transistor

[rancid rose]

Did anyone mess with the limiters?

[noble portal]

A little bit, mainly for the achievement. But at least one or the limiters has some synergy with actual builds. The one that produces double Cells after a kill works nicely with Switch()’s passive of spawning friendly Badcells

[wet cape]

they were meant to make the game hard, right?

I used some of them bc I dont want the game to be too easy

and also bc xp bonus

[calm jackal]

All limiter run really makes you FEEL like a transistor

[signal nymph]

Haha

[wet cape]

badum tss

[wet cape]

is the transistor heavy or light? 🧐

[signal nymph]

It seems heavy

[wet cape]

I think its neither heavy not light

[signal nymph]

All the anims like breach where red picks it up are slow

[noble portal]

I don't think it necessarily has mass. It's big compared to Red so she probably expects it to be heavy, and so it behaves like it's heavy, other characters believe otherwise and it behaves differently for them

[signal nymph]

Huh

[wet cape]

thats a good point

maybe its just uncomfortable to hold a huge sword like the transistor like a normal object

[signal nymph]

It would again depend on the weight

If it weighs nothing, then it would be like moving your arm, no deedback

[noble portal]

it's certainly not balanced like a normal sword would be, even Royce props it on his shoulder to carry it

[signal nymph]

So it could be that the transistor is like a shroedingers cat, both heavy and light, yet the one who percieves it, or holds it, forces it to be in a syate that they percieve it as

[wet cape]

idk, I dont see why it would be heavy... just bc its big? but also, its not like holding a phone, right?

[signal nymph]

I mean, it creates sparks along the ground when red walks with it

And the breach animation shows her laboring to pick it up over her head

[wet cape]

schroedingers sword LOL

[wet cape]

thats a pretty good detail, but I dont think that its bc of the weight

its the transistor! who knows what are the technological limits of it?

[signal nymph]

I guess

[wet cape]

well, for me she drags the sword on the ground bc its not really comfortable to hold it like a regular sword

but thats just my headcanon

[calm jackal]

If u put the transistor into a sheath then blue can't see :(

[wet cape]

but again, I dont discard the possibility of it being HEAVY

[wet cape]

oooh, there is also that!

[noble portal]

lol

[calm jackal]

Royce is jacked headcanon

[noble portal]

@blissful mountain re: your reply in #supergiant-games , I feel like that doesn't matter so much. It seems to me to be a matter of familiarity/perception. If it was still weightless while both of them were Out of Range, you'd think Red would clue in?

[wet cape]

oh wait a second

[noble portal]

I mean "Royce is jacked" is basically canon? someone drew out his proportions wrt his file portrait and he is very broad on top XD

[wet cape]

||didnt unkown protect Red from the camerata attack? maybe if it was light it wouldnt make an impact strong enough to kill someone, right?||

[calm jackal]

Well it doesn't like, kill people because of blunt force

He didn't die of ribcage shattering

[wet cape]

wait a seco- NO???

I have been lied by my own eyes!

[calm jackal]

Omg I just got a great mental image

Grant spinning around with the sword in order to throw it completely straight like an Olympic hammer thrower

[noble portal]

XD

more of a hc but I imagine the Transistor's bladed bits as impossibly sharp, it doesn't take much force or contact to injure someone?

That said mans had a whole sword through his body, weight vs velocity balances out I suppose

[wet cape]

they sharp?

ive been lied, again!

[calm jackal]

Nah I've always thought transistor had a blunt end

[wet cape]

doesnt look sharp at all to me

[calm jackal]

That's why you can slam it on the ground a lot

[wet cape]

oh wait-

we went from "is it heavy" to "is it sharp"

dragging the transistor on the ground makes it look heavy, that and also some attacks that consume a lot or your time

but some other things makes it look light, like some arts

[signal nymph]

This would make sense why it creates sparks

It could also be that the trandistor physically changes when functions are used

[noble portal]

it does change it's shape, maybe it adjusts its density too? 🤔

it already breaks physics

[signal nymph]

That would amke sense

It might be based on the physics law where, an observer changes what they observe. When a function is used the soul that was absorbed to mske that function is brought forth, and the soul 'observes' the teansistor. This changes it to match what the soul thinks of the transistor and of itself, allowing for different souls to change the utility and physical attributes of the weapon.

[wet cape]

so it will have a diff weight depending on the person?

yeah I can see that

[noble portal]

that actually.... kidna works

[signal nymph]

Like royce, even if he is thicc, he can still hold the transitor at his shouldera ,because he percieves that the yransitor is an impossibly loght object

[noble portal]

comapre how the Transistpr behaves between Void, Tap, and Flood. It's lightest in Flood, be heavy for Void and Tap. Maybe Asher and Grant saw it as heavier than Royce did

[wet cape]

iirc when using Help() you literally spin the blade

[signal nymph]

Or maybe, the transistor works off the subconsiounes of the absorbed people, and so asher and grant thought of the transitor not just physically heavierz but it was a larger weight in their mind then for asher

[noble portal]

hmmm

poor Asher

[wet cape]

I'm not sure about the transistors weight, but its pretty interesting to me how the sword interacts with the current owners mind and thoughts

[noble portal]

Sybil pretty provably never handled the Transistor so that still tracks 🤔

[signal nymph]

She probably only saw royce use it, and as weve established, it is super light in his hands, so she thougjt it was super light, leading the help ability to teanssform the transitor into a super light object rhat can be spun with ease

[wet cape]

like, how these "depends on the person holding it" theories actually make sense 🧐

[signal nymph]

Has anyone esle ever used the yransistor besides red and royce?

[wet cape]

...probably??? how old is the transistor?

[calm jackal]

Grant

Definitely grant did, canonically

No one was using the transistor until royce found it i think

[signal nymph]

Oh ok

Well it seems that grant in his later point in life had a gloomy disposition on his life

[wet cape]

wiki says Royce "lent" the transistor to Grant

[noble portal]

By the traces we see "Recorded", Grant and Asher have at least handled it, whether or not Asher used it on anyone is debatable, but he talks about their project with a great deal of solemnity, so I suspect he's taken at least one trace himself. (Probably Bailey Gilande, it we're really digging for clues?)

[vocal ether]

What if the Transistor is a reflection of whoever is registered as the User? Red is grieving, weighed down by stress and the unknown of who's trying to kill her and revenge in making them pay. So the Transistor is heavy for her. Not because she thinks it should be, but because she is emotionally. And by the end she is lighter, and more at peace with the decision she's about to make.

Character design is key. The design of a character (including the props they use) should tell us about who they are, what they're feeling. I think how Red wields and drags and Transistor tells us this.

[noble portal]

oho this is also a good take. Grant would see it as heavy bc it's the weight of his responsibility to improve Cloudbank. For Royce it's basically a big toy that makes his job easy

[wet cape]

what do you mean with "used it on anyone"? like, used it to try to kill someone?

[noble portal]

yeah, that's what I meant

[signal nymph]

What func is gilanide?

[meager galleon]

Get()

[noble portal]

Get(), she was the archivist

[wet cape]

I dont think that the camerata ever tried to kill someone other than Red...

[signal nymph]

They killed unknown

[wet cape]

was supp to be Red, tho

[signal nymph]

Yeah, he stepped in to save her right?

[wet cape]

yup

[noble portal]

where did the traces come from/where did the rest of the function-relevant people go, then? Pretty sure they explicitly killed those people

[signal nymph]

His ability is breach, which ubfortunatly we dont know what hes like

As his stuff is all messed up

[meager galleon]

I mean they probably haven’t tried and failed before, but they definitely personally transistored a lot of the ppl

[signal nymph]

I think they killed everyone that you get from leveling up

Like get or charm

Things like that

[noble portal]

yeah that's what I meant, I think I misunderstood your previous statement then

[wet cape]

OH YEAH you're right

sorry, my bad

they did kill people, then...

[signal nymph]

Its all good

[noble portal]

oh, yeah. I doubt they ever "missed" before, that's why Sybil's bad info was so important

"Yeah, no, she'll definitely be alone it's fine, no witnesses" 👀

[signal nymph]

Could we think of sybils func help() as her final thoughts on red and hoping that dhe jelped her, immortalized forever as the function itself

[noble portal]

aw 💔

[wet cape]

"ahahaha you can totally trust me ;)"

[noble portal]

the thing was they could totally trust her, up until that point. It's really sad

[signal nymph]

Im not in love orr anything and trying to save her nah

[noble portal]

it's fine dw XD

but fwiw, I really do like the idea that the Function being used affects how the User experiences the Transistor's presence/mass. That's awesome.

[signal nymph]

Same! Brings a new light to the transistor.

[wet cape]

indeed, indeed!

hm... I should prob play more Transistor before trying to talk about my thoughts and theories 😅

[signal nymph]

Its all good

Ive barely played anymore, but im gonna go back in soon and beat the crap out of ||royce|| again

[noble portal]

hehe

chatted with my husband about our discussion here and his take was a little different: The Transistor doesn't (and shouldn't) have mass, its behaviour is derived from the will and intent of the User. It's sort of hard to articulate bc it's sort of "slightly left" of my idea about the User's perception, but like..., The Transistor is just a catalyst that helps the User affect the world around them, their intention for its use is reflected in the form it takes and how ii behaves.

It's heavy for Red bc her intention is revenge; it's heavy and brutal and violent, because that's how she intends to use it when she gets the chance to. For Royce, it splits up into its component parts, not unlike a blueprint; his intention is to use it like a tool or maybe a computer, he sees it in pieces bc that's his intent, to harness, dissect, and understand it.

