I’ll start by saying I’m not a super experienced player here and this opinion is from solo play, if that changes anything. I’ve played Grounded years ago (not much) and ended up getting back into the series seriously for the past couple of weeks now. This is just what I’ve noticed experiencing both so far.

The scale of progression in the first game seems a lot more straightforward. More specifically with enemy encounters. While doing missions for the story, each subsequent mission felt as if it was taking me to a different level of the yard and showing me the next challenge I had to overcome to complete it. Unless you went exploring on your own, there wasn’t a feeling that something was too strong for you. This meaning that it wasn’t something you couldn’t overcome in time. From your first larva to your first orb weaver or wolf spider, the game directed you accurately to what you should be able to handle by the time you see them and if you couldn’t handle them already, you weren’t far off of being able to.

In Grounded 2, I don’t feel this progression is the same at all. I’ve been consistently “blindsided” by certain enemies I’m facing and I’ve barely been playing the game at all. I’ve just hit “A Strange Warning” in the story and haven’t steamrolled to get here. I’ll spare enough detail for spoilers but I’ll lay out exactly how one of the missions went for me. I needed to get acorns to build the hatchery so I go to the nearest tree from your first ranger outpost. On the way there I see a small orb weaver, a big orb weaver, a big roach, a small scorpion, and a big scorpion. By this point I still have an eyepatch, a clover poncho, and aphid slippers with the first claws you’re able to build. I didn’t even really have the chance to explore too much before this because the missions hadn’t required it. After building the hatchery, I end up going to get ant eggs and find the orc weaver just sitting there with no mention or explanation so I leave him be. Only then to be thrown into a fight shortly after with an orc scorpion that I really only beat due to having a portable distraction with me. Immediately after this I’m told to put two spike strips down and handle three soldier ants, one orb weaver, and a spiderling. I died to this 6 times before I cheesed the spikes.

Each time I was met with the challenges I was met with it seemed like I should be further along than I am but I’m not that far in totality. Is this something only I’m feeling or have any of you felt the same?

Basically the title, i got into the archives and snagged the burgle chip. and spoke with sloane and she said to wait. is there a certain amount of time? I'm a bit lost. thanks!

Imagine having weather in Grounded 2—that would be awesome... and deadly.

Hot day: You overheat.

Cold day: You get cold.

Mist: You’d better slow down your buggies, because visibility is poor. Plus, everything becomes even more terrifying when you can only make out a silhouette—you’ll end up having even more heart attacks than I do with those cursed scorpions!

Rain: Run for cover, or you’re dead. The raindrops are the size of meteors.

Thunderstorm: Welcome to the apocalypse. The ground shakes, it’s as dark as the middle of the night, and the insects are extremely agitated—so, no buggies. And the rain is never far behind.

What do you think? Personally, I’d love it—especially if it didn’t affect your base.

Went to sleep and had a cut scene about orgg bugs, I take it this is means they will respawn for me now??

Finally beat the abyss boss and I only got shell pieces and a buffin gland nothing new or fancy.

I did some googling because I know people have had issues with the Ooze drop.

I did some googling and what i found said they removed ooze from the game completely?

Is that true? Or is AI just extra dumb lol.

Thanks in advance

Has anyone played in a 4 player coop scenario but you aren’t playing coop and you all take a section of the map and have to build your base. You can each push on the story as you wish but ultimately you must have a PVE type play through so if you both find each other in common ground you must fight or that your not allowed into enemy territory. Add in a safe zone where trading of resources may happen etc

It happens with both grass and weed stems

Little fist mastery double stealing with the pincer pincher trinket is fun. Change it back, please.🙏

Currently playing just now and was checking out the creature card section. I noticed that my angry category is missing two entries to the left of the fish, as shown in the picture, my harmless is also missing one. To my knowledge I’ve met all of the new enemies that came with the woodpile, but I’m assuming I’ve missed some somewhere? Does anyone know what these missing ones are?

Idk where they are 2 in ORC, 2 in angry

I'm sure you've seen but if you join the ps5 PTE, you can not opt out until the full 1.0 release.

The PTE has a much higher chance of breaking saves and messing things up. Not to mention the period of constant updates when they're working on a release.

