Rain World Downpour

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm in the memory crypts for first time being chased by snappy birds.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I only completed Artificer's route and had to do Hunter again because my saves disappeared. Right now I just started Gourmand.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >pic
    *finally*

    is it possible to do a campaign with another slugcat? spearguy is a pain in the dick but also I don't like fighting scavs so I thought I'd use artificer for spearguy's campaign

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The whole point is that the campaign is bound to the specific slugcat. At best you can play another additional slugcat in coop.
      However, i haven't tried expeditions yet so i don't know what the conditions are there.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The whole point is that the campaign is bound to the specific slugcat
        I know, I just don't particularly care. Ultimately I play to have fun, and spearguy isn't fun imo.
        >At best you can play another additional slugcat in coop.
        would it be possible to gib spearcat and just continue as artificer that way?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If you set co-op to easy. then only one slug cat needs to survive and get to a shelter.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            huh, that sounds great, I'll see if it works. thanks

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    took me a dozen attempts, but i finally locked him into the pound zone

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also, what now? Pebbles told me to go to some location, but i couldn't find the entrance yet, anyone with some indirect hint?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Someone subterranean and left

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >backtracked from subterranean to farm arays just to get one of those smoke eggs to kill this fricker
      I fricking hate the deer. I fricking hate them. Every time I have to ride a deer I wish I could find the person responsible for their inclusion in the game and smash their teeth with a bat

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why do you need a smoke egg and why didn't you craft one instead? It's a pretty common combination result

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >backtracked from subterranean to farm arays just to get one of those smoke eggs to kill this fricker
          I fricking hate the deer. I fricking hate them. Every time I have to ride a deer I wish I could find the person responsible for their inclusion in the game and smash their teeth with a bat

          Why would you need a smoke egg though?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            to gas the ~~*bugs*~~

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              So you tell me i didn't have to repeatedly die by scaring away the surrounding ones with the exploding herb, chucking grenades and hoping that i can stunlock it?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                its a bad time however you choose to do it. Specially with a fat frick like gourmand getting tired after every spear throw

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        hey stinker
        you realize batfly + rock = mushroom and mushroom + rock = sporepuff right?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why do you need a smoke egg and why didn't you craft one instead? It's a pretty common combination result

          no I didnt fricking realize. say goodbye to your incisives fricker

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            i just looked at the wiki for it there is a big crafting grid listing everything
            https://rainworld.miraheze.org/wiki/Gourmand if you want to look at it here

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I already beat gourmand at this point, I avoided looking at guides except to know where to find the green eggs

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Deer AI isn’t that bad I never had any problems with it

        Why do you need a smoke egg and why didn't you craft one instead? It's a pretty common combination result

        hey stinker
        you realize batfly + rock = mushroom and mushroom + rock = sporepuff right?

        These craft recipes are dumb as hell jesus but it’s still a cool feature

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Deer AI isn’t that bad I never had any problems with it
          frick you frick you frick you

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Literally get spores throw one to summon one. Place second one to feed him. Ride and sometimes tap to ensure he goes the way I want

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          how it manages to create a live hazer out of a mushroom and bubble weed is beyond me

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you should play the last guardian i think you would like it!

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Does any food spawn in the memory crypts? Go through and lost all my progress because there's not a single fruit/bat/anything in between the end of Citadel and the shelter at Leg.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Aren't there usually a good amount of small centipedes at the sheltered sections?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You can eat those?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes and they restore 2 hunger.
          As a general rule, you can eat anything smaller than you as Survivor.
          You might need to kill some creatures first though.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    None, I'm still plugging through my survivor run and I got it into my fat head that I want to get all the colored pearls for moon so now I'm plumbing every area and looking for them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >collecting all the pearls on his first run
      beyond based.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Finished all of the main campaigns. If the quality of the base-game is 10/10. I'd give the DLC a 7.5

    Its good, at times great, but its still just a fricking mod. If Downpour were still a mod I think I'd be way, way more impressed with it. Hell I'd consider it one of the best mods ever made. But as paid DLC? There are certain aspects that simply do not cut it. The "new" creatures are pathetic. Some look so bad I wish they had just cut them out of the DLC entirely. A lot of the new areas look derivative or just look worse than the average region mod you can download for free. Seriously nothing in Downpour comes even close to looking as good as Lush Mire or Aether Ridge. As a whole package Downpour is still very good but it does not even come even near the best moments of the original game. Still though, I don't regret spending 15 bucks for it. I've gotten 50 hours out of it so far and I've still having fun.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >4th dimension is your worst enemy
    bravo videocult

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      skill issue

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Holy shit, saved.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        out
        fricking
        skilled

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        out-frickin-skilled

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >immediately jumps down the pipe, too
        fricking rambo scav lmao

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lmao the comedic timing of these scavs is something else

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >slugcat space program

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Git gud

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      get gud

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Did Aim Anywhere get updated for Remix?

