*blocks your path*

>>717450131 (OP)
Did they really just put spess mareens in this? The purity seal is a bit much.

>>717450131 (OP)
Why is he wearing a doll thing? Are these guys basically just evil Risk of Rain protagonists slapping artifacts on themselves for powers?

>>717450131 (OP)
I don't like the Not-Space marine look. It's too on the nose, should have been something similar to the half life marines or maybe the F.E.A.R clones.

>>717450656
That's the unique friendly NPC one. But also yes, that doll is a trinket you can craft.

>>717450838
Both of those are in the game too.

>>717450838
>>717450538
Spess muhreen is unavoidable in 2025 desu

at what point do i build a new base? havent really felt the need to move since office is so close to everything

>>717452159
whenever you want
i used the same base through the whole game and just set up a holiday home in the boss battle zone at the end of the game

>>717450538
They also have a techpriest with a servo skull.

>>717450131 (OP)
Was Labs really that small/short? Or did I just accidentally run past a bunch of shit, should I go back?

Where do I go in Hydro. I went up and to the left and feel like I cant do shit here yet.

am i fucked if i want the sniper rifle but they're all dead?
it doesn't look like they respawn

Just unlocked reactors. I dont want it to end.

>>717452159
cozy spot anon, and you'll never have to move. You picked a good central spot

>>717453027
Not sure on respawn timers outside of Apocalyptic mode defaults, but unless you've changed it in the Custom settings then Snipers will eventually respawn.

>>717452159
When you get personal teleporters you'll realize you can just base wherever you want.

For me it's the residential part of hydroplant with the huge kitchen.

>>717450838
>should have been something similar to the half life marines
It is kinda understandable that they wanted to steer a bit further away from the HL1 influences, I mean they even changed the labcoats from normal labcoats to the hideous ones in picrel.
Also I guess the WH40k aesthetic does sorta fit the "mystic" thing the GK's have going on better than some normal looking grunts.
The path the story and designs started taking around the labs area really made me wish for an ACTUAL HL1 survival game.

>>717453027
they respawn but it's a LONG timer since faggots were crying

>>717452159
There is no functional reason to ever move out of Offices. Every zone connects back to it.

>no achievement for blowing up a composer with a rocket launcher
aw.

>>717453295
the splash art and lab coats changing makes me feel like valve's lawyers got in touch

>>717453027
>I still haven't gotten a revolver or a sniper and Im already past reactors
But I have 3 copies of the Deagle that I can't actually use because it needs Biomimic wraps...

>>717453304
seriously? i maxed out the respawn frequency and they've not respawned in like 5 hours of playing

>>717453451
wtf? alpha pests looked like THAT?

>>717453478
>because it needs Biomimic wraps
it actually needs a separate, secret recipe locked behind accuracy 18 :)

>>717452702
if you walk the entirety of hydro plant you reach a point where you can either turn left and go into some power plant thing, or go right and end up in some sort of dormitory thing, have you explored both?
can't remember if you need tier 4 hacker, which requires you to visit canaan and the hydroplant portal

>>717453505
it's fairly egregious, i have respawns maxxed out and it's definitely more than a couple irl hours

>>717453478
I never got a revolver to drop til the ass end of Reactors. Thankfully I got the sniper pretty early, cause it's super fucking useful.

>>717450131 (OP)
I'm gonna have a fucking aneurysm going through the reactors with these spongy faggots coupled with turrets and snipers and radiation holy fuck.

>>717453875
Just walk around with a hazmat suit on and keep a spare battery for your deatomizer on you, there aren't too many of the spongy fuckers around.

>>717454046
yeah but it's fucked that an entire charge from the deatomizer isn't enough to down one.

>>717454149
They are resistant to lasers. Try acid weapons.

>>717453451
Speaking of lawyers getting in touch, I wonder how long this will last

>>717453451
>valve owns labcoats in labs
Death to America and anyone who supports talmudic copywrong

>>717454149
The entire charge should be just about enough if you're hitting the head, pretty sure I had to go visit my base only once for a refill on my laser battery to get through the portion with the gatekeepers.
But if you're actually having trouble, might want to try catching a Skink to use on them, or upgrade the pump action shotgun once for the acid buff.

>>717454247
There's a photo of Macho Man in the game too.

>Jotuns = Space Marines
>Witches = Inquisitors?
>Mystagogues = Techpriests
>Neophytes = Guardsmen? Arbites?
If we're going by everything being 40k stand-ins, who are they? Commissar is my first thought but they don't really do much Commissar type blamming

Am I the only one who can't seem to capture leyak at the moment? I have a containment in the office gym (powered and bars filled, of course), x-rayed her literally just outside the gym and seems to refuse to appear in containment. Has also been hit by towers many times at my old base in the mines, but still floating around.

>>717454646
did you fill it up with greyeb, otherwise she just leaves immediately

>>717454619
they are definitely supposed to be commissars, especially considering they are described as higher ranking neophytes

>>717454619
Maybe the crazy assassins I forget the name of. Vindicare or something.

>>717454729
>powered and bars filled, of course
Leyak has been a bit weird ever since I've been setting up a base in reactors, abnormally frequent spawning at times and there's been a couple of times she'd take four times as long to disappear after staring into each others eyes

>>717454646
you need to hit her with the beam near a containment unit to actually capture her

>>717450131 (OP)
The unlost are so cool

>>717450131 (OP)
Is this another one of those tranny games that is flavor of the month like repo, schedule 1, peak or wtvr the fuck? I saw my friend playing it and i was about to message him "tranny faggot" would i be correct in pressing enter?

>>717455078
you're a retard and have no real friends

>>717450131 (OP)
>devs still never fixed Ogre Doll recipe being un-learned
>talking to this guy on Albatross doesnt give it
ffs

>>717455078
that's not a very nice way to treat your friend
i would reply by calling you a dumb fucking gorilla nigger

>>717453027
Mapping in manufacturing west has two easy kills

>>717455005
>containment in the office gym
>x-rayed her literally just outside of gym
Sorry, but this is the second time had to greentext my first post. My leyak just seems a bit off lately. Maybe her desire to see me is just too strong.

>>717455474
that's not near enough, they have to be like 6ft away from the containment unit

>open game for the first time in months
>have no clue what the fuck I was doing
>in the area where you first meet leyaks

>>717450131 (OP)
gaybiotic braptor

>>717455078
Have you ever considered that maybe you're the weird one for having such an obsession with trannies?

>>717455078
>people say they have friends on 4chan
>treat them like absolute trash or are treated like absolute trash by them
I don't get it.

>>717456441
>Box keeps collecting trash
>I dump all the trash on the floor so its stops clogging his inventory
>he gobbles it right up again.
I really hate this little shit

I've played repo, peak, abiotic factor and lethal company all with friends. Idk why people lump Abiotic in with the other three when it's an entirely different game, also the only one entertaining on solo. Well, peak is ok. Especially when cheevement hunting.

>>717456638
they should really have a delete button for him like the trash cans

>>717455747
>6ft
Unless something has changed recently, I can assure I've never had to do that before. Have been in entirely different rooms or just the general area.

>>717454046
>keep a spare battery
shit i never thought of this
you just keep a fully charged collector on you?

I completely missed the exor armor until after reactors, Fuck, it would have been so helpful.

