Enjoyed playing this, really atmospheric and I always enjoy good tactile computers. Some thoughts!
- This has been mentioned by other comments, but the tutorial failed for me at the data processing stage - I got to level 4/3 data processing before finally concluding the door would never open. - The computer interfaces seem oddly inconsistent to me? Some of them are locked in views, some you hold use on a button in the normal FPS view and then look up at the screen, etc. I liked the latter more btw - realising I could reach all the screens by sitting in the chair was very pleasing. - Other computer interface inconsistency is in leaving the zoomed in view on the different consoles. Is it clicking? Is it esc? Seemed to vary or not respond sometimes and I just found myself trying both on every console until I could walk away from it. - I love that the base is full of rubbish but I wish I had a bin to put it in! I filled the little wastepaper bin in the bedroom immediately and then moved the rest of the rubbish to a corner desk but I would have loved to properly tidy the place. Maybe a big bin behind the base building? If I were really pushing it then disposable bin bags which can be filled with stuff and then closed and put in the outdoor bin would be amazing... - When typing into a notepad sheet if you try and type somewhere other than the end of the whole sheet it jumps to the end with every press, which is super annoying. I tried to use the in game notepad to take a note of which satellites I needed to check on and just found it hard to update my list. Love the tearable and crumplable note sheets though. - It felt like my character needed a lot of sleep? I waited until I was really tired and then went to bed and I think I had to sleep for maybe more than 12 hours to get back to 100%, which felt kind of weird to me. Do you think of 0% tiredness as like, pulled an all-nighter dead tired? I guess I don't really know how to think about what state my character is in from a percentage tiredness readout, so I don't know what to expect, but sleeping for so long surprised me.
The one for wiping drives? Not sure what part of my comment that relates to, unless you're saying I can put old food cartons in the drive eraser to destroy them which if so that had not occurred to me!
I think he's referring to the tutorial door you couldn't open. IIRC that door does have its own drive slot on the wall right next to it. You have to insert a green-lit drive to get it open.
As for the trash, that's supposed to be a bathroom bucket, but hey, it makes for a nice waste paper basket! There are 3 actual green trash bins outside the garage however, which I think is perfect for sorting out your types of trash: paper, plastic (bottles), and food waste (takeout boxes).
If it helps, you could write down what you need onto your own txt file, then copy-paste onto the game's paper notes.
Ah, thanks! Okay, my bad - I guess the previous tutorials just kind of advance when you've done the thing, so I wasn't expecting to have to put the drive in a specific input to demonstrate completion.
Also I swear I did a full turn around the base but oh well, I'm not necessarily the _most_ observant. I shall sort my rubbish collection at once :D
I enjoyed the demo, I played it fully. I'd love to see more additions in the near future. I kept played some extra days to see what others signals I could find.
Please add the half-life machinery sounds when the satellites move after pinging a signal, maybe a slight screen shake too?
That has already had trial implementations in the gosh dang comment section three or four times, all of which were unwanted and revoked. Those were disgusting times. You should not encourage that.
The latest patch as of 10/16/2022, and I'm stuck in the tutorial where it shows you how to ping for signals. Neverending. I donated and might do more if I can ever figure out how to get past this part. You should also consider adding a log book for the tutorial/conversations and other happenings...there might be one that I can't see yet since I'm stuck only a few minutes into my first play.
Hey, can anybody tell me why this game, which is based on ue4 (Unreal Engine 4), what you can see by looking into the path [VotV\Engine\Extras\Redist\en-us], utilizes my GPU up to 100%? I tried everything from resetting and going through all my settings to reinstall the graphics drivers. Nothing works for me. Maybe a game bug that needs to be fixed? A friend just experienced the same issue. Try to have a look at your Task Manager while playing, or to stream the game to a friend on Discord. The Image will freeze, and the GPU will be utilized 100%.
I really love this game, very fun and engaging but the performance and optimization is bad, lags outside and inside the control room but the garage and bedroom didn't lag at all. It's a demo of course but I really hope this can be improved and fixed.
