The dumbass was also STUCK IN THE BATHROOM so the bedroom and bathroom doors were closed on it. It was slamming open and closed one of the stalls. Had to debug to get it out. Fuck me dude.
Did I get sent to fucking hell.
I randomly teleported to an empty version of the base, saw this entryway in the basement, noped tf out, accidentally fell off the map into the void, and woke up in this Amnesia The Dark Descent ass maze???
I am a brand new player and the main reason I became interested in this game is the random spooky events. However, after 23 in game days, I am starting to feel somewhat deflated because I have missed so many of the paranoia events due to not being able to locate them in time ):
Yes, I do go to all the places the tips setting suggests, but I still have only witnessed 3 of the many paranoia events because this map is HUGE. It's difficult to know what direction to even go in when it doesn't have a radar blip + the added frustration of knowing the more time you spend searching, the more time eats into your daily tasks.
Now to be clear, I am NOT asking the game to hold my hand or add yellow guidelines. But I think a way to subtley move the player in the right direction would be extremely helpful (and could be toggled off for those who don't want it). Example concepts of the feature for getting players to look / run in the correct direction:
A sort of "shimmer" appears, similar to how heat reflects off really hot asphalt, or the wavy invisible way arirals look but larger, and it stays in a fixed position in front of the player until they arrive within close proximity to the event.
The edges of your vision get slightly red / staticy and grow as you get closer before disappearing upon arriving to the event.
The paranoia music grows louder the closer you get to the event location and has spatial sound correlated with looking in the correct direction.
A heartbeat sound that grows louder and faster the closer you get to the event.
The fireflies function as a sort of will-o-wisps and a small, shapeless, more dense "ball" forms in the direction of the event, almost like they're being pulled by it too.
The built-in compass needle stays in a fixed position pointed at the event (yes this would impact doing tasks, but not being able to save / pause implies players should prioritize investigating the event over tasks, so the temporary freeze would support that). ETA suggestion from comments: an overlaid "ghost" / glitch arrow pointing towards the event.
ETA2 suggestion from comments: the same way your gaze drifts to the insomnia demon from lack of sleep, after a certain amount of time passes during the event without the player engaging, a similar paranoia demon could appear in the correct direction.
ETA3 suggestion from comments: small differences in the save error could go a long way:
> 'Im being watched..'
> 'Something is looking for me'
> 'The sky looks.. Wrong'
> 'Do I smell shrimp?'
> 'Are there more dots on the radar?'
And I would love to hear from those of you who also have suggestions for how this feature would work!
Again, cannot emphasize this enough: this feature would be a toggle, you don't have to use it if your gaming experience is not impacted by this issue, that is A-okay! So pls no snide "skill issue" remarks from those of you who have not gotten lost in the backwoods of the Swiss alps for 2 days while searching for the ATV you parked God knows where, surviving only on crackers and a nutrient bar, because YOU have the directional sense of a migrating bird. Some of us are built different (worse) and still want to engage with the world of the game but just need a little shove in the right direction<3
....this mannequin climbed OUT OF THE FUCKING INCINERATOR!!!! I literally screamed out loud and made a mad dash through the woods. It was literally It Follows, I wanted to puke!!! 😭 I always thought it was the cat girls moving them around to fuck with Dr. Kell, I didn't know they TRULY MOVE ON THEIR OWN. I'm genuinely so scared of inevitably running into the next one 🙃
Did not catch a photo of the fire incident as I was too busy shrieking but here are Dr. Kell's final moments before being beat to death on the side of the road.
So I accidentally parked my ATV somewhere in the woods on night 3, so sure I could easily find it again - annnnnd then I could not. I'm not on day 12 and it's highkey throwing a wrench into my gameplay loop. Is there a way to get the ATV to respawn? Or do I need to start a new save? Thank you!
If you want to see the screenshots alongside my theory, here is my Tumblr post with added screenshots!
When we first meet Marissa, she says she is here with her friends for a bachelorette party and that they just got in last night and immediately went to bed. So off the bat I find it odd that Tom meets her totally alone - why was she wandering around the island with no car, no working cellphone, and none of her friends? - at a crossroads no less. But okay, maybe we can explain that away. She walked off on her own adventure and got lost in the woods, we'll give her one pass.
