i've been playing a shitload of barotrauma with @pupwitch and friends recently and i've gotta say:
- it's fucking great
- it's not nearly as tense/spooky as i thought it would be (in fact, the ragdoll physics really just make it comedic-hectic if anything)
- i love that it's max 16p, so no one is at risk of being 5th-person-for-a-four-person-game'd. ideal crew size is really like 6-8ppl, which means you can just mitosis the group if needed
- it's like pulsar: lost colony, in terms of roles and general gameplay, but 2d and with more fleshed out systems/things feel less Empty
also it has mod support, so i have already written a mod that does some light XP-syncing in campaigns so that new players can drop-in and not be totally fucked on progression. additionally and similarly, it gives an xp floor in one-shot missions so that we can run one-shots with friends we're introducing to the game, and let them mess around with picking traits and stuff.
"but heckie, you can do all that with the in-game console commands" yeah and this automates it and also doesn't require disabling achievements just so that our friends don't get punished for not being Always Online. i'm making the game better for my friends and writing shitty utility mods again. i love doing this shit.
anyways, play barotrauma