Obenseuer Gameplay part 14 - Unrealized Gains (Open Sewer AKA Obenseuer Overhaul Update)

[@remyzzzzz]

Hey Yeti, when you ask if people looking for place to stay, look at second or other levels. First level does not show you full info :) edit: 20:12

[@ClosetYeti]

Mentioned it on another comment, but intuitively I assumed we fix up the L-able place, get a basic tenant in and learn what that's like, then get free reign of the other apartments. Turns out that "first apartment" isn't tutorial land at all and is your home; the other apartments aren't yours to mess with via the L menu and are only to lease to folks.

[@remyzzzzz]

@@ClosetYeti sorry for spam :D after newest update you can mess in other rooms too. your job here is to clean them (not fill them). and you will get lot of interesting stuff :)

[@saplays8473]

Daaaang! gold tray! haven't come across one of those yet!

[@NaughtyPrincessfkhandles]

I have and gold earrings and gold bar if I remember correctly. Cant seem to sell them tho due to vendors dont have enough cash in store...

[@rocknrolla3114]

Everything is bland when you are depressed...

[@ClosetYeti]

Seems to be something like that, yeah. A bit counter-intuitive to being not depressed, though - doctor recommends having good food to feel better.

[@rocknrolla3114]

@@ClosetYeti Yes, but the way the game is designed, you'll have to get out of the depression before good food can can be better than bland. Try only drinking the beer from the tap - just take a 20L down there and fill it up and that can be your sippy tank.

[@PanicLedisko]

​@@rocknrolla3114 The mental health becomes a slippery slope like real life, but I think they tried making it TOO realistic that once your character is depressed the game is MISERABLE!! I'm trying to play the game to not focus on /my/ depression, now I have to worry about my players depression but literally nothing I do can pull them out of it!! You recommend drinking, but that is literally only temporary and it makes your mental health worse as soon as it wears off (and it wears off SO VERY quickly unless you want to punish yourself by playing the game drunk like poor yeti has been, that noise is awful! I feel bad for him having to listen to it constantly!!)! My first playthrough I was doing SO well aside from the mental health part, I had 3 tenants I had like 5k OC my resource box was one or two blocks away from being completely full. I went and got tested for my fungus infection and found out I was like 6 days from dying so I had to dump a bunch of RM into them cutting them off and it tanked my health to 13% and my mental health to 1% and I was afraid my character was going to harm themselves and accidentally unalive themselves so I just decided to start a new playthrough. When I was going through the info I noticed that you can disable the mental health so I decided to and I thought things were going great when I never saw the icon pop up, but I noticed food have been slowly turning bland again! So I decided to waste 200OC to check my mental health and the doc said it was severe! In my first playthrough the antidepressants weren't even working for me anymore either!

[@Arthaius]

- Yeah, that's one of the rather unrealistic and annoying things about this game, I love it, but I mean come on, a chocolate bar or a Coke not being taste good? That's ridiculous, same with a frozen pizza, if I had a Frozen pizza, a coke and a chocolate bar I'd be very satisfied with the flavors. Even a plain cheese pizza would still be yummy. In my perusing of the store ingredients, pretty much everything is Bland/Bad/Terrible flavors, except occasionally a few of the vegetables like Cabbage/Carrots/Onions/Sugar Beets, sometimes have "okay" or if you are really lucky "Good" flavors. How can a raw Cabbage have a higher chance of tasting good that a Pizza/Coke/Chocolate bar? no sense at all to me.

[@ClosetYeti]

Getting bored of the same food aside, in my case the depression (or perhaps smoking addiction) was causing all foods to be bland. Once I eventually overcome my addictions, there's more and more good-tasting foods around. It's not 100% "true to life," but it's more reasonable than it first appears. For comparison, the frozen meatballs and dessert from the O-Mart (next to yeast) are often +++ and the food van's shroom-free foods are mostly ++. I should also note that "bland" isn't bad like one would think. Bland is more like.. normal. Par. Average. It won't negatively affect mood.

[@Arthaius]

@@ClosetYeti - Well, you must have a better character or something than me, My dude, kicked Smoking and Alcohol relatively quickly and then I discovered (only because of the Steam Achievement notification) that I also had kicked the Fungal infection as well so my character now has zero ailments / addictions, and yet still pretty much every food at the store is listed as "Bland" like 98% of everything there. Even the food truck Hot Dogs aren't anything special. The first actually decent food I have seen in the game just yesterday was one of two macaroni casseroles I made was listed as "Fantastic" flavor, the other one was not that good, so I don't know what you have going on differently than me, but I look at every drink, every food item in the store, and everything is basically 98% bland flavors, only a very few vegetable are sometimes "Good" - perhaps it is the game makers way to force you to practice up your cooking skills, because it's the only decent food I have seen was the one casserole I made and only the first one.