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[img]http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=129265[/img] Liberal Crime Squad is a game shat out by the wonderous gods of Ascii coding over at Bay12. Since Dwarf Fortress and LCS are created by the same guy, there [I]are[/I] a few things you can expect, like overly realistic damage and awesome text based adventure. At the same time, however, LCS is quite different. Toady and the gang dropped production quite a long time ago, and left it to the community to continually keep it up to date. Liberal Crime Squad is played mostly through menus and shit, with the occasional adventure roguelike aspect popping up so you can do stuff like spray graffiti. Most actions done manually will add or remove from your [B]juice[/B], which is basically your mojo ([url=http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mojo.jpg]Do I make you randy, baby? Do I?[/url]) and affects your stats and amount of recruits. Things like graffiti will give you a small amount of juice, whereas beating a corporate CEO will raise it by a huge amount. Juice is an important mechanic, as it not only improves your current liberals stats and opportunities for skills, it also decides who and who can not lead the LCS when your founder is shot. (And if you play like I do, he will be.) Sleepers are another important part of LCS. Sleepers are liberals that you get to join the LCS inactively, or people you kidnap who will be brainwashed into giving you info. Sleepers are people that live their lives normally, except they will take higher commands from you, and if told, attempt to do things like steal important documents or embezzle funds. There are far too many mecahnics in LCS for me to cover them all comprehensively. I've played games where the entire squad converted people by rocking out with guitars, and other games where I never killed anyone because I just published constant corporate secrets. (The second is a lot harder, to be honest. The corporate death squads KNOW where you live.) I've also played games as a V for Vendetta style revolutionist, killing all who stand in my way to achieve a greater cause. [B]NOTE[/B]: LCS is satire. If you want to make snide comments about how wrong they are, get out. If you want to argue for a real life LCS, get out. The newest version is posted on the Bay12 curses forums, found [url=http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?board=3.0]here[/url]. [B]Direct Download is [url=http://www.jonathansfox.com/LCS/lcs_win32_3.19.4.zip]Here[/url][/B] [url=http://lcs.wikidot.com/]Wiki is here.[/url] TIPS: [QUOTE=paul bunyan;16996358]PRO'S GUIDE • be sure to answer the questions at the start of the game by using [b][url=http://lcs.wikidot.com/questions]this[/url][/b] sheet, here. B is pretty much useless. Get starter points towards CHA and Persuasion - that way you can better recruit people • When you start the game, hit A and 1 to select your character. Hit C and then 1 to sell brownies (hit W to wait a day and watch your income raise). Brownies are the easiest and cheapest way to make money, only at the cost of you maybe getting caught by the fuzz. Do this until you get a good amount of dough - about $200 or so. • Hit F and then C to head to the university district. You could then go to the Radish Meadow Vegan Co-Op where you can find mostly musicians, college students, dropouts and hippies (I go there preferably for musicians. You can find the stray Liberal judge there, too, amongst other people) OR you can go to the Techno Panda internet cafe and recruit programmers (Programmers are great because you can use them to steal credit card data. With two or three, you'll be rolling in cash). • If someone's name is RED, then they are conservatives. Kidnap important people like CEOs and Lawyers. To do this, DO NOT KIDNAP RIGHT IN THE OPEN. Attempt to date them. Once you get a date with the idiot, you will get a kidnap option in the date menu. Normally, dates aren't a trap (but they sometimes are) so kidnapping is pretty easy if you do it during a date. • First investment you should get is spray cans and crowbars. Fighting people this early on is just about a joke because you won't gain any more than you will lose. Go around crack dens and spray graffiti (hit U when near walls) to let people know who's boss and use crowbars to pry open doors. • Another way to make some money and juice is to go to apartments and pick the locks open/pry them open with the crowbar. Don't enter the rooms, though, as it'll make people suspicious. Be sure to pick the locks when nobody else is around. When you're all done picking open [i]every lock[/i], go downstairs and go to the room closest to the exit. Run in there and steal everything you can find that isn't glued to the ground ( identified by a pink/purple -$- ) and then get the fuck out of there • If you are going to carry guns, get a suit or trench coat. Suits can hold pistols (I THINK, NOT POSITIVE. I DON'T SEE WHY NOT THOUGH) while trench coats can obviously hold bigger guns. You can buy clothing by going to F and then hitting B to head to the commercial area. The Oubliette sells trench coats, lab coats and masks. Masks are pretty good, but I'd only use them while raiding high-profile areas. al Fadil's Department Store sells suits and dresses - good for public appeals. Makes you generally a more likable guy/girl [/quote] [QUOTE=innerfire34;16996534]Actual Pro's Guide: Don't sell brownies for extended amounts of time in the beginning, pick up art or guitar, as brownie charges will rise the more you escape, and in the beginning could be enough to get you sentanced to death. Money means very little. Kidnapping relies on getting a hostages heart above his wisdom, meaning a guy with a high heart stat usually doesn't even have to torture or starve someone, just talk to them for a few days. Dancers and Athletes and Yoga Instructors are the best melee recruits in the game Martial Arts is incredibly useful and super easy to train, and when training it up can give you an incredible amount of juice. Make unclaimed visits to the crackhouse every day, kill a conservative near the door, by holding s and moving around (Near the door. I'd say 3 tiles max away) to find conservative swine to practice your justice punches on. Killing a conservative is 10 juice, attacking them is 3. Getting a sleeper lawyer can save you tremendous amounts of money Get a few 4 or 5 level sleepers to slip you secret documents and publish them in the liberal guardian near election time. They create temporary fervors. (I've gotten a lib prez elected during arch conservative times because every month for a year leading up the election I published secrets.) Don't try and kidnap CEO's or Agents unless you have a ridiculous amount of heart and psychology, as they will appear in papers much sooner. As your liberal gets older, he gains more wisdom. Always have a back-up leader who lives in an apartment and does NOTHING illegal with 100+ juice. If your founder kicks the bucket, you will have to start from scratch with no sleepers, and no recruits, but at least you haven't lost your progress. If you befriend enough people in the crack house, you can use it as a safe house with a relatively high level of anonymity. Don't run from the police unless you're SURE you can outrun them. They will blow your face off for graffiti. Stock up on guns and spread them around several apartments or safehouses when the government is most conservative. Similarily, check for firefighters during an arch conservative government, as they have flamethrowers, and roam the streets for death squads, as their costumes give huge bonuses to interrogations. Seduction works as well as persuasion, if used correctly. Use people who are only useful as sleepers (CEO's, corporate managers, etc.) as brownie runners, when they are caught, make them run to get them shot. It's a cheap (and usually a profitable) way to get rid of an unneeded work force. Molotovs slap extra arson charges on to your record. Those can sometimes mean the difference between not guilty and 200 years in prison. Kidnap from the latte stand and the park, as you can stand near exits and scout for high level conservatives to swipe. Sometimes, an unloaded gun can get you out of the most dangerous situation. (<k>idnap someone, <t>alk to the enemies, threaten hostage.) Don't attempt to speed through obstacles unless you have a high driving skill. Seriously, it's like the most anticlimactic way to die.[/QUOTE]

