Unreal Engine Fallen Doll: Operation Lovecraft [v0.4.9 Cracked] [Project Helius]

[ProlapseScamulus]

anyone still supporting that shit show is either braindead or a shill. games been on steam for over a year with absolutely no updates. 57k a month minimum through patreon with a bunch of nobody devs speaks volumes for the operation theyre running. supported them for a long time years ago and wont give them another dime. the second that cash stared flowing in they made their decision. why bother updating anything when youre pulling the cash you are from doing absolutely nothing at all.

complain post but christ who can argue with it. yet another, 100th update with a huge claim of "releasing in 48 hours no matter what" thats alrady passed twice the time they gave. the argument of oh well its a steam thing is reaching hard considering the amount of games that have never had such issues with steam.

i used to hate pirating things with potential but the only potential this game has anymore is the potential to launder an obscene amount of money for absolutely 0 content whatsoever

 

[NTRprise]

>Took a day off since Im busy lately.
>No release yet, delayed to next month
>Laugh in no surprise at all

Honestly, at this point who ever crack the game should add some line to warn people not to support PH by any mean.

Wait what ? It got delayed by a month so close to the initial release date ?

 

[ProlapseScamulus]

Wait what ? It got delayed by a month so close to the initial release date ?

the game has had delay after delay after cancel after cancel since its original announcement. even if their bs update actually goes through sometime in the next 90 days, it wont matter anyways because just like the initial alpha release, itll be so bugged its not even playable and will be another 6 months before its updated to a playable state anyways. "devs" have been "testing" the update for almost 24 hours now (despite the entirety of PH staff being offline and them stating they were releasing it regardless of a test in "48 hours" some 72+ hours ago) and there hasnt been a single update on the status of this test.

my advice: go to wild life. this game has identity levels of scamming going on but at least asylum had the respect to make like a stale fart and fuck off and not sit here and lead some 14 thousand patrons on with hopes of finally getting a couple minutes worth of extra gameplay added after years of support.

 

[taboge9459]

Goddamn, how did I forget about the mystery sponsor companies that kept forcing Scamlius' hand into harder monetization? What even became of the mocap thing? Truly amusing.

You can find stuff about the sponsors in my last conversation with colress, way back here.

For the mocap there wasn't any, Helius posted some pole dancing vids a while ago that appeared to recycle keyframes from the original fallen doll. I tried to link a video but seems it got auto removed. Anyway you can download a the orginal Fallen Doll for a sneak peak at whats to come, most of what we've seen appears to be old recycled content maybe given a darker color scheme.

 

[Voyager1980XD]

For some reason I'm just imagining main helius guy packing bags for a long travel, while humming some melody and chewing bubble gum. Zero fucks given.

 

[Lyfris12]

did they say its another delay?

 

[Termigatron]

did they say its another delay?

not yet,they keep silent

 

[MaestreOfChaos]

You can find stuff about the sponsors in my last conversation with colress, way back here.
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Most impressive, thanks for the insight.
Don't worry, I remember the pole dancing recycled previews, they're part of the reason for which I'm less than hyped for the "new" content.

If we've learned something, is that we can expect anything from Scamlius, 75% of the time it being a lie.

 

[Nihil5320]

not yet,they keep silent

Looks like they deleted every single Steam thread on the topic of the pending update mind you. Doesn't seem like the sort of thing they'd do if the update was indeed still imminent, although it's hard to tell with these devs.

 

[taboge9459]

Looks like they deleted every single Steam thread on the topic of the pending update mind you. Doesn't seem like the sort of thing they'd do if the update was indeed still imminent, although it's hard to tell with these devs.

Damn, they did it in both the demo and beta threads too.

Considering all we got out of this was a new payment tier system and how last minute it appears to be internally with animators and translators all missing deadlines, I wonder if the main point of this proposed date was just to claw back benefits from backers if he knew he couldn't meet it.

 

[Nihil5320]

Damn, they did it in both the demo and beta threads too.
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Considering all we got out of this was a new payment tier system and how last minute it appears to be internally with animators and translators all missing deadlines, I wonder if the main point of this proposed date was just to claw back benefits from backers if he knew he couldn't meet it.

Honestly at this point I don't think there's much point in ascribing motive to their actions, I don't think they're playing 5d chess they're eating the fucking pieces.

So far they've said they'd post an update to Steam when they have an ETA, then suddenly they have a date but no Steam update. They would push it out without testing, then it was late because they were testing it. Then they were uploading the new build to Steam, but there's no new/updated depot... then it was Steam's fault for a bit as they were awaiting approval, even though Steam don't require approval for patches and the private depot would show up instantly? Now it's because some of the dev team and/or volunteers missed deadlines?

It sounds more like Helius is just a pathological liar and the entire project is fuelled by chaos and mayhem. I think the only thing we can really surmise is that the game isn't in a particularly good state if they won't (or can't) push it out even with all the features they've cut.

