I think a nice addition would be that when wearing the night vision goggles, the number of visible stars in the night sky would increase by an order of magnitude. Not only is this realistic, but would encourage the goggles use at night.

SPOILERS ahead

Something seems to be wrong with the frequency of the unique signals in the latest patch. In 6.0 I managed to filll the entire gallery in about 35 days, in 7.0  I only got about ten unique signals in 45 days.  It was all asteroids and planetoids filler signals. My friends had the same issue. Not a single one of them got the Evil, even though I was sure it's scripted to apper during day 30, which is a massive shame since collecting the bits of its story is one of the best experiences I had in this game.

Great work with the new base though, I love it! I hope there will be some events with the creepy coldroom in the future. 

Обнова топовая. Но немного непонятна добавлення механика репутации с арералами. Сижу 24\7 на этом сайте, но я всё ещё не до конца понял, что и как

I just want you to know I've been ranting nonstop to my friends about how perfect this game is.

I'm a weirdo who mods Skyrim until it turns into "camping in the woods freezing to death" simulator - who grew up playing 'House' in videogames that absolutely were not designed to play 'House' (hoarding bananas like food in the og Mario Kart 64) - who craves an immersive sim that really scratches that itch. And boy, does this do that.

The mechanics to clean up and decorate the base make me giddy, dragging a bucket of water and a sponge only to spill the water halfway down the hall. I lost my shit when I realized I could not only microwave my food (in a working microwave with a rotating platter!), but I could accidentally over-microwave my food and burn myself trying to eat it. I saw an entity on the radar and turned to sprint towards the door to go chase it down, and tripped over a drive box I'd thoughtlessly left on the floor.

There's magic in this game, and I hope you know we see it. Not just the cool alien shit, but every detail you've no doubt spent countless hours implementing and perfecting. Thank you for all your hard work, and I look forward to whatever you've got planned for the future.

I dare call this game an immersive sim.  I adore everything you've all done with it so far, there's so much I have to rave about.

>> Lots of spoilers though for anyone reading. <<

You have a real skill for making things so grand and awesome, Pyramid was an amazing sight and the Golden Wisps felt like such a threat that I coddled myself and all my most important belongings up in the bedroom, just listening to the radio and watching the stars until things blew over, and all of that culminating in Pyramid's appearance made it feel like the valley forest was rid of an evil, especially from the max reputation gift. Your worldbuilding is top-notch, it's so subtle yet so vast, it makes you think, "What else could be out there?" "Are these two planning a resistance?" "How did these frankly very marketable plushie collectables get where they are?" It's amazing. The silliness of the game is also wonderful, I can imagine Dr. Kellen being the protagonist in a chronological animated comedy horror series, tripping over things while running for his life from nothing one moment, then sitting at his desk wide eyed while listening to horrifying processed signals, holding onto his Ariral plushies the next.

This is in pre-alpha 0.7.0 and is Name Your Price. I so badly regret not having a credit card yet, I'd gladly pay for this wonderful experience of a game. You've gone above and beyond with this so far and I cannot wait one bit to see how the forest shapes up through development. Now onto actual ideas, the reputation system is wonderful and I hope it'll be expanded upon in the future. 

Maybe some sort of event where, at max reputation, an Ariral directly uncloaks near and hugs the player while at their desk or doing something specific, catching them off guard with a delightful scare while they're busy. If you plan on giving the Rozitals the Rep system, maybe they could send the little guard bots to your base to scout for you, and you have to hide inside and put things like curtains over your windows so you can keep working. - By the way, Esraniki's gift made me feel so warm, and now I just love the Arirals even more. 

Small side bits, I played this with day length increased to 128%, I think it'd be a wonderful idea to finish that. I also experienced a large decrease in frames when in the new base, then again this build is highly experimental to my knowledge. That being said the new base is something you warm up to, which I think is the best way it could be handled for this game.

What if you leaned into the coziness of the game a bit, adding a blanket for the player to wrap up in, maybe a hot cocoa bag for the coffee maker. And this is a huge reaching idea - I can't believe this game is still in pre-alpha - but maybe a seasonal system, I take this game takes place in a northern forested area, so I think it'd make sense for winter snow. Maybe upgrades to the ATV to add a snow plough, a rake reskin for the broom to rake up leaves into piles like the trash balls so you can dive into them and break a fall.

I do hope development carries on well for everyone, and be careful with your scope on things. Demotivation is the worst.

WORRY NO
GAME GOOD, MAKE A ADDICT
DO BREAKS
LUCK

Lots of forum posts with people struggling to free items and garbage and such stuck in weird places... perhaps there is an opportunity to add a new item to help that doesn't feel cheaty? Perhaps an object/small item that you can steal from the arirals that will warp everything (furniture, objects, even entities like kerfus) in a small radius around it back to their treehouse a few meters off the ground? And it would also give a better way handle the stolen objects from arirals instantly teleporting back to their base- after kicking your teeth in, they would use the warp item to teleport their stolen stuff and anything of yours unfortunate enough to be around it back to their treehouse?

Definitely technically complicated but I feel it would help a lot with the FAQs about this stuff and save object resetting (yikes)/fetching items to stuff in the mailbox killing the vibe

CONTAINS SPOILERS

This is my first time playing, and I've only experienced the game prior through watching twitch streams on day ~30ish prior to this update. I played until day 50. I mention a few times about looking up secrets. The secrets I looked up were how to enter the dark hole in the cave, how to enter the bunker, and places to dig up items like the EMF detector. I do feel like I cheated with the EMF reader, since it's right next to a POI, which I could have found without a guide had I more patience, and I probably would have found the keycard had I put more effort into investigating the bunker.

I enjoyed the game a lot.  Discovering secrets was really fun and satisfying when there was some indication that a spot HAD a secret. It felt like putting a puzzle together.  You have really good game design intuition and it shows through how addicted I was to the game. There was a few moments where I just stared at my screen in disbelief because of how well some events just flowed into the game.

