Thread 718346754

Give me ONE reason why I shouldnt set up my base in Torii

>Infinite space
>No enemies
>Completely peaceful and comfy
>Door leads directly to the office sector plaza,
>Base, japan

the furniture always respawns so you have to build around it unless you want benches and spicy tables clipping into your shit

>Get to the train
It's a really cool area, shame the mines before it were slightly annoying. Also:
>Unlock all this cool shit like the grinder everyone raves about and a super crowbar
>I'm not strong enough to use the crowbar and can't make the grinder yet
I'm just sprinting around slapping all the soldiers with a wrench like its System Shock 2. It's working so far, I've only died once and that was unrelated to the troops, I got killed by an environmental hazard like a moron. They're not as dangerous as they look.
I guess I'm going to have to strap some furniture to my back and go on jogs if I want to use the new heavy weapons?
Also the Order raided my base, couldn't beat me in a fight and spent the rest of the day T-posing at me. Very sore losers.

>get Distribution Pad and Database Terminal

out of sight, out of mind

Hey, got any food?

>>718347383
>The Order doing the Golden Order pose
Looks like a portal to the Lands Between has been found.

>>718347383
You can sneak up and bonk people in the head with the crowbar. The regular swing is always very slow and clunky. Once you get the sprint attack though, you can one-shot most enemies for a while. I forget which skill unlocks it, but it doesn't take too long.

Oh... oh god. I've heard about this thing.

>Get about halfway through
>Only just bother setting up batteries and a power system that can last the night
I really should care more about my base.

>>718348225
How did they even photograph it?

>>718346754 (OP)
>Give me ONE reason why I shouldnt set up my base in Torii
does it run better after the patches??

>>718347656
Coffee for my coffee hole

>>718348225
The emails mention that only one person can perceive it at a time. Does that happen in multiplayer? Imagine someone yelling about a monster and shooting wildly at nothing. You'd think they were fucking with you. The way it works reminds me of the Mummy on the train in that Doctor Who episode, before the series went to shit.

>>718346754 (OP)
enemies raid there now actually, and it's pretty boring.

>>718346754 (OP)
fps drop
no joking I have maybe 35fps max in this unholy place

>>718348770
yes

during MP only one person can see it lmao

>>718347656
>He won't eat that
>He won't eat that
>He won't eat that
>He won't eat that
>He won't eat that
fine then, see if i care. i don't have any brewskis either because SOME OF US HAVE TO WORK HERE

>>718349074
he said after work not during work

>>718349074
Will he eat human arms? My habit of chopping up monsters I killed mean I've been very amoral with the Order guys. Hey, they invaded us.

>Mr. X:Goofy tentacle Edition
How long is this thing going to harass me for? I hope it's not a regular guest for the rest of the game.

>>718349241
forever until you put him in gay baby jail

>>718348225
This thing almost made me decide to quit the game but after toughing it out really hard it's actually just kinda pathetic.

It makes a really pathetic wheezing sound when it spawns that nothing else makes, so you'll know it spawns, it walks slow as shit (if you're anywhere with windows try waiting for it there, you'll see how slow it is), it gets subtitles showing that it spawned(and you can turn on directional subtitles to immediately find it), etc.


I also really want to emphasize it's REALLY SLOW and WHINY, you'll never get jumped by it or turn around and see it right in your face, it's gigaslow and you'll always know it's here by either subtitles or its sound.

>>718349241
theres at least 3 "Mr. X" in the game.

>>718349241
>>718348225
Also it has a hard 15 minute respawn, so you can time its respawn and see how long you're safe, and if you're totally stumped you can build an xray tower and carry it with you everywhere and put it on a power outlet when you hear the leyak if you wont want to bother.

>>718347840
kek

>>718346754 (OP)
the biggest downside is that running in and out is fucking long. yes the zipline helps but not enough, furniture respawning is annoying. I don't like the layout of a gigantic room

>>718348770
Yes, the first time my friend and I saw it, I ran right into it and he was freaking out

>>718347641
>Get both of those
>Still go out of my way to label where I'm putting my stuff
Organization, motherfucker.
>>718349309
At least once per playthrough that motherfucker decides to spawn in a corner while saying as silently as possible. It's also genuinely dangerous if you're stuck in a firefight that you can't win immediately.

>>718349819
I also got jumped by it twice in corners actually lmao

>>718346754 (OP)
it's not the tram station

>>718349309
>exit port o potty
>man this bitch should've spawned by now
>fumbling around in the dark
>no subtitles have come up yet
>well, maybe I'm safe
>turn 45 degrees, she was literally right behind me
>die
I think they removed the subtitles for the leyak which is bullshit

someone tldr me this game it looks like a great jank source game like EYE

>>718350092
It's Half-Life/Bioshock only with survival crafting. But the survival crafting is good because it leans into you being a mad scientist and creating bullshit inventions to stay alive.

>>718350092
You're a half life scientist in an underground lab that's a mix between half life and SCP

there's no chopping of trees or stone mining or any of that cuck bullshit that's in every survival game, here everything is makeshift, you make guns out of screws, rebar, and coils, your armor is made of cardboard and magazines, you make xray towers, you make grenades out of coffee mugs and poop, etc, it's very weird-sciency

Also, the facility you explore is very unique, handmade, and HUGE, with many SCPs, and there's many portal worlds you go to which are like alternate realities, and they respawn every few days so they're the game's infinite resource pool.

i found a barrel in manufacturing in a truck, but the only option was dismantle, can you only pick up certain ones?

>>718350092
Imagine Half Life only Gordon never got a HEV and he has to live in the base, hunting and cooking headcrabs with the aid of a crossbow made of office supplies that shoots pens.

>>718350363
>huge
is it randomly generated or fixed? is loot and spawns random I guess of some degree?

>>718350363
>>718350241
>>718350564
is the game intuitive or not? like will I feel forced to look up a guide or tutorial or ask for help/questions or can I just fuck it and ball?

>>718350632
Fixed spawns. Everyone gets the same facility and portal worlds, it's meant to be more of an adventure like bioshock.

For loot, loot only respawns inside portal worlds every maybe 1hr of gameplay, the facility itself doesn't respawn anything, and each zone has its own portal worlds containing its items that the game even tells you "hey btw portal worlds reset so if you need any resources, go into a portal world!". Regular zones still have huge amounts of loot though, you wont generally need to grind areas at all.

Loot also spawns in the same places even in resetted portal worlds too.

>>718350693
The first time I beat it was a fuck it and ball, but I did need to look up a guide once or twice, mostly because I missed some shit. People like to answer questions in these threads but if you browse them you're definitely going to get spoiled.

>>718350693
For the most part it is, but I think some things like setting up power cables and powering shit at night needs more of a tutorial. (The bases power shuts down each night. You can craft batteries to counter this, but it takes a little bit of experimenting or reading to work out how to implement it all effectively.
The game doesn't tell you that having tech scrap on you lets you make extension cords, allowing you to make a single plug the power source for your whole base because you can wire up everywhere.

>>718350693
It's pretty intuitive, so much you may accidentally skip something.

>>718350937
>The game doesn't tell you that having tech scrap on you lets you make extension cords
Cool

>>718350693
It's one of those games where you constantly go "Wait, you can do that?"

>>718350441
It's furniture, dismantle it

>>718351261
It's a bit weird. It's not a construction option, it's just
>Oh, you have tech scrap and you've pulled a plug out of a socket. Want to extend it so you can make a distant plug power your base?
Pic related, there's no plug in the upper canteen but the moment I discovered this it didn't matter.

>>718351289
i dont want scrap metal, i want to package it, take it home, and consolidate all my water coolers.

>Pooping is a thing
>Hygiene is a thing
>You can't use the sinks to wash your hands after pooping unless they gradually fill themselves
This annoys me.

>>718351856
>this guy washes his hands after going to the bathroom
its like you want your immune system to be weak and unpracticed

>>718351665
>>718350441

Every piece of furniture has a dismantle option.
Dismantling furniture either turns furniture into a little gary's mod model you can stow away in your inventory, or it scraps it for parts. When you hover your cursor over a piece of furniture it'll tell you what % chance their is for you to accidentally scrap a piece of furniture into parts.

From what I've seen the barrels have a 0% chance of being destroyed by dismantling. Not only that, but you can place them by a source of water, fill them up with a bucket/pot, and then dismantle and carry the filled barrel of dirty water to your base for boiling/washing.

>Worry I'll run out of food
>End up overpreparing and I now have six soups sitting around
Also, what the fuck? You can make soups out of random bullshit from the vending machines and actual shit.

>>718351665
Just do it
It's the same option that pops up for lamps and lights
It's a 100% chance of success for these things

>>718352005
If you're playing with friends, you can also make a soup with metal scrap or ammo

>>718352031
ok, thanks. i was only asking because i didn't see the package option or the %chance to break text either. usually it only does that on things i have built myself.

I've completed everything up until this point so now I'm just wandering around making little bases and camps, the final area of the robotics lab is extra comfy, theres just enough space for everything I need, I like my homes full of clutter and little bits.

>>718352139
that literally kills whoever eats it lol

>>718350937
>>718351261
>>718351480
If you're plugging anything the game says at the bottom "Place reroute (1x tech scrap) and if you look at a wall you can see a blue see-through socket, it's not that hard to figure out.