The User doesn't change the Transistor, necessarily, but the Transistor changes the User and how they influence the world around them. Which is true to its namesake; a "transistor" is a gate that changes the circuit passing through it. His summary was that it's a timeless, ephemeral artifact that doesn't really belong in our reality, it does and behaves how it's willed to by the User.

sorry for the wall of text I just wanted to get that out there (I love my hub he's so creative abt stuff like this 😊 )

[inland mirage]

i just thought royce was more effortless in how he carries/uses the functions just because he had studied and used it extensively

or maybe is secretly super strong lmao

[noble portal]

additionally like, consider how the Transistor physically affects stuff, like the ground when dragging it or using big funcitons like Tap. It doesn't break the ground, or leave scrapes. It's barely a physical object in that sense

I mean it could be any, all, or none of the things we've talked about, that's why it's so intersting to me XD

thank you all for indulging me, I don't get to jam theories like this often

[signal nymph]

Holy bejeebus. This take is amazing

I love it so much, and it makes sense. Crash doesnt leave actually destruction o the ground

Its more like the transistor is a virus, only affecting living things

Can we ask a nod to pin that?

[noble portal]

you guys got me all fired up to work on my fics XD

[rancid rose]

The story is vague enough to have many theories

Sidenote: I like the part where you go back to the stage and it’s all processed

It starts playing an instrumental version of _n c_rcl_s

Wish I could find the version on YouTube since the extended OST has the vocal one (which is a top fave of mine)

[noble portal]

there's really something haunting about coming back to a full house but it's all the Process hanging around... waiting for you...

[rancid rose]

They are just doing their job after all

[vocal ether]

@rancid rose I listen on Spotify, has all the albums there. You could also buy the DLC on steam which gives you the albums.

[rancid rose]

Yeah I listen to it on Spotify

Was speaking of a very specific moment is all

[wheat bobcat]

Sybil saw Auden and just went "Aight, you touched my waifu, apocalypse time"

[woven spruce]

me and my friends were talking about transistor and how cloudbanks lack of actual conflict was why it was boring utopia

and then one of us went "and then sybil was thirsty"

which is technically true but

[formal estuary]

that was surely hilarious af.
Also I noticed the new function that was added to you, problem is that It can only be installed after you see the credits.** /s **

[signal nymph]

Wait what func is that

[woven spruce]

tears() takes up the entire turn planning time. das all

[signal nymph]

Oh

I assume your joking

||but yeah, the ending is pretty sad||

[formal estuary]

kinda spoiler-y so I would appreciate the tagging

[signal nymph]

Oh sorry

[full peak]

"Spoilers are OK."

[signal nymph]

Why do you have a role for all 4 games and not all games?

[full peak]

I don't know why.

[full peak]

maybe they just like the Hades color

[signal nymph]

True

[ember geode]

Silly question

Who would win if Red fought Neo from The Matrix?

[signal nymph]

I like it

I would presume red, as the transitor is able to control the process, and i would assume if it was ina simulation like the matrix, it could control ti as well

[blissful mountain]

But since the transistor is basically a computer, couldn’t neo break its code?

[signal nymph]

HMMMMMM

[formal estuary]

the transistor ...||it's a whole simulation.||

[inland mirage]

I mean there is the alternative answer of "neo has guns and red, albeit holding a magic usb sword, is just some woman"

[signal nymph]

I love that its now a magic usb sword

[ember geode]

Red can teleport
Red can basically stop time
Red can do all kinds of crazy things

Neo can fly and he is amazing at martial arts

He can also think a million miles an hour

But none of that is gonna save him when Red uses Turn() and breaches him straight in the back

[patent marsh]

red doesnt stop time while executing Turn()
shes just very fast, enemies can still move out of the way sometimes

[formal estuary]

Red does Turn() actions or functions in a split of a second

Neo could control Turn() itself, but not its functions

[signal nymph]

She definitly dorsnt stop time as a badcell dodged out pf the way once in the kiddle of a turn then murdered me

[ember geode]

Yeah sorry, she doesn't stop time

She simply moves really really really fast

Still, that's more than Neo can do

Unless...

If Neo were somehow able to anticipate her Turn()s, he could potentially outmaneuver her

[noble portal]

is there any official art of Royce or the other Camerata members with the Transistor that isn;t a sprite rip/screen shot? Like promo images or released concepts?

I guess I should go dig through that Making-Of video

[rancid rose]

Funny enough, I have the actual USB Supergiant was selling for a while

Tbf that is an accurate description for the transistor

[rancid rose]

Don’t think so, think it’s just the official art and well, fan art

[little pagoda]

Things i saw once and has been craving more of since: fanart of the camerata hanging out and asher's cat cuddling w royce

[noble portal]

oh same, I want more everyday Camerata stuff in my life, especially if it involves the kitty

[cunning plaza]

In my opinion, green combines better with your avatar's colors 🏳️‍🌈

[formal estuary]

I bet that pyre color fits better

cuz the pyre color is around the whole image

[noble portal]

man it is such a joy to write dialogue for Royce

[severe linden]

is there any way to get one's hands on a red vinyl figure anymore

👀

[full peak]

Sorry Peach, that's not a pride flag, it's Asphodel in the background. Hang on.

[full peak]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/328246239160434691/786099526917292042/1l4x65jnb3041.jpg

[rancid rose]

Same tbh

I can draw, but never really drawn transistor fan art since I kinda wanna emulate the style and well

Still practicing lol

[formal estuary]

Would you kindly mention me when you post it?

[rancid rose]

Sure

[twin summit]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/187458596559257600/786388994681864202/pride_flag.jpg

[twin summit]

:v

[wheat bobcat]

Would people in Transistor say "You son of a glitch" instead of the actual curse word?
We may never know

[noble portal]

• Thinks of how characters used “BSoD” instead of “damn” in Primordia *

these games are inextricably linked for me bc Logan also voices the protag of Primordia 💙

[white solar]

A realization I found interesting about Transistor compared to others in the cyberpunk genre is that, while most cyberpunk mediums tend to focus on the themes of power resting only in the hands of the few elite, with the citizens of lower socio-economic status fighting against those at the top (usually in some social commentary about extreme capitalism etc),

Transistor kind of turns this around on its head and asks, 'what would hypothetically be the problem if power rested completely in the hands of the many, and if they could choose to change society at a whim?' (seeing as Cloudbank was manipulated by the majority votes on the OVC). The Camerata then are not the elite few who many people fight against wanting change, but instead are the few who want to instigate change against the many since they believed that allowing too much power in voting leads to stagnancy and indolence (and they did so by using the elites of cloudbank as instruments).

I'm not sure if this was intentional by Supergiant Games, but i thought it was interesting to think about.

[formal estuary]

woaah

never thought about it this way,,,,

[delicate arrow]

if you ever need a smile In These Times, just remember Boxer grousing about his favorite pizza joint closing while the apocalypse is happening all around him

can you imagine his hot takes for 2020 if he existed and was on Twitter or something in our own universe?

[white solar]

now I want to see Red and Boxer tweeting random stuff

[formal estuary]

This gives similar vibe to "Man Lawnmowing with tornado behind him"

[delicate arrow]

if it didn't strike way too close to home, I'd be really tempted to write our-world AU fic with Boxer and Red bubbled together in her tiny apartment for most of 2020

but the parallels kinda pile up too fast and too distressingly

[formal estuary]

Or ||In the country||

[formal estuary]

Guess someone need to Bioshock-ify that.

[delicate arrow]

they would be one of those disgustingly functional and mutually supportive quaranteams, and he would post an endless stream of pictures to Instagram of her working on her next album, awash in cozy morning sunlight and sipping coffee in her pajamas at a kitchen table piled with clutter

they'd be very popular with her online fanbase

[formal estuary]

Surely an interesting Idea

[delicate arrow]

||(when she needs to cry about all the venues being closed indefinitely and her boredom-induced creative block and how desperately she misses performing and the way it feels sometimes like the world is falling apart all around her, he makes sure she can cry into his shoulder, in absolute privacy, and never tells a soul)||

^^^ like I said. a little too close to home, just now.

[formal estuary]

Too fricking close.

[delicate arrow]

Mm-hmm. 😰

[formal estuary]

Now that I think about it too much, It hits me and my friends way too hard.
Imagine it's last year in school , and you may never see your friends IRL or even have a Grad party.

(thats what I'm going thru)

[delicate arrow]

yeah, I'm not even sure I'd want to write it

it's just strangely comforting to imagine these familiar characters going through this crummy year with us, somehow

(maybe because their own world's Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day was somehow even worse than anything we've got going on)

[formal estuary]

||Their world was under the process of being erased|| , maybe that's why.

[delicate arrow]

ha, yeah

still, I'm really sorry about your senior year. that completely blows.

[formal estuary]

Thanks ❤️

[delicate arrow]

(I have no idea if it would help to hear from An Olde that, in retrospect, the best times from my senior year were the random things I got up to with my friends, not the officially scheduled stuff like prom and the graduation party, which were honestly both kind of a letdown)

(but I hope you still find ways to create your own moments of joy with the people who matter to you, even if it has to happen at a distance)

[formal estuary]

that's what I'm doing and still going to do
I've done lotta things this year that I never thought about doing

[delicate arrow]

that's seriously awesome, good for you! 👍

[formal estuary]

Thanks!
I've thought about what I've done in the last 3 years vs what I'm doing now
In the past I went to try out new things

This year was special, because this year I've done a lot of catching up to the masterpieces (or great) games and shows.

Someone just gave me his steam account and said "Here, do a lot of catching up to my games"

and the other just gave me one amazing masterpiece of a show.

And then I stumble upon this tweet that have a link to "Paper Boats" and I'm instantly attached to the game

[delicate arrow]

Oh man

Can I recommend the classic Final Fantasy games? (Not the first couple, I tried slogging through them once and they haven't aged well, but like...the handheld remakes of IV or VI? Or IX is on Steam these days)

(I'm just old enough to have some nostalgic memories of watching my brothers playing IX when it came out, ha)

(they wouldn't give me a turn with the controller and renamed all the characters weird things, but the story still got me right in the heartstrings)

[formal estuary]

I played bit of FF6, I loved both the fight and the bosses theme, was stuck at one of the early bosses.

