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Is the Dusk sdk supposed to run slightly worse than the usual singleplayer?
For me, it just runs at half the framerate i get normally
hmm
no in fact it should run better
Mine Definitely runs worse
uh oh lmao
what graphics api are you using?
Well I am playing on a laptop. I just thought it was weird since normal Dusk runs great
alright I'll try it
That worked, I get 60 fps again. There's still hiccups down to 0 every once in a while but i'll take it. Thanks!
the sdk is very much in an alpha state, any issues youre having will likely be ironed out
I understand. I just thought my framerate getting cut in half was weird lol
will the store page for DUSK go up before the release date or will it just shadow drop on that date? (talking about the switch port)
no idea. we haven't even planned this internally yet
alrighty ill just check back in October
Choese world
Does anyone have the jakob version of the monke meme
For some reason I cannot find it
and I need it desperately
I couldnt roll my eyes harder famalam, I know how to use PS , im just not a good artist
I thought I saw it here the other day
Yeah, I was scrollin hard
one day itll pop up again
the source of suffering is want after all
and all I wanna do is return to monke
inb4 you scroll right past it
maybe if you braod search on googl you find it
broad*
in a very mediocre reunion
found it!
oh no
Right? I gotta shittalk more
well youre better off
if im unlucky david will eat me for breakfast
glorious
I thought so lol
I mean, the guy made like every good character into monke
plenty of material out there
Is David American

Should probably go on #meme-review
BONE BOY I SWEAR TO GOD
Im planning on getting DUSK but one question... HOW POWERFUL AND SATISFYING IS IT TO USE THE SUPER SHOT GUN.
Thank you now I shall go to waste.money and slay cultists.
Is David American yes
Wheres the fingerbones channel?
I really like the game but I think the super shotty feels inconsistent
How so?
sometimes gibbing 3 or more cultist at once who are at the other end of a long hallway, very often not gibbing at close range
and also very often needing to shoot a corpse 3 times at close range until it gibs
Word, so this is about gibs
hello boys and girls
is there a mod for wall hacks that reveal secrets? like xray from minecraft. but shows up all the secrets. so i can practice and learn where they all are?
Theres a bunch of guides and videos that say where all the secrets are
Then if you read them youll know where they are
And you can practice that
yes, I prefer my enemies in pieces ๐
@abstract crater if you export the maps like I have, you can find them all pretty easily if you arent already familar
but there are lso many guides
Aside from the mega secrets, youre just looking for vents and off looking textures
Yeah, but I didnt know about the secret in the farms endless level until yesterday
I felt like such a dumbass grinding that shit on cero without it
๐
The real question is when is there going to be the Dusk ska mod
All of the hell yeah gunfight music is replaced with the reel big fish
lol thats already very doable
is it possible to change weapon values like damage and spread?
I dunno, if you wanted to unpack and repack the game you could, but it would be far more effort than its worth
Other people have done things though, idk
just asking because that's what like to do in doom mods ๐
sometimes just for stupid fun like making a pistol damage output ridiculous, sometimes just because I don't like how a weapon feels
They plan on adding that functionality to the SDK soon
yeah, I assumed it was gonna be around the corner for the SDK
hm, so I absolutely HAVE TO install gog galaxy to use the SDK?
Have you dug around the installation folder yet to see if theres anything cool
you asking me or Hermit?
@twilit birch you
just a bit, problem is I don't know much about how to handle unity
I mean it would be a .exe file and a data file. Im pretty sure it compiles only one way so you could t really get to the code unless you used a reverse engineering tool. If youre talking about just using unity in general it would just be the GUI for the software and either javascript or C# here and there
That stuff you could probably scan through and figure out what does what
Dusk used javascript im pretty sure or unityscript that is
Anyway get the sdk
I have the entire bitch just splayed in front of me rn actually
Just working with the code, there are many errors between asset packages that need to be worked out
im currently commeting out more or less the entire save system
you could probably delete all of the code and copy any non-UnityEngine dll files from the Managed folder into the project
and it'd work
I think
Looking at stock Dusk, it'd be everything except:
Boo.Lang.dll
Mono.Posix.dll
Mono.Security.dll
MoodkieSecurity.dll
mscorlib.dll
System.Configuration.dll
System.Core.dll
System.dll
System.Security.dll
System.Xml.dll
Unity.TextMeshPro.dll
UnityEngine.*Module.dll
UnityEngine.dll
UnityEngine.UI.dll
UnityScript.Lang.dll```
@abstract crater find ways to get out of bounds using cheats. If the map is inside, just press E on every wall then shoot it
or what hermit said
Is David Americanyes
ok
pa
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I am tempted to make a Pen Pineapple Apple Pen Joke
you could do a damage and spread mod pretty easily without repacking the whole game
I am tempted to make a Pen Pineapple Apple Pen Joke
2017 called
youd just have to write a script that sets the values for the weapons
I wanna play around with the numbers a lot
you could even do it with something as simple as cheatengine
"do you guys not have phones?"
uhh?
