Thread 717364935

You are decormaxxing right anon?

>>717364935 (OP)
Why is this game getting a bunch of threads on /v/ lately? I remember playing this literally months ago, or even last year with friends. Was it popular or something?

>>717365779
released out of early access

I'll make Guantanamo Bay look like a fucking daycare!

I'm trying to get out of the place, not set up a home for life. Bare necessities only, Final Destination.

>>717365779
1.0 release

>>717364935 (OP)
Does this game have texture filtering so you can make it look like an authentic oldschool game?
Cuz software rendering was a thing for about 10 seconds in the 90s and I wasn't paying attention at that time.

i never leave home without my 3 wide filing cabinets and chair to ensure maximum strength increase
the surroundings of my base are starting to look like a home depot with how much random furniture i'm dropping in front of it for future swoleifications

>>717365779
Shills. Always shills. The game is mid and I've never seen anyone talk about it up until now. Besides Minecraft I've never seen /v/ talk about survival crafting games

>>717364935 (OP)
Oh neat, another wacky HL1 scientist survival game to waste days of my life into.
Tell me more about it.

>>717367162
not everything is shills anon

>>717367568
On /v/ it is.

>>717367609
who the fuck shills on a niche basketweaving forum unless they are themselves a /v/tard?

1.0 was so lackluster.

Residence sector is so half-assed and there’s only 1 new enemy with the rest being reskins.

>>717367673
>being this much of a newfag

>>717367832
my hope for post 1.0 is map polish I want them to add more areas to build around the map and expand things like the train and the school in flathill

>cultist faction only uses conventional weaponry because utilizing anomalies goes against their faith
>scientist faction doesn't give a shit and only cares about results, has insane augmented warlocks
pretty fun subversion

Solochads report in!

>>717369458
my solo play is ruined because several friends expressed interest in playing but haven't actually come through so I don't want to progress solo and ruin experiencing stuff with them

>>717364935 (OP)
What are the survival mechanics in this game?

>>717369641
If you shit yourself you lose the game.

>>717369641
>Eat
>Drink
>Shit (really)
>Sleep
>Get fucked because shields are a meme that don't even work
>Basebuilding
>Farming
>Crafting

>>717369641
eating,shitting,sleeping,bleeding,drinking

>>717369641
All survival mechanics are optional.

that creepy little fuck has been scaring me the whole game and now that I need him the most he refuses to spawn

How do world respawns work? sometimes I see new shit in places I've explored, but I can't tell when or where.

>>717370882
Hang around the reactor cafeteria at night, he likes to spawn there and there's easy access to a coffee machine.

Just finished the game. Does the sniper of the unlost have a name or is there any information about him? And Janet is the sister right?

>>717370882
How many hours anon?
>Shitting myself because it's night and I was warned for the first time

>>717369458
>Multiplayer run only convenes for a few hours once or twice a week
>Solo play binge when friends aren't available
I hate the Darkwater beast
I hate the Darkwater beast
I hate the Darkwater beast
I HATE THE DARKWATER BEAST

>>717371039
anteverse world resources respawn twice a week. New Gate enemy spawns in old areas is based on progression

>>717371101
100 hours

>>717371039
portal worlds go through a time reset on thursday and sunday night, you can tell what day it is by looking at your watch (T)

furniture you've placed in these worlds doesn't reset and crafting tables you've placed prevent enemies from spawning in the safety radius, so you can build bases there if you want

>>717370750
>Shit (really)
Is it as fun as it is in rl?
>crafting and farming
Was this ever done correctly or interesting? I'll check it out, curious what they implemented.

>Finally get through containment and about to start the security sector
>Power about to go out, so I head back to wait for the lights because I'm a massive coward and the night is spooky
>Get back to security
>The lights don't help
Currently huddled in a corner caressing my antique shotgun

>>717364935 (OP)
I'm not going to get too crazy here, already pretty comfy on its own. Aquarium would be nice somewhere.

But anyway, after more than 10,000 hours of figuring out cable management and several x-ray towers to leyak-proof the building, I finally have the startings of a main base. Wanted to try and keep the inside pretty clean since I like the interior, though will add a few bits and bobs over time. I'm really disappointed though you can't seem to contain meat gf in reactors, was going to place in her in the lounge area with my bed right next to it, but unfortunately not, hence the need for x-ray covering every door

>>717364935 (OP)
Where are the shadows? Is the game supposed to mimick late 1980s / early 1990s games?

>>717371239
You can roleplay the Indian call center employee you've always dreamed of

>>717371398
>supposed to mimick late 1980s / early 1990s games?
What makes you say that

>>717371398
you're a decade off there, fella

>>717371467
probably the ps1 like textures

>>717371589
Ive reached the point where I believe all negativity is a government psyop to prevent gamers from sharing a good time together.

>>717369641
you eat, drink, shit and sleep.

>>717371378
very comfy

>>717371198
>>717371238
What of cupboards, crates, cabinets, water coolers etc?

>>717372165
everything in portal worlds reset unless they are placed by the player

Love the game, but the ending just left me wanting more instead of wrapping up anything. What I'm hoping for is with future content is some of the following

>portal to the future that has us picking through a totally fucked Cascade with the portal worlds blending into Anteverse 0. Lobby is full night realm, reactor has completely been taken over by Exors, the remaining IS's escaped, etc.
>opening up locked areas and releasing current/new IS that we can recontain if we want
>We get to go to new GATE facilities that are going through their own special blend of our events

what does the N.S.Z. stand for?
it's from the background menu selection

>>717372421
they've teased one more leyak variant in a bahamas-based GATE facility already, so my guess is we'd go there
maybe something else with the puppeteer as well? there's an item that only exists in the game to tease him

>>717372248
Wait, water coolers refill themselves?

>>717373217
only in portal worlds

>>717372714
I doubt we'll be able to figure it out until they build on it
I'd like to think it's on mars though, that the gatekeepers are trying to build some sort of gate (heh) to funnel all portal incursions through and defend earth from further alien invasion

>>717370882
What is this about?

>>717372714
New Super Zealand (we jumped into a timeline where they invaded straya)

>>717373765
give coffee to the coworker

>>717364935 (OP)
Still new at the game
Killed some robots by luring them into my whirlyblade and crouching under it
Got their parts and crafted the lvl 1 keypad hacker
Found a nice gman office with 2 power strips. Might move up there due to where portal storms like to spawn at my base, not sure yet.
Took some time to catch 8 fish, made some fish glue, made some meat stew with the other pest parts.
Made some extra cooking pots and 2 stoves and powerstrip so I could go down to the fountain and make 1000L with 4 pots fairly quickly. Now I dont have to worry about running out of clean water as its fairly easy to fill up a cooler and bring it back to my cafeteria office base.

And now I am in Flatwood. Very cool The Mist vibes.

is magbow worth the expensive ammo? I base next to train so getting carbon and rebar isnt much of an issue

I moved by base to the train portal station but despite putting benches everywhere the fucking ruskies keep spawning

>>717372248
does the normal world stuff respawn also?

>>717374120
they need to be powered. make sure you use industrial batteries to keep them so all night

>>717374172
no, unless you specifically enable that

>>717373927
protip, you can build 2 death fans right in front of their pods and is free soda, metal and electronics every morning or any time you need it

>>717374172
No, but thats what the anteverses are for, just be car

>>717374172
By default no, you can enable normal world respawn but all it does is respawn a handful of items in each area
the game's designed around you emptying out the normal world and having to farm portals for stuff

>>717374227
>>717374310
>>717374331
makes sense, i'm keeping all the settings on default so i'll adapt

>>717374310
>just be car
the leyak got him

Fuck the security sector. I need to scrounge while assrape McCain comes and fondles me.

>>717374458
night realm is my favorite portal world in the game. cahn was right. It is peaceful there.

>>717373927
sounds like youve figured out the game, have fun
keep an eye on your water station, enemies spawn/patrol that area so they might start attacking it

Where is Dr. Cahn?

>>717374626
It's strange the inhabitants only whisper

Went through my entire sniper ammo I've been hoarding throughout the whole game on the last boss.
I just got cancer.

>>717374898
I killed it with half a flamethrower and the laser gun only

This looks cool but is it one of those "technically singleplayer but fucking sucks ass and is clearly designed for multiplayer" games?

