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Sep 21, 2014 12:38
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ElectroMagneticJosh posted:Agreed. I named my Russian character "Shutyur Hedov". Since I can never think of anything cool I always go for goofy. I can't even go for goofy  I have a party of Keith, Sandra, Carlos and Vanessa. The squarest rangers ever
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yeah, I'm definitely on the Rail Yard problems list. I don't have a crazy high level on my rear end skills. Is there anything I can do to prevent a bloodbath? Also, same deal with Vulture's Cry. Freed her Highpool jail, and she said thanks and left. Charisma level is average, so what the hell?
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Kaincypher posted:yeah, I'm definitely on the Rail Yard problems list. I don't have a crazy high level on my rear end skills. Is there anything I can do to prevent a bloodbath? Also, same deal with Vulture's Cry. Freed her Highpool jail, and she said thanks and left. Charisma level is average, so what the hell? I have my charisma at 1 and so far out of 3 none have declined joining me. The system is  as gently caress.
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Sep 21, 2014 12:56
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Arnold of Soissons posted:My custom portrait hosed up and now two of my guys have the same one, how do I fix that? Make a new character, set the custom portrait, and put everything but the .png in <portraitName>
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Sep 21, 2014 12:59
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is there some reason i should take 25 exp per recruit instead of the scrap?
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Sep 21, 2014 12:59
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Am I missing something at the Rail Camp? Running between the two leaders is a pain in the rear end.
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Sep 21, 2014 13:54
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Eddain posted:So I just finished the Nomad Rail Camp and Chisel wanted to join me at the end. I was full though so I told him to just wait and don't leave town, and when I came back later he's nowhere to be found. If you had the specific option of tell him to wait and don't leave, and somehow he disappear, that sounds like a bug, not a "bad recruitment system". Maybe it's just a bug in the effect of that dialog. Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Sep 21, 2014 14:03
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toasterwarrior posted:Stopped at 2 Luck, but goddamn is it really loving annoying, considering that you'll lose the AP trying to fire, lose more AP unjamming, and only then can you start shooting again. Can someone confirm and measure the effect of luck on jamming guns? It should be easy to make a game with two characters, one with Luck 1 and other with Luck 10, both with the same points in weapons skills, and then make a few tests saving, unloading their guns and counting the times it jams, and quickloading again. Verviticus posted:weapons explicitly say their chance to break and it seems to be about right for me with 1 luck on all my guys. 5-8% is pretty common among weapons and you have four dudes firing per turn That may be is the "base" chance to break, modified later by other factors like luck. Who knows. Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Sep 21, 2014 14:05
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What is this flag above my head?
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Wildtortilla posted:What is this flag above my head? That's the ambush (overwatch) icon.
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Sep 21, 2014 14:13
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Pointless armchair game design time. I feel like trap/lock/etc. failures are sort of pointless. Not that there shouldn't be hurdles, but in an RPG like this I'd imagine most people reload after critical failures until they're able to open what they want. You know how a critical success takes half the time to complete? It would be nice if every non-Impossible interaction worked, with the level of success/failure simply impacting the completion time, and your XP bonus dropping with every passing second.
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I don't reload, cause in a system where you can permanently miss out of rewards, those rewards are rarely worth a drat.
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VodeAndreas posted:That's the ambush (overwatch) icon. Oh, thanks! That must have been a bug because I wasn't in combat. I saved and re-loaded and the flag disappeared.
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Pointless armchair game design time. I feel like trap/lock/etc. failures are sort of pointless. Not that there shouldn't be hurdles, but in an RPG like this I'd imagine most people reload after critical failures until they're able to open what they want. It isn't a design failure. It's a coding failure: in other games randomness come from a seed number, and that seed number is stored in the save file. So savescumming doesn't work, there are randomness when you use the skills but it's fixed, if you fail opening a safe, loading the save again and trying it again will produce the same random roll and the same failure opening the safe.
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Pointless armchair game design time. I feel like trap/lock/etc. failures are sort of pointless. Not that there shouldn't be hurdles, but in an RPG like this I'd imagine most people reload after critical failures until they're able to open what they want. Pretty much. The long reload time just makes it more annoying
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Sep 21, 2014 14:23
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How on earth do I stop the (dunno if this is spoilers)meson cannon turret thing from locking on? I dive behind a building and still get hit. I run the hell away and I still get hit. What do I need to do to this thing to keep it off me?
