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Posted May 15, 2014
Take back the city, pilot, or we drop the bomb!

Bionic Dues, a tactical turn-based roguelike where you command a squad of mechas to liberate a besieged city, has arrived on GOG.com for $4.99 (50% off the full price) until 9:59 AM GMT on 22nd May 2014.

No one expects a buffer overflow in a city's robotic population. For reasons unknown to us meatbags, the robotic populace of Port City has gone absolutely mad. Wrecking buildings while yelling "01010111 01000101 00100000 01000100 01001111 01001110 00100111 01010100 00100000 01000111 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000100 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01001101 01001101 01001101 01001101 01001110 00100001", terrorizing the human populace (even to the point of using individual humans for hopscotch), and drinking up all the diesel. This robotic rabble rousing is costing the Maxitrode Corp. millions of tourism dollars because being in the middle of rioting robotic rampagers dismatling a city is never on the itinerary. Your squad of Exo pilots has been called in to deal with electronic menace once and for all. You'll have to be quick about it as the corporation in charge of the city has set you up the bomb to raze the city to contain the robotic riots. Don't let the nukes drop!

Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based (hooray for turn-based!) roguelike where you pilot a squad of Exo pilots to liberate the besieged Port City from a robotic riot. Pilot mechs, gather loot, visit the black market for more equipment, and even discover advanced versions of Exos while taking on more than 100 missions.

Seize your copy of Bionic Dues for $4.99 (50% off the full price) until 9:59 AM GMT on 22nd May 2014, DRM-free, on GOG.com!
Posted May 15, 2014
Glad I waited to get home before buying... I already have it on Steam...hehe.
Posted May 16, 2014
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Crosmando: JudasIscariot, can you please direct me to a fantasy TBS that has as many unique races, unique spells (organized into 6 or more schools of magic), 2 different planes of existence which can switched between, unit types (86 for MoM, also with unique racial units), as many Wizards, Heroes and Champions with unique abilities and items, etc?

Maybe Age of Wonders Shadow Magic or Dominions series comes close, but I can't think of anything else.
While it doesn't appear to have the two planes of existence, Conquest of Elysium 3 has 17 character classes among other things :)

http://www.illwinter.com/coe3/

(thanks go to Rodor for pointing this one out :) )
Post edited May 16, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted May 16, 2014
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kroetenschemel: If the soundtrack - that is to say the song from the trailer - had been included, this would have been an instant-buy. Now I'll read reviews.
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Immoli: This may have been stated already, but Arcen Games always has the soundtrack in the game files. Normally .ogg format. It's like that for every game I own of theirs, and people who bought The Last Federation from GOG said it was like that with the gog version.

Perhaps someone who bought the gog version could could confirm it for this game also.
Bought it myself and I can confirm this, the soundtrack is in the game directory as ogg
Posted May 16, 2014
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JudasIscariot: While it doesn't appear to have the two planes of existence, Conquest of Elysium 3 has 17 character classes among other things :)
Looks cool, bring it to GOG! ;)
Posted May 16, 2014
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JudasIscariot: While it doesn't appear to have the two planes of existence, Conquest of Elysium 3 has 17 character classes among other things :)
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Clangett: Looks cool, bring it to GOG! ;)
You should use your voting powers :)

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/conquest_of_elysium_3
Posted May 16, 2014
Done! ;)
Posted May 16, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Granted, you can put MoM on Impossible and have a challenge
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Starmaker: Nope. Pick elves, Life magic. Incarnation, True Sight (spectral warriors can eat your dude when he's still fresh) and Planar Travel (the enchantment, not the single-use Planeshift thing). Dig in for a while, then win.
Well, on 'impossible' the AI gets so much mana it can be a challenge. For example, an AI wizard is casting the Mastery spell and I have to stop them so I kill/banish them. For some reason all their cities revert to neutral and they don't cast Return. (Actually they do, but the game gives no notification, and the spell doesn't exactly work as intended, and I don't find any of this out until later.) And then, some time later, FROM THE GRAVE they start casting Mastery! Clearly they're not fully dead/banished/whatever, but how do you kill/banish something that's no longer in the physical realm? Going back to when they were still alive and killing them again only has the same result - but I did notice that when I killed them I lost about 16,000 mana... I should have got 1/2 what they had, so they must have had around -32,000 mana. Negative mana? Let's see, the game uses a 16 bit value for mana and, well, the AI's mana cup truly doth runneth over! So, go back to the save right before I killed them, use a hex editor to change their mana to be solidly within the realm of the positive, then kill them again. All is well! I get thousands of mana and they gain the ability to successfully cast Return and not lose all their cities. Win-win!