How do you grind crafting

>>717375102
Kinda but you can adjust drop rates, damage, etc

>>717375205
build hardlight bridges and then scrap them

>>717375102
singleplayer is great if your friends are fags who rush through everything and don't give any shits
or if you don't have friends

tweak whatever values you feel aren't really doing it for you, i'm enjoying 1.3x xp, 1.3x stack size, and hard mode

>>717375102
I've been playing solo for 40h now and I find it fun, comfy and engaging. You do sometimes wish you had more carry capacity or inventory slots, but it's not a big deal.

>>717375102
its oriented towards multiplayer but its serviceable on single player, and arguably better because you can take the time to explore or read journals or talk to NPCs and not worry about grinding materials to keep everyone geared to the same level
>>717375205
deconstructing furniture gives crafting exp

>>717374812
>only whisper
escape the security sector and return to the ink pond

>>717375102
It's a lot more atmospheric and kinda spooky on your own. With friends it's basically Gman Squad - running and screaming and crowbarring everything to death.

Can't decide whether to move into the waterfall apartments in hydro or the comfy rest area at the start of reactors

I've had this bug where nocturnal anomalies are invisible - is there any fix for this?

>>717372714
New South Zeil
Its like a play on new south wales. Australian pine gap, a military base, is pretty close and just southeast of Mt Zeil. Strange UFO activity is said to occur around there. Check out Mt Zeil or pine gap on google maps. Looks an awful lot like the area they drive you in on for the opening of this game, and I think the npc has an aussie accent (if its new zealand accent I cant tell the difference)

The thing about Pine Gap is its a "Joint Defense Base" which means the low level perimeter security stuff gets handled by locals in the Australian military. They are the Barneys. The CIA and NSA, they run surveilance and signals intelligence there (and probably X files).

Black Mesa was a reference to white sands. GATE is the name of the research facility here ingame but also theres all of the GATE speculation you see on /x/ about the cia trying to find psychic kids in school.

I'm subtracting 1 point from this games overall score for what they did to Hasta

>>717374749
A robot already blew it up once (I recovered all the things that became a package) thats why I went for an industrial setup to watermax. The trick is to set up, boil a ton of water, then tear it all down and store it in my base for later.

this is so niggers

>>717376434
as >>717374237 said, you can set up the same propeller trap or 2 tesla coils with a battery in front of the robot charging station and they'll automatically kill the robot each night. That'll let you farm its loot automatically on top of protecting your base from at least the robot
boiling water is pretty boring though, shit takes like several minutes to complete

I kinda hate how much of a non issue night is. It's not like tougher enemies spawn at night in greater abundance than they do normally, or if they do, I haven't noticed it.

Same can be said of raids which are honestly pitiful given the kind of defense options you have.

The facility is remarkably safe in general considering how fucked everything is supposed to be.

>magbow doesnt even oneshot exors

whats the point man.

>Played with 2x XP
>Only skill that got maxed in a full playthrough (40 hours) was Reload

>>717375102
It's multiplayer in the same sense that you can play co-op halo for example. There's extra things you may get out of it play wise when going through with another person, but all the same options are still there for solo play.

Just got into Hydro. Wheres a good 2nd base? Ive been using the start in cafeteria since the beginning.

>>717377368
The center building in hydro.

>>717377407
the gunfire from the soldiers would drive me insane

>praetorium
did the devs forget that this is a place that people live and work in?
why the fuck is it so maze-like?

Gonna start a game. Do you think the base rates of everything are ok for a solo player, or would you fiddle a bit with them ? Like exp rates etc.

>>717378732
I personally found the defaults fine for my solo playthrough.

>>717378732
Max out stack sizes, imo. You'll still be limited by weight. Also turn the XP rate up a bit.

>>717378732
XP rate 1.5x
Stack size 3x
Item durability 1.3x

>>717377936
To be honest we don't know the place and all the doors are closed for us. Shouldn't be like that for pople who live there

>>717378906
fuck off
I have worked at places with FAR better layouts that have been described as confusing and labyrinthine

>>717378803
>>717378821
>>717378897
Thanks for the input lads

>>717375102
Its the opposite. In multiplayer everyone runs ahead and unlocks new stuff without you. You have to grind a ton of materials to craft equipment for everyone. Solo is way more comfy. Multiplayer is more fun though.

>>717379269
You can always modify them later too once you see the mechanics first hand.

>>717367162
Everything is shills anon, even you!

>>717375102
Don't play it if your friends are niggers.
>Play with my bro and his friend
>His friend has the wiki open and is trying to be the boss
>Dip after an hour

>max out fishing
>have x-ray gun
>full swim gear
>still scared absolutely shitless in the hydro waters
Fuck I may have to do the jump-pad route to get through this damned place. I wish it wasnt so damn dark in the water, at least seeing where the beast is would calm my autism.

I like to imagine this game awakened my nerdy scientists caveman genes and when he finds a female he brutally rapes then. Before this he never even knew what a vagina looked like, now he couldnt care less as his base animal instincts have taken over

Wish I paid more attention to some of the audio logs but there are just so many.
>mfw the shapeshifter one starts adding up

>>717367162
>finally a game that actually goes out of EA
>shill shill shill shill shill shill shill
its okay, anon.

>>717364935 (OP)
Do you get to touch the lady scientists boobies?

>>717380428
I swam through those waters dozens of times collecting residue and I saw the monster exactly twice
It didn't even aggro onto me. They really pussied out with it

Will my stuff disappear if i store it in random cupboards ? Or if i just throw it on the ground ?

>>717370557
Like in real life

I'm not paying 35 fucking dollars for an indie game.

>>717371190
Ya know that things actually super slow, you can out swim it, it just looks scary because of how loud it is. You could also Fishmax and have it become a fren buy hitting level 13 I believe?

>>717380494
>shows up to work at his new job at the facility
>forced to survive a multi-layer apocalypse scenario as he faces horrors beyond comprehension
>creates weapons that would probably get him executed by every overhead lead for even thinking of making them
>kills a near army of people along the way
The player is coming out the other side of this incident damaged to say the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXCx50yaseA&ab_channel=CoreyLaddo

>>717380864
In the cupboards, no unless its a portal world that resets every few days. On the ground, probably???

For the final boss, am i supposed to be aiming for the big guy in the distance, or are it's tentacles the thing it takes damage from? I can handle either or, it's just the games a little bad at showing feedback to enemy hits and I'f prefer to not to waste my time like I did on Tarsq.

>>717381071
I like to imagine the player character(s) are just settling into a new job after surviving the black mesa incident last year and fleeing to Australia

>>717381252
Shoot him when he has no shield. The tentacles on the ground make a shield around him, so destroy those til the shield is gone.

Is it any good in single player? I'm a friendless loser but it looks fun.

I would read all the journal entries if I didn't have to navigate the fucking thing manually every time a new entry is added and the resetting entries bug didn't exist.

>>717381739
Use the database

>>717381667
Yes its perfectly playable solo, the default settings scale for solo.

>>717381335
OHHHH! Fuck, they actually did set up killing enemies to lower a bigger enemies shield in the Fragments area, my midwit ass just didn't piece that together.

How long is this game
I just found some """""scientist""""" trapped inside a SCP cell and he wants me to deactivate the doors to free him

>>717381667
I've beat it twice solo. There's really nothing that requires 4 people, in fact i'd say the games harder having to wait on others to get their shit together to move the game along.

>>717381982
Its pretty damn long solo, 50+ hours in and im still in hydro. Granted ive been trying to make most of the gear and find cool stuff but theres a ton of content as far as I can tell.

>>717381982
75 hours minimum. I'mon my second play through and this is what time I'm at blazing through it knowing exactly what to do. It's a loooong ass game anon.

>>717381982
50 hours if you rush it, 100+ if you decide to take your time grinding stuff and listening/reading

>>717381982
I beat it in 42 hours. I didn't fuck around with extensive base building or anything.

just got to labs and im so lost
found one part for the lvl 3 hacker but no luck with the other one
>>717382462
kill yourself

Is this a voices of the void like?

>>717382790
not even close

>>717382790
No. It's Half-Life, the Black Mesa section, combined with elements of SCP.

>>717380618
the shapeshifter seems like a pretty cool guy actually
>System Override: New Permanent directive
Huh??

>Unreal Engine 5
FUCK. Although I do have a recent mid-range PC, so... maybe it will run?

>>717381054
But you'll pay 70 dollars and above for a rehashed Nintendo game?

>>717381054
this game has more content than your AAA slop

>>717383221
it runs fine

>krasue
fucking why
was leyak not already enough?

>>717384250
I got news for you anon

larva meat looks so delicious

Is there any trick to preventing the portal storms from spawning inside ur base? Just moved my starting base in the cafeteria to the area just before manufacturing with the locker room and Zipline and was wondering the best way to set it up to defend against the assault events.

