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If I remember correctly Pharmacokinetics made the fleshrats and you let them out.
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Daniel Mullins is the Inscryption etc guy. I assume it's just a nod since I don't recall him doing anything controversial ever.
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Part 10: Bog Business "We have finally discovered the base of the Eternal Swamp Cult. They've been launching assaults against our fracking operations for months now loving up our profits. If you go in there and kill their leader WILD PIG they'll be sure to devolve into endless infighting and bickering. Remember, don't eat any berries you can't identify." A swamp level so disgusting we go through it twice. One with a suit that has no "immediate" downsides, and one with no downsides. Both do not resolve the draw distance and sound of a directional mic recording a filled toilet bowl sloshing around. Cruelty Squad is a game that succeeds at assaulting your senses visually and aurally to make you feel disgusted, and this level is certainly up there on that front. Implants  CSIJ Level V Biosuit Slot: Chest A suit of writhing flesh that wraps around you and seals you in. Extremely good protection with no immediately apparent downsides. Armor: 40%  Augmented Arms Slot: Arms Throw things with more force. Especially good for using someone's head as a projectile weapon.  Pneumatic Legs Slot: Legs Perfect for leaping over obstacles and getting to hard to reach areas. Jump bonus: 3  Hazmat Suit Slot: Chest Protection against toxic hazards. Funny looking.
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The biosuit seems warm and inviting. 10/10 would watch you wear again
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I was just poking about the Cruelty Squad Discord and it looks like the games currently 40% off but also Softdisks got a new game in the works too!
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raises armour by 40%... reduces screen region by 40%  Zeniel posted:I was just poking about the Cruelty Squad Discord and it looks like the games currently 40% off but also Softdisks got a new game in the works too! is it the one being posted on the dev's twitter? it's nice to see a mech-type game https://twitter.com/villecallio/status/1576596428629381122
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Part 11: Miner's Miracle "The CEO of our subsidiary Godhead Heavy Industries, Michael Brain, was last heard of when he left for some silent retreat in Transnistria. Our sources say he had been suffering from severe burnout and had been talking about leaving the company. We don't know his exact location but you should start where his tracking signal went dead. Track him down and kill him, we have no use for someone so flakey. Shame as he used to be a great leader during his early days. I used to be a big fan, even had his poster on my wall." Pretty much every aspect of Cruelty Squad is designed to look purposefully ugly in a way that can be both repulsive and hilarious at the same time. Miner's Miracle manages to still retain that, but the atmosphere on display in this level I find makes it the most unnerving and creepy that this game gets. The whole start of the area with no enemies but a few NPCs warning you of something bad happening in the mines, only to go deeper and deeper and all the horrible implications that come from it. All I can say, always check where your meat comes from. Weapons  BAG-82 "Strange experimental caseless pistol created by an ancient civilization. Foul odour, who knows where this has been." Implants  Flowerchute Slot: Head An extraterrestrial flower of unknown origin planted on the user's head. Works as a parachute and augments cognitive skills.
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Oct 5, 2022 18:22
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The Many ssssings to ussss.
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Should have brought the flamethrower to burn it all down burn it now 
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I mean, if the meat doesn't come from an animal, then isn't it still vegan? This is clearly mineral meat, not animal meat.
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Well I don't know what ad was being referred to exactly but it does remind me how utterly deranged the PS1 commercial were.
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Man, now I'm hungry.
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Good news! Your deranged fever dream of a commercial is real! Start screaming in horror at the real-world Cruelty Squad.
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Randalor posted:Good news! Your deranged fever dream of a commercial is real! Start screaming in horror at the real-world Cruelty Squad. The even more hosed up part is finally learning that this was technically a car commercial. For the Scion xB. What the making GBS threads christ...
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You know what though, I actually miss when adverts were a bit weird. Everything is weirdly anodyne now.
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drat, Kallio also had hidden some big lore here in this level https://twitter.com/villecallio/status/1573383992669343749
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Randalor posted:I mean, if the meat doesn't come from an animal, then isn't it still vegan? This is clearly mineral meat, not animal meat. Presumably deposited by meateorites.
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mortons stork posted:drat, Kallio also had hidden some big lore here in this level That sounds too... "normal" for this game. Where's the theory that they actually BECAME the meat mountain, or the leaders of the cult? Is there any indication about what's up with the cult anyways? Do they say anything about why they become fleshrat hosts, even if it's deranged nonsense?
