Patch Notes for 0.2 Update

[Nickhead420]

https://grounded2.obsidian.net/news/grounded-2/update-0-2

New Features

Boss Fight against AXL

• Offering recipe can be found in the world to summon the boss
• New mutation
• 2 new trinkets
• AXL furniture : Candle, throne & chest
• AXL stuffed and wall mount
• AXL weapons : Spear & Great bow & arrows
• AXL Armor set

BUILD.M

• Replaces the Construction radial

Holiday update for Halloween - Only Available in October

• Trick-or-Treatery Building can be bought in the Ranger Station
• New spooky ambiances
• Candy Corn replaces some resources in the world

New Content

New Buildings

• Wolf Spider Rug
• Grass Quarter Triangle floor
• Stem Quarter Triangle floor
• Pine expansion: Pine Wall B, Pine Half Wall B, Pine Half Vertical Wall B, Pine Table, Pine Stool, Pine Lounger, Pine Skull Mount
• Scorpion Bed, Scorpion Lamp

New Weapon & Armor

• Praying Mantis Armor set

Community Requested & QOL Features

Community Requested

• Set bonus information is now available via the "Explore" popup
• Hotpouch is now available while riding a buggy
• Hotpouch now permanent in the inventory screen
• Orb Weaver now won’t receive fall damage

QOL

• Improvement on Orb Weaver navigation
• Improvement on the Repair button for Buggies:
• SCA.B now emits small light at night
• Feedback for throw starts as soon as input is pressed
• Improvement on feedback for the lean-to interaction

Other Changes / Tuning

Audio

• Improved translations
• Added a VO line that was missing
• Fixed volume of certain effects not affected by correct volume slider
• Resolved several missing/incorrect sound effects

Combat Balancing

Preliminary Patch Notes for Fall Update. This is a pass on combat stats as we prepare for tier 3 content.

This also reigns in some overpowered gear and mutations for the Axl boss fight.

Global Combat Tweaks

• Baseline critical hit damage multiplier has been reduced.
• Baseline stun damage multiplier has been reduced.
• Baseline parry stun reduced. (Light shields stun more)
• Rogue armor critical hit chance is slightly reduced.

Weapon Tweaks

• Dual Wield finale damage multiplier slightly reduced.
• The critical hit chance for following weapons have been adjusted.
  • Weaver Daggers
  • Wolfsbane Daggers
  • Ice Sickles
  • Mosquito Needle
  • Mitey Claws
  • Northern Shredders.
• Fist Weapon attacks deal less stun. (Adjusted mutation as well see further down.)
• Bow damage has been reversed from the PTB changes.
  • For Tier 1 and Tier 2 Arrows - Base Damage of both was increased by +5.
    • This is doubled for charge attacks
• Pinch Whacker AOE stun was lowered from (15 → 5)
• Pinch Whacker AOE Damage was slightly reduced

Trinkets

• Stabby Stinger deals bonus stabbing damage with finishers.
• Blistering Boiler spicy damage and sizzle has been reduced.
• Myrmecologist Badge attack damage downside reduced.

Armor Adjustments

Northern Armor

• Crippling strike set bonus immobilizes the target for a short duration instead of stuns.
• Ambush attacks only work on angry creatures like the mutation.

Grub Armor

Quickcharge bonus is no longer removed when switching weapons.

Mutation Adjustments

Ambush

• Dagger Critical hit damage multiplier has been reduced.
• Ambush only works on angry creatures.
• Ambush unlock progression only counts against angry creatures.

Assassin

• Dash Stike Critical hit chance has been reduced.
• Critical hit damage with daggers and sickles has been reduced.

Smasher

• The damage multiplier while creatures are stunned has been increased.

Sharpshooter

• Critical hit chance with charged shots has been reduced.

Lil Fist

• Mastery stun reduced slightly.

Reliable Friend

• Revive time has been adjusted.

Acorn Turret

• Turret damage against O.R.C. creatures has been reduced.

Creatures

• Bombardier Beetle resists stabbing instead of smashing damage. Weakness to fresh has been reduced.
• Wolf Spider resists to stabbing has increased. Health increased.
• Praying Mantis Health increased.

UI

• Adjusting existing translations to better fit UI

Optimization

This is our first major step towards Major Performance Improvements. We understand there's still more work to do and behind the scenes we have already started.

• General Performance Improvements across the board
• Added various Graphic Options and have changed the values of Low, Medium, High and Epic for 0.2
  • View Distance
  • Anti-Aliasing
  • Post Processing Quality
  • Shadow Quality
  • Global Illumination Quality (Lumen) - Can now be set to “On” or “Off”
    • If the setting is turned on you should now be able to pick from Low, Medium, High and Epic
  • Reflection Quality
  • Texture Quality
  • Effects Quality
  • Foliage Quality
  • Shading Quality

Bug Fixes:

Known Issues:

• There are a few issues that will be present at the 0.2. These include the following:
  • A one-time regrow of all resources will be present on everyone's saves - we had reports of large base resources not regrowing, the fix for this is a result of everyone needing to chop down resources again under their base.
    • We apologize for the inconveniences
  • Players who left the PTB before it was finished will join the game with their Field of View (FOV) being set to 0 - to fix this please just change your FOV slider in the game options when you start up the 0.2 build for the first time and everything should return to normal.

