Thread 718031890

Why did the witch draw this?

>moving from the cafeteria/break room to the Executive Offices
How many dolly trips is this going to be?

This seems fine I can trust him.

>>718034171
I kept a bag of poop just to bounce off his head during his dumb extended "go here do this oh no" redditizations. I hope he turns out to be the villain so I can just reply with "ok poop-face" and not care as kylie and I run around murdering more things in the office.

>>>/vg/
You seem to have posted your general in the wrong board.

Im currently at security and it reminded me that the game doesn't really have any elements that make the game scarier to go out during nighttime past Office sector. I feel like it would be more fun to see stronger enemies other than security bots spawn that can roam around to make some of the sector areas feel less static

>>718034519
>NOOOOOO MY GACHA SCREENCAP THREADS

>>718031983
if you're at executive offices then set up a teleporter pad?

>>718034731
He means the level 3 offices

>>718034731
I don't have that yet. It took 7 dolly trips btw

>>718034806
>Nigga movin his base to a worse spot.
You gon be mad as fuck after you figure it out.

>>718034806
i wouldnt really recommend making a base there

>>718034806
You can make their base there, disregard the other anons. Just be warned you may have to block a spawn later on with a crafting table or a trap

>>718035046
>a spawn
more like 3-4, plus a robot if he goes that far out

>>718035174
I've never seen the robot go that far out to there before. Even if it does that isn't hard to camp with tesla coils early on in the game and jump pad/chopinator/shock traps for the rest IF they happen to spawn there depending on where he puts the crafting table

>>718034987
>>718034901
You guys better be fucking with me. It's bigger, has it's own bathroom, and water source.

>>718035328
Why wouldn't you place it closer to where the bathroom and conference table is?

>>718035328
>bathroom
that's not a positive, and having to take the elevator+stairs every single time you venture out will get tedious really fast

>>718035328
brother the game spawns you at the literal best base location in the game
dont blame yourself tho
you won't understand/realize till later

>>718035417
That's where my crafting area/bed is. I just set up the kitchen near the water source.

>>718031890 (OP)
Is this good solo? I don't have any friends who play this. Dont have friends at all, actually.

>>718035496
>>718035425
So I fucked up big time? Can I still make this place work? I didn't know...

>>718035525
Well thats where i set up my base and I haven't had any problems so I dunno what theyre talking about. Maybe they're referring to the exor spawn that walks at the entrance to the Flat Hill portal?

>>718035580
Yes. I am choosing to play it solo despite having friends.

>>718035328
>>718035667
>all these people acting like you have to take a mile walk to access later parts of the game when in reality it may take less than a minute longer and every single enemy spawns there
Don't listen to them. Its a decent spot and you don't have to minmax base spots if its somewhere you think is comfy. Its literally a couple of shitter enemies that spawn nearby and you will just have to take the elevator down a lot which takes maybe like 10 seconds

>>718035580
It's fine solo until Reactors. Then you'll want to edit enemy health by like -40% because the devs dropped the ball hard.

>its another power leech dry humping your fridge battery episode
FUCK OFF STOP SPOILING MY FOOD

>>718036397
>He doesn't have an array setup yet.
Skill issue.

>nothing but his boots
NOOOOOO

>>718037470
HASTA LA VISTA

>have to craft a Keypad Hacker
>needs 3 different items that need 4 different items that need 2 different items that needs 1 item
We're at that part of the survival slop huh?

>>718035667
not big time but you might end up moving again later in the game
the only real grievance is that you need to take the elevator to the foyer, all the later areas in the game have a shortcut back to the foyer

>>718037590
yeah it gets worse. this game is pretty mid even by survival crafting standards

Oh my God!
He's God!

What other games have this same feel of exploring other worlds filled with anomalous shit? Other than the obvious ones like silent hill and half life.

>>718037590
if you don't make the upgrade that pulls from nearby chests this game would lose its fun real fast

Should I be trying to get the bench upgrades?

>>718038357
Hellpoint is a >soulslike where you are on a space station that was built for the purpose of summoning Satan and his buddies. Lots of weird shit in that game.

>>718038621
Only ones that matter are the healing one and the item teleporter

>>718038656
I think the upgrade that gets rid of portal storms is also nice, since portal storms are really just a pointless annoyance

Am I seriously going to be haunted by the Leyak for the rest of the game?

>>718038881
You get a gay baby jail for her later

Nevermind, I built the hacker tool in no time by mollywhopping the bots with the spinning blade traps, and now I got into the security room and got a new backpack and my first gun and I'm having fun again

>>718038881
_________________________yes_____________
also there are actually 3 leyaks, but only 2 in game right now
you can put them in jail later, but it takes constant upkeep

>>718035667
Its an alright place but I prefer the office near to your spot

>>718034806
All these people acting like living near the flathill portal is somehow a bad thing. You do you anon. Pick a nice location you like and stick with it.

What's with this guy crawling around on the floor at night?

>>718039391
We all got larva to feed

>>718038961
I'm still killing the bots...
I lead one into the electrified water, one into the laser beam, and I need to find the last one.

>>718039391
He's a little friendly dude. Give him coffee, he loves that shit.

Has anyone tried the Pest Wheel yet? It feels like batteries are still better for nighttime.

>>718034523
>I feel like it would be more fun to see stronger enemies other than security bots spawn that can roam around to make some of the sector areas feel less static

I'm still very early in the game (getting ready to explore Flathill) and my feeling about night so far is: >>718039391
The thing pretending to be an employee, scuttering around on the floor, saying npc phrases, is way more frightening than the security bots. I hear them mumbling while I'm hiding in my breakroom base and they're terrifying. It's great. I want more of that.

>>718039512
There are 4

Where's a good place to mass farm phones? I wanna make a bunch of fishing traps and they need a fuckton per one

>>718040143
Office has a bunch of them lying around.
Flathill has an office area too.

This game made me think about how much cooler Subnautica would've been with combat and now I'm fucking pissed.

>want to make the grinder
>can't make the air compressor even if I'm 90% sure I have all the stuff for it
I really fucked up picking calcified brain defense analyst

>>718039512
You're doing it right, anon. Last one's usually pacing near that busted vending machine by the maintenance bay-he glitches out if you lure him past the flickering light, though, so keep your distance until he fully aggroes. If he starts quoting "safety protocols," you're close. After you get all 4, the hacker tool spawns a briefcase with a weird eye on it. Don't open that indoors. Trust me.

>>718040068
>The thing pretending to be an employee
Uhm, that's not a human? Bros...

I think it'd be fucking hilarious if they let the Shadowhopper breach containment without putting any warning in about it

>>718040185
Shit, guess it's off to Flathill then since I pretty much cleared out the office on my first go around/

>>718040587
Courthouse and syrup co (near the last power cell)

Your welcome

>>718039512
>>718040351

I've just been hitting them with the pipe club during the day until they get out of their cubby and then running to hide under a choppinator. They walk right into it, get stuck on it, and get shredded to pieces. I then scrap all of the soft drinks they drop for the 1 metal each, but I don't know if I'm a genius or making a long term mistake.

>leyak showed up at my house again
so that's it? i just have a Mr. X following me forever with no safe room? i swear this game has literal negative respect for bases, homes, and delineated safety zones of all kinds. this is like the 3rd permanent unsolicited unwanted home invader that isn't stopped by doors or traps that i've gotten and it's really starting to piss me off.

>>718040356
He's not... he's an intern

>>718040870
Water is not a problem period. Neither is food.

>>718040905
theres an xray turret you can build for your base that you use to make a gun

>>718040905
not forever, but also it takes like 2 seconds to make him disappear. he literally never hit me after the first time I saw him

>got to my first portal world
>its a spooky silent hill area
Wtf bros. This is unexpected.

>>718041307
Flat hill is were the game peaks in terms of portal worlds desu

>>718040587
Okay, to make the most out of Flathill runs without sneaking past the composer every time, you'll need 3-4 ramps and like 6 bridges
On the corn syrup factory side, go to the last table on the right and put a bridge down
Build as far out as you can
On the arcade roof, build a ramp then a bridge to get over the fence and then build a connecting bridge. Put a ramp so you can get back over the fence obviously
You'll be able to build almost all the way to the other bridge because the truck below counts as support
I like to put a ramp between the two halves so they easily connect

>>718041307
the first portal is the most unique to be honest

>>718040905
Keep researching, you will discover a solution, fellow scientist.

