#Thematic Art
midnight basalt
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Wonderful
mystic sable
"Void Anomaly" by Pier Zorat
"Abandoned Factory" by Oleg Babkin
"Portable Multifunctional Device" by Nikita Kozlov
"ZAZ Drive" by Alexandr Voevodov
"Ebenya" by Ivan Ilchenko
mystic sable
"Hunting Anomalies" by Calvin Mitchell
"Flying Solo" by Calvin Mitchell
"Secrets of the Black Garden" by Blake Rottinger
"Waiting for the Cloud" by Mikolaj Leszczyk
mild grove
*"Hunting Anomalies"* by Calvin Mitchell
I need some good phone wallpapers!
mystic sable
I need some good phone wallpapers!
do these suffice?
mild grove
do these suffice?
They do, I just can’t figure out which one lol
mystic sable
They do, I just can’t figure out which one lol
jump to the top of the thread and scroll from there
all my favorite ones are near the top
mild grove
How do I jump to top?
mild grove
Na I’m on mobile
mystic sable
Na I’m on mobile
#1256739904512327730 message
mild grove
Thanks
mystic sable
"Abandoned City New World" by Evgeniy Evchenko
"Irradition Study" by Daniel Gorbenko aka s0uler
"Poppy Field" by Mikolai Stankevich
"Tabletop" by huleeb
spiral slate
heres something I made just a bit ago, any suggestions for a title?
mild grove
window
mystic sable
heres something I made just a bit ago, any suggestions for a title?
Safe, for now?
Out of the fray
Futile escape?
Obscured
late topaz
heres something I made just a bit ago, any suggestions for a title?
Something like "Ultra Sick Window"
cobalt vortex
d a y b r e a k
spiral slate
d a y b r e a k
That's pretty good
spiral slate
Safe, for now?
This one too
The project file is call "liminal" but I like these titles, thanks
mystic sable
The project file is call "liminal" but I like these titles, thanks
I was literally going to say “liminal,” but I thought it was too cliche 🤦♂️
I wash thinking it was like the void in the matrix
Liminal space
spiral slate
Liminal space
Yeah my goal was to try and create that feeling with this one
Imma bout post all the itr vibe stuff I've made rn
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red coyote
very surreal
mystic sable
The birthday cake is sick!
mystic sable
Love the Roadside Picnic sphere
mystic sable
We need this so bad
The handheld devices?
As long as we get more tablet and detector functions
Im excited
late topaz
The overgrown concrete building
mystic sable
Oh, sometimes I can’t see what image people are replying to
On mobile
For some reason
late topaz
Peninsula and forest can have that little overgrown aesthetic to them
It would make sense
They're pretty far from the radius so they probably have way more living plants than the other map
late topaz
For some reason
It's because discord does everything it can to be stupid
mystic sable
I still think the extreme contrast of spotting something so obviously lush and vibrant in an otherwise dead world would be sick
Like…”why just here?!?!”
”what the heck?!?!”
A space / time anomalous pocket
Also, in the game “the 7th guest VR” there is a lantern that can reveal the past state of things
So the flowers are all limp and dead
But if you shine a light on them
They are colorful and vibrant and alive
Super weird
late topaz
That could be super cool
To see a room before the event of the radius
How clean and vibrant it was
You see the sun shining through the window and all the greenery outside, and then you look away, into the real world, and it's all grey, and dead, and the sun is covered in ash
That would be dope
mystic sable
You see the sun shining through the window and all the greenery outside, and the...
Yeah, I’ve been yapping about various versions of this idea
#chat_1 message
versed lintel
You see the sun shining through the window and all the greenery outside, and the...
and when you look back the greenery is gone
schizo.......
