Разработчик: Zanardi and Liza
Описание
About Dog Duty
Управляйте отрядом изгоев в войне против влиятельного злодея Генерала Осьминога и его армии, угрожающей всему миру сразу. В этой быстрой тактической игре в реальном времени вам предстоит сражаться партизанскими методами, чтобы уничтожить восьминогую заразу. Деритесь прямо на ходу, перемещаясь на транспортере от острова к острову, отвоевывайте аванпосты, побеждайте боссов и их безумные октомашины. Задайте жару головоногим, но не забывайте, что они хорошо вооружены.
Особенности:
- Соберите антиосьминожный отряд из трех человек и вступите в бой в реальном времени
- Отвоевывайте аванпосты, чтобы перекрыть осьминогам доступ к оружию, доспехам и припасам
- Побеждайте эпичных боссов и пробейтесь к злейшему Генералу Осьминогу
- Деритесь прямо на ходу на своем транспортере и поджаривайте осьминогов до хрустящей корочки
Поддерживаемые языки: english, portuguese - brazil, simplified chinese, german, italian, traditional chinese, russian, thai, spanish - spain, japanese, korean, french, polish, turkish
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7
- Процессор: Intel i3
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
- Место на диске: 500 MB
- ОС: WIndows 10
- Процессор: Intel i7
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- Место на диске: 500 MB
Mac
- ОС: OS X 10.9.4
- Процессор: Dual Core
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Место на диске: 500 MB
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Dog Duty is a handheld (Nintendo Switch)/console game that's also been put on Steam as a bit of an afterthought, as it's very much designed for the handheld/console gaming audience. It's a tactical RTS, that is to say, an RTS but without any base building or resource stuff. You know the missions in Command & Conquer where you weren't allowed to build a base or build new units, and you had to try scrape through carefully with the tiny handful of soldiers they give you? Yeah, I hated those. This game is basically "Oops, all squad missions". Ugh. I really think before any developer makes an RTS they should first be forced to play RTS games so they can learn what RTS games are all about.
One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets with crap 2D retro pixel "art" textures on them, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. This very poor quality visual style is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, worse, it doesn't authentically recreate the 1990's vibe the developer is hoping people will accept instead of doing their job properly, and that's just another reason to avoid it.
Because this is designed for handheld/portable gaming appliances, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the low power handheld gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the mobile game developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for low power handhelds forces upon a game. While this might run well on a Steam Deck, we must remember the vast majority of gamers here are gaming on PC.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
Dog Duty didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for installing a mounted gun, trivial to get, but less than 16 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, and isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 16 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who didn't bother engaging with this game? Trading cards. People will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game.
That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with little merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Dog Duty has the ridiculous, laughable price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Torchlight 2", "Portal 2" or "Payday 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.
Unfortunately Steam reviewers aren't presented with a "Maybe" option... if they did, that's what I'd choose. This isn't a completely bad game, but it's also not one of the best. As always, if you read my review and you can overlook the negatives I've called out, or they just aren't important to you, then by all means go ahead and buy this.
An enjoyable ride which feels geared towards casual fans of the genre, if not absolute newbies.
By no means a long game, and besides the campaign there is a horde mode playable in 3 different settings.
Not much in the way of story, but the gameplay loop, while simple, is quite fun. It's mainly outpost liberation across 3 (or 2?) locations with a boss fight in each until the final showdown.
> Control a team of 3 characters with additional ones you can find as you progress, each with a special ability
> A variety of guns (rifles, a shotgun, among others) and items (molotov, medkit, manual turrets for when you are on a vehicle, other stuff) for the squad to try out on the baddies (there are only a handful of enemy types and while that's fine, a couple more types wouldn't have hurt)
> Speaking of, there are 2(?) drivable vehicles (1 land and 1 water; can't recall for certain but I believe there's also a car)
> The vehicle handling can feel somewhat frustrating at times, but not really a dealbreaker
The game doesn't overstay it's welcome (at least it didn't for me, and I am by no means a fan of the strategy genre) and as such the limited gameplay elements don't feel like some chore you can't wait to be done with. (suggestion: play over the course of three/four days in short bursts, and by short bursts I mean an hour, roughly)
As mentioned, the game feels like it's not for hardcore afficionados of the genre because it's relatively easy to beat. On a couple occasions (at the larger outposts) I did get stuck, but it didn't take long to figure out a better approach. As long as you aren't being cocky or hasty, you shouldn't have a hard time.
