When the missing Kid is saved in the middle of storm, the fact a life could be saved in the middle of that storm when the city is barely surviving. A goddamn Mircale
-150°c .... I felt despair ... Generator critical after changing steam core .... But then that legend of a man saved his daughter ........ I started crying ..... The sun came up as the message came up .... I had saved 675 + people !
Perfect music, surviving the storm... what an experience. Generators over-pressure, men sacrificing themselves to support the mines, the tremendous cold, and only a few more days worth of supplies. 10/10 game
In the whole game I got only ~13 dead, no one died during the storm, I didn't send people to replace the supports. Just a tip - BUILD TONS OF COAL THUMPERS ONCE YOU HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO OPERATE THEM. I had 4 coal thumpers with 16 gathering posts.
I literally just got like 12 deaths that always happens, the poet, the murdered guard, and the 10 workers of a random workplace, not even the winterhome guy because I visited winterhome one day before and also not a single londoner left. Not braging, just was really proud of myself until the "Order" ending showed up and I was so bloody dissapointed :c
>Dat feel when everyone is cowering in their houses while hell freezes over outside, and though frosted windows they see the mighty automatons still hard at work digging the coal that keeps the generator blazing.
The actual temperature in the houses was about -50 or (on hard) -70, though...15/17 minus 6 heat levels from generator and 4 from insulation. That's actually survivable with really warm clothing (which New Londoners have). At least for a little while. Assuming that you had overdrive turned on and max research for heat-related things, of course.
@@marcusc9931 I am living in a place where -50 in a winter is called fine. Wind is air movement, it is warmth by itself, absence of wind is the real foreshadow of the true frost. P.S. Also it is impossible to warm up while sitting in a pit. All the warmth will go up and all the cold air from around will be condensing in a pit (windless pits in Antarctica are the coldest places on Earth). The visual design of this game is looking great but while playing it I've been sometimes thinking that guys who made the city plan wanted to kill all the citizens.
@@metalosaur I've heard its because the generator isn't a heat dispenser but a heat CANNON, pushing hot air upwards to keep the cold air from being able to go down into it, basically directly fighting the weather to keep it out of the pit rather than heating the pit itself
The City Must Survive. That quote from the intro has stayed with me for quite some time. It's so loaded with meaning, passion, desperation, hope. The City has become more than a city, it has become the human race itself, it has become greater than any individual life. It is the future, the children, your hopes and dreams and memories and nightmares. It is Existence. The City Must Survive.
It's interesting because such a simple line can have so many layers of meaing. The City must survive; The individuals does not matter so long as society makes it. The City must survive; The people are the city, every life within it matters. The city must survive; Our morals cannot be compromised or we shall never be the same.
you think your done for as soon the storm hits and feel like giving up, but then the soundtrack hits and your hope is back and try like a badass to save as many as possible... best song ever
Exactly, I thought all was lost, but then, the music shifts, a spark, a chance at a future, at life, at that very point I snapped back to my senses, The. City. Must. Survive.
This theme alone makes the first scenario beat the others in every possible way. That final moment before the dawn where even overdrive on max power cannot keep you above freezing, when hope has plummeted to a sliver (if you did not cross the line into the purpose capstones). The height to which everyone will raise their middle fingers to mother nature once even apocalypse has nothing on us. Compared to that, class warfare or choosing between what's right and what's needed... nothing stops it.
You are right but you just cant compare them like that ... every scenarios have it own reasons and meaning when you finnish them , you must know that New Home is main story line while the other 2 ( maybe more in the future ) are addition ,in my view each and every scenarios have it own good (too good to be precisely) :))
Even just as a minor thing I think it would have been great if the "Storm" theme had started playing during the finale of each mission. I think it'd be fairly fitting in refugees at the very least, considering how tense it can be to break the class divide
You want to leave... Not in my city rebels and now we're going to parade all your comrade bodies in a glorious steam may your bodies burn in hell traitor -New Order Route
Best survival city builder. Hearing this during struggle on one last day storm. People abandoned their work just wanted to gather their family for last time. I'm also shutting my generator for almost critical. In my heart, I thank the generator for already doing its best. 111 sick 20 amputee 396 survive. I cry
*Fun little summary of my latest playthrough* "Alright everyone, here it is" *The Captain speaks to the crowd at the foot of their mighty protector, the New London Generator. We've seen it coming for some days. The refugees have shared their tales of horror. I'll be honest...I don't know if we can make it. But we have to try. Our engineers have applied every possible improvement they can to this machine." *He points to the Generator.* "The hunters say we've got stocks of food to last a few months. Hopefully this storm won't last that long!" *A meager cheer from a few of the people rises from the crowd.* "I know everyone has had their complaints, even when we took in everyone the scouts found. And I won't mince words...some of us will likely die." *A hushed murmur and a few sobs can be heard over the biting wind above the crater.* "The city must survive! Everyone! Stay warm, and godspeed!" **Three brutally cold, worsening days later.** "Captain!" *An engineer runs into the Captain's office.* "The mines...the hydraulics are freezing over! What in God's name do we do?" *The Captain looks up from a concerning report about fuel reserves.* "Are the Automatons working the mines?" *The engineer shakes his head* "No, and it wouldn't help either way, we've got them on the piles from the fracking pumps. You said yourself, the risk of frostbite or death was too high." *The Captain thinks for a moment.* "Alright, this is a hard choice, but we've got no choice...those mines hold everyone's lives in their shafts. We need to send people in to try and prop up the tunnels." *The engineer looks aghast* "Sir, people will die in there..." "I know, that's why I want you to find volunteers. I'll not force anyone to do something so dangerous." **A day later. Temperture drops to nearly -100 C, and the engineer returns.** "Captain, we've lost 30 lads...all thirty brave men who volunteered." *The Captain holds his head in his hands.* "And the mines?" "Intact!" "Those men are heroes, if we survive this, I'll make sure they're remembered forever..." **Two more days. -150C...no home can be warmed by the generator.