Thread 536441693

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TQ: If you had to base in one of the portal worlds, which would it be?

These never last; but good luck

I'm out of metal scrap

>>536456073
Set up a salvage bench in the furniture store and scrap all of those bookcases

>>536456073
choppinator+robot spawner
Also, office chairs.
>>536456401
Probably would hurt to set up a lil scrap base in one of those cubby holes on the bottom section. I dont think enemies will attack. Can probably just run a wire extension through one of the lil crawl gaps for a safe spot that way you could do all your shopping before the zombies spawn in, and not have to worry about them breaking your stuff once they do.
Does teleporting to the top of that place effect it at all? Like using a PT to teleport to a craft bench set up on the roof? Will the elevator be pre-powered or will you just be kinda boned if you want to go down?

>>536441693 (OP)
vm is probably a better board

>>536480953
You might be right, but figured if threads are hitting bump limit on /v/ it'd be fine here until it becomes just another /indie/. Last thing /vm/ needs is some gachafaggot makinga new thread at bump limit despite threads taking a week to be pruned(not that this hasnt been at risk of dying here)
I mean, I know people are interested. Theyre discussing the game in the advert thread I made on /v/ for this one.

Blacksmith was way cooler when I was under the impression he had a boiling pot of soldier next to him due to me misreading it.

>>536441693 (OP)
>TQ
I feel like Flathills lanes would be a good choice. Got that grocery store nearby and a ton of nacho spawns, plus the 8-top stove. Its super out of the way though, which will be a problem until you get teleport pads. The personal teleporter would help a lot, but its a long way back to the atrium. There is the nearby portal to the mapping center behind the blacksmith in manufacturing which would probably by the fastest way to a tram line, and theres also a forklift recall next to blacksmith too if you wanted to drive instead of tram.

How do the zombies get out of helmholtz? The exit portal is inaccessible from their spawns.

>>536491175
mugnade

hi nonny

so how's the end of the game with 1.0? What do I have to look forward to? I just opened up the reactors and worked my way up to cloud before the update hit, and haven't played since then

anyone knows anything about 1.1?
this ending was kinda lame, i hope they don't stop story content here

I jumped

>>536496157
Dont think theres been any going forward announcement other than them saying they were going to continue onto a 1.1. Think we're gonna get some part 2s to sectors like manufacturing east, but thats just my wishful thinking.

up

>>536492383
If you're at reactors then you have a mix of combat and shorter linear areas heading your way.

>>536486579
The night realm would be cool too. It doesnt have much going on other than the ink fish spot, but super easy to get to and from and theres a golf cart recall right there

>>536476225
You can just put a rope plant on a bridge and skip the elevator entirely

>>536516094
niiiiice
I havent started playing with those yet so idk which places they do and dont like. Have a few sitting in a box though.
Will one work in the main lift room in labs? That elevator is kinda fucking awful.

Do I need to start mass producing antiverse wheat for trading with those things in Labs or will I find another source of them before I run out of all the one's I got from smashing the things in Labs? A lot of these new recipes Im getting need that stuff and gettin kinda low but security seems really short judging from the map.

>>536520036
If you live near the wildlife pens you get a handful of wheat regularly, but i would still set up a farm and have a medium plot with wheat. it comes in handy

>>536518427
It may not be long enough but you could probably do it floor by floor

>>536522169
Damn. Thats only slightly more convient than the elevator by the time you reach the top :/

Decided to build a base in the night realm around that ink pool area where you spawn at. Its pretty comfy. Small base though. Just the essentials.

>>536528876
I did that too. Fishing chair, chef table, garbage can, bedroll, crafting bench. I might add some more furniture, maybe a cubicle thing to make a little house later

>>536497553
I like that you can see the player thinking about the noises for a second.

Canaan kinda sucks
theres no loots

>>536541843
Hexwood armor tho

>>536541843
kill the trees

>>536542257
I got the mask idea for that in the swamps but havent looked at it. Still wearing forge lmao

>>536543003
Forge is good for the entire game desu. Hex (2 or 4 pieces) is really handy utility for a few areas tho. I think it's worth using for a bit.

Just got out of Canaan. Nice section, it was very Tim Burton and the music was great. Shame the magbow isn't as good as I thought it would be, I'm still better off rushing everything with the crowbar 2.0.

>>536497553
The Reaper is just a shittier Leyak, only bound to one area and you get the "fuck off" weapon almost immediately. Shame you need so many of his shits, because Security is a boring area and it's just you grabbing as much as you can while trying to avoid this dickhead spawning on top of you and sending you to a Quake 1 map.

>>536549157
>you need so many of his shits
the humble inkfish:

>>536550736
doesn't this take ten fucking years of mind numbing fishing minigame without the instant fishing mod

>>536548786
I really enjoyed killing those savages. There's something about backwards religious zealots that just makes them so much fun to kill.

Any reccomendations for small base locations?

>>536556538
Thinkin this room near the start of hydroplant might have some potential.

>>536556538
I have a small base just for teleporting under the sniper nest at the beginning of hydro. But if you want to skip the security bots you could also probably take one of the rooms at the office building since it has a 2nd floor with empty rooms, and you can set some rope plants. You could also set up a base at the higher end of the zipline at the other building

>>536556538
The room above the blacksmith's forge is very comfy

>>536561520
I was thinking there as an option, but idk how I feel about manufacturing. Might give offices another look through. Maybe even security.

>>536562803
It's also right next to the residences tram and a portal that leads to the offices and labs

>>536562803
Just make a small base at each area for teleportation in the midgame. Near blacksmith is good because there's 2-3 rooms with charging stations nearby, blacksmith for trading, and mines for antejuice. If you make a base at cascade, you now have easy access to the refined carbon, crystal, and some other exchanger I forget, as well as access to wildlife pens for wheat and milk. It's also relatively close to offices and containment.

>>536564913
liquid crystal

>>536566335
oh yeah

Baseless run. Only what you can carry and fit in a vehicle and just making camp wherever when night comes.

>>536572636
Sounds fun, but would a farm you have to travel to and from be a dealbreaker?

>>536556538
First playthrough, having done most of manufacturing I'd agree with this anon >>536561520
Cafeteria is great as a central hub, but having the cozy tram and the forklift + forklift recall right nearby just seems too good. Its an easy move too, either load all your crap in the tram storage and ride there, or zip over in the forklift and throw everything in the forklift storage. I haven't moved yet but am gonna drive over the forklift (uncertified) load my stuff up, tram back and use the forklift recall, all in time to throw some coffee down my coffee hole

I never left the cafeteria as primary base
It being a central hub was too convenient

>>536575653
>all those filing cabinets
psychotic lmfao

The cafeteria is a nice base. It's where I store all my cooking shit. The security office w/ the coffee machine and the area right outside that. It's a shame you can't get rid of jager's body tho.

>>536578660
They were convenient to store things. And yeah, if there's a downsidde then it's the body in the front and the chef inside. Kinda wish I could remove them

>>536575653
Your cables are hurting my OCD

>make 3 jumpads to reach gale reactor
>its fucking locked with tier6 key
what now ? kek

>>536491175
oh 3 carbon thing... nice

>>536562803
>Might give offices another look through
I just found a nice place in Offices that I had completely overlooked for the longest time, there's a door in a corner, you need level 2 hacking and inside you have two small offices on each side of a corridor that leads to the data farm, each room has a power socket and the place feels nicely closed-off, I would have made something here if I wasn't already established in the obvious security checkpoint.

>excursion suit doesn't protect from lung infections
...nigga

>>536456073
Hl2 have hint what to do

>>536585685
I think the radiation reduction is also lower than the Hazardous Materials suit. It's weird.

>Abiotic Factor are doing a bundle deal with an actual SCP game
I guess it makes sense. Shame that 5K kind of sucks, especially in singleplayer.

