Is this game good?

>>712775820 (OP)
Yes, even as an early access game

>>712775820 (OP)
Its good
Ignore the dev's political rants on twitter

>>712775931
>Ignore the dev's political rants on twitter
Oh so it's one of THOSE devs...

>>712775931
Why'd you have to bring it up? Now YOU made it political.

>>712775820 (OP)
Not really

>>712775820 (OP)
It probably will be when they actually release it in a few years

>>712776032
At least he doesn't inject it into the game

>>712775820 (OP)
yes, it's one of the few early access games i've played where i feel like i've gotten my money's worth

>>712775820 (OP)
Not really, no

>>712775820 (OP)
tranny game

>>712775820 (OP)
And don't believe eceleb shilling for it either

>>712775820 (OP)
>Is this game good?
I don't know.

>>712775820 (OP)
I have no idea. I've listened to the track called "Prelude" maybe a hundred times now though.

>>712776152
Unless the dev distanced himself from social media, he would implode way before the game releases imo

>>712775820 (OP)
No, it's pretentious garbage that would flop on its face if it wasn't working off the solid foundation that is Doom.

>>712775820 (OP)
No. If you're really into shitty Deus Ex wannabes, you might get something out of Selaco but I have totally lost interest in it now

Wait for the dev to finish the game, not worth playing through as it is currently.
>>712777151
>Deus Ex wannabes
It's not even in the same realm as immersive sim dude, what are you talking about? By that logic Prey 2017 was a Deus Ex wannabe.

>>712776078
The dev made it political when he put a picture of two trannies hugging in the game.

>>712778965
How is that political? Trans people exist.

>>712779470
compare the percentages of trans people in real life to the percentage of trans representation in boomer shooters and its not equal

>>712780045
Representation matters for minorities

>>712778965
>WAAAAAH TRANS PEOPLE EXIST THIS IS LITERALLY WHITE GENOCIDE >:(

>>712781848
Yes, correct. Brainwashing young white men and women into sterilizing themselves and causing long term psychological damage is killing white people.

>>712782391
Trans people have existed for as long as humans have existed. It just was repressed by society and not as widely visible before. It's not "brainwashing" you schizo lol.

>>712775820 (OP)
It's the best doom clone you would ever play (that is if you don't care about the whole woke thing)

>>712775820 (OP)
It's a poor man's FEAR

Sel-ACKO

>>712782802
>Trans people have existed for as long as humans have existed
Blatantly wrong

It'll make an egg out of you

>>712782802
41% yourself you fucking subhuman

>>712783186
explain. I don't understand.

>>712782391
Brother, you found one tiny wall picture in a game with 20 year old pixelated shitass graphics and started crying about being a victim of genocide. For reference, I've played through this game hunting for all the secrets (which involves wall humping every square inch of the map with a detector in hand due to garbage level design) and I've never seen the picture in question, and if I did I would probably not pay attention to it since it looks just like dozens of other low detail wall pictures.
Whatever caused you to end up like this isn't just brainwashing, someone straight up opened your cranium, stuck a kitchen mixer in there and set it to full speed.

>>712781848
>random ranting about white genocide
are you gonna follow that other tranny and jump off a bridge

>>712776432
>but this aint it
types like a faggot, wont buy his game

>>712775820 (OP)
is it really that hard to hire decent artists?

>>712776432
>>712776560
If the connection wasn't already obvious, the fact that both posts start nearly the EXACT same way would be a dead give away

>>712775820 (OP)
A bit schizo about what genre it wants to be, but sure, it's alright

>>712776560
Name a single Aussie worth anything. I'll wait.

>>712784092
that one that did a section in trandalore's review of beyond earth 10 years ago that he deleted

>>712784092
Steve Irwin.

