00:00:06 Devastator: you also have a very limited inventory, which really dominates the game.
00:00:31 Devastator: can't just carry like 50 spare items. Without adding heavy cargo units and such you can carry 4 items, plus what you're equipped with.
00:02:16 Devastator: and since your items have limited HP, and any damage you take knocks them off, you really want a lot of spare stuff around.
00:02:48 Devastator: weapons in particular are fragile. Big chunky things that get broken after a couple of hits, and without them you can't hit all the hostile robots back.
00:03:11 Devastator: anyway, with these jet engines I just try to avoid combat as much as I can.
00:04:37 Devastator: The other part about it is how quickly you go from being on top of the world to completley helpless.
00:05:04 Devastator: you run into three unexpected enemy robots, and bam, half your equipment is dead and you're lucky to have even that much.
00:05:20 Devastator: plus if you do stuff like destroy too much random terrain and equipment, more reinforcements are summoned in.
00:05:33 Devastator: which really matters if you're carrying around a rocket launcher, say, to deal with groups.
00:06:36 Nikitian: Sounds quite complex in a good way, with a lot of potential strategies and approaches
00:06:48 Devastator: all pretty dependant on what you find on the ground.
00:06:55 Devastator: like you can't fly around if you don't find a pile of jets.
00:07:55 Nikitian: Hmmm. So, chance-based too.
00:08:09 Devastator: yeah, lots of map randomness.
00:08:54 Devastator: fair bit of lore too.
00:09:34 Nikitian: Sounds pretty interesting :) I'm not currently in the mood for high-tech atmosphere, but I'll keep it in mind for later.
00:09:45 Nikitian: Oooh, lore is good. I like lore ;)
00:10:08 Devastator: baaaasically, the robot outpost is set up as a honeypot for alien attackers.
00:10:56 Devastator: the independant fully automated all-robot facility built a bunch of fake cities on the surface, and dragged in an alien lander, and then swarmed it with tons of armed robots to capture the ship.
00:11:20 Devastator: it is a fairly high-tech setting, though.
00:12:43 Devastator: I don't know all the details, but you're a failed prototype attempt to make something that could use the alien tech.
00:13:28 Devastator: there's also NPCs and such and a lot of side branches.
00:14:52 Devastator: yeah, there's a lot of tactics, which is why I'm bad at it. Lots to learn.
00:19:01 Nikitian: I've recently discovered a curious gem, Airships
00:19:19 Devastator: Dubs suggested that one to me.
00:20:07 Nikitian: Well, it nice to hear that I'm following in the steps of his recommendations, even if unknowingly.
00:21:04 Nikitian: Anyway, it's quite complex too, and I'm still figuring out most of it, but it seems quite promising
00:28:17 Devastator: IIRC, you want to ignore the balloon thingies.
00:28:19 Devastator: they never work out.
00:44:21 Nikitian: Ohhhh. That explains so much. -_-
00:44:43 Nikitian: Yeah, I immediately tried to make them work, the moment I saw them. Not too good idea, I suppose.
00:52:08 Devastator: finally dropped enough stuff to change to a smaller backpack.
00:52:26 Devastator: now am underweight with six jet engines. Base speed: 500%.
00:56:11 Devastator: yeah. Very much sneaking around this game.
00:56:25 Devastator: got a long range sensors and the good interpreter, which lets me see all the robots around me.
00:56:35 Devastator: I should pick up a signal jammer if I see one, though, in case of scouts.
00:56:47 Devastator: Killed a squad out of sight of them.
01:00:17 Devastator: too slow, food clock robots!
01:00:42 Devastator: (on the main levels, you get attacked every so often by 'programmer' bots, which do relatively little damage but hit you for EM corruption, which messes you up nonlethally.
01:00:55 Devastator: they play the part of a 'food clock'
01:05:47 Devastator: they also have jet engines, just not six of them.
01:06:07 Devastator: hey, caves dropped a transmission jammer. Ho!
01:07:24 Devastator: Crap, there's really nothing I can drop.
01:09:10 Nikitian: Yeeeah, hate when that happens ;(
01:09:54 Nikitian: Anyway, gotta go to sleep now. Have a nice evening! :)
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01:36:31 Devastator: also
ER, yes, Alice.
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04:06:29 syv: Alice is short and female and experienced, and that's the end of her physical description
04:06:59 syv: So nothing is stopping me from visualizing her as Monika in plate armor
04:07:16 syv: I am happy I named her Nepenthe
04:21:06 ER: everybody is jesus in purgatory I mean monika in a mask
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05:49:24 syv: You beeped me just after I went to check clouds
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06:55:31 MidJag: Damn, so your like sanic fast
06:59:07 MidJag: What's the disruptor cannon do?
07:09:05 MidJag: So does speed five you a dodge chance
07:32:11 MidJag: i think I should go to bed
07:37:27 Devastator: this one really is going well. I've found two seperate flight array propulsion units, which really got me out of the issue of having too much energy on my jets.
07:37:56 Devastator: the second one puts me with 6 extra carry weight, which means I can put on like a set of armour or a big power plant instead of just small ones.
08:40:37 Devastator: lost when I ran out of ammo for my missile launcher, and had three sets of swarmers surrounding me.
08:40:53 Devastator: then dragged the game out like another 40 minutes, but it was meaningless.
09:22:21 Devastator: I'll handle the personality and background and such over the next few updates.
09:22:29 Devastator: you mean from that VN?
10:12:30 Devastator:
syv, anything you'd like to ask of Alice right away?
10:12:42 Devastator: Not really taking orders for now, but I might be able to squeeze in one or two things.
10:37:15 syv: I'd want to ask her *why* she wants to join the party
10:38:17 syv: Concordat paladin suddenly wants to shift sides?
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