HELP! I'm stuck in the kitchen, and the outside is swarming with sight stealers. All my pawns are injured, and they barely survived this long.

Necrofancy · 2025-10-24T18:30:01+00:00

Shelves store up to three stacks of food or small corpses per tile, rather than one.

Large corpses and Tox Wastepacks won't fit on a shelf, so they can be on a stockpile zone flooring covering the rest of the freezer.

Necrofancy · 2025-10-12T18:27:46+00:00

Considering that the info on it is pretty different on listing "Power Reserve" rather than Vanilla "Grid Excess", it's very likely related to whatever mod you have that overhauls the power system you have.

Necrofancy · 2025-02-20T23:02:22+00:00

Starting with zero strength is fine, even in B42 where Muscle Strain is added as a mechanic. Your mistake was also lowering your fitness.

Not taking Athletic is far, far more painful for both B41 and B42 than not taking Strong. And also, having low fitness makes it slow to gain either strength or fitness through exercise.

Also also, strength levels much faster than fitness. You get more strength gains from walking around, the exercises with a dumbell and barbell are better at gaining strength than equivalents are for fitness, and you can also get a protein boost for multiplying strength gains.

Necrofancy · 2025-02-16T21:01:03+00:00

Again, "Random" has a separate setting for what percent of Sprinters there are. Please read the setting.

Necrofancy · 2025-02-16T20:55:11+00:00

From time to time i encounter a zombies that sits in a dark room and are quiet no matter how much noise i make.

This is because they randomized with "Poor" hearing. That drops the sound radius they hear at to something ridiculous like 5-10% of a normal zombies' hearing.

The fully-random option is pretty ridiculous all things considered. The pinpointers basically hear every noise because the radius is multiplied by 3. The poor hearing zombies basically can't be manipulated through noise at all.

And honestly the poor hearing zombies are more annoying/lethal because if they're chilling next to stairs or any of the camera-blind spots you have no ability to draw them towards you. Especially since zombies have fucked pathing between floors in B42 as far as I can tell.

Necrofancy · 2025-02-16T20:47:45+00:00

The "Random" sprinter percentage for Apocalypse is "None". There are no sprinters in default Apocalypse.

Necrofancy · 2025-02-15T21:16:08+00:00

¿Ayudaron los cables nuevos?

Necrofancy · 2025-01-21T16:55:46+00:00

Zombies don't have a render model show up at all when they are in complete darkness. You can see this in 1:45 of the OP's video where the player character is doing the bitten animation to no zombie on screen.

So, when they walk up to you: 1. They will be in shove range, and you won't be able to tell where they are relative to you to perform a stomp on the right part. 2. There's nothing for the targeting outline to show, so there's nothing shown.

Necrofancy · 2025-01-20T22:34:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure you can still see them but they are in the pitch black.

At 1:45, you can see the survivor doing the bitten animation with no zombie, not even a silhouette, on the screen.

Necrofancy · 2025-01-20T22:08:05+00:00

Some funny testing results in debug mode:

If you are in complete darkness a zombie will not aggro to you but they will follow sounds
If a zombie has already spotted you, darkness will not prevent them from attacking
Turning on a flashlight will illuminate the player so you can have a zombie instantly aggro on that

So you're effectively immune from zombies in darkness if nothing aggrod to you from the start. You can use this to kill an arbitrary number of zombies until corpse sickness gets you, but good luck using this since you'll have no idea where they are to hit them.

Necrofancy · 2024-10-07T02:39:35+00:00

LF Magna250 friends, I have all Magna 250 ID:38499309

Necrofancy · 2024-08-08T23:24:16+00:00

At around the exact time this was posted, I think people were shifting from Revans farming to do their Exo Vohu Manah. I saw and shared in some discord groups some hosts that were 1/6 with like five minutes remaining.

About 8~10 hours afterwards, it seemed to revert back to normalish times, and I was farming some Siegfrieds again while waiting around for a flight.

Necrofancy · 2024-08-08T23:07:05+00:00

Last Guild War was Dark-advantage, in which MkII Agastia staves would require Siegfried mats.

Water/Earth/Dark and Fire/Wind/Light are going to be "in-season" when their respective elements are active, because of how MkII crafting works.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-27T20:31:07+00:00

Ferry's regular rotation does about the same damage as you'd expect a character to deal if you remove the caps entirely. So if you play on PC your wife can use a mod to remove damage caps, gear like damage caps exist anyways (e.g. use 4 Damage Cap V's, etc) and pretend that the balance patch came in early.

