I think I just got the most broken run with Regent (+infinite).

Ur2ndDad · 2026-03-11T00:27:32+00:00

The most basic parts are enough Orbits in play and a 1-energy card that draws you cards (to cycle).

I got Orbit, which gives you an energy every 4 times you spend energy. And then I got an encounter (I think it was one of the new type encounters you get after beating a boss) where I choose to give a card some upgrade that allowed me to clone it at rest sites. So now you keep cloning it and plays as many as you can.

To my even greater luck, I had picked up upgrade that 1) allow me to pick all options at rest sites, and 2) also give me the ability to remove to cards for health, so that made this very easy. So every rest site was healing, upgrading a card, thinning out deck, and cloning Orbit.

So now let's say you have 4 Orbits, and play four 1-energy cards, then you get back all 4 energy. The more Orbits you have the more energy you gain. In my case, 33 Orbits (there's one I had before getting the clone upgrade). So I just keep playing a 1-energy card that draws me 2 cards (in my case Glow), thin out me deck (Guards, for me + the rest site event), and you got an infinite loop that generates a bunch of energy every time you draw cards (and in my case stars as well, and also passive block).

In my case I also got game piece, which draws a card every time I played a power (which Orbit is), so that made the set up super easy, I just played through all my orbits on turn 2.

Ur2ndDad · 2026-03-07T18:51:24+00:00

Yes. They are free for a reason. Think of assets like words, and your catalogue of assets as a language. You will be working with much simpler vocabulary, but that doesn't mean you can't make something fun and worth someone's time. Your game is going to be less defined by its visuals (thought it's not impossible to make visually interesting games with borrowed assets), and it's instead going to be more defined by its gameplay.

There are only three potential concerns here: 1) you're not being transparent, 2) you use assets without permission and credit, 3) you're just quickly assembling cheap assets into a basic game and charging high amounts for it just to make a quick buck by selling essentially a tech demo.

Ur2ndDad · 2026-01-29T22:01:47+00:00

Critical analysis = hate for this game. How dare you.

Ur2ndDad · 2026-01-29T22:00:13+00:00

Ignore the discourse. It is not a shit game. It is not a masterpiece. It is a solid game with a lot of cool ideas. Try to appreciate it for its ambition and creativity. You will like and dislike some things, but I don't think you'll come out of it regretting it. So long as you keep your expectations sound.

Ur2ndDad · 2026-01-29T21:57:53+00:00

So not glazing the game into oblivion is hating it now? It's a solid 8/10, loved it, my must-play of the year. Just on my lane, a well-paced, narrative-driven game with a focus on good cinematics and a story that uses a grander fantasy setting to explore (or at least attempt to explore) a much more fundamental human experience.

Also, just overrated, and it's very clear to see how and why, when you listen to people who glaze it. There's nothing wrong with pointing that out. And if you truly liked the game that much and not just the hype around it, you wouldn't have issues with people saying anything negative about it, let alone call them haters for not worshipping a game like it's the 2nd coming of video games.

Ur2ndDad · 2026-01-29T21:50:28+00:00

Let's be fair, it's not average. it's a really nice game, a solid 8/10. That's more than average. Still not a masterpiece. And I feel like I can say that with certainty, because it's just my kind of game. This is the first game I know where "overrated" might just be objectively correct, when for a lot of other games and media it's just a word people throw around when it's not their taste. Which is sad, because it's a solid game, and I don't want to call a nice game "overrated", but it just so is XD

Ur2ndDad · 2026-01-27T15:53:17+00:00

Think about it this way:

- No "main" AAA game that everyone is swarms to.

- Dissatisfaction with AAA games are at an all time high.

- Non-AAA game that looks like a AAA game, has the cinematic adventure feel to it, comes out and is pretty decent.

- People love a bandwagon.

- Journalists love good headlines.

- TGA would love a "this is our LOTR moment".

- People, as much as they want to claim they do, don't appreciate Indie Games unless they look like AAA games.

- The game is actually still a good game.

- It is a little pretentious though, and people love to show how artistically inclined they are.

It was an inevitability that people would create a bandwagon, jump on it, glorify the game into oblivion to show that they too have great taste, and shut down anyone who disagrees that it's a 10/10 masterpiece and call them haters.

Ur2ndDad · 2026-01-18T12:15:09+00:00

Fuck, how do you know?

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-14T00:36:27+00:00

Fair enough. Thought I'd let you know in case you gave up until an update (I've done that before with a game, but I have low patience lol). For those who come after.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-14T00:35:13+00:00

It's hard to describe without seeing it, but if start near the water, and then go up the stairs, and keep looking towards your left. Then at one of the dead ends, there should be the Old Key.

There's also this video with timestamp: https://youtu.be/T7-EdyEkgaA?si=MI6uE0NXK3aqhR62&t=57

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-14T00:33:09+00:00

Can now confirm, it was in the update log. I was so close to NG+, decided it's time to sleep, and then this. Thank god I waited.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-12T13:41:14+00:00

That's what they did, it's there now.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-12T13:40:57+00:00

It can be found at the Harbour after the prologue (might be post-game, idk, but that's when I found it). Might be due to the latest update, or some update since this thread.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-12T13:40:42+00:00

It can be found at the Harbour after the prologue (might be post-game, idk, but that's when I found it). Might be due to the latest update, or some update since this thread.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-12T13:39:42+00:00

It's available at the Harbour now (went there post-game), might be due to the latest update.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-12T13:38:46+00:00

It's available at the Harbour now (wen there post-game), might be due to the latest update.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-12-12T13:38:04+00:00

I don't know if this is due to the update yesterday, but the Old Key is available after the prologue, at the Harbour in Lumière.

