Frostpunk is such a liberal game. Not my freedom being taken away by the big bad totalitarianist.
If people didn't become so fucking hopeless EVERY TIME a storm is approaching, I wouldn't care about signing this law. Our city has 15 days worth of food rations stockpiled and 13 days of coal, for a storm that last 2 days! All but the guard towers and the infirmaries are run by automatons. I have 13 automatons just... standing, doing nothing. Everything researched and fully upgraded. What's their problem?? I cannot make it any better than it is!
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When the game says "totalitarian" does it mean it in the "there is literally no difference between nazis and communists kind of way" or can you do that + decide on how you use state power?
I might have to give frost punk another look depending, even if it does a "sir have you no decency towards FREEDOM" routine.
The game doesn't say totalitarian, that’s just me. Beyond people dying as the screen says, you get "obedience" which replaces "hope" and cannot be increased or decreased, which is useful as I explained above: every time there is a storm I lose almost all my hope I've built up using the "patrol" and "propaganda" abilities. Beyond that there are some Arcs with popup screens where you have to choose what to do, and you can just choose the option that gives you discontent (which is usually the "good option")... if you are doing things properly most of your people are living near a guard station so it literally doesn't matter. Once those arcs are over... you might kinda forget you signed the law.
Outside of it's "authoritarianism" thing, I like the game.
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So many times in the game I was like "you're god damn right it's authoritarian" and did it anyway because the consequences of not doing it are clearly and obviously 100x worse.
Exactly. It's literally the apocalypse. THE CITY MUST SURVIVE!
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Pogged thank you for the info!