>>712775820 (OP)
Level design is so poor they implemented guiding lights. Youd think "this is to encourage exploration" but its loaded with so many samey rooms and hallways youll get lost by virtue "wait, is this a new office or the same one from the start of the level"
Its not terrible but its marginally better than slipgate ironworks with bonus points for good guns that feel good

>>712784092
That one who teaches subsistence farming on youtube

>>712783372
Tranny groomer dogwhistle. An egg is a child who is still in the process of being groomed, and will at some point "hatch" into a tranny. Disgusting shit.

this the one game where the dev accidentally admitted to going to prison for beating the shit out of his wife(male)?

>>712784543
he's dead bro

>>712783452
Dishonest frogposter.

>>712784794
His eco-conservationist efforts still live.

>>712784764
no that was fortunes run
and caves of qud had a pedophile dev who raped his niece and had a wife that runs a sex cult

>>712784872
Why are indie devs like this?
Makes me want to just play AAA sloppa to avoid all this weird sex degeneracy that permeates the indie scene.

>>712784092
As in gaming? and more specifically FPS? Reflex was the best arena shooter revival to date and it was made by a Melbourne team in Australia. If you missed out then tough luck.

>>712775929
How can it still be in early access? It's a fucking doom mod

>>712775820 (OP)
I really like it a lot. Firefights are a lot of fun. I love chucking a landmine in an area I know they're going to charge through in a group. I die a lot, but I feel like I know what to do differently after.

>>712784842
the poster is actually changed in the main game than it was in the demo (what that post is about) that makes it not have fully on tranny colors. it's quite possible the dude isn't as obsessed with troons as as /v/ is

>>712782802
>It just was repressed by society and not as widely visible before
I think that's the point dawg

>>712784937
dont worry, you get that in AAA too
randy pitchford, jeremy soule, michael kirkbride, etc

>>712785016
Proof?

>>712785016
>quite possible
Im not obsessed enough to put tranny and homo flags in my scifi shooter so Id argue hes definitely more obsessed

>>712785006
It's a Doom mod in about the same way that Half-Life is a Quake mod. Building off the same (well, source port of the) engine doesn't make it the same game.

>>712785091
>michael kirkbride
What did he do? I thought it was just fake rape accusations accusations that got him cancelled or something

>>712785123
Its also not fully gzdoom compliant either, ie you cant just take the pk3 files and run that shit

>>712775820 (OP)
Yes
It somehow mindbroke /v/ though

>>712784764
>>712784872
Wait, what the fuck?
>check steam page
Oh shit, that's real?
I was actually optimistic about that game from the demo.

>>712785156
he never did anything genuinely bad that i know of and i dont recall him even having rape accusations, he's also cleaned up a lot in recent years and paints warhammer models on reddit now, he was just a deviant
i probably shouldnt have listed him alongside the others honestly

>>712784842
I really don't care about the stupid picture frame. It's such a retarded 16 year old conspiracy theory that including a poster is going to recruit kids and teens into transgenderism. If the dev says it's not the intent, I see no reason not to believe them. Lefties are always about holding the line, they'd never cave on "the message" if pressed, so why would he?

>>712785117
there are no tranny or homo flags, there was artwork he had made and put in the game and then had it changed when ppl were screeching about it. if he was some troon activist he would have doubled down, but he didn't. read his posts on codex from the image posted, he seems like some detached autist who really doesn't understand the larger zeitgeist around him

The only critique I have is that the game can come to a screeching halt if you scour for secrets in its big environments. And the game really wants you to, since it hides weapon parts for the upgrade system and exclusive upgrades in certain places you will not otherwise receive.
This wasn't really a problem in games like Duke Nukem because chances are you're just missing one of several times a weapon is dropped through the episode, or an Atomic health which will probably only last you through the next 3 enemies.

There's no fixing that, though. That's just the style of this game.

