transistor

[frank minnow]

I feel like Royce looks a lot like young Picasso. I feel like that was intentional

[ripe mica]

does anyone know if there's a plan to fix the ps5 version of transistor?

[quiet cape]

I think someone said once it's a known issue.

yeah just below this

this message that is

[ripe mica]

I guess I'm wondering if there's an update now after all these months

[quiet cape]

try contacting the Supergiant Games to see if there is a date here: https://www.supergiantgames.com/contact/

[ripe mica]

all right, i will... thank you 🙂

[quiet cape]

alright have a nice day

[obtuse zodiac]

I’m writing an essay partially about transistor and existentialism for my English class, does anyone know of rare or easily missable dialogue/events, such as ||Sybil’s ramblings, Royce’s disbelief if you kill him super quick, or Mr. Nobody’s joke||?

[noble portal]

not sure what in specific you're after but I do know there are unique dialogues triggered when using functions in the "no pressure" area of the Sandbox. If you fire a function 2 or 3 times consecutively, swordfriend will comment on it. (eg. Using Void() repeatedly yields "Matches your hair.")

Each OVC poll response has a unique reaction from him as well

[obtuse zodiac]

Thanks! I didn’t know about the practice area voice lines, I only went in there to get the achievements

[noble portal]

yeah I found it by accident too, but it's one of my favourite little secrets

[obtuse zodiac]

My favorite is in the young lady spawning(?) room

Also, what happens if you don’t order flat bread from junction jan’s?

[noble portal]

omg it never even crossed my mind

that opens up some possibilities bc like a) can you even back out of that menu? b) does he react if you just walk past that terminal? c) CAN you even walk past that terminal or will the area gate? d)can youa ccess your apartment if you skip that terminal? e) what woudl the still be? 🤔 🤔 🤔

MY MIND

[calm jackal]

I think the pizza scene still happens

The implication is that you ordered the pizza before?

[obtuse zodiac]

Guess I’ll be playing through at least to that point again and I’ll share my findings

[noble portal]

lol

[obtuse zodiac]

@noble portal the pizza scene in red's apartment still occurs. and you can skip getting the trace of the guy right before the empty set

[noble portal]

huh. I figured you can skip the non-functional trace in the Empty Set. Interesting that the pizza terminal isn't a gate XD

thanks

[obtuse zodiac]

mr nobody said red had gotten the supremo deluxe 🍴

[noble portal]

ah

[graceful spindle]

I just bought Transistor (and Bastion) on sale on the switch, and I’m so excited to play it!

[obtuse zodiac]

good luck!

[hidden adder]

Hi, I was hoping I could get an update on the corrupted save game issues on ps5 for transistor

[noble portal]

I think so far it’s “Known issue, no fix as of yet.”

[hidden adder]

bummer

[ripe mica]

I just got a support email response about this, hope it's ok to post here: ```Sorry about the issue you've encountered with Transistor! We're aware that there are problems saving progress on PS5 and are currently looking into solutions.

Thanks for your patience,
Ellis
Supergiant Games```

[full peak]

|| When the Red I love you so much line hits you ||

|| Playing through this game again hurts just as much as the first time I played it for me||

[open elm]

they knew about this issue since last year. Just expect it to never be fixed so its a nice surprise if it ever happens.

[noble portal]

In defense of SG, Hades development pressure + a literal year of covid + tiny team of people + the issue could well be on SONY’s software end = a long and unfortunate delay in patching it

[signal nymph]

• 10 years in the future *
  I walk in and sit down at a table in a coffee shop, vintage relaxing music is playing, paper boats comes on, I start sobbing. In the corner someone else is sobbing. We lock eyes, soulmates for life

[steep elbow]

sasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasa

[granite vessel]

the river always finds the sea yo

[signal nymph]

i assume this is a bot as they have no chat history. @ mods

[drifting timber]

Looks like they left. Thanks for the heads up.

[velvet jacinth]

i go from needing to scream about blue lions in fire emblem to spotify wanting to play paper boats and its just ._.

today has been great so far

paper boats just makes me smile though, such a good song for a beautiful ending

[gentle basalt]

Does the game use Metal on Mac?

[rose plover]

|| enjoying ng plus|| so far i noticed || the enemies are different this round ||

[noble portal]

Yeah they’re both ||upgraded and different types/placements in some places||

[obtuse zodiac]

||men ||are everywhere

[noble portal]

I hate them XD

[craggy hamlet]

Oh noes

Chuckles

Im in danger

[echo urchin]

The only thing worse than ||men|| are ||haircuts||

[rose plover]

Ikr

[noble portal]

wait a minute

I just realized somehting about the screenshot I posted in #fan-works and I gotta do some quick cross-referencing

BUSTED

Royce stole a chair from the Empty Set XD

[signal nymph]

this is #transistor after dark, and we just confirmed Royce bracket is a dirty little thief

[noble portal]

2 images https://sablegear0.tumblr.com/post/650656086837297152/busted-you-nerd-you-see-those-chairs-over-on-the

I acknowledge it's probably just a simple matter of re-using an asset that probably wouldn't be visible anyway, but this is funnier to me

[signal nymph]

what if the empty set stole all the chairs from royce? What if he had enough seats in his office for the audience of a concert, seems eccentric enough

[zealous stag]

i am

[noble portal]

"This way I never have to find a chair. You see. They're everywhere, in every room. I can sit down. Wherever. Makes walkng around a bit difficult, does make it a bit difficult, I'll admit. But the bulk of the, convenience, is the sheer amount of sitting-space."

[zealous stag]

very confused

[signal nymph]

this is a perfect quote

[noble portal]

I have a lot of practice

[signal nymph]

can we call up Royce's voice actor and have him say that, please

[zealous stag]

i admit i want to hear that thats for sure

[signal nymph]

based on this quote i have an idea, i just need to exectue it, anyone have that image of royce too close to his camera?

[noble portal]

oddly enough I don't, fell out of my most recent playthrough before then XD

[signal nymph]

heres my idea: "Hey vsauce (Its micheal but his face is royce's screen thingy) royce here. CHAIRS"

[rose plover]

|| why are haircuts so pesky ?|| also || these young ladies need to chill LOL||

[languid trail]

Royce walks out of the Empty Set with a suspicious chair shaped bulge stretching the back of his jacket

[bright axle]

Royce is wearing the chair like a hat

[noble portal]

Maybe he got stuck in it and had to stumble home with it XD

[bright axle]

"I swear this was on purpose i promise"

[lilac juniper]

subtly attaches a wheeled engine to his chair so he can drive it back home

[obtuse zodiac]

as payment for making bracket towers he got the chair

[keen karma]

"mr. bracket. bring us the chair and wipe away the debt"

[frank pagoda]

okay but what if the chairs are tiny and they're all over him and it's like he's a chair tree

This is brought to you by 1am

[signal nymph]

consider this, royce moonlights as a chair maker and that is a chair he just never sent to the empty bracket

[lilac juniper]

he admires the construction of the empty set chairs so much that he absolutely had to make one of his own

[zealous stag]

so im on my second recursion of transistor

what shall i expect this time around for ng++

[signal nymph]

||not much, just any levels you missed as far as I know, but otherwise you just get to play again through the story with a full loadout||

[zealous stag]

rad.

time to grind for 48 memory

[signal nymph]

||you max out at level 30 by the way, but good luck||

[noble portal]

You do get everything by then, I don’t think there’s anything you can “miss” or get locked out of

[obtuse zodiac]

just sit back and enjoy the show

[white solar]

There might be some tidbits of dialogue you might have missed by not clicking on the cues, I know I did

[rose geyser]

transistor

[obtuse zodiac]

thank you megaera

[white solar]

does anyone have that one art of Red as a hollow knight bug, the tweet also had other supergiant characters as hollow knight bugs

[junior lagoon]

you mean the stuff in #fan-works ?

@white solar

[white solar]

No there was a different one

[junior lagoon]

o

[zealous stag]

im interested, who else do you remember hollow knight'ing Red?

[full peak]

I'll be honest, I thought that's what you were going for.

[signal nymph]

https://twitter.com/rewjioh/status/887875396556869632

rewjio (@rewjioh)

Gotta play this eventually. Transistor was great, so I'm excited to try some more gams.

