DumbRodent posted:

Silky update. Silky.

Ghostwoods posted:

Great work again, DR!

I was wondering, in instants where the game springs a nasty surprise at you -- like at around 7m in the vid, on the ledge -- what sort of player control do you have? Is it still the usual motion options, and you just have to pick the right moves quickly enough, or is it an entirely quicktime event, or something in between? For that matter, how scripted are things? I wonder, for instance, if it would be possible to screw up enough to have, say, Chris Walker and the Truncheon Guy both after us at the same time. If one of us was playing through, how different might things be?

davidspackage posted:

Jesus Christ. No, the long video was fine, and it's nice to have the obligatory sewer part behind us.

The voice actors do a really good job with this game. I like how Walker's actor actually sounds like someone without lips would sound. And the screaming guys who chase you must make that sequence so much worse to play.

So... I assume Miles has found Dr. Wernicke?


edit: oh, one thing about long videos, they make you forget to ask questions that arise earlier. Was that guy in the straight jacket who kept leisurely walking towards you in any way dangerous, or does he just walk up to you and then stand still?

davidspackage posted:

edit: oh, one thing about long videos, they make you forget to ask questions that arise earlier. Was that guy in the straight jacket who kept leisurely walking towards you in any way dangerous, or does he just walk up to you and then stand still?

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

I think it's a good length from transitioning from the last ending into the "holy gently caress no, my loving god" ending of this video!

It could be worse though, it could of been his liver and tongue. Or in one person's case, both kidneys...

DumbRodent posted:

I'm glad my silly editing is going over well!

Hey, you gotta start somewhere. Fingers First...

DumbRodent posted:

It's a pretty scripted game, basically a haunted house attraction. You usually just have one stalker after you at a time- think Haunting Ground or Clock Tower.

There were quicktime events in the game before- when you get grabbed you would have to wave the mouse back and forth- but people really disliked them. The developers patched all but one or two instances of the 'struggle' mechanic out of the game, and even put the effort forth to change the animations pretty drastically to make them gel with gameplay better!

Ghostwoods posted:

It's cool of them to pull the QTs out. So many devs seem incapable of even realizing that people might not like them. I see what you mean about Clock Tower &c. That's what I figured. Not sure if a more procedural approach could even work in a horror game of this sort.

Speedball posted:

EDIT: Also also: Male and female wards? We haven't seen a single woman.

Crane Fist posted:

With the state most of the inmates are in, can we really say that for sure?

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

If he escapes before the tongue is taken then he can try out as a castrati!

CARRIERHASARRIVED posted:

drat do I love Trager. He's a really funny guy and his voice actor really makes that shine through with a big slice of insanity to go with.

azren posted:

Edit: Your occasional narrations are wonderful, especially after the whole kidney thing.

Grimwit posted:

Just caught up and congratulations; You've finally made an Outlast LP I can stand.
The atmosphere and quality speaks for itself and I'm drat-tired of people screaming at their recordings.
Bleh.

Anyway, had I got in by the first episode, I would'a made this for you sooner.

Grimwit posted:

Just caught up and congratulations; You've finally made an Outlast LP I can stand.
The atmosphere and quality speaks for itself and I'm drat-tired of people screaming at their recordings.
Bleh.

Anyway, had I got in by the first episode, I would'a made this for you sooner.

Acquire Currency! posted:

I'm really glad everyone is getting to experience dickbros. One of my favorite things Outlast does is with its passive actors. Whistleblower has a part where [non story spoilers] you have to push a shelf and a passive inmate gets up and walks right next to it. It's not like a jump scare or anything, you can plainly see him. He's just watching what you're doing.

E: Razage asked a question about the pathing in this game and I'd like to say some things about it, if it's too much of a text dump I'll remove this.