>>712785635
i played the game and there's nothing really woke in it unless you count that pic (which is changed slightly) and maybe a couple unisex bathrooms, which have existed forever. there are plenty of posters of hot chicks in bikinis, one of them is a mascot for the healing stations so you see her a lot. there are journal entries about straight people getting married and having children, haven't seen one log about gay shit or anything...

the game is fun and the things it does with the gzdoom engine is very cool. it's far better than something like trepang 2 or other modern boomer shooters, in that it does a lot of new things just w/ an older engine and aesthetic. the EA portion is only the first episode but I put like 25 hours into it and havent even touched the various remixed modes / customization options included. it's definitely made by an absolute autist

>>712784842

>>712775820 (OP)
>Is this game good?
Don't know. Last big patch I decided to give the game a try and it crashed when I got out of the hospital room at the start. Sounds like they broke some stuff going by the steam discussions at the time and it's probably fixed now, but I'm probably just going to continue waiting for release.

So the consensus seems to be that it's a tranny game?

>>712784092
Me, I've got a net worth of roughly $10

>>712790782
>10 AUD
That must be like 1 USD. poor fella.

>>712790856
Bite your tongue
It's $4 USD

>>712782802
I'm not sure about this, I definitely feel like there has been a massive boom in transgenderism in a way that feels trendy more than anything. I'm all for people with actual gender dysphoria getting the treatment they need, but those who do it because it's le trendy or have internalized hatred for men, should get some better perspective although I get it somewhat as our society is very anti-men currently.

>>712792469
>I'm all for people with actual gender dysphoria getting the treatment they need
Ok Mengele

>>712775820 (OP)
Yes

>>712776432
not enough pregnant men for yahtzee i see

>>712783870
Is "this ain't it" the new "I'm having a blast"?

>>712784842
Brutal. Good thing I didn't buy this tranny shit.

>>712775820 (OP)
It's excellent

>>712792515
you know what, fuck you bitch. I was partly on board with you, but at the end of the day you losers really are just miserable assholes at the end of the day. If someone wants to transition, REGARDLESS of why, they should be able to because that's freedom and not tyranny like you want it to be fashy.

>>712792927
at the end of the day you should kill yourself at the end of the day

>>712792927
>fashy
kek

>>712792927
Ok groomer
Please join the 41% before you drag someone's child into your spiral of misery and rotting flesh.

>>712775820 (OP)
Lol i gave the game a bad review and the dev rellied to me with a meltie.
I didn't even say it was bad, just to wait for it to be done first.

It was prophetic too, since then the devs had added randomizer and diablo-like loot, however that works, to the game instead of finishing the first fucking episode.

>>712793163
Post the review and the meltie plesase

>>712793186
Nah, don't want to be doxxed. Just go look at the game's bad reviews and you can see the ones he replied to. Mind you, this was when the game first came out in early access on steam, so like a year or so ago.

>>712793056
that's a pretty view

>>712793351
it's really pretty long way down

>>712775820 (OP)
I really had fun with it and replayed it multiple times.

>>712793268
>Just go look at the game's bad reviews and you can see the ones he replied to
This doesn't narrow it down much. This guy seems obsessed with replying to negative reviews.

>>712782802
There's no such thing as "trans", you retard. Mental illness exists though.

>>712793871
My cholesterol says otherwise.

>>712792578
Jesus. I don't know who would willing be on a podcast with the late Jim Sterling. RIP everyone's self respect in that image.

>>712792578
THANK GOD FOR ME

>>712793351
>>712793440
You're laughing?
The Sonic modding community lost one of its greatest trans minds, and you're laughing?

>>712784842
>Transsexuals aren't really known for understanding how reflections work

kek

someone post that photo of the tranny who put sheets over all the mirrors and windows in their house

>>712794195
nobody's laughing? its just a pretty view

>>712792578
That smirk and the pinball machines make it even greasier. God damn

It's a good game held back by a couple of things:
1) level design. Having massive levels is fine, even requiring player to backtrack can be acceptable but put those two together and it gets annoying
2) for some reason the game is trying to gaslight you into thinking that roombas are your friends

>>712795210
>even requiring player to backtrack can be acceptable but put those two together and it gets annoying
There is actually only one point in the entire game where backtracking is in any way required: the one upgrade item in the first chapter that is locked away behind a Sec4 doors in the nanomed manufacturing.
And it is placed literally 50 meters from the exit from the tram, in literally the smallest level of the whole game.

