How fun is it?

It's one of the better survival crafting games, especially because its the first one since Subnautica to have a story. It's like the HL1 alpha combined with SCP and it kind of works. My only real complaint so far is the retarded restrictions on the military weapons, theres no real reason to use them over the scientist weapons because of the shitty armor required to use them.

>>715658024
it's my goty of 2024. if you like survival crafting games check it out, i pirated it and put in 70 hours then bought it on steam and i got another 160.
i tell people it's like Half Life 1 except you need to eat and shit and sleep. The lore in it is really fun to get into as well. The only weird part is playing it multiplayer cause if someone plays without you then the story progresses and you kinda lose the fun of discovering new areas. The story doesn't get in the way of the survival aspect it's just you show up to work and all hell broke loose like in HL1 and you gotta try to get out.
>My only real complaint so far is the retarded restrictions on the military weapons, theres no real reason to use them over the scientist weapons because of the shitty armor required to use them.
that's getting addressed in the update with the enhancement bench and there's gonna be new things besides the biometric armwraps for those guns.

>>715656917 (OP)
It's one of those "put 80 hours in then say it's okay" kinda games.

>>715658434
>there's gonna be new things besides the biometric armwraps for those guns
That's good, i started playing this week and they just seem really underpowered compared to what you just can use normally. The SMG is doing less damage than the sawblade launcher sticks out to me, especially when that has really cheap craftable ammo that you can pick back up most of the time.

>>715659643
>started playing this week
But 1.0 comes out next week

>>715656917 (OP)
I've put 90 hours in so far with the bros. It's definitely been enjoyable for us and I'm looking forward to 1.0 dropping next week. I think the biggest point you have to remember is that it's ultimately a narrative-driven game, so huge chunks of things are locked off behind specific plot/progression points unlike some survival crafting games.

>>715659760
Oop, well I hope my save won't get fucked by the update. Im pretty well into cascade, just finished the part where you need to farm picrel 4 times to get into the security suite.

>>715656917 (OP)
Its kinda only okay. Its your standard open-world-survival-craft-early-access bullshit, but this time with quirky Half-Life soundbytes.

The server hosting is absolute dogshit, tho. Holy fuck

>>715660106
Unlike most EA games, this one has actually been progressing at a steady pace, in fact the final levels coming out this week, then story wise, the games complete, everything after is just bug fixs.

>>715659932
This thing used to scare me until someone told me it's actually a girl.

>>715656917 (OP)
Is it good single-player or is it made for coop?

>>715659827
Yeah it's way more linear than your average open world. It's kind of a breath of fresh air to have something be tightly designed for once. You start in the hub, then you choose the only path open to you and eventually you'll beat the level and it will circle back to the hub room like some sort of Firelink Shrine.

>>715656917 (OP)
I really like it and I don't usually like survival crafting games. It probably helps that playing alone gives you a lot more materials to work with. I basically never have to worry about the hunger meters which is good because I usually hate that shit.

>>715656917 (OP)
I bought this for me and my fren to play and he only played it for like 30 minutes before telling me it fucking sucked

>>715661583
I beat the whole game single player. You'dd think damage sponge would be an issue, but for the most part it's pretty balanced between having a friend or being on your own with one exception. There's two bosses that are mandatory to progress and they are the WORST damage sponges ever, you HAVE to cheat to beat them on your own because without friends to aggro them away it will always be on your ass.

>>715661883
which bosses? I think I've played through most of the game and I can't remember any that are too difficult.

>>715661329
I just pretend it cares about the player and wants to check in on you but it also has crippling social problems and tards out when people get too close. If it is a girl thats even cuter

>>715656917 (OP)
I played with infinite stack size, I hate having 30 chests with the same fucking thing, the game really has its issues, bases work in a really weird way, and I don't know if they updated but you unlock the teleporters to make more bases really late into the game, so when you unlock them everything is done, and stats like crafting or cooking are a fucking chore to level up and not worth your time.
I really liked the scp-like stuff that the game has, really cool to discover them and how they operate, are there more not spooky games like that?

>>715661883

just get behind a doorway and shoot at its nipples man, once you do enough damage you can get them to drop before they even charge you

>>715656917 (OP)
My GOTY, waiting for the 1.0 update.

