KickStarter Mechajammer (formerly Copper Dreams) - cyberpunk RPG from Whalenought Studios

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Is this turn based?

Combat is "simultaneous turn-based" to be exact... which is enough to trigger any RTwP hater.

 

[mediocrepoet]

The mass recruitment through charm is incredibly off-putting. Usually I love these kind of things, having AI battle other AI through manipulation and such. But in the context of the game (to be fair I don't know much about) it just looks silly. Hey random hobo, came and fight. Hey random hobo 2 come and fight and probably die for me. I don't know man, the combat looks frantic and with your companions and people in general treated with this careless attitude it makes it look really arcady for a RPG.

RP as cyber Rasputin?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

The mass recruitment through charm is incredibly off-putting. Usually I love these kind of things, having AI battle other AI through manipulation and such. But in the context of the game (to be fair I don't know much about) it just looks silly. Hey random hobo, came and fight. Hey random hobo 2 come and fight and probably die for me. I don't know man, the combat looks frantic and with your companions and people in general treated with this careless attitude it makes it look really arcady for a RPG.

RP as cyber Rasputin?

That's pretty hard core constitution build.

 

[m_s0]

CTD at launch, every time.

I guess I'll give it an additional year or two...

 

[agris]

The mass recruitment through charm is incredibly off-putting. Usually I love these kind of things, having AI battle other AI through manipulation and such. But in the context of the game (to be fair I don't know much about) it just looks silly. Hey random hobo, came and fight. Hey random hobo 2 come and fight and probably die for me. I don't know man, the combat looks frantic and with your companions and people in general treated with this careless attitude it makes it look really arcady for a RPG.

Whether it's arcade-y or not, it looks different and interesting. I would take a Mechajammer over a The Outer Worlds every day of the week.

 

[m_s0]

Game made by jews, what were you expecting?

I dunno, I got a trading card out it, tho, so not sure your theory checks out.

 

[Shackleton]

Interesting. Ran quickly through char creation, picked a trait 'PTSD' which makes you do a roll after every action in combat to avoid fleeing. First minute in game, broke a box and failed PTSD roll so then spent next 10 minutes randomly running round with no control while what looked like a cat took chunks out of me. Ended up ALT-F4 as there seemed like no end to the panic.

Not sure if /incline or /stupid, but seems like a trait that no-one ever will pick unless I was too quick and missed something that would minimize the roll failure chance. Should have known I needed to take my time when I died several times in the tutorial and ended up running through the obstacle course like Benny Hill to get finished.

 

[m_s0]

So after a few failed attempts to launch Steam now shows it as running, despite the fact that it is most assuredly not running.

So, maybe another 5 years, then.

edit: ...aaaand an update just came live. That isn't installing. I'm not liking this launch.

edit 2: I killed the Unity crash handler process (that crashed?) and that seems to have at least allowed the update to start downloading.

 

[Infinitron]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/485400/view/3112547107425073092

Fixed issue with with endless dialogue loop

There was a progression blocking bug whenever you'd talk to Sullivan in attempts to advance through story. Now fixed!

 

[Abu Antar]

No key for me.

I emailed them and got this in response, we're gonna make it

Terribly sorry for the confusion, we're sending out the next batch of keys for website purchases shortly, we had to do these after in a separate batch and are finishing up.
Cheers,
Joseph

Fair enough, but you'd think they would set their backers up first, as a token of appreciation.

Oh well, I'll try it during the weekend.

 

[mediocrepoet]

No key for me.

I emailed them and got this in response, we're gonna make it

Terribly sorry for the confusion, we're sending out the next batch of keys for website purchases shortly, we had to do these after in a separate batch and are finishing up.
Cheers,
Joseph

Fair enough, but you'd think they would set their backers up first, as a token of appreciation.

Oh well, I'll try it during the weekend.

Based on the comments here, I think the token of appreciation is giving you a key after the first few patches are out.

 

[m_s0]

The update installed, the game launched, and then it started fucking with my video card - and not working, but that's small fries when you start seeing weird shit on your screen that shouldn't be there. Had to hard reset.

I'm done touching this pile of shit.

No hard feelings, Whalenought_Joe & whalenought_hannah, but this is just not cool.