As a huge fan of Signal Simulator, this game really intrigued me. However the experience so far has been a mixed bag.
First of all, I absolutely adore the Source aesthetic, and even the callbacks to some Valve titles. It was a pleasant surprise.
I also really like that the processing of signals is more simplified, since that was the more tedious part of Signal Sim. The game actually seems to be generally more fast paced than SS.
But some of it's pacing is not too good. Namely the resources.
Player vitals are fine. Stamina drains adequately, hunger is alright as well if you get an extra ration pack.
But fuel for the ATV goes down so fast. That wouldn't be an issue, if only the satellite servers didn't break seemingly every 5 minutes. Besides when I started a new save, I don't think I've ever had all satellites working at the same time. And I do try. But it feels like an uphill battle.
Fix one satellite, another one bites the dust. Go fix that one, you have more on your hands. Not to mention that even if you somehow did get all satellites working, you'll lose at least another 3 when sleeping. As mentioned previously, with current fuel consumption, it's more than possible to burn through 200+ units of fuel in a day. And every one of those days is a fetch quest of just resetting satellite servers.
The flashlight batteries also drain exponentionally quickly, especially since the ATV doesn't have it's own light. It also doesn't help nearly at all when out in the forest.
Lastly, an explanation on filing satellite reports in the help tab would be useful. Turns out just writing the name of the satellite and it's hash is not enough. Maybe I need to put "report form" as the header?
Overall, this game definitely has potential. Squash some bugs, adjust some mechanics, and it can be really great. I am looking forward to further development.
I agree with a lot of this, I really like this game but the fuel and starting server strength is very punishing for those that don't know how to manage them optimally. I actually really like the mechanics a lot but def should be a slower drain, at least a little. To help you out though, I will give a tip at least for the fuel, when you are going down a hill, stop holding W. let the ATV roll, it'll keep accelerating without using up your fuel, you'll actually go above the speed cap and can end up going pretty fast, so if you have good control and know where you are you can get back to base quickly without wasting any fuel.
Also, for the tasks, I'm pretty sure all you need to do is make sure the satellites are capitalized before the hash value, and you'll get your reward:
Why can't you use the quad while tired? It's severely inconvenient and doesn't really make much sense. Right now ending up tired while outside is basically alt-f4 and time to reload.
Great game despite the bits of tedium, tho. Better than Signal Simulator for sure.
not that i recommend it, but if you press period on the num pad, it teleports you back to the home base. I use it if something like that happens or if i've been playing too long and just wanna finish up what im doing. You're welcome brother
it's okay for me to go and repair the satellites, but put a teleporter for the return, or a better map, I can't waste 1 hour just to repair 2 satellites
1: You running out of food is kind of weird. A MRE arrives at the base in a box in the garage each day. Usually keeps you full for a long time.
2: There's hidden burgers inside and outside of the base. It's mostly a collectible advancement, but the burgers are still food so-
3: There's mushrooms around the base walls if you run out of food. They aren't really nutritious, but they regen. Use em to get a little bit of a boost to get actual food.
As of right now their only purpose seems to be emersion. Hopefully a future update will add entities that wait outside your door or maybe ghosts walking around the base only visible in cameras.
so when i press f11 to exit fullscreen something happens but it doesn't exit fullscreen, could there eventually be a setting that forces it into windowed?
Yeah this game needs a windowed setting, If f11 isn't working you can try launching the .exe through your command line with -ResX=1280 -ResY=720 -WINDOWED, which should open a 1280x720 window, which worked for me.
Get a beacon and place it in your base. Beacon is the 1st item from the bottom in the shop. Activate it (you'll have to do it again after leaving the game), and you'll have a marker on your HUD pointing at the beacon.
I cannot seem to find the ATV after the zero gravity event. It was parked in the garage with the door shut when it happened and now I can't find it anywhere. Is this a bug or part of the game?
