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Played one tonight and got a win. Final stats: 27 turns 1 passenger killed: -10 87.5 Psychosis: -87.5 0 turns over par: 0 Final score: -97.5 It definitely feels a little more fair than it did before, but still tough. Also knowing that I could safely dismantle the screens in navigation for more parts helped. That ability should definitely be tutorialized because it is drat near necessary. I also kept engines and replicator overclocked as often as reasonably possible. I got lucky in a few ways: I had cryo locked and broken for a few turns but got the medical implant that prevents 1 passenger a turn from dying. I also got the "you can inoculate a passenger from a fake disease for -stress but a 5% chance of killing him" insanity which let me clear a bunch of stress midgame. (By the way, I wonder if you might want to change the flavor of that a little so people don't think you're making some sly anti-vaxx COVID denier statement). The one passenger I lost was because I got the insanity where I had to kill one or take 50 fatigue per turn and that much fatigue that late in the game would have had been a disaster. I was super low on parts anyway so I killed a damaged pod rather than fix it. Completed the "Off by One" story arc which was pretty good.
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SoggyBobcat posted:Thank you, I really appreciate it. I appreciate you giving our game a chance. On that subject, I also looked into some other non-GPU code and found some incredibly inefficient functions that were chewing up half the framerate or more. While they won't compensate for a lack of GPU, the performance difference is massive enough I imagine that with our 0.4 release the game will run much better for you. Stay tuned!
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StarkRavingMad posted:Played one tonight and got a win. Final stats: noted on the inoculation stuff, i'll think about that. to at least make it unequivocal in this thread at least, soul and i are both very much of the opinion that COVID is real and the vaccine is a good thing and that people who say otherwise are dumbhead sillypants people. we've gotten a number of other insanities in that encourage killing people though, because in our original vision of the game we kind of saw psychosis and passengers as dual health bars. if i am at 50 psychosis and all my passengers are alive, you'd better believe that i am no longer bending over backwards for the meatbags, as far as i'm concerned at least 4 of them need to die before i will accept a single extra psychosis point for their benefit. what's actually been the case, however, is that we've seen numerous players happily drive themselves to breakdown to avoid even a single passenger dying. one thing we will need to do better at communicating is that your job is to get A human to the end, not ALL humans. playing no-deaths is really kind of a challenge mode. we've added a few extra insanities to help try to drive this point home, and all of the random events that kill passengers will now give you some benefit to doing that. gamma burst is probably the biggest instance, it can let you allow 3 passengers to die, but it gives you a whopping 12 machine parts for doing that. that said, the narrative arcs kind of support this play style, since you will still advance through the story so long as you complete the arc. if you happen to become a quivering, senseless wreck later, well, that's just the hazards of the job. unrelated, but did you see any inspirations or cooldown events? The cooldown events are pretty easy to pick out, they're the very rare event where there is only one choice and that choice is a very good thing. if you didn't at any point i'd be kind of interested in inspecting your savegame. you can find the saves at C:\Users\[Name]\AppData\Roaming\EndlessDark, but they unfortunately disappear after you see the score to make room for the next game. don't be afraid to toss the file up somewhere and link it though, even just uploading it to a garbage discord chat is plenty to toss it into this thread. we specifically tried to dial in these boons to fire when you're starting to death spiral, specifically to pull you back from that brink and keep you playing. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Coolguye posted:we've gotten a number of other insanities in that encourage killing people though, because in our original vision of the game we kind of saw psychosis and passengers as dual health bars. if i am at 50 psychosis and all my passengers are alive, you'd better believe that i am no longer bending over backwards for the meatbags, as far as i'm concerned at least 4 of them need to die before i will accept a single extra psychosis point for their benefit. what's actually been the case, however, is that we've seen numerous players happily drive themselves to breakdown to avoid even a single passenger dying. one thing we will need to do better at communicating is that your job is to get A human to the end, not ALL humans. playing no-deaths is really kind of a challenge mode. this explains so much
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Coolguye posted:I appreciate you. I have no delusions of some grand marketing blitz or anything but I would like the game to have a rating on Steam. Review posted, will drive poor lil robot friend more insane soon.
