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  Early Access is on Steam right now.Welcome to Osiris: New Dawn, the new early-access title from Fenix Fire Entertainment. They describe the whole thing as an open world, multiplayer, survival game. Mankind has just discovered a way to travel faster than light, but poo poo went wrong. You (and your friends if you are playing this game right) are stranded somewhere, cut off from everything you know. Luckily you’re the descendant of Mark Watney and Bear Grylls.  Think of No Man’s Sky. Remember how the focus of the technology and development time of that game went to creating a nearly infinite amount of semi-interesting planets you can visit to mine things with a laser. Remember how most of the gameplay was boring as soon as you got over the novelty of visiting a new planet. Osiris’ focus is a bit more on it being a game. It keeps things close to your new home, but they have made that experience more dramatic and deep gameplay-wise. The game takes place in one system, with the starter planet being a bit like Mars. This planet is far from dead though:   You can carve out your own home on this alien world. You get to build your habitat and add to it how you see fit. Construct your habitat:  Build vehicles:   Befriend Honestly, the game is meant to be played multiplayer. The two factions on the public servers are meant to gently caress with each other. Private servers are customizeable. The start of your little Survivorman: Mars episode is pretty slow if you try to do it solo. The game’s only been available for a week or so, but I’ve gleaned a few things in my time tinkering with things. Here’s a couple tips to get you started: -The only class available right now is the Scientist. He starts with a personal assistant bot  . The “Follow” and “Patrol and Mine” commands are especially useful for early game. You have a weight limit on how many space rocks you can carry on your person. Your robot has no such limitation. Use the “Follow” command to make his rear end as a pack mule and get that initial bunch of metals to create your first depository and forge. After you start making long distance trips to get those more unobtainable metals, use Patrol and Mine to have your bot collect the mundane stuff in your absence. He’ll automatically put the stuff he gets in a depository if you have one. -You can pack up your starter Inflatable Dome and take it wherever. It only weighs 2 kg. The really aggressive creatures come out at night, so it’s handy to have on long trips. -Beacons and flags are some of the most useful early items. If you have the resources to create a bunch of them, do it. Mark the resources you’ll need to come back to (looking at you, gas geysers). The planet is big. Really big. -Many of the space monsters can climb walls and ceilings. If you go caving, do look up to make sure you aren’t about to be eaten. -Worms mostly inhabit craters. They also lose interest pretty quickly once you dodge one of their attacks. I guess they don’t corner too well. As I said, this game is early access and has only been out for a week, so my experience is limited. It’s also hard to find guides that even go over the basics. If anyone else has any tips for players let me know, and I’ll add them to the OP. Screenshots. The game looks pretty good, if a bit unpolished. These are from my PC that’s pretty much a budget gaming machine:    Elpato fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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I haven't played enough to give the whole thing an up or down vote. It's early access AF, but I've had fun messing around with it so far. It reminds me a bit of ARK back before its Elpato fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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Hard posted:I think Mars would be pretty bare. Yeah, night time and caving are pretty darn tense. Right now you can get pretty safe by jetting to the top of our habitat to pistol all the smaller night-time swarmers to death, but being outside hunting for materials at night is pretty much a death sentence unless you have a lot of assault rifle ammo. I for one am hoping they make a planet with more environmental hazards as opposed to alien life. Gravitational anomalies, crazy tides, volcanic activity, etc. Also, I hope they tweak the early game to not be so grindy when it comes to the amount of resources and walking to find said resources. I humped it all over the drat planet before I got enough resources to get more "comfortable" in my gathering process. Maybe my particular map/starting area was just super sparse on gases, because they were a bitch to find and gather.
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Hard posted:Yeah i had set my private server to x5 mats gathering. Regular x1 would have been down right silly. Especially with gasses as you mentioned and when you have to craft plastic.. Carrying 12 canisters, having to equip them individually and it requires endless runs.. ugh. Yeah the more I think about it, the more I think they don't intend for people to play on vanilla mode solo. Multiple people with good coordination can gather this stuff pretty well to build the hab, but it feels awful solo. Could be a faction/colony pvp balance thing they don't just come out and say
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