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 https://store.steampowered.com/app/251110/ TRAILER  The city of Stalburg is a decrepit shithole plastered over by a veneer of a few modern blocks, eco-friendly vanity projects, and brutal social policies. Sure, the recent corruption scandal has shaken things up, and new people are coming in to sort out the mess covered up by the previous administration, but for now the true extent of the infrastructure rot can only be guessed at. At National Consulting Group we know things are bad. Why have we signed up to fix and maintain all this? Because our boss needs a penis substitute, and being in charge of the local dams is just the stuff. Any day now he is going to call Steve, me, and the inseparable Carla and Amit duo to head out there and look at the damage. There can't be any harm in simply looking, can it? I don't expect to run into many people on the job: a few harmless vagrants and hippies at most. Really, the greatest threat will be dying of boredom between taking pictures of a missing handrail, or a shoddy wiring job. The guys in the office joke about some older tunnels turning into deathtraps, but I doubt anything there could have degraded to that degree of excitement.  PERKELE: ACT ONE 1/ Don't you hate the days when by the time you wake up you're already in some meeting? Makes you daydream about throwing yourself off some cliff...  2/ Bear attacks are on the rise in the Stalburg region, as vicious beasts raid country homes in search of batteries...  3/ It was a profoundly stupid idea, all things considered, but I felt it should be done, or I would regret it much, much later...  4/ On a job so big, this kind of discovery was bound to happen eventually...  5/ ???  6/ The benefits of being unionised: you come to work, read the morning paper, start a game, and leave.  7/ The 2016 season of brownwater rafting begins early in Stalburg, owing to the wonderful weather.  8/ I should not have slept through classes on explosives handling, assuming we had any.  9/ I still have nine packs of batteries left.  10/ At least the story of the dock is over now. Or is it?  11/ Where is everybody?  12/ I keep moving forward, leaving a trail of repairs and destruction behind me.  13/ I hope my collection of geocache boxes can provide shelter long enough for me to figure out what to do.  ACT TWO 14/ You know what they say: can't do an inspection without breaking a few windows.  15/ Someone here was taking notes on a criminal conspiracy.  16/ Stalburg Metro is always a wild ride. Buy your own ticket today!  17/ Floc this place!  18/ Thrills! Excitement! Adventure! If you find any, please call.  19/ Let's take a break, look at old photos, and watch some movies.  20/ A plot twist, a long-awaited reveal, and a narrow escape from deadly danger are coming this winter in...  21/ People never invite me to funerals. I wonder, why?  22/ A drat fine cup of coffee!  23/ I'll miss that lively wrench, and not just in the "Should have brought it for a puzzle!" sense.  24/ No, no, no, no, no, NO!  ACT THREE 25/ Could it be the light at the end of the tunnel?  26/ I hope it's not a sign of how all communication with people is going to play out.  27/ Marko's. Battery. Store.  28/ Something as straightforward as a bridge is a nice break at this point.  29/ An old story thread gets an unexpected conclusion.  30/ I'm supposed to go WHERE now?  31/ Doesn't an indoor shithouse defeat the purpose of a shithouse?  32,33/ I visit Stalburg's dark side, underside and backside, all lumped together.   34/ This, certainly, has been a part of my adventure.  35/ Oh, no! Not Max Koller!... Who's Max Koller?  36/ It's the only vehicle that hasn't let me down today.  37/ I'm not shocked that the crane in the SNW bunker was in a far better condition.  38/ Sure, give me a lecture as the alarms ring throughout the building. I don't mind.  39/ So, what if I don't feel like fixing the reactor? What's the worst that could happen?  ///ART/// Tombot posted:I apologise profusely for this: SelenicMartian fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Apr 8, 2019 |
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This is a great game, with great potential, and this LP is the same. I was actually a little involved with the earliest parts of solving the ARG- but I had to stop playing around when the second episode came out. I'm really looking forward to this!
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Aug 6, 2018 16:42
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I bought this game but I was put off by all of the Gotchas and missable content, so I'm following this for sure.
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Aug 6, 2018 18:40
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I have never even heard of this game but the first episode seemed fun so I'll be following this.