 

[Ninjerk]

My experience so far:
I've only done the jack-in tutorial through the medic character so far, but I'm cautiously optimistic. The tutorial doesn't respawn the guys that you charm if you end up dying in combat. I managed to successfully charm a blue enemy when he walked right on top of me (he disappeared immediately). There's a part of the tutorial that tells you to press the "Wait Turn (V)" key if you need to let time advance so you can sneak by enemies' vision cones, but it doesn't appear to do anything (or perhaps it only advances time and doesn't do a "combat pause"). Sometimes you can click on an area that your cursor tells you is "in shadow" and you will end up a pixel out of the shadow (and get detected). I was able to move back into the shadow (where the enemy couldn't see me so he ran up to the shadow and I knocked him out).

I don't know if it plays throughout the game, but the song that played out of combat in the tutorial has a melody that sounds like a note-for-note copy of a song in DX:HR. Otherwise, it's nice Tangerine Dream-ish music.

 

[Ninjerk]

The update installed, the game launched, and then it started fucking with my video card - and not working, but that's small fries when you start seeing weird shit on your screen that shouldn't be there. Had to hard reset.

I'm done touching this pile of shit.

No hard feelings, Whalenought_Joe & whalenought_hannah, but this is just not cool.

Said the user with a Fallout avatar

 

[m_s0]

No idea what you mean by that, and I am kinda curious.

 

[m_s0]

No idea what you mean by that, and I am kinda curious.

it means you're an idiot who has hardware problems

I was afraid that was the case, but it seems like it's not the hardware.

 

[Ninjerk]

No idea what you mean by that, and I am kinda curious.

Fallout wasn't exactly bug free at launch.

 

[Black Angel]

What a sad, sad timeline this world has come to for a product with technical difficulty-riddled launch became the 'norm'

 

[agris]

No idea what you mean by that, and I am kinda curious.

it means you're an idiot who has hardware problems

I was afraid that was the case, but it seems like it's not the hardware.

sorry i called you an idiot; but based on what exactly do you determine that "it's not the hardware"? What you're describing is classic GPU overheating with artifacts on the screen and needing a hard reset.

 

[LizardWizard]

No idea what you mean by that, and I am kinda curious.

It means you never played Fallout 2 at launch

 

[m_s0]

No idea what you mean by that, and I am kinda curious.

It means you never played Fallout 2 at launch

You know, I do expect better over 20 years down the line.

No idea what you mean by that, and I am kinda curious.

it means you're an idiot who has hardware problems

I was afraid that was the case, but it seems like it's not the hardware.

sorry i called you an idiot; but based on what exactly do you determine that "it's not the hardware"? What you're describing is classic GPU overheating with artifacts on the screen and needing a hard reset.

On the basis that it's an isolated incident directly connected to this particular game crashing my video drivers, and nothing other than that. Fan is fine, performance is fine, no artifacts during gameplay otherwise. We'll see how it goes, sure, but it doesn't look like it's the hardware.

 

[Lagole Gon]

I will buy it if it gets BRO approval.
The artstyle looks like "I can't make pixel art but I'm making pixel art" from Staglands taken to next level with such commitment it starts looking kind of good, or at least interesting. Actually, it makes me nostalgic. Reminds me when years ago I dreamed about making a apocalyptic caveman Moonstone clone. I still have some "I can't make pixel art but I'm making pixel art" graphics I've made.
Here:

Spoiler

Fugg, there was more. But I'm not sure I still have it.

 

[Ninjerk]

I'm having some issues "pixel hunting" for what to click on to interact with some things, e.g. attacking a rat in combat when he's moved on the otherside of me from the camera position (eventually found it) and having lockpicked a window I can't seem to find the pixel that will allow me to open it.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I hope they're able to sort out whatever the launch issues are. Between the lengthy troubled development (I assume, based on all the redesigns and years that have passed) and that I imagine making games with a team of two is extremely challenging, I'd like them to succeed.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I don't know man, the combat looks frantic and with your companions and people in general treated with this careless attitude it makes it look really arcady for a RPG.

(to be fair syndicate is a giant messy pile of shit too, but it's a cool one. hoping for better from mechajammer but i haven't played yet. only just now installed)