Yeah, incinerators and the lake are your two disposal methods
One of the craftsmen has a bunch of chiralium-corrupted cargo outside his location that you can take to the lake to dump and get an achievement and karma
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
What's your opinion on bot deliveries? I used to max him out but I started feeling humiliated by the C and B ratings so I had to bench him. Fuckin guy.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
It's not a bad way to passively (and slowly) increase your ranking for out-of-the-way places. I have been working on getting 5 stars at every location and bots gave me a good head start.
Alternately useful to increase material storage in an area where you might need mats.
― circa1916, Friday, 10 January 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
Ah because increased stars of connection increase those materials there? Hmm. Still. I feel like I'm letting these people down. I see stuff like 'Rare painting. Damage level - 92%' And I'm like damn.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Things I have never done:
- Created a sign requesting something, much less done that and then gone back to see if someone's actually followed through on the request
- Killed anyone
- used a 'Bridge Link' or created a 'contract' with another online player
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
the bridge links/contacts are subtle enough to seem ephemeral given the amount of material that bleeds in naturally, tbh
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
Well, any time a place receives a delivery there are some materials added to their cache I believe. I'm not sure if increased star rating = increased material gain, I'm just gunning for 5 stars for fun and for the items and equipment upgrades you can get out of that.
I understand the hesitancy to send important or delicate sounding materials via bots though haha. I wish you could encounter them stumbling around in the wild.
xxp
― circa1916, Friday, 10 January 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
increasing your ratings ups the maximum amount of materials a site can hold, but I'm unsure whether it ups the regeneration rate
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
man i suck at this game. still in chapter 2, trying to get to port knot city for the first time. it seems like i need the bike to get there with all my cargo, but the bike can't get through the terrain. so i try to walk and end up falling down cliffs with my overloaded cargo.
― na (NA), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
keep on keeping on
― chihuahuau, Friday, 10 January 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
ropes and ladders, friend. ropes and ladders
― babu frik fan account (mh), Saturday, 11 January 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link
NA did you know you can see the elevation of the land on your map? you hold down the touchpad on your controller and tilt the controller.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 January 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
#PS4share pic.twitter.com/USo3fdU9vl— 芝生の頭 (@sibahunoatama) November 29, 2019
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
i like it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 12 January 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
what begins in comedy ends in tragedyI’m being a big dummy and running around my game where I finished the story in normal mode, now in hard modethe big old BT fights are definitely meaner, and I’m more apt to run away. it’s like the first time I ran into two of those lion-looking jerks the first time, only now every fight is that stressful. and the timefall is much more punishing!apparently there’s a backpack cover upgrade that I was unaware of that protects packages that don’t extend beyond the top of the bag! working on that
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 13 January 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
i was just being too cute about finding a route to avoid the BTs when the game at this stage is obviously trying to funnel me towards them. i made pretty good progress getting through them the other day (and finally figured out there some that don't appear like big floating humans but are instead wispier and harder to see) but then i turned off the console without saving by accident so now i get to do it all again. this game obviously rewards patience and i am not a patient person so i am likely going to continue to suck at it.
― na (NA), Monday, 13 January 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
the BTs are annoying. later you get bombs and stuff that will “kill” them.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
you can do a lot of evasion by crouching, walking slowly, and holding your breath at strategic times
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
yeah just slowing down and going around them pretty much always works.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
mh have you ever cut their “umbilical” cord with the fancy new handcuffs?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
don’t try and bust through on a trike tho cos it don’t work.
― Fizzles, Monday, 13 January 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
yeah that's the problem, i'm trying to get the cargo through on the trike so it's a slow process of clearing a path, moving the trike, clearing a path, etc. i've got the blood bombs. i can do it, i just need to find the time to sit down and do it in one sitting since you can't save amongst the BTs
― na (NA), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
you don’t need to clear *all* of them to get through on the trike ime. but yeah, slow going.
― Fizzles, Monday, 13 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
I've done the umbilical cut multiple times, but it's become exceedingly difficult now that I'm in HARD MODE and late game
the funniest shit is when you're on a vehicle and it's a beautiful flat area with no rocks, fuck the BTs, I'm gonna barrel through
and then your vehicle going full speed runs directly into one and INSTANT HARD STOP
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 13 January 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
finally got through to port knot city. turned out it was a lot easier to ditch the trike and just hike through. i was able to bypass most of the BTs just by climbing around them.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 07:36 (four years ago) link
this is getting easier and more fun. i stole a truck from the MULES and have a bolo gun and suddenly there are paved roads and i'm just tooling around between outposts making deliveries
― na (NA), Monday, 20 January 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
also getting the cyborg skeleton thing has helped
― na (NA), Monday, 20 January 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
cut some BT umbilicals yesterday and.... feels good man.
i'm now at the tar lake and apparently trucking around the outer edge of.... everything i've connected so far. which is weird, because i thought i was going across the united states??
not enough has been said about how great this game looks. the tactility of the snow. and how the game teases the mountains even at the very early stages of the game, and how you ease up into them, a few incursions here or there, but you know it's inevitable. some of the weather you end up encountering is just tremendous.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 January 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
I was introduced recently to the concept of “rubbersheeting” which is the distortion of one map layer, like satellite imagery, to align with another, like a gps grid
It’d be an interesting practice to map the DS map on to ours because, even taking into account the in-game map it shows when you add someone to grid, the scale is insanely weird. Basically Kojima & co. had continental locations and cities and routes that reference small pieces that they put across the US
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
ha it is basically a little peninsula, maybe 5 square miles max? which gets represented in the game as the entire united states.
i beat higgs. what a fucked up boss fight. the final stage of bludgeoning each other senseless was definitely kind of....... homoerotic. oh and can i say beating higgs' giant extinction event beast wasn't really hard but it was SO SATISFYING.
don't ever want this game to end obv.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 08:50 (four years ago) link
i fuckin lost it when it turned into EA's xbox-era classic fight night
― adam, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
yes!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
get prepared for EVEN MORE EXPOSITION from here on out!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
that’s not what i want. I just want to build roads, man.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
you get some more Mads, though, as a treat
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
any amount of mads - even homeopathic levels of mads - is a treat
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
I can’t remember if you’re to the point where you’re kind of locked into finishing the plot now. Pretty close, if not already. But worry not, you can still build roads and deliver nice underwear to people when the plot wraps!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
xp there’s a reason the otherwise ridiculous game awards gave him best motion captured role
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Have still never gotten a single trophy better than bronze. !!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
Total play time - 69:34:11
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
lol wait a minute it’s still going
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
did anyone find out whether constructions degrade outside playing time? i haven’t picked this up for a while.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 February 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
I don’t know but I’ve started a few zipline networks now and it’s ridiculously satisfying. Hope they don’t just die.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
lol there’s some amazing behaviour going on. From a Reddit thread:With the truck I keep hitting the order limit trying to be too efficient. I'm running my own sorting facilities piling up goods in private lockers to be shipped on together.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
Things i have never done:- a “premium” delivery- used the sticky gun- used any lethal weapon (at least not on purpose)- fabricated a truck- cancelled an order- redeployed cargo- manually saved a game- changed the difficulty- used an EX grenade to any effect at all. Seriously they don’t do anything as far as i can tell???
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
premium deliveries are easy, select them by default and you'll meet the requirements almost everytime
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
omg oh well.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
oh and i never used the otter hat!! i should try it out on the waterfall :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
conan o'brien's v disappointed in me i imagine
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link