#Void bastards mods generator#

But after playing for a while, I had no idea what I was working towards, story-wise. I liked the cynical comedy tone and the way it effectively created this sense of being trapped in a forgotten sub-sub-butthole of a vast, hideous interstellar bureaucracy. So tonewise it’s what you’d get if you locked Borderlands in a succession of small restrictive maps and forced it to listen to Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy audiobooks while smashing its fingers with a hammer every twenty minutes.Īnd at first, I rather liked it. Void Bastards concerns a prison transport ship lost in some distant armpit of space where an AI voiced by the bloke who narrated The Stanley Parable who really seems to be cornering the market on faintly sinister budget Stephen Fry impersonations, thaws out a succession of prisoners to go aboard derelict vessels and loot them for resources and crafting materials while fending off a variety of insane mutant humans that keep yelling at them in overdone comedy voices. Ah, but Void Bastards has something else that helps it stand out as different to all the other indie games – it’s also a roguelite. Void Bastards is a first person shooter with retro-style graphics complete with sprite-based enemies, the kind of thing we’ll probably keep seeing a lot of in indie games until nostalgia trends move on from the retro FPS era to the age of post-9/11 neo-conservatism. And it just came out on consoles, so hey, this is almost relevant. So what did you play? Well, I did play quite a bit of Void Bastards, because the title drew me in with two of my favourite things – nihilism and swearing. Heyyy that’s cool with me ‘cos I’m super cas. Not really, I spent most of the week leaning on jukeboxes and making double finger guns at the sexy honeys. Did you play anything interesting or relevant, Yahtzee? No, I think we’re just going to have to go super cas this week. I thought about just typing the word “fuck” eight thousand times but I need to save genius ideas like that for the end of year roundups. It’s been a right pain in the arse finding things I want to review this week. Welp, Doom and RE3 and Final Fantasy were probably the last few squirts of mung we’re going to get out of triple-A gaming’s gas-bloated corpse for a while yet. We have a new merch store as well! Visit the storefor brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist +today and support your favorite content creators!

Don’t worry though, as any crafting progress you’ve made is retained from one to another.This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Ion Fury and Void Bastards. When one dies, another steps forward to carry on the fight. Void Bastards features a 12-15 hour campaign that you can complete with an endless supply of prisoners, each with their own unique traits. All the while you must keep scavenging for the food, fuel, and other resources that keep you alive. Flee from void whales and pirates, and politely avoid the hungry hermits. Navigate your tiny escape pod through the vast nebula. Use your hard won supplies to improvise tools and weapons, from the distracting robo-kitty to the horribly unstable clusterflak.

#Void bastards mods generator#

React to what you find - will you detour to the generator to bring the power back online or will you fight your way into the security module to disable the ship’s defenses? Choose carefully when to fight, when to run and when just to be a bastard. Move carefully through the dangerous ships, searching for supplies and manipulating control systems.

On board derelict spaceships you’ll plan your mission, taking note of the ship layout, what hazards and enemies you might encounter and what terminals and other ship systems you can use to your advantage. And then you must carry out that strategy in the face of strange and terrible enemies.

You make the decisions: where to go, what to do and who to fight. Your task is to lead the rag-tag Void Bastards out of the Sargasso Nebula. Forget everything you know about first-person shooters: Void Bastards asks you to take charge, not just point your gun and fire.