Cant wait to get settled in tonight and play for a good few hours.
I must have spent a good hour yesterday just reading through the ledger.
I must have spent a good hour yesterday just reading through the ledger.
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Disco Elysium |OT| No Truce with the Voices in My Head
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I have only just completed day 1, but it seems mostly to be a way to justify changes in world state. People move about a little at days end, and then go to sleep (i.e are not available). At least in the opening scenario, there are people who are 'insomniacs' and always available, for gameplay reasons.
As mentioned, time is advanced by dialogue (and maybe some other interactions), not wall-clock. You're going to be doing a whole lot of talking to get through a whole day, but yes, you might want to prioritize some people.
I guess it also forms part of the "don't ask everyone about everything" design.
I'm generally averse to timed puzzles, but this doesn't stress me.
Yeah, this is my take on the time mechanic too. Sometimes, you need to make a judgement that this one NPC might be not useful to your investigation at all, so talking to them will only waste your time.
ancient reptilian brain / limbic system chatter is probably my favorite part of the game so far
Man, by far high psyche just seems like easy mode in the early game. Volition, empathy, authority, and suggestion seem to shape your choices so much so often compared to all the other checks I see.
Plus you really can't boost most of these from other sources this early on, since you mostly get inland empire and espirit de corps boosts.
Plus you really can't boost most of these from other sources this early on, since you mostly get inland empire and espirit de corps boosts.
I have to say, while the music so far has been nice enough, the track that plays outside the Whirling-in-Rags at night is cosy as hell. It playing in the background while chatting with Kim on the balcony really nailed that "end of the day" feeling.
Not ingame no just use something like https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm and make a profile for the game.
All four trees have influence on your dialogs and choices. I remember the Dev Blog, where they specif said, that they plan to have each group have physical, rhetoric and observation attributes. Just some more then others. High Psych may give you an advantage in dialogs, but you are missing a lot of physical attributes, like fighting power, be able to physical notice stuff, intimation, intuition and being sneaky. Also your "guts felling" is a bad influence, so you know, that you should properly do the opposite of what it is suggesting (if you want to be a nice guy).
I think you need to spend a skill point to unlock slots or remove existing Thoughts.
You can use a skill point when you level up to unlock a new slot.
Is it.. really worth it? Honestly this whole skill system is very dense to me and I can't quite wrap my head around it.
I've put about 5 hours into it (restarted once) and I'm just not really feeling it ATM.
The writing is good and what voice acting is there is generally well done but the plot hasn't hooked me in any way and movement is so goddamned slow and to the point that I'll see something on the other side of the screen and I'm like fuck it, I don't care enough to go look at that.
The writing is good and what voice acting is there is generally well done but the plot hasn't hooked me in any way and movement is so goddamned slow and to the point that I'll see something on the other side of the screen and I'm like fuck it, I don't care enough to go look at that.
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I feel like winging it is the intended strategy for levelling, given that failure is often as interesting as success. Thoughts can provide skill-cap increases and situational buffs when internalised, but you won't know what you'll get till they're complete (unless someone has already written up a guide). If you'd rather dump your skill points into your actual skills you can do that too, but you won't be able to try out new Thoughts without spending skill points to dump your current ones.
My only real disappointment right now is the lack of reactions towards a cop walking around in shoes, underwear, and a necktie
Honestly this game makes me feel bad. I am appealing to racist fuckers and rich mofos to make progress.
finally traded in my RCM slicker for the pinball maker's trenchcoat! i feel a little less like a pure hobocop now (seriously, *that* poncho, with the bum hat, while carrying arounda plastic bag full of empty bottles?). maybe more like someone's weird grandpa.
adoring this game. cant even find the right words. some genuine moments of deductive delight and revelation, many a laugh, occasionally a jerked tear. very seriously considered taking my laptop to work with me today during my 13 hour shift.
congratulations, for real! ive been following this game a long time, but i know how much longer its been cooking in all your brains and if its just so gratifying seeing it stick the landing for myself, i hope y'all are reveling in the well-earned praise.
ps while i have you here: the skill system is exquisite and full of harmony and i cant help but think about how well it would translate into a TTRPG ruleset/system. something like this in mind down the road, or am i putting my cop before the kineema?
adoring this game. cant even find the right words. some genuine moments of deductive delight and revelation, many a laugh, occasionally a jerked tear. very seriously considered taking my laptop to work with me today during my 13 hour shift.
congratulations, for real! ive been following this game a long time, but i know how much longer its been cooking in all your brains and if its just so gratifying seeing it stick the landing for myself, i hope y'all are reveling in the well-earned praise.
ps while i have you here: the skill system is exquisite and full of harmony and i cant help but think about how well it would translate into a TTRPG ruleset/system. something like this in mind down the road, or am i putting my cop before the kineema?
