How we liking the new military sets? Really wish they'd been in when i was playing back in EA

>>716347919 (OP)
How the hell do I get a flask drop from a sniper?

>>716348290
like every drop, it's completely random

Friendship ended with Coworker, The Moving Box is my new best friend

>>716348758
mondays...am I right?

>>716348290
Should have farmed them before they patched the insta respawn glitch

>can't drink water from makeshift pot
>can't transfer it to my water bottle
>can't merge the water content between two pots so I can fill it up enough for a soüp
The fuck... is there something I'm missing?

>>716349640
>can't merge the water content between two pots so I can fill it up enough for a soüp
think you can? should be press F whilst holding one to pour it into another
alternatively find a water dispenser or a bucket and pour the pots into those, or maybe even a sink

>>716348290
Try putting on the order charm, it (at least it used to and I don't see it getting nerfed in the patch list) boosted ALL of their drops, not just ammo as a hidden effect

I was using that half life sound and scientist sounds mod but the audio sound is all over the place, gun shots are SO FUCKING LOUD

>>716350410
thanks for the tip

>>716350285
I got nothing here. Both pots are filled with the same amount of water which is that I got after purifying tainted water.

Man, training strength is BORING.

>>716350664
you probably need the cooking pot on a stove to pour water into it, but you still wouldn't be able to fill up your water bottle from it
you can only fill up your water bottle from a water storage item like the water cooler or a sink, and you should be collecting water coolers anyways as theyre the main early game water storage furniture

Is the game good solo?

>>716348456
Every drop isn't 100% random. There are drops that only happen if you net them first, and some other nonsense.

>>716351149
I played it both ways and had fun
Singleplayer is good, you can take your time and explore and you don't have to share resources

>>716351216
Man fuck that lab rat pack

>>716351149
it's a different type of fun, more like a chill
>let's go massacre some aliens and loot their world
game whilst actually being able to listen to the audio logs and read the journals
with friends it more chaotic fun

>>716351149
Am currently doing it and it's good if you play to explore. I do wonder how cooking xp grinding works in coop

>>716351418
It can be a bit miserable
Meanwhile in co-op you can sneakily heal everyone while they're not paying attention and grind medical

>>716351514
Game must be easier? I'm still early but I imagine the beaky shits which charge you with thunder must be a cake walk since they focus only one dude

>>716350781
I maxed out my strength just by looting everything and being yellow encumbrance whilst avoiding red so that i train strength passively just by walking
>>716351627
it's probably harder in coop to be honest, with solo you can just stealth assassinate everything without alerting anyone

>>716351786
Tripwire traps, my beloved

Is it worth restarting the game to see all the new changes? Pretty sure I stopped playing a little after the waterworks area.

>>716351786
I have kept my encumbrance on yellow and pink for probably around 10 hours on my current playthrough and I'm only at strength 8, it's so slow

>>716351147
I'll try this

>>716347919 (OP)
Bros, how do i find/trade with Dr.Carson? Heard she has a cook book. That stupid fog cultist is the only one that shows up.

>>716352249
I restarted, and last I played was after security but before the halloween stuff, and I never did Hydro.
I'm still not in manufacturing yet, but there's a few nifty new items and changes so far, but not a ton.
I still don't know where I want to build my first base though, fuck. I hate the break room.

>>716351786
You actually train STR much more effectively when you're between red and max.

How do I get the electric dreams achievement? Where is this ''the end''?

>>716353857
it's a fine border though, i'd rather be able to loot freely than actively watch my weight whilst exploring
if you're trying to grind and max out strength ASAP then sure going for that sweet point and doing an swole routine of
>borderline max weight
>ate a brain for 10% EXP buff
>spam the 2 vending machines in the starting area
can make you level strength fast
>>716354067
the "end" is literally end of the (current) game I believe

Nothing sucks as much ass as grinding throwing exp though

>>716353245
Just found her in the parking garage in security using the employee locator.

>>716354678
definitely, the only viable way of working it is either crafting darts or slushie bombs, but you should be using slushie bombs anyways because theyre so powerful
later in the game you can craft a quantum pickaxe which teleports back into your hand after you throw it, combined with stealth and maybe blade I can insta-kill a bunch of enemies from across the room without wasting any ammo

>>716349101
nobody look at it maybe it'll go away

Is the Wessex Rifle even worth it to farm anymore, assuming you upgrade it? The upgraded Magbow gets 2 shots and does 170 damage while being able to retrieve the ammo for it. I have 71 hours in my game and I've only seen a single Wessex rifle drop so far, which I stupidly left on the floor because I didn't think I would bother using the arm wraps and didn't know they were gonna remove the restrictions on it.

>>716355162
I've been using it this whole run and it's actually my bread and butter now, one taps nearly any human enemy to the head and feels pretty slick once you get used to the painfully slow fire rate

>>716355162
>>716355504
also with the full sniper set you have zero sway on it which is massive. But that does also apply other guns so it's not like it makes it that much better

Are heavy weapons any good?

>>716355727
the new flamethrower sucks shit, after you use it to melt a couple ice walls it goes in the bin, deatomizer is the single biggest fuck you in the game to anything though

>>716355504
>>716355632
Damn it, guess I'll keep farming for one then. Are there any portal worlds with sniper spawns in them, because the only one in the facility I'm aware of is the guy on the hydroplant catwalk (only up to reactor D in my save atm)

>>716354520
Yeah I guess it means the albatross. I didn't realize I had to transfer kylie into robot first. Where is this robot exactly. Reddit said something about a double helix at botanical garden but I haven't found anything near the double helix

>>716356029
there's a guy in manufacturing around the machine gun fort, a couple spawns in the mapping area of manufacturing as well. There's a couple in the praetorium that i feel respawn way faster than in the main map.

>>716356228
>machine gun fort
For some reason, he's never respawned in my world after I first killed him. I go there to farm 9mm.
>Mapping area
I'll check over there too, but I remember going back for the crate after I opened it and I don't remember the snipers having respawned. I hope my save isn't fucked because every other enemy that can respawn seems to do so OK.

>>716348758
I'm gonna kill the Moving Box

>>716347919 (OP)
I stopped playing the game in the vent tunnels of the Cafeteria. It just got too boring and my eyes hurt too much from the coarse pixel graphics. I'm so sorry! You have to do without me.

WHY ISN'T THE WIKI UPDATED

I only pulled a single power cell in Flathill because I didn't want to do the obviously bad idea suggested by Mortimer and let the monstrocities out, yet somehow I found Mortimer wandering around the reception plaza near the portalworld hub. What's the deal?

>>716356029
Don't forget to equip the sigil of the hearth

>>716357017
pulling one is the same as pulling all three, you release the mist

>>716357017
I did that when I first played, you leaving and continuing the story made the flags trigger anyway

>>716356029
Oh I forgot to mention also, one of the later areas in Reactors has a control room kinda area with 4 snipers camping it

>>716355727
the first couple heavy 2 handed melee weapons are usually lower DPS than the single handed melee from my experience
crowbar 2.0 and laser katana onwards they become viable, more because the single handed weapons plateau in terms of damage by that point in the game
atomizer is my bread and butter, shit melts almost anything and everything but the only risk is how far it runs out of charge, and you need to deploy a charging station to recharge it
>>716355882
i tried the two new flamethrowers and both do more damage to you than enemies, anything that leaves fire on the ground is generally ass including the new lodestone hammer
>>716357017
He's one of two wandering traders that'll randomly appear
enjoy being jumpscared by him now

>>716355162
the magbow was expensive to use because it used lodestone fragments which you could only get from a handful of enemies in canaan
now that all the sisters drop it in shadowgate it becomes a lot more viable

Are there any npc bots who can assist in singleplayer?

>>716357487
you can get an armor set that summons an alien to fight with you but that's about it

>>716357245
That's retarded when he the quest flag the game gives me specifically refers to pulling all three. It it's part of the progression so be it.

>>716358070
Yeah, there's no way around it, I think opening up manufacturing is what makes the fog cult guy vanish
Honestly they should just prevent you from taking the other portal out like they imply
Though I think not taking all three prevents the fog weather from triggering

Where do I go to get Kylie her robot body?

