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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:23 Post subject: |
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| Yondaime wrote: | | Divvy wrote: | Question about the first underwater part:
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The little robot under the rocks, can I do anything about it? I lifted off all the rocks but nothing happened.
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| Spoiler: | It should activate on its own when you lift of all rocks, then it follows you and helps you open a door. Weird that it didn't for you, it did for me immediately after I cleared all rocks. |
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| Spoiler: | You probably mean the door to the shuttle station. It's OK, I got it done without the little robot. Odd that it wouldn't activate though. One of the rocks on the side wasn't movable though, the icon to pick it up never showed even though I tried all kinds of angles and everything. Oh, well. |
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:25 Post subject: |
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| Divvy wrote: | | Yondaime wrote: | | Divvy wrote: | Question about the first underwater part:
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The little robot under the rocks, can I do anything about it? I lifted off all the rocks but nothing happened.
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| Spoiler: | It should activate on its own when you lift of all rocks, then it follows you and helps you open a door. Weird that it didn't for you, it did for me immediately after I cleared all rocks. |
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| Spoiler: | You probably mean the door to the shuttle station. It's OK, I got it done without the little robot. Odd that it wouldn't activate though. One of the rocks on the side wasn't movable though, the icon to pick it up never showed even though I tried all kinds of angles and everything. Oh, well. |
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How did you open it without it? So you can open it regardless?
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:26 Post subject: |
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Oh and to summarize,
- get attacked once, you lose consciousness and when you regain it you walk "funny", slow and with very annoying visual glitches
- if you find a organic/machine thingy where the icon changes to something like a cross, click it and you return to normal. But they are 1 use only, so if you get hit again, you'll have to suffer the consequences until you find another healing thingy later in the game
- if you don't get healed and you get hit a second time it's game over and you will go back to the last checkpoint.
In short the developers fixed the problem of Amnesia where there was no consequence of death by annoying you with visual glitches and such so that you don't cheese the game and actually do hide from the monsters.
So far I love the game, looks like it'll be my GOTY.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:32 Post subject: |
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Finished the game. Great stuff once again by Frictional. Also the game is more sci fi than horror although there are some intense moments and also some blood, gore and body horror. The story was also interesting although some of the reviews hyped it up too much IMO. The philosophical stuff is hardly anything particularly new but it is well presented and written. Makes you think though and that is what this kind of story needs to do.
Regarding the ending:
| Spoiler: | I was sort of hoping for some sort of twist or some effect your choices had, especially the last one about whether or not you poison WAU (I didn't). I can't imagine that anyone with at least half a brain doesn't realize that only a copy of Simon (who is also copy of a copy) gets to go on the Ark and that he has to stay behind so to speak so I don't think that that was intended as a twist. Still everthing went as expected which is nice for this kind of game. At least there wasn't any last minute jump scare. |
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:34 Post subject: |
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| consolitis wrote: | | How did you open it without it? So you can open it regardless? |
There was some sort of electric panel next to it where I pulled out some wires and it opened.
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:38 Post subject: |
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just alt tabbed to say, amazing freaking game men. the art direction and the mood are amazing. i've been having goosebumps for the past 2 hours pretty much non stop. every scene is jsut drool worthy, sci fi, wallpaper worthy goodness. 
It's not really a scary game, nothing like amnesia. Nor is it nerve wreckingly tense like alien isolation. Its really all about sci-fi induced orgasms, exploration and soaking in the atmopshere the game throws at you in spades.
I live for games such as this one. 
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:48 Post subject: |
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| demde wrote: | | The_Leaf wrote: | Ok, this thing is driving me insane: every time you get hit/caught by an enemy the game goes into "hurt mode", ie: blurry vision and chromatic aberration bullshit to the max. Now this would be fine if it was temporary... but I've been playing for half an hour now after being hit and the effect doesn't go away! The only way is to get hit again so you die completely and you restart from checkpoint.
Am I to stupid to figure out how to "heal" myself or did I find some strange bug? Are you guys also experiencing this? |
You can heal by touching those strange organic things. (Said like that it sounds weird  , but i don't know what are they exactly) |
Oh ok, fisting one o' those robotic assholes heals you, got it I had found them, it's just that I got hit *after* touching the only one that was near my location.
