Thread 717752161

So Praetorium, residences, fractures and botanical gardens kinda fucking suck huh?

>>717752161 (OP)
Shadowgate and everything prior > Residences > Praetorium > Botanical gardens > Fractures

I'm 25 hours in and I don't understand how batteries work

>>717752161 (OP)
I do find it strange that they (and Albatross) were all bundled into one update and the game was rushed to 1.0 before being actually finished.
Praetorium and fragments were fine, Residences felt a bit rushed though. Even if I believe there were that few people at the base, why would they have to share rooms? They're basically some of the world's most intelligent scientists and it's not like they were hurting for space or funding.
Botanical gardens felt short too, but with *that* gimmick maybe it was actually a blessing.

>>717752385
Might be a hot take but I feel like the game really peaks at Flathill and never reaches the same highs as that. Manufacturing to, arguably, hydro is still pretty fun but it never quite captures the same feeling as going through Offices for the first time. Then by Reactors the gameplay goes to complete shit

I'm actually pretty disappointed in this mod. I kinda thought she would make... I don't know, Miku sounds? Maybe she would sing while she chased you? But no, the guy just took a Miku model and stretched it over the Leyak skeleton and didn't change anything else.

On the plus side, since the Miku model absolutely does not fit on the Leyak skeleton at all, when she attacks the model stretches and deforms in horrifying ways and her arms turn into spastic noodles that flap around wildly. It's way, way more terrifying than the regular Leyak.

>>717753663
Oh, and the fact that jetpacks are disabled in Residences despite the fact that it's not a portal world. Fragments I could understand since it's being affected by space shenanigans, but in Residences it's a complete crutch for the level design. They should've worked around it some other way or just not bothered.
>>717753848
I liked the gimmicks in Security and Reactors, the latter being the Sniper/MG combo.
The fact that the MG shit is used again like 3 more times in Intrados, Praetorium (and arguably Botanical) is a little lazy though. The Praetorium one was a straight line which is fine, the Botanical one was a short puzzle which is also fine, but the Intrados one was essentially the same as the Reactors one; just a big open area making it more of a pain in the ass to get around than anything else. The issue is that it shows they seemed to be slowly running out of ideas to make things interesting.

>>717752161 (OP)
Should my 2017 pc handle this game fine? Nothing too fancy, and judging by how the game looks, I hope it's not too demanding.

they put too much into reactors then had nothing left to finish residences before 1.0
should have delayed

>>717752161 (OP)
Praetorium is alright except for that fucking bridge, but Fragments and especially Residences feel outright unfinished
Residences is even smaller than Security, there's no new enemies or resources, the only "gimmick" is that its cold and theres a serious lack of polish to the whole area
Fragments is neat but is still a very small area with almost nothing of substance in it, except for Botanical which was the coolest part by far but it just made me want more. So disappointing that Divarication is only for that one location, give me an entire future run-down facility to explore god damnit
Albatross would be a nice place to base if it wasnt so fucking loud, piece of shit final boss just had to leave one more shitstain on its way out
update was a 4/10 but the game is still an 8 minimum

>>717754503
I'm on a 970 and can run it at 1080p lowest settings rendering 30% with TSR fine.
It's still a UE5 game though so despite it looking like it's over 20 years old it runs like shit.

>>717752617
You plug the wall outlet into the battery
The battery fills over time, visible on the little light towers on top of them
When the power goes out the battery drains to power the things it's plugged into
There's probably some stats in the background dictating how much power each thing draws and how fast the battery charges but all you really need to know is if your power goes out in the night, put another battery between the outlet and your last battery.

>>717755154
>UE5 game
Dammit, when I'll built a new pc maybe I will check the game.

>>717752161 (OP)
for the second time im struggling to push past hydroplant section

>>717752617
power from wall socket>battery>device you want to power. batteries have an input and an output lead. simple stuff dont overthink it

>Go through zombie dimension
>Get out and somehow get oneshotted from full health by a electro pest just before unlocking anything
>Trudge all the way back
>Find out the buttons in the furniture store reset and randomize their location
>Finally get through again
>Get out of there and hop on the zipline
>Forgot to activate the button and have to go back all the way AGAIN
I'm fine

Pictured: Autistic Black Child Winning Science Fair and Getting Juicebox From Father (1993)

>>717755948
How do you stop the pack rat and robot from fucking up your base there?

>>717756061
Choppers and a tesla coil for the 'bot.
The rat sometimes spawns in our base like literally popping out of nowhere, sometimes he will spawn behind furniture.

This game needs a lot more intermediary crafts for shit, it feels like way too much stuff is gated behind late game upgrades. I know that I'll get the charging pad later that will instacharge everything in my inventory, but why not have a something between that and the charging station? Give me a box with a couple rows of inventory space that charges stuff at the rate of one or two Crystalline Vial trinkets or something.

Bro got really depressed after they took his antennae

>>717752161 (OP)
This game truly takes inspiration from HL1, all the way down to the final part being an absolute fucking slog with shitty level design

>>717756727
you'd be depressed too if some weird fuckin aliens captured you, plucked out your eyes, burst your eardrums and then locked you in a box you can barely stand up in

>>717753848
All the anteverses are cool as fuck are highlights. When I first started the game I thought every time I went through aa portal it was just going to be Xen but I love that sometimes the game takes you to Silent Hill, or RE4, or a sick ass train that will destroy the universe if it stops.
>>717754260
They really wanted you to stop using the jetpack after reactors. Sucks a lot honestly, it was fun as fuck and I forgot that you can combo it with the gravity cube trinket for even more shenanigans.

>>717752161 (OP)
I wish there were more cool monsters and items. More interesting shit like the gravity cube.

>>717755658
>one shotted
trying to use electric weapons on the electro-pest is probably a bad idea

>>717755024
>Albatross would be a nice place to base if it wasnt so fucking loud
I've been thinking of building my final base there before putting the game up for good or until their major expansion which IS coming I've not noticed this noise you claim, are you sure it's not just a bug on your end?

>>717758509
People give GKs shit but I love them.. In what other game could you have a witch with a shotgun flying around like a huge dipshit going "EHEHEHE" and have it kind of make sense in the lore?

>>717758929
. . .

Game's been pretty good but the Tarasque fight was a horrible low point for me.

>>717759386
Why, too easy or something?

>>717752161 (OP)
buy a fucking ad already

sick of you shills spamming /v/

>>717759386
>literally crouching while fighting it
Yeah same. It's shoot at it until it dies but some weapons are more effective than others. At least in Power Up, Gordon had to turn on the generators to fry the gargantua. Here you just hold the attack button for a few seconds.

Wife.

Do I have to run through Shadowgate every time I want to go to the Praetorium?

>>717759639
I managed to get there from the far gardens with jump pads, jet pack, fog set, and cube once, but it almost killed me
I think it's worth putting a portal down.

>>717759639
No, there is a portal between the two shortcut doors on the right when first entering the fusion reactor, before reaching the shadowgate entrance.

Post Bases

>>717759621
>can’t save her
>not even a figurine of her
The pain of it

>>717752617
Yellow light is charge, blue light is load. The higher the load, the faster the charge depletes. Daisy chaining batteries is mostly ineffective, as each additional battery in the chain increases load.

Two makeshift batteries chained is sufficient to power any one single appliance or defensive structure through the night without interruption. Alternately, one carbon battery is sufficient to power three appliances or defensive structures through the night without interruption.

>>717752161 (OP)
>The black of night falls upon the Facility

>>717759528
so true xister a fucking gacha bait thread died for this thread

>>717760397
alternatively use a laser to energy setup (battery -> laser -> laser to energy -> base) and you only ever consume a single laser beam emitter worth of power

>getting through shadowgate and the praetorium takes me almost an ingame week
>when I finally get back to base my leyak autism chamber is a second away from running out of food for it
Wish we could put this thing on auto feed, I have hundreds of the damn fruit.

>>717759528
Come on man let us have our fun before a youtuber plays it and these threads go to shit.

I kinda dont like the exor buddy he ruins my vibe

>>717758509
I like how one of the biggest upgrades you get for your character is just a blue cube that stays on your hotbar, but it's just such a game changer as far as schmoovement goes

will those lasers that are coming out of the laser pipes provide electricty?
if so, I am moving back to offices for that sweet infinite electricity

>>717761493
>hotbar
these two are never leaving my trinket slots
maybe for my brain waifu..

>>717760353
>No figurine of her
>Figurine of the monsters ravaging her land
I hate it here.

How are they going to make content beyond 1.0? Am I going to be stuck wearing the excursion suit, or some other full body suit, for the rest of time? Just like the Jump Pack, unless they completely disable it I can't see a reason to ever take it off.

>>717760897
how did you not go back to at least dump your loot?

hate how fickle the sprint attacks are

>>717761780
They'll probably just have the equipment malfunction effect the excursion suit, as conpletely fucking gay as that is
I'm just glad they arent gay enough to disable the gravity cube

>>717759469
>>717759606
I thought the fight is a 'puzzle' and tried to use enviroment, in the end it was a horrible bullet sponge and i had to go to base twice to get more scrap to make ammo with.

>>717761780
The least they could do is add more endings.
>>717762356
Sprint attacks are stupid strong when you get the hang of them. Going in and out of cover doing sprint attacks with a heavy weapon will fuck up just about anything.

>>717762496
Just shoot the tentacle nips

>>717762527
judging the distance is so unintuitive. you have to be like right on top of them otherwise you whiff, and if you get interrupted you do the stupid slow heavy attack which is useless

The dam area is a bit of a difficultly spike and I'm regretting blunt.

>>717758929
eh...

>>717762527
>The least they could do is add more endings
This, I would greatly appreciate a "your character isnt a retarded lemming" option, even if it has the same result

>>717761517
Yes, you can also redirect the lasers all the way to your base (or so I've heard). But why would you?

>>717763310
blunt only exists so you can get the sprint attack for the carbon pickaxe

>>717763689
Thats the one saving grace, I'm one tapping guys with the impacthammer but I think I'm about to go sharp and never look back

>>717757783
I also had a glue tube that was displaying as "-1" in crafting menu and couldn't be used in crafting.

I just caught up to where I was pre-1.0, which is just after Mycofields and opening that bigass vault door with the goo charge.
I’m feeling slightly spooked.

So I have to be retarded again and release all contained SCPs to enter the inner wing or do I have a choice here

>>717757783
Is that the glue you craft from soup?
I had the same thing happen to my where i couldn’t pick up crafted glue. Had to get the moving box to pick it up and moved it from his inventory

Is there any reason to set up a teleport to Security? I think I cracked all the security crates, and I set up a TP to the Night Realm.

the whole game after manufacturing sucks
slog fucking anor londo type ass game where all you do is unlock "shortcuts" in form of doors that lead back to where you were 10 seconds ago
Woah... amazing fucking gameplay

>>717765167
>Its bad because the maps connects to each other!
really nigga?

>>717765167
>seething over some of the most refreshing exploration in recent years
go back to cod kiddo

>got chopped up by a vent fan in reactors
not sure what I was expecting to happen

>>717762356
sprint attacks have a cool down and minimum sprint time before you can trigger it, on top of minimum stamina requirement
if your stamina is below the line you cant sprint attack

How's the solo experience? i have no friends

>>717765695
a lot more tense and dangerous but still pretty good, you'll need to modify sandbox settings like increasing max item stack size to offset not having friends to carry your shit

how the fuck

>>717762356
It's probably one of the most OP things in the game.

>>717765789
They stop at night. Took me the entire game to realize that.

>>717765695
90% of my playtime was solo, I consider it superior.
>can take your time with exploration
>don't have to farm 500 of each resource so everyone gets a new weapon or armour set
>can base practically anywhere with only one bed
The only downsides is combat is a bit more difficult and you have to do everything yourself, can't leave someone at home to farm and cook

>>717765695
It's good. However, I'd recommend increasing stack size by 2x so trips aren't as painful. Especially since you'll probably be moving your main base at some point fairly early into the game and you'll be using the cart a fair bit.
Also I'd recommend playing on Apocalyptic. It's not as hard as it sounds - at least not for a LONG ass time, several zones into the game.

>>717752161 (OP)
How's the game solo?

>>717765863
me and my friend thought that was how you got past the turrets in labs
just our luck it's one of the few things in the game that doesn't turn off

I feel like I complete cheesed exploration with jump pack and the gravity cube. I just unlocked the jetpack and it kinda felt like a downgrade at first, as the big momentum is lost.

Wait, do I actually need to farm 4 leyak essence to progress?

>>717765004
You'd initially farm security for all the new mats and the night essence, but you already have the TP to the night realm so the latter's sorted
All the mats in security can be farmed in the hydroplant portal so there's literally no reason to go back

>>717766131
Yup. I hope you have your greyek crops ready, city slicker.

>>717766131
There's a skip if you place platforms but you will still need essence for other things

>>717766131
Grab x ray gun and shoot him or you could just fish some kind of jellyfish that have 25% to drop when you process it.

Is it weird that I miss having to use the forklift

>>717763310
>sharp is good against military dudes who wear armor
>Blunt is good against naked aliens
Huh? Did they do the resistance backwards? I have been using the wrong weapons the whole time.

I just finished the botanical gardens, how much game is left?

Am I stupid or does the game not explain the pest wheels. How do you have any kind of uptime on them? Do different pets work differently?

>>717766317
>having to
I never used it once, what do you do with it drive loot back home?

>>717765875
Sounds like shit, can i play with randos?

>>717766219
>>717766264
I have a bunch of crops ready to go fortunately, no idea how fast he comes back though. Dude seems shy after he got zapped once

>>717766882
the fruit makes it spawn faster, otherwise it's every 15 minutes

>>717766712
why would you want to

>>717766661
a lot of the stuff is glossed over and you need to look up the wiki or ask about their specifics
pest wheels are a meme since you need to keep feeding them to generate power, only reason to have them is for the poop portal

The game is frontloaded as fuck and people are catching on. The achievement rates are ridiculously low for a game that's supposedly "universally praised".

>arcbolt lightning bypasses mystagogue shields
LMAO GET FUCKED

>>717755658
same thing happened to me. TWICE. almost quit the game

>>717765761
You really don't. The advantage of playing single player means you are always your own server admin, which means you can drop your cart anywhere, fill it up, and then go press the cart retrieval button out by Warren for free transport back to your base.

And even if you don't exploit this feature, only bringing back what you can carry isn't debilitating. You might have to make some hard choices sometimes, but 1 person's inventory size isn't unmanageable.

>>717766709
Played multiplayer, and we relocated our base a few times, so we'd use them to ship stuff between Offices and Manufacturing. Also drove them out to where we were exploring, for storing lots of items and bringing it back to base. After we got to cascade they stopped being useful though. Used the karts for a little while, and never bothered with the SUVs, they just show up too late and there's not a lot of use for them by that point.

game overstays it's welcome and shits it's bed at reactors

>>717755658
>>717767136

>>717764779
It wasn't, it was just part of a stack I collected from Manufacturing but bugged when I quick stacked it in storage. I couldn't shift-click that glue in storage either, so I dropped it and couldn't pick it up. Box friend picked it up though, I keep that cursed glue in its own storage.

>>717767283
lol

>>717767283
Why do it like that? A rope plant should extend all the way down. Mine does.

>>717767068
It's not that bad. Honestly Dark Souls shits the bed harder than this.

>>717767470
didnt know they didnt have a limit at the time

>>717752161 (OP)
how the fuck is the DLC the room you're supposed to decorate? Is this some only fun with friends garbage? Why the fuck is it so overpriced?

>>717767518
absolutely fucking delusional secondary opinion
you have never played PTDE and if you claim to you did not before the release of dark souls 2

threadly reminder that this is epic vs everything on low, global illumination on medium, and tsr on 67%.

>>717767687
I played Dark Souls 11 times, 6 of them with the DLC. But whatever you say boss.

ni hao gamers

Please tell me there is a scientific device that could let me delete all my electrical wires forever.
My base looks like shit.

>>717768012
Wait, you can place power strips on walls?

>>717767809
Read my post again ESL-kun

>>717768181
bro....

Fortitude exp is ridiculous, its retarded to level unless you get to reactors and cheese it with lasers

>>717768139

you can use lasers later on, you could also learn proper cable management instead of being an embarrassment to electricians worlwide

>>717768330
>cheese it with lasers
hexwood shield and chopper can do it as early as canaan

>>717768181
Ceilings, too.

>>717768570
bro we're opening portals to the multiverse and teleporting stuff directly to chests, yet we can't have wireless electricity or teleport it

How to deal with shield guys effectively? They are a real pain in the ass.

looks like absolute dogshit zoomergarbage stream game

>>717768012
>i forgot all my little figurines in cascade labs

>>717768741
Explosives, or Skinks.

With the skink, are you supposed to just rapid fire his globs or charge them up

>>717760219
>>717760801
can you make your own rooms in this game or is it just repurposing existing ones with your own furniture and such?

>>717768640

lasers are much faster since you can get hit by several of them unlike the chopinator since they can't be placed close enough to eachother and hardlight shields recharge much faster than a hexwood shield repairs durability

i guess if you make like 10 shields it might be tolerable but its a hassle

>>717752385
My exact feeling. I honestly believe that jetpacks and the jump pack ruined the level design because now they have to expect every player will just levitate over whatever obstacle. The jump pack/jetpack should be blocked in every area until you complete it and the gravity cube should be changed to a slow fall cube.

>>717753663
1.0 was def rushed to meet the roadmap and to make sure they got cross play in time. However I have faith they'll improve it in time.

Zag! Let me restore power to outlets in security and my life is yours!

>>717762356
Are these new to 1.0? I noticed I was bumping into shit while running but I didn't think it was anything special.

>>717768741
Hitting the nearest surface with a lightning spear

>>717762475
I think the opposite, the excursion suit is made as a way to allow players to have improved mobility without having to design every environmental challenge around a jetpack. Since beating it I've decided to forgo the jump pack and the excursion suit does enough for me.

>>717767706
lol everything low looks better

>>717768907
At most, you can place cubicle walls, but it's mainly just you shoving a crafting bench wherever you feel like it.

>>717769349
gi is the most important graphic setting to the overall look, since the game uses tons of emissive materials for free lights.

>>717767068
They are low because most of the achievements came with the new update retard.

since when does the box have a trash feature? this is great

>>717767687
Dark Souls 1 is pretty agreed upon that after O+S it's pretty much dog shit until the Kiln. Catacombs are a meme, Seath and Nito are pathetically easy bosses, 4 kings are a DPS check you can beat as your second boss, the DLC is linear (with good bosses for the time).

>>717769656
i swear he doesn't sometimes.

>>717769737
that's how it's like on reddit?

>>717769737
oldfag opinion, zoomers just google a build and cheese the game

this place was kino

game is boring as fuck
>craft an item
>place it
>unlock new area
>repeat
>all enemies are reskins

>>717770005
I like this place and Canaan but I wish the Security sector itself wasn't total doodoofeces

>>717770246
I wish the game let you somehow repair the lightning

does multiple laser emitters on a collector make it charge faster?

>>717769868
??? source: my imagination
we play the game the same way anyone else does retard

>>717770363
Asmongold and Forsen fatrolled and cheesed the entire thing doe

You cheese?

Will it get attacked by respawning enemies?
I don't even know if they destroy it completely or not since my stuff is in my base.

easy as pie. Just fill it with quills and then fill it with buckshot

>>717770615
>I have cheese.

>"Precise containment procedures remain unknown"
>not classed as Solutus (Uncontainable)
Some pencil pusher is doing a terrible job in the registry.

>>717770738
regretting not specing into thrower for the auto pickup thing

Why does this game run like ass

>>717770280
>Nightmare causing the blackouts in security
>Have some way to move him to the Praetorium, since he's supposed to be the Order's eternal enemy in the lore
>Lighting gets fixed
Would have been cinema but oh well

>>717770834
because the developer didnt do any optimizations and just basically ue5 blueprinted everything.

>>717770768
Prior to literally all containment failing, maybe it WAS contained. I doubt it's responsible for its cell being decimated.

>>717760397
So how many batteries will I need for my plug board with all my freezers and fridges? So a single carbon battery isnt good enough right?

They need to do a serious polishing and QOL pass on the game. There's a distinct lack of both in very bizarre ways. Stuff like the Dark Souls 2 -tier texture tiling in the later areas.

HATE GATEKEEPERS

>>717771035
lets make a text document with QOL suggestions and post it on the steam forums then

>>717771135
The Janet-Corrector 9000

>>717771035
With that and how bad the last couple areas came out you can tell the game got rushed for some reason. It's a shame.

>>717770726
never. i redirected this laser down the hall to the area before residential, and it's fine. if you're paranoid, slap a tesla coil near it.

>>717770826
It's worth just sitting there throwing shit for the auto pickup, even if you never plan to throw another thing again

God I hope they put in a way to get a 3rd trinket slot in whatever the next update is, I love using the Maestro armor but its so dogshit having both of my trinket slots auto decided with Kylie and the Fog Lantern

>>717771475
you use kylie?

>>717771009

a single industrial battery will probably power 2 fridges, but they aren't expensive so you can just place one before each fridge and you will be allright.

just remember to do Facility power > plugstrip > batteries > whatever you have to power
chaining batteries is simpler but they have diminishing returns, placing the batteries before the stations will be more consistent

once you get lasers you can do Facility outlet > Battery> laser emiter > laser splitter > laser power converter > thing you want to power

that way you can keep your entire base powered on a single battery

>>717771475
>>717771618
>I'm proud of you
>good night, friend
>did you feel her?

>>717772006
I hate her voice actor

>>717769027
>The jump pack/jetpack should be blocked in every area until you complete it
And the lore explanation for that is...?
Not that it matters, they already did it for Residences despite it not being a portal world so shit's fucked.
>However I have faith they'll improve it in time.
I doubt they'll go back and redesign the entirety of Residences. Although they certainly could use all that space between the first tram stop with the respawn and the second tram stop where the level actually begins.

>>717752161 (OP)
I hate the end level of games reuses assets anf enemies from the rest of the game instead of having new shit

>>717765863
It's a lesson you can learn in offices to get an anvil on night 1, but they literally don't use it again until reactors lol

>>717767187
I carry two carts around with 8.0 stacking and I still get full inventories as soon as I hit manufacturing. The main thing about making stacking size higher removes a lot of downtime moving shit around and being able to focus on the gameplay

>>717772262
>he hates the brown yeti

Game needs more SCP shit

best place to get more kragle?

>>717769514
And most people bought the game after the 1.0 release, genius.

>>717767068
Like 20+ of the progress achievements are new
That bottom achievement is literally the second portal you can and the first one you absolutely have to go through to progress

>>717768827
Nobody actually uses the skink

>>717772381
You are an OCD hoarder then. Are you grabbing literally everything that isn't static scenery? You do not need nearly that much shit even endgame, let alone by the time you're preparing for Manufacturing.

>>717768330
one of the shields you get off the rook enemies and stand in front of a machine gun like the one in manufacturing. You gain 100+ exp per bullet hitting the shield so you level to 20 in like 5 minutes, just keep repairing the shield

>>717773156
Devs use progression achievements to track player retention.

>>717773598
They probably should've added them earlier then

>>717773164
I use him all the time, he's good

Just unlocked the tram. Feels good.

If you feel like it, you can try posting one sentence to convince me that this game doesn't suck. There will be no consequences.

Best place to farm staplers?

game peaks hard with labs unfortunately

>>717774071
It's the most fun I've had playing a game in over 6 years

>>717774114
fish antefish up and trade the filets to warren

>>717774071
This game doesn't suck.

>>717774062
I didn't even remember that the default speed was that fucking slow. I downloaded the mod that increases the tram speed by 3 times and never looked back lol.

>>717774114
flathill. check the side rooms in the courthouse.

>>717774180 I have experienced your feeling before.
>>717774180 I'm looking at some gameplay and the webms of this thread but it looks like it sucks.

>>717774473
the combat's kinda eh but the webms can't show how satisfying the progression and exploration is

>>717774062
good job anon
be on the lookout for the second tram in manufacturing west
its right next to the train portal world, like literally on the same track in the same room but on the right side of the room instead of the left

>>717774062
Remember that the tram has its own storage box if you ever need to squirrel away more stuff.

>>717774062
HONEY WAKE UP NEW ZOOMTARD STREAMER GAME JUST DROPPED AND IT LOOKS JUST AS DOGSHIT AS ALL THE OTHERS

>>717773972
you get data from the 1.0 release by adding new ones in after

>>717773164
I would if I could figure out which of the five skinks I have walking around my base is the weapon one without having to chase them all down every time

>>717774686
AF is the exact opposite of a zoomtard streamer game anon

>>717774686
the push for higher fidelity graphics is partially what led to this downswing in the hobby. I'd much rather have a coherent art style than six billion pixels per square inch

>>717774686
>half-life 1 is zoomtard bait now

>>717774534
Does it sport novel gamedesigns? Any bold mechanics for the survival looting genre?

>>717774875
Yeah to both but you obviously just want to hate the game and feel superior so just leave

>>717774071
it's like if half life 1 had the mapping style of a metroidvania and a bigger emphasis on weird technology/alien worlds/weird shit from across space and time and you played as a scientist

>>717774875
I always say any survival crafter set in a pre-baked world is in a class of it's own. Valheim is shit because of it's procedural generation while games like Grounded and AF are propelled to a different level solely by nature of their world being hand crafted

Where can you fish?

jesus christ how horrifying

>>717775228
everywhere theres water, literally. Just try it out

You know what they say! Buy low, sell high!

Cool setpiece. I've even got "kill jotun" achievement from it despite doing nothing. Order guys probably could've won the engagement if they rushed the last few GK neophytes left, but they just bundled up in their fortification and stood there in a line.
Are all gatekeepers "bring lasers or go home"? Even fucking neophytes take 3 thumper shots to the face and mystagogues are extra annoying blocking my stealth sniper rifle shots with their "lol doesn't count" shield.

>>717775228
any standing bodies of water
this includes places like the fountain in the office lobby

>>717774071
this more ambitious than system shock 2 but with cheesy writing and the amount of content and freedom you would expect from modern-day computing

>>717775228
Start in the gym pool, it's nice and safe
Bring a chair and fish while seated

>>717775319
Skink murders all gatekeepers I will keep saying it until people listen. Damages them right through their shields.

>>717774972
I do like feeling superior to others on the internet.

>>717774875
Arguably some tech about halfway through the game tech that pretty much automates storage organization in a pretty satisfying way, but mostly it just does everything solid. The game takes you to cool, weird places and you also get to make some cool and weird stuff.

>>717775302
>>717775320
>>717775471
Oh, so it's Cruelty Squad fishing.

>>717774875
honestly, the fact that it doesn't fuck anything up and respects the player's time is pretty novel in the survival crafting genre
it has weak points, sure, but nothing that made me say "I can never replay this game again"

I've played a lot of other crafting survival bullshit games and I hated them.
Things Abiotic Factor doesn't do
>stare at bullshit with your mouse and watch the circle go round lmao
>see you need to sleep for 4 hours but the stove only has enough fuel for 2 so you wake up and now you're freezing and hungry lol lmao
>hide fucking resources behind a wiki or some shit (well maybe a little bit, where is the exchanger for liquid crystals again?)

>>717775228
anywhere there is a pool of water. fountains, the pool, aquariums, little ponds, basically if you can wash yourself in it then you can fish in it. sometimes you can fish in non-water liquids.

>>717776010
1st floor labs with the order grunt

>>717776010
It's next to the laser puzzle to get into Rise, which is right after that really cold room if you're coming in from the back
but I don't remember where the carbon one is lmao

>>717775228
Oh my god, I was sleeping on this all this time?

>>717776258
keep in mind the items they show as you receiving from butchering them aren't a 100% chance aside from fish oil, fish bones and the filets. So the exor heart and quills are going to be more like a 20-50% chance per fish butchered

>>717776258
Many fish are valuable but it's more a test if you have the patience to catch them. Or make traps and bait.

>>717776175
Liquid thing and carbon are both in 1st floor, crystals are in the top floor right after decontamination. Trading wheat for both liquid and crystals was handy as fuck considering I wasn't using it for anything, and can get tons of it in mushroom land.

>>717776258
Yep, fishing is overpowered
I think there's even a few materials you can get super early from fishing.

>>717775438
Modern-day computing applied to humbler game design yields some powerful experiences full of gameplay freedoms. My favorite trend post indie revolution.
Can you convince me, in a sentence, to go to the bathroom? I'm shitting myself.

This game is such easy mode with friends™ it's insane.
>They still claim it's just as hard, if not harder, than solo
lmao topkek
>>717776010
>>hide fucking resources behind a wiki or some shit
ratpack.

>>717776415
TIL you can fish up security armour in the security sector, or at the very least you can fish up helmets

>>717776441
Anons in these threads insist that they've gotten the rat pack without nets, but I do know the net/blunt combo does guarantee the drop
Maybe the non net chance is very low

>>717776258
The normal ass radfish you can fish up will drop their livers FYI, which are just the same as the iodine tablets/syringe but with a decay bar. They're way easier to get than either of those provided you have a yeti cooler to keep em frozen in.

>>717758330
Jetpack definitely breaks a lot with the game, jump pack even more so. Level design was a lot nicer when a staircase shortcut was a blessing and not pointless since you can just levitate to the top instantly.

>>717776372
That's not bad at all from 3 fish.

>>717772356
You can get an anvil night 1 by skipping the first anteverse with the staircase jump.

>>717773164
Skink is amazing for wiping out mystagogues. 2-3 charged shots to kill them through their shield.

>>717776441
nobody told me about that
at least the game is functional without an outside guide

>>717758890
Did you even kill the final boss?
As far as I know its not a bug, its just the noise from the rift

>>717776826
just kill exors

>>717776441
It depends on your friends. Me and my friend will grind together on separate materials so we're always progressing together while in our larger group save it's basically just us two while the other two do whatever they want.

Easier? Yes. Grindier? Yes.

>>717776848
Yes, true, but that room in the cafeteria has one as well

>>717776739
They should've made the jetpack an obligatory item and then design the rest of the game assuming you were going to be using it.

>>717777172
Any non-retard group has it easier
>Different speccing into combat
>One handles all food/water needs
>Easier to carry lots of stuff
>Basebuilding is quicker
It's not that grindy desu. Solo even combat is harder since you're the sole focus, you have to cook, craft, collect, carry etc all by yourself.

