This is such a criminally underrated game.I got it like five years and had fun for a bit but my pc was bad and it lagged so I stopped. Got a notification for a big update on steam a couple days ago, reinstalled, and I've been having such a blast.These guys built their own engine, their own dev tools, and built something so unique and fun I don't know why I wasn't reminded of it sooner.
>play for multiple hours>trip over literally nothing and fall into a pit>>haha this game is soooo hardcore there are almost not checkpoints, enjoy doing everything again :)
>>739469717It really is a fun game, the devs should be beaten for taking a decade to make it, but it's still fun.
>>739469908>there are almost not checkpointsoops you gone and done an ESL, boy
>>739469717dude i've been eyeing this...somebody sell me on it.
>>739469908nigga those bumps in the floor aren't texture maps that's actual terrain you did the dungeon equivalent of tripping on a crack in the sidewalk
>Game enters early access in 2015>Has been in development even before that>Game has been worked on for OVER a decade>Still not fucking doneThis should be grounds for your game to be terminated from Steam, lazy faggots
I love how it looks now especially with the bevor
>>739469717It was a neat experience the eight or so(?) years ago when I played it. I think it was just a dungeon with a single NPC last I played? That NPC would follow you to help out. Eventually I ran into a big guy I couldn't beat. I mean like he was a giant compared to my guy. After that I dropped it. Just not in the mood to do all that all over again every time. I don't even remember if the game had saves. Don't think so. I'd be willing to steal it again if it had way more stuff going on then that time.
>>739470010You feel like a retard until you orgasmically get a grasp on how to kill things and then it's some of the most satisfying killing in any game. It's also strangely immersive. I usually put videos in the background playing games, but they'll finish while I'm playing this and I won't even notice I've been playing in silence for an hour.
>>739470068>easy 20 hours of gameplay with an incredibly unique and detailed dungeon crawler>15$Fuck off retard, there's many other games that have done less in more time and charge more money for it
>>739470068This is not unreal slop that can be pumped out at a goy daycare, they made everything from scratch.>>739470463There are autosaves when moving between floors and when closing the game. There are more levels and enemies now. I still think that npc is the only still alive guy and you can bring him all the way through the game or he can just die.
>>739470638I dont give a fuckIt's been almost 15 fucking years
>>739470463Sir (the big guy) is the easiest enemy to learn because the last checkpoint you get is right at the portal so you can literally just keep reloading to immediately run in and fight him over and over until you figure him out. 100% sure the devs did that on purpose to make you learn to stand and fight against bigguns.
>>739470683>It's been almost 15 fucking yearsYeah, and this is just their proof of concept for the game they really want this engine to be for and it's still better than most of the shit on steam. You're malding about them having passion for something.
>>739470683>I don't want good games made by passionate autists>I want my slop and I want it nowgo back to your GTA VI hype thread faggot
>>739470764>>739470794You faggots are the reason shit like Star Citizen exists
>>739470696Last time I killed him I jammed myself into a small room behind a desk and he just couldn't reach me over it and I poked him to death with a tiny knife lol
the whole physics based gameplay gets old real quick
>>739469717I love this game but so much of a playthrough is just beating up naked zombies while you wander around the first level. 90% of players don't see anything cool like armour, monsters, or magic
I have no idea where the fuck to go. I wish I started drawing a map when I started playing.>>739470862How?
>>739470821Except this isn't a 800 million money sink with a crew of hundreds. It's like one guy, with a limited budget making an entire incredibly specific and detailed physics engine from scratch. And it's already worth its cost and fun if you aren't some faggot sharing about version numbers.
>>739470638>starting NPC still thereThat's great. I went out of my way to keep that guy alive so hard.>>739470696Hearing there's saves or checkpoints is good to hear. I was genuinely into the game when I was playing it so long ago. Just dipped out at that dude cause I'm almost positive at the time I would've needed to restart the whole thing. Which I recall doing a lot for the week I was obsessed.