>>716347919 (OP)
Can someone tell me what this game is about? What am I in for? Friend is buying it for me but I have no clue what this game even is, and honsetly watching the gameplay does not clarify it lol

>>716359987
have you played any other sandbox survival game like 7 days to die, ARK, minecraft, terraria, valheim, pal world
it's basically those except with a fixed world and more of a plot/progression route than then procedurally generated open world sandbox like minecraft, so closer to Terraria or Palworld, with a science/SCP setting

>>716359987
Half life-like survival crafter in a scp parody facility with a fun storyline

rate the cable management

>>716357487
>>716357685
To add this, and for anyone interested in a minions/alien build, in Manufacturing West you will find a subregion called the Encroachment, full of worms. If you kill the giant one that roams there running around you will obtain the gemstone it has on its head, with it your pets and the minion that anon mentioned will get buffed by A LOT, it one taps some late game enemies
In Reactors the radiactive plant on the left has some cute bullsquid looking dudes, you can tame them like pests and unlike them you can carry in your inventory, and with an upgrade you can use them as a weapon like the Spore Launcher in Opposing Force.
They also get affected by that gemstone, they pack a punch with it and get tanky. You can build a pocket army with those

>>716360964
this kills the archotechnic consultant

>>716360964
probably sounds like fireworks when you log in and all the wires reconnect

>>716359987
You're making your way through a facility that's Black Mesa crossed with SCP, and you craft equipment and items to fight the aliens/military.

Feels like a new half-life game but you're playing as the science team instead, doesn't feel as sloppy as the typical survival craft since there's persistent level design.

Is this game a wiki game? Should I have the wiki open at all times on monster drops and maps?

>>716362926
I play without until I'm totally stumped by something. You might miss out on little things here or there on a first go around but you can always come back to them as far as i know

>>716362926
na you should figure things out rather quickly the more you discover, you also have a pda that tells you useful info like items needed to craft or food ingredients

>>716362926
it's more fun without a wiki, the game tells you the direction of where to go and as long as you're taking time to read emails you'll make discoveries on your own

OSHA certified

Anyone know what the baton's upgrade needs? I've got sensors and magnetic alloy but there's a mystery material I somehow dont have

do the order medics drop their armor now? I heard they do

>>716362926
Mostly no, you might need to look up guides if you get lost in zones but all the crafting stuff is very obvious, the game unlocks recipes when you find new materials and then tells you what you need and how many
you might need to occasionally look up the wiki to see where certain materials come from as some only come from portal worlds that arent part of the main quest and a side diversion (fucking digital gold)
>>716363626
Yes

>>716363750
do i just butcher em or is there a special tactic like how only rats drop their backpack if u net+blunt them

>>716361843
lmfao you've definitely played this game before

>>716363816
as far as im aware the only things that required special attacks were rat backpack and the order's helmets (hit em in the headwith a blunt object)
for armor you just kill and butcher their bodies and pray to RNG. Apparently if you get the sigil trinket it boosts armor and weapon drop rates, not just ammo

>>716363626
medics, snipers and you get an officer set at the end of the new portal world.

>>716364005
not just officer, if you look in the order armory you can get the heavy shotgun enemy's armors too

Is there any way to get these to play something aside from Corporate Programming™?
It would be nice if they could be used the same as the televisions in Voices of the Void where you can play your own videofiles or something. Same for if there is some radio I could set up to play music.

>>716363419
Field Battery is needed

>fixing the pumps in Manufacturing
>can't figure out what to trade to the Blacksmith for fiber optic cable
>eventually have to Google it
>"you need to make soup out of the silverware from the train"
How the FUCK are you supposed to know that without looking it up?

>>716351149
I was having some fun but got bored and quit when I got to the first anomaly area (not the portal, the spooky one)
It was not particularly engaging for me, maybe if you're playing with something to watch ont he other monitor

>>716364501
my friend I was playing with said he found the recipe in an email, but he may have googled it
we would have raided the silverware on the train either way

>>716364501
You see the solder next to the forgemaster and inspect it to get the soup recipe

>>716364501
anon....at Blacksmith's kiosk, there is a pot you can interact with. Thats a recipe for silver solder.

>>716364501
>Bro didn’t inspect the pot right in front of the blacksmith

>>716364501
if you click the "soup" in front of the forge guy you get the recipe to create it

>>716347919 (OP)
where the fuck do I get the medic and captain ordo set?

>>716365145
Butcher the medics and the Legate set is at the end of the praetorium dungeon, You need to enhance an order key to get it.

>>716364224
Order armory where? In labs?

>>716366281
this is the new portal world in the 1.0 patch, so praetorium

Decided to try out a landing cushion because I was curious to set up some shortcuts in the manufacturing wing, and I'm still taking damage falling from the upstairs of the security office. Thing doesn't work at all.

What are the mats needed to upgrade the Magnum?

Is this game comfy and relaxing where you can take your time, make your base and explore, or are they gonna bust my balls with time limits/limited items and other similar bullshit?

>>716357017
There are no choices to be made within the story that affect anything. It is strictly linear progression and if you attempt to circumvent this each flag checks all the previous story beats as you achieve it, so you can't really skip anything.

>>716366567
What are you missing?

>>716366697
I've got everything else I need minus the last slot

>>716366624
theres no time limit to the game (despite the story).

>>716366769
that's black oil, either super rare drop from a fish in the dark world or a drop from the flamer rat in praetorium in 1.0 patch

>>716366624
There is nothing in the game that is "time limited". But there are cyclic respawns of portal worlds each week if you do not occupy them with a workbench, which is strictly beneficial. There is an infinite amount of items to get, though some may be from areas or enemies that don't often respawn etc. You can adjust this further in the sandbox settings for both a new world and a current world at any time.

It is extremely comfy.

>>716366769
You need black oil, Butchering inkfish can give you it, The new rats also drop it.

>>716366850
Fuuuuuuuuuck, I haven't even done any fishing yet. Do you need to be any specific level to catch the fish?

>>716366567
praetorium is now place to farm ammo ?

>>716366919
don't think so, but the fish itself is rare and then the black oil is a 10% chance from butchering it
at least the magnum only needs 1 black oil, the shotgun needed 4 and i would genuinely recommend people not bother upgrading that until later in the game when you get to praetorium

>>716366919
no but the night fish you should get the night helmet which is at the bottom of the ink well in the first teleporter in night realm. you'll need an diving suit. i dont think its required but it increases fish spawning chance
i'd also make gooey tulip salad from the corekeeper zone in manufacturing west since it boosts drop rates when butchering/fileting fish

>>716367106
>>716367218
Thanks anons, guess I'll get fishan

Also, when fishing, during pulling moment, there is water trail. If black, then its a inkfish. Otherwise, cancel and recast the rod.

Is it normal to spend a lot of the early game buying food from vending machines? Or am I really bad at this game?

>butchered 2 order medics and got the chest and leg piece
neato

>>716367595
Does this include rare fish?

>>716367712
I wouldn't say 'normal' because of how many peccaries/pests and kitchens there are around but it's not like you use money for anything else other than slushies for slushy bombs so who cares

>>716367712
pretty bad, save your money for slushie machines
like any survival game you're supposed to scavenge or grow food, you can cook the meat aliens drop for early game hunger although it's slightly radiative

>>716367798
As I recall, only inkfish do that.

>>716367712
your food problems go away once u get the greyeb seed (labs) and space lettuce as it just needs 1 greyeb fruit, 1 lettuce, and one tomato/super tomato and it fills half ur hunger and thrist in one go

>>716367798
it's a quirk of that particular fish, you can craft bait which increases the chance of catching a "rare" fish as well as the prize king/queen fish

>>716358292
personally i feel like the game should react to you not fucking up critical containment procedures and getting to the end in a mostly compliant manner
>dont free flathill
you can just take one and wait for a portal world reset
(actual spoilers)
>dont release cahn
not sure how you'd do this, exactly. given that he frees himself the second you reprogram the command center.
i forgot what exactly is locked behind that.
>dont free the wayseeker
so the big thing here is that you need to get through the praetorium.
you need two things:
1. the sun touched buff, residences WILL kill you rather quickly without it, even if you have +5 cold protection. you can technically get to residences as soon as offices, given that they are both connected to the wide open area of hydroplant. but thats useless without sun touched.
2. tactical scrap. this is for the motion devices used to fuck up the shield generators
now, this may seem impassible at first, but the praetorium portal is in the far gardens, and you can actually get up here. it takes excessive mobility, but you can do it with everything before reactors.
the only question for if this is possible, is if the portal up there can be activated without freeing the wayseeker. if it simply activates by you getting up there, then its possible to beat the game without freeing the wayseeker. if its explicitly tied to freeing the wayseeker and jumping through its portal then yeah you're fucked in that department.