how is that a meme
am I missing something here or is the joke "lol a mac user"
when the line between meme and a real problem is so blurry
I played dusk on my shitty MacBook Air the first time and everything worked fine aside from the game running like ass cuz Apple is fucking trash, dunno what heโs talking about
i responded to him
we'll see
theres a bug in the mac version that can cause the game to try running at a 9999x9999 resolution
which will absolutely cause it to freeze or crash lmao
us rushing the build process :)
lessons learned eh?
you can
I mean getting UE to potato mode was already a pain so I can see why you guys'd rush it
Dusk on smart fridge 
snusk
you can
@mild ginkgo I tried setting custom dimensions in the INI but when I launched the game it chose a different resolution by itself :/
Maybe there's a lower limit for resolution?
dont think so
i mean, the ui will turn into garbage at a low enough res
so sort of
you can get it to run in some real stupid and broken resolutions
ah yes
this is how i play
set the ini as read only
As soon as I launch the game it forces the INI back
this will stop you from changing options in game though
just use steam launch options if youre having fs issues
-screen-width 500 -screen-height 1080
youll get the resolution you want
oh yes
also maybe I was wrong and the INI wasn't even getting reset on launch
I guess steam did something
Anyway thanks
wait what
Stopped working when the title screen loaded :/
The loading was in the weird resolution I told steam to launch the game with, then it switched itself back
What's a man gotta do to play DUSK with a vertical camera
Ok set it to -windowed and it works lets goo
How tf is dusk capable of running HL and Quake maps?
Looks like vertical camera gives a buncha additional vertical vision
@prisma halo at this point im just keeping it all simple, since all the values were preserved with the gameobjects then I can create skeleton scripts based off of the originals without too much error hunting
500 really just stepped out there and announced DUSK Mobile
but he haven't even gotten dusk for switch out yet
Switch port is cancelled. Cheap mobile apps is where the real moneyโs at
You will have to replay a level 5 times to unlock the next one
Alternatively you can pay 5$
For 1 level
hmm yes
If you watch 3 ads you can unlock the soap in each level
ah yes finally found someone that also plays in 4:5
dEAsk
Will Dusk 2 have a revolver and dual wield SSG like Blood
is blood's double barrel even a real super shotgun?
You need to take out an entire group of enemies in one shot to be a ssg
I need my shotgun to do rocket launcher levels of damage before I call it super lol
o7
good choice
I'm so fucking psyched for switch release!
i am not
Why not? Ultimately its good for the fanbase
Konrad shud up
get a buncha zoomers playing newblood games, get some of their mom's money in the system
zoomers play on XB
X
zoomers play on phones
get a buncha zoomers playing newblood games, get some of their mom's money in the system
I'd say do your part first but you've already done it
I am with @woeful plover , sooo psyched for Dusk on Switch!!!
Giving more money to new blood incentivises them to pump out more shit games
Well you're all Debbie Downers and I just wanna hear my voice hissing at you through shitty portable switch speakers
Hey everybody. Bought Dusk on sale and finally started playing it this weekend. It's awesome.
Checked the multiplayer servers and didn't see much activity so I came on here to find people to deathmatch with
Kinda of wondering why that person is even on here if he doesn't like New Blood games
also look up for saturday fragnights
But hey, I'm sure a lot of people are excited for this game to show upmon the Switch

@simple pilot Yeah I saw that. Just on here as an intro.
Thanks
And good to know
Does anybody on right now also play Amid Evil? I used to play Hexen/Heretic as a kid and would totally pick it up on sale if it's as good as Dusk is so far.
you always have 2 hours for refund if it dosent click with you
Hah yeah it's true. And honestly its pre-sale price doesn't break the bank, so...
as for the game itself, if you have fetish for puzzle switches across the whole hub
you will be disappointed
I mean, that's what I hated about Hexen/Heretic--well, hate is a strong word, but I didn't play them nearly as much as Doom/Quake
So if it lacks that drudgery then I'm in
I remember appreciating the hub concept a lot but disliking that its main use was just to make you backtrack endlessly
streaming DUSK on Cero Miedo in General vc
I dont think AE is that bad
I barely even paid attention to the hub
- the game and enemy design is fucking gorgeous
Awesome. I thought what varg was saying was that it didn't quite have the exact same hub mechanics as Hexen, but either way it doesn't matter that much to me, because I'm sure I'll give it a go at some point
Yeah, its just a cool level select as far as im concerned
no enemies or anything
Ive never 100% AE though, so I have no reference as to the puzzles in the hub lol
What is that.
Ah yes.
One step from hell.
Also, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk status.
A man of culture I see.
Hell ye
I love how you get almost all the arsenal on the second level if you find that secret 
Took quite a long time for me to find that secret lol
||I stumbled upon the basket ball by pure chance||
You know, i tried ||putting the basketball into the net|| on my first playthgouh
But i guess collision was weird and didn't register
it is weird. just touching an object by walking sends it flying like you kicked it hard
It's funny when that happens so it's excused
Like in doom eternal when you walk around barrels and you kick them across the map
frens
i know you're tired hearing people asking about this, but...
is there any new info about the jolly cooperation mode ?
haven't been here in a long ass time
Soon
After the sdk
Its not ready
oh
Ala finished
thats offending
Starting episode 3 on Cero Miedo, let's go!