#hollowknight #hornet

Twitter · Jul 20, 2017, 3:22 AM

this is the only thing i found

[noble portal]

I think I have it somewhere, will take some digging though

Ugh it’s in my Tumblr faves so I have no way of finding it except infinite scrolling

Unless there’s a way to search your faves? I tried on mobile but it only let me search my own posts

[noble portal]

Idk I can’t find it, it’s gone forever 😞

[white solar]

Ikr, i tried searching my Twitter bookmarks but it's gone to history 😔

[rose plover]

:D haircuts

[little pagoda]

TO 👐 THE 👥 PEOPLE 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 OF CLOUD ☁️ BANK 🏦💽: WE DID THIS 😹💯
WE 😼 THE CAMERATA 🏳️‍🌈❤️🖤 ARE 😼 RESPONSIBLE 🙋‍♂️📢 FOR INEXCUSABLE 🗣️ CRIMES 😿 COMMITTED 💍🙏 AGAINST ⚔️ THIS CITY 🌇 AND HER CITIZENS 😹🧑‍🤝‍🧑
THIS IS 📤 A FORMAL 👨‍💼 ADMISSION 📰✔️ OF GUILT 🙀‼️
I ✋🧣 SOLEMNLY 😾 SWEAR 🤬✒️ EVERYTHING WRITTEN 📝 HERE ⬇️ IS TRUE ✌️😔
KNOW 💭 THAT I ✍️😼 AM RESPONSIBLE 🙀👏 FOR THESE 🤐 HEINOUS 🤢🚯 ACTS 😿 PERPETRATED 💐 AGAINST ⚡🗡️ THE CITY 🌉 OF CLOUD⛅BANK 🏙️😹
MY 🫂👬 ACCOMPLICES 😳 ARE SYBIL 🥳👒 REISZ 🕴️, ROYCE 👨‍🔬🥼 BRACKET 🖥️, AND GRANT 🎅 KENDRELL 🤵‍♂️. WE ALONE 🧍‍♂️ ARE TO 💐 BLAME 😿😹
😼 PERHAPS 💁‍♂️ OUR WORST 😲 SIN 👿❌ IS YOU 👇 WILL GET 🛑 NO ⌛ JUSTICE ⚖️👨‍⚖️
FOR NOW 🤷‍♂️ WE ALL SHARE 😿🤝 THE SAME 🔄 SENTENCE 🪤🤍

(credit for this atrocity goes to catboyroycebracket on tumblr)

[signal nymph]

oh god i hate it

[noble portal]

[lilac juniper]

my god

that’s an assault on the eyes

[junior lagoon]

It's beautiful

[obtuse zodiac]

its moments like these that i can truly appreciate being able to close my eyes

[signal nymph]

its moments like these that i can truly hate beign able to open my eyes

[pulsar cypress]

uhhh is this the only place on discord for transistor or is there a dedicated server too?

coz I just started it and holy

I love it so much the complexity and the functions and I'm scared I made the wrong choices choosing them levelling up and I can't figure out which to put in my loadout and it's so exciting and amazing

and the music

the singing oh god

[calm jackal]

Beautiful game yeah

[pulsar cypress]

what exactly do limiters do

and does the "MEM" ever increase or am I stuck with 16

wait limiters make the game harder??? for like very little level bonus?

[calm jackal]

You can get more mem when you level up

And you level up a little faster with limiters

But generally limiters just make the game more fun once you're comfortable with the difficulty

[junior lagoon]

some of them really add to the dynamic of the game, some just make it numerically harder

[pulsar cypress]

aight

dude the help thing with the load upgrade is just wild

[calm jackal]

Yeah load upgrade can be great

[calm jackal]

Load might be the best for early game damage

Eventually you unlock some really nice fxs

[obtuse zodiac]

void makes me drool

[pulsar cypress]

what's the best single target damage you can achieve by level 6 or 7

like early game hard hitting combos

[calm jackal]

Really depends on the functions you picked

Show us your loadout

Early game I think sneak attack backstabs are strong?

[pulsar cypress]

I can't post pics aaah

ok so I took load with breach and jaunt upgrdades, spark with crash, and mask with ping

[stone shoal]

Using something like imgur or another discord server and posting the link to that works

[pulsar cypress]

it's fine actually I figured it out I think this might be pretty strong

plus a lot of the enemies don't have backs? or some attacks don't count for backstabs I think

and the bounce thing as my passive for shield

[calm jackal]

I love bounce passive

Yeah if you hit a crashed enemy in the back after mask, you probably deal a ton of damage

Only some attacks can backstab yeah

AOE effects can't

[pulsar cypress]

I see

[calm jackal]

Sometimes I crash(breach, mask)

[pulsar cypress]

doesn't breach do more damage tho

[calm jackal]

Yeah but lower attack rate iirc

Breach(crash) and crash(breach) are pretty similar

[obtuse zodiac]

crash also makes enemies more vulnerable to damage from other sources, like load

[pulsar cypress]

I see

I was earlier using spark(crash) to get the enemies vulnerable in an area but that has weird interactions with load

and oh man I just realised I use load(breach, jaunt) so I can't do crash(breach)

I really need to spend some time in the practice area

[pulsar cypress]

https://imgur.com/fJoAZsF

can you guys suggest something

ngl thinking that purge would have been better than cull a little maybe

[velvet jacinth]

now im just thinking how my engame build was void with packets and crash and i forgot what i put as my 4th but i was literally killing chunky enemies in 1 turn

[calm jackal]

Purge is nice but cull hits really really hard

https://gfycat.com/disguisedonlyamericanbadger

[pulsar cypress]

ooh nice cull spark

I'm running cull breach thinking of putting ping or load on it but spark sounds good

but wait do they all even hit coz doesn't it launch them upwards

[calm jackal]

Oh yeah this one's for crowds

I dunno if I'd recommend it but it sure is flashy

[lilac juniper]

cull hits once, after which point the enemies are safely airborne

i don’t typically use it since it takes up so much turn space

[pulsar cypress]

at this point I don't understand how this game works at all

[noble portal]

Lol

Did you need a hand? XD

[pulsar cypress]

yes man

[pulsar cypress]

this is still pretty much all I have

[lilac juniper]

i’m no expert myself, so others can weigh in and contradict, but i’d recommend putting less mem into cull: it already hits like a truck without augmentations, and it also doesn’t stack (only hits once at a time)

spark and cull are both area of effect attacks: maybe diversify a bit?

though of course, you can change your loadout regularly to prepare yourself for different types of enemies

[patent marsh]

i forgot how nice the animations in this game were

[obtuse zodiac]

putting out a couple packets with load() then using ping(jaunt) to activate them out of turn hits real hard, especially against bosses

[pulsar cypress]

guys void is apparently really good right

should I take more passive or more mem aaaa I'll take one more passive ig coz why not right? I think mem shouldn't really be a problem ideally

should have taken mem

ok ok ok

void(crash) is too good

and then slap a backstab cull on that

that's 885 damage holy

I ADDED UNMASK AND IT'S ALMOST 2000 DAMAGE

WAIT I'LL PUT IMAGE

https://imgur.com/a/pRGsqRu

oh wait no I also put load on the cull but still dude holy

don't you love it when actually good at the game

[calm jackal]

Void is good 👍

[pulsar cypress]

void is mad crazy

void(crash) is mad mad crazy mad

if I didn't want spark on my jaunt I'd do void(crash, spark) for instant destruction

I should still do that tbh

but idt there's any other damaging jaunt upgrade

https://imgur.com/Wv7exjm

3000 damage

jaunt(breach) is just anime katana slash

[calm jackal]

Jaunt is one of the most flexible functions..

[lilac juniper]

you can never go wrong with void

i’ve never done a run without jaunt as a primary function. the mobility is just too good.

[calm jackal]

When you're doing high limit runs, jaunt upgrade is essential

[noble portal]

hah

my favourite dumb combo I call "Admin priviliges"; Tap(void(jaunt)). Just wander into a group of enemies and spam that until everything goes away XD

it's not good, but it does the job

[pulsar cypress]

aah i don't have tap yet

I want get and tap

is the flood passive good?

[calm jackal]

I run flood passive sometimes...

Flood passive + bounce passive makes you a lot harder to kill but its overkill most of the time

[pulsar cypress]

yea thinking of running flood and bounce passive

[calm jackal]

Wouldn't you rather deal damage?

[pulsar cypress]

I mean yea

flood passive is just something that i'll do if I can do it

[pulsar cypress]

is the tap passive worth it

or I think I read somewhere about void(tap)

should I go for that

I'm doing more damage than I need to anyways

[calm jackal]

Tap passive is overrated

Tap upgrade is better than flood passive

Could even run tap atk and put crash on it or somethin

[white solar]

Best part about void (crash) is it's even op out of turn, because you can spam it and it stuns them

[pulsar cypress]

damn I think I just finished the game?

oooooh begin recursion damn

man what an ending

[rose plover]

Nice Pyro

[calm jackal]

Recursion... welcome to the REAL game

See what happens after you unlock all functions

[zealous stag]

what if i told you you can do +10,000 total damage in the sandbox

for example

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713548060403433474/843889973110636584/image0.jpg

[junior lagoon]

Hmm, lemme find mine

[zealous stag]

oh boy

im lookin foward to it

[junior lagoon]

Mm, not quite that high, but pretty good

But uhh. Boreder is insane

[zealous stag]

a tip; cull() should be the last move you use on the training process

you can soften em up with get(bounce) and crash()

which in turn leads to more damage

[junior lagoon]

Pretty sure that's what I did

[zealous stag]

you use void() and mask()?

yes

[junior lagoon]

Definitely used those, yeah

[zealous stag]

hot damn though, boreder is a friggin' unit

[junior lagoon]

I think I softened with bounce (?)

