Your channel randomly came recommended to me a few months back, I’ve been casually watching your library of videos ever since. Glad to see another hit piece!
Wow, you're awfully kind to us! Thanks! I really mean it! Though I did scream at the screen a few times when you were genociding everyone ;((( Even tho I feel like this is our least polished game, esp compared to Swordhaven, we did leave a lot of peaceful talkie-talk routes for every single quest, from the main one to random unmarked fetch-style ones. Your review really steps up from the classic "let's see how they mindlessly copied fallout" ones we sometimes get. Even in this kill everyone route you paid so much attention to the little stuff that really mattered to us as we made this thing. We are the biggest fans of Fallout we personally know, but the goal always was to port the beloved premise onto the phantasmagorical caricature of our own 90's experiences, and not just clone for profit. Thanks for hinting at this. Also, lovely score system! Hugs and kisses from the team xoxoxoxo
The tipping point for me on ATOM was in the middle of the early game grind I found a very wealthy caravaner (M16, power pistol, 5 DR armor, several thousand rubles) and I couldn't afford any of the stuff I wanted but it was all the best stuff for my build. But I could afford the timed explosives, so I bought them and blew up the caravaner and his guards, and steamrolled the rest of the game (having to save scum mercenary encounters). That's when I knew the FIASCO was strong with this one.
The M16 is pretty underpowered, though (most NATO-style weapons in ATOM-verse is, in my experince). If you do the ciggy trick on one of the bunker guards underneath Krasnoz's city hall, you get a AKMS and some pretty decent body armor. You can also just ciggy-trick the merchants, in order to avoid the ill-fated merc encounter.
The merc encounters are really well programmed in this game, i say that despite how redfaced mad they made me. I apparently must have killed some caravaner at some point, and put the game down for a while afterwards. I come back with renewed interest months later, and encounter the mercs. I die easily. I reload and encounter them again, and die. I reload and encounter them again, and die. I reload and try to talk my way out, I die. I reload and having reached the stage of apathy, I say "fuck this piece of shit stupid fucking bullshit fa**ot ass game." And dig my own grave, and... they let me live. But they stole most of my stuff. A light bulb goes off in my head then. I think "okay, so if I leave my most valuable gear in a stash nearby, then I can encounter them and repeat that encounter. Then they'll just steal my garbage instead of my actual gear. I reload, stash my gear and spend the next 30 minutes wandering around trying to force the encounter and it never happens. I go back and get my stuff, and mere moments after leaving my stash with my gear again, I get the encounter. I quit the game and regretted ever buying it, not understanding why this was happening to me and assuming I had been softlocked. Took me weeks to check the discussions on steam long enough not to start fuming over it. Figured out why it was happening to me. Props to the devs, they actually account for players trying to stash their gear away lol.
@@alexanderrahl7034 There are a LOT of little touches like that in the game. I did bunker 317 at pretty low levels with Fidel. If you try to stash your gear before coming out and getting robbed the robbers will know and kill you, depending on your inventory weight going in and coming out. But if you are poisoned when you come out they will assume you're infectious and run away. This game lets you think around almost every encounter. Likewise if you engage in extreme behavior you will face some pretty extreme consequences.
8:06 Dzulbars is named after the border guard dog from the 1935 movie 12:45 wow, a brazen bull. An old and obscure torture device from greek legends, referenced in Gogol's Taras Bulba novel 14:42 it's not a movie theater, it's a videosalon or video café. During Perestroika it was a common kind of small enterprise where people used to watch various stuff on video, some of it was even dubbed. And, as many small enterprises are, it was a target for various racketeers 15:41 this might be a reference to The Fatal Eggs, a 1924 sci-fi novel by Mikhail Bulgakov (the same guy who wrote Master and Marguerite novel and Ivan Vasilievich time travel play). 17:21 Hexogen is modelled after Alexander Prokhanov, a patriotic writer, and named after one of his major works, 2002 novel "Mr. Hexogen". 22:50 The Coward, the Moron and the Pro, the soviet comedic trio portraying lackluster criminals. 37:06 it was also meant as the play on the conspiracy theory about Cheka playing major role in the suicide of Sergey Yesenin, another famous poet from the era of Revolution. It wasn't the only Kuryokhin's historical rant, he also made a couple of pseudo historical movies with Sergey Debizhev, which are available on TH-cam.
I always apreciate how you always try to give us westerners historical context for the games you cover, i can really feel that you care about slavic contributions to the industry, as a latino, i can tell you that wanting too see your people being directly adressed instead of just being called "the russians" its really important.
By choosing low personality you barred yourself from 70% of quests. For those, who will play first time, I recommend investing in personality and attention.
"A VCR Repairman is a well paid profession in Red Banner". Mike and Jay move to Krasnoznamenny, change their name to Red Banner Media, and pound Baltikas.
@@WretchedMog Yeah. Remember that thing Warlockracy disliked in Peregon? They're running it. I made a more explicit answer to the original post, but youtube didn't care for it.
Soviet Mr. Beast has gathered a bunch of determined factory workers, idealistic university students and local party officials to compete against each other for luxury items such as vouchers for bread and potatoes, canned goods, an almost functional Lada and a holiday package to Siberia!
I absolutely love how the Bunker Trio's in-game portraits are modeled from the actual photos of their respective actors from Soviet movies: Georgiy Vitsin ("Coward"), Yury Nikulin ("Dunce"), and Yevgeny Morgunov ("Experienced").
@@blackyellowhite Smh even the critics forget the lowest of the low on the totem pole: lube shop techs. Apparently they're actually great places to work at versus a dealership or chain repair shop, but no one gives them any respect and people come back to blame/yell at them for engine trouble that the vehicle owner themselves caused all the time.
I always liked the depiction of the ‘raider’ faction in Atom, as they’re more like a protection racket than the a raider faction like the Khans. Plus fulfilling their quest line till the end leads to the best outcome for Otradnoye, very similar to the Blue shields quest line in FO Sonora. Very powerful FIASCO energy with that one.
