[quote=“KA101, post:16, topic:4011”]As GrizzlyAdams, plus
0) Brian Lefler has working code to eliminate the item limit I think it’s been merged but haven’t had time to try it. 75 is no longer a hard cap.
- Radiation badges really don’t need duplicated. Further, being disposable, there’s no point to reinforcing them. That plastic would have been better used on the safety & ballistic glasses.
- No point to the swimming gloves with the rest of that on. You’d need hella skill or the full Fish line and good ST to swim with that much gear.
- you need all that armor because you’re at 4 torso/leg encumbrance. You’ve got about -4 Dodge & Melee there. Not good.[/quote]
My post wasn’t “look how awesome my character is”, but “look how ridiculously you can layer things” as the OP’s point was, I assume.
SHOULD we be able to wear 2 fanny packs, 4 belts, etc etc etc etc? I mean, realism be damned because this is a zombie apocalypse game … but … at a certain point its just crazy. No person can trudge around wearing that much stuff and feel “un-encumbered” can they? lol
I’ll address comments about the load-out though, I guess …
As I said, this was just my “thrown together as I ran around” armor the first few days of surviving. Some of it I put on that I don’t regularly have her wear just to show how crazy layering is. This loadout is obviously FAR from optimal, and optimal is always changing with new item additions. Again: it wasn’t a “look at me brag about something” but more a “look how ridiculously layered you can get in here” post. 
0 - Yeah, I’m playing the experimentals, so no more item cap. It removes the “omg I have too much clothing on and its using up too many of my 75 items” problem that used to exist. I used to limit my layering because I’d end up hitting the 75 cap too soon, now you can just dump items into your inventory like mad without hitting a weird artificial “I can only fathom 75 individual items existing in a space around my body” limit.
1 - One rad-badge burned out, so I tacked on another. Dunno’ why I didn’t remove the first. As for reinforcing it, I reinforce everything just because “why not”? Plastic bags and bottles rain from the sky so chunks of plastic are never in short supply.
2- The swimming gloves were because they caused me no encumbrance and I hadn’t found something laying around with better armor rating. I wore 2 wetsuits for some of the first couple days on a character for the same reason really.
3 - “Moderate” torso encumbrance (~3-4) doesn’t really matter to me much after the first couple of days surviving. -4 dodge & melee don’t mean a thing when you’re healthily over those skill levels in melee and dodge. The encumbrance hit just feels like a small hurdle to get past and then its not an issue. It almost feels like an attempt to limit layering that falls flat on its face. Picking a quick weapon with decent + to hit feels like it negates the missing, and dodging isn’t too big a factor if you just maneuver your shopping cart between you and the target (its like a mobile bush!).
GrizzlyAdamz -
Weight was high in the screenshot because I just left an area I was looting, so I was bogged down with junk I saved (think it was a science lab). I dropped enough of it to get out of the red but hadn’t unloaded everything yet. Weight is an issue of course wearing all this stuff (what good is 200 empty volume if carrying more ‘stuff’ makes you over weight limit). … but, as I said, isn’t “optimal”, was just a “look at all the layers” picture.
Could you wear more than 1 boots before? I don’t remember that. Thought boots and helmets were always unstackable.
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With a little tailoring and a couple more drops, I’m at 254 volume and 2 encumbrance in torso, the rest is 0-1. Armored enough where I could duck into a house and put a shopping cart between her and a Hulk and, despite taking some hits, lost zero hitpoints and just had to quick-sew/solder a little armor damage up.
If I want to bump up to 3 torso encumbrance I’m pushed to 314 volume and I’m still a couple encumbrance-less items short of a full set.
Weight is an issue, sure. With just basic tools and a backup firearm I only have around 30 weight to play with, that is the downside to layering heavily I guess. I haven’t looked for lighter-but-high-volume items really, or dug through the json files too much to optimize either, I’m sure theres a lot better combinations out there for someone way more anal about it than I am.
My point was, again, to agree with the OP about layering being out of control. You can layer yourself nigh invulnerable. You can layer yourself with the volume of a shopping cart (and push around the cart too!). Feels really unrealistic.