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The Lone Badger posted:Presumably deposited by meateorites. God drat it
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So far I'm choosing to think the flesh mines are the result of the fleshrats making a parasitic nest out of the cultists and getting them to cultivate an area for them to thrive in. It is somehow less ominous and horrifying than the alternatives.
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Meanwhile, the suggestion of a "Meat Mine" took me straight to Discworld. In case you're not familiar with Terry Pratchett's Discworld's cosmology: the world is literally a disc rotating on the back of four elephants on the back of a giant cosmic sea turtle. This is actually established, provable fact. Well apparently what is less established is if there were always four elephants. There's a theory that there were originally five elephants, but one of them made a mis-step in their cosmic dance and instead of avoiding the sun which orbits the disc it stepped on it and was whisked up and away before coming crashing down. This would explain the literal deposits of meat, fat, treacle, tallow and gold (the elephants are said to have gold for nerves) found in the world. In fact the Ankh-Morpork night watch house was stationed on Treacle Mine Road until it was burned down by a rampaging dragon in Guards! Guards! (it was later rebuilt) Treacle Mine Road was one of the main thoroughfares of the city because it serviced the city's rather profitable Treacle Mine. Sadly by the time of the books the Ankh-Morpork treacle mine was put out of business by the far cheaper treacle wells in Quirm, but Vimes remember the miners handing him and other kids some scraps of sweet, sugary treacle to chew on when they came up at the end of their shifts.
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The Lone Badger posted:Presumably deposited by meateorites. From a webcomic: 
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Randalor posted:I mean, if the meat doesn't come from an animal, then isn't it still vegan? This is clearly mineral meat, not animal meat. The Lone Badger posted:Presumably deposited by meateorites. the gently caress is this Kingdom of Loathing now?
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Part 12: Casino Catastrophe "The Corporate Arch Demoness Elsa Holmes recently spent an evening at the esteemed Fatberg Casino and somehow managed to lose the entirety of her vacation bonus. She's been seething mad ever since then and wants revenge. If this was anyone else we'd just laugh it off but since it's her we'll have to do something about it, that is go and murder the owner of the casino in his office. You should try some of the slotmachines while you're there, they're absolutely breathtaking." Fatberg's Casino is an interesting location. It's the place you'll spend a lot of time if you're trying to 100% complete this game in terms of weapons and fish collected, because this level is home to some items you can only get either by fishing in the river of sewage or testing your luck on the gun slot machine. Naturally, the latter I got off camera because I refuse to waste that much hard drive space recording a slot machine. The weapon's not that great either, in fact it's explicitly a huge joke. Also, we are Gunther Hermann. Weapons  Zippy 3000 "The ultimate weapon, in ejection failures and misfires. You'll be lucky to get two shots out of this thing without blowing off your fingers." Implants  CSIJ Level IV Body Armor Slot: Chest Biobreeder spider silk fiber with thick and heavy graphene composite plates. Armor: 50% Speed: -3 Jump bonus: -5  Flechette Grenade Slot: Arms Gives everything nearby a nice new coating of tungsten flechetes.  Skull Gun Slot: Head Popular among completely braindead company mechs. A little bit of stuff is scooped out of the skull to make a better fit. Fires a three round burst of micro-caliber HE rounds.
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Oh the actual Zip 22, the gun the Zippy 3000 is based off of, is even more hilarious when you find out about it. Have a Forgotten Weapons episode about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9bULArrKs4 Some highlights: -It actually reached production and was in production for about a year -The guy who made it basically sold all of the tooling equipment for his successful firearms company for new tooling equipment to make this polymer pile of garbage. -This is a gun that was marketed at being "super safe". Well to load/cock this gun you had to press a lever that sticks out the front above the barrel -One of its purposes was to be slotted on a rifle's underbarrel rail. So you'd have an underbarrel .22 on a rifle...for...reasons? -Even Gun Jesus can't help but calling it a piece of garbage
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Hey now, the top rail thing also allowed you to mount serious optics on it and potentially to store it by sliding it on a compatible device in, for example, your vehicle. Yeah, it's a piece of poo poo widely credited for killing the company that made it. Fatbergs are, of course, accumulations of solid, non biodegradable materials and all sorts of fatty substances in sewers, they eventually start to undergo saponification and basically turn sewer lines into very expensive cast molds for turd and soap cement sculptures. While England has had a lot of trouble with them in ancient victorian sewers (old sewers are far more vulnerable than new ones), the Paris sewers authority seems to get rid of them by pushing gigantic stone spheres through the old sewers regularly and annihilate them that way, and apparently have done so for centuries. Well, if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
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I was wondering why the Casino was called that and if it was based on a person's name or the name of another Casino, but then I realised that it is infact a Sewer themed Casino so I guess that could be the only reason.
