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[Robsoie]

the "sex scenes" in Witcher 1 were mostly Geralt kissing a woman in close up in a very very blurry video with a card (that is nicely drawn) of his conquest appearing in a sexy (not porn or anything like that) pose.
Basically it was super tame in comparison to anything you see in even the most average movies nowadays, and at least made you feel much less like a creepy voyeur than the other Witcher games .

[nenjin]

https://youtu.be/nwGtlpfIZDE?list=PLE26026EA55B743BE&t=196

Granted, it's pretty tame but it qualifies for the definition.

[Robsoie]

That said, Witcher 1 was one of the best drunk simulator 

[Il Palazzo]

Sil. The roguelike. Was there a wiki for this game, or am I misremembering? I'm pretty sure I've once read about the precise mechanics of prying the silmarils from the crown etc. But now I can't find anything like that. I've just completed the game for the first time, and would like to get a feel for what I could have done differently.

[Iduno]

I remember people talking about it a lot, but I can't find any threads around here, so it must have been a different forum.

[n9103]

There's the RogueBasin page, its official forum thread on the Angband forum, and there's the fork Sil-Q that's actively developed and maintained.
Other than that, really not much out there about it, as far as text resources go. Several videos, including a modestly large series, on YouTube. No wiki that I could find either.

[Robsoie]

It seems there's a curse to Angband and all its variants: there's no indepth wiki.
The few info/spoiler/helpful tips i got for Sil is usually from either dedicated threads (Sil had some people talking about it here in one of the Angband threads of old), but they're rare unfortunately..

[Robsoie]

Genesis Alpha One is the definition of a hidden gem.
I had never heard about it before that gog giveway, but after getting through the tutorial i'm having some fun, it's a very good surprise. 

Oh at first after clearing the first system and hyperspacing to the next (it's where the tutorial left you fend for yourself) i felt it was repeating itself a bit and the gameplay loop (expand ship, manage ship, gather material from debris, land on planets to gather material and some more stuff , clear the ship from unwanted stuff that could get into it, once system is all done hyperspace somewhere else in the galaxy) was becoming a routine.

But after more time i got into some new deadly situation after escaping with 30% health left from one of my planetary harvesting in which some really though opposition killed one of my crew member i got the surprised to had some unexpected fungus thingy coming back with me that spread through most of my ship corridors, rooms and innards .

It was hell, but the very fun type of hell with a heavy alien infestation with me crawling through the whole ship underbelly looking for a lot of alien nests and crawling horrors, it seems the game have a lot more content and surprise than it seemed at first.

The only bad point of the game is that its controls are a bit janky, but despite that it's very entertaining, a great mix of FPS, exploring , base building and management game, all with some roguelite elements.
Here's some guides if the tutorial puzzle you :
https://genesisalphaone.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_Play_Guide_for_Genesis_Alpha_One
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2498310125

[Frumple]

It seems there's a curse to Angband and all its variants: there's no indepth wiki.
The few info/spoiler/helpful tips i got for Sil is usually from either dedicated threads (Sil had some people talking about it here in one of the Angband threads of old), but they're rare unfortunately..

Lot of that is because most of the *band varients have their source/data just kinda' sitting there, out in the open and mostly human readable.

Sil's case with the prying it looks like there's just a chance to destroy your weapon when you try to pry out the shinies? Can't tell if you get a another chance/can try again with a different weapon or not if you fail an attempt, though. The exact mechanic's in the code but I am not nearly coherent enough to try to parse it in more detail than that.

[Akura]

Was playing Genesis a bit too. I'm finding that it's far too easy for aliens to get entrenched into your ship. They very quickly build nests, apparently even as they're dying. Lost two crewmembers - the two I interacted with the most, as they were my tractor beam guy and my shuttle pilot - while I was faffing about the ship editor, because something got aboard, possibly from the hangar bay. A lot of critters will almost invariably appear every shuttle trip. Luckily, I had just enough resources to build a clone lab and replace them.

At one point, an alien came out of the tractor beam loot, got immediately splatted by the turret I put right next to it, and yet it still had time to spawn a nest.

Still, the game is pretty decent overall.

[Robsoie]

Some of the aliens can be indeed nasty with nest spawning very fast. The "green thing" that look like green people when they grow out of their nest can sometime revive its nest you just destroyed several times in a row so you need to keep an eye.

