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I haven't played the game because my 11th-gen Intel Framework 13 isn't that fast for running newer games, but I love the story - here's an excerpt from one of m
by 0x38B 2y ago
I haven't played the game because my 11th-gen Intel Framework 13 isn't that fast for running newer games, but I love the story - here's an excerpt from one of my favorite scenes in the book, the battle between the Invincible's Cyclops and the dark cloud of nano-machines:
> In principle it was not used on the surface of a planet, and the truth was that the Invincible had never once mobilized its Cyclops. Situations that called for such an eventuality, even on a scale of the entire tonnage of the space base, could be counted on the fingers of one hand. In the jargon used on board, sending out the Cyclops for some task meant the same certainty as entrusting it to the Devil himself. No one had ever heard of any Cyclops failing.
> the black scrub on the slopes began to smoke and set off in waves toward the vehicle from Earth, coming on with such vehemence that in the first instant the Cyclops disappeared completely, concealed by what looked like a cape of tarry smoke flung from above. At once, however, a ragged flash lit up the entire breadth of the attacking cloud. This was not the Cyclops using its terrible weaponry, merely the cloud’s energy fields striking against the force field.
> Out of the corner of his eye, Rohan saw the commander open his mouth to ask the Chief Engineer standing next to him if the field would hold out—but the words didn’t come. He didn’t have time.
> The black whirlwind, the walls of the ravine, the bushes—all of it disappeared in a split second. It looked as if a volcano breathing fire had opened up in a fissure in the rock. A column of smoke and frothing lava, shattered rocks, and finally, immense white billows of steam that probably came from the boiling waters of the stream, soared a mile into the air to where the TV relay was hovering. The Cyclops had activated its antimatter cannon.
- braiamp 2y ago> I haven't played the game because my 11th-gen Intel Framework 13 isn't that fast for running newer games Interesting. There's nothing on the system requirement that would suggest so. Are laptop chips that underpowered?
- scblock 2y agoDepends on the laptop chip. I've never tried it on my 11th-gen Framework 13, but it plays well on the Steam Deck.
- 0x38B 2y agoMaybe I'll give it a shot. My system really struggles to run Satisfactory, and even Rimworld can slow down when there's a lot happening. I've been considering a mainboard upgrade to an AMD Ryzen chip for speed & better built-in graphics. Other than graphics have been happy with my Intel system.
- 71bw 2y ago>Are laptop chips that underpowered? Yes and especially Intel ones.
- flohofwoe 2y agoFWIW the game wasn't running all that great on my (somewhat outdated) gaming PC with RTX2070 either. I can't imagine it being more than a slideshow on anything with an integrated GPU - I played it before some of the later patches though, maybe the team optimized rendering since then.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoCan confirm that, although it might be a different combination of issues in my case. I played it in a laptop, on Linux, through Proton. There's a certain driving scene that consistently slows and eventually freezes my computer, so haven't been able to finish the game. The weird thing is, it doesn't look like a resource-intensive game, but somehow it is. I've been waiting months and eagerly trying every game/proton update, and it still happens. Pity because it has been a really nice story-driven game so far.
- flohofwoe 2y agoThe game isn't really based on the story though, which at least to me was a bit disappointing, the only common element is the 'smart dust'. It also went for a 50's pop-culture retro look which doesn't really fit together with Lem's stories. Other then that, I had a decent amount of fun with the game once I realized that it's more of an interactive graphics novel.
- shmeeed 2y agoCurious as to why you feel the retro look doesn't fit? In my head canon, Lem's worlds look just about like that, because they were written in the era. It might be because I tend to glance over details in descriptions, though...
- flohofwoe 2y agoI always thought of the 'Lem scifi universe' as split in two: on one hand you have the more realistic 'space trucker universe' of Pilot Pirx and the more serious stories (like the Invincible), in my head this universe always looked more industrial and like an evolution of our present technology, e.g. more Alien than Star Wars, and dirtier than Odyssee 2001 - in the Pirx stories there's a lot of little details about imperfect technology and bureaucracy, from oil or fuel leaks on his rocket to having to waste days waiting "in harbor" for getting one or another thing approved. And the other Lem universe is where Ijon Tichy lives, more funny, bizarre, almost phantasy like Star Wars (and the 50s retro-scifi style would fit more into this Tichy universe).