mystic sable
"The Anomaly" by Mick Rijksen
*"Evening Forest" by Kate Dolgoff
"Abandoned Factory" by Max Ramirez
"Soviet Scientific Complex" by Alexandr Nikitin
"Wild Territory" by Sergey Zabelin
mild grove
HE'S JUST STANDING THERE..... MENACINGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
obsidian creek
To see a room before the event of the radius
That would be a cool distortion zone concept
Instead of being of one kind
mystic sable
"Above the Clouds" by Nonsyllabic
"Abandoned" by Victoria Knor
"RAF-22031-01 Latvija Ambulance" by Nail Khusnutdinov
"Radiation in the Forest" by Srabon Arafat
"The Ether" by SupidGiant
mystic sable
"Anomalous Zone After the Rain" by Anastasia
"In Smoke" by Nonsyllabic
"out of the swamps" by Yevhenii Voitenko
late topaz
Oh thats nice
late topaz
This would be an awesome area in itr2, specifically an area super close to the radius
Just everything being ash, all you an see is the outlines of buildings, coved completely in ash
And then some of the only buildings with interiors are super anomalous
Having shifting geometry, harsh tempuratures, etc
red coyote
Itr3 leak!!!!!
mystic sable
"Abandoned Soviet Sawmill" by Mikolai Stankevich
"Zona" by Tahvo Lin
Untitled by Stuart Lippincott
"The Long Silence" by Martyna Ciupka
mystic sable
"Anomalie" by Guillaume Normand
"Sci-Fi Graphic Sketches" by Dave Simon
"Exclusion Zone" by Vladimir Manyukhin
"It's Raining Again" by FreeStalker
mystic sable
mystic sable
"Anomaly" by Entropy
"countryside" by Sergey Vasnev
"Gift of the Night" by Evgeniy Evchenko
"Hunters" by Christopher Scoles
"Road" by Mark Makovey
versed lintel
is that kobeni
mystic sable
Devs, please just give us one wearable Roadside Picnic spec suit 🙏
Even if it’s just a fancy gorka skin
mystic sable
”the closer to the exclusion zone one goes, the larger the anomalies become” by Julie Withers
”An Exclusion Zone” by Jeremy Lim
mystic sable
Are those just screenshots?
red coyote
Bit more clarity
jade birch
Bit more clarity
Oh yeah this is nice
long bronze
these are awesome
stoic yew
I hope those numbers at the end dont mean what i think they do
mystic sable
I hope those numbers at the end dont mean what i think they do
I didn’t know, had to google
🫡
stoic yew
Lmao yea gotta be careful
versed lintel
😟
faint mason
*”Monkey from Roadside Picnic”* by Galoo
I pictured the "monkey" girl in my head less.. ugly
mystic sable
I pictured the "monkey" girl in my head less.. ugly
This is my favorite monkey girl so far
faint mason
I thought of her looking more like the "dark ones" from metro, just with hair on the head I suppose
hexed jewel
mystic sable
I think this is supposed to be the monkey girl from the show that never happened
afaik, they never released a pilot or anything
hexed jewel
all we got were like preproduction photos and i think some trailer stuff
versed lintel
MONKEY
faint mason
okay, that one is kinda cute
yeah I thought of it kinda like that
spiral slate
mystic sable
Did you make it?
spiral slate
Did you make it?
Yeah I made it about a little over a year ago
After I read roadside picknick
spiral slate
Thanks
hallow pumice
Hell of a wish to make honestly
mild grove
"oh what a cute family pic- oh WHY DOES THE BABY HAVE A MONKEY FACE"
mystic sable
"oh what a cute family pic- oh WHY DOES THE BABY HAVE A MONKEY FACE"
Child of the zone
mystic sable
"Frigid Path" by Xeonbreath
"Before the Raid" by Danylo Kyslenko
"Scandovia's Purifiers" by Nail Cirak
"Soviet Still Life" by Lena Vetoshkina
mystic sable
signal hearth
mystic sable
”Outskirts of the Stalker Zone” by Zorvan Studio
”Combloc Swamp” by Evan Browning
”Abandoned Zone” by Tóth J
signal hearth
And then it was all gone
in an instant
all those residents turned into clad black figures
devoid of any life or character
mystic sable
all those residents turned into clad black figures
I’m obsessed! To me, it’s so much more eerie than a zone still bustling with life, like in stalker, metro, Chernobylite, zona, etc…
signal hearth
And in stalker the zone isnt really fulle defined, like you enter it and it still kinda looks like the actualy world, just a little changed
But in ITR, the zone is like...