>>716360197
So like it is stages you coop together to beat and the game has a proper ending rather than letting you muck about doing random things? Can you go back to them ?

>>716368020
yeah you can go back to other areas and a lot of areas connect with shortcuts

>>716351149
Having only one mouth to feed and only yourself to blame when some retard dies and loses all their shit makes the game a bit easier.

>>716368020
it's one huge ass map, and it has a final "boss" fight but i think you can continue playing afterwards since they plan to continue adding stuff post-1.0
the map's like a metroidvania, you progress but unlock shortcuts that loop back to areas you've already been to

ok, now that's super fucking cool

Anyone figure out how to turn off the two new weather events yet?

>>716368720
Sit on the Night throne to turn off the Reaper night.

what triggers the flamerat to explode?

>>716368774
NTA but thanks, the other events aren't even an issue but that one pisses me off. Trying to farm enemies and they all get turned to shadows

>>716368821
shoot it's backpack, like any flamer enemy

>>716368821
Stray shot hitting their gas tanks on their backs (including FF).

>tank glitched
>infinite health
this is getting really annoying

>>716368984
>>716368992
i tried shooting their backpack but it didnt do anything which is why i thought i'd ask, i couldnt see anything immediately obvious as being the gas tank

>>716366527
Nope, it never did

>>716366527
Just use cloth ropes if you want to descend
You can't climb up them though lmao

LARP status: achieved

>>716366859
Nah, they still reset if you have a workbench, you just can't be physically present
t. had whole-ass salvaging stations in most portal worlds
My favorite retarded base was my train one where I ran a wire from the lone plug all the way along the top of the train to a salvage station at the end
Man I am so happy we can scrap silver chains now

>>716370961
you need to go to the hot fungi world before you can get ropes that let you climb up
and theyre a fucking god send for making shortcuts, stuff like putting them in hydroplant as a shortcut to the arctic portal
>>716371080
>My favorite retarded base was my train one where I ran a wire from the lone plug all the way along the top of the train to a salvage station at the end
I was debating doing that myself, fucking silver man

>>716347919 (OP)
Is this game worth playing alone?

>power leeches are a thing now
Great.

>>716371523
its a neat weather event since it kinda fucks with your power but not all of it at once, and you can resolve it pretty easily
ive noticed weather events play significantly more now, the cold one is especially annoying

does the freezer in the cafeteria preserve food?

>>716371781
If you put a chest in there I think so, dont leave food outside as it'll eventually despawn
problem is that the hedgehogs like to spawn and then attack whatever's in that freezer so i had to stop using it

>>716371412
I played it alone before 1.0 hit; got up to the end point for what content did exist.

I'd say yes, but you may want to consider dropping enemy health slightly and/or upping the amount an item can stack in your inventory before taking up another slot. Enemies are pretty tanky, especially late game where I would mag dump into someone's head and it'd still take a bit more. Also, playing solo means you have to balance gathering resources while keeping all of your usual equipment (weapons, ammo, food/water, teleporter device, etc) on you alone. So I often felt like at least a solid row of my inventory was taken up at all times.

Even playing with default settings though, it was a blast. Definitely a few moments I could tell would've been easier/less tedious with another person, but totally manageable regardless.

>>716371740
Kek the reason I mentioned it is because ol' tsundere is on the loose again. Just one of those things I might have to deal with every so often. Hard to think of ways to mitigate that since the single laser providing power to the whole base was cut.

>>716371740
also it spawns a bunch of actually useful loot from the batteries it fucks with

>>716372919
there's an endgame quantum battery thats supposedly immune to power leeches.
havent bothered making one though, i set up in torii so i dont have to worry about the bitch while in my base, and i'll happily take an even more leyak essence for the pile.

Anyone know what items you need for the taco guy outfit?

>>716375172
it's dummy stupid expensive, fuck that

>>716375812
haven't even encountered him yet, same for that stupid bitch of a cooking whore

>>716375812
shadowberry milkshake and bad soda from trying to break the Krizz Vending machine

>cane sword doesn't have an upgrade

nyooooo

>>716366919
Be warned the fish drops that black oil at a rate of only 10%. You might just want to go fight the flamethrower guys.

>>716347919 (OP)
This game is fucking amazing, I'm shocked it still hasn't blown up.

Is it true that a 2nd Leyak spawns after you contain the first one? If so what the fuck is the point of containing it

>>716377375
The Residence sector has an upgraded Leyak but containing the first one frees you up from Science wing to Reactors

>>716377490
What is upgraded about the 2nd one? I'm guessing you can't contain it?

>>716376882
I think we know why it hasn't. Some people just have a survival crafting allergy (especially because of all the bad ones saturating the market).
For me, being a love letter to Half-Life was all you needed to tell me to dive in. I know I'm not normal though.

I just got to the labs for the first time and almost shit my pants when I saw the Layek hanging out just outside of my base back in the offices what the fuck

Starting to feel pretty overwhelmed. I made it through manufacturing and there's a way into the fleshmines and there's a way into this area with really strange looking structures where the militants are patrolling on catwalks. Mines attempt ended up wtih my cornered and killed, and with the only real gun I can use being a pistol with little ammo at my disposal every fight against a group of militants feels like a panicked DPS race. Are the scrapguns any good?

>>716377681
I knew nothing about this game when I bought it back in november, but the somewhat half life vibe and characterisations is one of the things that drew me in early on, then add in supernatural elements of scp with a huge environment that tickles that explorer part of the brain (even if trying to remember how to get anywhere can be a bit tedious at times). It has a certain charm to it.

I'm starting the game and its been fun so far even tho I can't stand scary games, is there a special place to make your base? or can it be build anywhere?, also what's the thing making the stepping sound at the start of the game?

>>716378218
I would recommend picking a moderately large room somewhere close to the main plaza for your first base. It doesn't have to be your biggest base, hell it doesn't even have to be permanent. But the plaza is a crisscross of roads that go everywhere in this game, so somewhere very close or inside here is going to be most convenient.
Eventually you'll get teleporters and stuff so even remote locations become fine, but you can basically move any time.

>>716377582
in soviet russia, leyak stares at you.

So which scrap/ generic loot items you shouldn't keep picking up and hoarding, there's no fuckin way I need everything but the rat pack in me can't stop looting

>>716377582
Not much of upgrade tho, just more damage and some freeze debuff . You can contain him just fine but limited to Residence to Shopping District. Need Ice cream, Flathill should be good.

>>716378776
Just keep it all, you get an item sorting pad later so you can have a huge wall of chests

>>716378776
I have four huge file cabinets I have vaguely divided between: Tech bits, organic bits (wood paper cloth etc), metal bits, and miscellaneous bits (random office supplies shit)
Take a look at what you can make with the recipes in your crafting bench and start picking up stuff you need. You can pin recipes and ingredients for those things will be highlighted yellow in containers. I have so much wood planks, tech scrap and metal saved up I don't really collect it anymore because I had a shitload once I raided the cubical room in Office Sector.

>>716378776
It doesn't hurt to horde most things. You can probably stop focusing on them when you have a couple stacks of each, though I don't recommend NOT dropping fresh shit off in your base every time you get a full inventory.

Wood, rebar, and computer internal parts are good to have a lot of. There's a few odd items you might not think to grab but can really use (phones, newspaper stands, blue plastic barrels).

>>716378056
scrapshot is insanely kino early game as long as you cram the barrel down their throat

>>716378056
Scrapshot is really cheap to make ammo for, but even against the militants you'll feel like you are only just barely cutting it. Like anon said, you have to jam the barrel down their throat, and it takes a while to reload, so you better be able to retreat.

>>716379869
Honestly I find it better to just get an elemental spear ASAP and poke them in the face.

>>716379921
I took a mixed approach in hopes I could spare my weapon durability and ammo. But yes, the electric spear is good.

>>716377582
It can freeze you and is probably slightly faster, but can still get rid of by just staring.

>>716380003
Oh and a big thing to do if you use shields is get the "heater" shield since the babby plastic shield can't block gunshots.

>>716379921
>>716380003
The welding spear? Still feels like it takes way too many hits, same with the thermal mallet.

>>716380106
I always fucking forget I even have a shield. It's not in my nature to "right click to defend." All offense, all the time.

If I get the message that something ominous is in the air "aka base invasion". Do I have to rush back to my base to prepare for it? Or can I take my time.

>>716380250
You can usually take some time. Invasions occur around midnight, and you get the warning much earlier than that.

