Thread 719219778

You cheese?

Another day, another dollar.

>>719219778 (OP)
Did fucking ANYONE that got to his part NOT immediately know he was gonna be trouble?

>>719224682
it was pretty obvious that he was the anomaly being contained but it wasn't clear just how bad he was until hearing manse's logs and then seeing him in sec/nightrealm

>>719219778 (OP)
that's not the Cahn i know. he never would've smiled at me like that...

>>719224682
i honestly thought it was the bell

Am I tripping or does the buff that attracts Leyak also increase her aggro range?

the shirt is really comfy too.

>>719219817
no cheese...

I finally caved in and bought the game despite initially planning on waiting for it to go on sale next month...

>>719226826
clean your sink you animal you're not gonna do any good science in that pigsty

I can't fucking keep playing because of the Leyak keeps me fucking stressed out

>>719219778 (OP)
I keep seeing threads about this game but what kind of game is it actually?

>>719219778 (OP)
How is this any better than Space Station 14? I saw an anon compare it to a while back.

>>719228405
Survival crafter in a bespoke environment with an actual story
>>719228479
They're nothing alike, that anon is a retard

>>719228405
Half Life but a story driven survival game with SCP stuff sprinkled on top. Surprisingly tastefully

>>719228405
It's a plantation simulator. Buy or breed niggers to work your plantation. You can whip them when you're lazy and have the women become bed wenches if you so desire.

>>719228405
survival crafting and light base building but the tone isn't super serious. most people will tell you its what if you were gordon freeman but black mesa was much more scp and everything has already gone horribly wrong and even more wrong than that. you're not trained in combat so you have to make all your weapons and armor and defend your base.
keep in mind the base building here isn't mining 7 million rocks and wood, you just take over whatever space you want to build your gear, feed yourself, have a place to take a dump, rest/sleep, etc.

>>719224682
>>719225071

I was immediately in the "he's very obviously the anomaly being contained" camp, but I'm not worried about it because my own personal hypothesis is the player character is also an anomaly. We weren't when we came in, but we've interacted with so many different Anteverses that our body has become kind of a "Ship of Theseus" meta-physics organism: completely loaded with matter and strange energy from half a dozen Anteverses. To the point that parts of us probably exist in higher dimensions or even contradictory periods of time & space.

Post eggheads
also
>Can unlock more customisation from finding dead fellows
SOVL

>>719225638
Same, i think im a brainlet...I didn't read Cahn's bio where it has a huge hint and assumed Mans'es log about "dead employee" was just some dead employee. Also when i read "oh its shapeshifter disguised as a bell" i didn't pay enough attention to shaeshifter part...I rang the bell once, got super scared of what might happen if i do it again and ran away.
I did think he's being kinda creepy and theres something about him but...

>>719229087
Tonight on Venture Brothers...
Escape to the House of Mummies part 4

>>719228814
>>719228731
>>719228693
>>719228647
So kind of like Subnautica or Grounded? That sounds fun actually maybe I'll give it a try.

>>719228351
You're doing it wrong

>75 damage
what the fuck this is like 2-3 times stronger than anything else I have. I can 1 shot the military guys with a sprint attack

>>719224682
He seems perfectly trustworthy.

>Have now locked the Leyak away
>Miss her bullshit at this point
Only a week ago I was creeped out and worried she'd ruin the game, and now she's the doorman for the toilets.

>>719224682
Oh yeah no it was incredibly obvious, and everything he did afterward was just cementing that fact.
Funny enough, him showing up behind you instantly after resetting the controls, and his mention of how thick the concrete around Reactor is, it's pretty obvious he teleports around as well.

>>719231321
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that about the concrete comment. Was where my mind immediately went lol.

>>719229175
there being no real jumpsuit option is criminal

>>719229743
I noticed this too. I only just replaced it with something a bit stronger and am at the end of Hydroplant, which seems to be near the end of the game.

scrapping an antelight should always yield 2 seeds
growing a whole plant, scrapping it and rolling the dice on whether or not I get a new seed is very annoying

>>719231437
You're nowhere close to the end, my man

>>719231568
Neat. I'm enjoying this more than any other game I've played in the last few years, so more of it is a good thing.

How do I get more honey? The one in far garden just fucking slides into the void like a slippery shit

>>719231952
Build a hive of your own at your base.
You just need antejuice for the bees to suck on. Fill a barrel or cooler with it.

>>719229743
Probably the biggest power spike in the game.

>>719224682
I knew he was an IS, and when I first saw him, I suspected it was going to end badly. But I eventually let down my guard because he seemed so helpful. Whoops!

>>719228351
I understand if you've just encountered it. The first hour or so is pretty tense, but after a while the Leyak becomes background noise, and you can just have a couple of x-ray turrets in key points of your base that will kick it out automatically.
You can also get a trinket that makes it assume you can see 360 degrees around you, so it can't even sneak up on you. By the time you can seal the Leyak away you've got enough options and experience that it's only worth doing for the achievement.

>>719219778 (OP)
What a good fellow, so helpful and trustworthy, I enjoyed working with him throughout the game.