>>718352291
yes
that's the prank
that'll teach them to siphon your soup

>>718347383
Get yourself some forge armor. You'll be constantly leveling strength while wearing the full set

>>718346754 (OP)
enemies can raid now and it's almost impossible to cover all the spawns.

not that it actually matters, because raids are a complete joke.

>>718353193
Sometimes enemies get stuck on a door or something and they'll never reach your base, so you'll wait the entire night and nothing will come.

>>718353193
i just put laser turrets at each of the entrances

>>718352921
Considering I've been using the basic bitch rolled up magazines on my arms and legs all this time you bet I'm building FORGE armor.

>>718346754 (OP)
id rather set my base in nortubel

>>718347656
You know what they say, buy low, sell high!

How many makeshift batteries do you need for your base to remain powered overnight?

>>718350693
99% of the time everything is self-explanatory
only very rarely will you need a crafting recipe that's dependent on reading an email or talking to somebody but they're always a stone's throw away
my advice is to just go through every email, pick up every item and talk to every NPC
you don't need to actually pay attention or read the contents, just click on it

>>718352506
>>718351480
>>718351261
>>718350937
>The game doesn't tell you that having tech scrap on you lets you make extension cords
I have 200 hours in the game and I didn't know this
I usually put everything into storage before I do any base construction/wiring so maybe that's why

>>718353819
Depends what you've got. I forget the exact numbers, but 1 makeshift battery powers a single machine for most, but definitely not all of the night.

>>718352240
>Plugs can go on the ceiling

>>718354145
The option pops up for me anyway, it just tells me I need a tech scrap to actually do it. You probably haven't looked at a wall close enough with a plug in hand, honestly.

>>718349309
yeah, my friend and i didn't even bother containing it because our base completely fucks its already dumb pathfinding. i actually want it buffed because it seems to disappear extremely fast at times.

>>718346754 (OP)
>watch optimization twink a few months ago talking about how quad overdraw brings unreal 5 to its knees
>quad overdraw is when transparent things like leaves are placed behind each other multiple times so every pixel of every transparent object has to be processed over and over again, annihilating every gpu ever made
>playing abiotic since early access at a silky smooth 144fps at all times on ultra
>get to cute new japan base
>look up at the trees
>frames get blitzkrieged to 51 fps
he keeps getting away with it.

I like these things better than the one you have to charge, but it's hard deciding where I want to connect them. I did Flathill, Mycofields, Canaan, the yeti mountain, Zombieland, and Space Queen. I didn't bother with the train because I can't think of any resources there that I haven't already farmed to hell, but I do have three empties so i might make a portal for it anyway.

>>718354558
I like to have one in the portals to grab some steel wire, briefcases for leather, or pocket watches to disassemble and trade to Marion if I happen to need. Also extinguishers if I need.

>>718355258
>One in the portals
One in the train. Also just remembered I was going to put one in Mist Reactor to beat up the angry Exors there from time to time.

>>718346754 (OP)
>peaceful
set up a defensive line

>>718347383
filled water coolers or barrels will get you strength levels.

>>718350937
>The game doesn't tell you that having tech scrap on you lets you make extension cords

WHAT?!?

i want more frozen essence. make krasue spawn faster....

>>718347383
>Get to the train

I'm going to be doing the train tonight, super excited to because: an endless train sounds super cozy and it'll be a great palette cleanser from the sheer amount of gamer sweat ™ Flathill had me producing.

With that said:
>Also the Order raided my base

I also think I need to move my base to that security office on level 2 in anticipation of that. I've been camping inside the cafeteria security office (does that cold room actually help keep food cool or not??), but I don't think me and my garbage are safe from something like men with guns given how anyone can just open those security office doors and let themselves in.

>>718356128
Greyeb fruit seems to apply.

>>718349309
> you'll never get jumped by it or turn around and see it right in your face

This has happened to me multiple times at my base.
I open the door and he's right behind it.
I'm idle looking at soup recipes and he walks past my X-ray turret and gets me from behind.
He sometimes spawns inside my base a few feet from the workbench.

The security booth at the start of the game is just so fucking glitchy for Leyak spawns I had to get 10 X-Ray turrets to cover the whole space since it can't fire on the leyak if its not pointing at it during its turn cycle

>>718356451
The soldiers are shitters. Event basic armor makes their guns only a little more dangerous than pests. I've been fighting them with basic tools and have been fine.

>>718353819
>>718354215
>>718354215
3 makeshift batteries will power 2 devices overnight
each extra battery in series loses efficiency though
Once you get to carbon batteries though you're pretty much set, ONE will power 6 devices overnight, two in series will power 12, etc. up until you have 20 carbon batteries daisy-chained, at which point it is no longer doing 6 devices per battery

>>718356451
>an endless train sounds super cozy

I thought that, too, and was super disappointed when I arrived and found out that the train is only like six cars long, two of which were put there by GATE.

>>718356837
I have one battery per device and it works overnight. Of course, at the start of the chain I have a back up battery too.

> just discovered that the defense turrets near my base don't do anything (except stagger) against the Lamogi and you still only kill them by jumping on them

I mean that makes sense but It's still a fun detail.

>The train
>Assume from hearing Manse talking about it the thing has no obvious power supply and it just goes forever on some looping part of a track due to anomalous bullshit
>Turns out a scientist is just shoveling coal into it forever
This is typical GATE. If you need someone doing that why not just get a machine? They're so inefficient.

>>718357718
They had a machine that did that but the order dudes broke it

>>718357718
I like how the Order doesn't always straight up kill people, unlike the HECU in Half-Life. That one soldier forever demanding to know why the train has to run forever shows more intelligence than the marines sent into Black Mesa.

>>718357832
>SCIENTIST! I DEMAND TO KNOW WHY THERE ARE A LOT OF PICTURES OF GIRLS WITH DICKS! WHAT DISASTER WILL ACCRUE SHOULD I DESTROY THESE THINGS? ANSWER ME!

Is there anything to do with a barrel of poop? Or is it just something they let you do.

i dont get it
is this a system shock ripoff?

>>718357962
kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zl1L0oWVoU

How do I get poop?

Why the fuck doesn't the Reaper stay dead for longer than 10 fucking seconds?

is there a mod that gets rid of the creature that chases you every 15 minutes, it sounds like it ruins a comfy game

ah man i got all excited because i saw kitchen stoves were deployable/packagable on the wiki but they can't be moved.

What did the new patch break this time?

>>718358567
It's got a lot in common with system shock, but with a setting and story components akin to half-life 1 with additional survival mechanics like food and shitting.
By story components, I mean like NPCs you can talk to and objectives.

>>718358919
Not really, all you have to do is look at her and she'll go away for the day, but eventually you can build containment for her.

>>718358919
Except for extremely rare situations it's trivial to deal with her.

>>718358919
The dangers outside of one's base make the base itself comfier.

>>718358685
You're in his spawn, bro.

>>718358685
I wish he was alive all the time I want more night essence.

>>718358679
makeshift toilet

what the fuck is abiotic factor

>>718358685
>creature that inspired the common depiction of death and had been hunting humanity for sport for millenia
>jobs to spicy flashlight
kek what a pathetic little niggermantis
get shined on retard
maybe next time he should hunt himself some sunblock

>>718360558
It is pretty funny that he just didn't account for humanity developing over time. I guess it'd be like if you went out hunting and a deer suddenly pepper sprayed you and stole your lantern.

i got enough frozen essence now i can dress up like a mystic gog

>>718360692
what makes it worse is that he really should have known better since he was defeated by the order 2000 years ago
it's like if you went hunting 20 and the deer pepper sprayed you and stole your wallet, and then later you went hunting again with exactly the same results

you get two way portals way too late and you get personal teleporters way too early

>>718361404
>you get personal teleporters too early
nay
>you get two way portals too late
arguable

>>718361404
I think in general the facility looping back in on itself so much really undermines the base building aspect. Every time I began to think about making some kind of little outpost or moving out of offices I would find yet another shortcut back and just couldn't justify the bother anymore. Maybe if there was some way to upload items to some kind of master storage outside the void chest. Could also just make invasions an actual threat too I suppose.

>>718361471
you can use personal teleporters to teleport anywhere as long as you build a crafting bench there, earlier two way teleporters would make far more sense

Do people just pack up and move their entire base as they work their way through the game?
I've got two so far in the Plaza and the garage.

Can you pack and lift a barrel full of liquid, or will need i forklift or cart?

>>718354558
>signs on the floor
>not on the fricking wall
frick dude. i hate it.

are there any friendly aliens?

>>718360158
half-life but you're one of the retard npc scientists

Is there public lobbies in this game? Or is it just single-multiplayer with friends.

why are the gatekeepers trying to kill you????

>>718361939
I do but I enjoy the base building aspect, you can definitely just have one for the whole game

>>718361939
You can, but you never really need to there's so many different shortcuts back to offices.

>>718362682
The head honchos want everything wiped clean and it's heavily implied that the keepers were bordering on being completely off the reservation even before everything went to shit. Frankly they're kinda right considering how things pan out.

>>718362392
Yes

>That one scientist that has a witch desperate for his dick to the point she's just constantly stalking him and writing incantations on his stuff
God I wish that was me.

