KickStarter Vigilantes: neo-noir, turn based tactical RPG

[Abu Antar]

Fuck off. Another good game to play you had to release ahead of time. You just had to.

You people want to ruin me.

Thank God it's Friday.

Agreed. I can actually play for a bit, today.

 

[Timeslip]

Time to decide what matters in your life, Lhynn. Your entire life has been leading to this moment. I've linked the trailer to help you out.

 

[ushas]

This city’s going to hell. Vicious mobsters, violent, fever-eyed cultists, cop-killing survivalists. Don’t know if Lhynn can stop them...

 

[Strange Fellow]

Well, you listened to my nitpicking about the tooltips. Unfortunately...

Also, it seems like Sam's monologue at the beginning keeps playing even if you skip the opening cinematic. Bug? It's impossible to hear what he's saying, at any rate. Edit: It only happens when I skip it with the Esc key.
I'm still in love with the character creation screen.
How does the game determine whether or not you start with a gun? Does it depend on the difficulty setting, or just RNG?

 

[Timeslip]

Also, it seems like Sam's monologue at the beginning keeps playing even if you skip the opening cinematic. Bug? It's impossible to hear what he's saying, at any rate. Edit: It only happens when I skip it with the Esc key.
I'm still in love with the character creation screen.
How does the game determine whether or not you start with a gun? Does it depend on the difficulty setting, or just RNG?

Possibly the volume not being lowered quickly enough. Does it play the whole thing at a low level?

Sam always gets a gun.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Possibly the volume not being lowered quickly enough. Does it play the whole thing at a low level?

The whole speech plays over the first combat encounter and the loot screen at the end, which it doesn't when I press the SKIP button on the top right. Actually I just tested it one more time, and it only occurs if I hammer the Esc key before the cinematic even starts. No big deal, then.
As for the gun thing, I was being an idiot and got the menu for switching between attack types confused with the menu for changing weapons.

 

[Alienman]

Newsflash

Today, a person who's sick of turn based games, bought a turn based game so they could communicate to their 2 followers how sick of turn based games they are. More at 8...

Hey, at least you will get a spot on my 4 member curator group Turn-Based Bonanza if I ever decide to update it

 

[Timeslip]

Hey, at least you will get a spot on my 4 member curator group Turn-Based Bonanza if I ever decide to update it

Phew. Was getting really nervous that the other person in the curator group wasn't going to buy it. Would have been the end of the dream...

 

[deama]

So anyone got a review for this yet? How is this compared to age of decadence, original sin, or ToEE etc...?

 

[Xeon]

Reformist made a video.

 

[Timeslip]

Reformist made a video.

Worth keeping in mind that he's playing on Vigilante difficulty, and playing a few early missions. The next difficulty level, hard boiled is moderately challenging for me, and there's one more after that.

 

[111111111]

How bad are the bugs?
Rate it from divinitys to kingmaker in terms of buggyness.

 

[Falksi]

Looks shit hot. Will grab it in a few weeks when I've finished my current batch of games.

Planning on playing it listening to this........

 

[Nutria]

How bad are the bugs?

I've played for about 5 hours in the last couple days and haven't run into any. In fact, there aren't many inconveniences or rough edges at all.

Everything that was incomplete back when I played this during Early Access has come together beautifully. For anyone sitting on the fence, I can't recommend this game highly enough.

 

[HoboForEternity]

The only bug I experienced is one of the mob died and trapped in a perpetual walking animation instead of lying on the floor.

 

[Reinhardt]

I'll wait. If i get it right now - i'll have to try it. And if i try it - maybe i'll continue. Fuck this shit. Need to finish already started games.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Kinda glad pathfinder and insomnia released in such unplayable state, i can concentrate on ongoing games and try this for a bit.

 

[Eyestabber]

Alright, I ended up buying this since I'm REALLY craving for a squad tactics game and Xenonauts 2 is giving me the worse case of blue balls ever known to men. Now let's see whether or not the is real.

 

[Falksi]

Go call the vigilante
He'll turn this place upside down
Go call the vigilante
He don't get kicked around

Hold on there's a new way a comin'
Looks like it's arriving tonight
There's no more hiding or running
There's no more walking on ice

 

[Eyestabber]

Right, so first question: how do support skill even work? Does only Sam skill actually counts? Do they add up? Guy with the best skill is used? And what about leadership? Does it work to have a leader who ISN'T Sam...?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Usually guy with best skill is used.
On CYOA segments usually Sam's skill is only relevant one.

 

[Timeslip]

Right, so first question: how do support skill even work? Does only Sam skill actually counts? Do they add up? Guy with the best skill is used? And what about leadership? Does it work to have a leader who ISN'T Sam...?

Cheers Eyestabber. Best skill is used in the vast majority of situations, including the CYOA bits. Only example I can think of is surveillance, which always uses Sam's. The character with the highest leadership is considered the leader of the combat team. Arcadi is likely the best pick for leader/interrogator.

 

[Timeslip]

Usually guy with best skill is used.
On CYOA segments usually Sam's skill is only relevant one.

This was the case, but now it uses highest available team member skill.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Arcadi is likely the best pick for leader/interrogator.

Did you change Ray's skills?
He was my go to interrogator when I played V29.

 

[Timeslip]

Did you change Ray's skills?
He was my go to interrogator when I played V29.

I did make some adjustments, either in V29 or 30. Generally focused the skill gains on less skills, but giving more points to them, and also trying to fit the skills in more with their backstory. Ray was the most spread out, he had points in everything. If memory serves, he's now better at bypass and surveillance, and more melee focused.