Shitty flavor of the month streamer "game"

>>719232465
I've never understood this opinion. Survival games are about doing things your way, building cool structures and shit. Why would you want to watch streamers do that more than play it yourself?
Whatever, keep trying to chase video games off /v/ I guess.

>>719232465
Have people been streaming this? I've noticed one guy who spammed it on youtube for a while and that's all.
I doubt your vtubers and such could stream this, because there's a fair bit of downtime and the ADHD-riddled 12 year olds that make up their audience would be bored and post shit like "Zzzzzz".
In short, you have no idea what you're talking about and just want to shit on a game you've never played and probably haven't even looked up. Or you're that faggot from a few threads back who likes claiming this is all grind and then decided to go on a crusade when the jannies deleted his shitpost.

>>719232895
2 Hololivers streamed it once, but nobody really noticed.

>>719232047
oh? I don't have any recipes, but then I haven't bottled any antejuice anywhere. Is the lake in far garden that?

>>719219778 (OP)

>Started out completely terrified of Reaper.
>Get killed several times, thrown in the Quake Dimension.
>Make the Laser Gun from its' essence.
>Reaper is now a mild annoyance at best.

Unironically feels very satisfying, and immersive, to science the spirit halloween bug away.

>>719232465
>Shitty flavor of the month streamer "game"

I 100% completely agreed before I browsed the wiki and learned it wasn't forever early access fucking slop.
The streamers have and haven't helped: if your only experience with the game is 3 streamers screaming and shitting their pants while they get nothing done, I'd hate this game too. It's a fantastic single player experience though and way more like System Shock or Half Life 1 "with base building".

>>719232895
Some of the Yogcast people streamed it when it was in EA, and I've been watching Nextlanders streams of it on Mondays

>>719232895
Tenma has been streaming it, and i think i saw someone from hololive english trying it out

>>719233163
There's a handful of places, but the mines are probably the most convenient.

>>719232465
here's your (you), now go back to twitter threads

>>719232465
retard

yeah i dont why people call this game streamerbait or "friendslop" when its just a really good sp game

>>719233513
Because they hate videogames, and this one is popular

>>719232465
I thought this was the case too, but it's actually pretty good in single player with shit tons of content. It's not the low effort slop most of these survival crafting games tend to be, but I understand people assuming the worst considering this genre is typically FUCKING GARBAGE.

>>719233367
>i think i saw someone from hololive english trying it out
yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nErcIQ6j1k

>>719233597
I want to pet Kronii's kitten

>>719232319
>because he seemed so helpful
Other than talking at the player/suggesting certain avenues, he promised help a couple times ("I can get us through the vaccuum chamber/security sector") and never once delivered. As far as I remember, at least.

>>719219778 (OP)
Abiotic Factor you say?

>>719233724
Still need an Aphex Twin album cover edit with him

>>719233705
He was scrambling, doing something on computers in Fragments. But to be honest I have no proof it helped you in any way.

>>719233513
any time there are threads about a popular new game retards show up to post "shills! streamer game!" in every thread because they don't play video games unlike the people trying to have the discussion

The walkie talkies ruin the game

>Memory device made from alien nanotech at the bottom of the lake
>Building it gives you the idea to trap the Leyak for some reason
Huh? Some of the ways your scientist gets his ideas are weird. For instance, I almost drowned repeatedly exploring the lake, but it took a fellow scientist mentioning diving apparatus in a conversation to make my guy realise he needs to make some.
>>719233891
How so? I don't play multiplayer so I wouldn't know.

>>719232465
>streamer "game"
>streamers
>spend the entire time talking, not listening to what the game tells them, too dumb to follow basic instructions
>the kind of people that find a door labelled as 'pull', spend 4 minutes trying to push it open, then ask chat why it's not opening
It's one of the least streamer friendly games, but you wouldn't know it

>Can move the shitty pool room chair so you can have your meme backrooms experiences whenever
>Can't move the Space Queen arcade cabinet
Having to run back to the labs every time I want to pull digital golden coins and crowns into the real world sucks. Come on, I want my going into games machine in my base so I can visit my penguin friend any time I want.
As a side note
>Couldn't work out why the enemies there or invading my base after were invincible
>Turns out you have to Mario them and jump on their heads
Makes sense, if not for the fact that they've GOT SPIKES ON THEIR HEADS. Everything about game design told me that wouldn't work and would just hurt me. How Deepfield can make such a fantastic game but fuck that up I don't know.

>>719234632
>>Can't move the Space Queen arcade cabinet
for me it's
>moving other arcade cabinets next to the Space Queen doesn't infect them with that digital goo on the ground

>drastically reduce the times you need to sleep/shit
>make it so you can fail the minigame
>hacking minigame capable of filtering idiots
improved the game

>>719234712
That would be an amazing DLC idea.

Fun fact: you can interact with the Dr. Manse figurine

I really enjoy this game but are there any plans for NPC helpers or defenders in the roadmaps? I really haven't seen this until release so not sure about developer plans.

