Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

[Azrad]

[quote=“digitCruncher, post:8119, topic:42”]I have a Ruger 10/22 with a rail-mounted crossbow. However … I can’t seem to fire the crossbow. I want to use the crossbow because I can make crossbow bolts, but not arrows, and I want a reusable weapon to hunt small game.

If my ammunition is 0+1, I get the message ‘You need to reload!’. If my ammunition is 10+1, I fire the bullets, not the crossbow.

Help?[/quote]

Shift+F to cycle firing modes, to cycle through burst mode (if your gun has a burst mode) and mod mode (which is the one you’re looking for)

[deoxy]

[quote=“Valpo, post:8112, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:8104, topic:42”][quote=“jokermatt999, post:8100, topic:42”]Are you running everywhere? Because otherwise it shouldn’t drain your stamina.

Not sure about the glow though.[/quote]

No, I’m definitely not running - it says “walk”, and I can hit " and stamina drains quite a bit faster and it says “run”, but stamina definitely drains while walking.[/quote]

Are you wearing heavy mouthgear? Like a gasmask with a scarf on top? That would make it hard for you char to catch his/her breath.[/quote]

THAT got it - Thank you!

I had a riot helmet and a filter mask - the riot helmet seems to be sufficient to protect you from stuff… but it still asks before you step in gas/smoke, which is annoying. I found an army helmet to replace it with, and everything is good.

[Azrad]

If I could craft an electric jackhammer, I could be out of here instead of piddling around trying to preserve all this long pork. ;w;

Oh yeah, as I recall, some of the walls under the lab are made of wood, right? If you can somehow break them, they might have rocks. You can also cause the ceiling to collapse, which might have rocks if you have a shovel.

[Random_dragon]

I eventually got the stuff needed to make dynamite and blast my way out.

I did have to cheat for a pot though, making the reason I wanted rocks a moot point. ;w;

[Azrad]

Anyways, aside from parks, is there any other place to find sand?

[deoxy]

Anyways, aside from parks, is there any other place to find sand?

Home improvement stores have concrete and sand together in big stacks

[Random_dragon]

I’ve seen them at the public works as well, generally in the lumber/carpentry shed separate from the garages.

[troll_from_behind]

How cold can it get outside in the game?
Don’t have the faintest of idea how cold region New England is.

[Cornuthaum]

What are Spiral Stones good for? I picked one up in a well-off/fortified house and haven’t seen one before.

Edit: Bozhe moi, I found a Military Bunker full of CBMs and I don’t even know what half of these do. O_O Which file stores the actual -effects- of the Bionics? I want to go data diving but I cannae find 'em.

[dovla]

^ Look them up in the item browser: http://cdda-trunk.estilofusion.com/ bog ti pomogao

Thermal electric outfit coupled with a winter survivor suit should be enough to brave the deepest cold lab, no?

[Azrad]

Spiral stones I think do nothing. Vortex stones are the ones that have an effect when activated.

Either way, recalling the source material of those stones, I tend to stay away from them 'cause it kinda freaks me out.

Dunno about files, but you can just post the names the bionics you’ve found and someone should know what it does.

[Cornuthaum]

[quote=“dovla, post:8130, topic:42”]^ Look them up in the item browser: http://cdda-trunk.estilofusion.com/ bog ti pomogao

Thermal electric outfit coupled with a winter survivor suit should be enough to brave the deepest cold lab, no?[/quote]

You misunderstand - I don’t want to know what the CBM text says (I can read that, after all), I want to dig into the code so I can actually see what the effect is :V

But seriously, the Military in Cata-world is just… what the fuck, why do things like artificial night generators even exist.

[Azrad]

Science, probably.

[Cornuthaum]

Science, probably.

Haha, true. These are, after all, people who thought that extradimensional mutating goo was the perfect way to usher in the next level of human evolution.

On the topic of “CBMs that I am not sure what they actually do”, how exactly does the Leukocyte Breeder work? Does it increase the passive Health stat?

[dovla]

Yeah, it’s like a vitamin shot. As for your previous question, I guess you’ll have to wait for a dev to come by.

[Coolthulhu]

Edit: Bozhe moi, I found a Military Bunker full of CBMs and I don’t even know what half of these do. O_O Which file stores the actual -effects- of the Bionics? I want to go data diving but I cannae find 'em.

Most (just most - not all) effects are in src/bionics.cpp. If you want to know all effects, you need to search the entire src directory for all incidences of bionic’s id.
src directory isn’t bundled with the game, you need a source pack for it (for example, from DDA’s github).

You also need a good search program. Window default search engine is pure crap (at least on win 7). I use grep (from mingw).

To get ids for bionics, check data/json/bionics.json and find the bionic’s name there.

For example, if I wanted to find everything that Battery System does:

[ol][li]Find Battery System in bionics.json[/li]
[li]CTRL+C its id: “bio_batteries”[/li]
[li]Find all files containing “bio_batteries” in the entire src directory and lines containing bio_batteries in those files[/li]
[li]Open those files in an editor like Notepad++ and CTRL+F for “bio_batteries”[/li][/ol]

[Cornuthaum]

So, where can one scrounge quality bionics?

1.) Butchering Bio-Operators (Lab Barracks, Military Outposts)
2.) Military Bunkers, somewhat rarely
3.) Bottom of Bionics labs
4.) Rarely in Banks (and only Teleportation, Quantum tunnelling and Time Dilation IIRC)

Anywhere else?

Sagacious Imbuement of Knowledge Prana

You are a scholar and gentleperson. TYVM.

[dovla]

Shocker brutes which can spawn anywhere are an excellent source (in my game they tend to be at power substations along with techs, who are ok for low end bionics. Zombie scientists often even drop bionics, in addition to what you find butchering them. Among other places, a few can be found in fema camps, around dead scientists out in the open, in labs, etc.

[Coolthulhu]

5.) Rarely in random basements and sewers (both bionics and power armor drop there)
6.) Anthills have like 3 bionic types, but most of those will be fusion arms. Are they making a quad-fusion super-soldier ant?

[dovla]

Also at military crash sites, especially when you hit the crashed military cbm transport jackpot.