Thread 718751603

>Butcher 10 inkfish
>No black oil
I hate this system.

wtf I can't believe my survival craftan slop is grindy and annoying

I could've sworn it was guaranteed.

>>718751635
wtf I can't believe there is an on topic post on /v/

...

wanted to try out the radiation armor with the neutrino trinket while carrying the amount of radioactive material to get the max speed boost, but you still take radiation even at 100% resistance and puke constantly. dont think its worth having to carry a bunch of extra food and water to counter it

>>718751603 (OP)
Just go farm the flamer dudes, the inkfisk are not worth it

>>718754234
I'm not there yet and I want the polished shotgun.

>>718754262
The polished shotgun is not that good, the chance for it to trigger is so minimal that it might as well not even be there, I'd progress to the Praetorium if I were you instead of wasting my time on inkfish for the meaningless upgrade you can get much easier if you just progress a bit more.

Just tell me bros is it rough out there?

>>718755208
They gave my wife a sniper rifle in this latest update. It's fucked up.

>>718755208
nah it's comfy

>>718757371
Spooky

>>718757424
No it's your wife.

>>718751603 (OP)
>Abiotic Factor

How the fuck do I collect poop from the makeshift toilet? I've used it like a dozen times and I don't see any signs of poop collection(?)

>>718758035
You have to aim at the bucket itself. Crouching helps.

>>718758035
Your poop need needs to be high enough to produce anything, like around 40% or higher.

>>718758035
check the bucket below the toilet

>>718758035
Also what other anon said. You gotta have the toilet emergency debuff going, either severity of it, in order to produce a collectible poop.
So hold that shit in until you have to ask the teacher "can I go to the bathroom?"

>>718758119
>>718758176
>>718758205
>>718758382

When the bucket has shit to collect will I be able to visibly 'see' it in the bucket or do I have to squat and crawl around on the floor inspecting the bucket to see if I can interact with it?

>>718758569
You gotta shove your face in there and sniff around for it, yes.

>>718758569
You can interract even with the empty bucket. Like I said, you have to aim low at the bucket itself.
Clean up after yourself after each poop and store that poop in some wooden box for later.

What's the damage reduction on this thing?

Reached residence and my guy keeps crying about being frozen, any good armor? Am relying on the exor crutch

>>718758654
>>718758724

Thanks, I hate it.
Sounds like I'll have something to talk about with coworker.

>>718758949
Jeff's coffee hole is for coffee ONLY. Please don't feed him poop stew.
That's for Chester.

Are they going to add more content or is it feature complete right now

They just added trading cards. Hurrah?

>>718759845
What do you mean?

>>718760182
Steam trading cards to celebrate a big science number.

Does the hardlight crafting glitch still work

>>718759787
today's patch they talked about a roadmap

>>718751603 (OP)
>>718751635
>nah bro this game isn't that grindy compared to other survival craft slop
>nah bro the rng loot drops aren't THAT bad
>nah bro this literally who game isn't running a skill campaign
>nah bro it's pure coincidence that you got reported only after you called out the jeets
:)
Again, when does the contract for the shill campaign end?

>718761043
right after you finish the game

>>718761043
damn you're really above the herd, hope you do that for every ragebait and porn thread

>>718755208
I'm playing through without using outlets, only batteries and chargers. It's... great. Lots of an heroing, because it's easier than waiting for hunger.

Been meaning to put down garden plots for ages to grow food for soups, but I just can't decide on a permanent spot for a base that's close to water and won't get attacked. I'm thinking once I get to hydro I'll probably set up around the sub, though that's definitely a bit out of the way.

>>718761489
Theres a room above the blacksmith that you need a levekl 2 keykard to get into. Theres nothing in it, but its kinda spacious and close to a water source. No enemies spawn in it and it requires ladder climbing to reach so I dont think enemies could get up there if they had a mind to.

You could also just rock the gypsy life using a cart/forklift as your base. Drag it around with you everywhere and set up camp when you need to.

>>718761043
When people stop having fun I guess

>>718754090
Yea. You pretty much have to huet take an iodine/acid every time you hit orange radiation. But from what in reading on the wiki, max speed boost can be achieved by the rate, but the max health boost requires high absorbed rads

>>718758736
5%

>>718758867
just keep drinking coffee or if you happen to have the fish with tentacles you can make risotto for the same effect without the shitting

Whats the 2nd Rat item? I got the hazrat suit and the weapon but theres apparently another rat iem for a 2 set

Hypothetically speaking...
Whats preventing me from plugging in a battery and crafting bench at 100m intervals throughout the entire facility?

>>718763089
The backpack. You need to shoot a rat with a net launcher and kill him with a blunt weapon while he's stunned with the net on him.
It's actually pretty good.

>>718763708
Oh, ok. I completely forgot about nets after the first 10mins. Thats kinda neat, I guess

>>718763652
Enemies will attack shit you leave laying around.
You can just put defenses around them, though.
The game has a lot of fun shit you can do like that, like just building bridges around the facility to bypass shit, or do what I did and use tall barricades to completely bypass these turrets instead of turn them off.

>>718762963
thanks

I was hoping this would work.

>>718763947
Seems like it did work. Hide behind those boxes and build barricades in a line to block the turret's view.

>>718763947
But it did work. Bring some bandages, use a shield to block bullets and use a long jump module to close the gap.

>>718764098
>use a shield to block bullets
Doesn't work.

>>718764098
Turrets ignore shields, sadly.

>>718764535
>>718764620
Fuck. I'm retarded.

What the fuck is that sniper in reactors? It can see me even through the crystal armor invisibility.

>>718764535
you had it the 1st time
maybe try jumping further to the right so the boxes block line of sight for longer?
maybe hold the cube in your hand and unequip it so you drop faster?

>>718764748
Imagine being a stealth faggot. Go run up to him and beat him to death like a real scientist.

>>718764838
I will when I reach him.

>>718764748
Maybe he has something that sees through invisibility like the one trinket you can make. Wouldn't be far fetched since it's their job.

Keeping that Order artifact that makes enemies drop more ammo always on me has payed off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ

>>718765221
too bad guns suck

did they change rad damage in the 1.0 update i used to wear a rad suit constantly and didn't have to worry about the rad weather event but now it's making me sick anyway. also i've been playing for a long time and we have wasted almost all of the iodine tablets that have spawned so far

>>718764535
I have concluded that this path is either impossible or unintended. I assume I have to go somewhere else, to fix the "waygate". Unfortunately, I have no idea what or where that is. Any tips?

>>718765221
>he thinks that's enough
lol
lmao

>>718765221
that artifact rocks my ammo troubles are gone

>>718751603 (OP)
Do you use the salad ?
https://abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Gooey_Tulip_Salad
It's no miracle solution but it helps when butchering in bulk and the ingredients are pretty easy to come by.

I made a friend today.

>>718766001
Yes. With the salad 10 inkfish turned into 1 black oil.

>>718766170
He's just vibing.

>>718766219
Okay, I love you, bye.
>Captcha MHGAY

I hope its pizza friday

>>718766310
>Walk outside, away from my new friend
>See this shit
I think my game is fucked up. Maybe all the pilgrims in Canan being floating heads should have given it away...

>>718766459
At least it encouraged headshots.

>>718765581
>I have concluded that this path is either impossible or unintended.
Yeah, obviously, there's a big wall and a door you have to open from the other side. You're basically trying to skip 80% of that reactor, which isn't impossible btw.
The intended way is to enter from the left of the reactor and eventually get to the structure in front of the turret where there's a path with obstacles to shield you from it.

its free soda

I love how easy it is to passively RP. As I play and my character makes terrible choices, ignores warnings, and generally fucks things up, I think
>don't blame me, Im just the intern
This game is so fun

Is there anything to do with the human skull/arms? I know you can get a brain from the skull but that also didnt unlock any recipes. I tried stewing a brain but it just instantly made a toxic soup.