** "Everyone! I know, I know, the only places left to find warmth is here and in the hospitals. But, I've hopeful news...A couple of engineers in coordination with the previous scout teams have figured out that we're in the tailend of this Storm! We've only got to hold out a day or two more. You all know I've asked the hardest thing any man can ask of forty-three of our sons...and so I'm going to say only this: Collect what wood, coal, and food you need from the stockpiles, then return to your homes. Hold your loved ones dear, your neighbors too. And pray we see the Sun again. The city must survive!" *The Captain returns to his own family, hugs his wife and children, cold tears streaming down his wool wrapped face. He's afraid...as is everyone else. But hope is hard to kill...and he knows the people have hope.** **Two days later, when the temperture has sunk to -170C, fuel is low, food low. Dozens are suffering from frostbite, scores are sick. The doctors, the only people still working are at the point of breaking with more people than they can handle** "Captain! CAPTAIN!" *One of the former scouts hobbles over to him, his foot lost to the frozen world.* "Yes?" "The Storm...it's ending! We made it!" *The Captain takes his glasses and hat off...and sobs.* "Sir!?" "I'm overwelmed...I was so afraid we would sputter and die. Eighty of us, starving and cold...And now here we are...over six hundred strong...and still cold...but alive. Faith my friend...faith kept us alive." "I won't lie sir, turning no one away stressed our resources, but...it was the right thing to do." "I know. I know I've made some hard choices...your foot is one of those choices, but I know I can look at myself in a mirror." "Less can be said of a man...well in a few hours we should be seeing sunlight...and before I came in here, you could actually feel the air warming! Those poor souls who wandered into the Storm after leaving us their notes could be right! God I hope they are..." *New London. 647 Survivors. -30C*
647?! I had 417 when the storm hit(I turned away the sick in the end I know I'm terrible), and ended with 219! That was only my second playthrough though, hoping to get more next time.
I cry when we survived the storm, when that happened I can only say "We made it" before something inside me broke up. I was crying while I repeat "We fucking made it" almost for an complete hour. Awesome game, I can't say other thing. Greetings from Chile
When the storm came...and the soundtrack started...it got me soo hooked up into the game i didnt moved for 3h straight until....the stormed passed.......it was....beautiful :c ....
I was playing with an air conditioner with low celsius in the middle of the night with the light turn off To highten the experience and help me concentrate
First playthrough, playing on the default medium difficulty. accepted all refugees, managed to keep all my people alive, healthy and the generator fueled by the skin of my teeth. Juuuust managed to get everything sort-of stable when news of the storm hits. I scramble to gather supplies and turn the tent-shanties of the refugees into proper houses before the storm hits. I barely succeed. I have enough food for 4 days. Enough fuel for six. I have no idea what's coming. The peak of the storm hit just when my food reached zero. The generator's stress hits 100%. Oh hell. A child volunteers to crawl between the linkages and release an emergency pressure valv.e One life vs 640. I give the go ahead as the city begins freezing despite the generator going at it full blast. I had no idea if all the pain and sacrifices made were enough. All the toil and tenacity, living on soup, imprisoning "malcontents" to keep panic from spreading, was it all in vain? And then the storm broke. -150 to -30 in an hour. I stare numbly at the temperature display as I disengage the overdrive and throttle the generator to Heat Level 2. We made it.
Even if i think this game is a masterpiece and it deserves all the respect of the world, there's something there that deserve even more respect, the respect of the whole goddamn universe That man who saved and came back with his daughter
Ronapee Pensri I reached dawn with literally the "Generator shutting down" warning, while I was desperately lowering the power to keep it alive. That was fucking brutal.
my first playthrough had me send a child inside the overworked generator to try and avoid it from blowing up during the storm... And as the last few HOURS came, people so mad they were about to overthrow me.. the generator blew up anyway, despite the child sacrifice. It fels like i reached a bad ending rather than a defeat though, was awesome ^-^
Ronapee Pensri oddly enough, only three of my people died to the actual storm. But over 100 died the triage medical treatment to keep the mines producing coal.
This theme got me so amped during the storm just watching the hope fall and everything quickly having to be shut down. I had alot of coal and food ready, and almost ran out at the end as everything essentially froze just automatons on coal mines, kilns, tree wall things and throwing people into the coal piles just barely made it as i had like 2 seconds before either the gen exploded or ran out of coal.
you can survive the first days if you have maxed out houseswith insolation with only steam power 4 and not wasting the overdrive, problem here is the coal to keep it hot enough but its possible to not freeze with maxed out houses for the first few days and after you go for overcharge.
I just finished my first playthrough... Last two hours; everybody is forced to eat what little remains of the Raw Food storage, the Generator is shutting down as the coal runs out, more than half the surviving population is sick and dropping like flies, every single message I get is about people giving up on life and refusing to work, Discontent is utterly unstoppable no matter what Faith abilities I use, every building is either shut down or too deadly to work in, Coal Kilns have eaten my entire supply of wood making it impossible to build or do research and meanwhile this music is blaring with the frigid wind, telling me that if I make even ONE mistake, everyone will die in a heartbeat. But then, out of nowhere, the father returns with his missing daughter. An impossible omen that lifted me- and the entire city it seemed like- and got me through those last two hours, to the dawn. I haven't had a gaming experience like this in a VERY long time... ;____;
The storm was crazy! If the day would kept going for another five minutes than my Generator would of exploded. And this theme was awesome and triffying as it played along! The game was worth the price!
Yet, The safest does not always come with the best outcome, sometimes, the quickest is the best we can do, and while most actions have a consequence, if not all actions do. *The City Must Survive*
on my first play-through, being an avid city builder, my friends encouraged me to do it head first on hard, i had the best intentions but had no experience. people were dying to hunger, to cold, to disease, i was short on every resource and my city was a disgusting unorganized patchwork of emergency fixes and response to crisis after crisis, i thought i had failed my people as a leader towards the end of the storm, nothing was working, i had to shutdown heat and sacrifice the outer edges residents to preserve the core. i lost over 90 people one night and i couldnt do anything to help them. they were frozen to death in their homes hiding in their closets and under their bed, i had to send kids into the furnace to fix the generator, then the storm cleared up and people came out into the streets with renewed hope for the future. i was all choked up. i did horrible things, but over 370 people survived
first thing the survivor did after the storm was probably to hang me from the generator though. i would accept that fate i could have saved more people
I got this for Christmas in 2019. Ive played it so much now that I am back in college whenever there is a exam approaching or assignment is due this music is playing in my head.