>>718360846
I made that set and then harassed a robot. My lil flying eye proceeded to try and bore a hole through a nearby wall for no reason.

>>718347641
I like my boxes fucking everywhere

>>718362682

See: >>718357718 >>718357832

Abiotic Factor does such a great job of characterize, fairly, how the GATE foundation and its' employees aren't poor delicate misunderstood geniuses being vitcimized by ignorant military organization. This entire facility is staffed by grossly irresponsible technocrats who've written a blank "the ends justify the means" cheque. Imagine if Elon Musk had studied theoretical quantum physics instead of engineering.
Think of it this way: Anteverse 22, the native dimension of the Exor, is already a potential dooms day situation with how strongly the fauna and flora react to our comparatively high-entropic dimension. There's literally half a dozen pests spawning in the kitchen every night. That's just one dimension. I don't know the grand total, but they've at least opened half a dozen more.
The various para-military groups trying to genocide this facility are making a completely rational decision.

>>718363327
those scientists are heroes
they are making humanity advance bigly

>>718363327
t. lab rat typing away on gate laptop moments before greedily devouring a shotgun shell with his nape

>>718363327
DAS RITE

>>718363327
I feel bad for Dr. Manse trying to actually run the facility in a reasonable manner, dealing with goofy staff and especially trying to appeal to Keystone regarding the lack of oversight on the madness the Gatekeepers are up to.

>>718363873
I want a packagable version of this

>>718364001
I need to reread most of the logs because I thought most of the staff was pretty smart

>>718363873
How are these guys so fucking huge
What do they feed them
And why are they weird cultists

>>718347383
>I guess I'm going to have to strap some furniture to my back and go on jogs if I want to use the new heavy weapons?
Pretty much.
I try to stay in the sweet spot on weight as much as possible early on in the offices.
You max out your strength reorient early into the game if you're persistent, and the lack of capacity is mitigated by the tiny portion of the game you have access to at that point.
Running back and forth constantly to loot places is less annoying when each trip is less than 30 seconds one way, rather than trekking all the way out to some place on the tram and having to make liberal use of the deposit box on it.

>>718362636
Yes there are

>>718364010
It's crazy how none of the psa gate posters are packagable
>>718364301
It's actually pretty cool why they're so big. What other huge ass entities have you met so far? If you fought the tarasque, the scientist talks about how in their anteverse, they're small or just normal sized or whatever. IIRC these guys are genetically modified humans using stuff from that anteverse to make them big, and it's a shitty traumatic process that not many survive

>>718363327
The entire game me and my friend kept referencing this skit
https://youtu.be/h242eDB84zY

I am missing one achievement.

i just beat the game. towards the end i started getting burnt out due to the difficulty and kinda rushed the last few sectors

is there any endgame content to do? besides i still have some top tier recipes i never finished, and looking at the wiki i'm realizing i missed a bunch of stuff so i guess there's that

>>718364292
They're doing all sorts of silly shit when it comes to containment, playing with stuff they shouldn't, a whole team disappearing in one room, drinking the Kizz Cola despite obviously being out of place, etc.

>>718364910
You get all the fishes and put them in aquariums? There's some annoying ones to get. I hope you like running around getting snag roots.

>>718346754 (OP)
Is this a general now?

>>718364429
I'm pissed that more stuff in general isn't packagable. I've given up on several base ideas just because I'm not able to break down all of the static office/labs shit I can't get rid of.
I was hoping that when I finally am able to upgrade to the construction gauntlet I'd be able to go to town and rearrange/remove stuff but it seems like it's just another screwdriver.

>>718364429
Damn, no wonder they're all lunatics

>>718364292
>>718364962

The office section of the facility supposedly has a "teleporting rat" infestation. According to the e-mails they thought the rats came from another dimension, but another e-mail exchange reveals that they created them when a scientists fed a raw exor heart to their lab rats. The ones that didn't die began glowing purple and developed the hereditary ability to teleport.
These people are smart, but they're also idiots.

>>718364910
There's the collectables (figures/picture frames). Catching all the rare variants of fish and filling out the encyclopaedia.

>>718365348
they're Apeture Science but they traded AS's miraculous luck for a bit more competence

I mean... c'mon guys. You would totally drink kizz cola if that shit just popped up irl. You're gonna live and die without trying a fucking soda machine that spawned out of nowhere? Give me a break.

>>718365435
I'd make a few rats drink it first

>>718365469
God that would be such a cool study to read

>>718365435
I don't drink soda, no

>everyone thinks the GKs are psychos
>meanwhile I'm sawing their heads off to make hats and plucking their eyes out

>>718365580
hey at least you're doing it for science (I hope)
I'm just doing it to slightly un-fuck my slow learner guard brain since I've managed to con myself into believing that besides making me extremely sick, eating brains actually makes me smarter

>>718365240
The kind of people who want to talk about this game right now are not also the kind of people who would go to /vg/

>>718365771
bruh don't even respond to it

I wish there was a point in cooking. Higher tier foods need more unique buffs, because I don't see much a point in putting effort in other foods when soup exists.

>>718365716
I fucking HATE WITCHES. I actually got kinda annoyed by them so I took all their heads home with me also yeah brains.
>>718365845
I'm just making the higher tier foods because they look cool, but soup is really all you need.

Is there a better way to get military arms thank just whacking at their corpses with a knife?

>>718365957
the military arms are a meme

>>718365771
it'd have to be /vm/ not /vg/ to even talk about it and I'm kinda surprised this game doesn't have a dedicated thread on /vm/ since it's contemporaries all do
/vg/ has /coopg/ which hasn't really been a proper coop general for a while now, it's just a vermintide/darktide general since those are overwhelmingly the most talked about current coop games and making a non-tide /coopg/ fails every time, but for some reason the tideniggers just don't want to bite the bullet and rename /coopg/ to fatshart general so the skinwalker that is /coopg/ could finally be laid to rest
the one time a new coop game (helldivers 2) got popular enough to fill up /coopg/, it made the fatshart players angry they just started shitposting so hard that helldivers got it's own general entirely since the general became unusable

>>718365957
Nah just chop just soldiers. Keep chopping.

>>718365957
acquire superior thousand-fold nipponese steel knife for superior corpse cutting

>>718365957
Vacuum destroys corpses faster than any melee weapon

Do NPCs disappear sometimes? The guy from the cafeteria is not there anymore...

>>718356837
That changes if you increase the length of days in the settings btw. So you'll need more if you make the days longer.

>>718366443
w-what

>>718366741
They move, keep an eye out for him once you start checking out the area after Manufacturing and the Mines.

>>718366741
They move around/disappear as you progress in the story.

>>718348543

... Fuck.

>>718365240
sorry it isn't another undertale or donkey kong thread

>>718362682
Because theres an extremely dangerous shapeshifter on the loose that some bozo let out, so its better safe than sorry

Alright I powered Cloud Reactor, is there anything else here or do I just take the tram back and start trying to find my way towards the other reactors?

>>718367367
There's a lot of locked doors there if you feel like opening them for whatever reason. Otherwise, you can go back.
Oh wait did you get the skink bring a net launcher with at least 6 nets i think or a pest trap

>>718367489
I may have to wait for it to respawn because I killed it when I saw it because, much like needing to net a Lab Rat to get his backpack, this game is really gay about obfuscating stuff.
Is there even an email terminal somewhere that alludes to it? I don't recall ever seeing one about the Lab Rats.

>>718367636
I'm pretty sure both things were just on the player to figure out on their own

>>718348543
if you blast it with x-rays it's visible

will the tesla coil kill any nearby story npc survivors?

is it me, or do you get a lot less XP from hitting shit now since the last update? I went from getting 120xp+ smashing shit to only 19. sucks

>>718368293
Doubt it, Marion keeps visiting and walking through my blade traps.

>>718346754 (OP)
Grounded 2 is better, Obsidian just can't be surpassed

>>718370256
Grounded 2 isn't fully released yet, and I tend to avoid early access. I do think Grounded 1 is the best survival crafting game though, so i assume Grounded 2 is also good.

Is there any reason to make one carbon battery when I could make 7 makeshift batteries much easier?

MOTHERFUCKER
THE LEYAK DOESN'T HAVE SUBTITLES ANYMORE

where are chains?? i've been looking through manufacturing around the molten metal forge part because that's where i figured they would be. i went into shipping/the green shit place as well.

>>718370839
The mines

>>718370872
thanks

>>718368293
NPCs can't die and don't react to being attacked.

>>718347656
Lets circle back on that.
Synergy is key.
We need to think outside the box.
Workin hard or hardly working? Ah ha!
Lets take it to the next level!
Yeah, it's on my radar.
We're really moving the needle.
Let's get all our ducks in a row.
You know what they say, it is what it is.
Let's touch base later.
We're about the value-add.

I've made it to Fragments and judging by all information I've got, shit was FUBAR at the start of the game and (your) meddling is just a drop in the ocean of how fucked everything was.

>>718350937
I just have crafted extra plugs??? What do u mean extension coord

>>718371285
things could always get worse.

>>718371414
Cable reroutes, you can place them if you have Tech Scraps on you. They're just a way to essentially move a plug anywhere.