It is still dumb, sure. Forcing the player to take the lenghty tram just to hike for 50 meters to pick up an upgrade is completely pointless and objectively, a bad design decision. If there was ANY MORE backtracking to older levels anywhere else in the game, it would actually make some sense, but the fact that this is a 100% isolated incident, while the remaining 99.9% of the game can be treated as ENTIRELY LINEAR without necessiating backtracking even for optional and secret content, actually makes it worse.

However, again, it is an isolated case. The vast majority of the game requires zero backtracking.

>>712793163
>diablo-like loot
is this an optional side mode or did they really just rape their own creation like that

>>712795210
The roombas having faces and acting cute does follow trends in the neo futurism setting mostly seen in anime and shit. Japan loves mascots so it's on-theme.
That, or maybe they were hoping to sell plushies and shit later on. But that motivation is exactly why anime did it too.

>>712795705
You get tons of backtracking within a single level. Explore the map, kill everything, go to a faraway corner to pick up a key/flip the switch, go back through the whole level again, now repopulated with enemies that came out of monster closets. Bonus points if you have to push a barrel or carry a power cell while you're at it.

>>712795872
There's some kind of alt-playthrough mode, I assume that's what he's talking about, because there's nothing like that in the base campaign and I just played it for the first time last week.

>>712795872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu_eDxflkMc

>>712796030
huh?

>>712775820 (OP)
It's good overall but the heavy emphasis on ambush encounters is absolutely soul sucking on the higher difficulties.

What's the point of surprising the player if they'll just die nearly instantly and reload with foreknowledge of the surprise?

>>712776187
The demo had trans dogwhistles in it but Wesley removed them from the EA release

>>712776187
>At least he doesn't inject it into the game
HAHAHAHAH...right. Lemme stop you right here, tranny dev. I may be CHUD but I'm not your CHUD.

>>712775820 (OP)
I'm honestly surprised that it actually runs at acceptable framerates knowing this uses the piece of shit GZDoom. Did they do heavy optimisations of the game to leverage a bit of performance or did they un-shittify the engine?

>>712795941
>Explore the map, kill everything, go to a faraway corner to pick up a key/flip the switch, go back through the whole level again
Not really, unless you count the 100 meters you need to go back in the Mall level "backtracking". Most people don't call that backtracking, they call that "open level design" and generally see it as a massive positive asset, something classic "boomer" shooters were highly praised for.

And even that only happens in the Mall level. In the rest of the game, you always get either a shortcut back where you need to be, or the level design is looped, meaning an entire new segment of the map opens that eventually leads you back to the start through new pathways. See: the maintenance and waterwork levels, looping you back to the central area with the security office (but never forcing you actually walk back the same path for more than 30 second, eventually looping all the way back to the very start via the bar you unlock at the end.
And even then, the exit is actually in that bar, meaning you don't even need to enter the starting courtyard if you don't want to.

The game is, for the most part, the most classic boomer shooter imaginable, in terms of structure and progression. The option to backtrack via the Security Offices is entirely vestigial.

Selaco has some issues with it's level design. Mostly, it's just them being visually very boring and samey. The whole cloning facility is also just bad in terms of encounter design.

But backtracking is NOT one of the game's actual issues. You CAN backtrack if you want, but you never NEED to. If you ended up excessively backtracking in your playthrough, that is entirely on you. Not the game's fault, but likely your obsessive-compulsive need to clean the place up and double-check for secrets.

My question is that is this like that other indie "fear clone" trepang2 where half the time I can't see shit in firefights because there's so much dust, screenshake and muzzle flashe being shat out onto the screen

>>712784092
Isn't Primitive Technology guy an aussie? Cool dude, cool channel.

