So, I’m playing a broken cyborg, and the lab I spawned in is the most boring I’ve ever seen - 5 levels of 3x3. No barracks, no prisoner containment, only 2 CBM room (and 1 of those was empty, the other had almost nothing), a very few observation rooms… mostly turrets, blobs, chemical room, dissector rooms, and bedrooms. Wow, nothing going on there.
I did manage to find a teleporter and escape. I hung out around the forest, and checked just the edge of town… found a light tank in decent shape… no engines, but otherwise OK. Can’t get to a store with a shopping cart, can’t get to a garage. Hm.
Skirted around the city to the north, found a school! Cleaned out the library at night… and found another school just past that! Now I’ve dragged most of the books back to the lab (trips with a duffel bag…), and I maxed out electronics (10), first aid (8) and mechanics (8)… then I crafted almost 100 bandages in the local swamp, THEN, late summer and I’m not regaining health when I sleep anymore, I make a few first aid kits, take 2 adderall, and try removing broken bionics.
BAM, 6 bionics out in a row (at 29% chance of failure). WOW, life is so much better. No more acidic discharge or other unhealthy brionic (forget the name of that one), no more noisemaker or squeeky ankles so the zombies can auto-find me in the dark, no more bionic nostril, so I can actually run and/or fight, no more wire-induced stiffness, so I lose 10 encumbrance on my torso.
WOW, that helped. Now it’s late autumn, I’ve been killing swamp creatures and making jerky out of them to get ready for winter (I’ve got 480 - think that’ll be enough? hope so, since there aren’t any anthills or triffid groves in sight), I made an electric jackhammer to get back into the lab, I’ve just finished decking myself out in full survival gear, I got a Leukocyte Breeder CBM from zombie scientist I killed and butchered (first active bionic I installed) and I’m actually healing when I sleep… which is good, since I’ve failed 6 of the last 7 bionic removal attempts (ouch).
I still don’t have a welder or Internal Toolset CBM, and makeshift welders go through batteries pretty quick, so since I’m short on batteries at the moment… yeah, not making use of that electric sports car I found nearby, or any of the other useful vehicles… but I did find a jack (in the very first car I found, no less!!), so I can start on that soon (hopefully).
I found another lab right near the edge of my (lab-mapped) vision, so I’m going to try that one next. Here’s hoping it has some useful CBMs - I’ve got 8 computer skill, so I can definitely open those! Or even some interesting mutugen books… the lab I started in was DULL in that regard, too. An atomic light (or the book to make them) would be welcome as well.