>>718349074
>>718349153
He won't eat any food with a negative, like some snacks are fine but the salty ones take away thrist? Won't eat that.
You have to give him up to 3 different food items with only positive buffs, and don't give him soup bowls or he can take them iirc
For example, I think slushie, coffee, certain snacks, potato, tomato, certain drinks

>>718364389
>Running back and forth constantly
I just carry 4 carts on me and throw them down when my inventory fills. Then use the cart teleport button to bring it back to base.
It's a bit cheesy, but the alternative is unbearable slog or leaving most loot behind.
At least until you get the teleporter. That helps a lot.

>>718370797
I spared them until I needed to make Null Grenades.

i found the headlamp and i dont have to carry a flashlight anymore
i completed the forge set and now when i get shot at i just laugh and stab the soldiers with my fire lance or bash with fire hammer. now i can finally explore some more and read all emails and manse logs without some dickhead soldier interrupting me.

>>718353193
go go gadget whole ass jotun.

>mfw my friend discovers the cubicle walls
VERY FUNNY
I JUST GOT JUMPSCARED BY THE LEYAK IN MY OWN BASE VERY COOL

love this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>718364292
GATE staff is smart, but as a whole the facility suffers from a massive
>why did you do this?
>because i could
problem.
from janitors to gatekeepers, every last one of them will yoink an unstudied anomaly if they think it'll help them.
manse is probably the only person in the facility that understands just how dangerous even the fully studied can be.

>>718373292
Not so fast. anon.

You can survive drops by driving a platform cart

>>718374012
nah it's worse than that. it's a classic case of "that won't happen to me." made exponentially worse by the fact that most of the time they're right.

>residences
me no likey this area

>>718374863
https://youtu.be/LRxaXmXvjnU

Is there a ladder or something I can build (instead of piling up couches) for the base building aspect to place stuff higher up on walls?

>>718347641
my distribution pad worked okay for like 5 hours and since then it has refused to do anything. if I stand on it for like 20 seconds it might take my bandages out and put them in a crate across the room, meanwhile my stacks of metal and plastic don't want to go into crate half full of metal/plastic 5 feet away.

>>718375287
shelves perhaps. large shelves.

>>718374298
you'll love what comes after, it's gorgeous

>>718375287
not really but a ramp with bridges is probably easier to manage than a bunch of couches.

I got a keycard thing off an Order guy I killed. What does it do?

>>718376284
Opens Order chests

>>718376284
opens a breast

>>718376550
sorry i was thinking about uh something else

>>718363025
>That guy gets a cute witch stalker
>We get that one creepy tentacle monster doing it to us instead
It's not fair.

DA gets an Accuracy and Reloading xp bonus according to the wiki, does that make the job worth it? Are military guns good enough for it to be worth the trouble of grinding Accuracy and Reloading to decent levels?

>>718374863
>filename
Ha.

>>718364301
I still find it weird GATE is your regular wacky science facility but they up and hired their own Warhammer-themed version of the Order to act as super security.

>>718376831
I don't know if I have the order of things correctly, but I think that the spec-ops wing of GATE security just slowly got more and more freakbeasted out over time as they gradually requisitioned more and more anteverse "tech" to supplement their gear.

>>718362682
Every scientist worth their salt is telling you the same thing; Sit down and wait for gatekeepers to fix things. What are you doing? Opening every single anteverse and polluting the prime dimension with constant creatures and materials not meant to be here. You literally are helping one of the documented big bads for a majority of the game, and even release the terrifying shoggoth creature that was already contained to save people from getting murdered to death.

You are literally the biggest contributing factor to why everything is fucked. Even other scientists say they see gate personal and were ignored by them, but only after you release a fucking SHAPESHIFTING MEGADEMON do you encounter gate troopers eradicating everyone. You should be fucking fired. Your degree isn't worth more than the fucking defense analyst's salary or the nonexistent support for the interns.

>>718370616
Grounded 2 has a surprising amount of content for Early Access to be quite honest. All the way up to T3 equipment, multiple bosses, etc. It's a pretty well put together game all things considered. It's not like the initial early access for Grounded 1 where you could go to the oak tree and that was basically it.

>>718376957
The thing is, the game was rigged from the start.

Manse personally reassigned you to Cascade facility before your arrival. He personally assigned Dr. Cahn, whom he knew had been dead for years and had been replaced by the then-still-contained shapeshifting demon that he ordered as "kill/contain on sight, by any means necessary" to handle your orientation. And Dr. Manse is still MIA by the end of the game. The Sister of the Unlost is constantly telling you that you are being played on so many more levels than you even know. There's still so much we don't know.

>>718377118
Manse didn't do that. IS-0012 shapeshifted into Manse and has been assigning ALL gate staff who make it through orientation to report him instead. You only find that out by reading an audio recording in reactor.

>>718377082
thats great, hopefully that means the game won't take over 2 years to come out

>>718376753
__no
_no____________________________________

Can I get rid of this body?

>>718377367
yea just cut him up. I think the blood still stays though

>>718377367
nope lol
enjoy seeing him die every time you load in there

>>718376957
its implied that you yourself are an anomaly.
>the sister of the unlost with her constant talk about loops and time
>the other gate facility with the gatekeepers, they were about to slaughter the fuck out of you until they got a "do not kill the temporal timeloop anomaly" in their ears.

>>718377118
Manse didn't do any of that. New staff introduction was poorly handled and nobody noticed until much later than Cahn responded.
Also the Sister of the Unlost spend the first half of the game outright telling you to just stop. She only goes on her "it was always meant to be" rant once you reach Reactor and it became clear we were too fucking retarded to NOT follow the obvious shapeshifter.

>>718377082
I might give it a try but I never tried Grounded 1 just because the concept doesn't seem appealing enough.
After beating INFRA Obenseuer seemed like an awesome idea but the game just feels so incredibly half-baked for how long it has been in EA.

>>718377367
come to think of it, is this the only black scientist in the game?

>>718377469
There's a handful
Only one survives

>>718377118
Pretty much every alive scientist may as well be IS-0012, especially someone like Dr. Hill casually holding off radioactive sludge with his bare hands. Also, most of the time their goals/objectives align somewhat with what "Cahn" wants you to do.

I haven't enjoyed a game this much since Elden Ring, which is funny because it has the same kind of progression
>Hub area
>You unlock shortcuts everywhere as you explore
>It's implied your efforts are just fucking things harder
>The story is told to you through NPCs saying cryptic shit
>There's a side called The Order who do the Tpose thing at you (even if it's a glitch here)

>>718377442
if you hate bugs then I guess you should skip it but honestly the style of the game is so similar to abiotic factor, the focus on science and discovering things, the handcrafted world, even a lot of the humor is similar.

>>718377442
I understand. I have a deep love for Honey I Shrunk the Kids so I am extremely biased. Mousemaps in TF2/CS/HL2DM were basically my favorite shit, and this is effectively my favorite survival game concept.

>>718376753
>DA gets an Accuracy and Reloading xp bonus according to the wiki, does that make the job worth it?
No.
By virtue of having Slow Learner, it's just a really dogshit job, and it also cripple the bonus XP (+40% instead of the normal +75%) making it even less appealing.
It also gives you very little points for traits, and the bonus skill points it gives are literally gained in the first 5 minutes of playing.
The starting gears are also useless, since you'll end up replacing them in those same 5 minutes.
>Are military guns good enough for it to be worth the trouble of grinding Accuracy and Reloading to decent levels?
Military guns are pure dogshit, gatekept behind a ton of limitations, few ammo, and awful damage.
But accuracy and reload also affects other ranged weapons.

>>718376753
The problem is DA also gets forced slow learner, which not only hampers all your exp gains (including the boosted ones from accuracy and reloading so it's not even that much), it also stops you from taking wrinkly brainmeat which is one of the few worthwhile positive traits, so you essentially are taking a 40% exp penalty on everything but reloading and accuracy.

>>718377469
he used to be white lmfao
there's 1 french black guy, 1 american? black guy (I forgot what he sounds like), 1 indian lady, and 1 middle eastern lady
>>718377525
tfw meet back up with elanor to see that isaiah has disappeared :(

Why take wrinckly brainmeat when you can just raise the xp in sandbox?

>>718376753
I would only use military guns if you have that mod that makes them all way better

>>718377550
I don't hate bugs, I just don't think they're interesting as enemies. Bugs are fine in Earth Defense Force just because the idea of fighting giant bugs with full scifi military might is funny.
Still, I might pick them up if I get a slopcrafter itch. Abiotic Factor is the first one I've ever put time into into after Minecraft and Terraria, if you can even count those. Of the non-block survival-crafters the only one I ever touched was ARK and it sucked, put 5 hours into it in 2016 and never booted it again.

>>718370678
because energy is fucked
daisy chained batteries are less efficient because they count the number of devices connected to them and not the actual power draw
it doesn't really matter in the long run because you just need enough batteries to last the night.

>>718377816
Because even with the raised xp AND wrinkly brainmeat most skills are complete agony to get to 20 by the end of the game.

with 2x xp, and brainmeat, you get about 25 xp per craft/salvage while buffed by eating a brain and the soup that gives extra crafting xp. That means to hit 20 you need to craft and salvage 3500 items. Crafting has about a one second timer, and can only be queued to 10. Even if you're scumming and doing cheesy shit like crafting and salvaging the same items to not lose resources like plastic bottles, it takes an unironic hour+ of clicking that fucking button over and over.