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Runa posted:this explains so much yeah kill like 3 people in the second act of the game your next run and see how much easier the director takes it on you. just saying. we will be retooling this a bit in 0.4 so it's less drastic but it's very much in the spirit of the game for dead people to help your situation. DreadUnknown posted:Review posted, will drive poor lil robot friend more insane soon. i appreciate you! \o/!!!
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Coolguye posted:noted on the inoculation stuff, i'll think about that. to at least make it unequivocal in this thread at least, soul and i are both very much of the opinion that COVID is real and the vaccine is a good thing and that people who say otherwise are dumbhead sillypants people. Yeah I didn't mean to attribute any negative viewpoint to you, so much as it's a messy puddle I don't want your game to inadvertently step in. You know how the Steam forums get. quote:we've gotten a number of other insanities in that encourage killing people though, because in our original vision of the game we kind of saw psychosis and passengers as dual health bars. if i am at 50 psychosis and all my passengers are alive, you'd better believe that i am no longer bending over backwards for the meatbags, as far as i'm concerned at least 4 of them need to die before i will accept a single extra psychosis point for their benefit. what's actually been the case, however, is that we've seen numerous players happily drive themselves to breakdown to avoid even a single passenger dying. one thing we will need to do better at communicating is that your job is to get A human to the end, not ALL humans. playing no-deaths is really kind of a challenge mode. So as a player, I've been seeing it as my primary mission to get the passengers where they are going, and basically everything else can be sacrificed for that. There's a few ways I can think of to make it more clear to the player that this (at least arguably) isn't the case. The first is a UI change. Right now, in the task list, Cryo blinks colors when it is damaged, as does each individual pod. To me, that indicates that each pod is in the category of mission-critical. What if instead, mission critical systems did that (Cryo, Reactor, Navigation, Engines, maybe Shields), and less important systems (Observation, Command, door breakers, etc) stayed white? And then each individual pod if damaged was also white? This would communicate to me that each individual person is not considered mission-critical by the ship's programming. And in a way, that's more horrible and dystopian if the ship itself considers each individual person as being on the same level of importance as, say, a door breaker. The second is that you say above "you'd better believe that i am no longer bending over backwards for the meatbags, as far as i'm concerned at least 4 of them need to die before i will accept a single extra psychosis point for their benefit." To me, that indicates in your conception of the game some resentment toward the passengers that I'm not necessarily feeling as a player. Part of it is that I can see resentment toward the people who put Robbie in this position, but it's not clear to me as the player (and maybe I missed some lore in that regard) that the pod people are responsible. For all I know, they could be unwilling conscripted workers, or prisoners, or some poor disadvantaged folks being sent off to colonize a hellworld because they had no other means to get by. They could be in as hopeless a position as Robbie. All I know is that they are helpless in their pods, and I'm their custodian. Currently, I feel parental toward them. So one thing you could do is put something in the intro of each game describing something Robbie knows about the mission. It could even change game to game. They could be the idle super-rich, putting Robbie through all of this just to vacation on a paradise planet. They could be industrialists, travelling to wreck a planet and exploit its resources. You get the picture; just something to communicate to the player that these people are probably assholes and this trip is their fault. A second thing I could think of would be an occasional event where a passenger wakes up and communicates with Robbie. Could be a chance when a pod is damaged that a passenger briefly comes out of it and asks for a status report. Maybe this breaks the sense of isolation you are going for too much, I don't know. But I'm thinking they could range from dismissive "Shut up and tell me when we're going to get there" to outright hostile "Get your metal claws away from me, you horrible thing!" before they go back under. You could have the occasional nice person but for the most part they would treat Robbie at best as another piece of machinery. Or if you didn't want the passengers to wake up, maybe a pod breaking could "accidentally" unlock a diary log, or glimpse into the sleeping person's thought patterns, or something. Some