>>746701570
not enough sexo

Game was made to entertain 1 streamer manchild so the dev can hear him make funny noises.

It's pretty good, but being an early access game with a patreon the development is glacial and the only things that seem to get added aren't things that people are interested in. There isn't really any new content. No new signals or spooky shit. Just easter eggs for streamers and slight revamps of systems.

OJOJOJOJOJOJOJOJOJ

>>746701570
Escaped the containment protocol

>>746701570
Turned into streamer bait, lost it's original style, and keeps adding stuff that seems kinda dumb given the game's context like the green fire town.

>>746701570
The paying audience of the dev's patreon is made up of terminally unfunny tranny discorders like >>746701593

Core game theme about "things from outer space" abandoned long ago.
Now it is all pointelss system revamps, more busyworks and "follow this 19-steps guide from discord to activate new meme event".

it was always a shitty janitor sim with le hecking freaky vibes for streamer content

>>746701570
0.9
and also any post map-update versions, but 0.9 was the final nail in the coffin

>>746701570
0.10 after 0.9
>>746703150
this, the game peaked in 0.8

>so, this new secret involves gathering 20 unassuming items into this specific spot of the map, arrange them into a pixel perfect shape, and wait for a real life clock to hit a specific date before jumping backwards thrice
>no, there's no hints anywhere pointing to any of this, why do you ask?
>reward? yeah, you get to look at this silly meme someone sent me last week, but in-game!
>why yes, we expect the community to have fun figuring this one out with zero tools
>dataminers are literally hitler, don't believe their lies, you're supposed to do it the impossible way and have fun!
>btw you can always just become a patron and learn all the deets if it's too hard, wink wink! just be careful not to spill the beans when you vaguepost on discord!

>>746701570
the dev became more interested in pleasing streamers and making content for streamers than having a game

the inevitable result of combining autism with tranny internet lifers as a fanbase

>>746701570
>Download game for listening to outer space and signals as advertised
>Hey this is fun and creepy
>Download the game three years later
>1 new signal and 2000 new memes and a shitload of on the nose events
Gee, I wonder.

>>746703871
>the inevitable result of being retarded and allowing yourself to be surrounded by cultists
Fixed.

>>746704018
>whats the difference between these words
>they're the same words
>dot jpeg
except mine specifically describe the people involved and yours are generic

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Convince me to buy the plush.

>>746704090
>mine specifically describe the people involved
So do mine.

Discord troons and streamers killed this

>>746704260
>the dev killed it
Yes. Never be friends with castration cultists.

>>746704091
You can stick it in the microwave and not be assaulted by surprisingly ugly cat women.

not enough freaky space catgirlfriends

>>746701570
>What went wrong?
Early access, twitch streamers and fandom

>>746703748
>>so, this new secret involves gathering 20 unassuming items into this specific spot of the map, arrange them into a pixel perfect shape, and wait for a real life clock to hit a specific date before jumping backwards thrice
Is this real or are you being hyperbolic?
If you're being hyperbolic, how bad is it really?

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>>746704091
i would have bought it day 1 if i didn't live in europe, too expensive to import

>>746704504
>surprisingly ugly cat women
All cat women are ugly, zoophile.

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>>746704835
Your lack of zoophilia makes you unable to make this comment in good faith, and in turn compromises your integrity.

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It became WEG without having any porn in it.
>updates are rare
>the games slowly loses its focus
>constant reworks of things that didn't need it
>instead of progressing the main plot devs focuses on side fluff and discord memes
>optimization still a mess

>>746704979
>devs
its one hyperautistic like, 22 year old, who was 16 when he started making it or something

I have a strong gut feeling that the main dev is couple of years away from trooning out.

>>746705019
He has a troon handler that does 3d modeling IIRC.

>>746705039
He didn't already troon out? this game is extremely troon feeling these days.

>>746701570
Game about creepy stuff became uncreepy.

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Time go back to signal simulator.

>>746705019
> 22 year old, who was 16 when he started making it or something
That explains why he chose to transition his game to the quirky fandom overdose genre

>>746704091
This looks like a cheap copy of an actual plush.
There so many things that are just a bit off that it looks plain bad.

>>746704979
That's just how early access goes.