My expertise in RPG (both action and turn-based) has been kept to bare minimum.
I've played just a bit of ARPGs like Witcher 3 , and currently exploring Dark souls series

and I haven't had interest in TBRPGs since FF6

But how did I like this game you might ask?** the art style and soundtracks ** is what kept me playing it a lot and recommending it to my friends

[flat quest]

so when are we getting a transistor sequel

[formal estuary]

give me a dlc , like a prequel to all of that, and I'm done

[short cobalt]

3.5 years later, I have returned and finished performance test 7

with the power of Get (Bounce, Switch)

[short cobalt]

This game is a lot better when you’re older

[full peak]

I literally had that thought the other day. Especially when we consider the current ethical discourse over uploading one's consciousness to a digital landscape. That's at least what I think about the most.

[cunning plaza]

I laughed way too hard at this
Tagging @full peak because yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSeGf0DN59M

[formal estuary]

This reminds me of Caddicarus and Nakey Jakey combined

It's hilarious too

[fallen wave]

Awkward conversation with a five year old who loves SGG soundtracks:

Kid: What’s that game?
Me: It’s “Transistor”. It has the beeping music you like.
Kid: Who’s the girl?
Me: Her name is Red.
Kid: What’s that sword thing?
Me: It’s a surprise. You have to play yourself to find out.
Kid: I can I play the game?
Me: Oh, sure... not “Hades” but “Transistor” is fine hang on the beginning wait no, no, don’t click that!

[full peak]

jakey and caddy are two of my favorite yters

[noble portal]

lol Blue... oops XD

[fallen wave]

I’m looking forward to him being big enough to play. He’s seen me play some of all the games; just gotta be quick on the pause sometimes.

[full peak]

Look, just don't let them play the very ending.

Pretend the game fades out after ||beating Royce.||

That was pretty good, @cunning plaza

[fallen wave]

Ahh... don’t we all wish?

He wouldn’t get that far.

[full peak]

I actually really liked the ending, but I'm also just a bit of a weirdo.

[cunning plaza]

Aw, look at you adding spoiler tags @full peak That's so thoughtful of you

Is it weird to like the ending?

[full peak]

Should I still spoil?

[cunning plaza]

I loved it so I'm a super weirdo. Woo!

[fallen wave]

I enjoyed the ending too. It was very ||Cowboy Bebop|| for me. I just sat there and listened to the end song going “wow”. Good times 😁

[full peak]

'Cause I know I've got "weird" thoughts on the subject, but what Red does is preeeeetty tabboo.

[cunning plaza]

But but you already added spoiler tags and stuff!

[fallen wave]

As one of my video game boyfriends would say, the ending was thematically correct.

[full peak]

Okay, ||so I'm really big on self-actualization. A sentient/sapient being able to fulfill themselves and their wants and desires is the only true moral, as far as I'm concerned.||

||So while I understand just how sensitive suicide is IRL, the ideal of being able to openly approach that subject and discuss someone's thoughts and feelings and validating them without committing them to a hospital, nullifying their ability to self-actualize, is important.||

[fallen wave]

In my mind, ||Red became transhuman. Whether what she did involved death is a tricky question.||

[full peak]

||If I were to speak to my parents very candidly on how I feel about being alive and they committed me, removing my ability to self-actualize, would be the worst thing they could ever do to me.||

||So as sad as Red killing herself was, she did what she wanted, what she thought was best for herself and her situation.||

||Also she was practically at the end of the world. Some people (like Royce) may have gaped at Red abandoning the opportunity to effectively create a new world, but asking one person to fill in all of those gaps is a huge ask, one that I wouldn't and couldn't ask someone who wasn't looking for it.||

[fallen wave]

||Red didn’t want to be a god. Maybe for her, letting the world end peacefully was a better option.||

[full peak]

||Maybe Cloudbank lived on! Even as an abandoned city.||

[fallen wave]

||Could be. There’s lots of little code bits running around. Who knows what they spawned?||

[full peak]

||But she recognized that world wasn't for her. And that she had the option and capacity to leave Cloudbank for the Country is everything to me.||

[cunning plaza]

|| Sequel idea: someone finds Red and the Transistor after the deed was done, then re-shapes Cloudbank. ||

And so, Peach ends the spoiler tag wars unintentionally

[vocal ether]

Hey. So. speaking from my own perspective, maybe this should move to DMs. There are other people in this server dealing with suicidal ideation and there's no trigger warnings and what's being discussed is not helpful.

[fallen wave]

Sure, sorry about that!

[noble portal]

Medium-brain take: Primordia is the spiritual sequel to Transistor, despite being released first XD

[devout ledge]

Hey @vocal ether you're absolutely right. While the content itself should still be available to be discussed as a part of the game, mods are going to start having folks provide a CW so it becomes common knowledge, and I'm adding it into the description here currently.

[little pagoda]

Also perhaps when discussing the Kendrells' end because the game's ending is not the only part that should have that content warning

[twin summit]

We're gonna try to start putting indicators in front of all of our spoilers, so that type of content should be included! Like maybe:

"etcetera (kendrells' fate) ||spoiler|| etcetera"

Or something similar should be fine!

And there's nothing stopping you from putting a more detailed warning, similar to the examples in the description, if you feel the need to.

[junior lagoon]

...I see I should probably not scroll up right now, since I'm about to start playing for the first time

:3

[shrewd root]

As long as you don't reveal any spoiler tags you're probably safe

[junior lagoon]

aight

[shrewd root]

But it never hurts to play it safe, too!

[violet cobalt]

Anyone knows how i can make transitor works on a 4k monitor? I just bought the game on epic games and I didn’t see that the max resolution is 1080p

[junior lagoon]

There are some launch options for Hades that may also work for Transistor?

/x=1920 /y=1080
(replace with your preferred resolution)

[formal estuary]

I think it's - and not /

[junior lagoon]

Supergiant uses / , at least for Hades

So I imagine they would've used the same thing before

[formal estuary]

How's the game so far?

going back from hades is surely going to be a bit rough

[junior lagoon]

nah, not really. definitely a different gameplay style than I'm used to, but quality-wise seems solid

[formal estuary]

you may know this already but, try to backstab when possible

[junior lagoon]

yup, recently figured that out

[formal estuary]

and Crash() before Breach()

[junior lagoon]

currently not using crash, actually

using Help() + Crash()

[formal estuary]

that's also good
perfect for grouped up enemies

[junior lagoon]

let's see...(the actual action first, right?)
Bounce() + Spark(), Breach() + Ping(), Help() + Crash(), and Jaunt()

I also was using the double cell limiter + Switch() passive before picking up Ping()

[formal estuary]

Switch() definitely works out as passive

you can use Jaunt()+spark() to make it work similar to OW Genji's Dash ability

[junior lagoon]

only peripherally aware of what that means but I think I get your drift

I also have Load(), but it doesn't seem particularly useful atm

seems to instantly explode while in Turn(), which could be good

[formal estuary]

you put it infront of an enemy and breach() / crash() it to explode

particularly useful in big fights or boss fights

[junior lagoon]

ooh, aight

I'm liking this "backdoor" area

lmaoooo got a nullref crash

eh, 3 hours is probably a good point to call it a night anyway

Thanks for the tips, nx, cya!

[formal estuary]

You're welcome
always ping me when you get stuck at a place

[junior lagoon]

So far I haven't gotten stuck at anything, though I have no idea how the death mechanic works lol

Since apparently I die, then I go into extra time, then I get another extra time, then I lose an ability and get my health back?

It's only happened once, so maybe that was just that fight?

[formal estuary]

when you die as in reduce your HP bar to 0 you "overload" a function , you lose it along with their upgrades.
to get it back you need to go to an access point (and no, you can't go to an access point you've seen before and get it from there, you must go to an access point that you didn't see before)

[formal estuary]

This is the emergency turn(), it's activated automatically to give you a chance at killing an enemy before you overload a function
you can disable it by activating a limiter

[trail acorn]

I am this close to getting transistor on EGS rn

1.79 is a steal

[junior lagoon]

Having just played it for 3 hours straight

I like it

[trail acorn]

I'll sleep on it for now - sale lasts till 12th anyway

[junior lagoon]

It's slower paced than Hades, definitely more adventure, but that doesn't mean the action isn't good

And fair enough!

[blissful mountain]

Load is really good in the passive slot

[white solar]

Load is a great function for supplementing other functions

personally in the early-mid game I always thought Jaunt() + Load() was broken

[blissful mountain]

Highly recommend load in the passive slot with either void+get or tap+get

Flood+get also works well

[formal estuary]

I love it as an active slot alongside purge and bounce

I use void get so the packets are closer to the enemies

[blissful mountain]

Void(get, crash) is my bread and butter for most of the midgame

[white solar]

that's pretty much an endgame function, you can beat unlimited enemies with that

since there's nothing any of them can do to you when you spam that

[earnest basalt]

Just started playing and finished Transistor!

[white solar]

Great, how did you like it? 👍

[earnest basalt]

Difficult, thrilling and tactical. Loved it!

[formal estuary]

The real question you must answer is : ||How’s the ending?||

[junior lagoon]

...oh

(ending) || gonna level with ya, did not see that coming. Absolutely makes sense though. Went up and read those spoiler tags from a couple days ago. ||

|| still absolutely heart-wrenching though ||

[formal estuary]

I'll always find you, I'll alwayyyyyys

[junior lagoon]

|| now to do it all over again, but harder ||

[formal estuary]

||there will be a little surprise awaits you when you begin recursion.||

[junior lagoon]

|| oh I'm sure, I'll see it momentarily. I don't think I'm getting much sleep tonight lmao ||

[formal estuary]

For sure!

also, to whoever put the :red: emote, can you give me the server that It was from?

