Thread 718262139

Whats the best armor set/combo and why is it Maestro sets?

Two Exor pieces and Bionic Legs.

>>718262803
>Crystaline armor so I can LARP as a nerdy version of him

Why are Distribution Pads so buggy? They leave half my shit in the inventory 90% of the time

>>718263563
In the inventory or in the hotbar?

>Get to the military showing up
>Basically sneak through most of manufacturing like Solid Snake
>Occasionally sneak up and bludgeon them to death with a wrench
>The one time I fuck up near the end I notice that guns suck just as much in the enemy's hands and they're no match for my wrench or sellotaped together handmade gun that somehow shoots harder than a real one
Interesting. I also have a bunch of arms and skulls from butchering the corpses. I don't know what I expected doing that.

>>718263609
Inventory. I can have a small chest next to it with plastic scrap, have plastic scrap in my inventory, and it won't do anything

>718263632
>I also have a bunch of arms and skulls from butchering the corpses
Good. Now scrap their skulls and eat their brains for a funny little buff

Does anyone else have all their batteries in their base drain completely once in awhile?

>>718263676
did you right click and turn an inventory slot into a favourite slot? distribution pads wont pull from those slots so that you don't get reverse-looted by your own chests

>>718263907
Is it getting drained by power leeches? I run 1 battery -> plug -> battery -> station setup and its never happened to me

I only just bothered with batteries in my base and I feel like a retard for not doing it sooner. I spend very little time there though, just sleeping, cooking or refilling soup and occasionally grabbing interesting furniture to bring back there.

>>718264046
Idk are leeches hard to spot? We have a big base and sometimes the 20+ batteries we have for everything drain to nothing when other times they don't completely drain during the night

>The soldiers seem to speak in Russian or something
That's a shame, I was hoping for Half Life style ALL CAPS radio chatter.

>>718263632
You can break those down in the repair bench for bio scrap

DOES THE FAGGOT CSGO AIMBOT TURRETMAN RESPAWN AT REACTORS PLEASE GOD LET ME KNOW SO I CAN CRAFT THAT PIECE OF SHIT ITEM THAT MAKES THE ORDER SHIT HEADS ALL NOT SPAWN IN THAT ONE FUCKING BUILDING

>>718264348
It's a weird form of latin

>>718264331
Leeches will be invisible dry-humping your battery if they pop up. If you also happen to stack a bunch of batteries in a chain they will end up draining themselves up due to diminishing returns so that may be causing it too

*blocks ur grenade*

>Always throwing up in my base
>Must be all the alien meat and soups
>Realize I have a highly radioactive power cell in a fucking filing cabinet all this time
>I've been sitting around with unshielded radioactive material right next to me for hours while I wonder why I've been throwing up all over myself
FUCK. Guess a shielded crate is my next priority. At least I threw up all over the Coworker, so that was funny.

>>718264398
Answer seems to be no he don't

>>718264775
Your character may as well be a fallout ghoul at that point

>>718263995
No, it just ignores chests at random, if I move these to another chest it works, (also this is a multi item chest but usually my chests only have 1 item each and those break too)

Speaking of throwing up, I actually managed to get sick from being dirty. My guys did nothing but projectile vomit over and over for half the trip home to wash myself.

>>718264775
Kek, you need to be a better scientist anon

>>718265061
Weird. I've been dirty for hours and hours straight and never got sick. I just thought it was a cosmetic thing despite the description.

Is it possible to produce energy with just pest wheels and no power outlets?

>>718265446
Yes

>>718264965
the pads have a distance limit, maybe the chest is slightly out of range?

the coworker has gotten too high brow for my pest steaks and drum sticks.

>>718264965
it's range, they only work with chests within a certain radius of the distribution pad

>>718265595
i only ever give him soda from the robot I autofarm with traps.
coworker shall grow larger

>>718265575
Oh sounds right, all the items that never work for me are in the further chests, the wiki said it has a bigger range than the crafting bench transportation upgrade, but I suppose it's wrong or outdated

>>718264801
Thank god

>>718264775
Nigga you're one of those poor spic kids who dug up radioactive glowing shit and thought it was a magical fucking bean and died

>The first time I killed bots I kited them with the pen crossbow
>Shit. I need another core
>Try setting up a chopinator and luring one to it this time
>Despite assuming it would do fuck all, it killed the thing quickly and easily
Huh. I just thought it would do nothing against a big hunk of metal but it seems my scientist made some damn sharp blades.

>>718263563
Just stand on them a bit longer, sometimes it takes a couple of seconds for that last item to get zapped away.

>>718263228
>Got so used to the joys of invisibility during the Security Sector that I don't want to switch to better armor

>>718266404
chopinator is gud for early game before you get better defenses

I read somewhere that armour rating doesn't actually matter that much and that you should use whatever you like the set bonus of the most, is that true?

So do I get some better swimming gear than those goggles or am I out of luck with the hydroplant pool

>>718266718
yeah you need a whole ass suit, look around some more.

>Love my throwing weapons
>Unlock acid darts
>"Oh fuck yeah, I bet this is going to great against GKs later-"
>Recipe includes magnetic alloys
I guess it is going to be harder than gluing pens to a sharp metal bit. Any way to farm those aside from doing a night realm run to trade with Warren?

>>718266718
There is a diving suit prop that you need to examine, like you did with x-ray turret and pest teleporter.

>>718266906
I thought you got it from one of the NPCs on a roof

>>718266718
there's a diving suit that goes with it, you unlock it by talking to an NPC in the apartments at Hydroplant according to the wiki

What does the impact hammer do better than other heavy weapons? The damage is pretty poor. Says it attacks twice but I don't see that.

>>718267569
is that the one that needs ammo? I havent done heavy weapons yet

>>718267657
You are thinking of explosive sledge.
>>718267569
The impact hammer does extra damage to enemies below 50% health.

>>718267657
no thats the explosivo one iirc
the impact hammie says that it does like additional damage to weak enemies or some shit

>>718263563
it's less 'buggy' and more 'laggy'
i suspect the way they're coded is extremely inefficient, probably running a check through each individual slot in every container within the radius against each item in your inventory

>>718267726
>The impact hammer does extra damage to enemies below 50% health.
Thanks, not very useful then. Guess I'm keeping the carbon pickaxe for now.

>>718266534
Don't need to if they never see you B)
It can also be upgraded later

>>718268339
even that would take 0.1 seconds on an offline game

The quantum pick is so good

>>718266718
Does that thing even attack you? I swam all the way out to the portal tower without seeing it, then when I was collecting murkweed later I saw the tentacles nearby but it was swimming away from me.

Posting my base because i felt like. Feel free to post yours.

Containment Tram is really a slept on location:
> bit far from lobby but there's the (slowish) tram and at this point you should have unlocked the TP
> but once you unlock the spillways you are 30s away from anywhere in lab/hydroplant/power service/reactors/multiple portal worlds
> big area with two levels that's fun to decorate
> snacks/soda vending machines
> four rooms that connect to it if you wish to expand
> the turrets will destroy any enemy that comes near until the gatekeepers raids , though it's also arguably a downside if you like defending your base

I also considered settling in the manufacturing anteverse pool but the uneven walls seem to be a hassle to deal with. Still I think i'll challenge myself to build there in a future run.

>>718269215
Yeah, we've all seen it. You really don't need to post it in every thread.

>>718269151
The darkwater beast can instantly kill you but is so slow and the aggro range so small it rarely happens.

>>718269151
yeah if it gets close it'll aggro you, but given the size of the reservoir it's actually kinda hard to encounter it

>>718269215
Ill need to move by base entirely if I want to pretty it up. I've run out of space.

i dont have much of a base yet
i took over the security office and all i have is some benches, cabinets, cooking and i just started farming wheat to make syringes.

Security Sector
I got on Canaan and cleared the whole place but can't find the Lodestone Fragment. Where is it??