way to attribute some personality traits to some of them and build some resentment. If we know Bill in pod 4 is a real jerk, and now his pod is damaged, well maybe my precious repair parts could be better used fixing that pesky stuck door in navigation... Or going the other way, rather than humanizing the passengers, you could say -- or just imply -- that some or all of the passengers are clones. You wouldn't even have to explicitly call this out, now that I'm thinking on it. What if the passengers in pods 6-10 had the same names as passengers 1-5? Like, Pod 1 is Bob Jones and Pod 6 is Bob Jones(2) with all the same stats; Pod 2 is Amy Smith and Pod 7 is Amy Smith(2), etc. You wouldn't even need to comment further on it on the game, just let the players see that in the manifest and draw their own conclusions. It could just be a glitch in the passenger list, we know the ship's systems are not infallible. We couldn't be sure as the player. But it could be that the ship is carrying a redundant clone of each person. Which creates some interesting moral questions. Is it fine to kill off a clone? Is a life less precious if it isn't unique? At the very least, players might be more inclined to kill off what they think is a redundant clone. quote:unrelated, but did you see any inspirations or cooldown events? The cooldown events are pretty easy to pick out, they're the very rare event where there is only one choice and that choice is a very good thing. if you didn't at any point i'd be kind of interested in inspecting your savegame. you can find the saves at C:\Users\[Name]\AppData\Roaming\EndlessDark, but they unfortunately disappear after you see the score to make room for the next game. don't be afraid to toss the file up somewhere and link it though, even just uploading it to a garbage discord chat is plenty to toss it into this thread. we specifically tried to dial in these boons to fire when you're starting to death spiral, specifically to pull you back from that brink and keep you playing. I know I saw one the first time I went over on stress. Don't remember the stats exactly but it was better than the standard options so I took it. I don't recall any others.
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yeah there's an inspiration for the first stress break that is supposed to give you a backoff thing, but it kind of assumes you are going to take it easy for a few turns. there are others. i'd be interested in getting your savegames so i can look at them, i have a sneaking suspicion your play style is finding a seam in our difficulty calculations wherein the hurts you're taking are not being properly evaluated or responded to by the Director.
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Coolguye posted:yeah there's an inspiration for the first stress break that is supposed to give you a backoff thing, but it kind of assumes you are going to take it easy for a few turns. there are others. Do you need a game in progress, or are old save games archived somewhere? And where does the game put save files?
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i unfortunately need to ask for a game in progress, after you hit continue at the score screen your save is deleted to make room for your next game. i should add a card about that on the trello, really. the game puts its save files at C:\Users\[Name]\AppData\Roaming\EndlessDark - on windows, anyway. let me know if you're using our linux build and i'll double check that.
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Coolguye posted:i unfortunately need to ask for a game in progress, after you hit continue at the score screen your save is deleted to make room for your next game. i should add a card about that on the trello, really. Okay, next time I play a game, I'll back up saves at a few points and then put them in a zip or something and send you a dropbox link to them.
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Don't worry about doing it iteratively, just try to remember as you hit the end game or get close to it. The save includes all the debug logging since the beginning of the game because, you know, early access. we basically have all the information we need to run a let's play recreation in that 40kb file. in advance, i appreciate you! \o/
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Coolguye posted:Don't worry about doing it iteratively, just try to remember as you hit the end game or get close to it. The save includes all the debug logging since the beginning of the game because, you know, early access. we basically have all the information we need to run a let's play recreation in that 40kb file. Ok, here's one for you: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ff6r7i2q017xlyx/EndlessDark.zip?dl=0 Not a great run, I won it on turn 28 with 2 passengers dead (one intentional) and like 97.5% psychosis. I made some poor choices midgame. I saw 3 or 4 inspirations, I think...makes sense I'd see more this time since my back was against the wall for a lot of it.