OK, you're right, that might not be much of a challenge for someone used to debugging and hacking. But I'm sure there's someone out there that would find that challenging.
Posted May 17, 2014
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Crosmando: JudasIscariot, can you please direct me to a fantasy TBS that has as many unique races, unique spells (organized into 6 or more schools of magic), 2 different planes of existence which can switched between, unit types (86 for MoM, also with unique racial units), as many Wizards, Heroes and Champions with unique abilities and items, etc?

Maybe Age of Wonders Shadow Magic or Dominions series comes close, but I can't think of anything else.
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JudasIscariot: While it doesn't appear to have the two planes of existence, Conquest of Elysium 3 has 17 character classes among other things :)

http://www.illwinter.com/coe3/

(thanks go to Rodor for pointing this one out :) )
Nothing can beat Dominions 4

2,000+ monsters
75 nations
300 magic items
Infinite maps
Infinite Gods (or near enough)
Posted May 17, 2014
A pity that both (Dominions and Conquest of E.) need Steam or this Desura :(

Otherwise i would have bought them a long time ago!

I hope i can buy them here at Gog one Day...it would be a instantbuy.
Posted May 17, 2014
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DF1871: A pity that both (Dominions and Conquest of E.) need Steam or this Desura :(

Otherwise i would have bought them a long time ago!

I hope i can buy them here at Gog one Day...it would be a instantbuy.
From Desura you also get a standalone Installer. You don't need the client for downloading and playing. However you have to activate the games with a serialkey but it's no online activation and there are no restrictions how often and on how many computers you activate your games.
So I don't know if such a normal CD key is considered as DRM.
Post edited May 17, 2014 by Silverhawk170485
Posted May 17, 2014
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DF1871: A pity that both (Dominions and Conquest of E.) need Steam or this Desura :(

Otherwise i would have bought them a long time ago!

I hope i can buy them here at Gog one Day...it would be a instantbuy.
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Silverhawk170485: From Desura you also get a standalone Installer. You don't need the client for downloading and playing. However you have to activate the games with a serialkey but it's no online activation and there are no restrictions how often and on how many computers you activate your games.
So I don't know if such a normal CD key is considered as DRM.
Many thanks for the advice :)...i only need to "sqezze" out the key of Desura then i can start playing Conquest of... :)
Posted May 17, 2014
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DF1871: A pity that both (Dominions and Conquest of E.) need Steam or this Desura :(

Otherwise i would have bought them a long time ago!

I hope i can buy them here at Gog one Day...it would be a instantbuy.
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Silverhawk170485: From Desura you also get a standalone Installer. You don't need the client for downloading and playing. However you have to activate the games with a serialkey but it's no online activation and there are no restrictions how often and on how many computers you activate your games.
So I don't know if such a normal CD key is considered as DRM.
If the key is needed for a single player, offline game, it's DRM for us. Keys for multiplayer are a different story but let's not derail the whole thread :)
Post edited May 17, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted May 18, 2014
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Silverhawk170485: From Desura you also get a standalone Installer. You don't need the client for downloading and playing. However you have to activate the games with a serialkey but it's no online activation and there are no restrictions how often and on how many computers you activate your games.
So I don't know if such a normal CD key is considered as DRM.
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JudasIscariot: If the key is needed for a single player, offline game, it's DRM for us. Keys for multiplayer are a different story but let's not derail the whole thread :)
Uhm...i fear you're right.

I apologize for abusing the Thread...i was carried away by my curiosity :)
Posted May 18, 2014
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JudasIscariot: If the key is needed for a single player, offline game, it's DRM for us. Keys for multiplayer are a different story but let's not derail the whole thread :)
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DF1871: Uhm...i fear you're right.

I apologize for abusing the Thread...i was carried away by my curiosity :)
No worries :)
Posted May 18, 2014
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JudasIscariot: If the key is needed for a single player, offline game, it's DRM for us. Keys for multiplayer are a different story but let's not derail the whole thread :)
May I suggest, then, that you (not you personally, Judas) do something about Tropico 3?
Here's what I'm talking about.
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