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Toxxupation posted:I wonder if part 2 will come out before summer The schedule they posted in the February update had a Spring 2015 release window.
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Some people have speculated that they're timing the release of the public documentary episodes to end when part 2 is released, which would make it the end of next month. But I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere.
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Mar 16, 2015 23:16
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Great Rumbler posted:The schedule they posted in the February update had a Spring 2015 release window. June is totally "spring"
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Mar 16, 2015 23:31
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Hef Deezy posted:Some people have speculated that they're timing the release of the public documentary episodes to end when part 2 is released, which would make it the end of next month. But I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere. They did specifically say that the ongoing documentary release is part of their overall promotional plan, so that's not coming out of nowhere, but 2pp could change up the release schedule if they wanted to so I wouldn't put too much stock in it. At this point it's likely to just be a case of DF figuring out what the best way to release it is. Not sure where Toxxupation's idea that it's coming out on PS4 simultaneously is coming from, although it'd probably make sense for them to do that if they can and they're probably going to shoot as close as possible.
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Mar 16, 2015 23:45
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I could have sworn they said they were planning on April.
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Kickstarter Update: the final build has been locked down. It'll take about another month to get PS4 certification and press the discs for PC.
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Awesome! Doesn't look like there will be any sort of early release for backers on this one though. That's too bad as I really liked playing the first one early and submitting some bug reports. I haven't done enough testing to see it for the mind numbing chore it can be yet.
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Official release date is April 28. http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/25/broken-age-act-2-release-date-announced
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Mar 25, 2015 18:54
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Great Rumbler posted:Official release date is April 28. "We can get this out before December [2014], right?" -Tim "TimTam" Schafer
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Friendly reminder that a new episode of the doc is out and that this time tomorrow backers will get Act 2!
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fun part of the doc: how it went to great pains, GREAT GREAT PAINS, to completely avoid bringing up spacebase in literally any context whatsoever, not even as a passing mention funner part of the doc: when the episode frames the hate campaign (which I need to stress was completely undeserved) as springing out of nowhere as opposed to a direct result of the spacebase horseshit
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Apr 26, 2015 05:28
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Listened to this in the background while web surfing. Don't think I missed out on anything. I mean, it's not their fault that "oh yeah we're still working on stuff and there's a lot of time/financial pressure" isn't fascinating material, especially since that's been the theme of the last few episodes as well, but still. Toxxupation posted:fun part of the doc: how it went to great pains, GREAT GREAT PAINS, to completely avoid bringing up spacebase in literally any context whatsoever, not even as a passing mention I think he was talking about Gamergate. He got into a tussle or two on Twitter about it, I think?
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Apr 26, 2015 14:47
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AllisonByProxy posted:Friendly reminder that a new episode of the doc is out and that this time tomorrow backers will get Act 2! I think this time tomorrow we get the preload key, not the game.
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Apr 26, 2015 15:43
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notZaar posted:I think this time tomorrow we get the preload key, not the game. I'm 99% sure backers can play Act 2 in 12 hours (edit: i.e. midnight EST), and everyone else, including those who already bought Act 1 but were not Kickstarter backers, in 36 hours. That's how I understood it and from looking at the official forums everyone seems to be assuming the same. I hope that's the case cause tomorrow's a holiday here in the Netherlands and I'll have the whole day to play it. Otherwise I'll probably have to wait until Thursday.
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Apr 26, 2015 16:44
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Glad to finally be able to finish this game. It wasn't exactly the ride I thought I'd signed up for, and it was a bit too bumpy, but I'm glad I got on.
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From the last backers only update, they're definitely saying that backers should be able to play it tomorrow. Of course, this is dependent on them being able to get the codes out:quote:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-adventure/posts/1209413 evilmiera posted:Glad to finally be able to finish this game. It wasn't exactly the ride I thought I'd signed up for, and it was a bit too bumpy, but I'm glad I got on.
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Just got my backer code, check your emails if you want yours:quote:Broken Age is now complete! The Double Fine Adventure that we’ve all been on together is at and end, and your patience and kindness will now be rewarded. Let the fun times commence!
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Apr 27, 2015 05:15
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You can just download it directly or... The email does a poor job explaining it, but it gives you a code you can put into steam to turn on Beta access, which lets you download the update on steam, apparently. 1.6gb update, apparently.
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Apr 27, 2015 05:20
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Toxxupation posted:fun part of the doc: how it went to great pains, GREAT GREAT PAINS, to completely avoid bringing up spacebase in literally any context whatsoever, not even as a passing mention You should whine more about it in the Broken Age thread
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Apr 27, 2015 06:55
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Act 2 codes have been sent out so if you were a backer check your email.
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Apr 27, 2015 08:33
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A couple of hours in and Act 2 is great so far. Playing as Vella the answers come hard and fast. So far the puzzles seem a little bit tougher than those in act 1. Haven't tried Shay yet.
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Apr 27, 2015 09:06
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That's an interesting question, actually. Who do you play as first in Act 2?