>>718031890 (OP)
It wasnt the Sister who drew that...

stupid question but there a way i can place stuff on tables?? i.e. if i have a bucket of nasty water i want to purify later, can i place it on a table/desk/etc. instead of just dropping it on the floor?

Any way to get an industrial stove to my base?

>>718041796
Take your base to the industrial stove.

>>718031890 (OP)
>the witch

>>718041790
An item stand should work

>>718040651
Got about 7 on my first run through. Are there any in the building that need the Exor juice worth getting?
>>718041508
Sounds helpful at an earlier point in the game but I'm up to hydro. Jump pack go brrr.

>>718035496
How much later are we talking? I'm at the Security Sector with the Reaper Man

>>718042036
All the corn plant has is corn

>>718042412
Once you get to Reactors and realize that there is a teleport to there literally inside the cafeteria

Is Flathill early in the game?

>>718042670
I guess me and my buddy can move back when we hit that point
I'll admit, I miss the cafeteria

>Kill enemy
>His corpse is filled with a foul mimicry of life
>Stands up only to assert dominance over his killer
What anomaly is this?

>>718042734
Incredibly

>>718034806
I built my earlygame base near there too, around the corner by the locked double doors.
Ended up relocating to the mapping center once I got more established in Manufacturing West

hydro is okay so far, just a lot of locked doors and somewhat confusing layout

>>718040870
don't scrap the sodas, you get the metal scrap when you drink them too

>>718043845
Nah fuck hydro and all those retarded locked doors. Shit was really annoying seeing all these level 5 locked doors everywhere and FUCK the vasseur portal with no shortcut.

>>718043980
>FUCK the vasseur portal with no shortcut.
ruh roh. guess i should haul a crafting bench, batteries, and teleporter with me. Or move up my base in hydro further up ahead for whatever that is

>>718043980
>FUCK the vasseur portal with no shortcut.
best i got without jetpack was putting a plant rope on the edge so you just needed to swim to it

>>718043980
>No shortcut

>>718044135
>>718044182
NTA but oh yeah I've been putting a bunch of those throughout this area so far. Actually pretty useful with all this verticality.

>>718043980
>Voussoir portal
Just jump pack over to it.

>>718043980
Bro, your bridges? your Jump pads? Your Jump pack? Your grav cube? Your Maestro armor?

>>718037470
I felt a little bad at first but then remembered his people gunned down all of my people without a second thought so it's cool.

>>718044283
What does the maestro armor do?

>>718044219
kinda weird that the normal rope item says "you dont have enough strength to climb this rope" all the way to 1.0 with maxed 20 strength, as if you could ever climb it
plant rope is great, so many stupid locations where you need verticality and the jump pads are kinda clumsy

>>718044303
Increases jump height by 18%, stacks with the grav cube in hand, idk about the trinket. It also makes you count as being inside fog so the fog lantern will permanently give you bonus stamina if you have it equipped.

>>718044367
Very neato...

>>718038995
People complained about the Leyek and they go and triple them to spite everyone.

game needs more creepy and unnerving stuff
The only spooky portal world was flathill.
Make more nighttime events that go into horror.
Leyak's already a nice touch especially in multiplayer where only one guy can see it, make more shit like that like hallucinations or mimics or randomly falling into portal worlds you have to escape from.

>>718044439
It's my favorite armor in the game, you basically just become an airbender with the gravcube and jump pack and fly across the reservoir/long hallways and bamboozle enemies in combat with it.

>>718031890 (OP)
>get to labs
>my friends are completely incapable of walking around a corner and cant navigate for shit
>just die and quits when spooked
>just got to hydro alone

F

>poop soup
idfk what i expected, i was so excited thinking i could use this for something

>>718045086
>be designated cook
>have a buffet of food
>put poop soup with all the others
>mfw they start randomly throwing up and wonder if there is a new scp

>>718045425
Metal scrap or ammo in a pot of soup makes a killer soup

>haha what if we disabled the jetpack and forced players to deal with our shitty launch pad puzzle
>haha what if we didn't consider the mystagogue set at all so half the jumps just kill you wearing it

I really hate this

Uhm.. the fog in my base isn't permanent.. right bros?

>>718040356
you didn't actually feed it right?...

>>718046137
I died twice in the final fight section from the jumps without wearing any of the gravity-altering stuff

>>718046175
It's not go find a thingie and drain the fog

>>718046175
nah, either wait 24 hours or make your way to the flathill entrance portal and there's a button on one of the computers that can disable the fog instantly. beware though, there's a symphonist crawling around that floor while the fog is in effect.

Honestly, after getting to Reactors, the game has become a bit of a slog and I'm ready for it to be done. Currently at the start of Residences

Is there any way to summon Doom III weather more often?

>>718047356
everyone feels this way, it's kind of a shame because they put in a lot of extra work to make the game worse and it's right at the end so that's what you remember most about it

>>718046270
>we all have... larva... to feed...
did I just set myself up the bomb? all I got was a stapler

i got them all i finally caved and modded my game, fuck the eels

>>718048208
I should have thought to stack them like that, but then there's only enough fish to fill five tanks anyway.

>>718034806
*sharp horn sounds*

>>718048208
Nice. also damn i need to find a good spot for the aquariums.

someone came to visit

>>718041920
battora... the science says magic is real

>>718048621
Witches are NOT REAL they have jetpacks and shotguns

They're waiting for you, anon... in the test chamber.

i need more milk sacs to fuel my pie and pizza factory

>>718031890 (OP)

>Game has a poop mechanic.
>My character has been eating nothing but alien bush meat and vending machine chips for like a week.

My character is either the most constipated humanoid in all the anteverses or he's constantly having the worst life-altering diarrhea anyone has ever seen.

i had to turn down hunger/thirst/bathroom
feels like 1/4th of my time is spent cooking, drinking, boiling water, etc.
its starting to remind me of the long dark where i would inhale 16,000 calories and boil 5000 cubic meters of water just to go outside for an hour.

>>718053014
>he boils water
Clean water is right there, just pick it up.

>>718053014
Soups solve hunger and thirst for the most part. The more pots you cook up at once, the longer you can go just switching out soup bowls or taking portions 'till you run dry. I took the weak bladder negative perk though, so it has been a little bit annoying at times.

>>718053014
How far in are you?

Okay I'm fucking lost in hydroplant I swear there was a fucking hole in the ground with a propeller to dive into

Driving everywhere on a forklift and bringing a recharge station with you is amazing.

>>718054326
>I swear there was a fucking hole in the ground with a propeller to dive into
Through a vent down near the submarine.
Kylie is waiting for you.

>>718034806
Don't listen to these niggas I live in the offices around the corners because the doors and water pool, the shock pool even kills people who invade at night sometimes. Super comfy and the travel time isn't long to the trams from there, and traveling back gets circumvented once you get the personal teleporter, and it all just becomes a none issue even later. The bench in the back corner of the office covers a retarded amount of area, to the point I started filling the rafters/higher fence area above with crates for MAX storage database/pad usage. This alone made it worth living here late game
>>718035174
One chopinator near the bridge kills robot every day

The bing bing wahoo level I imagine would been really hard if I didn't have the gravity cube

Just got the hand drill and it sucks? Is this going to be the trend going forward where the "upgrades" do fuck all?

Man, playing alone is tough with the tiny carry space. I found a nice backpack to add more slots and combined with my karate helmet my rip off Dr Kleiner looks positively SPECIAL, but my kleptomania with resources is making any attempt to explore the offices difficult.

>>718055694
Yeah, the game just becomes progressively worse the further you go

>>718055694
There's still another two upgrades for that. The fourth one is especially noticeable, builds everything in four or five hits.

>Make an alien explode
>Oh, even the alien bits are craftable!
>Pick them up and don't think about it
>Later
>You have minor radiation poisoning
>Oh shit, what? Did I build my base near a leaking reactor or something?
>Look in my inventory for some kind of cure
>Notice the alien parts are radioactive and they've been in my pockets next to my balls the whole time
And I'm supposed to be a scientist.

>>718043003
The best thing about this setting is that glitches and bugs can be headcanoned as new anomalies brought about by the disaster.
Why not have an anomaly that causes the dead to be frozen in some dark god's holy symbol? I mean, it IS a holy symbol in Elden Ring...

The black fog event is lame, the gmod tier ass npc that chases you around would have hit harder if you only saw him briefly in the distance. I first saw him on tram with my pal and he thought I was lying, but we went to halloween village and half the npcs were replaced with the gmod retard. Should have taken the guy on reddits fake posts and made them real

ITT a bunch of tards are chastizing a guy for moving his base from a spot that might be more convenient to him in like 20+ hours.

