[South Park: The Stick of Truth] Sequel announced by Ubisoft SanFran

Zunde

I about died laughing when the first loading screen i got in the game popped up with the "If you suck at the combat in this game try getting better." Tip.

Chance

Question for the group!

Where the heck can I find macaroni?!

Dalantia

Random places, mostly in kitchens, in my experience.

There's apparently a limited amount of it in the entire game?

Chance

Dalantia wrote: »

Random places, mostly in kitchens, in my experience.

There's apparently a limited amount of it in the entire game?

Awww I think I must've exhausted the supply... Boolsheeit!

Lorek

Yeah it says on your character screen in the summoning tab. The total number of summons is the total possible over the course of the game. Macaroni summon I believe is 10 total.

schuss

For the first one, do the bar quest to get the darts ASAP. Best weapon for quite a while from the pseudo aoe+bleed damage. If you put gross damage on them as well, you can easily DOT your way to victory in like half the game.

hippofant

schuss wrote: »

For the first one, do the bar quest to get the darts ASAP. Best weapon for quite a while from the pseudo aoe+bleed damage. If you put gross damage on them as well, you can easily DOT your way to victory in like half the game.

Do the darts come before the Mongolian Bow? Can't remember the ordering, but those two weapons just carry you for most of the start.

TexiKen

using Kyle 1 in this game, it just makes so much sense and he's just so annoying like a kid would be playing heroes.

Also Fartkour, that is a Claaaaassy pun.

Zunde

Well i can say now that i spent twenty minutes trying to max rank a toilet.

The 4 star toilets hurt my hands.

Ivan Hunger

Donnicton wrote: »

You can't pick a gender in the first one, you're just assumed to be a boy. The second one you can, and even kind of makes a joke about the retcon if you choose a non-male.

Viskod wrote: »

You also get to also pick sexuality as well as gender later on and can change them both whenever you want.

The game even has religion customization, with a huge list of options. "Jew" and "Orthodox Jew" are both present, for example.

The satire works on multiple levels, because it references not only how most video games tiptoe around the religion of the player character, but also how many video games give you lots of identity customization options that seem like they should be important but ultimately have no impact on anything.

TexiKen

Yeah and the bit where you choose your gender, you have rednecks attack you no matter what you choose, they just change the dialogue a bit.

So it respects player choice just like Mass Effect 3 did a zing

Donnicton

Ivan Hunger wrote: »

Donnicton wrote: »

You can't pick a gender in the first one, you're just assumed to be a boy. The second one you can, and even kind of makes a joke about the retcon if you choose a non-male.

Viskod wrote: »

You also get to also pick sexuality as well as gender later on and can change them both whenever you want.

The game even has religion customization, with a huge list of options. "Jew" and "Orthodox Jew" are both present, for example.

The satire works on multiple levels, because it references not only how most video games tiptoe around the religion of the player character, but also how many video games give you lots of identity customization options that seem like they should be important but ultimately have no impact on anything.

The game will even throw shade if you pick certain combinations. For example, try picking Lawful Scientologist.

Viskod

Ivan Hunger wrote: »

Donnicton wrote: »

You can't pick a gender in the first one, you're just assumed to be a boy. The second one you can, and even kind of makes a joke about the retcon if you choose a non-male.

Viskod wrote: »

You also get to also pick sexuality as well as gender later on and can change them both whenever you want.

The game even has religion customization, with a huge list of options. "Jew" and "Orthodox Jew" are both present, for example.

The satire works on multiple levels, because it references not only how most video games tiptoe around the religion of the player character, but also how many video games give you lots of identity customization options that seem like they should be important but ultimately have no impact on anything.

I chuckled at having to tell Jesus I was an atheist.

Dalantia

I expected a joke at being a neutral taoist.

Zunde

Oh my god.

The Bus stop that has the couple complaining about the bus not being there is called the DLC Bus stop.

AspectVoid

TexiKen wrote: »

Yeah and the bit where you choose your gender, you have rednecks attack you no matter what you choose, they just change the dialogue a bit.

So it respects player choice just like Mass Effect 3 did a zing

Actually, that's true to the show. Those rednecks have threatened people for being considerate, understanding, beautiful, and being a Panda before. It's part of the joke.

Zunde

You actually get some unique dialog if they attack you as a Cisgender.

"What's a cisgender anyway! Craig:It's what you all are you fucking idiots!

HallowedFaith

This game has so much dialogue mixing in it. I love it. They make a great effort to 'keep things moving' like the tv show.

TexiKen

I was able to make a USAgent costume, better game than Marvel Vs. Capcom:

AlphaRomero

Holy shit this game is hilarious, I've literally been in tears at

Kyle's absolute annoyance at Cartman describing Butthole's backstory of mom fucking being a rare thing, but nothing so far has topped Captain Diabetes grinding some guy in the Peppermint Hippo.

Heir

Omg, this game. I just started playing:

I go into the basement and start messing with that Cube of Ultimate Destruction (the rubix cube). He kept telling me to stop so of course I didn't. I hit it one more time and boom, I destroy the galaxy and get a game over / roll credits. I freaking love this game

Zunde

If you fast travel a lot in a short time period your character will vomit from the constant speeding.

