Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - FUCK NO SPORTING GOODS STORES
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[QUOTE=Kylel999;50009123]The game has become ludicrously easy at the moment, at least on my game. But I have noticed that I don't get waken up 10x a night by wandering/following zombies anymore.
Anyway I've found a CBM that uses power to protect me from damage and successfully installed it and I broke into a bank vault and found a Probability Travel CBM. I guess I should look into breaking into some labs now, then
[editline]26th March 2016[/editline]
Will slugs take out turrets in Labs or should I try to find an assault rifle or explosives[/QUOTE]
Generally the best way to deal with turrets is to lob EMP grenades. The books that hold their recipe (AAA Guide 2040 and Advanced Electronics) are pretty vital for any character, they can't deal any damage to you whatsoever, and they generally won't fry the valuable computers the turrets spawn next to if you throw them at the far wall.
[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;50009324]Generally the best way to deal with turrets is to lob EMP grenades. The books that hold their recipe (AAA Guide 2040 and Advanced Electronics) are pretty vital for any character, they can't deal any damage to you whatsoever, and they generally won't fry the valuable computers the turrets spawn next to if you throw them at the far wall.[/QUOTE]
I almost never level electronics. Only bother with it when I am bored and just wanna explore what each thing does.
Never found much benefit in electronics recipes.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;50010709]I almost never level electronics. Only bother with it when I am bored and just wanna explore what each thing does.
Never found much benefit in electronics recipes.[/QUOTE]
You've never found any use for being able to make Light-Amp/Infrared Goggles, manhacks equipped with grenades of all kinds, EMP grenades, vital utilities (nightlights, coffeemakers, vacuum sealers, food dehydrators) and extremely rare CBMs without having to hunt them down? The fact that they make it much easier for you to install CBMs alongside First Aid is just icing on the cake
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;50010709]I almost never level electronics. Only bother with it when I am bored and just wanna explore what each thing does.
Never found much benefit in electronics recipes.[/QUOTE]
It used to be one of the best skills to level early for lightstrips that would let you read through the night and lasted days. Sadly they nerfed lightstrips to be "low light" but they're still super useful for crafting at night. Plus it's super useful to be able to make appliances you may not necessarily be able to find if worldgen decides to say "fuck you". It's one of those skills that lets you skip out on a lot of looting if you can get the crafting supplies, which is easy just by deconstructing broken electronics or deconstructing shit at a power substation.
[QUOTE=Anderan;50011082]Sadly they nerfed lightstrips to be "low light" but they're still super useful for crafting at night.[/QUOTE]
It's so fucking stupid, the people who decide these things really need to get their heads out of their ass and stop making things unfriendly for the sake of being unfriendly. The idea of hooking a decently bright lamp up to a generator is apparently the highest science known to man in this universe.
[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;50011056]You've never found any use for being able to make Light-Amp/Infrared Goggles, manhacks equipped with grenades of all kinds, EMP grenades, vital utilities (nightlights, coffeemakers, vacuum sealers, food dehydrators) and extremely rare CBMs without having to hunt them down? The fact that they make it much easier for you to install CBMs alongside First Aid is just icing on the cake[/QUOTE]
Oh yea, I leveled it for cbm installing.
Usually light amp googles are useless because you either have a night vision cbm, night vision mutation (which is much better) or some googles you found in a military camp.
I played during old times. So of all utilities I only needed light strips which required 1 electronics skill.
Really if you have the ability to gather all the requirements for anything good in electronics you are probably already out of any danger.
[editline]27th March 2016[/editline]
Cataclysm dda: missing my lightstrips
[QUOTE=mastermaul;50011939]It's so fucking stupid, the people who decide these things really need to get their heads out of their ass and stop making things unfriendly for the sake of being unfriendly. The idea of hooking a decently bright lamp up to a generator is apparently the highest science known to man in this universe.[/QUOTE]
Fucking highschool chemistry textbooks have a minimum int requirement of like 11 or 12 to easily understand. Assuming the defaults of 8 are average the dda devs think you need to be a near genius to understand highshool chem.
[QUOTE=Anderan;50012243]Fucking highschool chemistry textbooks have a minimum int requirement of like 11 or 12 to easily understand. Assuming the defaults of 8 are average the dda devs think you need to be a near genius to understand highshool chem.[/QUOTE]
The average person in this universe assuming the new pool system of 2-2-2 gets 2 stats to put into skills. Discounting the profession settings, that person is able to take a point in 2 things.
Your average person in this universe might have the most basic of rudimentary first aid (ok, slap on a bandage) and cooking (a sandwich counts?), while being unable to hold a car straight, have never used a soldering iron, have never changed a tyre, have never stitched a sock, no experience at throwing things or dodging from dodgeball or something, have no swimming skills, have never used a PC or done basic DIY (construction) and so much more.
It's pretty funny.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;50010709]I almost never level electronics. Only bother with it when I am bored and just wanna explore what each thing does.