So so different, it's properly defined with the fog and once you go inside, the difference from the real world is so noticeable
it reall makes you wonder what it would have looked like before
because with how much it has changed you literally can't find a plausible explanation on how Pechorsk looked like before the event
mystic sable
So so different, it's properly defined with the fog and once you go inside, the ...
I noticed the contrast between Vanno and the radius, but SO many people missed it
The contrast is also there in ITR2
But personally, I think the devs could lean into the contrast even more
Even small touches like seeing flying birds at base would go a long way
I do like the helicopters and jets and dogs barking and things like that
I like the art direction of the radius in ITR2 for the most part
But I do think some more contrast could be nice…less color
I guess I liked ITR 2.0 a lot
Less bleak and colorless than the betas
But still more bleak than ITR2
mystic sable
late topaz
But personally, I think the devs could lean into the contrast even more
Also between maps
I've noticed that, Peninsula, is foggier and greyer than Forest
Which makes no sense since it's further from the radius
Itr1 had an actual progression of sorts between maps, though, I wish Pobeda was at least slightly orange, to help with the progression of orange death
signal hearth
I've noticed that, Peninsula, is foggier and greyer than Forest
Yea, I'm not sure how they are planning the lighting for the locations
Like I really really really loved the lighting forest had on release
It felt perfect
mystic sable
as long as there is variety, I'm happy
I would prefer if the lighting or "look" of each amp was something that could change
sometimes the peninsula is clear and colorful
other times the peninsula is grey and foggy
we don't really know a lot about where the maps are, or what the conditions of the radius are
I'm less interested in the idea of the maps getting progressively different as you advance into future maps
as much as I'm interested in just nice variety and atmosphere contrasts in general
dang
I just found out that Beeple did illustrations for a Roadside Picnic tabeltop game
mystic sable
mystic sable
signal hearth
This reminds me of that one fortnite loading screen bro
wait hold up
I'm gonna find it
this one lmao
signal hearth
report the VORT
mystic sable
Why do the combine have such good graphic designers?
”Anomaly Nullifier” by Mikhail Sidorov
”Day’s End” by Mohammad Qureshi
”52Hz” by Cornelius Dämmrich
”Rebirth” by Oskar Wionski
”Grind” by huleeb
mystic sable
”Ready for Surprises” by Nazar Hrabovyi
”Moments Before” by huleeb
”The Gatewalkers of Metzlix” by Ivan Martinez
”Digging out the Orb” by Bryan Van Der Linden
mystic sable
"Baltic Sea" by Maximilian Jasionowski
"Blowout" by Alexander Shott
"Frozen Village" by Alexandr Sorokin
late topaz
Bolotky?!
late topaz
I would love to see something like this in itr
Wait
Isn't that the cover for the scripted events thread
mystic sable
the game already has had graphics bugs that look like that
there was a ghost truck in ITR1 and ITR2
just make them purposeful
rare, and randomized
🤷♂️
late topaz
the game already has had graphics bugs that look like that
Yeah the light from the tablet too
It was like the sun
mystic sable
small stuff goes a long way
late topaz
#pcvr_chat message
late topaz
Rover do something
signal hearth
im dead bro I burned to death
It's all that car's fault
hoggin the water
aren't you supposed to be afraid of water
late topaz
It might be a mimic
late topaz
https://tenor.com/view/%ED%98%BC%ED%8C%8C%EB%A7%9D-%ED%94%BC%EC%9E%90-%EB%8B%B9%...
It's too late
The Bagel has been burnt
mystic sable
.
It would be so sick if some of the anomalous set-dressing in ITR2 had visual effects on them like this
Chromatic aberration…
Refraction
With some odd sound design
Just little touches here and there
I guess that’s one thing I like about Zona
late topaz
Facility 27 after Jerry's visit
late topaz
The thematic art thread is one year old!
That's tuff
It's older than got fans
Man do I hate that game
versed lintel
The thematic art thread is one year old!
signal hearth
late topaz
mystic sable
”Sword in the Stone” by Richard Anderson
”Low Gravity Regolith” by Enora
”Ebenya” by Vadim Sadovski
”Roadside Picnic Novel” by Guy in a Poncho
late topaz
Live event in the outskirts?
mystic sable
Live event in the outskirts?
