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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Does the Grappendix count as a hitbox, since it's one of your organs? I was just in Cruelty Squad HQ and killed the golem that explodes into a thousand flechettes, and the flechettes killed me as soon as the grappendix entered the room even though I didn't remotely have line of sight into the room.

E: Video of what happened. I guess it's possible that the golem's gibs explode, including the gib that fell out of the room and landed next to me.

Dabir fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Aug 19, 2021

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Swilo
Jun 2, 2004
ANIME SUCKS HARD
:dukedog:
yeah it's the gib exploding, if you're going to kill him do it from above in the doorway before since he can't punch you and much less likely to get splatted in that way if you take cover

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Generally I would, but I was doing a default loadout run.

Love Shovel
Apr 25, 2010
Just read a great interview with Ville Kallio, creator of Cruelty Squad. Some insight I never saw

https://lvl3official.com/ville-kallio/

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

I didn’t know the creator was more artist than game dev but that makes sense.

Also I developed my CEO grind-mindset when I learned that stocks go nuts right after you kill the Governer who wants to introduce a radical socialist 1% tax on the rich so I dumped all 10k or so of my cash into random fish, rocketed that commie and left my computer to continue my inspirational CEO grindset offline while wait waiting for my fortune to grow to about 20 million or so before cashing out and now own everything you can buy in the game.

So far now that I have all the upgrades cruise ship is my favorite level, you can be like a depressed poo poo covered waste spewing gig-SAS operator dangling from your appendix off the side busting into windows with the suppressed SMG.

CaptainBeefart
Mar 28, 2016


Love Shovel posted:

Just read a great interview with Ville Kallio, creator of Cruelty Squad. Some insight I never saw

https://lvl3official.com/ville-kallio/

Thanks for sharing this.

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

I should have guessed that the creator would make for an odd interview, but I kinda like it too.

I found the stock market too confusing to use, I figured it was just deliberately volatile with no rhyme or reason. I was *mostly* right, even if certain events cause stocks to shift in specific ways.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


https://twitter.com/FloFluoro/status/1429962820448407558?s=20

Serenade
Nov 5, 2011

"I should really learn to fucking read"
where's groverhaus then? there's gotta be a groverhaus

Stockwell
Mar 29, 2005
Ask me about personal watercraft.

It gets better

https://twitter.com/AdmKrazinsky/status/1430164982054887425?s=19

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

Now you've done it you freak poo poo. You've hosed up. You're being tracked by the grid. The eye in the sky is watching. We're coming for you. Prepare to die.

hbag
Feb 13, 2021

https://twitter.com/villecallio/status/1427363440859942918

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

https://youtu.be/wYVqnUO3tgM

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008


Oh my god.

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI19WSrB4yA

not at home to verify this but lol if true

hbag
Feb 13, 2021

buglord posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI19WSrB4yA

not at home to verify this but lol if true

when i dumped some of the texture files from the game there was a texture called "muskface" or something along those lines
it was a picture of elon musk's face, so it probably is real

Swilo
Jun 2, 2004
ANIME SUCKS HARD
:dukedog:
it's real

Serenade
Nov 5, 2011

"I should really learn to fucking read"
Can also verify.

Don't know why their sky is red and mine is green though.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Serenade posted:

Can also verify.

Don't know why their sky is red and mine is green though.

On hope eradicated water and skyboxes are different colors

Serenade
Nov 5, 2011

"I should really learn to fucking read"
I thought Hope Eradicated also gave the blue border.

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here
I think the environment also changes color depending on which endings you have done.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The Hope Eradicated skybox changes from red to green after you get the Cruelty Squad HQ ending. At least that's what did it for me.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRCFIhhTS-g

now do bog business

Rahu
Feb 14, 2009


let me just check my figures real quick here
Grimey Drawer
New secret implant just dropped.

https://twitter.com/csoftproducts/status/1445026443508002823

Time to scour every level looking for it.

