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So I got CULTIC a while back and as much as I want to like it, I find the combat rather confusing in terms of how the game intends you to approach it, like it's going for equal parts survival horror and action movie combat, which feels incredibly awkward to me. I wonder what's the best way to mess with stuff like the custom difficulty settings to make it more straight-forward.
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Sep 14, 2023 22:57
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Worked my way through AMID EVIL: The Black Labyrinth and it was great fun, until the final boss ganked me right after I killed it and got the achievement. Still a lot of fun though.
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Sep 14, 2023 23:58
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Doctor Bishop posted:So I got CULTIC a while back and as much as I want to like it, I find the combat rather confusing in terms of how the game intends you to approach it, like it's going for equal parts survival horror and action movie combat, which feels incredibly awkward to me. I wonder what's the best way to mess with stuff like the custom difficulty settings to make it more straight-forward. Each weapon has a really good niche, but go for headshots and don't be afraid to go nuts with dynamite. Quick toss and quick kick are your friends.
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Sep 15, 2023 00:45
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Doctor Bishop posted:So I got CULTIC a while back and as much as I want to like it, I find the combat rather confusing in terms of how the game intends you to approach it, like it's going for equal parts survival horror and action movie combat, which feels incredibly awkward to me. I wonder what's the best way to mess with stuff like the custom difficulty settings to make it more straight-forward. Headshots and explosives/fire are the key to Cultic combat, you might be really squishy but you can output absurd amounts of damage with a little practice, also you have surprisingly good mobility so use that to minimize the amount of hits you take
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Sep 15, 2023 01:39
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Doctor Bishop posted:So I got CULTIC a while back and as much as I want to like it, I find the combat rather confusing in terms of how the game intends you to approach it, like it's going for equal parts survival horror and action movie combat, which feels incredibly awkward to me. I wonder what's the best way to mess with stuff like the custom difficulty settings to make it more straight-forward. You're not really modern Doom Guy in Cultic; it's supposed to be more scrappy. Think Resident Evil 4. You're vulnerable but you have lot of tools and options.
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Sep 15, 2023 02:28
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Playing through Doom 64 for the first time and I just wanted to say: The yellow key puzzle in Final Outpost (map08) is bulllllllshit. That is something I would never figure out on my own in a million years.
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Sep 15, 2023 02:33
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Thinking about it, I can better see why Cultic's "normal" is clearly easy but renamed now. They really want you to practice and get into the vibe of the game before taking on its proper challenge. And here my hubris led me to think it would be enough like Blood to play fast and loose when Cultic isn't nearly as forgiving with resources like ammo. Didn't have that much problem with health on hard but ammo is so fricking tight. So I wound up taking every encounter as strategically as possible just to preserve ammo, despite the trailer making it clear that you're supposed to be able to jump around like a madman Caleb-style, and after a few levels it started to feel really tedious and I lost interest. I guess this is a case like Ultrakill where they expect you be good at being both fast and precise at the same time to get the most out of the game, which I'm really not. I can generally only do one or the other at a time. Joe Chill posted:Playing through Doom 64 for the first time and I just wanted to say: The yellow key puzzle in Final Outpost (map08) is bulllllllshit. That is something I would never figure out on my own in a million years. "Buy the strategy guide today!" 
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Sep 15, 2023 03:43
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I'm extremely loving bad at these games and I still didn't have too much trouble on hard. Once you get an appreciation for the encounters and how to approach them out becomes easier. Also always be looking for every secret. They're not too hard to find and all but 1 are extremely valuable.
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Sep 15, 2023 04:11
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm extremely loving bad at these games and I still didn't have too much trouble on hard.
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Sep 15, 2023 09:49
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Cultic is a perfect little angel of a game and hard is the perfect difficulty setting. If you're really having a hard time just upgrade the shotgun and use it as your workhorse weapon, you should almost never run out of ammo for it
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Sep 15, 2023 10:26
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Jfc, Half Life 2 is perfect on the Deck. I mean, it's no surprise, but.... still.... 