Aaaaaaaand... done!
What did you think?
Way more fun than the easier difficulties
Yeah when you actually need to try games are way more fun
Took a little adjustment, it's been a month since I finished E2
this game is fucking lit
Word
dusk is fun
even on duskmare
and.. i finished the game in only a week on duskmare, with intruder mode
gonna make it harder: death - back to the very beginning
I like hard games but that sounds like suffering lol
just died to a fucking giant horse
and it will be after i get every achievement
got the soap one finally
the completions next
nah wait
"true 100%"
what about the soap
i found one and flushed it on the toilet
thought it was a secret
you can flush it in any toilet
"don't drop it" - find and pick up soap on every level
form E1 to E3
with secret levels
one is the fucking worst
rats
lol I found none of the secret levels yet
also how am i suposed to know the combination of buttons to activate?
i just bruteforce them
That's the idea lol
you just brute force them and then remember it
oh god
I don't even remember them XD
BRUTE FORCE EVERY TIME ALL THE TIME

Like with everything else in the game 
Go get'em, tiger!
i think i finished the first ep
i can take it

took me a while to fight the horses
you know you can get those pacifist and low tech stamps
i might do them after DM+IM+HR
mb on Cero Miedo
cuz on dm it's almost impossible
maybe
...
i want to find out if it's possible
but will it be worth it?
im still surprised i havent gotten the soap achievement
sorta wish there was a way to tell what levels you got the soap in because i have no idea what level im missing
Play every level again to double check ๐
I JUST BEAT THIS SUMBITCH FOR THE FIFTH TIME
when i find this last soap bar imma stick it in davey's nose
||E1MS E2MS E3MS(fuck this one)||
||you have to go through E1M1 till E3M10 but with with secret levels||
have you found one in foundry?
i think i may have missed e2m2
or e2m1
i probably wont end up doing the endless stuff though
imma just use level select
fair
he gon git it
it was e2m9
HE GOT IT FELLAS
didnt see it next to the secret teleporter
well, you got it in the end
am now worthy
boring?
just put it on easy and get to round 20
you gotta get 100 percent
you're so close
I love my dusk on accessible
I'm mostly fan of the movement and sound effects
Not ripping my ass apart
That's good too
I love how the whole story of Dusk is ambiguous most of the time and leaves the player to fill in the blanks
But at the end, doesnโt Dusk Dude just ||become a literal god?||
Gotta say, I wish more FPS games ended like that
I always saw it as your player is ascending to the next level
You literally ||take a portion of an Outer Godโs power||
That has got to be at least ||Cthluhu|| level of power
Albeit brainwashed with that power, but still
The story is literally Dusk Dude becoming worthy of being a badass FPS protagonist
the judge of that being Caleb
||Dusk Dude probably isnt anywhere near cthulhu levels. Given how the only precedent for him is Jakob who was defeated by dusk dude with conventional weaponry., he probably has a similar level of power. Strong, but able to be destroyed by mortal means.||
||dusk dude as final boss in the sequel?||
||Yeah seems like good setup. Dusk dude, except he's been stripped of his free will and subject to unknowable horrors, begging for death in between insane gibberings and wrathful screaming||
I think thatd be a great AE cross -in
have the champion be called to defeat a new great evil on earth

though, if you think about it
the champion is the kinda guy who kill nyarlothep on a bad day
like, even the first coupla bosses in AE are on a significantly different power scale to DUSK
You're not the first person to say that, but I can't relate. Which levels specifically do you get lost in?
Anything level that requires me to have my flashlight on in small corridors.
I did get lost a lot in the level that introduces the horrors
Ah
Yeah I suppose that can get a person turned around rather easily.
Have you tried treating it like a maze and hugging a wall?
But i was also secret hunting a lot so that didn't help
I did get lost secret hunting on a few levels
I just kind of ran around like a child who just drunk expresso until I made progress.
I donโt really understand getting lost tbh
Lot of the levels usually have good land marks to orient yourself
Unless you are talking about cutty mines
Cause you are supposed to get lost there
Yes thatโs the intention
city of shadows messed with me for a while
Mine was the cutty mines, and where the horrors shows
I get lost in Crypt of the Flesh too often
My first time through, Crypt of the Flesh was my level to get lost on
I somehow missed the switch that opens the alcove
yall should i get The Darker Stage Of Twilight
I know the story already
and it looks super fun
i just dont know if i should get it or replay the games i already have lol
I want to live in the neobabel
remember when i said something about DM pacifist low tech?
it's possible
but
without hard reset
with one it's fucking nightmare
Hey I need help
I open dusk and I canโt click on anything on single player
Multiplayer works for some reason but not single player
And then when I load it up again it turns into an Asian language
Reinstalling doesnโt help either
I got it from GOG by the way
If that helps
for one, make sure you dont have any controllers plugged in
but to fix the chinese, open up the dusk.ini in the config folder and set your language to 0
Dusk has a Chinese translation?
yeah, has translations for a bunch of languages
Yo guys what was ur favourite level on dusk?