>>717456053
You need hackerman lv3. Explore adjustment for new materials. Use electro thrower to kill some containment bots.

>>717453478
Try equipping the hearth trinket, it may help
Caveat: this happened before the canaan update, but on my solo game I wanted to play with guns and when I had that trinket equipped, I was drowning in snipers and revolvers. There was a definite boost when I had it equipped vs my multiplayer save where I found 1 sniper rifle in like 100 hours

I'M GONNA FUCK YOU UP

>>717450838
I get where you're coming from, considering the Order's already a cult
It would be interesting to see all the bizarre relics you can find used in a purely utilitarian manner, but I guess that's the player's job

am I the only one who thinks peccory roars sound like the meme fart

>>717458148
bodied that freak

>>717457505
Yup, I keep a fully charged collector with me which I quick swap to another one which has been charging while I am out whenever I go back to base.
You can just deploy it as a blueprint and fill up your laser appliances and pick it back up, no need to even assemble it, you get into the rhythm of reloading the deatomizer like that real fast, especially since you'll be keeping the laser collector in your hotbar for quick deploying and the extra weight reduction since they are quite heavy.

>>717458285
The order being a cult that uses millitary weaponry and the GK being a military force that uses arcane weaponry is an intentional subversion of expectations though.

>>717453176
Did they fix enemies spawning inside your base on non-portal raids? That was my biggest complaint with the hydroplant apartments, shit would just spawn in the middle of all my stuff despite powered crafting benches everywhere.

>>717459262
It's not much of a bug more that room is just so big that your bench I assume is in the corner near the kitchen like mine isn't in the exor's spawn range, and their patrol path leads them close enough to your things to start attacking it. Just put more benches down where they come from and they'll stop.

>>717458148

>>717459414
Nah nah, I literally benched quite literally the entire place before 1.0, nothing spawned normally, it was only when base raids would happen, the entire raid would just spawn in the hallway down to the gym or up in one of the apartments. Had a similar problem in the power services base location everyone loves. Was wondering if they fixed that.

>>717459862
I only started after 1.0 and every raid so far as just come through the front double doors from the parking lot, much to my chagrin after wasting a ton of materials setting up turrets that never see use in the other two hallways.

>>717458802
nice ill give this a try next time i play
how many charges do you get off 1 collector?

Is there another source of electromagnetic alloy or did I miss a side path? I exhausted the crates in the storage area (above the broken laser), next one wants me to do LVL4 hacking which I'm short on the alloy for because I had a brilliant idea to craft the Magbow first.

>>717460019
Alright, sounds like they fixed it then, nice.

>>717460263
baddies drop it in frozen frogland and they respawn often

>>717460263
Its just the storage area floor 1 and 2 in security sector as well as some blue crate spawns in the night realm. Later some enemies drop that shit.

I for one support interspecies diplomacy with the Exor. I'm already working on my thesis.

>>717460263
Best get to fishing, boy!

>>717460263
trade night essence with the security guard in the starter hub

>>717460509
Why the fuck does he need that shit anyway. Same with the food lady and the extremely radioactive leyak pussy juice

>>717460263
murder everyone is voussoir. Ez alloys

>>717460509
Oh thank fuck, this is the solution, thanks.

>>717460708
Level 4 hacking tool to get through Security, needs 10 of them, there's only like 12 blue crates in storage area.

>>717460379
I got called in by HR for locking my female interns in the peccory pens again. I know Manse has my back because the data is great but it's still a hassle to deal with all these distractions.

>>717460848
I got plenty from all the blue crates. Check the all of the shuttered storage units on both levels, those actually can open save for one on the bottom floor for some reason

>>717458148
Me and my friends are right at this level in the progression and this tech goes hard as fuck. I remember first playing maybe a year ago and having the longest drawn out fights with these guys.

>>717460995
There is enough, but I spent some on other shit and ran short to make the tool.

>>717461179
Night realm has some crates and yeah you can fish for inky bois and chop em up for night juice

>>717450131 (OP)
are there any other games that are visually similar to abiotic factor and half life 1?

>>717461551
Opposing force and blue shift

>>717462418
Wait is that the all black room????

what's the deal with the spooky red portal in the exor village

>>717463120
rape portal

yeh we doorkickin

>>717452159
just build anywhere near that central area in the offices and you never have to move out

>>717463721
You must break your legs a lot on those doors with all those splints.

Bio armwraps should be a trinket not an armor piece

>>717464236
Definitely. Feels like a joke item because the arm wraps kept breaking anytime I took a tiny bit of damage

I was farming paper scrap and I realized this room by the containment block would make a great base. It has a bunch of room, many plugs, short run from labs, next to the tram, and next to the room with the pipes.

>>717456737
they do but you need to fill up all slots

>>717463721
nice

>>717464908
>Farming paper scrap
Bruh, just go to Flathill and pick up the books in the library.

>>717462836
a lot of previously blacked out rooms are visible in later patches
>>717463120
it's like an elder god, the exor elder specifically tells you not to fuck with their goo
you'll see more later

Yes or no. Can I access that objective without hacking 5?

Is there a limit to the amount of Home areas the game will allow?

>>717465073
I dont remember that room opening.
>>717464908
Bro go to flathill. Scrap books and mags for like 20 paper and 4 paper each. The library has books and the magazine stands all have a ton of mags.

>>717464908
The turrets will actually help defend your base there.

>placing wall
>need snap to get it lined up
>accidentally look at furniture
>snap fucked up
holy fuck this is cancer

if the overworld stuff doesn't spawn does it mean i'm going to run out of metal scraps to repair my stuff?

>>717466320
Portal worlds respawn their materials twice a week.

>>717466320
to add to what the other anon said, metal scraps are one thing you cannot run out of. Farm the security bots and they'll drop metal scraps and then you can also take their CPU's to a trader later on and get anvils. One anvil is worth 20 metal when scrapped so if you're STILL hungry you'll be able to have it in huge supply

>>717466320
im still early in the game but robots drop 10 scrap and a bunch of cans you can turn into scrap

>>717464236
I say they should be a watch upgrade

>>717465135
yes but you can't reboot the computer without it so get farming

>>717466320
Setup a chopper near a bot station. You can use a barricade to lure it into the chopper

I just finished reactors and I can still only make the head and chest of thee reactor armor set. Is this intended or did I miss something?

>get swim suit
>finally going for the first big swim
>black fog in the morning


This seems like an insanely good idea that has no terrible things waiting for me that I also cannot fucking see

>>717467710
have you farmed digital ore?

>>717468316
I can't see shit in the reservoir even with no weather event so it's a push.

>>717467710
go to the cell near the zombie world that's locked with a keypad

>>717468638
>>717468391
Ah that's probably it, I went to that world, but I never made digital gold. Thanks anons.

>>717468417
As someone that experienced the black fog while midway through the underwater portion of the sensor building, it was fucking hell. Not just getting inside, but then trying to figure out which direction lead back to the dam.
And I didn't bring a teleporter just to make the whole thing worse.

Really wish my buddies had stuck around to the end so we could all larp as an order squad

>get THAT armor
>no one sees you again
im sure it falls off but god damn.

Is there any other renewable source of rebar (for magbow ammo) other than few crates in the Train?