It was ages ago though lmao

[zealous stag]

true but still

that's a record i wanna try and beat now

[white solar]

Woo still waiting for someone to beat my high score 💪 👊

[zealous stag]

i'll get to it soon

gotta get to the next sandbox and i'll start gettin to it

[zealous stag]

what was your setup?

[white solar]

a transgician never reveals their secrets ;)

[zealous stag]

:(

[white solar]

(transistor magician) (?))

[zealous stag]

(real??)

[white solar]

well ill tell you guys when you beat it

[zealous stag]

im at 37019 damage rn

[white solar]

that's close

[echo urchin]

Managed to get the platinum for ps4 today

[zealous stag]

just gotta see is cull(void(cull)) is the key

[white solar]

what was your setup?

[white solar]

also sorry for the swear. ill try to not do it again

[zealous stag]

passives: ping() breach()
attacks: get(spark(bounce)), mask(mask(crash)), cull(void(cull)), void(crash)

thats the whole loadout

okay

i may have found it

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713548060403433474/843963280749494302/image0.jpg

[white solar]

😭

[zealous stag]

its time

for the record to be broken

NOOOOOO

IVE BEEN SCAMMED
27,800 DAMAGE

WHAT

[white solar]

https://tenor.com/view/dance-kid-club-gif-9152583

[zealous stag]

so apparently

one is being missed

not only one

but sometimes two

why the hell is ONE being missed

most recent turn planned me 20,000 damage for a cull() on each process, gave me 28,000 in reality in total

scam

new record: 37,137 from 37,019, which is a 118 point increase
even though the cull had a planned value of 20,000 again

new record: 37157 from 37157, 20 point increase

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713548060403433474/843968878467743754/image0.jpg

new record: 37168 from 37157, 11 point increase
man this is gonna take a while to get the damage to work

new record: 37204 from 37168, 36 point increase
im very slowly inching my way up

mind you im at user.level 30

[zealous stag]

i give up
for now

[rose plover]

I enjoyed NG+

That was fun.

:)

Now I need to do it for Bastion but I'll save that for another day LOL

[pulsar cypress]

How do you get multiple of the same function

What's

[calm jackal]

Once you unlock every function you start unlocking a second one of them

[little pagoda]

void (void) void

[rose plover]

Lol truth @little pagoda

[granite vessel]

Fetches can reaaalllyyy go away

[white solar]

Fetches are worse than men tbh

[signal nymph]

this just in transistor fans think dogs are worse then male humans

[lilac juniper]

nah, men are worse

i've wasted attacks on them while they were "hidden"

[mellow seal]

I spend almost all of my time in Turn() so hidden men aren’t too hard to spot. Although fetches annoy me.

[calm jackal]

Men like to think they're hidden but we can always see em

Fetches are REALLY hidden

[obtuse zodiac]

the stealth of men is about as subtle as a haircut explosion

[noble portal]

it's more that you can't hit them when they're 'hidden,' I agree that Fetches are worst ebcause they fully mask and they're fast

[lilac juniper]

^^this exactly. though honestly i forgot that fetches could mask

[noble portal]

It’s Transistorversary today, isn’t it? 🤔

[obtuse zodiac]

🎊 🥳

[strong zephyr]

🎉 🎉

[brisk jackal]

[woeful frigate]

Congratulations Supergiant team! I think it's about time to replay Transistor

[oblique mantle]

🪅 🪅

The Cloudbank skyline has been and more than likely always will be my phone wallpaper (it's my Steam profile Background, too)

[bright axle]

[keen karma]

Happy birthday to the best game ever made

[left roost]

happy 7th birthday to this gem!!

[keen karma]

The best steam background, had it for ages now too

[left roost]

still remember my first time crying to it like it was yesterday

[left roost]

TRUEEE

[keen karma]

The colors are SO GOOD

[left roost]

frfr

[brisk jackal]

im so absolutely in love with transistors whole vibe, theres no other game like it i believe

[keen karma]

I wish there was. Maybe there is

[left roost]

its one of those games i can never stop going back to

[brisk jackal]

transistor 2 when /jk
but seriously, i love it so much

[formal estuary]

It's been a while, but Happy Birthday !

[old cosmos]

tfw no versatile transistor modding

[woeful frigate]

I just put the soundtrack on for a ride

the vibes are just too big

[formal estuary]

[uncut nest]

Happy Birthday to Transistor! I still remember playing it on release day and basically finishing it in two sittings cause I was so gripped by it. The soundtrack is constantly on my reg rotation. My top games change quite a bit but I can easily say this one is my #1

[formal estuary]

It's been 6 months since I've played the game and Wow, it was incredible

Funny enough, It's now my go to character for RPGs, I already did Red as V in CP77, and maybe I'll try to make a Shepard based off her in Mass Effect

[left roost]

it's so so good

i have the entire ost liked on Spotify and i stream it all the time

i need to get my siblings to finish it too bc they've both begun it and you can't not finish this masterpiece

[formal estuary]

For those who missed it: here's my V (the main character) as Red
#fan-works message

It's all in an imgur link , and I've added quite few pics now 🥰

[left roost]

nice!!

[formal estuary]

Thank you! ,she's so beautiful

[inland mirage]

no way me too
granted I don't play female characters too often but when I do I always make them look like red

[formal estuary]

I don't play a lot of games that have custom characters, Cyberpunk 2077 was my first game 😅

[zealous stag]

imagine

Red as a mii

but this game has been amazing for me

and i like it

and i shall continue drawing bug Red and bug Boxer

perhaps bug-ify some other characters

[keen karma]

Please do

[zealous stag]

perhaps bug Process?

im interested to see how i would do some of them

[formal estuary]

Despite me not being active in here, I honestly spent the time I've been lurking looking at your progression with bug Red

and I love it

[zealous stag]

thank

[formal estuary]

you're welcome

Oh yeah I remember I made such a beautiful edit couple months ago

[zealous stag]

ooo

sauce?

[formal estuary]

This

[zealous stag]

holy crap this is amazing

[formal estuary]

Haha thank you

it's so beautiful

[zealous stag]

honk

[left roost]

work of art 🥺

transistor but the entirety of the dialogue is honks in different voices

[zealous stag]

honksistor

if

IF

[formal estuary]

IF

[zealous stag]

someone was able to make transistor from the ground up

same everything

but made the entire cast gooses and ducks

i would die happy

[formal estuary]

It's just Red goose running around

[zealous stag]

yes

[formal estuary]

Royce and Grant running around Red

trying to catch her

[zealous stag]

honksistor

[woven spruce]

man,,,,, this game was what got me into sgg as a whole, someone's longplay of it got in my yt recs

i remember thinking red was a spy and the voice was her mission control

and not knowing what was happening and having to look up the lore

[formal estuary]

You're not alone, I got into SGG cuz of this game, and I'll always appreciate SGG and the games they make

[teal abyss]

I discovered it after Hades but I really liked that game, chill and comfy even though the story rythme is quite zooming

[formal estuary]

I mean come on, I have two characters as my profile picture

[south canyon]

same

[woven spruce]

i remember feeling how lonely transistor was

[formal estuary]

(yes it's animated)

[woven spruce]

like the turn() being echoey instrumental and hums hammered home

[formal estuary]

Gateless and Vanishing point alone is just

[brisk jackal]

i remember getting briefly into transistor like two years after it released, and when hades got released with the "from the creators of bastion and transistor!" thing i had to do a double take bc i didnt realize its all sgg 😂

[formal estuary]

Oh yeah me too, my friends was like "this is the same dev"

[noble portal]

latest WIP longfic in #fan-works , for what it's worth 🙂

[brisk jackal]

oh my 👀👀👀

[formal estuary]

yooooo, Sable keeping this party up rn

[brisk jackal]

def gonna check it out later

[still zealot]

Happy birthday to the game that introduced me to SGG! 🥳

[rose plover]

Transistor: a masterpiece

[white solar]

I love you Transistor

i would have made something for the transistorversary but uni is kicking my bottom

[vagrant socket]

Good luck with university!! I feel your pain

[languid trail]

Happy birthday Transistor , a masterpiece, a classic, an enigma

[vast canyon]

since the launch Transistor!
@frigid raven there's an of missing. Congratulations on the anniversary!

