Storage Hunter Simulator

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This is one of those games where I want to recommend it and don't at the same time. It definitely has its charm points- opening up storage lockers and seeing what's inside is pretty fun, there are plenty of secrets around the map to uncover, and generally speaking it's easy to see that a lot of effort went into the game. However it's also incredibly grindy, unbalanced, doesn't have much in the way of character upgrades, and the scale of the game world is perhaps a bit too bloated for its own good. To start with the good: the game definitely scratches that 'lootbox' itch. Finding a small treasure tucked away in a corner of a storage unit, or opening a chest and finding a rare item, or even just finding something you haven't seen before feels good. There are also a ton of items to discover in this game, to the point where it feels like you'd have a hard time NOT seeing at least one new thing when you open up a given locker. The game has a huge map, which is sort of a double-edged sword. The environments feel diverse enough for the most part, with a suburban area, a city area, a rural farm area and a costal area. There are lots of items hidden around the map that can be found and sold, and hunting for them can be fun even if actually selling them feels unbalanced at times. However, the hugeness of the map makes it tedious to engage with the core gameplay loop of going around and opening lockers and selling the things you get from them due to how spread out everything is. There's no fast travel system; you have to manually drive everywhere, whether that's between a storage locker and the nearest pawn shop (something that might take multiple trips depending on what you got) or between areas of the map. Driving also costs fuel, which will typically cost you about $40 if you're low. That feeling of slogging around the map at a snail's pace is also represented heavily in your character's progression. You'll earn your first few upgrades quickly enough- unlocking the basic repair tools and the ability to verify uncommon items, as well as buying upgrades for your first pawn shop- but after that point the amount of money you require increases exponentially, while the money you earn doesn't. On normal mode it might take you multiple weeks of in-game time to earn one of those upgrades, let alone something like a new car or house. I think the poorness of the upgrade system and how it meshes with the gameplay loop is best exemplified by the lockpicks. Buying the basic lockpicks costs $1500 and allows you to attempt to open the locked chests you can find in storage units. It's not a guaranteed thing, and failing actually increases the price of opening the chest at a locksmith from $15 to 20 for the basic chest. The math is really easy to see here: to pay off your basic, level one lockpicks you need to successfully open over a hundred chests with them, accounting for your failures which will increase the amount it takes to break even. However, you can purchase more advanced lockpicks that lower the chance of failure and also allows you to open better chests... though of course these more advanced lockpicks cost thousands of dollars more, meaning it'll now take you hundreds of storage lockers to break even on them. Arguably breaking even isn't the point, but these lockpicks are one of the few non-shop related, non-car related upgrades you can get. In fact, there's only three. There's also one that allows you to 'identify' higher rarity items, and the last one allows you to repair items to get more money out of them. That's it. There's no way to increase your 'luck' with storage containers so that you find more high rarity items; there's no way to make it so NPC bidders give up faster when bidding; there's nothing else in terms of character upgrades. The only other thing like that is your reputation, which really only allows you the privilege of bidding on higher tier storage units and allows you to buy pawn shops and houses- and of course you need to do this on a per area basis for the suburb, the city (which is also split it into two halves so you need to do it twice there to boot), the farm and the coast... The last major issue I had is the balancing on the items you can find around the map. Some of these items are basically just fun little easter eggs, netting you a rare-ish item and several hundred dollars if you decide to sell them. Others have a special rarity level, "Epic", meaning that only one of them exists in the game world. These can be sold for thousands of dollars; typically $1000-2000, but I've found at least one that can sell for nearly $10,000. The only disadvantage to selling these items is that you can only find one of them per save file, which means you lose out on using them to decorate your houses... but it takes so long to afford a house in the first place that you might as well sell them because they will make it easier to skip some of the tedious grinding you have to do! Overall, I think this game has a lot of room for improvement and that it could go from middling to good with some extra attention towards its gameplay and balancing. At this point shrinking the map to make things less spread out isn't an option, but including QOL features like fast travel between areas (if nowhere else) could help with that. The reputation system could easily be turned into something that's more like a traditional leveling system, allowing for more upgrades like easier auctions or an increased chance of rare items to help with the razor-thin profit margins that currently exist. in its current state, however, I have a hard time recommending it to anyone other than those who are willing to look past those flaws for the sake of that sweet, sweet gambling dopamine.