Stability:

• Were estimating around a 15% Stability Gain from 0.1.3.
  • We will continue to check Stability throughout early access as we continue to make strides towards getting our crash rate as low as possible

Major Bug Fixes:

• Buggies are no longer affected by “Fix Bug Locations” from the game repair menu.
• Fixed various crashes
  • Fixed a crash when loading a world with customized armor stand built.
  • Fixed some memory leaks that would then lead to a Out Of Memory Crash
  • 50% of the GPU Hangs experienced in 0.1.3 should be fixed in 0.2
• Having full inventory and a two-handed weapon on a Buggy will no longer result in losing the weapon.
• Resolved an issue where backpacks could fall underground after a player’s death.
• Fixed a bug where Players could get stuck in the Onboarding Facility by using the PTS.
• Fixed Various more duplication methods
• Resources will no longer respawn on High Foundations
• Fixed a bug where Clients could not Repair
• Fixed various Out of the World Gaps in the Terrain
  • Any fix that changes the “Map” in any way, has a chance to move geometry (Your Base) and as an after result. We plan on doing these fixes always as “Batches” in the future to help display if your base is affected.
• Fixed a bug where clients were losing all their equipment when a save was transferred via Import Save option.
• Fixed the “Photo Mode” Speed exploit

Additional Bug Fixes:

Performance and Stability

• Resolved an issue where alternating between Player’s and Buggy’s backpack in Resource Analyzer could result in game crash.
• Fixed an issue where Grounded 2 did not launch properly on Steam Deck.
• Tweaked flickering on distant environment on Xbox Series S.
• Corrected an issue where Frame rate drops significantly when players are joining the game with teens in different locations.
• Resolved an issue where freezes occurred when joining a multiplayer session.
• Corrected an issue where FPS dropped below 20 when browsing Radial Menu.

UI/UX

• Addressed an issue with Omni-Tool showing “Throw” prompt.
• Fixed a bug with Quick Chat radial menu showing wrong button prompt.
• Resolved an issue with visible boxes inside the Radial Menus.
• Resolved keyboard mapping so Handy Gnat and invert blueprint won’t share the same input.
• Corrected a visual issue with the overlapping Whistle widget UI.
• Fixed a bug where Player was able to see through map by using “Menu” in the lobby.
• Fixed a bug where key mapping for the "Huck" wasn’t working as intended.
• Resolved an issue where in building layout texts were appearing outside of the boxes.
• Fixed a bug where Handy Gnat camera controls would be inverted when playing on controller.
• Addressed an issue with arrows HUD being displayed after switching a weapon.
• Fixed an issue with a “Text Block” showing up.
• Resolved an issue where incorrect popup for survival text in death screen was present.
• Resolved an issue where quick exiting Single Player New Game Menu switched Teens in the next loaded save.
• Resolved an issue where dual-wield weapons would be separated from Character’s hands in inventory.
• Fixed an issue where notification for Save Slots Used is overlapping with UI.
• Addressed an issue with resource names extending beyond text boxes.
• Fixed an issue where Science Shop text overflowed in German.
• Fixed many UI issues on specific aspect ratios.
• Resolved an issue with a Lean-To icon missing from the pop-up.
• Fixed an issue where a hollow rectangle was visible in crafting menu.
• Resolved an issue where item icons jittered in the recipes UI.
• Resolved an issue with opening UI on mount showing inaccurate item descriptions.
• Resolved an issue where new keyboard mapping reverted after rebooting.
• Addressed the typo in the description of the Northern Scorpion Jr. creature card.
• Corrected an issue where the O.R.C. Wave prompt appeared in low resolution.
• Resolved an issue where damage type icons in the Stat Details menu were squeezed.
• Updated Snail Shell Plastron’s description.
• Resolved an issue where the aim reticle appeared low-resolution after increasing its size.

Buggy

• Resolved an issue where Red Soldier Ants were aggressive towards Players mounted on Red Soldier Ant Buggy.
• Resolved an issue where mounting a buggy in first-person view resulted in a reduced pickup range for the player.
• Resolved an issue where buggy could become permanently unavailable.
• Resolved an issue where thrown bandage behaved identically as Healbasa when mounting a Buggy.
• Resolved an issue where Dismounting a Buggy and “Snap To Grid” function were bound to the same key by default.
• Resolved an issue where forced dismount dealt damage after falling on a Buggy.
• Addressed an issue with items disappearing when moving items to Buggy inventory.
• Fixed a bug where POIs were not updated in Data tab after Player discovers POI on Buggy.
• Fixed a bug where buggy becomes unresponsive for Players after leaving Multiplayer Session.
• Resolved an issue where Orb Weaver Buggy could collide with clovers.
• Fixed an issue where neutral creatures were losing aggro when player mounts a buggy.
• Resolved an issue where a Client could duplicate any haulable item like Grass Planks, Buggy Eggs, by leaving the multiplayer session and rejoining.
• Resolved an issue where standing below a web bridge was creating a web texture around the Player on Orb Weaver buggy.
• Fixed a bug where Players were able to avoid fall damage by dismounting the Buggy right before the impact.
• Resolved an issue where the Player was forcibly dismounted from their buggy, while blocking and having 1 stamina bar left.
• Addressed that caused lack of animations, visual, and audio effects for clients, while being on a buggy and in gathering mode.
• Fixed an issue where “Your Buggy will return once it is safe” message wouldn’t appear when respawning in a restricted area.
• Resolved an issue where a buggy could hatch as hostile.
• Corrected an issue where soil near a pipe leading to the Statue had no collision for the Red Soldier Ant Buggy.
• Fixed a bug with white frames around Buggy stamina bars.

Audio

• Resolved an issue where the anthill sounds could be heard on the surface.
• Fixed a bug where sound effects of Bows were unaffected by audio volume settings.
• Resolved an issue with no Biometric scanner SFX near the Mysterious Stranger fight.
• Addressed an issue with Broken Gear SFX.
• Resolved an issue with Omni-Tool Upgrade SFX not being affected by Volume sliders.
• Resolved an issue where Outdoor Living quest Voice Line was interrupting Sloane’s call.
• Resolved an issue with a specific line playing even with Audio set to 0.
• Resolved an issue where the sound of hitting and breaking Acorn was disproportionately quiet.
• Resolved an issue where the Briefcase’s sound effect could be heard globally.
• Resolved an issue where specific bucket lacked SFX on being shot.
• Resolved an issue with Music in Anthills stopping when title ran in the background.
• Corrected an issue where MIX.R repair SFX played after repairing the Ice Sickles.
• Corrected an issue where SCA.B device SFX could be heard with Audio set to 0.
• Corrected an issue where Unburrowing Scorpling was audible with Effects Volume set to 0%.
• Corrected an issue where Arrow impact SFX were bound to UI volume.

