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 What is Depth? Depth is a competitive action/shooter game where four divers try to avoid being eaten by sharks while gathering treasure. It's got a fairly unique atmosphere and setting and is great for people who like asymmetric gameplay. It's produced by Digital Confectioners and available for 24.99 on Steam.  the steam page posted:Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat. Wait, asymmetric? How's that work? The game has two teams: The sharks and the divers. The sharks (two people) see in third person, are fast, have excellent visibility, can see through walls (especially if the divers are already wounded), and can kill divers extremely fast if they get them in their mouth. The sharks also get points to spend after killing divers that they can spend to improve themselves, making them faster or tougher or giving them utility abilities like mine detection. The divers (four people), meanwhile, are soft and flabby and slow and nearly blind compared to the sharks but have powerful guns, sonar equipment, tags to track sharks that try to run, and stuff like mines and weird sonar things that mess with the shark's vision. In most games, the divers are escorting a robot (called STEVE) while it goes through a map collecting treasure; the sharks are trying to stop them. As STEVE gets money or as the divers collect random bits of treasure, they can buy better guns. The diver's goal is to either run the sharks out of lives (32, including their starters) or get STEVE off the map after it opens ~3 chests of money. The sharks are trying to run the divers out of lives (34 including starters) or destroy STEVE, which they can do by ramming it. The asymmetric nature of the sharks/divers abilities generally mean the divers usually win by STEVE escaping and the sharks win by eating everyone. Essentially, the sharks are playing a silly action game where you eat people and don't really give a gently caress, while the divers are playing an incredibly tense first-person shooter that almost feels like a horror game at times. Is that all? There is one other game mode. In it, one player at random is the Megalodon, a supershark with a ridiculous amount of health, stamina, and speed versus 5 divers. In this mode, there's no STEVE, the divers collecting treasure will upgrade their guns, the Megalodon can't evolve, and when a diver kills the Megalodon they turn into the Megalodon. The game ends when one player gets enough points. I hate early access games! Good news! This isn't an early access game. It's out now. I need some videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-H-tcpo5pE - official trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKtaRhwrqI0 - GDC trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aJ6qSlmiE - gameplay highlights and clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5NiR8c4-A - gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSFkfhqrFi0 - gameplay with obnoxious commentary President Ark fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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 Tips: Divers: DO NOT CHASE THE SHARKS. Yes, they just ate your buddy and swam away and you think he's almost dead, but leaving your teammates to chase a shark is a really good way for the other shark/that shark if it has health regen to turn around and murder you. Stick with your teammates; sharks are at their most vulnerable when trying to eat someone. Mines are extremely deadly to sharks and will kill them instantly - and even if they manage to get out of the blast radius, are incredibly disorienting. Using mines early on to slow the sharks getting evolution points early is a very good way to give your team enough time to get enough money for good guns. Hear that heartbeat sound? Beyond atmosphere, that actually serves as a very loose indicator of how close sharks are to you - the faster it is, the closer they are. If you're good, you can tap shift as it's at its fastest and possibly dodge the shark's charge, giving you time to kill, tag, or net it. If someone's bitten by a shark but gets away, they'll start bleeding; sharks can see bleeding divers and other divers near them from much further away. Either use them as bait to lure the sharks into a mine/a dead end or have someone buy medkits to heal from. You can tell you're bleeding because your hands will look like roast beef instead of human hands. If you kill both sharks, take that time to find treasure or use an ammo box (there's a bunch that spawn on the maps in various spots). You'll have about 10-20 seconds before they get close again. The shark cage you spawn in and which is near the spot you end the map is a death trap; sharks go right through it. Don't try and hide in it. Sharks: There are four shark types: Great White (Toughest, slowest, can press E to become tougher), Tiger (average stats, can press E to become invisible to sonar), Mako (Fastest, squishy, can press E to mark a diver for bonus points on kill), and the Hammerhead (below-average stats and its E is kinda crap but if it's charging a diver, grabs them, and slams then into a wall it kills them instantly). They're all pretty solid but can do better or worse depending on the map. Don't get too attached to one species. E: A fifth species, the Thresher, has been introduced. Its ability lets you disable all flashlights in the area and disorient people and has similar stats to the tiger shark. Once you have a diver in your mouth, you need to thrash him to death by jiggling the mouse around a lot. This takes valuable time and if you're near other divers they might kill you before you eat them. There are ways around this: The powerful tail evolution lets you charge after grabbing someone so you can kidnap them and eat them in safety; Great Whites can use their active ability and tank through the damage; and Hammerheads that charge properly will just kill them instantly anyway. You can break sonar beacons and shark shields by charging them. Sonar beacons are the little green tubes that blink; shark shields are purple things that sit on the seafloor and create a giant bubble that's incredibly hard to see in and which blocks diver/device/trap detection in its radius. You can destroy cracked walls by charging them. Many of these have to be hit multiple times, but this also makes loud noises and opens small holes that divers might be able to shoot through. This can either be used as a distraction (one shark bangs on a wall, other goes in and eats people while the divers are distracted) or to lure divers outside by banging on it and then moving to another position to ambush anyone who leaves cover. If you're low on health after an attack, break off and move to the surface of the map. There'll be some seals (white outlines) swimming around; eat them for health. Alternately, get the Hemogenesis (passive regen) or Blood Feast (regen whenever you kill a diver) evolutions. President Ark fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Apr 24, 2015 21:52
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This just popped up on the Steam sale and I'm tempted to buy it just to horrify my girlfriend. It looks pretty drat cool!