[mint sigil]

A friend linked me to this discord, and I had to jump in to wish Transistor a wonderful happy birthday! Also one of the two times I've truly ugly-cried during a game. Favorite memory would have to be meeting the Supergiant team at pax east in my Red costume; everyone was truly the sweetest

[minor crystal]

hbday transistor

[trim hatch]

Happy birthday Transistor!!

https://youtu.be/XMPsKCojeXU?t=107

This is the part that makes me every time

[vagrant socket]

bro me too the fudge

[white solar]

https://saintryuu.tumblr.com/post/173792077217/a-shining-couple-on-the-stairwell-transistor-x

[signal nymph]

7 YEARS nah that's too long I'm good

[granite pivot]

good times fly quickly

[full peak]

Just wanted to say Thank you Supergiant for making Transistor, I have only played it just recently but I think it is one of my most favorite games ever it was such a wonderful and amazing experience that I am so glad I played, I always responded back to Mr.Nobody's little interactions while playing just because he was so endearing, the ending was truly so impactful and made me cry so much and the music is something that I constantly listen to. So thank you supergiant for an amazing 7 years of this wonderful game!

[glacial widget]

Congrats to 7 years since Transistor! It's what really got me into gaming years back

[inland heart]

❤️ Transistor

The matrix can go hide itself

[tawdry compass]

Can't believe it's been 7 years since Transistor came out. I remember playing it on my iPad before I became a big PC gamer and bought it on Steam. The music is phenomenal and has been a part of my music rotation ever since. The art and design are so beautiful and unique and the story kept me hooked until the very end. It's also one of the things that inspired me to start sword fighting recently. I should replay the game in honor of the anniversary sometime, I really miss it.

[lilac juniper]

Late, but can’t belive Transistor’s 7 years old! First showed up on my steam recommends after playing the shadowrun trilogy, and I got it when I realized it was made by the folks responsible for Bastion. Three things drew me into the game and kept me going: the music (which incidentally has played a part in helping me focus on my work during this online year!), the atmosphere (created by the stunning artwork and detail) and the emotions: Red’s love for Boxer and her hope of restoring him, the loneliness of the city (||finding that Grant and Asher were dead really hammered in the loneliness||) It’s a great game, and one of a kind (just like the other three!) So happy seven years and here’s to the future.

[granite vessel]

I played Transistor ages ago but it never truly resonated with me until I re-played it a few months ago on my PS4. Whoever came up with the using the light of the controller to let Sword Boyfriend 'talk' to you: I will have your babies if the situation deems it necessary. The music has always been amazing; Blank Canvas and Paper Boats are the OTP of musical numbers that need to be played together all the time.

[cold rover]

Hey guys! Transistor is a special game to me because it was the first sgg game i played and got me more into indies . Also the first game i listened to the soundtrack before playing the game and i loved it! Much love to you guys at sgg. U guys have a special place in my heart. Also shoutout to the community here,alot of good peepz. Cheers

[velvet jacinth]

ik this is late but still transistor was one hell of a game. i got it on epic when it was free(which i feel bad for its worth 60$ ;w;) and i just fell in love. It was my 3rd sgg game after hades and tbh i loved it so much more. The art is just stunning, the music is just vibin, the gameplay was super cool imo, and goddamn that story hit hard. and to think that its 7 years old(makes me feel a bit old and im only a teenager :/) and its still amazing by modern standards is just perfect. Sgg yall made a masterpiece and you keep making masterpieces and prove yourselves as just a stellar game company and im here to support you guys with whatever you do next <3 (i would love a bastion 2 ngl >_>)

[serene inlet]

Happy birthday Transistor!!! 🎉 And no I didn't cry at the end, whoever told you that is lying

[signal nymph]

hearsey

[velvet jacinth]

i didnt cry at the end but man did i want to

[noble portal]

I definitely came really close ngl 🥺

still can;t listen to Paper Boats 7 years on XD

[stoic plover]

The soundtrack from the 2nd ep of season 1 Love death and robots: Matthew Perryman Jones - Living in the Shadows
reminds me soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much of the general sound of the transistor ost

[vital maple]

Finally playing transistor!!! endgame spoilers kind of: || i thought transistor was easy and then i started the recursion and BOY DOES IT GET HARDER 💀💀💀||

https://i.imgflip.com/2mhjis.jpg

[vital maple]

so uhh, i had the limiter where uninstalling functions would overload them, but now a bunch of them say "Repaired in ? more access points"

are... are they gonna come back 🥺

[junior lagoon]

pretty sure? you just don't get to know how long

[vital maple]

ahh yay thank you!! i was worried lol

[mossy cloud]

I love this game so much. Thanks super giant for another masterpiece!

[zenith beacon]

now it's hardsistor

[velvet jacinth]

ISTFG i decided to unmute the music bot in a call im in and it started playing paper boats ;-;

[wooden sparrow]

When we getting our transistor dlc 😦

[noble portal]

bruh XD

fr tho we gotta get Sunkrish Bala back in the recording booth and get a Royce voice pack for recursions

[white solar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/688662242190688276/846475762210308116/No_No_He27s_Got_A_Point_Banner.png

[strong hill]

Oh no. I missed Transistors birthday. Happy late birthday Transistor

[wooden sparrow]

Will patron for transistor, sadge

[zenith beacon]

i mean...
what would transistor DLC even look like?

the story is done - there's nothing more to say there

all i can think of is a bunch of extra challenges and arenas and what not

and maybe some new functions

or maaaaaaaaayyyybeeeeeee...

||transistor multiplayer! ||

[wooden sparrow]

Theres a lot to explore what do u mean

Its based off a computer system in a huge god damn world

You can explore the Group, You can explore the backstories of others, you can see a sequel or prequel that leads to the loop-theres a ton of dlc you can do without hurting the main gem story

[lilac juniper]

||some intrepid souls in cyberspace (?) discover what remins of cloudbank and attempt to uncover it, learning its history and cleaning up what remains of the process, who've made the city their own in the meantime||

[wooden sparrow]

I know thats what a lot of people worry about, but you can always explore things

I think exploring the group would be a huge dlc

Considering their involvement with the loop and their roles in CB

[zenith beacon]

yeah that's... kinda my point
a whole story like that seems to be a bit too much for a DLC

[noble portal]

then just "Silksong" it XD

[zenith beacon]

and besides
how would we cram it into existing transistor gameplay?

[lilac juniper]

it would have to be another game entirely, true

[zenith beacon]

while using existing sprites for red and all the cool animations and attack

[noble portal]

VN prequel where you play as the Camerata and arrange assassinations

[wooden sparrow]

There are multiple big games that explored their antagonistic factions

[zenith beacon]

cause re-rendering that for a new character would be a hassle

[wooden sparrow]

You over thinking a bit to much I think

[zenith beacon]

am i now?

like - just think of aaaaallllll the animations red has when using a transistor

for all the functions and what not

[wooden sparrow]

There are depths that can be explored without a prolonged story or high additional content rehaul

Roy has a bunch of animations too coufh

[zenith beacon]

now - if they were to cast a new character for that new story - they would have to redo each and every single one of them

thats... a lot

[zenith beacon]

oh yeah

huh

yeah i totally forgot about R O Y C E

[wooden sparrow]

Roy is a Camereta, and his a ton of animations, and he would make sense of a main character of that plot line to begin with

[zenith beacon]

[wooden sparrow]

If I recall, Royce is the ring leader aint he? Or is it the old guy

[zenith beacon]

yeah you have a point there

i mean

he knows how to handle a transistor

[wooden sparrow]

I know Royce has a HUGE part of the story, and we know he has some awareness of the going ons

[zenith beacon]

he could be a protag in this theoretical new story

[wooden sparrow]

Woulsnt say he knows the loop..but he sure does

Know a few things he definitely shouldn't from the prospective he was displayed

Theres still no doubt a dlc for that group that would certainly not need to much work and help expand the plot without breaking the mystery to hard

[zenith beacon]

but then again

SGGs don't really do DLCs

besides like... bastion

[wooden sparrow]

Shhhhh

Petition power.

[zenith beacon]

pffffffffffffffffffffff

please

what power?

[wooden sparrow]

If we beg enough they'll eventually have to say something

[noble portal]

I will respect that Transistor is a complete and contained work and defend that tot he death, but at the same time I admit it would be cool to see more content

I want more Camerata content XD

[zenith beacon]

SGGs have been around for 10 years and all this time they've proven time and again to do their own thing
do what they feel best about

which i respect

[white solar]

I will always still tout the idea of a transistor prequel comic miniseries

[zenith beacon]

their games are better off this way
made when everyone is on the same page
and when everyone's excited to do the thing

instead of having to do a thing, you know what i mean?