TexiKen

Heir wrote: »

Omg, this game. I just started playing:

I go into the basement and start messing with that Cube of Ultimate Destruction (the rubix cube). He kept telling me to stop so of course I didn't. I hit it one more time and boom, I destroy the galaxy and get a game over / roll credits. I freaking love this game

the game over song is so good.

Beasteh

keep on trying to skip the games opening cutscene

no, keep on doing it

even when it looks like it isn't doing anything

Ivan Hunger

In the sidequest where you have to fight...

...Kyle's mom...

...the battle music for the boss fight is an instrumental version of the song...

..."Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" from the episode "Mister Hankey, the Christmas Poo".

Lorek

Wondering if anyone has tried this yet...
Mid-game (mid/late day 2) spoilers

So after beating Kyle's cousin the second time; he starts to randomly appear in battle for one round before disappearing.
I noticed the very last time he showed up that he comes in as an enemy though.
Has anyone tried using the Time Pause Fart power in combat to get in free hits and taking a whack at him when he shows up?

EvmaAlsar

So I beat the game

Lol but that ended abruptly

Re: certain characters and race

I was playing a black kid with difficulty set to mastermind the entire game 'cos 1) I'm hardcore and 2) I wanted the token experience achievement, and looking through the achievements there's one for picking a fight with Morgan Freeman. I would occasionally hit and fart on him when I went to his taco shop for more recipes to timefart but he wouldn't aggro me. He even gave me a special black heritage artifact halfway through the game that carried me into the late game. I learned that Morgan Freeman will never, ever fight you if your kid is black. So I guess I'll have to pay PC Principal a visit to adjust my racial identity in the name of 100% completionism

I'm super glad that the collectibles

yaoi posters

aren't missable behind any locations you can only visit once. I'm looking at you, Stick of Truth chinpokomon.

Zunde

Ignore me i'm dumb and i can't read.

KupotheAvenger

Would you guys recommend this on PC or PS4? The reviews on steam have been horrific, mainly citing the day one horrors of crash mayhem, but the hype i feel is real...

Kadoken

For the type of game it is any platform will be good, but if you hear it's crashing a lot on steam than it's probably safer to go on console.

Donnicton

There are soft lock issues on the PC version, though a lot of them are bypassed by alt-tabbing out and back in. It generally only happens in one specific dungeon of the game, the rest of the game it's fine.

TexiKen

The Craig and Tweek Ultimate.......I laughed so hard when the first thing it does is drop confusion on the enemies because yep.

here it is below the spoilers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtXmFexEBUY

Zunde

Craig is a treasure.

Working through the genetics lab and his no-nonsense flat responses to the doctor are great.

hippofant

This game is WAAAY easier than a lot of streamers have made it look. I'm a little disappointed, though not too much, since Stick of Truth was the same way.

klemming

hippofant wrote: »

This game is WAAAY easier than a lot of streamers have made it look. I'm a little disappointed, though not too much, since Stick of Truth was the same way.

A common theme I see with some streamers is that they tend to be reading their chat comments or something whenever the games flash up big messages like 'don't fight these guys, just run' or 'press A to proceed'.

Donnicton

klemming wrote: »

hippofant wrote: »

This game is WAAAY easier than a lot of streamers have made it look. I'm a little disappointed, though not too much, since Stick of Truth was the same way.

A common theme I see with some streamers is that they tend to be reading their chat comments or something whenever the games flash up big messages like 'don't fight these guys, just run' or 'press A to proceed'.

I also haven't seen a streamer yet that wasn't baited into using the summon in response to the dialogue on that one particular fight. I don't know if it was just developer oversight or intentional baiting but it's pretty damn funny.

Moridin889

This game is pretty great guys.

Zunde

17 Hours 80%Ish trophy Finished the game the ending was the best ending.

Might dive back in for a token/mastermind run. Had somebody call this game a 90 hour game today.

How.

Just remember no matter how much good you do. No matter how hard you try.. you will never stop your dad.. from fucking your mom ^.~

AlphaRomero

I love how incredulous Kyle gets with Cartman every time

MC comes up because I'm there with him. But I am totally expecting a swerve because it's too obvious. Thinking about it it's probably gonna be Ben Affleck or Jlo.

hippofant

klemming wrote: »

hippofant wrote: »

This game is WAAAY easier than a lot of streamers have made it look. I'm a little disappointed, though not too much, since Stick of Truth was the same way.

A common theme I see with some streamers is that they tend to be reading their chat comments or something whenever the games flash up big messages like 'don't fight these guys, just run' or 'press A to proceed'.

Eh. Yes that. But also poor mechanics. I've seen a lot of them use the time-reverse fart to skip enemy turns when they've had the more advanced farts, which can be used to do the same thing. Don't think I've seen a single one open inspection mode in combat. A lot of derping when it comes to telegraphed attacks and walking into them or letting the timed ones smack 'em. Not being able to figure out how to set up knockback positions/heals etc.

I found elementalist and plantmancer op as shit. And then rolled with 3 high damage meleers all game. Everybody has enough mobility moves that combined with a bit of long-range CC and heals for bosses, and the game is a walk. Not quite as much as with Jew plagues and Kyle in SoT, but....