Btw, it's the only thing I'm hating about this game. Making a mistake, especially in a horror game like this, should result in a failure state. It should NOT make the rest of the game annoying to play. That's an absurd bit of game design: annoying the player so much that he'd kill himself or restart the game rather than continuing. Stupid. Plus, some enemies don't kill you after the second hit (e.g., the floating "squids" in the ocean parts) so you can only restart the game or continue with those annoying visual glitches and wobbly walk... drives me fucking mad.
Other than that, however, the game is great. Finally a horror game where the enemy is not some sort of vague "evil spirit" or "ancient being" (from what it appears for now at least)
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Sep 2015 23:53 Post subject: |
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| The_Leaf wrote: | | demde wrote: | | The_Leaf wrote: | Ok, this thing is driving me insane: every time you get hit/caught by an enemy the game goes into "hurt mode", ie: blurry vision and chromatic aberration bullshit to the max. Now this would be fine if it was temporary... but I've been playing for half an hour now after being hit and the effect doesn't go away! The only way is to get hit again so you die completely and you restart from checkpoint.
Am I to stupid to figure out how to "heal" myself or did I find some strange bug? Are you guys also experiencing this? |
You can heal by touching those strange organic things. (Said like that it sounds weird , but i don't know what are they exactly) |
Oh ok, fisting one o' those robotic assholes heals you, got it I had found them, it's just that I got hit *after* touching the only one that was near my location.
Btw, it's the only thing I'm hating about this game. Making a mistake, especially in a horror game like this, should result in a failure state. It should NOT make the rest of the game annoying to play. That's an absurd bit of game design: annoying the player so much that he'd kill himself or restart the game rather than continuing. Stupid. Plus, some enemies don't kill you after the second hit (e.g., the floating "squids" in the ocean parts) so you can only restart the game or continue with those annoying visual glitches and wobbly walk... drives me fucking mad.
Other than that, however, the game is great. Finally a horror game where the enemy is not some sort of vague "evil spirit" or "ancient being" (from what it appears for now at least) |
Well to be fair the healing points are placed pretty much after every enemy encounter with the exception of the ocean floor. Also the wobbly walk is not that bad IMO as it makes it more intense when you are trying to get past the enemy that just gave you a whopping. Lastly, don't diss ancient beings. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! 
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 00:03 Post subject: |
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| neeger93 wrote: | | The_Leaf wrote: | | demde wrote: |
You can heal by touching those strange organic things. (Said like that it sounds weird , but i don't know what are they exactly) |
Oh ok, fisting one o' those robotic assholes heals you, got it I had found them, it's just that I got hit *after* touching the only one that was near my location.
Btw, it's the only thing I'm hating about this game. Making a mistake, especially in a horror game like this, should result in a failure state. It should NOT make the rest of the game annoying to play. That's an absurd bit of game design: annoying the player so much that he'd kill himself or restart the game rather than continuing. Stupid. Plus, some enemies don't kill you after the second hit (e.g., the floating "squids" in the ocean parts) so you can only restart the game or continue with those annoying visual glitches and wobbly walk... drives me fucking mad.
Other than that, however, the game is great. Finally a horror game where the enemy is not some sort of vague "evil spirit" or "ancient being" (from what it appears for now at least) |
Well to be fair the healing points are placed pretty much after every enemy encounter with the exception of the ocean floor. Also the wobbly walk is not that bad IMO as it makes it more intense when you are trying to get past the enemy that just gave you a whopping. Lastly, don't diss ancient beings. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! |
Yeah, well, as long if there's one after every enemy encounter then it's ok.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 00:32 Post subject: |
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OK, so I'm gonna throw in a guess on how the story is, or at least part of it. Don't tell me if I'm right, though.
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The guy is actually a robot just like many other people on the station so far. The "brain scan" was fake and transferred his consciousness to whatever thing he is now. Like the broken robot on the conveyor belt said, they see arms and legs and think they're human, just like the player. It also explains why he breathes under water and how he suddenly has a flashlight out of nowhere. It's build into him.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 04:21 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 04:34 Post subject: |
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Same here , its like its loading assets and takes a dump. Shame
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 04:35 Post subject: |
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Well at least it's not my dying hd then. Something like bad streaming performance can be fixed in a patch easily enough I'd guess.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 08:04 Post subject: |
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enabling vsync in game gives serious stutters, enabling through nv control panel dosent drop one bit
I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes..
