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05:07:42 Devastator: will take a day or two for extinction. Gotta map out the dungeon.
05:13:14 syv: Another racing tourney was announced today.
05:13:32 Devastator: well, I'm out of alleg practice for tomorrow.
05:13:44 Devastator: hopefully we can get a game or two off.
05:13:48 Devastator: might be the last time, ever.
05:15:23 Devastator: "Hey,
dev, heard you're playing a 21 year old online multiplayer-only game with an extremely high-skill ceiling that only sold 20,000 or so copies tomorrow."
05:15:27 Devastator: "Yeah, might be the last time ever."
05:15:32 Devastator: It's sad, but it's understandable.
05:16:42 Devastator: but was good talking about it with papsmear.
05:17:06 Devastator: good memories, and for those of us who liked it, it was the best game ever made.
05:19:00 syv: ...That's something that sucks about online-only games.
05:19:15 syv: I'll almost certainly still be able to play DaS in forty years.
05:20:02 Devastator: With alleg, it was entirely possible the number of times I'd get to play it was zero.
05:20:07 Devastator: it really wouldn't work single-player.
05:20:23 Devastator: the game is the human opponents and the teamwork.
05:22:50 Devastator: I remember the quote about what it was like to command it.
05:23:01 Devastator: "It's like playing starcraft, except all your units hate you."
05:24:00 Devastator: I was not a good comm.
05:24:58 Devastator: glorious 30% win rate.
05:28:09 Devastator: actually, overall win rate was like 33%, so within the margin of error.
05:32:04 Devastator: so.. don't really know!
05:32:41 syv: I'm laughing more at the quote.
05:32:55 Devastator: It's not accurate, but a good quote.
05:36:21 Devastator: The units do hate you, but it's more like playing a game that is simultaneously too slow and too fast.
05:36:29 Devastator: Starcraft has too good an interface.
05:38:26 syv: I was editing that, thank you.
05:38:46 syv: It's a pity that games with highly different roles working together don't tend to... exist, really.
05:38:59 Devastator: Isn't that overwatch?
05:39:09 syv: No, I mean like the commander in Alleg.
05:39:22 syv: Overwatch just has different versions of shooty/stabby hero.
05:39:28 Devastator: Commander isn't that special, acutally.
05:39:35 Devastator: same as any player, just you have all the money.
05:39:50 syv: Nothing near as separate as "some people are playing a space sim-ish game, one is playing an RTS"
05:41:27 Devastator: yeah, but you spend half the time when flying giving yourself orders.
05:45:33 syv: Oh, the comm is still doing stuff?
05:46:18 Devastator: The comm is usually too busy to fly, but it's entirely possible and does happen.
05:46:36 Devastator: and non-commanders give themselves orders constantly, as well as other people or drone objects.
05:48:37 Devastator: Every time you hear that "Auto Pilot Engaged" sound, that's an order to yourself.
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05:49:09 Devastator: comms usually sit in base almost all game.
05:51:35 syv: ...Can the comm autopilot other pkayers?
05:52:36 Devastator: if the other player hits insert to accept the order, yeah.
05:52:40 Devastator: of course, so can anyone.
05:53:24 Devastator: you'll most often see me doing it if I hit zero to toggle off mouse control, so I can drag a box from my cockpit and select a whole bunch of pods at once, so I can order them to me for pickup.
05:54:12 Devastator: Hell, you can give people orders through the chatbox.
05:55:02 Devastator: 0, toggle mouse control, select pods, enter, ctrl-g (activate goto order) Kof (to autofill your name), then enter to send the order.
05:55:49 Devastator: the alleg chatbox is something special.
05:56:41 Devastator: one of the most heavily burdened things in gaming, that chatbox.
05:58:33 Devastator: also why some people were able to crash the game with hacked voicechats originally.
05:59:05 Devastator: lots of power, not much checking..
06:03:14 Devastator: testgame probably only going to work on monday.
06:03:22 Devastator: need to check if Krystal is flat broke.
06:03:51 Devastator: being one up from the bottom, it's possible she's entirely broke.
06:08:47 ER: oh yeah, I thought we were bottom tier because that's what I chose :v
06:09:04 ER: stoopid other people having agency...
06:14:54 Devastator: at bottom tier you'd have been dressed less well.
06:15:16 Devastator: that 5 would mean you still could get in sans roll, but anything else..
06:16:24 ER: you look awfully raggedy. don't you dare meet m'lady like that. You'll scare her off for good!
06:16:55 Devastator: 1 inspiration helps a lot, but it has limits.
06:17:14 Devastator: it's more 'get out of here, you criminal poverty-ridden scum.'
06:17:24 Devastator: lots of slumdwellers in this part of the world.
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06:31:34 MidJag: So I actually have a decent internet connection and a game I want to stream, anyone care to watch?
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06:34:50 Devastator: well, I'd expect that, but what's the title?
06:35:13 MidJag: the game is called blasphemous.
