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.

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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.

The "15th of March uprisings" - as named by the national regime supervised press, now generally known as the north Angola uprisings of 1961, were a conflict that lasted for 6 months, started by a sudden and unexpected incursion by UPA (União dos Povos de Angola - more known by its later title FNLA) from Congo-Léopoldville that had completely overrun the meager Portuguese military presence in the northern coffee making provinces of Angola. At its height it threatened the very city of Luanda and UPA forces had established control* of near all territory north of the city.

Holden Roberto, former accountant in the Belgian Congo ministry of finances turned UN envoy, was the leader of UPA. Previously, UPA was UPNA (Union of the People of North Angola). This was the name of the organization when its goals were limited to recreating the Kingdom of Kongo. Roberto recounts talking to Habib Bourguiba, and how the latter convinced him that he should set his aims to a national scale. It was arranged for weapons belonging to United Nations Peacekeeping corps to be lost so they could be used in a righteous struggle of anti-colonialism. Through certain cultural-ideological centers which I will name in my next post, and with the personal intervention of a cold war leader that I will name at a later date, Holden Roberto managed to create a type of praetorian guard in exile that would lead the Kongo people to a larger insurrection. He worked to create networks of fellow travellers. He spent months scouting the landscape, travelling through Angola, sending coded messages through pamphlets, all preparing for the Day. On 15th of March 1961, he began his crusade. In towns that UPA took, they showed truly no mercy. Deaths, rapes, torture, and so on were all inflicted on the colonialist. As Holden explains - the colonizers isn't only the Portuguese, "often, blacks are the worst colonizers". And in the towns, hamlets and village he took, the fate of the >whites, mulattos and the assimilados was sealed - the real Africans could prove their worth with allegiance to Holden Robert, but if they didn't then they were surely colonizers and dealt with accordingly.

In later interviews, Holden routinely denies committing any kind of war crimes followed by attentively detailing said crimes and justifying them by saying these "initial outbursts" were acts of legitimate popular revolt. These outbursts of legitimate popular revolt were not well received, no revolt was ignited elsewhere and after a military defeat, UPA would come to retreat across the border in August and would later reemerge as FNLA - a peripheral civil war ethno-milita. A key part of the plan for UPA failed to come through, and it was crucial for Holden to crown himself King of Angola in 1961. The colonial war would last 13 years and live on as the various civil wars in Lusophone Africa until the early 2000s.

Nabob's resentment

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3821890

At the end of September 1941, Lord Beaverbrook, in the world known as Max Aitken, Churchill's confidant, arrived in Moscow. His task was to agree on the spot the amount of assistance to the USSR from Great Britain and the United States (Harriman represented the American side in Moscow).

Beaverbrook's visit was extremely honorable for Stalin and symbolized his promotion in the bureaucratic hierarchy of the British Empire. The Moscow nabob organized a royal reception for his dear guest and, knowing about his preferences, singled out a sex pearl from the Kremlin harem - a handsome boy with a charming ass. When the visit ended, Beaverbrook affectionately said goodbye to the General Secretary and unexpectedly added:

- And I'm taking the baby with me. Such a smart little boy.

Stalin threw himself on his knees, trying to pray for his moon-butted peach, the delight of the eyes and the joy of the universe. Nothing helped. The Englishman loaded the booty into the plane and flew away.

The point here is not only in the high feelings of Mr. Aitkin, but also in the diplomatic school. British diplomacy has accumulated a lot of experience in lowering oriental little animals. They know them thoroughly and manage masterfully: click-candy-click.