I feel like a faction which subsists entirely off raiding would die out very quickly. Therefore, it makes sense that due to natural selection, any raider factions would resemble organised crime syndicates (albeit crude) rather than gangs of roving marauders. It shows that the developers actually thought about how a raider society would develop over the years, unlike the modern Bethesda Fallout titles. Packs of drug-addled hyper-violent fiends would be commonplace 5 years after the apocalypse, but not 20 or 200.
@@SOLARITY333 Especially since the leader is ex-KGB. That being said,m if you do the entire Factory questline, it's clear that while the men of the factory believe in the cause of basically being gangsters that keep people safe from worst threats, Dan himself is in it purely for his own self-interest of wanting a little fiefdom to rule over. He just has the good sense to not be too much of a jerk about it.
Went with a full party. Giving them all mosin nagants trivializes the all the worst encounters. Loved this game and passing my Uber character to trudgrade dlc made it even more fun!
@@relishcakes4525 oh its defenetly is. And 'junk' part is more about the whole 'deal with it or GTFO' vibe. Its always like game busting your balls until you starting thinking a very particular way - THE SLAV WAY
I am under pressure and have a lot of work lately in addition to some personal issues going on. Your videos are part of what keeps me going. Thank you.
The original ATOM is an outstanding game. I used to think it was a Fallout lookalike for people jonesing for more F1/2, but it stands firmly on its own two feet, and the combat system is surprisingly deep with all the rules about armour stacking and penetration. Doing a solo high-difficulty challenge run in ATOM was invigorating.
14:44 just noticed that the same wallpaper used for RedLetterMedia's Half in the Bag set. Glad to see Rich Evens' smile can cross international boundaries!
WOW the ODDS!, I am 65 hours into my first run in this game no fucking clue if I am close to the story or not but I see a Warlockracy upload on it while I am playing? Truly blessed finally something worth listening to while I explore the Soviet Waste.
@@thomasneal9291 100% Agreed but I think I somewhat know what to do to progress the main story the issue is getting easily sidetracked with the amount of side quest in the game and equipment/level difference.
I'll recommend this game to my dad. He'll likely love it. He learnt a lot of English with a two years old me on one knee and a dictionary on the other, playing old Fallouts. And he grew up in Moscow! A perfect game for him!
I don't dare hope. This seems like a bait and switch. But if he really makes a video on Planescape, then I guess he will make a comparison video with Numenera.
@@GhostofJamesMadison It absolutely is- as long as you favor a well-crafted story with memorable characters and great dialogues over combat. Planescape does not play like the first Baldur's Gate, combat grants a very low amount of XP and is not terribly engaging, getting better equipment is not a focus either here.
Oh my god i cannot believe we are already here! One of my alltime favorite youtubers reviewing one of my alltime favorite crpg’s! Time to brew up some kompot!
YESSS! I l freaking LOVED ATOM rpg. I played as a very persuasive, smart pistol user who talked his way out of most encounters, helped people, and built apon the settlement you're provided. I look very forward to you reviewing the second game. A shame you didnt touch apon some of the best features in this game (I'm sure you know what I'm referring to) but for spoiler reasons, I understand. If you like fallout, you'll love this game. He left a lot of details out in this game. Please give it a try!
yeah, and he didn't do the speech/utility skills playthrough, which locks you out of tons of content (not to mention total genocide of locations with quests like Peregon).
In my head I imagined myself joining your Patreon and asking you during some hypothetical future Q&A if you had heard of this game. I'm glad that through the power of positive visualization my goal has been accomplished.
what i find crazy about this video is that it covers things i had no idea were in the game even after 89 hours and 2 games, also skipping the mind control worm event is unforgivable
I was so glad to see you chose Martial Arts. I used it as my sole damage dealer during my first playthrough and while it was brutally hard at times, endgame one-tapping everything felt insane. Glad to see this game getting more coverage, it needs it.
42:23 you can discover that policeman/major is Katya's father, and also elect her as major during Den's election quest. I don't think it's unreasonable over exposition in this case.
I bought AtomRPG Trudograd first, not knowing it was basically an expansion of this game, but I adore them both. Faithful to the old school Fallout feel, complete with depressing encounters and hilarious ones, but with a delightfully Soviet flavor. Like vodka distilled behind a frozen shack.
There is a many references to soviet and russian actors Hexagon is a Boris Klyuev Trio from bunker is a famous soviet trio coward, dunce, experienced There is also Pasha Technic at Dacha location who is russian rapper
I object, Hexogen is Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov, a man and a rabbit hole really worth diving into. the actual guy talks really close to how we wrote him for the game. unhinged in the best of ways!
@@alexanderchernyavskiy5011 Hexogen is both of them, also he is Solzhenitsyn, also he is Dugin, also he is many random bits from other people blended into one NPC. Has surprisingly good stats for 80-something old man, which is understandable, considering that everything he says is elaborate bullshit - including his own age, apparently.
Georgian food is the only legitimately amazing ex-soviet adjacent cuisine (sorry Ukraine/Kazakhstan/Sakha etc). Just a Western perspective but the rare Georgian restaurant is very popular here in NZ.
@@theamazingbatboy I wish there was more garnish in the cuisine, though. It is usually meat in oil with tomatoes and onion. It's really good to eat from time to time, but when I lived there for a while, it felt like a less-than-sustainable diet for health.
I thoroughly enjoyed these games, though my lack of stereotypical Soviet culture knowledge probably left me missing a few references or comments. I'm looking forward to their fantasy game, it looks promising from the demo I played.
Interest peaked-not so much by the FIASCO meter but by the unexpected polish and writing chops. Legitimately impressed by the scope and environmental design. Not much commentary on how combat feels considering how much of it there seems to be but the animations look terrific. The game is definitely on my radar now, thanks!
This game also has the best luck skillchecks I've seen. You can drop a satellite on the bandits trying to rob you (because the meteor just happened to smashed that satellite at the moment), make the slavers shit their guys (because the canned stew they've been eating turned out to be spoiled), and many other hilarious stuff
seriously getting a 30ish FIASCO with this niche build implies the actual FIASCO of Atom is well negative if you consider normal content not covered here😂
Oh my god, this is the one I've been waiting for! I looove Atom RPG, I've been hoping Warlockracy would review it for ages now. It's a beautiful, weird, janky mess, and I never even play it without Neutron anymore, but god is it so entertaining. I hope he likes it, and I hope he does Trudograd too!
