There are some perks that are shared among the classes, for example all three gain access to Whizkid, which improves equipment modding, but the potential for using those perks differs significantly among them.

So like I said, a bit all over the place. His perks, on the other hand, let you hack bots from a distance (or even summon them), become the toxic avenger, improve the passive skills, entrench with automatics or heavily specialise into pistols. Apart from that, the technician uses inventory items (such as grenades or medkits) faster and can dismantle modified gear to extract modpacks from it. His class resource is power, which lets him activate a smokescreen around himself for a quick getaway, and it’s replenished by collecting power orbs from destroyed mechanical enemies. The technician’s theme is hard to define, and his abilities are a bit all over the place. The scout’s perk tree includes all manner of abilities that leave you safe from harm – increased dodge chance, shooting on the move or long-range sniping – but also utility talents that mark places of interest on your minimap upon entering a level. Stealth is on a cooldown and requires energy to activate, which you replenish by opening supply crates. His special ability is stealth, which makes him invisible for a short while and turns all attacks into critical hits – though attacking will typically break stealth. The scout focuses on avoiding getting hit. Other than that, the marine’s perk tree focuses mostly on taking a beating and not dying – through damage reduction, increased health, better healing and so on. But perks can unlock more uses for fury, such as a short burst of speed. By default, consuming fury will heal you a bit and remove all pain (more on that later). His special ability is ‘fury’, which is a resource accumulated as you kill stuff. The marine favours brawn over everything else. All three differ very significantly in terms of gameplay due to their exclusive special abilities and perk trees.

The classes are marine, scout and technician. First you choose one of the five difficulties, from easy to nightmare, then one of the three available character classes, and you’re good to go. Starting the game doesn’t offer too many headaches. Now grab your minigun, there are demons here to smite. You are a lone marine blasting through an otherworldly invasion on the moons of Jupiter, while your ultimate objective is to go to hell and kill Satan. To offer a brief introduction into the game at large, you can just assume that everything in Jupiter Hell is a variation on Doom. Note that, as I said above, DoomRL is my only real experience with roguelikes, so I can’t tell you how Jupiter Hell fits in the genre at large, and most of the comparisons I’ll be making here will be with reference to its predecessor. Now the time has come to subject it to a critical examination. This was very much to my liking, because frankly speaking, DoomRL might be the only roguelike that I ever really enjoyed, so having more of it in some new fashion was a very welcome perspective.Īfter spending some time stewing in early access, it was finally released for real in 2021. Its development followed a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016, which was started because the Polish fellow who made the original, freeware game, decided he would like to finally earn some potato from it.Īnyhow, everything seemed to point that Jupiter Hell would be little more than DoomRL with a new paint job. Jupiter Hell is the successor to the acclaimed Doom, the Roguelike (or, depending on whom you ask, DoomRL D**m, the Roguelike or DRL – trademark infringement is a hanging offence these days).

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