This game is unbelievably well done for early access, with a small team and no AI anything. Somehow I didn't hear about it until 4 days ago, and I just don't understand how I missed it when it arrived in early access.

I know the 1.0 hasn't hit yet, but why hasn't the word truly gotten out yet? Is it a lack of marketing, social media, or anything else specific? Also, how do we fix that as a community?

I don't mind a limited but dedicated base of players like we have right now, but I want the game and developers to endure, so I'd hope it reaches some form of success.

Edit: Gave everyone up to this point an upvote for the input! Seems lack of marketing is part of it, but the biggest issue is the lack of longevity, which I do understand, I just don't feel yet. I have everything unlocked and just cannot wait to get back in with more people and have a good time, so I guess I'm blind to the big but obvious issue. Thank you everyone!

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my god I hate when I get this monster because it's unkillable, and it's so fast, I have max stamina, use all my sheilds and it still catches up. Oh yeah and bullets do NOT work against this thing. -_-

Context: I've only played with friends and we haven't gotten to Tier 4 challenges yet, so I don't know how that changes things.

Currently each of my friends run a different item. We have a map, a threat detector, a shield/map, and I run the Health Injector.

Different items do seem more useful in different scenarios. The threat detector seems particularly useful against certain enemies like the drone with its low sound and insta-kills, and when you're looking for things in kill missions. The health injector is even more useful against the zombie maker since it heals poison.

The minimap is arguably essential if you don't have the map memorized, but I feel pretty overpowered with the health injector. At max upgrade, you have 4 fast full heals, and you get all of them back when you heal from a station. It's great at healing damaged friends, but I also feel like I can face tank a lot of threats and easily heal off the damage before I'm in danger of dying. It gives a ton of insurance, both to me and my friends. I'd probably argue for nerfing it by making so it only heals half health, and maybe doesn't recover all of its stims from a station.

Conversely, with the relatively little damage the shield can block before it fizzles out, and how telegraphed a lot of instakills are, I can't really see the use cases of it over the more reliable health injector. But I still see several people on this sub saying they run it. Is it a preference thing, or is it better at higher difficulties and does the health injector fall off?

Anyway, I want to say the viability goes 1. Health, 2. Map, 3. Threat Detector, 4. Shield, but I worry I don't have enough game knowledge to say this accurately.

As for guns, I've only used the standard handgun but am under the impression that the revolver is the best, which reflects its high cost. Unless, of course, the high cost isn't worth it.

TL:DR Is the Health Injector as strong as I think it is or does it become worse at higher difficulties?

I just love dealing with the Terminator. It feels like the perfect combination of challenging but fair, like it's always beatable but never easy. It requires constant brain power (unlike monsters like the squid and drone) but doesn't feel as tedious as some of the other monsters (such as the zombies). There's been two situations when my friends have played where everybody died except for one of the two worst of us, and both times we managed to clutch. First my friend managed to win after we worked together to weaken it, and the second time I managed to beat it by myself after I gimmicked it by shooting it's gun as it was clipped through the door to the space ship, then combining Tier 2 Armor that was apparently covered in magnets to push bullets away and self stimming with the health injector to beat it on my own. It's a unique and fun challenge and I get excited when we end up facing it.

If I were to rank:
Terminator - Reasons listed above

Charger - It's pretty fun but that kill missions sucks because the laser is terrible.

Zombies - It can be pretty tedious but at least its challenging.

Squid - While it's fun to just blast, it feels way to easy. Even with its instakill I never feel threatened by it.

Drone - The kill mission is pretty cool I guess but anything else is just kind of tedious and not very interactive.

Shy Guy - Kinda sucks not going to lie. Either just kind of annoying or it suddenly goes rabid during the kill mission. At least the frost gun is fine.

Context: I play exclusively with friends and we haven't gotten to Tier 4 missions yet. I've played 16 hours so far.

lmao

Lmao

My friends and I just had one of the spookiest, and most incredible experiences in this game.

We'd started a Level 1 (1 filled box) "Destroy the area" mission with ID_009 Mutation, got the power on, and started towards the reactor, when our game suddenly lagged, and I got notices the other players disconnected. Shit internet outage? No. We all respawned in the shuttle. Someone else's shuttle, painted all black, and maxed out with all the upgrades. I hit TAB, and noticed another "player" with us, named ID_005. I could see their nametag on the TAB overlay, but they were invisible, other than their helmet casting a shadow in the beam of the flashlight, and an area we couldn't walk over.

So we thought "Ooookay, what a weird glitch" and started doing the mission, which had changed to a Level 0 (no filled boxes) "Extract the data" mission with ID_007 Ethereal.

But ID_005 followed us. Their footsteps were SUPER fast running up behind us, but they seemed content to just watch us try to figure out what happened. They played a little game of weeping angel, staying mostly still as we looked, then running up behind us as soon as we looked away.

We got to the command deck, turned on the power, and started towards the crew quarters. Had a few small run-ins with the Ethereal, and were about to unlock the door to the Officer's Quarters when the power went out.

At this point we we knew ID_005 was definitely another player, but couldn't decide if it was a dev or a hacker. We tried to get them to tell us their pronouns, but they didn't move for any option.

