Underrail: The Incline Awakens

[Tigranes]

Hello everyone,

I'm a newbie to the cRPG genre and I was wondering if this game is right for me. So far, I have only played Fallout, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Dragon age: Origins and Pillars of Eternity 2, and I liked all of them, my favorite was Shadowrun. How hard is the game compared to these games? Also, does it have a lot of frustrating design choices? From what i've read people dont seem to like the backtracking and the slow walking speed, is that fixed? How long will it take me to go through the game? Also, is there a lot of situations where you dont know where to go and are just exploring until you stumble onto something that progresses the game?

Thank you in advance.

It's a more hardcore RPG than those latter three, but not by some preposterous degree, and once you get into it you'll be rewarded with a far superior combat experience in particular. Many Codexers consider Underrail one of the best CRPGs, period.

It's going to be more grounded and sombre than the spectacular 'epic' of especially DAO. In many ways its design sensibilities will be more true to Fallout than the other three you've played. The slow walking speeds are now mitigated with an in-game speedup option similar to POE. It's not a very expensive game at all. Get it!

 

[Tygrende]

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is that language based on something in real life or just gibberish?

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It's like an amalgamation of different slavic languages. I can recognize a few words from my own language and make at least a bit of sense out of most of it. All of it has actual meaning, none is gibberish. The same goes for the language savages use.

 

[Parabalus]

Are there plenty of Q185 stuff in the expansion content? Did find any yet in the base game, upto Institute.

No, the highest quality components I could find before DC with Expedition were around 150, with the exception of super steel that goes up to 160. They could be that high in DC, maybe, but that's very unreliable and imo not worth spending points for. They also could be a bit higher before DC with mercantile, but I wouldn't know.

I found up to 160 before DC, that's standard for pre-XP. The tables on the wiki got increased to 185, might be found in DC then.

 

[fantadomat]

Hahahaha just met kokoshka in free drones hide out,he must be a new character,quite the chad .

 

[Tygrende]

Hahahaha just met kokoshka in free drones hide out,he must be a new character,quite the chad .

He's a very old character, he just got new sprites fairly recently.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Blaine]

which vendors without mercantile give highest quality crafting stuff? Mainly interested in cloth, padding and electronics

From what I can dimly recall, you'll tend to find the best stuff in Core City and Foundry. The electronics shop in Junkyard is also good, the faction vendors (one of them, anyway) is good for stocking up on compounds for manufacturing explosives, and I think the surgeon in Junkyard occasionally sells high-quality psi components.

Also, I believe most of the merchants in the game get a stock upgrade after a certain point, or maybe it's just SGS.

 

[Blaine]

Funny enough, the most powerful defensive skill is Electronics.
Would you not agree, Styg ?

Yeah, pretty much. Shield emitters stronk.

Styg, does that sound like a good idea?

*sounds of Blaine's and Sykar's #1 Underrail Fan certificates being shredded in the background*

 

[PEACH]

I just finished the West Storage Facility and I'm in love.

 

[ItsChon]

speaking of sneaky 3 con builds with no defenses, here is beautiful carnage left by my thrower

there was only single trap laid out.


in a month maybe i will reach dlc content

Can you post your thrower build? I tried playing one and it was woefully ineffective. What difficulty was this on?

 

[hilfazer]

which vendors without mercantile give highest quality crafting stuff? Mainly interested in cloth, padding and electronics

For black cloth and padding it's Harold and Derica. Maybe Lucas and Beckett too. Chance is low so visit them often. For electronics it's Investigator Kiro of Tchortists, Buzzer and a shop of secret organization. Halim and Coretech merchant aren't bad either.
For blast cloth visit Oscar.

 

[Tigranes]

*roll shotgun build*

*go to armoury, answer YES, YOU MOTHERFUCKER, GIVE ME A STARTING SHOTGUN*

*realise that is still a joke option from back in the day*

 

[Elephantman]

*roll shotgun build*

*go to armoury, answer YES, YOU MOTHERFUCKER, GIVE ME A STARTING SHOTGUN*

*realise that is still a joke option from back in the day*

Its not imo. Persuation.