>>717469710
the later hydro bots, fairly farmable

>>717464908
how did you open that area?

>>717450131 (OP)
Not sure if it's all shitposting or not, is this game good?

>>717470501
top 3 games of all time for me but i do have autistic tastes

>>717469979
cute

>>717470501
It's good. Explore, find resources, build base, fulfilling needs, unlock shortcut back to base, repeat.

>>717470839
Is the map randomized or predetermined and the contents are randomized? Don't have a preference either way but would like to know

>>717450131 (OP)
I started playing this solo after dropping it a couple of years ago and it's absolute kiwino. Almost makes me proud to have spent 12 years on that bumfuck island.

>>717470925
nothing is randomized, but there are portal worlds where loot respawns twice an in-game week so you don't run out of resources

>>717470925
It's fixed, containers are fixed too I believe. No randomization or proc gen.

>>717470129
Theres a vent on the second floor near the creepy flathill chest.

what's the most efficient battery set up for night time

guys i was minding my own business when some red guy spawned next to me and started breathing heavily and killed me and when i respawned he was gone
i quit the game...

>>717471049
two makeshifts for whatever device needs running all night

>>717471049
plugin -> high tier battery -> plug board -> makeshift -> device

so what the hell is the point of laser energy?
it's literally just energy but more annoying to recharge which sucks with how quickly the weapons guzzle charge

>>717471294
you can carry spare laser collectors with you for more ammo on the go

>>717471118
that is a woman, use the correct pronouns next time

>>717471378
yeah i always bring 1-2 spares but it's a pain in the ass having to construct it each time i want to fill up my deatomizer
it's really a shame there isn't a way to passively charge them up like with energy weapons though

>>717471643
does the purple keychain not work?

>>717471049
Two first tier batteries chained together to power one device through the night, second tier can power one device on it's own, third tier can power like 5 devices, fourth can power 16.
Basically every device draws 60 power for through an entire night and batteries go from 50 charge to 100 then 350, then 1000.
The secret to easy infinite power is to hook up enough battery to run a laser shooting into a converter through the night, and then just run everything off that. The battery must be hooked up to an outlet, they removed the actual infinite power exploit of running a laser off itself.

>getting black night event while going through hydro
I guess I am not going through hydro anymore

>>717471643
you don't have to fully construct them to recharge weapons
not sure how much of an exploit this is to the developers because it has been in the game for a while

>>717471013
>>717471015
Interesting, I thought it was another le wacky lethal company/murky divers/repo kind of game. You've sold me on it

>>717471807
It is kinda, but fuck them anyway because it used to be that you could just plop that fucker down but they thought was too strong.

>>717471689
Not for laser stuff

>>717471696
Was it the one with 2 powered barricades?

>>717471643
Funnily enough I started putting laser collectors and ammo on the moving box. Good pal.

>>717471696
they patched infinite lasers recently

>>717472502
I'm looking at my base being powered by a single laser right now.
Are you sure you're not thinking of laser into a converter back into the laser?

are the exchanger machines bugged or something? they don't drop me anything when i toss something in

>>717474551
NVM IM STUPID IM STUPID IM STUPID THERES A FUCAAAAA IM DUMB

>>717474551
open the output box on the machine

>>717474649
i feel so dumb

>>717474793
It's ok anon at least you knew to drop the items in there unlike some people

I've been playing this game before 1.0 but I keep getting a message at launch that the game detects me as a new scientist. How do I get rid of this?

>>717475519
Have you tried not being new?
Real answer, or rather a question: playing using Proton? It might've saved your player info in a different "offline" folder. I had that issue when moving to Proton 9.06 anyways.

>>717475670
I have a dual boot mint/windows but I think I've only ever booted abiotic factor on windows

>>717471689
laser is a different power source to battery which the purple keychain charges

>>717470501
Not if you like Persona

What could be done to improve the skills system? Because "learning by doing" probably isn't the best approach for a game like this. There are so many skills you could entirely avoid and beat the game without any substantial levels to.

>>717458708
Every time I hear electro pests around I keep thinking of dragoons.

>>717476871
Given the xp rates we have now generic level ups to manually slot points would probably be even more painful, especially if you build poorly and regret it later. The only real issue is the xp rate itself which you can adjust to be much better anyway.

>>717455323
>>717455390
>>717456332
>>717456417
Yea well jokes on you niggers. I got home from work 3 hours ago and went to hang out with my friends now im in my car with my wife(female) going to cvs. Kys triggered faggots i had fun today. Now yoy didnt answer if this was one of those tranny games so im guessing yes it is based on how you faggots responded

>>717450131 (OP)
Surprisingly the least annoying of them, because he's insanely predictable.
The neophytes on the other hand, are absolute cancer.

>>717476871
>What could be done to improve the skills system?
just remove it and convert the most important perks into effects of craftable items. Survival slop games lean way too heavy into "systematizing" everything even when it makes things actively unfun.

So, this is the power of maxed out reloading skill...

>>717477176
zzz

>>717477295
>not even a speed loader
>literally just shoving them all in at once with your hand

it's postal 2 all over again

>>717477295
A real jerry miculek here lmfao

>>717450131 (OP)
Alright, so I've reached the Shopping District, and honestly everything after Reactor was a nice change of pace from the fucking 6 gorillion enemies with 6 gorillion hp, was genuinely sick of it.
The lack of Jetpack/Long Jump is fucking cancer tho.

>no partial reload for the shotgun
>just watch your character spend 10 seconds reload all 6 shells
>regardless of how many ammo was left in the tube
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>717477637
somebody should be fired for that blunder

>>717476871
I think the learn-by-doing system was fine, but their implementation of the xp curve plus the wildly different rates you earn xp for some skills was fucking retarded.

>>717477371
Normally when you reload the revolver, you do it one by one. Apparently when you have max reloading skill, you can shove them all right in because of your immense skills.

>>717477295
you could always wear the chieftan for that extra 5% reload speed
i swear all the ballistic weapons are designed to suck ass in this game 90% of the time

>>717478171
yeah hmm its almost like the player character is a scientist and not a soldier what a strange thing

>>717478221
nta but I didn't know you needed decades of military training to make your bullets actually hurt people.

BLACK OIL CAN'T COME ANY SOONER

>>717450838
the order is hecu and the gatekeeper recruits are blackops

>>717478316
>activate the reactors
jesus christ the guy in this webm fished for the black oil

fuck is this giant conch thing flying in the air bro what

>>717478528
Just shoot it until it dies bro what's so hard about that?

>>717478316
I was playing with friends and this happened during the final boss fight. Completely skipped one of its phases.

>>717478567
i'm scared

>>717478496
nta but I did fish for black oil to get the revolver
>spend an hour fishing
>absolutely tedious minigame
>about 10 ink fishes, the rest was trash
>butcher them
>1 black oil

>>717453505
the one on the catwalk in manufacturing will never respawn

>>717478602
Put your big scientist pants on and whack that faggot already, yeah it stings you but it's tiny damage

>>717478528
PROTIP: to defeat the Power Leech, shoot at it until it dies.

>Upgrade the Patois
>Hey this pretty decen-
>Already out of ammo after saving the entire game up till that point.
>Ammo drops even from cult base ammo boxes is only a handful of rounds
If it isn't crap damage compared to something you can craft it's awful ammo economy, and then you have SMG which manages both.

