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 Stranded Deep is an Early Access title made by Beam Team which released Alpha 0.01 on Steam January 23rd, 2015 for $15. It started out on Steam Greenlight back in 2013. In Stranded Deep you play a guy who survives a plane crash into the ocean and must survive on remote, desert islands, starting with nothing but a pocket knife, bottle of water and a life raft. Theoretically until you're rescued, but winning the game hasn't actually been added yet. The game features a procedurally generated, random world consisting of infinite new desert islands. You can build a home, cook food and build tools to use to survive, as well as fight off sharks when you travel between islands. You can also fall off of trees and break limbs, how wonderful! It is available here on Steam. Is it worth it? For $15 I'm having fun with it. I can say that much. It's pretty, at least! There's potential here. It's also only 150mb, I don't know how they managed that. If you are looking for something pretty to toy around with for a few hours, it's worth $15. If you're looking for a complete game with goals and objectives, you will hate Stranded Deep (for now, anyway, but we all know how this Early Access thing goes, it's hit or miss). Hey, isn't this like, identical to The Forest? They are very, very similar games. The difference being that the main challenge in Stranded Deep is the isolation. You have very small islands with very little resources and absolutely no other human contact. The Forest is also a survival game, but includes horror elements and is much more focused on combat. FAQ What features are coming in the future? More wildlife, being rescued, co-op multiplayer, a more "fitting" UI and Occulus Rift support are all in the works currently, according to the roadmap on the Steam page. How do I craft? The developers have posted a basic guide to crafting enough to survive here. How do I rebuild fires? This took me like 30 minutes to figure out. Unlike crafting literally everything else you keep the sticks in your hand then click your fire pit. AbrahamLincolnLog fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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I really want to try this but I've been bitten by too many early access lately. Need some more goons to chime in on this before I make the plunge.
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Jan 24, 2015 06:15
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Is this at all related to Stranded 2? Because, wow, the graphics have significantly improved since their last go around.
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Jan 24, 2015 07:09
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It definitely seems inspired by it. Names are similar and a lot of the mechanics are the same, like tossing all your poo poo in a pile on the ground to build things.
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Jan 24, 2015 07:24
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oh wow you're telling me i can pay for a game that is on version 0.01 whose premise is basically that of the other million games who i can also buy on version 0.04 who will never be finished?
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Jan 24, 2015 16:13
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This is the future and there is no bucking this trend.
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Jan 24, 2015 16:17
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Mans posted:oh wow you're telling me i can pay for a game that is on version 0.01 whose premise is basically that of the other million games who i can also buy on version 0.04 who will never be finished? Yeah but now it's on an island!
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Jan 24, 2015 16:19
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:Hey, isn't this like, identical to a million lovely early access survival games? Good sell man.
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Jan 24, 2015 16:25
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Single player. No controller support. I might be more interested in it when it's released.
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Jan 24, 2015 16:31
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This game is already way better than The Forest
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Jan 24, 2015 17:24
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 Apparently you can also find Wilson. Also, the official wiki has been started.
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Jan 24, 2015 17:47
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I just spent 5 minutes paddling towards another island, only to turn around and realize I was still beached on my island.
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Jan 25, 2015 06:59
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There is a ton of potential for this game to be exactly what I want in a game, and for the time I've spent playing it I've enjoyed it. When you search underwater wrecks for equipment, it gives you a lot of stress knowing a shark is close by, and the music fits it perfectly. There is a very game breaking bug right now though. When you try to raft to another island, if you have saved your game once, your raft will disappear halfway because it becomes tied to the original island cell. Which usually means being dropped into the water surrounded by sharks. So if anyone is on the fence about buying this, wait until that gets dealt with. The developer knows about this bug, and a few others, and is already working on a hotfix, no ETA on when it'll be out though. I'm glad I bought it, I couldn't care less that this is about $15 bucks, cause really, I've gotten a few hours of fun out of it already, and I know I'll get more.
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Jan 25, 2015 07:19
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God, I hope this doesn't turn into another "Whelp we got our early access paycheck, see-ya!" I'm really loving the whole "Just stay alive in <place> with heavy crafting" genre (other than the infinite minecraft clones") and this is already the nicest one I've played. Welcome to beutiful Dickbutt Island.  A paradise untouched by human hands. It's pristine beauty calls to the spirit as...  Well; that didn't last long. I've only encountered the raft-bug once in about 10 hours of play. And I've done enough island hopping to begin dabbling in amateur cartography to keep from getting lost.
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Jan 25, 2015 11:15
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I'm sitting by a fire cooking crabs one after another and can't keep up with my dude's hunger. Yikes I hope they tone the hunger down a little. He eats more than I do every day and still almost starves to death.
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Jan 25, 2015 14:13
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Yeah gently caress fish, don't bother with it. Coconuts are far more efficient at hunger/thirst. Also keep in mind that crab take by far the longest to cook, so they are probably the least efficient food in the game right now.
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Jan 25, 2015 16:54
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Having fun with this, looks like when more "biomes" are added and the cell transition smoothed out it will be really great. From their Facebook page I've seen screenshots of rough waves which in a game like this, are a must. Haven't figured out how to put a bed on a foundation yet, but there are all sorts of things to find and I love how you can pile them up or organize them. Also, pretty sure dying from the sun is a real thing. I was swimming at night and got a message like "I feel weird" In the moonlight it looked like I contracted some sort of tropical disease. By morning I realized that I had been out in the sun too long and had blistered. Over the next two days my left arm looked like it was going to fall apart and my stats were slowly dropping. Temperature on the watch isn't working yet, always says 108F 
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Jan 25, 2015 19:22
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Do you get no indication of taking damage while swimming? I went in a hatch on a boat and swam around getting stuff, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, and then i got to land and noticed i had gone from full health to 1 bar of health.
