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[Greiger]

I have discovered that hospitals are zombie pinatas.   Now if only my car had a horn so I could just drive back and fourth in front of it horn blaring and clear the inside of the hospital instead of just the ones milling around the lobby.

I wonder how feasible it is to make a car that is nothing but 5 layers of forward frame and armor plating, a seat, controls, and a few big wheels just for breaking & entering purposes.

[BigD145]

You should probably go to whalesdev and check out the forums. There's a vehicle building thread. Girlinhat suggested a highly armored vehicle with a single tile up front to puncture holes in buildings.

My own vehicle extension mod is in the modding portion of the whalesdev forum and I will not post updates here anymore.

[Girlinhat]

My ideal "breaking and entering" vehicle would feature a single piece of Hard Plating over Steel Frame in the front, followed by regular vehicle bits.  This provides a big enough hole to slip in, in case you don't have enough military IDs or something.

For "breaking and continuing through to break the other side" then a 3 wide set of frames with steel armor followed by frames with hard plate would probably do well.  The main thing you'll want is speed though, so the rear of the vehicle would be poorly armored, or non-existent.  A motorcycle with ramming plates wouldn't be a bad idea really.

[Greiger]

The RNG just jipped me.

Spoiler: WOT (click to show/hide)

I got tired of forgetting about a military outpost that was built practically on top of the otherwise least obstructed road in the area and decided to raid the base.  I grabbed all my guns I had ammo for, threw them and all the ammo in the trunk of my car, drove near the base and started looking for a rifle that had farther range than the turrets.

A Remington 700 did the job, actually able to target them from where I parked my car, 30 tiles away. It was also was convenient, because that was also what I had the most ammo for.  So I kept stepping closer until the turrets fired at me, then took a step back and started shooting.   Sadly, while I have decent general firearms skill, and good shotgun, handgun, and archery, I never touched a rifle. 

I sniped out the closest two turrets after about 40 shots.  Fortunately one bullet was enough to take them down, because seems I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the rifle.  Went into the opening in the wall, and took out another pair of turrets at closer range that weren't visible from the road by firing around a corner wasting another 5 bullets.  Picked up a few military IDs, some ammo, and took note of some electronic parts and metal chunks on the map and discovered that this courtyard I so 'expertly' cleared didn't have a door into the building.

So I start going around to the other side of the bunker and find another turret.  Instead of moving out of range I decide to try for the thing I did with the last pair, jumping out into the range to take the shot and retreating around the corner to load another cartridge and let recoil fall off.  That doesn't work so well.  I somehow absorb 76 damage from a bullet to my head (I guess my helmet blocked it) and take a good 50 damage to my torso and an arm.

Now I'm an even worse shot, down to half torso hp, in intense pain (I forgot to bring painkillers) and decide to just go all out.  I go back to my car and run those last two turrets over in my car.  Victoly!

But wait...there is no other entrance... I decide the building must be bugged.  But seeing that my car took almost no damage flattening the turrets I remove the machetes from the front and ram the wall.  My car has 2 steel plated frames in front of the front wheels that punch two nice neat holes in the wall, exposing a small inaccessible mini courtyard, where the entrances to the bunker had decided to spawn.

I kill the one zombie soldier with my SIG handgun and get lucky and one shot a surprise turret with the remington in another room before it gets off any shots.  No good loot.  7 military IDs and some metal chunks and some ammo I already had is all I come out with that I couldn't have found in some military surplus store.

But I have military ids now, so I first aid up a bit and pop some oxycodine make a quick detour to my base and put the machetes back on my car and fix up some minor structural damage, and get to the bunker.  Surely my real reward is awaiting me inside!

3 absolutely empty rooms, a couple silencers I could easily just make myself, some clothes I already had, and the only half decent item I found, an M4A1 and a grenade launcher addon, both of which I probably could have found raiding gun stores as well.   In trade for 300 welder fuel in car repairs, about 60 30.06 bullets and probably about a day I'll be out of commission lowering these pain levels.  Curse you RNG!

[Girlinhat]

Sorry Greiger!  Your princess is in another castle!

[rhesusmacabre]

Turrets are much less of a challenge with Night Vision and a shotgun. Stand two tiles away in the dark and blam.

The RNG has been out to get me too. My last character started next to a huge town, with plenty of resources but not a single welder. Nor did I find one in the next town or the two after that. I searched 30 hardware stores and 5 megastores, and nothing. I had 6 UPSs full of stored batteries, just waiting to be used.

My next character started next to a very small town. I've had to trudge over 250 maptiles on foot to find my next (slightly bigger) town. Naturally, it has a single hardware store with a welder, wrench and hacksaw. But no parking lots.

