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[Descan]

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So. Mycus. What exactly IS that mutation tree? The marloss berry guide doesn't... really tell me why I should bother with it. One mutation, whoop-de-doo.

[Angle]

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Well, it depends. Do you want to jizz fungus everywhere and get friendly blob creatures?

[Teneb]

Looks like I found a research results book. Apparently it teaches how to make various mutagens, but it also requires 12 intelligence to read properly (I have and applies massive morale penalties. Is there any way to actually increase intelligence itself?

[Blaze]

Mutations, Granades.

[Angle]

getting it up permanently is super hard, but temp bonuses are relatively easy: just take stimulants.

[Tomcost]

getting it up permanently is super hard, but temp bonuses are relatively easy: just take stimulants meth.

FTFY

[Tiruin]

I like shrubs being car wreckers.  It allows you to have a regular car and drive around with it but if you have no easy means to repair it you avoid driving offroad...just like a normal car.   But with a little bit of time and resources you can convert that same car to be safe to drive offroad at reduced speeds through bushes just with a bit of front armor.   Or even go whole hog and design a fully custom maneuverable 3 tile wide armored tank that can do highway speeds offroad with armor absorbing the strikes from bushes and weaving around the thicker stuff.

You can't just take a vanilla car offroad without going very slowly or suffering damage.  But if you take the time you can reinforce one that can handle the task.  It gives you something to do to improve the car that makes it better than vanilla, even when you are not one of those mobile base types and just use it for loot transport.

Comically, to emphasize my previous post, you can drive a truck into the outskirts of the forest and watch a few full grown trees get downed (or that's how I saw it anyway, I did manage to plow through a few) yet...a shrub on the other hand does otherwise?

Anyway, one bit here:
What's with some mutations (in debug) which have certain...um, categories? Like Wolf? Is it associated with the mutagen or the creature? The description text seems to be leading more on the mutagen but...it seems out of place, unless the lore does say that the mutagen was directly being developed for such purposes. IMO.

[WillowLuman]

PTW I guess.

[BigD145]

I like shrubs being car wreckers.  It allows you to have a regular car and drive around with it but if you have no easy means to repair it you avoid driving offroad...just like a normal car.   But with a little bit of time and resources you can convert that same car to be safe to drive offroad at reduced speeds through bushes just with a bit of front armor.   Or even go whole hog and design a fully custom maneuverable 3 tile wide armored tank that can do highway speeds offroad with armor absorbing the strikes from bushes and weaving around the thicker stuff.

You can't just take a vanilla car offroad without going very slowly or suffering damage.  But if you take the time you can reinforce one that can handle the task.  It gives you something to do to improve the car that makes it better than vanilla, even when you are not one of those mobile base types and just use it for loot transport.

Comically, to emphasize my previous post, you can drive a truck into the outskirts of the forest and watch a few full grown trees get downed (or that's how I saw it anyway, I did manage to plow through a few) yet...a shrub on the other hand does otherwise?

Anyway, one bit here:
What's with some mutations (in debug) which have certain...um, categories? Like Wolf? Is it associated with the mutagen or the creature? The description text seems to be leading more on the mutagen but...it seems out of place, unless the lore does say that the mutagen was directly being developed for such purposes. IMO.

Mutational branches in the tree. Certain mutations are categorized as certain animals with some overlap. Claws are cats, bears, wolves, etc I thjnk. With cetain mutagens you will go down those branches with use.

[Teneb]

I like shrubs being car wreckers.  It allows you to have a regular car and drive around with it but if you have no easy means to repair it you avoid driving offroad...just like a normal car.   But with a little bit of time and resources you can convert that same car to be safe to drive offroad at reduced speeds through bushes just with a bit of front armor.   Or even go whole hog and design a fully custom maneuverable 3 tile wide armored tank that can do highway speeds offroad with armor absorbing the strikes from bushes and weaving around the thicker stuff.

You can't just take a vanilla car offroad without going very slowly or suffering damage.  But if you take the time you can reinforce one that can handle the task.  It gives you something to do to improve the car that makes it better than vanilla, even when you are not one of those mobile base types and just use it for loot transport.

Comically, to emphasize my previous post, you can drive a truck into the outskirts of the forest and watch a few full grown trees get downed (or that's how I saw it anyway, I did manage to plow through a few) yet...a shrub on the other hand does otherwise?

Anyway, one bit here:
What's with some mutations (in debug) which have certain...um, categories? Like Wolf? Is it associated with the mutagen or the creature? The description text seems to be leading more on the mutagen but...it seems out of place, unless the lore does say that the mutagen was directly being developed for such purposes. IMO.

Mutational branches in the tree. Certain mutations are categorized as certain animals with some overlap. Claws are cats, bears, wolves, etc I thjnk. With cetain mutagens you will go down those branches with use.

Yeah. If you decide to go down the, say, plant path, you end up having bark for skin, being able to photosynthesize, but end up slower.

[Darkmere]

For the shrub thing, you can actually get reasonable durability on a regular car jsut by welding a reinforced frame crash bar on the front and armor plating that. Move the headlights up to the cab and reinforce them, then keep a few rolls of duct tape in the car for emergency repairs, or a welder with rechargable battery pack, or whatever. You can't plow through forests but going 30-40 through bushes won't hurt you too much.

[scrdest]

I like shrubs being car wreckers.  It allows you to have a regular car and drive around with it but if you have no easy means to repair it you avoid driving offroad...just like a normal car.   But with a little bit of time and resources you can convert that same car to be safe to drive offroad at reduced speeds through bushes just with a bit of front armor.   Or even go whole hog and design a fully custom maneuverable 3 tile wide armored tank that can do highway speeds offroad with armor absorbing the strikes from bushes and weaving around the thicker stuff.

You can't just take a vanilla car offroad without going very slowly or suffering damage.  But if you take the time you can reinforce one that can handle the task.  It gives you something to do to improve the car that makes it better than vanilla, even when you are not one of those mobile base types and just use it for loot transport.

Comically, to emphasize my previous post, you can drive a truck into the outskirts of the forest and watch a few full grown trees get downed (or that's how I saw it anyway, I did manage to plow through a few) yet...a shrub on the other hand does otherwise?

Anyway, one bit here:
What's with some mutations (in debug) which have certain...um, categories? Like Wolf? Is it associated with the mutagen or the creature? The description text seems to be leading more on the mutagen but...it seems out of place, unless the lore does say that the mutagen was directly being developed for such purposes. IMO.

Mutational branches in the tree. Certain mutations are categorized as certain animals with some overlap. Claws are cats, bears, wolves, etc I thjnk. With cetain mutagens you will go down those branches with use.

Basically, the old categories, mostly Beast, had specialized kinda-subcategories added, so you mutate into something a bit more specific than a generic chimaera of wild animal parts and characteristics. It's significant insofar as if you accumulate enough mutations in one specific category and use that category's concentrated (the syringe one) mutagen you get access to different powers you cannot access without specialization.

For example, going generic Beast allows you to get a mutation that allows you to be a remorseless cannibal, whereas Bear (Ursine), while working on the same normal mutations gives you access to mutations that allow you to hibernate.

[FArgHalfnr]

PTWEE

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How do you get to the mycus mutation branch? I've never found anything related to it in-game. Do I just need to eat a load of marolss berries? Or does it involves the seeds and the other yellow thing I never found?

[pisskop]

So.  I didn't realize Car mechanics/physics were updated.  Fishtails and actually skidding seem more fluid and dramatic

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I actually skid because a worm, into a pack.  I was going west to east, until the dramatic skid.

[Angle]

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Yup, EAT DEM BERRIES!