>>717384965
There's a bench upgrade specifically for this

>>717384965
There's a bench upgrade that disables portal storms.

>>717364935 (OP)
I will leave the front section of the cafeteria when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

>>717381798
The what

Holy FUCK
I know it's Half Life inspired but I could do without the end game shitty platforming section
FUCK fractures

>>717385119
>>717385132
Right, but until I get that which probably won't be for a while, is there any way to cheese it out of that area like if I build a separate crafting bench in a contained area near the base?

>>717385821
What platforming? You just walk into orbs.

How hard would it be to lure the cool ranch leyak here? Just hope a cold snap happens to occur while I'm home?

>>717385998
It might be because I'm retarded and refuse to take off my anti-grav cube so I get launched further but my sentiment still stands!

>>717364935 (OP)
What do you do in this game?

do I have to put simple item respawn on to get multiple gravity cubes for multiplayer?

I would like to apologize about complaining about needing to upgrade my hacking to Lv5 so soon after getting Lv4, the recipe is way easier than the previous ones.

>>717386495
Eat shit sleep repeat

>>717386512
marion sells funny cubes for the order sigils you find in ornate crates

>>717386512
you can get them from fog merchant

>>717386512
Marion will get a grav cube trade

>>717386619
>>717386565
>>717386564
Alright, that works. I do guess that means one person will have it early until we can scrape up more ornate chests?

>>717386669
If it's any consolation I have gotten like 7 ornate keys solo on default settings without the trinket that increases drop rates

is this game just VotV without all the gay furry shit and streamer bait?

>>717386996
Read the thread before posting

>>717377086
How do you not have sprinting strength maxed first? They are literally always leveling

>>717367530
>Oh neat, another wacky HL1 scientist survival game to waste days of my life into.
>Tell me more about it.

This, but earnestly.
Voices of The Void really endeared me to the concept and I've been enjoying myself. The shittier graphics and clumsy physics system are also a way better vehicle for horror. I also thought it was stupid originally, but being able to upload your own images, music, and/or video playlists, and have them as sprays, posters, or play them on in-game machines is actually very fun & charming.

>>717386512
I was actually thinking about turning this one for my three man group but shit is WAY more bottlenecked with three people
I am the only one with a hacking device right now in Manufacturing, for example

>>717387273
you don't need more than one hacking device if you cooperate, and you can carry 3x as much/fight 3x stronger enemies, it's less bottlenecked

Is this the first EA game that had an actual roadmap they followed and actually FINISHED?

>>717387475
And it only took them a year. Incredible work.

>>717387132
since i got habit to unload asap and mostly chilling at the base, my strength and sprinting still at 14

bros my entire facility just turned fucking pitch black and I can't see 3 feet ahead of me
should I just hide in my base until it ends?

did they change how to get liquid crystals?
googled and everyone said to smash the monitors in labs but they didnt drop anything
found a thing that converts antegems into liquid crystals but that seems pretty wasteful

>>717388140
Im sure nothing is wrong!

>>717388171
There are two kinds of monitors. The ones that drop liquid crystals are different from the normal ones

>>717388171
there's regular monitors like you see in the offices, then there's LCD monitors that look fancier. You'll know one when you see one, but they're in later places (like the security section, or around the area with the antegem converters)

>>717387663
That's the difference between people who make games because they think it's fun versus people who make games because they want money or signal a messages

>>717388185
my ass is staying seated until this shit ends

>>717387663
it's all made using blueprints, so it's terribly unoptimized and buggy

>>717364935 (OP)
id be more interested in it, if it didnt look so shitty graphics wise, it looks old as shit

>>717382462
What the actual fuck is your problem you piece of shit, you fucking faggot.
I hope you get stuck in traffic when you need to shit.

I just finished the game.

>>717388920
you smell like broccoli
fucking disgusting

>>717388467
Just sit on the throne bro

>>717388467
fun news anon
it doesnt stop until you make it stop

>>717389205
Or wait a full day.

>>717364935 (OP)
>posted about this game a few months back here
>no responses
>it's popular now and everyone's talking about it and playing it
Feels good, man

>>717383192
My theory is that the first part of that message was the shapeshifter and Manse set up automatic security in case someone with his voice and face said something he didn't actually believe.

Do you ever unlock more trinket slots? Two feels really restrictive.

>>717389543
to be fair I refuse to pay any attention to any game in Early Access
Full release? I'll check it out

>>717389012
>Was going to take a swing at him after finishing his dialogue
>He pops out of existence after the final line
Mother fucker, you come back here right now I don't care if I can't actually hit or hurt you.

>>717389840
It used to be 1. 2 is fine, the recharge trinket is amazing but not necessary since you can make portable batteries.

>>717389847
That's exactly why I didn't bother starting or posting in threads, everyone should understand by now how tired the average person is of EA survival crafting games.

>>717386996
Nope. The inclusion of half life themed stuff or basebuilding does not make it the same at all.
The core gameplay is very different.
Your hunger thirst and rest are going down constantly and days go by much faster.

Votv makes you do hashes, search for signals, and make money, with survival being a bit of an afterthought. A slow burn with the occasional scary event in an environment you know pretty well.

Here, you are learning a million recipees, crafting, gathering materials, stocking your base, building defenses, and are gated by exploration and your ability to go loot the things you need to advance to a new area. You have to sneak or do combat often. Often the new areas you unlock will lead to shortcuts or other doors that you could see before but were not unlocked until you exit them from the other direction. There are NPCs you find that give you lore and dialogues directing you where to go next. For me so far it has been 'well you cant escape that way, try going to this section and finding this guy.'

For example I started by breaking lots of crates and PCs and hauling the goods back to my cafeteria base. There was what I thought was a huge hub like a nexus in dark souls. I explored maybe 2 rooms and hauled it all back to the sofa, dropped it on the ground. Crafted a crafting bench. Eventually crafted crates. Saw I could make a repair/salvage bench. Worked on finding items to make that. I had the option to follow the main quest and unlock the next area. I chose to ignore it awhile and explore everywhere else I could first, which was a lot of other rooms - a pool, locker room, gym, a merchant at the fountain, a dying security guard infront of a door to security section, a fancy office area, several normal office rooms with loot, a large open cubicle area with alien dogs and a ventilation and maintenance area above, a section leading to a portal area that resets daily, and several others

>>717390307
>Dying security guard
Make sure to give him a bandage

>>717388268
>>717388275
im too retarded i cant find them

>>717390818
havent seen one of those and ive been through the whole area where the converters are

>>717390818
If you're multiplayer maybe someone else scraped them all up. They're just the fancier computer monitors that spawn in the later areas

Why am I only just now hearing about this game?

>>717391940
because you spend way too much time complaining about shit on /v/ than actually playing video games

>>717390987
Keep looking. There are tons all over labs

>>717372013
This is so comfy. I am really liking the minimalist bases much more than the ones loaded with absolutely everything found in game.

>reach reactor
>nothing but enemies that takes 6 gorillions bullets to kill with the element they're weak to
>only option is hiding behind a corner and using heavy sprint attacks
This game started so well but holy shit this is just fucking cancer.

>>717392732
science a bit more and you'll invent ways to effectively disable their shields

>>717392732
I've been going through reactors with the thumper shotgun and the hypercross magbow and the only trouble I've really had is the Jotun. A hardlight shield helps, but all you can really do is play peekaboo around corners.

>>717391940
1.0 released last month and was it in early access for almost 2 years before that i think

>>717392823
what is the best way to take out their shields?

>>717367530
There's other coop games like it on the market I can sink time into with my friends?

>>717377368
I'm surprised people are building elsewhere. My friends and I have the security office in the first area made into such a comfy base we can't see ourselves anywhere else, only the group weeb wants to be in the nipshit portal world.

Before portal tech we had a network of personal teleporters everywhere.

>>717391940
there would be like 1 thread per patch that barely survived a day on /v/
not really that much to discuss with each patch when you spend more time actually playing the game

>>717393425
weapons that deal plasma damage and null grenades

>>717386272
You can get krasue to appear by going into cold storage at the labs. I don't know for a fact if hitting it with the x-ray there will put it in containment at the office or manufacturing.

>>717364935 (OP)
Unreal slop

how the fuck do i build ramps

game needs a tau cannon stand-in

>>717396125
absolutely this, need charge cannon sexo

>>717395564
Bridges placed on a ramp will be angled

>>717385689
You can craft the database terminal which has a dual function of being able to pull any item out of your chests using a search function and viewing all logs

>>717377936
The only part that really bothered me was the parkour library, but the rest of it is fine with only a little suspension of disbelief

>>717382790
This is Subnautica x Half Life

>>717397292
It's better than Subnautica and I love that game.