[junior lagoon]

either @ Boredor or @ wightfyre

both seem to be offline tho

[formal estuary]

I'm just going to patiently wait

[junior lagoon]

|| lmao what "suggested move" all of the moves ||

[hexed depot]

||do not forget that red finally speaks to the man in the transistor. "Hey.." "Hey!" cue the ending song||

[junior lagoon]

is this a lot of damage?

[formal estuary]

never tried the practice tool so I'm gonna say that's op

and also you have void so that's extra op

[junior lagoon]

xD

gonna try and beat it

[signal nymph]

Thats so much damage

[junior lagoon]

so uhhh

I got more

[signal nymph]

NOOOOO

My best is like 1k

[formal estuary]

ok thats too much

[junior lagoon]

lmao

it's pretty straight-forward lol

here's my setup (if you want to see it)

wait

I think I can get it higher

I didn't realize that || picking up an upgrade an extra time during recursion actually gave it to you a second time ||

[formal estuary]

I see, preferring maximum damage > mobility.

[junior lagoon]

this isn't a setup I would necessarily use in actual combat

I would probably drop Get(), and swap it out for Jaunt()

and just group up enemies the old-fashioned way

[formal estuary]

I do void +get

jaunt is very cool

[junior lagoon]

managed to sneak in an extra 800 damage

problem is, these dudes don't have enough health for me to properly wail on them

[signal nymph]

||I thoyght that was the main point of recursion, that you get evrything twice, then trhie, then 4, then 5, etc, meaning after 16 loops you could do a run with only 1 weapon in every slot||

[junior lagoon]

|| probably, this is my first recursion lol ||

also, is there a maximum number of targets Breach() can go through?

[formal estuary]

I don't think so

[junior lagoon]

huh

feels like there is

with the maximum number of Load(), + 5 enemies, the last 2 don't get hit

and I'm pretty sure my aim isn't off

[blissful mountain]

You only get the functions twice

They’re tied to level, not recursion loops, and the level cap is 30

After you beat the game the first time it becomes trivial to kill enemies quickly, so imo better to focus on not dying

The core of my setup is void(get, crash), void(purge, tap), mask equipped on the other two active slots with whatever you prefer, and load passive

Makes everything in the game pretty easy

[junior lagoon]

Thoughts on the damage I got in that screenshot?

[blissful mountain]

It’s cool

In the main game completely unnecessary but fun to go for those records

[noble portal]

And that flavour text. If you overkill enough the UI starts getting sassy

[formal estuary]

never really overkilled a lot

but I saw one clip of someone overkilling a lot that the ui text begs for mercy on these soulless cells

[little pagoda]

When i saw that for the first time i laughed so hard

[noble portal]

Yeah there are a few levels of it too. Even after a bunch of playthroughs you can still find new stuff in this game

My favourite accidental discovery was that if you go into the test room (just the freestyle one) and spam a function a couple times, Boxer will comment on it. He has a unique quip for each one iirc

[white solar]

that's awesome, I'll try that out

I remember I managed to get 100k+ damage on the sandbox but I can't seem to find the screenshot

[signal nymph]

THE FUCK

[formal estuary]

You sure you didn't spam void too much?

[white solar]

i may be misremembering, it might not have been that high lol

but it was definitely high

I wish transistor had an option where you could instantly go to the sandbox

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/688662242190688276/787365756491792394/unknown.png

managed to get this much, i dunno if i can go higher

[signal nymph]

Wow

[white solar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/688662242190688276/787368665157992488/unknown.png

yeah 54,000 is the highest i can go lol, if someone manages to get higher than that ill be impressed

[signal nymph]

Thats insane

[junior lagoon]

Damn, and I thought I was doing high damage

[earnest basalt]

O! Well, I won the fight, is what I'll say. ||Was ready to fully accept loss, but I'd still go out fighting. Guess that's what Red did. Chilling end.||

[formal estuary]

||I’m still going to tear over that ending . Every. Single. Time.||

And here I am on my 2nd NG+ run.

||My default wallpaper has been the credits scene where an impaled red and boxer being close to each other.||
Whenever my friends ask “why is that your wallpaper” I tell them “play the game”.

And once they play it, they get the meaning behind my pfp and my wallpaper.

(Since I think this was lost amongst the other messages) Here I am once again asking for the :red: emote

To whoever has the emote, dm it’s sever to me and I’ll so thankful for it!

[still zealot]

My bg is the cloudbank art SGG posted in their downloadable art

the uhh, postage art I think it's called? Cause it's supposed to look like something you'd put on a letter to capture the feel of the place?

yeah

https://store.supergiantgames.com/collections/free-downloads/products/supergiant-worlds-wallpaper-pack

that ^

[shrewd root]

Ah, sorry, just now saw this and it was meeee

Unrelated, after much delay I am finally going to get back to my Transistor playthrough. I'll be honest though I have no idea where I was or what I was doing... Considering just restarting, if I can

Maybe I'll try to just continue, though

[signal nymph]

Its short enough that its simple to get back in imo

[shrewd root]

Fair

[signal nymph]

Have you beat the game before?

[shrewd root]

Nope! I started a playthrough a few years ago and then got busy and didn't get back to it

I currently have 8 functions and am level 5 I think

And 2 limiters unlocked

[signal nymph]

Oh, nice. Its easy to pick back up really anytime, but especially the beginning

[stone shoal]

could probably delete your save file from wherever transitor stores save data

[signal nymph]

Its in Documents/Saved Games/Transistor

[stone shoal]

that's not always the case Sandra

https://steamcommunity.com/app/237930/discussions/1/540743128802595639/#c540742485347814006

[signal nymph]

Oh, oops

[shrewd root]

Feel like I'm playing very poorly because I seem to overload once a fight

[signal nymph]

After a while you get the hang of things, and it gets easier

[stone shoal]

Wight, I was much the same for a good chunk of my first playthrough

You'll definitely get the hang of things

[signal nymph]

Anyone agree the ladys at ||3.0|| are harder then ||royce himself||

[shrewd root]

Thank you for your encouragement

I am currently just swapping functions around to unlock all the entries. I don't remember if this actually does anything, but I like to be complete

[signal nymph]

Nice. The lore in the game is sick

[heavy finch]

why are here in this server so few transistor emotes

[hexed depot]

Anyone agree the ladys at ||3.0|| are harder then ||royce himself||
yEs, my god.

[earnest basalt]

Aeugh

[formal estuary]

this was very unexpected, but you can actually unlock Paperboats by completing performance test 3, and hear boxer saying "Might be the favorite"..

So good!

[white solar]

wait really?

oh wait, you finish performance test 3 in recursion right

[formal estuary]

yep

[formal estuary]

I did it by using void (flood,get) , load (purge) , crash, then mask (ping and breach)

the mask is to evade and making turn get faster, without being turn'd by the copy

[white solar]

I was asking this because i was thinking if you could unlock it before recursion it would be a big spoiler lol

[white solar]

oo i like the void(flood,get) idea

that sucks them in and keeps them in the flood field right?

[formal estuary]

in void*

yeah

[white solar]

wait nvm i just remembered that's not how Void+flood works, unfortunately

would be cool if it created a damaging field in the area where you void

It's good against groups of enemies though

[signal nymph]

How does void flood work?

[formal estuary]

I.. quite honestly dont know

[signal nymph]

Void(flood) deals damage in an area

[formal estuary]

thats making it AoE + the grab from Get

and pushing load to it making it damage a ton

[white solar]

That's what i thought it would be, cause I remember i tried making a black hole damaging thing

but what Void+flood actually does is it creates a disruptive field around the targets caught in the void, so it doesn't damage the enemy, it damages the enemies around the enemies, if that makes sense

[formal estuary]

CW: ending, ||goddamit, despite how many times i've seen the ending, it still going to make me Tear() up.||

Darren's OSTs from the start to the end is so good, never took time to actually listen to them

[shrewd root]

If you're going to add a cw tag (which is appreciated!) then please also indicate what the cw pertains to

[formal estuary]

got it!

[formal estuary]

to put it simply , in the wise words of Snoopdog "That ___ don't miss"

[crimson haven]

enemy spoiler(?) ||All these Man are giving me a hard time with their haircut things aaaa||

[junior lagoon]

|| maybe you need better scissors ||

[crimson haven]

story spoilers dbqjdhej ||i beat them but the cost of it was that someone slapped onions on my eyes ;A; the credits aaaaa and transistor bro being like "What are you doing ebjwjee"||

[formal estuary]

The ending ost... ||My day be fine then....Boom, paper boats floating on a stream,And it would seem.... We'll never be apart.||

[crimson haven]

bahahaha

[formal estuary]

I've never found a soundtrack comparable to paperboats.

and I'm yet to discover more of Darren's OSTs

[signal nymph]

Its good, but i think Pyre had the best soundtrack of their (and most) games

[formal estuary]

I've seen Pyre, it has that beautiful MOBA style gameplay, and also that very stellar artstyle

Jen zee never disappoints me in terms of art styles

[signal nymph]

Its definitly not a moba, but yeah i get what you mean, its fluid

[formal estuary]

not per se, just enough to expand on transistor's gameplay mechanics

[shrewd root]

Just finishing beating the Spine and then got the private message and it's ThanatosAsher

[noble portal]

such a nice gentle voice

[crimson haven]

so it WAS his voice

[noble portal]

that's Greg iirc? He also voiced Hedwyn if I'm braining correctly

[shrewd root]

No, It's Chris Saphire

But he did also voice Hedwyn, yes

[noble portal]

oh, I am mistken then

halfway right XD

[shrewd root]

Greg has voiced Hypnos, Sir Deluge, and Oralech

[outer garden]

I know that hades is a game that supergiant poured there heart and soul into, and it’s one of the most incredible games that I’ve played, still playing, but there was definitely something about transistor that just hit something different, and people don’t talk about how genius the writing of the game is

[shrewd root]

It's certainly nowhere near as popular as Hades, but I think Transistor was definitely recognized for it's writing in its time

[outer garden]

I guess I’m more just sad that such a unique game wasn’t as talked about, it’s pretty groundbreaking

Although, supergiant themselves are a really unique studio, and I know that’s generally acknowledged, so

[shrewd root]

Seems like a lot of people are playing their older games again (or for the first time) in the wake of Hades' success, so that's always a plus!

