The Surge

DarC_Kn1ght

Action RPG The Surge is developed by Deck13, developer of decent Dark Souls-style game Lords of the Fallen.

Releasing May 16th.

degrassinoel

that looks class, might pick it up

They oversold Lords of the Fallen prior to it's release and I was disappointed by it in some ways but I liked it in others.

This looks like they have gone souls inspired route again but removed it from the traditional fantasy setting which could work out really well.

DarC_Kn1ght

Sephiroth_dude

That looks awesome!

Potential-Monke

While i'm not a fan of the punishing systems Dark Souls and the Souls like games have (I play for entertainment, not to die over and over until i learn a pattern), i'd be willing to give this a go, but again, all depends on how hard they make it. I like the idea, the style (I much prefer melee to ranged combat), but it's the difficulty that will be the decider on this.

DarC_Kn1ght

Cowboy had some frustrations with the first few hours.

Digital Solitude

I didn't like Lords of the Fallen at all but I've been quite excited for this for several months now.

May 16th Release isn't it?

DarC_Kn1ght

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I didn't like Lords of the Fallen at all but I've been quite excited for this for several months now.

May 16th Release isn't it?

Yip

Mr Crispy

Added to the watch-list!

Sephiroth_dude

Looks awesome, am very interested now, even though I suck at these types of games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwdzv6wfGhg

Seems a very fair and balanced opinion based on what he got to play, as I said earlier I liked Lords of the Fallen but felt let down by it because of the hype they tried to build up pre-release mentioning dark souls influence etc but with this it looks like they've let the game game speak for itself. Hopefully the issues he's worried about like the weapon move sets and bosses are not a problem in the full game.

Digital Solitude

Will probably pick this up on launch, need a change from overwatch, quite hyped for it

Just thinking about it now a little more and they've actually gone and taken a mechanic from the original dark souls game and adapted and made it a big thing in their game haven't they, the tail cuts in dark souls!!!! Remember those?

EDIT: That was actually something I loved and hated in DS hated because I missed one and had to do a new play to get one for the all weapons achievement but loved because you could make something from cutting off a bosses tail.

Shiminay

I saw the trailer for this a couple of days ago and I thought it looks interesting. I'll wait till I hear some reviews, but I'm sold on the premise.

Sephiroth_dude

48 minutes of gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRTSZmr1ccg

Mr Crispy

I must admit that I hadn't heard much about this one until a few weeks ago, but it's certainly piqued my interest.

SolvableKnave

Rumours online look extremely promising for this game

Shiminay

Total Biscuit and Cohh Carnage are, amongst others, gonna be streaming this today. In fact, Cohh is already underway: https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage

Sephiroth_dude

Watched the three hours of TB's stream, looks really cool, after he defeated the first boss the difficulty spike shot up! which is common with these games I'm guessing, he was sweeping everything aside up too that point mostly, I think I'll wait , I can see myself getting frustrated easily with this game.

Digital Solitude

Still set for launch for me, only watched 10 minutes or so of streaming and the response was positive.

Full reviews depending of course, but it looks fairly solid.

Yeah and the devs don't seem to be out in force this time talking up the game to a point were it could never deliver on the level they said it would with lords of the fallen. Letting the game do the talking for the most part.

Lords of the Fallen wasn't awful by any means , it had it's problems but I enjoyed I. I was let down because it didn't live up to the hype which I naively thought they were being accurate about.

I don't think we talk about Focus as a publisher here enough or at all , they seem to be one the few to take chances and publish AA games from smaller teams these days.

This is out tomorrow??

SolvableKnave

M!Ck^ wrote: »

This is out tomorrow??

Yeah, though I've just finished downloading it. So prob midnight tonight?

degrassinoel

SolvableKnave wrote: »

Yeah, though I've just finished downloading it. So prob midnight tonight?

11 bells on steam - just bought it there myself

Is there a review embargo ? Not seeing any yet.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Is there a review embargo ? Not seeing any yet.

Just checked it out:
I believe review copies have gone out since last Friday however reviews are not allowed to be issued until tomorrow morning.
Expect to see them 12AM US time

SolvableKnave

Deleted User wrote: »

Is there a review embargo ? Not seeing any yet.

Totalbiscuit has a Thoughts Vid on it. Just skip first couple mins, as he's just apologising for sound issues and his voice due to Chemo.

DarC_Kn1ght

Decent Review From IGN

Kiith

Mostly decent reviews from what i've seen. 7.5 average or thereabouts.

Polygon like it alot!

https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/15/15643798/the-surge-review - 8/10

Edit* Some more reviews coming in

http://www.thexboxhub.com/the-surge-review/ 4/5 stars

http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/16/the-surge-review-dark-sci-fi-souls-6639861/ 7/10

http://www.gamezone.com/reviews/review-the-surge-is-a-fine-souls-like-game-that-successfully-puts-its-own-stamp-on-the-genre-k597 8.5/10

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/05/15/the-surge-review-unforgiving-future-ps4/#/slide/1 8/10

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2017/05/15/the-surge-review 7.9 / 10

http://www.trustedreviews.com/the-surge-review 4/5

No pricing on argos again , though the code is there. Might nip over there in a while.

Grahamer666

Looks ok but i hated Lords Of The Fallen. Probably pick it up in a Steam sale at some stage though.

SolvableKnave

Took it for a quick spin last night.

Only got my new power core to actually start adding components to rig

I'm very interested to see where the story leads to, love me some futuristic skynet haywire troubles.

Controls aren't to bad at all. Dodge is more of a quick jump outta the way, no duck and roll. If you run towards an enemy and use R2 (vertical attack) you do a kind of roll into the enemy.

