#bastion
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my cat is named zia and every time the vet assistant calls me to confirm an appointment she calls zia "zaia"
My dog's name is Rukey, and every time the vet sees him she shaves off his moustache 😦
Ha!
Tfw no Cat creature to name pets after
The Kit(ten)
EEEEY
Ruffs
I like it
AAAAAA
Zulf's fursona is a Wulf, change my mind
hfnvmb
!!!
I pronounced Zulfs name like you would wolf when reading that and instantly regretted it
Good
My cat's name is Anklegator
oh nice 🐱
(it's actually Craig, but considering a name change...)
HAHA
'gator' would be an adorable nickname for a cat...
it really would!!
man gator the feline
okay we might need the NO emoji in here just for morgan's rukey story
u should put the no emoji in mods so morgan can add it tomorrow!
discord moon
yes let's go with moon
gonna replay some bastion 
so every time i play bastion i get worse at it and now is no different
I should replay Bastion at some point too
lmao babs....... why is that true? because it's totally true
i used to be decent enough at it but i played one of the first few levels (rucks is still the stranger) and i actually died
my friend picked up bastion and she texted me to say she's a little ways in and it's gorgeous
hell yell
Mission successful

I listen to the soundtrack pretty regularly since it came out
It's in my car at all times 
woo finally a discord where the avatar i've been using for years is on topic, heh
or pic, whatever
Kid is great
heck yeck more bastion fans
Thanks, Darren, for making a soundtrack so good it's easily en par with TLoZ Ocarina of Time. I had it on my portable media player (and nothing else) for about 6 months after playing Bastion and I still listen to it every day.
Is this where we yell about needing Bastion on switch? 😁 😁
If it wasn't before it is now.
i love all the bastion characters, zia, kid, zulf [looks at smudged writing on hand] rocks
Mr. Rocks... a classic...
I think I’ve bought Bastion like 3 times now lmao it keeps going on sale.
when is the release day of bastion 2? I want open world.
I don't think it's really SG's style to do sequels or open world
bastion 2: battle royale
I kind of like having every game be a new IP
I wouldn't mind some more fleshing out of Transistor's story though, as I found it kind of confusing.
sybil definitely was in love with red
dfkjhsdk i forgot we were still here
don't even dare tell even the word transistor here
oh no
Oh whoops
@fluid raptor if there's bastion i'm there
Baaaaaabs
hey bastion fun fact: zulf is beautiful and has never done anything wrong, in his life,
He's simply a man under some intense circumstances. He deserves no hate, only love.
Yep. I saw you mention Zulf and my first thought 'Wait... i still have the profile pic on right?" Yep. I do.
Know what's awesome?
The fact that i use Zulf as my Discord profile pic, Hedwyn for my YouTube, and Royce for my Steam.
That is a potato.
Yas
It's a pretty lumpy potato
(I like how Bastion is my least favorite of the three((Not in a bad way, it's still a good 8/10!)) And yet it's the first chat room i make use of.)
Which one is your favourite then?
Pyre. I think Transistor is the highest quality and is the one all people should play, but Pyre has a special place in my heart for it's devotion to character building.
Bastion is a great introduction, though
Although Transistor is my favourite one I do agree with the character building thing
I agree. I always like for Supergiant's new fans to play them in order, like i did.
Same here xD
I've met people who tried the other games but didn't like them. But if coaxed into playing Bastion, they then go back and enjoy the other games.
That's hilarious, cause that's my same mindset. Can't insult a guy's taste in games when you both play and love the same game. Ive been dying to get a friend of mine to play Transistor.
Bastion is a bit old, but it's fun to play. I like the weird choice the ending offers. But nobody that talks about it on Youtube ever mentions anything about it. They usually mention the Zulf choice.
The second choice the game gives you is equally interesting, because it's a no-choice.
If you restore the Bastion, you just loop, over and over and over. The problem never fixes itself. The narrator feels like he's "told the story a thousand times before" to Zia (and to an extent, the player), likely because he's told it a thousand times before.
that's... kind of the point, though?
Yea, that's the point, I just find it funny that while everyone mentions the Zulf choice when talking about Bastion's narrative, nobody mentions the second choice, ever, which puts the game into perspective.
I feel like it's intentional to have the narrator be there most of the time and constantly talk about his nostalgia of Caelondia, how much he misses it, if he could just go back to fix it. It's a bit difficult for me not to agree with him when Zia has very few voice lines right up at the end of the game, and it sounds like a very selfish plea in comparison.
The fact that the story repeats itself a "thousand times" leads credence to that idea. Ultimately the morale of the story is that sometimes, the only thing you can do is move on.
Of course, that makes new game plus very weird, because new game plus only happens if you do restoration technically.
As in, if you select evacuation on your first run and then go into new game plus
mfw people go 👀 at me
i actually reset everything on my first playtrough
and it helped put what you said into perspective for my ng+
but i saved zulf tho
both times
he's my boi
he may have been a traitor but i can relate
The Zulf choice also has a similar theme to it. Do you forgive Zulf and move on, or not? I believe Zulf also only appears in the evacuation ending.
He appears on the side of the Bastion flying away if you save him.
oh right
i think peeking out a bit
found it online
he is actually just sitting alone on the other side of the bastion away from the rest
Yea
well, standing
Sparrow with those details
meh close enough
Shoutout to whoever has windbag plushie.
i got it the 2nd time, 1st time i missed out
I've actually always sorta wanted to make myself one of the little plushie squirt, and maybe also the popcorn thing that...
