Underrail: The Incline Awakens

[The people of Duckburg]

Just killed the Beast. Pretty sure I've done it once before, but it's been so long I can barely remember it. Not one of the better quests in the game. So much tedious running back and forth, and fighting bladelings is boring.

The Beast quest is more memorable for the parts where you figure out how to harm it than the parts where you hunt for shards and cart the dense things around. Talking to Quentin and Ezra to figure out what these things are is honestly one of the moments I think of first when I think of the game. That it's interesting having a biologist explain what these worms and rock/steel type pokemon are, is pretty impressive. The writing and world building are strong enough to carry a scene like that, when it could easy have been a case of wishing that the biologybabble would end.

Quenton was one of my favorite NPCs, since he will serve you several lore dumps if you show him certain things. I would have liked it if there was even more of that. More Quincy-like NPCs to talk lore with, if the player chooses to.

 

[Corvid]

Whoever decided I have to hand in my entire inventory for decontamination knowing that it removes said items from all quickbars deserves to be slapped around with a flyswatter.

 

[Spark Mandriller]

Solved by fully speccing Disassemble

Only for sledgehammers though. Every other weapon the metal you used to make them just disappears when you disassemble. Not sure why sledgehammers let you keep it when the others don't.

 

[AdolfSatan]

So, I started the Expedition DLC, looks fun. Decided to join the Pirates and got sent on a mission to take out Aegis patrols. Got a bit trigger-happy and murdered the entire base, now the quest log claims the expedition as ended. Did I screw myself out of any content?

 

[jackofshadows]

So, I started the Expedition DLC, looks fun. Decided to join the Pirates and got sent on a mission to take out Aegis patrols. Got a bit trigger-happy and murdered the entire base, now the quest log claims the expedition as ended. Did I screw myself out of any content?

Well, that is an obvious fork in terms of factions but there's another small thing you miss when you join pirates: only Aegis has the equipment for reading some Lemurian personal records of sorts. Nothing major or of great value though.

 

[Corvid]

Did I screw myself out of any content?

A bunch of dialogue and some MPC entries. As for "main quest" content , you can do it yourself without the hints.
I assume Professor Oldfield is still alive?

 

[AdolfSatan]

To reply to your spoiler: Yes.

Also, thank you both. I wasn’t so worried about missing faction stuff, since that I’ll do on a future replay when I guess I’ll side with all the non-chaotic sides, but rather of having skipped missions from the Pirates themselves by killing all their enemies at the first chance.
Couldn’t find the sniper girl in the base btw, where the hell is she? I wanted to steal her gun.

 

[MerchantKing]

To reply to your spoiler: Yes.

Also, thank you both. I wasn’t so worried about missing faction stuff, since that I’ll do on a future replay when I guess I’ll side with all the non-chaotic sides, but rather of having skipped missions from the Pirates themselves by killing all their enemies at the first chance.
Couldn’t find the sniper girl in the base btw, where the hell is she? I wanted to steal her gun.

In the tower

 

[AdolfSatan]

First place I checked, wasn’t there.

 

[Corvid]

To reply to your spoiler: Yes.
[...]
Couldn’t find the sniper girl in the base btw, where the hell is she? I wanted to steal her gun.

Then you still have the one NPC with pirate-related content.

The sniper girl usually stays on top of the lighthouse unless there's a raid going on.
ed: Make sure to Tab around the base looking for a "Yahota's corpse" you might have missed.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Reached the Expedition for the first time. It feels good to be exploring something new, although I've discovered a lot of small things I hadn't found before in the main game as well throughout the course of this playthrough. Or maybe stuff has been added by Expedition/later patches?

Did the first quest with the mutants. This was some prime Fallout content, with the various ways you could resolve it. Love it. I also love that the areas appear to link up in a logical fashion. Only thing I'm not loving so far is the water sneks. Annoying little bastards.

 

[Mauman]

Reached the Expedition for the first time. It feels good to be exploring something new, although I've discovered a lot of small things I hadn't found before in the main game as well throughout the course of this playthrough. Or maybe stuff has been added by Expedition/later patches?

Did the first quest with the mutants. This was some prime Fallout content, with the various ways you could resolve it. Love it. I also love that the areas appear to link up in a logical fashion. Only thing I'm not loving so far is the water sneks. Annoying little bastards.

Expeditions has a lot going for it.

Great writing.

Great characters.

An interesting setting.

New enemies that make you want to hit your nuts with a hammer.....wait what?