>>719234712
That would have taken incredible foresight from the devs. Would have been awesome tho

>>719235193
>Defenders
There's one way into my base and the existing defences the game gives you are so strong I have to turn them off to safely leave. I'm not sure we need NPC defenders.

This doesn't seem very healthy to me

>>719235747
Dude's a chad, he can handle it

>>719235747
it's safer than it looks, it only gives 0.1 rad/s, the other green water in the game gives an average of 3 rad/s, and in reactors theres areas that give 5/s

>>719235193
You can build traps and, later, sentry guns.

>>719229087
>Can unlock more customisation from finding dead fellows
I really like this. Great feature.

>>719235193
I feel like no NPC could be as efficient as my laser turrets, but an entity like the Moving Box that can be assigned to go out and collect specific materials would be nice, even if only returns after a few in-game days.

>>719235747
Honestly I thought he was another form of "Cahn" between standing in a pool of waste, chilling in a highly dangerous reactor zone and then just appearing outside the waygate. Very few other NPCs are in such high-risk areas and even fewer move around like that. Abe and Janet get a pass, obviously.

>>719229087
Dr. Cahn is helping me find my energy pistol.

>>719235747
to be fair all you have to do is puke a few times and eat the organs of a radioactive fish to get back to a healthy level of radiation

>>719231427
you mean SPEEDSUIT anon

>>719236402
ENCYCLOPEDIA - For the GATE Cascade Research Facility, a scientists average yearly income is 5,500 MONEY (unadjusted for rank)

>*ssssip*
Yep, another byeautiful night in the facility

>get into a fight
>several enemies get involve so backup down the corridor
>click clack
>moving box decides now to show up and gets in the way of the door
I really wish I could just disable it. Sure, you can put medication in it, but I'd rather go back to base and resupply/dump material than have this thing get in my way.

Move motherfucker, I'm trying to cook and take a shit here.

>>719228896
Something I noticed on a second playthrough is a lot of the time they refer you to to as an "it" and almost like you're not a person but some kind of IS

>>719238491
It might just be some dumb woke thing not to upset certain groups.

>>719238772
There's male and female bathrooms anon they're most likely already mad.

>>719224682
I immediately started looking for a way to progress without freeing him. Seeing as how I couldn't do that despite searching every inch of containment and labs I thought to myself that he's either just weird of I was going to have to beat his ass later in the game.
Little did I know I was messing with a master of trickery and deception, truly I never stood a chance.

Why would anyone ever use a field battery when you can just carry a charging pad and plug it in whenever you need to recharge?

It's not like plugs are sparse, even in anteverses

>>719239416
I would think having a deatomizer that has multiple charges would be useful, but does it even work with laser weapons?

>>719239596
It doesn't

>>719219778 (OP)
A great game with one of the worst finales I have ever played

>>719239798
I'm hoping for future updates to expand on it. We already know time travel is possible (because anything sci fi or paranormal is here), so we can theoretically fix things.

>Contained the Leyak
Holy shit, I actually un-fucked something in this facility! This is unprecedented.

>>719239890
>>719239798
I gotta say the ending grew on me. It's so stupid that it fits perfectly with the rest of the game. If anything I want new endings to be other retarded ways to end the universe.

>>719229087
big fan of the sweatervest

>>719239416
I always have a battery on me and have used it with a charging pad many times in the field for a healing briefcase. It's definitely saved me in reactors or portal worlds when I wasn't as geared up. Carrying an extra carbon battery is also useful so I can quickly switch out to keep my base power running since I'm not using any outlets on this playthrough.

here's my objectively correct factual opinion
>S
office
hydroplant
flathill
space queen
>A
manufacturing
labs
reactors
furniture store
den da'ko yeer
praetorium
>B
security
train
mycofields
night realm
canaan
voussoir
rise
>C
shadowgate
>D
albatross
>F
residences

>can barely get 4 magnetic alloy from a full portal world run
>they are needed for the large storage crates
REEEEEEEEE
how the fuck can I get enough of these things

>>719240775
Are lasers and their converters any good? I hear the energy is shit so I'm just sticking to the old
Socket>Carbon battery (or two)>plug boards>makeshift battery>device
plan.

>>719241183
A bit later it becomes a guaranteed drop from shotgunners so you'll be swimming in them.

>>719241072
>Security that high
>Its a big semicircle with a box maze in the middle and Halloween edgelord Leyak with laser allergies haunting it

>>719241072
The music and atmosphere makes Canaan S tier and I will die on this fucking hill.

>>719241227
Lasers are literally infinite power.

>Socket => Carbon Battery => Emitter => Converter => Plugboards

You can have hundreds of devices powered this way from a single socket without needing any other batteries, because the Carbon Battery is "technically" only powering a single devices' worth of power consumption per night, the Emitter, which in turn powers everything else.

>>719239798
I don't feel very strongly about it. It just thought "Oh, it's finally over?"

>>719241227
Lasers are effectively infinite energy as long as they remain powered. Mine single laser is power four freezer, five benches, three moisture teleporters, neutrino emitter, fridge, warmer and oven, laser splitter filling two laesr collectors, a portal toilet...