Stupid fucking clanker get owned lmao

>>718269423
break the lodestone the lady gave you on the anvil in canaan or any repair station you have set up

Not sure that i like the laser pistol upgrade that much. I find it runs out of charge way too fast, whereas the regular electric battery one is passively charged by my trinket.

>>718269489
I didn't get anything of the sort.
I killed a boss in a church on top of a hill, went through a mine, and back the starting area

>>718269578
You can still wind it to charge it. It's really meant to be a backup sidearm to finish a fight once your Deatomizer runs out of juice.

>>718269616
theres a broken bridge after the mine, jumping over gets you to a swamp. shes in there

>>718269616
Go find the watermill with the buckets going up a cliff face. You can interact with the buckets to ride them. Go up the cliff face that way and turn right, go across the broken bridge.

>>718269684
omg, this is the first i learned that I can charge it that way :P

I'm coolest itt for fishing every single fish

>>718269432
>seeing enemy health
wat
fuck does that, a skill perk?

>>718269578
It does triple the damage of the energy pistol, it's super worth it. Use your downtime between combats to recharge when you're not sprinting.

>>718269847
mod i think

>>718269215
I set up in this little area up the ladder in offices. Enemies can't get in, there's a decent amount of room, and even windows to look out of. Tram hub is less than a minute's jog away.

>>718262139 (OP)
Radiation armor with tons of pills to pop.

Just stand near a food freezer until you are irradiated enough and pop a pill.

>>718269215
I'm just set up in the security room on floor 2 of the offices. I hope I find something better.

>>718266113
Mandatory reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
My dream TV show is a Chernobyl-style series of this event, but it's all slapstick

>>718265575
>>718265648
There's still a couple little things that bug me about this game, one is that things like the distribution pad and the automatic water thing don't show their radius.

>>718270031
Yeah, it was my second run so I had the foresight to quickly build a temporary base until I found a spot I really liked

>>718270031
I really like that spot but it's way too small for my liking. How do you even have so few crates ?

>Gives you copious amounts of ammo for cheap
I honestly wish some NPCs like grayson had a trading stand or a housing system like Terraria

>>718266580
The armour rating is pretty much meaningless, because the damage reduction depends on where you have been hit. If an attack hits your arms, and your arms are unprotected, you take full dmg, even if you have like 60+ armour rating collectively from all other body parts. And you arms get hit most often, because enemies aim for center of your body, and your arms, being in front of you, almost always get in the way. This is also why unupgraded military weapons are so ass. To use them you need biometric arm-bullshit, which take up your arm slot and give no armor, but your arms are the most important part of your body to protect.

Where do you guys store all your radioactive barrels

>>718271321
up my ass

>>718271321
up his ass

>>718271084
The game would be a lot better if it borrowed things from Terraria. Make all the NPCs you meet people you can house and trade with instead of so many of them being one-off exposition devices, and make fishing have better and better fishing rods and baits with more "fishing power" that makes you catch fish faster, be able to fish up boxes of materials that gives you the materials of an area so you don't always have to wait for portal world resets, and make the Canaan dude an Angler NPC that gives you quests each day to get a very good quality of life item.

>>718271063
Two mediums covers one stack of every crafting material I've needed so far. The four small crates are for food, armour, weapons, and medicine respectively. I've got stack sizes bumped up a little, but I could always break down those desks in the work room if I needed more crate space.

This place was really nice for early game after I got bullied out of my first base by a robot, but I might move somewhere more scenic when I can afford a portal network.

>>718271084
It kind of adds weirdness to the game when you find them in weird places though. Grayson decided for no particular reason to show up in Canaan when I was about to break the lodestone.

>>718271321
Up their asses.

>>718262139 (OP)
So what is this, a general here now?

>>718271084
only a single 5.56 round for magnetic alloy? That's stupid. The others are fine, but this is bullshit.

>>718271917
There were two threads on /vg/ but they died at 10/20 replies.

>>718271917
Newish games don't need to go to /vg/ retard.

>>718271445
>>718271756
>>718271864
don't do that. you might die

>>718272065
Fine, up your ass it is.

>>718271983
I wonder how hard it would be to mod the traders in this game to adjust their trade values. The 5.56 trade is fucked but it would be a good deal if you got like 15 bullets for 1 alloy.

>>718271917
What are Donkey Kong Bananza threads?

>>718271861
>>718271084
Apparently they're on your map, too.

>>718271917
dw gacha fag, your "games" will have all the discussion you can stomach long after this game's been forgotten

Are there any other survival games with base building like this, where you repurpose and decorate a prefab location instead of having to actually build your base from scratch? I hate that shit and I'm really bad at it, but I enjoy decorating, reinforcing and filling in existing areas a lot. Only one I can think of off the top of my head is zomboid.

>People posting nice bases
>All I did was this so far.

>>718273184
>Let me guess, you need more?

>>718273184
>Do you really need more?

Do you eventually get power generation of some kind? I hate having to rely on plug sockets.

Fuck you all, I'm going to live in the bathroom.

>>718273562
Pest wheel.
Tame a pest after trapping and herd it towards the wheel. Feed it nachos.

>>718273562
Yes. It isn't very good.

Is there a limit to how many things that can be connected to a single plug socket? The multi plug adaptor you can make implies you can chain them together and make monstrosities.

Why do people stay in the canteen? The main area has no plug sockets.

>>718271445
>>718271756
>>718271864

>>718271917
>a thread about vidya? on MY /v/?!
>don't these degenerates know that /v/ is for Pauline feet threads and rage bait twitter screenshot posts?
>why haven't the mods moved this to /vg/ yet I just can't believe it

>>718273951
No limit

>>718273951
no limit as far as i've seen

>trees change to night realm trees
ah yes, more fuckenings thanks to us

>>718273562
Yes and no. You can have unlimited power with a laser power converter, but the laser emiter itself need a separate source of power which will most likely be a battery plugged to an outlet. Which isn't a big restriction at all.

>>718274036
I'm guessing they chain a ton of multiplugs together along the walls.

Does the honey accumulate in the beehives, or do you have to harvest it each time you can for more to build up?

I can't believe I got memed by you faggots into making the jetpack. The jump pack was so much better for anything that isn't going vertically straight up, man.

>>718275458
they're both handy desu but real scientists MAKE BRIDGES

Can enemies destroy the cord extensions?

Want to make some remote bases that have no plugs nearby.

>>718269824
I finished the entire game and never caught a fish

>>718275673
They can break anything you place, aside from shockpads for some reason. Just put a couple of shock pads around them if you're really worried. It'll stun them and alert you every time one gets stepped on.

>>718275615
>make bridges everywhere I go
>cheese shit constantly thanks to "ramp to give angle + spam bridges + backwards ramp with a jump pad on top of it"
>all fun goes away the second a bridge can't reach its legs down more than two feet for some reason or it arbitrarily decides you can't place shit somewhere
gay as fuck desu

>Cable reroute
>You can make this as long as you want
FUCK. I had no idea I could do this, the canteen felt like a bad base location due to the cables being miles away, now it doesn't matter.

>>718273951
daisy-chaining plugs seems mostly fine, it's when you introduce batteries the game will spazz out for some reason and just randomly not power shit

hmmm today i will mod the skink to do a trillion damage

>>718276235
>it's when you introduce batteries the game will spazz out for some reason and just randomly not power shit
It's not random, it's that batteries charge is consumed twice for devices connected to batteries. Makeshift Battery holds 50 power so it can power a single device for 250 seconds. If you have Battery #1 > Battery #2 > Device, the first battery is consumed twice as fast as both devices are considered connected to it, so the total charge power Device gets is 75, and it only gets worse as you chain more batteries.

>>718271917
Board culture, chud

>>718276583
So having multiple batteries is a bad idea?

>>718269824
Did you use mods? If you did, you didn't fish the fish.