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Sep 21, 2014 14:24
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Did we ever figure out what the deal is with The Provost? Also has anyone figured a way to use heavy weapons as a main combat option where it's not just like SMGs where you piss through every bit of your ammo? I never gave them a try in the beta.
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Pointless armchair game design time. I feel like trap/lock/etc. failures are sort of pointless. Not that there shouldn't be hurdles, but in an RPG like this I'd imagine most people reload after critical failures until they're able to open what they want. So far I managed to refrain from doing that because in the end all it would achieve would be to lessen my enjoyment. I keep a list of safes/crates I left untouched because they're too hard at my skill level... what a loving nerd I am 
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:Pretty much. The long reload time just makes it more annoying When I built my computer last year I decided to put an SSD into it. Up until this game I've always thought, "Man, you really didn't need to spend that extra money." I was just thinking to myself, moments ago, "Man, that SSD makes this game's constant reloading bearable."
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Sep 21, 2014 14:26
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Prison entrance. I can't seem to fix the robot, which I assume you need to bypass the big rear end turrets somehow. I left the map and wandered some more, until I met a bunch of robots at the Radio Tower, but they dropped only stuff flagged as junk. I feel dumb.
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Wait, there it is. Now I'm feel like hurrying up to get to the point I can use it!
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So in the Ag Center after finishing Highpool, I mistakenly got goo'd on by one of those exploding plants and my entire party has the status effect that they've got those zombie spores on them. There's a very long countdown timer, but other than that I don't see any practical negative effect to it. Does the effect expire at the end of the countdown timer, or is that how long I have before my entire party dies and becomes fungus zombies? Basically I'm wondering if I should use 5 of my 10 charges of fungicide fluid now, or save them to use on stopping the infection from spreading in any towns that pop up?
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Drone posted:So in the Ag Center after finishing Highpool, I mistakenly got goo'd on by one of those exploding plants and my entire party has the status effect that they've got those zombie spores on them. There's a very long countdown timer, but other than that I don't see any practical negative effect to it. Does the effect expire at the end of the countdown timer, or is that how long I have before my entire party dies and becomes fungus zombies? Earlier someone mentioned that you can pour the cure in the water and pump it through the ventilation center, which will cure you. I haven't gotten to that point so I don't know. Is there a pause function outside of combat being turn based? Sometimes I want to issue commands to my whole team before starting a fight, but it's kind of awkward because I can only give one order at a time.
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Furism posted:Prison entrance. I can't seem to fix the robot, which I assume you need to bypass the big rear end turrets somehow. I left the map and wandered some more, until I met a bunch of robots at the Radio Tower, but they dropped only stuff flagged as junk. I feel dumb. You will find the needed part later in Damonta, the tracks are a random drop from the robots there You only need one btw. Anyone found what these items are for: Slice of Toast, Contact Lenses ? (non-junk toaster loot) The wrist slingshot+marbles are for the kids in Highpool instead of cigarettes, for a cooler outcome The can of spraypaint is for the guy cleaning graffiti outside ranger citidel sauer kraut fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Verviticus posted:random encounters dont make much sense to me. 15 exp for killing bugs, fine. giant rabbits which are just unmitigated piles of bullshit are 20 xp. random encounter 12 health bandits that can drop guns as loot? 25 exp The game is telling you to not try to grind them and move on to the actual story. Slap a few points into outdoorsman and ignore them forever. I'd say that this is a direct hold-over from WL1, where world map encounters were just health-sinks with no redeeming qualities. At least now, you get some odd loot and the aforementioned use of an otherwise questionable skill. Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Pointless armchair game design time. I feel like trap/lock/etc. failures are sort of pointless. Not that there shouldn't be hurdles, but in an RPG like this I'd imagine most people reload after critical failures until they're able to open what they want. There are a few instances where you might want to get through an alarm and a lock before someone comes back and spots you, just so you can spread your guys out a bit and not be such an obvious grenade target. But sure, some of that is (was) lost when they decided to not have stealth in the game — most of the time, you can just snipe the guy and have them all come pour into your field of fire anwyay. Oh, and yes, on the topic of Luck and die rolls, I haven't done any proper side-by-side testing so it's only slightly above anecdotal, but just for fun, I did a shooty section my Famas AR guy over, once with him at Luck 1, and once with Luck 10. The former saw a couple of jams, the latter saw none. It makes sense, since Luck was that kind of a mysterious stat in both WL1 and the Fallout 1–2 — it's that added modifier to everything. In WL1, high luck would not just increase crit chances, but also reduce the odds of bad outcomes of all kinds, whereas low luck did the opposite. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they kept going with that mechanic and that the numbers you see, the ±% on critical hit and the jam percentages, for instance, do not fully reflect what the equipment will do when handled by any given character. Tippis fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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I have tried my hardest not to read this thread because I don't want spoilers, but I also don't want to gently caress up my game and discover I need to start over. Thus: A few months ago, I downloaded the beta but didn't do anything other than gently caress around in character creation. When I connected to Steam just now, it started downloading a massive Wasteland 2 update. Is this a patch for the beta, or am I getting the whole game? In other words, do I need to do anything more with Ranger Center or anything like that, or will I have the game in its entirety after a few hours?
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Sep 21, 2014 15:03
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You got the whole game, ranger. Check in with the Ranger station anyway for your custom backer portraits and backer skill keyword.
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It makes me sad when I get given a big character bio box, because I spent like an hour and a half building my characters and giving them bios which I know will never mean anything. Nobody will ever know Duke, Six Deep, Sherri Silver or Mac Force, what their real full names are or their motivations. Yet I spend so much time making them.
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Sep 21, 2014 15:14
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Fleve posted:
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Hank Morgan posted:You need Charles Bronson. Or Gian Maria Volonté as “The Even Less Sane One”.
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sauer kraut posted:You will find the needed part later in Damonta, the tracks are a random drop from the robots there Riiiight. So I just need to reach Damonta first and then come back? Gotcha. I was convinced the game wanted me to finish the Prison first.
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Does this game have a rest function like Baldur's Gate? I'm wasting so many medpacks after each fight just patching myself up.
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Can someone comment on the following weapon selection? * Point man: assault rifle, (maybe) bladed weaponry. * Heavy weapons, backup pistol * Sniper, backup pistol. * Energy Weapons, backup smg. I've heard that shotguns are kinda unreliable hence their absence.
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I just got to the Citadel and I'm looking at the supplies for sale fromBowling, and these weapons seem too good to be true. There's got to be a catch, right?
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double nine posted:Can someone comment on the following weapon selection? If by Point man you mean someone leading the charge and close to enemies, AR's may not be ideal for you. So far my AR users get unnerved when enemies are too close. I don't know how well shotguns do, but I've heard bladed weapons aren't very useful. I can't speak high praises for blunt melee either; in beta my blunt melee guy was my favorite unit and now he's my most useless unit in combat. Maybe consider swapping the AR on your point with the SMG on your Energy weapons unit?
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Shotguns can be pretty good, at least early on. Chokes can modify the spread and free aim makes hitting only the guys you want pretty easy. I like the Mississippi Mule. They might make a fair alternative for one of your pistol guys since they have overlapping utility against unarmored targets: Heavy weapons are pretty expensive to use and it may take a while to get good one, so that guy might use one. Your Sniper might like one for when something gets close enough to cause interference--Assault Rifles and Sniper Rifles see their accuracy even against ranged targets drop like a stone if an enemy is too close because of Pressure.
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Wildtortilla posted:I just got to the Citadel and I'm looking at the supplies for sale fromBowling, and these weapons seem too good to be true. There's got to be a catch, right? There is. Look closer at the 95% stat and what it measures… You might want to buy them anyway and strip them for parts, but I accidentally made him run off before I got to see if they are useful for that purpose double nine posted:Can someone comment on the following weapon selection? Tippis fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Tippis posted:There is. Look closer at the 95% stat and what it measures… I took the letter for his sister and ended the conversation without buying anything and now I can't talk to him anymore. What is the 95% stat measuring?
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