I escaped twice, even if I did run over a friend the second time.

Fear

Stage 4: The counselor is completely hysterical, suffering the same fear penalties as Stage 3, but the counselor player's HUD also disappears while the screen darkens on the edges. You will lose your mini-map unless you equipped the Nerves of Steel perk. Also, light sources (including your flashlight) will no longer reduce fear, forcing you to find other means to reduce it. Once your counselor calms down, the light sources will work to reduce fear once again.

Oh my god, now I'm sad I went to bed.

Oh my god, now I'm sad I went to bed.

do a lot of "WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING"

Can Jason be killed at all?

People not playing this need to know what it does with voice chat, because it's very good.

(Background if you don't know: it's asymmetric multiplayer. Up to seven camp counsellors are trying to escape Jason. Jason is the last player, trying to kill them all.)

Voice chat only works when you are close by. This means humans can talk, and co-ordinate, but only when near to each other... until they find a walkie-talkie. This means the start of the game is scary and lonely as fuck, with the only sounds your character's hysterical muttering to themselves and (hopefully not) the OH SHIT SON music that plays when Jason gets near. Once you find a radio, all counsellors with radios can talk to each other freely. BUT: Jason follows these rules too! At one point last night, I saw Riles sprinting for me, Jason on his heels, as I lurked in some bushes. "Don't lead him towards me!" I squeaked, only to hear Cras (as Jason) reply "you know I can hear you, right?" as he coolly speared Riles between the shoulderblades.

Once you die, you get a "dead thread." Everyone dead can spectate anyone in the game, and communicate freely with all the other dead people. This is good, because if you die early on and the game goes the distance you might spend 15 minutes in there. But like Mafia, this is actually pretty good fun in its own right: you can follow any player and do a lot of "WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING" with the other dead folks. It's also much less stressful.

This also means we have suspended the usual Beex rule and have no party chat in-game. You can still join the party -- we'll probably have one going for co-ordination -- but in the PS's quick menu (the thing that appears when you long press the PS button) you can scroll down to Party and select Prefer Game Chat. Then the game will override the party.

Strangely enough, the game I'm making has similar voice chat mechanics (well, is planned to.) would be interested to see how it works if I could join in with you at some point.

Possibly a topic for another thread, but tell me more - what's the game? What are you making it in etc.?

Unreal engine 4 (had a look at unity by prototyping the idea there, but ue4 is more like what I'm used to.) currently working through basic art stuff, character models etc etc. Current plan is a sort of odd mix of a multiroom Mafiaish idea with a semi-turn based system (game is split into periods where you have a certain amount of options available each turn) and exploring in a changing play area, but with a fair amount of information incompleteness (everyone has their own goal to win, but they can be split up into broadly social and antisocial categories) and so relying on voice chat and private/non private/not knowingly public conversations to try and figure out what's going on is somewhat important to my mind.

A fair way off a playable alpha though.

The reason I won the lifeboat lottery is because Craster couldn't work out how to open the car door.

After some initial teething issues because STUPID FUCKING PC GAMING we had a really fun session of this. I was the only counselor to escape in our three games, when Sal was Jason. And I only managed to do that because I luckily found the phone fuse and then the phone cabin in the first few minutes of the round. Oh and Dave shot Ian in the face because he hit him with a pan

I had my first go as Jason in a public match. Didn't kill anyone.

I had my first go as Jason in a public match. Didn't kill anyone.

That's one reason I tend to play against people who absolutely do not know what they are doing.

I am getting quite good at being super stealthy now. Dave was Jason in a public match, and I managed to gas up the boat and was just hunting for the propellor when his game crashed.