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Jan 25, 2015 20:56
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Fosson posted:Also, pretty sure dying from the sun is a real thing. I was swimming at night and got a message like "I feel weird" This is from sea anemones, you swam through one and got poisoned. It doesn't seem to do anything? I have it in my game and by arm has been all blistered and gross for four days now but I haven't taken any damage from it yet. Eltoasto posted:Do you get no indication of taking damage while swimming? I went in a hatch on a boat and swam around getting stuff, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, and then i got to land and noticed i had gone from full health to 1 bar of health. There's a (far too) subtle red glow on the edges of your screen when you take damage underwater. I assume drowning sound effects will be added soon, it's hard to tell when you're suffocating.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:16
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Really. I wondered but it seemed like my skin turned a darker shade of red as the days went on and it looked like sunburn. Anemones? Hell it was at night so probably
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Jan 25, 2015 22:27
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I don't know, sunburn might be possible! I wouldn't rule it out, but I definitely know it also comes from swimming through certain animal life.
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Jan 25, 2015 22:40
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Wow even thread titles can't muster up any enthusiasm for this kind of garbage anymore.
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Jan 25, 2015 22:46
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Chomp8645 posted:Wow even thread titles can't muster up any enthusiasm for this kind of garbage anymore. I really enjoy Darkwood and a Sunless Sea. That counts right?
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Jan 26, 2015 02:50
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So has anyone figured out how to craft a crossbow? They're allegedly in game but I can't figure out for the life of me how to make one.
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Jan 27, 2015 14:18
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Patch released! (Actually three days ago but I never noticed, whoops):quote:Rafts - Fixed the “Bermuda Triangle” bug. Rafts no longer disappear when travelling. The spear, sleep and raft fixes are really nice! The game is actually playable now (you can raft between islands, the whole loving point of the game).
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Jan 31, 2015 00:22
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quote:Stranded Deep: Yet another Early Access survival game oh boy does it have crafting?!!?!?
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Jan 31, 2015 00:24
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Crafting is going to be the new "RPG Elements" for a few years; shoehorned into every game reason be damned!
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Feb 1, 2015 19:41
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Moto42 posted:Crafting is going to be the new "RPG Elements" for a few years; shoehorned into every game reason be damned! But I like RPG elements 
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Feb 1, 2015 19:48
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So... uh... I cut up a log into sticks, the sticks then bundled themselves into an immovable mass which when I put anything on top of it shoots it into space. Stranded Space Program? 
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Feb 1, 2015 23:55
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Spaced God posted:So... uh...
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Feb 2, 2015 00:36
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I feel like crafting systems are usually the most boring part of any game, and I'm also one of those weird goons scared of the ocean and sharks in particular. This looks scarier to me than any of those peek-a-boo horror games.
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Feb 2, 2015 00:42
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Firstborn posted:I'm also one of those weird goons scared of the ocean and sharks in particular. This looks scarier to me than any of those peek-a-boo horror games. 
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Feb 2, 2015 01:10
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I'm digging this game so far. It's got a really nice ambiance and cool dynamic weather. I was just sort of looking for something immersive and straightforward without the horror-game tension of the forest which I have a hard time with. I've been really wary of early access since the only other game I've bought in EA was DayZ, which was like burning money, but I'm enjoying this already and if the dev keeps plugging away I think it'll be a nice little game eventually. It runs really really well at max settings, too, no lag or anything at all. I thought this was neat, a fog bank rolled in around 4:30 in the morning and the sun came up while it was still around:  Sharks bumping your boat is scary, but I wish there was a way to store stuff in the raft so it wouldn't get thrown out, sharks are stealing my loving beans.
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Feb 2, 2015 03:14
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I'm not sure if it was the biome I was in or the patch that improved the see floor and visibility underwater but it looks excellent. loving sharks coming out of the gloom is terrifying. Paddling out to this shelf and kelp forest and taking quick dives in search of wreckage deep down, but diving in only to go under and spot a great white lurking 40 feet below 
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Feb 7, 2015 23:29
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So, how do you get out of a boat.
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Feb 8, 2015 05:04
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If you jumped down into one of those beached boat you're hosed unless you brought a stick with you to make a ladder with.
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Feb 8, 2015 05:07
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:If you jumped down into one of those beached boat you're hosed unless you brought a stick with you to make a ladder with. Yep, had to restart. Don't jump into boats yall. Anyways, the games ok, nothing much to do at the moment once you build a shelter. You can just harvest coconuts infinitely and lay on the beach. I'm curious what they intend to add to keep it interesting. If you guys like this you'll probably like Subnautica, which is basically this game a bit further along in development but on an (alien) world entirely underwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424Flh7MUpA&t=148s
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Feb 8, 2015 11:18
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Safetyland posted:This is the future and there is no bucking this trend. Look, from now on games will either be derivative kickstarted survival/minecraft titles that massively overpromise and underdeliver, or soul-crushing me-too F2P cash grabs. At least there aren't any loving zombies in this one.
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Feb 8, 2015 11:35
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The Insect Court posted:
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:If you guys like this you'll probably like Subnautica, which is basically this game a bit further along in development but on an (alien) world entirely underwater. This one even has little creatures that chase you and explode, plus you can dig all the way through the ground and make tunnels!
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