[outer garden]

That’s where I’m going, I’m trying out pure and bastion as soon as I find time

[signal nymph]

Would highly recommen pyre

the story is god, and theris an awesome community around it

[grizzled bay]

just finished this game, wow the end man.

[signal nymph]

Yeah

[ember geode]

Here is my theory about what happens in Transistor
It's all very vague, this is just my interpretation

||Basically, Cloudbank is a computer simulation, kind of like the Oasis from Ready Player One||
||I say the Oasis rather than the Matrix because it's voluntary, and people go there for recreation||
||Judging by the nature of Cloudbank, I suspect that these people spend most of their time there, jacking out to the real world only when it's absolutely necessary||

||The Transistor is probably an admin control of some kind; the only reason nobody knows what it is is that Cloudbank has existed for so long that people have forgotten about its administrative functions||
||Same with the Process; the Process are probably meant to be an antivirus or cleanup software of some kind, that went beserk after the Camerata tried to use them for stuff they were never designed for||

||It's possible to jack out of the mainframe to the real world, or the Country, but people don't want to do that because they have been jacked in for so long||

||But if you get processed, your cyber consciousness gets absorbed into the Transistor or deleted outright, and your body in the real world goes braindead||
||Everyone who we see get processed in game has real-world bodies, but they're all vegetables now||
||Red, one of the people who wanted change, ironically made the decision to stay in the mainframe and entered the Transistor so she could be with Mr. Nobody||

[outer garden]

||That’s a good theory, except we see red and the transistor guy “in the country” at the end||

[ember geode]

||Red is the administrator||

||She probably manipulated the inside of the Transistor||

||IDK, I don't think that Red is actually in the same "country" that everyone else is in||

[signal nymph]

I like it, but how come you can use the transtor in the final fight. Isnt that ||in the country|| if it is, then it shouldnt be usable as its justa manifestation of admin powers

[junior lagoon]

Two bars for spoiler tags

[outer garden]

I know

I messed that up

[junior lagoon]

You can edit your message to fix it

Thanks

[rose plover]

this game is so great

omg!

currently on LVL 5 😄

[signal nymph]

Agreed

[rose plover]

like im seriously hooked.

i want to keep playing but i need to rest lol.

[junior lagoon]

I'm reasonably sure the final fight || takes place inside the Transistor ||

[rose plover]

anyway i just wanted to share my thoughts. im just fangirling by for now LOL

[signal nymph]

||Oh wait you're right, oops||

[noble portal]

I don't think it does but it's more of a hunch tbf

[junior lagoon]

|| Royce talks about "getting out" and that he'd been there before, and previously mentioned having been in the Transistor before ||

[ember geode]

||Royce and Red are both alive, and they are both high-level users||
||Cloudbank ain't big enough for the both of them||

[noble portal]

but he describes ||the interior as if it's empty, "like staring at the sky" but we can see there's stuff in the "Out of Range" space||. I think where you end up for the final fight is a sort of "waiting room"/staging area inside the Cradle itself, a step between Cloudbank and the inside of theTransistor

[signal nymph]

So .... code purgatory?

[noble portal]

yeah, sort of

I wrote a blog sort of related to this, about what (end, character spoielrs) ||Royce does for the Camerata and why he's so experienced with the weird duel setup. In short; his job is to fight Traces in the Cradle to keep them from escaping so the Camerata can keep control of the device. He's done it so many times it's a bit of a routine by the time Red shows up.||

[signal nymph]

Oooooo

[noble portal]

which would mean the Cradle itself is a sort of safety measure. Now whether it exists as a native part of Cloudbank's network and interface, or is something the Camerata designed and built, is debatable if we assume that

[signal nymph]

||So its effectivly a firewall to prevent the traces from escaping their banks? Makes sense||

[noble portal]

what exactly would happen if they do is left as an exercise to the theorycrafter. My money's on a freaky body-swap phenomenon but I have nothing to back that up XD

[ember geode]

I heard a theory the other day as to part of Mr. Nobody's identity

[white solar]

I was just recently thinking about the nature of The Country and I think this might be the interpretation that makes the most sense. || It could be theorized that since Cloudbank exists in a simulation, The Country for everyone else is like a metaphor for logging out of it, like Lillian Platt did (and so did many others), but that wouldn't make sense for Red and Boxer since Boxer was stuck inside the Transistor and not "logged out" per se, so I think it is Red manipulating the inside of the Transistor to look like that||

[ember geode]

If anyone wants to hear that

[signal nymph]

I would imagine that if a trace broke free, it would be a sort of virus, a ghost torally undectable, with high level powers like the transistor and its user, and it would also destroy the function in the transistor until the trace is re absorbed

[noble portal]

oho, that'd be spooky, maybe they break out into the city's network like an AI, an entity totally separate from the Process but still within the city's systems

I'm curioys to hear what you think about Boxer, Truepickaxe

[ember geode]

Boxer?

What is that?

[noble portal]

Mr.Nobody, sorry

the man has many names, none of which are his own XD

[signal nymph]

I could also see that an escaped trace would be able to have control over the process, or have its own version of the process that it could create and control

[ember geode]

So here is the theory I heard

[noble portal]

erumi I'm liking this a lot and want to do somehting with it

[ember geode]

Basically, Mr. Nobody is Red's bodyguard

She's a singer after all, and most celebrities have bodyguards of one kind or another

That's why he was so close when Red was attacked by the Camerata

[white solar]

What makes the Traces different in nature from Boxer is what I've always wondered. Boxer is clearly apparent inside the Transistor , but all the other traces arent

[white solar]

well I don't really think that's still a theory 😆

[white solar]

whoops meant to reply to this

wait I did, nvm discord is being weird

[junior lagoon]

Boxer was directly absorbed by the Transistor, his trace data partially corrupted, which is why he's different

Is my thought

[signal nymph]

I like to think its because he and red were very close, and he died a very short while after red became the user, allowing his consiouness to only have been transfered to a trace bank, meaning he kept part of it, and effectivly lived in the transistor

[noble portal]

I think the implication from Royce's dialogue is that as a User you only hear the voices of people you know well. Red may be loosely acquanted with one or two of the other Traces but she really only knew Mr. Nobody and Sybil. Understandably, Sybil remains silent XD (or perhaps Red didn't know her as well as she thought....?)

[ember geode]

What do you mean by that?

[noble portal]

it's pretty widely accepted fanon, basically canon

[ember geode]

Got it

[signal nymph]

For the sybil thing, it could also be that sybil is incapable of speaking, as her trace is her processed self, not her actual self

[junior lagoon]

That also makes sense

[noble portal]

literally why he got in the way, he was doing his job 😛

[white solar]

yeah

[noble portal]

true true

[white solar]

If I recall, dialogue implies he went to her shows

and got close somehow

[ember geode]

I can just imagine him being like "Lock this place down NOW, someone is tryna kill Red"

[noble portal]

their actual history is unclear, which I kind of like, but it's apparent his intention and probably job is to protect her

[ember geode]

"Judas, get her to the car out back, don't let anyone see you, I'll take care of this myself"

(Judas is just a name I made up, some other security guard or something)

[noble portal]

and there's very very likely some romantic history there, given some of the stills from the credits, and the way he speaks to/about her

unsubstantiated personal theory but I like to think Mr. Nobody was the guy who rioted at one of Red's shows (mentioned in her Trace entry), and they since reconciled as he got to know her better and became close

[ember geode]

This is gonna sound weird
But the only weapon we see in the game is the Transistor
I wonder what the "normal" Cloudbank weapons look like

[white solar]

I would assume so, given they ||kiss in one of the end credit stills after all|| haha

[signal nymph]

Well im going to slerp, so see yall later. If theres anything extra special ping me

[junior lagoon]

A few dialogues mention that there's a lack of violent incidents

[outer garden]

||What’s always going to be interesting is how boxer gets to the farm, because red obviously kills herself with the transistor, and all the other characters have something that can be considered “death”, but boxer is in a weird in between, so there’s something about red killing herself that sets him free||

[white solar]

I always assumed Jallarn used a type of pistol

[noble portal]

spoilers, Kermit

[outer garden]

Consider that there is suicide

[junior lagoon]

Just want to point out the channel description with regards to content

Please

[noble portal]

please spoiler the end details and Red's choice Edit: Thanks

[white solar]

or whatever that detective guy's name is

[signal nymph]

Also, i wpuld imagine a normal cloudbank weapon would be like mechanical mortars and mostly robots, as i always thought that the process was kust cirruption of cloudbank

[junior lagoon]

(this got rapidly buried so resending)

[noble portal]

I'd imagine there's not alot of violent crime in Cloudbank, police likely have light firearms at most, I get the vibe it's a pretty peaceful place

[white solar]

That's why Ping() works like a gun

[noble portal]

pew pew pew

[outer garden]

|| i should say that when I say death, I don’t necessarily mean full “death” but the implied death of whatever happens to people in cloud bank, I’m obviously not trying to talk about sensitive subjects, but there is a lot of implication that people “die” and can no longer access cloudbank”||

[ember geode]

If you get processed, you die in real life

That's what I assumed

[noble portal]

assuming Cloudbank is simulated, which a lot of people do

[outer garden]

I don’t think so, I believe you simply can’t exist in cloudbank anymore

Because we definitely see red get processed, and she is “alive” and well with boxer in the end scene

[noble portal]

imho it's more itneresting to assume it is in "reality" (which is already relative), but my strongest opinion on the matter is that the exact nature of Cloudbank is irrelevant; it doesn't affect the storytelling to me, so it' doesn't really matter.