Don't think I've ever uttered "F*** No." as much as i did when that damn storm hit me. That song still brings back the shivers of pure terror that I felt when my generator was at 91% and my inhabitants started dying. Damn that game is awesome.
I barely survived the storm. Hope was millimeters from Zero and discontent was almost full a day before the storm ended. What saved me was people got enraged and threatened to overthrow me. I then promised to reduce discontent within 2 days, which was all I needed. When the storm ended, hope filled and discontent disappeared. What an epic game.
Music brings me back to when i first won the game. and i thought to my self. this is one of the few games i did not regret spending money on, that i got my money's worth and more.
By the time I had realized the severity of the situation I had only three days of food stacked and missing the higher heat tech. Absolute miracle after playing through carefully balancing the needs of the people to brace for impact, hope and discontent entirely abandoned in one last push. Absolutely sublime to see the people I lead bend without breaking. Let it be enough. Please let it be enough.
Benmaks any temperature colder than -273.15 Celsius is physically impossible. It is zero at the kelvin scale, the temperature at which the thermal energy content of matter is absolute nil and all particle movement stops. It remains unclear whether it is even possible to achieve absolute zero. Matter sufficiently close to absolute zero may undergo a reversible collapse into a Bose-Einstein condensate, with all particles occupying the same quantum state. To put simply, there's no where left to "go" below -273.15 Celsius.
When your generator is running so hot your overdrive is teetering between shutdowns and that mechanic is the only reason your still even alive. Half your people cant work, a quarter of them are amputees. The loudspeaker guy tells them to "wrap up warm, it's cold outside" 'cus that is an understatement. You sit, carefully coming to the conclusion that triage is the ONLY way you make it out, you press the button, 60 people lose their lives. Mines are freezing, engineers are chilly, kids are weak, the sick are heavy. He's frozen in his house already, Mom's spaghetti.
2:03 an I fuckin' love that clock ticking, you can actually feel how time is getting over. The clock and the violins are siply amzing! Well done Piotr well done
I remember during the first time I beat the game, we overcame the storm exactly at the pinacle of this OST. The last bang felt so good as if marking the end of our journey, our suffering. Such a wonderful experience.
A howling gale bursts upon the city and the Generator creaks and groans under the weight of the wind. Pale faces turn towards rattling windows; trembling lips utter words of prayer. The city must survive.
I hear this song, close my eyes and imagine: a live orchestra, lights fades like a cloudy day, blue lights sparkling like lightnings at each violin spike, (fake) snow falling at each big drum bit and flames rising at each trombone crescendo.
So surprised how good this game is. Preordered once I saw some trailers and I had a hunch it would. Also helps that the same guys are behind This War of Mine. Managed to only lose 2 guys, one to a tragic patrol and one seemed to just automatically die as soon as the doomsayer reached my town. Thought I had it all figured out. "How bad can it be?". It was bad. -120C, workstations barely above cold, pushing extended hours just to keep folks out of their freezing homes. Generator, hubs, heaters, all maxed in efficiency and power, running nonstop but it wasn't enough. People panicking and refusing to do anything out of terror, others praying for a merciful end while I'm running around, juggling with the generator overdrive and infirmary staff, guardsmen attempting to enforce what little order is left on the streets. "Surely I got this, juggling this overdrive and hoping enough people stay healthy and get healed in the infirmaries!" WRONG MY MAN -130C -140C -150C GODDAMN. People simply gave up and it looked like absolutely everyone sat at home, awaiting death. Sicknesses and grave injuries piling up as the last hours were closing. I was just staring at the paralyzed town, eyeballing the sickness counter and listening to the generator groan in agony as overdrive was shaking it apart. And it finally came, the storm fucking ended! PRAISE THE SUN IF ONLY I COULD BE SO INCANDESCENT What a rollercoaster of a game.
Even without owning it I can safely say Frostpunk is such an amazing game. The concept and gameplay are great, but man.. music like this drives home every other amazing thing about Frostpunk. Songs like this convey everything Frostpunk is about. A struggle for survival. Seemingly insurmountable hardships. Fragile hope on a far horizon. But when you listen to songs like these you just know that you have to make it. Whatever it takes. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for good music.
the great storm was intense. Really felt the struggle to survive the cold. It gave the feeling of hope when resource not managed well in the middle and in the end just hope and pray that you will go through the intense cold for the last few days. The music adds more layer into it, felt really awesome.
а мне кажется всё это совсем не игрушки и в свете последних научных теорий о виртуальности нашего мира, вполне возможно, что создатели игры "законно" воспроизвели новую параллельную реальность, а музыка подсказывает вам что то, что вы чувствуете, это не просто игра.
The ending was so epic...the culmination of everything you know and have. And the fact you were dealing with manageable temps during the game and at this point is just insanity...you just try to figure out if you have enough ppl to pump the precious coal, cause if the generator goes down here is game over lol
That moment this song starts, but you know you have enough coal and food in storage to might aswell lay everyone off and place hubs everywhere. So nice.
The last few days were intense running in the background as you plan everything you can to keep everyone alive. An awesome game with great immersive experience as we put ourselves in their shoes and hope to survive.
"today in the land of Finland the new state of Siberia, there's gonna be a blizzard, a great winter blizzard. Inces after inces of snow and cold weather. the snow will keep coming and down after hours. there's no snow days either. it will be struggle but nothing we haven't witnessed before. but there's a chance for something far worse... a rain but with twist, its going to be raining snow and water making it extremely cold, like its going to be -1C and rain water and sleet. Throught the cold and snow, Throught the hard weathers and harsh cold and frostbites we walk to school. right now i speak its getting colder and the snow is thickening inc by inc"
When your due deadline is only in a couple days and you gotta haul ass to complete it in time. With the ever increasing urgency to get more and more done before you find salvation on the other site of that deadline.
