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It's a neat game, and you can see where it's headed paying the alpha, but I don't think some folks here understand what's meant by "alpha." The lucky goons with golden tickets are really doing GLG a big service by playing, giving feedback, and filling bugs. It's fun in that when things are working it's enjoyable, but things aren't I think that you won't go wrong looking at the official blog posts 
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Jun 8, 2014 04:18
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I know you guys would have announced the release date if you were ready to. So I'm not asking about that. What I will ask is if you guys have a release date FOR the release date. Do you? Pretty please? The shadows behind my eyes want to know. 
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Jun 8, 2014 05:25
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When the stars are right.
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Jun 8, 2014 07:34
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Dareon posted:When the stars are right. Or the right version of wrong.
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Jun 8, 2014 15:13
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Dareon posted:When the stars are right and screaming . Fixed that for you.
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Jun 8, 2014 15:30
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Chunjee posted:Why do I keep finding out about Gaslamp betas right after the door closes. Still gonna camp irc again to have my heart broken. Oh hey, I remember you from the last time we did this stuff. I think the plan is to keep streaming people into the alpha in small groups up to early access, so we get a valuable stream of "new impressions" at a rate at which we can manage. Volmarias posted:It's a neat game, and you can see where it's headed paying the alpha, but I don't think some folks here understand what's meant by "alpha." The lucky goons with golden tickets are really doing GLG a big service by playing, giving feedback, and filling bugs. It's fun in that when things are working it's enjoyable, but things aren't Yes, basically this (never mind the fact that we still have a handful of testers for whom the game either doesn't, or barely, runs on their video cards.) I'm super happy with the direction we're going in, though - for those of you old-timey farts who remember the Dredmor beta like me, you know that these things typically pick up steam as we progress; I don't think anybody in the beta so far would argue with me when I say that the progress over the last couple of months has been excellent. That said: yes, people are - oddly - having fun, but we have work to do on our end... to put it mildly. Which is why I am in the office on a Sunday. Admiral Funk posted:I know you guys would have announced the release date if you were ready to. So I'm not asking about that. What I will ask is if you guys have a release date FOR the release date. Do you? Pretty please? The shadows behind my eyes want to know. The last public statement we made was "summer".
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Jun 8, 2014 23:15
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So June 21st. Got it.
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Jun 8, 2014 23:31
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Lprsti99 posted:So June 21st. Got it. 2015 
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Jun 9, 2014 01:42
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omeg posted:2015 The digits DO add up to the holy number of Chaos. EDIT: \/ I was referring to the 8-pointed star, but fair enough. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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Jun 9, 2014 01:47
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Mokinokaro posted:The digits DO add up to the holy number of Khorne. Fixed. Now I want the Chaos Gods in this.
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Jun 9, 2014 01:54
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Lprsti99 posted:Fixed. Fool, you have summoned the most power force in the universe, Game Workshops Legal Department!
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Jun 9, 2014 04:02
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Oh man, this looks really neat. If it had been just a liiiittle longer until I found out about this game it would have been a pleasant surprise instead of something new to look forward to 
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Jun 9, 2014 04:16
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Agean90 posted:Fool, you have summoned the most power force in the universe, Game Workshops Legal Department! No, the other chaos gods. Nvining is buff as hell, he can take Michael Moorcock, probably.
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Jun 9, 2014 05:19
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:No, the other chaos gods. Nvining is buff as hell, he can take Michael Moorcock, probably. You're forgetting Moorcock's incredibly manly beard.
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Jun 9, 2014 11:50
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I completely forgot this was being developed and read the last 6 months of thread and assorted blogs/interviews- I cannot wait for this to come out. Time to fire up Dredmor, I had forgotten about that game too and hadn't played the latest xpac.
