Thread 717952225

Is this the sleeper hit of the year?

>>717952225 (OP)
absolutely
it's fucking great but I can't get any of my fucking friends to get it

Ehh I'm trying to get into it but it just feels like work. Too many items, not enough space, don't know what I should keep and what I should leave.

>Finally go clear that blockage on Flat Hill using the Anti-Fungal Gelatin thinking I would get to explore a whole blocked off part.
>It's just a single room
>All the locked red doors are just decorative
fml

>>717952942
Just bump up the item stack limit on your sandbox settings. Eliminates the inventory management tedium that I personally find more annoying than challenging.

>>717952334
I bought it for my friends when I saw it on a reputable reseller site for 25 bucks and abandoned my solo game.
No regerts

>>717952225 (OP)
>crafting survival friendslop

nah

>>717952225 (OP)
Hydro is so fucking shitty bros

what does your scientist look like

>>717953130
>friendslop
I love this FOTM 4chan parrot buzzword because it accurately clocks the utter subhuman losers who have zero friends

>>717952225 (OP)
Nah, it's the survival game that isn't generic shit but still gives survival niggas hope of the year. Here's your daily reminder we haven't had a good, finished survival game since the DayZ mod popularized the idea, outside of a couple indies

>>717952225 (OP)
yes
it has been since the original early access launch

>>717953130
it's actually better experienced alone if you give even a modicum of a damn about getting immersed in the game/story

>>717953395
>Here's your daily reminder we haven't had a good, finished survival game
it's quite literally right here in front of you, right now

>>717952942

I'm with you anon. About an hour in, and I'm like meh. I want to push through because I'm sure I'll love it, but so far lots of tedium and I'm starving to death.

>>717952225 (OP)
Will it make me feel like subnautica did?

>>717953559
>clock ticks down ingame every second you're engaging with the story via emails and audiologs
>you have a million better things to be doing
>read the logs when you're out of the game to truly immerse yourself
The game and the story work against each other

>>717952942
yup
the map and exploration are absolutely great but re-doing all the areas you've already completed just to farm the new materials you need is just survival slop padding at its worst

>>717953807
not really, you're a new hire and learning about the facility is more than likely to give you the best chance at survival
there isn't exactly a nuke timer that should be ticking down as you're rushing down deeper to defuse it but instead you keep stopping to pick flowers. Your general goal is just to survive and find a way out.

>>717952942
>>717953696
Just store shit in preexisting containers. You can also pickup shit like filing cabinets (with a 25% chance of success or something) and bring them to your starter base. My early game would have been better if I had the balls to fuck with the starting zone

>>717953130
I'm a friendslop hater but Abiotic Factor is an actual great game if you tweak the settings a bit.

>>717953696
>starving to death
You know you're supposed to cook and eat the little goobers you've been killing... right anon?

>>717953807
The survival elements are so forgiving once you get a hang of the game that you feel like you can take all the time in the world.
>>717953758
The gameplay is better, the games progression is felt more because there is actual combat, it's less buggy, but it has an order of magnitude less budget in its visuals and audio design.

>>717954172

I figured as much but didn't figure it out before I quit for the night. I starved and said fuck it for now. I don't remember seeing anything on the chefs table regarding it.

Let me guess, you need "more".

>>717953807
Nothing is time based in the game, and needs aren't really a problem even with all the negative perks, you can take your time.
Worst case scenario you'll just shit yourself while talking to an NPC, but then it's your duty to make sure you shit on their head.

>>717952225 (OP)
It's so boring I stopped playing it after reaching the blacksmith.
The "survival" part is completely pointless.

>>717954214
Just go to the stove in the kitchen by the break room, put a pan on it, and then put the food on the pan. It takes a while to cook if your skill is low, and easy to burn. So don't wander off to far.

>>717954245
>more
That's too much.
My base was nothing more than a very large stack of boxes with a bed and craft benches somewhere in the middle.
Never bothered actually ordering the stuff in my boxes, so I kept running out of space and building more boxes.

>>717954030
>i was happy to waste time in a survival game blah blah
It's a survival game. Just pause the fucking timer while I engage with the story

>>717954172
how long should you wait to start farming? i'm down to ~15 iodine pills in manufacturing and i'm starting to get nervous i'll die to attrition because all of the alien goober meat i've been eating has been radioactive.

>>717954385
>Just pause the fucking timer while I engage with the story
>NOOOOO I DON'T WANT TO SHIT MYSELF READING AN EMAILS
Sounds like a (You) problem.

It's my GOTY at least and it's not even really close, I've been playing since like a week before 1.0 and I'm up to 190 hours between two back to back playthroughs.

>>717954245
still mad there was a tv that got away

I am tempted to make that one living area in power services my home. That area is so comfy. However, where I am in office sector 3 is very well located for getting around without having to use personal teleporters for everything.

>>717953242
i like playing friendslop with my friends though

>>717954472
So the replayability is good? Since it has a story meta progression i figured repeat playthroughs might feel redundant

>>717954430
there is anti-rad syringes in the first aid tree, farm when you can sustain watering

>>717954245
I've collected so much decorations that my base takes up nearly half a level of office sector

>>717954269
>nothing is time based
Besides growing food, collecting water, repairing, preparing for raids, tying up the loose end of corridors that exist early game, progressing so all the other problems are lessened etc. That's what you feel for the early game, and the early game is about 20 hours long. You can't have it both ways and say "this is a good survival game" along with "the survival aspects are ezpz"

>>717954305

Alright, I'll give it another go. Thanks.

>>717954713
nigger what fucked up difficulty mod are you on, or are you just neurotic bitch?

>>717954609
yea but those cost chemicals i only have ~19 of and i haven't found a way to replace them yet. i know the short answer is to go to other universe portals for the respawning resources but i just haven't found that many yet. the only 'trick' ive worked out so far is that flathill has a fuck ton of peas in one of the first buildings.

>>717954456
>Sounds like a (You) problem.
>isn't GOTY outside of a minority of /v/ threads
Hm

>>717954385
start making some soup and you'll never worry about it again
i don't understand how it takes you long enough to even worry about it in the first place

>>717952225 (OP)
>sleeper hit of the year
its like a year old

>>717954820
There's plenty of salt in flathill too, but soup has 0 radiation (and cant burn!), if you are that worried.
Check your database for soup recipes

>>717954245
>>717954517
Is there a reason to build your base elsewhere, besides aesthetic reasons? Its so convient I never bothered with building anywhere else.

>>717954809
nigger you can't have it both ways
>>717954873
you are arguing against me treating your 10/10 survival game as though it is a survival game

>upgraded vacuum launcher says it can suck up even metaphysical objects
>it literally doesn't do anything different from the base vacuum
It only picks up pests, again, like the base one. Doesn't do any projectiles, not even nades nor rockets.

>>717953190
NIGGERMAN SAVE ME IM GOING INSAAAAANNNEEE

>>717955000
That conference area in office sector 3 has very close access to portals to Flathill, manufacturing west, and Far Garden, as well as the elevator that takes you down close to the tram lobby. Also it has more building space than the starting area. Still not enough space for my liking though. I'm starting to expand into the cubicle space.

>>717954713
>growing food
Literally one action, also plants don't consume water when in "harvest" state.
>collecting water
There's a ton of clean water everywhere just in Office alone, also sounds like you don't have any water storage if you have to boil water everytime you're home.
>repairing
Literally you just have to hit shit with a hammer once when something damage it. And even then, player built stuff never "break", it just get packaged and you can just rebuild it, which repair it.
>preparing for raids
What preparation? Raids can be dealt with a single chopinator or tesla coil, and they don't occur until the bench is loaded so they'll never happen when you're out.
>tying up the loose end of corridors that exist early game
>progressing so all the other problems are lessened etc
Sounds like you're the one with an issue, anon. The game gives you all the time in the world.

>>717955000
None that justified it to mee, theres a bitchin kitchin at hydro but it would have taken so long to move we never bothered
Theres a tool that fixes it being a central location but again, too late

>>717954809
not that anon and i'm not scrolling through the whole back and forth for context, but i can kind of empathize with that early game experience. i'm ~15 hours in and i constantly feel rushed and stressed because of everything ticking by in the background and the surplus of events. i often find myself just wasting whole game days because i'm doing chores until ~3pm and i don't want to get caught out after dark after starting an expedition that late in the day. the enemies respawning and harsh weather events (nuclear) are consuming resources that don't respawn and that also adds a layer of time anxiety because i'm slowly hemorrhaging resources to attrition. ive been reading the terminals but i feel similarly flustered and rushed and i never really 'absorb' what i'm reading because i'm constantly trying to move fast to beat the day timer or one of my food/water/bathroom needs.

Are you guys playing solo or with frens?

>>717955502
Did the entire game solo.
Trying to convince friends now.

>>717954167
Is it worth trying if you don't normally like survival crafting games? My friends are obsessed with this genre but I can't really get into them. I'm willing to be hurt again if it has some extra juice to it.

>>717955282
>all the survival aspect of this game are irrelevant
1: You don't feel that early games
2: That's point against the game, not for it

>>717955569
>1: You don't feel that early games
Anon, I literally started my first playthrough of the game with all the negative need traits and I never felt rush at any point.
The worst thing that ever happened to me was shitting myself while talking to story NPCs.

>>717955558
>don't normally like survival crafting games
because they are half assed cash grabs mostly? yes
fundamentally don't like survival mechanics? no

OP, stop shilling this shit.

>>717955635
Then mosey your way onto point 2

>>717955656
suck my balls you retarded pretend janny faggot
LOL!

>>717955761
The survival aspect is mostly just an excuse to get you to go home once in a while, so nothing wrong with it.

>>717956070
>not living life dangerously and hoping the next corner is the one with a bathroom

>>717955502
solo. The friends I could have played with had played early access so they would have ruined the discovery aspect of it. Also I don't think i'd have gotten as immersed in the setting playing this blind in multiplayer.