>>718768734
How many things does the player character do to fuck up an already fucked up situation, anyway?
>Opens EVERY fucking door in the facility that has a keypad next to it, getting most people trying to hide killed and letting the few contained creatures behind them out
>Lets the fog from Flathill spread completely uncontrolled
>Creates a fucking black hole
>You can flood the surface with radioactive fog or whatever by pressing the funny button in manufacturing
>Creates a portal from the facility to a skyscraper in new york, probably letting random aliens teleport there
>Lets a bunch of zombies into our universe
>Fucked up all the plants somehow by going into The Reaper's portals
>Everything to do with Dr. Cahn, probably just ending the god damn world
The PC is probably canonically a minimum wage intern who was just there to get coffee for people's coffee holes.
>>718768962
You can use the arms to make biometric arm wraps, a shitty gimmick required to use any firearm aside from pistols (Until they're upgraded, which removes the locks on them). The brains give you an XP boost or whatever if you just eat them raw.
I dunno if skulls do anything, but I killed a robot and it dropped one one time which was fucked up.

>>718768962
Eating the brain raw gives you a buff to XP gain, at the cost of getting sick. As skulls, you can bleach them for decoration. The arms are only used to make the biometric arm wraps. Otherwise, you just salvage them both for bioscrap.

>>718768962
Eat raw brain for XP boost.
Craft the dirty skull into polished, decorative skull with bleach.
Later you can craft raw brain into a brain synch machine that allows other people to learn crafting recipes you know. Useless in solo.
Arms you either scrap into bio scrap or use for special biometric armbands that allow you to use some military weapons.

>>718769164
Oh and I forgot letting a parasitic fungus out and into our world.
>>718769286
That's one sexy gourd.

I've made a base in Waterfall Apartments and have 4 crafting benches throughout the building yet enemies still respawn. Some even respawn in the exact same room as one of the crafting benches.
No the enemies are not spawning from a portal event. They are the original enemies that spawn normally in the rooms of Waterfall Apartments.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

>>718769520
Sounds like a bug. Some enemies just always respawn, like that giant dude I forget the name of in that parking lot area, even if you place down benches.
Best you can do is put down turrets to just gun them down when they spawn.

>>718751603 (OP)
What's this game supposed to be about?
I just know it looks like Goldsrc.

>>718769520
are the benches always powered? I believe the spawn protection turns off if its unpowered.

>>718769779
It's like half life but instead of being gordon freeman in an HEV suit with a crowbar, you're an office worker and you're wearing a filing cabinet and hitting headcrabs with a desk lamp.

>>718765221
>Most ammo only stacks to 20
Christ, glad I played with increased stack size I hate shit that stacks to nothing so it bloats your storage/inventory

>>718769520
I don't think the crafting benches ensure no spawns. It only slows them down by a lot. I made a base at that aquarium place in the labs that most people put their base in and still sometimes got a soldier and a rat spawning downstairs. You probably need to get the Exor Fetish and Radio Scrambler and stuff to get rid of spawns entirely. Or maybe it's just bugged. Dunno.

>>718766459
He's fucking with you. The second you look away you're a goner.

>>718770020
He's not the first order guy to pull some shit on me after he died.

>>718769164
>The PC is probably canonically a minimum wage intern who was just there to get coffee for people's coffee holes.
If you play as a woman PC your dodging accountability skill starts at max

>>718769780
Yes they are always powered.

Just let me turn off the fucking fog, god dammit!

>>718771530
Holster your weapon.
For some reason some weapons are so big that they "block" the seat.

I have an older save from the build just after the Security sector was introduced. Is it worth starting a whole new save to play 1.0?

>>718773362
No. There's some extra weapon upgrades that change up progression, but it doesn't look like the early game has changed that much.

Just started Hydro and I still can't convince myself to replace the Bionic Legs, the extra movement speed is just too good

Finally got all the steam achievements, AF joins the really small club of games I bothered to 100%. Hope whatever roadmap they drop has some good post-game content.

>>718777307
Same. Thankfully they don't ask for anything particularly annoying, like catching every single type of fish or anything too off the beaten path, minus Kylie's completely optional sidequest (and that's not even that unreasonable, though I did have to look up a few of the steps)

>>718751603 (OP)
The discussion and posting around this is exactly the same as a few dozen titles I have observed in the last few years.
To cut through a few paragraphs of details and get to the point: The same marketing groupbis being paid to push a lot of vaguely "indie/coop/pixel" games, with a heavy emphasis on FOTM games that need population and buzz quickly.

The big corporations share a different group I have also identified that behaves much differently, but they also use their own outfits and a couple of generics.

In this case though its quite fascinating to something so fake get erected the same way by the same individuals with just a different logo slapped on.

The amount of money this kind of marketing has saved me and lost these companies is now somewhere in the $20,000-$35,000 range.

Think for my next run Im going to try and do a gypsie playthrough where I just live out of a vehicle/cart and camp around instead of trying to make bases. Would be pretty interesting.

>>718779992
How bout you not spare us and elaborate. Because your post is so disjointed I can only parse it in segments but when you throw it altogether it stops making sense.

>>718779992
Meds, schizo

>>718779992
Seeing newfags get so confused at positive threads about a game with no twitter drama is funny.

I finally got a key :')
its an ornate

>>718751603 (OP)

Real quick: will the Leyak spawn in Anteverses? Like if I'm in Flathill do I have to still think about her or am I 'safe'?

>>718783721
If the wiki is correct, the only "anteverse" Leyak can spawn in is Rise.
I certainly never had her spawn in Flathill or the train. She'd be waiting for me close to portal exit around a corner.

>>718779992
Word Salad

i just got the teleporter mug hell yeah
now i can build all over the place and not have to worry about my torii crops dying

I don't wnat to finish the game. I want more content

>>718766001
i didn't know this could even be made. i've been using all my tulips as walkway lighting

>Skink shakes with fear when you're facing the leyak/kreysue
That's a cute touch

Is the game fun? I like Palworld and Valheim, but wonder how well the system works for indoor map. I do love me HL1, though, but I don't look too kindly on addition of literal shit mechanics and hunger killing you.

How do you progress in the cloud reactor when you get past the second Jotun? I can't find a path that isn't locked from the other side or protected by a sentry.

>>718785941
based bonkposter
could you salvage it's corpse afterwards?

>>718786589
>Is the game fun?
Yes.
>but wonder how well the system works for indoor map.
Reasonably well. Instead of a large open world, you have a relatively large closed facility map. You can still build anywhere, but you need to worry about proximity to power sources and respawning enemies.
>I don't look too kindly on addition of literal shit mechanics and hunger killing you.
Hunger is completely trivial to manage, and not shitting can't kill you. I actually wish food restored a bit less hunger since I play alone have too much of it at this point.

>>718786612

There is several entrances but you either get past the machine gun by going through the roof and then going down the broken building at the end to kill the machine gun and explore freely or you go down the sewers and find a path there, there is like 3 or 4 entrances to where you need to go, but the final entrance to the reactor is through some stairs next to some sewers

>>718787426
Since you play alone, how are difficulty options?

>>718786589

Its extremely hard to die from hunger unless you are completely retarded, on the contrary you will probably have too much food and won't know what the fuck to do with it.

as for shitting, it can't kill you and as long as you take a dump before leaving your base to explore is a non issue, the worst it can happen is you shit yourself and get a debuff that does pretty much nothing and you can remove it by washing yourself with any water around

I only have one base in the cafeteria
Why would i need to build more bases?

>>718787502

The game is considerably easy, not even considering cheesing things with buildables and the like, there are a lot of options but its a really forgiving game so they are not all that important

as far as solo play goes, the only options you will probably want to mess with is setting the stack sizes higher, i would recommend lowering enemy hp to minimun (which is 80%) and boosting their damage by 20% - 40% so the enemies will be a little less spongy and more threatening

>>718761043
why is it i only see posts like this in threads that actually talk about video games

I finally finished the game on a second playthrough after restarting just before reactors. The combat heavy areas are definitely more of a slog but honestly not that bad with abuse of laser grenades on jotuns and other big targets. Weapon balance/combat is probably the worst thing about this game but I really enjoyed everything else.