Targeting specific limbs for either bonus damage or harvesting a specific part or weapon is interesting. Took a few attempts to get used to cycling through the targeting options, but it's picked up fairly quickly.

Weapons wise, I've only used the one you pick up at the start, which is a club with a blade on it, and the preorder bonus weapon which is a staff. Both attack differently so hopefully there is a wide range of attack animations for the other weapon types.

Speaking of the preorder bonus, the implant you get beeps and when near a pickup (resources or story tapes) it gets louder and faster and the controller rumbles like mad.

One other small thing i liked about it: when in the medbay, there is some really nice background music being played. Reminds be a little of Fallout.

Is this in Argos?? It's listed with no price.
Smyths have it stocked for 59.99

Lone Stone

So anyone know any good deals for this on the pc anywhere ?

Coming up on Argos now
48.99 for PS4 / Xbox 1
Not bad

Digital Solitude

Lone Stone wrote: »

So anyone know any good deals for this on the pc anywhere ?

€40 here

https://uk.gamesplanet.com/game/the-surge-steam-key--3200-1?ref=itad

degrassinoel

played it for a few hours last night and again this afternoon.

Overall, it's not bad.

Combat flows nicely, some sync-kills get caught in the walls or detritus.
Upon dying, level progress remains but most enemies respawn.

There's almost no tutorial.
Which is both good and bad, after years of being spoiled and being spoonfed directions in other games, you're pretty much on your own from the outset which can be daunting. You're expected to know what to do without direction, it's 100% vague, just wandering around will eventually give you the answer but yeah, could've been done with some more info thrown in for the player.

The levels are a bit odd. They feel like they were supposed to be part of a multiplayer game in layout - 3 or 4 routes from each room, no dead ends, that kind of thing.

Implants and upgrades - they are on the right route with these although the implants cluttering up the inventory and not explaining properly what they do or if you should delete them or not isnt well presented at all.
Upgrades are done somewhat better, in that you literally just left click on something to upgrade it for more damage or armor etc..

It's lacking an awful lot of explanation on basic stuff like this imo.

Crashed a few times on me too, so i'm gonna leave to gather dust for a while before i have another crack at it.

TLDR - it's mostly well done but has a lack of new player guidance.

5.4 gb install on Xbox :eek:

That can't be right, can it?

YouSavedMyLife

Deleted User wrote: »

5.4 gb install on Xbox :eek:

That can't be right, can it?

120gb day one patch when you launch it

Lone Stone

played it for a while there really enjoying it so far looks lovely on the pc, no performance issues but it has crashed like 3 time's already. And that first boss good lord >_< i cant beat it. I went with the tanky rig and my main weapon was one thats fairly slow so he's a pain in the ass.

DarC_Kn1ght

The spinning digger is the worst enemy in gaming history!

Sephiroth_dude

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

120gb day one patch when you launch it

LoL I can just see people looking at the 5 gig download and going "Aw yes" and then when that's done and it starts the 120 gig, there jaws drop :pac:.

I haven't played it yet but loaded it just incase and I got to the new game screen with no prompt for additional download out side a 250mb patch. You'd expect a game like this to be 25-30gb easily.

Canis Lupus

Sci Fi Dark Souls. It seems alright so far. Just getting my head around upgrading etc.

My only bugbear is the ambient music when out and about doesn't seem to match the combat. It's just flat and when you do a slow mo kill seems to detract from the instance. A minor annoyance obviously but one I keep noticing.

Lone Stone

Lone Stone wrote: »

played it for a while there really enjoying it so far looks lovely on the pc, no performance issues but it has crashed like 3 time's already. And that first boss good lord >_< i cant beat it. I went with the tanky rig and my main weapon was one thats fairly slow so he's a pain in the ass.

I selected technician so I move alot faster so dodging is more applicable.
I'm not sure how helpful this is because of that reason but to beat him you need to do the following:

Attack the legs (it will swing a sword so be prepared to dodge or attack, it will also stomp it's feet but you can time a dodge to avoid it)
Eventually it goes into an emergency stance and starts firing rockets, as soon as he starts his attack with the rockets you need to run towards him and make them hit him, once this happens he will cease attacks momentarily and become vulnerable and you can start using you main attacks again which damages his main health bar

You need to do the above about 3 times I think, depending on what gear you have acquired and what level you are at also. I was at about power level 22 before attempted this.

SolvableKnave

DarC_Kn1ght wrote: »

The spinning digger is the worst enemy in gaming history!

Lost count of how many times I died to it.

And the amount of Tech Scrap lost because I was too close and it flattened me.

:mad:

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Sci Fi Dark Souls. It seems alright so far. Just getting my head around upgrading etc.

My only bugbear is the ambient music when out and about doesn't seem to match the combat. It's just flat and when you do a slow mo kill seems to detract from the instance. A minor annoyance obviously but one I keep noticing.

After playing for a few hours last night, this is probably the first Soulslike game I'll be sticking with. Finding combat really nice. Proficiency level 6 on single handed and 3 on the heavy's. It's a little light on info in relation to upgrading and constructing stuff, but it's only a small gripe for me.

I really hate those bastwards who

bum rush you out of nowhere. They're easy enough normally, but those surprise attacks

. :mad:

I'm liking the level design. Shortcuts everywhere, which are needed, especially when trying spinny digger thing. I was afraid that I'd have to kill everything over and over again (which would turn me off the game) but with everything being connected it's all good.

Tip: Smash everything.

DarC_Kn1ght

Just finished the second boss, must say im really enjoying it.

DarC_Kn1ght

DarC_Kn1ght wrote: »

Just finished the second boss, must say im really enjoying it.

Did you kill the digger!?