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Carcer posted:Its Rust style lots of people multiplayer. I've read that its fun (if you enjoy that sort of game) until someone rolls up in power armor on a T-rex and annihilates you with a plasma rifle while you throw rocks in retaliation. So, every game in that genre, then.
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Demiurge4 posted:They can't actually decouple terraforming can they? They're just removing terrain deformation and calling it a day. If they remove all ways to deform the terrain they can stop tracking changes to the terrain.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Huh, when did they add being able to deconstruct the fabricator and signal receiver in the lifepod? If they're going to let you do that I would have thought they'd let you pull out the power cells as well.
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Danaru posted:It's unrealistic? Specifically, unplugging one of the power cells on the wall and plugging it into your base is presumably very difficult. I can only assume the self charging cells use BS1363 and everything else uses Walsall Gauge 13A OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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You can push a button on a device to create a large room complete with oxygen scrubbing and lighting out of some chunks of titanium, but a scifi power source is where people call foul?
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The air bladder substantially improves your ascend ability allowing you to dive significantly deeper than you otherwise could.
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endlessmonotony posted:You absolutely don't need anything but a scanner, a welder and a radiation suit to get into the Aurora. I think you need a laser cutter to get into all the compartments.
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What makes me suspect it may be intentional that you can jump over the crates is that there's a way to climb back over them from the far side that seems deliberate.
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Feb 8, 2017 23:13
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The reinforced dive suit also expands your thermal resistance to about 70C I think.
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Feb 15, 2017 02:06
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SMH if you aren't running up to every squid you find and punching it in the... erm... tentacular plexus with the prawn suit.
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Carcer posted:Before or after a warper pulls you out of it? Never actually happened to me, I always go punch them in the face too. They bugger off.
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It's a bit weird that you specifically need silver for circuitry and you can't sub in gold.
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Coffeehitler posted:An actual question: Am I using the outdoor planters wrong if I'm using them for Acid or Deep Mushrooms since they're a 1:1 input:output? Having them near/at a base is much better than having to go to Deep Mushroom spawns. To get seeds out of mushrooms you have to hit them with your knife. Be aware however that there is a reason they are called acid mushrooms. And also that they are not necessarily immune to their own acid, I have had them chain react before.
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I think the game would be better if it was a sequence of survival challenges that you can progressively overcome. So to start you have to spend a lot of time finding basic food and water, but as you progress and do that for a while and get somewhere while doing it, you get to automate it away, which then facilitates the pursuit of greater challenges. To an extent the game does that, but also to an extent, the game likes putting in "features" that make you very susceptible to losing major chunks of your progression and making you redo them, which is very counterproductive to an exploration game. "No you explored wrong go back and do the last level again so you can have another go at exploring" is not good design, and the cyclops changes seem to be a substantial step towards that. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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The edge of the shelf is creepy enough as is, and I don't see why you need to stop people going into it, there's literally nothing there. You could entirely realistically just make it go below crush depth for your sub, as the abyssal plain does, and be done with it. I don't really see what introducing more chances for the crappy spawn code to dump a reaper on your head benefits anything. And I genuinely do like that you just hit the edge of the shelf and it just... drops. There is nothing below you but endless black, no matter how deep you go. That's a really neat thing made all the cooler by the fact that it's actually real, real life does that. Putting reapers in it spoils an actually neat experience that can be had in the game. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Voyager I posted:I think in general stealth gameplay is something you're meant to design a game around from the very beginning rather than something you add on a whim 90% through development. Also unless you're playing silent hunter, possibly it shouldn't be a thing in a game where you're driving a house.
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Bhodi posted:
However a nuclear space submarine from the future shouldn't be damaged by slightly oversized barracudas.
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i'm not having a "this isn't realistic" discussion in a game that has magic fabricators and the ability to carry enough material in your swimsuit to construct a giant sub, again, out of thin air
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I cannot imagine using the cyclops in a slower gear than it was already lodged in before the patch, drat thing is painfully slow as is.
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There's a difference between 100% invincible and "have to drive in first gear everywhere to avoid taking tedious chip damage from everything." Making it vulnerable to massive lifeforms and environmental hazards would be one thing but I see no compelling reason to make it vulnerable to smaller things.
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It's not even as though it does anything, moving around on the surface is easy, in any vehicle. Why would the biggest most expensive vehicle be more affected by wildlife than any of the other vehicles?
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Thermal generators that needed to be positioned away from the base for optimum thermal power (good temps for them are bad temps for your player character) and which could attract predators, or things trying to nest in them and jamming them up, could be an interesting mechanic. As it would encourage you to go and fight something. Would need to be quite carefully handled though and no doubt they'd just make peepers bump into them and cause them to chain explode or something.
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There are a number of items which only fit in the big room unfortunately.
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twistedmentat posted:I was inspired to play by the Neebs gaming series Space hicks trapped on water planet is a pretty fun series, cheers for linking it.
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Gel sacks afaik only spawn in a tiny little trench on the nearside of the aurora. It's the weirdest thing.