Outlast is not a stealth game in the sense of say, Metal Gear or Dishonered, you know that by now. In those games the player can memorize the path his enemies are going to take and approach the situation accordingly. After playing the crap out of Outlast I've noticed that the inmates work entirely different to the AI most people are used to. I believe that at some level the inmates are constantly aware of where the player is at, though their chase mode isn't activated until the player is in full sight of them. This is something I suspected about halfway through my initial play through. The inmates will have a 'base' where they return to and wherever the player is hiding is where they walk out to. If the player moves then the inmate will adjust his search area to where the player is every single time. I actually gave this a fair bit of testing in one of the early sections in Whistleblower as it was almost perfectly designed to test my theory also I was stuck for like half an hour. The setup is two rooms connected by a single hallway with a single inmate patrolling. The second room has multiple places to hide and a partition in between it. I would hide in different spots (once or twice getting caught) and whenever I changed spots the inmate would adjust his pathing to try and find me. I think that it's a really interesting thing to do and a great move for a horror game. It means you're never really safe when there are inmates around and it makes double inmate encounters even more terrifying. There is still a little room to 'game' the system here like anyone would do in a stealth game but that takes a fair bit of knowledge about the game and most people are scared shitless so super logical thought about the game's systems is out of the question. DumbRodent probably knows and could display this but I'd imagine watching him huddle in different lockers just to show you that now the scary penis men are looking over here this time would suck.

Double E: That reason is also why I don't really suggest hiding in lockers, inmates seem to be prone to check them even if you're hiding in a corner inches away. Though I've noticed they don't check all of them if there is more than one. It's a gamble if they pick to open the one you're in or not.

Razage posted:

That's interesting, it seems in some of these chase sections DumbRodent has to really know where he's going or he's going to get clobbered. It makes me leery of buying this game myself since I think it will lead to endless restarts until I learn the maps and I've never been a fan of those kinds of games.

The dickbros are amazing though, "He just vanished."

"Yeah, vanished, he must think we're a bunch of assholes."

Razage posted:

That's interesting, it seems in some of these chase sections DumbRodent has to really know where he's going or he's going to get clobbered. It makes me leery of buying this game myself since I think it will lead to endless restarts until I learn the maps and I've never been a fan of those kinds of games.

The dickbros are amazing though, "He just vanished."

"Yeah, vanished, he must think we're a bunch of assholes."

Galick posted:

So, I've watched all but the latest video (I wanna play through on my own first) and holy fuuuuuck the atmosphere in this game is oppressive as hell. It's honestly pretty uncomfortable for me to actually play at times, and I likely wouldn't be able to play it at all if I didn't have a friend talking with me while I did - and she's just as freaked out by it, haha.

But, the gameplay seems very cut and dry so far, and in the two pump/breaker area, I figured out pretty much how the AI works due to repetition. I was being too cautious, so I had to replay that one five or six times, and yeah, the AI is constantly aware of where you're at. It's just a matter of 'what pisses this guy off' more than anything. Until you see through that illusion it's a great way to build tension, but once you do, it's pretty drat obvious. Still a pretty fuckin' great game though, even if I do wish the AI was a bit more reactive instead of scripted.

Acquire Currency! posted:

Double E: That reason is also why I don't really suggest hiding in lockers, inmates seem to be prone to check them even if you're hiding in a corner inches away. Though I've noticed they don't check all of them if there is more than one. It's a gamble if they pick to open the one you're in or not.

1stGear posted:

Enemies will never check the hiding spot you're in (if they didn't see you enter it, obviously). They'll always check the locker next to the one you're in or stand just beside the bed you're under, but never take the final step.

1stGear posted:

Cardiovorax posted:

This is a good LP, not so good a game. Your commentary is really enjoyable, although I think there could be a just little bit more of it. I'd appreciate a small warning before the jumpscares, because gently caress you Outlast sudden screams blaring from my speakers are just startling, not scary.

DumbRodent posted:

Doing my best to maintain the illusion for the sake of the viewers, nonetheless.

Oddly, from my experience, this is not the case in Whistleblower. It caught me off-guard a couple times due to stalkers' behavior being different. I got yanked out from beneath a bed despite being perfectly hidden while slipping beneath it.

Edit: I made a tiny change to the OP, just being picky. Could you please put a tag in your post? Sorry for the hassle..


Thanks a ton!
While jumpscares can be pretty annoying, my goal in this LP is to preserve and present the game cinematically on its own merits. Giving warnings before jumpscares would risk killing the tension.
There is one particularly mean one I'll be giving a warning before though, or at least toning down the scarechord's volume.

DumbRodent posted:

Thanks a ton!
While jumpscares can be pretty annoying, my goal in this LP is to preserve and present the game cinematically on its own merits. Giving warnings before jumpscares would risk killing the tension.
There is one particularly mean one I'll be giving a warning before though, or at least toning down the scarechord's volume.