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i have, and in one save my kurfer has been stuck in the flesh room for nearly a month in game, the other kurfurs come back.
I've been playing through the newest update of VotV and have been enjoying it greatly so far! The new models have maintained the atmosphere wonderfully and I am excited to see where the story takes it. As for suggestions:
I have not encountered this problem, so I assume that you (and many others who have complained about this) are not washing the stains completely. If you shine a flashlight and look closely, you can see dirt that is otherwise invisible and it looks like the windows are clean.
Indeed I was washing them completely. I sat there on a spot until it's completely clear (I use flashlight on it as well, it's hard to see otherwise), then I move on. Before I was done with another small section on the same window there were already dirt specs on the spot I just completely cleaned. I tested this multiple times in a row to make sure I wasn't just trippin.
Just retested it in the newly released 0.8.2c and I did not have the same issue anymore, no dirt specks after waiting a full in-game day. Huzzah!
Maybe try starting a new game. lol I don't think that's supposed to happen. Maybe a glitch or something.
They might not fit in the game's old visual style, sure, but this is the new visual style that the game has been primarily using for over a year (started some time around 0.6.0 and 0.7.0).
I can understand liking the old style more, as I do like it's charm as well, but I can understand why they have gone for a more modern HL2-like style. They won't undo over a years worth of progress on the game because a subset of the fanbase doesn't like changes that have been generally well received by the rest of the fanbase.
There isn't really that much you need to know about the new visual style. Compared to the old one, it's mainly just higher resolution textures and more detail on textures and models.
As an example, here is the old MRE model (left) compared to the new one (right). Generally, the old style is more simplistic, while the new one focuses a bit more on detail.
The craft is a normal recipe like any other, so you simply just put the glue bottle on the workbench with everything else. When it says a metal pipe, it refers to [Metal scrap]
Turn on 'The Funny Setting'. It is now required for creating special Kerfur-O skins.
Alternatively, some special skins have had their recipes changed a bit, so attempting an old one might not work anymore.
There is an old rifle that you can get in the story mode i think it's located at the Lima server but the rifle just explodes when you shoot it but there are some other guns in the game files like an assault rifle with a grenade launcher and also a makarov. You MIGHT be able to get these in story mode but i have no idea how aside from mods or cheats.
You can't get them in story and likely never will be able to (via normal means). Actual guns are one of the few actively unplanned features for the main game, but there will be various alternatives when it comes to weaponry.
your pc probably uses an integrated gpu if ur fps are that bad and it isnt built for playing games.
40 fps is not so bad. Start complaining when your fps drops below 30 fps.
And no, I'm not playing on the integrated gpu. I have reassigned this in the settings and the nvidia game behaves like this too.
Triggering story events in sandbox already exists as a Patreon supporter feature, it's what the empty 'Events' tab in the cheat menu is for.
If the servers are damaged enough they can explode, and do various other things, and unfortunately if one in the alpha server room explodes it will usually cause them all to explode. You might've had a physics object or something wedged under a server and it finally collided in just the right way to trigger an explosion.
Agreed. Also bring back being unable to pause during events, it was a major atmosphere builder for me.
I'm pretty sure you still can't. The pause menu appears, but the game isn't actually paused and you aren't able to save or quit to menu. I honestly prefer this behavior over the old way because it lets people quickly access settings in case they need to adjust volume sliders or other settings.
Also, metaparanoia is easily one of the best atmosphere building features in this game. It makes it feel like the game itself is breaking under the anomalous crap in Dunkeltaler. The busted pause mechanic just adds to the feeling that whatever is messing with Kel can see you and screw with you too.
I do like this one for it's uses as well, but it personally just doesn't hit quite as hard as the old one. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but the old one makes me feel more trapped, like I have truly nowhere to hide. The new one makes me feel a bit safer, cause even if the game still doesn't actually let me pause or let me quit, that somewhat comforting pause menu still opens and I can access my settings and the help menu to change things in my favor.
Hacksaw basically instantly gets rid of them, or you can just spend a few minutes smacking them with a weapon until they break.
I really dislike how the power washers in the game work. When you're better off mopping your glass or waiting for an oversized sponge than using the hyper advanced alien pressure washer you know you've screwed up mechanically. Or maybe it's just Nose trolling us.
I legitimately think the portable pressure washer is currently the worst store purchase in the entire game: it costs 500 points, cleans like 1.5 dirt stains before needing to be refilled at a static water source, and you can even get an upgraded version of it halfway through the game for free. Pressure washers desperately need to be buffed in some way.
While i agree that the art style has changed you have to remember that A LOT of the old assets were just placeholders most likely. I do like some of the older styled assets though but also some of them would be very out of place when placed next to some of the newer assets that basically NEED to look better otherwise they would look strange or even unrecognizable. Maybe when the game releases we can get a "texture pack"-ish setting to bring back the "classic" assets.