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Part 13: Idiot Party "It's that time again. The elites from all over the world gather at the Rothenburg Fortress and wear their stupid rubber suits and masks. Don't you think it would be really funny if you went there and killed them all? Just hosed them up completely. Imagine their faces behind those masks if you gored their high priest right in front of them. Oh my god. You should really do it don't you think? I mean why not. It would really make your day. They're automatons. They have no souls. Think about it." Ever wanted to gently caress up a party for rich people? This mission's for you! Can easily be beaten by taking the long way and murdering party goers and gunmen as you wade through their debauchery, or you can jump down an elevator shaft in the back and get a clean shot of the target from the opposite side of the ground floor. Also a special guest weapon from a certain horror movie. Mostly. It fires from a gun so it's got a bit of Turok in it as well, but we all knew what we were thinking of when we saw it. Weapons  Spectacular Dynamics MCR Carbine "A futuristic microcaliber platform that never reached a huge popularity despite many advantages. Uses strange factory sealed disposable magazines and proprietary caseless ammunition."  Security Systems Cerebral Bore "Security Systems have done it once again. This incredibly high tech vat grown bioweapon is itself a small biobreeder, capable of creating a small burrower flesh orb that goes for the target's head and empties it on the floor. For energy it sucks some life force out of the user. Neat huh?" Implants  Tattered Rain Hat Slot: Head Old and worn. You've never seen it before but it feels nostalgic.  Bouncy Suit Slot: Chest A special suit made out of exotic metamaterials designed for the next generation of orbital drop shocktroopers.
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Food for thought: The Zippy 3000 fires interrobangs.
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The Cerebral Bore looks fun, but what practical use does it have? 20 health is quite a lot to throw away for a single kill.
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Tombot posted:The Cerebral Bore looks fun, but what practical use does it have? 20 health is quite a lot to throw away for a single kill. Outside of that, there are two extra situations where the Cerebral Bore can be slightly more viable, and one of those is with an implant that normally is designed to randomly negate any sort of damage taken and/or break upon hit (the Composite Helmet). The Cerebral Bore on activation breaks the implant in question every time, but spares you the health loss. You don't see that situation in the LP, but later on you'll see what the helmet's really mostly used for. The second situation, well, that's kind of a spoiler, and I will fully admit that I went to test it just minutes ago and didn't realize it was a thing until now. So I'll just have to leave you guessing what that might be. Still, with how little ammo it has, you're either gonna save it for special occasions or take the ammo gland to keep using it (and constantly eating food to heal). I just appreciate it being here for the multi layered reference because really, more games could stand to use the metal orb from Phantasm as a weapon. Or in this game's case, a flesh orb, because of course it's flesh.
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So we've given up on pretending that we're doing this for the money and just embraced murder-as-a-lifestyle?
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Well we got paid at the end
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Usually the company pays us to do missions, but I think this one was below board and it was the commissioner paying us cash in hand this time. I wonder what the lasting effects of killing the richest people in the world all at once during one of their parties could be (nothing possibly).
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The Lone Badger posted:So we've given up on pretending that we're doing this for the money and just embraced murder-as-a-lifestyle? In a world where murder is just a minor inconvenience, is this really so bad? It's like those prank shows, where the joke is your death!
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Tombot posted:Usually the company pays us to do missions, but I think this one was below board and it was the commissioner paying us cash in hand this time. I wonder what the lasting effects of killing the richest people in the world all at once during one of their parties could be (nothing possibly). Absolutely 0 If death is an inconvinience to us, a relatively well off gun for hire Its nothing for the ultra rich Like the one guy in darkworld who put a hits on himself
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I wish the DNA scrambler had a lasting effect, like targets turned into a bouncy castle or just stayed as a garbled tumor mass on replays
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Given the mission briefing, those rich people have all already been killed.
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They're all just neurotransmitter powered flesh golems, it isn't even killing really.
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At the end of the day, aren't we ALL neurotransmitter-powered flesh autonotoms?
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