 

[ItsChon]

*roll shotgun build*

*go to armoury, answer YES, YOU MOTHERFUCKER, GIVE ME A STARTING SHOTGUN*

*realise that is still a joke option from back in the day*

It isn't. If you have high enough persuasion you get a unique shotgun called "Shoddy Shotty".

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Tygrende]

which vendors without mercantile give highest quality crafting stuff? Mainly interested in cloth, padding and electronics

For black cloth and padding it's Harold and Derica. Maybe Lucas and Beckett too. Chance is low so visit them often. For electronics it's Investigator Kiro of Tchortists, Buzzer and a shop of secret organization. Halim and Coretech merchant aren't bad either.
For blast cloth visit Oscar.

Ezra can have surprisingly good electronics, too. At least after tchortists get the Cube.

 

[Tigranes]

*roll shotgun build*

*go to armoury, answer YES, YOU MOTHERFUCKER, GIVE ME A STARTING SHOTGUN*

*realise that is still a joke option from back in the day*

It isn't. If you have high enough persuasion you get a unique shotgun called "Shoddy Shotty".

Wait what? I tried rolling with 15 Pers and it wasn't enough. Maybe you need something like 20 with INT bonus?!

Here I come you gun hoarding motherfucker get ready to be fellated

 

[Elephantman]

Its a really shoddy shotty.

 

[fantadomat]

It seems that the oculas quest is still bugged lol.

 

[Tygrende]

It seems that the oculas quest is still bugged lol.

What do you think is bugged?

 

[Gregz]

Hello everyone,

I'm a newbie to the cRPG genre and I was wondering if this game is right for me. So far, I have only played Fallout, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Dragon age: Origins and Pillars of Eternity 2, and I liked all of them, my favorite was Shadowrun. How hard is the game compared to these games? Also, does it have a lot of frustrating design choices? From what i've read people dont seem to like the backtracking and the slow walking speed, is that fixed? How long will it take me to go through the game? Also, is there a lot of situations where you dont know where to go and are just exploring until you stumble onto something that progresses the game?

Thank you in advance.

Walk speed has been increased but there's still lots of backtracking.

I wouldn't recommend this game to new players because it requires meta knowledge to plan your character, and you can easily wreck your build. Underrail is more difficult than any of the games you listed.

The game is huge, it's easy to get lost, and you'll find yourself encumbered (walk speed slows to a crawl) frequently. It's not newbie friendly, it's for the hardcore crowd who want a survival challenge.

 

[Tigranes]

Are difficult games never any good for newbies? Should everybody follow a linear course from easier to harder games? I would say that the fact that he even tried Fallout, and liked four quite different CRPGs, means he is a man of taste.

It would be no shame to walk away and try some other more immediately enticing games first - he should check out the Codex top RPGs list - but he will be back for Underrail, because it is quite simply too good.

 

[fantadomat]

It seems that the oculas quest is still bugged lol.

What do you think is bugged?

It seems that if you talk to the old man in the manor before getting the quest and the info from the two labs you can't advance the dialogue with him. He repeats go away traitor or something along those lines.

 

[Elephantman]

Just wanted to ask if its worth it to go to Camp Hathor as psion, but instead ran there quickly and found a temporal mentor (not teacher) for sale. Nice. Nice ability too. Probably random shop inventory though.

This was a great dance of juggling fear-from-fire/stun/fear/mental-incap and forcefield and psibooster cooldowns.
Very happy with Pyromaniac.

I like how initiative is now at -1000 on map re-enter. I think my sniper/ar from release version just reentered the map for first strike and escaped indefinitely on this map.

 

[fantadomat]

It seems that the oculas quest is still bugged lol.

What do you think is bugged?

It seems that if you talk to the old man in the manor before getting the quest and the info from the two labs you can't advance the dialogue with him. He repeats go away traitor or something along those lines.

Never mind,it fixed itself after i did some of the optional stuff like catching a slug and fixing the monitor.