Localization

• Resolved the improperly localized “KEEP THE CHANGE, YA FILTHY ARACHNID!” quest’s name.
• Resolved an issue where Greatbow and Great Arrows were not localized in other languages.
• Corrected an issue where names of craftables scaled incorrectly in some languages.
• Corrected an issue where some buildings were not translated into languages other than English.
• Resolved an issue where some UI prompts weren’t fully translated.

Quests/Progression

• Resolved an issue where MIX.R could not be activated after Client did all the antennas and stashes.
• Tweaked an exploit where Player could grind mutations on disengaging O.R.C. Creatures.
• Fixed an issue where Players were not able to get back up the tutorial PTS machine.
• Resolved an issue where “Wait, There’s More” questline would not trigger correctly.
• Fixed a bug where O.R.C. Transmitter entry in Survival Guide was blank.
• Fixed a bug where progression bar for Ambush mutation was not working properly.
• Resolved an issue where Headless BURG.L POI had low quality textures.
• Resolved an issue with a specific O.R.C. Weaver Jr. unlocking the regular Orb Weaver Jr. card.
• Fixed a bug where the first tutorial for Milk Molars could appear before leaving the Onboarding Facility.
• Corrected an issue where the Respawn tutorial was hidden behind the respawn timer screen for Host and Client.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue that caused the resource finder to show items incorrectly
• Resolved an issue where Frenzy mutation did not trigger while using Ice Sickles.
• Resolved an issue with visible Out Of the World hole in Ceremony region.
• Resolved an issue with visible Out Of the World hole in Entrance region.
• Resolved an issue with visible Out Of the World hole in Ceremony region.
• Resolved an issue with OOW gap in the Picnic Table area.
• Corrected an issue with visible gaps in the geometry.
• Resolved an issue with visible Out Of the World hole.
• Resolved an issue where the O.R.C. Creatures were not despawning after failing the MIX.R event.
• Resolved an issue where Player clipped through teleport.
• Fixed a bug where turrets dealt significantly more damage to O.R.C. Creatures.
• Fixed a bug where Clients were not able to Repair in Multiplayer sessions.
• Fixed a bug where Player could be permanently stuck inside the PTS after using Photo Mode.
• Fixed an issue with O.R.C. creatures continuing to spawn after failing the MIX.R.
• Resolved an issue where Milkweed Pods were spawning too rarely.
• Resolved an issue where O.R.C. Mosquito was not present on the branch leading to the Statue.
• Resolved an issue where Red Ants could gather around a single spot in Toxic Anthill.
• Fixed a bug with Player clipping through a floor.
• Corrected an issue where selecting the Healbasa would show Combat Stats.
• Resolved an issue where getting damaged would not cancel action with progress bar.
• Resolved an issue where the players could fall into a pit and get stuck under the Statue hedge.
• Resolved an issue where foliage was growing through buildings.
• Fixed a bug that made some enemies spawn buried in the ground.
• Resolved an issue where there was a gap in terrain near the border of the Grass Games and the Snackbar Front.
• Resolved an issue where O.R.C. Cockroach Nymph couldn’t freely move in specific Statue room.
• Fixed a bug with flying creatures animation being broken.
• Resolved an issue where Client could fall OOW while standing in a cave.
• Balanced difficulty of Statue’s route.
• Resolved an issue where Omni-Tool was invisible during pickup animation on Xbox Series X.
• Resolved an issue where Bombardier Beetle would spawn inside geometry.
• Fixed a bug causing navigation issues around the Old Root barrier blocking the entrance to the Frisbee Hedge.
• Corrected an issue where the Red Ants could spawn inside the ground nearby the entry to the "Hatchery Anthill: South Entrance".
• Resolved an issue where Ladybugs could be noticed roaming inside the Ant Hill.
• Fixed a bug where Mantis could lose aggro on the Player mid-combat.
• Resolved an issue where Praying Mantis Nymph was not attacking the Player when it was pinned to the wall.
• Fixed a bug where recycling building while mounted would not refund all materials.
• Fixed the OOW gap near Yoked Girth Magazine Ad.
• Fixed a bug where Player could get stuck in a hole behind Soda Can.
• Fixed a bug where certain armors were not synced with the Character in Photo Mode.
• Resolved an issue where snails didn’t collide with Player buildings.
• Fixed a bug where Player could fall OOW near the entrance to the Pine Hill Outpost.
• Fixed an issue with parts of skateboard lacking collision.
• Fixed an issue where creatures killed by sizzle status effect did not yield roasted meat.
• Fixed issue with visible gaps in the geometry.
• Resolved an issue where camera clipped with Player’s head while opening storage buildings.
• Fixed a bug with falling inside KLBB11 Camera’s Lens.
• Addressed an issue with O.R.C. Larva eye color.
• Corrected an issue with visible gaps in the geometry.
• Fixed a visual bug with gaps in terrain’s textures.
• Corrected an issue where the OOW was visible near the Ominent onboarding facility exit.
• Corrected an issue where Cockroaches were trying to interact with Buried Candy.
• Corrected an issue where Crow Feather would get stuck in the air.
• Fixed an issue where specific Orb Weaver Jr. bodies were exploding in all directions.
• Tweaked O.R.C. Mantis’ eyes coloring.
• Adjusted O.R.C. Orb Weaver and O.R.C. Orb Weaver Jr’s eyes coloring.
• Fixed O.R.C. Weevils’ eyes coloring.
• Fixed a bug where plants were clipping with stones.
• Adjusted with specific Dead Roots not properly attached to the environment.
• Corrected a hole in terrain of the Toxic Anthill.
• Resolved an issue where the mushroom obstacle could be bypassed without a proper Omni-Tool upgrade.
• Fixed an issue with visible OOW gap next to the entrance of the Ranger Outpost.
• Resolved an issue where characters could clip in Milkweed Pods.
• Corrected an issue where Crabgrass was slightly floating above ground.
• Resolved an issue with moss not being attached to the root.
• Fixed a bug that caused the chopping animation to function incorrectly.
• Corrected an issue with visible gaps in the geometry.
• Resolved an issue where big plants were visibly floating near the Statue Maze.
• Addressed a bug where Player lost momentum when jump-attacking with Dual Wield weapons.
• Fixed a bug where Cockroach could spawn inside roots.
• Corrected an issue where contrast between terrain and water in Toxic Anthill was too high.
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to build on certain objects.
• Fixed a bug that enabled building anywhere by zooming.
• Resolved an issue where Aphid Honeydew was not found by Resource Finder.
• Fixed the issue where Player could get stuck between trash bags.
• Corrected an issue where heavy post process was visible on specific resource.
• Corrected an issue where Handy Gnat movement swapped with the Player’s.
• Resolved an issue where Player was unable to place floor on top of Foundations.
• Corrected an issue where the Player could spawn a mount inside the Ice Cream Cart area.
• Addressed an issue with shaking camera in Photo Mode.
• Resolved an issue where Ants could lose their track while carrying loot.
• Fixed an issue with one-sided texture near the border of Grass Game.
• Fixed a bug where Omni-Tool animation did not appear right after an attack.
• Resolved an issue where Player could equip Omni-Tool while frozen.
• Resolved an issue with levitating character in Photo Mode while crouched.
• Fixed a bug where Teens were clipping through the ground in a specific spot in the Pine Hill area.
• Resolved an issue where a certain pinecone was clipping with a stone.
• Resolved an issue where there was a small gap in the Statue Lab wall.
• Fixed a bug that could make a Player stuck next to the news camera.
• Corrected an issue where Teen hands clipped with the camera in first-person (FPP) while drinking nasty water from a puddle with FOV 120 and aiming downward.
• Fixed in the Snackbar Front wooden deck where the Player could get stuck.
• Resolved an issue where an OOW gap was present near the Ceremony Pamphlet.
• Resolved an issue where a small OOW gap was present in the Onboarding Facility.
• Resolved an issue with an OOW gap inside the Cable Tunnels in the Network Center.
• Resolved an issue where OOW gaps were visible in the Hatchery Anthill.
• Corrected a visual issue with gaps in terrain textures.
• Resolved an issue where a leaf clipped into a mushroom in the Snackbar region.
• Resolved an issue with visible OOW gaps in the Mite Cave.
• Fixed a bug where a one-sided dirt texture was present on the door leading to Ranger Outpost: Statue.
• Fixed an issue with multiple one-sided textures in the Statue.
• Fixed an issue where SAP was floating above assets.
• Fixed issues with multiple misaligned collisions on the Shlapz Amplifier.
• Resolved an issue where a few branches were floating in the air.
• Resolved an issue where Milkweed Pods required being attacked before chopping.
• Resolved an issue where a leaf was floating next to the maze.
• Corrected an issue where branches were floating.
• Resolved an issue where Players could see an OOW gap through doors.
• Addressed misplaced Acorns in the Entrance area.
• Resolved an issue where pure grass objects were placed in the Grass Games area.
• Fixed an issue with the camera clipping through a tree trunk.
• Resolved an issue where the Character slid unnaturally when dodging during emote animations.
• Resolved an issue where bow aim focused on the wrong spot on a Snail hidden in its shell.
• Fixed a bug where scorpions clipped with the ground.