Patreon funding is paying people to *not* finish their game. Why would they finish their game and not try to squeeze out as many months of Patreon funding as they possibly can? They can just keep up a front of progress being made and promising everything will be fixed and amazing *soon*. That way makes them far more money.

Moral of the story is that you should never fund something on Patreon.

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>>746704758
hyperbole, but not without elements of truth. each of these are real:
>place shrimp packs in all 4 corners and the center
>then, play peekaboo in the basement with a fifth pack, before the clock hits a specific in-game time
and pray neither roaches not cats have eaten the shrimp you left out

>dig out the rarest RNG item and stare at it for multiple IRL hours
that'll be a couple in-game days iirc, so make sure to dink plenty of coffee and eat plenty of food lest you break eye contact and have to start over

>place a bunch of plushies in an hexagon pattern exactly N meters apart.
be even slightly wrong and you won't get da ultimate plushie

>play the game at 9:00 PM June 28th

>glitch your way in and out of an enclosed area, picking up a briefaces
>glitch your way out of the main map boundary, briefaces in tow
>make it to a specific location before a game-crashing entity gets you
>this will summon the other game crasher, which you want to be caught by
>there'll be a cfg file in your desktop with an hexdump
>end result is a .bmp file
picrel. no, really. that's the "reward"

>sit on a chair
>equip a cigarette
>place a baguette nearby
>finish eating the baguette
it is important you do NOT hold the baguette to take the last bite

>go in a spooky cabin at 3:30 AM
>find weird ritual place, needs 4 elemental runes:
>water rune, involves rocks and the river
>fire rune, rocks and explosions
>air rune, rocks and balloons
>earth rune, bury it at a specific location, then dig it up
>all actually somewhat sensible for once, except maybe the earth rune
>almost fun, even
>feels like things are actually building up to something interesting for once
>go complete the ritual
your reward? a Cult of the Lamb plushie

>>746705019
>its one hyperautistic like, 22 year old, who was 16 when he started making it or something
I guess it'll be 6-8 years before they realize how they fucked up and actually try to fix it.

>>746706347
Thanks for the effortful explanation, anon. Holy shit, that is all monumentally retarded. I hate the developer just based on this post alone
(and also because of my experiences with the game before it fucked me over)

>>746706347
>>746706654
To be clear, none of this shit is actually anything important. It's just Easter eggs. You even have to turn on the 'silly stuff' option in the menu in order for any of this to actually be in the game.

Since it doesn't actually impact your gameplay at all it doesn't matter except insofar as this kind of material is what tends to be added in an update instead of new signals or interesting alien encounters.

I basically like the new gameplay in 0.9 but it would be nice if they added a bunch of new signals instead. And new events obviously, especially within the base.

>>746701570
They stopped using Otacon as Kel's sprite/model

>>746706851
what matters here is the developer wasting time on garbage like this instead of working on the actual game

>>746701570
Nothing.

>>746701570
The dev is some brainrotted zoomer in russia.
Just leave him alone.

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>>746701570
they don't make the arirals hot

>>746704979
>western
>game made in russia
One of these things is not like the other

>>746709006
REG are no different from WEGs in that reagard
Akabur is russian after all.

>>746708975
Did this guy ever finish his vrchat file for this

>>746709101
This is because the average russian has almost no differences from the average amerifatt

There's no threat or mystery in the game. Everything is just Joel bait.

>>746709006
culutrally-wise russia is mostly western country

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>>746708150
The game is old enough for people to not know who is he. (Don't say from Metal Gear.)
And this also goes for the first placeholder.

>>746709380
>The game is old enough for people to not know who is he.
Does that matter?

>>746703748
>>746704979
These two things are what made me stop paying attention to the game too. I've been waiting literal years for an update that makes replaying worth it.

