#Clearing dark apartments and buildings at night in outskirts is everything i ever wanted from vr.

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limpid yacht
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Just figured i'd make a positive post since....somebody should.

Ignoring the glitched dandelion anomalies you guys have absolutely knocked it out of the park with outskirts in 1.0. It's deadly, it's so immersive, it's stressful, it's just perfect.

The changes you guys did to the mimic ai and audio behaviors work so good in this area. You're in the apartment, you don't hear mimics inside talking but you hear shuffling all around you. You expect one to be around every corner and the sound and atmosphere and dark, the cube sounds, the deeply unsettling night sounds have you so on edge that even when you finally find a mimic it still surprises you.

Then you hear more shuffling, are things coming in from outside? Sometimes you're quietly looting and you have to stop because you're not sure if the footsteps you're hearing are yours or a mimic quietly creeping up on you which happens frequently how they will go from apartment to apartment barely making a sound.

Just yesterday i turned around and raised my gun at some footsteps the moment a silent mimic turned the corner to enter the apartment i was in after me. I shot at it and it immediately ran away, i turn the corner where it ran and it was already gone, where? who knows but now i can hear more of them coming up the steps from outside and an absolutely epic firefight ensued. It all works so perfectly with the audio, the realistic shadows and lighting. You're just THERE all alone in this horrible place.

Congrats on just the most perfect nerve shredding, immersive isolation horror I've ever played. 👏

The progression change is also notable. The outskirts is WAY deadlier now. B efore once i got base armor and a rifle i could go anywhere in outskirts. I was surprised to see me having to go back on my last two outtings with unfinished missions because the increased enemy count and smarter more versatilie mimic ai really stretched my stims and ammo out thin.

exotic ferry
gritty gulch
sturdy drift
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They have grown on me a bit. Now that the game doesn't chug quite so badly there. In the past I've hated it, and i still think it's probably some of the weakest level design in the game at present due to the repetitiveness, but playing with item loss on all upon death and refusing to save scum, i think the tenseness catches up to the dull monotony I used to experience in them

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I brought an akm with the lvpo scope, and even at 1x i found it abysmal at close range cos of the tunnel vision lol but it made it even more tense and i found myself feeling actively anxious after putting the headset away lol

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First time feeling genuine unease since itr1

gritty gulch
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the lpvo is bugged right now, it's not 1x

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it looks like either 1.5x or 2x when the dial is set at 1x

sturdy drift
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Seems that way but i wasn't sure if it was just the scope effect or something

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It also like, barely zooms in at all

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Cos i know for a fact that aint 6x

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But it's fine i rarely need to use that much magnification

jagged pewter
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I love the idea so much

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I still think they can do a lot more with what they have

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I’ll let them cook

sturdy drift
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Aye there's more potential there

exotic ferry
jagged pewter
crude frost
exotic ferry
limpid yacht
random socket
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it's a shame in my as experience there wasn't really a point in clearing apartments in my 2nd (ironman) playthrough as i cleared most stuff in my initial playthrough, and clearing apartments in the dark was my favourite aspect of the game. aside from finding a sr-25 in like 8 cleared buildings, the loot just wasn't worth it and it was a lot of rounds expended for something that'll be repopulated in due time. i find it interesting to see that ppl would continue doing missions with SL5 ||as both times i went straight to final area and i had thought those groza nvg dudes were exclusive to that area ||

jagged pewter
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The lab, shooting range, new guns to fill out the current calibers, more variety in missions

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Those are things I either know they’re doing or is very likely that they’re going to do

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Maybe a new map, new enemies

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This game is not done cooking for another year at LEAST

crude frost
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If they were done cooking, the lab wouldn't still be under construction

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And the shop wouldn't still have some empty walls

jagged pewter
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✅

crude frost
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Oh oops you said that already

limpid yacht
# jagged pewter Maybe a new map, new enemies

where have they said they might do a new map and new enemies and missions? I seem to recall them doing a pretty big "maybe" with 4 player co op and the lab and a shooting range but also cautioning people to not get their hopes up too much.

