
Continue Jan Scientist's story as he stays behind to unlock the planet's secrets. Build an underground base, assemble a crew of specialised Scientist alters, master Terraformation, invent new technologies, and conduct research that could define a legacy.
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This DLC follows the ending where Jan Scientist stays on the planet. Average playtime is estimated at 20 hours.
Jan Scientist can finally pursue his true calling. While other Jans left, he stayed to lead a team of new specialists - assembled by and from himself. Only a scientific crew of perfectly aligned altered Jan Scientists can offer the expertise needed to unravel the Oasis phenomenon.
Studying nature's survival here in space is a life-defining opportunity. However, this goal-oriented plan of the Jan Scientists might not be so apparent to Jan Geologist, Biologist, Chemist, or Physicist.
The Oasis, a lush paradise that shouldn't exist, becomes the mystery you will obsessively try to solve.
Terraforming the nine arenas unlocks it, forcing the landscape to yield answers. But with each seemingly right step on a research path, the planet responds with implacable earthquakes and radiation, hinting at secrets best left undiscovered.
Your biggest hurdle? Years-long planetary cycles of scorching sunrises that force you underground. Setting a functional underground base requires building in varied soils, constructing new components, and researching modules like the Cryosleep Chamber, which buys time to witness your scientific actions' long-term effects.
Still, even in cryo-slumber, increasingly vicious cycles wear down your crew’s readiness to work.
Each planetary cooldown offers a brief window to freely explore a dramatically changed surface.
Terraformed landscape opens new building possibilities, spawns bonus-providing pickables, and lets you evolve your research-essential technology by extracting and refining new planetary resources. Specialised structures further let you transform, combine, and amplify what you gather.
Field Labs introduce new assignments for alters to continue their work while you cryosleep. But will they change once faced with the vulnerability of ageing?
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Отличное дополнение для отличной игры 👍
Шикарное дополнение, был очень доволен проходя его
It was dope 10/10, except for those freaking pipes and Unreal Engine crashes
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian*languages with full audio support
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改變人生的神作
Дополнение отличное. Отличается по духу от оригинальной игры, в паре моментов немного перезатянута, но в целом кайф.
Great DLC for a great game.
It was Good enough. Is not near as good as the main game but its a bit of more gameplay. My main cons are: [list] [*] The initial exploring is exiting at the beginning then is just TP everywhere. [*] Setting up [spoiler] Megafluid [/spoiler] is a Pain in the ass. [*] The only interesting plots is the begging and the end of the DLC between is just investigate. [*] Alters history are not really deep and almost pointless. [/list] If you liked the gameplay of the main game you will probably enjoy the DLC, but the story could have been better.
I like the extension to the main game, and the terraformer + pipelaying optimization is really engaging with my network ends up looking like a drunk spider for the sake of effectiveness. However, as a person who believe the end justifies the means in most cases, the endings invalidate the hours I put into the game. All of the leading up and it's bombed harder than Japan in 1945. Thumb down. It sorta works as a form of pretentious art, but I don't want to learn that after playing for 12+ hours.
Bardzo dobre DLC pod względem contentu. Póki co uważam że podstawka jest jednak ciut lepsza ale ciężko ją przebić, DLC jest tak czy tak solidne i warte swej ceny gdyby nie jedna rzecz ale to zaraz. Podobają mi się nowe mechaniki oraz nowi alterzy, trochę brakuje mi tutaj takiego Technika z podstawki, który by ciągle się dąsał bo jednak po zbudowaniu wszystkich paru modułów poprawiających nastrój alterów nie trzeba się nimi już wogóle zajmować. To teraz pytanie, skoro wszystko fajne i wogóle czemu odradzane? Optymalizacja leży. Dosłownie nie jestem w stanie skończyć DLC. Im dalej fabularnie tym gorzej ze względu na jedną z nowych mechanik zmiany terenu. Gra dosłownie chodzi co raz gorzej, na początku mogłem normalnie grać, teraz jednak mogę zagrać maksymalnie godzinę i muszę dawać kompowi odpocząć. Wiem że nie mam najlepszego sprzętu ale jednak mogłem grać na wysokich ustawieniach w podstawkę bez żadnych problemów. Tymczasem DLC jest niegrywalne na najniższych ustawieniach. Czekam na patche, które poprawią optymalizację, jeśli nie masz sprzętu z górnej półki nie kupuj na razie DLC.
"Last Variable" is a great addition to the world of "The Alters." If you enjoyed the base game and just want more of this world and this story, Last Variable delivers a surprisingly long and very fun, more in-depth gameplay focused experience that I thoroughly enjoyed. It doesn't have as strong of a story or nearly as strong of characters as the base game, and the endings may fall flat for some, but "Last Variable" makes up for it with a very fun gameplay system that adds so much depth to the base game's resource manangement. My only complaint is that in the later game its pretty easy to get super overpowered and not have to worry at all about resources, especially since you kind of have to just wait for some story events to happen to progress. Overall, "Last Variable" is a great expansion, and it practically feels like a sequel with its 10-20+ hour campaign. If you didn't enjoy the base game, this won't win you over, but if you loved the base game and just want more, this is for you. It doubles down on what worked with the fundamental mechanics of the base game, while allowing the gameplay to shine more with very in depth progression. 8/10 P.S - PC performance leaves something to be desired. The framerate chugs in certain areas, especially when a key event happens that changes some areas.
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