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i was excited when i finally built my cyclops but then i realized i don't and can't seem to find power cell recharge fragments and that stupid monster eats power like crazy even with efficiency upgrade. Not fun doing the seamoth solar recharge/prawn moonpool shuffle to charge two dozen cells. I've searched the entire jelly caves and mushroom fields and can't find poo poo. my end of the mushroom field base can't find any data fragments either with its scanner
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OwlFancier posted:I think the collision doesn't really work for the prawn when docked. It used to be that it didn't for the seamoth either but they seem to have fixed that, just not for the prawn. i've jumped through my seamoth a lot, i think it's just flat turned off or does not exist from the bottom. One of my beefs with the moonpool is that it doesn't seem possible to access prawn upgrades from it and changing out batteries still requires jumping in, although in theory that isn't problematic given that the pool recharges (it is if you dont have the cell charger though) GlyphGryph posted:I have found the cyclops... doesnt really drain power all that much? I have been using it a lot and I am still on the original power cells, even though I have so much copper I made two whole backup sets of power cells. rechargers would really just be a convenience, its not like it takes long to refill the thing from gathering, esp. with a scanner room. i dunno the drat thing was burning it fast and i never installed anything like fabricator or medkit or anything else. All i have is a growbed. To go from my mushroom/bulb base to the nearest lost river entrance was like 30% power loss (It is about 900M away). Really it's one of the things preventing me from setting a much deeper base up. I even went through the trouble of stocking the cyclops up with enough materials to set a self sufficient base up at any location
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Feb 5, 2018 14:53
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GlyphGryph posted:Wow, like I said I have been driving it around for a while and I have only used up like thirty percent TOTAL. Nope the lights also don't use power since you can turn the engine off and leave all the lights on with zero power loss probably just gonna say gently caress it and setup in deep lost river, i can't advance without getting kyanite or nickle at this point Sloober fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Feb 5, 2018 |
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Feb 5, 2018 14:59
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Krogort posted:Silent running, sonar and shield burn trough battery very fast, other than that you can probably go through the map north to south like 5 time before running out. i'm not using any of those. Sonar is an on for one ping then off again thing when i need it
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Feb 5, 2018 15:26
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Typical Pubbie posted:Nah, peepers give much more. Gelsacks are a weird strat I blundered into but it works so well I'm drowning in sacks from one external plant bed and never have to worry about power. i usually just throw bulb bush cuttings in but my one bioreactor is a supplemental reactor to some thermals i have
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Feb 5, 2018 21:34
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Kinda funny they didnt want to add guns but quite frankly ive indiscriminately murdered dozens of bonesharks, sandsharks, stalkers and the repulsion cannon launches things a hundred meters. As for cyclops energy draw still havent figured oit why its so high and yes i do have the 300% mod in.
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Feb 6, 2018 05:16
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QuantaStarFire posted:Did anyone else just rip the cameras off of their scanner rooms and throw them away? Because Stalkers keep coming around and stealing them, and it's super annoying. just turn off their beacons and let them, it helps get more teeth.
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Feb 6, 2018 14:23
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Yeah the dog whistle noise in particular is really distinctive and noticeable who knew those leviathans were screeching racial epithets and i'm pretty sure the bonesharks liked to yammer about 
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Feb 6, 2018 14:45
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nothing public no but hes got a rush of defenders that seem straight out of 4chan so probably for the best
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Feb 6, 2018 15:28
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Dongattack posted:I'll never understand why people just don't make a anonymous account to talk about hosed up poo poo instead of using their Lead Sound Designer account Because they don't think it's hosed up poo poo so why would it be bad?