I don't recall them even hinting they're interested in doing anything beyond that.

limpid yacht
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the equipment placing ones and the sample container ones would be really good for deep inside some of htose buildings.

jagged pewter
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I said

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Those are things they might add

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Things they’ll likely add are more guns and new missions

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And things that they’re GOING to do, is 4 player co-op, mod support, and the lab and shooting range

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It’s not about hopes

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They’re just nowhere near done cooking

limpid yacht
# jagged pewter Bruh

I can read. You don't need to tell me what you said. I asked where did they say it. Because the last time i saw them say anything about it it appeared to all be pretty up in the air. The closest thing to a certainty appeared to be 4 player co op.

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that said i can't believe anybody cares about getting more suprefluous stuff liek a shooting range or the lab when we got so little content in the base game. Just can all that shit and make some more actual game/stuff to shoot.

jagged pewter
jagged pewter
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So wdym

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The game isn’t cooked

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I completely agree with you

limpid yacht
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what?! How did you get that XD

jagged pewter
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The lab will be important to the game tho

jagged pewter
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It’s not cooked

limpid yacht
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as of now with the things i've seen them say i think we might get 4 player co op which would be cool and maybe a shooting range or lab, MAYBE both, two things i don't give a shit about.

limpid yacht
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i don't expect we'll get much more content

jagged pewter
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I think that you believe their done cooking

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When you know that there’s not enough food

limpid yacht
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basically

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i mean there's enough

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i think the game is good.

jagged pewter
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I don’t think they’ll stop anytime soon

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Gimme a minute

limpid yacht
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it's just not what i expected.

jagged pewter
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But the potential is crazy

limpid yacht
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i think what's there is amazing.

I was just not at all expecting like 3 less entity types and 3 less locations than itr1 at all lol

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but i think that's what we got, i think it's cooked and it's done.

jagged pewter
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Those are all things that are like half and half on being added

limpid yacht
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Yeah, a big fat "maybe/if we can get to it.

jagged pewter
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Some are absolute like the lab and others are kindy iffy

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Well they WILL be able to do, if they didn’t bury themselves too much

limpid yacht
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Like that's how i talk when a client asks me if they can get a bunc hof elements that just aren't in the budget for an illustration they want XD

"Uh, if everything goes perfect i might have labor hours to do all that extra."

jagged pewter
limpid yacht
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back to the cooking analogy, this is itr2 and i think probably will be.

jagged pewter
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Lol

limpid yacht
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It looks amazing. It tastes great.

There's just not a lot on the plate but what's there is great.

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I genuinely hope you are right and i'm wrong

jagged pewter
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Ngl that does make sense

limpid yacht
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obviously

jagged pewter
jagged pewter
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Just watch

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1.1 will be insane

limpid yacht
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LIke the main thing that keeps me from being upset at what we did get is co op cuz co op in something like this is a dream

jagged pewter
limpid yacht
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i will dump a lot of hours into co op

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k. i hope you're right

jagged pewter
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It’s so buggy, hopefully the bug fixes keep coming back to back

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I’m loving it

limpid yacht
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i just wish they'd stop with all the superfluous stuff

jagged pewter
limpid yacht
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like i'd have preferred they not spend a moment on any of the gun customization and shop and gear stuff and give us more entities and locations

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like they could have changed NOTHING from itr1 gear wise other than presentation and i'd not have complained if we got that and co op

jagged pewter
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It makes the game feel more of a tac shooter since the guns are just so insanely advanced compared to the rest of the game

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The new missions were awesome tho

limpid yacht
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realistically as a pessimist my biggest hope now is that they have a good grasp on those systems and have them sorta premade that in itr3 it will free up a lot of time to give us more stuff on the plate.

jagged pewter
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And the statues

limpid yacht
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like we have the worlds fanciest forks

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but not a ton on the plate to eat with them lol

jagged pewter
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And working on polish

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On unfinished and untouched mechanics

limpid yacht
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Yeah, that's why i have no expectations that the game isn't basically done

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i think it's gonna be more or less maintenance mode with maybe a couple little things like 4 player co op or the lab

jagged pewter
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Nah but they also said that they’ll go back to adding stuff as well

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They always surprise us with the updates, idk, they def have something cooking, that isn’t just another firearm

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Hopefully