Generates thme
Just one of those things full of squirts
make yourself a pile of plushies
i would best pyth in unarmed combat for a good squirt plushie
Yes more plush pls
Does anyone know if someone has made a working version of Zia's harp guitar?
#fan-works has a photo of one actually
I dream one day of a shirt featuring the rest of the crew as well
hey folks, new to the channel. Joined basically to ask one question - is anyone out there playing challenge runs of these games? I was working on a "no weapons" run of Bastion, and I was stuck at a particular boss (I believe it was Sir Lunky? the guy who destroys the floor). Anyone doing something like that, or interested in it?
I wasn't before but I am now
No weapons as in just hammer and pistols, or literally no weapons?
literally no weapons. I did all my damage by rolling or by falling on enemies
Dang, I didn’t even realize that was possible
What about shield reflect?
i don't know if it is, hahaha
but i can confirm that it is until that boss, at least
ummm
i don't remember if i allowed shield reflect, but i probably did
it's been a while
That's the only way I could see it being viable, because otherwise you're literally killing yourself to deal small amounts of damage
the roll doesn't hurt you though
Throwing yourself off does
yeah, i used it sparingly, haha
but i believe there's a thingy that makes your landing damage higher...?
And you could easily end up in dangerous locations with the roll
i used that (if i'm remembering correctly)
Yeah, but I don't think it was available from the beginning
of course not, i only used the roll then
the boss i was stuck on is extra hard because he destroys the floor
But I'm definitely considering doing that
👍
it's been a long time since i picked up that game - maybe the boss isn't as hard as i remember
i should revisit it at some point and check
oh, and i was doing a much much easier Turn()-less Transistor
but I'm sure that's been done / is off topuc
i know this is only mildly on topic but i actualy recently started playing bastion, and I got to the shield proving ground? I kept getting 4 hits isntead of 3 for first place and practiced it for hours -- which made me really frustrated, but now whenever im attacked i reflectively counter with the shield perfectly every time... guess it paid off after all 🤔
wasnt it like stabenstine that makes hit hit things when hit or somthing
oh, the drink
a tonic
it wasn't a weapon, so i allowed it, haha
New to this as well.. Bastion to this day remains the only game I've ever gotten every achievement for on Xbox. Even though it wasn't that tough 😃
don't worry, I'm not "good" at games, really
and no weapons.. I'm intrigued
i could get everything but 10 idol who knows where
my reaction time / the time i have to devote to games is very limited
all you have to do is be super persistent and think very carefully about every single option the game gives you, even the utterly stupid ones
i didn' t even finish the dream world thingies
what dream world thingies-
wait
SKUHFSE
RUNS AWAY
I DONT WANNA KNOW YET!! I HAVE TOBEAT THE GAME FIRST
For shame, those are my favorite parts
Yes.. Do this
that's why I'm avoiding the pyre discussion, hahaha
YEAH SAME i muted that channel
the damn sleeping bag one made me wanna cry
SDUIFIHES
before i went and did other things
i lost a battle, and then the game kept going, and i was like noooooooo i must be perfect
oof i guess i better hurry up and beat the game before going here
siehfekus
//mutes bastion for now and sadly lurks in transistor
no weapons run? i might tryi t
I'm kind of disappointed there are no romance options for zia
hmm i wouldn't wanna see that..i don't think romance fits Bastion at all
You're right, but she was rather nice.
Zia was amazing
Zia is nice, yeah
like tbqh zia and kid are implied to be pretty heavily interested in each other (harp guitar scene hhhh) but it's never canon bc i feel like the game doesn't have enough time to really develop it fully & it's a distraction to the story
hmmm i guess every player looks at it differently...im definitly not into that for some reason
I feel that's something that probably developed after the events of Bastion if anything, as much as the entire cast had gone through and what they were trying to accomplish in the story I don't feel that quite fit, though I do agree they felt deeply invested in each other.
And man did Darren Korb do great with the soundtrack. One of two I've bought, the other being Yasunori Mitsuda on Chrono Trigger
I haven't played that yet (it's now on steam so luckily it's easy to get) but i know it's a classic and i really want to
Chrono Trigger? I'm playing it right now * - * Coincidences are piling up...
ok so who is everyone's favorite character?
Sounds like a broad (and not-that-related-to-the-thread) question if it's not
I guess yours is this little squirt :p
Oh wow that's a tough question
Zulf...
mine is..... zulf/rucks, i love zulf and love-hate rucks
I agree it's hard
I think Zia because I sing a lot myself, but also rucks......
but i also love zia and kid so much......
Mine would be Zia as well
I heavily hesitate between Zia and Rucks
It's so hard I like everyone lol
Zia is great too though I need to listen to her story again to really determine
Because the scene when you meet Zia and hear the first sung music in the distance is INCREDIBLE
I did all the achievements so I got to listen to all their stories a lot
I know!!!
That was so good
(It's been too long since I played, I can't remember their stories very well :()
(Sounds like a new game should be done soon :D)
When I replay that scene I always start to sing it by the start of the level because I know it's coming
If I had payed attention more, I must have played through the visions like 10 times each now xD
Woaw, all achievements, such completionist!
Damn it's stuck in my head now
Someday
I am haha ;-;
Someday I'll go back to these marvelous worlds * - *
I just bought 4 new games yeaterday but I promise I'll get all the achievements for transistor and pyre too
Steam sales?
