Zero generation руководство

Game Mechanics in Generation Zero[]

Autosaving in Generation Zero[]

When playing alone, Generation Zero is saving your progress constantly — every item that is picked up, every mission that is completed or enemy that is engaged. This is shown through a small white hexagon appearing in the top right corner of the screen. If you decide to run away, the damage done to the machine will remain, allowing you to return at a later date to finish the job.

When playing in multiplayer, the items you pick up, experience you gain and skills you unlock will remain with you once you return to your own game. However, progression for the missions are tied to the host, meaning that you will not be able to progress with your own tasks unless you are entirely aligned with the host’s progress. While the development team is working on improving this system, the current recommendation is to allow the person with the lowest story progress to host the game.

Another thing that is important to note is that when you quit the game, you will automatically start your next game in the nearest safe house, this is to ensure that you are not overwhelmed by enemies roaming the world once you log back in.

Weapons and Weapon Quality[]

There are several weapons that can be found throughout the world of Generation Zero, which in turn have various tiers of quality. Some of the guns you might find earlier in the game will be made with poorer craftsmanship, making them harder to aim and affecting their accuracy. The easiest way to check the quality of your weapon is by examining it in your inventory where they will have a colour and crown rating — the lower the number of crowns, the lower the quality. You will also notice the difference when equipping the weapon and looking at it since the lower tiers are usually covered in rust.
In addition to weapon rarities, weapon attachments also come in different rarities, impacting whatever function the attachment has on a player’s weapon. Lower rarity silencers, for example, do a poorer job of suppressing firearm noise than higher-quality suppressors; Lower rarity magazine extensions have a lower capacity than higher rarity magazine extensions, and so on.

Ammunition[]

In addition to weapon variation, each weapon type comes with at least two ammunition options. These take the form of a round better suited for component damage, and a round better suited for penetrating armour. Choosing the right ammunition for a given playstyle and enemy can greatly impact how effective a player is at dealing with a given threat.

While the ammunition type impacts the amount of damage dealt, they also come with differing levels of penetration. Some ammunition is more easily able to pass through enemies. In turn, some enemies are bulkier and require either more precise aim, or a more powerful round, to reach sensitive components.

Also, shots in Generation Zero experience bullet drop and take time to reach their target. Longer distance shots must be led, with different weapons showing different ballistics that must be accounted for.

Combat[]

Combat in Generation Zero is based almost entirely around enemy components. Enemies are not simply large hitboxes, or even a pair of hitboxes (body vs. head, for example). Instead, each robot is comprised of a variety of pieces that can be roughly grouped into four categories — chassis, armour, components, and weapons.

Chassis refers to the structural material of the enemy. Leg pieces, for example, may not have any moving parts, but still do the job of holding an enemy up. These pieces are not able to be destroyed. They can be shot, and will inflict damage — however, this will be slight, particularly in comparison for aiming for another portion of the enemy. These pieces should not be targeted unless there are no other targets available — if, for example, the player is peeking out from cover and can only safely hit such a piece. Be aware, this is an incredibly expensive, in terms of ammunition, approach to destroying enemies.

Armour refers to extra armour plating that enemies have. Some of these pieces are readily visible, in the form of large plates of metal. Others, however, are internal and are used to protect more sensitive equipment on more advanced machines. Armour can be destroyed, and doing so inflicts more damage than attacks aimed at a machine’s chassis. In addition, doing so will typically expose a more sensitive component piece for easier damage.

Components are the representation of systems the machine needs to operate, and would be particularly sensitive to being shot. This includes things like engines and sensor modules. If possible, these should be targeted, as they will yield the highest damage to the target. Learning the location of these components on each enemy is key in making combat more manageable.

Weapons are exactly what they sound like — weapons. With a few exceptions, most enemy attacks are tied to a component that can be targeted and destroyed. These systems do not inflict as much damage, when targeted, as machine components, but come with the (obvious) advantage of limiting how a machine can target the player. If a particular attack of a machine is proving problematic, try eliminating the threat by destroying the associated weapon.

Missions[]

The missions in Generation Zero are designed to challenge the players in a retro style, requiring you to identify clues and waypoints by looking at the items attached to the task. There are oftentimes no waypoints to guide you but instead you have to read through each mission to discover which location markers you should be looking for or what names on a mailbox might lead to completing the task and moving forward. It is then up to you to figure out where to go and how to get there, and to place the waypoints on your map.

