What is Space Station 13 to you?
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What is Space Station 13 to you?
To me it's a lonely, poorly designed station with redundant airlocks mislabelled or otherwise solid when they should be glass, and medium amounts of redundant space -- not enough to get visually lost in but enough to facilitate traitor crime in med-high pop without people running who run by every 5 - 10 seconds seeing you because the entire room is visible from an all-access hallway. It's a place with an unsettling ambience constantly playing, and a quietness to the departments and hallways that eases off in public areas such as the bar which almost act like a safe haven due to their laggy shitty piano .midis and groups of people tabling each other and smashing bottles over each other's heads (because getting drunk is fucking pointless).
It's a place where you can die any second without warning, and people are afraid to stand next to each other or talk to each other for too long for fear the other person is a changeling, wearing stun gloves, or going to pull a revolver or ebow on them and drag them into maint or the nearest locker. It's a place where skilled players perform amazing feats of well-timed and perfectly executed violence, ala Hotline Miami, trouncing security and the rest of the crew and bringing the station to its knees singlehandedly through quick thinking and quick reactions (and good latency...).
Overall it's an imperfect, minimalist, scary, atmospheric, untrusting place where people are loathe to give you the objects needed to do your job in case you end up turning them against them or on someone else. It's a cruel place where life is cheap and generosity is scarce, as stopping to help someone can lead you to becoming the killer's next victim.
Now while I admit I'm not the best at painting a picture with words, and have probably left out some of the more emphatic aspects of my impression of SS13 through sheer forgetfulness, what we've evolved into is a highly polished, compact, colourful, streamlined chucklefuck's playground with Goon-like random bullshit materialising out of every corner to get its guaranteed kill through lack of balance, defibs to make up the ridiculous slowness of cloning and a bunch of shitty gimped after-death roles to optionally play if you get sick of watching and don't mind playing handicapped.
Anyway, while you're free to take offence to my opinion and shit on it or on me, I'd hope you'd concentrate on sharing your own vision for the game (despite it being harder) because I think it could spawn quite an interesting discussion with a few interesting ideas coming out of it.
tl;dr due to nerfs and meta no one takes the 'base game' seriously anymore so we're introducing tacky 'dlc' to make up for it rather than fixing the problem at its core
It's a place where you can die any second without warning, and people are afraid to stand next to each other or talk to each other for too long for fear the other person is a changeling, wearing stun gloves, or going to pull a revolver or ebow on them and drag them into maint or the nearest locker. It's a place where skilled players perform amazing feats of well-timed and perfectly executed violence, ala Hotline Miami, trouncing security and the rest of the crew and bringing the station to its knees singlehandedly through quick thinking and quick reactions (and good latency...).
Overall it's an imperfect, minimalist, scary, atmospheric, untrusting place where people are loathe to give you the objects needed to do your job in case you end up turning them against them or on someone else. It's a cruel place where life is cheap and generosity is scarce, as stopping to help someone can lead you to becoming the killer's next victim.
Now while I admit I'm not the best at painting a picture with words, and have probably left out some of the more emphatic aspects of my impression of SS13 through sheer forgetfulness, what we've evolved into is a highly polished, compact, colourful, streamlined chucklefuck's playground with Goon-like random bullshit materialising out of every corner to get its guaranteed kill through lack of balance, defibs to make up the ridiculous slowness of cloning and a bunch of shitty gimped after-death roles to optionally play if you get sick of watching and don't mind playing handicapped.
Anyway, while you're free to take offence to my opinion and shit on it or on me, I'd hope you'd concentrate on sharing your own vision for the game (despite it being harder) because I think it could spawn quite an interesting discussion with a few interesting ideas coming out of it.
tl;dr due to nerfs and meta no one takes the 'base game' seriously anymore so we're introducing tacky 'dlc' to make up for it rather than fixing the problem at its core
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
>stun glovesblah blah wearing stun gloves blah blah
When
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
Never againVenticular wrote:>stun glovesblah blah wearing stun gloves blah blah
When
(Unfortunately.)
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
death trap "cleverly disguised" as a space station
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
A kickin rad place to be, cleverly disguised as a deathtrap
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
Indubitably you mean hugboх.Wyzack wrote:A kickin rad place to be, cleverly disguised as a deathtrap
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
A simulation of the workplace of the future: run by overbearing assholes, staffed by rabid idiots, under attack from the ridiculous and the puny, and always something better escaped from than lived in. It is a unique game that, when properly populated, provides an experience it's hard to get elsewhere: a real cops and robbers simulation where most of the bystanders are players too. It has no sense of direction in lore or content but when the relevant pieces align, it's a very fun time indeed.
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
memes wrapped around memes covered with meme frosting
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
Something I can quite any time I want to!
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
It's not as strong as methamphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth.Reece wrote:Something I can quite any time I want to!
my forum gimmick is that no one knows who i am
gender is irrelevant NO UR IRRELEVANT
u a bish
y u heff 2 b med
gender is irrelevant NO UR IRRELEVANT
u a bish
y u heff 2 b med
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
A station in space
clearly the 13th one built.
clearly the 13th one built.
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Re: What is Space Station 13 to you?
ThanatosRa wrote:captain sawrge wrote:the cause of my mental disorders
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