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[Gentlefish]

I dunno, it could be a fire alpaca too

[Il Palazzo]

Can anyone think of a way to make a retractable blast shield for a car's windshield, that one could somehow raise from the inside? All I can think of is a line of doors on the bonnet, but that'd require leaving the car to open or close.

And for something completely different, has anyone found any use for USB drives with or without the various software?

[Blood_Librarian]

the USB with hackpro can be used for a item that can render turrets and drones easier ot handle.
Medical and mic software are quest items for NPC's.
USBs themselves can be dissassembled for RAM sticks.

[AzyWng]

I don't know my thoughts on this game, but I do know the title screen is looking good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Culise]

Can anyone think of a way to make a retractable blast shield for a car's windshield, that one could somehow raise from the inside? All I can think of is a line of doors on the bonnet, but that'd require leaving the car to open or close.

And for something completely different, has anyone found any use for USB drives with or without the various software?

Does the blast shield have to be on the outside of the windshield?  For steel, ceramic, or other rigid materials, slipping a slatted sliding door in the roof is a possible option if it's inside, and it may be viable even if it needs to cover the glass: it can rest on rollers that can be used to push it forward until gravity drops it over the windshield.  You lose the ability to waterseal it, though, especially if it's outside and you physically need to move it from inside, and the rails on the outside may end up being unprotected depending on how you build it.  Likewise, for folks who have been in a car that predates power windows, they have crank handles for side doors that may be options for any such sliding door in the roof or hood: gears work as well as physically pushing the shield.  Strictly, depending on what you want it for, you may not even need rigid blast covers: blast curtains made out of ballistic fiber like these can provide lightweight protection as well, and if I recall, ballistic fiber is already in the game. 

Also, I'm not sure if it's in the game since I haven't played in a year or three, but ballistic glass might also be a straight option without any need for special armor. 

[AzyWng]

So, my interest in this game has been piqued yet again, but I still can't figure out a way to survive past the first few days.

Especially since drinks now freeze in the cold. In spring (?).

Any tips on not dying to hordes, acquiring enough gear to avoid freezing, and other such tips?

[Il Palazzo]

Any tips on not dying to hordes, acquiring enough gear to avoid freezing, and other such tips?

Cars are your friend. You'll need:
- a water-tight container. A plastic bottle or a gallon jug will do. Easy to find in kitchens;
- a rubber hose. Obtained from smashing a fridge with something heavy;
So a first house or a couple should leave you equipped with the tools. Avoid all combat; remember you can run. Keep checking outlying cars. Siphon fuel from those without wheels, batteries, keys, seats etc. Cars tend to be in a various states of disrepair, but it's usually just one thing, lack of fuel being one of them. When you have some fuel on you, getting a car is not that difficult. When you find one that works, drive it to another, and siphon more fuel. Now you are protected from the elements, and can kill shit if needed. Keep driving around, collecting easy to grab random shit, and upgrading your car. Armoured cars and Humvees are obvious choices.

Does the blast shield have to be on the outside of the windshield?  For steel, ceramic, or other rigid materials, slipping a slatted sliding door in the roof is a possible option if it's inside, and it may be viable even if it needs to cover the glass: it can rest on rollers that can be used to push it forward until gravity drops it over the windshield.  You lose the ability to waterseal it, though, especially if it's outside and you physically need to move it from inside, and the rails on the outside may end up being unprotected depending on how you build it.  Likewise, for folks who have been in a car that predates power windows, they have crank handles for side doors that may be options for any such sliding door in the roof or hood: gears work as well as physically pushing the shield.  Strictly, depending on what you want it for, you may not even need rigid blast covers: blast curtains made out of ballistic fiber like these can provide lightweight protection as well, and if I recall, ballistic fiber is already in the game.

I'm pretty sure none of those things are doable in the game. Maybe with some car-related mods, but I wouldn't know.

[King Zultan]

Can anyone think of a way to make a retractable blast shield for a car's windshield, that one could somehow raise from the inside? All I can think of is a line of doors on the bonnet, but that'd require leaving the car to open or close.

You can put opaque doors on a line of frames in front of the windshields then put a door motor on the doors, so you can close and open them with the controls. Door motors need small electric motors.

[Robsoie]

Any tips on not dying to hordes, acquiring enough gear to avoid freezing, and other such tips?

There's something that is useful often found around the towns

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When you run into a horde of undead



That are going after you relentlessly



You start to appreciate a lot more those minefields

For the freezing, before you're experienced with the game i suggest you play on an "eternal" summer to get comfortable with the game mechanics.
The possible cons of starting in summer may be that you may find less "normal" zombies and more though ones.

If you play on normal gameplay (and so have to face the freezing that spring give in cdda) a starting scenario that put you in a shelter, the lockers have blankets , you can wear blanket they're going to keep you warm (just make sure to not try to fight monsters while wearing it as cosplaying as a ghost is making moving difficult )

[Altivera]

I can't seem to pickup frozen water from toilets. Anyone got any clues how I can defrost it?

[Il Palazzo]

I can't seem to pickup frozen water from toilets. Anyone got any clues how I can defrost it?

Light the house on fire?

[Aseaheru]

 Dont think you can thaw it out. You can craft with it tho.

 I hope someone plans on adding insulated or warmable vehicle tanks due to the wonders of frozen liquids.