Never found much benefit in electronics recipes.[/QUOTE]
The fact that I can construct my own CBM's makes this statement not even worth considering serious
[editline]27th March 2016[/editline]
As for nighttime crafting I just use a single aisle light on my RV. It can last all night on a car battery and the solar panels recharge it in the morning.
[editline]27th March 2016[/editline]
I got 10 electronics and What's A Transistor still apparently has recipes I can't learn. All I want is the foodco buddy recipe
Thing you put in a car, which requires mechanics to learn which is kinda dumb.
I see there's a stable Mac version, but how about experimental?
[QUOTE=WarRage333;50014823]Thing you put in a car, which requires mechanics to learn which is kinda dumb.[/QUOTE]
Oh that's why..
[editline]27th March 2016[/editline]
Oh and I just wanna say that a tear gas manhack saved my life yesterday. Was getting chased and beaten by a big crowd of zombies, made it into an alley and when I let it loose, it flew towards the closest ones and made a toxic smokescreen that blocked vision and let me get away safely. It was pretty fucking awesome considering I really thought my character was done. I made it out with 50 pain, like, 40 speed, and a broken pair of legs.
[editline]27th March 2016[/editline]
lol I just trained computers to 4 and succesfully hacked a computer to a CBM case
3 Interal Chronometer CBM's, 3 Solar Panels CBM's, Battery System CBM, Alarm System CBM, Integrated Toolset CBM, Joint Torsion Ratchet CBM. The duplicates I'll just break down into other CBMs
i shall become a machine
now to open the other
Close shave survivals are the best, I survived almost getting killed by a hulk by pulling out my M1911 and getting a crit on it. Had to crawl into a nearby house and sleep there to heal up. Fast Healer is stupidly useful.
How do I butcher a [sp]tank drone?[/sp]
You either disassemble if it lists its components, butcher it if it's a meaty corpse, cut it up if it allows it, or you don't and you just have a really heavy trophy.
[editline]27th March 2016[/editline]
Well I guess 'fleshy' is better than 'meaty,' since plants.
I didn't have the tools on me. You most certainly can disassemble them for a flamethrower, plutonium cells, m4a1, tank gun/ammunition etc
Probably need a welder + goggles. Haul it back to your welding rig back home.
Considering it weighs 3000lbs I was unable to move it. I moved my truck to it, however :v:.
Damn thing took about 20 straight hours to dismantle
Discovering I could use the advanced inventory menu to move things from a tile into a vehicle was both the best moment and the moment I felt like a huge idiot. I even knew you could use it to move things from tile to tile, it just never clicked I could use it for vehicles too. :v:
[QUOTE=Anderan;50018145]Discovering I could use the advanced inventory menu to move things from a tile into a vehicle was both the best moment and the moment I felt like a huge idiot. I even knew you could use it to move things from tile to tile, it just never clicked I could use it for vehicles too. :v:[/QUOTE]
How? I've been needing to reorganize my trunks forever.
Also a search feature for trunks would be nice. Pretty annoying when I can't find the specific part im looking for
[QUOTE=Kylel999;50019412]How? I've been needing to reorganize my trunks forever.
Also a search feature for trunks would be nice. Pretty annoying when I can't find the specific part im looking for[/QUOTE]
The advanced inventory management screen (opened with /) has a filter, just hit f and type what you're looking for.
It seems every so often when I pickup an item and wield it instantly (say I have ran out of room), no character is assigned to it so I can't manipulate it in my inventory. Is this a bug or am I just being stupid?
[t]https://i.imgur.com/wLlhwcj.png[/t]
You just have to scroll over it with the arrow keys. The game is weird with it's assignment of shortcut keys, though usually it doesn't start not outright assigning them until you have too many items for it to assign enough to.
[QUOTE=Anderan;50020089]You just have to scroll over it with the arrow keys. The game is weird with it's assignment of shortcut keys, though usually it doesn't start not outright assigning them until you have too many items for it to assign enough to.[/QUOTE]
How do you scroll over to the right?
[QUOTE=JakeAM;50020138]How do you scroll over to the right?[/QUOTE]
Hit left, right will select and de-select on that screen
What's the best way to upgrade from one experimental version to another?
There's a launcher! Someone made an open source launcher recently, it's on Reddit. Let me dig around to find it, hold on
[editline]28th March 2016[/editline]
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/3yv7d7/cdda_game_launcher_automatic_updates_and_more/[/url]
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;50024534]There's a launcher! Someone made an open source launcher recently, it's on Reddit. Let me dig around to find it, hold on
[editline]28th March 2016[/editline]
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/3yv7d7/cdda_game_launcher_automatic_updates_and_more/[/url][/QUOTE]
Oh, thanks a bunch!
Huh, didn't know someone had made that. I'll probably stick with cygwin though, I just edited the bashscript to auto git the latest version from github and then just build it manually.
Glad to see this thread is still active, I've been thinking lately that I need a hobby other than doing drugs, so I'm going to start a new character and try to get back into this
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