>>718276958
just use splitters and hook one battery per item you want powered, multiple does nothing but drain them all faster when hooked up to a single appliance

This is Doctor Derek Manse, Research director at Cascade. A member of the janitorial staff was caught deleting sensitive information on our local network. Our first guess was, of course, sabotage, but we have no records from accounting of this man ever receiving a paycheck. Indeed, the very concept of payment seems to confuse him during interrogation. Even more peculiar, he refuses to, or can't, eat any food offered to him... Except for chicken nuggets and Hot Pockets. I'm sure the idea of free staff is tantalizing to GATE, but until we know more about this "Janitor," I have no choice but to recommend IS containment.

>>718276958
I've just been following this guide and it's worked for my group so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4A-7NKYaa0

>>718276958
Yes, having them in parallel is generally better.
>Outlet > Battery 1 > Battery 2 > Plug Strip > 2x[Device]
Lasts 208 seconds

>Outlet > Plug Strip > 2x[Battery > Device]
Lasts 250 seconds.

However nights last 270 seconds.

>>718277180
Oh, Ive been doing
>Outlet > Battery 1 > Plug Strip > Battery 2 > Device

>>718277360
This is also what I do, with the "root" Battery 1 being the biggest I can make (Industrial) to cover up for the 20 seconds, and each device being connected to a cheap Makeshift Battery.
There's more efficient solutions with setups to connect multiple devices to fewer batteries but I'm swimming in materials for these

delightful

>Leyak starts screaming for the first time
I gotta find parts for that xray gun fast

>>718278015
Go smooch your new wife.

So I noticed that items disappear if I leave them on the floor am I supposed to store them on a random cabinet or something?

>>718262139 (OP)
How do you get the armor to look like that?

>>718278076
Yes, they do disappear if you randomly drop them and they need to be stored.

>>718278108
it's kinda annoying to make, you need drops from the boney enemies (not the giants) from flathill and only 1 spawns per world reset
they also spawn in the GATE facility during fog weather events, but early game its hard to craft

>>718277139
It's not nearly as funny when you post it in every thread.

>>718278108
>>718278251
Its also the upgraded version that you can get once you hit security, offering 68 defense. Its well worth it if you want to pair it with jump pack and gravity cube since its one of the lightest armors in the game and gives you a mobility + jump height buff

>>718278251
>they also spawn in the GATE facility during fog weather events
lol i ran away when i saw one, figured it was instant death like the big ones where you get the message "some things should be avoided at all costs"

>>718278915
Nah, you can kill the smaller ones
I recommend tripwire traps and a lot of screws

>>718278915
you can kill them but they have a lot of HP and an annoying grab move if you get too close

just got to reactors, what am I in for?

why do you need a bathroom to shit?

>>718279040
Being yeeted

>>718279167
You don't

>Canaan outhouse is a modern one
Uhh
What?

:3 i love my pet guns

>>718279337
>antil soul gas

>>718262139 (OP)
I fucking goddamn hate the walking box

>>718279725
dont hate him he just wants to be your friend and make sure you dont miss anything

>>718279725
Put incredibly radioactive things inside of it and it will kills mobs around it.

>>718266534
it's straight up OP

>>718276583
>it's not random
huh, I figured it was, since some nights Leyak gets out of his cuck cage from power and some nights he doesn't; it ain't the red meter either, so I dunno what's causing the weird discrepancy

>>718279725
he's cute in a pug way but he annoys the fuck out of me when he gets into the room I use as a kitchen in my base and blocks my door so I have to jumproll past him. Also he once got me killed by some gatekeepers because he wouldn't fucking move when I was getting chased by a tech priest

>>718279725
I want to give him pets :(

You guys don't know how hard I laughed when I heard tengku's voice

>finished flathill
>go in again to grab some stuff to make more darts, etc.
>just then i noticed there was a suit in the back of the truck at start that blocks all radiation
and that's why i'm a retarded summer intern and not a scientist.

>mfw A&L Mega Stew + Bionic Legs
Now we're fucking schmoving

am i missing something or is there a more reasonable early/mid game way to collect (clean) water for farming? i'm barely keeping up with the needs of a single medium crop plot boiling pots of water back to back. i could just run through my entire reserve of water coolers but that feels.. unintentional?

>>718266854
You can farm the reaper for night essences, he only drops one like every couple minutes though.
Used to only drop them when you flashed him with the x ray lamp, but I think now he drops them any time you "kill" him.

>>718280867
>early game
no. be disciplined with your water. you can get through all of offices and manufacturing west without bothering with farming at all
alternatively
collect water coolers
ALTERNATIVELY
btw im pretty sure you can fill garden plots with tainted water and they dont care

>mid game
water filter. need refined carbon from the labs, which is after manufacturing west
build it, fill it from any water source including tainted and bam, its pure 10,000 units of it

>>718280867
You get a water purifier by the 3rd sector, before that your best bet is to grab a barrel in the 2nd sector and grab a fuckload of tainted water to boil and store your water coolers

>>718280867
Boil tainted water.

>>718281065
>btw im pretty sure you can fill garden plots with tainted water and they dont care
wait wtf really that would solve the entire problem because i could just load up a full forklift of tainted water coolers. i just wanted a lot of anteverse wheat for trading into the quantum exchangers. i don't need any for drinking because i took Lead Belly

>>718280553
>not just free ballin it

if i package an arcade machine and take it home, can you turn it off like televisions? otherwise i feel like the noise would get annoying

>>718281337
Works exactly the same. Also nice 1337 get.

>>718269215
Just here at power services, nothing too crazy. Probably not going to change anything from this point.

>>718281238
They need clean water
Antejuice doesn't work either

>>718281406
Also wanted to have a go at making a comfy swamp base. Everything is mostly just decoration for now.

>>718281415
bummer. knew it was too good to be true. guess i have to wait until the 3rd zone like another anon said because boiling is way too slow.

>>718281406
Looks boring as fuck. It's easy to take an already nice space and just decorate it, but a real scientist takes a dangerous shithole and makes it a well-engineered bastion of SCIENCE.

>>718281485
Those both look really nice. I gave up on decorating my Furniture Store penthouse because I'm planning on starting a new playthrough after this plus it's so fucking big that the amount of work it will take to decorate isn't something I'm gonna want to do twice.
Ultimately I want to have a cozy base in every sector/anteverse with one of them (probably Furniture Store) being the megabase where all the crafting happens.

My placec is an extrmely cramped little shithole lmfao. I sleep next to 2 beehives

>>718281836
those are the best kinds of bases desu

>>718281836
show us faget

>>718280553
Not just that, there's a whole bunch of hazmat suits scattered around.
Most notably, there's one in the radiation protection changing room on the way into flathill. You know, right before the portal room. The room that's filled with radiation.

I legit lost all interest in playing after Shadowgate, god damn it's just a slog now
>Go craft an unknown amount of special nades and go fight extreme bullet sponges, bro

>>718283052
spamming mugnades and electric nades is a cheap and easy option anon

>finally able to build an x-ray turret
>drop one at base entrance
>go inside for a minute to load up on supplies
>find leyak essence on the floor outside

>>718283216
>spamming mugnades
It would be if you could keep shidding without having to get up to slow the shits for the fertilizers while chugging mugs
I also already used like 40 of the mugnades I made in reactors

>>718283357
>Actually labelling shit
>Actually crafting all your chests instead of using a billion filing cabinets and order boxes
Homo
You will always stay a nerd

>>718280867
Just around the office sector and manufacturing there's probably at least 50000ml of clean water from coolers. Don't be shy with them, pulling from coolers to water plots, make soups and fill thirst won't go astray, then just boil the odd bit of tainted water it you feel the need to top up.

>>718283052
anyone who thinks the enemies in late game are damage sponges is either:
A. retarded
B. deliberately lying
C. using a low tier weapon when they should use better shit (see point A)
D. not thinking like a scientist who doesnt need and shouldnt fight fair

>>718283560
You can easily nuke a few but by shadowgate you get a dozen shielded faggots at the same time in a room, you have to be a boring faggot to just mass produce deatomizers and use nothing else

>>718283416
>You will always stay a nerd
We're scientists, we're ALL nerds.

