The Culling: Battle Royale meets Smash TV

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:39 pm

Bottom post of the previous page:

I wonder if there's a way to set up a private server so we can just Lord-of-the-Flies the shit out of each other.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:35 pm #160859

KILL THE PIG

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:39 pm

SUCKS TO YOUR ASS-MAR

DrPillzRedux · Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:35 am

Stun guns are rediculously OP. Zero counter aside from running and hoping they can't catch up.

I did get a chainsaw for me and my buddy and we chased people, was fun.

EndgamerAzari · Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:11 am

Yeah, stun guns are bullshit, but at least they're rare. Getting hit by one is basically an insta-backstab. And chainsaws are weird--they're a DPS weapon and they drain your stamina while being used. If you get the drop on someone with one you can out-damage them before they wear you down if you're lucky.

EndgamerAzari · Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:20 am

It's that time again.

http://www.hitbox.tv/endgamerazari

EDIT: Never mind, I got depressed and I'm going to bed early.

DrPillzRedux · Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:09 am

They're nerfing stun guns. I also got called a gay riddick.

EndgamerAzari · Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:18 pm

I'm thinking of putting together a "I MUST KILL FAST" build that specializes in getting the drop on people before they can prepare. I'm thinking the perks that start you with body armor (for that initial edge) and the man-tracker (I must find so I can also kill), and maybe either improved run speed or improved crafting speed.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:35 pm #161112

Improved run speed. Improved crafting speed is kinda useless.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:37 pm #161113

DrPillzRedux wrote:They're nerfing stun guns. I also got called a gay riddick.

What's the difference between taser and pepperspray stun again?

EndgamerAzari · Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:39 pm

Taser actually stuns you (and is basically melee range), making you unable to move for a few seconds, whereas pepper spray blinds you but otherwise leaves your capabilities unhindered.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 6:33 am #161228

Ah, so people got pissed off that a three-charge stunbaton fucked them up.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:18 am #161232

A Taser can stun you long enough to, with the right perk, be backstabbed and take off about 70% of your health.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:20 am #161251

I wonder how long it takes till you're able to kill someone.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:35 pm #161262

Combat tends to be a drawn out affair as people can tank quite a few hits.

The only exceptions to this are...

Guns: Guns deal a lot of damage very rapidly, a headshot is essentially a one shot kill for the Rifle and Revolver (almost for the latter) and the SMG tears it up in close range. The drawback being firearms are extraordinarily rare to find in any crate, and gun loot drops are very, very, expensive and are usually only seen in the mid to late game. In addition extra ammo for a gun is also extremely expensive to craft.
Someone trippling up on perks to maximise damage via backstabs and with a single weapon. If someone invests all of their three perks into boosting their damage they can deal via a backstab (htting a target in the back) and with one class of weapons (blades or blunt for example) then a single charged hit to the back of a target will rip off most of their health in one hit (again, 70% ish).
Someone using explosives, traps or a combination of both. Explosives deal massive damage but vary in deployment, availability, and skilled usage. Traps are very deadly if paried with a way to finish off the victim (classic is setting snares around a poison cannister, then throwing a rock at the poison cannister as the victim is snared to kill them with a massive poison cloud).

People tend to take notice of very rapid deaths, as most deaths tend to be drawn out as most weapons deal anywhere from 5 to 25ish damage a hit.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:42 pm #161264

Well, I had two kills in about ten matches.

Last match's, however, was the last. I picked my tank setup, starting with body armour, damage resist and extra HP, got a rifle, blowgun, bowie knife and pepper spray.
Never even encountered anyone until I noticed only two were left. Spray, bang, bang, feels oddly dissatisfying.

Also, is Brutus/Stealthy/Ol' Painless actually worth it?

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:45 pm #161266

The nature of RNG is that sometimes you'll get a great set-up easily like yours, other's you'll be scrapping the bottom of the barrel with makeshift weapons and traps.

onleavedontatme · Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:57 pm

Fun game, was worth breaking my "no early access ever" rule.

DrPillzRedux · Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:35 pm

I just run Ninja/Brutus/Instacrate perks and backstab people after following them.

A good strategy is to use snares. Put them by health machines when someone is close, fuck them up and let them run to heal. They'll get snared and you can backstab them.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 8:05 pm #161299

My autism has awakened and so has the need to transplant this into SS13.

Like, stone turns to glass, wood turns to metal, tasers become batons, pepper spray, smoke grenades and most explosives are reskinned, vents are plasma cans, barrels are welding tanks, the SMG is a c20, the rifle turns into an autorifle...the blowgun maybe an ebow?

onleavedontatme · Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:29 pm

Would probably be fairly simple to make battle royale as a thunderdome type thing or an away mission where only one person is allowed to leave. It'd get old faster than the time it took to code though.

ShadowDimentio · Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:50 pm

Speak for yourself. UNGA BUNGA MURDER EVERYONE

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 4:08 pm #161515

Sniper bundle plus moneybags feels good man.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:32 pm #161612

On that note, sniper bundle plus trembling hands feels bad man.

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:47 pm

I just blinded a man with pepper spray and watch him run into a poison cloud and choke to death. I mean he killed me in his blind fury as well since I have some crazy fear of blocking but hey it was worth it.

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:29 am #161649

I watched someone throw some brass knuckles, hit someone in the head and kill them.

