Disco Elysium - The Final Cut


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A hard-boiled, wild-eyed cousin of Planescape Torment, Disco Elysium is a game about defeat. Specifically it's about the defeat of the political Left, set on the run-down waterfront of a quasi-European metropolis that once played host to a communist revolution. Revachol was a city built "to resolve History", you're told early on, where "the terrible questions of our time will be answered". Five decades down the line, those answers are writ large in the bullet holes from mass executions, the bigoted orphans roaming the mouldy tenements and the craters left by the neoliberal governments that brought Revachol's revolution to heel.

It's certainly a painful game to contemplate if, say, you recently voted Labour, but Disco Elysium's atmosphere of despair should cling to anybody who has ever sought a better life for themselves, regardless of their politics. Early in the story, you dream of your own corpse dangling from a tree in the scattered light of a disco ball. Through blackened, bubbling lips, the body proceeds to damn you for this world's dreadful plight. "You failed," it croaks, against the melancholy lilt of a distant guitar. "You failed me. You failed Elysium. Four point six billion people - and you failed every single one of them." Coughed up by the past your character is desperately trying to forget, the accusation is ludicrous but horribly convincing: it reflects the demented self-aggrandisements of both severe depression and video games. You aren't just an amnesiac has-been detective, after all, drinking and drugging himself into a not-so-early grave. You're the Player. If any single individual bears responsibility for the state of this universe, it's surely you.

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The long-awaited Disco Elysium original soundtrack is here! And it’s accompanied by an art booklet. Three albums worth of music by the magnificent British Sea Power @BSPOfficial and five years of art by ZA/UM - now available. Happy holidays!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1173140/Disco_Elysium__Soundtrack_and_Artbooklet/

Original 28 songs composed by British Sea power for Disco Elysium - totalling 3 albums worth of original music. Available in MP3 320 kbps format.

Accompanied by a 30 page digital artbooklet curated by Aleksander Rostov. Original pieces of in game art and concept art by Aleksander Rostov, Kaspar Tamsalu, Rauno Somelar, Markus Härma, Siim Raidma, Mikk Metsniit, Anton Vill, Jüri Saks, Pavlo Guba, Mehdi Annassi.

+ 3 extra wallpapers in 4K resolution (Thought Cabinet, Conquest of Revachol, Martinaise Skyline)

Tracklist:
1 Instrument of Surrender
2 Whirling-In-Rags, 8 AM
3 Detective Arriving on the Scene
4 Tiger King
5 Your Body Betrays Your Degeneracy
6 Precinct 41 Major Crime Unit
7 The Insulindian Miracle
8 Polyhedrons
9 Live With Me
10 The Field Autopsy
11 Miss Oranje Disco Dancer
12 Rue de Saint-Ghislaine 32B
13 The Doomed Commercial Area
14 The Cryptozoologists
15 Whirling-In-Rags, 8 PM
16 Disco Elysium, pt 1
17 Disco Elysium, pt. 2
18 Ecstatic Vibrations, Totally Transcendent
19 Saint-Brune 1147 (Small Pinewood Church)
20 Martinaise, Terminal B
21 We Are Not Checkmated
22 Hope in Work and Joy in Leisure
23 Burn, Baby, Burn
24 Whirling-In-Rags 12 PM
25 La Revacholiere
26 Krenel, Downwell, Somatosensor
27 Off We Go Into The Wild Pale Yonder
28 ZA/UM
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DISCO ELYSIUM Patch notes for version bbe2afa0 (viewable in the F1 menu, bottom right)
  • Added badge falling sound.
  • Added closed container door sound
  • Fixed it so that you can see Roy when switching the Shader Quality to Modest
  • Made fixes to saves post Tribunal that were loading in a broken state.
  • Made additional fixes to prevent black screen issue after endgame.
Remember to report any bugs you may find! - Bug Report -

Thanks!
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

The Game Awards, the annual flurry of new game announcements interspersed here and there with bits of chit-chat and trophies, has come to an end for 2019. This year's event didn't really feel like it had any mega-blockbuster game reveals—no new Elder Scrolls game, or Mass Effect revivals—but there were certainly some big moments: Microsoft revealed a new Xbox, the Series X, and a new flagship game, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, and a new MMO set in the Magic: The Gathering universe is on the way, which could be fun.

And yes, there were award winners, too: Quite a few of them, in fact, and some honest surprises, foremost among them that Death Stranding didn't run away with the whole thing. It did well, winning three awards including Best Game Direction, but the big dog this year was actually the outstanding detective RPG Disco Elysium, which claimed four trophies. Yet neither was selected as Game of the Year.

Which game earned top prize this year? Read on to find out. And don't miss our rundown of all the new trailers that appeared at The Game Awards right here.