I wrote a poem about this song, because the heroism and desperation feels exactly like the battle of dealing with schizophrenia every day. I find strength and comfort in it harsh winter, a sinister fate don’t whimper, grit with an iron grip the longest winter the weak won’t make it gripping and gripping and wishing times simpler I hate it with all my might I hate it the callous weakness splinter the mighty felling iron crashing hinder comfort and peace, things we left when times were better and simpler gripping and gripping holding on wishing any moment now a release wishing we had more timber in this biting cold we won’t make it! we have to, I hate it! The weakness splinter! frostbite, my grip is frozen solid cursed be it! Cursed be the winter! hanging on hanging on in the deadliest winter! like a crushing wave with unyielding finality like a wave that kills off the weaker a thousand to one, they’re all gone I’m the last one standing in the war of winter my schizophrenia it killed off all the weeping sorry it killed all but me in this frozen nightmare winter it killed everyone but me in this war of dark iron frozen solid in this war of sinister lonely in this war of waking hell in this battlefield of last stand torturing iron winter torture, torture, torture! it never ends, it never got any better, even with pills a waking nightmare a nightmare to those without a voice no voice for stigma reasons no voice in endless midnight winter thank you for reading. I hope that one day society will overcome the deep stigmas surrounding this illness
Playing for the firts time at the storm part with these music was amazing experience. I felt it and was hoping for be able to hold on until the end. I really recomend the game.)
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what is the name of the music? and hans zimmer made it?
Music Composer: Piotr Musial
Talented Talented Piotr. Beautiful music for the beautiful blizzard boos fight
The City Must Survive
Piotr Musial. He also did some work in the Witcher games. Particularly in the Blood and Wine expansion.
Late to the call but:
The City Must Survive
By: Poitr Musial
When the missing Kid is saved in the middle of storm, the fact a life could be saved in the middle of that storm when the city is barely surviving.
A goddamn Mircale
Indeed, It was a Mircale.
The mad lad went whit 30 rations to bring his kid he was lucky I was stocking up on everything
-150°c .... I felt despair ... Generator critical after changing steam core .... But then that legend of a man saved his daughter ........ I started crying ..... The sun came up as the message came up .... I had saved 675 + people !
good job man!
Biggdwarf thanks man ... I took the faith route with children in shelters ......
Let me guess... easy mode?
Alejandro Auditore normal mode
Try hard mode! Is the best of the best! You will feel all the desperation!
Jane Valentine
"Hell has frozen over."
I can't hear my own thoughts
@@vitmartobby5644 The wind!
I didn't think it was even possible for it to get this cold!
Swiggity Swooty the Storm's freezing my Booty!
The storm is so terrifying it gets its own theme!
temperatures reaching -150c or -238f, I would be terrified
You wouldnt even have time to get terrified. Insta freeze 🥶
oh yes! The Storm is character itself, an absolute Force of Nature bringing death, despair and chaos.... 10/10 magnific campaign
GENERATOR OVERLOAD CRITICAL
lmao yes, spent the last day hovering between 95 and 99%
sacrifice a core, or a child?
Thanawat Rintanalert don’t worry chuck children at it till it gets fixed all try to save all 720 people in the game but it’s so damm hard
sacrifice a core! heck no, send a little turd. Not like anyone going to miss him anyway.
My devoted subjects would sacrifice all children in the service of humanity and its exalted leader.
1:03 "It has reached -150! I repeat, -150. This is it, this is the end.. may god be with us all.."
Perfect music, surviving the storm... what an experience. Generators over-pressure, men sacrificing themselves to support the mines, the tremendous cold, and only a few more days worth of supplies. 10/10 game
I used automatons for all and i just leaved everyone in their houses :p but yeah, really epic *.*
In the whole game I got only ~13 dead, no one died during the storm, I didn't send people to replace the supports. Just a tip - BUILD TONS OF COAL THUMPERS ONCE YOU HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO OPERATE THEM. I had 4 coal thumpers with 16 gathering posts.
I literally just got like 12 deaths that always happens, the poet, the murdered guard, and the 10 workers of a random workplace, not even the winterhome guy because I visited winterhome one day before and also not a single londoner left.
Not braging, just was really proud of myself until the "Order" ending showed up and I was so bloody dissapointed :c
If you played a good game you should have the all-upgraded coal mines with the all-upgraded automatons and enough coal stocks to last you two storms.
If that was on average difficulty someone failed as a leader...
>Dat feel when everyone is cowering in their houses while hell freezes over outside, and though frosted windows they see the mighty automatons still hard at work digging the coal that keeps the generator blazing.
Its actually colder in New London than on the surface of the moon
Well, the moon has no wind :P
In a sense..
The actual temperature in the houses was about -50 or (on hard) -70, though...15/17 minus 6 heat levels from generator and 4 from insulation. That's actually survivable with really warm clothing (which New Londoners have). At least for a little while.
Assuming that you had overdrive turned on and max research for heat-related things, of course.
@@marcusc9931 I am living in a place where -50 in a winter is called fine. Wind is air movement, it is warmth by itself, absence of wind is the real foreshadow of the true frost.
P.S. Also it is impossible to warm up while sitting in a pit. All the warmth will go up and all the cold air from around will be condensing in a pit (windless pits in Antarctica are the coldest places on Earth). The visual design of this game is looking great but while playing it I've been sometimes thinking that guys who made the city plan wanted to kill all the citizens.
@@metalosaur I've heard its because the generator isn't a heat dispenser but a heat CANNON, pushing hot air upwards to keep the cold air from being able to go down into it, basically directly fighting the weather to keep it out of the pit rather than heating the pit itself
Automatons was the literal life blood through the entire storm.