Observations and feedback and incoherent brain dump about the game:

• The rep system is very powerful when you're at "Loyal", and I'd do my best to max it out asap if I was using the food decay and tolerance system. Would like to see some advantages and events that aren't just getting free food. Maybe make the rep scale non-linearly so it's easier to increase at low rep and harder to increase at high rep, since if you know what you're doing, you can max it out in a day.
• I bought the wall fixer thinking that I could use it to remove the cracks on the walls and floors of the base, which wasn't actually the case. Hopefully I can remove them in the future. There's also some non-removable grime on the base that I hope to be able to remove too.
• I built a gpu miner with 3 fans and many GPUs and it eventually overheated. I heard the explosions but didn't think anything of them since I've never heard it explode before and the puffballs make the same sound. Definitely my own fault for letting 8+ consecutive explosions go uninvestigated. I don't really understand why the fans exploded too though, it seems a bit punishing to lose everything but the rack when you overheat, since they both have large costs to obtain.
• It seems like the secrets and hidden items of the game are 30% discoverable naturally through regular play and hints, and the rest are completely hidden and only findable through spending a ton of time testing obscure things. Is that intended to be how the game will eventually release? Or will more secrets have some sort of hint/indication for how to find them? I'm not saying to make all the giga obscure super secrets have hints, I'd  just rather not have to use a wiki to find half of what the game has to offer.
• Omega Kerfur trivializes half the gameplay prior to obtaining it, absolutely massive and vital upgrade that really enables the player to explore more.  Maybe there should be some amount of maintenance or upkeep cost to having it? It's easy to get once you know the steps to do so, but I dont know if you're wanting to balance the game towards players having prior knowledge of stuff.  Also the petting animation being so slow and drawn out feels weird and not as fun as stock kerfur. I look forward to replaying on a later update and trying to get like 10 of them.
• Kerfer pathfinding will get stuck on stuff I place in the hallways. If go to sleep and kerfur is set to patrol or return to me, it will smash into them and knock them over, which sucked when I had a hallway shelf holding all my tools.
• It's hard to tell how damaged I am. 100%-50% HP have the same look to me, but maybe this isn't how health works and I misunderstand. HP in general is hard to gauge, but I never really had a problem with dying unless it was explicitly my fault.
• I put like 10 cameras around my base, I finally caught an entity on one of them and was ecstatic. Would love to see more features involving cameras or other surveillance systems. Maybe an upgrade for a monitor dedicated to showing a cam-feed?
• I played without the funny setting nearly the entire time. Having watched streamers, I knew about maxwell and argemwell, so I'd type it in the console and look for them. I didn't realize that it was a funny setting only thing, so because it didn't respond with an error message, I just assumed that the 'go find maxwell' text had been removed. I dont really understand the purpose of the funny setting, since even with it off, a lot of the events I got were pretty goofy in their own right. Maybe you should indicate what the funny setting does so people who come in expecting the streamer's experience arent missing events and features they want to see. The only reason I didnt turn on the funny setting was that I thought it'd ruin/replace the scary events, which isn't the case.
• Going to the cave entrance and getting "I dont want to go in there" when I have my flashlight on, is sort of obtuse when the solution is just to be holding a light source. The only difference is that the flashlight is glued to Kel's head or whatever. I could just be unimaginative though, maybe add a baby idiot mode for people like me without a twitch chat to tell me everything.
• The day length setting got me confused and I played a bit on 50% thinking that it'd be 50% the normal day's length, but it was actually double.
• There is an entity on the southeast corner of the radar that moves in and out of radar range. If you have the noise alert and upgrade the radar speed too much, it will beep constantly when this entity is active because it's constantly detecting them go in and out of range rapidly. It still beeps constantly from this on slower radar speeds, but it's more tolerable.
• I lost the night vision goggles in the middle of the forest and never found them. A feature that helped you find or replace lost items, especially the one-per-file items would be nice.
• The metal detector is really weird to use, feels super inconsistent in a way that I dont know how to describe. I point it in a direction, get a white/green beep, go to that exact point on the ground, and it will be red and nothing buried.

Posting here instead of bugs as it's not really a bug, more a feature request.

Bloodstains can currently happen underwater, and don't seem to go away when it rains. Would be nice if rain/water affected stains outdoors, especially after the [REDACTED] event. I have so much cleaning to do...

maybe an option for a cleaner base on start would be nice. my OCD brain didnt play the actual game for the first few hours i just spent the whole time cleaning

After sinking an ungodly amount of hours into 0.7 I want to say that this version is amazing. The new base is at the peak of being comfy and unnerving at the same time for me. Has to do with those monotone concrete walls and murals all over the place. 

I do not know if the ATV is made to be so jumpy and prone to 180 degree turns at high speeds, but it seems to do so more than in 0.6.3 and before. The pressure washer is slower than the ultimate bucket+sponge, which is disappointing since I had to steal in from the space catgirls to test out (but maybe that is the point). Other than that, I think that a cheat or a tool in sandbox mode that cleans up all the trash at least inside the base is a must. I am somewhat tired of cleaning up this dump over three different save files just in this version alone. 

Otherwise, great stuff, devs! Can't wait for what you have stored for us next, both in gameplay and storywise. Been a while since I was this invested in a game.

P.S.: Looking out for an ariral ending in the finished game because of a certain reputation event ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

Love this game. Start playing in this patch, Ariral's rly cute, feeding when i sleep. Kerfur is also сute, but also very useful. I can't say what was in the previous patches, and give a better feedback, but I will continue to follow the game, as I really liked it.

Heya! 

Currently playing the pre-alpha build , it appears i have completely lost my ATV. It does not show up on radar or reset.

Everytime i launch my save it says "No ATV detected. Respawn..." Yet it does nothing.

Anything i can do about this?

I was kind of frustrated to learn that the Backpack doesn't increase your inventory capacity, but just is a carry-able container. It would be nice if it just expanded your carry weight while equipped. Mainly because I keep forgetting that i'm wearing it.