>>715659643
>underpowered
What do you mean?
Pistol and smg sure, but the shotgun is a 6-shot-magazine insta-shot nail shotgun. Even when you get the double-barreled one it's still better to just use the regular spas.
By the time you get the revolver and grind a little ammo for it, it's insanely good against most enemies if you abuse headshots (it's a revolver, of fucking course you need to do headshots) and then further on when you get to the sniper rifle the thing massively outclasses the crossbow.
Just level up ranged and that's it.

>>715661829
sorry robert... i just couldn't bring myself

>>715661883
Nah shoot the nipples with electricity and then melee the back when it opens up.
Most people get stuck in that because there's no real hit feedback to tell you that the nipples are a weak spot (they're protruding and obvious but the model reacts all the same to getting hit there which is not at all), but once you figure out what you have to do it's insanely easy.
Once you've damaged it enough it even starts limping and you no longer have to use the map to avoid it from hitting you.

>>715661829
Your friend sounds like such a faggot lol.
I am so glad most of my friends went through the moba addiction cycle in high school so now they're playing different things and are no longer that type of idiot.

after playing so long without the enhancement table I get the feeling the game will feel a LOT easier after 1.0. Though that would just be a reason to up the difficulty settings.

>>715656917 (OP)
It's quite fun, but I don't have friends

>>715665867
I know, that's where the "cheating" portion of my rant comes into play. If you don't have friends you gotta spam from the door, which is probably not the intended way to beat them.

>>715666591
WHAT!? How in the hell was I supposed to know that?

I'm with the science team!

>>715662140
This guy, and then a recolor of the same thing near the end.

>>715656917 (OP)
I hate the supernatural parts
The rest is cool

>>715669420
I actually had fun with this guy but yeah he is a bullet sponge. I guess I'll see how I feel about the recolor when I get to it.

STAHP

It's pretty good for 80% of the runtime. Then near the end the lame combat bogs it down too much.

>>715669696
This fucking voice line always makes me jump.

>>715659760
>1.0
Any idea what they're going to add?

>>715670752
The end of the game and restructuring some things.

>the end of the game
Ominous

>>715669696
FREEMAN YOU FOOL

>>715669306
You read about it.
I still wish they made the nipples glow when hit or something. It falling to it's knees and it's back opening up and revealing pink flesh is self-explanatory though.

>just shoot him in the nipples

>>715671207
I mean, come on.

>>715659932
She cute.

>>715669696
>GOT A SCIENTIST HERE, HE'S GOT A LOT OF PICTURES OF GIRLS WITH *DICKS*!

Guess I'll post the cool list of Half Life 1 mods.
Half-Life: FIELD INTENSITY
Half-Life: THE INFECTED
Clean Half-Life
Half-Life: ZOMBIE EDITION
Half-Life: AZURE SHEEP
Half Life Sum
Half-Life: FOCAL POINT
Military Duty
Half-Life: RESIDUAL LIFE
Half-Life: SWEET
Half-Life: Life's End
Half-Life: VISITORS
Half-Life: HOPELESSNESS
Half-Life: HOPELESSNESS 2 - THE AFTER LIFE
Half-Life: BLACK GUARD
Half-Life: BLACK MESA SIDELINE
Half-Life: FIGHT FOR LIFE
Half-Life: HALF SECRET
Half Life: Sideline
Half-Life: RESIDUAL POINT
Half-Life: OPERATION NOVA
Half-Life: Induction
Half-Life: REPORT ONE OPERATION ALIVE
Half-Life: DELTA
Half-Life: HELP WANTED
Half-Life: URIEL
Half-Life: CATHARSIS
Half-Life: SHIFT-TWO
Half-Life: THE WORLD MACHINE
Half-Life: SENSES IN DECAY
Half-Life: ECHOES
Half-Life: POINT OF VIEW
Half-Life: BRAVE BRAIN
Half-Life: UPLINKED
Half-Life: CASE CLOSED
Half-Life: XEN WARRIOR
Half-Life: EVACUATION POINT
Half-Life: SIGNAL LOST
Half-Life: Opposing Force: UNDER THE BLACK MOON
Half-Life: Opposing Force: A SOLDIER’S TALE

No one cares about slop life

>>715672230
This doesn't do anything for me if I don't get at least a screenshot of each.
Pretty sure I've already played most of those though.

>>715672428
I don't actually care about Half-Life but do enjoy Abiotic Factor.

>>715656917 (OP)
fun, wait for 1.0 release cuz they're rebalancing a lot of stuff with the new upgrade system