Same lmao
I wonder if winning the main game is possible without automatons, they sure are very useful
@@zakosist Very possible, you even get an achievement for it
@@zakosist i never got automatons. I was at the brink of death for most of my run (normal), and barely survived.
@@raulprima Later I have actually won the game without automatons too, decided to test it out
The music makes this game 10x better, it shows how important good soundtrack really is.
The City Must Survive. That quote from the intro has stayed with me for quite some time. It's so loaded with meaning, passion, desperation, hope. The City has become more than a city, it has become the human race itself, it has become greater than any individual life. It is the future, the children, your hopes and dreams and memories and nightmares. It is Existence.
The City Must Survive.
THE CITY. MUST. SURVIVE.
It's interesting because such a simple line can have so many layers of meaing.
The City must survive; The individuals does not matter so long as society makes it.
The City must survive; The people are the city, every life within it matters.
The city must survive; Our morals cannot be compromised or we shall never be the same.
A toast for "the Drunk Glaswegian", that absolute madlad of an automaton that saved me
you think your done for as soon the storm hits and feel like giving up, but then the soundtrack hits and your hope is back and try like a badass to save as many as possible... best song ever
_Pushes The Generator To Overdrive_
*THE CITY MUST SURVIVE*
So true.
Exactly, I thought all was lost, but then, the music shifts, a spark, a chance at a future, at life, at that very point I snapped back to my senses,
The. City. Must. Survive.
This theme alone makes the first scenario beat the others in every possible way.
That final moment before the dawn where even overdrive on max power cannot keep you above freezing, when hope has plummeted to a sliver (if you did not cross the line into the purpose capstones). The height to which everyone will raise their middle fingers to mother nature once even apocalypse has nothing on us.
Compared to that, class warfare or choosing between what's right and what's needed... nothing stops it.
You are right but you just cant compare them like that ... every scenarios have it own reasons and meaning when you finnish them , you must know that New Home is main story line while the other 2 ( maybe more in the future ) are addition ,in my view each and every scenarios have it own good (too good to be precisely) :))
Even just as a minor thing I think it would have been great if the "Storm" theme had started playing during the finale of each mission. I think it'd be fairly fitting in refugees at the very least, considering how tense it can be to break the class divide
Londoners are put dislikes.
wolf wolfercz Pah! Just let them die in the hellish cold. They are useless bags of meat anyways.
I'm always confusing about the Londoner, trying to return to the same city we pretty much fleeing from.
Propaganda > londoners
and let city froze to death because of shortages workers on coalmine?
You want to leave... Not in my city rebels and now we're going to parade all your comrade bodies in a glorious steam may your bodies burn in hell traitor
-New Order Route
I felt so much joy when that man found his daughter before the storm, such a great moment!
it's actually during the storm that he brings her back, making him that much more of a legend
Best survival city builder. Hearing this during struggle on one last day storm. People abandoned their work just wanted to gather their family for last time. I'm also shutting my generator for almost critical. In my heart, I thank the generator for already doing its best. 111 sick 20 amputee 396 survive. I cry
When I heard this during the storm it gave me chills...
Pat1711 That was a cool pun
Ahahaha I see what you did there
Jaden Sullivan You mean hahaha Icee what you did there. You had the perfect opportunity...
Your House Must Survive
Man, I feel cold just listening to this.
*Fun little summary of my latest playthrough*
"Alright everyone, here it is" *The Captain speaks to the crowd at the foot of their mighty protector, the New London Generator. We've seen it coming for some days. The refugees have shared their tales of horror. I'll be honest...I don't know if we can make it. But we have to try. Our engineers have applied every possible improvement they can to this machine." *He points to the Generator.* "The hunters say we've got stocks of food to last a few months. Hopefully this storm won't last that long!" *A meager cheer from a few of the people rises from the crowd.* "I know everyone has had their complaints, even when we took in everyone the scouts found. And I won't mince words...some of us will likely die." *A hushed murmur and a few sobs can be heard over the biting wind above the crater.* "The city must survive! Everyone! Stay warm, and godspeed!"
**Three brutally cold, worsening days later.**
"Captain!" *An engineer runs into the Captain's office.* "The mines...the hydraulics are freezing over! What in God's name do we do?" *The Captain looks up from a concerning report about fuel reserves.* "Are the Automatons working the mines?" *The engineer shakes his head* "No, and it wouldn't help either way, we've got them on the piles from the fracking pumps. You said yourself, the risk of frostbite or death was too high." *The Captain thinks for a moment.* "Alright, this is a hard choice, but we've got no choice...those mines hold everyone's lives in their shafts. We need to send people in to try and prop up the tunnels." *The engineer looks aghast* "Sir, people will die in there..." "I know, that's why I want you to find volunteers. I'll not force anyone to do something so dangerous."
**A day later. Temperture drops to nearly -100 C, and the engineer returns.** "Captain, we've lost 30 lads...all thirty brave men who volunteered." *The Captain holds his head in his hands.* "And the mines?" "Intact!" "Those men are heroes, if we survive this, I'll make sure they're remembered forever..."
**Two more days. -150C...no home can be warmed by the generator.** "Everyone! I know, I know, the only places left to find warmth is here and in the hospitals. But, I've hopeful news...A couple of engineers in coordination with the previous scout teams have figured out that we're in the tailend of this Storm! We've only got to hold out a day or two more. You all know I've asked the hardest thing any man can ask of forty-three of our sons...and so I'm going to say only this: Collect what wood, coal, and food you need from the stockpiles, then return to your homes. Hold your loved ones dear, your neighbors too. And pray we see the Sun again. The city must survive!" *The Captain returns to his own family, hugs his wife and children, cold tears streaming down his wool wrapped face. He's afraid...as is everyone else. But hope is hard to kill...and he knows the people have hope.**
**Two days later, when the temperture has sunk to -170C, fuel is low, food low. Dozens are suffering from frostbite, scores are sick. The doctors, the only people still working are at the point of breaking with more people than they can handle** "Captain! CAPTAIN!" *One of the former scouts hobbles over to him, his foot lost to the frozen world.* "Yes?" "The Storm...it's ending! We made it!" *The Captain takes his glasses and hat off...and sobs.* "Sir!?" "I'm overwelmed...I was so afraid we would sputter and die. Eighty of us, starving and cold...And now here we are...over six hundred strong...and still cold...but alive. Faith my friend...faith kept us alive." "I won't lie sir, turning no one away stressed our resources, but...it was the right thing to do." "I know. I know I've made some hard choices...your foot is one of those choices, but I know I can look at myself in a mirror." "Less can be said of a man...well in a few hours we should be seeing sunlight...and before I came in here, you could actually feel the air warming! Those poor souls who wandered into the Storm after leaving us their notes could be right! God I hope they are..."