Apparently there's 50% of uninvited guest when the Harvester is back, regardless if you're inside of it or if you were waiting in your ship.
One time on a dangerous planet i faced some rather nasty opposition and after a couple of waves there were squads of enemies soldier attacking my mining crew forcing me to retreat as fast as i could as i didn't wanted to lose any of my guys as they had leveled up a bit.

When the Harvester landed on our ship , surprise an enemy squad had followed and a big fight erupted in the hangar, and the enemy commandos managed to kill me , forcing me to resurrect inside one of the crew member.
Fortunately we had enough biomass to clone some more crew.

Another time it was very unexpected because the uninvited guest was of a specie i never saw before (even on the planet i explored) , 2 big clumsy and bobbling creatures spawning what looked like leeches all around them, it took a lot of ammo to bring those 2 down.

[Chiefwaffles]

Genesis is... bizarre. It feels like a very promising but very early vertical slice prototype demo was made, then handed off to a completely separate team of developers with no communication other than "finish the game and ship it ASAP". There are interesting systems, but they feel extraordinarily barebones and unfinished.
Like if someone found a geode that looked like a perfectly ordinary rock on the outside. But instead of breaking it open or doing anything of the sort, the person proceeds to spend a large amount of time furiously polishing the outside of the geode. They then proudly present this polished rock. But there's something off about it. Like there's promise and effort there, but the promise and effort don't actually interact with each other.

I don't know. It's interesting and I'll probably have to spend more time with it, but boy is it confounding to try and describe.

[Robsoie]

Yes, it feels there's a slight lack of polish somewhere in Genesis, i guess the mixing of several game genre is difficult to do, but the game is still packed with content and with its roguelite elements provide some replay value.

Spoiler: a simplified explanation of the gameplay loop[/spoiler (click to show/hide)

- build or improve your ship with corridors (free to build) and speciality rooms (cost ressources), remember you can make a turbolift to build above and bellow as there are several decks supported.
- assign your crew members to rooms depending on your approach to survivability, utility and defense
- make more crew if you need (they can get killed) and have the ressources for that (depending on how much biomass, crew quarters and working greenhouse rooms you have)
- on the Bridge, analyse debris and planets from the system+other system surrounding it to have an idea on what each contain so you know what is the priority.
- on the Tractor Beam , gather materials from space debris you need, so you can build more stuff (weapon/ammo/rooms/etc..)
- from the Hangar send the Harvester to a planet and mine raw materials and/or find items/artifacts/blueprints parts/etc... also gather biomass , dna and blueprint parts from killed aliens .
- in the Refinery refine raw ressources into material that will be stocked in Storage rooms (you will need more storage rooms than deposit rooms as deposit is only for raw material, something that will be used all the time)
- clean the ship from possible "unexpected guests" that could have entered the ship from various location (tractor beam, refined ressources, hangar, pirate attack...), don't forget to go crawl checking under each rooms as aliens could go there too after coming into the ship and put a lot of nest there. The good thing is that you may be able to get more biomass and dna parts from that.

Once you cleared a system (or before as you're not forced to wait) , you can move to another by hyperspacing to your desired location from the Bridge.
Then repeat the loop until you reach the end game
Sometime you may run into merchants or derelict ships, merchant are to be interacted with in one of the computer of the Bridge while derelict ships will require you to build a "Ship Assault" and from there teleport into the ship and explore it for mining their ressource or finding items/artifacts/etc... like in a planet

Once you ended your run with  the "tutorial corporation" (either by winning or losing) you'll have unlocked several stuff depending on various factors along with several new corporations for your next run.

Encountered an abandonned ship and explored it, game performance went absolutely horrible in it, the responsible was whatever it's called that look like some blue "goo" emitting some blue particles (that teleport you if you walk on them) that was found nearly everywhere, after destroying them all performance went back to good. 
Looks like the game lacks some optimisation for those cases, especially as those things don't even move.

[Robsoie]

In Fallout 3 it looks like taking as a perk "Animal Friend" proved to be a good idea as i got attacked by Talon mercs again (that damn bounty on my head) at night while exploring some ruins and saw 2 enormous Yao guais (mutated creatures that look like the Hulk version of a hyena mixed with a big bear) that rushed in and destroyed my enemies while letting me go freely.

It was fun to see those damned mercs getting their sorry bottom handed to them like that

[Kagus]

Yes, it feels there's a slight lack of polish somewhere in Genesis

I wasn't paying attention to which thread I was in when I read this.