>>717956112
>needing the bathroom
I'm a god gamer, I don't need the bathroom, not yet.

>>717956070
Then it's not a survival game, is it?

>>717956112
I have never shit myself and I never will.
My feces will never touch the floors of this laboratory.

Move, you little faggot

>>717956203
Is there any survival game where needs aren't either an absolute chore or solved within 5 minutes or both?

My friend and I just turned off the turrets in the labs and are gonna figure out how to get into mushroom land, it's been pretty cool so far.

>>717956348
No. That's the problem. See >>717953395. The survival genre is a fucking mess

is the supporter thing worth getting with the japanese themed hideaway or whatever it is?

Played for a while without realising its retarded to not carry a personal teleporter and crafting bench around with you everywhere so you can just jump to and fro, so much loot lost before this

>>717956565
what is weird is I didn't get it nor did I get before early access, and I have it in my game

You do help out your coworker, right? He pumps the iron!

>>717956240
He's just trying to tell you you're placing it in the wrong place

>Preatorium
>Tank faggot
>Flamethrower faggots that yeet you in .02 seconds
>Assassins that just flip around doing nothing but annoying you for 20 seconds before getting face pickedaxed because they run at you to stab
>Wasted aesthetic
Whoever designed this needs to be kicked in the fucking cock.
Also
>Friend tells me about easter egg involving toilet taking you somewhere
>Get it second try
>Hes been seething for hours

>>717956565
That thing tanks your FPS. Unoptimised!

>>717956559
It's really just the problem of the genre in general, it's hard to make busywork not feel like busywork.
>>717956963
The toilet easter egg have a much higher chance to trigger if you don't have the achievement for it, otherwise it's really low. Also iirc it can only triggers if you're at toilet time/toilet emergency.

>>717956214
If you shit yourself midair the feces just stays up there, so it would never "touch the floors of this laboratory."
It also kills all of your momentum, so you tend to fall to your death.

>>717952971
Yeah its just exists to get unfucked corn

I've been having alot of fun fucking around
great game

>>717956963
leave the toilet unpowered and spam use on it
it will still teleport you unpowered, but wont reset your shit meter until you actually get teleported

>>717957142
>It also kills all of your momentum
It really should yeet you forward, shit fueled propulsion.

>so focused on the fun ass gameplay and not paying much attention to the story
>let dr cahn out of his contaiment cell and don't pay much attention to it for the majority of the playthrough
>nephew i've been playing the game with says "dr cahn is just out here tanking the cold what the hell" when we meet him in residence
>joke about him betraying us
>immediately realize how probable it is but know if it happens, it's one of those no choice scenarios
>mfw after beating the final boss
FUCK

Anyways, I'm really stunned at how much I loved every area EXCEPT residence. It just felt kind of boring compared to everything else we had seen before.

>>717952225 (OP)
its just any generic survival craft with a halflife skin

>>717955019
why is the game being unpaused during inventory sorting and terminal reading such a big deal to you?

>>717955502
i play all of these types of games solo. i like to play blind, make mistakes, learn, find stuff at my own pace, and i also can just spend hours building stuff. that's why i dont play conan exiles with people anymore, the base building is just so much more enjoyable than slicing each other to bits (and the devs know this and prey upon me with paid building extensions)

>>717953758
Yeah, that was the case for me, except even more so because I find the AF story very compelling.

>>717957295
>This nigga liked Preatorium.

>>717957287
it technically is shit powered propulsion, just in the opposite direction

>>717957116
>it's hard to make busywork not feel like busywork
Yet every other genre manages it. We still don't even have a generic AAA survival game. It's all still indie. It's fucking bizarre seeing that survival games have had a huge impact on games in general over the last decade, but the genre doesn't have a single great game to it's name

>>717957573
It was pretty easy, no? I didn't die a single time during Praetorium. I had my decimator, energy pistol, shotgun, sniper, quantum pick, x9 healing syringes, healing briefcase, x16 bandages, and personal teleporter on me at all times. I also had the mountaineer set because it's so easy to get and I got it while killing yetis in Voussoir for fur to craft my freezers. I honestly enjoyed Praetorium because it looked so fucking awesome. I would make a base there and not the weeb area if not for the fact that Praetorium is a portal world and has amazing resources. In Praetorium, the cafeteria kitchen is bitchin'.

I just reached Reactors after 40 hours
How fucking long is this game

>survival with crafting
Not even close.

>>717952225 (OP)
i got filtered by the cold anteverse

>>717957959
60+

>>717957371
>inventory sorting
Nigga read
>terminal reading
Because the story is being delivered to you whilst you have a million other things to be dealing with. If you want me to sit down and pay attention then I need to be given room to do so. Pausing the game doesn't benefit me in any other way, I'm just able to read, reread and connect the dots. Who among us hasn't activated an audio log before getting attacked or some shit? How much value does getting attacked during an audio log give? Fucking none

Oh my god just leave me alone for one minute.

>>717958256
lol

>>717958256
lmao hes just trying to fill himself up

>>717958256
>You gonna finish that?

is this game time limited in any way?? can i eventually just build stuff and fuck around forever or do you eventually run out of resources/food/water??

>>717958749
portal worlds refill and have most everything you want.

>>717958749
Its essentially infinite resources from portal worlds resetting every few days

>>717958749
>is this game time limited in any way??
No, hence why I'm not sure why another is sperging out about time, there's nothing on a timer in this game.
> can i eventually just build stuff and fuck around forever or do you eventually run out of resources/food/water??
Stuff in the overworld eventually run out, unless you turn on the setting to respawn stuff, except enemies who always respawn (so you won't run out of food), stuff in portal worlds respawn everytime a portal reset.
So no, you won't run out of ressources.

>>717958810
>>717958847
>>717958891
nice, thanks.

>>717958749
So anything considered a "Portal World" has respawning furnishings and materials. For example, if you go to the kitchen in Office, break the fridge, and scrap it? It's gone permanently. However, if you do that in the kitchen in Flathill, the fridge will come back. Everything resets in Portal Worlds unless you are IN the Portal World at the time of reset. This includes Power Cells, Lodestones, Neutrino Mappers, and other important items. There are rare circumstances where items will respawn outside of Portal Worlds, but basically just consider everything outside of Portal Worlds non-respawning to be safe.

If you make the mistake of not keeping tomatoes and potatoes you find and end up running out of them, being unable to grow them- fret not, an NPC shows up later giving you the ability to obtain both, aswell as every area essentially having a kitchen with a fridge that may have one or the other. There are plenty of travelling NPCs though that provide you the ability to purchase things that may otherwise prove difficult to obtain.

Are moisture teleporters worth it? I built one but didnt notice it filling up my barrels at all, so I built 4. Hopefully that does something.

>>717959043
Yes. I made three and I don't have to water my plants anymore. I have a shit-ton of farm plots too. (If you don't need the stuff from your plants when they finish growing, just don't pick them, they'll stay in a sort of stasis of being harvestable, not decaying, and not losing water)

>>717959043
It's probably filling up your garden plots, they're set in priority for water storage.

>>717959043
I built a base near a pool of tainted water and just funneled a dozen barrels into a purifier and had infinite water for an entire playthrough so I imagine these things dont get used much

>>717959043
I think they are, transferring water can get tedious

>>717952334
Get better friends.
I started a game with a couple of my best bros last night, and it's been insanely good shit.

God damn I love that game.

>>717959206
My base is very close to a water source also but I would like to remove the tedium of remembering to manually water my plants every so often.

>>717959283
I didnt even realise they water the plants for you so yeah I can see the value now lol

>>717954430
If you're playing solo, just collect MREs and cook them into soup. You fight so many order guys that you'll be swimming in the damn things and the soup gives you a nice buff as well.

my bro gifted it to me just because it looks like half life 1 and he has a boner for that shit. game was surprisingly great. we played it before it was finished (it ended in a tunnel with some weird guy or some shit) but look forward to playing it again soon

Building multiple bases has put me at 100+ hours on the dusk reactor

Zero regrets

>>717959249
>have three different friend groups that want to play it with me
>try to juggle playing three different runs with them and also one with my nephew
>start getting burnt out extremely fast
>decide to quit runs with the three different friend groups and only continue my run with my nephew
>have ten times more fun

>>717959249
I think solo is better for a first time playthrough, but thats just me probably. One thing I would love to do is offer a pot of poop soup to one of my friends and hear his reaction. I'm not sure if it tells them what the food is that you're offering them.

>>717952334
Your friends have good taste, maybe you should listen to them.

>>717959462
You can see the content of the soup in a cooking pot, which gives it away, but not inside a soup bowl unless you check the description.
Just scoop it up for them yourself.
Also you can make a deadly soup by boiling bullets or glass shard in a pot of water.

>>717952225 (OP)
>sleeper hit of the year
Translation: devs couldn't afford more than a few shills

Turns out you were retarded all along, Im LE WINNER

>>717958236
oh so you'd prefer to be sitting in a static menu while listening to dr manse prance on about anteverse 23 or how the recoil of the antique shotgun bruised his shoulder? Games used to do this and it is the fastest way bar none to get me to not give a shit about the fluff.
what you're asking for is pointless, in my 250 hours of the game i cant think of a single occasion where i was actually bothered by anything while reading. Audio logs, sure once or twice and if I forgot something I can just replay it since I'm right next to it either way. You're just looking for minuscule things to get angry over.

>>717959742
Aw, he's smiling!

>>717955051
>>717953190
I'm getting irradiated Jerry!

>>717959742
Honestly it being super obvious and the player character falling for it all the way through is a very funny ending. Like, his super clever plan would've failed immediately if the player character wasn't such a fucking lemming.