>>739469717>early accessthis is the only thing putting me off from playing it
>>739470909If you have the compass, just keep heading North that's where the exit is for the first 3 levels>>739470924You get checkpoints right up until that portal after that you're SOL but if you were scrounging you should have enough armor to not get a lot of red damage from fights
>>739470534thanks anon
>>739470940I still haven't experienced the whole game yet. I think it's worth it right now even if it's never finished personally, but considering how in the recent post the devs called it their "life's work" I doubt they'll abandon it. I mean just the fact that they've been still working on it for this long shows they're dedicated.>>739470987>that's where the exit isI know where an up and downstairs exit is here but there are locked doors here and I can't find the keys and I have found NOTHING valuable here so I know I must be missing something and I don't even know if I should go back to the crypts or go back upstairs. I am LOST.
cant wait for sui generis...
>>739471116Keys for the doors should be in the nice looking desks you can search, you can also find the level maps in them sometimes. If you're on level 2 then one of those keys unlocks something very nice next to the court room looking area
>>739471039The levels are very detailed and logical. As in you can tell what each room was meant to be, why it's got what it's got. Entirely different artstyles for levels, different floors and walls and room shapes to convey different cultures and purposes. The progression from being happy to find a leather vest and a knife, to being fully decked out in plate armour welding a flaming halberd and cutting through underground mushroom monsters. Combat is punishing as fuck, but very satisfying and intuitive once you get into it. Hell you should see some of the videos of people learning how to use the shield to trip an enemy or wrap a flail around your defences or jab a spear into someone's neck between their plates. It's got the potential to be the best combat in any game ever made if the jank is fully smoothed out. I've got 100 hours logged in it and that's worth the 15$ to me easily even if he ilneber finishes it
>>739471210forgot pic
>>739471243I've searched everything I have seen so far and not found keys in that area...I think it's a segment of floor three? I went into the crypts and then went up a different staircase. I'm going back up to I think floor two. Any way I don't want it spoiled I'm just blog posting. Thanks for the advice.
>>739469947nice things take a long time to make
>>739470862it doesn't if you actually git gudhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkpxR-7Olc>>739471116I wonder what their finances look like. Is Madoc independently wealthy? Do they have a secret eccentric billionaire benefactor?
>>739471809Even a couple hundred people subscribed to a patreon could probably keep him sustained indefinitely since his costs are so low
I have 118 hours in Exanima. I can confidently say that it's a bad game. extremely ambitious and unique, but clearly designed by people who aren't good at designing a game. 11 years into its early-access and it never manages to become more than an aimless tech demoto put it less succinctly: combat is often times arbitrary, exploring is mostly a waste of time, and progressing is frustrating. the biggest draw of the game, its physics engine, is exclusively detrimental to the gameplay. once the novelty wears off, you realize there's no depth to any of it and you're just constantly fighting against the engine while it tries to sabotage youthey update the game every other year to add one of 3 things:1. extra layers of superficial mechanics like spells so you can cheat through combat, or procedural gear generation that you couldn't possibly ever notice while playing, or vague emergent NPC behaviours that never amount to anything in the actual moment-to-moment gameplay2. a new area where you can do the same thing you do in all the other ones, but with one or two new unique weapons to add to your inventory3. yet another rewrite of their physics engine / rendering engine / procedural weapons engine / whatever engine that never improve the gameplay in any meaninful wayyou get nothing out of playing the campaign besides vague lore snippets, since there's no finality to it whatsoever. the ultimate objective is getting the strongest equipment you can so you can stare at it once you've killed everything. there's also an arena mode which is just a number-go-up skinnerbox for you to enjoy as much of the shallow combat as you want. the world the game takes place is moderately interesting, and it's cool to learn more about it as you naturally discover new areas and read the notes left around. unfortunately, all of it is hidden behind a game that's never able to find its footing (because it tripped on a piece of geometry. that's the punchline)
>>739470534There is nothing satisfying at all about the combat in this game though. There's no weight or force behind any attacks from you or the enemies. Most of the time you just slap each other and deal or receive chip damage.Game looks and sounds amazing though. But the actual gameplay gets stale quick. The physics engine is touted as being a super important thing but in reality all it does is cause you and your enemies to constantly fall on top of each other.