With this said, the development team has stated that they are working on improving the clarity of missions. On top of that, there are a few missions that have been reported as bugged and are being fixed by the team. For the latest updates on what the team is aware of and working on, check out the Generation Zero forum.

Combining Equipment with Skills[]

Skills are an essential part of the game, but oftentimes require additional equipment to utilize. These include:

REQUIRE BINOCULARS
Enemy Marking: Use the binoculars and then click “cycle vision mode” to be able to mark out the enemy to your allies. The effect appears as a red outline — further skills allow for bonus damage against enemies marked in this manner.

Spotting Intel: Use the binoculars and then click “cycle vision mode” to get more information about your enemy. At a basic level, this includes the kind of mech (prototype, military, fnix), the model (tick, seeker, etc.), and the health, represented as a % value. If the schematic for a given enemy type has been collected by the player, then the vision includes an x-ray styled view, complete with parts highlights and labels.

Remote Hacking: Use the binoculars and then click “cycle vision mode” to be able to remotely hack the enemy by pressing the Q button. A ceratin percent chance of success is listed along the bottom of the screen.

REQUIRE HAIRPIN
Lockpicking: You need a hairpin in your inventory to get the “unlock” prompt when looking at a locked door.

Enemy Sensors[]

Depending on the variation of the machine type, certain enemies will have an easier time detecting you through certain objects due to more advanced sensors for sight and sound, going as advanced as infrared, x-ray, or night vision.

How Skills Are Measured[]

Certain skills like “Stamina Amount” or “Health Amount” do not at first glance seem to make any difference to your character. Do not let that fool you though since these skills will improve your chances of surviving an encounter with the hostile machines.

Health Amount: Your health is measured in percentages and not a specific amount, which is why the bar will not increase when you unlock your “Health Amount” skill. However, it will be slower to drop as you take damage.

Keybinds[]

This section is currently under construction. It may contain little or inaccurate information.

User Guides[]

JSON Settings editing by Taxen0[]

As always when editing game files directly make sure to create backups of your saves, and be careful when editing. While these changes have all been tried without issues, it is done at your own risk and Avalanche can not be held responsible if something breaks.

To get access to more advanced graphics settings than those available through the in-game menus you need to edit the ‘settings.json’ file. The file is located at «C:\Users\User\Documents\Avalanche Studios\GenerationZero\Saves\settings\XXXXX» by default. You can open the file with notepad.

Before making any changes make a copy of the file and rename it to something else, so you can revert back to the original if you mess up. I would also recommend making a backup of your modified file, since the game may reset some options if you were to enter the in-game settings.

Lastly, always make the file «read-only» before you launch the game, otherwise, your changes may reset.

Anti-aliasing settings[]

Generation Zero uses the TAA and FXAA algorithms to smooth out edges of objects, however, for some users TAA makes the game too blurry so to disable this go to settings.json and change the row «GraphicsAA»: X.

• X = 0: Disable both TAA and FXAA.
• X = 1: Enable FXAA, disable TAA.
• X = 2: Enable both TAA and FXAA.

I recommend that you disable both («GraphicsAA»: 0) and instead use a 3rd party software to enable another AA algorithm.

If you have a Nvidia GPU you can use the «Nvidia control panel» for this;

1. Open Nvidia control panel.
2. Click on «Manage 3D Settings».
3. Under «Program Settings», select «GenerationZero_F.exe. Click «add» if it’s not already in the list.
4. Change «Antialiasing — Mode» to «Override any application setting».
5. Change «Antialiasing — Setting» to «8x». (or lower depending on the performance of your PC).
6. *Optional* Change «Antialiasing — FXAA» to «ON». This will add some minor blur back but it is not near the levels that TAA give, and make the edges look better. (I prefer this, but try both and see for yourself) If you want it on, you can either enable it here or through the game settings.
7. Hit «Apply» to save and start the game!

If you experience issues with screen tearing try limiting your fps, or enabling VSync.

If you don’t have or want to use Nvidia Control panel, another slightly more advanced option for you too look into could be»ReShade».