>>719241315
it left and impression, and i guess a positive one
i think the reaper could be handled better and i'm really unsure of the purpose of the garage+driving area, that feels blatantly unfinished or like it was somebody's pet project they made in a week for fun
i'd probably lower it to C but keep the night realm at B
>>719241443
i hate to tell you this, but canaan's music fucking sucks; the first time i heard it i started laughing because of how unfitting it felt

>>719227846
well, its not like it isnt worth the money. have fun and try not to spoil yourself

>>719241183
>portal world
where in the world are you going for alloy? surely you have simple loot respawning turned on, the game is basically unplayable without it

>>719241698
>surely you have simple loot respawning turned on
You didn't beat the game.

>>719241575
nta, but I like Canaan's music. The world feels like a Tim Burton film and the music suits that.

>>719241698
>The game is unplayable without basically cheating
Why does every game these days have at least one of you faggots making these retarded comments?

>>719239798
I mean there's gonna be more content with the abe submarine hint.

Problem is with every new update they drop the new areas lack the soul / quality from the first ones.

>>719241698
>Unplayable
Then explain how most people easily beat the game without having an easy mode added on

>>719242002
That was to let you know the entrance to the detector is underwater.
I couldn't find the diving suit idea and kept almost drowning so I built the long jump and flew there.

>>719241698
N-No, you need to waste the MAXIMUM amount of time or you didn't have fun with the game!

>>719230995
Should put her in front of the toilets so she have to watch you poop

>>719242612
It was the only reasonable place to put her
>Not in the middle of the room so she's out of the way
>Next to the plants so feeding her is easy
>Near the toilets so lol I guess
>The best place for my in-base x ray tower is almost next to it, so recapture is simple and automatic if things go wrong

>>719241785
>>719242000
>>719242074
all simple loot respawning does is make basic resources respawn after a full week in-game
there are no basic components that cannot be endlessly farmed from portal worlds, it just makes things take longer when you can only obtain them in such small quantities
you can't accuse me of speedrunning either, my first playthrough was 70 hours, my coop one was 40 and i'm on a second solo run that's already at 29 hours

>>719241183
some of the guys in the cold portal world in hydro drop it on death. Tons of great crafting materials are easily farmable in it.

>>719219778 (OP)
The game is so co-op focused it's not even funny, kinda hoping they'll add more singleplayer buffs like an exp boost that gets lower the more players are on.

Do you think he could have actually stopped all this?
>>719243653
Just turn up XP gain in the sandbox settings, man. You can even do it after you create the save from the load menu.

>>719243897
The arm wiggle "attack" she does when you get near her is straight up adorable.

>>719239798
It feels like a cliffhanger. And since these devs haven't had a lot of success before this game, it probably is.

>bake 2 lodestones
>step on pad
>they don't go into storage
>weird
>shift+click on them to put them in a crate
>won't go in
>weird
>drag them into the crate
>okay
>close crate
>open crate
>gone
>check database
>gone
>leave game
>enter
>still gone
epic

>>719244524
Sounds like the game couldnt lode them

>>719243653
You can boost EXP but why bother? You don't get anything that good at level 20 anyway, and all the multiplayer perks may as well be jokes.

>>719243763
He's the only one that both knew more about what was going on than us AND was willing to try and do something about it. The only others around were clueless (Abe/Janet), actively malevolent (Cahn), or too fatalistic to make a serious attempt to change fate (Sister of the Unlost). Without him we had a less than zero chance of affecting meaningful change on the outcome of the plot.

>>719244524
Maybe they somehow ended up in the moving box? I lost my teleporter once, was really annoyed, got mad at the box for running around my legs like a cat begging for attention only to discover he was trying to give me my teleporter back and I was a giant asshole.

you can paint portals

>>719244969
Oh shit that's rad. Time to actually use paint for something.

>>719244969
and wall lights & laser emitters.

>>719242501
He's talking about at the end of the game. Like after the boss fight. She remarks that Abe disappeared in the sub and abandoned her. Not surprising. All game she just shut down his ideas or thoughts down.

>>719242002
More than just the hint. Plenty of doors (big & small) that can't be opened in the facility, plus the "Curie" door with the goo blocking it at that one tram stop. There's a lot of areas to add onto.

>>719245090
Neat. Finally some use for paint.
I wish you could paint vehicles though. I want a fucking cringemobile.

I'm not gonna finish this game before this shit stops getting threads that I can participate in
I'm too scared to read them, I've already been spoiled on a few things

>>719245090
Now if only we could paint wires.

>>719245116
Abe went to go save his real waifu.
Janet is a grumpy BITCH!

>>719245231
Yeah, I got spoiled on a ton of shit, including the ending, but the game and exploration are fun enough that I don't care.
For me, it's all about the progression, exploration and making a comfy mad science lab in what used to be the bases canteen.

>>719233705
Well... did you or didnt you get through the vacuum chamber? Yeah, thats what I thought.

>been set up in security office all game
>find the hydroplant apartments

Someone explain laser power to me so I can start building a base here. I vastly prefer that amount of space.

>>719245721
see:
>>719241453

Is there a in game lore reason for why your in game character can revive or is it purely gameplay?

