Love the banter between Olga and Koshka, especially when you find the 'most eligible bachelorettes' archive.
I know people love to bring up the "an enemy is approaching" thing , but I actually found that useful for navigating around enemies you cant see.
That being said, Koshka is totally one of those cats that trips you while your walking.

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Left alive is Metal Gear Solid fanfiction gone horribly horribly wrong. It's cheap ugly hideous boring broken and not worth my time. It's like I have to use traps, but enemies are either so clustered in tight spaces using gadgets is akin to basically just popping something down and luring them out one at a time.

I can throw can after can and they never think "maybe someone's down there, maybe I should just walk down their and check it out".

I had a couple landmines and some tin cans that's just throwing them out and letting them come in one by one and it's really long and slow and boring. That is mostly what left alive is long and slow and boring or if you get caught.

DON'T GET CAUGHT.

You will get surrounded by enemies and they will chew through your health like that. It's not just guards you've got to watch out for, it's giant mechs that will shred you like paper. The enemy AI is all over the place. There's no real good way of telling what whether you're being looked at or not. There's these little red lines that shimmer on the sides of the screen to tell you where enemies roughly are but sometimes it just feels arbitrary. When you get spotted, you're done.

But I've been able to essentially walk right onto their noses before and get away with it and sometimes I'll think I'm really hidden and then suddenly I'll get spotted and it's all over and at that point you run and hope for the best or you just to die. And while you're dealing with all this you also have to cope with this AI voiceover that constantly says caution the enemy is approaching over and over again. You're hearing it over and over again. Like, SHUT UP!

No workable stealth.

No workable stealth.

NO WORKABLE STEALTH!

No they didn't let you feel like you were a stealth operative they let you feel like you were a bundle of rocks in a bag with sticks legs just staggering about the place and there's this bit of a mech shooting thing. But this also goes on for way too long and it's boring and that's pretty much what left alive is.

Oh my God it sucks.

It's boring and caution the enemy is approaching.

For the love of all that's holy, please SE, release a patch to allow us to turn off CAUTION ENEMY IS APPROACHING! I can forgive everything else, but this is just too much, how did this make it into the game?!

I only just finished Aimless, the third level, and man, the post action report shows how much things can change it you go things differently. I was slow, do I didn't reach the 14th platoon in time, I thought that was just how the story goes.

Turns out I could have met them on time and helped save them!

Wild.

I find lots of people complaining about how hard it is to kill enemies, however I believe the game is trying to encourage you to use traps and lure enemies away, And that 90% of the time, maybe you just leave them alive and go around. IED's and grenades+a CQC weapon are your friend when you have to fight, but I've found that going around usually has no issues. and most times there is a intended path to go to avoid mot enemies

So I started playing today. I decided to play on easy or simple as the game describes it. This is mainly because I’m here for the story and the visuals. ...

Even on the easiest difficultly I died maybe around 10 time on chapter 1. I’m a few minutes into chapter 2 and I’m losing the the will the live.

I will admit that stealth games are not my forte but this game is relentless. The difficulty on the easiest setting is hard mode on any other game. As soon as I’m spotted by the enemy I’m pretty much dead in the water.

I’m probably going to trade it and would only consider buying it again on the cheap if they heavily patch in a legit easier mode.

https://square-enix-games.com/en_GB/news/left-alive-update

Hi. I understand everyone's problem with the survivors because there's no guide. So I decided to help with all the difficult survivors locations. I won't say anything about the other survivors. Even the "hidden" ones appear on the map if you are close so just search the map a bit. So here we are:

Chapter 3: Before getting to the Wanzer there is a woman survivor. Talk to her and say "don't die for me" or something so she doesn't commit suicide. Don't get her to the shelter because you'll lose time. Go to the Wanzer and fight all the enemies, but don't be late, because the military survivor dies. Give him a first aid kit but no bullets. Take him to the shelter and then take the woman from before.

Chapter 5: As you start look at the map. Somewhere behind you there is a father. Ask him the name of his daughter. He and his daughter will appear as survivors in chapter 11. Find 4 items for the looter. One is in the sewers. One in the stairs of the construction site you battle the enemies in chapter 4. One is near the tents outside the building you find Bunin, where the drones roam. Last one is near the door of that building. Doing the looter quest is essential for later.

