>>82216

> In your opinion, what are we to do now to prevent "feeding them into a Slavic Pinochet hellhole"?

The same thing as you're doing now (talking about it on the internet), except without the part where it directly aligns with the narratives of certain, let's say, geopolitically motivated people.

Interesting demagogic trickery: proclaiming your "support" for something while it aligns with your interests, and then going "mimimi but nothing we do affects anything so it's pointless to talk about it" when someone tries to introduce nuance.

Either your actions are performative because you admit your "support" for ukraine is meaningless, or your actions are performative because your "support" is only enthusiastic as long as it aligns with your interests, but suddenly becomes defeatist once someone tries to introduce another angle.
Is there a third option I'm missing?

>>82219
Nothing.
I think Ukrainians who talk to p*rt*g*s* "people" don't have a set of political beliefs that be easily extrapolated to the general population of Ukrainians either, so I guess we're back at square 1.

Currently playing DUSK, which is basically "What if Quake, but Blood".

I have just finished the first episode.
Movement feels almost Quake-like, gibs are satisfying, albeit the guns are kinda "eh". They lack something, but I can't really say what. Maybe it's been the encounters so far, because those certainly lack a bit of punch. I am playing on I can take it, which is basically the middle skill level, maybe I will do one on the higher difficulty and see if it changes anything or it's just bullet sponges. Encounter design is adequate, certainly better than ULTRAKILL's, since you're not locked in an arena until you can continue, but you get more enemies as you progress (and you don't kill them) and areas you have already cleared might be repopulated. I also encountered a boss enemy now as a regular enemy.
The "story" so far is something with a cult and experiments with the military somehow involved, but then again, who cares about the story?
The second episode seems to be indeed the techbase episode. The wheezing gas mask dudes are already irritating me because you hear them breathing, CONSTANTLY. WHEEZZEEEE CHHHHHHHHHH. Speaking of sounds, the ambience apart from that really adds to the atmosphere.
I had to turn off the music though, despite being made by ANDREW HUSHULT, whoever that is supposed to be, but having a Quake-like background dark ambient soundscape disrupted by some YEAH BRO BFG DIVISION METAL is something I find extremely irritating, especially since it's always at those kind of encounters you can see coming from a km away.

>Oh, there's a big empty room and ammo, oh and now I activated that switch and CAN YOU HEAR THAT DOOOOM BRRRAAAAPPPPPP DOOOOM DOOOOOM BADASS MUSIC GET PUMPED MAN RIP AND TEAR

It's just not for me.
Graphics are serviceable, but like all faux-retro games they try to emulate the original style, but fail in actually capturing it.
On top of that this shit was made in Unity and takes a few minutes (on my upper-middleclass laptop in performance mode) to actually reach the main menu, although I haven't encountered any framerate drops or anything during playing.

Okay, I have complained a lot now, but in the end, I am indeed having fun. It's a nice quake-like with a dirty and rotten atmosphere and when it's on sale on GOG the next time I will probably buy it.

Also: It saves the savegame images in full resolution.

>>81091
Finished Dusk tonight. Will buy, it was good. Not great, but good enough to support the devs.

My points of critique from the first episode still stand, especially encounter design. It's mostly underwhelming. Either you're picking them off one by one or you're put inside a small room with a bunch of them so they instantly start infighting.
There is even one level that could be described as a slaughtermap, which I am not really fond of.
Also, I have read, more than once, that the level design is really great, or even the best level design in any fps. I personally don't feel it. It's serviceable, but it's rather linear and in combination with the encounters seems not 100% thought through. For example there was one room inside a house where a rather big floating enemy basically got stuck behind the doorframe. There are many encounters one can just cheese by popping in and out of a doorframe.
Also, shit gets dark in the third episode. I know it's supposed to be atmospheric having everything pitch black but the light cone of the flashlight, but come on, if that cone is like one meter wide on the other end of the room it gets a bit annoying.

What clashes a bit is the completely grimdark story told by evil voices and graffitis saying stuff like WE CALLED THE DARKNESS and such, and the really cartoony artstyle. There is one enemy that's basically a small version of GROND (you know the one), that had me actually laugh out loud when I encountered it the first time and still had me chuckle every time after.

What is really great however is the sound design. I had already mentioned the wheezing dudes, but now there are also some moaning dudes that are moaning somewhere in the dark and then run at me like Phoebe from Friends in that episode where she goes running with Rachel. Would they not spit some green shit they'd be rightout cute. Then there are all the environmental sounds, making everything that happens just seem so threating and sinister.

I like that there are actually a lot of bosses, though the crocodile dude was also really goofy.
The second-to-last boss was absolute bullshit though, it's basically a multiplayer bot who bunnyhops through an arena, whereas the final boss was piss easy to cheese.

So tl;dr:

Not the GOAT fps some people might consider it, but definitely a very good one.