>>719245946
coorporate slaves arent allowed to die without permission I think youre some protagonist type of IS and that is why Cahn lets you do everything because he knows you have extra-dimensiinal plot armor

>>719245946
When Cahn tells you that you should be the one contained and studied after all this, he was being serious.

>>719241453
>>719245938
fucking incredible. Thank you anon.

I'm gonna need lots of tech scrap too.

>>719245090
knew about lights (and beds) but didn't know about lasers
glitch paint looks cool on almost everything, the laser looks even better in motion

>>719245946
People always says you're an IS or something, but I think it's just meant to be that your character is a random scientist, so when you die you're canonically a different one, but for gameplay reasons you always look the same and have the same stats and gears because otherwise you reach Project Zomboid problem.

>>719241453
The carbon battery will still fall prey to power leeches

>>719239286
anon, he actually managed to set things up so you'd have no choice while inside the cell the entire time
even the Gatekeepers realize they have no choice in the end, which is why they come to help you in the final battle instead of trying to kill you to stop the Wayfarer

>>719235747
gave me doc samson vibes
i cant be the only one

>>719246332
You can actually use shelves and bridges to bypass a ton of shit and get places you really shouldn't be way earlier. I'm fairly sure you can straight up complete the game without even going to flathill by abusing shelves.

>>719244969
do not paint the portal yellow

>>719238401
>Move motherfucker, I'm trying to cook and take a shit here.
If you get the perk that provides knockback while sprinting, you can punt him like a football if you run first

So will we get an expansion or do the devs seem like the type to keep working on further updates as long as it sells well?

>>719246332
i thought those gatekeepers at the end are the ones who were chill the whole game and different from the ones who try to kill you. dont they have their own party name? the lost ones or something

>>719239798
The ending is the worst because I feel the majority of the game leans heavily towards melee then suddenly they throw that boss at you. It's kind of bullshit. I don't care about the ending being a "bad" ending or not it was just unfun to play through.

>>719246681
The room with the portal to nippon land is meant for more DLCs, and there's like four levels to it. Hopefully not all of them will just be home bases for you to build in, and actually have real content.

>>719245721
I think it's like
>plug into laser
>laser into the thing that converts lasers back into a plug
>plug into your battery and then battery to power strip
>somehow this means your only powering the power strip and not the 3/6+ things connecting to it
>this ends up letting your run a lot of shit all day and night on some batteries powered by a single laser
I bumbled into a video explaining it when looking up something else.

>>719246730
Yea the final boss was the only moment in the game where I felt like it was designed for multiplayer only. Also went into that fight with a full stack of duct tape and ended up with only 8 left, definitely a low point.

We should be able to package the Space Queen arcade machine and have her spawn as a merchant in proximity like the other merchants around the repair and cooking tables.

>>719247594
She can also just leave on her own anyway like the enemies do to raid your base.
What would she sell, anyway?

>>719247639
Flavored snowballs. Maybe a "hot pepper" trinket that gives cold weather protection.

>>719245456
Fili sexo

>>719247639
arent lomogis a form of corruption from another IS? they can go where they please. the penguin cant

>>719248319
Nah they were always in Space Queen as normal enemies. Fili mentions them being pesky, but not murderous before the corruption started.
I think Fili is just too scared to leave her home.

>>719232282
This is how you get space AIDS

>>719246681
The devs have been good about informing and keeping to their plans, so we'll probably find something out at some point
For now they seem to be intending to release more patches that follow some other stories left unfinished at the end of 1.0

>>719245456
>>719247594
Look at her go!

Fili CAN leave, she's just seen whats outside and said fuck that
You cant rescue fili because she doesnt want to live in a radioactive vent eating rats with you.

>>719247201
>designed for multiplayer only
Only really feels like that the first time since you don't know what to expect. It's easy to overprepare with a splitter and three laser collectors, and the jumping pads don't even need to be used, can hit from anywhere with the deatomizer just staying up around the church spot.

>>719248686
Her loss. These rats are crunchy.

>>719241453
That sounds like a bug that'll probably be fixed. It's troll science at its best.

>>719246708
they all saw the future
most of them still rage against it

I want to bang sister of the unlost

>>719248932
She foresaw this possibility in the future.
It doesn't ever happen.

>>719248932
she's right there, both of them

>>719249035
forgot to put the fog lights in

>>719249035
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e05XQaptT8

>>719249035
>filename

>>719249035
what a weird deer

>>719249035
Dumb fuck should have worn his hazard vest!

>>719248686
>implying she wont be living in luxury with my meat wife eating only the finest alien dishes.

>>719248878
>fixed
I kind of doubt it. The laser converter essentially becomes an outlet, although it does have the big benefit of creating energy out of nothing when powered by a battery, so it depends on how much fuckery they'd have to do changing how laser power works on a functional level.

>Game has all these defense options for your base
>Barely anything shows up for any raid and I just started shadowgate
>Even then, I kill everything with little trouble anyway
Man. I was expecting something more...intense?

