I am currently finishing up the manufacturing sector. I’m playing solo and I’m not excited for when I get to this part. It’s not going to be a fun time with how low visibility underwater is in this game.
As a side note, I very rarely buy games new or even like survival crafting style games, but holy crap this game is so good.
Man, when I was deep in the throes of alcoholism(semi-sober now) during the pandemic that was my go-to beer. I wouldn’t say it was good, but New Belgium was the perfect intersection of high alcohol content, a decent price, and not tasting like it was malt trash. Last I checked they were like $(US)20 for a 12 pack near me though so I don’t think it’s still in that category.
I disagree with it not tasting strong though. A single sip would make my hair stand on end hahaha.
Even with your edit I’m still pretty convinced it’s an AI gen that they then edited the shirt logo onto afterward, causing the weird rectangular color differences you noted. Look at the irregularly warped railing behind her and the inhumanly wide laugh-lines and joker smile the models has.
Edit: looking at some other photos she has up, it also could just be extraordinarily heavy handed editing
I was watching someone’s playthrough and I genuinely had to turn the stream off after like a dozen hours because I knew I had to play it. I mostly gave up on the survival/crafting genre because all the heavy hitters just didn’t do much for me. I always play solo and they all quickly feel like they devolve into housekeeping and inventory management sims.
The only one I ever really enjoyed was Subnautica, specifically because of some of the non-thematic reasons you mentioned for this game being so good. The survival aspects are actually really well done without making the game feel like a chore (it’s so weird how effective adding a tiny little mini game to things just makes it feel less obnoxious), the setting and story is interesting and well crafted, and most of the tedious aspects of gameplay are given intended solutions in the crafting trees.
The setting and storytelling is just so masterfully done that it always keeps you engaged. The combat is a little bit lame, but it’s mostly because of AI being kind of dumb. I’m playing on a lower difficulty though so maybe that’s the reason.