*New London. 647 Survivors. -30C*
So, by "summary" you meant an entire short story.
Yup. Though, I started with a few sentences and then changed my mind. I just forgot to edit the headliner.
I would read a FrostPunk book if you ask me..
I just put the kids in the coal mines
647?! I had 417 when the storm hit(I turned away the sick in the end I know I'm terrible), and ended with 219! That was only my second playthrough though, hoping to get more next time.
Just fantastic. When a song can convey such a sense of desperation and hope, it's rare but beautiful.
Not gonna lie, I cried a little when the dawn broke out on my first playthrough.
You are not alone my brother :))
I cry when we survived the storm, when that happened I can only say "We made it" before something inside me broke up. I was crying while I repeat "We fucking made it" almost for an complete hour. Awesome game, I can't say other thing. Greetings from Chile
When the storm came...and the soundtrack started...it got me soo hooked up into the game i didnt moved for 3h straight until....the stormed passed.......it was....beautiful :c ....
mee too, but after seeing im "crossing the line" i gotta play it one more time
I was playing with an air conditioner with low celsius in the middle of the night with the light turn off
To highten the experience and help me concentrate
"Absolutely butt-clenching" - 10/10
First playthrough, playing on the default medium difficulty. accepted all refugees, managed to keep all my people alive, healthy and the generator fueled by the skin of my teeth. Juuuust managed to get everything sort-of stable when news of the storm hits. I scramble to gather supplies and turn the tent-shanties of the refugees into proper houses before the storm hits. I barely succeed. I have enough food for 4 days. Enough fuel for six. I have no idea what's coming.
The peak of the storm hit just when my food reached zero. The generator's stress hits 100%. Oh hell. A child volunteers to crawl between the linkages and release an emergency pressure valv.e One life vs 640. I give the go ahead as the city begins freezing despite the generator going at it full blast. I had no idea if all the pain and sacrifices made were enough. All the toil and tenacity, living on soup, imprisoning "malcontents" to keep panic from spreading, was it all in vain?
And then the storm broke. -150 to -30 in an hour. I stare numbly at the temperature display as I disengage the overdrive and throttle the generator to Heat Level 2. We made it.
Even if i think this game is a masterpiece and it deserves all the respect of the world, there's something there that deserve even more respect, the respect of the whole goddamn universe
That man who saved and came back with his daughter
First time I experience so much stress on a game. I was in shock
the feeling when it is the last day with -150 degree outside and your people is feezing to death left and right
Ronapee Pensri I reached dawn with literally the "Generator shutting down" warning, while I was desperately lowering the power to keep it alive.
That was fucking brutal.
nothing beat the first playthrough experience ! the story in this game is so awesome !
my first playthrough had me send a child inside the overworked generator to try and avoid it from blowing up during the storm... And as the last few HOURS came, people so mad they were about to overthrow me.. the generator blew up anyway, despite the child sacrifice. It fels like i reached a bad ending rather than a defeat though, was awesome ^-^
Ronapee Pensri oddly enough, only three of my people died to the actual storm. But over 100 died the triage medical treatment to keep the mines producing coal.
Ronapee Pensri Im just trying to get all 720 people to survive the storm in the 1st scenario but of course someone kills the damm faith keeper
i love this song, it's amazing! it captures the games atmosphere so well! its heavy, and dark while also being hopefull
I was screaming in my room when this was playing " COME ON STORM ! IS THIS THE BEST YOU GOT ?! AAAAAAAAAAAAA"
This is no music anymore...
This is the storm, the wind and the cold.
This theme got me so amped during the storm just watching the hope fall and everything quickly having to be shut down. I had alot of coal and food ready, and almost ran out at the end as everything essentially froze just automatons on coal mines, kilns, tree wall things and throwing people into the coal piles just barely made it as i had like 2 seconds before either the gen exploded or ran out of coal.
you can survive the first days if you have maxed out houseswith insolation with only steam power 4 and not wasting the overdrive, problem here is the coal to keep it hot enough but its possible to not freeze with maxed out houses for the first few days and after you go for overcharge.
I still remember sitting there staring wide eyed in desperation at my screen just pleading with my generator not to blow up
Before you played Frostpunk, you might be forgiven to ask why a city builder has boss music.
But noone will question it while playing.
2:39 give that violinist all the glory a raise. Sets chills down my spine
Hold! Hold for dawn! I love the Vivaldi-like violins at 2:40. Surviving that storm.. what an experience.
I just finished my first playthrough...
Last two hours; everybody is forced to eat what little remains of the Raw Food storage, the Generator is shutting down as the coal runs out, more than half the surviving population is sick and dropping like flies, every single message I get is about people giving up on life and refusing to work, Discontent is utterly unstoppable no matter what Faith abilities I use, every building is either shut down or too deadly to work in, Coal Kilns have eaten my entire supply of wood making it impossible to build or do research and meanwhile this music is blaring with the frigid wind, telling me that if I make even ONE mistake, everyone will die in a heartbeat.
But then, out of nowhere, the father returns with his missing daughter. An impossible omen that lifted me- and the entire city it seemed like- and got me through those last two hours, to the dawn.
I haven't had a gaming experience like this in a VERY long time... ;____;
The storm was crazy! If the day would kept going for another five minutes than my Generator would of exploded. And this theme was awesome and triffying as it played along! The game was worth the price!