>>717960004
Abiotic really is just a parody of Half Life. I like that our G-man is just a straight up agent of dimensional annihilation though

Nabbed a fridge from a kitchen and got the super tomatoes growing lads. Still haven't found anyone who knows anything about the power cells. I keep getting distracted with a million other things

>>717960127
I mean Abiotic is a combination of Half-Life and SCP Foundation. I fucking love it too.

>>717959808
I seriously hope you (do) use a baseball bat

>>717958256
>instinctively shut the stall door when dropping off the kids
>see this picture
I knew it was justified. I'm a shy pooper as is

i've been playing so much that i hear the dioxohealer and even leyak moans outside the game a bit, just barely audible over my tinnitus

>>717959742
>hey if you ever wanna travel, let me know
>I'd like to keep in touch
this cheeky cunt, it's even funnier when he's in the church talking about how Dr Cahn was nice to him when Dr Thule interrupts to call out his bullshit

Why is this shit so addicting?

>>717956565
the hideaway worlds make NO sense to me unless theyre adding a PvP deathmatch mode because Japan zone is undeniably an arena space for combat.

>>717960345
Good gameplay loop feeds you dopamine for finding new stuff to make new toys constantly and the constant unlocking of shortcuts and other smaller stuff keeps you engaged between big set piece reveals.

>>717960292
The quest log for Albatross is funny as well
>it takes until the end of the game, when Dr.Thule actively point out Cahn is IS-0012 for our character to realize the truth
>still think he's harmless despite the blatant lie he get called out for in the same conversation

>>717960345
there's a shit ton of materials and ingredients and all the new stuff you unlock are either fun or required for story, on top of the maps being built for exploration/shortcuts so every room has meaningful loot or something, usually
the problem a lot of survival crafters has is that theyre all
>you unlocked wood
>now you can make wood walls/floor/weapons
>you unlocked iron
>you can make iron walls/floors/weapons, which have the same geometry but a different texture
whereas here every new recipe is so drastically different and unique

I came here to do science and fuck bitches and i'm all out of bitches

>>717960543
Wtf how do I get cool outfits

>>717960463
I love this game and I love opening shortcuts generally but holy fuck there needs to be a visual indicator when a door can be opened (just not from this side) or if a door is decoration and theres nothing there.

After hours in the postgame searching for the last shortcuts I installed UE5SS so I could enable noclip. Every single door was just a ruse with nothing on the other side.

>fucked up my sleep schedule
>not tired at night
>power shuts off
Wat do

>>717960686
Go beat the shit out of pests at night you pussy.

>>717960643
>Glasses from the Rareware arcade game zone in labs.
>Japan jackets from the portal world launch 'dlc'
>all other cosmetics are looted from corpses littered around.
you probably have found a few already

>>717960686
Realize that the dark has nothing to be afraid of once you're past the point where robutts are scary

is this one of the most shilled game in /v/ history? it literally adds nothing to the vidya ecosystem
>friendslop
>survival crafting
>half life 1 tier art

>>717960643
explore, you get them for finding certain items or corpses

leyak is girl?

>>717953130
You get exposed twice because it's a solo game with modifications for multiplayer and you have no friends

>>717960830
lol pretend janny sad?

>>717953807
>clock ticks down

nothing in this game is time sensitive.

LEYAK MY BELOVED

>>717960830
Yeah you're right I'm sorry, I should've made another Twitter screencap thread.

>>717960862
always has been

>>717960686
Get jacked.
Being encumbered give strength exp and also makes you tired more quickly.

>>717960862
>Krasue honking on your bobo

>>717960686
Pretty sure you can just force yourself to sleep at night. Just don't get up when the alarm goes off and it will continue to run.

Can't believe it took until I finished the game to realize that sleeping actually speed up the in-game time, and also that it keeps doing that even after you're done dreaming as long as you don't get up.

>>717953190
He's seen some shit, just another day in the facility.

>>717961361
>no we have Black Ops at home

>>717953807
>Get friend to play Rogue Trader
>Act 1 has a section where the story dialogue changes slightly to reflect which order you do some objectives (first or last)
>This never happens again and the game is 'on pause' for a long as you're doing side objectives and not following the main campaign
>He goes completely insane because story missions have implied urgency
>He misses some side quests in act 1 rushing into act 2
>drops the game completely
>goes on a rant about game design.

I really feel for you OCD autism guys, even your relaxation is stressful for no reason.

>>717961361
Look just like my bro

>>717960830
I love when a game is good but /v/ has some irrational criteria that deems it irredeemable.

>friendslop
So any singeplayer/multiplayer game that's better with friends is bad?
>survival crafting
A popular genre that a majority of people love but /v/ seethes about to no end? No way! I guess Terraria is dogshit now huh? Abiotic has the extremely similar progression and equipment style as Terraria, except Abiotic doesn't have bosses.
>half-life 1 tier art
Half-Life 1 is fucking fantastic so why are you complaining, faggot?
Indian confirmed.

How do I kill these fuckers?
I killed one only by luring it into the electric water, no idea how to get this one or where the third even is.

>>717961574
nothing in this game is timed though
that's not even autism; autistic people LOVE wasting time
he's just being a faggot about reading some 20 second long journals

>>717961632
is that a tiny fuckin watercooler or am I just losing my mind with perspective.

>>717961682
Shock traps

>>717961682
for these I would use ranged weapons, and if you can, make grenades

>>717961682
Use a chopinator, they'll run into it and die as you put it between you and them.

>>717961682
If you're me, a Chad? Sprint attack even the rocket ones 4-5 times
Otherwise Tesla coil their spawns to chain stun them
Tier 1 robot - 2 coils
Tier 2 robot (labs) - 3 coils
Rocket Faggotbot - 5 coils
you can do other traps or choppinators but this is the amount that will chain stun them as tested by me

>>717961742
Bro has the entire science team ready to ambush him. Praying for his quick, painless death.

>>717961769
I did that and it just broke it

>>717961682
As someone told me, you're a nerd, not Robin Hood. Build some fackhin traps, they're tanky as fuck to try and kill with your weapons at this point

>>717959043
They're nice for never having to think about topping up garden plots again. I have one for three large plots and one for kitchen use, and a single teleporter in each instance is all you need unless you're really going into lots of cooking and gardening.

>>717961742
>that hotbar
Im losing it

i like it but i really wished there was more to the cooking

>>717961682
genuinely just shock traps dude, build 4 and place them in a line

>>717961902
Fuck, actually does this work? I've never even thought about fishing in this.

>>717961942
there's so many recipes and you don't need even 10% of them
I just eat salad wraps all day like a true Californian and collect my FREE™ orbs (up to 23 atm)

I'm glad they buffed throwing exp, this used to be retarded

>>717961837
You're supposed to assist it via distracting the bot and getting some hits in while it does its thing. For me they get the chopinator to at most like slightly past half health.

>>717961682
Earlygame:
Nail traps, just 2 or 3 will kill them instantly
Coils will farm them passively at spawn
They respawn each night
Midgame:
Electric spear spam
Endgame:
High attack speed sharp melee stunlocks most robots indefinitely

Just wait till you get to hydroplant

>>717962019
I'm more annoyed that exp is tied to how many you cook and not the complexity of the dish.
At least they work as a roleplaying/immersion mechanic but they gotta let me move around soup pots and have trays for the other food

>>717960241
I often hear the rythmic ticks and beeps of the charging station. Really need to make a quantum battery and upgrade to pad.

>>717962129
I just cook glue and fisherman's glue like a real Horse Owner

>>717962023
>>717962079
what's with all the cum tissues anon

is the tesla coil reliable for base defense? tested standing near it myself and it seemed like the frequency of the zaps was so low that enemies would just walk by it and ignore it during raids. usually i just clog the door with a choppinator because they physically cannot walk by it but that looks ugly.

Is the pipe pistol good? First playthrough I skipped it and made the scrapshot.

>>717962110
>just get into melee range and they wont shoot grenades
>shoots even more grenades point blanc anyway
>AoE explosion doesnt even damage enemies caught in the crossfire.

These fags are annoying solo, especially when theres always more than 1

>>717962216

throwing exp used to be fucking shit, so the best way to level it up was killing things with paperballs

>>717962287
both the pipe pistol and scrapshot suck ass

>>717962018
Yes, there's a specific fish you catch in radioactive waste. Filleting them gives a potential chance of salt.

>>717962287
pipe pistol is like a better crossbow, good if you want to get stealth hits in. If you are more aggressive then go for scrapshot.

>>717960862
>get caught in the corner
>OH GOD SHE'S SUCKING ME SO FAST
>die
>me and my friends have a giggle

>>717962292
>never toss
>get quantum pick
>throwing does retarded damage even with no skill investment

I assume the trade off is you sometimes throw your best weapon into a void

>>717962575
i was talking about prior versions where throwing exp was shit to level and the quantum pick didn't exist

right now throwing might be one of the easiest skills to get to max, the quantum pick is ridiculous and the best melee weapon in the game.

you also can't lose the pick even if you throw it to the void, at worst it takes it a while to come back as it finishes falling

>>717962575
my assumption is that if you wait long enough it'll return

>>717962531
>the first encounter where your friend is screaming and discharging military rounds and you cant see shit

Genuinely thought he lost his mind

>wandering around
>see a hallway that I've never been down tucked in the corner
>
now I'm actually tempted to build one of those hotwire kits

>game set in Australia
>the danger isn't the existing wildlife or population
Unrealistic garbage

>>717962706
i just mean i never once threw an object but the second 1.0 came out and I tried out the new pick i released how insane the throwing damage is on everything.

>>717962737
Its clear vehicles were intended to be way more of a thing and they decided to scrap their importance

Probably because playtesters were walking too far

>>717961718
It is a tiny watercooler.