>>719249328
What if Dr. Cahn was actually an undercover OSHA agent

So I finished Security. I feel dumb not having it dawn on me that the Antiverse world here is a weird grimdark medievaly mirror of the security wing, until I found OP's guy again saying the same stuff he said at the beginning of the area.
So does that mean the other few shades are also NPCs to be found in the Security area? Because besides the Gatekeeper Sister and the girl hiding by the entrance to the Vehicle Depot, I hadn't seen anyone else.

>>719241453
>plugboard plug back into battery powering the entire system
>infinite self sustaining power

>>719249486
shame that frags and mugnades are so rare/expensive, because the explosion ragdolls are pretty funny

>>719249452
You know, going around the GATE facility and counting OSHA violations would be kinda fun. I can think of several just in the starting lobby area.
>No emergency exits
>No fire extinguishers, alarms, or sprinklers
>The entire tram station is just a cliff into the void with no railings or warning lights
>Security bots that murder everyone on sight is probably some code violation

>>719249442
>oh no 3 guys whatever will I do?
its more annoying with how slowly they walk to your base or trying to find where the one guy is stuck to end it.

>>719249578
Cahn is in there, while his "real life" self is in the little starting area.
He also appears during the blackout event, chasing you down and summoning spirt party halloween edgelord to stab you if he catches you.

>>719249442
Mod pumps up the invasions if youre into that

>>719249656
Unless there is an option to change how raids work I never found. They really need to change how they function. It's an after thought and you can just stop portal events all together.

>>719249442
Yeah
>Have three teslas, nine shock pads, an xray tower and a disc turret at the front entrance to my base
>Raids are over in seconds because the teslas are enough on their own
I just have to remember to switch them off when I leave because I've almost died on multiple occasions, even blasting past with the long jump.

>>719249820
It's easier and cheaper to just kill whatever is raiding you, yourself.

>>719249621
I once blew a soldier up so hard he was clipped into a locker on the other end of the room.
I thought it was hilarious, because the power of science allowed a nerd to stuff a jock into a locker.

>>719249863
Unless it's a swarm of electro pests. Then I hide behind a chopinator.

>>719250025
Pests are ironically the biggest threat in any raid, since they can just go under your choppinators to attack your barricades/whatever is behind them.
I would say grunts that throw grenades are a bigger threat, but they always wiff their throws and the grenades don't land anywhere near my shit.

So will those npcs hiding out keep alive it as you progress throught the story? What are they eating (besides that one security guard)?

>>719250379
A few of them will vanish, a few will move around as you do shit, and a few will just say in place.

>>719250379
Some stay where they are forever (like Gaz), others leave their spots (sometimes you see them later (not necessarily alive), sometimes they just leave for good).

>>719243763
>sandbox
I wouldn't beat the game
>>719244823
That's what makes me curious too, why do they have such high exp requirements? When you get to level 10 in a skill you're only around 1/9th of the way there and getting from level 19 to level 20 takes almost as much exp as going from level 1 to level 10. Is it just a design cheat code to make the player feel like they're grinding towards something at all times through basic actions to keep the engagement high? If so that's kinda impressive.

>>719250932
Considering 9 out of 10 items past the midgame stop giving xp I think they just didn't give it much thought.

>Unlock Rise
>Cool there's a new portal world and it's a skyscraper
>I can Die Hard it up
>Explore
>There's fuck all here worth looting
>The soldiers are carrying nothing special
>Maybe a bit of lore here and that's it
Well, this portal feels like an afterthought. I mean, the Pool Room is also shitty with no reason to go there, but at least it serves its purpose as a shitty zoomer meme reference.

>>719250932
you can afk farm strength and sprint exp at a certain point
agriculture can be maxed easily just with a few plots running all the time
throwing can be maxed easily once you start running into jotuns
BUT FUCK FORTITUDE FARMING

>>719251479
egg

I really don't like snipers
>peek head aroundcorner for 0.00000000000000001 seconds
>shot

>>719251493
Someone should do the math on how much damage you have to take to max out Fortitude. What's the health-to-exp ratio?

>>719251493
Just get Security armour and sit in a Choppinator with a shield up.

>>719251479
The only worthy loot there is the egg.
And I suppose the various furniture for decoration. And renewable medkits for the dioxohealers.

>>719251479
>There's fuck all here worth looting

>>719251623
I wouldnt mind it if they were looking with their lasers before aggroing so you coupd have some way of know, but right now its kinda just like...
their way of letting us know a route is blocked is with heavy bleeding
kinda shitty

>>719251634
how long does the shield last in the chopper?
i dont want to be having to repair that shit every 10 seconds for like 300-400 fortitude exp

>>719251623
>Man, snipers are such a pain in the ass
>Wait a minute, I unlocked shields, with it I should be able to close block their shots and pass through their line of sight
>Son of a bitch can shoot through my fucking shield

>>719251921
Depends on your settings, just look at the number when you hover over it.

>>719251479
Used to be endgame during the earliest stage of EA

I just unlocked the double jump suit and suspect I am almost at the finale. I don't think I'm ready to have this game end, I've had a blast. Maybe I'll wait for some updates and try building a comfy base at power services

>>719251623
>>719252115
Riot shields are the only ones heavy enough to block their and HMG bullets.