I also found the art style to be very fitting for the tone of the game, and did not encounter any game-breaking bugs during my playthrough.
Overall, if the games piques your interest, you might wanna give it a shot, especially if you are a newcomer to the genre. In fact, I'll go far as to say this might even be a decent entry point into the genre.
Tip: Stock up on molotovs for a very particular segment of the endgame
i admire zanardi and liza work ever since battle bruise and i really enjoy this game quite a lot you gotta be carefull when you walk around the enemy lines but there is plenty action well
Only one difficulty
Game is very small with only three or four biomes but made artificially longer
as success is based on pattern-memorisation
or knowing exactly when a soldier is going to come on screen, shoot and where it's going to shoot
like Contra or Castlevania.
This is only accessible to the most sadomasochistic and not good if you have a large back log of games offering a much much stronger sense of achievement and progress for your limited game time spent.
Games are meant to be fun, Dog Duty leaves me feeling sick and anxiety ridden inside without any progressto show for it.
Dog Doody
Has some glitches, like the driver cam showing the driver either getting smaller or the insides of the vehicle getting larger, and the cat person is posed like they hold a minigun no matter what they're equipped with, and the boat being 1-hit KO'd by electricity, but is overall a great short game, though I recommend getting it on sale, because it's worth around 5 bucks, not the regular asking price of 15. Really looking forward to a sequel if there will be one.
Some tips for fellow players:
When getting the B-side achievement, the hardest thing to tackle is the plane station, followed by the tank station. Use the truck and lure out enemies from the hangar at the tank station, and try and kill as many soldiers as possible on the plane station with the boat.
The area where you drive a boat is the hardest area to beat no matter if you're playing it normally or going for B-side.
The central area's difficulty wall is artificial difficulty that is easily overcome by about 15 molotovs so that you can spawn camp the never ending enemy spam while doing the objective at the end.
When defeating the central boss in B-side, do the three objectives that pop up afterwards immediately and you should easily get the achievement.
The hardest achievement is "Game Over" because I still have no clue how it's not an endeavour in rng based frustration, also the controls you use for it on pc is the scroll wheel.
The boat is the worst vehicle, very frustrating to use sometimes because it controls worse than the other two vehicles, and can be 1-hit KO'd.
AFAIK the best loadout for the team members is rpg, sniper, and gatling gun.
Only press alt to engage enemy patrols if your vehicle is about to die, otherwise just kite them.
GL, everyone! :y
Simple, fun and challanging
Damn, this is short.
"Tactics" is a biggest bullshit ever sold. You just rush and run around like a retard. xD
I enjoyed it for what it was, mindless fun. Although I picked it up for 90% off and played with mouse/keyboard which probably helped a lot. There's enough options in there to make it seem deep, although once I found my default character/weapon combo that worked I didn't feel the need to ever change it. The greater challenge was playing the for the B-side achievement. It's fine, retro and won't take more than 2-3 hrs to complete (probably slightly a bit more to 100%). Kind of reminded me of something like Super Trench Attack! with just a short experience that is decent enough to knock over in a couple of gaming sessions without bending your brain too much.
could have been a cool game 25 years ago.
Good solid fun. Very original hybrid of various genres, developed by a team of friendly and dedicated people. Recommended!
A great Topdownshooter which reminds u heavily on MAD MAX.
Control a handful heroes, kill ur enemies, fight great bossfights.
A completely underrated unknown game
Open world drive to different post-apocalyptic locations, then disembark on top-down squad control combat levels. Brilliant and funny writing and story and evil octopus characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKz1qhvYhec
Really fun Action/RTS hybrid.
Unity engine, Pixel art, easy controls, fun dirty sense of humor, isometric view, extremely responsive dev, unique overworld system.
A really fun time.
Get it. You wont regret it.
