Could someone explain the differences between the difficulty settings, since I'm new to the game and still want to experience the scares. My first attempt at normal difficulty left me frustrated with the tediousness of having to go to almost every satellite to fix them, and didn't have enough time to complete the daily task at the end.
The lower the difficulty, the slower your stats drain and the slower time passes, and vice versa. The amount of hash codes also increase on higher difficulties. (3 on Hard, 5 on Hard++, maybe 1 on Easy++ but I'm not sure.)
On normal difficulty, an in-game day is 75 minutes. Now this doesn't account for the amount of time where you'll need to sleep, which of course speeds up in-game time. There's what, maybe 40-some days right now. So it will take some time to get to the current final day. Technically it is replayable if you reset days and events, but it does end up resetting all possessed items outside the mailbox.
There are 40+ days in the Story mode and infinite in the infinite mode. I personally spent 4 or 5 IRL days completing the Story mode, and I was playing nonstop. So I'd say you may spend a lot of time in the game if you resonate with the gameplay.
I'm currently experiencing an issue where the frequency filter just doesn't pick up anything, and I can't figure out what's causing it. This is my first time playing VotV by the way. Weirder still is that it worked perfectly in the tutorial. Does anyone know what could be causing this, as I'm theoretically halted in my progression forward with no way to earn more points.
I'm playing on the most recent build, Demo 0.6.2aa
I thought that was related to the Polarity, not the frequency. To visually describe what's going on for me, is that even if I increase or decrease the frequency offset, the line doesn't move at all.
I'm pretty sure that it's not a problem with the polarity, as frequency still doesn't work if polarity has been locked onto 100% output data.
Edit: never mind I'm just stupid. I think I've figured out how it actually works. Thanks for giving me advice all the same.
Interesting bug. No Power, all Transistors at 100, all doors open, including "Do Not Enter" bunker. Is there a way to back up saves so next time I can revert to pre-bugged versions?
Side Note: There is no breaker box by the garage entrance inside the base. I've cleaned the garage and the only similar thing is the Drone Call Box and the Red Garage Door Button.
The breaker box is the giant machine on the wall inside the central room of the base. Assuming you're looking at your computer screen, it would be to your right and behind you, which is also close to the door leading to the garage.
Ah. I thought that was a procedure billboard. My coping strategy was to check the transistors every day and reset them if their cycles ever dropped below 50. So far, 13 days in, no power outages. But now i know that thing has a purpose, I'll take a closer look. Thanks.
I'm having a bit of trouble with the game, for some reason when I'm in the game, (So not the main menu.), I'm unable to use the menu, but when I alt-tab, I can but the game moves down and to the right so I can only see like, 2/3 of the game.
Okay, I have no idea if this fixed it, or if something else did, but I disabled automatic screen resolution and that fixed both the menu issue and the alt tab issue? I mean I understand the alt tab thing but not the menu issue?
There's definitely some fairly serious resolution jank in the game rn- if you're using an unavailable screen resolution, add your screen's resolution to the .res file in your appdata>local>VotV>asset directory (you can usually see your monitor res in your monitor's menu if you're unaware of your exact monitor res)
There's also issues like the formulas in server repair not scaling correctly with the screen res, and the visual location vs calculated location of menus making the cursor not line up, etc.
add mp4s (I think its mp4) to appdata>local>VotV>assets>TV
also works with mp3s for radio (I recommend classical music myself since it's either genuinely calming or hilarious in the context of a horrible situation like getting the shit beaten out of you while Ave Maria plays), and .pngs for posters (customer poster), paintings (picture frames), and stickers (sticker pack- use transparency), as well as flags and rugs if you have some you want to add.
If you have 3D printer models or know where to find them, or use blender and make your own models, you can even add blender meshes to the mesh folder for the industrial printer. Can't tell you exactly how that works but I assume its fairly intuitive like the other custom assets
Help I get error "LowLevelFatalError [File:Unkown] [Line:198] Unreal Engine is existing due to D3D device being lost. (Error:0x887A0006 - 'HUNG')" when launching the game
that's an unreal engine issue, typically from hardware/settings issues, you'll have to google that error to figure out what may be happening. Most commonly it's from overclocked GPUs or GPUs forced into a power saving mode
unlikely to find support for the problem here beyond that, sorry friend
If it stems from your GPU, Unreal Engine is probably not to blame for the issue. As it's related to the "D3D" device being lost, so its more likely to be as mentioned, a GPU overclock, or GPU driver issues. Try updating or reinstalling your GPU drivers
As frienly said, but to specify- when you install 7zip, it adds a context option to the context menu (right click) called 7zip- select it and go to "extract to (votv folder name)"- it will make a second folder named the same as the zipped folder, and it should all work correctly. Zipped/compressed stuff sometimes appears to work fine still zipped, but it causes all kinds of issues if they do work, so you gotta unzip/uncompress it.