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    With artificer at the scavenger chief, giving me a hard time I'm not sure whats the best strat for him

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That fight is such horseshit. Just chuck all the spears to the left so he can't grab anything and then bomb him.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here I go to do my first hunter run. Limit of 20 cycles feels intimidating but I'm determined to push through. To save moon! To reach happy ending! To get the achievement!

    I had a good beginning but at sky islands shelter who do I see jumping around? Yes, none other than a snow white little slugpup. At first I thought: no way, I can't get distracted, but moment later instead of spear I was carrying a baby on my back. I took care of little thing, I fed it, I saved it from lizard's jaws twice.

    Then few cycles later, as I laid down to hibernate a scavenger sneak into my safe sanctuary just as gates were about to close. I know hunter and scavs aren't on best terms but I thought maybe I'll be able to spit out my starting pearl to make yet another unexpected friend. Game saved. Next cycle began...

    And in the first three seconds of the cycle, Scav deemed it necessary to deploy a bomb he was holding, detonating me, my child and himself in the process. Death. Cycle restart and exact same thing happens. In horror I watch as my karma plummets to lowest levels, I watch time and time again as my child is obliterated by an explosive charge, spawn killed, locked in a limbo of no return, hell in which I have to watch my loved one die without chance to stop it.

    I had to reset the run

    I already played artificer, but now I UNDERSTAND artificer

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    anything else i need to eat as the gourmand or can i finally passage back to outer expanse and finish this?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      finished
      fat fricking piece of shit finally put to rest

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    still loitering around metropolis

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Completed gourmand, tortured myself with spearmaster for a while and now i am stuck with rivulet in the underwater endgame area. While i enjoy exploring each campaign i got to say, the only good thing about the new regions i explored so far are the visuals.
    Level design is bland, regions are confusing mazes with splits that are only meant to waste you time, and the creature selection is often ill chosen for the room they are in.
    Vanilla is not perfect, but it is consistent in it’s design choices and follows a few but clear principles:
    - Regions must be linear, no mazes, no dead ends, if a path splits off the main route it provides some sort of point of interest, an alternate route or a connection to another region.
    - Each region’s layout follows a consistent theme and provides an adequate challenge for the player (ex: the wall - scaling a massive vertical wall)
    - Predators should complement the room layout (ex: no green lizards in vertical rooms)

    I lost count of how often i lost my way with spearmaster while trying to scale moon, i don’t understand what the purpose of stuffing yellow lizards in struts, vents AND luna is, why have mother spiders in struts and vents if all they do is run away or fall to their death, why do vents go so far east if you can go through the much easier inner lttm halfway through the subregion? Why do they let you enter moon’s outer chamber but tell you to frick off and find another way from the top, where you could get misdirected into memory conflux instead.
    Why are all of rivulet’s new regions full of linear easy to traverse layouts, but with rooms connected like a fricking maze? Again, why are there so many yellow lizards, why are there centiwings in areas where they can barely fly like in the lower parts of chimney. The only enemy that can pose a threat to you is the aquapede which only appears in the final area, nothing else can catch up.
    Why is Outer Expanse so convoluted? I was genuinely lost for two hours.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Only new region I think is genuinely well put together is Metropolis

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I think i will try arti before finishing rivulet and spearmaster, i just can’t take another hour of having to deal with bullshit enemy spawns or convoluted mazes, i will take a spear in the face from off screen if that’s what it takes to have a decent platforming experience.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >saint killing everybody? GOOD
    >artificer killing scavs? BAD
    racist

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This area as spearmaster
    Still waiting for the campaign to be bad, im having a blast.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, Spearmaster is kino, it's a real ride and having unlimited spears is great.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Im working on artificer but I'm stuck in Chimney canopy trying to get to the wall. So many fricking scavs and white lizards

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I didn't have that problem because I went through the underhang, which was a terrible idea

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    need some saint help
    where the FRICK is the echo in 5P/ shaded citadel
    I climbed up and down all over the damn place and could not find it. it's not in the place where it would be on The Wall.
    do i need to find every other echoe first?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Go right from the bottom of silent superstructure

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous


      You know that shelter to the right, just before the Leg turns into Underhang? It's around there (in Saint's version of that area, that is).

