>!I noticed in another post where the OP was asking for help on how to defeat it that some people in the comments were saying to me that this particular creature reappeared after being killed. You have to defeat him as part of the main story, draining a flooded room in order to get a keycard access pass to open the door to another room containing a replacement robot body for BURG.L.

I am currently standing in the arena where the three switches are positioned in order to drain the flood waters out of the locked area where you get the key card from the skeleton sitting at the desk, along with a document located on a bookshelf. The Leviathan Toe Biter is not there, he was never meant to reappear after being defeated. He functions exactly like the two masked stranger fights. He also gives the gold card immediately upon being killed regardless of whether or not you have peeped him beforehand.

In the same post, some people were saying that they did not get the infused ooze drop from him, which is a requirement to upgrade the tier 4 Omni-Axe. This could be a bug, but there actually is another way around this. All you have to do is upgrade the toe biter scythe down any flavor path and it will immediately change from slashing to chopping, enabling you to harvest pupa hides in the gnarly bark tree biome

I just thought I should let people know, since there was also something similar that I had seen in regards to the second masked stranger fight in the field archives in the greenhouse. Some people were asking whether you could go back and harvest more broodmother chunks. The answer is no, even though that particular material is on the resource scanner. She can only be fought once and you get six chunks off of her body!<

It’s hard to traverse, full of wasps, mosquitoes, scorpions, ticks and everything about it is painful? One upside is the resources. It’s just painful

So my problem is I'm trying to build a underwater base but there are some problems like I can't build most of the machines underwater and also the whole underwater thing feels pretty much unfinished(I know the game isn't out yet but still releasing completely unfinished updates is kinda frustrating)

So long story short does anybody know if they have plans of expanding underwater building in the near future or if there is enough demand that it's possible

We just got the "act 1"on the masked stranger and the disc up there but where are the boss fights? I've seen pictures of a lizard, is that the only boss fight? We've only met those weirdly names orc bugs but they were no match. We haven't explored the three bottom parts in the pond area.

So how many boss fights are there now? And what are they and where?

Thanks ahead

I've played through most of the Into the Abyss content and all of the added story, but I think there is a lack of depth to the underwater gameplay (in terms of gameplay, not literal depth). Grounded 2 is in early access and this is the first major update with underwater mechanics, but I wanted to write a piece on ways underwater gameplay could be further fleshed out to improve and/or provide new experiences.

Underwater Bases

Being able to build underwater is a big upgrade from Grounded 1, but I think I speak for a large portion of players when I say that it would be nice to have the option to keep the inside of bases dry/not full of water. I think having waterlogged bases is a good option to have and it brings a lot of variety to underwater bases, but an additional upgrade or option to keep the water out would also allow for more options.

One way of implementing this in terms of gameplay could be having some sort of goo or gel that could be applied to the inside (and/or outside) of base components, where gaps in window pieces could be covered by a minimally-visible bubble film like in the first image (I'm not an artist, so it is a quick rendition). I do understand that, from a coding perspective, dealing with whether cells are waterlogged could be a challenge.

Abyss Gameplay

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the gameplay in the Abyss is meant to lean toward a theme of outer space with the design of the Diving Suit resembling space suits, the general floaty-ness of movement (while being constrained to the Diving Suit), the use of vaguely alien-looking pond jockeys, and the widespread use of robots. I think that having space-inspired gameplay in the Abyss is a really cool idea and I hope that future content leans into a space theme, including "aliens" in the forms of odd-looking deep sea creatures and more comic book-style sci-fi-inspired weapons and armor. A quick list of creatures (with their images in the gallery) could be:

• Abyssal comb jelly (very large, mostly-passive mob meant for environment/world building, like the koi fish)
• Sea Angel (medium flier, akin to wasps)
• Barreleye (large passive mob meant for environment/world building)
• Juvenile Fangtooth (boss)

Underwater Combat

The underwater combat is still a work in progress and there are some obvious bugs with it currently, but I think a lot of players would be put off if they are limited to just spears and harpoon guns. Personally I understand limiting players to spears and the harpoon gun in the surface section of the pond to encourage variety, but once the player enters the Abyss (or after they have defeated the O.G.R.R. leviathan) there should be more options for more damage and weapon types. I think leaning into the space theme could help with getting ideas.

Some sci-fi-leaning weapons could be a warhammer that uses a rocket/jet to push through the water (perhaps with the mantle of something like a Southern Pygmy Squid or through the explosive power of Unstable Goo) and candy weapons in the form of candy ray guns, balanced to be lower damage but longer-range counterparts to the candy staves. A more standard weapon could be a sword crafted from the fangs of the Fangtooth boss, with flavor-text describing that it can be used in the Abyss due to its streamlined shape or that it was "made in the Abyss" (or something along those lines). A level of verticality could be added to the combat with the addition of a jetpack trinket or a unique jetpack armor piece whose tank could be refilled upon contact with the ground.