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Aug 6, 2018 19:40
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I personally would like to see all of the secrets, but I realise how much work that would be. I gave up personally because of how much stuff they expect a player to do and I just couldn't be bothered.
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Aug 6, 2018 20:26
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I have concerns about the company that routinely blocks and locks the fire exits in their buildings as the best choice to manage a safety inspection of infrastructure. I heard about and was interested in this as well but I got put off because of what I heard about its length. Hypothetically speaking I'd love to see all the secrets but I guess the big question is does it matter? Is the secret ending worth it? I guess we don't really know but unless there's something particularly interesting hidden away (instead of just stuff that reinforces what is already known anyways) I probably wouldn't miss it.
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Aug 7, 2018 08:48
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Mark reminds me of this cart collector at the local grocery store who always wears sunglasses and leather gloves while working and tries to be as painfully "cool" as possible in everything he does, like doing finger guns at people trying to park.
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Aug 7, 2018 13:38
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I appreciate that the release date for the fake movie is in January, which is traditionally the dumping ground for bad movies in the US
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Aug 7, 2018 14:50
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Kibayasu posted:I have concerns about the company that routinely blocks and locks the fire exits in their buildings as the best choice to manage a safety inspection of infrastructure. My impression is there is some big reveal hidden in there, but I don't have the time to go back through and try to catalogue everything; just getting to the main secret area in Part 1 is incredibly obtuse (if quite fair by its own logic).
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Aug 7, 2018 15:40
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Office saunas aren't common but they do exist on larger office buildings. Of course, a lot of other facilities that you wouldn't think would have them have them.
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Aug 8, 2018 17:34
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2/ Bear attacks are on the rise in the Stalburg region, as vicious beasts raid country homes in search of batteries... All you need to do to beat this level is: Walk into the power plant. Get and use the cutters. Walk to the dam. Stick two fuses back in. Use the elevator. But you wished for collectibles 
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Aug 9, 2018 06:59
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Okay, that intro skip was pretty good. The deaths too.SelenicMartian posted:But you wished for collectibles 
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Aug 9, 2018 08:44
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71 ABV Pontikka is pretty strong stuff. Also, I'm pretty certain the NPP mentioned in the newspaper is referencing the tower of Babel that is the Olkiluoto 3 reactor project.
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Aug 9, 2018 14:15
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Nooooooo! Take a fuse with you! Don't do what I did! Also, holy wow I had no idea you could die in so many ways at this point of the game.
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Aug 9, 2018 14:37
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I never found either of those caves- or they were added after my time playing
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Aug 9, 2018 16:58
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Okay, the adventures of Mark the idiotic structural engineer who throws poo poo at dam cracks, steps on old explosives, and plays basketball with electrical fuses might be worth the collectathon.
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Aug 9, 2018 17:19
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What happens to the train if it crashes into the tree? Does it keep going, or crash? What does the result look like? Also seems to me like there might be even more random deaths possible. You can clearly walk onto the tracks from the tree, so you can walk towards the incoming train and perhaps even a ways into the train tunnel on the other side if you're fast enough. And can you use the lift while you only fixed the engine, not the brakes?
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Aug 9, 2018 18:31
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Carbon dioxide posted:And can you use the lift while you only fixed the engine, not the brakes? Actually, I don't think the main powers switch works unless you get both fuses into place. Carbon dioxide posted:Also seems to me like there might be even more random deaths possible. You can clearly walk onto the tracks from the tree, so you can walk towards the incoming train and perhaps even a ways into the train tunnel on the other side if you're fast enough. The train will run you over, yes. As for the tree, it just hits it and stops, plugging that hole with the rear of the car, so you can't really get there.
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Aug 9, 2018 18:43
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Triple A posted:Office saunas aren't common but they do exist on larger office buildings. Of course, a lot of other facilities that you wouldn't think would have them have them. Even Parliament has a sauna.
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Aug 9, 2018 20:21
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I still don't know if I like or hate this game. I think I missed out on the secret ending (???) but when you said that they cut the driving sections my reaction was "oh thank gently caress" Even for a walking sim the controls feel very stiff
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Aug 10, 2018 00:33
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I like the idea of urbex games, and taking photos for a later repair crew or something is a pretty good framing device. Thanks for being a guide to this one!
