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Mild hyper fixation so let’s talk about GTFO rundowns
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Because I’m at work and can’t play
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You and three teammates start out by being woken up in your stasis pods
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And loaded into a crane over a huge pit that goes [UNDEF$] down
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It’s very deep and very dark
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You figure out your gear
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Then the crane drops you down hundreds of meters before dropping you off and giving you an objective
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The one I did last night was “Retrieve core DNA sample HSH_424”
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So step one is to find a computer and query where HSH_424 is
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The computer says “Zone 50h”
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So you find a sign that says you’re in Zone 47a
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And a door labeled “Zone 48a, access to zones 49-51”
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But you can’t open that door until you find keycard KEY_BLUE_845
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So you gotta go hunt down the keycard in the same way you hunted down the objective
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And Bring it to the door to continue
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The computer is neat btw because it’s actually like
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A DOS prompt
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You actually type out “QUERY HSH_424”
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While you’re dealing with all this busywork, you’re also navigating around sleepers
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which usually look sorta like this
which usually look sorta like this
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Sleepers normally don’t move because they’re, well, sleeping
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If you hit them in the head with a charged melee strike you can take them out silently
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But if you move while they’re glowing, or shine lights on them they wake up and wake up all their buddies
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Then it’s just a straight up fight which you can usually win without too much trouble, but resources like ammo and medkits are limited
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Best to take them out slowly and quietly
pixie lovemail
; oh this sounds real fucking neat
pixie lovemail
; even more my thing than gunevo
Tonberry King
oooh
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Anyway after dealing with the Sleepers however you find KEY_BLUE_845 and take it to the appropriate door
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But oh shit the door is alarmed
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If you unlock it an alarm will sound and swarms of sleepers will attack until you manage to disengage the alarm
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So you’re playing like a mini game where you have to stand in specific spots to get scanned while also shooting down dozens of enemies
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Aside from a variety of guns and melee weapons you have a tool
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Your tool can be shit like a sentry turret, a mine layer, a foam gun
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Biosensor
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Etc
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Biosensor is vital because it can show where sleepers are in the dark or through walls
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So the biosensor guy can be like “there’s a group of three right behind the door and then two more off to the right”
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Foam guns reinforce closed doors
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Which sleepers can break down in large enough numbers
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There are also scouts
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Which are sleepers that don’t sleep
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They just wander around
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They can’t see
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Instead their heads spit out swarms of feelers in every direction
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And if any feeler touches you the scout starts screaming
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And you have a fight on your hands
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there’s a lot of feelers
there’s a lot of feelers
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One guy on my team was calling them spaghetti monsters
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Best bet seems to be either avoid them or, if you have someone with a sniper rifle, they can kill them with one head shot when the feelers are at maximum extension
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Anyway hopefully you eventually find HSU_424
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When you pick it up alarms go off
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So now it’s just a dead sprint back to where you started so the crane can come back down and extract you
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While swarms of sleepers close in
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After which: good job!
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You’ve completed mission one of the Rumdown
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Rundown*
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(Rumdown is what you do afterwards because fuck this shit is stressful)
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The full rundown is like 4-6 missions
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Each one goes a little deeper than the one before it
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AND THAT
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Is how GTFO goes
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As far as I can tell
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I went in last time with a sub machine gun, a shotgun, a hammer, and a sentry gun with a shotgun attached to it
pixie lovemail
; yeah, fuck, I would be super down for this
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It’s $30 on steam right now
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Until nov1
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Normally $40
Saturn Is A Tea
This sounds insanely cool
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It’s VERY tense
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And super cool
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And my dream is to actually assemble a Crew
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Three players I can team up with to challenge harder and harder rundowns with
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The darkness is scary
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But when you’ve got a team watching your back
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It’s not so bad
NekoInc, MSPM
Personally, I still prefer the lead dev's previous effort (PAYDAY 2) but
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The flow does have a lot of potential
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(I'm also not entirely sure what I think about the rundown's rotating-maps component)
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I don’t quite understand the rotations yet, yeah
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But I’m not worrying about it too much right now