>>536593612
Yeah i think it is. Maybe they wanted players to use all of the other suits or something

>>536595040
Crazy idea, anon. Honestly though, it just feels weird after playing through the whole game with little reason to take off the hazardous materials suit, getting a similar suit with an obscenely good bonus, that turns out to not be as safe for "excursions" as the hazardous materials suit.

i dont like *tank view*

>>536595487
it just doesn't make sense from a practical in-universe standpoint lmao. also was arch defense in the future or some shit. I thought it was weird that frake used to wear biometric armwraps + bionic legs, but later on they patched it so she wears the excursion suit, wasn't sure if that made sense either. the only other time we see the excursion suit iirc is on lenora in her audio log at botanical who is clearly in some sort of fucked up future timeline also none of the transrecon members he see in the present have that suit on idk if i'm overthinking

>>536595974
I think one of the NPCs say "it's happened again" therefore implying that she already went in and got a suit before you did
Seems like something Frake would do anyway, she is a focused woman and doesn't seem to care about collateral damage (after all, she was willing to open up a fucking black hole)

What a normal way to enter Gale Reactor ? dont tell me you need build bridge

Over there, Gale Reactor, gotta reach it. And this is what I gotta do, I'll do it. Gatekeepers or no Gatekeepers.

If we don't, who's gonna do it? Bridge gonna build itself? That's crazy talk. Only an IDIOT would try any other way. Ropes? Hah. Jetpack? Fools. You'd kill yourself even trying! The bridge. The bridge is the way.

We're all we've got now. Our own hands. But I remember when this was different, before they cleared this place out. In '85. Like it was an accident. Just ate up all the rock, the dirt. They don't talk about that, but it happened. And now look. Like it was never here. (Laughs)

I don't know about those guys ... I'm just trying to build ...

>>536597656
easy mode longjump/jetpack + grav cube
also easy mode if you don't want to swap gear hardlight bridge
CHAD mode 30 wood bridges off the end of the tram platform

>>536598181
i know already cleared it fucking warzone
jump pads near truck second on conditioner allow you to reach tram lobby i want method used by DEVS (intended)

>>536584324
Yeah, I was thinking about that one but Marion spawns in there and its kind of a pita because she blocks the doorways there

>>536588160
Disassemble all the trash cans in flathills? Got it.

>>536611985
Soda cans from robots counts too 20+ just from Office per day

>>536612147
forgot
A good strategy to obtain lots of Metal Scrap is to kill Security Robots, as they drop Metal Scrap and the Security Bot CPUs that they drop can also be exchanged with The Blacksmith for an Anvil, which can then be salvaged for 20 Metal Scraps.

>>536612147
I was jesting, but those style trashcans that spawn around flathills drop 8 each and the magazine stands drop 4. Soda cans, and the 10 0r so metal scrap that drops from the robot itself normally keeps me pretty afloat. I normally base by a robot recharging station and set traps by it which makes it pretty passive as far as material farming goes.

Just saying Flathills is pretty underrated. Always come back with stacks of salt, peas, nachos, and metal.

>>536595487
I wore the rat suit the entire game. I have no idea what armor looks like. I wish I could hide the suit.

Are teleporter pads worth it when I can just make a personal teleporter for each base and stick them in a chest in the base the personal teleporter I carry around with me takes me to?
Like if I have 10 bases and my main one is in the cafeteria, I can just carry around the cafeteria PT.
So... say Im out scavenging labs and Im all full up on shit and also needing to go to my Manufacturing base to check on my apiary and farm.
I hit my PT qnd go back to my cafeteria base. I recharge the empty labs PT i used to leave to go farming with, and the cafeteria PT. I then go to the PT chest and put the labs PT back and retrieve the Manufacturing PT and Im off.

What do the teleport pads bring to the table?

>>536614049
No recharging, but they're really for when you play multiplayer.

>>536614049
i finish game faster then you build 10 pads....
10 lodestones and 20 alloys srs shit
at least 2 behemoths and 10bots is not hard....

>>536614326
>but they're really for when you play multiplayer.
Oh yeah, I keep forgetting this game is balanced around having friends

>>536575653
Same. It's such a good location, is fucking huge, and you can make it comfy enough.

>>536615296
you wouldnt get it

Has enough dust been kicked up for it to settle on who bestgirl is? I didnt expect their to be so many great options. I cant decide.
Right now Im split between Dr. Carson and Facility-chan.

>Reaper
>Such a fucking edgelord I can't take him seriously
>He's like every 14 year old's first "dark" SCP
>Your laser is basically the equivalent to a squirt gun for a misbehaving pet to him
>No! Bad Reaper! Bad!
>And he's gone
>He's whole thing is taking you to some weird dark universe for unknown reasons
>But it's so easy to escape you don't know why he bothers
>Fucker just gives up once you get past the tiny area he's haunting, presumably out of embarrassment.
At least the Leyak has some charm to it, this latin spouting sperg is just lame.

>>536617802
I just bait a spawn in a direction I dont want to go and then run the other way and handle my business. Once I realized it was only a single guy it became too ez to just trick his dumb ai to give me free reign. Theyd need to cut his reposition timer in half.

>see funny ironic yellow paint room
>start seeing unfunny unironic yellow paint just smeared all over the floor in front of intended paths because fuck exploring
god dammit....

>>536617009
you know answer...

>>536621449
I prefer Dr. Carson because shes cute in a highly traumatized literal C.H.U.D. kinda way. I mean she was trapped in the parking garage with nothing but zombie for who knows how long. And she sell porkchops, despite there being no pigs around. Think about it. The porkchops are zombie steaks. Thats where theyre coming from. Thats why she looks so unhealthy compaired to the other survivors. Also she spawns in kitchens like a good woman and:
>Oh, hey there. We need to help each other here, right? Cause it's... rough out there. And we have to eat, right? If you wanted to... trade something, maybe... we could totally do that?
>Man, it's been a lonnnng few days. Oh well, we'll figure it out.
>Hungry? I hope so.
>You okay? When was the last time you ate?

She cute.

Where the fuck does this door in the encroachment lead to?
I've already looped around one side path and found one other socket spot, but no double doors like these yet.

Good morning sirs, whats everyone's goal today when they play? Im gonna move my base and explore the mines, maybe visit flathill and the train
Anyone tried living in the tori home world?

>>536621402
It's only for a bit in the labs, but yes, it is stupid they made fun of yellow paint only to use it.

>Hack the security door to the driving course area
>It's just a big empty area connected to a wacky driving test track
I'm assuming this is so you can dick about with the cars, because there's nothing else here. Weird they put a silly multiplayer shitpost arena slap bang in the middle of the "creepy" grim reaper hunt section.

>>536623834
My goal is get to Hydro. I've unlocked the shortcut so I can avoid the Reaper's gay little half circle of jogging in the dark and spent a few hours actually organising my crates. Until now I had a ton of boxes with random shit in them, and they're too far away from my bench to auto pull items from them. Now they're still too far away, but at least they're named and have what they say they have in them.

>>536624505
theres a flathill crate in there somewhere along the walls

>>536626086
Is there ever anything good in those? I've opened two and got the same stuff you normally get for killing the human sized monsters in Flathill, plus some trinket that helps with the super rare flathill fog event.

>>536626228
yeah its whatever

I can't be bothered to create the Leyak's containment when the X-ray towers do just fine and also give me free essences

>>536628247
Yeah, the Leyak is a non-issue, and only would be a problem to the ADHD types who "need" to play with music and podcasts. Otherwise it's a slow, noisy and non-threatening cute monster who likes to peek through windows and around corners at you like a shy stalker.

>>536628461
sometimes it gets me while crafting and stuff or just from aggroing through a wall, but the only really annoying thing about it is how quickly it disappears when you want to flash it

>hydroplant
>still using labs weapons
What to upgrade to? The Magbow and Lodebow seem kinda lackluster, as does the energy pistol.

>>536641128
Grinder. They are really fucking useful against Soldiers and Exors later. Especially the upgrade to the thresher, at least for me it was.

>>536641546
nta, but Grinder seems pretty good for an early gun. The energy pistol only does tiny damage but considering when your scientist comes up with it I'm guessing it's meant as an anti-Reaper defense and nothing more.

>>536641546
I saw that when I first got it in manufacturing but Ive had bad experiences with disk weapons in the past so I passed on it. 45 damage from cheap craftible ammo is pretty tasty though.