@@christiankalinkina239ты знаешь, о чем они думают и почему был сделан пост? Сам-то не на диване воюешь, ватан? Такая возможность появилась продемонстрировать "любовь к Родине", а как всегда в комментах копротивляешься.
"A man's history is not like a bread ration at the Siege of Leningrad - and therefore, I ain't sharing it." I love such eloquent turns of phrase that could only have originated from (and probably sounds better in) another language before being translated to English.
So glad YT decided to recommend this video for me. I was on the fence about this game for the longest time but about halfway through I was convinced to play it myself. Skipped the rest of it to the credits to avoid spoilers, sorry, but you earned yourself a subscriber. Thanks
36:45 And here I was raging for half an hour that there is Lenins mummified corpse, the F***ing MYCELIUM CULT OF MAGIC MUSHROOMS and nobody, NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WASTELAND knows thst the biggest bald mushroom is in that museum. Lenin grib! Lenin grib!
@@Yefimov95 Blud Missed The Side Content Blud Could Have Joined The Nuclear Power Plant Wreckers Gang Blud Missed Special Character Cousin Of Chatty Cashier John Cashier
One of my favorite games. I haven't actually finished it, though, I keep getting a bug right before the final Mycelium encounters. I kinda disagree on the point about the vast array of characters. Otradnoye is small enough that as a starting point I got really comfortable spending 3-5 minutes talking with every character, genuinely was one of my favorite parts of the game. There was always a funny reference or joke to be found, or a useful tip that helped move the story along or gave you an advantage in a later encounter.
Hey man, there's this really cool parameter called 'Luck.' I cranked it up to 10 just for fun, and throughout the game, I encountered some hilarious moments where I completely avoided battles because of my luck.
Thank you so much for posting once a month! I'm not saying that to pressure you in any way to strain yourself to put out content at a rate you dont enjoy, I only say it to thank you for all of the great videos. new patron incoming
Greetings from USA warlockracy! I just wanted to comment and say you provide me a very new very interesting view of a part of the world we generally don't get taught about much over here. Been a fan for years and never commented and figured now is a good time to tell ya how much I value your content!
Surprised there was no mention of the encounter with the three dudes who are trying to work out which one them is a mimic. Genuinely mood setting encounter outside of the usual combat, and I still think about how ominous it is frequently.
He didn't mention how the 2 self taught scientists in the roaring forest at 9:25 are actually the same person but gender swapped from a different universe, so you can see them both, but they can't see each other, felt as though it's a cool little factoid.
Low key one of the funniest games in my opinion. Remember the early kickstarter era, when every video game writer was trying to be Avellone only to end up looking like a failed English majors that they are? None of that bullshit here. Those bottom dialogue options where you would cut off the poor NPCs trying to tell their life story. The recurring joke about having to ask the same questions to everyone as the part of A.T.O.M. education. Never really sticks out either, the whole world has gone crazy. Mmmm makes me wanna play it all over again
I had a lot of fun playing this a couple years ago. I appreciated that it felt quite authentic to how Fallout is. I need to play Trudograd sometime which I suspect will also be quite fun. I always found it odd when people reviewing the game would comment stuff like they wish it had a cover system or other random stuff. Which only showed that the person reviewing it wasn't keeping in mind that ATOM is supposed to feel like Fallout, warts and all. I'd recommend a second playthrough sometime to check out some of the questlines you may have missed. Peregon has some interesting stuff related to it especially with the dungeon. Another thing I remember at Bunker 317, if you try to dump all your stuff inside before dealing with the scavengers outside they're take notice of it which will cause problems.
While I do understand the ideea of trying to make the game as close to Fallout as possible changes were made to the formulla both to improve it and fix it so why not also improve the combat which is probably the game's most disappointing aspect? Besides the obvious time, money and effort limitations. In other words: I understand why it is like that but I wished it was better and more complex and know more people would enjoy the game if it was.
I've been waiting for this video since I found your channel from the Sonora video. I have also visited Lenin in August of this year. He looks pretty good for his age.
you are my favorite youtube channel. the low audio quality really makes me feel like i am talking obscure video games over a vodka in the russian provinces
11:34 I can never tell if this is satire or if some russian dude was insane enough to actually think the queen of England was telepathically protecting gay thoughts into his brain. Talk about mental gymnastics.
surely it must be exaggeration---- Or not, decided to look up that forum. I dont quire understand the context, but it features both mentioning of gay communities and queen with a mental disability slur adjective. He surely has some thoughts about both topics. Whats funny he mentions her as in "their ******** queen". Typical, the usade of "they/thier" as if gays, queen of england and others are single entity aimed to destroy family values and whatever. i can totally see it now. good question what he does around gay communities tho👀
@@МятныйПукеш To be honest, this is true of all forums in every language/national majority, especially post-Facebook/Twitter and especially for fan and gaming forums. Forums boomed and busted, so there was this effect where only the few odd dregs remained using them. The people remaining and active on these forums, especially for older games and especially nowadays, tend to be very strange people. Especially if the forums have crappy admins/mods, which is absolutely an issue in a lot of forums online that causes all the non-weirdos to go elsewhere to discuss things.
12:58 the glove with whip sign belongs to neofolk band Death In June. The band uses another similar sign/logo but with a Totenkopf. One of my favourite post-industrial bands.
Its a great game tha i played just in time to take away the pain of betrayal from Fallout 4, a game that will fail the FIASCO test. I really love how low tech the game starts. You may find a gun that's completely useless because it requires bullets you cant afford or find. But that works well with the crafting system. A high Int skill monkey build can trive in this game. Also the tipping point for my play throughs is the coal quest where you guard the caravan and are attacked. It usually when my character graduates from civilian weapons to military hardware.