>>746706851
>You even have to turn on the 'silly stuff' option in the menu in order for any of this to actually be in the game.
you sure? far as I was aware the latest iteration of that setting merely governs silly console commands (`maxwell`, `llama.saatana`), some crafting recipes (mainly kerfuro variants) and some silly interactions (eg: crapping in a bucket)

>To be clear, none of this shit is actually anything important. It's just Easter eggs.
correct. and that's exactly the issue:
the dev keeps putting in all these dumb secrets completely removed from the game that no player could feasibly discover on their own, and telling his patrons so they can barge in on any random discussion about this or that and go all "oooh you guys haven't found out all there is to [dumb secret/entity] yet, tehee".

there is an expectation of trust between reader and writer, dev and player: that the former will create mysteries that are actually solvable and do matter, and the later will genuinely engage with such mysteries.
nose keeps breaking that trust, and throwing a hissyfit when players are fed up with this bullshit and decide to datamine shit. he'll bitch and moan and claim they're ruining the fun, and say it makes him lose any interest in putting in "cool secrets" in the game if he can't expect the playerbase to play along when he's been the first to shit all over the game board.
and then he'll add more retarded secrets anyway.
why?

because he doesn't care about anyone's fun being ruined. he cares about dataminers eating away at his business model of enticing retards with patreon-to-win "secrets"

>>746704979
>updates are rare
>the games slowly loses its focus
>constant reworks of things that didn't need it
>instead of progressing the main plot devs focuses on side fluff and discord memes
>optimization still a mess
So it's another Yandere Simulator

>>746710681
>and telling his patrons so they can barge in on any random discussion about this or that and go all "oooh you guys haven't found out all there is to [dumb secret/entity] yet, tehee".
So basically he's selling them self-important, condescending smugness
That's genius, ngl

>>746708975
sexo

>>746710687
VotV is at least a playable game, even taking it as it is it has a good amount of content despite meandering updates. I was very impressed the first playthrough.
I don't know what the fuck went on with YanSim in comparison

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>>746710770
yeah, credit where it's due, it is an effective model.
and you barely have to lift a finger: patrons do all the advertising for you, and the fanbase itself will try and protect the system

>>746704979
>constant reworks of things that didn't need it
that reminds me, he's been teasing a new inventory system for 0.10
https://files.catbox.moe/cv16po.mp4

the new base is so fucking ugly
the 60s military research design was superior to the 70s slap on and clutter shit everywhere design

>>746701570
Who knows? Dumb teens spammed votv threads here all the time and then just stopped.

>>746711464
wow I hate it

Reminder that autogynephile fetish-cultist Cooper Goodwin designed a secret monster for this game, and its inclusion makes the developer a capitulator at best.

>>746701570
Not enough aliens.

>>746711464
Can someone explain to me what the purpose of the backpack/new inventory system is anyway?
I saw it had rigid physics where you can slide and bounce items around in it.
But what is it solving or doing for the gameplay? Especially the physics tied to it. This is a legit question. With what he showed off it feels so disjointed and pointless, but I assume he probably explained it in his Shitcord somewhere.

>>746701570
The hame went from get signals and maybe creepy stuff happens that keep you at your toes to, hyper realistic simulator that makes a bunch of busy work to even eat and memes roam the woods.

>>746701570
weeb shit, as usual

>>746709186
Not even good bait, he got more scared at the moded signal simulator.

>>746702348
At some point in evey games dev cycle there has to come a point where the game actually works
>Update the engine
>Update the map to fit with the new engine
>Update items so that they don't fucking explode everywhere when you load in
Eventually, the game will be at a point where it functions well enough that they can start pumping events back into it.

>>746712319
I'd assume the backpack would have physics to make you fall over and drop shit
The rest of the inventory system is because the new one, while functional, is pretty stupid and needs a rework
I'd like to be able to put things in my hotbar without them being removed from my hotbar when in my hand and then going back to a different slot when I put it away

>>746708150
they never did, it was a mod from here that was based on a meme.
where do retards like you even come from?

>>746708150
>>746709380
>>746714369
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQA4SmP0OO4
Guy who made this is a real piece of work, I tell you what.

>>746701648
even though there are no greys thoughbeit

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>>746712319
>but I assume he probably explained it in his Shitcord somewhere.
if he's ever explained the inventory system in-depth, I've missed it. picrel is what I've found from around the time he posted those sneak peeks.
not like it matters, nose's already put in too much effort into this and can't even conceive of publishing smaller test versions to check if new systems are worth it.
it's the control scheme rework all over again, really. he's learnt nothing

>>746714513
some of these /v/ the musical songs are really good
you guys are alright sometimes

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>>746714714
>it's the control scheme rework all over again
Funny you mention that

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>>746704504
>You can stick it in the microwave
wrong

blueprints are ruining this game
would be such an intricate system if it was just code

have they added much in the past ~2 years?
I miss the threads we used to have...