поможет

epic update, but thing ive noticed is that the shadow isnt animated correctly, it just stands. Crouching doesnt change anything, looks like your phasing through the ground

I love the new base,  the basement had me on edge the first time I went down it was great! I love the new garage location and what you've done with the stair case to create the same unease as the old hole did but I do have some feedback; most is immersion related. (I do draw comparisons to the old base but I still prefer this new one) I did write a lot so I've boldened parts to it can be skimmed.

(Non-base related)

 The (removal of) ATV Knockdown -  The game had an incredible piece of emergent gameplay, I hope it can return and I hope I can find a way to do it justice in text. It has to do with how pursuits play out and how the game's systems played into them to make for a high tension and immersive experience. The ATV came with a great risk/reward feature. This came partially from being able to knock yourself off the ATV, partially from the environment we're driving it in, and partially from the lack of damage we'd take from these collisions. The bottom of it is, the forest is treacherous so when navigating normally you have take your time to get between trees. When you're being pursued it created this emergent gameplay I love: "Do I take it slow and safe, risking the thing catching up but staying on the ATV or Do I try and boost to escape losing maneuverability and risking hitting a tree". Hitting a tree became a punishment in the place damage typically takes and created an incredible horror experience with frantic re-orientation and split second decision making if you did collide with something. By extension this lead to moments of "Do I try and find my ATV or do I run and hope I'm fast enough" ATV knockdowns made you vulnerable, it was exhilarating and felt like a natural world interaction. I miss the ATV knockdown and I hope it's revisited. It managed to create the game equivalent of a protagonist tripping during a chase in a horror movie with all the excitement and frustration you'd expect but I think overall contributed to a positive horror experience. I do also hope that if it's revisited that the player doesn't take damage from the collision, as the chase between you and the entities should be the stars of those scenarios, the knockdown is punishment enough.

(Base Related)

Kitchen Cabinet Doors - I think they're an unnecessary interaction cost for the player. I don't know if it's a design choice to be tied into a future event but I think the swinging doors should be used a little more conservatively. Their awkwardness takes out you of it, but I do very much love the physicality of storing items in the gameworld so it would be nice even if they just became open shelves. It obviously isn't realistic, but I think a gameworld that feels natural to interact with physically creates a much more immersive experience than a 1:1 realistic one.

Room Separation/Overall Size - I hope we get a little more space in commonly used areas of the base for customization. One of the greatest strengths of the original was the large open rooms (both the bedroom and the terminal room). I loved using the furniture to create my own areas within it (the pre-existing walls helped with that as well). I had a corner with the corkboard and printer to document sightings, I had a corner dedicated to hard drives, and just a decorative corner as well and my room was decked out with things I'd found or other decorations You could tailor the space to how you were playing the game and none of it was a hassle to interact with because it was right there in the same room (Corkboard for example. It didn't matter if an event trashed that space, since it was right beside the main terminals I was more than happy to reconfigure or restore it while waiting on signals same with the bedroom). The new base is a lot bigger but it's very segmented and it's largest area (the hallways) I can see serving a gameplay purpose for events but we've lost a lot of practical player useability (and the larger base makes it more of a chore to fix things in other rooms). We've lost a lot of space in high traffic areas to customize and it's a bit of a bummer. Now it might seems silly to be talking like this about customization but it does play a big role in the horror aspect. You make the base your own, it creates a false sense of security as you create a 'safe' feeling space for yourself. It really lets you pull the rug from under the player when events occur in the base or something happens  within it while they're out of the base.

Decal Vents - it sounds weird but, they take me out of the game. Decals are used throughout to add more detail but I think a good strength of the old base's bare minimum design was pretty much every detail (minus the floor drains) were physically there in some way. This is great for the horror, because it doesn't matter if the vents were tied to any events; just the fact that they were there and the idea that maybe some monster could use them added to a sense of paranoia in the base. It also just adds a layer of physicality to the base, selling the player on the idea that it is a tangible place that you're in and immerses you. The 2D vent decals just yell "Hey, don't forget this is a game world!"

These are a bit of small nit picks but I don't know the intentions for the design so really don't want make a concrete judgement on the base as a whole.  Overall the base feels less natural to interact with, the larger base and new rooms I think open up great opportunity for future events within the base. I do find the overall size of the base paired detrimental to the (in-game) day-to-day experiences of the player, just because of the much higher interaction cost to do anything within it now. It really seems just to open up design questions for the base. a large base is great for longer events, but are they frequent enough to justify the size? Does the larger size events/mystery outweigh the associated player fatigue from the higher interaction costs to play within it? What's the balance between physically simulated gameworld interactions, game performance and realism?

I really hope you don't take any of this as being overly critical. I feel the need to stress that you've managed to make a game that I can simultaneously jump fling myself off mountains and towers unscathed not only immersive but also incredibly scary. The way you blur the line between the game and it's world and interconnected them in the horror has really lead to a one of the kind horror experience.

Please tell me that inventory system is going to be improved?
Hotkeys are very clunky and I constantly forget the key combinations. Would be a lot more intuitive if just selecting the item put it into your hands instead of having to frustratingly try to hit that key combination to put the item back into the inventory when I want to switch. Drop can be its own button.

Reduce the amount of buttons needed to the bare minimum.

It is quality of life issues like this that can make people quit already at the tutorial.

I'd like to see the Voices of the void having subtitles for deaf/hard of hearing! (maybe unique diagoles, and sometimes creepy texts!)

Anyone found a way to clean up blood yet? 

Neither the broom/mop nor the sponge help, and i don't see any additional cleaning products or something like that.

SPOILERS for a pretty big event below, beware.

The event where the hole gets opened up is very cool, but the requirements to make it end are very specific and not intuitive. Approaching the hole seems to be discouraged, as the little machines shoot at you, but in order to end the event you have to basically get right up on the hole (and do nothing but look at it?). I had to look for a solution, because at the time I had already viewed the hole on the camera and flown a remote drown all the way to the bottom of the hole. I did not think there was anything to gain by going to it in person besides potentially getting killed and losing the event.