Awesome video, but honestly there's a lack of attention to the themes of ATOM RPG, that's both ties this game to fallout and separates it from western and eastern market. From overall theme of cynical melancholism, where you pick between bad and worst options, nothing really matters in the end and people will always suffer from those grandouse plans of others and the only creature with optimism for the future is literally a mushroom, to the theme soviet mystical folkism, where all the mundane is spiced with all the fantastical (im surprised you didn't talk about parasite encounter or slenderman hermit one), to the fact that you have the option to turn down any reward for no benefit at all (no bonus exp or karma points) other than just being called a good (or stupid) person, to humanizing every aspect of your interaction with npcs and literally giving everyone a human face (for example you forced to bribe policeman or you won't get peacefully into big city and every other policeman, like 10 to 15 of them, inside will have their own unique to their character thoughts on this fact, ranging from "i disagree with, but theres nothing you can do" and "i will have a sirious talk with him" to "I would've taken more" and "do you want more problems?". All this is very interesting commentary on late soviet culture and i hope someone else will dig further into this.
"Gry łączą a nie dzielą" - random graffiti on the wall long before Polish translation was available... and then you had to wait for even more because they messed it up. IIRC Trudograd translation was OK? with no dramas or messes. I do remember being puzzled at not being able to craft homemade healing items because it would only accept one material (headscarf iirc) and no other types or rags or bandanas and whatever. Would really help in the begining, but nope - would be too easy, I guess? The battle on the junkyard was amazing. And got car! Kinda weird you fill plastic bottles with petrol for your car, don't remember such weird concept in my country post '89 post apo...
We’ll gladly accept a crazed fanatic such as yourself.
And now I wait for the AA video
Your channel randomly came recommended to me a few months back, I’ve been casually watching your library of videos ever since. Glad to see another hit piece!
OMG you listened to me thank you!!
Dzhulbars is the only dog i think is a good boy
damn you finally did it :D
Wow, you're awfully kind to us! Thanks! I really mean it! Though I did scream at the screen a few times when you were genociding everyone ;((( Even tho I feel like this is our least polished game, esp compared to Swordhaven, we did leave a lot of peaceful talkie-talk routes for every single quest, from the main one to random unmarked fetch-style ones. Your review really steps up from the classic "let's see how they mindlessly copied fallout" ones we sometimes get. Even in this kill everyone route you paid so much attention to the little stuff that really mattered to us as we made this thing. We are the biggest fans of Fallout we personally know, but the goal always was to port the beloved premise onto the phantasmagorical caricature of our own 90's experiences, and not just clone for profit. Thanks for hinting at this. Also, lovely score system! Hugs and kisses from the team xoxoxoxo
Thank you for making this game, I played it twice and really loved it, Trudograd too, looking forward to see Swordhaven :)
@@herosdugouter thanks man! Cheers!
I love ATOM and Trudograd, I can't wait for Swordhaven!
Thank you for creating Gexogen, one of the best companions in all of games!
Thanks for STR-based peaceful options, funny as hell.
The tipping point for me on ATOM was in the middle of the early game grind I found a very wealthy caravaner (M16, power pistol, 5 DR armor, several thousand rubles) and I couldn't afford any of the stuff I wanted but it was all the best stuff for my build. But I could afford the timed explosives, so I bought them and blew up the caravaner and his guards, and steamrolled the rest of the game (having to save scum mercenary encounters). That's when I knew the FIASCO was strong with this one.
Art of trade
The M16 is pretty underpowered, though (most NATO-style weapons in ATOM-verse is, in my experince). If you do the ciggy trick on one of the bunker guards underneath Krasnoz's city hall, you get a AKMS and some pretty decent body armor.
You can also just ciggy-trick the merchants, in order to avoid the ill-fated merc encounter.
Hell ye
The merc encounters are really well programmed in this game, i say that despite how redfaced mad they made me.
I apparently must have killed some caravaner at some point, and put the game down for a while afterwards.
I come back with renewed interest months later, and encounter the mercs. I die easily. I reload and encounter them again, and die. I reload and encounter them again, and die. I reload and try to talk my way out, I die. I reload and having reached the stage of apathy, I say "fuck this piece of shit stupid fucking bullshit fa**ot ass game." And dig my own grave, and... they let me live.
But they stole most of my stuff.
A light bulb goes off in my head then.
I think "okay, so if I leave my most valuable gear in a stash nearby, then I can encounter them and repeat that encounter. Then they'll just steal my garbage instead of my actual gear.
I reload, stash my gear and spend the next 30 minutes wandering around trying to force the encounter and it never happens. I go back and get my stuff, and mere moments after leaving my stash with my gear again, I get the encounter. I quit the game and regretted ever buying it, not understanding why this was happening to me and assuming I had been softlocked.
Took me weeks to check the discussions on steam long enough not to start fuming over it. Figured out why it was happening to me.
Props to the devs, they actually account for players trying to stash their gear away lol.
@@alexanderrahl7034 There are a LOT of little touches like that in the game. I did bunker 317 at pretty low levels with Fidel. If you try to stash your gear before coming out and getting robbed the robbers will know and kill you, depending on your inventory weight going in and coming out. But if you are poisoned when you come out they will assume you're infectious and run away. This game lets you think around almost every encounter. Likewise if you engage in extreme behavior you will face some pretty extreme consequences.
2:20 Backing this game on Kickstarter was a great deal. But seeing my own face pop up in 7 years later in a Warlockracy video made it even better.
Oh wow
We meet again ;)
Thank you
It’s the guy! 👉🏻
you are Wilson from House MD
@@Cyproterjoanpipsqueak version
the queen sending gay rays to a random russian modder is a whole new level of fallout lore i wasn't prepared for
"Tensions grow between the New Kaliningrad Republic and Kaiser's Legion" 😂
Real banger of a headline ngl
Hell nah, German Empire LARPers in Russian Fallout
@@JHohenhauserhell nah, trad cath in Warlockracy comments
Patrolling the Mother-Wasteland almost makes you wish for a giant asteroid to wipe out humanity.
@@alfredandersson875they are clearly Lutheran
8:06 Dzulbars is named after the border guard dog from the 1935 movie
12:45 wow, a brazen bull. An old and obscure torture device from greek legends, referenced in Gogol's Taras Bulba novel
14:42 it's not a movie theater, it's a videosalon or video café. During Perestroika it was a common kind of small enterprise where people used to watch various stuff on video, some of it was even dubbed. And, as many small enterprises are, it was a target for various racketeers
15:41 this might be a reference to The Fatal Eggs, a 1924 sci-fi novel by Mikhail Bulgakov (the same guy who wrote Master and Marguerite novel and Ivan Vasilievich time travel play).