>>536641767
It's upgrade the laser pistol is somewhat okay, but it being a laser charge means it's a pain in the ass to reload and takes too long to fully charged by hand crank. But is useful for taking pot shots at Gatekeepers later on, especially the eye things.
>>536641853
Yeah, they are kinda pain in the ass, but their ammo's reusable so I was able to make do with it

I tested out the grinder with the help of my kind assistant, Franklin.
Frank took 3 headshoots to kill, which is the same as my auto 10 but without a flash light and a slower fire rate. It does have the benefit of craftable ammo though, and of the 3 shots that hit, I retrieved 2 so the disk break chances cant be too terrible if youre not bouncing them. Its also worth noting that Frank was the lowest level of grunt, and the damage discrepancy will become more important when fighting higher level enemies with more health, but vs the next tier up on the smg guy with a helmet around the corner felt compairable to the auto 10 too.
Verdict: both, both is good. The grinder is cheap to run and is great at feeding the pistol, and the ghetto blaster is my favorite backup flashlight.

But also: What is up with that hitbox shenanigans?

>>536621402
It's actually all over the place, the first place you can see it is in a hidden area underneath the data farm next to a very lost corpse

>>536623861
IS-1057 appears in many spots later in the game, but ironically it's very easy to miss.

>>536623834
I'm still farming for the sniper arms and medic chest piece. Finished the game otherwise. Might make a base in torii, but idk it's kinda boring

>>536624505
its a massive base area too
>>536628461
the sound legitimately scares me, im so happy i contained that stupid shit

>>536646638
Yeah, I was just about to reply to >>536645416
about how I missed the yellow paint in the control center because its kinda hard to see and if you slowly approach to try and look 2 turrets will kill you. If you just book it they can only target you for half a second, but doing so would expose you to a ton of angles which might conceal turrets.
The top route is by all the conviently piled rubish. There you only have to contend with 1 turret at a time while dashing between conver and then work your way around and unlock the door to the elvator that goes to the top of the Control Center.
I go all the way around and dont even realize Ive looped around. I see the elevator on my right(right way), and some stairs leading to another one further ahead(the one I arrived on). Im all turned around an run back up to the original one and the turrets take a potshots at me. I realize where I am and just run back and make it fine sticking to the left despite having just gone all the way around to get there the first time.
Thats when I saw the yellow paint smeared from the arrival elecator to the one to the CC off button.

Now I dont know what the intent behind this design was. The yellow paint is hard to see because of the angle, darkness, and spontaneous hemorrhaging if you try to scooch closer for a better look. Its there, and obvious when you know it is, but the other route is much more alluring. Its got a bunch of jump-onable junk under a broken railing. In a more retro sense, its super obvious that is a route to take. No yellow paint needed.
The yellow paint route would be great if the closer turret was in a slightly different position so you could look down into the thing and see it without being shot.
I have no clue if he just didnt consider turret placement when considering the player deciding on the top or bottom routes, or this is some genius 4D chess game design to make me think I got red herring'd with the top route by making the easy route more sneaky.

>>536641128
Nothing beat good old buckshot
Good Damage Almost never run out ammo
Yeah i know about reloading this shit....

Am I supposed to have more than one base? I've just been getting into the manufacturing wing and feel like I am just always getting lost and backtracking materials back and forth via the cart way too much.

Enjoying the game a lot, just feel overwhelmed with it a bit sometimes.

>>536652267
If you want. I have a base for each area that I stockpile shit at, but then 99% of it eventually goes to my cascade labs base that's right next to the main hub/office area

>>536652267
just chill, bro
you dont need all that shit
I mean, do you really need a stack of plastic cluttering your invetory? Cmon, youve got 2 full ones back at the base already.

>>536652267
kill Rat dude with blunt weapon while he netted by net launcher for ez 30slot backpack
dont worry you unlock trams/spillways to Offices later
And dont pick all things look at crafting menu and pick what you need

>>536652267
You could always make a small "base" in every area only used as temporary storage. You also get a portable teleporter in the third area, so backtracking isn't as bad.

I went to Utah and all I got was 2 silver scrap and a lodestone

>>536654991
forgot about 3kgs of corrupted corn

>>536652434
>>536652585
>>536653117
Ah alright, that makes me feel a bit better. Easy to get bogged down with shit and just want to instantly run back to deposit it.

>>536652814
Oh neat, also yeah I've very guilt of trying to balance to many plates at once tracking different recipes.

>>536656243
Yeah, Im doing a more thorough clear this time now that I brought a lot of flashlight. So far Ive found those same 2 silver, and some pumpkins and corn. IK the corn deal is in flathill because doing that was my first priority after getting goo-b-gone.
But man... its just like.... 90% of the buildings you cant enter and most of the shit is decorative like the barrels amd whatnot. This level needs some more love. They need butter and butter churners because of the whole quaker mormons living like the amish thing. The swamp kinda reminds me of like... Quest64. Its got this lazy late-game slapped together feel to it, but theres still a secret or two to find if you navigate the bullshit they threw together when already way spent.
The witch chick is cute. Was kinda hoping for an actual witch, but she'll do.

>>536657802
Yeah having little pitstops to store shit is nice, so you don't end up doing the whole back and forth bullshit.

>>536657876
funny thing according to wiki this portal world have 20-25 unique items (i found 5-10 at max lol)

>>536658484
A lot of drops from the enemies. Aside from that you have to pay good attention in the farm area and pick shit up. Also canaan for WAHTEVER reason has some of the rarest fish istg. also you can break down those fish for more unique items

how many pets ingame ? not counting notHeadcrab
And how much damage pets do ?
I want pet only (with trinket) play

>>536660170
Uhhh the only animals you can tame are the various pests and the skink. I have an electro pest tamed but idk i don't think you can really bring it around with you. The exor armor has a spirit exor buddy who does a lot of dmg with the pet trinket and beats the fuck out of a lot of enemies. The mystagogue armor has a drone but it's dogshit even with the trinket

>>536660170
Pest, Electro-Pest, Volatile Pest, Snow Pest and Skink are the things you can tame. I think the trinket also affects the things summoned by armour sets like the Exor.

>>536657802
>and just want to instantly run back to deposit it.
Its not going anywhere. You can just not loot and keep trucking on with your already full backpack. Nothing is worse than being out on a progression expedition and deciding to return back to base for a pit stop, only to go back where you were and find a new shortcut back home, or even worse, a roadblock that requires you to go back home again and craft an item to pass. Once you make some hard progress and finish areas it becomes a lot easier to go back through and loot after you open it up a bunch, but its hard to make good progress when youre constantly looting.

When working through a new area and trying to make progress I only loot new things, stuff I know Im actually out of, and stuff that is immediately useful(like ammo). From there you can make further judgment calls. Like for Manufacturing. Cement is new but it doesnt stack very high and is heavy as shit. Pick it up and look at the new recipes it unlocks and decide how many inv slots you really want to commit to it and leave the rest.
Theyre not going anywhere,
unless you pick them up and then drop them.
Then theyre gone for good.
Theres nothing wrong with focusing on the task at hand and letting materials lie until a time more convient for gathering. Exploration is a lot more productive when youre not carrying 40 bags of cement, and looting is a lot more productive when youre not stressing out about the infinite possibilities behind this door you haven't gone through, or what could have been down that side route you need to go back and check because this is a dead end.

Both exploration and looting become a lot easier when you take the hakuna matata approach. Explore until you make the game force you back to your base(because it often will), not your inventory. Then if that road block requires a loot run, go do it. Its all espresso, bby.

>>536662231
Funny thing... cement bag is most useless shit ingame Unless you are building trenches....

>>536663236
It's kinda fun making cement barricades but a lot of base areas do a good job of already supplyin you with indestructible walls

>>536663332
Theyre still nice to put around the entrances to your base for flair. Theyre easy to jump over and enemies will have to attack them to get to your crafting bench, but lets not pretend night raids require more than a screw driver to fend off.

How exactly does the leyak deal damage? Unless its playing the long game for alimony, I dont see how erotically wiggling its hentai tentacles on me is hurtful.

>>536664946
you die from cuteness overload....

GIVE ME THE SNOWMAN

>>536665534
be careful what you wish for

>>536623834
I achieved the current goal of setting up a full base just running off battery power in my no outlet run. Still a work in progress, but have almost everything I need from a base. Just going to start running through reactors later today, got my exor armour now.

>>536646380
One thing that's started to stand out to me a lot (since people were always mentioning it in previous threads) is that they don't just use yellow paint, but yellow lights often get used a lot as well.

>>536665534
I swear to allah if theres not a christmas update with him as some super duper weather event Im going to shit your pants.

>>536668683
I really hope we get something like that for christmas, don't shit my pants
>>536668334
AAAAA

Anons wtf its not December....

