History VideoGame / Receiver2

** The Colt Single Action Army is very slow to reload, requires manually cocking the hammer for every shot, has the standard 6 round capacity of revolvers, ''and'' decocking the hammer over a live round will make it fire in the holster the next time you fall a little too hard. However, its .45 Long Colt bullets hit almost as hard as .50 Action Express, meaning that if you take careful aim, one shot will almost always be enough to take down a killdrone. The fact that a half-cocked hammer acts as a makeshift safety in this game (preventing [[IjustShotMarvinInTheFace Glocklegging]]) doesn't hurt either. And of course, [[CoolGuns it's the Colt Single Action Army]]. With it you can channel your inner Creator/ClintEastwood or [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Revolver Ocelot]].

** Some arcade cabinets can be found around the building environments. All of them are the developer's previous games, including ''VideoGame/{{Overgrowth}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' makes an appearance.

* CompanyCrossReferences: All of the arcade cabinets except for ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' are of the developer's previous games.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: An invoked and discussed trope. This game introduces this trope as a game mechanic, where reckless gun usage can result in a ton of accidental discharges or issues with the mag failing to feed into the chamber. The biggest example of this is that you can accidentally shoot ''yourself'' if you don't holster slowly while the safety is off.

->''"It is here. No more planning, no more training, no more time. It. Is. Here. Appropriate firearm discipline is paramount to your survival: the Threat will not wait while you fumble rounds into your magazine, the Threat will not wait for you to slowly chamber a round, the Threat will not wait to kill you. Find the tapes, they are our only chance for survival. Be constantly vigilant, always assume the worst, and take no chances. The threat will insure anything can go wrong, will go wrong. Be ready for your firearm to jam, be ready for the glass beneath your feet to shatter, be ready for anything. Make no mistake that the full force of the Threat can and will overwhelm even the strongest of Receivers, so use any time you have to drill your firearm, and study your enemy. Your life depends on it. If you are hearing this, know you are one of the few, listen to the tapes, this is our last transmission. It. Is. He-[END TRANSMISSION]"''\\
-- [[https://youtu.be/g-SgoKBIE24 Launch Trailer]]

Your objective is to navigate a metropolitan city in the United States and collect cassette tapes to prepare yourself against the Threat and become an awake [[TitleDrop Receiver]].

* RevolversAreForAmateurs: The Smith & Wesson Model 10 is the gun given to you during the game's opening tutorial, and has the same simple operation controls as in ''Receiver''. The Colt Detective Special also has the same operation controls, with the only difference being that the cylinder spins clockwise.[[note]]This only matters when one of the chambers is blocked and you want to manually cock the hammer.[[/note]] Also, unlike semi-automatics, revolvers don't suffer from stoppages, and you can quickly holster a loaded revolver without suffering a negligent discharge as long as the hammer is decocked. However this is inverted with the Colt Single Action Army, which has the longest and most complicated reloading procedure out of all the guns in the game.

** In one of the rooms, 3 trapezoid-shaped tables are arranged against each-other to look like the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Abstergo Industries logo]].

* FirstPersonGhost: Like the first game, all items you manipulate and use hover in front of you. However, if you look at your reflection in a mirror or glass window, you'll see [[spoiler:yourself as a gun range target]].

* HardTruthAesop:
** One of the tapes found on the Asleep rank states that people who have nurtured damaging thoughts of the Threat cannot be helped, and that one must focus inward on themself first.
** There are also several pause menu tips that act as this trope:

* BlownAcrossRoom: Taser drones, being extremely light, are prone to suffer this when shot. Gets especially ridiculous with the Desert Eagle, as shooting a drone may result in them flying 20 meters away, or even farther.

* AnAesop: [[spoiler:"Reality B," the in-universe situation your player character finds themselves in, is a metaphor for the physical world. Without context, it is devoid of meaning, and it is just full of objects, not people. The player, in "[[RealLife Reality C]]", views this as the game at surface level — meaningless fun, right? But games are how we train ourselves, like how animal cubs train for real fights by play-wrestling. The unseen "Reality A" is conscious thought, the concept of free will, the capacity for empathy and communication, that makes the universe we live in more than just a collection of molecules waiting for the heat death of the universe.]]
* AKA47: Averted, all guns have their real world names and designations (if they were used as service weapons).
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The gun safety note specifically mentions that, for reasons that should be obvious, you should never use firearms while intoxicated. [[spoiler:One Receiver didn't get the hint, and while she doesn't use her gun while drunk, she does write messages that wrongfully imply the Receivers are, in fact, Deceivers. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This misleads a different Receiver to believe that the Threat is a benevolent entity]], which the Threat immediately takes advantage of.]]
* AllOrNothingReloads: Just like in the original game, simply by the virtue of the gun operation mechanics, this is averted. Each step of the reloading process can be interrupted or partially completed, such as half-loading a magazine or revolver cylinder, or even chamber loading the semi-auto pistols.

* {{Cult}}: The Receivers sure seem like this on a surface level — doing yoga, having secret messages to one another through tapes, training obsessively with firearms and distrusting the media. But deep down they actually do want to help people, shown when they turn around the lives of many once-suicidal folk, stress focus on strength of the self, and nonetheless frown upon competitive hierarchies — making them a {{subver|ted trope}}sion of traditionally cult-y behavior.

Pressing "R" does not automatically reload your gun with a cool animation. You have to do each step by yourself; while trying to avoid turrets and flying taser kill-drones that are coming after you.

