Belters were shipped up-well from Earth as indentured slaves by corporations. People choose Mars to contribute to a better (far) future.
Not sure a long time dusty would get along with a short term thinking rock hopper
There are rumours that I “just checked” if this game works at all and finished it 6.5h later in one sitting. I can neither confirm nor deny that. I’m also very sleepy today.
I got this Telltale-game to my birthday and decided to give it a go yesterday. Didn’t expect much and was already kinda annoyed when the starter suggested it requires a gamepad controller (turns out it doesn’t – it can be played with a mouse too). So I got my good old sturdy Steam Controller from next room, jacked it in and… watched it crash. To be fair: I was starting it on Linux, and this game is not made for this. So I checked briefly with the ProtonDB and switched the version from Experimental back to Proton 8.0.
Smooth sailing from here. Game started without a hitch, the controller was recognized, the provided Steam layout worked perfectly fine and it did not crash once until I finished the game hours later. It would also seamless switch to mouse input when this was touched but I decided to keep playing with the controller.
The graphics are nothing to write home about. Sound and music feel immediately like home though, as my wife put it (we’re both fans of the books and show). There are some puzzles but nothing too complicated and – thankfully – sparse. Same for some quick actions that require to hammer a certain button in time (without penalizing hitting a wrong button too). The Zero-G walks are amazing and gave my brain something to chew on when the ceiling suddenly became the new floor.
I won’t talk about the story itself, but I did like that it shows percentages of how other players decided in key situations after each chapter. Kinda interesting to know that there are other outcomes and that also makes me want to play it again. There are plot twists, backstories that may be uncovered, drama, tension, violence, love and death (yes yes, it is a telltale game :D).
Can recommend. Get it and don’t forget to change the air filters 🤓
I didn't read #TheExpanse novels before watching the TV series, but I just finished reading the last three books which (kind of) pick up where the series left off. There's a bit of character shuffling to get used to, but I'd say it's a pretty good way of finishing the story if, like me, you felt bereft when they cancelled the show after S6.
I'm getting ready to make my implementation of the #TheExpanse#TTRPG for #Roll20 available to the general public.
QUESTION: All I see on Roll20 is how to publish content for pay on their marketplace, but I want to make this available for free. Does anyone here have experience distributing Roll20 content outside of their marketplace?
I figure I can just upload the package to github, but it'd be nice if there was a native, searchable solution to share stuff on their platform.
So that’s it, finished the final season of #TheExpanse a couple days ago. Enjoyed it. Not to the point of obsession, like many others, but it had a certain appeal. The invented “Belta” language, I could take or leave - including the various failed attempts that actors made at trying to put on a Cajun style accent - but one thing I appreciated was the unique attention to detail they put into the spaceships, fights and flights. None of this Star Trek twaddle where crew can just accelerate and decelerate and be able to sit around while the ship hits light speed; Expanse suggests that speed is speed and 15G’s requires you to strap in, get injected with fluid to help cushion the immense pressure, and possibly die from stroke if the pressure is sustained too long. People being flung out into space without a suit and just slowly freezing and stopping breathing though, instead of splat-sploding.. hmm. Jury’s out on that. 🤔
@luc My favourite is where David Strathairn (aka Klaes Ashford) tries his version of the Belta accent and winds up sounding precisely like Bruce Lee instead. "You will miss aww that heavenwy gwowy.." The mix of cajun and pidgin english is kinda redonkulous but there are a stack of nerds out there who self-flagellate over it and try to learn it for fun. Sort of like Vogon from Hitchhiker's Guide I guess. Whatever floats their boat 🤷♂️😄
For the vacuum thing I'm specifically talking about Naomi's little space trip, no spoilers.. but yeah. I suppose I'm okay to suspend my mild disbelief because the rest of the show has some good ideas and visuals.
There's a game called Everspace 2 for the PC which I played a lot before watching this series. The space combat and ship bases (including those carved into asteroids) is VERY similar to what is portrayed in #TheExpanse. I'm going to load it up and give it another go this weekend actually.
I love that #TheExpanse gives us a gay couple that has been together for decades as part of the story. It's just a couple like any other, casual, normal.
I do wish #TheExpanse was following the idea of engines, blasts and other things not making sounds in space. They do tend to make these sounds muffled, as if hearing them from inside the spacecraft we're about to see into, but this is not super consistent as far as I can see starting season 2