>>716377681
I don't care really. I actually don't want it to blow up the more I think about about. They'll then dumb the game down and release it on console if it gets popular on pc and they'll censor it.

I'm glad pc gaming and steam deck is still niche and keeps the console retards out.

>>716380184
Welding spear is OK for as long as it being the best thing you can make, but lightning spear became a mainstay for me for a long time.

>>716380234
Enemies just don't die fast enough to avoid damage by sheer aggression most the time, especially if there's multiple of them.

>>716380416
You're right, but tell that to my caveman brain.

>>716380415
I appreciate giving me something to look forward to but at the same time it doesn't really help me now. I'll try out the scrapshot.

>>716380498
Don't sleep on the scrap pistol either, it's better than you'd think and the ammo is cheap enough that you can just use it to smack things from a distance without too much worry.

>>716380498
Manufacturing is rough to solo when you first arrive, there's no two ways about it. But yes, scrapshot is as worth your time as anything for that tier.

>>716378056
For soldiers, i've been experiencing success by using both the makeshift crossbow and scrapshot one after the other. The first headshot from stealth with the crossbow stuns them momentarily and if you switch and hit them again in the head with the gun will kill them. If I miss the head then a few hits with my melee weapon will kill them fast enough.

>>716380398
1.0 literally released it on PS5 and xbox retard

I am concerned I will run out of scrap metal. Since most of the furniture I got it from doesn't respawn, is there endless source of it somewhere or is much of the loot finite in this game?

>>716380621
Ditch the crossbow and just get the pipe pistol, needing to farm fucking pens of all things for ammo is suffering.

>>716380730
I use both the crossbow and pipe pistol. I haven't had much difficulty finding and hoarding pens desu so the ammo situation for it I don't think is a problem.

>>716380498
Until you can use the magnum revolver or shotgun, stick to melee weapons. There's an electric spear that's extremely useful for manufacturing level stuff.

When you get to the labs area, get the antique shotgun, you don't need biometrics to use it.

Once you clear security, beeline the laser katana and disintegrator.

If you're getting your ass kicked by robots, make an arc thrower.

>>716380726
You'll get access to a portal world with respawning furniture

>>716380726
Portal worlds have all their resources reset periodically, that's where renewable collectable shit lives.

>>716380726
Loot is as finite as you want, there's an option in the world settings to turn loot respawning on. I turned mine on because there's so much to craft and it all gets pretty expensive later on.
Robots are a good source of metal scraps, each one drops about 10. You also get one scrap for every soda can you drink.

>>716380825
Local man skims right the fuck over the energy pistol that may as well have infinite ammo and is uniquely suited to dealing with sec.

>>716380826
>>716380834
Is the portal to Flathill with the composers one such place?

>>716380919
Yeah, every so often you'll hear an announcement about a reset and everything in there will respawn.

I FUCKING LOVE SUGAR SLOP

>>716380890
I've been killing robots by walking them into exactly 3 tripmines. Problem is that it takes screws to recharge and screws cost scrap to make.

>>716380959
Generally speaking, if you have to take a portal to go somewhere and there's a loading screen involved, the loot there will respawn. The 2nd portal world is a great place to farm because you can accumulate a lot of rebar, silver scraps and metal there which is useful for later, also also 9mm so you can use your Glock more.

>>716381181
sorry, meant as a reply to >>716380919

>>716381129
I usually use a chopinator trap and let the robot run into it until it kills itself. Then I simply hammer the chopinator back to full health.

>>716381181
The train is the third
far garden>flathill>train

>>716381294
That's actually a much better plan desu. Will take less inventory space and cost no scrap.

>>716381356
Damn, fair enough, its so small that I guess it didnt register to me as a full-on portal world.

Blunt or sharp? I went all in on blunt since I picked the defender class start but I dunno if I should stick with it.

>>716381435
I think they added stuff to it recently

>>716381538
I tend to find myself doing both, each one is better for certain enemies and using the wrong one makes it take way too long.

>>716381538
Sharp seems like it has way more options available to it in the late game. Blunt only has like 2 weapons that you can fight the higher tier enemies with. The actual perks do seem way better for blunt, though.

so what exactly is "holy" damage. i keep seeing it in the weaknesses for enemies.

>>716381829
Lodestone bullshit

>>716380919
Antiverse portals have all their resources reset twice a week. Flathill is one of them

>>716381901
oh. of course.
so this whole time i've been wasting whole ass deatomizer charges on singular jotuns when i could've instead been using the fucking grinder launcher to make my life much easier.

>>716382123
its insane how much better the grinder is than the lodestone crossbow already, and then the grinder got an upgrade and the crossbow didnt

>>716382475
the worst part is that i've already beat the game so i can only hope that the devs actually do have plans for significant post-launch content.

STR should level up each time you attack things just like the weapons in melee
It really is just another time wasting grindan skill

>>716382542
They've made it very clear that they do, but honestly before anything I'd like them to do another pass over Residences. They got very lazy with it and it feels extremely rushed, it feels like less of a sector than even Security

>open world survival craft

>>716382724
game isn't open world

>>716382724
unlike all the others, it has a hand crafted world and the crafting is actually integrated rather than tacked on.

>>716382685
everything since hydro felt like they had an idea of the story notes they wanted to hit and just draped a basic framework around it. But then the portal worlds in those later areas still slap so idk. All the order armor sets are nice but why are they giving the grunt armour at the very end of the game

>>716382724
>didn't play the game
we know retard

>>716382724
The funny thing is, it kindof is but kindof isn't? your building your base in a fucking half life lab which is all pre-set stuff, and your goal is to progress through a more or less linear story and explore these fucked up labs.
The base is just there to make soup, take a shit, trap the monster trying to eat your asshole, and craft new gear.

>>716382724
>open world
nah it's a handcrafted, somewhat linear and compartmentalized map
>survival craft
true but in a way incomparable to any other game trying to use that terminology

>>716382475
As cool as I think it is that the Grinder stays useful the entire game, it's just crazy how fucking OP it is for getting it in the second area
>10 rounds in the magazine, 2 more than the pistol
>Only 5 less damage than the scrap pistol, which is single shot
>Basically the best gun you can craft until the Magbow which serves a different role anyway
>Fully automatic
>Reloads faster than basically everything else
>Cheap ammo that can also be found in common crates
>You get a lot of discs in a single craft and they can be upgraded into different damage type ones
>Scales crazy well with the ammo pickup passive, basically extends your ammo by a good 30-40% depending on how vigilant you are about picking up the spent discs
>only real downside is the slow travel time which isn't much of a problem because of the retarded AI and is fixed by the upgrade anyway
It's basically stayed on my hotbar the entire game, I don't see any reason to shelve it.

>>716382764
Shame the portal worlds in 1.0 didn't really measure up either. Praetorium is a goddamn maze and the last 2 barely even count. Fragments was the best part by far but its still a really short area

>>716382969
Using lode discs and opening with a sneak attack kills Jotuns in less than 10 shots, its fucking ridiculous

I haven't used slushie grenades yet but I keep saying people say they're good so I'm gonna go buy a bunch. I just unlocked the mugnade recipe as well, should I make some of those?

>>716348758
atleast the coworker only comes out at night and doesn't stand in my fucking way while im fighting

>>716364501
they really need to make the soup menu more intuitive, I missed this shit too because I had 0 interest in making solder and was forced to look it up.

>>716384634
yea it needs to just be a menu like crafting
or at the very least allow you to pin soup recipes

how the fuck do I kill the shotgun guys in the labs
every other creature (except the bots) was defeated by some manner of kiting, tanking, and power attacks with a broken rat scanner, but those fuckers are scary, tanky, and point blank 9mm mag dumping aint working.
I obtained enough stuff to progress (I think) but I'm kinda stumped if things get any harder.
am I supposed to just run? I don't have enough skill to use their shotguns against them

>>716363350
Great minds think similarly.

>>716384219
slushie bombs are good but the enemy breaks free when they take damage, still very useful at times
mugnades are extremely good but a little expensive to craft

>>716384930
grenades work well

>>716384930
put two tripwire traps on a doorway and lure them through
Refill them with screws as needed

is this friendslop game like conan or can I play it by myself?

>>716347919 (OP)
Melee or Ranged?

>>716384965
Holy based.

>>716385087
Perfectly playable solo, and possibly even superior when experienced without obnoxious buddies messing with your immersion and pace.