I personally found it on the bridge near the base with 300+ fuel. I don't know why it went there. Try searching around the woods more if it's not there.
I'd really like for there to be less radio telescopes to maintain- because there are times where the sheer number of radio telescopes makes it impossible to get to repairing them. How about 3-4 instead? (Also, I clicked on the suspended account link, saw something unsafe for man, spent several seconds confused and while trying to close it, clicked the god forsaken image, saw something else that I have no words for, went to my history and nearly erased all my browsing history.)
WTF!!! You should give an epilepsy warning for those wanting to click on your picture... Luckily I don't have epilepsy but you can cause someone to have a bad and serious seizure by going to that page.
Ya just wanted to let you know and I did get a little upset about it. My daughter had almost died twice due to her epilepsy in the past and always having to be careful with stuff like that.
when you start downloading something then save and exit the thing you were downloading isnt there anymore so i think it would improve the game if you added a way for that to save
Hmm...I wonder if this game uses actual encryption processes, and how far it must be into the future to be receiving very particular English signals from so far in space
What I see here seems fairly promising so far. I look forward to seeing development progress.
But I gotta be honest. All the Half-Life/Source Engine sounds are really distracting and take away from the atmosphere this game could otherwise have. I really hope you reconsider this aspect of the game.
The Portal-themed tutorial feels disjointed when compared to the rest of the game as well. It would feel better in a wilderness/research lab setting like the rest of the game, rather than Aperture Science. Consider replacing the text-to-speech voice with text tooltips or environmental cues instead.
im having a weird issue. the game crashed few minutes ago and now im unable to play the game at all. everytime i launch the game, everything looks pixelated, i got no sounds i cant change anything at all i lost my save files too and for some reason when i try to do the tutorial i get a grey screen saying "node graph out of date, rebuilding" and nothing happens still grey screen.
I can't find out what this is for either. Learn anything? [edit] So apparently you can't use it on broken servers. Fix them first, and then it applies a "secured" time frame where it won't break.
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Hello, I'd love to help with a bazilian portuguese translation. I've already worked with the devs at Supragames to translate their game "Supraland" and the reviews were very good. So, if you're interested, add me on discord Klausbdl#7091. I see the game was made in Unreal, so I'm pretty familiar with the localization process, since Supraland was also made in Unreal.
I didn't finish the game yet, but I think its pretty cool and unique.
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Enjoyed playing this, really atmospheric and I always enjoy good tactile computers. Some thoughts!
- This has been mentioned by other comments, but the tutorial failed for me at the data processing stage - I got to level 4/3 data processing before finally concluding the door would never open.
- The computer interfaces seem oddly inconsistent to me? Some of them are locked in views, some you hold use on a button in the normal FPS view and then look up at the screen, etc. I liked the latter more btw - realising I could reach all the screens by sitting in the chair was very pleasing.
- Other computer interface inconsistency is in leaving the zoomed in view on the different consoles. Is it clicking? Is it esc? Seemed to vary or not respond sometimes and I just found myself trying both on every console until I could walk away from it.
- I love that the base is full of rubbish but I wish I had a bin to put it in! I filled the little wastepaper bin in the bedroom immediately and then moved the rest of the rubbish to a corner desk but I would have loved to properly tidy the place. Maybe a big bin behind the base building? If I were really pushing it then disposable bin bags which can be filled with stuff and then closed and put in the outdoor bin would be amazing...
- When typing into a notepad sheet if you try and type somewhere other than the end of the whole sheet it jumps to the end with every press, which is super annoying. I tried to use the in game notepad to take a note of which satellites I needed to check on and just found it hard to update my list. Love the tearable and crumplable note sheets though.
- It felt like my character needed a lot of sleep? I waited until I was really tired and then went to bed and I think I had to sleep for maybe more than 12 hours to get back to 100%, which felt kind of weird to me. Do you think of 0% tiredness as like, pulled an all-nighter dead tired? I guess I don't really know how to think about what state my character is in from a percentage tiredness readout, so I don't know what to expect, but sleeping for so long surprised me.
theres a drive slot to tge right on the next door...
