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I've requested this exact same thing in the past myself, and also suggested 5 inventory slots apart from your backpack. These items are part of your inventory in terms of weight, scent, and accessing them via the radial. However they are stored on your person instead of in your pack. (In a pocket, tucked into a waistband, slung over a shoulder, etc.) Your Drop Pack hotkey would create a backpack object on the ground where you're standing. It would contain your entire inventory plus moosehide satchel if you have one. Any other worn clothing or accessory, anything currently equipped, or items in your 5 personal slots remains with you. You would be unable to holster a weapon if you have no open personal slots available. You would have to drop it, free up a personal slot, then pick it up. Same as if you had a gun in your hand and had no empty pockets. And to address the issue of players exploiting this to get around storage limitations of certain bases, you can only have one such backpack in the game at any given time. It isn't a searchable container, it's a single object you pick up and it restores all the items to your inventory all at once. After dropping your pack your inventory is completely unusable except for those 5 personal slots, or what you're carrying in your hand. If you've forgotten where you left your pack, or ditched it in an inaccessible place, you would need to click an "Abandon Pack" button in your inventory. This removes that backpack from the game, along with all of its contents. Your inventory is then freed up, as it's assumed you just picked up another pack from somewhere. Oh...and it would remember if you had the Technical Backpack. So if you drop your pack and can't retrieve it, that upgrade is gone for good.

Actually that'd just short the battery and ruin the taser. Fish wouldn't even notice.

The suffocation does stop yes, but the visual distortion doesn't immediately go away. You'll see the green "Healed: Suffocation Risk" pop up on the right side when you get to a safe zone, and will have to stop and stay there for several seconds to recover. The safe zones are also fairly small so you DO have to be kind of vigilant.4 The spot where the lockers are is a safe zone, IIRC. I'm about to play the mine sequence and then the endgame scenario on my Hardened run so I'll pay close attention to where the safe zones are on this run and report back if I'm mistaken.

Actually that's the mine! The steam tunnels post-explosion are an endgame scenario, and are all about speed and not making wrong turns.

This is totally cosmetic but...anyone else think Heller looks like a "Vachon", and Vachon looks more like a "Heller"? I dunno just something about their appearances suggests swapping the names would be more natural. Like having some big beefcake named Sheldon, and a scrawny little bookworm named Duke. Like what?

Not really, just sprint as much as possible and try not to take any wrong turns. You might need to replay the section a few times until you figure out how to navigate the collapsed tunnels, but there really is no secret to it. Just don't take any wrong turns, and move as quickly as possible.

And unfortunately here, even that would result in a flurry of hooting and hollering about how it infringes on rights. You can keep a fully loaded shotgun propped up by the unlocked front door. A random passer-by can reach in and grab it, blow away a random stranger, and whoops! Not your fault because you didn't pull the trigger and can't be held liable for it being stolen. It's absolutely bonkers. But yeah, holding gun owners accountable for what happens with their weapons would encourage them to either lock them down harder, or perhaps abstain altogether. So that might be a good start, if you could convince politicians to agree on even that much. It's absolutely terrifying how rarely guns are secured, and when they are, just how poorly. Case in point, I picked my uncle's basement gun safe open using scrap scavenged from that very room just to prove a point. Edit: Oh and his response? "Well if it's that worthless, guess I won't bother locking them up." N...no, that is the wrong lesson here my dude...

It's a very complicated issue--the legally obtained guns are the root of the problem. No felon walks into a sporting goods store and and buys a shotgun for instance. They steal them from people who already bought them legally. Or buy them from private sellers who don't perform background checks. The law-abiding citizens are the unwitting source of the weapons that make it onto the black market. So you're faced with a problem where you block law abiding citizens from obtaining them, which causes an outrage because they are temporarily outgunned by the criminal element. Even if it is a fundamentally necessary part of an ultimate solution. You can't fix the problem until you cut off the supply...and unfortunately the supply is people who can rightfully own them. That's the crux of the issue.