>cold fusion update
>there is no cold fusion
Huh? Where is my infinite source of energy?

>>717397793
quantum batteries

Does the void chest do what I think it does? Links 2 chests together?

>>717398178
every instance of the chest shares the same inventory

Dark Energy update was weaker than Hydroplant but the 1.0 zones were just straight up boring, did they just run out of effort or something? Not a single interesting thing going on and the ending felt like they just ran out of time

Great game overall still

>>717398178
ender chest

>>717398003
>uses frozen essence
Maybe that's it. Also i'm guessing i need to pick up a frozen essence to unlock the mystagogue set?

>>717398510
correct my fellow scientist

>>717382790
>its it like VoTV
No, thank fuck, because now we have 2 scientist spooky simulators that are vastly different. I think this is a better experience overall atm, only because VotV requires SO much fucking blindness to actually truly enjoy it, and its a long fucking game, and its in a weird spot where it might be best to wait for 1.0 if you played it prior.

This is more straightforward but still mysterious and engaging and im solo. It has more "game" going on, but VotV kills it with its atmosphere. This is also a good spooky, its not really invasive and its "jump scare" enemy is likened more to an attached puppy than a monster that autistically stutters at you for attention.

>>717364935 (OP)
I like survival crafting games but I've played so many by now that it has to have something special about it to keep me engaged.
I played this one for 3 hours and was bored as fuck the whole time

Fish lvl?

I fucking hate Labs

I fucking love Labs

I fuck Labs

I Labs

Where the fuck do I go in hydro first. This shits fucking massive. Im loving this game but fuck its constantly throwing shit at me. Im kinda glad I cut the enemy respawn in half solo.

Good news (for me): I've found more sow peccaries in hydroplant sector.
Bad news is that I need to go past grenade lobbing robots for them and that there are red exors nearby who refuse to go down to two quick ones to the face from double barreled shotgun anomaly.

>>717400847
Sunken tower for hacking Lv5 first; break the gold balls you can reach.

>>717400847
position yourself by the tram
now look towards the sniper nest at the far end of the roadway
you should see a lowered pathway section in front of you that blocks the sniper's view of you
follow that section

>>717400983
Tip, hit those robots in the back.

>>717387262
>but earnestly
...i wasnt joking however. I was asking anons to sell me on the game.

>find the behemoth
>stand on the railings
>dump 26 thumper shells, 21 magbolts, 82 toaster SMG rounds directly into his head
>break my volt staff on his face too
>still doesn't die, but he looks close to death
>teleport out to get more ammo
>when I come back he's full fucking health
>give up and just start the reactor without killing him
What the fuck

>friends taking too long to organize a time to hop on our shared world
>start a singleplayer one and already at hydro while fucking around and doing other shit
>host just said he won't be playing for a week
Realistically I'll be at Residences or even at the end by the time we're ready to actually start playing again. I plan on turning the Security Station shooting range into a farm and setting up a trophy area on the ground floor.

>>717402451
deatomizer my man
carry two fully charged laser collectors with you

Is it worth it to fight the floating gatekeeper dude in reactors
He looks scary and I saw he had a shield

>>717402258
It sort of reminds me of zomboid but instead of zombies you're stuck in a research base trying to get out with your fellow scientists. You start off being a new hire who beats escaped lab experiments to death with a chair leg and slowly turn into a man strapped head to toe in armor you stripped off a holy soldier as you walk into another dimension. It tricks you into thinking it's an open world game with all the shit you can do, but is very much a game with planned story beats and big moments meant to catch you off guard. I spent at least a hundred hours building a farm inside a research chamber and fishing inside various dimensions

>>717402603
yes you need the eyes his drones (and head) drops

>>717400847
Yeah decreasing enemy respawn is must especially when playing solo

i wish they let you hack a bot or something as a battle buddy for solo

>>717402572
Is this thing good against other enemies? I need something more consistent than the shotgun, it takes 6 buckshot just to kill the radioactive exors

>>717402603
get an atomizer and shred him, but don't get too close because he will just pick you up and deal a lot of damage

>>717402746
absolutely, it's too good honestly

>>717402603
Yes, mugnades will drop him quickly and bypass the shield.

>>717377368
I built my main base above the Blacksmith because it's right next to a tram and he has some very useful trades. You can have multiple personal teleporters synced to different workbenches so you can just drop a workbench in whatever area you are currently exploring and move it to the next when you're ready. Instant transport to and from base

I do not like the reaper
I do not like fishing
Fuck night essence

>>717403298
I'm going to fishmax for Night Essence only then fuck off from that dimension forever

I was having a lot of fun with the game, but I think I hit the part where they probably gave up with early access and just started trying to finish the game as soon as possible. That part is Reactors, but actually the first reactor was alright (not particularly good though). The second reactor is a completely awful slog. Maybe this is just a random fluke. Probably not.
I was sad they made that really cool zone with the water robot and there's basically nothing in there at all, and you're out of it in 15 minutes.

top lel

>>717403419
The outdoor reactor area is the worst area of the entire game but that's just due to it having every new and powerful enemy crammed in one place.

>>717402451
The Behemoth, the second thing you need to hit in the tentacle nips to open his weak spot?

>>717403589
Cloud Reactor ?
>walk a bit, jotun and 2 fucking bots
>walk little more, neophytes
>walk little more, even more enemies
>walk little more, ffs when this gonna stop
>walk out abit, fucking sniper
>walk below the building, fucking turret
i know there is a shortcut if you follow the pipes from the top of the building but holy shit, that reactor is absolutely crazy

nerf the deatomizer
buff guns

>>717403589
>>717403893
That's good to know I guess, I had to take a break after my third death. It feels like the correct "strategy" to killing the minigun guys is just cheese them by walking in circles around large boxes. the mounted machine gun locking on in 0.5 seconds after walking past a window is also frustrating

>>717403893
Even after completing it it sucks to go back through. I had to bring a crafting table just to have a teleporter to avoid getting up that slog of robots and Jotun.

>>717367530
>another
Fuck off, retarded tryhard.

>>717403893
>>717404212
>>717404276

Jotun are the only consistently annoying enemy for the entire game. Every other enemy becomes trivial besides those fucks.

>hardlight saber cant sprint power attack
And relegated to a throwing weapon

Just beat the game, and I have to say that the game gets significantly worse after hydroplant.
Jotun are overtuned bullshit, to the point where I would just avoid them unless I was absolutely forced to fight them.
A second, more annoying variant of Leyak, the most cancerous thing in the game, was a dogshit idea.
The need to have a flamethrower to get through the ice walls is really fucking stupid when I'm carrying around an SMG that fires plasma. Also, how do you power a flamethrower with lasers, and why in the world was it neccessary for it to work that way?
The final boss, as well as the gauntlet leading up to it, was boring.
I did like how IS-0012 called us ignorant to the point of absurdity, though. Because there was really no reason we should have ever trusted him, let alone continued to trust him when he outright admited that he had been manipulating us the whole time.

>>717404837
it can block bullets

>>717403419
jetpack and crystal armor makes it easy to skip most of the fights there

>>717404837
Into the trash it goes then. Sprint attack is the only attack I'll use, fuck them shields and puny 1handers.

>>717404276
>>717404404
Volt staff alt fire ignores their shield and kills them within 5-10 shots. Shit has carried me for the last third of the game and everyone is sleeping on it.

>>717404276
I have hardlight bridges setup to walk over all the enemies.

>>717404985
how?

>>717405726
It's made of the same hardlight technology. It draws on your stamina to deflect bullets

>>717405726
it does it passively when you are holding it, you will see a reflect animation sometimes

Mystagogue Glove usage
>1% on enemies
>99% on myself

>>717405776
only sometimes, seems unreliable

Boy I hope it's Pizza Friday...

Well, I'm having trouble putting more than 20 lasers in the killzone due to hitbox issues and other various quirks of building. But at the very least I've got a way to level fortitude now.

Well I'm glad to see the aliens respect culinary supremacy at the very least.

>>717407895
YJK

>>717408093
CORKSCREWED.COM

>Been seeing threads for weeks now
>Uh huh, another survival crafting game, YAWN.
>Ignore it all
>Finally look into this when bored enough
>It actually looks fucking awesome
>It's heavily inspired by Half-Life and SCP back when it was good
Oh holy shit I'm an idiot.