The one for wiping drives? Not sure what part of my comment that relates to, unless you're saying I can put old food cartons in the drive eraser to destroy them which if so that had not occurred to me!
I think he's referring to the tutorial door you couldn't open. IIRC that door does have its own drive slot on the wall right next to it. You have to insert a green-lit drive to get it open.
As for the trash, that's supposed to be a bathroom bucket, but hey, it makes for a nice waste paper basket! There are 3 actual green trash bins outside the garage however, which I think is perfect for sorting out your types of trash: paper, plastic (bottles), and food waste (takeout boxes).
If it helps, you could write down what you need onto your own txt file, then copy-paste onto the game's paper notes.
Ah, thanks! Okay, my bad - I guess the previous tutorials just kind of advance when you've done the thing, so I wasn't expecting to have to put the drive in a specific input to demonstrate completion.
Also I swear I did a full turn around the base but oh well, I'm not necessarily the _most_ observant. I shall sort my rubbish collection at once :D
I enjoyed the demo, I played it fully.
I'd love to see more additions in the near future.
I kept played some extra days to see what others signals I could find.
Please add the half-life machinery sounds when the satellites move after pinging a signal, maybe a slight screen shake too?
Add sex
absolutely
That has already had trial implementations in the gosh dang comment section three or four times, all of which were unwanted and revoked. Those were disgusting times. You should not encourage that.
The latest patch as of 10/16/2022, and I'm stuck in the tutorial where it shows you how to ping for signals. Neverending. I donated and might do more if I can ever figure out how to get past this part. You should also consider adding a log book for the tutorial/conversations and other happenings...there might be one that I can't see yet since I'm stuck only a few minutes into my first play.
Hey, can anybody tell me why this game, which is based on ue4 (Unreal Engine 4), what you can see by looking into the path [VotV\Engine\Extras\Redist\en-us], utilizes my GPU up to 100%? I tried everything from resetting and going through all my settings to reinstall the graphics drivers. Nothing works for me. Maybe a game bug that needs to be fixed? A friend just experienced the same issue. Try to have a look at your Task Manager while playing, or to stream the game to a friend on Discord. The Image will freeze, and the GPU will be utilized 100%.
unreal engine issue, i think, it's been affectin a ton of games
where do i go in the games files to unlock sandbox early
i could help with the german transilation i am german
im trying to run the game but when i do it says
" Couldn't start:
C:\User\User\Desktop\VtoV\Binaries\Win64\VtoV- Win64\Shipping.exe
VtoV
CreateProcess Returned 2.
for me it always happen when i rename a folder of the game (probalby some problem with path). try to rename folders back to the original name
I really love this game, very fun and engaging but the performance and optimization is bad, lags outside and inside the control room but the garage and bedroom didn't lag at all. It's a demo of course but I really hope this can be improved and fixed.
As a huge fan of Signal Simulator, this game really intrigued me. However the experience so far has been a mixed bag.
First of all, I absolutely adore the Source aesthetic, and even the callbacks to some Valve titles. It was a pleasant surprise.
I also really like that the processing of signals is more simplified, since that was the more tedious part of Signal Sim. The game actually seems to be generally more fast paced than SS.
But some of it's pacing is not too good. Namely the resources.
Player vitals are fine. Stamina drains adequately, hunger is alright as well if you get an extra ration pack.
But fuel for the ATV goes down so fast. That wouldn't be an issue, if only the satellite servers didn't break seemingly every 5 minutes. Besides when I started a new save, I don't think I've ever had all satellites working at the same time. And I do try. But it feels like an uphill battle.
Fix one satellite, another one bites the dust. Go fix that one, you have more on your hands. Not to mention that even if you somehow did get all satellites working, you'll lose at least another 3 when sleeping. As mentioned previously, with current fuel consumption, it's more than possible to burn through 200+ units of fuel in a day. And every one of those days is a fetch quest of just resetting satellite servers.