Yeah, I don't truly fear home invasion but you never know what's going to happen out and about in the world. Road rage, etc. it would be nice to have a deterrent that doesn't involve me having to ask "Do I potentially kill this guy for possibly having an off day and taking it out on me?" Pepper ball to the chest. Problem solved.

True I don't hunt myself so didn't think of them specifically. But yeah, lots of people in the city own rifles, shotguns, bows, crossbows, etc. for hunting that only get broken out once a year during that season. Everyone I know that hunts already lives in the country so I just kind of mentally lumped them all together in the same group. Trap shooting now that I think about it, another good reason to own one. Now I wanna play Duck Hunt....

Most people don't. Only rural homesteads, hobby farms, etc. truly have a need for them, and that's for the aforementioned coyotes or maybe even a raccoon. It sounds brutal but setting up a live trap for a raccoon, solely to immobilize it for a killing shot by a rifle is not uncommon. But if it's them or your chickens, bye bye little trash panda. For everyone else it's a want, usually prompted by fear. Fear of being attacked, which is a justifiable reason to own one. But then, why go straight to a firearm? Why not go with a nonlethal weapon you won't hesitate to use? Another common fear is of emasculation. Having big guns in compensation for a small ego. That's just pathetic.

Well they do by virtue of population density alone of course. But also due to population density, there are the most laws prohibiting firearm use. In rural areas it's a lot more relaxed, like you can set up some cans in front of a backstop and target shoot any time you want. Or if nuisance animals are creeping around your property, coyotes etc. you can cull them no questions asked.

I'm going to trust that you were either drunk or having a bad night, and overlook this. If this happens again you will earn a full block from me. I have no time for this kind of attitude. Just because something is not what you expected doesn't mean it's wrong or broken, it just means it's not what you expected. You can no longer rely on conventional wisdom and need to adopt new strategies. Whether it's how to effectively use the new tools, how to properly evade timberwolves, how to search for secret hidden paths around these areas, etc. Every major timberwolf pack has a way to avoid them with or without weapons. I'm practically finished with Ep 4 on Hardened Survivor and haven't been bitten once, due to the lessons I learned by playing Green and Capable. So what this sounds like to me is you're having trouble with the difficulty, and rather than take the time to actually learn how to deal with the problem, you decided to go online, complain, and attack other users. That is unfortunate.

Well I don't live in an active warzone or anything lol. I got it mainly because there are situations where you may need to defend yourself, but where deadly force would not be appropriate. Like the neighbor's dog gets into your yard and starts attacking your dog. The situation sucks but that's still a family pet, not to mention it would be illegal to discharge a firearm in city limits (edit: for that purpose anyway) even just to scare it off. On the other hand, a couple kinetic rounds to the hindquarters ought to teach him a lesson.

What else would it be?

It's basically a paintball, but instead of paint it's a cloud of tear gas. So yeah, not fun to be on the business end of no matter how you spin it! The company itself has been around for a while, but I just got mine in September. It basically lives on my nightstand when at home, in my glove compartment when on the road. I don't walk around with it yet, although when winter arrives I probably will carry it under my coat. It won't be obvious and shouldn't make people nervous. Just because it's exempt from open carry laws, someone might still freak out, and then I have to deal with all that nonsense even if I'm let go in the end for not breaking any laws.

Oh I wouldn't use a taser myself, only 2 shots? No thank you! Byrna SD here! Basically an airsoft pistol that fires compressed pellets of pepper spray and tear gas that explode into a cloud on impact. Five to a magazine, reloads quickly, doesn't need to be charged, and you can fire off three full magazines on one CO2 cylinder.

Besides flares you can also evade timberwolves by getting into a car and taking a nap. They give up after a while. Regular wolves give up immediately and provided they aren't super close you can just get out and immediately crouch, then sneak out of range. And lastly if you want to go on the offensive, craft some noisemakers! A direct hit on a timberwolf will deplete a HUGE chunk of pack morale, as well as stun it for a couple seconds. Then you can whip out the revolver and shoot him in the face before he starts running. Two noisemakers in a row will defeat any pack. At least on Green and Capable survivor. About to start a Hardened survivor run and see what changes.