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OK, this is starting to make some sense.code:code:code:On turn 18, you made a bunch of machine parts to get everything fixed, right after you got the persecution complex. Repairing all of those systems crashed your tension and put the director in a spot where it was trying to pressure you with random events for a few turns, which always offer you a chance to gently caress yourself up rather than gently caress the ship up. This kind of confirms something that soul pointed out to me a few days ago and I ultimately agreed with. We should not be firing random events in response to tension being low; it's too hard to quantify what they will do, and it creates these weird situations where players are technically on a break from the tension, but it sure as hell doesn't feel like it because they are getting hammered with random events, which all require some fairly deep thinking even if you aren't reading the prompt; figuring out which option to choose is rarely easy. 0.4 will have a new class of ship malfunctions that we use for this sort of situation, where the ship has some sort of larger systemic failure that causes you to run around and coax it back into working order by doing some dumb ritual to the machine spirit, rather than repairing something. It will be a much more consistent response that you can pace out over a few turns if your stress and fatigue can't handle it right now. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Mar 4, 2023 |
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Coolguye posted:OK, this is starting to make some sense. Yeah that all makes sense to me and sounds like a good adjustment. I'm aware of how things like the director work, but I don't want to be in a position of trying to "game the Director" and keep things moderately screwed up to try and keep my tension low as opposed to Robbie "doing his best" -- especially since I'm sort of early access beta testing for you all here, and that's probably how most players would play the full game.
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Well there's not a lot of gaming that needs to go on because we intentionally set up the big jumps that the director has for tension to be poor catch-up methods in terms of raw numbers. If you have enough of a turn where the director has to get 30+ tension out, we could easily get that done by guaranteeing system damage. But we don't do that because if you're that far ahead, you deserve to STAY ahead for a little bit. That was why we went with events in the first place, precisely since we knew they were probably not going to get you the raw numbers. From a numerical perspective this actually stll works pretty well because were right where you should be on tension for most of the game after this, though. code:code:etc etc, you spiked up to 90 tension on one turn but it was because you got unlucky with system damage (your reactor took a hit and it knocked half of the ship offline), but you repaired stuff and it was OK afterward. This is the big thing that makes it clear how bad you got hammered with events though: code:e: i can confirm you did NOT see a cooldown event at any point, too; you were very much on top of the harsh tension spikes, and cooldown events wait to see if you have a couple bad turns in a row before they kick off. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Mar 4, 2023 |
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Coolguye posted:and then the observation window gives you some extras that maybe explains up to 12 or so. And I rarely use the observation window, to be honest, usually only if I feel like I want to gamble on getting the stress reduction. I bet I only used the window like 4 or 5 times max. So very likely the large majority there were random events.
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StarkRavingMad posted:And I rarely use the observation window, to be honest, usually only if I feel like I want to gamble on getting the stress reduction. I bet I only used the window like 4 or 5 times max. So very likely the large majority there were random events. You're gonna love the new bot dropped with 0.4, Annie, who is alllll about using the Observation Window to swap out her insanities for other insanities.
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speaking of 0.4, i should probably put out some of our preliminary patch notes:code:Coolguye fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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from our discord last night:code:
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I know, isn't it awesome?!
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heheh. you're gonna love 0.4. fortunately it shouldn't take too long to get there, the only major impediment left is Annie's artwork, and we got the first draft of her low psychosis setup yesterday (spoilers: she will not be at low psychosis for long):  Obviously lots of detail work still needs to be done but her coloration and form are pretty close to correct.
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I had the scrambled UI insanity mixed with "everything on the minimap shows up as a hazard". So aside from the opening log, I had no way to tell where things were damaged or leaking without visually inspecting everything. On top of that I had the thing where he is afraid of doors and freaks out and takes stress damage some portion of the time when he opens one, so walking around the whole ship was a nightmare. Good times.