17:21 Hexogen is modelled after Alexander Prokhanov, a patriotic writer, and named after one of his major works, 2002 novel "Mr. Hexogen".
22:50 The Coward, the Moron and the Pro, the soviet comedic trio portraying lackluster criminals.
37:06 it was also meant as the play on the conspiracy theory about Cheka playing major role in the suicide of Sergey Yesenin, another famous poet from the era of Revolution. It wasn't the only Kuryokhin's historical rant, he also made a couple of pseudo historical movies with Sergey Debizhev, which are available on TH-cam.
lenin was a mushroom
And lost war to Poland in 1921.
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@@dukenukem8381 But regained it in 1926!!!
Of course he was a fungus based lifeform, he was the first of the orkoid race
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I always apreciate how you always try to give us westerners historical context for the games you cover, i can really feel that you care about slavic contributions to the industry, as a latino, i can tell you that wanting too see your people being directly adressed instead of just being called "the russians" its really important.
What's a rusian?
@@GhostofJamesMadison i wanted to say "russian", in spanish its written with only 1 s, so i forgot to add another one.
By choosing low personality you barred yourself from 70% of quests. For those, who will play first time, I recommend investing in personality and attention.
Damn just like real life.
It has no such effect, but, yes, you’ll lock yourself out of a handful of important quests.
It's definitely necessary for getting one of the best followers, but perfume and other items can overcome that deficiency.
Yeah, my character starred in a porn, I doubt personality 1 character can do that.
@@Mirthful_Midori And female characters can stack up on more varieties of perfume IIRC
Not now babe, slav jank just dropped.
been out for years bro
@@Imarealzombi Well I did not know that.
@@Imarealzombi years?
@@ncrranger2281 Late 2018 release
@@ncrranger2281 yup, pretty old game
"A VCR Repairman is a well paid profession in Red Banner". Mike and Jay move to Krasnoznamenny, change their name to Red Banner Media, and pound Baltikas.
They're actually running the pedophile snuff ring in Peregon. 100% seriously.
That's where the human skin wallet came from. They paid their way in with a Green Beret.
You joke, but Jay's likeness is in the game, as is Rich Evans I think.
Mike and Jay at Krasnoznamenny, Rich his eyes closed.
@@WretchedMog Yeah. Remember that thing Warlockracy disliked in Peregon? They're running it.
I made a more explicit answer to the original post, but youtube didn't care for it.
Soviet Mr. Beast has gathered a bunch of determined factory workers, idealistic university students and local party officials to compete against each other for luxury items such as vouchers for bread and potatoes, canned goods, an almost functional Lada and a holiday package to Siberia!
This is Douglas Pearce actually
I absolutely love how the Bunker Trio's in-game portraits are modeled from the actual photos of their respective actors from Soviet movies: Georgiy Vitsin ("Coward"), Yury Nikulin ("Dunce"), and Yevgeny Morgunov ("Experienced").
IT JUST РАБОТАЕТ!
-Ilya Howardonov
And Don't forget, comrade, if it just работает, just don't трогай it.
Guys If you are wondering why he didnt play Fallout london it is because the russian translation isnt out yet
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He's gotta wait for the Russian version so people can poorly re-translate that back into English. It's the only way he can play fallout anymore
That much Anglo-Saksi exposure would destroy him
Fallout London is a bad joke
@@gabrielmajin5265 L
"The Shinomontazhes have no allies, only servants and topographies of ignorance" - Truly a powerful quote, big fan
It's hilarious because there is nothing more blue collar or servile than changing tires
Something Private Suka would say.
@@blackyellowhite Smh even the critics forget the lowest of the low on the totem pole: lube shop techs. Apparently they're actually great places to work at versus a dealership or chain repair shop, but no one gives them any respect and people come back to blame/yell at them for engine trouble that the vehicle owner themselves caused all the time.
Pretty sure that's an Invisible War reference.
@@B00mano Yep
I always liked the depiction of the ‘raider’ faction in Atom, as they’re more like a protection racket than the a raider faction like the Khans. Plus fulfilling their quest line till the end leads to the best outcome for Otradnoye, very similar to the Blue shields quest line in FO Sonora.
Very powerful FIASCO energy with that one.
Somewhat similar to the situation in Adytum in the first Fallout.
I feel like a faction which subsists entirely off raiding would die out very quickly. Therefore, it makes sense that due to natural selection, any raider factions would resemble organised crime syndicates (albeit crude) rather than gangs of roving marauders. It shows that the developers actually thought about how a raider society would develop over the years, unlike the modern Bethesda Fallout titles. Packs of drug-addled hyper-violent fiends would be commonplace 5 years after the apocalypse, but not 20 or 200.
@@SOLARITY333 Especially since the leader is ex-KGB.
That being said,m if you do the entire Factory questline, it's clear that while the men of the factory believe in the cause of basically being gangsters that keep people safe from worst threats, Dan himself is in it purely for his own self-interest of wanting a little fiefdom to rule over. He just has the good sense to not be too much of a jerk about it.
I freaking loved ATOM, especially Trudograd. The dialogue in it is absolutely unhinged and some of the funniest shit I've ever read.
I just love that it's easy to misread the title as "Turbograd".
Trudograd is genuinely one of the best and most rapid growths of franchise identity I've ever seen tbh.
@@Supercohboy I'll pick Turbograd over Turdograd and Trudeaugrad any day! Gotta go FAST
Went with a full party. Giving them all mosin nagants trivializes the all the worst encounters. Loved this game and passing my Uber character to trudgrade dlc made it even more fun!
"Soviet themed post apocalyptic indie arpeegee"
I'm starting to think this channel has a theme.
Is slavjank a genre? I'm starting to think so.
Neverwinter Nights moment
Subtle, but it's there!
@@relishcakes4525 oh its defenetly is. And 'junk' part is more about the whole 'deal with it or GTFO' vibe. Its always like game busting your balls until you starting thinking a very particular way - THE SLAV WAY
Fuck yeah, new Warlockracy video. Fuck this work meeting, I've more important stuff to do.
