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Underrail: The Incline Awakens

Discussion in 'Underrail' started by Blaine, Dec 18, 2015.

  1. Tito Anic Magister Shitposter

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    Beastro, also JKK will give you a chance to romance... sortoff
     
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  2. Beastro Arcane

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    :backawayslowly:

    Praetorian it is then...
     
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  4. Excidium II Self-Ejected

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    How useful are nets at that point of the game?
     
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  5. Nines Learned

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    I have a feeling the perk doesn't worth it without energy weapons.

    Well, it's not like I'm looking for any more stealth bonuses. I was more interested in survival. Seems like it would be better if I'll be relying on shield rather than armor.
    I also noticed that NPCs have more badass armor models, while using the same stuff. I still hope it's obtainable. :negative:

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  6. Tigranes Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    Excidium II Are you writing a Prima Guide to Underrail or something

    Nets aren't very useful IMO after early game, since there are better solutions for your AP cost by that point (flashbangs, incendiary grenades, just kill them, etc). Perhaps they last a bit longer if you're a throwing character.
     
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  7. Excidium II Self-Ejected

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    lol I'm just trying to get information to make informed choices. Thanks
     
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  8. Blaine Cis-Het Oppressor Patron

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    >burst fire builds
    >"good" :smug:

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  9. ArchAngel Arcane

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    Funny. I am in Institute now and one guy says "it is small" but I am getting lost inside of it. FUck their "small" :D
     
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  10. Tyko Barely Literate

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    Blaine I am playing what I would consider a standard pure Psi build right now. I think you mentioned earlier you're running a stealth-Psi? I was curious on your build for that, if you don't mind elaborating.
     
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  11. MasterSmithFandango Arcane

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    Institute is awesome.
     
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  12. Blaine Cis-Het Oppressor Patron

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    I decided to give Jake a little "Underrail overhaul" to more closely match the male player character model's brown hair, Underrail's red goggles, and Underrail's leather armor aesthetic:

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    Of course, I can't personally use this in my game. :negative:
     
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  13. ArchAngel Arcane

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    We need a unique model for Gorky. Gorsky is the BOSS!
     
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    I find them to be very useful. They complement flashbangs nicely since flashbangs are resisted with fortitude while nets are resisted with evasion. So whenever I see a dude wearing heavy armor and a sledgehammer (you know, the kind of guy that can kill my character in a single turn if he gets close with full AP) I entangle them. Never seen it fail in a situation like that (and my throwing has an adjusted score of only 45). Flashbangs are more useful when you're dealing with several "light" enemies since they tend to have low con and, therefore, low fortitude.

    I used a net against Balor before alt-tabbing to write this post. Nets are useful and cheap.

    He DOES look a lot like Duke Nukem.
     
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  15. Blaine Cis-Het Oppressor Patron

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    I realized this about a week ago, and it took me far too many hours to come to said realization: Advanced Repair Kits require 40 scrap to create and restore 500 durability, while recycled items yield 1 scrap per 10 durability. Therefore, if you repair a crappy old 5mm Hawker (or whatever) and then recycle it, you've in effect retained the repair kit while gaining 10 extra scrap you wouldn't otherwise have had.

    The moral of the story is to repair shitty things with advanced kits BEFORE recycling them when you are able, as long as they're missing 500+ durability. Do this four times, and you'll have a "free" advanced repair kit.
     
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  16. ST'Ranger Augur

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    Are we speaking of the same creatures? The Tchort creatures I encountered were all 1-shot by a crossbow, so I don't really think that qualifies as HP bloat. HP bloat is the shrooms and the Deep Worms.

    I agree that having combat available that you're intended to avoid is not good design (it's basically... anti-content), but my original point still stands that it's silly to complain about "hordes of respawning creatures" when you can literally fight 0 of them (at least before big bad) after figuring out how they work.

    Complaining about the respawning mechanic in itself? That makes sense to me. But complaining about having to wade through "hordes of respawning creatures" when all can be entirely avoided is disingenuous and sidesteps the real issue.
     
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  17. Beastro Arcane

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    This is too OCD for me. I'm not even at the mid game and I've already got more than enough repair kits and loot on the back burner that I don't need to sell them.
     
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  18. Aenra Guest

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    I see the fanboy crowd still finds ways to defend ..respawns.. in a single player RPG. We have even dared, no sorry, YOU have, to enter the 'dead static world' argument territory..
    Well done ye fucktards, well done :)

    :bravo:

    For the sake of accuracy, let us not neglect to mention how it is even 'bettah' that said respawns are trash mobs, nor that, if we could only top it, it is ok because you NEED extra materialzz!!1111
    ie, yes, heard it here first folks, it's all very incline when a game's pacing, progression and ingame economy is based on.. MMO-like respawns. What will you ask for next idiots? Dailies? Seriously? I thought i was the newfag here :)
    Honestly expected better from some specific people in here. Updated my text.
     
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  19. Excidium II Self-Ejected

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    Enemy respawning and scaling based on various factors are good things to have in a CRPG.
     
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  20. Lhynn Arcane

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    DC question

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    Do i have to kill faceless? they wont let me progress.
     
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  21. Tigranes Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    I've put about 100 hours in with various characters, all of which stopped at Core City except for the current one, now at the Institute.

    I think part of it is that Underrail does a great job at making you want to try the other types of characters. But the other part is that I think the game does have several clear weaknesses. And one of those is that some areas / quests are just boring and bad - the quality is not consistent. I haven't been to DC yet, but stuff like Lost Train backtracking, the hopper quest, the boring courier back and forth built into a lot of other quests... Foundry is a cool concept with some nice art but is generally a boring place to be, as well. The other point is that your characters tend to be pretty set by around level 12, and then there's not a huge amount to look forward to except for bigger and better versions of what you already have.
     
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  22. Blaine Cis-Het Oppressor Patron

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    Yes, the occasional group of animals spaced five to fifteen screen transitions apart in some locations respawning once every few hours is JUST like an MMO, wherein nearly all enemies in every area of each zone respawn constantly.

    You are a complete imbecile if you genuinely believe that respawning fauna or enemies is alien to the single-player RPG. Your knowledge of RPGs must have more holes in it than a national sorority get-together.
     
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  23. MasterSmithFandango Arcane

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    I said I thought rathounds were cute...

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    Lol.
     
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    I did Coretech because they gave me a kind of Syndicate vibe. There was nothing particularly stealthy, magey, actiony about the quests. One quest could be done without killing but the other two had unavoidable killing. The last quest I'm not sure how you'd manage without traps, but I guess you could just slap down beartraps as those don't require points in traps. If you want to spend an hour on the map.
     
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    "Depressing decline"!? Styg is indeed "one of us".
     
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