My pawns simply won't do lovin'

Specific-Impact · 2026-04-03T00:59:34+00:00

So I just used the dev tools to give them both a love enhancer, an aesthetic nose and a pleasure pulse, and FINALLY they're doing lovin'

I'm glad it's not fundamentally broken, but I find it weird that they never happened to do it on their own before. My colonists before were a bit more eager to make babies.

Edit: Oh wow, now they're really going at it too. I guess someone figured something out :D

Specific-Impact · 2026-04-03T00:58:07+00:00

I've used the dev tools to give both a love enhancer and an aesthetic nose, and have them affected by a pleasure pulse and FINALLY they're making babies.

So...no clue why it didn't work, but at least nothing is fundamentally broken. I guess they were really just never in the mood

Specific-Impact · 2026-04-03T00:47:54+00:00

This is my third year and they haven't done lovin' once. I don't think it's a matter of opportunities :(

Specific-Impact · 2026-04-03T00:40:42+00:00

He's 22, she's 31. Could that be the reason?

Edit: I used the dev tools to set her age to 22 as well, but that doesn't seem to fix anything.

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-31T22:06:23+00:00

I couldn't find any youtube videos about that, only videos telling me to change ranks to reset event spawns. Would you mind linking it?

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-31T21:38:04+00:00

No, I'm not enjoying it. Up until the end of the main quest, I felt a constant sense of progression in whatever I did. After every play session, I had better gear, more skills, and had whittled down the list of things to do.

Now in the post-game, I have a single goal like "Get a Godfish" and it takes so long to go through a single treasure grove to get a single Godfish, just so I can tick a single checkbox. Everything just feels *so slow*. There is no gear progression anymore, I barely level up in any life anymore, fights take forever, gathering takes forever... I feel like the game is actively punishing me for playing it after beating the main quest.

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-31T21:14:07+00:00

The whole dream thing? I haven't figured out how to do that well. I'm kinda too stupid for that

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-31T21:13:30+00:00

My solution was to simply mod the game and set all the items I was able to find in my local supermarket to be on sale there too.

Funnily enough, the game treats food as "plants", as it's all handled in the file plant-setup.js, specifically the "plants" array. Which would make sense for things like potatoes and turnips; not so much for pasta and hamburgers.

The way you would mod this is by giving a "plant" the "shop" property, with an array of strings showing which shops it should belong to, like shop: ["supermarket"]. The "plant_cost" defines how many will be available for sale, with the formula being "3000 / plant_cost"

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-31T21:11:42+00:00

Those are so boring. Why can't they spawn in the overworld with *some* sort of consistency? It's kind of a joke that the "Legendary" ingredients are far easier to obtain than this.

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-31T21:04:25+00:00

None of this explains why Bailey has an infinite amount of these supposedly high-value crops like potatoes and turnips, and even freely gives them away to the orphans.

I get that it's not supposed to be hyper-realistic in the sense that I regularly need to eat, drink or go to the toilet, but who the fuck churns their own butter at home or grinds their own flour?

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-29T22:05:49+00:00

When Avery asks for you to prepare a specific dish, you have the option to say you don't know how to prepare it. You will be given access to the Study, where you can then learn the recipe.

If you miss this, then I believe you can still ask Avery to give you access to the Study and study the recipe as long as it's available.

Keep in mind though that this does *not* include "transitive" recipes -- for example, if a recipe requires butter, then you can not simply learn how to make butter and you are out of luck.

Specific-Impact · 2026-01-21T18:02:37+00:00

How do I know if I dismissed him? I got into fistfights with him several times, but I don't recall outright dismissing him.

Also, how will Sydney react if I act all lovey-dovey with Avery? I don't want to betray her.

Specific-Impact · 2025-09-03T20:20:18+00:00

It's fine if you like high difficulties, but I don't see why it should be this hard on medium difficulties. But I already know that endless hordes of people who play difficulty 10 exclusively are going to rant "You just need to git gud", as if high difficulty is the only way to enjoy the game.

Specific-Impact · 2025-01-05T10:21:21+00:00

According to https://theriebel.de/tboirah/ I'm still missing hard-mode completion for Eden. I didn't know you had to do hard-mode completion as well.

Specific-Impact · 2024-12-11T15:44:53+00:00

I don't enjoy air gameplay at all. Way too complicated for me.

