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[Kishmond]

That happens sometimes. Argyve always wins.

[cerapa]

And then the zealot died a couple turns afterward. WTF?

WTF indeed. Argyve stealing your XP. 

[Mephansteras]

To be fair, it's the damn zealot who attacks Argyve. So it's not really the poor tinker's fault.

[Logical2u]

I appear to have finally generated a 'winning' character. Or at least one that hasn't died before actually doing anything.

Level 9 Mutated Human Arconaut, with Lvl 2 Antlers, Lvl 2 Psychometry, Lvl 3 Regeneration, and Lvl 2 Multiple arms.

I've managed so far to best the first few quests in Joppa - the elder's quest and the tinker's first few quests - and have run into a variety of traders and lairs. With pscyhometry I've been able to just identify a whole bunch of cheap artifacts en masse whenever traders have them - for example identifying shotguns, grenades, metal folding chairs, and HE missiles... and also using that to learn how to make them. Which would work better if I had any levels in Tinker.

That said, with an arconaut (short blades proficiency) and multiple arms, I've basically taken to running around with a torch in one hand, and a short-sword or dagger of some variety in all three of the others. This seems to have had the intended effect of creating a whirling dervish whenever those offhand weapons activate. Now I'm just saving up for the Dual wield skill tree so I can enhance this skill.

And I somehow cursed it by posting here, subsequently taking 11 damage from a qudzu in a single hit.

[unormal]

*Added a zone-build try limitation so that a failed zone won't just freeze the game (though it will be empty), and a new option to disable this
*Fixed a few issues where it would count recently expired tonics as still active
*Fixed shade oil duration description
1.0.4182.17457

[Kishmond]

I've come across a funny bug. You can't complete the quest step where you 'engage the baetyl' if you have no tongue.

[Deon]

Maybe it's a feature?

[Astral]

About where is Gritgate in relation to other notable features on the overworld map? I know it's Northeast of Joppa, but I've been looking around (and subsequently lost around) the large red arch.

Edit: Damn. Nevermind. Just ran into a 4x10 room full of about 13 chain gun turrets and 4 rifle turrets. And I had high hopes for this character, who had gotten an electrobow and had some decent dual wielding weapons.

[beorn080]

Gritgate is 8 NE and 3 east of Joppa. It looks like a grey square. Just so you know, you can look around the world map with the look key, and it will tell you what the square your looking at is, be it jungle, desert canyon, a town, or whatever else.

[Carrion]

Yes and when you get to the Gritgate map, you need to find the stairs downward.  Search those tunnels for the entrance.

[Astral]

I found Gritgate with another character (level 13, on a different computer) but he met his demise when I found out what a conveyor belt drop was the hard way in Golgotha. This proceeded to drop me into a 8x3 conveyor belt, being swarmed by about 8 enemies (5 of those swarming crabs) that decimated me amid a failed tonic use.

I've had varying degrees of success with my current build; think I'm going to stick with it a bit more before going off to try something else:

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Strength: 18
Agility: 20
Toughness: 18
Intelligence: 20
Willpower: 10
Ego: 14

Morphotypes:
Chimera
Unstable Genome [1]

Physical Mutations:
Night Vision (I hate torches, and love dual wielding)
Regeneration (Obvious)
Thick Fur (dump point, decent bonus)
Two-hearted (Toughness boost, and the chance to recover is nice; has saved me a bunch)
Slime Glands (Optional if you want to use the last point you'd have after the above)

Defect:
Hooks for Feet (I've found very few boots to be worth it and it gives 4 points...)

Calling: Arconaut (Free random artifacts, agility, dagger proficiency, and Dodge make this, at least to me, the best calling for the build in general)

I usually end up dual wielding short blades, and hoping that my Unstable Genome gets me a useful mutation somewhere along the way that will help to downplay the disadvantages this has early (Multiple Arms/Legs, Heightened Quickness are awesome; Corrosive Gas is like a free acid grenade that makes you immune to other creatures gas, and can eat through walls/doors)

High agility gain is nice too, and I generally go with Akimbo pistols as well, assuming that I get drops for them. Otherwise I'll go rifle for a higher-power weapon. Skills I get early are Disassemble, Tinkering I, and the early Short Blade skills, then jump to Dual Wield, or the first rank of butchering if I'm strapped for food (which seems to happen often, strangely enough)

[beorn080]

Dump hooks for feet. It gives a move speed penalty such that the difference between hooks and even sandals of the river wives is about 15 points of speed. Since EVERYTHING basically moves at 100 move speed, even that +5 lets you get away easier.

[Astral]

What would be a worthwhile defect to take, then? Not all of the defect descriptions are... complete. I didn't realize that was what gave me the movement speed reduction.

[beorn080]

Spontaneous combustion is actually a pretty good choice. It doesn't do that much damage and can be negated by the occasional dram of salt water instantly. If you plan for it, you basically lose a turn every couple hundred rounds.

[forsaken1111]

Also unless something has changed, the Fur mutation entirely negates the combustion damage