I love the game. It's my favorite game ever by far, And I absolutely HATE horror games.
But the transformers.
Oh, the transformers. They're a good mechanic to make people not hide in their base, But it just seems like far too much work to have to go to all three almost every day.
Maybe it'd be cool for Kerfus to be able to go to transformers, and reset them.
i usually let one of my transformers get to 30 before going to reset all 3 at once, it's just another thing i'll do that day when im out on maintenance. it usually takes 2 or 3 days for that to happen.
agree, they could be toned down a bit, specifically I think the base should work less efficiently (total power multiplier -.33 for each one that goes down) since the fact things work *better* with more breakers turned off shows that they can handle variable power- to preserve the spook, it should still make the loud noise and trip all the breakers, but power should not *stay* off until all 3 transformers go down
I agree, this game is way too clunky in how it interacts and handles. So far all I've managed to do is:
Throw myself off a mountain. Jump off a radio mast. Break all the equipment. Set myself on fire (twice). Eat a burger. Kill mannequins. Drive a quad half way up a tree. Physics myself into a parallel dimension (!?!?!?!?!?) Crash the game.
it's meant to mirror source game in their intuitiveness and jankiness combined, I doubt you'll ever get "better" controls, that's like asking for better graphics. He gave us a nicer looking context menu and a hotbar similar to source, and I'm surprised we got that honestly
can you lower the graphics on the config files cuz my pc crashes when i run the game my specs are:intel celeron n3350 1.10hz intel hd graphics 4gb ram 512 gb hard drive
There is this thing saying node graph outdated rebuilding anyone know how to deal with it also my whole game the title screen is made out of large pixel blocks and all my settings are at 0 and I'm unable to change it
What a journey of a demo. I went from not knowing what I was doing at all to a complete mastery of my field. Really, really great game. Excited to see where it goes from here.
Like, the menu buttons? Or the in-world console buttons? The game has some really clunky resolution issues if you have a less standard monitor resolution, you gotta add your custom resolution to the resolution to appdata>local>VotV>Assets>res.txt
Also, F11 for fullscreen toggle may help, combined with using the correct resolution for your monitor.
Played for 30 hours, i'm amazed by this game! Especially how much it plays like garrysmodsource game, huge respect for devs for that, i'm sure that was very tricky thing to do. And secondly, how complex game is. The definition of insanity, i love it!
I wish there would be some way to see info from stats screen in saved signal detail info for example. I had 50 different saved things, and that was a mistake, almost all of them are "duplicates", worth just money, and hard to know which one is actually fully scanned.
the color of the signal in the PC shows it's level (red, orange, yellow, green for 0, 1, 2, and 3), but the pc does need a bit of love to fix some of the weird bugs and UI issues, I find the text never shows up for signals for instance
Tell me this game would not be awesome with multiplayer. I mean, imagine this: You have to do the daily report on one satallite that's nearby and one that's farther out. Considering you only have one ATV, your pal takes the ATV out to the farther of the 2 and you go on foot to the closer one. Once you're both in position, you get the hash of the satellite you're at and ask your friend for his, after he provides it, you write it down you ping servers to find that one of the satellites that your friend is near has had it's server go down, so you ask him to fix it... but you only hear static.
the fact that you're supposed to be alone but rarely are is like, half the horror aspect of the psychological horror of the game, adding a another person near completely negates that on top of ruining a bunch of other game mechanics like sleep, dreams, events that move the player or are relative to player position, etc.
With a built-in radio system? That would be awesome. Definitely would add to the game by a bit, sort of like Phasmophobia. besides, it's not like the game wasn't wacky enough already
got my atv stuck behind the stonehenge fence (i think its still stonehenge right?) in 0.6.2b but resetting the vehicles wont work, will i have to drag something over there to climb over the fence or is there any other way i could bring it back?
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I'm currently having problems with the printer where the game instantly crashes when I click an item I want to print, is there any explanation why?
Could someone explain the differences between the difficulty settings, since I'm new to the game and still want to experience the scares. My first attempt at normal difficulty left me frustrated with the tediousness of having to go to almost every satellite to fix them, and didn't have enough time to complete the daily task at the end.
