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[Flying Dice]

No question that bashing weapons are better for unskilled characters, but for one with decent skills the various blades are excellent. I made a test character to see how things worked out; 20 Str + Fencing + ~8 skill in blade and melee + a zweihander cleared out an entire mall without taking damage.

The Zweihander is really, really great for dealing with hordes at higher skill levels because it can cleave through multiple enemies with one attack, while crit-focused weapons are better for things like kila mentioned.

But yeah, tl;dr is that if your character isn't an expert with blades and doesn't have high strength, they're just going to J-JAM IT IN and get stuck. Though I'm glad to see that skellingtons can actually be hurt with blades now.
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E: The fuck? Just hit the jackpot, man, even more than I initially thought. I used all of the milIDs I'd stockpiled to raid a bunker, and here's what I came away with:
4x Granade
1x H&K G80 Railgun + 20x 12mm slugs
1x Barrett M107A1 + 10 .50 BMG AP rounds for it
1x M249 SAW and 780 rounds of 5.56 NATO for it
4x M27 IAR +^
2x M2 Browning HMG
2x Flamethrower
19x various grenades and other explosives
Various rockets, 40mm grenades, and 8x40mm caseless rounds.
A room full of inactive turrets and manhacks that I don't have room for, even with a mil rucksack and two MOLLE packs.

We heavy weapons now.

[Ruludos]

I think Fist of the North Star would have been dramatically different if Kenshiro was running around with that sort of gear on him.

EDIT:
What's the purpose of armor plating on vehicles? I put some military composite armor on the front of my truck, but the quarterpanel under it is still taking damage from ramming things.

[blazing glory]

EDIT:
What's the purpose of armor plating on vehicles? I put some military composite armor on the front of my truck, but the quarterpanel under it is still taking damage from ramming things.

Not 100% sure why that's happening but trust me, armor plating is good, you'll be glad for it when turrets are shooting at you, and it might or might not save your life when a Chicken walker see's you.

[Sindain]

The parts still take damage, they just take less damage with armor plating on.

[Gentlefish]

Hmmm. I kinda want to not have to pick up the books I want to read. I mean, you can already use them for crafting when they're not in your inventory. I'm thinking you should be able to read any book that's adjacent to you or under you, as well as in your inventory.

I might do some poking around myself in the source code to figure this out, but i don't even know in which file to look.

[Flying Dice]

Oh man, I don't think that this passive bionic power source was in the game last time I played.. the one that generates power whenever you move. So broken, though not as much as the old corpse-eater internal furnace was. Now it's time to use those explosives to go on a bank robbing spree and stock up on good CBMs to eventually install.

[Sheb]

Oh, it's been here forever. But it's not that good, since it doesn't produce that much power.

[Flying Dice]

Not all at once, no. But I've already got ~600 capacity, and it alone is enough to fill me from empty to full on a milk run through a site with no extraordinary threats, or while puttering around at base crafting and building, or while running from one town to another. It's absolutely free power with no effort expended and no resources depleted. Certainly it's not good for recharging in combat, but it's excellent for maintaining utility bionics and out-of-combat top-offs.

I'm really sad though, because I had forgotten that shockers dropped basic bionics and ended up smashing dozens of them before I happened across it when I remembered to train with butchery.

[Girlinhat]

Shockers, Shocker Brutes, and Technicians can all butcher for bionics.  Power substations are my favorite place to go when I think I need a bit more battery power.  Technicians frequently drop Mk1 batteries, electrical protection, heat protection, and internal clocks.

[Orange Wizard]

And all this time I've been smashing them!

[Majestic7]

Don't forget zombie scientists and operators - you can butcher them for bionics too. I think broken cyborgs only yield power supplies?

[Sindain]

Don't forget zombie scientists and operators - you can butcher them for bionics too. I think broken cyborgs only yield power supplies?

Mostly broken cyborgs only give burnt bionics - they only drop power storages occasionally.

[scrdest]

Don't forget zombie scientists and operators - you can butcher them for bionics too. I think broken cyborgs only yield power supplies?

Operators give storage MKII, too - if you can take them out multiple times.

[Micro102]

I was pleasantly surprised when I first found bionics in shock zombies. I usually butcher zombies for the survival skill and then suddenly, BIONICS!

[nomoetoe]

I was looking around on the catclysm DDA item browser...and I found mjolnir. Why does this game have mjolnir xD that 9999 bash though.