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SynthesisAlpha posted:I moved from the office kitchen to the manufacturing west kitchen and water does suck because I haven't found any tainted water pools there. What I've done is set up 4 portable stoves with 8 cook pots around the fountain in the office tram depot. I'm going to keep adding more so I can just empty and fill pots endlessly. Then I pack up the water coolers and haul them back. I crafted the FORGE gloves for myself, but we haven't been able to find a second blacksmith gloves for my friend. Is that something that also respawns when the respawn message comes, since it's a unique item?
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No, there are quite a few there. Just keep exploring.
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twistedmentat posted:An issue that killed Ark Ascended for me is that you can't edit the ini to increase your level cap. I'll have to wait until mods start appearing to give it a go. I very much dislike level caps in survival games if they also give you tons and tons and tons of cool stuff to learn. Conan isn't too bad because you can collect items that give you skill points to unlock stuff. There's a setting in the server files for dedicated servers that just has you learn all the engrams for each level as you level up, and unlike A:SE it doesn't crash your game when activated.
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Tsilkani posted:There's a setting in the server files for dedicated servers that just has you learn all the engrams for each level as you level up, and unlike A:SE it doesn't crash your game when activated. I thought that didn't work either? Is Abotic Factor set in what is essentially an SCP facility? That's definitely the vibe i get from it.
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twistedmentat posted:
It's Black Mesa from Halflife mixed in with the SCP foundation.
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Another AF question: By the time you're in manufacturing, a lot of things need screws, which means I go through scrap metal pretty quickly. What's the best way to farm it? Just go to Flathill and scrap all the furniture you find? I'm gonna need a ton.pedro0930 posted:There is unlimited sewer water right in the tunnel in front of the black Smith coming out of the grate for you to process. There's also a huge tank of clean water nearby, I think in the big green room? Looks like a giant standing tank and you might not think you can interact with it but it lights up when you get close. I don't know if it ever refills, but should keep you for a long time. Did find out that sinks apparently refill, but very slowly!
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Vib Rib posted:Another AF question: By the time you're in manufacturing, a lot of things need screws, which means I go through scrap metal pretty quickly. What's the best way to farm it? Just go to Flathill and scrap all the furniture you find? I'm gonna need a ton. Keep a few to hold water in, but the metal barrels around manufacturing give a lot of metal scrap when you recycle them as well.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:It's Black Mesa from Halflife mixed in with the SCP foundation. That's a very cool idea for a setting for a survival game.
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twistedmentat posted:That's a very cool idea for a setting for a survival game. It’s really unique and the systems in place are mostly very solid. I’m still only in the second area but it’s been one of the standout survival games in recent memory for me.
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Well. Took a ton of resources but (Abiotic Factor late sector 3) friend and I killed the Tarasque thinking it'd get us the ichor we needed..but it only dropped a bio scrap. Was this a bug? ugh. Hope it respawns.
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Not far into Abiotic factor, still tooling around the offices but I'm at the part where I need to get cpus from security bots and needing to get 3 of them is a chore. Its easy to cheese their pathfinding and just shoot crossbow darts at them, but it takes forever.
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CitizenKain posted:Not far into Abiotic factor, still tooling around the offices but I'm at the part where I need to get cpus from security bots and needing to get 3 of them is a chore. Its easy to cheese their pathfinding and just shoot crossbow darts at them, but it takes forever. Traps are your friend. Tripwire mines do pretty crazy damage, and the electric stun traps automatically recharge. I'm pretty confident it's the intended way to beat them that early.
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Yeah, trap is magnitudes better than whatever weapon you have in the first zone. Even the chopper trap works great against the bots. Later on grenade is also extremely effective.
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CitizenKain posted:Not far into Abiotic factor, still tooling around the offices but I'm at the part where I need to get cpus from security bots and needing to get 3 of them is a chore. Its easy to cheese their pathfinding and just shoot crossbow darts at them, but it takes forever. I think 3 for the hacker is a pretty tall ask, and in multiplayer it means really grinding it out to get everyone their own hacker or just having one person play Hackerman for the team, which admittedly isn't too bad.
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The new patch notes say quote:A few key enemies will now always drop their gib loot, instead of bio scrap. I wonder if this is related to the problem you guys were describing earlier, or something else? Here's the rest of the notes. https://steamcommunity.com/app/427410/discussions/7/4357872562128717794/
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Every new sector seems bigger and weirder than the last. The pests explode now. I have a friend only I can see, they seem cool. Once I find a couple more ingredients I can make a sledgehammer I slap laser mines onto the head of. Game is good, y’all.
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How do you move pets around? I trapped a Pest in the offices in a cage but I can't seem to carry him with me. Wanted to bring him home.Bussamove posted:Keep a few to hold water in, but the metal barrels around manufacturing give a lot of metal scrap when you recycle them as well.
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Started playing AF, day two there's a robot still traipsing about looking for me even though it's "daytime". The backpack limitations suck. Still neat.
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The Lone Badger posted:I think I'll wait for full release on AF.
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I will say there's a lot more content in this build than I expected. And with two more sectors coming this summer it's definitely farther along than your usual EA survivalcraft game fare. IMO.
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twistedmentat posted:I thought that didn't work either? It's working on the Scorched Earth server I'm running for a few friends, using the ASA Manager https://asadedicatedmanager.eu/
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Bussamove posted:It’s really unique and the systems in place are mostly very solid. I’m still only in the second area but it’s been one of the standout survival games in recent memory for me. That's really cool. All the ones recently have had some gimmick that is intresting, but i'm not 100% sure about the implementation of them. LIke Nightingale's portal system just confuses me and Like Enshrouded, having stuff gated by quests is super annoying. I don't want to have to fight a giant rear end dragon or hunt down 50 wolves to get the next tier of tools.