[white solar]

yeah I'm of the opinion that the theory that Cloudbank is only a simulation is kinda lame,

but perhaps it can be a simulation that exists in reality

[junior lagoon]

I'm less certain that Cloudbank (and the rest of the world, because I believe Fairview is a different city) is a simulation—it's certainly possible that there're things I'm missing, but I think it's just as possible that it's in a real world

[ember geode]

The Process is a reset mechanism
Their job is to reset everything back to zero
An unfortunate consequence of this is that if they get ahold of any neural data, they will purge it just like any other data
Meaning that if you are jacked into Cloudbank and the Process catch you, your brain signals are effectively erased

[outer garden]

I think that the implication is that the country is designed to be some kind of afterlife, it isn’t the “real world” just another place for people to exist after they cease to exist in cloudbank

[white solar]

Yeah who says there can't be different worlds

[outer garden]

I think that they exist as separate things, but it’s not as cut and dry as a simulation

[earnest basalt]

(cw Ending) ||I assumed that Red's suicide didn't free Boxer, but moreso trapped herself along with him.||

[ember geode]

I believe the Country, as referred to by the news, is a place where everyone agreed to go in case of trouble (get it?)

[twin summit]

the mod team also asks that, if y'all are spoiler tagging end content, that you place an appropriate (content warning in parentheses)

just so people don't stumble into something that they might not want to see

[white solar]

So is Fairview the place Boxer wanted Red to go to at the start?

with the motorcycle

[noble portal]

I don't think so. He specifically said "get out of town", I think he did want to leave for somewhere else, be it the COuntry or otherwise. Fairview is identified by the Turn UI as a "suburb" of Cloudbank

[ember geode]

Proper story's supposed to start at the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one.
Now, here's a girl who's world got all twisted, leaving her stranded in a patch of absolute nothingness.
She gets up, and sets off for the Country, where everyone agreed to go in case of trouble.

[noble portal]

imagine all the bougie jerks who lived on Fairview though, big fancy manor houses on their own island XD

[outer garden]

||the biggest thing for me is that we have no idea what happened to all of cloudbank. Red was the only person left, and she was literally recreating cloudbank in the final stage of the game. So it’s possible that she recreated the entire world. It’s also implied that cloudbank is the only place that people exist, there’s no mention of any other place but the city, so when boxer says get out of town, he might mean literally leave the reality||

[white solar]

maybe Fairview was unaffected by the process this whole time

and they were just watching everything unfold

[ember geode]

Pretty sure everyone could live in big fancy manor houses on their own island if they wanted to

[noble portal]

I'm just being sassy 😛

[earnest basalt]

Transistor mod that converts the entire game into Bastion elements
Jerks are now Bulls

[white solar]

Boxer's voice becomes Rucks

[noble portal]

it's true there's no real mention of what otehr settlements exist outside Cloudbank (notably, even the Fashion Week announcement only mentions "domestic brands", no international designers)

[white solar]

country drawl Hey Red, we ain't getting away with this are we?

[noble portal]

leaving Cloudbank is a pretty serious move then, since we don't know of anyone who's ever left and come back

[outer garden]

||I think that there’s some truth to cloudbank being somewhat simulated, I mean we literally see portals, we see a grid across the sky on the beach, we see the world literally dissolve into code and be recreated by red, but I don’t know if just calling it a simulation is giving the story justice||

[earnest basalt]

Pfheh, Crash and Breach are the Hammer and Bow respectively.

Hm, would it make more sense for Breach to be the Carbine, actually...?

[white solar]

wait what about L. Platt then? It was said she left for the country but then she was found dead near the venue where Red was

unless her leaving was only rumors

[outer garden]

She might have died while leaving

[earnest basalt]

Hm, I need to look up her file in the game...

[white solar]

That's why I said it might be a simulation, just one that exists in reality

[noble portal]

My current idea about it all is that Cloudbank exists in "normal" reality, but is relatively cut off from the rest of the world due to the city's network being built on the chassis/"layer" of the Process. The city exists in a kind of bubble, protected by the Process. The world goes on around it, but nobody goes in, and the people who leave can't return.

[white solar]

I mean, we're starting to have holograms and Virtual spaces in reality, so who's to say it's not possible in the far future that they could create an entire virtual, physical city that exists in reality

[ember geode]

One common interpretation is that Cloudbank is a computer system, and all the inhabitants are computer programs

[noble portal]

IMO: Cloudbank is insular and self-sustaining because the Process has total control over that little bubble of reality; resources never run out, people never get sick (seriously, devs confirmed physical illnesses do not exist in Cloudbank), and everything up to and including the weather is under the control of voters

[white solar]

Yeah, a bubble city would make sense

[ember geode]

But it's weird, because where exactly would the Cloudbank programs be evacuating to?

[white solar]

it's sort of like Elysium

I mean you don't really see any destitute areas, it would stand to reason that all cloudbank citizens are well off

Ok I like this theory much better

[noble portal]

The Country as a literal countryside exists, because there's no other development directly outside Cloudbank's bubble (eg. no suburbs of one city bleeding into another) and since other developments have given it a wide berth. The Country also therefore exists in the vocabulary of Cloudbank natives as a metaphor for death, retirement, and disappearing off the social and digital grid

[ember geode]

I thought the only way to die in Cloudbank was to be processed

[white solar]

Nah

[ember geode]

And that escaping to the Country was the only way to survive

[noble portal]

there are loose mentions of foul play (ie. murder) in at least one Trace entry, but people who retire seem to just disappear so it doesn't seem like dying of old age is really a thing....

[white solar]

well a lot of the game implies that going to the Country seems to be a voluntary choice

[earnest basalt]

Weren't the (Level spoilers) ||people who took sanction within that one area Processed, last words of that reporter saying "See you in the country"?|| You know, from that one terminal

[white solar]

Dude people not growing old would also give more credence to your theory

[noble portal]

I thikn it can mean a lot of things depending on the context. Mr Nobody says a busted terminal you come across has "gone to the country" too. I thikn "social" death (leaving the city/network/one's carefully-crafted niche) and literal physical death are pretty synonymous to Cloudbankers

sort of a "if you're not here, you may as well be dead" attitude

again this is all just me and my thoughts, I've been working on an au/fic where Cloudbank gets rebuilt and things are relatively fine, so I've been thinking of ways to make that more interesting (esp. when plannin to bring in "outside" characters and how that works, what they think of Clloudbank, etc.)

[white solar]

Because like in a lot of fictional mediums, in places of "paradise" but with high busyness, there is often an option to "retire" from that life and go into a more blissful one when they get tired of the hustle and bustle of said "paradise". In Transistor's case, this voluntary choice of retirement is the countey

[outer garden]

One thing that’s interesting is how there isn’t a ton of “regular” citizens. Boxer knows everyone you come across, and I feel like there might be some truth in this being an isolated place that are designed for a select group of people, people that have achieved recognition for something

Also, the camerata is the highest officials in the city, and they have no superiors from anywhere else, which means that there isn’t any kind of established governance besides people that run certain aspects of the city

[noble portal]

I do think that most everyone is "someone" in Cloudbank, and people who aren't, who fall through the cracks, are like Boxer; they're basically non-entities who don't even register on a lot of systems

[ember geode]

Can I share an unpopular opinion

[outer garden]

Sure

Proceeds to not type their opinion

[ember geode]

I think I might prefer Bastion's story, because it is less obtuse

[outer garden]

Oh there we go

I haven’t played bastion yet

[white solar]

I would love to see how Cloudbank looked while citizens still lived in it, lining junction Jan's and filling up Goldwalk district and all. Cloudbank in the game largely feels kenopsic and I feel it would be very beautiful when it's thriving

[ember geode]

I like a story that I can easily understand in the moment, but still provides a lot to think about

[white solar]

I've also been of this opinion

[noble portal]

I don't know if that's an unpopular opinion 🤷‍♀️

[outer garden]

I have every intent too, I personally absolutely love all the mystery of transistor, I think the writing is genius, but at the same time it is frustrating and I can understand wanting a complete story

[white solar]

When I first played both games, I said I liked Bastion's simple story better, while Transistor is still my favorite SGG game

[noble portal]

but yeah I would love to see CLoudbank in its prime (I would do unsavoury things for official prequel content, ngl)

[white solar]

yeah I was about to segway into a tangent about wanting a prequel series hahah

[outer garden]

I think that there’s so much to cloudbank that’s never explored

[white solar]

I don't care in what form it is. I feel like even in the form of a motion comic it would work very well for Transistor's style

[ember geode]

Honestly, what Transistor needs is DLC
I know it's an old game, but I would love some DLC that answers some of our lingering questions

Like, sidequests that reward lore or something

[outer garden]

Supergiant games aren’t one for expansion

[white solar]

What I mean by motion comic is like, how the cutscene in We All Become one unfolds

I think with how much deserved praise and attention SGG has gotten from Hades, theyd be able to explore different avenues like I dunno making short animations or something to supplement their existing game worlds

[noble portal]

I mean I started a prequel-y fic but it's been in progress for a very long time and while I have posted it, it's unfinished as of now

[white solar]

Well if it's on Ao3 or Ff.net I'll follow it

[outer garden]

I think hades was what SGG needed. They had a lot going for them with their first three games, but the effort they put into hades, and it’s resulting popularity, is I think what’s going to have established them as a real, noteworthy game studio whenever they make a new release

[ember geode]

All three of Supergiant's games that I have played involve cycles

Bastion has restoration

Transistor has recursion

Hades is... well... Hades

[outer garden]

Supergiant really do have a unique style to them

If they released a new game, and you have me a lineup of games I’d never played, I could pick out supergiants pretty easily

Part of why I love them

[ember geode]

I wonder how Supergiant would approach a multiplayer game

Their traditional isometrick hack-n-slash style seems like it would lend well to multiplayer versus

[noble portal]

gonna post it in #fan-works

[outer garden]

You’re not wrong, although I have a feeling it might be turn based

But, I think they would put a very unique spin ons turn based game

[white solar]

a turn based game with a multiplayer option would be cool too

[ember geode]

Problem with turn-based multiplayer is what if one of the players goes AFK

[white solar]

I say option because I'd prefer any Sgg game to be story or single player focused

[outer garden]

you could argue that transistor is turn based

I think that sgg lends itself to story more than anything

And they accomplish that better with single player

They do incredible world building and character design, not to mention music, so much of that would be lost in a multiplayer

[white solar]

I mean technically Transistor's combat system could theoretically work in multiplayer, given the ||fight with Royce||

[ember geode]

Would it be possible to beat Transistor without using Turn() at all within combat?