??
mystic sable
I don’t know anything about it
mystic sable
mystic sable
mystic sable
”Radiola” by Andrew Chereuta
”СТАЛКЕР” by Lena D
”Floral Sentinel” by Maggie Kras
mystic sable
mystic sable
"Walking in Pripyat" by Alex Chetverikov
"Stalker" by Lena D
classic sassy head turn
obligatory stalker pose
ebon oyster
whole solstice
Ty 
versed lintel
holy peak
mystic sable
"Zona" by Michal Klimecki
"The Boomerang" by Dzus Yao
"Soviet Scientific" Complex by Alexandr Nikitin
"Rebirth of Hope" by Srabon Arafat
mystic sable
"Abandoned Soviet Village Interior" by Yaroslav Yaroslavcev
"Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion" by Jeks Demi
"Grain Flow Hangar" by Sergey Vasnev
mystic sable
"Кода-то была война..." by Maxim Davydenko
"Wild Dogs" by Dmitry Vishnevsky
"The New Ego" by Onur Inci
work by Simon Stålenhag
vocal jacinth
katya lowkey aura farming here
mystic sable
"Abandoned Soviet Village Interior" by Yaroslav Yaroslavcev
"Concept to Unreal II" by Max Mitenkov aka Vimark
"Hive" by Vladimir Motsar
"Roadside Picnic" by Alina Kazazayeva
mystic sable
"Anomalie gravitationnelle" by David Tondeur
"Beautiful Chernobyl" by erdanih
"Being Tracked by a Starving Beast" by Iroquois Pliskin
mystic sable
"25-052" by Maojin Lee
"Пришли" by mr-damer-
"We Took Everything" by Ismail Inceoglu
"Twin Soul" by Aleksander Goryachev
"Stone Anomaly" by Nayan Bodawala
dark laurel
Oh thx man ☺️
late topaz
That's so tuff
late topaz
Oh thx man ☺️
Nice job explorer 🫡
mystic sable
I'm daydreaming about what a reimagining of the "fuzzy" mimics could look like in ITR2
with the more realistic art stlye and uniforms
a little more amorphous / cosmic horror
getting annihilation vibes
also, the whole issue of the "glowing jaws" or eyes
how that plays in
I still think some kind of moving shader would be super cool
you feel like you can never fully get a clear look at the face
honestly, whatever that "fuzzy" effect was from ITR1 would be so cool to see applied to the mimics in ITR2
even though they have color now
signal hearth
honestly, whatever that "fuzzy" effect was from ITR1 would be so cool to see app...
maybe as they die
and float up into the air
they start to lose color and become all fuzzy again while they dissolve
mystic sable
I want their "skin" to still be a bit "unclear" while you are fighting them
just wonky...
cosmic
mystic sable
I do like this one a lot
I would love to see a dev test with just a ton of UE5 shaders on the faces
less mannequin
and more ethereal cosmic creepos
like the mimic at the end of annihilation
kill it kill it kill it
mystic sable
Yeah
I keep daydreaming of something in between ITR1 and ITR2
Wish a dash more cosmic horror
mystic sable
If I had more time, I would make mods
late topaz
I wish there was a scripted event that had a mimic do this, for like 10 frames, just run at you, glitch behind copies of itself, and dissapear
versed lintel
https://tenor.com/view/annihilation-humanoid-gif-13621436
this was genuinely some of the most unnerving shit ive ever seen in a movie
whole solstice
Collect my 8 artefacts 
whole solstice
He done darn look like the slender man
mystic sable
"Abandoned Soviet Village Interior" by Yaroslav Yaroslavcev
"Bog" by Flóra Szűcs
"Concrete Tree Anomaly" by Yusuf Açar
"Sci-Fi Graphic Sketches" by Dave Simon
late topaz
"Those darn webs"
mystic sable
spicy
man, I hope we get a lot more anomalies
we are still short:
- webs
- scythes
- sigils
- black grass
- haze (replaced?)
- Distortions (replaced?)
- lightning (replaced?)
- stompers
what do we have now?
- reflectors
- electic cubes
- distortion zones?
- hedgehogs
what else am I missing?
obsidian creek
what else am I missing?
In 1.0 we had some black balls in the castle
We're those spawners?
