Finally got them to work -- though I had to really crank my Ego to get it to function on anyone who was more than a "Trivial" challenge -- and even at like ego 29 you wont get it working on anyone who is "Hard" or "Impossible". Never occured to me to try a water vine farmer, thats a great idea!
Also, what the hell is "Search" for? I just noticed there was a key binding for it, are there secret rooms in places? Or is it like foraging?
I think that's intended to stop you from getting someone at level 20 right off the bat and making 50% of the game trivial.
Search looks for hidden things around you. At the moment the only one that I know of is those things that hide in the ground and make you bleed when you step on them, I assume that it will work for traps and such when they are added later.
Time to give this another whirl! I haven't played it in ages and thus will likely die even more quickly than usual.
So, what now? It looks like there are plenty of interesting places to explore on the world map, but at level 5 most of them would be pretty lethal, I'm guessing.
Also, what is the command to wait a turn?
Personally, I would reccomend *NOT* killing anyone in the starting town besides the watervine farmers till you are sure you have completed all the quests there (and leaving both the merchant and the tinker alive so you can buy/sell them stuff).
This is what I usually do A) do the rust wells quest B) Do the red rock quest C) do the gologatha quest (which requires you to go to grit gate) D) do the goatman quest E) do the Bethsda Suda quest F) No clue, you can run around and kill stuff, but I can't think of anything to really do after that.
Similarly, ranged weapons are highly inaccurate for me, even when aiming and marking a target. Even with a very high agility and the various rifle skill bonuses. Are they just not worth using at more than range 3? Or are the accuracy bonuses associated with some of the better weapons?
What does "rusted" mean? It does not seem to effect the performance of an item, as far as I can tell. My rusted solar cell still works great.
Where the hell is the goatling villiage from the quest? I've gone up that river all the way to the orbital elevator and not found the thing -- and also down river and back around to grit gate.
As long as you have 20+ agi and the first rifle skill, rifles should have a good chance of hitting enemies and anything besides extreme range.
Rusted breaks armor/weapons, but for some reason doesn't effect power cells (and maybe some other items), and if I remember correctly, drops the value to 0.
Somewhere along the river is a bloody area, follow the blood and you should find the village (but it is still a huge pain in the ass to find).
Still dont know what "Berate" does. There is not much in the way of description, I tried using it as a precursor to soften up targets for Proslatizing, but it didnt seem to work. Didnt try it on merchants, was too scared.
I believe that berate gives enemies a penalty to some skills/stats or something, but am unsure of the exact effect.