The more I think about it the more the yellow paint interests me.
In the Labs, the yellow paint containment block. The big yellow room on F3 across from Adjustment. In Adjustment theres the new card hacker mats, and across from that is the yellow paint room. The yellow paint room drops down to the F2 area you need to go to and opens one of the doors, and the 2nd door needs that the new card hacker. So, ultimately, if you follow the yellow paint youre still stuck pissing in the wind and having to explore through the clusterfuck of rooms that is Adjustment the old fashioned ways anyways.
Howany times does yellow paint get used actually unironically. If theres yellow paint by an easter egg or in front of a door that requires 3 different adventures to open, it doesnt count. Ive seen it in some areas, but it was always on top of other more obvious clues. Sometimes I feel like its a shitpost on the playtesters being confused in certain areas. Take the night realm for example. On the 3rd or 4th vist you enter an extremely restricted area. Theres not a lot of places to go. But then theres this... night realmish vine wall. Gamer logic says this is a ladder at first glance. BUT, in front of its is a yellow ladder, and a shade is one his knees staring at it. It almost comes across as passive aggressive. Like
>oh yeah, area too cunfusing, huh?
>cant see the vines, huh?
>aint never played a game with climbable vines in your life, huh?!
>ok, well,how about this...
>LOOK
>I MADE A SHADE
>STARING AT AN UNCLIMABLE PIECE OF YELLOW LADDER
>RIGHT INFRONT OF THE CLIMBABLE VINES
>IF THAT IS STILL TOO MUCH FOR YOU THEN JUST SIT THERE LOOKING AT THE YELLOW LADDER WITH THE SHADE UNTIL YOU FINALLY DEVELOP A SECIND BRAINCELL WITH WHICH TO FORM YOUR FIRST SYNAPTIC CONNECTION.

Like its either used in a useless way that I cant help but feel its shitposting, or used in such a HEY DUMBFUCK way at points I could see people being tripped up in, that it still feels like its shitposting.

I'm such a retard.
>Need to get to the neutrino detector out in the reservoir
>Keep swimming out there looking for an underwater entrance
>Cool there seems to be one
>You drown long before you can explore these tunnels, so clearly not it
>If only I could breathe underwater
>Explore as much of Hydro as I can with no level five hacking device, because it clearly needs something from the detector
>Only realise after hours of exploring that my guy came up with a Half-Life style long jump and it wasn't just a cute reference, it's how you're clearly meant to get there
FUCK. At least I have a ton of new and powerful resources and killed several of the combat robots.

>>536669223
We are a month overdue for Christmas in July

Nice Windows XP land GATE has here.

>>536673779
some real gmod shit. kinda want to make a base there desu. Not sure how I would decorate it tho.

>>536673779
>winxp portal by Bill GATEs
You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake up in your respawn bed and continue on believibg whatever you want to believe in this comfy survival craft game.
You take the red pill and I show you just how deep this anti-AAA-markiplier-lore-bait-tier rabbit goes.

>>536672704
You need to talk to some guy to unlock the Diving Suit recipe, that lets you breathe far longer underwater.

>build super comfy base in cascade
>only have to defend a staircase which works as a great chokepoint
>put up a bunch of tesla coils to just zap everything that comes up the stairs
>get raided by a frezy of electro pests who may as well be a F5 tornado
it did not go well

>>536677982
That area above the aquariums near the wildlife pens? If so, I've had a similar issue of trying to set up tesla coils for the robot there and getting electro pests destroying it routinely.

>>536673779
where can I find this?
Kinda want to make a base there

>>536677982
Just stand there with the vacuum next time lol

>>536679914
i haven't been raided by them for awhile but i will do that next time, i keep forgetting about the vacuum

>>536575653
how are you not getting zapped by the coils

>>536680274
glow shard

>>536680256
Vacuum is pretty useful for chopping corpses and the upgraded version is actually kinda fun at reactors.

Time to spend a penny, perhaps...

>>536680819
>bong voice
*vomits*

>>536680819
>play with the funny scientist voice for two playthroughs
>decide to pick the female one for the third
>

>>536682545
I prefer RPing as the male scientist who is LARPing as having a relationship with Facility-chan. She is the voice on the announcements and the tvs. Its nicw coming back home after a long day and turing on the rest tv and hearing your wife talk about the importance of rest. Theres also a lot of TVs you can turn on to emulate converation with Facility-chan. I love hearing her tell me about containment procedures while Im cooking, and her mindbroken speaking in the security sector makes me diamonds every time. I like imagining my scientist carrying the random female cadavers over to the security secotor and imagining they are the
>Facility:(Unintelligible)
noises while my scientist is *making love* to the cadavers so that he might feel some warmth despite how cold his former co-worker's holes might be.
Just listen to her....
She tells you when its dangerous out...
She tells you when its safe...
She constantly updates you on the security and containment rating of the current sector.
Name 1(one) woman who has cared about you half as much as Facility-chan?
>inb4 my mother
Really? I mean... reeeeeally? Think about that for a bit and get back to me.

Facility-chan is the evermommy.

The last reactor is probably the only time where I had to use traps to murder an entire area. Fuck your fair fight.

COUNTRY ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOADS
TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOOOOOME
TO THE PLAAAAAAAAAACE
I BELOOOOOOOOONG
WEST VIRGINYAAAAAAAAAA
MOUNT YO MOMMAAA
COUNTRY ROOOOOOADS
TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOME

The adventures of Rusty Venture, former boy adventurer!

Can i fill up cabinets with itesm or will they magically suck up and dlete them

>>536687049
Cabinets where?
The containers in facility do not respawn or get refilled.
The containers within portal worlds do respawn and get refilled, for example the magazine stands in Flathill.

So you can hoard filing cabinets and use them for item storage if you don't feel like gathering wood and plastic for even the most basic crate.

>>536687049
Just look at what this anon's doing >>536575653
hoarding all that cabinets

>>536679892
Once you get level 5 hacking return to the labs. There's a bunch of level 5 doors you couldn't open, and the portal here is one of them.
There's also a backrooms reference world.

>>536687347
>>536687476
Oh ok awesome

lol mycofields was something else
i've never had that many status effects stacked up

>>536687347
>So you can hoard filing cabinets and use them for item storage if you don't feel like gathering wood and plastic for even the most basic crate.
they add a certain level of soul to any base and make great night stands.

>>536688914
just pretend you dont have them and keep on keeping on

>>536677982
the humble disc turret:

>>536694932
Does that need an ammo refill? I guess if you don't use the disc gun they can all go there

>>536694932
do these have any trouble aiming downward if i build them on a shelf?

>>536696624
Don't need ammo

>>536698262
daaaaaamn maybe i should've used one of those
i went with teslas for the entire game until i got the laser turret recipe lol

Chopinator go brrrrrrr...
Most ethical defence ever made

>>536698156
>do these have any trouble aiming downward if i build them on a shelf?
The range is a bit short, but generally they can aim well. This bad boy has been here since the beginning and has never failed me

Soon all of cascade labs will be my base

>>536700106
sure buddy now let me ride you to your contaiment cell

>>536701735
It's okay I have 10 shock traps and 2 teslas guarding the robot charging station lmfao.

is there any way to have the teslas to keep attacking robots after they're dead to break up the body into scrap parts?

>>536702942
Not that I know of. It's vacuum time

>>536703027
can we move the dead robots? i'd love to just put robot on a cart and push it up to a couple of chopinators or they should add a machine where i can put dead robots into it and it crushes them into manageable scrap cubes.

>>536702942
>>536703443
anon kitchen knife can chop robots....

>>536703443
I don't know if that's possible, probably not desu. I was going to say place chopinators right up to the robot station, but the game doesn't let you build too close to them so i don't htink there's a way to completely automate robot annihilation

>>536703539
kitchen knives are so juvenile, i want to use science on them

there should be a power tool actually like the power drill we can build, something like a hydraulic cutter that just tears them to bits in 2 seconds.

>>536703850
I'm kinda surprised that screwdriver upgrade 2 wasn't like lmb: repair, rmb: destroy

>>536703931
man it should be like that seriously.

>Black fog triggers for the first time right the moment I aggroed my first Defense Robot
Well that was an exciting fight.

>Military truck has staplers shipment
Make a meta joke /afg/

its a shame out of all the good stuff in the furniture store, there isn't a decent bed

What are some pranks to pull on your friends

>>536717187
Poop soup in every pot

>>536717187
my only friend is Tentacle waifu but she is very shy....