I'm trying to stop. Too many games with dust, waiting the day I'll have some time...
bastion is the Best Game
But it's hard ;-;
Well, same, i do family share with 4 people so i have over 700 games
But.....
I couldn't handle it
I was weak
(But Steam Sales are also a great opportunity to buy SG games to other people * - *)
That's very true!
I couldn't manage stranger's dream with all idols
The strategy I used: Pick the Mortar, and stick behind cover. There's a lot of cover on that map, especially compared to the other ones. Not a guaranteed strategy, by I found it made things easier.
i basically followed a guide someone made on steam
Also, I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgOXGf6Pzzo&index=171&t=0s&list=PLO9f9t7q6Df_dX4YXDcPM0Y_SBZ1ygsb1
A musical tribute to Bastion Download: http://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/ Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ie/artist/miracle-of-sound/id418956023 My gaming c...
i miss the bastion fandom :(
the bastion fandom is still here
but we so small :(
we are all squirts
yesss
Bastion's still my favorite game of the three
There just... isn't as much to talk about with it
it's also old enough that we've all kind of talked about everything
it's my sgg favourite too. i have a special place for it although i love their other games too
bastion is my favorite video game ever
hmm mine is probably hyper light drifter...
but all sgg games are way high on the list
Just got bastion off of the Steam Summer Sale, and so far it's fantastic 😃 just saying.
nice
Have a nice time playing, it’s great
enjoy its so good!
@cedar patio I disagree; a game, movie, or book may be "old"--and this really isn't by some standards--but there can still be plenty to discuss and love about Bastion! 😃
thats very true!
I remember trying to beat the game with all Idols turned on 🤣
Bastion really nails difficulty though. As well as the weapons scaling. Even though at the end there are some just for fun ones and stuff.
I wouldn't mind like a boss rush gauntlet or something for Bastion. Gameplay experimenting is so fun.
I guess you get a bit of that in the dreams
Yeah the dreams were a really fun way to challenge yourself with Idols and stuff.
Oh, the dreams were /brilliant/!! And on a narrative level, revealing backstory--that was just GENIUS! It really pushed me, the first time I did it, to get better and better so I could slowly progress and learn the Kid's backstory....Yeah, doing it that way was so clever!! Plus we get to hear even more of Rucks 😃
I hate to just say same, but that really describes my experience as well
^_^ 😄
The dreams are what pushed me to really think about weapon loadouts. I'm glad I attempted them before diving into idol runthroughs
I only need to do two more dreams with 10 idols and then the hard part is over 🤩
Props to you, I gave up xD
Haha thanks! I keep dying on the 5 reflections left for Zulf. I love sgg so much that I gotta plat all of their games
good luck!

the real challenge is to complete all dreams with all 10 idols, only 5 spirits, and keep all the pets alive
Listen after the ura atyack it was me and snork the gator against the world
Ura: "we're an oppressed race who was almost the target of the equivalent of a nuclear bomb"
Also the Ura: "lmao I killed your bird"
I loved that bird
actually the ura were a target, the terminals got messed up too
few months back I 100%d the game
still the only steam game Ive 100%d so far
aiming for night in the woods and the other sggs to join it 8n the future hopefully
Im nowhere near as good as pyre or transistor as I am at bastion though so itll take some time
I did that too @warm flare , 100%d Bastion I think 3 weeks ago
I was planning to do the same with Transistor first and Pyre later but lately I've been back on the Pyre hype train so...maybe I'll start with it
Also, in my second playthrough I think all creatures survived the attack
I think we all need a bit of an omniscient narrator in our lives
"He gets up
Nah, just fooling"
Not going to lie, I wouldn’t mind Logan Cunningham whispering in my ear all day
oh same
"The Kid enters the saloon. He needs a hard drink after today's events. Too bad they mistake him for a minor."
"The Kid gets to work. The sun's just risin' and the list is a mile long."
"The kid finishes the task. Put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into it- well, only one of the three."
Sound about right?
I would like these to describe my day, with the exception of the first.
A more accurate description of today: "The kid gets up, but I takes him a while to get started. But once the engine's runnin' there ain't no stopping 'im."
I would pay for a Logan Cunningham voice set for GPS
i want aj to yell RRRRRRECALCULATING when i take a wrong turn
i want rucks to ramble on and forget to tell me what exit to take
You mean you want Rucks to be like your GrandmaPS when you need to take her to the store
lmfao
“The kid just drives forward for awhile. In 400 ft, he turned left.”
"I SAID, HE TURNED LEFT!"
"Then the kid was killed in an accident..."
"Nah I'm just kiddin'."

"Kid just road-rages for a while"
How do we fit "Walks off a cliff" into an emote? xD
He done dead
Id like a GPS in Rucks voice. Or literally anything in his voice.
"The kid tries to do some push-ups. Hoping to gain some muscles... 30 left"
"He managed to get half way. Must be sweating by now. 15 left"
"Almost there, kid. 3 left. Nah just messin'. 5 left"
omg
god i want rucks to narrate my workout
Can I get my life narrated? The life narration creepiness would be mitigated by it being rucks.
Agree!!!! 😄
The weirdest thing is that the sweet gravel of Rucks and the reedy nasal of AJ come from the same mouth
Right!? Quality work from Logan.
AJ???
arch justice
OH. :p
Yes, lol!
It IS kind of amazing.
I love the Archjustice's voice
The character would definitely be annoyed if he knew anyone referred to him as "AJ", though, it's hilarious and ridiculous at the same time....
its a lot nicer than some other things the reader could b calling him so he should count his blessings 😂 😂
LOL! 😂 Hi Kamila 😄 That's true I guess!