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7c Nickel posted:Nah they're in a couple different places like the Mushroom Forest and most of the really deep areas. Guess that explains why I never find them as I never go to the forest because there's nowt there. Also you'll probably need the aerogel to get really deep because pressure comps are expensive.
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The visibility in the lost river can make it hard to find the way down from there.
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You can make a base anywhere really though I would suggest not putting one next to reaper territory. That cave has thermal vents in it so it would actually be one of the better places if you don't mind the slight risk of being eaten. Though you would struggle to get the cyclops in and out of it.
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To my knowledge nothing will yet attack the base deliberately, it's just a pain in the arse cos they will go for you and your vehicles.
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There's also the other exit that just takes you out into the open ocean. Much easier. Or the other other exit that brings you out in the grand reef.
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Sea treaders do generate resource outcrops but it's only a few specific types of resource.
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double nine posted:Question: what do you guys consider 'must have' in a base? I've set up a small-ish but fully functional base in the lost river - power from a geyser, some food from plants, water dispenser, fabricator, battery & cell charger, and a moonpool. Tallest point of the base has to be a multipurpose room with all the walls covered in windows, accessed by a ladder.
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Section Z posted:Riveting gameplay to some, it seems. As opposed to gluing two batteries together and sticking them in the reactor? You can make new, charged powercells.
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Section Z posted:These days though, actual agency is a dirty word while people berate you for "Overusing your flamethrower" in Alien Isolation, having expected a flamethrower in an aliens game to kill some xenos rather than just be a mild inconvenience for them to walk through unscathed and eat your face. In fairness, in an Alien (singular) game that's basically exactly what a flamethrower does. It's in the film and everything.
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Haven't played in a couple of updates but the new ping manager and the changes to seaglide power usage are both fantastic, I never used that thing because it used to guzzle batteries but now it's really useful.
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Yardbomb posted:I've been having trouble finding anywhere that actually looks safe to make my sealab. I quite like making one in the red grass plains above the mushroom caves for my first base, from there you can drop one in the blood kelp or the grand reef, I would say don't go deeper than 200m or so until you get thermal plants because solar panels stop working by 300m down, so you either have to keep fuelling the bioreactors or settle near a thermal vent, and there are some excellent places near thermal vents to make deeper bases, one of them just above 900m down which puts it at the edge of your seamoth range with all the upgrades, makes a perfect staging point. You can also build a surface base in the shallows, the water is shallow enough in places that you can easily drop a foundation above the water and cover it in exterior plants. But the red grass plains or the little sandy part between the grass and the descent to where the reef begins are probably the nicest places, good open run of water for the cyclops and fairly central to a bunch of useful biomes, also solar friendly though you might need a few of them at that depth. No large predators. Also some nice geological formations to build around with the big pillars or the little caves in the sandy section. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Jun 28, 2017 |
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There isn't really much technique involved in using it, just drive it past the baddies, use silent running to not get hit for a bit, turn the engine off occasionally and repair it. Basically just accept it's a pile of poo poo and don't use it unless you have to.
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Dr Snofeld posted:How do you guys power your bases? I've been using a combo of solar and thermal plants but it seems unstable, especially once I install a water purifier. Plus, the max power from the thermal plants is continually fluctuating and I can't figure out why. Thermals if deep, solar if high, sometimes with a bio reactor if I can't get either of the others. Water purifiers use an absurd amount of power so generally I recommend leaving them to fill up and then just pulling one filtered water out at a time when you're full on power.
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botany posted:Update: found an alien building that is also a transformer! That's basically how that normally goes yep.
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TheGreasyStrangler posted:Dreamfall Chapters isn't trying to do anything particularly impressive and good god does it run like trash. What happened with the Natural Selection 2 engine they nearly bankrupted themselves making? It also runs like garbo, entertainingly.
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Personally I just find it baffling that the developers seem to be trying really hard to remove the fun from the game. It is a nice game and does some things you don't really get elsewhere but it has barely improved in the past year or so. They just keep faffing about making nonsensical changes while adding in some story content. For a game whose greatest strengths are atmosphere and visuals they seem rather unconcerned about lousy performance and very overly concerned with making you click the most amount of buttons and wait the longest possible to make sure you don't die of hunger or run out of submarine batteries. Like the initial development of the game added good things and now they just seem to have run in circles for a year doing little of substance and having no idea what they want the game to be. It's bizzare. The game isn't bad and I don't think I paid very much for it so I'm not feeling ripped off, but the devs are still idiots and don't seem to have learned anything from their previous game development which did basically the same thing. They have a good art director and an utter idiot with no sense of direction in charge of design, and another idiot with no sense of his own capabilities in charge of programming. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Now these are all good things! They worked well this time. Code optimization tho... and as everyone here knows, they should be making any new content mostly so other staff has something to do. Who knows what the finances look like but they haven't fired anyone I guess? Even if they did solve the technical issue I would honestly prefer to keep most of the draw distance limitations, maybe make glowing objects visible in the distance but the specifics of the terrain work well being kept in the fog. If your base and some glowing objects showed up as landmarks though, that would help orientation.
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