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Apr 27, 2015 09:47
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Megazver posted:That's an interesting question, actually. Who do you play as first in Act 2? You get a choice it looks like, I picked Vela to start since she seemed more interesting in the first half. The new puzzles are interesting but some of the first ones with timing were a bit of a pain, interface wise. Beyond that I'm liking what I've seen so far, looks like some early critical response has been negative though (Rock Paper Shotgun is the main one I noticed).
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In true Adventure game fashion, I must be missing something stupidly obvious. [Vela, early start, Act 2 Spoilers]I went through the trophy room into the teleporter, got my head bigger and tried to talk to MOM. But that didn't help. I've tried walking back into the trophy room and clicking everything, but I'm missing something. How do I get MOM to think I'm Shay, if that's even what I'm trying to do?
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Apr 27, 2015 10:25
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Lamquin posted:In true Adventure game fashion, I must be missing something stupidly obvious. Do it again, that's what you did as Shay in the first act.
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fez_machine posted:Do it again, that's what you did as Shay in the first act.  The downfall of not having played Act 1 since release. I completely forgot that part of Shays act 1. Thanks!
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Apr 27, 2015 10:38
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Minor annoyance: There wasn't any Part 1 Completion autosave, so I got kicked back to a save shortly before the end and it's been so long since I last played that I'm having trouble remembering what I was supposed to do.
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Apr 27, 2015 14:21
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I completely forgot that part two even was a thing given how long it took since part one, I mean, I got the game I paid for, why do I feel as if I'd been taken for a ride by kickstarting this game way back when?
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Great Rumbler posted:Minor annoyance: There wasn't any Part 1 Completion autosave, so I got kicked back to a save shortly before the end and it's been so long since I last played that I'm having trouble remembering what I was supposed to do. Mine picked up right at the start of the final animation 
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Al-Saqr posted:I completely forgot that part two even was a thing given how long it took since part one, I mean, I got the game I paid for, why do I feel as if I'd been taken for a ride by kickstarting this game way back when? Probably because you were and hopefully learned an important lesson.
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Great Rumbler posted:Minor annoyance: There wasn't any Part 1 Completion autosave, so I got kicked back to a save shortly before the end and it's been so long since I last played that I'm having trouble remembering what I was supposed to do. Did you select continue or load a save? I continued and it started at the end-of-act 1 cutscene.
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Republicans posted:Did you select continue or load a save? I continued and it started at the end-of-act 1 cutscene. Continue. It could have been a bug or something else, because the last autosave was from really early in the game.
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Great Rumbler posted:Continue. It could have been a bug or something else, because the last autosave was from really early in the game. you sure you didn't start a second playthrough sometime between finishing act 1 and now and that is what its continuing?
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I'm pretty sure I never did, but it doesn't really matter now because I've worked my way into Act 2 already.
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I've finished it. Well, some of the puzzles are bad old school bullshit to the point where I gave up and played through most of the last couple of hours with a walkthrough open. I can do hard in an adventure game, but I want some loving logic there. When I got stuck here, there was never a "oh why didn't I think of that?" moment when I looked up the solution, only a "really, Tim Schafer, you fucker?" The story resolves... I guess? I have a feeling that despite the time and money they had, they still had to seriously cut poo poo and push the game out the door.
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Megazver posted:I've finished it. I finished the game and the latest doc episode, it's been quite an experience. As a game it's decent, but as an overall trip it's been pretty amazing.
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I played through the whole thing over the last few days. I'd held off playing Act 1 and managed to avoid spoilers, and went straight from Act 1 into Act 2. Overall I thought it was a quite solid adventure game, perhaps more than I was expecting with some of the negative vibes I'd picked up about the second act. I thought Act 2 was generally fine, and definitely so story-wise. The only significant problem I had with Act 2 - and unfortunately it's a big one - was with some of the puzzles, and not necessarily the difficulty. In an effort to make this spoiler-free and unfortunately slightly cryptic, there is a particular adventure game puzzle faux pas that was completely absent in Act 1 that starts creeping in with increasing frequency in Act 2. It was the only time I got significantly stuck simply because I hadn't considered those types of puzzles to be in the game and once I realised it was always a let-down when I encountered another one. Overall though, good adventure game. It definitely had that unique Double Fine flavour to it too which I appreciated.
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Trapezium Dave posted:The only significant problem I had with Act 2 - and unfortunately it's a big one - was with some of the puzzles, and not necessarily the difficulty. In an effort to make this spoiler-free and unfortunately slightly cryptic, there is a particular adventure game puzzle faux pas that was completely absent in Act 1 that starts creeping in with increasing frequency in Act 2. This is because between Act 1 and Act 2 backers whined and complained about how easy Act 1 was and "not like old adventure games" so they made Act 2 like those old adventure games Turns out people don't like old adventure games
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It wasn't so much the increase in difficulty as a particular aspect to puzzles, spoilered for die-hard puzzle solvers: any puzzle where one protagonist needs information that they literally cannot find out themselves (because it is in the realm of the other protagonist) except through the medium of the player's brain. (spoiler not for any one particular puzzle, but will give broad hints for a particular category of puzzles). Although I could potentially seeing backers request for that, even though it makes no sense in the context of this particular game.
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