>>739472320You type like a redditor and your shits all fucked up.>a dungeon crawler doesn't have much to do except crawl dungeonsHoly shit, I never thought of it that way.
>>739469717Its dog shit. Fucking retard zoomers and their terrible taste
>>739472496>There's no weight or force behind any attacks from you or the enemies.Because you're not stepping right and putting force into the attacks.>all it does is cause you and your enemies to constantly fall on top of each other.Because you're not stepping right.
>>739472496>no weight or force behind any attacksDid not play the game.
>in early access for 10 years>basically in the same state as when it launched>players criticize this>dev comes out and says exanima was actually never meant to be a complete game>it's just a pre-alpha demo of the actual game he's totally seriously working for realsies ona fool and his money
>>739472663>make engine>tweak engine and add content>content has long since surpassed price of admission>retards bitch about it Meanwhile AAA games spend a decade being made with billion dollar budgets and crews of thousands only to churn out absolute slop using a premade engine that does all the work for them and you gladly lap it up like the dipshit you are
>EARLY ACCESS>INDIESLURPSLURPSLURPSLURPSLURP
>>739472905You're right, I should play starfield instead.
>>739472782>chef the food here tastes like shit>yeah i shit in the food so what>it's awful i don't want it, you promised me a good meal>i've spent 10 years shitting in my food and i serve it to you and you have the gall to complain about it >mcdonalds churns out tons of slop on the daily>you should be thankful that i allow you the privilege of giving me your money so you can eat my shit you retard
>>739469717update just dropped and added a new area, new monsters, and updated darrins AI
>>739470940They claim the next update will be 1.0, but they also claimed they'd only be in early access for 9 months back in 2015, so clearly their perception of time is completely fucked.
>>739473172>food analogylol>why is my wife taking all day to cook me the perfect meal with super cheap but delicious ingredients >I mean I coulda just gone to McDonald's, paid 3 times as much for generic shit made by jeets, but it would have taken only slightly less time so its way better.What game are you most excited for that isn't out yet?
>>739470940>>739473281>1.0 was announced in 2016"Thanks for the money suckers" t exanimadev
It's a shame the RPG this was going to turn into was cancelled
>>739473316to give them credit 0.9.5 just dropped 3 days ago
>>7394733892 and a half years after 9.0. I don't give them any credit for it
>early accessI have a thousand games, tv series, and movies on my backlog. Why should I play something unfinished when I can just wait?
>>739473505it'll take a decade for 1.0 to drop
>>739472496I eventually started using this to my advantage.I suck at combat so I started luring enemies into empty roms then barricading the door from the outside. Or littering the ground when someone's pursuing me so they get stuck and fall. If I'm lucky I can even get a headshot while they get up.
>>739472320>the biggest draw of the game, its physics engine, is exclusively detrimental to the gameplay. once the novelty wears off, you realize there's no depth to any of it and you're just constantly fighting against the engine while it tries to sabotage youthis is unironically just a skill issue.
>>739472528exanima is a boomer game if there ever was one.
>>739469717>and I've been having such a blast>blastdo you think it is a return to FORM too? Huzzah!
>>739470696killing this faggot is the highlight of every run
This bitch almost killed me AGAIN
>>739473962I greatly overestimated that woman's strength.
Love this game and I hope it gets to a finished state. I dont know how it is now past floor 3 if there are more check points but I did some save scumming in like 2020 and got to werewolf area before getting stomped repeatidly. I like the little puzzle areas and jamming timed doors or levers with junk on the floor, or almost soft locking my game because I made my charactrr really fat and squeezed through a little dead end gap. The funny physics create lots of emergent gameplay quirks
>>739474679To my understanding wasn't the "finished state" meant to be a seperate game, and this was the tech demo for it? Then the dev dropped the idea of the seperate game and is just adding content to this tech demo instead
>>739474721Ya sui generis or whatever. No clue if that is happening. 1.0 for exanima maybe this year though I wont hold my breath.