>Drink entire coffee pot of mashed taters
>+16 Hunger
>+66 Thirst

>>536688914
I barely survived first time because I made no prep. I got out of the exit portal and collapsed dead on the floor, then got the achievement for shitting myself as my corpse also shat the floor.
Now I go in there with the heat suit and a gasmask, and it's a non-issue.
I'm not making the same mistake with the portal in the neutrino detector. The whole room screams "It will be cold in there", so I'm making the warm clothing you get the idea for first.

>>536726402
lmfao surely the values were swapped by accident

I love Abe and Janet so much. You just keep running into them in almost every sector and they're always entertaining.
No idea how they got past Security Sector though, I'm convinced the only reason we got past the Reaper is because Sister of the Unlost is correct and we're an anomaly.

>>536728447
In Marathon Infinity it's heavily implied the reason why the protag is so powerful is because an outside force is controlling him (the player). An email implies that this being appears during times of great need and has been all the heroes of old, so it would be neat in a meta sense if that's what's happening here. Shame we're duped by Grinman.

>>536728667
which email is that
which area

>>536702942
Gotta use the chopinator for that

>>536728447
Everyone taken by the reaper
>They "die" a strange death where their body is separated from their soul. The soul lives on as a moaning, depressed shadow that mopes around the night realm
When we're taken by the Reaper
>Uh huh, well I'm just going to unlock all your doors, steal all your mystery shit and sit on your throne to assert dominance before heading back to Earth. Hey, wanna see my cool new laser?
There's certainly something not right about us.

>>536732816
You also get a quick debuff if you're caught so it's more like
>wow that was pretty scary
>oh shit is that a fishing spot

>>536733506
I still need to fish. I'm almost done with Hydro but I've never bothered with fishing. I love fishing in games but there's so much to do here I never got around to it.

>>536734000
DO NOT FISH IN HYDROPLANT !

>>536736190
Instructions unclear, fishing in Hydroplant.

>>536736296
CHOMP

>>536736484
>Keep hearing everyone freaking out about the water here
>Go swimming to look for progress points anyway
>Never encounter this guy in over 45 minutes of scouring the water for a way forward that isn't down there
He's either a very shy boy or he's not the big scary threat people are making him out to be.

>>536736880
I think you basically have to physically bump into it to even register. I sometimes see the Darkwater in the gloom but its never attacked me so far.

>>536736880
thats good game/artistic design modern games lack this shit
i expect Subnautica shitpants and prepaired all items but devs just troll us....

>>536736880
>jump from the closest tower to go for the structure in the middle of the water
>first thing I see after hitting the water are red appendages right in my face
I noped to the bottom real fast.

>The Reaper's homeworld
>Expect darkness and evil, like what Canaan was but much worse
>It's a comfy autumn in a gothic castle ruin
He may be an edgy little faggot, but his realm is really nice and I'd like to make a base here.

Is it me or the Hardlight Saber kinda ass?
I feel like the Laser Katana deals more damage or is it bugged? It does feel good to deflect bullets with it, but it seems underwhelming for a late-game item

What a hardest settings for this game ? just Apocalyptic looks ez It has some oh shit moments but general diff not hard at all
Maybe some challenge runs like can you beat game as Gordon Freeman ( restricted weapons and gadgets)

>>536738672
>Its almost peacful here.
I mean... the dude is a reaper, he is taking you to the far shore... or at least a far shore. There you can experience a peace known only to the dead.

>>536740274
One anon was doing a plug-less run, basically just cant use any of the plugs and have to rely on batteries and hamster wheels for powah.

>Sleep on mugnades because they sound shit (pun not intended)
>Try them out in the Hydroplant
>They one hit kill groups of Order soldiers
Oh wow. I really should experiment with the weapons more. Just running around and super crowbaring everything is a sound tactic but this is far more efficient.

>>536740286
>>Its almost peacful here.
>mfw I realise Cahn isn't seeing the security sector, but is describing the Night Realm since he's there too

Going to turn Mirror World into a big fuck off farm. Where the hell do I farm the soil

>>536741301
>There's worse places than this, but if you're lucky you'll never see them
Its almost as if hes not the real Dr Cahn but something unfathomable you let out of containment because it seemed like a good idea at the time. I have no idea if thats true or not but it wouldnt surprise me.
>You know...
>There are surely beings in this universe far stranger than anything this Facility has locked away
>or accidentally unleashed.
>Things we can't even imagine.
>Anyway, good luck in there!

>>536742370
you can make it from poopoo
and the one in the truckbed by the security robot by blacksmith repawns

How would you go about introducing some sort of punishment to this game?
I think dying should cost you 10% of your skills xp. Maybe have it be a random quarter of your skills on easy, then half on normal, and apocalyptic all skills take a 10% hit on death. Oh, and youre needs should be at 25% so you have to address them and cant just keep throwing yourself at a meatgrinder until you unlock the next shortcut.
Right now dying is more helpful than hurtful.

>>536745936
You already have to run back and grab your items. I think most people are playing solo (it really is the best way to play) but remember the game is intended to be multiplayer. If death fucked you up it would scare off most of the casuals playing in groups.

>want to reload ONE shell of my shotgun
>Reloads six
Wow, this is annoying.

>>536729910
I think he means an email in Marathon, there's a terminal in Durandal that says that.

>>536740274
Ok i tried all max out settings + apoc
First Peecarry fuck my scientific body like wooden toy
Whats wrong with bleeding on max ? i take bleeding from headcrabs......

>>536456073
Go through offices and kill every single security bot, collect all the soda and cpus and go to the blacksmith to trade the cpu cores for anvils. Scrap the anvils and cpu core for 24ish metal scrap per robot. Easy 100+ scrap a night.

>>536652267
I created a small base with a bench, a moisture teleporter, a large farm plot and an anvil in each area so I could rest and recover in every single zone. Completely unnecessary since you're no further than a minute or two from your base no matter what sector you're in but it's handy when you don't want to return to base but you're critically injured.

>>536672247
It's mostly shitposting, but at the same time if you're truly lost you can spot yellow paint that can help you orient yourself.

>>536746847
The dev team supposedly didn't want guns in the game at all, not for moral reasons but because it takes away from you solving problems by scienceing shit up.
I admit I've fallen for the "where's the intended path" line of thought before realising my dumb ass has to build a new piece of equipment that makes the way forward obvious.

>>536738969
I do feel like it should deal more damage a lot of the time. Even so, swinging wildly with my zip shield and exor spirit seems to get through most things no problem.

>>536736880
When you're underwater listen for the pulse. If you hear a sudden heartbeat that means it's aggroing. I only saw it drift by me one time in Hydro but in Reactors me and my friend fell into the water below one of the reactors and the 2nd darkwater beast immediately aggro'd and killed her.

>>536749303
If they really wanted this they should have created alternatives to every single gun type instead. The only shotgun being a shitty scrap shotgun that only gets good once you upgrade it isn't a good look. At least it's cheap.

>>536749329
I have heard a sonar and BLOOP like noise down there but assumed it was a reference to that super loud sound detected in the ocean. I actually want to encounter the monster because it sounds cool.

Anyone hit a CRIT with the polished antique shotgun? I only had the pleasure of hitting it once with the Reaper and it ragdolled that bitch. I didn't even know that was possible.

>>536751294
That sounds amazing. Do we ever find out what the shotgun's anomalous properties were? All I've read and heard in game was that it USED to be an anomaly. I mean, in your case it fucking killed Death, but that sounds more like a funny glitch than anything.

I don't get how levers work.
>Try to connect one to my teslas
>They're still connected to the batteries running them so they don't power down
>Try connecting the batteries to the switch instead
>Nothing happens

>>536752882
Socket>battery>switch>customer

>>536752335
I thought the double barrel Shotgun was a doom guy reference

There's this weird floaty tentacle shit that keeps teleporting around and going ... at me with a cute voice. What the fuck is going on?

In a weird way this reminds me of Terraria.
>Make a base
>Keep crafting better and better shit as you progress with the new materials you unlock
>Can play it with friends
>Progression orientated
>The shit you can build is wacky and outlandish but gets results
>Funny game, but the lore and setting is pretty dark.

