Favorite mutations?

[deoxy]

I think you’re talking about Weakening. I don’t know how bad it is in the game, but weakening looks manageable, however Disintegration and Deterioration kinda scare me off from mutation paths cause they look like they can be a pain in the ass to manage.

Weakening is nothing, it’s the other two that are problematic. Usually, if I’ve going to go mutant, I brew up HUGE batches of the stuff and HUGE batches of purifier, and I go back and forth until I have all the good stuff and nothing worse than weakening.

TWW - Total War: Warhammer, maybe?

[Solusphere]

Does anyone have any advice for dealing with the Minor Radioactivity mutation? My character has it, and it’s much, much more debilitating than I expected. A geiger counter reads me at a 85-120 rads, and I’m throwing up heavily roughly every hour, which means that my food and water consumption is probably about three or four times higher than normal, and all of my stats other than intelligence are at a constant 1-2 point malus. Given the point bonus you get from taking it, I’m not sure it’s supposed to be as debilitating as it is. I think I’d rather have Deterioration, at least with that you can mitigate it with a lot of cotton balls and first aid skill.

Oh, and by the way, I’m popping about three or four prussian blue and potassium iodide tablets a day. They don’t do a damn thing as far as I can tell.

[EditorRUS]

Slime category is fun. Also a good fap material in your mind.

Playing as a full-on Slime is extremely fun considering how much chaos it brings.

[Solusphere]

So I ended up answering my own question. I assumed that an environmental geiger reading of 1 meant that the area was low on radiation. I was very wrong. As long as I keep moving and avoid contaminating any one area too long, my radiation levels remain manageable.

I also found and successfully installed a radiation scrubber bionic, so score!

[Arek_PL]

my favourite mutations are night vision and its upgrades, sometimes i go for small mutagen rulette but its rare, im not much into mutations except alfa what is just next step in evolution of man

small amout of sleep is awful for me too, heavy sleeper and slepy are positive traits for me because i can sleep easily and when i do not want to sleep single sip of atomic coffee is more than i need

[i2amroy]

Genetically Unstable/Chaos + Robust genetics.

Alternatively Radioactivity + Radiogenic is pretty sweet too.

[pisskop]

yus, total war warhammer.

im a fan of total war series and i enjoy the tabletop things, even if i dont play.

Im so excited for: not arcade battles mod
and for them to release the najority of the world. … you know, once upon a time blahblah dlc …

[COS_Cecillian]

My favorites are Road-Runner, all the immune type ones (poison immune, infection immune, etc) so I don’t have to worry about diseases, night vision and its upgraded versions (currently on high night vision), and any of the general stat boosting mutations. I’m not interested in going post-thresh for any category since I don’t want to end up all mutated and messed up, but rather try and get as many good traits as possible (or try and upgrade my existing ones) with the help of genetic instability. If I read this correctly, when you check your mutation categories, the one with the highest number is what you have the highest chance at mutating into right? If that is true, then I’m definitely going to become a medical tree, which bothers me because then I’ll be immobile as hell, voiding my precious road-runner.

[Azrad]

Elf-a mutations, I suppose. Lately, I end up gravitating to them whether I want to or not. Aside from the weakening line and chemical imbalance, all the other mutations are pretty decent things to make life during the cataclysm easier.

[Rot]

[quote=“Valpo, post:7, topic:11990”]The best mutant is a dead mutant.
Where is my flame thrower. This thread needs purging.[/quote]

HAHA HAHA

MY FLAME RESISTANT SUPER HUMAN WILL DESTROY YOUR FLIMSY DEVICE OF FIRE

On the side note, I tend to get Road runner, Full Night Vision, Pretty much all medical mutations, as it’s my favorite catagory. (Regeneration, Very Quick Pain recovery, Disease resistant, etc.) Also get the stat boosting ones if possible. Other things like heat vision and stuff are a nice bonus, but things like gills or something to me feel redundant.

Basically I want my character to look as human as (Humanly) possible, yet still be a mutant that has awesome traits.

[EditorRUS]

MY FLAME RESISTANT SUPER HUMAN WILL DESTROY YOUR FLIMSY DEVICE OF FIRE

There is nothing that can help you against incendiary. This shit is so powerful it can kill anyone in a power armor let alone with CBMs and mutations and shit.

[COS_Cecillian]

I wish you could craft incendiary grenades. The powerful of airborne fire would be a lot more accessible.

[jcd]

As i usually start as a 9/8/8/8 survivor, alpha is my go-to mutation line. If i survive long enough and don’t get bored until that time.
Finding eggs for egg mutagen when playing with 91-day seasons can be a problem (you need to survive to 2nd spring at the least - bc it is unlikely to be able to craft bird mutagen within your first spring) and the process is slow.
I also try to get some good NV before going alpha. HighNV does it for me.

[deoxy]

[quote=“jcd, post:20, topic:11990”]As i usually start as a 9/8/8/8 survivor, alpha is my go-to mutation line. If i survive long enough and don’t get bored until that time.
Finding eggs for egg mutagen when playing with 91-day seasons can be a problem (you need to survive to 2nd spring at the least - bc it is unlikely to be able to craft bird mutagen within your first spring) and the process is slow.
I also try to get some good NV before going alpha. HighNV does it for me.[/quote]

I play on standard (14 day) seasons, and I still find the egg thing annoying. One thing I do is save all the eggs I find as long as possible, hoping to find an ice lab to put them in - that helps SO much.

[FunsizeNinja123]

I wish you could craft incendiary grenades. The powerful of airborne fire would be a lot more accessible.

Molotovs.

[nekojusan]

Genetic Chaos + funsies
Eater of the Dead + Hyper Metabolism = turn any zombie horde into HP

[baldamundo]

As others have mentioned, elf-A and Alpha are pretty solid, reliable and low-risk. Lizard has a good combo of utility and combat without much that’s particularly debilitating, but it can be really hard to find lizard eggs.

Cephalopod is kind of niche but one of my faves and surprisingly decent. Good night vision, water breathing, possibly negative wet effects iirc (i.e. you get happy for being in the rain or jumping in the river), silent movement, and post-threshold immunity to hulk slams, and seriously decent melee damage with 8 tentacles and tentacle rakes, as well as absolutely insane iirc +7 bonuses to both dexterity and intelligence. Only downsides being high thirst and can’t wear normal gloves and shoes. Oh, and the shell mutation stops you wearing anything on your torso and is absolutely worthless, so purify that ASAP.

[evilexecutive]

I’m much like other experienced players. Elf-A is my Go-To mutation for endgame characters, although quite expensive. Earlier on I typically shoot for having Medical Mutagens, which are somewhat uncommon from labs, but not so rare that they’re too hard to obtain. I don’t really mind the side effects of medical either, but Genetic Instability is the only mutation I’ll go for a purifier if I get.

Lategame my typical spread is Full-Threshold Elf-A, plus Medical, and finishing up with using Alpha to clear up a small number of the negatives that the Elfmed gives me.

[Wreten314]

Fungal mutation path is the only way for me. If you count that as a mutation path since you don’t have to use filthy, disgusting mutagen. Specifically the super tank tree-like thing, as it’s fireproof, making molotovs super useful.

Oh yeah and the fact that you never have to worry about food or water ever again because you can make shroom berries everywhere.

[Rot]

I’ve started to really take a liking to the chimera category of mutation. It’s kind of a chore to take care of, but once you find expanded digestive system and recycler unit CBM the food situation is much more bearable.

Being a chimera has too many benefits to pass up, especially hyper metabolism, eater of the dead, Apex predator, etc. etc.