[noble portal]

I'd love an animated miniseries tbh

mainly just bc I want to see hear the VAs back in action

[zenith beacon]

i mean - sure - we can all talk about some theoretical made up prequels and sequels and what not
but i'd rather want them to do something new and fresh, you know?

like - for years i've been thinking about how a prequel to bastion would look like
a prequel RTS portraying the war between ura and caelondia

but that ain't gonna happen

and i respect the hell out of that approach
each game being a full experience, from start to finish
no cliffhangers, no sequel baits, no season passes for story DLC or anything like that

you do you, supergiants
||now go and make me a horror game ||
||jk||

[white solar]

I would also be up for a moving comic with narration and voice acting

At this point id be up for a puppet show tbh

[noble portal]

omg Thunderbolt Fantasy tho

Get that studio on the line they could do it XD

[white solar]

Yeah I mean im for the idea that they make unique games each time and new stories, but something like a minicomic would be like a separate thing that they could do for each game

[noble portal]

it's literally a story about magic swords XD

[white solar]

Like how TF2 has a comic

[white solar]

I should google that

[noble portal]

it's pretty amazing. It's basically an ongoing fantasty epic with Anime-grade action but it's all puppets and like 80% practical effects

Seeing anything Transistor-related in that style would be bonkers

[zenith beacon]

maybe
but seeing their faces looking like they're having vietnam flashbacks when talking about transistor in that noclip documentary makes me think they would have a hard time going back to that universe

that period was rough, apparently

[white solar]

That sounds amazing

Actually i think a Dark Crystal style would work well for a Bastion tv show

[zenith beacon]

oh nooooo

i cannot imagine that universe working in a tv show form

[noble portal]

tbh Pyre feels very sports-anime (friendships, adversity, failure, redemption) but that's not a conversation for this channel XD

[white solar]

I dunno, I think seeing the Kid, Zia, and Rucks as puppets would look so cute 😆

But again thats not for this channel to talk about

[zenith beacon]

anywhoo - prequelsistor ain't happening

as much as i would love to see that

[signal nymph]

prequelsistor lol

[zenith beacon]

if the next SGG game turns out to be in the transistor universe i will eat my shoes

[lilac juniper]

part of the appeal of sgg is waiting for what entirely new thing they'll come up with next. it's a whole different feeling than waiting for a sequel or prequel

[zenith beacon]

ye

[lilac juniper]

personally i look forward to experiencing yet another way to get emotionally destroyed

[zenith beacon]

can't wait to keep crying my eyes out in their next game because the story will turn out to go in a loop of sadness

again

[vital maple]

rip tf2 comic 😔

I'd love sgg comics 🥺🥺

[lilac juniper]

little slice of life comics

[vital maple]

i love your icon that is so cute

[lilac juniper]

😊 thanks!

[white solar]

See, someone gets it

[vital maple]

duude bounce + switch (+ purge) is the Way!!! 🔥🔥🔥

EVERYONE is friend

[calm jackal]

not spark(switch)?

[vital maple]

oo maybe idk

i just like how bounce chains around a lot... also is stronger/can backstab

[noble portal]

I mean, recurse and have both 😛

[obtuse zodiac]

Someone at the University of Sussex quotes “When everything changes, nothing changes. That’s the Camerata’s creed, our mission. We love our city the way it is. We didn’t want to see it fade because someone didn’t like the color of the sky.” in an essay except they misquoted and didn't include color. This information comes from turnitin. com

[lilac juniper]

gotta ask: what was the context

[calm jackal]

ugh now im remembering the time i did the camerata apology video as a monologue for a theater audition

it had nothing to do with any of the themes of the play i was just a nerd

[obtuse zodiac]

i wish i knew what context but turnitin doesnt say

[vital maple]

uhh i am trapped here what do i do...

https://i.ibb.co/5MBqXdS/2021-05-26-01-08-05.jpg

i killed everything in this room but i cant get out??

and my attacks cant reach the stuff on the left...

a glitch i guess i will restart

[obtuse zodiac]

ive never seen that happen. did restarting fix it?

[vital maple]

yeah it did! weird idk what happened

[vital maple]

finished ||recursion!! was kinda disappointed that the story was the same though... like the only difference was just getting to finish the tests/achievements and having more functions to play with. But I thought there'd be more to the story||

[noble portal]

Yeah, there’s some implication that things just kinda… ||go on forever||, but the bulk of it is unlocking everything and finishing the tests

[lilac juniper]

that’s so weird i just realized that ||if you can get duplicate functions in the transistor after a certain amount of recursions, does that mean there are several copies of the same person inside the transistor||

[calm jackal]

||does that mean the final boss is a battle between 5 reds and 5 royces||

[vital maple]

now THATS interesting!!

[little pagoda]

royces voice gets more bass boosted every time

[frigid musk]

https://kaly.sxcu.net/Mk9bSx

20 fps in the pause menu

any way I can increase this awful framerate

[junior lagoon]

Reduce graphics settings, close other programs? Toggling fullscreen can also make a difference

[keen karma]

especially close programs that have a video running, like your browser

I once wondered why my fps in a game dipped under 30fps and the culprit was an animated background on a steam profile <.<

[vital maple]

transistor soundtrack goes hard!!!!!

[full peak]

It still might be my favorite SGG OST.

It's a toss-up between it and Hades, and Transistor has the edge.

[vital maple]

yeah man darren has some wicked skills

[full peak]

Transistor I listen to on a daily basis

[delicate arrow]

I have to parcel it out carefully, it's gorgeous but it makes me sad

[foggy ridge]

Hello! 👋 I'm new to the server but I'm saying hello here as I really like Transistor and am currently playing through it again. There's nothing really I can think of that plays quite like it.

[delicate arrow]

Hello and welcome!

It really is a fascinating gameplay mashup, isn't it?

[foggy ridge]

It is! There's so many ways of playing it and there are so many set ups 🤩

[zenith beacon]

hello @foggy ridge
looks like you're a fan... sistor...

dang it i can't make transistor puns about this one

it's just right there!

[foggy ridge]

hello! yeah I saw the opportunity for a bad pun and went for it 😎

~~ as I often do ~~

[dim barn]

if my sister is trans, does that make her my trans-sistor?

(she actually is though and so am i-- happy pride month gamers)

[signal nymph]

How long have you been waiting for this pun?

[dim barn]

i think of it every time i think about the game lol
just popped in my head and i figured some folks here might appreciate it

[zenith beacon]

as a resident pun master
i approve this pun

[polar wadi]

I have a beginner question, is this game very difficult to understand?

I feel a bit overwhelmed with the texts a bit

Unlike hades

[calm jackal]

Hmm, I've seen a few people have trouble with the mechanics

I wouldn't know how to summarize what's going on mechanically

What part has got you confused

[velvet jacinth]

If I may give my summary lol, the game felt very open with how you play. I myself found everything easy to understand after using it instead of just reading it. After that you can mess around with how it synergies with other things and goddamn turn() is wonderful

[noble portal]

if you're referring to the story, it is purposefully kind of obscured and told second-hand

[velvet jacinth]

Oh yea story takes big brain

I didn’t understand half of what was going on when I first played

And I still don’t

[polar wadi]

Okay I'll give it another go

[lilac juniper]

i don't think you're meant to fully understand the story of the wider world. the main focus of the story is the relationship between Red and Boxer (trapped in the transistor)

[velvet jacinth]

Yea but if you want to there are lore bits scattered around. :3

Next time I play the game imma actually read the lore lol

Since what I’ve gotten from this chat it’s really cool

[polar wadi]

I mean I'm just confused with the gameplay

And the mechanics

But maybe it's just me

[noble portal]

Specifically with regards to the Camerata I have a summary post burie din my blog but the greater story does take some interpreting, and there are a number fo different takes on what's "really" happening

ah

[polar wadi]

I do hope they put pyre on the switch

[noble portal]

did you need a hand with the mechanics?

[polar wadi]

I love playing handheld mode haha

[polar wadi]

I tell you what, I'll give it another go and if I don't get it, I'll come back here again

[white solar]

you come into it pretty easily, though it's a bit weird at first. Once it starts to click, you start to realize how amazing it is (the gameplay) ☺️

[velvet jacinth]

Yea then you start feeling powerful when you can one shot anything 😎

[zealous stag]

*looks at cull()*

[calm jackal]

https://gfycat.com/disguisedonlyamericanbadger

[little pagoda]

[royce sweats]

[signal nymph]

Just realized my first liked song on spotify ever is Paper Boats

[ornate canopy]

wait

junction jan's

transistor

is that a pun

[calm jackal]

Transistor has so many puns in it

[ornate canopy]

yeah

functions

spark

crash

breach

the get function could be interpreted as a c++ reference but that's a stretch

"gateless"

switch could be a c reference but again that's a stretch

[calm jackal]

All the function names are things computers do

[ornate canopy]

ping

wait jaunt too?

cloudbank

ok i'd be here all day

i'll stop

oh also the empty set is a math thing

[signal nymph]

yeh

function could be interpreted as a lot of language refrences

[junior lagoon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2278545223&searchtext=computer

[ornate canopy]

yuh i saw that after lol

[junior lagoon]

^.^

[ornate canopy]

what kind of transistor is it though

bjt? mosfet? jfet? ujt?