The lower the difficulty, the slower your stats drain and the slower time passes, and vice versa. The amount of hash codes also increase on higher difficulties. (3 on Hard, 5 on Hard++, maybe 1 on Easy++ but I'm not sure.)
Spend your points into server stability, it saves a lot of time
Does the sleep demon pursue you while you are outside your base at low stamina?
Always until your stamina is higher than 20.
i’ve been cruising under 10 stamina and i still haven’t seen the fucker. where is he im scared…
He moves quite slow, but he never stops following you.
About how much gameplay time does this game have? And is it replayable? im asking cuz its only a demo
On normal difficulty, an in-game day is 75 minutes. Now this doesn't account for the amount of time where you'll need to sleep, which of course speeds up in-game time. There's what, maybe 40-some days right now. So it will take some time to get to the current final day. Technically it is replayable if you reset days and events, but it does end up resetting all possessed items outside the mailbox.
There are 40+ days in the Story mode and infinite in the infinite mode. I personally spent 4 or 5 IRL days completing the Story mode, and I was playing nonstop. So I'd say you may spend a lot of time in the game if you resonate with the gameplay.
Why dont the hashcode work when I do sv.hash in the satellites?
wdym? is there nothing on console or there is other problem?
It doesn't give you the code instead it only prints out the word Hashcode
I'm currently experiencing an issue where the frequency filter just doesn't pick up anything, and I can't figure out what's causing it. This is my first time playing VotV by the way. Weirder still is that it worked perfectly in the tutorial.
Does anyone know what could be causing this, as I'm theoretically halted in my progression forward with no way to earn more points.
I'm playing on the most recent build, Demo 0.6.2aa
Fiddle with the Frequency Polarity knob to the left of all other knobs. It switches between Left, Right, and Linear Polarity.
I thought that was related to the Polarity, not the frequency. To visually describe what's going on for me, is that even if I increase or decrease the frequency offset, the line doesn't move at all.
I'm pretty sure that it's not a problem with the polarity, as frequency still doesn't work if polarity has been locked onto 100% output data.
Edit: never mind I'm just stupid. I think I've figured out how it actually works. Thanks for giving me advice all the same.
why you gotta add that spook in the tutorial, damn near made me toss my mouse.
I now play toss the battery with it, we have come to an agreement.
Interesting bug. No Power, all Transistors at 100, all doors open, including "Do Not Enter" bunker. Is there a way to back up saves so next time I can revert to pre-bugged versions?
...Just to be sure, you've checked your breakers in your base, right? By the garage entrance inside the base?
Nope. Didn't know that was a thing. Does that mean I can open the Bunker Door also by turning off the breakers?
Side Note: There is no breaker box by the garage entrance inside the base. I've cleaned the garage and the only similar thing is the Drone Call Box and the Red Garage Door Button.
The breaker box is the giant machine on the wall inside the central room of the base. Assuming you're looking at your computer screen, it would be to your right and behind you, which is also close to the door leading to the garage.
Ah. I thought that was a procedure billboard. My coping strategy was to check the transistors every day and reset them if their cycles ever dropped below 50. So far, 13 days in, no power outages. But now i know that thing has a purpose, I'll take a closer look. Thanks.
I'm having an issue with the daily tasks, I put what they asks in the box and on the paper and I waited for the drone to come and it never came.
I them got an email in the game saying I failed to do it but it never came anyways (I put the box on the palette where the note said to put it)
Maybe im doing it wrong idk but someone plz help
You gotta call the drone first- everything else you did right :) You call the drone from the control box thing in the garage.
I'm having a bit of trouble with the game, for some reason when I'm in the game, (So not the main menu.), I'm unable to use the menu, but when I alt-tab, I can but the game moves down and to the right so I can only see like, 2/3 of the game.
Okay, I have no idea if this fixed it, or if something else did, but I disabled automatic screen resolution and that fixed both the menu issue and the alt tab issue? I mean I understand the alt tab thing but not the menu issue?
There's definitely some fairly serious resolution jank in the game rn- if you're using an unavailable screen resolution, add your screen's resolution to the .res file in your appdata>local>VotV>asset directory (you can usually see your monitor res in your monitor's menu if you're unaware of your exact monitor res)
There's also issues like the formulas in server repair not scaling correctly with the screen res, and the visual location vs calculated location of menus making the cursor not line up, etc.
damn, some child is going through the entire page and downvoting all my posts, don't know what I did to make them that mad lol
how to use tv
add mp4s (I think its mp4) to appdata>local>VotV>assets>TV
also works with mp3s for radio (I recommend classical music myself since it's either genuinely calming or hilarious in the context of a horrible situation like getting the shit beaten out of you while Ave Maria plays), and .pngs for posters (customer poster), paintings (picture frames), and stickers (sticker pack- use transparency), as well as flags and rugs if you have some you want to add.