Are you on version 0.8.2 or higher, and if so, did you create this save on a version before 0.8.2?
If you are on 0.8.2, but you created this save on an older version, you will need to eat the old desk prop to get rid of it. Hover over the desk until an interact menu pops up, and then try eating it repeatedly until it vanishes.
The Hints and tips menu gives you some tips on certain events and entities where it might not be super obvious what to do (use keywords to search for through the spoiler-marked ones), but the game otherwise just leaves you to discover everything by yourself.
If the game does give you hints/tips about certain entities, it should absolutely be through in-game notes left by previous workers. TR_1 has notes that have already done this; they hint at the appearance of a certain entity to help you identify it, then give you a hint for the crafting recipe of something that should help you deal with it.
I actually never knew about this letter, is it placed on an obvious place or under the rubbish or something? Also, i am quite aware of some entities, mainly the already existing ones from 6.3 to 7.x i believe. Yet, the game seems to have so many new things and i do have quite some trouble getting to certain areas, not knowing how to explore properly.
What I'm talking about with the precision placement (shift-alt) doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere in the hints and tips that I can find. I do feel silly suggesting a key combo list when there already was one, though precision placement still doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere except the tutorial.
I would play with Alternative Interact mode, since it's a toggle-grab thing, but numeric keys don't work, only the scroll wheel does. i like precision, I dont like having to use my wheel to do quick things slowly.
I think this was done so that you can use the hotbar while hovering over objects, cause I have pretty frequently seen that complaint. I also would not really recommend using Alternative Interact until the next update, as some aspects of it seem to be broken currently.
ATV handling upgrade in the future? Currently controls like a blimp lol.
I'm pretty sure 0.9 will have an ATV rework, which should hopefully make it a bit easier to control.
yeah strongly agree with KevUndead up there that the inventory hotbar being some kind of sliding FIFO buffer of the last items you interacted with makes it pretty awful to use, and the fact that the default icons for a bunch of the most-used tools are just "3 pixel wide dark grey smudge on a black background" aint helping matters.
anyways, here's another little UI gripe: the positioning of the prop action menu way off to the prop's right on the screen creates problems with some of the bulkier props. Especially the workbench. Like here, take a look at this screenshot:
A workbench, a pile of crumpled paper bits, a couple gasoline bottles. My cursor is hovering over the workbench; when I hit the "E" key, what's going to get crafted? A Molotov or a chunk of paper scrap? It's impossible to tell right now because standing close to the bench has bumped the crafting menu completely off the right side of the screen. It would probably work better if the positioning of that menu could be restricted to, like, inside the actually renderable screen space.
To be fair, the tutorial does explain the R vs Alt-R thing, but for people used to normal WASD-controls in games I agree it's a bit clunky.
I like the complexity, personally, but some things should be tweaked slightly to accomodate players like yourself who struggle with it, and to improve the experience for those who don't, as well. Even I don't use the default; I rebound 'ALT' mode from Left Alt to K (one of my mouse's 24 side buttons), among other things.
There actually is a handheld radar. It kinda sucks and can only be gotten with cheats or in sandbox mode i think. I think the digital map should have the radar pings on it honestly.
I know you can nail the digital map to the ATV and everything and I’ve done that in the past but it’s a buggy, band-aid solution which resulted in me losing the digital map in the past.
When you use nails to attach something to the ATV, I recommend also connecting it to the ATV with a hook, that will at least prevent you from fully losing the item if it falls off.
Additionally, if you are fine with using mods, there is a mod that adds a purchasable map holder for your ATV.
If you don’t know how to use mods, there is a guide for it here.
I don’t get the rising water one at all. I think I’ve seen in some videos that you need to climb to the top of the pillars using little off shoots or whatever but I can never find those.
There are actually two rising water dreams, with one needing you to find a door on one of the pillars, while the other has you climb to the top of a pillar.
You can easily identify them from the surrounding environment, the door dream consists of tons of pillars across a large area, while the climb dream is in an enclosed room with 4 pillars near the corners and 1 in the center.
I don’t know if it’s a thing, as I now realize I never bothered to check, but I would like an option to “cancel” the nightmare event by pressing the ragdoll button, ending the nightmare prematurely and losing sleep like you normally would when you “fail” a nightmare event.
You can do this by Debug Teleporting while in a dream.
If you have a numpad, enable Num Lock and press “Num .”
If you don’t have a numpad, go into binds in the settings and look for “Debug TP” somewhere at the bottom, then rebind it to a different key.
Every single part now requires “inferior” Kerfur parts, so that’s a MINIMUM of a 2500 point investment
A single Kerfur is disassembled into 3 parts each, so you only need to buy 2 of them for a Kerfur-Omega.