The flashlight batteries also drain exponentionally quickly, especially since the ATV doesn't have it's own light. It also doesn't help nearly at all when out in the forest.
Lastly, an explanation on filing satellite reports in the help tab would be useful. Turns out just writing the name of the satellite and it's hash is not enough. Maybe I need to put "report form" as the header?
Overall, this game definitely has potential. Squash some bugs, adjust some mechanics, and it can be really great. I am looking forward to further development.
I agree with a lot of this, I really like this game but the fuel and starting server strength is very punishing for those that don't know how to manage them optimally. I actually really like the mechanics a lot but def should be a slower drain, at least a little. To help you out though, I will give a tip at least for the fuel, when you are going down a hill, stop holding W. let the ATV roll, it'll keep accelerating without using up your fuel, you'll actually go above the speed cap and can end up going pretty fast, so if you have good control and know where you are you can get back to base quickly without wasting any fuel.
Also, for the tasks, I'm pretty sure all you need to do is make sure the satellites are capitalized before the hash value, and you'll get your reward:
I.E:
Walter XXXX
Joelle XXXX
Noemie XXXX
Why can't you use the quad while tired? It's severely inconvenient and doesn't really make much sense. Right now ending up tired while outside is basically alt-f4 and time to reload.
Great game despite the bits of tedium, tho. Better than Signal Simulator for sure.
not that i recommend it, but if you press period on the num pad, it teleports you back to the home base. I use it if something like that happens or if i've been playing too long and just wanna finish up what im doing. You're welcome brother
mars airdropped me some aliens
Is there going to be a Mac-os and a Linux release?
he needs a mac to do it apparently
it's okay for me to go and repair the satellites, but put a teleporter for the return, or a better map, I can't waste 1 hour just to repair 2 satellites
Maybe play something else.
use . on yournumpad, teleports you straight back to the base
Hohoho, if you think that's bad...Go check out MrDrNose's other cool game, UDgame!
You buy food from the pc yes so what do you do if you are to hungry to do anything?
1: You running out of food is kind of weird. A MRE arrives at the base in a box in the garage each day. Usually keeps you full for a long time.
2: There's hidden burgers inside and outside of the base. It's mostly a collectible advancement, but the burgers are still food so-
3: There's mushrooms around the base walls if you run out of food. They aren't really nutritious, but they regen. Use em to get a little bit of a boost to get actual food.
Anyone know what the cameras are used for and which places they should be placed?
As of right now their only purpose seems to be emersion. Hopefully a future update will add entities that wait outside your door or maybe ghosts walking around the base only visible in cameras.
so when i press f11 to exit fullscreen something happens but it doesn't exit fullscreen, could there eventually be a setting that forces it into windowed?
Yeah this game needs a windowed setting,
If f11 isn't working you can try launching the .exe through your command line with -ResX=1280 -ResY=720 -WINDOWED, which should open a 1280x720 window, which worked for me.
Being able to target the base on the compass would be great. I can sometimes tag Alexander and it points to base but only sometimes.
Get a beacon and place it in your base. Beacon is the 1st item from the bottom in the shop. Activate it (you'll have to do it again after leaving the game), and you'll have a marker on your HUD pointing at the beacon.
You can point the compass to the base by targeting root,
Alternatively following the river is usually pretty reliable as well
I cannot seem to find the ATV after the zero gravity event. It was parked in the garage with the door shut when it happened and now I can't find it anywhere. Is this a bug or part of the game?
I personally found it on the bridge near the base with 300+ fuel. I don't know why it went there. Try searching around the woods more if it's not there.
This seems to be a common occurence. Go to the main menu, use the reset button when loading and check 'vehicle' (progress is kept).
I believe this is actually one of the anomalies.
I'd really like for there to be less radio telescopes to maintain- because there are times where the sheer number of radio telescopes makes it impossible to get to repairing them. How about 3-4 instead? (Also, I clicked on the suspended account link, saw something unsafe for man, spent several seconds confused and while trying to close it, clicked the god forsaken image, saw something else that I have no words for, went to my history and nearly erased all my browsing history.)