>>739475097what the fuck is a 1.0 exanima gonna be though? Just the same old tech demo with better lighting and another 3 levels? It's kinda pointless to try and flesh out something with no structure like this.
Do I just throw these away? I'm guessing they were health potions and are just empty forever now...
>>739469717>Having a blastDo all you shills get your scripts from the same writer?
>>739475363Literally every time I post any thread on /v/ I am called a shill, mainly because if I'm starting a thread it's because there are not already threads for the game so I want more people to get the game so I have people to talk about it with.
>>739475179there're some bits and bobs scaterred around some of the levels that don't do anything, but look like they should. if I had to guess, 1.0 will bring everything together and give these objects a purpose so you can "complete" the campaign, with a final boss and then escaping
>>739475257yes
>>739475257keep them so you can cum jar your favorite waifu figurine
>>739470010it's a scam that has been in early access for 12 years and is literally a demo for an RPG that was kickstarted and will never ever release
>>739475585>>739475737Damn. I was holding out hope they slowly refilled or something with how rare they are. I'm worried I'm going to get softlocked with how low my health is consistently.
>>739469717It's a great gladiator game. Never touched the story mode. wished they added more arena features.
>>739475885unfortunately healing potions are scarce and there's only one other way to heal special mask and whack ass green crystals you gotta armor up brother
>>739475963I will become stronger, until nothing stands in my way!!
>>739475776This guy got filtered by the first zombie
>>739476039if you scrounge up enough armor, especially from the new catacomb area holy shit you can get like three full sets worth, then most of the damage you'll take won't give you much red
>>739476089I'm only mad because I backed that Sui Generis kickstarter
>>739476136your children will be able to play Sui Generis
Just kill the golem boss and become ironman
wheres the full nudity + pubes setting?
>>739476249this this this
wtf they finally updated this gamehasnt it been like 5 years since the last update?
>>739476164sorry I just have to add, I remember there was a kickstarter tier where you got to design a piece of the open world map. people paid hundreds of dollars to design landscapes for a game that never existed. I might be sad but at least I'm not them.
skeletons are too scaryit makes no sense theyre so fast with zero leg muscles
>>739476164Your great grandchildren might*
>>739473532all the more reason to wait. I don't want to play a game that still has 10 years to bake in the oven
>>739470764>Yeah, and this is just their proof of concept for the game they really want this engine to be fornigger that's even worse, this means that they spent a decade and a half working on a fucking TECH DEMOand said tech demo barely looks any different now compared 7-8 years ago
>>739478102You're a literal retard. Just stop
>>739478102Why are you talking to yourself?
>>739478245Intended for >>739478142.
Have they added a way to see in the dark other then the nv helms or torch? I hate having to rely on those so much. Even just a basic ass light spell would be nice.
>>739478293nope, but the nv helm looks cooler now and has some new eye effects
>>739478293Our game is too hardcore for you traveller. Go back to your kid's game soulslike
Because the game has been in 'early access' for lifetimes. Paid early access remains a scam and will always be a scam.
Damn i rember seeing the dev tell sodapoppin about the nv helm. That was 40 years ago
>>739478419We confusing annoying tedium with being hardcore again?>>739478376Eh, ill stick with the sewer splint set, just wish I could wear the full brass set without having to rely on the torch or flaming sword.
>>739478245>>739478289>he doubles down Thanks for proving my point
>>739478563If you play the hellmode mod the nv helm gets replaced with a cowl you wear under helmets
Game has one of the best combat systems ever made, but most people will never enjoy it because it's so different than literally anything else
>>739478762Some of the hellmode mod sections felt like memes. I get that may be the point, but I was really hoping it was going to be more of an overhaul and not just a kaizo mode mod. The early zones were fun, later ones are just like "lol 10 armored demons in a closet" or things like that.
>>739478865You didn't like the flaming skull flail demon hallway fight? I hated the fact that you cant use his flaming skull flail I love the flail let me use it hellmode devs you fucking faggots
>>739469717Is the engine the new grail or nah
I really like the journal feature. It's fun keeping in character notes of things you find, trying to piece together where you are and what the fuck is going on. Also fighting the ogre is really fun. Fuck those statues though
I still have no idea if some of the armor/melee skills do anything. Like the riposte/feint or the security/deflect skills. Feels a lot better to just go fully into magic and armor weight.