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what's his endgame?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ascension

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    is there a map for outer expanse yet i somehow made it back to subterranean

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Black person just go left

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        dead end

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Black person, i have beaten the game

          go left

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            instant death pit
            Black person

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              quit being a Black person and go left, Black person

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How satisfied are you with Downpour?

    https://strawpoll.com/polls/BDyNEjOGJZR

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what regions does gutter connect to?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      drainage and chimney canopy
      entrance to chimney is hidden
      the room with the shelter about midway through chimney with the garbage worms in it and the pipe going straight up? the room immediately to the left of it has three unmarked pipes right when you get out, it's the first one on the left

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    IT'S OUT!!!!???? THANKS ANON

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You're kinda late huh?

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Play the game on release
    >Get stuck in the sewer level and quit

    >Give the game a second try years later
    >Go into 3 dark areas ina row without any light, end up at a dead end

    Where the frick am I supposed to go actually

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      follow the yellow homosexual if you survivor

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why is the dlc content presented like it's just mods you activate in game? i know the origins of the content but it's so weird and inelegant to me. would the fans that started those expansions really have felt slighted if it was rolled into the actual game itself? idk i find it weird and makes the game feel less beautiful to me but i know i care more about stuff like that than most people.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Probably because that was how it worked when it was just a mod, and they never bothered to change it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nah i feel the same way. Makes no sense to me. Its good as the new mod interface but putting "official" content like MSC, coop, and Remix in there makes it feel less official that how they have presented the content as being so far. All they had to do was have that shit pre-activated. Also labeling the mod interface option in the main menu as "Remix" makes no fricking sense. Like isn't Remix just the specific mod with QoL features? Just label it as "Mods" in the main menu nobody would have given a shit and it would have made actual sense.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      rimworld works the same
      its just easier, makes it more compatible with mods and also modular

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I guess it's more elegant from a game engine point of view, fewer special cases. I don't really mind, Bethesda expansions worked in a similar way since at least Morrowind.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I guess to me it's just because I felt the base game was such a holistically beautiful package, and now I feel like it's kind of a jank awkward package, and to me that's a bummer. I also hate when rereleases and expansions (this one included) replace the title screen with a title screen with some new subtitle. I'm playing Rain World show me the logo for Rain World you cowards (again I realize few care about this as much as me)

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah you've lost me.
          I love Rain World because it's the most beautiful and amazing experience I've had in a game but it also has a score attack and a jank competitive multiplayer arena mode. The fact that it can support that just shows how much of a real game it is, beyond the 2deep4u stuff that made me fall in love with it.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The absence of an explation does not equate depth. Your mind is filling in the vacant spot where a plot should be.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              What are you even talking about? The "plot" was my experience of the game and the path I took through it. The "depth" is all of the thematic scaffolding of what it all means and the ideas it got me thinking about.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              way to completely miss the point
              moron

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I don't think there's anything wrong with those modes being added, I just dislike that it's through a mod list when it's actual bought expansion content.
            I also dislike that when I boot up the game I get a Downpour logo instead of the base Rain World logo forever now, but that's a different point. I hate it in remasters and stuff too, seeing a big ugly subtitle under the game's actual logo. To me it displays a lack of artistic integrity. (which again I acknowledge very few people care about in games)

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's the proper way to play this? I don't want to accidentally make it casual mode or dogshit "use a FAQ" mode for my first playthrough.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Easiest way would be to roll back to version 1.51 and play Survivor. Otherwise you'll have to make judgment calls with the QoL options

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You can just disable remix, can't you?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      survivor
      go Outskirts > Industrial Complex > Chimney Canopy > The Wall

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i don't think that's what anon meant and also idk if b-lining is the best recommendation for a first playthrough (not to mention the Thing they have to do at the top of the wall if they go that route)

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          speeding to that point avoids missing on stuff because of what you get there
          after that you can just explore

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            eh, i'm still not sure it's altogether advisable to care about that for a first playthrough. even if you do follow the overseer's path, as long as you aren't a total savage, then the potential error is recoverable

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    how do you feel about rubicon being the finale area of the rain world saga

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      kinda meh but at least it looked cool

