New Year's Podcast
The new year's podcast thread is up on the devblog.
Cheers!
Kinak
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As a reward for a thoughful and informative podcast you get … a lengthy follow-up post. Yeah, sorry.
Re: Vholes finding recipes for liquified Eclipse and Slags antidote in the Testing Lab. I know you can find the recipe for Slags Antidote from listening in to the Lab Workers in the Midgard Laboratory, which you might have been thinking of when you were answering the question. But as far as I know there's no way to learn the recipe for liquified Eclipse without Experimental Chemistry. That'd be an interesting thing to be able to find for, say, conducts where you can't fight the Writhing Masses for Dr. Myers/Andrea.
Re: Axes. The first thing I thought of was a TV show I saw a while ago, which thanks to the magic of Youtube is still available (the relevant episode is here, here, and here). I can't vouch for this as either history or tactics, but it's a good watch. According to that show, anyway, the Vikings definitely did use axes. There are some challenges to adopting the show's take on the axe as a "psychological" weapon in a combat system with no mechanical role for stuff like fatigue or morale. Not to mention that being rushed by an axe-wielding maniac is probably a lot less terrifying if you have a gun than a sword & shield. But we already have effects like RAGE and Artificial Rage, so it shouldn't be that hard to work in some berserking. (Why is it no surprise that Penguinpyro, Mr. I-Don't-Believe-In-Evasion, was the one to suggest axes?)
The discussion of how the hipsters approach Eclipse was super-interesting. Thanks for that.
The discussion of finding the Spider's Nest really puzzles me. It makes me wonder if something fundamental isn't broken somewhere. Like, are we maybe only supposed to fight the Midgard SD1 on the First Floor until we beat it one time? (If so, getting stuff like Call the Swarm, Unleash Spider and, to some extent Drone Anatomy a lot harder.)
Still listening to the podcast, but I think you missed a question.
From a developer's standpoint, is there anything you will miss about Oldos? Anything to say during its eulogy? Or is it completely uphill from here?
Writing for the long-neglected GOC Casefiles canon.
Mag:
As a reward for a thoughful and informative podcast you get … a lengthy follow-up post. Yeah, sorry.
Jerk :P
Re: Vholes finding recipes for liquified Eclipse and Slags antidote in the Testing Lab. I know you can find the recipe for Slags Antidote from listening in to the Lab Workers in the Midgard Laboratory, which you might have been thinking of when you were answering the question. But as far as I know there's no way to learn the recipe for liquified Eclipse without Experimental Chemistry. That'd be an interesting thing to be able to find for, say, conducts where you can't fight the Writhing Masses for Dr. Myers/Andrea.
I doublechecked and there is still a non-experimental way to get the liquified Eclipse recipe. It isn't the encounter Vholes found back in the day, though.
Re: Axes. The first thing I thought of was a TV show I saw a while ago, which thanks to the magic of Youtube is still available (the relevant episode is here, here, and here). I can't vouch for this as either history or tactics, but it's a good watch. According to that show, anyway, the Vikings definitely did use axes. There are some challenges to adopting the show's take on the axe as a "psychological" weapon in a combat system with no mechanical role for stuff like fatigue or morale. Not to mention that being rushed by an axe-wielding maniac is probably a lot less terrifying if you have a gun than a sword & shield. But we already have effects like RAGE and Artificial Rage, so it shouldn't be that hard to work in some berserking. (Why is it no surprise that Penguinpyro, Mr. I-Don't-Believe-In-Evasion, was the one to suggest axes?)
Morale and berserkergang we can do :)
The discussion of how the hipsters approach Eclipse was super-interesting. Thanks for that.
You're welcome :)
The discussion of finding the Spider's Nest really puzzles me. It makes me wonder if something fundamental isn't broken somewhere. Like, are we maybe only supposed to fight the Midgard SD1 on the First Floor until we beat it one time? (If so, getting stuff like Call the Swarm, Unleash Spider and, to some extent Drone Anatomy a lot harder.)
I figured out what's going on there, I think. And, yes, there's only one spider drone on that floor.
PenguinPyro:
From a developer's standpoint, is there anything you will miss about Oldos? Anything to say during its eulogy? Or is it completely uphill from here?
There are some things I would have missed that I pulled over, but I think the only thing that got dropped that I'd miss is the in-combat resource mechanic. Processor and Memory didn't work well in the broader scheme of Oldos, but in-combat with enough tools available, they could be very cool.
Cheers!
Kinak
Mag
I discovered the non-experimental way to get the Liquified Eclipse recipe long ago and put it on the wiki. But after Cryptodynamic and various others in chat were THOROUGHLY UNIMPRESSED by that discovery I removed it, and nobody seemed to mind. But APPARENTLY it's important enough to make quite the dialogue in a podcast discussion, isn't it?
You can find the old discovery here:
http://wiki.metroplexity.com/secured-files
Go to history and check for the edit with the note " Age old mystery busted. Another mark for the history books."
Arkaim, I can't tell if you're self-parodying or not. But I've never seen anyone who quite so enjoys constructing his spade out of diamond so he can club people with it.
I was briefly excited for Al's idea of a naked Lo run, but of course secured files requires computers. shakes fist at the tyranny of clothing
In the beginning, men were mortal.
I was briefly excited for Al's idea of a naked Lo run, but of course secured files requires computers. shakes fist at the tyranny of clothing
If that's really the only sticking point there, I can add some more ways to find it. Making liquified Eclipse isn't exactly a well-kept secret.
Cheers!
Kinak
Thanks for the podcast Kinak!
Q: Rasping teeth is gained from dodging the Square Maw and Hoop Jump from killing it. But wouldn't the other way around make more sense? Any comment?
I'm 90% sure that this exact question was asked on an old podcast or in chat or somewhere, and the response was something along the lines of, "not everything needs to make sense". :)
Also, I don't get why the domino masks is racist??
If that's really the only sticking point there, I can add some more ways to find it. Making liquified Eclipse isn't exactly a well-kept secret.
I believe it is currently the only thing preventing you from doing a naked Lo run. (It seems like it's currently possible to do a Hel/David run but adding Lo as a possibility would be interesting.) (Or perhaps someone could drop a tube of it somewhere? Eg. the four scientists encounter in the slags lab? Or hefty capsules would work if you could supply the punks somehow without equipping pants.)
Top eight spading notes:
- I’m not sure that you’ve actually found all of the new knife content. Found!
- Evasion Negation needs more spading.
- No particular puzzle for the upper art museum floor.
- Warehouse supervisor does or will shortly drop a Midgard Hardhat.
- At least one of Punk, Cyberbowl, Construction Worker or Mummy avatars exist, perhaps more to added.
- Something to be found with the mold golems.
- Open your mind to find more with the circuitry coat.
- One of the art museum items is not like the other. Look closely.
Arkaim. I said that was an interesting discovery, I was only pointing out that it was not the same thing as the older mystery, which was about learning the recipe for the Slags Antidote, and did not involve hacking.
Also, I don't get why the domino masks is racist??
Someone was asking why the domino mask hates ghouls. I was joking that the domino mask hates ghouls because it's racist.
I believe it is currently the only thing preventing you from doing a naked Lo run. (It seems like it's currently possible to do a Hel/David run but adding Lo as a possibility would be interesting.)
Went ahead and added a way to get that.
Cheers!
Kinak
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