I gained interest in this game by watching a friend play it. It took some getting used to as far as controlling goes. That seems to be the only issue I had to get into it. The tutorial was fine, just my concept of how to manipulate and work within the confines of the engine was a bit of a curve ball, but once I got passed that, the gameplay loop is hella addicting. I played it for hours and hours, and I'm up to the point of just after the big square coming by if you know what I mean. I'm by no means done, as I've just started mining bitcoin farming for credits to customize and change my base.

One thing I have an issue with is remembering where everything is. Yes there is a digital map you can buy, but it won't work while riding the quad and it takes up a bit of space early game. I found myself either struggling with batteries, then struggling to remember I charged, then remembering where things are. sv.target is a great early game feature, but I find it incredibly difficult to stay on target while riding the atv and using the digital map. I can't seem to figure out how to nail the digital map to the atv properly. It either spins or makes a bunch of noise. Another issue I have is using nails/axle nails seem to dettach from wherever they're nailed when you reload the map. (Save, close, comeback later) So, I feel kinda defeated if I used a bunch of nails cosmetically in the base for nailing things to walls or other objects. I would definitely love if you could save the "attached" state as well as their position, because it seems to save their position just fine when it loads in.

If you could posibly fix that and maybe have an ATV upgrade path to have it's own HUD map on the dash, or a purchable item, like "Smart glasses" that provide a minimap in the top of the screen, would be great. Could even add something like when you look at a satellite it has an overhead display of "A - X" or "T0-2"

I even thought of just setting up a pathway of glowsticks to show me the way to all the transformers instead of having to stop and sv.target'ing anotherone is fine in the beginning, just wish progressively the loops becomes easier and then I can focus on the rest of the game instead of always being caught up in annoying busywork. Yes it is important to gameplay initially, but late game, I don't see it as important. Right?

First time playing the game and I am loving it so far. The gameplay loop is very rewarding when completing tasks successfully, seeing my money go up gets me exited to buy upgrades so that I can do tasks faster so that I can get more money and buy more upgrades. I got to congratulate you MrDrNose for creating a survival horror game that actually has a fun gameplay loop. Most horror games I’ve played feel more like an interactive movie, this feels like a proper game.

Добрый день, хотелось бы увидеть в новой версии модуль(или без него) для квадроцикла, который позволяет крепить предметы к его креплению. Очень было бы удобно для карты, что б каждый раз не слезать с него и не искать в инвентаре карту.

Everything is very good! (Only I have problems with optimization, but this is because my computer is crap)

Could you add something like weight gain? For example, if a character who is already 
100% hungry for some reason eats more, 
then over time he slows down and can carry less things (because he already carries some “weight”), 
because the game at the moment simply writes “I’m not hungry right now,” 
I would like some kind of punishment for players who continue to press EEEEEEE when completely full

mrdrnose, i know there is almost no way of this happening but i figured i would shoot my shot, is there any way i could do a few voice lines for the character (mainly falling grunts or hurt noises), I'm not a voice actor, but i love the game and thought it would be cool to at least try and ask. just as like a temporary thing, i always loved the game and even if its only in an old version i would love to be a small part of it.

I really like the game and I'm looking forward to the next versions with new content! But it seems to me that something stands out a little from the general process where the player does most of the actions manually - upgrades of radar, sensor, modules, etc. which are currently just bought for points in a separate menu. It might be more interesting if hardware upgrades could be bought in a store and installed on their own. For example, at the beginning of the game, give the player only a few servers, and he must buy the rest in the store and connect them himself in the server room. Or change the boards in the radar, connect solar panels to the ATV, and so on.

Запустил игру впервые. Разрешение экрана в настройках выставлено  правильно, но игра не все равно с черным квадратом 

по периметру

Is there a chance we could get a subwoofer that connects to the radio? having a "screen shake" effect in time with the bass? its not a big suggestion but I think it would add a bit of fun to the game. :) loving VOTV so far, I play the game when I get off work. 

After having complete story, and gone to infinite mode. I was hoping for more events to happen in infinite. Though I know story is meant to have the most content, I would like to see more ported or happen to infinite. It can get pretty stale when not a lot is going on. Also a fix for trash getting stuck in walls. Had a metal can escape under the floor and had to turn off "Physics impact props" (I think it was called ?) cause there was a metal can stuck in the floor constantly banging. Tried everything I could, including a glitch to get under the base (which I actually appreciate since sometimes stuff like Kerfur or plugs get stuck under the base and that's the only way to get them out).  But even with that glitch, I couldn't reach the specific piece of trash. And I like having the setting on so I can break stuff and hear things getting hit. 

Besides those things, this game is one of the MOST amazing indie games I've played, and I only provide this feedback as to further help development so the game can be the best it can be. It's so good in fact, I showed it to my close friends. Every single one of them downloaded it, and played it for hours, and hours. I plan on donating eventually when I have the extra funds, but will be more than happy to purchase this from Steam when the time comes. 

P.S. In the like far future (or whenever possible, if possible), after a lot has been done. I would LOVE to see a desert map, similar to Signal Simulator. I think this games love, passion and mechanics mixed with a Nevada / Arizona base aesthetic would be perfect. And plus, Signal Simulator is a dead game, otherwise I would try that. But it's just not worth it. 

Bug Report.

1. I comes to Whiskey at night around midnight. And hear sounds Like sounds of intervention into base.  Tries of code enter, opening door, and sound of steps on concrete. 
2. On win 11 if i sleep my pc, after waking up the picture of game is splitting like not problems with horizontal sync. But after 5 or 10 min problem is fixed. I'm not sure why but restart fix it instantly.  
3. Resolution and mouse problems. I have 2K display but i can play only FHD because of mouse position.

Question.

• Are you plane to add mods option for community? Or i can add some gameplay or graphics mode already? 
• Are you plane to make the game opensource or not?

Thank you a lot for the game! 

