Silverhawk170485: Hmm, I instabought it because some people here praised it to heaven.
After playing it for about 20 minutes I'm disappointed.
The game is inconsistent at it's best:
Situation 1:
At the beginning (after the tutorial) raiders want to robb you. Because of your talking skills convincing them to stop it succeds but then they attack you anyway (because the developer wants it so). The battle begins. Beside you lies an AK47. When you grab it, it's suddenly gone (because the developer doesn't want you to win against the raiders). So you only can fight with your fists and loose (because the developer want you to loose all your items at the beginning).
Situation 2:
You ask a barkeeper if he has a job for. He sais no but the woman over there. When you want to end the conversation he suddenly sais, wait a sec I have a job for you. Then asking the woman he pointed at, the same game as above.
Wtf. This is some stupid storywriting. That really destroys the immersion.
Then there are some annoying bugs in this game, like when you change the resolution once, you can't change it back. Therefore you have to reinstall the whole game (Mac version). And when you change the resolution, close the menu, reopen it, it always falsely shows you the highest resolution.
I don't know why this game is so highrated.
Hi there! I'm very sorry for the experience you're having with that resolution thing. If you can, please send the contents of the ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log to our support@atomrpg.com and we will do our best to fix it. That's only the second time we heard about that issue from a MAC user, and the first time we solved it quite fast.
On the story - we get a lot of flac about the start of the game, but you have to keep in mind that it's not the game yet, it's the intro. The reason behind this intro is to make you start the game with little to no items. You're playing as a junior operative, so you can't start without weapons right off the bat. That's why you need a weapon. But you also need to lose it somehow. Imagine starting the game with an AK. It'd be like god mode :)) Hence the robbery. We could make you like... fall asleep and make a bear steal your weapon, or trip and accidentally throw your weapon in a river or something. Would that be better? A premise is a premise. We don't get mad at the Terminator movies, because the Terminator starts completely naked and has to go around looking for clothes and weapons, right?
On the barkeep situation: You ask Sasha for a local job here, in the Otradnoye town. He points you to his sister. Then, as you walk away, he remembers a chore he must do - give a receipt to a bookseller in a far away city of Krasnoznamenny. That's not exactly a local town job, is it? :) It's not what you've been asking for. Believe me, even though it might start rough, the game gets better eventually. Our players and fans can't all be liars, right? :)
Tarhiel: Really? Just because you can´t play as a woman, you´re not gonna try the game?
Alm888: Funny thing is last time I checked, you can play female character (and even …ahem… "convince" female NPCs) in this game.
Well, at least in Kickstarter-exclusive DRM-free build v1.06, that is. Dunno for the GOG release.
Ofc you can play as a woman! You always could, ever since the 2017 beta. Use the arrows under the portrait on the creation screen to pick your gender. If it's a female portrait - you're a female character, if it's male - you're a male. Not only do we have both genders in the game, we actually have many quests that are unique for males and females, so each playthrough has its own special moments.
SoMuchATOM: There is that one encounter where you just might get a medieval helmet... Apart from that, there is some of the armor that looks like plate armor, but is actually based on WWII Soviet infantry armor! :)
falloutttt: I most likely missed the opportunity to find the helmet. Will be playing the game again soon enough anyway. Will find it then fo sure.
Thank you very much for making such wonderful game, btw. I for one had lots of fun with it.
All the best to you guys!
Thank you very much! Between you and me, the helmet can be found while completing the Death Gang quest. Get it from the guy who likes to set things on fire.