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Jun 10, 2014 23:35
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My froth for this game continues at a steady simmer. Hey, are there any plans for DLC yet? If I may so humbly suggest: The Hat Pack, containing over 100 new hats for your citizens to envy, hate, and get in fist-fights over. (And secretly, a few new hat-related events and artifacts. Like the Mask of Off-Brand Nyharlotep.) I'd buy that for $1.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:05
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Let's talk about grisly violence: http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/06/11/building-a-better-world-through-video-game-violence/
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Jun 11, 2014 20:35
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nvining posted:Let's talk about grisly violence: To be honest I think I'm more a fan of grizzly violence. This is good though.
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Jun 11, 2014 20:57
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I actually had sort of a question about the combat, though not necessarily the violence aspect of it. From what I've seen in the pictures and in the couple of videos available, combat looks kind of unstructured, are you still planning on having that construction, organization, and planning based combat system that was discussed in a previous blog post?
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Jun 11, 2014 21:00
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Unless the blood, innards, depravity and gore is extreme enough to cause the most psychotic snuff film to curl up and cry in the corner in comparison to when a citizen shoots a dodo I'm not buying. Dealbreaker. 
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Jun 11, 2014 21:04
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nvining posted:Let's talk about grisly violence:
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Jun 11, 2014 21:06
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OwlFancier posted:I actually had sort of a question about the combat, though not necessarily the violence aspect of it. To the best of my knowledge, yes, but let's get it so that the military doesn't stand around ****ing about, eating cabbages and installing small pieces of workbench equipment while fishpeople kill everyone. (People in the pre-alpha will know of what I speak)
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Jun 11, 2014 21:47
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nvining posted:To the best of my knowledge, yes, but let's get it so that the military doesn't stand around ****ing about, eating cabbages and installing small pieces of workbench equipment while fishpeople kill everyone. (People in the pre-alpha will know of what I speak) Cool, I wasn't sure if the military was just something that hadn't really been looked at much yet, or whether the running around like a headless chicken was working as intended. It's hard to tell with this game sometimes, you know?
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Jun 11, 2014 21:52
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OwlFancier posted:Cool, I wasn't sure if the military was just something that hadn't really been looked at much yet, or whether the running around like a headless chicken was working as intended. It's hard to tell with this game sometimes, you know? How would you know? You're not even *in* the alpha. Who broke the NDA? Own up!
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Jun 11, 2014 21:57
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nvining posted:How would you know? You're not even *in* the alpha. Consider it a compliment to the communicativeness of your blog posts if I can get such an accurate impression from them.
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Jun 11, 2014 21:59
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nvining posted:To the best of my knowledge, yes, but let's get it so that the military doesn't stand around ****ing about, eating cabbages and installing small pieces of workbench equipment while fishpeople kill everyone. (People in the pre-alpha will know of what I speak) *munch munch* "Naw, son. You got this. Give that fishman a left hook and follow it up with a right jab to the midsection." *Distant scream and a spray of blood falls upon the guard* "Oh, drat it man! You got blood on my cabbage, now I gotta go get another one, you know how I get if I don't get my afternoon snack. Just sit tight, I'm sure that nice fish gentleman will let you put your guts back in you while I'm gone, it's not very sporting if he doesn't."
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Jun 11, 2014 22:04
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nvining posted:How would you know? You're not even *in* the alpha. Well you did repost my first impression of the military here. But if you want to plug any potential leaks just reward anyone who silences a leaker with their testing slot. (It wasn't me. Turning me into a hat wouldn't qualify.)
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Jun 11, 2014 22:48
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Daniel's been drinking deeply from the wells of Adrian Carmack's Flesh Temple, eh? Well, I definitely see his points. Doom and Quake were unsettlingly visceral, and I always felt that the vagueness implied by the meat-chunk gore added to the effect far more effectively than smoking limb-stumps or flying eyeballs would have done. Event Horizon did a good job translating that into the cathedral of gore that they used as a med-bay, too. So I'm all for Romeroesque meat-chunk goodness.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:11
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Notorious QIG posted:To be honest I think I'm more a fan of grizzly violence. This is good though. This game needs grisly grizzly violence. Anything less would be unbearable.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:49
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Fish people eggs are a delicacy and can only be obtained by extracting the caviar from their corpses. Okay that's probably a little too dark. Definitely needs horrible factory mangling though, what is a sawmill without a few lost fingers?
