he was basically huddling all housing and industry together as much as possible near the generator for warmth vs. some of the videos posted here where all residential is near the generator and all industry is on the outskirts (HE had to add steam plants or something to get warmth on the outskirts but apparently that can suck up coal fast). Some other brit dude youtube video recommended getting the beacon ASAP for mass influx of warm bodies and children to throw into the generator. I tried TWoM last night for a few - I wasn't really sure what I was doing. Some dude was sick, and by day 2 I had two people who needed to sleep and I had no beds or clue how to properly rest them. Visuals are very nice, I'll have to play some more during the free trial period. It's also on sale for like 70% off so.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 13:40 |
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I would say stick with it. It's difficult to get started on but once you get a feel for it, it opens up. I still end up playing the game like a horrible murderer every time i play it now though.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 13:54 |
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Tinfoil Papercut posted:You can force people to work a 24 hour shift while you pass a secret law to chop up the corpses of the dead and put it in the soup, of which you've already spiked with sawdust. Immediately preordered !
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