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10 Most Difficult Open World Games That Will Push You To Your Limit

Ravi Sinha — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:03:28 +0000

Open-world games are often known for their enormous land masses and checklists of stuff to do. However, many of them also pose challenges that will test the limits of one’s capabilities. It could be that increased damage is taken, enemies have more health or wholesale changes are made to the world’s rules at a higher difficulty. Let’s take a look at ten such open-world titles here.

Subnautica: Below Zero (Hardcore Mode)

Like the first game, Subnautica: Below Zero has three game modes. Survival is your usual playthrough where health, food, oxygen, and water must be managed. Items are dropped on death, and given the various monstrosities in 4546B, you will die quite a bit. However, you can respawn and usually get them back.

Hardcore Mode is Survival but with only one life – when you’re dead, that’s it. To add more spice, if your Oxygen levels are low, the PDA doesn’t give a warning, so it’s easy to drown. Jumping in and trying to figure everything out is tough enough, but Hardcore will test your limits and patience.

10 More Great Open-World Games You Didn’t Play

Ravi Sinha — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:51:22 +0000

When we think of open-world games, the likes of Assassin’s Creed, Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild come to mind. As one of the more popular genres, open-world games offer unprecedented exploration with worlds teeming with secrets and stories. However, along with some of the bigger names, there are plenty of other lesser-played open-world titles that are worth diving into. Let’s take a look at 10 of them here.

Satisfactory

“First-person Factorio” isn’t the worst way to define Satisfactory but Coffee Stain Studios’ factory sandbox has plenty of distinctions. Set on an alien planet must be colonized, the world is hand-crafted and not procedurally generated. You can choose a starting location, like the Grasslands or Rocky Desert, thus influencing starting resources and your approach to building.

Combat is present but not a major focus – it’s all about creating a self-sustained factory spanning the surface, and delivering them to the Space Elevator. While still in early access and needing plenty of polish, the feeling of expanding, optimizing your factory and gazing out upon the sprawling industrial complex in first-person is great.

Raft Launches Out of Steam Early Access, Version 1.0 Now Available

Ravi Sinha — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:15:37 +0000

After over five years in development, Redbeet Interactive’s open-world survival crafting title Raft has left Steam Early Access on PC. Version 1.0, the biggest update yet, is now live and offers tons of new content for players. It also includes The Final Chapter of the main storyline.

Some of the new destinations added include Varuna Point, which previously served as an outpost for the elite but has since been (mostly) abandoned. There’s also Temperance, a snowy land which Selene’s researchers call home. Finally, the third location, which the developer feels one should discover “on your own.” Along with the third and final chapter, much of the story has been rewritten to accommodate the new locations.

There’s also voice acting for the story notes (with options to disable automatic playback and listen to them later from the notebook). New enemies like the anglerfish, scuttler, hyena and much more also await. Check out the full changelog below for more details.

