Write what you think about the 0.8.2 build - suggestions, thoughts etc
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Monique said this is a temp model, presumably for an actual remodel later.
Why not just use the old drive box model until then..?
i dunno, a durable box to keep things safe seems better than a cardboard one to me, i like it personally.
okay what are we delivering, Trindalas? Drives. very much dura6le metal 6oxes that keep data safe. Those things can survive getting flung all over the place, explosions and fires, getting drowned underwater and getting ran over. I dont think a dura6le 6ox is so needed for something like that
It's more so the fact that the box itself is literally just cardboard, that thing is getting carried through storms over mountains at high speeds by a drone with no protection from the elements and the hashcode paper just slapped on top. The next model seems to be a secure plastic crate with foam slots for drives and a pouch for the hashcode paper.
watching how fast the drone flies and how it almost completely covers the 6ox given the angle of the flight i dou6t that a single droplet is gonna touch that card6oard 6ox, 6ut oh well, i'm still playing on 0.8.1 cuz new pc overloads my 6rain so i shouldn't really put my 2 cents here
The cardboard emphasizes how dated the running of the station is, it keeps you in the mind of a boring archiving job .I really like soundscape and physicality of the box. It's probably the key reason I've not gone past 0.8.2.
an arachnophobia mode would be cool. but not just text or a cube to replace it. these devs are super creative, i can totally see them coming up with something cool that still adds to the incredible atmosphere theyve created. theres alot of possibility, it could even be something humorous.
seeing the downvotes as if 4 people would genuinely get inconvienced 6y the existence of "arachopho6ia mode"
Dawg 9 people
I think it's just people thinking "The game is scary, so why should an arachnophobia mode be added?"
There's literally also the warning at the beginning too, that should be more than enough to cover it. In which is, if you can't handle playing the game because of a singular aspect, then you probably shouldn't play the game at all. I've had arachnophobia before, but with proper care and therapy, you can overcome it, so there's really no need for such a “mode” for Voices of the Void for Christ’s sake?
What about thalassophobia? Claustrophobia? Maybe even necrophobia? This is already infantilizing what's supposed to be a serious issue and well, like the definition, an irrational fear of said subject. So again, if you can't handle a centipede mother (felt like I needed to point that out) then like, I don't know, don't visit the caves then, or, worst of all, don't play the game. Then potentially, after all that's said and done, you should get some help to sort out that issue.
Edit: There's also the fact that if you were to introduce something like this, you'd have to also count the roaches as part of it, since centipedes aren't arachnids, they're arthropods. So it'd more or so be something akin to an “Entomophobia “Mode”, but even then, if we want to get really technical, shrimps could also fall into that category as well. (Calling back to the famous “shrimps is bugs” phrase)
Edit #2: Also ostraconophobia, but let's not get too technical here
That shouldn't stop the devs from making the game accessible to more people. Yeah the warning is there but making more people be able to play the game is a benefit to everyone
The base you are in is decades old and so the tech will reflect that, the stuff you get sent is modern technology as the game takes place around the current year.
I agree. It's the reason I'm staying on 0.8.1 for now. Screens are less coherent, less readable with 60% of unused space bombarding you with brightly colored metal. It's really not comprehensible. For example why does the ping cooldown now have separate reduntant screen (timer is still there) with fast moving ascii signs flooding the screen. Really distracting and poor for my eyes. Why does signals now have bars instead of percentages? It will make setting them longer and more tedious. Screens are smaller so signals look worse. Resolution on radar is a complete pixelated mess. In short, not a huge fan of new computer stations.
Oh and hitboxes on buttons are wonky.
The signals still have percentages, they are on the screen with the signal information.
The console isn't getting any model changes, but it will be made more monochrome and less colorful (beige > white/gray, no colored stripes).
although there's no way to make the screens less cluttered, you can change the color scheme in gameplay settings, ofc it doesn't improve visibility that much, but making it white seems to help a bit for differentiating if you have some trouble/it gets strenuous to look at orange on black. maybe this has been a feature for a while, but i have no clue lmao
i feel like those are made to represent decade old hardware, espically considering how slow they are without upgrades. i think it be best if you could customise them somewhat to make them look modern or even sci-fi
The fridge was made immovable because it caused issues. I do think the mini fridge should function like the actual fridge rather than just a container, though.
Just find another way to move around large objects if not the garbage bins, they still work for this, they just don't have infinite space in them anymore and thus can't hold certain huge objects.
printer? or maybe he's trying to put something unconventional in the base, like the toyota
You are definitely not on the latest release then, as both them having plugs and plugs unplugging from sockets on reload have been removed.
Okay so...
