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Prime Mover is seriously interesting. PSA: Once you get to about world 3, there's a widget at the top that lets you do the same missions in a challenge mode, which has some extra constraints (like "no trash") that make obvious solutions for the original puzzle no longer work. Also a bunch of the puzzles I just look at and go "how the hell are you supposed to do that?", which is a good thing for a puzzle game to have.
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Can anyone who is familiar tell me how the leaderboards and friends scores work for a DRM free copy of Opus Magnum? I think my dad will love the game, but he isn't on Steam and I'd like to be able to compare our scores.
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NObodyNOWHERE posted:Can anyone who is familiar tell me how the leaderboards and friends scores work for a DRM free copy of Opus Magnum? I think my dad will love the game, but he isn't on Steam and I'd like to be able to compare our scores.
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SupSuper posted:They don't, you only get the histograms. Figured. Ah hell. Thanks for the quick response.
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Something a bit different this time around, looks like: https://twitter.com/zachtronics/status/1320774950857236480 quote:The year is 1983 and the United States of America must defend itself from an enemy it could have never imagined— an America from an alternate universe that will stop at nothing to seize control of the country’s heartland!
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that looks cool, really curious what the game will be like!
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Oct 26, 2020 19:19
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I wonder if this is going to be more like Ironclad Tactics.
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Oct 26, 2020 23:06
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Dear Zachtronics, please make a modern version of Omega. Thank you. Love, me.
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Oct 27, 2020 03:06
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I love these games and I love that Opus Magnum solutions look cool even when they're bad. Also the old SpaceChem tournaments are legit some of the funniest things I've seen out of these forums and I have never successfully been able to describe why the magic stick is so funny to anybody else.
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Guy Axlerod posted:I wonder if this is going to be more like Ironclad Tactics. I wondered if it was going to be like Carnage Heart
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Oct 27, 2020 13:13
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Captain Foo posted:I wondered if it was going to be like Carnage Heart Man. We need a new one of that.
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Oct 27, 2020 23:41
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The only Zachtronics brand game I've finished is Eliza lol (and yes it's also the one where I actually beat the solitaire too) Time to see how I fare with this new one
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Oh man, I'm very excited for this. Apparently Ironclad Tactics was pretty middling, but I bet that they've learned from that, and everything else in the intervening years.
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Molek-Syntez is on sale, for the first time since I've had it on my wishlist, so definitely worth the 5 bucks. Thoughts after about 10 puzzles: The animations are nearly as hypnotic as Opus Magnum, though not as high fidelity I rather like the 8 bit-ish graphics. It's definitely got much more 'chemistry' fidelity than Spacechem but even then it's pretty silly. I'm usually a 'fast' solutions guy, and this one goes against my basic instincts. In Opus Magnum, the fastest solutions I could usually come up with were to use a shitload of arms and have each of them specialize in a very small set of instructions. In Molek Syntez, a bit like SpaceChem, you have a fixed number of operators and so having each of them do everything in parallel seems like the best way to get low cycle counts? I'm sure that's not feasible for larger molecules but it seems like the basic base.
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Nov 5, 2020 18:28
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Waiting for my lunchbreak to try it out.
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I went and bought it. Initial impressions - it's a bit Advance Wars with hexes, with some chess-like strategy thrown in. Kinda some DNA in common with Into the Breach as well? Units have 4 pips of health, plus armor has armor. Infantry can either move 1 hex or attack, tanks can move, attack, or move and weaker attack on same turn. You need to pay a lot of attention to positioning and terrain - if you leave your units in the open and in range of the enemy, they'll immediately get wrecked. I'm only at the very beginning, but AI seems very docile - it'd maneuver near its staring deployment positions, but made no attempt to circle me or do anything too aggresive. Haven't unlocked the radio or solitaire yet, but there's pdf manuals!
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Lmao, ok, I kinda take it back about the docile AI. I got to the second mission when the enemy gets their own move&attack units and it kicked my rear end immediately. It really is all about range and positioning
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grate deceiver posted:Lmao, ok, I kinda take it back about the docile AI. I got to the second mission when the enemy gets their own move&attack units and it kicked my rear end immediately. It really is all about range and positioning I did ok as long as i remembered that the mission ends as soon as you take the last point (can only take one a turn) let those dirty yankees hide in the trees
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drat, Chapter 1 Mission 7 is hard as gently caress. The enemy got these wayy too overpowered and fast tank/everything killers and I don't know what to counter with.
