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So while going over some recent looting hauls of a few gun-nut basements I took stock of what I have. I have some modest ammo supplies for several nice guns, but then I noticed a pile of 600 7.62mm rounds of some kind. "Awesome!, I'm gonna be blasting a rifle all day with this!" They're loving Tokarev rounds.  . And of course a Tokarev or PPSh or whatever else uses this stupid round was not amongst my collection.I suppose I could get around to learning how to disassemble and load my own ammo...
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Well, if you don't want to craft anything, go find some military wreckage and dig around in it, I've pulled Kevlar vests (close to the skin) and MBR Vests (strapped layer) pretty commonly from them. Plus you might find other interesting toys. Though that is only torso armor, of course.
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Jun 5, 2015 17:56
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Don't forget the brute variant first.  (Hulks are evolved Brutes, yeah? I dunno my Zombie morphology so well)
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Jun 5, 2015 18:25
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At least you aren't losing much? I mean, besides your life.
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Jun 5, 2015 18:48
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I have discovered a Fungal Bloom north of the small town I'm currently looting. I remember those being pretty bad news when I played a few years ago, so I should probably try to destroy it. Time to make some molotovs! Good thing I got a gasmask.
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Jun 6, 2015 09:30
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 Well, that was a disappointing way for my attack on the fungal thing to end. Autosave put me back way before I even started attacking. Maybe I should just go somewhere else and avoid it. Will this poo poo spread if I'm not nearby (since I know the game only loosely tracks stuff beyond a certain distance from you).
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Jun 6, 2015 19:41
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So go out and shoot/rock a Squirrel if you want fresh meat. That said, Jerky uses 1 chunk of meat to make 3 portions of jerky that give 12 nutrition each. 3x12 =36. Not bad for something that won't spoil vs the 1 portion 50 nutrition of Cooked Meat.
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Jun 8, 2015 17:35
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Fat Samurai posted:Speaking of stockpiles, anyone has a sane way of stocking a shelter? I'm only using the basement for sleeping, at least until I manage to cook without smoke, because gently caress doing anything with a flashlight. That has the drawback of making upstairs a complete mess of piles of food, medical supplies, books, rags and leather patches and an ever increasing pile of electronic parts I don't know what to do with. Yeah, labeling the various parts of your doom mobile helps, but here is the mess that is my Survivor Hippie Hoarder Van.  Also, learn to love the advanced inventory management "/" screen. A lot of the time I can stand in one of two spots (where I am in the screenshot or just to the left) switch the adv inventory thing to area mode (checks all the tiles around you) and then just filter for what I'm looking for and grab it.
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Jun 8, 2015 18:05
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What else am I gonna fill this van full of? If it doesn't look like this:  Whats the point?
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Jun 8, 2015 18:16
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You're limited to one wheel per square/space on a vehicle.
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Jun 8, 2015 19:37
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Did you remove the broken wheel first? A broken item still counts as an item. Also, you need a welder or lots of duct tape to reattach things while you only need a wrench and a saw to remove (most) stuff, so that might be your problem. Otherwise that sheet metal should be able to be used to craft a new box via "install".
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Jun 8, 2015 19:52
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You could install a 650 one instead of a 200/275, but if the thing gets too heavy vs your character's strength you won't be able to drag it anymore. And yeah, max 1 cargo container per square. No idea about this laser error, I've never run into something like that.
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Jun 8, 2015 19:57
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I've got that mod enabled and never had an error message like that, weird.
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Jun 9, 2015 01:48
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Check the rain coat's description, what areas does it cover? The areas it doesn't cover are still getting wet. I think it doesn't cover your head, for example (need a rain hood).
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Jun 10, 2015 07:25
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Xand_Man posted:gently caress it, just make the Mad Max total conversion mod. I said it earlier, but I really do wish some kind of "Mad Max" style roguelike-sh game existed that had vehicle customization similar to Cataclysm.
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Jun 10, 2015 18:39
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10s and 11s are fine for shooting.
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Jun 11, 2015 07:28
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Raided my first science lab today. Or at least thats what I'd like to say. Thank goodness I was wearing a Kevlar vest, a Kevlar lined trenchcoat, and an (empty) MBR vest. Those loving SMG turrets, shiiit. I got shot to pieces, I think I nearly lost an arm! (can you lose limbs?) How the hell are you supposed to deal with those things? I got shot to bits just trying to use the "X" function to peek around the doorway.