I am your boss. You have valid reason to skip work meeting. Carry on Marco.
Take a break from managing the global economy, im sure everything will be fine... oh no!
It is what Lenin would have wanted
Game: has two different ways to represent the map
Warlockracy: I will make my own map
I am under pressure and have a lot of work lately in addition to some personal issues going on. Your videos are part of what keeps me going. Thank you.
Lenin is a mushroom. And that is why he cannot be safely removed from the Red Square mausoleum
it's the containment cell of his mycelium. We can't let him breach the walls of his prison
The original ATOM is an outstanding game. I used to think it was a Fallout lookalike for people jonesing for more F1/2, but it stands firmly on its own two feet, and the combat system is surprisingly deep with all the rules about armour stacking and penetration. Doing a solo high-difficulty challenge run in ATOM was invigorating.
14:44 just noticed that the same wallpaper used for RedLetterMedia's Half in the Bag set.
Glad to see Rich Evens' smile can cross international boundaries!
we're huge fans of RLM but believe it or not the wallpaper is a coincidence... the part where a guy says "folding chable" isn't tho
WOW the ODDS!, I am 65 hours into my first run in this game no fucking clue if I am close to the story or not but I see a Warlockracy upload on it while I am playing? Truly blessed finally something worth listening to while I explore the Soviet Waste.
yeah, I finally had to look at a walkthrough about halfway through the game. you can get lost easily.
@@thomasneal9291 100% Agreed but I think I somewhat know what to do to progress the main story the issue is getting easily sidetracked with the amount of side quest in the game and equipment/level difference.
Oijj blyaat another 44min banger from Warlockracy? Damn guess it's time to crack open a cold one and enjoy.
Yeah, I can see myself diying just like the ant. I love buckwheat porridge.
Same
I'll recommend this game to my dad. He'll likely love it. He learnt a lot of English with a two years old me on one knee and a dictionary on the other, playing old Fallouts. And he grew up in Moscow! A perfect game for him!
Yes, comrade. Do it.
Hey, that's how I learned English... Except, it was Exile 3: Ruined World by Spiderweb Software.
Don't you fuckin' tease me with the Planescape: Torment music at the end man
I don't dare hope. This seems like a bait and switch.
But if he really makes a video on Planescape, then I guess he will make a comparison video with Numenera.
I never played it but i heard it was incredible, is it worth picking up nowadays?
@@GhostofJamesMadison gameplay and combat are not very good but if you like story and dialogue it’s one of the best written games of all time
@@GhostofJamesMadison It absolutely is- as long as you favor a well-crafted story with memorable characters and great dialogues over combat. Planescape does not play like the first Baldur's Gate, combat grants a very low amount of XP and is not terribly engaging, getting better equipment is not a focus either here.
Yes. It's the best video game ever made. @@GhostofJamesMadison
Oh my god i cannot believe we are already here! One of my alltime favorite youtubers reviewing one of my alltime favorite crpg’s! Time to brew up some kompot!
YESSS! I l freaking LOVED ATOM rpg. I played as a very persuasive, smart pistol user who talked his way out of most encounters, helped people, and built apon the settlement you're provided. I look very forward to you reviewing the second game. A shame you didnt touch apon some of the best features in this game (I'm sure you know what I'm referring to) but for spoiler reasons, I understand.
If you like fallout, you'll love this game. He left a lot of details out in this game. Please give it a try!
yeah, and he didn't do the speech/utility skills playthrough, which locks you out of tons of content (not to mention total genocide of locations with quests like Peregon).
"У шиномонтажей нет товарищей, только слуги и враги".
Кто-то за недельку до монтажа ролика стоял в очереди на переобувку несколько часов 😂
I absolutely loved the spoof of Warhammer 40k in this game where cult of the emperor of mankind is parodied with the Cult of Lennin
Spilled my tea at the "Count Shinomontazh" bit. Can't even remember the last time I heard the word.
In my head I imagined myself joining your Patreon and asking you during some hypothetical future Q&A if you had heard of this game. I'm glad that through the power of positive visualization my goal has been accomplished.
I remember deciding to max out my character's luck. My best choice.
In trudograd luck is op
what i find crazy about this video is that it covers things i had no idea were in the game even after 89 hours and 2 games, also skipping the mind control worm event is unforgivable
I was so glad to see you chose Martial Arts. I used it as my sole damage dealer during my first playthrough and while it was brutally hard at times, endgame one-tapping everything felt insane. Glad to see this game getting more coverage, it needs it.
Well, I had asked for it a few years ago from ATOM RPG and you did not disappoint me.
I spent 290 hours on STEAM on this game and really enjoyed it.
LETS GO HE GOT AROUND TO ATOM RPG!!! Now all I need is him to play Caravaneer 2 and my life will be complete
I've been asking him as well, it feels genuinly great when a creator does this!
42:23 you can discover that policeman/major is Katya's father, and also elect her as major during Den's election quest. I don't think it's unreasonable over exposition in this case.
1:50, you never fail to deliver :D, awesome writing as always.
I bought AtomRPG Trudograd first, not knowing it was basically an expansion of this game, but I adore them both. Faithful to the old school Fallout feel, complete with depressing encounters and hilarious ones, but with a delightfully Soviet flavor. Like vodka distilled behind a frozen shack.
There is a many references to soviet and russian actors
Hexagon is a Boris Klyuev
Trio from bunker is a famous soviet trio coward, dunce, experienced
There is also Pasha Technic at Dacha location who is russian rapper
I object, Hexogen is Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov, a man and a rabbit hole really worth diving into. the actual guy talks really close to how we wrote him for the game. unhinged in the best of ways!
@@alexanderchernyavskiy5011 Hexogen is both of them, also he is Solzhenitsyn, also he is Dugin, also he is many random bits from other people blended into one NPC. Has surprisingly good stats for 80-something old man, which is understandable, considering that everything he says is elaborate bullshit - including his own age, apparently.
It's obviously De Niro
@@LLlap De Nitro?
YES!
I have been silently wanting to suggest this game but every time the thought has occured I knew it would be coming.
Hi from Georgia! Glad you love our food! Great video as always.
