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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 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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Grargar: May I suggest, then, that you (not you personally, Judas) do something about Tropico 3?
Here's what I'm talking about.
AFAIK, the game doesn't require a key and deleting that file causes some remnant (long dead) of DRM to return. I am not really all to sure what's going on with that. Keep in mind I am just guessing after reading that thread.
Posted May 18, 2014
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JudasIscariot: AFAIK, the game doesn't require a key and deleting that file causes some remnant (long dead) of DRM to return. I am not really all to sure what's going on with that. Keep in mind I am just guessing after reading that thread.
OK. Here's from my personal experience; I install the game, attempt to run it and I am presented with the following error: "You need a supported DX9-compatible video card with a recent driver to play this game. Check our web site for a list of supported chipsets." After deleting the file that the workaround mentions, the game starts, but now it's asking for a serial key. Happily, the serial key is present in my account and after inputting it, I can play the game normally. At the end, though, I had to use a serial key to play the game offline. Bug or not, this problem seems to persist for a whooping 2 years.
Post edited May 18, 2014 by Grargar
Posted May 18, 2014
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JudasIscariot: AFAIK, the game doesn't require a key and deleting that file causes some remnant (long dead) of DRM to return. I am not really all to sure what's going on with that. Keep in mind I am just guessing after reading that thread.
Usual case is that it comes with a pre-installed serial, which is (probably) found in that lua file. Deleting it makes the game set up again, but since it can't find the serial, it asks for it again. Giving a generic one should (probably) work, but we don't have one.

So the game does require a serial (generic, keygen, unique or whatever), but the setup is wrong.
Posted May 18, 2014
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JudasIscariot: AFAIK, the game doesn't require a key and deleting that file causes some remnant (long dead) of DRM to return. I am not really all to sure what's going on with that. Keep in mind I am just guessing after reading that thread.
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Grargar: OK. Here's from my personal experience; I install the game, attempt to run it and I am presented with the following error: "You need a supported DX9-compatible video card with a recent driver to play this game. Check our web site for a list of supported chipsets." After deleting the file that the workaround mentions, the game starts, but now it's asking for a serial key. Happily, the serial key is present in my account and after inputting it, I can play the game normally. At the end, though, I had to use a serial key to play the game offline. Bug or not, this problem seems to persist for a whooping 2 years.
All I can ask in this case is that you write to us about it via Support.
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JudasIscariot: AFAIK, the game doesn't require a key and deleting that file causes some remnant (long dead) of DRM to return. I am not really all to sure what's going on with that. Keep in mind I am just guessing after reading that thread.
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JMich: Usual case is that it comes with a pre-installed serial, which is (probably) found in that lua file. Deleting it makes the game set up again, but since it can't find the serial, it asks for it again. Giving a generic one should (probably) work, but we don't have one.

So the game does require a serial (generic, keygen, unique or whatever), but the setup is wrong.
Well, the serial is only really required for some online leaderboards and the ability to download player-created challenges. Perhaps editing that lua file might be a better option, if it's at all possible to edit it so the game works on supposedly unsupported chipsets.
Post edited May 18, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted May 18, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Well, the serial is only really required for some online leaderboards and the ability to download player-created challenges.
More or less the same with NWN and other CD-Key requiring games. One key required to install/play, and a legitimate one for multiplayer.

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JudasIscariot: Perhaps editing that lua file might be a better option, if it's at all possible to edit it so the game works on supposedly unsupported chipsets.
A comparison between the original installation lua and a remade one could probably help, assuming one can be bothered to do the comparison.
Posted May 18, 2014
Sounds like a solid roguelike game. I am interested, but for now wishlisted only.

I still have till 22nd to make up my mind :)
Posted May 18, 2014
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bioshark: Sounds like a solid roguelike game. I am interested, but for now wishlisted only.

I still have till 22nd to make up my mind :)
It's not a roguelike, but a strategy game. Granted, the combat is kinda similar to a lot of roguelikes. Not that much.

If you're looking for a roguelike you'll probably be disappointed. Play the demo first.
Posted May 18, 2014
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bioshark: Sounds like a solid roguelike game. I am interested, but for now wishlisted only.