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think it was interesting in concept, but I wish they made the ancient blockheads do more then just stand still or made the whole area just 20% shorter.
      The final FP + Moon talk followed by trying to escape the void was kino though

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it makes sense, they dont attack max karma, it goes agains their programming or nature as guardians or whatever

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    okay Black folk heres my kino af saint intrepretation are you ready strap in

    The Saint IS the player

    think about it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        oh yeah well like thats just your opinion man

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the saint's campaign is a delusion and not real because otherwise it's really stupid fanfiction

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you are either baiting or just really really moronic
        we've had this argument enough times

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's a lame conclusion to the saga, modders can't tell compelling stories so they have to resort to jrpg bullshit like 'the void is ebil'

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            shut the frick up you mouthbreathing gorilla Black person
            you didnt understand jack shit, the void is not evil and nothing points at this, you just are too braindead to understand

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            idk feels like the saint was just trying to rubicon the void worm as well

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            midwit

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Don't larp like you're a Buddhist scholar, it was a muddled story written by midwit furries and you know it.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i still havent played downpour
    can someone who has rank the new campaigns? just curious
    also should i care about unlocking them sequentially? did you?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Artificer > Saint > Rivulet >> Gourmand >>> Spearmaster

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >gourmand that low
        His exhaustion is really annoying, but his fat ass slam, heavy headbutt and long roll make up for it.
        It's also fun to follow the food quest

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I like him as a character and the food quest is nice, but I just found his campaign pretty underwhelming compared to the other ones I rated higher. I don't really like Outer Expanse that much either. Still enjoyed it but it was like a low 7/10 for me.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How many of the new regions are accesible by Survivor? I thought they would all locked off but I wandered into Pipeyard and thought I somehow missed that region this whole time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      3. 1 of them is only unlocked after finishing Gourmand.

      Pipeyard, Gutter, Outer Expanse

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is there any reason to ascend normally or take the outside path with the other slugs?

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Finished Rivulet, Spearmaster and Artificer. Gave up on Gourmand as he is boring. Just started Saint. Interesting so far!

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This DLC fricked with my save, Dragon Slayer is bugged and I can't get it now because it completed itself and didn't give me the achievement, and now I can't passage back to shelters i've already been to and my map is seemingly wiped.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Slugcat was pulling the strings all along!

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can you bring slugpups to Moon or Pebbles? Do they have any dialogue about it? If you or the babies die do they respawn in the shelter?

    ...Can you feed them to lizards to befriend them?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      pebbles has slightly changed dialogue but don't expect much

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I still don't get Saint.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      apratiṣṭhita bodhisattva

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes Black person, I know what Buddhism is, there's nothing in any of the scriptures about bodhisattvas being punished with eternal time loops.

        shut the frick up you mouthbreathing gorilla Black person
        you didnt understand jack shit, the void is not evil and nothing points at this, you just are too braindead to understand

        Explain what happened then.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >punished with eternal time loops.
          Really because Krishna talks about seeing all time at once and there's nothing in the Mahabharata that isn't attested to in at least one Veda.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >has to appeal to entirely different religious system to make sense of le grand conclusion to the rain world saga
            Vanilla rain world's conclusion was pure and beautiful: you are trapped in a cycle of suffering, so ascend. A buddhic prey animal is a compelling concept that hasn't been done anywhere; even claiming vegetables possessed buddha-nature was controversial in old Japan.

            Now it's... le void was ebil, le void worms are ebil, dude loops lmao

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >le void was ebil, le void worms are ebil, dude loops lmao
              Holy frick you are one dumb ass Black person if you think thats what downpour is saying. The whole point of Saint is that its a happy ending because all living creatures including iterators can eventually go to the void instead of being doomed to perpetual existence.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Black person, don't pretend like you're some lore scholar, I was playing vanilla RW in 2018 while you were still jizzing over WoW classic or whatever gay nerd shit we were supposed to care about then.

                Time loops are gay and in this entertainment culture, it's always the mark of an inferior writer

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's just so muddled. Why do we need timelines and past selves and future selves? Why couldn't have they settled for a straightforward global ascension ending? The Saint and all suffering creatures 'ascending' (descending) into liberation. Now we got this looper bullshit

                >has to appeal to entirely different religious system to make sense of le grand conclusion to the rain world saga
                Vanilla rain world's conclusion was pure and beautiful: you are trapped in a cycle of suffering, so ascend. A buddhic prey animal is a compelling concept that hasn't been done anywhere; even claiming vegetables possessed buddha-nature was controversial in old Japan.