Georgian food is the only legitimately amazing ex-soviet adjacent cuisine (sorry Ukraine/Kazakhstan/Sakha etc). Just a Western perspective but the rare Georgian restaurant is very popular here in NZ.
@@theamazingbatboy No need to say sorry, they all know :D
Thank you for the kind words!
@@theamazingbatboy I wish there was more garnish in the cuisine, though. It is usually meat in oil with tomatoes and onion. It's really good to eat from time to time, but when I lived there for a while, it felt like a less-than-sustainable diet for health.
@@theamazingbatboyGeorgian wine is the best. For real.
@@63Limarjust drink the house wine and everything turns healthy
I thoroughly enjoyed these games, though my lack of stereotypical Soviet culture knowledge probably left me missing a few references or comments.
I'm looking forward to their fantasy game, it looks promising from the demo I played.
If anything you learn lots of new thing about soviet nostalgia culture
Теперь вы знаете каково парню из девяностых вникать в американскую масс культуру с помощью не идеального перевода с английского на русский
Interest peaked-not so much by the FIASCO meter but by the unexpected polish and writing chops. Legitimately impressed by the scope and environmental design. Not much commentary on how combat feels considering how much of it there seems to be but the animations look terrific. The game is definitely on my radar now, thanks!
Trudograd is good as well. And the soundtrack is top notch
The writing is good because it was re-translated after initial release. The first translation was much, much rougher.
Trudograd is great and if you play the original it will get special dialog from an imported save game.
This game also has the best luck skillchecks I've seen. You can drop a satellite on the bandits trying to rob you (because the meteor just happened to smashed that satellite at the moment), make the slavers shit their guys (because the canned stew they've been eating turned out to be spoiled), and many other hilarious stuff
The song is Эдуард Хиль - Голубые Города (Edward Hil - Blue Cities), the singer is the Trololo guy
Thank you so much !
seriously getting a 30ish FIASCO with this niche build implies the actual FIASCO of Atom is well negative if you consider normal content not covered here😂
14:47 Glad to see the local branch of Молниеносно Быстрый Ремонт Видеомагнитофонных Проигрывателей is still going strong
Oh my god, this is the one I've been waiting for! I looove Atom RPG, I've been hoping Warlockracy would review it for ages now. It's a beautiful, weird, janky mess, and I never even play it without Neutron anymore, but god is it so entertaining. I hope he likes it, and I hope he does Trudograd too!
13:04 haha didn't notice Death in June logo in my playthrough
Also the NPC that appears at 42:06 is definitely modeled after Douglas Pierce
0:32 i recall devs actually posted an anti-war statement on their VK page and let's say average VK dweller wasn't very pleased.
Либералы думает что они более популярным чем реально
@@christiankalinkina239ты знаешь, о чем они думают и почему был сделан пост? Сам-то не на диване воюешь, ватан? Такая возможность появилась продемонстрировать "любовь к Родине", а как всегда в комментах копротивляешься.
@@christiankalinkina239they are not liberals, liberals are not anti-war
My wife is probably sick of hearing your voice tell me stories while I go about my day
my partner is the same about this and other game commenters I listen to. interesting.
She probably doesn't like salt factory's voice either then lol @@thomasneal9291
Wish I had a life partner.
I’m cursed to meet anyone who are already taken. Never seen a “single” in my life.
"A man's history is not like a bread ration at the Siege of Leningrad - and therefore, I ain't sharing it."
I love such eloquent turns of phrase that could only have originated from (and probably sounds better in) another language before being translated to English.
So glad YT decided to recommend this video for me. I was on the fence about this game for the longest time but about halfway through I was convinced to play it myself. Skipped the rest of it to the credits to avoid spoilers, sorry, but you earned yourself a subscriber. Thanks
36:45 And here I was raging for half an hour that there is Lenins mummified corpse, the F***ing MYCELIUM CULT OF MAGIC MUSHROOMS and nobody, NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE WASTELAND knows thst the biggest bald mushroom is in that museum.
Lenin grib! Lenin grib!
I personally like that player can talk with every NPC if they want. I mean, it's not obligatory, but i had fun with it and appreciate developers work.
You have no idea if it’s obligatory or not when you are playing for the first time.
@@Warlockracy i mean, in real life i have to choose do i want to talk with chatty cashier or not.
@@Yefimov95 Blud Missed The Side Content
Blud Could Have Joined The Nuclear Power Plant Wreckers Gang
Blud Missed Special Character Cousin Of Chatty Cashier
John Cashier
I cant believe you lost the dog you monster.
Great video. Picked this game to ten minutes into it
Oh man, I was waiting for this one. Now, you need to cover Gothic, and we home.
One of my favorite games. I haven't actually finished it, though, I keep getting a bug right before the final Mycelium encounters.
I kinda disagree on the point about the vast array of characters. Otradnoye is small enough that as a starting point I got really comfortable spending 3-5 minutes talking with every character, genuinely was one of my favorite parts of the game. There was always a funny reference or joke to be found, or a useful tip that helped move the story along or gave you an advantage in a later encounter.
Hey man, there's this really cool parameter called 'Luck.' I cranked it up to 10 just for fun, and throughout the game, I encountered some hilarious moments where I completely avoided battles because of my luck.
Thank you so much for posting once a month! I'm not saying that to pressure you in any way to strain yourself to put out content at a rate you dont enjoy, I only say it to thank you for all of the great videos. new patron incoming
I did a run of atom RPG and trudograd at the end of last year. Really solid games with an intriguing setting. Hope they end up making a sequel
Greetings from USA warlockracy! I just wanted to comment and say you provide me a very new very interesting view of a part of the world we generally don't get taught about much over here. Been a fan for years and never commented and figured now is a good time to tell ya how much I value your content!
Now I'll wait anxious for the other slav fallout inspired game "Encased" !
The yin to ATOMs yang.
Surprised there was no mention of the encounter with the three dudes who are trying to work out which one them is a mimic. Genuinely mood setting encounter outside of the usual combat, and I still think about how ominous it is frequently.
He didn't mention how the 2 self taught scientists in the roaring forest at 9:25 are actually the same person but gender swapped from a different universe, so you can see them both, but they can't see each other, felt as though it's a cool little factoid.