>>719252115
I think only one shield can block those bullets

>>719251479
Pool room is comfy though.

>>719253081
You're barely halfway through

>>719253269
He said the Excursion Suit, that is at the end of the game.

You guys ever noticed you can spin dash with the stealth roll thing? It gives you a forward boost mid-air.

>>719253362
My brain read jump pack somehow.

>>719253825
Yes, and it requires no stamina to use so you can use it to speed up when you've overweight and have 0 stamina left

>>719219778 (OP)
game turned into complete dogwater after cascade labs
you can pinpoint the drop in quality from the french snow mission onwards

>>719219778 (OP)
Abe mentions he wants to fix the submarine it just needs biofuel is this a hint for this games first expansion? What about opening containment block Curie? I want more dimensions to hop into.

>>719254690
I want some underwater base building kino

>>719232895
A few people were streaming it co-op from time to time, but they haven't touched it since well before the 1.0 release for some reason.

>>719254690
If it involves a submarine it will involve water which is absolutely fucking terrible in this game so I hope not.

>>719255091
Water isn't necessarily that bad it just needs water movement items like a water scooter and a way to recharge the diving tank.

>>719224682
my immediate thought was 'this is gonna bite me in the ass isn't it'

>>719224682
I thought it was a little strange he was locked in a containment cell with no way to open it but given the circumstances of killer aliens and hostile soldiers ready to shoot you on sight all over the place staying put where you are didn't seem like such a bad thing. I knew he wasn't human when I found him in the night realm as the only talking shade.

>>719255260
Had to up the gamma to max to see anything in front of me, better NVG's later on actually make you see shit underwater. Movement was ok. The swimming goggles didn't make a difference

I got the game for free a week ago. is it worth playing? The trailer gives me a deus ex vibe for some reason.

>>719255807
You already have the game, why not try it yourself? Play for like an hour past the tutorial and you'll know if you'll like it

>>719255807
It's pretty fun. My only real complaint is the locked doors everywhere it gets really annoying later on especially in hydroplant.

>>719255890
>You already have the game
I have it on the xbox pc app and am have not yet to activated the code.
>>719255897
>It's pretty fun
fun in what way? can I play it singleplayer? I don't care much for the crafting mechanics but survival does sound enticing

>>719255897
Tainted corn is one hell of a drug.

>>719256371
Well the flamethrower does 'holy' damage along normal fire and Canaanites are immune to holy, so...

>>719255897
You can literally access every single area except 1 room without a level 5 hacker in Hydroplant.

The hacker is only required for resetting the computers, everything else can be done without the hacker.

Jump pad and the long jump pack are your friends.

>>719235747
he's wearing antirad suit, its fine.

Finally beat this game, it's way bigger than I thought it was. I'd say it was riding a high and peaked around Cascade Laboratories and the Security sector. That's when the maps were the most interesting, you were learning about the contained IS things, and you were still fairly regularly exploring different anteverses.

The rest of the game after Hydroplant started to feel like a slog, enemies with a lot of health and anyone with a brain knew where the story was going the instant that guy broke containment. It wasn't bad, but it really felt like it overstayed its welcome. The final boss was just plain ass, I was running mostly melee the whole time and there was no indication that you need to be totally stocked on ranged weapons. Even then you're fighting the damn thing for way too long.

I like the unique lab uniform designs they went with but I wish we could still get the old open jacket and proper ties from the old splash art.

>>719256137
I've been playing it singleplayer. Big difficulty spike in the beginning because most weapons suck and you wont have much armor until you make the F.O.R.G.E set in manufacturing. Don't bother using military weapons because they suck shit except the revolver. Also don't ignore shields because you can use many spears and one handed weapons with them which is really handy to block bullets and avoiding bleeding, bleeding can kill you reslly fast so always carry bandages.

I would like to see at least one more "alien" faction added to the game at some point, there were way too many human enemies for my liking.

>>719257649
Anon, you didn't get very far into the game did you

>>719255681
get a monitor that's not from the 90s then

literally not a problem, especially if you're not a retard and realized that you should use the goggles

>>719258293
>Didn't read the post
Im also using a 4k monitor from LG but ok bro

Just finished the game last night, and found it weird that they left it off exactly the same as previous EA updates rather than finishing the story and letting you escape. I'm sure a lot of people have expressed the same opinion, but it's just weird to me they don't plan to expand the game by adding new portal worlds as you go along or Manufacturing East or whatever. No definitive ending until whatever they plan to do in 1.X or whatever is strange.

Is Dr. Manse dead?

>>719259367
I believe Janet when she says he probably got on the first chopper out of there the moment shit hit the fan. At least tried to, the order probably captured or killed him as one of the first steps

I'm still not sure what the deal with the gatekeepers was and why some of them were on our side and others weren't.

>>719258923
Then unfuck your settings, dipshit. The game isn't anywhere near that dark on its own. Your game, computer, or tv settings are far too dark.

