Please keep the discussion civil. There's been a lot of pretty ambiguous comments on this thread that could be read several different ways. I'm pretty sure that there was nothing personal intended in any of them, so I've tidied up where I think the line was crossed and please just everyone remember the human behind the comment.

Thanks.

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I loved Transistor's version of "easy" mode. The base game is played evenly for a while, but you quickly accrue optional "Limiters" which change your, or your enemies capabilities, making each encounter harder. The flipside was that each Limiter added to the experience you accrue from each encounter, so playing a harder battle reaped slightly better rewards overall. You were in control at all times, and it felt seamless, because the Limiters were placed like Functions, so you didn't have to escape out to a control panel and change a slider from "normal" to "easy" - it was all done in context to the main game.

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I suppose you could make the game easier by including your own dictionary which has easier words in it? The default starts really easy, but by the time you're coming up on the boss battle, you're getting words like 'aurora', 'epiphet' or 'disentangled'... when you're trying to type three of those, while warding off the smaller three/four letter bats AND defending from the wraith, well, it can get pretty tough. You'll need your kill-all word a couple of times, I suspect.

Useful to know that there's a clear-all key bind. Dunno how I missed that!

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45 words per minute - but nearer 60 if you discount all those pesky spelling errors!

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Man, the DJ/narrator in that video has an incredible voice. Between Bastion, Transistor and Portal 2, I'm begining to realise that I'm an absolute sucker for really excellent voice acting. It's the make or break of good sound design. Plus Wasteland 2 was excellent. I have high hopes for this!

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Oh, BTW, usually when I send Liam news about a cool new game I saw, he near-instantly replies with the GOL article where he already covered it.

So, it's with some satisfaction that I should point out... I covered this game 10 months ago when it first went alpha. Ahhh, that's a nice feeling!

Seriously though - great game, great dev. One to keep an eye on.

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It's coming along really nicely. I've been following this dev and game for months and I'm really looking forward to the finished article!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaineI've wishlisted it too. The update says "if anyone wants to test, reply to this thread", but there are no permissions to reply on that thread. I'm guessing it's locked down to only allow replies from people who own the game, but it sure confused me!

Looks open to me?

Yep, my mistake. I was testing from work, where I almost never access the Steam store. It had long since logged me out of the browser I use there!

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I've wishlisted it too. The update says "if anyone wants to test, reply to this thread", but there are no permissions to reply on that thread. I'm guessing it's locked down to only allow replies from people who own the game, but it sure confused me!

Love these games - both the top-down space shooter and the modular approach, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this!

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Wait over a year, release a poorly optimised version of an average game priced at £45? It honestly sounds like Microsoft got involved. I'm gutted that this car crash was ever associated with Gearbox.

I was looking forward to this title too. What a waste. It raised over £300K too...

At least backers are being issued refunds while getting to keep their Steam keys.

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