Thread 725542505

Is it good? I was thinking about playing either Signal Sim or this.

>>725542505 (OP)
Depends if you want furry wacky demon adventure or actual comfy signal tracking.

>>725542681
WDYM? I thought VoTV was only aliens. Did they add some furry aliens or what?

>>725542725
votv is full of furry demons, furry aliens, furry robots, and emo twink OC main character.
It's basically deviantart: the game

>>725542725
99% of the random events are ghosts, demons and analog horror shit. Most of the actual alien events are story events that happen at predetermined times

>>725542505 (OP)
VotV is really fun if you play it blind
after you beat it shelve it for a year and don't pay attention to whatever dumbass shit the dev gets up to

>>725542505 (OP)
why don't you just play both?
you're not actually limited to just one or the other
although make sure you play the votv version before .9, everyone played and enjoyed it already and with the new update its a far worse game

>>725542725
>add
The game's development began with the dev being inspired by Signal Simulator, except he wanted the main race of aliens to be his middle school futa catgirl OC. It was over before it began.

i gave up when the tutorial tried to teach me how to get signals. my attention span is ompletely ruined, i used to be able to focus on things but not anymore.

>>725542725
>furry aliens
They aren't even modeled in the game. It's just lazy shit

>>725544057
They have plushies and a lot of concept art.

>>725543642
>make sure you play the votv version before .9
can anyone else confirm this?

>>725543642
no no, actually, play 0.9 first and 0.8 second. I want to see your opinion on either compared from the usual

>>725544134
Exactly. Yet they are physically nothing.
It's not even them cloaked

>>725544215
There is also a poster.

>>725544165
>>725544187
.9 changed a lot of stuff but the game has been shit for way longer than just .8

>>725544292
>concept art
You already said that.
Once you realize they are not actually in the game the posters mean NOTHING

>>725544529
It's an in-game poster you find at a story location. It' not an easter egg.

>>725544165
0.9 isn't out yet, it's a shitty test build, unbalanced and with some features broken

>>725544914
If it's not out yet, then how are people playing it, huh?? Checkmate, arirtheist

>725544580
The posters are concept art. The aliens aren't in the game

Do you really need to repeat the same stupid shit every thread? Get a job.

>>725545731
>do you really need to talk about the elephant in the room every thread about this videogame in the videogame board
Yes

>>725545731
It's okay to like a shit game. It's not okay to be mad like a moderator for that game

>>725544580
Giant cat futas with 6 tits won't fuck you anon, the game is streamer dependent for it's survival

>>725542505 (OP)
Play signal sim first, fall in love with it, then play VotV and forever seethe at the wasted oppurtunity while still playing VotV whenever it gets a new update.

>>725544580
And the posters are placeholders

>>725544580
>>725546225
Samefag

>>725546486
You got me.

>>725542505 (OP)
It is good, but I don't understand the dev's obsession of adding mechanics the game doesn't need and no one asks for
>fishing
>building
>cleaning
Like, these are things that this games does WORSE than any other that has them, the game excels at exploration and the mechanics that are related to searching signals, why they gotta waste time on that slop instead of expanding on what's so great about it?
also don't get me started in the cryptid things with no in-game hints whatsoever that you can only know about by lurking their discord

VotV is an incoherent mess of discord in-jokes and streamer pandering but it has a lot of content and is free.

Signal sim is coherent and lean in it's content not drowning you in the absurd. but it costs money and if you know of it then you probably seen literally everything it has to offer on youtube already.

I have not played since the old base, and decided to give the 0.8 version a go. Is the frequency/phase machine supposed to be completely unusable by having the controls too far away from the screen, or am I missing something?

>>725548808
>also don't get me started in the cryptid things with no in-game hints whatsoever that you can only know about by lurking their discord

Something something paetron game, I guess.

GOD DAMN HALLYIONS FUCKING MY COMFY OFFICE GET THE FUCK OUT AND STOP FUCKING WITH MY CATPUTER!

Im sorry guys, I asked for more gameplay related to signals and now we got .9 tediousness

>>725549014
You can hold the button down and still look away.

>>725549014
What do you mean by "too far away"?
Take a screenshot

>>725543912
unironically watch a video of someone else doing it first and you'll get it without any issue. the tutorial is absolutely horrendous including for how retardedly long it is.

I always thought the Arirals were catFISH people, but I just realized they don't have gills

>>725548808
Nose has no idea what he is doing but still wants those sweet patreon shekels

Honestly, the real problem with the update, having played it a while, is economy.

You really feel like you need 1000 points to start (to dump entirely in to ping recharge to move the signal waypoints over and over). Though also, everything costing so much is just a hinderance to playing the game in any way that involves the signals. The new radar towers and fuse mechanic is fine. It's the kind of thing you attend maybe once a week. The new minigames are fine.