>>717478736
So far every ranged weapons in the game just suck on you start running into GKs
The only solution I've found is going full autism and meleeing everything to death with a heavy weapon. Which is easier said than done because the game love to cancel your sprint for no fucking reasons.

>>717478675
>>717478671
yeah.. it just floated around the screen

So, uh, you can instantly swing a weapon by switching to a different melee weapon mid windup. This seems exploitable.

I have broken the photocopiers.

So can i have multiple personal teleporters, each linked to a different crafting bench?

>>717479018
I can't imagine how I got by without them.

>>717479018
Yes

>>717479018
Yes. If you rename the bench, the name will show up in the "Personal Teleporter ()" parentheses.

>>717478636
This but I just caught them in fish traps since inkfish can be caught with bait 98

>>717450838
>It's too on the nose
>In the game entirely modeled after Half Life 1

>>717478874
I hope you used a vaccuum

>>717478528
new weather event, fucks with your electricity and leaves slugs on your power socket

>>717450131 (OP)
The Laser Pistol is probably the single worst upgrade in the game. For a whopping 10 extra damage, you lose the insanely powerful synergy with the Crystalline Vial. Given that the Crystalline Vial effectively gives the Energy Pistol a much larger battery than the Laser Pistol (and therefore more potential damage), and lets it recharge passively while you use other weapons, this is very much not worth it.

>>717479068
>>717479089
>>717479106
Ah, magnificent

>>717455078
It's a well made game, but yes your assessment is correct

>>717479389
Ahaha I totally didn't have one in my inventory

>>717479430
a lot of upgrades are straight nerfs, the lodestone upgrades for the melee and the elemental upgrades for the guns are awful

>>717479510
The acid shotgun upgrade great. So is the Famas upgrade if you can actually get the ammo.

>you can lure the security bot near Silo 3 into the electrified water puddle at the end of the hall
eat shit robonigger

>>717479670
I ran arctic a shitton so I actually have a lot of 5.56 ammo

>>717479670
>if you can actually get the ammo.

>>717479510
A lot of upgrades also just change the elemental damage, instead of adding them up, meaning they become completely useless against enemies they were previous great against.
The Thumper shotgun in particular, it fires acid which mean nearly all human enemies are weak against it, and nothing is immune to it.
If you upgrade it, it loses the acid and become cold, which actually makes it much weaker.

>>717455078
It's not mainstream enough to be fotm but for an indie game it has a lot to offer

>>717479670
No point in upgrading the famas because the SMG at max upgrade performs the same function and 9mm is plentiful

>>717452159
never. the cafeteria is well connected and spacious and personally the torii is kinda mid
that said whenever you get axcess to the furniture zone you get cozy rain noise, no stalker aliens and every raid spawns on the outside roof unable to get in cause devs wont let you open those doors. and real late you get the floating island way off in cool cool mountain.

>>717479670
Should have farmed Voussoir before they fixed the respawning enemies glitch. Also i just realized this screenshot was taken when the shields scrapped into plastic not carbon. what a wealth missed

>>717460243
~3.85 full charges

Where's a comfy place to level up my fishing while catching something useful if I've just done the furniture store for the first time? I was gonna do it in the pools in the middle of the labs lobby, but I'm only catching biolumps which is useless.

>>717453478
butcher medic, captain, or breachers until they drop their armor pieces. apparently they aren't immune to their own biolock bullshit either.

>>717452159
multiple bases are unnecessary but it's nice to have a small outpost in each sector when you get personal teleporters since they cut down on travel time massively

I have been having cravings to play another semi-mindless survival crafting game where I can gather shit and then come back to my comfy home base
is this is or not

>>717480591
captains and breachers don't drop their armour, you only get it from the inquisitors crate and the armoury in the praetorium respectively

>>717480718
yep

>>717479670
Save your ammo for the gutnic instead

>>717480718
This is Subnautica: Black Mesa edition, so it's less mindless then most other generic survival crafting games.

>>717480718
very much it, grounded is also pretty good, the first game. The second game is extremely unfinished. Expected for early access but a bit jarring after the fun i had with the first

>>717480718
yes this is exactly that

>wearing rat pack and suit gives radiation debuff
but why

>Shadowgates requires the use of consumables to progress
>consumables that demands fairly advanced material to craft
>consumables that are also needed to deal with the enemies there because of their shield
>Shadowgate is a portal world so it can fucking reset, respawning all enemies and locking all doors
It was absolute cancer to fight through, I was nearly done, I was ONE (1) null grenade short of finishing that fucking portal, but I had to leave to resupply, and that goddamn fucking portal reset, locking all doors, respawning that fucking machine gun and all those fuckers I just wasted all my ammo to kill.
I hate Gatekeepers so fucking much.

>>717477637
the most insane part is that the game is in unreal engine, which is basically built for first person shooters

>>717481046
I swear I returned there after the portal world reset and the shield walls were still down from the first trip there.
Although I will agree that progression in that area sucks. All other portal worlds you can beat without needing to leave and come back.

father i desire more jailbroken cpu

>>717481316
The shield wall stay down thankfully, but the doors all become locked again, forcing you to take the long way around to enter it.

>>717481390
bro just hop the fence
gravity cube allows you to skip all of that shit

>>717481390
There's more than one way in through the regular doors? I thought they all led to the same general entrance.

i miss pre 1.0 when doors in portals didnt relock on reset. the train is slightly annoying to farm now

how the fuck do you people deal with buying one slushie at a time

I need moon fish bait and this is awful

>>717480949
it actually has good synergy with the reactor armor set

>>717481567
there's no more silver scrap after the locked doors so you could just warp out when you get to them

>"What a lovely day in Flathill! I wonder what lies beyond this elevator.."

>>717481587
I just let it all drop on the floor and vacuum it up

>>717452159
My group had a base in the meeting room but we moved everything to the security office right near there. Now we just teleport everywhere.

>>717481458
There's a vent you can crawl through

>>717481390
I just put a teleport inside

>>717481567
they've always reset for me even before security and canaan were implemented

>>717481634
true, but i also run through to kill for ammo, and theres other portals that suffer from this bug/bad design choice. for example i built my base in furniture store but because the relock on reset the elevator would get locked in the up position blocking me from all the easy resources unless i rerun the switches. luckly it stoped doing it once i placed a rope plant (or the most recent patch fixed it)

>>717481589
Ah good to know

>Dr. Cahn is found in the containment cell of IS-0012, an aggressive shapeshifting extradimensional entity who constantly tries to manipulate others to achieve a nebulous goal
>multiple emails and audio logs state that Dr. Cahn has been dead for years
>Dr. Cahn repeatedly demonstrates knowledge and abilities that no human being could posses
>Dr. Cahn constantly has you do sketchy shit, like freeing an entity that is explicitly stated to be a malevolent god
>Said malevolent god is explictly stated to have created the Exor for the purpose of conquering our universe
>The Gatekeepers had to resort to fundamentally damaging the space-time continuum in an attempt to stop us, and by extension, Dr. Cahn
>After being exposed as a manipulator and a liar by based Dr. Thule, Dr. Cahn openly admits that he is IS-0012, an agressive shapeshifting extradimensional entity, and has been manipulating us in order to acheive a nebulous goal
>We still go along with his plan anyway
>IS-0012 (rightfully) calls us a retard after we do so
The player character's actions are so dumb that I am choosing to believe that there is some sort of anomalous reason for us making these choices.