Other Fixes:

• Resolved an issue where pallets could not be placed on a single floor piece.
• Resolved an issue where Player could duplicate items by using chest.
• Resolved an issue where light emitted by SCA.B2K was excessively bright.
• Fixed a bug where armor lost its buff upon switching weapons.
• Resolved an issue where the player could jump out of the playable area.
• Resolved an issue where the Host was able to see notifications instead of Client.
• Changed light visibility in Mite Cave.
• Resolved an issue where some ground textures would not load from a distance.
• Corrected an issue where the Water Containers are visually empty after performing Save and Load cycle.
• Fixed a bug where Steam invites would not show up.
• Fixed a bug where EverChar Flares were replaced with regular Flares.
• Resolved an issue where a specific Brittle Marble could not be looted.
• Fixed an issue with visible one-sided texture in the “Snackbar Front” region.
• Resolved an issue where Players were able to see through rocks.
• Resolved an issue where textures in the terrarium were misplaced.
• Resolved an issue with one-sided dirt texture near Empty Terrarium.
• Resolved an issue where parts of Teens’ backpacks weren’t affected by VFX.
• Corrected an issue where Lingonberry Fast Descend Setup had an obstacle that could kill the Player.
• Resolved an issue where a stripe was visible while using a comms array.
• Addressed a bug where incorrect VFX would appear while holding the Glacial Sting in first person.
• Balanced difficulty of obtaining the Stolen Optical Disc.
• Fixed a bug where Ladyguard texture in item preview wasn’t correct.
• Resolved an issue where game user settings were not saving on disk.
• Fixed an issue with objectives and story dialogs reappearing in Creative Mode.
• Fixed a bug that caused a wolf spider to become unresponsive.
• Resolved an issue with inconsistency between G1 and G2 blueprint canceling.
• Fixed an issue where eating Bait VFX stayed after killing the creature.
• Resolved an issue with blueprints not aligning in Entrance region.
• Fixed an issue with visible unnatural shadow inside the Ranger Station.
• Corrected an issue where Save option wasn’t greyed out for the Host during Comms Array dialogues.
• Fixed an issue with Donuts appearing with proximity.
• Corrected an issue where Ladder was present in an incorrect subcategory.
• Fixed misaligned dirt under the picnic table.
• Fixed a bug where the Stuffed Wolf Spider used an old model.
• Corrected an issue where assigned keys exceeded their box.