>>718035496
>literal best base location in the game
I don't recall spawning at the second security office
>Lockers (free storage)
>Gunrange
>Private bathroom
>Nice view on wagie bleeding out
>Easy defense
>Little office for when you need to focus
>Cuck upstairs
>2 levels of open space

>Get to Manufacturing West
>Make one mistake
>Get overrun by powerspringting grunts blasting me from 2 meters away
Armour is more important than I expected huh? I'm still using the makeshift stuff, but that now seems.... stupid.

I really love how stupid and makeshift the equipment and weapons look, I almost don't want to leave this stage because getting actual weapons seems relatively boring compared to my stupid office supply crossbow.

>>718056598
Man, if they'd see my base they'd have a conniption
I set up next to Frake's little area by the Train portal
I had to wire a plug to even use it and I don't care

2 faggots fighting over who is gayer

>>718056726
Get the FORGE stuff from the blacksmith
But really, you should sneak around and use tripwire and shock traps to your advantage too

I played the game the day it came out but dropped due to no time, how should I approach it now?

>>718056664
>Nice view on wagie bleeding out
give him a bandage bro what you doin

>>718056875
Don't they need to be connected to a power source? I've never even crafted any lol, only ever made the blades.
>>718056937
Wait, you can bandage the forklift driver?

>>718056902
>how should I approach it now?
however you want, that's what the sandbox settings are for

>>718056770
Office-supply crossbow can and will carry you to non-office-supply electromagnetically-assisted crossbow, which upgrades into The Cooler Magbow and basically the best sniper weapon in the game, so enjoy it now and enjoy the future it leads you to.

>>718056595
I dislike the black fog too. Not too far to go to disable it, though - sit on the Night Throne in the Night Realm.Assuming you opened the Security shortcut, it shouldn't be a long walk.

>>718056958
>Wait, you can bandage the forklift driver?
Yeah its funny how many people including myself didn't realize this on release since in EA it wasn't possible. Anon been sipping his soups from the upper window watching him BLEED

>>718056958
Nope, shock traps charge themselves and tripwires are refilled with screws

>>718057225
Holy shit this is all so obvious, why didn't I think of it? I assume Alice can be bandaged too?

>>718057274
She's already dead.

How do I get in there? I can't find an entrance.

>>718057274
I don't think so, I believe she disappears at somepoint, which typically means she fucking died, considering you can find several scientists and proceed to find their corpse next time you progress something. Like the french water women

>>718057482
brother you are standing next to the door

>>718057490
She's definitely dead because the reaper had already snatched her and made her a Shade

GATE may be a shit place to work right now, but those vending machine prices are the most generous I've ever seen. $1 for a drink or snack? Holy shit.

>>718057525
Yeah, I already realized. But I don't have the ability to make thermite yet, so I have no idea how to proceed.

>>718057225
>Anon been sipping his soups from the upper window watching him BLEED
I'm the same anon you responded too. There's 2 comfy chairs, nacho's... I'm surprised the security bot doesn't wail on him at night.
>>718057259
I had no idea... Time for guerilla tactics I suppose. Just wish there was a quieter way to take them out. I trigger the 2 upstairs + the Machine Gunner when I try to sneakkill the one below, next to the first 'bridge' in Manufacturing West.
>>718057274
Is she the security guard next to the big chest? She disappeared after a while.

>>718057621
1993 dollar despite being in a facility in Oz? whatever so not quite as cheap as you probably think. Back then I remember paying 50 cents for a can from vending.

>>718057621
One AUSTRALIAN dollar right? So like .65 USD or .56 EUR

>>718057490
That's grimm. That fucker's unnerving enough, especially since they've fixed his AI in 1.0 and he's now actively going after the player.

>Game thinks my laptop can run this on Epic
>It can, but sounds like it's going to begin hovering from the fans
>Move everything down to low
>The game actually looks better because there's less shiny and bloom bullshit
Why did they go for Unreal 5 anyway?

>>718056595

It is sadly. I was hoping it would be a shadowhopper attack with mechanics similar to VotVs black fog.

Having to stay in the light or getting nommed would have been cool.

>>718057759
modern "developers" please understand, they only use UE or Unity
should've been developed in Source or an older version, like SOHL

>>718057759
NZ grants.

>>718035803
I'm glad the enemies in Reactors are spongy and have shields and shiet, it makes them feel like a threat. Every enemy before Reactors except robots and bosses like the Tarasque can be easily oneshotted with a single carbon pickaxe sprint attack, stealth crit, or a shotgun blast to the face.

>>718044298
>his people
>my people
Racism is never ok anon... We're all human.

>>718057820
>should've been developed in Source
This. AF started out as a Half Life mod, so it would have made even more sense.

>>718057726
GATE uses USD

>>718057419

I want to save more friends like that cunt Grayson.

>>718038881
Yes but she's really not so bad. There's some items you can get that trivialise her, and the only way she can get the jump on you is if you're really unlucky rounding a corner or aren't paying attention while crafting. It's kinda nice to have a constant companion. The most unsettling thing about arriving in the Security sector was realising I was overdue for a Leyak encounter but she wasn't showing up no matter how long I loitered. It really threw me off.

>>718040984
Don't misgender my meatball wife!

>>718057490
Randomly finding her down there was a bit of a shock. You can also find the scientist from the hydroplant transmitter at the bottom of on of the spillway pipes.

>>718057490
I wish I could save all the NPCs. I want to give them all small jobs around my base like boiling water and/or watering the plants.
Hasta Tria collecting scrap, Alice, Celine, and Jonas on guard duty, Isaiah upkeeping your battery and power network, etc.

Janet is the sister of the unlost
Abe is the unlost mystagogue.

>>718058137
Unlost is the unnamed GATE team you meet in the past.

>>718046175
the button that turns it off is like 10 metres to your right

>>718058272
that's the future.

Ok, this is the second time I have misplaced my personal teleporter. What the fuck, game? Do they despawn if left on the charging station? I swear I pick it up every time it's charged to full. I mean it's not a big deal, since they are cheap and trams and waterslides and teleporters allow me to get places fast, but still.

I hope they update this to have multiple endings. Going through all this just to end the world due to our retardation is such a downer.

>>718058418
Do you have other PTs in a chest somewhere? And do you have the item-to-chest telepad? Kept getting my PTs sniped back into storage by accident until I started favorite-locking my inventory slots...

>>718058540
Anon, there are many more worlds left to ruin with our retardation. It's not that bad.

I can't figure out how to progress. I think that I've been everywhere I can access without thermite, but I couldn't find a place where you get the stuff to make said thermite. And I haven't seen any tarasque.

>>718058540
half life reference innit

I know it's really stupid and pointless but I want to make a base in the poop ocean dimension with a pest teleporter + wheel + teleporter

>>718058762
This is what my notes look like.

>>718058762
Go back to where you had to build the bridge to get across to the chainlink zombieland gate. Now, from the zombieland gate, face back towards the turrets. Go straight, you'll find a big security door to duck under. Shock his nipples, he's heavy into masochist play.

>>718058762
I forgot how any of this shit progresses but did you make a bridge at the security turret area to helmholtz?

>>718034519
>Original Poster! What purpose do you have with this thread? Speak!
>TELL ME what is the purpose of this thread's perpetuity? What disaster accrues if it halts?!
>Explain yourself! Why must this thread persist in its motion?! Tell me this instant!
>Sodomite, your unnamed bretheren are madmen! Using your posts to spout things you cannot comprehend.
>Your janitors will not help you now!
>TELL ME what is the purpose of this thread's perpetuity? What disaster accrues if it halts?!

*frees up an item slot*
this shit kinda nice

i usually hate crafting games will i hate this game

>>718058661
That's what I thought. Checked every storage at all of my bases manually and even tried the registry thing, but got nothing. Must've dropped it in some portal world, trying to grab more than I can carry.

>>718058813
>>718058762
Go to ZombIKEA.

>>718058925
probably idk there's a lot to craft, even if you edit the settings to make drops and exp shit out your butthole everywhere.

>>718058843
>>718058876
Oh, you can just jump over the chasm with the cube.

The advanced cooking comes way too late and is pretty underwhelming, if i was trying to feed like 20 retards maybe it has a use case

>>718057660
Just come back later once you have the thermite.

>>718058763
Gordon at least got to redeem himself in HL2 and even in HL1 slightly improves the situation by the end by killing the leader of Xen. Our guy just does what some asshole Gman mixed with Satan says and just stands dumbfounded when he's told the obvious truth that he destroyed everything.