>>717482303
>IS-0012 is who organized the players to join this part of Gate. He is behind all of this

>>717482303
You'd think the spooky demon trickster would spin a better tale than
>oh hey there
>high ranking scientist here
>I just decided to take a nap in this deep containment cell and the door locked, can you believe it?
>let me out.

>>717482303
Oh, I forgot one of the funniest tidbits
>In an audio log, Dr. Manse suggests that IS-0012 might literally be Satan

>>717482303
I kept expecting a "Would you kindly" explanation to come up, but the devs were too lazy for even that.

>>717482303
Considering our character track record, I'd say it's not very surprising
>open the portal to Flathill and remove the batteries holding the portal stable just to power a fucking forklift
>open the containment block Helmholtz, letting zombies out everywhere just to go through the area
>lift off lockdowns all over the place, causing god knows what to freely move around the facility

I genuinely hate the mounted guns. Why the fuck are they so accurate?

>>717482514
reminds me of that one movie with denzel where satan bodyhops and gets a fuck ton of ppl killed

>>717482303
I love that motherfucker. I would wanna travel with him to destroy more universes.

My master sends you this message of approval: Een-ka ben deer, ka ben doss. It's a little hard to translate, but it roughly it means. 'Wherever in the universe you may find yourself, rejoice, for the only true home is the grave.'

>>717483575
Thats because only a few of them for the entire game. So dev just add aimbot and instant reaction

>>717482253
If you're playing multiplayer that it's since the players around get irradiated, not the person wearing the rat suit

>>717483352
I immediately questioned our actions when we took the fuel cells that were powering the portal suppression fields in flathill to power the forklift

>>717481046
the shield walls dont reset with the other things in there
also the actual gatekeeper personal shields can just be broken with regular damage, you dont HAVE to use the special null grenade

>the fog of night has decedent upon the facility
I CAN'T SEE SHIT

>>717482303
there actually is a reason for it if you pay attention

when you were going through fragments and got to the biolab, you saw a portal at the top with the unlost gatekeepers there. if you talk to the sister she talks about doing things over and over again in a loop. when you go through the portal, you are clearly in a far future apocalyptic scenario, and the head of the gatekeepers there orders them to let you go back so as to not have the timeline be completely fucked

which basically means your actions are foreordained and its literally your unalterable destiny to bring about the end of the world by going along with 'dr. cahn's plan and using the altar. your character is arguably smart enough to know this and know the futility of fighting it, because all choices will inevitably bring you back to the altar until you use it. OR theyre a retarded intern who is used to following orders no matter how much shit it fucks up out of desperate desire for personal survival.

What do I do about early game hunger?

>>717452159
On the first group playthrough me and my friends did we moved up from the offices once we reached Cascade, then we moved up again once we hit Reactors. I'd honestly just recommend keeping your shit at offices and if need be using crafting bench teleporters to get around to the rarer used areas.

>>717484294
vending machines, anon
vending machines
or just kill and cook pests

>>717484294
cook alien meat on frying pans until you unlock soups
for 100% sustainability grow potatoes, super tomatoes, and antiverse wheat to make veggie stew

>>717483740
Fallen?

>>717484607
oh shit yeah. i should give it a watch again

>>717482303
He has some manipulative powers as implied by Manse and GK assistance was required in all cases. He escaped once and went to have a meal at the breakroom. Dr. Thule being immune to it requires it's own research.
Enderson said that the "exor god" isn't the actual progenitor of life of Anteverse 2 and that it has a superior. Cahn wanted to be released in Anteverse 2 and has a master too

>>717479430
It's actually 10 more damage per 0.1s, meaning the laser pistol does a 100 damage per beam compared to the energy pistols 50.
Still a huge downgrade because of the crystalline vial synergy like you said, especially if you use it to clear trash enemies which is the only real use case for it at the point in the game where you can do the upgrade, but then again you could recharge the pistol from empty to full a bit over 14 times using a laser collector, but even that laser energy is way better spent on the deatomizer.
It has saved me from having to go back to base a couple of times as a backup weapon when I ran out of laser energy, but boy if it isn't jarring having to sit in some corner listening to the windup sound for a minute or two after every couple of kills.

ok it's pretty fun

>>717484890
10/10 it's okay

>>717484698
thule is so exasperated that he cannot be mentally influenced

>>717483575
my guess: they reused the code for the automatic security turrets for machine guns. Problem with that is that it makes sense for robots to have near instant reaction times, while it's nonsense for human operated MGs. Especially since the snipers have reasonable delay between shots.

>>717477637
Honestly, they should've given pump shotgun reload animation the same treatment as magnum. Like, shoving entire tower of shells into the magazine. Maybe it's time make a suggestion on the forums again...

>>717484852
I liked energy best as a box breaker so I didn't have to constantly repair my weapons. After upgrading I immediately shelved the laser abs just crafted another one.

>IS-0122

>>717486167
>'oh isn't that the invisibo crystalline dorks?'
>reread entry
...oh.

>>717482303
Spookiest part for me was when he shows up in the shadow world of security. Got jumpscared by the talking.
Does make one wonder why he'd need us to do anything at all after he's let out.

show me those scientists

>>717489003

>>717489003
currently forcing myself to not use the best armor (exor) and try new things

so whoever was responsible for the failed abortion that's cloud reactor legitimately needs to be executed
there is no logical reason why you need to put an elite enemy at every fucking corner with snipers and artillery slapped on top

Hey

>>717489003
Ratatouille run

Just got to the damns. What is this difficulty spike? Good thing I have a big hammer now.

>>717490909
!Corruptio!

>>717450131 (OP)
Got through Hydro, don't get the hate. Thought Labs was worse

>>717480525
Night Realm

>>717452159
Well if you built anywhere in the office hub you dont need to move at all ever.
If you built outside the hub...RIP hahaha you gonna have a real bad time in hydro/reactor/residence with all the shit you need to fabricate. Your best option is to take a hazard cart and use the recall option as you fucked yourself over or just move back to the hub

>>717485836
the laser pistol is still good for breaking boxes, just gotta crank that thing every now and again when you have downtime

>>717491773
wait until you reach Reactor

>>717464214
grav cube nerf was a pain in the dick
>>717492000
you can crank the pistol while you sleep or shit

Are there any friendly Exor? Reached the point where im coming across caveman variants of em and im wondering if I shouldnt be caving in every alien skull I see.

I HATE ARMWRAPS
I JUST WANTED TO DO A SECURITY-THEMED PLAYTHOUGH WITH AS FEW SCIENCE WEAPONS AS I COULD

>>717492089
>entire point of the artifact is that it alters your gravity and gives you slowfall
>still shatter your legs regardless
between this and the military shotgun having to reload all 6 rounds regardless of how many you've shot, there's a lot of small things that really piss me off in this game

>>717492770
I thought about setting up there because it seems so secure but also seems a bit too tucked away

>Trailer makes this look super serious and dark despite the silly appearance
>The game itself is actually pretty goofy
I'm having fun, but I don't know why they had to market it that way.

