Chapter 82
【Welcome back to the wasteland】『HAO』Strategy Thread part 712【Looks like we can finally play properly】
45 Anonymous Player
Current situation summary:
Close to Ver1.08 environment, but with various improvements for better playability
More countermeasures against Machine Beasts, especially the mass-produced Apollyon which is very handy
Strengthened town security. A player who tried to ○ an NPC late at night got instantly killed by a guard. Seems they have some way of detecting it.
Skill cap increased
Skill shop appeared. Can instantly acquire skills in exchange for materials.
No longer forced into debt
No longer forced into debt
46 Anonymous Player
It’s gotten a bit dull, hasn’t it? Not being able to do the crazy stuff like in previous versions takes away the appeal of this game. Selling water on the black market was fun.
47 Anonymous Player
Saying mass-produced Apollyon is convenient is so clueless. Equip a small NMM and cyborgs are way stronger.
48 Anonymous Player
Several beastkin armaments were also unlocked, so beastkin are definitely the strongest, no question.
49 Anonymous Player
What about espers…?
50 Anonymous Player
>>49 Equipment for them dried up. Last time they sold parts for boosting abilities, but this time they’re not on the market due to low user count.
51 Anonymous Player
>>50 That’s because of the esper lynching. Apparently an esper group called 「SOD」 committed terrorism, so espers are in a really tight spot now.
52 Anonymous Player
Another faction popped up outta nowhere. Already had my hands full with the 「Order」, 「Reformists」, and company swarms.
53 Anonymous Player
「SOD」 is apparently a religious group that worships 「UYK」, but I don’t really get it. All I heard is that Orange took them down.
54 Anonymous Player
Orange again?
55 Anonymous Player
Conquering the Infinite Horizon and defeating this 「UYK」 guy is cool and all, but what even is this in the first place? NPCs do drop the name sometimes.
56 Anonymous Player
No info on Orange besides him walking with a handsome dude on day one.
57 Anonymous Player
>>56 I heard he was alone with a blue-haired beauty?
58 Anonymous Player
For real? Orange is so unforgivable.
59 Anonymous Player
Seeing him incorporated into the setting, I guess Orange really is a dev NPC after all. If he were a player, it’d give hope that we could get involved in the grand story too, so I’m hoping for that.
60 Anonymous Player
Anyone tried going outside the map? I got instadeath.
61 Anonymous Player
>>60 I died too after going far enough to see the fog.
62 Anonymous Player
The heck is fog, I don’t see anything like that.
63 Anonymous Player
If you keep going straight north from base, there’s a part where the crystal trees start thinning out. Around there, a faint fog begins and oxygen starts leaking from the oxygen supply device, killing you.
64 Anonymous Player
>>63 If you’re going that far, coat yourself with anti-「UYK」 digestive enzymes lol.
65 Anonymous Player
>>64 That’s not enough, apparently you need to reapply it regularly from above. How was I supposed to know that, this blind instadeath leading to another login ban is the worst, I’m quitting. My head’s been hurting lately, don’t make my stomach hurt too.
66 Anonymous Player
It’s the season for it, so take care of your health. Just don’t go spreading colds at the New Technology Exhibition.
67 Anonymous Player
The New Technology Exhibition is coming up? Will there be new info? Gotta be some leaks.
68 Anonymous Player
>>67 The devs here are so unpredictable, no way to tell the difference between real leaks and fake ones…
69 Anonymous Player
I seriously don’t get what the devs are thinking. What do they want? An info leak festival?
70 Anonymous Player
I was checking the details for the New Technology Exhibition and Kōmitsu Solutions is there lmao. The idiot company whose president got hooked on religion.
71 Anonymous Player
>>70 That company is developing and publishing immortality tech, so cut them some slack.
72 Anonymous Player
Come to think of it, the foundation for artificial humans and Apollyons was that company, right? I wonder if they have some connection to Hereafter Corporation. Maybe even that Prophet declaration is actually a setup for an event.
73 Anonymous Player
Stop the alterations by Kōmitsu Solutions and the Prophet!
Those who know the truth, rise up!
We have no choice but to destroy Mishima Kanji who will ruin the Earth!
The gray wasteland is the end result of humanity that polluted the planet, we must progress to facing God’s wrath!
Before Earth returns to rubble that isn’t even gray!
74 Anonymous Player
Stop the alterations by Kōmitsu Solutions and the Prophet!
Those who know the truth, rise up!
We have no choice but to destroy Mishima Kanji who will ruin the Earth!
The gray wasteland is the end result of humanity that polluted the planet, we must progress to facing God’s wrath!
Before Earth returns to rubble that isn’t even gray!
75 Anonymous Player
Don’t spam the same thing full of typos, troll. The exclamation marks are annoying. And you’re doing this in other threads too, get lost, you’re a nuisance.
76 Anonymous Player
Normally replying to trolls is bad manners, but this is kind of intriguing. Thought it was some conspiracy theory, but it matches the situation in 「HAO」 pretty well. That religious group worships Earth as 「UYK」, right?
77 Anonymous Player
No, that’s incorrect. The Earth is merely the vessel to bring down that god. Also, one should not carelessly utter the mistaken name of god. That is a derogatory term given by those impertinent destroyers.
78 Anonymous Player
>>77 Then why do we gotta stop the Prophet lol The setting seems well thought-out lmao
79 Anonymous Player
Because the Son will awaken in a rage. When God dies, the 46 Sons will manifest all at once from within the womb and destroy the world. While trying to avoid the world’s destruction, they are in fact approaching an even greater end. We should accept God’s anger, cast aside false civilization, and coexist.
80 Anonymous Player
>>79 Are you referring to the Strains? I think it’s a very clever move to link the setting of a (in a sense) famous game with religion.
81 Anonymous Player
No, that is not a game. You should stay away from the device so as not to have your soul killed by the remnants of the 「Hereafter Project」 that observes the future. What you are seeing is a future stirred up by Kōmitsu Solutions and Space Ignition Industries.
82 Anonymous Player
Ah, I knew this troll seemed familiar. There was one like this in the overseas threads pretty early on. Except there was no Prophet, and Space Ignition Industries was called out by name.
83 Anonymous Player
Don’t engage the troll, this is a strategy thread.
84 Anonymous Player
See, I told you 「HAO」 is the future!
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