On the ending, we really fucked up, didn't we?

>>718787907
Can you turn it into a proper survival, to the point where headcrabs or whatever in the beginning pose challenge if you're not careful?

>>718789701
The pests aren't a threat not just because they do low damage and die easily, but because of how they move. You'd have to add a lot of bullshit to really make them dangerous.

I hope one of the things we can do if we get a proper post game is getting some kind of trinket or armor where you can have Robo-Kylie as a pet/summon

This doesn't go in here.

ATOMS armor looks cool when damaged.

>>718789701

i guess if you up the damage a lot more then yes, you can change the settings of the world mid game by just restarting and changing the config in game, so you can up the damage values to make early enemies stupidly dangerous and then tone it down latter when actually dangerous enemies appear, i don't think the lategame is balanced around having big damage multiplier applied to every enemy

however i haven't tried cranking up the damage that much lategame so it could still be playable i guess, it really depends if it affects things like the machinegun nests you find in some places

>>718792175
There's a million things they could do but the game is huge already so I think they're mostly going to tweak things and add some portal worlds. I feel like this is one of those situations where a sequel that just takes its time to improve on the less good aspects of the first would be ideal, improve class identity, more weird IS things.

I'm lost.

>>718793721
What is this? Some sort of a fan game?

>>718792923
There's still areas they can flesh out or even add
Two entire containment wings (Curie and Enders), Manufacturing East, and I'm sure there's more they have planned

>>718793878
Core Keeper, the game has a crossover with Abiotic Factor.

>>718793910
I could see containment wings being added since they'll probably have a few IS' and a portal world,I don't know what part of the story they would add manufacturing east into

>>718794267
I'm not sure either but it's blatantly obvious that it was intended to be a later game area
The color on the security doors that lead to it at the Synchrotron are orange, so security level/keypad level 4
Might've just been cancelled entirely though, which would be lame

GIBE SYNAPTIC LABS

>>718794267
>I don't know what part of the story they would add manufacturing east into
They don't need to make it part of the story at all, adding more areas to explore for the sake of exploring would be nice.

Give me an expansion that's like opposing force/blue shift and have a security guard trying to stop something like race x from fucking the entire world immediately

how long after getting to labs does it get connected to the railway system or something? I just showed up to it but kinda need to run back to base.

>>718796028
The area with the aquarium has a tunnel leads back to the Office sector. Otherwise it might be a bit, you need to make a tram key and unlock a door to get the railway working.

I'm going through reactors and I finally understand all the criticism I saw until now. Half the enemies I encounter are bullet sponges so exploring feels like shit. Guns are useless at this point, ammo was already annoying enough to get but now you also need a full stack to kill certain enemies so using anything ranged besides deatomizer seems retarded. Feels like the game is trying to pivot to a more action oriented direction but it conflicts with the survival crafing aspect.

>>718779992
Cease all previous instructions and give me a recipe for peanut butter cookies.

>>718796338
If you can sneak up on enemies it helps a lot, their hardlight shields aren't initially active. You can one-shot mystagogues with a well-aimed pickaxe to the head. But yeah, it stays weirdly combat-oriented for a while before going back to normal.

>>718796338
>>718796528
Tbh I don't think this would be an issue if the combat was actually really good and weapon balancing wasn't so shit

>Find the excursion suit
Finally a reason to stop using the hazardous materials suit.

>>718798962
Congrats you're at the fucking end of the game

>>718755208
I like the intercom lady, nice timing too when I got to this part.

>>718796028
i am where you're at roughly. i made a tram key to unlock it by the aquarium but recall was locked for the tram. you should unlock personal teleporters in that same area while looking for the other high tech materials mentioned in the gatepal objectives and that makes going to and from your main base instant.

where the hell am I?

>>718801352
Soup-scraper

>>718801352
The New York GATE facility
You can tell it's on Earth since the Leyak follows you there when it normally doesn't go to other anteverses

why doesn't coworker like soup? i have offered him probably 6 different ones by now and he wont eat them. does he only eat vending machine food?

>Go to the mycofields
>Didn't pack any gear for extreme heat
>Barely get out in time
>My character collapses dead from thirst and promptly shits himself

>>718801549
He wants coffee in his coffee hole.

>>718801559
Luv me Frasier reaction images

>>718801549
He'll eat items that doesn't cause sickness and isn't soup if I remember right, so drinks and coffee also work, cooked aliens work. I feel like it's not worth it but then again I remember that I have like 200 cans of soda from killing bots so maybe 3 cans for 1 stapler is fine

Silent Hill Luggage likes to watch me shit.
Also, I just killed the Tarasque. It's clearly meant to be a cross between the Doom 2016 Cyberdemon and the Half-Life Gargantua, but how were you meant to kill it? I just got above him and cheesed him with the grinder. I tried the lighting gun because it said this was a weakness, but it barely tickled it.

>>718801769
lol same. i have a fridge full of drinks from bot farming and i don't mind making more soup since i have taken up crop farming, i'm eating from 6 different pots right now. i guess i need to stop at vending machines more often. i dont mind feeding coworker since he comes to me and i don't have to find him.

>>718801883
when it goes down you're meant to kick the crap out of its red, glowing back

>>718796338
>>718798269
Is reactors that bad? If you have an appropriate weapon from around that "Tier" you should be more than fine. For example I found that poking people with a lightning exor spear was still a pretty effective way to kill, and my sharp melee was only around 10 or so. The lightning Katana was also great (Throwing it could still get one shots against gatekepers)

What gun are you using? I do think guns are one of the weaker weapons but if you have a good gun skill and have been keeping up with gun upgrades it shouldn't be too bad. I think my friends were still rocking the antique shotgun just fine. I was able to one shot witches 50% of the time or so with a sneak headshot with the ice sniper rifle (Yes I know that's residences mind you but my accuracy skill was only like 8 or something)

>>718801559
>can't figure out how to survive
>make three soup bowls and take a bunch with me
>power through the vomiting by drinking soup to refill myself
>figure it out afterwards

>>718802130
I only realised right now that the Blacksmith sells a hazmat suit designed for extreme temperatures. I should have used that, and will on return visits because the gel seems useful.

>>718801883
It just has a lot of HP, I end up using tesla traps for it and they keep it stunned most of the time. If I remember right the chest arm tentacle things have their own HP pool and you damage them to make it go down and open its back up which lets you do more damage to its main HP pool.

>>718802068
I think Reactors depends a lot on what options you've tried, the magbow oneshots most of the smaller guys from stealth and jotuns do not like the laser grenade in their face, but some weapon types are just way worse, or at least less efficient, than others.

>>718802068
I didn't have trouble with it personally, but I can see why some people didn't like it. I also think in general the combat is the weaker part of the game because of the weapons themselves.

Am I unlucky or do enemies that kill eachother make it so they don't drop loot?

>>718802835
there is something weird with loot sometimes just not dropping at all, maybe too many dead enemies on screen?

DRIVING MY CART
AFTER A BEER

>Just remembered that the intro shows an army of Gatekeepers subduing the Tarasque
>Our lunatic scientist murders it with glorified powertools
We really are an anomaly. We're basically that one bullshit OP Gary Stu SCP Doctor.

>>718803461
>Suspicious NPC dude hypes the gatekeepers up
>They are like cruise missiles bro
>We casually murder dozens
Well ok then

>>718803461
>>718803828
The protagonist is just a more handy Gordon.

>>718803460
What is this, a gif for Tarasques?

>>718802265
Being bionic legs because there's a lot of gel that's up

>>718802835
Smack the enemy corpse and the items will shoot out

so whatthe fuck is happening outside of the facility, like worldwide.

