The Surge - "sci-fi Dark Souls" from Lords of the Fallen devs

[Shackleton]

Last DLC. Apparently may be able to wear hats.

Pleased, but bizarre. Now people will be able to whine there's no guns in this cowboy game, as well as in this space game.

 

[LESS T_T]

Redly Deadly DLC is out now:

 

[warpig]

Cool, maybe will play it. I liked the "walk in the park" DLC. I hope the sequel will have more variety of baddies and more bosses, too many similar opponents was imo the biggest flaw of The Surge.

 

[Arnust]

Cool, maybe will play it. I liked the "walk in the park" DLC. I hope the sequel will have more variety of baddies and more bosses, too many similar opponents was imo the biggest flaw of The Surge.

I believe this is sort of its whole point, kind of like the Mooncrash DLC for Prey, more of a gamemode that seems to be about arena fighting, perhaps in spirit of the challenge portals from LOTF?

 

[LESS T_T]

Free to play until 5PM, August 29 (UTC)

 

[Eyestabber]

Was going to buy it, but DANM dat dlc bloat. Full content is about 3x the base game in my local banana pricing.

 

[Wunderbar]

Eyestabber game is perfectly playable without dlcs. Well, maybe you can buy "Walk in the park", western-themed dlc is just a wave-based arena iirc.

 

[Arnust]

The Good Bad and Augmented actually has shitloads of gear to it but yeah if you're not that interested in the combat engine I guess it wouldn't really be your thing. Walk In The Park's great either way though.

 

[Cat Dude]

Cool, maybe will play it. I liked the "walk in the park" DLC. I hope the sequel will have more variety of baddies and more bosses, too many similar opponents was imo the biggest flaw of The Surge.

That's the standard of western style rpg for having similar types of enemies. I can't say the same about jrpg though.

 

[Haplo]

Bought it for like 7 Euro during the Christmas sale. One of the best spent 7 Euro in my life.
So far I like it quite a bit more then Surge 2 which I played prior to it.
Despite part 2 featuring a lot more polish, more developed mechanics such as elemental damage, directional parries as well as much greater enemy, weapon and moveset variety.

Part 1 feels more rewarding, these is no overabundance of loot, you don't upgrade your gear every 15 minutes (less upgrade tiers is a big plus in my book!) and, at least in the early game, there is actual scarcity of equipment/materials for upgrade.
Also levels only provide Core Power, so there are more meaningful trade offs involved in gear selection.
Plus you don't backtrack nearly as much as in part 2 and the areas are more varied, atmospheric and interesting IMO.


Got the Code: Moonlight a bit earlier in R&D (where it was initially useless vs the cleaners in Elite Hazard Suits... but very good near the end of the zone vs androids and afterwards vs all security personnel and robots) and recently also MG Judgde 2.0 and... I kinda feel like Code: Moonlight is a bit OP?
It's spin-2-win is very fast, stunlocks most enemies (even Black Cerberus). Judge 2.0, despite slightly higher nominal damage, can't really keep up. Feels slow as moleasses in comparison. Sadly charged attacks kinda suck in part 1 (loved them in part 2). But then fighting all the time with spin-2-win feels kinda cheap...

 

[Wunderbar]

Haplo does a garden bloom over night? Was Rome built in a day?

 

[Haplo]

Or how long does it take to kill an ecologically damaged planet and start anew with new Ubermensch... or even machines... :D

Yeah, these guys were really crazy.