Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

[Random_dragon]

I’m not 100% sure if hitting precise aim with full steadiness helps, but it seems to for me.

It might just be one of those “hold Up+A while throwing a pokeball” sort of psychological things though. ;A;

[qurvax]

[quote=“Random_dragon, post:11681, topic:42”]I’m not 100% sure if hitting precise aim with full steadiness helps, but it seems to for me.

It might just be one of those “hold Up+A while throwing a pokeball” sort of psychological things though. ;A;[/quote]

Attached bi-pod, adjustable stock and extended barrel. Took 5 shots from 25 at a green Z pressing p after getting to full steadiness. 0 hits.

[deknegt]

Maybe it was Zombie Neo?

[Voqar]

[quote=“Rezalex, post:11667, topic:42”]What kind of charge (battery, charcoal, etc.) does the acetylene torch use? I can’t figure it out.

Not reloadable. ;w;[/quote]

Realistic or not this seems odd to me since just about everything in the game that uses “juice” can be battery powered.

But at least there seems to be no lack of these around. In weeks past I’d always grab them when I found them but now I find so many that I’m leaving them. At the same time I haven’t found a single laptop in my current game where I used to find them all the time. And out of the 20 or so gun shops I’ve looted I’ve never hit the variant that has the storage stock room (that usually has a crucible, anvil, and those kind of industrial goodies). Dunno if it’s luck or what but probably is luck - some games I have amazing loot luck, others not so much.

[qurvax]

Maybe it was Zombie Neo?

LOL. Maybe, but results seem to be consistent with “confidence” level.

[Rezalex]

Is there a way to open display cases without smashing them into pieces? I’d rather not attract the horde over some batteries in these cameras.

[deknegt]

For the vehicle nuts in here…

If I strap a metal tank to a frame and a handlebar too, can I wheel it to a pond/river and fill it up to the brim and then wheel it back to my shelter to cook with it? My first run was by simply wielding the thing, but when it’s full it’s kinda heavy AF causing him all sorts of pain. Granted, I have 200+ units now so i’ll be good for a while, but it’s good to know what I can and can’t do with ‘vehicles’.

[Rezalex]

I think it’d be easier to find a shopping cart and drag that to the pond instead.

[stk2008]

How far is the pond

[Pyrite]

You could bring something like a gallon jug and repeatedly fill it, then use it in the vehicle menu to fill the tank.

[BearytheBird]

How on earth do I turn an engine off in the newest experimental? The stop driving, and let go of control commands don’t seem to want to work.

Edit: Oh my lord, never mind, I seem to be retarded and kept press the wrong button

[Random_dragon]

So…hmm. Pondering whether any of the alcohol items in the game have an addiction chance of zero. If one DOES (or assuming you mod one in), how would this affect a character that already has alcohol addiction?

[JonnyBlack]

I just got a message saying “You feel very sleepy…” while soldering some gear in my base.

Considering the last time I got a message I wasn’t expecting about a headache and suddenly up and died a few days later, what does this bode for me? Is it panic time? Do I just take a crap ton of meds and hope nothing weird happens?

[KliPeH]

If I strap a metal tank to a frame and a handlebar too, can I wheel it to a pond/river and fill it up to the brim and then wheel it back to my shelter to cook with it? My first run was by simply wielding the thing, but when it’s full it’s kinda heavy AF causing him all sorts of pain. Granted, I have 200+ units now so i’ll be good for a while, but it’s good to know what I can and can’t do with ‘vehicles’.

If you don’t add any wheels (like in a regular shopping cart which uses 5" wheels I think) you’re pretty much going to be “carrying” the thing on your own, with the (g)rab command, meaning it’ll be fine until you reach your weight limit, then the vehicle is going to be “slow to move”, and then you won’t be able to move it at all. I’d advise against using a metal tank for your basic water needs unless it’s welded into a truck or something, but this is definitely doable if you make the tank into some sort of a modified shopping cart. Or make it into an actual vehicle, adding controls, an engine, a battery, wheels etc, but that’s just overdoing it.

