#Disco elysium fast travel how to

I failed, and my trusty companion helpfully pointed out that I should probably cut the wire, not the lock itself. In one of my favourite moments, I endeavoured to cut a lock with bolt cutters. Oh, the other thing that can increase your stats temporarily is drugs, so good luck trying to get sober and get your life back on track, detective! Oh, and both your health and morale can descend quite rapidly as you are very skilled at both hurting and demoralizing yourself at ANY given moment.Īs you can imagine, I am having a wonderful time with our main character and his inability to keep it together. Items of clothing increase your stats so that at any given point of the game you look like a mismatched hobo. Fuck saving the world and getting the girl. A subtle place, where heroics are managing to put your coat on correctly, and remembering someone’s name.

It feels like the place where both hilarious comedy and exquisite drama are available to you. But I love to enter a fictional world where the escapades, many failures and occasional small triumphs of utter losers are lovingly explored. Many people roleplay to escape into a kind of power fantasy of control and snappy one-liners, and that’s fine. It feels like the place where both … More

#Disco elysium fast travel how to

Discovering how to make your loser character useful is a fascinating challenge. In our steampunk status game of Victorian nobility, I played a nervous chambermaid who’s afraid of everything. In a lovely one-off where we played a highly capable action team of german spies, I played a piano tuner who’d mistakenly gotten recruited. I’m somewhat known for picking the least valuable character build: in our Last Airbender game, everyone geared up to play cool benders.

I love to play losers! Anti-heroes are okay, but damn, losers are where it’s at. There is nothing dignified about him, he is just pure and utter trash.Įxactly how I like it. He has little to no impulse control and loses his shit all the time: one of the first quests is to find your other shoe. Your disco-loving detective is an incredible loser. His subconscious frequently implies that it’s better this way. So, a little context: in Disco Elysium, you play a detective who has delved so deep into alcohol poisoning he does not remember who he is anymore. Instead, I’ll just rave about all of my favourite bits, which incidentally have a lot to do with how I like to roleplay in the first place.

Thompson writing Planescape: Torment, and I don’t think I can do any better. Someone on Twitter described it as Hunter S. I don’t even know how to get started on Disco Elysium.