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[Paul]

Hard to get? Not really. Amp circuits are just flashlights, radios, etc. Power converters are soldering irons, electrohacks, batteries, or just more amp circuits.

Raid a couple hardware and sporting goods stores and you'll be rolling in flashlights & radios. Unload the batteries, turn them into amp circuits. Turn the batteries into power converters. For extra power converters just use the amp circuits. Two radios and 6 flashlights = 8 amp circuits 2 power converters. Convert 4 of the amp circuits and you have a CBM with 2 amp circuits left over.

Science labs are easy too. Hit a science lab and you'll find tons of soldering irons, power converters,  amp circuits, the materials to make electrohacks (more power converters), radios, flashlights, transponder circuits, etc.

4 power converters 2 amp circuits is trivial to find.

[FunctionZero]

Huh. Guess you're right.

[Paul]

A bionics crafting system that uses rare bionic components found in science labs would be cool. Could make a special bionics room in the science lab with a chance of having a completed bionic and tables with parts laying about. Putting parts inside banks could be a good place for them too. Right now bank vaults are mostly empty, find a purifier or some plutonium in them sometimes but often nothing. Finding bionic components would be worth the effort of breaking into the vaults.

Could leave the parts on the random dead scientists as well, that way instead of finding full bionic canisters you find parts to maybe craft one scattered on the scientists. The only place to find the premade bionics would be the special bionics rooms in labs, outside that you would have to craft them yourself from collected parts.

Could still use current items like power converters and amp circuits too, just require a couple biosensors and some bionics chips and a bionic controller (or whatever names would be good for the parts) to go with them.

[BishopX]

So I'm lost in the sewers and my flashlight died. Any tricks on how to find a staircase?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Go back the way you came and hope nothing kills you?

[areyoua]

Don't forget to turn on run mode whilst you search blindly in the sewers.

[SirAaronIII]

Look at your map and blindly stumble in the direction of the stairs?

[Paul]

Funny, all the time I've played I don't think I've ever went into the sewers. Been next to sewers while in a basement or science lab. Found a science lab that bordered a sewer with doors leading to a room with sewer. But never actually raised a manhole cover and climbed down.

Anything interesting down there?

Oh, and I suggest using map notes when exploring complex areas. I always mark my entry point of a science lab, and mark all the sections with E for explored after I've cleared them out. That way if I need to leave and come back I won't have to remember which parts I haven't been in yet. Wouldn't hurt to put an "Exit" note when you go down in the sewers, unless the map already marks the exit clearly for you (In science labs it doesn't).

[BishopX]

Funny, all the time I've played I don't think I've ever went into the sewers. Been next to sewers while in a basement or science lab. Found a science lab that bordered a sewer with doors leading to a room with sewer. But never actually raised a manhole cover and climbed down.

Anything interesting down there?

Oh, and I suggest using map notes when exploring complex areas. I always mark my entry point of a science lab, and mark all the sections with E for explored after I've cleared them out. That way if I need to leave and come back I won't have to remember which parts I haven't been in yet. Wouldn't hurt to put an "Exit" note when you go down in the sewers, unless the map already marks the exit clearly for you (In science labs it doesn't).

The problem is that I literally can't find stair. I have nine tiles of view and no landmarks.

[Taco Dan]

I wish there was something I could do about the spawning. Every time I die, it's because I was walking along and suddenly a giant horde of zombies spawned, with 6 or 7 special zombies, (usually Shockers, Spitters and Fast Zombies) and I was either ill-equipped because it wasn't even noon of Day 1 yet, or I just fought the last horde off and I was low on health and trying to get to a pharmacy.
It sucks because I could probably survive a lot longer if these hordes would just stop spawning so soon. I wouldn't mind it happening on Day 2 or maybe even during the night, but the morning of Day 1 just seems unfair. I'm not even being that loud, unless bashing zombies over the head with a baseball bat is just as loud as a shotgun going off.

[FunctionZero]

Lemme guess, you're strolling right in the middle of the town, yeah? Don't do that, you'll live longer. Towns are for experienced and equipped survivors. Stick to town borders for now.

[SirAaronIII]

The problem is that I literally can't find stair. I have nine tiles of view and no landmarks.

If you came from a subway station, then it should be visible. If you came down from a manhole, then you're out of luck.

Try going to the middle tile and groping around til you find stairs?

[Greiger]

Why do you have 3 hotplates and 5 flashlights? Just carry around 1 of each and reload with batteries when needed.

Because I'm too lazy to unload them and I found 3 hotplates in one hardware store after searching EVERY OTHER GODDAMN BUILDING IN THE ENTIRE TOWN AND FINDING NONE. Seriously When I posted that I had just gotten back to my safehouse with all three of them nearly weeping with joy.

The flashlights are just there because my first night really creeped me out.  And I decided I'd grab every one I could find.  I also have decent electronics skill, so there is a use to having so many.  That char is still alive, 3:AM day 3.  My current goal is skillbooks.  I need to get my electronics skill up to a level where I can make something more useful than a radio which only seems good for attracting zombies, and my firearms skill up enough to actually use this silencer I made.

[BishopX]

The problem is that I literally can't find stair. I have nine tiles of view and no landmarks.

If you came from a subway station, then it should be visible. If you came down from a manhole, then you're out of luck.

Try going to the middle tile and groping around til you find stairs?

Yeah...I found a new station, went up killed that fast zombie that was waiting for me, took his  flashlight and wnet back down and found the correct exit. Took about 30min in game. The upside is that I found 3 new basements to explore. The first of which is chock full of more ammo than I could ever use. Every single rack has at least 5 stacks of ammo on it.

[Jacob/Lee]

Does a radio even do anything?