>>536754192
Go into the room near where you first encountered it, examine things and read the journal entry for the creature.
Also, enjoy it haunting you for the rest of the game until you find a way to seal it away much later. It's really not that bad, she's slow and weak to some easily made defences, plus you can make a trinket that prevents her going anywhere near you even from behind, meaning you can straight up AFK if you want and she'll never be able to do anything.

>>536752335
Probably a bug. But it was funny seeing it get tossed around the tunnel room like that

>>536754192
>>536754532
>Actually approach the Leyak because I'm close to locking it in its very own torture chamber and I've never had it get anywhere near me
>It begins hyperventilating and waving its arms around everywhere
She really is just an awkward stalker, I thought this was a meme but that's what she resembles.

>>536752882
Teslas are still being powered by the batteries. You need to use the level in between with a plug strip (if powering more than a single device) for opening or closing the circuit.

the thing that i don't like that by the time you get the coolest stuff the game just ends
idk how will the devs proceed but they said thay aren't continuing the story, they will only add more sidecontent i guess like portal worlds

>>536752882
Here is my very hiiiiiigh teeeechnical blueprint for a tesla set up.
Single industrial is enough to cover for a raid or bot spawn camp.

>>536756617
That sucks. The ending is awful and bleak

>>536756617
Really? I thought they were going to add more with how Abe went missing, Lenora returning to Cascade and Janet prolly becoming a Sister of the Unlost

If there were things about this game you would change/tweak/wahtever, what would they be?

Also lol I found one of my old bases

>>536761401
>Make the Security Sector less boring
>Make the endgame enemies less tanky and unfun
>Add even more silly science weapons and equipment
>Add more weird SCPs
>Have perks that aren't useless for the most part. Even the multiplayer exclusive perks don't look helpful
On the subject of bases, I only stick to my main cafeteria one. It feels like Firelink Shrine for how connected it is.

>>536761401
>>536762328
Oh, and make the ending less shit
>But it's a Half Life reference!
Half Life ended with you at least thinking the world was saved and an alien bureaucrat being so impressed he made you an interdimensional CIA agent.
Abiotic Factor ends with obvious shapeshifting trickster laughing at you for following his obviously evil orders and ending the world despite you having no choice in the matter.

Hydroplant is pretty comfy, but its kinda confusing. IDK if Im just having an off day or what but walking around Im contantly feeling like Im going the wrong way and creating the mental map as I go is taking more work than usual.

>>536742427
Yeah, about that...

>>536763117
It's a bit confusing, but once you finish it you kinda realize where everything is

>>536756617
>>536757091
There's definitely going to be more to it
The game is really good at hinting at future content, there's going to at least be the flesh dimension to visit
>That day trip to the Flesh Dimension is sounding more enticing by the minute ... I should've gone with Laciter's team
Not to mention the whole lodestone connection, and the hexwood helm "giving better trades" for the flesh dimension despite us not having the ability to go there (yet)

>>536765352
i know
i think they just won't continue the main story line
maybe they'll add alternate endigs where you can prevent cahn from fucking you over

>>536766182
I should've specified that I think that there's something in the flesh dimension that may continue the story in some way
There's just too much weirdness surrounding it and the lodestones in general. Not to mention that lodestones apparently have something to do with attracting exit portals

>>536709737
>hey Jeff, why is your report just a bunch of loose papers?
>our latest office supplies shipment got hit again. Drone footage recorded a bunch of feral scientists throwing pens with sharpened metal points at the truck tires. They charged the convoy soldiers with crowbars, then raided the trucks for all the staplers.
>mondays, am I right?

>>536766182
>i think they just won't continue the main story line
The dev called the ending Act 1 on the discord so I assume the Dr. Cahn escape plot is over.

got my first bot CPU(2more) on apoc 3x damage 3x health 5x damage to traps
Took 10 min 2 deaths and few chopinator repairs
This shit is really good on that diff

>>536762916
I do think it was a bit weak to make him all freaky deaky im obviously an IS from the beginning lol. I think it would've sat with me better had they made him perfectly blend until the end. make him someone you really empathize with, hell some of his lines throughout your journey are pretty human. It's so funny that the journal log on him after you beat the game is like "wowzers he wasn't really cahn?!"
>>536762328
>security sector less boring
I was spooked at first, but I think night essence collecting was lame.
>endgame enemies less tanky
I kinda want weapons buffed for solo play idk. Also the weapon upgrade/elemental damage system sucks and I think should not have been linked together.
>more science weapons and equipment and SCPs
100%
I'm expecting more of this in future updates if we get any. I think all of the weapons from the furniture store and canaan could make for good starting points, like with the laser sword.
>perks
yeah that whole system needs to be looked at

Some other points
-raids need to ramp up in the mid/late game
-some of the armors feel kinda meh, and i think could use additional bonuses to incentivize their usage
-lategame cooking incentives instead of just soup
-ornate daggers/katar need to be buffed i think, or give them an upgrade
-mystagogue drone needs to be buffed
-idk about the glove desu, but it should be usable with more weapons
-partial reload on the shotgun
-idk if scrapshot guns need another upgrade or what
-make excursion suit good against spores lol
-more suits in general or suit upgrades so the player isn't going from hazard/rat -> excursion
-better endgame heavy and blunt weapons?
-enemy variety towards endgame was pretty lame. i personally think bigfoot was a mistake when yeti exists
-surprised there's no shieldbash attack but whatever

>>536777689
Something interesting I learned about non-soup foods today is that if you have that level 10 crafting skill perk (eye for detail) the food you craft will also have a higher "durability"/decay level

>>536779095
Oh yeah that's true. Forgot about that. I want to say for the pies/cakes once you actually put them down and take the individual slices, the durability goes back to normal iirc? But yeah otherwise they have pretty high durability

>>536779376
I haven't gotten my cooking high enough to try pies and cakes but I noticed it with the cosmato wraps so I brought some for my first trip to Canaan
I'm glad I went super prepared, that was one hell of a portal world and apparently it was nerfed from its original appearance

>Make anteverse cheese.
>It needs to decay (as in ripening the cheese)
>Once ripe, it has decay to rotting.
>unless you place the cheese like you'd place soup or sushi.
>mfw I have a cheese wheel sitting on the table with big green decay bar that never goes away.

>>536779964
A warming tray will ripen it faster at least

>>536780040
My gripe isn't with the ripening speed. My gripe is with the uncesserary rotting decay that magically stops when wheel is placed down.

Is a full vegan playthrough possible or do certain roadblocks require exor hearts and capacitors? Are there vegan-friendly capacitors?

>>536783474
No it is not
The lodestones are made of flesh

>>536783474
consider IS-0211

Does the diving suit provide the goggle effect or do I need both?

>>536786605
you can NVG or leyak lamp but mask is better

>>536787835
>NVG
fuck I forgot all about those

>man I sure don't like how tanky enemies are, how fast weapons decay, refrigeration effectiveness, etc. I better go complain on /v/
>wait a minute, Im a scientist!
>go into sandbox settings anytime I like to find the right balance for me, can change the values on almost everything
>continue having fun
I like that the devs allow you to do that.

I just took off the dangling gravity cube for the first time in IDK how many hours and it was awful.
Im never going back.

>>536761401
my biggest pet peeve is that the 2nd number on the ammo counter show your mag size instead of total ammo for some reason.

>>536792763
Oh yeah that's silly

>>536791061
I immediately put durability to 10x when I first started playing and I still repair my stuff often, I can't fathom playing with the regular setting.

>>536791061
I am grateful some of the stuffyou can very easily change

>>536777689
>idk if scrapshot guns need another upgrade or what
I found them to be more useful for grinding accuracy and reloading xp early game while fighting, before moving on to other weps.
>build 3 scrapshots, hotbar them beside each other
>get into a firefight, fire one gun, switch to next, fire, repeat, then get to cover and reload all 3
Only tricky part for me was working around the delay when trying to shoot the damn things.

fricking lasers
what do I do with them?

>>536797347
Laser? I hardly know her!

>>536797821
*crushes your skull with an impact hammer*

>>536791061
I've always played with 10.0 durability, 30.0 stack size and no loot drop on death.

I get that some prefer to play a game more "legitimately", but default values there will only add unnecessary tedium I don't care to deal with. I can tolerate food decay because of soups and freezers.