Crime game by maker of Dwarf Fortress. yes

it's hard to get into (and actually, it gets exponentially easier)

Extremely fun when you get into it.

Oh god I love this game, I spent an entire weekend on it once and wondered where the time had gone. Eventually most of my squad were gunned down by SWAT in a heroic raid on the TV station, those who survived didn't get far before the car was shot off the road. The few who weren't part of the main squad dispersed into nothing, leaving only my leader who had been jailed earlier for theft.

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;16967419]Oh god I love this game, I spent an entire weekend on it once and wondered where the time had gone. Eventually most of my squad were gunned down by SWAT in a heroic raid on the TV station, those who survived didn't get far before the car was shot off the road. The few who weren't part of the main squad dispersed into nothing, leaving only my leader who had been jailed earlier for theft.[/QUOTE] I converted every conservative pig at the TV station (exaggeration) with my sweet kickin' tunes. When the police caught on to our badititude they jumped on our tits and shot the fifth rhythm guitarist. (Fucking pigs.) We hopped in our pickup truck, put the fifth rhythm guy in the drivers seat and blasted jams at the swine from back of the truck. Eventually, they shot all the already shot guys teeth out, and he went off the road and killed us all. (We converted 5 of the literally 12 cop gangs on us. Assholes.)

Can you join on the side of the Conservatives?

No, thus the game being named, Liberal Crime Squad. Also I love the pickup lines in this game.

Sounds awesome but I'm worried about the learning curve.

[QUOTE=nunu;16967693]Sounds awesome but I'm worried about the learning curve.[/QUOTE] It's piss easy. It takes you 10 minutes to get used to the whole text interface and how to play and then you are off to converting conservative scum!

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;16968154]It's piss easy. It takes you 10 minutes to get used to the whole text interface and how to play and then you are off to converting conservative scum![/QUOTE] It's not the interface that's hard to learn, it's how to get shit done without dying.

[QUOTE=innerfire34;16968434]It's not the interface that's hard to learn, it's how to get shit done without dying.[/QUOTE] This man speaks the truth. Just when you think you are safe, the police drops in and fucks everything up. I really sucked at this.

It's fun to name your gang after your friends and have a good laugh as they all die horribly in a SWAT raid.

I can never get people to join my gang. I can get them come back the next day but they never join.

[QUOTE=PartyPancake;16969636]I can never get people to join my gang. I can get them come back the next day but they never join.[/QUOTE] This is also hard to do as a newbie. You need to train up persuasion, interrogation, or seduction, and then stick to it.

This game is awesome.

My guy got shot up in the projects and after healing at the free clinic I don't have the option to Go forth and stop EVIL. Any help?

You might need someone else in the squad to carry him.

It's been months though and I don't exactly have any squad members :(

Then make him heal himself, with the power of slogans!

Hit R,then Z,then A.That should work if he is of full health.

[QUOTE=Rats808;16972105]Hit R,then Z,then A.That should work if he is of full health.[/QUOTE] Thank you so much. I never thought of the squad.

Made a steam group for this game when it first popped up ages ago. [url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/LCSPlayers[/url]

Damnit. I got shot up at the Eggplant Garden or whatever it's called just because I was carrying an AK.

Incredible. SWAT raided my safehouse after I stole one too many cars and arrested two of my large squad, the leader and a janitor who had been part of the squad since it's reemergence in 2013. The janitor was sentenced to death for flag burning alone while the leader got off with 14 years imprisonment for multiple kidnappings and flag burning.

Playing without any violence is boring. My next character is gunna be the biggest badass to ever walk the streets.

How do you sell brownies?

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;16978844]Incredible. SWAT raided my safehouse after I stole one too many cars and arrested two of my large squad, the leader and a janitor who had been part of the squad since it's reemergence in 2013. The janitor was sentenced to death for flag burning alone while the leader got off with 14 years imprisonment for multiple kidnappings and flag burning.[/QUOTE] Ahaha, you made me choke on coke.

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;16978844]Incredible. SWAT raided my safehouse after I stole one too many cars and arrested two of my large squad, the leader and a janitor who had been part of the squad since it's reemergence in 2013. The janitor was sentenced to death for flag burning alone while the leader got off with 14 years imprisonment for multiple kidnappings and flag burning.[/QUOTE] Only in LCS.

[QUOTE=Eskill;16979685]Ahaha, you made me choke on cock.[/QUOTE] :smug: