Thread 717836079

If you fall into an abyss, do you loose all your stuff?

No

>>717836079 (OP)
No, the same thing when you drown. Your items will just teleport to a certain location near the abyss/water.

>>717836079 (OP)
depends on world settings

dumb bitch

>>717836079 (OP)
when do you get jetpack, also my friend is retarded and keeps minmaxing his XP training for some reason, he's almost level 18 in some skills and we're at the fucking wildlife pens

>>717836901
jetpack is ass and also the end of the game. the long jump pack is way better for mobility

So what's the best generic set of soups? Right now I have greyeb chowder for the DR and Hearty stew for the carry weight and souper satisfied, is there any other generically good soup buff like those?

GATE is Umbrella)???????!!!

>>717839123
a&L mega stew

>>717839123
if you have greyleb you should have already started finding mre's. its the easiest soup and buffs aim/reload xp

>>717839123
Sugary Slop gives you reduced stamina usage and you shit faster
The rest are either all Souper Satisfied or give XP bonuses to specific skills

Why do zombies in this game freak me out so much? They're so insidious in how they act and look and sound to me for some reason. Zombies in other games don't bother me at all. Not a single game zombie has ever truly scared me before, but these guys make me so fucking paranoid.

Even in a game like Zomboid where being attacked by a zombozo could lose you hundreds of hours of progress I am far more blase and chill and just kinda run into them casually without giving a fuck, but if I hear a single distant groan in Abiotic I snap to fucking attention swivelling around with my gun.

>>717839548
Anon what is wrong with you
I don't even act like they're there because they're so fucking useless

>>717839956
I dunno what it is man it's so weird. In Zomboid I clear rooms by mashing E on doors, sprinting in and whacking stuff. I get yelled at in multiplayer Zomboid for being so casual and reckless when I clear buildings, and then the Abio zombies make me have Vietnam flashbacks.

>>717836079 (OP)
>loose
it's lose anon.

>Make soup with harder to obtain ingredients
>It's always worse than the most basic shit
Every single time

>>717840110
But the flavor can't be beat!

>>717840110
i really wish they would expand and refine the cooking/growing parts of the game. i want more weird alien plants and meat. fucking stuff pecary you get near the start and thats like the weirdist you get, the rest is fucking pies and sushi.

>the fucking freezer doesnt even have 100% rad containment

>>717840798
neutrino emitter

>>717836837
What's the deal with those fuckers?

>>717841024
you can get them as a weapon somehow. dont care. I use quill rifle

>>717840843
yeah that works but its still goofy that the container before it has 100% but the freezer has an odd 50%. maybe if im lucky someone will start modding the enhancement bench for custom things like fusing a hazard crate into them or bionic legs into non exor leg armor

>>717836837
>he didn't take the fanny pack

>>717841113
SHUT THE FUCK UP

yes I regret not having the extra hotbar slots

this game is cool. Id like to make a new base but the traveling time sucks, any solutions?

also what's the point of that massive crash test room?

>>717841298
use the beer mug teleporters.

>>717841298
Just another place for base.

>>717841298
Move items with a cart. Wait until you get access to personal teleporters, plop a workbench at the new base location and teleport back and forth.

>>717841298
lots and lots of teleporters and benches in key places. they even work if the bench is unpowered (or its a bug that it does)

crash test room is probably the most pointless place in the game. no secrets, no loot (though they did add a bees nest this update) and vehicles are honestly useless.

is there a way to breathe underwater?

>>717840110
i see it like this
>the best food is too easy to get, there's no point in farming or leveling cooking
or
>the best food is too hard to get, i gotta level cooking, make a bunch of freezers, constantly check on my plants, etc.
for somebody who doesn't want to interact with the system, the second one is annoying
for somebody who does want to engage with cooking, they'll do it anyway

>>717841535
Yeah, you get a diving suit.

can you break open the metal crates eventually?

the machine guns in cloud reactor are pissing me the fuck off

>>717839548
The Furniture Store managed to feel pretty unnerving the first time I went through. Great use of sound design and gradually increasing their spawns as you go around flipping the switches. It's crazy how even though this game is just a clusterfuck of different media franchises it manages to spin all of the stuff it borrows from into a coherent thing and has genuinely creepy moments like that. Can't remember the last time normal ass zombies were vaguely scary to me.

>>717842434
That's honestly one of my favorite locations in the game. Very helpful for people who want to decorate, dangerous for the unprepared, and the atmosphere is top notch.

leyak is girl?

>>717842705
>dangerous for the unprepared
What are you on about there's literally no danger there, you can just hold W towards any direction you want occasionally pressing m1 and you can make it out
It's quite literally the single safest ad easiest portal world after night realm

>>717842705
that place sucks. i went to take a shit and when i stood up from the toilet a zombie spawned behind me

>>717839548
I like how the zombies moan and groan and arent constantly shrieking and hissing loke they're pissed off. Depression zombies are scarier than rage zombies.

>>717842434
not only does furniture store have great theme and ambience but because of its goofy design with locked doors uptop all enemy raid spawns are on the outside roof so they just patrol infinitely until you close the game or another raid kills them.

>>717843058
yeah you stay outside in the rain greyson fuck you I wish I'd never healed him.

the stealth set doesn't work so well for me because I took the 'get noticed easier perk' (I do have 15 in stealth/sneak) and I'm in multiplayer with two other guys so solo missions where I can sneak aren't so common.

Should I swap out for the Hex set? I figure I can keep two pieces and use two of something else, maybe the robot legs

>>717843103
Hey

>Find Dr. Cahn, normal dude
>Hm maybe a bit weird
>Anyway who cares if its weird, i have to deal with security sector, doesnt seem like theres anything interesting in there though.
Also after relocating base 2 times i realised cafeteria is the best spot and went back there, can't believe this bullshit.

>>717843058
wish they would unlock the roof doors

room looks nice without all the water in it

fuck you cunt

>>717843612
how?

>>717843103
>base is in Voussoir
>gayson still comes to loiter around

gordon is that you?

>>717843837
dev made a mistake in the room, theres a small area on the stairs where theres no water thus you can refill air and the visual water filter isnt applied.

>>717844023
There's also a bunch of spots in that water section in Dusk(?) reactor. I don't know how it got past playtests

>>717843616
I just killed my first sniper myself. How long do the soldiers take to respawn?

is Dr Manse alive?

>Dr. Derek Manse.

>Recently one of our lab techs has become... how should I word this.. Rather obsessed with wearing women's clothing.
>It started out small. First he would come to work wearing... ugh.. stockings as if he were some kind of high school girl from one of those Japanese cartoons.
>Then he started wearing skirts, women's makeup. Women's perfume even!
>Now he insists that he is, in fact, a woman in a man's body. Preposterous to say the least.
>He went off on one of the scientists the other day for "using the wrong pronouns"

>We isolated him in the medical ward and are currently studying him for any form of infection. Dr Chad seems to think this is some kind of ideological virus and points to other such cases outside of Cascade.
>It merits further study. we certainly CANNOT have the male lab techs and scientists running around in... skirts...
>I perish the thought of it.

>>717844770
Yep, saved.

This scared the shit out of me.

>>717844531
From my experience not all Saggitarii respawn, just some of them. This particular one does not, I think. There's two other respawning ones in Mapping Center in the same zone, I farmed them for the set later on.

The Reaped

>>717844770
>tfw you read it in his voice

>>717844975
I came upon this when the lights were out, also spooked the shit out of me.

>Enter a new area (the mines)
>Encounter an enemy unlike anything I've seen before (the crystal thing)
>Fight it for some time while trying to understand this
More games should try to have the player experience this. Also, it was fun seeing another one of it fight an Exor. The Exor won.

reactors are kicking my ass. these healing syringes are shit

>>717845375
They suck, the healing briefcase works much faster and also only costs charge so you can refill it while you go with the crystal trinket.

>>717845352
The Exors are pretty great when they're trying to murder everything else besides you.

>gutfish eel bait
>the fish with 3 rares
but why

>>717836079 (OP)
How is this game in single player?

>>717845460
But the briefcase doesn't level first aid?

>>717846546
Sorry, I don't speak with trannies.

>>717846546
QUICKLY CONTAIN HIM BEFORE IT SPREADS!

The oven should not be locked behind cooking skills. Did a playthrough with friends and the highest cooking level we had by the end of the game was 7-8.

>>717847148
that's why only one of you it the housewife

So how do i powerlevel fishing, im at the beginning of hydro and hit sucks so far...

Also rs3 or osrs.

>>717847148
could be worse friend, i unlocked the chef knife recipe before we even hit manufacturing and you cant make that shit till 3-4 zones later

>>717847283
Install the instant fishing mod and stop thinking about it.

>>717841298
>travel time sucks
You're not finding shortcuts or using trams. Play better

mystagogues are easy as shit with the arcbolt can't imagine why people would have trouble with them

>>717847251
Correct answer, everyone brings meats but only one cooks.

>>717847370
>>717847283
this or just max xp gain in sandbox settings

>>717847283
why do devs do this. how have they not realized the higher level you go the shorter the minigame should get until its gone completely.

>>717847636
solo then with the quantum pick, just hit them in the head a few times.

>>717847826
"easy as shit"

>Progressing
>Reading about the time bomb
>Reading about the train
Damn, the SCP inspiration isn't light at all.

>>717847294
Mats for that knife make no fucking sense for what it does. It should be behind Cascade mats, tops.

I think the reason why Dr. Carson speaks the way she does is because she's in shock and this whole situation is dreamlike.

why does this game remind me of terraria

>>717849080
it wears it's inspirations on it's sleeves as they say

Is there a setting to increase enemy spawn amounts, rather than respawn rate? When I play with my bros there are tons of enemies everywhere but in solo they are much fewer, I'd like to get those higher numbers in solo play if possible

>>717850780
I don't think there is. It's something that I'd like to see added to the difficulty settings

>raid difficulty 0 off 10 tower defense with waves of enemies
>Night difficulty. 0 normal. 5 lots of strong monsters spawn at night
>enemy amount 0 low, 5 normal, 10 high
>% night setting for runs that are mostly night but still have some amount of daylight hours

>>717850780
the enemy density used to be like that in EA but they nerfed it for solo play.

>>717849378
i assumed some sort of tism or has walked into the threshold isp

does fishing skill actually makes fishing faster or is it useless?

>>717852043
It makes your line break slower (i.e. it is useless).

>>717852216
bruh the skill says they tire out quicker that's bullshit.

Feeling tired? Take a nap! I won't tell the boss!

game took a massive nosedive in quality after labs and the "ending" was a huge disappointment

>>717852474
they mandella'd me it didn't say that before! Get me outta this matrix dr manse I know I'm in the fuckin simulation.

I built 3 disk turrets but they don't seem to fucking shoot at anything
Tear them down and rebuild the teslas?

>>717850780
Yeah, raise the difficulty to apocalyptic. It doesn't do anything aside from set spawns to maximum values.

>>717852546
You might be thinking of the Tacklebox.

Does Tarasque ever respawn?

I killed him then had to run to get something to carve his body up and he disappeared in like less than 5 minutes?

>>717853284
yea

>>717853284
>kill tarasque
>his components clip into the wall somehow when I carve his body

what's the point of that portal room near the cafeteria?

>>717853772
early access safe portal world just for you to fuck around in.

>>717853772
Anteverse, Japan

>>717853772
do you mean the pipe leading to reactors?

What does the bell in containment do ? We rung it with a friend (for science) and it didn't do anything.

>make my base inside a random part of the office looking like a crackden with all the mismatched storage lockers and niggerrigged makeshift building
>20 hours later notice a level 1 keypad across from the labs entrance i never opened
>tranquil and idyllic tea garden perfect for a base
what the FUCK

>>717853897
>he rang it
it's coming

>>717853897
>he fell for it

>>717854028
>>717854036
W-what did I do?

>>717853897
its a red herring

post bases

>you went full rat
what does the lab rat set do?

We've just hit containment and are lost as fuck. The Furniture Store rift didn't really show off anything new, we have no idea how to get one of the materials for the tree, that squid guy never spawns to drop his balls for that gate, and the mushroom area won't let me hack yet.
Are we just stuck waiting for the squid guy to get xray'd 4 times? I'd try to fish up that 98 one that dropped it, but I've only seen one and the bait paradoxically requires it.

>>717854194
Just makes those radiation sprites appear around you

>>717854194
pretty sure its just cosmetic

>>717854240
>>717854259
I think the radiation is real but doesn't matter unless you play multiplayer because everything but players are immune to it

>>717854202
did you find the greyeb seed in labs?

>>717854202
>Are we just stuck waiting for the squid guy to get xray'd 4 times?
Yes

>>717854202
>Are we just stuck waiting for the squid guy to get xray'd 4 times?
Yeah.

>>717846546
give me the sauce and I might tell you

there's just a corner of the base i can't spend more than 10 seconds in at a time because there's 10 powercells and 10 leyak essence in a trash can.

>buy on ps5 because my pc can't run shit
>there's a known bug where the game stops saving progress altogether
>found the hard way and lost five hours of gameplay
fuck my chud life

>>717854202
There's something in the labs you can use to bait the squid to come after you very frequently, something with a lot of eyeballs

>>717854468
Make a Hazard Crate. It needs a magazine stand from Flathill.

bedroom

Order Fears Me
Fish Fear Me
Leyak Turn Their Eyes
Away From Me
As I Walk
No Pests Dare
Make A Sound
In My Presence
I Am Alone In
This Barren Lab

loved this game until it turned into shooting lasers at bullet sponges in linear hallways for the last third
oh well see you in 2 years when DLC to actually finish the story comes out

what is the point of short cuts being locked again in portal words after the reset? Like the doors in flathill

>>717854789
they shouldn't be
I use the shortcut ladders to get powercells in about 10 seconds and have done so like 10 times now

>>717854789
i never had the flathills shortcuts relock
maybe a bug

>>717854789
They're not? I can speed run Flathill in like 20 seconds to walk away with 3 fuel cells and then beer mug out.

Does fishing get faster? I already have the tacklebox but it's barely noticeable

what the hell. heart of corruption is a cpu with gunk on it.

I thought it was a little spooky ghost house

>>717855251
Nope.

can i do something about this guy?

>>717854321
Man I should really just fuck around with cooking. It took us way to long to figure out sodder till I fucked with it myself. Plus the nigga lets my fish rot and throws a fit if I butcher it.

playing it alone yes or no?

>>717856212

Its more fun as a duo or trio if you have friends that aren't garbage

if they are not interested in listening to the lore and that kind of shit might aswell play it alone

its fine alone as long as you tweak the settings a little bit, 2x experience, several times more stacking limit should be enough

i personally also lower enemy hp to 0.8 and buff the damage they do by 20% or 40%

>>717856212
I'm about 40 hours in solo and having a great time. It's a really atmospheric game so it helps immerse you when you don't have people running around everywhere.

really wish they didnt gay it all up with the SCP shit

Uh, I don't think that the human body is supposed to do that.

>>717856554
99% of the IS stuff it is just lore flavortext and is barely relevant at all after about the halfway point

>>717847632
>using trams
>the trams are physical
this tickles my 'tism in a good way, something comfy about traveling like that.
>Has a little storage
Perfect

>>717856587
Considering the amount of things (you) have killed and all the crazy science shit you made in the few months of being trapped in the facility I don't think you can really be considered human anymore.

>>717854487
>ps5
For low IQ and blacks

What's this thing for? Scaring off composers?

>>717836079 (OP)
Post YOUR science nerd RIGHT now.

>>717857710
I think it stops the fog phenomenon from spawning and also lures Marion

>>717841298
Make a Warp Zone.
>>717853309
I really miss the old Trams Trams Trams TV when it used to just make that neat idle song.

>>717857790
I simply had to pick trans-kinematic researcher.

>>717857790
I love my cartoon general lookin ass getup

>>717857648
I love my death stranding 2 machine

>>717856212
Solo is unironically better. You experience more, get into it more, scarier at times, you don't just bumrush everything like with a team. It's the superior experience imo.
>playing with a team is easy mode
>tweaking anything like stacksize is easy mode
fight me

>>717858235
No, I am not going to fight anyone. You can carry around a stack of 20 planks and I will carry 256

>>717858235
No. Base stack values are legit retarded

>>717858235
>its easy mode unless you build 300 storage crates and abuse cart recall
no thanks lol

>>717855507
cheese.

>>717858331
>>717858430
>>717858550
>Filtered
Might as well go creative mode and spawn everything in at that point

>>717857830
Definitly does not stop fog, but it has baited Marion for me.

Setting up my crackden in the lobby area and abusing cart recall is the only reason I can find solo play tolerable. If i had to fuckin' lug 4 carts back from manu/cascade/hydro, I'd be eating the end of my scrapshotgun for breakfast.

Shadowgate is so boring

>>717859089
>frogposter
>is retarded
every
single
time

How do I turn a barrel of feces into fertilizers

>>717859531
I've never gotten the barrel of shit, but I'd try interacting it with a empty soup pot or plastic scrap to see if you can retrive the shit

why is solder taking so long to cook fuckkkkk

>>717859658
It's metal. The only thing that doesn't make sense is that it needs water.

>>717859595
Neither work, tried a pot too just in case

>>717839548
This game does manage to get spooky at times, particularly on first encounters. Like the Leyak, Zombies, and the Reaper (though the lead up to the reaper was scarier than the reaper itself). Randomly got unnerved upon learning that the coworker is not human

>>717859173
Shadowgate, residences and fractures fucking suck. Botanical garden's Titanfall 2 time shift gimmick is decent but it's a short area.

I regret investing so much time into blunt compared to the sharp and ranged fags in my team. Does it get better, or did I fuck up?

>>717860178
blunt 7 is 100% needed even for sharp for that op two handed dash attack

>>717860178
I think blunt just sucks since the spear and many heavy weapons use sharp. Like my pickaxe for those sneak one shot kills is sharp and I haven't come across a blunt heavy weapon that has reach or can sneak one shot anything.

>>717859284
>Frogposter
>LOOK MA I SAID THE THING
>Cheating easy-mode loser
Every
Single
Time

>>717860320
haha this retard got accurately clocked and now he's fucking fuming
hey frogtard, post a 'jak next, you stupid fucking waste of oxygen

>>717842434
>mfw flashlight runs out of battery in the furniture store because i’m retarded and looking for the last button

>>717860386
nta but getting mad at pepe the frog is extremely forced and cringe.

>NOOOO don't mock my frog stop it stop it
why are they like this?

>>717860467
>nta

>>717860386
>he's fucking fuming
whut, I'm quite enjoying riling you up. Anyone can see by the way you type you're a little... peeved. I have no fitting wojaks for you, I'm sorry.
>>717860467
This one gets it.

>>717860508
Correct. Just get over it bud, you're embarrassing yourself.

>>717860539
>I'm not mad you're mad
okay retard, you can stop now. Nobody cares that your frogposting retard ass thinks changing stack size makes your dick smaller or whatever retarded shit you're on about
p.s. you are REALLY mad

>>717860450
This happened to me only because I forgot the button thing resets the second time you go in and I was completely unprepared. I was stuck in that one basement room completely in the dark, waiting for my headlamp to recharge with the trinket.

>>717849378
>>717851834
I know someone who talks like this irl and she lowkey freaks me out

nta but posting frogs in 2025 is extremely forced and cringe

if you don't up the stack size you are low I.Q. which is funny considering the theme of the game

>>717860747
You mean with like a cheat mod or something? This is one I wouldn't mind because storage management and worrying about having too much of X clogging my storage is something I find tedious.

>>717836079 (OP)
Buy an ad.

>>717860638
>>I'm not mad you're mad
>is the one that starts the Le Reddit Superiority Special 'ha, look how mad you are, unlike me' spiel
Go back
>>717860687
>>717860747
>Too scared to look me in the eye when talking to me
Pathetic

>>717860864
no you just go into the options that the devs say you should use as you like that do not disable achievements and change it
or you can have a low IQ frogtard melty like this moron:
>>717860886
it's really up to you

>>717839548
My first encounter with the leyak I managed to avoid it well and sprint or sneak away. It sort of was laughing.
But later I heard a woman moaning whimpering and I thought what the fuck is that and got closer to investigate, turned a corner and bam, leyak in my face and im getting torn up.

>>717860871
Why is it any time people on this board are having fun discussing a game retards automatically assume its a shill. What do you prefer? That no one discuss video games on the video game board?

>>717855507
Surprised I couldn't package Nibbles and put him in my base.

>have save that I'm trying to not progress on too much as 2 of my friends haven't seen passed labs
>take one friend through security for the first time
>get weather event
>log off
>get second friend to play
>logs into the middle of labs
>pitch black
>reapers stomping around
>chased by sigil phantoms
devilish

>>717860998
>Mad because he's bad and knows it
Heh, stackletchads win again

Do you guys make way too many bases that you don’t end up using for long? I have 4 different bases in the office area, only use 1. 1 base in the main hub area with the fountain. 4 based in manufacturing, 1 in the train, 1 in the mines. 1 in inner wing, 1 in mycofields, 1 in night world, 1 where the two scientists were outside with the water cooler. I’ve been making fewer bases but at the very beginning I think I was overwhelmed with the size of the areas so I kept making more bases.

>>717861293
No I just do 1. I don't even find I need my cart anymore with the personal teleporter

>>717836079 (OP)
Did you find Frake?

>>717861369
Where’s your base? I think I’m going to do 1 base per area but have most of my supplies at the central hub area

>>717861334
>I TOTALLY MADE YOU MAD
kek, underage, brown or american?
>posted another frog
You gonna shit your pants now?

>>717861518
I built in the lobby between the Home Worlds portal and the walkway to Labs/Containment.
I didn't know that walkway would be there, just a happy coincidence.
It's perfect though: next to the fountain for water, next to the tram, next to the Security door opening, next to the Home Worlds, next to Labs.

Pic is not current; don't want to start up the server without my friends but this is the area

I wonder how long he will melt down for? I name this poster IS-0246: The Seether.

>>717861676
Gotcha, cool. I pass through there so often, but I hadn’t considered using that space for a base.

>>717861745
>dodges the question
American underage nigger, huh? Better put you in containment.

>forgot to give grayson a bandage and i’m at canaan now
uhhhhh fuck lol sorry bro i’ll come back for you if i remember

Encountered an entity today that radiates an intense, baseless fury, designated " IS-0246: The Seether" It manifests as a humanoid frog wreathed in smoldering embers, its rage erupting without cause, shattering objects and igniting brief, violent tempests in its vicinity. No provocation seems necessary; its anger surges spontaneously, as if fueled by an unseen void. Containment requires reinforced, soundproof chambers, as its screams induce irrational anger in those nearby. Further study is needed to discern if its rage has a deeper, hidden trigger.

Is that injured security guard still outside security sector and can I give her a bandage? Things to ttry oht if I get home

>>717861676
people think security office is powerful but this is the real op location

>>717860669
>69
Fuck her.

>>717862007
>got him seething so hard he starts writing fanfic
Lmao, this is a new peak for me, thanks anon. I also found they made you into wojak, ain't that grand?

>>717860747
I play with 2 friends, I dont think any of us hit the stack limit while exploring.

>>717862186
She’s married

THERE ARE THE JAKS
*confetti poppers go off*
frogtards are so predictable

>>717862295
>keeps outing himself as a tourist
Say nigger to prove otherwise

I wish raids were something actually dangerous, any defenses setup is purely aesthetic rather than useful

>>717843103
I wish I could disable traders bumming around my base. I pay the price for my industrial stove with Carson showing up constantly bodyblocking the doors all day.

>>717841113
I just made a mod where you can craft one at Hydro

>>717854630
If there isn't a mod that makes this a fishing hat with a massive fishing bonus this modding scene is dead to me.

>>717857790
Wish you could colour the full body suits. The excursion suit is nice but I would like it in HEV orange.

>>717862272
it's not really about exploring since you still need to make scrapping tables to break down shit like fire hydrants because they don't stack at all, it's more about not needing a box just for wood in your base
But change it or don't I don't care. I also don't care if people up the EXP gain (I didn't) or make the monsters respawn more or less

>>717860287
the sledgehammer has the same damage and reach as the pickaxe

>>717845050
The only one I've seen respawn is the one that hangs out near the top catwalks of hydroplant, probably because players don't ever have to go back there after the story mission is done.

Is there no other way to nullify the force fields but null grenades in shadowgate and do I really need at least 1 nade each for every single containment thing, holy shit

>>717862532
There are two in mapping/manufacturing west

I thought I had played about 30 hours and then I looked at Steam and it said 60 hours - 62 hours total after killing the final boss. It was fun. I think they should have cut Reactors entirely, that was just like 10 hours of misery. Shadowgate could have been cut too. Overall good game though.

>>717862487
i wish it and the mystagogue set would hide our dumb faces

>>717846401
I got the item dupe mod just for frigid bait. Those devs are out of their fucking minds if they think I'm farming that shit.

>>717859531
I think poop barrels are just decorative and you can't use them in mugnade production

>>717862584
Pretty much, only silver lining is, you don't need to null grenades for any future progression, only if you want to deal with Jotun's and his boiz a bit quicker

During today's monitoring, IS-0246 took a break from posting pictures of frogs and fixated on a innocuous forum post about server options, its form convulsing with fury as it hurled ethereal flames at the screen, causing digital distortions that corrupted nearby devices. The post contained no inflammatory content, yet the entity ranted incoherently about betrayal and injustice and screamed "nigger" over 56 times, its voice echoing through the facility and sparking minor arguments among staff. Attempts to redirect its attention only amplified the outburst, suggesting that even trivial online interactions can serve as catalysts for its unhinged wrath.
I suspect it will continue posting for hours as it has ample and abundant free time and no other tasks to occupy it.

>>717862584
yeah it's annoying, make like 9 of them and should be good unless you miss multiple grenades or is clearing every single wall. In a perfect world the hardlight sword would have been able to clear them

>>717862385

i could finally make some use for the hardlight bridges that are completely useless since the cube and jetpacks exist, the cube+ the excursion suit is already enough to make them useless

>>717862659
*moonfish bait actually, got the ingredients mixed up

>>717862584
Craft at least 9 of them. 1 for the outside forcefield, 1 for a forcefield in any of the entrances of the building (they all lead to the same lobby with dr cahn), and then 1 for each containment objective. Gives you 2 extra in case you mess up.

>>717857790
>>717862487
every clothing set should have a torn to shit version

>>717862734
>>717862748
>>717862881
God damn that fucking sucks considering crafting them is a bitch too
Do the forcefields at least permanently stay open

>>717862623
we just finished with Canaan, how much longer is the game?
I don't want it to end because I don't think my small group is going to fine another game as fun for a while, but all things must

>>717862948
Yes

Is it true the game falls off towards the end?

>>717862948
>Do the forcefields at least permanently stay open
yeah they stay open. I made this same complaint when i got to that point in the game, it really is a point where you are very curious and want to explore and then you are forced back to base to craft these grenades

>>717862741
Kek, that made me laugh anon, fair enough. I won't be online for hours though, I'm heading to bed soon. Have a kitty for your efforts.

>>717857790
Left is what I normally have my scientist looking like, and the right one is because I wanted to make Captain Murphy from Sealab 2021.

>>717862959
You're not even half done.

>>717862948
Yes, but that faggot MG will keep respawning

>>717862959
maybe like halfway, depends how autistic you get with crafting. You dont need higher end gear to finish the game, but grinding mats for that gear could add an extra 15-20% of gametime.

>>717862948
Yes. Really my only issue with Shadowgate is it's one of the only portal worlds that forces you to leave it before you can actually complete it. All other portal worlds you have the ability to beat the first time you visit them.

>>717863018
it has a too many open areas with lots of guys shooting at me in my opinion

>>717863018
I've played it with a 4 man, two of us thought it shit the bed at reactors onwards, and the other two had a goood time throughout.

I personally think reactors onwards is a decline

>>717863081
your cant really beat mycofields first try unless you already know the path, you dont have enough time before the heat kills you.

>>717863058
>>717863051
nice, I love watching the various enemies kill my shitter friends and I am glad there is still more to come.

>>717863081
There's some inconsistent design choices in the latter half of the game for sure. Like why are jetpacks disabled in residences when it isn't a portal world?

>>717863167
you didn't listen to the recording and read the emails and take the heat suit?

>>717863137
cant you just wear the forge set?

>>717857790
This is the one game in current year without a blue hair option so my Kamina idea had to become Galo Sengen

>>717862959
I'd say you're prolly just about half way through the game, still got plently ahead of you.

Do your future self a favour and make sure you're stocked up on powercells via flathill farming

>>717863224
theres a heat suit? I just chugged slurpees

>>717863167
You totally can if you take the ripoff artist blacksmith's heat suit with you, or you use the forge armor and bring slushies with you to offset the heat.

Does this game have that sense of doom and desperation like in half life? Like opposing force has the xen invasion, but also the nukes the black ops leave, and the race x gene worm threatening to terraform earth. Also combine afterwards but we don’t know that until hl2

>>717863167
Heat Res Suit from the blacksmith. I think there are plenty of warnings you'll need heat resistance before going in. But even then the increased heat doesn't directly stop you from beating the mycofields. There's no item you have to leave the area to craft that's needed to beat it the first time you enter.

>>717863293
but the first time you go in you have no idea how long it is, 99% of players arent going to have enough heat resist to finish it without leaving.

>>717863018
Difficulty ramps up around Hydro. Reactors feels a little overbearing at times, but if you just prepare better, its fine. A lot of people say Residential onward was disappointing, but after how long and tough Hydro and Reactors were, I thought it was fine.

Can you acutally freeze to death ? I went to Vossuier (or w/e it's called) for a second run for shit and I forgot to pack my thermal trinket and backpack but I got through it all, only affect I had was occasionally becoming frozen solid

>>717863018
the previous areas were dense in terms of exploration and design, but the last parts in 1.0 were very linear and boring
one of them is literally a bunch of corridors

>>717863361
99% of players are mouth breathers then. What part of your brain sees your character start vomiting from heat stroke and thinks "lets keep going forward anyway"

>>717863217
>why are jetpacks disabled in residences when it isn't a portal world?

Because they designed Reactors with jetpacks in mind but didn't want to design another zone around unrestricted flight. It's the old Flying Mount problem.

>>717863167
Yeah you absolutely need a way to beat the heat there, although if for some reason you had one it's really short and easy to finish compared to the Shadowgate needing a stupid grenade and you not even having the slightest idea how many you'll need of it
You also hear about how that area has fucked up heat while you can't even make the said fucking nades until you go in the SG
Another thing to add is how the NPC before the area even makes a speech about how you'll be going off in an adventure for a while and probably won't be back soon when the reality is you'll see you literally can't progress and get shot a dozen times in the process under 5 minutes there

>>717863167
My character vomited and then I put a heatsuit on and I was fine. I bet if you get some slushies or ice cream you could be fine too

>>717863364
Problem with residences is just that they ran out of things to throw at you. No new materials and recycled (annoying) enemies with pretty much the only gimmick being that you have to craft a flamethrower to progress.

>>717862532
>>717862615

>There are 4 on a single room on the order side of gale reactor
> 2 on the west side of manufacturing west (behind the blacksmith)
>2 on hydroplant, one looking towards the reservoir and another one on top of the transformers (the building you need to block the radiation)
>one on residences, on the bridge that leads to the hydroplant
>2 on the praetorium garage (there might be a third one somewhere else)
>and one in the cloud reactor in the ceiling in front of the machinegun

>>717863476
Ice cream isn't really a realistic thing to craft or have an abundance of imo, but by that point you probably already have the non heatsuit blacksmith stuff which do reduce the effects of heat, wouldn't you

The problem with the heat suit is that the item you need for trades is a ? until you aquire one, and if you never bothered to craft an air compressor before you'll never know what and when you're supposed to get to trade for it.

>>717863503
I'm with it being a short gimmick sector similar to Security, but maybe it should've taken place before Reactors if they were gonna do that.

>>717836079 (OP)
>>717836319
No, it put your bag on the last location where you were grounded for several seconds.
I've had my shit stuff in hard to reach places way too many time as a result.

>>717863374
dont think you can, when you overheat you start vomiting which eventually leads to death but as you said extreme cold just leads to being occasionally frozen
only time ive seen someone freeze to death is in residence where it's a story mechanic

What would be some optional areas you couldn't enter when you first some that you probably could've forgotten about later on? I'm trying to find all the shit I've missed, the most obvious being the arcade machine/digital world in containment

>>717863548
Yeah I think ppl gloss over the fact that he sells it because it’s not helpful until mycofields iirc. I had to go back and trade for it the first time. Ice cream could be gotten from flathills I guess. Slushies are probably the most accessible over in offices i think?
>>717863630
I hadn’t considered that. Definitely have to explore and do everything possible I guess

>>717839548
Fun fact if you didn't think they were freaking you out enough:
They can bite you, which is a guaranteed death when the debuff timer expire.

>>717863679
Each sector has a room that you can only get to with bridges/ramps I guess

>>717863630
True, it's actually a fairly important crafting recipe in the game but there's like 1 relevant thing to craft by then with it as the rest open up later on so you can miss it

>>717836901
Long jump pack you get in hydroplant, jetpack you get in reactors.

The progression is office->manufacturing->labs->security->hydroplant->reactors->residence

>>717863361
>99% of players arent going to have enough heat resist to finish it without leaving.

You get ample warning to bring the Heat Res suit. The actual problem you'll run into is there is almost no anti-rad meds, so if you're not thinking and used to just tanking radiation with them + the normal Haz suit, you'll end up with a bad case of rad poisoning from looting the Exor drops.

Hey they made (You) into an NPC

>>717863731
Yeah, data farm has a kitchen with a slushie machine, being hammering that over the course of my playthrough so far for the slushie bombs, very hand tool to have

>>717863679
the red chair/pool room dimension
the highrise dimension
the poop dimension

>>717863374
Not directly.
A major effect is that it makes you hungry much faster, so what will kill you is starvation.
It's similar to overheating, which increases fatigue and thirst (and make you puke) so what kills you isn't the debuff itself but emptying all your needs will.

>>717863813
>jetpack
bridge chads dont need no crutch

>>717863991
Rise isn't another dimension, it's just another place on Earth.

How much of this game is about survival and losing your shit? I like horror games like The Forest but I absolutely despise perma-death shit

>>717864101
Speaking of Rise, since our goal is GTFO of the facility, could we go to raise and just jump off the tower, using a jetpack/jump pack to cushion ourselves ?

I know that wouldn't acutally really solve anything, but we could "escape" much earlier

>>717864230
The survival settings are all adjustable, as are the penalties for dying.

>>717864230
there's sandbox settings so you can pretty much modify almost every multiplier and disable the death penalties/loss
play however you want

>>717864230
Survival is really not an issue (renewable clean water is a recipe you unlock later in the game, before then, there are tons of water coolers and sinks which refill, food is easy gotten by slaying aliens and cooking em up).

Default penalty for dying is dropping everything that isn't on your hotbar, items taking a % durability damage if applicable and having to go back over to retrive your stuff

>>717864265
Multiple portal locations are just different parts of earth far away from the facility, if just escaping was the goal we definitely have plenty of options.

Of course our character is only truly alive in the chaos and doesn't really want to leave.

>>717864230
Dying has nigh zero consequences even with standard settings since you just drop your backpack loot on the ground and take a 10% durability hit to everything equipped, and you can easily change these as well since they don't despawn if you manage to die again like DS.

I upped the stack size in my solo playthrough because having to explore 2-3 rooms an expedition before I was full on shit got annoying by the time I reached Labs. Way more tolerable in multi since we have 4 player inventories to work with even if it means they spend the nicer mats on something stupid and don't help farm stuff like extra Hacking devices.

>>717863991
>the red chair/pool room dimension
There's literally no reason to ever go there, there's no loot and no exit
>the highrise dimension
Hold on I don't know about that one

>>717841024
Pets you can raise and turn them into a decent weapon if you want

so whats the deal with the blue guy, ive only seen him once long ago and i dont want to check the entities part of the wiki lest i spoil other 1.0 stuff

>>717864453
You need to play around in the laser room in labs. You probably have the energy pistol to trivialize it by now but it's doable much earlier with autistic placement reflectors

>>717864508
You'll get to find out more later on, don't sweat it, anon. Acutally, do sweat, don't out in the cold too long.

>>717864230
Default settings are pretty forgiving on survival and death penalty. You can change it however you like though.

Death bags try to drop in a nearby accessible location rather than the exact spot you died in, but in the event that they do get stuck somewhere out of reach they will respawn at the main plaza when you close and restart the save/server.

How far into the game is Shadowgate?

>>717864508
What IS number is Migu?

>>717864675
You are closing in on the end.

>>717864675
Probarly 3/4's of the way there, maybe a bit over ?

>>717864508
Appears in cold areas

>>717864675
Near end game, you get one more sector after this.

>>717864508
Another leyak from the same anteverse, gimmick is more annoying but it only spawns in cold areas.

>>717864646
>>717864773
is there more too it? im half through reactors and chilling out in cold areas for 20+ mins hasnt proc'd it. at this point im convinced it was a glitched proc via leyak spawn and i havent found its containment area yet
>>717864681
is-0039

>>717864593
I shot the purple thing with the energy pistol and it just plain disappeared with no portals

>>717865182
The portal doesn't spawn in that room, it spawns where the dark lens was stolen.

>want to gift the game to a couple of online buddies
>they live in different parts of the world
>last time couldnt gift lethal company due to differences
Has anyone else experienced this for this game? I get that it might be a steam currency conversion issue and I see global tags on some key sites. Assuming the worst, how easy is it to set up a server for pirates?

>>717864675
really close to the end, probably 1/5 left
shadowgate and the 2 sectors after are really short (and shit)

>>717865317
no, my friends would pester me into buying a game only for us to play it once and then never again

>one single french male present in the game
>is black
what did they mean by that?

>>717865087
I've had it appear in the cold storage area of labs at night before, and there's a future weather event that can also cause it to appear outside of it's usual area

>>717841298
Move your base closer to where you're doing shit, bionic legs, open more shortcuts

>>717865087
I think you have to be suffering from cold to trigger it, I sat around waiting in a cold snap for minutes with nothing but it showed up after my coffee wore off.

>>717857467
Considering Dr. Cahn's line about knowing you well enough that studying you isn't necessary... Anything's possible. Also after a certain point in the game you become an IS yourself because you spread one's influence

Is flat hill the only source of power cells?

>>717865659
You can trade Marion an ornate key

>>717865480
Meanwhile I'm pretty sure there's an easter egg with the french one, she says "Don't shoot, I'm with the science team!" in french
Their voice acting is horrible.

>>717865728
Oh that will speed things up

>>717865659
There are quite a few in the world that don't respawn. but flathill is the best source of renewable energy.

>>717865087
It's encounter is triggered from reaching residences but it can spawn in earlier locations with freezing temperatures. I don't think reactor has anywhere cold enough where it could spawn unless the reactor cafeteria has a freezer

>>717865608
aaahh so my weatherd perk is the culprit to why i stopped seeing it. and the only place cold enough doesnt have leyak/blue dude spawns. a good perk just got better

>>717865659
No but it's the earliest common source

>>717865838
It's only one per appearance so it's really just an extra one along with your flathill raids

>See eldritch horror being used
>Wow I bet he's a dindu nuffin and we should free him!
Cahn, what the fuck

What anteverse/enemies you want to see active in the future?
I want to see an horror anteverse featuring IS-0127 (the snowman).

>>717865942
pretty much all new endgame stuff needs frozen essence so it's in your best interest to see and zap it as much as possible

>>717865659
There's a few around manufacturing
One's in the office space over the foundry

>>717866189
Mapping has two iirc
>>717866137
I want to go to the flesh dimension

>>717866103
>Anon says as he releases IS-0012 along with just about every other IS from containment.

>>717836079 (OP)
I cannot imagine the mental illness you people have developed to enjoy all of this crafting/surfival slop
I'm fine with most differences of taste
but this seems like the most basic monkey brain neuron activation busy work
why do you do this to yourselves?
jesus fucking christ

>>717865659
there's one underwater next to the gate camp in the exor village, along with a neutrino emitter

that and flathill are the only ones that respawn

>anons carrying 5-7.wepaons on them at a time
Are you people retarded? I know you're zoomers, but damn.

>>717866276
okay retard

>>717866103
Ah, yes. "Cahn" is who wanted to free it.

>>717866276
Don't you have a gachathread to coom in?

>>717866359
Fuck you. Gordon Freeman carried like 15 weapons in 1998. I paid for the whole game Im gonna use all the weapons.

>>717865942
weathered doesnt stop it spawning you just need to be in actual freezing areas not just chilly ones and there aren't really any you would stand in for more than a few minutes until end game

>>717866359
anon enemies have resistances to specific damage types which makes them take like 75% less damage from that source. Of course I have multiple weapons.

>>717866103
I mentioned it in a different thread but almost all informations about the GKs motives comes from Cahn and an Order lab rat, who obviously don't like them.
If you ignore what they say, you notice the GKs have been trying to contain the situation the entire time, and have only been gunning down GATE employees because (You) released a shapeshifter into the wild.

>>717866359
Spear (chops stuff)
Carbon pick for easy sprint kills
Gun
backup gun
Laser pistol (backup backup gun)
Mugnades (made from human feces)

>>717844770
fucking perfect we need more of these

>>717866359
antique shotgun takes like 3 days to reload and atomizer has enough charge for a couple enemies or 1 heavy enemy, I'm not going to reload them especially when the game starts putting like 5+ enemies in a zone

>>717866541
I notice Dr. Manse seems to rely heavily on Gatekeeper support for day to day operations. So I can't imagine them actually going rogue.

>>717864265
I don't think the devs would have overlooked this. Since Rise and Flathill are both supposed to just be Earth I'm thinking it there has to be something to it that would tether us to the location. They do reset like portal worlds after all.

>>717844770
>>717866598
Any would-be Manseposters should know right now that any reference to the internet will be reprimanded as it doesn't exist yet in setting.

>>717866276
i usually despise crafting slop but really enjoyed this. the atmosphere and sense of discovery are much stronger than a open world/sandbox crafter where you hit trees for hours

>>717866526
Some enemies are also immune to specific damage types, taking no damage.
And some damage type don't deal extra damage when applied.
That's why the Thumper shotgun upgrade into the Ice shotgun is pure fucking dogshit.

>>717865182
>that actually works
huh

>>717865805
Both the acting and audio quality is horrendous. Regardless, I could listen to the girl talk all day.

>>717857710
Makes Marion visit it every few days, also prevents Symphonists from spawning near it

>>717866726
I thought like Flathill that they are parallel Earths
not OUR Earth

>>717866874
flathill is earth they just fucked up and let composers through the portal into the town

>>717866874
I'm actually not sure if they are. GATE has been established at Flathill for a long while, undercover as the corn syrup company and I don't know if they've had access to portal worlds for that long. I was of the belief that the area just became a fucked up portal area after the composers came through. You might not be able to simply leave the place. It might not even exist in the "real" world anymore, like a town that just disappeared.

>mfw sprinting to cave some poor bastard's skull in with a two-handed weapon but I misjudged the distance and harmlessly swipe the air in front of them
Feel like a dumbass every time

>>717866956
but they reset like the other words?

>>717866771
the game takes place in 1996 anon
pretty sure the internet was a thing then, albeit an old primitive version of it

>>717867161
I'm pretty sure flathill happened because they didn't have the darklens then, that was their first perforation test because of the leylines or what have you. Just punched a hole straight through to the pupeteer antiverse and unleashed the fog and composers.

>>717867224
Whiffing a sprint attack is the absolute worst. Worse even than getting hit and having your sprint interrupted resulting in a slow useless heavy strike

>>717867272
There's emails about how the "world wide web" is a ridiculous idea one of the gate scientists is working on.

>>717867224
Not the worst, at least you can always try again.
It's a lot more infuriating when something, either the ground geometry or just the enemy hitting you, cancels your sprint and you swing your heavy weapon very slowly toward them instead for 1/4th of the damage.

>>717867229
It's portals son don't question it. It's definitely just a gameplay contrivance they thought up first and tried to justify afterward

Shadowgate being in Finland works because obviously that's how fucked up and magical Finland is in real life.

Speaking of flathill I am definitely gonna play sh2 enhanced edition when I'm done playing this. I'm not done scratching the itch.

>>717866684
The more damning proof the GKs didn't attacked GATE staff until Reactor is that you encounter a security guard in Hydroplant mentioning that he and his team encountered the GKs but they just pushed into Reactor and left them there.

Really wish we had an extended version of Flathill to visit, once you get vertical mobility, you notice it have a ton of invisible walls everywhere.

>>717867229
the idea is that the portals not only transport you to a particular place, but also to a particular time
they reset constantly because they can only 'stretch' so far before snapping back to the original time point of entry

>>717867735
flathill was one of the first made and was obviously made before they even knew theyd be including a jetpack in the game

>>717867735
All of the early portal worlds need to be longer or have extra content for revisits. Train should be like 4-5 sections longer. Flathill school should be it's own thing. Far garden should have more content in general. Etc

My friends and I finished the gold area. When does this shape shifter shit pop up?

>>717836079 (OP)
how often do you revisit the other universes?

>>717867315
>>717867335
I hope they give heavy weapons another pass in the future. Blitzing dudes is great but the default attack being comically slow and ass in comparison feels wrong.

>>717868231
>cranking it in the store bathroom
Jesus anon, that's a blue board!

>>717868231
every few days for muh resources

>>717868231
flathill is the only one I regularly went back to. space queen I did a few times because I didn't feeling like getting every single thing I'd just grab like 15 and leave.

if I was in a 4 man group the other ones maybe have mats that would require farming them to get enough for everyone but as a solo they are pretty much one and done. anyone playing solo and farming them all on reset is psychotic

>>717868231
I think the train is the one I raided the most. It's short and drops both rebar and silver, both of which I use a lot because Magshot is my main weapon.

>>717868479
Raiding the train for silverware -> carbon trading once in a while is the only other one I've gone back to a bunch.
I guess fungus world too if you're keeping a beehive but you get infinite antejuice after hydroelectric too

>>717868560
There is an antejuice pool in manufacturing. What the fuck are you doing raiding mycofields

You... You do know that Exors shit in the antejuice pools, right?

Wait, antejuice has a use?

>>717868231
>Flathill
Whenever I need peas or power cells
>Train
As often as possible for Rebar/Silver/Ammo
>Rise
Whenever I wanna farm Order dudes for their ammo and drops before I have the Praetorium
>Voussoir
For shotgun shells and neutrino mappers, pretty often
>Mycofields
Whenever I need shrooms for stew, or the off chance I need anteverse gel
>Village
Pretty much just to get milk sacs and the bismuth looking shit
>Furniture store
Whenever I want a base to look pretty
>Nightmare world
Just whenever I want night essences because farming the nightmare with the laser pistol is ass now
>Everything else
I don't really visit the remaining portal worlds too much. You can get everything you ever need from Space Queen in one go.

>>717868560
my one barrel of antejuice has support 2 hives for like 20 hours and is still 85% full and I got the juice in manufacturing

>>717868752
yeah the bees eat it and they give you honey
also you can drink it too with no ill effects

>>717868765
>flathill
staplers, staplers for days. also power cells and ice cream for krasue
>train
dont ever go there outside of the atmosphere these days.
>rise
only time i go there is when i want to cheese the machine gun at the roof
>voussoir
literally never went back here
>mycofields
only when i need mushrooms
>village
transcendium farming
>furniture store
i go back here constantly for salt and carbon (from the christmas boxes)
>the night realm
night essence but now that ive got all i need i rarely go back
>space queen
i go back regularly for more materials to make digital gold with

>>717868765
why would you need to farm neutrino mappers? i dont remember them making anything that wasn't a 1 off

Firearms really need to do a lot more damage.
It's really silly that going full retard with a pickaxe break shields and kill faster than fucking bullets.

how long does it take to get those walk-in portals?

>>717869079
[REDACTION] grenades need them.

>>717869162
reactors

>>717869079
Laser Turrets and Moisture Teleporters, mostly.

>>717869227
What do they even do

>the little pests in the village were playing duck duck goose under the supervision of an adult
I-
I didn't realized that. I feel really bad now.

>>717869308
I don't know, it's kind of fucked up that the aliens are sending their very own children off to war in the first place.

>>717869302
They create a blackhole which delete anything that's not bolted down in their radius.

>>717869308
Gotta rack up those kills somehow

>>717869127
its pretty obvious the devs are hellbent on making military weapons dogshit and nonviable
between the biolocks and ammo scarcity the game is strongly suggesting you use something else

>>717836079 (OP)
Thinking on getting this, overall how good is the scary factor. Doesn't have to be like actual horror games scary, but I hope there's at least really ambient horror like really dark areas and stuff.

>>717869529
That's what I find to be the most retarded, ammo is scarce, yet treat every enemies as if you had unlimited ammo, everything that isn't some starting enemy just takes several mags to kill.

>>717869308
I think if you start combat with the exors they run away instead of attacking, unless you attack one of them

>>717869578
there are several scary bits, ill just list them off in no particular order:
1. the security sector is literally the 'horror/scary' map area
2. the hydroplant's reservoir is very scary to swim in. for good reason.
3. the leyak. the krasue too, but its not as bad as the leyak
4. there's a 'weather event' called the black fog. ill let you guess what that does.
5. flathill and the fog weather event; especially since you have no weapons capable of killing the things you find in flathill upon the first visit (and even when you do, its not worth it at all)
6. the pool room (secret area)
7. if you like zombies, the furniture store has great ambiance

>>717869661
some of the enemies just have way too much hp in general, I just pumped 90 grinder disks into a tier3 bot and it's still standing

>>717869896
That all does sound rather kino

>>717869961
Anon defense bots go down easy if you use slushie bombs and attack the backpack.
Later you get a deatomizer which kills them in 5 seconds flat

>>717869578
its scare factor is mostly atmospheric. its not really a horror game but it gets pretty spooky at times

>>717870063
that's great but it still took me 120 grinder shots to kill a single one

Raids need to be buffed in general but the zombie raid could really use a serious buff. You kill hundred of those fuckers like it's nothing, yet the raid just spawn like 10 of them at best.
It should also come without the audio warning, for the spook factor.

>>717869661
the only guns i found worth using are the sniper and antique shotgun and the sniper is only good for sneak attacking things it can one shot while the shotgun takes 5 years to reload a double barrel somehow

>>717868231
>Far Garden
never
>Flathill
often for money, peas, salt, staplers, power cells, and ice cream
>Train
regularly for silver, rebar, and reinforced hose materials
>Rise
rarely
>Mycofields
rarely
>Furniture Store
rarely
>Space Queen
occasionally for digital gold
>Canaan
occasionally for lodestones
>Night Realm
occasionally for night essence
>Voussoir
often for 5.56 and buckshot
>Exor Village
occasionally for transcendium
>Shadowgate
often for buckshot and .308
>Praetorium
often for all ammo

>>717870159
Zombies are too fucking weak to be a threat even in larger numbers, a single chopinator could stop a 200 zombie attack ffs

>>717836079 (OP)
why the fuck are there so many gate zombies where were these niggers before we even found zombies?

>>717870208
The first upgrade for the pump shotty is very good, useful damage type and it has a narrower spread than the antique. You get 6 shots instead of 2 and the reload doesn't seem all that longer. Just do not upgrade to the frozen one, that thing is dog ass

>Security sector
>Game of cat and mouse with reaper
I feel that that section is a pain in the ass if you play alone. Now that I have reach hydrostation, how do I kill robot without getting direct nade to the face?

>>717870447
Alive and hiding. Until you released the zombies from containment.

>>717869969
thats because the game is kino fucking gold that slipped under the radar
seriously
prior to 1.0 this game was a 10/10. the ending kind of sucks but even WITH that its still a 9/10 easily, and devs are adding post-game content of some sort which may bump it up again

>>717870518
>how do I kill robot without getting direct nade to the face?
Run around them, they don't predict your movement.
Also hit them to stagger them so they stop being in targeting mode, so you can slap them in the back.

>>717870454
I had an uncontrollable rage the first time I reloaded the pump after firing one shell and it proceed to play the entire reload animation
never used it again

>>717870518
make the energy pistol it kills it

>>717870454
Only downside the pump shotgun: The reload animation.
There's no partial reload so you watch your character slowly reload all 6 shells after only firing once.

>>717870579
Yeah I'm just a frugal bitch so I struggle to open my wallet for $35. I'm just waiting for my friend to buy it so I can make up a reason for my brain to get it.

Reloads are stupidly slow even at 14 levels, what the fuck is the purpose of this skill if it doesn't work

>>717870660
Really powerful gun, but yes, it kills me on the inside everytime I reload that thing when not empty.
It also tends to kill me in the game as well because the reload takes fucking forever as a result.

i'm really liking this game so far but if i have any criticisms as someone that plays a lot of survival crafters - the power/tech curve feels way too slow at the very start. i'm still working towards opening the door to manufacturing. working on the 2nd pocket universe/dimension now (silent hill lol) and i'm still wrapped in magazine armor and using a basic kitchen knife-on-a-stick spear. feels like there should've been a tier 2 somewhere in here before getting power cells - an "iron" tier where you're out of noob scraps but not yet super powerful and high tech.

>>717870518
Slushie grenade to freeze it and shoot the backpack until the alarm sounds, then run. If you've been skipping grenades, hydroplant is the wakeup call before reactors.

>>717870693
>>717870660
Its the same deal with the revolver, but thankfully your brilliant egghead learns what a speedloader is at level 20 reloading

>>717870524

you can make the reaper fuck off with 3 laser shots if he sees you and a single laser shot will make him disappear if you shoot at him before he takes aggro, you can also sneak past him

as for the robots there are a lot of ways to kill them, you can set up teslas for cheap kills, you can use slushie bombs, the deatomizer kills them in a single charge from the front or 1/3 if you hit the backpack, the quill rifle fucks their shit, carbon pickaxe sprint attack fucks their shit (specially if you freeze them or stun so you can hit the backpack), acid shotgun upgrade does decently, electron grenades also fuck them

there are a lot of ways, just don't fight them in corridors and circle around them

>>717869578
Ambient horror is pretty non-exsistant, atleast for me in solo, you have sounds that play in background occasionaly. There's 2 dedicated horror areas, one a facilitly area and the other a portal world.

I guess you could wander facility at night, though outside of security robots roaming in starting area, night time dosen't change much.

>>717870772
The balance is definitely all over the place. in manufacturing you get a sawblade gun that is basically the most useful weapon in the game for a good 40-50% of it, and stays useful in the end game. It's much better than the shit you can get in the next couple of areas afterwards, and in the 3rd or so you can upgrade it to be even stronger.

I just can't overcome my hoarding autism and just push further into the game. I'm surviving completely on vendor snacks because I can't find any real food.

How many Teslas does it take for the grenade robots?
Level 2 is three, Level 3 is five?

>>717870875
With his barefist!

>>717870772
If you're in manufacutring, you'll be able to make the best melee weapon in the game for ages, if you got sprint attack from blunt tree, you're gonna be set for ages.

>>717871001
Try and find tomato seeds, you can craft a very good source of renewable food that way. Also, don't sleep on soups, they're a very efficient way to restore hunger and thirst because you get multiple portions of it of each time you make them

>>717871001
you will never even think about hunger again after you start making soup

is there a source of tainted water in the furniture store?

>>717871173
Just put a single laser emitter in its patrol path.

>>717871304
there's a fountain overlooking the entrance on the second floor

>>717870975
>>717871210
i'll be in there soon to check it out. just working up the nerve to make a 2nd dip into the silent hill universe after an initial scouting run to open some gates and get a lay of the land.

side note - is there any way to kill 'coworker'? he started spawning inside my fucking house at night and i hate it to the point where i'm thinking of abandoning my otherwise perfectly safe and convenient base.

>>717871001
grow potatoes, super tomatoes, and antiverse wheat then turn them into veggie stew
never worry about food again
(and if you're super lazy you could just eat super tomatoes raw)

>>717871546
you can kill him but he comes back

I LOVE COFFEE IN MY COFFEE HOLE

>>717871386
>my lift is up
dangit

This game gave me feel spookies three times.
>when you release zombies from containment and the first trip through the furniture store
>the first time you run into a Symphonist in the mist
>swimming through the terror reservoir.
I've never even seen the Darkwater Beast and having to enter the water in the reservoir still horrifies me.

>>717871631
guess i'm moving out then. between this and the invasions also spawning in my base i'm hitting a huge wall of friction. i don't like things spawning inside of my base for any reason. that's the whole point of delineating a specific area as a home base.

>>717871546
No matter where you go, he'll appear at your base asking for shit, only reason to "kill him" is to farm some sneak xp from bashing him from behind.

>>717871779
the fucking beast scares me more than the entirety of Subnautica and that game terrifies me as it is. The fact that the visibility underwater is so piss poor even after you have the diving suit and eat the freyed rice doesn't help at all. the sound he makes when he charges at you is fucking horrifying, I actually screamed the first time he tried to eat me. I was just chilling too.

>>717871796
Portal storms can be prevented with a bench upgrade which is really cheap. Coworker isnt even hostile

>>717871753
no, not the top floor, just go up the stairs to the second landing

>>717836079 (OP)
i kinda want to play this game, is it fun solo?
i have never played half life 1, will i enjoy this?
i have played hundreds of survival crafting games, whats the gimmick in this one?
reply to this post for good fortune and happiness for you all week long

>>717871930
yeah I meant my base is on top for the womfy rain sounds but the lift was up and hasn't reset yet so I had to tp back and go the long way round.

>>717871753
You get plant rope literally just after that and you never need to do the button shit ever again. Just bring a jump pad, grav cube, and a bridge to set up the rope

>>717872058
ahh, I get ya

>>717872041
It's fine solo, you might want to adjust some of the settings like stack sizes to at least x2 and xp gain and such.

>>717871796
bad news he will spawn pretty much anywhere in the game. powered crafting bench might stop him from spawning inside though as i dont see him spawn inside my base ever. do you have a battery on your bench? or an area in your base that is far from the bench? might have to put down a second one

>>717872041
>is it fun solo?
Ye, I got 135 hours out of my first playthrough, and so far im 50 into my 2nd. Both are solo and both have been back to back.
>i have never played half life 1, will i enjoy this?
The half life 1 vibe is kind of skin deep, I would say the game is more like Prey 2017 if you've played that, but with a greater emphasis on lore and survival mechanics.
>whats the gimmick in this one?
The main things this game does over other survival crafters are the locations being pre-made and handcrafted, the concept of being able to go into other dimensions for progression and resources, an emphasis on doing scientifical stuff, and actually having lore and a story. Also some pretty fun tech and immersive sim type gameplay especially later on.

>>717836079 (OP)
Fotm slop

Where should I fish for portal fish?

>>717872486
Antejuice pool in manufacturing

>>717872041
Yes. You just need to make some minor adjustments to the sandbox setting because you playing solo such as stack size and XP gain.
You can tell they were inspired by HL1's scientists and Black Mesa, but that is pretty much where it ends so playing Half-Life really has nothing to do with it.
The gimmick is that instead of just a relatively blank open world you are instead placed into a handcrafted facility which is entirely indoors, for the most part.

>>717872486
Poopland

>>717871927
thank you, i didn't know that the portal storms could eventually be disabled but that's a huge relief. i don't mind defending myself but defending storage boxes every ~3 nights was getting annoying. as for coworker, idc if he isn't hostile, i don't want some mother fucker that doesn't even show up as human on my scanner skittering around my house at night on all fours.
>>717872305
thank you for the tip with the workbenches. it is a decently large area and i only have a bench down on one side of it. will try throwing down another on the far side to see if i can get him spawning outside in the hallways again.

>>717872442
>slopposter
brain dead parrot

>>717871779
>the first time you run into a Symphonist in the mist
My first encounter with them was worse
>finish Flathill
>in the same day, get fog event
>great, can't see shit
>most of the day is uneventful, beside being unable to see anything
>opening a locked room behind a keypad
>enter a security room
>look at the window facing the corridor I was just in
>see one of those thing walking past the window
Great spook

>>717841298
Piggybacking off this anon's post, if I want to move my base can I move containers with everything inside of them or do I have to unload and move everything?

>>717872973
>i don't want some mother fucker that doesn't even show up as human on my scanner skittering around my house at night on all fours.
That's because he's not.
Spoiler ahead if you want to know more:
It's a shapeshifter, but closer to an animal than an actually sentient being, so all it can really do is spout out stereotypical sentences to try to fit in, hoping someone will give it food. It likes coffee.

>>717873353
The latter, unfortunately. It sucks mad ass, even with the personal teleporter.

>>717873353
The latter. Invest in platform carts if you don't have teleporters yet.

give me your most wanted QOL improvements

>longer craft history (previous recipe button works more than once)
>grid snap for bridges, shelves, and other furniture
>use hoses to connect barrels to garden plots/the shower, etc
>shotgun/revolver only reloads what's needed for partial reloads
>crosshair changes when sprint attack is valid
>pickup placed soup pots
>trash button for moving box (sometimes he has one sometimes he doesn't?)

>>717872486
the water near the starting point in canaan only gets portalfish and IS 98s

also the fountain in the office lobby, but at night it has moonfish too

>>717874364
A button when crafting, that auto ques and crafts the compoents for items that require multiple parts to make

>>717874364
>shotgun/revolver only reloads what's needed for partial reloads
Or just partial reload, aka one at a time. It's not hard to implement (t.game dev) so I don't know why devs keep fucking this up.

>>717874364
>reasonable ammo drops from order/gatekeepers without having to install a mod

>>717872041
The gimmick is science, you start by crafting stuff made out office items like keyboards, pens, rubber bands

>>717874645
your hearth bro?

>>717874364
Weapons mods instead of upgrades dictating a weapon effects
>upgrade weapon -> more damage/ammo/whatever
>weapon mod -> elemental effects/scope/bonus stats

>>717874364
>Hearth sigil increases the max ammo dropped by enemies instead of just always dropping the current maximum
>double the stack sizes of most ammo types
>Make grinder discs and their variants stack to like 30 or 40 because 32 is a retarded number
>reduce body chopping hits by like half
>the ability to remove stuff from a soup bowl if you accidentally put it in
>Radiation shielded freezer upgrade/make the normal freezer rad resistant

>>717874364
>not following a recipe doesn't lead to a bad soup if you haven't put shit that could make you sick
It's so retarded to get sick and puke everywhere because you put two tomatoes in a soup.

>>717874792
>the ability to remove stuff from a soup bowl if you accidentally put it in

You can already, just right click on it in your inventory and chose "Pour on ground" option.

>>717874680
even with hearth 5.56 is unsustainable beyond popping shields with plasmois
they even nerfed ammo drops in 1.0. neophytes used to drop 9 rounds with the sigil, now it's 6.

>>717874878
Pretty sure you can't if the soup isn't "cooked", the game didn't gave me the option to empty my uncooked soup pot with a single egg in it.

>>717874878
nvm, i guess you meant cooking pots not the soup bowls

>rockets need tons of glue
>been completely ignoring glue because I thought it wasn't used in much

what portal world do I get tons of giga glue in? please I dont want to fish

>>717874878
I derped out, I meant to take stuff out of a currently cooking pot of soup. You kind of just have to wait for the bad soup to cook at the moment and you lose your ingredients.

>>717873456
>>717873353
That is extremely fucking gay and seems like an obvious QoL fix. Even if it takes an investment or makes you vulnerable or something, moving items manually sucks.

>>717875003
Put a normal peccary head in a soup pot.

>>717875013
Oh yeah, I get it now, there should be a small grace peroid when you place an ingrident to take it back out, I've messed up some mega stews before being a dunce and adding an extra heart by accident

>>717875076
thats enough for 1 (one) detonation cord. I need tons of glue not 4

>>717875246
you say that like there aren't gorillions of peccorys to get skulls from

also the cooking skill that gives you two extra portions from food

>get energy pistol
>aw sweet this'll get accuracy up in no time
>like 8xp per hit
why must accuracy be such a pain in the ass to level

>>717875246
All crates can drop glue, so check the Train and the Night Realm regularly.
Otherwise, you'll have to cook, either 4 regular glue (peccary's head) or 4 fisherman glue (fish bones + hydrochloric acid) per batch.

>>717868649
>in manufacturing.
idk I never saw it
I'm not the one out of my group that was doing beekeeping either

>>717875459
Laser weapons xp gain got nerfed to the ground, the laser pistol upgrade that gives you a reload doesn't give you reloading xp at all.

>went in solo with default settings
Guess I'm restarting

>>717870518
Sprint attack their backpack 2-3 times and they self destruct

>>717875657
you can adjust settings after creating your world

>>717874364
AMMO NOT SITTING UNDER CORPSES ALL THE FUCKING TIME

I HATE HAVING TO BUTCHER EVERYTHING IN SIGHT JUST TO GET MY 3 BULLETS UNDER THEIR BODIES

>fridge description
>"Is this thing made of lead?! It's not, obviously, but it sure feels like it. In fact, the heaviest aspect of a refrigerator is the compressor and housing to the fridge itself. The insulation is somewhat heavy as well, but that hardly registers in terms of the sheer back-breaking weight of everything else it's comprised of."
That's the exact kind of autism I expect the player character to spout out.

>>717875657
It's not the end of the world, I did solo with default settings, it's not unplayable.

>>717873426
yea i'm not surprised lol. i set up a 2nd workbench on the far side of my home and it worked - he now spawns outside in the hallway and hovers outside of the door repeating all of his lines instead. but at least he's outside.

>>717874364
a bench upgrade to autocraft any sub components. going 3 items deep and not being able to hit previous craft more than once is annoying and shouldn't be a thing

>>717875657
kek i was doing that this whole time. slightly ashamed to admit i didn't realize there were really comprehensive custom options. the stack sizes especially are something i wish i did way sooner. you're already limited by both weight AND inventory slots, why also have the stack size nonsense? set that to 5x.

do you eventually get storage that let's you craft without having the parts in your inventory?

>>717875657
you can edit sandbox settings on the load server page
>>717876045
there's a bench upgrade that uses ingredients/parts inside containers nearby, yes

>>717876045
yes its a workbench upgrade you get pretty early on
click the upgrade button top right of the workbench crafting menu if you hadn't noticed that

>>717875838
One thing, if you decide to feed him: Don't give him soup.
The fucker will eat the whole bowl.

>>717876045
There's a workbench (and kitchen counter) upgrade for it.

>>717876045
bench upgrade

>>717876045
Yes, it's an early crafting bench upgrade.

>>717876045
A bench upgrade

>>717876045
yep. lvl 5 crafting lets you put an upgrade on the bench for that
easily one of the most critical things to get. save up exor hearts for it

>>717847025 >>717849480 >>717850720 >>717851480

>>717876267
>save up exor hearts for it
heh, yea, totally. i didn't cook those or anything. nope. good thing i definitely still have some!

>>717876404
rip in pieces anon

>three vol exors

I FUCKIGN HATE THESE THINGS AHHHHHHH

>>717876623
your slushie grenades and deatomizer?

>>717857790
I'm black.

>>717876710
honesty considering the cheesmizer these guys never fucking let you breathe

>>717876862
>Dr. Tyreek Mansa Musa

>>717876862
disgusting, stop trying to impersonate a scientist

>>717876862
Hi Black, I'm dad.

>>717876862
Manse another one of "those" breached containment

Think fishing 15 will ever be changed? Having darkbeast ignore you makes the water zone stress free and that's exactly what I need since I can't see shit in that lake.

>>717876862
Dr Derek Manse, reporting.

There's been a breach, it seems that some dark creatures, almost human-like, have started impersonating GATE staff.

>>717877278
You know what else work against the darkwater beast? An X-Ray Lamp.

>>717877367
wait what

>>717877376
You can spook it away for some time by just aiming the x-ray lamp at it.
An email mentions this.

>>717877367
But what if ge eats my ass when I'm not looking?

>>717877526
then you get dead in a horrifically painful and terrifying way

>>717877278
I've honestly never gotten hassled by whatever is in the lake. I only saw it shortly once despite diving in a few times looking for the entrance to the reactor and collecting seaweed and growths. I had the xray lamp just in case though.

>>717877551
That's what I don't want! Getting shot or slapped to death is fine, but scary sounds in the water followed by a insta kill is not my jam.

How the fuck do I start leveling cooking from zero?

>>717877843
Find a stove with 6 burners and get cooking, boy.

>>717877995
>6

industrial stove has 12

>>717877843
You kill, you grill.

>>717875065
They don't want you to be walking around with a large container that you fill up with loot and then place in your inventory that takes one slot like other games do with movable containers. I guess maybe a QoL fix would be to have a full container take like 20 slots so you'd still need to make a trip per box but you're not having to unpack and repack everything.