Out of curiosity (and to solve an argument with a friend), does playing on Sandbox mode not show/do story related events and signals, or is Sandbox just story mode with spawn menu?
SPOILER I don't suppose someone could tell me how to get to the shovel? I see it inside a fenced in area with an odd structure in the center of it. Being vague on purpose.
bro try to throw an ATV over the fence and at the moment when it is behind the fence in the air sit on it make a save because it's not a fact that you will succeed the first time
so my game autosaved after playing "the end is near" disc, and i read after online i was supposed to delete the files. is my save just bricked? i tried to delete all traces and backups after the fact but i still get the game over.
i personally had to delete ALL my saved signals to get out of this one. i'm not sure if that's the official solution but it's the only thing that worked for me
Found a Bug where if you get woken up automatically you can't go into the pause menu anymore(probably because escape still tries to wake you up). I'm not talking about the dreams, I know you can't pause there, I'm talking about when your charakter decides to just wake up. You can just go to bed and wake up manually again to fix it.
Love the game BTW, awesome atmosphere and lore and I love the gameplay loop. Even if it's not meant to be played that way I could just grind it forever haha
How do you get out of the maze?, Once I loaded into the save I was in the maze. Tried running out of food and stamina it just stays 0.0. The game disables the menu when you're in there.
I needed to reset days/events in order to play my save, as each time I tried to open the save I would be in the maze. On the plus side I still have all my points and upgrades.
Hm, okay, thanks. But here's the reason why I asked this: a friend has a problem with the settings. After one game crash yesterday, the game just won't save or apply the settings. Then it was the previous version. Upon restart, they are all set to zero, including the field of view and quality, and therefore the background in the main menu is completely pixelated, and in the game itself the player sees nothing but flickering white and black patches (the camera is zoomed as close as possible in the first room of the tutorial). Before the crash, everything worked good, installing a new version of the game did not help.
Did the locations change for the keys to the green box in 0.5 or are they still the same I'm almost done editing a video to show all there locations and how to find them but I don't want to upload it when its done if they spawn in different locations?
I got the zero g event then it crashed after that I loaded it back up to check the garage and my atv is missing is there a way to spawn a new one looked all over its nowhere to be seen.
Worth noting the drone came at the same time sounded like it was dropping off a box right before the event happened and it froze up and crashed could something have glitched and flung the atv?
OVER 300...welp on one hand free fuel on the other this was right after someone tried to get in and now I'm never leaving the building without my crowbar >.<
someone you also have such a bug, I lost all the saves in the game, but I rummaged through the files, but there are save files and settings, they are all at zero and they do not change, the developer notice and fix it!!!
got myself some friends to keep me company :) (anyone know where i can find the last argemia plush?)
also, when you turn the volume on the tv down to zero you can still hear the audio, i wanted the high speed spinning rat but couldn't hear my signals without free bird blasting in my ears haha
Hmm. I can't replicate the issue with the TV volume; mine is muted at lvl 0 even when pc volume is maxed. However, I know of some volume bugs spatially-related to the radio, so if you found or bought one by drone, then that's probably messing with your TV vol.
As to green argemia, no spoilers here, but feel free to ask on the discord server in the Spoilers channel.
You have to use Alt-E to activate it to get the input menu. It won't play YT links cuz those aren't the source file, but it'll play any other direct stream URL in the bottom box, or any path to local media in the top box (like 'C:\votv\videos\MyVideo.mpg' or whatever).
This game has an incredibly steep learning curve, but learning all of the mechanics, and how to operate the complicated machinery provides an immense feeling of accomplishment. I spent the first few days having fun just cleaning up the mess in the base. Only being able to pull objects, and not being able to push them, has caused me to get trapped in a corner more than a few times. But honestly getting crushed by a supplies crate while tidying up is exactly the kind of hilarious frustration I look for in a game. Everything can quickly get out of hand if you're not constantly keeping up on tasks and maintenance, it's a great challenge.
The lonely atmosphere of the mountains has me totally on edge. This feeling of dread is enhanced by all the little clues of objects left behind and areas locked and out of reach. I haven't encountered any monsters, but I have the sense that there is something strange going on just out of sight while I'm focused on my job. I'm so paranoid and always locking the doors behind me before going to bed. Riding the ATV around the mountains at breakneck speeds to fix a tower before it gets dark gave me genuine terror I haven't felt in a game in a long time.