Boldest measures are the safest. Order will prevail. City will survive.
Ruthenius Obedience is the highest virtue, all who think othervise is a treat to the survival of our city and must be swept aside.
Yet, The safest does not always come with the best outcome, sometimes, the quickest is the best we can do, and while most actions have a consequence, if not all actions do.
*The City Must Survive*
Pragmatism is what helps survive, not what's morally right.
on my first play-through, being an avid city builder, my friends encouraged me to do it head first on hard,
i had the best intentions but had no experience. people were dying to hunger, to cold, to disease, i was short on every resource and my city was a disgusting unorganized patchwork of emergency fixes and response to crisis after crisis, i thought i had failed my people as a leader towards the end of the storm, nothing was working, i had to shutdown heat and sacrifice the outer edges residents to preserve the core. i lost over 90 people one night and i couldnt do anything to help them. they were frozen to death in their homes hiding in their closets and under their bed, i had to send kids into the furnace to fix the generator, then the storm cleared up and people came out into the streets with renewed hope for the future.
i was all choked up. i did horrible things, but over 370 people survived
first thing the survivor did after the storm was probably to hang me from the generator though.
i would accept that fate
i could have saved more people
Never thought it could get this cold!.
Temperature: -170
ok all is good somehow
"the generator is shutting down"
Nooo~!!
Superior Potato is it at hard difficulty?
You have no idea how emotionally overwhelmed I was as soon as I saw that sun rise.
Game of the year for me. (Or at least nearly there)
I got this for Christmas in 2019. Ive played it so much now that I am back in college whenever there is a exam approaching or assignment is due this music is playing in my head.
Don't think I've ever uttered "F*** No." as much as i did when that damn storm hit me. That song still brings back the shivers of pure terror that I felt when my generator was at 91% and my inhabitants started dying. Damn that game is awesome.
-170°C INTENSIFIES
@@WormyMaster Send a child to fix it
I barely survived the storm. Hope was millimeters from Zero and discontent was almost full a day before the storm ended. What saved me was people got enraged and threatened to overthrow me. I then promised to reduce discontent within 2 days, which was all I needed. When the storm ended, hope filled and discontent disappeared. What an epic game.
I'm cry while listening to it....Such a powerful song....
When u the ruler of New Manchester
And these engineers refused to help
And you start to hear this music
And you know you are dead
BUNDLE UP WELL, THE FROST IS HERE
I did not believe the dad actually made it back to the city despite me not giving him any supplies.
This is now my thinking music intense,dramatic and a chilling climax this is the essence of the storm it self.
Music brings me back to when i first won the game. and i thought to my self. this is one of the few games i did not regret spending money on, that i got my money's worth and more.
By the time I had realized the severity of the situation I had only three days of food stacked and missing the higher heat tech. Absolute miracle after playing through carefully balancing the needs of the people to brace for impact, hope and discontent entirely abandoned in one last push. Absolutely sublime to see the people I lead bend without breaking. Let it be enough. Please let it be enough.
Survive the -170c...
Farhan Ihram -170c? Easy. Try -400c
Arsen Zahray
-400C is not possible you dumbum.
To be fair the temperature in game probably isn't -150. Not that it isn't cold but the -150 would come from windchill factor.
The sun is dying. I mean, anything is possible at this point
Benmaks any temperature colder than -273.15 Celsius is physically impossible. It is zero at the kelvin scale, the temperature at which the thermal energy content of matter is absolute nil and all particle movement stops. It remains unclear whether it is even possible to achieve absolute zero. Matter sufficiently close to absolute zero may undergo a reversible collapse into a Bose-Einstein condensate, with all particles occupying the same quantum state. To put simply, there's no where left to "go" below -273.15 Celsius.
When your generator is running so hot your overdrive is teetering between shutdowns and that mechanic is the only reason your still even alive. Half your people cant work, a quarter of them are amputees. The loudspeaker guy tells them to "wrap up warm, it's cold outside" 'cus that is an understatement. You sit, carefully coming to the conclusion that triage is the ONLY way you make it out, you press the button, 60 people lose their lives. Mines are freezing, engineers are chilly, kids are weak, the sick are heavy. He's frozen in his house already, Mom's spaghetti.
I wish there was more to this world. Something in this exact setting in a tv series or a game with story
Great ! It’s finally the last week of 2020 !
*This music starts playing*
2:03 an I fuckin' love that clock ticking, you can actually feel how time is getting over. The clock and the violins are siply amzing! Well done Piotr well done
This music but with that bell sound notification of people dying while also reminding you of how fucked up you and your city have become
688 people survived the second attempt on normal difficulty, very easy after you learn the basics.
My heat generator heard this music ... it went overdrive
I literally cried when the storm finally passed, this game man..
The strings entering at 1:42 are mesmerising. You, Dear Composer, have attained musical absolute.
I remember during the first time I beat the game, we overcame the storm exactly at the pinacle of this OST. The last bang felt so good as if marking the end of our journey, our suffering. Such a wonderful experience.
"Death beckons when you finish main story on Hard-Iron Saviour" -*me shellshocked*
And there is this little yet epic story of desperate father. Never forget, never underestimate.
A howling gale bursts upon the city and the Generator creaks and groans under the weight of the wind. Pale faces turn towards rattling windows; trembling lips utter words of prayer.
The city must survive.
I love how the generator is literally the beating heart of the city when you go overdrive on max level you see how it beats!
That little walk up at 1:50 is soooo fucking good to my ears UGH I can't love it enough
I hear this song, close my eyes and imagine: a live orchestra, lights fades like a cloudy day, blue lights sparkling like lightnings at each violin spike, (fake) snow falling at each big drum bit and flames rising at each trombone crescendo.
This game would make a great 2 hour movie. I'd be the director of the movie if no one's gonna do it.
So surprised how good this game is. Preordered once I saw some trailers and I had a hunch it would. Also helps that the same guys are behind This War of Mine.