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Feb 6, 2018 15:36
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Yeah. Guess we know why he applied for that job
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Feb 6, 2018 19:11
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uXs posted:You can make water out of fish, or out of salt and coral in a second using a fabricator and a small amount of power. But extracting water out of, well, water, for that you need a gigantic machine, a shitload of power, and it also takes half an hour. Oh subnautica, you so crazy. Yeah my first planting bed i used a cutting for it and welp, all i got was more cuttings then i was like ohh, seed, ok. I've also got some beds setup that have a single piece of flora of whatever stuff i find in the safe shallows. Same with any dry land life
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Feb 7, 2018 14:03
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prussian advisor posted:So I finally found my very last cyclops hull fragment and built one of those big ole bastards and, well, it’s a real different experience to pilot than my beloved little Seamoth. Best example I can think of is driving a tour bus versus driving a go kart. However, The depth mod for my seamoth currently only goes to 300 Meters so I don’t really have a choice here. Can't nose up or down, but the proximity detector should tell you what's close to hitting dirt. I built a bunch of lockers and a growbed to shove lantern fruit on. You can't build any reactors or solar stuff onto it which would apparently be too easy. Just put all the mats to build a multipurpose room and a bio or thermal reactor + cell rechargers, and you can pause and recharge whenever. if you build a mod station you should be able to upgrade that 300m to 900m
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Feb 7, 2018 16:45
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QuantaStarFire posted:This opened up the game for me because now I can actually find things with the scanner HUD upgrade. First thing I'm probably going to do is set up a FOB there and dig up all the magnetite because it was a colossal PITA to spot, just a dark rock on dark walls. Cyclops is super easy to unlock so yeah. One of the wrecks i found in the grand reef area though, had a good 10 engine fragments sitting around, it was really weird. Another wreck had 15-20 prawn arms. I restarted a game and there was no moonpool frags anywhere this time. Something is seriously hosed up about fragment spawning, doesn't seem to have any logic. Not being able to find moonpool stuff is poo poo
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Feb 7, 2018 18:59
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Tobermory posted:From a couple of quick restarts, it seems like a full set of moonpool fragments consistently spawns at wreck 20, just north of the signal for lifepod 19. I got 47 million grav trap fragments there, no moonpool grav traps inside (in a huge pile) grav traps outside. i think it was their volleyball segment for real all the wrecks this world seem to be comprised of solely one type of fragment. Prawn arms for one, seamoths at another, cyclops engines at a different one. (my cell recharger was actually at the jelly base this time) Sloober fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Spent hours last night moving my base out of the shoals a few hundred metres west to the red plateaus to hang out with the reefbacks. Feels good to finally have a moonpool put in. Now if I can only get over my crippling fear of the deep places. I don't even consider myself to be scared of deep water in real life this game just unnerves the gently caress out of me. I managed to go to the aurora and get everything and back without running into a reaper, didn't even know they patrolled around there till my friend told me. Put a sonar mod on the seamoth if you're worried, the pings really help spot reapers. I usually roll it with the depth mod, solar charge, sonar and a storage unit, although the solar can easily be swapped out when unneeded for something like durability. The sonar is just so handy for finding hard to spot little openings too, and it has the range to show you that you aren't far from solid ground/sea bed. plus i think the leviathans roar whenever you ping
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Feb 8, 2018 15:29
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Skippy McPants posted:Power question, if I have a base set up with both solar and nuclear will the energy reserves from the solar panels drain first, preserving the generstor's fuel rods, or will it drain both simultaneously? I believe it drains based on the order it was constructed in, so start with building any thermal or solar units first, and end with bio/nuclear
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Feb 8, 2018 16:36
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uXs posted:I have 10 numeric keys, no reason not to give me 10 quickbar slots. the repulsion cannon is actually ace so you should use it. it's fun to launch warpers ~100m away from you
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Feb 9, 2018 14:58
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Oasx posted:The cyclops combined the lava section was not fun, and it was the first time the game felt like a chore. But I completed the game and overall it is a great experience. I just hope the developers get around to fixing all the bugs that have been around for years. the dim lights thing happened to me too, not sure why. probably a bug.
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Feb 9, 2018 20:41
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Internet Kraken posted:I'm sad that large numbers of flares seems to tank the framerate. I wanted to light up the ocean in front of my house. setup exterior beds and plant creepvine seeds. those fuckers are way bright
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Feb 9, 2018 21:08
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EponymousMrYar posted:Ah right, then it's more like PRAWN punches and drills don't do that much damage compared to the knife or the thermoblade. You can kill most things with 2-3 prawn punches. It does way more than the knife. The drill doesnt do much in comparison either, but does drive stuff off.
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Feb 11, 2018 05:44
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Section Z posted:When they are working as intended they are supposed to gently caress off. But, well, it's not quite as enjoyable when something in their AI realizes "Wait a minute. I'm literally unkillable!" basically don't build energy using things into the cyclops until you get thermals, after tho... considering you only really need one trip to the lava stuff.
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Feb 12, 2018 18:30
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Skippy McPants posted:The ending is pretty cool, but you could watch it on youtube if you don't have the mats for the rocket on hand and can't be arsed to farm them. My first delve to the lava area with the cyclops i ended up crawling around with the prawn drilling everything, since it's got drill nodes for every single material it's easy to just spend a half hour or so running around doing nothing but gathering materials
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Skippy McPants posted:I do wish the Beacons let you filter by color and/or type. I got to a point pretty quick where I was limiting how many I dropped because the screen took forever to scroll through. Less clicks = bad to the devs. My next playthrough will probably have that turned off since it's only ever a problem early on.