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จริงๆ น่าจะเปลี่ยนชื่อเกมเป็น Storage hunter together ตอนแรกก็สงสัยว่า ทำไมธุรกิจดูโตช้า ของแพง เล่นยาก ต้องบริหารแบบเป็นขั้นตอนมากกว่าตอนเกมเป็น Early เพราะ เกมต้องการให้เล่น coop มากกว่า solo เลยสงสัยต่อว่า ถ้าจะทำแบบนี้ ทำไมไม่เพิ่มระบบ เช่น มีพนักงานหลายคน ออกไปประมูลเองได้ ใช้รถเก่าเราไปแบกของได้ หรือ สามารถสั่งปิดร้านได้เพื่อไม่ต้องจ่ายค่าพนักงานกับค่าบำรุงร้านเก่าอีก หรือมากที่สุด สร้างโหมดเนื้อเรื่องสำหรับ solo มา เพราะ สำหรับคนที่มาเล่น solo ตอนนี้จะเหนื่อยแบบที่สุดของที่สุด แต่ก็ต้องยอมรับว่า เกมโคตรจะเพลิน เล่นๆไปรู้ตัวอีกทีเวลาก็ผ่านไปไวสุดๆ แถม เคยมี moment ว่าจะพอแล้ว แต่ก็เผลอกดเล่นต่อ

Fun little sim. Physics are interesting. Not crazy about how every car can run me off the road no matter how big my truck is. No real endgame in sight. Hoping more gets added on.

macht sehr viel spaß^^

fun game. a bit slow in the start, but thats part of the fun ig

Storage Hunter ist im Grunde eine Mischung aus Storage Wars und Pawn Stars. Erst ersteigert man fremde Lagerräume und danach versucht man, den ganzen Krempel möglichst teuer wieder loszuwerden. Nur ohne dramatischen Kameraschnitt, sobald irgendwo ein alter Toaster unter einer Decke auftaucht. Bei den Auktionen sieht man immer nur einen Teil des Inhalts und muss abschätzen, ob sich das Bieten lohnt. Man könnte sich ja ein festes Limit setzen, aber wird man dann einmal überboten, bietet man aus reinem Trotz das Doppelte, also kann man das mit dem Limit auch wieder lassen.^^ Anschließend wird alles durchsucht, ins Fahrzeug geladen und verkauft. Größere Gegenstände einzuladen, fühlt sich manchmal allerdings an wie Tetris mit einem Kleiderschrank und einer Spüle. Mit der Zeit bekommt man bessere und größere Fahrzeuge, kauft sich neue Wohnungen und eröffnet eigene Pawnshops. Dort stellt man die gefundenen Sachen aus und kann einen Verkäufer einstellen, der den Kram verhökert, während man selbst schon den nächsten Lagerraum leer räumt. Anfangs startet man mit Auktionen auf Level 1, bei denen meistens besserer Sperrmüll auf einen wartet. Später geht es bis Level 5 hoch und dort kommen deutlich feinere und wertvollere Waren ins Spiel. Zusätzlich gibt es Blind Auctions, bei denen man vorher gar nicht sieht, worauf man eigentlich bietet. Quasi Glücksspiel, nur dass man den verlorenen Einsatz anschließend noch selbst ins Auto schleppen muss. Auch bei den Fundstücken gibt es Fortschritt. Verschlossene Kisten muss anfangs noch ein Schlosser öffnen. Im normalen Spielverlauf schaltet man dann bessere Werkzeuge frei und knackt die Schlösser selbst. Unbekannte Gegenstände können bestimmt und der Zustand der Waren verbessert werden, damit beim Verkauf mehr Geld herausspringt. Einmal kurz sauber gemacht und schon wird aus fremdem Müll eine seltene Antiquität. Ach und man kann auch die Dörfer absuchen, irgendwo findet man immer mal was rumliegen, das keinem gehört, wie z.b. das Necronomicon - lol - ja alles mitnehmen. Technisch ist Storage Hunter sicher kein Meisterwerk und die Abläufe wiederholen sich. Trotzdem macht die Mischung aus Bieten, Durchwühlen, Aufbereiten und Verkaufen überraschend Fun. Zusätzlich gibt es Händler, die besondere Gegenstände suchen und dir nach genug abgelieferten Fundstücken, ein besonderes Item oder Kleidung etc geben. Also, alles in allem ist es ein cooles Spiel, besonders wenn man bei Storage Wars sowieso immer der Meinung war, das man selbst viel schlauer geboten hätte. In diesem Sinne, habt Spaß :)

Для одиночной игры, возможно, ещё нормально, но для кооператива покупать не советую. Играли с другом, и данные между нами нормально не синхронизировались. В какой-то момент в машине закончился бензин, после чего игра просто вылетела вместе с сервером. Когда зашли обратно, оказалось, что у друга не сохранилась проданная вещь, но и денег за неё тоже не было. То есть прогресс просто пропал из-за краша. В игре, где нужно собирать, продавать и копить деньги, такие проблемы с сохранениями полностью убивают смысл прохождения. Пока разработчики не исправят синхронизацию и сохранение данных в кооперативе, рассматривать игру для совместного прохождения точно не стоит. P.s жаль, что разработчики просят столько денег за игру, при этом не умея работать с базой данных

Ze začátku mě to moc nebavilo a pak jsem hru pochopil více a super. Koupíte sklad v aukci a pak přijde mini-hra. Naskládat věci na mini-truck. Občas je to fakt sranda co se vám povede vyskládat na toho prcka. Pak to odvezete ,vystavíte a peníze se sypou. Je tam spousta vozů ,zábavní park s dalšími hrami.