In Duskers you pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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You are a drone operator, surrounded by old gritty tech that acts as your only eyes and ears to the outside world. What you hear comes through a re...
In Duskers you pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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You are a drone operator, surrounded by old gritty tech that acts as your only eyes and ears to the outside world. What you hear comes through a remote microphone. What you see is how each drone sees the world. Motion sensors tell you something's out there, but not what. And when you issue commands, you do it through a command line interface.
Adapt
You have to earn everything in Duskers, scavenging drone upgrades, drones, and even ship upgrades. But dangerous creatures lurk in these derelict ships, and weapons are rare, so you may need to think of a clever way to explore a military outpost using only a motion sensor and a lure.
But even if you find a way, the sensor that you rely on may break down, or you may run out of lures, even your drone's camera feed can start to fail. A favorite strategy can't be exploited for long, so you'll have to continually adapt.
Survive
Duskers is set in a procedurally generated Universe, and when you die you lose everything. You not only need to worry about what hazards lay waiting for you in the derelicts, but also running out of fuel, or parts to modify your drones and ship.
You are alone, isolated in the dark reaches of space. Only by sifting through what ship logs remain un-corrupted can you piece together what happened.
About Us
We previously made A Virus Named TOM and then were fortunate enough to get Indie Fund to help us fund Duskers. More about us at www.games.misfits-attic.com/
Use a Command Line Interface to control drones & ship systems
Explore procedurally generated derelict ships and universe
Upgrade and modify drones with the salvage you find
Discover ship logs and piece together what happened
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Disappointed so far.
Starting up, locations, equipment etc is randomized. Your three starting drones will have access to critical tools needed in order to progress, but they will also have random secondary tools. Some of them are great, others much less so.
In a game as unforgiving as this, where even a very slight mistake could lead to one or several drones breaking down, that a bit frustrating as you may have to restart a lot before you learn how things work.
For example, there is a tool that scans for enemies in adjacent rooms, but it apparently does not work for all enemies. Once I went into a "safe" room just to get one shotted by an enemy. OK lesson learned. Thats ok.
Doors are usually named d1, d2 and so forth. Suddenly an a1 door appears. Open it. Drone sucked out through the airvent. OK. Maybe would have been better to somehow explain that doors named "a" are airlocks and more to be used as traps to lure enemies to. But OK. Again not a disaster but itcould have been communicated better. It just feels stupid to have to restart the game over such a thing.
Biggest problem. Taking it slow one run, checking the logs. The game is heavily based on text demands. For example "navigate 1 2 r3" makes drone 1 and 2 transport themselves to room 3 while you explore manually with drone 3. I was looking for other useful commands and info. All my drones safely tucked away. Doors locked. Area and adjacent rooms explored. Apparently enemies can morph into a room from nowhere if you sit around reading logs long enough. Entire drone fleet dead. I don't know. To me it just seems kind of stupid. First create all these complex commands and encourage the player to read up on them through in game prompts, then heavily penalize a player for doing so.
Overall the game has some good sides. If it weren't for the focus on trial and error it could be a strong 3/5. Original and interesting but not enough for it to compensate for the poor gameplay and lack of story.
Great concept, you take the role of a sole survivor (I guess), control drones via something like DOS.
You send them out, name them, and occasionally talk with them (but maybe that was just me).
Space is unforgiving. Great.
Theres a mytery. Great.
You will be ripped out of immersion, because of crashes. Awful.
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