Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

BorkBorkGoesTheCode · 2016-05-17T00:02:51.000Z

en.wikipedia.org

Repeating crossbow

The repeating crossbow (Chinese: 連弩; pinyin: Lián Nŭ), also known as the Zhuge crossbow (Chinese: 諸葛弩; pinyin: Zhūgé nǔ, previously romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to the design upgrade contributed by Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181—234 AD), is an ancient Chinese crossbow where the separate actions of stringing the bow, placing the bolt and shooting it can be accomplished with a simple one-handed movement while keeping the crossbow stationary. This allows a higher rate of fire than a norm...

pisskop · 2016-05-17T00:04:43.000Z

en.wikipedia.org

Submachine gun

A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, fully automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun. The submachine gun was developed during World War I (1914–1918). At its zenith during World War II (1939–1945), millions of SMGs were made. After the war, new SMG designs appeared frequently. However, by the 1980s, SMG usage decreased. Today, submachine guns have been largely replaced by assault...

Needless to say, I do not think that the repeating crossbow fits the modern definition or qualifications for ‘SMG’.

The ammo is significantly heavier, arcs a lot more, has a generally shorter range, has less overall power, and doesnt fire pistol caliber rounds at super or sub-sonic speeds.

In practice it is much closer to a bow or, suprise, a crossbow than an SMG. If you want a magic gun that fires arrows make a mod, dont sabatoge the games core guns.

BorkBorkGoesTheCode · 2016-05-17T00:42:47.000Z

[quote=“pisskop, post:14462, topic:42”]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submachine_gun

Needless to say, I do not think that the repeating crossbow fits the modern definition or qualifications for ‘SMG’.

The ammo is significantly heavier, arcs a lot more, has a generally shorter range, has less overall power, and doesnt fire pistol caliber rounds at super or sub-sonic speeds.

In practice it is much closer to a bow or, suprise, a crossbow than an SMG.[/quote]
I do not agree with the decision to make crossbows use gun skills. The choice of which skill is used by the repeater seems to be based on a vague resemblance between the tactics described in the wiki page and submachine gun tactics as understood by whoever made the repeating crossbow use the smg skill.

pisskop:

If you want a magic gun that fires arrows make a mod, dont sabatoge the games core guns.

If you are talking to me, why do you think I want to sabotage the game?

pisskop · 2016-05-17T00:48:07.000Z

:b

I wasnt. Talking to the audience through people.

Id usually pretend I did think you would but Im kind of unsure if youd see it as a joke

Submarine · 2016-05-17T00:56:05.000Z

Is stamina drop increased lately when you swing your weapon ?

BorkBorkGoesTheCode · 2016-05-17T01:02:38.000Z

I wasnt. Talking to the audience through people.[/quote]
Oh, okay.

pisskop · 2016-05-17T01:02:46.000Z

Submarine:

Is stamina drop increased lately when you swing your weapon ?

Stamina gain and loss as a whole is being reworked.

Weight, skill, mouth encumbrance, and various drugs and poisons and diseases can alter you stamina max, cost, and regeneration.

baldamundo · 2016-05-17T14:44:48.000Z

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What does the ‘Automatic Zombie Advancement’ option do? The tooltip says it makes zombies take gameplay turns, but don’t they already?

Has anyone worked out the answer to this yet?

pisskop · 2016-05-17T14:56:43.000Z

Yea. Rivet says that it makes the npcs and monsters take realtime turns if you arent inside a menu.

So if you just sit there the game will progress 1 turn every x seconds you are inactive.

Which, by the by, is a step towards making a co-op server possible

i2amroy · 2016-05-17T23:55:05.000Z

pisskop:

Which, by the by, is a step towards making a co-op server possible

Well, basic co-op servers are already possible (Bay12 was running one for a while, don’t know if it’s still up, but they posted instructions), it’s just that you can’t directly interact with each other (and you can sometimes get weird time-shenanigans going down).

Honestly a bigger problem is cases like sleeping or crafting. Even if the server automatically advanced 1 tick every 2 seconds or so that still means that unless you and everyone else on the server is sleeping/crafting/waiting then it’s essentially pointless to try, since you’d need to start it up and then come back 8 hours later.

BinaryStar · 2016-05-18T12:10:24.000Z

So how different are the experimental builds to the stable? I downloaded the stable ages ago, but now I’m curious as to if it’s worth starting a new world to play on the experimental.

Submarine · 2016-05-18T12:27:43.000Z

BinaryStar:

So how different are the experimental builds to the stable? I downloaded the stable ages ago, but now I’m curious as to if it’s worth starting a new world to play on the experimental.

Go experimental for sure. More content,harder game-play,much more to find, new enemy’s and many more.

Experimental runs realty smooth on my machine with no crashes or mayor bugs.

BinaryStar · 2016-05-18T13:56:54.000Z

Submarine:

[quote=“BinaryStar, post:14471, topic:42”]So how different are the experimental builds to the stable? I downloaded the stable ages ago, but now I’m curious as to if it’s worth starting a new world to play on the experimental.

Go experimental for sure. More content,harder game-play,much more to find, new enemy’s and many more.

Experimental runs realty smooth on my machine with no crashes or mayor bugs.[/quote]
So it’s actually got a whole bunch of changes and content, and it’s not just the small tweaks I assumed it would be? When does an experimental become the stable, anyway?

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Oh, and another thing, is crafting speed influenced by focus/morale? If not, is there any other way to increase crafting speed?

Submarine · 2016-05-18T15:10:43.000Z

Its much more then small tweaks.

I don’t think you can shorten crafting speed/time other then get a NPC to help you.

MrQwerty · 2016-05-18T15:36:42.000Z

Is there a way to get rid of poison other than waiting?

Coolthulhu · 2016-05-18T16:31:50.000Z

MrQwerty:

Is there a way to get rid of poison other than waiting?

Food poisoning can be reduced a bit by vomiting.

pisskop · 2016-05-18T17:37:52.000Z

A shame theresno bulemic trait, or you cant activate a spoon.

I mean what how would a spoon help?

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FunsizeNinja123 · 2016-05-18T19:45:42.000Z

pisskop:

A shame theresno bulemic trait,

omg no

Just take weak stomach.

MrQwerty · 2016-05-18T20:08:58.000Z

I simply often get poisoned by those asshole spiders a lot and it becomes impossible to hit them due to huge penalties to everything… and i think my survivor, who can make crack and meth, should be able to craft antivenom… or get it from vet clinics or something.

pisskop · 2016-05-18T20:13:05.000Z

Im not sure if its possible to code up a drug that kills posion effects.

I think it might be possible. But then we’d have to find ids and such. And then what about how long they may take to work?

Things like that would be nice to refine from a butchered organ.