After seeing this, I checked my Votv install folder and I saw what went wrong. Even though the itch.io app had the update button that I hit, and such. It wasn't launching the new release build that it had just downloaded/updated. It was trapped in the classic 7z file in the directory. :')
Extracted, loaded up. Not only are the plugs gone, but the new drive boxes are there too.
Thanks @Bearsjunior 💙💛
Scraping events doesn't get rid of the entity, you still have to deal with whatever you scraped.
that would be a fun mechanic but the game is not that greatly optimized so the game will lag massively for lower end users, but its not a bad suggestion i really like that idea
Это была бы забавная механика, но игра не так уж и оптимизирована, поэтому для слабых пользователей она будет сильно тормозить. Но это неплохое предложение, мне очень нравится эта идея.
On one hand, it would be cool, but I feel like it could ruin the atmosphere of complete solitude. I’d really love to see more mysteries and various events, but of course, it’s not that simple(
P.S.: As for aliens similar to SCP-096, to be honest, I don’t feel fear anymore, just disappointment. :(
С одной стороны это было бы круто, но мне кажется это могло бы подпортить атмосферу полного одиночества. Я бы действительно хотел бы видеть больше тайн и всяких разных эвентов, но это все конечно не так просто(
P.S: От пришленцев похожих на SCP-096 я уже если честно испытываю не страх а разочарование. :(
You can see deer but not interact with them currently, there will be more wild animals in the future.
There are already hostile event versions of said animals, though.
has been there since new base its prob for recovering items if they falk through the floor which sometimes happen
Same problem. At first I thought that I was doing something wrong, but it seems that this is not only my problem. It's quite hard to remember the names because of this. It would be great if you could switch the scroll on the console to the one on the computer. Not only use j and k keys.
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Stolen from replies under my post (which is essentially just the same as what you said, new computer 6leh)
"The base you are in is decades old and so the tech will reflect that, the stuff you get sent is modern technology as the game takes place around the current year."
"The signals still have percentages, they are on the screen with the signal information.
The console isn't getting any model changes, but it will be made more monochrome and less colorful (beige > white/gray, no colored stripes)."
I think it's kinda pointless to have the colourful bar then? You can still just look at percentages, it's just on smaller screen than it was on before. I understand why the update was made but it gave us two times smaller screens
Yeah but i want exact numbers not approximate. I'm not saying what update is bad, I'm saying it would be nice if screens were a bit bigger to see everything more clearly and easier
I mean, technically you aren't still able to pause. The Pause text is glitching, yeah, but the game is still running. You're not paused. At the same time, there is a nice shock to having something you expect to work to not work in its entirety. Now I'm conflicted.
I do like being unable to pause over opening the menu without pausing, but it it is mainly for what you CAN do when you have access to the pause menu, you can change settings and read the help menu which can help you figure out what to do.
I feel like it should be some middle ground where you normally can't pause, but there would be some way to open the menu if necessary. Maybe pressing Esc normally plays the deny sound without opening it, but if you hold Esc for a bit it opens the menu. Something like that.
that’s a great idea, i just really miss the horror aspect of not being able to pause, but making it harder to pause is a great idea.
there is an extreme combat setting its at the furthest right column in the options menu.
If more alien reputation systems are added, why not just use the other existing alien factions? They won't probably won't have a "base" but we already have some known relationships between them.
The Rozitals are allied with the Arirals, and they even try to protect the few arirals we meet that are just having a vacation on earth here from a threat.
The Grays are hostile to everyone, so could you even try to get on their good side? (IF they even have one.)
The next faction to show up isn't here yet, so we will have to see what they are like. They do have some kind of relation with the grays, don't know if good or bad.
..Could you even try to reason with an autonomous alien construct that shoots you on sight?
True, that is a good idea, however the relations between these factions seems like it's predefined, so if one wants to combine them (like getting ariral reputation increases rozital reputation but lowers grey reputation and vice versa), it would remain predictable. Though such interconnected reputation between the factions would still be a cool balancing act as long as there's a tradeoff.
This might be a frequently given type of feedback, however in my opinion a quite necessary one. I really enjoy the game for its atmosphere and unique ideas, as well as the amount of detail in practically every interaction. But in terms of user experience, I find some interactions terribly cumbersome.
Some of the basic gameplay user interface elements (for example the inventory and the hotbar) are way to overcomplicated for the simple purpose they are supposed to have.
Also requiring a extensive tutorial with multiple walls of text is a very poor first impression to a game. It would be way more elegant to slowly introduce players to all concepts.
I get that the current way of solving these issues might be a placeholder, to quickly build more relevant features. But I would kindly suggest having a gameplay designer or user experience designer on your team in the near future to improve on some of the said cases.
