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Especially in a long hallway, that gun has totally wrecked someone I thought was tough before. I think it can slow their approach from the flinching. I basically stopped before Noon until I had a later mechanic open. Didn't help I think my first was Purple Noon. The Scarecrow will only raise Prudence if you Insight it. Without a screenshot of it's work preferences I can't say if anything else might give solid results. Looks like good gear though.
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TeeQueue posted:I have to provide the unfortunate news that clerks are freshly rerolled every day. Zeta21 is unlikely to show up in our facility again in his current form. I call for Zeta 21 to be promoted to a full employee
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Jun 12, 2020 16:11
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Tylana posted:Especially in a long hallway, that gun has totally wrecked someone I thought was tough before. I think it can slow their approach from the flinching. I basically stopped before Noon until I had a later mechanic open. Didn't help I think my first was Purple Noon. I should cover how flinching works, but the short version is if they’re flinching you already shouldn’t be using them on green noon. Anyways-I just peeked at it and it looks like it has a straight 45% success rate in everything else, but since it deals white damage it’s best used for insight/repression. I may use this information later.
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Jun 12, 2020 16:15
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As long as the gift doesn't push an agent to 3 Prudence there is no issue in just sending an agent to work with the scarecrow for an entire day.
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Jun 12, 2020 16:16
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warhammer651 posted:I call for Zeta 21 to be promoted to a full employee I already submitted them on the google form 
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Jun 12, 2020 17:06
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Hunt11 posted:As long as the gift doesn't push an agent to 3 Prudence there is no issue in just sending an agent to work with the scarecrow for an entire day. Yeah I have a very similar anomaly that works a different stat and it's where I send all my complete newbies - send them in with a low stat and the best armor, and they end the day a complete (if monofocused) badass that's ready to be mirrored or sent to work less forgiving anomalies that train other stats. Except every now and then I click the wrong agent and off it goes rampaging through my base. That's Lobotomy Corp!
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Jun 12, 2020 17:15
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Not only did you thoroughly trounce that Noon, you also finally get Best Bird. I picked up -56 pretty early on when it popped in my game (knowing it was a hot pick up thanks to the thread) and it was absolutely the best choice of the entire play through. But seriously that Noon ordeal, and it's not even the worst because Tylana posted:my first was Purple Noon.  hits esc, presses reset day
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Jun 12, 2020 17:25
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Since it's come up a few times, I'll make it official: I've mentioned the times already (dawn/noon/dusk/midnight) and we've seen four ordeal colors (violet/crimson/amber/green), so as long as nobody goes into detail about what it is or how it attacks I am okay with mentioning the existence of things like Violet Noon. On that note: you never forget your first Violet Noon. Ever. I'm sure we'll see why before too long. warhammer651 posted:I call for Zeta 21 to be promoted to a full employee hey girl you up posted:I already submitted them on the google form I've already filmed day 12, but I'll see what I can do. 
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Jun 12, 2020 17:43
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56 is my friend and I am very sad it didn't show up post reset. Edit: Also, gently caress violet noon.
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Jun 12, 2020 17:58
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Yeah, I’d finally had a good batch of rolls with the mirror, 4s and 5s in justice across the board, and maxed out prudence on a bunch of people with my favorite insight trainer we’ve yet to see. Then BAM violet Noon. gently caress Violet Noon indeed.
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Jun 12, 2020 18:21
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TeeQueue posted:On that note: you never forget your first Violet Noon. Ever. I'm sure we'll see why before too long. I won’t forget my second, either. I misunderstood the mechanics and got fully obliterated twice.
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Jun 12, 2020 18:58
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The Process of Understanding? Who the heck names these things?
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Jun 12, 2020 19:06
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Ratoslov posted:The Process of Understanding? Who the heck names these things? Angela. Naturally the names are perfect for each ordeal, just as Angela herself is the perfect AI assistant for the facility, unlike the other Sep's NOTICE ME MANAGER SENPAI
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Jun 12, 2020 19:26
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Ratoslov posted:The Process of Understanding? Who the heck names these things? UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF LOVE *skates in on razor-edged metal wheels; sprays five clerks with sulfuric acid*
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Jun 12, 2020 19:33
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Hwurmp posted:UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF LOVE *skates in on razor-edged metal wheels; sprays five clerks with sulfuric acid* close. More like "GREAT LOVE FOR US" and suddenly All the Trumpet.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:41
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Violet Noon is great, it officially changes this game's genre from horror to comedy.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:51
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TeeQueue posted:On that note: you never forget your first Violet Noon. Ever. I'm sure we'll see why before too long. That's what made me stop playing way back when.  On the other hand, 56 finally appears! I love this thing so much, it's one of my favorites.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:52
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Ratoslov posted:The Process of Understanding? Who the heck names these things? The same disembodied entity that names Dwarf Fortress forts/Forgotten Beasts/masterworks.
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Black Robe posted:The same disembodied entity that names Dwarf Fortress forts/Forgotten Beasts/masterworks. The two games do have a lot in similar, it's true.
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Engraved on the wall is an image of an agent and a robot. The agent is in the fetal position. The agent is crying. The agent is on fire. The robot is posing triumphantly. The robot is on fire.
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TeeQueue posted:Engraved on the wall is an image of an agent and a robot. The agent is in the fetal position. The agent is crying. The agent is on fire. The robot is posing triumphantly. The robot is on fire. The fire is also screaming.