>>716385092
just bee urself

>Night Magnum uses Night Essence for Repair instead of repair kits
I wasn't sold on this thing at first, but damn, that's pretty huge

>>716385003
Yeah I'm kinda confused by the soil requirement. I still haven't crafted any soil yet because I don't know where to get shit. I finally found a plastic bucket in in that office hallway I forget to access with my lvl2 hacker so I just made a makeshift toilet hoping this lets me keep the shit so I can craft soil.

You know, I don't think I've ever seen anybody else point out that the Order Captain is literally just Revolver Ocelot from MGS 3 with a face mask
Revolver included

>>716385286
makeshift toilet is indeed where you get shit without shitting yourself

>>716382685
>>716382764
>>716383091
yeah feels like the whole update could use a second pass.
(actual spoilers)
i can understand the praetorium being like a maze since its supposed to give the feeling of the place being massive, but the rest of the update needs to be bigger.
>more to residences, there's not enough personal rooms to make it feel like a massive facility, honestly kinda shrinks the place down. also could've benefitted from another step between getting the flamethrower and entering the shopping district.
>maybe you show the flamethrower to abe and janet and they work on turning a laser turret into a laser-flame thrower turret (a lamethrower (abe's name)) to put a hole the giant ice wall and also several other walls between the desk and there, requiring you to take a run around a different part of residences to gather the last pieces for it.
>more portal world fragments in the fractured area, only having the night realm and space queen for such a concept is criminal.

Are the armor drops just random or do you have to net them like the Rat first? I've probably killed a thousand grunts and haven't gotten a single piece.

>>716385782
Everything but the Grunt, Breacher and Captain armors are random drops, I recommend grind for the sniper set its really good.

My thermal hammer seems annoying to use more than anything

>>716385782
If you aren't having much luck, give that order trinket a try and see if that helps

>>716385972
does that actually improve drops? I thought it was just "speed while in combat" unless im retarded and missed text stating that

>>716385863
Ty anon. I will stop wasting my time now

>>716386034
I think it's a hidden effect, like the fog trinket working with the symphonist armor for a permanent speed boost
All I know is when I was playing a gun run back in September, when I had that order trinket on I was drowning in sniper rifles, hoods, journals, and flasks
I seriously had a crate just full of magnums and snipers
And I haven't seen a patch note alluding to it being reverted

>>716385876
Get the welding spear if you want a fire weapon, Hammer aint worth it.

>>716385286
just wait until you're below like 40% incontinence and it should generate a bag of poop when you use the makeshift toilet, you'll have the toilet icon pop up on screen when you're low enough

alternately you can just shit your pants and pick it up with plastic scrap
sometimes you can find bags of poop in trash cans as well

is there anyway to lock off the sandbox settings from yourself once you've set them?

>>716386060
If you want to waste even less time make spuddy, He is very useful.

>>716386343
Just remembered it does not effect drops from chopping up corpses, Still a good trinket to have.

Does the inventory management get better?
I have the try before you buy version, and just went through a portal to get 1 out of 2 heart things for the crafting table inventory pull upgrade. But thats not enough, and now im not considering buying the game because the inventory sucks. I dont have enough space and have to keep going back to my starting zone to drop off pens and papers.

>>716386548
I've never done a playthrough with Vanilla Item stacks, and I never will. You can change the item stack limits and I highly suggest cranking it up to like 10x
You do get an item sorter and bigger chests eventually too.

Why do I need to precompile shaders every time I launch the game

>>716386548
You can get better backpacks, and the item sorting/management in general is really good once you get going
In fact, it's some of the best in the genre
Protip: there's a good backpack hiding underneath the big office room
Protip 2: once you get the netting gun, you can net and then bash one of the gas mask dudes who show up for a really spacious backpack

Will I enjoy this solo? My group is playing Darktide now because of the sale so I won't be able to convince anyone to join me, but this game looks pretty interesting.

>>716386548
also: make a platform cart

>>716364228
the ability to add custom paintings and tv programs could be a neat idea for a future update, it's silly but it opens the door to a lot of multiplayer shenanigans or even just to make your solo base more customized and comfy

>>716386548
you can increase stack size and/or decrease item weight in the sandbox settings when you create or load your world
there a few different skills and items to increase drop rates but it's normal to repeat areas in order to get more loot, portal worlds reset every few in-game days
also, enemy spawns will change a bit as you progress, for example exor monks become common enemies in the facility after you've entered the first portal

>>716367712
I still have like 150+ dollars just from searching lockers and shit, so it's unlikely you'll run out unless you're depending on it for most of the game. Still, better to grow your own food.

>>716378218
There will be pretty obvious places that make a good base and the map is structure to have a lot of ramps because you can build a dolley cart that you can lload most of your base into and shuttle off to a new location when you find a spot you like better.

Uh, bros? What is going on?
Everything's dark and leaves are falling.
Is this a new weather event?

>>716386959
yes
go be the elden lord

Is there a point to giving food to the guy who's crawling at night talking about his coffee hole besides him giving you a couple of random items once in a while?

>>716387230
As far as the community knows, that's all there is to it.
But hey, you can keep feeding him, and maybe you'll be the first to discover a secret reward?

>>716378218
You can technically base anywhere that has a power outlet, but some areas are offer easier access to amenities and/or better defensive positions.
Plaza tram station and level 2 security office are popular choices.

Not sure what stepping sounds you're referring to.

>>716387230
He's a spooky entity that has breached containment. Just treat him like you would any normal coworker.

should I buy the torii home world thing?

>>716387230
he's just a normal human coworker like you

>>716386724
After playing with friends I did not enjoy the solo experience.

>>716386678
>>716386853
Do sandbox settings disable achievements?

>>716387638
nope, adjust whatever you want

>>716378218
I think that stepping sound is just your character. For me it happens whenever I open a door (on xbox lol), but only once. Probably bugged.
also bases can be built anywhere but try to avoid where enemies spawn. I think having a claimed bed will prevent enemies from respawning in a small radius, but since you can base anywhere you're encouraged to have little forward bases in remote areas while you're doing stuff. Since you can only claim 1 bed, you might find an enemy in the other base, which is a little annoying but not THAT much of an issue

Thanks to the anon who recommended Flathill for grinding Sneak XP last thread, I was able to optimize it a little further by getting the crystal nigga armor and staying crouched near the composer in front of the courthouse, you can legit AFK farm sneak XP this way since he always stays in range of you and he can't see you while you're cloaked. Halfway tempted to just leave the game running overnight and just be done with it but given how badly optimized this game is I don't wanna fry my GPU.

>you can sequence break kevlar with sniper cowels now
lmfao

>>716387837
I wonder if you earn more XP by sneaking around more powerful monster. I grind sneak near a carbuncle.

>>716387576
Are you a weeb who wants to set up a base there?

>>716347919 (OP)
The Hex set is just too nice to give up.

Don't have to worry about bandages anymore and it self repairs. I'm not sure what's special about the Hex shield they just added though.

>>716387928
With the XP gain setting thing turned up to x1.2 I get something like 4 XP a second hiding from the giant vs like 1 hiding from a carbuncle or something. Definitely suggest doing it this way if you want it done in as few sessions as possible

>>716388078
Self repairs itself too. Very useful for charging through machine gun fire that eats durability.

God damn the lodespear looks so fucking cool, Shame the arcbolt is basically a reskinned lighting spear.

Good base locations? I'm setting up in that security office now that i have the hacker. I'm going to flatwoods next or whatever its called. I did this part with some friends so I know what's up.

>>716388381
Security office is a popular choice for a reason.

>>716388381
You can stay in that office forever if you want, it's one of the meta spots for a reason

ah finally found chain now I can get that disc gun

how to get poop?
is it like ARK?
do i just wait?

Jesus tittyfucking Christ I decided to make a platform cart finally because I've run out of scrap and I need to go pillaging and I made the mistake of backing up. My Carbuncle baloons clipped into view and haven't been jumpscared this badly since playing.

>>716389443
Shit yourself or use a makeshift toilet

>>716389608
Everything reminds me of her...

can you get by with just melee and throwing?
do i really need guns?
i dont want to have to level up another skill

>>716389891
It will likely cause some difficulty spikes along the way, but non-ranged builds are perfectly viable, I'd say.

>>716347919 (OP)
How's the game being played alone?
I played with my friends and the progress is being rushed so fast that I'm not enjoying the game at all.
So I'm thinking of starting a game by myself.

>>716390597
>How's the game being played alone?
It's good, maybe even great.