I attached a few pictures to showcase some very quick and dirty overpaints that clean up a few usability issues I encountered. I tried to keep it as close to the original style as possible, as I found it quite charming and unique. To be very clear: This is in no way a final idea, just a quick sketch to elaborate on why I believe the user interface deserves a few changes.
Original Hotbar
Overpainted Hotbar
Changes:
Original Inventory while Using an Item Container
Unfinished Overpaint (Would Take to Long) of Inventory while Using an Item Container
Changes:
I hope my feedback is of value. If not that's also fine, because I enjoyed working on this for a few happy minutes of my freetime.
- anti
Giving this my 2 cents. I personally believe the hotbar is a hot mess right now, and I have 2 ideas to fix it.
1. You can "favorite" items where you can assign an item to have priority on a hotbar slot.
2. The hotbar no longer automatically gets filled by items in your inventory. You have to manually set what items go into your hotbar and which slot.
Personally speaking I both love and hate that hotbar gets auto-filled. Sometimes, it's very useful to switch to things you've just used, but sometimes, especially when you collect trash - important items get shifted away.
I think that having both - an auto-fill, and an option to "favorite" items would be the best.
Going to a new area sounds too much, but having other tasks other than hash codes and signals - such as analyzing stuff, which could appear out of nowhere, or fall out the sky, or be mailed - seems like a fun idea! Especially if analyzing them would either require specific items, actions, or some kind of new puzzle game.
Please increase nails' "power" and make them work like actual nails, and not chewed gum
There is a lot of potential to create custom stuff, such as upgrading ATV - but nails fall off so easily and ATV driving is so messy, you have to crawl like a turtle not to break everything off it (meanwhile hooks are unbreakable and never detach)
And the last part of the image - Kerfur having a beacon on him would save so many nerves since that idiot loves to stuck in any terrain he possibly can
I'm not lowering my dpi to 700 something to get the correct sensitivity, no one should have dpi below 1600 for latency and pixel skipping reasons.
Some of the story events are easy to miss as well - such as rambling sounds on day 5.
I think you can't fix it yet. It just says repair because it uses the same text as the oven i think.
Walls aren't just for practical reasons, they are primarily used by a bunch of the community for decoration, could be expanding existing things like adding onto the desk or even making an entirely new structure somewhere out in the world.
You do need to remember this is also a sandbox game where you have the freedom to decorate your base, things like this don't necessarily need an obvious practical reason to exist.
The hot plate was added before the microwave could properly cook raw food and before any of the other ways to cook food were added, so it is kind of obsolete at this point as everything else is better than it, but they also can't really just remove it now because it is a feature that some people use.
With all the weapons being worked on, to me - it seems that walls are mostly for building defensive bases.
I just hope that game would continue to retain its eerie horror spacey creatures style, and not turn into a survival game (with all of these fishing, cooking, chopping trees, farming plants, farming honey, etc features).
The main console texture is going to be made more neutrally colored at some point, with most of the orange removed and the beige becoming plain white. You can also customize the screen colors in the settings, under Game.
The radar changes can be useful, like compass targeting any specific location on the map with the press of a button which is great for entity hunting.
The save system changes are for the new backup system, works similarly to quicksaving but it saves as a separate file. The key should be in binds.
Why even post this if you ASSUME the dev will just ignore it. You sound like a literal child.
I personally feel like a major part of the radar is how you only know exactly where an entity is when you are inside the base, and have to go off just an approximation when you are outside it.
You can target the location of a radar dot, but it doesn't live update, and I do know that annoying feeling when the entity dot you just went after is nowhere to be seen when you arrive.
My idea would be having the handheld radar (sandbox item) actually function like the radar and not a metal detector, so you can see entities X meters around you on the fly, but no further than that. Would help in seeing if the entity is actually still there.
I believe this is random-ish. i've heard of people getting the meat rain on the first day and some never get it. probably just got lucky (or unlucky) to get it so soon.
Noticed that there are no lags on any other small levels:
For me it's 44% screen size, every other graphic setting is disabled - still occasional freezes in campaign world
100% screen size, all kinds of graphic settings - no freezes on tutorial/debug/etc levels
Of course smaller levels have much less objects, but it's GPU that spikes up in main world, not CPU. My bare guess is that game renders many things that potentially could be unrendered (things you can't see, things that are far away, etc)
Most things do seem to have proper culling, you can see objects or entire chunks of the map unrendered for a split second if you whip your camera around or open a door.
Distant object rendering is decent too, low view distances hides pretty much everything far away if it isn't directly a part of the map or something giant that you should obviously see.
Do not forget that the game is still at the development stage, and optimization is not in the first place now.