>>717771764
Holy shit, so the laser converter is so efficient. There barely any drain on the battery after plugging in most of my base to the laser grid.

>>717776441
It's entirely dependent on if the group is working together well or not
The jump in enemy count from 1 player to 3 players is actually huge
So if all 3 of those players aren't working together to fight the extra spawns it makes it a lot more dangerous for individual players to wander around alone
And at the same time, even if you do have all 3 players working together you need triple the resources
You need ammo, weapons, and armor for all 3 of them and as a group you'll blow through any food you have saved really fast
I think the enemy spawn increases taper off at 4 players and up so it definitely seems to get way easier with 5+ especially if you have people who are more dedicated to cooking or resource collecting and are splitting up tasks.

>>717771009
Jesus Christ. No wonder you don't understand how batteries work, you're incapable of doing basic fucking math.

What do you do with trapped pests? I see that they can be fed, but what for? Can they be tamed?

>>717777836
place them a vent and make them fall through a chopinator

>>717777819
How am I supposed to do math when appliances don't tell me how much power they draw.

>>717778004
How do you move them?

>>717755374
>for the second time im struggling to push past hydroplant section
Slow and steady. I went through with charge shield and lightning spear.
You'll love reactors, they have a special anal prolapse welcome package.

>>717778062
you let them out and they just run around your base, you've tamed them
killing them is kind of mean

>>717778062
Feed them wheat or nachos until they're friendly then do whatever

>>717778062
You can order them to follow you
They can also create power with the pest wheels, but you'll need to feed them for that
They like wheat and nachos

>>717777836
You can train a shit ton of them and order them to follow you like a mini army. If you tame enough electro pests they can even take on the Reaper.

>batteries have diminishing returns
Shit. I really wish we had the tech from Satisfactory to see exact input/output.

>>717779845
Then what are you supposed to do?

>>717773183
No, its just that a lot of items tend to take up one slot like watches, extinguishers, and car batteries. The only thing I go out of my way to pick up till Labs is water coolers. I don't really go out of my way to grab literally everything but its not difficult to get items of every type either

>>717779906
Lay it out like this, You'll get exactly 1 night of energy for each bench/powered item you put at the end of the chain. 5 batteries for a full night power for 4 devices.

>>717752161 (OP)
I thought they were fine, but I started with 1.0 so there was no months long wait for me.

>>717779906
Multiple outlets are a saving grace.

>>717776415
>>717776258
You can get 3 out of the 4 pieces for the maestro armor which is extremely good light armor for that stage of the game

I just got this, did I beat the game?

>>717781626
saar...

>>717780427
>Grinder
gayboy

>>717777506
>The jump in enemy count from 1 player to 3 players is actually huge
Enemies are easy plus you aren't the only one being targeted
>for individual players to wander around alone
Even most retards push objectives together
>you need triple the resources
You also have triple the people... who can just each focus on one aspect instead of having to do EVERYTHING

I'm not sure what the best endgame armor is, so far I'm wearing half exor half mountaineer just so I can deal with the cold in the new areas.

>>717782621
I rocked the radiation armor with bionic legs

>>717782725
and how do you not turn into an icecube in residences?

>>717775232
Is that a MOTHERFUCKING Look Outside reference?

>>717752161 (OP)
zones are too big and filled with not much. They clearly rushed to 1.0.

>>717779906
You plug smaller batteries into individual appliances instead of brute forcing a thousand carbon batteries

>>717777836
>What do you do with trapped pests?
put them in the pest wheel beside a box full of wheel with a plug that can connect it to the rest of your power gird useless unless eventually they will add an event that is just no mains power but it could happen.

>>717783032
>box full of wheat

>>717782793
Coffee.

>>717782725
Reactor 4 is faster than Reactor 2 + Bionic legs. However Excursion Suit + Exor 2 + Bionic legs is even faster than that

I finished the game. Are they gonna do more updates? Abiotic Factor 2: Half Life 2 edition?

>>717782793
wear gear that gives cold resistance
get royal peppers from space queen
make risotto 98

>>717783032
Am I the only one getting a stroke trying to read this?

>>717783803
Yes, they say they will
There's loose ends to tie up, like one group of scientists being on a "day trip" in the leyak anteverse (one of Frake's people mention it) and a lot of other references to that anteverse, there's still the Curie wing that's blocked off, Abe decided to fuck off somewhere, and a bunch of other little things besides that

>>717784402
>put them in the pest wheel beside a box full of wheel with a plug that can connect it to the rest of your power gird useless unless eventually they will add an event that is just no mains power but it could happen.
>Simply put the pest wheel beside a box full of (anteverse)wheat, with a plug that can connect it all to the rest of your power grid; useless unless eventually they will add an event, with no mains power, but it could happen.

>>717783803
One could hope so considering the game is fucking unfinished currently.

>>717784563
Thanks. Maybe I'm getting old, but both this and ebonics need to be translated for me nowadays.

>>717783770
never got the recipe for the exor set since how could one know that you have to talk to that nigga four times after grabbing the thing from the middle.

>>717784402
put the pest in a pest wheel
next to a box full of [wheat]
connect the wheel to your power grid via a plug
It's useless unless you want to set up in a place with no main power access like "India"
Basically you teleport pests there with batteries, tame them, and then createca power grid with them

>>717784725
Ebonics is usually beyond me. Idiot internet scrawl in English is pretty easy. The two-letter texting abbreviation people might as well have their own cuneiform.

>>717780178
There's no excuse that 8x stacks isn't enough room for you unless you literally refuse to set down a base with storage somewhere. You'll only find pocket watches in the train dimension, and you'll only need a few for the chains. Car batteries are only useful for hotwire kits and a recharge pad that you'll only need 1 of per base tops. Extinguishers you'll only need a few of at a time to make air compressors or tesla coils.

If you're collecting 8x of anything else, you are doing absurd amounts of work... you must be a gopher for your entire server or something.

>>717784868
Extinguishers break down into stackable materials too, no reason to store them whole

>>717784943
Yeah, same for watches. A trip to the repair bench and they'll stack much nicer.

>>717752617
make 10 batteries and plug them all in together into a socket. use tech scrap to run lines to everything you want to power in your base.
don't worry about being "efficient" as long as you have enough.
put down power strips every time you connect to anything that's powered too so you can branch off it when you need.

>>717784868
It's funny because my friend and I literally stripmine and salvage everything like loot gremlins and we're fine with the stack sizes at 2x
It's fun (for us) but we're both very strange. We've also both agreed to forego teleporters so we can drive everwhere and make forward operating bases that are actually useful

>>717770615
Plz cheese.

>turned down all the survival elements from default to one notch slower
>suddenly game is way more enjoyable
wowee. I swear on the default settings your guy needs to shit and sleep 2 minutes after leaving the base.

>>717784868
8x is enough for me though and thats not the items that I have issue with that can fill a high stack? I'm just saying its possible for your inventory slots to be filled with various shit pretty easily
>>717784943
>>717785009
Yeah, by the time I strip everything down I have zero issue putting everything in my base with 6 medium chests, thats not the issue here. My point is that its entirely plausible to have a full inventory (and im not talking about full stacks, just taking up a slot) of various items because of how many different items there are and how some items have a stack size of 1 and will take 1 inventory slot.

>>717785432
If you're a packrat you either take a forklift everywhere or you decide that you don't really need to take every anvil you see home and just make note of it for later if you do need it

>>717785080
typically the rule of thumb is one battery per thing draining battery. I'm really suprised no ones been autistic enough to chart out how fast things charge during the day/how much power each item uses on the wiki yet.