Borderless Windowed[]

To enable Borderless windowed mode go to the settings.json file and change the row «DisplayFullscreen»: to 0. this can also be done in-game under «Settings > Display» by changing «Window» to «Windowed».

Now add the startup parameter «/borderless» to the game. If you use steam this is how it’s done:

1. Right-click «Generation Zero» in your library and select «Properties».
2. Under the tab «General» click on «Set launch options…».
3. Type «/borderless» in the textbox and hit «Ok».
4. Done!

Other settings[]

Simple Troubleshooting by Xogroroth^[1][]

• Make sure the system has the very least of System Requirements.
• In case of laptop: make sure the system does not run hot: computers HATE heat.
• Make sure you have enough RAM.
• Make sure your Virtual Memory, or Page File, have enough allocated.
  Preferably it should be twice the size of your RAM amount.
  To check this:
  • Open Control Panel
  • The right side of the Control Panel Window, View by put it to Icons.
  • Hit system => Advanced System Settings => new window pops up.
  • In the new window: Advanced => Performance => Settings => New window pops up.
  • Advanced => Check Total Paging File Size.

If this did not work:

• Boot into Safe Mode, open Control Panel.
• Hit Device Manager.
• Hit Display Adaptor
• Hit your vidcard twice, this brings up a new window.
• Hit Disable Driver.
• Hit Uninstall Driver.
• Reboot…

The system will now reboot and install a clean driver…

Данное руководство по 

Generation Zero

поможет начинающим игрокам адаптироваться, а также найти на раннем этапе мощное оружие. Ваша цель — бродить по альтернативной Швеции 80-х годов, находя новое снаряжение, пытаясь избежать смерти, которую могут принести роботы.

Где найти охотничье ружье?

Охотничья винтовка невероятно эффективна на первых стадиях игры. Она позволит вам уничтожать врагов на расстоянии, и это будет особенно полезно на холмистой местности.

Чтобы заполучить ее, вы должны следовать по дороге из стартовой зоны, пока не подойдете к заброшенной машине. Это между первым домом и церковью — просто придерживайтесь дороги, и вы найдете её. Найдите в машине записку, и она укажет на дом, расположенный к северо-западу от

Бьёркнес-скогена

, на побережье.

Пройдите в дом, чтобы найти разбросанные вокруг пушки и различные ящики с боеприпасами, а затем пройдите в гараж для того, чтобы найти прицел. Обязательно следите за бродячими роботами снаружи.

Скрытый дробовик, не пропустите его!

Второе оружие, которое вы действительно не можете позволить себе пропустить, это дробовик. Он расположен в церкви

Ибохолмен

, которую вы естественным образом встретите во время учебной миссии. В церкви есть записка, намекающая на «убежище», которое можно найти. 

Итак, чтобы получить свой дробовик, пройдите к деревянной лестнице сзади и поднимитесь до колокольни. Ружье должно быть прямо перед вами, вместе с снарядами для него. Теперь у вас есть дробовик и снайперская винтовка, позволяющая вам сражаться с врагами как на близких, так и на дальних дистанциях.

Разбирайте их!

Как мы уже упоминали один или два раза, мир полон роботов, желающих вас убить. Что вы сделали такого? Ну, вы видимо кожанный ублюдок. Во-первых, в зависимости от того, где вы их застрелили, они будут разбиваться на части по-разному — не забывайте учитывать попадание пули при поражении на расстоянии — и, блестяще, любой нанесенный вами урон останется на неопределенное время.

Чем вы дальше, тем сильнее и больше роботы

Если ваша цель достаточно хороша, ранних собакоподобных роботов легко убить одним выстрелом в топливный бак на их спинах.

Также стоит отметить, что в игре нет проблем с масштабированием. Вместо этого, чем дальше вы путешествуете по острову, тем сильнее и больше становятся роботы. Так что не заходите слишком далеко вглубь страны, пока у вас не появится хорошая экипировка и хорошие навыки персонажа.

Пытайтесь быть скрытными и ускользайте от роботов

Давайте поговорим о стелсе. Первое улучшение персонажа, которое мы рекомендуем взять, — это «споттинг». Этот навык позволяет сканировать врагов, чтобы увидеть их индикатор здоровья. Это довольно полезно, потому что навык способен вас предупредить, а стоит ли вам пытаться привлечь внимание робота или нет.