Oh that's just kind of the crowd I run with lol. Most of my friends are veterans, one is a cop, one is a corrections officer at a medium security penitentiary, plus I'm a fan of less than lethal weapons myself just on principle. There's enough guns out there already, we don't need to add more. I mean there are loads of ways to incapacitate that don't involve 9mm parabellum rounds. And with a firearm if you miss, that shot can penetrate a wall, possibly multiple walls. A stray bullet could hit a baby sleeping peacefully in their crib across the street. Even in the best case scenario where you exercise trigger discipline and check your targets, you're going to hesitate. Someone trying to hurt or kill you isn't going to hesitate, and a weapon you hesitate to use isn't an effective defense. Plus there's stories where like someone's kid comes home from college unexpectedly in the middle of the night, the parent shoots the "intruder", and whoops! Now their19 year old son is bleeding out in the foyer. Now that's absolutely on the parent for shooting a target they didn't identify, but what if they didn't use a gun? A couple pinholes in the gut and painful shock, at least he's still alive to hear the apology.

Gotcha! Well Taser is actually the brand name, although it get used as a blanket term for any sort of electrical less-than-lethal weapon. Like how Kleenex or Xerox are used to refer to any facial tissue or copy machine, respectively. There's the shooting taser shaped like a pistol and fires metal darts contained to long wires, at medium range. They lose accuracy and penetration at ranges greater than room-scale. These darts can penetrate skin or light clothing, at which point a shock is delivered which causes most people to drop on the spot and convulse. It also sprays a shower of confetti with a serial number on each piece, which ties the use of that taser to the owner (sales of cartridges are tracked) to disincentive its use in crime. Although each taser cartridge only has two shots, so if you miss with both you're in trouble. Hand-held stunners have two or more metal prongs that cause an electric spark to arc between them when the trigger is pulled. (Ironically these are referred to as stun guns even though they neither look nor perform like a gun.) These deliver a much more powerful shock of hundreds of thousands of volts or more depending on make/model, can penetrate multiple layers of clothing, can be reused repeatedly before needing to be recharged, and can offer with a variety of extra features such as a flashlight or loud distress siren. Of course, they only work in close quarters though.

If one particular user is giving you trouble, I recommend just adding them to your ignore list for comments, messages, and mentions. If they keep that sort of thing up eventually half the forum doesn't even see what they're writing anymore, and the problem sorts itself out. Incidentally I don't think a ranged taser would work as effectively on wildlife. If one or both of the darts gets gnarled up in fur and doesn't complete the circuit, it simply won't zap them. A hand-held melee taser might be effective though, because you can continue to apply pressure, forcing the contacts deep enough for the arc to reach the skin. (I get that it's a joke post I'm just rolling the science around in my head.) This same problem applies to police using a ranged taser on someone wearing heavy clothing like a winter coat, they're just not as effective.

I'm sure covid gave them some ideas too they might not otherwise have had cause to consider. Wearing masks indoors, social distancing, etc. Even if only for background worldbuilding purposes, like markers on the floor six feet apart, "masking required" signs posted, etc. I mean the whole world knows what it's like to quarantine during a pandemic now, it wouldn't make sense to not replicate that.

This can happen with small objects of any sort, anywhere. It's not specific to the camp office. I always make a point to store things like arrows, arrow shafts, feathers, arrowheads, fishing hooks, lines, tackle, etc. in containers. This can happen if you go to resume crafting an object but you no longer have the required materials in your inventory. For instance a bow requires 2 gut and 1 maple sapling. If you get 3 hours in, and no longer have any cured gut in your inventory when you go to resume, you will be unable to resume progress. Common mistake.

On Steam you might want to consider right-clicking TLD in your library, then go to Properties, Updates, and make sure you have the game flagged as High Priority. That can help jump start the download if it hasn't already triggered for you.

Nah, she uses it for a toothbrush. Great Bear folk are a strange lot.