>>746719590
No, its been almost all map and engine updates

>>746719798
sad
guess that's why the threads stopped

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>see funny youtube man play spooky game
>download and try for myself
>autistic interaction options
>abysmal menu designs
>dude clean up all this shit lmao
>handling the actual space scanner is needlessly complicated
it's like a grand strategy game
fun to watch, awful to play

>>746722196
desu I enjoyed figuring it out because it was so obtuse
never watched le funny youtube man

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>>746722940
I learned some things from /v/ threads, most of which was either wrong or lies, but most everything else I found out for myself
I've never seen anyone else talk about the phone booth But its an entity in the Abiotic Factor zone

>>746703150
>>746703228
0.9 reeks of "Dr Nose no longer cares and just let the unpaids run the circus" there's so many completely unnecessary changes to things that were working just fine like the entire control scheme, Monika's need to put 30,000 hi-def models in the game. Lady they're cool models but how about someone just fucking make some content how about some fucking signals some voices in them voids you assholes.
Anyway I got enough out of it to justify the $0 I spent so it's all good but the game is definitely dead to me.

>>746723498
>spoiler
was the crossover both ways
I recently got a friend to the votv portal world and got to explain all of the bullshit about votv to him

>>746723926
>was the crossover both ways
Not currently but its apparently in the works on the VotV side
Also apparently they intend to add some more things to the Abiotic Factor version

>>746701740
Its just one big in joke wearing the skin of a video game at this point. Just going to perpetually redo everything instead of adding anything of substance.

>try 0.9
>base is now filled with like 3 times more garbage when you start, haha so funny

oh fuck right off

>>746724837
ok but now you don't need to buy a box to send all your trash bags away

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>>746701570
>Good idea, presentation and execution
>Got semi-popular
>Tranny modeler joins in and forces his shitty furry shark OC in, left, right, and center, and cringe Vivziepop references everywhere
>Said tranny openly says and boasts about how his goal is to twinkify the player model, while also turning the based Arirals into a botched Revolution 60 lookalike
>All actual development and story progression stops, only additions are useless decorations, streamerbait events, and tedium
>No new signals since 7.0 or something, looking for signals in a game about capturing and decoding signals is made completely irrelevant.
Gee, I wonder what went wrong.

>>746725176
There's new signals in 0.9

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>>746725318
>

>>746701648
If only. He completely missed what made Signal Simulator so special that it fucked with a Swedish retard so hilariously. No feeling of isolation, no paranoia of something popping up from the corner, and no grey aliens. No, it's the dev's fetishes being forced onto people through the catgirl creatures, Discord memes and throwing everything including the kitchen sink in the game.

Reminder that without Joel, VotV wouldn't be made and will cease to matter. It was designed with Joel in mind from the get-go. It's why the dev sits on every stream, tries to get attention and always updates the game based on past streams.

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>>746725318
I'm not talking about the 3 new meme signals that occasionally get added with each downgrade.
Each new major update needs at least 50 new signals to stay relevant and bring actual players back in, with 10-15% of them being unique signals, that aren't streamer or the references to the tranny modeler's fetishes.
You know, the actual POINT of the game.

>>746725747
ok.

>>746711464
>he's been teasing a new inventory system for 0.10
wow that is genuinely fucking awful, no one asked for a "storing items, taking items" minigame
the inventory system was fine as is, no additional changes are necessary unless it was UI based
this is the console redesign all over again, the main console was fine, the wooden furnishing is so fucking ugly and makes no sense, the utilitarian style suited this game so much more
someone tell nose to stop wasting time changing existing things and come up with new ones
give us new story events and side events

>>746714714
>nose's already put in too much effort into this and can't even conceive of publishing smaller test versions to check if new systems are worth it
jesus christ

I stopped playing this game when I realized that I can just clean my own house instead.

>>746726483
but did you clean your house?

>>746726562
I did, but then I shat it up even worse than before.

>>746714714
I want to give nose the benefit of the doubt and believe that there's actual plans and shit ready for the games story to actually continue, especially with the demo he showed of the transmitter thing, but if you look at his past work he has a very bad habit of leaving projects unfinished

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sex with zex
sex with ena
that is all

>Start game
>Go through tutorial
>Realize the mentality of the the faggot behind the game and what game design I will encounter
>Drop it