[white solar]

Yeah

[ember geode]

How hard would it be?

[white solar]

Well in recursion it's easy at least

[outer garden]

Not if you count the final encounter with the last camerata member

[white solar]

but from the start,

that would be tricky

[outer garden]

I think you need your turn for that

[noble portal]

a friend of mine apaprently played most of the game without Turn() and complained to me about the difficulty XD

[white solar]

lmao wth

they force you to use turn in the beginning of the game, so it's not like they didn't know about it

[noble portal]

I would like to try a fully-loaded (at least 1 recursion) attempt at the final fight without using Turn. It'd be tough but I think with the right stuff it'd be possible

I think he like, left it for a bit, forgot, and then came back to it? XD

[white solar]

Yeah I've wanted to do a "speedrun" of the game without using Turn

[noble portal]

or just didn't like it at first and played everything in realtime

[ember geode]

||I want to see someone beat Royce without using Turn()||

||I am sure it's possible, because Jaunt||

[white solar]

Now I wanna try that XD

maybe with mask too

[ember geode]

You gotta show video proof if you do

I wish Grant and Asher Kendrell had a boss fight
I get the themes and stuff
But the point stands; Transistor doesn't have enough bosses

[white solar]

that's the only thing keeping Transistor from a 10 for me

[noble portal]

I honestly thought ||Grant|| was going to be the final boss. Man had such ppowerful vibes XD

[white solar]

||I wanted Asher to be a boss||

if it had one more boss and maybe like, 2-3 hours of more story I would give Transistor a 10

so it sits at like 9-9.5/10 in my book

[ember geode]

Anyone who gets processed dies

But not Sybil

Sybil wasn't killed, she was integrated

Why is she different

Is it because she's Camerata

[noble portal]

idk about that but I'm trying to phrase my thoughts here...

we don't see other peopel succumb to being processed the way Sybil does, it could be that she just had the willpower to fight through and keep enough of her identity that she could still interact and her Trace was identifiable as her when she was Integrated (taken into the Transitor). We don't see many other citizens of Cloudbank, and basically none f them are still alive, so we can't prove the absence of other Processed individuals becoming somehting like Sybil does. The only other Processed people we see were nominally killed by the Process first and were being erased/unmade into raw data (Preston, Lillian, that guy at the Empty Set)

I think the key difference is that Sybil was Processed alive, whereas other people were not

why exactly, again, is up for debate

[ember geode]

I wonder what would have happened if Red had left Sybil behind

Perhaps she would still be in the remains of Cloudbank, wandering the empty streets

[noble portal]

Turn UI and Boxer's dialogue implies she would have died anyway

which is kinda sad, and I prefer the idea that she could have recovered if something repaired her, like a Weed

but I'm all about that robot angst, so.... feral Processed Sybil roaming the half-unmade remains of Cloudbank appeals to me XD

[ember geode]

I wanna see an AU story where everyone got processed alive

[noble portal]

I have a few unwritten/WIP stories where Royce lets himself get Processed, partly For Science and partly bc he feels bad for Sybil being alone and weird

[ember geode]

And then someone from outside shows up to figure out why Cloudbank went silent

And they see all these automatons acting out facsimiles of people and their routines

[white solar]

I'm still waiting for my idea of Processed Asher (and cat) to become manifested

[noble portal]

I have a small-brain theory that what remained of CLoudbank is one fo the cities mentioned in Primordia, but nobody's played it so t's kind of a self-indulgent pet theory XD

[ember geode]

Like that one scene in A Wrinkle in Time, where all the kids are playing in sync

[white solar]

I really wanna play primordia some time

[ember geode]

And then the outsider does something and the process turns on them

[noble portal]

I highly reccomend, it's heckin' dark at times but the protag is voiced by Logan Cunningham and it's really well-written

[white solar]

wth that's enough reason for me to play it expeditiously

[noble portal]

also robot feels, so many robot feelings

[ember geode]

Can I tell you about one of my favorite books of all time
Kind of off-topic but I want to talk about it

[white solar]

I know about it because my brother who recommended Transistor to me loves it

[noble portal]

ah excellent

[ember geode]

Follow me to #books-and-comics

[white solar]

Also because I've seen people liken the themes to SOMA, which is my other favorite game

sure

[noble portal]

man now I'm just... thinking about all my Processed!Royce junk I have no place for XD

[earnest basalt]

...Why does it feel so strange to me that ||Royce||’s boss theme feels so out of place?
I think I know the answer, but I want to hear others’ words, also and first...

[formal estuary]

Final boss,||because the fight itself is different too!||

and idk why but it gave me that feeling of similarity to Crash Bandicoot final boss themes (especially Crash 3)

[outer garden]

||Royce is supposed to be very different, he’s designed to combat red in a very different way. The whole game is developed on the principle of taking your turn to defeat enemies, but Royce is designed to pit your own mechanics against you, which is something that isn’t very common, and is incredibly well executed in the game||

[primal harbor]

My personal theory is because of how it completely steals the show from Red. Everything leading up to the ||Royce|| fight is transitioning from Red's perspective to theirs, making the story about them. Basically that entire sequence is him welcoming Red, and thus the player, inside his mind. This culminates into how the fight starts. ||By using Turn() before the player can act, he has solidified himself as the protagonist of his own story. This is no longer about Red, but instead Royce. It is his story that we have sent spiraling out of control. Never mind that he earlier admits that no matter what the outcome is he wins. Either he rebuilds the city, or he gets to know what its like inside the transistor. Plus, one of the instrument lines from Impossible also plays in his base if you listen closely. Perhaps in another (AU) Recursion it really would have been Royce as the hero and Red as the villain, as far as we know.||

[outer garden]

What @primal harbor said, it completely shifts the point of view, just for that scene

[formal estuary]

Speaking of Recursion||, when you start the Recursion, He is the one that says "we're not gonna get away with this are we?"||

[primal harbor]

I actually noticed that on my third play through. It's a super nice touch.

[outer garden]

||Also keep in mind that all the other “bosses” are more difficult fights. Royce is the only real boss, and they designed it so that he uses your own mechanics against you as a way to completely catch you off guard||

Sybil and the spine aren’t really bosses, they’re just more difficult enemies, but you still use the exact same mechanics for them

So in essence, the game was just made to be a bunch of challenges, and then a flipped mechanic as the only real boss battle

||Although, this could just be me, because I didn’t use limiters and had a great load out, but Royce was a pretty easy boss||

[primal harbor]

In my opinion The Spine is definitely the hardest fight in the game, but anything can be hard if you slap on enough limiters and/or don't build your function load out correctly.

[odd jay]

Sorry to interrupt the discussion, but I recently ran into problems with Transistor and was wondering if anyone could help. After a few hours of play the game suddenly stopped recognizing my keyboard, and a computer reboot, un/reinstalling the game, and un/reinstalling Steam didn't help. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[junior lagoon]

No issues with any other games?

[odd jay]

None among the others I have installed, just Transistor.

[formal estuary]

Try doing a clean boot then see if it works

[junior lagoon]

Not on my computer so I can't check, does Transistor have save files stored in the documents folder?

[formal estuary]

Yes, Documents/Saved games is the spot where you can find it

[junior lagoon]

Go into Documents / Saved Games / Transistor, then backup & delete any files with names like .ctrls or .sjson. I don't know that it will be exactly the same as I'm used to with Hades (if I was on my computer I would check) but I imagine they've used a similar setup

If you're not sure, you could DM me a screenshot of the Transistor folder

[odd jay]

Thanks, will try these out

[odd jay]

Tried a clean boot and got an error about how my Steam Service needs maintenance, is this expected lol

[junior lagoon]

I did not expect that :3 Not sure what it wants, either

[formal estuary]

because you didn't turn on steam services

I forgotten about that, my bad

[odd jay]

A clean boot fixed it 😩

Time to look for what's killing my keyboard

[formal estuary]

check for the other services that isn't from microsoft

maybe there is a hidden service/software(bloatware) that is causing this

My DM is open if you want further assistance

[odd jay]

Thank you both very much for the help! Will poke around more on my own but I'll keep your offers in mind if I get stuck again lol

[formal estuary]

You're welcome

[ember geode]

Another nice touch

Normal playthrough: "We're not gonna get away with this, are we"

Recursion: "We're not getting away with this, are we"

[formal estuary]

and with a different tone and a sound effect (similar to when you encounter the spine for the first time)!

I've got so many shower thoughts about this game

[ember geode]

Why does the core of the Transistor glow when it's being "suppressed"

[formal estuary]

you mean when the spine is near?