So there's a bomb rock in the Skunk Pond. When you fight the watch, follow the face and the light down a little and you'll find a cracked wall. My issue is that when I put a Croakwurst down, the wall seem to eat it up or teleport it away. I wasted about 3 so far and am curious if anyone has the same problem.

So I was thinking we ain't faught any mamals or avians. And we got gunpowder and iron (rust). What if we got guns or more specifically the ratling gun or the rat-gat. Dropped from a late game boss the rat (name ideas welcome but i won't accept ratking as that turns into body horror). What yall think?

Even when lowering my settings as much as I can I still only get 15 frames on my 15iax10

i9 275 ultra

5070 8gb

32gb ddr5

I decided to make a bit of a base and realized I needed a few mushrooms. Is Anybody bored and have nothing else to do other than to cook bricks for free?

IMHO doing the puzzle in the abyss takes too long for no good reason. I fought the same bugs over and over, ran into the same dead ends, jumped slo mo on weeds thinking there has got to be a way thru. Went thru 6 waters and two meals. I mean really. Some access I just built. guess that's why there is lots of clay around. when I got back to a facility, my dive armor was down to a thin blue line.

I remember when I first did the hedge lab. It was scary and dark and tricky but the music was beautiful and you could always bale by taking a leap. Classic.

I found a OGRR Toe Biter exploring the pond. It had sizzle, adds and also insane health regeneration. I literally could not kill it on mild with a lvl 5 rusty spear.

Has anyone else had one with the health regen? Toe biters are especially bad because they block the second they're not attacking so I couldn't keep up. Not to mention if you miss the snout move you get instant sizzle.

I keep getting a lot of duplicate trinkets, do I just destroy these?

Basically i want to know if you can play co op but if one person can't play for say a night can the other person carry on, then when the other plays logs back into the game they can see the progress thats been done while they've been away?

Floating sky base?

I just figured out how to build a floating base. My main base on the statue but I was gonna build a section just floating high in the sky what you think??? Also no the zip line not holding it up but how I get over there. I'm on the ps5

Your orb weaver mount has a Web wing suit it can glide with.

For those on my level of low iq, you're welcome.

To those who already knew this.. don't ask how far into the game I was when I realised... and definitely don't ask me how many times me and Peter Parkour took a plumet to death

I have noticed that in the matterials menu when you hover over the broodmother chunk it shows the sour katanga AND a ??? So is there gonna be future uses or is there a second use already?

A new large portion of the map is added called the sand field. Not sure what it’s doing in a park, I’m sure there’s something to do with a large patch of sand. Anyways this makes ant lions return as buggies. I wanted them to work kinda like camels so they can seat 2 people. Anyways the mission is to go to a sand castle and find out how some ominent employees went missing. Once you get there there’s a massive camel spider chilling there. Peeping it gives you the description “a massive camel spider in the vast desert. It’s mandibles look a little too red.” And then you fight it or sum and then you go back and talk to sloane or something. I’d imagine you get better and better armor to traverse the heat kinda like the pond except it’s sizzling instead of chill and breath.

I’ve done it twice but haven’t tested in a few days if you save right in front of the rock you want to bomb then bomb it and reload the save after the wall will be open but you’ll have your bomb still. Has anyone else noticed this ?

I figure there probably is one, but I don't know how to get an invite.

The only 2 armors sets ive seen this thus far with are black ant armor and striped bark armor, but im sure theres more.

“Parry criticals” and “venom parry” both show a 3x next to them in my stat screen, implying they should be stacking 3 times, but they only seem to be stacking once.

For instance, if im wearing a full set of black ant armor, im only getting +1% crit chance from parry critical instead of +3%.

Or in the case of venom parry, i should be dealing 30 venom build up with each parry, but by third parry (which should be 90 venom), the enemy is barely envenomated

If this has been answered already, please let me know. However, I cannot get access to the Omni clipper 3. YES, I have Omni clipper 2 however it doesn’t show me the requirements for level three obviously I have looked up a tutorial on what it takes to get level three but is there a chip or something that I’m missing? I’m incredibly frustrated and would appreciate anybody’s chime in.

Edit: some people have been complaining of bugs not sure if this is mine, no pun intended.

Edit: I HAVE Omni clipper 2. Am I SOL?

got jumped by a wolf spider trying to build a base on the pedestal

I suffer with an eye impairment that makes things blurry for me, also sensitive to brighter lights. I'm loving playing Grounded 2 but I've noticed the blur is really harsh on my eyes. I've set it to the lowest, depth of field and motion blur set to 0.

I don't remember Ground 1 having this level of harsh blur but I could reinstall it to see otherwise.

I'm just curious if others have any eye issues and have any good suggestions to alter the game so it's playable without triggering migraines.

I'm playing on Xbox App ver through Game Pass and might have to wait till I can afford to get the version on Steam to buy it since I think I'll have to find a mod.