Found this while playing osu https://osu.ppy.sh/ss/11369067
ah nice! i used to make beatmaps
i wonder how good this one is
O man people need to make maps for beatsaber
What IS that??
🤔 
OSU is a good game ^_^
what?
The game linked up there lol, called OSU
O2 clone but anime and bigger
FYI Microsoft Digital Sale on their website has Bastion for $9
Nice! Thanks for the headsup!
happy birthday to bastion!
https://twitter.com/SupergiantGames/status/1020333870468616193
HAPPY BASTIONDAY!!!!!
happy bastion day!!!!!
oh shoot, that means my bastion drawing will be late for bastion day ;-;
but wow 7 years
on this bastionday i wanna say thank you to the little pause right before the singing starts in build that wall and how she sings the first line alone
it never fails to be a 😍 - inspiring Experience
I agree ♥
bastion...... Good
yall check the tag or f---yeahsupergiant bc there's some good fanart there

Bastion good
yeah
Happy birthday Bastion! ❤
A good day to remember how much of a banger Brusher Patrol is.
yes!!! also terminal march
Slinger's Song for the win
Good choices absolutely.
Spike in a rail is the jam
Spike in a rail is my ringtone
if I ever get tired of having Night Howlers as my ringtone I'll definitely pick something out from the Bastion soundtrack
It makes it really easy to know when your phone is ringing but everyone knows it's your phone
happy anniversary to bastion :D i'm playing through this game rn after having finished transistor
happy bday bastion!!
my friends n i would race to see who could beat the game the quickest, my best pal n i just narrowly tied with each other
we'd also try and see who could complete certain trials the quickest or w/the fewest shots
i managed to beat the musket challenge w/just 1 shot 8)
hold on lemme find the screencap...
this might take a while.
well w/e. i did it once, i can do it again >:V
how does it play on mobile?
actually really well
when i played it first i didnt even realize it was a port from pc
that was like 5 yrs ago
I'm impressed how well this game has held up
7 years old and still immensely enjoyable.
the soundtrack is timeless so I think that will help it hold up well for many years to come
it helps that the art can't really become "dated" like with games with 3D graphics
yeah, having a stylised graphics, it may come in and out of fashion, but is never really dated
like stardew valley, Minecraft, terraria, limbo ect
A bit poor because I'm still weak at play 7 Key mode, but I dedicate this run to Supergiant and #bastion https://osu.ppy.sh/ss/11434338
I didn't know that if you fall off after grabbing the core in the Wharf District you skip straight to the bastion
Bastion, @SupergiantGames' beloved inaugural release, gets a limited edition physical release tomorrow at https://t.co/rZI6STrUid!
Orders open at 10AM Eastern Time.
!!!!!!!
is it on PC
Man I really hope it comes on XBox too fingers crossed
I'm so excited about the Limited Run 🎉
On one hand, I don't have a PS4, on the other hand, it's Bastion.
Decisions, decisions...
damn now i gotta buy a ps4
get a ps4 as like. 300 dollar bastion machine
lol
Man I really gotta hand it to Supergiant for making me feel like my PS Vita was a good purchase
Now I have a plausible excuse to buy the physical edition
if you decorate your house with Bastion, is it a real decoration if it doesn't make your house fly away after installing all the power cores?

I think the HOA would like to have a word about your new "decoration"
i'm not investing any fragments to build a HOA, so they'll have to suck it up
zulf destroying the bastion: hi im the HOA
AAAAAAAA
YES
oh my word
If I wasn't at work, I would pull up Photoshop for that picture
I can't upload the image but trust me my MS Paint skills are top notch
i trust!
O snap
I'm doing a photoshop as we speak
🙌
okay, I'm done, but I don't think I can send a picture here
I should upload it and link it, right?
I think you can post it to #fan-works ?
oh, right
I mean, calling a 5-minute photoshop a fan work feels like a bit of an exaggeration, but sure
I'm sure it's a masterpiece
I can't believe the Kid is seven years old now, I'm so proud of him
It both does and doesn't feel that long ago...
I’m hoping we get a limited run version of Transistor & Pyre too at some point!
EEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
OMG STREAM!!!
Who/what would you say is the antagonist of Bastion?
nationalism-driven hatred?
@stone ruin I like that interpretation
I mean, the whole thing happens just because Caelondia wants to obliterate the Ura, a complete and utter genocide, and it blows up in their faces
watchin the livestream, theres somethin funny about how the kid always faceplants into the next level
The neat thing about that idea is that most of other candidates for the antagonist could be directed back to that, like Zulf
the whole story is just a big misunderstanding if you subtract the fact that both of the countries are not only hostile, but actively prejudiced against each other
and the only thing you can do to make sure that this relation won't end up in a vicious circle is to let go of everything and fly away, leaving all the past politics behind
@limber field and the way it's played with when he faceplants and takes longerto get up at the end ;3;
hey whats everyone's favorite loadout?
MAchete and Bow with Poison upgrades
Machete and bow because I'm basic
Mine is probably Brusher's Pike and Mortar... but then again I'm always the one who has to do 10 idol Who Knows Where's and it's what I'm most comfortable with doing it.
Love those Dual Repeaters mmmm
@Morgan I share your picks.
mine is fang repeater and dueling pistols, with squirt lure
I love the idea of the Idols
they call me.... alma three guns....
I like to take a different loadout every time.
