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I bought this the other day. Pretty neat, reminds me of oddworld where everything wants to eat you or kill you. I just got past the garbage and think I'm going the right way. I've gone into it blind and the only piece of advice I was given is avoid the drainage pit as its a newb trap.

I got halfway decent at it and beat Survivor, but Hunter is too much for me. If the time limit weren't there I might be able to enjoy it, but with it for some reason the game just stresses me out too much to even get a few cycles into a run.

More Slugcats fucking when, though? And PC update when?

I remember finding the… bug princess? Or something, I can't remember, but it was a female character I believe.

That weird guide creature kept point in her direction but afterwards… didn't show up yet. Heck, most of the time that guide creature didn't' even point the right or closest way.

I'm not sure what to do after that. As in: I'm pretty sure there's one tunnel among the 200 tunnels I've passed on the way here that lead into a new area I haven't visited. That's pretty much how I found all areas past the first one. I also remember one "Karma Gate" I passed on the way here that I didn't open because I didn't have enough Karma, but fuck me if I remember where that was now.

I'm pretty much wandering around, trying to find it, and the initial excitement and wonder are slowly being replaced with boredom. After an hour of two of wandering and trying new paths, you end up sticking your head in a tube that a Lizard was sleeping in and bam, that's one Karma level down, so fuck you: get grinding or that door stays closed.

I''m not sure I like the Karma system. I can understand the reason and why they made it this way, but if you have a nest near a gate you need to open, you end up farming Karma for a few minutes, and farming isn't one thing I thought I'd be doing in this game.

There's plenty of cool shit though, especially the interactions between the wild life. I loved figuring out that you could trade pearls for safe passage with those "tribal" things. Always keep a pearl on me now because of that. I love how terrifying the Vulture creatures are, you really feel like prey: running into the nearest hole, trying to distract them, dash like mad when they're busy with another prey they snatched.

Some dickish moves though, especially with the "black bush/kelp plant that helps you climb OH OOPS, it just pulls you down and kills you, LMAO". A small portion of the game is just noob traps, shit you're garanteed to fall into and lose a life the first time you're going through. That by itself will annoy and pull many people away, but with the Karma system they got going, that's gonna extend that "annoying/frustration" feeling to a lot more people.

Shame, the artstyle really grew on me, particularly the animations.

Also, the game barely explains all the movements you can do. You can backflip in the air and throw a spear down like you're some devil may cry bunny skewering demons.

>>16787247

After finding "the bug princess" the guide is supposed to point you towards a new area, (actual spoiler:) or fuck off if you did something specific. I'll give you aomw general hints on direction from the shoreline: there's 3 wide water areas and the one you need has a lot of land bits and finally you keep going right on that one, then up once you get inside. It's not in the place you met that character

Note that the guide shows an inteded path, but certainly not the shortest or maybe even easiest, just one that follows the intended difficulty curve and shows interesting mechanics.

As for karma, stop caring about it until you find a gate you want to pass, famring a whopping five minutes only whenever you find a gate hardly requires effort nor should it be boring. There's also always eeeeeh? easy modo? without karma gates, although it's less lethal in general and requires more food.Finally, you're the first person I've met that didn't realize the kelp was trying to eat them. It lurches towards you from a pretty good distance, for god's sake.Be wary of anything new, and keep distance accordingly, then only investigate closer if it seems safe. Works for everything except one creature, the eyeball things in garbage wastes. And possibly the tribe, but they get essentially explained to you on the guided path. Everything has to perceive you somehow, you get an unfair advantage with your 2D view. Different creatures have different senses.

>>16787222

>There's a mod for that™ if you didn't know

I do know, but that feels like cheating Hece why I want the damn slugcat mod, so I can play the ame a lot more with different characters until I git gud enuf to play Hunter.

The update supposedly gives the two non-survivor modes a new ending, too. Even more reason for me to wait with playing Hunter.

>>16787321

I got to the new area, still looking around and getting lost, but at least it's somewhere new and exciting and that's where the game shines it's most. Thanks for tips.

The killer-kelp I'm talking about isn't on water. That one, yeah, it's fairly obvious. I'm talking about one specfic screen, where there's several vertical poles you need to climb higher, only one of them is a kelp with no leaves. As soon as you jump towards that "pole" to grab on, it actually grabs you, the "kelp" leaves show up and it pulls you down.

It was an assholish moment that you learn to avoid in the future, but it made me wonder why the hell was it there. Because you're right, everything else is pretty fair as every creature as to spot you and you can evade things if you take the time to observe and learn. That's my favourite part of the game.

Those octupii monsters in the underwater for instance were terrifying, but then you leave the water and think yourself safe but WOOP, they can also walk on land and I've never ran so fast in my life.

Unfortunately I know that the Guide disappears if you eat one of the shinny things in the "bug princess" lair. I spoiled myself when looking up movement techs as >>16787247 pointed out. It's a shame, but one I can live with.

>>16787364

>only one of them is a kelp with no leaves. As soon as you jump towards that "pole" to grab on, it actually grabs you, the "kelp" leaves show up and it pulls you down.

That's a mimic, they show their leaves every so often in a breathing pattern. If you kill them a lot them can evolve into the big kelp ones. They're kind of there to make yu go slow and methodical even when traveling, not just around new creatures, I guess. Also I think you can last-second spear them if you do grab on, but you need really good reflexes for that.

>i love cats

>i hate slugs

I don't know how to feel

>>16787611

They're slimy and gross

>>16787619

Slugcats aren't slimy, they're fuzzy. They evolved from artificially created pipe-cleaning bioconstructs which were more slug-like, though.

i keep trying to get into this game because the atmosphere is great but i always die to shit 5-6 transitions in after i hibernate twice and it just feels so tedious to keep playing. is there something i'm doing wrong? It's like i want to be captured by the game but I just can't.

>>16793164

>mid game spoiler

If you're already full, you can hold the eat button to store some edible things in your stomach like you can with rocks. Same goes for pearls, but there you don't even have to be full. Also pretty sure stuff in your stomach teleports along with you

>late game spoiler

If I remember correctly, you'd have to go deeper and then out another exit that eventually leads to shorelines, but you'll have to pass through some of the most difficult areas in the game for that. Though I think there's another exit, too, but I don't know that one myself.

>>16793169

The game's about learning from those mistakesand overcoming them, early on you die a lot in the first area but after playing through a few others you'll probably be able to breeze through it from one end to the other and back in a single cycle while pissing off every lizard in the map. If nothing else works, consider either Monk mode, or practice killing shit in arena mode. Killing the things that try to kill you often makes the game easier, along with various other perhaps non-obvious solutions. For instance killing a bird lets you take it's mask and holding that thing scares away most predators, and you can feed some critters like the large flies to lizards to tame them.

It also helps to just not give a shit about surviving for a while, exploring everything you can, and then looking for a strategy to easily survive the exact amount of cycles you need to pass through a gate you found. Combined with stockpiling fruit in your sleeping den and the karma flower which respawns at your death location that should at least allow you to bumble through the game even when you're shit at it.

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