I can't remember the name of how they were called in 2.0
Rifts
mystic sable
Rifts
Oh yeah, I guess rifts sort of count
Sort of corrupted entities
I feel like the harvester from 1,0 got split into the BTR and rifts
The rifts spawn enemies, like the harvester did
And it uses the same sounds
obsidian creek
are homunculus in 2.0?
hexed jewel
they dont exist without the harvester
obsidian creek
not even in the final mission?
mystic sable
Knope
dark laurel
So may I post some fan art I did for itr2
mystic sable
So may I post some fan art I did for itr2
Yeah
dark laurel
Ah ok
So if there was ever a mimic specifically for the pump shotgun I would imagine it would look like this
So how it works when killed, it explodes like the artefact that has glass shards around it
But I also drew this
mystic sable
🥹
late topaz
mystic sable
"Anomaly Concept" by Sergey Grechanyuk
"Bublik Circular House" by Mateusz Kapusta
"Lift Me Down" by Ismail Inceoglu
"silent dawn" by huleeb
mystic sable
"Сталкер" by Lena_D
"Zona" by Alina Balint, Inspired by roadside picnic
"Anomaly Found" by Will Debause
"Ushed Tears" by Ismail Inceoglu
mystic sable
messing with my pfp
thinking about hi-res fuzzy mimics
I do kind of miss the ash poofs when shooting enemies in ITR1
mystic sable
late topaz
That would be a tuff album cover
mystic sable
late topaz
mystic sable
: )
signal hearth
holy upgrade
obsidian creek
I've got the before and after
signal hearth
I've got the before and after
brightness was so low I could barley see the old
shows how much aura the new one has
i wonder what an anomalous version of my profile picture would look like
late topaz
i wonder what an anomalous version of my profile picture would look like
Instead of a bagel
It's a donut
mystic sable
I had just pure black for so long
then I wen to a mannequin figure
and finally a proper mimic soldier
late topaz
I should change my pfp to an anomalous raccoon
mystic sable
shadow dude
obsidian creek
Any biblically accurate f22?
mystic sable
Any biblically accurate f22?
Facility 22?
obsidian creek
The jet XD
late topaz
I should change my pfp to an anomalous raccoon
Super scary
mystic sable
Devious gentleman
thin spear
I've got the before and after
this looks like the "adjust your brightness" things at the start of a game
mystic sable
I’ve been slowly emerging from the shadows
thin spear
also is your PfP just a Russian soldier getting the Pompeii Ash Baby treatment?
mystic sable
also is your PfP just a Russian soldier getting the Pompeii Ash Baby treatment?
I think so… sort of a reimagining of the ITR 1.0 and 2.0 mimics
I miss them being “ashy” and slightly amorphous
thin spear
in the Quest version of ITR1 they are just black pulsating figures. and when they die they crumple into a ball
kinda lame imo
thin spear
but they are cool
mystic sable
I liked it
1.0 mimics were just black-textured models
That “poofed” with ash when shot
But I do sort of like the fuzzy mimics from 2.0
late topaz
in the Quest version of ITR1 they are just black pulsating figures. and when the...
Cap
They ragdoll
Most of the time very nicely
Makes them cinematic fr
thin spear
they ragdoll but the limbs dont collide with each other, so they just fall down into a puddle of guy
late topaz
But I do sort of like the fuzzy mimics from 2.0
They were so cool fr
late topaz
they ragdoll but the limbs dont collide with each other, so they just fall down ...
I've always had them ragdoll into very realistic positions fr
versed lintel
mystic sable
mystic sable
"Nomads in the Infinite" by Arshad T P
"Old Wooden Cabin" by Nikita Silin
"Precious" by Onur Inci
"Roadside Picnic" by Alexander Andreev
"Silent Remains" by Alexandr Degtyarev
thin spear
who artist?
versed lintel
this is me when im getting fucking annihilated by the meat grinder
late topaz
I would love to see mile high ash statues in itr2
Since we do have massive faces and hands
Seeing waist deep statues peeking out of a blood water ocean 
mystic sable
I would love to see mile high ash statues in itr2
Those massive hands have to belong to something
same with the stompers
late topaz
same with the stompers
I had a dream of co-op in itr2 before it came out, and I was playing with my team and a massive mile tall being stepped into a huge crater
There was also sliders and stuff
They looked just like the itr1 sliders
mystic sable
this is me when im getting fucking annihilated by the meat grinder
Imagine how cool that would be in ITR
Instead of just falling dead
Seeing yourself get shredded
late topaz
They looked just like the itr1 sliders
So my dream intuition isn't too that good
mystic sable
I had a dream of co-op in itr2 before it came out, and I was playing with my tea...
