Bug Reports

[The Blotch]

First off, excellent job with the atmosphere of the game! Also, keep doing your thing! It's not easy trying to do what you're doing with your small team and budget, but you're on the right track by engaging the community.

Let's begin my assessment based on my less than 1 hour play time...LOL

1. BUG REPORTS: I don't know if you have control of this, but it would help if you created a pinned/starred discussion post specifically geared towards bug reports. That will help eliminate some of the duplicate bug reports because we would be able to scroll through and see if it's already been reported, and also to add more info to reports that may be lacking in detail.
   
   
2. MAIN MENU: Having the tutorial pop-up in the main menu kind of sucks. I loaded up the game for the first time and was about to go in to the "Options" section to optimize graphics, audio, etc., and before I could, I was forced to decide on if I wanted to run the tutorial or not. It might be better if you have the tutorial as a menu option rather than as a pop-up.
   
   
3. TUTORIAL: It's...not helpful at all. Sorry, but as a brand new player of this game, I learned absolutely nothing about the actual game play itself. What is classified material, what does it look like, and what do I do with it? What basic things do I need to know? How do I heal myself? What does the temperature meter mean? What is my purpose????
   
   Fueling a snowmobile and driving it to a helicopter that has the most unintuitive control system I've ever experienced is not a tutorial, unfortunately. The only thing I gathered from it was that flying the helicopter was something I never wanted to do again.
   
   
4. OPTIONS MENU (CONTROLS): Everything is duplicated under itself in each section.
   
   
5. SNOWMOBILE: Hopping on the sled immediately starts the engine. I don't know if the monsters can "hear" us, but if I'm trying to be sneaky, the last I want to do is accidentally press "E" near a snowmobile and give away my position.
   
   The engine idle sound is spot on! However, once you start driving, it still can be heard under the "engine rev" sound. Speaking of driving the sled, that acceleration sound SUCKS! It is nowhere close to what a real snowmobile sounds like while ripping through the icy landscape and takes away from the atmosphere.
   
   
6. ON THE AIRCRAFT: I played solo twice and was thoroughly confused as to what the purpose is of that opening sequence inside the C-130. There's no point to having that, especially if you can skip the countdown timer. I never waited for the timer to count down because there was nothing for me to do during the 2 minute countdown.

[Amaury72v]

Ill explain those questions as they come by, reply if u still need help whit something.
1-Agreed, we need a bug report in game
2-When u first open the game a pop up will say: ayo' you want to play the tutorial or figure things on ur own. It will be improved as showed on the roadmap (both on steam news and in the YT channel of the game... I think he also has a discord server)
3.Tutorial shows the bassics but yeeah, it's kinda bare bones, in a nutshell: you are a scientist whit the task of getting as much info on what tha hell is going on before the US government nukes the living hell out of it. Classified material Is evidence u get in order to win, being the lowest required 6 while the max being 10, the more you get the more points you get and the better you get rewarded. By default you can heal only whit painkillers, however perks can change that. Vaccine on the other hand does not heal you but cures the infection. Temperature = not being dead, you can gain it back by going into a funtional or powered by a generator building (some tends will not warm u unless they have calefaction even when powered). You can see anytime what to do on ur map (press M), on the left side of ur screen u can see which tasks you need to do plus which ones you already done. Some may require getting vaccines, getting infected and doing a scan while others require you to take photos or activate the satellite in order to complete them. BTW helicopters are kinda buggy right now and they slide whitout any reason or motive to do so, plus they are very fragile.
4.That might be a visual glitch but it's likely to be changed later.
5.Monsters can hear you if you sprint or drive however you can hide from them if they don't get aggro on u, and that doesn't mean they won't roam near you or try to find you regardless. And yeah it's kinda loud the snowmobile, for now all I can say it's lower ur volume so it doesn't be as painful as it might look.
6.The aircraft is your lobby before entering the game, it's purpose it's only to be a waiting room, you can custom the max time you can be there or force the game start by pressing enter (if you are the host of course).

Just give the game some time and im sure most of it will be fixed while making a better tutorial + more intuitive.

[пуклик]

I think we need to work on optimization. I don't have the weakest computer, but I don't load flashlights that need to be driven and transparent rocks.