Mine was crypt of the flesh, because it feels like it isn't dusk like its a horror game or something
i like the voices "the closer they got, the more they suffered.."
Also i love dusk level it was full of "surprises"
Like who is ||jacob and nyrliatothep||
What is yours?
e1m3
E1M1/2/S/3/5/8, E2M2/4/7, E3M3/7
e1m3
@mild ginkgo this is ur game lol
E1M1/2/S/3/5/8, E2M2/4/7, E3M3/7
@simple pilot oh nice bro
what
I honestly loved e2m4
It was the first "oh fuck" moment in dusk
E\dM\d
Wait
Jakob
Aren't u a trial mod
What happened
I'm not a trial mod anymore
now I'm just a gamer
why
because muffins fucked up on his duty and was chosen to become the new mod
Can I get the horror death sound?
Its in sdk probably
i hatefully love "Erberus Factory"
my. all time favorite level has to be blasphemy
as above so below, city of shadows, brimstone ghetto, and ghost town all tie in second
and basically everything else ties third. because i love this game
||yes. even the ratacombs. fuck the ratacombs. having to scythes-only ratacombs just for that low-tech achievement was hell, and i wanna have a firm talk with whatever inspired david to create ratacombs||
but it was funny
^
Its a toss up between The Infernal Machine and Brimstone Ghetto for me
I COMPLETELY forgot about brimstone ghetto Argh
just slide that into second rq
infernal machine is a great level but those clostrophobic corridors at the start with those welders is Pain
i intruder mode'd episode 2 today on cero miedo, and my first couple deaths were to those welders at the start
||and that ambush when you turn off the spinny bits is Rough, even without intruder mode||
Im a fan of the harder levels though
the wide open levels are fun, but they are too easy to cheese imo
yaknow you could have just done the blue key secret and finish the level in like 20 seconds without killing anthing
i think you're thinking of old religion
*for the Ratacombs
thats the baby way tho
i think i did that when i went through it
still scythed like half the rats though
Go for the every badge duskmare challenge on e3ms
but i already got untouchable on cero miedo..
Ah boy
E3mS sucks
Especially when I wanted to get all achievements, and fully complete every challenge
i.e. taking a smoke break while the last cart dog is in the crystal of madness gas in endless
Endless mode for me is all about cheese
Just trying to figure out the easiest way to stay alive
Jumping around in circles at full speed on the cathedral map, getting shit to infight while I smoke my cigar and occasionally jump off the edge to further decrease exposure
You get a backpack of ammo every round in cathedral endless
What little damage I take that way is pretty much recovered from potions and the cigar
Infinite riveter ammo
Yeah
Yeah cigar is so good when health packs dont exist
I actually really like that it's cheesable
Just leave the last bone ball alive while spamming mouse 1
It ain't the same in farm tho
Less ammo and way closer spaces
Less time for cigar and spam
that's why i'd only ever play on the cathedral
I'm not even gonna talk about factory
Although the map itself is cool
The spaces are way too tight
And everything has projectiles
hey where do i go for dusk mods
And get SDK if you wanna mod
https://dusk.mod.io/ is where you get the mods
its in the pinned messages there but not like people actually check those
https://imgur.com/a/DV5wvzg Finally manned up and finished the endless achieves

hell yea!
youll get there. the path to becoming worthy was never short nor easy..
i want to kiss the level with the big tornado
this does result in death, unfortunately...
kiss the dave tornado
That tornado even pushes props outside of itself
If that isnt good development idk what is
https://youtu.be/ZLiN2Js1UtQ
This is what the cultists chant
hello im new i like dusk and wanna check out multiplayer where is a good place to start? ty
There's a channel for finding games here
Every now and then we host Duskworld frag nights
87 days 10 hrs until Dusk on Switch.
Oh crap!!!! You know when they said Halloween 2020, I guess it didn't click that they really meant Halloween as the release date...lol. That will be here soon
hopefully we can meet the date ๐
Everything not going smoothly?
If you do hit that date, you'd be one of the first horror games I've seen claim a Halloween release date for a Nintendo console to Actually release on Halloween.
Most other games I've seen that had that date were pushed back with the lotcheck
everything is going fine, we just have a lot of work thats all
Right on. Makes sense. We will try to be patient...lol
Here's to hoping you get through the lotcheck smoothly
very few concerns about lotcheck
If it doesn't violate any sort of agreement, what's giving you guys the most trouble rn?
Understandable
please help dave sent me to work in the meme factory
i haven't seen my family in weeks
i hope i can get dusk for my b day
hey thats a cool image!
someone remove their :frend: so it becomes 451
or just make it 666
dusk 2
DU2K
Or we could go with DUSKS
DUSK: THERES TWO CULTS NOW
DAWN
Already the name of the SDK lol
Eh, you get santa
dusk 3: AFTERNOON

Holy shit what are these emotes?