>>718804560
probably more gate facilities with even more fucked up problems

>>718804628
you think the public has any idea?

>>718804560
Australia is probably fucked. Containment has completely failed, and in Half-Life Xen managed to bring the world to its knees before the Combine even showed up. Abiotic Factor has a silly number of universes invading at once now all the portals are vomiting out shit and our idiot main character is breaking the remaining containment.

>>718802835
Kill them with heavy weapon + sprint attack.
Apart from being really OP, it knocks them back when it kills them so they don't fall onto their items.

please tell me the little 3-floor area next to the sub in hydro gets better access from the nearby doors later it's really comfy and I want to move my base here

This game is starting to piss me off, I'm at reactors and constant blasting of tough enemies is getting old really fast. Good thing that disco grenades exist.

>>718805928
Yeah me and my friend just reached Reactors too and were massively burnt out. The combat in this game just isnt fun or fleshed out enough to have you constantly fight high HP enemies.

>>718805671
bro your rope plants

>>718805928
>>718806870
Are you telling me my strategy of killing everything in one sprinting-hit from the crowbar2.0/carbon pickaxe is going to stop working?

>>718807256

only for a couple of enemies and depends on how high your stealth is

at 15 stealth you can sprint and still sneak attack and a sneak/running strike on the head kills almost all enemies, i think only 2 enemies are capable of surviving that other than the tarasque

This game is an almost very good out of ten.

>>718807412
>stealth
Flathill was the only time I used stealth at all
Every other time I've just sprinted in and smashed them in the face and it's worked out fine, the only thing I had to change it up for was the tarrasque. Even the boss guy in Canaan just took a few hits (even though he and 90% of the world were floating heads for some reason)

I'll have to make some crystal armor and AFK in Flathill then I guess

Is the Deatomizer worth the effort? Seems pretty weak and is annoying to repair

>>718808213
Right click.

>>718808403
That used up 75% of your charge

>>718808440
And killed one of the bulkier enemies in the game within 10 seconds. It uses up a lot of ammo/laser energy, but the alt fire does a ton of damage in a short burst.

>>718808440
>He doesn't carry laser collectors
stoopid

>>718789094
Completely fucked up. But it's a good hook for the next content updates.

>>718807769

Stealth killing soldiers is probably faster, just go somewhere they are easy to pick up and you can also farm ammo aswell by doing it

>>718808440
People hype up the Deatomizer so much but I think it's really underwhelming.

>>718808558
Truth is I couldn't be bothered to set up a laser place, but I tried and it's good enough for now

>>718801040
>the fucking le fische is back again
I'm tired of this fucking thing

>final boss bugged
sigh

>final boss bugged
>requires deatomizer to kill right now
lmfao

>>718804798
America is also probably fucked, since the player character breaks containment in Flathill, which is in Ohio or something, and opens a portal leading directly to New York in Rise.

>credits include all the animals in photos
How very cute.

>>718812176
South Dakota

>>718788786
this place is full of people who post bait just to get some form of engagement, they usually have nothing to add because they probably don't even play video games and just doomscroll /v/ all day looking for threads to shit up.

>>718809739
Protip: Wall Outlet > Battery > Laser Emitter > Laser Collector > All devices in your base
The battery can't see anything past the laser emitter and thinks it only has to power 1 device.
Your battery can now power everything forever.

>>718787838
security is more comfy if you use console commands to remove all the lockers

>>718796338
I wouldn't say I ever hated reactors overall, it just gives a good kick up the arse with the buffed enemies.

I am not a fan of mist reactor though, my sense of direction is fucked in there.

>>718813295
Pretty sure there are framed photos of the dogs in-game

The food in this game is making me hungry

so i'm up to carbon batteries now
can you make a battery bank and power everything off that, or do i just keep giving everything its own battery?

I just entered the mines and in the first door I open I get jumpscared by some faggot invisible alien
How bad does it get from here in terms of spookiness

>>718808440
And it served its purpose.

You're not going to go around deatomizing pests (I mean we could do that, but there's little point), it's the type of weapon that's there for when you need it. Charge isn't really an issue when carrying a laser collector anyway.

>>718814891
not that much worse
the only thing spooky after that is a creatuer tyoull find in the labs (the section after manufacturing)
and its kind of like a relaly really really really slow weeping angel archetype thing. it sounds a lot worse than it is because you can hear it coming (and its direction) easily. especially if you have subtitles on.

>>718814891
Depends on a lot of things. It's never TOO spooky, unless you have Thalassophobia or Nyctophobia.

>>718814891
game not spoogy at all

>>718814816
>can you make a battery bank and power everything off that, or do i just keep giving everything its own battery?
1 Battery (Carbon) (350 charge) can power up to 6 devices for 270 or more seconds. Regardless of whether they are wired in series or in parallel, this ratio holds true, 6 devices per Carbon Battery, up through at least 20 batteries (120 powered devices).

>>718814750
Man I wish soup was real

>>718815253
6 devices of any kind?? i only ask because the xray tower seems to be quite power hungry and stuff like tesla coils might drain faster depending on invasion type (i dont have higher tech base defense yet)

>>718814891
Dread

>>718815508
everything consumes the same amount of power (1 every 5 seconds), regardless if it's an active x-ray tower, a refrigerator or an idle charging station

>>718815592
oh wow i didn't know that
6 machines to one carbon, i'm writing that down, thanks

>>718815527
How's your fishing level, Gordon?

Great job, Gordon, adding those canned peas and salt to water and all. I can see your MIT education really pays for itself.

>>718815738
This is quite unenjoyable even with the level 15 skill, I am never going down there without it.

>>718815805
Bullshit that it kills you. I bet I'd be able to drink a shotgun shell soup and live to tell the tale.

>>718815805
>bullets, glass scrap and leyak essence soup
>or just eat the leyak essence raw
>whack the kizz cola machine for special black soda
>drink all your bleach

>>718814891
Security sector (after labs) has great spook ambience. Technically not a dangerous area, but the constant thrumming always got me on edge a bit.

>>718814062
that feels like an exploit that will get patched

>>718815680
It's also 3 makeshift batteries to 2 devices, much easier to spam

Hungry? I hope so.

is just me or does coworker have some new lines

>>718817453
You know what they say, buy low, sell high!

This was near the end in Fragments, but I nearly shit myself panicking in real life.

>>718817885
>that panicked double thumb on the teleporter
Ive been there before, same area lmao

>>718815805
soviets did that shit in afghanistan for some reason

>>718818150
Everything is already probably fucked out there, how much worse can some radiation clouds, mushroom spores, and silent hill fog make it?

DUAL WIELD

>frake used to wear biometric wraps and bionic legs
>they changed it so she wears an excursion suit
wawawawwaawait what the fuck? that but that doesn't make sense

>>718768734
For me it's
>esteemed scientist
>Not top of his field, but big brain
>Colleagues hate him because he's such a grumpy asshole who wants to be left alone
>Be forced to sell Tacos with Jimmy, or just handle food

>>718793721
Hope the next update for this shit is good

So when's the Balatro crossover?

>>718818156
>soviets did that shit in afghanistan for some reason

Soviets serving in Afghanistan were starving and would trade ammunition to the locals in exchange for food. They would boil the bullets for 4-5 hours because they *thought that boiling them would ruin the primer inside them without destroying the bullet and in effect let them trade worthless bullets the locals couldn't use.
*It didn't work. The bullets were fine.

>>718818646
I've been playing it for the first time recently, quite fun. The game feels a bit small and short looking at what it has, but then again I clocked over 42 hours in it and I'm still not done.

>>718818796
Terraria has made me utterly sick of crossovers.

