How the FUCK do I get good

>>2044898 (OP)
You have to be quick but also not reckless.
Use sneak mode next to a door and skip a turn to listen for enemies before going inside.

Also make sure you select a mission that is appropriate for your current gear and operator.

Look at your operator and see what they are good at, if they are a melee specialist or a shotgun guy.

>>2045331
Is it bad that I essentially am always on walk mode? Does sneaking consume calories faster?

>>2044898 (OP)
Play another 100 hours

>>2044898 (OP)
What's killing you/ what problems are you having?

What the fuck am I supposed to prioritise for loot? trading materials?
Games that don't let me hoard are just cruel.
Also fuck fire barrels, I had just killed the guy at the end of an assassination mission and some fag blew me up and my merc died burning alive

>>2050922
I don't think you can help fix retarded

>>2045460
Sneaking consumes less calories and you do not consume AP for certain actions anymore. Although you only get 1 AP.

>>2051164
Can you actually be sneaky and avoid fights? I just got completely swarmed by the quasimorphs on my first mission outside mars

>>2051209
Monsters actually become less of a problem as you progress. Early on, a couple of quasimorphs can massacre entire rooms full of regular goons, raising the morphosis and possibly spawning more monsters as you go. Later on in the tech progression, when a human collapses into a monster, the monster is now surrounded by elite soldiers with heavy armor and auto-fire laser rifles who will blow him away in one turn.

Generally speaking the q-morphosis adds a bit of urgency to the situation. Bring smokes/booze if you have them. Having map scanners or batteries to power up terminals so you can use the map scan lets you move a lot faster overall, or if you have the scanner upgrade for the Magnum you get a similar effect. It's possible to avoid fights to a degree but it's probably more risk than it's worth since it dramatically increases the odds of you getting surrounded in a bad situation.

>>2050922
I don't remember what was causing me issues. I've gotten a lot better. That said, I'm gonna put it down until 1.0. it was really addicting to play on the deck but I want to see what further qol and content they add

>>2051064
Keep a water bottle on your vest and splash yourself when you get lit up. I also make a habit of taking the fuel out of the barrels if I don't plan on using them against enemies.

Loot priority is a bitch, you want pretty much everything. The only things that are definite priority are data chips and ship upgrade parts. Snagging strong guns when you see them is also usually a good move. Try and beeline the shuttle storage/cargo pod upgrades, they make a big difference in how much you can profit from each mission.

1st of all OP, you should stop treating those edgy comedy review skits of some autistic jewish Dutchman pretending to be a Polish expat living in the UK pretending to be a Nigerian warlord inbetween his brain surgery sessions like they're the a valid purchasing aid or even a real review of the games they cover.
JK ofc, I honestly love how Ssseth's review of Caves of Qud accidentally revealed how one of their devs (who also completely coincidentally was the guy running their Discord server) turned out to be a communist pedo running a hippy polycule and who's been secretly cucking his "'lesbian'" Wiccan wife with most of her underaged '"girlriends"' behind her back for years, despite having been convicted of CSA multiple times already.

>>2051436
>inbetween his brain surgery sessions
I thought he's an epidemiologist going by his thesis vid, now I'm wondering if he's actually jewish since he's most certainly not a hi-melanin individual and I never believed that. . .

>spoiler
Big If True™

>>2051522
He is a med school dropout(?) and that is where his lecture comes from.

The UI is so trash, why the fuck do I have to click 2 times on each monster to see their speed? and most of the time it's actually 3 cause for some reason you can't inspect them without facing them directly

>>2051436
For as much shit people on this site give Ssseth, his reviews are usually entertaining and he spotlights smaller/older/niche games made with passion and autism

>>2051626
Only reason you don't hear about him more is because at one point talking about him would get you banned. Not neccesarily on this board mind you.

>>2051164
>>2051209
A downside to sneaking is time passes faster, which progresses q-morphosis faster. Generally I found myself wanting to be swapping between sneaking and sprinting, depending on the situation. The 'sound' of sprinting isn't as big as you'd expect; and it lets you open a door, shoot, then close it.
>>2051288
yeah it's a fun game, but easy to burn out on. I'm interested to see what it looks like later.
Overall the 'progression' of building up the ship mostly felt like a pacing device, which I didn't like much. The permadeath of factions in campaign mode is interesting, but it definitely needs an endgame payoff for it to make sense. It's hard to imagine anything other than Tezctlan being the endpoint of the story. It's lame that travel takes so much time, they need to have inter-planetary missions like boarding actions, or just balance it better.