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Jun 13, 2020 01:36
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Hunt11 posted:The fire is also screaming. Agent Tylana is pulling a lever to flood the facility with lava. The lever is clearly labeled. The lever is fake. Agent Tylana is screaming. Apologies if not quite in DorfFort meter.
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Jun 13, 2020 01:38
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The lever also needs to be on fire and screaming.
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Jun 13, 2020 01:40
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Oh god Rimworld flashbacks.
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the screaming is screaming the screaming is screaming the screaming is screaming engraved on the wall is a picture of mizu the ferocious. mizu is smiling. the picture smells like jerky. Zetsubou-san fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jun 13, 2020 |
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Jun 13, 2020 03:28
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Mizu continues to get more and more ridiculous. Their untimely death will be a tragedy.
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Yeah, Violet Noon is really nasty when it gets the drop on you.
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my dad posted:Yeah, Violet Noon is really nasty when it gets the drop on you.  Also Mizu reminds me of Sam Jackson in that movie about the super intelligent sharks at this point.
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Have we seen all the Dawns yet? I don't think we've covered Violet Dawn.
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StillFullyTerrible posted:Have we seen all the Dawns yet? I don't think we've covered Violet Dawn. We have not, but it does definitely exist.
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Oh trust me, I'm familiar with Violet Ordeals. 
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StillFullyTerrible posted:Oh trust me, I'm familiar with Violet Ordeals. Yeah, but the thread ain't, so be careful with how much you say about 'em!
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Man like 5 other folks said the same thing and y'all didn't scold them
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StillFullyTerrible posted:Man like 5 other folks said the same thing and y'all didn't scold them It's your avatar. That thing could be an abnormality in itself.
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StillFullyTerrible posted:Man like 5 other folks said the same thing and y'all didn't scold them You had the most recent post on the matter, gosh
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TeeQueue posted:Since it's come up a few times, I'll make it official: So long as we're not going into mentions of what they do or look like or what have you, mentioning any of those colors/time combinations. SFT's fine under this update. e: Despite us never actually seeing a violet anything. WOW I missed that. OH WELL CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG, SOME ORDEALS ARE PURPLE. 
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Mechanics Talk 9: Emergency Level and Trumpets WARNING: Absolutely none of this mechanics update actually matters unless you really want to make your game play cool music at will. Way back in update 5 I did a little bit of talking about the warning system, by which I mean I linked this page from the in-game manual:  What I didn't mention then was how the game determines what trumpet we're on. To do this, the game uses a danger level. The level is a point scale that goes from 0 to 100. At 10+ points, a First Trumpet sounds. Once we hit 50+ points, a Second Trumpet sounds. If we get up to 80+ points on the scale, a Third Trumpet begins instead. The danger level drops by 1 every 15 seconds that pass in game, and when the level gets back below 10 the trumpet will end. Trumpets can only increase, we can't go back from a Second Trumpet to a First Trumpet. The danger level goes up in two main ways. The first is when Agents die or panic. An Agent death is worth 4 points, and a panic is worth 2. The second is when an Abnormality or Ordeal breaches or spawns. Abnormalities are worth a certain number of points, as shown on the table here:  ZAYINs have a on-breach danger of 5 points, but since they don't breach it will never matter. Whenever an Ordeal spawns or an Abnormality breaches, the danger points of that Abnormality are divided by the number of departments in the facility, and the leftover number is added to the score. For instance, right now a TETH breaking out would be worth 20/3=6.67 points, not enough to trigger a First Trumpet unless it kills someone. A HE breaking out or spawning, on the other hand, is 40/3=13.33 points, enough to kick things into a trumpet. There are a couple exceptions to this rule, and I'll cover them when they show up, but the system is actually quite simple. Since we still have time, on to a bit of trivia! There's a Fourth Trumpet within the game's code, called EmergencyLevel.CHAOS. It's not implemented and has no associated danger level, but if the code is altered to allow for it to be triggered it works just fine and plays the Third Trumpet song instead of having its own custom music. I have a screenshot of it courtesy of discord user IvoryVaimon-the first person I'm aware of to have discovered this. Here is the photo, but be warned that it is from a much later-game facility. While most of the text isn't readable, it could spoil a few Abnormality and Ordeal designs. It's believed that the Fourth Trumpet was originally supposed to be a game over state, but was never fully implemented since it wouldn't make sense given our ability to rewind time and redo a day being an explicit game mechanic. Speaking of trumpets, there are also three more mentioned in the artbook, which goes more in-depth on a variety of in-world topics.  They actually HAVE an 'oops we just caused the apocalypse' trumpet. I love this game so much. 
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Their use of the word 'trumpet' is very discomfiting. It's appropriate yes, in that it kind of brings my mind to the thought of angelic heralds trumpeting events of importance. Only these otherworldly heralds are anything but benevolent.
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But what does it sound like? Does it play a jaunty tune?
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Keldulas posted:Their use of the word 'trumpet' is very discomfiting. It's appropriate yes, in that it kind of brings my mind to the thought of angelic heralds trumpeting events of importance. Only these otherworldly heralds are anything but benevolent. I think that's on purpose. There being seven of them is probably a reference to the biblical trumpets in the book of Revelations. Black Robe posted:But what does it sound like? Does it play a jaunty tune? I assume it sounds like this.
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