ANYWAYS....if you think the snakes are bad, just wait till you're sent to

Spoiler

Horticulture station

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[Serious_Business]

This game is atrociously addicting, isn't it? I'm convinced that Underrail players don't simply play a game, they actually live in the rail, the pit, the cavern, the dark. This place is strange and it will change you, make you more attune to low-light environments, more appreciative of all the possible shades of grey, more sensitive to the shadows within. You have to be constantly aware of your surroundings. All these guys will tell you that Dominating difficulty with a crowbar is basic stuff. They are actually shadow crawlers. They rush you down, poison you, then jump back up, oops, haha, great design. And you die. You keep dying, you reload all the time. Skill issue, asshole. These guys never reload. How could they? They live in the Underrail. They are hardcore. What, you play with assault rifles, on normal? What an utter faggot. Yes, this is what I do. Fuck you. Almost 200h, still on normal. I'm dying in some small corner here, bleeding out. Boom boom, burst, burst, I take three guys out per turn. But there's more, always more. So I scavenge. I look in the trash, to find greater accomplishment. Underrail is the ultimate crpg, if only for one reason : it is an accurate trash-searching simulator. It makes searching barrels an interesting gameplay feature. This is huge. Immense. I must always search in the dirtiest, most disgusting places, to claim the prize. I am a rathound. Look at me. This is what this game has done to me. I crawl, I sniff, I bite. I must find it. In the darkness.

 

[Oreshnik Missile]

Currently playing psychostatic + three pointer for guaranteed crits from frag grenades.

 

[Ol' Willy]

This game is atrociously addicting, isn't it? I'm convinced that Underrail players don't simply play a game, they actually live in the rail, the pit, the cavern, the dark. This place is strange and it will change you, make you more attune to low-light environments, more appreciative of all the possible shades of grey, more sensitive to the shadows within. You have to be constantly aware of your surroundings. All these guys will tell you that Dominating difficulty with a crowbar is basic stuff. They are actually shadow crawlers. They rush you down, poison you, then jump back up, oops, haha, great design. And you die. You keep dying, you reload all the time. Skill issue, asshole. These guys never reload. How could they? They live in the Underrail. They are hardcore. What, you play with assault rifles, on normal? What an utter faggot. Yes, this is what I do. Fuck you. Almost 200h, still on normal. I'm dying in some small corner here, bleeding out. Boom boom, burst, burst, I take three guys out per turn. But there's more, always more. So I scavenge. I look in the trash, to find greater accomplishment. Underrail is the ultimate crpg, if only for one reason : it is an accurate trash-searching simulator. It makes searching barrels an interesting gameplay feature. This is huge. Immense. I must always search in the dirtiest, most disgusting places, to claim the prize. I am a rathound. Look at me. This is what this game has done to me. I crawl, I sniff, I bite. I must find it. In the darkness.

If you play on normal for 200 hours and keep reloading a lot you should stop and think if you really understand how to play the game.

When making a build you had to keep in mind two most important aspects - how would you deal damage and how would you avoid or mitigate it. You can look for a balance or minmaxx, doesn't matter, once these two aspects are understood you should play knowing what to do. From then on it's using the strengths of your build and various tactical advantages you could spot.

Preparing for fights is not less important. The resistances in armor description are not just for a show, you can maximize the resistances against attacks that enemies will deal to you, as well as pick right consumables and prepare traps . The possibilities are endless

 

[Oreshnik Missile]

more psychostatic with mark V grenades

 

[BruceVC]

I completed the main Underrail narrative after about 130 hours

As I mentioned in previous posts its an excellent game and well worth playing

What stands out as exceptional are these main mechanics and components

• Combat and how you have to adopt different strategies to win. In most large battles you cannot use the same approach
• exploration and the vastness of the map and then different places to find
• how you can use different builds to solve quests, lots of effort was put into this and it works

The single hardest battle I had outside of the final battle was with IRIS, it took me about 12 tries but I finally succeeded by using mines, EMP grenades and my PSI abilities and then I used the side room to control how the Robots could attack me and then I could focus my attacks on a specific area

The only real criticism I have is the final Mutagen puzzle was too hard, I have never come across a puzzle that was so difficult to understand. I ended up using guides to finally create Exitus

Did anyone solve this puzzle without using guides and how long did it take you?

And now Im playing Expedition and its great fun. I really appreciate how they add components like the NavCom device to help you navigate the map without making it too easy

I like the factions and Im aligned with Aegis

 

[Yosharian]

This game is atrociously addicting, isn't it? I'm convinced that Underrail players don't simply play a game, they actually live in the rail, the pit, the cavern, the dark. This place is strange and it will change you, make you more attune to low-light environments, more appreciative of all the possible shades of grey, more sensitive to the shadows within. You have to be constantly aware of your surroundings. All these guys will tell you that Dominating difficulty with a crowbar is basic stuff. They are actually shadow crawlers. They rush you down, poison you, then jump back up, oops, haha, great design. And you die. You keep dying, you reload all the time. Skill issue, asshole. These guys never reload. How could they? They live in the Underrail. They are hardcore. What, you play with assault rifles, on normal? What an utter faggot. Yes, this is what I do. Fuck you. Almost 200h, still on normal. I'm dying in some small corner here, bleeding out. Boom boom, burst, burst, I take three guys out per turn. But there's more, always more. So I scavenge. I look in the trash, to find greater accomplishment. Underrail is the ultimate crpg, if only for one reason : it is an accurate trash-searching simulator. It makes searching barrels an interesting gameplay feature. This is huge. Immense. I must always search in the dirtiest, most disgusting places, to claim the prize. I am a rathound. Look at me. This is what this game has done to me. I crawl, I sniff, I bite. I must find it. In the darkness.