>>718283357
>>718283416
bro is an actual science man. fucking NERD

>>718283685
I USED to be one, but now I am a cool main character like all my sentais

>>718283226
Hearing those things go off will never get old. At this point they're just spawn camping the spaghetti monster through the walls whenever I'm chilling by my crafting bench.

but do you have a dr. manse holo in your base?

>>718283873
I have Abe and J*net bobbleheads that spout funny lines when I touch them instead

What did the witches mean by this crap

>>718284078
#justgirlthings

>>718284078
she wants to fuck krampus

>>718284078
am I dumb, this whole time i thought a random exor footsoldier had been living back there in hiding but I just now realize there's no lore note in the game that mentions this and I have zero idea where I got that idea but I've been maintaining it in my head as fact for months

Why is it standing like that?

>>718284305
he eepy

>>718284305
sleepin

>gale reactor
no way this fucking game wants me to make a long ass bridge

>>718284404
your jump pack and grav cube bro?

>>718284404
It's the only way to do it. Some folks talk about jump packs and jetpacks, but nope, gotta build that bridge.

>>718284426
yeah but... my glitchpack... i could fit like 6 more bridges with all this inventory space

>>718284404
hardlight bridge bro

>>718284467
SIGH
SOMEONES GOTTA DO IT

>>718284404
chads build bridges
losers use a jetpack and gravity cube

>>718285442
"chads" should be playing Death Stranding if they want to infrastructuremax.

>>718285442
>>718285910
>>718284530
>>718284467
it was worth it

>>718286060
same route i took bridgebro

>>718286115
hell yeah

>>718285910
i like the construction solutions to problems though, stuff like neutralising the radiation in hydroplant tower, solving the laser puzzle or in this case getting to the reactor
its more fun than just having the right item in your inventory

>do my first run with coward perk as a lab assistant just to run fast, thinking it would be funny
>also got sneaky to lv6
>locked myself with only lv5 combat skill for being a coward
>sneak hardly level up when i crouch near enemies, still lv6 after 15hrs of games
how fucked am i?

>>718286261
just google sneak farm abiotic and max it in twenty minutes

>>718269423
>>718269489
The swamp creatures also drop them

>>718286261
You get more sneak exp for actually hitting enemies. At Canaan I finally started sneaking and got a pretty good boost. Once you get the deatomizer you can get free exp here and there whenever you surprise a bot without having to specifically grind the skill.

I stopped sneaking when I realized I could one shot almost anything with sprint melee to the face.

>>718287196
ironically you still get chunks of sneak exp if your sneak is high enough and they're unaware

Cloud reactor sucks man. The staggering amounts of ammo I am going through just to make progress through a room.

>>718280867
Drink sodas, save clean water just for plants. Nab every water cooler you see, or at least keep an empty water bottle/canteen on you to top up with sink/cooler water every time you find one.

>>718287460
its why i use the atomizer, the amount of damage you need against the new enemies eats through your supplies

>>718287460
skill issue. remove shields before consuming ammo

>>718286656
what the fuck. Skill progression and perks are one of my biggest issues with this game.So much stuff that would only be useful early-to-mid game is only available later tier.

>>718288528
increase exp modifier to make it more bearable

Does the Sensory Companion make me immune to the Leyak? I can safely go afk with it equipped?

>>718288703
the eyeball trinket? yep

>>718288528
you're a weak science nerd at the start of the game

>>718288703
sort of
the leyak will act like you're staring directly at it at all times with it equipped
but if you round a corner and bump right into it, it'll still go hostile from close proximity before disappearing. similarly, if you stand next to a corner and the leyak just happens to come around that corner and be within proximity, itll go hostile

>>718288249
>spend ammo to remove shields before spending ammo
genius IQ play

>>718288929
I just want to wear it while I'm crafting or reading the journal or just waiting around for plants to grow.

>>718288528
Kill a man and eat his brain

>>718289138
then as long as you arent near any abrupt corners you should be fine

>>718280867
It might be dumb, but I brought water from Flat Hills back. It resets all the time, and the sinks are plentiful.
The more agricultural skill you have the less water plants drink.

>>718289092
Yes, that's your logic. There are ways to remove shields without spending ammo.

when you grow wheat the plant regrows over and over. if i dont water it does the plant totally die and i have to start over from dirt or does the plant stay and just not grow more wheat?

>mfw hearing manse freaking the fuck out about not cahn
man i wonder what he said, guess i'll figure out eventually

What's the most goated blunt weapon? I've gotten the explosive sledge, pneumatic hammer, just upgraded the fire hammer to drop "holy" fire. Not really sure what the funnest way to go is.

>>718268339
What would be more efficient?
I guess you could have a dictionary of itemId's paired with bools(which would be toggled true/false if present in a container), that way you don't need to check the container except for when it knows it contains a given item?

>>718289816
If its fully grown & harvestable it doesn't consume any water but if you harvest it and its regrowing without any water it will die and you have to start over again

>>718289897
None actually, I ditch all form of melee other than carbon pickaxe and laser katana. That so call "holy" fire did more damage to myself than the enemy. Deatomizer and laser pistol do well in late game assume that you always carry a spare laser charger in your inventory, you can just drop it and charge doesn't even need to screwdriver it.

>>718289897
blunt doesn't have one on the level of sharp

>>718278067
God I hope the person who drew this does NSFW and takes commissions.

>>718289816
>>718290118
Yeah, this is a really nice feature so you don't have to babysit plants and be a full-time gardener. Only keep an eye on water when you're planting a new seed or after harvesting your plant.
Also, built the biggest garden available, because they have greater water reservoirs available to every plant in it.

>>718289897
While it lacks the damage of two handed weapons, the ramrod has been on my hotbar ever since I could make it. I still go in swinging with my hardlight saber, but the mace is good to have as well since I get the versatility of sprint attacks and defense of a shield if need be (I find it tends to hit better than two handed sprint attacks also).

>>718290948
I just made that one, funny knocking enemies around with it

aw man, i opened manufacturing west and now i have to use a gun. the fun makeshift office supply weapons honeymoon phase is over.

this poor scientist seems to have locked himself in a cell by mistake. i'll just let him out.

>>718291882
Thanks kind anon. The door seemed to close in on itself

>>718281629
I will only give my (You) to whoever can make a nice looking base in that shithole known as the Mycofields

>>718292062
I don't think that's possible. doesn't it have 1 fucking outlet and it's at a little station that got trashed

>>718281485
Do those blue plants need to be watered? I found seeds for them and they do look neat but upkeep is ass if im at my FOB with a single barrel of water

>>718292151
none of the potted plants/lights that you can place need to be watered

>>718292062
is that the portal at the top of the elevator shaft in the labs with all of the golden mushrooms? i haven't entered it yet but i might take up your challenge.

>>718283707
>t. Defense Analyst

>>718292086
true, but it will be all the more impressive
>>718292401
for Gods sake bring slushies. It is not the 5 minute "I can ignore this status effect" romp you think it is

>>718283416
You will always stay brown

Ok, so I'm toying with the idea of doing a night only run (as awful as it sounds), and I'm guessing there's no real means of transporting pets (for pest power), you have to make them follow you from point A to B? That's going to make it a bitch setting up base literally anywhere in the game. Not even sure how I'd reliably cook up food yet.

How do you farm metal scrap and/or screws? I'm building my cubicle base and I'm struggling.

What's up with this?

>>718293081
Trade security bot CPU's for anvils with the blacksmith. Each anvil salvage gives 20 metal scrap.

>>718293117
Nothing. It never opens, you can't get behind there, it's just to spook you looking through the window.

>>718292737
you might be fucked until you get pest teleporter because of that transportation limitation

I'm a big fan of how Flathill creatures look. They have a similar aesthetic body horror to them that white Phyrexians do.