>>717408250
The concept of Gatekeepers is enough to figure out that the SCP writers dont know what the fuck theyre doing because Gatekeepers are super cool

I keep forgetting to take good clips of the game while playing through again.

These threads are too positive. Talk about what you don't like about Abiotic Factor

>>717408425
The enemy AI is retarded. I also don't actually like survival crafting mechanics at all, but I could just slow down the survival meters to make them less intrusive. Having to go back and scrounge for some materials to progress was annoying from time to time.

GotY tho

>>717367162
The game IS slightly being shilled, and is a fotm, but you know what? I like it because it's a cool slow methodical game you explore into the bowels of a world and it keeps getting bigger infront of you. Yes, like Dark Souls. More like Prey, but anons will more get what I say by talking about Dark Souls.

>>717408393
okay that got me

I like the sniper enemies when I have my own. Feels like a shootout.

>>717408425
>Grinding XP for certain skills is fucked and you should always play with XP gain turned up like 30% in the world settings after your first
>Certain perks being in specific trees over others feel like padding, having to level fucking Throwing to 5 for the projectile pickup is retarded when none of the good throwing weapons are retrievable, meanwhile most of the good ranged weapons do have retrievable ammo
>Getting water early game in the intended way by boiling water is fucking painful and a colossal waste of time from how much you get vs how long it takes to the point where its just more efficient to go around picking up every water cooler you find and bringing it home
>late game devolves into either going around sneak attacking gatekeepers to one shot them, or getting into long, drawn out fights thanks to their gay ass bullet sponge shields. Every encounter with Jotuns becomes this.
>WHY THE EVERLOVING FUCK DO GRINDER DISC STACKS ONLY GO UP TO 32 WHEN THE GRINDER TAKES 10 IN THE MAG, ITS ANNOYING AS FUCK HAVING TO MAKE AN INCOMPLETE STACK WHEN IM GEARING UP

>>717367162
Game just got released so anons want to talk about it. Cry about actual problem threads

>>717409849
he's one of the retarded faggots making those threads

>>717409682
Largely because of the dumbass lighting and effects, turn everything down to Medium and it runs WAY better.

I'm turning down the fatigue/hunger/thirst drains down, I can't be assed anymore.

>>717393425
bypassing them completely with throwing quills. if you're talking about the floating assholes, that is. if it's the heavy weapons guy(s), get a laser katana or a null grenade if you have those. throwing quills still work, just not as well. also make sure your weapons are getting uograded through the upgrade table.

>>717402603
as before, throwing quills ignore the shield entirely.

>>717410472
that was always allowed

>>717408425
How unbalanced leveling is. Some skill can reach cap passively while others are a struggle to grind for and their perks are often useless by the time you unlock them.
The story being a faithful homage to HL1 to the point of going to complete shit at the end.
The terrible optimization.

>>717364935 (OP)
>>717365884
Does this game have a good single player campaign?

>Expect a shitty 7 Days to Die: PS2 graphics edition
>Get Half-Life only you're not Gordon, don't have a HEV suit so you're just trying to bunker down in the wrecked lab
This is neat.

>>717375102
I'm simultaneously doing a singleplayer playthrough that I started earlier and a coop playthrough that's a bit behind me. They're both equally fun in different ways.

I'm gonna do it...
I'm gonna overload the syncotron and expose myself to Leyak!

Happy lil fellas.

>>717408425
Hate hand armor not showing in first person view, but it's visible while driving.
Don't like how limited placing furniture is. It's impossible to angle shit the right way.
No food decorations, so everything will have to go on "coasters".
Fucking hate laser power.
EXP gain and amount required to level up are imbalanced. Especially Fortitude.
It's UE slop at its finest. Wow! Some tiled surfaces reflect some light! Wow... But still blurry mirrors reflect only some of my gear. but not my character model. And my 7900XTX usage is at 99% for a game that looks like this.

>>717408393
>Hot Shots! (1991)

this is unironically the best survival crafting game ever and I really hope they make a second

>>717408425
never has breaking your legs ever been a fun mechanic. give me the insta-death if I drop more than 10 feet, but let me walk around hobble-free if I drop 9.9 feet

>>717375205
Make and scrap stuff like circuit boards, tech scrap is very abundant.

Craft loads of ammo, grinder disks, scrapshot and rebar bolts are easy enough

Boom bait is also super easy to craft and used in other recipies

Leaving Yeer was neat, is that thing the final boss?

>>717408425
>guns feel terrible to use
>the aimbot turrets are ass to be against
>the entire security section with the reaper is unfun and boring
>the darkwater beast

>>717412023
I hope it just gets a billion portals and content updates like terraria.

>>717408425
some areas are pretty sloppy (example: the chainlink fences on hydro just sticking through the walls)
exor chas have a bad habit of teleporting behind you and instantaneously hitting you, making evasion impossible
vehicles are weird when it comes to turning; they're too fast when you're going backwards and too slow when going forwards
bionic legs are essentially necessary because you don't even have to fall 10 feet to break a leg; once you do have bionic legs it makes splints unnecessary
military guns are poorly designed. they don't hit nearly hard enough to justify the fact that you have to use up an entire armor slot just to use them, their ammo is scarce and repair kits (while not a big deal) don't need to be unique. frankly, they're just not worth using because there's always a non-military alternative that doesn't require all these resources, time and tradeoffs
canaan's music sucks

>>717367530
>another wacky HL1 scientist survival game
Name me more.

>>717409682
it's just UE5 problems
due to the HL1 style, the only way I can tell the difference between ultra and low is the lack of fog and diminished particle effects
I genuinely think the game looks better with everything at minimum

>>717382462
nigger

>>717375102
I've beaten the whole thing solo and there are 0 elements that make me think "wow this would be better with friends"

not that I would know, but the point is that you could tell me this is a single player game and I'd believe you

>>717375205
>>717375278
You can also make cement bag walls and then scrap them for even more cement than what you crafted the walls with for infinite cement and easy exp

>>717367162
go dilate queer its fun

>>717369458
reporting in. i keep getting lost in labs, it's confusing as fuck

Is it just me or are the floating night time anomalies kind of fucky?
One moment I see them in a distance, but when I go back to fetch test tubes for harvesting, their models are gone.
I can still hear the sounds they make, but they are just invisible and I have to blindly swipe for them.
This wasn't the case in pre-1.0.

is there an easy way to get from Labs to the big lobby building in Hydro?
seems like a fun place for a base but I don't wanna spend 4 hours hauling

>>717408425
The combat sucks and is unbalanced. Too many weapons and weapon types are complete shit or obviously the best with no between.
Needs are something that becomes completely solved after a handful of hours. Not that it even matters because dying hardly matters too, at least on Default settings.
The game scales terribly the more players you have because resources only respawn slowly through portal worlds and progression is a treadmill of having to clear out only the latest areas as soon as enemies and portals respawn for the most part. So that's more resources per person. Even worse if you have someone in your group who wants to have his own keypad hacker and make his own copy of weapons and armor just because, setting you back one farming run every single time.
Skills are likewise unbalanced with how much conscious effort you need to put into grinding some of them, and Fishing fucking sucks because you have to wrangle the fish three times no matter what.
Base building is too simplistic, raids aren't near threatening enough to make you feel proud of your fort, weather conditions are simply a nuisance you go to a button to to turn off, and The Moving Chest needs to fuck off when I'm building.

>>717412598
They were working fine for me in 1.0 up until recently. I think one of the hotfixes last week broke them.

>>717412929
the fastest way is via the tram in the plaza

Two small issues I have with the game. 1. There are too few anomiles that the player can use for gameplay and 2. There are arent enough voices for the player characters.

>>717412929
don't bother moving your base until you get teleporters from Reactors
a base in hydroplant without one is just not viable, you'll be constantly running through the entire hydroplant just to get back to offices

>>717412929
There is both a tram station and a pipe network near the tarasque, one of said pipe sending you to a hydro tower with a zipline going straight down to the main building

>>717408425
These threads have had some of the most consistent vidya discussion I've seen on /v/ in a while. But as you wish.

>no grid snapping for most furniture
>painstakingly trying to line up chests
>alignment is still on the piss
>accept I'm not going to get it any better and just put up with it
Come on deep field, it's the most basic function.

There's something really funky going on with the damage values in this game, I don't think they're accurate.

>>717413895
at some point i just embraced the inevitable crookedness and place everything haphazardly
personally i think it kind of adds to the charm of a base now

>>717415230
This. You're just some scientist living in a makeshift house after a big disaster, he's not going to give a fuck about the layout, just that he can lounge around when not fighting off aliens and military clean up crews.

