Recent reviews by Jukecalla

quite possibly one of the best expansions i've seen out there, with gameplay loops differing between each planet and space, and also makes multiplayer even more fun as you can tackle more than one planet at once with friends
continuing with the spirit of my base game review, in this expansion you can:
- stockpile a large amount of fish in the earlygame and 2 hours later wonder when you picked up a bunch of spoilage into your inventory
- make a legendary iron chest for literally no reason
- attach laser turrets to your space platforms without realizing they are incredibly ineffective against big asteroids
- let your starter nauvis base slowly rot and die because it's fulgorin' time
- touch a demolisher and instantly get evaporated
- get killed by cargo pods dropping onto you
- then get frustrated because you respawned at nauvis and have to go all the way back to the planet you were on
- (The above line doesn't actually happen as you respawn on the planet you're on i just wanted to spread random misinformation)
- have your fulgora scrap recyclers clog up on concrete multiple times
- flood the ground with concrete to get rid of the excess
- run elevated rail networks over your factory and be glad that they can't run you over anymore (the trains will still find a way)
- experience the dreaded multiple building destroyed alerts within quick succession as biters attack your nauvis base after finding a way through and you can't do anything about it
- whatever, go my laser turret roboport blueprints
- have your fulgora scrap recyclers clog up on stone multiple times
- make two kissing recyclers kiss each other and automatically insert the excess stone into them so they get recycled into nothing
- send your friends to gleba (they will die)
- have your fulgora scrap recyclers clog up on concrete multiple times
- flood the ground with concrete to get rid of the excess
- have your fulgora scrap recyclers continue to clog up with concrete
- just send them to storage for now
- have your fulgora storage chests clog up with concrete
- forget the implications of the gleba pentapod eggs spoiling until it's too late
- instead, make a pentapod vs. turret gladiator arena for eggs about to spoil to provide you entertainment
- btw your nauvis base is now running out of iron. Lol

ngl, i actually enjoy this dlc
while it's a very specific content expansion adding a kind of new direction to take a run in, i don't think that is a bad thing, particularly with the addition of ambient horror it can make an interesting integration into the rest of the game, with having to sometimes manage anomaly threats, although i feel like its price could be lower with it having less of an impact on the game compared to biotech and ideology
the only significant issue i really have is that the shambler assaults are abnormally hard compared to any other major threat, with shamblers tearing down walls leading to them basically always flanking your colony, with breachers and sappers they at least break open walls in only a single direction, but the shamblers just seemingly spread out and break in wherever they feel like which easily overwhelms my colony even with powerful enough melee colonists

really enjoying this so far!! a lot of survival games didn't really stick out to me since the idea of being stuck in nature started to get a little stale over time so being stranded in a facility is quite a breath of fresh air in comparison
there's only 2 issues i've seen so far:
- performance isn't very good, with a high end pcs and low resolution graphics of the game i expected it to run at 100 fps or more but it runs at around 50-60 fps, and one of my friends' pc isn't able to run the game entirely
- somewhat a personal thing as i advocate a lot for female representation and stuff but there aren't as many feminine customization options, still glad they do exist though!!
even then though these 2 issues aren't too significant and even so the developers are planning on adding more variety to character customization, just hoping this particular issue's addressed
if survival and/or half-life's your kind of thing i cannot recommend this game enough, it's in an impressive state for a game that had just released in early access

my lover keeps shoving me when i least suspect it

"everyone's crazy about it it can't be that good" i said.
then the bracken walked into the room (and took my teammate) (while a turret was firing at us) (then the other teammate in the room jumped to where i was in a panic, and then fell down the pit and died) (and then my other teammate, who came in to see what was going on, went to jump to the other side but fell and died)

great game but idk why they chose nanako to be the killer

maruki is peak

EDIT 2: chapter 5 is peak yeah. story's even better than the one's before

EDIT: after clearing chapter 4 my point still stands, i think this game's actually pretty great, and generous for a gacha game; there's nothing important that is impossible to get without money, you can only pay to make obtaining desired identities/EGO more easily, so far i've only bought the full battle pass and i feel like it is a pretty great deal if you play the game at least semi-actively, and if you don't buy it the free battle pass itself is still decent
and there's no fear of missing out as far as i can tell so that's another plus

i don't quite understand the negative reviews for this game, music's really good, i think i may actually prefer combat in this game to in library of ruina (particularly abnormality combat) as there's some much needed extra polish with the game telling you the odds of a clash, and the story's been great so far

as for the monetization, i don't know if it's just because i got lucky (got 5 3-rarity identities without spending anything), but i've been able to get through the fights quite easily, though i'm most likely just before a difficulty spike from hell (which did happen with chapter 3)

the one game that has the best bonus content locked behind a secret that triggers when you stay on the title screen (without touching a key to turn on the lights) for about a minute

very effective soundboard software, i like it