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just got this, lost five hours to it last night then couldn't sleep because of the adrenaline pumping through my system. Any tips for a new player?
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If you hear "Don't shoot" SHOOT ON SIGHT
Fill up on loot and extract to start building up your pile. Learn what can be recycled into base components.
Start installing your benches and getting them upgraded.
Do the missions.
Don't get too competitive on solo missions. 95% of my solo missions are friendly. I love teaming up with randoms and taking on bigger ARC's.
Spend skill points on stamina, you do a lot of running.
Make sure you have your mic setup.
Anyone here play late like after 10pm? I added loads of people here, but everyone is always offline when I play late evenings.
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I play at really weird times mate.
Weekdays:
Basically before 7am, if I wake up early before I gotta get the kids ready for school.
Then usually after about 1-2pm to about 5pm skiving at work.
I don't often play in the evenings like most people.
Weekends vary depending what I'm doing.
I play at really weird times mate.
Weekdays:
Basically before 7am, if I wake up early before I gotta get the kids ready for school.
Then usually after about 1-2pm to about 5pm skiving at work.
I don't often play in the evenings like most people.
Weekends vary depending what I'm doing.
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Thanks all,
Currently got all workbenches, expanding my storage and focusing on completing missions. mostly running away from arc and getting spooked by the excellent sound design atm. Mic and headphones setup is good, but im not yet used to playing with actual real people. i normally play offline games. Trying to find fruit for the rooster is proving tricky.
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The early quests act as a sort of extended tutorial and teach you what mechanics exist inside of the game, it's worth doing the first maybe 10 quests even if you don't like questing, so you know what field depots looks like, how they work, what Call stations look like, how they operate, the basic keycard and locked room looting. And encourage you to interact with Arc, see what they drop, learn their basic attack patterns etc. After about 10 missions they become generic but the early ones are essential for new players.
Use a mic, I know a lot of people don't like using one, but it's really important. With a free kit, most (not all) people will be friendly by either using the dont shoot emote, or by saying hello over prox chat. Free kits early on will help you build your stash out and give you the basics you need to work on unlocking and upgrading your workbenches. Some people in game will straight up help you with quests or find items if you're lucky, befriending them is a big deal.
A tip for everyone, if you're really shy/timid over mic then there is a built in voice changer which will make you sound like a kinda generic raider which work surprisingly very well. I think that might give some people more confidence rather than trying to fiddle with the emote wheel constantly.
Ya, just not for a while, I will be about though, always looking for people playing since a lot of early adopters have sadly dropped off.
For everyone else looking to play, if you need help with anything, missions, getting certain components from large Arc, or just want to team up, I've put my handle in my sig, if I'm online just invite me. I have everything 100% completed and I'd much rather help people with objectives than shoot random people in the face. Oh, that goes for Trials too, I try and keep a health trials score each week some are best done in groups.
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I'm usually on at that sort of time for an hour or so.
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Appreciate the tips. Im not shy using the mic and even de-aggro'd a group yesterday when i recognised a french accent and responded with a salut. Looking forward to getting into the nitty gritty, i really like the risk/reward loop its very compelling.
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Apricots, olives and lemons can all be found at the olive grove on Blue Gate map.
They are on the floor, or you can usually interact with the trees to make them drop what you need.
The trench on Spaceport is good for this too.
Is it possible to preview that ? I want to sound like Apone from Aliens
As I said before, its a clever solution, if they fix one method to get into the room, people would just find another, it would run and run because basically people who cheat/exploit are ***** and should have their hands physically removed. This solution actually negates needing to play chase the currrent exploit, its a sensible solution. Sure, it appears to have a few tweaks required but I'd much rather that than exploit method 1 is fixed, exploit method 2 is discovered by persistant low self esteem losers, fix for exploit method 2 has to be found and applied, exploit method 3 is discovered by persistant low self esteem losers, fix for exploit method 3 has to be found and applied and so on.I hate to be that guy, buuuuuuuuuut. Called it.