If you have 3D printer models or know where to find them, or use blender and make your own models, you can even add blender meshes to the mesh folder for the industrial printer. Can't tell you exactly how that works but I assume its fairly intuitive like the other custom assets
All my game settings are stuck at 0 making the game look like pixels only I'm unable to reset and apply for some reason
go to %localappdata%\votv\saved\saveGames (type this in Windows run dialog or explorer), delete "data.sav"
Thanks now I just gotta get a external keyboard bc my d and c key just broke );
Help I get error "LowLevelFatalError [File:Unkown] [Line:198]
Unreal Engine is existing due to D3D device being lost. (Error:0x887A0006 - 'HUNG')"
when launching the game
that's an unreal engine issue, typically from hardware/settings issues, you'll have to google that error to figure out what may be happening. Most commonly it's from overclocked GPUs or GPUs forced into a power saving mode
unlikely to find support for the problem here beyond that, sorry friend
If it stems from your GPU, Unreal Engine is probably not to blame for the issue.
As it's related to the "D3D" device being lost, so its more likely to be as mentioned, a GPU overclock, or GPU driver issues. Try updating or reinstalling your GPU drivers
I can't get the game to run. I downloaded the game file and 7zip, opened the game through the file manager (VotV.exe) and I get the message:
Couldn't Start: "C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\Temp\7zO09011C23\VotV\Binaries\Win64\Votv-Win64-Shipping.exe." VotV CreateProcess() returned 2.
Any ideas?
Extract the game before playing
I got it to work, thank you!
As frienly said, but to specify- when you install 7zip, it adds a context option to the context menu (right click) called 7zip- select it and go to "extract to (votv folder name)"- it will make a second folder named the same as the zipped folder, and it should all work correctly. Zipped/compressed stuff sometimes appears to work fine still zipped, but it causes all kinds of issues if they do work, so you gotta unzip/uncompress it.
Thanks for the help, I did get it running!
I HATE the transformers.
I love the game. It's my favorite game ever by far, And I absolutely HATE horror games.
But the transformers.
Oh, the transformers. They're a good mechanic to make people not hide in their base, But it just seems like far too much work to have to go to all three almost every day.
Maybe it'd be cool for Kerfus to be able to go to transformers, and reset them.
you can run `tr_check` in the console and it will let you know the status of the transformers, no need to check each day :)
i usually let one of my transformers get to 30 before going to reset all 3 at once, it's just another thing i'll do that day when im out on maintenance. it usually takes 2 or 3 days for that to happen.
I find it's plenty to just do them when I'm close for dailies, only once a week or so do I have to go far out of my way for a transformer
agree, they could be toned down a bit, specifically I think the base should work less efficiently (total power multiplier -.33 for each one that goes down) since the fact things work *better* with more breakers turned off shows that they can handle variable power- to preserve the spook, it should still make the loud noise and trip all the breakers, but power should not *stay* off until all 3 transformers go down
way too confusing controls i already forgot how to interact with the items in my hand after doing the tutorial
I agree, this game is way too clunky in how it interacts and handles. So far all I've managed to do is:
Throw myself off a mountain. Jump off a radio mast. Break all the equipment. Set myself on fire (twice). Eat a burger. Kill mannequins. Drive a quad half way up a tree. Physics myself into a parallel dimension (!?!?!?!?!?) Crash the game.
it's meant to mirror source game in their intuitiveness and jankiness combined, I doubt you'll ever get "better" controls, that's like asking for better graphics. He gave us a nicer looking context menu and a hotbar similar to source, and I'm surprised we got that honestly
can you lower the graphics on the config files cuz my pc crashes when i run the game my specs are:intel celeron n3350 1.10hz intel hd graphics 4gb ram 512 gb hard drive
those specs are way too low to run this game, you are gonna need a faster computer to play :/
There is this thing saying node graph outdated rebuilding anyone know how to deal with it also my whole game the title screen is made out of large pixel blocks and all my settings are at 0 and I'm unable to change it
its just a meme referencing garrys mod its not actually an issue with the game
What a journey of a demo. I went from not knowing what I was doing at all to a complete mastery of my field. Really, really great game. Excited to see where it goes from here.