Если же вы не любите стелс, то хорошим вариантом будет использовать бумбокс. Да, шумиха кажется нелогичной, но смиритесь.
Вы можете довольно легко найти бумбоксы по всему миру, и если вы уроните один из них и нажмете кнопку воспроизведения, он заманит врагов, как сирена с синтезаторным звуком. Полезно им отвлекать врагов, а также заманивать в ловушки. Если у вас нет музыкальной системы, вы можете использовать фейерверк.

Также помните, что дождь — ваш друг. Звук падающих на землю капель дождя на самом деле замаскирует ваши шаги. И не забывайте, что листва тоже скрывает вас, поэтому не забывайте прятаться в кусты, когда рядом находятся враги.

Используйте мир игры

Это не просто оружие, которое помогает вам убивать врагов. В

Generation Zero

вы можете использовать сам мир. Например, электрические коробки взрываются при повреждении, испуская разрушительный взрыв электричества и ударяя любого несчастного робота, который оказывается рядом. Приманите противников в эти ящики, используя ракеты или тактику, описанную выше, и заставьте себя пожарить. Приятным бонусом использования этой стратегии является то, что электричество не повредит падению роботов, поэтому вы можете использовать его, чтобы получить лучшую добычу.

Однако, если вас устраивают обгоревшие трофеи, вы можете быстро уничтожить врагов взрывом машины. Это может уничтожить часть добычи, которую вы бы иначе взяли в мешок, но это также выглядит невероятно круто. Один выстрел в двигатель любого транспортного средства сделает это. Время правильно, и вы будете убивать несколько ботов в один удивительный огненный шар.

Как работает мультиплеер?

В

Generation Zero

вы можете легко входить и выходить из различных игровых сессий. Хост игры, к которой вы присоединяетесь, всегда сохраняет прогресс миссии, а состояние мира зависит от того, где находится хост. Однако, если вы гость, ваш прогресс все равно будет сохраняться, если вы находитесь примерно на одном и том же этапе игры — не рассчитывайте перепрыгнуть через часть опыта, присоединившись к кому-то, кто намного дальше вас!

В каждой сессии ваша добыча и опыт всегда будут сохранены. Таким образом, вы можете подключиться к чьей-то игре, позволить им направить вас к какой-нибудь хорошей добыче, а затем вернуть эту добычу в вашу собственную игру!

This guide gives general guidance on how the mechanics of Generation Zero work because much of the game is learned by frustrating and sometimes irreversible choices.

The Design of Generation Zero

I do not work for Systemic Reaction so their explanation of this might be entirely different from mine but I want to explain a little bit about how Generation Zero is designed so you can understand if it is the right game for you. This game goes on sale often for very little money at the time of this publication so lots of people are trying it. There’s nothing wrong with that, and for some it just won’t ever appeal.

Generation Zero shares technology with another game Avalanche Studios has produced called Hunter: Call of the Wild. If you have this game and you like it, then GZ is likely to feel more at home. It is worth noting this precursor because many of the mechanics of GZ rely on hunting skills: Lures, trapping, misdirecting, and obstruction.

To be effective at these mechanics GZ also requires some tactical thinking and patience. As you learn from battle after battle how the robots behave, you can start to approach each encounter a little better. Gear certainly helps as you would expect…but in GZ especially I’ve watched countless players with high-end gear get pummeled because of poor execution of an ambush.

If you’re coming from the typical standing toe-to-toe twitchy paradigm that most first-person shooters rely upon, you are going to be quite frustrated particularly in the beginning. If that’s your kind of game and you can’t make the adjustment to a slower and more forward-thinking pace, it will be a long uphill battle for you to get the most from GZ. It is just not designed like that.

That is not to say GZ can’t give you moments that are frantic, scary, and raises your pulse. It can do all these things, but you will not reach those highs if you are killed 2 minutes into a fight. I encourage anyone to try this game and enjoy it but understand it just may not be what you like, despite from the outside looking in that it appears to be a very interesting looking first-person shooter.

Solo, Co-Op, and Skills

Generation Zero can be played solo or in co-op with up to 3 other players besides yourself. I will immediately start with this understanding:

• GZ was intended to played in co-op.

