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Cortex Command: Brain on Brain action! 56k smothered in bodies

Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
edited May 2008 in Social Entropy++
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So, CORTEX COMMAND! It's an indie game still in development, but even at this stage it's plenty of fun building up a command bunker, setting up your defences and just letting the AI try, just try to get at you by throwing wave after wave of troops at you. Think RTS-lite Worms with a good dose of physics thrown in.

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It's the future, and you're a disembodied brain in a jar, sent to exploit far-off planets through your legion of remote controlled bodies. What we're here for is GOLD. If this were just a simple mining game, that wouldnt be much fun, but guess what? It's not!

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Fully destructible and accumulating terrain + gibbable enemies and vehicles = body choked bunkers.

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And rocket-powered torsos

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Fight off impossible odds!

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Fun with Rocketry!

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And build fortresses out of the bodies of those who dared oppose you!

What're you waiting for? Download the 20 meg demo, with a 6 minute free skirmish mode, and if you like it, drop some money into it and play it forever!

Go, GO GET IT NOW!

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    looks pretty sweet

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Soldat + deformable terrain = <3

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    but does it have multiplayer

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    huh, for some reason it doesn't show the file size during downloading

    how big is it SO?

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    It's got 4 person local multiplayer. Online would be sweet, through there's no promises yet.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Same peecee up to four players splitscreen.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    grrr this game keeps crashing with some memory error

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I played until it told me to pick something up

    but didn't tell me how

    so I quit

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    You just use WASD to walk up to something until its description is listed above your current character and use the right mouse button radial menu to pick it up.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'll try this later

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2008
    i tried this and got confused and died

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    yeah, the interface is pretty clunky and there's not much in game help

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    like when you order stuff and then when it arrives it basically just crashes so most of the stuff you ordered just gets destroyed and you have a pile of scrap

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    If you're ordering too much you'll overload the rocket. The basic rocket is good for single person deliveries. 2-3 and you use the dummy dropship, and more than that, use the heavy dropship.

    The fun part is that you can take control of the ships and use the fire button to eject your cargo, then pilot over to enemies and fry them with your rocket exhaust.

    Or you can just fly them back offscreen for a refund.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Alternately, fill the rockets with the free crabs (like 10-20), so that they explode in an FPS-dropping rain of flesh that kills most things above ground.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    My last bunker lasted quite awhile. And look at all the wreckage and junk outside.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    I have to say the AI for your units is pretty fucking shitty

    set a unit to dig and it seems just as likely to point the digger up in the air as anything else

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Pretty much. The Sentry AI is the only one that seems to work. Either the mining AI doesnt work or it needs additional input, somehow.

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    SO, you sound like you're an ad agency for this game.

    i don't care about promoting something that is good. but the way you're talking about the different stuff we can do makes you sound like a plant

    EDIT: ok, maybe not that last post

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Maybe I just like little robots shooting each other to bits and have a mountain of their metallic corpses, did you ever consider that?

    Also ask me about Dwarf Fortress.

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    that's fair

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I bought this a few weeks ago and it's pretty cool. I can't wait till they add more to it though, right now it's pretty barren (though fun).

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    If you dont enjoy sending little robot minions out to die in interesting, horrible ways, then fuck you.

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    edit: to the other guy. I could never get mad at an elf-puncher.

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  • MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Oh goddamn it, dude, I'm in a computer lab. I can't be laughing this hard.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Synthetic Orange wrote: »
    If you dont enjoy sending little robot minions out to die in interesting, horrible ways, then fuck you.

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    edit: to the other guy. I could never get mad at an elf-puncher.

    Not just any elf. Fargoth.

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'm impressed at how resilient this game is. I dropped like three crab bombs on a small level at once and it slowed waaaay down but it didn't crash.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I noticed I can watch any .gif's made from this game for a long time. It's just so amusing to watch shit splatter and go everywhere.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I wish I had spent more time figuring this game out before I was limited to 6-minute demos. :?

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I spend 15 minutes putting together elaborate, trap filled corridors and subterrain mazes for the enemy to navigate to my brain.

    Then they spend 6 minutes trying to get through the first door.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I wish I could make more money some how

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    This game is so much fun, if only I could justify buying it after spending $2,000

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    Zombies Tossed My Salad! wrote: »
    I wish I could make more money some how
    Yeah, that's one thing that needs to be fixed. If the mining AI was halfway decent then it would be worthwhile to mine but otherwise you're almost wasting time mining while your enemy is likely to be rushing your base.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I actually did figure it out. You use the Go To AI mode to set waypoints, equip a digger and then activate the AI mining mode.

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I really like how even after time expires, enemy landing ships keep coming, but don't leave.

    So they pileup and run into eachother and explode.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Protip: Don't take control of the landing shuttle before your troops have left it

    I've crushed, burned and maimed a number of people that way

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Well, not til you've figured out landing shuttles anyway.

    Cleaning up a big enemy cluster by hovering your drop pod over there and burning their heads off with your rocket exhaust is awesome.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    One time I had a brave soldier with no legs wielding a shotgun to defend my base. I left him alone and I heard a massive explosion. That son of a bitch shot down a dummy lander and got crushed. :cry:

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