I love how hilariously overworked the protagonist is, such an insane situation that they are supposed to manage this entire facility on their own. The survival mechanics are a great addition to this game. Find alien signals or starve to death is such a funny concept. Keep up the incredible work!
So you -can- crouch jump, although the key sequence is maybe backward from what you've seen before. Move forward, then hit Space first + CTRL. You should be able to vault the crates. I'd been playing for months before I realized the option was there (was doing ctrl+space and that doesn't work).
If you put a camera on the wall beside the ladder down in the painting room, it tends to swap orientation when the game loads and ends up outside the game geometry - letting you look at some of the things happening behind the scenes.
does anyone have any idea what this entity near my base could be? its been there for several days and doesn't move at all. i went to that spot and wasn't able to find anything. it's definitely not the beacon though!
i have finished story mode and have been on day 25 for a while if thats important. i'm just really curious what this could be or if anyone else has experienced it.
I've also completed the main story days and have so far seen one contact I've not been able to actually see - however it was both moving and disappeared the following morning.
Best guess is that something either got stuck underground or is invisible. You could try aiming a Good-quality camera towards the area, in case the nightvision mode picks up on something in the air.
i dont really remember when exactly it appeared tbh. i dont have any drones so thats not it either. i played some more just now and now theres actually two entities right next to each other in that spot???????? no clue whats going on lmao
i do also assume that something just got stuck somewhere or its a glitch or something. no matter how and how often i check, theres nothing there. still really weird though..
It's usually either your ATV or your camera drone, especially if it's daytime. That location looks like it might be around Bravo/Barbel, just past the radio tower on the West side of the canal. If I'm wrong, then it might be the top of the radio tower.
yeah it is kind of near bravo, but still relatively close to the river, the part where there are a few rocks. it's definitely not the atv, that's at my base. also not a drone, i don't own those. i've just accepted that i will never find an explanation haha
Yeah that's weird. If you're a ways into the game (by days), then it could be a specific ent triggered by an event, but usually that one chases you. The other one that hangs around the NW quadrant only comes out at night, and doesn't usually get too close to the base. There are other triggered events too, and some of those may show up. If you don't see anything on the ground or in the sky, and you can eliminate the atv and drone, then tbh I dunno what it is.
What's the system requirements to run the game smoothly throughout? I've tried to play the game, but, it keeps slowing down tremendously after a period of time and I don't know what's causing this to happen
What are your computer's specs? And do you have something to track temperature, like Speccy, or just Windows 10+'s built in graphic card temperature thing?
Does saving and restarting the game help with the slowdown, or does it just happen over time?
The game would need to be fairly redesigned for multiplayer to be a useful part of the gameplay. Sure, you could have people running around on the map, having a look at hash-codes or trying to track down a blip on the radar - but from how the game looks right now, it is certainly not designed with multiplayer in mind.
None of the tasks the player do in game requires more than you, the player to do them. And none of the tasks the player can do would be helped with multiplayer in mind - with the potential exception of figuring out where a radar contact might be.
If there are plans for Multiplayer, I hope they wait with it until they at least implement solid groundwork for it.
i found a green safe and it needs squares that can be found, for example, under a table near a hole, and for these same squares there are connectors in a green safe, i found six out of 9, i searched the whole map in search of the remaining 3. Do you have any idea where they might be?
Where abouts did you find the safe? I know one of the squares is under the satellite dish ontop of the main building. Another I believe is in the bunker if I recall correctly? (Noclipped in)
One is on the backside of the upper part of the Satellite 'Uniform'
Yes. By odds, if you're down to three, then those are the ones on the ground out in the wilds in the middle of nowhere. As to the coords, or to look at spoiler maps with the locations tagged, please check on the Discord server in the Spoilers channel.
I found a large statue of what appears to be a cat with 6 massive bazonkas sitting next to a rabbit statue outside of the level to the north west (found using the drone, it lights up on night vision)
I turned on the main light in the base and my framerate just tanked. Turned everything in rendering down by one notch and the game ran fine after, but hoo... was not expecting the funny fake steam alien game to run my card so hard.
Other than your game running not so great on my ancient 960, I've been having a blast. Hope to see another update soon!
That's the problem with ever advancing game engines. It doesn't matter how stylized or "retro" looking your game is if you're developing it on something like Unreal Engine 5, which has higher requirements.
I can understand why the developer didn't actually use the Source Engine though. I'm pretty sure this game's inherent design (the big map) would be difficult to do on Source.
