At least he’s pretty based for someone in the niche of nerdy ass games. He said BLM during the 2020 protests and during the Palestinian protests in ‘21 he said Free Palestine, that US was backing an apartheid, and gave a bunch of resources to donate to Palestinians. Good guy and you should purchase his game because it’s pretty cool.
I would but 30 bucks is a pretty steep asking price for a game I may or may not like
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Eh, just pirate it and then decide later.
If something’s DRM free, I’ll buy it if I play for more than a few hours.
You can always try the ascii with tilesets and utilities. there’s a super easy to set up bundle called the lazy newb pack that you literally just have to install and run. It can do a lot if you tinker with it, too, but it works out of the box. The interface is byzantine there’s no way around it, the result of decades of adding new features. But you get the hang of it eventually and most of it ends up being pretty quick eventually. Learning the gameplay, will always be a challenge, but that’s absolutely the fun of the game, the interface too.
It’s so fucking satisfying when you build your first pump stack to get freshwater into your cistern so you can build an underground well, or when you successfully set up a militia squad, or even basic metallurgy.
You’ll need the wiki and to search specific problems, but the wiki is very well-maintained and not a fandom one.
And then . . . the caverns await.
If you’re interested in it, and can get past the UI, the original version is still free, the steam version is just a lot more user friendly. You can install a tileset to the original, which isn’t quite to the level of the new graphics, but more usable than exclusively ASCII characters lol
Edit: Actually, yeah, just pirating it to try it out is also a great option
Also, the aristocrats in the game are parasites who basically add nothing of value to the dwarven settlements but just make unreasonable demands and punish people for failing to meet them.
I remember making elaborate death traps that would kill and hide the aristocrats bodies.
No, you literally had to lol. They’d activate the capitalist economy and ruin your fucking fortress, dwarves would become homeless because they suddenly couldn’t afford their homes, they’d drag money around and waste hours counting it. It was basically earthbound 3 :pigmask-off:
You can make them an enormous dining hall and flood it. Or make their entire bedroom be supported by a single pillar that falls at the push of a lever. Or just make them cross a hallway with a minecart full of spears that’s heading straight down at full speed. “Stupid dorf machines” as I think the community calls them are bounded only by your creativity.
He also made liberal crime squad which is a hilarious Symbionese Liberation Army simulator where you kidnap and brainwash conservatives and get in shootouts with the cops and CIA. It’s good fun!
I’ve always wanted to play but never had the time to learn! Any tips you could pass over?
I always like to get a sleeper agent in the police force as soon as possible. A sleeper agent will give you advance warning of raids and can steal weapons for you and stuff so their very useful. Using and leveling disguises can allow you to infiltrate some incredibly sensitive places and it’s pretty easy to get uniforms.
finally if gun laws are max conservative you can legally install an anti aircraft gun at your hideout to shoot down the national guard’s bombers. It’s like 4x more expensive otherwise
Man it’s been a while. I sunk quite a few hours into LCS. There was a fan-update with Toady’s blessing as well, I don’t remember if I played that.
Some tips:
- The controls are easier than you might think at first, just press the buttons
- Losing is fun, you will die while trying to crawl away from a Conservative hotel manager with a surprise pistol
- Recruiting Hippies and letting them sell art and music is an extremely easy way to get some income, just don’t do crimes from where they stay (also guitars + high Heart are decent weapons)
- Your organization is a pyramid scheme: level up, recruit people, level them up, let them recruit people. You can get some extra people in with brainwashing and seduction. For the sake of micromanagement, keep it slim.
- In combat, always get the first strike in
- Have somebody check the news, the most important job in the liberal commune
- There are no police raids while the police station is shut down!
- Going to prison for like 30 years or so (or just playing that long) will give you some fun easter eggs
- Do not alienate the masses
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I think I’ll buy DF to support them… beeen meaning to try it anyway