Overall I like this a lot. I'd like to know (and this may be too early in development to tell) if there could be any console ports down the road (I'm mostly saying this because I don't have the greatest of laptops out there). But if so, is the Switch one of them? if not it's fine, I'm just wondering. :)

I'm not sure how other people feel on this since i've never interacted with the community, but the entire trash/dirt clean up feels like more of a chore than literally anything else in the game. For me atleast, it makes the game unplayable. I love games like  House Flipper but when I want funny signal game, I rather not spend my first few days of playing cleaning up trash (irl days). A setting, mode, or even a cheat to just have the entire base clean at start up would be incredibly nice, as I can't stand the dirty base

This was probably said so many times, but again, it would be an awesome feature if you added multiplayer! My friend and i want to play the game with eachother.

Ребята разработчики добрый день! Сделайте пожалуйста текст на экранах внутриигровых мониторов чётким и читаемым независимо от разрешения экрана, выставленного в настройках в параметрах рендеринга. На слабых компах вместе с общей картинкой мылятся и надписи, читать невозможно просто - приходится пользоваться приближением. Причем, приближение не работает, когда ты сидишь непосредственно за устройством - приходится из-за него вставать, читать с приближением, а потом садиться для взаимодействия - крайне неудобная штука. Пока ничего более критичного не нашел, в целом, игра уже очень нравится :)

(sorry for the long post)

Hello MrDrNose I don't know if anybody has asked this yet but what about the idea of adding guns to the game I understand if you don't want to make it that kind of game and want to keep guns out of it. I remember the previous base having a pack of bullets that you could find but during my time in the old base I never found a single gun but if you ever had the idea I have some details I think you might like 

1. I know how you like small details like with the food box whenever you eat all the food in it all that's left is the box I was thinking that whenever you shoot a gun you would have casings come out of it that you could pick up (another small detail is when you eat the MRE bags that they would leave empty bags like you can find around the base).
2. You can pick up the casings and sell them or a new tool would be a reloading press that you could attach to the workbench and use to reload the bullet casings back into live rounds this would also need the addition of gunpowder which could be like the gas cans that will blow up when thrown to hard and bullets to be put back into the casings.
3. You can take the live rounds or if when you buy them they come in a cannister you have to load them into a magazine for your gun unless it's a bolt action which loads from the top or a shotgun which loads from the bottom and the magazines can also be dropped on the ground or your character puts them into their inventory and it has empty mag/magazine as the name.
4. More equipment for the guns as far as I know there are two equippable items and those are the welding mask and the backpack there could be another like a bandolier or an ammo pouch that allows you to hold more bullets or magazines and causes them to take up less space.
5. The guns can have a natural wear down process that as you use them they will wear down overtime and you will need to clean them or they will jam and break.
6. There can  be multiple types of guns like a rifle, machine gun, pistol, revolver, shotgun, and a taser.

I don't know what uses these guns would have yet as there is not many entities that will attack you outright (at least none that I've found yet) possibly for hunting if deer or other animals are added or an extra layer of protection the player might feel from them even if they do no damage to entities.

and thank you MrDrNose for this wonderful game

when I go into any game mode and my mouse is hovering over menu selections stuff it won't let me select it and i have to have my mouse way lower depressed things but from that I really don't know because that's a really big bug and I really haven't done anything because of it

Can't throw things in my hands with R button. Bind settings are set to default. Whenever I press R it's trying to put item in the inventory

I loved the game. Like a lot!
It was my first time playing on this version of the game and I am happy that it was.

However, my biggest gripe with this pre-alpha is that the "end" achievement should appear earlier. Some late story based events could have closed this one off, but instead I felt dragged over uneventful days before getting the achievement.

Other thing is physics bugging out so much making us loose certain items, or have them become unusable. Those are necessary to fix.

Thirdly, and this is a bit nitpicky, the nature of some moonlogics of the game make exploring its secrets not that fun. The internet will always provide the necessary steps to explore the game 100%, but would be nice for many mysterious activatable elements to be 1st, worth it. And 2nd, be interacted with in more than 1 way. The game is pretty much an Immersive Sim, and would like to see you incorporate the mindset of an Immersive Sim game to some of these secrets and elements. It would make more players find more ways and discover more things in the game world without the use of the internet. An example is the locked Bunker. If that card gets shoved out of view, you hardcoded a solution where it teleports on top. Not good at all and is really a bad solution. Make it possible to enter the bunker in more ways.

what if there was an even that was when you were out of your bace all of the satalites look at you when you are at the top of a moutan that wolud  be so scarey sorry i cant tipe well

this is the first version i've played, up to day 44, really good, just two things:

is saving ever going to be made functional during certain events, especially when the danger isn't actually nearby? it is incredibly frustrating to do a lot of work on the base, see that an autosave failed, and have to make the choice whether to engage *at all* with whatever's going on or just hide and ignore it so that you don't get killed and lose work

like, the way save disabling currently works encourages some really degenerate gameplay where you DON'T interact with events at *all costs* if you've been spending the downtime actually doing something and see a failed autosave. and while only a few events *can* kill you, the ones that do can really set you back in these cases and there's no clear way to tell without spoiling yourself, or to prepare for it because that null error is your only warning. this is very bad for a game where these are the most interesting and unique things that happen.

also please put the transformers on the maps or something lmao it was incredibly unclear if they even existed when i first dropped into story. 
there's no clear indication of where they are in relation to anything else so unless you put some serious legwork into writing down their positions using the digital map/driving around the nearby dishes, routing between them is just pointlessly hard.

kerfus broke my game when he was activated and i slept he completly froze my game

Just want to say thank you to the dev ( I think there is one for design and one for coding, and of course one for music) for this fantastic game. You helped me slack and decompress in my last semester of college and this game helped me through it. I started with version 0.7 and the few bugs I did encounter I am sure the dev is already aware of. This is a hidden gem and I have been recommending it to all my friends. I love the radiant and random events that could happen and not knowing if I was bugged or if there was something else going on always kept me on my toes. I love the structure of gathering signals, fixing towers, collecting hash codes, processing, and sending signals to buy more junk to clutter my workspace. This game just feels good. I am very excited to see an over-arching story mode where the story events start to make more sense and have more meaning and I am just so excited to see what Mrdrnose has cooking up for this game. There is so much potential and I am so selfish I can't wait for the next update I need it NOW lol. Thanks again to the devs I hope you get the recognition (and cash money $$$) you deserve for this project. 07 

Still enjoying this update, the base, and its secrets.

also I began picking up Blender and am looking at 3d game engines. I will safely blame mrdrnose for any games I make that are in 3d because inspiration is a deadly thing. Curse you for making such a good game. XP

seriously though, thanks for the game, it's been my go to relax (and get spooked) game for like a year now. I am so excited to see where this goes and can imagine the final version will blow us away.

i have a big suggestion. a battery recipe. electronics trash (maybe plus empty battery?) it literally makes sense. a battery is a complicated burrito.