It would explain the huge footprints in peninsula
signal hearth
It would explain the huge footprints in peninsula
where I have never seen huge footprints in peninsula
mystic sable
where <:Pecho_Scared:976885728413892668> I have never seen huge footprints in pe...
I’m just joking about the footprints
But we did get hand prints
In ITR1
signal hearth
the hand prints were cool
mystic sable
"Beautiful Chernobyl" by erdanih
"Flak Battery" by mike franchina
"Forgotten Relic" by huleeb
"Hazmat" by Andrey Koleda
weary cape
Where do you find all these
mystic sable
"Anomaly" by SrPique
"Black Jellyfish" by Martyna Ciupka
"Exclusion Zone" by Vladimir Manyukhin
"Eclypse" by Artem Chebokha
lilac flower
late topaz
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1320900576652820553/1408153695195234425/-...
Bruh I told you, you can't post videos here
Jk
lilac flower
.>
mystic sable
mystic sable
I still think it would be cool to see some young pioneer statues around the rec center in the forest
And Katya’s model could be one of them
thin spear
Admit it, this is kind of a stretch to say “radius themed” it’s just a stereo
Maybe if it was floating
mystic sable
Admit it, this is kind of a stretch to say “radius themed” it’s just a stereo
80s… Soviet… coauctor tapes in the zone…
Radius themed in my book
mystic sable
I’m daydreaming about a new cassette player for ITR2
thin spear
If we’re getting notes the we should get them right?
mystic sable
We BETTER
mystic sable
Admit it, this is kind of a stretch to say “radius themed” it’s just a stereo
Do you know the game “road to Vostok?”
It’s like ITR, but flatscreen
More tarkov
And Finland / Russia border
Instead of Estonia / Russia border
They are doing the cassette player with findable soundtrack
thin spear
Do you know the game “road to Vostok?”
Yes, it’s early access/demo isn’t it?
mystic sable
Yeah
I played a bit of a couple of demos
Kind of too much survival for me
Too many things going on
I never played tarkov
So maybe it a tarkov thing
thin spear
Kind of too much survival for me
That’s what I wish ITR has more of
mystic sable
I hate most survival mechanics with a passion
If it is chores or babysitting stats
Babysitting your body
Calories, temperature, macros, thirst, infection
I hate that stuff
thin spear
At the moment Vostok seems more like just another in the pile of “post-Soviet anomalous area PvPvE” so when something gets added that makes it unique I will probably buy
mystic sable
I just want good atmosphere, shooting, looting, item interactions, environmental interactions, puzzles, observation, “don’t get killed” survival, environmental storytelling…
I love when the game is about experiences within the world rather than babysitting mechanics
thin spear
I just want good atmosphere, shooting, looting, item interactions, environmental...
More puzzles, 90% of games that hit big had a lot of puzzles that weren’t too hand-holdy
mystic sable
I want puzzles so badly
One of the reasons HL:A was a banger
Also, so many good survival horror games rely on puzzles
Madison VR, propagation paradise hotel…
thin spear
Helldivers 2 hit perfect because of the Strategem system
Only similar thing before then was HLA and Helldivers 1 afaik
mystic sable
the world of ITR is perfect for puzzles… locked supply cabinets, hidden documents, anomalies to figure out… a zone that is “testing you”… plenty of tools for puzzles… cameras, detectors, sensors…
thin spear
Also, so many good survival horror games rely on puzzles
Basically inseparable from the genre
The problem is some game “puzzles” are just ‘find a key to get to a room to get a code to open a door’
And you don’t feel like you’ve done anything
thin spear
Puzzles should be present but not required to progress (as in no complex puzzles for progression)
mystic sable
And there is a right or wrong way to do it
thin spear
I love games that ask you to observe, think, and respond
And don’t take the rockstar route of giving you the second-by-second instructions
mystic sable
Puzzles should be present but not required to progress (as in no complex puzzles...