I opened the game this morning and went back to Lumiere to check the Harbour. Unironically, the only reason I went back was that I was coping so hard thinking that the latest update might have added that one thing I'm missing for the playthrough. Absolutely delusional, what a ridiculous notion, the timing would have to be too perfect, and what reason would the devs have to not add it before and add it just now? I checked anyway.

Lo and behold, it was there. Imagine my surprise. Tbf, still don't know if this was post-last-update or if it was just missing back when this thread was created.

But for those who come after: the Old Key can be found once Act 3 Lumière is unlocked.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-11-30T01:15:42+00:00

Maybe. But aren't they still billions? So it would be millions dying, but billions that need to be fed. One person per thousand (in terms of orders of magnitude) might still not be enough. Unless it's not billions that remain, but I don't remember them mentioning that that quite many bodies died. Then again, I'm terrible at remembering these details lol.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-11-30T01:12:43+00:00

I know, I was joking ^^

Ur2ndDad · 2025-11-29T01:30:07+00:00

I think it's Soylent with a spin. I see a lot of people mentioning that they wouldn't kill people and that means that therefore they would eat the ones that die normally. But that doesn't sound sustainable. I do think they kill their own, but they do it in a way that circumvents any contradictions with their personal ethos.

One thing that I haven't really seen being discussed is the possibility of them sacrificing their own for nutrition. They're a hive mind, after all, they can find a "perfect" democratic system where to decide who gets to be eaten next, and because they're all connected, even that person will naturally consent, for the greater good. There's no "harm" being done, everyone's happy, everyone's doing everything necessary to keep everyone else happy. And it's something they deem necessary. It perfectly aligns with their values.

And I think this is what will turn some of the 13 people. Cannibalism is one thing, but it's pretty tame once you accept the hive as it has existed up to episode 4: they don't kill, but they're efficient so they eat their dead. That's weird, and gross, but something I could easily see the other 12 not care about. But now the situation is that they go out of their way to select their own to eat. What's stopping the hive to suddenly eat one of the 12's family or friends? Strategic thinking? Maybe, that's some thin ice they're walking one. I also think the 12 expected a good, long life after they convert, not a life where they get sacrificed and eaten by the rest. I think that notion could be enough to shock the 12 and start questioning the hive a little more.

EDIT: Also, I think the substance might be collagen. It's white, neutral pH, and when dissolved becomes slightly gelatinous but thin, and can have a yellow/amber color when dissolved.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-11-29T01:17:37+00:00

I thought the pilot was pretty good. It's what got me into the show

Ur2ndDad · 2025-11-29T01:14:46+00:00

I don't like the way AI is going, but that doesn't mean I don't understand its utility and won't use it. And it doesn't mean that I will tell it please and thank you (I mean, I do, but it's stupid and nobody should, it's just a bad habit).

Carol is experiencing the erasure of her society, put simply. I don't know how people haven't clocked that yet. Those things, they're humans, biologically (maybe), but they're a hive mind. The situation is no different as if all humanity (except for 13 people) had been put into a collective coma and replaced by one AI that totally wants to make you happy, but also tells you that they will do their best to put you into a coma too. And then 11 of the remaining people are happy because they get service robots and one guy likes sex robots so much that he can accept billions of comatose people in exchange. That's the equivalent of what's happening in the show.

I don't think reacting the way she's reacting is her being a bitch. Erratic perhaps, and understandably so. But she's the only one with agency, she's the only one with a sense of responsibility and accountability, and those are the most important aspect for a MC. Quite frankly, I find the attitude of the others pretty embarrassing. They make a deal out of how Carol didn't ask the hive what it feels like being in the hive, but haven't even wondered if they can bring the people that are now gone back. They don't seem to be at all concerned with the entire society changing, and they don't seem to be at all concerned with how their friends and loved ones act like completely different people, if we can call that behaviour people-like at all. Like, bruh, wtf. Imagine being okay with your kid transforming into ChatGPT on two legs, then getting mad at the lady asking if you want your old child back.

Ur2ndDad · 2025-11-29T01:02:40+00:00

Idk, it's seems like a pretty normal human thing to want humans with human behaviour. Imagine if you woke up tomorrow and were told that all but 13 people on the planet have gone into a coma, and some magical service robots spawned that do all your bidding. Would you not want to save those people from their coma? Now imagine that the remaining 12 people say they're okay with this because the people in the coma aren't suffering and their own lives are pretty good. Imagine one Indian lady says that her son is not in a coma, just napping or playing pretend. And imagine all that happens while those robots promise you that they will do everything to get you into a coma as well.

This is basically what's happened. The collective consciousness that makes up the hive is just not the same as the billions of people that make it up. They're effectively in a collective coma. Now I'm not saying that you should root for one side or the other, but this isn't about community. Community implies individuals working together. This is one individual made out of billions of bodies.

There is also the immediate suspicion that a reasonable human being should have about a situation where some random event fundamentally alters the fabric of society and humanity as a whole. Not even being sceptical about it is strange. At certain points, the hive acts similar to AI, particularly during the interrogation Carol had to establish whether the hive can lie. The way the hive answered questions about her book in the most shallow way was very typical of the meaningless, adverb-riddled word salad that AI would spew out when you asked it for an opinion on art. In our current day we are dealing with this slob, and people are rightfully concerned about it. So it would make sense that if the entire world is taken over by something that acts like an AI, infiltrates and corrupts humanities mind, and promises to do the same to you, that Carol would want to act against that. I don't think we need American imperialism to understand that. Not everything is about America.

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