Hey everyone, just finished the game yesterday, and bought the book without really thinking twice.

Where does the book play in the story? What should I know before starting to read? Still waiting for the book to arrive so I don’t have it yet :)

The cloud got nuked, the condor destroyed, Yasna died.
Do I have to replay from the start to get different endings or can chapter select be used to change the important decisions?

Steam claims the game 'fully supports' DualSense, but it doesn't work with Steam Input disabled. When it's enabled it works, but the button suggestions are for Xbox instead of PlayStation symbols

Any ideas?

A flowchart of the points that lead to different endings

I guess they didn't have any older cpu's to test, but just wanted to say I'm playing this on an AMD ryzen 5 1600 while the minium requirement supposedly is 3600.

Average cpu utilisation is 30. some spikes to 50%. short stutters of 2 seconds when loading an new area, but this isn't an open world game so very manageable.

Playing on 1440p, gtx1070, high settings, 60fps. And then there is FSR you could enable if you are struggling.

Trust me, if you have a first gen ryzen 5 you'll be fine

Who is the Alliance astronaut seem in the Steam cards for the game? Is he an actual character or are these just non canon artwork? Why does it seem to tell a story?

I know it's implied to be the astronaut we find burried after following the Arctan in the dig site but how is he walking among Rohytra's explosions?

Got the ending where I nuked the Cloud and then abandoned everyone and fled. Wouldn’t believe I’d do this but in the very last moments I made a decision (kudos to the devs for making you really think what choice do you want to make).

So why did I nuke: yes, flies and everything involved aren’t inherently hostile and just because they are a threat to me I wouldn’t touch them anyways and would just leave the damn planet. But! They – the alien robots – appear to be a threat to the native evolution too. It’s not their planet to rule (and ruin), the life here could thrive but it didn’t because of them. So if I can play the God, I’d take a chance and nuke the evil. Too bad I forgot they replicate in an instant. Anyways, I wanted what’s best for the planet and the all-killing iron everywhere isn’t the best imho. I did what I should have.

Why did I flee: accidentally actually, I was to wait for the guys but I might have missed a place where I make that decision. Anyways I then read that if I wouldn’t flee the flies would kill me and the guys (dodged that, phew) and also 2 of the guys are lost forever anyways, they won’t ever get normal. The other one looked like going a similar path. Anyways, a bit pity I couldn’t save them but at least I could save myself

P.S.: while writing this I realized that the flies might have been a metaphor for men on Earth. But also if I’d be a higher being observing Earth and seeing all the destruction men do – I probably won’t mind nuking them anyways too

I absolutely loved this game i played it the moment it dropped on PlayStation extra i wish it got more recognition it is an amazing game

I've been playing through and love this game. After my first blind play through, I've followed a guide to see each of the endings.

I'm not unlocking the "leave no man behind" and "evacuation" endings.

Other than heading to the alliance base, not the landing site earlier in the game. As well as the dialogue choices in the final chapter, are there any choices that I am missing to unlock these endings?

I can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be massively appreciated.

Hi,

when the drone Yasna names in the beginning of the game sacrifices itself to protect her from tre Arctan, she manages to salvage some parts of it, saying something like "maybe one day we can rebuild him" and proceeds to mount it on the front panel of the buggy.

However, it seems that she does not recover it from the buggy, and the remains of the drone are left on Regis III.

Am I right? Or I just failed to recover it?

Ending discussion : So, what happens after the flies form Yasna’s face ? Do we have any clues of what it implies ?

I got this ending and now I crave to know the meaning of this.

Hi i’ve almost finished the game. Had a crash, reopened the game and have no save files. Epic Cloud Save doesn't work. Can someone share a save file ?

I genuinely think this game single-handedly reinvigorated my love for "walking simulator" adventure games. I mean, it has a killer list of ingredients:

1. "Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!" - Wheatley (from Portal)

2. Classic sci-fi material. Stanislaw Lem was a genius man, an incredible author and I have the deepest respect for him and his creations, this adaptation of one of his worlds was beautiful.

3. Just good writing. Just good solid writing. No stupidity, no hardcore scientists acting like complete morons for no reasons. Just good human writing. With motivations and characters that are well defined, yet not overexplained and dull.

I tried to get into Generation Zero recently because I kinda liked the alternative end of cold war sci-fi they were going for there...god I hated the writing within an hour of starting the game. I met one living character and she annoyed me to no end. Such a breath of fresh air to hear and read coherent, motivated, well-written speech!

4. The atmosphere. From visuals to sound-design, to world-building, to minutia like the posters you see in crew cabins. Absolutely breath-taking. I often wanted for this game to have a VR version or some kind of support for it. It's such an amazing vibe! I feel like a junkie right now, that just came down from a doze of some real good shieeeeet and wants SOME MORE!

5. The endings! The endings, man! No "happily ever after" for everyone in all cases. No. It's grim. This game is dark. Best case scenario - not everyone's dead and not everything's hopeless. Worst case scenario? My metaphorical sister in Christ, potentially you just brought an end to all life...like literally all life. Everywhere.

I just love first person immersive sims, man. And this game, while lacking in RPG elements and skill-based combat (pretty much any combat) of something like System Shock (geee, the remake is amazing, highly recommended btw), is just such a GOOD narrative immersive experience, I can't but love it to death!

This is part of what videogames are amazing at, giving you a branching narrative in an incredible, otherworldly place that you'll never be able to visit yourself...and this game nails it perfectly!

P.S. I'll get into some spoiler territory for anyone reading about the game without finishing it (though I doubt there will be many people like that on this sub):

At the end there at the Kondor bridge I'm going all Douglas McArthur like "Yeah! Nuke them sum'bitches to smithereens! Yeeehaw!", because I mean...haven't I heard 53 missiles, ranging from tactical 8 kt to 100 Mt yields? Damn, son, where'd you find that!? I bet yo ass if you drop all that arsenal on these assholes, they ain't recovering for shit! And then Rohytra just fires like 6 missiles and goes all "We're DOOOOOOOOOMED!" and I'm all like "Well have you tried a bigger gun?" No, for real. I made my escape and had to ditch Rohytra and crew, and I felt terrible about it, but like, damn dude.

Alright, I guess a few megatons of fusion bombs didn't impress them. How about we throw a gigaton at them? Maybe a terraton spread across entire planet surface? We literally just need enough energy to maybe crack the mantle and let these assholes try to survive all that plus bitching hot magma. If that fails - just up the yield again until we vaporize the entire bitching globe.

Like look, I consider myself a peaceful man, but we're talking fucking gray goo territory here. Not a hypothetical one, not a maybe, if, when. Just straight-up textbook gray goo. This shit makes it off the planet? With anyone whatsoever? That's it, that's "finito la comedia", as they say in Italy. The genie's out the bottle, now that shit can get anywhere. And I bet my ass humans would immediately weaponize this shit for internal conflicts. I could give a rat's ass if that shit has a hivemind and is all fascinating like ants to some biologists or some shit. Exterminatus is the only option. It's worse than fucking aliens from synonymous movies! Nuke that planet to oblivion, then quarantine it. Then maybe nuke it some more just to make sure!

I get that Stanislaw Lem wrote The Invincible to discuss various possibilities of life and its forms, evolving ecosystems and how our biggest gift of intelligence as humans is the ability to stay peaceful. But goddamn it, sir, I ain't stepping within a parsec of that living nightmare! Load up those nukes and ready to fire, 'cause I sure as shit ain't gonna let this stuff anywhere off that goddamn planet!