The Assembly Patch
- inagactaless
- Sep 10, 2019
- 5 min read
About This Game A first-person interactive story for mature audiences, The Assembly is a long-form game designed from the ground up for VR. Play as two individuals and discover a morally challenging organization from contrasting perspectives. Face trials, investigate the Assembly’s secret bunker and make tough decisions. But will your actions and their repercussions save lives… or lead to catastrophe?Now supports Vive Motion Controllers and Oculus Touch as input devices.Key FeaturesFreely explore realistic environments in VR using accessible 'blink' movement controls.Uncover the morally ambiguous Assembly through a gripping and incisive story.Test your potential in newcomer Madeleine Stone’s induction trials and uncover a series of shocking revelations as veteran Cal Pearson.Thought-provoking dilemmas will lead you to question the Assembly’s relentless pursuit of progress.Play the game in non-VR.Interested in more VR games and experiences? Check out the rest of the nDreams VR catalogue here! 7aa9394dea Title: The AssemblyGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:nDreamsPublisher:nDreamsRelease Date: 19 Jul, 2016 The Assembly Patch I played this with the HTC vive. Pros:-Story driven with great voice acting. I played the german version. There is not much story driven VR content but this would be good without VR too.-Graphics. While probably not groundbreaking they are good enough to feel like you're there. Playing with a Titan X Pascal at 1.8 SS it looked great.-Sound, Music, Voice acting - just greatCons:-The added motion controls are just that: Added. You'll never need to actually duck to find something. You can feel that this was designed for the xbox controller. It is still better to play with the vive controllers though. Could've been done better though.-Lengh: Played through in about 3.5 hours. I has a bit replayability with multiple endings and achievements though.I would buy it again and reccoment it to anyone who owns a Vive or Rift.. I wish Steam had a third option (neutral), instead of a yes or no recommendation. I would recommend this game only on a deep sale (at around $5 or less). I played and completed this game on the Oculus Rift on Steam in 5.7 hours with a lot of leaving the game playing in the background.Pros:Nice visualsEasy puzzles/some are actually funInteresting conceptnice parts to the storyVery nice leaderboard at the end to compare yourself to other players (a very nice touch to this type of genre!)Cons:very tedious fetch gameplay (whether it's "discovering" passwords or finding a key)some very boring puzzlespoor mechanics, poor POV in spotsteleporting everywheremost of the story is drab, you have no reason to care for either of the characters you play, the AI is more interesting and it's got a very short narrative on the AIyour choices don't really mattergame crashed once, had to restart whole level, also had trouble starting on Oculus Rift (had to exit and come back to Steam for it to properly start)Nuetral:voice acting is okaygame ran smooth other than problems noted abovenot too long or shortmeh epilogue .. probably would have been better left to imaginationyou can move forward but it's jagged (but at least the option is there, unlike other VR games!)overall I would give it a 5/10. i am suprised by the negative review with performance issues i am experiencing none. The assembly is what i call an atmospheric game. Sure some of the puzzles are simple, but they are well done and unique. Where this game shines is in its story and asthetics and holds up as a tripple A game.i wonder if it is an oculus thing with peoples experience with performance or maybe under speced pc's. Would save or banish a child again 8/10. Oh, The Assembly...Well, for a "walking simulator" it's quite serviceable.As is usually the case in these games, you spend mostof the time walking around, inspecting different items while lookingfor the handful of specific ones that will let you move on to thenext area. It's par for the course and works like you'd expect.The game also has some simple but neat puzzle solving sprinkled into break up the monotony, which is a welcome distraction when it occurs.Presentation isn't bad, with clean graphics and some "hit or miss" voice acting.The story is interesting enough, relatively speaking, if somewhat slow.It's nowhere near as profound as it presents itself as, but - given what else is outon the VR platforms right now, it could have been a lot worse and still came outbetter than most of it's competitors.As a VR game on the whole, however, it's not much to celebrate.For the most part, it uses a crosshair in the middle of your sights to target things,much like you would choose a scene in Oculus Dreamdeck.Sadly, there is no way to decouple the HMD movement from your virtual body,so moving around never feels natural.There is also no support for VIVE motion controllers, even though the simple 3-button controlscheme could easily have been mapped to one of the wands.The developer cites "VR parity" as the reason for this, and have said that they will not beimplementing support for those controllers.Which brings me to the elephant in the room, of course.nDreams have received plenty of feedback (most of it bad) regardingtheir pricing model on the Steam forums - and while the company servbot, JennyB,keeps rehashing a canned response (when she should have been apologizing instead)about how the higher priced VR bundle is actually the base game,that doesn't change the fact that we are charged a de facto premiumcompared to playing the game in 2D.This looks especially poor given the engine the game is built on,and how the bare-bones VR implementation suggests that they'vesimply just unticked the "VR checkbox" in Unreal4.So, you know. The day a publisher makes a game's "ultra" graphics settings a paid DLC (since that'ssomething not everyone will be able to enjoy) you'll know who to thank for setting that precedent.More detail can be found in the developer's official reply here:https://steamcommunity.com/app/373650/discussions/0/359543951713952090/#c359543951714277675. quot;Wolfie's fine honey" - if you like sci-fi/cyberpunk/medpunk exploration with a touch of really not difficult but touching and rewarding puzzles then this is for you. Great story, good voice acting, supremely clever references to everything from Dead Island to Terminator, Gattaca, and Condemned Criminal Origins, to name a few. A little on the short side and the ending leaves a little to be desired, but truly enjoyed The Assembly. 8/10.. Very nice, the game looks really good, i like the visuals, and voice acting.I am playing The Assembly on Normal screen, no VR for me, but its very well optimized and feels very good so far.Im not too far into the story yet, but already from the beginning hooked and cant wait to find out everything in this world.Check out the first 15 min of Gameplay to judge your self.https://youtu.be/HTxfPHHqszI



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