                Now it's... le void was ebil, le void worms are ebil, dude loops lmao

                cool bait made me reply thanks for the free bumps now please have a nice day its okay youll just loop back trust me bro

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >time loop
          neuron count in the single digits

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >uuuh dude he just has to repeat his journey because... uh.... ummmm.... uhhh...
            Ad hoc rationalization after ad hoc rationalization

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Nothing says he has to repeat his journey or that there's a timeloop, it just shows his future ascended self appearing to himself in the past at the beginning of his one single journey.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                ... Why? Why are suddenly past selves a factor in anything?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                why do you even bother if you just insist on seeing it as some timeline bullshit in your own mind in this scenario youve made up yourself in your head

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1. Achieved max karma, which was the only goal the saint had knowledge of from the beginning of its journey
      2. Upon achieving max karma saint receives ability to ascend other beings
      3. When ascending himself, saint chooses instead to essentially communicate to the void worms its plan, which is to ascend every living creature itself
      4. Resets the timeline to the very start, where it can now begin with the knowledge of the true purpose of its journey, to ascend all creatures
      5. The Saint goes on to become the solution the iterators were yearning for, the means by which all iterators and all living beings no matter how insignificant may ascend

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        this
        i dont get it how is this so hard to understand

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >a solution has been found
        check
        >a technical implementation is possible
        check
        >the solution is portable
        is saint portable?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He ports himself around.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I brought this up in another thread which had an anonymous buddha guru detail the finer points, but I believe the key to understanding lies with the golden slugcat that appears in shelters and saint's ending
      I don't think it's a time loop but instead an 'omniscience' that allows the saint to pass on the steps to ascension through visions within the cycle but not limited to linear time (as guru anonymous said), which happens to also include his past self.
      If you noticed at the end when the golden slugcat appears it's also when at the start of the campaign that he receives a vision to ascend.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's just so muddled. Why do we need timelines and past selves and future selves? Why couldn't have they settled for a straightforward global ascension ending? The Saint and all suffering creatures 'ascending' (descending) into liberation. Now we got this looper bullshit

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i don't know if i got the entire sequence but golden slugcat also appears for artificer, showing her basically her kids getting killed and her beginning the revengeance quest
        was there more to that? i would have imagined something along the lines of a vision going
        >hey maybe scav genocide isn't the right way to go
        if that were true

        interesting theory at least

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, buddha anon also said it was for other slugcats too (I thought it was just monk, same premise) but I did not see that one during my playthrough.
          Something like that could go onto hinduism with my surface level understanding of there being a path to enlightenment through violence, ie stabbing a serpent or the sun with a dagger? I have no idea why the saint would advocate for violence in a mostly buddhist setting where even an echo unique to artificer tells them to stop their path of violence. Which I didn't because stopping scav genocide is not based.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I brought this up in another thread which had an anonymous buddha guru detail the finer points, but I believe the key to understanding lies with the golden slugcat that appears in shelters and saint's ending
            I don't think it's a time loop but instead an 'omniscience' that allows the saint to pass on the steps to ascension through visions within the cycle but not limited to linear time (as guru anonymous said), which happens to also include his past self.
            If you noticed at the end when the golden slugcat appears it's also when at the start of the campaign that he receives a vision to ascend.

            you mean this thread right
            https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/625886153

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              yeah that one yesterday

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >stopping scav genocide is not based
            incorrect
            letting go and ascending past base impulses is the essential part of the game no matter how much fun genocide might be

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Being an animal is based... in reality.
              Yeah I know, but I also really like that they added result pictures than little ascended slug ghosts.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            based, FRICK scavs
            yes it was only 11-12 scavs but it was a clown car tier kill squad and they all filtered themselves into a pipe like dumbasses, they deserved EVERY spear they got

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    kek

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh wow, it's different dialogue from dying to the left instead.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just started, lost already on the second cycle, and this kills my interest in the game. You really give me a room like this where you have to use the blue bugs to fly up to the top, and theres nothing there? Why am I supposed to give a shit about exploration when its not rewarded?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      homie thats towards the endgame area you gotta go back then up

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >the endgame is the closest savepoint to the start
        >you are not supposed to go that way
        >im somehow supposed to know this