>>718059054
cooking really falls apart once you realize how severe the diminishing returns on making complicated dishes are and how quickly the eggs cook.

>>718058969
>Go to ZombIKEA.
I love treating all these nightmarish alternate worlds as furniture stores.

>>718058925
play with a friend and make him do all the hard crafting

>>718059042
yup that works too.

>>718059054
I'm early on, and I don't have anything to cook or know how to cook. I'm living off vending machines like it's System Shock 2.

>>718058893
>GOT A SCIENTIST HERE. THERE'S A LOTTA PICTURES OF GIRLS WITH DICKS!

Well I started the game, I guess I finished the tutorial because the clock started working and a huge area opened up, I am feeling mighty lost I have to say, maybe I should see if I can find any friend that is playing it.
Already died at the first alien that comes crashing throw.

At least the consequences for death don't seem too dire.
Does that mean I shouldn't worry too much about running out of food/water in the initial area? I remember playing Grounded and just accepting that I would die from thirst and respawning.

Do enemies respawn? My idea would be to stack up, try to gather all resources put them in one spot, gradually learn recipes, craft the new things I can do, try to find containers or craft them so I can put anything useful around my crafting area.

>>718059201
>I don't have anything to cook
now i know that aint true

Is this game worth it solo or does it only really shine in multiplayer?

>>718059308
Enemies respawn.
Fannypack is by far the best skill in the game. two extra hotbar slots is huge.

>>718055082
By the time you get the teleporter the game is basically over

>>718059350
It's fun in both ways.
Solo is fun in the atmosphere and slowly exploring the facility, making yourself as independent as possible in the collapsing not-Black Mesa.
Multiplayer is fun because you're running around with retards and trying to build a base, but it does ruin the story and atmosphere. I assume the intended experience is multiplayer, but they made it great for solo play too.

>>718059350
it's pretty fun solo i'm half way in i think. bit of a maze and settings need tweaking for solo, but it's cool

>>718059350
It's perfectly fine in solo.
Probably better in solo if you're interested in the story, it's hard to focus on it with friends fucking around.

>>718059231
do you think there is an anteverse which is identical to earth except you can get people buttpreggers

>>718040493
i remember when i walked back from the containment blocks for the first time after the furniture store.
i forgot the cube door was open and got spooked when i saw an open door on that end. thought i was gunna get spooked by a more actively hostile version of the leyak.

>>718059308
Enemies respawn but they won't respawn near your base. There's an exclusion radius of like 20 metres around your crafting bench. It might get extended by other buildings. On default settings death is just inconvenient. Don't worry about running out of loot because it respawns in certain areas.

>>718059524
>There's an exclusion radius of like 20 metres around your crafting bench.
Only if powered tho.

>>718059351
I wanted it but I thought that tainted water sources would be more common and it would be a way to breeze through dehydratation.
>>718059456
>it's hard to focus on it with friends fucking around
Somehow this made me think back at the Gman squad.
>>718059524
Thanks, I saw PC components phase-in from a blackhole on a table.

Hmmm voidpack or long jump...

>>718059456
>>718059428
>>718059350
It's fine story wise with a friend, if you are playing with just one pal, I read the emails, he reads the journal stuff

>>718057759
>Why did they go for Unreal 5 anyway?
Blueprints, it's pretty telling when you see how some things interact in the game like the fact all outlets asynchronously take a whole second to get reconnected to their device when you load the game.
Anyway, just disable "global illumination", UE5 Lumen is the bane of GPUs.

>>718059351
>Fannypack is by far the best skill in the game.
Yeah, I regret not getting that. I went for wrinkly brainmeat and inconspicuous instead, with dry skin as a trade off.

>friend slop
no thanks

>>718059678
as if you have a choice in the matter you buzzword spewing subhuman
LOL

>>718059670
Wrinkly brainmeat is a must too.
In truth you can pick all the negative needs traits for points, they're basically free points.

>>718059606
the jump 100% I made both and instantly was like, damn this too ludo fun, I don't need 6 slots

>>718059678
its better solo

>>718059308
Take the more frequent shitting perk. Also, there really is no need for the lead belly. It's expensive and getting clean water is no problem at all in the game. I'd focus on speeding up experience gain since that's a grind.

JEsus christ anomalies have to be the shittiestly implemented item ever

>>718057759
>game auto set to max out everything but full HD
>GPU goes to 85 C°
Fortunately limiting the temperature with Nvidia inspector works well.
>>718059725
Tempted to restart, not like I did a lot, just barely out of the tutorial.

>>718059308
God, I never realized how shit Lead Belly was
>8 points
>to deal with a problem that is easily solved very early in the game

>>718059958
I assumed I could use it to drink from WCs or leaking pipes.
Where do I even find dirty sources of water?

>>718060156
every water source is pretty much dirty

Why do people like the cafeteria, it has one power outlet l.
The best base location is the room you can close the shutters
It has 2 power outlets, a bath room, a shooting range, a zip line, 2 floors, fast ways to each areas.

>>718060156
Unless you find it in a sink or a water cooler, any source of water is tainted water. You start being able to create purified water by boiling tainted water in a pot on a stove, and eventually in the 3rd real location gain the ability to properly purify water instantly at a ratio of 1:1 tainted to pure.

>>718060156
You use lead belly to drink from bigger pools of water like the plaza fountain, the pool on level 2 office or any natural ponds.
The only source of clean water are from water coolers and sinks. Coolers are finite and sinks VERY slowly refill.

Grab few coolers and after you drink them empty, use them to carry dirty water from the pools to your base, where you can boil to purify.
Sadly one full pot of dirty water yields only 1/4 clean water. Until you get to cascade labs and build a water filter.

>>718060334
Most people don't stay in cafeteria. They move onto the plaze itself. Or rather, the mini plaza leading to wildlife pens. 2 power outlets, close to trams, the path to wildlife pen for meat.

I will be dreadfully honest with you fellows, it wasn't truly an ending just for the satisfaction of a sequel, was it?

base is coming along but we only have reactors and one more zone after that, right?
No clue what we're going to play next

>>718060334
Cafeteria has 4 outlets. 2 in the security office, 1 in the kitchen, 1 outside the office.

getting hacker 5 feels better than nutting

What weapons and gear should I have for reactors
I got a volt staff and a energy pistol and mountaineer set
My balls are getting pretty busted

>>718061279
Have you tried stuffing fertilizer in a coffee cup?

>>718061310
Uh, no
I kinda just stuck with melee except for the energy pistol

>>718061279
If you are sharp/throwing then QUANT will be the only weapon to use for the rest of the game, otherwise good luck retard they didnt think to balance the game past hydro

Is it worth buying for the online or is solo just fine and as good ?

>>718061857
nigga read the thread, this question gets asked literally every 10 minutes, with several replies each time

>>718061892
b-b-but *sobs* *sniffles* b-but i th-thought *crumbles down on the floor* i-i *starts sobbing uncontrollably*

>>718061857
Solo is fine, although I wish I had friends because multiplayer looks hilarious.

>>718061937
this is the hardest part of any bibogame...

I'm finally in 'Manufacturing West' and I'm going to encounter men with guns and I have a couple questions:

My only range weapon atm is a 9mm I found in a security office and my crossbow. I'm currently wearing the full set of the magazine armor. I feel like I'm walking into certain death. Should I just head on inside and start getting uppity or is there some upgrade I should get?

Side question: The Exor Monks have some kind of energy rifle growing on their hand.. Can I butcher it off of them? Can I make that? I want that.

>>718061587
I'd recommend one or more of these:
-Leveling throwing, then building a Quantum Pick
-Getting a shotgun off the Order fags and upgrading it so it deals acid damage
-Upgrading your energy pistol to the laser pistol, requires a collector instead of charging pad to refill, but you can still hand-crank it too; needs 1x of the new nuclear item you gain the ability to craft at Reactors to upgrade into
-Building the Atomizer, also laser so build a couple collectors back at base; use its toggled alt mode!
-Build the Magbow and fucking upgrade it too for maximum sniping

>>718058893
>The world's most advanced research lab containing world ending threats
>It gets beaten by a fucking cult larping as an army
Get better security, the only ones I've met are either bleeding out or refuse to leave their room and do their fucking job.

>>718061913
*rapes you*

>>718061587
don't listen to these noobs anon, all you need to beat this game is carbon pickaxe + left shift + left click + BANZAAAAAAIIIIII!!!!