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Sep 15, 2023 11:02
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Jfc, Half Life 2 is perfect 
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Sep 15, 2023 11:04
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the Steam 20 year sale is on now https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam20 i remember first installing steam and crying because hl2 wouldn't work properly until i downloaded a 500mb patch over my 56k internet lmfao
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Sep 15, 2023 11:04
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Oh yeah, I remember playing HL2 while the sun was going up and whatnot. 2004 was some good times. Anchorman, Lost, Electric Six, you name it. I finished an HL2 replay earlier this year, and it'll always be one of my favs. But, like we sometimes mention, how games age is very unique, and subjective, and HL2 in particular we've discussed a lot on here. But it'll always hold a special place in my heart. Also, Half-Life 3 please.
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Sep 15, 2023 11:14
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When I think of gaming in 2004, I think of when I bought my first computer, just for myself, so I didn't have to share the family one (old enough to have "buy a PC" money, young enough to still live at home). The three games that stick out at me when I first got that beast are UT2K4, Deus Ex, and one of the Ghost Recons. I didn't play it much, other than with a bunch of people at work who'd stay up until 4am going at each other online. About a year or so later, it was my Civ 4 machine.
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Sep 15, 2023 11:17
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i like cultic a little more on the highest difficulty because hard is great when you're playing it like Blood, but as you get more of a hang of Cultic's unique quirks and the sort of tricks you can pull, hard becomes a lot easier. i guess im just describing getting better at a game, but I mean more stuff like because its a more modern game where you can shoot through tiny cracks, and has headshots, you can snip off enemy heads really far away where they just barely peek over walls and stuff. whereas in blood or doom those shots might either be blocked by invisible walls, or just be effectively the same as a bodyshot and so be harder to take out a lot of dudes in quick succession.
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Sep 15, 2023 11:50
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Hard is best because you can play it like a lunatic like you see in the trailer and it's still doable. You try that poo poo on hardest difficulty, you'll die. I wonder if that guy ever got below 8 minute speedrun or if it's even possible
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Sep 15, 2023 12:13
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The best Cultic speed run I’ve seen is like 13 min Relies heavily on jump kicks. So the guy is just can-canning everywhere
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Sep 15, 2023 12:33
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CULTIC is my game of the years 2022 and 2023. I really hope the unity situation doesn't derail progress on part 2
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Sep 15, 2023 12:50
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skasion posted:The best Cultic speed run I’ve seen is like 13 min They're under 9 now lol. Most of it's at the abbey
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Sep 15, 2023 13:07
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The abbey fight is going to be interesting with speedrunning because there isn't a way to shorten it too much, you've got to kill a bunch of people in timed waves and then that tank. Can throw a wrench in any strat.
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Sep 15, 2023 13:14
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The tank isn't the problem you just gotta toss a bunch of dynamite in at the start and pop it with the grenade launcher. The waves though are like xish minutes you aren't able to circumvent. I do like you've got to be good at killing though to speed it up
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Sep 15, 2023 14:19
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The big tank fight in CULTIC was the only bit that really gave me trouble at launch on the hardest difficulty. I think they added a checkpoint and maybe some nerfs at some point since then, but at launch you had to do the entire fight from the start if you died, which sucked. You can take a big chunk out of the tank by spamming a shitload of dynamite into its area before it appears and setting it all off at once.
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Sep 15, 2023 14:52
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Heavy Metal posted:Oh yeah, I remember playing HL2 while the sun was going up and whatnot. 2004 was some good times. Anchorman, Lost, Electric Six, you name it. I finished an HL2 replay earlier this year, and it'll always be one of my favs. But, like we sometimes mention, how games age is very unique, and subjective, and HL2 in particular we've discussed a lot on here. But it'll always hold a special place in my heart. Also, Half-Life 3 please. I remember HL2 being like 5 discs to install, it barely fit on my HDD and it ran like poo poo at lowest settings too.
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Sep 15, 2023 17:16
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HolyKrap posted:I remember HL2 being like 5 discs to install, it barely fit on my HDD and it ran like poo poo at lowest settings too. HL2 and Doom 3 ran like poo poo on my PC at the time, but man were they fun to play!
