Explore an underground ocean. Battle sea monsters. Discover Sunless Sea thread. Go insane. Eat your crew

>Explore an underground ocean. Battle sea monsters. Discover Sunless Sea thread. Go insane. Eat your crew.
Die.

I just got into this game, what the fuck is going on?

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Everything is happening because of love

>Hit up that island with the three sisters for free supplies on my way out to go some port reports
>Mfw it burns down, the sisters vanish and the Maid is some kind of horrible beastie.

This game is a wild ride.

Is there a trick to the combat in this or are you supposed to eat a whole lot of shit from innocuous looking stuff early on?

I'm pretty shit at games so I think it's equal odds that it's a design choice or that it's me being bad.

Stay behind enemy ships, they can't lock a firing solution if you're out of their POV.

Keep your lights off to avoid being spotted if you see any ships too.

What? What triggers that?

Pigmote ain't free

Our Lady's Eye has to be watered with blood of rats. The Chief Engineer is not my president. He is Rattus Faber and probably an anarchist as well. Kingdom of Cavia not Republic of Murinia ok. Praise Our Lady.

Enough visits and it occurs on its own

There are probably people in the thread who will hate me for saying this, but after you have died a couple of times, edit your save, give yourself a ton of gold, buy the best ship with the best gear and go discovering in the undersea.

Fuck the pigs desu.

>Cavies
>Pigs

lmao look at this rat

I sure hope you two fucks made peace so the little buggers didn't get annexed by drownies or worse, the isle of masks

Hey guys, never mind me I'm just exploring the coast south of the Iron Republic and THE SUN THE SUN
T̟̫̫̲͔H̝E̤͚͍̮͕̬̪ ̫͉͇̱̺ͅS̟͡U̙̞N̷
T̸̴̛͍̩̦̟͓H̳̠͚͉̕E̥ ̡̮Ş̣̘̲̥͍̯̗̯Ṷ̵̷̫̮͍̬̹̜̠̕ͅN̪ T̵̴͇̮̠̲͕͚̲̮̙̖̫͎̺̩͢͡ͅH̡̖̪̗͓̜̹͟E̢͎͕͙͓̳̣̳̞̞͎̦̭͡͡ͅ ̸̱̣̩͍͔̘̕͠ͅS̷̡̛̝͍̦̰͕̦̭̜̟̲̭̱̲͈͍͔͔̜̤͢U̗͍͓͇̼͕̼̙̯͍͚̱͚̫͖͈̳̥͟͝ͅŃ̵͚͕̫̗̱̝̰̬̬̞͕̙̳͔̲͍̰̫̜͡ ̴͇̱͖̦̬̺̮͚̣͉̭̣̹̥̻͈̘̞͜T͏̰̭̠̺̥̻͚̖̲̗͚̱̩͉͖̙͟H͜͏̛̬̤͍͈̝Ȩ͇͎͙̘͉̬̣̱̤̠̕̕͝ ̴҉̷͔̰͈̣̞S̴̨̛̹͉̖̣͎͍̼̬̲̞̥͈U̶̱̘̭̰̺̯̜͘͟Ņ̧̮̣̻̘̹͍̘͚ͅͅ ̧͏̨̱͈̫͙̗̬̺̘̣̫̠̳̦͓͠ͅŢ̴̭̙̝̬̮͚͔͖̣͇̣̰̣͍̫̝̀ͅH̶̛͟͝҉͇͖͍͇̻E̸̷҉͕̲͚͈ ͓͔͈̥̯͉̻͎̫͙͖͍͕̥́͘S̢͓̤̹̣̥̫̝̺̣͎̹̹̹̤̕̕͠Ư̵̘̫̠͔͘N̛̻̩̮̯͉͚͓̣̞̺͍̜̜̠̦͍̱͟͡ͅ ̵̲͙̦̳̜̞̺̩̳̮̤̙̟͢ͅT̡̺̰̤̹̩̦̠̳̜͡͝H̻̜̳͚̹̦̳̘͚͖͔͉͎̣̞̝͍͢͡E̡͇̬̩̱̬͞ ̱̖̥̻̭̙̕S̶̫̫̬̤̰̩̼̤̳̬̜̻̀͝ͅŲ̮͍̩͍̳̟͔̰̜̥͔̻̦̘̳N̵̜̜͇̺̮̫͚̺͇͙͎̖̙͔̥̥̺͠ ̬̙̠̳̜̞͚̭̖̜͕́͢Ţ̨̫̣̖̱̙͜ͅͅH̷̶̙̘̥͚̠̬͈̱̘̰͟͡͝E̶̷̶҉̣̮͈̰̜̭̟ ̷̢͚̙̜̖̳͖̘̦̠̜͎̣̜̀ͅS̨͓͍͍̜̝̯̩̮̘̼̬͇͚̟Ų̸͏̲͇̳͕̗̺ͅǸ͚̞͓̺̼̦̙͚͎̦̰̭̝̫̰͕̞͘͟͝

I'll probably end up doing that, the writing is great. Does anyone play Fallen London?