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nvining posted:No, but I can see how this would be a useful button. I'll make a JIRA ticket. dang, that's cool of younvining posted:Let's talk about grisly violence: The dodo's unattended corpse makes me wonder: Is there going to be a corpse cleanup behavior and a related consequence for not doing it? I guess DF has this in the form of miasma. Animal corpses would rot, stink up the place and the attendant pests would spread disease*. Unburied humans would not only rot, stink and whatnot but also cause mental anguish and increase Madness in those who must continue living, presumably. *is there even disease of the non-mental variety in the game?
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Munkeymon posted:*is there even disease of the non-mental variety in the game? Any respectable physician knows ill humours are the root of colonists being trapped in unknowable geometries. So make sure you drink your sulfur tonic and have your blood let before you venture into the gaslamp labyrinth to retrieve the alpha code.
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LtSmash posted:Any respectable physician knows ill humours are the root of colonists being trapped in unknowable geometries. Note: Alpha Code retrieval is only possible after the proper amounts of laudenum have been applied behind the ears.
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nvining posted:To the best of my knowledge, yes, but let's get it so that the military doesn't stand around ****ing about, eating cabbages and installing small pieces of workbench equipment while fishpeople kill everyone. (People in the pre-alpha will know of what I speak) My useless militia! 
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Volmarias posted:My useless militia! I don't see the problem with this, they're food for the servants of the Many Angled Ones (May Their return be forever hastened by such noble sacrifice)
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Somebody mentioned this in the comments on the blog post, but I gotta say I'm a really big supporter of some kind of blood trail system being implemented. I think it could add a lot of atmosphere -- especially since you guys are emphasizing the unknown and an inability to fully trust your colonists to give you all the information you need. Say you send poor Benjamin Cogsworth out to chop some wood in the dead of night while you go watch a cockfight or something offscreen, and when you come back in the morning, all that's left is a red smear leading into the woods. I'd rather have that than any kind of cue that he was under attack at all, or even leaving his body laying around (though I know it would be tough to balance a completely notification-free system). To me it's that kind of "that really happened, he's dead now  " horror you're going for. Practically, it'd also be useful for a more dynamic hunting system, or for rooting out stray fishpeople after a battle.
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Really looking forward to this game. It feels like a game that draws heavily on "The Settlers 2/3" series of games which I enjoyed immensely. Both the game art and concepts are exuding a lot of Settler vibes. One thing that those games really suffered from was a "challenge" or a real end-game apart from being a shoddy RTS. It looks like CE won't have that problem with the Lovecraftian mythos styled "events".
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Jun 12, 2014 19:25
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Will there be fog of war? If so Benjamin could be incapacitated and dragged into it, still alive (or not) but not generating vision and trailing blood. Lets you have notifications and still want to round up a squad of militia to follow the trail into the Unknown Interior. Kind of like plasma shots from the dark in the original x-com. E: more specifically a plasma shot from the dark that leaves a valuable soldier unconscious and wounded. That feeling of urgency to get to him and yet wary apprehension of what might be waiting when you do was awesome. Caconym fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Caconym posted:Will there be fog of war? If so Benjamin could be incapacitated and dragged into it, still alive (or not) but not generating vision and trailing blood. Lets you have notifications and still want to round up a squad of militia to follow the trail into the Unknown Interior. Kind of like plasma shots from the dark in the original x-com. Yeah this is the kind of thing I'd love to see -- is retrieving Benjamin worth endangering your militiamen? Is it even likely he's still alive? Is whatever got him all full of blood for the next moon cycle and won't be back for another month at minimum? I'm assuming there will be fog of war, given the themes we're working with here, but I guess I could be wrong.
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