>>718377816
Why take any of the traits when you can modify the settings to make any aspect of the game trivial? Except fanny pack obviously.

>>718377842
For what it's worth, Grounded is similar to Abiotic in that you can customize the sandbox settings to eliminate aspects you dislike like managing meters or grinding for repair mats etc.

>>718377892
Honestly, so far I'm at the end of the mines and having one makeshift battery per device connected to a chain of extension plugs is getting me through the nights.

>>718346754 (OP)
Pussy ass bitch location. Also, long travel time from the main building to the portal.

I don't see the point in modifying the sandbox features and am playing with the intended experience. That said, if by the end of the game it becomes a slog I'll change my mind.

the torii or the other future portal worlds like it is just for the postgame stuff if you ask me

How useful is this jump pad?
I like the idea but it doesnt' seem to jump high enough to do anything beyond stacking a crate.
>>718377393
tried already, didn't work.

I still hope for a DLC or future episode that lets us unfuck everything

>>718378228
You can upgrade it. But it's still not amazingly useful imo.

also you can't cut up jager. he's there forever.

>>718378229
same.

>>718378080
I've played solo with the default settings, and even with Wrinkly Brainmeat, even your most used skills will have a hard time reaching level 15 before finishing the game, let alone reaching 20.
In 70 hours:
>Sprint level 15
>Construction level 13
>most combat skills between 10-12
>everything else around 6-10
Apparently there's baking at level 10 with Cooking, but I was level 8 by the time I finished the game.

>>718378228
more useful for certain base locations that are higher up

>got the security pistol
>fuck yeah, finally some actual firepower
>it fucking sucks ass and I immediately stop using it once I make a scrapshot
>get the SMG
>get my accuracy up high enough to craft biometric arm bands and farm the materials to make it
>alright, the pistol sucked but this has got to be bet-
>it fucking sucks. Also getting 9mm ammo is a pain in the ass compared to just crafting grinder ammo and scrapshot ammo
>SMG and pistol just rot in storage while I use my scrapshot and grinder
There really needs to be a way to craft 9mm ammo. Alternatively make grunts drop more than just 4-5 god damn bullets.

>>718378264
oh, I guess I will have to build something that lets me upgrade it, wish the tutorials were better in this game, feels like there is too much stuff that remains unspoken.
>>718378289
can't even get up the guard station.

>>718378290
there should be upgrades for them
but why would you use guns when you get more scifi shit

>>718378290
It is weird how actual military equipment are peashooters compared to goofy homemade ATF houseparty invitations.

>>718378290
I just play with https://www.nexusmods.com/abioticfactor/mods/52
I was tired of the guns sucking hard.

>>718377816
because you can do both

wow its almost like youre playing a game where youre a scientist fighting aliens and grunts with inventions and cool science shit and not a box standard fps 'i shoot glock' slopmachine

anyone complaining that guns suck is a fucking moron who is missing the entire point of the game

>>718378563
I agree with you but cool it with the reddit spacing.

>>718378290
They really REALLY didn't want you to use military weapons
>barely get any ammo for them
>locked to mid-late game due to being heavily affected by accuracy and reloading skill
>extra condition to use them requiring shitty arm wrap, or waiting until mid-late game to upgrade them
>awful damage
>upgrades are often just straight up downgrades

>>718378290
I think one of the traders accepts wood for shotgun shells but I forget which.
>>718378368
Do the crafted guns really not suck dick? I thought the 9mm was a baseline and the tradeoff was "you can craft infinite shittier ammo." That's the principle the laser gun I made during Security works on and it's good if only because its literally infinite ammo
>>718377469
I think there was a black guy in hydroplant, but I'm pretty sure he's just an engineer or a technician

>>718378563
4chan was doing 'reddit spacing' long before reddit was even a website, deal with it nig

>>718378667
Grayson

>>718378563
>options bad
>you must play the way I want
Fuck off retard

>>718378667
>Do the crafted guns really not suck dick?
The scrap pistol thing literally does double the damage of a 9mm pistol.

>>718346754 (OP)
>>Door leads directly to the office sector plaza,
Yeah and it's too fucking far, I rather just build straight to the office lobby so I can have all my carts filled with shit teleported right where my storage is.

>>718378667
>Do the crafted guns really not suck dick?
i'm still early in the game (manufacturing) and like the anon above i got the pistol and though "aw yeah now i can shoot back" then i made my own scattershot weapons and a grinder and have scrapped every pistol since. firearms really are pointless when you can make stuff that's not only hits harder but just much more fun than using standards gun. it's like hl1 when you get the gauss gun, conventional guns are just stone age shit after that, its the same with this game.

>>718378563
>not a box standard fps 'i shoot glock' slopmachine
Ppl are expecting half life, and freeman mostly used guns: glock, mp5, spas12, revolver, rocket launcher. well he did have some sciencey shit, like the gluon gun, tau cannon, crossbow, and some alien shit. So ofc ppl will be disappointed when guns aren’t really worth using until mid/lategame

>>718378667
yeah hes the senior manager of hydro, not a scientist

>>718378563
Then fucking remove throwing, melee, and really any heavy weaponry that isn't a fucking pistol, you're a skinny nerdling, not a soldier.

>>718378775
Isn't the scrap pistol one shot and reload? You can shoot someone in the head 8 times in the time it takes you to finish reloading the scrap pistol. The ammo being so scarce is the issue, so the magnum's probably the only one that's particularly good for just one shotting specific guys with a sneak head shot.

>>718378724
>look him up cause I'm really leaning on the antique shotgun while in hydroplant
>its that bleeding out guy wtf
>realized I tried healing him with the syringe like half life instead of a bandage and then left him for dead when it didnt work
>hurry back to heal him
>he's gone
am I just fucked?

>>718378563
The unupgraded guns being shit is something I can accept, but when I'm spending upgrade materials to turn them into scifi-amalgam guns and they still suck shit that's where I think it's an oversight. A lot of gun upgrades do nothing other than remove the bio-locks and don't even increase the damage, for those that do that damage increase is inconsequential enough to where it makes them pointless to use.

>>718379049
>he's gone
Huh? I finished the game and the dude is still there for me, telling me about level 3 and the power cells.
I'm not healing him.

>>718379024
The scrapshot is a one hit kill on most early game enemies if you're sneaking. Not the soldiers though.

>>718379086
the upgraded guns dont suck shit though
thumper shotgun absolutely shreds everything in the game because almost everything is vulnerable to acid
dont upgrade it to the cold damage version though cuz that DOES sucksince so much is resistant to cold damage

the upgraded pistol is goat and literally does not take durability damage so you NEVER have to repair it

>>718379103
every copy of abiotic factor is personalized
this might just be a console bug cause im a cheap fuck and am leeching off of someone's gamepass

>>718379157
Every other upgrades suck complete dicks beside Thumper shotgun and pistol.
Why the fuck does the sniper get a Cold upgrade is beyond me.

>>718347383
>pic
Damn you can get cool armor like that? I thought it was all gonna be makeshift science shit forever.

>>718379191
He kinda sucks anyway, he sells far too few ammo each time he shows up.

>>718379323
This. Crafting mats are better than like 2 fucking bullets. Silly ass vendor.
“HEY”

>>718379245
It’s mid/lategame when you start getting more of the military sets. You might be able to grind the snipers set early on but it’s fucking useless imo. Only good as a cosmetic set with the transmogwhatwver the fuck that machine is called from calvin and hobbes that lets you have a cosmetic set of armor to cover whatever you’re actually wearing

>>718379227
>Why the fuck does the sniper get a Cold upgrade is beyond me.
I think it's alright. Drops mystagogue in 2 dome shots and pretty much every order enemy besides assassins. Regular sniper rifle for some reason knock their helmets off for the first headshot, ice sniper kills them clean.
>>718379245
You're likely going to wear makeshift science stuff because of the better bonuses. Or even armor made out of ayyyliens.
It's also puzzling to me that intersector (assassin) armor gives zero set bonuses.

>>718379578
does anyone even use the knives from that enemy lmfao. they seem so ass

>>718379578
>Drops mystagogue in 2 dome shots and pretty much every order enemy besides assassins. Regular sniper rifle for some reason knock their helmets off for the first headshot, ice sniper kills them clean.
Too much shit is resistant to cold, and the gimmick "freezing for 0.0002 seconds" is not very useful on the sniper.
They should have it set to Plasma/Holy/Psychic since at least it'd gives the thing armor penetration, which you'd expect from a sniper.

>>718379702
Different elements tied to upgrades is such a fucking shitty idea

>>718379750
>Different elements tied to upgrades is such a fucking shitty idea
100%, the shotgun is the perfect example
>lose great damage bonus
>gain shitty gimmick

>>718378228
I like the jump pad for shortcuts. I like to place one here so I don't have to fuck around with this ladder for my mini base while we're fucking around in manufacturing.

>>718379860
>didn't actually include what I was talking about

>>718379896
Wish we could get some kind of organ-farm going, having to remember where these fucking things are to collect them in the Mycofields sucks.

>>718378264
It is with the gravity cube

>>718371773
When the hell did that get added?
A lot easier to stay in the sweet spot when you can just move stuff between you and the cart to maintain it.