You can play the game solo. Most everything works just like it would in co-op but playing solo adds a layer of difficulty to the game just by making that choice. Combat has to be approached a bit differently and skill choices can really put the bolts to you if you make the wrong ones. One key note about co-op play is that progress in the game other than earning XP is only saved to the game of the host. If you want to progress your missions and exploration, you have to host the game in co-op and your friend(s) then only earn XP.

• You get 29 skill points. You can’t re-spec (as of this publication).

If you know you are always going to play in co-op, then you can specialize your character a bit more to a particular discipline in the skill trees. If you are solo you the focus needs to be on skills that have a more global effect on how you play. The guidance is to look at the skills and consider if they apply in every robot encounter. If they don’t, then it’s probably not worthwhile to enable those skills or only enable them to the first level so you can buy into a skill that will help you. A few universal things to help you:

1. You need bullets to kill robots. A lot of bullets. Lures and traps can help thin out numbers or give a big damage reduction at the start of a fight, but eventually it will likely come down to you getting bullets on the target. There are skills that increase general damage and component damage. Those skills are applicable to every robot in every fight. Skills that positively effect weapon sway and recoil work on all weapons.
2. Every robot has components that can be damaged or blown off. Knowing this makes almost every fight winnable short of running out of bullets.
3. You will loot a lot of stuff and won’t have a lot of capacity to carry it or store it. You can increase your carry capacity and the crafting economy can help you turn junk into things you can use.
4. Until very late in the game, the odds are always against you. The robots come in bigger numbers, they are more accurate, and they can take way more punishment than you can. It is safe to assume you never have the advantage.

Combat

Some general points about the robots and the GZ game environment:

• Robots can only attack one target at a time.

Some robots have AOE weapons, but they still only fire that weapon at one target. If there’s more than one robot then the two of them can engage the same target or different ones.

• Robots cannot strafe-shoot.

But you certainly can. In order to fire at a target a robot must have acquisition and be stationary. The less of a stationary target you are, the harder it is for them. Even if you aren’t strafe-shooting, moving from cover to cover in rapid succession and hitting robots from different angles keeps forcing them to reset their tactical position. If they are having to reset their position to fire, they cannot shoot at you. This is very exploitable in one-on-one scenarios but lesser so when you are outnumbered because multiple robots will have acquisition on a single target. Still, it minimizes the amount of robots firing at you at any one time.

• Other than the seeker, every robot has a close-quarters attack.

Most of the CQ attacks by the robots are decently devastating. It is not to say you cannot engage with robots at close quarters because the closer you are you are very likely getting most of your bullets on the target, but, you need to be mindful that when you are close enough most of the time the robots will try to harm you with a CQ attack.

• The environment is littered with bombs.

Unburned vehicles, electrical panels on buildings, propane tanks, and red barrels can all be used with impressive effect. Please note, explosions do have splash damage and it will hurt you. But luring robots to these things with radios or comm arrays and watching the ensuing carnage blast them to bits doesn’t get old.

Rivals

As you successfully kill robots in a given region of GZ, eventually you’ll see a big warning that a some robot with a name became a rival. This is GZ responding to your continued success. Rivals spawn as you kill more and more robots. They are are sort of like a boss, but you can have many rivals at once, so there isn’t exactly a hierarchy.

• The same strategies work for rivals as for regular robots.

Rivals simply hit harder and sponge more bullets. Whatever is your formula for winning fights against regular robots, also works for rivals.

• Increasing levels and rivals makes a region more difficult.

In addition to the rivals, more success means you get more robot spawns and bigger ‘battle groups’ of them. It is one way to ramp up difficulty without setting the difficulty on the highest level.

• Rival hunting is a solid way to get high amounts of XP, better loot, and also to reduce hostility.

Need to get to a skill point sooner than later? Go to a region with a lot of rivals. Kill them. The rival itself nets a lot of XP and often they have friends with them. The entire rival battle can net you XP equivalent or greater than most missions give you.

Go Forth and Slaughter the Scrapheads

I hope you may find some of this information helpful. It is not intended to be an end-to-end guide to Generation Zero, I left a lot of things out. I wrote this because the start of the game is hard for new players, and the lack of even some basic tutorials turns many people off to the game before they get into where it hits stride and delivers a really unique experience.