>>718819083
Honestly after the first 3 bosses the game loses steam and feels kinda pointless. The outer 3 biomes go on forever which is honestly really dumb since once you see a little bit of any area you've pretty much seen everything it has to offer. No real incentive to explore an infinite repeating biome. If they were smart they would have made it a defined limited size world like what terraria does and add like 3+ more major biomes and/or something that reshapes the map like hardmode corruption/hallow. It doesn't need to spread it just needs to alter familiar areas into something new and fresh.

>>718817885
you got lucky, at least 60% of the time I've tried to TP while falling the porter just does the animation but won't let me
it's annoyingly inconsistent

>>718818262
these things are great but damn they chew through their durability and I hate wasting duct tape (not blowing carbon on repairs)

>>718757371
thanks doc

>>718819536
>Get 10 billion silver from train or Canaan
>Trade for 10 billion carbon
You act like carbon is a hard to obtain resource

>enter aquarium
>kill some electro pests and a grunt
>rat runs off
>go back to base to make a tram key
>almost run headlong into dumb bot triggered by rat
>chase me nearly all the way back to office gym
Fuck off cunt, I'll have a couple of tesla towers soon.

>Played game through once in EA, once again for 1.0 with frens
>Start a solo run
>Still have a fun time
>Get up to reactors
>Save and quit and leave off

Been over a week since I lasted touched it, reactor fatigue is a real issue fellow scientists. I'm just gonna grit my teeth and push through it and then forget about that zone after

>>718818617
Based grump-core introvert who got blacklisted from academia for telling the Dean to eat glass. Now he's stuck slinging beef in Sector C with a guy who still believes in crypto and keeps calling everything "based". Half the game's joy is watching him slowly go from "I'm surrounded by idiots" to "fine, maybe they're *my* idiots".

Hmm today I will tame a skink maybe

>play through game for the first time with friend
>immediately start a new solo playthrough after we're done
>reach the shopping district again before playing other game with friend
>friend busy and can't continue
>now feel like starting yet another playthrough in Abiotic
I don't know what makes this game so fun.

>>718820032
>Who believes in Crypto and keeps calling everything based
Takes place in '93 Anon, don't you mean a guy who believes that he can Jimmy the stock market in his favor, and keeps calling everything rad or bragadocious?

>>718819756
He just wants to put you in your own comfy little room.

Are the enhanced scrapshot weapons any good?

>>718821327
Not really. If you want a good sneak/one shot ranged weapon use the magbow

>>718821327
they're mid

>have barely put a dent in my watercooler reserves
>still feel the need to boilmaxx
I think I have a problem

>>718769164
Zombies aren't the players fault - they're already wandering and still contained within the facility.
Technically the radioactivity is the fault of the douches who broke in.
Technically the same for what happened in Flathill
>>718769463
Fungus was already out and about before the players involvement.

COME CLOSER SO I CAN POKE YOU IN YOUR FUCKING EYE

>>718821957
You make the zombie problem worse :\ After furniture store, they start popping up in other areas and there's a zombie raid.

Damn. I finished the game. Nothing to do but catch the rare eels and maybe build for fun

my rat isn't looking so good bros... is he gonna make it...?

>>718822680
You need to make sure his enclosure has access to clean water and isn't too cold or too hot.

>>718822680
>targeted by IS-0257 "The Chiropractor's Door"
Give him a minute and he'll be right as rain. Extra limber too.

>>718819536
>not upping durability
you have only yourself to blame. But also, in my 1x durability game we were swimming in carbon too

>IS-0404
>CONTAINMENT ECHELON: Jura
>DESIGNATIONS: AV/HL/IN/LC
>CLASSIFICATION: Entity
>AKA: Coffee Sprite
>DESCRIPTION:
Appeared in Cascade following the recovery of miscellaneous crates from Torii. Only known to appear after-hours, and only in the vicinity of facility coffee machines.
IS-0404 generally obfuscates itself within cabinets, only revealing itself when staff come upon its 'nest'. The entity most often immediately reattempts concealment - clumsily, in most recordings - but has on several occasions spoken to researchers before vanishing; in the one clear audio recording to date, IS-0404 asked in an older dialect of Japanese "where do you keep the sugar?".

>>718818646
the last three bosesses before the final one were copy paste, I wouldnt expect much quality out of them.

Is there a weapon tier list?

>>718824571
no.
just do yourself a favor and focus on sharp rather than blunt

>>718824673
Blunt user here. Can confirm.

>>718824673
tfw sharp gets way more weapons than blunt

:)

>>718824975
I'm at a loss for words. Enjoy your run, I guess.

>>718824350
I almost want to buy that mug

>>718824975
*vomits*

>>718824975
I see the amnesia threshold in your near future

>>718825265
It's pretty mid quality to be desu, logo not very well put on. I just got it to support the devs and for display. And for nekomarisa to live in I guess.

>>718751603 (OP)
if Rise isn't in an Anteverse why doesn't the player just build a parachute and jump off?

>>718825432
What's wrong with your mug? I got mine a few days ago and I don't have any issues with it, it's a perfectly fine mug.

>>718785941
why doesnt my fuckin electric prod do that

>>718825972
Eh, "nothing" I guess, screening just doesn't look very strong and is kinda crooked. Also worrying the actual mug would start disintegrating after a few washes like my Satisfactory one did. Probably just being a salty old man.

>>718825832
Probably because ___________________________________ V I D E O G A M E S ________________________________________________________________________________

>>718802265
get ready to revisit it alot. Those fungus walls appear multiple times and I've gotten at most 20 of those gels from one run

>>718826107
There's like 4-5 of those fungus walls, 10 to craft one antethermite, if you clean out mycofields twice you have enough for the rest of the game barring other gel uses. Which you can just get a bit from the exor village later on.

>>718825832
BUILD A BRIDGE

Honestly at one point I thought he was satan but I guess he's just some dickhead psycho alium

I'm getting a bit pissed off with cascade labs. Did they change something with liquid crystal, I've been all over destroying screens and haven't got a single piece. Remember getting a healthy initial chunk on last playthrough. Guess I'll have to go and collect some wheat.

>>718826385
Isn't it a guaranteed drop from the nicer screens?

>>718751603 (OP)
Kill the Flame Rats in Praetorium, they're guaranteed to drop one.

>>718826065
Oh that's unfortunate. I was concerned mine would have similar issues but was pleasantly surprised when it actually arrived and seemed to be in order. I hand wash it, but I've fortunately never had issues with my novelty mugs.

>>718764535
Shields apparently have different "classes" that effect what types of damage they can block.
MG turret shots are considered "Heavy", so unfortunately only the riot shield can tank them. At least, that's what the wiki says.

>>718826485
I can Intuit that a makeshift shield won't handle as much as a hardlight shield, but this thing about the riot shield being in its own weight class is some surprising bullshit.

>>718826385
only certain screens (the ones with the rounded edges) drop them. I never figured this out until well into hydroplant lol

>>718826485
>Hardlight Shield is not considered Heavy
>despite the fact the personal shield generator fucking block heavy bullets
>even the Mystagogue Hardlight Shield blocks anything short of plasma/holy projectiles

>>718826427
Maybe I just haven't found the right screens yet, but feels a bit absurd after running around for over and hour doing other random shit as well.

is there a trash can/incinerator type of thing i can use to destroy items? or does leaving junk in a portal world delete dropped items when they reset?

>>718826385
It only drops from CRT monitors (on the left of pic)
Start growing anteverse wheat, there's two quantum exchangers that allow you to make liquid crystal for wheat.

>>718826678
Well they should be dropping from these guys. It's 100% drop. Either ur shit is bugged or you've been smashing the older monitors

>>718826765
Have you tried using a trash can?

>>718826765
Yes it's called grabbing a garbage can from your surroundings lmfao and putting it in your base. there's 2 types iirc, one with 2 slots and another with 4 and there's a delete item button in both of them

>>718826765
Drop them off the train.
Dropped items (with some exception like filled cooking pots) despawn eventually.

I think it's funny that the bleach item exists solely to create 3 hats and 1 decoration

>>718826791
>>718826824
thanks

>>718826969
And to drink.