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StarkRavingMad posted:I had the scrambled UI insanity mixed with "everything on the minimap shows up as a hazard". So aside from the opening log, I had no way to tell where things were damaged or leaking without visually inspecting everything. On top of that I had the thing where he is afraid of doors and freaks out and takes stress damage some portion of the time when he opens one, so walking around the whole ship was a nightmare. Good times. Yeah the door fear, unable to read, Oops! All Hazards is a real nasty combo.
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so on that note, we found a bug in the code last weekend that is making it about 3-4x more likely you will contract an insanity every turn than we intended. when 0.4.0 hits you can expect to see many fewer stacked insanity situations................................... ........on robbie. One of the reasons we tripped across this is because Annie's explicitly got a doubled chance to contract an insanity per turn.
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Coolguye posted:0.4 will have a new class of ship malfunctions that we use for this sort of situation, where the ship has some sort of larger systemic failure that causes you to run around and coax it back into working order by doing some dumb ritual to the machine spirit, rather than repairing something. It will be a much more consistent response that you can pace out over a few turns if your stress and fatigue can't handle it right now. Power off Observation. Open fire door breaker. Power off Command. Close fire door breaker. Power on Observation. Power on Command. Engines back online. Why the gently caress did that work. I love the idea for this game, and you're getting a sale, but I'm not going to play until my personal stasis pod has more to stare at from observation than endless white.
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perfectly honestly if you haven't started playing at this point i'd go ahead and just shelve the game a bit longer, you are going to get a huge content drop in a fairly short while here that will add a lot more story, more content in endless mode, another entire custodian to play, and fix a number of fairly high impact bugs. i appreciate you picking it up! when you do get around to playing it, the crusade for steam reviews never ends so i would love to have your thoughts on it.
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Coolguye posted:perfectly honestly if you haven't started playing at this point i'd go ahead and just shelve the game a bit longer, you are going to get a huge content drop in a fairly short while here that will add a lot more story, more content in endless mode, another entire custodian to play, and fix a number of fairly high impact bugs. Howdy, just picked this up without reading this warning and absolutely mainlined an easy game, ending at -43 and having taken the continency routine arc. I'll drop a positive review shortly, because although this game is too stressful for me (I resemble Robbie too much) I can see it's really something special. I have no immediate feedback, but I think there may be room for some UI improvements, as in particular selection of objects isn't very consistent/clear. As with other users I should underline that the trained response is to keep all passengers alive. You are going to have to be really explicit- I mean, popup window at the start of your first game, direct statement in log explicit- to break users of that expectation or "challenge mode" will be everyone's default. Nudging with mechanical advantages isn't going to help, it feels too much like any other game's bad moral choice. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Mar 13, 2023 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Howdy, just picked this up without reading this warning and absolutely mainlined an easy game, ending at -43 and having taken the continency routine arc. I'll drop a positive review shortly, because although this game is too stressful for me (I resemble Robbie too much) I can see it's really something special. I have no immediate feedback, but I think there may be room for some UI improvements, as in particular selection of objects isn't very consistent/clear. Soul's been making the interactive tutorial, I'll nudge him that that might be a good spot to put in the reminder about A human, not ALL humans. A few other UI upgrades are coming with 0.4 as well, including a better way to handle your subroutine slots:  I'll also look into object interaction and see what the game's logic is for that; I'm sure we can call out a little bit more. When 0.4 drops you might try Annie! She has an implosive response to stress rather than Robbie's obsessive response and will play completely differently. She actually works best with a few insanities and moderate psychosis. I genuinely like her playstyle more even though she requires more skill at the game to get correct because - like you - Robbie is a bit too close to home for how I work and live to handle all the time. Much appreciated on the review! That crusade will never end. 🙇♂️ e: I've been speaking about Annie a fair bit, and we got her first drop of sprites today. We still need two more (for her medium and high psychosis states), but I think she's looking great: 
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Yo just ran across this and it is extremely cool, i will definitely give you some money when I'm back at the PC Stellar loving work for real, nails the aesthetic
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HiroProtagonist posted:Yo just ran across this and it is extremely cool, i will definitely give you some money when I'm back at the PC Thank you! My ears will be very open for your feedback as you dig in. 
