This week your intrepid heroes break out the espionage, plant some evidence, and hang out with Dark Father.
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Game: Signal Ops
Webzone: http://space-bullet.com/
Devel: Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation
Engine: Panda 3D (Python based)
Price: $14.99/€13.99
Wazzat: Are you ready to be put to the test? If deemed worthy, you will be assigned as an officer in the shadowy halls of Facility 7C. You will remotely lead a squad of operatives on daring espionage missions to plant evidence, steal secrets, assassinate targets, and perform sabotage for the glory of the Dark Father.
Makes with the working
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had to go config file hunting to get the game to work. ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Signal Ops/assets/data/config.yml
Disabling fullscreen and specifying a resolution made it work properly.
Gets two chairs because the Dev went so far as to recommend I use the WINE version instead:http://steamcommunity.com/app/257770/discussions/1/648812304908575072/
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Shiny / Sounds
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Graphics are meh. I tried to like the art style but it never clicked.
Voice work is meh+
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Props for being decently voice acted.
The game still looks like shit though
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Character movement is choppy, could be my calculator but with those low res graphics I doubt it.
Voice work is actually nice to have in an indie game, thumbs up for that.
I like the presentation, though! The whole atmosphere the game presents itself with is well thought out
It’s like you’re playing a game about someone playing a game with soldier’s lives.
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Control
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Gamepad support is a jumbled mess *glares at virtual gerbil*
Keyboard + gerbil is the only way to go but the default layout is mental.
Really, I was taking notes on the “left click twice” etc
J-
These are some bass-ackward controls ya got here
Extremely Convoluted
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Comes configured with the alt key as the Hold key to enable in-game cursor by default, needless to say that shit don’t fly in Linux.
The first game I actually had to INCREASE my mouse sensitivity and even then it was slow as balls. Figured out the best solution was to leave the slider halfway and just toggle my mouse’s DPI mode to a higher value.
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FUN
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30min in and I’m still not playing the game.
Write a manual FFS
The forced attempt at humour, gah!
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This game is just boring. The controls are fucked and I could barely make it 20 minutes in
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It’s not what I was expecting and in this case that is a somewhat bad thing.
I was expecting something along the lines of Commandos 3, with slightly more stylized graphics.
I got first person Frozen Synapse with textures instead.
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