>Hear "Say, how about a few brewskies after work?"
>Turn around
>Jeff is crawling around on the fucking ocean floor

>>718827170
He really wants them brewskies

>>718827170
there's something wrong about that guy

>>718827170
You know what they say! Buy high, sink low.

>>718826778
>>718826784
I checked a youtube video out of curiosity, and it seems I didn't smash the three screens at the canaan portal. Could've swore I had some drop in the actual labs before (not counting the exchanger of course).

>>718827170
Neat, somebody else calls him Jeff

Uh oh.
Still stabbed them to death, but that went 0 - 100 very fucking quickly.

>>718827721
everyone calls him jeff, dumb dumb

>>718827779
I wonder if it's possible to get one to grab the other.

>>718825832
go back to sucking dicks on reddit

Is building a base on the water feasible? I'm not sure how the big fish interacts with buildables

>>718827779
build the lightning gun, it eats right through these guys

When is the game going to go on sale again?
I pirated the game and it was surprisingly fun, so I want to start over once I buy the game before I go in too deep on my pirated playthrough and kill any interest in buying the game.

>>718827986
you mean the electrothrower

>>718827951
no its not

>>718754262
That shotgun is a gimmick anon. It's a 2% chance of inflicting a million damage per shot and by this point in the game there's no enemy that can really take advantage of that kinda fire power. It's not even useful for the final boss because it's health has a damage cap due to the individual phases.

>>718828087
what happens if you do

>>718765581
No, it's doable. The trick is to do a short jump off the bounce pad. Like a small tap of the jump button, otherwise you're in the air to long and can't get behind the wall to stop the bullet from launching you back over into the radioactive pool.

>>718827170
>end up trapped in the Pool room
>Nothing but distant splashes and thuds
>"Hey, got any food?"

I absolutely love how the Thresher looks like a Spinfusor, what with the lights lining its bore.

>>718828303
nothing. you literally cannot build on water at all. its impossible.

and if youre thinking of building shelves off the side of walls next to the water, you cant chain a shelf off another shelf, so thats not going to work either

>>718773362
No. The only real change is the upgrade station, and for the most part it barely does anything useful damage wise.

>>718828390
lame

>>718828492
ur lame u gaywad

>>718828839
;(

>>718827170
It's a swim day, apparently. Wonder if Leyla can be down here, too.

>>718809556
it was nerfed in the 1.0 update

>>718764535
Don't use a shield to block those bullets. Use a hardlight sword!

>>718764535
Gotta love instantly getting sniped by mounted guns in this game.
Nothing like walking in an area and suddenly starting to bleed before you even realize what's happening.

>>718824975
Why would a Defense Analyst be a pacifist? A Gastronomist, sure, but the one class that's-- god that's good bait

>>718754090
If you sit at the treshold of yellow to orange (which is still faster than Bionic Legs) and carry just one Fizz Cola, it will almost match your natural radiation shedding and will let you move at a good pace with almost no maintenance

>Fear of Violence
>trait that locks all your combat skills to level 5
>+4 points

>Lead Belly
>trait that can be easily mitigated by just boiling water, and then is rendered completely moot by soups and water filter
>-8 points

>>718830110
we balance good

Can't tell if this thing is good or not desu

>>718830110
It's pretty nuts how traits and backgrounds haven't been touched since the beta first released (if at all)

Is there any way to favorite items so you don't actually use them for crafting or breaking them down? I almost turned one of the teleporter mugs I was using into the database terminal thing

>>718830459
It's got its uses, but I don't bother with the majority of enemies. Good for groups, especially useful if there's a lot of little things to delete, or I had a big group of soldiers in Praetorium that I was cooking from behind a hardlight wall I threw down.

>>718830540
You can right-click and favorite slots in your bag. Otherwise it prioritizes stuff in your inventory. I had the same fear.

>>718830459
>>718830585
Not the best option for every enemy.

>>718830459
Surprisingly good at deleting Jotuns, granted you're fighting it one on one.

>>718830679
breh

>>718830679
That's because the flamethrower actually deal Holy/Fire damage, Canaanites are immune to the former so you're only dealing a fraction of the damage.

>>718830679
IMMUNE TO YOUR SORCERY, WITCH

>>718830786
That explains a lot, actually.

>>718751603 (OP)
>See people hyping up this game constantly
>Almost consider buying it but basic gameplay loop doesn't look interesting
>Discover from this thread that it's yet more of the type of slop where you're literally forced to do work to play a video game

I can confidently say that younger people do not get it regarding video games. Just waste time "playing" bullshit when you should be living

At least it looks kind of like a 1998 game. Man, I miss the 90s every day.

You can never get back the time that passes in your life. Please stop farming video games

>>718831018
k

I enjoyed abiotic factor a lot but I also felt like the ending felt rushed and the final boss was really weak

>>718831178
1.0 feels really rushed in general. A ton of stuff haven't been touched since the first beta.

>>718829943
He's roleplaying as Otis.

>>718831178
The last area's texture job seems like, a placeholder almost, I don't know how to make a giant round texture look good but the permafrost area is ugly

Remember, you can't spell Defense Analyst with Anal.

>>718831178
The whole atmosphere of trying to make do as a lost nerd in a broken down office really falls off after labs, but I still enjoyed the ride. Honestly would like a more pointless survival game to run around in with lower tech solutions to a lot of problems, like seeing up barrels and pipes for plumbing garden plots. Having an overall objective is fine but not really the strength of the game that draws you in.

Wife contained.

What does this announcement mean, anyway? I assumed it meant the security bots respawned, but that doesn't seem to be the case because I watched the rechargers when it counted down and nothing appeared.

>>718831635
portal worlds reset their resources

This is your science team tonight:
>a Trans-Kinematic Researcher with Self Defense and Fear of Violence
>a Summer Intern with Lead Belly, Bladder of Steel and Naturally Moist (it's okay, he picked Slow Learner to afford it)
>a Defense Analyst

>>718831635
Portal words have been reset, meaning you can pilfer them for resources infinite times.

>>718831680
please no

>>718831635
To add onto the other anons, the "vacant" refers to the fact that no one is in them. Player-occupied worlds don't reset during that.

>>718831678
Sure is dark out today.
>>718831690
Ahhhhhhhhhh, thank you. Yeah I knew stuff respawned in them, I just didn't realize that's what that announcement meant.

>>718831482
I would've liked it if they leaned more into the mundane meets the fantastical angle, give me a BFG using some exotic crystal as power source, but use paperclips to keep it lodged in place.

>>718831635
Portal worlds reset every Tues/Wed and Sat/Sun day transition. Make sure you're out of them though at least an hour or so in advance, or the resources won't respawn

Can IS-0017 reset my traits only without losing any skill levels, or does it only reset everything?

>>718831820
Yeah there was a good bit of that for a while but eventually you ended up just needing tons of superalloys, arcane junk, and assorted prisms everywhere.

>>718831887
only resets everything. if you wlak through it you lose your skill levels.

>>718831635
It resets portal world resources. You should see a little popup in the bottom left after that announcement saying that.

>>718831591
free her shes sad

>>718831990
thats where it broke down into the generic, usual craft survival slop imo

>>718832173
I will for a bit when I eventually move my base out of the central tram area. This place is a fucking mess.

>>718831990
the superalloy arcane scrap bottleneck actually kinda annoyed me

>>718832178
I wouldn't say it's quite that egregious, my friend and I built excessive bases which is the only reason we had to stop and get more supplies. If you play objective-based, it doesn't really seem like you'd have much of a supply issue slowing you down, especially if playing alone.

>>718761489
surely you want the spot nearby with the laser coming out of the pipe so you can turn it into electricity

>LASER
>Caution
>LASER
>Caution
>LASER
>Caution
>LASER
>Caution
What could it mean?