>>536798348
>heavy
>blunt
lmao

i didn't expect the soup recipes to get so fancy. i got sushi on my dinner table, risotto, multiple chowders, and even bisque now. also i wish you could package computers after reading them and getting all the necessary things recorded in the gatepal

>>536798794
SIGH
>>536799074
we fancy hobo scientists, also yeah it would be nice if you could store all those logs andi mages

>not confident enough to use a magnum or a non-antique regular shotgun
>can use a makeshift, bouncy sharp disc shooter and a rocket launcher just fine
Well, okay.

I just died to pests...
7 beers and 3 pests arent a good combo

Made to tier 2 keypad with this
>>536777062

Holy shit i think i wont survive THE TRAIN

>>536803892
wdym? death has 0 consequences in this game. Just keep respawning at the portal entrance and throwing yourself at the meat grinder.

>>536803884
don't leave home without your shield and some grenades

>>536800097
yeah...
>>536803884
truly impressive

>>536803884
Lol, I like how for the first time I meet these I always get pounced to death but by endgame, i just dodge them and hit them mid air.

>>536799235
You can see all those logs and images with the database terminal

>>536803884
wait till you find allahu akbar room

is there any extra faces or hair to unlock or is just suits, badges, and pocket squares?

I'm not sure what the French lady was saying about the portal in the neutrino detector, but I hope it was "Kill the Yeti we have in the Alps" because that's what I did there.
Holy shit the shield guys are pure anti-fun.

>>536804120
respawn rate affects portal worlds ?

>can't disable suit transmog
well, that kinda sucks.

>>536804582
>truly impressive
How many times I missed? Ive never laughed so mad in my life.
>>536804276
I normally always carry a shield but recently decided to ditch it. I used the plastic shield a lot but by the time I got to heater my tactics changed and Ive used the heater like.... under 10 times since I made it. And with the sec armor Im rockin its impossible to ever be comfortable, temp-wise, with the heater.
>>536805278
yeah thats what I normally do but my hand/eye coordination and depth perception arent working for some reason.
>>536805723
If anyone deserves a jihad its GATE. Cahn did nothing worng. Or has yet to do any wrong and wont? I haven't finished my first pass but already figured that bit out. Its nice still. One of the marks of a good story is it still being neato even if you know what is coming.

>>536805492
Ohhhhhhh fuck i should really build it, im dumb

>>536806071
No, she was just talking about the soldiers invading and killing everyone, and how she's gonna try swimming to leave there (she dies lol)

>Flathill
Ok, now... when you think of flat hills, what does that bring to mind. Hills arent flat. Thats what makes them hills. So if you think of "hills" that could be "flat" what does that bring to mind?

The camouflage armor is kinda busted with stealth and a quantum pick.
Practically one shots everyone other than the Mystagoue and Jotuns

>>536809162
Plateau?

>>536809351
Thats not a hill though, now is it? Far from it.

>>536805278
You can also just push them away mid air.

>>536809162
That's just how flat places name towns
Hell, in Florida there's a place called Mount Dora and it's only 167ft/51m above sea level

I got to the hydro portal world that natty way the first time via the pian in the ass underwater search for the entrance and making it out with literally <5% HP...
But whats the progamer way to get there?

>>536815486
Rope plant.

>>536815486
Jump

>>536815486
I used the long jump pack to get over there, because I didn't find the guy who gives the diving suit plan until long after I discovered it.

>>536816194
>>536818575
Is... is the. jump. really... that.... looong?

>>536819272
The Long Jump Pack lets you jump multiple times forwards, you'll need to be holding/wearing the Gravity Cube and time your jumps or else you'll just splash.

>>536819272
Yes. Use the gravity cube and just occasionally press the boost instead of overdoing it and the charge easily lasts until you get over there. I didn't even know you could swim to the detector until your post. I didn't have the diving suit until I'd found the long jump worked, so it's neat there are multiple options available.

>>536819576
Yeah but thats like a fuckin football field... and then some
its looooooooong

Speaking of the long jump pack:
>Get the ability to make the long jump AND the research pack
>Research lets me carry one radiation item fully shielded and a fridge item kept chilled, plus a ton more space
>But long jump gives you insane mobility and speed
Dammit. There's no scenario where I don't go for the mobility, despite the small carry space.

>>536820302
It's really useful against soldiers too

>Killed what may be the last Yeti in the world so I could make a freezer
You'd think this advanced science lab would have a freezer unit that didn't require hunting a cryptid.

Just been grinding my skills.

>>536821042
We obviously need fur (hair that keeps animals warm) from a Yeti (cryptid that lives in the arctic-cold areas) so we can make a freezer (thing that keeps things cold).

Do Kerespheres do damage? The wiki has conflicting info.

>>536821697
How noticeable are the differences with skills?

>>536824856
With Hex Armor, I've basically don't have worry about anything other than the robots and the fuckers with the miniguns. Everything takes 1-4 hits and throwing is utterly busted with sneak. Just aim at their heads and they kneel. Stamina barely drains and add excusion suit and you can practically swing away.

finally unlocked a new crossbow
thank you based grim reaper for showing me the way to new resources

>>536803884
Kek I know exactly where this is.

I like to play on apocalyptic, so I died even faster since I just ran in like an idiot, had just enough time to throw one or two fruitless stabs.
Came back and gave them a good deatomizing.

>>536829831
The pilgrims also have another one

I'd love to build a base in Waterfall Apartments but fucking hell even with the windows and door closed, the waterfall is so damn loud.

The deatomizer needs to have a bigger battery

Why the fuck is Rise so graphically intensive?
Not even Torii chugged this bad.

>>536831976
Maybe the fire?

>>536831976
No occlusion

do the weather events eventually subside on thier own?

>>536850673
Yes.
I had a spore weather happen to me, despite not having reactors open where the venting button is, so I had to wear a mask the whole day.

>>536850673
After a day, yes
I think the rolling blackouts are an exception though

>>536850864
yeah that's exactly why i was asking. i dont mind the orange fog but i was looking all over for a switch just to know where it is.

>>536850896
Man first time I got rolling blackouts and went back to my base some big fucking island thing full of eyes was shooting lightning all over the office lobby, when I finally killed it the blackouts stopped and haven't come back since

>>536853508
it will come back, i have killed that thing at least 6 times by now. hard to complain though since the little things that attach themselves to your batteries are a great source of purple dust and other stuff.

stupid question but does cheese ripen faster in the warming drawer?

>>536856506
It's decay, so it should.

driving the forklift be like:
https://youtu.be/xAKUYyczvO8

>>536869849
fuckin lol sick bigspin
I got stuck in loading with my forklift right by the rat that spawns over there and nocs dont get suck in loading so I got gangbanged and couldnt do shit. How I found that dying in a vehicle will have your deathbag spawn at warren's lost and found

The weather events dont feel quite random enough. The only time Ive gotten a fog event is right after finishing flathill and had 5 different radiation events while working on manufacturing. I got A rolling blackout while doing labs and another rad. Then it has been nothing but shadow realm since security. I know certain things can influece the likelihood of certain events but I see Marion all the time but she never brings the fog.

I love lasers

>>536870527
No one knows what causes fog in the foglands or the fogmen, but it probably has something to do with the region called obedience.

scaring my tentaclefu away by showing her my fap folder

Whats the deal with magnetic alloy? 2 blue crates per reset in the night realm isnt a lot, and theres no security crates lying around hydroplant for some reason. Already smashed the handful of the ones that spawned in security.

>>536882441
Some soldiers drop it in Voussoir and there are some crates too.

>>536882441
>her i can sell you rifle rounds
>but with 1:1 ratio
dude is biggest vendor scammer

pain in my ass

>>536892975
Is that worth doing?
Never bothered to

>>536893805
IDK havent checked out the portal it opened yet.

>>536893805
yes there's more content

>>536892975
Huh, I never made the connection.

>>536892975
Could have just used the laser pistol.

Is this just an abyss?

>>536892975
Oh, so this is where you get the egg.

>>536899037
yesh

Huh. I didn't expect the skink to shit.

>>536897083
huh, didnt think of that
should probably build it at some point

>>536899037
Yes. Source: I jumped in it when I first encountered it.

>In the middle of Hydro
>Find a growth-sealed laser room back in the labs when looking for the conversion machines for more carbon
>Huh. Guess I'll make some antithermite and check it out
>Go in there
>Can make a laser deflector and there's a puzzle involving it from the looks of things
>But how to make it high enough?
>Come up with a solution: Use a three drawer tall filing cabinet and slap the redirection device on top
>The laser breaks it and the device is left floating
>It works
>Unlock a portal to a skyscraper
Have I skipped a section by doing this? Its obvious I wasn't meant to do this but I couldn't see how I was meant to otherwise.

