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[Tiruin]

I have to ask, in the most recent experimental version, are vehicles fixed? I mean, NPCs are quite stable given that I've a BFF now and done quite a few missions for her (sans the random teleporting she does every save game-loadup or the lack of 'stay here until I return' order. I did like them going into the vehicle and riding with you if there was an extra seat) but vehicles...cause crashes after I start em up and make them move.

:/

Ok checked the vehicles. They're..crashing the game as soon as I get them to move. Anything else (like idling in the control seat or honking the horn/headlights) equal stability. Even customized vehicles or vehicles without any fuel to move are stable..

[Mr Space Cat]

And get a wolf suit.

Ah, I was wondering if wolf suits were still really good protection in this game.

[Girlinhat]

And get a wolf suit.

Ah, I was wondering if wolf suits were still really good protection in this game.

100% coverage is the big thing, ANY attack landing on ANY part of your body is going to be strongly mitigated.  This seems to stack with other protective clothing as well, it's just very warm.  If you can wear it on top of your normal outfit, you become extremely resistant to every form of attack.

Just keep rags handy at all times - it takes all blows, so it gets ruined quickly.  Keep some rags and keep sewing, all the time.  You don't want it destroyed.

[Grendus]

Double post to avoid adding to the quote above.

How often is the experimental build updated? Should I download that one, or compile from source to see the latest changes.

[Blaze]

The experimental updates whenever some kind soul recompiles and updates whatever changes to the github.

Generally once a day.

[Imp]

Double post to avoid adding to the quote above.

I'd suggest in the future you don't even need to mention that in the double second only post you are making; your first post, or what you think is your first post, it won't be there very long and only the very newest readers will even slightly wonder why you double posted at the time - so I'd recommend do your duty then post again as if you hadn't even said a word - after all, you haven't once there's been time to remove the unacceptable from the thread.

[Rez]

How much electricity are the motors supposed to use?  Does it vary with speed?  I ask, because I slapped a large electric motor on my car with 3 storage batteries and 3 solar panels and the only time the stored potential ever decreases more than 1% is when I use the vehicle welder.  I haven't gone up to the vehicles max speed of ~240 mph to see if that increases the draw substantially, but I'm driving around at night and the fuel level barely decreases at all.  And it goes up to completely full when I stop the vehicle... at night.

Those solar panels shouldn't be able to continuously power my vehicle in the daytime, even.  3 panels produce 30% of one fuel unit, which I assume is a 'battery', per turn each.  Obviously .9 batteries can't accelerate an 1881 lb vehicle at 14 mph/t.

Maybe I'm just getting weird fuel levels because I have 3000 units of storage.  I can't decide whether its a bug, me being confused, or if the efficiency of electric motors is way out of whack.

Edit:  Numbers are all suspect since I pulled them from the wiki and not the code.
Real Edit: Except the vehicle weight and acceleration.

[Girlinhat]

Engines only consume fuel when they accelerate.  A lot of time for vehicles is spent coasting, especially at lower speeds, so yeah that's expected.  And if you're getting 1% of the bar on the vehicle's gauge, that's 1% of all the storage batteries, which are 1,000 each.  So if you've got 1 storage battery filling 1%, that's 10 batteries.  For 3 batteries, that's 30 batteries.

Solar power is pretty great, until you get a season-long rain.

[Rez]

That explains it a bit.  I took a trip across >75 overmap tiles and still only used 60-90 batteries, though.  I could circle the entire map 4 times without refueling at that rate.

[i2amroy]

The experimental updates whenever some kind soul recompiles and updates whatever changes to the github.

Generally once a day.

FALSE! The experimental is run by a bot, so it automatically will be updated within about 5 minutes of any change being made to the mainline on github.

[Grendus]

The coder is also a robot?

...you didn't set it to kill, did you?

How else do you explain the landmine I just found in a grocery store. And by found, I mean stepped on. RIP.


On a now moot point, I found that wetsuits offer 100% coverage for a mere 1 encumbrance (dunno if they can be fitted, I found the mine before I could try). Decent protection, or junk?

[Girlinhat]

It's assured softening of blows, but it doesn't have fantastic protection, so it's not very good as armor at all.  Pretty warm though, for its size you can wear one in winter instead of bulky furs.

[Grendus]

Interesting. If I survive longer this run, I'll have to stash one.

I've discovered the fun of a martial arts character. Started with two points in unarmed and Taikwondo. I have literally gotten five attacks in a row without letting the zombie swing before, without stuns. It's pretty impressive.

Edit: and of course, having said that the RNG hands me two morningstars in the first pawn shop I raid. I was just looking for pants!

[Girlinhat]

Edit: and of course, having said that the RNG hands me two morningstars in the first pawn shop I raid. I was just looking for pants!

My martial arts runs always begin with finding a zweihander, it seems...  I've just gotten into regular melee, and of course they never spawn.

For being entirely RNG, things do seem awfully skewed sometimes...

[scrdest]

The Bionic Patient class in the experimentals is pretty cool. You are guaranteed Hydraulic Muscles and Metabolic Interchange (and Blood Analysis, but that's not very useful), meaning that you're a very strong person who, in exchange, needs to eat a bit more often (provided you turn the Muscles off when you don't use them).

With a small help from a fire I started in the window he was standing in, I took down a Brute backed up by a Spitter and one more zombie as a character with everything but Dodge at level 0 (the former at level 1), using just a Makeshift Crowbar.