>>739479472>ripostelets you instantly attack after a block, very good for fighting enemies that use weapons>feinttop tier pick, lets you press m1 to ready an attack, bait the enemy ai into launching an attack, the hold m1 to actually attack and get a clean hit in, particularly good for enemies with long weapons that keep blocking otherwise>securitygood for when you have good armor, you basically don't get staggered as long as the hit doesn't do real damage, very useful, as normally even getting tickled cancels your attack>deflectstraight up increases your armor's hitboxes, making overlaps larger and weakpoints points smallerDid you know you can forget the insight skills like inversion and union once you learn the spells? It's a nice way of freeing up skill slots.
big fan, love the atmospherenever could get used to small steps while fighting, so i learned how to swing pull power and "beat" it
>arena mode>the further you advance in rank, the safer it is because you start packing heavier armorGoing back to early ranks with an advanced character and shitting myself in panic because suddenly I don't even have something to cover the face and some random fuck with a cleaver can just instantly end me with a lucky strike. Kinda wish it wasn't so grindy tho.Fucking hell this thing have been in EA for a decade now and the best they've got is remodeling the weapons for the nth time.
Die by the sword already did the physics combat thing and it sucked to play back then. I bought this on release and finished what content there was, then never touched it again. It's really disappointing.Honestly I'd rate this as the best game ever if it just had conventional controls. Call me a casual all you want, but give me something akin to what deep down was going to be, or a gritty, dark and spooky modern version of something like rune over another mouse-flailing physics sim like this and half sword or that other gladiator one any day.Also, Co op or arena vs. Gimme that shit.
>>739470338What is the brush for?
>>739473706i always dumped him down the holeit was funnier that way. and fighting him in the arena showed me what a colossal faggot he really isfucking BANGING tune though
>>739469982Actual ESL here, what's wrong with what he said?
It was already sluggish for my pc in the last update and now looks like its worse with all low. Owari da. Pretty cool though I had to run into some portal last time and managed to cheese one big ass fully armored dude but another one killed me. Definitely bludgeonmax in this game for crushing plated enemies, even in the earlier map/level, edge or stabbing weapons are useless imo.
>>739484676>almost not checkpointsHe said "not", instead of "no". you could argue a simple typo, but thats what people will get you four
>>739484676No instead of not. Mightve been a typo and >>739469982Is an actual Internet parrot mimicking natural language
>>739484891>>739484926Oh, I legit didn't notice, read that as "no".
>>739485046idiotstupidmorondummyfoolmentally insufficient
>>739469908I agree, the permadeath thing is something that's supposed to be in Sui Generis because the world is supposed to be persistent so when you die your death affects things and time passes. It makes no sense in Exanima where it just boots you back to the main menu or the few checkpoints that exist, it just makes it annoying. It does increase the tension, but it's not worth replaying the first 3 fucking levels over and over again.
derrin is a fucking retard
The thing I like the most about this game is how the physics system makes things logical and readable.>meet huge guy>by being huge I already know that:>he's slow to accelerate and turn>will probably outrun me in a straight line>is very strong and durable>I should use a long weapon with good reach to stay out of his swipes>I should NOT try to get into a wrestling match with himCompare that to something like Elden Ring where the giant boss suddenly does 15 pirouettes while balancing three swords on his nose, jumps and stops in the air for 5 seconds, then teleports behind you.
qrd on this game? looks like some arpg diablo type deal
>>739486609arpg diablo type deal (vaguely) but FIZIX>>739470904
>>739470068>always complain about slop>game made by a guy who self-taught everything >made systems that put games with hundreds of developers to shame>did all of it alone>has basically decided this will be the work of his life and likely the only game he'll make>complainsHe could just have made another Unity/Unreal top down survivors-like I guess, would that have been better?
the new gardens is very punishing against manlet players
>>739471116First level only has dogshit loot. If you immediately go left once you enter level 2 you'll find a large barracks area with lots of beds and chests that usually has pretty decent gear and is probably worth skipping directly to.
