Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Sector II

[fra]

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/////// SOVIET UNTERZOEGERSDORF
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///// SECTOR II
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/// The Adventure Game
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An adventure marches on!

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/// http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/
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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf (pronounced
«oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf») is the last existing
client republic of the USSR. The soviet enclave
maintains no diplomatic relationship with the
surrounding so-called "Republic of Austria" or
with the capitalist fortress "European Union".
The downfall of the people's motherland -- the
Soviet Union -- in the early 1990s had a
devastating effect on the country’s
intra-economic situation. External reactionary
forces threatened the last remaining proletarian paradise.
Party secretary Wladislav Gomulka has been
kidnapped and is being held in
US-Oberzoegersdorf. We must save comrade Gomulka!
Because communism isn't an opinion. It's a promise.

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//A few images
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  CD cover (will be downloadable as well)

An old mother waiting for her son at the busstop.

Autobahn.

The main menu.

SysAdmin Kori Doktorowich.

"The wall".

Big images in printing quality available on the game homepage: http://monochrom.at/suz-game/

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// Special Non Player Guest Characters:
/ Jello Biafra, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow,
Emmanuel Goldstein, Mitch Altman, Bre Pettis,
David 'DaddyD' Dempsey, Kyle Machulis, MC
Frontalot, Eddie Codel, Irina Slutsky, Christian
'plomlompom' Heller, Jason Scott Sadofsky, Hans
Bernhard, Robert Stachel (maschek) -- and many more.

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// Voice Acting by:
/ Jevgeni Beliaikin, Sergey Teterin, Mikhail A.
Crest, Daria Prawda, Bre Pettis -- and many more.

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// Soundtrack features:
/ The Fat Man/George Alistair Sanger, Q-Burns
Abstract Message, Zoe Keating, Neil Landstrumm,
Jonathan Mann aka GameJew, Blockwerk, The Extra
Action Marching Band, The Lazy, antivolk - Torsun
feat. classless Kulla, Jan Klesse & Felix Knoke
(left), Savant Trigger, Rioteer, MC Orgelmueller,
Magic Jordan, Schaua, Horace, The Vladivostoks,
Limpopo, Eric Skiff, Prometheus X, Kertal (feat.
sunsetfactory), Bolschewistische Kurkapelle
Schwarz-Rot, Farmers Market, Attention,
Cosmonauts!, Woodn Earf, Trishes, Krach the
Robot, Prosperity Denied, Arteom Denissov, Dan
Oberbauer aka DJ Chronos, LFO DEMON -- and more.

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// Operating systems:
/ Available for Windows, Linux and OSX! And many
thanks to the fabulous comrades at CodeWeavers
(http://www.codeweavers.com) for Linux/OSX
versions. And also bloshevik geetings to the
folks at Silver Server (http://www.sil.at) for bandwidth sponsoring.

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/// http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/
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// For IBM PC and Non-Compatible
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//// A true tour-de-red-force
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////// Russian with English or German subtitles
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//// Appealing graphical game interface
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// Creative Commons License
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Other projects:
http://monochrom.at/english

[Leon]

This reminds me of Purgatorio. Downloading now, playing and commenting later.

[Gilbert]

OMG I can continue on with the story now!

(woah! 404MB)

[kaputtnik]

Splendid!

[LUniqueDan]

Gulags were created for social-traitors who failed following beta-testing schedules.
But it's ok - I guess.

In other hand, your aquaintances with decadent "artists" such as Jello Biafra and some so-called cyberpunk writers will send you straight to the working camp comrads.

So, start working on SEKTOR III, now.

*Downloading*!

EDIT : *Still Downloading*

EDIT :DONE

[fra]

No wonder - as hundreds of other users are doing the same. Guess we should set up official mirrors quite fast. Any volunteers?
And torrents, of course.

And: yes, we are already thinking of the story of Sector III. But I guess it will take us another five years to complete, as we have much other things on our agenda.

Gulags were created for social-traitors who failed following beta-testing schedules.
But it's ok - I guess.

In other hand, your aquaintances with decadent "artists" such as Jello Biafra and some so-called cyberpunk writers will send you straight to the working camp comrads.

So, start working on SEKTOR III, now.

*Downloading*!

EDIT : *Still Downloadind*

[Dualnames]

Care to know Gnome's lair.com has posted about your game..in case you're interested.

[fra]

of course we are! thanks!

Care to know Gnome's lair.com has posted about your game..in case you're interested.

[LUniqueDan]

And: yes, we are already thinking of the story of Sector III. But I guess it will take us another five years to complete, as we have much other things on our agenda.

Five-years Plan are the greatist thing comrade.

For anyone who may be interrested :
I added the game to eDonkey / E-mule on high-priority Upload.
I'll post standards eD2K / .torrent and maybe a mirror tonight.
(But you can already take it via the E-Mule search engine)

Arise ye downloader from your slumber.

[bazook]

I read about V1.1 on the SUZ blog.
When will it be online?

Comrade  Bazook

[fra]

update Mar 13, 2009:
Exhaustingly tested v1.1 is now online. Feel free to download. Available as download and as torrent. download site remains the same: http://game.unterzoegersdorf.su/

Version 1.1 fixes a few typos, the bug below and the problem of sound driver selection in the Linux download.

Known post-release bug #1 of v1.0

Question: If you quit the game in the English version "by emigration like an escape" the main menu will be displayed in German language. How awful! If you start a new game ("Neues Spiel"), the dialogues will be English -- but some poetry and songs will be in German! The horror!
Answer: To avoid this problem simply select "Spiel laden" (load game) from the German main menu, select the saved game "Game Start Autosave" and press "Laden" (load). The game will be entirely displayed in English now.

