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spacepiggio said:
U can find working stuff like forges, benches, theyre either broken & lootable or usable. Just got to Poke Around...
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I thought I saw earlier in this thread it was said there are no Useable workstations / forges / etc found now.  Only broken and lootable.

Maybe I am mis-remembering, but our team has yet to find a working one.

 
LewZephyr said:
I thought I saw earlier in this thread it was said there are no Useable workstations / forges / etc found now.  Only broken and lootable.

Maybe I am mis-remembering, but our team has yet to find a working one.
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That was my impression too, Infact I thought there was a post somewhere where the devs took them out because they would be used to easily skip progression 

 
I haven't found any working workstations / forges / etc, but I did find a working cement mixer at a poi.  It might just be the traders or maybe that poi was overlooked.

 
zicky said:
I did find a working cement mixer at a poi
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Interesting.

I thought vending machines were similarly disabled outside of the traders' machines, but have found one or two which were functional. Maybe I just had bad luck, but the frequency of working machines should probably have been lowered, so all is good ;)

-Arch Necromancer Morloc

 
From the beginning of the "Bring Back LBD" movement I have said that the simplest solution was to just remove crafting from the loop. It could have solved both the "spam-crafting" and "stand on cactus" issues with one move. Most of the popular mods that use LBD have some form of this "Action Skills" approach.

Now that crafting might be getting it's very own learn-by-whatever system, I would be interested to hear the arguments against such an Action Skills system in vanilla.

Frankly, the RPG-ish system we have now is my least favorite part of the game, but I'm not going to dilute the point by listing my personal peeves.

I'm just curious to read other opinions as to why action-based LBD wouldn't work.

 
Is it intentional that the only primitive item in the entire game with random stats is the pipe machinegun? Or an oversight?

 
Fixed 

  • Drone mods of the same type stack. Cargo mods are allowed to stack. 
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  • So to clarify. does this mean you can no longer stack any drone mods except cargo ones? 

    or does it mean you can't stack drone mods at all, period?
 
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saltychipmunk said:
That was my impression too, Infact I thought there was a post somewhere where the devs took them out because they would be used to easily skip progression 
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found it for you:

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Doomofman said:
Are there no more working workstations in the wild? Yet to find one myself or see anyone else get one on streams
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Nope, they completely bypass the natural progression that gives the player a feeling of accomplishment. WIthout needs and desires, the game is boring so I had them make them ALL broken. Now when you finally craft one or buy one you feel extremely rewarded instead of meh I'm already at late game tech because I found a trader with all the workstations intact on day 1. @%$# that.
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still unclear to me what MM meant. Says ALL, but then gives example with trader.

I have read it as it was meant "just the ones at traders, because they usually have 'em all together in one place".

But now I see it could also mean really every single one on the entire map, so those in POIs too.

I would now interpret it as there are supposed to be no working ones at all,

and that one that was found in a POI was overlooked.

Or maybe caused by corrupted files, like old save/world or similar from A19, from an incomplete wipe before starting over with A20?

Can anyone of the staff please specify?

 
Hi

I am seeing reference to horde Boss events. I must have missed the discussion around that.... I have no idea what that is referring to ?

 
Found a pretty scary visual little bug, probably because the crawler doesn't have a swim animation, so he just floats above the water without animations towards us. Was very scary :)

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meilodasreh said:
still unclear to me what MM meant. Says ALL, but then gives example with trader.
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He was playing a test run, found a trader with all stations working and it ruined his test run, so he told them to make ALL stations the player didn't craft be destroyed

You cannot find working stations anymore

  • In A19 items got increased scrapping speed when scrapping to iron. Updated all other scrap actions to the same speed. 
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Huuuuuuuge!! Screw the brass scrapping time

Slightly lowered the stamina use of the pipe baton 
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I won't say no to it, but it's weird this is the only change on pipe baton. It still isn't very clearly mentioned in the UI, I've seen many people confused on what attribute pipe baton belongs to and whether it scaled with the electrocute perk line at all

 
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Could night quest be activable from 22 - 4 instead of the 22 - 1? Would give more leeway when having to travel from one quest to another.

 
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