>>718347641
>Distribution Pad
What does that do, anyway?

hmmm maybe i shpuld capture and tame a skink as a pet in my base

>>718379896
>>718378228
This shortcut's way more useful, we keep our main base here in the aquarium area.

The first upgrades for the shotgun, revolver, and sniper rifle are all good, valuable weapons. Don't bother with the second upgrades.

>>718379702
>Plasma/Holy/Psychic
Unironically would've made it worse. Plasma Famas and plasma SMG are worse at dealing with shielded guys than thumper or even regular guns. They should've introduced bullet types instead, kinda like projectile weapons have up to 4 ammo variants. But that would add even more inventory bloat to current bloat.

>>718346754 (OP)
Don't bring your worldly problems into the realm of the gods.

>>718380073
revolver only has 1 upgrade, no?

>>718379896
I really should consider making mini bases. It's much better than running all the way back to the canteen when I'm overloaded with loot or exhausted.

>>718380059
I just use the jetpack like a normal well adjusted person.

>>718380265
Yeah. You'd think it'd do something cool from requiring night realm stuff, but all it does is remove the lock and that's it. Doesn't even increase the damage.

>>718380021
It automagically teleports stuff from your inventory to containers within some distance from the pad. It won't teleport stuff if none of the containers have it in them. It will also not teleport stuff in favorite inventory slots OR located on the hot bar.

>>718380369
Minibases are useful early on desu. I have a bunch of them that I ended up abandoning in the midgame, altho i still have one base per area

>>718347641
Seeing this makes me think, if they wanted crates to open from the front in order to make them stackable they should have just made them into lockers instead.

>>718380370
Wasn't an option when you first get there, and we take our sweet time going through. Although now I'm using the pocket dimension anyway.

>>718380369
It gets less useful once you get teleporters, though I still like to have a few basics set up, like setting up a laser collector and fridge somewhere convenient as I'm exploring an area.

Is this game getting more content updates or is this it?

Really wish I had that teleport mug right about now.

>>718378290
That's why you get Spuddy and the Sigil of the Hearth and go bullet farming in Rise and Manufacturing.
I often get a water barrel on my back and sprint at full speed towards grunts and one tap them with a heavy melee sprint attack. After 1 or 2 runs I got plenty of ammo to use on stuff.
I also did spend like an hour running laps while reloading a scrap shot over and over to get to Reloading 20.
If you press and hold R you can unload your current gun and reload it for XP as long as you have exactly one bullet in your inventory. my friend told me you can just hold R and it will unload but I didn't get it to work unless I had 1 bullet left I'm fairly sure XP gain is based on how much of a magazine you reload and since the scrap shot has a magazine of 1 you are always reloading a full magazine for some 40 xp (+4 with order helmet, +4 with Sustenance Soup and some extra by eating a human brain)

>>718380059
Cool base, yeah that's a good spot, I'll just keep them until I find where they can be useful.

>>718380745
It's supposed to be, yes

>>718381178
>the Order just broke into the devs office and gunned down everyone there

I am enjoying the game quite a it and seeing your screenshots makes me happy that I only scraped the surface of it........but I can't find my way around the map, it seems I have to stumble or remember where to go.

Am I going in the wrong menùs or something?

>>718381508
you'll get the hang of it. The map never changes. It's your first day/days at work so of course you'd get lost

>>718370678
The state where it's useful is so short it's not worth it
2 makeshift batteries, laser emitter, and laser power is infinite energy for anything everywhere, so you just wire everything up to that main line, and just make 2 makesift batteries for plugs where you want to drop one offs like a tp or a crafting bench. Once you unlock laser emitter might as well just turn off wall sockets powering down cause power gets solved

>hello friend
>are you all right?
>to be together on this island is... nice
>I'm glad you survived
>at least we are together

How's my collection look?

>>718383961
nice water

>>718346754 (OP)
There is NO more comfortable base than the base below the water dam. My first one was in the offices overlooking Flathill portal, second was in lab aquarium, but this is my fucking home. Not even this guy want to leave.

>>718383961
I'm always tempted to move to that room, but the canteen is just too convenient and has an insane amount of space. Invasions aren't even a problem if you re-close the kitchen shutters since half the aliens get stuck staring at you through the indestructible windows.

>>718384652
here's some more.

>>718384836
#freeleyak

>>718384880
Ignore the TV on the floor, that was temporary.
>>718384861
I feed it regularly.

Seeing some of these nice bases really makes me want to leave that shitty canteen. You can pretty it up all you want but it's still a soulless corporate canteen.

Come on you pussies, show your first. this is mine. Bonus point for whoever knows where this is.

>>718377625
Is the sniper at least good? I can't use it yet cause it requires fucking high accuracy skill though. The sniper has upgrades apparently maybe they make it better?

>>718382659
I won't give you a body Alanah Pierce

>>718384652
I've got one here and another in the flathill arcade. Both are peak aesthetic

>>718349309
I'd love to see a mod that makes it more threatening by making it faster, no subtitles, longer aggro range so on.
Maybe also make the containment unit available earlier so it doesn't overstay its welcome.

>>718346754 (OP)
>rapes the shit out of your fps

>>718385862
How long is it until you get the containment unit anyway? I don't want to have to deal with this nuisance for hours and hours.

>>718385796
I understand the mechanics of the workbench and all. But does it ever really feels like home making a base in an anteverse? It's not truly your home is it?

>>718346754 (OP)
Give me one (1) good torrent link and I’ll tell you

>>718385607
Isn't that by the Flathills portal?

>>718386143
Fuck off, this game is good enough it deserves to be payed for.

>>718386187
It is in the offices overlooking flathill portal. Correct.

>>718385607
This office is actually right below where I made one of my first bases. I had a bounce pad up to the vents above and just hid in there every night when starting.

>>718385954
a good bit into hydroplant, or very early in hyrdroplant if you know where to go (you won't)
you should be able to make it after going through the security sector

>>718385967
The only difference is resetting resources and most of them are leyak safe

>>718385693
First upgrade just removes the biometrics requirement. It's not bad per se, but at the point where you'll get it you won't really have much .308 ammo and you will probably only use it to counter-snipe snipers.

>>718386474
>leyak safe
But where is your actual home?

>soldiers speaking latin or some shit
>swear i occasionally hear them say baguette

>>718386702
For a while I could have sworn they were pointing at me and yelling "ANIME!" It was hours before I realized they were calling me "Enemy."

>>718386751
>SCIENTIST! DO NOT RECOMMEND THE TAINTED JAPANESE CARTOON BOKU. COMERADES! WE HAVE AN OTAKU BEFORE US! LET US CLEANSE THE WORLD OF HIS FILTH BEFORE HE SPEAKS OF ISEKAI AND WAIFUS!

>>718386540
Can you craft a better long range weapon or is the sniper drop all you get? I think I read on earlier thread that its kind of a rare drop. I don't think the sniper in manufacturing even respawns, or at least I haven't seen him respawn, I got the drop from one of the snipers in the portal thats just full of grunts and egg..

>>718386751
Anime in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti!

I'd like to share my base but it's a little too spread out. Maybe I'll make a nicer walk through of it sometime. My friend and I clearly live in chaos. My bed is literally on a shelf hanging off the railing with my chests on the wall adjacent to it.

The soldiers are not the thread I assumed them to be
>Expect Half Life marines
>Get an even easier version of the Exors to fight

You fucking retard.

>>718386901
>SCIENTIST, DO NOT OPEN 4CHAN, THERE ARE ABOMINATIONS WITHIN

>>718387035
Your aquarium base is pretty near my second base, mine was almost entirely located to the later half of the webm. And I of course farmed the robutt with some tesla coils.

Let me see your very endgame storage setups, I don't wanna have to keep redoing mine as new shit keeps showing up - rather just have something set up now that's future proof.

>All these bases in passthrough areas of the game
I wish the offices/canteen weren't in such a prime hub area, but I can't justify leaving even if these are comfier locations.

Marion might be my favorite NPC, can you upgrade the composer armor set? Its starting to fall off but I like it a lot.

>>718387294
>>718387035
Fuck it, here's this unsorted mess.

>>718387545
>Flathills play mat
Based, that one was kinda hidden.

>>718387671
Putting your figurines and bobbleheads on the play mat is peak.

>>718387545
Pretty good, the couch area looks comfy. We were also originally just in there but spread out finally because we've got so much shit and the lab area was just being used as a walkthrough path. The nearby tram location, the unlimited water, and all the raids coming through the one door make it my favorite spot.

>>718387870
I suppose the pretty lights help too.

>>718386983
>I got the drop from one of the snipers in the portal thats just full of grunts and egg..
With materials from next zone you will be able to build Magbow (think HL2 crossbow).
>I don't think the sniper in manufacturing even respawns
There're 3 of them in manufacturing: 1 of them overlooks giant radioactive pool, 2 of them are in the outpost, guarding a room with a power cell and a drop down back to blacksmith trader.

How do you deal with the red robots without getting raped ? The good ol' backtrack and poke with spear doesn't work anymore...

>>718388105
Get better weapons. Ranged weapons.

>>718387870
>the couch area looks comfy
Thank you. It's not much but it's all I've got.

>>718388162
Acid darts are good against them ? The problem is I haven't found renewable sources of magnetic alloy yet. I could make a Magbow but I dunno how effective it is either.

