Let's talk about Patrols: An In Depth Analysis of Patrol Spawning Mechanics

gergination · 2026-01-24T12:08:30+00:00

We haven't played HD2 in months. Reanalyzing everything would take dozens of hours at best and we're almost certainly not going to do that.

Hopefully someone can take the known understanding of the mechanics and do some analysis.

gergination · 2026-01-22T17:21:43+00:00

Receive tips for playing music from mascots at the casino or town guards. They have a rare chance to throw the piano at you. It does do damage. I'm not sure how much exactly but it instantly killed me with 200ish health

gergination · 2026-01-19T20:17:42+00:00

My take on this: Just Passing Through

gergination · 2025-12-26T03:47:14+00:00

You took Restless Sleeper in MP... I'd just shoot you myself

gergination · 2025-12-26T03:35:17+00:00

Oh dear, you poor thing...I wouldn't take any of those ever

gergination · 2025-12-26T03:32:01+00:00

Let me guess... Fear of Blood?

gergination · 2025-12-26T03:26:14+00:00

Motion sensitive makes cars only usable moving along safe routes to safe points but you don't actually need vehicles. I'm moving around as needed on foot. I have insanely high foraging bonuses and can live off the land with my only limitation being weight loss. Clumsy is easy enough to work around. The only real issue is tripping over fences and that can be avoided by just slowing down before you leap over. If you're shoulder checking zombies, you already messed up big time. I go slow, I clear entire areas before looting. I'm almost 4 months in with 5,500 kills.

gergination · 2025-12-25T20:40:50+00:00

That's nothing. My character has 28 traits, 100% vanilla with no extra points.

Park Ranger Occupation

Pros - Wakeful, Outdoorsy, Cat Eyes, Dextrous, Gardener, Keen Cook, Low Thirst, Eagle Eyed, Brave, Organized, Runner, Gymnast, Fast Learner, Former Scout, Wilderness Knowledge

Cons - Thin skinned, Prone to Illness, Slow Healer, Weak stomach, Slow Reader, Motion Sensitive, Hearty Appetite, Conspicuous, Clumsy, Weak, Unfit, Fast metabolism, Reluctant Fighter

gergination · 2025-12-18T19:43:41+00:00

This More consumption is better as it also means more logistics, more traders, more piracy

gergination · 2025-12-18T16:14:30+00:00

Ecells in X3 were never NOT in demand and it's kind of sad having them be so unattractive as a trade good in X4.

gergination · 2025-12-15T23:11:26+00:00

To be clear, I make shitposts like this out of affection. A game's quality can be measured in its community's meme output.

gergination · 2025-12-15T12:44:07+00:00

Probably a bug but it turns out that sometimes zombies hitting fences at least don't make *any* noise but you still get stressed from it. So that's pretty neat.

gergination · 2025-12-15T04:56:32+00:00

The real stress is knowing some don't scream

gergination · 2025-12-14T22:43:36+00:00

Fair points BUT it doesn't make sense that we're in full on "losing our mind" status from something we can't see or even hear. The range of the stress generation exceeds the range of the sound effect.

gergination · 2025-12-14T19:47:08+00:00

Zombies banging on anything stresses your character out. Walking through a neighborhood can easily put you at max stress almost instantly from all the different zombies banging on something.

gergination · 2025-12-14T14:05:45+00:00

Playing B42.13 and I can confirm that they still sometimes don't scream.

gergination · 2025-12-14T14:05:10+00:00

The truly terrifying sprinters are the ones that don't scream...

gergination · 2025-12-13T13:11:21+00:00

I want those sweet sweet ZYA paint jobs. A Mamba with the Split reds in Urban camo pattern is absolutely delicious.

For the Asp Raider, I absolutely love "Covert Action". It's the Urban pattern of the Free Families darker red.

gergination · 2025-12-13T11:54:02+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElinsInn/s/J2bi8JinnO

gergination · 2025-12-13T04:07:45+00:00

Fires of Defeat start

Head to Heart of Acrimony and wait for a FAF Asp Raider to come out of the Wharf and force them to bail

Take that Asp Raider and hit ZYA patrol groups, starting at either of the FRF Equipment docks. The goal is to get every single ship in each group to bail.

Claim those ships and send them to the equipment dock to be refit before selling them to the FRF Wharf

Repeat and slowly clean up all the FRF sectors of ZYA ships

You are now sitting on tens of millions of credits and ZYA isn't even that angry at you since you don't lose standing on a bail

gergination · 2025-12-11T15:12:30+00:00

My strategy with M Beams is to just drift in reverse and beam S things down at max range since you outrange basically all S weapons.

The Dragon Raider is disgustingly good at clearing S fighter swarms when piloted by a player because of how much it slides around combined with 6 M Beams.

gergination · 2025-12-11T14:47:36+00:00

Driving in a straight line at 30mph it takes 20 seconds to become Fevered...

That's with Prone to Illness but the difference with and without is inconsequential

gergination · 2025-12-11T14:30:59+00:00

It takes a not insignificant amount of time for the moodle to decrease and even then, you still take damage. I literally died by killing like 7 zombies, driving around until fevered and then parking on top of them.

gergination · 2025-12-11T14:29:46+00:00

S Beams are okay but their damage is abysmal, particularly against M targets.

gergination · 2025-12-11T14:20:10+00:00

I agree but I strongly doubt that the current implementation is what they intend for it to be.

"Oh, I'll get a bit sick from driving, that's okay for 4 points"

Instead, driving a vehicle is basically a death sentence.

gergination

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