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Nov 5, 2020 23:38
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Are the missions separate instances or is it a campaign that becomes harder if you don't do well in the earlier battles?
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Each mission is separate, you get a set number of points at start to spend on a predefined selection of units for each mission. The campaign is just for story continuity.
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Separate instances. But it becomes harder, of course. A difference with something like Advance Wars is you start with buying your initial units in a reinforcement, phase, the you get one or two extra reinforcement phases, with their own points to spend, after a couple turns. So in some cases it's all about finding a combination that'll allow you to establish an initial beachhead while waiting for more units to arrive. Finding the right counters is super important. Tanks in particular are brutal because their armor makes them very studry to machine guns but infantry and especially anti-tank infantry can wreck them. So far (I'm, I dunno, 7-8 missions in?) establishing a strong defensive position is absolutely the way to go, especially in maps where you have to capture objectives in a specific order. Basically, prepare an ambush around the first or second control point, keep the enemy busy there while a chopper or some other fast vehicle can drop small units at the already captured control points the AI won't leave units behind to guard. That way even if the ambush seems like a lost cause you can make a desperate grab for the next point and have a cascade effect since the enemy won't be able to go back fast enough (even though you can only capture one point per turn). That doesn't work quite as well for the maps where the objectives aren't done in sequence though. It's probably pointless to turtle and seek to annihilate all enemy units though, going for the objective is absolutely the way to go. You just want to disrupt them enough (usually by blowing up their tanks and air support) that you can run around doing what you're actually there to do unhindered. Infantry can ride on pretty much any vehicle although that'll likely prevent them from using their weapons if they aren't dedicated troop transports. The real powerful stuff like tank killers needs one turn to set up and clear firing lines. Artillery can fire over obstacles but tends to be weak, and even useless against armor, and imprecise, but it's great against infantry. Pretty much all the secondary abilities are much more useful than they may seem at first. The extra docs this time around are straight up US armed forces manuals. I'm not too far in the story but the obvious civil war subtext makes me think it's no coincidence the game's released today of all days. Chev fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Nov 6, 2020 |
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ymgve posted:drat, Chapter 1 Mission 7 is hard as gently caress. The enemy got these wayy too overpowered and fast tank/everything killers and I don't know what to counter with. The utility choppers can’t even fire from the air, and the loving kiowas can move 10 and shoot. I can’t even hit the goddamn thing it zips away from everything that could hit it
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Just refunded Mobius Front after 40 minutes. I was expecting more puzzles but according to Zach on reddit: "The range of the "15 to 40 hours" estimate is due to some people finding the game more challenging than others. The TIS-330 puzzle minigame is probably 30 to 60 minutes of gameplay at most. It's one of my favorite puzzles that I've designed, but it's definitely just a small part of the experience. This is a wargame first and foremost." 
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ymgve posted:drat, Chapter 1 Mission 7 is hard as gently caress. The enemy got these wayy too overpowered and fast tank/everything killers and I don't know what to counter with. This is a real downer to read as someone who's failed mission 6 three times now. This game is hard Ok, so I beat it five minutes after writing this post. The secret was to rush the hell out of them. Started with three tanks and just blitzed my way to the end Man with Hat fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Nov 6, 2020 |
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The key to mission 7 is to bring some artillery (I brought 2 on first phase and one more later) and burrow near the west end of the road. With 2 deployed anti-tank jeeps and 2-3 truckloads of infantry in the nearby woods the enemy will mostly act like a scaredy cat (you also need to block a northern forest path with some infantry, anti-tank units are super vulnerable to infantry as long as you use woods effectively). Also bring a chopper and have it go up north to first the optional objective, and then east to the anti-air stuff (but if you get too close it'll get shot down). Since artillery can shoot pretty much anywhere on the map as long as someone can see the hex a recon chopper makes it a force of nature against anything that isn't armored. Mission 6 is sorta the same idea IIRC, only with less attack range. Chev fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Nov 6, 2020 |
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Chev posted:The key to mission 7 is to bring some artillery (I brought 2 on first phase and one more later) and burrow near the west end of the road. With 2 deployed anti-tank jeeps and 2-3 truckloads of infantry in the nearby woods the enemy will mostly act like a scaredy cat (you also need to block a northern forest path with some infantry, anti-tank units are super vulnerable to infantry as long as you use woods effectively). Also bring a chopper and have it go up north to first the optional objective, and then east to the anti-air stuff (but if you get too close it'll get shot down). Since artillery can shoot pretty much anywhere on the map as long as someone can see the hex a recon chopper makes it a force of nature against anything that isn't armored. I beat mission 7 by having artillery at the east end and rushing with tanks. Their tanks went to hunt my artillery at first so I got a good head start before they turned around which let me move forward with a tank and kill the AA. Didn't know there were optional objectives
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The briefing box for mission 7 tells you about the optional objective. You should pursue it, too, that's how you unlock the radio minigame.