I still have till 22nd to make up my mind :)
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Immoli: It's not a roguelike, but a strategy game. Granted, the combat is kinda similar to a lot of roguelikes. Not that much.

If you're looking for a roguelike you'll probably be disappointed. Play the demo first.
Where can I find the demo?

Edit: Found the demo on their website. Will check it out.
Post edited May 18, 2014 by bioshark
Posted May 19, 2014
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Immoli: It's not a roguelike, but a strategy game. Granted, the combat is kinda similar to a lot of roguelikes. Not that much.
wut? Looks very much like a traditional roguelike to me. Most all the elements are there - grid turn by turn combat, random loot, randomly generated levels, high difficulty, and no save scumming (although you can turn off ironman mode...) Perma-death does not a roguelike make, but heavy consequences for failure has long been a part of the genre.

If you were controlling all 4 robots at once instead of swapping between them it'd still be a roguelike (see: Steam Marines). The Big Thing the developers did here is to turn it into a puzzle of sorts, what with the robots all having a very specific special ability or crippling flaw.

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bioshark: Edit: Found the demo on their website. Will check it out.
Yes, always a good idea! Kudos to Arcen Games for actually releasing a demo! (but what's up with the lack of music in said demo?)
Post edited May 19, 2014 by crimecities
Posted May 19, 2014
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bioshark: Sounds like a solid roguelike game. I am interested, but for now wishlisted only.

I still have till 22nd to make up my mind :)
It has an 'Ironman" selection for the save system, when setting up your game, so you can make it very roguelike if you wish.
Posted May 19, 2014
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Immoli: It's not a roguelike, but a strategy game. Granted, the combat is kinda similar to a lot of roguelikes. Not that much.
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crimecities: wut? Looks very much like a traditional roguelike to me. Most all the elements are there - grid turn by turn combat, random loot, randomly generated levels, high difficulty, and no save scumming (although you can turn off ironman mode...) Perma-death does not a roguelike make, but heavy consequences for failure has long been a part of the genre.
It's not. The combat is really similar, yeah, but that's where it ends. Random loot is not only for roguelikes. Diablo, Borderlands, Dragon's Crown, Dungeon Defenders. Those are not roguelikes. Random levels is common for strategy and tactics games. AI War, Civilization, Creeper World (though not part of the main campaign), Frozen Synapse. Same with high difficulty. Though, Bionic Dues also has easy difficulty if you want. There is save scumming, iron mode is not a requirement, which you admit. And permadeath is required for a roguelike.

So it has similar combat.
Posted May 19, 2014
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Immoli: It's not a roguelike, but a strategy game. Granted, the combat is kinda similar to a lot of roguelikes. Not that much.
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crimecities: wut? Looks very much like a traditional roguelike to me. Most all the elements are there - grid turn by turn combat, random loot, randomly generated levels, high difficulty, and no save scumming (although you can turn off ironman mode...) Perma-death does not a roguelike make, but heavy consequences for failure has long been a part of the genre.

If you were controlling all 4 robots at once instead of swapping between them it'd still be a roguelike (see: Steam Marines). The Big Thing the developers did here is to turn it into a puzzle of sorts, what with the robots all having a very specific special ability or crippling flaw.

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bioshark: Edit: Found the demo on their website. Will check it out.
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crimecities: Yes, always a good idea! Kudos to Arcen Games for actually releasing a demo! (but what's up with the lack of music in said demo?)
I have played the Demo, and it's totally convincing for me. I will buy it shortly, even though it will be queued together with about 8-9 more games I still have to play, but I want to take advantage of the 50% discount :)

P.S. On their website it's stated that the Demo has no music.
Posted May 19, 2014
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bioshark: P.S. On their website it's stated that the Demo has no music.
Yes because the Soundtrack is very good and I think they don't want that someone rips the soundtrack out of the demo. ;-)
Posted May 19, 2014
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bioshark: P.S. On their website it's stated that the Demo has no music.
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Silverhawk170485: Yes because the Soundtrack is very good and I think they don't want that someone rips the soundtrack out of the demo. ;-)
Done, Just bought it :)
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