Serum
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SwordsOfTheSouth_Toplitz  [developer] Feb 5, 2024 @ 3:47am
Demo available - Feedback here
The wait is over!

We're excited to announce that the SERUM demo is available now on Steam. Step into a world of danger, where survival is a race against time. Craft weapons, brew Serum, and uncover the truth behind the EVAS conspiracy. Are you ready to face the challenges that await?

Please post your demo feedback here.
Last edited by SwordsOfTheSouth_Toplitz; May 23, 2024 @ 3:57am
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Time Tells Feb 5, 2024 @ 4:20am 
well i am struggling to even launch the game, its saying

Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory, try lowering the resolution and/or closing other applications that are running. Exiting...

so i tried launching it in safe mode, but still unable to launch it

done some research from when it launched and all in all, i have the needed GB in ram and memory, but still refuse to launch
SwordsOfTheSouth_Toplitz  [developer] Feb 5, 2024 @ 4:40am 
Originally posted by Time Tells:
well i am struggling to even launch the game, its saying

Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory, try lowering the resolution and/or closing other applications that are running. Exiting...

so i tried launching it in safe mode, but still unable to launch it

done some research from when it launched and all in all, i have the needed GB in ram and memory, but still refuse to launch

Your GPU has 8 GB RAM or more?
First of all verify the integrity of the game files in the Steam client. Next option: force DirectX 11. Last option: update your GPU drivers, please.
Last edited by SwordsOfTheSouth_Toplitz; Feb 5, 2024 @ 4:47am
Time Tells Feb 5, 2024 @ 4:50am 
Originally posted by SwordsOfTheSouth:
Originally posted by Time Tells:
well i am struggling to even launch the game, its saying

Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource. Make sure your video card has the minimum required memory, try lowering the resolution and/or closing other applications that are running. Exiting...

so i tried launching it in safe mode, but still unable to launch it

done some research from when it launched and all in all, i have the needed GB in ram and memory, but still refuse to launch

Your GPU has 8 GB RAM or more?
First of all verify the integrity of the game files in the Steam client. Next option: force DirectX 11. Last option: update your GPU drivers, please.

thanks, it worked forcing directx 11, the last option, updating my GPU drivers can wait a bit longer... xD
Mr. No_Effs_Given Feb 5, 2024 @ 10:01am 
Game hits the GPU pretty hard, jezz. Performance is not good, either. RTX 3060, Ryzen 5600. Please try to implement DLSS, TSR looks horrible.
2046564505 Feb 5, 2024 @ 10:12am 
中文在哪?
:steambored:
Louis Steel Feb 5, 2024 @ 1:05pm 
this game runs like utter turd i dont have a bad pc by any means and it runs like im trying to play it on my toaster
Jojo Feb 5, 2024 @ 1:08pm 
I cant use Serum on start. I hit TAB and then move mouse to the serum icon and click - nothing happens. I also tried F and E - nothing. Help pls <3
Also: WHY THE ♥♥♥♥ DO I DIE WHILE IN PAUSE MENU? lol
Rave Jesus Feb 5, 2024 @ 2:46pm 
Where do I even begin, what an awful demo this was. The performance is ABYSMAL, struggling to maintain anything above 40FPS on a 13th gen i7 and a 2080 Super. The Combat is extremely floaty and doesn't feel good at all, and I'm unable to craft any bandages/healing items at all but I'm expected to travel 500+Meters with the zombie dudes, Fog Wolfs, and the Rats?

Put this back in the kitchen for another year at the very least.
szefo Feb 5, 2024 @ 2:57pm 
Performance needs optimization, vsync needed, remove ultrawide black bars, but other than that first impression are good, nice idea.
I mean rtx 3060 is an entry card, but this is a liitle too much.
Dr.NanoSpider Feb 5, 2024 @ 3:58pm 
he says runtime error need microsoft visual c++runtime i have all installed don´t know what to do can somebody help me do i need some commands or so to run it can someone send me to commands then pls? files are veryfied already plus i re installed the whole game
Last edited by Dr.NanoSpider; Feb 5, 2024 @ 4:06pm
Snowpan Feb 5, 2024 @ 10:18pm 
So far, i would like there to be confirmation from sound or light from interaction, using recycle, when you use the generator, more feedback from the game when swinging at enemies
Karbo Feb 5, 2024 @ 10:47pm 
Where is your Chinese?
Volt Feb 6, 2024 @ 12:23am 
Not the Metro experience I was hoping for, but not bad for a small indie title. Performance needs optimization, I had more than a few drops/ freezes on ultra using a RTX 3090 ti. Map needs some work too, I jumped over a concrete pipe and sank in a rock waste deep, although, I could run out, so not game breaking, but it does break immersion. I did have to hard restart the game once due to the game not recognizing my input from my mouse during a dialog. Voice acting is great! Story seems interesting enough to dive in, I hope it holds up. One thing I definitely disliked was the generator fuel, if we need to supply fuel, then at least make it last. I used all of my supplies to fill it up, just to see it completely drained in the time I needed a new shot.
Time Tells Feb 6, 2024 @ 2:05am 
well then, played it some yesterday and now today, first off
there are several areas in the starting area, where you clip through rocks, minor problem, some floating rocks, minor, but the save i had yesterday is now a broken mess where i crash when i try launch it, lost my hp/stam hud and its gone still

i tried making a new save and now its working again, but had to go afk for a bit, so instead of dying after 10 min, i of course quit the game and went to main menu, but now again when i go back inn, my hud is gone again

adding on, now i can get inn, play for 10 seconds, then i get a fatal error has occured, not whats wrong, just error and crash
Last edited by Time Tells; Feb 6, 2024 @ 2:08am
Tutifrutilandia Feb 6, 2024 @ 3:44am 
The demo have a timer, you have a timer, there's a lot of backtracking, go to site 1 collect the ingredient that is almost a km away, back to your base, craft it, go back again to site 1 to be able to cross the fog.

Plus there isn't explained nor showed properly how much of toxicity the serum that you are crafting will grant you, is like 3 serums, 15 mins out of your base and you are dead....

If you will get an agent in the future that lower toxicity why you have to penalize the player early on for playing the game? It would be better in the other way with the lore covering it

"because you are injecting so much serum in your system and you have been exposed so much to the blight, your inmune system is deteriorating and can't create antibodies to fight the toxicity of the normal serum, you will need an improved version"

A thing that happens in real life with our bodies, if you take for a long period of time something that your body produces normally your body would stop producing it, because is getting it by other means, but it wouldn't synthetize in your metabolize the same way and in the end you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. And taking into account the protagonist was a test subject for this blight to be inmune, it kinda makes sense.

But well, a lot of talk to something that wouldn't get changed.
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