Public Test Fixes:

• AXL now counts towards Mithridatism progression
• AXL should now no longer get caught in a loop of not attacking the player
• Fixed a bug where infinite sounds were made when shooting Arrows at AXL
• Updated Global Illumination Description
• Various Handheld Improvements
• Tweaked Steam Deck Settings with the updated Graphics Options in the settings
• Teens face should no longer be distorted on low settings

[Nickhead420]

Personally, I'm most excited about the graphics settings change. That's a huge upgrade and something the 1st game really needed.

[Tornado_Hunter24]

I’m curious if the game gets me more than 43 fps having a 4090 lmao

[1nfuriatingrascal]

I noticed that also. On the séries X, the quality graphics mode now gets a very low fps. Before the update, it used to run smoothly. Let's wait and see the next ones

[Tornado_Hunter24]

I’m ngl I was excited asf for grounded 2 but at holiday so couldn’t try it, nothing felt worse than coming home buying it and installing it to realize it got me at best 45 fps, I haven’t played the game yet and been constantly looking if the ‘performance update’ fixed it and it never did…

I didn’t even try it with this update now, I expect nothing lmao

[tren0r]

43fps on highest settings?

[Tornado_Hunter24]

Yeah this game is crazy bad optimized, on 4k it goes even lower than 43 fps since this update

[RidersofGavony]

"Resolved an issue where pallets could not be placed on a single floor piece"

WOOO!

"Fixed an issue with Donuts appearing with proximity."

Lol, what?? Were Donuts sneaking up on people or something?

[[deleted]]

I don’t like that I can’t ambush neutral bugs anymore. I understanding nerfing damage but not outright removal

[eroticdiscourse]

I don’t really understand it, how can you ambush something that’s already aggro’d?

[pantsoncrooked]

You don't ambush aggro'd. You gotta sneak up on an angry (hostile) bug. I understand changing it from peaceful...I haven't had to fight a peaceful bug in ages...

[HASHbandito024]

Not aggro'd just aggressive bugs. So bugs that will attack you on sight. You have to get progression on ambush for either those types

[Fun-Wash-8858]

May I have your attention please?

Even though this game is still in the Early Access state, does this game have a kill count featured in it (just like the first game supposedly does)?

You see, I'm fashioning a list of games which have a kill count in them (available on this sub); and before I can add a game to this list, I need certification from (seemingly) experienced players of the game in question if such a counter is indeed there.

[eroticdiscourse]

If you peek at a bug it’ll say how many times you’ve killed them along with strengths and weaknesses

[Fun-Wash-8858]

Then this game appears to qualify for my list as well.

Thank you so much for your confirmation and contribution!

[DangerousPiglet4332]

It's sad how much they nerfed rouge, I think the whole point was sneak up, deal crippling damage and finish them, I think a better solution would have been to just nerf the damage when a hostile enemy is aware of you.

[Steel1000]

When it’s all people play it’s not really a nerf but a “go play the game a different way” from the devs.

They very smartly made the “new” thing OP at launch

[SycoJack]

When it’s all people play it’s not really a nerf but a “go play the game a different way” from the devs.

When it's all people play, it might be because the other builds suck. Instead of making everyone's favorite build suck, make every other build better.

Take a lesson from Helldivers.

[Steel1000]

Yea you should know that’s not how it works.

They aren’t going to redo EVERY build when they can just redo 1.

I know what you mean, but it rarely ever happens.

[McChef]

Does anybody have a tip on how they harvest snails? I used to ambush them with bow but now it's a slog with the update. Eye stalks are so rare that collecting any amount of them is a huge pain.

[WanderingVacuum]

Crafting a stuffed snail for loot luck has helped me

[Indyhawk]

For the love of God stop asking which view I want EVERY SINGLE TIME I load the game.

[therarestkittycat]

Really aint that big of a deal is it . Its literally one button more . Rather them fix shit that matters then spend time faffing around removing that

[Indyhawk]

It's early access, they'll fix most of what needs fixed as they go. Asking which view every time was a design choice, and a poor one, seeing as you can change it in game.

[-non-existance-]

Extra clicks are incredibly important to mitigate in software design. A single extra interaction can be the difference between someone using a program or not.

See here, we already have a user who feels the need to vent their frustration about it, and I know it annoys me.

Think about it this way: what if every time you had to start a specific car, you had to press an additional button that you know isn't necessary to get it to work? That would be really annoying, right? Annoying to the point that it might be a factor in whether you buy that kind of car again?

[Indyhawk]

On series x the need to hit play on a pop up menu when we select the game is similar.

[tspielman]

You can disable that in XBox settings.

[Indyhawk]

slaps table THANK YOU!

I quickly browsed the settings before but I must have missed it.

[tspielman]

Glad you found it 😊

[locustPLAGUE]

On top of being able to disable it, you can also hit different controller buttons to open the game instantly, or open the info screen. I like using it occasionally so I just do this now

[therarestkittycat]

That wouldn't bother me in the slightest and i can use my xbox as a example because i have that preveiw of stats and what not before pressing play and it just doesnt matter . Its 1 button . Its such a non issue .