>>717367530
Votv would be good if they didnt swap the otacon model for the dev's self insert

>Enter Flathill for the first time
>Currently curled up in the playground
Fuck, I couldn't enter the arcade, nor the first place. There's a third giant fucker that is just staring at a wall, and I'm not sure where to go. Took a lil break kek, this shit is anxiety-inducing.

>>717365779
released on PSN with the sub

>>717415989
You are supposed to go through the playground in a sort of a ? shaped path and into a courthouse building.
Be sure to open the shortcut door in the street front of the courthouse, so you don't need to circle around the park again.
Same with arcade back door when you get there and couple of fire exit ladders from top of the roofs that I didn't draw here.

>frens don't invite me and play without me
>bad frens
>decide to play solo
>this shit is a horror game
I need to face my fears. irl I don't scare easily, but AI in games just freak me out.

>>717416527
I'll keep an eye on it when I collect my balls and go back in again kek. Currently have a small comfy base in the first security closet, next to the first kitchen. Thinking about packing up and moving to somewhere else, though. Also have a tiny base in the locker room by the swimming pool, but both locations feel a bit too much out of the way.

Might be weird to say but you can feel the passion in the game. It feels like the devs just wanted to include the things they thought were cool and any cool idea that came into their head they actually took the time to implement. This was definitely the devs dream game and they actually managed to materialize it

>>717416775
Still wonder which mentally ill fucker added that coworker kek. I'm the anon that complained about the price, but by now I can see why people defend it. Well worth the money.

>>717408425
This is a me problem but I wish days were longer and my inventory was 3x the size so I could chill and gather stuff and listen to recordings. I feel a sense of frustration and annoyance having to make frequent trips but then the day is gone and now I have to heal but if I heal by resting the enemies are respawned.

Im trying to map out the areas in my head too

I went back to try to find the lift to the portal world to get some anteverse wheat and ended up re exploring all of offices till I found it again.

I just did the whole forge area, military crossroads, maintenance west, mines, and now i gotta trade the forge guy to get the pumps online. Wasted a ton of healing items clearing every military guy and alien out of the area with green goo leaking radiation or whatever and the item I need to fix it or open something I cant even craft yet, probably some story thing later. And found no silver whatsoever, only found steel wires

The game is kind of stressful in a frustrating way to the point where I take frequent breaks to chill out. I dont like having to go for just computer components on a gathering run and target specific crap and then go have to do another to go find steel wire/anvils/military tech or some shit and then realize I need to kill 3 more robots and why did I fall asleep at night.

>finally get to open ornate chest
>it looks cool and has decent storage capacity
>pack it and bring it back to base
>can't put anything on top of it, e.g. more chests/crates
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
also gotta install that instant fishing mod holy hell it takes forever

>>717416594
I'd recommend setting a "main" base further out into the plaza beyond the security guy Warren. Specifically left of the fountain there is a smaller plaza leading towards wildlife pens. It's closer to the trams and the door to pens leads to cascade labs once you open it from other side. A major shortcut there.
Though you'd need to set up some defences against the night time robot, because it can wander close and aggores on your barricades and stuff when it sees them. Something to do later when you do need to expand and have more space for things like slightly larger farm plots and bigger storage crates.
Your little nook in the cafeteria security works fine for now.

>>717415989
Flathill was so kino, the first big giant sighted me and I had to hide in the shitshack right before the playground and he actually sticks his hand in through the door trying to grab you till you sneak away

>>717416594
check out the the security office overlooking the manufacturing entrance anon. it's basically tailor made to be used as your main base

>>717415352
But what if my scientist has autism

>>717417704
Just Googled it and I came past that part today, also strongly felt it would make a good base area. Only downside is the door (that's still locked now, I believe), makes me feel less safe/cozy. I just might take it... If I want to move plants, they probably have to regrow, right?
>>717417089
Can't wait to have teleporters in bases so then it doesn't really matter where you place bases. Also the 'safety' radius just feels too poor desu, my shit still gets bumped at night by enemies.
>>717417098
They haven't spotted me (yet) so it's still very exciting.

>>717418042
You will have to replant and regrow the plants when you package the farm plot, yes. So be sure to harvest and salvage some seeds.

lads this fucking black fog is triggering the fuck out of me
i cannot see a fucking thing

>>717418362
go to the Night Realm and sit on the Night Throne NOW!!!

>>717367162
biggest schizo post.

>>717369458
reporting in sir. I am currently being terrorised by a leyak as I type. I cannot make the xray gun yet since I need to learn a few materials.

Friend keep blitzing through recipes + unlocking area and I'm here dumbfounded. Just alt+f4'd.
I'd have to play the game by myself to get a clue of what's happening and it feels like a wiki game for the most part.

oh no...

>>717418690
there's hints for everything in-game, you shouldn't have to use a wiki and the in-game journal always points you towards the next objective

>>717418690
Read logs, emails etc. They basically spoonfeed you the info you need. Also in the start it's nice to utilize the maps through the journal. After a while you'll know your way around.

>>717418690
funny how everyone playing co-op is complaining that their ADHD riddled friends are speedrunning the game and ruining it for them
solochads win again

>>717418752
>he sat in the chair

>>717419020
It's always the same shit. They play some coop shit with a 40hr headstart then I'm having zero fun having to catch up.

holy shit do NOT run in borderless. I just got 50fps more playing in fullscreen.

>>717419024
it looked comfy...
>>717418442
i managed to get the reaper dude to spawn in the swimming pool and tried to get him to teleport me to the night realm but he just btfo me instead and now the fog has gone

>>717419278
>be me
>Raper
>Get to Reaper
>Reaper rapes me
>He's now the Raping Raper Reaper raping me

>>717364935 (OP)
What is this game? It came up on... I want to say a strategy search... looked kinda like an xcom/ja/fot type of game but Im only judging the cover.

>>717419483
half-life 1 inspired, linear survival crafting game in a set world (no procgen)

It's amazing how many anons expect to be spoonfed about the most basic information regarding the game instead of taking 3 minutes to read the steam store page

>>717419483
nothing like xcom or those other games

>>717419483
Survival crafting taking place in australian Black Mesa, with SCP monsters and aliens.
And as other anon said, no procgen. All areas are handcrafted and everything will be in same spots in each new playthrough.

>>717419020
Only make one hacking pad and give it to the slowest player.

>>717419483
SVEN co-op except it's structured like subnautica.

>>717419483
You're a scientist NPC from Half-life and are trying to live through aftermath of resonance cascade happening in not-Black Mesa crossed with SCP

>>717388171
If you look around, there's also a thing that converts wheat into antegems.
Hope you like wheat farming.
At this point, you can make an actual water filter and that thing is crazy efficient, so it gets much more tolerable to set up a bunch of farms, and it's very worth it.

Anywhere to find an extra refrigerator ? There's one I'm using in offices 3rd floor and the one that was on the ground floor is missing.

>>717419020
My friend and I have been playing perfectly fine. We're even replaying it and still taking our time going through all the stuff we did before. Been trudging through the labs with our base above the wildlife pens aquarium for a few days now.

>>717420380
You can package the fridge in Flathills syrup company and it respawns upon portal resets.
Later on you'll get a furniture store PW that has different color fridges.

>>717420490
Oh yeah I forgot about the one in Flathill, thanks.

leyak unironically ruins the flow of the game. it was spooky the first 4-5 times but now it has literally become a fly buzzing around just to annoy me.

>>717420684
eventually you barely even pay attention or care
that's when they hit you with second leyak

is there any non-ass way to farm these? I'm running double potato killing everything that drops them and not getting any after like 15 kills
i know the bots drop them too, any better on that front?

>>717420829
I had like 12 of these by the time I was done with the game
just farm some Gatekeepers with the potato trinket, Shadowgate works well for that

>>717420829
>farm
you only need like three of them to get all the exclusive items, after that you're just collecting rune chests

>>717420684
>turn corner
>this whiny faggot is right there starts spazzing out

>>717419483
It's basically system shock 1/2 with some crafting.

Has someone told the devs to make fishing levels reduce time for the fishing minigame ? Or at least let us give XP multipliers per individual skill, I'm not spending hours of my time levelling up that skill.

>>717421215
then quit being a bitch and dive into the reservoir already, that monster won't hurt you if you stay away from it

>>717421215
im like 10 hours in and i havent touched fishing. is it worth it

>>717421297
Another food source. Some fish can be harvested for other materials.