 

[taboge9459]

Honestly at this point I don't think there's much point in ascribing motive to their actions, I don't think they're playing 5d chess they're eating the fucking pieces.

Lol you may be right.

It sounds more like Helius is just a pathological liar and the entire project is fuelled by chaos and mayhem. I think the only thing we can really surmise is that the game isn't in a particularly good state if they won't (or can't) push it out even with all the features they've cut.

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At least the staff is starting to realize they're being taken advantage of hard. Multi-million dollar project, plus private non-disclosed funding, with a volunteer community manager and staff.

 

[MaestreOfChaos]

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Pretty hard to believe anyone would work so hard to cover up for Scamlius for nothing in return.

 

[VengefulKron]

Honestly at this point I don't think there's much point in ascribing motive to their actions, I don't think they're playing 5d chess they're eating the fucking pieces.

So far they've said they'd post an update to Steam when they have an ETA, then suddenly they have a date but no Steam update. They would push it out without testing, then it was late because they were testing it. Then they were uploading the new build to Steam, but there's no new/updated depot... then it was Steam's fault for a bit as they were awaiting approval, even though Steam don't require approval for patches and the private depot would show up instantly? Now it's because some of the dev team and/or volunteers missed deadlines?

It sounds more like Helius is just a pathological liar and the entire project is fuelled by chaos and mayhem. I think the only thing we can really surmise is that the game isn't in a particularly good state if they won't (or can't) push it out even with all the features they've cut.

The lack of a depot update really is the most damning, irrefutable proof that Helius is lying through his teeth. But if you were to post that on their Discord, you'd be banned faster than you can say 'oops'. And thus, the lemmings will continue to pour money into Helius's pocket.

 

[ProlapseScamulus]

The lack of a depot update really is the most damning, irrefutable proof that Helius is lying through his teeth. But if you were to post that on their Discord, you'd be banned faster than you can say 'oops'. And thus, the lemmings will continue to pour money into Helius's pocket.

multiple year backer that can confirm, any questions regarding the legitimacy of this project will just have you out right banned. wouldnt be surprised at all if all 14k of their patrons are just people that dont realize they never canceled their 4$ support. anyone and everyone whos supported anything over the minimum 30$ for the game has likely been banned by now for questioning why their money is being used as shit tickets.

 

[ProlapseScamulus]

>" The build is gonna launch in about 48 hours. Please note that a last minute delay of hours to a day is still possible as part of the game's network traffic now runs through Steam's CDN network, which may need some extra time to synchronize and is out of our control. "

>also the promise of a release regardless of bugs.

>120 hours ago

>absolute radio silence from devs and project management

 

[taboge9459]

The lack of a depot update really is the most damning, irrefutable proof that Helius is lying through his teeth. But if you were to post that on their Discord, you'd be banned faster than you can say 'oops'. And thus, the lemmings will continue to pour money into Helius's pocket.

You have peaked my interest with the depot, I completely forgot we can see that. You need to check his closed beta one, there was an update 4 and 8 days ago.

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But the last build update before that was 13 months ago.

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So they've not tested a single line of code in their sandbox environment for the past 13 months. Which is kinda damning, because we ended at 0.4, this upcoming is being listed as 0.7, and at least 2 changes like the steam-patreon link, and the network rework would need to test through the dev sandbox in order for anyone to know it's working and "done".

This really does seem half assed and rushed in response to that pcgamer article. No wonder all his staff are missing internal deadlines, they probably only heard about this the same day the discord server did.

 

[Xerxes606]

The lack of a depot update really is the most damning, irrefutable proof that Helius is lying through his teeth. But if you were to post that on their Discord, you'd be banned faster than you can say 'oops'. And thus, the lemmings will continue to pour money into Helius's pocket.

This is so very sadly true. Damning proof indeed. Sucks too, looked like a great game then came all the nonsense and poor management that went along with it.

 

[Terix3]

>" The build is gonna launch in about 48 hours. Please note that a last minute delay of hours to a day is still possible as part of the game's network traffic now runs through Steam's CDN network, which may need some extra time to synchronize and is out of our control. "

>also the promise of a release regardless of bugs.

>120 hours ago

>absolute radio silence from devs and project management

Well that is easy
->27.02 = we will release ASAP regardless of bugs
-> 2.03 = ...............

The lack of a depot update really is the most damning, irrefutable proof that Helius is lying through his teeth. But if you were to post that on their Discord, you'd be banned faster than you can say 'oops'. And thus, the lemmings will continue to pour money into Helius's pocket.

No idea how that works but I imagine they could have separate fork for dev work that we can't see or smth.

 

[XDX21]

Paid these guys once, not going to do it second time. Main game mode is multiplayer bullshit, gallery mode is not being developed.