Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

Random_dragon · 2015-05-26T23:05:55.000Z

Random crazy stuff. Pray you don’t get bees.

Cornuthaum · 2015-05-27T00:12:44.000Z

Does the Enhanced Hearing bionic have any use other than being incredibly annoying?

Coolthulhu · 2015-05-27T00:21:49.000Z

Cornuthaum:

Does the Enhanced Hearing bionic have any use other than being incredibly annoying?

It makes you immune to deafness. And it gives you a secondary bionic that causes deafness (like ear plugs) on demand.

Random_dragon · 2015-05-27T00:43:25.000Z

Now if only the eye-protection bionic came with a free blindfold bionic. o3o

Cornuthaum · 2015-05-27T01:10:22.000Z

Coolthulhu:

It makes you immune to deafness. And it gives you a secondary bionic that causes deafness (like ear plugs) on demand.

Bugger! That would’ve fixed the “wake up from the tiniest sound” problem I have in my Mobile Oppression Fortress.

edit: How the hell do I install Headlights so that they face the way I want them to?! Mine go off at angles only

Azrad · 2015-05-27T03:46:48.000Z

In some gas stations, there’s a tank of gasoline that’s firmly sealed. Can anything be done with it?

Random_dragon · 2015-05-27T03:53:39.000Z

I would love to loot that gas as well. =w=

Sehn_Knight · 2015-05-27T07:42:05.000Z

When did giant spiders learn to climb over fences?

dovla · 2015-05-27T08:46:45.000Z

Cornuthaum:

edit: How the hell do I install Headlights so that they face the way I want them to?! Mine go off at angles only

After you choose the location you get a prompt to choose facing. Use your cursor keys to set a direction the headlight will be pointing to.

Cornuthaum · 2015-05-27T10:54:25.000Z

dovla:

[quote=“Cornuthaum, post:8185, topic:42”]edit: How the hell do I install Headlights so that they face the way I want them to?! Mine go off at angles only

After you choose the location you get a prompt to choose facing. Use your cursor keys to set a direction the headlight will be pointing to.[/quote]

Yeah, but the direction I press (up/forward) has /no/ relation to the direction the headlights actually point (60° to the left)

BeerBeer · 2015-05-27T11:12:26.000Z

Azrad:

In some gas stations, there’s a tank of gasoline that’s firmly sealed. Can anything be done with it?

Great question! I set out to experiment upon a gas station tank and here’s what happened:

The following tools were useless against it: Jackhammer, acetylene torch, wrench, toolkit, screwdriver, hacksaw, boltcutters, crowbar, rubber hose… off the top of my head.
Oddly enough, after about 50 hits from the sledgehammer, I still hadn’t received the “You don’t seem to be damaging it” message. My character’s STR is 16. Only the sledgehammer sustained damage.
Fired several rounds from my pimped out M14 at it (standard 7.62x51mm bullets). No effect.
Fired several volleys from my pulse laser and perforator turrets at it. No effect.
Explosives: useless. Tried LAW, C4, grenades, molotov cocktails. I don’t have a nuke or a mininuke, so only those are left to try!
Final trial: Rammed my military truck at it at about 200km/h or faster. No effect… other than I nearly died, and half of my truck’s frames were destroyed but the truck oddly still remained in one piece, too.

I don’t know what it’s made of but I want my house and body armor made of it.

BeerBeer · 2015-05-27T11:24:09.000Z

Cornuthaum:

edit: How the hell do I install Headlights so that they face the way I want them to?! Mine go off at angles only

When it gives you the black/white message box, asking you to give the direction, there’s actually a cursor that becomes visible if you tap the directional keys enough times. That means you don’t give a single key press to choose between 8 directions, but instead get to choose an accurate direction, since that cursor can be placed tens of tiles away. So here’s the procedure:

After installing a headlight, the black/white message box appears. Hit ‘Enter’ to make it go away.
Start tapping (or press down) the directional keys, be it arrow keys or numpad. The cursor starts where you placed the headlight, and you have to get the cursor outside the vehicle to make it visible.
Hit ‘Enter’ when satisfied with the chosen direction / center point.

dovla · 2015-05-27T11:24:51.000Z

Cornuthaum:

[quote=“dovla, post:8189, topic:42”][quote=“Cornuthaum, post:8185, topic:42”]edit: How the hell do I install Headlights so that they face the way I want them to?! Mine go off at angles only

After you choose the location you get a prompt to choose facing. Use your cursor keys to set a direction the headlight will be pointing to.[/quote]

Yeah, but the direction I press (up/forward) has /no/ relation to the direction the headlights actually point (60° to the left)[/quote]
Which way is your vehicle currently pointed at?

Random_dragon · 2015-05-27T12:14:55.000Z

BeerBeer:

[quote=“Azrad, post:8186, topic:42”]In some gas stations, there’s a tank of gasoline that’s firmly sealed. Can anything be done with it?

Great question! I set out to experiment upon a gas station tank and here’s what happened:

The following tools were useless against it: Jackhammer, acetylene torch, wrench, toolkit, screwdriver, hacksaw, boltcutters, crowbar, rubber hose… off the top of my head.
Oddly enough, after about 50 hits from the sledgehammer, I still hadn’t received the “You don’t seem to be damaging it” message. My character’s STR is 16. Only the sledgehammer sustained damage.
Fired several rounds from my pimped out M14 at it (standard 7.62x51mm bullets). No effect.
Fired several volleys from my pulse laser and perforator turrets at it. No effect.
Explosives: useless. Tried LAW, C4, grenades, molotov cocktails. I don’t have a nuke or a mininuke, so only those are left to try!
Final trial: Rammed my military truck at it at about 200km/h or faster. No effect… other than I nearly died, and half of my truck’s frames were destroyed but the truck oddly still remained in one piece, too.

I don’t know what it’s made of but I want my house and body armor made of it.[/quote]

I love the smell of !!SCIENCE!! in the morning.

Cornuthaum · 2015-05-27T13:00:58.000Z

Regardless of what key I press or what direction I click, all my headlights - ALL of them - always end up in that direction.

Cornuthaum · 2015-05-27T17:48:54.000Z

I hate to doublepost, but this is driving me crazy:

How the hell do I actually properly use the Directional EMP bionic? I want to use my Cloaking bionic to steal some of those delicious turrets, but…

Azrad · 2015-05-27T17:54:42.000Z

You can only use them in melee range. Trying to EMP a turret in that range will most likely net you an explosion to the face.

Once again, control laptop is your best bet. Use it, walk up to the turret, and they should deactivate.

Pthalocy · 2015-05-27T18:34:18.000Z

Yo, what are stethoscopes even good for? Activation does nothing in all cases I’ve tried so far.

Azrad · 2015-05-27T18:38:03.000Z

You can open safes with them. Not the electronic gun safes, but the ones you’d find in banks and jewelry stores.

Coolthulhu · 2015-05-27T18:43:43.000Z

Cornuthaum:

Regardless of what key I press or what direction I click, all my headlights - ALL of them - always end up in that direction.

Could be some sort of a bug with either aiming the lights or something changing their direction later. Similar thing happened few months ago when I changed the turrets to reset their mode to 0.

Did it start happening recently? Does it still happen in the newest experimental?

I can’t reproduce it, meaning it either requires some extra steps or has been fixed in newer versions.