** The Colt Single Action Army is very slow to reload, requires manually cocking the hammer for every shot, has the standard 6 round capacity of revolvers, ''and'' decocking the hammer over a live round will make it fire in the holster the next time you fall a little too hard. However, its .45 Long Colt bullets hit almost as hard as .50 Action Express, meaning that if you take careful aim, one shot will almost always be enough to take down a killdrone. The fact that a half-cocked hammer acts as a makeshift safety (preventing [[IjustShotMarvinInTheFace Glocklegging]]) doesn't hurt either. And of course, [[CoolGuns it's the Colt Single Action Army]]. With it you can channel your inner Creator/ClintEastwood or [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Revolver Ocelot]].

** Safety Discipline. Things like engaging the safety of your gun (if it has one) or simply slow holstering your gun whenever you don't need it aren't going to help you fight killdrones. However, practicing these extensively will ensure that you don't waste ammo or shoot yourself by accident.
** Because turrets have limited ammo, it is possible to force them to run dry by repeatedly gaining one's attention and then hiding behind cover until its light flashes red without it firing. Doing so adds minutes to every level, but will also make them much easier to complete.

* InstantDeathBullet: Played with. It takes just one shot from a turret to kill you, but it's often a little over a second ''after'' being shot that you die, such that a fleeing player might think they got away only to find themselves falling over while running; other times, one shot immediately kills you. Negligent discharges with any firearm other than the Desert Eagle are survivable the first time, but fatal subsequent times during the same level. Being [[ShockAndAwe tazed by a Drone]] is instantly fatal.

* OneHitPointWonder: Zig-zagged. Attacks from turrets and taser drones still kill you in one hit, but the former usually isn't instantaneous. Otherwise, the player character can survive damaging falls reliably and repeatedly, shooting near a window without pressing into it will just hurt you momentarily, and you can survive one negligent discharge with most firearms, but it's better to avoid such scenarios altogether.
* [[PressXToDie Press K To Die]]: Also, shooting yourself with the Desert Eagle is a one hit kill.

* UrbanRuins: The entire building complex the player is in is completely abandoned.

--> "Sometimes our best is not [[EarnYourHappyEnding good enough]], but that's ok."

* ShortRangeGuyLongRangeGuy: A drone might electrocute you almost instantly if it notices you very close to it. Turrets are more dangerous to be detected by at a distance, yet grounded turrets can be leaped over in a pinch.

** In one of the rooms, 3 trapezoid shaped tables are arranged against each-other to look like the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Abstergo Industries logo]].

!!Tropes

** [[spoiler:Because turrets have limited ammo, it is possible to force them to run dry by repeatedly gaining one's attention and then hiding behind cover until its light flashes red without it firing. Doing so adds minutes to every level, but will also make them much easier to complete.]]

** However, players of the original game who had sufficiently quick muscle memory when reloading semiautomatics may end up shooting themselves to death because of this game's added negligent discharge mechanic.

** There are ways to circumvent the penalty mechanic for drawing your gun too fast and having it shoot you. For the automatics, you can keep the gun completely unloaded (which one of the tapes heavily pushes you towards) or empty it, place a full mag inside, and only rack the slide when you want to fire. For the revolvers, you can pop the cylinder open and holster it, preventing the trigger from even firing the bullet. The only aversion to this is the [[DifficultButAwesome Single Action Army]], which can instead fire off a live round if the hammer is resting on it, but even that can be circumvented either by half-cocking the hammer, or letting it rest on an empty chamber.

** [[spoiler:Undamaged taser drones can be hacked. Doing so is risky and requires you to lure each drone to where you can reach it from behind with no other dangers present, but it will save you many a bullet that shock drones don't give back to you, and it is especially useful in a pinch where you don't have any ammo at all.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The Threat [[CompellingVoice weaponizes this]]. If you find a tape of someone who is suicidal and have a loaded firearm on your hand, the Threat will force you to load your gun, rack the slide/cock the hammer, and [[PsychicAssistedSuicide turn it on yourself]]. Fortunately, if you [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets get rid of your ammo before this happens]], [[BungledSuicide it won't work]].]]

** Prior to version 2.0.6, you can have your Colt SAA's hammer resting on a loaded chamber (or fully loading the gun) with no repercussions whatsoever, [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace something one of the SAA tapes warns against due to the gun lacking a drop safety]]. The update makes the Colt SAA discharge when holstered if the hammer is down on a live round and you bump it by taking too big of a fall.

* HackYourEnemy: This can be done to killdrones to fully deactivate them.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: An invoked and discussed trope. Reckless gun usage can result in a ton of accidental discharges or issues with the mag failing to feed into the chamber. The biggest example of this is that you can accidentally shoot ''yourself'' if you don't holster safely, and/or you holster while your safety is off.

* UrbanRuins: In Baseline, the entire building complex the player is in is completely abandoned.

* BlackoutBasement: In Asleep, most of the lights are out. You will need the flashlight you most likely start with.

* UsefulNotes/GunSafety: The game has a lot of information on how to properly handle firearms in a safe manner, to the point where reading the page can help you play the game better. However, like the Useful Notes page, [[DoNotTryThisAtHome it enforces that playing the game is not a substitute]] for firearm safety training with a professional.

* VideoGameSettings: The game constructs each level from a collection of tilesets, which are universal across all ranks, but the themes are unique to each rank.
** [[UrbanRuins Baseline]]: The starting rank. The entire building complex the player is in is completely abandoned.
** [[BlackoutBasement Asleep]]: Most of the lights are out. You will need the flashlight you most likely start with.
** [[DramaticThunder Sleepwalker]]: Lightning occasionally illuminates the environment, and thunder suddenly follows.
** [[LethalLavaLand Liminal]]: Some of the background buildings are on fire.
** [[CueTheSun Awake]]: The sun is rising as [[spoiler:you are starting to tear at the fabric of the Dreaming]].