The simple fact is, if signals actually paid out, Nose wouldn't need to worry about people trying to break the game.

Also the ATV is too much of a pain to drive around. It's haha streamer fell off funny, but in real terms this is probably 90% of why people get Omega to do everything out of base. The ATV is just a pain to bother with even before the new parts.

>>725542681
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hhwSCa-RKl0

>>725548808
Genuinely all these mechanics and chores people shit on wouldn't be nearly as shat on if they didn't come at the expense of the signals.
I said it before last time we had a thread where everything should be funded by signals, signals should be your life blood in the beginning game and as you save up to get access to more mechanics like fishing and farming and shit, you don't need to buy food as much and can have those mechanics supplement your signal income.

what the fuck the option for kel not to be a whiny piece of shit about food is gone
game literally ruined

>>725542505 (OP)
this is the most autistic bait game ever, literally nothing ever happens

>>725542505 (OP)
>Also the ATV is too much of a pain to drive around.
This.
I thought it's a meme low-level vehicle and you surely get something decent later, but it really is supposed to be your main vehicle.

The game needs multiplayer so it can be officially written off.

>>725542505 (OP)
>>725542792
This. Another game with an interesting concept ruined by a horny creator.

>>725552049
It's practically unnecessary anymore.
MREs now split into a handful of different component food items which I think prevents the food fatigue now, I was able to just live off the MREs in the base for a week and a half when I started fresh on 0.9, the only other thing I ate was a chicken sandwich I found in the basement when I was hallucinating food that turned out to be real

>>725551826
Nose is going to have to knuckle down and accept he has to make some choices.

Narrative or Gameplay? The facility needs so much money put in to upgrades before signals are even viable to do. This is a narrative choice because this is a sacrificial ground that is rundown. You're here to die in a week. Not do a job. But this comes at the cost of gameplay.

Streamer or Gamer? It's funny when the streamer goes splat riding the ATV, but making getting out of the base quick and reliable will make people less reluctant to go out. One quick trip out is most of your allotted time out right now. It's also a huge pain to use the ATV. No wonder people want to use the Omega so quickly.

And some things may need to just go. Omega may need to be cut from the game (or relegate it to the spawn menu or something) so basic tasks can be made easier. Cause just patching the patch by patching the patch's patch isn't working.

Some things probably just need gutting entirely. You can't keep piling on extra wank forever.

>>725552479
if thats true then it might still be playable
though only mres will be edible now

Give it a go. It's almost worth the $0 the dev is asking for it.

>>725553374
PAY DR.NOSE WHAT HE'S FUCKING WORTH

>>725552414
I am INCREDIBLY SURE fixing this alone would quiet a lot of people up about doing tasks. Though knowing Nose, rather than buff the ATV it'll be a 2000 point upgrade that also makes Kerfur try to murder you every time you are on the ATV.

>>725552629
Couldn't you have the early game be simple and easy to handle, while upgrading your system introduces new mechanics that you have to keep track of? Like having only a few servers and satellites that are working that are shit would fit the "I was sent here to kinda die" sorta deal, while also being easy to manage. You use what little money you get from these few equipment to buy supplies needed to keep yourself alive, or cheap new equipment to unlock new mechanics like small-scale farming or shitty fishing to be a bit more self-reliant. You can save up to fix the other sattelites/servers which while gives you more points, also increases maintenance, but you can also save up to buy upgrades that increase reliability.

>>725553662
Depends on how it's done, but that would require a game overhaul to do as you describe in any case. That may need to be what happens, but I'm confident just making signals more lucrative, and fixing the stupid ATV's physics, would fix much of what's wrong.

Cause the problem we're having now is one of avoidance of real world physical pain among the player base, and that's not the kind of horror you want in a horror game.

More zex
MORE

>>725553403
In the end, I guess it comes down to this.

Free game is free. If you want to complain, pay for the paetron tiers. Which also lets you know about those 1000 unfindable events only paetrons get to know.

>>725553407
The issue wih tasks (and in general the gameplay) is that they are so mind numbing that they desensitize you to all the horror elements. That was the case when I played, a year ago or so. Maybe he fixed something, but I'm not holding my breath.

>>725554123
The new disk system for hashes is a step in the right direction. It's faster than trying to copy them by hand even with the error rate, but it also forces the player to stand around and enjoy the scenery while it works. Anons complain about that, but that's actually a nice way to do it. Make people stand outside the satellite waiting anxiously. Look around a bit.

That's how I noticed I was being followed by something myself. No sense staring at the screen. May as well stand outside and enjoy the scenery. Nope, that's something running around at the bottom of the satalite....

But signals still need you fully upgraded to be worth doing.

>>725553374
Not until the cat people are actually in the game