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I think it's a good change that it's far away, it stops you from obsessively powergaming, but is still quite useful early game, and forces you to go to the basement even if you don't want to when power events happen-  those are also the power switches for the whole map, not just the mainframe computer

You can use keys/direct clicking interactions for lots of stuff, like if you're holding a drive and click the slot, you'll actually put it in, and if you hold a sponge/mop and click water, you'll dunk it, or use it to start scrubbing. The numpad also works for both keypads and fixing servers- there is still annoyances though I find, like I can't figure out for the life of me what button is to actually enter the code on a keypad, for instance, I had to change it to a 5 digit code so it automatically enters. There is SOME accessibility support for reducing how much physics/camera interaction stuff you have to do

same thing happened with boomers and gen-x with cars, those that didn't pass on their skills and interests to their kids have millenial and zoomer offspring that are mechanically illiterate, and now gen x and millennials were raised on computers and those that didn't pass it on to their kids have zoomer and gen alpha kids that are computer illiterate, that's how it goes

it is really bad shitty for the digital environment though that people are getting so bad with technology, everything is being baby-proofed and cyber security is basically dead despite getting more and more important

broomba used to suck up shelves and tables too, not sure if that was fixed or not

look on the back, where the wire comes out, should be an actual button

some devices like the hotplate also have a power switch that isn't in the menu, but is a physical button that has to be used on the object

anything with a wire should have a button near where it connects to teleport the plug to the connection point

I do agree it is silly that the music becomes almost inaudible after touching them unless you never touch them and only move them with item interactions, perhaps toggle should cycle between volume settings

does the shrimp packs in the shower work still? If not, it might be a bug with the new packs in general not being the same item as they used to be and not counting for funni summons

Yeah that's what I meant with the meta-gamey methods of reducing rep, you have to grind it down basically, feels silly and there's no gameplay reason to steal things more than once. Attacking them  (even if it doesn't stop them) should also be far more serious of a rep hit, if it even does anything.... armored or not, I don't think I'd take to kindly to someone cracking a molotov over me, or throwing a crowbar/knife/hammer/large rock at my head. I also read that erasing their graffiti pisses them off, but they never even made any in my current new game, so there's also RNG aspects to organically reducing rep

It seems absurdly hard to actually get arirals to hate you with normal gameplay, barring going out of your way and meta-gaming stealing and throwing their stuff everywhere and generally making their life hell- it feels too easy to accidentally get good rep and too hard to get bad rep... or is it just me and I'm missing something?  I even tried fighting them off with molotovs and sending their belongings to space with balloons and littering their base with trash and setting it on fire, but the arirals are at worst, neutral with me. Perhaps there should be more things the player can do in "normal" gameplay that the arirals don't like? Even things like taking pictures- I feel like they wouldn't want you documenting them being there, but if I understand correctly, you actually get bonus rep in some events if you take pictures of their ships

that is a dedicated fake crash effect, so some event triggered it- you might not have noticed the entity approaching you, or there might be a signal event that crashes the game too- close the lockers in your work room if you're getting signals of a live camera feed

there is multiple reasons/events for the hole in the garage as well as benefiting the solar powered atv module, so I doubt it will be removed
and for bug 5, make sure you're not leaving a camera on your monitor re-drawing some expensive part of the world, especially looking in/at your base

if you care for the specifics, they're not actually leaving it for you, they're tripping over the curb/root in your parking lot and dropping it, which is also why they'll come get it in a few days if its left out

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I've heard there's an event where you wake up to your base being in the void with nothing in it but I don't know if this is it, I thought you still had doors and a workstation and such... no idea what to do but it might be tied to that? What happens if you load a new/different save?

I don't know if it's a story event, but set the day to be the day before and let the event happen again, and this time don't lose? Beyond that it might not be possible to fix by the sound of it
they might also be stuck somewhere

the light tube spawning repeatedly is definitely a bug, but for the most part, you won't actually see much early-mid game, and it is very easy to straight up miss events- adds to the replayability of the game at least, so you don't have to feel bad about restarting after updates ;)
If you've gotten gifts of sushi and croissants recently then story events are still happening

if you want meat for decoration, you can commit sacrifice of wretched beasts now for technically unlimited meat...

You can spawn things you can store in your inventory (important, they must be placeable in the mailbox) in sandbox, save the world, change the world type to story manually by going to the save directory and then change b_(filename) to s_ (filename) on the save file name (that prefix is all that dictates the world type), load the now story mode save, put the desired items in the mailbox, save, go to your normal save, take your cheated items out. DO NOT tick the spoiler items on in the tags of the sandbox menu if you want to maintain some semblance of discovery and mystery in the game, and I would honestly recommend just typing things into search without looking until you're done typing because there is still lots of kinda spoilery things in the menu. While cheating, I honestly think this is practically a mandatory thing to know how to do since its so easy to permanently lose important/unique items.