What a masterpiece! Certainly it is going to tell a dark, yet great story and I can`t wait to see the full release. There are a bunch to explore and a lot of secrets.
For example, the following secret is relatively easy to find. (Spoiler alert)
You first need to get a crowbar from the store. You can use it to break those supply crates. Most of the stuffs inside are useless blocks of coal, but there are also a few MRE and disks in them.
Then, break all the crates in your dorm. It will take a while even with your crowbar. You will find several bones and a skull in one box. After you break them all, you will find a boarded-up hatch. Use your crowbar again to break the two planks. Then, you can climb down the ladder. You can find a Van Gogh`s painting, an mre and a notebook down there. Read the notebook then.
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is it intentional that i don't get any drive boxes sent to me anymore? i think i got one on day one and then never again, i'm just ordering them now
My save is bugged, and when I start it appears as if I and my vehicle were in the sky falling, until I am teleported to the map entrance...
Out of curiosity (and to solve an argument with a friend), does playing on Sandbox mode not show/do story related events and signals, or is Sandbox just story mode with spawn menu?
how did you access sandbox mode???
SPOILER
I don't suppose someone could tell me how to get to the shovel? I see it inside a fenced in area with an odd structure in the center of it. Being vague on purpose.
bro try to throw an ATV over the fence and at the moment when it is behind the fence in the air sit on it make a save because it's not a fact that you will succeed the first time
So... I jumped into the tiny pool by the telescope and couldnt get out. Any chance to add a ladder? x)
try jumping and pressing CTRL when in the air
Spoilers! i guess?
so my game autosaved after playing "the end is near" disc, and i read after online i was supposed to delete the files. is my save just bricked? i tried to delete all traces and backups after the fact but i still get the game over.
i personally had to delete ALL my saved signals to get out of this one. i'm not sure if that's the official solution but it's the only thing that worked for me
Found a Bug where if you get woken up automatically you can't go into the pause menu anymore(probably because escape still tries to wake you up). I'm not talking about the dreams, I know you can't pause there, I'm talking about when your charakter decides to just wake up. You can just go to bed and wake up manually again to fix it.
Love the game BTW, awesome atmosphere and lore and I love the gameplay loop. Even if it's not meant to be played that way I could just grind it forever haha
How to open sandbox mode?
Pls help
How do you get out of the maze?, Once I loaded into the save I was in the maze. Tried running out of food and stamina it just stays 0.0. The game disables the menu when you're in there.
alt f4
I needed to reset days/events in order to play my save, as each time I tried to open the save I would be in the maze. On the plus side I still have all my points and upgrades.
Guys, my roof is leaking! Hot to fix it?
Uh... is there any possible way to put my saved worlds in new version of the game?
Save files are stored in appdata\local which means they will appear in any future update, but i strongly recommend to reset Days and Objects
Hm, okay, thanks. But here's the reason why I asked this: a friend has a problem with the settings. After one game crash yesterday, the game just won't save or apply the settings. Then it was the previous version. Upon restart, they are all set to zero, including the field of view and quality, and therefore the background in the main menu is completely pixelated, and in the game itself the player sees nothing but flickering white and black patches (the camera is zoomed as close as possible in the first room of the tutorial). Before the crash, everything worked good, installing a new version of the game did not help.
You can try to delete data.sav file
Okay, i'll try. But where is it exactly? (cause i can see only .dll's and .pak's files)
appdata\local\votv\saved\savegamesGame thinks a measly fence will stop me from completing the tutorial?! Think again!
I fell from the tower and clipped out of bounds.
nice one devin chat
Did the locations change for the keys to the green box in 0.5 or are they still the same I'm almost done editing a video to show all there locations and how to find them but I don't want to upload it when its done if they spawn in different locations?
No the locations are the same
hello how to turn cheats on num 0
Its only available if you play Sandbox mode.
And how does one go into sandbox mode? do I have to do a specific action in-game? or do I have to complete the story mode?
It unlocked for me once i passed 24 days in Story Mode.
Yeah, like MetalMnic, I believe you need to finish the story mode first.
Thank you very much for the response! I'm truly grateful!
thanks a lot
I got the zero g event then it crashed after that I loaded it back up to check the garage and my atv is missing is there a way to spawn a new one looked all over its nowhere to be seen.
