Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

[Catfoodbob]

How does armor peircing work against you, does its armor pierce value ignore units of armor that have inferior defense to the armor you are wearing, or does stacking armors make it to where 2 rainhoods could stop a weapon with 2 armor peirce, and is damage accounted into it.

[deoxy]

[quote=“Catfoodbob, post:16939, topic:42”]Any good ways of raising mechanics quickly?

pry door and craft blunderbass.[/quote]

Pry doors (and windows and crates) until you have high enough mechanics to remove parts from cars, then dissassemble cars (though that is quite a bit slower now…).

Are blunderbass some new kind of fish that’s dangerous to themselves, or something? Sorry, best typo I’ve seen in a good while, had to comment.

[_k1]

It’s blondeboss’ blenderbot.

Prying door is very practical to bring mechanic to 2. It only needs a makeshift crowbar and a day in basement. Particularly useful for my illiterate character who cannot read UTH.

[Catfoodbob]

O_O there needs to be a claim system, where you can claim a vehicle so npcs won’t just rob you every time you find one

[BeerBeer]

Any good ways of raising mechanics quickly?

There isn’t if you start at 0. Which is why I think these days starting with mech 2 is the minimum (it lets you remove and install many car parts). If you start at 0, you’re at the mercy of finding a relevant book, which makes it a priority to start raiding places that have books - libraries, mansions, bookstores. On foot, of course, you poor car-less pleb.

Hey, why don’t you put your belongings in a shopping cart, young grasshopper! Hahahaha!

I’m sorry… It’s not really funny ._.

I hope I didn’t hurt your wheelings…

[Catfoodbob]

Im on one of the later experimental patches, and i was wondering how would you turn on stats-thru-skills.

[Azrad]

How can you get the melee skills (unarmed, bashing, etc) go past 6? My survivor seems to be stuck on those levels…

[BeerBeer]

Im on one of the later experimental patches, and i was wondering how would you turn on stats-thru-skills.

It’s a mod, so… you’ll have to start a new world. It should be in the ‘Balance’ section of the mods.

How can you get the melee skills (unarmed, bashing, etc) go past 6? My survivor seems to be stuck on those levels…

You have to hit more difficult targets, unless of course you’re saying hitting fast/nimble monsters doesn’t work either. Try hitting like mi-gos, feral predators, or manhacks, and not decayed zombies or normal zombies. I have no experience even reaching lvl 6 in those skills. You COULD try encumbering your arms (or torso?) on purpose, or otherwise sabotage your character, just to make it more difficult to hit, purely in hopes that the game thinks it’s difficult enough to warrant skill advancement.

[John_Candlebury]

Have spawn rates been severly nerfed?

It seems loot from stores has reduced about tenfold.

[pisskop]

yes.

old, long-standing errors in the spawning code got nipped.

‘chance’, one of the variables that changes measurement depending upon what json code you look at, was not used correctly in any, of its instances.

[John_Candlebury]

[quote=“pisskop, post:16950, topic:42”]yes.

old, long-standing errors in the spawning code got nipped.

‘chance’, one of the variables that changes measurement depending upon what json code you look at, was not used correctly in any, of its instances.[/quote]

But is the nerf intentional?

[_k1]

The loot is as scarce as in stable. It is not very likely to find a welder in garage now.

Fortunately, many smithing and mechanic tools are auto-learned now.

[pisskop]

yes it was. the fix was look upon positively, and the one who made the pr noted the change

[Catfoodbob]

There still are some pretty nice loots spots now and then, like a bank with 2 power armor sets in it.

[Coolthulhu]

But is the nerf intentional?

Not directly, but the nerf enforced what mapmakers most likely intended.

In short:
The intended version was that “chance” field means “chance to spawn items here”. This is easy to understand and obviously The Right Thing. So any mapmaker who doesn’t experiment would probably treat it as obvious.
The old version - bugged one - had “chance” meaning two different things: when “chance” was 100, it meant “spawn this thing here”. When “chance” was below 100, it meant “keep spawning until you roll a number lower than chance”. So “chance”:90 meant “keep rolling and spawning stuff until you hit that 10% chance to stop rolling”.

Some map features may need updating now, because any mapmaker who understood the bug has most likely tried to work around it.

[John_Candlebury]

[quote=“John Candlebury, post:16951, topic:42”]But is the nerf intentional?

Not directly, but the nerf enforced what mapmakers most likely intended.

In short:
The intended version was that “chance” field means “chance to spawn items here”. This is easy to understand and obviously The Right Thing. So any mapmaker who doesn’t experiment would probably treat it as obvious.
The old version - bugged one - had “chance” meaning two different things: when “chance” was 100, it meant “spawn this thing here”. When “chance” was below 100, it meant “keep spawning until you roll a number lower than chance”. So “chance”:90 meant “keep rolling and spawning stuff until you hit that 10% chance to stop rolling”.

Some map features may need updating now, because any mapmaker who understood the bug has most likely tried to work around it.[/quote]

Alright, thanks for your answer!

I’ll update my stuff once I have time

[Azrad]

Can light-sensitive traits like troglobite, very light sensitive, and solar sensitivity be negated by full body coverage and glare protection, like the albino trait?

[Catfoodbob]

Lookin for a good source of lead.

[_k1]

car battery.

[Catfoodbob]

Better question, what uses lead balls, dissapointed that you only get one and you cant use a pneumatic assault rife with them.