>>536870527
Yeah, the silent hill fog appears to be a scripted introduction to weather, and to show you that "oh shit, completing a section lets the nasty things out". But for some reason the fog doesn't happen again after that.

>>536905784
You did it rightish, don't worry
You could've done it all the way back in Labs
Or just shot it with an energy pistol once you got to Security lol

>>536906531
The fog has a chance to occur every weather roll
The newest weather event you've unlocked is weighed more though

>went to one of the reactors
>flying guy and his eye drone
>about to fuck him up
>pounced with the long jump pack
>tfw Exort lunged at the fucker the same as I did.
>he just threw us to the side and spammed his flames
>watched as the exorr fight the dude for five whole minutes
>only had to shoot my railbow at him once
kek, that was fun

>>536908891
There's nothing better in video-games than enemies fighting each-other.

In my humble opinion apples should start spawning on trees in the facility after you open canaan

>>536908695
Oh, okay. I looked and saw someone found a far less silly way of doing it a few posts above. I should have known the laser gun would work, but the insistence of the board talking about redirection made me think the beam needed to be constant.

>>536909194
>tamed an electro pest by the aquariums once
>it died on the way back to my house :(
>fast forward a few in game weeks
>get off the lab tram to kill the security bot
>electro pest attacks me and misses
>suddenly all the electro pests start attacking each other
>wtf
>well, free capacitors, I guess
>get to the last pest and it just isn't dying, no matter how many bullets I used
>it was my pest back from the dead
I named him Lucky :)

NEED MORE STAPLERS
WHERE GET

>>536912107
Flathill

Man farming snipers sucks.

What are some fun uses of the hardlight bridges?

>Hex mask(+1 cold resist) and arms for no light bleeding
>sniper chest for +1 cold resist with 16 armor
>speedy legs
>dbl barrel, lodestone spear, hammer, and shield(a heat source)
>55 armor, +mobility, +no light bleeds and still warm enough for the cold portal
Think Im finally ready to tackle this cold portal. How much of a problem is the yeti?

>>536915415
nvm i jsut got them immediately after i ate one of those tulip salad things

My life is complete. Time to hibernate

>dead of night
>making some soups
>turn around
>HEY I GOT A FEW THINGS
grayson has scared the piss out of me way more than the leyak ever did

>>536921052
STILL KICKING, EH?

>>536917449
Yeti slain.
Gotta say, that antique shotgun is really really fucking good. I left with more shotgun ammo than I went with. And good lord, so much good loot in that portal world. Complete opposite of canaan.

How big is this fucking game?

>>536924683
not big enough

>>536870135
I actually have had that infinite loading happen twice at that exact spot while on the forklift, I had to leave game to fix it.

>>536921052
FOR WHAT DO YOU SEEK?

Thats it, Im making a torii base

>>536924683
50-100 hours depending on how much you faff around.

Finally. I think I'll miss her awkward stalking, but I was getting tired of her radioactive shits all over my defense perimeter.

do the nvgs last any longer or shorter than the headlamp or are they about the same?

I feel like fridges should have at least 1 row of freezer space.

>There's a going into games IS
Kek.

>>536934818
Make it like 80/20 or something yeah

i just turned up refrigerator effectiveness. there needs to be a mid game freezer especially once you start fishing

>>536934128
they’re all 750 charge

>>536937571
The aquarium funtions as that for fish.

>>536937571
Because of how stacking works, you can effectively prolong spoilage by first dropping newly acquired ingredients into an empty slot and then dragging the old stack onto the new food. It's even helpful out in the wild if collecting milk sacs for example, except in this case you first have to drop the old food.

>>536943239
i should try that, the milk sacs go bad so fast
>>536938107
i like the aquarium to collect one of each fish as decor and would rather store stacks of fillets in a freezer for eating

>>536943239
I keep doing the opposite of this ;_;

Best job for solo run?

>>536949730
If I was going to start again I'd either go Lab Assistant with Fanny Pack or Trans-Kinematic Researcher with Dry Skin negative trait to afford the Fanny Pack.

>>536949730
If you want to level every skill to max, the medic one. If you don't care about that, Summer Intern.

>>536946640
I always did as well until someone pointed it out in a previous thread. Been great for the drumsticks and exor hearts.

It's definitely a nuisance that entire stacks spoil at once. Most other games it's just one at a time.

>>536951231
its not the most well balanced mechanic. I forgot which game it was but adding to a stack would average it out, but entire stacks would spoil. So if you had an almost spoilered stack you could add a few fresh pieces to it to breath some more life into it to get it over the going-bad threshold.

>>536951161
Yeah, leveling first aid is cancer

>distribution pad
i'm gonna cum

how many lab rats did you guys kill to get a suit?? i have trashed probably 50 scanners by now

>>536963027
>Friend never scraps anything
>Come back to find 10 scanners and 20 of every type of gun taking up space in all of our boxes periodically
As for your actual question, I went through a lot of rats, but didn't actually carve them up. I'd estimate I went through about 20 over the course of the game, and started making a concentrated effort to carve them up later. Only took about 10 to get one when I did. Does the spuddy trinket help with that?

>>536963460
honestly i forgot about spuddy after i got other trinkets. i chop up the rat corpses but just kept the scanners as running total of how many rats i killed while trying to get a suit to drop.

>>536963027
you are doing it with nets right?

>>536964508
He said suit, not pack.

>>536964659
Oh i'm dumb.

okay got a rat suit, good ol' spuddy did the trick.

>>536963027
Like 3 lmaooooooo
Ive only seen 1 other since so its really not that common. I chop a lot of rats.

wow i'm going to have to move a lot of stuff around to make room for the lost dog.

>play early game
>have makeshit backpack
>get military pack upgrade
>hear about rat deal
>get ratpack
>find new pack
>eh, ratpack is good enough
>find scientist pack BP
>eh, ratpack is good enough
>find long jump pack
>eh, I can walk/swim
>find voidpack
>eh, ratpack is good enough
>get to reactors
>realize the past 20 teirs of backpacks have been straight upgrades to the ratpack
At this point I almost feel commited to it, but c'mon... do you really *need* more?

>>536968050
Sir, pet ownership is a big responsibility and you better be ready for it before adopting a pet.
Pets are actually living things and not just surrogate childrens for your eggless life.

>>536969139
>do you really *need* more?
yes. i carry sausages, sushi, 2 canteens of antejuice, and 6 kinds of soup minimum. just because the facility is falling apart around me doesn't mean i dont have time for breakfast sausage, elevensies, afternoon stew, second stew, bisque supper, and dinner chowder while killing things from other dimensions.

>replaced all of my large crates to the best tier of crates
holy shit so much space saved

>>536972878
How many rows does it have?

>>536972878
But large crates is the highest tier.
They also look soulless. I hate the big metal boxes.

>>536980286
I think he means the Compact Storage Crates. Same space inside, way less space outside.

>>536980286
I wish they could be a little more distinct when being painted. The little lights are cute, I suppose.

Kinda funny seeing the NPC just walks to the trap willingly leaving a river of blood

>>536992934
That's a lot of fucking lights

>lowered everything graphically to see what the fuck could be causing the frame drop
>its whenever i look in the direction of the radiation pool in manufacturing
>not even when its on screen, just looking in the direction is enough top drop it to 10fps
>60fps when not looking West
jesus christ. this is a 1.0 release?

>>537000051
How. I've been using a potato machine since my modern rig croaked and it's been doing well The only problem I have really is Torii

This game desperately needs some form of tobacco.

Whats the best stealth weapon and why is it the antique shotgun?

>>536980286
compact storage yeah, saves like twice the space if not more. feels so good

The energy pistol is actually pretty great. Theres no way this thing is only doing 10 damage. No xp for anything kinda sucks though.

>>537023397
its not 10, it multihits for around 50 i think

>>537023397
It's not very strong but I do enjoy how low-maintenance it is.

Decided to base in Power at that super cozy spot. Gonna take all day to consolodate and move shit, and then get it fully operational and decorate it. Part of thats on me though because I have 4 bases and never consolidated resources. Im constantly running out of shit I know I have at other bases and its annoying.