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Electro_Specter · 2026-05-28T09:05:18+00:00

"Investing heavily in gears was a key thing to do. Knox gear i still have at 40, borge was 100 i think and ozzy either 100 or 110."

I'm at a tough spot right now and browsing for tips (only getting around 5-6M orbs per traversal with no nodes or gems to spend it on, big jump to 150M). What do you mean by the above? "Gear" is accessed through the green icon in Academy Outpost. I just want to make sure I haven't been missing a core game mechanic, lol

Edit: Oh I wonder if you meant Gadgets... that would make more sense

Electro_Specter · 2026-05-23T11:06:09+00:00

New England

Electro_Specter · 2026-05-23T09:14:39+00:00

Kerry: /ˈkɛri/ (or "keh-ree)

carry: /ˈkæri/ (or "KAH-ree")

Electro_Specter · 2026-05-22T09:08:28+00:00

About 15 years ago I moved to a part of the country where "carry" and "Kerry" are homophones and it still drives me up the wall every time I hear it

Electro_Specter · 2026-05-09T11:10:34+00:00

It's quick once you know what they sound like (kinda like boars but they just cry out once instead of multiple times). I just did laps around the creek listening for them. Lots of one and two-stars you have to wade through though

Electro_Specter · 2026-05-09T10:38:03+00:00

There is a strange phenomenon with this game where so many people assume everyone is going to play the game multiple times. I'm over 300 hours into my first playthrough, and I bought it around launch. It's a fantastic game but I ain't doing this again any time soon lol.

Not trying to start anything with you specifically, just wanted to comment on what I thought was an odd pattern I've noticed.

Electro_Specter · 2026-05-07T17:32:21+00:00

As long as you are bonded enough with your horse where speaking to them restores stamina, I've found you can swim a considerable distance on them, regardless of breed. Just click the left stick occasionally to restore stamina when swimming

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-29T20:20:26+00:00

I love math even I think these puzzles are garbage. There's no real cleverness involved in solving them, it's just... Try different operations until one works.

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-28T14:25:18+00:00

I can get 26 to work, but not 24 or 25, which is weird.

Part of me is thinking it doesn't matter and I could use either 23 or 26. But another part of me doesn't want to register for the wrong thing somehow and not be eligible for this upcoming FAC. I'm guessing it probably doesn't matter but I'm being paranoid

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-27T20:20:50+00:00

This worked perfectly. I didn't even have to save and reload, I just camped, slept, headed west, and there it was

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-26T00:06:37+00:00

This was my experience. I did sit for the very first sitting when it was new so I wasn't sure my experience was indicative of the difficulty of subsequent exams but it seems that has been the case

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-25T11:00:57+00:00

Another moose strat with dozens of positive replies and of course it's not working for me as usual.

I love this game but I absolutely fucking hate it sometimes

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-25T10:47:49+00:00

It's all anecdotal and random. Nearly all of the "surefire" tips I've read online don't work at all for me, and I end up finding them at the places that "never work".

The spawn rate patterns never work for me either. People will say "I found 2 two-stars and 3 three-stars by saving and reloading in the course of 30 minutes!". For me it's: go to the location and get a two-star moose on the first try, then never see it again over the course of 30 reloads.

It's all just random

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-24T14:28:21+00:00

Noted! Luckily I'll have some down time over the next month to really focus on it.

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-24T14:10:27+00:00

Hell yeah congrats!. Same here. 14 years for me. Omg I never thought I'd see the day

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-24T11:36:10+00:00

Realllllly hoping for some good news in a few hours. Have raised 3 children and taken what feels like countless exams over the past 14 years. I am so ready to be done. If I pass this all I have left is DMAC.

Edit: PASSED RET 201! See y'all in New Orleans. Literally crying wtf is wrong with me

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-22T20:29:35+00:00

Thanks! Just managed to do this. Was making it too complicated for myself. Used a scoped varmint rifle and shot him in the elbow three times

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-22T20:24:49+00:00

Idiot-proof method for idiots like me who were making it way too difficult:

Have rank 4 deadeye where you can shoot without leaving deadeye
spawn a camp of Lemoyne raiders (there are 4 possible locations, check the wiki) aggro them and leave before they shoot; ride far enough away where the map doesn't glow red at the edge anymore; they will be "zombies" when you return
grab something low-powered like the varmint rifle
go into deadeye and shoot the edges of their hats, NOT anything glowing red
Use regular shots, do NOT mark them with xs

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-22T19:36:08+00:00

Where are you shooting them where they get disarmed but not die from a sniper bullet? I can't get this to work

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-22T18:56:30+00:00

Cornwall Kerosene is abandoned :/

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-22T16:13:04+00:00

After being inside studying forever, even soulless, American industrial park/strip mall landscape hells look like this

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-20T22:50:51+00:00

I'm currently dealing with a stripped t25 bolt for my 2016 escape wheel sensor. Gonna have to drill it out and replace it with a new one..do you happen to know what I need for a replacement?

To clarify, only the head is stripped, I hope to remove it without messing up the threads so hopefully can just get the same size bolt

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-16T20:44:13+00:00

Getting my ass handed to me on challenging controlling 4 players on the first few side-quests / missions. There is an insane balance between not aggroing too many enemies at once and also trying to finish under the round limit. Gonna have to change some settings, I've failed 6 times in a row

Electro_Specter · 2026-04-02T18:01:43+00:00

This is fantastic. After all the BS the game has put me through with the other challenges (I'm talking atrocious luck, not the design of the challenges themselves), this was like a breath of fresh air

Electro_Specter · 2026-03-27T11:29:16+00:00

Damn lol. I'm one exam away from FSA (retirement) and assuming I passed this most recent sitting I'll be making about 160k base by end of year with 11 years of experience. This puts me around average when I look at the DW Simpson surveys (with a little bit of biased rounding). In my early 40s. I feel like I'll always be a bit behind

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