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Sep 15, 2023 17:37
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Volte posted:The big tank fight in CULTIC was the only bit that really gave me trouble at launch on the hardest difficulty. I think they added a checkpoint and maybe some nerfs at some point since then, but at launch you had to do the entire fight from the start if you died, which sucked. You can take a big chunk out of the tank by spamming a shitload of dynamite into its area before it appears and setting it all off at once. For sure, I felt like it was overall a great challenge on the hardest difficulty and it remains one of my favorite games in recent memory. In contrast, I’ve got to get back into Turbo Overkill, but I know I’ve already mentioned that I jumped in blind on the highest difficulty and learned just how goofy-hard that was 
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Sep 15, 2023 17:53
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BisterdDave posted:HL2 and Doom 3 ran like poo poo on my PC at the time, but man were they fun to play! I enjoyed the hell out of it, except for the loading times. To this day I still hate the entire water hazard chapter, the pacing felt so bad when the load screens took 1-2 minutes.
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Sep 15, 2023 18:00
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HolyKrap posted:I enjoyed the hell out of it, except for the loading times. To this day I still hate the entire water hazard chapter, the pacing felt so bad when the load screens took 1-2 minutes. And unfortunately that's the level I instantly think of anytime HL2 is mentioned. I really should pick it up on sale and play through it again though.
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Sep 15, 2023 18:03
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So I'm unclear on whether Cultic has any sort of adaptive mechanics that change how things progress based on how you play it (e.g. different ammo drops for using different weapons) or if it's just static/set and I'm misunderstanding the advice.
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Sep 15, 2023 19:25
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I don't think there's anything adaptive, ammo/health drops are as far as I can tell random. What was the advice that's confusing you? edit if it was the thing about the shotgun, it just deals insane damage once you upgrade it and ammo is plentiful.
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Sep 15, 2023 20:17
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Man, the rogue mode in Severed Steel is awesome. It's like a kaizo FEAR with wallrunning and you unlock mutators after each level. One of those is that the doors explode when kicked so your slowmo meter recharges immediately when the enemies try to rush the room you're in. I really really hope that Nightdive have plans for a FEAR remaster.
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Sep 15, 2023 21:40
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Terminally Bored posted:I really really hope that Nightdive have plans for a FEAR remaster. It really doesn't need that much work to be honest, with some tweaks the PC version looks amazing these days. Only problem I have with it (outside of the repetitive environments) is the decal and object culling after a while, which means you can't backtrack Hotline Miami-style through all the carnage. I actually found a mod that keeps all that around, but it messes up the weapon switching for some reason and I don't know enough about FEAR to fix it 
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Sep 15, 2023 21:43
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HolyKrap posted:I remember HL2 being like 5 discs to install, it barely fit on my HDD and it ran like poo poo at lowest settings too. Reminder! Half-Life 2 was crammed into an original Xbox disc, and it turned out pretty well!
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Sep 15, 2023 22:03
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Grimthwacker posted:Reminder! Half-Life 2 was crammed into an original Xbox disc, and it turned out pretty well! I still think Doom 3 may hold the record, with specific ports to the original Xbox, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One. I can't think of many games that got that many distinct ports, I guess GTA5 is up there now with distinct PS3, 4, and 5 versions. It's wild that GTA5 is over 100GB now when it shipped on 2 DVDs originally.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:10
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Uh Resi 4 has like a million ports lol
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Sep 15, 2023 22:24
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Baron von Eevl posted:I don't think there's anything adaptive, ammo/health drops are as far as I can tell random. What was the advice that's confusing you? So the impression I get overall is: get better at making headshots on the move and focus on one weapon at a time when upgrading (starting with the shotgun). Seems to be working well so far, so thanks. I guess I underestimated the shotgun's usefulness due to it starting at "modern shotgun lol" levels of accuracy before upgrades, but now I realize even then it's a solid way of doing away with baddies if you play it smart.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:24
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This looks kind of a mess but also pretty fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAf2P7G7pu0
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Sep 15, 2023 22:36
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Doctor Bishop posted:So the impression I get overall is: get better at making headshots on the move and focus on one weapon at a time when upgrading (starting with the shotgun). Seems to be working well so far, so thanks. I got real good at double-tapping headshots with the pistol after I got the accuracy upgrade. I think I used the pistol more than the shotgun. The only weapon I didn't use much was the sten, mainly because I kept forgetting I had it.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:46
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I liked / like Water Hazard 
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Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:I liked / like Water Hazard It's a wonderful level.
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