>>718388105
I set up some Tesla coils around the corner with the stairs that come up next to the one in a room. Lured the other one over and blasted it with a laser pistol while the coils shocked it.

>>718388226
They are vulnerable to acid, yes. Though you should have the recipe for quill rifle by now.
I just cheesed my first few kills, one with energy pistol from rooftop and another by repeatedly sneak attacking with my heavy weapon to their back where they're weaker.

>>718388105
I have hardlight shield + deatomizer

>>718388105
IS-0099 to the backpack + slushies.

>>718388105
Tesla coils still work, you just need more of them

Why do you think bulk crafting is capped at 10?

>>718389048
Bad coding I'm guessing, after seeing how wonky the Distributor Pad works I have a feeling this is all running on string and glue.

>>718388105
Hit this part enough and there's no problem.

>>718389284
Won't that blow up in my face?

>>718389358
Unless you just stand there and wait as the robot keeps attacking you despite the loud "LEAVE NOW, THIS THING IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE" alarm, no.

>>718348770
>playing multiplayer
>starts chasing friend
>catches a glimpse of it and says something got into the base so we all go looking
>sneaks up and goes full aggro on him
>he freaks the hell out
>the rest of us are watching him spaz out over nothing until he falls down a balcony and dies
We thought he was full of shit and just having a laugh until it swapped to a few more people

>>718389358
NTA but slushie bomb that fucking bot and hit it in the back and you're golden.

>>718389358
Only if you're stupid enough to stay near them as the alarm start blaring.

>>718389885
Are you soup-maxxing?. Brother, NO.

>>718390239
All those soups still have 6 portions, I just eat eggs.

What kind of game is it even? I'm getting the impression that is System Shock 2 meets open world survivalcraft.

I haven't even bothered with soups, I just scarf down four megatomatoes and carry on with my science

>>718390441
Not a bad way to describe it, honestly. With the built-in world config you can minimize the survival side of it if that's not your thing.

>>718380059
Holy shit, that's a cool-ass base. Haven't reached that location yet. People really do make comfy spots.
>>718384689
Can do both, but the view + only having 1 door makes security 2 preferrable to me. It just feel so ... surrounded when there's multiple entryways.

>Be sneaky and quiet
>Grunt starts shooting
Why is it so goddamn loud in comparison to anything else. I get the hurrdurr it's guns, but damn. Don't even get me started on the Machine Gunner, it's a jumpscare.

>>718390813
Funny enough, the machine gunner in Manufacturing is broken and will sometime never stop shooting at the crane, and you'll hear it even on the other side of the sector. It's fucking headache inducing.

>>718389885
And I thought I made too many soups.

>>718390398
>Living in an ice cave
Are you RPing as Mr Freeze?

>>718391436
I like snow and that big open spot in Voussoir is perfect for a base.

>>718391626
You should be able to close it off into your own little shack, I've seen an anon make his own shack using cubicle walls and platforms.

>>718391736
I like keeping things in the open, the only thing I used cubicles for is the toilet.

>>718391952
>the only thing I used cubicles for is the toilet.
That's where you're supposed to put the 3 couches, so fellow scientists can scrutinize the efficiency your shitting.

>>718392056
I have Gayson for that.

>>718392056
>Not so fast, Dr Anon. Despite the severity of our situation, we believe it is vital we continue our valuable research on the science of defecation. Please sit on the makeshift toilet in our viewing area and we will begin the test. Be advised we will be asking questions during the process.

I wish you could pick up tamed pests.

>>718392201
I hate Grayson. I never should have healed that fuck. Unless I used a toilet cubical he visits purely to stare at me as I shit. At least the Leyak is showing up to kill you and it's just bad timing on her part, Grayson has no excuse.

>Make nuclear reactor under hydroplant
>Indiscriminate nuclear waste dumping
I am surprised the foundation can hold up to the immense weight of the water, enough to let a whale to swim around.

>Leyak is an Indonesian fetus-eating spirit
damn, that explains the kill message and tendrils I guess

>>718392312
>they're waiting for you Gordon... in the men's bathroom...

There is something odd about the delivery of all the NPCs I found so far, they seem detatched, almost bored, robotic in their mannerism.

I am quite confused.

>>718392680
>>718392312
Anon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained shitter.

>>718392201
>>718392459
>Dr. Derek Manse reporting, Research Director, GATE Cascade Research Facility.
>We have received several complaints about a GATE staff member from Manufacturing having inappropriate behaviour in the bathroom.
>According to the reports, the man will simply just walk in on his coworkers during, er... their private business, and just stand there, watching.
>Despite their best attempts, GATE security have been unable to catch this man, so if anyone have any information, please come see me in my office.
>I do NOT want to have to explain myself to Keystone HR department a third time.

>>718392312
The toilet it's not... it's not flushing down.... OH GOD!!!

>>718393483
Gordon! Get away from the splash zone!

I never thought I'd see a backed up toilet cascade, let alone create one...

I've taken twelve bigass shits, and not one of 'em splashed back... this sucks.

>New to game
>Playing with frens
>Use toilet right in front of mate
>Thus blocking it for him
>He shits on the floor
>Relentlessly call him floorshitter now
>Came to a point where his gf was unsure if it was ingame or irl

>>718392642
>Cahn
>the cooler Cahn

>>718393908
immediately read that in my head in the loud, bitcrushed southern grunt voice and laughed my ass off

>>718393940
I'm tempted to make my next character an indian who just poos on the floor every time, but it's a lot of effort for a racist joke.

>>718389885
wheres that pig from

>>718385607
Best place ever.

Come in, Pooper. Do you copy? Forget about flushing, we're abandoning the shitter. If you have any last stinkbomb targets, mark them on the craptical map. Otherwise, get the smell out of there.

Gordon Freeman in the flesh... or rather, sitting on the lavatory, I took the liberty of relieving you of your toilet paper, most of it was company property. As for the diarrhea, I think you've earned it.

>>718392201
>>718392459
Hey.

Dr Freeeeeeerun. I realize this moment may not be the most convenient for a shart to shart. Butt I had to waste until your stalls , *aheh heh* were otherwise occupied.

>>718394952
The office toilet cubical on floor 2 is under janitorial control, thanks to you. Quite a nasty piece of work you managed in there, the janitors are not impresssssed.

For God's sake, open the bathroom stall! You're shitting for us! It's our only way in! Oh my God, you poo'd!

Gordon! If I'd known it was you, I'd have let you in! Everyone's heading for the bathroom, but I think they're crazy not to use this bucket. Someone is bound to come by and empty it.

If you're annoyed with leyak just grab a mod which replaces it with miki (and another for MIKU DAYO sound), now I enjoy meeting her and look forward to it

>>718387430
I play with max stack size. About 7 large/compact storages gets me out of trouble. Just kind of throw everything together for the most part, then put armour, melee and ranged weapons in their own crates, then one last crate separated from the rest for teleporters, trinkets, suits and other bits of gear I might change out.

more like gaybiotic factor

Any advice for a newbie that wants to run solo? Any particular job I should go for, or does it not matter too much?

>>718396315
doesn't matter terribly much as long as you don't pick Defense Analyst, that's the only job that's proper hindrance instead of just being downright inconsequential or at best a very, VERY mild specialization
don't think of them like hard RPG classes, they're more like occupations in project zomboid, mostly just backstory for your character that doesn't affect gameplay much
if you want to minmax, pick Summer Intern with the XP gain positives and the shitting/drinking/pissing/eating negatives because those become a non-issue early on in the game if you figure out farming

I don't get how radiation works.
>Alien meat is radioactive
>Frying it in a pan, it is naturally still radioactive
>But if you put it in a soup then your alien meat soup is somehow decontaminated and perfectly safe

>>718396606
the magic of boiling

>>718396582
Hey, you get a free nightstick.

Honestly, early game enemies are pretty easy, even the soldiers. I forgot I was still wearing only magazines on my arms and legs plus a karate helmet from the gym and a lead vest by the end of maintenance and still had no trouble.

>>718396606
It's not completely scifi.

>>718396741
and a vest that's unobtainable anywhere else in the game, I guess

>>718396315
>Any advice for a newbie that wants to run solo?
Crank the exp multiplier in the game to 2 at least, otherwise you'll miss a bunch of stuff with default exp gain due to leveling being all over the place.
You can also increase stack size if you want.
In general don't concern yourself too much with balance and don't hesitate to change values if you feel like something is too annoying.
>Any particular job I should go for, or does it not matter too much?
Any job is fine beside Defense Analyst as it also gives you an annoying debuff to exp gain.
For traits, negative needs (food, water, shitting, sleep) are pretty much free points (and the positive versions are pretty much useless), Wrinkly Brainmeat is a must (exp gain), and Fanny Pack is amazing despite what it sounds like, Buff Brainiac is also good (increased strength and carry capacity).
Avoid Slow Learner (exp gain debuff) and Lead Belly (very expensive for a problem very easily solved).

>>718395804
I'd like to do something like that but I'd want it to match the artstyle. Imagining it as an anomaly bringing your imaginary waifu to laifu is fitting to the setting though.

>>718396874
>Crank the exp multiplier in the game to 2 at least,
I wouldn't it means you fly through early levels. I haven't touched shit and I'm almost 10 on several stats in the early game.