(i know nothing about half of those)

[signal nymph]

the BIG kind

[ornate canopy]

discrete for sure

[frank pagoda]

The best kind :)

[junior lagoon]

the kind that hurts when it hits you

[ornate canopy]

I mean

I could stab you with the terminals of a transistor

would probably hurt

fun fact I stabbed myself with a capacitor lead last winter

[bright axle]

To be fair it is a super computer in sword form

It having literal computer functions would make sense

[ornate canopy]

well

yeah

[rose geyser]

transistor

[ornate canopy]

resistor

[signal nymph]

R=V/I

[ornate canopy]

Ie = Ib + Ic

[little pagoda]

math

[ornate canopy]

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

[velvet jacinth]

(-b±√(b²-4ac))/(2a)

[zinc flicker]

i just got transistor and started playing and,, wow . this game is really cool

not to mention how gorgeous it is

[signal nymph]

Yes welcome to the club

[ornate canopy]

=x

[bronze mountain]

is transistor anything like hades

or close to

[full peak]

It's not very similar.

Of all of SGG's games, Bastion is the most like Hades.

[calm jackal]

if i was to compare the two games, I'd say they both have systems that allow players to create unique builds

and that's my favorite part of both games

[junior lagoon]

Transistor also feels good when things get smacked :3 But yeah, much more narrative focus and...slower?...gameplay. it's got fast moments but the main mechanic changes that. If you want to know, the main mechanic || stops time so that you can queue up a sequence of movements and attacks, then unlease them rapidly ||

[cedar grove]

https://twitter.com/supergiantgames/status/1403476697006043139?s=21
Yay!

Supergiant Games (@SupergiantGames)

For Transistor players who experienced issues with the game not saving properly on PlayStation 5, the latest system firmware should have resolved that! Thank you for playing and for your patience.

Likes

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Twitter · Jun 11, 2021, 10:18 PM

[junior lagoon]

Woohoo!

[junior lagoon]

@ripe mica @hidden adder @green viper @open elm @shrewd tulip You all had mentioned having issues with this previously

[hidden adder]

Thank you!!

Literally was just talking about this over drinks hahaha

[green viper]

Wonderful! Thank you for the heads up! @junior lagoon

[open elm]

thank you!

🙂

[ripe mica]

Nice, thank you!

[gentle basalt]

H=I^2 RT

[ornate canopy]

ok buddy physicist

[pallid lotus]

Hi, I'm new here, i want to play this game again, but I wanted to ask something

Should I play it from the beginning or I should take it from where I left it?
I don't remember a lot of the story and the movements

[calm jackal]

It's a pretty short game, it won't take you too long to start over

[lilac juniper]

better to start at the beginning if you don’t remember the story

[pallid lotus]

well, i will start over
according to Steam I have played only 9 hours the game
but I have played on my laptop at the University or in some friends' houses so it should be more than that

[mystic gazelle]

i swear i got transistor like 3 days ago, and I've got like 17 hours on it already

i started playing it, got 3 hours in, stopped for the rest of that day, the next day I got so hooked on the story that I stayed up and finished the game

since then ive been mainly tryna complete the 7th performance trial

and playing it through again

my goodness, thank supergiant games for their masterpieces

[mystic gazelle]

yo @white solar since you reacted and have all the games, since I enjoyed transistor so much, dya think I should get any of the other ones by SGG

[white solar]

Definitely. Hades is the popular choice, but my second favorite sgg game is Bastion. Pyre is amazing as well. Honestly the order of you getting them doesn't matter since theyre all great

[lilac juniper]

I would second the above recommendation and add that Pyre is my fave and is also very underrated. also, be prepared to sink a Lot of time into Hades, as it is the longest of the four games

[ornate canopy]

wait

transistor collector's edition, or CE

collector-emitter

this wasn't intentional but i'm going to pretend like it was

[dense breach]

I just beat the game

And god that was unexpectedly depressing

Took me by surprise

[velvet jacinth]

its a very bittersweet ending ;-;

ending spoilers --> ||like yea red killed herself but it was to be with who she loved. It wouldnt of been the same if she rebuilt cloudbank and boxer just stayed in the sword, and what really was there to go back to anyway, the process has done its damage and we have no idea whats even left of people, so red takes the course that makes her the happiest, being with boxer ;-;||

i love it

one of my favorite games

[ruby sundial]

Just bought me the game on the switch store for like 2 bones

Pretty cool the opening and the music are just 👌

[mystic gazelle]

good luck

its an amazing game

[finite sierra]

Let me know when you find yourself listening to the soundtrack (and the other soundtracks) over and over again like I do 🙂

[delicate arrow]

Had it playing in the car the other night and driving through downtown on a clear moonlit night was /chef's kiss

[lilac juniper]

transistor’s ost is definitely nighttime-in-the-city music

[vital maple]

what happens to ||asher's cat 😢||

[ornate canopy]

that's...a good question

[noble portal]

I don’t think the answer is a happy one

[mystic gazelle]

nooooo

[white solar]

It is.. a happy one . . they become a

😭

[ornate canopy]

probably ate him but then what

wonder if it stayed with him or became a stray

living off junction Jan's for a bit

[delicate arrow]

AU where Red stays in Cloudbank and adopts Asher's cat

[obtuse zodiac]

turns cloudbank into a giant cat paradise with all those scratching posts and tunnels

[vital maple]

the ending we deserved

[patent marsh]

Ending ||A woman, a cat, and an empty city||

Thats even sadder

[mystic gazelle]

this is so sad alexa play heightmap by Darren Korb

[vital maple]

At least theres a cat

Cats make everything better

Such a tease ||putting a cat in Asher's portrait and then we never even get to see it||

[noble portal]

I mean, it shows up ||in the set-dressing of the Camerata safehouse on top of Bracket Towers||

sadly it's not interactible tho

[lilac juniper]

||red and the cat bond over their shared sense of loss for their loved ones. together, they remake the city of cloudbank, with the eventual goal of welcoming people into it again. it’s only when the city is repopulating and the cat is in safe hands that red finally joins her boyfriend in the transistor||

[vital maple]

wait really???

[noble portal]

yeah, let me see if I can find/link an image to safely spoiler it

Ok so link to big image, since it's a screenshot. Also major spoilers for Transistor so I will hide this one. ||https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/745792215078666311/855213001060778014/CamerataHideout.jpg||

The cat is ||at the bottom of the screen, just above my (Y) function in the UI. Afaik it's not animated, just a static part of the background, and it's not interactable.||

[vital maple]

omg!!! thank u for sharing... fantastic news

[pallid lotus]

How can I restart my progress in the game? :c

I just found the profiles options...
wasn't easy

[lilac juniper]

yeah, it’s odd that the game doesn’t open with a menu. glad you found it

[pallid lotus]

it's weird, I bought the game 3 years ago(in the Supergiant Collection), I don't remember a lot about the story or the abilities, I wanted to start over but this is the first time I needed this option and I didn't know where to search
I think some things are counterintuitive, I played on a laptop and I just found out that I can switch abilities using the scroll but scrolling down switches to the left and up switches to the right, and i got used to Minecraft's scrolling system, that down is to the right and up is to the left

[ornate canopy]

when does heightmap play

[granite vessel]

when you reach highrise iirc

[noble portal]

note that the album version of the tracks has the "full" mix, but the in-game versions often only have a "partial" mix (eg. melody or percussion might be missing whle you're out walking around) until you find yourself in combat. "Gateless" is a fantastic example of this because the guitar and bass only really come in when you're fighting, the rest fo the time it's just the drum line

[ornate canopy]

yeah I played the game once a few years ago lol I don't remember a lot or what highrise looks like

gotta replay it

and maybe actually read the profiles

[little pagoda]

my brain when im trying to catch a fly to feed my mantis: bUT I WOOONT SAVE YOOOOUUU

also god

Gateless is absolutely my favourite song on the soundtrack

that song resonated with me so strongly in terms of sounds and vibes i love that i couldnt believe what i was hearing at first

[ornate canopy]

gateless

drainless

sourceless

bodyless

[noble portal]

y'all out here sleeping on Interlace

[ornate canopy]

I'll inter your lace

[little pagoda]

Interlace slaps

Sandbox is a masterpiece dont even @ me

[solid mirage]

no respect for impossible and apex beat

sad

[noble portal]

those are just givens 😛

[lilac juniper]

heightmap has been mentioned, but it bears repeating

also old friends

[solid mirage]

traces is also good and it reminds me of a song that would be played in the background of a murder mystery

[noble portal]

the whole OST is just... good

[ornate canopy]

why tf is there a track called impossible but none called kickflip 😤 😤 😤

[patent marsh]

Red skating on the Transistor like a hoverboard...

[little pagoda]

Traces gives me Royce vibes, especially the drop

but how come nobody is talking about Tangent

that's a crime

[lilac juniper]

just list every song in the soundtrack

[ornate canopy]

someone mod red and the transistor into pro skater 1+2 thx

[ornate canopy]

I prefer sine

[civic hemlock]

Hah what about in circles? Gotta love how it switches to the other version mid fight... and gotta remember to turn on subtitles...

