I have to admit, I've never operated a haul truck or a bucket-wheel excavator, giant or otherwise, so I've got no idea whatsoever how well Giant Machines 2017 simulates the experience of running a whole mine all on your own. It wants me to stack four of them, but carrying one of them over and getting it in the right place was enough work for me, so I think I'll. Turns out that attaching a hook to a container is a pain in the ass with no depth perception, no matter what camera angle I'm using. Right now though the only things that need to be in order are these containers full of silicon I'm stacking. Though it would explain why we're trying to launch a spaceship that was retired back in 2011 in our timeline. Man I hope this Space Shuttle we're launching isn't carrying a surveillance satellite for a fascist regime or something. They called level 3 "There Must Be Order"? That's a bit ominous. Also an alarm keeps going off for some reason, which kind of made me jump first time it happened. So it's a bit like systematically scanning planets in Mass Effect 2, except slower and more tedious. It took me a little bit to figure out what I was supposed to do with the thing, but it seems I have to sweep the digging wheel horizontally across the rock until it won't go any further, the move it down a little and sweep it back the other way. There's a long list of buttons to press but controlling the vehicles has been pretty simple so far. Okay what I had to do here was press X to turn the engine on, hit R to get the bucket-wheel moving, and now I'm steering the crane with WASD to dig away at this wall of rock. No table or cardboard to go with them this time though, just a radio. Or maybe the designers just liked reusing their props. Game's got some interesting environmental storytelling going on here, with some fascinating clues about what happened to all the other workers to leave this place a ghost mine. Here I am in the operator's cabin at last and guess what, I found another pair of boots there waiting for me. I know it's not likely, but neither's someone making a game where you have to run around flicking switches on a giant excavator so let me have my dreams.īy the way, the floor is all metal on this thing, so right now it sounds like my dude is stepping from the top of one barrel to another any time I walk anywhere. At least until I unlock a grappling hook or a double jump power up. Seems like the real puzzle in this game is finding my way around the maze of railings and stairs. Well there's one of the fans, but it's over there on the other side of the railing and it won't let me jump over. When it was done the bloke on the radio called me up to tell me that my next job is to turn on two cooling fans, so I'll be pressing the E button at least a couple more times before it'll finally let me drive this thing. I'm getting really good at going to where the marker is and holding down the E key though. Man it feels like I've just activated the excavator's missiles with the way these cylinders are raising out of their hatches. So I guess I'll be getting some paper out to write on. I'm going to have to restart the game anyway because it locked up when I alt-tabbed out to write my notes. Seems that I'm getting 90 FPS with the graphics maxed out on my humble rig, so I'm going to cap that before going any further. I can see some mysterious bottles of mystery liquids as well, plus a bit of scruffy cardboard, but it's not letting me pick anything up. I mean the shoes I'm wearing I can see those shoes under the table just fine (and the bonus boots over there by the lockers). Also when I look down I can't see either my shadow or my shoes. I'm walking around in first person, but my dude doesn't exactly glide around when he moves. All I know about Wyoming is that one of the Wacky Races episodes takes place there, but I know what I'm meant to be doing here at least because I got a radio message from a bloke with an actual voice actor! My ultimate goal is to extract silicon so that we can finish working on a Space Shuttle, because the person who used to do it got fired (along with everyone else who worked here it seems), but first I need to get over to that tiny tow truck over there and start it up. Alright, it's started me off in a storeroom somewhere in Wyoming.
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