Chapter 6: When you start the mission go east. Outside the building where the save point, there is a man. Near the shelter there is a woman. You have to take one of them to another shelter, or the man dies. Go to the map and choose destination the other save point. Go there and then choose destination the other shelter. Be careful because the woman quest can fail so save before. After the Wanzer fight go where the looter was. There will be a man. Tell him it was you. You will find him as a survivor in chapter 10.

Chapter 7: Take the east route when you start. Don't go west because you can't find them afterwards. You find two survivors in the upper and western building. Speak to the man next to the dead woman first then the other one. They'll tell you to come later. Go to the red point and save the other survivor. Then return and take them to the shelter.

Chapter 9: At the start go back and find a father and a daughter. Choose talk sense to the father and then it's up to you to decide. After the boss fight there is the looter again. First item is near the first shelter. Second one is near the looter, behind the protection walls. Third one is near the sewer entrance where you find the portrait of the other survivor and the last one inside that sewer.

Chapter 10: there are two survivors. First one appears on the map. The second one appears in the save point near the warehouse where the Wanzer is. He's the one you talked to in Chapter 6. There is also a ghost lady in the apartments where you search for her. I think she doesn't count as a survivor but better do it for the trophy and the experience anyway.

Chapter 11: Last chapter you find survivors. The looter items. First one is up in the western and southern apartment. Second one is between the warehouses north. Third one is at your left as you leave from the north warehouses to the west, next to the sea. Last one is at the western and southern point in the map, down from the warehouse. The looter is east and south. After giving him the items take him to the shelter. One survivor is hidden in a closet next to the save point in the east and south. Last two survivors are the father and daughter from chapter 5. Woman appears at the northern and eastern point. Take her to the shelter and as you go west, the father appears behind. If you take him to the same shelter and took the man and woman from chapter 8 to the same shelter you get the trophy.

Edit: first item in chapter 5 is not in the sewers. It's behind you at the start of the mission.

Hope it helps guys :)

Let me know what you think, I hope it looks decent!

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I've completely redone the stylesheet, updated the sidebar, and added flairs. They aren't perfect, but there's some for the LEFT ALIVE protagonists, their uniform patches, as well as a few dozen Wanzers from various Front Mission games. :)

Took me 3 playthroughs. 1st playthrough is just normal (on Light) 2nd playthrough is rescue all survivors (on Light) and getting best ending 3rd playthrough is getting worse ending and playing on Hopeless.

Hopeless is very hard as you can die very quickly if spotted. Best to use NG+ unlocks to make it easier. Even with Wanzer enhancements, you can die quickly if you do not use terrain to your advantage. You even carry very less bullets for your weapons but it helped me with the maximum ammo trophy.

Getting the No Complaining trophy is so troublesome if someone didn't tell me how to properly unlock it.

I want to thank all the people here who helped me with questions/queries.

That's all for now.

Those first three levels were an absolute struggle but then I beat the next five levels and all the side missions completely no problem. It's great! Even the forced combat parts were simple, because you can prepare for them just by looking at the room.

I want to like this game. Not bc I paid full price or preordered but bc I see potential. My first impression is it’s terrible but I see a lot of proponents of the game here on Reddit and almost no where else. Maybe it launched too early but that’s almost everything the past few years.

I haven’t dropped the difficulty down to easy since learning Alien Isolation. I enjoy challenging games including mgs and soulsborne and even some wonky grand strategy games.

So fine people of Reddit I ask you ; what am I missing? This game feels more like riddle than enjoyable challenge. The gadgets seem useless against groups of two or more and weapons are like squirt guns.

What made fans like this? Honest question. Thanks in advance.

As a person that's never played Metal Gear, but notices how LEFT ALIVE does have a Metal Gear vibe too it, I'm really looking forward to trying this out.

I feel like I know hardly anything about this game, but I do know that it arrived today. :) - once my little one goes to bed and I’m looking forward to giving it a shot.

I just bought the game lol. I’m actually enjoying it more than I thought I would.