Also love it when boxer makes a fuss when red bounces back and fourth on the jump pads

[mystic gazelle]

yeah

[edgy saddle]

I am once again crying listening to Paper Boats

That is all

Farewell

[hexed oak]

So I'm almost complete bastion and I was wondering if I should play transistor or pyre next

I'm guess this chat may be biased but gonna ask around

[hexed oak]

so ive decided on transistor and was wondering if pc or switch is better and how if they are

[mystic gazelle]

yeah all were gonna say is its a masterpiece you wont get any varied opinions

actually

hmm

nvm

[hexed oak]

ive already decided on transistor im just wondering if to get on switch or pc

[mystic gazelle]

yeah I played it on pc, so id say pc, especially since my pc has some real nice headphones, but whatever gives better audio quality because of this games masterful ost

[hexed oak]

k thx

i classify you as a helpful]

du sprechen deutsche

Ich sprechen ein bisse deutsche

[noble portal]

Yeah I might say PC over Switch for the potential for better audio quality, unless you're playing attached to a tv? 🤔 I'm also a sucker for achievements and Steam tracks those so 🤷‍♀️

[pallid lotus]

I play Transistor and Pyre on my phone using Steam Link

[obtuse zodiac]

has anyone here played the iOS version of Transistor? @pallid lotus what are the controls like playing it through Steam Link on your phone?

[teal rivet]

For the native iOS port, it works, that’s how I first played Transistor. It’s easier to play when you’re in Turn mode (touch controls), but dashing around might be harder. There’s a traditional control scheme as well with dpad controls

If you’re asking about bugs, we’ll, haven’t touched the game on iOS for years, look up App Store reviews then

[obtuse zodiac]

I was mostly asking about the controls. I have a friend who's expressed interest in the game but would be most likely to play it on mobile. Thanks for the help!

[rough ermine]

can we get a profile bundle for transistor :(?

[ornate stone]

if i don't really like the first hour of transistor (gameplay seems to be mainly time freeze spam abilities and no real time action) does the gameplay change that much when I get more skills? turn based combat isnt really my cup of tea and i was hoping for this game to be a more balanced mix of turn based and real time combat

[junior lagoon]

you can certainly play the game in real time, but the core gameplay loop is based around using Turn() to stop time

[noble portal]

getting more abilities does add more variety to your suite of attacks and abilities, and certain combinations do push more towards real-time combat, but Swan is right, the bulk fo the combat is meant to be turn based or balanced (eg. short turns with an off-turn function or two)

[cunning widget]

I concur. It won’t change the gameplay loop up much, but unlocking all of the functions makes successive playthroughs a bit more interesting.

[foggy ridge]

yeah and at the beginning there is less strategy and thought put into turn() but as you get more abilities and as enemies get more difficult ,||especially if you use limiters ||, using turn() becomes more satisfying. To echo others, the game is balanced and built around using turn() but it is possible to create set-ups that favour using it less. I actually have done a no turn() run before but I dunno if I'd recommend someone else play the game like that tbh.

[noble portal]

not sure how cool SG are about discussing mods but ||there is a mod called Transition that rebalances the functions and combat to focus more on real-time combat.|| I haven't tried it myself so I can't weigh in on how it plays

[foggy ridge]

👀 I'm gonna research that mod, that sounds interesting

[brazen star]

If only there were a sequel...

[vocal otter]

Will the game be good if I don't use that stop time ability?

The game looks pretty cool but I'm not a fan of how you can just pause time

Game is 2$ rn so I'm thinking of getting it

[full peak]

There are ways to play without Turn(). Some of the higher Limiter count strats assume you rarely use it.

[vocal otter]

So you think I should get it?

[lunar mesa]

i just zoom around with jaunt().

[full peak]

I adore Transistor, so I am not biased.

But I think it's a fantastic game at full price.

[vocal otter]

I'm currently playing through another SGG game bastion, and I want to grab another one before the sale ends

Pyre doesn't interest me that much so that's why I'm thinking of getting transistor

[lilac juniper]

transistor is worth it (but pyre is too, btw)

both games are well put together and will end in tears thanks to their narratives

[simple harness]

Is there a way to re do the trials in the backdoors? Or i need to make a new file for that

[calm jackal]

Those never open back up unfortunately

[simple harness]

[white solar]

Yeah ive tried a playthrough using very limited Turn and it goes well. You probably only really need it at like the beginning stages but once you get a few more functions it's possible to play in real time with only using Turn if you really need it

[junior lagoon]

I'd look through some more of the recent conversation if you haven't already ^.^ Some tips for playing more your speed

[mystic gazelle]

well id say as you get further along "freeze time spam abilities" won't get you anywhere, transistor's real fun relies on you being smart enough to use turn to turn around seemingly hopeless situations

[signal nymph]

^ and making stupid op combos

[mystic gazelle]

yeah

[mystic gazelle]

i remember a situation where all i had was mask() and crash() left((after oveloading twice losing help() and breach()), it was the most tense 5-10 minutes of my time in transistor and "freeze time spam abilities" was what was happening but it was still just as exciting as any real time combat ive done in hades

[velvet snow]

I am so happy I finally bought transistor

[idle rapids]

I've got to say, I bought Transistor... and I didn't really like it.

I felt like the story was great, the game itself is beautiful, but I just felt bored the whole time I was playing

[final helm]

Huh. Whereas I had one hell of a good time with the gameplay.

[ornate canopy]

wait ok I'm reaching but

gateless
"you circle the drain"

is there an instance of the word "source" in transistor

[keen karma]

Always unfortunate haha. That‘s why I‘ve started not caring about reviews anymore, since you have to discover yourself what you like and what works (though I‘m in a privileged situation). Won‘t stop me from recommending stuff annoyingly often

[white solar]

It's weird when i see a lot of people say that haha, meanwhile in my case I've been searching endlessly to capture the same love I had for Transistor's gameplay in another title to no avail

Makes me question if I'm just someone who's into boring/weird stuff 🤔

[full peak]

People poo-pooing Transistor's gameplay are in the minority, as far as people who have played the game goes.

[simple harness]

Still stuck on the last trial that is enemy waves

[vocal otter]

Well damn, transistor ending: ||that's a pretty dark ending, not what I expected||

[lilac juniper]

i like any sort of gameplay that gives me time to think about my next move, whether it's turn-based or real time with pause. that being said, i did stop doing challenges during my recursion...they got a bit frustrating for me

and the narrative and the atmosphere are always my main draws, more than the gameplay

[white solar]

Same, I also love games that allow you to approach situations creatively and in different ways. Transistor allows you to do that perfectly via its extreme variety of possible function combinations and planning with Turn.

[wheat oar]

I got transistor, a little stuck on Sibyl's fight so I think I'm gonna go to bed for now but I'll play more tomorrow

[twin stone]

is it ever explained exactly why the spine makes mr nobody so wacky? I figured it was something to do with the spine being a massive processed thing but I wasn't sure

[obtuse zodiac]

i read, i think on the fandom wiki, and i may be misremembering some of it, that it might be because the process may run using the hardware of the transistor so a process as large as the spine tanks the performance of the transistor making those inside it not have enough resources to run correctly

[delicate arrow]

^^^ this, in-universe

meta-wise, it's because drunk sword boyfriend is hilarious 🤣

(mostly hilarious. eventually heartbreaking.)

[little pagoda]

i was so scared when it happened

I fell in love with Boxer immediately and the thought of him getting hurt in some way ||other than you know, being killed|| terrified me

[obtuse zodiac]

specifically the "you know that, right?" line made me sad

[little pagoda]

any time he went 'red im losing you' i went rabid

[delicate arrow]

Sword Boyfriend and Sandra the Unseeing

beautiful human beings stuck in fancy soul jars

protect them

[desert silo]

I FINISHED THIS GAME AFTER HOLDING IT ON UNTIL I GOT A GOOD PC AFTER SO MANY YEARS AND IT WAS WORTH IT

[keen karma]

\:)/

[desert silo]

i assume there is no extra story content anywhere after the ending where it says enter recursion ot exit to shell

[keen karma]

recursions only has very slight differences, the biggest being keeping your functions (while still receiving new ones)

[desert silo]

Yeah but no new story content?

[keen karma]

Nah, it’s the same heartbreak all over 💔

[desert silo]

I want more of this world

[keen karma]

I decided to fill the void Transistor left with tons of other sad games \:)/

[desert silo]

I don't neecessarily see why people actively play games, I usually think you want to be entertained and inflicting pain to yourself is the opposite of entertainment/fun but that's a whole different discussion

[keen karma]

Yeah there's a ton of layers on that discussion. You can have the distinction between art and entertainment and how individual games blend those factors, even the old 'high and low art' argument could be used to some extent. I play a ton of adventure and/or story-based games and almost all of them have a bad or bittersweet ending - I think it might be 'easier' to use a darker narrative when aiming for a serious tone. Or I might just be playing in the wrong corner (lol)

[ornate stone]

“Gone home” has a pretty happy ending

[simple harness]

Was replaying and managed to get stun locked into losing 7 in like 5 seconds :)

[keen karma]

truly unfortunate

[delicate arrow]

I think some people find emotional catharsis in experiencing negative emotions like sadness or fear through works of fiction

[full peak]

It let's us simulate emotional highs and lows without necessarily having to deal with the situation IRL.