Throwable deatomizer

Anyone else love how intimate this game makes your bases feel? It's pure comfy of the highest kind

>>717961718
Don't believe your lying eyes

>do nothing in our friend group but fish,farm,cook and sometimes go out to get meat and ingredients
its comfy

How long is your typical playthrough? Any replay value?

>>717963006
>How long is your typical playthrough?
Mine lasted 70 hours in solo, default settings.
>Any replay value?
I do want to play it again, but no idea.

>>717963006
im on 120 hrs but i beat the game quite a while ago, and ive been playing the same file all throughout early access

>>717955019
Does life pause when you read emails anon?
maybe finding the time is a part of the survival gameplay
>Oh I can't read this right now, I need to do xyz
stop being a neurotic maniac

>>717963006
I'm guessing the replay value is to play with friends if you did a solo playthrough first. Also increasing sandbox difficulty, like maybe bumping up raids to max.

I
RAPE
female scientists
No FEMALE scientists go UNRAPED

>>717963178
>Dr Derek Manse reporting

>>717954780
Once you reach level... shit. it's either 3 or 5 in cooking, you unlock soup. Soups never spoil and provide four servings, so as long as you have enough cooking pots and fresh water you will literally never starve again. Just throw all your alien meat into a pot and you're golden.

Also, just grab every water cooler you see. They hold 4k water each and you can refill them. There's more than enough throughout the offices to last you until you can set up a boiling farm. and eventually you'll be able to build water filters that purify tainted water 1:1.

>>717955558
the average survival crafting game is hot garbage
if you don't like this one, you just fundamentally don't like the genre, it does everything right.

its a slog to play

>>717963006
62 hours solo default settings, don't really see any reason I'd want to play again. Harder difficulty wouldn't really be fun since combat is not very interesting in the game compared to the dopamine of finding new recipes.

>>717963178
>>717963232

>>717956112
wonder how a nomad playthrough would fair...

>>717952334
Same. GF has got me playing Grounded 2 instead. It's okay.

The Leyak was interesting the first time around but after getting the x rays and finally containing it, its just trash

>>717955343
>because i'm slowly hemorrhaging resources to attrition.

Resources are infinite. If you need it, it can be found in an anteverse.

>>717962575
Your quantum pick will always return no matter what

>>717963232
>>717963232
>Doctor Derek Manse reporting, GATE Cascade research facility.
>We've recently encountered a problem with one of the research assistants, after several female employees came forward claiming that he sexually assaulted them. The security team conducted a thorough investigation and found no definitive proof of the claims, which begs the question of why the employees made them in the first place. All of the female employees had, at some point in the last few months, been part of the research team dedicated to IS-0012, leading me to suspect that oh-oh-twelve's ability to mimic human forms may not be exclusive to the deceased Doctor Cahn. Either that, or the researchers have been exposed to some form of mind altering affect, likely originating from one of the other immurement subjects. I've placed all the female researches on administrative leave until such time as we can narrow down what might have truly caused this.

>>717963384
one of my friends wont get it because of grounded 2
I'm hoping I can convince him when we're done and abiotic is on a sale

>>717955558
I hate survival crafting, and Abiotic Factor is my GotY so far. Just turn down the survival mechanics in the sandbox settings, you can also just jack up the item stacks. You can also ignore base building outside of the benches, stations, and containers. So you can can basically play it as a rpg shooter with crafting elements.

>made armor out of my enemies skull
>made a shield with a lunch tray and duct tape
>made arm and leg armor out of books, magazines, and duct tape
>made chest armor out of a filing cabinet
Okay, I've only played 4 hours but this game is KINO

>>717963783
Of course a genius scientist would work with the resources they have. Gotta make shit work somehow, right? Ain't no man in labs fucking around when science is on the line

>>717963006
Took me 42 hours for a solo run. Got every zone achievement except the [spoilers]toilet[/spoilers] one.

>>717963783
Gotta love any survival game with a good hobo phase.

I just can't quit my cafeteria base.

>Turn on a standing lamp
>"You've unlocked how make a makeshift spear!"
This could've been useful around 40 hours ago

>>717964647
just set up personal teleporters and make benches at areas you frequent

>>717964703
Yea, I wish if you had like 2 or 3 of the 4 components, it would unlock a recipe and have the resource as a silhouette instead of a question mark.

>steel cable hell
>have to go around manufacturing breaking crates and killing terrorists for military scrap
there has to be a more efficient way, right?

>>717964647
Why would you? It has everything!
- easily defensible
- centralized location
- lots of room to expand
- easy access to tainted water sources
- toilet adjacent
- multiple close-proximity wall outlets
- cozy breakroom area with a state-of-the-art coffee machine
- several convenient corpses for all your dead body needs

It's basically the perfect home.

>>717962878
On one hand the facility constantly looping back onto itself is really cool while you're exploring, but it does absolutely hamstring the base building and vehicles. Like why bother when everything just eventually loops back conveniently to offices anyway.

>>717964703
same issue with half the makeshift armour, you need some esoteric items for a noob starting out

>running out of water in the starting break room base
How to easily get more? I know there is the pool on the second level with the tainted water. Can I refill the the 5 gallon water cooler jugs and just bring it back to my base to easily boil it with my pots?

>>717965320
it's a bit of a struggle for the early game but when you get to the third area you'll get a controversial recipe that makes clean water a non issue for the rest of the game

>>717963679
like 1, Grounded 2 won't be worth playing for like 2 more years.

>>717954594
It's good in the sense that a prior playthrough will give your subsequent ones the advantage of knowing what you should and shouldn't bother with doing at a certain point in the game. For example I kind of ignored soup until security on my first playthrough but I made sure I was able to make soup before I went into flathill for the first time on my 2nd. Also spent more time doing the stuff I just avoided altogether like managing my base and making it look pretty. Plus you can tweak world setting from the start to have an easier time with annoying shit like stack sizes or to make the combat more punishing if that's your thing. I wish you could say you could use different weapons but there's already a lack of super viable ones desu. It's definitely a game I can see myself coming back to every now and then after it stops being my autistic obsession, though, plus the devs are supposedly going to keep making new content for it.

>>717965320
Act like you're deploying a barrel or cooler on a water source and you can fill it all up at once to bring it somewhere with a stove and boil it all. Don't be a fool like me and use a bottle like a moron.

>>717965320
Carry an empty bottle around and fill it up whenever you come across a watercooler.

>>717952225 (OP)
Why do you fags keep shilling this shit? Is it actually good or what? Non-shill answers only please.

>>717965320
Steal every watercooler you see and you'll have more then enough without having to boil water until you get the intended solution later in the game, if you're playing solo at least. I was slow and farming enough resources to craft literally fucking everything and I still had like 5 full watercoolers before they became outmoded.

>>717965478
Why do that when you can take the watercooler with you?

>>717965320
For sure. Collect every water cooler you find, and then once you get to manufacturing you can upgrade to barrels that hold 10000ml each. There's also a bucket in a hidden room under the data farm which makes transferring water easier.

>>717965509
i wish i could get paid to post about how good this game is

>>717965320

Boiling water is mostly pointless, just nab every single watercooler you find and collect them in your base, chances are that you will get to the point you can make the water filter before you can even empty half of them

>>717965478
>he isn't growing super tomatoes

>>717965638
Finished the game without growing a single crop. I just made soup.

>>717965509
>be me
>see the shilling
>literally never fucking heard of this game with a forgettable meme name
>whatever its free with Playstation Plus Extra I'll try it whatever, fucking silly goofy looking game
>tutorial starts
>not at all impressed yet
>actual game starts
>okay this is interesting, a survival game but in an office setting
>the crafting recipes are all useful, straight forward, and fun
>50 hours later
It's fucking kino unlike anything I was expecting

>>717965509
>frogtard

>boiling water irl
>boil water, collect the steam, throw away the filthy water at the bottom of the pot
>boiling water in AF
>boil water, collect the water at the bottom of the pot
Alright so I have a theory why our character is so fucking retarded

>>717965846
>he has to PRETEND to do it for FREE
>he (male) is not good enough to even get selected to do it for FREE
bwahahahahaha what a FAGGOT

>>717965802
>making delicious split pea soup
>radioactive alien meat
>an unopened can of peas
>the entire fucking salt shaker

I mean... there's a reason he's only a lab assistant.

>>717966018
>he doesnt season his pea soup with an entire salt shaker's worth of salt
look at this tasteless fag and laugh

>>717966018
Nigga is probably sweating out more salt then that running around, so who's the real idiot here?

>tfw enjoy this game solo more than with friends
I generally enjoy coop shit but I guess I just hate times when I want to move base, friends wanna jerk off in cafeteria and the office is cleared out so I have to ask for plastic and metal to do shit they don't want to do. I guess it's a difference of pace and play style.

>>717965509
Honestly, how about you stop being a lazy fucking faggot and play a game for once? Pirate it you lazy ass fucking retard, we know it's all you're going to do so just do it, instead of sitting here asking "DURRRHHH HOW IS IT GOOD" without READING THE ACTUAL FUCKING THREAD. Actual fucking braindead troglodyte.

>set up two stoves, 4 pots, a plug strip, and a barrel right next to the office fountain to mass purify water
>think I'm a genius
>come back to find everything destroyed
>look at list of traps
>try building a tesla coil
>find out the hard way it zaps friendlies too

>>717966942
Point the Tesla Coil AWAY from your base, you fucking Defense Analyst. The coil only hit in a 180° arc.

Why do good games make NeoNu/v/ mad?

>>717966087
Considering he didn't open the can of peas or the salt shaker before putting them in the soup, I'd say still Mr. Lab Assistant.

>>717967146
Boiling it will explode the can open so we don't have to find a can opener, and the salt will dissolve out of the shaker.

>>717955021
Does it suck up the anomalies?