Oh ｎｏ
Hurry, take amnestics! Also clear your eyes by doing pretty much anything else terrible
WTF!!! You should give an epilepsy warning for those wanting to click on your picture... Luckily I don't have epilepsy but you can cause someone to have a bad and serious seizure by going to that page.
sorry...
Well I think it's better than gross adult advertisements at least. Any pain to make people lose their mind after that
Ya just wanted to let you know and I did get a little upset about it. My daughter had almost died twice due to her epilepsy in the past and always having to be careful with stuff like that.
took amnestics and forgot the last 4 hours thanks
when you start downloading something then save and exit the thing you were downloading isnt there anymore so i think it would improve the game if you added a way for that to save
(Is he reading the comments)
(purge that freaking cripe)
Hmm...I wonder if this game uses actual encryption processes, and how far it must be into the future to be receiving very particular English signals from so far in space
What I see here seems fairly promising so far. I look forward to seeing development progress.
But I gotta be honest. All the Half-Life/Source Engine sounds are really distracting and take away from the atmosphere this game could otherwise have. I really hope you reconsider this aspect of the game.
The Portal-themed tutorial feels disjointed when compared to the rest of the game as well. It would feel better in a wilderness/research lab setting like the rest of the game, rather than Aperture Science. Consider replacing the text-to-speech voice with text tooltips or environmental cues instead.
you can't take me to the ska dimension anymore, game, because I have discovered the COFFEE MACHINE and I am now invincible
im having a weird issue. the game crashed few minutes ago and now im unable to play the game at all. everytime i launch the game, everything looks pixelated, i got no sounds i cant change anything at all i lost my save files too and for some reason when i try to do the tutorial i get a grey screen saying "node graph out of date, rebuilding" and nothing happens still grey screen.
How do you use the protection kit CD? There's a slot on each servers but it won't snap into it.
I can't find out what this is for either. Learn anything? [edit] So apparently you can't use it on broken servers. Fix them first, and then it applies a "secured" time frame where it won't break.
How do you file a report?
Just comment here, or in a version release log
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seems very cool but it wont allow me to start the process when like extracting/opening the file
When I launch the game I have absolutely no Audio. The game won't even show up in the Volume Mixer in Windows.
yea the audio turns off you just need to press on the game, if you are on the windows hotbar thin
Hello, I'd love to help with a bazilian portuguese translation. I've already worked with the devs at Supragames to translate their game "Supraland" and the reviews were very good. So, if you're interested, add me on discord Klausbdl#7091. I see the game was made in Unreal, so I'm pretty familiar with the localization process, since Supraland was also made in Unreal.
I didn't finish the game yet, but I think its pretty cool and unique.
its free....
you know that right?...
i know, what do you mean?
So when I started playing I took my ATV over to Vanessa but when I fixed the server it was no longer there, it won't respawn either, any solve?
Bro PLEASE make the computers save their data between game saves, I've lost so much data to stupid shit.
add multiplayer or co-op that would be cool
Any way to unlock cheats/sandbox mode?
Just wondering because I love the game and want to screw around with some stuff
same
to unlock sandbox you need to get to day 14 in story mode. cheats are available in sandbox mode
Is it hard to get to day 14 or is it easy
i don't think it's hard but it takes a while
Alright thanks
I'M ON DAY 15 AND i do not have sandbox mode unlocked.
Same here
How do you use the cheat menu? Or is it developer only. I've kinda run out of things to do other than decrypt tapes and make a mess.
you can only use the cheat menu in sandbox
how do you unlock sandbox? Do you have to complete the story?
What's the main menu music? I couldn't find it in the credits.
Funeral march for the death of queen mary, by Henry Purcell.
I would love if this game had an option to be windowed, rather than being locked to fullscreen
press f11
oh my god please please please please please make mac