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Jun 12, 2015 08:07
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I find a holstered sawn-off shotgun (or the Rivtech Short Shotgun) is a great answer for "something is next to/near me and needs to die RIGHT NOW". No skill necessary (but it helps). I've yet to have anything survive both barrels.
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Jun 12, 2015 16:23
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 I'm pretty much a STALKER protagonist at this point, aren't I? The description for the Survivor suit sounds a lot like a Sunrise or SEVA suit, afterall. Debating on replacing my Mini-14 with a proper assault rifle. Got a few .223 rifles to choose from, G36, AUG, and a H&K 416A5, whatever that is. Plus guns in other calibers, but .223 is what I've got a modest amount of ammo for. What are everyone's favorite guns? Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 18:35
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Get a shovel and you should be able to dig a lot of it out of the rubble. I think some stuff will have been destroyed though.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:02
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M.Ciaster posted:I don't really like .223 since it seems like it takes two hits to take out a turret, so I just roll with a .308 FAL instead. But if you really wanna go with .223 might as well go for broke and pack a M249 I DO have a FAL stuffed in the back, I just don't have much in the way of .308 ammo (I think the precious few rounds I do got have been slowly being used up by a Savage 111F rifle sniping turrets and stuff at long range). I suppose I should get off my rear end and learn to make ammo. Got plenty of assorted bullets I can disassemble.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:19
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Took assorted advice, now going through this lab blasting turrets, manhacks(!), zombie scientists and stranger with a FAL dressed like a STALKER character. Its nice to finally get beyond "basic survival crap + build a apocalypse car" stage. That said, its loving freezing in this lab! Is that normal, or is it because Winter is coming? I had to back out and make a thermal suit before I froze to death. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 20:47
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Are you using an old version, perhaps? Also, I think I've gone as far into the lab as I can. Even with a powered thermal undersuit, stalker armor, and a internal climate control bionic, I can't go much deep without freezing, I think. Still got plenty of loot though, who needs hacking when you have a Jackhammer in your cart.  Is there a limit to how many power storage CBMs I can cram into myself?
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Jun 12, 2015 22:49
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President Ark posted:So in my current game I've hit a wall. I've gotten pretty much all the supplies and equipment I can from residential sources and I'm currently trying to see what I can do next. I tried getting stuff from a lab but got stopped dead by the turrets in there - they nearly killed me instantly. Right now I'm driving around looking for a mall or a military outpost or something I can raid for better equipment - is there anything in particular I should be looking out for? What kind of stuff are you looking for? Guns? Armor? Tools? I'll say this though, work on getting your survival, tailoring, and fabrication skills up. Using those you can craft all sorts of useful stuff.
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Jun 13, 2015 00:06
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Well, with decent tailoring skill you can reinforce your clothing with leather and kevlar patches. Otherwise keep an eye out for wreckage and dig through it, I frequently find MBR or Kevlar vests in them you can use for body armor or cut up for Kevlar patches. Otherwise if you have a rifle with decent range (Such as a .223) and accuracy you could head to a military outpost. They'll be protected by turrets, but a decent rifle should outrange them and you can just potshot the things to bits and then loot the dead soldiers/zombie soldiers that're usually found at bases. With high survival and fabrication skills alongside tailoring you can craft Survivor armor or Nomad gear. In fact Nomad gear isn't a bad start (though you'll fry in Summer).   Needs Tailoring 5 and maybe some survival or fabrication? I'm not sure. Anyways, once you make it sturdy (which also slightly increases defenses) and add kevlar/leather reinforcement it should have 15-16ish defense, which isn't to start with. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Jun 13, 2015 00:52
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Do "pulped" corpses resurrect?
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Well, I just applied liberal amounts of molotovs to a fungal bloom after mag dumping my FAL into the spire. gently caress this fungal poo poo. I went around exterminating every Fungaloid and Fungal zombie I could find. I hope it stays dead.   Afterwards I rooted around in my parts bin and realized I had a bunch of useful gun mods I had forgotten about. My FAL is now absolutely ridiculous. I took my knife and named it Coffinmaker, 
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Jun 13, 2015 08:25
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Are you just pushing "f" to bring up the fire menu and then "f" again to fire? There are options for aiming in the fire menu. You can push "." to aim for one unit of time, "a" for a quick aim, "c" for a careful aim, and "p" for precise aiming (I think these are just predefined amount of aim) The longer you spend aiming the better your chances of hitting and it helps reduce recoil (which'll kill your accuracy if you just rapidly fire off rounds with heavier guns). There are two stat/bars in the aiming menu, Confidence and Steadiness. AFAIK Steadiness is related to recoil and effects dispersion while Confidence is a vague indicator of how likely you are to hit, the fuller the bar the better in each case.
