The new controls really suck. I really need an option to revert to the old controls at will. As far as I understand, this was done to support gamepads, but come on, I haven't played in a while and I still can't get used to the new buttons.
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My god, I'm in love! This is so much more involved and super interesting so far. New controls are going to take a bit to get used to, but I think it has a lot of potential. Not sure what will be kept and what will be reverted, but I think this is a really cool direction to go into - feels a lot more like you're actually working an old listening post.
I really like the new controls. I do however have some issues:
- If you have the crafting menu open while falling down, the menu stays open.
- It's unclear how to sell itemboxes and other bigger items.
- If the atv runs out of battery you can't start it, and it's unclear how to replace the battery.
- I feel like 5 signals per day is way too much as I can't get them even if I spend all day pumping signals.
I like the new floppy disk and the round disk along with the new server upgrade and module mechanics.
Great update with some small issues that needs to be resolved.
I like the new controls and gameplay changes in this update. It makes it feel a lot more like you're a professional scientist being paid to do something complex and technical. However, with the amount of time it takes to get everything done now, I assumed Dr. Bao would ask for *less* drives, not more. As it stands, there's basically no time to do anything except download signals and run to get the server hashes. I'd like to see that changed. Otherwise, I think this update is a step in an interesting direction and I'd hate to see the changes walked back to appeal to people who want the game to be something different than the developer's vision for it.
Two important bugs to note: Repairing the oven is broken in this update. Removing the panel from it puts you in a bugged state where your screen is still stuck on the oven panel but you can walk around and interact with things, and can't progress the oven minigame. I tried to regenerate my save to see if it would fix this, and instead it broke everything more, turning a whole lot of things into errors that I could not interact with or get rid of.
Anyone else seeing a glowing light in the bedroom? It's in the middle of the bedroom, bathroom, and a third on the balcony.
They only appear when I'm right over them and if I try to look down at them directly they vanish. At first I assumed it was a texture bug or something where it is visible when I'm in a certain range and then looking down breaks the effect allowing me to see it, but I notice in the dark the room gets brighter, light is being cast on objects closer to it when it appears. So it's not just some buggy texture floating there, it's emitting light when it is visible.
I've been ignoring it, every time I head to bed or use the toilet I just have to walk through the flashbang floating in the middle of each room but it's certainly not an event since it never goes away.
Am I going crazy or are sponges vanishing when left alone?
The only sponge I've managed to keep more than a day was one I left in a bucket which I can only assume was safe because buckets are now storage containers and can "lock" small items in them. Now that's gone too after the bucket got knocked over spilling the sponge and water out, when I got back from repairing a transformer it was only the bucket left.
For some reason I can't seem to open or even extract the latest folder because of a "Error 0X8000FFFF Catastrophic Failure". When I looked up what it meant, it's saying that my software is runs 2 conflicting programs for some reason. If any if you guys know what i'm talking about (since Idk myself) it would be appreciated. Otherwise I guess I will have to wait until the version actually comes out.
I also like the new controls and system overall though. I'll wait until a stable build is out to play again. I think the amount of trash is staggering but it might be fun to clean it all, it's not what i expected to like about it when i first played. The trash piles you use garbage bags are rather easy to deal with it's the ones made of debris that are annoying because they take up a lot of space in your inventory and containers.
The turtorial is beyond frustraing and the controls are pretty clunky. I did try because I have watch Joel and the librarian play Votv for awhile now and always wanted to play but just kinda stopped partway through the tutorial I got so frustrated with the controls. Granted this could be because I'm used to playing everything with a controller but considering when I tried remapping for the controller but it just would not read half my inputs. Are there any plans to add proper controller support or a preset?
A few problems that personally I believe need to be changed:
1. settings locked behind X amount of days. Why? It makes certain settings feel useless.
2. Bug fixes galore, day speed not working, a certain structure's absence, ZIP drives becoming errors when exiting and reloading a save, and so on.
3. Some QOL changes, like making the ATV function a little better (Battery, sturdiness of wheels).
Aside from these small issues, the update is grand. The bugs are bad enough I'm personally waiting for a bugfix release before getting more in depth