I planted 3 tomato plants and then quit the game
Started playin again went on several days trips for exploration and resource gathering
All my plants are dead
I have no tomatos and no seeds
Im eating pest soup forever
I dont know when I will run out of salt. I hope the salt in flathill respawns.

>>717968109
refrigerators in flathill will also spawn tomatos and tomato seeds may pop up in the cabinets

I don't know how I was SUPPOSED to kill the 3 security robots to unlock the hacking tool.
But I just set up choppers on batteries. Worked like a charm.
Tried fighting one normal style, but my weapon broke before it went down.

>>717952971
I was pissed too, give me an entire town to explore! And having to wait till endgame before being able to solve the cherry blossom portal's secret is pretty annoying, too.

>>717968156
Judging by what some helpful anons told me earlier, that's how pretty much everyone does it, though I didn't even consider batteries, I found out you can wake them up during the day by beating their charging stations and used the choppers then.

>>717968492
>that's how pretty much everyone does it
I beat those niggerbots to death with a desk leg

>>717953130
Friendless incels need to banned

>>717955051
is that the sniper armour?

>>717968492
Didn't know you could wake them during the day. I tried attacking one during the day, but nothing happened. I saw a healthbar for the charging station go down and I thought it might be a bad idea to destroy the charging station in case it deleted the robot without drops. I guess that bar was for waking him up.

>>717968585
It's a lot easier once you realize how the game's health system works and that you have to go for their eyes if you don't want to sit there for a long ass time.

>>717968492
I made it run between three electric traps and bashed it with a pipe when he was stunned, I thought the bladed trap wouldn't be too useful against an armored enemy. Guess I was wrong.

>>717962890
I was worried they got turned into bobbleheads by whatever was in that dark cell in front of them the first time I played.

>>717968156
You're supposed to do things however you like
You're a scientist who builds weapons from scraps laying around an office and stolen anomalous materials
If it works it works.

>come back to flathill to grab power cells and more salt
>mini version of the giant was waiting by the office elevator and shanked me
wtf was that

>>717969095
>He hasn't gotten the fog event yet
You're in for some fun

>>717968724
Or their battery, since it's the only area that you can damage that doesn't end up sending damage to their head (eye) once broken and it just kill them.
Actually I'm pretty sure the security bots have weaker batteries compared to all other robots.

Is there a reason not to have the makeshift armor? The set bonus is pretty good for carrying a bunch of stuff

>>717969838
If you have the resources, go for it. There are upgrade paths for equipment, if you want to build everything you're gonna have to make multiple sets of the makeshift anyways.

>>717969838
Go for it, I usually make it so I can make the maestro armor anyhow

>>717969838
>was going to post "haha wouldn't it be funny if you could upgrade the shitty first armor in the game all the way to endgame"
>check the wiki
>you can

man alien meat must be really tasty
i go thirsty waiting for it to cook
then i eat it and get full then i go out to find more water and by the time i find more water i'm hungry again for more alien meat

>>717968492
>that's how pretty much everyone does it
I've just shot a huge amount of makeshift bolts out of makeshift crossbow at them while walking away. Then, if I ran out of ammo, I've just traded blow with spear/club and shield. Thankfully by next time I needed CPUs I've had electrothrower.

>>717970904
ancient chinese ingredient

>>717970904
did you pick up hearty appetite or thirsty negative traits or something you shouldnt be gettin ghungry/thirsty that fast

REMINDER
We now know who the true mastermind is now for the payment processor pressure campaign against anime, violent games and porn. The conservative christian run group Collective Shout is just a cover for Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet.

In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noIS9lmR0Y [Embed] [Embed]

Now, in his position in the CFPB, Russ Vought has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago.

Don't for for Russ Vought's shills trying to do anything in their power to deflect from the fact, he is the one in charge of Visa and Mastercard and they are trying to crack down on porn and video games by attacking American companies now under his direction.
He has the motive, means and opportunity to do all this.

>>717971198
Wrong thread.

>>717952334
>all my shit friends play every single survival slop in existence
>finally a good one comes out
>one friend drops it right after flathill
>another crashes out from dying twice and losing his stupid bounce pad for 3 minutes
>final friend drops it before the dam
>they all go back and play valheim for 200 hours straight

the amount of stuff you can make even in the first hour of the game is a bit overwhelming

its shit

>>717971228
>t.vought shill
you are anti human and deserve nothing but scorn

>>717971237
>they play valheim with an ungodly amount of mods thats a pain to install
>play it for a day or 2 before dropping it
>repeat after two months

>>717971198
based. porn should be made illegal

>>717971379
Oh, it's a schizo, great.

>>717971413
learn to ignore schizo posts

Why did our guy just blindly follow what he said the whole entire time? Is he stupid?

>>717971237
>the people who hate the slop love the good one
>the people who love the slop hate the good one
Many such cases

>>717971650
>Is he stupid?
Yes.
I mentioned it earlier, but if you read the quest logs, your character only realize Cahn is IS-0012 at the end of the game when Dr.Thule calls him out, and then completely ignore the fact 0012 just blatantly lied in your face, which also get called out by Thule, and instantly assume he's harmless.

>>717971689
>is that a survival game?
>based
>with crafting?
>mega based
>it has a point, and not just building shacks all over the world?
>cringe
makes me want to kill.

>>717955268
I also live there but in the closed door rooms off to the side, the waterpool/electric pool is great for unlimited water/easy killing

>>717971650
If you pay attention during the tutorial, you're told to report to Cahn so maybe it's all one big plan

>>717972005
>random retard who just showed up for his first day somehow better at navigating through the facility and handling specimens than people who have been working there for years

>>717972053
>tutorial tells you to report to cahn
>cahn was supposedly dead for 3 years by the time you get to the facility
this means the guy in the tutorial mightve been 0012 or in on it all

>>717964703
this but with Hexwood. It never occurred to me to try to harvest it, but I somehow got a single piece.

>>717972067
well yeah when 'handling' means 'terminating with extreme prejudice via macguyver weaponry' and not 'do actual delicate science things'

>>717972067
Is it our first day, or are we transferring from another GATE facility? I can't remember.

>>717972067
Is he? I liked the idea that your scientist is just a normal dude, but you're an IS who's empowering him with the ability to respawn after he gets himself killed in the various retarded ways the player will manage to do during a playthrough and a zero-death run is not canon.

>>717971752
That entry is clearly sarcastic though

>>717972108
You can find an email about handling new arrivals with Cahn mentioning he'll be handling the newcomers for Kinetics Division.
At the end of the same conversation, a GATE staff notice that Cahn email should be inactivet.

>>717972226
Transferring, I'm pretty sure
One of the dudes at the very start of the tutorial allude to it

>>717972165
and eating unknown creatures and plants and even using them to cook familiar food

>first black guy you encounter in the game
>immediately dies

>>717972683
I'm pretty sure he's the only black guy in the game.

>>717952225 (OP)
>old as shit graphics
>unoptimized piece of shit modern day gaming reqs
Worst part is it looks fun

>>717972683
The best part is he was white before 1.0, so they literally changed him to be the black guy who dies first

>>717972741
There's a black lady in Manufacturing, who also dies, but yes,I can't remember any other black character.

>>717972745
I ran the game on a GTX970 without any major issue, with most graphics set to high.
But yes, you can't expect miracles with UE5.

>>717972741
There's a black guy in hydro, the dude who's bleeding out

where are some staplers?? i have found office places with lots of computers, monitors, copiers, rubberbands, keyboards, etc. etc. but no luck with staplers

>>717972764
>>717972780
>>717972865
>every black character dies horrifically
based?

>>717972890
Go fishing and trade them to the security guard if you've looted out the office right above the cafeteria

>>717972910
The hydro guy doesn't die, he moves to the electrical plant then vanishes like a lot of npcs do

>>717972890
If you ran out, you can find some in Flathill.
Warren, the guard in the lobby, will trade you one for Antefish fillet, a cut of a fish you can get by fishing in Antejuice.
Feeding the coworker will sometime cause him to drop one.

>>717972910
Theres some lore in the game that Mystagogues and iirc chieftains and neophytes are recruited in africa as well. Mystagogues definitely have the accent but the Unlost mystie stays alive

>>717972984
>2 black characters dies
>the last one vanishes from existence
What did the devs meant by this

>>717972846
got a 1660ti and my only problem is high settings make the fan go all turbo
low doesnt change the graphics as much and it makes my gpu run silent

Just realized that the fact my base is in a portal world means that I'll never be able to trap my very own Leyek onahole. What a cruel world.

just finished the train and got the last of the three pipe repair parts - am i finally going to be done with manufacturing? i just want the portal storm upgrade for my workbench. i swear it's all i've been working towards since the first storm in my base 15 hours ago.

>>717952225 (OP)
We got to the little pool section and set up in the locker room. The game shat a bajilion recipes at us and we kinda lost the thread. I'd like to get back into it one of these days. Maybe with a small glance at a guide.

>>717973195
yes

energy pistol with recharge trinket = unlimited pew pew

>>717973087
Lumen is 99% of the framerate and overheating problems, so turn off Global Illumination.
Also some jank with decals, too many blood decals hit my FPS for some reasons.

i fell pretty good that i just started and managed to finally have a decent supply of water, some food, and can start exploring some more.

>>717952225 (OP)
No it sucks.

>>717973195
>portal storm upgrade
its free meat

why doesn't anyone set up a base in the main tram station? just explored it for the first time and i'm very tempted to move shop.
>>717955268
do workbenches stop event spawns? almost got eaten by a crawling symphonist two seconds after getting back from flathill because a fog event started the second i came out of the portal.

>>717973195
>am i finally going to be done with manufacturing?
You'll be back.

>>717973379
Some people do set up there

>you can heal the wounded guy
I spent the whole game passing by him at various point and I never knew you could do that, kek

>>717973473
he'll join the wandering chest in blocking you at every doorway in your base constantly to reward you for saving him

>>717973473
>he unlocked the jump scare
lel.