Worth noting the drone came at the same time sounded like it was dropping off a box right before the event happened and it froze up and crashed could something have glitched and flung the atv?
found it somehow made its way to a bridge
How much gas did it have? ;-)
OVER 300...welp on one hand free fuel on the other this was right after someone tried to get in and now I'm never leaving the building without my crowbar >.<
Yeah , strange texture
and this mine video if anyone is interested
someone you also have such a bug, I lost all the saves in the game, but I rummaged through the files, but there are save files and settings, they are all at zero and they do not change, the developer notice and fix it!!!
Just post it here. He only really talks on the Discord server and he'll read it anyway
oh i see, he meant bug... i was thinking "He found a bag... what?"
got myself some friends to keep me company :) (anyone know where i can find the last argemia plush?)
also, when you turn the volume on the tv down to zero you can still hear the audio, i wanted the high speed spinning rat but couldn't hear my signals without free bird blasting in my ears haha
Hmm. I can't replicate the issue with the TV volume; mine is muted at lvl 0 even when pc volume is maxed. However, I know of some volume bugs spatially-related to the radio, so if you found or bought one by drone, then that's probably messing with your TV vol.
As to green argemia, no spoilers here, but feel free to ask on the discord server in the Spoilers channel.
I have some kind of bug, my saves are missing and the settings do not change.fix it
How can I play the sandbox without passing the company?
Does anyone know how to use the TV in the game?
You have to use Alt-E to activate it to get the input menu. It won't play YT links cuz those aren't the source file, but it'll play any other direct stream URL in the bottom box, or any path to local media in the top box (like 'C:\votv\videos\MyVideo.mpg' or whatever).
Thank you
wrong, does not work no matter what path you use
no matter what file type
This game has an incredibly steep learning curve, but learning all of the mechanics, and how to operate the complicated machinery provides an immense feeling of accomplishment. I spent the first few days having fun just cleaning up the mess in the base. Only being able to pull objects, and not being able to push them, has caused me to get trapped in a corner more than a few times. But honestly getting crushed by a supplies crate while tidying up is exactly the kind of hilarious frustration I look for in a game. Everything can quickly get out of hand if you're not constantly keeping up on tasks and maintenance, it's a great challenge.
The lonely atmosphere of the mountains has me totally on edge. This feeling of dread is enhanced by all the little clues of objects left behind and areas locked and out of reach. I haven't encountered any monsters, but I have the sense that there is something strange going on just out of sight while I'm focused on my job. I'm so paranoid and always locking the doors behind me before going to bed. Riding the ATV around the mountains at breakneck speeds to fix a tower before it gets dark gave me genuine terror I haven't felt in a game in a long time.
I love how hilariously overworked the protagonist is, such an insane situation that they are supposed to manage this entire facility on their own. The survival mechanics are a great addition to this game. Find alien signals or starve to death is such a funny concept. Keep up the incredible work!
So you -can- crouch jump, although the key sequence is maybe backward from what you've seen before. Move forward, then hit Space first + CTRL. You should be able to vault the crates. I'd been playing for months before I realized the option was there (was doing ctrl+space and that doesn't work).
good tip thanks for the info
Stoked to see the future of this game. Best of luck!
Found a neat little glitch.
- minor spoiler -
If you put a camera on the wall beside the ladder down in the painting room, it tends to swap orientation when the game loads and ends up outside the game geometry - letting you look at some of the things happening behind the scenes.
ADD MULTIPLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!
no
YES >:3
does anyone have any idea what this entity near my base could be? its been there for several days and doesn't move at all. i went to that spot and wasn't able to find anything. it's definitely not the beacon though!
i have finished story mode and have been on day 25 for a while if thats important. i'm just really curious what this could be or if anyone else has experienced it.
Any idea of how far beyond day 25 it appeared?
I've also completed the main story days and have so far seen one contact I've not been able to actually see - however it was both moving and disappeared the following morning.
Best guess is that something either got stuck underground or is invisible. You could try aiming a Good-quality camera towards the area, in case the nightvision mode picks up on something in the air.
Hmmm did you buy a drone?
i dont really remember when exactly it appeared tbh. i dont have any drones so thats not it either.
i played some more just now and now theres actually two entities right next to each other in that spot???????? no clue whats going on lmao
i do also assume that something just got stuck somewhere or its a glitch or something. no matter how and how often i check, theres nothing there. still really weird though..
