Trying to understand a few poorly-explained game mechanics

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zeo1337

Oct 9, 2024 @ 3:50pm

Trying to understand a few poorly-explained game mechanics

I have a blast playing this and think the combat is very fair and easily accessible. However certain things just are not explained well and it's hard to find any sort of guide on these things. The in-game tutorials are usually useless, and almost any source I do find is out of date.

1. Food. What is fullness? It's a separate stat from hunger and thirst and doesn't explain how to increase it. What happens to me or my pet if we run out of food?

2. Bullets. I mean I get the whole penetration thing and certain features are explained in tutorials (that show up way later than they should, rather that just giving you a (?) to click for some reason). But what it's very unclear what I am doing when trying to get ammo for my weapon. At first I thought you needed to stick ammo in your backpack, but then I found out you can pile it all in the slot next to your weapon as long as it's all the exact same ammo. (And if you enable the ammo spawn restriction, it will only care about that type, even if you have plenty of other types for that weapon). But then when you to purchase ammo, it asks you how much you want to carry. I think this means your buying that ammo. Yet if you tell it to choose a different ammo it will literally just back you out and do nothing? Beyond this, I don't know how to tell which ammo goes in my gun from the shop without looking at details and trying to remember which exact guns I'm carrying, when they could simply tell you if it's a match. Unless I'm missing something... Or if I have something like lead cores that I can craft into bullets, I have no idea which bullets to craft without checking each bullet's details and trying to remember all 30 of my guns' names, many of which are on the weapon rack, so to even check what they are I have to go to the rack, click every individual gun and check the names. This is a tedious process.

3. Submitting. Okay when you have an item quest or can unlock a new item in the shop you will get a "submit" button. Sometimes pressing this takes the item away from you. Other times you keep the item. I have no idea when I am going to keep the item or when I am going to lose it.

4. Draws. Are these only accessible if you buy tickets with real money, or do you gain them some other way? There's too many features in this game you don't have access to at the start, but you don't even know how to access them. And there's definitely too many draw systems.

5. Hela crystals. Why do they break sometimes? I think it's the radiation storm, but since no explanation is given in game, I'm literally just guessing. Also I think these are a chance item that guarantees an unlock after a certain number of uses, but for some reason they say so many uses are necessary, even though you can get the item sooner than that. That's probably a translation issue. Speaking of translation issues, if a crystal breaks, the item does not translate to English anymore.

6. Quest requirements. This one's more general. Certain quests simply do not give you the correct instructions. For instance, I was told to "craft a class 3 armor". So I picked one I wanted and crafted it. That did not work. I had to craft a specific one, but it did not tell me which one. So I completely wasted the only materials I had to craft with because the mission gave me incorrect instructions. I would love to have a simple guide somewhere where I can look at what I actually need to do to beat certain missions or use certain items. I've even had certain quests parts that I completed, but later marked themselves as uncompleted.

7. Controls. Seriously how do you disarm? It's like a QTE but it literally doesn't tell you what button (or buttons?) to press. One time it launched me across the map? then I unlocked invisibility, but the game doesn't tell you how to use it. I finally found the key for the module under the controls menu, except it was listed under a completely irrelevant group on controls, and for some reason doesn't possess a tooltip even when you bring up controls on the side of the screen.

All that to say, I understand a lot of this may have to do with the language barrier of the development team. But I would very much like someone to make a proper guide for this game, because I think it's a great game, even if poorly-explained at times.

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^112^_Maurone has Lost Light

Oct 22, 2024 @ 2:14pm

1 fullness for pets: depending on the pet, you have to buy pet food or battery. Fullness for yourself: any medikit. Health restored by food and drinks

2 do not trust the descriptions. The only bullet you need are lv 4 and 5, depending on how much you can pay. Find a gun you like and use proper bullets. Or you will get mad

3 submit in quests means you will loose the item, you are giving it to the game. Submit in the archive means that it is the first time you get that item and if you show to the archive, you will unlock it and be able to buy it anytime you need. More, there are unlockable and locked items. If the game rewars you, for example, a magazine, you will be able to use it but if you loose or sell it, you will not be able to get another. If you find it in a game, and extract, it will have the gereen icon and showing to the archive it will be unlocked. with the Pheroprint, you can transform locked items in unlocked

4 no. Real money for tickets, game money for ingame items

5 hela is refreshed few minutes before the radiaton storm. when you collect, you have to extract before the next radiaton storm or it will be useless

6 yes quest descriptions are ugly. For the quest you carry on example, you have to craft the armour from the quest itself. there is the button. another ugly quest is to obtain the high risk booster from airdrops, it is false. You get it randomly by killing Raymond or the sisters

7 Do not disarm

hope it helped

Segador

Oct 23, 2024 @ 9:25pm

Some quest are actually broken. For example one of the quest for chips ask for a specific mod but if you get it before the quest the quest continues to ask for that chip and you cannot do it because you have already unlocked it. I bypased it using the Hela Source Analysis.