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This is SO OBVIOUS, they're trying to be smart and **** about, instead of just FIXING the original problem, they're now on their 3rd botched attempted. It didn't take a genius to figure out this was just a really dumb mitigation that was going to cause more unintended problems. And is dumb in the context of the game lore. I'm not a god damn soothsayer, I only have moderate experience with coding at best, I saw this a mile off lol.
This +100 , its my single biggest tip for the game.
This game is just getting repetitive and frustrating now solo. Thats the last 3 rounds I've failed to extract. I'm being cautious and quiet, minding my own business and not getting in anyones way.
I've also got to say. The game feels very different today. A lot more dangerous. I've died to two ******** raiders whilst carrying **** all except the mission items I'm trying to get out. Then an onslaught of wasps and hornets that somehow completely ignored cover. Three of them appeared out of thin air well within draw distance and bee lined directly for me, whats that all about...
I'm losing motivation to continue repeating the same cycle over and over solo. I think I'm just going to stop soloing altogether, its just lost all enjoyment for me. I'll continue playing Duo/Trio, however its definitely lost its shine for me playing solo.
Do you do the "don't shoot" thing? I've had countless encounters with people who are also just trynna do quests, and a quick "don't shoot" usually de-escalates things very quickly. I'd say 80% of my encounters are friendly, the other 20% are just knobs who kill for the lols.
That said I'm always on high alert if anyone's silent or not responding. Usually my spidey senses are correct.
I also talk a lot on my mic, and have had quite a few very interesting encounters as a result. Some outright hilarious ones too.
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Is it possible to preview that ? I want to sound like Apone from Aliens
I think as you select through the voices you get a preview but there's no way to hear it in game unless it's recorded and you watch it back from someone else's perspective.
You can also change gender of the voice, it's really impressive, making yourself sound female is super creepy when you use it around friends, there's so many clips on youtube of people doing this and having a riot laughing at it. It's really good because it let's women sound masculine if they dont want to get harassed, it's just fun for trolling. And people who are shy and don't like the idea of their real voice being out there, or they're 13 and dont want to sound like a kid, they can stick a gruff male voice on. One of the least known but coolest aspects of the game.
No, no it's really not. In fact it's sort of like the opposite of that. A clever solution would be to just fix the door without amplifying the number of potential problems a fix this would cause.
It'd be like you bringing in your car for an oil change and instead of me changing the oil, I build some custom new doodad to sit on the side of the car which is piped in to measure your oil and auto top it up, oh but it's completely custom, not tested, way more complicated than just changing the oil. It's obviously going to break and cause more problems, not less.
The reddit sure is fun though, good times.
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Honestly it is a clever solution for precisely the reasons I've stated twice, I've worked my entire life in software design and troubleshooting and as I've said already, fix the one exploit and the exploiters will find another way to glitch through the doors in no time, this fix negates chasing endless exploits by allowing them to glitch through by whatever means they like and then killing them the moment they have. We'll just have to agree to disagree as to whether its a clever solution or not because, as with many things it seems, you and I just wont agree on it
Honestly it is a clever solution for precisely the reasons I've stated twice, I've worked my entire life in software design and troubleshooting and as I've said already, fix the one exploit and the exploiters will find another way to glitch through the doors in no time, this fix negates chasing endless exploits by allowing them to glitch through by whatever means they like and then killing them the moment they have. We'll just have to agree to disagree as to whether its a clever solution or not because, as with many things it seems, you and I just wont agree on it
Spot on. And the issues with accidentally triggering this ant-cheat mitigation outside of the room are trivial to fix. It's just a bounding box tweak.
There is of course another side effect of the fix, it means the glitcher dies inside the room, so the person who comes along and goes into the room legitimately, gets to loot the glitcher too (not that I would expect them to have much on them, but you never know
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