Starting at 4pm GMT
Today’s the day of theRPS Game Clubliveblog, where we’ll all pile into a single article to talk, in real-time, about February’s game pick,Cobalt Core. We’ll be kicking off shortly at4pm GMT today (Thursday February 29th), so go and grab a cuppa, switch on someappropriate music, and we’ll get this liveblog started.
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
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So, here we are folks. Welcome to the RPS Game Club liveblog for Cobalt Core. To kick things off, I’m going to start with a controversial question.Favourite Cobalt Core characters:GO.
(the answer is obviously Soggins)
–Katharine Castle
Welcome Caff! I approve of this very good use of multi-tasking. How is the run going?
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Hello everybody! I am here to Core some Cobalts, and I’m all out of, erm, sorry, what was the question again?
–Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Based on your comments fromlast week’s post, it seems there’s also a lot of love for Books, Isaac, Drake and Riggs (not necessarily in that order).
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Very sound reasoning.
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Our work here is done… flips down shades
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Oooo, so close, I_have_no_nose_but_I_must_sneeze! I’ve also had several moments like this. Always gutting, but I think there’s still a good sense of accomplishment to be gained from it at the same time.
–Katharine Castle
Greetings, fellow Cobaltians! I hope everyone’s cat.exes are online and ready!
–Ollie Toms
I wonder who would win in a fight… Hades or the Core?
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–Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Yeah, I think it was my first run without Riggs that I realised just how vital she can be to surviving those later stages. I missed her a lot in those moments!
–Katharine Castle
Something I’ve only just picked up on is the nice little designs of the cards themselves. Lookit:
That middle one is really great. And not too distracting either, which is a tough balance to find.
–Ollie Toms
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I was actually just about to bring up that point, caff! I wish an undo button did exist.
–Ollie Toms
I have definitely mis-clicked/pressed the wrong button when playing on Steam Deck a few times. Undo buttons are an interesting dilemma. I like them, but I do also like having to simply commit to an action and seeing what happens. In this case, though, I think it stings a bit more as actions happen immediately, rather than all at the end of a turn. Perhaps it needs a ‘Confirm’ option to doubly make sure that’s the card you want to play?
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Yeah. I like their approach, but I do think there ought to maybe be a plain-text option in the settings for people who want it, where it just tells you what it does in words.
–Ollie Toms
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Very true! I feel Into The Breach needed this as there were so many more strategic possibilities you could commit to there. Cobalt Core is a bit simpler in this respect, as you’re limited by what cards you have, but yeah, a ‘Confirm’ button would be a nice option all the same, I think.
–Katharine Castle
Apart from accidental mis-clicks, how did folks find the game’s overall difficulty?Incident Electronwrote last week:
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I actually somehow beat the Core on my very first run. No idea how that happened.
–Ollie Toms
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I guess it disappointed me a little? Even though that’s not exactly fair, because I probably just got very lucky with my cards and artifacts, and I rather dislike when roguelites are just impossible to win without pumping some points into the metaprogression system first. I guess I just like feeling like a game has a challenge that I can slowly overcome over several runs. A bit like a soulslike boss, in a way.
–Ollie Toms
Hear hear.
–Katharine Castle
Yeah, it’s definitely the bones of Into The Breach hidden inside an FTL trench coat. Which is great! I love FTL (possibly more than ITB), but I think Into The Breach’s genius (seeing what the enemy’s about to do) is easier to successfully replicate in other games.
–Ollie Toms
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You are welcome any time, pete!
–Katharine Castle
I’m with you on this. I’ve tried a couple of Hard runs, but failed them every time. Definitely need to up my game at this level!
–Katharine Castle
Has anyone got to the end credits of Cobalt Core? Eulrich said last week:
Personally, I think this is a totally acceptable stance. I’m not sure I’ll ever be good enough to finish it completely and do all the character combos, but there’s still a lot of enjoyment to be had from doing those different runs in the mean time, I think.
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Big congrats! I, too, hope to achieve this level of mastery one day…
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I have! Iwrote about it for supportersearlier in the month.
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Haha, no worries!
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