Anyone know how many flame rats are in the Praetorium? I'm hunting for the High Inquisitor Suit. So far I've found one patrolling the bridge near the lift with two soldiers, and three on another bridge with a tank on it. Should supposedly be one in the residence area but I've only found one in The Fragments.

>>719259658
Unlost witch is basically a scout and she knows we're a real human so she isn't hostile, but when we meet the gatekeeper proper in reactors they recieve the kill order for all scientists because of the cahn mimic and can't risk it ever leaving.

boy i hope its pizza friday

>>719259367
I bet manse will come back later on as some kind of dr breen that's tard wrangling whatever entity is-0012 was in cahoots with

>>719249930
Kek

>>719257091
>Don't bother using military weapons because they suck shit except the revolver.
Revolver is cool but you have no idea what you're saying. The only bad military grade weapons are automatic ones due to the abysmal ammo economy in this game

What does it taste like?

>>719261025
He really shouldn't be swimming so soon after snacking.

>>719261519
The SMG is dogshit, the security pistol is trash and the shotgun is worthless to use un-upgraded because the biosignature arms are a waste of an armor slot. Every weapon worth a shit in early game are the science weapons and the carbon pick.

>>719261717
Gatorade midnight Ice flavor.

>>719231568
Id call it close. By that point in the game you should be steam rolling everything. I blew through reactors and residences pretty quickly

>>719261160
I'd wager it's the Reaper, or whatever the entity the Reaper serves. Cahn was able to manifest and talk in the nightverse, the Order mentions that the reaper is possibly the enemy of old (and references the "Somnivore" or dream eater), and at the end Cahn's translation of his master's thanks mentions that the only true home is the grave.

Now, what exactly this entails is another question.

>>719261813
>early game
Early game, can be, since scrapshot weapons hit harder than the peashooter the security pistol is
Later on, once you get the biometric unlocks, any non automatic weapons gets leagues above anything other than the obliterator

>>719262613
For some reason he also shows up during the reactor activation fight. Turrets plus that dude and all I had to do was sit back and enjoy

>>719263114
For me he appeared under a set of stairs and got stuck. I was wondering why the button wasn't activating until I heard his grumbling.
He probably appears because the button you press last is the same one found in his goofy shadow realm, so I guess that means the reactor is powered with shadow orbs or something.

>>719259367
Unless his body is an easter egg to find in Rise, I'd put money on him being alive. His character just has much more potential towards the story in any sequel or further expansion if he's living.

>>719262730
Nigger I played the game all the military weapons are fucking shit and not worth using until you upgrade them except the revolver. Which is bizarre because the smg and assault rifle do so much fucking damage to (you) but doesn't do shit in your hands.

>>719263114
He showed up for me absolutely out of nowhere in Shadowgate and started attacking the Gatekeepers

>>719263114
>>719263525
>>719263218
interesting, I didn't see him anywhere outside security, even during the darkness weather.

>>719259367
That man is too based to die

>>719219778 (OP)
>Original Poster! What purpose do you have with this thread? Speak!
>TELL ME what is the purpose of this thread's perpetuity? What disaster accrues if it halts?!
>Explain yourself! Why must this thread persist in its motion?! Tell me this instant!
>Sodomite, your unnamed bretheren are madmen! Using your posts to spout things you cannot comprehend.
>Your janitors will not help you now!
>TELL ME what is the purpose of this thread's perpetuity? What disaster accrues if it halts?!

>>719261848
>swimming around freaking out I might run into the big fish at any moment
>hear "I love coffee in my coffee hole"
>have to pause the game and walk away while dying from laughter
I love this absolutely, completely normal coworker

>get into fight with exor cha
Holy fuck these are annoying.

>>719267191
>Breaks onto train
>Smashes the coal auto-loader system
>THEN asks what it does
Other than this and shooting random warehouse workers, I think The Order is pretty based and right about everything.

>>719267634
>Ducks 1 cm below your sprint attack
>Problem?

>>719219778 (OP)
i fucking hate you you weird freak
something is wrong with you warping fuck and i will find out what sooner or later

>>719267657
What was the deal with the train anyways? It would cause some world ending event if stopped? In what way could it do that?

>>719229186
Sure, kind of. Imagine subnautica with a half life skin and some mild project zomboid elements. It's really good, and has a fantastic story if you like the old-style SCP (4chan only era) before children and redditors ruined it.

>>719241072
I thought residences was good until the jumping part and biolabs. I fell so many times cause the fucking mystagogue suit would propel me to my death after landing, not giving option to use jetpack there is massive fuck you.

What exactly is the point of mapping center side of manufacturing?
Just goon fodder for military drops?

>>719254108
I missed out on so many bobbleheads.

>>719268315
>passive can kill you
>pet does a whopping 1 damage laser beam that never stays on target

that armor was an absolute letdown

>>719268046
It's a super-positioned location to our universe, which atomical structure are bound together by the speed of the train.
If it stopped, it would basically causes all the atoms in that location to break apart and the released energy would be enough to level our galaxy or worse.

>>719268375
Pretty much

>>719268375
Minor spoiler below.
There's a shortcut to residences