>>718293630
It seems I need a powered bench to craft the pest wheels anyway (bit of an oversight imo), so looks like the only real option is to leave it on default until I get a few of those set up.

can you move bodies??? when the soldiers die their dropped items get obscured

>>718294360
do the outlets inside portals turn off at night? I would imagine they dont

>>718293331
Lame, especially because it's probably the source of the bullshit in Flathill.

>>718294413
you can butcher them.

>>718294458
oh, ok. i didn't see the knife icon appear for that.

>>718294443
They do turn off unfortunately.

>the leyak doesn't have directional subtitles anymore
FUG :DDDDDDD
I HATE IT

>>718294443
>do the outlets inside portals turn off at night?
Yes, I got cockblocked more than once due to outlets being powered off despite the portal world being in broad daylight.

>>718294626
>>718294608
well shit

>>718292737
You can charge batteries on charging pads

>>718294739
>>718294360
So my friend and I were considering it, but for your own sanity, I would recommend at least 1 in game day of power before you shut it off permanently so you can make a makeshift battery

>>718294030
they kinda reminded me of some of the demons from that hellboy scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVeQKzqE_fY

do spawns get a little fucky when hopping through portals for anyone else? had the moving box, coworker, AND the leyak spawn inside my base behind my doors and defenses after portaling back home from the A23. three jumpscares back to back because they've always been securely stuck outside due to workbench spawn blocking

>>718294626
>Be running around in The Order's base
>Nighttime rolls by
>All their power outlets shut off

Someone asked on a previous thread but it died before they got an answer:
The KIZZ soda can roll up to 2 buffs from a list of 6 If it fails to roll any buffs, it instead give you either Stinky or Toilet Emergency.
That thing just goes through you and you leave a large skid mark in your underwear.
If you hit the vending machine, it gives you a soda which either make you shit yourself or outright kills you.

j-just feet left :(

>>718295129
hasta la vista

>wind up in the pool room
>Very quiet, just distant heavy footsteps for a while
>"Hey, you got any food?"

>>718295129
If it's any consolation, he still worked for the Order cause, he would have probably tried to off you once you were no longer useful, you're still considered a threat to them.

time to hunt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpnW68Q8ltc

I've been upgrading my kitchen. I'll need to explore my options in A-23 further directions.

>>718295123
Thank you, I'm the one who asked.

>>718295213
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY

>>718295213
>flips over and starts chasing you like this:
WWYD?

>>718295487
Honestly, that'd be a funny fuck you to the player, if you don't feed him for too long, he turns hostile and just bolt on all four directly at you.

>all those npcs that just disappear, can't even be found dead
damn

>>718295487
Feed him, obviously. The man's starving.

>>718295487
>You didn't pour coffee in my coffee hole, so now I'm gonna ram yours.

This was a cool little effect.

Is there a helmet for the Hex set? I want the full bonus.

This was less cool.

>>718295953
Yeah, there's a tree in the middle of the swamp you can investigate.

I’m scared. I’m getting close to the end of the game. ILL HAVE NOTHING TO PLAY AFTER THIS

>>718296107
Same. I don't want this to end.

>>718263676
Stack size limits most probably.

>>718294739
Oh yeah, I intend to make use of chargers and batteries. Crystalline vial will be essential there. I'm also starting to realise pest wheels might not be the permanent solution I was hoping for since they want constant food. Seems like personal teleporters will be out of the question for the most part since batteries will need regular switching over at workbenches.

This is just sounding like more of a headache.

>>718295123
Bad soda is an IS designation

>>718286060
How do you get him? By using net thrower?

>>718293220
Killing the bots themselves gives 14, if you cut up the corpse and drink the soda. 15 if you don't care about the rootbeer trade for pea soup.

>>718296972
Pest trap.

ummm guys I just enhanced the energy pistol and now I cant recharge it?
im fucked arent i?

>>718297413
You still can VZHHH VZHHH it.

>>718297413
Shinji, crank that shit

>>718297413
You need a laser collector to reload laser weapons.
But the laser pistol can be reloaded by pressing the reload key, takes like 5 seconds of cranking for 1 shot tho, so start cranking it.

>>718297507
>>718297527
YOOOOOOOOOU

>>718294030
I wish Flathill was a bigger part of the game... maybe with some even bigger giants for extra pants-shitting.

>>718297571
https://youtu.be/SSQIx0cfaHQ

>>718297685
I don't entirely understand Flathill's timeline. Were the residents of the town coexisting with the entities?

I sure wonder what's in here.

>>718262139 (OP)
Crystalline set is completely overpowered, so that. There's a trick with it that makes you completely invisible all the time.

>>718298235
>IS-0151
>THELA: Extreme Risk
>Extreme Hazard
>Harnessable Energy
>Attentive/Responsive
>Invincible
Now I wanna open it.

>>718298396
Where do you read what those symbols mean?

>>718298119
No
Basically it goes like this
>Gate notices Flathill is prime conditions to open the portal
>gate takes over the corn syrup factory so they can harness the electrical infetterence
>gate opens portal
>whoops the fog is here
>

>>718298396
>symbols has been compromised

>>718298427
one of the emails, i think
its also on the wiki
https://abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Immurement_Registry

>>718298235
you're not authorized to know and it's better you don't

>>718298440
They didn't take over the corn facility. It was always a gate facility masquerading as a corn production plant

>>718298119
>GATE found a great geomagnetical location in South Dakota to try portal experiment, unfortunately it's on top of the town of Flathill
>build an undercover facility with "Flathill Syrup Co." as a front and start working on opening a portal to another anteverse
>one of the local schizo gets too curious and get off'd by Gatekeepers
>a portal to Anteverse 1 is successfully open
>it causes the fog to flood in on the town and Composers start popping up, killing everyone in sight
>the city get evacuated
>GATE worked on suppressing the portal to stop the flood
>the Order raid GATE facilities and successfully get into Flathill, killing everyone working in the Flathill facility
>some retard yank the power cells from the portal suppressors to power up a fucking forklift

>>718298235
A futa demon with infinite cums.

>>718298851
That local schizo didn't get offed by GKs. That's Marion. They determined he wasn't a problem.

>>718298917
>we must call the Gapekeepers to contain it!

>>718299482
Witches got a problem.

>>718299464
No, there's 2 schizos, there's Marion, the "useful idiot", and Daniel Fawcett, the guy who was trying to investigate the GATE facility. The latter was eliminated by Gatekeepers.

>>718299667
Yeah, in the top level of the syrup factory the email terminal says that they needed "cleaners"
basically glowie speak for "we killed this guy and now we have to take care of the mess"

>>718293630
What's even the point of the pest teleporter? It's not like pests are hard to find.

>>718300425
You want to load a pest wheel but the area you're in doesn't have pest spawn.
That's about it.

>>718300425
Setting up a base in the shit universe

Huh.

>>718300741
This game needs a skateboard/hoverboard and the ability to ragdoll.

>>718301003
>ragdoll
No, that's Source, they are saving that up for AF2.

>>718281065
Wait, if you move water coolers they still respawn water? There are so many little things I miss or don't even think of in this game.

>>718301878
No, only sinks respawn water.
But water coolers are very handy early on because they can be moved with water inside of them.

finally moved out of my horrifying depression mess in the office, no more box or construction worker blocking the way 24/7

>>718303504
>no more box or construction worker blocking the way 24/7
won't they just spawn at your new place? grayson spawns at repair benches and the box just spawns near you like the leyak. wish i never bandaged grayson lol.

>>718303504
this is the second time now ive seen a cube in a hotbar instead of equiped. whats up with that, just a odd coincidence?

>>718266718
the goggles to me seem pretty useless. get the diving suit and keep the headlamp

>>718304053
It's really handy in the hotbar since it's only active when in your hand, so you've a lot of control of when you want to have normal or lower gravity.

>>718304053
Gravity cube doesn't need to be turned into a trinket to work, the effect also applies to the cube itself when being held.

>>718283357
how do you label containers?

>>718304048
yes, but i was in that small room in offices, the one that's next to the hanging electrical cable. they would straight-up block me.