The clone who can eat raw meat with no infection chance is easy mode for starting out, some melee weapons get bonuses for throwing. Check which factions reward you with what, try not to let any of them die off. ||Don't trust his lies||

>>2044898 (OP)
Does this scratch the xcom itch?

>>2051738
Could've been due to how pissed the SS13 guys got. The Ssethtide left a HUGE mess that outright killed some servers.

>>2051626
I like sseth. Hes fun.
>>2062806
dude, fuck those autists, you can't gatekeep an empty server. I play ss13 all the time and lowpop is a major problem.

>>2058312
its literally nothing like xcom. but if you want a rec there was one floating around..
CyberKnights.

Its like nu X-com but more crunchy / less casual.

>metaprogression in a fucking roguelike
i can understand unlockable challenges like DoomRL's angel runs or new classes/races, but vertical metaprogression is fucking cancer and the most normalfag shit ever

>>2051530
>He is a med school dropout(?) and that is where his lecture comes from.
IIRC he worked in a research hospital for a while, until one of his buddies committed suicide due to stress. He left soon afterwards.

>>2063955
That's why they are called roguelites. But that makes me wonder, are there any REAL (or REALer) roguelikes that look and sound as pretty as Quasimorph or better?

>>2063986
Isn't DoomRL/Jupiter Hell similar looking? never played it so can't comment on sound, the only real roguelike I know with good sound is Infra Arcana

>>2064705
I played some version of DoomRL once and it was basically standard Roguelike with tiles instead of ASCII, no idle/movement/action animations. Don't remember anything about the audio.

>>2063986
Just Caves of Qud

>>2063986
DoomRL is the best *actual* roguelike that sounds great.

>>2044898 (OP)
What's the point of ever actually going outside of Mercury-Mars ring? It takes shitton of time to get anywhere, which in itself is not a problem, but that's a long time during which factions get stronger, and you make no profit, and can only spend producing stuff and what not. Always seems like huge net loss to go anywhere in the belt or to Jupiter and easy way to fall behind the curve that's already very unforgiving.

>>2051064
The loot that lets you get the drop pod and then the shuttle storage.
Then everything.

>>2063955
It's basically just like levels and gear. It lets you take on bigger enemies.

>>2069997
>What's the point of ever actually going outside of Mercury-Mars ring?

Some factions like Dilthey, Pirates and the Chinese company added in the new beta only have presence in the outer system, so if you want to work for them you need to travel to the Belt-Jupiter zone

>>2069997
Certain production items are more common on certain planets.

>>2063215
does it have time units and a ballistic simulation?

>>2070219
>It's basically just like levels and gear. It lets you take on bigger enemies.
then why not properly balance actual levels and gear to let the players take on bigger enemies in the first place? metaprogression is bad because it nedlessly pads the playtime of the game, wastes the player's actual time, and lets devs get away with not coordinating rng with the game's base progression

the only "upside" is that it offers regular rpg players a different way to grind their way to victory instead of forcing them to consciously master the gameplay to win, which is the whole point of roguelikes

>you have died 20 times!
>you have unlocked the sword of bloody bitch basterds
>playtime has reached 100 hours!
>you have unlocked truvada in the merchant shop
>the final boss killed you!
>you have unlocked the "don't die to the final boss" ability
fuck you, just give me access to all that shit to begin with and balance the game around it

>>2077079
>you have unlocked the sword of bloody bitch basterds
a modern India roguelike would be pretty cool, brutally hard though

This thread made me go to Roguebasin where I saw a game called Hokuto no Rogue which is not only real but also categorized as science fiction in there.

>>2044898 (OP)
Grind the easy planets (ie, planets without quasimorphs) until you get some good gear and dudes going. Don't allow quasimorphoisis to rise to unmanageable levels, ever. Alcohol and/or morphine is required gear on any planet where it's a possibility. Use the Jackhammer.

>>2051064
There's too much loot to prioritize anything generally except for blueprints and mind chips, and even then I've left some behind to get a really good gun or the last rare material I needed to craft something. I'd prioritize your ship upgrades and get the stuff you need for them, then items that are generally useful (I will almost always take any alcohol or morphine I find unless there's exceptional circumstances), then valuable trade goods, then everything else.