I'm all about mobility in games? So dual pistols & the machete.
Brusher's Pike and Mortar got me through all the full-idol challenges.
yeah! its what i did for the strangers dream
I think I liked smashing stuff with the Hammer the most, with varying ranged weapons depending on how I feel about stuff, but mostly pistols or blunderbuss
some combination of Bow or Rifle for ranged and Machete or Pike for melee
that took me a lot of tries, and every one of them is like half an hour.....
the hardest achievement to get probably
i love the bow and the pike
My "fun" loadout was bow and hammer - kiting and smashing just feels so fun.
i like loadout of guns
IT'S ALL RANGE OF NOTHING
I always went with machete and scrap musket
The bow gets this certain rhythm to it, if you stick with it. Hitting that power shot is very satisfying.
Good at taking care of crowds
if you let them get close it's your fault anyway, eh?
You're god damn right
Funnily enough, Darren's work appears on this curated playlist.
Huh
ive definitely studied to sgg music
oh there it is
I like to listen to it while driving
I didn't find the perfect setting to enjoy Bastion OST yet, I only know that the Transistor one is perfect for those dark, rainy days, if you want to feel like a noir movie protagonist
I fell in love with the soundtracks first, and played the games after.
I still cry over the Transistor soundtrack.
I fell for Logan Cunningham
ah, orange weather
I can't help but notice he isn't here... ?
My favorite.
Orange weather 🍊 👌
they talked about the orange weather on stream
as in, you can get various weather conditions in Bastion, and there was this autumn-looking environment, and they dubbed it "orange weather"
I smash them because it makes Logan talk
True....
Has he left SGG now?
I always saw it like scattering their ashes
^
Dear, I remember everything he says
I avoided destroying any of their ashes if possible while playing
but yeah, when you did destroy them, the dialog was good
"The Thundra brothers; didn't make it"
I need that Logan Cunningham as Rucks reading cereal boxes on tape
Omg, yes
It's like the advice tape, but even less relevant ❤
"Creative Development: Greg thinking about stuff" - Amir Rao (?)
#relatable
Same btw
"An eat your vegetables approach to game design."
THE ULTIMATE SQUIRT
A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR
Amir fainted
METAL GEAR?
Big Boss??
Snake always sounds confused
@stone ruin
https://youtu.be/jdnMqjLZz84
In this GDC 2012 talk, Supergiant Games' audio director and composer, Darren Korb walks you through his development process; from creating Bastion's eclectic...
34:30
OMG THEY ARE READING MY MESSAGE ❤
Only half though, since steam cut off the rest lol
this is brilliant
F i b e r
"Fiber people"?
Wha?
What Darren is saying right now is exactly what I love about Indie studios
The hotdog question was my question 😦
When a Who Knows Where thing shows up
@quiet charm The 'acts' of the story are just our own internal reference and it's never presented back to the player that directly.
I get that, which is why I was wondering
You mean where do we think they occur?
The first act is about discovering survivors and realizing it's possible for the Bastion to make everything better.
The second act begins with Zulf leaving -- the plan is thrown into doubt and things get complicated.
The third act begins after the Bastion survives the Ura's attack; the truth is revealed, and the original plan has evolved, and there's no turning back now.
We have a few cutscene-style images and longer bits of narration along the way and for each of those moments.
So speedruns don't care about act two happening, and skips act three. Neat
Yeah, speedruns of course aren't concerned with the story content at all, unless it's getting in the way of their speed
😄
Yeah, I've gotten into Bastion speedruns lately, I think I'm gonna be pretty good at it fairly soon :3
Story acts are purely there to serve a traditional 'beginning, middle, and end' story structure.
I designed my D&D campaign as three sets of 'beginning, middle, end', works really well
Also, any word about upcoming games, now that pyre is one year old?
As in, is it happening? Are you working on anything right now at all? Do I still have more games to look forward to in life? 😮
We've been keeping busy, sticking together and figuring out what's next -- though too early to say more than that...! We want to keep making games for a long time time to come.
Soo, not working on anything concrete yet, then? As long as you stay the same team, I'm happy, to be honest, but who doesn't want a new SGG game yesterday?
Yesterday as in already, not as in Pyre's birthday
Oh, hey Greg. Regarding Bastion, how much additional fleshing-out of each of the caste or profession groups such as the Brushers or the Slingers did you do?
@north cloak A fair amount...! Enough to where we could drop in little hints about them here and there and create a broader impression of a guild system that was central to Caelondia's culture and government.
Stuff like that and the Pantheon I think really helps create the impression of a complete world -- even though what you're seeing as a player is 'just a bunch of levels'.
Are the devs always this active, or is it due to the stream?
Realistically we weren't going to show players some giant sprawling city filled with civilians, though we felt we could create the mental image.
@quiet charm We're here each day in some capacity, at least some of us. We'll probably start doing more scheduled events like this. We're still figuring it out...!
They really do. I asked earlier in the stream how you guys went about designing the pantheon, and if you had any specific references or resources you drew on for them. I loved those little details.
I feel like I've missed out a chance to speak with the people I look up to for much too long
this is probably the most active I've seen the devs since the channel started
I even considered applying for your job opening a while ago, despite it not being what I want to work with and me not fitting the requirement at all
Did you find anyone?
We did, thank you for your interest...!
We have 16 people all told. We were 7 at the end of Bastion, 12 for Transistor and Pyre, and grown a bit since last year.