Supermichael777 · Mon Mar 14, 2016 2:45 am

just need zykalon b tanks and the rest is just table crafting and a ghetto money system.

The game itself looks like 3 months of polish and some graffiti on those buildings(in blood of course) would liven it up. Hell, semi persistent sprays on the individual servers would be cool(totaly impractical but cool). Obviously everything needs textures first.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:02 am #161688

Now I gotta check if guns are actually hitscan or if you have to lead your target over distance.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:16 am #161692

You have to lead them, but the projectiles tend to travel fast enough.

Just go into the Adv. Tutorial and try out the guns in there.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:31 am #161695

I did.

In the process I rediscovered rather painfully that I suck at throwing.

EndgamerAzari · Mon Mar 14, 2016 2:09 pm

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON wrote:I have some crazy fear of blocking

Blocking is VITAL to melee combat. There's sort of a rock-paper-scissors method to it

Blocking beats attacking (kinda) beats shoving beats blocking, and so on.

I say attacking kinda beats shoving because you can still get shoved when you're not blocking, but chances are unless you're swinging a sledgehammer you'll hit the guy shoving you. And that momentary stun that blocking an attack generates gives you room for at least two hits before the enemy can recover, usually.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 5:25 pm #161802

Well, I suck at melee combat because I get flustered very quickly and forget the whole moving around and being a pain in the ass stuff.
I suck at ranged combat because depth perception is something that I just lack.
The only thing I'm halfway good at is stealth, aka running away without anybody noticing and just scurrying around the outskirts salvaging shit till I hit 175 FUNC.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:44 pm #162507

>spawn right next to satcomm
>barrel in front
>explosive crate on top
>another red crate in the basement
>metric fuckton of loot
>another guy comes by, mistakes my alarm gun for a rifle and runs around awkwardly
>got a taser, too, if he tries shit
>suddenly, game crashes
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:50 pm

*'REEEE's in sympathy*

ShadowDimentio · Thu Mar 17, 2016 11:03 pm

http://i.imgur.com/EnzJ4Yj.webm

Fucked, so hard

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:16 am #162592

Well, that was tacticool.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:22 am #162594

Now that there are Australian servers up I've been playing and enjoying the game quite a bit.

Amusingly many of my recent victory's are via using a SMG I ended up stealing from someone else in the round. My most recent being someone I used a remote explosive to knock them to 5 hp and whom ran into a poison cloud to try and deny me their SMG, I managed to pick it up (losing 2/3rds of my hp) and use it to kill off the last contestant after healing.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:55 am #162596

I seem to be awfully good at making second place by never bumping into anyone, calling an airdrop when it's time, crafting some armour, and hiding in the bushes for the first place guy to run into my sights.

Then I inevitably fail at shooting him in the face.

Alex Crimson · Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:36 am

Does Bleeding stack its damage, or just refresh its duration when you repeatedly hit someone? It would be neat if they added more viable ways to kill people rather than just melee whores. Traps seem like fun, and you could take perks to increase their damage, but you would get screwed in melee.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 9:31 am #163012

Are you kidding? Bleed weapons (spear n blade) are the meta go to due to how insanely powerful it is.

Alex Crimson · Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:20 pm

Never said it wasnt. Just want to know how the bleed mechanics work. Seems like it just refreshes the duration.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:50 pm #163082

Yes it does.

Also I'll bet good money the next round of balance changes will be focused around making bleed weapons less extremely powerful while trying to buff up other non-bleed weapons as well as associated loot drops.

Doesn't help that not only are bleed weapons fantastic but they get the best loot drops and weapon spawns, in addition to some of the better weapon related perks. Hell the bludgeon (I think) weapon tree doesn't even have a craftable Tier 1 weapon, so if you don't find a bludgeon weapon in a building then your shit out of luck as your perks are useless, well more so.

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:06 pm

Got my first victory, lured the asshat into my remote mine and blew him up. Then just finished him off with a spear. Feels good man.

confused rock · Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:10 pm

Steelpoint wrote:Yes it does.

Also I'll bet good money the next round of balance changes will be focused around making bleed weapons less extremely powerful while trying to buff up other non-bleed weapons as well as associated loot drops.

Doesn't help that not only are bleed weapons fantastic but they get the best loot drops and weapon spawns, in addition to some of the better weapon related perks. Hell the bludgeon (I think) weapon tree doesn't even have a craftable Tier 1 weapon, so if you don't find a bludgeon weapon in a building then your shit out of luck as your perks are useless, well more so.

axe is a bludgeon, triple stones. it even gives weakness 3 (30% less damage dealt)

EndgamerAzari · Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:27 pm

The crafted hatchet is an ax. It's a separate class.

UnlimitedSpessmans · Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:51 pm

fun game, big fan of being a huge coward and then when it comes to the last 4 just picking off whoever survives.

also spear meta and knife meta are forever.

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:14 pm

It's on sale for half a day more plus free game:

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/t ... -free-game

There's also a two-pack if anyone's feeling generous:

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/t ... free-games

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:33 am

Streaming tonight: http://www.hitbox.tv/endgamerazari

Super Aggro Crag · Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:45 am

have fun friend

EndgamerAzari · Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:53 am

Won the first match I was in. Not bad for not having played for a bit.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:58 am #165776

I haven't played in ages, thanks to work and Geralt.

Changelog says there's a ton more nerfs out there, though.