>>718061985
Sneak around until you meet The Blacksmith. Smash crates open and make yourself some FORGE armour, it's mostly bulletproof.

>>718061985
1. Take Spear
2. Apply directly to forehead of gun mooks
The guns don't hurt as much as you'd think, can also stealth up on them pretty easily

>>718061985
Time to get sneaky, listen to the radio guy he knows what's up
later on you can craft an exor gun, yeah

>>718061985
Shields block bullets and ranged enemies will melee if you get close enough, consider it a good time to level skills like throwing and stealth
> Exor Monks
later

>>718062025
>Atomizer
Deatomizer. It breaks down your atoms.
Kinda wish killing someone with the deatomizer did the HL2 energy ball death.

>>718062198
Atom, deatom, reatom, whatever. Also yeah, but in the other direction I kinda wish it didn't completely ruin corpses. Accidentally fucked up my farming more than a few times by going full-hog on it.

>>718059042
>Bait my friend into jumping when he didn't even know there gravity cube when he saw me on other side

>>718062035
Those security guards are just for show and dealing with random jobbers. You haven't seen the *real* GATE security forces yet, anon.

>>718062280
I don't get the hype around the deatomizer even before 1.0, melee bumfucks ranged in every regard besides TTK but that rarely matters outside the endgame HP bloat to begin with, used the deatomizer and it was really only good before you get the 1 and done weapons (barely a few hours of gameplay)

>>718036397
>leech attack
>...
>our science team has batteries stuck so close the leeches instantly telefrag themselves
>we go outside and kill the big boy once we're sick of free resources

>>718045425
>mfw same

>>718061279
Have you considered the humble Electron Grenade or Thumper Shotgun?

What now? I got past the X-ray gate, but there are turrets here as well.

>>718062432
>telefrag
please god exor fuck off I beg you cha's

>>718062402
Absurdly high damage ranged weapon only outmatched by a lucky polished antique shotgun shot, and ammo is very easy to get.

>>718061310
>>718061648
>>718062025
>>718062432
I'll look into these things, thanks bros

Also where the fuck do I get digital gold
Are there digital jews?

>Thinking of moving cafeteria base to bottom of hydro station full of glowing plant
Is this a good idea? I heard there teleport pad, but everyone seems to set up some kind of personal teleporter system instead?

>>718062556
Video games in the containment block

>>718062556
Keycard level 5?
Hmm that red chair?
Gaming station maybe,,,,,,,,
Next to the red chair and zombies is a T5 terminal with a subspace to get the gold

>>718062713
I use the red chair to teleport to labs easy, its kinda kino

>>718062556
Check out Containment Block Helmholtz (the one next to the turrets) once you can hack Tier 5.
Then do the Mario.

>>718062556
PENGUIN WIFE

>>718062713
Spoiler dat shit but go into detail what you mean, cuz I got no clue

>>718062486
just keep exploring there anon!

Fuck farming anonalies aaaaa i just want to set up a pest teleporter in gay dimension for funs

>>718062953
I am going to teleport pests up your bum

wait i can teleport to an unpowered crafting bench it just needs to be powered to sync it nvm back to spending 200 bucks on coffee

In which portal world can I farm glass easily ?
Also, suggestion but any cooked food prepared on the chef counter like pies, sandwiches, pizza etc. should give Fortitude XP, otherwise it's quite useless compared to soups and just frying shit unless you want to LARP as Gordon Ramsey.

>>718063259
If you haven't done so already, you can get a fuckton of glass in the hydroplant tower that lead to the Voussoir portal. The golden spheres that you break to get photon receptors also drop glass.
But if you need renewable sources of glass, Flathill, Voussoir and Rise all have breakables that drop glass.

>>718043980
my brother in science there is a wall socket with every component needed to make a crafting bench right beside it. just set up a teleporter.
but yeah, hydroplant would've been a lot more fun if the level 5 hacker didn't require a photon recepter

>>718062368
I've heard of the Gatekeepers and they clearly aren't doing shit either. I haven't seen one yet but I do hear chaos above me from the shaking ceilings. It's been going on for days.

>>718062368
I do appreciate that the game hype the GKs being a completely different power level than everything else, and when you finally meet them face to face, they're genuinely a force to be reckoned with.

>>718065138
Poup.

>>718064942
>they clearly aren't doing shit either
because they're dealing with more important matters anon
they're mainly focused on not letting the order turn the entire facility into sea of molten radioactive sludge before they extract the dark lens

The game is really fun, but I'm not going to play it another time.
The combat isn't the best and the resource grinding won't be fun a second time.
>change the settings
It's still too much to do again.

>>718065332
In truth they don't care about the state of the Reactor, they went there to shut down access to Intrados to prevent the Order and the shapeshiter (and his pet retard) from getting in and accidentally/purposefully releasing IS-0117.
The Order sent sappers to try to destroy Reactor and that's when they ended up clashing.

I know its a HL1 game but I like making HL2 main menus with it.

>come back to my base a bit injured
>raid starts
>gatekeepers
>2 jotunns, 1 tech priest, and a chieftain
very cool game, thank you

>>718065565
wasn't their main objective just getting the dark lens back to keystone then killing any remaining survivors though? Only the unlost GKs seem to know what absurdly stupid shit you and cahn are about to do

>>718065786
>get the jotun, chieftain and mystagogue raid
>only defense are a chopinator and a tesla coil
>chieftain grabs my attention and run off, go after him
>spend several minutes trying to kill him as he keep running away after headbutting me
>finally put him down
>raid end???
>mystagogue killed himself on the tesla
>jotun killed himself on the chopinator

>>718063468
I'm not yet at Hydroplant but I will check Flathill. Is Rise considered a portal world? I didn't think it reset.

I love how the throwing arc is completely inaccurate.

>>718065404
The looting becomes kind of boring when you (quickly) realize that all containers have the same (tiny) set of loot they can have.

Does the Tarasque ever die, or do I just need to bring it to a shambling state and then do something?

>>718066656
Shoot the vents after you twist its nipples, otherwise it'll take forever to kill it

>>718066656
When it falls down to its knees, aim at the "vents" on its back. That's the real health pool.

>>718066835
>>718066854
Never mind, it's already dead. This honestly felt bad, as in I feel bad about doing this.

>>718065728
I have never noticed the red and blue shift on the moon before

>>718065880
A lot of their motives are speculation from GATE staff because they're shooting at them indiscriminately, the Order who have their own motives and lies from Cahn because he's trying to get you to do his bidding by passing as the good guy.

Whatever Keystone asked of them, if they asked anything, is unclear.
The timeline is that they chased after the Order to get the dark lens back, walked into Reactor through Hydroplant to shut them down to prevent access to Intrados (the reactors reacting badly was a side effect because they're not meant to be shutdown) and IS-0117, tried to hold out there to stop the Order or anyone else from restarting them, at which point they started shooting at GATE staff, when IS-0117 got released they panicked and went into damage control, entrenched themselves into Residential, and then tried to contain the dark lens who have been breaking reality apart.

I suspect their goal was much less selfish than you're told throughout the game and they were simply trying to stop (You) and IS-0012 from destroying the world.
There's no mention of GATE staff getting attacked by GKs until Reactor, and even Residential don't have any email or logs about it (which do talk about the Order raid), you do have known survivors talking about it but they're seeing things after the fact, I suspect the GKs started doing that because (You) let out a dangerous shapeshifter and they couldn't really trust anyone.
They were simply trying to contain the worse of the damage, but (You) broke into Intrados, freed IS-0117, they panicked, ran with the dark lens to the Residential Sector and tried to make a last stand there. They probably weren't planning to do anything with the dark lens, they were just trying to stop (You) from using it and letting Cahn interact with IS-0117, hence why the last GKs you encounter (beside the Unlosts) are much beefier than the regular ones. It failed, and you ended the world.

>>718067097
there's a good theory that after "Dr Cahn" escaped the upper echelons of Gate command told the GK's to slaughter everything they came across because at that point they couldn't be sure who was safe and who wasn't.

What is the penalty for dying?

>>718067239
Pretty much, you know there's something out there trying to communicate with a world ending entity that can take the appearance of anyone, you can't really afford to take any chances.
Manse pretty much sum it up:
>But if I must choose, I'd rather be cruel, than wrong.
It's very unclear how IS-0012 shapeshifting works, you're only ever told he's mimicking a dead GATE staff and you never really see him change to anything else, but then again you wouldn't know when a shapeshifter changed if you didn't see it happen.
That being said, even if he can only mimic dead people, there's quite a lot of dead people in Cascade by the time he's out.