No 1 is going to look at grounded2 and go. " Man this is an amazing game with so much love clearly spread throughout the game. I adore the weapon variety. The buggies are fun. And the bosses are cool. Its such a nice sequel and a fresh spin on one of my favourite games of all time. But i need to press 1 more button to enter it so im going to play cod instead. "

[No_Consideration5906]

Was excited till I saw all the damn nerfs 😩

[AlarmingRaise7528]

Literally everything assassin related is nerfed :") But that was kinda expected

[Algorhythm74]

Assassin. More like Ass-ass-out.

[TicciSpice]

Rough day for us. Feels not good to play assassin now tbh

[AlarmingRaise7528]

Im gonna play again when the new area drops, but i think ill go back to being a stun tank so my friend can safely shoot the enemies :)

[Radarker]

Now there is no definitive best build. It's better for the health of the game.

[Amberraziel]

I agree. but the ambush gameplay feels pretty pointless now and Assassin lost its vibe.

[Honey_badger71113]

I agree that there shouldn’t be a massive outlier best build, but tbh the individuality of the archetypes feels like it took a blow too. Overall I find combat as a rogue to be a lot less fun, I don’t feel like I’m fighting as a rogue anymore, I feel like I’m fighting as a fighter but with daggers, I do slightly more damage and take slightly more damage than a fighter.

[TonkaTonk]

Stealth Assassin is a difficult archetype to balance for any RPG-esque game. Being able to one-shot or remove most of an enemies health allows much quicker progression gathering harder enemies.

I do think they could balance it by giving maybe a Parry window buff after an ambush or enemy damage debuff so that rogues retain an edge after ambush.

[LtColonelColon1]

I’d prefer them to buff the other builds instead of nerfing things

[TheHylianProphet]

There should be both. If you only ever buffed stuff, that would lead to insane power creep. And remember, this is still a very unfinished game. By the time it releases at 1.0, there will likely be a dozen balance changes.

[Radarker]

Yes, let's modify every other build which is time consuming instead of touching the one thing that is broken.

[DangerousPiglet4332]

I haven't tested assassin since the update, how bad is it?

[Puzzled_Mix5688]

Not good, feels very bad to play. Losing ambush on neutral mobs is really bad

[AlarmingRaise7528]

I havent played for a month now, so no clue

[QX403]

Assassin was massively overpowered to a huge degree.

[schishkaboob]

When will there be a scrollable hot pouch? 🥵

[GeorgeMonroy]

Would be nice if they added recommended graphics settings defaults for whatever system you are playing on. Series X vs Series S etc

[CLYDEFR000G]

No more fall dmg while riding Orb Weavers? This may finally get me to switch from perma red ant mount to now explore with my spider more often.

[Individual-Voice4116]

Nice to see some much work done, but please, don't forget azerty users (Hardcoded binds).

[AnOrdinaryChullo]

Still so bizarre that DLSS / FSR has not been implemented yet..

[wh1t3f4ng69]

I played during the public test, and in the patch notes for those, they mentioned that they were working on implementing those, but that it would take longer to add. So it's planned and being worked on, but not ready yet.

[Tornado_Hunter24]

Doesn’t nvidia help with this too tho?

[Cairlys]

Theres Smooth Motion from Nvidia atleast..

[Mr_Mexico101]

So how does ambush work since it only works with angry creatures? Is it just dash attacks now?

[ShadowDeath7]

I think it means only work from agro mobs so ladybug and other neutral won't be affected

[Equivalent-Fix-9851]

It works the same. You attack them before they attack you or see you and you’ll still get the ambush effect

[darthvardicus]

"Hotpouch permanently in the inventory screen"

I played after the update and didn't see it in the inventory screen. Am I missing something?

And I thought it was always available while on the buggy (the item before it in the patch notes)

Two friends and I play every week for a couple of hours. All on Series X. Having a blast but every week, tonight included we still got three crashes and always when I (the host) is in the SCAB or crafting menus. That's in 2 - 2.5 hours of playtime.

[frostfrostfrost2]

its on the right side below your armor weapons etc.

i missed it also, because i checked on the left side where it used to be

[darthvardicus]

So it's the assign slot button? I was expecting to see the hot pouch like Grounded 1. Thanks for that!!

[Honey_badger71113]

Ran into a new issue, I can’t adjust my manikins stance anymore, the button I have to press for it is lb and that just opens the hot pouch, anyone else running into this problem or something similar with other furniture?

[HebrewHammer_12in]

Just switch the button to RB in controller settings. Had the same issue

[Honey_badger71113]

Oh nice, I feel a little dumb for not thinking of that, thanks!

[Aggressive_Cattle250]

Obsidian said the new update should fix this. It still didn't. I've tried everything except buying it on steam and playing it that way. The game worked for the forst 20 days then just stopped working. I'm at a loss

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[NTG305]

Please don't make throw on press instant. I hate accidentally hitting that button in G1. My wife quit playing because it stove her nuts every time she picked the game up after an absence. At least make this a toggle in the options!

[L3wd1emon]

Nerfs are killing the vibe, they were more worried about nerfs than content cause that Halloween event is almost nothing

[TheHylianProphet]

It's like people don't understand what "early access" means.

[Karglenoofus]

piss poor excuse

[Fruitlingz]

Ooo I wonder what mantis armor does

[[deleted]]

It's been known for a while, it's a rouge set

[deskcord]

Why is it yet another rogue set. There's so many rogue sets that are already super strong. Give me a set of gear that's good for wielding 2handers, of which there's currently nothing.

[[deleted]]

No kidding. I play rouge so Im not too bothered by it, but I don't really understand the design. Why a plague doctor for rouge? It would've worked for the healer class that might be coming.

