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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Drag has never got far in the story in this game. One fuckup you don't notice, and an hour later your game is over. You don't know what you're doing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Man, makes me want to go back and play some Uplink. Shit's fire!

[–] kautau 49 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

If you feel like a more modern game, I really like https://store.steampowered.com/app/605230/Grey_Hack/

It has its own scripting engine, so you can write in-game programs to do exploits and things. It’s not super complex, but you do need to actually write code to play it well, but I really enjoy it

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

The old school vibe is a feature in Uplink. It's some proper hack the planet shit

[–] kautau 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Of course, I love Uplink, my suggestion wasn't meant to bring it down, just to provide a recco for a spiritual successor to scratch that itch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That looks awesome! I haven’t dabbled in programming since BASIC—how would I be at this game? Would it hold my hand at first? I’ve done a little bit of machine code(anssembly? The one where you only use numbers) and C++, but it’s been like 20 years.

[–] spamfajitas 15 points 10 hours ago

Definitely helps to be able to at least read and understand code. I remember the documentation being decent enough. IIRC it was a thing to provide scripts that look helpful but actually contained malicious code to do all sorts of nasty things to your in-game system. It's really cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Does the in-game editor have vim keybindings and syntax highlight? I can't work without these,

[–] kautau 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

lol there is this (https://github.com/ayecue/greybel-vs) and this (https://github.com/ayecue/greybel-languageserver) for when you want to go hard on the greyhack scripting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I should be less surprised xD

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SwordInStone 4 points 3 hours ago

it is also on steam should anyone prefer that

[–] durfenstein 15 points 11 hours ago

Oh hell yeah uplink. The first game i ever went online for. Wasnt even my native language