>>717492898
I'm at Flathill right now, solo, and I find it pretty spooky anon. Then again, I'm a bitch with no balls when it comes to horror games. Is it going to get better? I didn't manage to find any shortcuts in map1, I just went down the vents into the arcade.

>>717492875
It's easy to get to/get to places from and assaults just don't happen, it's a good spot.

>>717493159
I can't wait to see your posts once you hit the library

>>717492479
Are armwraps the problem? Or lack of ammo?

>>717493269
I accidentally read about it and am already shitting myself, anon
>quit the game when I jumped down the vent on map 2
I already got spotted by one of the big fucks but hid in the playground. Also, is it normal for the third big fuck to just stare at the fence near the football/soccer field?

>>717493386
Yes, he always stands and stares there as a hint for a secret

what the fuck am I supposed to use at reactors all weapons feel like plastic toys

>>717450838
buff guys in armor are not a 40k invention

>>717493532
I'd joke about using sandbox settings but health goes only as low as 80% of base.

>>717454247
oooooooh YEEEAH

>>717477637
for me, it's resident evil rules on shotguns
>fire once
>load in 2 shells
>pump
>fire 6 times
>load in 2 shells
>pump
i've always loved the strategy reload times provided in re4.

>>717464908
You can just scrap wood into paper you know.

>>717469710
You can also trade for them with the Blacksmith

>>717494257
I wish, the anomalies are bugged for me, completely invisible so I have to hunt for them by sound only.

I'm about to start. Do you guys recommend default settings? I hear a lot of people are tweaking things.

>>717492479
craft the trinket and ditch the armwraps, or enhance the weapons to remove the biometric lock

>>717487662
Wasn't he wearing the Night Lord mask in there as well? And he says something like "There are worse places than this"

>>717494420
Now that you mention it, I haven't seen one in a long time as well. Used to be able to just run through offices and collect 10 of them.

>>717491208
Once you get to Reactor, you'll miss Hydroplant. It's like such a bigger layer of bullshit it makes Hydroplant look like child play.

game stops being fun after the labs

>>717494449
You can tweak your file after it's already created so just adjust it to your likings. Personally i play solo i
Decreased a bit: enemy respawn, hunger, thirst, sleep so i can actually play the game
Increased: item stack and item drop
Probably adjusted some other things that i can't remember right now but nothing too extreme

>>717493532
It's time to go lasers

Where can I get more tarasque ichor ? I've killed the two things that drop it

>>717493485
NTA, but I swapped to my main character to check it out. Lame.

>>717495434
They respawn

>>717495680
Funny rug :)

I think I'm dumb - how do I get into the office under this checkpoint in containment blocks?

>>717495258
I enjoyed it from start to finish but it should have been more about different creatures with interesting ways to deal with than dude dozens of soldier and grunts everywhere lmao

>played through and beat the game solo in the same time it took my friends to organise another session together
Man. I feel like I don't even want to play anymore, I'll know all the secrets and stuff.

>>717495935
Find the misty nigga chest up above where you lookin

good game but it has 0 replay value

>>717493532
For the GK's, acid weapons so either once enhanced military shotgun or the skink.
Everything else? Deatomizer.

>>717495717
well now I just feel dumb.
guess they have a long respawn timer

>>717496006
It's still around 40-60 hours for a playthrough, I'd say that's pretty damn good value for money

>>717495995
Thanks, that did it, I completely blanked out on the vent.

>>717496006
Oh no, a carefully handcrafted intricate world is not as exciting to explore once you figured it out. The humanity!
Sarcasm aside, I'd take this any day over procedural slop that just can't come anywhere near the experience handcrafted worlds offer.

>>717496931
strawman, kill yourself and your mother plenty of survival games have handrafted worlds, vas majority of them in fact yet they have more replayability

>>717496958
And here's where you provide all those games with replayability and explain how they are replayable while Abiotic isn't.

>>717496006
I finished a ~70 hour playthrough with a friend yesterday, started a solo one today and played for like 10 hours.

love this game man

>>717497449
for one other survival games offer you their world from the getgo and offer elaborate building options while abiotic has metroidvania progress and takes place indoors

is the only decent way to get to the praetorium via teleporter pads? because i am not running through fucking shadowgate every goddamn time i want to go there

>>717453451
Devs said it was a physics issue which I believe; took years for games to get coats that weren't stapled to your legs.

>>717498158
Theres a portal across the bridge from the water pipe in reactors. Its through a small door to the right.

>cant stealthkill gatekeepers even with make stealth and a carbon pick to the back of the head
PAIN

>>717496006
Maybe, but then again I've replayed Half-Life every year for decades so maybe I could replay this.

we cookin now

>>717496006
It actually has negative replay value.

If you played this with friends first you haven't properly experienced the game and basically played on non-horror easy mode.

>>717497708

S W O O C E
W C
O O
O O
C W
E C O O W S

>>717499139
this game isn't horror to begin with

>>717485725
>slam handful of shells into the loading port
>some just go flying everywhere

>need one more shell
>have to reload 6
why

ya'll ever just defecate?

>>717499589
Destroy the containment device.

>cohhs dumbass kid on stream
bruh just go to bed

>friend slop
no thanks

>>717499589
I went there with fishing 15 and never saw him; not even on purpose, I just liked fishing in my japan world.

>>717500068
it's the least friendslop multiplayer game released in years

>>717499419
I've had something like this in mind, but joke one from Postal2 could work too, I guess.

>>717453027
You can adjust the enemy spawn timer in Sandbox settings.

>>717500387
That could work but you might wanna lower it to three shells instead of six all at once.

>>717500193
How come everyone and their mother is reviewing this as if the golden standard is to play it in a group?

>>717500636
because even good games are more fun with friends

>>717500636
because it CAN BE.

>>717500387
thats basically a shotgun speedloader funnily enough

am at the voussoir and as a french it hurts listening to this """french""". Would it hurt them to actually hire a real one???

>>717501006
all of the voice actors are pretty scuffed, french/english or otherwise. Part of the charm in a way

>>717501416
Mance is top tier tho, same for the haughty blonde dude at the start. The most scuffed ones are probably the french so far and the cooking trader girl

>>717500636
I have no clue because it doesn't lend itself to co-op play at all except if you die you can get revived.

>>717501006
half of you are "french" to begin with

>>717501534
you are as useful as this guy

>Finally find my balls
>Flathills
>Get through library ezpz
>"Huh, I thought it'd be intense"
>Go through the other building
[s]>Go up and see THAT[/s]
FUCK

>>717501807
well I fucked that up huh

>too lazy to run get a screwdriver
>smash my choppinator
>it doesn't turn into a pickup
>sits there broken
>enemies focus attack it but it doesn't get destroyed
this is actually better than it was before I broke it

>>717501461
>and the cooking trader girl
I can only assume her cadence is intentionally very irritating. If not then I feel bad for the people who know this woman IRL.

yeah I dont care if its the worst weapon but I fucking love explosive sledge

>>717501997
it makes her seem less trustworthy, I'm pretty sure its intentional

>grayson shows up at my house again, scaring the shit out of me and blocking my doors
shouldve never healed him, wish I could fire a god damn shotgun round into his head at this point

How do I efficiently raise the cooking skill

>>717494449
x1.2 exp gain
thats all you need

>>717502256
Get the cook book from the weird lady, Get the upgraded stove or find one with multiple burners, Get as many frying pans as you need then fish for a bunch of fillets.