[Shades]

The trick is the slim profile.  It's significantly easier to barrel through a 3-wide wall than a 5-wide.  But at the same time, that'd give you only 1 wide walkway inside.  For a little movement room and some turrets, you'd need at least 5.  Dual-mounted 6L would probably give you enough power to push through any building though, provided you have good Hard Plating on the front of course.

My custom 5 wide vehicle has just a line of steel plated frames at the front, and the wheels behind that frame also steel plated and it happily busts through buildings with only a single 2.5l engine.

I've yet to find a 6l one

[Greiger]

I took the tires off a quad and put them on my car and gained a whole lot of speed.  The K Dynamics and K Mass changed a ton and I have no idea what that means, but it seems I can now shoot a 3700 pound sharp bladed object down a road at 70 miles per hour with the base 2.5L engine.

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Can't wait til I hit a squirrel.

[Vorbicon]

I took the tires off a quad and put them on my car and gained a whole lot of speed.  The K Dynamics and K Mass changed a ton and I have no idea what that means, but it seems I can now shoot a 3700 pound sharp bladed object down a road at 70 miles per hour with the base 2.5L engine.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Can't wait til I hit a squirrel.

Knowing this game, you're car will probably explode on squirrelly impact.

[Graknorke]

I've yet to find a 6l one

That's kind of funny because I found one almost right of the bat on my current character, who has no mechanics skill and no way of acquiring a vehicle.

[Greiger]

I started with 0 mechanics skill and found a car in a parking lot.  I spent a day reading a book up to mechanics 3, found a welder kiting a mob through a megastore, and just regular maintenance repairing damage once a part gets to yellow or below got me up to 5.  And that seems to be enough to basically move around the country freely in regards to car design.

I'm up to 7 now and I think the only things I still can't do is mount a flamethrower or plasma gun (I can mount a standard machine gun fine), or add a second engine (although I can replace my current one with anything but a plasma engine, adding a second engine of any type requires 12 mechanics).

My car in the screenshot has 4 storage trunks, en entirely armor plated front end with extra plated frames to protect the front wheels, 2 machetes sticking out of the grill, 2 gas tanks, and all the seats and roof sections stripped out except for the roof around the drivers seat.  And I can open the drivers side door to make the drivers seat regster as outdoors, letting me recharge my solar bionic on a sunny day while driving.  All made by somebody who spawned with 0 mechanics skill.

[BigD145]

I found two parking lots next to each other within the starting map. One had a car and the other had a truck. Other games I have to go through half a dozen big cities and a couple dozen parking lots just to find one motorcycle.

[Moogie]

Is the Whalesdev site giving 404 for anyone else?

I was gonna go search for the error "cannot find empty invlet" when entering the craft menu. It's currently appearing every time I view that menu and considering how many times I've crashed or had my saves corrupted this version, I'm a little wary of actually trying to craft anything. xP

[bombzero]

Is the Whalesdev site giving 404 for anyone else?

I do believe Teseng just now fixed it.

[Aninimouse]

Is the Whalesdev site giving 404 for anyone else?

I was gonna go search for the error "cannot find empty invlet" when entering the craft menu. It's currently appearing every time I view that menu and considering how many times I've crashed or had my saves corrupted this version, I'm a little wary of actually trying to craft anything. xP

Yeah, I'm getting 404 errors too. Now that I'm at this thread though, might as well share something I built a while back:

Fake Edit: Well, was getting a 404 Error.

I present to you the...

Spoiler: Screenshots and Stuff (click to show/hide)

I think the most damage I inflicted was somewhere in the 10000s.

I even ended up making a backup (Go ahead, sue me. But that thing took forever to build.) to crash it into something just to see what would happen!



That crash hadn't even actually scratched me, but I hopped out while it was still rolling at 1 or 2 mph and got sucked under and instantly killed.

Also, for bonus points, someone in the IRC told me to use all the Plastic Bottles I had lying around in my Megastore Fortress to make a Giant Plastic Bottle, so this is what they got:

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I also remember the first time I found a Quad Bike, I was going so fast I drove straight into a Minefield and was killed, but my next character spawned in an Evac Shelter right next to the road the Quad Bike and Minefield was on, so I figured: "Hey, if the Quad Bike survived at least I can go grab it and my stuff." So I started running up the road and onto a bridge when I started getting Debug Messages about a vehicle. I had no idea what they were supposed to mean, but I figured it just had something to do with dieing while driving it. So I continued onwards when suddenly!:

The Quad Bike sped straight at me and ran me over, killing me.