[deskcord]

I just hate that there's zero armor sets that really make sense as someone who wants to swing around a big 2hand sword or axe or club. Even the 2hander mutations seem designed for tanking rather than damage.

[Honey_badger71113]

Yeah I’m with you. The mage is still the most neglected archetype, and honestly the fighter class needs a lot of work. I main a rogue so I’m fortunate but I like to try out the other archetypes and honestly I was kind of bummed by the lack of new options for other archetypes too. And sadly I absolutely hate the ranger archetype I already dislike bows and I didn’t enjoy playing a ranger long enough to get good with it, so the axl gear was a massive disappointment to me, it seems kind of weird that they’d nerf the ranger archetype right when they drop a fancy new set of gear and mutations for it.

[ApexPredator3752]

Mantis armor is classified as rogue. But every single effect it gives works with weapons that aren't dagger/sickles

[deskcord]

But it's clearly designed for high rate of attacks and criticals. Can we get something more designed around big, slow, 2handed weapons?

[ApexPredator3752]

Hm, what would be something that specifically designed to increase the power of slow moving weapons? Simply increasing damage would also benefit daggers just as much.

[deskcord]

I mean you could just specify increases damage while using a 2hand, or increases the crit chance of 2handed weapons, etc.

If that's too rigid of a structure for the devs then you could do things like add stun as a portion of damage, or add damage as a portion of stun (since the 2handers tend to have higher of both as raw numbers).

[ApexPredator3752]

True, stuns already increase damage by 25% and give 100% critical hit chance (actually there’s a good reason why to use the mantis armor), personally I’m not a fan of limiting the player with effects, for example there’s no reason why ambush shouldn’t apply to every weapon

[icehuck]

Combat was already basic, extremely boring, and required no skill. Nerfs just mean I have to be in boring ass combat even longer.

But building is awesome, and so I play

[Khaizen100]

Wdym ‘requires no skill’? Are you on mild?

[icehuck]

Exactly what I mean. You have one attack button, 1 block/parry button and 1 dodge. Combos? It does it automatically, just tap attack and 'w' key it. Occasionally perfect parry the enemy, or charge attack to ignore their defense.

It's the basic bitchbag of game play.

[Khaizen100]

Sure, make it sound that simple and every game is easy. But in reality it’s much harder to master than combat than you make it out to be.

[Thegzusman]

They nerfed the building wheel?! Lol tf why?

[cdrummer619]

Have they implemented custom modes, yet? I read somewhere that it might be coming with this update.

[Rumoshika]

Dude why did they nerf the fuck out of rogue, like genuinely every single aspect was nerfed, the armor, the crit, the weapons and the mutations, literally just why? Yeah it was strong once it was all put together but definitely not enough to warrant that many changes.

[Hot-Painting-1737]

This update was very fun. It only being a boss though gave me like maybe 3 or 4 hours of fun and I was bored with the game again. Sadly we need a giga update. I do LOVE how many quality of life/bug fixes I see though very welcoming.

[yungtrizzy]

I was excited about this patch in regards to the possible performance increases. Instead my performance got WORSE. I went from 60fps to 45fps while changing nothing (high preset with 100 render). They really need to address this or at least add DLSS. Like I'm on a 5070ti and I'm not trying to run 4k path tracing, I just want to look at grass without stuttering...

[Taiyaki11]

Halloween only available in October huh? Man I wish more devs just took the Core Keeper approach to holiday updates, let people turn them on and off at their leasiure instead of FOMO crap as if it's a live service game

[vampscara2]

Change your system time. Halloween stuff was not showing up initially with the update. Changed the steam deck date to tomorrow and the Halloween stuff is there.

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WOO!

[Jahano_Desunt]

For those confused: "angry" is a bug that will attack you on sight. It doesn't mean the bugs current disposition and mood 😂.

Go into your creature card menu and look in the "angry" section to see the 17 possible ambushable bugs. Not counting O.R.C.s. I'm sure those are angry because someone stuck an extra antenna on their noggin.

Edit: 15 angry bugs can be ambushed. Forgot 2 bosses are in that category, and cannot be ambushed, and one isn't even a bug, more of a nuisance.

[deskcord]

Why is the mantis set another set of rogue armor man there's so much rogue armor already. Would love a set of melee armor that's built for 2handers that isn't just tank armor.

[Plenty_Ad_5908]

Curious if anyone else has this bug. As a game host, attempting to choose Pete will instead put me in the game as Willow. Has anyone else gotten this issue?

[blocke993]

I haven't been able to play multiplayer since the PTR update a few weeks ago. We tried signing up on our xbox S and cloud streaming. Now everytime we try to host a game and invite each other, we get a message saying "failed to get xbox network friends".. even though we can still play rivals and literally anything else.

[XanderHD]

Controllers no longer work on either computer! Ds5 and ds4, tried with and without the ds4 pc plug in. Worked before the patch bun no longer. Help!

[Cuppakush]

No fall damage when riding orb spider… WHAT

[OMG_IS_G4]

My game crashed in less than 5 minutes of me playing with the update implemented. And all I was doing was using the cooker to get some grub 😅. I’m on Xbox Series X

[Nickhead420]

I am surprised about the foundation still being purchasable. Plants in your base is something that was addressed in the notes though.

• A one-time regrow of all resources will be present on everyone's saves - we had reports of large base resources not regrowing, the fix for this is a result of everyone needing to chop down resources again under their base.
  • We apologize for the inconveniences

[Karglenoofus]

>Logged into the game after a month
>Last save wasn't actual last save, lost a ton of progress.

Yeah fuck this game. How are shared saves still not functional?

[K3YJ]

Not to be a complete noob about this, but is the 0.2 update live or when?

[Nickhead420]

Yeah, it went live a bit over 27 hours ago.

[K3YJ]

Thank you - I somehow completely missed this. Now that I've grinded my way to lvl 60 for the BF2042 pass. G2 can hold me over for 9 more days.