Is there a place where I can get a dusk facemask?
yes
Dusk of Man
that sounds like a decent title if david wants to do an apocalyptic thing
or just do a surprise sequel where the link to dusk isnt apparent until a ways into the game
@simple pilot w h e r e
ive already answered your question
i dont have to
Is the wisdom of varg only given once a day?
I'm sorry, you just originally took time out of your day to answer it, why not elaborate more ?
Oh, sorry sir. DM me for foot pics
im into backs
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Hey @mild ginkgo , just a randow question, but how is the Switch compared to other consoles? Is it easy to develop/port games for? What has been the biggest challenge so far?
i would say that its fairly easy, the biggest challenge is compliance with nintendos standards
That's cool. I was just wondering. So what standards are you talking about it? And thanks. I am very eager to play this game. Any game with killer scarecrows, or scarecrows in general has got to be good!!!
they have a lot, from little things like grammar/language of referring to their console and controllers, to more complicated things like memory write frequency
Interesting, never knew that kind of stuff. Not very computer savy here. Thanks for answering
grammar?
I guess to make sure your game doesn't say "Joycock" or something lmao
well theyre very particular about things
like you cant say "joycons"
the plural of joycon is joycon
that's not a problem in Spanish but yeah
when is dusk coming out?
On switch? Halloween last i heard
That is there goal
I had asked a couple of days ago, and they hope to meet that date
found a spot you can get stuck in on e3m3 that i don't think anyone has mentioned yet https://youtu.be/yEuubs8Yo68
ik it would probably be better to just patch the hole entirely BUT it would be cool if one of the walls were a false wall that let you into a room with a teleporter and a you are not supposed to be here sign, and the room lacked a celling so i could use it to get oob ๐
anyone know how to open IQM files?
i wanna port big john's model into gmod
and i have no idea where to start since ive never ported anything into gmod before
There's a blender plugin and a separate model viewer called noesis for iqm files
thank yuo
- Play Dusk
- Soundtrack is lit
- Still thinking Embrace The Darkness will make you look behind your back during the night.
dave probably didn't bother to patch that hole because it would take another day to add collision, so i understand why it would be there
but it would be cool indeed bgb
Is dusk Co-op still an idea or has that idea been scraped?
coming after SDK is done
co-op speebruns 
Jakob is replaced with the players fighting eachother
Bruhhhhh n 
ONLY ONE CAN BE WORTHY
That's actually a cool idea
duskworld match instead of a bossfight
The antagonist grabs the riveter first and you get instagibbed
playable jakob doesnt sound so bad ngl 
Fighting against Jakob for the first time was so cool
And then ||the real final boss happened||, which almost woke the neighbors up
Does anyone wonder if the finish game achievement โThe Beginningโ means that there will be a new game.?
I would sell an organ to play Dusk 2.
good thing we dont price our game at organ prices
How about a town's worth of souls?
If I purge the heretics in my town can I get Dusk 2 early?
no
Dern it
That IS Dusk 2 lol
I just started playing Dusk to day and I just want to say it's pretty great so far
Oh, who renamed me? Lmao
Probably some funny guy mod
english names only thx
Plot Twist: ||Nylarthotep|| was originally second in command of the cult, ||Big John|| was the true mastermind of it all
If david doesnt make a second one
You can bet your buck someone is gonna make a sequel mod
also even if David had said that he might make a sequel when the time is right, that time wont be anywhere soon :D
at least thats the impression I've got from his words
The stars have yet to align,
Dusk will come once more
To profane flutes' whine,
On sanity's thin shore
That's fine, tbh. Dusk was such a pleasant surprise, I'm happy to wait.
The real pipe goal is an actual release of Big John's Love Shack 64
I would sell an organ to play Dusk 2.
excited to consume product
Wow free food
I want to consoom
I like Dusk as a standalone experience but if a sequel were to happen I wouldn't be too upset
I'm more curious to see the Condemned/Manhunt project in the works
so i just fought the son of the intoxigator
then it spawned the twins
and like i crossed one, and one hit the other, and they started fighting, and the fight was over in 2 seconds
I just want more official levels to to go zoom zoom boom boom on
Did not know this game has enemy infighting
Yeah friend, it's as effective and hilarious as dooms infighting XD
hey bgb
i just finished dusk in like 40 min
even though i used cheats like nbufo
you like the final figth?
Yeah I love sitting through 20 seconds of dialogue
Though if you go up the staircase too fast your break the level and conversation stops
Whatโs wrong with L O R E
unironically, i love the lore in dusk despite being how vague it is, leaving some stuff to the imagination is great, and i eat that speculation shit up like no tomorrow
running ceri miedo endless on cathedral and was having an ok run. died to a skull from a bone ball across the map which sucked, but im Really Glad i stopped to look at the score i got
Not false
what is this quake_txt
@crimson folio I've never seen the conversation stop. Are you using cheats to get up faster?
