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Please Don't Starve (Together)
Sterica
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It is a survival game, comparable to Minecraft in that you grab resources to craft items with a clear tech tree, but I think the similarities end there since there's little emphasis on building pretty structures and more on not being brutalized by the endless things that want you dead. You play as Wilson, a scientist who is transported to an intensely hostile world, and what you do from there is up to you. The game allows you to simply see how long you can survive (conditions getting nastier as the days go on), with a bevy of parameters to tailor the game to be as hard/easy as your tastes can handle. However, there is also an adventure mode you can trigger by finding a special doorway and going into it. From there, you will face a series of worlds that grow in difficulty up until a final confrontation with Maxwell, the dapper demon that banished you to this hellscape. Don't Starve features perma-death, though dying in adventure mode simply jettisons you back to the "sandbox" mode and forces you to start from the beginning.
The game is currently available from a variety of vendors!
Here's a trailer if you dig that kind of thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UC3eGU7gykFAQ
OH GOD WHAT DO I DO?
Unlike similar games, where night just spawns hostile creatures, night in Don't Starve kills you. After a short period, you will start losing chunks of health until you die or head to a light source. Note that doing the latter will be very difficult since the game is pitch black at night.
So, your first goal is two enough materials for a campfire. You have plenty of time until night, so check your crafting options and get the shit needed for an axe. From there, getting a fire going should be easy. I recommend waiting until after or just before night before making the fire, as it requires fuel to keep going. Oh yeah, it'll need fuel. Grass, sticks, and logs will all do the trick.
I am dying so fast to spiders!
Your next goal is to make advanced stuff that can help you fight back. There are three tiers of science machines that unlock better crap (Science Machine -> Alchemy Engine -> Shadow Manipulator), so you should aim to make that science machine ASAP! Once it's made, you should craft a spear and log suit, increasing your damage over that silly axe and absorbing significantly more damage. While you shouldn't go looking for fights in this game, you should always carry a weapon and armor at all times.
I am going instance please make it stop
Sanity drops at afternoon/night (larger drops when you are in pitch black), exposure to monsters, and using shadow objects. You can increase it by wearing dapper items, picking flowers, eating candy, and killing shadow monsters. You also slowing regenerate sanity during the day.
Empty sanity does not kill you, but it does make your life a lot harder.
My screen is freezing. Why?
It is winter, and your character is cold. Too much freezing around the edges of your screen, and damage occurs. You can only reverse freezing by staying near a fire, but you can delay freezing by wearing hats/vests, carrying warmed heat stones, and growing a beard (if Wilson).
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This automatically puts the unlockable female characters at a disadvantage, as beard hair is required to craft the equivalent of an extra life.
Don't see why males should have that kind of an edge over females.
Unless the female characters get some other awesome thing that guys don't. That would probably be okay.
Character-specific traits are coming in the next patch, I think.
looks interesting
don't know if I want to add anything else to the backlog though
Pretty fun!
Game is a litle high maintenance what with having to keep a fire going at night nad constnatly worry about eating, but with the game's name, the latter isn't a surprise.
Also, there's no shortage of ways to get food, so whatever.
Figured out pretty quick about the traps, using berries and carrots to snag rabbits instead of just eating that stuff. Doesn't seem a LOT more efficient, but it's fun to trap and eat things.
Once you build a bonfire, all you have to do is add fuel and it lights up. It's a permanent structure that you can return to every night.
And it's easy to get as long as you're careful not to let them gang up on you.
So, when your hunger meter gets low/empty? Does it just straight up kill you right away, or does it siphon health, or what?
the playstyle, the art style, holy shiz this is all amazing looking, gotta give this a try
And I was just starting to really jones for a new roguelike, too. Good times!
I currently have a growing backlog of games
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They can craft a bucket to collect their menstrual blood, which they can use every full moon by participating in the Sacred Right to gain an extra life.
At least, that's how I've been doing it for the last couple decades.
You get a copy added to your inventory on steam, that you can then trade to anyone.
We'll see.
Obviously, item rarity affects how valuable it is for research.
Like, just tossing cut grass in is barely worth anything, but if you dig up an entire tuft of it (Which reduces how much grass is available overall) you get 20 points, which is pretty decent.
Also, raw monster meat is worth 5 points, but cooked is 7.
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Who wants the extra copy? I'm assuming we can trade them immediately even though it's only in beta?
Steam ID - VeldrinD
rope is your best bet for research points
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