Underrail: The Incline Awakens

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[fantadomat]

I just finished every side quest in the original game and only the thvor university remained. So i decided that is time for my 26 level dude to go on a expedition. 5 minutes in and already want to decapitate the dick that is hiring me. The balls of that chad,threatening the invictus lol. Also 30 level cap feel perfect for the base game,it is shame that it wasn't in the original.

 

[LizardWizard]

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

20 persuasion

It sucks and has no re-sale value. But still better than pistols/smg early though

 

[Agame]

Is hard difficulty a good experience compared to normal? Just wondering if its the typical super painful early game but then by mid game once you can abuse economy its not much harder than normal (which seems to be how it works with a lot of games).

Not sure if I am in the mood for a grindy early game but I remember normal got a bit easy after awhile on my last playthrough.

 

[sebas]

Nothing grindy about early game hard, it's great imo. You have to use the tools at your disposal to get ahead

 

[Jezal_k23]

I just finished every side quest in the original game and only the thvor university remained. So i decided that is time for my 26 level dude to go on a expedition. 5 minutes in and already want to decapitate the dick that is hiring me. The balls of that chad,threatening the invictus lol. Also 30 level cap feel perfect for the base game,it is shame that it wasn't in the original.

I'm thinking you might stomp the content at level 26. And then stomp DC too later at level 30.

 

[Maggot]

Recommended level for Black Sea is 15, right?

 

[Jezal_k23]

I believe so. Personally I'd find it boring just to stomp over everything in the expansion, but to each their own.

 

[Blaine]

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

Chances are, you put on your beginning rathound armor, which decreases Persuasion enough to fail most of the start-of-game checks. Smelling like fermented rat sweat is a real killer.

ive recomended at some point to coworker underrail and aod. Aod got discarded, underrail ended up played a lot.

In retrospect underrail is very good at hooking people in it. I do not understand what it is but people get interested in various aspects and spend time to learn more. Its quite even experience, you might hit a wall but it will be many hours later. At that point you can quit or start over, either way you will get your entertainment.

Regarding new players "getting into" Underrail:

Eh, what? I gave this to a little relative and she's having no trouble at all - very accessible, in a good way. I'm having trouble seeing how anyone could rate it as difficult.

That's probably because she's a child who hasn't been conditioned to play games that lead you by the hand every step of the way.

I stumbled upon that insight (i.e. that modern gamers have been conditioned into their shit tastes) when I gifted Underrail and AoD to a British Steam friend of mine. He's spent almost all of his gaming lifetime playing proper hard competitive and cooperative first-person shooters, and had had little or no experience playing RPGs.

He didn't find Underrail difficult or "inaccessible" at all, and finished two playthroughs handily. He hasn't started in on AoD yet, but I'm sure he'll get around to it.

Here's my British first-person shooter Steam buddy—who'd barely played an RPG in his life up until recently—playing the copy of AoD I bought for him months ago right around the time AoD hit 1.0. He booted it up with no further urging from me since I gifted it, and he's been at it for a few days now. He sank 100+ hours into Underrail, too.

He also played Fallout and Fallout 2 at some point I'm unaware of.

This reaffirms my theory that people are trained to expect decline and therefore ruined, incapable of appreciating incline. When not tainted by the decline, a fresh face quickly learns to enjoy actual RPGs that are difficult and complicated.

Taste for decline must be learned. If not preconditioned to decline, fresh faces will take to incline like fish to water.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Underrail is the only game that blesses me with miraculous RNG one turn and then fucks me in the ass the next.

 

[Drowed]

So... I explored all of Nexus of Technology (except that room where you have the musical puzzle because fuck that thing), and there's no option to tell Oldfield what I found there? Do you have to pick any very specific items or do some very specific thing in order for that option to appear? I think I did everything I could and practically looted almost everything that wasn't nailed on the floor.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Someone gotta update the wiki with all the machete info.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Got lucky and a single fight dropped 4 oddities. Beautiful.

 

[fantadomat]

Fuck i got stuck at the first/mutie's dungeon.

Spoiler

Does anyone know how to open the surveillance door?

 

[Ramnozack]

I’ve heard some people mention there are psi boosting weapons now, is that something you can craft or is it only on unique items?

 

[Urthor]

Almost 5 years later and the fact that saving the train still locks you out of the free drones quest line is still infuriating

 

[Jezal_k23]

Almost 5 years later and the fact that saving the train still locks you out of the free drones quest line is still infuriating

I'll agree that this really needed a fix.

Also is it worth crafting shock machete or is it always better to go for vanilla?

 

[Fenix]

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

I guess all merchants upgrades after certain plot points, at least at SGS they upgrades at least two times.
Without Mercantile - Institute, Oligarchs (Coretech), Oculus.

three pointer, ripper, skinner, clothier, paranoia, sprint

Probably ex-NBA star, former athlete, who become paranoid, and now is a maniac - killing innocent people, skining them, and like sewing clothes form their skin.
Yeah... that's a profile... too much cocaine I guess?

it only on unique items

Also is it worth crafting shock machete or is it always better to go for vanilla?

Well, additional damage - why it can be bad?

 

[Jezal_k23]

I don't know, for some reason I thought adding something special might take away mechanical damage or something.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Uh, does it bother anyone else that your name can't be capitalized?

 

[Blaine]

Uh, does it bother anyone else that your name can't be capitalized?

Is your shift key broken? My character's name is capitalized.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Men, what are the changes to the Lost train quest? Is it possible to join the FreeDrones after persuading them to return the train?

 

[Jenkem]

started a new game to test a new build and it has overwritten all my old saves? why the fuck isnt there a set of saves per character?

FUCK this game.

 

[Sundevil96]

started a new game to test a new build and it has overwritten all my old saves? why the fuck isnt there a set of saves per character?

FUCK this game.

I still have saves from 2015 and only started playing the game again on Monday. I have no idea what you did...

 

[Jezal_k23]

Uh, does it bother anyone else that your name can't be capitalized?

Is your shift key broken? My character's name is capitalized.

Huh. Caps Lock doesn't work then. Interesting.