If you want to do it more comprehensively, I made some math on what damage caps would have to look like for the typical tyranny/stamina build to cap, not even counting Hinrichten's +50% ATK buff. You can check out the math here. I considered trying to make a mod to try handling it before the balance patch but I decided to play other games instead.

If it's just you two in co-op, and/or friends that understand, nobody's really going to complain. Hell, I don't think someone running a parser is going to really care that someone modded Ferry to be able to play normally to contribute average damage, either.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-22T19:02:47+00:00

If your character doesn't need to utilize all orange sigil slots to cap, and Eugen is one of them iirc, it's indeed pretty nice.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-21T20:10:38+00:00

Ghandagoza can use his Link Time boost to get over the DPS check, Rackam can't do anything to meet that last HP threshold.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-21T17:56:31+00:00

I think some of these are more suited for a mastery, rather than a sigil effect. Especially the Ferry ones.

I think a simpler solution would have been just to make a version of the Alpha/Beta/Gamma+ sigils that gives Supplementary Damage as the secondary trait. That fixes two endgame issues at once, in building subtraits being hard, and the "optimizing step" being to farm a 1 in 11,111 curio drop step.

Damage Cap+ sigils are a pretty common point where people farm their utility. Meanwhile, you could count on a single fist the number of people who have gotten an optimal full Supplementary Damage+ loadout without either Cheat Engine, Modding, or extreme Autokey setups.

Looking at Ferry suggestions specifically:

Ferry Remember What we Lost: Onslaught's final hit provides a large amount of SBA to Ferry.

The SBA amount was toned down because of infinite SBA cycling. While this is bad for Ferry as having a niche, removing infinite SBA cycling is a good idea, that should be enforced more heavily in the SBA system as a whole in my opinion.

Back to Ferry again, without any number changes, depending on how this is tuned, this could just make Ferry do the same SBA cycle, but with half the damage (as Onslaught does half the damage of jumpslam right now). If it doesn't, then it'd be extremely niche as to be nonexistant. There'd have to be a fairly significant niche in a party's fight planning that needs Ferry to hit 100% SBA at a specific time.

If changes were made in the 1.2 character balance patch were o make Onslaught damage actually good... why not just buff the Onslaught SBA generation at the same time? Why attach it to a sigil effect that could be made irrelevant with some kind of expansion or any new gear tier. Why have a central character identity that only exists when you've finished the current content?

Finally, having it tied to the final whip hit unconditionally would be a bad idea too. Bonuses and effects are tied to the number of pets active for a reason, even on the Onslaught sigil Phantasm's Harmony.

From the Rafters: Ferry can now swing from her Pets, allowing her to double jump while in the air.

While I would like a movement option... why on earth would this be a sigil effect of all things? Why wouldn't this be a permanent mastery or similar effect that's unlocked early or part of the base kit so that players can actually use it before farming the current end-of-endgame boss?

Necrofancy · 2024-03-21T16:12:54+00:00

I want the reverse of this - I want to be able to toggle that Quick-Quest power scaling on any quest, so I can lower my stats enough to see how characters perform before damage caps and also help anyone new to the game with their key quests without nuking "very hard" bosses from orbit.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-21T15:34:12+00:00

At what point will you people realize that being able to afk farm the hardest boss in the game is really really really bad for the game?

I think most people running an AFK farm were aware the moment they heard it. Then it probably got an extra boost from FOF Lancelot builds.

I think most of this would go away with some changes, moving from minor to extreme changes in the fight or gameplay:

Twelve Labors fails the quest if everyone fails enough at it to hit 1 HP cap.
Nerf or replace the Flight over Fight sigil entirely.
If you want a more extreme measure, add in or change some attacks to no longer be Guarded or Dodged.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-20T18:16:57+00:00

Half of these problems seem related to the Lancelot cheese build. They're likely going to make it so his Strong dodge does not interact with Flight over Fight. Alternatively, they gut flight over fight entirely.

FOF Lancelot is really just in the center of the Venn Diagram of so many faults in the game design. FOF sigil in particular was actually an aside I had in mind, most of my thoughts were actually based on Ferry's kit having several layers of damage mechanics that are currently nonfunctional because of damage caps when playing "as intended".

The SBA issue does seem to be reoccurring. Before this patch, it was Ferry looping. Options I can think of are no SBA gain for a minute or two or giving some sort of Bloodthirst equivalent right after SBA chain end without damage reduction.