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Skippy McPants posted:I understand the need for a set number of clicks to keep the pace steady, but it woulda been cool if they'd gone with something like what Stardew Valley has where you gradually unlock more automation and quality of life stuff as the game progresses. it's more that the devs view convenience as something that should come with significant drawbacks and not just stardew valley's automation curve which does not include any real drawbacks but i'm also not sure why the stillsuit is so out of tune with that since food is super easy as hell to keep maxed out
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Feb 14, 2018 16:46
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EponymousMrYar posted:There's a very specific feel/experience that the devs are going for with this and unfortunately past a point automation actively goes against that. It's too empowering. that might be what they were going for but it doesn't feel like it accomplishes that with how quickly those stop being problems
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EponymousMrYar posted:Marblemelons aren't great because you have to harvest them with your knife and that can cause problems. Chinese potatoes don't have that problem. GlyphGryph posted:The reason people say to grow plants for food is because they provide water too (bulboa tree is better than lanternfruit because of this). So basically you can top off your food and water for no cost every time you return to your cyclops/base without consuming any resources. I'm a fan of bulbos myself, especially since the last slice off it always gives you two so you can replant and eat Oasx posted:Another thing that I think would help would be to put the damage indicator on the main cyclops hud, having to stop and step back so you can see that screen is a little annoying. Lava larva die in 2-3 thermal slice hits, i usually made a point of hunting down ones i just peeled off the hull and murdering them
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I put 3 posters, the mini aurora and two ion cells in my capsule. I never actually found any capsules while playing
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I think I got that time capsule! The first one I found was basically just that; it all decorates my house now. my title was just like "memorabilia" or something. i was gonna toss in some other posters but i figured someone would Get Mad that i didn't put something at least marginally useful in, so i threw in the two ion cells i ripped out of my cyclops. this was before i knew people were super bitter about 'useful' contents i did manage to find one in a restart (sans food/water mechanic because those are frankly just irritating to me since i don't feel like they are interesting enough to deal with), and it had a heat knife, two salted peepers and a water or two, so basically i got a bunch of stuff that doesn't help this playthrough
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Feb 19, 2018 14:36
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PantsBandit posted:Any recommended graphics settings to turn down that will improve performance and not make the game look like poo poo? I turned textures down to medium and, since I'm playing big picture on my tv, it was imperceptible. But I still get quite a bit of hitching when switching biomes or breaking the surface. The game is the problem to expand on it, it runs like poo poo pretty much regardless
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Feb 19, 2018 16:25
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Taerkar posted:Jets, Thermal, Depth, Cargo (more drill space). i do appreciate how the +cargo on the prawn actually expand the one inventory it has, instead of add another pouch like it does to the seamoth
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Feb 19, 2018 16:39
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GlyphGryph posted:The whole point of the cyclops is that having one means you never have to build a second base. Anything you can do in a base you can do in a cyclops, although being able to recharge power cells comes later and is never very effective so you will want to build like eighteen of those and a whole bunch of batteries so you only have to return to your normal base once ever to recharge them, and even thats based on puttering around doing poo poo that isnt needed. As soon as you get the thermal charge you stop really needing a base unless you need a scanner room. Vents are all over, just put up a cell charger and charge away basically once you've made your go down to the lava spot you've got everything you need
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Bhodi posted:Weirdly, the game already sort of has some sort of silent cache. If you pick up a time capsule and don't have room for it, stuff isn't ejected on the ground. It's held in some ethereal space until you free up inventory and then it just appears there again. the stillsuit does that too if you're out of room for pisswater
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Feb 20, 2018 20:47
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EponymousMrYar posted:Good ol' scanner room hopping for stuff. bioreactor's purpose is as a backup for serious powerdrain times on thermals, so they should take minimal time like "i'm charging 4 batteries, 2 cells, the prawn and running the scanner"
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Feb 21, 2018 22:52
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Section Z posted:
I was slingshotting around with my prawn suit and flew through unloaded terrain. Only managed to save myself by a well timed grapple into the tube from the lost river leading to the lava area
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Danaru posted:drat, building at 900 depth is no joke, I installed a water filter, and immediately all my walls started imploding on me As far as i can tell the drill is not even close to as strong as just the punchfist
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Thankfully there was a lithium deposit like, literally right below my base, so I was able to poo poo out reinforcements without any effort.
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Cobbsprite posted:Bioreactors and nuclear reactors both are suboptimal compared to thermal reactors, imo. Nuclear is okay if you can get over the terrifyingly huge need for otherwise-useless lead, but the bioreactor is just WAY too much trouble. Build near a thermal vent, and stack a dozen thermal plants on it. Problem solved forever. i usually plop down a bioreactor/2 thermals and it handles everything
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Devian666 posted:I played through the first time never building a scan room. It's not critical unless you are focusing on large volumes of material. Stalker teeth are annoying to find and it helps with that, and those stupid loving teeth also have an annoying habit of falling through the world. They're not "critical" but they are definitely a QoL item
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Untrustable posted:I am stuck? I'm 48 hours in and have spent a considerable amount of time building a massive base at lifepod 2 along with a prawn and a cyclops. I have constant nuclear power and a self sustaining base for the most part. Lifepod 2 was the last radio transmission I received. I don't know what the game wants me to do. I did get attacked by a ghost Leviathan but it didn't stand a chance against Fishpuncher (my prawn's name). Explore deeper areas and look for holes
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Rutibex posted:No you can't complete the game without building a base, you need to build at least a moonpool at some point. The Prawn Suit Depth Module MK1 can only be crafted in the vehicle modification station, and that requires a moonpool, Cyclopes not allowed. You can make the Mk2 and Mk3 depth modules in the normal Modification Station (which you can put in the Cyclopes) but not the first one. you could theoretically make an insanely long air pipe but haha wow effort
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