>>716361068
my bootleg vortigaunt solo'd the praetorum

>>716390597
I'd say just turn up item stack sizes to at least 2x and maybe put xp gain to like 1.5x or something? tweak a few settings to compensate for being alone, should be fine that way no problem.

I live on floor 3, the shock water pool, and doors to my base have proved great worth

Word of warning, Do not recharge the mystagogue glove while holding a personal teleporter unless you want to brick it.

>>716390597
I'm having a cozy time, I sorta pitched it to a friend that likes to play crafterslop but he's been busy playing the new Palworld stuff so I'm running solo. It would be nice to have one or two other people around so somebody could manage running materials back to base, crafting, boiling water, farming etc. Since I'm solo every once in a while I have to spend a couple in-game days for housekeeping.

I'm surprised there is some fairly basic QOL missing
>can't instantly stash your shit into all of your containers by just standing near them and hitting the default 'Q' button, instead you have to individually open the containers to quick-stash
>items don't show which recipes they are a part of
>have to memorize soup recipes, instead of having a menu or something on the pot for the currently available recipes

>>716391780
Well the shit stashing thing is solved by a buildable

>>716391825
The hell is a buildable?

>>716392229
The building called the distrubtion pad.
https://abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Distribution_Pad

Earn your QoLs, that's part of the fun. Game's combat system's not harder than Half-life 1.

>>716392229
A thing you build, retard.

>>716389891
You can get by just fine with melee and throwing.

>>716387440
>>716387739
It's more like a rumbling sound that shakes the world, I thought it was some kind of mechanic that forced the player to keep moving the thing making the sound would chase you

>>716392637
The rumbling is just ambience.

Is there anyway to get kylie back to the neural chip from the shield generator form. I really want to get the electric dreams achievement on this playthrough , it's the last I need

>>716393878
Nevermind, I just had to unequip it. even in shield form you can insert kylie into the robot

>>716391780
nigga the only thing lacking quality of life is yours, considering most of these things are in game, and remember 3 items for a soup recipe isn't difficult, the player character is a scientist but the player is a retard

>>716394398
why so angry? who hurt you?

fishing is not great

Why is the game giving me a "are you sure" when I try and scrap one of those sandwich board warning signs?

STOP RESETTING MY JOURNAL EVERYTIME I LOAD THE GAME FUUUCK

>>716364228
It'd be nice if they music looped on some of them without the interruption.

>>716380398
They won't, stop being scared of ghosts anon. Ghosts don't exist.

>>716380665
So only down hill from here on out with dlc and micro transactions incoming and smaller maps because consoles can't handle it.

>>716397127
yeah I'm kindof annoyed that consoles made us lose custom portal names.

Have a story question, if this gets answered later feel free to avoid answering.
I'm only at the second anteworld and a lot of the notes seem to be really worried about the state of these other worlds. If these are alternate realities, why worry about the infinite mass/energy train stopping and destroying that anteworld? Flathill I understand as it's more of a "we don't want the monsters there ending up here," same with the standard fare of the aliens that I've been fighting from the Far Garden which have been teleporting in Xen-style.

>>716351149
Better in solo than coop. Play single player and it you want open it up later, or complete and then replay in coop. I'm glad I did single player so I could stealth, keep all the loot to myself, and not have anyone run ahead and discover things and trigger events without me.

>>716397404
Possibility of unforeseen consequences, general morality, even of Manse is the only one in the facility with a conscience.

>>716397404
>>716397508
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF_CPKg-gT8

It's a parallel Earth and no one is sure that the Train's universe imploding will not end up affecting ours.

>start game
>grab the extra construction exp helmet
>build and rebuild shit until I reach level 10 construction
I'm not the only autist, right?

After about 80 hours I stopped being concerned about using WeMod for skill levels. Fuck it, game isn't long enough to get 49k exp in fucking throwing.

Finally done! I was kind of hoping the gameplay would center around the different entities rather than those generic soldier types. Still a solid game.

Anyone found Abe after the game ended? The submarine is gone in the hydroplant, but I didn't find a anything in the near water

>>716382635
STR is so easy to level so I never even considered it. I have 8 str by the time I hit labs on a normal run just by carrying random ass furniture and dropping it as I loot so I stay in the yellow. Once you can start making A&L Mega Stew you're set.

>>716382724
Usually I hate every single kind of those games but this game has a certain charm to it. Listening to the Forklift Certification TV while frying up some peccary chops in someone's office I turned into a museum/home is peak cozy.

>>716385503
>honestly kinda shrinks the place down
It's nice to be able to see names on the rooms but at the same time it does make it feel like this was a facility with a handful of scientists. Should have had more destroyed areas and blocked off spaces to give it better scale.

>>716385132
I played it with one friend and we spent our time enjoying it and going with the flow, had a blast. Played it in a group of 6 and we were basically the cast from L4D the way we mowed down everything without any issues. Definitely better solo/duo than with too many people.

Alright when do I get actual water filtering? The fact I'm even considering making four more portable stoves for boiling is ridiculous.

>>716386548
Want a real protip? Go to the server settings and crank up stack size to 3x. You'll still get overloaded with weight so it's not OP but you get more bang for your buck with crates.

You also unlock an item teleporter that automatically sorts your items to stacks and a terminal that lets you pull items from your crates. fairly quickly, like midgame.

>>716387230
Treat your coworkers better or I'll have to report you to HR.

>>716391780
The first and last are in the game.

>>716397404
>why worry about the infinite mass/energy train stopping and destroying that anteworld?
They worry that all the energy stored from the train will cause a massive release of energy as it stops which could punch through reality into ours. More of a precaution bordering on superstition.

>it's better to shit your pants than use the toilet
Saars...

would you?

Did they remove the useless 'minigame' for blueprints where you just shove things into the print until it tells you you got it right
i thought you'd get bonuses for getting it right the first time but when i realized you don't i just shoved shit in until it worked
pretty big waste of time and there's no good times to do it other than the insane cooking times for things

>>716401702
You've been able to turn that off for over a year.

>>716401702
You can (and should!) disable the minigame in the sandbox settings

labs is fuckining huge

all my generators suddenly had a bunch of capacitors and powdered crystal on top when I loaded up today, what happened?

>>716402790
power leech event

>>716382724
there are always exceptions to the norm
this game is one of them in that it's actually good, has unique mechanics, and isn't just grindslop

>>716367712
Very early game, yes, but you want to get your food set up. Like the other anon said, the cosmato salad is easily the best food item for how easy they are to make, how little resources it takes, and how much it satiates.

I'm getting sick of being put on guard duty for the presence, it's just weird

>>716399524
Labs (mid-game) has Carbon which is the final ingredient you'll need to make water filters.

Who here a Office Sector Security base chad? Easily the best spot in the game for a main base.

>>716404942
S tier, just below Power Services, you'll know when you see it if you didn't yet

>>716404942
>office sector security noob
Ftfy. Go make a base somewhere with more space and better aesthetics

>>716404942
it's the most popular base since early access

It would be sick if you could hide recipes. The menu gets cluttered real fast.

>the makeshift NVG's make the aiming reticle disappear again
reeeeee, how the fuck do you fix and reintroduce a bug not once, but twice?

Anyone else notice furniture NOT respawning in Flathills? I need the red post boxes to make some hazard crates and an extra fridge, but those have not respawned for me. Not after 2 potal resets.
The small junk like money, nachos and peas have respawned properly.

>>716409668
This update added a lot of bugs tbqh

>>716367712
late, but no, it's not, but you should really get a stove. pests are plentiful and you can cook them for some ok meals and cooking skill, which is a game changer once you unlock the ability to make soups

>>716410303
fuck me. I meant "yes", as in "yes it's normal to buy a lot of food from vending machines early on"

>>716404942
>chad
Any base built in one of the designated areas will never be considered good. Be a man and build a home in the most inhospitable place possible.

>>716367935
holy fuck, thanks for the tip anon.

I did just restart my file that was on hydroplant since I wanted to play with the new enhancement table/early game adjustments, but I will keep this in mind.

>>716367935
>it fills half ur hunger and thrist in one go
It also majorly limits what you can do for 7 minutes because the Leyak will be constantly spawning right in your ass crack

>>716397308
I fucking knew something would give, fuck these guys. Straight piracy. Don't care if it's an amazing game but they made the game on pc and now they're going to fuck it up for console sales instead of making a different version for console.