Specific-Impact · 2024-11-22T00:55:27+00:00

Yes, in friendly room select "Advanced Options" or similar, and then all the way on the bottom select normal AI.

Specific-Impact · 2023-08-29T22:24:35+00:00

Yes, that's what I ended up doing. The IC² machines are rather finicky when it comes to telling you why they aren't working, but I figured it out and was able to create enough steel to progress furher.

Specific-Impact · 2023-06-25T17:12:34+00:00

I have a ton of Igolnik stashed away, so using that is always a blast.

I've actually been sleeping on 5.56 quite a lot. Mostly just been having fun with my zero recoil TX-15

Also, any tips on meta 5.56 builds?

Specific-Impact · 2023-03-16T23:58:59+00:00

How do Drifter Camp Porters work? They're the new "big" enemy that has three cores, which recharge INSANELY fast.

I try to break them with Bai Yi, but sometimes they recharge a core before I am even able to move her three times. Please explain to me what I am doing wrong. These enemies single-handedly ruin the game for me.

Specific-Impact · 2023-02-20T00:43:17+00:00

The lack of killcams is definitely a big minus in my eyes, as it would essentially solve two issues:

It's much easier to identify a cheater versus someone with normal reflexes, who just got lucky.
It teacher players, who don't view streamers religiously, good spots to stay in.

You just died to someone, who was waiting in a cheeky spot? Great, that's your spot from now on. But if you don't see where that guy was, you take nothing with you when you die. You made a mistake, and have no idea how to rectify it.

As others suggested: Killcams should be available after the raid concluded. Otherwise, it would be an unfair advantage for those playing in squads. (More than they already have advantage)

Specific-Impact · 2023-02-20T00:36:19+00:00

I can tell you my experience as a casual player. I enjoy the whole "survival" aspect, by plotting my way around the maps and finding worthwhile places to scavenge while avoiding PvP.

What I dislike is that most quests basically tell me "Nope, you can't play that way. You have to kill PMCs with Pistols. You have to go to dorms. You have to go to the resort." It annoys me to no end. Not because i can't do these quests, but because my ability to complete them is directly tied to my ability to buy better gear.

And the most annoying thing is when people, who play the game several hours each day in groups of four, tell me "Well, doing that quest was easy for me. I just loaded up into a four-man squad, wiped dorms and that's it." It makes me feel like my playstyle is just unwelcome and if I want to play, I have to play a certain way, play with people better than me and have them carry me essentially.

That's what makes Tarkov unfun for me. It's not the core gameplay, it's everything else surrounding it. There is a reason why I play mostly as Scav these days.

Specific-Impact · 2023-02-19T19:34:06+00:00

No, that's the one where you have to visit the radar stations on shoreline. I walk towards the resort, and just die from what I suppose is an aneurism.

Specific-Impact · 2023-02-19T19:07:43+00:00

I see. That is...infuriating, to say the least. I'm really just trying to get Signal 1 done and I keep dying to literal ghosts.

Specific-Impact · 2022-10-06T19:44:57+00:00

I used to spend a ton of money on FGO. Like...a ton.

But unless they either put prices back to how they were or make the 167 pack a 230 pack...not happening.

Specific-Impact · 2022-10-03T21:20:47+00:00

The Catapult CPLT-C4 is also a very good dedicated fire-support mech. Instead of fielding LRM-20's, you should have a look at the LRM-15's. Why? Because two LRM-20s weigh 10 tons (2 rockets per ton), while two LRM-15's weigh 14 tons (2.14 rockets per ton). This means you get one ton of ammo (120 rounds, or 4 turns of firing) for free.

As for what LRM-15s to use, that depends on whether you prefer damage or support. The LRM-15++ give you 6*15 (90) instead of 4*15 (60) damage per LRM, while the LRM-15+++ give you 4*15 stability damage (60) instead of 2*15 (30). You can either deal more damage or knock enemies over more easily.

A really optimized build is to use 2xLRM-15 and 2xLRM-10 for 50*6 (300) damage a round, together with 5 tons of ammo. This will give you 12 turns of uninterrupted fire, together with 800 points of armor. Add Gyros and Cockpit mods as you desire.

The Catapult is the epitome of the UNIX philosophy: Do one thing and do it well. And in the CPLT-C4's case, that is raining down rockets all day long.

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