>>717973506
And Marion if you set up the symphonist scarecrow and power it up

>>717952225 (OP)
i can't even play the game after last weeks update. it just keeps crashing with fatal error. i've put in a bug report but it's still taking too long does anyone have any leads on a fix?

>batteries still drain even when you're not using the connected devices
i need smaller levers

>>717952225 (OP)
>>717952334
shill me on this. the art cover looks fucking stupid

>>717973878
It’s half life except Gordon was busy smoking cigars on a beach in the Caribbean when everything went to shit at black mesa.

>>717973878
>the art cover
who cares lol
the biggest factor is if you like open world survival craft or not

>>717952334
>I can't get any of my fucking friends to get it
I don't want to play a survival crafting game dude

its a sleeper alright
fucking BOOOOORIIIIIIING

is there any information on what's going to be in future updates yet?

>>717952225 (OP)
fuck no considering it's the same formulaic bullshit contained in every other survival game hidden behind a veneer of MUH RETRO GFX

wake me up when they introduce new mechanics instead of rehashing shit from Ark Rust and 7 Days to Die.

>>717974070
Nope, only vague hints

>>717972226
>>717972414
The PC is transferring from the Springer Facility, where ever that is.

>>717974003
>survival crafting
i like the idea but managing inventory and base building is boring.

>>717952225 (OP)
It looks like Half LIfe 1 and Deus Ex mix. What’s the game about?

>>717973547
Frame 0 after making the Cheffigy upgrade I got "OH HEY THERE" in my right ear. Scared the shit out of me more than anything else in the game.

>>717973878
It's Subnautica: Black Mesa edition. If that sounds fun to you, you'll have a blast because the game is really good.

>>717973878
You're at Black Mesa but you're Walter, not Gordon. With crafting and survival, but in an underground science complex, not in the woods or wilderness.

>audio log from the future implies that both Riggs and Manse survived
>that leap into a future GATE facility
It seems neither GATE nor the Gatekeepers nor the world truly ended, but everything is definitely in bad shape.

>>717968492
>that's how pretty much everyone does it,
I thought the canon first time way was luring the bot on floor 3 into the water for an instant kill

>>717952225 (OP)
how does co-op work on this?
do you have servers like rust? is it hosted on my pc, like baldur's gate?

are you guys playing singleplayer

>>717974537
Yes.

>>717974485
You can set up/host a dedicated server or just host from your own client.

>>717971650
Yes, considering the tutorial, emails and audio logs it'd make sense for the player character to be an absolute retard undeservingly transferred to the cascade facility solely because of the shapeshifter's machinations, nothing more than some useful idiot lured to the right place at the right time.

i'm still quite early in the game
but later on, can you build a fridge or something to store raw meats to cook later??

>>717974431
yea who knew that triggering the apocalypse would have consequences?

>>717974639
you have to grab fridges
there's some in the first portal world

>>717974639
yeah, but it doesn't halt spoiling completely.

>>717974485
You can host dedicated servers for it, but most people just host off their own PC

Kinda spoiled myself on the end, but just got past the security sector and agree with friend that Cahn is a bad guy considering you can run into him in the Night Realm and regular realm same time the madman.

>>717974693
also in the offices

>Can't play with friends because that's like trying to herd cats if they even bother to agree to play something that isn't their current flavor of the month
>Can't play with randos because it's just going to be cheaters fucking around spawning endgame items to be nice or mindless children who scream at you for so much as reminding them of the current objective printed proudly on the top left of their screen, because apparently that's spoilers
>Ok fine I'll play solo
>Do 50% of the content by just walking around problems and not dealing with them because I don't have to
>But I didn't get the super unique crafting items require to craft the super murder killer guns and mega butt protector 3000s that are now required to progress because we've reached the school shooter section that's conveniently just far enough into the game to prevent a refund
Yeah I'd say its the same shit as everything else survival craft-y that doesn't take the "battle royale of the naked men" approach

>>717974693
shit lol
i keep forgetting you can package everything

>>717974693
Flathill's technically the second portal world
Everyone forgets the Far Garden

>>717974639
You cannot build a fridge out of scraps. You'll have to package one from somewhere else.
There's few fridges in office sector, but fairly early you find a portal world with one single fridge that respawns, giving you infinite fridges.
Also fridges cannot halt the decay. Only slows it down. For complete halt you have to play further and discover freezers.

But ofcourse there is the sandbox option to make fridges act like freezers, if you are a pussy.

>>717974639
Yeah but honestly turn down food spoiling rate, the default setting is fucked, half the time you manage to get/grow other ingredients the other stuff has rotted, yeah I can see the point of it being fast rot for the gameplay loop, but it doesn't matter once you have 30 pots of soup

>>717974639
Not only can you just find fridges and carry them back to your base
They are upgradeable and you can build a freezer for better long term storage.

>>717974746
What the fuck are you talking about, anon

>>717974796
there's an actual freezer but its pretty far in the game

>>717974746
>Avoids gathering crafting materials
>Complains when they can't craft something

>>717974746
Works on my machine, but I also don't have lame friends, and avoid half the games content like a doorknob licker

do you really need friends to play this game or is it single player

>>717974796
>Also fridges cannot halt the decay.
yeah that's fine i just need something to slow it down so i can run meat back home and be able to cook it later. it felt like a waste to just leave meat on the ground.

>>717974961
Both work.

>chef of the group
>know no one reads the soup bowls in our storage
>add poop soup and leyak chowder
not my problem

is this one of those games where you need 6 million boxes at your home base and you spend what feels like hours sorting all your loot

>>717974961
Fully functional single or multiplayer
The game even scales the amount of enemies based on player count by default (though you can tweak this if you want more enemies solo)

>>717975018
If you play with default settings, it can get pretty bad, but you at least get a way to automatically distribute things and source/index everything in a pretty big radius. I'd recommend just cranking up how much stuff stacks. It's almost entirely irrelevant when you're looting anyway due to weight and general scarcity anyway, but it massively improves how many dumb boxes you need.

>>717975006
People kept eating all the soup in our game instead of using the actually perishable food out of the fridge like I kept asking them to
So I cooked a couple pots of just metal scrap and left them out

>>717975018
you can sort it if you want but there's a button to dump same items in a box and eventually a structure that does the same except for all the connected boxes
doesn't really matter for crafting anyway since the crafting benches can just siphon materials from nearby storage

>>717975021
>>717975086
Even without the stack size increased I found I could get away for almost the entire game with just 3 large crates.

>>717975018
I make my friend do that which is honestly the best benefit of playing with one other person is splitting tasks/collecting, but there is a bench upgrade that pulls from every nearby crate which aids this greatly, or late game you can pile all your storage out of the way, for example mine is in the ceiling above my base, and use a pad that auto teleports everything to a box, and a database nearby if you want to pull stuff out

>>717952225 (OP)
Tried playing it but I don't really enjoy the setting.

>>717974961
you can set your own rules for the game/sandbox and play the game however you like.

>>717974904
It's just annoying when I hit the combat wall and find out that all of a sudden I have to redo half the game from scratch because suddenly the only playstyle that works is gunning everything down.

I feel like combat should be more mandatory if it's going to have points where it's explicitly mandatory.

>>717975183
The setting is like 90% of the appeal so definitely avoid it forever if you don't like it.

>>717975096
>>717975086
why don't these games just give me one big chest i can put everything in.
does it at least auto-pull from nearby container like palworld?

>>717975208
you can poke everything down with a spear aside from a few big bosses

>>717975208
Damn anon, you're like 40 hours in?

>>717975208
Early and midgame they push you very hard to kill stuff for food and materials
There's multiple points you can't even progress without killing certain enemies
I don't know how you think that's not mandatory enough

>>717975232
You can upgrade the stations to pull everything in a radius really early on, but i do agree that it's pretty silly all these survival crafting games haven't figured out how to just remake MagicStorage from terraria and they've been getting made forever now. Inventory management outside of out and about heat of the moment decisions will always blow ass.

>>717975232
You can get an upgrade that auto-pulls for your crafting bench and you can also get a pad that auto stacks and stores items for you.
Also you get much larger storage chests later

>>717975208
How the fuck did you dodge combat for half the game considering the amount of shit needed in the early game being dropped by enemies?
You can't even progress past the first keypad doors without finding a way to kill robots.

what a good early tool for breaking stuff that lasts a good while? i've been using table legs.

>>717975464
A vacuum
You need carbuncle corpses for it

>>717959742
I hope we somehow kill him completely by accident and he knows we did it by accident just so it galls him extra.

>>717975240
>>717975287
For further context I'm trying to do reactors at the moment and I've hit the wall where I can't seem to find progress as it seems I have to run face first into 1 hit kill missile barrages, as trying to jetpack up the walls just leads to instant death by turret.

>>717975305
>>717975421
Robots aren't hard at all, although admittedly I managed to find a spot where I could just unload into the tarrasque from complete safety, and you only need to do that once.

>>717975464
Pipe club. Really anything that isn't a heavy weapon to hit fast, but blunt weapons are particularly good because you can eventually get the sprint attack which allow you to one shot most crates.

>>717975464
Crowbar 2.0 from manufacturing tends to break any box in 1 hit.
You also get sharp XP.

>>717975464
good ol wrenches

>>717975464
Hammer
You can smash objects and use the dismantle function with it even after it breaks.

>>717975570
I wish dismantling gave construction XP

thanks fellas. i'll be on the looking for all those things. the vacuum sounds cool.

>>717975591
If you REALLY need to increase construction you can just place any structure you need to complete with a screw driver, built it, then package it and do it again. It gives XP every time.

dumb question but is there an option i can enable somewhere that removes pinned recipes from the hud after i have crafted the pinned items?