>>718304265
Open the container, it's on top of the container window.

>>718304383
here i was trying to interact it with them while holding pens

>>718304265
Opne up a container. Look a the name of the container.
Next to the name there is this symbol. Click it.
In most things this kind of symbol indicates you can edit things, as it looks like a pen and paper.

>>718304228
>>718304241
>285 hours and didnt realize this cause i never gave it the chance before trinketing it
>the manse recording for it was not just about it but a recommended way of using it.
im going though the amnesia threshold, i aint smart enough to be a real scientist class like Gastrologist

We may have gone too far in some places.

>>718304568
Oh I've also put in a few hundred hours and didn't even know until recently in these threads. Once I picked the cube up I didn't think to use it since you get the trinket recipe, so I made the assumption that was its only use. You can always trade another cube from Marion though.

>>718304763
im glad they added trades like that, always felt bad i had it but my friends couldnt

>>718304053
It helps free up a useful trinket slot, as someone who uses the maestro set i use the fog lantern + charging crystal and i hold the cube in hand when i go from point A to B

>Go to the village
>just jump to the "relic" and fuck off

Wow a 5 minute world.

snowfall or thumper shotgun?

>>718308457
Thumper, snowfall is a downgrade.
Thumper deals acid damage which most human enemies in the game are weak against, and there's almost no natural resistance/immunity (literally just larvaes and skink), so overall it deals a lot more damage.
Snowfall loses acid for cold, a shitty gimmick (frozen for 0.5 seconds) which several enemies are either resistant or outright immune to (including enemies that were weak against the Thumper, like the snow Order troops), so it does a lot less damage.

>Enemies hit by lodestone weapon randomly drop lodestone fragments
>Cutting up a corpse also does this
Just got two fragments from cutting up a rat, thank god I never need to return to canaan. Great theme but it felt like a unfinished nintendo 64 game in there.

>used a polished is0099
That was a big boom, poor caanite bastards.

>>718304479
That would be a clever way to do it honestly

>>718308781
>Shot and bitten by alien humanoid dog
>Barely any damage
>Axed by villager women
>30% hp gone and heavy bleeding
Don't tell me corrupted corn also give them ability to survive multiple bullet to the head.

>friendly NPCs are ignored by the floor zapper
>enemies set them off
>coworker sets them off too
What does it mean?

>>718270521
>Radiation was also found in
>Five pigs
>Fifty thousand rolls of toilet paper
Que?

>>718308763
yeah figured, the damage doesn't even go up either.

I wish electrothrower was upgradable. Flamethrower isn't the same.

>>718310015
There's a mid-game armor set that highlights nearby enemies. When it turns to day, the coworker gets highlighted red as it sprints off.
You can actually kill the coworker, but he just respawns. He's pretty tough, though.

>>718310381
Drops only a skull.

>>718310381
good way to get sneak xp

>>718284404
For me? Two jump pads and a gravity cube. Thankfully I had two Gaseous Nests just lying around.

>>718304053
you can equip them? tf?

>>718311645
Some items like the gravity cube can be turned into trinkets.

>Try to find underwater entrance to the neutrino thing
Am I supposed to be able to see anything? I followed the green lights and after about 30 minutes of lake diving I found a sort of entrance but then I got chopped up by a fan I couldnt see. It was night too so that shit should have been off

>>718312189
did you talk to the guy on top of the residences?

Would be cool if the cauldron could be used for bulk soup making instead of being purely decorative.

>>718312236
Yea I got a diving suit and pretty much a lifetime stock of dimweed and red growth. The underwater fan got me salty as fuck though, About to turn my gamma up to the max

>>718312253
That's what I thought it did! Lame!

>>718296427
Your best bet is to bumrush to sector 3 and get to the point where you can make laser powered setups so you can make an infinite power source for your batteries

>>718265446
The amount of post required won't be worth the effort. Of course you can always just "for science" it.

The soups are disappointing, the devs just gave up and didn't make any extra buffs for the later ones.

>>718313139
Doesn't Laser power ultimately rely upon a wall socket any way? Or is there some splitter shenanigans that allow you to recharge the battery powering the initial emitter?

>>718269215
My buddy and I set up in the viewing area of animal pens. Great spot near most drops. I've expanded to include a farm just above the viewing area and for no reason, moved my bed to the aquarium

>Placed pots of soup can't be moved or destroyed
>They don't even fall
Bizarre choice.

>>718310016
Contaminated soil/groundwater > Trees soak it up > Trees get cut down > Turned into toilet paper

>>718313597
That's not the problem I have with it. I wish it was a bit more involved (make a stock first, chop the ingredients, etc.) and procedural, with some special handmade soups. Every combination not intended by the devs being a bad soup is disappointing.

He's standing there. Wet. Electrified. Hearing me shit.

>>718277180
>Outlet > x1 battery > laser emitter/capture > anything and everything else since power is no longer an issue
You can even swap the one battery for a carbon one if you are scared of running out of juice or add in single batteries for the individual equipment that needs it

>>718310267
I'm honestly surprised there wasn't a laserthrower upgrade with how many laser upgrades there are

>>718312189
Nah, the game expects you to have a headlamp or NVG at that point in the game. Pray that you never get black fog when you're in Hydro, that shit genuinely sucks

>>718314751
Speaking of, how are you supposed to know that you need to sit on the throne to turn off the black fog?

>>718308781
Rats just drop random shit at a certain point. I've had them drop lodestone fragments and i don't own a single lodestone weapon, and I've had them drop black gunk even though I still haven't gone to Space Queen in this playthrough.

>>718314751
The one time that has happened to me, prompted and instant teleport back home to the tram station.

>>718313638
There's a few spots with an infinite laser already on. Not ideal for base building though

>>718312189
Yeah, that part was a pain in the ass. I had the diving suit and couldn't see shit. I even made the swim goggles and they did noth-

...oh. God damn it.

>>718313638
You can set it up to cycle into charging the battery thats powering the emitter by making the emitter beam into a power converter and plugging it into a plug strip to power the battery and everything else or you can skip the powering part and find a laser like >>718315101 said

>>718315025
Don't know if you are explicitly told.
Pretty easy to figure out, through context clues.
Obviously it's going to be somewhere in Night Realm/Security and really there's only one thing there that has a mysterious use until you find out it's purpose; which is the throne.

I find it really funny that the praetorium has the same hologram exposition dumps that GATE has, with an order guy with the same intonation as Manse.

What the fuck is the point of Rise, exactly? And don't say egg or I'll kick your ass.

>Only just discovered you can make extension leads for the plugs
This makes base building in the starting canteen so much better. I can actually have all my shit in one defensible area instead of scattered all over the place close to the plugs.
Yeah, I know there are probably better places to build but I like it here.

>>718316119
Egg.
Also office and medical supplies.

>>718313946
That would be pretty cool, actually. Have the buffs and satiation be based on the ingredients, not just preset combinations.
>antejuice base: +5 hp regen, -5 continence
>alien drumstick: +5% str exp
>exor heart: +5% sprint exp, +5 rad resistance
>diced potato: +10% to stamina bar
>powdered greyeb: nearby enemies are highlighted, Leyak is extra horny for you
>salt: x2 satiation multiplier

So you could make perfectly edible soup to survive on just using whatever random ingredients you have on hand, but if you pay attention to the effects of each ingredient you can produce bespoke stews for your nutritional needs.

>>718316119
>And don't say egg or I'll kick your ass.
Eggxactly

>>718316157
Canteen is unironically one of the best base spots to settle since its right in the middle of everything even later on

So if all Exors can speak perfect english when can I get my Exor Cha wife?

When do you get the larva costume? I want to talk to that larva lord in the mines.

>>718291825
No you don't. I stealthed the whole way and smacked the occasional guy with a wrench. The military weapons are somehow worse than the cobbled together shitposts you make, too.

>>718317061
You need a big larva figurine to make the costume. Keep killing the big larvas around the hive area. It's a random drop.