Tom tells her during the car ride that Patricia's cocktails are tomorrow after the inaugural swim. It's important to remember this because the end of this episode and Patricia's party take place simultaneously.
During the car ride, she claims her and her friends plan to go to Barnabus's Tavern that night, But when Tom arrives, there are no bachelorettes to be seen. Okay, maybe the group of women who came here specifically to celebrate decided to call it a night early (REALLY early, considering the bar is still full in this sleepy town), or maybe they found a different spot to drink at that night. We'll give her two passes.
The next day, Marissa drops by his office looking for him and told his assistant maybe she'll see him at the swim. She doesn't show yet again and he doesn't see her again, yet SOMEHOW, she calls his HOUSE. Okay, MAYBE Ruth gave her Tom's HOME number (AND address, since later Marissa CLAIMS she obtained his address from "someone at this office") and just forgot to tell him. We'll give her three passes.
She invites tom to come meet her at the Driftwood Cafe for dinner, and he arrives just as the sun is setting - at the SAME time that Patricia's party is starting, thus marking the rest of the episode as taking place at the same time!!! About halfway through their meal, Tom remembers Patricia's party, and says he has to go or she'll kill him. And Marissa says something REAAAAAAAAAAAL interesting: "Is there somewhere else we could go? Maybe we could go to your house?"
What an odd thing for a girl to do, ditch her friend's bachelorette party to go and doink some stranger she just met, right?? Possible, but very very weird.
Speaking of which, back at the party, Patricia dips into the kitchen and leaves Tom a voicemail - that he only receives AFTER RETURNING from the restaurant by the way, proving both him and Marissa were at dinner during this sequence of events - then turns to grab her punch bowl, goes back out asking about the pretty people, is told they're at the top of the stairs but turns to see it's the mean girls, so she immediately tries to start dancing to prove a point, all of this consecutively with no time jumps and all of a sudden: BOOM! THE BACHELORETTES ARRIVE!
Oh, YOU MEAN THE PARTY MARISSA CLAIMS SHE'S ON THE ISLAND TO ATTEND??? You're telling me she not only ditched, but then didn't even mention it to Tom, and in fact tried to stay out LONGER by going to his house??? Again it's POSSIBLE, but it's fucking WEIRD abnormal behavior, we're running out of passes to give this woman.
As the rest of Patricia's party goes on, the bachelorettes are there the ENTIRE time, they never leave from beginning to end, as we see the bride to be during the punch dance sequence and during the final walk. So they're partying for hours while Tom drives home, listens to the voicemail from Patricia, and suddenly hears....a knock on his door: "Hi, it's me. We took a shot and they dropped me off."
A SINGLE SHOT??? Ma'am your friends were given shots PLURAL by Patricia and are currently getting blasted, how could they have dropped you off??
(Also worth noting she claims to have gotten the address from "someone in his office" but she certainly didn't get it that evening because we see all of his colleagues at this party)
So after alllllll that timeline poking in her story, to me, the creepiest part is still the final shot after she leaves the doorway without a word and gets into......a taxi. Who the hell is in that taxi?? Why did she come here, both to his home in the night and to the island?? Surely the dick isn't good enough to pursue the man to his office, call his son at his home, skip your friend's party, meet him for dinner, AND show up at his doorstep unannounced all within 24 hours of meeting.
Inb4 she's the sea hag: her being the hag would make sense in a "we never saw them in the same room" type of way, plus the parallel of him picking up two hitchhiker, but I really don't think she was the hag. I think she was a red herring to make us think one thing was going on but it wasn't as a storytelling parallel to Patricia's episode (thinking she's pulling a Carrie and instead it was witchcraft).
I'd find it a bit unsatisfying narratively for them to not reveal it was her in some capacity. Not necessarily the grand reveal Patricia's was, could have been subtle (like maybe a clothing item of hers was left on the porch after she turned into the naked hag or something) but I find the lack of conclusion an indication that this isn't the last we've seen of her. Maybe she's the witch that left the book for Patricia? Maybe she's a succubus? Maybe she's a paid actor from Big Island? Watch and the story is revealed or whatevs.