>>717785349
>on the default settings your guy needs to shit and sleep 2 minutes after leaving the base.
if you keep your circadian rhythm in the game the same you should be falling asleep at 9pm every night when the power shuts off and i took the increased shit perk on apocalyptic and still barely had to take a poo
it's actually a buff too cause it's more poo to make fertilizer
when you wanna leave your base press t to check your watch and if it's past 5pm just do shit at your base for a few min and go to bed when the power goes out. you don't do anything for a few min but you'll fix your in-game sleep schedule that way. you should probably be heading back to your base every day anyway to empty your bag with loot or you'll find a bed while you're out.

>>717785625
Makeshift batteries are good enough for almost everything except the fridges/freezer, stoves, and sometimes a crafting bench and item storage pad if you're doing a lot at night.
Not sure how much battery lasers eat yet I haven't had a reason to keep them on overnight so far.
One industrial battery can run 3 tesla coils long enough to kill the cascade labs robots

>>717785432
To combat that, I set up "salvage stations" in every anteverse with storage and a powered salvage bench so I can hoard everything

>>717785773
>>717785625
it's not hard to make a lot of batteries and portal worlds reset every 3 days so just make a battery bank and don't worry about how much you need. if it drains before the next morning overnight keep adding batteries until it doesn't. the bank is plugged into the wall so it doesn't drain during the day. you're minmaxing something that gives you nothing extra for doing it. you can also run wires pretty effectively and out of the way too that can use up your brain power if you think that's what you're getting out of trying to efficiently use batteries.

>>717785773
>>717785625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho1m7q8Afdg
tldr if you hate youtube is every device uses the same amount of power and needs 54 "energy" to stay on overnight with default time settings, so a makeshift is just too low for one device and industrial is too low for two. The only things that actually need to stay on all night are fridges, aquariums and leyak containment so it only really matters for those.

I just keep it to six devices per carbon battery which pairs nicely with the six slots on a plug board.

My rule of thumb so far

>>717785986
I'm not arguing against however you're doing it I was just sharing what I've noticed with the batteries
I have a lot of small bullshit setups scattered around for farming certain things and there's enough outlets outlets around that its easy to plop industrial batteries down where needed.

>>717786283
It doesn't matter if you sleep the night away anyway

>>717786283
quantum battery can keep 16 devices on for a whole night fyi

>>717786439
The cost of changing your power system in the lategame outweighs the benefit.
Why bother upgrading and replugging all your shit when it already worked since tier 2 batteries?
Unless you're moving somewhere new for the fun of it, don't bother making a quantum battery for base power.

>>717786439
two makeshifts per works the same, and I had a lot of extra coils by the time I even unlocked the quantum battery

>>717786848
Its way too much space to put two makeshifts on everything, plus they're junk if you ever do want to use higher batteries. At least just do one industrial per device so you have the option to upgrade later if you want to tidy things up.

>>717787294
i will clutter my base with double makeshift shelves

>>717787294
>put batteries on top of the fridge
>put batteries under the workbenches and shelves
Never had an issue with it, but you do get industrials pretty early, so it isn't a total waste.

>>717785432
Bro, my point is you shouldn't need 8 times stacks, even if there are a few rare slot-hogs. If I can beat the whole game solo with 1x stacks, anybody can.

>>717786710
it's necessary for avoiding power leeches and you don't need to change your whole setup, just the backup battery

>>717786710
>>717786848
because power leeches cant fuck up quantum batteries you dum dums

>>717787606
>>717787862
Nta but I got the power leech event once near the beginning of the game and then never again after that

>>717787590
I've done 1x stack size before in multiplayer months before the game came out, I just don't want to manage stupid shit that takes up your slots in your player inventory like 32 wood or 16 rebar stacks let alone get to the point where I have to deal with it in my base inventory. Its not hard to beat the game at 1x at all but it just removes a lot of time you spend managing inventory and thats what I personally prefer.

>>717788678
OK, but this is all in a reply chain where you or someone else told a new player he'd "need to" change it to that. As long as we are straight up saying "no that's not actually necessary" then we agree.

>battery balancing
Huh? I just have 60 makeshifts and some scattered industrials/carbons in sequence in front of my wall outlet and they manage to power my base just fine all the way to endgame

>>717787862
if the power leech event happens i will just go to offices and kill the big floating shitter

>>717788987
Not necessarily, no. The point being sent across is that the game isn't best enjoyed at 1x stack size, i'd argue 2x at the lowest is enough for a new player that wants to collect stuff just to see what every crafting material does. You can be autistic about it and say that an anon said earlier that he NEEDED a higher stack size and that is objectively wrong and you'd be correct but the point of that 2nd reply in the chain was to just give anon an enjoyable experience.

>>717789160
I just ran into that event, how do you kill that flying shitter? It felt like my welded spear and grinder rounds did fuckall to him

>>717789762
He's an HP sponge, so just use it to farm weapon XP for whatever you want.

>>717789762
it's the issue most of abiotic's enemies have, very little visual feedback to taking damage. But you are hurting it, it just takes a bit

>>717789762
shoot it until it dies, or melee if you can get within range without hurting yourself

>>717774875
yeah, they made a really cool facility to play in, and i don't have to play fucking lego.

>>717789762
First time that happened to me I couldn't do shit with a security pistol and a pipe club. The second time he showed up I blasted him a bunch with the energy pistol and he folded like a bitch.
You just need to hit him enough, I guess.

>>717775319
you should go for a swim in the water.

Can the krasue not follow you into non-freezing areas? I want to kite it to my base but it disappeared when I left residence

>>717790179
He can appear anywhere during a cold snap event, but otherwise nope.

>>717779845
>soda and soda and soda soda
soul.

leyak is girl?

>>717790312
That's gay. At least I had an excuse to bring a pet home during the process.

Does cold snap happen somewhere random or just wherever you are at the time?

i like half life. is this game for me?

>>717790798
Probably

>>717790798
most likely provided crafting mechanics isn't an instant turn off for you

>>717790609
The weather events happen in the entire map when you get them.
>>717790798
It looks like Half Life and all the scientists talk like Half Life scientists, but the actual game is completely different. You should try it because it's a pretty cool game though.

>>717790798
do you like crafting, shitting, and cooking? because you do all that too. the sandbox options are fairly robust, so you could turn off the shitting and eating if you want.

>notice with the fortification perk you can get infinite amounts of concrete from making/scrapping concrete defences
>think i'll be able to level crafting in no time
>absolute abysmal dogshit rates to the point it's not worth it
you know shit is too grindy when it's too much of a pain even with INFINITE RESOURCES

>>717791020
I knew that much for the others but the description for cold snap made it sound different, guess I'm waiting then.

>>717790798
>>717790898
different anon
I hate crafting games but Abiotic makes it a compelling goal instead of a fucking chore like 99% of crafting scavenge open-world survival horse shit

>>717791103
just hike up xp gain, get your soup and kylie and get it over with

>>717790798
It's a lot like Half Life in terms of aesthetics, enemy variety and general plot progression but the actual gameplay reminds me more of Prey 2017 but with a much greater emphasis on crafting and base building. There's also a huge SCP influence too, but moreso oldschool SCP and not any of the really gay or power scaling kinda stuff in the newer entries. You can kinda gain access to a fun HL1 kinda Bhop schmoovement style later on though.

>>717791241
i started as an archotechnic consultant and had a 1.5x exp gain for the coop server i'm in.
>look it up and the job doesn't even boost crafting xp despite giving you +3 levels of it
WHAT THE FUCK.
i'll try eating brains and seeing if there's a soup that boosts crafting exp, but holy fuck is some shit unreasonably slow.

>>717791165
I'm going to be honest, grinding CPUs feels like shit. I feel like I shouldn't have to grind mats for an inordinate amount of tesla coils to set up out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere to kill a robot with retarded hp so it'll drop its brain every other night.