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Aug 10, 2018 04:20
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Glazius posted:I like the idea of urbex games, and taking photos for a later repair crew or something is a pretty good framing device. Thanks for being a guide to this one! Agreed, this game is pretty neat so far.
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Aug 10, 2018 06:35
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Glazius posted:I like the idea of urbex games, and taking photos for a later repair crew or something is a pretty good framing device. Thanks for being a guide to this one!
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Aug 10, 2018 08:12
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I was only vaguely aware of this game before, but hadn't seen much on it. It does seem interesting so far, though the writing is kind of getting in the way for me. The attempts at humour are falling a little flat and distracting from the exploration/atmosphere a bit. I don't know, maybe it's the delivery on the lines, at least partially. It has a problem I've experienced in other (usually indie) games and movies where the voices are in English because they want to sell more copies I guess (and don't have the budget for better localisation), but the actors aren't very comfortable speaking English. So far in INFRA it feels almost like every second line has messed up intonation. I sort of wish this was just in Finnish with English subtitles, to be honest. 
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Aug 10, 2018 13:14
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chitoryu12 posted:Even Parliament has a sauna. That is to be expected since it's the best place to negotiate delicate matters in a timely but effective manner.
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Aug 10, 2018 16:41
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"A geocache!" ".....there's nothing inside it." [CORRUPTION UNCOVERED]
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Aug 10, 2018 22:45
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This certainly seems like the best game you've played in quite some time. I understand why they didn't include a HUD, but having some sort of inventory to check your battery supplies (and maybe review old photos) would have been nice.
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Aug 11, 2018 11:33
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EasilyConfused posted:I understand why they didn't include a HUD, but having some sort of inventory to check your battery supplies (and maybe review old photos) would have been nice.
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Aug 11, 2018 13:28
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What kind of hellmouth of alternate dimension has pear computers running with viewports 8? Nothing is even worth saving there. Only that "Stalburg error solving model" is pure and good in that hellish place.
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Aug 11, 2018 16:21
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OutofSight posted:What kind of hellmouth of alternate dimension has pear computers running with viewports 8? If the IT threads in here are any indication, it's not that uncommon.
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Aug 11, 2018 16:47
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I appreciate all of the easter eggs and deaths in this game
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Aug 11, 2018 17:53
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wrong thread 
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Aug 11, 2018 18:08
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Heh. Perkele. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this, this game looks like it's got some neat stuff to see, and I've quite enjoyed the presentation thus far.
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Aug 11, 2018 22:33
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I am very disappointed we didn't take the elevator without brakes. That seems like exactly the kind of dick move the game would have in store for you by placing only a single fuse next to the fuse box for you to use.
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Aug 12, 2018 00:20
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Psychotic Weasel posted:I am very disappointed we didn't take the elevator without brakes. That seems like exactly the kind of dick move the game would have in store for you by placing only a single fuse next to the fuse box for you to use. While looking for info about dam turbines, I've found out that sometimes you job is giving a fish a water slide through a propeller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a30jkeZcE8
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Aug 12, 2018 14:48
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Aw, that's too bad. Though without the brakes I guess we could just stop the motor and that would also stop the elevator... unless the cables snapped on the way down or something. I guess the game's humour is limited to more improbable things like derailing trails or causing the collapse of dams. Though if our cheery protag was a fan of Popular Mechanics he may be a lot less enthusiastic about inspecting our next objective.
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Aug 12, 2018 16:16
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SelenicMartian posted:Oh, this game doesn't deal is such tiny dick moves. I bet my brother, a fish science man, would know what's going on here but I sure don't. I mean, I understand hucking fish through a series of buckets but nothing else! Presumably some kind of piping that leads around the turbine.
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Aug 12, 2018 18:01
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They slip the fish through the working turbine. http://www.vlh-turbine.com/products/vlh-turbine/fish-friendliness/
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Aug 12, 2018 18:41
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It's definitely troubling that they give you about six fuses in those first couple of rooms for just two empty sockets, especially seeing as you can only carry one at a time?
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3/ It was a profoundly stupid idea, all things considered, but I felt it should be done, or I would regret it much, much later... As I said, INFRA doesn't deal in tiny dick moves.
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