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 11:49 Post subject: |
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| guvna wrote: | Anyone else having texture streaming problems?
Quite frequently I get a few seconds of nasty performance as it loads in stuff. Reminds me of unpatched rage 
Other then that the performance is solid on my hd7870. |
I get the same problem, its while entering new areas, or loading a new save game.
Overall this game is great, the sci fi vibe is great, the mystery, the atmosphere ( it plays a lot like alien isolation)
Its like a mix of Prey/alien/blade runner and all those great sci fi's, even though it is bellow water, sometimes you think you are in space. the graphics are much better than their previous games, im enjoying the story so far, seems like a good plot and somewhat original.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 11:56 Post subject: |
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finished it in one sitting,im tired now and i do not want chromatic ablululubration ever again. overall a nice game,had some fantastic moments but the story is so-so
also suffered from the heavy framedrops/asset loading but it didn`t make the game unplayable
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Now, I don't know what hardware costs in Poland, I guess it's cheaper because everything is stolen from Germany and resold... |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 12:00 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 12:02 Post subject: |
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Regarding performance. I noticed that if you alt-tab out of the game and then back in the game's performance takes a massive drop.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 12:51 Post subject: |
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disable in game vsync guys, and use your gpu's control panel for it+ triple buffering. both nv and amd have great opengl vsync and triple buffering, especially compared to this game.
i had fps drops just staring at empty walls with their crappy in game vsync.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 13:16 Post subject: |
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Waited for the repacks only to find out that they went from 11GB -> 8.5GB 
1 and 2 are still amazing.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 13:21 Post subject: |
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| Yuri wrote: | | Waited for the repacks only to find out that they went from 11GB -> 8.5GB |
And they exclude the supersecret rar
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 13:39 Post subject: |
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| Interinactive wrote: | It has derpmatic abhurdurtion? 
Can you kill it? |
It's the "very annoying visual glitches" I talk about here: http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2789776#2789776
| neeger93 wrote: | | Regarding performance. I noticed that if you alt-tab out of the game and then back in the game's performance takes a massive drop. |
Yeah, it looked like it was reloading all the assets and the textures were slowly getting streamed in.
To be honest I don't think there's reason for indie devs like Frictional not to go with a ready made engine, these days not even cost wise. (They would still be able to release mod tools on say UE3/4 right?)
They probably mean it in the sense the gameplay is subdued and it's more about an interactive well written scifi story, therefore it's different from its ilk (eg Amnesia). Plot wise I don't think it's genre busting, but I haven't played much.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 14:14 Post subject: |
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What's the point of fisting and fingering these stars shaped thingy?
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 14:18 Post subject: |
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| deadpoetic wrote: | | What's the point of fisting and fingering these stars shaped thingy? |
They recover your health. I didn't understand at first, since you encounter several before actually meeting an enemy that can harm you.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 15:05 Post subject: |
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| Drowning_witch wrote: | disable in game vsync guys, and use your gpu's control panel for it+ triple buffering. both nv and amd have great opengl vsync and triple buffering, especially compared to this game.
i had fps drops just staring at empty walls with their crappy in game vsync. |
I had the in game settig on adaptive but now I did what you said. I still get little fps drops from time to time what's different is that when they happen the game handles them much better without "skipping" so much.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 15:17 Post subject: |
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When I wake up in the station at the beginning of the game, after the prologue, my fps tanks like hell, to 20-30ish fps. The shadows were on high. After this I changed them to normal, my fps stayed the same. And then I changed them back to High, and my fps went back to smooth 60. Like what the hell....
There IS something definitely weird with this engine that's for sure.
And this happens almost every 10 minutes, the fps just tanks for no reason, and it goes back to smooth if I change something in the options.
Edit: nope, I'm not using V-Sync. Not in-game, nor in nv control panel. This is without V-Sync.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Sep 2015 15:19 Post subject: |
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let me guess, you are using in game vsync and not reading the thread at all? 
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