>>717502384
ok thanjks

>>717502105
I don't know who says its the worst but I've used it for most of the game. I only swapped it for impact hammer out of laziness, if you bother to craft the charges it oneshots most things with sneak and sprint attacks.

guys...... help?

>>717502256
Depending on how far you are. Get the Carson family cookbook, eat a brain and fry every bit of meat you find.

I like doctor manse's voice logs

>>717502452
stack a balanced stew for another 15%

>>717502448
Stick your penis in it for science.

>>717502452
damn it sure goes way faster than soup

>>717499589
>cant see shit
>cant see shit but green
NVGS a shit

>>717502621

kudos for being one of the rare game where rival factions actually hit each others instead of mindlessly focusing you.

Do you ever find out why the gatekeepers go bad in reactors.

This is the first time I nearly shit myself (not ingame)

>>717504098
you're the one going bad

you are playing directly into dr. cahn/IS-0012's machinations and potentially fucking over the whole universe

I wasn't a super fan of the game when I started it, but after Flathill, I can't stop playing it.
It's so fun, though I'm starting to get a little bit tired of specific things, like the stalker floaty invincible monster. What do you do? Agro him and run so he despawns?

>>717504098
Gate ordered them to clean out the facility after it was clear they were at a point of no return for containing the outbreaks. No witnesses, just kill everything including the scientists.

>>717504245
you can build a containment chamber for that one, but she leaves if you just look at her directly for a few seconds so I never felt the need

This is the first time I nearly shit myself (in real life)
Remembered to spoiler it this time.

>>717504205
He'd never do that to me.

>>717504245
For the leyak you either just look at it for a while or make the x ray gun and shine the light on it.

>>717504371
Oh, I thought there was something like that, thanks! I haven't paid a lot of attentions to mails and what people says (yeah I know that's stupid, but I'm just too much on edge)

>>717496006
Makes me hope for mod frameworks and overhaul mods a la Factorio but probably not possible on Unreal. Almost wish they used Source™.

>>717504383
What am I looking at here?

>>717504660
the dark of night

>>717504607
>Almost wish they used Source
Same. What's with games emulating older graphics but insisting on using that shitty unoptimised Unreal 5 engine anyway? I have a machine that can handle it now but it's still annoying.

>forgetting to pick up personal teleporter from the charging station

>Get out of Flathill
>Finally back to the overworld
>fog starts
Never a moment of rest in this game huh? Makes it hard to play for hours, feels like constant pressure. Can't want until I upgrade my bench to be my little safezone. Going to build it in that spot with the gun range on advice of another anon.

>>717504660
Was grabbing stuff in Canaan when darkness blanketed the facility. Suddenly the enemies started turning into shades, and the night lord appeared even though I was in a different anteverse. Didn't help that Grayson appeared in there and also startled me a few minutes before.

>>717504997
There is a button to get rid of the fog if you need it.

>>717503573
That lake is way too dark. Did I forget the "see in lake" goggles or something? I brought the scuba gear and swim goggles!

>>717504921
I guess because their devs only know of UE

>no wall-hanging item stand
>many items barely visible if you put them on shelves
aw

>>717504205
Fuck you, Cahn is a good guy whos helping us escape.

>>717505230
I know anon, thanks. Helps that I read the lore since it's immensely useful in this game. Already found it too, on the way in. Downside is that I'm still cooped up in the first security office next to the kitchen. Have to walk again.

>>717504205
Cockmongler is my greatest ally he wouldn't do that.

>>717496006
I hope for Surface Tension

>>717504079
A familiar sight.

I swear something has changed with the tardbots in 1.0, they're always fucking going at it with someone. I personally at least remember hydro being a bit quieter when I played last year (the guys here are often fighting the composer of course).

>>717504079
fuck these robots
>grenades you despite looking at the opposite direction
nigger

>>717506553
>>717506601
yeah so far I haven't been able to properly kill them, they always bleed me like a pig

Does Leyak really have nothing better to do than stalk us? She should be having kids not creeping around hardworking scientists.

>>717506601
>>717506651
get the nightpass trinket, you can do sneak attacks on their backside then run off and they'll ignore you again in no time. Free kills essentially.

>>717506553
>10 meds in 1 slot
basically cheating

>>717489003
>virgin lab assistant vs chad trans-kinematic researcher

>>717480848
There are two games?

>>717506553
They seem to have a really big aggro range, I live in the apartment so every couple days I get Gaza ambience when I teleport home.

>>717504079
It was funny for me to spook crystalline bozo, have him run away and then check on him a minute later and find exor monk fighting him.

>>717506824
>TRANS-kinematic researcher
whatever makes you happy I guess

>>717506476
I doubt 1.0 is the end, we'll probably get more, and maybe even a Surface Tension homage too.

>>717506825
Grounded was early access crap for a few years, now they have Grounded 2 to do it again with

>>717506964
I didn't put trans in transportation either. You are simply obssesed

>>717506824
>TRANS-kinematic researcher
>rainbow tie
lmao

Why is the Antique Shotgun an entity ? Registry doesn't say.
If I'm supposed to find that out later no need to answer that.

>>717506802
They're easy to craft, so might as well.

>>717506845
Yeah that's the biggest thing I've noticed. They'd often try to target me with mortars despite literally jump packing over the rooftops

>>717507152
another obssesed individual. Sad that trannies live rent free in your heads

Wish to wack her

>>717489003
Rusty Venture. Former boy adventurer.
Summer intern.

>>717507173
Did you find the little observation rooms behind the containment cells?

Should I buy this or just pirate it
35 dollarydoos for indie multiplayer fotm feels steep

>>717493567
>angry grill face helmet
>wax seals with parchment
oblivious or disingenuous

>>717507513
I guess not, I'll look again thanks.

>>717507571
both
>>717507107
wanna take a second swing at that but without the gaybow tie

>>717507907
Answer my question don’t be a cunt

>>717507571
Protip: click the follow button of EA games you're interested in on Steam, a lot of devs announce their biggest discounts before 1.0.
It was 20€ back in April.

>>717507956
its not being a cunt dumbass, pirate the game and get it legit if you like it or the sale is decent enougn. not my fault the government hasnt made demos madatory for all digital products

>>717452615
There's a few things that can be missed, and there's a few things you have to come back for later when you have a T5 hacker.
All of the zones are fairly brief if you rush though.

>>717508006
Honestly not that interested I just lurked this thread for a few hours and it feels like there is some actual meat to the game
I am in no way interested in giving something unfinished more than $4.99
10 euros off is not a “big discount” games used to be 99 cents like PTDE was
That’s also why it’s not for sale anymore they have a right to charge you more for the remaster

>>717507571
>fotm
People say this, but threads here were basically non-existent before 1.0. The sudden attention (at least on /v/) still surprises me.

I've put in 300 hours over 8 months as a purely solo player, I got my dollarydoos

>>717489003
im not even a scientist i work at accounting

>>717508187
The sudden attention would imply it being a flavor of the month, anon.
That’s quite literally what it means.

How can i help that wounded guy before manufacturing doors? I'm at hydroplant, but he's still there.