[Robsoie]

Because i found a tent early i decided to toy around with the faction camp feature, and as i play with high random NPC spawn rate (i set it to 50 so i can encounter a NPC from time to time, with the default setting i nearly never find any, at 100 the NPC encounter rate is nearly the same as it was in old Cata versions)
 

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One of my friendly NPC was appointed as the camp manager (and will do nothing anymore, so make sure you don't assign the most skilled NPC to that role) and sending some of my other friendly NPC to gather mission only for them to return with ridiculous low amount of material every time.

So i decided to gather stuff myself too instead of exploring along the other NPC i got, and thanks to that (and a super useful cart took from a supermarket considering how much 2x4 you must fetch), i managed to upgrade a few times.
That added several crates and a couple of beds to the tents.



And atfer some successful upgrade, i could even use the newly opened "expansion" choice.
That i decided to turn into a farm, because the "money" you pay your NPC in the camp for them to work without rebelling/depressing apparently is food/calories (even if you have the "no NPC needs" mod enabled) , so why not put them to work for themselves instead of only me doing all the tedious berry and fruit gathering in the wilderness ( because my own berry farm is taking awfully long to produce result) from nearby forest

It's probably why it's highly recommended to make a faction camp near forest so you can have more chance to find food (berry, fruit on trees too etc...) and regularly use the camp manager "distribute food" option regularly.

By the way if it can help the food in order to be "distributed" needs to be placed behind the NPC camp manager, between him and the wall of the tent, basically at the opposite of the entrance of the tent, in my screenshot, in an upgrade they build a big container there.

Apparently the farm expansion is for now only a "survey" of the terrain i choose (there are now 4 pits they dug themselves) , i guess i will need the next upgrade to have the possibility to order them to work on it, but i'm now running into a problem, it require either another tent , or 4 damaged tents or several "shelter kits" to upgrade this time

Considering the tent i found in order to launch the faction camp is so rare that it's the only one i found in 3 worlds i have been playing ! i guess the other option is the shelter kit (as you can't craft a tent) .

And another problem, amongst the other required material that i have, it needs several tanned hide.
Leading to another problem, i have no seen any animals out of a cat and a fox in that world since i'm roaming around 2 cities, very odd, no moose, no bear etc...
Oh, i'm wrong i found 3 sewer rats in a basement.

Note : once you have upgraded to have some crate around the tent, you can assign an NPC to "menial work", basically gathering all the things around your tent and putting them into those crates , that's nice and what goes where is customisable through the NPC camp manager.
But the other problem is that it will also put all the required for upgrades material in the crates. The camp manager needs to see all those materials (i put them just outside the tent door usually) to have them count for your upgrading process.
And if they're in crates, the camp manager does not see them and think they're not here, so you have to move them out again with the advanced inventory management ( key / by default)

Now some warning about the camp feature

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the gathering material/firework items can actually be lethal to the NPC, i lost 1 NPC to "something" that put him into pieces and got one hunted by a moose but that he managed to escape from.
The chance of bad stuff happening to the NPC gathering material is supposed to be low, but you know when you play with dice rolls, when something bad can happen, it will.
So if you play with a very low random NPC rate, meaning you'll probably see a random NPC every 6 months, you may want to NOT send them to gather anything as in that case NPC is too rare to be lost , as it would prevent any progress on your faction camp.

NPC working with your camp (you can't upgrade yourself so if you only have 1 NPC with you, he will be the manager and no mission can be done) will need some skill in fabrication and survival.

So make sure to get some books to teach them in case you're unlucky and manage to befriend only unskilled NPC.
They're also supposed to get some experience when they return (without being dead i mean) from your gathering mission. But don't expect them to gather a lot, they're incredibly useless as gatherers in comparison to you.
And a gathering session takes 3 hours in which the NPC is unavailable to defend the camp, so make sure the zone surrounding your camp is cleared from undead threat.

[Culise]

Does the blast shield have to be on the outside of the windshield?  For steel, ceramic, or other rigid materials, slipping a slatted sliding door in the roof is a possible option if it's inside, and it may be viable even if it needs to cover the glass: it can rest on rollers that can be used to push it forward until gravity drops it over the windshield.  You lose the ability to waterseal it, though, especially if it's outside and you physically need to move it from inside, and the rails on the outside may end up being unprotected depending on how you build it.  Likewise, for folks who have been in a car that predates power windows, they have crank handles for side doors that may be options for any such sliding door in the roof or hood: gears work as well as physically pushing the shield.  Strictly, depending on what you want it for, you may not even need rigid blast covers: blast curtains made out of ballistic fiber like these can provide lightweight protection as well, and if I recall, ballistic fiber is already in the game.

I'm pretty sure none of those things are doable in the game. Maybe with some car-related mods, but I wouldn't know.

My apologies; I didn't parse the context properly, and thought we were considering ideas for development.  That was my error.  Looks like King Zultan had a better idea for in-game. ^_^

[duckman]

Can anyone think of a way to make a retractable blast shield for a car's windshield, that one could somehow raise from the inside? All I can think of is a line of doors on the bonnet, but that'd require leaving the car to open or close.

You can put opaque doors on a line of frames in front of the windshields then put a door motor on the doors, so you can close and open them with the controls. Door motors need small electric motors.

Don't those only operate one door at a time? Or is it different for connected doors that open and close all adjacent doors at once?