Managed to only lose 2 guys, one to a tragic patrol and one seemed to just automatically die as soon as the doomsayer reached my town. Thought I had it all figured out. "How bad can it be?".
It was bad.
-120C, workstations barely above cold, pushing extended hours just to keep folks out of their freezing homes. Generator, hubs, heaters, all maxed in efficiency and power, running nonstop but it wasn't enough. People panicking and refusing to do anything out of terror, others praying for a merciful end while I'm running around, juggling with the generator overdrive and infirmary staff, guardsmen attempting to enforce what little order is left on the streets.
"Surely I got this, juggling this overdrive and hoping enough people stay healthy and get healed in the infirmaries!"
WRONG MY MAN
-130C
-140C
-150C GODDAMN. People simply gave up and it looked like absolutely everyone sat at home, awaiting death. Sicknesses and grave injuries piling up as the last hours were closing. I was just staring at the paralyzed town, eyeballing the sickness counter and listening to the generator groan in agony as overdrive was shaking it apart. And it finally came, the storm fucking ended!
PRAISE THE SUN
IF ONLY I COULD BE SO INCANDESCENT
What a rollercoaster of a game.
Even without owning it I can safely say Frostpunk is such an amazing game. The concept and gameplay are great, but man.. music like this drives home every other amazing thing about Frostpunk.
Songs like this convey everything Frostpunk is about. A struggle for survival. Seemingly insurmountable hardships. Fragile hope on a far horizon. But when you listen to songs like these you just know that you have to make it. Whatever it takes.
Or maybe I'm just a sucker for good music.
This game teaches true time management methods. No just in time production, not here.
You can really feel the struggle
This damn game actually made me tear up....couldnt believe it.
Soviet Belka though the real question here is...how could belka be soviet? xD
MsRAZGRIZ1 Anybody can be Soviet.
Even countries that got nuked 7 times? :v
MsRAZGRIZ1 Hrmm, not sure what you are talking about. Can you be more specific?
Soviet Belka wait, are we talking about belka, the fictional country of the ace combat series?
City MUST survive!
the great storm was intense. Really felt the struggle to survive the cold. It gave the feeling of hope when resource not managed well in the middle and in the end just hope and pray that you will go through the intense cold for the last few days. The music adds more layer into it, felt really awesome.
ohhhh the goosebumps. This is just so good.
а мне кажется всё это совсем не игрушки и в свете последних научных теорий о виртуальности нашего мира, вполне возможно, что создатели игры "законно" воспроизвели новую параллельную реальность, а музыка подсказывает вам что то, что вы чувствуете, это не просто игра.
Ive never feel so tense and so emotionally invested in a Survival RTS sim, Awesome work!
This song really made you feel the gravity of the situation towards the end game.
The ending was so epic...the culmination of everything you know and have. And the fact you were dealing with manageable temps during the game and at this point is just insanity...you just try to figure out if you have enough ppl to pump the precious coal, cause if the generator goes down here is game over lol
Damn I can feel the cold from this song, the storm was an incredible moment the first time you must survive to it
This sounds like one of Hans Zimmer's epics. An it just plays like that in-game. Great work by the developers.
That moment this song starts, but you know you have enough coal and food in storage to might aswell lay everyone off and place hubs everywhere. So nice.
i just love that polish people can achive something beautiful like Piotr Musiał
Final Exams Theme...
The last few days were intense running in the background as you plan everything you can to keep everyone alive. An awesome game with great immersive experience as we put ourselves in their shoes and hope to survive.
Ah, thank God for those big metal bois doin the work.
the game and the music in it is just so good that i cant stop listening to it
"today in the land of Finland the new state of Siberia, there's gonna be a blizzard, a great winter blizzard. Inces after inces of snow and cold weather. the snow will keep coming and down after hours. there's no snow days either. it will be struggle but nothing we haven't witnessed before. but there's a chance for something far worse... a rain but with twist, its going to be raining snow and water making it extremely cold, like its going to be -1C and rain water and sleet. Throught the cold and snow, Throught the hard weathers and harsh cold and frostbites we walk to school. right now i speak its getting colder and the snow is thickening inc by inc"
Playing through that part of the game was amazing and the music has a lot to do with it
And that is why you invest in automatons, boys and girls
When your due deadline is only in a couple days and you gotta haul ass to complete it in time. With the ever increasing urgency to get more and more done before you find salvation on the other site of that deadline.
"March to work! Glory to our great leader"
i feel like this has some referance to pravus
I wrote a poem about this song, because the heroism and desperation feels exactly like the battle of dealing with schizophrenia every day. I find strength and comfort in it
harsh winter, a sinister fate
don’t whimper, grit with an iron grip
the longest winter
the weak won’t make it
gripping and gripping and wishing times simpler
I hate it
with all my might I hate it
the callous weakness splinter
the mighty felling iron crashing hinder
comfort and peace, things we left when times were better and simpler
gripping and gripping
holding on
wishing any moment now a release
wishing we had more timber in this biting cold
we won’t make it!
we have to, I hate it! The weakness splinter!
frostbite, my grip is frozen solid
cursed be it! Cursed be the winter!
hanging on
hanging on in the deadliest winter!
like a crushing wave with unyielding finality
like a wave that kills off the weaker
a thousand to one, they’re all gone
I’m the last one standing in the war of winter
my schizophrenia
it killed off all the weeping sorry
it killed all but me in this frozen nightmare winter
it killed everyone but me
in this war of dark iron frozen solid
in this war of sinister lonely
in this war of waking hell
in this battlefield of last stand torturing iron winter
torture, torture, torture!
it never ends, it never got any better, even with pills
a waking nightmare
a nightmare to those without a voice
no voice for stigma reasons
no voice in endless midnight winter
thank you for reading. I hope that one day society will overcome the deep stigmas surrounding this illness
Listening this while in quarantine
Playing for the firts time at the storm part with these music was amazing experience. I felt it and was hoping for be able to hold on until the end. I really recomend the game.)
sooooo ....wich one of you beasts left those children in those caves alone?
maybe it was for their safety
No reason to leave workforce behind