I would like to see an event in the game so that if the compass is set at night or in the evening, it will point not to where you need it, but to a cave or other places, because many players do not walk at night and sit at the base

The Exploding Mushrooms/Acorns that happen over and over after about 30+hrs kinda get annoying but thats a nitpick from me. Thank you for this awesome game! 7.0 has been great, the size of the new base is perfect. Blood seems to reset after leaving the game, though clean up in one sweep. (annoying after blood rain event)

Grabbing drives from Drive slots: The small issue I have here and often is that the drive wants to maintain the distance which pushes it back into place, having the carry distance with the scroll wheel set to a distance would be nice so you dont accidently pick something up and the max distance. 

Stats! Stats would be awesome, [Total Signals processed] [Food Eaten] [Distance Walked] [Distance Driven] [Time Played] [Times Jumped] [Mushrooms eaten] ect

Something to spend high volumes of money on would be great, some very pricy decorations as a goal to aim for in later game times would be kinda cool. 

Something I do is use that extra storage room next to the breakroom to make a physical backup with lvl 3 signals, I have about 100+ saved into physical drives, archiving seems to be kinda fun, to see the actual progress made physically. 

I really enjoy your game and have a couple ideas:
1: If your ariral reputation is high enough they will rescue you if you fatally trip or crash once a week by taking you to their treehouse or your bedroom. When you wake up there's bandages around you. (and maybe extend it to the night they drag you into the forest while you sleep regardless of rep as they would feel responsible)

2: Some pranks the arirals could do is one where they sneak behind you and use a squeeze horn behind you or a air horn at low rep. they run away if you turn around before they do it and drop the squeeze horn. Another thing is they can learn pranks from you if you make one slip on a banana peel or throw something like a pie in their face and eventually enter a prank war.

3: With the climb mechanic you could have it slowly make kel stronger such as for every 10 times he climbs he gets 1 point in strength and strength would primarily just increase max health and ease of lifting/throwing objects. Also possibly have a joke scenario where the arirals are too afraid to mess with kel because of how buff he's become after 100 points of strength.

Here's an idea. When the maximum level of relationship with the arirals is reached, they will give points. Through these glasses they (the arirals) can be seen. I would like to see even more interactions with cat wives. The game is good!)

I've managed to accidentally hit 'Menu' when trying to click 'Help' in the pause menu on multiple occasions sending me back to the main menu with no confirmation, losing some progress in the process. A secondary confirmation window, "are you sure? y/n" would go a long way

Love the game and the mechanics so far i only ran into 2 problems 

The first behing kerfus konstantly glitching under the building and the 2nd behing the absurd sizes of the generated caves i personaly whould limit the size of the caves that can generate and maybe put in a limit on cristal spawns per generated cave that way you have a reason to fully explore the cave

The game is lots of fun, even in its pre-alpha state. I just donated $15. You deserve it, and I can't wait to see the full release!

I had an idea for an enemy you could add. What if there were an abandoned Kerfer that stalks the player from the forest and both attacks and helps the player in different ways.

I have a few ideas.

1. general screen blackout and auditory hallucinations when tired.

2. most Players stop being afraid when they realize it's all the pranks of friendly-playful cats. I suggest delaying their appearance and enhancing the atmosphere with NPCs that will cause Arirals to appear. For example, Unknown organisms or groups that are aggressive to the player and their capture is engaged by a group of researchers who landed on the planet.

3. Mushrooms and cones - they are everywhere, they cause a big drop in fps even on not weak PCs.

4. Add the ability to donate in other ways. 

BTC wallets or other.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. I WISH YOU SUCCESS.

Hello. I’m playing this game in “peaceful” mode without scary things (15th day). But I’ve got 3.33 event in the basement meat room and sometimes nightmares.  So what events are still available in peaceful mode except theese ones? And for ideas: let breakers, servers, transformators and satellite servers break in peaceful mode, because there’s no big reason to make omega kerfus or buy the regular one: there’s nothing to break except tower.

Это уникольний экспириенс (во-в-ком-случае таких-игр-не-видэль) игра затягивает на многи-часы, ведёт поиск-сигналов. увлечение. Я lluseblulus cosmos и вы cdelali ego dlia menya её інтерёсне! Истолковые рахличные механики скрашивали рутинные работы на базе. Можно разговаривает на тему ВотВ в одной из стран, когда я помогаю вам в развороте!      

 хочу предложит какой нибудить в мирскую жизнь, что это каких-то нибуддов сооружения и не сооружения, активновские, а то мир пустовал и её сигналы! Это было сделано для того, чтобы сигналь не был одним из самых богатых людей, которые использовали 250 штук сигналов и в том, что они были похожи на других людей. Что тот считает, что его слова являются по-себе крутая игра завершает работу.   ПС. Не умея я писат красиво сочиния. 

First time player...

The game absolutely TERRIFIED me for a while... in a good way :D
First (ingame) week or so I was happy-go-lucky... until I noticed things...
...SMALL things that didn't add up... which cascaded into me constantly locking doors and changing codes.
Well done!

- The path-finding of the Kerfur is nuts, especially around / in the base, getting stuck all over the place.
- It would be nice if the Kerfur: had a charging station where it returned to - rather than returning to the player.

Starting out I had these CORE issues:
A: Couldn't figure out how the 2nd science station worked (changing speed, rather than the value was one level of abstraction too high for my brain).
- I gave up and ended up checking a YT in order to figure out how to do it.