As far as I know, 0.9 will likely make creating a Kerfur-O a bit easier in some way, even if it isn’t a direct change to how you actually make it.
i haven’t found an easy way to do it, picking up items then going back and forth to the box to put them there is frustrating
Not really much that can be done for the item collection itself, but if I am going to be picking up lots of stuff, I usually bring the container I plan to place them in with me, saves a lot of trips back and forth.
A seemingly heavily WIP vacuum tool was recently added to sandbox, so hopefully that will be made into a normally usable tool for cleaning up small items in a future update.
i think it would be great if i can use the trash bag to collect the small trash too, and like 1 bag collects 1 pile, 1 back should like collect 15 small trash or something like that. that way i can clean everything with bags then sell them.
I think version 0.9 will actually have a change that will help with this. Trash piles will now be made up of small trash items piled together, so you will probably be able to pile together several small trash items yourself to bag them.
i think there should be a garbage collecting system, what’s the use of having trash cans around the place if you just store trash inside them just like any other container, wouldn’t it be better that once a day, something comes and goes around the trashcans and collects all the garbage ?
Even if this would be kind of convenient, I honestly don’t see why this would logically happen. It’s not like anyone comes out here to collect the trash anymore, and I don’t think very many of the other lifeforms around here care that much about your trash. Item boxes already work well enough for this, they cost only 10 points each, have 1,120 volume worth of storage, and even give you money back for sending off items.
the tutorial is good, and explains everything, but i think a hint system would also be bit helpfull, specially for new players, i was kind of lost at the start even after playing the tutorial
The red and yellow flashing and wobbling “Hints and tips” menu does have some extra info on things the tutorial doesn’t mention. It doesn’t help with everything and some info might be worded badly or even outdated, but it’s good enough. Search for your question with the search bar at the top of the menu using keywords related to any question you have.
the map is confusing, i don’t use it because i can’t really know where i’m going with it, wouldn’t it be easier to have the server’s names on the map instead of just single letters ?
Probably depends on the person, but I find it easier to navigate while thinking of the servers as their individual letter, rather than their whole name. I feel like the map could become crowded or hard to read if each server was shown on it with it’s full name.
i think there should be a health bar since injuries can accure during the game. that way i can keep track of my health and know when to trat myself
A Thermometer can be used to directly check both your health and your max health, but I find the damage vignette alone to be good enough to show how injured you are. You also lose the ability to sprint while under 25 health, which is another indicator for that.
the daily task is kind of boring to be honest with you, i’m enjoying cleaning and fixing more than the daily task, specially the hash codes, it’s a good idea, but i think each day new tasks should occure, doing the same thing over and over isn’t that fun, maybe add new tasks, give the player vacation days which they can use to do other tasks. mix up new things
Version 0.9 will majorly change the gameplay loop, which will definitely come with a new daily task system of some sort. I do not know whether or not it addresses your issues with the current one, but it should at least shake things up a bit.
Most pc's, even modern, have trouble with the games performance. You could try turning down the light and shadow settings, that will help some. But considering how old your pc is, don't expect an insane difference.
Different systems are gonna have their performance bottlenecked by different parts, obviously, but on my machine at least (ryzen 5700x3d, radeon rx580) I found the framerate was dramatically improved by turning the draw distance up as far as it would go. Yes, up. Maxing out the draw distance literally took my framerate from thirtyish to a solid sixty. It's like whatever culling method the engine uses to sort the world's objects into "draw" and "do not draw" is so computationally expensive that it's actually way more efficient to tell it "screw it just draw everything IDGAF" and let the z-buffer sort em out.
this is more a feature request then feedback
and this is ENTIRELY something that isnt possible with real 3d printing
but could we get matcaps for 3d printing?
matcaps (material captures) is a trick where you uv map a texture onto a surface based on the viewing angle
it would open up a lot of creative options for meshes (like fresnels or gem / crystal materials)
It isn’t truly infinite, but you can extend its overcharge time by continuing to microwave it after it becomes overcharged. I microwaved it for somewhere around 5–15 minutes and it lasted for almost a week, which only ended when I accidentally left it outside of a container for 20 minutes after cleaning out my inventory.
I did wonder about this! I probably should've asked if the overcharge timer has a limit or done some testing myself tbh.
holding down F for flashlight makes the light smaller and go further this should also be mentiond as i have never seeen anyone bring attention to it
You most likely fell out of bounds when you ragdolled in the corner and you will always crash when falling out of bounds in tutorial, it's sort of like an anti cheat for all the secrets in the tutorial that hopefully haven't been removed in the new version, seeing as i couldn't find a way to open secret areas and stuff.