  • Esports Team: G2 Esports (League of Legends)
  • Esports Players: Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf (Sentinels, Fortnite)
  • Esports Host: Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere
  • Esports Game of the Year: League of Legends (Riot Games)
  • Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
  • Esports Coach: Danny "Zonic" Sorensen
  • Content Creator of the Year: Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek
  • Fresh Indie Game: Disco Elysium (Za/um)
  • Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends (Respawn/Electronic Arts)
  • Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Beenox/Activision)
  • Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Intelligent Systems/Koei Tecmo/Nintendo)
  • Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3 (Next Level Games/Nintendo)
  • Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Sora/Bandai Namco/Nintendo)
  • RPG: Disco Elysium (Za/um)
  • Action-Adventure Game: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software/Activision)
  • Action Game: Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom)
  • VR/AR Game: Beat Saber (Beat Games)
  • Community Support: Destiny 2 (Bungie)
  • Mobile Game: Call of Duty Mobile (Timi Studios/Activision)
  • Independent Game: Disco Elysium (Za/um)
  • Ongoing Game: Fortnite (Epic Games)
  • Games for Impact: Gris (Nomada Studio/Devolver Digital)
  • Performance: Mads Mikkelsen as Cliff (Death Stranding – Kojima Productions/SIE)
  • Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
  • Score and Music: Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/SIE)
  • Art Direction: Control (Remedy/505 Games)
  • Narrative: Disco Elysium (Za/um)
  • Game Direction: Death Stranding (Kojima Productions/SIE)
  • Game of the Year: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software/Activision)
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Disco Elysium has been nominated for 6 awards in IGN's 2019 Game of the Year Awards!!

We're so delighted that so many of you are enjoying the game and we're so grateful for all of the support we've been given and all the nominations we have received during the 2019 awards season!

Vote in all the categories here!
  • Game of the Year
  • Best PC Exclusive
  • Best RPG
  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Story
  • The Best Performance for Mikee Goodman (Reptilian Brain/Limbic System)

Tropico Reloaded - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Chase Carter)

Winter brings out a part of me that immediately seeks a mountain of blankets in which to burrow. Even in my seasonally confused state of Texas, the weather has tended towards the chilly and left me with little excuse not to have a kettle boiling interminably as I layer on socks and pull the biggest comforter from the top of the closet. But this presents a problem likely familiar to other cozy connoisseurs: how does one game while properly bundled?

I will admit it does limit possibilities considerably. That’s why I’ve curated a small selection of games perfectly playable while your other hand keeps coffee or tea always within sipping range.

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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

In the yard below, a corpse hangs from a pine tree.

It is my failure and my shame for all to see, rotting in plain sight.

Martainaise, the broken-down home of Disco Elysium s broken-down police story, is an excoriating light shone not just upon its broken-down policeman, but also upon me, and my failure to be the person I thought I was. It is my mid-life crisis writ in grey rainfall, my dread realisation that death is coming and I m not who I ever meant to be.

In the yard below, a corpse hangs from a pine tree. Decaying in the rain. It s been there for days. Everyone sees it, no-one mentions it.

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The Steam Awards are here!!

If you thought Disco Elysium was an instant classic, we would love for you to vote for it in the Game of The Year Category!

And now for Fan Art!

If you read our last blog entry we mentioned that we've been delighted to have been inundated with incredible fan art from the game. Here are just a few of our favourites so far, and we'll be sharing more in the future! Thank you to all the wonderful artists!

Enjoy! (PS. May contain spoilers!)

@arvydas_b on Twitter


Mart Virkus - @arcaderage on Twitter


Camila Gormaz - @burasto on Twitter and Instagram






Artyom Trakhanov - @ohotnig on Twitter


@wrroniec on Twitter


@Minoukatze1 on Twitter





Anne Yang - @AnneYang3D on Twitter



@ston_henge on Twitter







Otava Heikkilä - @Claystorks on Twitter





@foxmime on Twitter







Rubén Rodríguez - @RRuflse on Twitter


Swann Klein - @skpinataMAN on Twitter


Michael Swaim - @Swaim_corp on Twitter


@teamwreckloose on Twitter








@raevpet on Twitter




Which is your favourite?

Until next time!
Nov 26, 2019
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Wow. It’s been over a month since we launched Disco Elysium and we can’t begin to thank you enough. From mountains of fan art to awards nominations, we’re in awe of the support you have given us. Reading your stories about the game and how you connected to it has been incredible. You’ve helped us reach overwhelmingly positive on Steam with over 3000 positive reviews. We’re currently rated at 90 on Metacritic which puts us in the top 5 PC games of the year. We would not have been able to do this without you and your continued support will spur us on! Many of you are already asking about our future plans and we can’t wait to share them with you. From all of the team here at ZA/UM, THANK YOU!

Don’t forget you can still vote for us at The Game Awards - https://thegameawards.com/
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Disco Elysium has been nominated for #TheGameAwards 2019!

:trophy:Best Narrative
:trophy:Best Independent Game
:trophy:Best RPG
:trophy:Fresh Indie Game

Cast your vote now! http://thegameawards.com/nominees or http://goo.gle/TGAvote

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