>>712797498
>My question is that is this like that other indie "fear clone" trepang2 where half the time I can't see shit in firefights because there's so much dust, screenshake and muzzle flashe being shat out onto the screen
Sorta, I suppose. Though I haven't played Trepang, I can only compare Selaco to the original Fear.
Visibility is quite deliberately a concern in Selaco, much like in Fear 1. Flooding the room with explosives or a completely hail of bullets can actively work against you. Quite a few enemies also straight up deploy smoke grenades.

But I would not call it "excessive" in Selaco - it did not bother me there anymore than it did in Fear. For the most part the environments are still readable, and when they are not, it feels deliberate and has solutions - better positioning, and thinking a little more about your choice of weapon fixes the issue. Screen shake isn't really a problem either, and I'm pretty sure you can adjust it in the settings too.

>>712787967
It used to run just fine but that patch did break stuff big time. They keep tweaking the engine a lot.

>>712797498
I'd forgotten until you mentioned it, but the default amount of screenshake and particles in Selaco in insane. You can turn it down to a reasonable level, but big explosions still make your vision shake like an earthquake

>>712775820 (OP)
The game's pretty good as it is, but you should wait until it's closer to completion because it's still pretty raw. So far it's only one chapter (takes me about 15 hours to 100% completion), the player character remains mostly silent, and even the levels keep getting tweaked with each update. They already added some NG+ options to make it replayable, but it's far from being finished.

SELACOME JAJAJAJ XD

Is this the game where the dev got his ass ripped on rpgcodex?

>>712795210
I can see they keep simplifying the levels. Each iteration moves the doors and switches into places that are harder to miss. Reminds me of the observations made by Half Life level designers who saw playtesters go around in circles for hours.

>>712792927
How old is this hypothetical someone who wants to transition, groomer?

>>712775820 (OP)
Took a look at it
The graphics are on the level of Doom 3
But requires modern hardware

I'm so tired of Requirementsflation

>>712775820 (OP)
looks like a solid shooter but I have no time fro more games

>>712775931
is he pro scub or anti scub?

>>712801837
Yeah lmao, that thread was brutal. They tore into him over the lore notes and some weird dev blog rambling. Something about how he handled criticism too, like trying to justify every choice instead of just taking the L. Codex gonna Codex though, they’ll eviscerate anyone who shows weakness. Still, I think the game mostly stands on its own and people are just looking for drama at this point.

>>712775820 (OP)
yes. was surprised by how good it is
a gzdoom game that feels like if f.e.a.r. was on build engine and no fancy movement shooter mechanics outside of the mandatory dash on a relatively long cooldown

>>712775820 (OP)
nope. a lot of effort put into making a game against their intended vision. should have never been 2.5D when they clearly wanted to make a low poly Quake/HL1 style game. it's not really as satisfying to play as it could be because their gameplay and level design don't mesh well together. also, tranny shit

I really hate that indie FPS has finally gone full-circle to the games they were trying to get away from: reloading, aim down sights, and sprinting.

>>712775931
>willingly giving money to people that hate you
gay

>>712806794
I hate you. send your PayPal address btw.

>>712795210
>gaslight you into thinking that roombas are your friends
why friend shaped if not friend?

>>712808838
grenade roombas are the future of room clearing and cleaning

>>712795872
Yeah, it's optional stuff to spice up a second playthrough. My point was he decided to add that shit instead of just finishing the first episode. It's a complete lack of priorities.

>>712806643
>i hate that movement away from homogeneity has variety
also there is no sprint and the only ads is using sniper rifle's scope, what are you blabbering about

>>712778965
That's all I needed to know, hard pass.
Don't care if devs talk about politics, but leave it out of the game.

>>712809545
It was probably easier to implement than working on the chapter. Especially since they really shot themselves in the foot going with all the immersive sim shit. What player cares about realistic rain puddle splatters or cockroach behavior? Dealing with all that takes extra time and adds to the pile of things that can glitch out. On the other hand the randomizer might be handy for stress-testing and finding new bugs, I guess.