Used to, but then my disposable income got really tight and I couldn't afford monthly exceptional stories anymore, and after hitting the end of the free content it was kind of pointless to grind on

>Pull up to Iron and Misery Co. Island
>“Oh hello, Captain! Thank God for visitors. We'd go quite mad out here otherwise, ahahaha."
>"Quite mad."
>"How can we be of assistance?”

What sort of ship/equipment should I move onto after starting out?

>devil woman laughs at you when you propose marriage
ok then

Devils are written so well in the Fallen London universe

It's established very early on that they're only there to manipulate you for souls (possibly yours) and whenever you trust them they end up proving you it's only a façade but I'll be damned if I don't keep convincing myself that this time they're really sincere and vulnerable

I didn't do it in a way where you could rescue the youngest sister so perhaps I missed some development, but that was very undeveloped in my opinion.

What the fuck was the maid? How did the sisters know they were going to die? Why were each of them individually linked to one of the gods and why does only one survive?

I get there is something to be said for leaving things ambiguous but not absolutely everything

Aight, can someone breakdown the lore of Sunless Sea and Fallen London in less than 30 seconds?

I've got 70 hrs ingame but I still don't know why is London under.......a dome of a sort?
What is Iron Republic?
Palmestone Island is really a gateway to hell?
Demons are real?
Why is everything Eldritch?


And many other questions.

And... Go!

How is the expansion? Does it add much to the game?

The Zee hates you. Statistically speaking, everyone is dead, dying, or insane. London was torn down to the Zee in some sort of potentially orchestrated by the Government deal with the devil. It is not the first city to do this, and it will not be the last.

Just fucking play the game.

Upgrade your deck gun ASAP. If you can afford it, get the one from Mr Fires, I think it costs 900 echoes, but it's well worth it.

Be very wary of engine upgrades, because increased engine power is directly proportional to increased fuel consumption. Basically you don't want to get a new engine until you have a lot of spare capital and/or a ship with room in the hold for the extra fuel you'll need.

As for the ship, conventional wisdom says that the merchant cruiser is actually the best ship, because it has a huge hold and you can basically tank any combat situation despite having fewer gun slots.

Personally, though, I really enjoy buzzing around in the corvette - it's small and relatively nippy and if you put a couple of high-powered guns on it, you can basically subsist on fuel and supplies you salvage from pirates and lifebergs, which balances out the tiny hold size. However, there are a couple of end-game quests that are extremely impractical to complete without a large hold, namely the ambition to establish your own colony and a quest chain involving a certain Empire in the far east.

The quest chain for the Magician can result in you being rewarded with The Serpentine, which is a high-powered engine which also increases fuel efficiency, that can definitely be worth it.

The most important change you can make to the game is turning off permadeath and allowing manual saves

It's amazing. Extends mid-late game a shit ton and the new ambition is elder tier. And you only have to do the submariner mission once; all captains after that will be able to dive (though you might not want to do that straight off)

Glad to hear that, but also shit because it means I'll have to put off the game until I get Zubmariner then.

London was stolen from the surface by bats during a war against Hell. Now it is underground, on the shores of an underground ocean called the Unterzee. The Iron Republic is the capital city of Hell.

SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN

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> The most important change you can make to the game is turning off permadeath and allowing manual saves

The Zee does not forgive. The Zee does not forget. Play the way it was meant to be cowardly rubberhead.

I've played it almost exclusively on permadeath and honestly once you learn how the game works death is not really a likely possibility unless you REALLY fuck up

There's an alarming amount of options that this game explicitly tells me not to choose.

Yep, and it is pretty much always good advice

The fun comes from deliberately choosing them anyway.

>Discovering islands that actively hunt you down and kill you

such is life in the zee

>accidentally coming across the Tree of Life
nope.jpg.gif.exe.bat.tiff

Eh, it's not like the game is a proper roguelike so I can tolerate lack of permadeath. It has a weird narrative angle going on.

>That image

please no

Are they still adding new stories for free or are they full-time focused now on the sequel?

