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A great game, simple, beautifully made and gripping. Minus: endgame crafting was tremendously tedious. Glean 2 sees to that, though. Thumbs up.
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I agree with tsundae. awesome game but the craft function can be improved with an automatic takeaway if you have all the materials needed
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The complicated crafting might annoy some but it reminds me of crafting in other MMO.s i've played, no change is needed IMHO. I s there an easier way to find missing recepies? is it solely based off finding them on the planets or is there some other bases of getting new recepies? for exampe should i have a stock of every component to unlock new recepies? I'm not sure how to get my upgrades with missing items other then hit and miss searching new planets?
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Looking forward to a sequel of some kind. maybe add a way of jumping higher using an upgrade. Definitely add in a function to build sub items if the resources are there. Side by side buttons maybe.
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The thing is that titanium is hard to find for beginners since it is after depth 100. You need to find a few tier 2 hidden items and get cooling system level 3 to go below 100 in volcanic areas where titanium is easier to find. I've been grinding the glacial area for a few hours and only got about 30 titanium.
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Awesome game. Very very fun. Game design rule: Never make a layer craft more than 3 deep. Many of the final items are 5 or six deep. Maybe have on of the engineering boxes be a "Molecular Combiner" that is able to auto-convert all the base materials (lave, Fe, Au) between the various sizes. This would move the crafting back to 4 deep. Then this would get six stars (we'd make Kongregate add one for just this game).
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good work on making sure people dont just target to dig deeper like motherload, the most useful ressource are all over the place... i had expected to need to farm titanium and gold on the final stretch, and i ended up with a lot of extra ( i mean, like 50 sizeable chunks of each, 400 obsidian, 200+ of each large crystals, and i made too many gemstones anyway) , aberrant and strange gloops i was expecting to need more of them.... and in the end, there was no words to describe the sheer insanity of the need for iron , and this is considering i had taken Hotshot2k4 comment into account... my hint to anyone out there playing, mid-game, dont spend your bonus time on doubling your titanium spend it on doubling the iron., ice planets are great to dig deeper and get higher grade capsules, but spend some time on volcanics too, you'll need the metal.
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I love this game so much. In my opinion this game is as close to perfect as can be. Other mining games give only an hour or two of gameplay, but this game gives much more. There are story elements that you uncover as you go, but you are not required to watch them, and i like that because i concentrate on playing the game more than the story. The game is a perfect use of resource management mixed with RPG. The upgrades are great, and just when i think i'm invincible and i can go wherever i want, i have to pull an emergency teleport to escape environmental overheating. This game is on the top of my list of all time favorites along with Legend of Zelda, Anti-Idle: The Game, and Final Fantasy X. Awesome game
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I love this game so much. In my opinion this game is as close to perfect as can be. Other mining games give only an hour or two of gameplay, but this game gives much more. There are story elements that you uncover as you go, but you are not required to watch them, and i like that because i concentrate on playing the game more than the story. The game is a perfect use of resource management mixed with RPG. The upgrades are great, and just when i think i'm invincible and i can go wherever i want, i have to pull an emergency teleport to escape environmental overheating. This game is on the top of my list of all time favorites along with Legend of Zelda, Anti-Idle: The Game, and Final Fantasy X. Awesome game
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I love all the references to games/books. Its like a game within a game trying to spot them all. I've always wanted to see octarine...
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oh, and for those of you struggling to get gold or titanium becuase you can't survive the temperatures: go to an ice planet. There won't be a lot of it, but there will be enough to complete the cooling system. You can also get deeper artifacts more quickly this way.
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Feedback continued (stupid length limit)
4. The cargo bay (some of the item descriptions are hilarious, by the way). First, some groups of items are sorted in a counterintuitive way, e.g. the wires, where the tech tree goes wireless wires > jumper cables > semiconductor, but the cargo bay displays the jumper cables before the other two items. Second, while it is a great feature to be able to jump directly to either of the prerequisites, I sometimes forgot what I was trying to craft in the first place. A "back" button would be a great addition.
5. The gas geysers. First, they always damaged me to within an inch of my life, no matter how upgraded my plating was (though hitting a second geyser in this state would kill me). Second... shouldn't such an explosion take out the surrounding blocks? Or at least make a huge visible and audible explosion; the first few times it took me some time to figure out why I was suddenly dead.
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The depth reading is very useful, but so would a measurement of lateral distance. This could be part of one of the drill upgrades.
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I would really like to be able to craft a chain of components. Having to create something, that is a part of something else, that I need to craft something even larger is a pain.
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The nesting of parts that make parts that make parts gets fairly ridiculous at tier 5. It's taking hundreds of clicks to make some of these items.
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In my opinion I loved the game firstly. it was awesome. It could have used a grappling hook or some sort of jetpack option that wasn't just 2 squares up.. 4 or 5 squares would have been great. it should be easier to go up than it is to go down. Infact it'd be great with an upgrade of each upgrade allows you to move up 1 more block with the jetpack. I loved the strategicness of the game that's absent in most other mining games... Actually having to go and figure out what minerals I need is a step in the right direction. Not to mention the planet screens and planet types (loved the volcanic and glacier planets btw nice touch). Just my 1 gripe is the jetpack thing. And only having 10 explosives on a 400% rock planet sucks.
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Fun game, but a bit long. There has to be a way to streamline the crafting process. Too often an upgrade would need a part that needed several complex parts, but it would also need stand alone parts that make up those complex parts so I'd have to make more of those after making them to use in the complex parts. It really drags the game out.
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If the game hangs loading the video, refresh the page and choose CONTINUE - it'll take you to the planet selection screen.
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@killer_byrne you can combine smaller chunks into larger chunks. You might need to dig up one of those yellow canisters to do it. check your "research" screen. combine the gemstone shards into giant gems the same way.
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Can someone explain how to get sizeable iron chunks? They are at level 100+, yet I can only reach level 50 due to my temperature maxing out, but in order to upgrade cooling I need a sizeable iron chunk!? What am I missing, please.
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Okay, all the wikis say that to make a bunch of screws, I just need 2 iron nuggets. Why can't I make screws??? I have tons of iron nuggets and more. It's holding me up from getting some desperately needed upgrades to my bots...
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@Dracos: I didn't really run into much that required me to go deeper than my systems could handle. If you're talking about needing the larger sizes of iron, etc., then you might not have noticed that your Research Tab lets you learn how to combine (for example) 3 tiny iron nuggets into an ordinary iron lump. The combining recipes show up once you have at least a certain number of the smaller item, which is sometimes more than the requirement to combine them (like needing 5 of the item to unlock it, when you only need 3 to actually combine.) Once you learn the combination in the Research panel, you can make more of them by going to the Cargo Bay panel, and clicking on the item you want to make; it'll have the option under the description.