>>718316119
Mid game military ammo/gun farming spot along with Voussoir
egg

>tub of blood monster doesn't escape and stalk the halls at night
>shadowmonster doesn't wander around during blackouts/nights
>cant drink the love potion
lame

>Guns are kind of shit
>Have stacks of 9mm ammo now
NO. Fuck off. I'm going to use my silly cobbled together nonsense and The Order will LIKE IT. (they won't like it, because they will be dead)

>>718291882
He's fine. He has an employee ID card after all!
unlike our best friend, the co-worker
>>718316119
Getting some glass.
Also an egg.

>>718312189
Its genuinely easier and more intuitive to use the cliffs behind the rec building to jump over to it with the jump pack.

>>718317559
>cant drink the love potion
You can, just get bitten by a zombie.

Why the hell is a shitty homemade gun made of scrap twice as powerful as a military grade pistol?

>>718317789
Power of science.

>>718317579
Silencer is pretty good on the max upgraded pistol.
Main reason to keep 9mm ammo is:
Mag dumping the big power leech

>>718317579
As scary as dealing with armed soldiers initially is, the guns are just as crap in their hands so rushing them with melee is pretty reliable.

>>718317789
The crossbow made with rubber, plastic and a desk leg does as much damage as the security pistol. Maybe gunpowder just sucks in this universe.

>>718318041
>this universe
Makes sense, GATE is clearly in an alternate Earth considering some serious shit happens to the world in the 90s here. I guess we're a separate antiverse.

>>718297101
>>718296972
net thrower works too but you have to net him 5-6 times over and over again.

>The long jump pack adjusts to portal enviroments
>First portal world I enter with it and it's unuseable

>>718320117
Well yeah. You can't just cheese the portal worlds until you complete them properly.

>>718320117
>>718320183
I can't tell if the calibration shit is gay or not, but I basically never use the jump/jetpack because of that and i'd rather have extra slots or freezer/radiation slots

>First time through Flathill
>Creeped out and paranoid, never get caught purely out of fear of the composers
>Now
>Just casually run in there now and then for supplies. The composers are just an annoyance.
How do they kill you anyway? I'm yet to have it happen.

>>718320536
They either swipe you or grab and then eat you.

>>718320536
They can grab you and swallow you which is a one-hit kill. That being said, I've never seen them use it, they always either swipe me or stomp me.

>>718320612
I've never seen the grab, would be funny if they could grab you out of the air while you're jetpacking .

>>718320245
I think it's fair enough since some portal worlds could almost be completely skipped and you might miss something important, but since you're largely meant to come back to portal worlds multiple times (not to shadowgate if I can help it) it's not a big deal since you still get to do fast resource runs later.

>>718320536
I enjoyed coming back and using the rocket launcher on them.

>>718320245
No reason to NOT have the jump pack for mobility, considering the calibration debuff is a one time debuff mostly to prevent you cheesing an area that goes away with the completion of said area.
The longest time without it is during Residential Sector (which is really annoying honestly) but even then, I'd rather have the jump pack just for the absurd mobility I get outside of it.

>>718320868
Do the giants even drop anything good?

How do you extract models from this game? FModel doesn't seem to be able to do it.

Is this enough to establish a new base I can teleport to?

>>718320980
keys, organs, nothing that the symphonists don't drop
Not necessary at all but they spent long enough without me being able to do anything to them.

>>718320980
Same shit as the Symphonists, although it drops more porcelain shards and is guaranteed to drop an organ.

>>718321169
and mats for the portal suppression upgrade so you don't have to baby sit it.

Man. The reactor armor sounds cool but also sounds like a fucking hassle to get the most benefits out of. I might just stick with exor.

>>718321410
Can portals occur at far away benches and inside portals? I assumed the game pauses spawns and events outside of the currently loaded area

>>718321556
Not sure about portals, but I've had an order raid happen at Flathill when I sleeping in base I made in the arcade.

>>718321556
I've missed raids purely by being away all day. If you aren't there the enemy don't bother turning up and it cancels the raid if you get back the morning after.

>>718321493
It's actually pretty low maintenance, just keep one kizz kola in your inventory to prevent rad loss after getting to 25 rads or so. The exor set is still probably stronger with the ghost exor and bionic legs preventing broken legs, but for pure speed the reactor set is unbeatable

>>718321556
Far away benches in the facility, certainly.
Not sure if they can inside portals unless you are actually in the portal at the same time.

Reached residential and feel like last few sectors were just bloated and nothing much happening. Farming materials also a bit annoying but at least most of them area easy...needing bazillion cpu's is a chore though.

>>718292737
>>718274876
You'll have to do this I guess. Good luck until labs.

>>718315216
The problem is that the diving suit applies the same effect as the swim goggles but without teling you. You want to use the NVGs at all times from when you get them.
There's an upgraded set in Reactors but whether they're better or not is dubious according to my friend, I never bothered swapping.

>>718324127
I found the upgraded NVGs to be a lot more pleasing on the eyes than the makeshift ones, but there's not many situations where the NVGs are better than the flashlight. I don't know why they don't let you see further in weather events, for example.

>>718308880
https://youtu.be/zdkqagOUaPM

>>718315631
Yeah it's crazy the parallels
Like imagine if someone created both organizations to be similar and opposite of each other for some future conflict
Crazy

im in mid game? I just got carbon for the water filter or whatever but what are some good weapons? I only recently built the disk thrower and was using the crowbar with makeshift bow...

holy fucking shit, i hate this part of the game. whoever designed this should be castrated.

>>718326284
Just pay attention to the latest weapon you unlock when grabbing things in whatever sector you newly unlocked. Newest = better. With some exceptions offered at the upgrade table (but if you just found all the components, it's probably about the best too)

>>718326612
that's where im at
>>718326749
I see, I also was using the pipe pistol and buckshot but most enemies brush it off like its nothing

>>718326284

Carbon pickaxe with stealth, the grinder is not bad, you will probably get the antique shotgun soon ant thats pretty good if you run up to enemies and blow their face off.

grenades are always good, and the sprint attack from blunt skill used with sharp weapons is OP

upgraded security pistol is not bad either but its better for accuracy training than the other shit you get by that point

>Just maxed out the Kintsugi armor set
Ever since I grinded for this set in flathill its just too fun to put down once you're flying around with the grav cube and the jump pack. If the threshold for hurting/spraining your legs wasn't so fucking low i'd argue its a step up from bionic legs

Office Sector>Cascade Laboratories>Hydroplant>Manufacturing West>Reactors>Security Sector>Residence Sector

>>718326893
It might be time for you to build the electro-thrower.

>>718326284
>For Stealth: carbon pickaxe or throwable weapons like spears
>Grinder is a solid choice
>Antique Shotgun can carry you for the rest of the game
>Electro thrower is a decent close range choice
>Mugnades are great for EZ kills but not super necessary for that stage of the game
>Pistol is okay if you have a bunch of ammo for it, decent XP farm for later

>>718327571
I love never running out of stamina

>>718327571
Does it add a meaningful amount of jump height on top of what the cube does?

Does zombie zone got a replica/statue in there? Thought every portal world would include one of them

I'm surprised how much content I walked past. Apparently I was supposed to grab a sword from above a mantle in the furniture store. Never even noticed it.

>>718328430
You really need to loot every new thing in the game otherwise you end up missing new recipes
Why wouldnt you loot a badass sword in the first place though

>>718328540
I just plain didn't see it. Maybe I was distracted looking for presents, or by the zombies banging around outside.

>>718328907
lol i was grabbing every single hat that the zombies dropped and eventually my entire inventory was filled with shit while i was running around in the dark looking for the last button. i didn't get the sword until reactors i think

>>718328430
By the time i unlocked giga hacking tool i forgot where to use it so i pretty much skipped whole last tier of upgrades because im stupid and thought "well i guess ill unlock this item later".

I want an anti heat suit like the Blacksmith has. Is there a way to get it?

>>718329560
I think he even sells it for an air compressor.