>>716412331
idc because my xbox buddies are playing w me this weekend on the game, pretty cool

Started playing yesterday, pretty fun and comfy (solo). I just got to the blacksmith and was thinking about relocating my base to the security office. What is the least painful method of moving shit around? Haven't really tried the cart thing yet.

>>716412658
wait until you get teleporters and can just zap back and forth, otherwise the carts your best bet

I thought I was being very clever.

>>716413787
But it seems he had other plans.

>>716412658
for early game it's the handheld cart, it acts as a huge 3x6 chest so you can put quite a lot of stuff into it
i would say to keep progressing past the blacksmith as you eventually can repair the forklift, which is a vehicle + crate in one, but the security office is not directly accessible via vehicles

>>716413787
>>716413862
She looks scared, did you try giving her a treat to calm her down?

>>716403694
wasn't even home easy materials, also thank for the sandbox settings because food spoils too fast for my liking, even with a fridge

>>716404647
the not-peanut thing? you can eventually contain it later on, else it respawns every 15 minutes
seems a lot shorter but time flies when you're having fun

>>716414019
I did just notice the second time she wanted some ice cream.

Third time's the charm!
Once I grow some eggs.

>>716351149
no, I refunded

Since they added outfits for all of the Order units, are there outfits for the Gatekeepers as well? I think it would be kind of fun to larp as one of the Admech guys

>>716416965
not yet, i imagine theyd be a future content update
i want the giant outfit

what's the best late game blunt weapon? the lodestone hammer is kinda shit

>>716416965
You can get the mystagogue set and it's pretty great but not the Jotun guy or the witch.

>>716347919 (OP)
Is there an easier way to get to the last area other than going through the whole jump pad gauntlet every time?

>>716417576
bring a teleporter with you, set it up further in

>>716417576
option A: getting past the shield generators and onto the final platform will give you a quick teleport
option B: the bridge. the bridge is the way.

>>716417576
There's a portal on the last platform that links back to the entrance, I missed it the first couple of times too

damn reactors is ugly as fuck

>>716418341
the area 2 zones later is much, much worse

>>716347919 (OP)
Is the combat still janky shit and all the enemies sponges?

>>716418683
That tiling is egregious, and there's more than a few missing textures where you can just see out of the map, the entire area feels unfinished

>>716384965
Cool but wont shit still spawn in it and destroy all your floors

>>716419317
because it's so close to the ceiling, they spawn above it outside the map. So every invasion just instantly ends.

>>716417215
turns out you can enhance the tech sceptre into a ramrod
which fucking sucks ass because it pushes enemies away from you

>>716418752
Yeah.

>>716418752
>all the enemies sponges
https://www.nexusmods.com/abioticfactor/mods/66?tab=files

>>716417215
i've been using the impact hammer/explosive sledge.
they're heavy, but their stealth attacks FUCK.
the base 60 damage on a stealth headshot is able to take out the vast majority of enemies including gatekeeper cheiftains (350 head HP)
havent tested the explosive sledge, actually gunna do that now and see if i can make a jotun crumple like a tin can.

>Thinking the game was easy and I was way too tanky for hours on end
>the stupid dog enemy got a single lucky bleed hit on me and my opinion turned around immediately
Holy fuck I've been cooking these faggots for a while now, when did they get the ability to cut me in half

>Most armor sets will have a full set bonus and a partial bonus so you can do a mixed setup if you really want to, or get some benefit from an armor while you're trying to craft the full set
How did this HL1 survival game solve armor set bonuses when they don't really need to even be in a game like this

>>716421572
the answer is "didnt even break its shield"

>>716421572
i changed to dual hand the ramrod and if you just spam power attack on the heads it's a lot more useful, that's been killing the gatekeepers except for the jotun

>>716364501
I get why they tried to do that to encourage people to look into soup recipes but you really shouldn't put something critical to progression under something that is largely only used for food.

>>716423654
The recipe is literally next to the blacksmith.

>>716422541
later on a lot of the armor set bonuses are 3 pieces so you kinda lose that mix matching

I am ready, come get me you cockroaches

Is there a journal entry that sums up the entity classification at some point? I know they explained one in the tutorial but I don't remember and I don't want to go to the wiki for risk of getting spoiled.
t. lorefag

>>716424359
if you want there's also a quick list for what the symbols mean.

>>716424359
you can look up all journal entries from the J menu but I have no idea which one it would be
here's the wiki entry for the levels and also containment symbols

>>716417723
NTA but i didnt consider for even a second using a bridge. I built one, once, felt it was kinda gay and small and never bothered again. Maybe I should build more bridges.

>>716424607
you can make laser bridges that have effectively infinite range, but of course you need an outlet. and a laser emitter (not cheap)

>>716355162
Fuck yes it is worth it
You will get .308 drops whether you want them or not.
Carbon is precious for a very long time and the rebar bolts aren't retrievable often enough.
The rebar crossbow isn't even that good, literally everything seems to have high resistance to its damage type, you can shoot an ordernigger or an alienigger twice in the fucking face and theyll often not go down.

>>716424491
>>716424552
thanks that's good enough

>>716347919 (OP)
did anyone check to see if The Tub of Blood spawns an entity yet?

hedgehogs

>>716427357
What about 'em?

Can bases in homeworlds be invaded?

>>716428702
nope, cant even get the leyak.
power leeches can hit em though.

>>716424209
Yeah but at least there's single helmets with their own bonuses you can use

>Polished Antique Shotty needs 3 Intermediate Kits
Damn, the black oil is already pretty harsh but I only have 6 of those. Is there any way to farm more of those up?

>>716428984
use a bandage on the guy stuck under the forklift at the entrance of manufacturing, he becomes a trader who sells you 1 per day or whenever he shows up

>>716427357
A HEDGEHOG?!

>>716428984
not farm, but if you open the GATE chests they usually have at least one intermediate

>Find guy dying in armor
>Can't take his armor
Oh c'mon, he was even taunting me about crap too, why can't I loot him
I'm literally shielding myself with magazines

>>716431318
Also despite the massive damage difference this spear doesn't feel that much better from the shitty kitchen knife thanks to the slow attack speed desu

>>716431435
Whoops wrong image

>>716431435
My base is in this office

>>716429163
huh he's gone

>>716434781
After you gave him a bandage, or before that?

What's a good early game spot for glass farming? Gotta make ton of healing syringes to get first aid up for the antirad shots.

>>716435214
Have you already broken every window in Offices?
Apart from that, I think sentry bots drop glass.

>>716435214
I think mine was Flathill, just build a bridge from the corn syrup factory roof plaza thing to the arcade roof and you can make the run much less tedious

>>716435214
Protip, if you're at least in Manufacturing you can also go fishing to get Radfish, when you butcher them you get their livers which do the same thing as the craftable syringes and are less annoying to get (IMO), only downside is you need to refrigerate them

>>716434781
traders wander the world, they'll randomly appear in your base

What are some important shit to start focusing on improving or crafting early on

>>716437543
when you're returning to your base, load up on just enough crap that your inventory weight is in the red but you're not fully overencumbered.
it'll train strength, ontop of the carry capacity boost being able to use powerful armor without hitting that final weight class is a godsend.

>>716437543
A makeshift toilet so you can start to garden
Water purification and storage
Batteries
A vacuum and a platform cart so you can salvage everything
Crafting bench upgrades

>>716438270
>can't use the dumbbells in the gym to increase STR
what were they thinking

is the pipe shotgun supposed to be terrible? it's worse than the pipe pistol...

>>716438923
It's good, but only for a short period of time after unlocking it and only at point blank with head shots.

>>716438923
its only good for stealth attacking people in the head, i wouldnt use it in combat

>>716438923
You basically need to be barrel-stuffing a soldier's head for it to one shot. The spread on shotties in this game is so ridiculously bad that unless your shotgun does a lot of raw damage per pellet it's not gonna one shot. The only real upside of the scrapshot is that in the exact situations where you can sneak up on something you can take at least one enemy in a group out for free, and it's useful for grinding reload XP

>>716438923
use it point blank

Ill never forgive the ABF devs for killing my favorite character for a quick joke by the two shitheads they keep in the marketting.

>>716439690
hasta's death had to happen for the ending, otherwise cahn wouldnt have been able to worm his way to the control room.

>>716439690
I only just got the game on release so your schizo lore means nothing to me.

>>716439690
Your favorite character is fine though.

>>716439862
Frankly, it should have been abe and janet, never liked em.