>>718067437
It varies depending on your sandbox settings.
By default you drop your inventory and items with durability lose something like 10% durability.
You can recover your dropped inventory from an orange loot bag left at your death spot.

Is this game good solo or do I need friends to enjoy it?

>>718067437
You get sent back to your base crying like a baby

>>718067558
That seems like no penalty then, at all. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Does your radiation/hunger etc get reset?

>>718067570
Yes.

>>718067570
I've said it before but for me it's preferable to play solo. In a group it devolves into a cluster fuck, everyone wants the new armour and weapons but no one wants to farm, food's always scarce for no reason and all the lore gets rushed past. The only thing better in a group is that most combat is much easier

I feel like the ending is either a cliffhanger or unfinished

>>718067558
To add to this:
The dropped loot bag will be at the last location you were grounded. (with a delay of a couple of seconds)
If you somehow manage to get your loot stuck despite that (like I did countless times), if you quit and come back, your loot back will be teleported to the lobby.

>>718067628
there's a reset to like 40% hunger and thirst or about there

>>718067628
It remove your buffs and debufs, refill your tiredness and poop meter, and set your food and thirst to half.

>>718067665
i want to say it's not really an ending, they just wanted to give the 1.0 release some kind of conclusion, they've teased there will be a ng+ system with potential multiple outcomes and it's implied we got the worst possible ending

Is this game better experienced blind/unspoiled?

>>718067904
Yes.

275 hours deep into my solo world and I think i'm finally at the end of content

>>718067628

If you want a hardercore experience you can change it in the settings. I go 75% durability hit and drop all inventory myself.

Game is g8 m8 i r8 8/8

>>718068086
No fucking way this 1.8gb game is 200 hours long

>>718068173
nta but my solo playthrough was 70 hours long.

>>718068173
it has a surprising amount of milage especially if you're going for completionist stuff like full collection of weapons/armor and things like figures/pictures/tv's/fish

Is there any reason not to just throw down carts when my inventory fills and use the button to teleport them back to base rather than wheeling them manually?

>>718068173

>In terms of game file size, the latest stable release from the Factorio website is around 197MB, while the Steam download might be slightly larger, around 345MB.

>>718068354

Some guy on the sub did this. Its a cursed technique but yes you can and its low key genius

>>718068354
"You didn't beat the game" accusations.

>>718068439
Go back

>>718068354
For your immersion of back breaking labor.
Otherwise, no. It's something a lot of people do.

>>718068556

Yes yes sekrit klub, 2005, we are lejun etc

>>718068173
Hes just grinding hard.

>>718068592

I think it should cost money to do though (its not used for anything but coffee for your coffee hole anyway). Warren seems the type.

>going around labs for first time
>get grabbed by robot and put in jail
>hear moaning outside the door

>>718068825
Slushies for slushie bombs.
Root beer for root beer floats.
Kizz cola to Abemax.

>>718068981
the coomer is coming for you. assume the position

>>718068981
Can Leyak open the containment doors you are thrown into by the bots?

>loot stuck under dead body
reeeeeeeee

>>718069149
Get to chopping.

>>718069086

...

>open wlaking box
>216 glass from the voussoir portal area
lol

>>718068173
200 is a stretch unless you're counting multiple playthroughs, but you can easily put 100hrs in.
File size has nothing to do with longevity.

>>718035803
it's not that bad. You should have some heavy weaponry anyway before reaching that point

Any way to flip buildings while putting them down? I made some half-curve bag walls and they look unaesthetic as fuck.

I love the concept of "small research outpost in a completely alien environment".

I'm surprised there weren't way more npc deaths

>>718038653
>Soulslike
Trash

>restart game
>beat hydro
>theres like 3 traders I missed

Also, how tf do you deal with exor cha? They have so much life and I’m burning through resources/durability killing a few of them. I cant repair my lightsaber or laser gun since I’m out of reservoir growths, and the exor upgrade spears run out of durability p quick

>>718039954
Pet wheel isn't worth it

>52/53 achievements
Only one left.

>>718069724
Antique shotgun to the face, just like everything else

>Massive disaster
>Your small starting canteen is mostly safe
>But you're down in there for days and weeks
>Most of the staff are still fine or wandering around
This is the comfiest containment breach ever. Then again, I'm not THAT far.

>>718069149
>>718069216
>You are dirty now

>>718068354
No. The whole point of the game is problem solving with science

>How the fuck do you train strength? I made my guy a weak scientist because Half-life references
>Dismantle and package a couch because I need somewhere to sleep soon
OH.

>>718069149
Bring the vacuum

>>718069906
So where our reinforcement?

>>718069912
Doesn't matter.
There is no downside to being dirty. The popup says you catch diseases more easily. What diseases?

>>718068354
Oh, so the carts are for transporting materials. I haven't bothered with those, I assumed they were for multiplayer and you were going to be using them for wheeling each other around like retards.
Are the walkie talkies good for single player? Something tells me I'll need them for an NPC at one point but otherwise they'll be useless.

>>718069567
there are still too many NPCs that have unknown fates at the moment

>>718069906
>you're down in there for days and weeks
I'm assuming the canon time you spend in the facility is definitely under a week

>>718070025
>He doesn't know
Stay away from me, you diseased-riddled anon

>>718070075
You can cart around your retard friends for funsies.
Walkie talkies are absolute waste solo. And in multiplayer, because, you know, teamspeak, discord, mumble...

GRAYSON WHAT THE FUCK

>>718070225
The man is built different.
Weak to bullets, but immune to his element.

>Need to shit sometimes
>But never pee
Hmmm.

>>718060554
You have at least 4 more regions after Reactors. And reactors itself is sprawling.

>>718070481
he's not the postal dude

>>718070481
We shit and piss at the same time.

Why the fuck does this dumb slut keep bothering us? Especially if we eat any kind of greyarb food?

>>718070961
>some random breaks into your house, drags you to his underground science lair where you are now lost, shines torches in your eyes and eats all your berries

Yeah, I'd be pissed too.

>>718031890 (OP)
Is this a good game solo or is it friendslop? I spend all time with my friends doing live action RP (we joust with ride on mowers)

>>718070862
We have to piss a hell of a lot more than we poop.

>Plonk barricade in the doorway of the canteen where that first guy died
I don't know if it's going to do anything but I feel slightly safer. Every other entrance is either locked or a vent. It does mean I have to crouch jump to get in, but that's a game based off Half-Life for you.

>>718071739
I still use that area for my kitchen lol it's comfy, but I wish you could chop up that dude's body so it didn't fucking plop onto the floor every time you load the area

>>718071591
Every time I poop irl I piss

>>718071919
>that dude's body so it didn't fucking plop onto the floor every time you load the area
He's effectively part of my barricade now. He made himself useful, and even in death he serves science.

>>718069149
>ammo box drops
>after falling over dead, enemy closes his legs together right over the drop to block any interaction with it
I dont need any more arms you faggot I just want your shotgun shells

>>718071979
Statistically, you've probably got something in your bladder to release when poopin time comes. It's a crime of opportunity.

WOO HYDROPLANT IS DONE!
that wasn't bad, confusing at first but it all pieced together in the end

>>718072308
I like Hydroplant, it's cool.

>>718072308
>calls hydro confusing
>when it's considerably more streamlined than labs.
then again there's far fewer landmarks in hydro so maybe you're alright anon.

>>718072308
I hate seeing stuff like this because it ruins the element of surprise for all the cool shit I'll get later. Im still wearing pans and books

>>718072619
my bad

>>718072728
Nah I'm just going to abandon thread maybe

>>718066656
>>718066910
I brought 2 blade fans and 2 tesla coils and stunlocked it to death lol
does it respawn or do I have to wait until later to fight another one? I just got to reactors

>>718071282
>drags you
She followed the researcher, if I recall correctly.

>>718060451
>>718060395
Thanks for the tips.

Is there a shortcut I'm missing to get to the lodestone in Canaan's swamp or do I need to do the shitty trek everytime I want it?

Porn of Commander Fili when?

>>718073531
Build a bench and a portable teleporter

HEY

>>718073531
either set up a teleporter in the witches shack or use bridges and jump pads to bullshit your way over

>>718073724
>>718073731
Guess bench it is

>>718073649
Nigger she's a PENGUIN you sick freak.

how many personal teleporters should I make?