If you do go for your metal tank setup do note that:
a) A metal tank takes up a LOT of space and you’ll have to wield it when you want to move it by hand, making you vulnerable.
b) It becomes pretty heavy after it’s filled with water, and will cause you pain when moved (unless it’s on a cart with wheels).
c) You can’t install it on other vehicles as long as there’s at least 1 unit of any given liquid inside it, meaning you won’t be able to install it as a dirty/clean water tank or as a gasoline tank on your car.

[Pyrite]

I’ve noticed that in a pinch, a trash can is useful as a poor man’s shopping cart.

[deknegt]

[quote=“deknegt, post:11687, topic:42”]If I strap a metal tank to a frame and a handlebar too, can I wheel it to a pond/river and fill it up to the brim and then wheel it back to my shelter to cook with it? My first run was by simply wielding the thing, but when it’s full it’s kinda heavy AF causing him all sorts of pain. Granted, I have 200+ units now so i’ll be good for a while, but it’s good to know what I can and can’t do with ‘vehicles’.

If you don’t add any wheels (like in a regular shopping cart which uses 5" wheels I think) you’re pretty much going to be “carrying” the thing your own, with the (g)rab command, meaning it’ll be fine until you reach your weight limit, then the vehicle is going to be “slow to move”, and then you won’t be able to move it at all. I’d advise against using a metal tank for your basic water needs unless it’s welded into a truck or something, but this is definitely doable if you make the tank into some sort of a modified shopping cart. Or make it into an actual vehicle, adding controls, and engine, a battery, wheels etc, but that’s just overdoing it.

If you do go for your metal tank setup do note that:
a) A metal tank takes up a LOT of space and you’ll have to wield it when you want to move it by hand, making you vulnerable.
b) It becomes pretty heavy after it’s filled with water, and will cause you pain when moved (unless it’s on a cart with wheels).
c) You can’t install it on other vehicles as long as there’s at least 1 unit of any given liquid inside it, meaning you won’t be able to install it as a dirty/clean water tank or as a gasoline tank on your car.[/quote]

Yeah, that’s pretty much the issue I was running into with it, first time I wielded it and carried it up to the pond filling it up giving me 200+ units that went over my weight limit, giving him some pain.

Right now i’m really early into the game, I practically stumbled upon the place right after leaving the shelter for the first time so i’m more interested in direct survival and using the thing as a mega-water container which I can simply use to boil directly from, rather than wielding it unless it’s neccesary.

I’ve always dumped a leather funnel underneath it, so it’ll slowly top off during the evenings, whatever it is, with the pond being inside the ranch’s fenced area, i’m relatively secure as far as water is concerned. And probably also safe with the barbed wire chewing up critters for me to butcher…

But in the future I do want to start building a nice survivormobile, since I’ve never been able to get into vehicle building due to dying whenever I was planning on doing it. With a tractor in the barn, I pretty much have enough frames for a small car once I get a wrench and torches

[Rot]

For some reason my text box in my cata game is strange, and I don’t know how to fix this. Anyone else having problems like this?

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[Azrad]

That’s the experimental where the extra minimap has been added, right? Having the same problem - which makes horde fighting kinda hard, since often it won’t show if I hit a zombie, and I won’t be able to tell if it’s dead or if it moved away from range.

[Rot]

That’s the experimental where the extra minimap has been added, right? Having the same problem - which makes horde fighting kinda hard, since often it won’t show if I hit a zombie, and I won’t be able to tell if it’s dead or if it moved away from range.

Know any way to remove the damn thing?

Also, on a side note - I didn’t know I can go downstairs in a lab and get dropped in a turret room.

[Azrad]

[quote=“Azrad, post:11698, topic:42”]That’s the experimental where the extra minimap has been added, right? Having the same problem - which makes horde fighting kinda hard, since often it won’t show if I hit a zombie, and I won’t be able to tell if it’s dead or if it moved away from range.

Know any way to remove the damn thing?[/quote]

Unfortunately, no. I also have a problem where some menus kind of blink on and off when I scroll, from the same experimental as the minimap problem.