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We're a few days late of our goal, but 0.5.0 is live! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2290890/view/3691303959627215586 Patch notes below: It's our first major update of Early Access! First things first, let's say hello to our new Custodian: Annie!  Blessed with a very strong sense of self, Annie lacks many of the obsessive hang-ups that Robbie has, and gains much less stress when the ship is not just-so. The ship doesn't need to be just-so, because SHE is just-so. Always, and forever. Of course, this self-confidence quickly turns into introspection as stress builds up...which isn't good for a Custodian trapped in an iron shell in deep space. Annie represents an implosive response to stress, and retreats inside her rich fantasies as things get bad. She starts with a permanent insanity, and can choose to make any insanities she acquires permanent as well. Even better - don't like an insanity you got? You can change it! Annie can choose to shuffle non-permanent insanities at the Observation window. What weaker minds call insanities, though, Annie simply calls the burden of perfection. She loses Stress at the end of every turn for every insanity she has active - and loses still more the more Psychosis she has. However, any Stress left over will cause Annie to retreat further into her inner universe, gaining Psychosis at the beginning of the next turn. Annie has a doubled chance to gain an insanity per turn, and cannot install the ECC module. Not that she needs it - why would there be any errors to correct in such a clearly perfect specimen?  Content
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Successfully completed a run with Annie. I like her, she actually feels a little easier than Robbie. Her insanity shuffle may be a little overpowered; maybe it should be limited to one per turn or have a fatigue penalty because I did a couple turns where I just shuffled a few times until I got one I liked. I took her not liking open doors as a permanent one, which was pretty easy to work around. Also her not taking as much stress from unrepaired things is very useful. I basically left Observation broken for like the whole run. Speaking of which, she can insanity shuffle even with Observation broken -- I suspect this is a bug. Final stats: 0 passengers killed, 65 psychosis (I think some of that was just on the last turn as I pushed pretty hard to keep all passengers alive and went way over stress/fatigue since I had to replicate up some extra parts, but I knew it wouldn't really matter since I was only one or two turns away from victory.) I had the storyline about finding out whether the ship was sentient or not. One bug there, the task of "enter the undership through the command deck" never left my task list, even after I finished everything. Here's a savegame from a couple turns before the end, in case it is helpful: https://www.dropbox.com/s/61ylqr7bmzycdv1/EndlessDark.zip?dl=0
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yeah good call on the insanity shuffle having more of a cost, we'll look into that. i do not believe the shuffle with observation broken is a bug though, i will confirm with soul. the task bug on Phasma is also confirmed, not hard to fix. worth noting, annie does game SOME stress when the ship is not tip-top, but robbie's stress from that situation is doubled due to his obsessive nature. however, as you saw, she sinks a TON of stress if she's rolling with middling psychosis and a thank you for the savegame! btw, when you complete a run, the game copies game.sav to game.bak, and we can still use the game.bak just fine; the only thing that's changed is the extension. so it's now much less finicky to send us saves!
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Discendo Vox posted:On the signaling of human deaths element, I think you should consider whether it would be possible to balance things so that you can start the game with one dead human, or "lock in" a human death during the tutorial. the interactive tutorial abandons all pretense of being "in character" so honestly i intend for it to just literally say what the situation is there. it sucks when a human dies, but it's not actually your problem until the LAST one dies.
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so something that came up on the steam forums today that i wanted to take this thread's temperature about: Robbie got a few buffs in this last patch, but how does he feel, subjectively, to play? ideally i'd want folks to give more than one game a shot before they answered, but ultimately robbie is intended to be the easiest custodian to play, both for onboarding and narrative reasons. if folks are feeling like annie is easier, then she probably needs a few nerfs (like the aforementioned sanity shuffling cost), and robbie probably needs some further buffs.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:20
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