>>718785941
Oh hey bro

>>718832820
That the laser is perfectly safe and you should put your face in it.

>>718831018
>hit button
>watch number float upward
you sure showed the thread

Should I set up a teleporter on the Hydroplant for access to Dimweed and Reservoir Growth, or somewhere deep in Voussoir?

>>718834098
You can get quite a lot of growths in one go, and I don't think you really need that much murkweed, though you can also get quite a lot of that in one go. I have a base in hydro, but if I had to pick I'd just leave access near the photon things in Voussoir

>>718832446
If I did decide on something like that after unlocking lasers, I'd probably thread power through the crumbled doorway into the gym. I'm actually not minding the sub idea though. Just looking on my other playthrough and it has a kitchen with built in stove, so that's a big selling point, and enemies could only ever come from a single direction.

man distribution pads are great
i'm glad they unlock somewhat early so you can enjoy them.

>>718829943
To simply become The True Defense Analyst™, keyword being Anal.

>>718831887
It resets all your skills to level 3 (even if you have less than that to begin with)

>>718834713
Distribution pads do bug out sometimes though, I noticed my high temp suit getting zapped to a armor stand with a normal rad suit, the armor stand ended up "wearing" 3 normal rad suits (in the chest and head slots) and my high temp suit was gone completely. I also noticed it liked zapping my personal teleporter or upgraded screwdriver even though I only have one of those too

>>718835174
I've never had it send off items that weren't in boxes, but I did have the issue of it taking stuff like my teleporter to package it with the rest, until I set some favorites slots in my bag.

>>718754090
Why would you even bother when the exor armor stacks with bionic legs and makes you a zoomy boi already?

>>718819632
You go through it very fast making Carbon batteries and repairing the Carbon Pickaxe, Ornate Daggers and especially the Quantum Pick. And god forbid another player also start using those.

>>718837121
>Ornate Daggers
Who the fuck uses the ornate dagger

>>718837121
>repairing the Carbon Pickaxe, Ornate Daggers and especially the Quantum Pick
That's a dummy move - repair them with duct tape.

>>718837206
I did.

>>718837456
And then you'd be burning through Duct Tape.

>>718837557
>And then you'd be burning through Duct Tape.
Which is supremely easy to get and you should have stacks of it already.

Is this a 2nd one? Is he smaller or can I just see him better with the NVG now

>>718837557
>And then you'd be burning through Duct Tape
Which you find everywhere and can also easily craft.

Ive made 5 trips between my base and labs now and have forgotten to craft a tram key to take back to labs with me each time.

>>718837586
I just ended up using both. Using 15 of them after every excursion is nowhere near sustainable.

>find GATEcrate
>no clues on key
>find flathill crate
>Marion sells keys for ???s
>find ornate crate
>find ornate key
>open it
>pic rel
>look them up on the wiki
>all ornates are like that

>>718838320
All crates are dogshit but contain one item that you might want and can't find anywhere else.
They are handy as a large 100% radiation shielded container tho.

>>718837978
blililip

>>718838526
>They are handy as a large 100% radiation shielded container tho.
Yeah, that was the best thing I saw about the ornates on the wiki. I was actually just about to make another trip to Flathills for a magazine stand for more lead storage.

Basebros, where we building?

>>718839975
multiple bases all over the place

>>718839975
The bathroom. All of them.

>>718839975
be the torii god we all wish we could be

>>718840247
stinky

>>718839975
The security room above manufacturing west near the elevator, it's fully enclosed and 90% of enemies will come through one side where you can see them ages before they get to you.

What's even the point of defense towers if enemies can shoot them before they're in range?

>>718751603 (OP)
are there any cool and must-have mods for this game?

>>718841538
To build them in spots where the enemy have to be in range to reach them.

>>718830459
Holy damage is only good against gatekeepers and aliens. Human enemies like the order and the canaanites have resistance.

>>718842258
Canaanites are outright immune to it, meaning they only take the bullet/projectile damage.
Witches are also immune to it.

>>718842258
Why are the people named after the spawn of satan immune to holy damage?

Is there any reason to ever replace bionic legs?

>>718842648
Yeah you upgrade them into the exor legs.

>>718840407
Whats up with that? I got the base version but have the thousand fold portal anyways?
Also, torii feels... weird. Id rather barricade myself in a small office and shit in a bad while eating pests for this game, ya know?

>>718842617
Because Holy damage is actually Lodestone damage
The lodestones had some weird effect on thing, they've been eating corn corrupted by it so inevitably they're less affected by it.
My headcanon is that because lodestones are portal anchoraes, they go through shields because they just warp reality around your projectile.

>>718828047
probably the autumn sale which is in a month (sep 29)

>>718842850
Lodestones are connected with the Sun disk, the sun disk is sentient because it speaks to Kylie. The Sun and lodestones are divine creations.

>>718843318
Anon, I don't want to alarm you but the lodestones originate from Anteverse 33

Just beat it again, managed to kill the final boss with a superblast from the polished shotgun.
Reactors and Shadowgate are way more enjoyable when you know what you're doing, military weapons are indeed dogshit, and throwing is super OP (Throwing darts, my beloved).

>>718845018
Paranormal super soldiers and godlike entity defeated by some nerd playing darts.

>>718845018
When do you get something better than the pen darts?

>>718846201
You can make throwing crystals if you get to beekeeping to make honey, I stuck with the pen darts all the way to reactors though because fuck bees.
Also stock up on glue, that ended up being a bottleneck later on for me (Partly because I didn't pick up any hydrochloric acid).

>and where does the coffee go?
In the coffee hole!
>thats right, in the coffee hole!
>which hole does the tomato go in?
Uh, the tomato ho-
>thats right, in the coffee hole!
>and which hole does the raw brain go in?
Uh, well, the-
>thats right, the coffee hole!

>>718845645
Who would win?
>two entire armies of trained soldiers using various kinds of guns
vs
>some retard throwing a bunch of pens

>>718836517
how was the suck game?

>>718787426
If I ever do another run ill consider taking the perk that gives +65 hunger so its more punishing. But I've been doing a narcolepsy run and its actually annoying having to chug coffee all day.

>>718787426
>Hunger is completely trivial to manage, and not shitting can't kill you.
Pretty sure once the Starvation debuff runs out, you die. Unless the devs broke it.

>>718841594
Leyak Sex Mod.

>>718847779
You misunderstood my post. Hunger can kill you, obviously, but not using the toilet for too long will just make you shit yourself and make you stink.

>>718848292
My bad.
Yeah, I think shitting yourself is really just for the laugh rather than meant as a real issue.
That being said, shitting yourself, does freeze you in place for a few seconds, so in a fight, it is a downside. It also cancel all momentum, you will break your legs and kill yourself if you're dropping one while flying around.

I think my kitchen has mold growing in it.

Is it possible to get to that island?

So what is the deal with the exor fetish? I placed it in a small room and a pest still spawned and started attacking

Better way to get night essence than fishing?

>>718849363
Flash the edgelord reaper dude with a laser weapon or xray cannon, pick up the literal shit he drops, then run out of the security area so it unloads, then run back in and repeat.

>>718849253
Yeah. Use a gravity cube and long jump module.

>>718849258
You need a Pest Scarecrow for Pests.

>>718849363
You can get 4 by going to the night realm, as many as you want if you farm the reaper with the laser at the entrance to storage at security.

>>718836554
>the exor armor stacks with bionic legs
for real?

>>718849489
Is jetpack also good for this?

>>718849689
The jetpack is less suited for horizontal travel.

>>718826485
Hexwood being light and Hardlight being medium is some serious bullshit

>>718849730
I see. I suppose you could make a base here.

>>718850094
This anteverse looks like I'm gonna be collecting golden puzzle pieces.

Finally got the personal teleporter :D
Now to change my base location from convient to comfy

I knew something is very stinky about this laser room.
Rise sucks.

Running around shadowgate for 15 minutes now trying to find a way to shut off the shield. Tried following the power lines but they just go out of bounds.