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GotLag posted:Just refunded Mobius Front after 40 minutes. I was expecting more puzzles but according to Zach on reddit: Yeahhhh I really don't think this is my kind of game, either. I don't think I'll refund it though (support your local game dev!). Zach gets me again! 
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GotLag posted:Just refunded Mobius Front after 40 minutes. I was expecting more puzzles but according to Zach on reddit: Kinda in the mood for a war game, so I'll give Mobius Front a shot. I'm actually pretty impressed how experimental Zach is able to be in shunting between genres and styles.
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Anyone have non-spoiler tips for TIS-100? I cannot figure out how I am supposed to compare two values. I am stuck on the one where you need to output the lesser value then the larger value then finish with zero. I just want a nudge in the right direction not a full on solution. Also wanting to beat TIS-100 before I fire up shenzen.io but unsure, is the gameplay disparate enough they can be played independently or does shenzen feel like a sequel in terms of gameplay?
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Jeesis posted:Anyone have non-spoiler tips for TIS-100? I cannot figure out how I am supposed to compare two values. I am stuck on the one where you need to output the lesser value then the larger value then finish with zero. The conditional jump instructions (JEZ, JNZ, JGZ, JLZ) let you do different things based on the value in the accumulator. Can you think of anything that would let you meet the conditions of one of those instructions only when A is greater than B?
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Jeesis posted:Also wanting to beat TIS-100 before I fire up shenzen.io but unsure, is the gameplay disparate enough they can be played independently or does shenzen feel like a sequel in terms of gameplay? Shenzhen is so much more accessible and refined, it's a breath of fresh air after going through TIS-100. If anything, TIS-100 is the sequel in terms of difficulty. I'm really digging TIS-330! The side missions to unlock more TIS-330 gameplay certainly are decent enough. They offend my instincts of wanting to wipe clean every map when you very specifically cannot do that and need to rush objectives, but I'm managing.
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I'm getting into Modulus Front, but at the same time it's kinda obvious that Zach is approaching the genre as an outsider. Combat is extraordinarily random, which combined with the low unit count means you can set up a great assault with solid mitigation, but the rng just decides you're just losing the mission today. Scouting is really important, but really needs to be done with infantry, which take forever to move around. Combine that with large sections of some maps being empty, and you can be crawling through some maps if you're not willing to risk a tank to a surprise ambush. Still enjoying it, but it's no Advanced Wars. Bug Squash fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Nov 8, 2020 |
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Crossposting from the general Steam thread in the hopes they might spot this in a quieter thread: StrongMouse your Steam account has been compromised. Go reset your password now.   
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Taratang posted:Crossposting from the general Steam thread in the hopes they might spot this in a quieter thread:
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Oh yeah, I got a message from them too, but I just ignored it. Hopefully they're aware.
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I played through some of my zachlike backlog this holiday, and really clicked with Exapunks to such an extent that I beat the game without even checking hints. I'm not sure if it's just easier than the other games, or if I entered some kind of highly specific zen state. For reference, Shenzhen IO has me feeling like a dunce and I'm only halfway in. I feel like there's a lot more wiggle room in Exapunks than Shenzhen, so it's easy to come up with a big awkward solution.
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