You did side with the monks didn't you? It's the only logical choice afterall.

>>3795852 (OP)
I sided with the Church because with the right quests they can work with both the Protectors and the monks just fine. After all they all share a common objective.
It's just the Brotherhood who are retarded.
This was such a great game, very based, but I'd have liked a replacement for the negro companion I killed at the start. I wanted to make an harem team for my mc but the faction based companions ruined it :(

>>3795852 (OP)
I tend to side with whoever lets me kill the most people and get the most out of my combat skills in games. protectors seemed to allow the highest body counts, church seemed to learn towards peace/diplomacy, brotherhood was somewhere inbetween.

>>3796048
It's crinimal they don't let us have zeta-4 as a real companion

I feel like the ship authority should have had a public timer for how long it would be before they arrived. 12 years left and only to fumble the ball because you couldn't relax a bit is insane and not being able to tell anyone because they wouldn't believe you.

This is also one of the few games I've played where support skills like lockpickng didn't feel completely useless

It sucks just as much as Age of Decadence, just in different ways.
It Iron Tower never makes another game it'll be too soon.

>>3796132
Despite being far from perfect, it's way better than AoD in my opinion. My main issue with it is that despite the somewhat original setting, it feels too much like a Fallout/Wasteland clone where civilization is a decaying husk, everything sucks and everyone's an asshole. Despite being set entirely on a spaceship the main locations feel the same as any shitty run-down Fallout town, except with more rust and steel and less desert. Apparently the sequel will take part on the planet's surface so hopefully they'll be able to flex their creativity and make something that feels less derivative.

>>3795852 (OP)
Brotherhood because the game's writer obviously hated them and I hated the smug fart sniffing asshole who wrote the game. Also they at least have an idea worth fighting for. The Protectors just want the totalitarian onions state and American Christianity is fucking cringe.

>>3796174
You need to be 18 to post here

The Protectors annoyed me one too many times and I fucking hate Protestants so I didn't really have a real choice

>>3796164
American Christianity is a contradiction in terms. There are no American Christians, only Mammon worshipers who think screaming how much they love Jesus while ignoring every word he ever said means they get to go to heaven.

>>3795852 (OP)
yeah, when i started i wanted to go with protectors, but they turned out to be complete totalitarian retards
vince is not really good at writing nuanced characters and factions, they all are just power hungry, cynial machiavellians with optionally also being mentally ill
AoD had the same problem, but I think the cast of characters was more memorable there, I already don't remember anyone from CS

Both this and AoD resulted in the same pervasive feeling of apathy from me. Who gives a fuck about what happens to any of these people? Literally everyone is an amoral cunt out to fuck you for petty gain.

>>3796164
>sequel
sequel is not happening.
their next game is dungeon rats 2: aztec boogaloo

>>3796423
Oh boy I can't wait to completely ignore that game.

>>3795852 (OP)
Its self-indulgent, inane, cuckdexxer slop.

>>3796380
but bro bro its so gritty and realistic to have everyone be a piece of shit without variation bro it's soooo cool how everyone will try to betray you and you get robbed the second you trust anyone it's so REAL

>>3796091
She's too stronk. The game lets you play with her and the other cyberbros for one or two encounters as a power trip. If you had access to her OP plz nerf mechanicus powers all the time it would trivialise every combat encounter.

>>3796164
>>3796423
I'm just glad they're still making games. AoD was great, and I bought Colony Ship full price because they were practically begging people or saying they'd close down. Still haven't played CS but it looks cool

>>3796425
dungeon rats is pure kino and you were filtered because it has really hard combat in a genre famous for wasting your time with easy combat

>>3796377
The only memorable characters for me were the Judge guy because he is silly and Smiles because you do a few memorable, difficult fights with her. I guess the ninja dude was alright too. I think beyond the writing most of the NPCs have the problem of just being questgivers or just being there for you to kill. The player isn't given an opportunity to have memorable experiences involving most of them.

>>3796164
I liked what they did with the setting for the most part. Sure the Pit is a shitty run down town but you really feel the scale of the ship. Up close it's the same neon signs and dingy barfronts but if you zoom out you can see how tiny the place is compared to the giant shipping containers and how civilisation is just a speck inside the massive void of a cargo hold. They achieved that same sense of scale with most of the other areas like the Factory. Where it flopped though was the Habitat. They all looked like normal sci-fi cities that could be on Earth. And the different faction hqs looked really similar except the different colour schemes. Protectors of the Mission gave me massive XCOM 2 vibes which is not a game I ever want to be thinking about. And the recycled Nazi propaganda was just lazy.

>>3796587
>NOOO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISLIKE MY BLAND, BORING SLOGFEST, WHO CARES IF IT'S AN AWFUL GAME? KEKDEX TRICKED ME INTO BELIEVING IT WAS SUPER HARDCORE SO I MUST FORCE MYSELF TO WORSHIP IT!
Get yourself some taste, kiddo.

>>3796587
Man it's a good thing you used the term 'kino' and outed yourself or I might have taken your post seriously.