>>739470924There is 1 checkpoint in the entire game.The game starts at level 4, which is where the only checkpoint is.Level 1-3 are just choosing your starter loadout and none of it matters.
>start playing again>enjoying myself>die many hours in>the portal is still the last saveFucking why, there's been so many years of updates I imagine over half the game is now found past the portal section.
>Still early accessWoops, looks like I have no money to spend
>>739490281Kek
>get knocked down by demon>now stunlocked while it beats on me>wake up>its still standing there>it beats on me before I can stand up>die>back at the fucking portal>over 10 hours of progress lostThis dogshit game needs a method of manual saving
>>739492184>can't copy paste a file I'm glad you retards are being filtered
>>739486507Dude once said "I'm sick of you!" and started attacking me and killed me because I gave him so much shit and I don't think I hit him or did anything to trigger him but I must have done attacks too close or something. When I respawned I stopped giving him good shit and he died to a rando zombie. He also locked me out of that trapdoor hallway place because he went into that room with two levers, one closes the door and opens the trapdoors, the other just closes the door, and he ran into one of the levers and locked himself in and made it so I can't access either lever anymore.
>>739490276>>739492184%appdata%ExanimaExanimaXX.rsgcopythere's your saving thaumaturgy
If they add achievements in 1.0 this will be so fun to 100%. Are they still planning to make the other game? I think, if they share a universe, it would be kind of cool if the player character of Exanima ends the game super powerful and goes out into the world, then in the next game they are a villain.
>>739496323What do achievements add? A text box popping up telling you "good job!"? Reward the player for doing those challenges instead
>>739496610A good designed achievment is supposed to persuade you to try unconventioinal gameplay styles or creative challenges. Not defeating 100 monsters with your dick.
>>739492494>>739495930You retards would excuse anything as long as it gives you a sense of superiority
>>739495930if you can save outside the game with some extra steps, why not just add a save button? dev is so fucking gay and retarded
>>739496712Again, design something in game.
>>739497720Nowadays achievments are already integrated in the game somwhow.
>>739472663i don't expect you to have been old enough to have memories in 2015, but the devs were always open that exanima is a prototype test bed for sui generis, before exanima was ever for sale.
>>739482613Cleans dirt off of weapons and armor I really wish other items in the game had some kind of notable function like that. Like the mortar + pestle should let you grind up herbs, and the pen + ink pot should let you mark on the maps. Or a pen + wax tablet should let you write stuff on it or something. 99% of the items you can pick up and interact with are literal worthless garbage.I really do love this game and think it’s awesome but the dev needs to incorporate some more immersive sim elements to his game for it to truly shine.
>>739495930how do i edit my xp, i want all the powers.By the time you get cool shit unlocked there is nothing left to fight
>>739498671just get cheatengine silly
>>739498671good questionbest advice I got is to try finding the modding discord and search there
>>739469717Isn't the game abandoned?
WHAT DOES SOAP DO WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SOAP EVERYWHERE
>>739498928Totally working on it now again, please give money
>>739498928
>>739499037>>739499053>Totally working on it now again0.9.5, does that mean 1.0 soon?
>>739469717Why play this when Spark in the Dark exists?
i have 100 hours and i have literally played nothing but the arena mode
>>739499478The combat is the worst part of the game though. The game is carried by the atmosphere and exploration of the dungeon
>>739499459spark in the dark is ironically even clunkier than exanima with magnetic animations
>>739499459completely different gamesspark in the dark is generic shit while exanima is uniquely good
>>739498401I thought it was all junk. The brush will make weapons do more damage?
>>739469717>Release date April 29, 2015>Early Access GameHoly fucking shit. Looks cool though.
>>739499478>noodle physics combatFuck no...
>>739475776ah yeahI forgot why I didn't boughted this the last time I checked itIt was because of this
>>739499094In case you are still wondering, I was being sarcastic. If you fall for a decade+ EA scam you deserve it
well it's a pretty fun scam