Oh, sounds like you have something big in store for your fourth game then
I would have loved to apply for a job at supergiants but I am too inexperienced. However getting hired there is still one of my long term goals
itd be a DREAM JOB for me but sooo unrealistic ;0; my alternate route is to start making games myself and meet them at pax as a dev kgmbmbmbn 😤
hows that, super giants, i am your hight now
i believe in you kam
Real feel 😩 They’re too good to have me lolol. But I believe in you too!
Oh wow, I didn't even recognize the level because it was such a long time ago since I played it legit (not speedrun)
I am unworthy
I feel like I am not at the same level of genius as the guys over at SGG
Like what Darren just said
Timing
honestly just bein a mod is honor enough uou
👍
Holy crap that D&D retreat sounds fantastic
How do I get myself invited @proper marlin?
Wait, why does that stinkeye spawner not count as a unique mob?
Lol
I always wondered about that weird covered box at the bottom there
A whip would have been a really interesting weapon to play around with. 🤔
does concept art of it exist..?
"If it would have worked, it would have been cool"
Caitlin, are you new to SGG?
The way you talk seems to imply it
New I guess means "not one of the seven"
I am definitely not one of the Bastion devs, no.
"Are you one of the eightseven scribes?"
But you do work there
I'm sorry, I'm not too aware of the employees of SGG
I do work at Supergiant, yes! I am new. There are a few of us - my sphere of work just runs into community stuff more than others'.
@south knoll We did concept it yeah and had an initial animation set. If you watch Building the Bastion on Giant Bomb, there's some video of it in one of the early installments.
i think i watched that, ill rewatch it and look out for it!
"Aren't we all really just black rectangles inside" - Darren Korb
I do love the fact that SGG's games are 2D
The iso view is beautiful
Yeah, she's one of the 10 you can unlock in the game for the challenges.
Mother Micia, yeah
Yeah, I know about the idols, but I never made the connection that the song was about them rather than his actual mother
The City Crest is her symbol.
The narration catching up with where you are in the last level is really excellent too
Yeah
The way that Rucks suddenly has no clue what you are doing
I love how that plays off-of you picking up Zulf, and the way he assumes you fight him, and how the Ura basically assumed you would as well, had they not beaten you to it
It really drives the gesture home
Thank you @proper marlin and @bleak owl for an amazing stream today! I'm looking forward to the upcoming streams too!
WHAT
THE
200 mil endings?!
How?!
Play it and find out! 😄
Is there a recording of the stream?
I'm reaaaallly eyeing that Bastion physical copy pre-order right now...
I really ought to go to bed within those two hours, so guess I'll have time to sleep on it
the shipping is $15 and i dont have a ps4.. :(
oh going for ps vita xD
Never lucky
Guess it's time to buy a PS4
this is my first playthrough of bastion and i decided not to use the shrine when i first found it, and i feel like the narrator is mocking me lmao
look i have a hard time just not falling off the map
I speedrun it and, honey, it never goes away
Falls are the currency of speedruns, the less you have, the better the run
handicap, perhaps?
Like in golf
Heh, we should have par for different maps lol
Hanging Gardens: Par 5
(That's abysmal, btw)
I'm glad Rucks only keeps track when your on the barge
Yeah, it would be great if he kept track throughout the game, to be honest
What are people's weapon load out?
I'm going through the game again and fell back to Pike And Mucket
Used to swear by Machete/Bow/Squirts, now I swear by Pike/Dueling Pistols/Squirts or Duel Decider
Oh, but I love the speed and DPS of the Machete, and the CC and AOE of the Musket
I want to love the Pistols so I can be Roland from the Dark Tower series but they have never impressed
they are fantastic
To be honest I hated them almost as much as the cannon
get upgrades that give them armor piercing and increased damage, take werewhiskey, crits for days
Does it hold up with all idols invoked?
Hmm, might have to give it a shot
In the dreams, with all idols, I ended up with Flame Bellows, Bow and Leechade
I really like the galleon mortar. I used that in Zulf’s dream with all idols and will be using it for rucks as well
Mortar is bae
officially put in my pre-order for Bastion physical copy. Considering I got the pc version for free (I won that one humble bundle it was in from a gaming site I followed back in the day) it seemed fitting I finally pay for it properly
I remember buying the game like a week before the Humble Bundle happened. It sucked but then I realized you could send a friend the code.
I'm on my 3rd gift copy of Bastion with this sale lol
Y’all I finna platinumed Bastion 🤩 my last SG game to plat is transistor
Cool, congrats!!
I still have one or two trophies/achievements to go, I'd do it but I have no idea how the Attack Score Mode works, much less how to survive with it long enough to get the achievement.... :/
Score attack mode is much easier on steam. I’ll send a link on how they did it if you want :^)
@vague gull ha! Bastion is the last game I need to Platinum
remember when i said i was able to beat the musket proving grounds in 1 shot? https://i.imgur.com/Hh8LUlz.jpg 
if you wanna try it for yourself, the only drinks that matter are hearty punch and stabsinthe; werewhiskey might help a bit with clearing the gourds out just a lil faster
https://i.imgur.com/abTMkRV.jpg these are the upgrades i used as well
Genius
@muted helm good luck!
Wait, if you decrease spread, how do you hit them all?