>>717975731
No. But there's a button in the crafting menu to unpin all recipes.

>>717975208
just poke stuff with any of the spears its basically what I did all game, or craft an energy pistol/recharge trinket for unlimited pew

>one of the portal worlds is just japan and is just there for base builders
why

>>717959425
based unc

>>717975494
Then why are you pretending that you're "conveniently just far enough into the game to prevent a refund"?

>tfw chef and its early game
god i could not rush to manufacturing fast enough in our restart

>>717975903
That entire little section with a bunch of empty portal pads is meant for "home" worlds that they will be adding over time
The whole point of them is it's just chill spaces you can build and decorate
There's only one in the game right now because it's very much side content the devs only work on when they have nothing better to do.

>>717975996
I'm going to admit I'm just guessing that part. I could be entirely wrong, it's not like I am trying to do a blind speedrun on purpose here.

>>717976012
>fastest way to level chef is fry everything
i hate that soups give the same exp as frying meat

>>717976012
Once I figured out how absurdly good soup was the chef life became much easier.

>>717976104
How long do you think the free refund time limit is?

do you guys play with the graphics on/turned up or turn everything off/down and play it with more classic graphics??

>>717976215
2 hours of playtime, your point being?

>>717976012
I honestly didn't realize you could get the water filter that early
We always ended up with one later for some reason.

>>717976339
You're at the reactors in two hours. Gotcha.

>>717976283
The only thing turning the graphics up does is makes lighting and reflections more fancy and bloomy

>>717976440
And my fps to tank

>>717975342
there was a game called Necesse where you can configure a box to have certain loot. i.e. this is the wood box. and you just dump things into a box configured to be empty and it all gets sorted to the different boxes.
that was neat. other games have this feature too, like CDDA.

>>717975392
>needs an upgrade
>needs tiers
why? it's just basic quality of life.
if you're not going to let me filter my loot box, at least give me some "search around me" tool that lets me find out which box the yellow leaves are in, i picked up two 3 hours ago and this is the only recipe that uses them

>>717976387
Wait, where do you get carbon in Manufacturing
>>717976440
>>717976468
Thanks UE5 Lumen

>>717976406
The save has 35 hours, 1 minute on it. So I guess I'm just retarded for not playing the game "properly"

>>717961682
Make a spear
Stab it in the Eye
Don't waste time attacking the Torso, it has the same total HP as the Eye, but when it hits 0 it starts doing damage to the Eye, effectively making you have to kill it twice.

>>717976478
>"search around me" tool
about that

>>717976478
Necesse storage sorting is more of a side effect of telling NPCs where to store shit.

>>717976506
No, you're at least just retarded for thinking that 35 hours is a little over 2 hours.

>>717976440
i turned gi completely off and shadows are pretty much gone, it seemed to take away much of the spookiness. i wish there were more options so you could find a nice balance of classic graphics with selective modern touches.

>>717976562
i'll play with you, anon. put on the cat ears and tail.

>>717962023
>>717962079
The game bugged out and gave me a stack of 32 knives.
I hit this guy with 30 knives and he didn't go down.

how much base building is in this game?
is it like 7d2d where there's a 'horde night' and much of the game is about preparing the base for it?

>>717976562
you don't need any for this game, its really fun solo.

>>717976634
Unless you like base building you need virtually 0 defenses. Every invasion is a joke by the time it becomes available, only happens when you're already at home and half of them get auto turned off by a bench upgrade. The only defenses I ever built was a chopinator to kill bots and an x-ray turret for flesh retard protection

>>717976634
there is exactly as much as you want there to be

realistically speaking youll have to at the very least put down some storage boxes and a crafting bench here and there to put stuff in, but you can do most of the game without bothering with base building at all, or you can go full basemaxx and build an absolutely amazing comfy amenities everywhere base

there are base invasions but theyre honestly not a big deal at all. ive never had one even remotely threaten my base even early game

>>717976634
You can honestly ignore most of the base building if you want. You mostly just need some boxes and a crafting bench. Invasions happen, but they're very minor. But if you like base building, it's still pretty good. The only real issue is that you can build some great defenses but there's nothing to really threaten them.

>>717976634
You could either build a single base right at the start and never leave it
or
Build a base in the nearly 100% safe DLC backer area
or
Build multiple bases where ever the fuck you want because there are power outlets everywhere

Currently I have a main base with a couple of side bitch bases in other areas
Actual spoiler You get a device which lets you teleport to any benches you put down, so having multiple bases works as a form of fast travel

>>717952334
>is on Gamepass
>know like 5-6 people that have it
>nobody is available for that, they just stick to MonHun and Marvel
Fuck sake.

I am sure I could find some other people that have it, but I rather deepen my connection with those that I already know especially when I don't feel like we are very connected right now.

>>717976496
you dont, i just brained bad and ment to put labs.

>>717976948
are they playing the new monhun

>>717976948
Its good with at least one good homie if you can't gather others, I started 2 separate playthroughs in early access, one with a friend, and another with 2 friends but they both failed due to one friend literally dying, and the others getting too busy to play again, so I ended up starting with another good friend and we made it to hydro so far, with an average of one game session a week

all right. you guys convinced me, i'll buy it.
anyone wanna join and play co-op? i'll set up a dedi.

>>717977372
I'm interested but definitely can't join right now.

>>717952225 (OP)
What is that nasty looking meat cannon in the promo art supposed to be?

>>717974231
I'ts another generic friendslop

>>717977073
a couple are,the others just stick to other games.
>>717977248
That's nice anon, I am glad at least you got a couple to try it before settling in, I couldn't even do as much.

>>717977647
That's the vacuum.

>>717952225 (OP)
dunno i haven't played it

For a 'friendslop' game its a lot more fun solo.

>survival crafting

if you played 1, you've played them all

>>717977906
most games of this type are, especially when they have extra sandbox menus to tune the game however you like it.

>>717977906
this game isnt a friendslop game and anyone thinking it is is a retarded faggot

>>717952225 (OP)
Another pathetic friendslop game like repo

>>717977906
I can't imagine playing this solo, cooking, crafting, base management, all by yourself? How would you have time to even play the game?

>>717978337
It's really easy actually when you don't have to share ressources with others.

>>717978337
>cooking
one soup is enough to feed you for days so one long cooking session can feed you for weeks
>crafting
you're only crafting shit for yourself so you're almost never in need for anything but annoying shit like power cells
>base management
you're given so many tools to automate base management that all i have to do manually in my base is collect crops and refill leyak containment

>grow a garden of super tomato
>potato
>antiverse wheat
>cook up 20 pots of vege soup
ez

Been dragging my feet but I'm in Reactors finally. I spent too much time fucking around reorganizing my base and crafting stuff and whatnot once I got to Hydroplant. 90 hours, I'm glad I'm playing solo because I wouldn't want to feel rushed by friends, however I definitely want to do a coop playthrough when I finish this.
Partly why I'm losing motivation to nice-up my Furniture Store penthouse. It's great that it's big, but it's too fucking big. The actual build out will take I don't know how much planning and crafting and resources and shit, not to mention my loft idea is a bust. I'm sure it would have worked if I was able to get it level with the hanging planters, but setting it up on the rafter beams sets my crafting benches too high to reach all of my containers, even with the increased item-transportation range mod. In my next playthrough I'm just gonna set up in the Cafeteria or something and wait until I can move into the lounge in Power Services.

>>717975018
Yes and no.
You will need a good dozen boxes, no you won't have to sort anything, but yes it doesn't really get better until you replay the game and know when you won't need a resource anymore.
I highly regret the amount of random shit I carried back just to stick in a box for the rest of the playthrough because it got to the point where my game would hang for a couple seconds when I quickstacked to nearby chests.

>>717975092
All perishables should be made into soup or recycled. There is no real benefit to eating garbage radioactive meats and whatnot once you have the ability to make goulash, and that bioscrap will stack nicely elsewhere.
The fridge's main use is to buy time for the chef to come back and cook.
Why yes, I did make entire crates of mugs to store my soups, how could you tell?

>>717978337
I played solo with adjusted settings. The game is fun, but at some point it turns into chores with too many things to do/to learn/to know.
I had the shitty flashlight for so long before I understood the regular ones were better. I had the radio backpack until hydroplant. Never made soup, never grew a garden, just having a diet of grilled alien meat. I just made some laser weapons, before learning they're a downgrade for my situation, since I didn't know laser charging is pain. My base is a mess and I just can't be bothered to move elsewhere.

I reached reactor and I stopped after powering the first one and doing a bit of exploration. Too much stuff requires the transuranic alloy (or w/e the name is), which requires too many things I don't have (like the arcanic stuff).

>>717980548
>laser charging is pain
>he doesn't know
the energy pistol is god tier alone with just that one trinket, doesn't break, charges damn near instantly

>>717980871
>upgrade the laser pistol
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>717980357
why do so many survival games do this?
it doesn't add anything to the game if i need to build ten boxes.

i get it in rust, where you want to have physically separate boxes like gear lockers near a spawn or a safe storage in your bunker. but this isn't a game about pvp. so what's the point? just have a "base inventory" i can manipulate just like my player inventory, but only at the base.

>>717980871
I was so sad when I "upgraded" my electric gun into the laser gun. I don't know if having a high level in reloading makes you "reload" it faster, but it will never beat the passive blue trinket.

>>717980956
Having some nebulous camp chest built into the crafting bench (the main structure that defines a base) would make it even more annoying to move your base imo because you'd be decompressing a huge inventory to fit into forklifts, carts, etc just to recompress it wherever you place the bench down.
The best solution is to stop hoarding non-unique items. Item discovery is important, but item collection is not. Until you find out you want 10 gizmos and 5 gadgets to craft a whirlydink, don't bother bringing more home.