I rewatch your videos all the time so getting a new video is amazing
last time i was this early the VDV still had air support
Low key one of the funniest games in my opinion. Remember the early kickstarter era, when every video game writer was trying to be Avellone only to end up looking like a failed English majors that they are? None of that bullshit here.
Those bottom dialogue options where you would cut off the poor NPCs trying to tell their life story. The recurring joke about having to ask the same questions to everyone as the part of A.T.O.M. education. Never really sticks out either, the whole world has gone crazy. Mmmm makes me wanna play it all over again
I had a lot of fun playing this a couple years ago. I appreciated that it felt quite authentic to how Fallout is. I need to play Trudograd sometime which I suspect will also be quite fun.
I always found it odd when people reviewing the game would comment stuff like they wish it had a cover system or other random stuff. Which only showed that the person reviewing it wasn't keeping in mind that ATOM is supposed to feel like Fallout, warts and all.
I'd recommend a second playthrough sometime to check out some of the questlines you may have missed. Peregon has some interesting stuff related to it especially with the dungeon. Another thing I remember at Bunker 317, if you try to dump all your stuff inside before dealing with the scavengers outside they're take notice of it which will cause problems.
While I do understand the ideea of trying to make the game as close to Fallout as possible changes were made to the formulla both to improve it and fix it so why not also improve the combat which is probably the game's most disappointing aspect? Besides the obvious time, money and effort limitations.
In other words: I understand why it is like that but I wished it was better and more complex and know more people would enjoy the game if it was.
I've been waiting for this video since I found your channel from the Sonora video. I have also visited Lenin in August of this year. He looks pretty good for his age.
This day has finally come!
Теперь осталось дождаться eye divine cybermancy
you are my favorite youtube channel. the low audio quality really makes me feel like i am talking obscure video games over a vodka in the russian provinces
One for the algorithm.
Finally, the Warlockracy video I've been dreaming of
The combat in this game surprisingly looks fantastic. I'll play it.
11:34 I can never tell if this is satire or if some russian dude was insane enough to actually think the queen of England was telepathically protecting gay thoughts into his brain. Talk about mental gymnastics.
Russians sitting on Fallout forums are some of the strangest people I've ever interacted with
I mean, there's like a 1% chance for it
surely it must be exaggeration----
Or not, decided to look up that forum. I dont quire understand the context, but it features both mentioning of gay communities and queen with a mental disability slur adjective.
He surely has some thoughts about both topics.
Whats funny he mentions her as in "their ******** queen". Typical, the usade of "they/thier" as if gays, queen of england and others are single entity aimed to destroy family values and whatever. i can totally see it now.
good question what he does around gay communities tho👀
@@МятныйПукеш To be honest, this is true of all forums in every language/national majority, especially post-Facebook/Twitter and especially for fan and gaming forums. Forums boomed and busted, so there was this effect where only the few odd dregs remained using them. The people remaining and active on these forums, especially for older games and especially nowadays, tend to be very strange people. Especially if the forums have crappy admins/mods, which is absolutely an issue in a lot of forums online that causes all the non-weirdos to go elsewhere to discuss things.
"I Feed My Parrot Chicken" will always be my favorite patron
the lenin lore is hyperbolic and amazing. i love it
12:58 the glove with whip sign belongs to neofolk band Death In June. The band uses another similar sign/logo but with a Totenkopf. One of my favourite post-industrial bands.
Its a great game tha i played just in time to take away the pain of betrayal from Fallout 4, a game that will fail the FIASCO test.
I really love how low tech the game starts. You may find a gun that's completely useless because it requires bullets you cant afford or find. But that works well with the crafting system. A high Int skill monkey build can trive in this game.
Also the tipping point for my play throughs is the coal quest where you guard the caravan and are attacked. It usually when my character graduates from civilian weapons to military hardware.
Everytime warlockracy uploads a new video it makes my day, keep up the good work man, your content always picks me up when im down 👍
I will employ the F.I.A.S.C.O. in all media analys from here on out.
Where has this channel been all my life?
Awesome video, but honestly there's a lack of attention to the themes of ATOM RPG, that's both ties this game to fallout and separates it from western and eastern market.
From overall theme of cynical melancholism, where you pick between bad and worst options, nothing really matters in the end and people will always suffer from those grandouse plans of others and the only creature with optimism for the future is literally a mushroom, to the theme soviet mystical folkism, where all the mundane is spiced with all the fantastical (im surprised you didn't talk about parasite encounter or slenderman hermit one), to the fact that you have the option to turn down any reward for no benefit at all (no bonus exp or karma points) other than just being called a good (or stupid) person, to humanizing every aspect of your interaction with npcs and literally giving everyone a human face (for example you forced to bribe policeman or you won't get peacefully into big city and every other policeman, like 10 to 15 of them, inside will have their own unique to their character thoughts on this fact, ranging from "i disagree with, but theres nothing you can do" and "i will have a sirious talk with him" to "I would've taken more" and "do you want more problems?".
All this is very interesting commentary on late soviet culture and i hope someone else will dig further into this.
I have an essay due in 4 hours but when i saw you posted, I realized where my priorities are at.
33:21 that has to be a DOOM reference XD.
Man, I really love getting to hear your perspective on things.
19:51 actually the sport version of pobeda did really exist
Thank you very much for reviewing this love letter to classic fallout
"Gry łączą a nie dzielą" - random graffiti on the wall long before Polish translation was available... and then you had to wait for even more because they messed it up. IIRC Trudograd translation was OK? with no dramas or messes.
I do remember being puzzled at not being able to craft homemade healing items because it would only accept one material (headscarf iirc) and no other types or rags or bandanas and whatever. Would really help in the begining, but nope - would be too easy, I guess?
The battle on the junkyard was amazing. And got car! Kinda weird you fill plastic bottles with petrol for your car, don't remember such weird concept in my country post '89 post apo...
What means?
@@AC-hj9tv "games brings people together, not divide"
2:45 "gingerly explores huge hole in stomach - almost dead"
this game is awesome
9:10 Speeding up combat animations was a feature in Fallout too
Even with the maxed out settings fighting packs of wolves took ages in the original game (fixed with sfall speedhack)