Bastion was probably the first game i've 100%'d on steam if at all
@quiet charm theres 2 gourds left, roughly around the 2 circles that i marked, by the time i've stabsinthed + hearty punched all the other gourds to death. with increased knockback + range + 2 shots fired at once, the musket will kill/knock off the last 2 gourds with a carefully aimed shot https://i.imgur.com/hBZUW07.jpg
it's gonna take a while to whittle down all the gourds w/stabsinthe, even with werewhiskey; dont equip falling malt either, otherwise it'll take you forever to knock yourself out to make good use of the explosion that hearty punch generates
I don't remember, what to the two tonics do?
stabsinthe makes you shoot spikes when youre hurt i think
It does
Werewhiskey gives crits at low health i think
And falling malt reduces damage you take from falling and increases the damage you do when you land on enemies
hearty punch gives you an extra life + makes an explosion around you that hurts enemies
ye, an old group of friends and i would compete to see who could get the best score in the proving grounds
wonder if i can cheese the breakers bow challenge the same way...
cant fall off the stage, so nope :(
Ah, I love the Proving Grounds!! 😍 
The place with the Squirts always gets me though, that one is so hard!
the war machete one?
i havent played bastion in ages but god
i would marry the war machete if it were a person
Hahahahaha! LOL!
For me, that's ALWAYS been the hardest weapon to get a handle on. I use it when it's first introduced but hardly go back to it...I have no idea why, usually I love using swords in games but somehow I could never get he hang of it 😦
I LOVE the
... time for a replay?
using the Cael Hammer though ❤
I'm actually currently on a replay 😃
not today though since I am feeling under the weather, unfortunately 😢
Get well soon!
Thank you!!!! I'm feeling a lot better today, thankfully 😃
Is it just me, or does the beginning to this song sound a lot like “The Pantheon”?
Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely. Track 8. from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. I do NOT claim to own ANY rights to this music or the image used for the video. ...
Wow, never thought I would meet someone else that knew of Neutral Milk Hotel!
I'm in Bastion, Zulf reflection, almost at the end
killed all the big eyes
but the next wave isn't coming
any idea if there is something I can do to fix that? I don't want to restart the whole thing 😢
suicide helped
and i died and im out damn it
maybe tomorrow 🤷
Hmm, I never had that happen, but an enemy could be stuck somewhere where you couldn't see it or kill it
i was running around for a while 🤔
could not see anyone
then I killed myself with last weapon and then found one more, not sure if it is realted to the death or not tho
but after that I only had one last life and died again 😢
Zulf's Dream, while difficult, was surprisingly easy compared to Ruck's....at least for me! 😛 I was surprised, lol. but I LOVED hearing Zulf's backstory!!
???
last one isn't coming
rip me
finally I could have done it but nope
hah, found it , he just got lost on the north side of the map
btw any idea what upgrades are cool for the Fire Bellows for the training ground?
I want to max out that one too but I just can't 😢
managed to kill 71/72 once but no idea how
Ooooh that Proving Ground is SO HARD, gets me every time!
I found the hardest to be the hammer one but I was finna able to do it. For the bellows one I think I maximized on ammo and just spun around in circles when they closed in.
shield done 😄
damn I am not sure if I'Ll amange to max all of them out
maybe is should go on to play transistor 😦
Oh yeah, the Scrapyard?! That one can be extremely difficult!!!!
Took me AAAGGGES to get it all completed, the firs time....
yesterday i replayed the end of bastion and chose to save zulf & evacuate this time and anyway im addicted to this now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDflVhOpS4E
The official Bastion OST is available here: http://store.supergiantgames.com/ A juxtaposition of the Zulf's Theme (Mother, I'm Here) and Zia's Theme (Build T...
i am so weak for duets.....
ohhhhh its SO GOOD
Also that ending is the best ending IMO
Ahh MY HEART 😢 💔 💔 💔 I almost can't listen to that outside of the game because it makes me too sad!!!! That moment was....totally heartbreaking!!!!!!!!!
I introduced the game to a friend and during the second half, he was going on and on about what he was going to do to Zulf when he finally found him. Upon actually finding him and seeing the choice, he got up and walked away from the computer, thinking things over.
it's so sad
zulf lost literally everything and now even his own people turned on him
My friend came back, sighed, and saved him
He wasn't happy about it but "It's the right thing to do."
he dies, and you either restart or fly off without him
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
He d-dies?!?!?!
That's awful....
I've never, ever had the heart to leave him behind--even when thinking "I'll leave him to see what happens, maybe this time", when the time comes I can never make myself do it. The fact his own people turn on him just makes it deeper, and worse....
i've never left him behind, i love him
also if you leave him behind you have to fight the rest of the ura back to the skyway
That’s what worries me
The fight isn't hard but you miss the song too
Oh no... I guess you would
I can’t imagine Bastion without Setting Sail, Coming Home...
You miss Mother, I'm Here
The end credits song remains the same but it's clear what is 'suppose' to be picked
man, this is making me really want to replay bastion
but to do that i'd have to reinstall it 
bastion 🇬ood
Do ittttt!!!!!
I’ve never deleted a Supergiant Game 😛
it's been a while since i played it
don't think i ever actually installed it on this pc
welp
guess i'll replay bastion
I got 95 hours in Bastion
I have 131 hours in Bastion (5 times), 156 in Transistor (13-20; I've actually lost count), and 243 in Pyre (8 times, plus some in VS Mode). 😄
Impressive!
Bless this chat for having people that understand the joy of replaying a great game
I have 497 hours in Terraria, I'm used to sticking with a game I like
My library on Steam is ver small because I love replaying games!
Whoa! That's incredible!
Let's see...I only have 7 hours on that game haha!
I bought it wayyy back in the day and all the updates have transformed it into something quite impressive
kewl!