Yup
did you know arnold is a smoker
Fast fire totem cheat stacked 10fold with crossbow
Ah okay
I mean the guy on the left looks kinda like me without a beard so...
But I also wouldn't really compare dusk to quake in the first place, honestly has more similarities to doom imo in terms of how it plays with some lite build engine/interactive sim elements.
It's like comparing Gloomwood and Thief
They have some similarities, but they're too different to really compare
I don't really like the idea of selling a game off of what you can compare it to anyways, especially with a game like dusk or gloomwood, I feel like drawing attention to the similarities only really does these games a disservice.
Reminds me of "like Skyrim with guns"
HROT is more comparable to Quake than Dusk is I think

The soundtrack like Embrace The Darkness gave me a chilling through down the spine
Imagine playing E3M4: The Crypt of Flesh on 3:00 AM
And you could hear a loud breathing sound behind your back at night...
I did just that, it was fantastic
The build up and reveal of the Wendigos was equally freaky
Remember the New Blood rule: If it breathes. LIQUIDIZE IT!
Embrace darkness is a great mood track though.
Imagine playing E3M4: The Crypt of Flesh on 3:00 AM
And you could hear a loud breathing sound behind your back at night...
Horror-kun..
ye slow as hell though
nah
i dont use cheats
it starts getting easier once the scarevrows get replaced by fork maidens
I hate Scarecrows in Dusk
because the shotgun projectiles are unpredictable and hard to dodge
They're not bad
because the shotgun projectiles are unpredictable and hard to dodge
Not really
I hope the Scarecrows get removed
Strafing right dodges it pretty consistently
And if you don't hate them you haven't played Dusk
Yes
I was talking to Sarm
Exactly
they're annoying in duskmare endless @jade root
Yes
dusks strategy can be summed up as "keep moving"
That was what I wanted to saay
yea
go play 2hu doom
Good point.
thatll train u in the ways of doommaku
but it's just annoying to get killed by a random projectile
I haven't played 2hu Doom, is that any good?
Okay folks, I've got myself a partial theory on Dusk's plot, at least my interpretation of it. I haven't properly analyzed all three chapters, but this is what I've got so far. Spoilers, duh.
||DuskDude is dying or is dead, and as reality gradually fractures and crumbles around him, he further approaches death, or if already dead, he further approaches hell or something, both of which are the game's ending. He was given the illusion of power and agency through the game, and through the first chapter may genuinely have had it, but upon reaching chapter two, it became less of a journey of him fighting evil, and more that he was being led along by a mix of Jakob and Nyar, and DuskDude's own bloodlust. While he repeatedly expresses a desire to end whatever evil is afoot, it's never out of empathy for those lost, or wanting to keep the world safe, only that he's started something he refuses to stop. You repeatedly have to completely disobey warnings and instructions written on walls, such as "don't release it" or "dont go into the ruins" etc. This along with the "can't turn back now" message, tell me that the DuskDude is either simply going through with, or actively facing pennance for, his inability to abandon his pursuit, out of stubbornness or hubris. I'm still not entirely sure where his wife and child dying in a house fire comes into it, but it may have been another consequence of these attitudes in his past. Perhaps it was the catalyst to this behaviour. All the over-the-top horror stuff he's facing is set dressing, giving him what he wants and luring him into indulging in morally black and white bloodshed, so he can be the hero. Nyarlathotep, as in the original HPL stories, is mocking DuskDude and his bloodlust. Perhaps he was captured by Nyar's followers and killed on meathooks in the opening, and was tormented from there, hence putting yourself back on the hooks late in chapter three, and reaching a properly ethereal realm from there.|| Feedback is welcome!
Wow
I've just read that whole text, and...
DuskDude is dying or is dead
stopped reading right there not another fucking "hur dur it's all just a dream" theory
I actually love it
Not my best analytical work, but yeah.
It's not "all just a dream," it's his pennance for his past actions.
That's my theory, at least.
And thank you FitMC
I have never seen the whole history of Dusk from this angle.
Everything I remember from playing the game feels somehow completely different now.
You made me want to play through the whole Dusk campaign again.
Thanks a lot.
I have another more obvious theory where DuskDude is actually punching through reality to fight evil but is just being lead along on the fights as trials to become Nyarlathotep's new champion, but I figured I'd try and look beyond the surface level story
This involved reading the wikipedia page on nyarlathotep lmao
You're welcome @crimson folio !
@crimson folio pretty useless to try and explain lore in a Lovecraftian game
lol
That is a fucking amazing point
I have another more obvious theory where DuskDude is actually punching through reality to fight evil but is just being lead along on the fights as trials to become Nyarlathotep's new champion, but I figured I'd try and look beyond the surface level story
@crimson folio Can you please tell me about this one as well?