I was about to enable it and changed my mind when I read that. I worry a lot of people are more excited to try the new content but don't realize the implications. Please think really hard about it. Not to mention if you play cross play with folks who are gonna want to switch to the main build after a release is done, I don't know what will happen to those worlds.

I'm not generally a fan of public test or dev builds. It took me long enough to get behind early access games in general, but Grounded does a good job of only releasing content they're fairly confident in. I'd say it's worth letting everyone else fix the bugs and wait until the 20th.

I've posted about this in the Grounded 2 forum in detail so I'll try to make this short and sweet. As we get new bug variants and new buggies, there has been only one on my mind. The jumping spider, arguably the most adorable of all spiders.

Let's start with the animation style. I think the cartoon-ish nature of the game lends perfectly to making the jumping spider absolutely adorable.

Now the game mechanics. I strongly believe that a jumping spider would be one of the best buggies this game could offer in terms of traversing the park. The size could be in between the ant and the orb weaver making it able to go almost anywhere. Then the jumping ability, having a long range jump could make traveling through the yard so much easier and more fun.

Lastly, the range of variants. This would add another type of spider to the park which could offer new fight encounters and new resources.

I hope I'm not alone in this.

Yes, I want to whine about it, sue me. Why oh why did they change the mushroom material from white to light brown?
It used to be fantastic to use the lovely white mushroom pillars or bricks to build unusual things and make them look like a whole different sort of creation out of the ordinary.
In Grounded 2 I tried to build another blue-shining pool, now being able to build under water, but the new mushroom floor and pillars don't really glow blue when using lamps and sonces.

Also, building a new ice rink, which would be especially great at the ice cream cart, doesn't work with the new mushroom colour.

Too bad :( There's always a catch, isn't it?

i would like to thank...Paraly5er and Sir Sim for giving pointers on how to defeat Skritch 🙏🏾🙏🏾

the...nearly 100 smoothies ive taken with me and the Cheese N' Fries meal lmaoo

but lastly, would love to thank my 2 ant buggies, Berkley and Mikey 🤧 they really got him distracted while i started swinging at him or needed time to heal

now i gotta fight him 2 or 5 more times 😔 sad sigh

Since starting ptb on ps5 have the mission advanced bushcraft sitting as not completed, but I think I completed that a long time ago.

Any of you have the same bug? Is there a chance that this will be fixed or are we going to have to complete everything again?

When I was farming the termite den for termite parts, I randomly received an extra termite worker card after looting one. It appears that the extra slots are probably caused by the gold card drop chance being incorrectly assigned as a regular card, and the game is creating a new slot for them to take.

They used to be crown teir and now they are teir five.

Interesting to say the least as we should have figtable teir fives

Edit should've stated I assume this is an accident but it could mean they are fightable, if so they'll be tier five but I doubt It..I imagine tier five will be different from the closing, tier crown Edit edit. See below for a picture of the crow as a crown tier Also apologies for spelling tier as teir, always flip the two

Is this a known bug or something? I‘m wearing the Bard‘s Tudor helmet just trying to clean up stuff on the stump and constantly have 10 wasps attacking me without me provoking them.
It’s honestly exhausting.

Found this on another reddit thread and immediately thought "dude, this would be epic in Grounded!" 😂

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/WkC7MSqaWV

Im trying to play with a friend on pc (im on xbox), this has worked before but now its suddenly not working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Btw i have gone into settings and the crossplay option just isnt there like it is on his screen, my world wont change to multiplayer either when i host it.

So I noticed that the mage armor has lower defensive stats than the ranger armor does. Given the fact that the ranger seems to hit as hard or arguably harder than the mage, and generally seems to be more accurate with ranged attacks, do we think the stats will remain the same? Or will the mages start seeing offensive buffs? Or do we think the 2 archetypes will remain as they are? My wife mains a mage in every game we play and she’s been very underwhelmed by the mages in this game, just curious what the community consensus is on these 2 archetypes.

I miss the option to set hotbar slots as certain categories of items. I want to go to the next healing item when I run out. I want to have my food swapped out when I eat it. I love this feature and obviously they give them to you when you first start but as soon as you put anything in that slot it overrides it. In Grounded 1 it let you set them to whatever you want. I was so sad when I realized you couldn't do it anymore in Grounded 2.

My pine wall b’s keep changing into pine wall a’s😢