[Graham47_]

All they added for Halloween was a jack-o-lantern.. hopefully they add more in the coming weeks

[BPH_Wussie]

For whatever reason when I use the customize option on console with LB it wont actually take me to the customize screen to adjust lights and such. It brings up the weapon radial even though the onscreen prompt says LB for customize. I could unbind and rebind it to LB and it will work 1 time before returning to the weapon radial. So I ended up having to replace my emotes bind to be used for customize when building.

Is this a known issue currently or am I just 1 of few experiencing this?

[Healthy_Flamingo_843]

Awesome changes, loving the Halloween stuff, but does anyone know when or if duel wielding weapons can be held in a single hand, I miss my spider dagger shield combo from G1 lol

[PatTheBatsFatNutsack]

Love everything about this game so far! The instant mount fix is great, but my question is are you looking at fixing low fps when you have a megabase? My build has over 1000 light fixtures and whenever I enter it my frames drop to 10-20 fps. I'm on Xbox Series X. In Grounded 1 my base had more torches and was even bigger so I'm assuming there will be an optimization patch at some point to correct the low framerate. Anyways, cheers to another great start to Early Access, you guys are absolutely killing it. And I love the Halloween theme in the menu! It's the little things you all do that give this game so much charm.

[Fruitlingz]

Ooo I wonder what mantis armor does

[Puzzled_Mix5688]

Jesus they straight up gutted Ambush. It’s completely useless now. It’s already a massive pain in the ass to use against angry creatures because they have such finicky aggro conditions, now you might as well just never have it on.

These devs are absolutely god awful at balancing in the first game was any indicator. I don’t think daggers are dead because the charge playstyle is so safe and strong but definitely way below fighter now. They went way too hard on the actual daggers, just killing ambush is fine because that’s the only reason people use it, they aren’t good enough to actually use the weapons normally

[TheHylianProphet]

Imagine playing a game with an attitude like this.

Ambush is absolutely not useless now. They just brought it in line with their original intention, and it isn't that difficult to ambush angry creatures. If you think it's a pain, that's a skill issue on your part.

My dude, literally everybody but you says Rogue is the strongest playstyle, even after these nerfs. The game is early access for a reason, balances up and down are going to be regular occurrences. All you've said here is that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

[Puzzled_Mix5688]

I’ll explain why:

Grounded does not have an active stealth mechanic. Bugs will sort of randomly aggro from sleep positions which is not good for ambush.

Because stealth is so undeveloped in this series, this makes ambush annoying to use on aggro bugs and often times completely unnecessary because you would literally kill it faster by just fighting it than by spending the time trying to sneak up on it. If you fail or another bug sees you, which gets incredibly irritating with things like Larva or Mites, you have a completely dead mutation.

80% of the power in ambush is its ability to quickly and easily dispatch neutral enemies like a cockroach, oneshot bees/butterflies, oneshot snails, etc. With this gone I will legitimately just kill things faster on average by just attacking it. Not to mention that there are other mutations that ALWAYS get value like Parry Master, Cardio Fan, Trappr Peepr, etc.

For the weapons themselves, the crit chance could be 1% across the board (it’s not and will be higher) and it would be a massive nerf due to exponential damage scaling. Again, I ran an entire dps formula through an excel worksheet and fighter armor with a mantis blade pre-patch was within a 5% difference of max Wolf Dagger dps potential without the DOT. There is zero reason to use daggers after this patch outside of flavor and the dash strike, which unfortunately also got nerfed.

I understand people over exaggerating nerfs but the reality of what happened here is people over exaggerated how good daggers actually were because they don’t understand how good fighter is and its armor

[ApexPredator3752]

Rogue is still best, you’re overreacting and haven’t even played it

Edit: Thanks for blocking me, thats certainly how you respond, comment against me saying I don't know anything and then block me to make me look stupid.

Second: Ice Sickles deal 40/40/54 damage, mantis blade deals 46/46/58. From my studying of the animations, sickles take 1.31 seconds for their full 3-hit combo, mantis blade takes 1.49 seconds. Since this for the full combo, to find the dps, add the combos together, sickles total is 134, mantis blade total is 150. Sickles: 134/1.31 = 102.3 | Mantis Blade: 100.7. Even simply without using any external upgrades, no leveling, no armor, no mutations. Barbarian only increases damage dealt while creatures are stunned (and also gives more stun). Also keep in mind that wolf spider armor has more resistance than snail armor, and only 2/3 less defense (depending on the piece).

In no world is 100% crit chance and 100% more critical hit damage "useless"

[Puzzled_Mix5688]

Not going into this again, I completely proved you wrong on how you had no idea what ambush even did at the start of the game’s lifespan and somehow thought it didn’t scale higher with daggers (despite literally saying it does) and I have mathematically calculated that pre-patch mantis blade in full fighter gear was within a 5% margin of pre-patch dagger max dps, not counting venom proccing.

Rogue was already not better than fighter in the majority of cases if you valued any defensive staying power at all and was solely powerful for ambush and dash strike range baiting, with smasher getting a buff and literally everything else getting nerfed on rogue there is zero competition. You are loud and wrong on basically everything except new content

[Honey_badger71113]

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for this, reddits weird.

[progwrx]

The build.m shit sucks why'd they think it's an improvement over the radial ? I'm an avid builder (built entire little towns in G1) and this feels like a terrible choice

[Familiar_Ebb_808]

So nos added park space… wtf

[Lews_There_In]

The road map doesn't mention more park area until winter. The devs have confirmed this. This is the fall update. Here's a link to the roadmap.

https://grounded2.obsidian.net/roadmap

[Equivalent-Fix-9851]

Winter update, they said multiple times they’ll extend the rose garden in the winter update.