I have one for my home base, and one I use for when I'm going to a new spot that I deem to be a slog so I can jump between the two and cut down on backtracking. Any places where it's worth doing just to have the quick resource access?

>>718074103
OUT OF 10

>>718073731
I hate this fucking cunt so much.
offers nothing I don't have loads of, his sighs reminded me of the meatorb and he keeps blocking my fucking doors.

>>718074198
ngl i have one for each area LOL

>>718073731
Wait, where's the power outlet in the witch's house ? I can't find it.

>>718074659
I think there's one in a lookout blind near the swamp, not actually in her house

>>718074659
it's in the lookout near her hut

>>718074742
>>718074772
The water mill?

>>718074820
No, literally a few feet away from her hut is a lookout that overlooks the village. In there is an outlet.

>>718074949
Oh I see thanks, I completely missed that path.

>>718072619
this is like a later midgame armour set, there's way cooler stuff than this

>>718074198
i have around 20 of them atp

>>718067550
>Manse and Order guy both don't consider that 012 and his boss set up their organizations specifically to bring about the events of the game

Have we figured out who initially stole the thing that kicks it all off? Someone who learned about it the same way we do (reading someone else's email), someone with Containment access, someone who thought the portal work was a bad idea

>>718074198
One for each weather event you can turn off at a minimum

>craft mystagogue gauntlet
>oh cool time to shoot fireballs
>doesn't work
>biotic lock trinket doesn't make it work
>mystagogue armour doesn't make it work
it's a fucking offhand and i shelved it for a week thinking it was just fucked. Damage seems shit regardless though

When do you get a guns that can use sniper and magnum ammo? I now have that vintage shotgun for buckshot, but the rest is still useless.

scientist men were MADE for cha pussy

>>718076389
officers drop the magnum but good luck getting a sniper to drop his gun

>>718076389
The only guns aside from the security pistol and the antique shotgun that use ammo are dropped by the Order

so why is harvesting the anti alien foot fungus gel a bad thing, again? GATE is clearly already familiar with the substance and have used it in the past so why do we in particular attract attention from that lovecraftian faggot?

>>718076389
First time I played I never got a sniper to drop. It's a very rare roll.

>>718076389
Captains drop Magnums
Snipers drop Snipers
Gatekeeper Chieftains drop a Deagle

Shadowberries! Hello! 2 runs and only one bush found. What the heck? I want some berry pie, damn it!

Also
>knife
>gun
Knifegun. Commencing Virtuous Mission!

>>718073731
He is so annoyingly awkward.
>I really wish I could give this to you, but I can't!
>Still kickin eh? Nevemind
Just fuck off.

>>718076528
>forgetting about the GK's

>>718076565
You're pretty much harvesting the anteverse 2 equivalent of a biological WMD, and whoever made the Exor really didn't like it. It might not even be the final boss that's gotten really fucking mad at you.

>>718076408
>Leyak:...

Anyone else setting up here?

>>718077135
Our portal room

>>718075990
Huh? Abyssals drop their armor?
Oh boy, here we go farm again.

>>718077415
nah but you can build it

>>718077265
ME :)

>Only just got to the offices very early on
>Dr Manse is straight up Cave Johnsoning with random guesses what they could market alien substances for
No wonder this place is collapsing.

>>718077135

Power services is very nice. Arguably too nice.

>>718077135
>Setting up a summer home in Xen
Seems oddly comfy, honestly.
The canteen is uncomfy as fuck, but it feels like Home since I've been here with this grumpy old guy all this time.
I want to put a toilet facing him up close so I can stare into his soul while pooping.

>>718031890 (OP)
>Go to take a shit
>A GK drew this there
What are the chances this is an actual spell and someone's watching

>>718077135
If i ever want to setup my base outside of the Office Sector, it'd be Vossieur.

>>718077449
I gave my attempt at a Black Mesa scientist that tie. I headcanon that he was late for work and had to throw on the only tie he could find in his rush to get to the car as quickly as possible.

I set up my poo portal facing the cold and fleshy leyak so have to watch me shit every so often.
If I feel like it I sometimes just blast them with the upgraded Xray lantern while they can't do shit in their cells.

>>718077495
>Dr Manse is straight up Cave Johnsoning
MY
FUCKIN
HEROOOOOOOES

>>718077852
Always gave me bond (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) vibes

alright I finished Mafia I think i'll buy this game tommorrow gotta call it a day

>>718078451
>Mafia
Capital! You can continue shitting yourself in this game!

>>718078860
>I need to find the... oh... restroom
>oh, not yet

>>718074198
>>718074557
>>718075657
>>718075976
Damn, I guess I'm smalltime then.

I'll get to farming and make a few more at the very least. The weather events one sounds like a good idea.

>>718079887
it's ok. I finished the game only ever having a personal tele back to my base in the office sector security room.

how often does the leyak harass you? i haven't even launched the game since it started invading my home base. yes, yes, i know 15 hours of gameplay from now i can do something about it, but it's bothering me right now. everything from grayson to the coworker to the wandering box just casually invading your personal space is really annoying. never played another survival game with so many home invaders.

>>718080657
it spawns every 15 minutes so just set a timer the next time you encounter it

Whenever I get home I run around all my storage boxes spamming Q until my inventory is emptied. Is there a better way to organize my shit?

>>718079887
If you're close to reactors then push on for teleporter pads, they're far better share materials but you can't scrap personals to recycle them.

>>718080657
It'll become active every 15 minutes after its last kill/banishment. Might be another few minutes before it becomes a problem though because meatball slow.
It's really not that bad, the only time it's a threat is if it catches you around a corner, which is less likely than you think, or if you're already in a fight.
Just blast with your xray emitter for ez essence.

>>718080840
>every 15 minutes
uninstalled

>>718080916
they have a pad to do this for you dingus

>>718080657
It's really not a big deal. Just put a laser turret outside your base and that'll clear up most of it. I've even considered scrapping the turret because of how little threat that thing poses

>>718080916
Distribution pad.
Just stand on it and all the shit in your inventory (not hotbar) flies into boxes nearby, provided the box already had a stack of the stuff.

>>718081014
>>718081048
Thank fuck for that

>>718080657
Every 15-30min or so until you stick it into gay baby jail
You can set up X-ray sentries outside pathways into your base to very easily stop it or just carry around around a portable xray gun yourself to zap it on sight

Leyek isn't nearly as annoying or experience ruining as you'd expect since it's
>slow as fuck
>stops when seen
>has to obey normal foot pathways
>moans on the way to you, even appearing in subtitles

>never played another survival game with so many home invaders.
Play Sons of the Forest after The Forest, and you'll experience the KINO home experience of having a mutant gf packing 3arms&2guns as well as a tard bff helper able to fetch sticks like a professional

>>718081012
by the time you get to hydro you can build a device that permanently locks it in a box (as long as it's supplied with power)

>>718080953
I'm just about to get to Security Sector, so I got a bit of a haul until reactors if I recall.

>>718081775
>there's hydroplant and voussoir which are a bit long. It's just jailbroken cpus so if you don't mind farming those it's not a big deal. I made a gorillion teleporters just wish they could have been salvaged to reuse the parts for what's essentially the same thing.

>>718077135
I did but I set up my farming plot on 2nd floor. I guess your kitchen look nicer than mine.

bunch of braindead fucking niggers getting absolutely filtered by having to stare at something for longer than 2 seconds... holy shit how do people fucking exist like this? the leyak is the most non-issue thing in this entire game. half the time you don't even have to look at the bitch because you can outrun it by just walking away. even at your base you set up a SINGLE light and you're golden forever. every thread with you dumbasses jfc

>>718082348
she's memorable because she's basically the only enemy that has the potential to jumpscare you if you're rushing/busy. Don't lie and say you weren't caught out a time or two

Not reading anything in this thread
Someone give me a hint on how to get fiber optic cables. I thought buying optics at the forge would give me a crafting recipe for it but it gave me shit

>playrug is set up as an actual map of flathill
>only about a little over half of it is the actual playable area in game
I really hope they expand on some of the anteverses later

>>718082348
>Busy navigating through crafting menu
>Suddenly heard SOMETHING breathing really hard near you
>Panic press ESC and spin 360 degree to find the source
I don't have time for it clinging bullshit.

>>718082538
the forge has a bunch of things to trade with the blacksmith for

>>718082538
You have to trade either solder or grease to the blacksmith, can't remember right now.