>>716439928
Should have been this dickhead not-Barney instead. Fuck this nigga and his nyxshade seed wanting ass

>>716440040
But who will trade you peas?

>>716439690
>My le comfort character, is le dead?

>>716439924
sure is

>>716442863
pyrocynical-brained psychopomp enjoyer? just say you like slop and ill assume you're him.

>>716391554
lol, sounds like you need a virtual housewife. Just frame it that way and you'll get 100 people eager to join up

>>716439862

holy shit finally

>>716416965
Gatekeepers are separate from the order

>>716425039
I'm a massive fan of the game but there seems to be a lot of IS that are just sitting there waiting to be used. Tub of Blood got more active through EA but as of Fragments has not been released yet. Snowman is still in containment. Shadowhopper is still stuck in containment. CURIE is still overgrown.

I hope that they continue fleshing out the facility in 1.1 by opening up Synaptics, Manufacturing East, and the rest of Containment.

>>716447515
i think they came out and said manufacturing east is completely cut content

>>716447580
They were more like example areas. I just want more to be honest. This has been one of my favorite games since EA.

>>716447643
i agree, we need much more, the devs are being extra cagey however over what future abiotic content looks like, hopefully it's not just new dlc's but they do go over some of the older areas

>>716431435
>>716431519
range is much better to avoid swipes from enemies, specifically the security bots

>>716386253
bump for help
i feel like minecraft is the only servival crafting game that has an option for this but i feel like it should be standard

>>716447841
there isn't as far as i'm aware

>>716386253
>>716447841
You control the buttons you press.
Besides, upping settings to reduce grind when playing solo is fine, honestly.

>>716386253
no

>>716447515
im personally hoping for a full containment failure mode,
>tub of blood is teleported around using perforations, its more likely to teleport to lodestones and for a few hours at night the area around it becomes extremely dangerous. can effectively be contained by shoving several lodestones in its containment room. might teleport out from time to time still
>speaking of lodestones, they now actually attract perforations. A2 enemies will respawn much quicker around a lodestone. and rift raids become slightly more common as you store more and more lodestones in your base.
>snowman drops the area around it to absolutely arctic temps. but is blocked by sources of heat.
>shadowhopper of course sticks to the shadows, makes the shade around it impenetrably dark. you can technically recontain it with a fish out of water situation.
>the one composer becomes a moving blockade for hallways. somehow got ahold of a shield generator so you cant kill it.
>leyak and kraus become active immediately, both have full access to the facility (including portal worlds). but they are on the same cooldown timer so you cant get both at once, however that timer is now 10 minutes instead of 15.
>the yellow crystal now actively grows, and its pierced some hallways that are annoying for it to be in.
>the IS307/235 rot from their respective cells now move around. and spawns
>reaper is given full facility access and roams around. influenced regions have the same darkness as security, and each region has its own mini-night realm.
>all soda is now kizz cola. kizz now has more negatives (that arent just shitting yourself) and all negatives are present in the buff pool.

>>716449840
>the IS307/235 rot from their respective cells now move around. and spawns-
-enemies from space queen, oops.

I just bought the game but my friends dont want to get it.
How time consuming is singleplayer?

What's the equivalent of getting past the cargo bays for System Shock 2 where every encounter doesn't feel like I'm fucking counting my bullets

Is the healing briefcase worth using over syringes? I haven't taken much damage from anything since making the thing so I haven't used it.
>>716444839
Shit I don't even mean that I'd want to push that onto somebody else, I wouldn't mind doing base ops while stuff is getting done. That and just being able to split supplies between multiple backpacks would be fantastic. I got the Ratpack (solely because of metagame shit from reading the thread, how am I supposed to know that I should have to net them before specficially using a blunt weapon to kill them to get real loot? is that also the same as far as the militants? they instantly break the net stun before I can hit them) and between carrying around a screwdriver, blunt weapon for smashing loot, sharp weapon for gibbing corpses, healing stuff, several guns, ammo for those guns, grenades, bouncepad, charging pad, I'm losing over 2/3rds my inventory space. If those were split between a duo I'd be perfect.

>>716452785
>how am I supposed to know that I should have to net them before specficially using a blunt weapon to kill them to get real loot

>>716452785
It's been invaluable to me and saves a tonne on healing, especially in multiplayer. Being able to passively recharge it with the crystalline trinket is a bonus.

>>716451074
It's not that grindy, and if you feel like it will be, just crank up the sandbox settings
Consider raising the item stack multiplier

>can craft medium sign
>want to make small signs
>why can I make medium but not small?
>decide to wiki small signs
>get spoiled on new material
wtf? its a fucking SIGN for christ sakes.. WHY DOES IT NEED SPECIAL WOOD?!?!?!?!!?!?

>>716453395
the scientist you play as may be smart, but he's not exactly intelligent.

HOW MUCH DAMAGE DOES THE RIGHT CLICK OF THE IMPACT HAMMER DO. THERE IS NO INFO ABOUT THIS ANYWHERE

>>716453050
Yeah, that's how you get the lab rat pack from the mask guys

>>716453487
the impact hammer's right click just lets you hold the windup, they are the same attack other than that.

>>716453395
We needed more smarts and better materials to downsize a PC to a smartphone too

What are the noob trap jobs/traits?

>>716454419
I took the extra hotbar slots. Did I brick myself bros?

any /v/ lobbies?

>>716454419
All classes but summer intern.

>>716454543
probably wont be unfortunately.
its one of those games where you want everyone around for most of the content or else someone's getting robbed of the experience (also why its better solo)

is it just me or is the grinder op as fuck

>Diamond 3
>Estimated 4 minutes to find a game
The game is dead.
Time to move on.

>>716453557
but it says it does something different?

iiii think i need to use the facilities.....*BRAP*

>>716453373
I already started, can i change the settings mid game or do i need to create a new world?

>>716451798
I'd say mid-Labs. Once you get stalled trying to find Leyak Essence to continue you'll have time to go grind gear and get better weapons.

>>716440040
This dude's peas and gun repair kits have saved my ass too many times to count
Even if he's a retard Warren is ma nigga

>>716455060
>>716453557
i get 70 sneak attack xp when left clicking with the crowbar. i get nearly double that when i right click with the impact hammer, implying it does more

>>716453557
holding right click is a power attack, works on all weapons you two-hand and can usually kill enemies in 1 hit on the head in stealth

>>716455276
You can change them mid game, I think it's saved as an ini file

>>716454825
it kinda is, u can also upgrade it for cheap, ammo is everywhere and the best part is that it levels accuracy. the upgraded scrapshot pistol doesnt and the quill rifle doesnt count either

>>716456679
>Quill Rifle
That thing is so close to being decent but it's ruined by the gay homing shit so it can't score headshots. Makes it useless against Order troops and the ayys, also the fact that it got cucked out of an upgrade for some reason...

>>716452785
well i'm just literally telling you that you can solve that problem by asking people to join. You could literally just go ask from this thread for an e-housewife or healslut and SOMEONE is gonna say yes, lol

>>716452785
Yeah, the briefcase is pretty great, it seems like it heals faster than the syringes and you can cheese with it in areas that have a GATE Charger, or a portable charger assuming you can find a plug. I haven't carried syringes with me since I crafted it

>>716455276
you can right before you load the game

>>716454825
at the point it becomes available yes, but its pretty useless against late game enemies even with the enhancement

>>716456796
Both the quill rifle and the lode bow deserved upgrades.

My only friend in the darkness.

>>716459006
he cute

>>716459006
he has nice feet

So I just got into Manufacturing West, fog is so fucking thick I can't see anything, and suddenly OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS SOMEBODY RUNNING A JACKHAMMER SOMEWHERE

>>716459928
IT'S SO FUCKING LOUD IT'S VIBRATING MY FLOOR, SEND HELP

>>716459928
There's a kill the fog button in sector 3 bwo

>>716460202
Thanks fren, I found it earlier and figured that was what I was gonna do after enjoying (or "enjoying") the ambience a bit, but I fucking ran back and turned it off immediately after that BRRRRRR ran my bitch ass out. Can't handle both the visibility and whatever's making that sound at the same time lol.

>>716460545
I can't even tell you what that could've been
Maybe a symphonist but I doubt it

>>716460608
It's probably the military dudes shooting their chaingun at the crane operator. Sometimes those fucks will do it for like five straight minutes. The cost in ammunition must be unbelievable.

>Reaper now fucking books it towards you and can tank multiple laser pistol shots
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make fun of you so much.