>>718397006
I finished the game with default settings as mentioned here >>718378271 and I've missed a ton of perks from the weird leveling.

>>718397006
It slows down hard because the xp formula is Runescape-tier and getting levels plateaus hard after 13 or so

You helped BOTH your brain-upload friends out, right anon?

>>718397397
FUCK
I left Residential to make cheese for the little guy, then I forgot it on the toilet when I finished the game.

>nerfed quantum pick
I guess its back to the deatomizer... yay...

>>718397397
I did.

>>718397489
No reason for it too, literally just
>we need to nerf the end game throwing weapon because... BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO OKAY?!!

>>718350092
Im almost finished with the game, and im already envious of people who get to play this game with a friend or three - blind - with ingame walkie talkies. You're gonna have a blast.

>>718397489
>nerfing in pve games

>>718385607
I'm still working on this setup (as you can see by the farm room), but I'm very happy with what I have so far.

>>718397980
comfy setup anon

>research facility with highly dangerous materials and researches
>single power plugs, forcing the staff to link up multiple makeshift power strips to power more than one device at a time
>power turns off at night, forcing staff needing to work on project that last longer than a day to make dubious makeshift batteries
>aggressive security robots requiring a key pass from security to not violently murder you
Are GATE facilities designed to give safety inspectors a stroke?

>>718397980
>jump pad
>Grayson is just waiting for you up there
Terrifying

>>718397397
I helped cheese. Not Kylie. Fuck Alanah Pierce

Is there a train area? Can you make a base around it?

>>718398124
Staff is supposed to retire to Residential during the nightly off-work hours while the robots are active. I do think that they should have worked up a better justification for having the power off at night. Have an email make reference to conserving power usage during reactor maintenance or metered power while on the backup grid if something goes wrong. Having power cutoffs be the standard even when things are going smoothly is silly.

>>718398456
If you don't mind Order as you neighbors.

>>718398456
One of the portal world "dungeons" is an entire train with a dining car, a lounge car, and storage cars. There's guaranteed enemy spawns so you'll have to set traps until you unlock the anti-Order spawn beacons.

>>718351480
>>718354558


Basing in the cafeteria is the most braindead uncreative thing you can do

>>718397980
>>718384836
>>718352240
>>718385607
>>718387545
>>718394626

kino

>>718397980
>What, that area has respawning enemies, why would you-
>Jump pad
GENIUS.

>>718398537
It's silly when you remember it's a research facility so you'd have situation where 15 hours of power is not enough to get result or turning off the power might temper with the samples.

>>718398720
There is actually an elevator in the corner, that's how I used to get up there.

>>718398712
>Basing in the cafeteria is the most braindead uncreative thing you can do
First guy you responded to here. I agree, and have been thinking about moving for a while now. Not sure where to though.

>>718398820
you have an entire facility my dude. pick somewhere nice

>>718398820
On the top of hydroplant. Not sure if there is power though.

Grayson feels like the type of guy who loudly eat a bag chips while watching you take a dump. Maybe saying something like
>So, come here often?
as well.

>>718347383
>I guess I'm going to have to strap some furniture to my back and go on jogs if I want to use the new heavy weapons?
Thats what i did until i got enough str to use heavy and then just played normally.
Now to think of it - if sprint+attack doesn't require you to have heavy training then you don't need it, using regular attacks with heavy weapons is slow and annoying even after unlocking the perk so i never used it.

>>718399374
You can also grind strength once you get the ability to shake vending machines by just finding two vending machines next to each others. You can cancel the animation and just keep shaking both rapidly.

>>718398712
Part of me wishes to move but i already moved from cafeteria and then back so now i feel like its too much hassle even with teleporters...No place really impressed me that much anyway and don't want to do a quirky base just because its quirky. My cafeteria base is whole cafeteria from dead guy to storage backrooms and its at least spacious.

>>718399448
Yea, gains are way slower than just getting to yellow and running around, and way more boring. You can still loot stuff and play the game as usual - put benches in your inventory to get yellow, then loot stuff and move benches on hotbars, then loot more and either go back or drop benches.

>>718394569
Executive Wing of the Residence Sector, it's blocked by an ice wall at first.

Can't believe how much I'm invested in the lore of this game, not sure why, usually I don't care about the story in this sort of game.

>>718399448
You can also grind strength by having the heaviest armor class

>>718400150
Because it's dumb as fuck, which in turn makes it interesting.

>>718400235
Yeah, I think it's the best way to grind strength, going in the orange weight (not red, you don't gain strength xp) + wearing enough armor to trigger "heavy armor", and running around.
Now if there was a way to add shaking vending machines in there for maximum gain, it'd be perfect.

>>718399448
you can place a jump pad on a ramp and run into it while angled against a wall to just passively do it afk

Ive had a lot of people recommending the Exor armor, but im in Reactors now and im still getting bullied a lot. Is there a different armor I should be using now?

>>718400727
just play smarter

>>718400727
I think i just used wood armour by then. Its not great but decent defense and gun enemies love to give you heavy bleeds and i was too lazy to craft bandages.

>>718400727
By Reactor you're at that point where you should focus more on the gimmick of the armor, rather than their protective value.
If you're getting pushed around, try the Crystalline armor set for instance.

>>718385607
>>718398712
>Basing in the cafeteria is the most efficient cool thing you can do
Fixed it for you.
>>718400337
Something I've been wanting to say is that I love the tone of this game. It's light hearted and silly but it never feels ironic "haha this is so silly isn't it?". The game is confident in how stupid it is and I love that.

>>718349309
>Fighting a robot in an enclosed area (that fungal area next to the part with the pool in reactors)
>Constantly having to back up out of its range
>Low HP, Leyak spawns behind me, back up into it and die

>>718401317
The other one is a lot more of a pain in the ass, it froze me in the middle of a fight or forced me out of cover god knows how many times.

>>718401451
that stupid faggot has spawned tornados IN my base before

I found the Abe and Janet shorts, they're actually pretty funny. Kinda wish they weren't shorts tho.

>>718402476
Fuck them, they killed the only good guy in Order.

>>718398712
I understand your annoyance with it, but it's where I started and I consider it home.
>Lots of space
>Can stretch the one plug near the toilets to give power to the main cafeteria
>Only two easily defensible ways in - the bulletproof glass doors and the shitty little door to the side
>Can interfere with invasions by closing the kitchen shutters. I keep these closed so I have my own personal pest enclosure/point-and-laugh gallery during invasions
>It's in the centre of everything
>Two sets of vending machines, one right in the tiled area I use
>Can make the area near the security checkpoint and shuttered kitchen a killzone filled with traps for invaders from that direction
It's uncomfy and a popular location so it isn't interesting. Those are the only two downsides. I also have to crouchjump to get in, but that's my fault for making a cement barricade to keep shit out.

Over the past two days I have spent more time considering playing than actually playing. Reactors is just that frustrating I guess.

>>718402550
>we saved you from a hostage situation
>by vaporizing the unarmed order guy standing next to the scientist(s) holding enough ordnance to level Flathill

>>718403535
Nuclear plant was kino, the rest reactors are shit.

>beginning of the game when the Order raid just started
>there's already shit in the trash cans

>>718404521
Every copy of the game is personalized. I am so sorry you got the Indian edition.

>>718404925
It's the kitchen trash cans every single time too.

>>718404521
It was Cahn.

>>718404521
https://abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Varsha_Patel

>>718402550
>>718403556
ngl I start fucking laughing and then it kicked in that he died :( At the same time I kinda love fucked up situations like that in stories. You never know what life will throw your way.

>>718404521
That happened to me once. It was right next to a vending machine.

>>718405492
Kizz Cola strikes again.

>>718400969
I liked the Crystalline set but its nearly impossible to stealth kill Gatekeepers

anyone know the range for the moisture teleporter?

>>718405642
your rebar railgun? Oneshots everyone but Franks

I have a 'base' for each area in the game, sometimes 2 if there's a fishing spot. They all look shit though. Maybe I should go hunting for furniture

We need more horror anteverses, more survival anteverses, and more weird anteverses that aren't anteverse 2.

>>718405108
Jokes aside, I was sad to find her body.

>>718405792
nta but it fucking doesn't even on default settings, I land back-of-the-head stealth shots on a neophyte and he just stumbles forward
forget even talking about jotuns

>>718405642
Try using the Thumper shotgun with it, even if you don't kill them, it's very good at staggering them due to the extra damage. The reloading is gonna get you killed if you fight more than one tho.

>>718405752
It's at least the distance of two of the largest garden plots' long sides, have a barrel about that far away that's been getting topped off by mine

is there no upgraded healing syringe wtf

>>718406564
Hm, you using upgraded one? Because if they don't notice you then they don't have their shield up and headshot oneshots most for me. Strange

>>718407008
Upgraded magbow, stealth 20

>>718407006
It's called a healing briefcase.

Just beat the game with friends and trying to up the difficulty to force us to cheese more with traps and defenses. Is apocalyptic good as is or should I increase enemy spawns even more. Dont really feel like increasing health or damage. Already tripled xp gain and doubled stack size and durability

>>718407286
Oh I have one of those, I'm just surprised there's no upgraded syringe since there's an upgraded bandage

>>718407417
health briefcase