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TeaJay posted:The new patch notes say Good news for the goon who was having this issue and others who were concerned: quote:Plants and other items will no longer decay when no one is present on the server. Plants will still grow for a time, however, and may need water when scientists return to their crops.
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twistedmentat posted:That's really cool. All the ones recently have had some gimmick that is intresting, but i'm not 100% sure about the implementation of them. LIke Nightingale's portal system just confuses me and Like Enshrouded, having stuff gated by quests is super annoying. I don't want to have to fight a giant rear end dragon or hunt down 50 wolves to get the next tier of tools. I don’t know how Nightingale’s portals work, but AF has other worlds you can hop in to for progression/gathering purposes. The areas are self-contained, and reset every few in-game days so you can get more of the unique/more plentiful resources that spawn in them. Their reset is accompanied by an announcement over the facility PA system and a popup on your HUD. Super straight forward. They’re also suitably weird and have cool lore associated with them.
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twistedmentat posted:That's really cool. All the ones recently have had some gimmick that is intresting, but i'm not 100% sure about the implementation of them. LIke Nightingale's portal system just confuses me and Like Enshrouded, having stuff gated by quests is super annoying. I don't want to have to fight a giant rear end dragon or hunt down 50 wolves to get the next tier of tools.  Nightingale is pretty specific with "in order to unlock the next type of portal you need to beat this dungeon" and those dungeons have a gear score requirement. So you make the gear which is doable from the portals you have available and then do the dungeon/fight the boss and get your thingamabob. Enshrouded is pretty much the same, in that you need to get the next NPC to get stuffs to upgrade your flame altar which is what makes the shrouds go from red to passable. Whether or not that's enjoyable to you is a matter of taste of course. NG's portals consist of a biome and a "type" (forget what they're called in game). Biomes are available from the beginning and are forest, desert, and swamp in increasing difficulty. The type relates to the major faction operating in the area and also increase in difficulty though I can't remember that progression off the top of my head. You find the trader in that portal and they'll sell you schematics for better poo poo, and then you harvest up the mats in that biome and go home and make better gear. Very similar to MonHun in that regard.
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Took about 25~ hours to get to the 'end' of the current build of Abiotic Factor. Good amount of content for 20 bucks IMO. Can't wait for the update over the summer.
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Apparently we've got at least 4 more sectors coming, so this isn't even 50% of the game's content! Let's just hope they can deliver on what they've promised. Admittedly, they've earned a lot of good faith with what they've got already.
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Value for money is kinda insane when you consider how many hours of enjoyment we get from games for what typically amounts to the price of a rather large fast food order.
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This latest update from like a day or so ago added server browser (thank god) and some other stuff but...has anyone else had shutters just auto disengage after like a minute now? Our base is in the security room and the shutters were a godsend against things invading at night but now they won't stay closed..
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Ibram Gaunt posted:This latest update from like a day or so ago added server browser (thank god) and some other stuff but...has anyone else had shutters just auto disengage after like a minute now? Our base is in the security room and the shutters were a godsend against things invading at night but now they won't stay closed..
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Ah drat. Well if it's intentional that's fine. We had the hallways defended by tesla coils anyways.
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We still have our base set up in the cafeteria because it’s nice and centralized with the tram system, but invasions are really annoying because the rifts just pop in inside our base so it’s hard to set up defenses that won’t also kill us.  On the plus side we have x-ray towers now so the unwelcome guest is less of a hassle!
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Gave Ostranauts a shot and it just feels like a tedium simulator to me. I like the idea of scavenging derelict ships for fun and profit but everything around it feels so tedious, especially determining what's valuable and selling your poo poo afterwards. My ship has a nav computer, why do I have to do this asteroids rear end flying and lame docking BS that isn't challenging or interesting in any way but consumes several minutes per trip leg? Why do I have to lug my poo poo manually one load at a time to go sell it just to find out the shop isn't buying any of my bullshit today? Why do I have a pocket computer but can't figure out what's valuable or not when I'm actually scavenging? From what I read of the dev's comments on the Steam forums it seems the intended way to play is to check what the shop is buying before I go out, and I guess just remember or write down this huge list before I go? Hell even getting that list is a pain, first time I expanded it the game took 5-10+ seconds to generate that list for some reason. The core gameplay of scavenging poo poo to use or resell is somewhat fun and interesting, though the UI around all of it is very clunky. e: lol at posting about tedium simulators in the genre about tedium simulation but you know what I mean RandomBlue fucked around with this message at 18:00 on May 7, 2024 |
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LOL, yeah I do sometimes wonder for example how many trees I've punched. For fun
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YerDa Zabam posted:LOL, yeah I do sometimes wonder for example how many trees I've punched. For fun jesus I never want to see that number
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YerDa Zabam posted:LOL, yeah I do sometimes wonder for example how many trees I've punched. For fun I've never wondered that before and now I feel the need to really examine how I'm spending my time on earth.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Ah drat. Well if it's intentional that's fine. We had the hallways defended by tesla coils anyways. I was in the process of moving my base up there, night hit so I hadn't setup more then a few desks in the door and the bed in the locker room. Go to sleep and woke up to the Peccary bouncing around the outside room. I didn't notice the shutters reopened.
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God drat did not expect the sector 3 portal world but got drat it was good. Abiotic Factor has continued to impress me as I keep playing. If the first EA build is this good the finished game is really going to be something special. As a heads up for anyone getting close to 10 accuracy, the recipe for the biometric arm wraps needs 10 military arms. Chop up those bodies!.
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If I have any gripe with Abiotic Factor it’s giving you useful four piece set bonuses and then making the Biometic gloves take up your arm slot.
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