I'd be way more happy to just directly trade the tesla coil for the CPU at a merchant.

>>717791461
if you're near the end of the game and you just want maxed out skills there's no reason not to just set it all the way to 3x

balanced stew is the crafting soup by the way

>>717791608
If you're at beginner area then fuck bashing robots, build a chopinator and lure the shitters.

>>717787862
Do the leeches get more common later or something? Cause I've been playing in a world with mostly default settings with friends and I've only seen that one happen once in like 30 hours

Give me your best weapon, I am now at lab going to mycofields.

they overtuned the fuck out of the crowbar 2.0. i got it before even entering the labs and have been demolishing with it since. i know it'll fall off eventually, but it's bizarre how much better it is to any other melee weapon up to this point.

>>717792378
Grinder

>>717791608
Once you get an energy pistol the Tier 1 and 2 robots die pretty quick just from that
Or kite them back to a single tesla coil setup they'll chase you for ages

>>717792429
That would be nice but my friend is using it.

>>717792378
Grinder

the scrap pistol is kind of ass but man was it a champ for letting me powerlevel reloading by constantly unloading/reloading it.

>>717792413
More enemies resist Sharp than Blunt until you get the resistance ignoring perks, but yeah its really strong.
>>717792378
Grinder gun is cheap to make ammo for and doesn't need repairs
Lightning Spear is good too

i just want to say how much i appreciate this game for giving the english language so many new phrases that have likely never before been uttered

What make-shift experimental science weaponry do you think the game is missing? It definitely needs a tau cannon equivalent to round off the half-life inspired weaponry.

>>717792429
>>717792553
>>717792591
No love for blunt or heavy weapons?

>>717790609
And just when I was wondering how long I'd have to wait for a cold snap one happens the very next day. Both retards safely secured in my apartment until I forget to refill it again.

>>717792546
Tell him to share because the ammo for it is piss easy to make and you get lots of it

>>717792760
Crowbar 2.0 if he's just gotten to the Labs
There isn't a blunt heavy weapon better than that until Security when you can make the Impact Hammer

>>717752161 (OP)
Kino comedic timing in that scene, it's like something from the Naked Gun.

>>717754226
same, absolutely blatantly obvious missed opportunity

>>717792760
I made great use of the explosive sledge for most of the game but that's as good as blunt weapons get while sharp gets the quantum pick and hardlight sword to dump all over them.

electro thrower: get it or bin it?

>>717792978
You'll need it for something else later on.

>>717792978
It's useful for fighting containment bots since it stuns them a lot, but those are still vulnerable to the chopinator cheese anyway. I think it might also be good for the Tarasque, but it's hard to tell.

>>717792978
good against T1 bots, T2 bots, and the tarasque. afterwards, store it somewhere for crafting in the future.

>>717792758
Shitty spraybottle flamethrower that upgrades to a real flamethrower, could use robot oil for ammo

>>717793275
This would be so utterly at odds with the plot-required flamethrower you get in the last part of the game.

Quantum Pickaxe is the best. I love my boomerang.

>>717793387
That one runs on lodestone magic, it could still be an upgrade over an early version

>>717792978
Extremely useful for 1 (one) encounter. Then leave it in storage because something else needs it as an crafting ingredient.

>>717793387
just make the junk flamethrower require a thermocell to upgrade, like you already need anyway

can anyone give me the rundown on powerleveling strats? I know I can just up the XP, but I'm also curious about any exploits for certain skills.

>>717792758
I was going to say a rocket launcher but then remembered there is one, just never bothered to craft it.

>>717793558
Crossbow/Magbow for leveling reload, make sustenance soup, eat a human brain, grab kylie and just unload it and reload it constantly.

>>717793558
Strength you can do dumb shit like strafe between two vending machines to shake them while carrying furniture in your pockets and wearing heavy equipment.
Grinding stuff out isn't worth it besides making sure you sprint as much as possible, most of the perks besides the weapon special attacks suck

>>717794000
>you can do dumb shit like strafe between two vending machines to shake them
they nerfed that, you're locked into an animation when shaking vending machines now

>>717794141
Unless they patched that like this morning it was still working for me last night

is this game any good? it kinda reminds me of voices of the void

>>717793558
certain soups, meals and and gear give exp bonuses to specific skills. eating a brain and equipping the kylie neutral chip trinket gives a general bonus to exp earning. pet rock ticket gives an exp earning bonus to your lowest leveled skill
you can quickly level strength by moving around with a close to full inventory
agriculture by spamming garden plots with bottled water
accuracy by hitting the shield of shield enemies
fortitude by blocking incoming dmg with a shield
throwing by throwing and collecting nets
reloading by unloading and reloading magazines
sneak by sneak attacking coworker

>>717794383
>fortitude by blocking incoming dmg with a shield
what
I just leveled it by tanking damage in front of a laser and using healing briefcases
spongey tissue is disappointing but it might make a small difference maybe

>>717793410
just shows how fun throwing is, but there's no good throwing in early game unless you craft 100 spears

>>717794554
blocking damage with a shield is leagues better by the numbers, took me five minutes to go from 12 fortitude to 20 using the security armour so i can't lose stamina. Just sat in front of an order mg

>>717790606
No anon, you can't have gross sweaty meat sex with the Leyak.

>>717794204
Its pretty damn fun for a survival crafting game

>>717793275
I hope that this flamethrower acutally deals noticable DOT damage unlike the glorified key you get in the residence's sector

>>717794204
what compels people to ask this when there's a thread hitting bump limit every day

>>717795453
Can I ram ranch Kraus ?

>>717792758
Diy laser pointer that bedazzles enemies

Some kind of slingshot like you see on the slingshot channel that launches ball bearings or something

Anti-Graviton emitter that launches things upwards and then they take fall damage.

Repulsion cannon that pushes stuff back (into pits)

>>717796142
>Anti-Graviton emitter that launches things upwards and then they take fall damage.

Finally a weapon to suprass Gatekeeper Shields (besides skinks)

A miniature faux black hole that sucks things towards it would also be cool. I like the idea of weapons that don't necessarily deal damage directly and/or combo with other weapons well.

>Get to order's homeworld/base/whatever
>Find it boring
>But have fun pulling an uno reverse card on their fucking scientists

Eye for an eye you fuckers

>>717795772
Ram Ranch is not survivable either.

>>717796370
They already have that and it's expensive as hell to make. It's the "[Redacted] Grenade".

>>717756727
LET US FREE HIM AND FIX HIM DEVS
I WANT TO BEFRIEND THE COMPOSERS

>>717796831
calm down marion

>>717796831
FUCK OFF MARION, GO BACK TO FLATHILLS

>>717794554
blocking with a shield is much faster. I just set up a laser emitter at my base and blocked it with a shield

Don't scare Marion off I need the extra power cell

>>717792758
>Flail that's just an anvil attached to a giant chain, with help from a gravity cube so your scrawny ass can carry it
>Cannon that launches tomatoes at terminal velocity
>Deployable boombox gadget made of Composer/Symphonist parts that has a brown note effect on human enemies, making them shit themselves and be stunned

Are there even any good late game blunt weapons? It feels like you get the Impact Sledge in labs and that's it for the whole game - meanwhile sharp goes from the Crowbar2 (which does more damage than the sledge to begin with) to the laser katana, hardlight saber, and the quantum pick

What is the point of blunt?

>>717798354
>Are there even any good late game blunt weapons
yeah

>>717795354
this doesnt work without mods or server adjustments

the only shield in the game that will fully block damage from machin guns is the riot shield, which only has a durability of 35. itll run out of durability and youll get shredded. plus a ton of bleeding wounds.