>>717507571
I'm at 94.5 hours and I bought this game exactly 2 weeks ago.

>>717507571
It's cheaper on CDkeys if you're poor

>>717508251
give him some bandages, hes been bleeding out for years

someone said blunt damage increases drop rate
is this true?

>>717508332
Bandages, got it. Lmao, i've tried to heal him with syringe.

>>717508262
>>717508275
I’m financially retired I just get automatically mad when I waste my money. I’ve sworn off food delivery as no amount of tipping or strategy can ensure it’s actually fucking hot.

>>717508356
not necessarily, there is just an item that drops ONLY if you deal blunt damage to a lab rat when he is entangled on a net
there is no way to know this thru gameplay other than experimentation, sheer luck or by reading the wiki

>>717508425
i don't blame you lol back when it wasn't an option i tried to patch him up with a syringe too, its the most logical thing

>>717508245
It's getting a lot of discussion now because of the 1.0 release.
While you can easily dump a couple hundred hours in it, it's not the kind of game you're going to play for months or years. Once you finish the main story you'll probably put it down.

>>717508187
Just passed 200 hours myself but it's split between solo and multiplayer

>>717489003

>>717504245
It's funny that when you say invisible monster, 5 come to my mind instantly but I realise you're taking about IS-0091

>>717508704
Thanks. I’ll avoid this for now. Much like w40k it’s more fun to read about online than to directly interact with.

>>717508917
he looks like he's seen some shit
before entering GATE

help im addicted to this game

How do I get the funky glasses in the splash art

NEVER get a blowjob from a zombie

>Want this game
>Planning on finishing what I'm already playing before buying because fuck dropping everything half way through
>Know /v/ will have moved on soon and I won't be able to discuss this with people
Oh well...

>>717489003

>>717509152
that's the makeshift nvgs

>>717506824
Based
Why do you have to wear that ridiculous tie?

>>717507046
Oh, I understand now

>>717489003

>>717508606
Well, that would have been good to know, time to start total rat genocide.

>>717509590
Damn, does it have the silly vertical strap too?

>>717508968
He's just an accountant. He has seen normal and legal things.

>>717477176
How kind of you to go so you can help her choose condoms for her boyfriend.

>>717509796
I was going for the chad look from the meme and felt like it has to be something ridiculous because there is no option to not wear a tie

>>717502256
EGGS

i'm at hydro plant and i don't know if i've missed something obvious. as far as i can tell i need the photon receptor for the level 5 keypad hacker before i can progress but for the life of me i can't find one

>>717511340
Heh, it's in pretty obvious place, but i was retarded too to not notice it.

gatekeepers look much tougher than the previous twats. Any tip? Upgraded the sniper but it's meh

>kill very first mystagogue of the playthrough
>gate defence rune
Based potato.

>>717511412
acid or holy damage is your only option to get their shields down in reasonable time. Hope you farmed Canaan

>>717511502
why do I need to farm canaan? Loadstones?

>>717511395
but i have the right idea? i'm not wasting my time looking for them?

>>717511412
Deatomizer alt fire to the head until the shield disappears, then blast them with the acid shotgun

>>717511482
How much does the potato up drop rates? I'm currently running it and the recharge trinket, but I have no clue if it's worth switching out for the gravity cube or something that I'll get later or not.

>>717511660
no idea about the rates on potato but i have the same setup as you, i just keep the gravity cube in my backpack and switch to it whenever need be

>>717511590
go to the highest spot on the map in Voussoir and you'll find lots of them

>>717511660
flat 5%, i think it's more placebo or something because people swear it's nearer to 50%. Getting numerous sniper drops immediately after equipping it

>>717511412
Carbon Pickaxe + Sprint attack.

>>717511540
lodestone bolts and lode discs yes. Lodestone frags do drop off of rats though so you may find yourself with a surplus regardless

>>717511590
No, they're in the hydroplant. Just think carefully about it. Become the scientist.
>>717511716
These are other things.

>>717511412
>sprint and hit hurts em good but your going to get smacked as you do it
>stealth can’t kill any of them in one hit but it’ll at least take a good chunk off their shield
>quill weapons work well since they ignore the shields they have
>the deatomizer can work but it chews through charge fast to kill some of the tougher guys, and you won’t get their drops if you atomize them
>the skink weapon can apparently stunlock a lot of them
>the full exor set summon with the companion core trinket helps district them quite a bit and deals good damage
>flamethrower works well when you get it later on
All I’ve really seen when it comes to fighting them.

>>717511813
>These are other things.
oh yeah it's the golden orbs, sorry

>>717511340
Look out to the structure away from the dam. Hope you made a diving suit!

>>717511952
>structure away from the dam
you mean the reservoir? i've swam to it but didn't see anything really

>>717512320
You'll need to swim under water to access the building. There's a couple tunnels a little ways away.

>>717512392
i'd already been in the underwater tunnel lol i just missed one of the ventilation shafts you needed to go through and just wrote the area off
cheers

Can snipers penetrate shields now? I planned on reaching the first section of hydro with security armor but my charge shield seems to be doing diddly dick, even crouching didn't help any

>>717512750
i think the big fuckoff shields the rooks carry are the only ones that can block gunfire

I'm just going around looking for places to build bases now

1. How do bases work?
2. Is it only crafting workshops that claim territory?
3. Is there a radius around the crafting station to represent home territory, is it based on the room the crafting station is in, or is it something to do with the amount of constructions you've built in the area?
4. Is there a limit to how much you space you can occupy?
5. Could you possibly make every room a "base" and prevent all (or most) monsters from spawning?

>>717513007
amazing autism anon, good job

>>717512750
They changed how shields block damage, your charge shield is too low for sniper damage

>>717455078
It's a facepunch/gmod autist game so not tranny (yet) but in a few years they will be trannies.

>>717450538
25% space marine, 75% panzer cop.

How the fuck do I stop the cold snap weather

>>717513036
A POWERED crafting station creates a "home" zone around it. It blocks any enemy world spawns the home zone covers. There is no limit to how many crafting stations you can build in the world, but they must be powered to be effective in providing a home zone. You can also build anything anywhere without needing to be inside a crafting station's home zone.

>>717513007
theres a particular island with a plug in snow snow mountain portal if your intrested in a weird spot

>>717513379
you can't, same with the spore event there's no off switch

>>717512949
It's a great way to grind fortitude xp too. Can finally put all the military scrap I saved up to use repairing it.

Did they fix the power line breaks on launch so Leyak containment didn't work yet

Is the hydroplant water supposed to be crazy dark, even with the diving suit? I can't see shit and I feel like there is probably a lot of stuff in the water.

>>717514053
yeah, need nvgs. could try some raw fry-eyed rice but idk how much vision it gives you

You're not supposed to go to the cold realm till you have cold gear, right

>>717514258
I used +2 cold resist and a heater shield

Can do +1 cold and a heater shield (or even lava lamp trinket) if you got Weathered trait.

>>717514258
You can try chugging coffee with a heater shield to stave off the cold as you hunt the mountain soldiers for their skin/armor which also blocks cold

any optimization tips for this game? it runs fine locked at 60, but my pc so fucking loud since the game insists on using 100% of my gpu no matter what. i saw some ini file tweaks but I dont know if they're outdated or not since they're from a year ago