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You're not, disregard that anon.
          However, you shouldn't be this game expecting to be rewarded for every little effort, the maps are full of screen that serve no purpose other than giving a sense of space to the region, or for visual storytelling. It's not a world made for you.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what do you mean you lost? you died? its a game where you should expect to die a good amount

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I meant lost geographically

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          go up until you cant go up anymore then go right or go right until you cant go right anymore then go up
          if at some point you end in a dead end where you cant go right then you didnt go up enough so go left then up

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that this is canon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what is? your autism?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The Videocult twitter posted that shit. Don't shoot at me

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bros, it's all so muddled...
    can't believe these alphabets ruined the game with their timeloop and ebil void fanfiction...
    americans really do ruin everything

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      can you at least change up your vocab you absolute homosexual

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes. Americans don't read and don't have a subtle bone in their body. I've seen it argued that the void is a 'parasite' and, you guessed it, ebil. It's just the same fricking 5-7 tropes spinning round and round in their heads until they die

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        stop samegayging
        or if youre not, stop being moronic and replying to bait

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >"stop replying to bait"
          >replies to bait

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          not any of those Anons, but you can't deny, reading past threads, that some people seem to praise the new writing because it goes against the original 'suicide cult propaganda'

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >but you can't deny, reading past threads, that some people seem to praise the new writing because it goes against the original 'suicide cult propaganda'
            show me an example in this thread

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          shut up you midwit homosexual moron, I will defend the narrative integrity of the games I love from shitwits like you

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            t. modder troony

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
    OBVIOUS BAIT IS OBVIOUS

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    saint's ending is actually an analogy for moving to ohio

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    new slugcats should have had self-contained stories that didn't impact anything else and VC should have whipped modders harder to not frick with anything they didn't scrutinize

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How do you know that's not what happened?

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    jesus christ how horrifying

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I have yet to encounter to big jellies but they kinda remind me of waterborne daddy long legs, except instead of consuming you, they give you the electrical shock therepy treatment

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i'm surprised i haven't seen the theory that void worms themselves are boddhisvatas, remaining in the sea to guide whoever comes by to the depths where they need to go
    hence why one helps drag survivor down to the rest of his fellows, and why it ignores artificer since she doesn't properly have enough karma at this point, i.e. isn't "ready"

    or maybe that's old news and i'm just out of the loop

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Void Worms are properly buddha-like beings because they don't elect to stay behind in the world to ferry others to the void

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I always imagined that void worms were whatever happens when enough people coalesced after swimming into the light.
      That big ball of light looks just like the one on their head.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    With so much lore and love for this game coupled with brand new DLC, where does a newcomer start? How long do I play main game before doing DLC?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      each dlc cat is its own campaign. play the whole survivor campaign first (white slugcat), then it's up to you which you want to do.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        oh wow, how long are they compared to slugcat?
        Sounds based.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          All shorter because you know your way around better, but still it adds a sizeable amount of content.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    jesus christ how beautiful. is rivulet's pearly important besides getting some lore out of moon?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's the only importance of it although the lore does hint at at how to complete an objective of yours - it's not like spearmaster's pearl.

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Exploring Submerged Superstructure as Survivor
    Fricking "brilliant" design, guess direction right or drown. After hundred deaths made it to upper non-flooded rooms only to find that they loop back into earlier sections. Found a colored pearl tho.

    Give it to me straight, is there another gate anythere or should I just passage out.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      huh

      how are you exploring a rivulet area as survivor also why

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >how are you exploring a rivulet area as survivor
        Back in shoreline I grabbed a jetfish to go deep and eventually reached a gate that leads into SS. In there it's sorta possible to traverse Vents area with a jetfish if you know exactly which rooms have air (this took many deaths).
        Eventually I reached something that's undoubtedly Moon Memory Conflux. I was sorta hoping to find another gate back into LttM but so far found squat.
        Also, not everything is reachable for Survivor, there's HUEG fully flooded corridor that's impossible to survive, jetfish or bubbleweed won't help

        >also why
        Dunno, whoever made this region didn't think to lock it for Survivor. So here we are.