VERSION 1.0 CHANGELOG

3 new story destinations: Varuna Point, Temperance and one secret destination
3 new small islands
14 new achievements
Added Trading Posts to most large islands
Added food and drinks buff system with 6 different buffs
Added 4 new playable characters
Added 30 alternate character outfits
New enemies: Angler Fish, Scuttler, Polar Bear, Hyena and 2 secret enemies
New item: Juicer
New item: Drinking Glass
New Item: Electrical Grill
New item: Electrical Smelter
New item: Advanced Stationary Anchor
New item: Advanced Biofuel Extractor
New item: Wind Turbine
New item: Recycler
New item: Titanium Axe, Arrow, Hook and Sword.
New item: Water Canteen
New item: Advanced Headlight
New item: Electrical Zipline Tool
New item: Advanced Battery
New item: Advanced Crop Plots in 3 sizes
New item: Advanced Scarecrow
New item: Big Backpack
New item: Advanced Collection Net
New item: 8 new hats
New item: Trading Post Cassette
New item: 5 new enemy trophies
New item: 3 placeable honk horns with different sounds
New item: Foundation Counter
New item: Tic-Tac-Toe
New item: Fridge
New item: Compass
New item: Wardrobe
New item: 28 vending machine decorational items
New item: Added Turmeric, Juniper and Chili for recipes
Updated Engine Controls: Added anchor lever
New building piece: Horizontal Pillar
New building piece: Detail Plank
New building piece: Draw Bridge in 2 sizes
Added fishing bait menu and 3 different fishing baits
Adjusted all solid building block textures
Added voice playback for all story notes
Notebook now displays a different first page depending on which character you play as
Added a sort button to storages
Added Exclusive Fullscreen mode in settings
Seagull functionality has been rewritten to reduce bugs
Added 3 new community made rafts to the main menu
New feature: Bonus thirst
New feature: Bonus health
Big Islands now start spawning without requiring receiver
Recipes now say Cooking Pot or Juicer at the top
Adjusted Cooking Pot recipes ingredients and outputs
Each battery slot now has a charge indicator
Bow shot can now be cancelled while charging by pressing RMB
You now have to hold RMB to pour liquid from cup and bottle
Scarecrows now remove themselves after being completely destroyed by seagulls
When in a storage, crafting now takes into account the amount of items in the storage as well
Added setting to invert mouse cursor icon
Fuel Tank can now receive fuel through the pipe socket
Adjusted Easy and Peaceful damage multipliers
Renamed Tangaroa Tokens to Vending Machine Token
Flower seeds now have 100% drop chance
UI performance improved
Updated UI for oxygen
Reduced time to remove placeable items with ‘X’ from 3 to 1 seconds
New Feature: Auto run toggle button
Added prompts informing players if they are not connected to Steam
Added 144 FPS cap as settings option
Recoded the raft collision system to greatly improve performance (most notable on big rafts)
Added lantern particle effects LODs to improve performance
Changed recipes from UI to textures to improve performance

BUG FIXES

Landmarks despawning when raft is far away
Placeable items appearing to be blocked by something invisible
Floating items spawning to the side of the raft while having a big raft
Upgrading foundations with hammer could make it lose collision
Seagull flying through walls
Seagull ignoring scarecrows
Entering bed from climbing on a ladder could make you fly
Jump animation issues
Paint brush couldn’t paint after aiming at a scarecrow
Players could enter non discovered frequencies in receiver
Players unable to join very large rafts
Tangaroa Cockpit being locked after launching and relogging
Eggs unable to be picked up if they are on a collection net
A lot of typos
Being soft locked when getting charged by a Warthog
Paintbrush accidentally painting objects when aiming at them
Water pipes not working above floor 9
Animals disappearing (should be a lot more stable)
Metal detector not always working
Hook sometimes stuck in throw state
Stormy weather causes issues with hook and sounds
Toggle sprint setting is not saved between sessions
Dying from hunger in a bed leaves the screen black
“Bee Keeper!” and “Artistic Collection!” achievements not getting unlocked
Pipe connecting issues
Roof L- and X-junctions did not have any cost
Couldn’t place diagonal walls on half floors

Raft Developer Shares Plans for Chapter 3 Update

Sampad Banerjee — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 16:21:03 +0000

Developer Redbeet Entertainment, who is currently developing the early-access co-op survival crafting game Raft, shared more information in regards to the much-awaited chapter 3 for the game.

The update comes via a dev blog on the Steam page of the game, sharing information regarding what Raft chapter 3 will add in, among various other details. The devs started off the update by confirming that chapter 3 is not yet ready to be released, as most of the development time went into the renovation update for the game last year, and said that the chapter 3 update is pretty big in terms of content, which is why it is taking a while to complete.

However, the developers did share a few tidbits of information that show what is coming along with the upcoming chapter 3 update for Raft. For starters, two new destinations are being added to the game, and one of them is going to be a snowy region. Given the setting of the game, there is a high chance of both the locations being separate islands.

New characters are also being added to the game for players to discover and unlock. The characters will be playable and will have a connection to the place where they are discovered. Apart from that, the story is being overhauled, where almost every note in the game is being re-written, and the devs are ensuring that there is a more consistent and engaging story for players to enjoy.

To decrease unnecessary clutter of items in the inventory, the game is also introducing trading outposts, where players can trade in scrap cubes. Scrap cubes can be created by processing items found in the world, and trading outposts will provide unique items.

The developers wrapped up the dev blog by saying that they will share more information in the near future this year. No time frame or release date for chapter 3 was mentioned in the dev blog. Regardless, it seems like the upcoming update will surely give players more things to do to keep themselves occupied.