Junior Adventurer's Guild - October: UnderRail

[CornCake]

This month's voting:

[J1M]

These memes are great. Hope they become a tradition.

[CornCake]

These memes are great. Hope they become a tradition.

I get very creative when pished, don't worry lad I got more coming

[wndrbr]

Ties should result in double-feature month where you play two games.

[CornCake]

Mission accomplished! This was the most active AG poll since last October. Well-played to @Tweed and others, who scraped up a huge number of votes on short notice. I'll be stepping away from vote trading and other shenanigans once I pay back @logincrash next month, but I hope others will continue to make things interesting one way or another.

Tie breaker
Click to reveal the winner for October 2025:

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I don't know much about this game, other than it looks like a spiritual successor to Fallout and was made by a team of 6 people.

Hopefully nobody who came out to support me personally feels betrayed by this, but I am breaking the tie in favor of UnderRail in order to produce the most memorable result and match my AG alignment of chaotic neutral.



Future tie breakers
Rule change proposal:

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If @Oyster Sauce will approve of it, I suggest replacing the tie breaking mechanism for future months with the following, objective, rule:

• In the event of a tied vote, the game with the earliest release date will be selected.
• If the games are still tied, because someone purposely started nominating games with duplicate release dates, the game that was nominated first will be selected.

Darksiders
I don't think we will ever see this game get enough AG votes again, but I hope some of you enjoy playing it at some point because it's a great game. A few tips:

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1. Controller strongly recommended. Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, WiiU, Switch.
2. Normal difficulty from 2010 is appropriate for most people frequenting this forum. As far as I know, the only difference on the hardest difficulty is that enemies have more health and deal more damage.
3. The first mini-boss after the time skip is a difficulty spike. Dashing more should help.
4. Don't let yourself get filtered at the Graveyard. That is the only area of the game designed that way.
5. (Warmastered version) Turn off Vignette and Chroma FX video options.

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[Tweed]

[Tweed]

Ties should result in double-feature month where you play two games.

We did that last time, membah?

[CornCake]

I hope the memes help the poor wee scones who lost (including me)

[Acrux]

I think people should get a number of votes equal to their post counts. They can't be divided up.

[CornCake]

[Tweed]

I think people should get a number of votes equal to their post count. They can't be divided up.

And then Rusty would always get what he wants.

[rusty_shackleford]

I think people should get a number of votes equal to their post count. They can't be divided up.

And then Rusty would always get what he wants.

This sounds good, what's the downside?

[Acrux]

I think people should get a number of votes equal to their post count. They can't be divided up.

And then Rusty would always get what he wants.

What would be different?

[CornCake]

[Bertram_Tung]

Furries never win lose

[TheEmptyRoad]

So, for those who've actually played Underrail before, any tips? Any skills/stats/feats not worth investing in?

I see there are a few themes in the character portraits reminiscent of faction colors and looks, any clues or info on those?

[Bertram_Tung]

So, for those who've actually played Underrail before, any tips? Any skills/stats/feats not worth investing in?

I see there are a few themes in the character portraits reminiscent of faction colors and looks, any clues or info on those?

This is a Darksiders thread.

[CornCake]

@J1M

[rusty_shackleford]

[rusty_shackleford]

(I don't actually care @CornCake)

[CornCake]

(I don't actually care @CornCake)

I've blasted with enough memes for now, maybe more in the eve

[Oyster Sauce]

UnderRail

Description
Underrail is an old school isometric turn-based RPG set in a distant future, when the life on the Earth’s surface has long since been made impossible and the remnants of humanity now dwell in the Underrail, a vast system of metro station-states that, it seems, are the last bastions of a fading race.

The player takes control of one of the denizens of such a station-state whose life is about to become all that much more interesting and dangerous, as our protagonist is caught midst the conflicting factions of Underrail as they violently struggle to survive in the harsh underground environment.

Where to acquire

https://www.gog.com/en/game/underrail



Time to beat

57.5 hours - Main
106.5 hours - Main + Sides


Troubleshooting + Community Patches

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Underrail

[rusty_shackleford]

Did you know @Tweed started a 3 part UnderRail video series? He only finished two of the videos, both are here:
viewtopic.php?t=3402-tweed-vs-world-recovered-videos

[rusty_shackleford]

So, for those who've actually played Underrail before, any tips? Any skills/stats/feats not worth investing in?

I see there are a few themes in the character portraits reminiscent of faction colors and looks, any clues or info on those?