        Once again, is there other gate(s) out of SS? Or should I use a passage.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          passage the frick out, you should NOT be here or you'll make drainage systems deaths by drowning look like a fricking joke
          it's hard enough as rivulet and you can hold your breath about 10x longer

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Damn dude i assumed theyd have blocked it off. Warp the frick out of there.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I think it's pretty cool they didn't personally.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            i guess they figured if you can make it this far you either know what you're doing and what you're getting into, or you just really like drowning

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You can only leave through the same gate you used to get in

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >You can only leave through the same gate you used to get in
            Thank you, passage it is then. Better be some amazing lore on that pearl.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Passage out: the only other gate out isn't accessible as survivor.
          (Rivulet Spoilers) It's beyond that huge flooded corridor.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      anon im pretty sure going there without riv is easter egg territory how the frick did you manage to do it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's not usually an area you're supposed to explore as Survivor, anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      how the frick did you even get there unless you brought like triple handfuls of bubbleweed + jetfish shenanigans
      explain yourself

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    artificer is peak rain world

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is it?
      I find it the most non-Rain world of the new slugcats, it's fun but its existence is hard to justify.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I find it the most non-Rain world of the new slugcats
        Thats why I love it. It feels like something truly new. It focused on a gameplay element (scav combat) that worked well in the base game and exploited it fully. Its the only campaign that I think actually fully explored its main idea successfully. The story of Arti's pups is minimal but an effective way to make me care about arti in a way I didn't really care about most of the other DLC slugs. Scav combat on its own fully compliments Arti's abilities. Metropolis is gorgeous and the only new region that felt truly unique to me. I also think its design fully took advantage of arti's movement and the scav combat just added to that. Loved the whole campaign from start to finish. Also love that you get the choice between vengeance and forgoing it, and that both routes felt justified and well executed. Also love how its a campaign where the plot is also completely separated from the goings ons of Moon and Pebbles. Arti simply uses Pebbles to gain access to more scavs to kill.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    he called me stupid

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      hey thanks, i feel better, i wasn't the only one

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    does anyone have a map of rivulant's five pebbles?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Found one. It's in russian, but you shouldn't really need the text, right?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        rivulet's 5p is actually just horrific. cool premise but the most shit of areas. plus the overseer doesn't guide you for SHIT

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        rivulet's 5p is actually just horrific. cool premise but the most shit of areas. plus the overseer doesn't guide you for SHIT

        >get the funny orb
        >passage the frick out of there first shelter i see
        >it dosent come with me
        really should have thought that through more but im not letting this turn into another gourmand run ie longer than frick so im just going to try and spawn one in

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The orb should come with you. There's a setting to make the orb come with you. The setting should be on by default.
          If spawning doesn't work, you can also just https://github.com/LeeMoriya/Warp

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            lmao. i turned on the remix option to passage important items during spearmaster's campaign because frick off with that shit. didn't even realize my passage wouldn't have worked if i didn't keep that on

            i saw that setting like 2 weeks ago and thought "nah i wont really need it im sure" and turned it off

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            lmao. i turned on the remix option to passage important items during spearmaster's campaign because frick off with that shit. didn't even realize my passage wouldn't have worked if i didn't keep that on

            [...]
            i saw that setting like 2 weeks ago and thought "nah i wont really need it im sure" and turned it off

            wait should i be turning this on before i do downpour? sounded needless when i looked at remix but idk if new slugs really benefit

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              unless you wanna go through immense annoyance with two of the slugcats then yes, turn it on. you'll know when you wanna use it

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                ok will do thanks for the tip!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                no thank YOU for the tip b***h

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            aright whoever decided not to just say the fricking region names and instead put these inaccurate abbreviations is a homosexual
            also its putting me in just regular old drainage systems with a normal rain timer and i think if i start walking it will take me through survivors campaign as the rivulet

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You have the orb now, so you're good. The regular rain timer is a side effect of taking out the orb.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                yeah the rain also doesn't kill you now that you have the orb right?
                Also I fricking hate that the menu says rivulet can breath underwater but in reality they just have a really long breath meter.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nope, rain still kills you, cycles are just longer. It's the pre-cycle (shelter failure) rain that I'm pretty sure can't kill you.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              MS = submerged superstructure
              OE = gourmand autism
              HR = rubicon
              LM = spearmaster's autism fortress (moon)
              DM = waterfront facility
              LC = metropolis
              RM = rivulet rotted pebbles
              CL = silent construct
              UG = undergrowth
              Vs = pipeyard

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                almost none of those make any sense wtf

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Source: dev commentary, straight from the game files
                >Andrew: Some of the region acronyms don't match their final region names. Let's take a look at what each of them stood for.
                >Andrew: (OE) Outer Expanse, (UG) Under Growth, (LC) Lost City
                >Andrew: (LM) Looks to the Moon, (MS) Moon Superstructure, (DM) Depths of Moon
                >Andrew: (RM) Rotten Maw, (CL) Collapse
                >Andrew: (HR) Hell Region (although Rubicon's early development name was Stygian Depths)
                >Andrew: and finally, (VS) Voided Subterranean, which is entirely unrelated<LINE>to Pipeyard and is a topic of a different Dev Commentary discussion...