Stars are sentient super aliens that crave souls and define conventional laws of reality to favour themselves. Hence why weird shit can happen in the Neath.
The Bazaar is another alien that has fallen in love with our Sun and wants to have it returned in kind.

It's more like a VN ybh

I love this game, a great deal. I played with permadeath for a long time, but after a while you just want to see all the endgame content in an uninterrupted stream instead of ten-minute glimpses that are separated by weeks of grinding.

The primary appeal of the game is the story, but the permadeath mechanic means that you end up re-reading the opening segments of the story dozens of times over, and although it does mean that the endgame stuff is rare and rewarding, it means that the starting stuff can become repetitive. Playing with manual saves means you can choose when you're okay with starting a new captain's life and when you're not ready to reset everything all over again.

I honestly think that permadeath was a mistaken choice in the game's design. They could even have gone with an old-school "lives" mechanic and it would have worked better.

There's a SEQUEL? How the fuck did I miss that?

It's an expansion DLC, it adds a whole bunch of stuff to the base game including Zubmarines.

>image
Holy shit. Fear must increase so fast at this point.

>Mfw there's a fucking spider-crab enemy in Zubmariner.

That's Zubmariner, there's also a space version called Sunless Skies on the go too.

>there's also a space version called Sunless Skies on the go too

Oh, I was of the impression that Sunless Skies was going to be a Zubmariner-style expansion that added dirigibles and let you explore the roof of the Neath. Haven't looked on the forums in months, though.

How about fallen London folks? I remember friending a seeker around here, anyone need some help by betraying me or need some requests, post your username, I'll gladly help you folks out.

>text scaling has been added with upgrade to Unity 5

Thank FUCK. Now I can finally play the game.

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>This entire review

isn't that mouth just a glorified port?

jesus christ

Perfect

>nobody mutinies in my ship

I just drove my boat around until I got bored then uninstalled since nothing ever happened.

unimpressed out of 10.

>Underground ocean
>Has wind

All I can think about is that there's some awful beast breathing vast breaths.

But... This game is just so weird. No one can really die that easy (Venderbreight), there is an island where people wear weird masks, monkeys are now sentient, there's a Santa Claus that eats people, wtf is Dawn Machine and why are people in Naples and Europe are so chill about people coming from London?

my god

>anime girl picture
>shit opinion

No surprises there.

user, literal hell has no laws except gravity, cats gain sentience because of a mountain and humans can't die unless gibbed to shit, and you think the unterzee has umderwater wind from a monster.

No, its much worse, no doubt.
The dawn machine is a fake god. A fake sun in a sunless sea, a god makes people not die so easy and Europe has always been chill, especially to folks as interesting as the Neath dwellers.

Wish I didn't know that.

>it's another Sunless Sea thread

Delicious. Wish I had time or was in the mood to play, I've run into a rut that I need to desperately get out of to get a better ship.

I really hope the core game isn't 90% tedium this time

Well, they know who the Best Girl is, at least.

>I've run into a rut that I need to desperately get out of to get a better ship.
Just go hunt Lorn-flukes on the southeastern end of the map, Captain. All the money you'll ever need.
Alternatively, if you need quick money to get to that stage the First Curator and Pulse of the Principles questlines are the best for making early, easy cash. Once you unlock the Vole and a forward gun you're basically set, though.

Friendly remidner to create a Fallen London account if you wish to play Sunless Skies since if you log in with an advent calendar code you get an item called "Sky Story" featuring a picture of the logo of Sunless Skies and teh description mentions exploration of the High Wilderness past Advent Horizon
It might unlock a special story in Sunless Skies and it takes no time at all to get

Also if anyone is interested in journal entries of SMEN text just check out my account Vegeful Fellow (I already know it has a typo)
I still have a long way to go but I should reach SMEN 10 later today and I inted to go to the very end

>Used goods who fugged a fat old man, had a daughter and romantically loves the eldritch abomination known as the Bazaar
wew

>can't access day 1 anymore
well shit

I think it was day 5

What is Mr.Eaten name?

>“We want to keep this core loop, but reduce the amount of time spent traversing explored territories” says director of game development Liam Weston on the Failbetter website. “The tension created by having to struggle back to a major port will still be there, and the threat of overreaching and dying in the cold, uncaring vastness of space will be just as present as it was in Sunless Sea. But your journeys will be shorter and more varied, and the new opportunities awaiting you in ports even more tantalizing.”

...