So I was searching for clever Action-Strategy hybrids on Steam and found this game that looked like an ultra streamlined strategy/arcade action game but with open-world sandbox structure. So I start it up and I love the retro-action aesthetic, but how's the gameplay? Well the gameplay is like an ultra streamlined strategy/arcade action game but with open-world sandbox structure. In other words it's everything I dreamed it would be! It's awesome. Having a small squad just works. MOST IMPORTANTLY, the CONTROLS are very responsive and precise! If you're gonna make an action / arcade game, that's probably the most important part. Obviously, being an Early Access game I wasn't surprised to see some lack of polish in the U.I. which is nothing considering how well this game works. I don't know what all is completed yet, but the initial desert area and the "swamp" map I went to were both awesome.
What may not be mentioned is that you can drive the vehicles to travel to each combat area. It just works, and the occasional break into vehicle-on-vehicle battles is awesome too.
Beautiful characters, precise and responsive gameplay, and fantastic game structure all around. COMPLETELY WORTH IT. And it's not even finished yet.
(I'd like to note that I don't care about story or "progress", I got this game to just run around shooting bad guys randomly in an open sandbox with quick squad-tactics gameplay. And it fits perfectly. This will be one of my quick, short fun break games. The hours will build up 10 minutes at a time.)
I've played the game several times before and it's awesome! Really great! It has something that I can't describe
The graphics are awesome, some kind of 2D/3D pixel art. Voice acting is very well done. But the gameplay is what makes this game amazing, it's very fun and addictive
Anyway, I have high hopes for Dog Duty!
[Update]
Ok, I do believe I can move on from my past grievance with this game since it's been addressed; concerning the profanity. You REALLY have to drive Romeo insane to actually get him to say curse as much as he did before with the arcade voice mode enabled; though this doesn't change his voicelines, whereas Kilmer has new a kit though that's just a nitpick. The voices can be adjusted and/or muted if they do annoy you, so there's that as well.
That said, there's little immodest pics in the desert zone here and there; so far 2 places; but they're hardly detailed enough to be given that much attention, added to how less frequent they are as opposed to the stereotyped one's mouth. Again, so far.
Then again you wouldn't really notice that while you're trying to keep your squad alive in shootouts at the various outposts in the game, as well as defending your vehicle from the roaming goons that'd want your head on a pike or a smoldering ash for taking what they rightly done stole.
For what it's going for; somewhat a light strategy game; it fares well enough, your squad goes where it's commanded to, they don't get stuck on obstacles or make severely terrible choices on how to get to a location on the ground; when not driving; and the enemies aren't idiots.
I'm expecting that you get more weapons for your vehicle besides the flamethrower and the HMG from starting shop, since the one thing this game does have as far overworld travel is concerned are multiple vehicles for the multiple zone types you'll be going through (so far just two: the truck and the hovercraft), and the various slots implying that you can place more than two turrets on each vehicle.
But; this might be due to still being at the start still or iunno; after you claim an outpost, be it to claim a new character, a new weapon, etc., you don't do anything with these outposts afterwards. You raise your flag but no one even shows up to do anything with it, even the goons themselves don't retake the things. It might have to do with there being no one else besides them and just your ragtag group of cultured gents and dame to really do anything in the world at all.
Feels like a demo for the most part. Well put together with stuff I still have gripes with, but still. That and it feels a bit aimless...There is a plot. Somewhere. Is either I just have to dig more or it's early access.
So with all that said. Good game. With some bad elements. The option to censor some of the visual ones would be nice; though I gather that's a design decision so it might not happen.
So if you're gunna play this, just be mindful of that and the voicelines.
[Still not recommended for that reason, but at least what I've said before hasn't fallen on deaf ears. I got an answer from the devs, some things were done to mitigate what I'd pointed out, so I owe them credit for what they did.]
I already like this Game it got so much Potential and even the Support is great here i hope this game will Survive for a long time cause i really like it anyway good work Zanardi& Liza
https://youtu.be/R45hD2x9ipU
There is a ton of potential here.
Squad combat. Top down, with some strategy things.
Open world is novel and pretty cool.
Pixel graphics are well done and fun.
i can't wait to see what the devs have in store for this game.
Keep up the great work!
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Zanardi and Liza |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.12.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 76% положительных (21) |