B: Couldn't figure out the exact format for the sheet on the box.
- At first I turned the pages into a "TAG" that I attached to the box.
- It was not obvious to me that I could just put the page on top of a box and it would "stick".
- I gave up and checked a YT on what I was supposed to do - where I learned that I could click "report" to get it pre-filled.

All-in-all...   I've had a GREAT time in this little game.
I don't have Paypal, but I sent $10 your way via a Twitch-streamer. :D
Thank you!

Splendid game, lots of fun. The glitches I've experienced you seem to be fixing in that update post of yours (especially the damn hallucination burgers getting stuck in things and destroying my ears.) I think it would be fun to leave in the ariral picking up things it shouldn't though. There was nothing more shocking I've seen then it rip a lamp in half, pick up the top half and throw it at me. Could be a fun feature.

make the first kerfer have a idel

what do i do if my omaga kerfer just disepers, he was there and  i re-opened the save and he was no were to be seen just gone ,and i had him for so long how do i get him back?

At the beginning of the game I almost dropped the game. Nothing normal happened in the game for 10 hours. Stupidly sit cleaning the base and catching signals for 10 hours. From the beginning I expected that the game will be scary because others claimed that it is a horror, only in the process of the game I realized that it is not even a horror although people said the opposite. But then something unimaginable started and some cat girls appeared and started beating me 10/10

I love the game, but one of my sole gripes is the container management. Anything with a size larger than 450 flat out cannot be stored in containers like the mailbox, solely because it cannot fit in your inventory to move it to the container. A very nice feature would be being able to use alt+drop to store your held item in a container. That's like my one complaint.

game is awesome!  i have 2 suggestions to make items easier to use:

1. ability to select items with mouse scroll wheel

2. show the item name when it is selected

If yall are curious about “where can i find alarm from bad sun event?” Then here is a link to it

https://youtu.be/DY68_ivk-5Y?si=IcbQP0DiXo4Oe-Em

Thanks to Kylis

i guess i'm probably late to the party given the dev replies all dried up within the first page or 2 of the comments lol, but i love 0.7! i don't know specifically what build i had played before, but i believe it was when story events ended at like day 30-ish. regardless, i think everything new to 0.7 is great. in 0.7 i finished a story save and have played 25 days of infinite with a few light mods. i've tried to skim previous posts to make sure i'm not making repeat suggestions, and have highlighted the important parts because i got a little wordy lol.

• i'm aware that the following idea would add orders of magnitude of complexity to some game systems and a lot would probably have to be rebuilt from the ground up. the modular nature of the crypto rig is really interesting, and i think it could be cool if more relevant base upgrades operated modularly too. i imagine things like instead of just ticking up a value for "download speed" you would have to buy and hook up new servers, maybe the server room starts a lot more empty. maybe in lieu of transformer stability you could install alternative power sources (for all i know maybe this is something like what's imagined for the finished version of WIP generator by the hole). i think it could be a lot of fun to have to manage space and run cables between different machines and interfaces. additionally, i've personally never actually bothered messing with breakers to increase efficiency or reduce power consumption because i think it's too abstract of a benefit and too inconvenient to really bother managing in real time. i just tr.check regularly and tend to them while i'm doing hashcode runs or whatever. i think limited space and your willingness to stuff the base with loud, ugly machines or even just deciding how to use a limited number of electrical outlets would be a much more interesting resource to juggle  for operating capacity/speed. deciding if i want to have lights off to make the signal processes run slightly faster is mostly just an inconvenience. i get that it contributes atmospherically, efficiency at the cost of comfort, but beyond that imo shutting down entire functions of the signal station just to make one run slightly faster, only to have to go turn the other one back one once you need it in like 2 minutes is not an interesting form of resource management, especially when you can just not. to be clear, i think maintaining transformers as a ticking clock to force you out of the base is good, but managing the breaker switches for energy efficiency or operating speed is a system i never engage with and don't find to be an interesting extension of power management. "i wish i had to maintain transformers less" is a problem i never really felt like i had and it's better solved by stability upgrades anyways. "i don't need X so i'll turn it off so Y runs faster" doesn't make sense to me because when i'm at the signal desk at all i usually have all the terminals doing something. maybe this is all a me thing though, maybe everyone else swears by breaker management and only ever needs one thing at a time idk.

• playing through 0.7 story, one thing i kept thinking was "wouldn't it be fucked up if i heard the drone pulling in and then it wasn't the drone?" especially with the new gifts kel can receive from their colleagues, i think a great scare would be to go "wait, i didn't order anything" and then be met with a surprise much less pleasant than fancy sushi. won't say anything more specific but i think it would be a good familiar cue to hijack.

• somewhat related to the previous idea, it would be cool if events could hijack or shutdown some of the custom things like the tvs and radio, or for that matter, if there was a specific event that overrode them with something spooky. when i'm playing votv i use the tv and radio to try and fill empty air. i tend to quite like a repetitive mundane task, games like papers please, or indeed catching, downloading and processing completely normal asteroid #476, but eventually i'm going to need something to put on in the background. i tried not to load up either with anything too ridiculously immersion breaking, though i've got my fair share of silly things on my tv and radio alike, i tried to keep them thematically relevant or at least plausibly a radio or television broadcast. all this to say that ultimately even if i'm just using it to fill air, filling air provides comfort. i'm aware that i'm in control of the buttons i press and deliberately putting silly things in a game with scary things might involve those things clashing, but votv is also a silly game and i like having both. i think letting you have fun silly things and then taking them away to instill fear is i think one of the things this game does best. a particular random event that got me REALLY bad when it happened to me was the game very literally spontaneously taking all of the comfort out of a familiar environment. even something as simple as just shutting them off or having them only pick up static while an event is happening would be cool, and again an event that specifically plays something spooky through them or otherwise renders them a threat without warning would create an air of distrust around something otherwise pleasant that i think would be neat too. tldr make feddy fazbear yell through the tv at 3 am (not clickbaait)

I want multiplayer in this game, it really wants to be multiplayer and it will quickly gain popularity on steam with multiplayer, the game is absolutely super, more events and even more screamers and entities with events

if you add multiplayer, then my friends and I will play for you 1000 hours or more, I hope that you will hear me.