However, everyone’s favorite ITR missions were top-priority missions that were close to being the most puzzle-like:
- plant nazare (turn on power)
- the intrusion (blow a door)
- farewell feats (gather items, scavenger hunt)
- kid’s playground (shine a light on a train to reveal a hidden thing)
I think puzzles would be amazing for both top-priority missions and side missions
Each “side mission” type should be its own puzzle “mini game”
You can pick the ones you like
Sensor puzzles
Camera puzzles
Portal puzzles
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However, everyone’s favorite ITR missions were top-priority missions that were *...
and what made them fun was that they werent multi-layered (e.g key -> door -> code -> room -> other key -> door etc)
i thought of a puzzle were its a key or code written down
but it had been 'radius-ified'
so you have to look close to see the numbers
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and what made them fun was that they werent multi-layered (e.g key -> door -> co...
I think the best puzzles are ones where the variables can be randomized, but there is a clear set of rules or “order of operations”
That make them fun to replay
Because they are “skill-based” mini games
Instead of a one-off thing
Where they are boring once you know the solution
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I think the best puzzles are ones where the variables can be randomized, but the...
like HLA locker ones
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That’s a good example
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that ball has taken so many hours of my life
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Actually, the simple one where you just align the console discs is a good example
Missing a disk?
Go find it
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the one with the rat in it!
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Even if you “know” the solution
Yeah
It still requires you to observe and respond
It’s easy
But engaging
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Even if you “know” the solution
when you see a puzzle for the second time and recognise it then the game does well
like
show the initial puzzle and have the answer in the same room
then next time hide the answer
then the 3rd time around, use another puzzle you showed them to get to the answer of the main puzzle
just not too frequently or too over-layered
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I love how valve does it
They teach you “rules”
In layers
In steps
And they keep adding a new layer to the mix
So nice
First they teach you to get a battery to power something… then they teach you how to align the rat wheels… then they teach you that a rat wheel is missing…
They are so good at that
Keeps things fresh
Portal is amazing for that
The same stuff
Just more layers upon layers
More variables get added
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they give you the gun that grabs objects... show you what it can do... then next level give you a bunch of things to throw around
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They are so good at that
the only time they make games is when they have a new revolutionary way to make them
why hl3 is taking forever
and why HLA was so sudden
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I could imagine things like this in ITR2:
For the “lab”
Or for using sensors
Things like that
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i swear i've seen that in IEYTD
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i swear i've seen that in IEYTD
What that means?
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I Expect You To Die
its one of the missions
you had to find a crystal and match a wavelength or something
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Puzzles should be present but not required to progress (as in no complex puzzles...
I think a game like “Chernobyl Again” is a good example of what puzzles could look like in top-priority missions
Similar setting and themes
But all about observation and interaction
Rather than just “grab this thing and leave”
I want to shoot my way into an area
Observe it
And respond accordingly
In order to come away with what I need
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yess
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With the fear of a creep, fragment, or mimic getting me
Again, although linear, HL:A is the best example of a combat / puzzle game
Also Soviet in theme
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Rather than just “grab this thing and leave”
i do like puzzles but there is something i like about the simple "shoot the guys and grab the doo-dad", it's the sort of thing that would happen if ITR was real, as opposed to showing up and having to basically play a game of mousetrap
there is still something i find to be a missed oppertunity with ITR
for being able to go everywhere on the map
the ways of doing priority missions are really limited
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i do like puzzles but there is something i like about the simple "shoot the guys...
A good example for me is having to find the right thing to grab and run away with… like which of the documents do I need?
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in sanatorium you have to go in by the portal, then out the little hole in the corner
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A good example for me is having to find the *right* thing to grab and run away w...
that would be fun
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A good example for me is having to find the *right* thing to grab and run away w...
Or how do I unlock the cabinet with the documents
Things like that
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like you get a beep from the tablet "its in a filing cabinet" and your in a records room
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Just simple observe and respond
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theres a scene in SotZ that is exactly what im thinking of rn