>>717980956
The game has like 5 mechanics built around it, it's not just a half assed "because everyone else does that"

>>717980871
>god tier
>zero damage

>>717981416
>No laser energy
>true zero damage

>>717981416
The base damage indicated in the description is extremely misleading.
That's why the deatomizer is so absurdly strong.

>>717981519
I should not be writing posts while exhausted.

Ladders suck in this game.

>>717981416
>he doesn't know
adding unlimited ammo with the trinket gives you unlimited lasers that do fantastic damage, its what I used to kill the arty mechs.
>>717981672
It's my least favorite thing they added from HL1 even if it wasn't intentional

>>717981672
the truest hl1 inspiration

>>717981672
Big time.
I've broken my legs, died to fall damage, and gotten killed by enemies way too many time to those fucking thing.
As if climbing down them isn't already weird, you sometime get stuck at the top for no fucking reasons.
Why couldn't just copy something like HL2 ladders where you press USE on them to climb?

>>717981319
it's a scifi game, right?
just create some consumable that you can craft which teleports your storage box to the new base.
>stop hoarding
what you mean is embrace the annoying tedium of inventory management. it gets in the way of actually having fun. if you like to curate your inventory, maybe you should play an inventory management game like backpack hero or moonlighter instead of an exploration and crafting game? there are plenty of options. sad to tell you that in both of those games, you don't need to build boxes at home.

>>717981713
>>717981723
I think they are worse than HL1 ladders. I don't remember them being this bad. Granted, I haven't played a lot of it, but I think I would have still noticed.

>>717981834
Oh no they're definitely worse. HL1 ladders weren't bad the way this game does.

>>717981873
Oddest part is I swear they worked better in earlier versions of the game, and they changed it for the shitpost

>>717981823
the game is so weird, you can make a device to teleport items on you in nearby chest very quickly in the progression, then... then nothing new, ever (I don't count the void chest there)

>>717981319
Haven't finished the game yet so I don't know if this is introduced at some point during/after Reactors, but I think that once you're sufficiently far enough in the game you should be able to upgrade the Database Terminall with a Perforation Network Link that connects all Database Terminals that are upgraded together, so when you use the terminal you see all items all terminals can see.

>>717963783
now you can upgrade that to the end.

Armour Tier list:
(at time of aquisition)
S tier: FORGE set, Hexwood set, Mountaineer Soldier set, Gate NVGs, CQC Helmet, Exor set, Nucleus set. Jet/jump pack. Military Pack. Research pack, Alpine Pack, Hiking Pack. Hardlight shield, Clamp shield, plasmatic shield.
A tier: Carapace set, Mystagogue set, voidpack/pocket dimension, Sagittarii Stealth Plate, Hexwood shield, Chargeshield
B tier: Maestro set, Exulum, Makeshift set, Mystagogue Glove, heater shield
C tier: Crystalline set, Cascade set, most other packs, Legate,
Triarii, interfector.

Trinkets are circumstantial but for me its:
SS tier: Crystalline Vial, Dangling Gravity Cube,
S tier: Night Pass, Kylie (Trinket)
A tier: Spuddy, Swinging Censer, Ogre Doll, Hardlight Shield Generator, Kylie (Shield Generator)
B tier: Core Companion, Sigil of the Hearth, Pet Rock (Trinket), Neutrino Lantern, Zip Shield
C tier: Fog Lantern, Employee Locator, Carbuncle Balloon, Geiger Counter Keychain, Gel Tube, Glow shard, Sensory Companion, Corn Husk Doll
D tier: Plutonium Keychain
F(uck off with this mechanic already): Bio-Fusion Imitator

Upgrades increases the armour value of everything to be roughly comparable so

Are the vending machines in the starting cafe area scripted to have a better chance of dropping food/drinks when shaken, I've consisently been able to get 5+ items from them but other vending machines give me fuck and all

>>717981823
No? I mean literally keep moving. This is a no lab rat neighborhood. If I see you on my train platform, you're getting a crowbar to the head.

How hard is it to just wait until you look at the crafting bench recipe to collect your materials? Recipes pin for a reason, which would be completely pointless if you just soak everything, spend hours transporting items back to base just to save like 10 minutes of collection for the thing you actually need.
If boxes become a problem, it's unironically your fault.

>>717981713
>its what I used to kill the arty mechs.
>he doesnt carry a laser collector and just dump 2 seconds of deatomizer into any mech he sees

>>717982159
>F(uck off with this mechanic already): Bio-Fusion Imitator

kek

I can't be the only one that thinks the jetpack is a downgrade from the jumppack? Especially when using the gravity cube?
Please tell me I'm not crazy?

>>717982191
just break them and get mega snaxx

>>717982249
give me a break, who plays a game like this and doesn't loot things, only to come back later once he has a recipe.
picking up shit is half the fun, do you understand the concept of fun? it's a skinner box for god's sake, a video game, we're here to enjoy it not to play it in some optimal way. i'm not a speedrunning tranny like you

>>717982305
When I was playing my coop run, my friend who was wearing heavy armor (so heaviest weight class for ages untill 15 str perk) swore by the jumppack for getting around quicker. Well my other m8y who was wearing light armor was clowning on him getting around using jetpack and grav cube.

I personally prefer the jump pack ethier way for just getting to places quicker with the Exor/Bionic legs

>>717982305
Having been using both to try to get to far out of reach spots: Jump Pack > Jetpack
Jetpack is fine for going vertically, but mobility wise it just pure dogshit compared to the Jump Pack.

>>717982357
I'm opting to not break the cafe ones specifically, since I'm based near by, so I can stock up on free sodas and snacks to supplement my kitcken BUT I always break open the ones in flathill, since they do respawn with portal world reset

>>717966942
>start game with friend, were about to start labs
>our base is full of watercoolers
>Come on days later and friend has gone all in on water boiling and refilled most of the coolers painstakingly
>8 minutes later I build the water purifying barrel
>he screams
>next day, find out hes been filling the purifier with his waterbottle back and forth. Tell him he can just pick up the barrel and fill the entire thing, same with coolers and barrels (which I admit is not entirely obvious or intuitive)

He almost dropped the game right there. (He would later give up at Hydroplant)

>never played half life
will the game still make sense? or is it one of those nostalgia throwbacks

>>717968585
Robots are resistant to blunt and weak to sharp for some completely inexplicable reason.

>>717968492
Traps early game especially the nail claymore are busted vs these idiots. After that you can spam a fast sharp melee weapon and stunlock them.

>>717982453
That's exactly my thoughts. It's too bad you don't have some kind of dual modes on the jetpack.
The jumppack felt like cheating in the hydroplant, so fun.

>>717982558
The connection between aboitic factor and Half Life is surface level (just visually, game sorta resmebles GoldSrc). It's more of new Prey meets SCP in practise in my eyes anyways

>>717982401
You don't actually enjoy playing with boxes, so maybe you should consider playing it differently.
>speedtranny optimization is following basic quest logic of getting a task and completing it
Okay, retard.
I guess you were saving tainted corn the whole game on the offchance you stumble into the purifier machine, right? You're full of it.

>>717982703
nta but where do you find tainted corn by the way? I've crossed Canaan several times (for silver and wood) my entire playthrough and I never found any.

>>717971237
>build everyone in the squad two healing briefcases
>tell them explicitly NOT to use it in elevators or the train and dont fuckin lose it
>Im the only one with both my briefcases by the end of the session.

>build everyone a personal teleporter
>tell them to sync it with the base and charge it before leaving
>it takes hours before the squad all remember to sync it
>empty teleporters every time

My friends are too fuckin dumb for this game, at least two people shit their pants or leave the base on 10% food water and sleep with no healing items and broken gear. The Leyak almost always gets a kill somehow. They're also incapable of navigating flathill no matter how many times they go to get powercells.

>>717982773
The field near the windmill up that hill before you enter the town has the corn pumpkins and apples.

>>717982812
Clearly, you were destined to be a senior scientist well your friends are doomed to be stuck as summer interns

>>717973082
theres silver linings even when the universe is ending and its your fault

>>717982864
Huh, I found the pumpkins and apples but I somehow never noticed the corn.

>>717982812
It was 50/50 I remembered to take my personal teleporter off the charge pad

>>717982812
>tfw friend shit on a moving tram so there was floating shit in the train path we used regularly
Really gave us the old smelly tram trick.

>>717982703
>he has to be told how to play the game
>following directions is the only way i will play it -you
is the concept of having fun entirely alien to you? consider that perhaps there is some joy in exploring every nook and cranny until your bag is filled with so many goodies that kids would think you are santa clause
is that not more true to your self? rather than filling out a jira ticket one item at a time?
whatever man, you wouldn't get it

train or caanan for farming silver? carbon is kind of a pain ATM since I need a lot for the magbow bolts

>>717983338
Preferably both, though if it's soley just silver and not anything else you need from caanan (lodestone), probarly just hit up train, since it is way quicker to run through

>>717982985
>the goodies
>paper, metal scrap, wood planks, and some concrete bags
Busting every crate when you know it contains something you don't need is not rewarding, just some kind of OCD autism thing.

On second thought, YES AFFIRM, you can play how you want. Sorry you didn't like that one thing about the game.

>>717983338
both. shit doesnt respawn fast enough on default settings.

train is a quick in out(tripple so if you build a bench to teleport to) while canaan has chill music, silver spots are far spread, and most enemies have a chance to drop some (with the generic preacher spawning the most).

>>717983419
Maybe I wasn't lucky, but canaan only gave me a couple forks compared to the train's bar counter that always has four or so in the one spot alone.
I say train all the way.

>>717983503
Contributing to prior anon, Caanan enemies can drop silver on death, when you first enter world, there's an encampment with about 4 pieces, main tower square with some more. Probarly is more lose ones dotted about, but thats what I can remember off my head. But yeah, considering train has a high concerntration across 1 short line, if you're wanting to save on time, train is the way