Bonus moody base shots:
Looks like your average streamer setup. Neat.
genuinely hard to wait for updates lol, I haven't felt like this since the first subnautica game early access.
also 6/10 base, aesthetic and clean but not nearly schizo enough smh
I have question for some reason when download 0.6.2b version I just get 0.6.2a version is 2b version open to get oritch.io stuck on older version?
the application isnt opening im downloading it as a 7 zip file it just isnt running
First you have to download 7zIP first then restart you computer then download the game after that right click the game and press extract to
do i make it a 7 zip file or a regular file?
I have a problem where the title screen is all pixels and game won't start it's only a black screen with the ui
Like, the menu buttons? Or the in-world console buttons? The game has some really clunky resolution issues if you have a less standard monitor resolution, you gotta add your custom resolution to the resolution to appdata>local>VotV>Assets>res.txt
Also, F11 for fullscreen toggle may help, combined with using the correct resolution for your monitor.
This game would be lit on console, though sadly we would have to wait for this masterpiece to finish in the first place
What do you mean "ambiance mode isn't safe"?!
I checked my radar and an unknown entity was at my base. I quited the game and loaded back my save, and the entity wasn't there anymore!
Played for 30 hours, i'm amazed by this game! Especially how much it plays like
garrysmodsource game, huge respect for devs for that, i'm sure that was very tricky thing to do. And secondly, how complex game is. The definition of insanity, i love it!I wish there would be some way to see info from stats screen in saved signal detail info for example. I had 50 different saved things, and that was a mistake, almost all of them are "duplicates", worth just money, and hard to know which one is actually fully scanned.
the color of the signal in the PC shows it's level (red, orange, yellow, green for 0, 1, 2, and 3), but the pc does need a bit of love to fix some of the weird bugs and UI issues, I find the text never shows up for signals for instance
Awesome game I really love the ambience, played for 12 hours straight first time playing lol
awesome game ! 😀
this game is p2w 100% ariral approved not fake trust
usme im saying truthI play all day.
I have no regrets.
I love this game!
How do I get on the roof? I remember doing it a couple months ago, but can't remember how I did it. I can't reach the ladder.
bro the jumpscare at the beginning of the tutorial made me drop my waffle fries
I can't get cameras to work.
After placing a camera activate it
In computer press "Cameras" and in there, yellow button
i have done that but they still don't work not even kerfus's persoal cam work
Have you tried pressing the checkmark beside the camera name? I had a hard time figuring that out too
have you pressed the refresh button in the camera menu on the computer?
Tell me this game would not be awesome with multiplayer. I mean, imagine this: You have to do the daily report on one satallite that's nearby and one that's farther out. Considering you only have one ATV, your pal takes the ATV out to the farther of the 2 and you go on foot to the closer one. Once you're both in position, you get the hash of the satellite you're at and ask your friend for his, after he provides it, you write it down you ping servers to find that one of the satellites that your friend is near has had it's server go down, so you ask him to fix it... but you only hear static.
the fact that you're supposed to be alone but rarely are is like, half the horror aspect of the psychological horror of the game, adding a another person near completely negates that on top of ruining a bunch of other game mechanics like sleep, dreams, events that move the player or are relative to player position, etc.
see you are 100% right but also ur lame and gay and multiplayer fun
lol anyway i dont see how it would ruin dreams tho thats a strange point.
like man proximity chat exists, you could add a fake player in the bed, and if the other player is dreaming too just make a separate dream world
With a built-in radio system? That would be awesome. Definitely would add to the game by a bit, sort of like Phasmophobia. besides, it's not like the game wasn't wacky enough already
i think new kerfus should have a scuffed maxwell pose when idle or recharging
I think a joke command to malform it on-command would work better as it's all easter eggs/jokes already
got my atv stuck behind the stonehenge fence (i think its still stonehenge right?) in 0.6.2b but resetting the vehicles wont work, will i have to drag something over there to climb over the fence or is there any other way i could bring it back?
just tap jump again while in the air to climb my man, you can go get it yourself
oh huh i didnt know you could do that, thanks lol
Did food get nerfed hard? Haven't played in about a month and started a new game and I'm always starving. MREs barely doing anything any more.
yea they added food tolerance. you gotta add some variety to your diet now
What is the best budget food to buy right now?
probably shrimp packs.
i just buy shrimp packs and chicken nuggets most of the time but make sure to keep some variety in there or you will suffer the consequences
thanks bud. will try that tomorrow.
Word of warning about Shrimp Packs. Don't leave them out for too long, including in the fridge/freezer. They might not be there later...
Funny how this comment is relatable both to the game and to the real world.
"yeah, that one Asian food delivery nearby is pretty neat, you gotta try their shrimp packs"
now I want shrimp and I'm not talking about the game either.