Even tho ||he gains unlimited power at the end||
Yes, but he having unlimited power is just part of the dream as well.
||True, but he loses any semblance of humanity, basically becoming a walking avatar for this malign god||
Also, that theory is more just based off the dialogue and stuff you get from narration and how fights/set pieces are staged as the game goes on
nah
I consider it to sort of be a surface-level thing that serves as a foundation for lots of more vague and interpretive themes and narrative elements.
it's just a good old lovecraft inspired story
there is no deeper meaning
and humanity is powerless
That's true. Lovecraft's stories did have themes and deeper meanings, but they were all "i hate black people" because howard was cartoonishly racist
XD
leeeeeeeeeets not get into that
I agree
Racism isn't fun.
Fair enough. But yeah the goal with this was to see what I could assemble with the bits and pieces given by the game, rather than trying to actually find what the game was "really trying to say"
It's like having a whole bunch of lego with no isntructions and seeing if you can build something cool with them.
It can be a fun writing exercise for learning more about narrative depth and how to both interact with vague narrative elements, and how to better incorprate them into one's own work.
I'm absolutely on my writer's bullshit again lmao, sorry everyone
It's fine.
i mean there is no reason for him to just stop midway through. That doens't really happen in ANY story
That's a good point
much less any story in an oldschool shooter
where literally all you do is go from one level to the next
That's like Doom Slayer saving 99% of the world but suddenly stops and lets the Demons continue their thing.
no
There's definitely multiple holes in my theory lmao
it's a bit different
yea but if somebody wanted to tell that kind of story it would work well as a video game
tying in the moving on to the next level thing
idk
it's a cool interpretation as long as you don't consider it gospel
Agreed. I mean, if somebody wanted to tell the kind of story where somebody wants to stop fighting and didnt fuck it up, a lot of the action throughout the game could come as a result of fighting upstream to escape a larger-scale conflict
Yeah, it's deffo not gospel lmao
i guess it kind of is an interesting punishment
||getting possesed by Narl. He tried to put an end to Jakob and ultimately made Nyarlathothep stronger ||
getting back to the "can't stop" thing
Yeah, I thought it'd be one of those monkey's paw type punishments where it ultimately ends with "but this is what you wanted, right?" with getting ||unlimited power but being possessed. With my theory, I'm guessing that Jakob was being punished in a very similar way and put through similar trials, but as Nyar found the duskdude, he just changed how he used Jakob before it wound up making Jakob its avatar thingy, as in the end screen the DuskDude has all the bright sparkling energy coming off of/out from him, whereas Jakob only ever interacted with it||
||Even the whole journey could be that kind of punishment, where he gets his "rhiteous bloodshed" and growing power, but at the cost of him becoming gradually more worn down and tormented by the environment around him and the challenges facing him.||
oh this is not unf space
nah thats #319922405252268032 m8
Anyway, it's always fun to talk about narrative stuff and storytelling, if anyone wants to chat about dusk or just storytelling in general you can hmu in DMs, for now I'm gonna go grab dinner
Hmm
I prefer the story that || he is just a old man that lived on Dusk. He went away from them for something of his past. But don't trink is a evil stuff he did, just mostly not the rigth thing. Come backs after hearing rumors of kidnapings and military going crazy on Dusk.
He is atacked and atraped by the cult, but his experence as a gunman make him push forward to set him free. Episode 1 it's just him trying to escape the cult, and trying to learn what it's happening.After the creations he fougth, he beliveve he have the power to stop the evil deeds at least in the City. So instead of just escaping on the city, he push forward the industrial place, and maybe be a little crazy after the super hot serum and crazyness of E2M5 (The hospital, don't remember the name at the moment). Im sure he never expected being this crazy and demonic, so he still goes forward. He found the tower of babel and opens the portal of flesh and bones, and he become more in touch with this demonic power. After defeting the Guardian of the portal, he knows the only way to stop is killing whatever is inside that place. So he goes to Ep.3 learn about more diabotical creatures and places, like the catredal, the horrors place and more. Figthing the place, Jakob places him in a teleporter to make him go home again (Hellish Grotto and Homecoming) where he see what happened with the Dusk (and Earth?) when he was figthing elsewhere. He catch another teleport where is all messy, rare and bizzare, and he accepts, that the only way to figth this, is on they terms, and he sacrifices himself, not as suicide, but as a sacrifice. He hold as a green electric soul (like the one that Jakob have in the figthing) figth the hordes of enemies that make him worthy in the eyes of Jakob,as if he was receiving orders of other being for test him.
He exit victorius and he enters in what i call, the Jakob place, where he lived before the cult. Colect the runes, figth him and become the new leader||
Nice
|| But don't have interest of have that power for the cult, but himself as is a dangerous power, and so Nyachalop confronts him and test him in they terms, but more like playing as he likes him better, the figth end with Nyachalop knowing that DuskDude is something powerful and grab him as their warrior or leader as was Jakob. Maybe the best if he don't use his power as malicius as Jakob||
That's my headcannon, and something that im doing from my lore video โค๏ธ
Spoilers of the details of the story obysly
but also @crimson folio nice take in the middle of your theory with || the guilt and push forward actictud of the duskdude, and yeah, im pretty sure he is dead after e3m8 but only lives by the demonic power, that it's shows that it's was recolecting the city for powering the demonic stuff or something||
In my theory, ||his family was killed in the house fire and left him scarred in his memories. And the military involvement could be the part of the private corporate working with the cults in the desolate area.||
The one thing we really have down solidly is that his fam died in a house fire
'It's hurt to remember...' - Dusk Dude
What's with those cowgirls?
