Duck and Cover

Just a reminder that DEFCON game is gonna be released on Steam sometime tomorrow. You can still preorder it for like $10 or $20. Check this youtube movie for a sped up game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfETZiFxq8

I dig the music.

What's the game about anyway?

It's an RTS where you place submarines, missile silos (defensive or offensive), and other stuff before an all out nuclear war happens. The winner is whoever killed the most. I honestly can't imagine how that's determined or matters when everybody is wiped out. IGN has a good review explaining everything.
Supposedly games can last anywhere from minutes to several hours.

It's not like I linked to leaked version a week ago.
Also, Mr. Teatime wasn't a pussy and did not delete the link.

PROOF?

Love the music.


This would be a great experimental film for showing in theatres.

Say a whole hour of this, with extra data readouts and zooming in to impact spots to see the nuking in slow motion.

and other tidbits


holy pilgrimages for apocfreex

very very nice game / screen saver. 6/6 Ja!

I M XYTED

Looks like they fucked up the release. Everyone who bought it off Steam gets an authentication failure and it defaults to the game demo. They better sort this shit quick.

Just fuck the official servers then and play host/join.

Anyone up for some multiplayer?

Heh, it authorized me for about 30 seconds then while in the middle of starting a game it kicked me out saying invalid key. Why does every single Steam launch always fuckup dramatically?

[edit]

k, all is working now. Just finished a 2 hour game and totally shitfaced the other guy. Pretty easy to jump into. The trick is to keep track of what is destroyed so not to waste precious nukes. Too many times the same spot will get blasted about 20 times cuz you weren't paying attention. Slow the game down and move quickly. Submarines are the biggest pain in the ass.

So far single player is pretty loco, I am down for a multi alright

now.... how is it?

It's pretty good. For $10 (if you preordered) you got what you paid for. Winning is more luck than strategy. And everybody gets the same number of silos, radar, airbases and units. Although you do get to customize how many carriers, battleships, or submarines go into your naval fleets. Online play is cool because you can setup weak alliances where at the end somebody is gonna get stabbed in the back.
There isn't much replayability. In fact, I don't see myself playing it more than a couple days. It has a great atmosphere with the music and sounds, especially the crying. Kinda creepy actually. I personally would never pay $20 or whatever they're charging now. They're just isn't much game here.

It makes me wanna load up an old savegame of Civ3 (never got into 4 cuz it sucks shit) and nuke everybody for the hell of it.

Coulda been better.

Like if you could simulate the Cold War and have the computer force Defcon 1
at some random time.

Or agree on a target time, say 1985...

Still, looks awesome.

Great music/etc.


Where are the screensavers and desktop themes?

Just how many of you play a valve game online?

Gosh, totally missed you earlier, aneurysm. Was off watching some kooky documentary on Discovery. Hit me up later, eh?

No problem, maybe we could play tonight...

Just fucking set up Hamachi room, jesus