Quoting: Rutine

Quoting: razing32Oh dear.
The roguelite element put me off FTL.
I could accept Permadeath after one sector
I could most definetly NOT after 6 sectors and a BOSS with 3 damn forms to go through.
Loved the world ,randomization and exploration.

Funny, that's one of the things that kept me going... I still remember the frustration of my first boss fight. "What ? I have to fucking beat him not once, not twice but three times ?!?!?!" (I think I lost to the second form of the boss, then I read somewhere about the three forms)
For me even 6 sectors did not seem so big a run, it's like in Ziggurat. I accept permadeath because I can pretty easily make a run again.
After the first loss I beat the boss shortly after, it was very rewarding then :)

I don't mind permadeath in say Immortal Redneck or Ziggurat. Game just flows differently.
I only beat the boss in FTL once and even then I was save scumming like crazy.
Guess these types of games just aren't for me.

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Quoting: fractal

Quoting: razing32Do you have just one type of bomber you customize ?
Or multiple types like the ships in FTL ?

Only the Lancaster, however the amount of available customisation is higher than in FTL. I wouldn't mind getting a B-17, even as a paid DLC.

The game in general is pretty good, but it's actually quite different than FTL, it's much faster and much more hectic as there's no pause button and as soon as the action starts you'll be expected to do multiple things at the same time because your crew has no sense of self-preservation and just sits idly while you're manually assigning targets to gunners and manually performing damage control and manually opening the bomb bay doors and manually arming bombs and manually missing the target because you blinked and manually putting out engine fire and manually steering the bomber back on target and manually assigning targets again and manually tending to inevitable wounded and manually reloading turrets and manually equipping your engineer with an extinguisher and manually assigning targets again while manually sending your engineer to your wing only to find out that you misclicked a pixel and he has a box of ammo and not the extinguisher so you manually send him back while manually assigning targets again while manually dropping bombs because you almost missed the target the engineer has the extinguisher now but there's another engine on fire etc, all of it while the screen is flashing like crazy due to tracers hitting your bomber. Then you crash in front of your airfield anyway because you ran out of fuel. There are upgrades that help automate some of these, but not at the start and quite a few of the Not Recommended reviews come from people who can't handle the pace.

The more annoying feature IMO would be the roguelite nature of the game where you blink for too long during any of the actions mentioned above, inevitably lose the airplane and very likely the crew with it and then you need to start from a scratch which can turn into grind.

90% of the game is damage control under pressure and prioritising decisions like should I put of the engine fire first or should I resupply the tail gunner?

I'd say it's worth playing but bear in mind that it's not a game for everyone.

Oh dear.
The roguelite element put me off FTL.
I could accept Permadeath after one sector
I could most definetly NOT after 6 sectors and a BOSS with 3 damn forms to go through.
Loved the world ,randomization and exploration.

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Do you have just one type of bomber you customize ?
Or multiple types like the ships in FTL ?

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Quoting: fabertawe

Quoting: razing32What fun stuff did you find to play solo ?
Curios for myself :P

Really? :huh: I currently have over 400 Linux games :woot: Quite amazing! None of those are multiplayer only games.

I tend to favour FPS type games like Dying Light, Hitman, Borderlands 2, Deus Ex, Shadow Of Mordor, Mad Max etc etc, you get the idea ;) Steamworld Dig's the nearest I get to a platformer these days.

Quoting: razing32(currently i am playing older games via wine)

I used Wine for gaming but not for a few years now. I did rack up 103 hours in Far Cry 2, for instance and loved the Stalker series.

LOL
My comment was meant more tongue in cheek
Was more curios what you were having fun with. I have a tonne of games but I seem to find myself drifting to older games run via wine (Tachyon the Fringe , Deus Ex 1 , Return to Castle Wolfenstein)

Don't think I ever had a love affair with platformers but did play them as a kid since they were the norm.
Loved Dying light but more from the sense of dread and panic while traversing the city at night.
I tend to favor RTS/TBS/Point and click and just stay away from the action and breathe in the world around me.

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Might make for a fun weekend afternoon.

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Oh boy , here we go

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Quoting: khalismurYes, I'd love to start playing both games. Many times was I very close to clicking the purchase button. However, the sheer amount of DLC make the base games feel incomplete. If one would add all DLCs, the prices becomes ridiculous and thus I never did get them.

A pitty, they both seem to be awesome, but I will not spend €200+ on a single game. They should just pack all past DLCs and sell it as a bundle for something reasonable. €40 or so would be the max I'd give for them.

Wait for a sale or Humble Bundle
They show up quite often.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: razing32What fun stuff did you find to play solo ?
Curios for myself :P
(currently i am playing older games via wine)

I didn't post this for quite some time, did I?
http://ein-eike.de/linux-games-worth-your-bucks/ [External Link]

I just played through Tacoma.
I guess you'll like it if you liked Gone Home and/or Firewatch.

Sehr gut herr Eike.
Vielen dank :)

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Hmm , I never thought about it like that.
But maybe because I don't see Paradox as a major publisher.
Sure their expansions are iffy but I usually buy them only when heavily discounted 75% up.
I think the DLC is there to keep the game alive after so many years , but then again a lot of people complained bug fixes are only in the DLC/expansion and not in the base game.

Guess what I'm saying is that I am on the fence on this one.

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Quoting: fabertaweWell I actually picked this up :P Seemed like it was worth a punt at that price. I've only given it a very brief testing though but it does appear to work perfectly on Linux (so far).

The game is still being developed actively and it looks like they're working to give room owners the powers to silence, kick and ban users, so the "nasty" elements are getting contained. Find a room with a decent admin and it could be a lot of fun.

p.s. I generally avoid any online gaming so I surprised myself by getting this one :huh:

What fun stuff did you find to play solo ?
Curios for myself :P
(currently i am playing older games via wine)

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