What if those innocents was the part of those loathsome experiment?
@cursive spoke ||the comic show some military that are like figthing the cult, and cleaning the city and the cult of Jakob just posses some of them, (the more weak's in mind?) and they betrey their partners||
Yup
Fuck, there's lore I'm missing that I could've factored into my analysis
The DUSK video game was so great and the graphic novel such a cool bonus. I couldn't help but try my hand at making the comic leap off the pages a little bit. By mixing my voice to mimic Cult leader Jakob to narrate the story, adding action sound effects, and using the DUSK so...
Thanks
This comic was narrated by Jakob and Nyarlathotep
Awesome
And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.
always thought duskdude had nothing to do with the town of dusk, just had a troubled past and was treasure hunting as a means of making money
military were the ones who started the excavations which then led to the town being possessed, to which the military put up a wall to contain everything (which fails)
Dusk is the true Lovecraftian inspired game.
I'm honestly really curious on what David would think of my interpretation. Not gonna pester him with it, though.
The messed up thing in the second episode and third episode is straight-up to 11.
Ah shit yeah, good point Jabronii. I want to change my theories to factor in the military stuff a lot more, since it was such a big part of chapter 2
|| Inocents are dead. they are converted in meat with green energy, enemies via posession, but being part of the cowgirl that would take a meaninng a they screaming what have you done! ||
Which mean those cowgirls WAS accused to Dusk Dude or those scientists?
Also, that huge wall with the gate is such a fucking good setpiece, I've talked about in on stream in the past, but it has such fucking amazing atmosphere and wordless storytelling, I'm going to try not to go off on it now but its so fuckin good
the gate is cool yeah
shows how bad everything has gotten
because the gate is like
e1m7
Also yeah, it seems like the cult lead by jakob was seperate from the military and scientists pursuing stuff, but then the two merge together
Yeah, I think so
do you trink ghost town was the point zero of the Jakobcult attack?
In E2M8, when you broke your flashlight... and when you descended to the stair, see the texts on the wall and the soundtrack doesn't help at all.
think black mesa almost
The rats also based from The Rats In The Wall.
I also have such an enormous and inexplicable soft spot for just,,, fuck-off massive architecture, especially with a real sense of scale
using the portal to get shit from the eldritch realms
eventually something went wrong
its clear the military had a handle on things at one point
Don't fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible โ horrible beyond anything you can imagine โ but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterward. I am still shuddering at what he showed.
I think The Dig may have been ground zero as well, considering theres a bunch of dead soldiers there
Fuck, this is all making me want to go through the game again and do a second and more in-depth analysis, it wouldnt be able to fit in discord's character limit though lmao
And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods โ the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep.
I feel this is the true boss in Dusk
And the voice at the end of credit...
I mean, he literally is
anyway, I've got food to eat, I fuckin love narrative discussions but my noodles are gonna get cold if I don't cut myself off lmao
Pray, that you never meet me in my thousand other forms.
The boss goes by the name: The Haunter of The Dark, The Crawling Chaos, and The Dweller In Darkness
what
That is the another name of Nyarlathotep
There are a lots of names to describe this loathsome being.
:0

I beat the game last night. Love it besides e3m7 but thats because my game mustve bugged. when i reloaded i didn't just fly horizontally way bellow the map upside down
Someone say nyaruko?
an anime for true gentlemen
In the words of david (the guy who made the game) "ah I put this in because it looks cool"
Isnt that the point of making games
Pretty much
I dont get it
Why bringing it up
Your theory could be correct
But that is what david said
Yeah but whats wrong about it
the theory?
what?
??
you said he put something in because he thought someting is cool
but
why is that bad
Oh I thought you asked me if the theory was bad
What theory
Your theory about the lore
what
i never made a theory about any lore
i ve never made any theory tbh
Oh
I though it was you who made the lore theory above
Alright
no not really
That was some1 else
but i said that i really liked their theories
yeah it was
Ahh I confused your names
its ok
dont worry about it
Can't get enough of this meme @DUSKdev @llSketo @AndrewHulshult https://t.co/nIDqeMUQyq
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Hup Hup Hup
Can we talk about Big John in Dusk?
Wh... What?
/sarcasm
Big John thought the Dusk dude was a demon possessed
Good gosh, Big John is the only sane soldier during his failed mission when all of his team mates were killed or possessed.
cool fanfic I guess :D
big jahn travelled universes to kill dusk dude
Big john is strongboi who makes me want to die on duskmare
khai im loving ur interpretations of everything n ur passion for the lore... i love reading it all




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Horror-kun..