It's usually either your ATV or your camera drone, especially if it's daytime. That location looks like it might be around Bravo/Barbel, just past the radio tower on the West side of the canal. If I'm wrong, then it might be the top of the radio tower.
yeah it is kind of near bravo, but still relatively close to the river, the part where there are a few rocks. it's definitely not the atv, that's at my base. also not a drone, i don't own those. i've just accepted that i will never find an explanation haha
Yeah that's weird. If you're a ways into the game (by days), then it could be a specific ent triggered by an event, but usually that one chases you. The other one that hangs around the NW quadrant only comes out at night, and doesn't usually get too close to the base. There are other triggered events too, and some of those may show up. If you don't see anything on the ground or in the sky, and you can eliminate the atv and drone, then tbh I dunno what it is.
thanks for the help though!
theres a duende in the woodz sooper scary!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's the system requirements to run the game smoothly throughout? I've tried to play the game, but, it keeps slowing down tremendously after a period of time and I don't know what's causing this to happen
What are your computer's specs? And do you have something to track temperature, like Speccy, or just Windows 10+'s built in graphic card temperature thing?
Does saving and restarting the game help with the slowdown, or does it just happen over time?
Both are actually the case. It slows down overtime and it helps saving and restarting the game.
That's good at least. That means your PC likely isn't setting on fire.
Have you tried cranking the graphics to the absolute worst and see if it still gets slow over time?
I'ma try that soon, Playing Pokemon right now. I was just checkin'.
Ok, now I actually know why it's bad on my end...
My computer is outdated and can't handle big files very well; including games.
Are there any plans to implement multiplayer, even player-run server support would be amazing.
I don't think that is a good idea.
The game would need to be fairly redesigned for multiplayer to be a useful part of the gameplay. Sure, you could have people running around on the map, having a look at hash-codes or trying to track down a blip on the radar - but from how the game looks right now, it is certainly not designed with multiplayer in mind.
None of the tasks the player do in game requires more than you, the player to do them. And none of the tasks the player can do would be helped with multiplayer in mind - with the potential exception of figuring out where a radar contact might be.
If there are plans for Multiplayer, I hope they wait with it until they at least implement solid groundwork for it.
What text to speech does the tutorial use?
i found a green safe and it needs squares that can be found, for example, under a table near a hole, and for these same squares there are connectors in a green safe, i found six out of 9, i searched the whole map in search of the remaining 3. Do you have any idea where they might be?
this is what the squares look like
Where abouts did you find the safe?
I know one of the squares is under the satellite dish ontop of the main building.
Another I believe is in the bunker if I recall correctly? (Noclipped in)
One is on the backside of the upper part of the Satellite 'Uniform'Was wrong about the bunker one
I found a safe near the victor satellite north of the antenna
spoiler
the bunker cannot be opened even from the other side(but there are things)
Yes. By odds, if you're down to three, then those are the ones on the ground out in the wilds in the middle of nowhere. As to the coords, or to look at spoiler maps with the locations tagged, please check on the Discord server in the Spoilers channel.
I found a large statue of what appears to be a cat with 6 massive bazonkas sitting next to a rabbit statue outside of the level to the north west (found using the drone, it lights up on night vision)
I turned on the main light in the base and my framerate just tanked. Turned everything in rendering down by one notch and the game ran fine after, but hoo... was not expecting the funny fake steam alien game to run my card so hard.
Other than your game running not so great on my ancient 960, I've been having a blast. Hope to see another update soon!
yeah the game can be surprisingly demanding at times
That's the problem with ever advancing game engines. It doesn't matter how stylized or "retro" looking your game is if you're developing it on something like Unreal Engine 5, which has higher requirements.
I can understand why the developer didn't actually use the Source Engine though. I'm pretty sure this game's inherent design (the big map) would be difficult to do on Source.
joel check the rada
What a masterpiece! Certainly it is going to tell a dark, yet great story and I can`t wait to see the full release. There are a bunch to explore and a lot of secrets.
For example, the following secret is relatively easy to find. (Spoiler alert)
You first need to get a crowbar from the store. You can use it to break those supply crates. Most of the stuffs inside are useless blocks of coal, but there are also a few MRE and disks in them.
Then, break all the crates in your dorm. It will take a while even with your crowbar. You will find several bones and a skull in one box. After you break them all, you will find a boarded-up hatch. Use your crowbar again to break the two planks. Then, you can climb down the ladder. You can find a Van Gogh`s painting, an mre and a notebook down there. Read the notebook then.