>I thought Sunless Skies was going to be a Zubmariner-style expansion that added dirigibles and let you explore the roof of the Neath. Haven't looked on the forums in months, though.
Nope, I think that was originally planned - as a stretch goal to their original Kickstarter, or something? - but Skies is something completely different. It's set in the High Wilderness beyond the Gate at Avid Horizon

Much appreciated user, this is my first year and I had no idea they were running an Advent calendar

>not liking experienced girls
>not liking someone so kinky, sleeping with her gives you two wounds
Come on, mate.

Yeah, Nook spooked my guts off the first time too.
Nothing compared to dat fuckken snibbety snab though.
>Something has been following us. It is patient.
>hit terror 70
>that scuttling sound that RAPIDLY GETS LOUDER
>HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THAT
>JESUS CHRIST EVEN THE MUSIC IS TRYING TO KILL ME

>January 12th, 1888: Something drifts, face down.

When the game come out I heard it was barebone and missing shit, It's worth it now?

Also makes the game a shitton easier too by adding ports with hard to find items just for sale and placing places to restock as cheaply as london in the far east.

So is this game actually good or what

Gameplay is pretty okay, if you like great writing it's more you thing.

>Your dreams have passed. That's good.
>Isn't it?

I find interesting how most faceless and nameless characters are female but there are more male named characters than female ones
90% of the time when the game talks about one of your sailors it's a she
And by named I mean adjective noun

E A T E N

That might've been the case in Early Access, but even in its first release I enjoyed it a lot. There's heaps more content now, though, it's definitely worth it if you've got the patience to learn the game.

It's _fun. And interesting. The atmosphere, writing and lore are the best parts of it, though; don't go in expecting brilliant gameplay.

i checked steam, and although i never really played it, i own the base game and now seem to have the expansion for free. was it because i bought it in alpha or what?

...

The writing is excellent, basically Terry Pratchett meets Lovecraft. The gameplay is slow and can be grindy, but it also drives home the "alone and tiny on an unforgiving ocean" vibe of the whole game.

There will also be some lacre shit related to snow that will allow you to upgrade a 4 card lodgings into a 5 cards one if you have notability 3

Oh jeez this is exactly what I want.

Used to be candles, his actual name though, who the fuck knows, like 30 asswipes who won't actually spoil it, thank the heavens for vegefull, godspeed user, spoil that shit.

I'm poor. I think FTL is an 8/10. what price will I be willing to pay for this and not feel scammed?

>was it because i bought it in alpha or what?
I believe so; Kickstarter backers (above a certain tier?) got it for free, and I think people who bought in in Early Access before a certain time did as well, because it counted as contributing to the development of the game.
>and although I never really played it
There's no better time to start, user.

>There will also be some lacre shit related to snow that will allow you to upgrade a 4 card lodgings into a 5 cards one if you have notability 3
Alright, cool. Thanks, user.
>tfw not even a PoSLC yet
>tfw still living in the Soft-hearted Widow's Attic
>tfw I've been using all my actions to grind Connected: the Church into the stratosphere for no good reason
I want that Spire-Emporium, though. I want to pet a Master! I want to be a Master ;-;

>he thinks his name was candles
Hahahahaha. I bet you think Mr Apples' name is actually Mr Apples, too.

Pirate it. See if you enjoy it and than consider buying it.I'm also a poorfag and bought it when Zubmariner released for 66% off.

It's also not that similar to FTL imo

I tried this game a few years back i think, some early access version, possibly?

I loved the atmosphere, but the gameplay was shit. Has anything changed since then?

Its not really that good, samey and grindy

Well once you get 100 in all stats you have multiple ways to progress to PoSI, and the easiest ones are either buying a handsome townhouse wich is needed for making a salon or an orphanage in the future or having high church connections and 1 point of connected to the masters
Also the room above a gambling den lets you have 3 cards and is very useful as posi to grind making waves
You will also need a strong backed labour, and the easiest way to get that is to work as a ratcatcher for a week

If you want any tips for powerlevelling just ask
I became a PoSI in about 2 weeks thanks to using the proper methods

More stories and underwater

I said he used to be candles, not that he was named candles, I immediately said his name was uknown.

Why do you have to spend 100 echoes to rest in your own house?

Try learning to read before you give it another shot, you might enjoy it more.

To lower your terror so you don't die in a mutiny when sailing past the western border near the dawn machine

>I enjoy an edgy grimdark 2deep4u marginally well written story which makes up for the sub-par gameplay

Wew lad

@359926970
leave

I wish it was more like FTL, rather than a shitty flash game.