It doesn't have much in the way of story and thus Supergiant games scratch that itch
Yeah. My entire library is almost only story-driven games, I'm "picky" that way, lol! I only play games with good stories, but I do like the occasional dungeon-crawler thingie. I have all of Supergiant, Life is Strange, Portal, Ori and the Blind Forest, The Stanely Parable, Among the Sleep, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
STORY-DRIVEN GAMES FOREEEVVVVEEEERRRR!!!!!!!!!
😍
oof ow ouch it turns out i'm Real Rusty at bastion
It comes back pretty quick
bastion when you're rusty is Hard
A few shots with the Bow and you'll be Power Shotting like a champ
i tried recently and died on an early level
I remember the very first area I died in when I did it for the first time was Cinderbrick Fort 😝
don't give up you can do it!!!! 😄 🙌 👏 
It's easier with some of the final upgrades
Yay!
got to zia and i'm just sitting here enjoying the song ;3;
I do that every time
I do that too its really nice
only 3 proving grounds left
ok, fang repeater is a bad joke with last upgrade 😄
2 left 😄
Told ya!
revolver one seems impossible tho
i use auto aim
i would need to get 70 score 10x
only time I can >=70 is the first when I can start before the target shows up 😢
and btw I reduce my HP bellow 33% to get the crit bonus 😢
yes
Here, I got that trial on the list, let me boot it up
lol without the Werewhiskey trick I get 51 score for the first one even if I start to shoot before it appears
this one seems to be impossible or idk, i have fully upgraded weapon
Lemme try and see if we can't figure it out together
👌
i guess that will be it, thanks
I'll give it a try
never used that weapon much ingame
I really don't either
Pure damage upgrades, Werewhiskey active, once your hear the target pop up, push the direction it's in, mash the button 3-4 times and it'll go down
740 😄
Nice!
so the main problem was that I just pressed the button once and held it down 😄
now only the hammer one left
managed to do it in 28sec once
27 is the threshold 😄
44 cause I keep going off the edge
Do damage upgrades even matter when smashing junk?
All the wooden junk goes down easy with a roll, I think
How?
i moved as south-west as possible from the hammer
started with a big hit
then went around clockwise and rollled whenever possible
also damage upgrades might count imo
as some stuff needs more hit
any success there?
I didn't have enough fragments for the final upgade and that trial always takes me forever so I skipped it
I've done it before, got the achievment, so no worries there
I think the kids name is Percy becuz the song that plays when u take the first core is called Percy’s escape
And it plays as you’re escaping
It might instead be referring to Percy the Snitch
Oh
One of the petrified characters you meet later on
It was mentioned by the devs during their Bastion livestream recently, but I don't remember what exactly they said 🤔
Oh
if you destroy his statue the game calls him percy and says something about his grin and how the kid hated it
U mean Rucks?
yeah rucks as the narrator says that
I remember feeling bad about smashing their remains but I wanted that dank lore
@proud marsh Yes, they said Percy's escape is about Percy the Snitch. can't remember if they mentioned any further background; in fact i think they said they didn't think too much in terms of backstory...
Oh I kinda remember what they said on the Bastion livestream. When they got to Percy the Snitch, Amir asked Darren if there was a song named after him, to which Darren replied that it was Greg who named the songs and not Darren himself.
And getting the kid covered by them too
Yeah something like that
Oh well my theory got shut down
But now you can come up with a better one
Yea
Maybe a trip through the game files will help
Lemme install bastion on my laptop right now
I want the bastion shirt with the kid on it but I don’t think my school would let me cuz of the marshal’s rifle he’s holding
dw school does end
Oof
and then you get to go to uni, do a phd, forget what free time means, and wish you were back in school 🤣
Yeah that probably wouldn’t go over very well
Wear it when you're not in school
Wear it anyway
i've been able to wear it to my college but i live in a gun loving state
I might get the pyre one too
the jodi shirt is cool
That doesn’t have any weapons on it
the mason bastion shirt is also pretty neato
Be a madlad and wear it everywhere
The absolute madlad
It’s a delicious vegetable
Don't worry about it
Most people won't even notice
Guys I heard bastion’s getting a battle Royale mode
I'm pretty sure teachers aren't going run their faces on your shirt to look for anything against the rules
Yeah, and it's gonna be in early access
It's 100 squirts battling to grow into a scumbag.
Winner winner blubber dinner
Winner winner garbage dinner
A squirts goal to become swole
Cuz scumbags are fed garbage
And have all the garbage it can eat
ooo, this is a new squirt emote i haven't seen 
you wont find these exclusive babes on steam....
i have everything bastion on steam, i love it that much
Wow
even the level 5 and foil badge
Bastion is my favorite by them
Ah, a man of culture I see.
anyone pick up the Bastion PS4 game on LimitedRunGames?
I’m thinking about it even though I don’t own a ps4
they just announced that 300 copies will be signed randomly. So maybe time to test my luck!
If you had to play with all Idols on except one, which one would you leave turned off?
I think either Roathus or Micia? I haven't played in a while
Jevel makes a pretty huge difference too though... hmm...
Actually looking back on it, Pyth is probably the most game changing right? Without it you can out smart pretty much anything I think?
That reminds me I was in the middle of a Bastion playthrough with all idols activated
College pulled me away from it :(
Bastion was the first game I ever streamed lol
It's been a while since I've played again
A signed copy of bastion 👀 hello?? I preordered mine so I hope I’m lucky
signed copies of Bastion what? Where was this announced?