0.7 is the first time I've actually picked up the game after watching Joel play it over the course of many streams since it seemed like a great jumping into point.

My honest opinions:
Fishing - This one came to mind first because it was the last thing I was doing when playing the game. I feel like it was dangled in a few ways at me over the course of my playtime (bait in the store) but I had to look up online how to actually do it. I feel like it could be introduced a little earlier.

Base design - I absolutely love the new base design and the abandoned visitor center-esque feel is unique and gives a vibe all on its own. With that said there are a TON of lockers in places where there maybe could be something else. Every room actually does feel unique, I personally made a habit of using all of them for some reason in particular but I'm sure some players might just make a habit of avoiding them altogether, I don't think that's a bad thing but there's definitely room for some hijinx.

Objects - I had some issue with curtains being funky and getting stuck in limbo between two rooms despite me doing my best it free. Buckets are suspicious, they phased through my walls and ended up outside. As for object variety in general, I think there could be more 'fluff' time wasters. Things like planting and fishing are great because they can give the player something to keep going back to disconnected from their 'job'

"Happenings" - I love the current direction of how events unfold and you seem to have just the right touch in terms of their interaction with the player. I did have some events play back to back and had like a week of nothing happening which thinking on it, yeah that should be about right. I shouldn't be able to predict when anythings about to happen, long as they're not non-stop one after another.

Work - At one point I think I got to the level of just churning out signals easily. I think maybe there could be some special days that say "We noticed strange readings in sector x,y focus on that."

annyway, great work!

ATV desperately needs some sort of a physics rework, currently it behaves horribly, especially on steep cliffs and ESPECIALLY when pressing shift to accelerate. It sometimes just randomly spins in place, even on pretty flat terrain. I've experienced multiple cases of the ATV randomly turning in one direction and crashing into a tree, sending me flying or even worse, leading to a fatal crash. Please look into that, the vehicle is barely usable right now. Maybe implement an upgrade system, so you can buy some new ATV parts which you have to manually install (something similar to the mining station) that increase its stats, like fuel capacity, max speed and steering responsiveness.

This game is kind of fun once you figure it out, but I strongly suggest the devs put a lot more work into a properly functioning tutorial that has a defined end point.  Lots of weird quirks integral to gameplay that aren't explained at all.  Graphics are a mishmash of styles with no clear direction - do you want it dark and gritty or bright and colourful?  Currently its a jarring combination of the worst of both.  Gameplay has so much potential but this game is currently bogged down by a lack of consistent direction.

It's fantastic!!  I feel so at home/terrified at the same time.  When ANYTHING happens I panic and crouch and try to pause the game and realize I'm in deep when I cannot.  This is such a gem of an idea, I find myself playing this over Elden Ring and I'm a big FromSoft fan.  I keep coming back to get more signals and clean the base up more and coze it up.  Too scared to play story mode, I play Infinite and go out only during the day.  But those time when I have no choice but to go out are nights I remember.  I use the digital camera all the time, to show my friends later when I tell them about what crazy thing just happened.

  I'd love to see more immersion in the form of a wrist watch or maybe handheld compass/mounted (for ATV).  Also a way to pipe the sound from a TV/radio throughout a base if one desires or to your ATV.  Maybe speakers that you 'use' on a tv then mount on a wall?  It's already such an amazing game though I'm enamored so whatever you do, whenever you do it, I'm here and excited.

Will there be the REAL "Ariral s#x" event? Jokes aside this game is wonderful and it would've been a pleasant experience if there were some real real scares and perhaps some entities, that you can beat by various ways (like in WTTG series for example) and/or hide from. Love your project alot and will follow for the next updates. Wish you the best! :)

I'm really enjoying the 07 update until now at least (only day 11). The first days where a bit rough since my computer struggled to handle the trash around the base, but as i cleaned up it became a lot more playable.

Bugs:

• Kerfur gets stuck on the curbs of the base all the time to the point of having to go out and move them by hand.
• Bad Sun isn't censored (or cause harm) if viewed though the top glass sections of the windows in the corridor on the 2nd floor.
• Vending machines has a massive bloodlust for any players wanting to move them.

Suggestions:

• A way to assign hotbar slots to specific items (tired of having my crowbar/hook move around all the time)
• Further cleaning of base, blood removal, remove cracks, make it look pristine.
• Make cleaning required later on by slowly adding dirt and grime around the base as time goes. (blood if player gets hurt)
• Make the trascans if filled enough produce trashpiles (activate option to eject the trash out of the can) the player have to deal with.
• Corrupted Kerfur/O-Kerfur might happen rarely. Kerfur will go and break servers instead of fixing them (O-Kerfur might also provide the wrong codes. Can be fixed with a Server Repair Kit

I'll be looking forwards to many more hours of fun in game game to come. 

And a last question, why does the security room (in a base located in Switzerland) have a Norwegian "Høyspenning Livsfare" (Danger High Voltage) sign on it, and what in the room is over 1kV AC or 1.5kV DC?

Definitely wish trying to play the game in windowed mode wasnt kicking me in the most snappable bones on my body in random order whenever I try or whenever i change any random setting unrelated to playing in windowed mode.

- spoilers ahead -

I'm watching a streamer who used stickers to label all her mannequins, but the stickers disappear when the mannequins activate.  This confused her into thinking the activated mannequins were "impostors".  It would be a neat detail of continuity if the stickers stayed on the mannequins.

Similarly, a nametag given to Kerfur-O will disappear when activated.  I can't give my boy a funny name :(

I'd like to see more little toys and gadgets and gizmos to fiddle with, similar to the arcade machine, but handheld. One thing I was thinking was a little game console, like a Game Boy or something similar.
Mainly as something to pass the time when going outside is less preferable/not an option.

But in short, more things to mess with.

Good stuff thus far, clearly a lot of time and work has gone into it, so I can't wait to see what else is added.

There's a bug I've noticed where performing any save reset will cause music to stop playing on that file indefinitely.