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
i loving love this poo poo so much, just started day before yesterday and i can't put it down

a fever dream of ultraviolence in the final days of capital



i like that in the Office level if you shoot out the windows of the 4 corner-office targets, they'll tend to leap to their deaths, managed to kill all the targets without entering the building and get an A rank on my second try

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


The Protagonist posted:

i like that in the Office level if you shoot out the windows of the 4 corner-office targets, they'll tend to leap to their deaths, managed to kill all the targets without entering the building and get an A rank on my second try

I saw someone who had the world record speedrun at the time and they hadn't figured that out. If you move correctly around the building as you do it you can get an S no sweat.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

I’m bummed they changed sin space engineering so that you can’t shoot not Elon Musk with an RPG in the first second

Huh though with the super jump maybe you could get the right angle and land on the exit before dying.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


I didn't know they changed that - glad I got my S in.

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Groovelord Neato posted:

I saw someone who had the world record speedrun at the time and they hadn't figured that out. If you move correctly around the building as you do it you can get an S no sweat.

Yeah I went back and got an S there, working through all the missions on cursed now. Still haven't figured out how to unlock Trauma Loop, found all the other secrets levels though I think.

The weapon hidden in Office is hilarious, did not work at all how I expected. I hadn't found it until after I got DEATH installed, so I didn't realize I'd gained an immunity to the horrific gamma rad death gas :hellyeah:

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

The Protagonist posted:

Yeah I went back and got an S there, working through all the missions on cursed now. Still haven't figured out how to unlock Trauma Loop, found all the other secrets levels though I think.

The weapon hidden in Office is hilarious, did not work at all how I expected. I hadn't found it until after I got DEATH installed, so I didn't realize I'd gained an immunity to the horrific gamma rad death gas :hellyeah:

Yeah you'll kill YOURSELF with that thing without the protection DEATH gives you, it sounds like a joke item without it.

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord

The Protagonist posted:

i loving love this poo poo so much, just started day before yesterday and i can't put it down

a fever dream of ultraviolence in the final days of capital

Yeah this game is a real treat and I got a lot out of it. The music is super good too. I still hum a few tracks to myself and it’s been a few months since I’ve last touched it since I got everything (minus the new secret item)

CaptainBeefart
Mar 28, 2016


I've been obsessed with this new album from Equipment Pointed Ankh partially because it reminds me of the music of Cruelty Squad. Dark and weird and dirty.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oouH1b837yg

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
This guy offered me a million bucks to kill something, and I killed it, and he won't pay up! The audacity! >:|

Onomarchus
Jun 4, 2005

It would be silly to recommend something as ubiquitous as Squid Game to anyone who knows about something as obscure as Cruelty Squad--you know what Squid Game is--but the ethoses are so similar it's a shame there isn't a cross-promotion. That I know of.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

The thing that’s really unique about cruelty squad is that it rolled in the late capitalism aesthetic of #boyboss #hustle stuff in a cyberpunk world and made the world viscerally horrifying in a way even most good cyberpunk doesn’t. Deus Ex and Squid Game at the end of the day are kinda sleek and clean worlds in comparison to the Sewage-Powered tasteless world in Cruelty Squad.

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

The thing that’s really unique about cruelty squad is that it rolled in the late capitalism aesthetic of #boyboss #hustle stuff in a cyberpunk world and made the world viscerally horrifying in a way even most good cyberpunk doesn’t. Deus Ex and Squid Game at the end of the day are kinda sleek and clean worlds in comparison to the Sewage-Powered tasteless world in Cruelty Squad.

Deus Ex, even the first one that was full of hobos, had a stylish aesthetic that might have made it a cool world to visit if not to live in. I don't want to go anywhere in Cruelty Squad's world.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
I think part of it is that CrueltySquad has no punk element.

Everyone has fully bought in.

GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 29, 2021

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
Our boss makes a pretty good anti establishment element in the intro to idiot party and office... Whether he's instituting a coup or just going joker idk

Another fun thing to consider is many of our targets are described as having gone incoherent and crazy, so maybe those later mission briefings are just our own psychosis freak out

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

GlyphGryph posted:

I think part of it is that CrueltySquad has no punk element.

Everyone has fully bought in.

The swamp cult are eco-terrorists and the handler just decided to start killing billionaires for shits and giggles but part of what makes it more horrifying is that none of that really matters, is no threat to the system and it changes nothing.

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Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS


I won the stock market

By accident, since I forgot to close the game when I went to the gym. :v:

Too bad I'll never be good enough to get the ZKZ.

Acerbatus fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Nov 9, 2021

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