06:35:28 MidJag: It's like the spanish inqusition meets dark souls
06:36:31 Devastator: souls is a metroidvania, come to think of it.
06:36:52 Devastator: you explore, find stuff, and kill bosses.
06:36:55 syv: You don't unlock new abilities to open up new areas.
06:37:11 MidJag: I mean you kill things and unlock paths and shortcuts to be fair.
06:37:17 Devastator: there are 3d metroid games.
06:37:27 syv: You get keys which unlock doors.
06:37:37 syv: Mostly which are in the same area as the key.
06:37:48 syv: There's very little required backtracking.
06:39:19 ER: game classificiation by this method is ultimately futile given the possibility space
06:39:51 MidJag: anyway, regardless of the exact defention of dark souls as a genre, would people watch if I stream it?
06:39:59 ER: I mean, you could have a game with the exact same strucutre as super metroid except whenever you get an ability you also get a key which opens new areas through doors
06:40:23 ER: but when I say metroidvania I mainly mean a 2d platformer with exploration
06:40:47 ER: I'd rather play that one myself,
MJ :v
06:41:20 syv: Play Dark Souls pvp with me and Egan.
06:42:50 Devastator: I'd watch a bit of it.
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06:49:37 Devastator: resolution is set to the top left corner.
06:49:57 Devastator: I think it's still set for teleglitch.
06:51:36 Devastator: what's wrong with your heeeeeead?
06:54:05 Devastator: yes, you do kinda seem to suck at it. ;-p
06:55:40 Devastator: attack the weapon after blocking?
06:59:28 Devastator: so are there bonfires?
07:00:16 Devastator: yeah, thb bonfires in dark souls are saverooms.
07:00:46 Devastator: can go right and then up a lot.
07:07:14 Devastator: death with extra potions.
07:09:10 ER: I did play the demo for a game called Olija
07:09:30 Devastator: so that's what the chain guys do.
07:10:22 Devastator: stick to wall time.
07:13:09 Devastator: yeah, if the lava is a millimeter away from you, you're fine.
07:16:03 Devastator: this a 'you suck a lot' assistance, or like a white spirit?
07:17:29 Devastator: hand while it's shooting.
07:17:31 Devastator: use the orange one.
07:18:12 Devastator: Crow would like this boss.
07:24:22 Devastator: healer has a cooldown on her heal, but she can heal you wherever you are on the battlefield.
07:24:33 Devastator: don't need to be in front of her.
07:28:32 Devastator: dodge first! You'll get this soon enough.
07:30:38 Devastator: sometimes it just takes a bunch of tries.
07:32:50 Devastator: phase 2 seems rough.
07:33:07 Devastator: maybe leave it just above half and then wait for it to come low to shorten that phase?
07:33:16 Devastator: so you can start with like a dozen or so hits?
07:33:39 Devastator: It seems to rotate between a fixet set of positions.
07:33:44 Devastator: it comes low after like four or five moves.
07:38:20 MJ: No prob that was fun to show off. Thanks for helping me with the boss
07:39:18 Devastator: eh, you were doing fine.
07:42:58 Devastator: looks like Jurassic Park will have an atomic reactor in multitask.
07:44:44 Devastator: well, would have been interesting.
07:44:50 Devastator: gamma velociraptors.
08:10:23 MJ: Ah yes the holiday I care the least about.
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08:51:54 syv: You two are welcome to watch something, but I'm getting distant lightning, and I don't wanna pause stuff to check on lightning regularly. So no. Sorry.
08:53:47 ER: what do we have to watch,
dev? :p
09:44:07 Devastator: actually, getting tired.
09:44:30 syv: You'd watch it without me? :(
09:58:56 ER: nah, I was asking if we had something lese
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19:52:04 Devastator: going to get started a bit early.
19:52:09 Devastator: lets hope enough peeps are on.
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20:33:25 Devastator: game's about to start.
20:34:47 NJW: watching now... wow, that is a lot of information
20:56:16 NJW: wow... that was a highly confusing sequence of shapes. Afraid I've got to get going, but this has been fun!
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21:34:56 Topic for #einsteinianroulette: Fleshorrors dream of feline BASS
21:34:56 Topic set by syv [Tuesday 29 September 2020, 08:56:47]
21:41:48 Devastator: That's alleg for you.
21:42:05 Devastator: best game ever, but it's got a LOT of info.
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23:49:37 syv:
Devastator is it still going?
23:49:47 Devastator: Nah,
stopped at the moment.
23:49:52 Devastator: can check if they're still going.
23:49:53 syv: I forgot to set an alarm and just woke up >.<
23:49:55 Devastator: it was winding down a little.
23:50:36 Devastator: let me go see if there are still more games.
23:51:11 Devastator: still 14 people online.
23:51:47 syv: Well, if you want to stream another game, I'll try and watch!
23:53:34 Devastator: looks like second-line commanders this time.
23:53:40 Devastator: which will mean messier games.
23:55:00 Devastator: I'm not a fan of nix, personally.
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