[ember geode]

Yeah

[formal estuary]

Maybe the spine was created to limit the transistor's powers and not make it do anything

(About the Process) remember : ||the process does what the people's votes wants||

[ember geode]

Why can't Red control the process

[formal estuary]

||And when you have the firewall access , you can do anything (just like in the later in the game where you can change the weather||

[formal estuary]

see , the whole thing was just because Red wanted her voice and Boxer wanted his body

Theory ||: the transistors is what keeps the process at bay, so when one of them got lost the process gone wild (maybe that's not the reason, but thats my theory, a g- no I'm not going to say it||

[signal nymph]

||I thought that was actual lore and the cradle is what keeps them at bay||

[ember geode]

You know what would have made the final boss cooler

||What if Royce could negate your turns() with his own||

||Like, you're planning your turn() and then he's like "sorry, that's not gonna work on me" and it forces you out of turn()||

[formal estuary]

||The cradle is the "break glass if in emergency" kinda thing , but it required all the transistors to be in||

[formal estuary]

||Like the Clucker's disruption, but that would throw the whole Turn() mechanic and forces the Action (which I don't play around that very much||

[ember geode]

||I wish Royce was harder, he is too easy; I was hoping that the fight would be such that I'd barely scrape by||

[signal nymph]

Same

[formal estuary]

Same

[signal nymph]

Honestly sybil is harder then ||royce|| becuase of what you have and when

[full tinsel]

I remember the first time i beat Transistor

[ember geode]

||Imagine if Royce could use get()||

[full tinsel]

The ending truly had me shook

[ember geode]

||He'd keep using Get() and then he'd just combo you into oblivion||

||And then if you tried to escape he'd use turn() and restart his combo||

||And the only way to survive would be to be hyper vigilant at all times||

[formal estuary]

Sybil has this patterns that you need to learn + since it's at the beginning of the game It's kinda hard for new players to understand what is happening with all the Turns,cells, weeds and cheerleaders and creeps.
I overloaded 3 times over her fight at my first run.

which (overexaggerating) is kinda darksouls-y if you don't play attention now that most new players don't know what limiters does..

[formal estuary]

always, it's (and its) fing always

[ember geode]

||What if Red moved on||

||What if she didn't commit sudoku in the ending||

[formal estuary]

||She will rebuild everything yes, but everyone has "logged off", and some went to belize (breakingbad reference) by the process||

||thus leaving her alone in the beautiful city of cloudbank!||

[full tinsel]

Yup.

It is a pretty unique story

With some really great music to go with it

Old Friends was my favorite

I cried the first time i heard it

[formal estuary]

It's one awesome way of starting a game

All of the soundtracks was awesome

especially Paper Boats, this one is insane

[full tinsel]

Paper Boats: I will always find

you

Transistor really did hit me in the feels

[formal estuary]

Every. Single. Time

[full tinsel]

I really felt a bond with the narrator, which happened to be inside the device i carried as I played as red

[formal estuary]

Logan cunningham (the voice of the narrator)!

yes, the same dude who was nominated for the Voice acting of Hades in.... Hades

[full tinsel]

Nice

He really did deserve an award though imo

[ember geode]

Zagreus' voice actor also deserves a lot of credit

Considering you hear his voice a lot more than Cunningham's

[formal estuary]

Isn't Zagerus VC is Darren?

I can't describe how multi-talented he is!

[ember geode]

Also, Zia's voice actor

We only hear her sing once, but that one time is awesome

Plus the few lines she does have convey a decent amount of emotion I think

[signal nymph]

Also eurydice (singing) and red

[formal estuary]

Red in-game or Red singing?

[signal nymph]

Both i think

[shrewd root]

I know she does the humming and singing, but if there are any other sounds for Red then I don't believe Ashley did them. That said, I don't think Red makes any other sounds?

[signal nymph]

She grunts some

I think

[full tinsel]

Red mostly doesn't speak

[cedar grove]

i believe her va is kristin wilson

[full tinsel]

Believe it or not

[signal nymph]

Wow i couldnt tell

[full tinsel]

She still is a great character

[cedar grove]

which she shares with sybil

[signal nymph]

The character wittb no tounge doesnt talk, color me suprised

Why dis they cut her tounge out?

[formal estuary]

the robotized voice makes Sybil a really cool singing character

[signal nymph]

Agreed

[white solar]

_n C_rcles or however you spell it blew my mind when it first played during phase 3 of the sybil boss fight

it was so robotic and mesmerizing

[ember geode]

Has anyone here ever heard of Shadowrun

[white solar]

it's on my steam wishlist

[signal nymph]

I got it free a whiile ago feom epic why?

[ember geode]

Transistor's world reminds me of Shadowrun kinda

[runic solar]

I never got around to the Shadowrun games off Epic, I’ve heard good things about them tho

[ember geode]

But without all the weird computer stuff

[signal nymph]

Yeah, shadowrun is definitly more dystopian tho

[white solar]

does it have creative combat like transistor?

i havent found a similar game where you can experiment and combine different abilities to the extent of transistor yet

[runic solar]

Nah, it’s a classic iso turn-based rpg

[white solar]

darn

[ember geode]

It's like XCOM kind of

You have cover and stuff

[signal nymph]

I love the creativity, like you said, i have yet to find a game that uses the wepons as, abilities, passives, and upgrades all in one

[noble portal]

Man I assumed you meant Shadowrun the TTRPG. Showing my age I guess XD

[pine hamlet]

...there's a non-TTRPG Shadowrun?

[signal nymph]

No its a videogame series, it might be absed on the ttrpg tho

[flint creek]

it is very much based on the TTRPG

^^

It's a direct adaptation

[signal nymph]

Oh ok

[pine hamlet]

Damn that's neat

[ember geode]

Does anyone here like turn-based strategy games?

If so, I would like to recommend Invisible Inc.

[formal estuary]

Never played any, would love to play some

Persona 5 looks cool

[ember geode]

It's a turn-based isometric stealth action game

[formal estuary]

Stealth?

[ember geode]

Now you may be wondering: How would a turn-based stealth game work?

Well, you'll just have to play Invisible Inc. to find out

But the general gist is that you have a ton of surveillance tools at your disposal

The game is all about knowing where the enemies are and positioning your characters to be out of their line of sight

[signal nymph]

It's really good

[formal estuary]

Love me some stealth games

[final helm]

How long is it?

[formal estuary]

I loved MGS and now I started playing the Dishonored series

[ember geode]

It's also a roguelike

[ember geode]

If you beat it on your first playthrough, you can beat it in an afternoon
But I suspect you won't

It's a roguelike, meaning that you will fail repeatedly

[signal nymph]

Theirs also an endless mode

[formal estuary]

a turn-based stealth rougelike game

I need to play it

[ember geode]

And it's not a Hades-style roguelike either, you lose everything if you fail

[signal nymph]

You keep unlocked characters tho

I think

[ember geode]

So lemme lay out the story for you

2031 - Corporations control the world with brutal efficiency

[signal nymph]

Shouls this goin #video-games

[ember geode]

Yes

[formal estuary]

yee

[ember geode]

What if Red ended up in the Transistor and Mr. Nobody stole it

In other words what if they were reversed

[signal nymph]

I would imagine around the same thing would happen, except hes REALLY angry

[ember geode]

He'd turn left without any hesitation

[rose plover]

@ember geode oh I know a few Bad North is one I enjoy. And the Shadow series

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[primal harbor]

Given how Unknown is referred to in the code, I imagine if he got the Transistor instead we'd probably get a couple scenes of him punching out some Process. Could make for a fun move that you can use during Turn recovery to stun enemies and do light damage.

[noble portal]

I mean, the “role reversal” was how the original draft of Transistor was conceived. We would have been playing the Boxer with Red as a disembodied presence along to help

[signal nymph]

Really? Didnt know that

[broken path]

if u scroll up enough in announcements, u can find the documentary on the og concepts! :D

[shrewd root]

You mean this doc? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2Pk2jP_6s

[signal nymph]

Gonna wach it later

[earnest basalt]

No but, how do you effectively use Charm or Charm-related stuff?

I find it difficult to work around the ability to nullify almost all of your foes and their attacks, but being unable to attack back.

[white solar]

Certain combinations with Switch allow you to damage them while they are switched. Something with Purge

Other than that, I never really liked switch

[formal estuary]

Switch is low-key useful late game vs the hair cuts, that stuff always one shots me

[outer garden]

Ok but like, the best damage combo will always be cull with load on it

If you’re close, guaranteed five hundred damage

[signal nymph]

Really?

Didnt know it was that big of a change

[outer garden]

Its pretty insane

Favorite late game combo

Here the thing though, it takes up most of the bar

[white solar]

huh? doesn't load only increase the damage by like 110%

which means the damage would be 247.5

[blissful mountain]

Yeah what?

Do you mean cull with spark?

Also 3x void will make pretty much anything do more damage than that

[junior lagoon]

3x void(crash) => Mask() => Cull(Load, something else) gets you about 2.5k damage

And fits within a single Turn()

[formal estuary]

Never used Cull()
but I think imma try to use it in the next run/NG+

[outer garden]

Lod increases it by way more than that

Also, load doesn’t just increase damage

[junior lagoon]

Also AoE

By a lot

[outer garden]

I’ll with load on it does the damage of cull, and then the blast from load does a ton more

[formal estuary]

I use Load as a standalone upgrade and have purge installed

[outer garden]

Load and cull are the highest damage attacks, in my opinion

So I put the together and was getting situations where I could one shot the hairspray at the end, and then would just have standalone jaunt to get away while the turn was on cool down

[formal estuary]

https://imgur.com/a/S8v98LI

that was my build

I use jaunt spark instead of tap

[junior lagoon]

This was my highest damage, most of the build is just above it. I was overkilling by more than 2k

Just can't use that build in real combat because I can't guarantee a full combo against certain enemies

[hexed nymph]

Watching the NoClip making of documentary.... So wonderful

[shrewd root]

All of the SGG noclip docs are quality! Glad you're enjoying the Transistor one

[delicate nebula]

I'm going to have to watch it as well then

I also love the video of the guy making the Transistor that talks

[formal temple]

hey does anyone know what sound effect/s were used on ||sybil's voice during the battle|| in transistor? i'm looking specifically for something or a combination of things to create that effect. i've heard it in a few songs since then and it's really been bugging me :'(

[still zealot]

the processing?

I doubt it's a specific thing, more likely a combination of effects