Junior Adventurer's Guild - October: UnderRail

[logincrash]

Do enemies drop better loot in harder difficulties? In the original game, I mean.

[rusty_shackleford]

Do enemies drop better loot in harder difficulties? In the original game, I mean.

Not sure, but,

► difficulty spoiler

There's parts of the game that can only spawn when you're on the hardest difficulty. Also, they're not guaranteed to spawn.

[logincrash]

How persistent are the containers in this game? Will I be able to store crap in the lockers in the starting SGS apartment indefinitely? Or will it disappear someday?

[MrTwinkls]

How persistent are the containers in this game? Will I be able to store crap in the lockers in the starting SGS apartment indefinitely? Or will it disappear someday?

It's safe. I used barrels in the Core city where all the stores, rift and Al Fabet are.

[Tangerine]

Are pistols worth sticking with, or should I swap to assault rifles? I like having the ballistic shield.

[wndrbr]

Are pistols worth sticking with, or should I swap to assault rifles? I like having the ballistic shield.

you can beat the game with any weapon type assuming your build supports it. Check the feat list, pistols have a ton of feats associated with them.

There's a feat called 'Execute' that's pistols only, it's a nuke-attack that deals a crapton of damage against stunned or flashbanged enemies (perfect to pair it with chemistry so you could craft more grenades, and with 'grenadier' feat so you could throw them more often). "Steadfast aim" is good when using pistols with a heavy AP cost (like .44 hammerer, best non-unique firearm pistol in the game), "gunslinger" and "rapid fire" are good if you prefer to shoot a lot. Pairing pistols with time manipulation psionics AFAIK can completely break the game by allowing you to destroy entire encounters in one turn, but i never tried that.

Chemical guns and Energy guns are considered pistol-sized too, though most of the firearm feats don't work with them and they require an INT-build.

[Tweed]

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God, I ******* love this gun!

[wndrbr]

Any of the first time players finished Depot A?

[logincrash]

Any of the first time players finished Depot A?

I haven't even done the first "Activate 5 reactors" or whatever it was quest. I'm already level 10.

[rusty_shackleford]

Told you guys it can take a long time to get past Depot A if you're exploring…

[Tadeusz]

Any of the first time players finished Depot A?

I did recently. It was brutal, had to use every trick and a lot of savescumming.

[wndrbr]

Told you guys it can take a long time to get past Depot A if you're exploring…

you can't really explore during that part of the game, most of the gameworld is blocked by rubble from the earthquake.

[Tweed]

Ignore Rusty, he played the game on Youtube.

[Tangerine]

Any of the first time players finished Depot A?

Yeah, just finished yesterday. Glad I put points into crafting so I could make acid resistant armor.

[Tadeusz]

Glad I put points into crafting so I could make acid resistant armor.

Same, tailoring saved the day.

[logincrash]

Usually RPGs have a whole bunch of clearly useless skills, so it's surprising how many skills feel useful and even critical in Underrail.

[Tadeusz]

Usually RPGs have a whole bunch of clearly useless skills, so it's surprising how many skills feel useful and even critical in Underrail.

True, I've even felt tempted to put points into traps though it's not my playstyle at all. Skills work in Underrail because there's not much of them and non-combat skills are somewhat multifunctional (traps are used for arming, disarming and detecting traps, crafting skills are often used in conjuction with other skills from the same category).

[logincrash]

Usually RPGs have a whole bunch of clearly useless skills, so it's surprising how many skills feel useful and even critical in Underrail.

True, I've even felt tempted to put points into traps though it's not my playstyle at all. Skills work in Underrail because there's not much of them and non-combat skills are somewhat multifunctional (traps are used for arming, disarming and detecting traps, crafting skills are often used in conjuction with other skills from the same category).

There's a camp of Lunatics south of the warehouse where you deliver the package to for Jack Quicksilver(?). They have three dogs, two psionics and a rifleman. I had to set all the mines and bear traps I had to ensure I always remained out of line of sight.
It was one of the more entertaining fights I've had so far.

[Tadeusz]

There's a camp of Lunatics south of the warehouse where you deliver the package to for Jack Quicksilver(?).

Yeah, I remember them. They're too difficult for me at the moment, perhaps I should visit them later. It's good that Depot A is packed with traps already

[wndrbr]

Noticing a lot of little things that weren't present back when I last played the game. Stumbled upon a rape dungeon full of mind-controlled slaves and a powerful psionic miniboss named Mister Dom.

Usually RPGs have a whole bunch of clearly useless skills, so it's surprising how many skills feel useful and even critical in Underrail.

that's because Styg spent a decade going back to Underrail and tweaking stuff with patches instead of making a sequel.

Usually RPGs have a whole bunch of clearly useless skills, so it's surprising how many skills feel useful and even critical in Underrail.

True, I've even felt tempted to put points into traps though it's not my playstyle at all. Skills work in Underrail because there's not much of them and non-combat skills are somewhat multifunctional (traps are used for arming, disarming and detecting traps, crafting skills are often used in conjuction with other skills from the same category).

traps are really cool even when you're not running a stealth build, considering that the combat is heavily focused on luring enemies into chokepoints. The enemies will see your traps and will try to avoid stepping into them if your skill is low - you can use this to make them go where you want. Same with caltrops.

too bad Styg hates trappers. Underrail once had a very powerful feat called 'Quick tinkering' that allowed players to lay beartraps in the middle of a combat encounter. Feat was too fun, and Styg had to nerf it into oblivion because fun is not allowed.

[stormvermin]

too bad Styg hates trappers.

"TRAPPERS could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this cavern before. There could be TRAPPERS anywhere."

[rusty_shackleford]

styg displays all the behaviors of a *****, I have zero doubts about it

[wndrbr]

****** love modding. Styg hates it, and even goes out of his way to prevent sensitive young men such as Rusty from stepping on a path towards troondom by obfuscating his game's code. Can't get more anti-***** than that.

[J1M]

Until a better idea comes along:

[logincrash]

Until a better idea comes along:

Literally can't tell what it is.

[J1M]

Until a better idea comes along:

Literally can't tell what it is.

The guy with a gas mask on the title art.

[logincrash]

Until a better idea comes along:

Literally can't tell what it is.

The guy with a gas mask on the title art.

Hmm. I guess I can see it now. But it's really hard to make out.
How about the "Start Combat" icon? Or is it too generic?

[J1M]

Literally can't tell what it is.

The guy with a gas mask on the title art.

Hmm. I guess I can see it now. But it's really hard to make out.
How about the "Start Combat" icon? Or is it too generic?

I like it, interested in what others think. Some of these are very clear to me what they should be and it's just about executing it well. This is one where crowdsourcing it should help. And sometimes that's easier if the first version is not very good a brown smear.

[Tangerine]

@J1M @logincrash What about the character sheet icon?

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[logincrash]

@J1M @logincrash What about the character sheet icon?

It's pretty good.