I read about V1.1 on the SUZ blog.
When will it be online?

Comrade  Bazook

[sthomannch]

Excellent game!
Hilarious and very entertaining, can't stop laughing! Still trying to find a way through.

Spoiler

Hamster don't feed on plutonium, nonetheless I tried. When I then watched the news clip, I almost wet my pants! The best satire is the truth with a tiny little bit of exaggeration :-)

[close]

[fra]

You ain't seen nothin' yet... 
Enjoy the ride!

In the meantime we decided to put the windows version of v1.1 online:
http://monochrom.sil.at/monochrom-SUZ2--version1dot1.exe
Those you haven't downloaded the Windows version yet should download v1.1.
It fixes the post-release bug #1 mentioned above and a few typos.

OSX and Linux versions will follow as soon as possible.

Excellent game!
Hilarious and very entertaining, can't stop laughing! Still trying to find a way through.

Spoiler

Hamster don't feed on plutonium, nonetheless I tried. When I then watched the news clip, I almost wet my pants! The best satire is the truth with a tiny little bit of exaggeration :-)

[close]

[fra]

If you already have downloaded v1.0 for Linux, please use this workaround:

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Sector 2 game v1.0 for Linux, - workaround

Maybe you have heard already that SUZ2 contains Codeweavers / Wine.
If you get an error "unable to initialize your audio hardware [Problem DIGMID patch set not found]" there are troubles with mapping the audio driver. With Alsa it works fine.

To solve the problem:

1. Check, if Alsa is installed:

cat /proc/asound/version

2. Configure Wine to use Alsa only:

% ./bin/wine --bottle suz --wl-app winecfg

from "suz2". In the tab "Audio" select (only) "Alsa" and confirm your selection.

Then it (hopefully) runs without troubles. So far it was tested with Suse 11.1 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. As I just created a v1.1 for Windows, I'll try to default these settings with the v1.1 for Linux. In the meantime please use the procedure described.

[Eggie]

Only played bit but I'm loving the vaguely Lynchian surrealism of this game.
I never know if I'm meant to laugh or be highly disturbed, so I've been doing both. Looks really promising.

One thing I have learnt is to save in every screen in case of frustratingly sudden, yet admittedly highly amusing, death.

[fra]

I have to apologize. One slipped though all betatesting.
Comrade Jon found a real bug, that stops the great socialist revolution at Oberzögersdorf. But: Only 21,4% of you are stopped, the others are lucky and can complete the mission.

Known post-release bug #2
in versions v1.0 and v1.1

If it happens that you have to answer the question
"...ist ein mächtiger Feind" // "...a powerful enemy"
you are in trouble, as you never can click the right answer and are stuck.
The chance that you are affected is 3 out of 14 (so you now know that there are 14 questions in total)

There is no workaround (yet).
Questions are selected randomly at start of a new game.
v1.2 is currently compiled and tested.

[Leon]

Look, comrade, I found another tiny bug under the sand.. or.. actually it isn't there or....
Oh well...

The bucket hotspot isn't removed. After you've take it and filled it, you can take it again. Although the green thing isn't visible, the hotspot is... sort of ... when you hold your mouse pointer at the right spot...

Hell, you know what I mean...

[update] It doesn't happen right away so leaving and entering the screen doesn't do the trick but at some point in the game after having the bucket, the hotspot is reset.

And version 1.2 starts at the end.. ? Since you don't have the right equipment (yet) there's not much to do!

You can solve this however by dying first and then choose new game/neues spiel...

[fra]

Look, comrade, I found another tiny bug under the sand.. or.. actually it isn't there or....
Oh well...

The bucket hotspot isn't removed. After you've take it and filled it, you can take it again. Although the green thing isn't visible, the hotspot is... sort of ... when you hold your mouse pointer at the right spot...

Hell, you know what I mean...

[update] It doesn't happen right away so leaving and entering the screen doesn't do the trick but at some point in the game after having the bucket, the hotspot is reset.

And version 1.2 starts at the end.. ? Since you don't have the right equipment (yet) there's not much to do!

You can solve this however by dying first and then choose new game/neues spiel...

Please download v1.2 (again)!

I guess you got a test version that was published accidently as v1.1 replacement, but was online for a short time (< 6 hours during night time CET) only. In the test version (which I used to verify the known post-release bug #2) the starting room was set to Oberzögersdorf, the furball check is deactivated and the three questions are always the same. If you get symptoms like that, please try to get it again.

And: Did you get it via torrent or via download? I hope that this false version does not circulate as torrent somewhere...
The version available on the download site ist tested to be OK.

[Leon]

I got it from the web... just your homepage... Don't worry, it won't circulate. I thought it would be easy to get all the questions but alas, they're always the same as you mentioned.

[fra]

I got it from the web... just your homepage... Don't worry, it won't circulate. I thought it would be easy to get all the questions but alas, they're always the same as you mentioned.

Oh, sh*t. You have to download again.
PM me if you accept an original Game-CD (which is free, but a limited edition) signed by commissar Chrusov as an apologize.

By the way:
You did a real great work so far. Your walkthru is the best and most complete (as usual)!
http://gamesolutions.efzeven.nl/soviet-unterzogersdorf-sektor-2-walkthrough-monochrom2009/

And I have to add:
Getting _all_ questions is definitly not easy as the questions are selected when starting a new game, not when getting to OZOeD. This also means that questions stay the same, when you load a saved game.