How and where does Steele have the option to become a Cyborg?
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Yeah, I remember hearing when TiTS was still in the planning stages that get a robot part was less expensive than regenerating one medically and thinking there'd be some sort of text-based QTE where failure would mean a Naleen eats your leg or something.
The game is a WIP. Most if not all the scores from CoC are in, but lots of those can't be legitimately accessed either. A note saying as much seems... unnecessary. That everything's floating in ether and you never know what'll be added next is half the fun!
Though I too, am really looking forward to augmentation. Plus the mechanis league sounds really cool (I know they're lore that might not make it in though).
Though I too, am really looking forward to augmentation. Plus the mechanis league sounds really cool (I know they're lore that might not make it in though).
Seems kinda hard to justify that degree of customisation though. "Ok, we're gonna cut your hand off and replace it with this robot hand, because you paid me to" and a few weeks later "Ok, we're gonna cut your robot hand off and regrow it, because you paid me to". Doesn't really seem sustainable to have small events cropping up over the place where you can "choose" to have accidents either.
i thought the game was still in alpha
well being able to "choose" to have an accident is taking it a bit far. I just think certain things like dungeons and stuff, should have losing a limb instead of bad ends... that'd be better.
Like if you lose instead of dying/enslavement the even causes you to lose an arm
well being able to "choose" to have an accident is taking it a bit far. I just think certain things like dungeons and stuff, should have losing a limb instead of bad ends... that'd be better.
Like if you lose instead of dying/enslavement the even causes you to lose an arm
That made me think of the severed arm tied to a dog in FMA: Brotherhood and that would be pretty awesome to be able to do.
"What does the dog say?"
"Big brother Edward..."
In all seriousness, I love the idea of getting a robot limb. So long as the they look cool...
Isn't that pretty unfair as well? "To get this cool nifty cybord hand with dildos for fingers, you need to lose in this dungeon and forgo any other rewards. Oh and if you finish the dungeon you'll never get to have dildo fingers again, so think carefully before you beat the boss" Exaggerated scenario, but the point is there. Also, what about the cost of arm replacement? "You don't have money to buy gear. so you lose the dungeon, so you get into debt to pay for your new robotic dildo hand, so you don't have money to buy new gear, so you lose the next dungeon" Another exaggerated scenario, but eh, writing exaggerated things is fun.
Oh I only meant outside of the cybernetic clinic(s). It makes sense that you should be able to choose to have a doctor amputate your current hand if you want the new one... Because this is the future and if they can regrow it I'm sure they don't mind chopping it off.
But I also don't think cybernetics should be "installed" outside of clinics (clinics and crazy aliens on the street selling black market tech). So if you get a cybernetic arm as a reward for a dungeon well done you can't actually use your robo-arm with dildo fingers and a pussy palm until you go to a clinic (or your ship if you have a follower with the proper capabilities) and have it installed. Until then it will be an item in your inventory.
+1.
Only caveat being that you have to have SOMETHING in all of your biological "slots" at all times. No chopping your arm off and not having something replace it in the same event. Would be a fucking nightmare otherwise.
so if you lose your limb you have to gain something in the same scene? Would a generic not Tf-able peg leg/arm item (a technological equivalent at least that can be used like a normal arm but due to its temporary nature comes with negative status effects that may or may not get worse over time) be a good replacement?
i mean if you lose your arm it kind of negates the whole cost-of-failure/victory if it is regrown instantly
More like, "If your arm gets cut off, you get medivac'd to a hospital and get a new one -- maybe give the PC the choice to get better ones, or a full regrow, based on finances available.
If you can't afford one, either you go into debt (something that'll probably happen eventually), or SPESS NHS will cover the shittiest replacement possible (like they do for Saendra).
That all being said, I don't know how/if dismemberment would ever be used as a punishment for players. Most things that could (like Machina) just outright murderate you. Plus it's a damn hard penalty when normally the game operates on "Fuck up, get fucked" rules. Would need to be very, very clearly communicated to the player that they're about to literally risk life and limb.
well that is a much better way to deal with it lol, didn't think about that.
The warnings would have to be tailored to the situation but I can think of a few situations... like being dumb enough to stick your hand/leg/tail/dick in an acidic Galotian (looking at you Burt) ]. Also getting caught, like as a failure for a stealth event where the local warlord/mob boss/politician makes an example of you by taking a limb.
Maybe implement it as a way to not have to save scum if you lose against an enemy your Steele would find attractive. Like if I [because I play my Steele as spess me] lost against Dane I'd rather he just blow my hand off than fuck me. So if that were a 4th wall option [get fuck or get rekt] it would keep me from having to restart upon losing and even give my Steele a more interesting story than "kills everything, always wins."
Well, this is defenitely a fetish for some people. But, since I'm not one of them, I don't care, And, knowing how much work it would take... Hell, we already have naga, goo and taur bodies, each of them deserves a lot of modifications in scenes, but barely ever used. As well as tail cocks/cunts. So better not have any changes which would require extra effort from writers.
Even if it is a fetish for some people, this site does have to stray away from certain themes which are either deemed illegal or off-putting to the general viewer. That's why we don't have watersports, or guru, or scat, or loli, or bestiality(many grey areas for this, but eh). I'm relatively sure amputation would be classified under "off-putting to the general viewer". On a related note, is watersports really so taboo?
Yes.
Also, so far the implication of limb loss and getting chrome attachments is simply "I suck at fighting or I stuck my dick in the wrong thing" getting hacked apart on loss would definitely be off putting, and would probably start garnering the assumption that, er, amputation fetishes would be okay in this game.
I don't begrudge people their amputee fetishes, but I'd argue that sticking your dick in random holes is a not-insignificant part of this game. It's the kind of universe where that would end with an enthusiastic blowjob and a phone number.
You start getting mutilated for your effort, well... that changes everything. Something like that would dominate the discourse. It's suddenly less about having fun and more about "will I even survive this?".
But there are already enemies that will outright kill you if you lose against them so just having you escape down a limb would actually be less violent.
For me a final failure state doesn't have the same emotional impact as when you have to live with results of your loss.
I guess after Higurashi, Umineko, Evangelion, and Madoka I've just come to imagine my Steele remembering all their failed tries and deaths.
Player deaths, at least the ones that I saw, are not very common or detailed. If limb loss is implemented as a system it would be neither of those. And it would still be very out of place with the rest of the game.
Not that it matters since Savin's already said no to mutilation bad ends and getting a robot hand grafted in a shop is just another flavor of injectable mod to me.
All you guys talking about baddies chopping you up or sticking your dick in that really suspicious hole, and here I was thinking cybernetics would be a method of transhumanism. Sure, the Mechanis League blowing people's limbs off would be good incentive for them to embrace the cyber-stuff, but some of you make it sound like it needs to be forced, or that it's somehow a penalty for not winning. But if the current humanity were offered augmentations like those found in Deus Ex or Ghost in the Shell, there would be plenty of people who'd embrace it if only for the sake of upgrading. I wouldn't want to be internet accessible though
Gene-moding can provide a good chunk of perks cybernetic augmentation does while avoiding the uncomfortable parts. We know that even for those who lose their limb or strive to improve their effectiveness it's the preferred method, while CA is a poor-man's alternative. I do hope that we'll meet some CA enthusiasts or even fanatics in the future, but they seem to be an absolute minority in TiTS.