>>717798354
there's currently no endgame blunt weapons to match up to sharp, all it's really good for long term is unlocking the sprint attack for sharp heavy weapons, and even those aren't very good compared to the quantum pick

>>717784525
With the perforation system they could literally just punch portals to whatever location and genre they want. The hydroplant poster that shows the depth of the water clearly states it's not completely explored so we could have a portal that'll lead to the Bahamas, which seems where Abe is heading.

>>717798354
Nothing!

a chainsaw and some upgrades for it would be neat
like a lodestone chainsaw or a hardlight chainsaw

>>717799373
no fuck off
chainsaws are dumb and overdone

>>717799373
Nigga what trees are they chopping in office sector? And don't say the ones in the lobby those are clearly decorative

>>717799501
Far garden trees

>>717798354
I'm gonna ram my rod

>>717799501
chainsaw is for chopping up orderfags, not trees
>>717799432
alright, what about a circular saw?

>>717775232
>>717782817
nice bug

What a great fucking game, too bad my save is on the gamepass version and not steam. I regret not paying full price for it.

My frustration with building is rising. Instead of just being able to place a plant rope somewhere that is a dedicated shortcut spot (open window at the cafeteria on the way to adjustment wing) the game logic just refuses to let me place it no matter how I angle it. Anything I build on the windowsill is angled, so I can't do the bridge+rope trick I needed to do to solve placing several ropes before this, so instead I just have to make a big ugly ramp since if I set up a jump pad I have to aim for it every time I run out the window (sucks) and I have to crouchjump every time I try and take the jump pad up to the window (sucks)

>>717786710
if I'm going to upgrade my power at that point I'd just be running my power all the way from the broken laser in the offices and not even bother with batteries.

>>717795501
sometimes people play games they hate

>>717795501
did you ever consider that anon doesn't browse this board every single day?

>>717755154
Yea my PC is 5 years old and I’m getting inconsistent frames at 4k/medium. It’s surreal to feel like I can’t max out Half Life.

>>717799783
circular saw fine

i have a beast computer why tf does this shit heat my room like a goddamn space heater, cp2077 doesnt even do this at ultra, ive even turned everything to low

>>717802119
unreal engine 5
its literally a dogshit engine that hogs resources and demands ridiculous power for what it provides
it even causes frequent shutdowns with intel chips because of some wattage issue that literally no other game engine on the planet has a bug with

Does the "ignore resistances" thing for sharp weapons make up for not bothering with element weaknesses or am I still losing out on a lot of power?

>>717786439
more like 12

>>717755154
It uses lumen and GI. Having low poly models only helps so much. You're not going to run any game that uses modern lighting with ancient hardware, no matter how much people pretend it's a simple optimization issue.

is this friendslop or singleplayer?

>>717803193
Both. More balanced towards co-op but still very doable solo

>>717803193
either or
tweak settings until you like it (raise stack # and maybe xp gains) but singleplayer is nice and chill at your own pace to drink in the lore and atmosphere

>>717803272
>More balanced towards co-op
It feels best balanced for at most two players. Resources can get stretched pretty thin the more people you have.

>>717803193
You can adjust everything so it's very single-player friendly.

>>717799501
They totally could use chainsaws to cut down crap in power service.

>>717803193
Everything you can do with another player you can do solo, it's never actually required to have another person. Co-co just means more people for the same thing.

>>717803785
>Co-co
Don't know what the fuck my fingers were thinking there.

>>717803193
This is Subnautica, not Lethal Company

My exor flail doesn't seem to take any damage no matter how much I use it, or even if I die with it. It's not supposed to do that, is it?

>>717802280
why did they use unreal instead of source?

>>717799783
Circular saw taped to the end of a pipe with the trigger pulled remotely via a steel cable would be suitably makeshift

>>717759639

You need to leave by the entry portal for the shortcut to trigger. It got me too.

>>717803854
Did you reach high enough crafting that it had extra durability when you made it?

>>717803854
Crafting level gives your weapons a one time overheal for durability

>>717803949
>>717803960
I've been using it for quite a while without any loss, but maybe that's it.

>>717803836
co-oc

>>717803897
It would be pipe + saw + makeshift battery + steel wire.

Chop some pests at a distance. You could also throw the thing and watch it zip around randomly like some Looney tunes shit.

>>717804224
Extra damage to furniture

>>717804307
It would chop up crates in seconds. Worth using just for that desu. Modded weapons pack when?

Id shoot these two if I could. Id shoot a lot of the Gate personnel I've met honestly. Working at Gate would've been real tough for me now that I think about it.

>>717804224
Just give me fucking anything better than the kitchen knife for gibbing bodies. The regular vacuum is dogshit that runs out of power instantly and the only real upgrade being in Reactors is ridiculous.

>>717804015
if you hover over the weapon it'll tell you the durability, and if you got bonus durability from your crafting skill it'll say something like 180/100

>>717798354
Impact sledge does 2x damage to damaged enemies
Probably worse alone but it's nice in multiplayer to sprint in for a finishing hit, for a while anyways

>>717804446
We could really complete the Evil Dead 2 experience with a chainsaw
https://youtu.be/KVli81zszRY

>>717804639
Come on, they couldn't have Known Trista was helping. Plus it was only ever gonna be a temporary alliance, they still tried to (and mostly succeeded) In killing everyone at Gate, so he had it coming.

>>717793558
The healing briefcase doesn't like being placed on a tram, it will pop back into your hands. Spam throw it on the ground even if the tram is in motion. Just don't throw it outside the Tram.

Just starting the game, 1 hour in and haven’t looked anything up. Is there a story you follow and does the game “end”, or is it a full open ended sandbox?

>>717805930
>Is there a story you follow and does the game “end”
yes

>theres a third fucking leyak in lore
They better give us a way to permanently kill this shit heel because constantly having to calm their tism is really starting to wear on me. Containment or otherwise.

>>717806173
I feel bad for the ones who decided to venture into the flesh dimension the day shit his the fan

>>717804639
Weird nitpick but I hate the fact that we, the player, are the ones doing everything to unlock the next sector and when we finally arrive we are the last person there, everyone is always one step ahead of you. Only Cahn gets a pass because he's mysterious

Is Janet the Sister of the unlost?

>>717806173
>Leyak Blender
>Containment Unit: 91 + Chopinator + OX Lamp + mystery ingredient from Leyak v3
>Leyak/Krasue/Whatever the third one is called is lured into blender just like they are lured into containment unit. Once they are inside, flip the switch the permanently kill that floating nigger, giving you a load of the appropriate essence and some bio scrap
>If you want more essence after you run out, then you better break out that fishing pole, bitch boy

>>717806402
its one of the current popular theories, given the timeline fuckery, but the fact is that we just dont know for sure

>>717806728
The way she was humming after the last boss was a big hint i believe

>>717806554
Fuck that, I want to tame the Leyak. Give me a Greyeb suit from the flesh dimension that when worn makes the Leyaks follow me around like the Moving Box and fuck up enemies who aggro me.

>>717806402
no proof but that's the theory, the song she's humming is the same song the sister of the lost sings
which then gives all sorts of implications on who The Order are given that time travel is now a thing
Another thing is that one of the GATE scientists is wearing the same Excursion suit you get the recipe for in GATE Arch Defense Facility

>>717806353
>everyone is always one step ahead of you
as this is a post-dark souls world we live in, this is because of dark souls. in reality, it's an old game technique to move npcs in the background that's unintrusive. yeah, it never makes sense, but don't think about it.

>>717806853
>Go to flesh dimension
>find new ingredient
>can craft consumable leyak bait
>lets you use the leyak like antlion
imagine

>>717806908
Not just any scientist, it's Frake, isn't it?
The lady who has us blow up the Synchrotron and who has a team of semi-competent scientists

>>717806853
I want to put the leyak in this.

>>717807496
>did I leave the stove on...?