[delicate arrow]

it's not real, so you can let it go when you're done watching/reading/playing, but it can grant a sense of cathartic release that some people really crave

[full peak]

Kinda neato to get chased around by something in Resident Evil. It's never happened to me specifically, but I bet actually having a running chainsaw swung at my head would be really bad.

[delicate arrow]

yeah, like, I have a much too active imagination to watch horror films or play scary games more than very rarely, the content crops up later in my dreams when I can't switch it off

but I can definitely see how that artificial terror would be exciting for some people!

anyhow, if you want more Transistor content, there's some really quality fic on AO3 😁

it's not canon, but the top kudos fics there are honestly the next best thing.

[ornate canopy]

learned we all become on piano and destroyed my wrists in the process let's gooooo

[keen karma]

thirty million arpeggios pog

[ornate canopy]

yeah essentially

[keen karma]

Did you do 'just' the backing track, or the vocals as well? I tried doing both (like you can do with Signals or Build that Wall from Bastion) but it was kinda awkward and I didn't feel like investing more time into it

[ornate canopy]

i did the piano part from supergiant's website

[keen karma]

Yeah, and that one has two treble clefs and one bass clef; one treble clef being Red's voice part. Usually, you're only supposed to be playing the backing track but it might get boring so I try to play the voice as well but it doesn't always work out

[ornate canopy]

roight yes i interpreted the clef with the melody as vocals

since the file has GPV in the name

so i just did P

yeah i can't even sing while playing this song lol

[keen karma]

Oh lol yeah I didn't try actually singing (I can't even talk while playing), but just playing the melody on the piano. If you try out In Circles or Signals, it's easier to play all three staves at once (since those songs are easier in general too)

[ornate canopy]

i can sing in circles while playing but idk how you'd play the melody without a third hand

[keen karma]

I might try making a vid of it, but I actually don't play all the notes but just switch between them at appropriate points. Don't remember much of it though, has been a while since playing

[keen karma]

Props to you for actually singing by the way, I heard that doing that feels like integrating a third hand into your performance!

[ornate canopy]

it's easy with some songs but with songs like we all become there's no chance in hell lol

(take the freaking compliment john) thanks

[keen karma]

😄

[wheat oar]

I haven't gotten very far in the game but I have to say I LOVE this concept

the mechanic where functions like get used up and have to recharge is kinda annoying but I guess it forces the player to get creative

[final helm]

Forcing the player to get creative is a constant in SGG's game design! It's fun to see how it evolves through their games...

in Transistor specifically, it's possible to play in a way that your functions won't overload - but experimenting with them also unlocks the lore so it's encouraged for everyone!

[vernal locust]

Interesting, the losing functions mechanic instead of dying is smth I rly liked about transistor. The one and only contra for me personally was the depressing atmosphere in the game. I was rather motivated to end the story ofc, but at some days I didn‘t feel like starting the game, just because I had a bad day at work or smth. MOOD

[wheat oar]

wait does it happen because you run out of health

[final helm]

Yup! Each function is like a life bar!

[noble portal]

Some functions do have a built in cool down if you use them out of Turn. But if you lose a health bar, one of your functions will “burn out” and have to replaced for a bit before you can use it again. So you basically have 3 health bars

(I say 3 bc I assume at least one function is not an offensive one, but the game seems to be smart enough to not leave you stuck with those under most circumstances)

[vernal locust]

You will either lose your most powerful ability (biggest ram?) or the one used recently before you went out of health iirc

[simple harness]

More memory skill is the one that goes

[wheat oar]

OH

I thought it just happened after you use it a certain number of times LMAO

I guess I was just not paying attention lmfao

[full peak]

The function that uses the most MEM goes first unless it's your only damaging Function.

If you had a super-loaded Cull and then 3 other Functions all worth 1 MEM a piece and none of them inflicted damage, the game would disable them before it would Cull.

[desert silo]

Thats a strategy

whenever i fought the final boss my Dash would get yeeted out first

[polar shard]

i just started playing and man this game feels sad in a good way

also is it normal for the resolution to just change on its own? i have a 3440x1440 monitor and whenever i minimize the game for a second it changes to way lower, and i dont even have the option to run it at 3440x1440 anymore

[zealous stag]

i have a deep strong man voice and yet i am able to sing along in circles pretty well but i'm way too shy to share my singing voice because i have no idea what it sounds like to other people

i wonder if there's some way to import the instrumental into garageband and then i could record my voice along with the main track

[calm jackal]

That sounds like something garage band would do for you

In circles is fun to sing because of the time signature i think

[zealous stag]

yeah

we all become is also fun to sing—hell, many of the hummed tracks are really nice to go along with

i normally find myself humming along whenever i hear sandbox, coasting, and traces

[desert silo]

Weird question but does anyone know the inspiration behind red's design

I love her outfit but I can't find references

[calm jackal]

I know a lot of the art is inspired by klimt, have you looked there?

[zealous stag]

unfortunately i am poor and cannot buy the soundtrack so that's something i won't be able to do sadly

[desert silo]

I've searched online and either you are meaning something other than Gustav klimt or I'm missing something since I don't see any resemblance

[keen karma]

I think the Klimt inspiration is focused on the patterns seen during the final Spine sequence for example, not for Red specifically

[delicate arrow]

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.57f33553510349f610235493736ef22e?rik=uwMB1QTtsLmLEw&pid=ImgRaw

Yellows and blacks and geometric stripes and triangles

[signal nymph]

||I SEE THE SPINEEEEE OF THE WORRRRRLDDDDD||

[delicate arrow]

A lot of his portraits of women have the short/upswept, curly or wavy hair that was popular in the early 20th century, too

Which Red's hair is kind of a modernized nod to

There's a lot of general art deco influence on the game's visuals, too

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.5a3fb02b0b915f0015ed15fa747c14ae?rik=3gImGyjS27ThHA&riu=http%3A%2F%2Fqns.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FArt-Deco.jpg&ehk=EzeH3ZQ7DzwrHwCn80sbUqObUnl8VO%2F9ETs6ijfhQhg%3D&risl=&pid=ImgRaw

It's all very cyberpunk-by-way-of-the-1910s-20s

The art deco style hybridizes well with the geometric lines and angles of circuit boards and computer innards, it's a real masterstroke of design

Aha, I found the style they modified for Red's hair! It's called Marcel waves or finger waves.

https://chicvintagebrides.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Delores-Costello.jpg

More pics here: https://chicvintagebrides.com/finger-marcel-waves-stylish-hair-of-a-bygone-era/

(and that's probably enough from me for now 😅 )

[full peak]

so what you're saying is, that when they inevitably reboot the DCAU to leave live action behind, they should hire SGG for art consultation?

[torn wasp]

I've never played transitor but I've seen the game and am considering getting it

But I found this in dead cells

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/527247562160209940/861195307089526784/unknown.png

[vocal otter]

wait that's the transistor

it's in dead cells?

is it like a blueprint or just an easter egg?

[torn wasp]

easter egg

[noble portal]

It looks like a portrait in a frame?

[signal nymph]

yeah there are a lot of refrences in portraits in frames all around but mostly in the last area where it looks like this is

[ornate canopy]

yeah dead cells also has Easter eggs for hollow knight, hyper light drifter, others that I'm forgetting atm...

[noble portal]

Indie solidarity 🤝

[tired thicket]

Transistor early-game: Fighting stuff, actually doing smth
Transistor late-game: intense vibing

[main notch]

High level Vibing gameplay

[tired thicket]

Imagine a Transistor DLC

[patent marsh]

i cannot

[tired thicket]

For expample a DLC about the backstory of that guy stuck in the Transistor ||Red's husband||, that would be cool

[patent marsh]

theres not gameplay there
no process, no transistor

and we dont know if they are married, iirc

[fading horizon]

Am I right?

Darren has voice line in Paper Boats track?

[desert silo]

A good question to ask

What IS the Spine of the world

Red sings about it

but its also a monster?

[patent marsh]

its unclear, i think
it could be that Red wrote a song about a metaphorical spine of the world, and her SO just named the monster after it

[tired thicket]

I've had an idea, that it would take part inside the Transitor, in Data Recovery Process, and there would be some "guards", guarding secure info, or smth like that

[full peak]

They're pretty low, but yes.

I think they actually come in on the second stanza.

[delicate arrow]

She ||does wear a ring with the same yellow triangle symbol as his jacket||, but it's unclear what exactly that signifies. They're clearly ||lovers and have been for a while||, though!

It's on ||the third finger of her left hand in the official art, though, which does traditionally indicate engagement/marriage||.

[vocal otter]

Supergiant aren't exactly known for making DLCs