There's a guy in a cave who leaves this journal behind, where he got paranoid about the skies and thought maybe something was going to kill him, but the stars are going dark and blah blah blah. This is a unique encounter I'm going to quickly sum up. I grab the explosives and the tobacco, because we have at least one more guard I want to smoke to death. Sometimes you get lucky with the trading caravans and get interesting stuff. I'm sure it's a Fallout reference, but I could literally just play Fallout instead. It's more ATOM "worldbuilding" that has nothing to do with any of the rest of the work, but I guess players would feel cheated if they couldn't force every nonhostile humanoid model into answering four questions. This guy talks about his cattle herding adventures. : I am vaguely untrustworthy and want you to feel cheated, but I also had Pasha the handyman fix up your free pre-nuclear war house that has actual non shitty furniture and stuff. : Cool, thanks, an actual fixed up house while everyone else lives in crappy post apocalyptic Fallout references! This rules! : It's a small house! Do you feel cheated, player? TheGreatEvilKing summary posted: : Hey, we screwed up the event flags, here's your house! Of course, it's still ATOM, and the optimal play is to be a lone idiot with a sword. I think the end result is that you can craft ammunition here, which is good for some of the rarer guns you encounter on your travels. We can easily make that back executing random encounters. We throw the 500 rubles at him, 500 more for the generator, and 1000 more to get the poisonous mushrooms out of the basement. I legitimately cannot tell if Fidel is being serious or sarcastic here. But if you're too greedy for that, you may try to clean it yourself.ĥ00 rubles for less ATOM gameplay? SCORE! chief, if you'll pay for the parts, I'll fix up your pump to get the water level down. : Look! I fixed this place up for you, right? But I never touched the downstairs! There's so much work, it's downright scary! But. : Aren't you by any chance Pasha the technician? Pasha is that archetype from videogames immemorial, where he's the guy you throw money at for base upgrades. : Right over there! My buddy Pasha can help you fix it up! : Hooray! I will cheer in a way vaguely racist against mutants! TheGreatEvilKing summary posted: : Hey, made it here! Just checking things out, you know. If you need some help, you can ask my buddy Pasha the technician. Although we didn't explore it too much, so it's up to you now. : Quit yer hollering! Let me show you where it is. : Where's my house?! Or was it just an empty promise. Recaptured, from the nasty paws of the expanding mutantry! No! Don't waste those! We can use them to kill guards! It's supposed to be a hostile wasteland full of mutants and whatnot, but it's just boring! Even the conspiracy isn't doing anything you couldn't find on 4chan. A regular sized rat with the "mutant" descriptor. is not a bad one, but the problem is that the post apocalyptic landscape is just so fucking boring. The base idea that you are wandering through a post-apocalyptic wasteland unraveling a giant conspiracy to do, uh. I think it's fair to say that one of the things this game really suffers from is a failure of imagination. I escape from a later encounter of rats and wasps, which are enemies so weak a starting character can kill them with a fucking brick. The ATOM developers are on record as wanting a dangerous seeming world, but very few of these encounters are actually dangerous! These giant spiders look intimidating, but they die to a single application of Cossack Steel. Unfortunately for us, every single random encounter is determined to waste our time. We're off to Red Fighter to see our cool new house, because, hey, this makes us the post-apocalyptic 1%. We're still outside the video store after the postman revealed he was part of an evil conspiracy that wanted to shut down Redlettermedia Pizzagate to run their own evil conspiracy. Unfortunately, we still have a lot of this garbage game to get through (and under no circumstances am I going to do all of it), so buckle up and let's plow through it. I'm gonna be honest, I'm kind of done being fair after that shit. Last time on ATOM, we hit a new low for these authors. Part 16: The Secret of Bunker 317 The Secret of Bunker 317
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