For the moment I have spent all my skillpoints to unlock new thoughts slots. They're like equipment slots, the more you have the more potentially powerful I'll be if I find new good thoughts? Especially since you need several hours to "equip" them. Also, I don't want to be forced to chose between two I really want but I only have one slot: I didn't expect that if you use a skill point to unequip a skill, it's gone forever and you cannot equip it again.
I just finished day 1 and I think I've done some huge progress. The only weird thing was that midway through, I did something skillfull that prompted a appreciative response from Kim... and then before I knew it I started playing like the game was a dating sim and I don't want to disappoint him. I'm going to get clean and go back to being a good efficient cop! Look at me Kim-senpai!
My 6-point Electrochemistry is NOT HAPPY.
I'm still intimately sure I'm actually a superstar and not a cop, though. It only costs me 1 point of logic to keep in my mind. A small price to pay for superstardom!
What do "coptypes" do exactly? I got "sorry cop" and it doesn't sound too exciting lol.
Also anyone else having their inventory get an orange circle by it (like you have something new in it) but nothing in it? seems to be happening after I talk to people even if I don't get an item or anything.
Also anyone else having their inventory get an orange circle by it (like you have something new in it) but nothing in it? seems to be happening after I talk to people even if I don't get an item or anything.
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Where should we go for general technical feedback? It's been brought up a couple of times in the thread already, but moving/looking around/interacting with stuff could be snappier and something as simple as adding an "always run" option and maybe separating interacting/moving to LMB/RMB would already go a long way.
Are you double clicking to run? Space to stop running. The walk is slow, but running is pretty fast.
Man, I really wish there's a WASD movement option, or at least let us click and hold to move. Always clicking on the edge of the screen when exploring is not fun at all (yes, I know you can double click, but still).
There's one thought that gives you 1XP for every orb you click...
Lol the first night Kim was like "is it standard procedure in your precinct to run everywhere?"
10 hours in and it's only gotten better and better. Only wish there was more voice acting.
So, I feel as though I'm stuck on Day 4/5+
I've interacted with everything I can all the way up the coast, but I can't get access to the Feld Electrical Building, and I've already failed the physical checks to get into the ice cream machine and the secret areas in the Whirling, and I'm unable to put more points into Physical Instrument to unlock the checks. I got the key to the whistleblower's door from Evrart, but the actual door still shows a white interaction. I also believeI should have completed the quest to discuss reality with Joyce, but it's still there.
I have no idea what to do.
I have no idea what to do.
I think this has to do with collecting "garbage" in to the yellow bag. You can check it's contents on the inventory screen.
I don't think so because
The base % is at 3%, and I can only put 2 points in shivers + 1 from clothing. I put 1 via clothing and 1 in skills and it was still at 3% and I failed the check.
I think I may have to do the quest about rave kids, though I told them to stop making speed and only focus on making music club.
I think I may have to do the quest about rave kids, though I told them to stop making speed and only focus on making music club.
The thing is, I'm not sure what I'm experiencing is a bug or if it's intentional as the game is not behaving how it usually does in this part of the story.
Thanks! Well, basically the very same bug report is good for technical feedback, although we're already working on "always run", colour blindness mode, photosensitity mode, and other quality of life improvements. To be honest, we haven't event celebrated the launch yet, just been squashing bugs nonstop. But we will, soon.
Also our Discord is a good place to keep an eye on things and chat with us.
Day 2 here and I hit a time wall hahaha, I already talked to everyone in town, and my only option is to
talk to the tall guy guarding the doors for the harbor, but since I don't want to punch him and fail, I have to internalize his racist teaching so he can let me push the freaking button lmao, that's 2 hours of wait, and I can't go to sleep because it's 12am, I will have to wait 🤷🏻♂️
Awesome, great to hear you're already working on QOL stuff. Congrats on the successful launch! Don't take cues from the Superstar Disco Cop when you do get to celebrate.
Those are some quick responses to QoL features. Props.
Only thing I can really think to add is WASD camera movement.
Other than that this game is a monumental achievement.
Don't wanna put the cart before the horse, but I can already tell this just might be my personal GOTY.
the one good thing about being a fat piece of crap is that my playtime with ring fit adventure will naturally be capped at about 30 minutes a night, thus meaning more time to step into the (obviously smelly) shoes of Mr. [NAME REDACTED], the commie-racist pining for his peach-scented lost love.
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