>>717421297
no, the only useful resources you can get from fishing are night essences and the drop chance is miserable, otherwise it just feeds into another useless skill (cooking)

>>717421382
maybe it changes later but i just havent found food to be a problem with the infinitely restocking vendor machines and pests running around

>>717421297
there's a good armor set that requires bones to make and repair it
that's pretty much it
it is otherwise strictly inferior to hunting rats, dogs and exors to make soup out of

>>717421297
As other anon said, it can be an alternative source of food.
You can butcher some stuff from the fish on chef's counter, like fishbones to make glue soup (coughpeccaryheadcough) or quills and black oil.
Or you can scrap the fish for bio scrap.

Fishing can also give random junk scrap like tech or coffee mugs. There is even a special equipment you can craft to only catch worthless junk.

>>717377368
The waterfall apartments in hydro are peak comfy
Just get ready to build a hundred benches and batteries to prevent spawns

>>717422294
https://abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Exor_Fetish
https://abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Radio_Scrambler

>>717402572
>laser collectors are bugged visually to show full charge with only a fraction charged
>also take NINE FUCKING MINUTES to go from empty to full
I get that lasers are strong as fuck but at least let me focus multiple beams on it for a faster charge

>>717423160
yeah you just gotta make extra and let them charge at base so you always have full ones on hand
also I hate that visual bug too

>>717408425
Lenses
Fuck the only source of them in the game being making hoses that you have to drag to some asshole in manufacturing, especially when you need a million of them

Just unlock inner lab
are the new weapons any good?
like explosive hammer the electric thower or septer
Im still using grinder and spear

>>717364935 (OP)
is this good game? ive been autist level gamer all my life and in 1 month im doing an hero cuz of health issues.
Is this game good as the last one i ever play?

How long is this game if playing solo?
I've seen everything from 40 to 80 hours.

>>717423426
electric thrower is good for office and lab bots

>>717422526
Do those have a wider radius than a bench? I don't see why you'd sink all that shit into a specific enemy blocking item that still needs powered when a bench takes nothing to craft

This dude is Satan right?

>>717423426
honestly keep going with that grinder. Im at the same level you are. The grinder has been 1shotting most enemies, and when it comes to grunts you can keep mini stunning them if youre fast enough with the grinder.

>>717423776
No he is Dr. Albert Cahn. He is an interdimensional alien that has took on a bunch of disguises across the centuries so maybe once he was Satan.

they really need to do a big polishing pass for the entire game basically lol.

>>717418752
Fulfill my dream and colonize the poolrooms.

Did anybody here actually build in Torii? I get that it's tranquil and all, but it seems like wasted space in a non-efficient spot (the portal, at least) where you also have to walk all the way up to the house.

>>717367162
>I've never seen anyone talk about it up until now.
LMAO and thankgod /v/ discussion isn't based on what you see or enjoy
Now fuck off, summer newfag

yeah, give him even more (You)'s, I'm sure that will make him stop making these posts in the future

>>717409463
>Getting water early game in the intended way by boiling water is fucking painful and a colossal waste of time from how much you get vs how long it takes to the point where its just more efficient to go around picking up every water cooler you find and bringing it home
It's part of what I dislike about survival crafting games. The survival mechanics are interesting for a few minutes, then they're solved permanently except you might have chores to do and part of your inventory taken up.

how much exp do I want to bump it up by to hit skills before the end of the game? At 1.3, heard that won't be enough

>>717424805
Well once you get makeshift teleporters it becomes better I think? I haven't unlocked them yet but if they work by just teleporting you to the area on the jetty then its basically pointless. So yeah you might be right, its too much of a walk. I know I for sure haven't used it for that exact reason.

>>717427056
Just set it to max, you'll need to grind some either way

>>717424805
performance in there is mega shit (thanks ue5) so no i never even considered it

>>717427136
Handheld teleporters must be synced to a crafting bench and teleport you right in front of it. So early on you can make a ghetto teleporter network with multiple crafting benches and hand teles around the map.
Later on you get actual portals you can craft and place anywhere. With these setting up a base anywhere (like Torii) is way more practical since you can set up a proper portal network and never have to use the dock portal ever again.

>>717364935 (OP)
Is this game new DRG on /v/? Threads of that game used to be so comfy back in the day. I just want something that I can lose myself in for a while and have been eyeing this game.

can you label personal teleporters somehow?

>>717427954
I dont think Ive unlocked handheld teleports yet. mid way through labs atm.

>>717428335
>I just want something that I can lose myself in for a while and have been eyeing this game.
It's perfect for that.
>>717428405
Rename the crafting bench and the hand teleporter synced to it will get the same name.

>>717428335
sadly it doesn't have cozy coop like DRG, posting lobby links was peak comfy

>>717428405
You can label the crafting table they're tied to, and they'll be named "Personal Teleporter ($TABLENAME)".
>>717428443
You have access to everything you need to make them. You're probably missing the CPUs from the Labs security bots, the ones that are a tier up from the Office/Manufacturing bots. That's also an important material for crafting a whole ton of stuff so you'll want to get used to farming them.

>>717428593
>>717428543
oh shit ty

>>717428593
ah yes, you're right. I havent taken down a single lab bot yet.

>>717428543
>>717428560
Can randoms join your lobbies? Or do you have to have a pre-constructed group to play coop?

>>717420272
yeah that's what ive been doing, ive only found 2 of those special screens so far
i gathered all the wheat i could find and turned it into antegems
havent found a waterfilter yet
im at the part where you have to milk leyak for his sticky essence

>>717428865
you can set it to public but randoms are fundamentally retarded

>>717429045
Thats the same across every game ever made so I'm prepared for that.

>>717365779
>Why is this game getting a bunch of threads on /v/ lately?

The same reason VOTV was getting shilled non stop 2 years ago. Paid marketing campaigns and discord trannies.

>>717428797
i kinda hate the bots, in almost every area they're the toughest enemies and the ones most vital to progression. Especially hydro bots, fuck hydro bots. Everywhere else there's fairly easy farm methods but hydro bots i never figured

>>717428865
You can set it to public if you'd like, and you can also have it set to private but still share the lobby code with others to join.
But due to the nature of the game, whoever's hosting the world "owns" the save file to that specific world. So if they stop playing then the server stops. It is possible to set up dedicated servers if you want.

>>717429231
>there aren't any fun games to talk about anymore
>wtf why are you talking about a game
Genuinely please kill yourself.

i didnt get the ending

>>717429293
full powered up Deatomizer load to the eye stuns and kills all 4 tiers of bots in the game

>finish game last night
>don't know what to do anymore
already collected every IS, rare armor sets, collectables
i don't want to let this game go. i suppose i can start with getting every enhanced item

>>717429293
actually I don't mind them. I have a single chopinator and it downs them rather fast. I just hate that I haft to keep repairing it over and over since they take it down after 1-2 nights.

>>717429413
it's a non ending, they basically set up an entire other game, it's bullshit. They better not leave Abiotic and make a sequel. I have 1500 rounds of 5.56 looking for a home.

What are you guys eating?

>>717429446
>catch all rare fish
>min max your base setup
>upgrade every item
>try out the driving in the underground parking lot
I reset my character with better min maxxed stats so i could grind all the skills back up to 20 but that's a bit too autistic for most

>>717429563
Fry-eyed Rice.

>>717429563
COFFEE IN MY COFFEE HOLE.... duh

glad to have beaten it. i was there since i discovered it in the steam next fest

>>717430260
i got the game right after labs got added, instant favourite. I really do hate how the "ending" just left me dissatisfied, hungry for more and with more questions than answers.

>>717382790
it's a mesalike

>>717429563
I just keep making pest soup

Also I just found a spot to jump pad up near caves in maintenance west and it took me to a portal with a fucking bees nest

Bees beat the shit out of me.

Help me out, I can't find the entrance to the reservoir in the Hydroplant
Also do I really need to craft the neutrino emitter for the other task there

I keep seeing Voices of the Void mentioned, is it something worth looking into as a fan of this game? Is it similar at all?

>>717429293
Some anon in a previous thread pointed out that they don't aggro laser emitters so you can put them down to hit them while patrolling and they'll die for free. The problem is you have to put them somewhere they can't get blown up by the self-destruct, and the lasers don't really like being unloaded when nobody's in the area.
It's free farming if you have reason to hang out in Hydroplant, I guess.