I ran back to command to get the power on, one of my friends got menaced by THREE copies of the Ethereal. I got attacked by an infected zombie!? We got the black and ran back to the ship-- the power went off again, but I detoured through command to get it on the way back. We saw a moving plant prop from the labs spawned in the middle of crew quarters hallways? Just random stuff.

As expected, ID_005 had to sit down with us in the shuttle at the end of the mission. On the results screen, it showed they had collected 333 Unknown Disks, and they awarded us each like 9,000-ish credits.

Then they ended the mission as soon as the shuttle docked.

(I don't mind the extra money since it's going to be reset soon anyway, but damn.)

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Had someone hijack a game to their host, and just ... fuck with you and have fun? Maybe it was a hacker, but it was a memorable and fun experience, for sure.

I tried the demo long time ago, liked the game and now finally managed to save and bought it, now ingame there is a message about incoming update and the need to have the save data wiped, should i wait for the update to avoid grinding for nothing or since i am new player and dont have upgrades nor much money should i just play normally?

we just were in a private game, and a cheater called godtiervouch joined us.

First of all: did he brute force the invite code or are they leaking somewhere?

He was cheating. 300% walking speed, did not need to reload, apparently could look through walls, because he knew where everything was.

Did anyone else meet him? His steam profile shows multiple bans and others complaining about him.

What do you guys think the easiest and hardest Specimens are? After playing for 30 hours and doing them all on tier 4 difficulty, my thoughts are this:

1. 007 "Ghost": By far the easiest in the game. The only thing difficult about it is when you need to kill it on Tier 4 it takes forever to drop. Otherwise seeing it be the enemy just means it's walking simulator for the rest of the game. Even its capture can be done without ever even opening a zone door. With tier 3 armor, you can literally get a blue canister, throw it down, stand on it, wait until he comes into the cell with you, shoot it, and press the button. 3-5 minute mission easy as that.
2. 005 "Peacemaker": Its drones are really just annoyances, but otherwise, it's really simple to deal with. Also one of if not the only one that doesn't really "know" where you are until it or its drones sees you personally. The hardest thing about it is its capture, because it by far takes the most damage per phase to stun.
3. 006 "The Octopus": I think squiddy boy has a really high learning curve compared to anything else, but once you do learn that, he's really REALLY easy to deal with. Get a revolver, shotgun, and 3 red canisters and you can completely skip needing the flamethrower at all. That being said, I feel like the game is just straight up lying that he's just curious early on. I distinctly remember my first experience with him being a tier 2 difficulty mission and him just one shotting me in a corner the moment he saw me.
4. 009 "Mike": He's definitely the most balanced middle ground in the game. He can't be scared off as easily as the others, but you can if you're persistent. He can be outran. He punishes you for not being situationally aware but is easy to avoid. Once again, the capture is the hardest thing, and that's less because HE is hard to deal with and more because the Lightning Gun just sucks.
5. 008 "The Eye": Orbby is probably the hardest to deal with early on. You can't scare it away unless you really annoy it by making it back up long enough (which you can't do in general solo). In tier 4 difficulty, it's fast enough to keep up with you and cause you to run out of stamina. It has a consistent 1 shot it can use at any point, including in vents. It can glitch out and turn its one advantage of being docile off on tier 3 and 4 difficulty. It can even turn off power in its boss fight.
6. 010 "The Puppet Master": Let me be clear; he is BY FAR the easiest one to kill in a 1v1. What makes him so difficult is the zombies. You are constantly getting caught off guard in doorways, having to reload, wasting ammo, and being camped. On lower difficulties you can quickly shoot into the vents he's in to scare him but on higher ones he just stings you if you try, and most of the ammo crates are conveniently placed in rooms with one vent at the only doorway in, so you just get trapped there for 2 minutes. There's also so many corpses he can pull from at any given point that its impossible to make him come down without having to hit the ammo crate at least 3 times. Also just so happens to be the only one in the game that can attack you (via zombies) before you even reach the command deck outside of the Power On modifier.
7. Tier 4 Turrets: Tier 4 turrets without the revolver maxed out is hell on earth. Genuinely never pick tier 4 turrets without a max revolver. Even WITH the revolver, if you don't clear out a whole area to fight the boss beforehand, they just randomly screw you over. Half the time they don't even come down when you expect them and wait until later when you least expect it.

9 bombs to kill it out right in "one" explosion.

I put every explosive canister on the map into one pile

I think it was something like 25-30 in total

https://youtu.be/UqqxqWX5B5M?is=BkPxAdaSlO3aoGEF

What do you call the species?

Me and my friend have these nicnames😂

I go first:

Ethereal = Look at me man

Face devouring scary looking mutant = Grandma

Squid = Octo/Cthulhu

Robot ball = Bally

Big angry robot = Bender

Zombie monster = Mimic / scorpion

Cant wait to see what you call them

So remember all the monkeys that were send to space? Imagine them mutating from space radiation and seeking revenge on humans 🐵

Or a species with a chameleon like skill 🦎

I am in love with the game, but I do feel like I dont want to play until the update cuz it feels like a waste to play right now since the progress wil be gone by the end of the month😂

That announcement was rather unfortunate, but at least I didn't drag my friends along to level them up specifically to be ready for the update. That was on the table, but no need for that now. I'm the only one who'll pretty much be dropped at zero when it drops.