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Jun 12, 2015 23:41
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Shine posted:This just popped up on the Steam sale and I'm tempted to buy it just to horrify my girlfriend. It looks pretty drat cool! Yeah, it's 60% off. Get it, this game owns (and needs more attention). It's also being actively updated and has gotten several more maps since I wrote the OP, if you're worried about that. President Ark fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 23:44
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Bought it! Hit-and-run attacks with the tiger shark are hella fun. Playing as a diver is loving terrifying.
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Jun 13, 2015 09:27
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i was pleasantly surprised how fun this game is when i bought it the other day i am bad at being a shark
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Jun 14, 2015 16:59
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So is there a decent number of people playing this? Do we have some sort of Goon Sharks group?
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Jun 14, 2015 17:34
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President Ark posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aJ6qSlmiE - gameplay highlights and clips This type of game isn't my cup of tea at all but holy poo poo this vid was fun to watch.
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Jun 14, 2015 18:14
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:So is there a decent number of people playing this? Do we have some sort of Goon Sharks group? There's a pretty decent number, but it's low enough that if you play a bunch of games in a row you're likely to run into the same people a couple times. If there's enough goon interest we could definitely get a group going!
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Jun 14, 2015 22:06
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This game is once again on sale on Steam for 66% off. It's quite fun and my friend and I tried it out for the first time today. Co-oping sharks in the same room who can easily coordinate with each other are hilariously difficult to kill. Sale ends Monday!
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Jul 10, 2015 06:45
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It's also Free Weekend so everybody try it anyway
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Jul 11, 2015 09:06
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What determines if you get to play as a shark? I've played 11 games but never as a shark... so sad.
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Jul 12, 2015 06:56
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Bushmaori posted:What determines if you get to play as a shark? I've played 11 games but never as a shark... so sad. There's a selector on the title screen. Since most people wanna be sharks (especially those new to the game), you're probably going to be a diver way more often than you'd think if you leave it set to random. Having it set to shark is also the only way I've ever seen Megalodon hunt.
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Jul 12, 2015 06:57
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President Ark posted:There's a selector on the title screen. Since most people wanna be sharks (especially those new to the game), you're probably going to be a diver way more often than you'd think if you leave it set to random. You can queue for Megalodon Hunt, can't you? Being a shark is fun. Anyone got tips for Tiger and Thresher? I've found out that both of them function better when another shark goes in first, like a Great White. They both do well when attention isn't directly on them, and can do great work destroying deployables and finishing off wounded divers.
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Jul 12, 2015 07:36
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President Ark posted:There's a selector on the title screen. Since most people wanna be sharks (especially those new to the game), you're probably going to be a diver way more often than you'd think if you leave it set to random. Ah found it, thanks.
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Jul 12, 2015 08:12
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Fun game, though I can't really justify buying another game right now so just enjoying the free weekend for now. Shark gameplay actually seems really difficult because you have to be careful how you plan your attacks and which divers you go after. Divers on the other hand just need to make sure they stick together and watch each other.
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Jul 12, 2015 11:44
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Drunk in Space posted:Fun game, though I can't really justify buying another game right now so just enjoying the free weekend for now. Shark gameplay actually seems really difficult because you have to be careful how you plan your attacks and which divers you go after. Divers on the other hand just need to make sure they stick together and watch each other. It really helps to know the entire map as a shark because some part are easier to attack on than others. The oil rig map is kind of a nightmare, for instance, except the entire last stretch between the last treasure box and the escape point is in pitch-black open ocean. Makos who are good at hit-and-run stuff with Powerful Tail can wipe the entire enemy team at that point from 15 lives.
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Jul 12, 2015 15:42
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Threshers thrash like they are having a seizure. Really loving hard to land hits on them with a speargun or something when they are doing that.
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Artificer posted:Threshers thrash like they are having a seizure. Really loving hard to land hits on them with a speargun or something when they are doing that. Aim for the diver, hit's every time. The Thresher spins around whatever is inside its mouth.
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