What's the goal of this game?

[BlackSoul]

I've played survival games like ARK: Survival Evolved where the goal was to farm rare dinosaurs / items and ultimately to kill bosses to leave the island and battle-royale games like PUBG where the goal was to kill other players for getting a better loot to survive & win the game.

But it is not clear to me what's the point of SCUM, what's the goal...

In my 8 hours i managed to get some rifles (like AKSU, SVD) and kill couple of players. As well as to find / cook some food, to take some medications, etc..
But ultimately i feel like we are getting used to game mechanics rather than actually playing it. I feel like some crucial content or an important part of the game is missing.

So can you please share your opinion on what's the point here? Farming fame points? Hiding some loot in woods? Watching metabolism stats for w/e reason? What? :)

[Chainsaw Squirrel]

If u have to ask prob game is not for you

[Shotgun Susan]

Right now the goal is to test it, find bugs, be an active community, support the development. If you bought it to play as a normal survival/shooter by all means do so but it will be lacking content, you will still help gather info in order to get this game running beautifully.

It's going to be hard, frustrating, and buggy as hell but in the end the payoff is a more complete game and a happy devteam.

[Desmonaut]

Right now there's not much else to do, you can squeeze more hours playing with friends or trying to have interesting encounters with other players.

But that's because it's early access, the game warns you about the lack of content in the loading screen, this is what they have planned for the future:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/513710/discussions/0/1737715419889405829/

[BlackSoul]

Originally posted by Chainsaw Squirrel:

If u have to ask prob game is not for you

Maybe you're right, all i'm asking "what's the goal in your opinion"?

Originally posted by Shotgun Susan:

but it will be lacking content

Do you know what kind of game changing content may come in future?
Bugs/issues are completely fine, i went through many EA games and understand it. But i don't recall being confused on what's the ultimate goal in any game.

[Shotgun Susan]

Originally posted by BlackSoul:

Do you know what kind of game changing content may come in future?

Boy do I!! https://steamcommunity.com/app/513710/discussions/0/1737715419889405829/

[BlackSoul]

@Lupete @Shotgun Susan Thanks. That's an impressive list. And to be honest SCUM probably has the most beautiful graphics at the moment (it's UE4 after all).

Anyways, it seems that either i'm missing something important or this game lacks some important piece. After several hours it feels like there's nothing left to be done (yeah probably can get better rifles, or hide some in the forest, or farm some fame points - but why?). So probably will check this game later.

[Shotgun Susan]

Originally posted by BlackSoul:

@Lupete @Shotgun Susan Thanks. That's an impressive list. And to be honest SCUM probably has the most beautiful graphics at the moment (it's UE4 after all).

Anyways, it seems that either i'm missing something important or this game lacks some important piece. After several hours it feels like there's nothing left to be done (yeah probably can get better rifles, or hide some in the forest, or farm some fame points - but why?). So probably will check this game later.

Please do! It ain't much right now but I feel it can compete with dayz/pubg/fortnite all in one shot once it gets going stronger.

[Dr. Sinister]

To hold hands, hug eachother and sing kumbaya

[✯ ratwaR ツ]

dude its a fkn early acces, maybe read the "early acces road"

[Desmonaut]

Originally posted by ratwaR ツ:

dude its a fkn early acces, maybe read the "early acces road"

you mean "early access roadmap" and it's already been linked, no need to get so defensive about someone asking a question when you can just ignore it.

[BiGEdge]

Your a prisoner put in a sick TV Show, like in the movies Arena, Gamer or Deathrace etc.
Your been forced to survive for the enjoyment of the viewers.
You have to watch your own metabolism, so you will not get fat or clumsy to have lot of advantages. This alone is very challanging. To fight your own Body.
You can follow the rules of the TV show. Survive against others whoo havnt and have been revived as "puppets", Computer controlled Zombi like corpses hoo are remotely controlled over theyre BCU Monitor in the neck.
Or you can try to rush into military bases, secured by TEC Mechs and try to give your self an Advantage in the TV Show.
You can either follow the rules and survive, kill others and entertain the viewers for Fame or
you can decide to escape the system if your intelligent and tough enough.

Survive as long as you can or invest famepoints to get revived alive.

Always keep in mind...
A cabbage is more viable than a gun in Scum!

[BlackSoul]

Originally posted by 𝔹𝕚𝔾𝔼𝕕𝕘𝕖:

Your a prisoner put in a sick TV Show, like in the movies Arena, Gamer or Deathrace etc.
Your been forced to survive for the enjoyment of the viewers.
You have to watch your own metabolism, so you will not get fat or clumsy to have lot of advantages. This alone is very challanging. To fight your own Body.
You can follow the rules of the TV show. Survive against others whoo havnt and have been revived as "puppets", Computer controlled Zombi like corpses hoo are remotely controlled over theyre BCU Monitor in the neck.
Or you can try to rush into military bases, secured by TEC Mechs and try to give your self an Advantage in the TV Show.
You can either follow the rules and survive, kill others and entertain the viewers for Fame or
you can decide to escape the system if your intelligent and tough enough.

Survive as long as you can or invest famepoints to get revived alive.

Always keep in mind...
A cabbage is more viable than a gun in Scum!

Thank you very much, that helps. Maybe i've played survival games too much, i kinda stopped valuing my character's life, instead started valuing rare items / advanced buildings / etc. End-game content with other words...
It's clear that one of core elements of SCUM is monitoring your character's metabolism to survive longer, but it is not clear why.
Killing? After some amount of killing it becomes boring.
Farming loot? Well there's no decent way of preserving loot in long term or transfering through servers. So again not much of an interest.
Fame points? Well maybe if you could spend them on something valuable. I've only used to respawn near my body so far.

To all those saying "this is Early Access" - so what? I played ARK and PUBG from day one. It's obvious that EA games lack content, are buggy and have issues. But not having clear game purpose... i don't think any of those games had this issue. Maybe it's my subjective opinion, that's why i'm asking here to see what others think.

[KaptKrunKed]

Not be bad

[JPow]

Originally posted by Shotgun Susan:

Right now the goal is to test it, find bugs, be an active community, support the development. If you bought it to play as a normal survival/shooter by all means do so but it will be lacking content, you will still help gather info in order to get this game running beautifully.

It's going to be hard, frustrating, and buggy as hell but in the end the payoff is a more complete game and a happy devteam.

THIS ^^^ somebody post a sticky thread with this comment at the top of this forum!

[Heathy]

its a survival game so i'd say the goal is to survive. if your asking in a abstract way, i'd say the goal is to have fun.