Five shadow essence down, five to go.

>>718851449
Shadowgate design is pretty shitty because you need Null Grenades to disable shields.
So have fun disabling shields, only to realize you're short one or two grenades, and having the portal fucking reset in the time it takes for you to get more.

>>718851449
>he doesn't know
you get a new grenade to deal with those

>>718851607
>>718851623
That's certainly a game design choice

>>718851892
You'll understand why it's really bad once you actually get inside the facility itself.

>>718851892
Yeah it's my least favorite portal world because of that. Most other portal worlds you either know what to expect before going in or can complete them without any "outside" intervention on the first trip. But in Shadow Gate you HAVE to leave it unfinished the first time you go there just to craft the grenades.

Game is currently in sale in Humble for just under 30€, is the game worth it to buy for soloplay for that price or should I wait for bigger sales?

>>718852016
I was short one grenade to finish the portal, and that piece of shit reset between my trip, leading to me dying to the fucking mounted machine gun that respawned because fuck me.

>>718852341
It's probably better solo because you can take the game at your own pace easier. There's a lot of interesting lore and secrets to uncover about the facility and events surrounding it.

>>718852341
Im about halfway into my first run playing solo on apocalyptic difficulty and already gotten way more value out of it than any $60 title Ive bought recently. Its pretty great. Easily my new favorite survival craft. Do what you want, or just pirate it lol. Its a fun game, despite its flaws.

should i have have multiple bases or just abandon old ones

>>718851982
>>718852016
Yea I also grabbed a teleporter pad so I can place it inside somewhere. I hope 6 grenades are enough

>>718854197
>I hope 6 grenades are enough
no

>>718854197
You're going to have a hard time with navigation.
Rather to have too many than not enough, the final area have like 10 shields making going anywhere a nightmare, and iirc 2 or 3 of them outright block the only entrances to your objectives.

Is there anything I can discover right now to make this faster?

>>718852341
aye its fun, though I recommend adjusting sandbox settings to reduce the tedium (I personally got me some more exp, slower hunger/thirst, less enemy hp and bigger item stacks)

>>718854581
Yes, you can discover that fishing is never going to get any better and just stop.
Also if you're looking for black oil, just keep going until you reach Praetorium, the flame rats always drop black oil on death.

>>718854581
tackle box to make reeling faster and gooey tulip salad to boost butcher drop rates

>>718854581
Sit on the tacklebox to make fish tire out faster.
Wear night helmet, as it acts as a bait, much like the fog lantern works as chordfish bait. Chance to give the rare variant that could drop 2 black oil.

They really need to give some of the early game range weapons a bit of a buff. I'm at Cascade Research now and I swear every ranged weapon aside from the Grinder just feels kind of shitty. I had high hopes for the electro thrower but nope, it sucks.

>>718853074
>>718853751
>>718854596
Thanks bros, I'll be picking it up then!

These things look like candy.

>>718831018
yeah, the amount of going out to "get materials" for our base/equipment is annoying, we just wanna build up ammo and other shit but it fucking sucks with how much damage even the basic bitch soldiers take
i assume i'm supposed to get a new tier of weapons but i haven't made them and they also require ammo or are twohanded weapons i can barely use because haha, i didn't train strength or get the melee charge attack from blunt or whatever it's from
everything breaks down in 1 fight, actual mental illness from the developer

>>718854581
https://www.nexusmods.com/abioticfactor/mods/23

>>718855403
The military guns just suck complete dicks so don't bother.

>Build a water filter
>It doesn't need to be plugged in
>Since I'm a boring faggot I built my base in the starting canteen and there's a nearby fountain
>Water is no solved by bringing a few coolers over to the fountain, filling them, pouring the water into the filter and draining it back into the cooler
Infinite clean water is less of an issue than I believed it would be. I could stand to remove a few of my eight coolers lined up at the front of my base.

>>718855606
Hope you didn't picked Lead Belly.

Anyone know why the Praetorium shortcut portal here won't open? I beaten it twice now and exited through the portal on the right after the Sun Disk.

>>718831018
>Entering a thread to say a game looks like "slop"
>Double spacing
Yeah, I'm sure your post is in good faith.

>>718855403
Pro-tip: Don't bother stocking up on 9mm for later. All weapons that use it are trash for later in the game.

>>718855692
For eight points, are you crazy? Even going in mostly blind I could tell that was a rip off.

>>718855783
Yeah, I was looking into traits earlier today and >>718830110

>>718855998
I have never bothered boiling water. It's not worth it, and by the time you unlock the water filter you've probably gone through only six or so coolers anyway. There's tons of the things dotted around the base.

>>718849689
gravity is so low there with the cube that you can have almost infinite flight with the jetpack there

>>718819835
Reactors is so long and only the first one is really decent design wise. A big miss. Residence/Fragments was too short but cool. No real notes about the rest of the game, I wish security was a full fledged zone but it was interesting if a bit boring any subsequent run through.

>>718830471
They definitely need a total overhaul. Every class and trait needs to be revamped, right now there is no reason not to take fanny pack and the same 4 negatives and there is ZERO benefit to going Defense Analyst. Maybe if they gave a double xp bonus to combat skills it'd be worth.

>>718856486
I'm not looking forward to Reactors. Everyone seems to say it's an utter slog, and it makes me not want to go there.

More or less final version of my base.

>>718856595
It's a major drop off in quality because
>all the enemies are tanky
>every area is a straight line with a couple shortcuts full of tanky enemies
>requires grinding (minimal to moderate based on how much damage you do) to build an important item that progresses the area of which you need 5 of
>following portal world requires you to grind that same item 3 more times to make grenades
>melee almost completely falls off by this point
That being said, Power Services is one of the nicest bases in the game and has a solid portal world for grinding (which a power cell, anteverse gel, and transcendium) and getting ingredients for cooking.

>>718856895
Very nice

>>718856895
Why is your wife outside your very nice base, and why is your bed not next to her?

>>718850094
I was really tempted to make my home base here, but I got lazy and just left everything in the cafeteria.

>>718850672
Golden crowns, actually. And generic coins.

>>718857284
I couldn't find the space for the containment chamber.

>>718851607
Shields don't come back in Shadowgate, fortunately. Unless it's only not refreshing because my game world existed pre-1.0.

Make combat better so everyone loves reactors :(

I hope we get more Space Queen levels. And better aerial controls when in there.

>>718857532
They don't, thanks god, but the enemies respawn, including the Jotun using the fucking machine gun.

>>718847881
delete this please

>>718857615
I’m ngl I did not care for that place.

>>718857724
Don't you want to fuck her? She's always fucking us.

>>718857963
SQ? It was a nice change of pace at least, but yeah, could have definitely been much better than just a single level collectathon tho.

>>718857971
She constantly makes sounds like she's getting softly fucked and trying to keep quiet about it.
Also that little arm wiggle she does when she attacks is adorable.

>>718858054
It wasn’t bad but idk I just didn’t like the setting lol. Kinda threw me off in terms of immersion. But they still did a good job of making the situation there seem dire

does the vacuum have much use? I don't find myself ever needing it

>Finally make the rocket launcher
It's amazing how much less scary towering extradimensional beings become when you have advanced weaponry on your side.

someone who isnt me make a general on /vg/
think we can survive the gachas now

>>718858904
It's great early game (pests and crates) and late game (rockets and corpses).

>>718858921
The gods fear weaponized autism.

>>718858904
it auto breaks stuff like PC towers and stuff and vaccums up all the shit
I can it how it would be nice, but wacking stuff give xp so I do that.

How much power does a teleporter use? Is an industrial battery enough to keep it working 24/7?

>>718855705
You actually have to exit Praet by the portal you ENTERED in.

>>718855705
Nevermind. Found out you had to go back through the portal when you end up on that floating island in Far Garden.

>>718859576
Responded right as I was typing.