>>3796615
>>3796629

>>3796615
Nta but I played dungeon rats after AoD because I liked the combat and wanted more

>>3796607
The habitat is just that aside from the personal trappings of each faction they are just taking up space in the commie block section people were supposed to stay in during the trip, I don't think each area was meant to look super unique

There's a certain something to Iron Tower's games that I find intriguing, it's just a shame they can't figure out how to get it across. With CS not doing well, and their last game basically being a last ditch effort, it seems as if they're doomed to be a studio that drowned just offshore.

The biggest downfall of Colony Ship is the boring setting. It's way too mundane. AoD had mystique and multiple playthroughs actually led to a greater understanding of the setting.

>>3797401
AoD is better, but a Colony Ship is a unique setting, while space ships have been done this twist of a colony ship in a cold war hasn't.

>>3796377
its realistic though
every power group irl is controlled by power-hungry cynical machievellians who are generally mentally-ill

Did the ever explain how the ship has "down" gravity? are the thrusters below the floor/is everybodys heads pointed towards the destination? if not then it doesnt make sense

>>3797738
no. that was asked on the forums and they just brushed it aside by saying that it just works and then started going on about how they are a small company that can't afford no gravity areas.
space magic.

>>3797785
typical

>>3797785
This kind of stuff is what made the game so soulless. They had a great setting and done nothing with it. At times you could forget you're in a sci-fi.

>>3797785
Surely it could have been cheaper to replace all walking animations with floating ones

I love slavic misery and cynicism simulators. We need more unrelenting sodomy, murder, and drug addiction to turn us into true warriors of tradition, like Stalin intended.

>>3798352
As a slav I was always just baffled. I can go outside when I want to breathe in the misery, doing it in game is superfluous.

>>3798352
theres no sodomy or rape in this
though people get called "pipeworkers"
styg won't let his wholesome christian game get stained by any filthy sex stuff

>>3798610
What's Styg got to do with Colony Ship

>>3798728
oh, sorry
the underrail thread was in this position in my tabs but it died yesterday and I forgot

>>3798730
Well, can't blame you for thinking of it when slav misery is mentioned, guy's a poster child for how it can rot the brain

>>3796164
The problem with making a game where things don't suck is that setting would have good rule of law and good behavior from its people would make it a perfectly boring and safe experience.

>>3795852 (OP)
I didn't give a flying fuck about the factions after finding out that they all act the same. This games writing has no nuance. Atleast the combat and setting is cool.

>>3799005
Also that questionnaire they give you at the start is misleading as hell. It made me think choices would actually matter

No one on the ship deserves to survive. Not a SINGLE person displays anything beyond sociopathy. Humanity is dead.

>>3795852 (OP)
Aren't you literally railroaded into siding with monks if you don't turn the ship around?

>>3797738
They're storing Vince's ego in the lower hull. It's so massive that it has it's own gravitational pull.

>>3798352
no anon, don't you understand colony ship is a wholesome ukrainian slavic game, not an evil russian slavic game.

>>3796377
AOD worked better because it had to cyoa different paths aspects to give it replay value. choosing to be an assassin or merchant is different than between factions you don't care about, much much less people are going to replay for mid game faction specific content compared to if you front loaded all the branching

>>3796380
I didn't play AoD for the characters, but the world/setting.

>>3795852 (OP)
The only logical choice is Return to Sender and you are a tranny if you think otherwise.

>>3796094
>I feel like the ship authority should have had a public timer for how long it would be before they arrived.
They couldn't commit to any specific time publicly because the Synod was deliberately slowing down the ship and prolonging the journey to make sure they have a perfect gay thrall society by the time they arrive.

Brotherhood is only second to toasters in their utter cringe but the original mutiny was not only justified but necessary.

>>3796380
>Who gives a fuck about what happens to any of these people
While I enjoyed both games I do agree with this criticism.
Not having even ONE bro character is actually unrealistic, how are you finding nothing but assholes, even real life people living in shitholes have friends.

>>3796048
The Church are the best option. Both the Brotherhood and the Protectors define themselves by their war. The Church gives the colonists purpose and hope for the future.
Abraham is probably the only real weakness of it.

Make sure you give Mercy control of the Pit.

>>3800813
Evans is a bro.

>>3800829
The church are pulling strings from behind the scenes to keep the war going though. They're basically space jews.

>>3800829
I should replay the game, when I played it I wasn't aware of the factions, so I just gave the Pit to the guy who asked first, I really wasn't expecting to return...

>>3800868
I might be racist but I won't let you badmouth my black Pope.

>>3796380
>>3800813
It's a problem some writers seem to have. I'll resist the urge to go on a long rant where I make wild assumptions about their life and psychological state, extrapolate their thought processes in an incredibly biased and uncharitable way, and generally just insult people who will never read my post, and simply say that it sucks and I wish they stopped.
Even goddamn Warhammer Fantasy that is, 40k just went full retard when they started taking the setting seriously rather than half-joking knew to have genuinely good (or at least normal, not actively malicious) people and the occasional good ending to a story because it helps investment and simply makes sense.

>>3796380
I agree you need something to balance all the apathy, misery and hopelessness