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Jun 13, 2015 09:28
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nftyw posted:I think rifles have some kind of retarded penalty to hit unless you are standing like 2 miles from your target. With pistols and shotguns you just get up close to things and burst fire and things get hit and die. Really? I haven't noticed. I don't seem to have any trouble blowing away stuff only a few squares from me using my FAL, even with minimal aiming. Then again it has been modified to have 0 dispersion and aim sight dispersion, so maybe that is it.
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Jun 13, 2015 15:53
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I was using a Mini-14 set up as a poor man's sniper rifle for a while. It wasn't bad. Now I have my Sniper FAL though. Amazing gun so far, even with the weaker handloaded ammo. Took down a chicken walker in 3 shots.
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Jun 13, 2015 17:43
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If you're gonna go that far you might as well go cut up a car or collect a shitton of pipes and build yourself a Sandrail or something. Meanwhile I'm still puttering around in my modified Hippie van with its fuel efficient 4-cylinder engine. I've used up maybe 10-20% of two gas tanks since building the thing. By the way, how much storage space does a onboard chem lab or FOODCO Kitchen buddy have?
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Jun 13, 2015 22:20
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Why am I suddenly producing 21 sound instead of 6 whenever I walk around? Is it because I installed an enhanced hearing CBM? And is the laser pistol good? I got a UPS bionic, but the laser pistol I have/had seemed rather weak on damage.
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Jun 14, 2015 00:08
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Actually if you have nothing in your hands and you push the "f"ire button, it'll give you a list of holstered weapons to draw.
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So I was stupid an poked around a waste sarcofigi. Apparently I need an access code to get in. Just as well, while walking back to my van I suddenly realized my stats were reduced, yet nothing was listed as being wrong in the @ menu. With a rather  feeling of dread I fired up my radiation biomonitor; 147 Rads! I guess I should've realized that my Survivor Armor's 10 Enviro protect wouldn't be enough. But poo poo, I never even went in/down. Is that a lot? Is there some way to cleanse my system? I tried chugging about 10 iodine tablets but that reduced it by a whole 1 Rad. Not even chugging one of the purifier flasks I picked up in a lab helped. Maybe I should just drown myself in Vodka like a proper STALKER. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Jun 15, 2015 01:04
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Don't forget sawn off shotguns have a Burstfire mode for giving em both barrels at once! Cause some things just need to die immediately! 
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Artificer posted:Is there any point to getting a weapon's dispersion or recoil stats below 0? Yes, the ammunition often includes sizable amounts of dispersion or recoil themselves. Especially for heavier rounds.
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Jun 15, 2015 07:02
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I just drive around minefields. Unless they're on a forest road, they're pretty easy to avoid.
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Jun 15, 2015 07:39
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silentsnack posted:...you do realize you can disarm mines, right? If you have enough Perception to spot them it takes maybe 2~3 levels in Traps and some expendable helmet/goggles/armor for when the RNG feels like punching you in the dysphemism. Yeah, but I'm not gonna defuse every random minefield I drive past.
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Do either of those have food preservation? Though I guess I really don't have much in the way of perishables left. Except some aging hot dogs, which my character apparently finds completely unappealing without bread to eat it with. Dude, you can like chop that poo poo up and fry it with some eggs and potatoes, its great, or chop it up and mix it with chilli (Chillidogs sans bread!), there is so many ways to eat hot dogs besides hotdogs! brb making an expanded food mod.
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Yeah, you can just mount a water tank wherever. I think I used a 30 gallon tank from an RV for my Post Apoc Hippie Van. Also, water tanks in cars only accept clean water, so you have to purify/boil it before putting it in. Not sure about the cargo thing, but when in doubt, put a bigger engine in. That said, my Groover van weighs nearly 3 tons at 5750lbs and even with a dinky 2.85L 4-stroke it can still drive up to 69 MPH without stressing/damaging the engine, which is more than enough IMO. My K Dynamics is 58% and my K mass is 90%, whatever those mean.
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