They do kinda just suck. I think the game is much better up until around maybe Security - Hydroplant, then starts to suffer from a less coherent game-plan, narrower, more linear area design, and wonkier combat tuning. It's still good, but I feel like they didn't have as firm a grounding in what they wanted to do and how to balance the progression from around that that point, and it shows pretty hard.
The game could perhaps benefit from them taking a step back from adding new stuff to go through and adjust how strong weapons and enemies are, making sure none of them are egregiously bugged, and maybe either making the numbers a bit more steeply curved or making things more "equal but with niches" with weaknesses or whatever.
As it is, you just use whatever until the grinder until the deatomizer, with a side of slush and poop grenades for anything you struggle with. Anything else might be more fun but is probably strictly worse.

>>717430886
I feel Hydroplant was the last area where their level design was really locked in, Reactors and Residences just feel like they were slapped together, unnecessarily large and without the clear forethought and care for layout the other zones had. I was never a tenth as interested in exploring either zone as what gripped me in labs.

>>717430884
It's a fun horror game where you're a scientist in the woods, but the fandom is a trashfire of streamer worshipers. The game itself loves to add meme references of popular streamers who play it

>>717427056
I got 66% of the way to 20 by the end of the game on the one skill I was purposely grinding so at least 1.5 is probably good

>>717429231
>mom I posted it again in the same thread because everyone ignored me the first two times
lmao you are so mad you little brown bitch

I bought System Shock 1 and 2 to play after this game because I heard this game is influenced by that as well as HL. I am old so I was there when it first came out, but my PC was a real shitbox back then.

>finally start doing Gale and Cloud Reactors
>everyone has energy shields now

post those scientists
i wish there was a way to turn off armor visibility totally

I want medium and small aquariums

>>717369458
I hate coop friend slop but people said it's also viable solo.
Can you tell me your experiences whether I can do everything myself in the game?
Kinda want to try it out. But every review I've read was "SOO FUN WITH FRIENDS :DDD".

>>717432294
There is.

>>717432496
>friend slop

>>717432556
holy shit i'm a retard, thanks anon

>>717432496
imo it's better solo, you're able to take your time with the exploration, pause to dig into the lore and you won't have to grind like crazy to get better gear for the whole party. Combat is ball crushing solo but if you're REALLY struggling there's very in depth sandbox settings you can tweak to fix that

>>717432496
it's more atmospheric solo but you may want to up your stack capacity and xp gain when you create a world

>>717432584
It's like the biggest self reporting buzzword yet

>>717432606
to be fair it was introduced in like 1.0 and there's no in game explanation of it

what's the best way to farm leyak essense? afk next to an xray turret?

>>717433046
trap it and grab the one per day it drops, otherwise just carry an xray around w you

>>717433046
Eat a greyeb fruit

I can't find my way around underwater in hydro :(

>>717433046
Get a greyeb seed from labs (the eyeball) and eat greyeb or greyeb foods and just wait around on your base for a bit with the X-ray turrets on.

>>717433173
yeah it's a slog
I swear the swim goggles do nothing and using a basic headlamp/flashlight is better

>>717433173
you need diving goggles and diving suit

>>717430884
The game is fun, the community around it in discord is full of troons and gooners obsessed with cat aliens. Its free on itch.io. just dont get filtered by not knowing how to do signals in 2 seconds.

>>717432584
>>717432717
You know exactly what type of game I mean.

>>717432694
>>717432716
Thanks, I'll try it out.

>>717433407
no, I don't speak brainrot so I truly don't.

>>717408425
voice chat implementation is the most fucked i've seen. they clearly don't resample, so anyone with an input device not set to 48 khz sample rate gets pitch shifted to fuck. attenuation and gain are completely off, i need to turn everything down, voice to 200% and play my speakers near max gain just to clearly hear my friend and he says he has to do the same for me.

>>717382790
fuck no, VotV is pointless busy work to force you to go outside in the car that handles even worse than the buggy in HL2, just so you "might" see some spooky alien stuff going on in the background
it's endlessly shilled because of furries, same shit as that taiwan cat game

>>717433454
Slop is not even zoomer talk, it's been a staple on this carpet weaving forum for half your lifetime, you absolute faggot.
Talk about self reporting.

>>717429446
The answer is comfymaxxing Anon. If you want an ultimate goal:
>Fully build in the WHOLE facility so nothing spawns anymore, make it your own domain

>>717433407
No I really don't. I doubt you even know yourself, that's why you hide behind buzzwords so you don't have to face how clueless you are from trying to articulate your shitty opinions.

>>717433607
You have never been on /ck/ in your life, you never used the word until twitter tourists ran it into the ground. Kill yourself.

Do you think Gate is going to bill me for all the computers and chairs i've busted up?

>>717433607
>it's been a staple on this carpet weaving forum for half your lifetime
why do zoomers do this shit? Just try to pull revisionist history and lie as if nobody will camm them on it
No you tremendous brainrotted newfag nigger, 'slop' is not '4chan culture' and was forced in the last 3 years

>>717433759
I think that's the least of your worries.

>>717433759
If they want my hard-scavenged 500 dollars they can negotiate with my ripper turrets.

>>717433981
I am quite enjoying this craftslop exploreslop friendslop 1.0slop releaseslop

>>717434113
soupslop

slopcore

>>717434113
>right on the floor
cmon man

>>717434773
I didn't know the pot would fucking fuse to the floor using molecular bonding

>>717411779
The campaign is the same for solo and co-op play, but if you're asking if it's fun playing solo, it is.

>>717434823
in this universe, the strongest bond known to mankind is the bottom of a soup pot

not same fagging btw

>>717364935 (OP)
can you play this game alone?
I aint got no friends

>>717434113
You can consoom slop while playing slop!

>>717434954
yes, absolutely
in some aspects it's probably more balanced for solo than co-op with the default values

>>717434954
yes
it's scarier and a lot harder but I loved it until I stopped to rope in my friendsloppers

>>717434980
kek

>>717434954
Yes, I recommend modifying sandbox size to max out item stack size as you won't have friends to be your loot mules. You can modify other settings later if you don't like them either like XP multiplier

>>717434980
>just throw a bunch of sweets and other vending machine snacks into a boiling pot of water and cook it
these fucking scientists are desperate

>>717434950
Ignore him, he's just mad he got called out as a buzzword spamming teenager.

A "self report" into a "crashout" as his generation would call it.

i just realized they blackwashed the scientist who dies at the beginning. when did this game go woke?

>>717434987
>>717434996
>>717435047
thanks bros

>>717435150
It's to adhere to the most common trope out there.
The black guy always dies first.

>>717435051
I always find sustenance soup funny
>yeah just put the MRE in the pot
>all of it

>>717435230
>sustenance soup
Nice! Okay.

>>717435128
actually I'm doing it to mock him and there's at least one other guy who is also doing it because it's funny
slop users love slop, right? This is what he wanted.
>>717435153
do keep in mind sandbox settings do NOT turn of cheevos because they want you to use them. If something is shit and grindy especially alone, change it.
Common things are exp gain up 1.2-2x, mob respawn down, stack size x3, etc

>>717435230
nice

>>717429563
throw these in the microwave, put a bit of provolone and pepperoni on them, back in the microwave and you've got a good snack

>>717435432
yo this brand is the SHIT. I love the sausage ones.

>>717382462
Every day you post this fucking stupid piece of shit you fucking retard. I hate you.

>want to fish
>if I do my asshole friends push ahead
I might just fish anyways

I'm at the exor village and I've still yet to find armor better than the scarab set. Great defense, weighs little, almost full cold resist and sealed helmet. Everything else is either shit protection or weighs twice as much for a marginal increase.

>>717435617
thats the problem with playing it in coop, you get no time to chill and farm stuff or read the logs

>>717436090
>exor village
you're about to find one of the best sets

i will never EVER take off my bionic legs

>>717412023
what they need to do is just keep updating it. Optimize the lighting and keep adding more maps/items and missions.

>>717417098
I somehow managed to evade them all until the end. The elevator ride to meeting a composer facing you made me shit my pants. Luckily I survived.

>>717436301
Once I craft the other pieces of the mystagogue set I'm probably going to put back on the bionic legs, speed is just so important when farming stuff

>>717436301
>get mountaineer arms
>neuron activation seeing a 3p set bonus
>helmet doesn't have it

>>717436484
Did you run around the room like a chicken or did you find the vent that was right next to the elevator?

>>717436576
I ran around the room like a chicken

>>717436564
you could always use the mod for lower set bonuses
https://www.nexusmods.com/abioticfactor/mods/95?tab=description

>>717436090
Hex set is goated against snipers