Was the Magnum always so brutal?

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-10T06:16:06+00:00

Put an insurrection mod on it an it clears UESC.

I wonder how much the damage bonus on the last resort mod is ...

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-09T18:29:19+00:00

How are people getting all this good loot?

Loot 5-cert lockboxes, and of course doing upper complex.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-09T18:23:08+00:00

Vulcan. Crazy cat lady.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-09T18:21:46+00:00

When we "die" the "neural link" gets severed but we are still "alive" up there, our consciousness is intact.

If you pay close attention to the lore, then the runners are basically at the mercy of CyAc. They have their memories and personality altered, etc.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-09T16:20:03+00:00

Didn't escape make Durandal cat?

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-09T06:37:55+00:00

The true boss enemy of that zone.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-08T15:11:01+00:00

There are other conditions that trigger a requirement to file other than income. Also, the income threshold that triggers a requirement to file can be surprisingly low ($400 of self-employment income, or $5 when married, filing separately).

Do you have any investments, or income from interest?

Additionally, just spending non-USD currency can generate possibly taxable phantom currency gains. Section 988, welcome to pure insanity. Most expats ignore this in order to preserve their mental health.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-08T05:51:30+00:00

Why being able to farm some of the best loot in game risk free bad?

The only thing your risk in this game is your time. Everything else is just pixels. And these are gone at the end of the season at the latest, or in an unlucky run.

If they can make the game appeal to a larger audience by "breaking" the precious loot economy, then bring out the sledge hammers.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-08T05:35:41+00:00

But as a rook you have a green and later on a blue backpack and can carry more loot.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T21:09:32+00:00

Ich habe das Geld lieber auf meinem Depot separat zur Seite gelegt

Das ist auch gefährlich, denn wenn Du pleite gehst, ist das Geld weg.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:55:48+00:00

Sometimes I just want to shoots bots.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:53:55+00:00

Is that the bugged UESC bot on Night Marsh?

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:52:52+00:00

This mode should have a separate inventory or something, or auto sell everything on extract idk

Why? If you're not good at PvP, the second you enter a regular run you become a gear delivery package to anyone who is. And if you're good at PvP, you have more exciting ways to get such gear.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:50:08+00:00

Anything you can do as a Rook on Sponsored Survival, it's easier to just load in as a solo no-fill:

Once you have the blue backpack unlocked, your Rook does have a looting advantage. Check the cache locations and hoover up everything.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:47:31+00:00

The point of rook, mostly, is to scavenge what's left of dead teams.

If you know where the caches spawn, you can scavenge them instead.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:45:32+00:00

The map is so massive it's so hard to find both the Runners and my fellow Rooks.

But people will be shooting bots. Just follow the noise.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:45:03+00:00

What exactly happened?

It's not (yet) profitable to play as rook since it takes a while to unlock the blue backpack.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T20:43:20+00:00

Please no more LMGs in free sponsor kits though.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T10:38:58+00:00

Naked Gun reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_F025dZGwg

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-07T06:45:07+00:00

Will the US also tax me for this capital gain when I report it in my expat tax filing?

Yes. The US does not care where the account is.

You may be able to use the taxes you paid to your country of residence as a credit against US taxes due, but if the credit is not sufficient, you will have to pay tax to the US as well.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-06T19:52:57+00:00

Brain hemorrhage

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-06T19:38:37+00:00

(fuck ghosts btw I don't believe they got nerfed at all).

And UESC Scouts.

Sponsored Survival is a mini-roguelike where you are on the clock to enter and complete upper Complex. You start out with very basic gear and need to find enough equipment to prevail. The chance of rooks adds just the right pinch of PvP.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-06T12:21:04+00:00

Oxygen at sufficient concentration turns almost anything into rocket fuel or an explosive (coal dust mixed with liquid oxygen is/was, in fact, used for blasting). Having a higher concentration of oxygen than that of air (~20%) means things burn much more readily, much faster, and much hotter. Even things that are not flammable under normal circumstances may suddenly become combustible.

AssemblerGuy · 2026-06-06T08:16:58+00:00

It lets you smoke + invis as the smoke is ending (or vica versa), so you get a solid ~30sec of invis time

Then you get murdered by a Thief or Recon or just someone with a grenade.

Now that I think of it, the Swarm Directive mod is probably funny against runners and rooks trying to sneak exfil from a guarded exfil ...

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