>>718082538
it's poorly explained in-game because it's the first time they introduce you to the concept of getting 'ideas' from other facility employees. that boiling bot on the Forgemaster's counter was supposed to be your hint. you need to cook a piece of metal scrap and a piece of silver scrap (from the train portal) in a pot of water like soup and bring the Solder this produces to the Forgemaster to purchase the fiber optic cables.

>>718082694
Grease for diode.
Solder for cables.

>>718082594
why are you panicking? you can WALK away or literally stare at it for 2 seconds if even that

>>718082469
in the 270 hours from 2 playthroughs i've had in this game I got killed by it once because I rounded a corner and it just happed to be there when I was half paying attention making a resource run. Just because something can kill you doesn't mean it isn't easy as fuck to avoid especially when there are ways to mitigate it entirely if you're just standing around at base. people treat it like it's some huge inconvenience, but it's no different than any other combat encounter that appears every 15 minutes. the only difference is you don't have to spend ammo or battery to deal with it you literally just have to look at it or walk the fuck away. it just blows my mind that THIS is the thing that is filtering people when there are much more obvious design choices you could complain about

Is making a shitton of soups a better way to level up cooking than putting everything you get into pans? I want to bake.

>>718083436
Pans felt faster when I was grinding for the knife skill.
Cheaper too with no need for water and it's just single piece of meat.

>>718082348
it's not about how difficult it is - it's that it's fucking annoying. too many things in this game interrupt the player's flow and make it a very annoying/frustrating experience. just trying to step out and explore without being interrupted by bodily needs, weather, night time, raids, or the leyak is only possible like 1 out of every 5 game days. and the solutions for the problems are always set hours of game time ahead of when the problem gets introduced, forcing you to endure them whether you like it or not.

i play with mods that instakill the leyak :3

>>718083436
Nah, soups take longer and give the same XP as a fried pest testicle that takes not even half a minute whereas soups take somewhere from a minute and a half to two. There's an item later that makes cooking XP slightly easier to grind, but for me I
>run through office shooting everything with a grinder/pistol to grind accuracy on MRE soup with helmet for gainz
>chop all the pests/peccaries, chef hat optional to go slightly faster
>go home and mass pan fry on two to three grills

You can also eat some brains for another 10% xp boost or so that lasts one day I believe

>>718083607
Why are you playing a survival game?

>>718083436

Go kill a lot of pests, peccaries and exors in the offices while training stealth, accuracy and reloading.

then you just butcher all the corpses, take them to any big stove and just cook all that meat, those big stoves work during the night and the hydroplant has a kitchen with 2 of them.

just remember to buy the cookbook from the cooking trader once you find her, it costs a heather and gives you 50% cooking exp when near

the pies are so cute

>>718083779
i basically only play survival games. that's the only reason i gave this one a chance despite it's ugly and unappealing artstyle and promo material. this is the most annoying one by far. in every other survival game, enemies and NPCs respect your doors, for example, and don't just spawn into your home or ignore/clip through traps like the leyak. in every other game, the enemies AND the resources respawn instead of forcing you to memorize which resources you can farm ~20 units of at a time in specific portal mini-dungeons once every three fucking game days. there is no point where the game allows you to chill or be comfy, it's just the sensation of being rushed and annoyed from start to finish.

>>718084232
You do realize this is your OCD forcing you to have anxiety over these things. You dont have to farm shit. You do it because you think you need to. If you bring soup and coffee with you and shit on the ground, you can explore for weeks in game

>>718083607
Or you could just bring a soup can or some salad wraps, and bring a military cot with you, and now you can explore for days interrupted?

>>718084232
maybe creative minecraft would be more your speed

if I connect one of the smallest batteries to every device will that be enough to power up for a night?

>>718082571
Where do I get this map?

>>718084720
In Flathill playground, you can see one composer staring at a wall. Get over the fence infront of him and into the building.

>>718084232
Every resource is essentially infinite thanks to portal worlds resetting (Not that the game doesn't give you enough resources without needing to do farming runs on them), the leyak problem is solved literally with just a glance, and the crafting bench stops enemies from spawning near your base. The game does not rush you at any point except maybe when you've picked up a bunch of radioactive shit and you want to go back to base before it starts piling up.

Keystone when

>Played dozens of survival games with friends and by myself
>Abiotic factor is BY FAR the easiest and most forgiving when it comes to survival mechanics
>Literally free food (or 1$ food) and water all over the facility, soup multiplies nutritional value of foods by like 2-4x, QoL things like still being able to move while overencumbered
>People are STILL complaining that it's too hard/tedious

This game is all the proof you need that some people are just horrible at games and too stupid to realize simple concepts like "Eat food before you leave and bring a snack" or "Make more than one of a thing if one isn't enough"

>>718084579
As long as it's only one(uno(1)) device connected to the makeshift battery, it'll just barely fall short which should be fine for most devices.

If you want to ensure full night operation, you can chain
>wall socket
>battery
>power strip
>battery
>device
to three devices from the strip for more oomph while not losing power to inefficiency that direct battery to battery chaining would introduce, though that would also cover one device and be simpler

I setup base in the closed off security section that has a huge window overlooking manufacturing, which has a shooting range in it, battery charger and coffee machine, locker room and bathroom with only one door entrance.

Anyone else use it?

>>718085349
Everyone.

>>718085349
>>718085418
Not me.

>>718085349
only 9 out of every 10 players.

>>718085115
Thanks. I had no idea how any of this worked and chained 2 medium batteries and 1 small battery thinking they would add their total capacity together but power keeps going out. I'll try out your setup but with
>wall socket > industrial battery > 6-way plug > 4x(makeshift battery > device)

>>718085349
I think 99% of players either remain at the very start, stick to the small security office right next to the anvil, or go where you're describing.

>>718082117
yeah the security bots aren't a big issue at this point. Choppinator still works well, but electro thrower also just stuns them to death too. I can only think of three that spawn though. Are there any other locations?

>>718085418
>>718085464
>>718085595
>>718085738
lol shit

My first base before I restarted was a pain in the ass when I made it to labs. I setup a whole base above the blacksmith.

Where the hell do I get food? I've run out of money for vending machines, and while stoves are easy, finding shit to cook on them is not.

>>718085879
I know the monsters are very cute but you should kill them and eat them.

>>718085879
Are you chopping alien bodies with proper knife or are you using a shiv?

>>718085879
Butcher every ayyy you kill
Go fishing
Kill security bots and trade the root beer to the shithead in the lobby for peas

>>718085879
do not eat potatoes, they are also seeds like IRL. plant one.

make soups

I love the area with the kizz cola machine as a base :3

>>718085948
>>718085969
Wait, you can just eat that raw? Isn't that a terrible idea? I assumed you could get sick doing that so I never tried it.

>>718086029
Well you can, but you should cook it you weirdo.

>>718086029
You can eat them raw, but why would you?
You just said you finding shit to cook on stoves is not easy.
Just butcher the fucking alien bodies and cook the alien meat.

>>718086029
You cook the aliens, dude.

>>718086091
FFFFFFuck.
>See the radioactive sign on alien parts
>Just assume this is for later or something
God dammit. Oh well, at least I won't starve.

>>718086213
The radiation you take from eating alien meat is miniscule and won't come biting your ass for good long while.
And once you cook enough meat, you learn how to make soups. Many soups use that radioactive meat, BUT won't poison you.

How long would /v/ anons survive in abiotic factor?

>>718086019
I wish you could move the kizz cola machine, like a summoning ritual.

but at the same time.

>be perfectly healthy
>kill bot, drink SCP cola
>immediately have to shit my pants

>>718084858
I've tried using jump pads to get over that and hit invisible walls

>>718085797
I count four.

One below the aquarium everyone knows
One next to the giant vault door
One in the greenish lab room near the wheat > gem exchanger
One behind fences in Hemholtz (where Tarasque is)

If there's more I haven't combed labs recently enough to remember them.

>>718086924
You have to jump into the area right in front of the Composer.

>>718086924
ue too far left

>>718086934
nope, you're right, I forgot that 4th one.

How often do they re-spawn? Farming them is gonna be a bit of a pain in the ass but I will make due.

>Found my first portal
>It goes to knock off Xen
>There's a scary alien in there
I'm going to stop meleeing. It looks hard to fight like that. I'll get my crossbow...

>>718084921
Are you playing solo or with friends?

>>718087375
Melee is always viable
Stealth Melee is more consistent than Stealth Archer and doesn't cost as much

>>718087375
You will melee more once you realise a sneak attack from Crowbar 2.0 one shots most things early on.

>>718085115
oh this is super helpful I've just been slamming an industrial battery with every single piece of powered furniture.