If you play on normal for 200 hours and keep reloading a lot you should stop and think if you really understand how to play the game.

When making a build you had to keep in mind two most important aspects - how would you deal damage and how would you avoid or mitigate it. You can look for a balance or minmaxx, doesn't matter, once these two aspects are understood you should play knowing what to do. From then on it's using the strengths of your build and various tactical advantages you could spot.

Preparing for fights is not less important. The resistances in armor description are not just for a show, you can maximize the resistances against attacks that enemies will deal to you, as well as pick right consumables and prepare traps . The possibilities are endless

You could also just let him enjoy the game

 

[Mauman]

I like the factions and Im aligned with Aegis

Took me 4 playthroughs to get myself to betray Aegis due to my boy Tony (finally did so on my one and only dominating game), and it's worth it. The pirates are really interesting.

If I ever play again I'll definitely side with the pirates again. I love my boy, but the pirates are really cool.

edit - Confused Marcus for Tony....not that I don't like Marcus either, but Tony is on a different level.

 

[BruceVC]

I like the factions and Im aligned with Aegis

Took me 4 playthroughs to get myself to betray Aegis due to my boy Marcus (finally did so on my one and only dominating game), and it's worth it. The pirates are really interesting.

If I ever play again I'll definitely side with the pirates again. I love my boy, but the pirates are really cool.

Did you complete the Mutagen puzzle on your own or did you use guides to work out what you suppose to do?

 

[Mauman]

I like the factions and Im aligned with Aegis

Took me 4 playthroughs to get myself to betray Aegis due to my boy Marcus (finally did so on my one and only dominating game), and it's worth it. The pirates are really interesting.

If I ever play again I'll definitely side with the pirates again. I love my boy, but the pirates are really cool.

Did you complete the Mutagen puzzle on your own or did you use guides to work out what you suppose to do?

On the runs I did the puzzle I used a guide.

I've also never even bothered with the music puzzle.

I admit I have my limits in patience. Probably why I will never play dominating again. I did it. It's done. Only reason I was able to tolerate it is because the build I was playing was built around it.

 

[jackofshadows]

Did anyone solve this puzzle without using guides and how long did it take you?

I remember solving it on my own, there weren't any guides back then anyway as far as I remember. No biggy but I wrongly assumed solving it is mandatory. Although not sure if I'd kill the boss w/o solving it, my build/gear was pretty weak.

 

[Ol' Willy]

This game is atrociously addicting, isn't it? I'm convinced that Underrail players don't simply play a game, they actually live in the rail, the pit, the cavern, the dark. This place is strange and it will change you, make you more attune to low-light environments, more appreciative of all the possible shades of grey, more sensitive to the shadows within. You have to be constantly aware of your surroundings. All these guys will tell you that Dominating difficulty with a crowbar is basic stuff. They are actually shadow crawlers. They rush you down, poison you, then jump back up, oops, haha, great design. And you die. You keep dying, you reload all the time. Skill issue, asshole. These guys never reload. How could they? They live in the Underrail. They are hardcore. What, you play with assault rifles, on normal? What an utter faggot. Yes, this is what I do. Fuck you. Almost 200h, still on normal. I'm dying in some small corner here, bleeding out. Boom boom, burst, burst, I take three guys out per turn. But there's more, always more. So I scavenge. I look in the trash, to find greater accomplishment. Underrail is the ultimate crpg, if only for one reason : it is an accurate trash-searching simulator. It makes searching barrels an interesting gameplay feature. This is huge. Immense. I must always search in the dirtiest, most disgusting places, to claim the prize. I am a rathound. Look at me. This is what this game has done to me. I crawl, I sniff, I bite. I must find it. In the darkness.

If you play on normal for 200 hours and keep reloading a lot you should stop and think if you really understand how to play the game.

When making a build you had to keep in mind two most important aspects - how would you deal damage and how would you avoid or mitigate it. You can look for a balance or minmaxx, doesn't matter, once these two aspects are understood you should play knowing what to do. From then on it's using the strengths of your build and various tactical advantages you could spot.

Preparing for fights is not less important. The resistances in armor description are not just for a show, you can maximize the resistances against attacks that enemies will deal to you, as well as pick right consumables and prepare traps . The possibilities are endless

You could also just let him enjoy the game

 

[Ol' Willy]

Though *understanding* the game makes playing it far more enjoyable.

I remember the first time dealing with locusts, I thought I would pop a vessel they were so annoying. But the next times, when I was properly prepared, it was alright, a good sport even

 

[AdolfSatan]

Shit man, you talk about it like it’s some science, all you have to do is switch to a low AP gun or use ’nades.