Normally I'd say this is cheating, but you can easily create a build that doesn't work on normal difficulty and requires a restart, so yes you probably should look up a build in advance.

[Bertram_Tung]

Did you know @Tweed started a 3 part UnderRail video series? He only finished two of the videos, both are here:
viewtopic.php?t=3402-tweed-vs-world-recovered-videos

its very sweet how you continue to encourage the depressed furry, you're a very kind hearted individual

[CornCake]

So, for those who've actually played Underrail before, any tips? Any skills/stats/feats not worth investing in?

I see there are a few themes in the character portraits reminiscent of faction colors and looks, any clues or info on those?

Normally I'd say this is cheating, but you can easily create a build that doesn't work on normal difficulty and requires a restart, so yes you probably should look up a build in advance.

You can be softlocked by a build on NORMAL? That's rough mate, thanks for saying

[rusty_shackleford]

Did you know @Tweed started a 3 part UnderRail video series? He only finished two of the videos, both are here:
viewtopic.php?t=3402-tweed-vs-world-recovered-videos

its very sweet how you continue to encourage the depressed furry, you're a very kind hearted individual

Tweed is the HQ mascot

[wndrbr]

So, for those who've actually played Underrail before, any tips? Any skills/stats/feats not worth investing in?

I see there are a few themes in the character portraits reminiscent of faction colors and looks, any clues or info on those?

Play on normal difficulty - hard and dominating require you to metagame and create powerful builds using prior knowledge of game's mechanics, while on normal the game can be finished without looking anything up.

Underrail punishes you for spreading stats, so before you start you should come up with some kind of simple plan on what type of character you want to make (i.e. a tanky guy wearing armor, a sneaky guy with a crossbow, psyker who blasts enemies with telekinesis, rogueish sniper who can hack computers, etc). If you try to cover too many fields at the same time, you're going to end up with an unfocused and unoptimized build.

Tanky characters are the easiest, but less fun to play. Sneaky characters are more interesting, but require some prior knowledge of game's mechanics.

Regardless of what type of character you want to play as, here's a couple of advices:
1) always max out your main offensive skill (guns, crossbows, melee). Throwing cannot be your main offensive skill, but you can invest like 30 skillpoints into it to get access to a very good feat 'Grenadier');
2) don't bother with dodge or evasion if you plan to wear armor. And you should be wearing armor, since glass cannon/dodge & evasion is an unreliable way of playing;
3) don't bother with persuasion, the game is heavily combat-focused and you cannot avoid most of the fights. Dialogue skills exist mostly to get some extra lore and to get better items at stores;
4) on your first playthrough you may stumble upon the various difficulty roadblocks due to not being able to tackle certain encounters. You can still bruteforce them using caltrops, beartraps, grenades, stimpaks, and other supplemental items;
5) buy Adrenaline recipe, it's one of the most useful consumables in the game. Once you get the recipe, pump the skills needed to craft it;
6) crafting in this game is really fun (one of the most fun crafting systems in RPGs in my opinion, on par with Arcanum), but also requires a hefty stat investment. Check the in-game recipes while playing to see if there's anything worth your while.
7) in addition to the difficulty modes, there are also two XP modes in the game - classic (killing monsters yields experience) and oddity (you can only level up by acquiring experience from doing quests and finding secrets). Oddity mode is very limiting (it prevents farming) and sort-of metagamey (you can level up faster if you know how to beeline to the hidden oddities). Classic feels more natural, and it's also a lot more freeform as it lets you farm a bit of xp. Regardless of which mode you pick, you will likely have the same level of power during the same stages of the game (i finished the game using both, and didn't notice any big differences in power progression).

[wndrbr]

So, for those who've actually played Underrail before, any tips? Any skills/stats/feats not worth investing in?

I see there are a few themes in the character portraits reminiscent of faction colors and looks, any clues or info on those?

Normally I'd say this is cheating, but you can easily create a build that doesn't work on normal difficulty and requires a restart, so yes you probably should look up a build in advance.

You can be softlocked by a build on NORMAL? That's rough mate, thanks for saying

not on normal, no. My first playthrough was on Normal, I struggled a lot due to having a very unoptimized build (i did not look anything up before starting), but still managed to finish the game. On hard and dominating difficulties - yeah, you can totally get yourself softlocked.

The game has one build check, it's called Depot A. Depot A is the final tutorial mission - if you manage to beat it, then you are equipped to beat the rest of game. If not, well, time for a restart.

[Tweed]

Depot A is the acid test for all builds, if you can't get past or struggle heavily with Depot A, then you probably can't finish the game.