NEVER, EVER CHANGE YOUR MAIN SAVE TO SANDBOX MODE, IT WILL PERMANENTLY DELETE MANY ACHIEVEMENT AND "FUNNI" ITEMS LIKE MAXWELL, THE ARGEMIA PLUSHIES, AND MORE. 
Also, while this can be used to make infinite/solar saves story mode and vice versa, back up the save before doing it and expect things to be broken and/or many events to be missed/deleted

I took cancer meds shortly before this... ball lightning? event and immediately started coughing again after it hung out right over my base for a long time, I'm fairly certain it's radioactive unless I somehow passed too close to the barrels in the far river without realizing it (no smoking either)- might be other cancer causing events too though I guess.

Also if Nose sees this and it is radiation artifacting, radiation grain in photos is actually grains of pure R, G, and B sensor being set off, not white- the radiation is too small to hit multiple parts of the sensor at once and cameras don't have a "white" sensor- it's a nitpick but it might serve the more overly-analytical players to know that it's not an electrical interference but radioactive

bathe him
do NOT use the pressure washer (oops)

I kinda agree but it also gives important context information- for instance, the top of the crosshair turns red when you can climb something, so you don't have to spam and pray

specifically clipping into walls and floors seems to trigger it, as in being still stuck in them when the game checks. there's many ways to accidently fully clip through things and the game won't boot you to the backrooms for it

you can try sweeping it out or clipping garbage blobs against it to either dislodge it or move it into a position where its at least not making noise

You can purchase prepaid visa/mastercards at most gas stations/convenience stores that are one-time charge but can't be refilled if you only have cash or a normal bank debit card that can't be used online, but you inevitably will lose a couple bucks that you can't spend once it's almost empty unless you remember to take it to a store and use the exact last bit of money combined with cash for the rest. They also have an activation fee, usually under $5. I get your struggle, I still don't have a credit card and I'm 27 lol.

mate... you still have to unzip it
just because 7zip lets you browse it without unzipping it doesn't mean it's functional, you have to right click, go to 7zip, and "export to (folder name)"- do NOT use export here when unzipping stuff unless you like potentially bombing an entire directory with loose files, or you moved the zipped folder to the folder you want the contents to be in.

If you're older than 12 and can't use a computer I implore to at least try to use google to learn

no, like early half-life (and g-mod for a lot of references and functionality), does this game *look* like modern source games? Or does it look like the old source games?

its supposed to mimic source games my guy, it's not supposed to be smooth and fluid and modern feeling

for real, and the game just went from demo to pre-alpha, and it's still only the one main dev (afaik). Anyone who's tried to do a large scale creative project should know the goofing around/planning phase is far, far easier than even starting the actual project, and it can be absolutely crushing amounts of effort to keep at it

print screen copies the screen to clipboard so you can paste it to something quickly, but it doesn't save it, windows+print screen saves the current frame to your pictures folder, in the screenshots subfolder

yeah, try broom, broom "unlocks"the fridge. You're not *supposed* to be able to move it by hand currently

also run as admin at least once to see if it simply did not have permission to build

well there's been a new tree mesh test for many versions now, presumably the map is getting totally rebuilt like the base did which is presumably slow going- but yes, current map is all sharing one render of trees and ground, which is probably a big reason why it also kinda runs like shit

I personally think this should be a feature with a specific tool you can buy/find (like a chainsaw, as you say), and it would give more purpose to the woodchipper to be able to clean up the debris after, but the more you chop, the more one of the anomalous radar pings goes from ambient and interesting to scary and malicious (I'm sure those who know which one I'm talking about would agree it would fit- maybe even start to overpopulate the map or grown in size/shape)

saves are stored in user files unfortunately... this is pretty normal for games in general as it allows discretion between different users on the same computer. In wiping your OS you almost certainly wiped the saves unless you somehow reinstalled without altering the user directories 

weird, using itch.io app or straight download in browser? app is very iffy

I'm gonna prevent you going insane, do not worry about getting out of the cave, when it's time to sleep, just let it happen

Iif you're using the itch app and not downloading directly out of a browser, I hear it's very buggy and rarely works, especially after having installed a previous version of the game, gotta give more info

painting and our own graffiti would be great yeah, I want to scrawl on the walls like a real psycho

the previous updates also didn't really add much and the game is now in prealpha and getting massive overhauls, and is still only worked on by a couple artists and one programmer. Last update was rushed because of pirating leaks that people were charging for and still had the most labor and content put into it, be patient my man