Playing solo, everything just takes forever. The needs aren't necessarily hard to get, but it takes time to get ingredients, grow stuff, cook it all, craft everything, get mats for crafts, expand/defend base, do combat all by myself etc. Feels like progress is a bit slow. When I take my time sneakily killing grunts for example, by the time I'm done done I need to get back to base to sleep, or eat, or both.
>>718329669
>Still haven't found that item to build a grinder

>ornate dagger available very far into the game only does 20+sharpskill damage
>dual dagger "upgrade" does 18+sharpskill damage
What? Are they for sharp skill pseudo-powerleveling purposes only? Also, they seem to activate throw arc on altfire by mistake even if you can't actually throw them.

>>718328430
I didn't realize there were LCD screens in the Wildlife Pens, so I traded wheat for anteverse gems, and those gems for liquid crystals.
Whoops.
>>718329837
fire extinguisher. Take it to a repair bench to dismantle it into a canister.

>quantum pick
wow so the most dogshit combat skill finally pays off with something amazing

>>718328336
Yeah, you can jump pack a lot further without having it to go on cooldown and its great for kiting enemies around in reactor

Fuck penglings

>>718330097
>Sharp melee
>Dogshit skill
bro what

>>718329879
Some of the weapon upgrades seem to have slipped through quality control.

>>718328397
Gotta smash those christmas boxes for the figurine.
Specifically the one in basement truck.
https://abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Lamogi_Figurine

>>718330292
i meant throwing oop, wait are the throwing quills/daggers good for melee slashing?

Wasn't there something about enabling grid snap to more stuff in latest patch? What does it actually work with? I just tried placing a chest and it didn't seem to work.

>>718329879
Its because you didnt study the blade, you studied some gay stuff like thermodynamics.

>>718329879
like 70% of the weapon and weapon upgrades introduced in 1.0 are nerfs, which sucks because the ninja enemy absolutely rapes you with those daggers but the instant you get them they're shit

>>718330515
No they just implied that they may extend it further than cubicles

>>718330606
Yeah I just re-read the patch notes, I dun goofed on reading comprehension.

>>718330489
The goddamn christmas presents but of course. Thanks anon

>>718330505
I've personally never used the throwing ones but looking from their damage stats the quills seem to do more damage than combat knives. As for throwing, spears/laser katana are absolutely amazing for how much bonus damage they do

>>718330560
the black ops girls tickle you to death slowly, their knives shouldn't be hitting that hard, its just they get alot of hits in
>start getting sick of it and mugnade them into the stratosphere

>>718276583
why the fuck would they do that to players? huh? actual fucking bullshit, does it even tell you that?

>>718330560
idk, i like them. really dont take off until you get sharp 15 though, but the heavy bleeds from 12 or something help too

>>718330450
True, SMG upgrades seemed really weird.
>>718330560
Like what? I've heard of ice shotgun turning into a dud, but ice sniper rifle is awesome. It used to knock the helms off order dudes first and only kill on second headshot, but with upgrade weakpoint shot kills almost any order enemy besides assassins (who die to two headshots).
>>718330520
Well, some enemies really hate being flailed at and dagger attack really fast, so there's that going for them.

>>718331036
the lodestone melee upgrades suck, a lot of the 2nd upgrades for the guns that add elements are pretty bad, the ornate knife and its "upgrade" forms are terrible
the flamethrower and mystagogue gauntlet are terrible and janky

>>718329837
You have to craft it. Make sure to break down a fire extinguisher sometime.

I just arrived at Canaan since I need to be here to grab some stuff to progress in Security apparently.
Should I make crystal armor or hexwood armor?
Also this place sucks ass, why must devs add shitty Halloween content to games, it’s never good…

>>718331165
I've just recently discovered that lodestone hammer is great for stunlocking T4 robots. Like, walk up to them and start smacking. They won't even get a chance to act.

>>718331301
both are very useful and i would reocmmend you make both. you should experiment tho.

>>718331301
>Also this place sucks ass
you take that back

>>718331301
Hexwood armor has an amazing passive even with 2 slot.

I still can't get to the shit world, reee

>>718280867
the farming is gay, literally one of the gayest ways to do farming
>oh you went afk for too long?
>your entire farm is dead, teehee, also no seeds
>can't make rice seeds either
and then early game water being so fucking painful that i NEED to bring back water coolers every trip out because the farms require so much for some reason
why did i need to wait until i got to cascade to make a BASIC WATER FILTER, actual fucking retardation, they want you to be boiling water 24/7 if you're in a group, i swear these people don't play their own fucking game or if they do, they're so used to it they don't understand the confusion behind some things
LIKE NOT BEING TOLD ABOUT FUCKING RECIPES AND NEEDING TO PICK UP THE MOST RANDOM OF SHIT FURNITURE

>forgot to refill the skink
goddamn it i should just fucking bring a barrel with me
>>718331476
remember to bring a cahrged battery and crafting bench and personal teleporter with you.

>>718331476
are you in toilet time/emergency? it only works if you're 1-2 steps away from shitting yourself
buy a bunch of coffees and chug them to top off your poop meter

>>718331301
Hexwood if you hate having to deal with bleeding, Crystaline if you like stealth damage bonus

>>718331536
bro is NOT a scientist.

>>718331476
>>718331632
Also don't actually finish shitting.
Spam the toilet, getting on adn off until you get zapped.

>>718331828
check your poop meter when you spam it because just the act of sitting makes you shit yourself a bit and drops your poop meter
you used to be able to remove power to the portal toilet to stop it decreasing your poop meter and still trigger the warp, but i dont know if they fixed that in 1.0

About to go to RE4 land
How fucked am i

>>718332197
prepare to piss yourself

>>718332197
Zombies are weak. Swing to the head is enough.
There just are a lot of them if you can't find the final button.
No zombies will ever spawn if you do not press even a single button. Use that opportunity to scout the store to locate the button locations before pressing any of them. Also to loot furniture and boxes.

>>718332371
That's re2, I mean this place

>>718332446
oh
you're gonna get penetrated if you get caught lacking

>>718332446
Oh. Dont let them get close. You can jump the bridge. Dont let them run. Enjoy a nice peaceful swim on your time off.

>>718332446
hope you have enough weapons to slaughter a village else you'll need to make a return trip

>>718332446
surprisingly tanky even if you aim for the head

Am I retarded, where am I supposed to place this radiation blocker then

>>718332692
The gizmo needs to be laser powered.

>>718332692
needs laser power

>>718331216
>Make sure to break down a fire extinguisher sometime.
FFS. I thought I had to find a chain somewhere to craft it.

>>718332692
TURN ON YOUR SCIENCE BRAIN ANON

>>718332495
So annoying how you can't attack robots or villagers when they pick you up. Make it a strength perk if you must, just give me the option!

>>718332790
Ever since hitting hydroplant I can feel my enjoyment dropping but this just made it plummet.

>>718332692
Use the outlet on the roof to power a laser emitter pointed at it.

>>718332872
Oh don't whine, I agree that Cascade Labs are pure peak of the game, but having to craft a laser emitter is not that bad.

>>718332851
You do need a chain. Just break those manufacturing and mine crates.

do null grenades take down shields in the map permanently?

>>718332872
Why is your enjoyment plummeting from being a science man, creating a machine that negates radiation and powering it up with some other tools you have?

>>718333001
Yes

>>718333076
chronic depression im guessing

>>718333114
phew, thanks

>>718332872
i lost interest in general after i got to cascade, i figured it would pick up but all i'm picking up is how little inventory space i have and how many things i need to grind just to maintain my ammo

>look in my inventory with max space backpack
>ten trillion items and crap because i can't stop picking shit up
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>718332973
>Just break those manufacturing and mine crates.
I can't find the mine crates. Cleared out the upstairs part, entry part, machine gunner, etc.
>Want grinder to kill grunts
>Have to kill grunts to get to grinder parts
FUCK

>>718326284
>im in mid game
>just got carbon
lol