safari mode is a hot mess to play

[Deerbeetledog]

Im honestly surprised i haven't seen anyone mention this, but safari mode feels unfinished and broken, a couple things that come to mind

sometimes creatures will actively fight against your inputs (especially noticeable with scavengers), for example i will try to enter a pipe as a scavenger and it will try pulling back and walk in the other direction, once i had one incessantly try to enter a pipe i was trying to go away from, and sometimes they will just refuse to move. it may be the case that this is intentional, but taking away control from the player in this way feels frustrating either way.

sometimes the game will just go completely unresponsive, overseer will just be in the room and none of my inputs do anything, and this happens WAY too often, at least once per session, leaving the only option of restarting

last but not least, creatures tend to fall through the floor randomly.

dont get me wrong, im not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the devs in any way, rain world is my favourite game and downpour is really good, its just suprising that after 4 months none of this has been fixed.

[MadArtillery]

Scavs have a personality system that also fights the scavs themselves so I figure it's just a fear responce according to thier hidden traits, If you control a braver scav you'll run into less running away against your will. I wish moving around without a creature was easier but I was surprised how well a lot of creatures worked that were never intended to be played by a player if you learn their leg length. Spitting spider took a lot of practice to learn to walk but by the end I was killing long legs and traversing underhand without dieing and killing everything I saw. Lizards are fun to play too and I finally figured out how to work the tenticles on a long legs.

Ironically only dealt with falling through the floor in normal rainworld with creatures falling through.

[goober]

when creatures fall through the floor in safari, i always die. probably an intended backup because the devs probably knew about the bug, but i hope that doesnt mean they're abandoning the bug and never fixing it.

[Tat011]

Originally posted by Deerbeetledog:

Im honestly surprised i haven't seen anyone mention this, but safari mode feels unfinished and broken

Yup, i'd say it's pretty obvious that they didn't play test it... exept we have public footage of just that from years ago so i guess they just ignored their playtesters instead.

Originally posted by Deerbeetledog:

creatures tend to fall through the floor randomly.

they can go through walls too... and the ceiling.

Originally posted by Deerbeetledog:

dont get me wrong, im not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the devs in any way, rain world is my favourite game and downpour is really good, its just suprising that after 4 months none of this has been fixed.

I am, i mean this is the rule not the exeption, spit and eel lizards are still bugged as all hell, the mod loader still shuffles the mod order and refuses to actually load mods, on co-op the game over screen sometimes shows up when only one person dies and sometimes not (it's not the only co-op bug) and so on...
And we have gotten, like, one patch? come on.

[goober]

Originally posted by Tat011:

Originally posted by Deerbeetledog:

Im honestly surprised i haven't seen anyone mention this, but safari mode feels unfinished and broken

Yup, i'd say it's pretty obvious that they didn't play test it... exept we have public footage of just that from years ago so i guess they just ignored their playtesters instead.

Originally posted by Deerbeetledog:

creatures tend to fall through the floor randomly.

they can go through walls too... and the ceiling.

Originally posted by Deerbeetledog:

dont get me wrong, im not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the devs in any way, rain world is my favourite game and downpour is really good, its just suprising that after 4 months none of this has been fixed.

I am, i mean this is the rule not the exeption, spit and eel lizards are still bugged as all hell, the mod loader still shuffles the mod order and refuses to actually load mods, on co-op the game over screen sometimes shows up when only one person dies and sometimes not (it's not the only co-op bug) and so on...
And we have gotten, like, one patch? come on.

we got one patch and one apocalyptic bug mess t\hat destroyed the controls and all mods. i love this game, but lol the mess that thing caused was incredible.

[Edgio Auditore]

Yeah... just playing safari mode myself for the first time... and I must say it is quite underwhelming to spectate most species.

Very irritating to me is that awkward behavior some species tend to have. It looks like as if some of them are reacting to the "observer" popping into a corner of the screen. It lead to those mothbats to run from one room to the other back and forth ad infinitum.