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Is there anywhere I can read all the dev commentary?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                https://ren1ry.co/gu6vs3
                Replace 1 with t.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Thank you

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                i unironically prefer the old names

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                is pic related in the game during the dating sim?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No, just a Ganker shitpost. I believe there were some spicy parts in the dating sim that the publisher retconned, though.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                wow thats fricking stupid

                also i just force restarted and warped back to the ball just to see what would happen if you did not talk to 5P before nabbing it and he actually has some unique dialogue

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          lmao. i turned on the remix option to passage important items during spearmaster's campaign because frick off with that shit. didn't even realize my passage wouldn't have worked if i didn't keep that on

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if you go to ss as someone before rivulet you can make moon very happy 🙂

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      sex scene confirmed??

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    man the new content in Downpour is kinda underwhelming when you look at it. The "new" regions are mostly just reskins kinda like the "new" creatures. 10 "new" regions were advertised and half of them are just different variations of Five Pebbles, a shoreline reskin and a drainage system reskin, oh and rubicon is literally just a bunch of old rooms spliced together so there is that as well.

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you bet your fricking ass i'm gonna passage from 5p to moon as rivulet. why the hell would i wanna carry this thing all through chimney -> industrial -> garbage -> shoreline

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i really don't get why more areas weren't flooded in Riv's campaign. Like Outskirts should be half underwater imo. I think this is the only time I've ever felt a campaign needed MORE underwater sections.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the shelter failures make up for that imo. they really add a lot

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, that definitely would've been fun. Especially since underwater areas are far less troublesome for Rivulet than any other character.

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    favorite DLC campaign?

    https://strawpoll.com/polls/61gDmBDBAZw

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    anyone know where to go to access moon's insides on rivulet?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There's a pipe with a long vertical drop. It's the first exit you encounter when going west from LTTM. Drop down to the bottom there and then go east - that'll lead you to where you want to go.

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    where the hell are people encountering all these new creatures? giant jellyfish, the ceiling things, the couple new lizards, firebugs i haven't seen any of them over any campaign. i'm about to start saint. the only one i've seen is the water pede

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Firebugs are Saint-specific, giant jellyfish can be found in water areas (I saw a bunch of them as Rivulet), dropwigs are the bane of my existence and also pretty easy to kill as Spearmaster, not sure about the rest.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        by ceiling things i didn't mean dropwigs, i meant those things that hang on the ceiling and have tentacles and gaping mouths. as for the jellyfish, where did you see them? i didn't see any of them in shoreline as rivulet which is where i would've thought they'd be

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh, those things - haven't seen those either, then. I saw the giant jellyfish in a bunch of places in Submerged Superstructure - at least three or four of them, I think.

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I am about to annoy one very specific, very stupid anon.

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    oh cool he holds it in the title menu

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    do i need a karma flower to talk to the echo in shaded as artificer

    trying to ascend

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        frick. is there a flower in shaded?

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've been in metropolis for a while. I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing. Do I just have to kill all the boss scavengers in the various main bases?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      theres one particular scav you are looking for. Its pretty obvious when you find his lair.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        the guy sitting on top of a small tower who has his own drone?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          ...? so you found him and just didn't bother killing him?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            he seemed like a nice enough guy

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              bloodlust is clearly not for you anon go ascend

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    dlc?

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    alright Black folk

    how do we fix spearmaster?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i havent played him yet whats wrong with him?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >spears disconnect after throwing making it more annoying than necessary to feed to full
        >forced to carry pearls through most of the campaign
        >no interesting movement tech unlike pretty much every other slugcat, controls literally just a regular slugcat with infinite spears
        >campaign map is just artificers without any interest weather changes or alterations to make it stand out
        >new region is just yet another superstructure
        its just underwhelming as frick.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There's a mod to fix the first issue.
          https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2920439463
          Non-steam: (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/804088181904375819/1065749873716105246/letmesetmyneedlesdown.zip)

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    (Spearmaster Spoilers)

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >brutally snapping the necks of defenseless fauna as artificer
    goddamn arti is so fricking goodamn based

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