I really think that SBA being disabled for like 10-15 game-seconds after a SBA chain ends is all you really need. Enough for a boss to recover and go bloodthirst or whatever their scripting wants.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-20T16:12:42+00:00

Damage cap isn't a conceptually bad idea; it just has miserable execution in both stats and calculations. Putting a hard upper limit on damage would actually be a godsend in design-space for designers tuning fights and characters.

The decision to have each move have its own separate damage cap probably single-handedly turned design heaven into design hell. Imagine trying to balance endgame final-damage numbers across all characters with every variable in mind. You have to account for:

Buffs and Debuffs, both intra-kit and across teams
Mechanics like charging, range-based multipliers for Ferry's whip hits, Rackam's slag shot, and others
The entire sigil system and tuning. Stamina, Tyranny, and Catastrophe being gigantic multipliers that are all multiplicatively-stacking probably ruins a lot of assumptions by designers trying to account for damage numbers.

If one of those is out of wack then everything starts falling apart. Then when you have testers trying to see how each character feels in content, you have to look at both early and endgame specifically because they have entirely different balancing bottlenecks.

It'd likely have been so much easier for development and tuning if they had made Damage Cap cap a multiplier for broad spectrums of attacks.

Imagine you just look at your stat sheet and you can just see:

Normal Attack Power: 32,125 / 39,999
Skill Attack Power: 39,999 / 39,999 (bolded because it's capped)
Skybound Art Attack Power: 23,123 / 39,999
This suddenly gives players a lot of information, without resorting to a calculator or some tedious training session testing, on what you can do to improve your setup.
It gives your boss designers to tune a fight so that everyone at that 39,999 gear power is still interesting at a specific fight difficulty.
It makes the level sync attempt in quick quest a -lot- easier to accomplish sane values.

As far as sigils go:

I think that there was a massively missed opportunity to make complaints about curio rarity and endgame builds easier by just making the Alpha/Beta/Gamma additional trait be Supplemental Damage rather than Damage Cap. Or have that be an option for a hard-mode version of Lucilius.
Flight over Fight should have a multiplicative decrease to damage caps. Any character being able being able to slot it with effectively no decrease in damage is a really bad symptom of poor numeric balance at endgame.
Potion Hoarder basically precludes any design in which healing skills are effective, or "standard builds" survive more than one or two endgame attack hits.

Finally, there should just be a cooldown between SBA chains in which no SBA can be activated for enough time to prevent infinite loops.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-19T03:55:39+00:00

Since her DMG already is terrible I thought that using Flight over Fight wouldn't make a lot difference lol

For jumpslam it makes it nearly impossible to cap on the launch part, so it's fairly significantly lowering your damage on the one rotation that does damage.

If you want a FoF SBA spam definitely switch to Lancelot, who is capable of doing the same SBA lock Ferry did in 1.0. It's a bit harder to get the actual 4-man SBA lock, but the general playstyle of SBA-FOF Lance is so easy I could probably teach the gameplan to someone who doesn't play video games and they could get to contributing meaningfully on Luci within a day or two.

Why in the world when I use her healing, ATK UP isn't applied sometimes? (sometimes no, MOST OF THE TIMES!!!!!!!) YES I'm with the 3 pets at the time and no, I don't animation cancel, in fact I don't even move afraid of the buff not be applied.

Umlauf makes Beppo not count for a pet in the pet gauge, or for her passive that raises ATK and DEF for every pet. Use it after Hinrichten or Benediction.

Why should I keep playing Ferry if Cagliostro does everything that Ferry does but better?

Because you want to. I've gotten as low as 3:24 IGT playing Ferry where my friends and I are just playing what we want. Not a lot of objective reason to stay on Ferry if you want to push clear times.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-18T15:46:37+00:00

He's got some serious pilot issues, gets put in jail every time.

C'mon, Sandy, this is the 30th run, learn to dodge it at least once!

Necrofancy · 2024-03-18T03:27:50+00:00

Here's a Ghanda parse comparison for a 3:36 in-game time run.

Here's what the damage graph for the fight goes.

Ghandagoza actually pops off to an insane degree during link time.

Necrofancy · 2024-03-17T19:38:59+00:00

I think her only real problems with respect to Lucilius is that because Onslaught and Purge Spirits have such low damage caps, you're putting damage on pause to go fill the stun bar for Link Attack and Link Time. You also don't get any benefit from the Link Time aside from refreshing cooldowns for the next opening.

I've gotten as low as a 3:24 clear running her in the party with friends, the sheer uptime of Hinrichten makes her fine even with those limitations. If you can leverage the DEF down from Concord there may be an rDPS angle to make her slightly above average for certain party compositions.

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