Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

[Profugo_Barbatus]

Is it supposed to take me a long time to wield even a plastic water bottle? The wielding description always seems to mention a long time if the item is anything larger than a lighter/matchbook, ranging from water bottles to massive tacticool handcannons to the Barrett M107.

If its not a weapon in a holster/sheath/otherwise worn on the body, wielding an item will take a long time, every time, because the game assumes you have to pull off your backpack/rucksack/storage solution, find the item in question among all the others, take it out, close up your backpack/rucksack/storage solution, and put it back on. Even if you know exactly where the thing is, it’ll take a while.

Dexterity helps reduce the time. doesn’t do much for the bag solution, but it has a notable effect on how long it takes to wield a sheathed/holstered item.

[NEONZARIN]

How to obtain the following mutations? What do I need to do?

[TheWumpus]

[quote=“NEONZARIN, post:15642, topic:42”]How to obtain the following mutations? What do I need to do?

You must ingest additional mycus.

[DG123]

[quote=“Profugo Barbatus, post:15637, topic:42”][quote=“Midaychi, post:15636, topic:42”]How do you transport whiskey barrels?
Is the only way to literally adv inventory drag it to where you want to go?[/quote]

I just picked it up, put it into my car. and then I racked up a good thirty pain moving it into my base later.

Worth it though. I’ve got booze through the rest of the apocalypse.[/quote]

Is there a convenient way to mount these in a vehicle so you can drink from them without needing to pick them up?

[vulpes133]

[quote=“DG123, post:15644, topic:42”][quote=“Profugo Barbatus, post:15637, topic:42”][quote=“Midaychi, post:15636, topic:42”]How do you transport whiskey barrels?
Is the only way to literally adv inventory drag it to where you want to go?[/quote]

I just picked it up, put it into my car. and then I racked up a good thirty pain moving it into my base later.

Worth it though. I’ve got booze through the rest of the apocalypse.[/quote]

Is there a convenient way to mount these in a vehicle so you can drink from them without needing to pick them up?[/quote]

You should be able to just push ‘E’ while standing next to it to be able to drink from any nearby items without picking them up.

[DG123]

You should be able to just push ‘E’ while standing next to it to be able to drink from any nearby items without picking them up.

Yes but I seem to recall this not working if the item in question is inside a vehicle storage container. Maybe I’m remembering wrong?

[mightyagrippa]

It definitely works now. I stand in the middle of my 3x3 grid of cargo spaces and eat whatever I like from them. Not sure if it’s always been this way.

[Taberone]

Does the infared vision CBM even do anything? Turned it on and I can’t even see my NPC buddies through walls. I have the Night Vision mutation if it helps.

[Rot]

Does the infared vision CBM even do anything? Turned it on and I can’t even see my NPC buddies through walls. I have the Night Vision mutation if it helps.

Turn your night vision off at night with zombies around. Infrared only means that any warm blooded monster will show up as a red ‘?’ In the radius you cannot see/is not in your ‘sight bubble’.

EDIT: It does not go through walls or any solid object. That would be X-Ray vision.

[deoxy]

[quote=“Taberone, post:15648, topic:42”]Does the infared vision CBM even do anything? Turned it on and I can’t even see my NPC buddies through walls. I have the Night Vision mutation if it helps.

Turn your night vision off at night with zombies around. Infrared only means that any warm blooded monster will show up as a red ‘?’ In the radius you cannot see/is not in your ‘sight bubble’.

EDIT: It does not go through walls or any solid object. That would be X-Ray vision.[/quote]

My experience with IR vision is that it’s not worth the batteries, ESPECIALLY if you have Night Vision.

[Noctifer]

What is the body/clothing layer order?

[pisskop]

???

In theory or in practice?

theory

• close to the skin
• Default [not mentioned, implied by the lack of other things]
• Tied to the waist
• Strapped onto you
• Over other things

in practice

• whatever you want.

You can wear an undershirt over a greatcoat with no real effects

however, items that cover multiple parts are rigged. If you move or displace them on one list they will often be moved on other lists. And example that commonly applies to me is the duster. Ill move items under it after I put them on, and then it will default to the outermost layer for the legs.
I get around this by moving the items down and around the item list, as opposed up it.

[Litppunk]

^refer to that first. Likely more accurate

Don’t quote me on it but;

Close to Skin, Normal, Over, Strapped

Then I think theres some special ones like belt and such in there too, I assume between Normal and Over

Or there’s the (+) layer menu where you choose what goes layered where. If I am not mistaken this is what determines what takes first attempt at absorbing damage, as well as character look (outer most vissable, inner only if it sticks out further than outer sprite.)

Wasn’t sure exactly what you were asking, hope this covers it.

[deoxy]

What is the body/clothing layer order?

There is no layer order. You put things in order on the ‘+’ screen, and when a body part gets damaged, it checks the stuff from the bottom to the top, so if you want to protect something, put it near the top of the list. Full stop.

The layers (currently) do nothing but control encumbrance stacking. That is, worn clothing gives encumbrance, and when you wear two (or more) items on the same body part that have the same layer, there is additional encumbrance added beyond what they usually give. I don’t know the formula for it, sorry.

In theory, at some point, they might make layers matter for order, but it hasn’t happened yet.

In practice, I usually try to put things in the “right” order - close to skin, worn as clothing, waist, over other clothes, strapped. How do I know that’s the order?

Well, “close to skin” is obvious - think underwear. “worn as clothing” would be next, as that’s pants. “waist” would be belt - you put that on AFTER pants, yes? Next would be “over other clothes”, as that is coats and jackets. Last would be “strapped”, since that’s backpacks. Imagine putting that on in ANY other order, eh?

(OK, I have actually put a backpack on before a large coat in a very few circumstances. It does feel pretty weird, though. Smaller bags (lime a messenger bag) feel less weird, and I’ve seen women wear small purses under coats pretty regularly in cold weather, so there’s that.)

[pisskop]

Imagine the lament of the reddit as even a +2 encumbrance per article is applied for putting the layers out of order.

[Noctifer]

Thanks! Nice to know I don’t have to strain that much over it… My fancy bionic assassin thanks thee.

[TheKobold]

Imagine the lament of the reddit as even a +2 encumbrance per article is applied for putting the layers out of order.

I wish it had an affect. But even if it did, it wouldn’t affect me or probably a lot of players as they wear the clothes in the right order anyways. How else are you supposed to look like a bad ass with chesthole if you don’t wear stuff correctly.

[Litppunk]

not to mention, outer layers of clothing tend to have better defense, so while usually more valuable, they also don’t get damaged as often and keep you from having to rebuild the SAME undergarments 50 times. But mostly chesthole looks.

[pisskop]

backpacks and such spring to my mind, honestly. More than once I wished players could catch chafing for not wearing undergarments under their leather chaps

[EldritchSigma]

Found an NX17-Charge Rifle and not sure how to use it? Description says I should fire to charge and fire again to discharge its charges as a beam. Well I cannot seem to charge it by regular means (UPS and Bionic Power with UPS mod). So how do I use it then? I am on experimental build 5422.