May Podcast Thread
It's May now and I was thinking it might be nice to answer some more questions.
So, if you have some questions, leave them here and I'll podcast some answers :)
Cheers!
Kinak
May Podcast Thread
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Hi Kinak. Thanks for the podcast thread.
Hacking questions:
My campaign to crash every system has hit a wall with the Hardware Breaker. Is there any way to crash it?
There haven't been any new updates from the Novos News Network lately — will it get any more updates?
- Also no new updates from the general news network except from what Zack has in stock — any updates from Oldtown advancements?
Can you discuss how Novos sites are coded up on the backend without too many spoilers? It is a… very complicated, but very interesting system.
The Antique Control Gloves occasionally crash — is there anything we can do to avoid this other than using them altogether?
When viewing the Shared Files, there's a message about "searching the whole catalog". Someone else reported "searching the whole index of results". Did the terminology change there or are there subtle differences in how we view things?
There are several routines — Midgard Hound, Handcoded Claw, Obscuring Veil, etc — that sometimes bring up defenses if we attack them. Any hints about if this is something we can control or at least anticipate?
The Fang PDA has 20 hardening, which is on the order of 10 times what I typically need in a given hacking session — is that okay for Novos? The staring suite of programs seem way too powerful compared to everything else because hardening is normally a non-issue.
Oldtown questions:
Once we get in the records vault, there doesn't seem to be any way to get back to the office. Where is the other side of that vault door?
Midgard doesn't seem in a particular hurry to repair the giant hole you make with the BigDig in the side of the vault. Wouldn't someone repair that after a couple days or at least put up some guards?
We've found one new skill from Oldtown, but presumably there are more to go. I made some progress infecting the office workers but I can't get the vine to get into the vault. Any hints?
The survivors are pretty content to sit back and let us do most of the work. I wish I could ask them for some more advice though — can we do some combat training from Hel to learn new techniques, or get a few unique crafting recipes from Lo, or learn some hacking tricks from Dr. A?
Other questions
Back in 2012, I asked if Open Parasol was available from the subway tunnels, and you vaguely hinted that it might be. Later that year the Art Museum was released and Open Parasol was found there. Is there still some unknown way to get it from the Subway damsel as well?
The Arsonist Training skill has a picture of a flamethrower, but we still only have the one flamethrower (Ecofuel flamethrower). Are there more fire weapons to find or planned?
We're coming up on four years since the dorms exploded and they're still scrambling to finish building it. Will we see that finished soon? I wanna loot some hipsters and punk students' dorms.
Metroplexity has some pretty graphic descriptions of violence, gore, needles, etc. Is there anything that you are personally squeamish about?
Can you say what our single biggest mis-understanding about a system is? (Other than Code Finesse, I know we don't understand that).
What's up Kinak
I remember a while ago you answered that the first few zones would be water heavy which explains why Ocean Eyes seems to have such an upper hand over Fae Eyes. But that later areas would be more tunnel heavy to sorta compensate. Wasn't Oldtown supposed to be one of those places? Doesn't seem to have much in the way of explorable tunnels.
Where has Mag gone?
what kind of convenient lie
questions still under construction
Heya Kinak!
- Zack mentions that Midgard is rumored to melt down unearthly coins for the metal they're made from. Is there anything to those rumors?
- Also while going back and reviewing what Zack can talk about, he mentions living in Oldtown, and his house getting bulldozed. Did he used to live in what's now the construction site?
- It looks like it's been a while since we last asked, so do we now have the tools to make getting the Firetamer skill reasonable?
- How would you feel about an equivalent to the Pep Program which causes anger instead of satisfaction? Even if it had a penalty on it, a steady source of rage would be nice.
- What process do you use for determining the numbers required for things involving participation from multiple players, like helping Roi with hacking, thresholds for things happening during Halloween, or the like?
- How long ago were the Orbital Wars? There's still veterans around, but it seems like it's been long enough for a lot of media to be created, even movies which can be considered 'classic'.
- What is Jess majoring in?
- Will we at some point be able to progress further with Andrea, looking into our nature, or will we have to search elsewhere for answers?
- Can a coat of defensive circuitry unlocked in a previous reset be upgraded to a coat of masterful circuitry, or do you need to go through the entire unlock process in order?
- Is the Unreal Drip obtained via a Chemistry recipe, something like IV Bag plus another item?
- When selling stuff for Golden Tickets, is the occasional "She even kicks in a little extra" message completely random?
- I've recently started to get into hacking, and found that Decompilers are no longer a thing since December. This means I can't make a Blackthorn v6, because that requires an Advanced Interpreter, which I can't make without a Language Interpreter, and that requires a Decompiler. The question is: what gives? No wait, let me rephrase that: when will Oldos be completely retired (so all these tantalizing but unobtainable items can be marked as such), or will you please make it Decompilers obtainable somehow?
- In hacking, is there some mechanism that makes the player better after some (or a lot of) grinding?
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